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Notable contributions

Notable contribution

Commons speaker orders security review after Big Ben clock tower incident

Notable contribution

Starmer challenges Nigel Farage on Ukraine stance: ‘Russia is the aggressor’

Notable contribution

Reform MPs ‘absent’ for commons statement on Ukraine, Labour’s Stella Creasy notes

Notable moments

Notable moment

‘Putin’s puppets’: Row as Reform accused of ‘abdication of responsibility’ over Ukraine statement

Notable moment

Sue Gray introduced to House of Lords as Baroness Gray of Tottenham

Notable moment

‘This issue is bigger than Elon Musk’: MPs call for crackdown on foreign political donations

Stand-out speeches

Stand-out speech

Starmer setting ‘dangerous course’ with cuts to UK aid budget, says senior Labour MP

Stand-out speech

Richard Tice: Reform UK stands united against tyranny of ‘evil villain’ Putin

Stand-out speech

Tom Tugendhat: Labour has tried to ‘nationalise the future’

Battle of the day

Battle of the day

Ed Miliband: ‘The mission of this government is to take back control’

Battle of the day

Robert Jenrick slammed for ‘absolutely outrageous set of remarks’

Battle of the day

Conservative Party pushes for law change to ban smartphones from schools

Prime minister’s questions

Prime minister’s questions

Keir Starmer: Of course the US under Donald Trump’s leadership is a ‘reliable ally’

Prime minister’s questions

Conservative MP urges Starmer to address Trump’s ‘childish nonsense’ over Canada

Prime minister’s questions

PMQs: Kemi Badenoch accuses Keir Starmer of ‘patronising’ her

Individual questions

Individual question

Labour MP says governments have ‘given too much power away’ to quangos

Individual question

Rishi Sunak: Now is the moment to seize Russian assets to help Ukraine

Individual question

David Lammy: It is time for Europe to seize Russian assets, not just freeze them

Ministerial Statements

Ministerial statement

Keir Starmer: I will ‘never choose’ between Europe and the United States

Ministerial statement

UK defence spending to rise to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2027, Keir Starmer announces

Ministerial statement

Lammy: peace in Ukraine will be achieved ‘through strength’ on both sides of the Atlantic

Urgent questions

Urgent question

Labour grandee expresses concern over rule small boat refugees can’t claim citizenship

Urgent question

UK needs ‘cool and clear-headed’ response to Trump steel tariffs, says trade minister

Urgent question

UK government says it would ‘oppose’ Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal

In debate

Debate in 3 minutes

‘No plans to change voting system’ insists minister, as cross-party pressure for reform builds

Debate in 3 minutes

Removal of hereditary peers from House of Lords ‘long overdue’, says Thomas-Symonds

Debate in 3 minutes

‘This motion is simply unconstitutional’: Commons debate on barring alleged sex offence MPs

Westminster Hall

Westminster Hall

Labour MP Kevin McKenna shares he is living with HIV

Westminster Hall

‘Not enough parliamentary time is not an excuse’ says Madders on government failure to reform the leasehold system

Westminster Hall

MPs urge government to ‘complete the circuit’ and form register of public defibrillators

10-minute-rule bills

10-minute rule bill

Stephen Flynn introduces bill to give Waspi women ‘compensation that they deserve’

10-minute rule bill

Lib Dem MP urges government to back EU youth mobility scheme as part of Brexit reset

10-minute rule bill

Richard Holden’s bill to ban first-cousin marriages met with opposition by independent MP

From the committee corridor

From the committee corridor

MPs probe X official on whether ‘abhorrent’ racist, misogynistic posts violate rules

From the committee corridor

UK must ‘speed up, not slow down’ in drive to net zero, insists Ed Miliband

From the committee corridor

Chair of child sexual abuse inquiry calls last government’s response ‘awful’ and ‘inconsequential’