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UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Backbench debate on Monday, 8 April 2019, in the House of Commons, led by Faisal Rashid. The answering members were Dawn Butler and Harriett Baldwin.
Motion that this House has considered UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Agreed to on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
658 cc99-116 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Faisal Rashid | 658 cc99-101 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House has considered UN International Day for the Elimination of R...

Marsha De Cordova | 658 cc101-2 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. I apologise for arriving late.

My ho...


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Faisal Rashid | 658 c102 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There is no need for any sort of racism in any society, espec...

Lindsay Hoyle | 658 c102 (Link to this contribution)

Order. We have six speakers, so may I suggest they each take around five minutes to ensure we get...

Stephen Kerr | 658 c102 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate the hon. Member for Warrington South (Faisal Rashid) on securing this debate and o...

Richard Graham | 658 c102 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is quite right about the speech by the hon. Member for Warrington South (Faisal Ra...

Stephen Kerr | 658 c103 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Yesterday’s lead story in The Sunday Times was a shocking cat...

Alex Chalk | 658 c103 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend talked about the Government’s White Paper. Does he agree that the White Paper is p...

Stephen Kerr | 658 cc103-4 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. We live in the age of the false ideology of hate. We...

Laura Pidcock | 658 c104 (Link to this contribution)

There is very little in what the hon. Gentleman says that I disagree with. Does he agree with me ...

Stephen Kerr | 658 c104 (Link to this contribution)

I said clearly that we should counter racism and hate wherever it raises its head. I find it rath...

Marsha De Cordova | 658 c104 (Link to this contribution)

As a black woman, I find it is very important that we do not belittle or disregard the issues tha...

Stephen Kerr | 658 c104 (Link to this contribution)

I have incurred your displeasure, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I apologise for taking too long.

Lindsay Hoyle | 658 c104 (Link to this contribution)

I did say that there were five minutes each. We are now running on to eight minutes. I am very co...

Stephen Kerr | 658 c104 (Link to this contribution)

I will just conclude by saying that an attempt to diminish any one of us diminishes all of us.

Imran Hussain | 658 cc104-5 (Link to this contribution)

Let me make it clear, Mr Deputy Speaker, that it is not my aim to incur your displeasure and go t...

Imran Hussain | 658 c105 (Link to this contribution)

I will, but I will not take many interventions.

Chi Onwurah | 658 c105 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for his generosity. I want to echo his words, because the Brexit debate se...

Imran Hussain | 658 cc105-6 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend. Let us as a House come together to celebrate the fact that in the face of...

Julian Knight | 658 cc106-7 (Link to this contribution)

I too pay tribute to the hon. Member for Warrington South (Faisal Rashid), who made a powerful sp...

Lord Austin of Dudley | 658 cc107-9 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Member for Warrington South (Faisal Rashid) for securing this debate. I agree wi...

Alex Chalk | 658 c109 (Link to this contribution)

I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Dudley North (Ian Austin), who gave a speech of extraordinar...

Chi Onwurah | 658 c109 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is making an important point about both GCHQ and the tech giants. Does he agre...

Alex Chalk | 658 c110 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, of course that is absolutely right. When I referred to the tech giants, I was thinking about...

Peter Bottomley | 658 cc110-1 (Link to this contribution)

May I say that many of us will sympathise with the hon. Member for Dudley North (Ian Austin)? I t...

Jim Shannon | 658 c111 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman and I share many views about human rights and religious persecution. Does he a...

Peter Bottomley | 658 c111 (Link to this contribution)

I do.

My last example is the case of Gurpal Virdi, the excellent former police sergeant who...

Angela Crawley | 658 cc111-2 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate the hon. Member for Warrington South (Faisal Rashid) on securing the debate. I am ...

Yasmin Qureshi | 658 c112 (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Lady agree that the rhetoric used by the media and, sadly, sometimes by politicians...

Angela Crawley | 658 cc112-3 (Link to this contribution)

I wholeheartedly agree with the hon. Lady, and she is right to highlight that. Whether through fo...

Dawn Butler | 658 cc113-4 (Link to this contribution)

I know that there is not a lot of time left to sum up—you may need to stop me if I get close to t...

Harriett Baldwin | 658 cc114-6 (Link to this contribution)

It is a privilege to respond to a very fine debate to mark the UN International Day for the Elimi...

Faisal Rashid | 658 c116 (Link to this contribution)

I am pleased that we have had this debate. It is heartening to see Members from both sides of the...

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