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Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 July 2025
Debate
Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025Contribution
One of those others is the former leader of the Conservative Party, Sir Iain Duncan Smith. For the record, I remind the House that Sir Iain and I, along with five other parliamentarians including the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of The Shaws, have been sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party regime. As the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, suggested in a curtain-raiser at the end of his remarks, I will talk about the influence it is seeking to exert in this country and beyond.
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