Tim Roca

Tim Roca

Labour — Macclesfield

Speaking in the House of Commons on 18 December 2024

Debate

British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty

Contribution

May I wish you a merry Christmas, Mr Speaker? Does the Minister recognise that the issue is being raised by the Opposition again and again, despite the cognitive dissonance that it was they who opened the negotiations in the first place? I have to endorse the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth North (Amanda Martin) about the scaremongering and the irresponsible way in which the Opposition have conducted the debate with regard to other overseas territories and self-determination.

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