Markus Campbell-Savours

Markus Campbell-Savours

Labour — Penrith and Solway

Speaking in the House of Commons on 4 February 2026

Debate

Lord Mandelson

Contribution

I will take the hon. Member’s word for it that those Humble Addresses did not contain those words, but if you take, for example, the Humble Address on Lebedev’s appointment to the House of Lords in 2022, it did not have to contain those words for the Conservative Government to use national security grounds not to provide swathes of documents—they did so without those words even being included. Their response almost mirrored the Freedom of Information Act 2000, in respect of the types of exemptions that should apply. Are you really going to deny that that was the approach—

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