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Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 7 January 2026

Debate

Venezuela

Contribution

I completely agree with my noble friend. The premise of the original Question encourages the Government to sanction the United States. Nobody would be more pleased than Vladimir Putin if the United Kingdom and the United States had that kind of fracture in our relationship. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves who stands for what in the world. We stand for international law and we condemn utterly what has happened in Ukraine. We know the difference; there is not a moral equivalence between what has happened in Caracas and what has been happening with the theft of children from Ukraine to Russia, the relentless bombing of infrastructure and civilians, and the destruction of energy infrastructure in the depths of winter in Ukraine.

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