Speeches by Morello.

“But they might not be permissible.”

“To take a development that has happened in the US, if a politician—it would not be me because I would not know how to do it—or a political party set up a memecoin, for example, how would that sit within the existing regulatory framework? If anyone could purchase that, then am I having to look at where those purchases a…”

“I also do not want us to have to get to a point where we have a suspended election in order to decide that now is the time to start acting. This is what has happened in other countries.”

“We visited your opposite number in Romania, and they took us through in great detail—probably too much detail—the process that they had established during the election to deal with predominantly TikTok accounts. Something was flagged to them, which was the first thing. It was entirely passive. What you are talking abou…”

“Yesterday, the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy was taking evidence on crypto, foreign donations and crypto donations. It became clear through the evidence that an ecosystem is required in order to scrutinise this—you touched on some of it, such as the FCA or the potential for only using UK-regist…”

“I congratulate my constituency neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Adam Dance), on securing this important urgent question. Leonardo may be based in Yeovil, but many of its 3,000 employees live in my West Dorset constituency, which is why, when I was elected, one of the first meetings I had was with Leonar…”

“Does that committee meet regularly?”

“I am just wondering if it raises any difficulties for the British Government, in terms of our co-operation with the US, to have a NATO ally overtly threatening the sovereign territory of another NATO ally to which we are also aligned.”

“Is Greenland or the Arctic discussed within Government?”

“Earlier on in your evidence you correctly identified willing fools in British politics echoing Russian talking points. Last November, Nina Jankowicz, who was the head of the Disinformation Governance Board of the Department of Homeland Security, said in evidence, “We see a lot of this pro-Russian disinformation making …”

“Given that you are responsible for both North America and Europe and, uniquely, have a perspective on overseas territories as our Minister, I thought you might be the perfect person to talk to us about Greenland. What is your view on the statements that have come out of the US Administration about under whose influence…”

“In the light of the US national security strategy effectively advocating for the US to overtly support political parties in other countries that share the Trumpian world view, will the scope of that inquiry also cover American influence on the British political system?”

“I do not disagree with your point about them being our closest ally historically. The question I am trying to ask is: how much more difficult does it become for the FCDO to counter misinformation and disinformation when the President of the United States echoes Kremlin talking points that we are actively trying to coun…”

“Turning to the United States, in the last year or so, the US has either closed, defunded or redirected the activities of the Director of National Intelligence’s Foreign Malign Influence Centre, the FBI’s Foreign Influence Taskforce and USAID, which has supported anti-FIMI activities abroad, and has closed the Global En…”

“I will not mourn the passing of the Maduro regime, but I will mourn the passing of the rules-based international order. If we accept the premise that a big-power country can do what it wants without any ramifications, anywhere in the world, then we accept the behaviour of Putin over the past two decades, and the behavi…”

“Happy new year, Madam Deputy Speaker. I pay tribute to the farmers of West Dorset who have never stopped campaigning against the family farm tax, and especially those hardy ones who have repeatedly driven their tractors up to London to let their views be known. This is just the latest in numerous assaults by the Govern…”

“The hon. Member mentioned the National Trust and preserving our national heritage. West Dorset’s most famous feature is the Cerne Abbas giant. The National Trust, which looks after it, has just launched a fundraiser to raise £330,000 to buy the land around the Cerne Abbas giant to improve access. Does she agree that me…”

“On affordability, I was at an open event for a development plan—a large development, as it happens—north of Dorchester, which will fundamentally change the natural characteristics of the town. On the display presented by the developers, the phrase “affordable housing” was actually in quotation marks. That was almost an…”

“Online harm and harassment amplifies real-world violence. In West Dorset, 14-year-old Isabella was brutally attacked, but the lasting trauma came from the assault being deliberately filmed and circulated online and in group chats in schools across the local area. It was designed deliberately to humiliate her and led to…”

“I thank the hon. Lady for securing this important debate. I agree with the point she is making. She mentions Afghanistan. One constituent of mine arrived here under the Afghan relocations and assistance policy, having served with British armed forces in Afghanistan. We have worked incredibly hard to bring her sisters o…”