Speeches by Morello.

“Extrapolating from that in terms of the UK’s responsibility in this area and what the drivers are for saying no, is our rationale an outlier when we are saying no, or is it the same logic that other countries apply?”

“Just to follow up on that, because I am interested in this money issue, I have seen figures of anywhere between $5 billion and $55 billion in terms of the size of the Captagon market. Dr Khatib, if you have a new Syria right now that does not have a source of income, is there any risk that we see the new regime, crimin…”

“I will confess that before being elected to this place, I spent 10 years in renewable energy finance. It is a common claim from certain activists and newspapers that we should put solar on commercial buildings. I do not disagree with that. The problem is the economics of it do not stand up from a finance perspective. U…”

“John, I was interested on the drug side, but I know you are. We will piggyback.”

“Mr Collis, you have talked about the Assad regime being a criminal enterprise. Syria was obviously also a narco state, with something like 80% or 90% of the world’s Captagon production happening inside Syria. I am interested to understand to what extent HTS is dealing with that in the areas that it controls. Is it deal…”

“On that point, we have had discussions with some of those Members who had the opportunity to go to Jordan fairly recently. The invitation of the Jordanian Government was around the fact that the rules of the future Syrian society are going to be based by the people who are there, yet obviously an enormous number of peo…”

“I am interested in extrapolating a little bit further on this, because we are going to talk about Islamic State and foreign fighters, but HTS has also had foreign fighters within its ranks. Some of those are Uighurs from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and elsewhere. While HTS, as it morphs into the state of Syria,…”

“There has arguably been an autonomous Kurdish region on its border for the entirety of this conflict, operating with a US security guarantee, effectively. There must be some scope for that to exist alongside Turkey.”

“Mr Collis, you have talked about the Assad regime being a criminal enterprise. Syria was obviously also a narco state, with something like 80% or 90% of the world’s Captagon production happening inside Syria. I am interested to understand to what extent HTS is dealing with that in the areas that it controls. Is it deal…”

“Just to follow up on that, because I am interested in this money issue, I have seen figures of anywhere between $5 billion and $55 billion in terms of the size of the Captagon market. Dr Khatib, if you have a new Syria right now that does not have a source of income, is there any risk that we see the new regime, crimin…”

“There has arguably been an autonomous Kurdish region on its border for the entirety of this conflict, operating with a US security guarantee, effectively. There must be some scope for that to exist alongside Turkey.”

“I am interested in extrapolating a little bit further on this, because we are going to talk about Islamic State and foreign fighters, but HTS has also had foreign fighters within its ranks. Some of those are Uighurs from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and elsewhere. While HTS, as it morphs into the state of Syria,…”

“Extrapolating from that in terms of the UK’s responsibility in this area and what the drivers are for saying no, is our rationale an outlier when we are saying no, or is it the same logic that other countries apply?”

“The issue here goes back to the point about what the threshold is for proving your ability to evidence that they have committed a crime, because it goes back to this political will issue. If you bring somebody back who has just spent the better part of a decade being radicalised in a Syrian prison, whether they went in…”

“You could just strip them of their citizenship and pretend this is now somebody else’s problem somewhere else in the world.”

“On the data, you referred to the hardening of support among the 16 to 25 youth group. Have you seen any evidence to suggest a hardening of support for a single-state solution as a result of the October attacks? How far has the dial moved?”

“Some 52% of students at Dorset Studio school in my constituency have special educational needs, which is well above the national average, and 11% are in receipt of education, health and care plans. A funding agreement between the Treasury and the Department for Education in February 2023 to upgrade the school’s facilit…”

“7. What steps her Department is taking to support schools requiring specialist facilities for SEND students.”

“Was that their No. 1 preference though?”

“But when you have the President of the United States of America talking about depopulating Gaza, which is about creating a single ethnically homogenous land, for want of a better word, does that lend weight to those people who are advocating for a single-state solution? Do you expect to see that moving the dial further…”