Speeches by Naish.

“I am so proud to have the University of Nottingham campus in my constituency. I believe that higher education in the UK is one of our greatest assets and also one of our greatest exports, and we must remember that, despite all the concerns about the student loan system. The student loan system is not a good system. It …”

“The Foreign Secretary would dispute that. She recently said at the Munich security conference that she instructed staff to look at all 2,000 licences to really understand it. But you still do not think that is enough?”

“What would you like to see the UK doing to get to the bottom of that claim? I will come to Rosalind next for her views.”

“I think it was in October 2025 that The Guardian reported that UK military equipment was potentially making its way into the hands of the RSF and being used in the conflict. Professor de Waal, do you think that the UK is prioritising its relationship with the UAE over a proper investigation into whether those claims we…”

“In the short term.”

“Monica will ask you in a moment about the politics, but just on the humanitarian side, looking into the future, in the short term, what further resources do you think are required to be able to deal with some of these atrocities and the scale of the challenges that you are seeing? What else is required?”

“What do you think that might be, based on what you are seeing on the ground?”

“Could you expand on that? You have described that, effectively, civil society does not exist because there is no space for it because of the relentless focus on war. How can NGOs work better with civil society to try to build up some of the capacity that is needed in the short term?”

“So, in that regard, there is no safe space.”

“You say that even in those safer spaces, effectively law and order has completely broken down. Is that the case?”

“Rosalind, the Foreign Secretary has claimed that the Government has found no evidence of UK-made weapons entering Sudan. Do you think that is a credible claim?”

“When the Government claims that they have one of the tightest regimes in the world, you would dispute that?”

“The Foreign Secretary would dispute that. She recently said at the Munich security conference that she instructed staff to look at all 2,000 licences to really understand it. But you still do not think that is enough?”

“What would you like to see the UK doing to get to the bottom of that claim? I will come to Rosalind next for her views.”

“I think it was in October 2025 that The Guardian reported that UK military equipment was potentially making its way into the hands of the RSF and being used in the conflict. Professor de Waal, do you think that the UK is prioritising its relationship with the UAE over a proper investigation into whether those claims we…”

“Monica will ask you in a moment about the politics, but just on the humanitarian side, looking into the future, in the short term, what further resources do you think are required to be able to deal with some of these atrocities and the scale of the challenges that you are seeing? What else is required?”

“In the short term.”

“What do you think that might be, based on what you are seeing on the ground?”

“Could you expand on that? You have described that, effectively, civil society does not exist because there is no space for it because of the relentless focus on war. How can NGOs work better with civil society to try to build up some of the capacity that is needed in the short term?”

“So, in that regard, there is no safe space.”