Rt Hon Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP

In Parliament

Sir Iain’s speeches, debate interventions and questions in the House of Commons.

In Parliament
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Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China
Sir Iain Duncan Smith leads calls for Magnitsky sanctions against Hong Kong officials

Sir Iain Duncan Smith leads a group of Parliamentarians from the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) in writing to the Foreign Secretary calling for Magnitsky sanctions against officials in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region responsible for the erosion of democracy and curtailment of freedoms and rights in Hong Kong.
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Rt Hon Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP speaking in the House of Commons, 20 Jul 2020
Sir Iain Duncan Smith welcomes suspension of extradition arrangements with Hong Kong

Sir Iain Duncan Smith welcomes the Government’s decision to suspend extradition treaty arrangements with Hong Kong and calls on the Government to look at Magnitsky sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the situation in Hong Kong and human rights abuses against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
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Bloomberg Westminster Podcast
UK Won't Go Bust Without China

Speaking on the Bloomberg Westminster podcast, Sir Iain Duncan Smith calls for sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for breaching the Sino-British Joint Declaration in Hong Kong and for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, Tibet and elsewhere.
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Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP speaking in the House of Commons
Sir Iain Duncan Smith welcomes the decision to eradicate Huawei from the 5G system

Sir Iain Duncan Smith welcomes the decision to eradicate Huawei from the 5G system, but urges the Government to speed up the process and to go further to include the 3G and 4G networks.
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Sir Iain Duncan Smith welcomes announcement on global human rights sanctions regulations

Following the Foreign Secretary’s statement on the global human rights sanctions regulations and the announcement of the first individuals and organisations to be sanctioned under them, Sir Iain Duncan Smith urges the Government to sanction Chinese and Hong Kong Government officials complicit in stripping away the rights and freedoms of the people of Hong Kong.
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Rt Hon Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP
Hong Kong National Security Legislation

Sir Iain Duncan Smith welcomes the Government statement on Hong Kong and calls on the free world to come together to hit China in the one place it worries about - the economy.
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Rt Hon Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP
Sir Iain Duncan Smith secures an Urgent Question from the Government on the mistreatment by the Chinese Government of Uyghurs in Xinjiang province

Sir Iain Duncan Smith calls on the UK to seek an independent inquiry at the UN on the mistreatment by the Chinese Government of Uyghurs in Xinjiang province for the UK to make its own legal determination.
Sir Iain Duncan Smith backs calls to relax the 2 metre social distancing rule

Sir Iain Duncan Smith backs calls to relax the 2 metre social distancing rule as the economy is not just an economic tool, there's a danger unemployment, depression and increased illness will follow impacting the poorest in society the most.
Sir Iain Duncan Smith: China - “Appeasement is now no longer an option”

Sir Iain Duncan Smith calls on the UK Government to take a lead to organise the free world to stand up against China's global military and economic ambitions, one manifestation of which is the proposed national security law for Hong Kong.