Blair McDougall MP
@blairmcdougall.com
Labour Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire. Member of Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Chair of Hong Kong & Uyghur APPGs. Sanctioned by Putin for being rude to him. Contact me at blair.mcdougall.mp@parliament.uk https://linktr.ee/blairmcdougall
Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Brilliant news for local shipbuilding jobs. 1/2
UK Defence Journal@ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 11mo agoNorway has chosen the United Kingdom as its strategic partner for the acquisition of new frigates, selecting the British-built Type 26 in what Oslo says will be its largest ever defence investment. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norway-picks...
The UK is becoming a dumping ground for slave labour goods in between tougher protections in place in the US and EU markets. This story should accelerate action to beef up our anti-slavery laws. inews.co.uk/news/uk-800m...
UK's £800m 'slave labour' China imports revealed - from bras to lawnmowers
Thousands of tonnes of clothes, toys, furniture and tech are being flown in from Xinjiang - which Uyghur campaigners say is a 'national disgrace'
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Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought Nazi Germany
Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought Nazi Germany
Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine An adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany. Jack Anderton, who ran Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account before helping Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also said the UK should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression. Continue reading...
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Despots who don’t have to worry about term limits or public opinion can play for time and manipulate our open societies. They will only respect and be influenced by strength. Long past time for the US to stop playing Putin’s game.
Anyone know what this crest on a building in my patch signifies?
Who is Jimmy Lai? 'Prisoner of conscience' who has endured 1,600 days behind bars
Who is Jimmy Lai? 'Prisoner of conscience' who has endured 1,600 days behind bars
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been in a high-security prison for more than 1,600 days.
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Thinking of the buckets of abuse tipped over us a decade ago for saying the SNP's prospectus for leaving the UK was threadbare only for Nicola Sturgeon to now admit she thought it was too. Extraordinary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYeO...
Nicola Sturgeon on the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and her political legacy | ITV News
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Good to see @blairmcdougall.com introducing a 10 minute bill to remove crown immunity from SPS. Our office has been calling on UK and Scottish govts to progress this since 2022. Statements here: shorturl.at/TaPWJ shorturl.at/z5SeO
Family backs bill to prosecute prisons for custody deaths
Labour MP Blair McDougall is calling for Crown immunity in UK prison estates to be abolished.
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BREAKING Russia launched some 400 drones, 18 missiles in overnight attack, says Zelensky
I left X months ago. At some point, surely, a threshold is passed where it is no longer appropriate for Governments to continue to have a presence on that platform. If its AI going full-on Nazi is not that threshold, what is? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust
The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.
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My letter to Glasgow City Council's SNP leader with @martinmccluskey.bsky.social @blairmcdougall.com @alisonstaylormp.bsky.social & Johanna Baxter MP. As representatives of Glasgow's neighbouring constituencies, we are appalled at the suggestion our constituents should pay a Clyde Tunnel Toll Tax.
Our Patron @blairmcdougall.com called on the 🇬🇧 government to keep its promise to the people of #HongKong and maintain the 5+1 #BNO pathway.
I met Badri just a few days ago in London. Georgia Dream is now engaged in an all out war against democracy in Georgia. I'm pleased the UK Government summoned the ambassador over this but I'll be calling for more action against the regime in Parliament . civil.ge/archives/688...
Badri Japaridze Sentenced to Eight Months in Jail in Third Verdict for Defying GD Commission - Civil Georgia
Badri Japaridze of Lelo for Georgia became the third opposition politician to receive a prison sente
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Big news for my Rare Cancers Bill! - Yesterday, it took a major step forward as the UK Government confirmed the funding needed for it to progress. This clears the way for the Bill to move to the committee stage—where it will be examined line by line—and, hopefully, to a 3rd Reading on 11 July! >>
Hospices UK: “You can’t but note a moral question mark over the assumption we all make — until we hear otherwise — that an assisted dying service will be fully state funded, whereas currently the palliative care provided by hospices is currently only 30 per cent state funded”
Hospice cash crisis ‘could push patients to seek death’
A charity boss says funding for palliative care must equal that of assisted dying
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Yesterday, we launched our latest business and human rights report in 🇬🇧 Parliament, featuring our Patron @blairmcdougall.com, @carmenlau.bsky.social, Lara Strangways, and our Senior Research and Policy Advisor Thomas Benson. www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
Very strong intervention by the Royal College of Psychiatrists on eve of the final vote on assisted dying. www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...
Assisted dying Bill risks preventable deaths of people with treatable mental illness warns RCPsych
Ahead of the third reading vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for England and Wales, expected in the House of Commons, expected this Friday (20 June 2025), the Royal College of Psych...
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I called out the Iranian regime’s hypocrisy on international law today. They’re sending thousands of drones to Putin’s war against UkrIne and plotting against jewish communities and dissidents in the UK while demanding the protection of an international rules based order. youtu.be/gTl8wCRMZl8?...
Holding Iran to account for supplying Putin and terror plots in the UK.
YouTube video by Blair McDougall
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Here’s Swinney’s “austerity” in graph below. The big divide in modern politics is between those who are interested in the hard work of fixing real problems & those who want to create an unreality to disguise their true intentions. Swinney is choosing the path of bullshit here.
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · last yr.NEW: The First Minister will urge Scots to reject another 25 years of Westminster austerity and embrace an independent future as he sets out his vision for 2050 this week
We are launching our latest business and human rights report in 🇬🇧 Parliament, featuring our Patron @blairmcdougall.com, @carmenlau.bsky.social, Lara Strangways, and our Senior Research and Policy Advisor Thomas Benson. Join us here: forms.gle/5BFpqrkFhtdY...
This is a must read by the brilliant @natalie-fleet-mp.bsky.social www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/nata...
Natalie Fleet MP: 'I’m fighting for a law change that protects the children born from rape – and their mothers'
10 babies are born in this country as a result of rape every single day. Yet there is nothing stopping perpetrators having access to these babies.
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