Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Oct 2022 Ukraine
"Yesterday, I was talking to Natalia, a Ukrainian teacher who came to my constituency with her seven-year-old twins when the war broke out. She watched in horror over the weekend as bombs rained down on her home city of Kyiv. Her husband and mother are hiding in a bomb shelter. …..." Ellie Reeves - View Speech
"In June last year, one of my constituents, a British-Afghan dual national, travelled to Afghanistan to visit his wife and three children aged under 10. During the evacuation, they were advised to proceed to Baron Hotel but were not processed before the suicide attack. Since then they have been trying …..." Ellie Reeves - View Speech
"The Government have spent more than £200 million on deals with the French authorities and £780,000 on two Navy vessels, and have not intercepted a single boat. Now they are insisting on push-back tactics, which the Navy has rightly said it will not use. The human cost is harrowing. In …..." Ellie Reeves - View Speech
"21. What assessment he has made of the effect of delays to the 2018-19 pay negotiations on retention in the armed forces. ..." Ellie Reeves - View Speech
"The 2017 armed forces continuous attitude survey found that satisfaction with the basic rate of pay and pension is at the lowest level ever recorded, with nearly half of service personnel stating that their pay and benefits are not fair for the hard work they do. How bad do things …..." Ellie Reeves - View Speech