War in Ukraine

Debate between Judith Cummins and Rachel Gilmour

Thursday 4th December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Rachel Gilmour]

I am going to finish—sorry. We risk returning to a brutish bygone era in which tyrannical thugs take what they want. Who wants to live in such a world? We all want peace, but appeasement of the Kremlin is not the chess move of a pacifist or an anti-imperialist. It is not anti-war; it is the acceptance of revanchist thuggery over the will of a people to live free from an occupying power. Peace cannot be on the aggressor’s terms, and Ukrainian submission cannot be on the table. After all, peace is not just the absence of war; without justice, there is no peace. Slava Ukraini.

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Judith Cummins)]

I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

Finance Bill

Debate between Judith Cummins and Rachel Gilmour

Committee of the whole House
Wednesday 11th December 2024 Commons Chamber

[The First Deputy Chairman]

Order. May I remind Members that interventions need to be on the point and to pose a question?

[Rachel Gilmour]

Blundell’s school is also in Tiverton. Would the hon. Member be surprised to hear that when canvassing in Tiverton, in areas that might be considered relatively poor, I met numerous grandparents who were saving money every month to help their children to pay for a better future for their own children at Blundell’s school, through bursaries?