To the Commons, where this afternoon parliamentarians have spent some time discussing the G20 and Ukraine. The Prime Minister updated politicians on his trip to the G20 summit in South Africa, while politicians focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine given what has been widely interpreted as a Vladimir Putin-friendly peace proposal from the US. While Sir Keir Starmer’s statement was as, er, lacklustre as ever, one of his own MPs decided to inject a little more passion into the session.
Dr Rupa Huq, the Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton, started by lamenting the conflict in the East – noting the heartbreaking stories of child abductions by Russia that have been a feature of the war since it started. But then her intervention took a rather, um, peculiar turn. Calling on the MP to send another warning to Putin about his invasion, she cried:
Can I ask him again to reiterate that in the just and lasting peace that we all seek, that they are at the centre of all this, and to send a clear and immediate message, as Pink Floyd might have put it: Hey, Putin! Leave those kids alone!
That’ll teach him, Rupa! ‘I’m not sure I’ll put it quite in the terms she does,’ a rather baffled Starmer replied. Watch the clip here:
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