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Lord Alton of Liverpool is putting forward a new piece of legislation, the Genocide Determination Bill, to allow for determinations of genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. We asked him why he campaigns on this issue.

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Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)

Members questioned the government today on attacks on Muslims in Edinburgh and preventing anti-Muslim hatred.

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Members press the government on the situation in El Obeid, following the atrocities in Darfur, and of the likelihood of further genocide in Sudan.

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The National Security (State Threats) Bill will enable the government to classify organisations as linked to foreign state threat activities and make it an offence to support or benefit from them. Members will debate the key themes of the bill during second reading. Watch live from 3.15pm.

Find out more about the debate, including who’s taking part https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2026/june-2026/lords-debates-national-security-state-threats-bill-at-second-reading/

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What are the government’s priorities for farming and food production? Baroness McIntosh of Pickering regularly uses her voice in the Lords to campaign for greater food security and support for British farming. In this new episode of Inside Lords Questions, we hear from her about her recent question to the government on its top priorities are for farming and food production in this parliamentary session.

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Lords questions takes place every sitting Monday to Thursday, and gives members a chance to check and challenge government decisions and actions. We share a highlight from Lords questions every week on our YouTube channel. Check out the playlist to watch other highlights from the chamber https://orlo.uk/i2DgW

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‘If we carry a cross… and yet we’re being unwelcoming, unloving, cruel… that strips the cross and those words of their meaning.’
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean recently quizzed the Bishop of Chelmsford about comments by other church leaders on the ‘misuse’ of Christian symbols.

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Lords members quizzed the government on the costs of the HS2 rail line, including spending on consultants and other areas, on Monday 22 June.

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Members press the government on protecting Hong Kongers in the UK from transnational repression and reviewing the status, privileges and immunities of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office. The question follows the sentencing of Peter Wai and Bill Yuen for assisting a foreign intelligence service.

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Access to face-to-face banking services were in the spotlight as members pressed government in this question from Lord Dodds of Duncairn on Thursday 18 June.

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‘The hold of this [Iranian] regime is no longer a moral hold.’
Hear from the Bishop of Chelmsford, who fled Iran following the 1979 Revolution, as she spoke to Lord Forsyth of Drumlean in May about the current regime, protests and the US-Iran war.

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