Blair McDougall MP

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Starmer raises case of Scot detained in India during meeting with Modi Sir Keir Starmer is understood to have raised the case of Jagtar Singh Johal when he met Indian PM Narendra Modi on Thursday.

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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.

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:
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Ukrainian air defences deploy against Russian drones during a night of mass drone and missile strikes on Kyiv on July 10, 2025, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine

BREAKING Russia launched some 400 drones, 18 missiles in overnight attack, says Zelensky

Have tabled questions to the government on this.

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

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...

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.

Novara Media apologise for fuelling antisemitic abuse of Jewish Labour donor - The Jewish Chronicle The left wing media outlet published false claims that Gary Lubner was an ‘apartheid profiteer’

Best not to get your political views from memes www.thejc.com/news/uk/nova...

Our Patron @blairmcdougall.com called on the 🇬🇧 government to keep its promise to the people of #HongKong and maintain the 5+1 #BNO pathway.

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

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...

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! >>

Hospice cash crisis ‘could push patients to seek death’ A charity boss says funding for palliative care must equal that of assisted dying

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”

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.

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Just about every season in our lunch hour doorknock today ☔️🌦️☀️💨

Deeply troubling

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...

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...

Feel free to make a point anytime

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YouTube video by Blair McDougall Holding Iran to account for supplying Putin and terror plots in the UK.

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?...

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.

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.

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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.

This is a must read by the brilliant @natalie-fleet-mp.bsky.social www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/nata...

Hamilton by-election: The SNP's desperate strategy shows it is a party out of ideas Davy Russell’s win for Labour has shattered John Swinney’s strategy of talking up Reform’s support to divert disgruntled...

This is an important read on a huge byelection result. Swinney was relying on a distracting fight between reform and the SNP to avoid an election judgement on his appalling record. He’s now naked and open to scrutiny at next year’s election. www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

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Keir Starmer criticises SNP's anti-Trident stance The prime minister was speaking at BAE Systems in Glasgow as the UK Government publishes its strategic defence review

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has criticised the SNP’s opposition to Trident, labelling it the “single most important part” of the UK’s defence capability. www.holyrood.com/news/view,ke...

It would be helpful for Reform to warn donors that, if you (for example) buy some bitcoin for £2k, and its worth £4k when you donate it, then you’re taxed on a £2k capital gain.

Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says Party leader says he wants UK to be a ‘crypto powerhouse’ during speech at Las Vegas conference

Demonstrably untrue comments and absurd nonsense on crypto.

I’ve grave concerns about any party’s ability to accept such donations and adhere to electoral law.

Key question; why do this?

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I wouldn’t encourage comparisons of my approach to cryptocurrency to that of Trump if I was Farage. Trump’s crypto grift has opened the door to unimaginable levels of corruption. Farage might want US style politics over here, most of us shudder at the thought.