Blair McDougall MP
@blairmcdougall.com
Labour Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire. Member of Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Chair of Hong Kong & Uyghur APPGs. Sanctioned by Putin for being rude to him. Contact me at blair.mcdougall.mp@parliament.uk https://linktr.ee/blairmcdougall
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Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
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October 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
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Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Brilliant news for local shipbuilding jobs. 1/2
Norway has chosen the United Kingdom as its strategic partner for the acquisition of new frigates, selecting the British-built Type 26 in what Oslo says will be its largest ever defence investment.
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Norway picks UK’s Type 26 as next-generation frigate
Norway has chosen the United Kingdom as its strategic partner for the acquisition of new frigates, selecting the British-built Type 26 in what Oslo says will be its largest ever defence investment.
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August 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Brilliant news for local shipbuilding jobs. 1/2
The UK is becoming a dumping ground for slave labour goods in between tougher protections in place in the US and EU markets. This story should accelerate action to beef up our anti-slavery laws. inews.co.uk/news/uk-800m...
UK's £800m 'slave labour' China imports revealed - from bras to lawnmowers
Thousands of tonnes of clothes, toys, furniture and tech are being flown in from Xinjiang - which Uyghur campaigners say is a 'national disgrace'
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August 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The UK is becoming a dumping ground for slave labour goods in between tougher protections in place in the US and EU markets. This story should accelerate action to beef up our anti-slavery laws. inews.co.uk/news/uk-800m...
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Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought Nazi Germany
Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought Nazi Germany
Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine
An adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany.
Jack Anderton, who ran Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account before helping Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also said the UK should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression. Continue reading...
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August 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought Nazi Germany
Despots who don’t have to worry about term limits or public opinion can play for time and manipulate our open societies. They will only respect and be influenced by strength. Long past time for the US to stop playing Putin’s game.
August 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Despots who don’t have to worry about term limits or public opinion can play for time and manipulate our open societies. They will only respect and be influenced by strength. Long past time for the US to stop playing Putin’s game.
Anyone know what this crest on a building in my patch signifies?
August 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Anyone know what this crest on a building in my patch signifies?
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Who is Jimmy Lai? 'Prisoner of conscience' who has endured 1,600 days behind bars
Who is Jimmy Lai? 'Prisoner of conscience' who has endured 1,600 days behind bars
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been in a high-security prison for more than 1,600 days.
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August 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Who is Jimmy Lai? 'Prisoner of conscience' who has endured 1,600 days behind bars
Thinking of the buckets of abuse tipped over us a decade ago for saying the SNP's prospectus for leaving the UK was threadbare only for Nicola Sturgeon to now admit she thought it was too. Extraordinary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYeO...
Nicola Sturgeon on the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and her political legacy | ITV News
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August 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Thinking of the buckets of abuse tipped over us a decade ago for saying the SNP's prospectus for leaving the UK was threadbare only for Nicola Sturgeon to now admit she thought it was too. Extraordinary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYeO...
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April 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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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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Our office has been calling on UK and Scottish govts to progress this since 2022. Statements here:
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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.
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July 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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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Our office has been calling on UK and Scottish govts to progress this since 2022. Statements here:
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BREAKING Russia launched some 400 drones, 18 missiles in overnight attack, says Zelensky
July 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
BREAKING Russia launched some 400 drones, 18 missiles in overnight attack, says Zelensky
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...
Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust
The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.
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July 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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...
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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.
As representatives of Glasgow's neighbouring constituencies, we are appalled at the suggestion our constituents should pay a Clyde Tunnel Toll Tax.
July 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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.
As representatives of Glasgow's neighbouring constituencies, we are appalled at the suggestion our constituents should pay a Clyde Tunnel Toll Tax.
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Our Patron @blairmcdougall.com called on the 🇬🇧 government to keep its promise to the people of #HongKong and maintain the 5+1 #BNO pathway.
July 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Our Patron @blairmcdougall.com called on the 🇬🇧 government to keep its promise to the people of #HongKong and maintain the 5+1 #BNO pathway.
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...
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
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July 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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...
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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! >>
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! >>
July 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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! >>
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! >>
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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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June 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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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Deeply troubling
Trump's envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg hugs Putin's Belarussian puppet Alexander Lukashenko.
You can see how much Lukashenko is savouring this public capitulation and humiliation of the world's most powerful country to a sworn enemy of the West.
Truly nauseating.
You can see how much Lukashenko is savouring this public capitulation and humiliation of the world's most powerful country to a sworn enemy of the West.
Truly nauseating.
June 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Deeply troubling