Crispin Blunt MP and Human Rights Watch have criticised the Government for ignoring the recommendation of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee to include Turkey in the Foreign Office’s Human Rights Priority List.

The Government has today responded to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee report on UK-Russia relations, published in March under the chairmanship of Crispin Blunt MP at that time.

Crispin Blunt welcomed the publication of the response, commenting:

Crispin Blunt MP was pleased to be elected as Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) yesterday, 13th September.

Crispin Blunt MP has welcomed the French intelligence services’ publication of a declassified report into the use of chemical weapons in Syria and calls on the UK Government to declassify its own intelligence assessment.

Eight Tory MPs representing the Gatwick Coordination Group have written to the two remaining Conservative Party leadership candidates warning that failure to commit to a third runway at Heathrow would jeopardise the national interest.

“I am endorsing Theresa May to become the next leader of the Conservative Party and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom..."

Two weeks after the Foreign Affairs Committee produced a unanimous report on the implications for Britain’s Role in the World of the EU referendum decision, its Chairman, Crispin Blunt, MP for Reigate, has declared his choice in the referendum campaign.

The Foreign Affairs Committee publishes report representing the full spectrum of opinion on the question of the UK’s continuing membership of the European Union.

Letter to George Osborne - Export Week 2016

An answer to a parliamentary question tabled by Crispin Blunt MP reveals that the costs of servicing the UK’s nuclear deterrent alone are estimated to continue to the 2060s at 6% of the defence budget, while the acquisition costs will be around £25 billion, higher than an earlier upper estimate of £20 billion.