Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:22 pm on 30 October 2025.
Peter Swallow
Labour, Bracknell
1:22,
30 October 2025
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. This weekend, Danny Kruger suggested on a Reform UK broadcast that the country could soon be run by an
“appalling Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting nationalist party”.
As a gay man and an MP, I am proud to say I will always support LGBT rights. To suggest that that support is the same as backing Hamas—a vile terrorist organisation that systematically persecutes LGBT people—is beyond the pale. What can we do across this House to make it clear to him and his party that supporting LGBT rights is fundamental to our British values, and to the values of this Parliament?
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