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# Lichfield MP welcomes political unity in condemning Russian actions in Ukraine
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/lichfield-mp-welcomes-political-unity-in-condemning-russian-actions-in-ukraine/
- Published: 2022-02-23T09:35:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-23T09:11:16.000Z
- Description: Lichfield’s MP has welcomed the unity of all political parties in condemning Russian military action in Ukraine.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Politics, News

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Michael Fabricant

Lichfield’s MP has welcomed the unity of all political parties in condemning Russian military action in Ukraine.

Michael Fabricant spoke during a debate on the issue, after the Prime Minister had outlined sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s nation.

The Conservative MP asked the Prime Minister:

> “Eighty-five years ago, a predecessor of the Prime Minister talked about ‘a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing’ – doesn’t the concordance between both sides of the House demonstrate that this is not the case when it comes to Ukraine?”  
>  
> Michael Fabricant

The Prime Ministered answered:

> “I think everybody who knows people in the Ukrainian community in Britain, which is so large, so active, and which makes such a fantastic contribution to our life, feels a huge amount of sympathy for the people of Ukraine.  
>  
> “This is a country that we have familiarity with, that we understand, it is a country that is a democracy, and that shares our values, and that is what is at stake today.”  
>  
> Boris Johnson

Speaking afterwards, Mr Fabricant said:

> “Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain betrayed Czechoslovakia with whom we had a defence treaty when in 1938 we did nothing.  
>  
> “Both sides of the House of Commons were united in their determination yesterday to stand up to the belligerence of Russia’s Putin.  
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> “I wanted to emphasise that unity in my question with the Conservatives, Labour, and other parties all standing shoulder to shoulder in opposition to Russian aggression.”  
>  
> Michael Fabricant