FCDO minister Hamish Falconer was fielding questions on the forcible removal of Ukrainian children earlier in the Commons. After rambling a bit he told MP Adam Jogee in response to his question “What are we doing to help ensure that we neutralise Russia’s attempt at command and control in other parts of the world?“:
“We wish to have a friendship. We have long and historic relations with the Russian people. I know that nothing would give greater pleasure to so many in the UK than to have a more normal relationship with the Russian state than we currently do, but that will require significant changes from the Russian state, which continues to exert such a malign influence on global affairs.”
Is that the line…
