James Sunderland recalls talking to veterans at the D-day 75 commemoration in Portsmouth last summer and calls for an end to visa fees for British soldiers from Commonwealth countries when they leave the service and for an amnesty for the group of Fijian-born soldiers seeking right to remain through the courts.
James Sunderland recounts the contribution that BME communities make, and have made, to our armed forces and urges caution to those seeking to change our national curriculum. He says: “our all-important diversity and inclusion agenda lies in good education, dialogue, mutual respect, wider acceptance of our past failings and tolerance.”
James Sunderland supports the Bill as it empowers covert operators to exercise discretion and judgment when operational circumstances necessitate or when there is no other way to avoid compromise and he rejects calls for a list of specific crimes as it would create a potential checklist for suspected operators to be tested against.
James Sunderland intervenes in a backbench debate on planning and house building to call for well run local councils to decide on local new housing requirements and not have national targets imposed on them.