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A quarter of reported cases of conflict-related sexual violence in South Sudan are against children. 

Photo Credit: UNICEF, Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin 

‘Hellish 

existence’ 

for women 

and girls in 

South Sudan 

A UN Commission report reveals that sexual violence 

has been instrumentalised as a reward and entitlement 

for youth and men participating in conflict 

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violence 

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women and 

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The government of United 

Kingdom has recently 

launched “Enough”, a 

new campaign empowering 

individuals to challenge people 

who commit a range of abusive 

actions against women and girls, 

and to raise awareness of what 

can be done if you experience, or 

witness, this abuse. 

Forms of abuse can include 

domestic abuse (such as 

controlling or coercive 

behaviour), street harassment, 

unwanted touching, workplace 

harassment, so-called ‘revengeporn’, 

cyber-flashing, forced 

marriage, and stalking. These 

types of abuse can affect anyone 

and many of us will have 

witnessed it, whether it’s abuse 

by a partner, ex-partner, family 

member, colleague, friend, or 

stranger. 

National statistics show that 

these issues disproportionately 

affect women and girls and that 

they continue to be all too 

common, with 1 in 5 women 

being victims of sexual assault or 

attempted sexual assault in their 

lifetime, over 27% of women 

having experienced domestic 

abuse since the age of 16, and 

20% of women aged 16-74 

having experienced stalking. 

The Enough campaign, which 

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News 

‘Hellish existence’ for women 

and girls in South Sudan 

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Widespread sexual violence against 

women and girls in conflict is 

being fueled by systemic impunity, 

the United Nations Commission on Human 

Rights in South Sudan has said. 

The Commission’s new report, based on 

interviews conducted with victims and 

witnesses over several years, describes 

a “hellish existence for women and girls”, 

with widespread rape being perpetrated by all 

armed groups across the country. 

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According to the UN Commission, sexual 

violence has been instrumentalized as a 

reward and entitlement for youth and men 

participating in conflict. 

The goal is to inflict maximum disruption 

of the fabric of communities, including 

through their constant displacement, the 

report continues. 

Rape is often used as “part of military 

tactics for which government and military 

leaders are responsible, either due to their 

failure to prevent these acts, or for their 

failure to punish those involved”, the 

Commission advanced. 

Bodies reduced to ‘spoils of war’ 

“It is outrageous and completely 

unacceptable that women’s bodies are 

systematically used on this scale as the spoils 

of war,” declared Yasmin Sooka, Chair of the 

UN Commission. 

Calling for urgent and demonstrable 

action by authorities, Ms. Sooka said: “South 

Sudanese men must stop regarding the female 

body as ‘territory’ to be owned, controlled and 

exploited.” 

Sexual violence survivors have detailed 

“staggeringly brutal and prolonged gang 

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children have been forced to watch, helpless 

to intervene. 

Women of all ages recounted being raped 

multiple times while other women were also 

being raped around them, and a woman raped 

by six men said she was even forced to tell 

her assailants that the rape had been “good”, 

threatening to rape her again if she refused. 

The resultant traumas “ensure the 

complete destruction of the social fabric”, the 

UN Commission said. 

Horrific assaults 

“Anyone reading the details of this 

horrific report can only begin to imagine what 

life is like for the survivors. These accounts 

are unfortunately just the tip of the iceberg. 

Everyone, inside and outside governments, 

should be thinking what they can do to 

prevent further acts of sexual violence and to 

provide adequate care for the survivors,” said 

Andrew Clapham, member of the 

Commission. 

A woman described her friend being 

raped by a man in the forest who then said he 

wanted to continue to ‘have fun’ and further 

raped her with a firewood stick until she bled 

to death. Teenage girls described being left for 

dead by their rapists while bleeding heavily. 

Medical personnel also report that many 

survivors have been raped multiple times 

throughout their lifetime. 

Traumatised for life 

The report also describes women often 

bearing children as a result of rape, and notes 

that in many cases, survivors have contracted 

sexually transmitted infections including 

being infected with HIV. 

Following rape and pregnancy, women 

are often abandoned by husbands and 

families, and left destitute. Some of those 

raped while pregnant, have suffered 

miscarriages. 

Husbands searching for abducted wives 

and daughters often spend years not knowing 

their fate, with some learning they were 

abducted by men from rival ethnic groups and 

forced to bear multiple children – one such 

man was so traumatized, he wanted to take his 

own life. 

The Commission reported that these 

attacks were not random opportunistic 

incidents, but usually involved armed soldiers 

actively hunting down women and girls, with 

rape carried out during attacks on villages, 

systematic and widespread. 

Accountability versus impunity 

The Commission said the failure 

of political elites to deal with security sector 

reform, and to provide for the very basic 

needs of armed forces on all sides, continues 

to contribute to a permissive environment in 

which South Sudanese women are regarded 

as currency. 

With near-universal impunity for rape and 

sexual violence, perpetrators avoid 

accountability. 

Calling on the Government of South 

Sudan and its obligation to end impunity for 

serious crimes, the Commission noted the 

recent Government initiatives to address 

sexual violence in conflict, including 

establishing a special court and holding 

military justice proceedings. 

While welcoming such measures, the 

Commission also said, “they remain woefully 

inadequate given the scale and extent of 

crimes”. 

Gender inequality context 

“It is scandalous that senior officials 

implicated in violence against women and 

girls, including cabinet ministers and 

governors, are not immediately removed from 

office and held accountable. 

To address this pervasive violence in 

conflict and other contexts, those in positions 

of command and other authority must 

promptly and publicly adopt a ‘zero tolerance’ 

policy towards sexual and gender-based 

violence.” said Barney Afako, member of the 

Commission. 

To grasp the full impact of conflict-related 

sexual violence, it is also necessary to 

understand the social and cultural context in 

which sexual violence occurs, under 

patriarchal systems based on domination and 

gender discrimination. 

Half of all South Sudanese women are 

married off before they reach 18, and the 

country has the highest maternal mortality 

rate in the world. 

Sexual and gender-based violence is also 

common outside of conflict, affecting women 

and girls amongst all segments of society. 

The Commission is calling on the 

authorities in South Sudan to take the 

necessary steps to stop sexual violence 

against women and girls, by addressing 

impunity and the drivers of conflict and 

insecurity. 

Work of the Commission 

The UN Commission on Human Rights in 

South Sudan is an independent 

body mandated by the UN Human Rights 

Council. It was first established in March 

2016. 

The Commission is mandated to 

investigate the situation of human rights in 

South Sudan, and to determine and report the 

facts and circumstances of human rights 

violations and abuses, including by clarifying 

responsibility for violations and abuses that 

are crimes under national and or international 

law.

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MARCH 23 - APRIL 5 2022 


Forest conservation has united Gabon 

By Francis Kokutse 

With close to 55 ethnic groups in a 

population of 2 million, Gabon 

would have been a very divided 

country like most African countries. 

However, this is not the case because the 

country has found and used forest 

conservation as a tool to bring the various 

ethnic groups together despite their diversity. 

“Without the forest, we do not have any 

culture. Our people use it for food, shelter 

and medicine and so, we are opening up the 

country for others to visit to see how we have 

been united by the forest our forebears 

depended on,” said, the Executive Secretary 

of the Agence Nationale Des Parc Nationaux 

(ANPN), Christian Tchemambela. 

One of the parks, 6,747 square kilometre 

Ropanda Walker Arboretum, and 13 others 

that are being used to promote the country’s 

conservation initiative now cover about 11 

per cent of the country’s landmass. They have 

helped to turn Gabon into the world’s second 

largest rainforest after the Amazon. “The 

success of all we have done is because as a 

people, our culture depends on the forest. Our 

diverse culture is guided by how our elders 

lived, conserving the forest and it is what we 

have come to practice,” Tchemambela said. 

For him, “without the forest, our culture 

will disappear. Monkeys and Chimpanzees 

have always been part of how our people 

lived and so, conservation is nothing new to 

us. What we are doing now is to add a bit of 

research to make it sustainable.” It is no 

wonder that, the country has been able to 

Christian Tchemambela, Executive Secretary of 

the Agence National Des Parcs Nationaux 

build a sanctuary for gorillas at Loango. The 

park which is 1,550 square kilometres was 

created in 2002. Scientists working at the 

park say, the density of gorillas at Loango is 

approximately one per square kilometre. This 

is based on studies using genetic analysis of 

faeces as well as remotely triggered camera 

traps. For this reason, they estimate that 1,500 

gorillas live there. 

Gabon lies on the equator, and around 

88% of its land is covered with tropical 

forest. This makes forest cover the main 

ecosystem of the country with a rich and 

varied fauna (including the western lowland 

gorilla, chimpanzees and nearly 95,000 forest 

elephants), a diverse bird population, 

estimated at more than 600 species and a 

wide range of flora also estimated to be more 

than 6,000 specimens – with more yet to be 

identified by scientists. 

The Minister of Water and Environment, 

Lee White, said the country’s conservation 

efforts had been successful because of the 

involvement of the country’s researchers. 

They have been in the forefront since 2012, 

working to promote Gabon’s protection of 

marine habitats through the Gabon Bleu 

(Blue Gabon) initiative, which has led to the 

declaration of 27% of marine waters as 

protected areas. 

White said a lot of work has also been 

done through research to develop an ecotourism 

project as well as create a sustainable 

wood logging operation. He added that, 

studies have shown that sustainable logging 

and forestry can help the woodlands refresh 

at a faster rate than if the forest is left alone. 

He said work by these researchers have 

created the atmosphere for controlled 

logging. This will help preserve the country’s 

forest to ensure that there is sustained growth 

in the economy as well as the provision of 

jobs, whilst ensuring the stability and 

maintenance of the forest for carbon 

absorption. 

Currently, the country is the most carbon 

positive nation on the planet, with current 

carbon dioxide emissions estimated at 40 

million tonnes per annum, but through its 

forest it has capacity to absorb 140 million 

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tonnes. 

White said the most recent survey 

conducted of forest elephants, which was 

released in December 2021, shows that, the 

country has become home to 60-70% of the 

surviving global forest elephant population. 

According to him, this places stress on the 

country’s resources to protect its biodiversity 

and has seen a rise in human animal conflict 

at the periphery of the rainforests. 

Instability in surrounding countries, for 

example poaching in neighbouring 

Cameroon and political crises in the Central 

African Republic, have led many at risk 

animals to cross into Gabon seeking a more 

secure sanctuary. 

White said “protecting the country’s 

biodiversity comes at a cost to the people of 

Gabon and if the country, which is a 

developing nation that is increasingly serving 

as a refuge for under-threat species, is to 

succeed in its biodiversity objectives, 

international support will be needed to share 

the burden.” 

The technical advisor for the ANPN, 

Omer Ntougou said some of the researchers 

have concentrated their work at the Ropanda 

Walker Arboretum. “The French 

Development Agency has provided 

assistance to these researchers with the 

building of a school and a national centre for 

science research to study the environment 

further in order to understand the country’s 

ecosystem,” he added. 

When you think you need A&E, 

contact NHS 111 online first 

The NHS is encouraging the public to use NHS 

111 online to get urgent medical advice 

quickly – in addition to existing services – 

ahead of what England’s top doctor has said will 

be a ‘winter like no other.’ 

With more people predicted to suffer from flu 

this year and hospitals already treating an 

increased number of COVID-19 patients, NHS 111 

online offers an alternative way to get immediate 

medical advice. 

Data from September showed that the NHS 

was already experiencing record demand for 

emergency services, with ambulances responding 

to 76,000 life-threatening incidents and call 

handlers taking more than one million 999 calls. 

The NHS 111 phone service also saw record 

demand, with a call being taken every seven seconds. 

It’s recommended that if you have an urgent 

but not life-threatening medical need, you should 

visit NHS 111 online first rather than going 

straight to A&E. You can access the service by 

visiting the website 111.nhs.uk. 

People use the online 111 service for a range 

of reasons, including to check their symptoms and 

if an injury or illness requires further investigation, 

to get information on mental health support 

services available, or to seek advice on how to take 

a medication. 

The service is also able to arrange for you to 

be seen at an Urgent Treatment Centre, GP 

surgery, pharmacy, emergency dental services 

or A&E should you need it. 

If you or your loved one have a life-threatening 

illness or injury then you should always use 999. 

Just think 111 first. 

When you think you need A&E, 

go to NHS 111 online 111.nhs.uk 

or call 111.

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CHANGE OF NAME 

I, formerly known and addressed as 

Ms Kate Osarenren Ishekhure, 

now wish to be known and addressed as 

Mrs Kate Osarenren Onaghino. 

All former documents remain valid. 

Nigeria High Commission, London and the 

general public, please take note. 

Home Secretary - Priti Patel said: 

“For too long, the responsibility of 

keeping safe has been placed on the 

shoulders of women and girls. This 

campaign says enough, and 

recognises it is on all of us to demand 

major societal change. Everyone has 

a stake in this. 

“Our new campaign shows that 

everyone can play a role in 

challenging abuse and making our 

country a safer place. By accepting 

all of the recommendations in the 

HMICFRS report I commissioned 

last year, the government and the 

police are doubling down to support 

victims and survivors and punish 

perpetrators.” 

Liz Kingsley, CEO of domestic 

abuse charity - Safe Arms, said: 

“Many of us may not be aware that 

these acts of violence can be illegal, 

or the devastating and long-lasting 

effects it can have on victims, their 

families and the wider Black 

community. 

“The Enough campaign is 

incredibly important, as not only 

does it empower us to recognise 

when abuse happens, but it equips us 

with the confidence to safely 

challenge perpetrators if we witness 

any of these abusive behaviours. We 

truly are our sister’s keeper, and we 

need to work together to break the 

cycle of abuse and teach future 

generations the significance of 

keeping women and girls safe.” 

Farah Nazeer, Chief Executive at 

national domestic abuse charity - 

Women’s Aid, said: “Violence 

against women and girls is a 

spectrum, running from the everyday 

misogyny that is so prevalent, many 

people don’t even notice it, right 

through to horrifically violent crimes 

and murder. Campaigns like this by 

the Home Office are an important 

tool to raise awareness of sexist 

actions and language that have been 

tolerated for too long and normalise 

the treatment of women as objects. 

Women’s “Aid will continue to keep 

working for the safety of women - 

until we no longer walk home in fear, 

whether it is the journey or the 

destination that holds the greatest 

danger – but we can’t do it alone. It’s 

also not enough that women must 

initiate and highlight the urgency of 

these conversations. We need 

‘allyship’ to help bring about 

structural change.” 

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The UK can and will do more 

to help Ukraine 

By Rt. Hon. Ben Wallace 

A speech to Conservative Party Spring Conference 

Before I begin, can you all join me in 

giving a very warm welcome to the 

Ukrainian Ambassador – Vadym 

Prystaiko. 

Vadym we are extremely pleased to 

welcome you here today. 

Conference, I can’t tell you how nice it 

is to be here. How genuinely nice it is to be 

home. Not only because Blackpool is next to 

my wonderful constituency of Wyre and 

Preston North but also because Lancashire is 

where I live and because as a county it is one 

of the places that helped shape the modern 

Conservative party. If we can win in 

Lancashire, we can win the country. 

Every year in this town, veterans of my 

regiment, the Scots Guards, meet here to 

remember the Falkland Islands and the battle 

of tumble down. 

This year it will be especially important 

as we mark the 40th anniversary of the 

liberation of the Falklands islands from the 

grip of the Argentinian Military dictator 

General Galtieri. 

Many said it couldn’t be done. That 

sending a force 8000 miles to the south 

Atlantic was an impossible task. But history 

is littered with those that underestimate this 

plucky island. 

General Galtieri was not the first dictator 

to do so. While many here will remember the 

amazing Sea Harrier and the battles of 

Tumbledown, Goose Green and Mount Kent 

we sadly can also remember the 255 British 

lives lost and also the lost lives of the young 

Argentinians who were sent to needlessly in 

order to save a dictator’s political position. 

There were many stand out contributions 

to that campaign. 

But Margaret Thatcher stood out for her 

leadership and determination to stand up for 

the values and freedoms we all hold so dear. 

By her leadership she equipped the forces 

with the most important weapon of all. – The 

Moral component. 

That deep sense that what we were 

fighting for was legal, justified and right. 

Today that same moral component is what is 

arming the men and women of Ukraine. 

Who would have thought that 31 years 

after the end of the cold war we would be 

once again facing such a direct threat to our 

freedoms and values? As we gather today 

spare a thought for the brave Ukrainians 

fighting the occupying forces of Russia as sit 

here in comfort. 

I am proud of what the UK has done to 

add to that moral fight. Through Boris 

Johnson’s leadership on sanctions and 

military aid Britain has led the way. 

Since 2015 we have helped train 

Ukrainian forces, underwritten equipment 

sales when no one else would and we were 

the first in Europe to join the US in sending 

defensive weapons to the forces of Ukraine. 

To date we have sent over 4000 of our 

new light anti-tank weapons (known as 

NLAWs), a further consignment of Javelin 

anti-tank missiles and thousands of items of 

body armour and other defensive equipment. 

But we also have led, alongside Poland 

and the US the distribution of many other 

nations’ donations. Just like 1982, Putin’s 

arrogant assumptions have directly led to the 

level of casualties and attrition amongst the 

Russian army. 

The Kremlin assumed that Ukraine 

would not fight – he was wrong. He assumed 

that his Army was invincible – he was wrong 

and he assumed that the international 

community would splinter – he was wrong. 

We have never been more united on 

sanctions, on military aid and in NATO. The 

deaths of so many young Russian soldiers 

are the responsibly of the Kremlin. 

During the Soviet invasion of 

Afghanistan mothers of those killed in action 

called the dead “boys in zinc” because of the 

zinc lined coffins that came back. 

None of us should let today’s Russian 

President forget that despite dozens of 

Presidents and Prime Ministers urging him 

not to invade he did. The International 

community called for peace. President Putin 

chose “Zinc”. 

The UK can and will do more to help 

Ukraine. 

That’s why last week I announced that 

we would be upgrading our aid to include the 

star streak anti-air missile. 

But the UK doesn’t just stop there. We 

are standing by our NATO and European 

partners. Countries such as Poland, Romania 

and the Baltic states who border the conflict. 

President Putin has been clear in his threats 

that all of us are at risk. 

So in the last few months I have sent 450 

soldiers to Poland to help with engineering, 

air defence and humanitarian tasks. 

We have also added another Battlegroup 

in Estonia and at the same time increased 

typhoon and F35 deployments over 

Romania and Bulgaria. Typhoon jets, which 

by the way are made here in Lancashire. 

Conference, I used to joke to my officials 

that “defence never sleeps”. It turns out my 

joke is a little flat because it turns out to be 

true. 

Over the last 3 years we have been at the 

forefront of the COVID response, the 

evacuation in Afghanistan with OP. Pitting 

and now Ukraine. My team of excellent 

Ministers Baroness Goldie, Jeremy Quinn, 

James Heappey and Leo Docherty never 

stop working and delivering, both on 

operations and on defence reform. I simply 

couldn’t do it without the tea I have. 

But even before the events of the last 2 

years the Prime Ministers generous defence 

settlement of an additional £24bn over this 4 

year spending round, has enabled us to once 

and for all have proper defence programme 

that puts the men and women of the armed 

forces at the heart of all we do. 

The Defence command paper we 

published in March last year was very timely 

and many of the reforms we are delivering 

are right for this competitive age. 

But defence isn’t about just the front line. 

It is also about everything that goes on 

behind it. The defence industry, the training 

and skills, the civil servants and veterans 

services. Behind every front line is a strong 

support base. 

The failures of the Russian Army in 

Ukraine show us that, unless you invest in 

the people, then nothing can achieved. 

Defence and levelling up go hand in hand. 

As a Lancashire MP I am incredibly 

proud of our Prime Minister’s determination 

to level up the UK and to invest in skills and 

jobs up and down the Country. After COVID 

we all have a duty to “Build back better”. 

Through the Ministry of Defence’s 

Defence and Industrial Strategy, supported 

by £6.6bn of investment into R&D over this 

four year spending round, we are ensuring 

that the UK continues to have competitive, 

innovative and world-class defence and 

security industries, that underpin national 

security, drive investment and prosperity 

across the Union, and contribute to strategic 

advantage through science and technology. 

A great example of this is the new 

Defence Science and Technology 

Laboratory due to be opened next week in 

Newcastle Helix. The location of the new 

unit, with its proximity to world-class 

universities with a high proportion of STEM 

and computing students, will allow it to 

thrive. 

Supporting world-class defence 

development from the heart of Newcastle, 

whilst also supporting new jobs in the North 

East. Newcastle is DSTL’s first established 

Science and Technology Hub and will 

specialise in Artificial Intelligence and Data 

Science. AI and Data Science will benefit 

from £142M investment from DSTL over 

the next four years. 

This is not the only new Defence 

investment taking root in the North. 

Last autumn I announced that the 

recently established National Cyber Force 

will be permanently located in Samlesbury, 

Lancashire. 

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The site will contribute to national 

security whilst also boosting skills, 

employment, and investment in the local 

area, delivering on this Government’s 

commitment to level-up whilst also bringing 

together Government, skills and industry to 

build a world-class capability. 

Backed by over £5 billion of investment 

before 2030 and run jointly by the MOD and 

GCHQ, the new Northern site is due open in 

2023 and will sit between Blackburn, 

Preston, Bolton and Burnley and create 

thousands of skilled jobs in a region with 

award winning Further Education colleges, 

world class universities, and thriving defence 

and aerospace sector. 

And, further delivering against this 

Government’s pledge to level-up and 

decentralise, I can announce that new home 

of Defence Business Services (the 

organisation that support the MODs 

financial and HR services as well as Veterans 

UK) will be right here in Blackpool. 

Conference, just last year Labour 

claimed that our new plan for UK defence 

‘risked the UK being out of step with our 

NATO allies’. 

Quite to the contrary, the principles set 

out in the Prime Minister’s Integrated 

Review have served NATO and our allies 

well in this dark hour. 

Of course I welcome that our policy has 

attracted support from across the House. Let 

us not forget, that many members of 

Labour’s front bench were also on the front 

bench of Jeremy Corbyn – who wanted to 

abolish NATO, AND blamed the West for 

Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. 

I remember going up to Barrow-in- 

Furness where I was told by some Labour 

politicians that under Jeremy Corbyn there 

would still be submarines to be made, so that 

tourists could go and look at the seabed. 

In contrast, the year of the Falklands 

conflict, Mrs. Thatcher told the Conservative 

Party Conference that “peace, freedom and 

justice are only to be found where people are 

prepared to defend them.” That remains the 

case today. 

40 years ago the 74 days of the Falklands 

conflict tested the resolve of the British 

nation, but freedom prevailed. I am proud 

that today we see that same resolve across all 

generations standing in support of Ukraine. 

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We must end our dependence on 

Putin’s oil and gas 

By Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP 

A speech to the Conservative Party Spring Conference in Blackpool 

by The Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP 

It’s absolutely fantastic to be back 

here in Blackpool. 

I first spoke here 25 years ago, 

1997. I was the freshly defeated 

candidate for Clwyd South. And I did 

the appeal. But I didn’t think they 

could get Jeffrey Archer that day. 

Because we, as you recall, we’d 

been more or less wiped out. And 

what a joy it is to come back here 

today, quarter of a century on and find 

that we have more Conservative MPs 

than at any time since the 1980s. And 

that we not only hold Clwyd South, 

we hold Blackpool South, my friends. 

As we meet today, a tragedy 

continues to unfold in our European 

continent, a vicious and a barbarian 

attack on innocent civilians, the likes 

of which we haven’t seen since the 

1940s. And, Mr. Ambassador, sir, 

there you are. Thank you, Mr. 

Ambassador, Ukrainian ambassador, I 

want to repeat to you directly what I 

told your wonderful president 

Volodymyr Zelenskyy yesterday. We 

stand with the Ukrainian people, and 

our hearts go out to them. 

And tens of thousands of people in 

this country are opening our homes, to 

the people of Ukraine. We say thank 

you to them, and we applaud them. 

And with every day that Ukraine’s 

heroic resistance continues, it is clear 

that Putin has made a catastrophic 

mistake. 

And you have to ask yourself why 

he did it. Why did he decide to invade 

this totally innocent country? He 

didn’t really believe that Ukraine was 

going to join NATO anytime soon. He 

knew perfectly well, there was no plan 

to put missiles on Ukrainian soil. He 

didn’t really believe the semi-mystical 

guff, he wrote about the origins of the 

Russian people; Nostradamus meets 

Russian Wikipedia. 

I think that wasn’t what it was 

about. I think he was frightened of 

Ukraine for an entirely different 

reason. He was frightened of Ukraine, 

because in Ukraine, they have a free 

press. And in Ukraine, they have free 

elections. And then with every year 

that Ukraine progressed, not always 

easily, towards freedom and 

democracy and open markets, he 

feared the Ukrainian example. And he 

feared the implicit reproach to 

himself. Because in Putin’s Russia, 

you get jailed for 15 years, just 

recalling an invasion, an invasion. 

And if you stand against Putin in an 

election, you get poisoned, or shot. 

And it’s precisely... that’s what 

happens... and it’s precisely because 

Ukraine and Russia, have been so 

historically close, that he has been 

terrified of the effect of that Ukrainian 

model on him and on Russia, and he’s 

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Putin must lose in Ukraine, 

we will ensure he does 

By Rt. Hon. Elizabeth Truss MP 

Speech to Conservative Party Spring Conference in Blackpool by 

The Rt. Hon. Elizabeth Truss MP 

As we meet here in Blackpool, we 

face a different world from the one 

we have known over the past 

decades. 

Putin’s illegal, unprovoked invasion of 

Ukraine has shattered the notion that 

freedom is free. 

It’s shattered our post-Cold War 

complacency. 

It’s shattered our collective security. 

I am proud that at this moment of peril, 

the Prime Minister and this Conservative 

government have stepped up to lead. 

We’ve stepped up by providing lethal 

aid to Ukraine – the first European nation 

to do so – supporting with NLAW anti-tank 

weapons, and now anti-aircraft weapons. 

We’ve stepped up, by leading the global 

effort on sanctions. 

Hitting banks and oligarchs 

Targeting mansions, yachts, and aircraft 

Cutting Russia out of SWIFT 

And leading the calls for Nord Stream 2 

to be cancelled 

Our sanctions are crippling the Russian 

economy that funds Putin’s war machine. 

And we’ve stepped up our leadership on 

humanitarian aid. 

We’re the second largest aid donor - 

providing everything from generators, to 

blankets, to food. 

And British people across the country 

are offering their homes to support 

Ukrainian people in need. 

This is exactly what British foreign 

policy is. 

We stand up to bullies. 

We fight for freedom. 

We galvanize allies around the world. 

As Conservatives we have a deep 

responsibility to protect our historic liberties 

and our democracy. 

We have a history of standing up to 

dictators. 

We’re proud that it was a Conservative 

government that helped to end the Cold War 

and bring down the Berlin Wall. 

We signed the Budapest Memorandum 

in 1994, protecting Ukraine’s sovereignty. 

We cannot stand by and see these 

precious freedoms eroded and the clock 

turned back to the horrific oppression of the 

Soviet era. 

We cannot and will not rest until 

Ukraine’s sovereignty is restored. 

In our belief in freedom and democracy, 

we are joined by our friends from Ukraine. 

We have been inspired by the incredible 

leadership of President Zelensky and the 

bravery of the Ukrainian people. 

I am delighted we are joined today by 

their fantastic Ambassador Prystaiko. 

Your country and your President have 

the admiration and respect of everyone here 

in Britain. 

Our two nations understand how 

precious freedom is, and what it means to 

fight for it. 

Our friends in Ukraine see and 

understand the strength of our support. 

I hear some people in Ukraine sing God 

Save The Queen as they use British 

equipment – well - everyone in the UK is 

saying Slava Ukraini. 

Our foreign policy is about standing up 

for freedom and democracy and Britain’s 

national interest. 

That’s why we’ve worked so hard to 

secure the release of our citizens, Nazanin 

and Anoosheh from Iran. 

I was delighted to welcome them back 

home to Britain in the early hours of 

Thursday morning. 

And it’s also why we are determined to 

fix the Northern Ireland Protocol, and 

restore the balance of the Belfast Good 

Friday Agreement. 

We need more flexibility from the EU. 

We are prepared to do what it takes to 

protect the United Kingdom and ensure that 

all communities in Northern Ireland are 

treated fairly. 

Now is the time to value what we have 

here. 

This crisis has shown the strength of the 

free world. 

It has shown the strength of democratic, 

free societies acting decisively in unison. 

They are more powerful and determined 

Contrast the motivated Ukrainian 

freedom fighters with Putin’s demoralized, 

misled soldiers 

Contrast the decisive, crippling 

sanctions imposed by the G7 – from the UK 

to Japan to the EU to the US– with the weak 

Russian economy and the scant support 

they are getting internationally. 

Contrast the spontaneous outburst of 

solidarity with Ukraine spreading across the 

world, with the tired lies emanating from 

Putin’s propaganda machine. 

When we are free to speak out 

When we can choose our own 

government 

When we can control our own money 

It makes our nations stronger. 

When people are free to choose – they 

choose freedom. 

This strength is being shown right 

across the world, from South Korea to 

Canada, to Germany. 

This is what Conservatives stand for. 

This is what is important. 

This is what matters. 

We should be proud of our country, and 

our long standing commitment to freedom 

and democracy. 

Now is the time to end the culture of 

self-doubt. 

The constant self-questioning and 

introspection. 

The ludicrous debates about language, 

statues and pronouns. 

Our history – warts and all – makes us 

what we are today. 

We live in a great country, a great 

democracy and we should be proud of it. 

When we’re facing a tyrant like 

Vladimir Putin, the only thing he 

understands is strength. 

We need to defend our societies and 

never let down our guard again. 

Our new trade and security deals are 

with our allies, not our opponents. 

This is why AUKUS is so important – 

helping our Australian friends acquire the 

nuclear submarines to defend their territory. 

This is why NATO is so important – and 

we are strengthening it for a new era. 

The UK is the biggest European 

contributor to NATO. We are increasing the 

numbers of UK troops in Estonia and 

Poland. 

The United Kingdom needs to be strong 

economically as well as militarily. 

We’re going to drive economic growth 

by delivering supply side reform. 

We’re using our Brexit freedoms to 

strike new trade deals, slash red tape and 

create new freeports. 

We’re ending our dependency on 

authoritarian regimes. 

The West focused on cheap goods at the 

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expense of freedom and security. 

Never again. 

We’re banning Russian oil from our 

markets, we’ve ripped Huawei out of our 

phone networks and we have new vigilance 

on our critical supply chains. 

We are seeing the most horrible scenes 

in Ukraine. 

A war in Europe for the first time in 

decades. 

We are seeing incredible bravery from 

the Ukrainians … and deeds of valour that 

will be written about for generations to 

come. 

Britain has stepped up – now we must 

do even more. 

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been in a total panic about a so called 

colour revolution in Moscow itself. 

And that’s why he’s trying so 

brutally, to snuff out the flame of 

freedom in Ukraine, and that’s why it 

is so vital that he fails, because a 

victorious Putin will not stop in 

Ukraine and the end of freedom in 

Ukraine will mean the extinction of 

any hope of freedom in Georgia and 

then Moldova, it will mean the 

beginning of a new age of 

intimidation across the whole of 

Eastern Europe, from the Baltic to the 

Black Sea... and if Putin succeeds in 

crushing Ukraine, it will be the green 

light for autocrats everywhere in the 

Middle East, in the Far East. 

This is a turning point for the 

world. And it’s a moment of choice. 

It’s a choice between freedom and 

oppression. And I know there are 

some around the world, even in some 

Western governments who invoke 

what they call realpolitik. And you say 

that we’re better off making 

accommodations with tyranny. I have 

to say I believe they are profoundly 

wrong. And to try to renormalise 

relations with Putin, after this, as we 

did in 2014, would be to make exactly 

the same mistake again. And that is 

why, and that is why Putin must fail. 

And I know that it’s the instinct of 

the people of this country, like the 

people of Ukraine, to choose freedom, 

every time, I can give you a couple of 

famous recent examples. When the 

British people voted for Brexit, in 

such large, large numbers, I don’t 

believe it was because they were 

remotely hostile to foreigners. It’s 

because they wanted to be free to do 

things differently and for this country 

to be able to run itself. Give you 

another example, where the British 

population came forward to be 

vaccinated at such incredible speed 

voluntarily. Unlike many other 

countries, I’m sure it was partly 

because they wanted to avoid catching 

Covid, very sensible thing to do, by 

the way, I hope you’ve all had your 

boosters. You have? Well we’re 

getting ready for a fourth jab, because 

we’re going to need it. But I’ll tell you 

why people did it. Why? Why did the 

British people come forward? I mean, 

90%, we got entirely voluntary. 

Entirely voluntary. It was because 

they wanted to get on with their lives. 

They were fed up with being told what 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Kiev, Ukraine in Feb 2022 (Picture by Andrew Parsons - No 10 Downing Street) 

to do, by people like me. They were! 

We wanted to take back control of 

our lives. And so I’m proud that this 

government has done the things that 

so many people said were impossible. 

We got Brexit done. I’m proud that we 

deliver the fastest vaccine rollout in 

Europe, not once, but twice and the 

fastest booster route rollout. And, of 

course, yes, I am proud that this 

government has been in the lead in 

sticking up for freedom in Ukraine. 

This was the first European country to 

send defensive weapons to help the 

Ukrainians. And now dozens are 

following our lead. And I’m very 

grateful to my friend Ben Wallace also 

there in the front row for his foresight 

many months ago. And for getting me 

to read Putin’s crazy essay, which I 

did, and we are talking continuously, 

Liz, Ben and I, we’re talking 

continuously to our colleagues in the 

in the Ukraine support group to 

discuss what more we can do. And 

those conversations go on literally 

every day, and there will be more. 

I’m proud of what we did on 

sanctions. We were in the lead in 

sanctioning swift and the bank certain 

banning Aeroflot, we’ve now 

sanctioned more banks and 

individuals than any other European 

country, and we will be detaining their 

yachts and their assets. And, of course, 

there is a cost to all these actions. Of 

course there is but the cost of doing 

nothing will be far, far higher. Putin’s 

war is intended to cause economic 

damage to the west and to benefit 

him. And he knows that with every 

dollar increase in the price of a barrel 

of oil, he gets billions more in 

revenues from the sales of oil and gas. 

And that’s the tragedy of the situation. 

He’s been preparing for this moment, 

by pushing hydrocarbons on the west 

like a back street pusher, feeding our 

addiction, creating a dependency. And 

now he wants to weaken the collective 

will to resist by pushing up the cost of 

living, hitting us at the pumps, and in 

our fuel bills. And so we must respond 

and we’ve got to do everything we can 

to help people with their daily costs 

help people with the cost of living and 

of course that means doing all the 

things that we’re doing, lifting the 

living wage, cutting council tax bills, 

helping with fuel costs, giving billions 

to councils, millions more to help 

people in particular hardship. 

The best possible answer, of 

course, is to make sure that this is the 

traditional Conservative answer to 

make sure that we have a strong 

economy and strong economic 

fundamentals with well paid jobs. And 

thanks to the speed of that booster 

rollout, we have the fastest growing 

economy in the G7. Unemployment 

now actually back to the level it was 

before the pandemic, virtually a 

record low, 3.9%, youth 

unemployment at or near record lows. 

But if we’re going to deal with a 

particular cost, the biggest cost that 



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families now face and tackle these 

rising fuel bills, the energy spike, we 

must take the bold steps necessary to 

end our dependence on Putin’s oil and 

gas. 

And that is what we are doing, in 

the immortal phrase, it is time to take 

back control of our energy supplies. 

After years of short termism and hand 

to mouth solutions, we are setting out 

a British energy security strategy. And 

we will make better use of our own 

naturally occurring hydrocarbons, 

rather than import them top dollar 

from abroad and put the money into 

Putin’s bank account. 

That does not mean in any way that 

we will abandon our drive for a low 

carbon future, we’re going to make 

some bets on nuclear power and big 

bets on nuclear power, not just the big 

projects, but also the small modular 

reactors. And we’re going to take that 

bull-at-a-gate spirit of the booster 

rollout and use it to build more 

offshore wind, double quick time, and 

many other investments in clean green 

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power. But if you ask me how we’re 

going to pay for all this, I can tell you 

that I’ve been going around the world 

recently, and I’ve been talking to 

international investors who are 

yearning to make colossal long term 

investments in British green 

infrastructure. Colossal. And there’s a 

reason why people want to come to 

this country, many, many reasons why 

they want to come. But you’re seeing 

them invest massively in everything 

from tech to finance to green power. 

And that is that they know what 

this government is doing. They know 

about... I mean, you may not believe 

it, but they do... they know about our 

levelling up agenda, my friends, they 

do. They’ve heard of it. They have, 

they’re very well informed. And they 

know that we have a plan to unleash 

the potential of this whole country and 

they can see how we are doing it, 

making our streets safer with 20,000. 

More police rounding up the county 

lines, drugs gangs, that cause such 

misery, stopping and searching the 

kids with the with the knives giving 

the police the powers that they need. 

And by the way, giving the criminals 

the serious sentences that they deserve 

for the crimes that they commit. 

Tackling the middle class of drugs use 

by the way that helps to drive so much 

of the consumption but doing 

things.... Thank you for that small clap 

for that. I think it’s about time that the 

government stood that the 

government said that we don’t tolerate 

this kind of... it is driving misery 

across the whole country. It’s driving 

the county lines gangs and we have to 

be absolutely frank about it. 

But what we’re doing goes far 

beyond that. And people around the 

world can see what levelling up is 

doing the massive extension of fibre 

optic broadband and I’m just trying to 

look for Nadine, where is Nadine, 

perhaps she isn’t in here. But Oliver 

you were doing it. Massive expansion 

when you were at DCMS with full 

fibre of Gigabit broadband. It is a 

great thing for our country. And we 

need to do it we will go further and 

faster investing massively in road and 

rail and not just the colossal schemes 

of the integrated rail plan, northern 

powerhouse rail, making sure that the 

Midlands and the North of the country 

finally get the kind of commuter style 

rail networks that have been taken for 

granted for so long in the southeast. 

Huge schemes that we’re doing, 

they’ll be transformative for the UK 

economy but look at the little things 

that we’re doing as well. Relatively 

smaller schemes such as the new tram 

improvements in Blackpool, which I 

was delighted to see the other day. I 

congratulate the Blackpool authorities 

on what they are doing because it’s 

driving tourism, it’s driving 

investment even more investment 

here in Blackpool. That’s what 

Levelling up is. 

I went for a run. You may not 

believe it but I did. I went for a run 

this morning on the beach. Absolutely 

beautiful. Better than anything in the 

Caribbean. That is not near gallantry. 

It is true. And it’s true. I mean, that 

time of the morning 6:45, sun coming 

up. Unbelievable. Tide right out, 

ribbed sand stretching for miles and 

miles, and obviously beautiful. And as 

I ran along, I saw over new hotels and 

the new attractions that will benefit 

from that new transport infrastructure 

going in... the new tram. Of course, 

government has a role. Safer streets, 

better health care, better schools, 

better education, creating the 

conditions for that investment. But in 

the end, you need the private sector. 

The animal spirits of the private sector 

to come in and have the confidence to 

invest. That’s what it’s all about. 

That’s the fundamental symmetry at 

the heart of our Conservative vision. 

And as I was running along the 

sand, I saw a man who seemed to be 

prospecting with a kind of steel pole, 

or tube. And I asked him what he was 

looking for, hydrocarbons perhaps. 

What do you think he was looking 

for? Anybody have any idea? I tell 

you, he wasn’t searching for oil. Well, 

he was looking for lug worms. And he 

showed me some lug worms that he 

had caught. And I will tell you, my 

friends, the lugworm is not perhaps 

the most beautiful of God’s creatures. 

But bigger fish love lugworms. And I 

want you to know that we 

Conservatives back everybody in this 

country who gets up early and invest 

their time and their skill and their 

energy and their effort in the hope of a 

bigger return. You need to use a 

lugworm to catch a bream, my friends 

and I have a bream. As they say. 

I have a vision of a one nation 

conservatism that takes that capitalist 

spirit and uses it. Uses our wonderful 

free market system to make sure that 

we have the revenues further for Rishi 

Sunak could pay for our fantastic 

NHS and the 50,000 more nurses and 

the thousands more doctors that were 

are hiring pay for all the wonderful 

staff who are clearing the COVID 

backlogs, pay for our defences, pay 

for Ben Wallace’s troops, pay for our 

20,000 more police officers pay for 

investment in skills. Like what we’re 

doing with the Blackpool and Fylde 

College, the new Multiversity that’s 

opening because that is what levelling 

up is all about. And it is those 

wonderful public services that create 

the climate of confidence, which 

means that private sector investment 

comes in and it works, this formula 

for levelling up I believe is right for 

the whole country. It’s vital to 

understand this. It’s vital that it works. 

It works everywhere. By unleashing 

talent everywhere across the UK still, 

under the old model the most 

imbalanced European economy, by 

unleashing can everywhere you stop 

the overheating and the stress and the 



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overdevelopment, that is a part of the 

failed economic model, and we take 

the whole country forward together. 

That’s what we’re going to do. That’s 

why Rishi… I think he’s totally right 

to be driving at a new age of post 

Brexit, entrepreneurialism. Tough 

word to say, you know, but you know 

what I mean? Low business taxes and 

other fiscal incentives, the eight new 

free ports and all the new freedoms 

that we’re currently taking, driven by 

Jacob, who’s our invigilator of these 

things, to do things differently and do 

things better? And now that we can, 

and I think it’s because of the spirit 

that people can see in this country that 

we’re seeing a surge of investment in 

the last few months, another billion 

just this week from Al Fanar, from 

Saudi Arabia in Teesside to make 

green aviation fuel on top of a billion 

from Nissan for a Gigafactory, a 

billion from Mubadala for Life 

Sciences, 6 billion from Iberdrola 

Spanish company in East Anglia wind 

farms, 1.5 billion from Blackstone in 

labs in the creative sector. The list 

goes on and on. 

It is absolutely astonishing, a 

billion here, a billion there, you’re 

talking about serious money, you’re 

talking about tens of thousands of 

high wage, high skilled jobs. And 

there’s another reason of course, why 

investors come here. And when they 

think about the UK, and what it’s 

going to be like for themselves and 

their families, they think about the 

time that they’re going to be spending 

in the UK, and I tell you something, it 

is the invincible strength of this 

country that we believe, by and large, 

and within the law, that people should 

be able to do whatever they want, 

provided they don’t do any harm to 

anybody else. And that’s called 

freedom. That’s called freedom. And 

we don’t need to be woke. We just 

want to be free. And that’s why 

talented people are fleeing Russia, 

quite frankly, right now. And that’s 

why they’re flocking to the UK. 

And to get back to my theme. 

That’s Putin’s tragedy. That’s his 

tragedy there. Actually, there’s a sense 

in which his disastrous error in 

Ukraine is itself an argument for 

democracy and freedom. I mean, 

seriously, if Putin had a free press, if 

he had the BBC on his case. I’m 

deadly serious, he would know, 

whatever you may think, he would 

have known the truth or a version of 

it, he would have known the truth. If 

he had free, impartial, responsible 

journalism, let me put it that way. 

Then he would have known then he 

would have known the truth that the 

Ukrainians are a proud, proud nation 

with a charismatic leader, and he 

would have known before he set out 

on this disastrous and inhuman 

venture that they would fight to 

defend their homeland. He would 

have known that, and he wouldn’t 

have locked himself in this echo 

chamber of sycophants. On which 

subject if Putin had to explain himself 

to a real parliament, with real 

backbenchers whom, of course, all 

leaders must have a very, very lively 

regard. Who had backbenchers they 

had to justify themselves to every day, 

to their electors, and of course at 

elections, you know, I don’t believe 

that he would have been capable of 

such a crescendo of disastrous and 

self-destructive mistakes. Isn’t that the 

truth? 

Now, I don’t believe that 

democratic freedoms are going to 

sprout anytime soon in the Kremlin, 

far from it, but with every day that 

passes, I think that Putin becomes a 

more glaring advertisement for the 

system that he hates and despises. And 

it becomes ever more obvious why we 

have to stick up for Ukraine. And we 

will. And that’s why we will continue 

with absolute conviction to stick up 

for freedom under the law, freedom 

under the law at home and abroad, 

even if it means making some tough 

decisions. We made a tough choice, 

for instance, over Christmas and New 

Year to keep going to keep our 

economy open. When some people 

said we should go back into 

lockdown. We made the tough choice 

to open up last July, when I think that 

the Labour Party said we were being 

reckless. Never forget if we’d listened 

to Captain Hindsight and the Labour 

Party, I never tire I’m telling you this, 

but it’s true, we would still be in 

lockdown and we would certainly not 

be seeing the strong growth and 

employment that we’re seeing today. 

When the Labour Party and the 

current leader were trying with might 

and main to install a leader who 

wanted I’m sorry, I’m serious, to 

abolish NATO. We were already 

training Ukrainian troops to fight. And 

it’s an absolutely incredible fact and 

it’s true at a time when Russia is being 

led by a President who is capable of 

bullying and threats who’s plainly 

capable of making dangerous and 

irrational decisions, we have a Labour 

party whose shadow cabinet is stuffed 

with people who only recently voted 

to abolish the UK’s independent 

nuclear deterrent. That’s right. Eight 

of them. The Shadow Foreign 

Secretary unbelievable, the Shadow 

Levelling-up Secretary, the Shadow 

Transport Secretary, I can’t get the 

entire list, but you can find it out. 

That’s them. 

Do we want them in charge, my 

friends at this moment? Do we want 

them running up the white flag? Do 

you see them standing up to Putin’s 

blackmail? By the way, in the next 

few weeks. Do we want them running 

our councils where we know that up 

and down the country Labour councils 

cost you more and Conservatives 

deliver better services? Do we want 

them in charge of the economy of this 

amazing country of ours when there 

has never been a Labour government 

that left with unemployment lower 

than when they arrived? Let me tell 

you when you go out campaigning in 

the in the next few weeks, as we all 

will, joyfully. Let me tell you that my 

message to everybody on the doorstep 

is that it is Conservatives. It’s 

Conservatives who get things done, 

even when they look difficult, and it’s 

Conservatives who take the tough 

decisions to help you, to be on your 

side, to help you with the cost of 

living. And it’s Conservatives who 

stand up for freedom against the 

blackmail of Vladimir Putin. I’ll tell 

you why they do it. 

We do it, not out of ideology, 

because we know through long 

experience, that it’s only by sticking 

up for freedom, that we can deliver 

long term prosperity and security and 

that’s what we will deliver together. 

Thank you all very much. And thank 

you for coming to spring conference. 

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