United Kingdom parliament

Alex Baker

Member of Parliament · Labour

Transcripts of what Alex Baker said in Parliament, sitting by sitting. Only speeches whose speaker is confirmed are shown.

11 sittings with a confirmed speech

Sittings appear here a month after they are held.

Latest speeches

  1. House of Commons · House of Commons · 10 September 2026

    • Ministerial Statement: Ukraine, Russia threat and defence spending

      “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It was great to welcome my honourable friend to Farnborough Airshow and great to have him at the dispatch box this morning. Our adversaries in China and Russia are mobilizing their financial markets to sustain…”
      Watch from 3:51:48

  2. House of Commons · House of Commons · 7 September 2026

    • Housing Questions Q5–Q6: Youth participation and voting at 16

      “Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This summer I had some great conversations with the latest cohort of work experience students from Farnborough Sixth Form who came to spend time in my office, who all agreed that their citizenship education from the…”
      Watch from 17:21

    • Closing of reorganisation statement: Commitment to rapid review

      “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It's never too late to make sure a decision is the right one, but I'm pleased to hear the Secretary of State recognising the challenge this is for local councils such as my district council,…”
      Watch from 2:05:09

  3. House of Commons · House of Commons · 1 September 2026

    • Responses to PM statement: Opposition scrutiny, defence, migration, tax and institutional reform

      “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. As the MP for Aldershot, I was really pleased to hear that the Prime Minister had held bilateral talks with Prime Ministers Carney and Freeland, who are leading the founding of the Defense Security and…”
      Watch from 4:05:32

  4. Defence Committee · House of Commons · 15 July 2026

    • Allied cooperation: Canada, JEF, GCAP and Type 26

      “Thank you, Chair. We're going to talk about our, the United Kingdom and our allies, and I particularly want to obviously talk about our sister nation Canada. Obviously a relationship that's incredibly important, the only nation that we share obviously…”
      Watch from 41:56

    • Allied cooperation: Canada, JEF, GCAP and Type 26

      “Okay, so how radical can and should the UK be when it comes to working with allies in the region?”
      Watch from 43:50

    • Allied cooperation: Canada, JEF, GCAP and Type 26

      “One of the things from my side is I look at, you know, obviously what happens in defense, and it just seems we do the same thing over and over again. And sometimes, you know, we need to do radical…”
      Watch from 45:33
    2 more clips in this sitting

  5. Treasury Committee · House of Commons · 8 July 2026

    • MDM vs DSRB: defence finance architecture and Canada

      “Thank you, Chair. So I'm coming on to international cooperation and particularly the debate between the Multilateral Defense Mechanism and the Defense Security and Resilience Bank. Chief Secretary, can you set out your understanding on the Defense Security and Resilience…”
      Watch from 1:51:35

    • Merging MDM and DSRB and using existing NATO procurement tools

      “And so the Chancellor has now stated that she wants to bring these two things together more formally. So is that now the settled position of HMT that these things ideally will come together more formally? Okay, but I mean,…”
      Watch from 1:59:25

    • Defence finance strategy, Basel rules, ESG and debanking

      “Thank you, Chair. I just want to come back in on defense finance. When are we going to get the defense finance investment strategy? It's obviously been promised for a long time.”
      Watch from 2:10:01
    1 more clip in this sitting

  6. House of Commons · House of Commons · 8 July 2026

    • Closing UK rearmament debate: government defence and opposition attack

      “I thank my honorable friend for giving way. The debate we're having on percentages of GDP is slightly irrelevant because actually, even if defense spending was raised to 3%, we have no ability to actually spend that money within the…”
      Watch from 5:01:01

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