Sentence examples for secure the debate from inspiring English sources
"My concern has been that the debate so far has concentrated on the impact on the constituencies on the route," said the North Warwickshire Tory MP, Dan Byles, who helped secure the debate.
Despite a promise to enshrine the 0.7% aid commitment into law – it appeared in the manifestos of all three main political parties in 2010 – it took a private member's bill, introduced by Liberal Democrat MP Michael Moore in September 2014, to secure the debate.
But Mr Morris, who secured the debate, said that Britain had "a unique historical connection – and a moral responsibility to the people of both Israel and Palestine".
Julian Huppert, the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge, who secured the debate with Raab, said: "The secretary who looks at the D notices has confirmed that he has seen nothing published in the Guardian that would present a risk to life".
But it does not mention Ahmad and the e-petition, with Dominic Raab – the MP who was instrumental in securing the debate – refusing to insert the key phrase "pending cases" into the motion, which would have included people facing extradition.
Gentleman on securing the debate.
Aberdeen North Labour MP Frank Doran, who secured the adjournment debate, said there was a need for a full public inquiry following the loss of many lives in recent years.
This will begin to matter when there is a public petition which gains enough signatures to secure the right to a debate in parliament and then, if the government loses, nothing happens.
Geoffrey Cox, Conservative MP for Torridge and West Devon, said securing the debate was one of a "series of actions" to put pressure on the British government.
It was the channel through which we needed to secure the one per cent to get into the debates.
