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HANSARDEngagementsYou do not make young people better off by putting them out of work. The Deputy Prime Minister’s MPs are already banned from pubs. Where next? Shops, restaurants, hair salons—that…28 Jan 2026HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, you can feel the Deputy Prime Minister’s frustration. The Prime Minister is away, the Business Secretary is away, and here he is—left-behind Lammy, the designated…28 Jan 2026HANSARDEngagementsThe thing that the Deputy Prime Minister did not want to say is that every Labour Government leave office with unemployment higher than when they arrived. There is a reason for…28 Jan 2026HANSARDEngagementsI do not know what is in the Deputy Prime Minister’s head; it is our party that is getting stronger. Overnight we learned that the former Deputy Prime Minister has got 80 names.…28 Jan 2026HANSARD Offshore WindA very independent source!14 Jan 2026HANSARD Employment Rights BillThe concerns that we Conservatives have with the Bill have long been known, and I accept that we have debated them at length. I will not repeat them all today, because we are not…15 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillThe hon. Lady would have been wise to contain her excitement, because I agree with all of those groups in their letter today, which the Minister selectively quoted; she did not…15 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI will do so briefly. After that, I want to conclude.15 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillWhat is it about protecting people from unemployment—preventing young people from getting jobs—and from economic growth? The Government of which the right hon. Lady was once a…15 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillYes, come back on that.15 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillOur Government created 4 million new jobs. This Government have lost jobs every single month they have been in office. The points that the right hon. Lady makes are not those we…15 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillMy hon. Friend makes an important point, which I hope somebody on the Labour Benches will address. We have seen no analysis and we have no idea of the cost of this measure. Not a…15 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillHappily, if the hon. Member will talk about how he will fix our NHS.15 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillWell no, I cannot, because there is a cap—the very cap that the hon. Member’s party is seeking to remove. I try not to be uncharitable about the complete absence of business…15 Dec 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillI thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. I will leave that hanging there and hope that Labour Members will address it. In conclusion, I ask the Government at this…15 Dec 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthFive Lib Dem Lords a-leaping. That is all it took for the Liberal Democrat party to throw every British business under the bus and expose them to the unimaginable liability of…11 Dec 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthLyndon B Johnson said the first rule of politics is to learn how to count. The Government lost the vote in the House of Lords last night on the unemployment Bill because 144 of…11 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsLabour’s steel strategy was originally promised in spring 2025, but yesterday we learned from a written ministerial statement, snuck out without Ministers coming to the House,…11 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is always a pleasure to see you in the Chair. We have heard from Members from across the House who understand a fundamental truth: that the…10 Dec 2025HANSARDSeasonal WorkMy right hon. Friend is exactly right. I would not want to incur wrath by accusing anybody of misleading the House, but that is exactly the same story that I have heard from the…10 Dec 2025