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HANSARDSupporting High StreetsMy right hon. Friend is exactly right. Let us be optimistic: we are here to celebrate our high streets, and perhaps all is not lost. The Chancellor could yet repent and reverse…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsMy right hon. Friend represents his constituents in Salisbury diligently, and makes exactly the same point. With respect, the Government have not understood business, and the…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI enjoy a full English as much as I suspect my colleague does. It is not just breakfast that is under threat; it is also lunch, supper, tea, dinner and the great British pub.04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI agree with the hon. Gentleman. There is so much that we in this House and those in the Government—if they are minded to do so—can do to alleviate the burden on business. It is…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI have so many wonderful contributions to take from my colleagues. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will have his chance later.04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsMy right hon. Friend makes another excellent point. I recently had the wonderful opportunity to meet Dr Arthur Laffer, whose pioneering economic research showed that reducing…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI am afraid that the hon. Gentleman must have overstayed oral questions to the Chancellor, because what we are doing in the Chamber now is celebrating, cherishing and supporting…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsAgain, that is an excellent point. It is something that the Chancellor, who is spreading uncertainty and consternation again this morning, should think about in relation to the…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI will make some progress. Last week, I had the opportunity to visit the Queen’s Head in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (David…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI hope that the hon. Lady is rising to commit herself to repealing them too.04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI am sure that the hon. Lady will wish to take that matter up with Ministers through the appropriate channels, but there will not be many fun factories on our high streets when…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. One only has to look at the wording of the motion we are debating and that of the Government amendment. We Conservatives talk about…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsYou do not improve workers’ rights by making them unemployed, creating a generation of jobless young people who cannot find their way into gainful employment. And do you know…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and the choices that businesses face are enormously difficult. Every single day, they have to ask themselves whether they should put up prices…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsRather than giving away our fishing for 12 years and getting nothing in return because of a dogma, or spending time on international affairs—giving away the British Indian Ocean…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsIf the hon. Lady wants to talk about what the Government are doing to help employment, I would love to hear her intervention.04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsTo coin a phrase, we are not going to balance the books of local government on the back of entrepreneurial businesses that are keeping our high streets alive, providing services…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI am not sure that we were in charge in the particular area that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned, but I am pleased to know that, like so many of us, he had his first experience…04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI will, but I suspect that I should then make a bit more progress.04 Nov 2025HANSARDSupporting High StreetsI absolutely agree. We are all here individually today representing our fantastic constituencies, our wonderful high streets and our entrepreneurial businesses—those residents and…04 Nov 2025