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HANSARDAppointment of Lord LebedevPerhaps the hon. Gentleman has not noticed that the Labour party has changed, but certainly people in the country have, and I would say to him that I hope the Whip on the Treasury…29 Mar 2022HANSARDAppointment of Lord LebedevI have already given way, and I will give way a bit later if the hon. Gentleman will allow me to make my argument. I would argue that this is not and should not be a controversial…29 Mar 2022HANSARDAppointment of Lord LebedevThe hon. Lady knows that I have been a Member of Parliament for 17 years, and as a Labour MP, I want a Labour Government. I have to say to the hon. Lady that if we had a Labour…29 Mar 2022HANSARDAppointment of Lord LebedevIt is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Eltham (Clive Efford). He is absolutely right: the logic, or rather lack of logic, of the Government’s argument beggars…29 Mar 2022HANSARD Civil ProceedingsI start by echoing the Minister’s thanks to healthcare and frontline public service workers and, indeed, the public for all they have done to get us to this point after two years…29 Mar 2022HANSARD Civil ProceedingsI thank my hon. Friend for his kind remarks. I have met numerous groups representing the clinically vulnerable, the clinically extremely vulnerable and the immunosuppressed…29 Mar 2022HANSARD Civil ProceedingsIt does stick in the throat a little hearing “personal responsibility” regurgitated time and again when we now know what happened in Downing Street, that the rules were broken and…29 Mar 2022HANSARDAppointment of Lord LebedevI would argue that the Ukraine invasion by Putin’s forces has brought sharply into view the extent of the involvement of Kremlin-linked people and organisations, not just in this…29 Mar 2022HANSARD Civil ProceedingsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Although we will continue to hold this Government to account, we will not oppose these measures today. There are real questions about covid…29 Mar 2022HANSARD Civil ProceedingsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Many of the people who are classed as clinically vulnerable, clinically extremely vulnerable or immunosuppressed are looked after by members of…29 Mar 2022HANSARD Civil ProceedingsMy hon. Friend hits on an important point for debate at some stage in the near future. There is a concern that the cohort that has been drawn up for access to antivirals is not as…29 Mar 2022HANSARD Civil ProceedingsMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course, for too many people in this country, that is the reality of their day-to-day to living—and we know that it is going to get…29 Mar 2022HANSARDP&O FerriesThe Minister is absolutely right that this is not fire and rehire, because the P&O workers have not even had the indignity of being offered back their contracts on lesser terms…28 Mar 2022HANSARDRussian Aggression: Support for NATO Allies4. What steps the Government are taking to support NATO allies in response to Russian aggression.28 Mar 2022HANSARDRussian Aggression: Support for NATO AlliesI thank the Minister, because the UK is right to bolster support to our NATO allies bordering Russia, and NATO is right in condemning Putin’s illegal and atrocious actions in…28 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsAt the last Defence questions, I got what I hoped was an encouraging answer on behalf of the nuclear test veterans for what will be the 70th anniversary of the first nuclear…28 Mar 2022HANSARDSchools White PaperEducation is a big passion of mine, and I thank the Secretary of State for his recent announcement that Tameside will be an education improvement area. With that, the focus on…28 Mar 2022HANSARD UkraineI pay tribute to the Ukrainian armed forces, to the resistance fighters and to ordinary citizens for the fortitude they have shown in the face of Russian aggression. It is a human…28 Mar 2022HANSARD Business of the HouseI think that the Leader of the House meant to say to my hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Mrs Lewell-Buck) that we now have the highest tax burden in modern history, even…24 Mar 2022HANSARDLocal Libraries and Regional MuseumsRegional museums are great, but let us not forget about local museums. From Tameside’s Portland Basin Museum to Stockport’s Hat Works Museum, they tell the story of who we are.…24 Mar 2022