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HANSARDDebate on the AddressIn a moment. We understand this crucial point: we find flair, imagination, enthusiasm and genius distributed evenly throughout this country, while opportunity is not. We mean to…11 May 2021HANSARDDebate on the AddressWe will not only stick up for victims for the first time, which Labour failed to do in all its years in office, just as it failed to do anything at all about social care—Labour…11 May 2021HANSARDDebate on the AddressWe have put £5 billion into supporting homeowners who face the problems of cladding in buildings over 18 metres, and we are supporting leaseholders at every level. This is a…11 May 2021HANSARDDebate on the AddressNo, no, no. My hon. Friend the Member for North West Cambridgeshire is a kindly man and a lawyer, but unlike some other lawyers in this House he is tough on crime. In fact, he is…11 May 2021HANSARDDebate on the AddressNo. My hon. Friend has served in many distinguished political roles and can be proud of his campaigns on behalf of sufferers from breast cancer, on behalf of homeowners who…11 May 2021HANSARDDebate on the AddressI give way to the hon. Lady with pleasure.11 May 2021HANSARDDebate on the AddressI am happy to study that report, but it is this party and this Government who stick up for people across all walks of life: they stick up for pensioners and they stick up for the…11 May 2021HANSARDDebate on the AddressMy hon. Friend is completely right. Anglesey could have no more powerful or effective champion than her not just on the matter of freeports, but on nuclear power as well, which…11 May 2021HANSARDDebate on the AddressNo, I will not take an intervention from the hon. Gentleman just yet. We will use the powers that we have recovered from the EU to strengthen our borders and reform the asylum…11 May 2021HANSARDDebate on the AddressIf the hon. Member for Hove (Peter Kyle) opposes that, he can let me know. Perhaps he would like to tell me.11 May 2021HANSARDDebate on the AddressIf the hon. Gentleman wants to dispute the merits of that proposal, let him do so now.11 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsAbsolutely. I do not know why the Leader of the Opposition’s PPS, the hon. Member for Swansea East (Carolyn Harris), is shaking her head, because surely she would agree with that.…28 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend. No matter how many pints I joined him in lifting in the pubs of Bosworth, it could not do as much for the economy of Bosworth as what we are already doing…28 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsI think that what people think is that the Labour party is losing all the arguments across British politics, that it has nothing to say, and that it has no plan for our future and…28 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsI do, and I thank my hon. Friend for all the wonderful work that he does for his constituency. My message would be, yes, I hope that the people of Nottinghamshire will get out and…28 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am lost in admiration for what Andy Street is doing. He is a fantastic Mayor of the West Midlands and he has a fantastic vision for transport, jobs, growth and recovery. I hope…28 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsAs I have said, I look forward to what the Electoral Commission has to say, but I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that, for the rest of it, he is talking complete nonsense. The…28 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful, Mr Speaker, but what I would say to the right hon. Gentleman is that if he is going to relay that kind of quotation, it is up to him in a place like Parliament to…28 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsI have given the right hon. and learned Gentleman the answer, and the answer is that I have covered the costs. Of course, the Electoral Commission is investigating this, and I can…28 Apr 2021HANSARDEngagementsWhen it comes to misleading Parliament, the right hon. and learned Gentleman may recollect that it was only a few weeks ago that he said that he did not oppose this country…28 Apr 2021