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HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementThe hon. Lady is making a very important point. People feel very strongly about this matter, and they also feel very differently about it. What we have today is an opportunity to…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right: it is time that this country moved on. I may say that the best way in which he could show his support tonight for this deal would be…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementThe better angels of the Leader of the Opposition’s nature may still agree with that position; my impression is that he has been in some way captured and held hostage by those who…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementThe deal is in perfect conformity with the Good Friday agreement, and it is open to the people of Northern Ireland to vary the arrangements that I have described if they so choose.19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementI thank my right hon. Friend, who has done much to bring our party and, indeed, the House together on this matter. I could not agree with him more fervently. I really do think…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementI am afraid that the hon. Lady is simply wrong. There will be no border down the Irish sea. There are already checks for epidemiological purposes. There will be some customs…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementMy hon. Friend has campaigned on this matter for many, many years. Indeed, there is a sense in which this occasion today is a colossal vindication of his parliamentary career, in…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementYes, I certainly can.19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s Statementindicated dissent .19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementI thank my right hon. Friend for what he has said, and he is indeed correct. I do believe that this excellent deal dispels the doubts of many people about what this country could…19 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressMy hon. Friend has anticipated a point that I am about to come to, but let me deal with it out of order, as it were, and say that we will be bringing forward legislation to…14 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressI am very grateful to my hon. Friend for her intervention. I must direct her back to the answer I gave a moment ago: we are looking very carefully at HS2, and she should wait…14 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressI concur entirely with my hon. Friend. The one thing that would be more divisive, more toxic, than the first referendum is a second referendum. Let’s get Brexit done.14 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressThe right hon. Lady knows there is an ongoing review of HS2, but this Government will be conducting the biggest infrastructure revolution of our time. I suggest that she contain…14 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressMy hon. Friend is completely right, and the entire country is yearning for this House to come together and to work together to get Brexit done. If we can get a deal, I think it…14 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressMy hon. Friend is entirely right. That is why there is a massive increase not just in primary school funding, not just in secondary school funding, but in SEND funding across the…14 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressIncluding, particularly, Cheltenham.14 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressMay I respectfully suggest to the right hon. Gentleman that that might be a good reason—if it were true, which it is not—for his party to support a deal. I must say that I find it…14 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressNot only can I give my hon. Friend that absolute and unequivocal guarantee, but I am delighted to say that 2 million EU nationals in this country have already registered under the…14 Oct 2019HANSARDDebate on the AddressI will give way, with pleasure.14 Oct 2019