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HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateMy right hon. Friend speaks movingly and entirely correctly about our duty to the people of this country. They are watching these proceedings. They want us to deliver Brexit on 31…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateAs the right hon. Lady can imagine, I will not comment on my conversations with Her Majesty. I am afraid she is sadly in error in her history. To my memory, John Major prorogued…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateIf I may say so, I think that the involuntary commentary on the Benches of this House was directed more at the Leader of the Opposition than at anything I had to say. My strong…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateObviously I congratulate Nissan on what it is doing and on its stunning manufacturing performance, and we are working very hard to protect supply chains, not just for Nissan but…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateI am afraid the straight answer is no. I must repeat the humility with which we approach the judgment of the Supreme Court and, indeed, the Supreme Court itself but, on the…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateI congratulate the hon. Lady on the eloquence with which she has just made the point I tried to make earlier. She might direct her wrath at the Leader of the Opposition, because I…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateI cannot prophesy exactly what my itinerary will be in the course of the general election campaign, but I cannot exclude the possibility that I may indeed pay a visit to the hon.…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateThe hon. Lady was going so well. I thought she was going to say that she would vote for a compromise deal, and I hope she will think of that, because that is what her constituents…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateWe will, of course, respect the law and we will leave on 31 October. I think everybody would agree that the best circumstances in which we could do that would be if all the Labour…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateObviously I would prefer a deal, and I hope I could count on the hon. Gentleman’s support if we were to get one. As for my desperate pleas for an election, actually I am not…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateI must respectfully disagree with the point that the hon. Gentleman makes. As far as I am concerned, the Government have treated the court with great respect and we intend to…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateWe are going to go for a deal, and we are going to come out on 31 October.25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateI think actually the Government as a whole have shown maximum humility in the face of the judgment and we respect the court. Alas, it is not possible for us to agree with it…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateWith the greatest respect to the hon. Gentleman, I think I did set out in some detail the areas in which we are now making progress. But I must say, to repeat the point that I…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateWith your leave, Mr Speaker, I will keep my answers pretty staccato from now on, because I have answered these points quite a lot. If people care about their constituents—it is…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateThe real contrast is between the Conservative party, the democratic party, which wants to honour the will of the people, and the Labour party, which is trying to obstruct Brexit…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateThe people of Scotland were promised it was a once-in-a-generation referendum, and we must respect that promise.25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateI think that when I look back on the 64 days that we have had in government so far, I will be proud of 20,000 police officers on the streets of this country, of 20 new hospital…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateI have tried to show every possible humility today, to the House, to hon. Members and to the court and its judgment, but the best way we can all collectively show humility as…25 Sept 2019HANSARD Prime Minister's UpdateI must say that I do not think there could be any clearer example of a sense of privileged entitlement than for a parliamentarian to decide that he is in a position to substitute…25 Sept 2019