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HANSARDSpending Round 2019You don’t like spending on education?04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsI must correct the hon. Gentleman because, in fact, unemployment is well down in his constituency, employment is up and health outcomes are up. When I made those remarks, which…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend and I can assure him that that matter is, of course, at the top of our concerns with all our EU friends and partners. We have made it absolutely clear…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsAgain, that is a bit rich from a member of a party whose shadow Chancellor says that business is the enemy— [Interruption.] Where is he? He has gone. The hon. Lady should listen…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend, who has been a wonderful champion for Watford and for conservative values. I have been to campaign for him in Watford and seen how popular he is. There are…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsI am not going to take any lectures from anybody in the Labour party about how to run a party. Theirs is a party in which good, hard-working MPs are daily hounded out by…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsI think it absolutely bizarre that a London Labour Member of Parliament should ignore the role of the present Mayor of London, who is, frankly, not a patch on the old guy. I left…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsIf the hon. Lady wants to speak for the people of Lincoln, who, after all, voted to leave —yes, they did—the best thing she can do is make sure we come out of the EU on 31 October…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsFirst, let me thank my right hon. Friend for everything she has done for the people of Northern Ireland and for rightly raising this issue in her constituency with me. Of course…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsMay I tell the hon. Gentleman that what the people of this country want to see is us come together to come out of the EU on 31 October with a deal? We are making great progress…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsI congratulate my hon. Friend on everything he does to represent that vital industry, which earns billions of pounds in revenue for this country. Tariffs on Scotch whisky would be…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsThere is a great deal of preparatory work going on—particularly in the west midlands, which the hon. Gentleman represents—to make sure that automotive supply chains are indeed…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsOf course we are preparing for a no-deal Brexit if we absolutely must have one. I do not think that the consequences will be anything like as bad as the merchants of Project Fear…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsI thank my hon. Friend very much. We love Telford, of course, and it is going to see even more when my right hon. Friend the Chancellor announces his spending review shortly.…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsI might ask the right hon. Gentleman if he will respect the democratic will of the people of the United Kingdom, which this House voted to do time and again, to implement the…04 Sept 2019HANSARDNational Security AdviserAs my right hon. Friend is aware, the decision to put the two roles together was taken by my predecessor, although I have a high admiration for the gentleman in question.04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsI really do not see how with a straight face the right hon. Gentleman can accuse anybody of being unwilling to stand up to scrutiny when he will not agree to submit his surrender…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said absolutely no such thing, and I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that, thanks to my right hon. Friend’s good offices and thanks to…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsLet us be absolutely clear. This Government will get a deal from our friends in Brussels and we will get the backstop out. We will get an agreement that I think the House can…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend for his excellent suggestion. As he knows, we currently apply the reduced 5% rate on domestic fuel and power, which is the lowest allowed under EU…04 Sept 2019