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HANSARD G7 SummitI thank my hon. Friend for everything she has done, both on the development front and in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to champion female education around the world. I…03 Sept 2019HANSARD G7 SummitI do not comment on leaks. Even if I did, I have got no idea, quite frankly. I think it is highly unlikely.03 Sept 2019HANSARD G7 SummitMy hon. Friend is totally right. There is a huge opportunity for the UK to recover its standing, which it used to have before 1973, as a great individual actor and campaigner for…03 Sept 2019HANSARD G7 SummitI would be reluctant to encourage any measure now that did anything to reduce free trade around the world. It would be much better to support the reforestation of Brazil in the…03 Sept 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI am grateful to the hon. Lady. The answer, I think, was contained in my statement. She will have heard it, along with the House. As a first step—let me put it that way—we need to…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI was relying on the very clear advice of a very distinguished colleague of mine. I will undertake to write to the hon. Lady with further and better particulars about the dispute…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentThe Government are appointing a fantastic team that will take this country forward. It is absolutely astonishing: the hon. Gentleman talks of the campaign to leave the European…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI absolutely endorse my hon. Friend’s campaign. We should be a meritocracy and people should be able to access jobs not according to who they know, but according to their talents.…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentYes.25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI thank my hon. Friend very much. He has been a doughty champion of food and farming in this country for many years, and he is quite right to be filled—suffused, as he is—with…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentThe hon. Gentleman, I am sure, knows that people can get a 100% advance on universal credit on day one, and as he knows— [ Interruption. ] Labour Members want to scrap universal…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI thank my hon. Friend, and she is entirely right: it is time for a nuclear renaissance. I believe passionately that nuclear must be part of our energy mix, and she is right to…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI am afraid what the hon. Lady says is absolutely diametrically the opposite of the truth, because income inequality has in fact declined since 2010. [ Interruption. ] It has. The…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI thank the hon. Lady, and I will of course make sure that I study the suggestions she has made in her reports. They will of course be taken into account as we come forward with a…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI thank my hon. Friend, and it smacks of tyranny. It smacks of tyranny. These people pretend to be democrats, yet their plan is to quash the will of the people time and time and…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI thank the hon. Gentleman for raising that very important point with me. I am informed that the issue of safe standing at football matches is currently under review, but clearly…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentOf course. I thank my hon. Friend for what he has done to protect the rights not just, obviously, of his parents but of the 3.2 million —and of the 1.3 million UK nationals living…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentOf course, the hon. Lady is not quite right, because the figure she refers to is not the amount that has been spent but the amount that was allocated by the previous Chancellor of…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI hope the children in her constituency that the hon. Lady describes will be able to learn from watching these proceedings that they are going to get more funding for their…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI say to my hon. Friend that he will know them as soon as possible.25 Jul 2019