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HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentThe hon. Gentleman will have noticed that in my opening statement I mentioned electric planes.25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentIt is a great pity, in my view, that the current Mayor of London—not a patch on the old guy—decided to cancel the contract with Wrightbus of Ballymena, which has been of great…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI will tell the hon. Gentleman one thing that we are doing: we have secured for this country the COP 26. We will be hosting the world climate change conference here in the UK,…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentThose guarantees, as the hon. Gentleman knows, we are giving unilaterally, in a supererogatory way. Of course, I want to see a symmetrical response from the other side of the…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI think that what the people of this country want to know is what is the Government’s programme for taking this country forward. I think that the contrast is between a…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentAs the hon. Gentleman knows, business support is a devolved matter, so he should look to the Government of Scotland—the incompetent Government of Scotland—as his first port of…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI am sorry. Forgive me. I was thinking of the right hon. Gentleman’s father. His father, of course, was right. If the right hon. Gentleman talks to his constituents in Leeds he…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentWhat the right hon. Gentleman has said is redolent of the kind of defeatism and negativity that we have had over the past three years. Why begin by assuming that our EU friends…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentThis Parliament has already voted several times to honour the mandate of the people to come out of the EU, and that is what we should do. I think that the right hon. Lady herself…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI congratulate my hon. Friend on the campaign that he has waged for so long. He and I have discussed this. I tried to steal his idea years ago. I support it unreservedly and I…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentAs the right hon. Lady knows very well, it is common ground between the UK and indeed Dublin and the EU Commission that there are abundant facilitations already available, trusted…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI thank my right hon. Friend. Valiant for truth in these matters, as he has been for so long, he is, of course, quite right that we have a fantastic opportunity now to take back…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI thank my right hon. Friend very much for what she has done. She has worked tirelessly to promote good government and the restoration of the Government in Stormont, and she has a…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI congratulate the hon. Lady on her own election and join her in insisting on the vital importance of guaranteeing the rights and protections of the 3.2 million who have lived and…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI thank my right hon. Friend very much for his remarks and for the spirit in which he made them. He speaks for many of us in saying that we need to get this done, we can get it…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his suggestion. I should point out that the people of this country have voted in 2015, 2016 and 2017, and what they want to see is this…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentIt is only with an effort that I can master my feelings here, Mr Speaker. The right hon. Gentleman would not only put up taxes on inheritance, pensions and corporations; he would…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI say to my hon. Friend that he will know them as soon as possible.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 GovernmentMy hon. Friend is entirely right. He may have noticed that we announced policies to allow the establishment of schools for those with special educational needs, and in areas where…25 Jul 2019