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HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentPeople across this country will have heard me mention the JLR investment in Birmingham three times already today. It is a measure of this country’s success that it continues to…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer that I have given several times already today, which is that the people of Scotland had a vote in 2014, and they voted overwhelmingly to…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentIt was common ground across all parties, including the Scottish nationalists, that the referendum was a once-in-a-generation decision. That decision was taken in 2014, and that…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentThe hon. Gentleman will have noticed that in my opening statement I mentioned electric planes.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 GovernmentWe will of course make sure that the £20 billion extra that we have committed to the NHS goes to the frontline and to all hospitals in this country.25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentThe House of Commons has voted several times to honour the mandate of the people. It is the law of this country that we leave the European Union on 31 October. That is what…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentHad the hon. Gentleman been paying the slightest attention, he would have heard that I have pledged to restore the money to Scottish farming, and it is thanks to the Scottish…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 GovernmentIt really is extraordinary that the Scottish nationalist party is returning to the issue of fish. It is now clear that its whole policy is not just to join the euro and submit to…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 thank the right hon. Gentleman very much for all the co-operation and support that has enabled the Government of this country to carry on and to protect the people of this…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentDiolch yn fawr, Mr Speaker. My short answer to the right hon. Lady is that, of course, the people of the whole United Kingdom voted to leave the EU, and the people of Wales, to…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentWith permission, Mr Speaker, I shall make a statement on the mission of this new Conservative Government. Before I begin, I am sure that the whole House will join me in paying…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentMr Speaker, I applaud your intervention. I also think there is far too much negativity about the potential of our great country, as I think you will agree. Our constitutional…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI struggled to discover a serious question in that, but I will make one important point that it is worth making: under no circumstances will we agree to any free trade deal that…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentThey do not like the truth that more homes were built in this country last year than in any of the last 31 years bar one. Wages are now outperforming inflation for the first time…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 2019