Contributions
5,553 recent contributions in Hansard
HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentNot only that, we must do much more to ensure that police in rural areas get out to victims of crime in a timely and efficient way. I know that my right hon. Friend the Home…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentNot only will I endorse that suggestion, but I invite my hon. Friend to meet my right hon. Friend the Chancellor at the earliest possible opportunity to discuss it.25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentThe hon. Gentleman will know, since he is a keen student of the Conservative party manifesto, that the Government were committed both then and since to preparing for a no-deal…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI thank my hon. Friend for the campaign that he managed on Asia Bibi, and indeed others. It is very important that our country sends a clear signal that we will provide a beacon…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentAs far as I can remember, in 2014 the people of Scotland had a referendum, and the hon. Lady’s side did not prevail; the people of Scotland voted to remain part of the United…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentAs the right hon. Gentleman knows full well, our intention is to make sure that there are no tariffs imposed, and that we leave with a zero-tariff, zero-quota outcome, which I am…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI do. They are, if I may say, a withering retort to the gloomsters on the Opposition Benches who say there is no solution and who begin the prospect of negotiations by saying that…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentIt is like asking a tigress to choose between her cubs. I refuse to choose.25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI ask the hon. Lady to look at my political record and at what we have achieved. Look at what I have done, as a one-nation Conservative, to lift up and help with policies that are…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentThe answer is for the House of Commons to do what is sensible and right, deliver on the mandate of the people, and get Brexit done by 31 October. That is the right thing to do.25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI certainly will, and I congratulate my hon. Friend on everything he does to promote the environment. It is amazing that thanks to the work of colleagues on the Government…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI hesitate to do anything to disrupt my hon. Friend’s nocturnal arrangements in any way, other than to say that I think the whole country can sleep soundly in the knowledge that…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI admire the hon. Gentleman’s commitment to a vital national asset that is, of course, made in his constituency. I only draw attention to the real risk that would be posed not…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities for GovernmentI am grateful, and I thank the hon. Gentleman for what he is doing to work with manufacturing industry. I give him my absolute assurance that we will do everything we can to…25 Jul 2019HANSARDPriorities 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 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 GovernmentI think the people of the north-east should be left to decide what they admire most about that fantastic region, and it would be patronising of anybody to say what they admire…25 Jul 2019