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HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Gentleman is right that energy-rich Scotland and the hydrocarbons that we have in this country should be used to help the British people. We should not be needlessly…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsI agree with my hon. Friend passionately, and I think that it is vital that we undo the damage done by the insane policies of the previous Labour Government, which whacked up the…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsI think what the right hon. and learned Gentleman needs to rip up are his pre-scripted questions, because I just answered that question. The point at issue is whether or not the…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsI remember the hon. Gentleman when he was doing planning at Islington Council, and a complete cock-up he made of that. What I can tell him is that this Government made sure that…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank my right hon. Friend very much for what he has said. One of the most important things that has confounded Vladimir Putin has not only been the heroic resistance of the…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsI would be very happy to meet my hon. Friend. This is one of those issues that the whole House is coming to realise requires extreme sensitivity, tact, love and care. We must…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is right that we will see many more people coming here. He is right that the instincts of this country are to be as generous as possible. That is why we have made…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Gentleman very much. I am not going to comment on the travel arrangements for the particular match— [Interruption.] The deputy Leader of the Labour party shouts…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the Ukrainian community in Yorkshire for everything they are doing and, of course, Ukrainian communities up and down the country and the people of this country as a whole.…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsYes, we are—against the company concerned, under the 1992 and 1996 Acts. That is the right thing to do, because it seems to me that that the company has broken the law. But if the…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy hon. Friend is right in what she says about P&O and about the 800 workers. I will make sure that she gets all the meetings she needs to make sure that we continue with all our…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsLast week, I was not here to benefit from one of the hon. Gentleman’s elaborately confected questions. I admire his style, but I am afraid that I simply fail to detect any crouton…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsI thank the hon. Member very much for bringing those facts—new facts—to the attention of the House, and I know that my office has already been in touch with the group concerned to…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsWith great humility, I must ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman to listen to the answer that I gave to his first question. That would help him to scrap his third or fourth…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsI have one overwhelming interest, which is to protect and preserve the jobs and livelihoods of the British people. That is what we are doing. That is what we will do with the P&O…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsNot only is Wrexham shortlisted for the city of culture, with all the distinctions my hon. Friend mentions, but it is the city of vaccines. Without the AstraZeneca vaccines…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s question. I knew he was going to ask it and he was right to ask it. I anticipated his question earlier on. We are going to make sure that…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe most notable practitioner of fire and rehire is, of course, the Labour party itself. The right hon. and learned Gentleman may be interested to know that we will be vindicating…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsYes, I think the whole country can be proud of the way the UK welcomed people fleeing Idi Amin’s Uganda. Several Members of the House, including the Home Secretary herself and her…23 Mar 2022HANSARDEngagementsI renew my sympathies with the case of the P&O workers, and I have explained to the House what we are doing, and we will do that. What we are also doing is helping the workforce…23 Mar 2022