Contributions
1,197 recent contributions in Hansard
HANSARDEngagementsThe police clearly do not have the resources to deal with the problem: safer neighbourhood teams have been cut and community police officers have been cut. Many areas see no…06 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsMany of us in this House will have sat in the living rooms of homes where a young person has lost their life through knife crime and will never forget that experience and never…06 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsI join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to Lord Bhattacharyya, who died last week. As she said, he was a champion of the car industry and manufacturing in general, and he…06 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe problem is that violent crime has doubled. The rise has been driven by austerity—something that the Prime Minister told us a few months ago was over. Cuts to police and rising…06 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsCrime went down when Labour was in office. We increased the numbers of police officers and the safer neighbourhood teams. Police officers are telling me that there are simply not…06 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsAusterity clearly is not over. People on low incomes are getting poorer, while those at the top get richer. The economy is slowing, manufacturing is in recession and this…27 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsThere is an urgent question coming up on Kashmir, but I will just say that from our side of the House we strongly support rapid dialogue between India and Pakistan in order to…27 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsI know that the Prime Minister is very busy—I understand that—and she possibly has not had a chance to look at the Bank of England forecasts, which suggest that there is a one in…27 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsAs manufacturing industry declines, it is skilled well-paid jobs that are lost. But the Prime Minister is right—there is something that is increasing, and that is the income of…27 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsSome of us cannot forget that it was the Conservative party that so opposed the principle of the national minimum wage from the very beginning. Perhaps the Government could start…27 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsCan I just give one example of what is happening? Take the food bank in Hastings, which is represented by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, where demand went up by 80%…27 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsIt clearly is not working, because so many people who are themselves working very hard, some doing two or even three jobs, have to access food banks just to feed their children.…27 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionI would like to start by thanking the Prime Minister for an advance copy of her statement. I have lost count of the number of times the Prime Minister has come to this House to…26 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionThank you, Mr Speaker. Tomorrow, we will ask Parliament to vote on these proposals—they are workable and negotiable—which back the demands of working people all across this…26 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsMay I start, Mr Speaker, by joining what you said on Monday in paying tribute to my friend and yours, Paul Flynn? He served in this House for over 30 years as the Member for…20 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsIt sounds like it might be quite confusing for the European Union to understand exactly what the Prime Minister is turning up with, actually. She has had three groups of Back…20 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsLast week, a Foreign Office Minister said categorically: “We are not leaving without a deal”, but sadly he does not speak for the Government. The Prime Minister’s Business…20 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister does not seem very interested in listening to those companies and industry bodies that are saying they need a customs union. When she talks about jobs, will she…20 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsChild poverty halved under the Labour Government. We invested in Sure Start—in children’s centres—and a future for young people. The Prime Minister should get out a bit more and…20 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsAs I was saying, antisemitism has no place whatsoever in our society or in any of our political parties, and my own political party takes the strongest action to deal with…20 Feb 2019