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HANSARDEngagementsI did write the Prime Minister a very nice letter setting out our views. I am sure she received it and read it and I hope she will think on it. It appears that the right hon.…20 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. Tonight’s vote shows that there is no majority for the Prime Minister’s course of action in dealing with Brexit. Yet again, her Government have…14 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsMaybe the Prime Minister should follow the advice of the House and take no deal off the table and negotiate seriously with the European Union. It cannot be right that a…13 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe Transport Secretary told the House that the decision to award the contract to Seaborne Freight had no cost to the taxpayer. This week, the National Audit Office found that…13 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsI am really impressed that the Prime Minister could keep a straight face while she said that due diligence was carried out. The Transport Secretary said that “its business and…13 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsTo be fair to the advisers, it appears that they were instructed to restrict their due diligence to the face value of the presentation put to them by Seaborne Freight—a company…13 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsCould I bring the Prime Minister back to the question of Seaborne ferries? Eurotunnel has called the ferry contract procurement a “secretive and flawed” exercise. Taxpayers now…13 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsI am sure the Prime Minister and the whole House will join me in sending our deepest sympathies to the friends and family of the cadet who died at Sandhurst last week. I am sure…13 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the EUI usually thank the Prime Minister for giving me an advance copy of her statements, but this one was handed to me just as I was leaving my office to come down here, so I can only…12 Feb 2019HANSARDEngagementsLast time I looked at the Order Paper, it said “Prime Minister’s Question Time”. The Prime Minister has herself said that “the only possible deal” is within her red lines, so it…30 Jan 2019HANSARDEngagementsI join the Prime Minister in sending support to the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse in Brazil. I am very pleased that all possible support is being offered to the…30 Jan 2019HANSARDEngagementsAs I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted— [ Interruption ] —the Prime Minister may have succeeded in temporarily uniting her very divided party, but is she willing to…30 Jan 2019HANSARDEngagementsIt really is time that the Prime Minister acknowledges that she has got to move on from the red lines she has put down in the first place, and she does not acknowledge that in…30 Jan 2019HANSARDEngagementsOf course not.30 Jan 2019HANSARDEngagementsI would be grateful if the Prime Minister actually acknowledged that the House has voted to take no deal off the table. Can she assure the House that if she is unable to secure…30 Jan 2019HANSARDEngagementsI look forward to meeting the Prime Minister later today, because I want to put forward Labour’s alternatives, which could command a majority in the House and which are about…30 Jan 2019HANSARDEngagementsNone of that was very clear to me; I do not know about anybody else. It would have been really nice if the Prime Minister had acknowledged that she did whip her MPs to try to…30 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018This is a serious debate, and I do not think the hon. Gentleman’s intervention has done anything to raise the standard of debate. It is quite clear to me that our first duty is to…29 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018Thank you, Mr Speaker. I just ask: is the Prime Minister—29 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018I give way to my hon. Friend. Hon. Members: “Oh!”29 Jan 2019