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HANSARD Legacy of Jo CoxThey still are!11 Jun 2026HANSARD Legacy of Jo CoxI wholeheartedly agree and thank the hon. Lady for her intervention—and also for calling me a young lady. [ Laughter. ] Having just turned 50, I will take that! She is absolutely…11 Jun 2026HANSARD Legacy of Jo CoxI thank my hon. Friend for his most marvellous intervention, and for wearing a beautiful coloured tie, which perfectly co-ordinates with the Jo Cox Foundation logo. He is…11 Jun 2026HANSARD Legacy of Jo CoxMay I put on record how hugely impressive my hon. Friend’s bravery has been in her political journey? I hope she will agree with me and other colleagues that we need voices such…11 Jun 2026HANSARD Legacy of Jo CoxShe would have loved you. It is so important that we keep empathy and compassion at the heart of our politics, and Jo understood that better than most. She believed deeply in…11 Jun 2026HANSARD Legacy of Jo CoxI thank my hon. Friend for mentioning Bernard. She is right: he was an absolute hero on that day. The other bizarre coincidence was that his son, Phil Kenny, was Jo’s and my…11 Jun 2026HANSARD Legacy of Jo CoxI thank my hon. Friend and could not agree with her more. No one is pretending that we do not have challenges or that there are not difficult issues to tackle, but that is not the…11 Jun 2026HANSARD Legacy of Jo CoxI thank the Minister and shadow Minister for their beautiful and thoughtful opening remarks, and I thank colleagues and friends from across the House for attending this debate,…11 Jun 2026HANSARD Legacy of Jo CoxThe hon. Lady is absolutely right. That is a testament to Jo’s empathy—something that we could all learn from in this House. I think about what happened in Jo’s constituency of…11 Jun 2026HANSARD Legacy of Jo CoxI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. It is lovely that she, a fellow Yorkshire MP, is with us today. I absolutely agree with her. We can reflect on that time in 2016—to…11 Jun 2026HANSARD Legacy of Jo CoxIt was an absolute joy to be pulling a pint with my hon. Friend this morning in the Strangers Bar—just to be clear, we did not drink it. I am grateful to everybody involved in the…11 Jun 2026HANSARD Postural Tachycardia SyndromeI thank my hon. Friend for being so generous with her time in giving way. As we can see from today’s debate, this is not a rare condition. Maybe some people think that it is rare,…14 Oct 2025HANSARD West Bank: Forced DisplacementI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, and will tell some of those stories now. I spent time with some of the kindest, most resilient people I have met. Even back then it was…02 Jul 2025HANSARD West Bank: Forced DisplacementIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Turner. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow North (Martin Rhodes) for securing this debate on an issue that…02 Jul 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. It is an honour and a privilege to open the debate on Third Reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. It…20 Jun 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI thank him for his intervention, but I would say, as I have said previously, that people working in palliative care have a mixed range of views on this subject. I have met with…20 Jun 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am just going to make some progress, if I may. But, as I was saying, it is an either/or decision for us today: either we vote for the safe, effective, workable reform contained…20 Jun 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I think what he is saying is that people have got different views, and they do have different views; we have different views in…20 Jun 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI thank the hon. Member for that intervention, and she is absolutely right; the detail does matter. That is why I am so grateful to colleagues who have engaged in the detail. We…20 Jun 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am just going to make some progress. Patients must have “an inevitably progressive illness or disease which cannot be reversed by treatment” and a person is not considered to be…20 Jun 2025