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HANSARDPost-16 Education: FundingI hope to approach the Backbench Business Committee tomorrow to get a debate on funding for education, because so many colleagues across the House have the same narrative. It is…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionI note that the hon. Lady said that the people should be asked whether they want a no-deal Brexit or the Prime Minister’s Brexit. She was very clear. I have heard other Liberal…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionI am pleased to be called to speak in this debate, Mr Hanson, because sometimes those in the main Chamber are so crowded that it is difficult to get in. This is wonderful—I am…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionI completely agree, but we have to learn from the past, which forms part of our future trajectory. All I am saying is that the in-out referendum that the House promised the…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionThat is interesting. The other day in the main Chamber, I tried to intervene on the Leader of the Opposition many, many times. I wanted to know whether the policy of the Labour…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionIt was made very clear and, for my sins, I watched so much of the debate—04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionThe convention is to answer an intervention before giving way again, and I would like to do that. I am sorry. It was made clear that there would be no second asks—I remember…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionThe hon. Lady has made her speech and interventions; if she does not mind, I will leave it there and we will have to agree to differ. My concern is that we may end up looking weak…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionDoes the hon. Gentleman not wonder why Nissan has chosen to relocate not to Spain, where it has factories, but to Japan?04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. At the time, I was very worried about whether there was some undue influence, whether we should have purdah and other things that were taxing…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionI have to correct the hon. Gentleman. I think anyone from Nissan would say it is staying in the United Kingdom, and I am sure people in the constituencies concerned would not like…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionI was encouraged to hear the hon. Gentleman talk about the deal. If there were amendments to the deal, could he support it?04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionWill the hon. Gentleman give way?04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionThe hon. Gentleman talks about having a second referendum and potentially asking Scotland to go into the European Union again, stay in or whatever, so would he want a wall?04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionWould he want a wall for the hard border, or does he think other mechanisms could be brought about where a wall does not need to be built?04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionThe hon. Gentleman is being very generous in giving way—and his tone is very emollient. I want to reassure him. I was terrified when the Chancellor said each household would be…04 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionOn a point of clarification regarding the answer the Minister had from the hon. Member for Bath, can he remember any group that campaigned saying, “And when we’ve got the answer,…04 Feb 2019HANSARD ZimbabweOrder. The hon. Gentleman is straying far off the topic of the debate. Can he please confine his remarks to the topic of Zimbabwe? I do not wish to hear too much about yesterday’s…30 Jan 2019HANSARD ZimbabweOrder. I know that the hon. Lady might have wanted to speak in this debate, but there was a lot of time for her to do so. Interventions need to be brief.30 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018What is the right hon. Gentleman’s objection to enabling the Prime Minister to probe the EU on what it is prepared to give way on, to help to deliver the deal that he would like?…29 Jan 2019