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HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister can read the beginning of a quote, but let me finish that quote. At the end of the quote that he just read out, I did describe China as a threat. But his…15 Oct 2025HANSARDEngagementsThe end of the answer was different from the beginning of the answer. What on earth is the point of us having a lawyer rather than a leader as the Prime Minister if he cannot even…15 Oct 2025HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, thank you for marking four years since the terrible murder of Sir David Amess. I know the whole House will want to join me in remembering our former colleague. He is…15 Oct 2025HANSARDMiddle EastI am grateful to the Prime Minister for advance sight of his statement. I remember almost two years ago meeting three mothers whose children had been stolen from them on 7 October…14 Oct 2025HANSARDSpeaker’s StatementFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. On behalf of the Conservative party, I would like to add my voice to the tributes paid today to Lord Campbell. I had the pleasure of…14 Oct 2025HANSARD Security Update: Official Secrets Act CaseMay I associate myself with the Minister’s remarks about Heaton Park synagogue? I thank Mr Speaker for all his work on Members’ security. No one has worked harder to protect the…13 Oct 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesThe Minister shakes his head—he should be shaking it in shame. I have not said anything that is not true. Now, finally, we have a US ambassador sacked for his links with a known…16 Sept 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesWe did not need any new information to know that it was an unsuitable appointment. The Minister is making a doughty defence of Lord Mandelson, but the truth is that this debate…16 Sept 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesThe hon. Gentleman asks a very good question, and I hope the Minister can provide an answer, because all of us across the House want to know. We want to know how Lord Mandelson’s…16 Sept 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesMy right hon. Friend makes an excellent point. This is a Prime Minister who hides behind everybody else; whether his advisers, his junior Ministers or his Back Benchers, that is…16 Sept 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesWill the Minister give way?16 Sept 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesThank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this important emergency debate, and I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Goole and Pocklington (David Davis) on securing it. My…16 Sept 2025HANSARDAmbassador to the United StatesI completely agree with my right hon. Friend. The story is that of the frog and the scorpion, and it is one of my favourite childhood stories. Everyone knew what Lord Mandelson…16 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsA load of waffle and whataboutery. All Labour Members are interested in right now is their pointless deputy leadership election, while the country out there is suffering from an…10 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsI think it is embarrassing that the Prime Minister is still saying that he has confidence in a man who was brokering deals with convicted child sex offenders while sitting in…10 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsI asked the Prime Minister if he knew about the relationship. The fact that he did not answer indicates that he probably did know. I was not asking a question about process; I was…10 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsThis is interesting. The Prime Minister says that the ambassador has expressed full regret, but the victims of the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein have called for Lord Mandelson to be…10 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister cannot answer any questions. That is not the behaviour of someone who has full confidence. The ambassador should be in the White House, talking about how we…10 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsI associate myself with the Prime Minister’s comments about the Duchess of Kent; she lived an exemplary life of public service, and will be very much missed. I agree with the…10 Sept 2025HANSARDEngagementsThis is desperate stuff from the Prime Minister. This week, he had another reset. This morning, the Prime Minister scrapped his five missions. After scrapping his three…03 Sept 2025