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HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsWill the hon. Lady give way?30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsNot at the moment, as I will make some progress. Over the past several hundred years, our country has undergone myriad complex and contentious reforms that have revolutionised our…30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsNo, I will not. I will finish responding to my right hon. Friend.30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsI thank the hon. Member for Tiverton and Minehead (Rachel Gilmour) for that wonderful intervention. Members should know that she and I are very good friends. Unlike the Liberal…30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsMy right hon. Friend is correct that there is a vast and quite radical system that elects the Israeli Government, where a number of extreme politicians on both sides of the aisle—30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsIf the hon. Gentleman is seriously suggesting to the House that just because other people do it, we should follow suit, then he needs to go away and think about his policy…30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsI am spoilt for choice and I do not have much time left. I will give way to the hon. Member for Thornbury and Yate (Claire Young) and then to the hon. Member for Shipley.30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsI will give way.30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsLet me just finish this point. Some 68% of people voted no in that referendum, so the result should be respected for at least a generation, as the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield…30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsI think that is a relatively lazy argument about the internal machinations of the Conservative party and is not concerned with our electoral system. I give the hon. Lady the point…30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsWell, I have not finished making my point yet and I intend to do so. The electoral system in Israel elects people from extreme wings, from both sides of the aisle, who have a…30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsI thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He is giving a typically brilliant speech—we used to talk to each other in the boardroom of Clarion Housing Group, where we worked…30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsWill the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsWill the hon. Lady give way?30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsWill the hon. Lady give way?30 Jan 2025HANSARDProportional Representation: General ElectionsI am grateful to Members from all parties for their thoughtful and interesting contributions to the debate. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for allocating time for this…30 Jan 2025HANSARD Rural Housing TargetsNo. The hon. Gentleman is grasping at straws. The Liberal Democrat-run administration in Eastleigh is anything but successful if we look at value for money and the £750 million of…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Rural Housing TargetsThe hon. Gentleman is right in that he should have devolution, and the Government have brought that forward. His Labour leader may want to build more houses, but the Government’s…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Rural Housing TargetsIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Jardine, and to respond to this debate, secured by my close constituency neighbour, my right hon. Friend the Member for East…29 Jan 2025HANSARD Water (Special Measures) Bill [Lords]I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way; he is very kind. I remind him that in 2002 a Labour Government allowed, through their regulatory regime, the uplift in bonuses that he…28 Jan 2025