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HANSARD Overseas Electors BillI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that point, and his first point is absolutely right. I do not think that anybody in this House does more to champion overseas voters than…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillCertainly not. I think the best measure of our ability to represent our constituents is shown at an election by whether or not our electorate wish us to continue to represent…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillThe hon. Gentleman might be right. I am not one of those people who bashes IPSA; it has its job to do, it makes its decisions, and our job is frankly just to get on with whatever…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillI do not see it in those terms. I will accept that it is not particularly well drafted if that is the conclusion that my hon. Friend has drawn from it, but I do not see it…22 Mar 2019HANSARD European Council: Article 50 ExtensionThere are millions of people outside this House who are absolutely seething. They are largely seething with people who stood on a promise to deliver the result of the referendum…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeThe official figures show that there has been a collapse in the number of stop and searches in recent years. It cannot be a coincidence that that has coincided with a huge surge…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillI believe, Mr Speaker—and I stand to be corrected by your good self, or by anyone else for that matter—that I was just getting on to new clause 6 when I was stopped in my tracks.…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillI agree with the hon. Gentleman: I do not see how it is relevant. New clause 7 requires the Minister for the Cabinet Office to publish a report on postal voting arrangements for…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillMy hon. Friend is right to ask me to elaborate. If he were to look up how the IBRL operates he would see that its “At a Glance” guide says customers can “Receive direct mail…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillI would like that to happen: before having an extension it would be useful to have a review of where we are now, because that might highlight some of the areas of concern. So,…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillI agree. The more people the franchise is extended to, the more chance of a result being affected by it, so my hon. Friend is right. That is why it is absolutely necessary that we…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillMy hon. Friend thinks that flattery is going to get him everywhere, but on this occasion I am not entirely sure that it will. It is very kind of him to say what he did, and—if I…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillMy hon. Friend makes a good point. I am certainly not going to disagree with him about that. However, I fear that he might have done untold damage to his career in this place by…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillI am anxious to move on, but my hon. Friend clearly is not, so I will give way to him again.22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillWell, in terms of the time of the deadline before an election for overseas voter registration to take place, if my hon. Friend will allow—he probably thinks I am trying to dodge…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillMy hon. Friend has gone way beyond my expertise, which people will probably think is not a difficult task in itself. I am afraid that it would take greater minds than mine to…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillI think that my hon. Friend is the one doing the chiding. I suspect he is probably right to do so. I was unable to find the time to do that, and he is right to pick me up on it.…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Overseas Electors BillThe hon. Gentleman has not had a very good record on interventions in this debate so far. Most of them have been wholly inaccurate. I think that it is fair to say that I have…22 Mar 2019HANSARD EducationNo.20 Mar 2019HANSARD EducationNo. [Interruption.]20 Mar 2019