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HANSARD Diego Garcia Military BaseMay I, in all candour, suggest to the Government that having now introduced this new element—the UN convention on the law of the sea and, I presume, the associated International…22 May 2025HANSARDEU-UK SummitWe were told by the Office for Budget Responsibility that there might be a 4% reduction in what our GDP would otherwise have been. That has not occurred—the OBR was wrong. Our…22 May 2025HANSARDEU-UK SummitMay I point out that supermarkets tend to be interested in their balance sheets and profits, and not in democracy and accountability, which this debate is really about? Can the…22 May 2025HANSARDEU-UK SummitI will give way once more, because I need to be brief.22 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitCan I just point out to the Prime Minister that nothing can undo the fact that 17.5 million people voted leave? They voted to take back control of our laws and stop paying money…20 May 2025HANSARDEuropean Rearmament FundWhat financial commitment will the UK have to make to participate in the fund?19 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitThe hon. Gentleman shakes his head. What does he know about it? I would be interested in him challenging me.13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitThe hon. Gentleman told us that he has a constituent who finds it easier to trade with South Korea than with the EU. What does that tell us about the EU? Is that not one reason…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitThe hon. Gentleman raises an interesting point about shellfish. The environmental and hygiene standards we apply to our shellfish remained exactly the same the day we left the EU…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitMay I point out that the Conservative motion says that the Conservatives stand by the result of the 2016 referendum, but the Labour amendment does not say the same of the Labour…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI am glad that the hon. Gentleman has made that point, but the best thing for all European nations is not to try to build our own EU defence capability, but to strengthen NATO.…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitWould my hon. Friend care to disabuse Labour Members who seem to be under the impression that whatever amount we put in, somehow our defence contractors in the UK will get more…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitWill the hon. Lady give way?13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitSadly, European Union defence has always promised far more than it delivers. It was meant to galvanise all the European states into spending more money; it failed and just did not…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitYes, and when we look at the European Defence Agency and all the mechanisms that have been created, we can see that the European Defence Agency is an embryo European Ministry of…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU Summitrose—13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI agree with my right hon. Friend, and that is why it was an extremely ominous portent that the Minister at the Dispatch Box refused to answer him on the question of whether there…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI agree. But there is another dangerous game being played by another political party: the Liberal Democrats. My right hon. Friend the Member for Rayleigh and Wickford (Mr…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI ask that he wait just a minute. What signal is it sending to Donald Trump by suggesting that we will have an EU defence policy that excludes the United States? It is exactly the…13 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitI am happy to point out that after the referendum and since we left the European Union, we are spending way more than £350 million a week more on the NHS than we were, and our…13 May 2025