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HANSARDBill of RightsThe Secretary of State and Attorney General are to be commended for taking seriously the task of taking back control of our ancient legal entitlements from unelected,…22 Jun 2022HANSARD Community PharmaciesIt is vital that, as the Minister described, the service is integrated. GPs must continue to offer out-of-hours services, weekend services and, most salient of all, face-to-face…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Community PharmaciesI will be mercifully brief, given the overture you have just offered the whole gathering, Sir Gary. I want to do three things. The first is to endorse the comments of the hon.…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Community PharmaciesI congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing the debate. The point he is making appears to be twofold: first, as well as responding to need, pharmacies can have a role in…21 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationI agree with the hon. Lady about Channel 4 and its role in film in particular, but surely she will acknowledge that we need a plural system, and that private investment and…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillBurke said, as you well know, Mr Deputy Speaker: “He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.” Part of developing…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI will speak very briefly, making only three points in two minutes. First, it is disappointing that the Labour party is opposing the Bill. By its nature, it is a party whose…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI am grateful that my right hon. Friend is addressing the amendment that stands in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Tom Hunt). Part of the problem is…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillAs ever, my hon. Friend is making a compelling case. University authorities are often either complicit in this, or in denial. The Bill will send a signal to them that it is simply…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI thought my right hon. Friend was going to challenge my literary knowledge, but let us move to the amendments. The Government have moved a considerable way since we debated the…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillAlmost every part of the canon of our great literature now seems to come with a health warning. From “Moby-Dick” to “Jane Eyre”, we are told that books are desperately dangerous…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillBut before I do so, I will happily give way to my right hon. Friend.13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillYes, but the problem is that that line moves with the times, with fad and fashion, with what I described earlier as the zeitgeist. Perhaps the most chilling example of that is the…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI agree entirely, which is precisely why this Bill is so welcome, but it needs to be part of a bigger programme of work by the Government to do what I described earlier, which is…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI can see that my right hon. Friend is about to make an erudite intervention.13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillWe are dealing with a complex subject. Free speech by its very nature means people saying all kinds of things in all kinds of ways about all kinds of subjects. The hon. Lady is…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillAt the risk of putting our professional association in jeopardy, I say to the hon. Lady that I agree with her. I agree that the Government need to look at the equality…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillBenjamin Disraeli said: “Upon the education of the people…the fate of this country depends.” That greatest of Conservative Prime Ministers went on to say: “A university should be…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillThe hon. Gentleman is right that we had a useful, productive and positive exchange in Committee. I just want to correct the record for him because, knowing him well, I know that…13 Jun 2022HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillHaving said such nice things about the hon. Lady, it would be extremely impolite of me not to give way.13 Jun 2022