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HANSARDEngagementsIn addition to losing two Tory MPs in two weeks, the Prime Minister has been on the receiving end of some of the biggest by-election swings in history. He has also lost 1,500 Tory…08 May 2024HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister comes out with all that nonsense, but he locks himself away in his Downing Street bunker, moaning that people are not grateful enough to him. The reality is…01 May 2024HANSARDEngagementsIs it any wonder that the Prime Minister’s MPs are following Tory voters in queuing up to dump his party? Even the Mayors who he is apparently pinning his political survival on do…01 May 2024HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister wants to abolish national insurance, which will cost £46 billion, and he will not tell us where the money is coming from. We are no closer to an answer. I am…01 May 2024HANSARDEngagementsI join the Prime Minister in his words about yesterday’s awful events in Hainault. I am sure that the whole House will want to commend the first responders and send our deepest…01 May 2024HANSARDEngagementsThat was a long, rambling non-answer to the question, which was: has the Prime Minister found the money to fund his £46 billion promise to abolish national insurance? Whenever he…01 May 2024HANSARDEngagementsI do not apologise for asking on pensioners’ behalf again whether the Prime Minister will finally rule out cutting their state pension to fulfil the enormous black hole in his…01 May 2024HANSARDEngagementsIt is clear that the Prime Minister cannot answer the question of where he is going to find this £46 billion. [ Interruption. ] No, he has said where it is not coming from; he has…01 May 2024HANSARDEngagementsWe have a billionaire Prime Minister, and a billionaire— [Interruption.] Both of whose families have used schemes to avoid millions of pounds of tax, smearing a working-class…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEngagementsActually, when the Prime Minister was running for leader, he explained how he was funnelling money from poor areas to pay it into richer areas. We know what his record is. I…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEngagementsI appreciate the Prime Minister having the stomach to say that out loud, but everyone knows that it is the Tory party’s obsession with wild, unfunded tax cuts that crashed the…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEngagementsThis is genuinely extraordinary: two chances to rule out cuts to state pensions, cuts to the NHS, or income tax rises to fund his promise to abolish national insurance— […17 Apr 2024HANSARDEngagementsThis really matters. The Prime Minister has had two chances to rule out cuts to the NHS, cuts to pensions or tax rises. This matters to millions of people watching who will want…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEngagementsI, too, welcome the postmasters in the Gallery, in their quest for justice. This week we marked 35 years since the disaster at Hillsborough, and the enduring courage and…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEngagementsNo single politician has ever put tax up more times than the Prime Minister has. But hang on, he was just given the chance to rule out cutting the NHS or state pensions to pay for…17 Apr 2024HANSARDIran-Israel UpdateI thank the Prime Minister for an advance copy of his statement, and for the regular briefings on the developing situation in the middle east. I also thank him for his warm…15 Apr 2024HANSARDEngagementsI have prosecuted more people smugglers than the Prime Minister has had helicopter rides, and that is a lot. [ Interruption. ] I have done it. This Rwanda gimmick is going to cost…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsAfter 14 years of Tory chaos in the prison system, the Justice Secretary was reduced to begging the Prime Minister either to send fewer offenders to prison or to release them even…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsIt is genuinely sad to see the Prime Minister reduced to this nonsense. Let us take another example, which I started with. [ Interruption. ]20 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsI thank the Prime Minister for his words in welcoming Vaughan Gething to his post as First Minister of Wales. As the first black leader of any European Government, it is a…20 Mar 2024