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HANSARDEngagementsIt 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 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 2024HANSARDEngagementsYou can see why he doesn’t want an election, Mr Speaker, why his party have lost faith in him, and why half his Cabinet are lining up to replace him—no answers, no plan, no clue.…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, the man bankrolling the Prime Minister also said that the right hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington should be shot. How low would he have to sink, what…13 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsMay I welcome the legislation on the Post Office scandal? Mr Speaker, this week we lost the formidable Tommy McAvoy, who served his hometown of Rutherglen and the Labour…13 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsTwo weeks ago, the Prime Minister invited himself into everyone’s living room at 6 o’clock on a Friday evening. No one asked him to give that speech; he chose to do it. He chose…13 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsThe difference is that the Prime Minister is scared of his party; I have changed my party— [ Interruption. ]13 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsWe have the highest tax burden since the second world war. I did listen to the Chancellor: £46 billion of unfunded commitments. The Conservatives tried that under the last…13 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsNo, the Labour party will not be sticking to the Prime Minister’s completely unfunded £46 billion promise. He thinks that he can trick people into believing that simply shaking…13 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsThe problem is that the Prime Minister is describing a Labour party that no longer exists; I am describing a man who is bankrolling the Conservatives’ upcoming general election.…13 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister mentions vetting and I just want to press him on that, because serious failures in police vetting were raised in independent reports as long ago as 2012, 2019,…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsThree years ago, Sarah Everard was walking home when she was abducted and murdered by a serving police officer who should have been trusted to keep her safe. As a father, I cannot…06 Mar 2024HANSARD Budget ResolutionsThere we have it: the last desperate act of a party that has failed—Britain in recession, the national credit card maxed out and, despite the measures today, the highest tax…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister knows that is going to be fact checked. He also knows that I support tough sentences. I really think that victims of violence against women and girls deserve…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsThe problem is that the rosy picture the Prime Minister tries to paint of the current criminal justice system is completely at odds with the confidence that many women currently…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsI am obviously very familiar with codes in criminal justice systems, but— [ Interruption. ] This is too serious for that. There is a world of difference between a code and binding…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsI do think the recommendation that I referred to should be implemented urgently and I ask the Prime Minister to look again at that, because every day that goes past when it is not…06 Mar 2024HANSARDEngagementsThe truth is that these are no longer the Tories your parents voted for, and the public can see it. The Prime Minister has lost control of his party to the hordes of redcoats and…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsSo this diverse Tory party does welcome Nigel Farage. Two months ago, the Prime Minister said that “the Tory party is a broad church. I welcome lots of people who want to…28 Feb 2024HANSARDEngagementsI cannot believe the Prime Minister said that with a straight face. The former Prime Minister continued on her American odyssey—this journey into the wild west of her mind—and…28 Feb 2024