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HANSARD Speaker’s Statement: Sir Tony LloydOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. I know there will be tributes in due course, because many people in this House will want to speak in that session, but I am grateful for this…17 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsIt is such utterly pathetic nonsense. The Prime Minister has been brutally exposed by his own MPs yet again. He has one party chair who says that she hopes the Lords will rip his…17 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister does not have a clue where they are, has he? I can tell you one place they are not, and that is Rwanda—the only people he has sent to Rwanda are Cabinet…17 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsI send my best wishes to the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Jason McCartney) and his father, and to all those suffering in that way. I cannot let today pass without saying how…17 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsMy first thought is, “How do you actually lose 4,250 people?” Then I remember that this is the Government who scrapped High Speed 2, but the costs are still rising by billions;…17 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsIf the Prime Minister stuck to his position, he would be voting with us. His former Home Secretary says that the plan will not work, his current Home Secretary calls it “batshit”,…17 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesMay I thank the Prime Minister for the secure briefing last week and for an advance copy of his statement? Let me reiterate that Labour backs this targeted action to reinforce…15 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsLast year, the Prime Minister started the year saying he was Mr Steady. Then, at his conference, he was Mr Change. Now he has flipped back to Mr More-of-the-Same. It does not…10 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsWe can all see what has happened here. Just like he knows that debt is not falling and taxes are going up, he knows the Rwanda gimmick will not work, but he cannot be honest about…10 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsNew year, new nonsense. Every week, the Prime Minister stands here and tells the country that they should be thanking him, not questioning him. If you point out that the view on…10 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsI heard what the Prime Minister just said about the Post Office scandal. It is a huge injustice; people lost their lives, their liberty and their livelihood, and they have been…10 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsI think we should smash the gangs and I spent five years of my life doing exactly that. The Prime Minister’s party has lost control of the borders. While he is tending to the Tory…10 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsI notice that the Prime Minister did not deny it. I am not surprised, with £400 million of taxpayer money down the drain, no one sent to Rwanda and small boats still coming. It is…10 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsWe should smash the gangs, process the claims and end hotel use: that is our plan, but, unlike the Prime Minister, I believe in it. [ Interruption.]10 Jan 2024HANSARDEngagementsGovernment Members have obviously found the donkey for their nativity—the search for three wise men might take a little longer. While they fight among themselves, there is a…13 Dec 2023HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister can spin it all he likes, but the whole country can see that, yet again, the Tory party is in meltdown and everyone else is paying the price. He has kicked the…13 Dec 2023HANSARDEngagementsApparently, the Prime Minister is holding a Christmas party next week. How is the invite list looking?13 Dec 2023HANSARDEngagementsCocooned in his party management breakfast, the Prime Minister just cannot see the country in front of him and what they have done. I will finish by thanking hard-working families…13 Dec 2023HANSARDEngagementsYesterday we heard of the tragic death of a young man on the Bibby Stockholm. I know that the whole House will want to send our deepest condolences to his family and friends. We…13 Dec 2023HANSARDEngagementsOne hundred and forty thousand children homeless this Christmas and the Prime Minister is utterly tone deaf. The rise in homelessness shows how these Tory crises merge and grow…13 Dec 2023