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HANSARDEngagementsThe reason the Prime Minister ignored the NHS, not only in his new pledges but just now, is that 7.8 million people are currently on the waiting lists. That is half a million more…22 Nov 2023HANSARDEngagementsLike the Prime Minister, I know the whole House will welcome the agreement reached overnight. We repeat our calls for Hamas to release all hostages immediately. This humanitarian…22 Nov 2023HANSARDEngagementsFor 13 years, our security has been undermined by this Tory Government, and now we have the most ridiculous, pathetic spectacle of all: the Prime Minister’s Rwanda scheme, cooked…15 Nov 2023HANSARDEngagementsI am so glad that the Prime Minister agrees that this is a changed Labour party. While he was wasting his time on this gimmick, the asylum backlog has swollen to 175,000 people.…15 Nov 2023HANSARDEngagementsFor someone who has spent the last few weeks complaining about recycling bins, it is ironic that the Prime Minister’s latest reset involves recycling the architects of 13 years of…15 Nov 2023HANSARDEngagementsIf the Prime Minister was confident about his promise, he would have given an answer saying that he stands by it and will deliver it by the end of the year. The absence of that…15 Nov 2023HANSARDEngagementsThe right hon. Member for Islington North is not even a Labour MP any more. It is a changed party with strong leadership. [ Interruption. ]15 Nov 2023HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister obviously thinks so little of his own MPs that he has had to peel David Cameron away from his seven-year exile in a shepherd’s hut and make him Foreign…15 Nov 2023HANSARDEngagementsIt is very straightforward: the Prime Minister promised that he would stop the boats this year. Today is 15 November. He has wasted all his time on a gimmick, and now he is…15 Nov 2023HANSARDDebate on the AddressBefore I turn to the Humble Address, I am sure the whole House will join me in paying tribute to His Majesty the King on the occasion of his first Gracious Speech as our…07 Nov 2023HANSARDEngagementsSo much for being the change candidate! The Prime Minister cannot even distance himself from those appalling comments. I have to ask him, where on earth does he think his…25 Oct 2023HANSARDEngagementsI join the Prime Minister in his comments about all those affected by the storms. I start by welcoming my hon. Friend the new Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Alistair Strathern)—the…25 Oct 2023HANSARDEngagementsI am sure that Annalisa and her children, who have now been evicted, will take great comfort from that non-answer. Emma and her teenage son saw their mortgage go up by more than a…25 Oct 2023HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister keeps boasting about how great things are; the voters keep telling him that he has got it wrong. I can see why the Tamworth candidate thought that he was just…25 Oct 2023HANSARDEngagementsAcross our country the British people are rolling up their sleeves and getting on with it, doing their best in the face of a punishing cost of living crisis and a Government who…25 Oct 2023HANSARDEngagementsAbsolutely tone deaf. In every caff, pub and supermarket in Britain, people are having the same conversation: “We can’t afford that—put it back on the shelf. It’s too expensive.”…25 Oct 2023HANSARDIsrael and GazaThank you, Mr Speaker, and I thank the Prime Minister for the advance copy of his statement. The brutal attack in Israel just over two weeks ago was the darkest day in Jewish…23 Oct 2023HANSARDEngagementsI thank the Prime Minister for his answer. The terrible news last night came as we are still mourning the terrorist attack on Israel last week, with Jews taken hostage, mutilated,…18 Oct 2023HANSARDEngagementsYesterday I also met charities with staff working in Gaza and heard their accounts of the harrowing humanitarian crisis: children fleeing their homes; hospitals barely able to…18 Oct 2023HANSARDEngagementsCan I start by warmly welcoming my hon. Friend the new Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West (Michael Shanks)? The news last night of hundreds killed at the Baptist hospital in…18 Oct 2023