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HANSARDEngagementsWe all agree that the protocol can be improved, but there are trade-offs and we need to face up to them. The Prime Minister’s predecessor told businesses that there would be “no…22 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister is biting his tongue, but at some point the irreconcilables on his Benches are going to twig, and they are going to come after him. The former trade Minister…22 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsI take it from that that this House will get a vote, and I look forward to that vote in due course. Everyone knows that the basis of this deal has been agreed for weeks, but it is…22 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, the sound you hear is Conservative Members cheering the Prime Minister pulling the wool over their eyes. It is the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement and…22 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsAcross this House we do not just hope for Ukraine’s victory; we believe in it. Part of that victory must be Ukraine’s reconstruction. Does the Prime Minister agree that Russia…08 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsI thank the Prime Minister for that answer. Every time Putin has been appeased, he has been back for more. Does the Prime Minister agree that, across this House, we must speak…08 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsAs a country, we have always been at our best when we stand up to tyrannical aggressors threatening their neighbours and peace on our continent. That is why the Labour party…08 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsI welcome the additional support that the Prime Minister has outlined today. I have had the privilege, as I am sure he has, of seeing at first hand the brilliant work our military…08 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsMore than 11,000 people have died as a result of the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, and the number is sadly rising. I know that many families here in the UK will be…08 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsI think the whole House would like to thank those involved in the incredible training that is going on. Before I entered this House, I had responsibility for fighting for justice…08 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsOh, come on! Anybody picking up a newspaper in July last year would have known that Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and the National Crime Agency were investigating months…01 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsSo, in relation to his former chair, the Prime Minister’s defence is, “Nobody told me. I didn’t know. I didn’t ask any questions.” Will he now also claim— [Interruption.]01 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsIs the Prime Minister now going to claim that he is the only person who was completely unaware of serious allegations of bullying against the Deputy Prime Minister before he…01 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsMay I join the Prime Minister in his words about the First Minister of Wales and the sad loss of his wife? Everybody knows just how close they were, and I know he is absolutely…01 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsAt the last count, the Deputy Prime Minister was facing 24 separate allegations of bullying. According to recent reports, some of the complainants were physically sick. One says…01 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister is just like one of his predecessors who treated questions about conduct as something to brush off, and thought that ducking responsibility was a perfectly…01 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsAfter 13 years in power, trying to blame the Labour party for the Prime Minister’s failure to sort out the strikes is rank pathetic. The Tory party’s addiction to sleaze and…01 Feb 2023HANSARDEngagementsI am glad the Prime Minister accepts those findings. The report also says that staffing vacancies and excessive workloads contributed to those fatal failures. It makes it…25 Jan 2023HANSARDEngagementsThis week, we will remember the 6 million Jews murdered in the holocaust and all those scarred by genocide since as we mark Holocaust Memorial Day. We must all commit, across this…25 Jan 2023HANSARDEngagementsWe all know why the Prime Minister was reluctant to ask his party chair questions about family finances and tax avoidance, but his failure to sack him, when the whole country can…25 Jan 2023