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HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister has been saying all week that he wants revenge on those who have wronged him. Here is an idea: if he really wants to hit them where it hurts, he should tighten…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am not sure the Prime Minister has been keeping up with what has happened in the last few days. Over the weekend, the candidates to replace him have promised £330 billion in…13 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsToday is the start of the women’s Euros, and I know that the whole House will wish the Lionesses the very best of luck in bringing football home. It has been 40 years since the…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsDoesn’t that just sum up the Prime Minister? Awful behaviour, unacceptable in any walk of life: it is there for all to see, but he ignores it. It was the same when his ally was on…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsNo denial. He says the matter was resolved when he means it was upheld. And they are all sitting there on the Front Bench as if this is normal behaviour. When that young man…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe only thing that the Prime Minister is delivering is chaos. I started this session with a quote from the young victim in all this—how he “froze” when he was attacked. When I…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsWhat a pathetic spectacle: the dying act of the Prime Minister’s political career is to parrot that nonsense. As for those who are left, they are only in office because no one…06 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsNone of that explains why he promoted him in the first place. And we have heard it all before. We know who he really is. Before he was found out, he is reported to have said,…06 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsI thank the Prime Minister for the advance copy of his statement, and I welcome him back to these shores. They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, so I wish him the best…04 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister’s chief of staff says that removing the cap on bankers’ bonuses is “reflective of the new approach”. Pay rises for city bankers, pay cuts for district…22 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsIf the Prime Minister is genuine about preventing strikes, will he tell this House how many meetings he or his Transport Secretary have had with rail workers this week to actually…22 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister cannot help himself. There is a huge problem facing the country, and all he is interested in doing is blaming everyone else. Can he not hear the country…22 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsCan I join the Prime Minister in his comments about Windrush, and pay tribute to everyone who is serving and has served in our armed forces? Can I also pay tribute to everyone…22 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsFifteen tax rises, high tax, low wages, low growth—that sums the Prime Minister’s Government up. Working people are paying more tax under this Government, and now they are told to…22 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister has obviously not been to Wakefield recently. He has crashed the economy and he has put everybody’s tax up. The last Tory he sent up to Wakefield was convicted…22 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsIt is Armed Forces Week. Under this Prime Minister, those serving our country are facing a real-terms pay cut. Why are his Government more focused on increasing bankers’ pay than…22 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI am surprised the Prime Minister is giving me advice about my team. If I do need advice, let us say, about a £100,000 job at the Foreign Office, I will ask him for a…22 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI do not want the strikes to go ahead. The Prime Minister does, so that he can feed on the division— [ Interruption. ] There may be a lot of noise now, but I have a long list of…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister always likes to blame global forces, but global forces are just that: global—everybody faces them. Britain is not under crippling economic sanctions like…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsHe is in government. He could do something to stop the strikes, but he has not lifted a finger. I do not want the strikes to go ahead, but he does. He wants the country to grind…15 Jun 2022