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HANSARDEngagementsThe 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 2022HANSARDEngagementsFifteen tax rises, and we are saddled with the highest tax burden since rationing. He says the economy is booming when it is shrinking. He is game-playing so much, he thinks he is…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsThat’s the ostrich. He is not just denying how bad things are; he is actively making things worse. His 15 tax rises are throttling growth and the Director of the CBI is so fed up…15 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe problem is that the cancer waits have been going up for 10 years and they are even higher now, so blaming the pandemic just will not wash. Perhaps the Culture Secretary was…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsMr Speaker, I bet they wish they had been this organised on Monday. It is health week and the Prime Minister is telling Conservative Members that he is going to turn over a new…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsOh dear. Prime Minister, dear, dear me. [ Interruption. ] Pretending no rules were— [ Interruption. ] He chunters on. Pretending no rules were broken did not work, pretending the…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsI think the Prime Minister just agreed with the Culture Secretary. He did not deny it. Perhaps she said it because it is true. It starts with GPs. People were unhappy with the…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsRaising taxes because you have failed to grow the economy is not a plan for the NHS, and everyone sitting behind the Prime Minister knows it. Members of his Cabinet admit that the…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister talks big but I have a letter here to the Prime Minister from the right hon. Member for Hereford and South Herefordshire (Jesse Norman) in which he said, “under…08 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsThank you, Mr Speaker. I could not make out whether that introductory noise was cheers or boos. [ Interruption. ] The trouble is, I do not know whether it is directed at me or the…08 Jun 2022HANSARD Address to Her Majesty: Platinum JubileeMay I second the motion, and associate myself and my party with the sentiments expressed by the Prime Minister? It is an honour to humbly address Her Majesty on such a momentous…26 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsJust delusional. Last week, I raised the case of Phoenix Halliwell, whose kidney condition means he needs daily dialysis and whose energy bill has gone through the roof as a…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsMy thoughts and, I know, the thoughts of the whole House are with the families of the victims of yesterday’s school shooting in Texas. Nineteen children have died, some as young…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsWhile the Prime Minister dithered and delayed, households across the country suffered when they did not need to. What is it about the Sue Gray report that first attracted him to a…25 May 2022HANSARDSue Gray ReportI have been clear what leadership looks like. I have not broken any rules, and any attempt to compare a perfectly legal takeaway while working to this catalogue of criminality…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsFifteen tax rises and the Prime Minister pretends they are a low-tax Government. It has been four and a half months since Labour first called for a windfall tax on oil and gas…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsI actually thought that, with this U-turn, the Prime Minister might get his head out of the sand, but obviously not. The reality is that every day of his dithering and his delay,…25 May 2022HANSARDEngagementsIt was not just the Chancellor back in September—the Prime Minister called fears about inflation “unfounded”. He was the last person to spot the cost of living crisis, just as he…25 May 2022HANSARDSue Gray ReportThe door of No. 10 Downing Street is one of the great symbols of our democracy. Those who live behind it exercise great power, but they do so knowing that their stay is temporary.…25 May 2022