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HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister’s delay in acting is a huge failure of leadership, and it is no good saying that there was support for the tier system. As he well knows, I looked at the…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am sure that nobody wants a lockdown, but it is a question of timing. Had the decision been taken a few weeks ago to put in place a circuit break, it could have been done for…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsCan I start with the elections in the United States? Whatever the results, will the Prime Minister join me in saying that it is not for a candidate to decide which votes do and do…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthI know that a lot of Members want to speak, particularly on the Government Benches, so I will keep my remarks brief. Nobody votes for these regulations today with anything other…04 Nov 2020HANSARDPublic HealthOn the question of whether all faiths have done their level best to comply, I do agree. A huge amount of effort has gone in, in places of worship and many other places, to try to…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsI just want some basic honesty, and this is serious. If the infection rate— [Interruption.] We have to look the public in the eye. If the infection rate is still going up on 2…04 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister must see that if four out of 10 of those who should be contacted are not being contacted, we have a problem in the system that needs to be fixed in the next…04 Nov 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI thank the Prime Minister for advance sight of his statement and for his call on Saturday to brief me on developments. The central lesson from the first wave of this virus was…02 Nov 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis is a Prime Minister who can pay £7,000 a day for consultants on Track and Trace, which is not working; who can find £43 million for a garden bridge that was never built; but…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI appreciate that there will be a review every 28 days, but if the R rate has not come below 1, then the infection rate is still going up, the numbers are going up, the admissions…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsAt his press conference yesterday, the Prime Minister produced heat maps across the country showing that the infection rate was up in all ages and across all regions, and…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi). Prime Minister, how does an area which goes into tier 3…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsCan I press the Prime Minister on that answer? If the infection rate, R, in a tier 3 area has not come below 1, will it be possible in any circumstances for that area to come out…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am now confused by the Prime Minister’s answer. If it is not the R rate under 1, what is it? Millions of people want to know the answer to that question. Millions of them are in…21 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsFollowing the advice is now, apparently, opportunistic. Presumably the Prime Minister will say the same to the leader of Bolton Council, a Conservative leader, who this morning…14 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI have supported the Government on all their measures so far, and I have taken criticism on it, but I think this measure is wrong and a circuit breaker is in the national…14 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsOn 11 May, the Prime Minister said that the Government’s covid strategy “will be governed entirely by the science.” —[ Official Report , 11 May 2020; Vol. 676, c. 36.] On 21…14 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI do not think that approach goes far enough, and neither does SAGE. The Prime Minister talks of the costs. Since he rejected SAGE’s advice on 21 September, I remind him that the…14 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI know that, for someone who has been an opportunist all his life, this is difficult to understand, but having read and considered the SAGE advice, I have genuinely concluded that…14 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsI think the Prime Minister is behind the curve again. He probably has not noticed that this morning, the council leaders in Greater Manchester that he just quoted, including the…14 Oct 2020