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HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank the Prime Minister for advance sight of his statement and for his telephone call earlier today. We are at a critical moment—“a tipping point”, to quote the deputy chief…12 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis is not just a technical issue; it is a human issue. The attempted reassurance by the Prime Minister just does not wash. In Greater Manchester, some of the missing cases date…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis is a crucial moment if we are to gain control of the virus, yet for eight days nearly 16,000 positive tests were missed by the Government. That means that about 48,000…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister says that it does not alter the basic distribution, yet thousands of people have been walking around when they should have been self-isolating. It patently has…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsFor the Prime Minister’s benefit, let me take this slowly for him. We support measures to protect health. We want track and trace to work. But the Government are messing it up and…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister cannot explain why an area goes into restriction, he cannot explain what the different restrictions are, and he cannot explain how restrictions end. This is…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsYes. But if the Prime Minister cannot see and hear local communities when they say that the infection rate has gone up tenfold under restrictions, and he does not realise that is…07 Oct 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt is refreshing to hear the Prime Minister try to dig the Chancellor out of a hole for a change, but I do not think that will wash. The Prime Minister just does not get it. The…30 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI support the restrictions. I have done so every single time the Prime Minister has introduced them; he well knows that. Because of the restrictions, lots of people’s jobs—in…30 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsMay I join the Prime Minister in sending my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Sergeant Matt Ratana? This was a truly appalling incident. I have to say that every…30 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsOne of the major problems, as we have seen in the last 24 hours, is widespread confusion about the local restrictions, and I do not just mean the Prime Minister not knowing his…30 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe idea that anybody who asks the Prime Minister a question at Prime Minister’s questions is undermining the Government effort is wearing a bit thin. We have openly supported the…30 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsWhen local restrictions were introduced, the Prime Minister described them as a “whack-a-mole” strategy. That implies that at some stage the mole goes down and restrictions are…30 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThat is such a poor defence. The point is not whether the children have got covid, but that they have got covid symptoms and then they are off school. The Government’s own…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister knows that my complaint is not with the NHS; it is with the Government. My wife works for the NHS. My mother worked for the NHS. My sister works for the NHS. So…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsSo why, yesterday, did the Prime Minister say: “Testing and tracing has very little or nothing to do with the spread or the transmission of the disease.”? —[ Official Report , 22…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am not asking about the support that was put in place in the past. We support that. I am asking about the support that is needed now, particularly in the light of the…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThree months ago today the Prime Minister said that test and trace could be a “real game changer” for us. He was backed up by the Health Secretary, who said: “Finding where the…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI listened to the answer that the Prime Minister gave to the questions; that is why I asked him the question, because yesterday he said the complete opposite of what he said…23 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19I thank the Prime Minister for advance sight of his statement and for his telephone call last night. The picture presented yesterday by the Government’s advisers was stark and…22 Sept 2020