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HANSARDEngagementsYesterday, I spoke to a mum who lives in London. She has a four-year-old daughter, who had a very high temperature yesterday morning. She phoned 111, and was told to get a test.…09 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsHundreds of families have been trying to get a test in the last week, and they cannot get one. I do acknowledge the number of tests overall, but this is basic stuff. People who…09 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI will hear the measures later on, but we will in principle support them, as I have supported all the measures the Prime Minister has introduced, as he well knows. It is the right…09 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsWe all want test, trace and isolate to succeed, and I have offered my support before. The Prime Minister is ignoring the problem: if people are being told to go hundreds of miles,…09 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsWhy can we not just hear from the Prime Minister an honest answer? If he stood at the Dispatch Box and said, “I know something’s gone wrong in the last couple of weeks. We have…09 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI am listening carefully to what the Prime Minister says, and what is undermining confidence is families being told to go hundreds of miles and they cannot get a test. That is…09 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsCan I join the Prime Minister in those comments about the tragic events of just a few weeks ago? Can I also begin by paying tribute to John Hume, who passed away during recess?…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI have already expressed congratulations to all those students and I do so again, but I want to go back to my question, which the Prime Minister avoided. I know why he avoided it,…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI have said it so many times. School is safe. My own children have been in school throughout. There is no issue on this. The Prime Minister is seeking to divide, instead…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister is just tin-eared and making it up as he goes along. I am surprised— [ Interruption. ] The Education Secretary stood at that Dispatch Box yesterday and…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe problem is that he is governing in hindsight, as well as making so many mistakes. Mr Speaker, before I go on, the Prime Minister said something about the IRA, and I want him…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsWhen the Prime Minister has worked with the security and intelligence forces on prosecuting criminals and terrorists, he can lecture me. I asked him to do the decent thing, but…02 Sept 2020HANSARDEngagementsI stood up and condemned what happened in Salisbury, and I supported the then Prime Minister on record. I would ask the Prime Minister to check the record and withdraw that—I was…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsMay I start by welcoming reports this week of significant progress in the vaccine trials in Oxford? We all know that there is a long way to go, but I want to record my thanks and…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsPre-prepared gags on flip-flops. This is the former columnist who wrote two versions of every article ever published! In case the Prime Minister has not noticed, the Labour party…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI see the Prime Minister is already on his pre-prepared lines. This is a serious question of national security. He sat on this report for 10 months and failed to plug a gap in our…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister says that he will introduce new legislation. I want to make it clear to him that we will support that legislation and work with the Government. It is not before…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsI was absolutely clear in condemning what happened in Salisbury, not least because I was involved in bringing proceedings against Russia on behalf of the Litvinenko family—that is…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsThere is a serious gap in our Official Secrets Act, laying bare for 18 months, and that is all the Prime Minister has to say about it. One way the Government could seek to clamp…22 Jul 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis is just such rhetorical nonsense. It is perfectly proper and right for the Opposition to set out the parts of the package that we support the Government on and to highlight…15 Jul 2020