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HANSARDEngagementsMay I now turn to the app? This really matters because unless someone with covid-19 can name and identify everybody they have been in contact with, the app is the only way of…24 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister just has not addressed the question I put to him. I was not asking about those who have gone into the system—the 10,000—or those who have been contacted; I was…24 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsYesterday, the Government announced the next stage of easing lockdown restrictions. If that plan is to work—and we want it to work—we need an effective track, trace and isolate…24 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank the Prime Minister for advance sight of his statement. I join him in sending our condolences to the families and friends of those who died or were injured in Reading on…23 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister obviously has not got the first idea what the social mobility report, from a Government body, actually said last week. He talks to me about consistency and…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister says that poverty has not increased. I have just read a direct quote from a Government report, from a Government commission, produced last week, which says that…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsCan I start by welcoming the announcement of a major breakthrough in the treatment of coronavirus by UK scientists? That is really fantastic news. We are all behind it and I pay…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister just does not get how critical this is. I spoke with council leaders from across the country this week. The Prime Minister must know that they face a choice…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsThis is turning into Opposition questions. If the Prime Minister wants to swap places, I am very happy. I could do it now. The only bit of an answer he gave to the question I…17 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsEvery week, the Prime Minister seems to complain that I ask him questions at Prime Minister’s questions. If he wants to swap places, so be it. Finally, I want to return to the…17 Jun 2020HANSARD Global BritainI thank the Prime Minister for early sight of his statement and for the telephone call we had earlier today. As he has noted, today is the fourth anniversary of the tragic murder…16 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister, I know, understands the frustration of those most at risk when they see a report like that and they know action is needed. Action is needed now, not in a few…10 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsMay I join the Prime Minister in his comments on Grenfell—that dreadful night—in his comments on the Duke of Edinburgh and, of course, in his best wishes to you, Mr Speaker? May I…10 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsIt just does not wash to say that we cannot compare these figures with those in other countries. Everybody can see those figures and see the disparity, and we need to learn from…10 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsLet us just have this out. The Prime Minister and I have never discussed our letter in any phone call; he knows it, and I know it. The taskforce has never been the subject of a…10 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI was saying it is no good the Prime Minister flailing around, trying to blame others. A month ago today—a month ago today—he made the announcement about schools, without…10 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI welcome what the Prime Minister says about implementing the reports, and obviously we will hold him to it. He will appreciate that people do notice when recommendations are made…10 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI want as many children to go back to school as possible, as soon as possible, as quickly as possible—when it is safe. I have been saying that like a broken record for weeks on…10 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister is confusing scrutiny with attacks. I have supported the Government openly and I have taken criticism for it—but, boy, he has made it difficult to support this…03 Jun 2020HANSARDEngagementsI have supported the Government in the gradual easing of restrictions. That is why I wrote to the Prime Minister two weeks ago, because I could see the problem with schools and I…03 Jun 2020