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HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Cabinet Office works across all Departments to help drive the Government’s commitments, including to ensure the roll-out of broadband across the United Kingdom, and I am…23 Oct 2019HANSARDVoter IdentificationVoters deserve to have confidence in our democracy, so we will legislate to introduce voter ID, in line with Northern Ireland and many other nations, and to provide greater…23 Oct 2019HANSARDVoter IdentificationMy wife is Canadian. When I first went to vote with her, she found it extraordinary that people could turn up at the ballot box without any form of identification. Voter ID is…23 Oct 2019HANSARDVoter IdentificationMy hon. Friend raises an important point. The Home Office is reviewing legislation related to hostile state activity following the Salisbury attacks. This is a thorough process to…23 Oct 2019HANSARDStrength of the UnionAs ever, I agree with my hon. Friend. I am pleased to see that his powers of oration have not dimmed. Ours is the most successful political and economic Union in history, and our…23 Oct 2019HANSARDStrength of the UnionThe Government are committed to strengthening the links between the four nations of the Union. The Prime Minister is taking personal charge, as Minister for the Union, supported…23 Oct 2019HANSARDVoter IdentificationWe are not following the example of the United States; we are following the example set by the last Labour Government, who introduced photographic voter identification in 2003,…23 Oct 2019HANSARDOffice of Veterans' AffairsI would like to update the House on the work of the new Office for Veterans’ Affairs, which was announced by the Prime Minister in July. As the Minister attending Cabinet with…16 Oct 2019HANSARDPrinciples of Democracy and the Rights of the ElectorateObviously, the Electoral Commission Northern Ireland is independent, but the right hon. Gentleman has made his point very clearly.26 Sept 2019HANSARDPrinciples of Democracy and the Rights of the ElectorateThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. We want to get on with our job as legislators and move on to the things that people want us to focus on: their hospitals, their schools and the…26 Sept 2019HANSARDPrinciples of Democracy and the Rights of the ElectorateI think my right hon. Friend answers his own question. It is only too clear that there is only one reason why the Opposition do not wish to have an election: they do not believe…26 Sept 2019HANSARDPrinciples of Democracy and the Rights of the ElectorateThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The Government have offered yet another electoral event to try to solve the matter. We have been clear that we wish to have a general…26 Sept 2019HANSARDPrinciples of Democracy and the Rights of the ElectorateI am answering the right hon. Lady’s point, if the right hon. Gentleman will allow me. The only proponents of a second referendum are those who wish to reverse the result of the…26 Sept 2019HANSARDPrinciples of Democracy and the Rights of the ElectorateFor the simple reason that I honestly do not believe that a second referendum would solve anything. I have yet to hear people who voted leave proposing a second referendum.26 Sept 2019HANSARDPrinciples of Democracy and the Rights of the ElectorateNo, it is not the Government’s position to support a second referendum.26 Sept 2019HANSARDPrinciples of Democracy and the Rights of the ElectorateThe right hon. Lady is a passionate campaigner for a second referendum, but I seem to recall that the only amendment that passed was the Brady amendment, which sought to remove…26 Sept 2019HANSARDPrinciples of Democracy and the Rights of the ElectorateWe could spend forever rehashing the political and legal arguments relating to Prorogation. The Government have accepted the outcome of the Supreme Court, although we disagree…26 Sept 2019HANSARDPrinciples of Democracy and the Rights of the ElectorateMy hon. Friend makes an important point. I remember the cries of outrage on Prorogation and the demands that Parliament should return because we had so much to discuss. Opposition…26 Sept 2019HANSARDPrinciples of Democracy and the Rights of the ElectorateI say to the hon Gentleman that a deal was put forward by the last Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), and I voted for that deal three times.…26 Sept 2019HANSARDPrinciples of Democracy and the Rights of the ElectorateIt is generally the case that there are not reciprocal voting rights, and our position aligns with that of virtually every other European state in that regard, so I do not think…26 Sept 2019