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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillI strongly agree with my hon. Friend, and I am very familiar with Community Links, which does brilliant work. We should take the voices of children and young people seriously—the…16 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillI admire the right hon. Gentleman for sticking to his convictions as a libertarian in making that case, even though I strongly disagree with him, but how far does his commitment…16 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillMr Deputy Speaker, we are now in this parallel universe where the Secretary of State is asking me, the shadow Secretary of State, whether I am going to consult on her Bill. Now, I…16 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillI am grateful to the right hon. Lady for her intervention. I think she makes a perfectly sensible point, actually, and I am perfectly open to lobbying from Conservative Members on…16 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillI think that is extraordinary. I do not think that smoking is slightly harmful; I think it is the single biggest cause of cancer, and I think that the costs to people’s health, to…16 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillHealth police!16 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillWill the right hon. Lady give way?16 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillHonestly, Mr Deputy Speaker, you just can’t help some people. I am trying to help the Secretary of State out and defend her against her own side, and now, to curry favour with…16 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillI do not know whether there is a problem with the speaker system in here, because this is the second time I have had an intervention after answering the question. I have already…16 Apr 2024HANSARDCass ReviewI thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement and, even more importantly, Dr Hilary Cass and her team for the thoughtful and thorough way in which they have…15 Apr 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsWe have never doubted the challenges that the pandemic has placed on the public finances or our public services, but that does not explain the fundamental weakness of the British…11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who brings me to the next section of my speech. Infected blood is another crucial detail missing from the Budget. Where is the compensation…11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsMy hon. Friend asks an excellent question, and it is one that the Government will have to answer, because we are not having this double standards in politics. If the Labour party…11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsIt is that we have once again won the argument. We have been arguing for some time that taxes on working people are too high. They have gone up time and again under this…11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsThe right hon. Member made a right and fair point earlier about the cuts to national insurance and what is happening to pensioners’ incomes at the moment, but the Government’s…11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI hope that the right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) can tell us why.11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI will certainly give way to the former Minister.11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI strongly agree with my hon. Friend. We should not be complacent about that, because slipping down international league tables is not just a missed opportunity, but a missed…11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for that intervention. I do not think that that alters the fact that there are 60,000 people on the NHS waiting lists in Cornwall and the Isles of…11 Mar 2024HANSARDBudget ResolutionsI am sure the hon. Member would like to leap to defend the current leader or his future leader—which is it?11 Mar 2024