PMQs

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Last week, we launched a new approach to combating knife crime in Milton Keynes, which means increased use of stop and search, tougher charging and custody, tougher sentencing, faster youth diversion and more work with parents and communities. Does the Prime Minister agree that if someone carries a knife in Milton Keynes, they should expect to end up behind bars?

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Today is the start of the women's Euros, and I know that the whole House will wish the Lionesses the very best of luck in bringing football home. It has been 40 years since the death of Terrence Higgins... Last week, a Government Minister was accused of sexually assaulting a young man. I want to quote the victim's account. He says: “He grabbed my arse and then he slowly moved his hand down in front of my groin. I froze.” Why did the Prime Minister promote him despite knowing about previous predatory behaviour?

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None of that explains why he promoted him in the first place. And we have heard it all before. We know who he really is... Has the Prime Minister ever said words to that effect? I am not asking for bluster and half-truths—we've all had enough of that. Yes or no?

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No denial. He says the matter was resolved when he means it was upheld... Will the Prime Minister apologise for those disgraceful comments on behalf of his Government?

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Doesn't that just sum up the Prime Minister? Awful behaviour, unacceptable in any walk of life: it is there for all to see, but he ignores it... Is this not the first recorded case of the sinking ship fleeing the rat?

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The only thing that the Prime Minister is delivering is chaos. Victims have said they froze because “It's not about sex; it's about power”. The power that the disgraced Government Minister had was handed to him by that Prime Minister, and he is only in power because he has been propped up for months by a corrupted party defending the indefensible. So it is no longer a case of swapping the person at the top; is it not clear that the only way the country can get the fresh start it deserves is by getting rid of the lot of them?

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Does the Prime Minister agree that we can never again allow such a gulf to open up between this place and those who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Northern Ireland? Will he redouble his commitment to making sure that this is the best country in the world to serve in the military and to be a veteran or their family?

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It is a minor miracle that the Prime Minister has even made it through to Prime Minister's questions. He really ought to see the faces behind him. How many more Ministers need to quit before he finally picks up his pen and writes his own resignation letter?

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Nothing to see, we should all move on—if we live in the world of the Prime Minister. A few weeks ago, I compared the Prime Minister to Monty Python's black knight. It turns out that I was wrong: he is actually the dead parrot. Whether he knows it or not, he is now an ex-Prime Minister, but he will leave behind two deeply damaging legacies. How many more Ministers need to quit before he finally picks up his pen and writes his own resignation letter? Perhaps that is what he is doing now.

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Nothing to see, we should all move on—if we live in the world of the Prime Minister. A few weeks ago, I compared the Prime Minister to Monty Python's black knight. It turns out that I was wrong: he is actually the dead parrot. Whether he knows it or not, he is now an ex-Prime Minister, but he will leave behind two deeply damaging legacies. How many more Ministers need to quit before he finally picks up his pen and writes his own resignation letter? Perhaps that is what he is doing now.

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Does the Prime Minister think there are any circumstances in which he should resign?

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Does the Prime Minister want a medal for being the best recruiting sergeant for independence we could wish for?

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Can my right hon. Friend assure me that future funds will be available to help declining high streets?

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Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he could afford a £150,000 treehouse?

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May I ask the Prime Minister to tell the Government to withdraw their objection to the appeal against the decision to allow 482 homes to be built on the green lung between Goring and Ferring?

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Please instruct your new bestie to make sure a cheque is in the post this afternoon?

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Will the Prime Minister take all possible action to negotiate and facilitate access to the grain stores?

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Yesterday the Prime Minister said that he was fed up of people saying things on his behalf. It is not just him who is fed up: so are the British people, and so are his Ministers who are resigning. They are sick of being sent out by him time and again to say things that are not true. Is the real problem him, or them for believing him in the first place?

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Just over a fortnight ago, two horrific fatal stabbings took place on a quiet street in East Barnet. With the Metropolitan police now in special measures for the first time in its history, will the Prime Minister urge the Mayor of London to start living up to his responsibilities as police and crime commissioner? The Mayor needs to get a grip on crime, give Barnet its fair share of new officers and abandon his plan to sell Barnet police station.

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According to the NHS Confederation, not a single one of the so-called 40 new hospitals that the Prime Minister promised at the last election will be built by 2024. Two of those “new” hospitals are in my constituency: Hammersmith Hospital opened in 1902, and Charing Cross Hospital opened in 1818. They are not new hospitals and there is no building going on. Like all his promises, they exist only in his warped imagination. As this is likely to be his last Prime Minister's questions, will he finally tell us the truth?

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Yesterday, in an attempt to boost morale in the Tea Room, the Prime Minister said to one table, “There were seven MPs in the Carlton Club last week, and one of them should have tried to intervene to stop Chris drinking so much.” As if that was not insulting enough to the people who did try to intervene that night, it is insulting to the victims to say that drink was the problem. Is this not another example of the Prime Minister constantly trying to deflect from the issue? He always tries to blame other people for mistakes. There is nothing left for him to do other than to take responsibility and resign.

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The Prime Minister once wrote: “It is a wonderful and necessary fact of political biology that we never know when our time is up. Long after it is obvious to everyone that we are goners, we continue to believe in our 'duty' to hang on…to the perks and privileges of our posts…In reality, we are just terrified of the come-down.” For the sake of this great country, will the Prime Minister heed the advice of his former self, get over his terror and do the decent thing?

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Around 1,000 delegates from 100 countries are at the freedom of religion or belief international ministerial conference over at the QEII centre today, and there is still time for hon. Members to visit. Does the Prime Minister agree that this significant conference will count for nothing unless it results in concerted global action to promote and protect freedom of religion or belief around the world?

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Will the Prime Minister join me in expressing my deepest condolences to those injured and affected by the explosion in a block of flats on Redwood Grove in Bedford on Monday that has sadly led to the death of one resident, with others yet to be accounted for? This is a timely reminder of the dangerous work undertaken by the fire service. Will he join me in praising the emergency service workers who were at the scene, and will he reconsider his 2% pay offer when firefighters have endured a 12% real-terms pay cut over the last decade?

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North Moreton, in my constituency, was dubbed “Britain's kindest village” because it committed to taking 50 Ukrainian refugees, and it has them all there now. In the Gallery today there is a group of those hosts and some of the Ukrainians they are hosting, including two young people who hope to go into Ukrainian politics in the future. Will my right hon. Friend join me in welcoming them to this place and in thanking North Moreton for its efforts?

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Given that the Prime Minister does not like walk-outs and strikes, what legislation will he be introducing to stop further walk-outs and strikes among his Cabinet colleagues and junior Ministers?

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I would like to draw the Prime Minister's attention to the words he used in response to the earlier question from my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton). Six months ago, I called on the Prime Minister to resign because even then it was clear that his approach to leadership and integrity was already creating a pipeline of problems that would paralyse proper government. Today, I ask him to do the honourable thing: to put the interests of the nation before his own interests, before, in his own words, it does become “impossible” for government to do its job.

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The Local Government Association has told us that more than 400 families who have come to this country from Ukraine under the family scheme have subsequently presented them- selves as homeless to local authorities. Because the local authorities have not got enough accommodation, those people are going to end up in temporary accommodation. There is a simple answer: local authorities could be allowed to contact the many thousands of people who volunteered to provide homes under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. The problem is that the Government do not allow families to transfer from the family scheme to the Homes for Ukraine scheme. When will the Prime Minister act to ensure that people who have come thousands of miles to this country are not placed in temporary accommodation and that we take up the generosity of those families who are willing to offer them a home?