PMQs

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The people I serve will commemorate Remembrance Day. Bermondsey was home to the poppy factory, providing work for injured veterans over 100 years ago. My constituents Charlotte and Lorraine were unable to see their mothers in their final days due to covid restrictions. Can this Prime Minister promise today that he will use his power of veto to ensure no one who received a fixed penalty notice is rewarded with a seat in the House of Lords?

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Welcoming commitments made at COP27, I urge the government to support floating offshore wind development in the Celtic Sea. Can you ensure that decisions now being taken mean that the economic value and jobs of this new industry will stay here in the UK?

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We remember all who paid the ultimate price. The Member for South Staffordshire told a civil servant to 'slit your throat'. How does the Prime Minister think the victim felt when he expressed great sadness at his resignation?

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The Member for South Staffordshire spent years courting ideas that he could intimidate others. The truth is simple: he is a pathetic bully, but he would never have got away with it if people like the Prime Minister did not hand him power. Does the PM regret his decision to make him a Government Minister?

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Everyone knows someone like the Member for South Staffordshire: a sad middle manager getting off on intimidating those beneath him. But everyone also knows someone like the Prime Minister who hides behind bullies. What message does he think it sends when, rather than take on the bullies, he lines up alongside them and thanks them for their loyalty?

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The problem is that the PM could not stand up to a run-of-the-mill bully. He has no chance of standing up to vested interests on behalf of working people. Take Shell, which made £26 billion in profits this year. How much has it paid under his so-called windfall tax?

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I am against all those causing chaos. There was no answer to the question because the answer is nothing. Shell has not paid a penny in windfall tax. Why? Because for every £1 it spends on digging for fossil fuels, he hands them a 90p tax break, costing the taxpayer billions. Will he find a backbone and end his absurd oil and gas giveaway?

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There is only one party that crashed the economy and they are all sitting there on the Government Benches. The Prime Minister lacks the strength to address these issues properly.

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On this day commemorating Kristallnacht, will my right hon. Friend condemn antisemitism in all its forms? He also congratulates the Holocaust Educational Trust on their work to ensure we never forget what happened during the Holocaust.

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We remember nuclear test veterans seeking justice. The Prime Minister's judgment is poor, as evidenced by recent events. Will he now remove from his Cabinet someone who is prioritising a position in the House of Lords?

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This looks very corrupt. The PM should sack someone who is prioritising a position in the House of Lords over Scottish democracy. Does he now put a stop to his predecessors stuffing the Lords with cronies?

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Criminal gangs openly use social media to recruit people into the country in small boats. Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the Online Safety Bill will require platforms to take action against such content?

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Britain's economic prospects are worsened by being outside the EU trading bloc, as per OBR forecasts. Who does he agree with—the OBR or his Tory Minister?

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Excessive housing targets are placing greater and greater pressure on councils to approve development that damages our environment. When the Prime Minister came to Finchley over the summer, he said that he wanted to abolish those targets. Will he use the Report stage of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to bring forward Government amendments to do that?

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Does the Prime Minister remember back in February, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, that I informed him that, due to his incompetence in that job, the children in my constituency were going to bed that night with no food in their tummies and no heat in their homes. What will he now do as Prime Minister to make sure that, in every community in our country, children are not in that situation in this hard winter ahead?

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On Friday, I visited a bridging hotel in my constituency that currently houses 77 Afghan refugees as local organisations search for permanent accommodation for them following the success of Operation Pitting. Many of the refugees I met held highly skilled jobs back in Afghanistan, including a doctor, an international athlete and Government Ministers. Can the Prime Minister assure the House that our Government will do more to support those highly skilled individuals in entering the UK workforce?

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Five years ago, the Government belatedly launched a review into the security risk posed by handing thousands of mainly wealthy Russian and Chinese nationals so-called golden visas so that they could live in Britain. They also promised to publish the results of that review. Why have they not?

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The UK has a workforce shortage, yet millions of parents are unable to work at full tilt and childcare providers are going belly-up due to policies' being a maddeningly expensive muddle of a mess. Will my right hon. Friend please confirm that, after decades of ineffective tinkering and endless policies, he will be the man to give us proper childcare reform?

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I know the Prime Minister has been very busy failing to stand up to bullies, but in the real world schools and colleges across the country looking after actual children are struggling to make ends meet. One London headteacher has scrapped plans for mental health counsellors, a headteacher in Twickenham is no longer filling teaching assistant vacancies and another is axing school trips. Will the Prime Minister give pupils and parents a cast-iron guarantee that in next week's autumn statement there will be no real-terms cuts to school and college budgets?

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Despite a productive meeting with the Immigration Minister yesterday, the Home Office continues to house over 400 asylum seekers in two neighbouring hotels in my constituency. It is clear from my meetings with GPs and Derbyshire police that that huge influx of people in such a small area is putting local services under immense strain. Before services in Erewash hit breaking point, will my right hon. Friend commit to an immediate reduction in asylum seekers concentrated in one place, and will he intervene to set a timetable for permanent closure of accommodation centres at that location?

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Under the Prime Minister's short premiership, he has had one Minister resign and one who urgently needs to be sacked. Can the Prime Minister clarify to the House and the rest of the country when the scheduled programme of integrity, professionalism and accountability will begin?

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Will the Prime Minister join me in thanking all the poppy appeal volunteers across the country and in my constituency for their work to ensure that we always remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice? Will the Prime Minister or perhaps the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, the hon. Member for Plymouth, Moor View (Johnny Mercer) visit Watford to meet our heroic veterans to whom we owe so much?

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If the Prime Minister or any member of his many households became unwell, would he start ringing the GP surgery at 8 o'clock each morning to not get an appointment, would he go off to accident and emergency and wait 12 hours to be seen, would he call an ambulance that would not come, or would he use some of his £750 million—unearned wealth—to pay privately and see somebody there and then?

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Blackpool is due to benefit from a £300 million private sector-led regeneration project that will deliver thousands of new jobs for my constituents over the years ahead. To deliver this ambitious new project, we need support with a £40 million package to relocate the existing court complex that currently occupies the site. Various Secretaries of State have been supportive of the project so far, so can the Prime Minister give me an update on when we can receive some good news on how we can get this project off the ground?

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It is a critical time for our steel industry, which is hit by massive energy costs and low demand at a time when we need to support our industry to adapt to build the green technologies we will need. Does the Prime Minister agree that our sovereign capability and our national security are dependent on a strong UK steel industry? If so, will the Government not sit on their hands? What is the Prime Minister's plan for steel?

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Supermarkets such as Morrisons are abusing their dominant market position on fuel by charging up to 20p a litre more in Bridport than other towns in the region, thus preventing West Dorset residents from benefiting from the reduction in market price, which is unusual these days. Will the Prime Minister meet me to discuss what action can be taken against those commercial predators who harm our local residents in that way?

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Tomorrow, I will be delivering food bank collection crates across my constituency, because our food banks are running out of food once more. Does the Prime Minister understand the despair my constituents feel that he is doing so little for the poorest in Britain by refusing to cancel the £3 billion tax break for non-doms who profit from our country but will not make it their home?

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The British people are relying on our party and the Government to fulfil their promises on levelling up. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Felixstowe and Harwich freeport plan will be judged as a historic failure unless it succeeds in levelling up a deprived ward in my constituency? Will he join me in Clacton to kick-start that plan? Will he also commit to come to the tendering showcase currently in the Jubilee room until 2.30 this afternoon?