Boris Johnson acknowledges the tragedy, paying tribute to those affected and emphasizing the importance of learning from this incident to ensure safety on Britain's railways.

Boris Johnson states that Ofqual declared the system robust, and criticizes Keir Starmer for undermining confidence in schools during the pandemic. He avoids directly answering when he knew about the issue.

Boris Johnson criticizes Keir Starmer's policies, including EU support and IRA-condoning statements, rather than addressing concerns about government competence.

What we are doing in this Government is getting our pupils back to school despite all doubts and we are getting people back to work. We want to move the country forward through our kick-start scheme, not extend the furlough scheme as Labour wants.

I take full responsibility for everything that has happened under this Government throughout my period in office. Despite negativity from Opposition, we have succeeded in turning the tide of this pandemic by getting people back to school and work.

Of course I am very happy to meet them once litigation is concluded. It would be better if Labour joined together with the Government and said it was safe for workers of this country to go back to work in a covid-secure way.

Responded that after the end of this month, they will continue with measures to support people in work such as the kick-start scheme for young people and a £160 billion package to support the economy. The PM emphasized that their schemes are more generous than those in France, Germany or Ireland.

My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the wonderful attractions of north Wales, which I know very well, as I tried to get elected there many years ago—unsuccessfully. I congratulate him on his success, and may it be long repeated.

I must say that I listened carefully to what the hon. Gentleman said, but he seems to have ignored the fact that we have just had an inflation-busting public sector pay rise. As part of the package that we agreed in 2018, nurses alone have had a 12.5% pay increase since then.

I thank my hon. Friend for her apposite intervention on behalf of Alexander Dennis. I was a keen customer of Alexander Dennis's fantastic machines. I cannot guarantee this, but I hope that our green recovery and our massive investment in green buses will be of benefit to the workforce of Alexander Dennis.

I thank the hon. Gentleman. I encourage him to return from New York, Shanghai or wherever he is and join us in this House as fast as he can. Actually, what the people of this country want to see is their representatives back on their seats as fast as possible in the Palace of Westminster.

My hon. Friend makes a very interesting point, and I am sure that point of view is shared by many people in this country. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport will be setting out a roadmap for reform of the BBC shortly and addressing the very issues he mentions.

It is a rare privilege to ask a question in the House, so you would have thought, Mr Speaker, that they could have come up with something better than that. This is a global pandemic, which this Government are dealing with extremely effectively at a medical level.

I heartily endorse, I am afraid, the sentiments that my right hon. and learned Friend has expressed. Anybody who has worked with HS2 over the past few years will know that it does treat local residents with, I am afraid, a high-handed approach—or has done.

I thank the hon. Lady for her question, and I assure her that our job retention scheme has been an enormous success in protecting millions of jobs across this country.

I thank my hon. Friend. I have a great deal of sympathy with those who are so desperate as to put their children in dinghies, or even children's paddling pools, and try to cross the channel, but I have to say that what they are doing is falling prey to criminal gangs and they are breaking the law. They are also undermining the legitimate claims of others who would seek asylum in this country. That is why we will take advantage of leaving the EU by changing the Dublin regulations on returns, and we will address the rigidities in our laws that make this country, I am afraid, a target and a magnet for those who would exploit vulnerable people in this way.