Conduct of the Right Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip

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I will give way in due course. The Tories marched through the Lobby to undermine our parliamentar...

Order. I hesitate to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman, but I hope he will be very careful about...

What I am reflecting on is the behaviour of the Prime Minister that puts Members in the House of ...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will happily give way.

Oh!

I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. As no Government Member wishes to intervene on him, ...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. Of course, he is absolutely correct. We are speakin...

Order. Will the right hon. Gentleman please refer to the Prime Minister as the Prime Minister and...

The point is that the Prime Minister must respect democracy. He denies democracy when he stuffs t...

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I will give way.

Hooray!

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. He understands, I think, that a debate tends to ...

Really, really. We are talking about corruption and sleaze�about a Prime Minister who forces Cons...

Not only is it an important subject; how the Prime Minister behaves is fundamental to our democra...

I agree. I will come to the subject of truth and honesty later in my speech. It is noticeable tha...

The right hon. Gentleman is being incredibly kind in giving way, particularly on this subject. I ...

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Order. Do not shout at the right hon. Gentleman. We all have to hear his answer. While I am on my...

Let me respectfully say to Government Members that I will give a guarantee, a promise and a commi...

Does the right hon. Gentleman appreciate, and do Conservative Members appreciate, the damage that...

Order. Let us just be clear about that. It is preferable that such words should not be used in th...

I was dealing with the sixth principle of public life. I have laid out for the House three exampl...

I wholeheartedly agree that this is an issue of conduct, but it is also a question of leadership....

I agree with the hon. Member. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps we should just calm down; there will be o...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Let me just carry on for a second, because this is important. The way we conduct ourselves and in...

Is it not telling about how complicit those on the Government Benches are that, when my right hon...

I ask Government Members to reflect. Most people in this House are decent people. People come her...

It is a pleasure to start by wishing SNP Members, and the whole House, a happy St Andrew�s Day. I...

Will the Minister give way?

I will give way more than the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber, but not yet .

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The Minister is making a good case. Does he find it strange that SNP Members are posing as defend...

SNP Members are fair-weather friends to democracy, which, clearly, they support only when it goes...

Will the Minister give way?

I will give way, but perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will say why the SNP did not choose to deba...

The Minister is speaking dutifully and gushingly about the Prime Minister; he is painting a pictu...

The right hon. Member�s statement is obviously disproven by the fact that the Prime Minister won ...

Will the Minister give way?

I will give way, and perhaps the hon. Member could answer why it is that the SNP has not chosen t...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I am not sure what he was asking me because, over t...

This Prime Minister of course takes care of the people�s priorities, looking after what they care...

Will the Minister give way ?

I will give way, and perhaps the hon. Member could answer why she is not talking about matters th...

I really do thank the Minister for giving way. Can the Minister confirm that he actually understa...

This Government have proven they know what the people want of this country, and we did so by the ...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am slightly confused, because I am struggling to fin...

I am awfully sorry but there was a lot of noise; will the hon. Gentleman give me the second part ...

I am struggling to understand what points the Minister is making that are in any way relevant to ...

I see what the hon. Gentleman is saying, but I have absolutely no responsibility whatsoever for t...

Yes, Madam Deputy Speaker, because of course the Scottish National party motion is about the cond...

Will the Minister give way?

I gave way last time and it really was not worth it.

There is also the �150-million communi...

The Minister knows I have some affection for him, and he is doing a marvellous job at deflection,...

The feeling is mutual but I am defending the conduct of the Prime Minister, and the right hon. Ge...

The Minister accuses SNP Members of not having an answer. It is very interesting that the Ministe...

The conduct of the Prime Minister is the subject of the debate, and the conduct of the Prime Mini...

Order. For the sake of clarity, we are not debating the character of the Prime Minister; we are d...

Exactly, Madam Deputy Speaker; thank you.

The principle behind the Bill is that access to t...

My right hon. and learned Friend is giving lots of examples of how the conduct of the Prime Minis...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right�it is yet another missed opportunity by the Scottish National ...

Will my right hon. and learned Friend give way?

I will, although I will have to make progress.

One thing that my right hon. and learned Friend has failed to mention and that I am sure he will ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, of course. He speaks with the authority of an expert on the s...

Order. Before I call the hon. Member for Oxford East (Anneliese Dodds) for the Opposition, it mig...

A very happy St Andrew�s Day to all in the Chamber.

I take no particular pleasure in debati...

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If the hon. Member is about to justify why he was not here for that debate, I look forward to hea...

Talking of massed ranks, where are all the Labour Members? I saw on Twitter yesterday a graphic t...

I regret that the hon. Member seems terribly confused. I am sorry about that. This is an SNP Oppo...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right that on the Labour Benches we believe that the �Ministerial Co...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I will come on to the �Ministerial Code� because it is, sadly, h...

The hon. Lady talks about honesty and integrity. Could she please confirm how many Labour MPs hav...

The major difference between my party and the hon. Member�s is that wherever we in the Labour par...

I am hoping that the hon. Lady will use this opportunity to apologise to my predecessor Ruth Smee...

I will, of course, respond to the hon. Member�s comments because, just as I said to his hon. Frie...

Is the hon. Lady really denigrating the efforts to get hold of PPE, and does she not know the his...

I am slightly surprised to hear that the right hon. Member wishes to draw attention to what took ...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

No, because I will respond to the right hon. Member�s point. He asked whether I was aware that La...

I am grateful for the opportunity to set the record straight; I hope that after I speak, she will...

I really regret the fact that instead of responsibility being taken and it being stated that the ...

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I do not want to upset the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, so I am very happy to take another interv...

If I may, I will set the record straight on one further point. I have heard this point about the ...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

No, I will not give way. [Hon. Members: �Withdraw!�] And I most certainly�

Order. We have had a perfectly reasonable exchange between the right hon. Member for West Suffolk...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. If the Government have lost every court case when they...

No. I appreciate what the hon. Lady is saying, but it is not a point of order; it is a point of d...

It is indeed the case that facts have been laid out in courts of law; they stand for themselves.<...

And in facts.

Indeed. Well, transparency reveals facts, does it not? I therefore hope that he will encourage hi...

I was not planning to contribute to the debate, but the hon. Lady has been talking about conflict...

Order. The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat. He should not be attacking personally in that way...

Just for the record, as the hon. Member stated in his own letter, those issues have been taken up...

I am very confused by what the hon. Lady has said, because I am under the impression that three c...

Order. The hon. Gentleman must not refer to the hon. Lady using the word �you�, because that is m...

I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker. How can we talk about these issues when current members of the...

I regret the fact that the hon. Member is confused. There appears to be a fair amount of confusio...

Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish you and the whole House a happy St Andrew�s day. I have come to this...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock). If he carries o...

The right hon. Gentleman talks about the difference between winning an argument and winning a vot...

We are here. We did not make a unilateral declaration of independence. We have not rushed into a ...

My right hon. Friend is talking about illegality. We should never forget that it is this Prime Mi...

Limited and specific lawbreaking is still lawbreaking. I was also struck by the fact that the Gov...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will not. The rot starts at the top. The fish rots from the head down�that is the Prime Min...

First, Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish you, and all right hon. and hon. Members of this House, a ver...

Does my hon. Friend not think that it would be a better use of time to debate that rather than th...

I thank my right hon. Friend for asking that question, because I do think that. I am angry that, ...

indicated dissent .

She may have now, but that was not the case before I came into the Chamber .

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I will not give way because before I came into the Chamber she had not. The power went off on Fri...

Two weeks ago, I stood in this spot and spoke about how parliamentary time was being wasted by th...

Order. The hon. Gentleman should not be directly criticising members of the House of Lords. So I ...

Let me clarify, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am speaking about the whole House of Lords and not any in...

At a time when we are dealing with the aftermath of an unexpected global pandemic, a booster vacc...

Not true.

Yet instead of focusing on those issues or the other important issues on which we could be focusi...

I heard SNP Members saying, �Not true�, but they did not intervene on my hon. Friend the Member f...

I thank my hon. Friend for making that point.

I think that SNP Members will agree that duri...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for East Surrey (Claire Coutinho). I commend her on re...

Will the hon. Member give way?

No, I am going to make progress.

A constituent wrote to me saying,

�I am a single wom...

The hon. Member is making a powerful speech. Government Members seem to forget the subject matter...

I thank the hon. Member for her intervention and I highly encourage Conservative Members to go an...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Airdrie and Shotts (Ms Qaisar). I wish hon. and ri...

I served on the Elections Bill Committee and the evidence we heard from Tower Hamlets, Peterborou...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention, which highlights perfectly my point about f...

It is fitting that we are holding this debate on St Andrew�s Day, as he is not just the patron sa...

This has been an interesting and fiery debate. I have listened carefully to every contribution. I...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will make some progress.

Let us look at the contrast between what the Prime Minister ...

I commend the hon. Gentleman for at least trying to address the topic, but I gently say that the ...

Where I would gently disagree with the right hon. Gentleman is that the position of the Deputy Fi...

I truly wish it was a privilege and a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpende...

Order.

6.24 pm

On this happy St Andrew�s Day I have had haggis, Irn-Bru and an SNP debate; I can recommend two o...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I ask the Member to withdraw the remark about the ...

I am sure the hon. Lady will understand that I am not responsible for what the hon. Gentleman say...

I might make a slight correction here: perhaps I should have referred to the drug deaths, which a...

No, no: it was made very clear at the beginning of this debate that we were not going to insult e...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am just trying to create an argument and my closing comments w...

The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat. He is straying a long way from the motion. He is also re...

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On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Member is making clearly erroneous accusations aga...

I think I made my views very clear. First, it is very important not to make references to Members...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am going to apologise to the SNP, and we can clear this up str...

Does my hon. Friend not think it was a bit rich for the hon. Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (Ma...

I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his sensible intervention. I only have to look at my...

Order. This is a motion about the Government. I am afraid the hon. Gentleman needs to bring his r...

Several weeks ago, during the Standing Order No. 24 emergency debate on standards, Mr Speaker sai...

I rise today on behalf of the people of Rother Valley to put on the record our strong and unwaver...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

On Brexit, of course. I love Brexit.

Given that Northern Ireland now has access to the single market as part of the island of Ireland ...

I am a bit unsure about the hon. Gentleman�s point, because the United Kingdom as a whole voted f...

Order. There have been a lot of interventions. As a result, I will have to take the time limit do...

The fact is that we are here today because we have a Prime Minister who has spent the past two ye...

I must say that I find it utterly bizarre that we find ourselves here this afternoon, once again ...

Madam Deputy Speaker,

�The Scotch�what a verminous race!�

So says a racist poem that ...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I will take the point of order, but I feel quite strongly that the debate should not be constantl...

As a new Member of Parliament, Madam Deputy Speaker, I need to ask your advice. Is it acceptable ...

The hon. Gentleman may not have been in the Chamber at the beginning of the debate, but the Chair...

For the record, the slogan on the bus was a downright lie.

This is a Prime Minister who gav...

Any member of the public who has the misfortune to stumble across the debate will be appalled tha...

With or without invoking parliamentary privilege, it is sadly fair comment and no libel when we c...

It could have been so much better today. We had a precious chance to debate the issues that are m...

Order. I have to keep people absolutely to time.

6.59 pm

It would be remiss of me not to start my contribution to a debate on the Prime Minister by reflec...

I would like to say what a pleasure it has been to listen to the single transferable Whip�s speec...

Does my hon. Friend agree that for all this talk of the levelling-up agenda, when it comes to Sco...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, and she says it very eloquently and succinctly. We ...

Order. Because of that intervention, I am afraid that the final speaker is going to be able to ha...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Ministers and Government Members have been trying all afte...

This has been some debate. I have to say at the outset that I did not think our modest little mot...

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This is the only time I am giving way.

I am very grateful to my hon. Friend. The Intelligence and Security Committee stated recently: