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[00:00:08]Okay. Right. It's already started. So, let's get into it. Let's get into it.

[00:00:12]>> Action than any other government to tackle child. Welcome. Welcome.

[00:00:17]>> At the King's speech, I look forward to setting out what more we will do to change our country for the better.

[00:00:23]>> Mr. Speaker, this morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others.

[00:00:26]I shall have further such meetings later today. Render Signel.

[00:00:31]>> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can I firstly thank you uh for meeting with me recently to view a thousand paper crane folded by residents in Bwood as a recognition of the diversity of Smeik in which neighbors and communities just get on with each other. Mr. Speaker, residents in SP in my SP constituency and across Sandro benefit from the lowest council tax in the West Midland.

[00:00:52]Investment in new new leather centers, parks and kept open the third best in the country for fixing potholes, expanded uh breakfast clubs, free school meals and cheaper school uniform for for our children. Does the prime minister agree that this is all down to well-run Labor Sandor Council and the changes brought back by this government, this Labor government opposed at every opportunity by the tourism reform?

[00:01:18]>> Minister, >> can I thank him for his work to give every child the best start in life in his constituency and I'm very glad that this government has done more than any other government to lift children out of poverty.

[00:01:29]>> Mr. Speaker, thanks to our work this session on this side of the House, we've passed laws needed to deliver more rights at work, build new homes, save British steel, clean up waterways, secure our borders, and record funding of our NHS, and so much more. Change delivered by Labor opposed by the tries and reform.

[00:01:50]>> We come to the leader of the opposition, Chem Bed. [cheering] >> Thank you. It's the end of the session and what a contrast with the beginning.

[00:02:00]Mr. Speaker, >> back in July 2024, those benches were full of sickopantic questions from adoring new MPs.

[00:02:10]>> Yesterday, >> the prime minister was reduced to begging those same MPs to save his own skin.

[00:02:21]>> Mr. Speaker, he's broken his promise to grow the economy. The only thing that's grown is the welfare bill. The only thing that's grown is the welfare bill.

[00:02:30]So, can the prime minister tell us? Can the prime minister tell us how many more people are out of work and claiming universal credit since he took office?

[00:02:42]>> Prime Minister, >> Mr. Speaker, uh she talks about what we've done uh in ter raising people out of work. We have the youth guarantee that we put in place for young people.

[00:02:52]We've raised a national minimum wage thanks to our chancellor.

[00:02:57]>> We've helped young people waiting listing about secretary.

[00:03:02]>> We put more police on the streets thanks to the work of the home secretary. And we've cut energy bills for young people thanks to the work of the energy. I am very proud what this Labour government in the first session of this parliament.

[00:03:16]>> Mr. speaker. The >> prime minister doesn't want to say how many people how many more people in fact are out of work and claiming universal credit since he took office. Perhaps he doesn't know. So let me tell him the number is 1.5 million.

[00:03:33]>> That is the entire population of Leeds, Cardiff and Edinburgh put together.

[00:03:39]Hardworking people are being taxed more and more to pay for a ballooning benefits bill. So, can the prime minister tell us why on his watch, for the first time ever, we are now spending more on welfare than we earn in income tax?

[00:03:57]>> Prime Minister, Mr. Speaker, the welfare system she complains of the one they put in place, Mr. Speaker. And Mr. Speaker, we are reforming it to improve it. And what did they do when we put that forward? They voted to keep the same broken welfare system.

[00:04:19]>> Mr. Speaker, that answer was as honest as his reason for sacking Ollie Robbins.

[00:04:22]Perhaps he'd like to apologize for that right now. Let me tell him. Let me tell him accusing him of spending more on welfare than we're earning in tax. It's because of him and his terrible policies. This is all under him. We are spending so much on welfare. We cannot afford to defend the country. And if he won't listen to me, Mr. Speaker, perhaps he'll listen to the former defense secretary, Lord Robertson. Pensions are more than 50% of the welfare bill.

[00:04:51]>> We cannot defend Britain with an ever expanding welfare budget.

[00:04:56]>> I agree with Lord Robertson. Why doesn't he?

[00:05:00]>> Madam Speaker, this is the Labor government that increased defense spending, the highest sustained spend since the Cold War. What did they do, Mr. Speaker, when they came into power, defense spending was 2.5%.

[00:05:15]When they left power, it was 2.3%.

[00:05:18][cheering] >> And even their own secretary of state admitted they hollowed out our armed forces. So, we'll take no lectures from them on defense.

[00:05:26]>> He's not taking lectures. Mr. >> Speaker, talking about more defense spending is not the same as giving more money for defense. He has been in office for nearly two years. Mr. Speaker, what he does have, he's got a welfare plan until 2031, but he's not produced a defense investment plan. We have gone backwards on defense under him because we are borrowing. We are borrowing to pay for welfare. Yesterday, we learned that the cost of government borrowing is now the highest in two decades. That's under him. Instead of getting a grip on the economy, the chancellor is briefing out rent controls to curry favor. Curry favor with left-wing backbentures. This is not a serious way to run the economy.

[00:06:15]It is time the prime minister gives her an easier job. So, will he listen to businesses, listen to the country, and reshuffle the chancellor?

[00:06:25]>> Oh, she's going for sack the chancellor this time. statement. The chancellor were very proud to say inflation was down to 3% and falling. Six interest rates in a cut. We've seen the growth figures for the early part of this year.

[00:06:38]And she says, "Well, the cost of boring's gone up." Yes. Because there's a conflict in Iran. And what did she want to do? What did she want to do when when I said we wouldn't be dragged into that war? because I thought through the consequences, including the economic consequences. What did she do? She said we should jump in with both feet without regard to the consequences. She can't complain now about the implications.

[00:07:05][cheering] >> Mr. Speaker, I didn't hear him say he's not reshuffling the chancellor.

[00:07:11]>> It sounds like she's toast. Meanwhile, the former deputy prime minister is on maneuvers. This government is like a bad episode of Game of Thrones. His own people have turned against him and all the while the prime minister is holed up in his castle wetting himself about a visit from the king in the north.

[00:07:30]Yesterday, Mr. Speaker, yesterday one Labour MP actually said that his days are numbered. That's one of them. I wonder who it was cuz they're all looking guilty as hell. Isn't the real reason, Mr. Speaker? Isn't the real reason, Mr. Speaker?

[00:07:49]>> This is real.

[00:07:49]>> Mr. Speaker, isn't the real reason the prime minister can't cut welfare that he squandered all his political capital in his own skin?

[00:08:00]>> Mr. Speaker, she talked about political games. That's what she was doing yesterday.

[00:08:04]>> This house considered our motion, rejected it decisively because everyone saw it for what it was, a desperate, baseless political stunt ahead of the May elections. And Mr. Speaker, whilst she and they were playing games here, I was chairing a meeting in Cobra, going through the contingencies and managing our war in the Middle East.

[00:08:27]>> Mr. Speaker, they think little game here is more important than managing the implications of the war in the Middle East, which will affect every single one of their constituents. And none of them ask any questions about it. None of them want to debate it. They just want to debate silly political stunts >> because it's a stunt Even though we didn't join the war, no thanks to her, my duty is to protect the British public from the consequences.

[00:08:54]And nothing is going to distract me from what matters to the British public.

[00:09:00]>> Mr. Speaker, I think the whole country is sick of this man's tonedeaf pompous moralizing.

[00:09:07]>> Last week, last week, last week, Last week, we all saw him punch the speaker's chair. This is not a man who is in control.

[00:09:23]>> Since the last king speech, it's been one disaster after another. Cronyism, jobs for friends of convicted pedophiles, perigages for other friends of convicted pedophiles, broken promises on taxes, U-turn after U-turn after U-turn. He's lost a deputy prime minister, two chiefs of staff, two cabinet secretaries, the support of his backbenches, and all his resign.

[00:09:50]>> Yes. Yes. They can, Mr. Speaker. They can jer as much as they like. They're going to have to go to their constituencies and explain to all those people why they did what they did last night. The fact is the prime minister was used to ripping his MPs to save him and pleading with a tax dodger to rejoin his cabinet. How much longer do we all have to put up with his shambles?

[00:10:15]>> Why don't you resign?

[00:10:17]>> Mr. Speaker, I changed my party and I won a general election. [cheering] >> She's changed her party, Mr. Speaker, because when I became leader of my party, their party was three times the size it is now. She's changed it. It's now even smaller than when she started at least half of them are up there.

[00:10:37]>> And Mr. Speaker, the stunt they played yesterday because they don't like what we're delivering.

[00:10:43]>> More security for renters out of poverty. That's mandated in nothing's going to hold us back.

[00:10:53]>> Okay. And he also said delivering >> delivering stunts.

[00:10:57]>> Oh my god.

[00:10:58]18 months ago, I remember that my late friend Terry Ethean was sitting up in the up there beaming down because he had just announced the government scheme to give compensation to those who have been wrongly sacked from the armed forces for simply being gay.

[00:11:13]>> Um, but I have a constituent uh Mr. Mr. Speaker who lost his job in MI6 in the 1980s for his sexuality and he's got no compensation. The security services also put their lives on the risk on the line for their country. It's just not fair.

[00:11:28]Would the prime minister find the time to sit down with my constituent of me so that we can work out together a way in which we can extend Terry's scheme so that the so that the security services can also get justice.

[00:11:41]>> Prime Minister, >> can I thank her for her dedicated uh work on this? I am very proud of the work we've done to recognize LGBT veterans. Uh Mr. speaker. On top of that, people in our security service are some of the bravest and most talented professionals who served our country.

[00:11:58]>> That some of them lost their jobs because of their sexuality is a historic wrong.

[00:12:04]>> And I can confirm today the security minister is assessing this closely and I'll make sure that she's updated and has the meeting she's after.

[00:12:11]>> Said David, leader of the Liberal Democrats.

[00:12:15]>> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yesterday, we heard Christian Turner, Peter Mandlesson's replacement as US ambassador, say that the only country Trump has a special relationship with is Israel. That the prime minister's job is in danger after next week's elections and that in the US, Jeffrey Epstein's associates have evaded responsibility for their actions. The prime minister has to has had to fire one US ambassador for lying. Does he fear he'll now have to fire a second one for telling the truth? [laughter] >> Mr. Speaker, given what I've had thrown at me uh in the last two weeks by all the opposition parties, that's the least of my problems. But Mr. Speaker, I know he likes uh stunts, but I was surprised he joined in the one uh yesterday because his own business spokesman said last week satisfying not misled the house. He of course his his opening position was it was inconceivable that officials would give clearance to Mandlesson and not tell ministers it was against the UK SV recommendation. That's what he said >> and it didn't happen.

[00:13:19]>> I expect frivolous accusations from the leader of the opposition. Clearly I was wrong to expect anything better but from the man in the wet suit.

[00:13:29]>> OO [cheering] OO.

[00:13:39]OH. OH, he's been waiting a long time to use that one, hasn't he?

[00:13:43]>> So, that one's saved up.

[00:13:45]>> Mr. Speaker, I've got my dry suit on today. And let me tell the prime minister >> that uh when when Boris Johnson was faced with that uh motion, he didn't whip his MPs.

[00:14:02]>> There was a difference there.

[00:14:05]>> And Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, experts are warning that food prices will rise by 10% this year as farmers costs sore. Trump's war has exposed how weak Britain's food security is.

[00:14:24]Yet under [clears throat] the system brought in by the Conservatives, England is the only country in Europe where farm payments don't actively support farmers to produce food.

[00:14:37]>> So will the King speech include a good food bill to fix that mistake and make sure people can afford the food they need?

[00:14:48]>> Mr. Speaker uh of course food security uh is important and that's why uh I was considering that amongst other issues uh in the ministerial meetings yesterday um in Cobra. That's what I was spending my afternoon doing making sure looking forward to you voting for the risks of a will affect every single one of us. What was he doing? He was wasting his time in here on a bas basic allegation baseless allegation and engaging in party political. He should have been working on the single most important issue today, but he wasted his time on a baseless political stunt.

[00:15:22]>> It's a stunt. He's He's loving this saying it's a stunt. The war in Iran has exposed how dangerously reliant we are on imports for our food, fuel, and medicine.

[00:15:34]But the reality is that climate breakdown will make the current instability look trivial. Will the prime minister use the upcoming king's speech to address this fact and redirect our economy towards food? Sorry, that was so late coming off my mouse. Security and supply of our medicines.

[00:15:52]>> I had to unplug my absolutely right to >> Sorry, I didn't even get that question.

[00:15:57]What was it about? Someone who was paying attentionally and at home and I'm proud, Mr. Speaker, we've restored the UK's position as a global leader on climate action.

[00:16:07]>> And that means cutting emissions with our carbon budget, investing 7 billion pounds in nature recovery, and driving ahead with renewables. They're the right steps to protect supply chains, protect our economy, and to protect working people.

[00:16:20]>> Steven Flynn >> in like Finn.

[00:16:23]>> Mr. Speaker, depending upon results in the elections next week, this may well be my final PMQs.

[00:16:32]>> [cheering] >> I uh I suppose >> I I suppose, Mr. Speaker, the same is perhaps true for the prime minister as well.

[00:16:47]>> Hey, >> but but before then, does he understand that yes, it's because of in action on the cost of living crisis? Yes, it's because of the debacle of the winter fuel payment. Yes, it's because of the thousand jobs being lost a month in Scotland's North Sea and the closure of Grangemouth. Yes, it's because of his judgment on Matthew Doyle and Peter Mandlesen. But above all else, the reason why his time in office will soon be coming to a close is because he promised change but has delivered chaos.

[00:17:20]Prime Minister Speaker, I'm proud of what this Labor government has achieved and I'm proud of what we will achieve.

[00:17:26]If it is his last session here, let's reflect on his great achievements in Westminster. He kicked out his predecessor >> and then lost 39 MPs at the next election.

[00:17:38]I hope he can keep up that record in Hollywood next week.

[00:17:43]>> Ali, >> thank you, Mr. Speaker. This Labor government's 29 billion pounds of investment in the NHS and 2 billion pounds in life sciences is critical to fixing our NHS and tackling health inequalities. The Bart's life sciences cluster in White Chapel will become one of Europe's leading NHS centered clusters and we've already secured 800 million pounds in private investment.

[00:18:05]Will the prime minister direct the office investment to co-sponsor this initiative and ensure the national wealth fund co-invest so we can turn east London's health inequalities into a driver for growth transform how many mornings UK and globally lot over the last 15 months I'm proud thank you very much for championing this project for over a decade the national wealth fund to invest alongside private investors ministers are happy to discuss those proposals with her. Mr. Speaker, uh today I can announce a significant new investment by Astroenica investing 300 million pounds in UK life sciences made possible by the pharmaceutical arrangement we have struck with the United States to future proof thousands of jobs in Macklesfield and in Cambridge. That is a major vote of confidence in the UK and Labour's plans to strengthen our economy.

[00:19:02]John Hayes.

[00:19:03]>> Thank you, >> Mr. Speaker. In an earlier answer, the prime minister made clear that he understands that global uncertainty makes national economic resilience ever more important and that energy security and food security are central to that.

[00:19:17]So why is policy making one the enemy of the other? as the 12% of our most fertile productive land, the food we need to feed the nation uh is being eaten up by giant industrial developments, pylons with with accompanying infrastructure and huge solar developments.

[00:19:37]>> Will the prime minister meet me and colleagues that feel similarly? But by because we're corroding Britain's food security now, we risk compromising stuff. He's right to raise view as security and obviously that is uh one of the resiliences that um we need in this country and we need to protect in this uh country but we also do need uh to move to secure independence of energy because one thing that is making life so much harder for all of those in the food sector is that their energy prices go up every time an international conflict affects the prices here. By getting energy independence, which requires the infrastructure, we can respond from that and therefore make them more resilient.

[00:20:24]>> An addiction.

[00:20:26]>> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Like many MPs, I'll be heading up to my constituency later to campaign in the local elections. When I'm out on the doors talking to voters in the Shipley constituency, I'm proud of the difference this Labor government >> God, she's got a terrifying stare. No longer worried thanks to secure tenure families supported by free breakfast clubs and extended free calm down workers no longer exploitative.

[00:20:54]>> I'm terrified zero contracts.

[00:20:56]>> Okay, I'll sides in the face most of what is for voters in my shipley constituency and across the UK.

[00:21:04]>> Fucking hell. Feel like I've just been told off by someone's mom.

[00:21:07]>> And this is the first government for generations to take key services back into public ownership. Mr. Speaker, the first government to give rights and powers to workers, rents uh and the less fortunate and the first government in a generation to invest in public services and lift children out of poverty.

[00:21:23]>> And as we face a war on two fronts, we will do more. A stronger economy, stronger energy security, and stronger on defense. That's >> what have you done for me lately?

[00:21:33]>> Sir Jeremy Wright, >> very much, Mr. Speaker. Many of us across this house worked hard to pass the online safety act. Not because we thought it would be the last word on online safety, but because we believed it was an important step forward in making online platforms more accountable for the content on their services and for the algorithms that curate it. So, can the prime minister reassure us?

[00:21:56]>> Have I got another Jeremy to add to my list of privately educated Jeremy?

[00:22:00]>> Restrict access for our young people to social media. It will not be used as cover by social media companies to do less themselves to keep young people safer online. Prime Minister, >> can I give him that assurance because uh those platform providers do need to take uh responsibility and he will have noticed the fight we had with Grock uh just a few months ago where disgusting uh images were being created um on social media um and we took them on in a fight across the school also with chat bots.

[00:22:35]But we need to build on the legislation we've got. We definitely need more protection. another Jeremy to the list and for children but his point is valid that that shouldn't be uh to take any responsibility away from those that are providing the platforms in the first place.

[00:22:51]>> Thank you Mr. Speaker 158 million in fair funding 20 million in pride in place for New Addington and funding for new trams. Mr. Speaker, it is this Labor government that is finally giving Cudon the backing that it needs. got Jeffrey right for all starts with ensuring our residents have the dignity and stability of a decent home. So with hundreds of families in my constituency facing homelessness through no fault evictions, will the prime minister outline how this government is progressing on its plans to fix the private rental sector and ensure that renters in Cuden have the security and peace of mind that they deserve?

[00:23:24]>> Well, my honorable friend is a brilliant representative for uh Cudden and she's right. For too long, renters have been at the mercy of rogue landlords, pushing thousands into homelessness. I'm delighted to confirm that this Friday, no fault evictions will be scrapped once and for all.

[00:23:43]That sends an important message to anyone living in a damp unsafe home, anyone who suffered an unfair rent increase, and to every family forced to move in the last over the last year to year. Change is here delivered by Labour opposed by the tries and reform every step of the way.

[00:23:59]>> Dr. Luke Evans, >> please could the prime minister explain to the house if he's done nothing wrong and process has been followed.

[00:24:11]>> Why did he need to force his MPs to vote against an investigation?

[00:24:16]Is it because he's worried they don't believe his version of the truth?

[00:24:20]>> Yes. poets because they can see a baseless allegation, a political stunt when they see it.

[00:24:25]>> It's a stunt.

[00:24:26]>> Uh, Mr. Speaker, glad they made this.

[00:24:28]>> Former GP, here's the truth. We've recruited 82 more GPS, upgraded his medical center. They they want all the benefits, but they never want to pay for them.

[00:24:40]>> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Derby is a manufacturing powerhouse, but too many people in our city have not felt the benefit of that success. That's why tomorrow we're absolutely delighted to be launching team Derby with our East Midlands Claire Ward agree that with our brilliant chancellor sounds like someone who should be in >> I think our city team Derby can make sure every pound of investment he should be in peers change for our look out for that baggy shanker feels part [laughter] of our success story.

[00:25:15]>> What a great name.

[00:25:16]>> Hi Minister. Well, um I I think we should all back team Derby. Um our investment is helping to renew our submarine fleet, building new nuclear reactors, and creating jobs and growth.

[00:25:27]I'm proud to see Labour MPs working with the Labour mayor uh and a Labor government to deliver a brighter future for Derby.

[00:25:34]>> Glover.

[00:25:35]>> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Despite the government's ambitious house building targets, the charity shelter believes the current approach is not providing enough social and genuinely affordable homes. So will the prime minister end his government's warm embrace of the developer model and instead heed Liberal Democrat calls for 150,000 social homes per year and newles to build. You're not talking to us, are you?

[00:25:58]>> Mr. Speaker, we are uh going to build 1.5 million homes. We're upgrading uh the rights of renters uh because we know how important it is for everyone to have a safe and secure roof uh over their head. his challenge to me would have more force if they hadn't abstained on the measures that we're taking in order to take these measures forward.

[00:26:22]>> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Whilst our NHS across England has seen noticeable improvements thanks to the work of this Labor government, >> South End Hospital and the wider Mid and South Essex NHS Trust has continued to struggle. I thank the Department for Health and Social Care for working with me and my colleagues on this issue and for placing the trust on the intensive recovery program. Does the Prime Minister agree with me that this is the right action to take and will he meet with me to discuss our wider plans to improve health care in South End as part of our opportunity South End initiative?

[00:27:01]>> Hi, Minister. After years of failure being tolerated, failing staff and patients, our new intensive recovery program is targeting sites that need tailored support. Mr. Speaker, there's more to do, but we're seeing real progress across our NHS waiting. They're ch they they they've never heard this from a government. Waiting list lowest for three years. That didn't happen for 14 years. Any waiting list? They don't recognize any of this because they didn't do any of it. Fastest ambulance response in half a decade. And don't forget the parties opposite opposed the record investment that was necessary to make all of that happen.

[00:27:38]>> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Everything international law is supposed to protect is being violated. A genocide against the Palestinian people, the catastrophe in Sudan, the Gazification of Lebanon.

[00:27:51]Against this backdrop, the government last week closed the international humanitarian law unit and stopped funding access to the CI database of 26,000 human rights and conflict incidents across Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon.

[00:28:08]This database underpins decisions on IHL breaches, arms export suspensions, and whether the UK itself is acting within the law. Usually criminals or their accompllices are the ones destroying evidence of their crimes.

[00:28:24]Instead, uh uh not a human rights lawyer or or a government apparently committed to upholding international law. So my question is simple.

[00:28:36]>> Prime Minister, Prime Minister, Prime Minister, sorry, you've gone far too long. Prime Minister, >> Mr. Speaker, let me reassure the House that the work of the international law unit has not ended. It will simply be done by a different team uh under a restructure. We will of course continue to monitor international humanitarian law in Gaza and elsewhere and invest in conflict prevention and resolution.

[00:28:59]>> New picture.

[00:29:01]>> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This Labor government has backed the reopening of Doncaster Sheffield airport from the very start. It means jobs, investment, growth and opportunities not just for Doncaster East and the aisle of Axom but for the whole region.

[00:29:18]>> Now the reform councilors in Doncaster are considering reversing their decision to in sport to support the investment >> which would currently facilitate that airport from reopening. Does the prime minister agree with me that the airport remains a huge priority for the area and will he continue to work with us to find a way forward to make sure that we get our airport back open?

[00:29:44]>> Bloody hell. He was a bit nuts as well for this crucial local project for his work and I know from visiting Doncaster just how vital reopening the airport is for local residents. It will be a huge boost for South Yorkshire and unlock thousands of jobs. I'm deeply concerned by reports that decisions by reform in Doncaster could put the reopening in jeopardy.

[00:30:10]>> Labour put the plan in place. Reform should honor their promises, stop playing games, and get the airport open.

[00:30:18]>> Robin Swan.

[00:30:20]>> Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. in a parliamentary session which started out with a degree of anticipation, a level of expectation and a promise of change.

[00:30:31]And what could be the prime minister's last prime minister's question time? Can I ask them why does he think it went so wrong?

[00:30:40]Was it his failure to support our wasby women? his failure to support our farmers or his failure to support our Northern Ireland veterans and victims of the Northern Ireland troubles >> or was it those around him who seem more interested in themselves than the country?

[00:30:59]>> Prime Minister, >> Mr. Speaker, I'm very proud, this government's very proud of the biggest upgrade in workers rights in a generation, >> the biggest upgrade in renters's rights in a generation, and the most any government has ever done to reduce child poverty. they will have a lasting impact on working people across the United Kingdom. That's the change we're bringing about and I look forward to continuing it.

[00:31:22]>> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As this parliamentary session draws to a close, it seems a good moment to reflect on the legislation passed since the general election. Not not all of it, of course, but uh many of us have walked through the lobbies to pass 60 bills that have touched almost every aspect of British life from the care of cats, dogs, and ferrets to the space industry indemnities along with a whole host of measures seeking to improve life for renters, carers, investors, football fans, NHS patients, serving personnel, and more.

[00:31:59]Would would the prime minister agree with me that this is a pretty good first session report card >> and would he agree that the best IS YET TO COME?

[00:32:11]>> MR. SPEAKER, she's right to highlight the 50 pieces of legislation, the 50 bills that we've put through. We wipped to change the country. We all voted to change the country. They of course opposed almost all of it. That's why we've got stronger rights for renters.

[00:32:26]That's why we've got stronger rights for workers, investing in our roads and railways, reforming send and driving down waiting list. All opposed by the parties opposite. And we're only just getting started, Mr. Speaker. We're going to go further on a stronger economy, on energy security, and a stronger defense.

[00:32:44]>> Final question, Sarah Gibson.

[00:32:47]>> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Before we leave this house for several weeks, I feel absolutely necessary to raise an issue within my constituency which I have been trying to get an answer for us. We always do this to women. Stop talking.

[00:33:03]We have a land in K that is producing sulfurous smells that is causing residents to need to close their windows causing children to have sore throats.

[00:33:13]And yet I am not getting any answer except that the environment agency itself admits that controls may not be working effectively.

[00:33:22]Like my constituents, I find it really disappointing that we are not getting any serious response. This is not the kind of thing you expect in the UK. You do not expect the air to you breathe not to be safe. And I would like to urge the prime minister to help me in getting a response from DERA and from the EA on what measures can be put in place to reassure my constituents that they are not suffering ill health. Thank you.

[00:33:49]>> Well, could I thank you for raising um the issue. Um now she has raised it with me. I will make sure that I go away and uh chase up that she gets uh the reply and and importantly that they are entitled to That completes pr cut West Point point of order.

[00:34:08]>> Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. The whole house will be very concerned to hear about the dreadful stabbings this morning in the burough of Barnett. And as the member for Horny and Fry Barnet, I'm very worried about this repeated uh violence against the Jewish community.

[00:34:23]And Mr. Speaker, I just wanted to uh reach out to the whole house to say we uh condemn these uh alleged attacks and we wish the police, the council and all the community services the very best in solving this and bringing to justice those perpetrators of these violent crimes.

[00:34:41]>> It prime minister, would you want to respond?

[00:34:43]>> Yeah.

[00:34:44]>> Uh yeah. Can I first thank her for raising this issue uh which um uh I had learned about before prime minister's questions. It is deeply concerning uh to uh everyone in this house. There is now a police >> two Jewish men seriously injured being to support that um investigation and be absolutely clear in our determination uh to deal with any of these uh offenses the like of which recently.

[00:35:13]>> Point for John McDonald.

[00:35:15]>> Mr. Speaker, as you know, as Secretary of the NJ parliamentary group, I raised earlier this week a point of order concerning the US agency APCO's role in undertaking an investigation of journalists for Labor Together, which result in the smearing of those journalists. I explained as a result of concern the about the reach of APCO's investigation. A number of honorable members had submitted subject interest requests to the company and to labor together. There's been a delay in the response from Labor Together these requests, but APCO has confirmed in a very redacted form that information on MPs was being collected. And I referred this week to information from a whistleblower, a freelancer involved in the Labor Together inquiry, indicating that APC code instructed this person to destroy files and material related to the inquiry.

[00:36:04]Only hours ago on the Financial Times online, we have confirmed that tapes do exist that include conversations by APCO's head of media relations for Europe, Tom Harper, discussing the deletion of an email account and if and saying, I quote, whether they will be able to see that through digital forensics or something like that.

[00:36:28]references with regard to this inquiry.

[00:36:31]He also refers to processes to muddy the waters and the audit trail.

[00:36:35]>> Okay. What >> there is also now I can Oh my god.

[00:36:39]>> I can Mr. Speaker, I'm sorry for the delay. I can also report that evidence was submitted to the inquiry by Sir Lori Magnuses, the prime minister's ethics adviser by Paul Holden, one of the journalists who are victims of the smears. But the evidence was not supplied by the cabinet office to the secretary to the inquiry to Lori Magnus.

[00:36:58]On behalf of the NUJ parliamentary group, I want to express our concern but also it is important it is important from the NUJ parliamentary group. We are concerned about the smearing of journalists but we also need to know what if any surveillance of honorary members was taking place and for what purposes. Why are you holding the whole house up for this?

[00:37:22]>> Independent inquiry into APCO's role and labor together's role in this issue.

[00:37:28]>> Can I say it is a very very serious allegation that I do take seriously.

[00:37:34]>> Members of parliament are here to carry out their duties and what is being alleged is very serious. I do believe it needs to be investigated.

[00:37:44]From my point of view, I would expect as the honorable gentleman's been here a long time, no doubt he will use the table office as part of the avenues to pursue what he said. There may be other ways and there may be se serious security implications to this house as well that I will also take up in other avenues. Thank you for that.

[00:38:05]>> Point of order.

[00:38:06]>> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On a point of order, the right honorable member for Newark visited my constituency yesterday without notifying me. This is not the first time the usual courtesies of this house have been disregarded by Reform UK when visiting Portsmouth. Further to that, is it in order, Mr. Speaker, for a former immigration minister who helped shape the current asylum system to visit constituencies and push campaigns that mislead and cause hatred and division?

[00:38:30]Mr. Speaker, given this blatant disregard for this convention and courtesy of the House and absolute lack of integrity and respect, can you advise what recourse is available to me as the constituency member?

[00:38:42]I think there's another one the same point of water as James became >> New York was very busy yesterday as alarmed residents in the town of Seafford in my constituency reported citing [laughter] 52. Um Mr. Speaker um he was apparently there campaigning to support the reform candidate for Seafford North who is set to lose his seat to the Liberal Democrats. Um I understand there's a common courtesy in this place for members to inform one another of official visits to their constituencies.

[00:39:10]on this occasion that did not happen.

[00:39:12]Mr. Speaker, could you advise me on this issue?

[00:39:15]>> Can I say to both of you, I thank all members for the punch orders they've raised, have I reminded the House on numerous occasions, members must notify their colleagues if they intend to visit another member's constituency, except for purely private purposes. I expect members on all sides of the House to show that courtesy to their colleagues, whether the front bench or not. It is courtesy. I expect it to be done that way. Those members who have failed to do so, I do hope they will apologize to the members concerned. It's election fever time. We don't need any more of it. So, please carry out the curses of this house.

[00:39:56]>> Damara.

[00:39:57]>> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Now, the leader of the opposition who's on her place uh said that 1.5 million extra people were on universal credit. Now, she will know that this is a deeply misleading number because it is largely a consequence of the transition from legacy systems to universal credit. And her background is in it. She should know how it works.

[00:40:23]>> Hackens people's websites.

[00:40:24]>> In fact, more people are in work now than under the tries. So, given >> I'm not quite sure it's a point forward for me because No, no, let me finish.

[00:40:34]It' be easier for both of us. It's a patal judgment that you were correcting the record on to try and say if somebody inadvertently has misled the house, it is for them to correct the record, not for me. And I certainly don't want to reopen the questions that we've just closed. So, thank you for making it and bringing it to the attention of the house and know it will be in answer, Mr. Speaker.

[00:40:55]>> A point of order.

[00:40:57]>> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. How do I gain your advice from a point of order that actually is inadvertently misleading what the leader of the opposition said where the leader of the >> and that's the danger of what I started.

[00:41:09]Can I just say that's the problem. Let we've had some very serious points of order. Let's leave it with the serious points of order before we we've got we haven't got the time to play around.

[00:41:20]Right.

[00:41:22]>> Richard Holden.

[00:41:24]>> Point of order. Mr. Speaker, I seek your guidance on two matters relating to uh completeness of ministerial access to this house. In a recent answer to my honorable friend, the member for Leicester East, on the 24th of April, the Minister for Transport, the member for Wakefield and Rothewell, referred to an attached spreadsheet to a written parliamentary question which wasn't provided. This is the third time this has happened in recent months. In addition, I wrote to the same minister on March the 2nd seeking clarification of an earlier written answer in light of remarks he made in Westminster Hall on the 27th of January and have still yet to receive a reply. Could you advise me, Mr. Speaker, how members can secure timely and complete information when matters referred for answers are still dro Mr. Holder. As a former Secretary of State and Minister, you know very well how these things happen. group. Let me just say I thank them. This is exhausting point forward. He will know that I'm not responsible for ministerial answers. However, all members should receive full and timely answers. The Treasury bench will have heard his concerns and I hope they'll be passed on to relevant minister. I would also say we've got the leader of the house who shares my concerns on the time that is taking to answer letter. It isn't good enough. It's not acceptable. We have a period of calm and hopefully when we come back we can get all the outstanding questions answered right now. Then let us move on to the 10-minute rule motion. We now come to 10-minute rule motion. Hello Mike.

[00:42:57]>> Thank you Mr. Speaker.

[00:43:06]So, they've moved to the inperson banking services uh 10-minute bill here, which can be brought in by any uh MP. Uh this is how the um the bill to bring in assisted dying was brought in as a 10-minute bill. Um [clears throat] ultimately fucking destroyed by the uh by the House of um lords. Okay. Okay.

[00:43:30]So, one pagan is in the chat. So, what Jimmy Anderson Bowling Genius is in there as well. We've got Dis. We've got Graeme Price and Sheffield Steve. Got Oliver in there as well. Vendetta. Uh we got SG in there. Uh we're talking about uh Baggy. Um uh Baggy Baggy Shanka.

[00:43:46]Baggy Shanka. I I I don't know if that name is like I know obviously his his real name isn't Baggy. Um his real name is um is Bagat, isn't it? Bagat. Um, I don't know. Maybe it's just his nickname. Like Philip gets short to Phil. I know you're saying it's anglicized. Um, but he he was born in Britain, wasn't he? He was British guy.

[00:44:09]Um, I don't know. Um, I was thinking about this the other day because we were talking about the because Sorcerer Eastwood spells her name the Anglicized way, not the Irish way. Um, Sora h the actress from Ladybird, Sha Ronin. uh uh she uh spells it the Irish way of spelling it and obviously Katrina there's a Kreiona like what looks like Kiona and obviously Siobhan there's an Irish way of spelling and Sha as well there's an English way of spelling Shan and the Irish way of spelling Shan so um yeah I I I don't know I mean I think it's just up to individuals what they what they're what they're happy with but I know a lot of people who don't angllicize their name um when they have uh names that are uh um that are seemingly foreign um to uh to British eyes. But um I will say that there is a genuine problem with people with ethnic sounding names going for jobs where they are something crazy like um they need to send something crazy like 70 more CVs to get one to get one chance at an actual interview if you've got a foreign sounding name. And I do agree that that is a that that is really really shit and that is something that we need to address. I think we should have blind CVs. Um uh this morning uh I was looking at an article about changes that are going to be made in the EU about employment uh in that you're not allowed to not say how much people get paid for a job. You can't just put a pound sign or euro sign I guess for Europe and put competitive.

[00:45:55]Uh you're not allowed to do that. You can't pay men more than women. Uh there's any kind of gender pay gap.

[00:46:02]You've got to, you know, proactively explain why that is. [snorts] So you can't ask people what they got paid in a former job. Um that's not the price of the job that they're working for. You can't nickel and dime them. And this is going through the European Parliament at the moment, which is fantastic.

[00:46:17]Fantastic news for people in the EU. Not sort of great news for people in the UK because we left the EU for some fucking unexplainable reason. Oh yeah, rich people want to be richer. That's right.

[00:46:27]I remember now. But yeah, a huge problem. I was also um I saw a clip where they were talking about in in America, we were talking about uh racial discrimination. Uh they were talking about white privilege. And if you saw the episode of the sat Sunday night social with us uh on um on on Sunday night, Fei was talking about uh when he was on LBC and they were talking about white privilege and he was trying to explain if there's a brother and a sister growing up in a in a working-class household, the brother with the same parents, the same, you know, life, the same everything, the same amount of money, um will get certain benefits for being a bloke, i.e. He can go out at night and not have to worry about being raped. He can um you know various things that he doesn't have to queue up to go to the toilet uh for instance. Um that was my example by the way. Um but um yeah, there was um an American talking about how, you know, white privilege isn't the real thing. You know, Fei was trying to explain that like it's not saying that people are privileged. They're just saying that for someone else in similar circumstances, because of the nature of the color of their skin or their gender or their sexuality or if they're trans or not, they will be treated differently and and usually worse, right, in any given situation. Um and um the the um the there there's a study in America, right?

[00:47:58]Study in America, right, which looked at um the rate at which black people get pulled over by the police in America.

[00:48:06]And in the daytime, you are four times more likely to get pulled over by the police in your car if you're black than at night time.

[00:48:18]four times more likely if you're black than if you're white in America during the daytime. Nighttime it's equal. It's it's fucking equal, right? Because they can't see in the car. They can't see who's driving. It's dark in the car.

[00:48:31]It's dark outside. Can't see who's driving. They're behind. They can't tell.

[00:48:35]And um so yeah, unbelievable. I mean, just like and then they was like, "Oh, but you know, that can't be that can't be uh that would have been a small study or something like no, this was a study.

[00:48:45]I think it was done by Sanford University or one of the big fucking universities over there. And they looked at the metadata. They looked at nine uh million traffic offenses or traffic stops, traffic stops in America. 9 million of them encompassing all 50 states of America. And they found the same pattern absolutely everywhere. Four times more likely to be pulled over if you're black during the day when they can actually see you. So when people talk about um discrimination, there's there's overt discrimination and then there's a lot of covert discrimination as well. And so I I I find it really really heartbreaking that people feel like they need to anglicize their name in order to get ahead in in this country. Um I know that a lot of students who come over from China or or Taiwan or Malaysia um will adopt an English name when they get here. They pick a name of someone that they like or you know celebrity. They go, you know, Kevin Cosner, I'll call myself Kevin or Michael Jackson. I'll call myself Michael. Um don't call yourself after Michael Jackson.

[00:49:55][laughter] But yeah, um and that's quite common as well. Um I don't know. I I I I think that it's um it obviously it's up to an individual choice, but we do need to be working towards a society in which it doesn't matter what your name is. That is your name. People respect your name. I think it's really shit that people um uh disrespect people's names by getting them wrong or um obviously if it's a name that you've seen a million times before, you're not going to say it wrong. If you see the the word Sha spelled the Irish way, which is sen s e a n, you're not going to say seen unless you never seen that name before. You're going to say Sean because you that that's already in your head that it's Sean. If you're pronouncing my surname, you're not going to say hugs. So, it's on that side of it. You're not going to say hugs, are you? Because you're used to seeing that and you know that you ignore the G and H in the middle for some reason. And so, you just pronounce the first two letters and the last two letters, Hughes. Um so yeah and and that familiarity means that certain names can chip off your tongue whereas if you are confronted with a name say from Sri Lanka or from Thailand which might have 16 letters in it and it's the first time you've ever seen that name before. uh you might struggle with it and I I think that there's a um a level of understanding for most people who realize they have got a name that's a bit difficult. I mean I had to realize that when I was traveling no no one no one if like a French-speaking country could pronounce my name correctly. It's fine. It's fine. I I get it. You know it might be the first time you've ever seen that name. Uh it's when people purposefully um call you by the wrong name, call you by the name that they want to call you or dead name you. That's when it moves over into the whole level of of rudeness of like just because your name is your identity, you know. It's you.

[00:51:51]It's part of your it's part of your physiological makeup. It's it's it's your it's your soul, you know. Um I got to be honest, I have trouble with names from ethnic groups. I try I make a fist of it. Always apologize if I get it wrong. Yeah, it's difficult especially if they're not phonetic, but then there's plenty of English names that are not phonetic or or British names that are not phonetic either. So, it's difficult. Uh, and um, Sean is a woman's name. Seion is a man's. Um, Sean, Sean, Shan, Shan, Shan, and Shan Sha show, Shny, Shny, Shny. Um, sounds like find the optimal strategy for surviving PMQs.

[00:52:29]Turn up. Uh, turn up when it's already over. [laughter] Um, oh my god, I'm totally lost with Irish names. Uh, no. I mean, there's it's not that I think there's there's not that many that you'll come across and then be like, "Oh, so I think Kalin is spelled C AO L an N. Sha is obviously spelled Sha. Katrina, it's spelled in Kreiona, you've got Siobhan, uh, which look like Seoban, but obviously it's pronounced Siobhan. Um there's a few others, but there's it's not like there's hundreds and hundreds of these uh uh um uh Irish names that confound us on a daily basis. And I think once you've once you you see Sorcerer spelled the Irish way and go, "Oh, okay. That's how they that's pronounced Sorcerer."

[00:53:18]Then, you know, it should stick in your head after after the first few times. I think you should be sitting there going, "Okay, sure sa sorcerer." Um, but it's not up to people who who who are given these names, who like their names, who appreciate their names to to have to Molly cuddle other people and make them not feel uncomfortable for not being able to pronounce the name correctly first time, you know, it's just something you have to learn in life. But I always think it's really, really important, especially having trans friends, that um, you get the name right. You know, if that's their name, you get it right. you know, make an effort.

[00:53:55]Anyway, just how shockingly crap is bad?

[00:53:58]Uh, it's mindblowing. Yeah, I know. I know. My wife is is Sri Lankan. She's always broken her surname down to make it easier for others. They do like to have very long names. Sri Lanka and Thailand in particular like to have very very long names. Uh, which is fine. I mean, when you break them down that they're quite easy to pronounce, but um yeah, it's just it's just uh when you are confronted with it for the first time, it can be a little bit intimidating and you know, it's embarrassing. You want to be able to read things. You want to be able to just look at a name and and say it out loud.

[00:54:29]So, I kind of get it a little bit that people sort of get uh a little bit emotional about it, but then to, you know, then to just say, "Oh, I'm not pronouncing that. At least have a go."

[00:54:41]Uh, and then if you're told how to pronounce it, try and remember.

[00:54:44][laughter] He says, I keep calling Regan elite, Reagan elite because obviously it's it's not the same way as as Reagan, isn't it?

[00:54:51]But Rean, it's Rean. It's Rean. Um, same with countries. It's not Laos, it's Lao. They call it Lao. It's not It's not some name, it's summer. It's not uh Kira Batty, it's Kiraabas. just but we we when it's words that we don't even think about like island not the island of not not not the country of Ireland but the island of Ireland it's spelled I is where's the s in it should be I dash land you know but it's not it is you say isle the aisle of man it's got fucking s in it what the fuck is the s doing in there and then you got mad English names like singen or or or or or fansaw fansaw which is what is it is it's fansaw it's it's like it's like featherstone witty or something like that's this big long name and they go no no no darling that's pronounced fansaw fansaw don't you know um chumney uh you also got places called like things like good luck with that [laughter] uh or you'll get Americans going I can't to go up to Scotland to visit Edenberg and you're like, "No, it's Edinburgh."

[00:56:10]Yeah, but it's spelled Edenberg.

[00:56:11][laughter] Ireland is watching. Yeah. Yeah. So, the the the It's like Americans moaning about British people pronouncing things in a certain way, and they've got a state called Arkansas. Fuck off. It's It's spelled R Kansas, but okay, you pronounce it Arkansas, so we respect that, don't we?

[00:56:32]What? It ends in an S, not a W.

[00:56:34]>> [laughter] >> Um, you used to have a driver work at me called William William Williams, though he's taking the piss. Thought he was taking the piss until I checked out his his uh paperwork. There's a character in Catch 22 called Major Major Major Major, isn't there?

[00:56:51]Yeah. Um, anyway, so I am uh I'm just going to go through what the I'll quickly go through. Uh, we're coming up to one o'clock, so I'll try not to spend too long on this. Uh, I missed the first question. Sorry, I was grabbing me coffee in the other room. But, um, Kem comes in. She talks about no economic growth. She talks about the welfare bill being higher than the income that we're getting from taxpayers. Uh, she talked about people being out of work. She said it gone up by 1.5 million. Well, she she meant she asked Kava. The first question was, how many people are out have been added to the list of people on on Universal Credit? Um, and uh, this just gave uh, uh, Star the chance to do a not even a humble brag, just a just a brag brag uh, about uh, you know, more police, energy bills, apprenticeships, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Um, so, uh, yeah, 1.5 million, she said 1.5 million extra people out. It's not.

[00:57:54]That's the people who are claiming universal credit. They might actually be in work. Uh as was pointed out by Labour MP at the end, she she said, "Look, I want to do a point of order, a poo as it's known in Parliament. Um I'm sure a PO. Uh and uh she said um actually that's because we went from the old system or whatever it was called back then, uh to the new job seekers allowance, job seekers allowance to the new system. And that's why those numbers are so high. Uh it's not actually um you know, she wanted to correct the record on that. Okay. So, um and then and then um Starman stands up and says, "We inherited a bill that was broken and you voted to keep the same broken system." Um 12 years. 12 years. Um and then he uh she had to go with him about defense and he said the defense spending went down under the Tories, which it did. They really gutted the the armed services. Um she said that she was in the fourth question she went back to defense and said that um they were borrowing to pay for welfare and um you know that the the uh that they were bringing in rent controls. They were talking about rent controls to to pate their backbenches or something and um she said that she he he was not serious uh and that she should he should sack the chancellor. It's always wonderful when they stand them go you're not the serious person do something ridiculous. Go on sack your chancellor. Um, and Star responded with inflation's right down and falling and and Iran Iran Iran a war that you supported. You wanted us to go and put our military in this fucking war, you know. Um, so far 4-nil to Star. Can't believe like Star is shit at this and he keeps beating it. Then uh she she uh she she didn't get the resignation and she said she said oh he he didn't say that he wasn't gonna he wasn't going to force her to resign or something. And then she referred to Game of Thrones tried to make a joke about the king of the north um obviously uh [sighs] Andy Andy um mayor of London. [laughter] It'll come to me in a minute. Um and uh yeah, just uh saying he's he's he's coming down to take his job or something. He's and that Starmer's crying about um yeah um and then um the Labour MPs uh what's she saying? Oh, the days are numbered. Oh, no. Every all the Labour MPs apparently know that his days are numbered and he's just saving his own skin. Blah blah blah. Uh and then he added Papa for Andy Burnham. Andy Burnham. Sorry, thank you. Um, I was sorry my brain there. Thank you, brain.

[01:00:33]Um, Andy Bham. Um, yeah, the uh the the he accused her of playing political games, did the thing about, you know, it's all a stunt. Um, and then he talked about the fact that yesterday he was in a Cobra meeting talking about Ivan while she was doing this stunt. And then her sixth question was, as always, why didn't you resign? And he went, no, 6. Six nil to Starmer can bad enough is so bad at this. This is the last uh PMQs for a month or so. Um so yeah. Yeah.

[01:01:08]Anyway, so then we had Emily Thornbury coming on um talking about uh gay ex service personnel. So gay exgay veterans who got kicked out of the army and taken all their they got dishonorably discharged. Uh they've been given compensation. They're going being given their medals back. But that hasn't carried through to ex service met personnel, spies, etc. Uh who uh who who were caught out uh being who they are and that was a reason to fire them and and and humiliate them. Um so uh she brought up that which is fair enough.

[01:01:44]Then Ed Davey got up and uh he uh he asked if Christian Turner was going to be fired for telling the truth about that relationship with America, which I was talking about this morning on the show on the on the morning brim. And uh to which Star up, it's a stunt. It's a stunt. [laughter] And then he called him the man in the man in the wet suit, which was probably the best joke of the of the afternoon. Um and then um and then Dave fired back saying even Johnson didn't whip his MPs to defend him against the uh going to uh face scrutiny in the privilege privileges committee.

[01:02:17]Um and then he started talking about food prices and food security and the fact that English farmers don't get any food now because we left the EU and uh English farmers don't get any money now.

[01:02:28]I'm sure they get food. Uh they got a farm. uh they don't get any any money now because uh you don't get farm subsidies as like we used to because we left the EU and uh asking if he's going to put it in the king's speech to which Star was like yeah okay um we we'll do a good King speech next month uh so that's May the 17th is going to be the king's speech and we'll be following that here on the channel uh that'll be the next sort of premium cues uh on the channel um but uh yeah the king's speech uh it'll add something about good food like food security for Britain And a lot of the Labour MPs are going, "What's the point? You're not going to vote for it anyway." They were like, "Well, whatever he puts in the King's speech, oh yeah, we actually like that bit. They're not going to vote for it because they're the opposition." Um, [clears throat] and then Labour MP uh talked about, you know, climate action. Um, then we had Steven Flynn who said he might be his last PMQ's because he's standing as an MSP, so he might be fucking off to Hollywood in the uh in in Scotland. And then you've got um in in Edinburgh, Edenberg um and uh he he talked about um how it could be Star's last PMQ's and talking about the chaos and where it all went wrong and then Star up and said, "You must be proud of your legacy.

[01:03:47]You got rid of the former leader and and you lost 39 MPs." Um and then um R was Shannara Ali who I really like. Uh she's a doctor I think. Um and she asked a question about the NHS and and Star responded about talking about Astroenica and money going to life services and the new deal we've got with America blah blah blah. Yeah. Mlesfield. Um where Astroenica have a huge plant. And then you've got um it's it's a big dandelion.

[01:04:17]Um, and then we've got um John Hayes from the Conservative standing up and sort of talking about the disgusting pylons and and solar panels. Give a fuck, man. Chill out. I think uh Star up and said, "We're going to try to get energy prices down." So, uh, you know, maybe the wards no war in the Middle East that was driving up the cost of everything. We had energy sovereignty, then we wouldn't have to worry about the price of heating our homes or cooling our homes or or staying alive. Uh, then we had Anna Dixon from Labor with crazy eyes. She was the crazy eye one. SHE WAS LIKE, "WILL THE PRIME MINISTER TELL ME HOW GREAT THE prime minister is." It was like, "Whoa, calm down." She looked great. She was She was on I mean, I don't think she was on cocaine, but if you're on cocaine, I think that's if you ever taking cocaine, that's how you look. That's how you look to other people. Don't take cocaine. It's very bad. Really upset, actually. I got quite a few friends now because we're all same age group in our mid4s. And I got some friends who took a lot of drugs when we were younger. a lot of fucking drugs.

[01:05:16]Fuck me is catching up with them now. I swear. Like psychosis.

[01:05:21]Yeah, it's not great. Um, so what else have we got here? Uh, we had uh um Yeah, Anna Dixon. Uh, what have you what what have you done for everyone? and he stood up.

[01:05:34]We've done this amazing stuff for workers and for people and for everyone and we've made everything amazing and everything's amazing now and we don't have to worry about anything because everything's amazing. Yay. And they all cheered, I think, or something. I don't know. I don't know. Um anyway, so right back again. Me, elder, younger sibling rang me again to talk about Daredevil born again. They rang you again to talk about Daredevil born again again. Uh drugs are bad kids. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:06:05]Drugs are bad. Uh new episode of the boys out today. Um uh drugs are bad kids. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:06:15]Might not appreciate that when you're a teenager and you're going out and you're having loads of fun. You're doing your cheeky lines. Yeah. You're having your your cannabis hits of with your jazz cigarettes. But, uh, fuck me. I mean, yeah, it comes around. Seriously. I mean, yeah, it's a bit upsetting, actually, to be honest with you. Um, so, um, so yeah, uh, drugs are bad, Mr. McKay. Yeah, but they never explain why drugs are bad. That's a big problem.

[01:06:45]Drugs are bad. Why are they bad? Uh, because they're illegal. No, we need to have money coming in by legalizing drugs and taxing them and making sure that criminals aren't making fuckloads of money out of them. And then we can spend the money that we get from not having to spend two billion pound a week on fighting this neverending war on drugs, right? Just fuck that. Fuck that off.

[01:07:09]Let out half the population of the prison population who are in for nonviolent drugs offense. Just let them out. You know, there's a way there's a way to clear the prisons, the prison backlog. There's a way to clear the, you know, criminal law backlog, you know, the court court backlog, and then spend all the extra money you've got on convincing kids not to take drugs in the first place because drugs genuinely are bad. They fuck your brain.

[01:07:33]Um, I find it weird when people who are very druggy, like they're very into their drugs. They love their drugs. the kind of person who'll come, you know, corner you at a party and then tell you all the drugs they've ever taken in alphabetical order. Like, you want to know that. Um, I've also like some of the people who are like, I'm very careful about what I eat. I'm I'm very careful about what I eat. Oh, cocaine.

[01:07:56]And you're like, they're there checking all the ingredients of everything in the supermarket. I'm very careful about what I eat.

[01:08:06]Anyway, um so anyway, so Jer Jeremy Wright, who was wrong, stood up. He I've added him to my list of Jeremy's in my private school mafia list. He was talking about online safety. Uh then we had Labour's Natasha Irions talking about uh the renters the renting sector, uh which obviously the there's stuff being done with the renters's rights. Um Conservatives uh had then had Dr. Luke uh something uh stand up and he said uh if if if Star has done nothing wrong, why did he whip his his his um why did he whip his his people? Why did he whip his MPs?

[01:08:45]Look, we had that question at least 77 times yesterday. Okay, we we we dealt with it.

[01:08:52]We dealt with it. Uh then we had Baggy Shanka um talking about team derby uh representing his his his peeps down in in in in the big D to the derby. Um and then we had Lib Dems. We had Ollie Glover uh talking about um housing. Um to which Star replied, no uh 1.5 million homes, etc. Har. Um Lab and the Renters Charter. Labour then uh Labour MP stood up and talked about NHS England. Um there was David David Burton Samson.

[01:09:24]There you go. It's posh name in it. And they were talking about the intensive recovery program which is a thing that NHS trusts can be put into if they are in a lot of bother. Then we had the independent MP Ibal Muhammad um who was talking about the government stopping catalog cataloging uh breaches of international law in in um Israel in in Gaza in in in Sudan etc. Uh which stopped last week for some reason. We don't really know. and Star didn't really gave him a bit of a non-answer for that one. Uh Labour then uh we had Luke pitcher for Labour standing up talking about Donny Doncaster airport Donnie airport which is being blocked the reopening of which is being blocked by refuck. Uh then we had the unionists parties um Robin Swan uh asking uh Star where did it all go wrong? Was it Waspby? Was it farmers? Was the victims of the Northern Ireland conflict that were not given something? And then Starman just used that as a a way to just reel off all the things that Labour have done. Some of them then we had an MP from Labour who stood up and said uh that there've been how amazing it was.

[01:10:30]There've been 60 bills to improve life in the UK uh for cats and dogs and ferrets and going into space. And she said the first session report is is is brilliant and the best is is yet to come. And um Starmmer followed this up by saying, "So I've got Gotcha." Uh Stara followed it up by saying um that the the vendors workers send infrastructure blah blah blah and we're just getting started. But he did correct her that it's only 50 bills. She said 60 bills. I'm pretty sure she said 60. And he said, "Well, it's actually only 50 bills." Um, and then we had uh Sarah Gibson from the Lib Dems was asking the last question from Chippingham uh asking about uh that there's um some some health fucking catastrophe that's going on in Chippingham at the moment and she wanted Deer and the EA uh to look into it and he said, "Yep, I'll look into that." Uh then we had a point of order about this horrific stabbing in Barnes. uh two members of the Jewish community been stabbed. Not fatally, I don't think, but uh that happened that that was reported that came out in the news while uh Prime Minister's questions was going on. And then we had uh Katherine West uh talking about uh I don't know. I don't know what she she she was just moaning about something. Uh, and then we had John McDonald who's Labour who's having a go at Labour together and went on and on and on about smears against journalists that were done by Labour together and he wanted an independent investigation.

[01:11:54]This was not the place to bring this up as he was told by the speaker. I don't know why he brought it up as a as a point of order or a poo at the end of Prime Minister's questions. Then we had Amanda Martin from Labour who was having a go at uh misleading refuck uh fuckers.

[01:12:08]And there was also a representative from the Lib Dems as well who also complained about this about um visits to constituencies. If you are uh an MP for another constituency and you go to someone else's constituency on official business on not on a private matter, uh you're supposed to as a matter of courtesy in inform the people that in in the in the constituency that you visit.

[01:12:31]Refor keep not doing this because they don't give a fuck about courtesy.

[01:12:34]They're just in it to line their own nests. And I don't know if you saw the story in the Guardian this morning that we referred to at the end of uh um Morning Brew, but uh it turns out that um that that that Nigel Favage was paid5 million pounds to get back into politics by a fucker by a by a arms runner, a Bitcoin fucking billionaire who uh works as a money launderer for the regime in Moscow. So he chummies up to the likes of of Vladimir Putin, the monster, the butcher boot. Um, and uh, yeah, he's given him money. He's making sure that the the Russians can get money in and out of the country through his uh, corrupt crypto crypto firm. And uh, yeah, it means that they can continue to maim, murder, uh, subject to intolerable cruelty the good people of Ukraine who are European.

[01:13:30]And the same people who vote for Farage are the same people who go, "Oh, they're trying to replace us. It's a great replacement." The kind of people who get very upset when they see a white woman going out with a black man or a black black um woman going out with a white man. Oh no, you shouldn't do that.

[01:13:46]Like it's anything to do with them. Um anyway, the war on drugs. Have they got a new single out? Oh, I hope so. Uh Farage reported to Parliament standards watchdog over undeclared 5 million donation. Tories say this stinks. It's absolutely fucking disgraceful, but it does show that he's just in it for his own end. Uh, Sheffield Steve says, "Never mind, Donnie. Sheffield airport.

[01:14:06]They concentrate on extending the Super Charm to pre 1960 coverage area before they were scrapped for diesel buses."

[01:14:16]Fucking hate them. I fucking hate the refuckers.

[01:14:19]Um but yeah, so then we had uh we had this the the correction about the 1.5 million uh extra on universal credit and then we had Richard Holden talking about some sh uh so that was it that was prime minister's questions the last prime minister's questions for a month or so. So uh I hope I hope you I don't know if enjoyed is the right word to use but I'm going to get off now. I'll be back. If you want to throw a super chat in, by the way, it's instant confetti time for a super chat. We do get instant confetti. We're on just we just need one super chat, 50p or whatever it is. The least you can the least you can put in.

[01:14:59]Uh and that means that we will release the confetti uh for this show. Um but yeah, otherwise I'll be back at six o'clock tonight and I'll be rejoined once again by Rachel Harris and we'll be jumping down the rabbit hole together after a couple of months off. So I'm really excited about that. It'd be really good to see Ra again and uh so please join us for that. If not, we'll see you tomorrow. Well, I'll see you tomorrow morning at 900 a.m. for Morning Brew and we'll be chatting chatting on what's in the news. Possibly going off on tangents. Please uh feel free to join in the chat and uh and and send me send me off to see other things. Uh you can see a doctor about that. What having having um morning brew in the morning?

[01:15:43]Maybe maybe maybe we will see. We will see. Ali L uh or L Butterfly Effect says bye. And one pagan says lol. [laughter] So uh until I see you again six o'clock tonight. Be there. Sure. Uh I'll say thank you so much for watching. Hello.

[01:16:02]Good evening. Welcome and goodbye.

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