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Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. [Interruption.] Order. [Interruption.] Order. I appeal to the House as a whole to debate these issues calmly. I can see the gesticulation from colleagues, and I am not—[Interruption.] Order. Mr Linden, please; allow me to respond. I am not unmindful of the purport of that gesticulation. I have reminded colleagues across the House of the very long-established precepts of "Erskine May" in relation to the conduct of debate. I must simply say that nothing disorderly—[Interruption.] No, nothing disorderly has been said. Everybody must make his own or her own judgment as to how to behave in this place, and all Members will operate at the level that they think appropriate. If I see that there is disorderly behaviour I will rule accordingly, and if I hear disorderly words I will rule them out of order. I wanted to hear—[Interruption.] Order. I wanted to hear the hon. Member for Dewsbury (Paula Sherriff), and did so in full, as she absolutely had to be heard. I have listened to the reply. Let’s try to respect—[Interruption.] Order. No assistance is required. Let’s try to respect each other.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Victoria Grace Ford (Conservative, Centre-right): Many of my constituents watch Parliament TV, and whilst we were away they watched catch-up, including an interesting episode where, most eloquently, the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson) said that she wanted a referendum, that it should be an in/out referendum, and that people should decide. Does my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister agree with me that if the Liberals were democrats, they should be working for ways to help deliver that referendum and heal the divisions, not create more?
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): In these proceedings Members must say what they think—and they do, and that is right—on both sides of the House and on different sides of this argument, but I would emphasise that I am keenly conscious of the fact that there are Members on both sides of the House, and indeed on both sides of the Brexit argument, who have been personally threatened, and whose families have been threatened, and it is incredibly—[Interruption.] No, but Members on both sides of the House and on both sides of the argument have been threatened, and I have stated very publicly my revulsion at such behaviour, whether it has affected Members on one side or the other, people who are anti-Brexit or Members who are pro-Brexit, whose families have been wrongly threatened, or whose parents have been abused in their presence I would simply appeal to responsible colleagues in all parts of the House to weigh their words. That is all I am saying. I think that is a reasonable request of Members in all parts of the House. It is in our wider interest as a Parliament, and it is in the public interest, that we respect each other. That is a point which I think should not be difficult to understand.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to the hon. Lady, but I do think we need a Queen’s Speech and I do think we have a dynamic domestic agenda that we need to push forward. I will inform her, as well as the rest of the House, as soon as we have assessed the meaning of the judgment in its entirety and when it is appropriate to do so.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I think the juxtaposition is actually between democracy and the will of the people, which we are sticking up for, and dither and delay, which the party opposite is standing for. That seems to me a very clear dividing line, and I know which side I am on.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady has made an allegation about my conduct as a student that I am afraid, if it were allowed to stand, would enter the record. She has no evidence for it whatever because it is completely untrue, Mr Speaker, and I would like you to ask her to withdraw it.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I am most grateful to the Prime Minister. The hon. Lady has said what she said, but the Prime Minister—[Interruption.] Order. The Prime Minister, from the Dispatch Box and with the full authority of his office, and knowing his own background and recognising the duty of every Member to speak the truth in this Chamber, has exercised his freedom, and quite rightly so. I think the Prime Minister would readily acknowledge that, in light of all that, he does not require any additional protection from me. He has put the record straight and it is there. It is on the record.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my right hon. Friend, and I will do my best—[Interruption.] Clearly, the invitation is not universally welcomed. I share her idealism. I think there is a chance for us now to do our duty to our constituents and to put this matter to rest in a way that will greatly alleviate the tensions now current in our country. It will be a great thing for our country if we do that, so I will follow my right hon. Friend’s urgings and do my best to show the spirit she asks for.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I think the moment has arrived for the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull East, whose noisy activities I was remarking upon in a number of cities around the world last week. We so often hear him yelling from a sedentary position; let us now hear him from a standing position.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am afraid my hon. Friend is absolutely right. I have yet to hear either from the main Opposition party or indeed any of the Opposition parties that they are willing to take up our democratic challenge. However, I want to thank him and congratulate him for what he has done for Dover, where I have been, and I have been very impressed with the level of preparations. Opposition Members who are anxious might educate themselves by going to see what has been done at Dover, and I congratulate my hon. Friend for the leadership that he has shown.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am not going to comment on anything that was said by any member of the Cabinet during Cabinet; that would be totally wrong because, of course, there is a risk of serious distortion in the reporting. What I can say is that the Government have the utmost respect for the judiciary and, indeed, for the judgment, and that is why we are all here today. I think it has actually been to the advantage of the House to hear a little about the negotiations, but I think the House will also understand that some of the measures that have been passed by the House—or at least one of the measures that has been passed by the House—have not made negotiation any easier. I just say that in all candour and sincerity, and I think hon. Members know that.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Arthur Stephen Tredinnick (Conservative, Centre-right): Mr Speaker—[Interruption.] My voice is restored. My right hon. Friend has talked about a surrender Act, which is quite accurate. Does he recall, as I do, because I was in the House at the time, the 1989 Act introducing the community charge, which was persistently described as a poll tax by the Opposition deliberately to stoke up anger and opposition in the country?
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. I have known the hon. Member for Isle of Wight (Mr Seely) for a long time. I am not surprised, but very pleased to see, that, notwithstanding some sedentary heckling, he still has a smile on his face and that is a good thing.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am afraid that my hon. Friend is absolutely right. The best thing that all those who deprecate that description of the Bill could do is repeal it, get rid of its effect or—even better—support us in going for a better deal.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I certainly do take this House exceptionally seriously. Our constituents—all of them, across the whole country—actually feel that their opinions are being undervalued because they expressed an opinion three years ago and this House, in spite of countless promises, has failed to implement that opinion. I suggest that the best thing is to get on and do it.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I have the utmost respect for the law and, indeed, for the judgment of the Supreme Court, but I think what the people of this country want us to do in this Parliament, as I have said several times already this evening, is to deliver on the mandate of the people, and that is what we are going to do.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Huw William Merriman (Conservative, Centre-right): A few weeks ago I asked the Prime Minister a question to which he responded that "sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."—[Official Report, 3 September 2019; Vol. 664, c. 43.] I understand what that phrase means, but I have yet to meet a single constituent who does, so can I try again on their behalf? In the event that the Prime Minister gets a deal, which I will fully support him with, will he ensure that any Member on the Conservative Benches who does not vote for that deal will lose the Whip and lose the right to stand as a Conservative candidate in the general election?
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I do not know, Mr Speaker, whether you think the hon. Gentleman’s question is in order, but I will answer him none the less by pointing out what he should know if he had read the judgment or listened to the judgment—that the Court did not impugn the motives of the Government at all.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is completely right. It is quite extraordinary that the so-called party of the people absolutely refuses to trust the people. I urge them once again, as I think there is still time: if they want to go for a no confidence vote, now is the moment.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I wonder whether the hon. Lady has ever conducted a negotiation in which she has agreed at the outset that it must in any event conclude in favour of the other side. I think she will understand what her side of the argument tried to do with the surrender, capitulation and humiliation Bill, or whatever we want to call it. We will not be bowed or daunted by this. We will get on and try to get the best deal possible none the less, as I think she is advocating.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I think that the House and the country need a Queen’s Speech, and we will be examining the judgment to see exactly how that should be brought forward in this new context. All I can say is that if the hon. Gentleman wants to remove me from office, which is what he said he wants to do, he should encourage his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition to screw his courage to the sticking place and have a general election.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Jeremy John Elton Lefroy (Conservative, Centre-right): I wish the Prime Minister and his team well in the negotiations as they continue, because I am convinced that there is a majority in this House—contrary to what some say—for leaving with a good deal, and I believe that he will bring that to this House. However, he will remember a discussion I had with him earlier this year about freedom of speech. With freedom of speech, on which we fully agree, comes responsibility, and sometimes that responsibility means not saying what one might like to say—words like "surrender", "betrayal" and "treason" Both of us being classicists, I wonder whether my right hon. Friend remembers the fable of Aesop about the sun and the wind and who won. It was not the wind that won by blowing the person, because he wrapped his coat further around himself. It was the sun that, by coming out and banishing the clouds, made the man take his coat off. Perhaps he should be the sun king and not the king of wind.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. May I ask the hon. Member for Walsall North (Eddie Hughes), before calling him, whether he can confirm—if he can, that is fine—that he has been here since 6.30 without interruption and without going out of the Chamber at any stage?
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Edmund Francis Hughes (Conservative, Centre-right): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I was inspired to get to my feet by the excitement in the Chamber. I want to draw attention to the fact that on 27 April the Prime Minister, then a humble Back Bencher, visited my constituency. Four or five days later the Conservatives won two more council seats. However, the Leader of the Opposition visited my constituency about 10 days ago, and since then I have had five new party members. Does the Prime Minister believe that this net effect might explain the hesitance on the part of the Leader of the Opposition to try to call a general election?
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Obviously, if the hon. Lady really disagrees with the course we are embarked on, she is at liberty to table a no-confidence motion or to go for an election. Curiously, she is desisting from that and refusing to do so. I remind her that what we are trying to achieve is a deal—she is smiling—and I hope that she supports that outcome and that we will be able to count on her presence in the Lobby if we are lucky enough to get one.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I can certainly give the hon. Gentleman that assurance. I am not aware of any such muzzling, except, of course, the muzzling of the Leader of the Opposition, who has been tragically forbidden by his colleagues from going for a general election.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Civil Rights
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): As I have said many times to the House, I do not want an election. It is open to the hon. Gentleman to try to persuade his colleagues to vote for a Queen’s Speech and the progressive measures we will introduce, including on domestic abuse and domestic violence, but if he will not do that, the logical thing to do is to go the country in a general election. But there are hesitations about doing that on the Opposition Front Bench, for reasons that I obviously understand.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I must say that I do not think there could be any clearer example of a sense of privileged entitlement than for a parliamentarian to decide that he is in a position to substitute his own discretion for the will of the people when he clearly promised the people that that will would be respected and upheld.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I have tried to show every possible humility today, to the House, to hon. Members and to the Court and its judgment, but the best way we can all collectively show humility as parliamentarians is to deliver on the will of the people, and that is what we will do. We could also show some humility by stopping talking exclusively about ourselves and Brexit, and getting on with delivering on the priorities of the British people. That is why we wanted a Queen’s Speech. I think they want to hear what we are going to do to support their healthcare services, bring down crime on their streets and improve their schools. Those are the priorities of this Government.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): If the hon. Gentleman would study my statement, he will see exactly what I meant. My views are shared, by the way, by the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls, who I think even he would accept are quite eminent legal authorities.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): With your leave, Mr Speaker, I will keep my answers pretty staccato from now on, because I have answered these points quite a lot. If people care about their constituents—it is quite proper, of course, that they should in every possible way—they should honour the will of their constituents and respect our democratic proceedings.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Of course I completely understand that the Prime Minister will offer his own answers, short or long, as he thinks fit. I just innocently make the observation, en passant, that repetition is not a novel phenomenon in the House of Commons and never has been. The hour is still quite early. I have been in the Chair since 11.30 am, but I feel that I am just getting started. We have a lot more energy left. I am not remotely perturbed, and I am sure that the Prime Minister is not running out of energy. I should be very worried if he were, but I am sure that he is not.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I think that when I look back on the 64 days that we have had in government so far, I will be proud of 20,000 police officers on the streets of this country, of 20 new hospital upgrades, of levelling up education funding throughout the country, and of providing gigabit broadband, even in Scotland. Let us hope that the incompetent, dissolute, reckless, high-taxing Government of Scotland actually implement that initiative and deliver it to the people—or make way for Conservatives in Scotland, who will do it themselves.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I think it would be fair to say that the Supreme Court is a relatively novel institution and this is a novel and groundbreaking judgment, even by the admission of the plaintiffs. We will study its implications with great care, and I think the House might like to reflect deeply on it, because I do think the judgment is of great constitutional interest and importance.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Obviously I would prefer a deal, and I hope I could count on the hon. Gentleman’s support if we were to get one. As for my desperate pleas for an election, actually I am not desperate for an election at all. I rather thought it was the function of the Opposition to be desperate for an election. If he is desperate for an election, perhaps he could communicate with his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I think we will get a deal that commands the support of the whole House. I hope that it will command the support of the hon. Gentleman. Perhaps he might indicate by nodding whether he will vote for it.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady was going so well. I thought she was going to say that she would vote for a compromise deal, and I hope she will think of that, because that is what her constituents would want.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I cannot prophesy exactly what my itinerary will be in the course of the general election campaign, but I cannot exclude the possibility that I may indeed pay a visit to the hon. Gentleman’s constituency, where I think his opponent has every possibility of success.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): I congratulate the hon. Lady on the eloquence with which she has just made the point I tried to make earlier. She might direct her wrath at the Leader of the Opposition, because I think it is time we had an election.
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Mixed Topics
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (Conservative, Centre-right): Obviously I congratulate Nissan on what it is doing and on its stunning manufacturing performance, and we are working very hard to protect supply chains, not just for Nissan but for all our motor manufacturing companies. The best thing for those companies—
Prime Minister's Update — House of Commons, 2019-09-25
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): If the points of order, consistent with the earlier approach, arise specifically from and relate to the matters with which we have just been dealing, I will take them. [Interruption.] Prime Minister, I think it would be a courtesy to stay for the point of order—a point of order that relates to the matter with which we have just been dealing. [Interruption.] Go and sit down. [Interruption.] Well, I asked the Prime Minister if he would be willing to stay, but he does not wish to do so. So be it. The point of order from Mr John McDonnell will be heard.