Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Andrew Bowie Excerpts
Wednesday 1st July 2020

(4 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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Let me repeat and remind the House that, overall, the package represents a £600 billion package of investment in the UK economy. The best single thing we can do is get our economy back to health by getting our people back into work and getting the virus defeated and under control, and the best thing that the Opposition could do is stop equivocating—doing one thing one week and one thing another week—and decide that they emphatically support ending the lockdown and emphatically support kids being back in school rather than being bossed around by the unions. We are the builders; they are the blockers. We are the doers; they are the ditherers. We are going to get on with it and take this country forward.

Andrew Bowie Portrait Andrew  Bowie  (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) (Con)
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Does my right hon. Friend not share my anger and the frustration of the Scottish tourist sector that, just as it is getting back on its feet, it is having the legs pulled out from under it by deeply irresponsible, damaging and divisive talk of arbitrary border closures and the quarantining of visitors from across the rest of the United Kingdom?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I must say I find the suggestion absolutely astonishing and shameful. There have been no discussions with the Scottish Administration about that, but I point out to my hon. Friend what he knows very well: there is no such thing as a border between England and Scotland.