(2 years, 1 month ago)
Commons ChamberOrder. Someone has flashed a camera. It is quite serious to take photographs in the Chamber. If the Member knew they had taken a photograph, I would expect them to leave the Chamber. It is totally unacceptable to disrupt the Prime Minister when he is speaking.
I hope the photograph is deleted. Go out and have a chat with the Serjeant at Arms, because it did not look that way to me.
(2 years, 2 months ago)
Commons Chamber(3 years, 10 months ago)
Commons ChamberOrder. Minister, we need to calm down. [Interruption.] I am not being funny; you are taking advantage of a situation and I do not expect that. [Interruption.] It is no use looking at me in that way. Trying to score points at the end is not the way we need to do it. We need shorter answers to get through the questions as well.
(4 years ago)
Commons ChamberObviously, there is no overwhelming evidence for that, but let us head to Mansfield with Ben Bradley.
The Government have put levelling up at the heart of their agenda for this Parliament, but the fundamentals that underpin many of our structures are sometimes contrary to that aim, not least the Equality Act 2010, which embeds identity politics and physical characteristics into everything that we do but ignores the socioeconomic and geographical inequalities that really drive disadvantage. Can my right hon. Friend find the time for us to debate that in the House, and to debate how we might reform things to seek equality of opportunity and fairness rather than to artificially equalise outcomes?