Debates between Bob Seely and Wes Streeting during the 2017-2019 Parliament

No Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government

Debate between Bob Seely and Wes Streeting
Wednesday 16th January 2019

(5 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Wes Streeting Portrait Wes Streeting
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This is not the afternoon for the hon. Gentleman to lecture me about holding my leadership to account. This is an afternoon for him and every other Conservative Member to hold their rotten Government to account for the policies that are making his constituents and mine poorer. We have heard a lot about the Leader of the Opposition this afternoon. If they think he is as terrible as they have said, maybe they can explain why, the Prime Minister having confidently called a general election with the promise of a huge sweeping majority, so many Conservative Members lost their seats. I will tell them why. It is because, when it comes to tackling the chronic housing crisis, the crisis in our schools, the crisis in the NHS and the crisis that hits people in their pockets, the Leader of the Opposition is more in touch with people in this country than the Prime Minister and the Tories will ever be. That is the truth.

Bob Seely Portrait Mr Seely
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If that is the case, will the right hon. Gentleman explain why so many on his side—173 MPs, I think—refused to back his leadership?