Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Caroline Dinenage Excerpts
Wednesday 4th May 2011

(13 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. The Minister for Children is under no obligation to behave like a child. It is not required.

Caroline Dinenage Portrait Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con)
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Q2. Does the Prime Minister agree with the comment of Lord Glasman, special adviser to the Leader of the Opposition, that the last Government lied to the British people about the extent of immigration?

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton Portrait The Prime Minister
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My hon. Friend raises an important point, which is that the last Government did not tell it straight to people about what was happening on immigration and that it has fallen to this Government to take the steps to get the numbers under control. Indeed, Lord Glasman said something that I have said many times, which is that under the last Government there was

“very hard rhetoric combined with a very loose policy”

and that was the worst approach of all.