Online Safety Bill Debate
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Clive Efford
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Online Safety Bill
Clive Efford ExcerptsTuesday 12th July 2022
(2 years, 4 months ago)
Commons ChamberRead Full debate Online Safety Act 2023 Read Hansard Text Read Debate Ministerial Extracts Amendment Paper: Consideration of Bill Amendments as at 12 July 2022 - (12 Jul 2022)
Mr Deputy Speaker
Order. I ask the final Members please to show restraint as far as language is concerned, because I am not happy with some of the language that has been used.
Clive Efford (Eltham) (Lab)
Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. There have been 50 resignations of Ministers; the Government are mired in controversy; people are acting up as Ministers who are not quite Ministers, as I understand it; and legislation is being delayed. When was there ever a better time for the House to table a motion of no confidence in a Government? This is a cowardly act not by the Prime Minister, but by the Conservative party, which does not want a vote on this issue. Conservative Members should support the move to have a vote of no confidence and have the courage to stand up for their convictions.
Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP)
Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. How can the Conservative party have no confidence in and write letters about the Prime Minister one week yet refuse to come to Parliament the following week to declare that in front of the public?