"T10. Children’s cancer services are due to move from the Royal Marsden to the Evelina hospital next year. Concerns have been raised with me about the provision of a teaching space for children undergoing cancer treatment and its provision in the new plans. Will the Minister meet with me to …..." Luke Taylor - View Speech
"Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. You will have to forgive me for dancing around to aid my pained back.
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
That quote from 1887 is of the British historian Lord Acton, and its explains how power in its most essential form inevitably …..." Luke Taylor - View Speech
"I apologise for breaking that convention, but it is a useful demonstration that, however right the Speaker is in acting with such utter wisdom that we will never question, it remains a challenge to raise issues like this one in the Chamber.
I thank the Minister for his early acknowledgment of support for the Humble Address. He has engaged constructively with comments about its scope and exactly what it says. I thank him for his supportive attitude, as there has been across the Chamber.
"Does the point about what the protection officers knew not show the outrageous power imbalance between a royal and an employee? We are talking about whistleblowing and reporting what has been seen. Is the prospect of having somebody in that situation—whereby they are being held to account for not calling …..." Luke Taylor - View Speech
"I hope this intervention adds to my hon. Friend’s point. Does she find it ironic that the only person who has been imprisoned as part of the Epstein scandal is a woman?..." Luke Taylor - View Speech
"I thank the Minister—I am not sure whether I do thank him—but I want to push back gently on that, and I would be interested in his response. Does not the fact that we have had 15 years since Andrew resigned in disgrace and it did not come before Parliament …..." Luke Taylor - View Speech
"It is, as always, a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Murrison. I thank the hon. Member for Dulwich and West Norwood (Helen Hayes) for securing this important debate at an opportune time.
“The streets of London are paved with gold”—or so the saying from the tale of Dick …..." Luke Taylor - View Speech