Oral Answers to Questions

Nicola Richards Excerpts

Wednesday 20th January 2021 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

It is the Scottish National party, Prime Minister. I know you keep having a memory lapse on it.

I call Ian Blackford. [Interruption.] I think we have somehow lost Ian Blackford; we will come back to him.

I call Nicola Richards.

[Nicola Richards (West Bromwich East) (Con) [V]]

[Inaudible.]

[Mr Speaker]

Nicola, you are muted. Press the mic.

[Nicola Richards]

I am not muted. Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

[Mr Speaker]

Yes. Get the question in—the Prime Minister is desperate to hear it.

[Nicola Richards]

Can you hear me? It’s not working.

[Mr Speaker]

We will come back to Nicola. Let us move on to Ed Davey.

--- Later in debate ---

[Mr Speaker]

Let us head to West Bromwich again with Nicola Richards.

[Nicola Richards [V]]

    Next week, we mark Holocaust Memorial Day, remember the 6 million Jewish men, women and children murdered by the Nazis, and pay tribute to the extraordinary survivors. Will the Prime Minister join me in thanking the Holocaust Educational Trust for organising a live webcast so that students throughout the country can tune in on 26 January to hear the testimony of survivor Eve Kugler? Will he join me in asking all Members to encourage their local schools to join Q3 Academy Great Barr, from West Bromwich East, in taking part?

[The Prime Minister]

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to warn us of the need to continue to inoculate our populations and ourselves against the wretched virus of antisemitism, which has a tendency to recur and re-infect societies, including, tragically, our own. I am very happy to join her in encouraging all Members to ask all schools to do what the excellent Q3 Academy in Great Barr is doing and to tune in to the event that she mentions.