Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Penny Mordaunt and Paul Bristow

Thursday 1st October 2020 Commons Chamber

[Penny Mordaunt]

I fully recognise that the rules have got more complex—were Matt Lucas recreating the “Baked Potato Song” now, he would have to write an opera. They are more complex because we have regional and local lockdowns, as opposed to a blanket lockdown, and I think that is what the nation wants: we want to keep our economy going and to give people as much freedom as we possibly can, while fighting this virus. By and large, although the public are fed up, they are following the rules and they are working together, with collective responsibility, to beat this virus. All Members of this House can help to deliver the messages by putting them on their Twitter feeds and by communicating them. Only by working together are we going to defeat this virus.

[Paul Bristow (Peterborough) (Con)]

What progress the Government has made on ensuring regional equality of economic opportunity.