Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Pete Wishart Excerpts
Wednesday 29th March 2023

(1 year, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness Laing of Elderslie Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Eleanor Laing)
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We go to the Chair of the Select Committee.

Pete Wishart Portrait Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire) (SNP)
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Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and it is great to see you in the Chair once again. May I say to the Secretary of State that the Union is in trouble because there is no longer a case for the Union? We know that because a significant number of under-50s now support independence. Could he tell us what the Union’s greatest achievement has been in the past few years? Is it a Brexit that Scotland does not support; is it high-rise energy prices in energy-rich Scotland; or is it being run by a bunch of Tories that most of Scotland rejected?

Alister Jack Portrait Mr Jack
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I notice that the hon. Gentleman did not quote any opinion polls to me this time. Nor, as he mentions Brexit, did he call for another—[Interruption.] The result was 52% to 48%—[Interruption.]