Easter Recess: Government Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Easter Recess: Government Update

Peter Grant Excerpts
Tuesday 19th April 2022

(2 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I believe that the biggest help to the cause of the Union is the incompetence of the Scottish Nationalists in government.

Peter Grant Portrait Peter Grant (Glenrothes) (SNP)
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The whole functioning of this place hangs on the belief that everyone behaves in an honourable way at all times. Unfortunately, the people who matter out there do not believe that we do. We now know that 72% of them think that the Prime Minister is part of the problem; 72% of the citizens of these four nations cannot hear the two words “Boris” and “Johnson” without immediately hearing a word that I am not allowed to say on their behalf. Is the Prime Minister really going to look my constituents in the eye and tell them that the best future they can hope for is a future under a Prime Minister whose character and conduct can only be described in words that are banned from use in this place?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I think the best future for the people of Scotland is to continue with the United Kingdom that has served this country well for hundreds of years and whose role is valued around the world, perhaps never more than in the last few months.