Phillip Lee
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(13 years, 3 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
It can be part of solving the problem; it says to people in social housing, “If you misbehave, you can be thrown out of your house.”
Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell) (Con)
I congratulate Thames Valley police on the support that they provided in London in recent days. Does the Prime Minister agree that relative poverty is no excuse for having no values?
The Prime Minister
My hon. Friend is right. Of course, we all want to see a country where opportunity is more equal, where people can go from the very bottom to the very top and where our schools are engines of social mobility, but the point that he makes is right: there is no excuse for the sort of law breaking, looting and violence that we saw.