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Oral Answers to Questions

Stella Creasy Excerpts
Wednesday 19th October 2022

(2 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Elizabeth Truss Portrait The Prime Minister
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Yes, we are committed to social care reform. We need to deal with those issues.

Stella Creasy Portrait Stella Creasy (Walthamstow) (Lab/Co-op)
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It is always better to see a Prime Minister at her desk rather than underneath it. Now that she is here, can she tell us why, next week, this House will discuss legislation that will abolish vital protections on pension payouts, our right to watch the Olympics free of charge and airline consumer laws? How is any of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill in the British interest?

Elizabeth Truss Portrait The Prime Minister
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I think we have yet another example of somebody who does not want to support the British public’s decision to leave the European Union in 2016. Is it not quite incredible that, six years after people voted to leave the European Union, there are people who object to taking EU law off our statute books? Now, I am a democrat. I respect what British people voted for. I suggest the hon. Lady does the same.