Jane CarnallBetty Boothroyd died?
First woman Speaker of the House, and what a performer.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/27/betty-boothroyd-dies
Rishi Sunak gleefully lies about the Tory cuts to the #NHS
"These brutal cuts to the NHS will haunt the Conservatives"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/25/boris-johnson-conservatives-nhs-funding #PMQs
Keir Starmer points out that by 2030 th average family in the UK will be worse off than the average family in Poland.
Rishi Sunak responds by pointing out that the UK govt is heavily subsidising the British energy companies record profits & blames the war in the Ukraine for the energy crisis.
Matt SheardKeir Starmer points out that the economic crisis is the responsibility of the Tory Party and Liz Truss's 55 Tufton Street car crash of a budget last year.
Rishi Sunak says Keir Starmer should stand up to the trade unions.
Keir Starmer calls for a windfall tax on the record-breaking profits on energy companies.
Rishi Sunak says the Tories did that last year.
Starmer says the Tories introduced a tax on Shell and they haven't paid.
Keir Starmer points out that families are experiencing massive economic insecurity and points out the Tories scrapped house-building goals.
Rishi Sunak claims Labour is bad for the economy, and the Speaker points out that this doesn't answer the question.
Keir Starmer asks why Rishi Sunak won't scrap his own non-dom status (or his wife's, but she's wealthy than him) - and why he won't stand up for hard-working families who need homes and childcare.
Rishi Sunak says Labour is always free to spend other people's money.
Isn't that just what tax avoiders like Sunak and his wife do?
Keir Starmer asks about the COVID inquiry.
Rishi Sunak says it will be an independent inquiry to be carried on without the interference of parliament.
Stephen Flynn, leader of the SNP, asks why if the benefits of EU single market access is are good for business in Northern Ireland, why is this being denied the rest of the UK?
Rishi Sunak says they're just trying to avoid a land border in Northern Ireland, and Flynn shouldn't be playing politics.
Ahem, has Sunak not noticed where he is?
Rishi Sunak and Virginia Crosbie congratulating each other on the first new nuclear reactor in Britain in 30 years.
The #Hinckley nuclear reactor was built in France.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-64784031 #PMQs
I remind anyone who thinks Joanna Cherry is asking a good question about Northern Ireland, what Cherry's declared views on the uprising and the civil wars of Ireland are:
(It's not pretty. And no supporter of Scottish independence should endorse it.)
https://www.thenational.scot/news/18995586.joanna-cherry-history-shows-referendum-not-route-independence/ #PMQs #ScottishIndependence #IndependenceReferendum
Labour MP Ruth Cadbury asks Rishi Sunak about the rise in rough sleeping. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2023/02/28/number-of-people-sleeping-rough-in-england-rises-for-first-time-since-2017/
Rishi Sunak lies and claims rough sleeping has fallen. #PMQs
Labour MP Chris Elmore asks why the Tories won't help with the cost of living crisis.
Rishi Sunak indignantly says there's lots of help, why are people complaining?
Rishi Sunak claims that the same tougher measures the Tories have been employing since 2010, which have created the lethal market for illegal traffickers, are somehow someday going to work to stop people exercising their lawful right to enter the UK as a refugee.
Nick Fletcher, Gender Critical MP (Tory of course) asks Rishi Sunak to condemn schools teaching boys and girls "it's okay to be trans" as Margaret Thatcher would have said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-61842311
Rishi Sunak deflects. Says teaching materials should be politically neutral and age-appropriate.
Kevin Davidson@EyeEdinburgh Ash Regan is the Cherry wing candidate? Same views on GRR and “America didn’t need a referendum for independence”.