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Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

David Cameron: Let me start by congratulating the mover and seconder of the Loyal Address. It is traditional for the mover of the Loyal Address to be serious, wise and loyal. At any one time, we can always count on the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Frank Dobson) to be at least two of those three. I think that today, he was all three and, into the bargain, extremely amusing. I was always...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

David Cameron: Everyone wants people to be seen by specialists within two weeks. Everyone wants to see hospital treatments happen quickly. We support the NHS constitution-indeed, it was suggested from these Benches. Basically, the Prime Minister is trying to legislate on a whole series of ideas, saying that virtue is good and then daring his opponents to vote against them. Well, we are not falling for that...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

David Cameron: The Children's Secretary is incapable of sitting quietly in class. It is something that he expects in every class across the country, but he cannot even stick to his own rules. All that the Prime Minister says about the deficit in the Queen's Speech is that he is going to legislate to halve it, but there is not a single new measure to make that happen, so how is it going to work?

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

David Cameron: Perhaps the hon. Gentleman can tell me how this is going to work and whether he supports specific measures to cut the deficit.

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

David Cameron: We face a catastrophic situation at the moment where we are borrowing 14 per cent. of our GDP and our GDP is still shrinking. What is required is some political leadership-not setting some meaningless target as the Prime Minister is doing, but actually saying what the tough decisions are that we are going to take. The contrast between our side and his side is this: on the question of public...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

David Cameron: If cutting inheritance tax is such a bad idea, why have this Government done it last year and this year? As the economist who actually served the Bank of England says on the front page of the Financial Times today, the Prime Minister's plan to halve the deficit simply by passing a law is a complete "con". To address this issue directly would have been in the best traditions of the Prime...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

David Cameron: We are in no doubt that there are enormous amounts of waste across the Ministry of Defence, which is now bigger, in terms of manpower, than many parts of the armed services. I must tell the hon. Lady that we have made the tough choices on public sector pay, on pensions and on benefits. What we have in Britain today is an Opposition behaving like a Government, and a Government behaving like an...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

David Cameron: Ah. Let us see if this one is ready for some ermine.

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

David Cameron: Let us be clear about the aim of halving the deficit. Next year the deficit is forecast to be 14 per cent. When Denis Healey was Chancellor and Britain nearly went bust, it was 7 per cent. So under this Prime Minister's magnificent plan to halve the deficit, we will be back to where we were-virtually bankrupt-last time Labour wrecked our economy. As for who has a plan to cut the deficit, I am...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Nov 2009) has video

David Cameron: I join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to Serjeant Phillip Scott, Rifleman Philip Allen, Rifleman Samuel Bassett, Warrant Officer Class 1 Darren Chant, Sergeant Matthew Telford, Guardsman James Major, Corporal Steven Boote and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith. As the Prime Minister said, on this Armistice day we should remember all those servicemen and women who have given their lives in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Nov 2009) has video

David Cameron: The Prime Minister is living in a parallel universe. The figures announced today are that there are 943,000 young people who cannot find work in our country. He talks about other European countries; the whole of Germany has 537,000 young people unemployed, and France has 765,000. We, I repeat, have 943,000. He said: "Our plan is nothing less than to abolish youth unemployment." Anyone must...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Nov 2009) has video

David Cameron: As ever, the Prime Minister is completely wrong. Our plan to get Britain working will help more people and help them more quickly, and it is fully funded, because we have taken tough decisions about the deficit. The Prime Minister ought to know about it—after all, it was drawn up by David Freud, who was his welfare guru, one of the many people who have left the bunker and come to work...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Nov 2009) has video

David Cameron: Is it not the case that the state of the public finances is so bad that the Government are planning deep cuts in every Department, including those responsible for helping the unemployed?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Nov 2009) has video

David Cameron: We have set out schemes far greater than anything that the Prime Minister has come up with. If we want to spend a little time on the Prime Minister's schemes, what about the mortgage rescue scheme, which was meant to help thousands? How many has it helped? Just 16 families. What about the capital for enterprise fund? It was meant to transform British businesses. How many has it helped? Just...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Nov 2009) has video

David Cameron: The fact is that the Prime Minister's policies are not working. The people who have lost out are the 943,000 young people who have lost their jobs under his Government. He has given us the deepest and longest recession since the war and the fastest rising unemployment. Why cannot he admit— [Interruption.]

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Nov 2009) has video

David Cameron: They know they have got a party leader who has lost it. Why cannot the Prime Minister admit what everybody knows to be true—that the Government are having to make cuts? Let me read to him what the Chancellor of the Exchequer says about him: "I am trying to talk sense into that man. He just doesn't get it—going on about 'Tory cuts' is not going to make an impact on the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Nov 2009) has video

David Cameron: This Prime Minister told us, "No more boom and bust", yet he presided over the biggest boom and the biggest bust; he told us that we were the best prepared for the recession, yet, unlike others, we are still in recession. He has given us the fastest rising unemployment and the biggest bust. Take the official figures for public spending, take off what you are planning to spend on unemployment...