Collette Stevenson: ...years of Tory austerity, the Labour Party in Westminster is intensifying the worst of what we saw under the likes of David Torrance—sorry, David Cameron [ Laughter .] and Boris Johnson. Labour’s pledge to keep Tory fiscal rules is a huge factor in the £22 billion of cuts that it is now choosing to make. Labour promised change, but it is delivering the...
Lord Winston: ...trusted. I hope that this side of the House recognises that over the next few years. I do not pretend for a moment that it is simple to do. While I cannot comment on the Prime Minister at the time, Boris Johnson, I do not think that Asquith was trusted by the populace during the pandemic of 1918-19 and the Great War beforehand. But it is important that we try to find ways to trust. One of...
Georgia Gould: ...accounted for in the Cabinet Office annual report and accounts. The Prime Minister has use of the official residence previously used by the Rt Hon Lord Cameron, the Rt Hon Theresa May, the Rt Hon Boris Johnson and the Rt Hon Liz Truss.
Lord Wallace of Saltaire: My Lords, does the Minister recognise that the prerogative power of the Prime Minister to appoint to this House remains absolute, as we saw under Boris Johnson? As a prerogative power remaining from the Middle Ages, the Prime Minister could announce that from now on the Prime Minister would not make appointments to this House without consultations with ACOBA and various bodies. Is that part...
David Lammy: My hon. Friend is absolutely right that our biggest trading relationship is with the European Union. He knows that the former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, got the paper-thin deal that he did. We do not yet have a new Commission in place. We are absolutely committed to a new veterinary deal and to dealing with the issues of qualifications in particular, but we will take forward discussions...
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon: ...three-line whip under the shortly-to-be Baroness May. I received a call, which no doubt he used to receive quite regularly as chief of staff to the Prime Minister who succeeded Prime Minister May, Boris Johnson, and it went as follows: “Tariq, matey, we’re on a three-line whip. You’re on your own; you’ll do a grand job”. I was receiving the heads of the Commonwealth at Lancaster...
Ian Lavery: ...a consequence of the cost of living crisis, caused by 14 years of destruction by the Conservative Government. The figure of £17 million from second incomes is enormous. The former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, earned £4.8 million from writing speeches in his last year in the previous Parliament. I have a simple question: how can someone make £4.8 million during a parliamentary year,...
Lord Rennard: ...led directly to what was frequently referred to in the campaign, by the then Labour Opposition, as a “decade of chaos.” With the now noble Lord, Lord Cameron, the soon to be Baroness May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, it could not possibly be said that we had the stable government that was supposed to be the main justification for the first past the post system. We need to...
Lord McLoughlin: ...subject that is probably equivalent to that of the noble Lord, Lord Vallance. The noble Lord, Lord Hendy, has managed to travel from being first appointed by Ken Livingstone to being reappointed by Boris Johnson when he was Mayor of London, to being approved as chairman of Network Rail by David Cameron when I was Secretary of State for Transport and then being made Rail Minister by the...
Lord Lilley: ...the costs and economics of the ways we are trying to tackle it. I was just as sceptical about the claims that achieving net zero would give us cheaper energy and faster growth when they came from Boris Johnson as when they come in the Labour manifesto—indeed, I never expected to find Boris being comparatively a paragon of honesty and understatement until I read the Labour manifesto....
Rhys ab Owen: ...Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020. There has been no communication either. We all remember Mark Drakeford on S4C, saying on the documentary programme 'Dear me, he really, really is awful' about Boris Johnson. Liz Truss never called at all, and Rishi Sunak didn't get in touch about important issues for Wales, such as Tata. I'm genuinely pleased that Keir Starmer, during his first days, did...
Vaughan Gething: ...co-investment and a different and a better future for steel at the time. It was the occupants of 10 and 11 Downing Street at the time who wouldn't sign up to that, and it's no surprise that Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have left us in no better a position now. We are, though, engaged in good-faith negotiations with the company. That is engagement from the Welsh Government, me and the...
Lee Waters: ..., but one for the ballot box. I think that's where, now, the focus of our arguments should be. I was elected here in 2016, before the Brexit referendum, before Donald Trump became President, before Boris Johnson lied his way to Downing Street and lied his way out again, and there is no doubt that politics in this country has become darker in those eight years. I worry that we're adjusting...
Eóin Tennyson: ...DUP, the Alliance Party has been consistent. We warned the DUP that there was no such thing as a good or sensible Brexit and that it would be hoist by its own petard. We warned the DUP not to trust Boris Johnson, because it would be thrown under the bus —
Peredur Owen Griffiths: ...I take it, therefore, that he didn't ask for devolution of the Crown Estate, never mind fair funding or HS2 consequentials. The UK Labour manifesto commitments on GB energy come straight out of the Boris Johnson playbook on levelling up. An ambiguous entity, it is an energy company or an investment vehicle, with a headquarters in Scotland and maybe a branch office in Wales. It will be...
Màiri McAllan: ..., and will not, make climate policy a constitutional battleground. I am afraid that, from our experience in recent years—as the First Minister reflected on this morning, in particular during the Boris Johnson Government and in the years since then—there is no doubt that relations between the Scottish Government and the UK Government have been poorer. The First Minister described it as...
Michelle Thomson: ..., seven Chancellors of the Exchequer and 12 plans for growth. At the same time, their policies have caused harm to society and the economy—not least via Brexit. The chaos that was created by the Boris Johnson and Liz Truss premierships displayed a remarkable degree of incompetence, and Scotland continues to pay the price. Frankly, the Tories deserve to be dispatched to the dustbin of...
Vaughan Gething: ...economy across the UK has flatlined, and other economies who've had the same international challenges have not had the same results. We are paying the price for Conservative economic mismanagement. Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak—the villains of the piece for the position that we now face and it's why it's so important to turn a page. And I will just deal with the point about...
