Lord Wallace of Saltaire: ...: the Commonwealth and the European Union. It is characteristic of the incoherence of British foreign policy that we are calling for the creation of something, half of which we have just left. When Boris Johnson was Foreign Secretary, he boasted that global Britain would send a carrier task force through the Malacca strait into the South China Sea. He never explained what purpose such a...
Michael Gove: .... That is why an extension would be unwise and run counter to the clearly expressed view of the British people when they elected my right hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson) as Prime Minister, on a manifesto that clearly spelled out that we will leave the European Union’s transition period at the end of this year. Before I sit down and allow other...
Boris Johnson: I refer the Hon Member to the answer given to him today by my hon Friend, the Minister of State (Cabinet Office), UIN 52214.
Joyce Watson: ...by ignoring all of those aspects—and some of them have been mentioned here today—will we get the proper answers. We need to look at the very early statement on herd immunity that was made by Boris Johnson. Undoubtedly, that herd immunity, and that failure to lock down very early, was given to his key adviser. And had we have locked down much earlier, that indeed would have helped. Had...
Boris Johnson: Tomorrow, I will open the global vaccine summit; the UK-hosted, virtual event will bring together more than 50 countries, as well as leaders of private sector organisations and civil society, to raise at least $7.4 billion for Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance. Tomorrow’s global vaccine summit should be the moment when the world comes together to unite humanity in the fight against disease. This...
Boris Johnson: Ministerial meetings with external organisations are published on gov.uk as part of the government’s transparency agenda. Both Ministers and special advisers declare meetings with senior media executives, as part of their transparency returns.
Boris Johnson: Ministers and special advisers act in accordance with the MHCLG Guidance on Planning Propriety Issues. In that light, No10 Ministers and special advisers would not discuss the details of live planning applications with MHCLG Planning Ministers. Any representations by other Government departments to a called-in or recovered planning application being considered by MHCLG would be disclosed as...
Boris Johnson: The United Kingdom delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is as follows: Sir Roger Gale MP (Leader) Full Representatives Substitute Members Hannah Bardell MP Richard Bacon MP Duncan Baker MP Stella Creasy MP Earl of Dundee Baroness Eccles of Moulton Dame Cheryl Gillan MP Lord Foulkes of Cumnock John Howell MP Ruth Jones MP Sir Edward Leigh MP Ian...
Michael Russell: ...and in Governments—the vast majority believe that a delay and an extension must take place. That majority are on one side, and they tip the scale massively, but on the other side of the scale are Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and a few other supporters, like those we have heard from today, who—either so that they do not lose political face or for other reasons that are more...
Sadiq Khan: It is easier than that. All you have to do is say to Boris Johnson and [The Rt Hon] Grant Shapps [MP, Secretary of State for Transport], “No, the Mayor cannot widen the scope or increase the charges ‑‑”
Steve Aiken: ...our own country — a Tesco-Asda tax, if you will — whereby like-for-like goods will be more expensive here will be a permanent reminder to some parties of the folly of supporting both Brexit and Boris Johnson's totally worthless reassurances. That no paperwork can be translated into electronic declarations definitely belies some recent assertions that the end of the transition period...
Anas Sarwar: ...or Scottish Governments—hide behind capacity and do not talk about actual testing figures. I do not want us to talk about capacity; I want us to talk about tests. It is right that we shout down Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock when they talk about capacity, but we should apply the same to the Scottish Government. It is unacceptable that we have the lowest testing rate of any of the four...
Sadiq Khan: The deal made between George Osborne [former Chancellor of the Exchequer] and Boris Johnson [former Mayor of London] in 2015 was a deal that says TfL would lose the operating grant that other transport authorities around the world receive. What that means is that more than 80% of our services are provided by a combination of fares, the Congestion Charge and advertising. What we know is over...
Boris Johnson: I have regular meetings with ministerial colleagues, officials and others including the Government Chief Scientific Adviser.
Richard Leonard: ...’s route map for business and the economy is “plain as day”. Today, she has called for a “revolution in economic thinking”. Perhaps she can tell us what the difference is between Boris Johnson’s mantra, “If you can’t work from home, go out to work” and the First Minister’s statement to this Parliament, in which she said that we will “focus first on industries in which...
Mick Antoniw: First Minister, Boris Johnson, in Prime Minister's questions today, says that he believes it is right to charge low-paid, front-line healthcare workers, coming from abroad to work in the NHS, the immigration health surcharge, amounting to hundreds of pounds or more a year. Now, Keir Starmer, the Labour leader and the leader of the opposition in Parliament, quoted a letter from doctors and...
Boris Johnson: I would like to update Parliament on the Government’s plans for recognising the extraordinary contributions being made by so many in response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) - and the forthcoming publication of Her Majesty The Queen’s Birthday Honours List. There is, understandably, huge appetite across the country to say thank you to all those on the frontline, within our communities and in...
Boris Johnson: I refer the Hon. Member to Sections 2.1 to 2.3 of the Ministerial Code. The Government’s approach to tackling the coronavirus emergency has been discussed and agreed in Cabinet and Ministerial Committees throughout.
Boris Johnson: For practical reasons, parts of the message were recorded on Saturday, and other parts Sunday. The video was finalised Sunday afternoon.
Lord Purvis of Tweed: ...foreign country. We found this out through details in letters going to Brussels which have been disclosed to the Northern Ireland Assembly, not through information given to us here. Last November, Boris Johnson said that of course there will never be checks. That was repeated by the noble Lord, Lord Bates, during consideration last year of the Trade Bill, and the fact that that was still...