Results 1241–1260 of 7000 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Boris Johnson

Prime Minister: Engagements (12 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: I am grateful, as ever, to the hon. Gentleman—I think a former member of the Conservative party, as I understand it—for his party political advice. I do not agree with him. I have come to this House to make amends, to explain what happened on 20 May and to apologise. I really think, with all humility, I must ask him to wait for the result of the inquiry, when he will have abundant...

Prime Minister: Engagements (12 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: I thank my hon. Friend for his fantastic championing of Stoke-on-Trent. I also thank him for volunteering to serve as a teacher again during the pandemic—a wonderful thing to do. I will certainly see what we can do to satisfy his request for more buses in Stoke as fast as possible.

Prime Minister: Engagements (12 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. I respect the point he is making, but I must say I disagree. I would ask him to wait and see what the inquiry says. I will be very happy to talk to him then.

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: That is rubbish.

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: When it comes to attacking hard-working public servants, why does the right hon. Lady continually attack our testing operation, for instance, which has done a fantastic job throughout this pandemic? There were several things in that intervention that were simply completely the inverse of the truth. We are not cutting cancer services; we have invested more in oncologists. We have 4% more...

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: My right hon. Friend is totally right in what she says. We simply cannot go on, as a country and as a society, reaching endlessly for lockdown, which is the Opposition’s instinct, no matter what the cost and no matter what damage it does. We have to remain cautious, and I am afraid that I cannot tell the House that we can rule out absolutely everything to protect the public, but as I said...

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: I think the right hon. Gentleman should take back what he said.

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: The right hon. Gentleman should be respectful of the tradition of this House that you do not accuse people of things they have not done. It is totally untrue. This Government have taken—[Interruption.]

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: While the Scottish National party continues to do serious economic damage in the way they do, we will continue to get on with a balanced and proportionate—

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: I am grateful, Mr Speaker. I think what we need to do is get on together with a plan that is both balanced and proportionate and that does a huge amount to protect the public. It is the right way forward in dealing with omicron.

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: The right hon. Gentleman says the UK Government are out of step with what the Scottish nationalist party wants, but we overwhelmingly do the same thing at the same time. There is far more that unites us than divides us. You may not like it, but that is the reality. I take exception to the language used by the right hon. Gentleman. When it comes to the Union, he should reflect on the great...

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: It is important for everybody to understand the limitations of models; they are not forecasts, but mathematical projections based on the data the modellers currently have, particularly when it came to Omicron, about the severity of the disease. That is why, when we feed assumptions about severity that are excessive into the models, we get results that are excessive; that is what my hon....

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: We are doing everything we can to ensure flexibility in the NHS so that staff can move more easily, by electronic passes and so on, from one place to another. We are also getting many doctors back to the service. We have, too, our volunteers in the vaccine roll-out and now in helping hospitals with the current pressure. More fundamentally, we are recruiting large numbers of NHS staff, and...

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: My right hon. Friend makes an important point and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation continues to keep fourth jabs under continuous review.

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: That is why it is so important to keep schools open and why it was so important to take the balanced and proportionate approach that we have. It is very important to ensure that schools are safe and I thank parents and teachers for everything that they are doing, but the right hon. Gentleman is wrong in what he says about catch-up. We are investing massively in catch-up. We have a £5...

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: My right hon. Friend makes a very important point; it is a fundamental point about fairness. It was raised with me last night at the press conference by one of the public questioners. It would not be fair to insist on boosters as meaning that someone has been fully vaccinated until young people in particular have had a chance to get boosted.

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: No, because it is thanks to the efforts of the NHS testing operation and of testing manufacturers not just around the world, but in this country—there was stupefying ignorance displayed by those on the Labour Front Bench—that we have been able to triple our testing capacity. We are testing more per head than any other European country. Usually, they love these European statistics, but...

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: The plan is the one that we have in place. It is to get on with plan B. As my hon. Friend knows, there will be a review of it—indeed, the plan B measures expire on 26 January. By then, we hope to have greatly increased the already extraordinarily high number of people in this country who have been not only vaccinated, but boosted. The number of people who have been boosted in the UK is...

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: I repeat my expression of sympathy for all those who need to visit people in care homes and for the loved ones in care homes who are desperate to be visited. As I said, we have in place a system that allows for unlimited-duration visits for three nominated persons, which is an improvement on where we were—the hon. and learned Lady might remember—at earlier stages in this pandemic. We want...

Covid-19 Update ( 5 Jan 2022)

Boris Johnson: I echo your congratulations, Mr Speaker, to my right hon. and learned Friend. The hospital he mentions will get every support throughout this difficult period and we will do everything we can to engage with him on the issues he raises. As I told the House, that support is made possible through the funding we are putting in.


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