Debates between Angus Brendan MacNeil and Natalie Elphicke during the 2019 Parliament

Wed 25th May 2022

Sue Gray Report

Debate between Angus Brendan MacNeil and Natalie Elphicke
Wednesday 25th May 2022

(1 year, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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The answer to that question is contained in the continued support of the people of the United Kingdom for our Union. Despite everything the SNP is doing to try to overturn the democratic verdict of 2014, I do not believe it will succeed.

Natalie Elphicke Portrait Mrs Natalie Elphicke (Dover) (Con)
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I thank my right hon. Friend for his further apology and explanation today, which is important to many of my constituents. Does he note that paragraph 4 on page 36 of the Sue Gray report says

“there have been changes to the organisation and management of Downing Street and the Cabinet Office with the aim of creating clearer lines of leadership and accountability”?

Does he agree with Sue Gray that these changes need to bed in, that the focus of our Government must be laser-like in tackling the cost of living crisis that has come about as a result of the covid pandemic and Ukraine, and that, over and above everything else, this is the concern of my constituents?