Debate on the Address Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Debate on the Address

Caroline Lucas Excerpts
Wednesday 21st June 2017

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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I will give way to the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas).

Caroline Lucas Portrait Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion) (Green)
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I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way. It is good to see her here facing the other parties—she has actually turned up, which was not always the case during the election campaign.

The Gracious Speech contained eight Brexit Bills but not one of them covered the environment. Is her failure to propose a Brexit Bill on the greatest challenge that we face because she simply does not care about the environment and climate change, or is it because she has been influenced by the DUP dinosaurs, who sit beside me and who do not want to take that kind of leadership in the future?

Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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I am very conscious of the significant amount of legislation from Europe that affects environmental matters. Those issues are being—