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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions

"My right hon. Friend is making a characteristically excellent speech. Would he agree that we are at a tipping point at which the welfare state is ceasing to be what we have always wanted it to be—a safety net below which nobody can fall—and is instead becoming a cocoon that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions

"rose—..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Budget Resolutions

"Oh, it is nothing as contemporary as covid—don’t worry about that. I just wondered how much money the right hon. Member left in the coffers when he was Chief Secretary in 2010...."
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Written Question
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
Thursday 14th July 2022

Asked by: Simon Hoare (Conservative - North Dorset)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government plans to publish the impact assessment for the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill before the commencement of the Committee of the Whole House debate on the Bill on 13 July.

Answered by Graham Stuart

The Bill provides specific powers to make new laws where we are disapplying the EU regime and where such laws are considered appropriate. The full details of the new regime will be set out in regulations alongside and under the Bill.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Jun 2022
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

"The Foreign Secretary knows that I have grave concerns about her Bill, but may I ask her coolly to reflect on praying in aid patriotism as a defence of it? Is she seriously impugning the patriotism of colleagues across the House who have concerns about her Bill? I find that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Jun 2022
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

"Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Ten minutes is the time usually taken to make opening remarks, and popularity is something that I have always shunned.

The shadow Foreign Secretary is right: at the heart of this is trust or the absence of it—or, as she leaves the Chamber, the absence …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Jun 2022
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

"If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, I want to make a few more points.

This Bill represents a failure of statecraft and puts at risk the reputation of the United Kingdom. The arguments in support of it are flimsy at best and irrational at worst. The Bill risks economically …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Jun 2022
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

"I give way to my constituency neighbour...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Jun 2022
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

"I think it is probably a failure of both sides, but a presumption of, “If I don’t get my own way on everything, I’m going to take my ball off the pitch; I’m going to act unilaterally, off my own bat” is not the way to do it. As a …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Jun 2022
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

"Let me just finish on what the Bill might be, and then I shall of course give way to the right hon. Gentleman.

Is the Bill a muscle flex for a future leadership bid? To sacrifice our national reputation on the altar of personal ambition would be shameful...."
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