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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
I have supported the Government on all their measures so far, and I have taken criticism on it, but I think this measure is wrong and a circuit breaker is in the national interest. I have read...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
Following the advice is now, apparently, opportunistic. Presumably the Prime Minister will say the same to the leader of Bolton Council, a Conservative leader, who this morning said he supports a...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
I know that, for someone who has been an opportunist all his life, this is difficult to understand, but having read and considered the SAGE advice, I have genuinely concluded that a circuit break...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
I think the Prime Minister is behind the curve again. He probably has not noticed that this morning, the council leaders in Greater Manchester that he just quoted, including the Mayor and the...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
I do not think that approach goes far enough, and neither does SAGE. The Prime Minister talks of the costs. Since he rejected SAGE’s advice on 21 September, I remind him that the R rate...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
On 11 May, the Prime Minister said that the Government’s covid strategy “will be governed entirely by the science.”—[Official Report, 11 May 2020; Vol. 676, c. 36.] On...
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I thank the Prime Minister for advance sight of his statement and for his telephone call earlier today. We are at a critical moment—“a tipping point”, to quote the deputy chief...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
The Prime Minister cannot explain why an area goes into restriction, he cannot explain what the different restrictions are and he cannot explain how restrictions end. This is getting ridiculous....
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
Yes. But if the Prime Minister cannot see and hear local communities when they say that the infection rate has gone up tenfold under restrictions, and he does not realise that is a problem, then...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
For the Prime Minister’s benefit, let me take this slowly for him. We support measures to protect health. We want track and trace to work. But the Government are messing it up and it is our...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
The Prime Minister says that it does not alter the basic distribution, yet thousands of people have been walking round when they should have been self-isolating. It patently has an effect on the...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
This is not just a technical issue; it is a human issue. The attempted reassurance by the Prime Minister just does not wash. In Greater Manchester, some of the missing cases date back to 18...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
This is a crucial moment if we are to gain control of the virus, yet for eight days nearly 16,000 positive tests were missed by the Government. That means that about 48,000 contacts were not...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
It is refreshing to hear the Prime Minister try to dig the Chancellor out of a hole for a change, but I do not think that will wash. The Prime Minister just does not get it. The problem with his...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
I support the restrictions. I have done so every single time the Prime Minister has introduced them; he wells knows that. Because of the restrictions, lots of people’s jobs—in...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
The idea that anybody who asks the Prime Minister a question at Prime Minister’s questions is undermining the Government effort is wearing a bit thin. We have openly supported the...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
One of the major problems, as we have seen in the last 24 hours, is widespread confusion about the local restrictions, and I do not just mean the Prime Minister not knowing his own rules. Having...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
When local restrictions were introduced, the Prime Minister described them as a “whack-a-mole” strategy. That implies that at some stage the mole goes down and restrictions are...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
May I join the Prime Minister in sending my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Sergeant Matt Ratana? This was a truly appalling incident, and I have to say that every time I...
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Prime Minister
Keir Starmer made a speech in the House of Commons
I am not asking about the support that was put in place in the past. We support that. I am asking about the support that is needed now, particularly in light of the restrictions that were...
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