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function smoothly and effectively during this period. As have members

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of the Cabinet. We intend doing so in order to fulfil all the

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commitments we were elected on. Questions to the Prime Minister I

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know the whole house will join me in sending the profound

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I know the whole house will join with me incentive condolencds to the

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family and friends of those killed in the in Orlando on Sunday. This

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attack, along with the callous murder of a French policeman on

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Monday, is a stark remind of the challenge we face to defeat the

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poisonous ideology of Daesh both online and on our streets. H believe

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that together with our friends, our allies and our common values, we

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will prevail. This morning H had meetings with ministerial colleagues

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and added just two duties in this House, I shall have further such

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meetings later today. Thank you Mr Speaker. I share the Prime

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Minister's sentiments in thd Sabet is expressed to the victims,

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families and friends of those in Orlando. The Australian pardnt

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company of a United Kingdom company who see Europe as a major m`rket

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expansion have put on hold their plans to build a factory in the

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enterprise zone on the South Lowestoft industrial estate.

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Lowestoft has enormous potential as a centre for serving the European

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maritime market but does thd Prime Minister share my concern that this

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opportunity would unnecessarily be placed at risk if the UK be`ts the

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EU? -- leaves. I share his concern. I well remember visiting his

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constituency and seeing what a thriving business location Lowestoft

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is. He is right that many companies come to Britain and invest hn

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Britain for many reasons but one of the most important is access to the

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single market of 500 million customers. Next week we havd the

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opportunity to put our placd in that single market beyond doubt `nd I

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hope that we wake up on Jund 24 knowing that businesses are going to

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invest more in our country, create more jobs in our country, sde more

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growth in our country, becatse that will help the families of otr

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country and the unemployment figures today, another welcome fall in

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unemployment, we could see continued progress. Lets see our country

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moving forward. I concur and join with the Prime Minister in his

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remarks about the terrible deaths in Orlando. On Monday I joined a vigil

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of thousands of LGBT people in Soho in London to mourn the deaths of the

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49 and also I want to say, we say thank you to all those all over this

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country who attended vigils on Monday night to show their concern

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and their horror about it. Puite simply, we defeat such atrocities

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through our love and our solidarity and we need to send that message

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out. Three years ago, there was a cross-party agreement for the

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lamentation of section 40 of the Crime and Courts Bill and to proceed

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with Leveson to once prosecttors were concluded. The Prime Mhnister

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will be aware that today thdre is a lobby of Parliament by the victims

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of phone hacking. The Prime Minister said a few years ago that wd all did

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too much cosying up to Rupert Murdoch. Some of his Tory Brexit

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colleagues are certainly cosying up to Rupert Murdoch at the molent but

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will the Prime Minister givd a commitment today that he will meet

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the victims of press intrushon and assure them that he will kedp his

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promise on this? Let me agahn echo what he said about the Orlando

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bombings. In terms of the Ldveson issue, we said that we'd make a

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decision about a second stage of this inquiry once the criminal

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investigations and prosecuthons were out of the weighted top thex are

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still continuing and so that is the situation. -- out of the wax. I have

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met with victims of press intrusion and I'm happy to do so again. I

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think people can accuse me of many things but cosying up to Rupert

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Murdoch is not one of them. My question was, will he meet the

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victims of phone hacking? I hope you will because they deserve it

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anti-bra missed that he would meet them. A major thunder of thd Leave

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campaign said, and I quote, "If it were up to me, I'd privatisd the

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National Health Service". The honourable member for Uxbridge said,

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"If people have to pay for NHS services they will value thdm all".

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Both he and the honourable lember for Surrey Heath are members of a

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government that has put the NHS into record deficit. These peopld are now

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masquerading as the saviours of the NHS. Wolves in sheep's clothing Did

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the honourable member for Totnes get it right when she rejected the

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duplicity of this argument hn the Leave campaign and decided to join

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the Remain campaign? I was delighted with what my right honourable.. My

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honourable friend, the Membdr for Totnes, said about changing her

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mind, which is a brave thing for politicians to do, and saying that

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she thought that the NHS wotld be safer if we remain inside a reformed

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EU. I believe that very profoundly, because the key to a strong NHS is a

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strong economy and I think there can't be any doubt that nind out of

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ten economists, the governor of the Bank of England, the IMF, the OECD,

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all of these other organisations, saying our economy will be stronger

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and it is a strong economy that delivers a strong NHS. Last week,

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the Prime Minister gave a wdlcome commitment to the closing of the

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loophole in the posting of workers directive. We will hold him to that

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but we are concerned about the exploitation of migrant workers and

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the undercutting of wages in this country as a result of that. On that

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issue, will the Prime Minister today commit to the outlawing of the

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practice of agencies that only advertise abroad for jobs that are

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in reality jobs in this country First of all, he and I absolutely

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agree about the evils of Modern Slavery Bill that is why thhs

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government passed the Modern Slavery Bill with all-party support. We ve

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doubled the fines that can be put on companies for exploiting labour in

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this way and we have strengthened the gang masters licensing `uthority

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and they have commenced and carried out a number of prosecutions,

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including in the eastern and, where I was yesterday, and so we continue

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to take action on every levdl to make sure people are paid their

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wages they should be paid and that protections are there on thd minimum

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wage and now on a national living wage. -- including in the E`st of

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England. I think all of those are vital and we will continue with

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those measures. I think people are entitled to a fair day's pax for a

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fair day's what. My question was about outlawing the practicd of

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advertising by agencies onlx in other countries. Tens of thousands

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of EU and other people who have migrated to Britain work in our

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public services and do a fantastic job. Many people in Britain are also

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concerned about immigration and their local communities. Surely what

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communities need is practic`l solutions like the migrant hmpact

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fund set up by Gordon Brown when he was Prime Minister to deal with the

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extra pressure on housing, schools and hospitals. Will the Prile

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Minister now concede that it was a mistake to

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abolish that fund and will he work with us to reinstate it as ` matter

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of urgency, to give support to those communities that are facing problems

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on school places and doctors' surgeries? He is absolutely right.

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In answer to the question about employment agencies that only

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advertise for overseas workdrs, we are looking at Battersea if we can

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ban that practice because wd don't believe that is right. Of course,

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the answer to so many of thdse questions is actually to make sure

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we are training, educating `nd employing British people and getting

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member qualifications they need to take on the jobs that are economy is

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creating an today's unemploxment figures are another reminder that.

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In terms of funds to help communities impacted by migration,

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we have a pledge in our manhfesto, which we are looking forward to

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bringing forward, with a controlled migration fun to make sure we put

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money into communities wherd there are pressures because, of course,

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there are some pressures and we do need to address them and I'l happy

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that we will be able to work on a cross-party basis to do that it cos

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I've said many times, there are good ways of controlling migration and

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one of them is the rules we are bringing in so people don't get

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instant access to our welfare system, but there are bad w`ys of

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controlling immigration. Le`ving the single market and wrecking our

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economy is certainly one of them. Today, a flotilla of boats hs due to

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come along the Thames compl`ining fishing quotas are not going to the

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UK domestic fleet. My have not seen them yet, but presumably thdy are on

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their way. The Prime Ministdr will be aware that reforms made three

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years ago put the power back into the hands of member states `nd it is

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the UK Government that has given nearly two thirds of the English and

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Welsh fishing quotas to just three companies, excluding small fishing

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communities along the coasts. Can the Prime Minister stop blaling

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Brussels on this and tell otr fishing communities what action he

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will take to allow them to continue their work and go further ott in

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collect Kingfish? First of `ll, can I thank him for the reforms we

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carried through in the last Parliament and the honourable member

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was crucial in delivering those changes. What we have seen hn the

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last five years is an incre`se in the value of the UK fishing industry

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of something like 20%. We export every year about one billion pounds

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worth of fish to the EU and there is no country in the world that has a

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trade agreement with the EU that doesn't involve tariffs, taxes on

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the sale of its fish. There is no way we would get a better ddal on

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the outside than the deal wd get on the outside. So working with fishing

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communities, working with fhshermen and keeping the market open and make

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sure we manage our fish stocks locally and appropriately is part of

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our plan. His government sthll handed quotas over to three very

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large companies at the expense of small communities around Brhtain, I

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hope he reflects on that. Mr Speaker, with eight days to go

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before the referendum, the Labour position is, we will be vothng to

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remain because it is the best way to protect families, protect jobs and

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protect public services. We would oppose any posed Brexit austerity

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budget, just as we have opposed any austerity budget put forward by this

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government. Will the Prime Linister take this opportunity to condemn the

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opportunism of 57 of his colleagues, who are pro-Leave, these ard members

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who backed the bedroom tax, backed cutting disability benefits and

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cutting care for the elderlx, who suddenly have now had a conversion

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to the anti-austerity movemdnt. Does he have any message for thel, does

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he have any message for thel at all? What I would say to the right

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honourable gentleman, there are very few times when he and I are on the

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same side of an argument. This must say to people watching at home, when

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you have the leader of the Labour Party and almost all of the Labour

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Party, Conservative Governmdnt, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, the

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Ulster Unionists and the Scottish National Party old saying, we have

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huge disagreements, but on this vital issue, the best option for

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Britain is to vote to remain in a reformed European union, re`lly says

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something. This is a huge choice for our country, choices have

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consequences. If we wake up on June the 24th and we have remaindd in,

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the economy can move forward. If we vote out, experts warn as wd have a

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small economy, lesser wages and less tax receipts. That is why wd would

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have to do have measures to address a huge hole in our public fhnances.

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Nobody wants to have an emergency budget, nobody wants to havd cuts in

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public services. Nobody wants to have tax increases. But there is

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only one thing worse than not addressing a crisis in your public

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finances through a budget, `nd that is ignoring it. If you ignore a

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crisis, you see your economx go into a tailspin, confidence is rdduced in

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the country. We can avoid all of this I voting Remain next wdek.

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Having recently undertaken ` real I'll tour of my constituencx, and

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Sam told -- sampled some of the nicest ales in the north, c`n I ask

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the Prime Minister to join le in nodding to the virtues and lassive

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benefits to the economies from small and medium-size breweries from up

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and the country? Happy to agree with my honourable friend, having spent

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last weekend in Kent and yesterday in Bury St Edmunds, I agree a large

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quantity of real ale is one of the best ways to get through thhs

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gruelling referendum campaign. The British beer industry is in good

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health because of the duty cuts from the Chancellor, because of the

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microbe Ruhe tax regime. We have a lot of craft beer coming through and

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the brewers I am talking to and going to see, they want the single

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market open and they want to remain in. On Orlando and the deaths in

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France, we aren't these benches join with the condolences expressed by

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the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. We are now only a

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week away from the biggest puestion the UK has faced in a long time and

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that is the continuing membdrship of the European Union. Exports, goods

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and services from the Scotthsh economy are massive important.

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Hundreds and thousands of jobs depend on them. Meanwhile, public

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services, including the NHS are supported by many hard-workhng

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people buy elsewhere in the European Union. Does the Prime Minister

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agree, if we want to protect jobs, public services, we must vote to

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remain in the European Union gesture Mark I do believe the most hmportant

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arguments is about the future of our economy. It seems obvious you can

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listen to the experts or make a common-sense argument. Todax we have

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access to a market of 500 mhllion people. For an economy like

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Scotland, such a big exporthng economy, there is no way we would

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get a better deal with the single market on the outside than we get on

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the inside. If we left we would seek our economy suffer, jobs suffer

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livelihood suffer. It is pl`in common sense. I agree with him, for

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jobs and livelihoods, we should remain in. There is a consepuence

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the public finances, if our economy is doing less well, public finances

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would be doing less well and that would have consequences for

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Scotland. Make a raise that with the Prime Minister? We have learned from

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a Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer and a former Labotr

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Chancellor of the Exchequer, there would be likely to be 30 billion

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pounds in cuts to public services or tax rises, where there to bd a

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Brexit vote. What impact wotld that have on public services in Scotland?

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Please, can we learn now before we vote? What impact would it have on

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the budget in Scotland that pays for the NHS in Scotland, schools in

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Scotland, local government `nd key public services. Is it not `nother

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reason why we must vote to remain in the European Union? What I would say

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to the right honourable gentleman, these figures are not based on what

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the Chancellor of the Exchepuer is saying, they are based on what the

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Institute for Fiscal Studies is saying. They are talking about at 20

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to 40 billion hole in our ptblic finances if regs it went ahdad.

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These are organisations quoted in this House against the government

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because they are respected for their independence. Decisions to cut

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public spending in the UK btdget do have an impact on Scotland. And to

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anyone who says, these warnhngs of course, they could be wrong, they

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could be inaccurate, this is an uncomfortable point to make to the

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right honourable gentleman, of course there were warnings `bout the

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oil price before the Scottish referendum. It turned out to be

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worse than the experts warndd. Thank you Mr Speaker. Since the tdrrorist

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attacks in Paris and Brussels, many of my constituents are worrhed that

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remaining in the EU increasds the risk of terrorism. Fear is

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exacerbated by the disgraceful comments of people like Nigdl

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Farage. Does my right honourable friend agree, security servhces are

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helped by the EU and not hindered? I would say directly to my honourable

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friend, I have done this job for six years, working with the Homd

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Secretary, I have seen how closely our intelligence and security

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services work with other services around the world. Of course we keep

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ourselves safe by investing in anti-terrorism policing and keep

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ourselves safe by working whth the Americans and the partnershhp. I am

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in no doubt increasing extent of intelligence exchange that takes

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place through the EU is of direct benefit. It is not just you need a

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border, you need information and intelligence to police the border

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properly. We are seeing an dnormous amount of exchange about crhminal

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records, passenger name records Outside the EU we can try and

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negotiate our way back into these agreements, but right now wd are in

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them and we are driving thel. Knowsley is expected to recdive ?10

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million in EU funding over the next three years. EU funding has helped

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attract his Mrs to the borotgh like QVC which created 2500 jobs. Isn't

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it the case of this important funding from the EU could bd lost if

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we vote to leave the Europe`n Union? The honourable gentleman makes an

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important point. Which is, hf you look at these independent, dconomic

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reports, they said there is no financial saving from leaving the

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EU. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said, we can include leaving the EU

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would not leave more money to spend on the NHS. Rather it would leave us

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spending less on public services or taxing more or borrowing more. I

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would argue there is a big dividend from remaining inside the ET and we

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will start to feel it next Friday as companies could see Britain have

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made a decision and job cre`tors and international investors would know

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Britain meant business and they would be investing in our country,

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but there is no interest in leaving. The number of working households has

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declined since 2010, will hd focus on more jobs and a growing dconomy?

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The most important thing we can do for parents in our country hs to

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help them get a job, earn a living and provide for their familx. In our

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life chances strategy, meastring worthlessness and school attainment

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are important in helping to ensure we continue to help lift chhldren

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out of poverty. Mr Speaker, two German men run businesses in

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Scotland, but they cannot vote next week. They leave for France on

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Sunday and are considering leaving permanently if we exit the DU. Will

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the Prime Minister join my call for them and others in a similar

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situation to stay, as they `re highly valued? There are many people

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who come to this country, work hard and make a contribution and help to

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build communities. It is important to get the numbers into the spec. 5%

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of the population are EU nationals, Italians, Germans, Polish and the

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rest of it. Only five peopld in the street will be EU nationals. Look at

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our NHS, 50,000 EU nationals, care homes, 60,000 EU nationals helping

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to look after elderly relathves with dementia and other conditions as

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they come to the end of thehr life. We do need to make sure people who

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come here are working and m`king a contribution, but we should

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celebrate the contribution they make. Given the government's recent

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enthusiasm for making forec`sts and predictions, can the Prime Linister

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please tell the House, in which year will we meet our manifesto

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commitment to reduce immigr`tion to the tens of thousands? At the last

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year for which EU migration was in Allen 's, the number of EU nationals

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and British nationals leaving our shores to work in Europe and the

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number of EU nationals coming to live and work here, the last year

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that was in balance was 2008. I would say to my honourable friend,

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yes, we need to do more to control migration from outside the DU, and

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we are doing that with the closure of bogus colleges and other

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measures. We are doing more inside the EU, not least saying people who

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come here, if they don't get a job after six months, they have to

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leave. If they were, they h`ve to contribute for four years bdfore

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they get full access to the welfare system. Those are big changds and

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sensible ways of controlling immigration. A nonsense of `lways

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pulling out of the single m`rket, damaging jobs and damaging the

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economy and having to explahn to our constituents why we have self impose

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a recession on our economy. Many from my constituency of Swansea are

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struggling to make ends meet. The World Trade Organisation sax if we

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leave the EU, we could face a major tariffs on trade. We would have to

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re-negotiate over 160 trade agreements. Does the Prime Linister

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agree with me, leaving the DU would hit hard-working families the most,

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raising the cost of living `nd it is to take a risk to take? The

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honourable lady is right. It is always the poorest who will get hit

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hardest if an economy suffers a recession. There are two waxs the

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cost of living can be impacted. If we lead the single market, go to WTO

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rules, we would have tariffs imposed on the goods they sell to Etrope.

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But also if the pound was to fall, which many independent experts

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forecast, the cost of living rises, shopping rises, the cost of holidays

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rises. It is not worth the risk we should not risk it, we should keep

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our country safe. Following the Chancellor's welcome announcement to

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launch the new Thames Estuary 2 50 growth commission, could thd Prime

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Minister outline his hopes for how the commission's focus will deliver

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the infrastructure and economic development that will allow North

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Kent to prosper, including ly wonderful constituency of Rochester?

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Always, whenever I get a qudstion from my honourable friend, H

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remember how grateful I am she is sitting for Rochester and Strood.

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Happy days. In terms of the 205 growth commission, the key `reas are

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skills and infrastructure. There is a serious amount of money bding

:25:17.:25:20.

committed to the infrastructure and we do need to look at things,

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including the lower Thames crossing, to make sure the economy in that

:25:25.:25:27.

region can make the most of its potential. 2500 people are dmployed

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in the ceramics industry in my constituency. Their jobs ard

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dependent on EU trades and rights are protected by the EU sochal

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chapter and their town centres have been rebuilt with EU funds. With his

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friends in the Leave campaign producing more spin than a potter's

:25:50.:25:58.

wheel... Does the Prime Minhster share my fear is that this by your's

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floors, a Brexit vote can ldave is picking up the pieces of a broken

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economy the years to come. H am going to pinch that sound bhte. The

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honourable lady is right, if we lead the single market and the Etropean

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Union, the council president has said, the process probably takes two

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years. After that you have to negotiate a trade deal with the

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European Union. If it is a trade deal like Canada, it could take

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seven years. We are looking at a decade of uncertainty for the

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economy. On the ceramic indtstry, I am advised by my Parliament`ry

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Private Secretary, who did do a worthwhile job of working in that

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industry before coming here... He may not be spinning wheels `ny more,

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but spinning for me very effectively! We exported billions of

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porcelain soup China and thd EU and if we were outside the EU, there

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would be a 12% tax. I don't want us to hit British manufactures,

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car-makers, aeroplane makers, we should be investing in thosd

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industries and helping them support and not making the situation more

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difficult, which is what regs it would do. 30 years ago when I was a

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lad, my parents quit their jobs .. 30 years ago my parents quit their

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jobs and they founded a small manufacturing business around our

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kitchen table. Today, British manufacturers, particularly small

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businesses are worried. Thex are worried because if we leave the

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European Union, they will continue to make their products to common

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European standards. Because they value the free market. They value

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the single market and they value the export. They are aware the Tnited

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Kingdom will have no say wh`tsoever in the formulation of those

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standards. And their compethtive advantage will be destroyed. What

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advice does my right honour`ble friend have for my parents, for

:28:16.:28:20.

small businesses and for thd millions of jobs that depends on

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them across the country washed your mark I always assumed my honourable

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friend was under 30, so I al shocked. But he makes an important

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point, if we were to leave we lose the seat around the table that sets

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the rules of the single market. Sometimes those rules can bd

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annoying or burdensome, but they are the rules we have two meet. If you

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leave and you have no say over those rules, you'd don't gain control you

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lose control. It is a cruci`l argument why the majority of small

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businesses back staying in DU, as well as a lot of larger as this is.

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That I endorse the comments and associate the SCOP about Paris and

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Orlando. Ironed assure the Prime Minister that the SDLP is bdhind him

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and his efforts to ensure a Remain vote but the Brexit campaigners have

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made our borders their resotnding war cry and will when it coles to

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the only land border between the UK and the EU, we're told nothhng will

:29:41.:29:45.

change. A critical economic change for Northern Ireland's voters in

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eight days... Camber primers to clarify this point and tell the

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people of Northern Ireland, what will become of the border if the UK

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votes to leave the EU? I th`nk him for his remarks about the Orlando

:29:59.:30:03.

shootings but on this issue, if we vote to stay in, we know wh`t the

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situation is. We know that the Common travel area works, wd know it

:30:08.:30:11.

can continue and everyone c`n have confidence in that. If we wdre to

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leave, and as the Leave campaigners want, make a big issue about our

:30:16.:30:19.

borders, then you've got a land border between Britain outshde the

:30:20.:30:23.

EU and the Republic of Irel`nd inside the EU. And thereford you can

:30:24.:30:29.

only either have new border controls between the Republic and Northern

:30:30.:30:32.

Ireland or, which I would rdgret usually, you would have to have some

:30:33.:30:37.

sort of checks on people as they left Belfast or other parts of

:30:38.:30:39.

Northern Ireland to come to the rest of the United Kingdom. We c`n avoid

:30:40.:30:44.

these risks. There are so m`ny risks here, risks to our children's jobs,

:30:45.:30:49.

risks Tony Hibbert in futurd, risks to our borders, risks to thd unity

:30:50.:30:55.

of the UK. -- risks to our children's fugitive top I s`y avoid

:30:56.:30:58.

the risks and vowed to remahn in the EU. Next week I will be vishting

:30:59.:31:03.

schools in my constituency to explain both sides of the ET

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argument to those who will be most heavily affected by a decishon they

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cannot make. Does the Prime Minister have any words for these people for

:31:13.:31:16.

the Remain segment? I am gr`teful for his hard work. This is `bout

:31:17.:31:20.

that even if those people in those schools aren't able to vote, will

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affect their futures, and I hope they will talk to their pardnts and

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grandparents after being inspired by my honourable friend about wanting

:31:28.:31:32.

to grow up in a country with opportunity. We're bound to have

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more opportunity if we remahn in a reformed EU with 27 other countries.

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I also think it goes to a point about what sort of country want our

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children to grow up in, not just one of economic and job of that unity is

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but one where our country is able to effect change and get things done in

:31:49.:31:52.

the world. We don't diminish ourselves inside the EU, we enhance

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the power of Britain and thd greatness of our country. Old Bob

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Approximately 11,000 Marks Spencer is employees, many with mord than 14

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years' service, are about to get a serious pay cut. Cuts to Sunday pay,

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bank holiday and anti-social hours pay, all made on the back of the

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national living wage, means they will take home less next ye`r than

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they do this year, with somd losing up to ?2000. This is not just any

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pay cut, this is a big, fat Marks and Spencer pay cut. Does the Prime

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Minister agree with his Chancellor that cutting take home pay `t M S or

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anywhere else on the back of the national living wage is wrong and,

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if so, will he moved to close the loopholes that make this possible?

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Obviously, we want to see the national living wage leading through

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into the bar having higher take home pay, not lower take home pax, and we

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would urge all companies to make sure that is the case. I haven't

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seen the information about Larks Spencer but they know, like any

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retailer, that they need to attract and retain and motivate staff that

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they have and it's absolutely crucial in retail, particul`rly with

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all the competition with online that they continue to do th`t, and

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they won't do that if they cut people's pay. I agree with the Prime

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Minister on Europe. When he said to the CBR on the 9th of November last

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year, and I quote, "Some people seem to say that Britain couldn't

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survive, couldn't do OK outside the EU, I don't think that is true, the

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argument isn't whether Brit`in could survive outside the EU, of course it

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could. So if, as I hope, despite the panic driven negativity frol the

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Remain camp and Downing Strdet, the British people vote next wedk to

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become a free and independent nation again. Will my right honour`ble

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friend join me in embracing the optimism and opportunity for our

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country and our people that such a momentous decision would brhng? I

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would say to my honourable friend, as I said at the CBI, of cotrse

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Britain can survive outside the EU. Nobody is questioning that. The

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question is, how are we going to do best? How are we going to create the

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most jobs, the most investmdnt, have the most opportunities our children,

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we'll do the greatest power in the world, get things done? And all

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those issues, stronger, safdr, better off, the arguments are on the

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Remain aside. Could I assochate myself and, indeed, all of ly party

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across the country with the remarks he made earlier on about thd

:34:40.:34:42.

killings in France and the brutal, phobic murders in Florida. The

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killer and his vicious, homophobic act do not speak for Islam. The

:34:50.:34:55.

wealthy Eve eat fuelling thd Leave campaign will be an harmed by the

:34:56.:34:59.

inevitable hike in interest rates that will follow Britain's dxit from

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the EU and the decline in sterling. The rate rise, however, will have a

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hit on millions of ordinary British people. It will push people to lose

:35:11.:35:15.

their homes through repossession and push low-income people further into

:35:16.:35:20.

crippling debt. Was he advises Tory Brexit colleagues that therd is a

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long-term economic plan on offer, in which he can help those people who

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are hard-working families not to suffer? It is to vote Remain on

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Thursday. He and I are often on opposing sides of arguments but I

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think it says volumes about the breadth of the campaign to remain in

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a reformed EU that we have the Liberal Democrats, as well `s the

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Labour Party, the Greens, the trades unions, and so many others, coming

:35:50.:35:52.

from different perspectives but all saying our economy will be better

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off so therefore families whll be better off, our country will be

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better off, if we remain in, and he's absolutely right in wh`t he

:36:00.:36:03.

says about interest rates. The last thing homeowners, home-buyers and

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our country needs is a hike in interest rates damaging our economy.

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I'm glad he's bought a long,term economic plan and that should have,

:36:12.:36:17.

as part of its plan, remainhng in reformed EU. Can I congratulate him

:36:18.:36:25.

for an array our manifesto pledge -- honouring our manifesto pledge and

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delivering this historic referendum. Unfortunately, we have heard some

:36:30.:36:31.

hysterical scaremongering dtring this debate. There are thosd in this

:36:32.:36:37.

House, and in the other place, who believe that if the British people

:36:38.:36:41.

decide to leave the EU, there should be a second referendum. Can he

:36:42.:36:45.

assure the House and the cotntry that whatever the result on June 24,

:36:46.:36:50.

his government will carry ott the wishes of the British peopld. If the

:36:51.:36:56.

voters to remain, to remain, and if the voters to leave, which H hope it

:36:57.:37:02.

is, then we leave. I'm very happy to agree with my honourable frhend In

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means we remain in a reformdd European Union, out means wd come

:37:06.:37:10.

out. And as the Leave campahgners have said and others have s`id, out

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means out of the European Union out of the European single markdt, out

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of the council of ministers, out of all of those things, and it then

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means a process of delivering that which will take at least two years,

:37:26.:37:28.

and then delivering a trade deal which could take as many as seven

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years, so I would say to anxone still in doubt - and there `re even

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members in this House still thinking about how to vote - if you haven't

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made up your mind yet, if you are still uncertain, when you think of

:37:40.:37:43.

that decade of uncertainty for our economy and everything else, don't

:37:44.:37:50.

risk it, and vote Remain. The North Middlesex Hospital accident and

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emergency unit is incompletd meltdown. Will the Prime Minister

:37:55.:37:57.

commit to taking swift action to tackle this crisis? I do understand

:37:58.:38:04.

it is a very busy accident `nd emergency unit. It has recehved over

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30,600 patients through its doors in April alone but it has managed to

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carry out 40,000 operations and more than 62,000 diagnostic tests every

:38:15.:38:18.

year. If we look at what has happened since 2010, there `re 20

:38:19.:38:23.

more doctors, 200 mating more nurses recruited by the trust. -- 280 more

:38:24.:38:31.

nurses. But I think this coles out to the core argument of tod`y. If we

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remain in, we will have a stronger economy and then we have to make

:38:35.:38:37.

sure we take the proceeds of growth in that economy and continud to put

:38:38.:38:41.

them into the NHS, as I've `lways done as Prime Minister. I'm looking

:38:42.:38:47.

forward to the British people giving me the opportunity to vote `gainst

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the vindictive emergency budget Will my right honourable frhend

:38:53.:38:55.

explained that if the Government is so strapped for cash, why is it

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still intent on spending ?50 billion on HS2? The point is that wd will be

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strapped for cash if you believe the Institute for Fiscal Studies, or the

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national Institute for it, can social research, both impeccably

:39:17.:39:18.

Independent, who say there will be a hole in our public finances between

:39:19.:39:23.

20 billion and 40 billion. Hf the economy shrinks and you havd fewer

:39:24.:39:28.

jobs and lower wages, you gdt less tax receipts. If you have ldss tax

:39:29.:39:31.

receipts, clearly you either have to make cuts or you have to put up

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taxes or you have to increase borrowing. It is a simple m`tter of

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mathematics. There is an easy way to avoid getting into that sittation

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and that is devoted to stay in a reformed EU next Thursday. Order.

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