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Wales are dependent on the agriculture sector and it would be

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short-sighted in the extreme to turn its back on a sector which put Wales

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on international map. I know the whole house will join me

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in congratulating Andy Murray, Heather Watson, on their stunning

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success at Wimbledon. This morning I have meetings with ministerial

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colleagues and others. Other than one meeting with Her Majesty The

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Queen this afternoon, the diary for the rest of my day is remarkably

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light. May I echo his congratulations to Andy Murray and

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all the other winners. May we thank the Prime Minister for all his hard

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work and his leadership. And particularly his commitment to the

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union and to Northern Ireland, and swimming in not on, maybe he would

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like to come and swim in luck and eight, we look forward to working

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with the next Prime Minister. I'm told there are lots of roles out

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there, there is the England football team... There is Top Dear, even

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across the pond, there is a role that needs filling. If I can go to

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my pet subject, Brexit really threatens. Really threatens the

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union. Will he work with his successors to ensure we have

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somebody who will pull together all the countries of the union and the

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overseas territories and make it so we all work and thrive together?

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Festival that mistaken for his kind remarks and fascinating suggestions

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for future jobs, I think most of them sound harder than this one. --

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first of all. I do believe Northern Ireland is stronger than it was a

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the full devolution of justice and home affairs, delivered under this

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government, the seminal report, record inward investment, I care

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passionately about our united kingdom, we do need to make sure

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that as we leave the European Union, we work out how to keep the benefits

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of the Common travel area, hard work is being done now with civil servant

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in Northern Ireland and Whitehall and also the Republic, that what

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needs to quicken. I would like to also paid tribute to my honourable

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friend and the hard-working as the leading this great country for the

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last few years. His lasting legacy will include supporting the Kurds,

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whose peshmerga are bravely fighting Daesh in all our interest. Having

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visited them on the front line,, although our training are crucial,

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the injuries could be reduced with additional equipment like body

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armour, respirators and front line medical facilities and we could

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possibly provide beds in a specialist hospital in Birmingham

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today most seriously injured. Does he agree this is a relatively small

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investment that would make a huge difference to our allies in the

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common fight to defeat the evil of terrorism? Thirst -- first of all

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thank you for your words. The Kurds are doing valuable work against the

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ash in Iraq and Syria. I will look carefully at his suggestion of using

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the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, who have excellent facilities for

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battlefield facilities, our army are helping the peshmerga but we will

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look and see if more can be done. Let's be frank, the strategy is

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working on the Daesh is on the back foot, its finances have been hit,

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more than 25,000 fighters have been killed, desertion has increased and

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the flow of foreign fighters has fallen by 90%. I have always said

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this will take a long time to work in Iraq and Syria but we must stick

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at it. Jeremy Corbyn. Can I start gradually the Prime Minister in pain

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trouble to be winners at Wimbledon, -- paying tribute. Also I think it

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would be nice if we can gradually did Serena Williams on her fantastic

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achievement as well. -- congratulated. It's only right that

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after six years as Prime Minister, we thank him for his service. By

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that and is agreed with him but some achievements of his I do want to

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play recognition to, one is helping to secure the release of shack army

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from quantum Bay and legislating to achieve equal marriage within our

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society, and I'm sure he will acknowledge that Labour boats helped

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get it through on that occasion! Will they acknowledge some concern

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that the way homelessness has risen for the last six years and looks

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like it will continue to rise in this country? Let me thank him for

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his kind remarks, I would join him in pain should be to Serena Williams

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who has now knocked Steffi Graf's amazing record of 22 grand slams,

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has overtaken that. The case in Guantanamo Bay was one that be

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raised again and again with the US government and I'm pleased it was

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resolved. And also what is it about equal marriage, there are 30,000

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dead people in our country when the last six years have been able to get

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married and that is real progress, I will never forget the day in number

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ten when one of the people who works very close to the front door said to

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me, I'm not that interested in politics but because of something

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you're not have done, I'm able to marry the person I have loved all my

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life this weekend and that was one of my favourite moments in this job.

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As for homelessness, it is still 10% below the peak saw on the labour but

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the key is building more homes, we have put 7000 since I became Prime

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Minister but the key to building more homes is programmes, reforms to

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the planning system, but the key is a strong economy. I had to what the

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Home Secretary has been saying over the past few days and she has been

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saying it is harder than ever for young people to buy their first

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house. Does the Prime Minister think this is because of record low

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house-building for his government's apparent belief that ?450,000 is an

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affordable starter home? Let me say how warmly I congratulate the Home

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Secretary on becoming leader of the Conservative Party. When it comes to

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women prime ministers, I'm pleased to be able to say pretty soon it

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will be 2-0. And not a pink bus insight! On the issue of... Of

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housing and homelessness, 700,000 homes have been delivered. He asks

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about this issue of affordability which is absolutely key. When I

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became Prime Minister, because of what had happened to the mortgage

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market, first-time buyer of the needed to have as much as ?30,000 to

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put a deposit down. Because of the conversion of help to buy and shared

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ownership, some people are able to get on the housing ladder with as

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little as ?2000 and with a low mortgage rate, the new houses we are

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building, we are making good progress. The malaise seems deeper

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still. The Home Secretary said, talking of the economy, so that it

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really does work for everyone, because it is apparent to anyone in

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touch with the real world that people do not feel our economy works

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that way. Isn't she right that too many people coming to many places in

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Britain, feel their economy has been destroyed in towns they are in

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because the industries have gone, there are levels of high and implode

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or underemployment and a deep sense of malaise? Don't we all need to

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address that question? If we're going to talk about the economic

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record, let's get the faxed straight. We have cut the deficit,

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there are 2 million more people in work, almost a million more

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businesses, 2.9 million apprenticeships have been trained

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under this government and it comes to property, 300,000 fewer people in

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relative poverty, 100,000 fewer children in relative poverty. To be

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accused of sloth in delivery, let's just take the last week we have both

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been having, we got on with it, we about resignation, nomination,

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competition and current nation, they haven't even decided what the rules

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are yet! -- coronation. If they ever got into power, to take

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about a year to work out who would sit where! Democracy is an exciting

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and splendid thing and I'm enjoying every moment of it! The Home

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Secretary, Mr Speaker, talking of the economy... Again, she said many

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people find themselves exploited by unscrupulous bosses to stop I can't

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imagine who she is referring to! But in his... In his hand discussion...

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In his handover discussions with the Home Secretary, could enlighten us

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as to whether or not there is any proposal to take on agency Britain

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by banning zero hours contracts, clamping down on umbrella companies,

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repealing the trade union act or preferably all three? He's right

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that democracy is a splendid thing, I have to agree with him. Let me

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answer directly on expedition in the workplace. It is this government at

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the first introduced a living wage stop -- exploitation. It is

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massively increased the power of the gang masters authority, there are

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fines for businesses that don't pay the minimum wage and more policing

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and prosecutions taking place although those things have changed

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under government. As for zero hours contracts, they account for less

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than one in four people in work, 60% of people in them do not want to

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work more hours and it was this government that did something the

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Labour Party never did, which was to ban exclusive so hours contracts. 13

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years of them committed a coalition Conservative government to do it.

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Let me say something about the democratic process of leadership

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elections, because I did say a couple of weeks ago, I am beginning

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to admire his tenacity! He's reminding me of the Black Knight in

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Monty Python's holy Grail. He has been kicked seven times but keeps

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saying, it's only a flesh wound! I admire that. Mr Speaker, I would

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like the Prime Minister to address another issue that the house voted

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on last week. And I have got a question from Nina, hang on... It's

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a question from somebody who deserves an answer. And she says, I

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would like to know if there is any possibility that a European Union

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citizen who has lived in Britain for 30 years can have their right of

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permanent residents revoked or deported, depending on the Brexit

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negotiations. There has been no clear answer to this question. It is

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one that worries a large number of people and it would be good if in

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his last question Time, he could at least offer some assurance to those

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people. Let me reassure Nina, there is absolutely no chance of that

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happening to somebody in those circumstances, we're working hard to

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get a guarantee for EU citizens that they will have their rights

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respected, all those who have, to this country. The only circumstance

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I could ever in visit a future government trying to undo that

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guarantee would be if British citizens in other European countries

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didn't have their rights respected, so it's important to have

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reciprocity. The new Prime Minister will be working together guarantee

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as fast as we can. I have got an e-mail as well. I am not making this

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up, I promise was to buy but this on the 62 of September 2015 from

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someone called Judith and she said, please, please, keep witty and not

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triumphalism during the first B with Jeremy Corbyn. She said because

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Tom Watson, who may oust Jeremy Corbyn, is a very different kettle

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of fish. He is far more dangerous in the long-term. She goes on, so

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sensible, sober, polite answers, let him create his own party disunity.

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After this is over, I have got to find Judith and find that what on

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earth happened next! Mr Speaker... I have had the pleasure of asking the

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Prime Minister 179 questions. Thank you, there are plenty more to come

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to his successor, don't worry about that! But before I ask him the last

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question, could I just put on record and wish him well as he leaves this

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office and also wish his family well, Samantha and their children,

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because I think we should all recognise that while many of us

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really do enjoy our jobs and political rights, is the loved ones

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nearest to us and our families who make enormous sacrifices that we can

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do this. I would also like to pass on thanks to his mum for his advice

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about ties and suits and so on. It's extremely kind of her, I would be

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grateful if you would pass that on to her personally. And I reflected

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on the lesson she offered. There is a rumour I want him to deal

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with. There is a rumour going around that his departure has been

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carefully Corey Grant so he can slip aimlessly into the vacancy created

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-- created this morning on Strictly by Len Goodman's departure. Is that

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his next career? -- carefully choreographed. I can assure him that

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is not the case. I thank him for the kind words and wishes to my amazing

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wife, Samantha, and my lovely children, who are watching from the

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gallery this morning. He is right, the pressure off and bears hardest

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on those around us in these jobs, and let me send my best to his

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family. I will leave it to others to work out how many questions are

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answered from this dispatch box. Because of your belief in letting

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everyone have their say, I think I have done a record of 92 hours of

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statements from this dispatch box, as well as some very enjoyable

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liaison committee appearances and other things. I will certainly said

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his good wishes back to my mother. He seems to have taken her advice

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and is looking absolutely splendid today. But it gives me the

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opportunity to put a rumour to rest as well, even more serious than the

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strictly come dancing one, and he will appreciate this, because the

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rumour somehow that I don't love Larry. I do, and I have photographic

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evidence. Sadly, I can't take Larry with me. He belongs to the house and

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the staff love him very much, as do I. Is my right honourable friend

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aware that, in 33 years in this house, watching five prime ministers

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and several ex-prime ministers, I have seen him achieve a mastery of

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that dispatch box unparalleled in my time, not just because of his

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command of detail, his wit, but because he commands the respect of

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friend and foe alike, who know that he is driven not just by legitimate

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political ambitions and ideas, but by a sense of duty which always

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leads him to try to make this country more prosperous, more

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solvent, more tolerant, more flair and more free, and he will command

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the respect of generations to come. Those words mean a lot from my right

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honourable friend, who spent so much time in this house. It is a special

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place and prime ministers questions, for all of its theatrics, does have

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a purpose, because it is time every week when the Prime Minister has to

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know everything going on in Whitehall, and often you find out

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things which you want to stop pretty quickly before 12 o'clock on

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Wednesday. I believe politics is about public service in the national

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interest, which is what I have always tried to do. This session has

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some admirers around the world. When I did his job and I met Mayor

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Bloomberg in New York. Everybody knew him and nobody had a clue who I

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was until eventually somebody said, hey, Cameron, Prime Minister's

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Questions. We love your show! Thank you very much. I join the Prime

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Minister and the leader of the Labour Party in paying tribute to

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all of the winners at Wimbledon. This week, we mark the 21st

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anniversary of the Srebonica genocide. It is one of the few

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political causes that the Prime Minister and I both wholeheartedly

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support and I hope he will be impressing on his successor the

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importance of supporting the Remembering Srebonica organisation

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and all of its good work, notwithstanding our differences, I

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genuinely extend my best personal wishes to the Prime Minister and his

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family and I wish them all of the best. However... The Prime

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Minister's legacy will undoubtedly be that he has taken us to the brink

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of being taken out of the European Union, so we will not be applauding

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his premiership on this. What advice has he given his successor on taking

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Scotland out of the EU against the wishes of Scottish voters? First,

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let me join the right honourable gentleman in paying tribute to all

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of those who lost their lives in Srebonica and making sure we

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commemorate this every year. This year, there will be a service in the

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office where commemoration will be given, test dummy will be read out,

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and we should think of it alongside the terrible events of modern

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history such as the Holocaust. -- testimony will be read out. In this

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house, there is sometimes a price for nonintervention, and we should

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remember that. In terms of what he says about Scotland and the United

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Kingdom and Europe, my advice to my successor, a brilliant negotiator,

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is that we should try to be as close to the EU as we can be, or the

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benefits of trade, cooperation and security. The channel will not get

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any wider once we leave the EU and that is what we should seek, which

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will be good for the UK and Scotland. The Prime Minister's

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successor is well known in Scotland and across the front pages because

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of a threat to deport a loved and light family from the Highlands. Her

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first action in her premiership is likely to be imposing Trident

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against the wishes of every MP in Scotland. Meanwhile, she says she

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plans to plough on with Brexit, regardless of the fact that Scotland

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voted to remain in the EU. How does the outgoing Prime Minister think

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that all of this will go down in Scotland? Specifically on the Graham

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family, Mrs Brain came to this country to study for a Scottish

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history degree, she completed and her husband and son came as

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dependents. We have given them an extension until August one put in an

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application for a work visa. On Trident, there will a vote in this

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house. Many people in Scotland support our nuclear deterrent,

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maintaining it for the jobs which come in Scotland. He asks about the

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record of this government when it comes to Scotland. 143,000 more

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people in work in Scotland, massive investment in the renewable

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industries in Scotland, the two biggest warships ever built in our

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history, built in Scotland. A powerhouse parliament, a referendum

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that was legal, decisive and fair and, I might add, a Scotsman winning

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Wimbledon twice while I was Prime Minister. Never mind indie two. I

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think it is time for Andy two. I would like to thank Prime Minister

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for the leadership he has shown, particularly in his support of women

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within the Conservative Party. The Prime Minister's legacy for me,

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however, and for fellow cancer survivors is the personal support he

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has shown for the cancer drug fund. However, today, I would like to ask

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him to show that same support for those who have been affected by the

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contaminated blood. Would he please update the house as to whether they,

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too, will have a legacy? I think my honourable friend for what she said.

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She is right to raise this issue of contaminated blood. I can today

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announce that we will be spending the extra ?125 million we have

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identified in a much fairer and more conferences scheme, to guarantee

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that all of those affected will for the first time receive a regular

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payment. This will include all of those with appetisers stage one, who

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will receive ?3500 per year, rising to ?4000 by the end of the year.

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Annual payments will increase over the lifetime of the Parliament and

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will enhance the support for those who have been read or those who will

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be in future, significantly boosting the money for discretionary

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payments. -- those who have been bereaved. Last year, I apologised.

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Today, I will provide them with the support. While it isn't right to

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pick out two people, coming to constituency surgeries, making your

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point to your MP, campaigning as these sufferers have done, in my

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case, David Leadbetter and Hugh Davies coming to my surgery and

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saying, this mustn't stand, I know that not everybody will be satisfied

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in what is being done, but it just show our democracy working and

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compassion in religion to this problem. The Prime Minister came to

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office promising to keep the UK's triple-A rating, and top-down NHS

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reorganisations and to stop his party banging on about Europe. How

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would he say that is gone? In terms of the economic record, 2.5 million

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more jobs, the deficit cut by two thirds, 2.9 million apprenticeships,

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a million more businesses, a growth rate that has been at the top of the

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developed world, all of that because of the choices we made. Because we

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did that, we have been able to back our NHS with a 10% funding increase,

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over 10 billion in real terms in this Parliament. As for Europe, we

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have to settle these issues. I think it is right, when you are trying to

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settle a big constitutional issue, you don't just rely on Parliament,

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you ask the people as well and we made and we kept a promise. I am

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sorry if this turns out to be my last question to the Prime Minister,

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but I want to thank him for everything he has done for my

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constituency, where every school is now good or outstanding and the

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jobless total is down 64% since he took office. Can I encourage him to

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return to the big society agenda I know he is so passionate about? Can

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I ask him if he remembers saying, shortly before coming -- becoming

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Prime Minister, politicians are a mixture of egotism and altruism and

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you hope that the right one wins out so people do the right thing rather

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than the politically convenient thing. It seems to me he has stayed

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on the right side of that divide, not least in the manner of his

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departure, and I think the country will miss him a great deal. I think

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my friend for his kind remarks. When it comes to education, there is a

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strong record to build on. We have got 1.4 million children in good or

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outstanding schools since 2010. We have seen the free schools movement

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really take off. I visited one yesterday that is outstanding, as a

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court of them are, which is in amazing record. -- a quarter of

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them. As for the big society, yes, we should use a strong economy to

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build a bigger and stronger society. One thing we are doing is

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introducing National Citizen Service, 200,000 young people have

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taken part in that programme and I hope by the end of this Parliament

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it will be the norm for 16-year-olds to take part. We talk about the soft

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skills that are necessary to give people real life chances. National

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Citizen Service will help that. Can I thank the Prime Minister for the

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courteous way he has always answered questions I have managed to ask him.

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I have always listened carefully to his answers, but until I had two eye

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operations, I wasn't able to see him clearly. If he is concerned that I

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am about the newspaper reports that people who are not entitled to NHS

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cataract operations are jumping the queue and stopping people who are

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entitled to NHS operations having that treatment? I will look

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carefully... First, I think him kindly for his remarks. I have tried

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to answer questions from this dispatch box. It is difficult

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sometimes when you haven't seen the specific story, and I happened here.

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I recall that we are investing in these cataract operations and the

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number receiving them is going up but I will look carefully this

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afternoon at the question he asks about the danger of queue jumping

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and get back to them. -- back to him. Under the leadership of my

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right honourable friend, the Prime Minister, in my constituency,

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unemployment has dropped from 5.1% in May 2010 to 1.9 2010 in May this

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year. A record to be proud of and one I would like to thank him for.

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Does my right honourable friend agree with me that this has only

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been possible thanks to his firm focused on jobs, apprenticeships and

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skills, a strong economy and investment? The figures are

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remarkable, when a constituency is getting to 1.9% unemployment, that

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is very close to full employment and it is remarkable. What we have done

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with apprenticeships was 2.4 million in the last Parliament, an extra

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500,000 already in this Parliament, towards the target of 3 million in

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this Parliament, and I'm confident we can achieve that. These are not

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just numbers but real people who have experience of the workplace,

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who are learning a trade and taking first steps in a career. What I want

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is, when they get back to Korea, not only do they have the national

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minimum wage but they don't get to pay income tax until they are

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earning that wage. We have taken the largest people out of poverty...

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This week is black country week. Yesterday, Black Country manufactory

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is were in Parliament demonstrating the high quality products that are

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exported worldwide. Will the outgoing Prime Minister impress upon

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the incoming Prime Minister the huge importance of maintaining access to

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the EU single market during exits negotiations, in order that we can

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maximise the Black Country contribution to exports,

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productivity and jobs? I agree with the honourable gentleman.

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I want to make sure we get the vital access to Europe. Ten years ago

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today I was applying to become Conservative Parliamentary candidate

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for Worcester as my right honourable friend was uniting the opposition

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and preparing it for government. Like so many on these benches, I

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entered the house in the wiki first became Prime Minister. Since that

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time, unemployment has halved and apprenticeships have doubled. We are

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getting fairer funding, wages are up and taxes are down. Can I thank my

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right honourable friend for all of his service to our nation and the

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legacy of improved life chances he will leave behind? Can I thank him

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for his kind remarks. We have seen unemployment falling all of these

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constituencies and the claimant count go down. More importantly we

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see 450,000 fewer children in households where nobody works. Think

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of the effect of having a parent or loved one in work, helping to put

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food on the table and provide a role model for their children, that is

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what this is about. I thank him for his kind remarks. Between broken

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vows, Brexit and the likely renewal of weapons of mass destruction on

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the Clyde. The Prime Minister about... Has done

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more for Scottish independence than any of us on these benches could

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ever hope to do. So, as he contemplates a move to

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Aberdeenshire, could the Prime Minister now make his commitment to

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Scottish independence official by visiting SNP. Walk. -- SNP.org. What

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I say to the honourable ladies and all members of Parliament from

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Scotland, when you have Lord Smith himself that the vow to keep a

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powerhouse parliament was kept, the SNP should recognise a promise was

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made and the promise was delivered. I have bought many times at this

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dispatch box about creating this powerhouse parliament but what I

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have see is the SNP using any of the powers that they have now got --

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what I haven't seen. Mr Speaker, can I first join all of

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those in thanking the Prime Minister for the statesman-like leadership he

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has given to our party and to the country for the last six years. And

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to thank him particularly, on this occasion, for the debating eloquence

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and also the wit and humour that he has always brought to Prime

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Minister's Questions on Wednesday. And can I ask that, as no doubt he

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will have some plans for a slightly more enjoyable and relaxed Wednesday

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morning and lunchtime, nevertheless he will still be an active

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participant in this house as it faces a large number of problems

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over the next few years? As a note to people know what Brexit means at

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the moment, we need his advice and statesmanship as much as we ever had

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-- as no two people. Can I thank my right honourable friend for his very

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kind remarks. I remember one of the toughest conversations I had in

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politics was when I was Leader of the Opposition and I was trying to

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get him to join my front bench and he was make bird-watching holiday in

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Patagonia and it was almost impossible to persuade him to come

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back. Not many people know this, but his first act as Chancellor of the

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Exchequer was to fire me has a special adviser. I am very proud of

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the fact that one of my first acts was to appoint him to my cabinet in

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the Coalition Government, and I know that then Deputy Prime Minister will

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join me in saying that he provided great wisdom, great thoughtfulness,

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great ballast at a time of national difficulty in the advice that he

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gave us. He is not always the easiest person to get hold of. Tory

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modernisation has never quite got as far as getting Ken Clarke to carry a

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mobile phone. He did briefly have won but he said the problem was

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people keep bringing me on it -- ringing me. We had to move our

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morning meeting to accommodate his nine o'clock cigar, I recall. But I

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will watch these exchanges from the backbenches and I will miss the roar

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of the crowd, I will miss the barbs from the opposition, but I will be

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willing you on, and when I say willing you want, I don't just mean

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willing on the new Prime Minister at the dispatch box or just willing on

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the front bench defending the manifesto that I helped put

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together, but I will mean willing all of you on. People come here with

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huge passion for the issues they care about, they come here with

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great love for the constituencies they represent and also willing on

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this place. Yes, we can be pretty tough and test and challenge our

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leaders, perhaps more than some other countries, but that is

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something we should be proud of and we should keep at it. I hope you all

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keep at it and I will will you on as you do. The last thing I would say

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is that you can achieve a lot of things in politics. You can get a

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lot of things done, and that in the end, public service, the national

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interest, that's what it's all about. Nothing is really impossible

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if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said, I was the

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future once.

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