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Republic. It is why I have committed very clearly in all of my statements

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to ensure we do not return to those arrangements. That is precisely why

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will remain a priority for le in my role. Order. Questions to the Prime

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Minister. Mr Speaker... I al sure that the whole house will whsh to

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join me in welcoming today's employment figures, which show

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employment at another record high. And the lowest unemployment rate in

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over a decade and wages rishng. Mr Speaker, this morning I had meetings

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in addition to my duties in this house, I shall have further meetings

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today. This afternoon, I will travel to Berlin to

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We will cover a number of pressing international issues and tolorrow I

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, Warmly welcome the Prime Linister discussions with Francois Hollande.

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, Warmly welcome the Prime Linister to her place and can I also ask

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given her unwavering commitlent to deliver economic stability `nd

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national security, in our United Kingdom's interest, does shd welcome

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Monday's emphatic vote in this house for the Trident successor programme?

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Can I thank my honourable friend for his kind remarks, and thank him for

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enthusiastic the welcoming the debate in this house to rendw the

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nuclear deterrent, showing that we have not only committed to our own

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national security but also consider the security of our European and

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Nato allies. We can now get on with the essential job of renewing our

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nuclear deterrent, and can H thank those on 140 Labour members of

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Parliament, who put the nathonal interest first. And who votdd to

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renew the nuclear deterrent. Jeremy Corbyn. Thank you, Mr Speakdr, can I

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welcome the right honourabld member to her first PMQs, and congratulate

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her on her appointment and becoming the country's second woman Prime

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Minister. I hope that she whll agree with me that this house and prime

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ministers Question Time shotld be an opportunity to debate seriotsly the

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issues that face our countrx and our place in the world. On the steps of

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Downing Street, she spoke vdry eloquently about fighting btrning

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injustice... Yet, her last `ct as Home Secretary was to shut the

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Orgreave enquiry into the long grass. -- shove. The IPCC told Home

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Office officials that if it announced any action to set up an

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enquiry or any other investhgation to investigate Orgreave, it would

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impact the Hillsborough investigation, that has been

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disputed, was Parliament misled Will the Prime Minister now proceed

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with a full public enquiry hnto the terrible events at Orgreave? Can I

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thank the right honourable gentleman for the welcome that he has given

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me, can I say to him, he refers to me as the second woman Primd

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Minister, in my years here hn my house, I have long had the Labour

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Party asking what the Conservative Party does for women... LAUGHTER

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SHOUTING I welcome the comments he h`s made

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about prime ministers, we do make serious issues, I look forw`rd to

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the exchanges that he and I will have and I hope that we will be

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having them over this dispatch box for many years to come! CHEDRING

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As regards the Orgreave enqtiry the Shadow Home Secretary has an urgent

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question on that this afternoon which the Home Secretary will be

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responding to. Jeremy Corbyn. The new Prime Minister also said on the

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steps of Downing Street, " if you are young you will find it

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harder than ever before to own your own home". In 1998, more th`n half

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of working households of people aged 16 to 34 were buying their own

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homes, now it is 25%, the rdsolution foundation suggests this wilful to

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10% in the next nine years. What figure has the Prime Ministdr set

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herself for home ownership `mong young people? I know the tileline

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that has been referred to, he may have forgotten that during that

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period we had 13 years of a Labour government. 13 years of a L`bour

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government which had a very bad record in terms of house-buhlding.

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This is the government that is going to change that, this governlent is

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going to put more into building more homes, to ensure that young people

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do have a better opportunitx to get on the housing ladder.

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That is why we are a governlent that will be governing for everybody in

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this country. CHEERING That Labour government put ` decent

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house standard in place in dvery part of this country. -- hole

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standard. I am not sure... SHOUTING I am not sure, Mr Speaker, that

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starter homes at ?450,000 for young peopld earning

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7% less than their parents generation is actually a very good

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prospect for people owning their own homes. The Prime Minister is rightly

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concerned, Mr Speaker, she said this, if you are black you `re

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treated more harshly than if you are white. Before appointing her new

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Foreign Secretary, did she discuss with him his description of black

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people as you can in these `nd why he questioned the motives of the US

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president, Barack Obama, on his part Kenyan heritage? -- like people as

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piccaninnies. I have sat on these benches and heard him raise that

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with the right honourable friend for Whitney, when he was Prime Linister,

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on a number of occasions. Ldt nukes blamed this, if you look at house

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prices across the country, they vary, in Liverpool, the average

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house price is ?116,000, in London, the average house price is just over

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?676,000. That is why we have a higher limit for the starter home

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figure in London, if he objdcts to that, he needs to tell his

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constituents why he is against them having opportunities to get on the

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housing market? He refers to the remarks that I made, and it is

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correct, if you are black you will be treated more harshly in the

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criminal justice system, it is exactly why, as Home Secret`ry, I

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dealt with the issue of stop and search, I was concerned to lake sure

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that nobody should be stoppdd and searched on the streets of this

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country because of the colotr of their skin. I did that as a

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conservative, 13 years of L`bour did nothing on it. Jeremy Corbyn. My

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question was about the langtage used by the Foreign Secretary, e`rlier

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this week, the new Chancellor abandoned the budget surplus target.

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As Labour has long called for. Her government is already missing

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targets on debt, deficit, wdlfare count and productivity. Six years of

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government austerity has fahled The long-term economic plan is clearly

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dead. Is there a new one? It is the long-term economic plan that has

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delivered the record level of employment that we see... CHEERING

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Perhaps I could put the right honourable gentleman straight, we

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have not abandoned the intention to move to a surplus, what I h`ve said

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is that we will not be targdting that at the end of this Parliament.

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He uses the language of austerity... Can I say this to him, he t`lks

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about austerity, I call it living within our means. CHEERING

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He talks about austerity, in fact it is about not saddling children and

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grandchildren with signific`nt debts to come. It is not about austerity,

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it is about ensuring we havd an economy that works for everxone

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Jeremy Corbyn. Jobless clails have risen for the fourth month hn a row,

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welfare claims have risen as well. Austerity actually means people

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being poorer, services being cut, and local facilities being closed.

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In her speech on the steps of Downing Street, she also addressed

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insecure workers, saying, you have a job but you do not always h`ve job

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security. SHOUTING Does that mean, to those people that

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are worried about their futtre in work... SHOUTING

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I am talking of the people that sent us here to serve them. Does that

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mean that she is proposing to scrap and lemon tribunal fees, band zero

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hours contracts, repeal the trade union act, as more than a dozen

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European nations have already done, that would help to give gre`ter job

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security to many very worridd people in this country. Again I sax to the

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right honourable gentleman, I did say that on the streets of Downing

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Street, it is very important that here in this house, we conshder not

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only what might be called the more of these injustices but consider the

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life for those people for whom they are in work but struggling to make

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ends meet. It is essential, that is one of the things that the

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government has done, it has raised the threshold at which people start

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to pay income tax, for example. It is also about making sure that we

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have more well-paid jobs in this country. That is also what the

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government is doing. I'm interested that he refers to the situation of

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some workers, who may have some job insecurity, and potentially,

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unscrupulous bosses, I suspdct that there are many members on the

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opposition benches who may be familiar with an unscrupulots

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boss... LAUGHTER A boss who does not listen to his

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workers? SHOUTING Requires some of his workers to

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double their workload... SHOUTING LAUGHTER

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Maybe even a boss who explohts the rules to further his own career

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Remind him of anybody? SHOUTING Remind him of anybody? SHOUTING

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Speaker, we are sent here to represent people. And there are many

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people in this country struggling with insecure jobs, with low wages,

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I know this is very funny for all Conservative members, but I don t

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suppose, I do not suppose there is too many Conservative MPs who have

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to go to a food bank in orddr to supplement their family table every

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week! I think that we should reflect upon those things. The Primd

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Minister highlighted the fahlures of her predecessor, on social justice,

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homeownership, education and the cost of living. Some might say that

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as a cabinet minister, she too was responsible for that but shd

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empathised with working people when she said, " I know you are working

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around the clock, I know yot are doing your best, I know that

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sometimes life can be a strtggle". Yesterday the IFA has found that two

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thirds of children living in poverty in Britain have at least ond parent

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in work. -- IFS. What, other than warm words, is she going to offer

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those families, those children, who are hungry often and very insecure

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in their living? Isn't it otr duty to offer some hope and security to

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them? We are concerned about those people but the answer is not

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unlimited uncapped welfare, as the Labour Party

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say, the answer for people who are in work and struggling in work and

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the answer for those that w`nt to get into work is to have a strong

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economy, an economy which ddlivers jobs and well-paid jobs, and that is

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why I can assure the right honourable gentleman that on this

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side of the house, we are focused upon building a country which works

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for everyone, an economy whhch ensures that everyone can bdnefit

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from the nation's 12, a sochety where everyone gets the

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opportunities they deserve, and a democracy that everyone can have

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faith in. And finally, I sax to the right honourable gentleman, the

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Labour Party may be about to spend several months of fighting `nd

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tearing itself apart, the Conservative Party will be spending

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those months ringing this country back together. -- benefit from the

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nation's wealth. SHOUTING

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There will be more. I agree with the Prime Minister ..

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SHOUTING CHEERING

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LAUGHTER We are leaving the EU and wd are

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going to make a success of ht, will the Prime Minister make my Day

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special by saying that she hs prepared to reject staying hn the

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single regulated market, and offering instead to our fridnds in

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Europe a free-trade deal, vdry much in their interests, let's t`ke back

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control! I'm tempted to say that after that... Aisha Praught be sit

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down and enjoy that for the rest of the day... My honourable frhend has

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made my day. -- I should probably sit down and enjoy that the rest of

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the day. Happy birthday to him, I should say that, and as we look at

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the result of the referendul, I am very clear that Brexit means Brexit,

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we will make a success of it, what we need to do in negotiating the

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deal is listen to what people have said about the need for controlled

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on free movement but also ndgotiate the right deal and the best deal of

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trade in goods and services for the British people. Angus Roberts and.

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-- Angus Robertson. The German vice Chancellor has

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already confirmed how Scotl`nd is able to remain in the Europdan

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Union. Did the Prime Ministdr discussed this when she met with

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First Minister Nicola Sturgdon Wenzhou was in Edinburgh, and will

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she do everything to ensure that remain means remain for Scotland? --

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when she was in Edinburgh. Can I thank the right honourable gentleman

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for his comments and the recognition that he showed the support for my

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husband, and as he said then, we all rely on support from those `round

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cum to do our jobs, and we should never forget that. I did discuss the

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arrangements for the UK leaving the EU, and I was very pleased that my

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first trip was to Scotland `nd that I was able to do it so earlx in my

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premiership, as I have been very clear, the Union is very important

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to me. I was also clear with the First Minister that I think there

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are some ideas being put forward that are impractical but I `m

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willing to listen to the options that are brought forward, and we

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will be engaging fully with all the devolved add ministrations. Germany

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has the highest level of support of any continental European cotntry for

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Scotland remaining in the Etropean Union, so would the Prime Mhnister

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thank Chancellor Merkel for the interest of the members of her

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government and members of the Bundestag, their interest in having

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Scotland remaining within the EU, and will she assure the Chancellor

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and other heads of state and government that we in Scotl`nd will

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do everything, everything that is necessary for us to remain hn the

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EU? I have to say to the right honourable gentleman, because this

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is a line that he has been taking for some time. I do find it a little

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confusing, given that only two years ago in the Scottish referendum the

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SNP was campaigning for Scotland to leave the United Kingdom, which

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would have meant leaving thd European Union. Daniel Kawczynski.

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Thank you, Mr Speaker. We all stand with the people of France, `nd

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particularly Nice, following the appalling terrorist act there last

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week. We'll be primers to update the House on how the security

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collaboration between our countries can help prevent such attacks in the

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future, and reassure the Frdnch people that although we are leaving

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the European Union, the close links between our two countries whll

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remain steadfast? My honour`ble friend raises a very import`nt

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topic, and as has been said in his House before, our thoughts `re with

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all the people of France and the appalling attack that took place in

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Nice last week. We continue to work with the French authorities, both

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obviously in the aftermath of that attack, but my honourable friend is

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right that we need to continue our security co-operation with France

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and indeed other European countries. We will not be cowed by terrorists,

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we both faced the same thre`ts, and we need to work together in order to

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defeat those threats. And I can absolutely confirm that, yes, the

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United Kingdom will leave the European Union, but the United

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Kingdom is not leaving Europe, and our co-operation will continue.

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Jamie Read. Can I welcome the Prime Minister to her place and whsh you

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well in healing the country in the months and years to come? After all,

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it is she and her colleagues have so bitterly divided it. And can I thank

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too... Can I thank her too, Mr Speaker, for her wholeheartdd

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support and endorsement for official Labour Party policy on Triddnt? It

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is such a refreshing change to hear that from the despatch box!

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LAUGHTER As a type one diabetic and `s a

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father and uncle to children with type 1 diabetes, and we havd 50 ,000

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people, 30,000 of them children in this country, can I thank the Prime

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Minister for the example shd has shown to those people in

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demonstrating that this not hold us in anyway whatsoever? There is no

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doubt whatsoever, Mr Speaker, that the Prime Minister's predecdssor

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found the NHS, left it in a much worse condition than he. Will the

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Prime Minister visits... Will the Prime Minister visit my

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constituency, to honour the promises made by the previous Prime Linister,

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and to stop the government cutting services there? Thank you, Lr

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Speaker. Can I say, the honourable gentleman makes a reference to

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divisions on the Conservative Party benches, no, which is the p`rty that

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took three weeks to decide which should be that unity candid`te? It

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was the Labour Party! Can I thank him for his remarks and typd 1

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diabetes as well. There are many youngsters from tiny tots to

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teenagers leaving with type 1 diabetes, and it is important that

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we give the message to them that their future is not limited, they

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can do whatever they want. @nd he invites me, he is the first person

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in Prime Minister's Questions to invite me to visit his constituency,

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and I will look very closelx at all invitations that I received in Prime

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Minister's Questions. I think it is important that decisions about local

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NHS services are taken at a local level, but I would remind hhm, as he

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made the point about the agreement between Conservative Party `nd

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Labour Party official policx on Trident, that where we did disagree

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at the election was it was the Conservative Party that agrded that

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we would put the money that was necessary into the NHS, the Labour

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Party refused to commit that. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Extremism takes

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many forms, from the atrocity in Nice to the violent murder by her

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own brother in Pakistan, justified as an honour killing. -- Qandeel

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Baloch. There were many exalples of this in the UK over the last five

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years. Does the Prime Minister agree that such crimes are acts of terror,

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not honour, and which he directed that a new governor shows a lead for

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ending the use of the word honour to describe this vile act in order to

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stop any legitimacy to the hdea that women are the property of mdn? -

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and would she direct that hdr new government. This is an issud that

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resonate across this whole House, and she is absolutely right that

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extremism takes many forms, and in the counter-ruck stream is policy we

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are looking very widely across the breadth of extremism. -- cotnter

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extremism policy. We are looking at tackling the root causes of

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so-called honour based violdnce and I absolutely agree that there is

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absolutely no honour in so-called honour based violence, it is a

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criminal act, pure and simple. Thank you, vista is bigger. I too would

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like to welcome the Prime Mhnister to her first Prime Minister's

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Question Time. -- Mr Speaker. I would like to ask you to listen to

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the head teachers of primarx schools in my constituency. They tell me the

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weeds and unprecedented changes in primary education, including new

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sites, have lead to negativd impact on the learning outcomes of

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children. -- the recent unprecedented changes. Will she

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urged the new Secretary of State to take these concerns forward? I thank

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the honourable lady for her welcome to me, and I think education right

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is absolutely crucial if we are going to ensure that people can take

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up the opportunities they ddserve also have the aspiration to take up

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those opportunities. The new Education Secretary will be looking

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across the at the education provision that is in place, we have

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made important changes alre`dy over the last six years that are

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improving the quality of edtcation. More children are getting the

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quality of education they nded, but there is more for us to do, and we

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will be looking at that. In my constituency, Aerospace is vital

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importance, Rolls-Royce and boring over 1000 people at their shte, but

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it is just important there what do the whole UK economy. Will the Prime

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Minister congratulate all the companies that attended the

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Farnborough airshow, on the deals they signed, and will she agree that

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with nearly ?100 billion of trade deals done this year, Britahn is

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very much open for business? My honourable friend is absolutely

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right that Britain is open for business, and I know what an

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important role the aerospacd industry plays in his consthtuency,

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but also in other constituencies across the country, and the

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importance of the Farnborough airshow, and the member for

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Aldershot was telling me wh`t a great airshow it was. The Government

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committed there to generate a fund for research to ensure we rdtain our

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leading position in this sector and as he said, there are a significant

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number of trade deals signed, and I would encourage other companies to

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go out and get that business. I wish to welcome the right honour`ble lady

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to her place. Newcastle Airport was voted best in Britain this week but

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the good news that we are w`iting for is a decision on Heathrow

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expansion. The Prime Ministdr knows that Britain needs to be opdn for

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business, so will she do better than dithering gave and give us `

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decision without delay? -- dithering Dave. I have some fond memories of

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Newcastle Airport from the time when I stood in the North West Dtrham

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constituency some years ago and made quite good use of Newcastle Airport,

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it has changed and expanded rather ever since. On Heathrow, thd

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position has not changed. Obviously, the review work has been done,

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further work has been done hn relation to the question of air

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quality around the various proposals that were put forward, and the

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Cabinet and the Government will be taking a decision in due cotrse

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Thank you, Mr Speaker. Based on analysis of a crime survey for

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England and Wales by the Chhldren's Society, an estimated 113 16 and

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17-year-old girls in my constituency have experienced a sexual offence in

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the last year. Given the progress made in tackling child sexu`l

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exploitation in the last few years, could my right honourable friend

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outline if government has plans to strengthen the protection for this

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particular vulnerable age group My honourable friend raises a very

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important issue, we saw, obviously, in recent times the appalling

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circumstances in Rotherham hn relation to child sexual

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exploitation, but as my honourable friend Guy Shone, in every

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constituency in the country there are young people being submhtted to

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sexual offences. -- has shown. The Government has been working with all

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appropriate agencies to enstre we put greater support in placd to

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provide an extra 7 million hn funding to ensure victims of sexual

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abuse receive the right support launched the whistle-blowing

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helpline to help authorities spot patterns of behaviour, and patterns

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of failure, and made child sexual abuse and expedition a national

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thread so police forces havd a duty to collaborate to tackle thhs

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terrible crime. We will be strengthening our ravens in the

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coming months, we are all appalled by child sexual abuse, and we need

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to make sure we eradicate it. In her first statement on the steps of

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Downing Street, the Prime Mhnister stated that she would lead `

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government that would work for everyone of us. Since she bdcame

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Prime Minister, I have tried unsuccessfully to get assur`nces on

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the continuation of the Northern schools strategy, along with the 80

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million that was set aside for the Northern schools. Will she therefore

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give me that commitment tod`y so that children in Bradford and the

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North can have the same chances as those in London and the South? Well,

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it is important that we enstre that across the country children are

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getting the opportunities that they deserve, and the quality of the

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education they receive is an important part of that, and the

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review that has taken place, which was launched in March, is m`king

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recommendations on the issud. What I can assure the honourable gdntleman

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is that my right honourable friend the Education Secretary will be

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looking very carefully at the result of that review and will makd the

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position in which the Government is going to take in response to those

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recommendations clear in dud course. Stuart Andrew. Mr Speaker, crowing

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up on a council estate, it was tough coming out as a Conservativd. -

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growing up. LAUGHTER

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Difficult as it was, I understood then, as I do now, that onlx a

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Conservative government delhvers real social mobility.

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Does my right honourable frhend agree with me that if it is the job

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of this government to fight for such opportunities for the peopld of

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Britain, because the party opposite are too busy fighting each other?

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Well, my honourable friend puts it very well, and if you look `t the

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Conservative benchers, as hd says, we have Members of Parliament who

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were brought up in council houses, Conservative Members of Parliament

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brought up by single-parent families. The chairman of the

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Conservative Party is a forler miner. It is this party that is

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looking at opportunity for `ll, and that certainly, I am very clear that

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the Government I lead will be driven not by the interests of the

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privileged few but by the interests of everyone in this country, not

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entrenching the advantages of a privileged few in terms of

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opportunity, but extending opportunity to all. Steward led

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Donaldson. Thank you, Mr Spdaker. Whatever your politics, one cannot

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help but be inspired by the image last week of the female Prile

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Minister of UK meeting the female First Minister of Scotland, a

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message to girls everywhere that they can achieve anything they want.

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Does the Prime Minister agrde that to do this girls and women should be

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able to live free from genddr race violence and domestic abuse, and

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will she commit to supporting the bill of my honourable friend for

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Banff and Buchan and ratify the Istanbul convention? Can I say to

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the honourable gentleman th`t I think it is an important sylbol for

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girls and young women to sed women in positions as Prime Minister and

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First Minister, and I respect the First Minister of Scotland, we had a

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very constructive first meeting We will disagree on some issues, but we

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will work practically and pragmatically together. I think it

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is important to deal with the issues of gender violence and domestic

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violence against women and girls. That is why the add has a strategy

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that is being taken on by mx right honourable friend the Home Secretary

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now. -- why the Government has. We have a good record for putthng in

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place domestic violence protection orders, but there is always more to

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do, and we will be doing th`t. Can I welcome one right honourable

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friend to her place, if it hs not too untoward to say, I decl`re it as

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game, set and match to her this afternoon. Can I tell my right. .

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Can I tell my right honourable friend that last week, when I met

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local NFU representatives in North Dorset, they understood what we were

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doing in delivering Brexit, but they were keen to ensure that thd needs

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of agriculture and British farmers are front and centre in those

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discussions and that their hnterests are considered. Can I invitd my

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honourable friend to make that commitment today? I'm very happy to

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make that commitment, as we look at the position I will be taking in

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negotiations to leaving for the UK leaving the European Union, we will

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be consulting widely, agrictlture is a sector which is particularly

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affected by Brexit, and I c`n assure my honourable friend that wd will be

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consulting with and listening to the views of farmers and others involved

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in the food industry and agricultural sector. Can I

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congratulate the right honotrable lady on becoming Prime Minister I

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gently remind her of the conversation we had a few wdeks ago,

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when I said she would come through the middle and trounce the len

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standing for that position. So I was right! LAUGHTER

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I also said I was going to put some money on her, unfortunately I never

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got around to it, because the odds were very good at the time. Can I

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ask the Prime Minister is vdry serious question about the xounger

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generation, millennials, so many of them in this country believd they

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are citizens of Europe, thex had the ability to travel, to work, and to

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be true Europeans, will she soon give them her vision of how that

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reality, as European citizens, can be delivered even in the prdsent

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circumstance? I think the honourable gentleman, I do indeed remelber the

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conversation where he said H would trounce the men, as he said it, the

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Conservative Party came up with an all woman short list, withott being

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quiet to do so, if I may sax... LAUGHTER

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He raises an important point about the younger generation, what I would

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say is this, as I said in rdsponse to my noble friend, the member for

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Shrewsbury Town Acton, we are leaving the European Union but not

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leaving Europe, we will be setting out the negotiating position in

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terms of our relationship to the European Union, over the coling

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weeks and months, I would also say this to the young people th`t he

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talks about, actually, we should not be limiting their opportunities and

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their horizons by just lookhng at Europe. This country will bd making

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a success of Brexit because we will be out there in the world, `s an

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outward looking, expansive country with opportunities around the globe.

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Philip Davies. I warmly welcome the Prime Minister to her post, unlike

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dithering Barry, opposite, H did place a bet on her becoming the next

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leader. I apologise to the Linister for clearly having my phone off when

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she was calling me to be a part of the front bench of government(!

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LAUGHTER Reason why the people of Yorkshire

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voted overwhelmingly to leave, was due to control in immigration, and

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the Prime Minister reassure the people of Yorkshire that whdn we

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finally do leave the Europe`n Union, she will insist upon keeping her

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original promise to get the immigration figures down into this

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country into the tens of thousands. I say to my honourable friend, I am

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very clear that the vote th`t was taken in this country on thd 23rd of

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June sent a very clear mess`ge about immigration, that people want

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control of free movement from the European Union, and that is

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precisely what we will be doing and ensuring that we get that in the

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negotiations that we will bd undertaking. I also remain

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absolutely firm in my belief that we need to bring net migration down to

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sustainable levels, the govdrnment believes that is tens of

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thousands... It will take some time to get there, but of course, now, we

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have the added aspect of those controls that we can bring hn

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relation to people moving from the European Union. Finally, Mr Tim

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Fallon. Thanks. You all verx kind. I would like to warmly welcomd the

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promise to her position, shd has come a long way since we were on the

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hustings together in North West Durham, she will reflect th`t she is

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possessing greater support hn this chamber than either of us got in

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Consett working men 's club. -- -- Tim Farron. Today there are reports

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that the new Grexit law meat unit will be hiring lawyers at the cost

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of ?5,000 per head per day, will the Prime Minister be using the mythical

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?350 million to pay the leg`l fees, or is that still pencilled hn for

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the NHS, as promised by cabhnet colleagues who campaign for leave?

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It is absolute right that wd create a new department to focus upon the

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work of negotiating the United Kingdom leaving the European Union

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and that department will nedd to have the expertise necessarx to

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undertake those negotiations, I say to the right honourable gentleman, I

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am very happy to remember the days that he and I spent campaigning in

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that parliament in the general election, little did the voters of

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North West Durham know that the two candidates, unsuccessful candidates,

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in that election, would become leaders of two of this country's

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political parties, although as I would point out to the right

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honourable gentleman, my party is a little bit bigger than his hs..

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CHEERING LAUGHTER

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Order.

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