Speeches by Morello.

“At one point, going through all the amendments that had been tabled to the Bill, I concluded that accepting them all would mean that the only people who would pay for a full-price ticket would probably be working-age men aged 35 to 45—they would have to single-handedly fund the entire rail network. I am not sure that t…”

“During my conversations with the sector, one of the challenges that came up about returning, for example, the buffet trolley or other services to trains is that services have already been sold on station platforms. There is direct and inherent competition between any service that someone might receive on the train and …”

“Thank you, Sir Alec, for the clarification, and I thank the hon. Member for his question. I understand the premise of the point: whichever number we put in, there is a risk that someone could come up with such an example. I think the point is that, for journeys over 30 minutes, for older passengers, for example, the gu…”

“I will speak to new clause 20, which makes the simple ask that Great British Railways does all it can not to contribute to the climate crisis. I hope it is uncontroversial, because the bits of legislation that we are asking for GBR to adhere to are the Environment Act 2021 passed by the previous Conservative Government…”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Mrs Hobhouse. I am always slightly concerned about speaking after my hon. Friend the Member for Didcot and Wantage, who has a justifiable reputation as a train expert—I will not say “train nerd”—so I am slightly circumspect. Rail users, both regular and irregular, have man…”

“We have seen reports about the US suspending the technology prosperity deal with the UK in an effort to force the Government to accept lower-standard imports in order to secure a trade deal with the US. Does my hon. Friend agree that these bully-boy tactics by the Trump Administration should not be kowtowed to, and we …”

“The White Paper says that, along with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, DEFRA will implement a new “plan-making system”—a term I have frankly never heard before. I do not know what it means, but it says that water companies will be designated a consultation body for this new plan-making system.…”

“As co-chair of the net zero all-party parliamentary group, I welcome the expansion of the funding for solar and heat pumps. Prior to coming to this place, I spent the better part of a decade riding the solarcoaster, so I know for a fact that the biggest drag on solar expansion is the skills shortage. Would the Secretar…”

“Q The Secretary of State will still have to sign off that loop, though. Keith Williams: They will still have to sign it off, but hopefully they will leave it to the people who know what needs doing to do it.”

“Q On accountability, both this panel and the previous one have talked about the benefits of having a single business unit or chief executive responsible for both track and train. I accept the logic of that and the point that there are mechanisms for local communities and passenger groups to interact with that business …”

“The post-war world order was based on the premise that like-minded western liberal democracies would stand up for each other, expand democracy wherever we saw it and lower the barriers to free trade, and that through NATO we would engage in collective responsibility—an attack against one was an attack against all. It i…”

“Over the last 24 years, 174 grassroots rugby clubs have disappeared. Such clubs are vital and feed our professional teams with talent and fans. While attendance and broadcast figures are improving at the top level, Premiership clubs still owe the Government massive amounts of money in covid loans and carry £340 million…”

“I welcome the results of the AR7 allocation. This is about protecting working families from volatile fossil fuel prices set by foreign powers that have repeatedly used oil and gas as geopolitical weapons. Relying on Trump’s America or Putin’s Russia to keep the lights on puts us all at risk. Renewable energy is the che…”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Mr Dillon) on securing this debate. Per mile travelled, rural roads account for over 60% of all UK road deaths. Last year, I met a group of constituents who keep their horses in stables in the Forston area. They are experienced riders, and they described repeated ne…”

“It is a source none the less. That places even greater importance on AR8. I hope that the Government will commit to their timetable to open AR8 by the summer and to announce the results by the end of the year. Meanwhile, there is still work to be done to bring down bills for working families and businesses, which is wh…”

“Yesterday, the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy was taking evidence on crypto, foreign donations and crypto donations. It became clear through the evidence that an ecosystem is required in order to scrutinise this—you touched on some of it, such as the FCA or the potential for only using UK-regist…”

“I also do not want us to have to get to a point where we have a suspended election in order to decide that now is the time to start acting. This is what has happened in other countries.”

“To take a development that has happened in the US, if a politician—it would not be me because I would not know how to do it—or a political party set up a memecoin, for example, how would that sit within the existing regulatory framework? If anyone could purchase that, then am I having to look at where those purchases a…”

“We visited your opposite number in Romania, and they took us through in great detail—probably too much detail—the process that they had established during the election to deal with predominantly TikTok accounts. Something was flagged to them, which was the first thing. It was entirely passive. What you are talking abou…”

“To follow up on that, the Committee has seen or heard evidence of foreign actors deliberately amplifying messages designed to break down social cohesion. Sometimes those are messages by political individuals or political parties. From the point of view of the Electoral Commission, if a foreign actor is deliberately usi…”