Speeches by Jopp.

“Will the Minister give way?”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“I thank the Minister for coming to the Chamber to answer this urgent question. I have taken note of what she has said and, if I may, I will quote it back to her: “a swift and prompt trial is a fundamental ingredient of fairness”, a three to four year delay is “deeply demoralising”, and “justice delayed is justice denie…”

“Who knew?”

“No one can doubt the hon. Member’s commitment to the people of Oldham. He is being very loyal to the Chancellor and her Budget. I have a simple question: if unemployment goes up in his constituency from today, before the local elections next year, will he resign?”

“Does my hon. Friend share my concern that we have lost, I believe, 90,000 jobs from the hospitality industry just since the last Budget? While I do my bit to try to save the British pub industry on my own, does he worry, as I do, that today’s Budget will just make it harder and harder for hospitality?”

“The hon. Gentleman is being very generous with his time. I am a bit confused by his answer to my last intervention. Why was it a bad idea to lift the two-child benefit cap when the SNP suggested it, but a good idea now that his Chancellor suggests it?”

“For the record, why did the hon. Member vote against lifting the two-child benefit cap when the SNP proposed it earlier?”

“Does the hon. Member acknowledge that whether parents get their money from income or from benefits, the Government, having inherited 2% inflation, have taken it up to 3.6%, which reduces the value of that pound in parents’ pockets?”

“You’re in charge.”

“I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving way a second time. The Chancellor said on Sky News, “It’s on me now.” I would be grateful if he could set a date for when this Government are going to take responsibility for the country. I have plenty of things I could be doing in Spelthorne, so I will go away and come back …”

“I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving way. What is his message to the people who have been made unemployed since the Labour party came to power?”

“I completely agree with my right hon. Friend about the inherent contradictions. Would it be fair to characterise this Budget as the left hand not knowing what the further left hand is doing?”

“Is Surrey going to get a mayor?”

“I will try to speak really slowly and ask not multiple questions but just the one. How much cash did David Kogan give the Prime Minister?”

“Very good!”

“Thank you very much indeed for coming in. Could you set the scene as to the circumstances in which your review took place? To what extent were you happy with the terms of reference? Was there anything that you could or could not put into it? Subject to the Government having not yet published the review—and within the r…”

“Please do.”

“Thank you very much indeed. That was very helpful. A lot of the things that you were talking about chime with what the Committee saw during our visits to Washington, Norfolk, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra earlier in the year. Do you have any sense of when the Government are going to publish a redacted, declassified vers…”

“I think you said, in your answer to the first question, that you did not think that the two new Prime Ministers and President had had a conversation about AUKUS—a three-way conversation.”