Speeches by Jopp.

“Do you know which unit the 65 guys who had been left behind were from?”

“This is absolutely gripping. If we could rewind a touch: you informed Heappey, the Minister, and did not get a response for four days. The press reports suggested that you also told, at some stage, Luke Pollard?”

“So in the original email to Heappey, you cc-ed Pollard?”

“Got it. And you got a reply from Pollard but not from Heappey?”

“What was your motivation for copying in an Opposition Minister?”

“That makes complete sense.”

“This is a difficult one for you to guess, but you will have a stronger sense of it than anyone. Do you think that, from the moment that the Facebook post happened, the Taliban were in receipt of the whole list, or do you think that someone was drip feeding it to them? Can the pace of torture and execution give us an in…”

“I am trying to make sense of Rimmer’s comments, and I am trying to understand the threat posed by the list, on its own. Is the situation that you described, where these networks bounce other networks, what really affects the threat profile, rather than the original list?”

“I understand that the permanent secretary at the Home Office recently appointed a single senior official to be responsible for asylum hotels. Will the Home Secretary please use her good offices to encourage that official to come to the Stanwell hotel in my Spelthorne constituency, so that they can see for themselves ho…”

“A constituent wrote to me asking whether I could get a wriggle on with his EU settlement scheme application. We checked with the Home Office and it turned out that he was subject to a live deportation order. It was issued in 2017, and we did deport him. Somehow he got back into the country and made his application. I s…”

“I thank the Minister for her statement, although it will have caused some consternation in my constituency. Spelthorne is in Surrey, which is being carved up into two unitary authorities, and recent so-called clarifications by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have stated that there are no promi…”

“Thank you, that was really helpful just to baseline the rest of our discussion.”

“Would my hon. Friend agree that the corollary of taxes is expenditure? We have tried to elicit some clarity from Government Members about whether they would like to raise the two-child benefit cap, which would cost £3.5 billion, or leave it where it is. Given the Chancellor’s kite-flying exercise in the media recently,…”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“I think that funny sound I am hearing, on the back of that last statement, is General Mike Jackson spinning in his grave, but there we are. Mr Savill, I want to go back to something you said about the reform agenda laid out in a speech by John Healey when in opposition, and how it clashes with other reform. For those o…”

“On the topic of tough decisions, I have a really simple question for the hon. Gentleman, which will probably do him some good in the coup that is currently going on. Is he for lifting the two-child benefit cap, or for keeping it in place?”

“It would make things so much simpler for the House if the hon. Gentleman would put a date on when those on the Government Benches will take responsibility for running the country. I do not mind if it is in six months’ time or a year’s time, but we can then all go home—I have lots of things to do in Spelthorne until the…”

“Will my hon. and gallant Friend take an intervention from any Labour Member who is prepared to say that they have spoken to a business in their constituency that welcomes the NI tax increase?”

“The hon. Member is nickel-and-diming the debate. One big question faces the Chancellor: what to do about the two-child benefit cap, which costs £3.5 billion, so let us not worry about the odd £50,000 here or there. I would like to hear a clear statement from him: is he for lifting the two-child benefit cap, or for keep…”

“The hon. Member says that he does not really understand the contradictions. Would he like to state how much growth there has been in the UK economy since the last Budget?”