Speeches by Prinsley.

“In a situation that, as Dr Sumption said, is probably going to do nothing about the main political problem, which is that there are desperate people coming across on boats.”

“It feels like changing the rules in the middle of the game.”

“I am worried that we will run out of care workers. We have introduced some changes that are designed to lower the incentives to come to this country, but we might actually end up with not enough people to look after us as we age. Following on from what Margaret Mullane said, there are definitely groups of individuals c…”

“It feels like we are not really going to solve the problem. Dr Sumption, the political problem in the country is that people see these boats coming over, and they see these migrant hotels filling up. Do you think that the changes being proposed are going to affect any of that?”

“Am I correct that we are essentially talking about tied workers? You tie a worker to a low-paid job for 15 years before they are entitled to go for settlement and citizenship, which seems to me an enormously long period of time, especially in a situation where we are very short of care workers. Net migration came down …”

“Good morning. Thank you for coming. I am Peter Prinsley, the MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. Before I did this job I was a hospital consultant, so I am interested in what effect this will have on healthcare workers and care workers. Those of us of a certain age whose parents have perhaps been in care are all awa…”

“It’s bots, isn’t it?”

“It seems to me that what you probably thought, and I am sure it is right, is that these young Muslim individuals—I think mainly men—come from families where there are almost always very decent mothers. The idea of trying to get the women in the families to address this seriously was something that you took upon yoursel…”

“I am Peter Prinsley, the MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. Thank you for coming this afternoon. I have been listening with growing dismay as you have been speaking—”

“14. What steps her Department is taking to help ensure the continued delivery of aid in Gaza and the west bank.”

“Last year, my surgical colleague Mr Rahbour, of West Suffolk hospital, spent a month at the Nasser hospital in Gaza. When I met him last week, he gave a graphic description of the situation in and around the hospital. He is one of the brave NHS workers of whom we can all be intensely proud. As we have said, access to h…”

“You spoke earlier about the 1 million antisemitic posts a day. Is that 1 million people posting antisemitic posts, or is it some sort of bot that is producing millions of antisemitic posts that are being distributed across the internet?”

“I agree, and we have some good brains, so we should be able to do it.”

“We could make a law to outlaw anonymous posts like this, couldn’t we?”

“I am going to ask a little about research: what the Government are doing to fund research and what we could do to improve the research that we are doing to try to work out what best we could do. If we had some research funding, how would you spend it?”

“Finally, do you think that the anonymity of the people who post stuff is also part of the problem? Is it reasonable for people to be able to post stuff and not reveal who they are?”

“The problem lies with the tech, doesn’t it? If we did not have the internet and social media, we would have much less of a problem. If it just relied on newspapers and leaflets, like it used to, it would not be a problem. We need to somehow harness the power of the tech, in particular using AI, to counter this. If we h…”

“And leadership in families, probably.”

“Nothing you have said has particularly cheered me up, I have to say. It says in your biography that in 2008, you started a women-led group called Inspire, which tried to deal with some of these problems. That is quite a long time ago. Could you tell us a little bit about that and what has happened to it since?”

“Do you not think that there are technical fixes to that, using AI to turn that stuff off?”