Speeches by Lowe.

“For me, the key issue is that Mr Ayers mentioned the fact that you had various meetings in 2022; he did not think they were minuted, but he has the agenda for those meetings. Have you got the minutes for those meetings? In my experience of government, Mr Pocklington, most things are minuted to the nth degree. Did your …”

“Do you think this is a systemic failure?”

“I have a question for Mr Pocklington. I see from your CV that you were in charge of financial regulation for some time in the early ’90s; you must have presided over FSMA 2000 as part of your brief. The London market is now a shadow of its former self, having been over-regulated. Listening to this hearing and reading t…”

“You are obviously aware of the wording of the insurance policy. As you know, mould can create health issues as well as the building work issues. Can you assure the Committee that those insurance policies cover health issues downstream from this malpractice?”

“Which insurance company is standing behind most of this?”

“You say “now”, but it is not now, is it? It is when the scheme was running.”

“Insurance as well, Geoffrey.”

“First, I should declare my potential conflicts of interest in the various disclosures that I have made to the Committee. They are businesses that I am now a non-exec director of; I do not think they have been involved in this particular part of the curve, but they do contracting business. Simon, I am intrigued: did Tru…”

“Q14. Every week we hear of a brutal murder, rape or stabbing, far too often perpetrated by someone who should not be in our country to begin with. Does the Prime Minister agree that, for cases in which the guilt is so undeniable, the crime so monstrous and the evil so irredeemable, the reintroduction of the death penal…”

“Will the Secretary of State today agree to publish clear, honest and regular statistics on the number of illegal migrants convicted of sexual offences, murder or indeed any other crime? A yes or no answer will do well.”

““Auntie” is definitively a monopoly. When Mr Reith wrote into the charter that she should inform, educate and entertain with complete impartiality, he did it for good reason. This recent disgusting episode with this “Panorama” programme, where we have undermined our relationship with probably our greatest ally, is just…”

“Please spare me the continued moral outrage. I am bored of it. The British people are bored of it. It is not cruel to deport criminals, and it is not inhumane to defend our own citizens. What is cruel and inhumane is allowing foreign killers and sex offenders to walk among us in the name of the human rights they should…”

“No. A Zimbabwean was jailed for killing a man in a car crash but allowed to stay in Britain after it was discovered that he had an illicit love child. I do not care. A convicted Indian paedophile was allowed to stay in Britain by claiming that the move would harm his children. I do not care. An Albanian criminal was al…”

“What about the human rights of the British people? They have the right not to be raped, stabbed and killed by foreigners who should never have been in our country to begin with. Please spare me the continued moral outrage.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell. What does the ECHR actually mean for British people? Let us go through a few examples. A convicted Sri Lankan sex offender was allowed to stay in Britain because he is gay and would be at risk of persecution if he was returned to his home country. I do not …”

“The interventions held me up, Mr Mundell.”

“Through freedom of information requests, Restore Britain has uncovered unpublished Treasury analysis breaking down contributions by ethnicity. Evidently the data exists, so will the Chancellor commit to going further by publishing the same analysis by nationality, so that we can see which groups are paying their way, a…”

“I agree with the hon. Member. Why should working families be priced out of memories—particularly parents such as those in my Great Yarmouth constituency, who rely so heavily on the tourism trade during the school holidays for their careers or business activity? Parents know what is best for their children far better th…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. Parents bring their children into this world; they clothe them, feed them, love them, raise them and, yes, educate them. Schools should support families, not to replace them. Yet right now in Britain parents are being fined and threatened simply for taking t…”

“I concur with the comments about Charlie Kirk that the Minister made at the beginning. It shows that anybody who is brave enough to put themselves up for public service and try to change the world for the better faces such dangers and risks. May I ask the Minister, first, to reassure us that we will have total transpar…”