Ministers questions. It is always a little different, the pmqs ahead of the budget. He has vacated the chair for the Deputy Speaker. She will be going through some of the notices ahead ofjeremy hunt, the chancellor, delivering his Budget Statement. He will take to his feet shortly and will probably speak for about an hour shortly and will probably speak for Aboutan Hourand shortly and will probably speak for about an hour and then it will be the turn of the leader of the opposition, keir starmer to respond. We will take both of those live and uninterrupted and we will then have reaction from the Chief Secretary to the treasury, laura trott, part of the treasury, laura trott, part of the Treasury Team and her shadow for labour. Here isjeremy hunt. Madam Deputy Speaker, as we mourn the loss of life in israel and gaza, the loss of life in israel and gaza, the Prime Minister reminded us of the Prime Minister reminded us of the need the Fight Extremism and heal divisions. I start today by r
parties which happened during lockdown. 0ne parties which happened during lockdown. one of his most prominent supporters though, jacob rees mogg, has been talking and there was an interesting back and forth between him and harriet harman, the chair of the privileges select committee, and this is when mr rees mogg brought up some critical comments that she had made on borisjohnson s remarks ahead of taking over, let s take a listen. i ahead of taking over, let s take a listen. ., , , listen. i wonder if she could say something listen. i wonder if she could say something of listen. i wonder if she could say something of her listen. i wonder if she could say something of her own listen. i wonder if she could say something of her own position i listen. i wonder if she could say| something of her own position in relation to the precedent set by the judicial committee of the house of lords when a decision on which lord hoffman was involved, was set aside not because he was
tool. literally, vital. we cannot hope to get weapons off our street without it. of course, it must be used skilfully, responsibly, and proportionately. as is true of every power with which we invest the police. but, it would be a tragic mistake to conclude that stop and search is too controversial to use extensively. or, that it cannot be is effectively with sensible safeguards. suggestions that it is a means of victimising young black men haveit means of victimising young black men have it precisely the wrong way around, mr speaker. the facts are, that young black man are proportionately likely to be victims of violent crimes. they are the ones most in need back disproportionately. this is about saving the lives of young black men. being stopped and searched while carrying a weapon can stop someone from whatever background from making a terrible mistake they can never undo. sometimes, we lose sight of this point in debating stop and search. black people account for aroun
because it is being challenged and we have to accept that and respond to this challenge, which i hope we will be doing in this debate. despite the hysterical reactions of the country can i think it s important to state that this is a properly constituted senior committee of the house as indeed the leader of the house did so in her remarks. it was asked to do a difficult but vitaljob and it discharged its duties with integrity and honour will stop it is our duty now, i believe, before this house to ensure that we support the members of that committee and we support the conclusions that they have come to after this detailed work. i believe also we should thank the members of the privileges committee because they have done the house of commons a very great service under the most intense pressure. instead of being thanked, they have found themselves traduced in the borisjohnson worshiping print and tv media, which has called into question their motives and their very integrity. t
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