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Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

Prime Minister's Questions: 20 June 2018

Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

UK Parliament

Government

4.591 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Prime Minister, Theresa May, took questions from MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday 20 June 2018.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Order. Questions to the Prime Minister? Dr. Alan Whitehead.

0:07.0

Question 1, Mr. Prime Minister.

0:10.0

Thank you.

0:12.0

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

0:16.0

Mr. Speaker, yesterday marked one year since the attack on the Finsbury Park Mosque. It was a truly cowardly attack that was intended to divide us, but we will not let this happen. We have been joined today by the Imam of the mosque, Mohammed Mahmoud, and I am sure members

0:38.6

from across the House will join me in paying tribute to his extraordinary bravery and dignity.

0:45.3

Mr. Speaker, Friday is the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks.

0:53.3

It is right that we recognise and honour the enormous contribution of the M.V. Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks. It is right that we recognise and honour

0:56.0

the enormous contribution of the Windrush generation and their descendants.

1:00.0

That is why we have announced an annual Windrush Day which will keep alive their legacy

1:08.0

for future generations and ensure we all celebrate the diversity of Britain's history.

1:15.3

Mr Speaker, this morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others.

1:19.6

In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.

1:23.8

Dr Alan Whitehead.

1:25.7

Could I concur with the Prime Minister of her remarks concerning the terrorist attack

1:31.3

on the Finsbury Mosque, and it is right that we should remember that one year on in the way

1:38.3

that we are.

1:40.3

Could I ask the Prime Minister, following the agreements that were signed up to by the UK at the Paris Climate Change Summit,

1:51.3

will she now commit to a new UK climate change target of zero net emissions before 2050?

2:00.1

Can I say to the Honourable Gentleman that the United Kingdom has been leading the way

2:05.6

in relation to dealing with this issue on climate change.

2:08.6

It was the United Kingdom that was, I think, the first country to actually bring in the

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