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Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

Prime Minister's Questions: 23 September 2020

Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

UK Parliament

Government

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🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, took questions from MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday 23 September 2020.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're now going to move on to Prime Minister's questions.

0:08.0

No, I know why you've been in Lincolnshire.

0:12.0

Right, let's start with question one, Jamie Stone to the Prime Minister.

0:17.0

Number one, Mr Speaker.

0:19.0

Prime Minister.

0:20.0

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

0:23.6

to my duties in this House.

0:24.6

I shall have further such meetings later today.

0:27.6

Jamie Stone.

0:28.6

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

0:30.6

Clearly the unanimous decision by Highland Council plan to grant consent for the UK's

0:34.6

vertical space takeoff in Sutherland is extremely good news.

0:39.1

I wonder, I hope that the Prime Minister agrees with me that this would be extremely good

0:42.4

for the local economy of the Hounds, but also would provide a huge opportunity for the UK economy

0:46.7

in terms of the international satellite market.

0:50.5

Prime Minister.

0:52.2

Absolutely. I congratulate launch UK on what they are doing.

0:55.0

And as he rightly says, it will create 250 full-time jobs, 130 at the facility in Forres.

1:02.0

And I'm no doubt launch the UK on a path to ever greater presence in the global satellite market.

1:10.0

Lou Raleigh. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

1:11.6

Yesterday evening, the Prime Minister announced a series of changes that none of us

1:16.6

ever wanted to see to keep the virus as low as possible, and residents are understandably

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