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Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

Prime Minister's Questions: 25 November 2020

Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

UK Parliament

Government

4.593 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, took questions from MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday 25 November 2020. Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow @HouseofCommons on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for more.

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0:00.0

I've now got, we're going to start questions to the Prime Minister. I will call the Prime Minister to answer the engagement's question. I will then call Mr Lawrence Robertson to ask his supplementary. Prime Minister.

0:13.1

Good morning, Mr Speaker. I hope it very much our connection works today. This is my last day of virtual meetings with ministerial colleagues and others before I come out of isolation. In addition to my virtual meetings and duties in this house, I shall have further such meetings later today.

0:34.5

We're now going across to Lawrence Robertson in Jukesbury.

0:38.3

Lawrence Robertson.

0:39.3

Thank you Mr Speaker.

0:41.3

Can the Prime Minister guarantee that in any agreement he reaches with the European Union,

0:47.3

that British sovereignty will be protected for the whole of the United Kingdom and that the UK will exit the transitional period on

0:56.6

the 31st of December as a whole.

0:58.9

Prime Minister?

1:02.0

Yes, yes indeed. I can make that guarantee, Mr Speaker and our position on fish hasn't changed. We'll only be able to make progress if the EU

1:16.7

accepts the reality that we must be able to control access to our waters. It's very important

1:23.0

at this stage to emphasise that point. The leader of the opposition, the writer of Mulkir Starma.

1:29.2

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Today is International Day for the elimination of violence against women and

1:34.0

girls. On average, a woman is killed by a man every three days in this country. It's a shocking

1:40.0

statistic. And sadly, the pandemic has seen a significant increase in domestic abuse. I'll join

1:46.8

those marking this day and I'm sure the whole house would agree we need to do far more to end

1:52.2

domestic violence. Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister may remember that in August of last year he wrote

2:00.4

the forward to the ministerial code. It says,

2:03.6

and I quote, there must be no bullying, no harassment, no leaking, no misuse of taxpayers' money,

2:14.6

no actual or perceived conflicts of interest. That's five promises in two sentences.

2:20.9

How many of those promises does the Prime Minister think his ministers have kept?

2:26.5

Prime Minister?

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