Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) - 26 April 2023

Official Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) Podcast

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday the House of Commons sits. It gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister. In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any subject, often one of current political significance. The Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, asks six questions and the leader of the second largest opposition party asks two. Want to find out more about what's happening in the House of Commons this week? Follow the House of Commons on: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/HouseofCommons Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ukhouseofcommons Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ukhouseofcommons

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0:00.0	We don't come to questions to Prime Minister Tim Lawton.
0:05.0	Mr Speaker, the UK will continue to work to end the bloodshed in Sudan and support a democratic government.
0:15.0	We have begun a large-scale evacuation of British nationals, and I pay tribute to all those carrying out this complex
0:21.1	operation.
0:22.1	Mr. Speaker, this morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition
0:26.3	to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.
0:29.9	Mr. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the opposition grabbed a crude headline about teaching
0:35.9	boys to have respect for women. An important issue,
0:38.8	I'm sure that Prime Minister will agree. But given that the leader of the opposition
0:44.3	apparently doesn't know what a woman is, that he won't stand up to defend women in his own party
0:50.5	voicing views on women's rights. And according to his own Trump bench, failed to prosecute
0:58.0	rapists when he was in charge as DPP. Does my right, Honourable Friend, think that the Labour Party
1:03.7	are in any position to teach anyone about respect for women, and is irony dead?
1:14.6	I'm going to bring the place in. But in fairness, he's a responsibility for the answer to the opposition, but Prime
1:19.6	Minister.
1:20.6	My honourable friend is absolutely right.
1:24.6	The leader of the opposition's record on women is questionable at best,
1:30.3	Mr. Speaker. And before Labour do start preaching about this issue, they should work out
1:34.5	the answer to one very simple question. I'm certain what a woman is, is he.
1:39.3	We now come to the leader of the Opposition, Kirstarv. Mr Speaker, can I join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to the brave British personnel involved in the evacuation effort from Sudan?
1:57.0	The Government must do everything in its power to urgently evacuate UK nationals still trapped in Sudan.
2:03.6	Mr. Speaker, yesterday George Osborne said that the Tory party's handling of the economy makes them vandals.
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