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Theresa May faces Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs - Politics live Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn clash over NHS funding at PMQs - Politics live
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Corbyn says May spoke about £600m a week extra going to the NHS. That is over £30bn a year - way more than the UK’s contributions. Her figures are so dodgy they belong on the side of a bus. Why is the PM pushing her own Mickey Mouse figures? Andrew Selous, a Conservative, asks May to ensure patients can always access a doctor on the NHS.
May says Corbyn should listen to what she said. He claimed that she promised that money by 2023-24. She said more money would be spent on the NHS as a result of her decision, partly funded by the UK no longer being in the EU. The government will be contributing a bit more. Hammond will bring forward plans before the spending review. If Corbyn is so concerned about tax, why did Labour oppose lifting the personal allowance. May says she wants all NHS patients to get access to the same services.
Corbyn says last night May emailed Tory members saying the money from the EU would go to the NHS. But the government’s own watchdog says there will be no extra money until at least 2023. If growth does not meet expectations, will there be extra borrowing, or higher mystery taxes. Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, says he is glad May said Trump’s immigration policy was wrong. But May should do more. Can she stand up for our values where they are under threat across the world?
May says the balanced approach she has taken the economy have given her the space to act. The Conservatives believe in keeping taxes low, she says. Let’s look at what Labour offered at the election. It promised 2.2% growth for the NHS, saying that would make it the envy of the world. She chose not to listen. She is putting 3.4% in. May says the government stands up for the fundamental values of democracy and human rights.
Corbyn says he is pleased May is reading his speeches. He said EU money should be ringfenced for certain uses. He goes back to taxes. Last year May says firms could not plan on the basis of unspecified taxes. Which taxes are going up and for who? Norman Lamb, the former Lib Dem health minister, says the conclusions of the Gosport hospital inquiry, which he set up, are shocking. Does May agree there needs to be a new police inquiry?
May says Philip Hammond will set that out before the spending review. She says she is glad Labour has confirmed there will be money coming back from the EU. May says the events at the hospital were “tragic” and “deeply troubling”. She says the public sector often closes ranks. She pays tribute to Lamb for setting up the inquiry. She is sorry it took the relatives so long to get an answer. This shows why the government is right to put so much focus on patient safety.
Jeremy Corbyn pays tribute to his “friend”, the Finsbury Park imam. More on the EU withdrawal bill latest from the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg.
He also pays tribute to the contribution of the Windrush generation, and he says he hopes May has put the “hostile environment” policy behind her. 1. Away from chamber sounds like govt going to publish a statement later on their understanding of a ‘neutral motion’ and whether it’s amendmable or not
Today is world refugee day, he says. All political leaders have a duty to aid refugees. 2. Bear with me - we all danced right off head of the pin a long time ago but this might appease enough rebels to dilute the rebellion
He says May said extra money for the NHS would come from Brexit, economic growth and taxes. There will be no Brexit dividend for some years, and economic growth is very slow. So which taxes are going up? Nigel Dodds, the DUP leader at Westminster, says Michel Barnier’s speech yesterday implied the EU would erect barriers after Brexit. It would be a boon for terrorists, he says.
May says she was struck when she visited the Finsbury Park mosque by the community work done there. May says the future security partnership she wants after Brexit would help both sides. She recognises the importance of the instruments involved.
On the NHS, she says she has set out a long-term plan. It will secure the future for the NHS, and as part of the five-year settlement there will be money from the EU. She says various shadow ministers said the Brexit dividend did not exist. But she quotes another frontbencher say Labour would use money saved from Brexit to invest in public services. That was Corbyn, she says. Sir Mike Penning, a Conservative, welcomes yesterday’s decision to allow Alfie Dingley’s family to get cannabis oil.
Simon Hoare, the Tory MP for Dorset North, says Dorset is home to the Jurassic Coast, but is not home to dinosaurs. Will May confirm that the government will ban upskirting? May says the government has ordered a review. It wants to ensure this process does not take a long time.
May says upskirting is a hideous invasion of privacy. The government will introduce a bill banning it. And the worst offenders will be added to the sex offenders’ list. A WMS to say the unamendable motion might in fact be amendable but only if the rebels don't amend the amendment today. Joy. https://t.co/7HdFzPKRQE
Labour’s Alan Whitehead says, after the UK signed up to agreements at the Paris climate change summit, will she sign up to new targets for 2050? Turning back to the EU withdrawal bill for a moment, this is from the Times’ Sam Coates.
May says the government is committed to the Paris accord. The government remains committed to its targets, she says. Source: A compromise being discussed is gvt putting down a written ministerial statement “clarifying” the gvt motion on meaningful vote might be amendable to appease Tory remain rebels.(I think this wd be a pretty meaningless sop since WMS can’t change Commons standing orders)
Theresa May says yesterday was the first anniversay of the Finsbury Park attack. Today the imam from the mosque is in the Commons, she says. Labour’s Lisa Nandy says rail passengers in the north of England have had enough. She says she has seen emails from the Department for Transport saying officials were warned of chaos as long as two years ago. They describes some northern routes as meaningless, discuss how to handle MP and discuss propagating myths.
She says Friday is the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush. The government has announced an annual Windrush day to celebrate the diversity of the UK, she says. May says no government responds to leaked documents. She says the Department for Transport was reassured by an independent panel about the plans for the new timetable.
This is from the Times’ Patrick Kidd. Nandy has tweeted some of the emails, in a thread starting here.
Theresa May enters for PMQs with Boris Johnson. A last-minute chat about Trump in expectation of Corbyn going on our view of US immigration? I've been handed emails showing that Ministers and DfT officials were warned about Northern rail chaos 2 years ago. They show utter contempt for Northern passengers. #PMQs
This is from the FT’s George Parker. Bim Afolami, a Conservative, says he shares May’s strong commitment to the NHS. Can she assure him the money will lead to better patient outcomes?
Brexit peace deal in the Commons? ERG Moggites and Grievey rebels appear to be gathering around an Oliver Letwin brokered compromise, pulling party back from the brink. Prob 1: waiting for @theresamay and @DavidDavisMP sign-off. Prob 2: will anyone understand it? May agrees. She does not want to see extra money going in and not being spend on patient care.
PMQs is about to start. Here is May on the detention of child refugees in the US.
Some of the backbenchers who will be called to ask the PM a #PMQs on Wednesday 20 June. Watch live on #bbcdp with @afneil @bbclaurak @Peter_Dowd @JackieDP @BBCTwo 1130-1300 pic.twitter.com/uPkhVtqQRj “This is wrong, this is not something we agree with, this is not the UK’s approach” @theresa_may on children in US detention centres#pmqs https://t.co/y3OmBWEJ5A pic.twitter.com/AHd1xBT6s3
Here is an extract from today’s Times story (pawyall) about the vote. PMQs - Snap verdict: That was by no means a classic, but it was one of those PMQs that could in retrospect turn out to be more significant than you might have thought while listening to the rather under-powered ding dong. That’s not because Corbyn won on health, a Labour issue where his emotive complaints about under-funding normally have force. In fact, this wasn’t so much a PMQs about health as about financial credibility - supposedly the Conservative party’s USP for most of its history - and Corbyn clearly had the best of the argument. His questions weren’t particularly flash, but they were were pertinent and reasonable, and May didn’t even begin to answer them. Where will all the money for the NHS come from? What taxes will go up? Will there be extra borrowing? These are proper questions (not loaded PMQs jibes, which the PM can ignore with some justification) and May’s perfectly articulate flannel could not really hide the fact that Corbyn had a point. He is outscoring May on fiscal prudence. The Tories ought to be worried ....
Tory whips are said to have “given up” persuading up to a dozen of their own MPs not to vote in favour of an amendment that would give parliament a decisive say on what happens in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Corbyn says under Labour the NHS increase would be 5% this year. And what is her offer - a promise without saying where any of it would come from, apart from phantom taxes Hammond is presumably dreaming up now. But there is a human element to this. He quotes from a letter from someone saying her daughter needed a wheelchair but could not get one from the NHS. Does May think standing still is good enough for the NHS?
Instead they are concentrating their efforts on encouraging Labour MPs in Leave-voting areas to defy their own whip and vote with the government. May says she is putting in extra money. She quotes what Simon Stevens, the NHS chief executive said. He said the settlement would provide the NHs with the money it needed. For every £1 extra the government spends on the NHS in England, the Welsh Labour government spends just 84p.
One Labour source claimed that MPs were being promised that the Tories would “go easy” in future elections on those who supported them. Corbyn says May announced nothing for health or social care. It is not what the NHS needs. A&E waits are their worst ever. There are 100,000 staff vacancies, she says. She says the PM is writing IOUs just to stand still. Until this government can be straight with people where the money is coming from, why should people trust them on the NHS.
Bloomberg’s Rob Hutton has some good advice for those said to be on the receiving end of such entreaties. May says she can tell him why; for 43 of its 70 years, it has been under the Tories. We will now see a 10-year plan to improve services. Corbyn can talk of Labour’s plans. But Labour’s plans would bankrupt the economy. Their plan does not add up. Labour would lose control of the public finances, she says.
If any Labour MPs are tempted by the idea that the Tories will "go easy" on them at the next election in return for support on today's vote, there are 49 Lib Dem ex-MPs that they really ought to talk to.