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Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn clash over NHS funding at PMQs - Politics live | |
(35 minutes later) | |
Andrew Selous, a Conservative, asks May to ensure patients can always access a doctor on the NHS. | |
May says she wants all NHS patients to get access to the same services. | |
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 government stands up for the fundamental values of democracy and human rights. | |
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 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. | |
More on the EU withdrawal bill latest from the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg. | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 the future security partnership she wants after Brexit would help both sides. She recognises the importance of the instruments involved. | |
Sir Mike Penning, a Conservative, welcomes yesterday’s decision to allow Alfie Dingley’s family to get cannabis oil. | |
May says the government has ordered a review. It wants to ensure this process does not take a long time. | |
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 | |
Turning back to the EU withdrawal bill for a moment, this is from the Times’ Sam Coates. | |
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) | |
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. | |
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. | |
Nandy has tweeted some of the emails, in a thread starting here. | |
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 | |
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? | |
May agrees. She does not want to see extra money going in and not being spend on patient care. | |
Here is May on the detention of child refugees in the US. | |
“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 | |
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 .... | |
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? | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |