Despatch box

Mr.

Speaker, she mentions the plan that she has set out, and this is why I say we should have an honest conversation across this Dispatch Box, because I, I looked at it, and I don't think myself that taking £4 billion out of housing benefit is going to get, uh, the right consensus around this issue, because that would, that would create levels of homelessness in this country, Mr.

Speaker, that we wouldn't have seen before, hundreds of thousands of children in temporary accommodation.

Can I say to the Right Honorable Lady, yes, we do everything to support our national security, but it can't come at the expense of social security.

So will the Prime Min- uh, tell the country, where is he going to find the money to fund our defense? Hear! Hear!

So, Mr.

Speaker, um, I can't comment, uh, today on decisions that are quasi-judicial decisions, but we will take a pragmatic approach to oil and gas, as I've said before at this Dispatch Box.

And let's get to the heart of this question, Mr.

Because our councillors and the communities they represent are looking aghast at yet another shambolic U-turn from this government.

Ministers have repeatedly given assurances to this House at that dispatch box that have not been honoured.

And it speaks volumes for that sense of priority that this far into this administration, only Surrey has proceeded with its reorganisation despite

all those assurances.

I said that people will ask whether these reforms are an act of gross gerrymandering and political opportunism or gross incompetence and stupidity.

I think today we recognise that it's both.

Now, the Right Honourable Lady has only just returned to the Dispatch Box, so it can't really be her fault.

So who's screwed up? A Liberal Democrat, Steph Aquaron, was among MPs questioning whether taxpayers' money had been wasted.

He's been in the Commons making his PMQs debut.

doing a big Q&A on the first day back, answering loads of questions over three and a half hours he was at the Dispatch Box.

So if you've missed all of that, if you've been under a stone somewhere or you just don't want to quite accept that autumn and then winter is coming, here's a flavour of Andy Burnham back at the Dispatch Box with Kemi Badenoch.

Yesterday, he faced 125 questions from MPs across the House.

Of course, Labour and the Lib Dems just wanted more government spending as taxpayers' money.

How do we think Kemi did?

Well, I think Kemi did well.

She's an accomplished performer at Prime Minister's Questions now and feels very at ease with the dispatch box.

But I mean, it was incredible.

And what was interesting about it was that it's his first outing at the Dispatch Box for years, over a decade.

And of course, the questions, 120 questions, could have been on absolutely anything.

He didn't know what they were going to be.

I thought Kemi dropped the ball, really.

There was a number of things she could have come in on and I don't think she did very well at all.

I mean, this sort of, I don't know what it is, it's like a sort of weird attraction between them almost across the dispatch boxes.

Oh, no, I know.