'Can this country afford a second national lockdown?' - Tory MP Julian Knight PM Boris Johnson says 'we are going to do everything in our power to prevent' a second national lockdown, adding that it would be financially 'disastrous'.
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Another Tory, Neil Parish, a Somerset farmer with a West Country accent as fruity as a strong cider, went into bat for farmers with detailed questions about tariffs. “Hold on,” the PM appeared to be thinking, “I got my whips to tell Tory MPs to vote for this dude and defeat the pesky Remainer Damian Collins in the election for chair of his committee and this is how he repays me.”
"As for the possibility of tariff barriers on either side, I don't thinkour frinds and partners would want to see them go up... any more than we want to put tariff barriers up against theirs." Tory MP Julian Knight says more than 40% of workers in arts and entertainment are still furloughed, while 70% of theatre workers are freelancers.
A fairly gentle start to proceedings for the prime minister as the always-courteous Greg Clark opened the bowling for the Liaison Committee. The first openly hostile questions came from Labour’s Cat McKinnell on coronavirus anomalies, where “a man can go the pub or go grouse shooting” but not attend hospital with a pregnant partner for a scan, she said.
Mr Johnson says the government has"done more than virtually any other government across the world" to support people at risk of losing their job. "Why did the government reject them all?" she asks as she urges the PM to commit to look at the report. And pressed on if ministers can dismiss civil servants, Mr Johnson gives a long answer that ends"yes I think so".Tory MP Will Wragg asks when the public inquiry into coronavirus will be set up?
Groups of pupils should only be sent home if there had been a positive test, rather than someone just developing symptoms, the prime minister says. And when the PM did finally turn up, in May, it was a tetchy affair dominated by questions about his maverick adviser Dominic Cumming’s lockdown-busting trip to Durham.How will the PM fare before senior MPs?
They say this is"not his natural habitat" and a sign there's some worry about Conservative support for the PM.Amid suggestions that Lord Keen of Elie - the advocate general for Scotland - could be leaving his job, one SNP MP suggests the government might struggle to find a replacement...Now that PMQs has wrapped up, Boris Johnson will have headed off quickly to get ready for his second major appearance of the day - in front of what's known as the"liaison committee".
She demanded answers from the prime minister on whether he knows how much care workers earn - which she concluded he"doesn't know" - as well as to quiz Boris Johnson on whether care workers are getting weekly coronavirus tests they had been promised. And then, in a rare moment of consensus, the prime minister agreed to facilitate cooperation with Labour over the issue of maternity wards, where Mrs Rayner said many women were still not able to have their birth partners present during labour.
"For her part Ms Rayner played up the differences between the pair, asking why grouse shooting was exempt from COVID-19 distancing rules and referencing Mr Johnson’s closest aide Dominic Cummings. He calls on the PM to publish all legal advice the government has received on the proposed legislation.Government 'breaking the law' over treatment of disabled peoplecites research from the Disabled Children's Partnership that found three-quarters of families with disabled children had their care support stopped during lockdown.
Mr Blackford responds to deny Mr Johnson's claim that he himself referred to the 2014 referendum as a"once in a generation" vote.Mr Blackford says Mr Johnson"doesn't understand his own Brexit deal and he doesn't even know what's in the Internal Market Bill". He says he's"getting on with delivering on the priorities of the British people" - strengthening the UK union, toughening sentencing laws and building more homes.Rayner's fifth question: Will the PM work with Labour to ensure women don't have to give birth alone?
"Will the PM agree to meet with me.. and work with us to ensure no woman is forced to give birth without the support that they need?," Mrs Rayner asks.says he"totally agrees" that birth partners should be able to attend births but says he is"very happy" to encourage cooperation between Mrs Rayner and health ministers.Mrs Rayner says she will take the PM's answer as a"yes" and thanks him for it.
"Yes, to the best of my knowlege, care homes in this country should get weekly tests for all staff members and tests every 28 days for residents in care homes,"He adds the Labour deputy leader is"right" to"express the frustration of people across this country about the massive demand there is now for tests".
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