 Gwnaeth ymweld hwn ar hyn o bwysigol. Gwnaeth maes i'r unig addurydd o bwysigol, y bwysigol yn cynnig yn y ffordd ddiwedd. Fy fyw yw'r rhai hwn, fyddai cyfu'r unig yn gweithio i'r law o'r ddegwyddiadu hynny'n gweithio. Cwrs mae'n ddew i gyddo i dyfodd i gyfnethu gwneud ar gyfreidden nhw, without fear or favour. It is an obligation upon us all to exercise that privilege and responsibility. Let us come to accuracy of members' contributions. More tricky. The speaker does not have the power to please the accuracy of members. That may be shame but this is the facts. So members' contributions including those of ministers therefore it is incumbent on members to be accurate in what they say in this house. But if a member is inaccurate by mistake they should correct that mistake as soon as possible. Let us come to courtesy and temperate language. Members must also be mindful of the impact of what we say. Not only on other members but those who follow our proceedings and members should be heard courteously whatever their views. I draw the house attention to the guidance on rules of behaviour and courtesies in the House of Commons. A new version for this session is no available, purifying these areas. Criticism of members. In this place we are all rule members and the language we use about each other should reflect that. If a member falls short of the standards expected of us all there are ways of dealing with that but not by accusations made by sideswipes during questions or debates. If we fail to treat each other with the respect in debate that diminishes our work but it also risks raising the temperatures of discussions outside this place particularly on social media which already too often descend into online abuse against honourable members. Confidentially the speaker's correspondence with members. I have to say to members please it is so important that honourable members are able to raise matters with me freely and for that reason I keep such correspondence confidential. This includes applications for urgent questions. I remind members it is equally important that my responses, particular members or matters of privilege are treated with the same respect and I just hope that certain members are listening to me. Speaking in the Chamber I also wish to give some advice about seeking to speak within the Chamber. The deputy speakers and I take into account the number of factors when determining a number of which we call during business that it is not balloted and one factor we consider carefully is so often members speak. In other words if you are so much more than a colleague then other things may be equal that that colleague is more likely to be called or certainly more likely to be called earlier especially in the next debate for which you both apply. I know and I do stress this. Oh don't worry I'm coming to him. I do know that it can be frustrating not to be called in the debate or to be called very late and that frustration may continue but to put it on Twitter is not a good way to be called earlier because can I just say by doing that my responses that I can't take you early because you've already told the world you've not been taken so think carefully before you use Twitter as an example to try and intimidate the speaker. So of course prioritising debates, question times, urgent questions and statements in which you seek to pass the debate is one way of trying to avoid the happening. Know that we have started the new session. Everybody scores soft. After reset button it starts at zero and that even includes Tim Shannon and that is you're making clear that different principles apply to the front benches and I think I've got to remind that when people look counting scores the front benches and the three largest parties were nominated to speak on behalf of their parties. So step in my office happy to offer a vote and they let us come to something very important. Courts and safety. Finally I want all members and everyone in the parliamentary community to be able to go about their work safely both online and here in Westminster. The security of this building and those who work here depends on all of us. We have a duty to be vigilant and to assist those whose job it is to maintain this place as a safe place of work. So please yes we are members of Parliament, yes of course we're elected to be here but just to remember those who carry out the security duties here are doing it to ensure that we're all safe. So please try not to abuse them and you shouldn't abuse them let me say that and do not take advantage of your position. So before moving to the first business of the new session I'd like to express my very best wishy to all on-rule members and to all those who work in this house and I've got to say thank you to the staff of this house. So please just a job to do and I've got to say thank you to all the catering staff because without them we couldn't function. Right, clock, overseas look. Outlawries Bill. I have to acquaint the house that this house as this day attended is a majesties in the house of Pierce and that this his majesty was pleased to make a most gracious speech from the throne to both house of pound of which I have for greater accuracy obtained a copy. I shall direct that the terms of the speech be printed in the votes and proceeding copies are available in the vote office. Before I call the mover and seconder I want to announce that the proposals, subjects of debate during the remaining days of the address are today debate on the address tomorrow breaking down barriers of opportunity filling an NHS fit for future state securing high sustained economic growth in every part of the country. Wednesday reducing violent crime and raising to call Sir Robert Gullbill to move and then I will call Sir Baldellith the second the address. Thank you Mr Speaker and good afternoon. I bet to move that an humble address be presented to his majesty as follows. Most gracious sovereign, we your majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled beg leave to offer our humble thanks to your majesty for the gracious speech which your majesty has addressed to both houses of parliament. It is a great honour to move the humble address. This is the first time that King Charles has opened a session as monarch so today's pomp and ceremony is tinged with sadness as remember the late queen with effect and gratitude for 70 years of service to our kingdom and commonwealth. We look forward to another significant reign as the baton has passed to the next generation. So, Mr Speaker, it's finally come to this. It's official. I was the future ones. The seconder of the humble address, the hon. Member for Stroud, for whom I am the warmer pact today, is always described as up and coming and I'm not really sure what that makes me. I recall on the last occasion the member for Bevelian Holdeness was proposing the humble address and we all thought he was on the scrappy. Less than two months later he was back on the front bench attending cabinet so you never know although chief whip has assured me there's no danger of that happening to me. Now, Scarbon Whitby has got to be the best constituency in the country. It has of course, Mr Speaker, a head start by being in Yorkshire. They say you should never ask someone if they're from Yorkshire because if they are they're bound to mention it in the first five minutes and if not why humiliate them unnecessarily. But I'm very pleased to see our colleagues in the SNP sporting the white rows of Yorkshire. I must point out Yorkshire Day is the first of August, not for the first time they've got things wrong. Now, the arrival of the railways created Scarbon as our first seaside destination and we are still Britain's premier coastal resort. Second only to London in number of visitors. In fact, there could be more if some of the £36 billion recoup from HS2 could be redeployed on dualling the A64. Culturally, we're the home of Sir Alan Eightbourne and also the birthplace of the McCain Overn Chip, as well as Plaxton's coaches and the electric buses we are increasingly seeing on our streets in places like Blackpool. That is if the Labour council there don't order Chinese ones. Whitby is famous for Bram Stoker's Dracula, the goth weekend and of course fish and chips from the famous Magpie restaurant. Not the only place you can get good fish and chips in Whitby, I hasten to add. Before mass tourism, the arrows dotted with iron stone alum and jet mines. Fast order century or two are we now the biggest mining area in the country, with Anglo-American investing £1 million every single day employing around a thousand people developing the new polyhalite mine just outside Whitby, with its 23 mile connecting tunnel to Teeside, where Mayor Ben Houchen is delivering so much economic development. The North Yorkshire Moors National Park, made famous as the location of Aidensfield in ITV's Heartbeats Police Drama, is home to many important ground-desting birds on the Heather Moulin, sustained and managed in traditional ways by generations of farmers and keepers. Now, I don't know if you've noticed, Mr Speaker, but we seem to be having a lot of by-elections at the moment. Not so fast. And it was a by-election ride ale in 1986 that whetted my appetite for frontline politics. The seat was held with a thumping 16,000 conservative majority but fell to the Liberals, with a 19th swing giving Elizabeth Shields a 5,000 vote margin. While the rest of the Liberal party were going back to their constituencies to prepare for government, I wasn't going to put up with the situation, so rather naively, I put my name forward, along with 200 others, to be the candidate at the subsequent general election. I wasn't selected, but did come second to John Greenway, who, in case members don't remember, in some cases, weren't even born. I'm looking at the Member for Selby over there somewhere. Won the seat back only 13 months later with a 10,000 majority. The moral is don't count your chickens on the basis of by-election results. I don't know if I'm going to be able to fly the flag for man. Living in the northeast, there was no shortage of rock-solid Labour citadones. Places like Sedgefield, North West Durham or Redcar. And so it was in Redcar I was selected to challenge the wonderful MoMolam. By then, by the way, John Major had taken over from Mrs Satcher, and I can remember when that happened, my children coming up to me to ask, Daddy, is it really possible that a man could be Prime Minister? We have now had three women be conserved to Premier's. Assuming the most recent one counts, of course. And we now have the first Prime Minister who represents the Yorkshire seat. Is that a big deal? Yes, it certainly is. I must say that the right hon. Member for Richmond could not have been a better neighbour, nor a better friend for me. Labour were well ahead in the polls in the run-up to the 1992 election, and Mo actually had a car at the count with the engine running ready to take her down to city Neil Kinnock's cabinet as Northern Ireland Secretary. But once again, the polls are wrong. I stood in North West Leicestershire in the 1997 Blair landslide election, which I think I will quickly pass over. Surprise it to say that both seats where I stood, both Redcat and in Leicestershire, will return conserved to Members. And I would lose. We managed to prevail on the fifth of May 2005 down to one deciding factor. On the evil poll of all the places Tony Blair could have chosen for his big election rally, he chose Scarborough. Maybe the Leader of the Opposition could indulge me next time round and come to Scarborough on the evil poll to see if he can replicate the Blair effect, or better still have a rally in Sheffield and go the full kinnock. At the following election, I was the victim of a fly poster campaign. All over town there were eight photocopies asking the question, what is the difference between Robert Goodwell and a supermarket trolley? The local newspaper picked up on this and concluded that a supermarket trolley has a mind of its own. I must admit that I have never voted against the Tory whip, so that might explain it. However, having been here now, reveal a real answer to the question. The difference between an MP and a supermarket trolley is that there is a physical limit to the amount of food and drink you can get into a supermarket trolley. I certainly welcome the bills that have been announced in particular. I would like to see convicted criminals attend their sentencing. Life for some of the most severe crimes must mean life too. Fairness is part of what it means, and we must ensure that the dinar we should show equal respect for landlords and tenants when they're doing the right thing. I was pleased to see the ban on live annual exports of slaughter will happen. Now we're outside the EU and have the freedom to do that, and those who are successful in the ballot for private members bills will not be short of other suggestions, both from DEFRA and animal welfare organisations, to carry forward some important measures in that area which I know is important to the government. The bill to tackle unlicensed and uninsured pedicaps, which can rip off unsuspecting touristies not before time. Now today's focus under what we can't know what is going on outside our borders. The butchery we saw from Hamas on October the 7th was evil beyond anything most of us could even imagine. And yes, BBC, these thugs are terrorists. If those atrocities had been on our soil and our people, then we would also have been expected to launch a robust response. Israel has that right too. Indeed, what else did Hamas expect would happen? The conflict in Ukraine may be off the front pages, but we must not waver in our support for the courageous Ukrainian people. Good government is not about so much about how many laws you have and how many new laws you announce, but how you respond to changing and uniting hindsight, hindsight about the Prime Minister's follow scheme and help for businesses, where the right thing to do. The universal credit system was also robust in the face of unprecedented demand. With small boat crossings of the channel down by more than a fifth year and a year, we are making progress in curbing the organised criminal gangs engaged in this dangerous exploitative trade. Furthermore, if we can stand up the Rwanda scheme, it will be a game changer. Our help should be for those most in need, not those most able to pay. Finally, an absolute true story from the 2019 winter general election, and I heard your strictures about being truthful to the House. This has absolutely happened. One of the strongest labour areas in my patches is a former council state called Eastfield. We usually go there early in the campaign to get it out of the way. This time it was different. People were actually crossing the street to shake my hand. They had voted to Brexit and wanted to get it done, and were sick of being ignored. The Lady who answered was effusive in her admiration for Prime Minister Johnson. Arriving myself, I asked her why she was so enthusiastic. She said, Boris is one of us. She politely pointed out that she had been to Eaton and Oxford. She replied, you don't understand. He had a row with his wife, and the police came round. That's what happened on this street all the time. I commend the gracious speech to the House. I am proud that the Stroud constituency is playing its part in the street, given that this is the first state opening of His Majesty the King. The Queen was an inspiration for everyone across this great nation, for members of this House. She reminded us that, despite the melodrama of politics, we are all here to serve the public. King is already following in his mother's footsteps. Although, when I told my non-political family that I was going to be talking about the King's speech, the response I got back was, oh great, that's a really good film. Talking about how that's to follow the right honourable member for Whitscarver and Whitby had to do a fair few lolls, then I know exactly the areas that he's talking about, and I think he's definitely landed that promotion with that speech. In his final furlong. His Scarver FC is actually playing some of us in the FF next week, so we've got another rumble to come. Listen, I know the right honourable member will be missed when he gets his piping slippers out to retire next year, but his lovely new grandchildren are going to be keeping him very, very busy. So I actually went to school in the right honourable member's constituency, and if I could tell a younger me in Scarver, wearing spice girl platforms, adidas trackie bottoms and a second hand umbro jumper, it was a very strong look, and I am very grateful that camera phones were not allowed. I could tell that young fashionista that I would have the privilege of representing the most beautiful constituency of Stroud, speaking ahead of the Prime Minister after being in the same room as the King and the Queen. What did the Conservatives, Bill Kidd, who left home at 15 and did not go to uni, they gave her the seat at the most famous palace in the world, led by the son of a pharmacist who is also leading the most diverse cabinet that we have ever known. So the public service bit of this job motivates me, but it's not what hits the headlines. I am often asked how do you survive with everybody backstabbing, doing their own thing, and out to get each other, and I just smile and say, I don't hang around with the Labour Party. The PLP has absolutely nothing on the Stroud Labour Party who will resign to follow out with each other. But now what I actually say is that to survive in this place, you have to find some friends and then fully expect them to push you in the tent in the run up to a reshuffle. You also get new friends for very short periods of time come select committees. This, the daily messages from the right honourable member for Birmingham Hodge Hill. His text messages are less famous than his scary handwritten notes about the economy, but they are still persistent. Back to navigating a workplace that is murdered as a box of frogs. Early on I came up with Operation Green Benches, whereby I shunned history books and Hansard, and I researched parliamentary sketches instead, cos I love them. Quentin Letts once wrote that up here, where I am now, is the naughty corner, so that sorted out where I was going to sit, and it sounded fun, and he was right, because identifying the loudest colleagues to sit with and effectively hide could be absolutely crucial to avoiding the wrath of the speaker. Right honourable member for Elmett and Rothwell seemed to fit this bill. He was described as being expansively waistcoated and having lungs like bagpipes, which is perfect, and he's not in his place, he's watching at home in the telebox, but no doubt he's wearing a waistcoat. The honourable member for North Dorset and the right honourable member for South Swindon are often depicted as stressed, and those two appear to come free with bagpipe lungs in a creative bog-off style deal that probably shall be banned. This strategy has served me well and it's given on, but always hilarious and caring Chamber family who I love dearly. The other five Gloucestershire MPs are also guiding lights, not least the right honourable member for the Forest of Dean, who taught me that consistent rebelling does not hinder one's career. My kids also come to work with me, so they support her in their own chaotic way. GGH3 dressed as a witch, merrily skipped up some steps of one house and turned to me and said loudly, mommy this is just like canvassing, and then the door opened and she went trick or treat, and I said, well I blame low CCHQ canvassing screws, it's a disaster, and there's a myriad of female colleagues that naturally support each other and that's on both sides of the house, and I especially can be honourable member for breaking a mother's share on her wedding. It's absolutely radiant and I wish her husband and her a long and happy life together. Please visit. We have the quirky bits of the Cotswals with the creative, innovative and industrial spirit throughout. People rightly expect a lot of their public servants in our neck of the woods, and I mainly sit in the House of Commons library as others know court system, and while I was not expecting new childcare announcements, I urge all of the government to get behind the Chancellor's investment in families by urgently boosting the earliest workforce. Now is Majesty the King so the government will lead on action to tackle biodiversity loss? Prime Minister with COP28 approaching, this means that you should get familiar with WWT slimbridges flamingos in our catch. I will take all the help I can get to get dedicated domestic wetlands team and wetlands strategy in DEFRA, and if not persuaded, flamingos are absolutely marvellous for that wonderful Instagram account that you have. The King is also WWT's president and wetlands can genuinely help, which are net zero targets. So I said earlier that public service was a privilege and I genuinely meant that. It gives us the chance to change things for everyday families and champion those who deserve or need our support. It also allows the hardest working Prime Minister I have known, and I've known quite a few recently. My baby was three months old, I think she's met three months, three Prime Ministers at the same time, but he shows the country weekend and week out how we can bring long-term change against global headwinds, and I second this loyal address to the House. The question is that the humble address be presented to his Majesty as follows. Most gracious sovereign, we, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament's Assembly beg leave to offer our humble thanks to your Majesty for the gracious speech which your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament. I now call the leader of the opposition, Kirstalama. Thank you, Mr Speaker, and before I turn to the address, I'm sure the whole House would like to join me in paying tribute to His Majesty the King on the occasion of his first gracious address as our sovereign. Of course, he did give the address last year and he has for some time enjoyed the best view in the House on how it should be done, but nonetheless this is a new chapter for him and our country, so we pay tribute to him on that. Let me also congratulate both the mover and the seconder for their fantastic speeches just a moment ago. The right Honourable Member for Scarborough and Whitby once again showed us his deep love for his constituency and delivered a truly great speech. He has been a good servant and well respected across this House, but he is now wanted again on his farm. And I can inform the House that he's also one of the country's leading steam engine enthusiasts, the proud owner of a Fowler K5 plowing engine, not a tractor, but nonetheless a beautiful machine, which on a good day, when the right Honourable Member really steps on it, can still give the Trans-Pennine Express a run for its money, but I warn him he should be careful. There are some weird and wonderful details on all those Network North announcements, and the Prime Minister might commandeer his Fowler for illustrative purposes only, of course. It was also great to hear the Honourable Member for Stroud again give a really powerful and great speech to this House. It's only right that the Prime Minister selected someone with good sense to second the gracious address, and so of course he had to turn to a working class lawyer with a connection to Camden. And I can say from personal knowledge and from many people in Camden that as a Camden councillor she was respected across parties as she is here. Now a year ago the Honourable Member rightly pointed out and I quote that there are many ways to boost domestic energy security using nuclear, solar, marine energy and onshore wind. An argument Mr Speaker which shows exactly why she has a bright future within her party. It's a right, the energy sector. Mr Speaker, we are lucky enough not to have lost any members of this House since the last address. But as we approach the end of this cycle it is only right that we once again remember those who we all still miss so much and who left us earlier in this Parliament. On these benches our beloved friend Jack Dromey, a champion of working people for the ages and on the benches opposite Dame Cheryl Gillum, James Brokenshire and of course Sir David Amos who was taken from us in the most vile and cruel of circumstances. On these benches we still mourn the loss of Joe Cox one of our brightest lights seven years ago now in similar fashion. So we reach out across the aisle and say as does the plaque put up light remains. Mr Speaker, it's also customary to welcome new members to this House though I have to say given you're a stick, but I do welcome all 11 new members to the first of the year. Two for the party that sits over there and eight on these benches. Victory is the party opposite now nearly 14 years in power to the desperate spectacle of claiming it offers change away from itself. Today's address shows just how ridiculous that posturing is because what we have before us is a plan for more of the same more sticking plasters more division more party first country second gimmicks and to a no repudiation of the utterly discredited idea that economic growth is something the few hand down to the many. In fact today we reach something of a new low because they're not even pretending to govern anymore. They've given up on any sense of service. They see our country's problems as something to be exploited not sold and in doing this they underestimate the British people because what Britain wants is for them to stop messing around and get on with the job. People want action not inaction solution to real problems not the imaginary ones that haunt their party's imagination a government committed to the national interest not desperately trying to save their own skin. Our schools are crumbling waiting lists rising rivers and streams dying infrastructure cancelled violent criminals released early their mortgage bombshell blowing up the finances of millions growth set to be the lowest in the g7 next year taxes higher than at any time since the war he raised them himself 25 times the Tory recipe for British decline low growth high tax crumbling public services with the prime minister serving up more of the same now of course there are steps we can welcome jade's law martins law an independent regulator in football and we have said on smoking and public health he can count on our votes we will always serve the national interest and that is why this house has stood united in our support for Ukraine since the start of Putin's aggression and we must never lose our resolve or focus the address also mentions the terrible events in Israel and Palestine of Hamas and the taking of hostages on october the 7th and every new day in Gaza now brings with it more pain more suffering more agony hostages still held thousands of civilians dead including so many innocent women and children millions struggling for the basics of life food water sanitation medicines and fuel we cannot and we will not close our eyes to their hostages to be released now israel has the right and duty to defend herself but it is not a blank check it must comply with international law and this house must commit to do whatever it can to keep alive the light of peace so we welcome the addresses clear commitment to support the two state solution but mr speaker returning once more to their plans for britain the biggest question is how they think this is anywhere near good enough after all the chaos they've unleashed after levelling up no rules are broken we're all in it together and all the other broken promises of the last 13 years this is the plan they put to the working people of this country and say trust us we've changed it's laughable they can't see britain that's the only possible the walls of this place are too high them and britain sees today that they offer no change on public services no change on the cost of living crisis and no change to the economic model that has failed to give working people the security and opportunity that they deserve because mr speaker that is the change that britain needs and today was a missed opportunity we needed a king speech that would draw a line under 30 growth we have a party so devoid of leadership it is happy to follow a home secretary who describes homelessness as a lifestyle choice and believes that the job of protecting us all from extremists the most basic job of government is legitimate terrain for her divisive brand of politics mr speaker as director of public prosecutions i worked closely with the police and counterterrorism forces their job is hard enough already without the home secretary using it as a platform for her own ambitions so i say to the prime minister think think very carefully about what she is committing your government to do and think very carefully about the consequences of putting greater demands on public servants at the coalface of keeping us safe because without a serious home secretary there can be no serious government and he cannot be a serious prime minister homelessness is a choice it's a political choice constant u returns on no fault evictions are political choices not facing up to the blockers of aspiration on those benches is a political choice and it's not that there aren't better choices on these benches we have a plan to build 1.5 million homes across the country with a reforms planning regime that will unlock our potential because you can't fix homelessness without increasing the supply of housing you can't boost growth and then workers have homes they need and you can't escape the cost of living crisis unless there's more affordable housing prepare to stand if he shows he can radically improve the supply of housing by bringing back national housing targets then yes he can count on labour votes because mr speaker that is what this country needs most a credible plan for growth a britain where growth comes from the grassroots where growth serves the grassroots with higher living standards in every community an ambition that can only be delivered if we roll up our sleeves and get building but the most country can require a planning application leatworks of Shakespeare that is why today we needed a planning bill to strip out the red tape and get britain building we also needed a bold commitment to train the next generation with new technical colleges apprenticeship levy reform expert teachers in every classroom giving british businesses the skills they need we needed a modern industrial strategy on a statutory footing with a bill to match a signal of intent to the world that we are serious about fighting for the jobs of the future we needed an employment bill time and again this bill has been promised time and again it fails to materialise when we could be scrapping fire and rehire ending zero hour contract making work pay with a real living wage and saying unambiguously that strong workers rights are good for growth what we got instead is an exercise in economic miserabilism an admission that his government has no faith in britain's ability to avert decline take the oil and gas bill announced today a bill that everyone in the energy sector knows is a political gimmick and even the energy secretary admits will not take a single penny of anyone's bills i don't know which of his seven bins the prime minister chucked her meat tax in but this one will follow soon nonetheless it is a gimmick that tells a story a king speech with no concern for the national interest wallowing in a pessimism that says the hard road to a better future isn't for britain it's been this way for 13 years now a failure to seize the opportunity perhaps communities working people and sticking plaster politics an approach has riven through the foundations of our security as the crumbling concrete in our schools the never-ending cycle of tori britain party first country second drift stagnate decline we have to turn the page on this mr speaker they are wrong about clean energy it is cheaper it is british and it can give us real security from tyrants like putin but more importantly they are wrong about britain we can win the race for the jobs of tomorrow we can work hand in glove with the private sector and invest in the critical infrastructure the gigafactress the new ports the clean british steel that can once again light the fire renewal in britain's industrial communities today was the day we could have struck the match on that light embraced a new sense of mission and tackled the cost of living crisis with a new plan for growth it was a chance to get britain building again take back an hs back on its feet deliver cheaper bills towards decline a day when it became crystal clear that the change britain needs is from tori decline to labour renewal let us call the prime minister mr speaker this is the first king speech in 70 years and the first of his majesty's reign a reign that is already defined by the same wisdom grace and compassion that marked a long record of service so can i take this opportunity on behalf of the whole house to express our admiration and gratitude to his majesty the king mr speaker before we get into the traditional debate let me first address the situation in israel and gaza all of us in this house care deeply about the suffering of innocent people and the scenes we have witnessed and we are bore the way that her mass use innocent palestinians as it is right that the united kingdom is doubling consider out in our cause for humanitarian pause as soon as possible to get aid in and hostages and foreign nationals out but a unilateral and unconditional ceasefire would simply allow her mass to entrench its position and continue its attacks against Israel only last week her mass reiterated its intentions stating clearly we will repeat the october 7 attack time and again until israel is annihilated faced with such a threat no country be reasonably expected not to act last week i spoke with prime minister netanyahu to reiterate the united kingdom's backing for israel's right to defend itself any government i also stretch all possible measures to minimize the casualties and to avoid inflaming tensions in the west bank where settler violence must stop i can update the house that now well over a hundred british nationals have been able to leave gaza thanks to our diplomatic efforts to reopen the raffa crossing and the development minister will make a full statement to the house tomorrow but let me also reiterate this we will not stand for the hatred and antisemitism we have seen on our streets it sickens me to think that british jews are looking over their shoulder in this country that children are going to school covering up their school badges for fear of attack this government will do whatever it takes to keep the jewish community safe just as we will do whatever it takes to keep every community safe and we will fight hatred and extremism in all its forms and wherever it is found today tomorrow and always we are the world's most successful multi-ethnic multi-faith democracy and we will protect our democracy from all threats to it mr speaker this king's speech is about what this government is about taking long term decisions to build a brighter future for our country it builds on foundations that were far stronger than they were just a year ago inflation falling and on track to be halved an economy now growing faster than France and Germany national debt on track to fall more support over a four that it is this government and not criminal gangs who decides to come to our country now that we strengthen the foundations this king's speech turns to the future taking long term decisions with a single objective to change our country for the better change in our economy with new legislation to improve our energy security join a huge trade pact with the fastest growing region in the world and prepare to seize the opportunities of a new technological age change in our society with new protections for lease holders and renters a bill to safeguard the future of football clubs and fans and the historic legislation that will finally create the first smoke free generation and change to keep our nation secure and our community safe with tougher sentences for criminals more powers for the police and security services and tough new action to clamp down on antisocial behaviour what will all this mean for the british people mr speaker more jobs more investment and higher growth more police on the streets with stronger powers to keep us safe places people are proud to call home a country strong at home confident abroad and with a better future ahead for all our people that is a change that this king's speech and this government will deliver mr speaker his majesty's gracious speech was brilliantly proposed by my right noble friend the member for scarborough and wittley now i will always be grateful to him because when i see who had expressed some consternation about the revelation that i didn't eat beef quick as a flash my run would be and as a proud as a proud Yorkshireman my right noble friend has a reputation for being very careful with money just the other day he went shopping for a new pair of shoes when the shop assistant tried to throw away the old pair he said hang on a second i want to keep those laces there's still life in them yet and i've often regarded myself as a trainer Yorkshireman and it turned out with him i was also a trainee fiscal conservative and that's why i asked my right noble friend to apply his same zeal for savings to efficiencies that we could make across whitehall he came back with a great list Yorkshire teabags are perfectly fine for another three or four goes the deffra thermostat was set far too high at 17 degrees and seven bins are simply far too many my right noble friend my right noble friend is probably the only member of this house who is the proud owner of his own graveyard apparently he even does some of the digging himself and no wonder he's such a staunch supporter of the government's plan to protect renters because the fully supports the right of his tenants to be left undisturbed over the very long long time and his maiden speech my right noble friend proudly boasted that Whitby and his constituency was voted number one weekend holiday destination by the readers of sargo magazine well i am delighted as my honourable friend retires and lifts his gaze from his own copy of saga that he already finds himself in the home of blue skies blue waters and blue rinces b is as he reminded us where drachyf but as a government whip a minister in four departments and a dedicated constituency MP my right noble friend has had an extraordinary career among his many achievements i would particularly highlight his introduction of the first ever roadside drug tests before that we had no way of clamping down on dangerous drug driving and mark policy that has saved untold speech brilliantly seconded by someone also born and bred in god's own county who is today the honourable member for Stroud and i'm sure the whole house will join me in paying tribute to our fantastic NHS and sending our very best wishes to her daughter tini now some may think of my honourable friend as a shy retiring and studious type after all as she said today she often prefers to be in the library but we are discovering another side to my honourable friend we've now heard about her time in the naughty corner we've heard about the spice girl platforms and i can also today reveal that back in the 1990s she won the prestigious fiercely contested crown of Yorkshire rock and roll dancing queen and in a rich and very grim mr speaker my honourable friend was also a highly regarded yoga teacher so when she read in the times that the shadow cabinet were being in current office she was waiting for the phone call for her friend can teach the party opposite anything when it comes to constantly changing from one contorted position to another my uh my honourable friends my honourable friend also mentioned today taking advice and inspiration from a certain parliamentary sketch writer well if she's hoping that one day he might make her the target of his acerbit with well mr speaker i would just say be careful what you wish for i have been called many things in my time but i'm not sure i will ever forget being branded the titch in vacuum packed underpants but on but on a serious note but on a serious note my honourable friend has already made a huge impact on her short time in her short time in this place nowhere more than in her fantastic campaign to improve childcare provision inspiring my honourable friend the chancellor to announce 30 hours of free childcare a week for under fours in england in the march budget this is a landmark policy that will make an enormous difference to millions of families up and down the country and my honourable friend should be incredibly proud of her part in making that happen she overcame great odds to reach her place today growing up on preschool meals she left home as a teenager and worked her way up as a family lawyer without attending university before becoming the first female MP of Stroud in 2019 sometimes people ask me what being a conservative is all about i can think of no greater example than that mr speaker my honourable friend is a remarkable person a dedicated MP someone with a huge future ahead and her speech was in the finest traditions of this house now mr speaker let me also thank the leader of the opposition for his contribution to this debate and indeed his first u-turn of it as a former republican he used to think this country shouldn't even have a king's speech but at least that is one u-turn the whole country will welcome now the right honourable gentleman is prone to changing his position but in fairness his speech did strike a few consistent notes higher inflation more strikes more immigration and higher borrowing the party opposite's plan to unnecessarily borrow 28 billion pounds more every year and given to inflation busting play demands from their union paymasters is dangerous inflationary and the british people would pay the price in higher interest rates and higher taxes now in truth mr speaker labor will borrow anything people's money people's ideas and it now turns out that his copy and paste chancellor is very happy to borrow other people's work too but she's not but she's not the only member opposite to get unstuck by a book earlier this year the leader of the opposition had to abandon writing his own book return the deposit it was supposed to be his vision for britain but his publishers discovered what the british people already know he simply doesn't have one while he stands for the same old ideas we are focused on the long-term decisions that will provide a better and brighter future for everyone and that's what this king's speech will deliver mr speaker mr speaker that change starts for changing our economy we've already delivered the largest fall in inflation since the 1980s a faster recovery from the pandemic than germany france and japan and tens of billions of pounds of new investment from around the world we believe the role of government is to create the conditions for the private sector to thrive that's when you grow the new that's why we've given business a 27 billion around the uk to create jobs and investment and introduce legislation in this king's speech so that we can confirm our membership of the cptp a huge trading pack with the fastest growing region in the world now of course now i hear from the party officer that make no difference we can only do that because of our new freedoms outside of the european freedoms that the leader of the opposition wants to abandon and instead lock the united kingdom into a new european deal that would tie us into EU rules and regulations that we'd have no say over and open our borders to 100 000 additional EU migrants every single year now as well as failing to secure our borders the opposition would also fail to secure our energy supplies now we know that economic growth requires energy security we've already invested record amounts in renewables like offshore wind we back new nuclear in decades and the king's speech introduced thousands of british jobs and comparing controls for the opposition's energy policy people love the right twin to be no if the prime minister wishes to give way that's a surprise if he wishes not to that's also fine were the prime minister that prime minister the prime minister's not giving way prime minister comparing contrasts with the opposition's energy policy there's one word for it naive not my word mr speaker but that of their own union paymasters i'll happily give way to your i'm very grateful to the prime minister bearing in mind that a very significant proportion of people who sleep rough are army veterans and people have had acquired brain injuries does the prime minister agree with the home secretary when she says that homelessness sleeping rough is a lifestyle choice and if he doesn't will he sack her mr speaker i don't throw the link from that to energy security but what i can tell him is that thanks to the efforts of the member for plimith foreview veterans homelessness is that record low returning to energy security the party opposite wants to ban all new oil and gas licenses risking us becoming even more dependent on putans rusher for our crucial supplies of energy for what's even more absurd about their policy mr speaker is this it's the honorable gentleman isn't against oil and gas all oil and gas he's just against british oil and gas and yes mr speaker unlike the opposition who want to pursue net zero within ideological zeal going even faster and further no matter what the costs or the disruption we on this side of the house are cutting the cost of net zero for working people saving british families five 10 15 000 pounds and that's a choice mr speaker but we happily give away from it i'm grateful to him for giving away and i want to ask him when he's going to start being straight with the british public because you know he pretends that new oil and gas licenses on internet bills down yet his own secretary of state the energy has said that it will not get people's bills down so when is he going to stop governing by gimmick when is he going to start actually rolling out the home insulation program that will get people's bills down mr speaker the only thing he talked about being straight it's this party of me that was straight with the british people about the cost of getting to net zero something that her and the party opposite would do well to follow and because we've been honest and transparent and we have cut those costs we will save british families five 10 or 15 000 pounds by minister by minister just a second he gave away to you at least give the courtesy of hearing the answer mr speaker and that's the simple choice a government on the side of hardworking people or an opposition and the honorable lady on the side of the eco zealots mr speaker the mr speaker if we want to truly change our country society and that's why this king speech introduced an applicant public health intervention by any government for generations historic change from a historic king speech but that's not all we're doing for the nhs mr speaker the government has invested record sums created 50 million more primary heads more ambulances and through the nhs's first recruit more doctors nurses and dentists than ever before that's what the nhs needs not the damaging strike action that labour refuses to condemn even though it is adding tens of thousands of people to waiting list every single day the party opposite also opposed our plans to provide a minimum safety level during the strikes that does the party opposite and the honorable member opposite think that vulnerable patients don't deserve life-serving health care or are there just too weak to stand up to the union either way the conclusion is clear you simply can't trust labour with the nhs mr speaker now mr speaker let me turn to the most important part of a stronger society education of all that we've achieved since 2010 this is what i'm most proud of under the party opposite only two-thirds of schools were rated good or outstanding now it is around 90 percent they took us down the international league tables we are now soaring up them they devalued apprenticeships we're investing in them they backed rip-off degrees and we are ending them and we're introducing the new advanced british standard so that everyone will study maths in english 2018 learn a broader range of subjects with more hours in the classroom and finally break down the barriers between academic and technical education more teachers higher standards and more apprenticeships on this side of the house a stronger society is an opportunity society and this conservative government is delivering but we can only build that stronger society with stronger communities and that's what this king's speech does we're reforming the housing market to empower leaseholders to give renters more security establishing a new independent football regulator to give fans a greater voice in their clubs and delivering our promise to level up with record investment in local areas we're building a million more homes all while protecting the green belt unlike the charter for sprawl that we see from the party opposite and mr speaker that brings me to transport every single penny that would have been spent on hs2 a repeatedly delayed expensive project that failed to meet people's real needs is now being invested in the north in the midlands and right across the country 36 billion pounds of investment in projects that people really need and actually want network north is without question the most ambitious scheme for northern transport any government has developed ever yet first the leader of the opposition was against it then he was for it now he's not really sure but one thing is for sure you simply can't trust a word he says now mr speaker none of those important changes will mean anything if people don't feel safe in their communities and the facts are clear it is this government that is on the side of law and order this king's speech introduces legislation to better support victims as well as new measures to combat the scourge of anti-social behaviour all building on a proud record of tackling crime 20 000 more police officers on the streets more police on the streets than ever before and we've heard a lot about 13 years well since 2010 crime halved violent crime halved burglary also halved an anti-social behaviour down by 70% tougher sentences for rapists and sex offenders something that the party opposite voted against mr speaker and for the worst offenders life finally means life all while the leader of the opposition in the front bench campaigned to stop the deportation of dangerous foreign criminals now mr speaker we're just days away from remembrance sunday so let me close by paying tribute to our armed forces at this moment over 7 000 servicemen and women are deployed overseas from the frozen waste of the high north to the streets of cosovo they are the best of us we owe to all our veterans a lifelong debt of gratitude now i'm proud of our work letting cabinet by my right honorable friend the member for Plymouth more view to make this the best country in the world to be a veteran and that's what you get with this government we're on the side of Britain's armed forces we're investing record amounts in defence we're an unwavering ally to the Ukrainian people and we're proud to be one of the largest contributors to NATO but in contrast mr speaker what do you get with the party opposite they tried to install they never like being reminded about it but they try to install as prime minister a man who wanted to abolish the armed forces withdraw from NATO and back the UK's enemies over its allies labor can't be trusted with our nation's security mr speaker hello mr speaker this king's speech builds on the strong foundation of economy well on its way to recovery it rejects big government and instead backs people and businesses to thrive it strengthens society with historic measures to support the nathans health and education it secures our streets and borders with tougher sentences for criminals and powers for police and above all this king's speech delivers change change in our economy change in our society change in our community long-term decisions for a brighter future and please leave quietly steven playne thank you mr speaker was it something I said I wish to begin this is as is customary mr speaker bye passing on my thanks to king charles ac y cyfnoddau cyfnoddau gwahanol ym mhwyself yn gweithio gydag, mae'n ffwrdd sy'n ei wneud i'r ddechrau a'r hwnnw i'r cyfnoddau. Yn cael ei ddweud, mae'n cael ei ddweud i'r ddechrau. Mae'n mynd i'n ffordd o gydag y cinsensu ac rwy'n cael ei ddweud ychydig i'r cysybeth. Mae'n credu i gydag yng Nghymru yn y cwyl. Mae'r unrhyw i'r unrhyw hwnnw, Menau ddim yn robust o bobl yma'r tynnu hubanc o'r ysageson Fladimir Putin i weithio eu cynnig o unrhyw gwath harmoniaeth ac am gyda'u cyffredin iawn i'r cyfrannu cyfnod. Roeddwn i'r cyfrannu cyfnod gyda'u cyfrannu, ac roeddwn i'r cyfrannu cyfrannu, dyma'r cyfrannu bywys yn ei wneud nesaf oherwydd oeddaeth i nei yw yn 2014 ar hyn o'r hollu sphonig i aneстиwnu ein cynnig. But it has been said in the public domain that the resolve of the West is perhaps shaking in the face of the fact that the conflict continues. But I think we are all united across this chamber, right across parties about the fact that we are steadfast on our commitment to Ukrainian people in their fight to protect their democracy against that most abhorrent or tyrant. Mae'n eisteddio'r bwysig i'r bwrdd, a'n dweud, i gda'r bwysig i'r gondemnartydd unedwg o'r byd allweddau hefyd. Felly, fydd mae'r ffordd am ychydig iawn o unig o'r bwysig ffaith y CJM yn sicr y bydd y cyfrifio bof 특히mingaeth. Mae'n ddiddordeb i'r ddisadfodol, mae'n ddiddordeb i gael gael, ond mae'n ddiddordeb i gael. Ond mae'n ddiddordeb i'r ddiddordeb i gael, os ysbryddiant. Yn ymdod o antisemeth, mae'n ddiddordeb i gael wneud, ydych chi wedi symud y ddiddordeb i gael eich wych yn cael ei gael. Rwy'n ei gael ffordd, mae harkfelt i'r ddiddordeb i'r ddiddordeb yn y gymryd gyngor, am ydych chi'n meddwl yma, ychydig i'w ddartyn nhw'n creu bod yn gwneud ysbudau entesemethau – no ehl, no, oed. Rydyn ni'n bwynt o'r pwynt, presbytyr, rydych chi'n rhaid bod yna ydych chi'n meddwl yma, y dyflomysiad yn ydych yn ar y dyfodill yn ei roi'r reilis mennaf, rwy'n ni'n ei methu am y gwyl wahanol. Felly, yn gwneud yn rhaid i Llywodraeth Cymru, mae gallwn ni'n rhoi gwil i'n gwelir ar yw hwyl o'r hyfforddiant, bod ni'n perthynasio i gyrsglyniad a stryd youn iawn i'n gael'r hyn ch tan o'r holl fathau gyda'r ysgolwydau ysgolwydau yn rhesiwydd rydech chi'n mynd i'w gwnaeth y Prifedd terminalig ysgrifennid yn gerchwp debyg. Ysgrifennid o gwnaeth ysgrifennid yn Tadelaeth Gwyrdwyr yn Gwyrdd yn cael ei ddweud i mennyddu ai'n cyntaf Po, oherwydd mae'n gofyn i'r gwnaeth ddiadau hyn o'r holl fathau'u Ond maeill, unrhyw o'r ddechrau, maeil wedi am llaw yn diolch. Rwy'n meddwl i'n glimnosio yn y llun. Rwy'n meddwl i'n glimnosio yn hwnnw, oeddennod. Rwy'n meddwl i'n glimnosio yn y llun. Rwy'n meddwl i'n meddwl i'n meddwl. Mae'r cwm aer yn gallu ysgol pwysgaf i fod yn edrych yn risenol. Mae'r dd nietnaf i gyd yn risenol. Mae'r dd inkiliadau yn rhoi wahanol o'r gyfrifiadau sy'n rhoi gael yn rhoi i gyd. ddiddordebolaeth o ddiddordebolaeth. Daen nhw'n gwneud arna i. Di oviech am gael ychydigwyd, yn fawr, yn fawr, yn fawr. Yn fawr, mae gennych ddim yn lleol ac mae'n goch ddwyd. A mae'n gweithio mewn gwirionedd. Rwy'n parsleyn ystod,yr ysbytref yn hwnanedd cyfw��ol. No! Dweud yn cyfwyr, mae'n hoffa yn bod yn cael ei fawr i'r argynwyd perthio i'r yn y ddo iawn, at yn ddigonwyd yn y tgwil sydd wedi bod yn nolwaith yourdau yn digonwyd. Rydym ni'n meddwl i'n gweithio i'r sifftol a'r ddin— a'i slicedr yn ei wlyt, wrth Buydol. Mae'n eisio bod thymau i ddiddordebau i ddiddordebau i ddiddordebau i ddiddordebau. Rydyn ni'n ddiddordebio i ddiddordeb yn ei ddiddordeb i ddiddordeb i ddiddordeb yma, wedi amdelyt i gyrtu'n mynd i'n gweithio i ddiddordebau i ddiddordeb i ddiddordeb. Myl ifanc, yma, gyda'n myl iawn, ond myny'n gwneudol, ond ond mynionwyr, ond mynd i'w gwneud, ond myny'n gwneud, ond mynd i'w gwneud, ond mynd i'w gwneud, ond mae'n gwneud y fforddechyd gyda rhoi economi sy'n myl iawn. Yna, mae'n gwneud ond mae'n gwneud hyn, yn yful editorsio yn ddiwrnod hynny, mae yna'n ceir gyda'n 3 o 4 fit a'n dwi'n amser mwyedd i'w gwneud. Cymru ydych chi'n pwbl i fynd i gael dewis. Felly yma'n ei wahanol i chi eisiau eich bwysig, ond mae sy'n gweithio i'r syniadau gyhoedd yr athlau cyfrif yn----- ac mae'n meddwl â ddim yn effeithio. ac mae'r dweud yn dda i gael ei hunain iawn, ac mae'n digwydd yn gwneud ei bod a'r buddee i'i bru i gael ei syniad ar y cement yn yr eich cyfrif ar y meddwl. Rydym ni'n enw i'n bwysig, yw eich bwysig. I think, we should be a bit more e... more robusting about saying So, not only do we need more myślęidurism suo just to match the 4% cost by leaving the European Union to guarantee economic growth is to enshine the rights of workers into law through the rights of an employment bill and Mr Speaker is a damned disgrace since 2017, this government has been promising an employment law ond yr oedd yn cyflaen iawn, ac yn ysgolwch i. Mae'r ddrwg yn ymddangos, a'r ddyloch yn ei ddweud o'r ddweud o'r gweithio cyflaen iawn i gyflaen iawn i'w ddweud. Mae'n cael ei ddweud o ddweud â ymddangos yn net zero. Yn oedd ymddangos ythynai oherwydd y Americans oedd yn ddyfodol i'r reidio yn gweithio gyda'r ffordd rydyn ni'n gweithio ar y dyfodol, mae'n gweithio gweithio ar y ddechrau. No, oniona. It's what hindrance, it's a growth speech that we've had, to Cable Concrete that the grid is to be upgraded. That is to be welcomed long overdue, as it is. But what we don't have is any insight as to whether there's going to be a financial Schchu, there's no indication if there's going to be a new financial mechanism to support tidal power in Scotland, which is world leading. There's no indication that there's going to be financial mechanisms in place to deliver a green hydrogen-at-scale-not just just for people on these Reading their details about right across the European continent, there was no indication whatsoever that this government is going to fix the failure of the offshore winds auction, which delivered not a single bid this year. I shamful indictment and damaging, so damaging to Scotland's burgeoning renewables sector. yn cael ei hwn. Mae'n gweithio ni'n tannigu. Mae yna'n gweithio ni'n gweithio. Bydd ychwanegwyd yn Scotland yn ymgyrch yn unigol i'r nôl. Mae'n mynd i'n gwneud yn cyd-dwylliant, mae'n gwybod sydd wedi bod ychwanegwyd sgwrs yn gwasanaeth ynllun, ond rydyn ni'n meddwl i'r hyn yn fawr i'r hyn. Yn 2022, rydyn ni'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'n eich cyfrifoedd i ddim yn bwysig i'r oedd gynhwys i'r drafod haelodau, a ble rydyn ni beth oedd ymgyrch yn bwysig. Fe ddim yn bwysig i dilydd yn dwych ar gyfer cwestiynaeth yn cyfodol. Fe oedd yn bwysig i dilydd gan darkestaeth ar gyfer cyfodol, ac oedd yn bwysig i'r bwysig i'r cael cyfle o'u gallu cyfodol. A dwi'n sgolwch ar gyfer gwych ar gyfer cyfodol, bydd ychydig o gael wrth ychydig o ddal eu byddu cyfodol a'r llun gyfodol yn ystafellu komor. worse off this year than last. Those are the facts, Mr Speaker. Now, they may not be popular in this place, but we will continue to champion them because they are our values, but the challenges people face, Mr Speaker, extends beyond just their energy bills. It goes to their mortgage, but I won't. Why is there no action in relation to this? Now, it was indicated by a member of the government that's communism. Well, someone should have told Emmanuel Macron, because the French have done it. They managed to protect their citizens. Why is it good enough for them, but not good enough for us? Ultimately, Mr Speaker, when we look at the cost of living crisis in its total, when we look at it in its entirety, it exists because of decisions taken in this place. The reason people can't afford to pay their energy bills is because decades of incompetence on energy policy from this place. The reason that people can't afford to pay their mortgage bills is because the Tories crashed the economy. The reason that people can't afford to pay their food bills is because Brexit pushed up the prices delivered by politicians in this place, Mr Speaker. Now, we've had enough of it, Mr Speaker. We've had it, of course. I'm grateful, Mr Speaker, for the hon. Gentleman given me. He spoke at length about energy and never once mentioned oil. I wonder when the Government's bill on oil and gas looks like it's not Aberdeen North. It's just seven days since the Government announced 27 licences for offshore oil and gas, and now they've come forward with a proposal to do so on an annual basis. Now, what I would like to see, Mr Speaker, is that I hear the hon. Gentleman chunter yn ffeisedd yn treu position, like a wee gafdie. Mr Speaker, if he was to choose to listen, I will get to my pose. What he knows I believe is that there has to be is that investment in renewables going forward. Now, what I would like to see the Government do, and I'm sure the hon. Member would agree with me in this regard, is obviously to ensure that the pre-existing licences for the likes of offshore wind, where the Government is failed, we see improvements to ensure that that actually happens, Mr Speaker. Now, the people of Scotland, when they're looking at this and they see the cost of living challenges and they know that it emanates from the decisions taken in this place, their minds are very much refocused on the fact that where power is devolved, Mr Speaker, power is retained. What we so badly need to see is the powers over our economy, the powers over energy policy, the powers over employment law transferred from this place to Holyrood. Here's why, Mr Speaker, because when we look at the record of Holyrood in comparison to this place, the difference could not be starker. If you're a young person in Scotland, you'll be born into a baby box. If you go to nursery, you'll receive 1140 hours of care. If you go to primary school, you'll get a free school. If you go to secondary school and want to go to higher education, that will be paid for you. If you then enter the workplace in Scotland, if you become a nurse, you'll be paid more than you are here. The majority of Scots pay less tax than those in England. On your council tax, you'll pay less than those living in England. You'll be able to get Chris Cleanwater included as part of that bill, Mr Speaker. Of course, if you want to be in a situation—Mr Speaker, the honourable gentleman is very keen. Would you like to rise to his feet? I'm very grateful to the honourable gentleman for giving way again. He's spoken a lot about economic growth. I wonder then, does he agree with that? If you want to open a business in Scotland, you'll be able to have access to the small business bonus. As you get older, you will be able to live in comfort knowing that you'll have access to free personal care. All those things have came about because those are our values. They're tangible and they're real, and what the Scottish Parliament has done is deliver them. What is going to deliver next is that council tax freeze. A council tax freeze, which comes in the face of some Labour councillors in Scotland advocating for a 32% rise in council tax, because only the SNP, using the powers that we have, are protecting the Scottish people during the cost of living crisis. Start contrast to the failing establishment here in front of us, Mr Speaker. But, of course, it's not all bad news, Mr Speaker, because we do have one glimmer of hope, the fact that this is not just the Prime Minister's first speech, it's the Prime Minister's last things speech. Follow the house of Peter Baltimore. Having heard the parliamentary leader of the SNP, the question in my mind is whether he anticipates a result of the next general election better or worse than 2017. My guess is it'll be worse, when his party got 37% of the votes in Scotland. My constituents would like to have the Barnett formula funding for local government, for all the kinds of things he was speaking about. We welcome having extra money, and perhaps as we get the economy to grow, we will get a general... As he welcomes the leasehold reform for England, which Scotland took them across the house for saying that we're catching up with the uncertainty and the life of misery which too many residential leaseholders have had for too long. I'm glad that the government is now moving forward. I pay tribute to Gavin Barwell, now Lord Barwell, who's the first housing minister to recognise there's a problem. I'm glad now that the Secretary of State for levelling up and his colleagues are taking this forward, and if when the bill comes forward it gives us three courses what we want, the Prime Minister can rely on colleagues on both sides of the house and in both chambers to make improvements so we get all of what is needed. People ought to be able to have the same kind of protections as free holders, residential leaseholders and as tenants, and I'm glad that the government's bringing forward improvements there. On the issues which is overhanging our debates, which is the misery and terror both from the attack on Israel and the Israelis and the condition of the people in Gaza, I think we need to just keep in our minds that Hamas, until they release hostages, until they can honestly say that they are not going to go into a repeat of that kind of attack and they're going to recognise the State of Israel, they are going to be a continuing problem and we can't just close our eyes and say an instant lasting ceasefire will solve all the problems. Although many people have criticised the leader of the opposition for what he's said, I think that what he has said and the opposition foreign spokesman have said is worth reading. We have to have an end to the violence. There are plenty of times when we can talk about the terrible way that the aggressive settlements and the conditions of people in Gaza did the remark from one of my constituents saying that there are only 16 million Jews around the world. Why do they keep picking on us? In this country we have to give protection to people who are Muslims against hatred, protection against people who are Jewish against hatred and we need to try to make sure that we don't go having demonstrations which look as though they're only on one side, not on both. Everyone needs the protection. Returning to King's Speech, I'm grateful for the opportunity to raise the Holocaust Memorial, which the Prime Minister has spoken about. The original proposals for the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre were that the memorial will be up within two years, that's by the end of 2017. Since then we've got from 2015 when the proposals came forward to 2023, eight years on and no prospect for that memorial possibly being open for the next five years. We have since had the memorial galleries developed in the Imperial War Museum and I make the proposal that those in charge of the project should get together with Baroness Deitch, with me and with Anita Wolfish Fisher, who played in the Auschwitz Women's Orchestra and survived Bergen Belsen and actually have a private, not secret, but private meeting to discuss how it's possible to have a memorial which meets the task, but not to take me over so much Victoria Tire Gardens and separate away the Learning Centre, having a double dug basement in the middle of a small park south of the House of Lords is not appropriate. The last thing I would say is to deal with things of anti-legislation that are still overhanging this house. One is the privileges committee report about interference in their consideration of a complaint. I believe that the House has to take up the challenges which are in the report in the vote office and make sure that when standards are challenged those who have to look at them can look at it without interference and I just say because I have noticed who's been in the press recently that the 12 examples of interference four came from one person who was a former cabinet minister. I think we ought to make sure that people in the future don't go into that kind of interference with the privileges committee investigation and the other point on standards is I invite the new chair of the standards committee to reopen the changes in proposals on all party groups. I think for the country ones we ought to find a way of having an umbrella where the IPU and the CPA UK branches can provide the admin so you don't have to have all the kerfuffle of an annual general meeting with eight people present and sometimes supervised by others. Let them come under those umbrellas and for some of the other groups consider why it is they were restricting people to six. I've taken part in all party groups and all my time here. One of them was very few MPs were interested in dealing with and that was Lee's Holders reforms. Before people realised there were six million Lee's holders at risk. In fact for those who were interested come to a meeting in Rom 11 at six this evening when we'll be considering what the government's proposals are and what the old party group proposes to do about it. I asked the standards committee to have a view of that. Having said that I closed by saying to the leader of the opposition he's very welcome in worthy all the time. If he comes to west worthy or worthy west he can say how his proposal is to ignore local objections and let the bullers in to affect the gory gap and he comes to east worthy he can explain to hard working Labour councillors who are offended they can't be put on the shortlist for their selection for a parliamentary candidate. Thank you Mr Speaker and can I, like others, start by paying tribute to you?