In the Lords

I am trying to resist intervening too much, but before we move on from Ascension, my understanding is that the Island Council is willing to

I beg to move, That this House has considered the Government’s blue belt programme and the South Sandwich islands.

I thank my right hon. Friend very much for his intervention, and I agree with him 100%.

May I ask my hon. Friend to hold off for a second? I know what he is going to ask me.

Of course, I hugely welcome that announcement.

I very much take the hon. Gentleman’s point; in fact, he takes the words out of my mouth.

To suggest that we should not protect an area because it has not yet been destroyed is madness; the same argument could equally have been us

When criticising a Labour Budget in 2005, my right hon.

What estimate he has made of the number of people who will be made bankrupt as a result of the 2019 Loan Charge.

I thank the hon. Lady for her kind words.