Extract from Commons debate on the Queen's Speech: Zoom - May 19

Thursday, 20 May 2021 08:16

Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South) (Lab/Co-op):...It was not a plan to be developed, or work in progress; no, this was a plan that was already done—oven-ready, you might say, Madam Deputy Speaker. But two years on, where is it? Has the Health Secretary seen it? What do we need to do to see it—perhaps we could pay for some cushions in the Downing Street flat? The Government promised us cross-party talks. They now brief that cross-party talks have taken place, but when—did they forget to...Request free trial