division_name: Immigration and Home Affairs
motion: <p class="indent" pid="e527.5/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;but respectfully regret that the Gracious Speech does not commit to boosting defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030 with a fully funded plan, fails to include measures that provide an adequate deterrent to migrants crossing the channel illegally, fails to mention rural communities, farming and fishing, does not include a legally binding target to enhance the UK&#8217;s food security or a commitment to increase the UK-wide agriculture budget by &#163;1 billion over the course of the Parliament, introduces new burdens on businesses without sufficient measures to support them, fails to set out a concrete plan to tackle the unsustainable post-covid rise in the welfare bill, does not adequately protect family finances and the UK&#8217;s energy security in the move to net zero, and fails to provide adequate protections for pensioners and working people to keep more of the money they have worked hard for.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e534.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There&#8217;s only two people from my generation that I could see leading the Conservative party: Rishi Sunak or Vicky Atkins.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e544.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if everyone had the good health of the least deprived 10% of the population, there would have been 1 million fewer deaths in England in the period 2012 to 2019.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e553.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e555.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We&#8217;re addicted to sentencing, we&#8217;re addicted to punishment. So many people who are in prison, in my view, shouldn&#8217;t be there.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e556.1/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If health has stopped improving it is a sign that society has stopped improving.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e567.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;At end add &#8216;and submits that the Government should immediately recognise the state of Palestine.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e593.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I am privileged to represent a constituency of huge diversity, vibrancy and tolerance, and while we must never be complacent, our communities generally live harmoniously together. We are part of a city renowned across the world for welcoming incomers. Families have come from across the globe to make their home in Leicester South&#8230;Our diversity&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e593.1/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;enriches our cultural, social and civic life, and contributes immensely to our economy, too.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="">8 June 2011</phrase>; Vol. 529, c. 200-201.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e593.1/15" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;My heart is ten times lighter than my looks.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e607.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We need to stop the decline and start fighting for a better future.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="">15 November 2023</phrase>; Vol. 740, c. 742</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e621.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;never change the system because they think they don&#8217;t need to. And when they lose, they have no power to change it.&#8221;</p>