Kemi Badenoch DESTROYS Keir Starmer | PMQs — Transcript

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1. 0:03Mr Speaker may I take this opportunity
2. 0:05to solemnly commemorate the 80th
3. 0:07anniversary of the liberation of aitz we
4. 0:09remember the 6 million Jewish men women
5. 0:12and children who were murdered the
6. 0:14Holocaust stands as a unique evil in
7. 0:16human
8. 0:17history Mr Speaker yesterday the Prime
9. 0:20Minister set his growth test he said if
10. 0:23a policy is good for growth the answer
11. 0:25is yes if it's not the answer is no this
12. 0:29morning the chancellor embraced a series
13. 0:31of conservative policies although many
14. 0:34are welcomed they will take years to
15. 0:36deliver yeah
16. 0:38[Music]
17. 0:40when
18. 0:43when Mr Speaker when conservatives left
19. 0:46office we had the fastest economic
20. 0:48growth in the
21. 0:50G7 but what what is the government doing
22. 0:54for growth now it's destroying it let's
23. 0:57look at the employment Bill the
24. 0:59government's own figures say it will
25. 1:01cost business5 billion a year it clearly
26. 1:05fails the prime minister's growth test
27. 1:07will he drop
28. 1:09it Mr Speaker I think the proposition
29. 1:12they left a golden inheritance was
30. 1:14tested on the 4th of
31. 1:15July which is why they're standing there
32. 1:18but she asked what we're doing the on
33. 1:20say we've got the highest investment for
34. 1:2219 years PWC second best place to invest
35. 1:26in the world IMF upgrading growth
36. 1:29predicted fastest growing major economy
37. 1:31in Europe wages up inflation down Mr
38. 1:34Speaker there's more to do with
39. 1:36reforming planning and regulation
40. 1:38building the new homes that we need
41. 1:40supporting a third Runway at Heathrow
42. 1:42and as she admitted to CBI in November
43. 1:46uh there's no point me just complaining
44. 1:47about Labor she said it's obvious that
45. 1:49we conservatives lost the confidence of
46. 1:51business we're not taking lectures from
47. 1:54[Applause]
48. 1:55them Mr Speaker he doesn't want to talk
49. 1:58about the employment bill because he
50. 1:59doesn't know about it last week he
51. 2:03misled last week he misled the house he
52. 2:06was not on top of his own education Bill
53. 2:09listening to sorry we can't accuse the
54. 2:12prim minister of misleading the house no
55. 2:15no no no we can't do it I'm sure there's
56. 2:17words that you will prefer to
57. 2:24use Mr Speaker last week he claimed to
58. 2:28have laid down an amendment that he had
59. 2:29not made he doesn't know what is going
60. 2:31on in here or out there last week I
61. 2:34spoke to a woman running a business in
62. 2:36exitor she is terrified of taking on new
63. 2:39staff she is struggling to keep her head
64. 2:41above water dreading what this
65. 2:43government will do next She's Not Alone
66. 2:46the Federation of small businesses says
67. 2:4892% of small employers are concerned
68. 2:51about the employment Bill Clauses one
69. 2:54through six make it harder for business
70. 2:55to hire new employees often young people
71. 2:58looking for their first job this isn't
72. 3:00an employment bill it's an unemployment
73. 3:02bill given these Clauses will he drop
74. 3:06his uh Bill and show that he is not and
75. 3:09show that he is not anti-growth
76. 3:11Sir Mr Speaker we believe in giving
77. 3:14people proper dignity and protection at
78. 3:16work that's why we're proud of our
79. 3:19record supporting workers they
80. 3:21consistently vote against any protection
81. 3:24for working people and her consistent
82. 3:27flame is that there should be less but
83. 3:29Mr Speaker we are driving growth on
84. 3:32behalf of working people good work
85. 3:36rights are consistent with growth good
86. 3:38business knows that and on top of the
87. 3:40planning reform the building the houses
88. 3:42supporting Aviation the CH this morning
89. 3:44spoke of the Oxford Cambridge growth
90. 3:46Corridor redeveloping Old Trafford
91. 3:49manufacturing at East Midlands Airport
92. 3:51we want to grow the economy the only
93. 3:53policies she's got is to shrink
94. 3:57pensions Mr Speaker all ideas are the
95. 4:00ones that we thought of he needs to make
96. 4:03sure that we deliver for growth now as
97. 4:08well as the future to grow our economy
98. 4:10we must get more people off sickness and
99. 4:13Welfare and into work Clauses 8 and nine
100. 4:16of the unemployment bill take us in the
101. 4:19opposite direction by increasing
102. 4:21entitlements government itself his
103. 4:23government itself estimates that these
104. 4:25changes will increase business costs
105. 4:27from £600 million to to a billion pound
106. 4:30a year in sick pay that will mean higher
107. 4:33prices fewer jobs less growth will he
108. 4:37drop these measures from the bill prime
109. 4:40minister no Mr Speaker I think they're
110. 4:41good for workers and good for
111. 4:44growth this is the same argument they
112. 4:47made against the minimum wage and every
113. 4:48protection for workers and she says
114. 4:51they're their ideas Mr Speaker she says
115. 4:53she's in support of a third Runway at
116. 4:55ethro her Shadow transport secretary
117. 4:58says that it' be calamity
118. 5:00the shadow business secretary is busy
119. 5:02writing letters opposing airport
120. 5:04expansion in his own backyard Shadow
121. 5:06Chief secretary says the Oxford
122. 5:08Cambridge idea is flawed and he's
123. 5:11against it we're the Coalition of
124. 5:13Builders they're the Coalition of
125. 5:17blockers Mr Speaker he forgets his own
126. 5:20Chancellor blocked an airport in her
127. 5:22constituency they are hypocrites Mr
128. 5:25Speaker let's talk about this employment
129. 5:26Bill part one of the bill means a new
130. 5:29employ employee could start a job in the
131. 5:31morning and take their employer to a
132. 5:32tribunal that afternoon it is no wonder
133. 5:36that this bill has been called an
134. 5:38Adventure Playground for lawyers this
135. 5:41bill is terrible for business but it is
136. 5:44great employment for lawyers I know the
137. 5:46Prime Minister loves the legal
138. 5:48profession but he needs to stop being a
139. 5:50lawyer and start being a leader this is
140. 5:54this is another measure in the bill that
141. 5:56fails his growth test will he show some
142. 5:59leadership and drop
143. 6:01it Mr Speaker I understand she likes
144. 6:03straight talking she's talking absolute
145. 6:06nonsense she knows and anybody
146. 6:08understands anything about the bill or
147. 6:10any employment law will know you can't
148. 6:11start in the morning and go to the
149. 6:13tribunal in the afternoon now Mr Speaker
150. 6:16we we we know she's not a lawyer she's
151. 6:18clearly not a leader if she keeps on
152. 6:20like this she is going to be the next
153. 6:23[Applause]
154. 6:25lce Mr Speaker here does not know what
155. 6:29what his bill is
156. 6:32doing he should listen to business who
157. 6:35are terrified of this bill the only
158. 6:37workers he cares about our lawyers but
159. 6:38it is not just lawyers benefiting from
160. 6:41this bill who else benefits it's not
161. 6:44taxpayers they will be paying for even
162. 6:46more welfare it's not young workers they
163. 6:50won't get their first break it's
164. 6:52definitely not businesses they are being
165. 6:54hammered with yet more burdens who
166. 6:57benefits Mr Speaker
167. 7:02it's we
168. 7:03unemployed who benefits it's the trade
169. 7:06unions it's the trade
170. 7:09unions part four of the unemployment
171. 7:12bill part four they haven't read it part
172. 7:14four of the unemployment bill is the
173. 7:16biggest expansion of Trade union powers
174. 7:19for a
175. 7:21generation exactly thank you the public
176. 7:24will have heard them cheer rather than
177. 7:26deregulating for business who create
178. 7:28growth he's deregulating for the unions
179. 7:31Clause 61 alone reduces the notice
180. 7:34period for strikes to just one week
181. 7:36given strikes are catastrophic for
182. 7:38growth will he drop part four of the
183. 7:41bill Prim Minister Mr Speaker it's it's
184. 7:44good for working people and it's good
185. 7:45for the economy and she should keep up
186. 7:48the CBI have welcomed our positive steps
187. 7:51this morning their quotes the chance has
188. 7:54just given a brilliant speech on the
189. 7:56economy fixing the mess they left and
190. 7:58growing our economy CBI said they
191. 8:00celebrate the positive leadership a
192. 8:03Clear Vision to Kickstart our economy
193. 8:05that's the difference we're growing the
194. 8:07economy they left it in a complete
195. 8:11mess Mr Speaker the arrogance of the
196. 8:13Prime Minister is that he thinks that
197. 8:17it's his government that creates growth
198. 8:19he's wrong it is business that creates
199. 8:22growth our economy is built by
200. 8:24entrepreneurs risk-takers and the hard
201. 8:26graft of working people they know that
202. 8:29you can't tax your way to growth you
203. 8:31can't borrow your way to growth you
204. 8:33can't legislate your way to growth other
205. 8:35countries are serious about freeing
206. 8:37business from red tape president Trump
207. 8:39is Doing It in America Argentina is
208. 8:42taking a chainsaw to regulations even
209. 8:44the EU is not going as far as this
210. 8:46leftwing government this bill will put
211. 8:48us at the bottom of the pack added to
212. 8:51the Jobs Tax the family business tax
213. 8:53it's no wonder wealth creators are
214. 8:55fleeing Britain inros the chancellor is
215. 8:58desperately trying to save her
216. 8:59reputation she knows labor have damaged
217. 9:02growth this bill manifestly fails the
218. 9:05prime minister's own growth test if he
219. 9:07won't drop the unemployment bill what is
220. 9:10the point of his growth test