Theresa May's final PMQs - BBC News — Transcript

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1. 0:02[Music]
2. 0:07mr. mr. speaker this morning I had
3. 0:13meetings with ministerial colleagues and
4. 0:15others following my duties in this house
5. 0:17this afternoon I shall have an audience
6. 0:19of Her Majesty the Queen I shall then
7. 0:22continue with my duties in this house
8. 0:24from the back benches where I will
9. 0:27continue to be the member of parliament
10. 0:29for main
11. 0:30[Applause]
12. 0:34Thank You mr. speaker i profoundly
13. 0:36disagree with many of the decisions the
14. 0:38Prime Minister has made and many of the
15. 0:40things she says but I recognize that she
16. 0:43does have a respect for public service
17. 0:45and for the future of our country so how
18. 0:49does she feel about handing over to a
19. 0:51man who among many things is happy to
20. 0:55demonize Muslims
21. 0:58he's prepared to chuck our loyal public
22. 1:01servants and diplomats and robust
23. 1:05and promises to sell our country out to
24. 1:09Donald Trump and his friends I'm I am
25. 1:15pleased to hand over to an incoming
26. 1:18leader of the Conservative Party and
27. 1:20prime minister who I worked with when he
28. 1:23was in my cabinet
29. 1:25[Music]
30. 1:31and who is committed as a conservative
31. 1:34who stood on a conservative manifesto in
32. 1:372017 to delivering on the vote of the
33. 1:39British people in 2016 and to delivering
34. 1:42a bright future for this country
35. 1:44[Applause]
36. 1:47Thank You Speaker I rise to not only
37. 1:51thank my rights of a friend for a loyal
38. 1:54service as Prime Minister over the last
39. 1:56three years but also for her 33 years in
40. 2:00public service which is a record to be
41. 2:02proud of but also to thank her for her
42. 2:05personal support in helping me get my
43. 2:07private member's bill for homelessness
44. 2:09reduction Act that's my right on a
45. 2:13friend agree with me that is far better
46. 2:16to help people prevent people from
47. 2:18becoming homeless to use the taxation
48. 2:21system to combat obesity and to prevent
49. 2:24people from smoking in the first place
50. 2:26does she agree with me the prevention is
51. 2:29far better than a cure can I say to more
52. 2:35friends I thank him for all the work
53. 2:37that he did on his homelessness
54. 2:38reduction Act
55. 2:39I also say crucially we are actually
56. 2:42seeing that act having an impact and
57. 2:45that is so important for people who are
58. 2:47benefiting from the work that he did
59. 2:49he's been worked doing a lot of work I
60. 2:51know as part of the smoking at health a
61. 2:53PPG and I agree that we do need to start
62. 2:56viewing health as an asset to protect
63. 2:58throughout our lives that's why we've
64. 3:00taken bold action on smoking and on
65. 3:02childhood obesity and I'm proud that
66. 3:05we've delivered the biggest-ever cash
67. 3:06boost in the history of the National
68. 3:09Health Service but also a long-term plan
69. 3:11that as my honourable friend says will
70. 3:13focus on prevention a prevention also
71. 3:16focusing on cancer care in mental health
72. 3:18but making sure that we are trying to
73. 3:20ensure that people do not get into the
74. 3:22situation where they are in that ill
75. 3:23health in the first place preventing
76. 3:25smoking preventing obesity are key parts
77. 3:27for better lives for people in the
78. 3:29future
79. 3:29Jeremy call me
80. 3:32Thank You mr. speaker today today marks
81. 3:36the final day in office for the Prime
82. 3:38Minister and I pay tribute to her sense
83. 3:41of public duty public service should
84. 3:44always be recognized being an MP a
85. 3:47minister or indeed a prime minister is
86. 3:49an honor that brings with it huge
87. 3:51responsibility and huge pressures both
88. 3:54personally and I'm sure the Prime
89. 3:56Minister and probably the whole house
90. 3:57would agree on those very closest to us
91. 4:00who often are not able to answer back
92. 4:02for the criticisms made against them so
93. 4:04I hope mr. speaker that she has a
94. 4:06marginally more relaxing time on the
95. 4:09back branches and perhaps like the
96. 4:11Chancellor even helping me to oppose the
97. 4:14reckless plans of her successor
98. 4:24mr. speaker
99. 4:28mr. speaker if I may continue in the
100. 4:31[Applause]
101. 4:35I'm glad the opposite I'm glad that
102. 4:37government parties in such good heart
103. 4:38today mr. speaker for tomorrow they
104. 4:41won't be mr. speaker in the last three
105. 4:45years in the last three years child
106. 4:48poverty has gone up pensioner poverty
107. 4:51has gone up in work poverty has gone
108. 4:56violent crime has gone NHS waiting times
109. 5:01that have gone up school class sizes of
110. 5:04Ghana homelessness has gone up food bank
111. 5:08use has gone up does the Prime Minister
112. 5:11have any regrets about any of those
113. 5:14things I've just said right honourable
114. 5:20gentleman it's very good to see the
115. 5:22Conservative Party in good harped is
116. 5:23more than I can say for the
117. 5:24neighbourhood
118. 5:28but let me just tell the right
119. 5:30honourable gentleman let me just say if
120. 5:32I was right honorable gentleman about my
121. 5:34record over the last three years and how
122. 5:36I measure my record over the last three
123. 5:38years it's in the opportunity for every
124. 5:41child who is now in a better school it's
125. 5:44in the comfort for every person who now
126. 5:47has a job for the first time it's in the
127. 5:51hope of every disadvantaged young person
128. 5:54now able to go to university and it's in
129. 5:57the joy of every couple who can now move
130. 6:00into their own home
131. 6:07at its heart politics isn't about
132. 6:10exchanges across these dispatch boxes
133. 6:12know about eloquent speeches or media
134. 6:15headlines politics is about the
135. 6:17difference we make every day to the peak
136. 6:20lives of people up and down this country
137. 6:23they are our reason for being here and
138. 6:26we should never forget it mr. speaker
139. 6:31politics is about real life politics is
140. 6:34about what people suffer in their
141. 6:35ordinary lives and I didn't mention that
142. 6:38per-pupil school funding has gone down
143. 6:41police numbers are down GP numbers are
144. 6:44falling in the 2000 in the 2017
145. 6:49conservative manifesto the Prime
146. 6:52Minister promised that no school would
147. 6:54have its budget cuts and that they would
148. 6:57perfect protect TV licenses for the over
149. 6:5975 s and have rough sleeping which of
150. 7:04these pages is the Prime Minister most
151. 7:06sorry has not been achieved I'm pleased
152. 7:12to hear that he spent some time reading
153. 7:14the Conservative Party manifesto in 2017
154. 7:16had we read it properly he's not being
155. 7:19known always for reading the documents
156. 7:20that he said we did make a pledge on
157. 7:25rough sleeping to have rough sleeping by
158. 7:272022 and to stop rough sleeping by 2027
159. 7:31I'm pleased to say that in the last year
160. 7:33we have seen we have seen rough sleeping
161. 7:36and particularly rough sleeping going
162. 7:39down in those areas where this
163. 7:41government has been taking action Jeremy
164. 7:45Gorby I don't quite know where the Prime
165. 7:48Minister gets our figures from on rough
166. 7:50sleeping all I know is that I travel
167. 7:53around this country I travel around this
168. 7:56country just like other members of this
169. 7:58house and I talk to people who've had a
170. 8:01disaster in their lives and end up rough
171. 8:03sleeping
172. 8:04we are the fifth richest country in the
173. 8:06world it is surely wrong that anyone
174. 8:09should end up sleeping on the streets of
175. 8:11this country we can and should do
176. 8:13something about it mr. speaker I've
177. 8:16often disagreed with the Prime Minister
178. 8:18and have many criticisms of her policies
179. 8:19however I welcomed the reduction in the
180. 8:22stake on fixed odds betting terminals
181. 8:25the adoption of the children's funeral
182. 8:27fund and scrapping employment tribunal
183. 8:30fees which of these policies is the
184. 8:32Prime Minister most proud of I'm proud
185. 8:37of all the policies that we have
186. 8:38introduced had been improving people's
187. 8:40lives I'm proud of the fact that through
188. 8:43the balanced management of the economy
189. 8:45that we have done we now see more people
190. 8:47in work in this country than ever before
191. 8:50I'm proud of the fact there are more
192. 8:52children in good and outstanding schools
193. 8:54I'm proud of the fact that the
194. 8:56obtainment gap between the disadvantaged
195. 8:58and the advantage has been narrowed
196. 9:00under this government and I'm proud of
197. 9:03the fact that we are putting the biggest
198. 9:04cash boost in its history into our
199. 9:07national health service we are ensuring
200. 9:10that the national health service the
201. 9:11most beloved institution in this country
202. 9:13will be there for people into the future
203. 9:17this is a Conservative government my
204. 9:19government delivering all the things
205. 9:21that matter to people in their day to
206. 9:23day lives
207. 9:25mr. speaker the Prime Minister may have
208. 9:27noticed that none of those things that I
209. 9:29mentioned were actually in the
210. 9:31Conservative Party manifesto in 2017 but
211. 9:34every one of them was a Labour pledge in
212. 9:372017 on brexit the Prime Minister's own
213. 9:41red lines ruled out any sensible
214. 9:44compromise deal only after she had
215. 9:47missed her own deadline to leave did the
216. 9:49Prime Minister even begin to shift her
217. 9:51position but by then she no longer had
218. 9:54the authority to deliver her successor
219. 9:56has no mandate at all does she have
220. 9:59confidence that the Honorable right
221. 10:01honourable member for Oxbridge will
222. 10:03succeed where she has not I work
223. 10:08tirelessly to get a good deal for the UK
224. 10:11and I also worked hard to get that deal
225. 10:13through this Parliament I voted for the
226. 10:16deal what did the right honourable
227. 10:19gentleman
228. 10:20he voted against a deal he voted to make
229. 10:25no deal more likely and when there was a
230. 10:27prospect of reaching consensus across
231. 10:30this house the right honourable
232. 10:32gentleman walked away
233. 10:36every stage his only interest has been
234. 10:40playing party
235. 10:42[Applause]
236. 10:44[Music]
237. 10:45he should be ashamed of himself
238. 10:49we've had three years of bungled
239. 10:52negotiations and we now have the
240. 10:54spectacle of a prime minister coming
241. 10:56into office with no electoral mandate
242. 10:58looking for a brexit deal that has been
243. 11:01ruled out by the European Union or in
244. 11:03the case of a No Deal ruled out by the
245. 11:06majority in this house and by anyone
246. 11:08that understands the dangers to the
247. 11:10British economy of a No Deal
248. 11:12the next Prime Minister thought the Isle
249. 11:14of Man was in the European Union and
250. 11:16that the European Union made rules about
251. 11:18kippers that in fact were made by the
252. 11:21government that he was part of he also
253. 11:24said the UK could secure a tariff free
254. 11:28trade through article 24 of the general
255. 11:31agreement on tariffs and trade despite
256. 11:33the trade secretary attorney-general
257. 11:35governor of the Bank of England all
258. 11:37confirming that is not possible at the
259. 11:41start of 2018 the it's coming don't
260. 11:45worry
261. 11:51at the start of 2018 mr. speaker the
262. 11:55Prime Minister herself set up a new unit
263. 11:59to counter fake news charged with
264. 12:03combating disk in firm ation how
265. 12:05successful does she think that's been I
266. 12:10have to say to the right honourable
267. 12:12gentleman that I I fear that our success
268. 12:14hasn't been what we what we wanted it to
269. 12:16be for the amount of fake news and fake
270. 12:18information he uses at that dispatch
271. 12:20[Applause]
272. 12:24what maybe
273. 12:26maybe mr. speaker she can have a word
274. 12:29with her successor on the way out but
275. 12:31let me conclude by welcoming some
276. 12:37fortunately mr. speaker let me conclude
277. 12:40by welcoming some of the Prime
278. 12:42Minister's notable u-turns over the last
279. 12:44couple of years the cruel dementia tax
280. 12:47was scrapped plans to bring back grammar
281. 12:50schools were ditched the threat to the
282. 12:52pensions triple-locked was abandoned
283. 12:54withdrawal of the winter fuel payments
284. 12:56was dumped the pledge to bring back
285. 12:59foxhunting was dropped and they bend
286. 13:01their plan to end universal school
287. 13:04makeup free school meals for five to
288. 13:06seven year olds the Prime Minister has
289. 13:08dumped her own manifesto given that her
290. 13:12successor has no mandate from the people
291. 13:15no mandating which to move into office
292. 13:18doesn't she agree the best thing the
293. 13:22right honourable member for Oxbridge
294. 13:24could do later on today when he takes
295. 13:27office is to call a general election and
296. 13:30let the people decide their future
297. 13:34[Music]
298. 13:38[Applause]
299. 13:47my first answer to the right honourable
300. 13:50gentleman is no and if he wants to talk
301. 13:54about people ducking Manifesto
302. 13:56commitments and commitments made during
303. 13:59a general election campaign can we
304. 14:02remember what the Labour Party's right
305. 14:03honourable gentleman said about student
306. 14:05debt
307. 14:07[Applause]
308. 14:09for the election heroes back on that
309. 14:11promise
310. 14:14What did he say during the general
311. 14:16election he was committed to Trident
312. 14:19what does he say after the general
313. 14:21election no he's not committed to
314. 14:23Trident at all he has broken promise
315. 14:26after promise to the people of this
316. 14:29country but I say to the right
317. 14:31honourable gentleman I say to the right
318. 14:32honorable gentleman as this is the last
319. 14:34time that we will have this exchange
320. 14:35across these dispatch boxes
321. 14:45I was going to say that is the strengths
322. 14:47of our British democracy that the Prime
323. 14:49Minister and the leader of the
324. 14:50Opposition have these exchanges across
325. 14:52their dispatch boxes every week at two
326. 14:55swords length no Porter is sought and
327. 14:58none is given and that's as it should be
328. 15:01in our adversarial parliamentary
329. 15:02democracy but he and I have very
330. 15:04different people
331. 15:05and with very very very different
332. 15:10politicians I think we approach the
333. 15:12issues we face in this country in
334. 15:14different ways I have spent orbit one of
335. 15:16my years in this house on the front
336. 15:19bench trying to implement the policies I
337. 15:21believe in he has spent most of his time
338. 15:24on the back benches campaigning for what
339. 15:27he believes in often against his own
340. 15:29party but what I think we both have in
341. 15:32common is a commitment to our
342. 15:33constituencies I saw that after the
343. 15:37terrorist attack in Finsbury Park mosque
344. 15:38in his constituency and but perhaps I
345. 15:41could just finished my exchange with him
346. 15:43by saying this as a party leader who has
347. 15:46accepted when her time was up
348. 15:49perhaps the time is now for him to do
349. 15:52the same
350. 15:53[Applause]
351. 16:02[Music]