Rishi Sunak

[Alan Harper's Tash]

So much for the Rishi bounce

Wait til the budget drops!

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Wait til the budget drops!

It will go lower?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

It will go lower?

Yeah, that 2% bounce will be history.

 

[bluethrunthru]

we have gone from 5th to 6th largest economy - facing recession and post Brexit turmoil could be heading for 7th. Would Sunak be happy to hang around and take us OUT of the G7?

 

[mat]

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Will he have to declare this pepper corn rent on the register of members' interests?

 

[west didsblue]

Fair play to Corbyn on this occasion. Can't really argue with what he said.

If Sunak insists on mentioning him every week as he has promised, maybe as a one off the speaker should allow him to have the right of reply to counter Sunak's idiotic assertions during PMQs when there's a bit more of an audience?

 

[Gabriel]

Fair play to Corbyn on this occasion. Can't really argue with what he said.

If Sunak insists on mentioning him every week as he has promised, maybe as a one off the speaker should allow him to have the right of reply to counter Sunak's idiotic assertions during PMQs when there's a bit more of an audience?

Shouldn't be a one-off, though, as if he is so named in the House, by anyone, he has a right to redress. Hoyle had only just intervened so was probably not paying close attention, which does not excuse the clerks at the table.

Sunak used the name deliberately because 'Corbyn' has a cache with certain voters which Member for Islington North does not, but he's going to look increasingly ridiculous if he relies on that trope when the country's finances are in such a mess and he was at the helm for most of the time.

 

[Vic]

It's worth recording what followed:

Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans:

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his point of order and for giving forward notice of it. Members are, of course, responsible for the content of their own remarks in the Chamber. In respect of what is said in the House, parliamentary privilege allows all Members the right of free speech to ensure that we can represent our constituents and express our views without fear or favour, but that is a right that we must exercise with great responsibility. The Treasury Bench will have heard that point of order and I am sure it will be passed on to the Prime Minister.

Then The Leader of the House, Penny Mordaunt:

Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. In all seriousness, as you know, I take the rules on giving Members notice very seriously, whether that is about visits to constituencies or mentions in the House, so I will certainly follow that up. I suspect, however, that the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) should be prepared for him, and particularly the Leader of the Opposition’s support for him and the manifesto that he stood on, to be mentioned on at least a weekly basis. If he would like to help to correct the record, he could publish the manifesto that he stood on, which would have weakened this country and dismantled NATO.

Corbyn:

Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am grateful to the Leader of the House for what she has just said. The manifesto is freely available. Had it resulted in a Labour Government, we would not have such poverty, such food banks and such misery in this country today.

Mr Deputy Speaker
(Mr Nigel Evans)
It would appear that it is not only the Prime Minister who lives rent free in your head, Mr Corbyn.

 

[Don Karleone]