Sentences with phrase «right honourable friends»

Now we have heard a number of outstanding speeches, and sadly time will prevent me from acknowledging them all but I would just like to single out the contributions both for and against the motion from my honourable and right honourable friends the members for Derby South [Margaret Beckett], Kingston Upon Hull West and Hessle [Alan Johnson], Normanton Pontefract and Castleford [Yvette Cooper], Barnsley Central [Dan Jarvis], Wakefield [Mary Creagh], Wolverhampton South East [Pat McFadden], Brent North [Barry Gardiner], Liverpool West Derby [Stephen Twigg], Wirral West [Margaret Greenwood], Stoke on Trent North [Ruth Smeeth], Birmingham Ladywood [Shabana Mahmood] and the honourable members for Reigate [Crispin Blunt], South West Wiltshire [Andrew Murrison], Tonbridge and Malling [John Stanley], Chichester [Andrew Tyrie] and Wells [James Heappey].

«Will he apologise for the remarks he made last night against honourable and right honourable friends on this side of the House?»

I spoke to president Abbas on Monday and my right honourable friend the deputy prime minister spoke to him yesterday.

Can I ask my right honourable friend whether Palmerston has been security cleared or not?

«And can my right honourable Friend assure the House — and the more paranoid element in the Brexiters - that he isn't a long term mole working for the EU Commission.»

They left this country in the worst state ever and it has only been because of the endless borrowing and printing Monopoly money by my right honourable friend, the Prime Minister, that we have managed only to be # 250 billion pounds in debt.

«Could I just ask my right honourable friend to just be absolutely crystal clear at what time was this motion table and might it not have been better if the right honourable opposite had been provided with a copy of the motion before the statement began.»

If the election goes ahead and Sepp Blatter is re-elected, unbelievably, as president of Fifa, will my right honourable friend encourage the home nations to withdraw from Fifa to make a stand on this particular issue... and would the Government support them in that decision?»

Can I just remind the House, this is the man who still refuses to apologise to my right honourable friend the work and pensions secretary.

«I'm sorry that my right honourable friend chose to leave the government and let me here in this House recognise his achievements in helping to make work pay, protecting the vulnerable and breaking the decades old cycle of welfare dependency...

But Buckland said: «Let me say that we do recognise the strength of views from my right honourable friend and, indeed, from other honourable members and honourable friends on this issue — many of whom have spoken this afternoon.

To which the veteran MP for Birkenhead retorted: «As my right honourable friend was kind to me about the house analogy, I've always bought my houses, never inherited them.»

Clegg celebrates the «mischievous wit and wisdom of my right honourable friend».

I would, of course, resign if I could, but my right honourable friend the Sub-Prime Minister aka Clunky the Control Freak will not let me.»

And thanks to the tough financial control of my right honourable friend the chief secretary, government departments are forecast to underspend their budgets by more than # 11 billion this year.

«My understanding is that my Right Honourable Friend, the Minister for Women and Equalities, either has made, or is just about to make, an announcement by way of a letter to members of this House explaining that she intends to intervene to fund abortions in England for women arriving here from Northern Ireland.»

Will my right honourable friend therefore give me the assurance that the government will not interfere and will give minsters a free vote in any vote of no confidence in the Speaker?

Does my right honourable friend accept that the millions of people who voted Conservative at the last election in order to make him prime minister did not do so in order to see a reduction in the number of people sent to prison or to see those criminals given softer sentences?

I have always been wary of presenting, not sure why precisely; perhaps a hangover from my journalistic days, when hanging in the shadows was more productive than being on a podium; and from being a recruiter, where, rather like Victorian children, a good recruiter at a client briefing should preferably seen and not heard, and if ever a question bubbled up, it should be uncontroversial and client - friendly, rather like the «Would My Right Honourable Friend not agree...» type of enquiry fired at David Cameron by the Conservative MP for Little Twiddlington - on - the - Water.

Not exact matches

Graham Evans (Con, barely concealed anger) asks another planted question («Does he agree my honourable friend was right to stick with his economic plan»).

Mrs May replied: «My honourable friend's absolutely right we will be leaving the European Union and I'm tempted to say to his request how can I refuse.»