Does try to wade in, he seems to do it in a way that is somewhat cack handed and it tends to backfire. Despair. That is, counsel of despair. That is, isnt really . Isnt it really . Yes. Yes. Yes. Whose side are you on . Whose side are you on . Okay, lets go live. He is the Prime Minister and families of those who lost their lives. Of those who lost their lives. Mr speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others in addition my duties this addition to my duties in this house. I addition to my duties in this house. I shall have further such meetings today. Meetings later today. Josh howie matalon. Thank you , and can i join the prime and can i join the Prime Minister in expressing my sympathies those affected minister in expressing my syrthethies those affected minister in expressing my syrthe recent those affected minister in expressing my syrthe recent storms . Ie affected minister in expressing my syrthe recent storms . But,ected minister in expressing my syrthe recent storms . But, mred by the recent storms . But, mr speaken by the recent storms . But, mr speaker, 2 Million People just cannot sustained from 20 odd cannot be sustained from 20 odd aid lorries. Aid lorries. Utter catastrophe is being unleashed in gaza. Does not the unleashed in gaza. Does not the Prime Minister now see that only a humanitarian ceasefire can bnng a humanitarian ceasefire can bring about the scale of emergency aid that is needed. Emergency aid that is needed. And of course, israel has a right to defend itself in line with international and humanitarian laws. But we must also speak out when those laws are breached. So surely he agrees that depriving 2 million civilians, a million children of food , of water, medicines and food, of water, medicines and fuel is not in accordance with International Law. Will he press israel to restore the supply of these essentials for the sake of innocent civilians and the future of the entire region . Yes well, mr speaker, its important that we do everything we can to get humanitarian aid to those who need it in gaza, which is why on monday, we announced a doubung why on monday, we announced a doubling of our International Aid to the region and why the Development Minister is actively engaged with our partners on the ground to ensure that that aid gets to those people as quickly as possible. Of course. Of course. Thank you, mr speaker. Thank you, mr speaker. Double child rapist and murderer Colin Pitchfork had yet another parole review hearing only a few weeks ago. I thank the justice secretary for having listened to me and engaged the reconsideration mechanism rule. Now, i know the Prime Minister does not have any Decision Making role within the independent parole board. Its independent parole board. Its independent of government, but it is a wing of the executive. It is not the judiciary. Now, does the Prime Minister agree with me that men who rape and brutally murder our young women, as mr pitchfork did to don ashworth and linda mann in my constituency . Does he agree that constituency . Does he agree that generally , as a point of generally, as a point of principle , these sexual offender principle, these sexual offender laws should remain in prison for most of their natural lives . Most of their natural lives . I agree with my honourable friend that the public should be confident that murderers and rapists will be kept behind bars for as long as is necessary to keep the public safe. And thats why were reforming the parole system. Our victims, bill, will mean that minimising risk and protecting public are the protecting the public are the sole considerations in parole board decisions. It will also give the justice secretary the power step in behalf of power to step in on behalf of the public and take a second look at decisions to release the most serious offenders, including murderers and rapists. And last week we announced that we be introducing longer we will be introducing longer sentences dangerous we will be introducing longer sentencesfor dangerous we will be introducing longer sentencesfor the 1gerous we will be introducing longer sentencesfor the most|s we will be introducing longer sentencesfor the most heinous criminals for the most heinous crimes. Life will mean life when it comes to the leader of the opposition, keir starmer. Opposition, keir starmer. Yes. Yes. Yes. Can i join the Prime Minister in his comments about all those affected by these storms . Can i start by welcoming the new member for mid bedfordshire . Member for mid bedfordshire . The first labour mp ever to represent those beautiful towns and villages. He defied the odds history and of course, the fantasy lib dem bar charts. Can i also dem bar charts. Can i also welcome the new member for tamworth . She will be a powerful tamworth . She will be a powerful representative for her constituents. Is the prime constituents. Is the Prime Minister as relieved as i am that those constituents are not burdened with his defeated candidate who told them dont worry, mr speaker, im going to sanitise this to f off if theyre struggling with the cost of living. Yes of living. Yes well, mr speaker , im proud well, mr speaker, im proud of what this government is doing to support the most vulnerable. Over the past year. But mr speaker , can i can i, in fact, speaker, can i can i, in fact, join him in welcoming the new members to their places . After all, i suspect the new member for mid beds may actually support me a little bit more than the last. One although support me a little bit more than the last. One although. Than the last. One although. Although although i did, i did nofice. | although although i did, i did notice. I did although although i did, i did notice. I did notice that the notice. I did notice that the new member said that they will be opposing new housing in their local area. Why the while the new member for tamworth claimed that they will protect green spaces, i would urge them to have a word with their leader because thats not exactly his position. Mr speaker, although with his track record of u turns , who knows what his housing policy next week . Yes yes. Album. Well so much for being the change candidate. He cant even distance himself from those appalling comments. But but i do have to ask him. I do have to ask him where on earth does the Prime Minister think his candidate got the idea in the first that the idea in the first place that throwing expletives at struggling families was his governments official position . Governments official position . Yes. Prime minister. Well, mr well, mr mr speaker, lets just look at the record of what this government is doing to help those people. Well, paying for around half of a typical familys energy bill over the last year support worth over £1,500 for the most vulnerable in our society, receiving £900 in our society, receiving £900 in direct cost of living support at record increases in the National Living wage. Record increases in welfare and this winter, mr speaker, pensioners are to receive an extra 2 or £300 alongside their winter fuel payment to help them through what we know is a tough time. All of that, mr speaker, significant support funded by this government, all of that would be put at risk by labours reckless plans to borrow £28 billion a year. Sir martin he keeps boasting about how great things are the voters keep telling him hes got it wrong, but i can see why the tamworth candidate thought he was just following the government lines. Government lines. Anna, lisa and her two children. Anne lived in their home for eight years in may day they were kicked out with a no fault eviction notice. Despite fault eviction notice. Despite his governments pledge to scrap no fault evictions this week the Prime Minister crumbled to the landlords on his own back benches and killed the policy. Benches and killed the policy. What message , other than the what message, other than the message delivered by his candidate in tamworth, could anna lisa possibly take from that . Yeah Prime Minister. Speaker weve taken significant action to help renters like anneliese and others. Weve capped holding deposits at one week. Weve protected tenants from rip off tenants fees delivered almost half a million Affordable Homes for rent and halved the number of percentage of substandard homes in the private rented sector and strengthen the local Authority Enforcement powers because this government is delivering for renters. But we delivering for renters. But we are also, mr speaker, trying to ensure the new generation can buy their own home. So perhaps he can explain to anna, lisa and thousands and millions of others why, when we brought fonnard plans 100,000 new plans to unlock 100,000 new homes, stood in the way of homes, he stood in the way of that. Yes. That. Yes. Just to say its Prime Minister questions, the opposition questions keir starmer im sorry, Prime Minister. It is Prime Ministers questions. I dont need you nodding against my decision, sir. Well, im sure anna, lisa and her children whove now been evicted will take great comfort from that non answer. Emma and her teenage son saw their mortgage go up by more than a quarter after. They may mortgage go up by more than a quarter after. They may think this is funny. Quarter after. They may think this is funny. This is real life this is funny. This is real life. After 16 years of dutifully paying. After 16 years of dutifully paying their mortgage for the first time, shes having to choose between new shoes for her son and putting the heating on all because his party crashed the economy, pushing Mortgage Rates to their highest levels in decades. He says. Ignore all that. Ignore the fact that the guilty men and women responsible are standing again as his candidates and still setting his policy. Can he not see why emma policy. Can he not see why emma might think that his party is telling them exactly where to go . Yeah mr speaker, he keeps talking about the mini budget i wont ask him a question, mr speaker. Well i will just point out he did actually support 95 of the things in that mini budget, which i didnt, mr speaker. But again , didnt, mr speaker. But again, hes had a hole. Hes had a whole summer to get on top of the details. Hes still ignoring the details. Hes still ignoring the fact that Rising Interest Rates a global challenge. Rates are a global challenge. They their highest level they are at their highest level in america and europe for more than 20 or 30 years. Mortgage rates have doubled in america, trebled in europe. Now, what we do want to do to help mortgage holders is ensure that they can use the mortgage charter that weve agreed with the banks. And thanks that weve thanks to the steps that weve taken, someone with a £200,000 property with about £100,000 left on their mortgage, could save over £350 a month and lock in a new deal six months before theirs ended. And repossessions will be prohibited for 12 months from the first missed payment. He might have missed that. That policy is twice as generous as labours mr carver. Labours mr carver. Absolutely tone deaf in every calf , pub and absolutely tone deaf in every calf, pub and supermarket in britain. Britain having the same conversation. We cant afford that. Put it back on the shelf. Its too expensive. Lviv. He is its too expensive. Lviv. He is completely oblivious. Its just completely oblivious. Its just patting himself on the back. Emily and jamie have worked hard and saving for years to buy their own home. They were nearly there last year, but he scrapped housebuilding targets because his backbenchers pushed him around House Building has fallen off a cliff, shattering the simple dream of Home Ownership for people like emily and jamie. Can the Prime Minister now see that actually his candidate in tamworth was just loyally following the party line as Prime Minister . Prime minister . Mr speaker, i think these are these prepared lines really arent working for him any more. He literally he literally asked a question. He literally asked me a question about the support that were providing for mortgage holders. I gave him the answer to that question and then he read from his script to say that we had an answer. The question providing question were providing significant all these significant help for all these people. Moved on to housing people. Hes moved on to housing targets. But heres record. Targets. But heres the record. 2. 5 million homes 2. 5 million additional homes housed thing starts double what they we inherited from the labour party. Housing supply up labour party. Housing supply up 10 on track to deliver a million new homes and a Record Number of first time buyers. Mr speaker. But number of first time buyers. Mr speaker. But again, he brings up his candidates in tamworth and mid beds as we open this session. Hes now saying he wants to build, he wants to build homes. Well, both of those candidates want to say that they want to new homes in their want to block new homes in their constituency. Im. All 46. Constituency. Im. All 46. Tell us more about. Constituency. Im. All 46. Tell us more about. The constituency. Im. All 46. Tell us more about. The thank you, mr speaker. You, mr speaker. Mr speaker, across our country, the british people are rolling up their sleeves and getting on with it, doing their best in the face of a punishing cost of living crisis and a government that has abandoned them, abandoned renters at risk of being kicked out , them, abandoned renters at risk of being kicked out, abandoned mortgage payers struggling to make ends meet, abandoned those who dream of owning their own house. The truth is, his candidate in tamworth summed up perfectly just how his and his tories are treating the british pubuc tories are treating the British Public so will he just call a general election and give the British Public the chance to respond as they did in selby, mid beds and tamworth . Theyve mid beds and tamworth . Theyve heard the government telling them to f off and they want the chance to return the compliment. Chance to return the compliment. Mr mr speaker , Prime Minister. Mr mr speaker, Prime Minister. Mr speaker, look , as we saw mr speaker, look, as we saw with his recent decisions on actually building new houses, politicians like him always take the easy way out, mr speaker. Whereas were, were getting on making the right long term decisions to change this country for the better on net zero on hs2 , on a smoke free generation, hs2, on a smoke free generation, on education and energy security. We contrast that to his leadership too cautious to say anything and hope that nobody notices. Mr speaker, let me tell him, come that general election, the british people will. Simon hall. Yak, yak, yak. Hall. Yak, yak, yak. I said, oh, not more or its the first time ive been confused with the leader of the opposition. Mr speaker. Oh, no, no , no. Mr speaker. Oh, no, no, no. Mr speaker. Oh, no, no, no. Theres been many rumours about you wanting to tie him and he will be soon and all of them true, mr speaker. Like. Like me, my right honourable friend has the honour and privilege of representing a rural constituency. Im sure he, rural constituency. Im sure he, like i occasionally , feels a like i occasionally, feels a certain degree of frustration that whilst progress has been made in this area, the rubric of funding formulae for things like the Environment Agency, local government , the police and government, the police and education still fails to adequately reflect the difficulties and challenges of delivering Public Service in rural areas. Can my right honourable friend the chancellor and the wider government use the opportunities of both the autumn statement and the forthcoming budget to explore these issues further , to give a better further, to give a better delivery of service for his constituents for mine . Constituents and for mine . Yes. Can constituents and for mine . Yes. Can thank my yes. Can i thank my honourable friend for raising this important issue on behalf of both his and my constituents . Its vital that we have the same High Quality Services in rural areas as well as our towns and cities. I areas as well as our towns and cities. I am areas as well as our towns and cities. I am pleased to tell him cities. I am pleased to tell him that were providing £95 million through the Rural Services delivery grant to help Rural Councils achieve exactly that. Councils achieve exactly that. We are currently reviewing the Police Funding formula and i remember working with him to ensure that the National Funding formula for schools does take account of the differing characteristics of schools and their pupils. But we will continue keep all these continue to keep all these things review and i agree things under review and i agree with them entirely. Our Rural Communities must be given the same Public Services same funding and Public Services as our country. As everyone else in our country. Snp deputy leader murray black, youre here. Thank you, mr speaker. Yes yesterday the un warned that hospitals in gaza had just 48 hours of fuel left to keep their Electric City going. That was 28 hours ago. The electricity runs out tonight. Hours ago. The electricity runs out tonight. Now we have a human responsibility to all the people in gaza, but we have a particular responsibility for uk citizens.