Speeches by Coleman.

“That is really helpful—thank you all very much.”

“Thank you. Christine, would you like to come in on that?”

“I am most grateful to the hon. Member for leading this debate so effectively and raising these important issues. She will be aware that three in four dementia carers have no alternative plans in place if they are unable to provide care. Many of them are terrified about what will happen to their loved ones if they are n…”

“We do not really think about it. There is no ethnic proper ethnicity measurement for operations that people go into. We are not just talking about maternal health. When Penny Dash came to see us, she talked very encouragingly about improving data in the NHS. Through data, ethnicity data, and talking to people and liste…”

“I used to be on the integrated care board for north-west London and I spent a long time trying to get it to recognise structural racism as an issue. It did, and it has instituted a programme. I do not know how much difference it has made, but this partly came out of covid, when lots of black people did not want to be v…”

“I say “stupid assumptions”. The phrase I should use is “racist assumptions”. How do we get that to change?”

“That is absolutely right. I remember seeing—I think it was during covid—a “Panorama” programme by David Harewood. It was really shocking. There was a mother in her 40s talking about how her daughter had gone to the doctor and complained of being in pain. She was told that black women could suffer more pain. They told h…”

“That is really quite shocking. That is your experience. You have also talked to lots of other black women and black mothers. What are the most common themes that you are hearing? What are the things that you are hearing? Is it about being listened to? Are there other things that come out? What makes you think that this…”

“They did not check.”

“You said, “I am in labour.” What did they say?”

“They did not believe you were in labour.”

“That does not mean they say to white women, “You cannot stand as much pain as a black woman,” “Your pelvis is a different shape,” or whatever. Is there something further back that needs to happen before they get on to a busy ward and are confronted with these situations?”

“Is it about empathy? You will be busy. You will be treating white women, black women from a Caribbean background who have lived here for generations, women who have really recently arrived from, say, Somalia, and people from an Asian background. You will be treating all sorts of people. You will be treating white women…”

“Tinuke, thanks for coming in. It is really good to see you. I have watched your TED talk. What you are doing is brilliant. It is just a tragedy that you have to do it. Not everyone may have heard what you had to say in that TED talk. I wonder whether you can tell us a bit about your own experience that led you to co-fo…”

“Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?”

“On the subject of lamb, will my hon. Friend reflect on the fact—I asked this of the hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Joy Morrissey)—that the previous Government negotiated a trade deal with Australia that a former Conservative Environment Secretary described as a disaster for our farmers, not least those farming lamb?”

“I thank the hon. Lady for giving way. I took a third of the time that her colleague, the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin), took for his speech. Is she genuinely suggesting that we should tell this House right now what we will be negotiating in Brussels next week—that we should give away the …”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

“I agree with the hon. Member. If the Reform party’s entire shtick for getting elected is being anti-EU and thinking that it can defend the interests of the British people better by continuing the chaotic, unfavourable system we have, with that being its entire reason for existence, it is not okay for one of its Members…”