Speeches by Thomas.

“Dr Taylor, would you like to close?”

“Perhaps on the basis of how reliable that source is expected to be.”

“You think this might be the answer. Would you like to jump in, Professor Orben?”

“You think we have to get there, but that we are a long way from it.”

“We now have fact checkers that show people how likely it is that the news channels or media organisations they are reading from can be relied on to tell the truth. What if we had a similar standard applied to children’s media sources, such as YouTube or whatever else? We spoke about food briefly. We have a traffic ligh…”

“She is four.”

“I have to regularly give horsey rides; that is another episode.”

““Bing” does that.”

“At the risk of becoming a mansplainer, do you think my daughter would benefit from recapping following an episode—talking it through at the time, post the episode?”

“You have mentioned the physical contact—the experience of experiencing something together. Is there anything else that my daughter or other young children are looking for from that shared experience?”

“Professor Orben, do you have anything to add?”

“Whatever statements have been made publicly, the unredacted plans for this super-embassy will fill our security services with dread, as well they should. The Chinese Communist party is not a friend to the United Kingdom, and nowhere is that more evident than in its consistent espionage—including on this very estate—and…”

“As a father, I feel constantly embattled trying to stop my daughter asking me to put the iPad on, where she watches all sorts of mind-numbing tosh, but I do quite enjoy watching stuff on iPlayer. She does watch “Bing”. She likes “Bluey” as well, and I quite enjoy that. She quite regularly has to ask me to stop crying. …”

“5. What steps she is taking to improve railway services for passengers.”

“Good morning, Mr Speaker. In the early days after the election, I did not always cover myself in glory with the type of language I used to describe the state of GWR services between Paddington and Gloucestershire. Nevertheless, a year down the line, I still regularly have to stand in a corridor or aisle for hours on en…”

“Ahead of the election in Tewkesbury, considering my defence background, I recognised that I did not fully understand the experiences nor the lifestyles that come with rurality, so I began reaching out. I made visits; I spoke with people, listened to them and heard them. If someone wants to represent people or is likely…”

“We have heard an awful lot of criticism of the Government’s policies on farming from the Conservatives, but very little mention of the trade deals that they secured with Australia and New Zealand, which have made things so much harder for farmers—we will undoubtedly hear a lot about those from Labour Members. Will my h…”

“The hon. Member speaks of the cyber-attacks on Jaguar Land Rover and the Co-op. Those who pay council tax to Gloucester city council have concerns that following a Russian cyber-attack in 2021, that council recently discovered a £17.5 million deficit. Will the hon. Member recognise that too?”

“The hon. Lady is making a really important point about Elon Musk’s Starlink system, but will she go a little further and recognise that not only has Elon Musk switched off Starlink in Ukraine at will, but he has done so on occasions that might have turned the tide of the war?”

“One thing I learned recently on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee is that one way the BBC provides value for money is by being one of the only sources—if not the only source—of income for children’s content creators. Without that income, we would not get quality content for our children. There is a way of looking …”