Speeches by Bryant.

“And the former Minister for common sense has now completely abandoned common sense, clearly. Anyway, Emeli Sandé sang: “You’ve got the words to change a nation But you’re biting your tongue, You’ve spent a lifetime stuck in silence Afraid you’ll say something wrong.” Since the Government do not have anything to say on …”

“Well, this is a rum old affair, isn’t it? I think we can definitely put this down as one of the recondite moments of parliamentary democracy. A number of people have asked me today, “What on earth is all this about?” and then said, “What is an opposed private Bill?” or “What has the Chairman of Ways and Means got to do…”

“Oh dear.”

“No. You would only be at a loss in the sense that there might be a potential route for remuneration for you through this—but only that.”

“C’est demain. That was me doing “Macbeth” in Canadian French.”

“That is to be determined, to be honest. As I say, it is very embryonic; I would say that it is only in the first trimester.”

“Sorry, I do not know enough about the copyright hub. Alastair might know more; I think he was in the Department.”

“If only!”

“I think we have to rely on you, Alastair.”

“Well, it might be, but writers’ rooms are using AI to help them to do things that would otherwise be very laborious and take a long time. This is the point that I think the BFI is making, which is that lots of people are using AI and the people who are using it within their work are flourishing.”

“Thank you. Can I go now?”

“That has already existed.”

“We have been giving £1 million for the last few years, and we have not made a firm commitment yet about what we will end up doing.”

“This is God’s own country and I am a mere servant.”

“Bearing in mind what you said last week, Dame Caroline, I think it is about time that we celebrated the creative industries. This is not just a brief encounter; for many people it is a matter of life and death, and in the end there is hunger for change. I hope that by the matter of persuasion, you will accept that we a…”

“I hate to say that I will write to you, but I will have to write to you, because when we are doing it is not in my head. I did not think we would be talking about it today.”

“He is even less involved, whereas at least I had responsibility for a while.”

“At the Grange Festival the other day, they had “Les Indes galantes”, the French production of the Rameau opera, which is a combination of hip-hop with 18th century music. Apparently it was an absolutely storming success. Those kinds of intersections are important. In the UK, we sit at the crossroads of the nations. Som…”

“Interestingly, France has a seasonal workers plan for British people to be able to work on ski resorts and so on, which lots of people would not even know about. We just need to get to a rational decision in all these areas. Part of that rational decision is about being able to enable touring and enable proper youth ex…”

“I thought that that was one for Mr Hinds.”