Speeches by Prinsley.

“Given that what happened did happen, what do you think about the Government’s response to what happened?”

“What I am picking up here is that the Government were put in the position of having to deal with a problem after a decision had been made. The SAG in Birmingham decided that fans from Israel should not come to the football match. By the time you were alerted to it, we had a political catastrophe because we had a situat…”

“I want to ask you a question that I asked the previous two panels before you came in, which I think goes to the heart of the matter and the thing that most concerns the Jewish community. Do you believe that there is any reason to suppose that there was political interference in the decision to ban the supporters, and t…”

“Thank you for that very candid response. I understand that a brief has been given to a chief inspector to review football policing. What are you hoping to achieve with the review? We have just spoken about this, but we think that the SAG process is probably not working right, and you have said that you are also looking…”

“What I am hearing is that the Government, or somebody in the Government, must have been well aware of the likely difficulties before the decision was made to ban.”

“So when it was established that Maccabi Tel Aviv were coming to play in Birmingham, did you then make further representations to the Government about that?”

“Thank you very much for coming this afternoon. What do you see as your role in this issue?”

“I am a Jewish Labour MP.[2]”

“So had you been making representations to the Government about the risk of the Israeli football fans coming here?”

“And there was also input from the local MP?”

“They are the people who made the decision for the fans not to attend. Is that correct? Chief Constable Guildford indicated assent.”

“My final question, on the basis of what you have said, is this: is it your opinion that at some point there was political interference in the decision to ban the supporters, and was this the result of a prejudiced assessment of the advice and information?”

“Do you think that they just ignored that?”

“It seems to me that you are a uniquely placed individual in this respect: not only are you the Government’s antisemitism adviser, but you have this great expertise in football and football crowds. You took a great deal of care before this episode to do everything that was expected of you. You produced some advice, whic…”

“My colleague, Professor Malcolm Reed, the former chair of the Medical Schools Council, has been trying to address the serious issue of sexual misconduct in medical schools. When students undertake placements in NHS or other non-university settings, an accountability gap exists, as they fall outside both university and …”

“I thank my hon. Friend for his answer. During a recent visit to the Westgate community primary school in Bury St Edmunds, I was asked by a very bright eight-year-old whether Parliament could pass a law to make it snow more often. I was very struck by this suggestion, which was in some ways much more realistic than the …”

“1. What steps the Commission has taken to enable more schools to visit the Palace of Westminster.”

“Does my hon. Friend acknowledge that the cost of clinical negligence claims in maternity services is now greater than the cost of maternity services?”

“Do you think that there is some sort of intrinsic reluctance to make a referral where the fear is that of Islamic radicalisation for fear of being seen to be prejudiced?”

“Hello. I am Peter Prinsley. I am the MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. I am interested to know how you think about this at a constituency-based level. What am I to say to a constituent on the doorstep if I am asked “What are you doing about all the terrorism we have got in our schools?” Do you have any information…”