Speeches by Prinsley.

“I agree with that, but do you recognise that the scale of the fees is a problem for some of the families?”

“I believe there is currently a five-year private life route for children and young people who have spent most of their life in the UK. Are you proposing to retain that?”

“You cannot retire.”

“The general public in this country are not aware of that. They would be simply horrified to learn that.”

“I am hearing that an untold number of children are completely unprotected.”

“Thank you very much. I am Peter Prinsley. I am the MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. Thanks for coming today. Am I correct in assuming that large numbers of children have no citizenship, then? They have come here with parents who are not citizens and they may have been born here. What is your estimate of the numbe…”

“Fish and chips is a great British food, but fish and chips first came to Britain with Jewish immigrants from Spain in the 16th century. Cold fried fish was a staple of many Shabbat lunches, including my own grandma’s. The first chippy is credited to Joseph Malin, who added chips in about 1860, in London. What a great i…”

“I agree with you.”

“Underlying this idea of extending the long routes to settlement is the idea that this will act as a significant disincentive for families to turn up here with children. Do you believe that to be the case?”

“In Bury St Edmunds, we have many US servicemen from Lakenheath who are living off-base. They are a huge asset and greatly welcome. Does the Minister agree that the US remains our most essential ally, and will he join me in expressing gratitude for the service of those brave US servicemen and women, who are so important…”

“I can recall the description of the scorpion in the jam jar. Mandelson surely has some sort of self-destruct chip inside his head. It was reported in The Times this afternoon that Mr Butler, the Downing Street adviser to Gordon Brown, said that the memo containing highly sensitive market information allegedly leaked by…”

“The right hon. Member is making a really powerful speech. Does he agree that there is a strong suspicion that some of the hate marches we have seen on the streets of Britain have been orchestrated by Iranian agents?”

“I absolutely agree with the right hon. Member: that is exactly the case. He makes the point extremely well, and I thank him for doing so. The banning of a Jewish MP from a local school in Bristol was simply an outrage. We receive messages from families of isolated Jewish pupils in rural East Anglian schools where there…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for that information, which I was aware of. If I have a little time, let me thank the leader of Plaid Cymru, the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Liz Saville Roberts)—I simply cannot pronounce the name of her constituency. She was correct that we must remember the other genocides, some o…”

“It has been an immense privilege and honour to listen to the many brilliant speeches in the House this afternoon. I thank anybody who said anything kind about me. I have made some notes about what people said—there is no time to go through all of them, but I must mention one or two. My hon. Friend the Member for Warrin…”

“Oh, there is time! In that case, I will tell hon. Members the story. The great Abbey of Bury St Edmunds had large landholdings all over the country, including land in the City of London. Wooden stakes were put out each year to define the land, which were called the Bury marks. “Bevis Marks” is simply a spelling mistake…”

“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is an honour to be able to open this year’s Holocaust memorial debate. In The Sunday Times of the week before last, the Chief Rabbi described the dilemma of the teacher faced with the question of what to do on Holocaust Memorial Day. Given the polarising impact of the events of Octob…”

“Yes.”

“Is there a country that does this much better than us that we could model our activities on?”

“I am quite confused, having sat here all morning listening, about what we need to do. It seems from what I have heard that we do need to have a digital ID of some sort, and that will improve matters. Politically, the issue we have is the gig economy, and that when people see people working in delivery businesses on the…”