Member

It is in the gift of the Government to bring forward something better, but there is no value in accepting anything worse because it is already the bare minimum, yet I was told by Ministers last week that it is the Government’s intention to vote this down also. That is a clear message to 2.4 million voters, the people who inform and entertain us, that this Government will resolutely defend the interests of large tech companies rather than make provision for a UK sector that means so much to our well-being, our economy and our identity. It does not have to be this way. There is a better way. The Government have used procedure not argument. I wish that they had the humility and strength to change course and make a meaningful effort to build an AI future that every UK citizen can have a stake in. My inbox is bursting with thanks from individual creators, large corporates and organisations that represent hundreds of thousands of people, thanking colleagues from all sides of this House for standing with them, voting with them and sometimes even sitting on their hands.