Oral QuestionNorthern Ireland Office

Whether he is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce waiting times for health care in Northern Ireland.

Tabled: 13 June 2023Answered: 21 June 2023

Asked by

Christine Jardine

Liberal DemocratEdinburgh West

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Answer from Hansard

The Prime Minister

Of course, the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) is not here to represent his constituency in the House that he was elected to. No, he has flown to America to badmouth and talk down our country. It is worse than that, Mr Speaker: if you can believe it, he has gone there to lobby the Americans to impose sanctions on this country that will harm working people. You cannot get more unpatriotic than that. It is a disgrace. The Online Safety Act 2023 protects children from material on suicide, self-harm and online predators. Reform says it would scrap it. When its leader was asked, “Well, what would you replace it with?”, his answer was: “There needs to be a tech answer. I don’t know what that is”. You cannot run a country on “don’t know” answers.