In Parliament - Ed Miliband

Arcadia and Debenhams: Business Support and Job Retention

Commons debates

Let me join the Minister in expressing deep sympathy for those who are at risk of losing their jobs. The test of Government, and indeed the House, is whether that sympathy translates into action,...

Arcadia and Debenhams: Business Support and Job Retention

Commons debates

(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to make a statement on support for business and the retention of jobs on the high street in light of...

National Security and Investment Bill

Commons debates

My right hon. Friend makes a very important point. Indeed, my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and I were discussing this very issue last night—that these issues can...

National Security and Investment Bill

Commons debates

I can say to the hon. Gentleman that this is the first time I have been called a Cummings-ite. I have been called many things in my time, but a Cummings-ite after Cummings is really unusual. The...

National Security and Investment Bill

Commons debates

The hon. Gentleman makes the point that the United States has exactly the regime that I am talking about and does indeed have those wide powers of intervention, so the notion that people are...

National Security and Investment Bill

Commons debates

I have such an array of options. I think the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Aaron Bell) was first.

National Security and Investment Bill

Commons debates

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely entitled to his view; we just have a difference of view on this. When it comes to our industrial base, I believe that the current legislation is inadequate, and...

National Security and Investment Bill

Commons debates

It is interesting; I believe the hon. Gentleman supports this Bill—I may be wrong—but on national security, the Government will apply some tests and we could apply some tests when it...

National Security and Investment Bill

Commons debates

I really appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s point. These are not Christmas tree baubles that I have suddenly raised now. In 2010, there was the issue of the Kraft takeover of Cadbury. In 2014,...

National Security and Investment Bill

Commons debates

It sounds like a good idea to me, and I would welcome that. Actually, that is a convenient segue to the wider points that I want to make on this Bill. Our view is that this is only one part of...

National Security and Investment Bill

Commons debates

The right hon. Gentleman has taken a huge interest in these issues and, again, speaks with great expertise, and he may well be right that it is possible to do more on the definition. I am sure...

National Security and Investment Bill

Commons debates

My right hon. Friend speaks with great knowledge on this issue, and he is completely correct. Indeed, I do not want to answer for the Secretary of State, but one of the issues that was raised was...

National Security and Investment Bill

Commons debates

I will start with the vital context to the Bill. At the heart of it is the first duty of any Government: to protect our national security, while meeting the shared desire across the House for our...

Manufacturing Sector

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank the Secretary of State for that answer, but the rhetoric does not match the reality. Look at what other countries, including France and Germany, are doing, and look at the scale of what...

Manufacturing Sector

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

One obvious way to help our manufacturers is with a green stimulus equal to the scale of the economic emergency that we face. President-elect Biden has pledged $2 trillion for such a stimulus;...

Flooding Preparedness: Yorkshire

Commons debates

I know that the hon. Lady cares deeply about this issue and did so even before she was a Minister. She mentioned the £170 million, but does she recognise the anger of my constituents, which...

Flooding Preparedness: Yorkshire

Commons debates

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. He is making an eloquent, passionate and moving speech. Does he recognise that, for many of my constituents who have been affected by the...

Schedule 2 - Services Exclusions

United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

This is unprecedented in the following sense: the Government are coming along and breaking an international agreement they signed less than a year ago. I have heard the hon. Gentleman, and I have...

Schedule 2 - Services Exclusions

United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

I am going to carry on. It is important to hear the words of the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) in her coruscating and brilliant speech in Committee. Government Members are rolling...

Schedule 2 - Services Exclusions

United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

Ed Miliband made a speech in the House of Commons

There is an important point here. To take the example of animal welfare or food safety, those powers remain devolved, but they are devolved in name only, because by imposing the minimum standard...