I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun, an enormous challenge and, from my point of view, wholly unproductive in every sense. I am told that in my time at the Dispatch Box I have asked the Prime Minister 1,118 direct questions, but no one has counted the direct answers-it may not take long.

In the Prime Minister, we have a man who has forfeited the right to be believed or to be trusted. In more than 20 years in politics, he has betrayed every caus…

For the first time in history at Question Time, all three parties are represented by a stand-in for the real leader.

I was the driver's mate, delivering the bottles and beer around South Yorkshire. We used to have a pint at every stop - well the driver's mate did, not the dri…