GOVERNMENT ACTION ON UNAUTHORISED ENCAMPMENTS

Chair: Good afternoon, Mrs Braverman. We have just had Dominic Raab here. I would like to ask you, first of all, about your resignation letter, in which you referred to the backstop as “a betrayal” and said that the concessions made in the negotiations “do not respect the will of the people”.

Chair: Good afternoon, Mr Raab. Welcome to the Committee. I will ask the first question.

Run and into the House. Prepared for a busy session of our European Scrutiny Committee. We took oral evidence from two former ministers, Dominic Raab and Suella Braverman.

The first role of government is to protect the public. We will ensure that the police have the powers and resources to keep citizens and communities safe.

On 14 November, the UK wide Strategy for our Veterans was published.

Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, today called for more money for the Police, saying that without increased funding, “more frontline officers might have to go and this is unacceptable to me and my constituents.”

It certainly was not as cold on my morning run than it has been. Wolfed down a bacon-buttie once in the House and scoured all the papers. A bit of balance in some of them!

I really do not want to enter the blame game, but I am going to start by just reminding the House and putting it on the record that, in 2010, we did inherit a financial mess. [Interruption.] Opposition Members groan but it is a fact.

A busy morning and then to London for another week of politics. We had an interesting Urgent Question(UQ) from Labour on knife crime, which I attended.