The final week before our Easter break. Mondays are always busy, not least catching up on correspondence that's come in over the weekend. At 1420 I was sitting in the Chamber waiting for Defence Questions to begin after Prayers.
Bearing in mind all that my right hon. Friend has said, he may be concerned to hear what we have heard in the Defence Committee. English Ministry of Defence companies are having a nightmare in employing those with specialist AI skills from university, because they are all Chinese.
I pay tribute to my right hon. and gallant Friend the Minister for Armed Forces—I am very sad to hear that he is going. He talks of warfighting. As he knows, I am on the Defence Committee.
Ominously, the clouds, wind and rain beckoned as I headed to Swanage Lifeboat Station for the Naming Ceremony of a new D-class lifeboat and a Service of Dedication.
A run and then a morning of personal admin - hair and dentist - as my platoon sergeant used to say. A catch up with my parliamentary team for an hour and then down to the Chamber for PMQs.
A damp start to the day. A morning run and into the office. A brief from my parliamentary team, an allocation of tasks and follow-ups, before a virtual surgery meeting with a constituent. The case involved a rogue builder who has caused utter misery to several victims.
Back to the Commons. Today, 10 amendments to the Rwanda Bill had come back from the Lords and we rejected them all. The voting started at 2000 and finished just before 2200. What the Lords would do next with the Bill was anyone's guess.
NEW arrivals to the UK should take an integration course, similar to that used in Germany, says the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights’ Commission.
Lady Falkner told the Sunday Telegraph that we’ve missed a trick in the last 20 years.
