The only way to take control of our energy bills is to go faster on energy independence. He walked back into Parliament and they were waiting for him. Keir Starmer returned to the Commons this week to give his Middle East update and the moment he sat down Badenoch came straight for him.

The question is what tough choices we must make to do so. That is what is missing from the government's plan. The government has a plan for welfare spending until 2031, but no plans for defense spending.

So I say to the Prime Minister, let's put party interest aside. I'm glad that I'm glad that they're laughing because I want the public to hear Labour MPs laughing when we say let's put party interests aside. So please keep laughing.

Go on. Energy bills climbing, petrol prices surging, inflation rising, North Sea oil licenses refused, fuel duty hike coming, a destroyer stuck in Portsmouth while France and Greece sent ships to protect our own bases in Cyprus. Let's show our allies what we bring to the table.

Let's show our enemies that we are able and ready to defend ourselves. That requires a defense investment plan. So I ask the Prime Minister in conclusion, when exactly will the defense investment plan be published and what action is he taking to find the money to pay for it?

And through all of it, Starmer did what Starmer always does. Blame the Conservatives, deflected, evaded, and refused to answer a single direct question. But this time, the Commons wasn't having it.

And what Badenoch said about our energy, our defense, and our national humiliation will make every British person watching absolutely furious. Watch right to the end because the moment that stopped Parliament dead comes right at the end. And if this video disappears, well, you already know why.

Badenoch, leader of the opposition. Thank you, Mr Speaker. And can I thank the Prime Minister for advance sight of his statement.

I would also like to pay tribute to our brave servicemen and women serving in the Middle East right now. Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister is right that Britain did not start this war, but whether we like it or not, we are impacted by it and this is likely to get worse. The cost of borrowing has jumped, petrol prices are climbing, inflation is rising, and living standards falling.

It is time to take decisive action in our national interest. Britain must focus on what is in our power to protect British citizens today. First, we must rapidly solve the energy crisis this war has caused in our country.

And second, we must make sure that Britain is ready to defend herself in this new age. A nuclear-armed Iran is an existential threat to the UK. We should be in no doubt whose side we're on in this war.

Our allies in the Middle East and the United States. So I welcome the Prime Minister meeting some of those allies and I also welcome his support for diplomatic efforts and military planning to restore freedom of navigation in the region. But we will need to go further than just talking.

He says Britain stands ready to play our part. We can all see that we were not ready for this situation. Here's what we need to do now.

First, we must take rapid action to increase our energy security and keep bills down. Not just until July, but longer than that, permanently. Britain is particularly vulnerable to energy price shocks because we are killing domestic oil and gas production in the North Sea.

Labour's policy of more expensive energy and deindustrialization at this time of crisis is dangerous and irresponsible. It is also harming the defense industry. We must start drilling our own oil and gas in the North Sea, grant licenses for drilling in the Jackdaw and Rosebank fields, and restore British production before it is too late.

The Prime Minister says this won't impact international prices. This is more than international prices. This is about the domestic supply, especially of gas, all of which is used in this country.

Supply matters. And finally, the government must cancel the proposed rise in fuel duty. Hiking taxes on motorists for the first time in 15 years while prices are surging is a disgraceful decision.

If Britain is to be a stronger country, it needs a stronger economy, not one being hammered by the highest energy prices in the developed world. So, will the Prime Minister grant the oil and gas licenses and scrap the rise in fuel duty? I know he'll say that it's the energy secretary's job.

The energy secretary is not the Prime Minister, he is. He can instruct him to grant those licenses. But Mr Speaker, secondly, to be ready, Britain must be able to defend herself.

And that means we must be ready for these situations before they happen. France and Greece, they are not I don't know why they're laughing. I did I'm I'm I'm surprised they're laughing because last time I checked, France and Greece sent ships to protect our bases in Cyprus while our destroyer was stuck in Portsmouth.

It was a national embarrassment on their shoulders and it should never happen again. We need no further evidence that we are living in a more dangerous world than a decade ago. I'm sure Labour MPs will try and think of a way to make this my fault.

Let me remind them. Yes, I know. I'm It's It is preposterous, but let me remind them the historical illiteracy that is on those benches.

Governments of all colors, including those guys there, spent the peace dividend from 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell until the Ukraine war. And when that war came, the Conservative government responded rapidly and unequivocally. We didn't have anything stuck in Portsmouth when Ukraine was invaded.

We trained tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and equipped them with our missiles. We increased defense spending every year since the war started, but the world has since become even more dangerous. Every serious person, Mr Speaker, every serious person, especially in the military, agrees that Britain must now find a way to spend 3% of GDP on defense by the end of this Parliament.

After the election, many of the plans for spending were paused for Labour's strategic defense review. Nine months after publishing it, there is still no defense investment plan that explains how we will fund this. The defense readiness bill is also nowhere to be seen.

The question is not whether we need to increase defense spending, the question is what tough choices we must make to do so. That is what is missing from the government's plan. The government has a plan for welfare spending until 2031, but no plans for defense spending.

Go on. Please keep laughing. I say to the Prime Minister, let's find the money to re-on.

Let's identify the spending cuts. And if we reach agreement on a joint plan, we can all support those measures in Parliament. Conservatives have already found savings to fund more than 20 billion pounds extra for defense spending.

I am willing to work with him to go further. And in his response, Mr Speaker, I'm sure the Prime Minister will be tempted to misrepresent my position and pretend that I demanded he join in the initial strikes. Yeah.

Yes, I know. They can't even resist the temptation. He and I both know that is not true, [music] but let us get serious.

Let's get serious. It is time for us to act decisively in our national interest. Let's show our allies what we bring to the table.

Mr Speaker, I notice that her opening sentence has changed. She used to say we didn't start the war, but like it or not, we're in it. And we should be in it.

That was her position. Now she says, well, they can't make their mind up. They supported the war without thinking through the consequences.

And now they're pretending they didn't support the war and they're against it all along. She challenged my position and she did the mother of all U-turns on the most important decision the leader of the opposition ever has to take. Can I thank her for her support for the planning that we're doing with other countries.

It is important. It has a number of components, the political and diplomatic component, the logistics as well in terms of getting the vessels through where we're working with the sector, and of course the military component. We've working on that for two or three weeks now and now bringing together with President Macron the summit later this week in that regard.

In relation to energy bills, Mr Speaker, yes, we all want to get energy bills down and oil and gas will be part of the mix for many years, but it is because we're on the international market that our bills have gone up and that is the problem. The Strait of Hormuz is a choke point for energy getting oil and gas getting to the international market. That's pushed the price up.

That's being reflected in every household. And that's why, Mr Speaker, the only way to take control of our energy bills is to go faster on energy independence. Now, Mr Speaker, the leader of the opposition used to make that argument.

In 2022, she said this, "It is investment in nuclear and renewables that will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and keep costs down. " She She She changes her mind on everything. That's his That was her argument.

And now she Just like she pretends she wasn't in favor of getting involved in the war, now she pretends she wasn't in favor of keeping costs down. And, Mr Speaker, she says that we must be ready. That's coming from a party that hollowed out our our armed services.

Mr Speaker, on their watch, frigates and destroyers were reduced by 25%. Mine hunting ships reduced by 50% on their watch. And she lectures us about being ready having hollowed out our armed forces and hollowed out our capabilities.

We're investing 300 million more in shipbuilding, and we've got 13 ships on order. That, Mr Speaker, is the difference between the two parties. And, Mr Speaker, I hope that she and they will forgive me.

After 14 years of breaking everything under their watch, I'm really I'm going to resist I'm going to resist the offer of joint planning from the government from the party that crashed the economy, hollowed out our armed forces, crashed our public services. Thanks, but no thanks. This isn't incompetence.

This is a choice. And Starmer just made it live in front of the whole country. So, do this right now.

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