can thrive in a safe and loving homes. ukip. >> malthouse. >> malthouse. >> mr speaker, during the election campaign , the now prime election campaign, the now prime minister made a hell of a lot of promises, some of which i am sure he will remember. of particular importance to my constituents in andover and north—west hampshire was a promise made on the 18th of june dunng promise made on the 18th of june during a campaign visit to basingstoke, when he made an unequivocal , unconditional unequivocal, unconditional commitment to rebuild our local hospital . mr speaker, is commitment to rebuild our local hospital. mr speaker, is this a promise on which we can rely .7 promise on which we can rely? >> mr speaker, firstly, i am grateful to him for raising this because it's obviously a huge importance to his constituents and his right to do so. we are reviewing, as he knows, the programme, the programme that the last government put in place for 40 new hospitals had a number of flaws. they weren't all hospitals, they weren't new and they weren't funded. so we're reviewing it. but what i will say no, but he's right to raise this, and i will make sure that he has a meeting with the relevant minister to discuss the

particular development in his constituency. it will matter to his constituents who are listening to this, and it's important that they know where the failure lie. has . the failure lie. has. >> mr speaker, i welcome the government's historic investment in carbon capture and storage technology for teesside and merseyside. this week i've been at the sector's conference and the feeling there is that this is a government delivering after years of delay. will the prime minister recognise the unique potential that teesside has for jobs , prosperity and economic jobs, prosperity and economic growth into the future? yes, yes. >> mr speaker, you will have observed that on monday we had a very successful investment summit, 63 billions of pounds coming into this country. jobs in every part of the uk, and a very clear message from business that they were prepared to invest. now under this new labour government. part of that was £22 billion commitment to seesahai us , creating the first seesahai us, creating the first clusters in the world,

including, as he points out, in the various parts of the country. so we will support these jobs, we will support these jobs, we will support these investment, we will grow our economy and rebuild our country. >> ben maguire, thank you, mr speaken >> north cornwall is an amazing place to live and work, but a top down approach from westminster has failed us. pubuc westminster has failed us. public services are chronically underfunded . young people forced underfunded. young people forced to move away to pursue careers elsewhere, and affordable housing is a promise that is simply never kept. will the prime minister meet with all six cornish mps to discuss devolution for cornwall with a cornish assembly that recognises our unique culture, language and national minority status so we can finally unleash cornwall's economic potential ? economic potential? >> i'm grateful to the member for raising this. i do believe in transferring power out of westminster and into the hands of leaders who know their

communities best. those with skin in the game know what's best for their communities. we are already making steps in the south west by signing the devolution agreement for devon and torbay. actually encourage local authorities to work with their neighbours to pursue deeper and wider devolution for their area, and i will make sure that he has the meeting that he is asking for. >> final question blair mcdougall as the prime minister, works for a ceasefire and the return of the hostages, he will have the support of people across this house. the prime minister will have noted the comments from the white house calling for urgent action to deal with the humanitarian crisis in gaza , and for the crisis in gaza, and for the netanyahu government to increase access to aid and to the amount of aid getting through. i wonder, does the prime minister agree with the comments from the white house? and can you tell us what representations he is making on this matter? >> yes, i do agree with those remarks and we are constantly

making representations on this with our partners. there is an urgent need and has been now for a very long time for more aid to get into gaza. it is a desperate situation and israel must comply with its international humanitarian law obligations. and that is why we are convening a session of the uk security of the un security council, with others to address this issue. >> right. that completes prime minister, prime minister's questions. >> just i'll just let the front benches clear a bit . benches clear a bit. >> that was prime minister, sir keir starmer taking questions from mps in the house of commons, including what we think are the second to last questions from rishi sunak as leader of the opposition, before he stands down to be replaced by kemi badenoch or robert jenrick. now we're still joined in the studio here by labour mp for plymouth moor, plymouth moor view, fred thomas and shadow leader of the house of commons, chris philp. >> and you have been sending in your questions to us for our panel because, as ever , it's all panel because, as ever, it's all about you on this show. we've

got them all here. keep them coming, by the way. keep those questions coming in. tell us where you're from. give us a name. we want to all feel part of this process. that's right. >> gbnews.com/yoursay for your questions. but first, we have one here from max and to you first, fred, in view of maloney's deal, that's the italian premier deal with albania. do you wish your party wish you hadn't scrapped the tory party's rwanda deal on the first day in office? give it a chance to work. >> no, not at all. i mean, i think the first thing to say is that it's absolutely tragic that people are still losing their lives in the channel. it's devastating to see, and we have to do everything we can to stop this . and what we are doing to this. and what we are doing to do that is finally, as a country, after years of inaction, going after these evil gangs who are profiting, making so much money, by the way, by shipping people over into our country, it's absolutely abhorrent. we can stop them. of course we can. i'm hugely patriotic and i'm proud of our security services working, though, is it? i mean, we have barely started, if i can tell

you, christopher, how we're going to do it. we've commenced already with recruiting 100 specialist investigators. we've announced up to £75 million for new surveillance technology, and we've appointed a new border security commander, martin hewitt, who's got the experience to deliver this. and our move is to deliver this. and our move is to go after these gangs upstream in the countries they're operating from, and stop them doing what they're doing at the moment, which is shipping people over to our country and around. the scheme was never going to work, cost millions of pounds, didn't deliver anything. and it's not something we need to go back to. and frankly, from speaking to people on the doors over the last year, all over the country, cross—party support and no one really believed in the rwanda deal. >> chris philp from the conservatives, you made a hash of it. you said you stopped the boats, you didn't labour say they are going to stop the boats and sort this crisis out. >> well, it's definitely one of the reasons why we lost that. we didn't stop the boats as rishi sunak promised to do. but the rwanda scheme i believe, would have had the deterrent effect required and would have stopped

the boats. now, hang on a minute. >> losing your life doesn't isn't losing your life by coming in on a small boat. isn't that what more of a deterrent . what more of a deterrent. >> can can anyone have tragically, tragically people do seem to be willing to cross the channel. still, despite those risks, those risks exist. people have tragically lost their life, but they're still trying to cross. now. the rwanda scheme was due to come into force on the 24th of july, about three weeks after the election. that was when the first flight was due to take off and labour cancelled it. now i'm confident the deterrent effect would have worked and would have stopped the boats. and the reason i say thatis the boats. and the reason i say that is because australia tried something similar around about ten years ago. they called it operation sovereign borders. they used nauru, which is an island in the pacific rather than rwanda, but it worked and their illegal maritime arrivals in australia went from about 50,000 a year, to down zero within six months. so had labour continued. had labour implemented the rwanda plan, as the conservatives would have done on july 24th, we that these crossings would have been stopped. now, what's actually happenedis stopped. now, what's actually happened is they've continued in

very large numbers. we had a day a couple of weeks ago when nearly a thousand people crossed on one day alone. people are tragically losing their lives. and this tragically losing their lives. and thi