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Conservative MP Claire Coutinho asks Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy why Energy Secretary Ed Miliband hasn't been sacked after reports emerged that he refused to meet Sir Keir Starmer over a matter of national security. It has been reported that he's avoiding the prime minister in a dispute over spending cuts. Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy dismisses the claims and hits back at MP Claire Coutinho "to stop reading the papers".
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00:00I asked him about pay cuts and they should care, they should care because if
00:05the mayor of Manchester gets his way I'm pretty sure half the front bench are
00:09going to be getting a pay cut pretty soon.
00:13Mr. Speaker, this is serious. The world is getting, Mr. Speaker, the world is
00:22getting more dangerous. Yet last week the Prime Minister asked the Energy
00:28Secretary to help fund the defence of our country and he ghosted him. Let me repeat
00:35that, the Energy Secretary refused to meet the Prime Minister on a matter of
00:42national security. Why hasn't he been sacked?
00:47Stop reading the papers I'd say to the Honourable Lady. Mr. Speaker, when the
00:54defence investment plan, when the defence investment plan is published, it will set
01:00out, this is important, it will set out how every government department is
01:07contributing to defence, including the Energy Department.
01:11$25,900,0101.
01:122 to $10,900,0102.
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