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“Manchester is buzzing right now with its bucket hats, its music, and even parkas in this hot weather”\"MsMs Powell racked up seven mentions of Oasis material in the 50-second recap of the parliamentary year<\/p>\n

Commons Leader Lucy Powell drew on the Oasis back catalogue to describe a year since Labour<\/a>\u2019s first King\u2019s Speech in 15 years after the Brit Pop band\u2019s hugely anticipated reunion in their home city of Manchester.<\/p>\n

Little by Little, Ms Powell racked up seven mentions of Oasis material in the 50-second recap of the parliamentary year in the Commons on Thursday, ending by saying she hopes the Labour Government will ‘Live Forever’.<\/p>\n

Her comments came in the last Business Questions before the parliamentary recess, which will begin next Tuesday (July 24)<\/p>\n

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The Manchester Central<\/a> MP said: \u201cI couldn\u2019t let this opportunity pass without telling the House that Manchester is buzzing right now with its bucket hats, its music, and even parkas in this hot weather<\/a>. As we\u2019ve all come together to celebrate the Oasis reunion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Oasis were last performing at Heaton Park<\/a> it was under a Labour government, and the shadow leader (Jesse Norman) invited me to give the House a few more groaning puns, so if he\u2019ll forgive me.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome Might Say this Government has a Masterplan for change, of course, I know it\u2019s not been a great year for the party opposite since their biggest election defeat in history, but perhaps they need to Stop Crying Their Heart Out, Don\u2019t Look Back In Anger, and hope that Reform Fade Away.<\/p>\n

\u201cTalking of which, last year we have seen Reform come on the scene in the House of Commons, some of their MPs have had better attendances than others.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe honourable member for Clacton (Nigel Farage), as usual, is probably on a beach Half A World Away. There\u2019s more, there\u2019s one last one. Let\u2019s hope this Labour Government Live Forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commons deputy speaker Nusrat Ghani responded and called the comments ‘interesting’.<\/p>\n

Ms Powell had been asked by Conservative shadow leader Mr Norman what the Government planned to do to protect veterans who had served in Northern Ireland from prosecution.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cHundreds and thousands of men and women went to Northern Ireland, not of their own accord but under orders and in the chain of command, on the Queen\u2019s business, to combat the most serious terrorist organisation in the world at the time, and to protect human lives and human society.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He said the decisions by Labour to abandon the Legacy Act had left veterans in their 70s and 80s ‘exposed to legal harassment, anxiety and trauma’.<\/p>\n

Ms Powell replied: \u201cThis is a complex situation, and we need to resolve it. He might disagree with this, but the previous government\u2019s Legacy Act was found to be unlawful and unworkable and is now subject to further court action.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat means currently that nobody is protected by it, and nor does it give people the justice that they want, because there would be so much legal uncertainty about the status of doing so.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is why our priority is finding a way forward that gives veterans, survivors and communities confidence in the process. We will take our time to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Manchester is buzzing right now with its bucket hats, its music, and even parkas in this hot weather”Ms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,38034,2465,25181,285,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-270335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-lucy-powell-mp","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-oasis","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114870721251275960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}