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"Madam President, just picking up from Comrade Regner’s beginning, she said people often ask: ‘what does the EU do for me?’ Well, when I go home and I tell people that we were having a debate on a new Commission strategy, you can often see that they are not immediately convinced that that is necessarily going to make a very big difference to their lives. When you go home and tell them that you are having a debate about the fact that actually the Commission has not got a strategy, you can hardly blame them for looking a bit sceptical about whether we are all wasting our time here.
That is a real shame, because women where I live and represent need help from us here and from you there, because they are not going to get it from our own government. The pay gap between men and women in my region under the Tory Government has now increased to GBP 5 500 a year. That is a very big gap, and the Tories are not going to do anything about it.
Their recent changes to the tax and benefit systems have affected women three times worse than they have affected men, and the Tories are not going to do anything about that. They are looking to us and to you to do something about that. So this non-strategy, which is weak on disability, pay and domestic violence, is really not good enough for us to do our jobs, and so I have to say to the Commissioner: man up."@en1
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"(The speaker declined to take a blue-card question from Arne Gericke under Rule 162(8))"1
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