The Deputy Prime Minister, I thank him for his kind words and we did join this place at the same time and I'm pretty sure we'll be leaving at the same time.

From an exchange at Prime Minister's Questions with Oliver Dowden (standing in for Rishi Sunak) after Mhairi Black announced she was standing down at the next general election; the Conservatives were in a weak position in the opinion polls. Both MPs entered the Commons at the 2015 general election. Dowden himself was returned as an MP at the 2024 general election; his party was heavily defeated.