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Morning, folks, welcome to the Daily Politics. | :00:00. | :00:38. | |
PMQS is back but will it be back with a bang? | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Teresa May faces Jeremy Corbyn across the Despatch Box | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
We're all talking Brexit strategy - or the lack of it. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
But does that really interest the Labour leader? | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Downing Street's keen-eyed photographers capture government | :00:56. | :00:56. | |
But is everyone in the cabinet behind the idea? | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
Labour MPs back plans allowing them to elect members | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
A pragmatic way of making the party work together | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
or an attempt to "hobble" Jeremy Corbyn's leadership? | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
And if your holiday reading was more Nick Hornby than Nick Clegg, | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
then we have just the thing to get you back in the mood. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Yes, political book season is upon us! | :01:23. | :01:31. | |
Did you read these books? Every single one. I'm glad, there will be | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
a test later. All that in the next 90 | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
minutes of public sector And with us for the duration, | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
two politicians who declined to appear on Strictly Come Dancing, | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
the Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire Chief Secretary to the Treasury, | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
David Gauke, and Shadow Justice This afternoon the Chairman | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
of the Bank of England Mark Carney appears before the Treasury Select | :01:55. | :02:06. | |
Committee, where he'll be quizzed over that cut in interest | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
rates last month. Some are questioning | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
whether the governor was too hasty And whether he was to negative about | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Brexit during the referendum. And yesterday, four big banking | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
beasts, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, all abandoned | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
predictions of a post EU So, did you over egged the pudding | :02:29. | :02:43. | |
in the referendum, David Gauke? It is too early to tell, but there are | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
encouraging signs and there is always attempt Asian after a | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
referendum for both people to pick out things which confirmed their own | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
prejudices -- there is always an attempt after a referendum. But | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
speaking from the Remain camp, the last surveys of various businesses | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
are looking encouraging. When you say vote leave and the economy | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
suffers, you can't say you weren't warned? If there is a downturn, but | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
it was right for those of us who believed in a Remain vote that we | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
made clear what the risks were. But you didn't say a scum use said vote | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
leaves and the economy suffers -- but you didn't say if, you said vote | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
leave and the economy suffers. The risks are still to be played out, | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
but as a Remain voter, there are encouraging signs but I don't think | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
we can be complacent. These are early days, but we can have a look | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
at the figures. The major banks are basically admitting they were wrong, | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
in predicting an immediate recession, and the Chancellor also | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
predicted a recession, the former Chancellor, your former boss will | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
stop the implement rate is at its highest rate and consumer spending | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
is up -- the employment rate is at its highest rate. Even industrial | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
production, manufacturing fell in August, as predicted, but industrial | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
production was up overall in July. Where is the bit that you got right | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
about this? In terms of being a Treasury minister and hearing the | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
positive state of the economy is something which encourages me and we | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
all want the UK economy to succeed. The only point I would make, we | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
can't be complacent and there are still challenges because of | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
uncertainty as to exactly what the future relationship will be and | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
because we will need to adjust to the new circumstances. Did the | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
Remain campaign... And he is quite right, there's a long way to go, and | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
more figures to come out in the months ahead, but did they overdo, | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
from what we know so far, the gloom and doom? To be reasonable, we can | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
say both sides operated a kind of politics of fear and there were | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
things said which were all about frightening voters, on both sides of | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
the debate. What is worrying is a lack of a plan from the | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
Conservatives, they must have entertained the possibility... You | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
mean to get out, and we are going to come onto that. But are you | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
surprised that the British economy is reasonably robust? I say | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
reasonably. Overall industrial production was up, and German | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
industrial production is not at a 20 month low. Overall it is not bad. -- | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
is now at a 20 month low. When I hear what Australia and Japan says | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
about trade deals, that is what concerns me. I'm just talking about | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
the figures at the moment. Were you enthusiastic about Remain? I was | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
definite about it. I have long-standing reviews about the | :06:31. | :06:31. | |
weaknesses within the European Union. -- long-standing views. But | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
when it comes to the choice of stay or leave, I believed we should stay | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
and I strongly held that view. If George Osborne has stayed as | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
Chancellor, on the figures we have so far, there would be no need for | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
his threatened punishment budget? Two points about the short-term and | :06:57. | :07:05. | |
long-term, and... I asked the question, he threatened a punishment | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
budget, if we voted to leave, but we can agree there is no case for that | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
kind of budget? George Osborne made it clear when he was Chancellor, | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
after the referendum, that he was not going to come forward with a | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
punishment budget. He made it clear he wasn't going to do that... He | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
would wait to see. Because he was wrong. You said he would wait to see | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
the economic impact. I don't want to fight the referendum campaign again. | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
No! LAUGHTER We are relieved about that. There | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
might be long-term consequences for the UK economy. Contrary to the | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
claims that there will be extra money knocking around, there might | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
be less and we will have to take action to deal with that. But the | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
economy has proven to be pretty strong and that is encouraging or | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
stop no recession? Growth has been downgraded, but we will wait to see | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
what we have in the Autumn Statement. | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
Now yesterday afternoon, Labour MPs and peers voted in favour | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
of reinstating elections to the Shadow Cabinet, | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
taking away the power to appoint from the leader, | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
So, if approved, would it be a pragmatic way of making | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
a seemingly divided party work together. | :08:24. | :08:24. | |
Did you back the proposal? I voted for the leader to retain the right | :08:25. | :08:36. | |
to appoint the Shadow Cabinet. Why? I think this is a distraction but | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
I'm relaxed either way and the party will decide shortly whether the | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
Shadow Cabinet is appointed in the same way or elected in some way. Is | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
this not going to go ahead, even though MPs have actually decided to | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
back that proposal? The National executive committee has got to look | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
at it. And you think they might not pass it? I don't know, but I'm | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
relaxed either way. However the Shadow Cabinet is put in place, the | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
key thing is for all Labour MPs, whoever is elected, is to get the | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
hind the elected leader, Owen Smith or Jeremy Corbyn, and take the fight | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
to the Conservatives. All the polls indicate Jeremy Corbyn is going to | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
win the leadership. It will not solve the problem that 172 MPs, your | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
colleagues, don't have confidence in Jeremy Corbyn as leader. The fact | :09:29. | :09:37. | |
they might elect themselves into the shower -- Shadow Cabinet when change | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
that. He appointed as Shadow Cabinet which reflected a wide spectrum of | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
people from across the political party. That is not my question. | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
Let's assume Jeremy Corbyn is the leader and we have 172 MPs who say | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
they have no confidence in him, they are elected to the Shadow Cabinet. | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
My first question to one of those MPs would be, do you have faith in | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
Jeremy Corbyn and they will say no. Some people have reconsidered the | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
hasty things they said in the aftermath of the referendum result, | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
but what I will say, if Owen Smith is elected leader of the Labour | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
Party I would serve him loyally and if Andy Burnham, for example, | :10:20. | :10:32. | |
had been elected from the last leadership election, I would have | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
supported him. Whoever wins, there is a responsibility from the | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
Parliamentary Labour Party to take the fight to the Conservatives and | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
to do the job we are elected to do. Sometimes in democracy we don't get | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
the job we want. You are expecting your colleagues, who said they'd | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
wouldn't have any confidence in Jeremy Corbyn, you are expecting | :10:53. | :11:01. | |
them to lie and say they have faith in him? -- who said they didn't have | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
any confidence in Jeremy Corbyn. If Jeremy Corbyn is elected as the | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
leader, I think they will focus on the job in hand, which is to say | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
that we want a Labour government with Jeremy Corbyn as leader and we | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
will work night and day for that. If they don't, what will happen to | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
them? I hope they will, and I think if Jeremy Corbyn is elected again as | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
leader, what proportion of the Labour Parliamentary party rolls up | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
their sleeves and gets on with the task at hand. Have you met enough of | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
your colleagues? Tristram Hunt, Emma Reynolds, Rachel Reeves, for | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
example, if they were elected to the Shadow Cabinet, with they serve | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
under Jeremy Corbyn? -- would they. There are people who are prepared to | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
serve if they are elected again and that includes people who are not | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
holding Shadow ministerial jobs at the moment. But they might not be | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
the one selected by their peers. We have got to see how the decision is | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
taken about how the Shadow Cabinet is put in place. The decision about | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
how it is put in place is rather inward, a distraction in a way. You | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
have got to serve as a Parliamentary opposition and a leader needs the | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
support of the MPs, though. If they are going to elect each other into | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
the Shadow Cabinet, it would be difficult for Jeremy Corbyn to be | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
able to command the Shadow Cabinet in a way which takes the fight to | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
the Tories? You must be worried about lap. Who is ever elected | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
leader, they would have a big mandate, 640,000 people have the | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
chance to vote in this election, that is a big responsibility. If | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Owen Smith is elected, I will respect the mandate. I would | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
encourage my colleagues to do the right thing and do the same in the | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
event of Jeremy Corbyn being elected. You think this proposal has | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
been an attempt to hobble Jeremy Corbyn? There are issues, the lack | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
of a plan from the government in terms of the situation when Britain | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
leaves the EU. But the problem will be there is not a Parliamentary | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
party that is one. I would urge my colleagues to look outwards, there | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
is the caricature that it is those who are characterised on the left of | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
the party who are inward looking but I think we need to be outward | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
looking, and we should not be letting down the people who elected | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
us. They did not elect us to spend our time constitutional wrangling, | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
with Parliamentary plots, we are elected to hold the Conservative | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
government to account, and whoever is elected Labour leader will have a | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
huge mandate and should be supported. If they don't represent | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
the leader and the majority of the members, do you think they should be | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
deselected? The talk of deselection and other things is a distraction. | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
It has been talked about. Someone a few days ago was talking about how | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
to deselect your local MP. That is an inward looking distraction, and | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
I'm urging people to look outwards and take the fight to the | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
Conservatives and stop fighting amongst ourselves. Labour MPs have | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
more in common with each other than that which divides them ideological | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
way. It would be good if you could point to some of those examples. | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
We've got 20 of time exclaim macro -- we've got plenty of time! | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
So it's the start of a new term, we've got Theresa May's second PMQs | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
coming up shortly, where no doubt she'll face some tough questions | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
about her priorities for the coming months, | :15:05. | :15:05. | |
though leadership challenger Owen Smith doesn't think so. | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
He's sent Mr Corbyn his own list of questions to ask. | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
Anyway, what is clogging up the Prime Minister's in-tray, | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
and what can we expect her to focus on? | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
Top of the agenda is, of course, Brexit, with the all | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
important question being - when will Theresa May trigger | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
Article 50 and start formal exit negotiations with the EU? | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
She's got a trio of Brexit ministers on the case, | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
but the Prime Minister is keeping tight lipped | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
about what our future relationship with the EU might look like. | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
With Downing Street rebuking the Brexit Minister David Davis | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
for saying on Monday that it is "very improbable" | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
that the UK will remain a member of the single market, a spokesman | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
Other big decisions looming are whether to give the go-ahead to | :15:44. | :15:52. | |
and to a third runway at Heathrow Airport. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
Theresa May will personally chair a cabinet committee, | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
tasked with making the final decision on airport expansion. | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
We haven't been waiting long, of course! | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
The economy will take centre stage for Philip Hammond's | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
first Autumn Statement, when we'll get the first | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
official economic forecasts since the referendum. | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
And find out how the new Chancellor plans to 'reset' | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
As if that wasn't enough to be getting on with, | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
documents photographed being carried into Downing Street reveal a Cabinet | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
split over plans to create new grammar schools. | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
Theresa May is thought to be in favour, but Education Secretary | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
Justine Greening wants new grammars to be "presented as an option", | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
and "only pursued" once they have explored how to "avoid | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
disadvantaging those who don't get in". | :16:42. | :16:51. | |
Thank you. David Gauke, do you support the creation of new grammar | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
schools? There is a lot of press speculation at the moment about any | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
future announcement that may be made on education policy. In terms of, | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
I'm not going to comment on the specific, some of these specific | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
proposals. I know that, I am asking you a simple question, do you | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
support the creation of new grammar schools? What is important is we | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
have an education system that gives more people the opportunity to have | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
excellent education. Lets take that for granted. With the creation of | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
new grammar schools be part of that process? I think that's where we | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
start to get into details of announcements, and looking at, if | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
you like, a package of announcements. Should the creation | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
of new grammar schools be part of a package for education? The point I | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
would make is our objective is to ensure we can find ways in which | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
more people get a good education. Every politician... The question is | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
how do you do it? I will try one more time. Do you think that in | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
efforts to improve social mobility and help kids, brighter kids from | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
poor backgrounds, with the creation of new grammar schools be part of | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
that process? As I say, and you can ask the question again, we have to | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
look at the overall context of the announcements that could be made, | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
the reforms that could be made. The objective, we have been very clear | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
about that, is about increasing those opportunities. OK, the viewers | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
will come to their own conclusions with your answers to that question. | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
Europe and Brexit. David Davis made a comment to the Commons this week | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
about Brexit plans, what did he tell us we didn't know already? I think | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
it was a helpful update to Parliament, setting out some of the | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
thinking going into this. I think in terms of... Of the content, it | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
really was just helpful to outline to Parliament some of the engagement | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
going on, some of the things we are looking at. We are not rushing into | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
this. I think we have worked that out! What was new? It is now over | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
two months since the vote on the 23rd of June, well over two months, | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
coming up to three. What has he been able to tell us we didn't know | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
already? Well, I can understand from your perspective, always looking for | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
a news story. Two and a half months. We would like a clear idea of the | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
path ahead. What did he tell us that gave us a clear idea? I think he set | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
out information about the new government department that has been | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
set up to lead and coordinate this. What did he tell us about it? In | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
terms of practical points on the work they are doing, the staff they | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
have taken on and so on. He talked about being gay judgment with other | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
countries. This is one of the most complicated. -- he talked about the | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
engagement with other countries. We know all of that. It is ten weeks | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
since we voted to leave. Surely the Government... We are not asking for | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
the detailed blueprint, but surely the Government, after ten weeks | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
could give us a slightly clear indication of what that route is | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
ahead. So far you've been able to tell me nothing about this route | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
that we didn't know already this comes back to the wide appointment | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
of the plan Richard has touched on a couple of times. We will be engaging | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
in an important negotiation with the EU 27 member states. It is an | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
negotiation where we are seeking a unique deal for the United Kingdom. | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
It's not about taking an off-the-shelf particular route. We | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
are setting out we want to achieve that unique deal, we are negotiating | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
with other member states. I was doing better on grammar schools even | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
though I was getting nowhere there either! You don't think there is a | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
road map and it is clear from them what the minister said many might | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
agree, but do you think... When do you believe Article 50 should be | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
triggered? First of all I don't think that Labour or any party | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
should engage in any wrangling which makes it look like they are trying | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
to wriggle out of the decision the British people took. I said earlier | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
democracy does not always yield the result we want. Unlike Owen Smith, | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
you don't think, whenever we do finally do this deal to leave and | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
see exactly what the blueprint is, you don't think measure be a | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
referendum on that as Mr Smith has called for? My belief is a second | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
referendum would run the risk of making the British people feel the | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
self appointed elite is asking the same question again, to get the | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
answer they want. When do you think Article 50 should be triggered? We | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
do need a clear plan but I would like to make this point. I'd like | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
you to answer the question. I'd like to make this point. Wendy think | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Article 50 should be triggered? I was disappointed the other day David | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Davis didn't give a more comprehensive answer. They must have | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
entertained the possibility, at least when they called the | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
referendum, the British people might decide to vote to Leave. They were | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
telling department not to plan for it. I think we have established we | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
didn't learn very much that was new from David Davis, that is clear. | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
What I am trying to get from you is an idea of Labour's policy. When do | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
you think Article 50 should be triggered? The end of this year, the | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
beginning of next year, when? I think we need to discuss this in | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
great detail before any decisions are taken. Should Parliament have a | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
vote on it? On? Triggering Article 50? The onus is on the Government, | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
who got us into this situation, Australia are saying they won't | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
enter into a trade deal with Britain and we have left the EU. Japan... | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
They said they would be happy to begin a scoping exercise. I didn't | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
ask you about Australia. First I asked when Article 50 should be | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
triggered? The answer they came was nothing. Then should Parliament | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
focused on the Government says it doesn't need a vote of parliament to | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
trigger Article 50, what is your view? My view is the onus is on the | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
Government to set a path forward. OK. Early days! It is. | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
Now, we might have a new Prime Minister, | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
And I'm not talking about what you've just been watching! | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
Yesterday a senior civil servant accidentally leaked government | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
policy on grammar schools through the time-honoured method | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
of flashing a secret memo to photographers outside Number 10. | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
State secrets have been revealed in this way, including by the head of | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
security. I must not leak government | :24:28. | :24:28. | |
secrets to the press! I want you to write it out 100 times | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
in Latin. But if you're a top mandarin worried | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
about leaks, help is at hand. You just need to get your hands | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
one of these. Introducing our very own anti-leak | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
device - And when you're not using it | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
to drink coffee, you can conceal top But if you want one you have | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
to enter our Guess Yes, to be in with a chance | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
of winning, see if you can tell us There could be a second | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
bomb device, get back! Right back, across | :25:10. | :25:19. | |
the end of the street. Right back, out of | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
the way, right back. He was reported missing | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
by the captain of the ship. # Although I search myself, it's | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
always someone else I see...# # And it's you girl, | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
making it spin...# # Shake your body, turn | :25:47. | :25:59. | |
it out if you can, man # Move it back to the | :26:00. | :26:10. | |
side, if you can, can # Everybody in the | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
house do the Bartman # Shake your body, turn it | :26:14. | :26:15. | |
out if you can, man.# To be in with a chance of winning | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
a Daily Politics mug, Send your answer to our special | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
quiz email address - Entries must arrive by 12.30 today, | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
and you can see the full terms and conditions for Guess The Year | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
on our website - Why have they got to be in by 12.30? | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
I don't know. It's coming up to midday here - | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
just take a look at Big Ben - Not seen that for a while. There it | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
is. It is humid. Prime Minister's | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
Questions is on its way. And that's not all - | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
fresh from her trip to the G20 in China with Theresa May, | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
Laura Kuenssberg is here. Or Theresa May was with her! I'm | :27:09. | :27:22. | |
talking of Laura. Good to have you back. It is nice to be here. After | :27:23. | :27:32. | |
PMQs, the state Prime Minister will give a statement on the G20's. She | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
came under pressure about Brexit and what her plans are. What did you | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
take away from this? I think you had a really interesting thing happen in | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
the last 48 hours. Whether it is on one side of the world or here at | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
home, Theresa May is facing the same questions, what on earth is this | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
going to mean? And what does this phrase Brexit mean? That has gone | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
round the world. Even the White House press corps asked the Prime | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
Minister what Brexit means. There has been this decision by the | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
Government, whether it is because they don't know or they want to keep | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
it a secret, that they are just not going to be the kind of operation | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
where they are going to set up their goals publicly before they are sure | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
that they can get somewhere on them. It occurs to me there is a really | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
striking difference between Theresa May and her first month son David | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
Cameron. He was sort of decision first, headline first, details | :28:25. | :28:26. | |
later. She is the polar opposite. I think | :28:27. | :28:46. | |
in the statement she will give after Prime Minister's Questions, we will | :28:47. | :28:48. | |
get a strong message from her, you are just going to have to wait and | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
see. Of course, that comes with huge political risk. We saw that | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
yesterday when David Davis said it is not likely we will stay in the | :28:55. | :28:56. | |
single market. That created a huge backlash from number ten. When there | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
is a blank page, people filling the space for you. We will speak more | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
about Brexit after PMQs and whatever else is raised. At the G20's, was | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
there a sense of optimism or a sense of concern about the overall course | :29:06. | :29:07. | |
of the global economy? I think there was a thank goodness it isn't as bad | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
as we thought it might have been a couple of months ago. Before the | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
summer, bigger concerns about how bad things would be in China, how | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
shaky was the world? Were we looking at a significant slowdown or were we | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
looking at a change in tempo? There was a bit vague, we might have | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
missed something quite bad, but we still have concerns. Brexit was one | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
of the concerns lots of countries were talking about, the Japanese, | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
the Italians. President Obama making no secret at all... It wasn't good. | :29:37. | :29:43. | |
He basically said, I think you voted the long way. Maybe there is a bit | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
of, well you didn't listen to me, did you? But he's off in a couple of | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
months. He and there will be a new Congress and a new president. There | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
must be concern about a new Congress and President among the G20. There | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
is uncertainty on the global scene, not just with Brexit? Yes. What | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
happens in the US and how it unfolds must have been in the backs of | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
everyone's mind. That was one of the themes at the T20, talking about how | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
to guard against protection, which is something coming up the rails in | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
many questions around the world. -- at the G20. And in France and | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
Germany. Yes. And the Labour Party in Britain. It was one of the things | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
Theresa May was trying to use to mould this new USP for Britain as | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
being the global leader in free trade, and trying to push back at | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
the populism happening in other countries. But nothing like that new | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
brand coming out of Britain is going to have much impact until the much | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
bigger questions about what happens about leaving the EU are answered. | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
We never thought Mrs May cared very much on you very much about foreign | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
affairs. She was Home Secretary for six years. Do you think she enjoyed | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
this global stage? I think... In actual fact, these things are 36 | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
hours gone, there was a difference in how she was at the end and the | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
very beginning. When she walked onto the stage with President Obama she | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
looked nervous, a little bit unsettled. They just had an hour | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
meeting, that we know was not an easy meeting at all. I have closing | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
press conference she looked ten times more relaxed and ten times | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
more at ease. Who wouldn't be nervous, turning up to see 19 of the | :31:32. | :31:36. | |
world's most powerful people? I'm not sure if she's going to be the | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
kind of person who will really enjoy these kind of grand occasions. You | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
can see how leaders handle themselves when the cameras are | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
there. Everyone rushes up to go and stand next to the American | :31:48. | :31:50. | |
president, give him a high five and stand next to the most important | :31:51. | :32:03. | |
person in the May didn't do that. That is not her style. She was | :32:04. | :32:05. | |
trying to find allies and friends. We saw her and Angela Merkel went | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
together at one point. Her and Christina Lang guard. Fascinating. | :32:09. | :32:10. | |
Laura, we can go straight to the Commons on the first Prime | :32:11. | :32:12. | |
Minister's Questions of the new season. | :32:13. | :32:22. | |
I would like to congratulate the British Olympic team on a great | :32:23. | :32:32. | |
medical -- medal haul, finishing second, in front of China. CHEERING | :32:33. | :32:37. | |
I know everyone would wish to give the very best wishes to our | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
Paralympic athletes and wish them the best of success. This morning I | :32:42. | :32:46. | |
had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and I will | :32:47. | :32:48. | |
have further such meetings later today. May I add my warm wishes to | :32:49. | :32:58. | |
those, all Paralympians and those from Bristol in particular, they | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
will do us Brown. The whole house will be delighted that this house | :33:03. | :33:12. | |
houses a disproportionate number of the worlds finest university -- that | :33:13. | :33:18. | |
this country. However, some are being shutout in anticipation of | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
Brexit, this is so important for scientific, medical, engineering and | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
other research, and for our economic prosperity. Can the Prime Minister | :33:27. | :33:34. | |
please tell us what her strategy is? Can I first of all say come out very | :33:35. | :33:43. | |
good it is to see her in this house. We agree of the importance of | :33:44. | :33:46. | |
valuable adversities and the work they do and the research and | :33:47. | :33:55. | |
collaboration they have -- of the value of our universities. We have | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
given certain guarantees to universities in relation to funding | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
decisions which have been taken by the European Union and we are | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
standing by them because we recognise the value they bring to | :34:09. | :34:14. | |
the country. Neil Parish. Thank you, Mr Speaker. I welcome the statement | :34:15. | :34:19. | |
from the Chancellor on support payments for farmers after 2020, to | :34:20. | :34:25. | |
give confidence to farming and the countryside, but with trade deals | :34:26. | :34:28. | |
now being done, bridges farmers produce some of the best welfare and | :34:29. | :34:35. | |
friendly food in the world and we need to make sure they are not both | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
farming... We need to make sure the food industry is protected through | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
trade deals in the future and I seek reassurance from the Prime Minister. | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
-- British farmers. You are right, the announcement I referred to just | :34:50. | :34:54. | |
now, to answer the first question the Chancellor gave, gave guarantees | :34:55. | :34:57. | |
to the farming industry about the support available to them after 2020 | :34:58. | :35:02. | |
but we need to recognise the very significant role that the food and | :35:03. | :35:05. | |
farming industry plays in the United Kingdom and we will be looking to | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
work with the sector. The Environment Secretary will be doing | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
that to see how we can develop those industries looking into the future. | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
And looking at the trade deals we will be doing and how they will play | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
their part. Jeremy Corbyn. Thank you. Can I join the Prime Minister | :35:23. | :35:30. | |
in congratulating the entirety of the Olympic team for their fantastic | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
achievements at the Olympics in Rio and wish the Paralympic team all the | :35:35. | :35:40. | |
best and can she tell us, did this set the visit off to China in a good | :35:41. | :35:47. | |
way or was there a bit of tension? If bragging rights were allowed. The | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
average house price in Britain is now ?215,000 and over eight times | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
the average wage. The average price of a first-time buyers home has | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
risen by 12% in the past year. Isn't the dream of home ownership for many | :36:04. | :36:11. | |
people just that? A dreamer? First of all, in response to the first | :36:12. | :36:18. | |
point, I actually... The Chinese president congratulated me on the | :36:19. | :36:21. | |
success of the United Kingdom in the Olympic Games. He raises the issues | :36:22. | :36:27. | |
of housing which he has raised on a number of occasions with my | :36:28. | :36:29. | |
predecessor and also with me before we broke for the summer recess. Of | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
course it is important for us to look at helping people get their | :36:36. | :36:42. | |
first... Their step on the first rung of the housing ladder or stop | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
that is why I'm pleased that house-building has been up under a | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
Conservative government compared to Labour, but we are not complacent | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
and we will be doing more. We will have more houses being built under | :36:57. | :36:59. | |
this Conservative government and also providing support for people to | :37:00. | :37:02. | |
make sure they have the financial support which helps them to own | :37:03. | :37:08. | |
their own home. House-building under this government is 45,000 a year | :37:09. | :37:11. | |
less than it was under the last Labour government. And for those who | :37:12. | :37:22. | |
are desperate to get their own place, I referred the Prime Minister | :37:23. | :37:31. | |
to an note I received from a lady called Jenny, her partner and | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
herself work in a supermarket, they are trying to get a mortgage and | :37:37. | :37:40. | |
they have been told they can borrow ?73,000. Not much hope for them, | :37:41. | :37:48. | |
then. The former Prime Minister promised there would be a wonderful | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
one replacement for every council house that is sold under right to | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
buy -- there would be a one for one. Sadly there is only one for every | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
five that are sold. Will the prime to give us a commitment on the one | :38:05. | :38:08. | |
for one replacement and when will it be a reality? Can I say to Jenny | :38:09. | :38:14. | |
that I fully understand and appreciate the concerns that | :38:15. | :38:16. | |
individuals have about wanting to be able to have their own home and to | :38:17. | :38:22. | |
set up that home and I recognise the difficulties that they are after | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
some people in doing that. I have to say, in relation to the figures on | :38:28. | :38:31. | |
council houses, he is wrong, we have delivered on the one for one | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
replacement on leave to buy. I'm very interested. I noticed that the | :38:37. | :38:43. | |
right honourable gentleman had asked his Twitter followers what questions | :38:44. | :38:50. | |
he should ask me this week and I thought I would love to see what | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
responses he would receive, and I thought the first one was quite good | :38:55. | :38:57. | |
-- I would look. He might want to stay sitting down. Lewis writes, | :38:58. | :39:09. | |
does she know that in a recent Paltan who would make a better Prime | :39:10. | :39:16. | |
Minister, -- does she know that in a recent poll on who would make a | :39:17. | :39:19. | |
better Prime Minister, don't know rated higher than Jeremy Corbyn. We | :39:20. | :39:26. | |
do know that we're not going to let Labour anywhere near power again. | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
The number of first-time buyers has halved in the last 20 years and the | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
average age has increased a great deal. There is a housing crisis in | :39:38. | :39:44. | |
Britain. 10 million people now live in the private rented sector and | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
many are forced to claim housing benefit to cover costs of rents. | :39:49. | :39:54. | |
Devastating figures released over the summer show that ?9.3 billion of | :39:55. | :40:01. | |
public money is paid through housing benefit directly into the pockets of | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
private landlords. Does the Prime Minister think this ?9.3 billion | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
into the private rental market is really money well spent? I have to | :40:12. | :40:20. | |
say, he talks about the importance of people being able to buy their | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
own homes and then challenge is one of the measures which helps people | :40:26. | :40:29. | |
to get into their own homes through housing benefit, support in the | :40:30. | :40:32. | |
private rented sector, so it might be that he has an ideological | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
objection to the private rented sector, but what this government is | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
doing is making sure that what we are doing is looking across the | :40:42. | :40:44. | |
board so we will see more houses being built. We are looking to make | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
sure there is a diversity of opportunity for people in terms of | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
getting their own home, but I have to say, everything he says tells us | :40:54. | :41:01. | |
all we need to know about modern Labour, the train has left the | :41:02. | :41:04. | |
station, the seats are empty, the leader is on the floor, and even on | :41:05. | :41:08. | |
rolling stock they are a laughing stock. CHEERING | :41:09. | :41:16. | |
Mr Speaker... Mr Speaker... Her predecessor... Mr Speaker, her | :41:17. | :41:32. | |
predecessor in discussing this issue said the simple point is that every | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
penny you spend on housing subsidy is money you can't spend on building | :41:37. | :41:43. | |
houses. And if landlords rent outhouses in a very bad state, such | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
as heavy damp wet walls, no working toilet, they need to be getting | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
fined. The government has got to regulate, that is what choice wrote | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
to me, and the citizens advice bureau says one sixth of housing | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
benefit goes to private sector landlords renting out on safe homes, | :42:04. | :42:10. | |
is this really a satisfactory state of affairs gridlock -- on safe. What | :42:11. | :42:18. | |
I would say, if he thinks housing benefit is actually such a bad | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
thing, why was it that when we change the rules on housing benefit | :42:24. | :42:25. | |
the Labour Party opposed those changes that we took? He talks about | :42:26. | :42:33. | |
bad landlords, we have changed the rules on selective licensing and we | :42:34. | :42:36. | |
are making changes and we have given councils free reign to impose | :42:37. | :42:42. | |
burdens of the Chrissy on landlords -- burdens of bureaucracy on | :42:43. | :42:49. | |
landlords, we think that will lead to problems in the market with high | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
costs on tenants and landlords. We are looking at all of these issues. | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
I recognise as every MP does the problems that people have when they | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
are living in accommodation that is not up to the standard that we would | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
wish to see people living in. That is why we are looking and changing | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
the rules and we are making sure that the regulations are there. That | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
is extremely interesting. Only a year ago the Prime Minister voted | :43:20. | :43:22. | |
against a Labour amendment to the housing bill which simply said all | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
homes for rent in the private rented sector should be fit for human | :43:28. | :43:34. | |
habitation. Just over a year ago the Treasury estimated that it is losing | :43:35. | :43:42. | |
half ?1 billion per year on unpaid tax on landlords renting in the | :43:43. | :43:47. | |
private rented sector. ?9.5 billion in housing benefit, half a billion | :43:48. | :43:52. | |
not being collected and a large number of homes not really fit for | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
human habitation. Does this require government intervention on the side | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
of the tenant and those in housing need? The right honourable gentleman | :44:01. | :44:07. | |
asks for the government to intervene, and the government has | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
the housing and panning act introduced further tough measures -- | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
planning act. Banning orders for serious offenders and repayment | :44:17. | :44:20. | |
orders, we have provided money so local authorities can conduct more | :44:21. | :44:24. | |
inspections of properties, people's homes, we have seen more people and | :44:25. | :44:28. | |
more properties being inspected, we now have thousands of landlords | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
facing further action. Far from not taking action in this area, the | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
government has. But I say to the right John -- honourable gentleman, | :44:37. | :44:45. | |
he might have a vision of society where he doesn't want private | :44:46. | :44:47. | |
landlords and he would like the government deliberating on | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
everything about that is not what we want. We want opportunities for | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
people -- but that is not what we want. They're big difference between | :44:56. | :45:00. | |
him and me is that we want people to take opportunities. We want to make | :45:01. | :45:08. | |
sure that those living in the private rented sector are properly | :45:09. | :45:10. | |
treated and not having to pay excessive levels of rent. Womens Aid | :45:11. | :45:18. | |
has said that two thirds of women refugees are going to close because | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
of the benefit cap when it comes into force and that 87% of women and | :45:23. | :45:30. | |
children who are in those refuges will suffer as a result and most of | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
those refuges require an income level which comes mainly from | :45:35. | :45:40. | |
housing benefit, 90% from vat. Does the Prime Minister recognised that | :45:41. | :45:44. | |
these are very vulnerable women in those refuges and the closure of | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
them would be devastating for them and very dangerous for the most | :45:49. | :45:51. | |
vulnerable people within our society? Will should take action to | :45:52. | :45:56. | |
make sure the cat doesn't apply to Womens Aid refuges? -- the cap. | :45:57. | :46:05. | |
The right honourable gentleman raises a very important issue. On | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
the issue of domestic violence we should come across this house, do | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
all we can to stop these crimes taking place and provide support to | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
the victims and survivors of these crimes. We are working on exempting | :46:21. | :46:26. | |
refuges from the cap. I would also remind him of the very good record | :46:27. | :46:31. | |
that we have on domestic violence. It was a Conservative government | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
that introduced the new offence of coercive control, that put into | :46:36. | :46:43. | |
practice those laws, that putting ?80 million to support domestic | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
violence victims in the period up to 2020. We are listening to these | :46:48. | :46:51. | |
problems and we are responding to them and we all take this very | :46:52. | :46:56. | |
seriously indeed. But I say to the right honourable gentleman, it is 50 | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
days since he and I last met across this dispatch box. It would be nice | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
to see you, he said. It is nice to see him sitting in his place. | :47:07. | :47:11. | |
LAUGHTER And I have to say, if we just look | :47:12. | :47:15. | |
at the contrast is what -- of what has been done over the summer, the | :47:16. | :47:20. | |
Conservative government has been working tirelessly to support | :47:21. | :47:26. | |
everyone. Yanuyanutawa ?250 million of loans | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
to small businesses, introduced the racial disparity audit, looking at | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
public services and how they treat people and setting the groundwork | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
for new trade deals around the world. | :47:40. | :47:47. | |
What we have seen, what a contrast. What a contrast with the party | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
opposite, divided amongst themselves, and I'm capable of | :47:52. | :47:55. | |
uniting our country. What we do know is there is only one party that is | :47:56. | :48:00. | |
going to provide a country, a government, and economy, a society | :48:01. | :48:04. | |
that works for everyone, and that's the Conservative Party! CHEERING | :48:05. | :48:15. | |
. Last week the children Society published a report that showed 10% | :48:16. | :48:19. | |
of children feel their lives have little meaning or purpose. I know | :48:20. | :48:24. | |
the Prime Minister understands the importance of tackling mental | :48:25. | :48:28. | |
health, because she raised in her Downing Street speech. What further | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
action does she propose to increase mental health support in our | :48:34. | :48:36. | |
schools? My honourable friend raises a very | :48:37. | :48:40. | |
important point. I think there has been a collective concern about the | :48:41. | :48:44. | |
issue of the way in which mental health is dealt with. That is why we | :48:45. | :48:50. | |
put a record ?1.4 billion into transforming the dedicated mental | :48:51. | :48:53. | |
health support available to young people across the country. That | :48:54. | :48:58. | |
includes ?150 million for services to support children and young people | :48:59. | :49:01. | |
with eating disorders. There are other things, we are publishing a | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
blueprint for school counselling services. The role schools play is | :49:06. | :49:10. | |
very important in this. I know that my right honourable friend the | :49:11. | :49:12. | |
Education Secretary will be looking very closely at the report to see | :49:13. | :49:21. | |
what more we can do. May I join with the Prime Minister and leader of the | :49:22. | :49:24. | |
Labour Party in praising all Olympians. This is the first day of | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
the Paralympics, an inspiration to us all. Mr Speaker, there is very | :49:31. | :49:35. | |
real concern and worry about the prospect of Brexit, especially in | :49:36. | :49:41. | |
Scotland, where the of people voted Remain in the EU. The UK Government | :49:42. | :49:46. | |
has had all summer to come up with a plan, to come up with a strategy. So | :49:47. | :49:52. | |
far we've just had waffle. Can I ask the Prime Minister a very simple | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
question, she want the UK to remain fully in the single market? | :49:57. | :50:03. | |
What I want the UK is we put in place, into practice the vote taken | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
by UK people to leave the European Union. That we get the right deal | :50:09. | :50:14. | |
for the trade in goods and services with the European Union, a new | :50:15. | :50:17. | |
relationship we will be building with them and we also introduce | :50:18. | :50:22. | |
control of the movement of people from the European Union into the | :50:23. | :50:25. | |
United Kingdom. I say we can approach the vote that took place on | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
the 23rd of June in two ways. We can try and go back neck, have a second | :50:31. | :50:34. | |
referendum, say we didn't really believe it. Actually, we are | :50:35. | :50:40. | |
respecting the views of the people. -- we can go back on it. But more | :50:41. | :50:45. | |
than that, we will be seizing the opportunities that leaving the | :50:46. | :50:49. | |
European Union now gives us, to forge a new role for the United | :50:50. | :50:55. | |
Kingdom in the wild. We on these benches respect the | :50:56. | :50:58. | |
views of the people of Scotland who voted to Remain. The European single | :50:59. | :51:11. | |
market... One mast be heard, and he will be heard. Mr Angus Robertson. | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
The European single market is the biggest market in the world and it | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
really matters to our businesses and it really matters to our economy. I | :51:21. | :51:25. | |
asked the Prime Minister a very, very simple question. It's either in | :51:26. | :51:31. | |
or out answer. Let me ask again, does she want the United Kingdom to | :51:32. | :51:36. | |
remain fully part of the European single market? Yes or no? | :51:37. | :51:41. | |
The right honourable gentleman doesn't quite seem to understand... | :51:42. | :51:48. | |
What the vote on the 23rd of June was about. The United Kingdom will | :51:49. | :51:54. | |
leave the European Union and we will build a new relationship with the | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
European Union. That new relationship will include control of | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
the movement of people from the EU into the UK and it will include the | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
right deal for trade in goods and services. That is how to approach | :52:08. | :52:12. | |
it. I also say this to the right honourable gentleman, in looking at | :52:13. | :52:15. | |
negotiations it would not be right for me or this government to give a | :52:16. | :52:23. | |
running commentary on negotiations. Or... Order, order. Just as the | :52:24. | :52:34. | |
right honourable gentleman must've been heard, the Prime Minister's | :52:35. | :52:37. | |
answer be heard. It would not be right for us to | :52:38. | :52:43. | |
prejudge those negotiations. We will be ensuring we achieve opportunities | :52:44. | :52:46. | |
for growth and prosperity across the UK, including growth and prosperity | :52:47. | :52:50. | |
in Scotland. As we saw from figures released this summer, what gives | :52:51. | :52:54. | |
growth and prosperity in Scotland is being a member of the United | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
Kingdom. Thank you Mr Speaker. Last week | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
hundreds of local residents and businesses attended my faster | :53:05. | :53:07. | |
broadband fair. Many of those with the very slowest speeds a ?500 about | :53:08. | :53:14. | |
voucher to fund an alternative broadband connection capable of | :53:15. | :53:16. | |
delivering at least 10 megabits per second. Will the Prime Minister join | :53:17. | :53:22. | |
me in congratulating Somerset County Council on this excellent scheme and | :53:23. | :53:28. | |
confirm the Government remains committed of delivering a service of | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
10 megabits a second by 2020? I am happy to give my assurance and join | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
with him in paying tribute to his council and the work they are doing, | :53:38. | :53:41. | |
and all those involved in that innovative scheme. High-speed | :53:42. | :53:45. | |
broadband is an important part of 21st-century infrastructure. We will | :53:46. | :53:48. | |
be doing everything we can to ensure it is there and available for | :53:49. | :53:51. | |
people, because that will enable us to have jobs and prosperity in this | :53:52. | :53:58. | |
country. Penman engineering established in | :53:59. | :54:02. | |
1859 was forced into administration in my constituency this week. I | :54:03. | :54:12. | |
can't name the debtor, it is an impossible decision. They have to | :54:13. | :54:15. | |
continue to trade with this debtor as well as pursuing the debt. Will | :54:16. | :54:20. | |
the Prime Minister put me in touch with the Business Secretary to | :54:21. | :54:23. | |
discuss support that can be given on how we can ensure these companies, | :54:24. | :54:27. | |
who receive enormous amounts of public money, don't hold our supply | :54:28. | :54:31. | |
chain to ransom and pay bills on time? | :54:32. | :54:36. | |
First of all, I said the honourable gentleman that of course our | :54:37. | :54:38. | |
thoughts are with all those families who are affected by what has to | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
Penman engineering. The administrator has a role in ensuring | :54:45. | :54:47. | |
any sale of the business protects the maximum number of jobs and my | :54:48. | :54:52. | |
right honourable friend the Scottish Secretary has made clear that that | :54:53. | :54:55. | |
is his priority. I hope the Scottish Government will offer their support | :54:56. | :54:58. | |
of this long-standing business. Our thoughts are with all those who have | :54:59. | :55:02. | |
been affected and the administrator will be looking to ensure the best | :55:03. | :55:06. | |
possible options are found for the company. | :55:07. | :55:17. | |
In adding my congratulations to the Prime Minister, can I say following | :55:18. | :55:21. | |
the EU referendum and under her leadership, I feel more confident | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
about the future of this country than ever in my lifetime. | :55:25. | :55:33. | |
And we'll surely beware of those who are trying to make leaving the | :55:34. | :55:43. | |
European Union ever more complicated and protracted, and to that end. | :55:44. | :55:49. | |
Order, order. Progress is very slow. There is too much noise. | :55:50. | :55:54. | |
The honourable gentleman will be heard. Will she confirm there is no | :55:55. | :56:00. | |
basis in law to require the Government to seek the permission of | :56:01. | :56:03. | |
parliament before invoking Article 50? | :56:04. | :56:09. | |
Prime Minister I thank my honourable friend for his comments. | :56:10. | :56:12. | |
He is absolutely right. The Government's position is very clear. | :56:13. | :56:17. | |
This is a prerogative power. It is a power that can be exercised by the | :56:18. | :56:23. | |
Government. As he alludes to in his question I don't think anyone should | :56:24. | :56:26. | |
be in any doubt that those people who are trying to prolong the | :56:27. | :56:30. | |
process by their legal references in relation to Parliament are not those | :56:31. | :56:33. | |
who want to see us successfully leaving the European Union, they are | :56:34. | :56:36. | |
those who want to stop us leaving the European Union. The Prime | :56:37. | :56:44. | |
Minister seems less keen than her predecessor on the northern | :56:45. | :56:48. | |
powerhouse, but she also says post Brexit Britain is open for business. | :56:49. | :56:54. | |
Where better in 2025 than the great city of Manchester to host the world | :56:55. | :57:03. | |
Expo, where the atom was split and where graphene was invented, to | :57:04. | :57:11. | |
showcase the best of Britain's world. Will she back our bid? | :57:12. | :57:15. | |
I say to the honourable gentleman I'm interested to hear the lobby he | :57:16. | :57:21. | |
is making for Manchester. And can I say how pleased I am Manchester will | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
be hosting the parade for are Olympic athletes. | :57:26. | :57:31. | |
In this process Brexit world, will the Prime Minister agree with me | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
that Nato is more important cornerstone than ever, particularly | :57:37. | :57:39. | |
article five that lays down an attack on one is an attack on all. | :57:40. | :57:44. | |
Any politician who will not sign up to that commitment or even worse, | :57:45. | :57:48. | |
who tells Nato they should give up, go home and go away, is recklessly | :57:49. | :57:55. | |
risking the defence of all? I absolutely agree on all the points | :57:56. | :57:58. | |
my right honourable friend made. We must never forget the importance of | :57:59. | :58:02. | |
Nato, is the cornerstone of our defence and security and that | :58:03. | :58:05. | |
strength is based on the fact that all of those partners within Nato | :58:06. | :58:11. | |
have committed to article five and operating under the basis of article | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
five. Anybody who says, rejects that, is rejecting that security on | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
that defence, they'd be undermining our national security and the | :58:22. | :58:25. | |
National security of our allies. What we know from the Labour Party | :58:26. | :58:29. | |
is far from delivering stronger defence, they would cut defence | :58:30. | :58:33. | |
spending, undermine Nato and they've scrapped the nuclear deterrent. | :58:34. | :58:40. | |
Prime Minister, I have just had a debate in Westminster Hall on the | :58:41. | :58:45. | |
police ombudsman's report into the Northern Ireland massacre, in which | :58:46. | :58:48. | |
six men were shot dead by the UVF in a period of direct rule in my | :58:49. | :58:55. | |
constituency. I have a letter from my predecessor in which he | :58:56. | :58:58. | |
acknowledged this unspeakable evil and said the Government accepts the | :58:59. | :59:04. | |
police ombudsman's report and any allegations of police misconduct are | :59:05. | :59:08. | |
taken very seriously. Will the Prime Minister detail what action she will | :59:09. | :59:13. | |
take to ensure prosecutions are pursued, an apology is forthcoming | :59:14. | :59:16. | |
from the Government and compensation is provided for lost lives? | :59:17. | :59:22. | |
I say to the honourable lady she is absolutely right. What happened was | :59:23. | :59:28. | |
a terrible, terrible evil. I am sure that everybody across the House will | :59:29. | :59:32. | |
want to join me in expressing our sympathies to all of those who were | :59:33. | :59:36. | |
affected by the appalling atrocity. As she has said, and as my right | :59:37. | :59:41. | |
honourable friend for Whitney said, the Government accepts the | :59:42. | :59:45. | |
ombudsman's report. It is important that where there are allegations of | :59:46. | :59:48. | |
police misconduct they are taken seriously, and properly looked into, | :59:49. | :59:52. | |
if there has been wrong doing it must be pursued. Obviously it is a | :59:53. | :59:56. | |
matter for the PSM eye, although I would remind the Chief Constable has | :59:57. | :00:02. | |
been very clear he wants to be sure he is determined where there is | :00:03. | :00:06. | |
wrongdoing people will be brought to justice. A long-running review into | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
hospital services in Bedford and Milton Keynes was an abject failure. | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
By publishing recommendations for significant changes to services and | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
refusing to answer any questions. Can the Prime Minister assure me | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
their sustainability and transformation plans for | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
Bedfordshire and elsewhere, to be released by NHS England will be | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
subject to proper local accountability and for local | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
decision authority? I say to my honourable friend it is | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
it is absolutely the point of these plans, that they should be locally | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
driven, that they will be considered locally, they should be taking into | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
account the concerns and interests locally, not just by commissioning | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
groups but Local Authorities and the public. These must be planned that | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
are driven from the locality. I give my honourable friend that assurance. | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
Nearly 2 million people signed up to vote in the European Union | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
referendum earlier this year. It surely right that constituency | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
should be based on the actual electorate that want to vote. Is the | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Prime Minister concerned the review going ahead next week without | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
including those 2 million voters? I'd say to the honourable gentleman | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
all parties across this house supported the proposal that the | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
commission would follow this timetable, bring forward these | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
proposals and by 2018 those commission proposals would be put in | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
place. All parties supported that and I continue to support that. Does | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
the Prime Minister share my anger that on the weekend of the 23rd of | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
July, up to 250,000 people on the road to Dover were stuck in gridlock | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
in the sweltering heat for up to 17 hours without food, water or even | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
able to go to the toilet and will she support my campaign to make sure | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
we get better infrastructure to the Channel ports, starting with a lorry | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
car park and getting some proper motorways to Dover? I say to my | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
honourable friend he has been a passionate advocate for the support | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
for his local area, given some of the pressures that Dover finds | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
itself under as a cross Channel port. It is an important issue. We | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
are committed to providing support. The money for the lorry park was | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
announced last November. The site was announced in July and I believe | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
consultation is taking place on the design for that particular site. On | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
the issue of the possible dualling of the A2-macro, we do want to | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
support local infrastructure to handle the growth in traffic, | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
particularly given their right expansion plans for the port. I | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
assure him Dover will be considered as part of that plan. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
As many children return to school this week I am sure the Prime | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
Minister will join me in wishing them all the very best of the school | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
year ahead. Will she also provide reassurance to my constituents and | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
to children across London that the objectives of changes to the | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
school's funding formula will be achieved by levelling up, not | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
levelling down on funding for schools in London will not be cut by | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
up to 20%? I join the honourable lady in | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
wishing all those going to school, many for the first time, well in | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
their education. I hope what we will be aiming to do is ensuring every | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
child has the education right for them and the opportunities that are | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
right for them. It is right that we look at the National funding | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
formula. That will be done carefully to see what the impacts will be | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
across the country. Our world leading universities are one of our | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
country's great assets. When I next meet with the Vice Chancellor of | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
York University, to discuss Brexit and higher education, what | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
assurances can I pass to him from my right honourable friend the Prime | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
Minister that our universities will continue to receive the vital | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
funding they need to thrive beyond 2020? | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
I say to my honourable friend again he raises an important point about | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
the relevance and significance of our universities. My right | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer was able to give | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
confidence and reassurance to universities in the summer about the | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
funding arrangements that will continue while we are still members | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
of the European Union and while we are members of the European Union we | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
will maintain our full rights of obligation and obligations of | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
membership and expect others to deal with us on that same basis. Looking | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
ahead we have a higher education Bill going through this house, which | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
is about how we can ensure we are seeing the places, the university | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
places available in this country, to provide the education we want to | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
provide. We have a great record on higher education in this country, we | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
want to build on that and develop it for the future. I would like to put | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
to the Prime Minister a request I know she will think is reasonable. | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
My local hospital, Saint Helena Hospital, which delivers, which is a | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
high performing hospital and delivers excellent care, built in | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
the 1930s and is in need of very substantial investment, will she | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
agree to earmark the first two weeks of the ?350 million is going to be | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
available each week post Brexit to spend on the reconstruction of my | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
hospital? I have to say to the honourable | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
gentleman his question tempts me to go down a number of routes and | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
answering him. What I would say is I recognise the importance of his | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
local hospital trust. I'm pleased to say that over the last six years | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
we've seen more doctors and nurses in that trust able to provide more | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
services and more facilities and since 2010 the capital spend on the | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
trust has already gone up. ?72.7 million. We will be looking to | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
ensure we provide the health service that is right for everyone in this | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
country. At the moment there rather AET | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
vulnerable elderly patients in Kettering General Hospital awaiting | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
delayed transfer to social care. The national guideline says there should | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
be 25. In the next few weeks the number is likely to rise to 200, the | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
highest in the country, with a similar number in Northampton | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
General Hospital, because of proposals by Northamptonshire County | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
Council to extend it from three days to four weeks. In order to prevent | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
this crisis, will the Prime Minister organise a joint meeting of | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
government and ministers, the local NHS and Council to bang heads to | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
prevent this crisis happening? What I will say to my honourable friend | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
is ensure the health Department is aware of the request he has put | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
forward. Everybody I think in this house is well aware of the challenge | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
we have in relation to the interaction of social care with | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
hospitals. This is an issue we have already looked at. We've put money | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
into the better care fund. We've been looking at the better working | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
together of health services and social care and social services and | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Local Authorities. It is one of the challenges we see. There are some | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
areas where this has been done very well and I think it's right we look | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
at those and try to spend, spread that good practice. I will make sure | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
the health Department is aware of that concern. | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
Nine months after signing the Paris climate agreement the Government | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
still hasn't ratified the treaty. According to the committee on | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
climate change it lacks half the policies it needs to reach its | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
climate targets. With the delayed carbon induction plan and the risk | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
of missing our energy targets, or will the Prime Minister take this | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
opportunity to reassure people it remains committed to climate action | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
and follow the example of 26 states that have ratified, will it give us | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
a firm date for ratification before the follow-up negotiations in | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
November. What I'm happy to give the honourable lady is the assurance we | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
will be ratifying the Paris agreement. My right honourable | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
friend, the current Home Secretary, then as energy secretary, played a | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
key role in ensuring that Paris agreement was actually achieved. I | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
would also hope the honourable lady will want to congratulate the | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Government. We've been identified as being the second best country in the | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
world for tackling climate change. I would have hoped she would have | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
congratulated us on that. Today is the day designed to bring | :08:40. | :08:48. | |
attention to the muscle wasting disease. Will the Prime Minister | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
join me in welcoming the recent announcement that a drug is now | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
going to be available to these young boys in NHS England and will she | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
congratulate my constituent Archie hill, Mustard dystrophy UK and all | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
the colleagues in this house. -- muscular dystrophy. I am very happy | :09:11. | :09:19. | |
to join my right honourable friend in congratulating all of those | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
involved in making sure this innovative drug available. I thank | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
her for weight raising awareness of an important issue. I know the right | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
honourable member for Whitney as Prime Minister met Archie, the young | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
man with muscular dystrophy and was inspired by him. I am sure all | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
members across this house will welcome the fact that this | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
innovative drug is now available on the NHS. We are committed to making | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
sure that patients with rare conditions get access to the latest | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
medicines and are taking some bold steps to speed up the process. Will | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
the Prime Minister join me, and I'm sure the rest of the House, in | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
sending our deepest sympathy and sincere condolences to the family | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
and friends of Roseanne Cooper and her ten-year-old nephew, who were | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
mown down by a stolen car last week in Penge. And send best wishes to | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
the three young girls also involved. Whilst enquiries by the police and | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
the Independent Police Complaints Commission are undertaken on the | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
matter is now before the courts, I will say no more about this specific | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
case, other than to ask the Prime Minister, if she is aware of the | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
widespread public concern that the law on causing death by dangerous | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
driving is wholly inadequate, and will she undertake a review, both of | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
its suitability and its applicability as the courts enact | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
it? Can I first of all join the | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
honourable member in expressing our sympathies to all those who were | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
involved in this terrible accident that took place, this terrible | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
tragedy, when this stolen car mowed down two people and affected others | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
as well. I'm aware of the concern that there is about the law in | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
relation to dangerous driving. I've had a particular case about the | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
daughter of someone in my constituency, who was killed as a | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
result of dangerous driving and they have raised concerns with me | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
specifically about their case. This is a matter I believe the Justice | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
Department is looking at. Order. I thought Jeremy Corbyn might well | :11:26. | :11:43. | |
go on the continued sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, after the war | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
continues in Yemen and the abuse of human rights, but that was not to be | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
the case. Jeremy Corbyn went on housing, using all six questions on | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
house prices and house-building, housing benefit, very important | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
subject, but not one right on the agenda. Since foreign affairs did | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
not feature as it really does in Prime Minister's Questions, we have | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
big news out of Texas. The Dallas morning News has endorsed Hillary | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
Clinton for president in November. That is big news because the Dallas | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
morning News has not endorsed a Democrat since 1945. 1944, to be | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
exact. We will see what our panel thought of PMQs in a moment. Martin | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
Jamieson said from Stockport said, housing, housing, I know it is | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
important, but Brexit, G20, the future of the nation, Jeremy, anyone | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
in? This one says it is good to see Jeremy Corbyn is in June with the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
needs of vulnerable people and their housing predicament stashed tune. It | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
is good that he sticks to real issues. Martin Bristow says he | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
doesn't know how Jeremy Corbyn is going to get any traction and he | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
seems to be suggesting social housing is the answer to the housing | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
crisis, but he is not speaking to a big enough constituency to win a | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
general election. Another one says I see the prime in a star has already | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
resorted to ridicule of her opposite number -- the Prime Minister has | :13:27. | :13:35. | |
already resorted. Another one says, Theresa May says people voted for | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
some control, but we wanted control, what does she mean by it some | :13:40. | :13:49. | |
control? That is it. Any reason for going for housing? We are hardly | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
likely to see big headlines about what Jeremy Corbyn raised in Primus | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
's questions even though housing is a big issue and it has always been | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
one of his favourite subjects -- raised in Prime Minister's | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
Questions. But given that Parliament is just back in Theresa May is back | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
from China and there are questions about leaving the European Union, | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
picking housing is not going to land Jeremy Corbyn with a huge boost in | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
terms of the political cycle, it's just not. He ignored the advice of | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
Owen Smith. Funny, that. He wanted him to ask questions about Europe | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
and Brexit. Maybe he avoided that because, if Theresa May was a | :14:38. | :14:50. | |
reluctant remain campaigner, so was Jeremy Corbyn, times two. That is | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
right. There might be another opportunity for Jeremy Corbyn to ask | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
questions about Brexit next time, but maybe he won't. Angus Robertson | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
was the person asking the questions about the trade-off between the run | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
it and the freedom of movement. -- between the single market. Which she | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
couldn't quite answer. It was interesting, Angus Robertson asking | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
the biggest question of the day. Rather than Jeremy Corbyn. He | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
ploughed his own furrow. But in terms of getting traction, he didn't | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
get far. He chose to go with housing with all six questions and you would | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
assume he would do all his homework on housing. Why did he allow the | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
Prime Minister to save the Conservatives were building more | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
homes than Labour? -- to say. Jeremy Corbyn was correct to focus on one | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
topic and it keeps the pressure on Theresa May, the Conservatives have | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
failed on housing, but what I thought was so good about the | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
questions, it linked what happens in Parliament what happens in people's | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
constituencies. MPs with their weekend surgeries, I know housing is | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
usually the biggest issue that comes up. I understand that. But if you | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
have done your homework and if the Prime Minister says something which | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
is believed not to be true, why would the Leader of the Opposition | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
not come straight back? Why does he simply move on to the next question? | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
Why does he not replied to the replies he gets? Why doesn't he | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
think on his feet? I think he does, but he doesn't want to get involved | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
in the kind of tit-for-tat political theatrics which goes on. Theresa May | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
really delivered very well pre-scripted joke about trains but | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
doesn't interest people. Yes, that is the work of a scriptwriter, but | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
I'm talking about house-building. Do you believe the government is | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
building more homes than the last Labour government? No, I don't, | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
there is a crisis can we have reached a situation where getting a | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
council house or a mortgage is a pipe dream for so many people. What | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
would you do about it? We need house-building programme of council | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
houses and truly affordable homes. How would you do that? We need to | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
get the economy moving by investing and we need to put as a priority | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
truly affordable homes. The way they are defined at the moment is the 80% | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
of the market value and that is not affordable for most people watching | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
this programme. It is untrue to say, David Gauke, that the government is | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
building more homes than the last Labour government? They are building | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
more council homes. That is not what she said. In terms of | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
house-building, following the crash there was a significant fall but | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
we're now seeing a recovery terms of more planning permission being | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
granted and more homes starts as I understand it. But there is more | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
work to be done, as I acknowledge. You are not building more homes in | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
the last Labour government. I have got the figures. Sticking with | :18:26. | :18:35. | |
completions. Early 2000, 140,000 houses a year, not enough, no one is | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
saying the last Labour government's policy regarding housing was great. | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
It then came down after the crash. Under the Conservatives it has | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
stayed flat, only by 2014 did it start to rise and only now after you | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
have been in power for six years, 140,000, you are still 20,000 below | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
per year where it was under the last Labour government. These are your | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
official government figures, so it is not true to say you are building | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
more homes than the last Labour government. It is true to say that | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
we are building more homes than the level we inherited when we came to | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
office. You inherited a crash. Yes, there is more for us to do, that is | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
why we had one of the biggest housing packages in the last Autumn | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
Statement. In terms of our ambition on things like right to buy... In | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
the last 12 months you have only started 140,000 more homes and you | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
are still way below the start rate of 180,000 before the crash. Eight | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
years since the crash and you are still way behind even the starting | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
of new building than you were compared to the Labour government in | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
2008. Not a great record. In terms of planning permission being | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
granted. It is not showing up in the starts. I'm quite happy to | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
acknowledge that there is more that we need to do. There was a big | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
announcement with the Autumn Statement last year in terms of a | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
number of things and that will not come through immediately. When will | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
it come through? We would hope to see that over the next few years, | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
but that depends upon the state of the economy. As Theresa May was very | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
clear, we are not complacent, there is a need to do more. We have made | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
reforms to the planning system which was the biggest problem we have. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
Just today we are publishing a planning Bill which will make | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
further house-building easier. There is progress which we are making. Let | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
me come back to this issue regarding the Brexit timetable. You have | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
briefings with G20 and you are mixing with government ministers. Do | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
we have any clear idea of what will happen between now and the New Year? | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
Article 50 will not be triggered this side of the New Year, I | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
understand. Can it go beyond the first quarter? It is very difficult | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
to imagine that it will be a case that we are sitting here at Easter | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
and nothing has happened, because the political pressure will make it | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
on tenable and I think by the time you get to party conference that the | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
Prime Minister will give more detail about what she plans to do. -- on | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
tenable. Although Jeremy Corbyn did not go on this, there was question | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
after question from various MPs about universities, Angus Robertson | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
talking about the single market and immigration, so she will have to | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
reveal her hand. She was a time and again that is not what they want to | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
do, but ambition and political reality often smashed up against | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
each other, she has three ministers who are not exactly wallflowers who | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
are in charge of this will stop or best friends. The idea that they can | :22:05. | :22:13. | |
all keep their powder dry for five months seems for the birds. Someone | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
said they will have to invent a new whipping system for those three | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
ministers to make sure they behave. There is a serious point. You can't | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
deal with a vacuum in politics for very long time. OK, we will leave it | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
there. The other 27 members of the European Union will be meeting next | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
week to discuss their own negotiating positions. Formerly we | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
will not be in the room, but informally it is a different picture | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
-- formally. And elections next year in France and Germany. Thanks for | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
joining us. So Party Conference season | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
is round the corner, Yes, it is the time that politicians | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
like to release their memoirs. So which will be the best sellers | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
of the season? The Guardian's John Crace | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
has been having a read. First up we have | :23:08. | :23:19. | |
Nick Clegg's Politics. This is the story of basically how | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
Nick Clegg thinks the Lib Dems were Let's hope that their seven | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
remaining MPs buy the book. Next we have Malcolm Rifkind's | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
Power And Pragmatism. This one is very much | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
for the political nerd only. He also omits his most recent claim | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
to fame, which is being caught in a sting | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
over cash for access. Now we come to Chris Mullin which | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
is my own particular favourite. He is also one of the few | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
politicians who is able And finally we come | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
to Ed Balls's Speaking Out. The underlying subtext | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
of the book is that Ed Balls But the two biggest stars | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
of the political season The first is Margaret Hodge, | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
who was chair of the Public She was famous for holding the rich | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
and powerful to account. So let's hope that the lawyers | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
and his editors haven't got to him. And let's hope our next guest is | :24:35. | :24:45. | |
equally indiscreet. And Andrew Gimson, who's latest book | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
The Adventures of Boris Johnson, Welcome to the Daily Politics. Your | :24:51. | :25:00. | |
book is an updated version of Boris, the adventures of Iris Johnson. | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
Three tremendous surprises that basically no one predicted. The | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
referendum result, then Boris in pole position, knocked out by the | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
very person he had been campaigning with the six months and then people | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
thought he might scrape back into the Cabinet if he was lucky and | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
Boris as Foreign Secretary. The most exciting political summer in living | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
memory. What was your take on it, because it was incredible? My take | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
is Boris has benefited. Boris and Theresa May needed each other. Which | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
ever one won, the other one had to be in there at the top, because | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
otherwise the Tory party would be permanently split into these two | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
factions. There was an interest between them that did not emerge, | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
but they were in touch the weekend after the referendum and Boris... | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
Michael Gove made the decision from Boris, you can't win. Boris had the | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
guts to retreat, as though he was scorned. We did the prudent thing, | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
didn't fight to the death. He didn't. How many books do think you | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
will sell of this tumultuous summer? I would think well into double | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
figures! Ten? LAUGHTER Customer I could buy one it 11. More | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
than Malcolm Rifkind's memoirs. People want Boris to sign it and say | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
it's rubbish. The attraction of writing a political book in this | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
instance was obvious, a bit like the opening days of the coalition. But | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
generally, what is the attraction of writing a political book that is not | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
really going to get red? Vanity, that's why people buy books. Is that | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
it? No but mostly. My wife informed me on a number of occasions I was on | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
the cusp of becoming an old and forgot and unless I thought I'd | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
start writing books. May be that is for me! The BBC is fortunately still | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
a well funded organisation. That is not the only reason. Is it all about | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
serialisation? It's not. The author is quite annoying in a way. Isn't | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
that what really promotes it? What's in the book is much more than what | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
can be serialised. Serialisation, although it is nice if you get paid | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
money for Anya pleased by the attention, if you care about the | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
book it's sort of a distraction. Which book looking at this little | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
selection are you going to read? From this handsome choice of | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
books... Ed Balls' autobiography? It is here. I will have a read of that | :27:56. | :28:04. | |
one. Very loyal. And you? The same. Having been in the opposite Treasury | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
team for many years I would be very interested to read what Ed Balls has | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
to say. A lighter celebrity memoir, it might be quite good! Ken Clarke | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
will be wonderful, I think. Thank you for coming in. | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
There's just time to put you out of your misery and give | :28:25. | :28:26. | |
David press that big red buzzer there and pick the winner. | :28:27. | :28:38. | |
Mark Lynch from Huddersfield. Well done, you have won the mug. | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
The one o'clock news is starting over on BBC One now. | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
Joe will be on her own tomorrow. And with Ed Balls. He has a book to | :28:50. | :28:58. | |
plug, that's why he's coming on. Goodbye. | :28:59. | :29:00. |