12/10/2016 Daily Politics

Morning folks - welcome to the Daily Politics.

The people have spoken but what kind of parliamentary scrutiny should

Should the right of EU citizens to continue to live in the UK

after we leave be a bargaining chip in Brexit negotiations or should

the British Government say that they are welcome

And they're back - after a three-week break -

Theresa May will face Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs.

And they are great at soaking up countless pints of lager

but could the trusty kebab also be a health food?

I wouldn't know! Certainly doesn't look it!

CHUCKLES All that in the next 90 minutes

of the very finest public And with me for the duration today

two pictures of health who I'm sure have never touched a kebab -

nor downed countless pints of lager - the Agriculture Minister,

George Eustice and - recently returned to

Jeremy Corbyn's front bench - the Shadow Work and Pensions

Minister, Jack Dromey. Welcome to you both. Morning.

Morning. Now - Labour has posed

170 Brexit questions - one for every day until Theresa

May's deadline for triggering Article 50 - that cover everything

from the economy to immigration, They've also tabled a Commons motion

- which will be the first set piece Commons debate on Brexit -

calling for proper Parliamentary Labour's motion calls for a "full

and transparent debate on the Government's plan for leaving

the EU" and "proper scrutiny" in Parliament before

Article 50 is triggered. The Government usually vote down

opposition motions like this. But instead they have tabled

an amendment adding that parliamentary scrutiny must "respect

the decision of the people" and not undermine the Government's

negotiating position. Was this designed to see off

a rebellion by Conservative MPs? One Labour source said last night

that the Government "didn't have the votes" to defeat

the opposition motion. The Government only has a slender

majority in the House of Commons, winning a majority of 12 at the last

General Election. In practice Theresa May has

a working majority of 16 - that's because the four Sinn Fein

MPs don't take up their seats. But 184 of her Conservative MPs

campaigned for Remain. And roughly three quarters

of all MPs were in favour of staying 475 declared for Remain

and 158 for Leave. Could some seek to defy

the will of the Government - and arguably the electorate -

by voting down legislation designed Thanks, Joker. George Eustice and

Jack Dromey are in the studio and we are joined by Conservative MP

Stephen Phillips in the Central Lobby, who campaigned for Brexit but

now calls for more Parliamentary scrutiny of the government's plans.

Ucog for a debate before Article 50 is triggered. What do you want MPs

to agree before the negotiations? -- you called. The government has a

clear mandate from the British people to take the United Kingdom

out of the European Union. What the government doesn't have is a mandate

to the particular form Brexit will take so it needs to come to this

place, which is actually where the sovereignty of this nation is

invested and discuss and debate with those who are here on behalf of

their constituents precisely what form they think Brexit should take.

There is no doubt Brexit will happen, that's what the Prime

Minister has said and what the majority of British people voted for

Gore albeit by a slim majority. But the question is, what form will

Brexit take? The government must come here and ask Parliament. So you

want Parliament to decide what form Brexit should take?

The government needs to lay a substantive motion before the House

of Commons saying these are the broad thrusts of what we are seeking

to achieve in the negotiations. We want, for example, to retain

membership of the single European market, we want to regain control

over our own borders which was something that was so important to

so many people. This is what we want to achieve. Do you as Parliament

agree that is the former Brexit which the country once and are we

moving in the right direction? How do you retain membership of the

Single Market and gain control over your own borders? Those two things

are completely contrary. I don't agree, we are the fifth largest

economy in the world, we speak English, we are in the middle of the

world in terms of time zones, we are one of the permanent members of the

Security Council. We know all of that. Can you name me one country

that is a member of the Single Market that has control over its

borders? I cannot, Andrew but we are saying we are in a position where we

are in a position where we can negotiate a bespoke deal for the

British people and that's the Government's position and what

Parliament needs to do is have some say in what that bespoke deal should

be about and that is all this is about at the moment, the sovereignty

of this institution. What would happen if Parliament voted against

triggering Article 50? I don't see how Parliament can vote against

triggering Article 50. Parliament is here to serve the will of the people

and the will of the British people is clear, majority of them wanted to

leave the European Union. What is not clear is what the British people

wanted in terms of the Brexit that the Government will negotiate and

that's why the government has to come here to the sovereign body and

ask parliamentarians on behalf of their constituents what form our

future relationship with the European Union should take.

Explained to me, the Government comes forward with the broad

outlines of its negotiating position and the Commons doesn't like them

and votes against them. What happens next? May be the Government must

think again and seek a mandate direct from the British people to

approve its position. They have a mandate called the referendum. The

referendum gives the Government mandate to take the United Kingdom

out of the European Union but does not give any mandate to decide what

those terms are without coming to Parliament. The campaign to leave

was clear on a number of things. You can agree or disagree on them but

the campaign was clear they wanted to leave because they didn't want

the European Court of Justice to apply anymore to us. They wanted

full control of our borders. They wanted freedom to make free trade

deals as an individual nation, not part of the EU Customs union. That

in itself sets the parameters for what the negotiating position will

be if the government is to live up to what the people voted for on June

the 23rd. You started that sentence with the campaign to leave wanted

these things. Not everybody was a campaign am a member of the campaign

to leave, I wasn't I didn't agree with a lot of what they said and I

thought the campaign itself was divisive, xenophobic and full of

untruths but there are many people in this country who voted for a

variety of reasons. They didn't necessarily vote for the reasons

that the official Leave campaign was advancing. What bit of the three

things I've just given you did the people vote Democratic to leave not

vote for? I will tell you what I voted for. I'm asking about the

people. They did not vote to get out of the European Court of Justice,

for our own free-trade deals and vote for the end of free movement of

people? I don't know. Unless you've been and asked the 17.2 million

people what their views were and why they voted as they did you don't

know the answer to that question. I do, the exit polling is quite clear

on this. A large number of people voted for the same reason I do, you

should be about to throw out of office the people who make the rules

by which you live your life, in other words about sovereignty.

That's why I voted as I did and I didn't vote to remove the tyranny of

the European Commission and restore the sovereignty of this place for

the government then to ignore that sovereignty and not come and ask

members of Parliament what they think about this. Stephen Phillips,

thank you for joining us. George Eustice, how many of your colleagues

feel the same way? Not many and I think Stephen is overreacting

because the truth is Parliament will debate this issue ad infinitum for

the next six months. We have two debates today, one on the European

medical agency, we have one on the effect of tourism, I'm facing Defra

questions tomorrow. But will it get a vote on the shape of our

negotiating position? Will it get to vote on the broad parameters of our

negotiating position? The point is there will be a role for Parliament

to have lots of debates. You have said that but my question was

specific. Will Parliament have a role in voting for the broad

parameters of the Government's negotiating position. We were when

we have the great repeal bill, a huge bill that will go through

Parliament and they will be endless debate on every single line of that

bill. That's not about our negotiating position, that is to get

us ready in British law for when we leave. It doesn't tell us anything

about our negotiating position. This is a huge negotiation and the truth

is you have to be clear about where the role for the executive lies and

I believe the executive needs to be free. We have a cabinet system of

government. So they will not get a vote? It is an executive privilege?

Trigger Article 50 and the negotiations that come there after

are an issue for the executive but there will be Parliamentary

scrutiny. I understand that but you've said they will not get a

vote. Will they get a vote to approve what the Brexit deal is?

They will because we have the great repeal Bill that brings these things

through. The great repeal Bill does not cover the terms of our

departure. It will not tell us what our relationship is with the Single

Market all with the European Court of Justice and it won't tell us what

the control of our borders is or isn't. That's not what the repeal

bill is about, that is what Brexit is about. Will they get a vote on

the deal if and when it is done? Parliament will decide what it wants

to debate and the terms of the motion to bring forward. Is it

government policy to give them a vote on that or not? We have a

debate taking place this afternoon. Debate, debate. They will be a vote

on that. Willie Bain executive to carry out this negotiation. What

people are missing is once we have left the union and re-established

control here people will be able to change things in future. They will

not be able to change the terms of our Brexit. They will because this

will not be set in stone. They will do a deal and then rip it up? If the

Labour Party decided they wanted a different approach to immigration in

future and have a more liberal approach and more freedom of

movement it would be for them to put that in the manifesto and put it to

the British people. That is control of your laws, that is the crucial

thing. Jack Dromey, these 170 questions, good luck, I've asked

about ten. And had no answers. 170. If the Government were to answer

them in any kind of detail we would be telling the European Union are

complete negotiating position. Why would you do that? There are some

key questions that require an answer. The people of Britain have

spoken and we have to respect their decision. I may regret that

personally, I may agree with Stephen that it was a disreputable and

dishonest Leave campaign but they have spoken. What we need is a

Brexit for working people and not a Brexit at breakneck speed driven by

the internal divisions within the Conservative Party that betrays the

British economy, British workers. My question was about your 170

questions. You expect the Government to answer 170 so why don't you

answer might one, which is if they answered all 170 they might as well

just pass all of the negotiating papers to the European Union? Let's

take two practical examples. First of all, it has to be an objective

that we must secure access to the Single Market. I've got the Jaguar

plant in my constituency, doubled in size in the last six years,

transform the lives of thousands of workers. There is deep concern in

the automotive sector about what happens next, and therefore in

global companies that make long-term decisions about investment they need

to be confident that we will be in the Single Market. I understand that

but the whole world has access to the Single Market. Even North Korea

has access. The question is on what terms. Do you think it is

Parliament's job to determine for government what these terms should

be? I think it's absolutely right that the people of Britain having

spoken that we hold the Government to account so that the British

national interest is then safeguarded in what will be

difficult negotiations. Of course. On the issue of access to the Single

Market it is key that we don't have tariffs erected in circumstances

where in excess of half of the cars that we produce in this country are

exported into the European Union. Let me give you another example.

Workers' rights. I do not believe the warm words from Conservative

ministers who say workers' rights are safe for the future and that too

we want clear beyond any doubt and it's right that Parliament calls the

government to account. Keir Starmer has done a great job on that. When

you have control of your own legislation on workers' rights you

can do what you like in future, you have not got to go cap in hand to

the EU, you can just put it in your manifesto. On that point, if I draw

upon my own history, I was the one who took the case of the Eastbourne

this meant to be European Court of Justice to get TUPE extended to

cover the public sector because your government, Mrs Thatcher's

government, denied coverage for ten years. In future you just need to

form a majority government and do it. Let me ask you this, Jack

Dromey. Izzard Labour's policy, or do we know what Labour's policy is,

to remain a member of the Single Market? -- is it Labour's policy. We

need the negotiation about the exact mechanisms. Is it a policy that we

should remain a member of the Single Market? We must remain a member of

the Single Market so that we have access to the Single Market because

that's in the best interests of British employers and workers. If we

are a member of the Single Market we are subject to the jurisdiction of

the European court command as the Tory MP who couldn't answer either,

every member of the Single Market is subject to freedom of movement and

the three movements. So essentially we are still a member of the

European Union. We'll leave the European Union, the

question is upon what terms. It has free movement. It has free movement.

It is a member of the single market and has free movement, and although

it has a separate court, the court it is subject, to its case study is

entirely determined by the ECJ. Let's take that very difficult issue

and it is a difficult issue. Two things collide. On the one hand the

need of the British economy, the automotive, care sector, National

Health Service. The revelations yesterday that the NHS in London

would be in crisis without migrant workers but we cannot ignore the

discontent being expressed by millions, let me finish, and

therefore, we have to ensure that no-one is left behind in future and

Kier was right when he said last Sunday - if you ensured in post

industrial communities no-one was left behind, you would reduce demand

for migrant Labour. Let me check S it the policy of Jeremy Corbyn and

John McDonnell, that Britain remains a member of the Single Market The

precise terms are to be negotiated. You are either a member or you are

not. The precise terms and the title you use are to be negotiated but we

must have tariff-free access to the Single Market or that will damage

the British economy. You could have that with a free trade agreement.

But you wouldn't be a member. Government have to come before

Parliament and ultimately a decision made that we can hold the Government

to account over, whereby our companies, like Jaguar Land Rover,

plan for the future, confident we will have access to the Single

Market, tariff-free. I'm still not sure if either the Government or the

opposition thinks we should remain a member of the Single Market. We will

try to find out. We are running out of time. It is the key distinctions,

if the Single Market is the beating heart, it would seem to some people

that we haven't left the EU Ultimately, I know Jaguar workers

what they will want to know - can they continue secure in their jobs

because their employer can export into the continent of Europe.

Now, what should happen to EU citizens currently living

Should they be able to stay or should that depend

on whether the rights of British citizens living in

It's a question that Theresa May was asked earlier this week.

The relationship will be different in future

because we won't be members of the Union

but I want the agreement that we come to, to reflect the kind of

mature, co-operative relationship that close friends and allies have.

As part of that, I expect to be able to guarantee the legal rights of EU

nationals already in the UK, so long as the British nationals

living in Europe in the countries who are Member States of the EU,

We're joined now by Tim Martin who runs the Wetherspoons pub chain

and campaigned to leave the EU but is now calling

for an unequivocal statement from Government guaranteeing

Welcome to the programme. Thank you. Why are you so keen to give up the

one key bargaining chip the UK has in these negotiations? Well, I don't

think that's the key bargaining chip. The key bargaining chip is

that we are a very big economy. We are the number one buyer of

champagne in the world. We are a huge buyer of German cars. So the

trading relationships are our major chip. But it is also a bargaining

chip. Even the UK's most senior UK diplomat and he is a man who knows,

he says "Withholding right for EU citizens to stay in the UK, it is

one of the few cards we have in the negotiations." Surely he is right on

that I do a lot of negotiating every week for 35 years, negotiating with

suppliers and other people. I wouldn't like to adopt that

approach. I think a better approach for us to adopt is to say the EU

citizens here now work very hard, they have done well, they have come

here for the best motives and they are good citizens as well as being

good workers. So they should be allowed to stay on that basis. We

think, as well, that British people abroad should also be allowed to

stay but if they are not, we are still going to allow the other ones

to stay because it is the right and moral thing to do George would

probably disagree. Let's hear what he has to say. Everything Tim Martin

has said, do you sign up to? Everything except the last bit as he

predicted. Theresa May, as far as she can be clear on what she

intends, she wants to guarantee rights here and fully expects to be

able to. It is important it is re-Ciproicated. It is a common sense

thinking, you have British citizens in other European countries, we want

to do the right things, but it should be returned. We have to

respect that the European Union gets in a hawkish position, careful about

this, and do these things method Klein carefully. Should she be

clearer and guarantee 1 #4u7d %, which David Davis was quoted as

saying, to EU nationals, that their right to remain will not be put at

threat at all? Well, I think she's got, if you look at what she said,

she fully expects to be able to, it is what she wants to. I think she's

keeping open the option to go through this negotiation. The

problem with that, a secondary school, very diverse in my

constituency on the Friday after the Thursday, there were several young

people, sixth formers, with European Union national backgrounds, who were

in tears. Will I, they were saying to the headmaster, be sent home? I

have had these questions time and time again that's y Tim, I think you

are right, the position - that's why, Tim, the position we should

take, it is almost a multicultural stance, let's be clear about this,

they will able it stay and we expect the rest of the European Union to

follow that example. That's pretty much what she said. I

wouldn't assume the UK would be a pushover. If they said we are going

to round up - and this is what it boils up to - we are going to round

up all the Brits living in the Dordogne. But it has been applied,

from Spain, that all the British retirees could be at threat. But

again, playing with people's lives as you say. Can we afford as a

country to say - well, whatever they do in the European Union, we won't

play that game? You are negotiating, I am negotiating this point. We all

know that there is no circumstances, under the sun, in which we are going

to get a truck and go around and pick up the fantastic Polish workers

and take them back, nor are the Spanish. That's the reality. I take

your point Theresa May is right to say this should happen but at the

end of the day, people are going to stay in both. In a way, why are you

surprised by this happening, why would you be surprised that EU

citizens could be used as a bore gaining chip. You campaigned for

leave, if you were so worried about the fate of some of your workers or

EU nationals in general, why did you campaign to leave when they talked

about doing this. Well, we are a dome crasscy. I campaigned - a

democracy, I campaigned saying I think we should make all our own

laws in this country but successful economies need immigration.

Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, America, and Britain. I don't like

the fact that unelected people in Europe are making decisions on our

approximate behalf. In the future we have to decide our own future. -- on

our behalf The people who are here now, I haven't got an issue with,

barring a couple. Well expectations have been raised, apart from your

personal opposition expectations have been raised which includes the

state of EU nationals, particularly those who have been here a year or

two. I have spoken a lot around the country. I have not met anyone who

said - they have got to go home. Who is campaigning. But there might be

some nutter somewhere. You acted in good faith. By the way I'm a proud

son of immigrants, my dad came from county cork to dig roads and my

mother trained as a nurse. Me too. What was disreputable about the

campaign, people like Boris Johnson, talking about unless we leave,

Turkey will come. We have had a rise in race crime. That's wrong, they

acted disreputably. In terms of being divisive. Amber Rudd's speech,

which was picked up and reported on and then the Home Office backtracked

on the idea of a register of foreign workers, wanting to see lists of the

number of their employees, who were EU nationals or from abroad. Was

that wrong to even raise that issue of a register? I think it was

overinterpreted and exaggerated. All that Amber Rudd was saying s if we

want to do, what we do want to do, which is to try to fill the skills

gaps more with people who live in the country, our own domestic

workforce, we need a better understanding of the particular

sectors and companies where they are heavily reliant on it. Why was there

a backtrack on it? Why is it not going to be published? She was just

saying, it was floated a as an idea, maybe in a consultation, that they

may ask companies to provide this information to help inform

Government thinking, nothing more of that. George raises the point of

British skills and British works gaps what steps are you making to

employ more British workers? We don't have to take any steps. I

surveyed 100 most recently opened pushing they were 95% born in the UK

it would be less in Rondon. British workers are great. They work very

hard. They are completely one-to-one with foreign workers. So we have

award-winning training schemes, etc. If we don't do, that we won't have a

good business. Are you worried about what might happen to immigrant

labour in your business if it is curtailed? I'm worried about the

future of the UK. I think we need a gradually rising population, as time

goes by, controlling our own borders but aproving numbers of immigrants

for jobs we need and they've been mentioned here. Tim Martin, thank

you. Now, word reaches us

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unwelcome development for most people outside of SW 1.

But for those of us unfortunate enough to spend a lot

of time here in Westminster, clown sightings are nothing new.

In fact, I'm told that the area in and around the Palace

of Westminster apparently has the highest concentration of clowns

Who has done this research? Who would have thung it? I did on the

way in. Anyway, if you're a little creeped

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Yes, Prime Minister's Yes. Tell us what is happening about

Brexit votes, Article 50, Single Market, in, out, shake it all about?

Here is an interesting thing. Without mentioning any clowns. I

think it is a month since the last Prime Minister's Questions, more or

less. Actually in that time, I think that we have seen MPs as they return

thinking - you know what, actually we need to really start having a

role. We need to start taking a proper look at what is going on. All

the signals outside - inside Government are a bit like juggling

with knives in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen.

Nobody knows how this process is going to work. Inside Government

there is not agreement oot all on the deal they can seek. There is not

a secret plan for Brexit locked up. There never was. If If only we could

find the combination. There is disagreement about the plan. You

have seen this week, Parliament get the bit between its teeth. I Let's

go to PMQs. Coalition government gifted to the

urgent care. Bergin imposed a system of double appointments forcing

patients to have unnecessary extra consultations before surgery

boosting their profits at the expense of the taxpayer and patient

safety. Is this acceptable and what is the Prime Minister prepared to do

about it? We want to see in the provision of local services the best

services possible for local people. The Honourable Lady talks about

outsourcing services in the NHS, and I have to say to her the party that

I put greater privatisation into the NHS was not this party but her

party. Question two, closed question, Mr Michael Fabricant. 12

months ago I went to see... LAUGHTER

Thank you Mr Speaker. The West Midlands economy is in a positive

position at the moment, I'm pleased to say that since 2010 nearly 2000

more people are at work and 42,000 new businesses and saw the strength

of the economy when I was in Birmingham last week. We are giving

the West Midlands new powers with the devolution deal and the election

of a mayor and with his business and local experience he would be a good

mayor for the West Midlands. On the subject of the NHS 18 months ago my

wonderful doctor go Helen Stokes Lampard suggested I have a general

well man checkup and it's just as well that I did because the blood

test revealed that there could have been and was a problem with my

prostate, despite the fact that I was symptom-free. I was immediately

referred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham who were

simply wonderful, and after a period of surveillance I had a

prostatectomy in June, but hey, I'm now fine.

CHEERING But I want to thank the whole team

at the Queen Elizabeth including my surgeon Alan Doherty and my

excellent prostate nurse who gave me practical advice. In the next ten

years there will be a real shortage of specialist prostate and urology

nurse is, as many are due for retirement. So, may I ask the Prime

Minister, what can the Government do to avert a shortage of these

much-needed nurses? Can I say to my honourable friend

that the whole house is pleased to see him back in his position as his

normal exuberant self in this House. He raises a very serious issue. Can

I join him in commending not only those doctors and nurses and other

health service staff who treated him for his prostate cancer, but those

doctors and nurses who are at bay in and day out ensuring that as we see

actually we are having cancer survival rates at a record high. The

Government is putting more money into awareness of cancer problems

and we will look at the training of nurses. There are 50,000 nurses in

training and we will continue to make sure that the special incidents

are available to do the work necessary in the health service. --

specialisms. Jeremy Corbyn. I I hope the Right Honourable member

got the same treatment as everybody gets because we want the same

treatment for everybody in our society. Is not controversial, I'm

just wishing you well. Is that OK? Sorry to start on such a

controversial note, Mr Speaker. I do apologise. At the Conservative Party

conference the Prime Minister said she wants Britain to be a country

where it doesn't matter where you were born. But the Home Secretary

Flagship announcement was to name and shame companies that employ

foreign workers. Could the Prime Minister explain why where someone

was born clearly does matter to members of her Cabinet?

First of all, can I say to the Right Honourable gentleman,

congratulations on winning the Labour leadership election.

And can I welcome him back to his place in this house as his normal

self. Can I say to him that the policy he has just described was

never the policy that the Home Secretary announced. There was no

naming and shaming, no published list of foreign workers, no

published data. What we are going to consult on is whether we should

bring ourselves in line with countries like the United States of

America, which collect data in order to be able to ensure they are

getting the right skills training for workers in their economy. Mr

Corbyn. Mr Speaker, I most grateful to the over 3000 people -- 300,000

people who voted for me to become the leader of my party.

Which, Mr Speaker, is rather more than voted for her to become the

leader of her party. She seems to be... She seems to be slightly

unaware of what's going on. First, the Home Secretary. First, Mr

Speaker, the Home Secretary briefed that companies will be named and

shamed, the Education Secretary clarified that they too would only

be kept by government, and yesterday No 10 said it was in consultation

and the Home Secretary clarified the whole matter by saying it's one of

the tools we are going to use forced of this government has no answers,

Mr Speaker, just gimmicks and scapegoats. Yesterday we learned

that pregnant women will be forced to hand over their passports at NHS

hospitals, no ultrasound without photographic ID, heavily pregnant

women sent home on icy roads to get a passport. Are these really the

actions of a country where it doesn't matter where you were born?

Well, I've made absolutely clear about the policy the Home Secretary

set out. I would say to the Right Honourable gentleman, he raises

issues around the health service. I think it is right that we should say

that we ensure that when providing health services to people that they

are free at the point of delivery, that they are eligible to have those

services. But where there are people in this country who come to this

country to use our health service and who should be paying for it,

that the health service identifies those people and makes sure that it

gets the money from them. I would have thought that would be an

uncontroversial view. Of course, emergency care will be provided when

necessary absolutely without those questions. But what is important is

that we ensure that where people should be paying because they don't

have the right to access to free care in the health service, they do.

Jeremy Corbyn. Some of her colleagues on the smack leave aside

promised us ?350 million extra a week for the NHS. -- the leave

aside. She doesn't seem to have answers to the big questions facing

Great Britain. On Monday the secretary for Brexit when questioned

about the approach to the Single Market access replied, we need hard

data about the size of the problem in terms of both money and jobs.

They would have been much easier if he had simply asked his colleague,

the Chancellor of the Exchequer, because he would have been able to

tell him that the Treasury forecast is a 66 billion loss to the economy,

7.5% of the GDP. Can the Prime Minister now confirmed that access

to the Single Market is a red line for the government, or is it not?

Well, the Right Honourable gentleman has asked me this question before.

Yes! He says it is a simple question and I will give him the simple

answer. What we are going to do is deliver on the vote of the British

people to leave the European Union. What we are going to do is be

ambitious in our negotiations to negotiate the best deal for the

British people and that will include the maximum possible access to the

European market for firms to trade with and operate within the European

market. But I'm also clear that the vote of the British people said that

we should control the movement of people from the EU into the UK and

unlike the Right Honourable gentleman we believe we should

deliver on what the British people want. Jeremy Corbyn. Someone once

said that leaving the Single Market would risk a loss of investors in

business and risk going backwards when it comes to international

trade. That person is now the Prime Minister and that was before the

referendum. The Japanese government, Mr Speaker, the Japanese government,

Mr Speaker, wrote to her in September worried about a shambolic

Brexit. Many Japanese countries are major investors in Britain such as

Nissan in Sunderland, which has already halted its investment.

140,000 people in Britain work for Japanese owned companies. They've

made it clear that those jobs and investment depend on Single Market

access. What reassurance can she give to workers today desperately

worried about their future, their company, and their jobs?

For store I would say to the Right Honourable gentleman, that the

biggest vote of confidence that we had in Britain after referendum

campaign was ?24 billion investment from the Japanese company taking

over ARM but secondly in our negotiations what we are doing is he

doesn't seem to get what the future is going to be about. The UK will be

leaving the European Union. We're not asking ourselves what bits of

membership we want to retain. We are saying, what is the right

relationship for the UK to have for the maximum benefit of our economy

and citizens this country. The member for Broxtowe said there is a

danger that this government appeared to be turning their back on the

Single Market, which was indeed a commitment in a Conservative Party

manifesto. The reality is that since the Brexit vote the trade deficit is

widening, growth forecasts being downgraded, the value of the pound

down 16%, an alliance of the Chamber of Commerce, Confederation of

British industry, British Retail Consortium and Trades Union Congress

have all made representations to the Prime Minister demanding clarity. Is

the Prime Minister really willing to risk a shambolic Tory Brexit just to

appease the people behind her? What the Conservative Party

committed to in its manifesto was to give the British people a referendum

on whether to stay in the European Union. We gave the British people

that vote. They have given their decision. We will be leaving the

European Union and in doing that we will negotiate the right deal for

the UK, which means the right deal in terms of operating within and

trading with the European market. That's what matters to companies in

the UK and that's what we are going to be a vicious about delivering.

Jeremy Corbyn. The Right Honourable member for Rushcliffe almost always

has a mot juste to help us in these cases and he said... I want to hear

about the Right Honourable member for Rushcliffe. What he said was, in

his own inimitable way, the reason the pound keeps zooming south is

that absolutely nobody has the faintest idea what exactly we are

going to put in place. We on these benches do respect the decision of

the British people to leave the European Union.

LAUGHTER But this is a government that drew

up no plans for Brexit, that now has no strategy for negotiating Brexit

and offers no clarity, no transparency, and no chance of

scrutiny of the process for developing a strategy. The jobs and

incomes of millions of our people at stake, the pound is plummeting,

business is worrying and the Government has no answers. The Prime

Minister says she won't give a running commentary, but isn't it

time the Government stopped running away from the looming threat to jobs

and businesses in this country and the living standards of millions of

people? Unlike the Right Honourable

gentleman I'm optimistic about the prospects of this country once we

leave the European Union. I'm optimistic about the trade deals

that other countries now actively are coming to us to say they want to

do with the United Kingdom. And I'm optimistic about what power we will

be able to ensure that our economy grows outside of the European Union.

But I have to say to the Right Honourable gentleman on this issue,

Labour didn't want a referendum on this issue, the Conservatives gave

them a referendum, Labour didn't like the result. We are listening to

the British people and delivering on that result. Now the Shadow Foreign

Secretary is shouting from a sedentary position... The Shadow

Foreign Secretary wants a second vote. I have to say to her, I would

have thought that Labour MPs would have learned this lesson. You can

ask the same question again, you still get the answer you don't want.

CHEERING Thank you, Mr Speaker.

Despite several rounds of European regional development funding the

Cornish economy continues to lag around 30% below the UK average.

Does the Prime Minister agree with me that Brexit provides us with the

opportunity to develop our own economic programme that will be less

bureaucratic, more effectively targeted and offered better value

for money for the taxpayer? And will she confirmed that her government

will continue to invest in the poorer regions of our country such

as Cornwall once we leave? I thank my honourable friend and I

can give them that assurance. What I was saying at our party conference

and what I have been saying since I became Prime Minister, is we want an

economy that works for everyone, that means every part of our

country, including areas like Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

We've already negotiated a devolution deal with Cornwall,

signed in 2015, that will demonstrate that we recognise the

challenges Cornwall faces but we're open for further discussions for

Cornwall in the way we can improve their economy for the future. THE

SPEAKER: Angus Robertson. The European Commission against

racism and intolerance has found that a number of areas of concern

over political discourse and hate speech in the UK, as well as

violent, racial and religious attacks. Police statistics have

shown a sharp rise in Islam phobic, anti-Semitic and zenophobic assaults

over the past year. So, does the Prime Minister agree that all

mainstream governments and all mainstream political parties should

do everything that they can to oppose xenophobia and racism?

Hear, hearment. - Hear, hear. I have been clear from the despatch box on

a number of occasions, there is no place in our society for racism or

hate crime. It is right that the police are investigating allegations

of hate crime where they occur. I'm pleased to say as Home Secretary, I

was able to improve the recording of hate crime, bringing the

arrangements to improve that recording. We made also improving

the requirement on police to specifically record hate crime in

relation to faith, so that we see the anti-Islamphobia that has been

taking place as well as anti-Semitism and other types of

hate crime. There is no place for that in our society. We should, with

one voice, from across this chamber, make that absolutely clear and give

our police every support in dealing with.

THE SPEAKER: Angus Robertson Can I remind the Prime Minister when she

was Home Secretary, she put advertising vans on the streets

telling foreigners to go home and at her party conference, we heard her

party is wishing to register foreigners working in the UK. The

crackdown and the rhetoric against foreigners by this Government has

even led to Ukip, Ukip, saying that things have got too far.

Can I tell the Prime Minister that across the length and breadth of

this land, people are totally disgusted by the zenophobic language

on display from her Government. So, will she now confirm to this House,

will she confirm that the intention of her Government is still to go

ahead with the registration of foreign workers, but apparently we

shouldn't worry because it'll be kept secret by her Government?

Can I say very gently to the right honourable gentleman, that I

answered two questions on that earlier. And I suggest he should

have listened to the answer I gave there.

THE SPEAKER: Your moment has arrived. We have empowered local

doctors to take leadership over important reconfiguration proposals

N Shropshire, 300 doctors, surgeons and clinicians have been working on

a vatal reconfiguration of vital A services in Shropshire and waechls

when they make their decision later this month, it is very important for

Government to back them and provide the capital funding required for

this vital change to enhance patient safety.

I thank the honourable gentleman. He is raising an important point. The

configuration of services in his condition constituencicy and for

others across this House is a significant issue. A provision I'm

pleased to say we are actually seeing more people being treated in

A today. We will, of course, look at the proposals that could. The

point about the way this is being done, it is for local people to be

able to have their voice heard and for decisions to be taken that

preflect the needs in a particular local area. We all want to see A

services, they are a vital service and I would like to pay tribute to

all those who work in A hospitals across the country. THE SPEAKER: Meg

Hillier. Mr Speaker, the Public Accounts Committee and controller

and auditor general have both warned the NHS budget is not sustainable.

When is her Government going to wake up to the reality of growing demand

and avoid the political rhetoric and set a stonable NHS budget for this

year and for the future? The Government took a very simple

approach to this. We asked the NHS themselves to propose their

five-year plan for the NHS. We asked them how much money they required.

They said ?8 billion. We are giving them ?10 billion. More than the NHS

said. Funding in the NHS is at record levels.

The only place where fund money for the NHS is being cut is under a

Labour administration in Wales. A young man with Asperger's syndrome

awaits extradition to the United States facing charges of computer

hacking and is then likely to kill himself. It sounds FA he is not of

course, Gary McKinnon, who was saved by the Prime Minister but Larry Love

who faces in effect a death sentence. So when the Prime Minister

introduced a law to protect individuals, surely it would be for

all. The honourable gentleman campaigned long and hard for Gary

McKinnon. I took that decision, it was for the Home Secretary to decide

whether there was a human rights' case for an individual not to be

extradited. We subsequently changed the legal position on that. This is

now a matter for the courts. There are accept parameters that the

courts look at in terms of the extradition decision which is then

passed to the Home Secretary but it is for the courts to derment human

rights aspect of any case that comes forward much it was right, I think,

to introduce the forum to make sure there was that challenge for cases

here in the United Kingdom as to whether they should be held here.

But the legal process is very clear and the Home Secretary is part of

that legal process. THE SPEAKER: Vernon Coaker. What does the Prime

Minister say to British Steel workers who have lost their jobs, or

whose jobs are threatened, given the news that French steel is to be used

for the new replacement Trident submarines? Is that what she means

by being a party of the workers? Well, I have to say that the right

honourable gentleman that we recognise the concerns of British

Steel workers. That is why the Government has been, under my

predecessor and is continuing, to work to ensure we can do what we can

to promote and encourage and retain a steel industry here in the United

Kingdom. A number of measures have been taken. If he was in the chamber

earlier he will have heard my honourable friend setting those out

in Scottish Questions. THE SPEAKER: Mr Philip Hollobone

Doctors and nurses in Kettering hospital are treating a number of

patients with increasingly world class treatments. But despite being

located in an area of rising population and housing growth, due

to an historic anomaly, the local commissioning groups are among those

underfunded in the entire country. What can my right honourable friend

the Prime Minister do to address the situation. As my right honourable

friend says, we want it make sure that patients are experiencings the

same levels of high-quality care regardless of where they live and

work. That's why the funding for my honourable friend's local

commissioning group is being corrected this year to more

accurately reflect the level of need in local health need and it is an

investment of over ?157 million going into his area. I think that

shows the intention the Government has to ensure that we see that

health service that is working for everyone across the country but of

course we can only do that with the economy to back up that NHS.

THE Speak Dr Alasdair McConnell. The Prime Minister will be aware that a

soft border between the republic and Northern Ireland is vital in

boosting the economy of Northern Ireland. Does the Prime Minister

understand the confusion set in that many of us feel, that going forward,

on the one hand the Government has defined the intention to tightly

control free movement and labour but on the other hand, ensuring us the

border between the Northern Ireland and Republic will be hope. Does the

Prime Minister see the contradiction for many of those who are directly

affected and whose jobs are affected in that? Well, I have been clear,

the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has been clear, the

Taoiseach has also said that on both sides of the border we don't want to

see a return to the borders of the past. I think it is worth reminding

the House that actually the common travel area has been in place since

the 1920s, so it was there well before we were both members of the

European Union. We are working together with the Government of the

Republic and, obviously I have had discussions on this with the First

Minister and Deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland. We want to

ensure, as I say, that we don't see a return to the borders of the past.

Thank you, Mr Speaker, thanks to the Government' growth field a 32

million transformation of a mill in my constituency getsnd way this

week, giving a new lease of life to the largest redundant mill complex

in loan ka shimplt can I thank the Prime Minister and commend the other

bids in the late e round of the growth deal, as a great way to Mr A

country that works for everyone. Can I commend my honourable friend on

taking his opportunity in supporting the bids put from Pendle. He is

right, the money that has been put in, has enabled this growth, like

the mill, to be unlocked, as a local project. We've seen ?250 million

committed to the Lancashire local enterprise partnership and ?2.8

billion from the northern powerhouse through the growth fund and the

latest round of funding is up to ?1.8 billion with good bids coming N

we are assessing the bids, including those with Pendle and we'll be

looked at with the seriousness that my honourable friend would expect.

THE SPEAKER: This is the first Christmas that a lady will not see

her husband, they have been together for ten years and married for four

with two young children. It is evidence they are in a long term

relationship but Hayley's Turkish hospital was refused a spouse visa

because she o earns less than the Home Office target. This, I might

say, compares with the Prime Minister's own constituency, where

the medium salary was ?571. Almost ?30,000 a year.

Can I Prime Minister explain why living in my constituency means they

have a less chance of a proper family life and will she please

help? I will not comment on the individual case. I know she has sent

details in writing to me. I will make sure she gets a full rely from

the Immigration Minister in relation to the specific case. The broader

issue she raises about the income threshold for those wishing to join

a partner in the UK. What the Government did, we asked an

independent committee, the migration advisory committee to advise on the

level that that income throws hold should be at. The migration advisory

committee suggested a range of figures. We actually took the lowest

figure in that range in taking ?18,600. They recommended that

because it is the level at which a British family generally seeses to

to be able to get benefits and we believe that people coming here are

able to support themselves. ! My constituents were delighted to

learn this week Gainsborough House a unique museum and art gallery based

in the building where Gainsborough was born is to received money to

become an attraction. Will my right honourable friend join me in

congratulating the team in their success and does she agree with me n

Suffolk, if we are bold and go for devolution, we can look forward to

more of this investment in the years to come. Can I join my honourable

friend in commending all those involved in the bid at gains are you

House and the future that many people will enjoy fising it in the

future as a result of the work that is going to be able to be done. I

know the importance of the her stooge lottery fund. It supported a

gallery in my own constituency. He is right, the point about the

devolution deals is people coming together with that ambition for

their local area, they can generate that transformative investment that

he is now talking about and, of course, Suffolk is looking at the

sort of deal that they might wish to have locally.

THE SPEAKER: Ben Bradshaw. With Russian and Assad regime war planes

bombing civilians in Aleppo at an unpress departmented rate, will she

join France in calling for those responsible for these war crimes to

be referred to the International Criminal Court? And will she

reexamine, with Allies, the feasibility of a no-fly zone to

protect the Syrian people, before it is too late?

Hear, hear. Well, we are very clear that it is for the courts to decide

where a war crime has been committed. It was May 2015 when we

cosponsored a UN security resolution to refer those responsibility for

war crimes and crimes of humanity in Syria regardless of affiliation to

the national human tear court it was investigate yoked by Russia and

China. On the issue of a no-fly zone, this has been addressed and

people have looked at it for a number of years. The scenes we see

of the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent civilians are appalling. We

want to see an end to that. But there are many questions about a

no-fly zone. Actually who is it there to protect? Would it lead to

Assad bombing people in the expectation they would then move to

that zone? How would you actually enforce a safe area there? Who would

do that enforcement? There are many questions that need to be looked at

in those sorts of issues. What we all know is that the only real

solution for peace and stability in Syria, is a political transition,

and it's time Russia accepted that, that the future of Syria is a

political transition, to a stable Syria, free of Assad.

THE SPEAKER: Fiona Bruce At a high school in my constituency, the most

vulnerable pupils and their families are impressively supportive,

pursuant to the school's moat yo of - achievement for all. Will the

Prime Minister confirm that under her plans for education and in a

country which works for everyone, that parents can be assured that

there will be the right school place for their child, whatever their

ability? Well, I thank my honourable friend

and for the example that she has shown of the work taking place in

her constituency. The whole aim of the Government's education policy is

to increase the number of good school place so, parents can have

the confidence that their child will have a good school place, and they

will have the school place that is right for them.

That's why we want to see universities more involved in

schools, we want to see more faith schools being opened up, we want it

seat independent sector helping the state sector where that is sensible

and their expertise can help and yes, we do want to lift the ban,

which currently say that is one type of good new school cannot be opened,

it is I will Lille to open a new good school is that a selective

school, we want to remove that ban so people of all opportunities get

that opportunity. - it is illegal to open a new good school.

The Prime Minister appears to have made a choice, and that choice is to

side with the protectionist and nationalists who have taken over her

party, as surely - as surely as momentum has taken over the Labour

Party. She has chosen a hard Brexit that was never on anybody's ballot

paper and she has chosen to turn her back on British business in the

process. As a result - as a result, petrol prices and food retailers

have warned of huge price rises. Shouting and jeering

On supermarket shelves in the coming days. So when will she put the

interests of hard-working British people ahead of extremist

protectionism that absolutely nobody voted for.

Hear, hear. The right honourable gentleman asks about who we are

siding with. I will tell him who? We are siding with the British people

who voted to leave the European Union. And it's high time the right

honourable gentleman listened to the votes of the British people and

accepted that that is what we are going to do.

THE SPEAKER: Victoria Prentis Does the Prime Minister share my sadness

that the majority of Banbury's babies cannot currently be

delivered, as I was, in the Horton General Hospital and will she join

with me in putting any influence and any pressure we can on the Trust to

encourage them to recruit obstetricians we need to re-open our

much-valued unit? Yes, I can say that I believe every

effort is being made to fill the vacant obstetrics post test Horton

General Hospital. I understand those mothers who are having a midwife-led

delivery are still able it go to the Horton General Hospital but for

others they have to go to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Maternity services are important to people and I believe the trust is

looking to ensure it is can fill the posts. What matters is a safe

maternity service for mother and baby. THE SPEAKER: Angle eagle.

I think many people across the House will be reassured that the

Government accepted the amendment to the Opposition motion being debated

later this afternoon, which guarantees that this House is able,

properly, to scrutinise the plans for leaving the European Union

before Article 50 is invoked. Can she tell us, will that scrutiny

involve a vote? I have to say to the Right

Honourable lady, that the idea that Parliament somehow wasn't going to

be able to discuss, debate, question issues around...

LAUGHTER ... Was, frankly, completely wrong.

Let me give her some examples. First of all the Secretary of State for

Existing the European Union has already made two statements in this

House and four hours of questions followed from those. A new Select

Committee has been set up, which crucially includes representatives

from all parts of the United Kingdom, which will be looking at

the issues and only, just over a week ago, I announced thereby a

Great Repeal Bill in the next session of Parliament to repeal the

act. So the Parliament will have every opportunity to debate this

issue. THE SPEAKER: Will Quince. Thank you

Mr Speaker, every year in the UK, 3,500 babies are still born, I

commend the Government for setting the target for a 20% reduction by

the end of this Parliament and a 50% reduction by 2030 but in in this

babely loss awareness week, will the Prime Minister agree with me, we

must provide the best-quality bereavement care for those parents

who sadly lose a baby. I said to my honourable friend, he is right in

this. I'm pleased to say the Health Secretary will be attending the Boo

I why I Loss Awareness Week reception which will be held in

Parliament today and I would encourage other members to attend as

well. My honourable friend is right, the loss of a baby must be

absolutely devastating and I am aware that there are people sitting

in this chamber who have been through that tragedy in their lives.

What what is absolutely essential is the best-possible bereavement care

can be given to parents at that very, very, vulnerable and tragic

moment in their lives, which is why we have been putting money - we

introduced dedicated bereavement rooms at 40 hospitals and we are

investing more in improving birthing facilities as well, because it is an

important part but that care and counsel for people who have lost a

baby is essential and I think we all accept that.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. On the 2nd July, the Home Office were giving

details of 178 children who are still stuck in the Calais refugee

camps but had a legal right to be here in the UK with their families

who could keep them safe and protected. Given the delays in

acting, what responsibility does the Prime Minister think this Government

has to the 18 of those children who have now gone missing?

I would say to the honourable lady, far from not acting, actually the

Government has been working with the French Government in relation to

those who are in the camps. We have put extra resource into speeding up

the process of dealing with the claims that are there, for

unaccompanied children in the camps, and we have seen that process

faster, it is quirk and more children coming as a result of that.

This is alongside all the other work we are doing, in relation to

refugees and to unaccompanied minors. Of course, crucially as

well, working to ensure that we deal with the traffickers and the

smugglers, who are often in those camps and who we need to make sure

don't have access to children for the future. But we've speeded up the

process and more children are coming here as a result of that.

Thank you, Mr Speaker, tomorrow is Sendingry Breast Cancer day. I would

like to ask the Prime Minister to join with me in wishing these men

and women well but only one-third of NHS Trusts currently select the data

in this Y would she agree with me that better data collection can

inform diagnosis, treatment and the use of NHS resources across the

piece and give better outcomes for all patients? Hear, hear. I entirely

accept the point my honourable friend makes, that better

information actually gives you a greater opportunity to be able to

across these issues but can I also join with her in commending and

wishing well all those, as she says, both men and women, who have

suffered from breast cancer and who are - who have come through that, as

I know she has herself. There are others in this House in that

position but so many people across the country, and it is important

that they do get the right care to ensure that they can come through

that and see a bright future. Thank you, Mr speaker, last night n

this House, a huge number of MPs presented petitions from towns right

up and down this country. So will the Prime Minister now commit to

overturning those mistaken 2011 arrangements and provide justice and

transitional arrangements for Waspie women. The honourable lady should

know. We made changes. We committed ?11 million for those affected. 81%

of women will see increases. There will be no more than 12 months

compared to the previous timetable. The DWP after the changes in 201 #1,

informed people to the change in the state pension age and as we look

forward, women will gain from the new pension arrangements being put

in place. It has been a long-standing issue about women's

pensions and women will see better pension arrangement in the future

because of the changes that the Government has brought in.

Mr Speaker, I gather the Prime Minister gave Chancellor Merkel a

gift of wane write's coast-to-coast book outlining a fabulous walk

throughout my constituency. Is the Prime Minister awhich are that it is

not in fact an official national you trail and would she meet me with me

to for my campaign to give this national treasure, national status.

As my honourable friend knows, I enjoy walking and there are

fantastic walks across the UK I have not done the coast-to-coast yet

myself. Maybe - there isn't much time at the moment, but I have to

say to him that I think he probably knows that the decision about the

designation of the coast-to-coast is one more appropriately put to

Natural England I'm sure he will be doing all he can to lobby natural

England on this point. Mr Corbyn returned. There was a

spring in his step, not as convincing as when he last crossed

swords with Mrs May when he chose Grammar schools as the issue. The

consensus was that he clearly won that exchange but he didn't let

himself down today at all. Sometimes Mrs May was struggling to get her

answers in. It was inevitably about Brexit, about how the negotiating

position of this country, about the role of MPs, whether they should be

a vote, if they shouldn't be a vote, I'm not sure we learned anything in

the end but it was about that. We learned one thing that had nothing

to do with Brexit, when asked about a no-fly zones in Syria, to try to

protect the people currently being massacred, if it is not too strong a

word, in the latter area at the moment, it was clear Mrs May wasn't

a big supporter of a no-fly zone. She thought there were too many

difficulties and I think that's the consensus of many people, largely

because the Russians are so active in the skies as well there is a

reluctance to do that. We may talk about that and the exchange between

the two frontbenchers. John in Leeds said after watching

PMQs I feel we have a Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition who

have very few answers. Confusing policies and I can only surmise it's

the blind being challenged by the blind.

Tamina Roger says, at last, Jeremy Corbyn shows his true colours

regarding Brexit. A great pity he didn't raise his voice before the

referendum or was he keeping his powder dry?

Marjorie says I'm even more convinced we need a General

Election. Not sure that will happen. Although I'm not a supporter of

Jeremy Corbyn he is doing a stellar job of being an effective opposition

leader today. If he keeps this up he will have my vote.

Denis Evans says when will the Remainers stop whingeing and allow

the government of the day to to get on with the process of exiting the

European Union and carrying out the wishes of the Brexit masses?

There is lots of shadow boxing going on, I would suggest, at the moment.

The Government is being asked a lot of questions by Labour politicians,

by people like us in the media, that it's either not prepared to answer

or doesn't know the answer to yet, and that this is going to go on for

a while. When you turn these questions on Labour, we are in the

same position. Indeed, they don't necessarily have the answers either.

Although it is more important that the Government has the answers, the

clue is in the name. Indeed but there are all sorts of reasons for

that. First of all there isn't a common position in the Cabinet and

Theresa May is the kind of politician who genuinely wants to

look at, perhaps some people might suggest, too much of the fine detail

before making her own conclusions. There are other reasons for that

too, not least because with a two-year period of negotiation so

much of that will change over that period of time, not least the cast

of characters. Don't forget it might seem a tangent but it's critically

important the French and German elections during that time period

will mean the most powerful people on the other side of the table may

not be the people who are currently in post. Matteo Renzi in Italy could

no longer be in post. If you have been to European summits or followed

these things for some time, the crunch comes almost at the last

minute. Of course everybody in Westminster now is desperately

trying to get to the detail and desperately trying to understand

what the Government is hoping to achieve and that is why we see

Parliament trying to get there or in. The MPs are determined cross

parties with this interesting coalition between Labour, Lib Dems

and SNP coming together to put the Government on big... To get more out

of Theresa May on this. But what we hear now is a phoney war. Whatever

we hear from the Government about what they are trying to achieve, so

much may change between now and the crunch last few months of the

renegotiation. It doesn't make it pointless, far from that, it is of

course relevant to try and figure out what they are trying to do but

it is such a shifting picture. Isn't the danger for the Government that

if you leave a vacuum somebody else fills it and it's being filled by

Labour, it's being filled by some rebellious backbenchers, it will be

filled by the media, it will be filled in the end by the Commons and

maybe even by the Lords. That's the risk the Government faces. I was

press secretary for four years and I know everybody wants immediate

answers but the Government is right to say we can give a running

commentary on this. I know that you as journalists don't like that term.

This is a huge decision, the biggest decision this country has taken for

half a century and we have got to get it right. I am a minister in

Defra and we are doing a huge amount of a trade patterns, opportunities,

risks, massive amounts of analysis are being done by the civil service

but we're not ready to take final trade patterns, opportunities,

risks, massive amounts of analysis are being done by the civil service

but we're not ready to take final decisions yes. We are doing lots of

work and closer to it we will have green papers and white paper

discussions of this sort. There will obviously be the Great Repeal Bill,

there will have to be a lead up to that anyway that's an opportunity.

Negotiating position. Will the Government published a white paper

giving the broad outline of its negotiating strategy? That is quite

possible, yes. We are doing lots of work and closer to it we will have

green papers and white paper discussions of this sort. There will

obviously be the Great Repeal Bill, there will have to be a lead up to

that anyway that's an the Great Repeal Bill has a problem, it looks

neither to be Grix nor a repeal. That's EU law will cease into

British law. Interestingly George said there will be a green paper and

a white paper. This week we reported on. It writes it into British law.

Interestingly George said there will be a green paper and a white paper.

This week we reported on that in told in various parts of had been

told in various parts of, several sources have told me would be a

green had been told there would be a that has now been junked. No 10,

number as something planned early in the summer that has now been junked.

No 10, number, to use the terrible new name of we should, we to David

Davis said there is no plan for a Green Tambe. David Davis said there

is no plan for a green paper there is no there is no plan for that

clearly there are areas clearly there what would you like the

government to do? We're not asking what bits we want... What would you

like the government to do? We're not asking what bits to remain. That

cannot the debate we had, the crucial issue about the Single

Market, tariff free trade, we have to be clear that, the crucial issue

about the Single Market, tariff free trade, we have to be clear that

something we achieve. 30 countries have tariff free trade with the EU

that are not members to achieve. 30 countries have tariff free trade

with the EU that are Prime Minister from Monday of this week. Monday of

this week there will not be a vote, now there is going to the vote.

You've moved it is yet further that there might be a green Lemmy finish.

What we just heard today was a handbrake turn by the Prime Minister

from Monday of this week. Monday of this week there will not be a vote,

now there is going to be a vote. You've moved it is yet further that

there might be a or a white paper. Precisely what we need to do. The

Government, not on every single aspect negotiation, but on

objectives needs to be clear about what objectives needs to be clear

about what national interest so there can be a process of debate,

consultation, and that Parliament can't of the referendum. We have to

respect the verdict of the referendum so the Parliament on

behalf of the people can be sure that we don't have hard Brexit that

damages Britain determined to achieve in the British national

interest so there can be a process of debate, consultation, and that

Parliament can't overturn the verdict of the referendum. We have

to respect the verdict of the referendum so the Parliament on

behalf of the people can be sure that we don't have hard Brexit that

I think there is that you end the primacy of which is that you end the

country and then put in place a partnership with the EU which might

have all sorts of corporations and joint working European law and

become a sovereign country and then put in place a partnership with the

EU which might have all sorts of corporations and you will not be

subject Swiss make a payment? They are wrong to say it is a

contribution to the EU budget because it is a contribution to the

areas where you worked European law. Do the Swiss make a payment? They

are wrong to say it is a contribution to the EU budget

because it is a contribution to the areas where you worked jointly. We

do not need to take a position we do not need to take still if there were

areas where you were still working participate in schemes like that, it

is wider than the EU, it is a wider Europe issue. What is the

Government's position now on assessing the, something like

Erasmus, if you are going to participate in schemes like that, it

is wider than the EU, it is a wider Europe issue. What is the

Government's position now on assessing the percentage in a

company that position? The Prime Minister made it clear, she is

looking to consult on this area, the objective is to make sure the

government has the information it needs to be able to consider. What

is the Government's position? The Prime Minister made it clear, she is

looking to consult on this area, the objective is to make sure the

government has the information it needs to be able to consider. What

information make sure it has the information on companies heavily

reliant on immigrant it should make sure it has the information on

companies heavily reliant on and to make clear if there are areas where

you need training. It's about understanding your the time the

Downing Street briefing at the time impact on the local labour force of

the hiring pulses of particular companies. And be clear about the

proportion of the workforce that is international -- hiring policies.

They mean migrants. Clear about the proportion of the workforce that was

international. Is that the policy still? Yes, that is it, but this

isn't a name and shame... I'm not asking for... It never was that, it

was simply about the Government being able to understand about the

workforce, understand sectors particularly reliant on

international workers and to understand how we can deal with

that, whether we can fill those skills gaps with our own people. Not

that different from the policy Ed Miliband proposed in the last

Parliament. That we have at the next stage is a major emphasis on

listening to the people whose discontents led them to vote Brexit,

those left behind post-industrial areas, a major programme, ladders of

opportunity for them, without hesitation. That we go back down the

path, however, of fingering people on the basis of colour of their

skin. Nobody is saying that, Ed Miliband proposed this. Why is it

wrong for the government to propose this and not wrong for Ed Miliband

to propose it? What the government is proposing would not disgrace

Ukip. This kind of proposal is dog whistle politics. Do you know what,

it stinks and it is reminiscent of what happened during the referendum

debate when the immigration card was played. It is just rhetoric, let's

get down to the principal. This has nothing to do with that which is

obviously reprehensible. The issue is that if you find companies that

are hiring a large proportion of migrant labour, it sends you a

signal that when there is still an unemployed pool of labour in this

country that we not training people with right skills. So it would give

you an indication of where you should emphasise your efforts on

skills so that over time these jobs would be done by the unemployed

people in this country. What could be wrong with that? It goes back to

what Kier Starmer said on Sunday and I think he was absolutely right.

Just answer my question, what's wrong with that? That information is

already available, if you look at the sectoral analyses that have been

done of the care sector, National Health Service sector on the one

hand and areas of high unemployment where there are lots of people

unemployed, that information is readily available. What we do not

need, on the back of what has been a deeply divisive referendum campaign

which has seen a rise in race hate in our country, we don't want our

government to fuel that at the next stage. We have to leave it there.

Laura, thanks. Now, yesterday on the Daily Politics

we discussed the question of whether Jeremy Corbyn should have

attended a rally held by the Stand Up To Racism

organisation last weekend. Mr Corbyn had faced criticism

from some Labour Party members who argued he shouldn't attend

the rally because of what they saw as the organisation's links

to the Socialist Workers Party. During the discussion,

the Labour-supporting journalist James Bloodworth suggested that one

of the reasons for concern was that the SWP leadership had

persuaded an SWP member not to take a case of sexual

harassment to the police. The Secretary of the SWP

has since been in touch with the programme -

we are happy to clarify that the SWP They are traditionally

consumed to mitigate the ill-effects of the excessive

consumption of alcohol. Everyone does it to mitigate the

effects of alcohol. But are we missing out on the health

benefits of this Turkish delicacy. Well - Jeremy Corbyn has appointed

a new Shadow Minister for Public Health who is

a big fan of Kebabs - her name is Sharon Hodgson -

and here she is at the I, like a lot of the UK

population, love kebabs. You know, kebabs can

be quite healthy. People often think it is something

that people have after a night out but, actually, you know,

Turkish food is really, really lovely and it's far more

than just a kebab as well. They are not something

I make at home. So I would hope that I would be able

to get some recipes. I'm hoping somebody I meet tonight

might give me a recipe I'm joined now by Ibrahim Dogus,

who runs the very same British Kebab Awards -

and has brought some Let's call it that for the moment.

Aren't you lucky, lunch has been provided, feeling hungry? How is it

healthy food, because most people associate it with a treat or

something you have late at night? Is that a euphemism? For what? Nothing!

That is a perception built around late-night food, it is a stereotype.

Kebabs are a healthy food, kidnap means cooked over an open flame,

burgers, steaks, barbecue fish, they are all part of the kidnap industry.

We have chicken, lamb, vegetarian. The perception that it is unhealthy

is wrong. It's only a small part of the industry, we beyond that, much

bigger than what has been talked about. Do you think the British

kidnap awards have changed people's perceptions about this food? For the

last four years we have changed peoples perceptions and raised

standards. There are small takeaway is across the country not doing a

good job for the industry so we are tackling those issues alongside

making sure the public is aware of what is available for them as part

of a healthy diet. How did you persuade Jeremy Corbyn to present,

he is a vegetarian, to present the prize at the British Kebab Awards. I

noticed that you have brought a plate of vegetarian food. We have

been supported by the former Prime Minister David Cameron, current

Prime Minister Theresa May and many other candidate and Shadow Cabinet

members. This is about diversity, a celebration of diversity and British

enterprise and supporting small businesses across the country.

How much and how often do you eat kebabs, George? If I'm honest, the

Turn 2 Tabarrak, after being nightclubbing as a student -- the

doner kebab. You have to change the perception. I am the Minister for

food. Just to clear that up! I couldn't make the dinner they have

every March. Are you a fan? I am, during the referendum campaign in

Birmingham on a BBC programme I did what do you take away from a

takeaway kebab shop. Ask me everything you want to know. We

haven't got time for this! That is a long story. Neil Kinnock was the one

who got properly kebabbed. Let's put you out of your misery. It

was 1981. That was the answer to Guess The Year. Brian Wishart from

Glasgow. There's just time to put you out

of your misery and give The News at One is starting

over on BBC One now.