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Hello and welcome to Tuesdax in Parliament, | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
our look at the best of the day in the Commons and the Lords. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
MPs weigh up whether 16- and 17-year-olds | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
We have made as a society, L explicit comment that we do not | :00:21. | :00:42. | |
think 16 and 17-year-olds are fully formed. How long before young people | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
start to rise up? The last thing we need is more young people bdcoming | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
militant. A warning of collisions between war | :00:50. | :00:50. | |
planes in the skies above Sxria There might be a serious risk of | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
coalition. Daschle collision. And reaction in the Commons to | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
the dropping of the controvdrsial And what about the 15 million | :01:05. | :01:17. | |
already wasted on privatisation of court fines collection and secure | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
colleges? But first, another clash | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
between the Commons and the Lords, Since 1970, | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
the age at which people can vote But just over a year ago, | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
17-year-olds and 16-year-olds were allowed to vote in the Scottish | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
independence referendum. And bringing the voting age down by | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
two years is a policy now stpported Last month, members of the House of | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Lords voted to lower the voting age to 16 for the referendum on | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Britain's continued EU membdrship. But when the issue came back to | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
the Commons, the Government wasn't minded to | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
accept the decision of the Lords. With the understandable sensitivity | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
surrounding the EU referendtm, making such a fundamental change to | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
the franchise for this vote alone, but not for others, would inevitably | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
and perhaps justifiably lead to accusations of trying to fix | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
the franchise in favour of the remain or the leave | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
campaign. That's why we have chosen to stick | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
with the tried and tested, If it is good enough for choosing | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
the government of this country, then surely it is good | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
enough for the referendum, too. And we should not jiggle | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
around with it for a one-off I... Once more, and then I... | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
I'm very grateful. But on that specific point, | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
as far as I know, nobody has made any such complaint about thd result | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
of the Scottish referendum `nd I don't understand why he feels that | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
if it was done in this case, Well, I am sure the honourable | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
gentleman has people in his own party who are | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
concerned and maybe on one side when it comes to the referendum | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
itself and that campaign. Equally, my party has peopld | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
on both sides and I think that there are huge sensitivities, | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
even if they are not being voiced The Scottish Parliament has lowered | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
the voting age, so how does he justify it to one of my constituents | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
who turned 16 in the next month who will be able to vote in Scottish | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
Parliament elections in 2016, council elections in 2017 btt will | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
be denied a vote in this referendum? Well, Mr Speaker, | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
as the honourable gentleman is aware, the franchise for Scottish | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
Parliamentary elections is, rightly, But this is a decision | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
which is to be taken in this place It is not a devolved matter, | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
it is a reserved topic. It is 40 years since this issue | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
was voted on in this countrx. Major constitutional referenda are | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
a once-in-a-generation choice, about the country's future | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
direction. it is that the young people of this | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
country deserve a say in the decision which will chart | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
our country's future. This, actually, is a constitutional | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
outrage, that the superannu`ted unelected, unaccountable panjandrums | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
in the House of Lords have told us what the elected house should be | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
doing when we have a set vidw on it. They must be subservient to | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
the elected house and it is high time | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
we had House of Lords reforl. We have made, as a society, | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
an explicit comment that we don t feel 16- and 17-year-olds are fully | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
formed because if we did, we would not suggest they h`ve to | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
stay in education. We would not suggest that they | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
can't book their own sunbed. We would not suggest that they are | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
not even allowed to buy thehr own What we have found in Scotl`nd, | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
and the evidence backs it up, is that by giving the franchise to | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
16- and 17-year-olds, they remain engaged in the political process | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
beyond the age of 16 and 17. And whilst the rest of the TK may | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
have had low numbers in Westminster elections, wd had a | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
much higher number, And what worries me about this is | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
an adult will be an adult at 16 The implications of that have never | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
been seriously looked at by my own party, never had | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
any investigation of impact on children or childhood of brhnging | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
down the vote to the age of 16. This Opposition, the SNP as well, | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
have never done a proper ev`luation of the impact on children | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
and the protection of children that A young lad called Malachy told | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
me that he felt unrepresentdd. He explained that there are 1.5 | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
million 16- and 17-year-olds He went on to explain that | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
though the turnout for 18- to 24-year-olds was just above 40% | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
he told me that we needed the voices of 16- and 17-year-olds to be added | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
to this figure to make sure that I checked the stats with thd House | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
of Commons library How long will it be before | :06:01. | :06:13. | |
young people atart to rise tp? And the last thing we need hs more | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
young people becoming milit`nt. But many of my colleagues h`ve | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
called for more momentum they have opinions they want to be | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
heard. Many of us believe, | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
and I include myself in this, that for young people it is | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
a step too far to expect th`t we will extend the franchise to 16 | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
and 17-year-olds and at the same time exempt them | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
from other things. So I have not heard a Scotthsh | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
member of the SNP arguing for 16-year-olds to be membdrs | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
of Parliament, for example. To me, that is | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
the logical extension of extending the voting franchise across | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
the House to having 18-year,old And at the end of that debate, | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
MPs voted 303-253 to throw out the decision of the Lords, so rdjecting | :07:01. | :07:12. | |
giving 16- and 17-year-olds As RAF air strikes continue to be | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
mounted against the militant group Islamic State in Syria, a former | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
head of the diplomatic servhce has sounded a warning in the Hotse | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
of Lords about the risk of ` midair collision in the skies abovd the | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
war-torn country. The independent peer Lord Wright was | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
concerned about RAF Tornados "without adequate | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
co-ordination and consultathon" First, a defence minister s`id all | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
UK and coalition missions wdre co-ordinated by the US-led combined | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
air operating centre in Qat`r. We are also providing intelligence, | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
reconnaissance and surveill`nce to support coalition operathons | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
in both Syria and Iraq. UK military personnel are providing | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
specialist training for Irapi security forces, including | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
Kurdish Peshmerga. Since the war has lasted already | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
five years, I wonder will my noble friend recognhse that | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
whilst bombing is important, it will never defeat Isis unless thdre's | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
a strong army on the ground. So will my noble friend rerdad | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
the speeches of last Wednesday of Lords Richmond, Ashdown, Owen | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
and Dannatt, and possibly mxself... ..and recognise that the only way | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
of defeating Isis is to find a way to deploy the army of Assad | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
and his allies, otherwise Isis will survive and cause mayhem | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
in the rest of the world. I would like my noble friend to know | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
that I have reread the debate of last wdek and | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
I fully agree with him that Daesh The most likely way to defe`t Daesh | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
on the ground is to bring about the end to the Syrian civil war which | :09:11. | :09:18. | |
would allow those keen to stpport a unified, inclusive and pe`ceful | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
Syria to unite against Daesh. That could include Syrian moderate | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
opposition forces, it could include Syrian Kurds, it could incltde an | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
army of internationally supported Syrian government, but we bdlieve | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
that such unity will only come about once Bashar al Assad leaves the | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
scene. My Lords, when the noble Lord | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
the minister reread the deb`te of last Wednesday, he may have noted | :09:48. | :09:57. | |
that I suggested that unless... if our Tornadoes and Typhoons are | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
sent into action without addquate co-ordination and consultathon, | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
there might be a serious risk of collision | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
with the Russian and Syrian forces. Can the Minister tell | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
the House what clearance has to be sought from what I understand is the | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
joint flights clearance centre in Damascus and how much co-ordination | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
is there with the Syrian authorities The coalition has implementdd safe | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
separation measures for aircraft operating in Sxria | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
which reflect the provisions of the United States-Russia melorandum | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
of understanding to prevent flight Those measures are kept unddr | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
constant review, including in the light of the | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
Russian jet incident with Ttrkey. But our own aircraft operatd | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
over Syria as part of the coalition calpaign | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
and are covered by those me`sures. The noble Earl the Minister will be | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
aware that in 2008, the onlx way we stopped the uprising in Irap | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
and destroyed Al-Qaeda in Iraq was when Petraeus got the Sunni tribes | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
fully onside to turn against them. Are we doing that now to | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
ensure they turn against IS? And we did that by bribing them And | :11:22. | :11:35. | |
persuading them. Because up until now, they have felt | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
that IS is better for them My lord, there is no doubt that | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
the Kurds will need to be p`rt They must play an important role, | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
I believe, As part of that, however, | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
they must recognise the importance of Syria's territorial integrity | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
and the parameters set out The government is moving | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
as "expeditiously" as possible to scrap the criminal courts charge, | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
Michael Gove has told Mps. The Justice Secretary announced | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
earlier this month that the fee - which saw convicted criminals in | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
England and Wales pay a charge of between ?150 and ?1,200 tow`rds the | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
cost of their case - will not be It reverses the decision made | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
by his predecessor in the job, Chris Grayling, and came after | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
strong criticism from magistrates. In the Commons, Mr Gove facdd | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
questions about the decision. Labour's Shadow Justice Minhster | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
said he welcomed what he called Individuals have incurred hhgh | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
levels of personal debt bec`use of this cost which they are unlikely | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
to be able to pay back. Bearing that in mind, will the | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
Secretary of State review and waive the outstanding payments whhch do | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
nothing but blight our finances and our justice system and place an | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
administrative cost on the taxpayer? It is the case that people will have | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
paid penalties under the criminal courts charge, that was | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
the law at the time and it will be After that, people will not be | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
paying the criminal courts charge. Until the 24th of December, | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
magistrates will be forced to impose what is now | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
a discredited charge which has What advice would the Secretary | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
of State give to those people It is my responsibility to | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
uphold the rule of law. We sought to take steps as puickly | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
as possible, after a proper review of the criminal courts charge and | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
after the spending review, to suspend | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
the operation of the charge. 21 days after | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
the requisite statutory instrument was laid, there will be no | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
further imposition of the charge. Labour's Shadow Justice Minhster | :13:45. | :14:03. | |
said he welcomed what he called Mr Speaker, I also welcome the | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
Lord Chancellor's fifth U-ttrn. Will he clear up the mess | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
his government has caused r`ther When will the charge be repdaled | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
by primary legislation? Why is it still being | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
imposed up to Christmas? Will the charges already imposed be | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
remitted and will the magistrates who | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
resigned in protest be reinstated? And will he tell us the cost | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
of the debacle and how much it adds to the ?15 million he has already | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
wasted on privatisation of fines That was something | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
of a multifaceted question but I think we can rely upon the Secretary | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
of State to respond with You're quite right, | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
there were more questions in that particular sally thdn in | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
a multiple-choice maths GCSD paper. All I will say is that we moved | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
as expeditiously as possibld in order to suspend the charge and the | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
best legal advice available to the department suggested that this was | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
the most effective way of rdlieving magistrates | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
of the obligation to impose it. Secure colleges, criminal court | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
charges, court fine enforcelent Could the Justice Secretary lay | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
before the House the full costs And which minister is responsible | :15:05. | :15:16. | |
for the waste of public mondy? The point about each | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
of the policies that she mentioned is that we took the decision both | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
in the national interest and Many magistrates resigned over | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
the fees which the Secretarx Partly because they felt people were | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
pleading guilty when they were innocent bec`use the | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
fees otherwise would be excdssive. What estimate did the Secretary | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
of State make in taking this decision of how many innocent people | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
pleaded guilty during that time I take account of | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
the honourable gentleman's point. I think, in the circumstancds, | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
I think we have to let But every single magistrate who | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
felt, for whatever reason, that they couldn't sit on the bench | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
because of that policy, I would like to invite to rdconsider | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
and revisit their decision. You're watching our round-up of the | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
day in the Commons and the Lords. To be Northern? | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
Or not to be Northern? Should Shakespeare be | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
brought to Merseyside? David Cameron is trying to get | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
a new deal for Britain in Etrope, as the clocks ticks | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
down to that in/out referendum. A main aim of the Prime Minhster's | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
is to secure a new arrangement where EU ligrants | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
would have their access to benefits But a senior economist has told MPs | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
that curbing welfare for migrants will in fact do little to stop the | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
flow of people coming to thd UK Sir Stephen Nickell was | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
before the Treasury Committde. In part of the negotiations of EU | :16:52. | :17:07. | |
membership would be to restrict migrants to in EU benefits. The | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
thing on a practical level, that will make any difference? Wdlcome in | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
my opinion, not much. OK. You want to expand on that? | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
You mean, make a precise quantification? Because the answer | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
is, I have no idea, because I have not investigated it. Is there any | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
evidence that people will bd less enthusiastic about coming to the UK | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
if this is dropped as a restlt of tax credits being removed? | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
Is there any evidence to support that? | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
Well, the answer is, in gendral there is evidence which suggests | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
that migration flows are influenced by the difference between what you | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
are able to get in the country of origin and what you are abld to get | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
in the country you migrate to. Yes, there is quite a lot of evidence | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
that the differential in job opportunities and pay is a | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
significant factor in deterlining migration flows. | :18:13. | :18:13. | |
The session looked at the Chancellor's apparent ?2 | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
billion windfall he revealed in his Autumn Statement. | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
So, I don't expect the Chancellor will thank me, but it seems to me | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
that you have given the Chancellor a windfall by adjusting your forecast, | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
which has been spent in adv`nce We know that there is a great degree of | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
uncertainty around the government's ability to continue financing | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
through the Guild markets, `nd interest rates are lower for longer, | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
and yet you do not judge... I think we have reached the point where we | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
accept you do not judge the consequences of those interdst rates | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
advice you would like to offer the advice you would like to offer the | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
Chancellor on the fiscal responsibility side about what he | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
should be doing in the contdxt of this uncertainty? | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
I'm sure that what he will have done, one would hope, would be to | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
recognise the uncertainties and not merely the part of the central | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
forecast in making the spending and other policy decisions that he did | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
in the Autumn Statement. Thdre has been a windfall that he has spent. | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
You only have to look at evdry previous Autumn Statement to see | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
what has been done, to see that sometimes those forecasts go in your | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
favour and sometimes against. They often move by larger amounts than | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
this one has. I am sure in his mind, and those who advise him, they will | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
wish to way that considerathon. One of the biggest news events over | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
the last 12 months has been the mass movement of refugeds | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
across the European continent, escaping conflicts in the | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
Middle East and North Afric`. The United Nations called it | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
the biggest refugee and migration The images of young children caught | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
up in the crisis have played a particularly strong role | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
in influencing pubic attitudes. In the Commons, the Liberal Democrat | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
leader Tim Farron called for Britain to give asylum seeker status to up | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
to 3,000 unaccompanied children from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Eritrea | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
who've reached the European Union. Children in this situation become | :20:05. | :20:22. | |
separated from their relatives for a number of reasons. Some havd lost | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
family members in their countries of origin, or those closest to them | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
have been victims of violence, leading them with little choice but | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
to flee and to flee a loan. Others have lost their family membdrs en | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
route, through illness or drowning. In their desperation, these children | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
put themselves in the hands of people smugglers, and criminal | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
gangs, to facilitate their journeys. Save The Children in Greece and | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
Italy have spoken to many children about the abuse, exploitation, | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
physical and sexual violencd they have experienced during the long | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
travel to Europe. This is not a far-off problem, to be dealt with by | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
distant governments. It is here in Europe on our own shores. It is our | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
responsibility to protect all refugees, and not more so than | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
orphaned children with no other hope. It is shameful that this | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
government has so far ignordd these children, and it is time thdy did | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
the right thing and help thdm. 000 children is just a small part of the | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
overall number, certainly slall enough for our local authorhties to | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
handle, given the appropriate resources and support, but ht will | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
make all the difference to the lives of every one of these desperate | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
youngsters who deserve our help Now, say the word | :21:29. | :21:29. | |
"Shakespeare" and we don't immediately think of Merseyside | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
nor indeed do we associate the playwright particularly with | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
the North of England. The Government says it supports | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
plans for a Shakespeare The`tre In fact, | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
the Shakespeare North Trust wants to re-build a theatre in Knowsley, in | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Merseyside, where plays werd first The project's got the support of | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
Sir Paul McCartney, Dame Helen In Westminster Hall, | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
one of the area's MPs said ht would have economic benefits not just | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
for the locality but This project has the capacity to | :22:02. | :22:14. | |
create a Shakespearean triangle with Stratford and London. As such, the | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
Playhouse in Prescott will be a unique -- will be unique as the only | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
replica of this indoor Jacobean court theatre in the world. It will | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
be the site of the only actor training programme in Shakespearean | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
performance practice in the UK. It would be a leading public theatre, | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
with a student programme at its core, and a purpose to realhse one | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
of the UK's premier cultural assets. Perhaps I can conclude, Sir Edward, | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
with some words from Hamlet. By way of a request to the Linister. | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
Speak the speech, I pray yot, as I have pronounced it to you, tripping | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
Lee, on the tongue. But if xou mouth it, as many of our players do, I had | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
as leith the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do not Saudi air too much | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
with your hands us, but use all gently. -- saw the air. We look | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
forward to the Minister's gdntle response. I would urge the Linister | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
to empty his pockets and his purses, and whatever you can find should go | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
forward. There are many local | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
philanthropists, I understand, who would help to make this happen, and | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
a little from the government would go a long way. Thank you. | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
Well, I hear what the honourable lady says, and I commend her for | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
making those remarks, given the sore throat which she clearly has, and I | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
would obviously add the namds that she read out, the supporters of the | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
project, alongside, for exalple Sir Paul McCartney, Cherie Blair, David | :23:59. | :24:10. | |
Alton, Clive Owen, Trudie Styler, among many others. I should say of | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
course, to be, or not to be, that is the question. But we hope it will be | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
that this important project the ground. It is a great pleastre to | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
speak about it, about the proposal for this theatre. The Shakespeare | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
North project in Knowsley h`s been prepared by the Shakespeare North | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
Trust, and it has been a project that has been long in gestation A | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
quote from A Midsummer's Night's Dream, the course of true love never | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
did run smooth, and this project cannot simply be wished into | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
existence overnight. But I do think it is an exciting project, `nd I | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
hope to stay close to it, now and in the future, because a lot of hard | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
work has gone into it, and ht deserves to succeed. | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
The newest Member of Parliament has taken his seat | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
Following the death of Mich`el Meacher, the subsequent by-dlection | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
in Oldham West last week resulted in victory for Jim McMahon. | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
As he entered the chamber, Jim McMahon was flanked by two | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
of his fellow Labour MPs from Greater Manchester, | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
Mr McMahon, a university technician, has been a councillor in Oldham | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
for 12 years, the leader of the council for the last four. | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
At the by-election, he had ` 10,000-vote majority over the UKIP | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
And that's it for this programme. Do join me for our next round-up. | :25:29. | :25:38. | |
Until then, from me, Keith Macdougall, goodbye. | :25:39. | :25:44. |