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Hello and Welcome to Tuesdax in Parliament, our look at the best | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
of the day in the Commons and the Lords. | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
On this programme, the Governor of the Bank of England denids | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
being involved in any 'scaremongering' in the recdnt EU | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
We make no apologies for having done our job and help | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
Could he be switched from Foreign Secretary to Chancellor | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
With big changes afoot, Philip Hammond comes in for some | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Can I also start by saying that if rumours of promotion are true, | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
this may be my final session with the Secretary of State before | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
The Governor of the Bank of England has been defending his role | :00:50. | :01:12. | |
Mark Carney had been accused of unfairly bolstering the campaign | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
But he told the Treasury Colmittee it was his duty to provide | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
a straight-forward assessment of the risks. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
It is not based on whim, pre-judgement. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
It is based on analysis, robust debate, assessment. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
And it is our responsibilitx to give these assessments. | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
So the point I will finish with on this is that | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
The debate cannot be about whether we should havd | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
If we view something is the biggest risk, | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
a statutory obligation, to make that clear to Parli`ment. | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
We have an obligation to thd people of the United Kingdom to cole | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
It catalyses action and hopdfully we'll have a chance to disctss | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
what was done in response to this that had mitigated, | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
So the debate can be about whether we made | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
That's an entirely legitimate debate. | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
Not whether we should have lade the assessment. | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
I don't know how much comfort you take from it, | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
but one of the most prominent Brexiteers, Boris Johnson, | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
is claiming that you have done a superb job. | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
So I'm sure that makes you feel good. | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Any port in a storm, Chair. | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
The assessment of this commhttee, the financial policy committee, | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
that issues around the referendum where the biggest domestic risk | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
Apart from just meeting our statutory obligation, | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
which should be the alpha and omega of this discussion, | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
but it also catalysed action by the PRA, from a | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
Those open foreign exchange positions, I won't go | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
It catalysed action by the Bank of England in terms of liquhdity | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
It catalysed actions by private financial institutions | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
to manage risk in the run-up to the referendum. | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
It also catalysed action between the Bank of England | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
and foreign central banks to put in place a series of other | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
contingency measures, which have not proved to be | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
analytically-based analysis, helped ensure that this system | :03:34. | :03:52. | |
and effectively as possible to put this country in a position to take | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
maximum advantage of the decision of the people of the United Kingdom. | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
So, we make no apologies for having done our job. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
The Governor was also asked about his preparedness for ` second | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
If there ever were an analogous scenario, and I'm not | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
making any predictions about the specific question. | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
The second point is that, certainly what we saw in terms | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
of the risks to financial stability around the last Scottish referendum, | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
a lot of it addressed the headquarters of major fhnancial | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
institutions and then the responsibilities | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
government for those financhal institutions, and whether or not | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
they have the fiscal capacity to meet those responsibilithes. | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
So without prejudice to any political revolution, | :04:48. | :04:59. | |
certainly those types of issues should be addressed well, | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
well in advance of any decision that would be put before anyone. | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
Well, no shortage of political drama in the last | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
At the start of the day, the very last of the 215 Cabinet | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
meetings to be chaired by David Cameron took place ahead | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
of Wednesday's handover to new Prime Minister Theresa May. | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
Meanwhile, as uncertainty continues at the top of the Labour party, | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
reports emerged of an ugly incident in Merseyside. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
It was reported a brick had been thrown at the Labour | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
constituency office in Wall`sey where Angela Eagle is the local MP. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
Angela Eagle has announced she intends running | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
In the Commons, there was a point of order. | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
Reports have come in that mx honourable Friend the Member | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
for Wallasey, who is standing for the leadership | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
of my party, has had her constituency windows broken, | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
and the police have confirmdd that such an incident has taken place. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Can we take this opportunitx to deplore such hooliganism | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
and thuggery, whoever commits it and whichever party is involved | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
It is totally unacceptable, and one hopes that the police | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
will apprehend the culprit as quickly as possible. | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
I thank the honourable gentleman for his point of order. | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
It is not strictly in any procedural sense a matter for the Chair, | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
but it is in one respect because, in common with all colleaguds, | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
the Chair believes in democracy and the peaceful | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
We are a pluralist society, and if people think that thdy will | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
get their way through violence, threats and intimidation, they will | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
Well on a lighter note, Foreign Office question-timd saw | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
some jokey exchanges following the recent changes | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
to the Labour front-bench, following mass resignations, | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
and the likely coming changds to the Government front-bench | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
in the light of Theresa May becoming Prime Minister. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
Mr Speaker, first of all I would like to welcome the honourable lady | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
A model, I hope, of improved productivity in the UK economy. | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
It is right to say that we `re compact team, but we have | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
the advantage of being made up of two blessed difficult wolen, | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
and so we are formidable and up for the task. | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
If rumours of promotion are true, this may be my final | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
session with him before he takes another job. | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
It would seem that everyone is in flux. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
He has a reputation of being a formidable but approachable | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Minister to shadow, so I will be sorry if our acquaintance | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
And after that came the serhous discussion about Britain's dxit | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
New trading arrangements will now be needed with the countries Britain | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
But setting up new trade arrangements will not | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
be straightforward - specialists will be required. | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
And the Foreign Secretary f`ced questions about how these | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
unit, which will bring together the brightest and best | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
from Whitehall and the priv`te sector, including lawyers, | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
And, yes, the Government is actively seeking to recruit trade | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
specialists, including approaching former civil servants | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
who have retired and moved to the private sector. | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
I thank the Foreign Secretary for that answer. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
Can he tell the House how mtch this is going to cost? | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
What I can tell him is that in the circumstances | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
in which we find ourselves, facing the opportunities th`t we now | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
do, recruitment of trade spdcialists is, whatever that costs us, | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
very likely to be an investlent well worth making. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
Last week in committee, Oliver Letwin stated, | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
we clearly need a new cadres of highly skilled and experhenced | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
I hope the Secretary of State sees the irony in the fact that the very | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
best of our trade negotiators are based in Brussels. | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
But can you provide assurance to the House that from now | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
on we will be bringing in the best trade negotiators, | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
She had in mind the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
namely the right honourable gentleman, the member | :09:42. | :09:42. | |
I'm not sure I recognise thd name that she mentioned. | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker, I was puzzling about that | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
myself, and I'm grateful for your clarification. | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Having had it, I'm very happy to answer | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
As I said earlier, in response to the initial question, | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
we will need to hire a signhficant numbers of trade negotiators. | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
I see no reason, and I said that in the House a couple of wedks ago, | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
I see no reason why we won't hire people who are non-British | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
if they were the best peopld to do the job. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
Clearly, one would not want to hire the citizen of another country | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
to negotiate a trade deal with that country. | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
But having entered that cavdat, I would hope we would put together | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
the best and most capable teams from wherever. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
The Secretary of State has rightly said that he has given assurances | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
that we will consult Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
London and Gibraltar on the Government's negotiation | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
strategy for Brexit prior to triggering Article 50. | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Can I also therefore ask the Secretary of State, | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
will those assurances also dxtend to Her Majesty's opposition? | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
To ensure that the needs and concerns of the communities | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
that we represent are reflected as the Government continues | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Of course, there will be extensive discussion about all of these | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
The opposition, of course, will have opportunity | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
to present its views, and we will listen very | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
I thank the Secretary of State for that answer, | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
but I was hoping to get mord assurance than that, | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
that there will be formal consultation with Her Majesty's | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
opposition prior to the start of the negotiations. | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
Because we must avoid the mhstakes made by the outgoing Prime Linister | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
before his resignation, when he made no proper consdrvation | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
with opposition parties, no proper discussion took place | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
and was a totally artificial timetable. | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
Had the Prime Minister done those things, perhaps | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
we would have got a better, more inclusive deal, | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
the country might not have voted for Brexit, | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
and he might not be stepping down tomorrow. | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
The whole of Scotland is dedply concerned about the personal future | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
of the Foreign Secretary, given his apocalyptic statelents | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
For example, when he told Chatham House on the 2nd of March it | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
would take longer to negoti`te than the Second World War. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
So will it take longer to ndgotiate Brexit than the Second World War, | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
and how would any future Ch`ncellor of the Exchequer deal | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
Mr Speaker, I think the concern is this, | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
and he'll recognise this - if a future treaty | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
between the United Kingdom and the European Union 27 is deemed | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
to be a mixed competence, it will have to be ratified by 7 | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
I think I'm right in saying the shortest time in which that has | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
been done in any EU treaty hs just under four years. | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
That's after taking into account the time taken to negotiate. | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
You're watching our roundup of the day in the Commons and the Lords. | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
Still to come: What are the likely environmental | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
In the end, it was a more d`mning verdict than expected. | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War and its aftermath | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
The huge report, completed by Sir John Chilcot six years later | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
than originally planned, came to several powerful conclusions | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
- namely that Tony Blair went ahead with the invasion of Iraq bdfore | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
peaceful options had been exhausted, had exaggerated the threat | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
from Saddam Hussein and had little in the way of a strategy | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
The House of Lords has had ` special debate to chew over | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
It would have been much easher if the former Prime Minister had | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
made an open confession that he had made many, many mistakes. | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
Unfortunately, he produced on the day of the report, | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
having himself had no doubt access to it for some time, | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
That defiance cannot be left unchallenged. | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
And defiance is the only word to describe it. | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
If I was back in the same place he said, with the same information, | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
If that is left to stand unchallenged, Chilcott | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
My Lords, I have considerable sympathy for Mr Blair in thd obloquy | :13:53. | :14:05. | |
I will never believe that hd lied to the British people. | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
And I accept that he was sincere in believing that military `ction | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
to remove Saddam Hussein was necessary as a last resort. | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
The trouble was, that he got caught in a trap. | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
In which the decision whethdr or not to join the Americans in military | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
action became unavoidable bdfore other means of containing | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
For those who have had secrdt intelligence files put in front | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
You think you're privileged to have access to this information. | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
And then you need some wize heads around to say, maybe there `re some | :14:54. | :15:11. | |
maybe there are some other considerations that one needs | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
If I had the same information again, sitting in the same Cabinet, | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
with the same content, I would have made the same decision. | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
And those who say they wouldn't need to ask the question, | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
what would it have been that changed their minds? | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
Not hindsight, but a differdnt form of wisdom and in agreement with | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
those with whom they were gdnuinely, openly disagreeing with at the time, | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
That is the context, that is the information. | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
Special advisors must not ever be allowed again to be given fhnal | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
authority over civil servants and be able to interfere with profdssional | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
Circumstances must not arisd in which the intelligence | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
from untested sources is handed to ministers unassessed. | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
Above all, Cabinet Government and collective responsibility must | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
function if trust in Governlent is to be maintained. | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
The really dodgy dossier was not the one of September 2002, | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
it was the one produced in the spring of 2003 in advance | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
It was based on a ten-year-old thesis of an American PhD student. | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
Hardly, one might think, a compelling basis for justhfying | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
actions of the kind that were in contemplation. | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
For all its faults and crushing brutality, Iraq under | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
It was a bulwark against Iran, with whom it had | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
Since the invasion, Iraq has not become again | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
Clovowicz once said that war is the continuation | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
But surely war must be a final option. | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
Not merely a matter of primd ministerial preference. | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
To coin his own phrase, it's right that Tony Blair | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
should feel the hand of history on his shoulder. | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
Winston Churchill wrote, let us learn lessons. | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
Never, never, believe any w`r will be smooth or easy, | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can mdasure | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
the tides and hurricane he encounters. | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
He went on, the statesman who yields to warfare must realise that once | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
the signal is given, he is no longer the master | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
of policy, but the slave of unforeseeable | :17:55. | :17:55. | |
The environmental protections that the EU has given | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
the country must not be dumped on the "Brexit bonfire". | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
That was Labour's claim, as the Commons focused on one more | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
aspect of Britain's withdrawal from the EU. | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
Opening a Commons debate, the Shadow Energy Secretary said | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
the Government must commit to passing EU regulations into UK | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
law, to ensure retention of acceptable environmental st`ndards. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
Managing the risks borne of the uncertainty of the rdferendum | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
outcome is a responsibility for Government. | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
Ministers must urgently identify any legislative gaps in environlental | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
protection that may arise from the removal of EU law, | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
and develop plans to replacd any protections so that the UK does not | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
become a riskier, unhealthidr or more polluted place to lhve | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
Answers must be provided to the public who want to bd | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
reassured that environmental protections are not to be | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
weakened in some Brexit bonfire of the regulations. | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
The environmental protections we have enjoyed under the ET are not | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
They are part of what it is to live in a civilised country that respects | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
the natural world and believes that the only prosperous future | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
I don't believe that this p`rliament could go through every piecd | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
of European legislation passed over the last 40 years and decidd | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
whether we want to keep it or not keep it. | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
The most likely outcome is dnabling legislation which involves rolling | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
in everything in EU legislation into UK legislation, | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
and then this Government and future governments will at leisure pick | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
That is the most sensible approach, and that may mean that in some | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
areas, some of the legislathon we get rid of, and in | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Whatever the outcome, this parliament must make stre it | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
MPs have been told that Western governments need to do more | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
to encourage moderate followers of Islam to embrace democratic | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
principles, to ensure that they can triumph over extremists such | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
as the so-called Islamic St`te group and Al Queida. | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
The Foreign Affairs Committde was taking evidence | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
They said that while Political Islam was an ideology that wished to see | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
the establishment of sharia law it could take other forms. | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
Sometimes it led to violencd, but it also produced democr`cies | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
Our challenge is, how do we apply sustained pressure | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
on Islamist movements, especially that elite within them | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
that are westernised, that do want to be pro-Westdrn, | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
that then moves towards a world order that's not confrontathonal. | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
Our problem is, currently, whether it's in Jordan, | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
Egypt or Syria, large chunks of the Muslim Brotherhood are not | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
I've cited Tunisia, I've cited Turkey, but I'd also cite | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
that there are individuals in the West who have | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
undergone that journey, and rather than go towards | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
jihadism, have moved towards democratic pluralisl. | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
So it can be done, but it's incumbent, | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
I think, as you highlight, that our policymakers understand | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
that on a country by countrx, community by community, | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
organisation by organisation, history by history basis | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
of these operations, rather than adopt a blanket approach | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
by saying, we're not going to be engaging with the Muslim Brotherhood | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
across the board, based on just Hamas' activities. | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
Because, yes, Hamas is a problem, but Tunisia has proven | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
that there can be pluralism within the Brotherhood. | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
We all started off by everyone saying we thought it was linked | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
with sharia, or their interpretation of the sharia, what I'm tryhng | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
to say is, isn't this more `bout, not religion and sharia at `ll, | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
but more about political challenges, the fact | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
that there are dictatorships, there are authoritarian | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
countries in the Middle East, and the fact that there are a number | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
of issues that the internathonal community that has ignored? | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
I would love to be in compldte agreement with you, but when I look | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
at the world I think, in Africa we have dictatorships. | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
In China we have a dictatorship why aren't the Chinese | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
We have a situation in the Middle East, yes, | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
there are dictatorships, and there are dictatorships | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
in other parts of the world, but people in North Korea aren't | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
blowing themselves up, for all of North Korea's problems. | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
We've got to accept that thdre is a reading - not the readhng | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
but a reading of sharia that justifies suicide bombers | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
as martyrs, and that endorses those murderers | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
I have yet to read any part of the Koran that says you should | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
Suicide is considered to be an immoral sin in Islam. | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
Therefore to suggest that anyone is using Islam as a reason, | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
as a religion to go and blow themselves up, and go and blow women | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
and children and other people up, has got any link with Islam, | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
that is what I was saying, is complete utter nonsense. | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
I had never read a single extract suggesting that anybody | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
Challenging political Islam is not simply about somebody | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
going to the Koran and tellhng them, the Koran doesn't say that. | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
They understand that, they're going beyond the Koran. | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
Someone like a radical imam fundamentally believes that suicide | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
Because it's not an issue about whether suicide is right | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
It's about how do we defend ourselves against an aggressor. | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
Can we use this new type of bombing? | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
Mokhtar Awad, who's a research fellow in a programme on extremism | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
The country's newest Member of Parliament has made her laiden | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
Rosena Alinn-Khan, a doctor, won the by-election in Toothng | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
in South London last month, following the departure | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
The new MP spoke about her background. | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
As a Tooting girl through and through, I never like it | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
when people say Tooting is becoming a fantastic place to live. | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
Anyone who has lived there `s long as I have known it has known it | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
The wonderful, green, open spaces of Tooting Common | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
and Wandsworth Common, the iconic Tooting market, | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
and the Lido, open for residents of Tooting to swim outdoors | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
There has always been a rich tapestry of communities livhng | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
And that unity should be celebrated, and I will defend it | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
That unity is woven into me, and a central part of who I am. | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
When people asked me where H'm from, I say I'm half-Polish, | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
half-Pakistani, raised in England, married a Welshman, | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
There is a serious point in this though. | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
In Tooting and across the country, it's a sense of common purpose. | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
The selflessness that drives community groups and charithes | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
Tooting's many local businesses traditional and modern, not only | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
fuel our thriving economy, but binds us together. | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
My son is a junior hospital doctor, and I know how hard doctors work. | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
And for me, I would just like to say we need more scientists and doctors | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
For that reason too, she's really welcome, | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
David Mowat complimenting Rosina Allin-Khan. | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
Do join me for our next round-up, which will have the highlights | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
of David Cameron's very fin`l PMQs as Prime Minister. | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
Until then, from me, Keith Macdougall, goodbye. | :25:31. | :25:34. |