16/07/2014

:00:35. > :00:37.Morning folks and welcome to the Daily Politics.

:00:38. > :00:41.Men were sacked, women promoted - but how different does government

:00:42. > :00:46.A new Foreign Secretary and European Commissioner.

:00:47. > :00:50.The last Conservative Europhile around the cabinet table, out.

:00:51. > :00:55.Is Britain moving closer to a European exit?

:00:56. > :00:58.The last Prime Minster's Questions before MPs swap

:00:59. > :01:04.the green benches for the beach - we'll bring you that live at noon.

:01:05. > :01:07.You bad mouth them - then you have to meet them.

:01:08. > :01:15.We bring you the most cringe-worthy political encounters.

:01:16. > :01:18.All that coming up in the next 90 minutes of the very

:01:19. > :01:26.And after yesterday's brutal ministerial

:01:27. > :01:28.reshuffle, a little compassion here at the Daily Politics.

:01:29. > :01:31.Despite losing his job yesterday, we've kept him on.

:01:32. > :01:37.He was a cabinet office minister, now just a plain MP - Ken Clarke.

:01:38. > :01:41.And she's not male or stale, and she's still got her job - for now.

:01:42. > :01:57.Ken, were you jumped -- did you jump or you pushed? I was obviously going

:01:58. > :02:02.to retire. I thought I was going to retire the last time. I agreed with

:02:03. > :02:07.David I would do a couple of years. As by far the oldest member of the

:02:08. > :02:11.Government, decided to leave. The press were very slow to realise I

:02:12. > :02:18.was demob happy. I saw a smile on your face. Wednesday, Thursday and

:02:19. > :02:23.Friday of last week I was at Trent Bridge for a Test match. On Monday I

:02:24. > :02:31.came down and handed in my retirement. David knew it was

:02:32. > :02:34.coming. We had a very good chat. I have only just started being a

:02:35. > :02:41.minister. I was beginning to pick it up I! You are a slow learner. If he

:02:42. > :02:49.had asked you to stay, would you have stayed? He would have had to

:02:50. > :02:52.persuade me. He persuaded me to come back to the front bench about six

:02:53. > :02:55.years ago when I was the most rebellious backbencher in the House

:02:56. > :03:04.of Commons. I was rather surprised to get the invitation. Better to be

:03:05. > :03:13.an insider than outside. You are going to stand as an MP again? Yes.

:03:14. > :03:15.I am a political anorak. I find the process of governance is

:03:16. > :03:25.fascinating. I find politics fascinating. What do you make of

:03:26. > :03:30.these changes? It has been billed as ladies table the consequence of

:03:31. > :03:36.ladies day is we have the same number of women MPs in the Cabinet

:03:37. > :03:39.as 2011. Even then it was only five. David has always brought women in.

:03:40. > :03:46.He has lost three from the Cabinet already. I hope this lot will have a

:03:47. > :03:53.good long stint. They will only have nine months. You must point on

:03:54. > :03:57.merit. But where people are of equal talent, I would give women the

:03:58. > :03:58.preference because we need more women in politics.

:03:59. > :04:01.preference because we need more women in It is a shame we don't have

:04:02. > :04:08.so many women in politics. These are good women. Maybe people will stop

:04:09. > :04:14.commenting on their gender, criticising what they wear etc, and

:04:15. > :04:23.just accept it is a government... We are a long way from that. Maybe so.

:04:24. > :04:28.Why did he take so long? Tony Blair used to reshuffle once every nine

:04:29. > :04:36.months. John Reid had five Cabinet jobs in four years. I think he has

:04:37. > :04:43.gone back to a better tradition of having a big reshuffle once, twice

:04:44. > :04:47.at the most common in the course of a parliament. There is no point in

:04:48. > :04:53.appointing a minister who will not master is or her brief to get on

:04:54. > :04:56.with doing something. These ministers have only got ten months

:04:57. > :05:01.where they will not do very much. They only have two demonstrate their

:05:02. > :05:05.ministerial calibre. They have to campaign more. He should leave them

:05:06. > :05:10.in post after the election when they win it. Can the Tories win an

:05:11. > :05:20.overall majority? I think it is a tall order. If you were to look me

:05:21. > :05:25.in the eye and tell me you knew who was going to win the next election

:05:26. > :05:33.precisely, I wouldn't believe you. I am looking you in the eye but I am

:05:34. > :05:38.not telling you that. The cynicism about politics, the anti-political

:05:39. > :05:41.nihilism, more difficult than ever before. But we are more likely to be

:05:42. > :05:46.the biggest single party. before. But we are more likely to be

:05:47. > :05:52.challenge for the Conservative Party is to get the overall majority. If

:05:53. > :05:55.it is a minority government, should Mr Cameron do another deal with the

:05:56. > :06:01.Lib Dems or run a minority government? I don't understand this

:06:02. > :06:04.minority government 's tough because you cannot do anything. We are in

:06:05. > :06:12.the middle of a financial crisis. The next comment has to take

:06:13. > :06:16.stronger steps. A coalition. I feared a hung parliament. I didn't

:06:17. > :06:21.think British politicians could do it. I thought we were all too

:06:22. > :06:25.tribal. The big success was to form a coalition and put the national

:06:26. > :06:36.interest first. It is the only way to handle it. You have done public

:06:37. > :06:41.sector reform. You have logged the forces of conservatism in the eye

:06:42. > :06:47.and done it. -- looked. Why move Michael Gove, the most successful

:06:48. > :06:53.public service reform, according to his supporters, and give the people

:06:54. > :06:58.who opposed them a scalp? I don't know. I was as surprised as

:06:59. > :07:05.everybody else. My guess is, to just quieten the subject down in the

:07:06. > :07:07.run-up to the election, when Margaret, despite my protests,

:07:08. > :07:14.insisted on moving me from the Department of Health and putting me

:07:15. > :07:18.on to education, I argued the toss. She insisted on moving me. I cannot

:07:19. > :07:25.remember what reason she gave me. It was pretty silly! I realised that he

:07:26. > :07:32.rapidly her intention was to quieten me down before the election. Michael

:07:33. > :07:35.will be back. The run-up to the election is more important than the

:07:36. > :07:43.school reform to the prime Minister? If you live in a Parliamentary

:07:44. > :07:48.democracy, you have to accept that tough things need to be done in the

:07:49. > :07:51.first two or three years. By the last ten months you have to start

:07:52. > :07:56.campaigning because you want to finish the job, which I hope we

:07:57. > :08:01.will. I am glad you are here today. Liz, it is your turn! After

:08:02. > :08:06.everything that happened yesterday, it was very dramatic, much more

:08:07. > :08:13.extensive than anybody thought, can expect a Labour reshuffle? I have no

:08:14. > :08:18.idea. I have heard nothing. Don't know anything. No idea. Do you think

:08:19. > :08:24.there should be a Labour re-shore full? You know that is a matter for

:08:25. > :08:29.Ed Miliband and it is way above my pay grade. I don't know if I am

:08:30. > :08:39.allowed to, but one of the things I wanted to ask Ken was, obviously it

:08:40. > :08:44.is more of a Eurosceptic Cabinet now, and you have fought all your

:08:45. > :08:49.political life for a moderate one nation Conservative Party. Do you

:08:50. > :09:00.think you're leaving means that is gone? We are going to talk about

:09:01. > :09:04.Europe. You have two weight! One of my views about the reshuffle is,

:09:05. > :09:12.that is the thing I am most worried about. You can come back to that.

:09:13. > :09:16.But other look at the team for a labourer. The Guardian ICM poll this

:09:17. > :09:20.week had you in second place behind the Conservatives. -- for a

:09:21. > :09:27.labourer. Doesn't that indicated time to freshen up your team? I have

:09:28. > :09:32.no idea if there is going to be a reshuffle. I think it is going to be

:09:33. > :09:37.really tough before the general election. For all the parties, for

:09:38. > :09:42.the reasons Ken said. The biggest problem is that people are so fed up

:09:43. > :09:45.with politicians. They don't hear anything we say because we often

:09:46. > :09:54.don't sound like them or look like them. You don't think your team

:09:55. > :10:00.sounds or looks like them? When you are knocking on doors, people's view

:10:01. > :10:05.about politics and politicians, not trusting us, not believing us, not

:10:06. > :10:10.believing we care about what they do, I believe my party does. I am

:10:11. > :10:14.under no illusions about the scale of the challenge. Do you agree with

:10:15. > :10:19.Ken Clarke that it will be very difficult for the Conservatives to

:10:20. > :10:23.have an overall majority? Would be very difficult to have an overall

:10:24. > :10:31.majority for Labour? I think it is too close to call. We are playing to

:10:32. > :10:35.win. There is a big fight over the next ten months. Why have the

:10:36. > :10:38.opinion polls narrowed over the last few months, so much so that the

:10:39. > :10:44.Conservatives have even gone ahead in several? I think people are

:10:45. > :10:49.thinking about what is happening in their lives. Certainly over the

:10:50. > :10:56.course of the European elections, we saw UKIP do very well, taking votes

:10:57. > :11:00.of the Tories. Why have the Conservatives gone ahead? People are

:11:01. > :11:05.generally looking for parties and provide an answer to the problems

:11:06. > :11:10.they face. UKIP have come in with easy answers that I do not believe

:11:11. > :11:16.the answers. That has had an impact. Charles Clarke thinks the most

:11:17. > :11:22.output -- outcome is a Tory overall majority because Ed Miliband lacks

:11:23. > :11:26.credibility. I do not agree with Charles Clarke. Ed is a passionate

:11:27. > :11:32.and tough leader. It is going to be incredibly tough. It is all to play

:11:33. > :11:43.for and we are playing to win. He is a big beast, Charles Clarke. I hate

:11:44. > :11:48.that term! He is a worse leader than Neal Kinnock, he says of Ed

:11:49. > :11:52.Miliband. I don't agree with that. The most important thing Ed has

:11:53. > :11:56.identified is that the economy was not working for people on Middle or

:11:57. > :12:02.low incomes even before the financial crash. That is because of

:12:03. > :12:07.the structure of the economy, connotation from across the world.

:12:08. > :12:13.Not just low skilled jobs but middle skilled jobs are being lost. He

:12:14. > :12:17.identified that first and foremost. We have had many opinion polls where

:12:18. > :12:21.we have had a lead. Some have gone down, some will go up macro. The

:12:22. > :12:25.central issue is how we get our economy to work for ordinary

:12:26. > :12:30.people, not just those of the top. He was the first to identify that I

:12:31. > :12:35.believe we have the policies to sort those problems. I will not call you

:12:36. > :12:37.big beast. That is the least of my worries!

:12:38. > :12:42.Ken wasn't the only big beast to leave cabinet - but he was

:12:43. > :12:56.And yesterday also saw the departure of Foreign Secretary William Hague.

:12:57. > :12:59.So what does this all mean for the Conservative Party and

:13:00. > :13:07.Well Andrew, while David Cameron was reshuffling his ministerial pack

:13:08. > :13:14.yesterday, Jean Claude Juncker was confirmed as the new President - or

:13:15. > :13:18.Cameron thinks his ace in Europe is this man - the relative

:13:19. > :13:24.He is currently the Conservative leader in the House of Lords

:13:25. > :13:28.and now the PM's nominee for European Commissioner.

:13:29. > :13:31.But will Mr Juncker see him as an ace or a joker?

:13:32. > :13:37.He'll be doing the job as Mr Cameron tries to renegotiate Britain's

:13:38. > :13:42.membership of the EU ahead of the proposed in/out referendum in 2017.

:13:43. > :13:46.A referendum in which the new Foreign Secretary - jack of all

:13:47. > :13:50.trades - Philip Hammond, has said he could contemplate voting to leave.

:13:51. > :13:53.And the European Court of Human Rights could also be in the

:13:54. > :13:55.firing line, as the departure of Dominic Grieve as Attorney General

:13:56. > :13:59.is seen as clearing the way for a tougher stance on the human rights

:14:00. > :14:11.And joining us now is UKIP's deputy leader, Paul Nuttall.

:14:12. > :14:19.He is in the entertainment capital of Europe, known as Strasberg. You

:14:20. > :14:24.can see he is enjoying himself. -- Strasbourg. It is the Las Vegas of

:14:25. > :14:36.the German, Franco border. Is this the most Eurosceptic Cabinet we have

:14:37. > :14:39.ever had, Ken Clarke? No, it is not. I am the most outspoken pro-European

:14:40. > :14:47.who has left the Cabinet but I am not the only pro-European by a long

:14:48. > :14:50.way. Who is left? There is nobody in the Cabinet who wants to leave the

:14:51. > :14:57.European Union. The others can speak for themselves. I was in a position

:14:58. > :15:04.as the elder statesman of being slightly more outspoken than some of

:15:05. > :15:16.my colleagues. Pre-Harold Macmillan... I heard Harold

:15:17. > :15:24.Macmillan make an announcement. Let's not go there. What went wrong?

:15:25. > :15:29.I don't know, really. It was a reaction to the fall of Margaret

:15:30. > :15:42.Thatcher, and Conrad Black buying the Daily Telegraph, but this is

:15:43. > :15:46.probably not the time. Paul Nuttall, although Mr Clarke finds it quite

:15:47. > :15:50.hard to admit, this is the most Eurosceptic cabinet that has ever

:15:51. > :15:58.have in this country, certainly on the Tory part of it. It has been put

:15:59. > :16:02.together against you. This is an anti-UKIP cabinet, isn't it? Once

:16:03. > :16:06.again, the Conservatives are trying to play catch up. Cameron has had

:16:07. > :16:10.for years to try to do something about the European Union. The only

:16:11. > :16:14.offered a referendum from a position of weakness because of the strength

:16:15. > :16:18.of UKIP. Cameron remains Prime Minister, and he is a committed

:16:19. > :16:21.Europhile, though he said he would go into the renegotiation, he has

:16:22. > :16:27.already said then he will campaign to stay within the European Union.

:16:28. > :16:29.So negotiations are pie in the sky, and I listened yesterday to

:16:30. > :16:34.Jean-Claude Juncker in the chamber yesterday when he said quite clearly

:16:35. > :16:37.the biggest issue the Briton is freedom of movement of peoples, and

:16:38. > :16:41.that is not on the table. So the whole thing is pie in the sky. As

:16:42. > :16:49.the great Sean Connery once said in the Untouchable in a row macro you

:16:50. > :16:59.don't go to a gunfight carrying a knife. Is Mr Cameron a Europhile? I

:17:00. > :17:08.think he and the Cabinet will recommend a yes vote, and try to

:17:09. > :17:16.negotiate. Is he a Europhile? He is not as pro-Europe is me. Jean-Claude

:17:17. > :17:25.Juncker is not as pro-Europe as you. The idea that David Cameron is an

:17:26. > :17:31.isolationist nationalist, which is what Euroscepticism is sometimes a

:17:32. > :17:35.youth is for -- a euphemism for, is nonsense. Rea that is how he has

:17:36. > :17:40.ended up, not just here, but in other countries. He has not altered

:17:41. > :17:46.the policy, the new Cabinet will not alter the policy that had me in it.

:17:47. > :17:50.The idea is to achieve a process of reform and to exclude people how a

:17:51. > :17:58.modernised, reformed Europe is in British interests. Ken, Ken! Hold

:17:59. > :18:07.on, I want to bring in Liz Kendall. Doesn't labour have to re-burnish

:18:08. > :18:10.its offerings? I am a strongly pro-European politician, because I

:18:11. > :18:14.think it is in our national interests, our jobs and investment

:18:15. > :18:19.depend on it, and it is vital for a whole range of other issues

:18:20. > :18:23.important for the country. What I think the problem... I didn't ask

:18:24. > :18:28.about David Cameron, with respect, I asked about Labour, and I said that

:18:29. > :18:32.Labour's policy does not seem to be in June with the British people.

:18:33. > :18:37.Every time you criticise David Cameron, whether it was the veto a

:18:38. > :18:41.couple of years ago, or being out on a limb over Juncker, his poll

:18:42. > :18:45.ratings rise. OK, but sometimes you have to argue what you believe in,

:18:46. > :18:51.and I believe that a reformed Europe that is turbo-charging jobs and

:18:52. > :18:55.growth with proper reform... What makes you think you will ever get

:18:56. > :19:03.that? I believe there are countries you can build alliances with, who

:19:04. > :19:06.want to see... Did you listen to Mr Juncker yesterday? Actually, when we

:19:07. > :19:11.were in government, the way that we got change was by building

:19:12. > :19:14.alliances, often across political parties with leaders of different

:19:15. > :19:22.persuasions, about how Europe has to change. If your approach is about

:19:23. > :19:26.repatriating powers alone, rather than the bigger prize, which is a

:19:27. > :19:31.reformed Europe, that is a mistake. You could be electing your pension

:19:32. > :19:37.by the time that happens. Why are you soap as a mystic about change?

:19:38. > :19:46.Because I have told people tell you, like -- tell me, like you, like Ken,

:19:47. > :19:50.that we will change, and it never happens. Can I explain why we are in

:19:51. > :19:55.a different situation now? Number one, because we have had the

:19:56. > :20:06.financial crash, and that is more a kick up the proverbial than anything

:20:07. > :20:09.that has happened before. Quite frankly, we should have spent the

:20:10. > :20:13.last couple of weeks not talking about jobs for the boys, but jobs

:20:14. > :20:20.for people in this country across Europe. Paul Nuttall is still with

:20:21. > :20:23.us, what do you make of all that? Repatriations of powers is not on

:20:24. > :20:26.the table. Mr Juncker made that perfectly clear for is that what he

:20:27. > :20:30.said was he was not opposed to it but it would require the support of

:20:31. > :20:34.27 other member states so it just isn't going to happen. The way that

:20:35. > :20:41.this guy was appointed guest today, backroom deals, behind closed doors

:20:42. > :20:45.-- appointed yesterday, and Mr Juncker is the epitome of it. This

:20:46. > :20:50.place is not going to change. It is going to roll on. They have pushed

:20:51. > :20:58.us closer to the exit door, which is a good thing. Why are you taking a

:20:59. > :21:08.dive in the polls? We are not. ICN gets us consistently wrong. You are

:21:09. > :21:19.now down to 9%. In one ICN poll, if it was other ones, I would worry, I

:21:20. > :21:23.am not bothered about this one. I know he used to be your special

:21:24. > :21:29.adviser, but this chap, Jonathan Hill, that no one seems to have

:21:30. > :21:32.heard of, why put a total unknown as the British commissioner candidate,

:21:33. > :21:38.and at the same time expect to be given a major job, a major economic

:21:39. > :21:43.portfolio? Surely this makes it a lots less likely? The European

:21:44. > :21:56.Commissioners are not all high profile national politicians. Cathy

:21:57. > :22:02.Ashton, never mind Mandelson, she has done a very good job actually,

:22:03. > :22:05.the higher representative, the foreign affairs leader in the

:22:06. > :22:12.council. If you had heard of Cathy Ashton before she was sent there, I

:22:13. > :22:16.would be very surprised indeed. Jonathan Hill firstly had the great

:22:17. > :22:22.privilege of working with me as my legal aid when we were in employment

:22:23. > :22:29.in DTI. He was John Major's right-hand man. When John Major was

:22:30. > :22:33.Prime Minister. He has been back in government for some time. He has

:22:34. > :22:35.been in the Cabinet to some time. He understands the economy and

:22:36. > :22:43.business, you made money in business. To say he is a wheeler

:22:44. > :22:47.dealer operator is wrong, I am sure he can do that, it is part of

:22:48. > :22:55.politics, but he is actually extremely intelligent. Let's go back

:22:56. > :22:58.to Liz Kendall, this thing we could be on the brink of some massive

:22:59. > :23:06.European reform. I didn't say that, Andrew. I said that is what our goal

:23:07. > :23:09.has got to be. I believe we have chances to do it, we would have to

:23:10. > :23:15.work very hard on it and it won't happen with this government. We now

:23:16. > :23:22.have is a president of the European Commission somebody who yesterday

:23:23. > :23:26.said that he regarded the euro is the thing, the mechanism that had

:23:27. > :23:31.saved the European Union, had been great for the European Union, and

:23:32. > :23:39.that that was the kind of Europe you wanted. If that is the case, shall I

:23:40. > :23:44.tell you what youth unemployment is in Spain, Italy? No, you don't need

:23:45. > :23:50.to tell me things like that. It was not caused by the euro. I know there

:23:51. > :23:55.are horrific levels of unemployment. How will you get a coalition to

:23:56. > :23:59.change with attitudes like that? I think it is probably more about

:24:00. > :24:03.getting the leaders of the different countries who believe that Europe

:24:04. > :24:05.needs to reform to get agreement. I am not saying the president of the

:24:06. > :24:10.commission or the commissioners don't have an important role, but I

:24:11. > :24:13.think ultimately it is about the leaders of the different European

:24:14. > :24:17.countries coming together and realising, Europe has got to change

:24:18. > :24:21.if we are going to focus on the things that matter to people. To the

:24:22. > :24:28.people we are supposed to represent. It is very general. In the end, I

:24:29. > :24:31.think it is about the leaders of the country. The European Commission

:24:32. > :24:37.president has a role. Juncker was right about one thing yesterday, you

:24:38. > :24:44.cannot change the free movement of people. No one is proposing that we

:24:45. > :24:49.do. Excuse me, your party is. You have a UKIP guy who brings it back

:24:50. > :24:52.to immigration. If you are to say the whole argument is about bigotry

:24:53. > :24:55.and prejudice, fair enough. The changes we wish to make is to make

:24:56. > :25:00.it clearer that people cannot come here just to claim benefit. Not many

:25:01. > :25:04.do, not many have, we are not very good at reporting it, we and the

:25:05. > :25:09.Germans and everyone else. There are 2 million Brits working in Europe.

:25:10. > :25:12.Paul Nuttall, I will give you the final word because you have the most

:25:13. > :25:21.difficult gig this morning, being down the line. Bring us back to

:25:22. > :25:24.immigration, come on! It is bigoted to be concerned about immigration,

:25:25. > :25:28.but you go into any council estate in the North of England, or places

:25:29. > :25:32.like Essex, and say that, when we have a million of our own kids

:25:33. > :25:34.unemployed. What we need to do is to control our own borders, have a

:25:35. > :25:39.points -based system to everyone where we can choose who comes and

:25:40. > :25:43.who doesn't into our country. While we have freedom of movement of

:25:44. > :25:49.peoples, that is not possible. We will have to leave it there.

:25:50. > :25:58.Now, a reminder yesterday, as if we needed one,

:25:59. > :26:01.of why it's safer to broadcast from a hermetically sealed studio.

:26:02. > :26:03.Never mind the wind, rain and occasionally disruptive

:26:04. > :26:07.As he tried to update viewers on the latest on the reshuffle, Sky's

:26:08. > :26:11.Political Editor, Adam Boulton, was stopped in mid-flow - by a fly.

:26:12. > :26:19.if we look at the changing complexion of this Cabinet, compared

:26:20. > :26:28.to the last one, the one yesterday, and what we can see is... . Graeme

:26:29. > :26:35.ad, do you want to take a pause? You have been talking nonstop. Are you

:26:36. > :26:42.OK? I swallowed a fly. I have recovered now. He did well there to

:26:43. > :26:48.recover. I have been asked to point out that an animal was hurt. Who

:26:49. > :26:54.knows what happened to the fly. We do sympathise with your plight. We

:26:55. > :26:57.have the perfect remedy. Filled with hot or cold liquid,

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:27:28. > :27:29.because I was not prepared to tolerate a situation of continuing

:27:30. > :27:57.violence. We have decided that the National

:27:58. > :28:14.union of Mineworkers shall organise a return to work on choose day.

:28:15. > :28:38.And you can see the full terms and conditions for Guess The Year

:28:39. > :28:39.on our website, that's bbc.co.uk/dailypolitics.

:28:40. > :28:42.It's coming up to midday here, just take a look at Big Ben,

:28:43. > :29:03.Yes, Prime Minister's Questions is on its way.

:29:04. > :29:08.It is the final PMQs of the summer, so if you would like to comment on

:29:09. > :29:18.proceedings, you can e-mail us, And that's not all;

:29:19. > :29:29.Nick Robinson is here. Mr Miliband has not been in the news

:29:30. > :29:35.recently. It has been the Tory, reshuffle, other matters. He will be

:29:36. > :29:40.in the news very soon because he is going to the White House. There was

:29:41. > :29:44.a report on the Today programme, he will be there and very soon, next

:29:45. > :29:48.week. Ed Miliband will make his visit to the White House. I don't

:29:49. > :29:51.think he will mention that. He will try to put his own characterisation

:29:52. > :29:56.on the reshuffle, because he knows that the right throughs in the

:29:57. > :30:00.Sunday paper will have to characterise it in a particular way

:30:01. > :30:04.and he needs to put his imprint on the reshuffle. With these very good

:30:05. > :30:07.employment statistics, he has to be very wary that David Cameron doesn't

:30:08. > :30:10.say again you don't want to talk about the economy, you asked me

:30:11. > :30:17.about health, about this, about that, it is time you spoke about the

:30:18. > :30:20.economy. The unemployment figures are incredible, amazing how quick it

:30:21. > :30:25.has gone down, but average earnings fell yet again. And yesterday or the

:30:26. > :30:29.day before, I can't run a ball which, inflation went up as well, so

:30:30. > :30:35.the gap between earnings and prices, which everyone expected to start a

:30:36. > :30:39.narrow now, is actually widening again. Which allows Ed Miliband to

:30:40. > :30:44.say that the cost of living crisis, as he calls it, is not a short-term

:30:45. > :30:48.thing, it is for the long-term. It would be surprising if he was not to

:30:49. > :30:52.use this last opportunity before the summer to try and reinforce that. He

:30:53. > :30:56.has to do a good performance because he has had, frankly, a difficult

:30:57. > :31:01.couple of months, but he has his visit to the White House today, he

:31:02. > :31:03.also has the national policy reform, Labour's big policy-making

:31:04. > :31:13.conference this weekend. There will be a big speech on Saturday when we

:31:14. > :31:23.Are planning to campaign on the summer months? -- are they planning.

:31:24. > :31:28.Labour got it kicking last time from political journalists. I was

:31:29. > :31:32.speaking to a Labour insider at the other day and there is an obsession

:31:33. > :31:38.with having several stories a day during the summer to make up for

:31:39. > :31:39.that. Let's go over to the final Prime Minister's Questions of the

:31:40. > :31:43.summer. In addition to my duties in this

:31:44. > :31:51.House, I shall have further meetings today. Given his commitment to

:31:52. > :31:58.equality, with the Prime Minister explain why 75% of his cabinet are

:31:59. > :32:06.still men? I think the honourable lady is being a little bit churlish.

:32:07. > :32:13.The government before my one had four women Cabinet ministers and

:32:14. > :32:16.three additional women attending cabinet. We have five members of the

:32:17. > :32:22.covenant and an additional three attending. In terms of the

:32:23. > :32:27.Conservative Party, I am leading a coalition government. When it comes

:32:28. > :32:38.to Conservatives sitting around the Cabinet table, I am proud to say one

:32:39. > :32:40.third of them are now women. Having -- having rightly reaffirmed

:32:41. > :32:47.his confidence in the Transport Secretary, can I urge my right

:32:48. > :32:53.honourable friend to urge him to give early priority to the

:32:54. > :32:59.improvement of the railway line serving East Anglia? I am well aware

:33:00. > :33:03.of this problem and some of the campaigns and I know my right

:33:04. > :33:06.honourable friend, the transport minister, now backed by a larger

:33:07. > :33:16.team of ministers in the transport department, will give that their

:33:17. > :33:22.urgent attention. Mr Ed Miliband. Mr Speaker, we have always said that

:33:23. > :33:27.we will support the Government when they do the right thing. So can I

:33:28. > :33:32.join thousands of parents across the country in congratulating him on

:33:33. > :33:44.getting rid of the Education Secretary. Why did he demote him? To

:33:45. > :33:51.answer the question... I hope the whole House can come together in

:33:52. > :33:55.this way, which is the right honourable member for North West

:33:56. > :34:00.Hampshire has served in this House of Commons for over 40 years and he

:34:01. > :34:04.will be retiring at the next election. And so when it came to

:34:05. > :34:09.replacing an extra ordinary politician, and someone who has

:34:10. > :34:13.given so much to this country, as the Chief Whip, I wanted to find the

:34:14. > :34:19.very best candidate and I am proud to have done so in the former

:34:20. > :34:24.Education Secretary. He has obviously got a very short memory,

:34:25. > :34:28.Mr Speaker. This is what he used to say about the Education Secretary. I

:34:29. > :34:35.want to trust the Education Secretary to get on with that job

:34:36. > :34:39.for many years. Rather than saying, I am now going to show view over

:34:40. > :34:44.somewhere else. Why did he do it? Is it the shortage of primary school

:34:45. > :34:50.places? The unqualified teachers or the failure of his free school 's?

:34:51. > :34:55.He achieved a record number of academies, new free schools,

:34:56. > :35:02.standards are rising the country and reforms that will endure. But isn't

:35:03. > :35:07.it extraordinary, not a day of a record -- on the day of a record

:35:08. > :35:11.increase in employment in our country, he will do anything not to

:35:12. > :35:17.talk about economic recovery, deficit falling, economy growing,

:35:18. > :35:20.numbers of work increasing. I am not surprised he does not want to talk

:35:21. > :35:27.about people in work, his own job looks a bit shaky. I am bound to say

:35:28. > :35:30.if it has all been such a great success, I still don't know why he

:35:31. > :35:41.said -- sacked the Education Secretary. Let's talk about the

:35:42. > :35:45.figures. The economic recovery is not benefiting most working people,

:35:46. > :35:51.who are working harder for a longer for less. There are 7 million people

:35:52. > :35:55.who are in working families who are paid so little they are in poverty.

:35:56. > :36:03.Does he think the economy is working for them. Let me bring the House

:36:04. > :36:11.up-to-date on the unemployment figures. We see employment by

:36:12. > :36:15.254,000 this quarter. We see women's employment up. We see youth

:36:16. > :36:20.unemployment up. And we see the unemployment count falling by

:36:21. > :36:24.121,000. And we have reached an important milestone in our country,

:36:25. > :36:29.which is more people in work in our country than ever before in our

:36:30. > :36:33.history. We can now say that since this government came to office,

:36:34. > :36:40.there are 1.8 million more people in work. That is a record that we can

:36:41. > :36:43.be proud of. And something that the Labour leader has raised a week

:36:44. > :36:47.after week, long-term youth unemployment, that is now lower than

:36:48. > :36:53.when this comment came to office. Now of course it is disappointing

:36:54. > :36:56.that pays not rising faster. But let me remind him what the director of

:36:57. > :37:01.the Institute for fiscal studies said. He said that we have had a

:37:02. > :37:05.great big recession. The biggest recession in 100 years. It would be

:37:06. > :37:09.astonishing of household incomes have not fallen and earnings have

:37:10. > :37:14.not fallen. That is what has happened. We know who is responsible

:37:15. > :37:20.for the great economic recession. Extraordinarily, they are still in

:37:21. > :37:28.their jobs. He is in his fifth year as Prime Minister and all he can do

:37:29. > :37:34.is try and blame someone else. And he just does not get it. He just

:37:35. > :37:36.doesn't get it. This week we saw shocking figures about another group

:37:37. > :37:41.suffering from the cost of living crisis. Millions of young people

:37:42. > :37:45.whose earnings are falling faster than everyone else. One in four of

:37:46. > :37:50.them living with their parents because they cannot afford to buy a

:37:51. > :37:55.house or even rent one. Does he honestly think they are feeling the

:37:56. > :37:59.benefit of the recovery? Of course we want living standards to recover

:38:00. > :38:02.faster. There are two things you need to do to make that happen.

:38:03. > :38:05.Firstly, get more people into work. We want living standards to recover

:38:06. > :38:11.faster. There are two things you need to do to make that happen.

:38:12. > :38:16.Firstly, get more people into work. -- yesterday Labour announced it is

:38:17. > :38:20.their policy to put up taxes on middle income people. Perhaps he can

:38:21. > :38:26.get to his feet and tell us which taxes on which people. I ask the

:38:27. > :38:31.questions and he fails to answer them. And the reality is he has the

:38:32. > :38:42.worst record on living standards of any prime minister in history. But

:38:43. > :38:45.there is one group... I will tell them what is weak. It is saying a

:38:46. > :38:50.month ago he is happy with his team and then sacking part of his team.

:38:51. > :38:54.There is one group feeling the benefit of the recovery. Can he

:38:55. > :39:00.confirmed that while average pay is down ?1600 a year since the last

:39:01. > :39:08.election, last year the top 1% took home an extra ?15 billion after the

:39:09. > :39:11.millionaires tax cut? I am happy with my team. Looking at the Shadow

:39:12. > :39:20.Chancellor, I am pretty happy with his team, too. Let me explain that

:39:21. > :39:23.one of the things which happened yesterday was the deputy leader of

:39:24. > :39:27.the Labour Party on the radio said this. I think people on middle

:39:28. > :39:34.incomes should contribute more through their taxes. That is what

:39:35. > :39:39.she said. There we are. That is their policy. The squeezed middle

:39:40. > :39:45.will be squeezed more. Now he needs to tell us which people are going to

:39:46. > :39:51.pay which taxes, because on this side of the House we have cut

:39:52. > :39:56.council tax, petrol duty, the jobs tax, we have increased the marriage

:39:57. > :40:00.couple's allowance. Labour will put a tax on your job, your mortgage,

:40:01. > :40:09.your home and your pension. Where are the middle income tax? --

:40:10. > :40:12.coming? This is totally desperate stuff. He has nothing to say about

:40:13. > :40:19.the cost of living crisis. That is the reality. His reshuffle had

:40:20. > :40:22.nothing to do with the country and everything to do with his party.

:40:23. > :40:27.After four years of this government we have a recovery people cannot

:40:28. > :40:32.feel, a cost of living crisis people cannot deny and a prime Minister

:40:33. > :40:35.people cannot believe. He talks about five years under this

:40:36. > :40:39.government. We have got record numbers in work. The economy

:40:40. > :40:47.growing. Record numbers of businesses. Record numbers of women

:40:48. > :40:54.in work. In this party, the leader reshuffles the party -- the Cabinet.

:40:55. > :41:02.In his party, the Shadow Cabinet desperately want to reshuffle the

:41:03. > :41:07.leader. I am sure the right honourable

:41:08. > :41:18.gentleman is delighted to be lauded in such fashion. It is just like the

:41:19. > :41:21.old days, Mr Speaker! Mr Speaker, as the prime minister is enjoying a

:41:22. > :41:26.week in which he is making a lot of new best friends, when he gets to

:41:27. > :41:30.the Brussels summit, would he give a particularly warm greeting to the

:41:31. > :41:38.man who may yet be his best, certainly his newest, Mr Juncker,

:41:39. > :41:42.who yesterday called for more European reform and one applicant

:41:43. > :41:45.states who want to join the European Union face a complex, difficult and

:41:46. > :41:53.drawn-out period of up to perhaps five years? As we don't meet before

:41:54. > :41:58.the Scottish referendum, barring a recall, shouldn't the Scottish

:41:59. > :42:01.voters bear those words in mind? This is a remarkable moment where

:42:02. > :42:05.the right honourable gentleman, Jean-Claude Juncker, has said

:42:06. > :42:10.something with which I wholeheartedly agreed. It is

:42:11. > :42:13.noticeable what he said. That there would not be new members joining the

:42:14. > :42:16.European Union and the next five years. That is very important in the

:42:17. > :42:21.context of the Scottish referendum debate. He says we're not going to

:42:22. > :42:24.meet again before the Scottish referendum. In terms of my diary, I

:42:25. > :42:31.think the House of Commons will be in September. Can the prime Minister

:42:32. > :42:36.explain why he has now given more knighthoods to men that he sacked

:42:37. > :42:43.and he has given Cabinet jobs to women? Always interesting to take a

:42:44. > :42:47.lecture from a party that gave a knighthood to Fred Goodwin! I have

:42:48. > :42:51.appointed more women to the front bench, more women to the Cabinet, on

:42:52. > :42:55.the basis they deserve those jobs. I want a team that reflects modern

:42:56. > :43:00.Britain and can be everything that modern Britain needed to be. I make

:43:01. > :43:04.no apology for saying that I think in public life we should recognise

:43:05. > :43:07.public service, people who have worked hard, who have contributed to

:43:08. > :43:14.our nation, our government, I think it is a good thing to do. Mr

:43:15. > :43:18.Speaker, people with autism have specific social and communications

:43:19. > :43:23.needs which can cause distress and misunderstanding, particularly when

:43:24. > :43:27.they are admitted to hospital for a routine or emergency treatment. With

:43:28. > :43:32.the Prime Minister join me in congratulating Baroness Angela Brown

:43:33. > :43:37.and the National Autistic Society, who tomorrow are going to launch the

:43:38. > :43:40.new hospital passport for people with autism? I think that will make

:43:41. > :43:46.a great difference to a lot of people's lights in this country. I

:43:47. > :43:50.thank the honourable lady, my right honourable friend, from raising this

:43:51. > :43:54.issue. Baroness Browning has worked very hard on this issue over the

:43:55. > :43:58.years, as has my right honourable friend, with the autism Bill, which

:43:59. > :44:03.is making a huge difference to the way we help young people with these

:44:04. > :44:10.conditions. I absolutely join her in making sure these services are

:44:11. > :44:14.properly put together. Given the recent data shows the gender pay gap

:44:15. > :44:18.is increasing again, can the prime Minister confirm the excellent news

:44:19. > :44:22.that any woman not receiving equal pay for equal work will have their

:44:23. > :44:29.salary topped up from Tory party funds? What I would say to the

:44:30. > :44:33.honourable gentleman is the first of all it is welcome news that under

:44:34. > :44:37.this government the pay gap and those below the age of 40 has all

:44:38. > :44:41.but disappeared. We are making progress. In terms of the leader of

:44:42. > :44:43.the house of lords, I am happy to confirm she would do the same job as

:44:44. > :44:47.her confirm she would do the

:44:48. > :44:55.predecessor, and receive the same amount of money. Charlotte Helix is

:44:56. > :45:00.part of an international research project seeking to establish a link

:45:01. > :45:03.between the DNA of anorexia nervosa sufferers. This afternoon the

:45:04. > :45:07.project is coming to Parliament seeking to obtain DNA samples from

:45:08. > :45:12.former sufferers, including my honourable friend, the member for

:45:13. > :45:21.Braintree. Will my right honourable friend commend the work done by

:45:22. > :45:31.Charlotte I very much thank my honourable friend for raising this

:45:32. > :45:34.issue. I would commend the bravery of all those who have spoken out

:45:35. > :45:38.about their experience with eating disorders. It is not an easy thing

:45:39. > :45:41.to do. We need to learn more about his condition so we can provide the

:45:42. > :45:51.right kind of support, and in that context I think what the government

:45:52. > :45:55.is doing is important as well. Mr Speaker, we now know for certain

:45:56. > :46:02.that taxpayers last year were robbed of around ?1 billion because of the

:46:03. > :46:08.botched Argand basement fire sale of Royal mail. Will he now do as the

:46:09. > :46:13.select committee have asked, and publish the list of those

:46:14. > :46:19.preferential investors, and when will somebody be held to account for

:46:20. > :46:22.this right Royal mail fiasco? I have to say, I just completely disagree

:46:23. > :46:28.with the honourable gentleman. For year after year, Royal mail lost

:46:29. > :46:33.money, the taxpayer had to back it up, and we have achieved what no

:46:34. > :46:36.previous government have achieved, the successful privatisation of the

:46:37. > :46:40.Royal mail. The taxpayer has received money from that sale and we

:46:41. > :46:47.now receive the tax on the profits of Royal mail, rather than the

:46:48. > :46:51.mismanagement of the Labour years. Mr Speaker, later this year in North

:46:52. > :46:55.Yorkshire will become the best connected county, in terms of

:46:56. > :47:01.superfast broadband. It is usually helpful for the growing hospitality

:47:02. > :47:07.and tourism industry, and received a recent boost from the visit of the

:47:08. > :47:13.Tour de France. Does my right honourable friend agree that rolling

:47:14. > :47:16.out superfast broadband is a great boost for all sectors, not just

:47:17. > :47:22.hospitality, to help build on the wonderful economic legacy of the

:47:23. > :47:24.Tour de France? Can I first of all thank my honourable friend that he

:47:25. > :47:29.gave me and the people of Harrogate gave me for the Tour de France, the

:47:30. > :47:33.completion of that final stage, marred only by Mark Cavendish's very

:47:34. > :47:36.tragic accident in the Tour de France, but it was an extraordinary

:47:37. > :47:45.event and showed his constituency and the whole of Yorkshire it

:47:46. > :47:49.absolutely in it best light. We are putting ?790 million into superfast

:47:50. > :47:53.broadband access, we have around 400,000 new premises being upgraded

:47:54. > :47:57.every week. I think frankly everyone in this house has a duty to get out

:47:58. > :48:03.there and help to advertise what is happening with broadband, and to

:48:04. > :48:11.encourage take-up rates. Thank you, Mr Speaker, it is fundamental, is it

:48:12. > :48:16.not, that the holder of the office of Attorney General should be fairly

:48:17. > :48:25.independent, defend the rule of law, and be ready to speak legal truth to

:48:26. > :48:29.power. Given the distinction and respect with which the holder of

:48:30. > :48:34.that office pursued that role, what possessed the Prime Minister to

:48:35. > :48:39.dismiss him yesterday? First of all, can I absolutely say I absolutely

:48:40. > :48:43.agree with the right honourable gentleman that the Attorney General

:48:44. > :48:46.gives on varnished, independent advice, but I also believe in

:48:47. > :48:50.government that when someone has served extremely well for four

:48:51. > :48:53.years, there are often times when it is right to bring on new talent, and

:48:54. > :48:57.to make the most of all the talent you have in your party. That is the

:48:58. > :49:02.approach I take as Simon is to, and I explained that very clearly to my

:49:03. > :49:04.team. Mr Speaker, the number of young people coming off the

:49:05. > :49:12.unemployment register across North Yorkshire is at a record high. Would

:49:13. > :49:14.the Prime Minister agree that today's small business bill,

:49:15. > :49:19.Conservative inspired, is yet another boost to the women and men

:49:20. > :49:23.who are creating the jobs to make this happen? I thank my honourable

:49:24. > :49:27.friend for his question, today's bill will help make the United

:49:28. > :49:31.Kingdom the most attractive and easy place to start, finance and grow a

:49:32. > :49:36.small business. That is our ambition. He is absolutely right

:49:37. > :49:39.about these unemployment figures, in his own constituency, the claimant

:49:40. > :49:47.count has fallen by 37% in the last year, I50 since the election.

:49:48. > :49:52.Long-term youth claimant count, because this is the most important

:49:53. > :49:55.thing, to make that young people are getting those opportunities -- to

:49:56. > :50:02.make sure, it is down 60% in the last year. The last two European

:50:03. > :50:08.commissioners from the UK have held major portfolios, central to our

:50:09. > :50:13.interest. The outgoing commissioner has been the spokesperson for

:50:14. > :50:18.foreign affairs, and her predecessor helped the trade portfolio. So can I

:50:19. > :50:23.ask the Prime Minister what post does he hope to secure for his

:50:24. > :50:28.nominee, Lord Hill, is the consolation prize for his failure to

:50:29. > :50:33.stop the appointment of Mr Juncker? And how, this time, does he intend

:50:34. > :50:38.to build support for his objective? First of all, I think it is a good

:50:39. > :50:42.moment for everyone across the house to pay tribute to Cathy Ashton,

:50:43. > :50:45.effectively the Foreign Minister for Europe, over the last four years, in

:50:46. > :50:50.what is a gruelling and exhausting job. I think there is an

:50:51. > :50:53.opportunity, whether there will be a resolution or not, I don't know, but

:50:54. > :50:58.I think there is an opportunity to make sure that Britain has an

:50:59. > :51:02.important portfolio, one where we can maximise our influence in the

:51:03. > :51:07.areas we care about most, which are areas to do with our economy, and we

:51:08. > :51:10.will work very hard to do that. I think Lord Hill, with his experience

:51:11. > :51:15.in the previous Conservative government, and this government,

:51:16. > :51:18.holding as it is this equivalent post Baroness Ashton held before she

:51:19. > :51:24.became a Commissioner, will do a very good job for our country. As

:51:25. > :51:28.you know, my constituency is very dependent on investment in the oil

:51:29. > :51:32.and gas industry, where the unemployment rate is currently 0.5%.

:51:33. > :51:35.Therefore the Prime Minister will understand there is some concern

:51:36. > :51:41.with the reshuffle where both the Treasury Minister and the energy

:51:42. > :51:49.manager Hull Minister responsible for that industry has changed again

:51:50. > :51:53.-- the energy minister responsible. I think my honourable friend makes

:51:54. > :51:58.an important point, North Sea oil is absolutely vital, making sure we

:51:59. > :52:01.have the tax regime appropriately in place and implementing the Would

:52:02. > :52:10.review is something we are committed to. -- the Wood review. On the 4th

:52:11. > :52:14.of August, people from across the country will come together to mark

:52:15. > :52:17.100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. It is an important

:52:18. > :52:20.opportunity to commemorate a conflict that changed Britain for

:52:21. > :52:26.ever. Can I asked the primaries to if he will join for us supporting

:52:27. > :52:29.the 1418 now lights out campaign, and if he will encourage people

:52:30. > :52:35.across the UK to turn out their lights between ten and 11pm on the

:52:36. > :52:39.4th of August, so, as a country, we can pay fitting tribute to those who

:52:40. > :52:44.sacrificed and serve our country a hundred years ago? I think the

:52:45. > :52:53.honourable gentleman is right to recommend this campaign, I think it

:52:54. > :53:00.is a way to get particularly young people engaged in what happened a

:53:01. > :53:03.century ago, and to understand the consequences for Europe, the world

:53:04. > :53:06.and our society. There are a lot of events that will take place to

:53:07. > :53:09.commemorate appropriately the First World War. One of the most

:53:10. > :53:15.significant will be tomorrow, when the Imperial War Museum, has a major

:53:16. > :53:18.investment and is reopening for the public. I know my own George and

:53:19. > :53:25.enjoy going there, many people I hope will make the best of it. With

:53:26. > :53:27.the Northwest and Cheshire's proud history of contribute in

:53:28. > :53:32.significantly to our national economy, with my right honourable

:53:33. > :53:37.friend agree how rapidly the safety of element of fracking is to boost

:53:38. > :53:42.the competitors of the country, but also in the north-west to continue

:53:43. > :53:45.to be a significant contributor to our wealth and welfare? My right

:53:46. > :53:49.honourable friend makes a significant point, and it is true

:53:50. > :53:52.that in the Northwest we have seen the claimant count in his

:53:53. > :53:56.constituency come down 40% in the last year, but if we want to sustain

:53:57. > :54:00.the increase in employment and sustained economic growth, we should

:54:01. > :54:05.not hold ourselves back from new of energy, including unconventional

:54:06. > :54:11.gas. And it is striking that in the United States they have something

:54:12. > :54:14.like 100,000 unconventional gas wells dug, whereas in the whole of

:54:15. > :54:20.Europe it is something like 100. We have is about three quarters of as

:54:21. > :54:31.much of unconventional gas in the US there is in America, I don't want us

:54:32. > :54:34.to miss out. -- in the new as there is in America. -- in the European

:54:35. > :54:38.Union. Parliament might be about to break down for the summer, but can I

:54:39. > :54:43.tell the Prime Minister that even that won't stop people having

:54:44. > :54:48.babies, getting injured and needing routine emergency care on the NHS.

:54:49. > :54:52.So, in the light of the forthcoming report into safety at Stafford

:54:53. > :54:55.hospital by the sea QC, can he have a word with his friend, the

:54:56. > :55:00.Chancellor of the Exchequer, and make sure that the Treasury is going

:55:01. > :55:03.to fund, in full, the changes to health services across North

:55:04. > :55:06.Staffordshire that the University hospital in Stoke-on-Trent has to

:55:07. > :55:13.provide, and which has to provide at no extra cost to the health of

:55:14. > :55:17.people in Stoke-on-Trent? I take into account what the honourable

:55:18. > :55:19.lady says, I am regularly advised about the situation in

:55:20. > :55:24.Staffordshire. Changes need to take place. This inspection is absolutely

:55:25. > :55:27.vital. I think the important thing in the health service is to not try

:55:28. > :55:32.to hide problems but properly address them. Today, Bruce Keogh is

:55:33. > :55:35.reporting a year on from his report when he took something like 11

:55:36. > :55:41.hospitals into special measures, and what he'll show is that all of them

:55:42. > :55:45.are making improvements, five of them are able to come out of special

:55:46. > :55:49.measures, and making sure we make improvements in all of our

:55:50. > :55:53.hospitals. I thank the Prime Minister for supporting the West

:55:54. > :55:59.Country, particularly the Railway Inn Dawlish and -- the railway in

:56:00. > :56:15.Dawlish and broadband. I think the honourable lady makes an

:56:16. > :56:18.important point. We must continue supporting transport infrastructure

:56:19. > :56:21.in the south-west. We have the important report on Dawlish coming

:56:22. > :56:26.out. The work is being done right now, in terms of making sure it is

:56:27. > :56:29.more resilient. We have had the important announcement about the

:56:30. > :56:32.sleeper service down to the south-west, and announcement about a

:56:33. > :56:36.number of other road and rail schemes. I will look very carefully

:56:37. > :56:40.watches says about fair funding, but it is very important that everyone

:56:41. > :56:47.can see that these situations are fair. The office will budget

:56:48. > :56:50.responsible to show that the government's new system of school

:56:51. > :56:55.fees will add ?15 billion more expected to the government debt than

:56:56. > :56:59.expected by the end of the parliament. Hasn't the government

:57:00. > :57:03.got it all wrong when it comes to cherish and fees? What we were told,

:57:04. > :57:06.Mr Speaker, by the party opposite was that no one would take up these

:57:07. > :57:11.loans, no one from poorer backgrounds would go to university,

:57:12. > :57:16.and the numbers going to university would collapse. What has actually

:57:17. > :57:19.happened is record numbers are going to universities, record numbers from

:57:20. > :57:24.lower income homes are going. Obviously, we need to make sure that

:57:25. > :57:27.the system is cost efficient, but I am satisfied it is working, and the

:57:28. > :57:32.Chancellor announced in his recent budget that far from having problems

:57:33. > :57:36.with the funding, we are uncapped in the numbers that can go to

:57:37. > :57:41.university. That is the aspiration society we are building in this

:57:42. > :57:47.country. Unemployment has more than halved in my constituency since

:57:48. > :57:52.2010. York is poised to benefit from a multiple Ian Pannell benefit

:57:53. > :57:59.through three -- multi-million pound benefit. Would my right honourable

:58:00. > :58:03.friend not agree that this clearly demonstrates our commitment to

:58:04. > :58:12.tackling the north-South divide, and delivering a northern lead economic

:58:13. > :58:15.plan? I am delighted to share with my honourable friend that the

:58:16. > :58:20.claimant count in his constituency is down by 42% over the last year,

:58:21. > :58:23.and down by 61% since the election. I know Labour don't want to hear

:58:24. > :58:27.about falling unemployment numbers, the numbers of people in work, but

:58:28. > :58:31.the fact is every single one of these people getting a job is about

:58:32. > :58:35.someone having a livelihood and the chance to provide for their family,

:58:36. > :58:40.that is what this is about. He is absolutely right to raise the

:58:41. > :58:44.importance of the agricultural industries and linked industries in

:58:45. > :58:47.Yorkshire. I am sure that the new agriculture and environmental

:58:48. > :58:54.secretary will want to make an early visit to her birthplace of

:58:55. > :58:59.Yorkshire. Specialist spinal cord injury beds are a precious resource

:59:00. > :59:05.for people and patients in desperate need. Why is it, therefore, that on

:59:06. > :59:11.the Prime Minister's watch, specialist beds at the Stoke

:59:12. > :59:16.Mandeville spinal injuries centre of being used for people who do not

:59:17. > :59:20.have spinal cord injuries? Obviously, decisions are for

:59:21. > :59:23.individual trusts and individual clinical commissioning groups

:59:24. > :59:28.themselves, but we made two important decisions as a government,

:59:29. > :59:32.first to fund the NHS with extra money, ?12.7 billion in this

:59:33. > :59:36.Parliament, and second to abolish the bureaucracy that had built up

:59:37. > :59:40.under Labour with 17,000 fewer bureaucrats. Both those decisions

:59:41. > :59:45.were opposed by the Labour Party, but we can see 7000 more doctors,

:59:46. > :59:51.4000 more nurses, more patients treated and an NHS that is doing

:59:52. > :59:57.well. Mr Speaker, in the recent case of Nicholson on the question of

:59:58. > :00:04.assisted dying, Lord Neuberger said that Parliament had the opportunity

:00:05. > :00:08.to reform the law, in the knowledge that if Parliament does not act, the

:00:09. > :00:12.courts may. This could raise serious constitutional issues. Does he agree

:00:13. > :00:24.that whatever your views on the subject, what the public really want

:00:25. > :00:31.is a debate in this house? First of all, I would say it is good that a

:00:32. > :00:36.debate is being held and it would be worthwhile reading the debate that

:00:37. > :00:42.takes place on Friday in the other place. I am very happy for a debate

:00:43. > :00:46.to be held here, and there are now opportunities for backbenchers to

:00:47. > :00:47.hold debates in the chamber, and I am sure the new Leader of the House

:00:48. > :00:48.of Commons, who I am sure we all want to welcome to his place, will

:00:49. > :00:50.be listening carefully to that request. For myself, I am not

:00:51. > :00:54.convinced that further steps need to be taken. I worry about legalising

:00:55. > :00:58.euthanasia, and people might be pushed into things that they don't

:00:59. > :01:07.actually want for themselves, but by all means let's have the debate. to

:01:08. > :01:13.returning to the issue of taxes and the wealthy, when will the Prime

:01:14. > :01:19.Minister publishes tax return? On the subject of taxes and

:01:20. > :01:23.middle-income people, when will we get an answer from Labour about what

:01:24. > :01:29.was it the deputy leader of the party meant when she said, and let

:01:30. > :01:35.me repeat it, that she thinks people on middle incomes should contribute

:01:36. > :01:43.more through their taxes? There is one party in this house with a big

:01:44. > :01:47.tax problem and I am looking at it. Given that poor mental health is the

:01:48. > :01:51.single biggest driver of well-being in this country, Willy act on a

:01:52. > :01:58.recommendation from the think tank forum and tackle poorly supporting

:01:59. > :02:05.mental health by this government signing up to the employers mental

:02:06. > :02:09.health framework? I will look very carefully at the report he mentions.

:02:10. > :02:12.I think it is important, and he helped to do this in government,

:02:13. > :02:15.that we now have a situation where mental health is given proper parity

:02:16. > :02:20.of esteem through the NHS Constitution. We have made good

:02:21. > :02:24.progress in terms of making available talking therapies for

:02:25. > :02:38.mental health patients in the NHS. I will look carefully at the report.

:02:39. > :02:50.a short break in the transmission there. We are not quite sure why. Ed

:02:51. > :02:56.Miliband when first of all on Michael Gove. He did not get much an

:02:57. > :03:05.answer from prime Minister. He then went on more to the wider issues of

:03:06. > :03:09.the economy. Mr Miliband concentrated on how wages, average

:03:10. > :03:14.earnings, are still trailing prices. The gap has actually got wider

:03:15. > :03:19.because the CPI measure of inflation rose last month, whereas average

:03:20. > :03:26.earnings fell last month compared to the previous month. Mr Cameron, of

:03:27. > :03:28.course, suggesting the positive. He concentrated on the very strong

:03:29. > :03:35.employment figures that came out today. Let's see what you thought

:03:36. > :03:39.and then we hear from our guests. Helen Manning says nobody could

:03:40. > :03:46.describe Ed Miliband as a big beast today. Pour predictable performance

:03:47. > :03:51.again. He needs a new PR guru. David Axelrod is just not cutting it.

:03:52. > :03:55.Daniel from Southampton says Ed Miliband was weak again. The

:03:56. > :04:01.questioning on Michael Gove was boring and did not address any real

:04:02. > :04:05.issues. He has nothing to say on jobs and the economy. Diane

:04:06. > :04:07.Richardson from Welwyn Garden City says, shock horror, the Government

:04:08. > :04:19.front bench slightly more packed with women. Until mid-2015 Cameron

:04:20. > :04:22.turns me off. Edberg Stone says Rather than saying more people than

:04:23. > :04:29.ever are in work, wouldn't it be better to say that more people since

:04:30. > :04:33.1066 are back in work. Statistics do not have time with ordinary voters.

:04:34. > :04:37.Another reviewer says with all the people in work one would think it

:04:38. > :04:42.was going great guns. Tax returns will never bring down the deficit,

:04:43. > :04:48.no matter how many people are in work.

:04:49. > :05:03.I don't think they do. I may be out on a limb but I don't think they do.

:05:04. > :05:09.Do you think, Nick, the Prime Minister was fully aware of what we

:05:10. > :05:13.are all saying... That he was handing a scalp to the educational

:05:14. > :05:18.establishment by sacking Michael Gove, and a gift to the Labour

:05:19. > :05:21.Party? I agree with the first part but not the second. Of course he

:05:22. > :05:25.knew he was handing a gift to the political establishment. He knew

:05:26. > :05:31.that teachers would be celebrating. I interviewed yesterday -- Michael

:05:32. > :05:34.Gove yesterday and said to him that many teachers would be having an

:05:35. > :05:39.extra glass of wine tonight, and he was humorous enough to say that yes,

:05:40. > :05:43.no doubt they will. He is trying to comfort himself. If you remove a

:05:44. > :05:49.target, that helps you are electorally. Michael Gove is now not

:05:50. > :05:54.a target in the general election. What Lynton Crosby and others around

:05:55. > :05:57.the prime Minister want people who do not distract from the message

:05:58. > :06:02.about leadership and the economy. Those are the Tories believe are the

:06:03. > :06:08.two trump cards. Nothing should get in the way. The model is Jeremy

:06:09. > :06:17.Hunt. Make the health service boring. Keep it out of the news. It

:06:18. > :06:27.is not quite as high-profile as it was when Lansley was in charge. It

:06:28. > :06:31.may not be so much in the political news, the political lobby is not so

:06:32. > :06:37.interested, but there are stories every day about health and rightly

:06:38. > :06:42.so. It is a big winning issue for them but compared to what it was

:06:43. > :06:49.like before it is quieter. I can now exclusively reveal what Michael

:06:50. > :06:54.Gove's status is. Are you a big fan of the Game Of Thrones? Love it. How

:06:55. > :06:58.can you understand politics if you do not watch it? You are going to

:06:59. > :07:04.have to collect -- correct do not watch it? You are going to

:07:05. > :07:07.exclusively reveal that David Cameron, when he asked Michael Gove

:07:08. > :07:12.to take on the role of Chief Whip, told him that he was a big fan of

:07:13. > :07:20.Game Of Thrones and he wanted him to be like the hand of the King. This

:07:21. > :07:23.is the Charles dance character. -- Charles dance. He is the most

:07:24. > :07:31.powerful person in the seven kingdoms. Can I also point out that

:07:32. > :07:41.his son takes a crossbow, while he is sitting on the privy, and kills

:07:42. > :07:54.him. Is that what we mean... The sun kills the Michael Gove character. My

:07:55. > :08:02.advice to Michael Gove therefore is not to go to the privy! And if he

:08:03. > :08:12.does go, leave the door open! I have to go online in order to mug up on

:08:13. > :08:16.this. It is said on the Game Of Thrones website that when there is a

:08:17. > :08:23.weak leader, the job of the candidate King, Michael Gove, is to

:08:24. > :08:30.clear up the political mess. And the King makes a bit of a mess and the

:08:31. > :08:38.hand wipes. Forgive me, but that is the slogan. We have gone to the

:08:39. > :08:45.lowest common dominator. What they have not taken into account, because

:08:46. > :08:47.one of the things about the Game Of Thrones is that the women, the

:08:48. > :08:54.female characters, are really strong. They are not windowdressing,

:08:55. > :09:01.like some say the Cabinet is. They are a strong women in their own

:09:02. > :09:05.right. Powerful. Their weapons are their brains and arrows and nights

:09:06. > :09:14.as well. They are not beyond a bit of killing. Michael Gove's wife,

:09:15. > :09:19.Sarah Vine, columnist, re-tweeted a -- an article this morning in which

:09:20. > :09:25.the headline was, a shabby days work which Cameron will live to regret.

:09:26. > :09:30.If that is not out of Game Of Thrones I don't know what it is. US

:09:31. > :09:40.certainly tempting me to find out more about Game Of Thrones! You are

:09:41. > :09:50.still watching the uneven line! I can remember it! Does it still

:09:51. > :09:56.linger on as a problem for the Government? The history of these

:09:57. > :10:00.sorts of reshuffles is it depends how the people who suffer react.

:10:01. > :10:05.Michael is being told he is in the heart of government. He will be at

:10:06. > :10:13.meetings twice a day. I believe they intend to have him. He is a valuable

:10:14. > :10:21.political strategist. Will he find it unsatisfying and frustrating? He

:10:22. > :10:28.has had his profile reduced. He is too controversial before the

:10:29. > :10:31.election. To be fair to him, I don't recall is Secretary of State for

:10:32. > :10:37.education who did anything that was not unpopular with the teaching

:10:38. > :10:40.unions. Back in the dark ages, I have been Secretary of State for

:10:41. > :10:43.education myself, and I was not the pin-up of the teachers trade unions

:10:44. > :10:51.introducing grant-maintained schools. Reshuffles otherwise are

:10:52. > :10:56.over within a couple of days of them taking place. They fascinate the

:10:57. > :11:01.political bubble, the establishment, on quite a considerable scale

:11:02. > :11:05.because the celebrity culture nowadays is all. The average members

:11:06. > :11:10.of the public will not remember who did what job or who is doing it now.

:11:11. > :11:20.You do not think it will cut through? It contains the message

:11:21. > :11:26.there are a lot more women about. It is the economy, stupid. That is what

:11:27. > :11:32.this election is about. You are trying to suggest there are new

:11:33. > :11:37.crises and which they have never been before. Western democracy,

:11:38. > :11:42.people believe health care is in crisis. It is constantly changing,

:11:43. > :11:45.higher pressures, you are going up an escalator going downwards,

:11:46. > :11:52.infinite demand... You always have turbulent emotional politics in

:11:53. > :11:55.health. What matters is the recovery from the recession. We have this

:11:56. > :12:01.simplistic argument, should people be feeling better off now to the

:12:02. > :12:06.answer is, if only it weren't so easy. You have got to have several

:12:07. > :12:10.more years of constructing a modern, competitive economy. That is

:12:11. > :12:21.the only way of raising lifestyles, not Ed Miliband talking about

:12:22. > :12:25.prices. I welcome the new jobs. It is always better to be in work if

:12:26. > :12:29.you can then be on benefits. People are not seeing a difference. What

:12:30. > :12:34.they think is unfair is they see people at the top getting tax cuts

:12:35. > :12:50.and they feel that they are benefiting a lot more than ordinary

:12:51. > :12:54.people. But they will. We should have been doing a lot more in

:12:55. > :12:57.earlier on in terms of getting the skills that people need, building

:12:58. > :13:02.the right infrastructure, really getting banks lending to businesses

:13:03. > :13:06.and businesses investing, too. I think we have not seen anywhere near

:13:07. > :13:14.enough progress on that. It is all very well saying to people that they

:13:15. > :13:17.need to wait a few more years. Can you shed any light on what Harriet

:13:18. > :13:22.Harman meant when he -- when she said on the radio that people on

:13:23. > :13:26.middle incomes should contribute more? I would imagine she was saying

:13:27. > :13:29.that we have a progressive tax system in this country and if you

:13:30. > :13:33.did not want that we would have a flat rate of tax. She was not saying

:13:34. > :13:42.that we wanted to tax people on middle incomes more. Why would you

:13:43. > :13:45.put it that way though? It -- it has always been the case in this country

:13:46. > :13:51.that people on middle incomes pay more. That is what happens at the

:13:52. > :14:02.moment. She is not proposing they are going to be taxing people on

:14:03. > :14:05.middle incomes more. Harriet has caused a little consternation. She

:14:06. > :14:13.does need to explain why she said it. You do contribute more in a

:14:14. > :14:24.progressive tax system. You wonder why she would say it. She was on LBC

:14:25. > :14:28.on July the 14th. It was in an answer about work working class

:14:29. > :14:36.people on middle class people get back from the tax system in terms of

:14:37. > :14:39.public services. She debating with the idea that middle-income people

:14:40. > :14:43.do not get anything back in return for what they contribute. The quote

:14:44. > :14:47.says that yes, people on middle incomes should contribute more

:14:48. > :14:53.through their taxes. I have not seen it in its full context. Can be

:14:54. > :15:02.interpreted either way. Unless you support a flat rate tax system...

:15:03. > :15:08.Final thought from Munich before the summer months? What is telling about

:15:09. > :15:10.it is simply the determination of the Tories that they were not on the

:15:11. > :15:15.back foot today, and that Ed Miliband went into the summer still

:15:16. > :15:20.relatively speaking on the back foot. He will not be pleased that

:15:21. > :15:23.people are having their incomes squeezed but pleased that it

:15:24. > :15:27.confirms what he has warned about. The Tories will feel they got

:15:28. > :15:31.through a difficult day. Michael Gove been shelved out. Ed Miliband

:15:32. > :15:36.did not get one of those victories. Damian McBride said the other day

:15:37. > :15:40.that every week was a test. This week the Labour Party will not be

:15:41. > :15:51.able to save a won. I don't think their loss.

:15:52. > :16:01.When Will Mr Miliband see Mr Obama in the White House? Next week. I am

:16:02. > :16:12.not sure which of them has the most political difficulties. He has not

:16:13. > :16:18.got a narrative is that once you get onto the economy, poor old Ed

:16:19. > :16:21.Miliband is all at sea. I disagree. Have a nice summer, I hope

:16:22. > :16:25.Parliament is not recalled and heft as you again -- I have to see you

:16:26. > :16:30.again. We are sitting on "abundant shales

:16:31. > :16:32.at depth", according But should we be fracking it,

:16:33. > :16:36.or leaving well alone? The fashion designer,

:16:37. > :16:37.Vivienne Westwood, has been touring the country to try

:16:38. > :16:40.and raise awareness about shale gas We will be speaking to Vivienne

:16:41. > :16:59.in a moment, but first, Here is her soapbox. This is shale

:17:00. > :17:06.gas mining in the USA, otherwise known as fracking. It involves

:17:07. > :17:11.pumping water, sand and chemicals down a well at high pressure to

:17:12. > :17:18.fracture the rocks and extract gas trapped within them. This mining is

:17:19. > :17:27.widespread in the USA, and our government wants to do it here. Back

:17:28. > :17:33.in 2011, shale gas exploration was halted in Blackpool. A report

:17:34. > :17:46.concluded that fracking had most likely caused two minor earthquakes.

:17:47. > :17:51.There are also concerns that water supplies close to drilling could

:17:52. > :17:57.become polluted by the dangerous chemicals used for extraction, and

:17:58. > :18:07.with methane gas, as is the case here. Fracking is an issue that

:18:08. > :18:13.concerns all of us, not just politicians in Westminster. It will

:18:14. > :18:21.lead to the production of more fossil fuels, which will hasten

:18:22. > :18:28.climate change. We need to wage war on climate change, and the first

:18:29. > :18:36.battle is to stop politicians from forcing fracking upon us. That is

:18:37. > :18:44.why I joined anti-fracking road testers at the village of all, in

:18:45. > :18:48.West Sussex last year, -- Balcombe, where there were plans for

:18:49. > :18:53.exploratory drilling. 48% of British people don't know what fracking is,

:18:54. > :19:01.yet the government wants to inflict it upon us without explanation.

:19:02. > :19:07.There is no democratic mandate for fracking. David Cameron said he was

:19:08. > :19:09.going to create the greenest government ever, but has instead

:19:10. > :19:19.supported the shale gas industry. And we're joined now

:19:20. > :19:28.in the studio by Vivienne Westwood. Welcome to the programme. You talk

:19:29. > :19:31.there about the dangers of fracking at the Royal Society and Royal

:19:32. > :19:34.Academy of engineering have reviewed the risks, particularly the ones you

:19:35. > :19:40.talked about, tremors and water contamination. Do you agree that

:19:41. > :19:43.those health risks perhaps look less romantic than originally thought

:19:44. > :19:53.when fracking was first raised as an option? Absolutely not, the opposite

:19:54. > :19:59.is true -- less traumatic. Heavy volume shale gas extraction has only

:20:00. > :20:03.been going on for eight years. It is a new industry. When it started,

:20:04. > :20:07.that is when everyone joined in to it in America, and it was only for

:20:08. > :20:11.eight years that this was going on. What we have found in America is

:20:12. > :20:18.that it has now plateaued, it has peaked, and so there were hundreds

:20:19. > :20:23.of people who tried to set up and get this stuff out of the ground,

:20:24. > :20:26.which they did. But now they are all getting into debt, because they have

:20:27. > :20:31.to keep drilling more and more, they can't service their debt. So it is

:20:32. > :20:39.not a success, let's just say that anyway, but that is not what you

:20:40. > :20:44.asked B. The evidence for pollution is incredible -- not what you asked

:20:45. > :20:48.me. The evidence for pollution is incredible in America, people have

:20:49. > :20:52.denied it, but the statistics are overwhelming. The risks have been

:20:53. > :20:56.reviewed here, and they say they can be managed effectively. We have

:20:57. > :21:01.spoken to companies who feel that the risks of tremors are minimal,

:21:02. > :21:04.and water contamination, but do you think, despite what Vivienne

:21:05. > :21:09.Westwood says, it could be a game changer here in the way many people

:21:10. > :21:13.think it has been in the States? I think it good. We still have to

:21:14. > :21:19.prove it is extractable in the quantity it potentially could be. I

:21:20. > :21:23.think it is a no-brainer. It is not a new technology. We have been

:21:24. > :21:27.injecting water and a mix of chemicals into the geology for 40 or

:21:28. > :21:32.50 years. It can be done properly, it does not have these environmental

:21:33. > :21:37.hazards. While I think today we are a healthy, democratic society, if we

:21:38. > :21:41.had today's planning law and debating system in the 19th

:21:42. > :21:44.century, we would never have had the Industrial Revolution, and here we

:21:45. > :21:49.have a potentially hugely valuable national resource. It can be

:21:50. > :21:54.extracted perfectly safely, and it could make a big contribution to our

:21:55. > :21:57.economy, and we can't have a debate for years and years and years about

:21:58. > :22:02.fanciful notions of what has gone wrong, which nobody in America would

:22:03. > :22:05.recognise. Vivienne Westwood also said you are hardly the greenest

:22:06. > :22:11.government ever, that David Cameron promised. Do you agree that has

:22:12. > :22:15.gone? We are in favour of cutting carbon emissions, we have set

:22:16. > :22:19.targets for that. I would point out the Americans have reduce to their

:22:20. > :22:25.carbon emissions going for the shale gas. No, they haven't. The Germans

:22:26. > :22:29.who have gone for renewables on a monster scale have seen their

:22:30. > :22:32.emissions go up. Our government is committed to international targets,

:22:33. > :22:39.but we need to pursue them in a sensible position. Vivienne, you are

:22:40. > :22:43.holding your head in your hands in despair, why? Because it is all

:22:44. > :22:48.completely wrong, everything Kenneth has just said is completely wrong.

:22:49. > :22:52.First of all, it has only happened for eight years, you check it,

:22:53. > :22:56.high-volume, it is the difference between... The power involved is the

:22:57. > :23:02.difference between riding a horse and cart or a Turbo racing car. It

:23:03. > :23:09.is incredibly different. That has been happening for only eight years.

:23:10. > :23:15.Apart from which, the point about this fracking is that there are 400

:23:16. > :23:20.times more for clients in our little country than there are in America.

:23:21. > :23:39.For clients, that is what happened in Blackpool -- four times more full

:23:40. > :23:47.clients -- fault lines. Liz Kendall, do you have any worries about it? I

:23:48. > :23:52.support fracking so much as we regulate it properly. We need to do

:23:53. > :23:54.that alongside a big issues like carbon capture and storage and

:23:55. > :23:58.renewables. It was interesting what Ken said about other countries, one

:23:59. > :24:02.of the reasons Germany has made such progress on renewables, it has

:24:03. > :24:07.massive private sector investment alongside public investment, because

:24:08. > :24:14.it has a clear, long-term target, and that is the point where I think

:24:15. > :24:19.the government has fallen down. Germany is building 12 new

:24:20. > :24:27.late-night coal plants, which is the dirtiest coal in the world. Fracking

:24:28. > :24:33.is dirtier than coal. It produces more pollution, because of the

:24:34. > :24:38.methane leakage. We are going to leave it there, but Vivienne

:24:39. > :24:41.Westwood, thank you. O God, all right then.

:24:42. > :24:44.You call him the wrong person for the job.

:24:45. > :24:45.You condemn his appointment as a "mistake".

:24:46. > :24:50.This evening David Cameron is off to Brussels, where he's due to

:24:51. > :24:53.meet the man he tried, but failed, to block as European Commission

:24:54. > :24:57.But here at the Daily Politics, we don't like to spare politicians'

:24:58. > :25:00.blushes, so we've put together a compilation of some more of those

:25:01. > :25:11.It is six months. You can't say anything about the immigrants,

:25:12. > :25:15.because all these Eastern Europeans are coming in. You should never have

:25:16. > :25:21.put me with that bigoted woman, whose idea was that? Just

:25:22. > :25:24.ridiculous. I am mortified by what has happened, I have given her my

:25:25. > :25:30.sincere apologies. I misunderstood watches said, and she has accepted.

:25:31. > :25:48.-- what she said. I did not have sexual relations with

:25:49. > :25:54.that woman. Indeed, I did have a relationship with her, in fact it

:25:55. > :26:52.was wrong. I liked the music. Was that Perry

:26:53. > :26:58.Como or Andy Williams? I can't remember. What has been your most

:26:59. > :27:01.awkward political Inkatha? It was a little bit awkward when the new

:27:02. > :27:07.Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, twice called me Rachel Reeves on

:27:08. > :27:17.question Time -- political encounter. More embarrassing for him

:27:18. > :27:20.than me. Awkward? When my mum came and helped in the general election,

:27:21. > :27:24.she was doing some telephone canvassing, and some they had said

:27:25. > :27:28.something not particularly nice about me, and she said that is my

:27:29. > :27:32.daughter you are talking about, at which point I had to remove her from

:27:33. > :27:40.the telephone. That is what mums are there for. Ken, you only have 40

:27:41. > :27:46.order years of an awkward moment -- 40 years. I have had people shout

:27:47. > :27:58.silly things at me when campaigning. I have met constituents in the most

:27:59. > :28:03.extraordinary places. You still have time. Forgetting people 's names, I

:28:04. > :28:09.have that all the time. That happens all the time, George! Absolutely.

:28:10. > :28:12.It's time to put you out of your misery, and give you

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