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The Government's about to publish plans for new surveillance laws. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
The Investigatory Powers Bill will set out how the police, | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
intelligence agencies, and other state bodies can access people's | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
In fact, David Cameron's having a spot of bother over a few issues. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
Yes, take the dispute over junior doctors' pay | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
They'll get an 11% pay rise, but they'll have to work more | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
Is today's new offer enough to ward off industrial action? | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Barnaby from Bristol, it could be your lucky day. | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
Jezza's been crowd-sourcing his questions to Dave again. | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
And, it's meant to celebrate our cultural and creative heritage | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
And with us for the duration, a beautifully gender-balanced | :01:31. | :01:43. | |
panel, especially designed to please Jack Dromey's wife, Harriet Harman. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Deputy Leader of the Commons, Therese Coffey, | :01:47. | :01:47. | |
who famously got locked in the House of Commons library, and | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Shadow Home Office Minister, Jack Dromey, who has never been locked | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
Now first this morning junior doctors in England are being offered | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
an 11% pay rise in an attempt by the Government to head | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
But Saturdays would become part of their normal working week - | :02:05. | :02:24. | |
rather than being classed as "unsocial hours". | :02:25. | :02:25. | |
And there'd be an end to guaranteed annual pay rises. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
Let's hear what the Health Secretary, Jeremy Huntm had | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
We have actually been wanting to negotiate with the BMA since June | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
but they have refused to sit round the table with us. | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
Instead they have proceeded to ballot for industrial | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
I think the only responsible thing to do is actually to publish what | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
our offer is today when it is clear they are not interested | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Jeremy Hunt. IDG decide to go public with the offer of an 11% | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Jeremy Hunt. IDG decide to go public basic pay for junior doctors instead | :02:52. | :02:51. | |
of going to the BMA and negotiating? basic pay for junior doctors instead | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
The situation has been drawing out. It | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
The situation has been drawing out. to address that. We want to make | :03:07. | :03:07. | |
sure every doctor who has to address that. We want to make | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
understands the implications. It really matters. It has not been or | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
negotiation. That is the criticism of the NBA. -- BMA. Is that the | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
right way to handle it? You heard from the Health Secretary, he felt | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
the BMA was from the Health Secretary, he felt | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
negotiate. It does matter that instead of having to do something | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
through an intermediary, brothers and the BMA want to hear the facts | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
themselves and get that decision. It is good for them and bid for patient | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
themselves and get that decision. It safety. There is a lot to be | :03:49. | :03:48. | |
positive about in safety. There is a lot to be | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
good. There is loads of anger. The ballot papers could go out today. It | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
has not worked, the negotiation. ballot papers could go out today. It | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
deal. If you are told by your union you will get a 30 the cent pay cut | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
and you will work more hours, it would be no surprise to be angry | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
and you will work more hours, it that is not the case. -- | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
and you will work more hours, it cut. They will have | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
and you will work more hours, it It is good news for doctors. Do you | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
and you will work more hours, it Yellow mac and it has two | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
and you will work more hours, it justify its own actions. The 11% pay | :04:43. | :04:42. | |
rise which is being offered follows justify its own actions. The 11% pay | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
a cut of 20-30% in out of hours pay. Rightly or wrongly, that is the net | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
result of the contract that is being, not | :04:53. | :04:53. | |
result of the contract that is Government, the BMA says it will be | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
imposed if Government, the BMA says it will be | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
can understand why doctors are out on the streets protesting. | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
can understand why doctors are out do not choose when they are ill. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
There is a need to address the issue that people have higher success | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
rates if they are treated, or arrived in hospital, on a weekday. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
We believe by moving from the 10am -7 p.m. Standard hours for Monday to | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Saturday and then an additional premium for working any thing and on | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Sundays, we think that is the right balanced approach. Do you | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Sundays, we think that is the right is there they lose 20%-30% of that | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
out of hours pay bastion marked it is about mitigating a loss of 30% of | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
out of hours pay. -- out of hours pay? No junior doctor will lose pay. | :05:44. | :05:55. | |
Not true. Why do you say that? I have looked the facts and listened | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
to junior doctors. Is it true there should be extended coverage at the | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
weekends? Yes, it could mean the issue of life and death. Jeremy Hunt | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
is a wee bit like dodgy employers are used to deal with in the world | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
of work, making now you see it, now you do not office. 11% offer, that | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
camouflage is what will happen in terms of unsocial hours payments. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
One junior doctor I saw this morning will lose ?8,000 a year as a | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
consequence. What are you proposing? Are you proposing they should keep | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
the 11% pay rise and still be paid doubled the amount of money they | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
will get for anti-social hours? My experience the world of work does -- | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
is that it does not help when the employer places a gun at your head. | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
Going over the head of those who represent junior doctors. That is | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
wrong. The next stage is that we would be with the Government saying | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
we need enhanced capacity at the weekend. What we need is a | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
withdrawal of the threat, a toning down of language, a serious | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
negotiation at the next stages, where there will be some give and | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
take. Would you go to junior doctors in your constituency and say, oh by | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
the way, I know you will get 11% more because you will lose unsocial | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
hours, you will lose ?8,000 a year. That is not the case. Every single | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
junior doctor will not lose a penny. For those where there is a | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
transition, there will be a pay we met to cover that. A basic starting | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
salary will increase to ?25,000. By the time they come to training it | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
will be ?55,000. We will have to move on quickly. Should the BMA | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
withdraw its threat for balloting members? They should be back around | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
the negotiating table. If I were Jeremy Hunt, I would ring the phone | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
and contact the BMA to try to sort this out. This is about safeguarding | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
the interests of junior doctors. Should they further compromise? The | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Secretary of State should be very clear. He has made a very clear | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
offered to the doctors directly and they need to act on that. Take it | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
all leave it. Now yesterday, the former | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
Labour Leader, Neil Kinnock, gave an interview in which he warned | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
the current Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, that British voters would | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
not back a party that supported Lord Kinnock said his party must | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
confront the "reality" that it will not win a general election with a | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
defence policy opposing the renewal But only hours after he issued his | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
warning, Scottish Labour MSPs voted with Nicola Sturgeon's Nationalists | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
at Holyrood for a motion calling Now, Jeremy, do you actually support | :08:47. | :09:05. | |
what Lord Kinnock was saying? The reality is the British public will | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
not vote for a party that supports unilateral nuclear disarmament. Any | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
government, which is perceived to put national-security at risk, there | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
is no doubt. I know fast lane very well. The instinct of the British | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
people is that they want to be guaranteed they have strong national | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
defences and the capacity to intervene globally where | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
appropriate. The first thing is, we must in -- unequivocally be on the | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
side of the British people. To be frank, we must learn the lessons | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
from history that if we sound like we're anti-defence, the British | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
people will never support the Labour Party. So, Jeremy Corbyn is wrong? | :09:53. | :10:01. | |
You can have an intelligent debate about how you might make bold moves | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
as part of a multilateral strategy. Sometimes the debate gets | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
polarised. I do a unilateralist or a multilateralist? Do I want to see a | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
nuclear free world? Yes, without hesitation. We must not send the | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
message that somehow we're anti-defence. We never have been and | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
we never will be. What message is Labour sending? MSPs in Scotland | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
voted with nationalists to scrap Trident. Its leader supports the | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
renewal of Trident. The vast majority of Labour MS -- MSPs | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
supported but the leader does not. There is a lively debate going on. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
There is no doubt about that. What is quite interesting is, in my | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
dealings with the Armed Forces over the years, within the Armed Forces, | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
there were different views in relation to the nuclear deterrent. I | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
have not got a problem about a sensible debate about how you might | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
take some bold steps here nationally to achieve that international | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
objective. Let's have that debate at the next stages. Coming back to | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
that, do not ever send the message that somehow we do not take | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
seriously the national security of the people of Britain. Today in the | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
police debate, will be arguing exactly that. Some people are saying | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
you are sending a message. When do you have that debate? The Shadow | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Defence Secretary wants to push this decision out of the way. There is a | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
gateway decision coming in the next 12-18 months, when will you have | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
that debate? The key period will be the next 12 months. Maria Eagle is | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
heading up a debate. We need to have that debate in an open and honest | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
way. It does not send the wrong message. Labour is a party of safety | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
and security and strong defence. It is extraordinary. You have Labour | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
leadership normally crating people in Scotland. Or to getting rid of | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
Trident -- supporting and getting rid of Trident. The Labour | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
leadership wants to scrap Trident. We, in the leadership debate, say | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
the grass roots movement may have a very different view to the PLP. With | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
the greatest respect to Teresa, I have a great deal of respect for | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
her. Within your party, first of all, you are the Government that has | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
presided over very significant cuts to our Armed Forces but also | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
presided over the biggest cut in Europe to our police service, which | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
is putting at risk safety and security where people live and | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
work. I am not sure I will take any lessons from the Tories about | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
safeguarding national security. You are pointing out cuts to | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
conventional full SIS. Can Labour send out a message to the British | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
public that it supports defence, is rock-solid behind defence, but can | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
do so without the nuclear deterrent? We need to have the debate about how | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
we can make bold steps to achieve this. How we might take some bold | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
steps to achieve this. It comes back to the fundamental point, which is, | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
we will never, ever, put at risk the national-security of the British | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
people. Jeremy Corbyn also mentioned there are problems about having a | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
vote on the problems in Syria. He said on television that perhaps | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
Labour needs to revisit taking action over Isis. Mistakes were made | :13:53. | :14:03. | |
in Iraq. No doubt about that. I am open-minded in terms of military | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
intervention in Syria. All I would say is it has to be part of a wider | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
package will stop you cannot stand by and see terrible things happening | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
on the 1 hand. On the other hand, to believe you can resolve this simply | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
by way of military force is to arrive at the wrong conclusion. | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
Thank you. What do you think about the renewal of Trident? Do you back | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
it? At the next stages, the debate will be having, what place does | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
Trident play in defence policies? I have given my answer. | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
Now, free from the compromises of coalition with the | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
Liberal Democrats, and in power with the first Conservative majority | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
government in nearly two decades, the job of Prime Minister should | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
have got a whole lot easier for David Cameron after | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
Well, it hasn't quite worked out that way. | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
Yes, Jo, when David Cameron won an unexpected majority of 12 at the | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
election he might have thought that governing was going to get easier. | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
But the joys of spring have turned into a gloomy | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
autumn for the PM as Conservative MPs get a taste for rebellion. | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
20 Tory MPs - amongst them Tim Loughton and Jacob Rees-Mogg - | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
backed a Labour motion demanding changes to the Government's plans to | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
Then in the Commons on Monday, Zac Goldsmith, Tory candidate for London | :15:20. | :15:34. | |
spoke out against the government's plans to extend right-to-buy. | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
And that evening it was reported that Downing Street had dropped | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
plans for a Commons vote on intervention in Syria, with up to | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
30 Tory MPs said to be lining up to vote against the Government. | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Today sees the publication of the Investigatory Powers Bill, | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
which we will talk about, with David Davis has been at the forefront of a | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
rebels demanding the Government make concessions. | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
While Lord Strathclyde has begun his tricky task | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
of reviewing the powers of the House of Lords, after peers rejected | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
With all of that even before the Cabinet has started to argue about | :15:59. | :16:11. | |
the UK's membership of the European Mac, this could get potentially dark | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
of the Prime Minister. The Investigatory Powers Bill has | :16:14. | :16:23. | |
been published today and it looks as if judges will be granted the right | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
to administer and anti-terrorism operations. I'm not going to | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
pre-empt what the Prime Minister will say in half an hour. There have | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
been three reviews. The need was felt that the executive to be | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
heavily involved in the authorisation of warrants, while | :16:45. | :16:44. | |
other reviews have suggested that authorisation of warrants, while | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
judicial oversight is needed. Do you agree with the need for judicial | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
oversight, authorisation? Ultimately the panellist and the Home Secretary | :16:59. | :16:59. | |
are accountable to the the panellist and the Home Secretary | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
need to ensure the panellist and the Home Secretary | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
the most intrusive powers the has come all operate in a legal | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
framework has come all operate in a legal | :17:11. | :17:11. | |
Secretary will talk about that has come all operate in a legal | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
later. Just to be has come all operate in a legal | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
think that on the important crucial decisions, it should be a judge that | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
makes this decisions, it should be a judge that | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
the Home Secretary? I don't want to pre-empt anything. There have | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
the Home Secretary? I don't want to disagreements in your party over | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
this and David Davis claims it is could go if the bill is to pass. I | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
believe the panellist and Home Secretary have been looking | :17:40. | :17:39. | |
carefully at Secretary have been looking | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
hasn't been thought of overnight and she will present | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
hasn't been thought of overnight and of Commons shortly. There has been | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
hasn't been thought of overnight and huge listening exercises. It is | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
absolutely clear that are premised and the Home Secretary others | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
responsible for keeping the country safe, not the judges. That sounds | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
like you would be happy for it to remain in the hands of the Home | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Secretary. If it does not and there is not clear judicial authorisation, | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
will the bill for? That is likely and it would be a tragedy in terms | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
of the safety and security of British people. And don't you come | :18:13. | :18:23. | |
in part. -- down to you, in part. We support the strong powers of the | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
security services, 20% is counterterrorism and 8% is charged | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
sexual exploitation and abuse, paedophile gangs, fraud and grooming | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
online. We need enhanced powers, yes, but those powers need proper | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
judicial safeguards. So you will vote it down if you do not get those | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
judicial safeguards which means you will lose all of it. I think the | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
House of Commons is likely to reach a consensus on this in the next | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
stages. Because we are at one in rising to the threat posed to the | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
people we represents the government must learn from the sorry lessons of | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
history that the people of Britain want safety and security but they | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
will not trust government to exercise those powers. External | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
scrutiny is key. Do you accept David Davis's point that it will not get | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
through without that scrutiny because other Tory rebels will not | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
say yes to it. To be honest I have not paid attention to what David | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Davis says on this matter, what I am conscious of is that the government | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
has been looking carefully at the different powers, I think it does | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
want to move ahead with the consensus so that we get to this | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
place where we are doing things that will protect the body public. That | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
is one the potential rebellion and has been outlined clearly. We have | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
had the rebellion on tax credits. Syria is looking like a potential | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
problem, we were told they would be a vote on air strikes if there was a | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
genuine consensus. It is clear he cannot get one and that is why we | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
aren't getting the vote. The government is again trying to which | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
a broad consensus, the events of summer 2013 were striking in the | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
House of Commons and it is interesting that a group of Labour | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
MPs had debate earlier in this Parliament, and seemed keen that we | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
should do more in this field. But it is right that the Prime Minister | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
should want to get cross-party support for this. Broad support. It | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
isn't just Labour, the Daily Telegraph is talking about 20 - 30% | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Tory rebels who are not happy. We have had the report from the | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
Conservative select committee. The Prime Minister's language says he | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
wants to vote and he hasn't got the support. This shouldn't come down to | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
Conservative versus labour. These are serious matters for the nation | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
to address. I think the approach is right. There's no point in coming to | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
the House without that consensus and I am sure that the premised and the | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Home Secretary will continue to work to achieve that. Will it still be a | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
priority to work for this vote? Tackling Syria is a priority, it's | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
leading to a man or human tragedy, with the migrant situation, my word, | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
we need to tackle the refugee situation. In 2013I was content to | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
vote for additional military intervention. Events keep evolving | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
but fundamentally the Prime Minister has been clear, we need to resolve | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
this situation and it is not having a future for Assad or indeed for | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
Isil. When do you think that food should be? -- that vote? I don't | :21:42. | :21:51. | |
know but it needs to be when the majority of British parliamentarians | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
are ready to say yes. Looking at the refugee situation and the ongoing | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
tragedies in Syria, we need to take decisive action. How would you vote? | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
I could not in conscious roll out military intervention because if you | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
look at the desperate circumstances in Syria that might be appropriate | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
-- I could not rule it out. Yet it needs to be part of a wider | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
diplomatic solution under the auspices of the UN. I voted against | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
in 2013 because it was simply a military initiative. The military | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
initiative alone won't solve the problem. On the other hand, if the | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
government comes with a size of case, seeking to achieve consensus | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
with other countries in the region engaged in finding the solution and | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
says that one element that might be safe havens, we should look at that | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
with an open mind. But and cannot get consensus, because of the | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
leadership, they would not be reliant on the leadership of the | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
backbench MPs. It won't get consensus if they say are you for or | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
against military intervention. I think the House should say, what | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
part should military intervention play in an attempt to find a lasting | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
solution. And the Prime Minister has not said, I need every MP to be with | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
me on this. There will always be people who oppose military | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
intervention come what may, as they do on other matters. Let's not try | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
to isolate this again into being something partisan. Finally on the | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
mood of backbenchers, presumably you interact with them regularly, what's | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
the mood. So many of the new ones seem willing to flex their muscles | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
and cause trouble for the government. The mood is largely | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
positive, we won an election. One topic that often came up in the past | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
was Europe and yet the party is united behind having that referendum | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
in 2017. Some people, come what may, will want to leave the EU. It is a | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
respectable position to take in that regard but I think the majority of | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
people are happy to stay in a reformed European Union. Ultimately | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
the British people will decide. They will indeed. | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
Now every so often a museum fails to grab a masterpiece | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
Over to the V, who have come in for a lot | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
of stick over their refusal to show a collection of Margaret Thatcher's | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
Who wouldn't like a peep inside one of Maggie's bags? | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
I hope your rhyming slang is working! Conservative MPs | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
are said to be outraged by the museum's decision | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
and have called for the collection to be saved. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Imagine our surprise when the V called our office, demanding, no | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
less, a Daily Politics Mug for their Fine Decorative China exhibition. | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
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get your mitts on one of these national treasures. | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
Yes, all you have to do is guess when this happened? | :24:55. | :25:10. | |
Even people within Downing Street are calling it an omnishambles | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
budget! I can't remember the last time I | :25:16. | :25:39. | |
bought a pasty in Greggs. I am innocent of these charges and I | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
intend to fight this in the courts and I am confident that eg will | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
agree. -- confident that a jury will agree. | :25:50. | :26:14. | |
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It's coming up to midday here - just take a look at Big Ben - | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
Yes, Prime Minister's Questions is on its way. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
And that's not all - Laura Kuenssberg is here. | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
Back from gallivanting. In the last ten days I have been to regulate and | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
Berlin because now the government is really starting to try to appear, | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
and also to try generally need to push ahead with renegotiations and | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
our relationship with the EU -- I've been to Iceland. Last week David | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
Cameron pressed the flesh with Nordic leaders in Iceland and | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
yesterday we were with George was born in birding with his | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
counterpart, the German finance minister, -- George Osborne was in | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
Berlin. An important person in German politics. They were pushing | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
forward the agenda. Angela Merkel says she will do everything she can. | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
What that means in practice is more difficult to predict. Indeed it is. | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
But the Treasury were delighted and taken aback by just how fulsome she | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
was in her promise of help. I think there are some things that clearly | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
we know now that are going to be relatively easy for the government | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
to get. Getting rid of ever closer union, for example. A lot of senior | :28:13. | :28:14. | |
figures in Europe are on the record union, for example. A lot of senior | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
as saying, that is OK, we'll union, for example. A lot of senior | :28:19. | :28:20. | |
to clarify that. union, for example. A lot of senior | :28:21. | :28:22. | |
is concerned the tricky thing union, for example. A lot of senior | :28:23. | :28:24. | |
be this idea of union, for example. A lot of senior | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
that they can't put their own interests and of the pound. That | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
will be complicated for Germany in terms of people we spoke to why we | :28:34. | :28:35. | |
were there. In terms of people we spoke to why we | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
wholesale change, things where the public will think, yes, the British | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
governor has won a big concession, does that look likely at this stage? | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
Not at this stage but this is clearly where the government want to | :28:51. | :28:52. | |
take the debate. They've had research done, showing that people | :28:53. | :29:01. | |
are in the middle on this. There are 10% of people on either side who | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
would fight to the death to stay or leave, most people are in the middle | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
and most people are not paying attention to the | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
and most people are not paying really believe that | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
and most people are not paying they will be able to | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
and most people are not paying fighting around one issue or another | :29:20. | :29:20. | |
but the fighting around one issue or another | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
can tie in a ribbon and say, here are these miraculous concessions | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
that we have won from the EU. Interesting that the traditional | :29:31. | :29:32. | |
political tactic is to pick a fight and then you will look like you have | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
one. They haven't got to that point but one | :29:38. | :29:39. | |
one. They haven't got to that point government told me, | :29:40. | :29:41. | |
one. They haven't got to that point it needs his crusade and we are | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
happy to play along with that. We know that there are voices | :29:46. | :29:47. | |
happy to play along with that. We Tory party who will not be happy, | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
come what may. Looking at some of the big issues, what might be raised | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
today at Prime Minister's Questions? There have | :29:56. | :29:55. | |
today at Prime Minister's Questions? rebellions since the start. | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
today at Prime Minister's Questions? certainly have. Bad mood is up. It | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
is in the air. The House of Lords issue around tax credits -- the mood | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
is up. The House of Lords issue has allowed some MPs to feel like | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
rebelling despite being told that it is constitutional outrage. It has | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
changed the mood of the session. People have come back post | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
conference, the Tories had a smooth successful party conference... They | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
feel that the Labour Party is not united and does not know its | :30:29. | :30:36. | |
position. The Tories are certainly not united on the European Union. | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
This is why some Tories worry about them not being a strong united | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
opposition because that can make you feel complacent and you can get | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
involved in your own twists and turns. What will Jeremy Corbyn talk | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
about today. Potentially junior doctors, a very big issue for people | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
around the country. The Department of Health is trying their hardest to | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
that the BMA has captured the agenda on this in a slightly misleading way | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
perhaps. I would not be surprised if Labour raise that today. Or perhaps | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
the visit of the Egyptian leader, talking to David Cameron. | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
Additionally given Jeremy Corbyn's interests in those issues, we heard | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
him talk about Saudi Arabia before. How much pressure is Jeremy Hunt | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
under? In the context of a spending review in three weeks' time, there | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
is Jeremy Hunt under? In the context of the spending review in three | :31:31. | :31:32. | |
weeks' time, there's no new extra money anywhere in government at the | :31:33. | :31:35. | |
moment. I think what he is trying to do is stick to this. Make a deal | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
work without promising any extra cash that he doesn't have. We have | :31:39. | :31:44. | |
seen before, the NHS can very fast become very troublesome for the | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
government. One of the stickiest moments for the coalition was the | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
reform of the NHS under Andrew Lansley. Jeremy Hunt has come to an | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
impasse with the medical profession. Right now it doesn't feel like the | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
bits of government are thinking that he's made a mess and this is | :32:02. | :32:07. | |
damaging him particularly... But... Ballot papers could go out today. | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
Senior government figures believe there will be a strike. They are | :32:13. | :32:17. | |
prepared to have that fight? There is no extra cash. Nowhere for them | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
to go. This slight recalibration of the deal we've seen today is an | :32:22. | :32:27. | |
attempt by Jeremy Hunt to get around the BMA and make this direct appeal | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
to doctors. There is sense in government that there is small | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
motivated group protesting against these changes but they might be able | :32:36. | :32:37. | |
to I know the whole house will join me | :32:38. | :32:51. | |
in paying tribute to those who have fallen serving our country. They | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
gave their lives so we could live hours in freedom. It is right to | :32:55. | :32:58. | |
reflect on Armistice Day and a contribution to all of those who | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
have served our country. This morning I had meetings with | :33:03. | :33:05. | |
ministerial colleagues and others and in addition to my duties in this | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
House I shall have further meetings today. I would like to associate | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
myself with the comments from the Prime Minister. I look forward to | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
joining the Armistice Day parade in my constituency. It has grown to the | :33:21. | :33:27. | |
largest in Britain. Speaking to constituents in Warwickshire, the | :33:28. | :33:30. | |
Government commitment of 2% GDP spending was very welcome. Given | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
volatile state of many parts of the world, it is more important than | :33:37. | :33:39. | |
ever that we maintain that commitment and give rage chew | :33:40. | :33:46. | |
support, resources and commitment available. -- give our brave troops. | :33:47. | :33:57. | |
We live in an uncertain world. The 2% on defence spending and .7% on | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
aid spending helping our security as well as making sure we are a | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
generous and moral nation and having the ultimate insurance policy of a | :34:07. | :34:14. | |
replacement for Trident submarines. Jeremy Corbyn... Thank you, Mr | :34:15. | :34:27. | |
Speaker. I concur with the Prime Minister's marks concerning | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
remembrance -- Sunday and remembrance weekend. We mourn all of | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
those who die in all wars and resolved to build a peaceful future | :34:37. | :34:40. | |
where the next generation does not suffer from billboards of past | :34:41. | :34:45. | |
generations. Last week, I asked the Prime Minister the same question six | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
times and he could not answer. He has had the week to think about it. | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
I want to ask him one more time... Can he guarantee that next April | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
nobody is going to be worse off as a result of cuts to working tax | :35:01. | :35:07. | |
credits? Let me be absolutely clear with the honourable gentleman. What | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
I can guarantee next April as there will be an 11,000 passenger | :35:12. | :35:19. | |
allowance, so you can earn 11,000 before paying tax. There will be a | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
national living wage of ?7 20, giving the lowest paid in our | :35:26. | :35:31. | |
country a ?20 pay rise. On the issue of tax credits, we suffered the | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
defeat in the House of Lords. We suffered the defeat in the House of | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
Lords. With new proposals in the Autumn Statement. At that point, in | :35:40. | :35:43. | |
exactly three weeks' time, I will be able to answer his question. Now, if | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
he wants to spend the next five questions asking it all over again, | :35:49. | :35:57. | |
I am sure he will find it is very entertaining and interesting. How it | :35:58. | :35:59. | |
fits with the new politics, I am not quite sure. Over to you. This is not | :36:00. | :36:05. | |
about entertainment. This is about... | :36:06. | :36:12. | |
This is not funny for people who are desperately worried about what is | :36:13. | :36:20. | |
going to happen next April. If the Prime Minister will not listen to | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
the questions I put, will not listen to the questions that are put by the | :36:24. | :36:31. | |
public, then perhaps the Prime Minister will listen to a question | :36:32. | :36:35. | |
that was raised by his honourable friend, the member for Brigg and | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
Goole, who last week concerning tax credit changes said, the changes | :36:42. | :36:48. | |
cannot go ahead next April and that any mitigation should be for | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
mitigation. What is the Prime Minister's answer to his friend? | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
Very much the same answer that I gave to him. In three weeks' time, | :36:58. | :37:03. | |
we will announce our proposals and he will be able to see what we will | :37:04. | :37:10. | |
do to deliver the high pay, low tax, lower welfare economy we want to | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
see. That is what we need in our country. We are cutting taxes and | :37:15. | :37:18. | |
increasing pay but we also believe it is right to reform welfare. He | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
will have his answer in three weeks' time. Meantime, he had to think | :37:24. | :37:28. | |
about this but if we do not reform welfare, how will we find the police | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
service we are talking about today? How will we find the health service | :37:33. | :37:38. | |
we could be talking about today? How will we paid for the defence forces | :37:39. | :37:44. | |
we are talking about today? The honourable gentleman has been | :37:45. | :37:48. | |
consistent. He has opposed every reform to welfare that has ever come | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
forward. If we listened to him, we would still have families in London | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
getting ?100,000 a year in housing benefit. The answer to the question | :37:58. | :38:01. | |
is, you will find out in three weeks' time. Thank you, Mr Speaker. | :38:02. | :38:09. | |
The reality is that the Prime Minister makes choices and he has | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
made a choice concerning working tax credits that has not worked very | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
well so far. But he must be aware... I give an example. A | :38:18. | :38:22. | |
serving soldier, a private in the Army with two children and a partner | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
would lose over ?2000 next April. I asked the question... | :38:28. | :38:39. | |
The questions will be heard. And the answers will be heard. Simple as | :38:40. | :38:51. | |
that. Mr Jeremy Corbyn... Thank you, Mr Speaker. Surely that is the whole | :38:52. | :38:54. | |
point of our parliament, that we're able to put questions to those | :38:55. | :39:03. | |
authority. And so, I have a question... I have a question from | :39:04. | :39:12. | |
Kieron, a veteran of the first Gulf War. His family are set to lose out. | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
He rides it is a worry for the family. There is fear and | :39:18. | :39:20. | |
trepidation about whether we will be able to get by. Is this how the | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
Government complete -- treats veterans of the armed services? Let | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
me take the case of the serving soldier. Many soldiers, indeed all | :39:31. | :39:35. | |
soldiers, will benefit from the ?11,000 personal allowance that | :39:36. | :39:38. | |
comes in next year. That means they will be able to earn more money | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
before they even start to pay taxes. Serving soldiers with | :39:43. | :39:46. | |
children will benefit from the 30 hours of childcare. Of course, | :39:47. | :39:50. | |
serving soldiers and others will be able to see our proposals on tax | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
credits in exactly three weeks' time. What I would say to the | :39:55. | :40:04. | |
serving soldier is that he is now dealing with an opposition party, | :40:05. | :40:07. | |
the leader of which, said he could not see any use for UK forces | :40:08. | :40:09. | |
anywhere in the world at any time. That serving soldier would not have | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
a job if the honourable gentleman got anywhere near power. | :40:13. | :40:21. | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. Can I invite the Prime Minister to cast his mind | :40:22. | :40:30. | |
to another area of public service that is causing acute concern at the | :40:31. | :40:36. | |
present time? I know he is trying to dig himself out of the hole with the | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
junior doctors offer this morning which you await the detail. There is | :40:41. | :40:47. | |
a question I want to put to him. I quote Doctor Cliff man, the | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
president of the Royal College of emergency medicine. He said that | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
this winter will be worse than last winter. Last winter was the worst | :40:57. | :41:02. | |
winter we have ever had in the NHS. Can the Prime Minister guarantee | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
there will be no winter crisis in the NHS this year? First of all, | :41:07. | :41:15. | |
when it comes to the Royal College of emergency medicine, they actually | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
support what we are saying about a seven-day NHS and the junior doctors | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
contract. He says, wait for the detail. I would urge anyone in this | :41:24. | :41:27. | |
House and detail. I would urge anyone in this | :41:28. | :41:30. | |
watching to go on to detail. I would urge anyone in this | :41:31. | :41:33. | |
of Health website and look at the pay calculator. You will be able to | :41:34. | :41:36. | |
see that no 1 working legal hours will lose out in any way at all. It | :41:37. | :41:47. | |
is an 11% basic pay rise. Deliver is the stronger and safer NHS. As for | :41:48. | :41:50. | |
the state of our NHS more generally, it is benefiting from ?10 billion | :41:51. | :41:51. | |
that we put in it is benefiting from ?10 billion | :41:52. | :41:56. | |
Labour Party at last election said they did not support. I believe the | :41:57. | :41:58. | |
NHS has the resources they did not support. I believe the | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
needs. That is why we are seeing it treating more patients with more | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
needs. That is why we are seeing it delivered, more tests being carried | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
out. It is a much stronger NHS and the reason is simple. We have a | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
strong economy supporting our strong NHS. Thank you, Mr Speaker. | :42:16. | :42:23. | |
strong economy supporting our strong that the Prime Minister has not | :42:24. | :42:24. | |
offered any comment whatsoever that the Prime Minister has not | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
the Windsor crisis -- the winter crisis of last year and what will | :42:30. | :42:31. | |
happen this year. Mr Speaker... Order, order! The | :42:32. | :42:55. | |
leader of the position is entitled to ask questions without a barrage | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
of noise. The Prime Minister is entitled to answer questions without | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
a barrage of noise. That is what the public is entitled to expect. Mr | :43:06. | :43:12. | |
Jeremy Corbyn... If the Prime Minister will not answer questions | :43:13. | :43:17. | |
that I'd put, then I quote to him, the renowned King's Fund, which has | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
enormous expertise in NHS funding and NHS Administration, and I quote, | :43:23. | :43:28. | |
the national health service cannot continue to maintain standards of | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
care and balance the books. A rapid and serious decline in patient care | :43:34. | :43:36. | |
is inevitable unless something is done. Could I ask the Prime | :43:37. | :43:42. | |
Minister, which is rising faster? NHS waiting lists or NHS deficits? | :43:43. | :43:49. | |
Let me deal directly with the Kings fund. What we have done on this side | :43:50. | :43:53. | |
of the house is the point in new chief executive to the NHS, Mr Simon | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
Stephens where he worked under the last Labour government and did a | :43:59. | :44:01. | |
very good job for them. He produced the Stevens plan which he said | :44:02. | :44:05. | |
required ?8 billion of government funding. We are putting in ?10 | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
billion behind that plan. That is the plan we are producing. The | :44:10. | :44:16. | |
results you can see, we have 1.3 million more operations, 7.8 million | :44:17. | :44:20. | |
more outpatient appointments and 4.7 million more diagnostic tests. What | :44:21. | :44:25. | |
is going up in the NHS is a number of treatments, the number of | :44:26. | :44:27. | |
successful outcomes. He wants to know who is heading for a winter | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
crisis. I would predict it is the Labour Party that is heading for a | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
winter crisis. Look at his appointments! His media adviser is a | :44:38. | :44:43. | |
Stalinist. His new policy advisor is a Trotskyist and his economic | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
adviser is a Communist was the busiest trying to move the Labour | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
Party to the left, I give him full marks. -- a Communist. If he is | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
trying to move the Labour Party to the left, I give him full marks. Mr | :44:58. | :45:04. | |
Speaker, the issue I raised with the Prime Minister was the national | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
health service. In case he had forgotten. I would like to remind | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
him that since he took office in 2010, the English waiting list is up | :45:14. | :45:22. | |
by a third. There are now 3.5 million people, 3.5 million people | :45:23. | :45:29. | |
waiting for treatment in the NHS. If his party cannot match its actions | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
by its words, then I put this to him. Will he just get rid? The NHS | :45:34. | :45:41. | |
is in a problem. It is in a problem of deficit in many hospitals, a | :45:42. | :45:46. | |
problem of waiting lists, a problem of the financial crisis that has | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
been faced with so many others. Can he now addressed that issue and | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
ensure that everyone in this country can rely on the NHS which is surely | :45:56. | :45:58. | |
the jewel in all of our crowns? Since I became premise, let me tell | :45:59. | :46:11. | |
him what has happened since then. The number of doctors up by 10,500, | :46:12. | :46:19. | |
the number of nurses up by 5800, fewer patients waiting to start | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
treatment than under Labour, we have seen mixed sex wards virtually | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
abolished and seen rates of hospital infection plummet. It's happened for | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
a reason. Because we've had a strong economy and some of the strongest | :46:36. | :46:39. | |
growth anywhere in the world, because we have unemployment | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
falling, inflation on the floor, we are able to fund an NHS whereas the | :46:44. | :46:48. | |
countries that he admires all over the world with their crazy socialist | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
plans cut their health service and that the people who need their help | :46:53. | :46:59. | |
the most! -- they hurt the people who need their help the most. The | :47:00. | :47:07. | |
UK's Internet economy is much the largest of the T20 nations at 12.4% | :47:08. | :47:14. | |
of GDP but as consumers move online soda criminals. Does the Prime | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
Minister agree that the Investigatory Powers Bill must give | :47:19. | :47:21. | |
our security services the powers they need to keep us safe, whilst | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
ensuring that proper controls exist on how we use those powers? My | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
honourable friend is absolutely right to raise this. It is one of | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
the most important bills that this House were discussed. It is going | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
through pre-legislative scrutiny. The Home Secretary today will set | :47:41. | :47:43. | |
out very clearly what this bill is about and why it is necessary. Let | :47:44. | :47:49. | |
me make one some ballpoint. Communications data, the who called | :47:50. | :47:54. | |
who and when of Telecom allegations has been absolutely vital in | :47:55. | :47:58. | |
catching rapists, child abductors and solving other crimes. The | :47:59. | :48:02. | |
question before us is, do we need that data when people are using | :48:03. | :48:15. | |
social media to commit those crimes rather than a mobile phone. My | :48:16. | :48:18. | |
answer is yes, we must help the police and our security and | :48:19. | :48:20. | |
intelligence services to keep us safe. Mr Angus Robertson. Think you, | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
Mr Speaker. This week when remember all the sacrifices from past and | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
present conflicts and show respect to veterans and service families. | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
Does the Prime Minister agree that everything must be done to deliver | :48:34. | :48:36. | |
on the military covenant, of the spirit and the letter? I agree with | :48:37. | :48:45. | |
both parts of the question, these remembrance services are important | :48:46. | :48:48. | |
up and down the country and the military covenant is one of the most | :48:49. | :48:51. | |
important things we have where we make a promise to our military that | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
because of the sacrifices they make on our behalf, they should not have | :48:56. | :48:59. | |
less good treatment than other good people in this country, and indeed | :49:00. | :49:03. | |
where we can we should provide extra support. This is the first | :49:04. | :49:06. | |
government to put the military government properly into law -- | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
military covenant and every year to improve it whether by hospital | :49:13. | :49:16. | |
treatment, free transport, council tax discount, and so many other | :49:17. | :49:22. | |
things, and we report on it every. Mr Angus Robertson. Is the Prime | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
Minister aware that many service widows continue to be deprived of | :49:27. | :49:31. | |
their forces pensions if there is a change in their personal | :49:32. | :49:34. | |
circumstances? Does he agree that this is a clear breach in the spirit | :49:35. | :49:38. | |
of the military covenant and what will he do to rectify this wrong? We | :49:39. | :49:45. | |
made a big change, last, I think, around Armistice Day, to make sure | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
that many people to Schmeichel last year, to make sure that people who | :49:50. | :49:53. | |
had remarried could get pensions. The big step forward welcomed by | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
British Legion. If we need to take further steps I am very happy to | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
look at them and see what be done. I remember that in the last budget we | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
looked at the case of police widows and tried to put right their | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
situation as well. Doctor James Davis. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Will a | :50:12. | :50:20. | |
Prime Minister joined me in congratulating Prestatyn, which is a | :50:21. | :50:24. | |
finalist in the great British high street awards? And will he confirm | :50:25. | :50:29. | |
whether the UK's government will hold discussions with the Welsh | :50:30. | :50:35. | |
assembly have and which is about the division of business rates councils | :50:36. | :50:39. | |
to Wales so that other times in my constituency have a better | :50:40. | :50:43. | |
opportunity to regenerate? -- other towns. I do join him in | :50:44. | :50:49. | |
congratulating Prestatyn. I don't know if it is in the same category | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
as my hometown of Chipping Norton which has also been nominated so I | :50:55. | :50:57. | |
might have a conflict of interest. What I would say is, in Wales, | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
business rates is a devolved issue but it's open to the Welsh | :51:04. | :51:07. | |
government, should they choose to take our approach of devolving that | :51:08. | :51:11. | |
business rate income directly to local councils so that local | :51:12. | :51:12. | |
councils have a better connection local councils so that local | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
between the money they raise and the decisions they make to attract | :51:17. | :51:19. | |
business investment and industry to their area. I went to Cheltenham | :51:20. | :51:26. | |
ladies College and the Prime Minister went to Eton. Both schools | :51:27. | :51:29. | |
which invest Minister went to Eton. Both schools | :51:30. | :51:33. | |
teaching and facilities for music, dance, arts and drama. Yet while | :51:34. | :51:38. | |
he's been Prime Minister, the schools which educate 92% of our | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
pupils have cut teachers in those subjects. Will his legacy be that | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
Britain stopped being a world leader in creative and cultural industries | :51:49. | :51:55. | |
and becomes an also-ran? I do not accept that. And if you look at | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
school funding, it has been protected under this government | :52:00. | :52:02. | |
school funding, it has been we want to continue protecting it. | :52:03. | :52:05. | |
What I will make no apology for is the clear focus we have on getting | :52:06. | :52:10. | |
the basics right in schools. It's absolutely essential that we get | :52:11. | :52:18. | |
more children learning the basic subjects and getting basic | :52:19. | :52:18. | |
qualifications. And then subjects and getting basic | :52:19. | :52:22. | |
that it is more possible to put in place the arts, dance and drama that | :52:23. | :52:25. | |
I want my children to have as they go to their schools. Damian Collins. | :52:26. | :52:33. | |
The Channel Tunnel and the Port of Dover are major pieces of lateral | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
infrastructure but when there are disruptions to services it causes | :52:38. | :52:41. | |
chaos on the roads of Kent. As the government computers work on the | :52:42. | :52:44. | |
spending review will the Prime Minister gives special consideration | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
to the need for an urgent long-term solution to Operation Stack? I | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
absolutely recognise the serious problems caused to Kent residents | :52:54. | :52:57. | |
and businesses when it was necessary to put into place Operation Stack. | :52:58. | :53:02. | |
We've ready and permitted short-term measures to reduce the impact | :53:03. | :53:05. | |
including the temporary availability of one every and is contingency | :53:06. | :53:09. | |
measure. I know he met with the Chancellor and other Kent MPs and | :53:10. | :53:13. | |
we're happy to build on this work. I understand the pressures and we will | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
do all we to relieve them. May I associate myself with the | :53:19. | :53:21. | |
do all we to relieve them. May I the Prime Minister made about what | :53:22. | :53:23. | |
will happen this weekend and also his comments he made to the leader | :53:24. | :53:25. | |
of the SNP. God his comments he made to the leader | :53:26. | :53:27. | |
about the fact that thousands of his comments he made to the leader | :53:28. | :53:35. | |
people who served in the royal navy before 1987 are not entitled to full | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
compensation, this means that people who have been exposed to disease | :53:40. | :53:46. | |
stand to lose out massively compared with people in civilian life to the | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
extent that some idiot who's been exposed in industry could get | :53:53. | :53:57. | |
?150,000 in compensation, and it is probable that a service person will | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
only get ?31,000. This is clearly a moral outrage as well as being in | :54:03. | :54:05. | |
breach... moral outrage as well as being in | :54:06. | :54:12. | |
honourable gentleman for raising this issue. I understand the Defence | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
Secretary is looking at it. Since putting in place the military | :54:17. | :54:18. | |
covenant with tried every year to make progress, whether to do with | :54:19. | :54:24. | |
widows or with different groups disadvantaged in some way. I am | :54:25. | :54:27. | |
happy to look at the points he makes. Thank you, Mr Speaker. At the | :54:28. | :54:36. | |
Royal Society, they've identified the need for 1 million scientists, | :54:37. | :54:41. | |
engineers and technical professionals by 2020. One way to | :54:42. | :54:46. | |
bridge the skills grab is an increase in | :54:47. | :54:46. | |
bridge the skills grab is an apprenticeships like the ones in | :54:47. | :54:52. | |
Basildon. -- the skills gap. Yet for every one place available 20 people | :54:53. | :54:56. | |
apply. Will my right honourable friend redouble his efforts to meet | :54:57. | :55:02. | |
our commitment to 2 million new apprenticeships? This target is | :55:03. | :55:05. | |
essential and I believe we can achieve it. Going back to questions | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
from the Honourable member for Slough one way will achieve it is by | :55:10. | :55:13. | |
making sure that more young people have the qualifications necessary to | :55:14. | :55:15. | |
apply for an apprenticeship will stop many firms find that a lot of | :55:16. | :55:21. | |
people apply but when you look at the people who don't have a | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
qualification in English and maths and becomes down. I'm delighted to | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
announce that in terms of advice and apprenticeships, to make sure we | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
work with businesses to get this target, the Right Honourable member | :55:36. | :55:38. | |
for structure and maven is going to take the place of the Right | :55:39. | :55:41. | |
Honourable member for Watford who is moved on to other things -- the | :55:42. | :55:45. | |
Right Honourable member for Stratford-upon-Avon. He is going to | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
help me make sure we deliver on this. My constituents in Blackpool | :55:50. | :55:54. | |
face a 11 me on police cuts from the spending review and the new Home | :55:55. | :56:00. | |
Office formula which tops ?45 million of Lancashire Police. I ask | :56:01. | :56:04. | |
him whether a cross-party letter from the MPs of like a ship, one | :56:05. | :56:08. | |
from my neighbourhood watch group, one from other commissions, mostly | :56:09. | :56:12. | |
Tories, and the Chief Constable, all saying that the process is flawed, | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
how many blue lights must he have before we had meltdown? Let me say, | :56:17. | :56:24. | |
the reforms to the police funding formula is a consultation on which | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
no decisions have been taken. Mayo congratulate the luxuries to him | :56:30. | :56:33. | |
because crime is down in Blackpool by 5% -- May I congratulate the like | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
should police. Funding for the Lancashire Police is the same in | :56:39. | :56:47. | |
cash terms as 2003. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary found | :56:48. | :56:50. | |
that Lancashire Constabulary is exceptionally well prepared to face | :56:51. | :56:54. | |
its future financial requirements. That is the view of HMI sea. In a | :56:55. | :57:00. | |
country where crime however you measure it has fallen significantly | :57:01. | :57:04. | |
since this government took office. Annemarie Trevelyan. Thank you, Mr | :57:05. | :57:13. | |
Speaker. My constituent, one of the UK's leading burns specialists went | :57:14. | :57:16. | |
on Monday to Bucharest to help Romanian medical teams dealing with | :57:17. | :57:20. | |
the nightclub fire. I understand that there are 150 patients in need | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
of critical care and only 25 beds in big rest. She has asked if the Prime | :57:26. | :57:30. | |
Minister will consider offering practical medical assistance to | :57:31. | :57:34. | |
these victims by allowing the use of UK burns facilities for their | :57:35. | :57:39. | |
treatment. I think my honourable friend is right to raise this tragic | :57:40. | :57:43. | |
event that happened in big rest last Friday. All our thoughts are with | :57:44. | :57:46. | |
the victims and their families. I'm pleased to hear about the visit of | :57:47. | :57:50. | |
this doctor and herself was work. It's a very good suggestion to look | :57:51. | :57:53. | |
that if we can offer specialist help and I will take it away and see what | :57:54. | :57:59. | |
can be done. The Prime Minister will understand the heartbreak at the | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
death of a child. For parents not to know what has happened to the ashes | :58:04. | :58:09. | |
of that child, as is the case with Mike and Tina troll hill in Hull and | :58:10. | :58:13. | |
other families around the country must be very cruel. Will the Prime | :58:14. | :58:18. | |
Minister agree to meet Mike and Tina to discuss why we need national and | :58:19. | :58:22. | |
local inquiry as to what happened in that case around baby ashes? Paige | :58:23. | :58:28. | |
are completely understand how her constituents feel. This must have | :58:29. | :58:31. | |
been an absolutely tragic event, made worse by not knowing what has | :58:32. | :58:35. | |
happened to their child. I am very happy to arrange that meeting. I am | :58:36. | :58:40. | |
not aware of this case. Let me look at it and see what I can do. | :58:41. | :58:46. | |
I was delighted that the Chancellor chose our county city of York to | :58:47. | :58:54. | |
launch the new national infrastructure commission. Could the | :58:55. | :58:57. | |
Prime Minister confirm that this is the start of a new era where | :58:58. | :59:00. | |
important investment decisions like roads and railways between the | :59:01. | :59:04. | |
cities of the North will help to bring growth to our region? My | :59:05. | :59:11. | |
friend Mike is right to raise this. People in Yorkshire have long felt | :59:12. | :59:14. | |
that there has not been a fair in a deal in terms of transport funding | :59:15. | :59:20. | |
on roads and rail. And I think that people can now see that ?13 billion | :59:21. | :59:24. | |
is being spent on transport in the North as part of our plan to | :59:25. | :59:28. | |
rebalance the British economy. We've committed more than 4.8 ?3 on road | :59:29. | :59:34. | |
improvements and we are still improving the a 64, vital for York, | :59:35. | :59:39. | |
and we will look at what more we can do to make sure this vital part of | :59:40. | :59:42. | |
the economy has the transport links it needs. John Nicholson. Thank you, | :59:43. | :59:50. | |
Mr Speaker, on the ninth these extreme state for culture media and | :59:51. | :59:54. | |
sport told the select committee that there were no plans to sell Channel | :59:55. | :00:01. | |
4. -- the Secretary of State said that. Can the Prime Minister confirm | :00:02. | :00:04. | |
that that is the government 's position that there are no | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
initiatives underway to privatise this important and much loved public | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
institution. I'm a big fan of Channel 4, it was a great | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
Conservative innovation. A combination of fully why slow and | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
Margaret Thatcher that helped to bring Channel 4 to our screens. -- | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Willie Whitelaw and Margaret Thatcher. I'm a big fan. I wanted to | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
have a strong, secure future. I think it's right to look at all the | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
options to see of private investment into the channel could help to | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
safeguard and the future. Let's look at the options. Let's not our minds, | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
like some on the opposition front bench, let's not close our minds, | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
they think that private is bad and public is good. Let's have a proper | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
look at how to make sure this great channel goes on being great for | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
years to come. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Everyone who has had any | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
contact with the adoption process will be familiar with the | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
frustration that are necessary delays can cause to prospective | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
parents. Would the Prime Minister take action to speed up the adoption | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
process so that more children can be placed with the right families more | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
quickly? Benchmark my friend Mike is right to raise this. We've seen a | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
72% increase in the number of Jordan adopted and the waiting time on | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
average has fallen by five months. -- children adopted. Toulon, yet if | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
you look across the 150 councils responsible, 68 of them have no | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
mechanisms for early placement, where you run fostering and adoption | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
alongside each other. If we could introduce that, not least to our | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
regional adoption agencies that will establish, many more children will | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
get the warm and loving home we want for them. On Armistice Day will the | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
prime ministers that thought for the 633 of our bravest and best who died | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
as a result of two political mistakes. 179 in pursuit of | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 454 who died | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
in the Helmand province inclusion that promised that no shot will be | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
fired. Will he rethink his own plan to order more of our brave soldiers | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
to put their lives on the line in the chaos and confusion of a 4-sided | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
civil war in Syria? I have great respect for the honourable gentleman | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
but with great respect, on Armistice Day we should put aside political | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
questions about conflicts and decisions made, and simply remember | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
the men and women who put on a uniform, went and served and risked | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
their lives on our behalf. Let's make Armistice Day about that, not | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
about other questions. Thank you, Mr Speaker. The last week has been a | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
very good one for Cornwall airport in Newquay with the scrapping of the | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
development fee which was an additional tax on passages and a | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
barrier to growth, the enactment of new air links that link Cornwall to | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
mainland Europe, and the upgrading of the Gatwick limp with the support | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
of the PSL. Will the Prime Minister join me in congratulating the team | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
at Newquay airport for their work in supporting the Cornish economy? I am | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
a huge fan of Newquay airport and a frequent user. The government made a | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
series of promises about helping the airport to make sure that vital | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
connectivity between Cornwall and the rest of the country and | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
continental Europe is there and I am delighted it's so well. Norman Lamb. | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
continental Europe is there and I am Can I thank the Prime Minister for | :04:11. | :04:11. | |
his welcome... Order! I want to Can I thank the Prime Minister for | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
share this question. Mr Lamb? Can I thank the Prime Minister for | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
Mac can I thank the Prime Minister for his welcome for the campaign | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
launched this for his welcome for the campaign | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
from across society joined the Right Honourable | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
from across society joined the Right Coldfield, Alistair Campbell, and | :04:33. | :04:33. | |
me, in Coldfield, Alistair Campbell, and | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
those suffering from mental ill-health. The truth is that those | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
who ill-health. The truth is that those | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
the same rights ill-health. The truth is that those | :04:42. | :04:42. | |
as others enjoy in moral and economic case for ending | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
overwhelming. Will the Prime moral and economic case for ending | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
Minister do what it takes to make sure | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Minister do what it takes to make delivers the investment, the extra | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
deliver genuine equality? Let me say to the honourable gentleman, who did | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
a lot of work on this in the last Parliament, I very much welcome the | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
campaign and what they want to achieve. We set out in the NHS | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
Constitution parity between mental and physical health and we have | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
taken steps towards that for example by introducing the first time | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
waiting times and proper targets for talking therapies. There are now | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
twice as many people undergoing those that abuse as there were five | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
years ago. I those that abuse as there were five | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
there is more to do in those that abuse as there were five | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
committed to doing so. Andrew Mitchell. Following up the question | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
from the gentleman from Norfolk Mitchell. Following up the question | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
North, I want to emphasise that this Mitchell. Following up the question | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
agree that there's now Mitchell. Following up the question | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
opportunity to build on Mitchell. Following up the question | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
widespread support across all parts of society, and end historic | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
injustice between the treatment of mental health and the physical | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
illness. My honourable friend is absolutely right. We are investing | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
more in mental health than ever. We will spend in 11.4 billion in this | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
financial year and will spend in 11.4 billion in this | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
group to make sure real terms increases in their investment in | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
mental health services so it can't be treated as the Cinderella service | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
that has sometimes been the case in the past. If we do that, and also | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
deal with some of the other issues like mental health patients being | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
held in police cells, we can have a far better system for dealing with | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
mental health in this country. Thank you Mr Speaker. After the | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
announcement of job losses in Northern Ireland, one factor has | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
been high energy costs, will the Prime Minister work with the | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Northern Ireland energy initiative to address these issues as a matter | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
of urgency. For people who are currently in work in Northern | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Ireland and are very worried about the impact of cutting working tax | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
credits. Given that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor are in | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
the same mode and showing a surprising degree of flexibility | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
across a range of issues recently will he refers the first of the | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
policy and remove the threat against working families in Northern Ireland | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
and across the country? First of all, on the issue of industries, if | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
a company horrifies as part of the energy intensive industries, it will | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
see a reduction in its bill,, and the second point I would make to | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
Northern Ireland is that we have passed in this House historic | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
legislation to allow Northern Ireland to set its own rate of | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
corporation tax and the sooner we can put together all the elements of | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
the Stormont has agreement, the sooner Northern Ireland will be able | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
to take action to build a stronger private sector in Northern Ireland | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
which is what I want to see. On the issue of tax credits, I give the | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
same answer. He will know in three weeks. He also knows that people | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
working in that business or in others will be able to an ?11,000 | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
before they pay taxes, get more help with childcare and have a higher | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
wage. We will keep welfare costs under control so that we can build | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
great public services. Prime Minister's Questions started | :08:28. | :08:40. | |
late and ended even later. It ended on tax credits. A question from | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Nigel Dodds. Jeremy Corbyn kicked off with tax credits would he | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
referred back to the fact he used his six questions last week on tax | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
credits to then proceed again to try to pin down the Prime Minister on | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
whether anyone would be worse off as a result of the tax credit changes. | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
That followed rebellion and defeat in the House of Lords. The first | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
three questions on that issue. Jeremy Corbyn moved on to junior | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
doctors before then trying to test the Government record on health with | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
his final two questions. It was a slightly awkward and uncomfortable | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
start to Prime Minister's Questions. There was a lot of barracking to | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
Jeremy Corbyn, who just talking before continuing on. The Prime | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Minister responded on the tax credit issue with, you will have to wait | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
and see. We have the Autumn Statement and the spending review | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
coming up in a few weeks' time. That is where we will find out whether | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
there will be money splashed out to try to mitigate some of the changes | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
to tax credits. Another change in tactics from Jeremy Corbyn was | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
instead of quoting members of the public, he used experts. The Kings | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
fund, a medical expert, to try to put the Prime Minister under | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
pressure. The Prime Minister did not feel as much under pressure this | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
week as he did last week. There were a couple of questions, one from | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Angus Robertson on the military covenant about whether the Prime | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Minister and government are committed to that in spirit. One or | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
two questions at the end from Norman Lamb, a Liberal Democrat, and Andrew | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Mitchell, the Conservative MP. It was about mental health. This was | :10:21. | :10:55. | |
the weakest performance. He looked like a typical politician trying to | :10:56. | :11:09. | |
score Picking up on what you said about tactics, I have been watching | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
PMQs. I am fed up with the shouting and heckling on the backbench side. | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
Isn't it time the cameras turned on the offenders? It might make them | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
behave much better. Ed Miliband used to try to ride through the barrage | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
of it stops and it does have an effect. On the performance of Jeremy | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Corbyn with the change in tone and tactic, especially health. It felt a | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
little bit faltering. Some of the ways in which he asked the | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
questions, particularly on the NHS. These are important issues. Not | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
necessarily that focus. We know over the years, we watch PMQs, the way | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
you make progress on the way you punch through the political defences | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
of the Prime Minister is by going specific and repeating specific | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
questions and demands. You do not really get that far. It seemed like | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
a strange PMQs. Neither of them were up for the dance today David Cameron | :12:18. | :12:27. | |
said it is getting longer and longer. Part of the energy of these | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
sessions is, you are on the clock, it is a deadline. It felt flabby. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
John Bercow is allowing lots of questions Jeremy Corbyn has an | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
effective tactic of just stopping when the backbenches are getting | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
incredibly rowdy. That does happen quite a lot of times and gives it a | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
very different mood. Members of the public think it is quite right to do | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
that. Let's move on to the spending review and the Autumn Statement. A | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
lot of that was pushed to, let's see what happens in a few weeks' time. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
What can people expect? Three weeks today the Chancellor sets out a | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
number of plans. It adds more flesh to the different investment | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
programmes. Will he mitigate the tax credit changes? He said he will | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
listen to concerns being raised and come back to it. We are committed to | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
welfare spending by 12 William pounds and increasing wages and | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
lowering taxes. What will happen with this? -- ?12 million. There | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
will be some kind of mitigation. Worth remarking on a quite | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
significant bus stop that is going on about it with the Chancellor | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
trying to raid the budget of Iain Duncan-Smith's beloveds programme of | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
universal credit. This is the huge, super programme of welfare which is | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
supposed to take over from welfare payments. It has been said that the | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
Chancellor is quite up nicking some of the cash, a couple of million | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
through universal credits. A few sharp words. That would be a very | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
problematic way. The comment made by David Cameron, he has voted against | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
welfare changes. Any proposals where there is a huge amount of money | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
spent which could be spent on other things, particularly non-protected | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
departments. You'll agree you need to bring the cost of welfare down. | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
What you will have is fewer people claiming housing benefit than we | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
have at the moment. In the here and now, 82% of children in Addington | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
are being brought up in families where tax credit is really matter to | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
them. I think it is absolutely wrong he has made this move. It does not | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
surprise me there has been a reaction to it against the political | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
-- across the political spectrum. Another issue that PMQs today, the | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
Prime Minister brushed aside the concerns being expressed by Gordon | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
Marsden over the police. Not true that violent crime is falling, | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
sexual crime and suchlike is up. Just two weeks ago, what was | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
reported on was there would be 5 million crimes of fraud online and | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
cyber crime. You would see statistics showing a 40% increase | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
will stop most important of all, if you cut 17,000 police officers and a | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
further 22,000 police officers, it will put the public at risk. When | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
you went to the people of your constituency in Suffolk, back in | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
May, did you say, vote for me and I will cut 22,000 police officers? I | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
will tell you what I said. I will stand on a platform to balance the | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
books we start to pay down the debt that Labour ballooned when they were | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
in office was the public has the second lowest funding per head with | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
police. 29 forces at the moment will benefit. 13 will reduce the debt has | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
led to changes that Suffolk police and others have responded. It makes | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
common sense for fire stations and police stations to be one building, | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
not separate. It has not been done. The problem generally is the low | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
hanging fruit has gone. Where will it come from? All of the back | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
office, the tax avoidance, surely it went in the first five years of the | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
Coalition Government? That has been taken into account. Where will it | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
go? You will have seen a change with police and crime commissioners. They | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
bring in ideas without affecting the operation. Those low hanging fruit | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
are quite difficult and have not been done. | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
a chorus of voices have said simply this, from London to Lancashire, | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
chief constables are saying that we can no longer guaranteed public | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
safety of the government proceeds with cuts on this scale. | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
Non-protected departments are really going to be hit. Behind the scenes | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
that are epic battles between ministers and the Treasury about | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
where they will find their cuts between 25 and 40%. Some people | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
believe the easy savings went between 2010 and 2015. Some | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
ministers are trying to look for bigger opportunities to make bigger | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
changes to make reforms that also deliver cash but there are really | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
serious and worrying conversations. People about this, and briefly, for | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
the police, it has become not a serious political issue yet but it | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
may well. Some conservative lease commissioners are making protests as | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
well. -- police commissioners. Thank you, Laura. | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
Are you the type of person who likes a campaign? | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
Do you send around appeals on Facebook and change | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
Are you fond of a good slogan badge and partial | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
If so, does it really achieve anything? | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
Writer James James Bartholomew thinks not - he says it's really | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
This is the birthplace of Octavia Hill. | :18:21. | :18:35. | |
She was co-founder of the National Trust, | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
but more importantly, she was a major social reformer in the 19th | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
She was appalled by the living conditions of the working poor. | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
But instead of just wringing her hands about it | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
She created low-cost housing for them. | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
These days, many people think that merely | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
expressing an opinion establishes that they really, really care. | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
They use wristbands, hashtags, tweets, | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
twibbons and T-shirts to show they have fashionably right-on opinions. | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
I call this phenomenon virtue signalling. | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
It is the idea that having and expressing particular opinion | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
In Britain we can be quite sophisticated about this. | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
We can indicate how good we are by saying we hate something. | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
"I hate the Daily Mail" means "I am an open-minded liberal sort | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
"I hate Ukip" means "I'm not a racist", and the more angry | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
and the more I beat the drum about how I hate Ukip, the more it | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
But have you noticed something about this kind of virtue? | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
In contrast to Octavia here, it does not require actually doing anything. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
It requires a show of effort and no sacrifice. | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
I suppose the reason that all this virtue signalling really | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
irritates me is that there are still people who are truly virtuous. | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
These are plaques commemorating people who did actual good deeds. | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
And that kind of generosity and decency takes place today | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
among ordinary people, people who stay together for the sake of the | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
children, a person who looks after an elderly parent, maybe for years. | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
There is such a thing still as actual virtue. | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
But virtue signalling without actually doing | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
It is self-righteous, vain, and silly. | :20:41. | :20:51. | |
It is not what you say or think that matters, it's what you do. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
James Bartholomew, at Octavia Hill Birthplace House in Wisbech. | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
What's new about this? Presumably throughout history there have been | :21:00. | :21:10. | |
holier than thou people. As the Internet make this worse? I don't | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
know. This is going back to the subject write about, the welfare | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
state. The welfare state has a lot to do with it, people feel they have | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
outsourced their decency, I pay taxes, therefore I don't have to | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
anything! That is part of why virtues signalling without doing | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
anything has increased. Are they doing nothing? Surely the idea of | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
saying that I feel strongly about this and other people will say, I | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
agree, what can we do, you have been crowd sourcing something you can do | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
about it, whereas you might not have known what to do in the first place. | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
You can do two things. Change government policy which could do | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
good or harm, or you could do something like setting up a home for | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
the elderly or an organisation that visits lonely elderly people. You | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
can do something. And that's great. Campaigning can lead to that. What | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
irritates me is the people who I've met, in contrast to people who do | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
real good, the people who think, I can say that I hate the Daily Mail | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
and Ukip and I vote Labour once every five years, I am a morally | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
superior person. That irritates me because there are people who make | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
sacrifices... LAUGHTER | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
The suggestion is that virtues signalling is a problem for the | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
left! The phrase that I created is mentioned several hundred times in | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
the Guardian because they are accusing each other of virtues | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
signalling. Is that fair? It is not what you say, it is what you do. It | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
used to be that if an MP got half a dozen letters they would think it | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
was a movement. Now you can get hundreds of e-mails. Many standard, | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
some telling personal stories. I think there is now a welcome culture | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
of people finding it easier to communicate with their MP and that's | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
a good thing. Using to be suggesting that there is a sanctimonious tone | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
about it and laziness behind it. Absolutely, lazy, vain, | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
self-righteous. With these conditions you can do so easily, | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
saying that there are naked women in the Sun, that is awful. Not actually | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
changing anything. Do you do virtue signalling, Therese it's | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
extraordinary. Twitter doesn't reflect British opinion in anyway, | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
even people who click an e-mail, I think that has lost its currency as | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
well. You do not have to think things through, you can say, this is | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
awful and you don't have do think through the consequences, reducing | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
tax credits, what's the other side of the story? What do you do to do | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
something about things. I can't start boasting that, that would be | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
equally bad! You sort the trap! Do you volunteer, do you do things? I | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
don't want to boast about things I do. That would be pride as well. Let | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
me spare you the embarrassment, thank you. | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
Now, what do Anthony Gormley, William Shakespeare and | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
The answer is they all feature in the new British passport, | :24:44. | :25:00. | |
designed especially to celebrate the UK's creative and cultural past. | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
It's meant to be the most secure passport ever, but its launch | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
The travel document features seven men, but only two women | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
and no-one from Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
Here's what the Home Office Minister, James Brokenshire had | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
The people of Great Britain and Northern Ireland continue to be | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
pioneers within the creative sector. And in recognition of all of these | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
achievements, I'm today proud to unveil the latest design of the UK | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
passport. Under the theme of "Creative United Kingdom". | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
This design will be used for the next five years, and features the | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
works of many of this country's finest creative talents. | :25:38. | :25:47. | |
With me now, passport expert Martin Lloyd. He's the author of The | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
Passport. This has caused almighty row. Apparently yes, we have a | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
pretty picture book for a passport. It wasn't always like that. What was | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
it like? It's derived from a letter of introduction and a king 's | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
licence which was permission to leave the country. It came looking | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
like a letter of introduction! Of course you didn't need a Buddhist | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
passport. This man, Charles Sloan, went to France on a French passport! | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
It was quite easy. The British passport cost ?2 seven and six, the | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
French one cost four shillings. No argument! To bring it forward, only | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
two women, seven men. What do you think of that? I don't know. I like | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
women! Does it matter? It does. The idea that men are more creative than | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
women, there are some outstanding women who should have been included | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
like the wonderful architect who designed the Olympic Village. Why | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
don't we have creative people of that kind reflecting the diversity | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
of this country as well? I just think maybe your government has a | :27:05. | :27:12. | |
problem with women? It's not true, Elisabeth Scott is featured and she | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
designed the RSC. Do you know much about her? I know she's designing | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
iconic buildings. The things we are addressing like gender equality, it | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
is nonsense to say that we don't like women. Who has the best | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
passport? We must. It is almost the most expensive. Doesn't mean it is | :27:36. | :27:44. | |
the best? Of course not. It is a good demonstration of the skill of | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
the printers, clever ideas, but the forgers are always six months behind | :27:50. | :27:51. | |
them so they have to keep renewing these things. If we left the | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
European Union would we need another passport? That would be good, we | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
could go back to Victorian times and have something personally signed by | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
the Foreign Secretary! That's the way to do it! Passport and 13. Izzy | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
and to Thomas Hodges, signed by Lord Palmerston. -- is used to Thomas | :28:13. | :28:20. | |
Hodges. When you handed that to a foreigner, they knew you were | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
British! This just time to put you out of your misery. | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
Therese, press that big red button there. | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
The answer to Guess The Year was 2012. The mug goes to our viewer. | :28:32. | :28:47. | |
Christa Williams, well done. That's all for today. | :28:48. | :28:49. | |
The One O'clock News is starting over on BBC One now. | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
Andrew will be back here as well, so do join us then. | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
I'm actually tingling with the excitement. | :28:58. | :29:07. | |
We're going to test your skills at the wheel. | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
It's too intimidating. Do it for your family! | :29:11. | :29:13. |