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Not one but two unguarded comments filmed at

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Undiplomatic day at Buck House yesterday as the Queen called

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Chinese officials "very rude", just hours after David Cameron

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told her that Nigeria and Afghanistan are

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The two sides in the EU referendum wheel out their big guns today.

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Boris kicks off a Vote Leave battle bus campaign in Cornwall

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and Gordon Brown set out the "positive" arguments

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And what will Jeremy Corbyn choose to ask David Cameron

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at Prime Minister's Questions today?

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We'll have full coverage live at midday.

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And Brexit is getting the red carpet treatment tonight with a glitzy

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world premiere of 'Brexit: The Movie'.

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It is the single most important political decision any of us will

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make in our lifetime. Every continent is outgrowing Europe. It

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is not with in our economic interests to remain in the European

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Union. Why did we not get invited? We have.

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Oh! Have you looked out your frock? Yes. All that is coming up in the

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next hour and. With us for the duration,

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and the Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn.

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So, not one but two moments of candour caught on camera

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First, the Queen was filmed at a garden party saying Chinese

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officials were "very rude" to the British

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Her comments came just hours after the Prime Minister

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was recorded at an event to mark her 90th birthday talking

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about this week's anti-corruption summit in London.

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He said that Afghanistan and Nigeria were "fantastically corrupt".

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David Cameron there. Hillary Benn, as the President of Nigeria and

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Afghanistan are attending the summer, how awkward is that

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conversation going to be when David Cameron greet them? I think it will

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be a bit awkward. If you listen to what the relatively new Nigerian

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President is trying to do, he's trying to tackle corruption in

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Nigeria. If you look at the Transparency International

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Nigeria. If you look at the you will find that they are quite

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high up the list. I suppose it you will find that they are quite

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is almost no such thing as a private conversation. It

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is almost no such thing as a private They knew that Cameron was there but

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perhaps they didn't think They knew that Cameron was there but

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was full stop a diplomatic disaster or a hiccup? As Hillary said, if you

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look at what they or a hiccup? As Hillary said, if you

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Nigeria says that his country had become one of the most corrupt

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countries and he is tackling it. It is said he was shocked and

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embarrassed. Yes, but that is what he said about his own country. It is

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not the same as someone else saying it. That is fair, but these

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countries come because they know we have to do better. As a world

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community, we have to cooperate to do the mac -- cooperate to deal with

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some of the big issues around money-laundering and corruption. It

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is more significant in the end than the comments themselves. Do you

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think David Cameron was showing off? I think Hillary is right that there

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is no such thing as a private conversation. We all say things,

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is no such thing as a private don't we? Do we? Tell me. Don't we?

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I don't we? Do we? Tell me. Don't we?

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every single conversation they have... But when you have the Queen

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every single conversation they informal situations. The reality is,

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we know there are corruption problems in

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we know there are corruption the world. There is an index of

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these things, some the world. There is an index of

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further to go, and we are determined to achieve more. Which bit of the

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sentence was not true? David Cameron is right, isn't he? There is a

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problem. There is grand corruption, where people take large amounts of

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money and stuff it in their pockets or spirit it abroad, and that is why

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action against money laundering is important. But the result is a petty

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corruption. You have state officials and teachers who say, I will teach

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your child but I am not paid enough of a salary to look after my family

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and myself, so would you make a contribution? Is it happens in some

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countries in the world. Not here? Of course, not here. Public sector

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salaries are really low. There are two mac problems. You need good

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governance, to collect your taxes effectively. Why are we giving aid

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to Nigeria? Is our view is that in order to tackle some of the endemic

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problems, you need all sorts of things. We have been giving it over

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for a long time and he says they are still fantastically corrupt. You

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would hardly take the view that every country that does not breach

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our standards should not be a recipient of aid. Is it improving

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Rabi throwing money down the drain? -- improving or are we throwing

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money down the drinkers like do you stand by and do nothing, let people

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suffer? Public policies have to be in place to address those problems.

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Let's turn to the Queen and her comments about Chinese officials,

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because there was obviously an incident. In terms of revealing our

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true feelings towards Chinese official, it shows how tense that

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situation is between us and the Chinese on these formal state

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visits, doesn't it? I wasn't aware of those tensions. The Queen in

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particular is entitled to private conversation. I don't propose to

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comment on what she said. What about you, John Hayes, will you comment?

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Does this our things with China? It would be unpatriotic to comment on

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what the sovereign says. Do you want every one of your private

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conversations recorded? Certainly not. In those situations, if I were

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there and had said something untoward, what impact do you think

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it would have on relations? I think Her Majesty is widely respected

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across the world. She has a lifetime of service, recognised here and

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abroad, and that is what really counts. Why shouldn't she just

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express our opinion? She was obviously irritated by what

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happened. She is the sovereign, why shouldn't she say what she thinks?

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Because she has a particular role which she has carried out with

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extraordinary skill, diligence, dedication and grace over the years.

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Maybe she would take the view that there should not be a directional

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mike pointing at me while I am having a private conversation. It is

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the first time that I have noticed private conversations being picked

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up. The cameraman for Buckingham Palace is paid for by the

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broadcaster, but I don't know about the sound. It is interesting that

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you raise that. I am working on a bill in the House, the investigatory

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Powers Bill, which deals with these issues was not at what point and in

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which way should privacy be protected? It is an important

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discussion in our free society. We have always taken it as read that

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there is a public space and a private space. This is a public

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space. There is a camera and a microphone. It is a public event.

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The Queen has done these for years. She knows the score. It was her

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camera that was there. She knows about the sound. The Prime Minister

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knew it as well. They knew exactly what they were doing. There is a

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difference between a conversation, and this was a conversational

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matter, and a public statement, a pronouncement, a speech, a meeting

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or discussion of a formal kind. That is the difference here. So are you

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are not -- so you are not calling for these to be switched off? I

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won't discuss what the Queen does and doesn't say. This is public, and

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there is a microphone, so beware. And we know that the Queen watches

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us every day when she can. Now the elections of last

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week are out of the way, the EU referendum campaign has

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intensified on both sides. The focus is now

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the vote on June 23rd. Both sides have wheeled

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out their big guns today. Boris Johnson launched a Vote Leave

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battlebus tour in Cornwall and Gordon Brown made the patriotic

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case for Britain to remain But they are just the latest

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in a series of high Here's JoCo to bring

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us up to speed. National security took centre stage

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on Sunday as two former spy chiefs Jonathan Evans and John Sawers,

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formerly of MI5 and MI6, said counter-terrorism was a "team

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game" and that it was easier for countries to share

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data within the EU. But the Justice Secretary

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Michael Gove hit back, accusing the spy bosses

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of being "flat wrong". And the Prime Minister raised

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the stakes on Monday, arguing that He said Britain had brought together

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countries that had been "at each other's throats for decades"

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and that leaving the EU would risk But Boris Johnson hit back,

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saying it was preposterous to suggest that leaving the EU

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could trigger World War III. Smith tried to get the focus back

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on to social justice, arguing that the EU was "a friend

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of the haves rather morning, Gordon Brown described

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leaving the EU as not British and not in keeping with the spirit of

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Churchill. Britain is not a position only to be

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a member of the European Britain is in a position and should

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be a leader in the European This referendum if it's

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about anything is about what kind of Britain we are and what kind

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of Britain we aspire to become. We should be a leader in Europe,

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not just a member. We should not be fully out

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and we should not be half We should recognise that the world

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has changed since the first referendum, and we should be

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the advocates of cooperation in an Gordon Brown, speaking at the London

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School of economic. Hilary Benn, Gordon Brown took Labour to one of

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its worst defeats in modern times. He is distinctly less popular south

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of the border than he is north of the border. Is he an asset for the

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Remain camping? He certainly is. Look at the KC has made. This notion

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that we are having to listen to from the League campaign that somehow we

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put upon in Europe, that we have no influence, is nonsense. I think

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everybody knows it. In the three years that he was Prime Minister, in

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what way did the lead Europe? We have always played a leading part in

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Europe. In his time in Chancellor and the part that Europe played in

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making new commitments to aid and debt relief, that is leadership that

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helps unlock change. When he was Minister, in what way... On climate

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change. Everyone was in favour of that. Britain was the first country

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to put climate change legislation on the statute book. We did that as an

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individual country, not as a member of the EU. You are asking about the

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influence we had. The leadership that Britain gave, including during

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the time that Gordon was Prime Minister, on climate

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the time that Gordon was Prime have an impact. You are seeing the

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fruit of that. The have an impact. You are seeing the

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agreed to climate change if it hadn't been for Britain? I'm not

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saying that. I am saying that we are in

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saying that. I am saying that we are the European Union helps us to

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manage face in the world, whether it be

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climate change, the refugee face in the world, whether it be

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would be to deny us that shouldn't be turning our face away

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from an important partnership with our immediate

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from an important partnership with way have we lead on the refugee

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crisis? Europe has had a difficult time on that. The Conservative

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crisis? Europe has had a difficult the crisis,

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crisis? Europe has had a difficult Minister has had to be pushed at

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every stage. Minister has had to be pushed at

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picture of the child appeared on the front pages, he said, we have done

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enough for Syria. How should we have led?

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How should we have lead? It is European countries working together.

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He should not have had to be battered into agreeing to take

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unaccompanied, child refugees who have made their way into Europe. At

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least we have an institution that is trying to grapple with what you

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would recognise as trying to grapple with what you

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difficult issue. Are you worried that given Jeremy Corbyn's lukewarm

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attitude to him that there is a problem getting the Labour vote out

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for remain and that is why Mr brown could be important? We are all now

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making the argument. The local elections are out of the way and the

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Labour Party is focused on one thing only, which is winning the

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referendum on the 23rd of June. We have a very distinct message we are

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bringing because Europe has helped support workers' writes,

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improvements in the environment. As Gordon said today, the idea that the

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British way is somehow to turn our back on the European Union, the fact

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is we are an influential and powerful nation. I was asking you

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about the Labour vote because the Remain Campaign cannot win without

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the Labour vote coming out in substantial numbers. It looks like

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the conservative vote is going to split 55-45 to leave. So you need

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that Labour vote, agree? Yes, indeed. The vast majority of the

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Shadow Cabinet and the major unions, we are taking a distinct message as

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to why it is good for growth investment and security. We have now

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had two former head of MI5, one former head of MI6, 13 former

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leading figures in the white House, former secretaries of State, all

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warning about the UK leaving, all saying it would be bad about our

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security. What bit of that message are you not getting? Europol is

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taking the opposite view. There are all kinds of people who share my

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view. That is two. The overwhelming weight of expertise is against you.

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Of course Hillary is right, that many of the problems we face are pan

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national. And of course Gordon brown is right, the world has changed

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since 1975. But it means it has changed so we have to reach out well

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beyond Europe. I have just come from a meeting with the head of Interpol.

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They have reached to 190 countries. We have that whether we are in or

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out. Precisely, that is my point. In what way are we more secure by

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leaving? Two ways. There are issues about how we determine our security

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policy and there is a creeping attempt by the European Union to

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have more say over that and we have resisted that the government. Why

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would that make us less secure? I believe our security and

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intelligence services and successive governments have got security policy

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right. I think we do have the skills and confidence. So we have got it

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right as members of the EU, so why change? We do not have control. Are

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you seriously telling me French intelligence is going to allow

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Brussels of all places, after what has happened, Brussels to take

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control of French intelligence? The European Union has a creeping desire

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to take more control of security. We are resisting the government. Give

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me an example. They are developing a pan-European policy view about how

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security policy should be gauged and implemented. That is job. No, it is

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the fact that we want to do things at our national level. We need to

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share intelligence. Yes, that is operational, of course we need to

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share information. Were we to leave the European Union, where it is in

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the mutual interest of countries they will not continue to share

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information? Will the French and the Germans do that? Of course not. Your

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argument is undermined by the voices of experience, people whose job it

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has been to keep the nation and the country safe and to protect us and

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they said this would be bad for our security. We are not part of the

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Schengen passport free arrangement which shows we are able to exercise

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our own judgment on things like that, just as we are not in the

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euro. But we participate in sharing information through the Schengen

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information system. As you know, that is important to our security.

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Why would you want to walk away from arrangements that help to protect us

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when the voices of people whose day-to-day job it is, and has been,

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to protect as I saying that would not be a good idea. Contrary to the

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picture that the income paying want to paint, what I am saying is can

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anyone seriously believe that countries would cease to want to

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cooperate and share information like you describe if we were outside the

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EU? Of course they would not because they want to keep their people say.

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Let's assume we can continue to share bilaterally whether we are in

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or out, but, Hillary and, what intelligence would we no longer

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enjoy if we were not in the EU? A lot of it would depend on what

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happens if the nation were to vote to leave. The honest answer is we do

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not know. What exists among EU intelligence arrangements that we

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would not enjoy if we left? Would we have access to the Schengen

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information system. Can you explain what information Schengen shares.

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Where there are warning notices and other information, there has been a

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big step forward... Interpol do that. Hang on, the Parliament has

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recently agreed arrangements on sharing of data which is helping to

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make passenger names... We can do that already. If you filled in

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advance to go to the United States, that happens in America, we could do

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that to any country if we wanted to. We could, but you asked me what

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would change? And the answer is we do not know and that is the weakness

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of the Leave Campaign's argument. Let's take this passenger database.

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You have had to share passenger data to go to the US for some time and

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vice versa. There has been a push to get that done in Europe as well and

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the European institutions, the European Parliament, have stopped

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it. Where does that help us? It is only now they have finally agreed.

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As you have just answered the question, the European Parliament

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has now agreed to rules that would enable that data to be shared and

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that is a practical example of how cooperation work. It took ten years.

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It helps our security. We need cooperation work. It took ten years.

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doing things in other parts... The idea that there is some kind of

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competition that either we cooperate in Europe or globally, we need to do

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both. We need to move on. We need to move on. We have got another several

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weeks of this, there is no need to rush.

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How many days? It says 42.

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We don't want any "rogue markers" getting their hands on the answer

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We've password protected the answer, locked it in a safe behind closed

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And that was convenient having a guarding it with her life.

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And that was convenient having a rogue marker

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And, the only way you can win one of these is to tell

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# Everybody's doing a brand-new dance now.

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# I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now.

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# Don't you leave my heart in misery.

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It's coming up to midday here - just take a look at Big Ben -

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and that can mean only one thing: yes, Prime Minister's

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And that's not all - Laura Kuenssberg is here.

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So, you have got quite a strong track record, so no pressure here.

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What are the exact six questions that Jeremy Corbyn is going to ask

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today? No questions about rogue marking or leaking of anything

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before the real test comes. A couple of suggestions have made their way

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to meet this morning. One is housing because the laws and the commons are

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locked in because of the housing bill. Although it has not been

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ringing bells all over the place because politics is so busy, one

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minister described to me recently it is the most ideological

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controversial thing that the government is trying to do. I was

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struck by that. That would fit with Jeremy Corbyn's passions. There was

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another suggestion he might start to talk about the EU referendum, which

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is something he has not done until now. If he does, it is hard to see

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where he could go on it. What is the question? This morning I am not

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going to make a crystal clear prediction. I have made a couple of

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suggestions, but no leaks in the Daily Politics studio. Is there any

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chance you think that given the Prime Minister's quite strident

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attack last week on the kind of platforms that Mr Sadiq Khan was

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sharing, and he has no comfortably won the City Hall, more so than Mr

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Livingstone or Mr Johnson, is there any chance that Jeremy Corbyn may

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ask for our retraction or an apology or a withdrawal? That could be quite

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controversial. Yes, it would and it would be difficult for the Prime

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Minister as well. Whatever has happened in the campaign committee

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is now one of the most powerful politicians in the country. And he

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has reached out. And he has reached out in a very pointed way in

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contrast to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. It would be tricky for

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the Prime Minister, given that last week's Prime Minister 's questions

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was more like Jeremy Corbyn's camp Corbyn. The Prime Minister used it

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as a robust defence of that Goldsmith. You never know, it would

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make for a very interesting positioning challenge for the Prime

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Minister. Is problem is when he goes on something like housing, which is

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hugely important, it should have been the most important subject in

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the London election campaign, it was not important enough for last year's

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general election, and it is not already up there in the headlines,

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unless there is some major breakthrough or development, it

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struggles to make its way into the news tomorrow unless there is

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something that PMQs. It could end up being like a paper aeroplane and end

:29:29.:29:31.

up on the floor, not hitting any of the targets. You are right,

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grappling with the platform you get at PMQs, like it or not, it is the

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best opportunity that any opposition leader has got to try to get into

:29:43.:29:47.

the mainstream debate. Because of that they tend to have the best

:29:48.:29:51.

chances of success of getting their agenda across when they choose to go

:29:52.:29:56.

on the issues that are already running at 100 miles an hour, the

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issues already preoccupying Westminster, those that we know the

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public are very concerned about. You are right, that is a problem Jeremy

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Corbyn has come up against, whether or not it is housing or mental

:30:09.:30:13.

health. Other issues like that are of huge importance to the country.

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But we should say last week, like the previous week, Labour very

:30:18.:30:33.

successfully and Lucy Powell has pushed education again and again.

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Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, has had a very difficult

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time. Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs was part of that campaign. The Prime Minister

:30:44.:30:50.

still tried to deny things and Innocenti won that argument and the

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test in which they won it is they sneaked it out on Friday when

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everyone was trying to digests the election results. Talk about burying

:30:59.:31:05.

bad news. I think Nicky Morgan has not got off scot-free because since

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then she has had a very torrid session in the House of Commond,

:31:10.:31:13.

struggling to explain precisely what the government's policy now is. The

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government is trying to have it both ways on academy schools. They are

:31:20.:31:22.

saying it is our intention that every school should be an academy.

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That was always the case. Why don't they get it when you have got such a

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small majority? You have got to do what used to be done, you produce a

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Green paper first of all to get the reactions, take into account the

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criticism and then go to the policy. Or do what the government used to

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do. In coalition they had a chord. They had a huge majority when the

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Lib Dems and Tories got together, 80 or so. Your viewers might say it was

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79. One minister said to me that all that used to have to happen was that

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George Osborne used to have to get Nick Clegg to agree. They used to

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have robust argument inside that quartet. They were tested. That

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internal challenge was there. Now, because they take a rather dim view

:32:20.:32:23.

of the effectiveness of the opposition, the conversation about

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where will the opposition pickles has gone. We go straight over.

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This morning, I had meetings with ministers and colleagues and I will

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have further meetings today. Even fantastically corrupt Nigeria

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is asking Britain to clean up its act and introduce beneficial

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ownership registers in the overseas territories. We'll be Prime Minister

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achieve this tomorrow at the anti-corruption Summit? -- will be

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Prime Minister? I want to check the microphone is on before speaking. I

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thank him for his question. The answer is yes. We have asked three

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things of the overseas territories and Crown dependencies - automatic

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exchange of tax information, a common reporting standard for

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multinational companies, and for central beneficial ownership

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registry so that UK enforcement can know who owns companies based there.

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They have delivered on the first two, and they will be following and

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delivering on the third. That is what he asked for and what he is

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getting. Mr Speaker, in my constituency there is unprecedented

:33:48.:33:50.

housing growth. Does the Prime Minister agree that we must build

:33:51.:33:55.

sufficient starter homes so that the dream of home ownership becomes

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something that everybody really can aspire to? I want to thank my

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constituency neighbour and honourable friend for raising that

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question. The fact is, we are building more houses right across

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England. We are building more affordable homes, and the

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legislation going through this House and the other place will make sure

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we deliver our pledge of 200,000 starter homes. Those are the ones we

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want to see, affordable for people to buy. I hope that even at this

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late stage, the Labour Party in the House of Lords. Blocking this bill.

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Jeremy Corbyn. -- the Labour Party in the house of lords will stop

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blocking this bill. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Since we

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often celebrate great national event in this House, would be Prime

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Minister join me in wishing Sir David Attenborough a very happy 90th

:34:58.:35:03.

birthday and thank him for the way he has presented nature programmes

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on television and awakened the ideas of so many people to the fragility

:35:07.:35:11.

of our ecosystem and educated a whole generation? Mr Speaker, on

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this side of the House, we are fully aware... I haven't asked the

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question yet, it's OK! We are fully aware that the European Union has

:35:27.:35:31.

strength the rights of workers in many ways. In March, while the Prime

:35:32.:35:36.

Minister was trying to undermine workers' writes with his trade union

:35:37.:35:41.

Bill, the European Commission put forward proposals to close loopholes

:35:42.:35:46.

in the posting of workers directive which would stop employers

:35:47.:35:51.

exploiting foreign workers and undercutting national rates of pay.

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We'll be Prime Minister confirm that his Government will protect workers

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and will back these reforms to stop this undercutting and grotesque

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exploitation of workers across this continent? First, I join the right

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Honourable gentleman in wishing a very happy birthday to David

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Attenborough. Many of us in this House feel that we grew up with him

:36:16.:36:19.

as our teacher about the natural world and the environment. He is

:36:20.:36:24.

remarkable. I am proud to say that the Royals survey ship, the Arctic

:36:25.:36:30.

ship, will be named after David Attenborough. There was strong

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support for Boaty McBoatface, and I think the submarine, or the life

:36:43.:36:45.

raft, on the boat will be named that. On the workers directive, we

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are looking closely, working with our partners. We see some merit in

:36:51.:36:54.

what is being proposed. I can say that the yellow card procedure has

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been invoked by national parliaments, demonstrating the

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importance of these safeguards, much of which we reacted -- achieved in

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my re-negotiation does not the best thing we can do for workers' writes

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in this country is celebrate the national living wage introduced by

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this Government. The national minimum wage was a Labour

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introduction. The living wage proposed by the Chancellor is a

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corruption of the very idea of it. It is not, in reality, a proper

:37:25.:37:31.

living wage. But, Mr Speaker, my question was about the posting of

:37:32.:37:36.

workers directive which would prevent the grotesque exploitation

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by unscrupulous employers of workers being moved from one nation to

:37:40.:37:44.

another in order to undercut the wages of the second nation. We'll be

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Prime Minister be absolutely clear? Will be British Government support

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this very important reform to stop this exploitation? As I said, we are

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working with the Dutch presidency. We think there is merit in a lot of

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the proposals, but we want to make sure we get the details right. Let

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me pull them up on something - he has described the national living

:38:08.:38:14.

wage as a corruption. It is ?7.20 per hour, a ?20 per week pay writers

:38:15.:38:20.

of the poorest in our country. I really think he ought to get up and

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say he supports the national living wage and thanks the Government for

:38:26.:38:32.

introducing it. I support a wage rise, obviously does not the point I

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am making is that it is not a living wage. It is not a living wage as is

:38:37.:38:46.

generally understood. Mr Speaker, saying yes seems to be one of the

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hardest word for the Prime Minister. For radar time, could he say whether

:38:51.:38:56.

he does or does not support the posting of workers directive? He

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might be aware that Patrick Minford, a former economic adviser to

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Margaret Thatcher, has said that the European Union has a negative effect

:39:04.:39:09.

on the City of London, and he would want the shackles European

:39:10.:39:15.

regulation removed. Does the Prime Minister believed that membership

:39:16.:39:20.

hurts the City of London, or does he believe that European Union

:39:21.:39:25.

regulation of the finance sector in Britain and British- administered

:39:26.:39:33.

tax havens would help the sort of bad practice exposed by the Panama

:39:34.:39:37.

papers or underlined by my friend in his earlier question today? This is

:39:38.:39:43.

an area where we basically agree about the European Union, so I will

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try to identify a question and answer as positively as I can. On

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Patrick Minford, I completely disagree with the Economist Patrick

:39:53.:39:58.

Minford. He wants to see manufacturing industry in our

:39:59.:40:01.

country obliterate it, and I think it would be disastrous to follow his

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advice. In terms of the City of London, we need the right regulation

:40:07.:40:11.

for the City of London to continue its massive rate of job creation and

:40:12.:40:15.

wealth creation in our country, but we also need to remain members of

:40:16.:40:19.

the single market because it is absolutely vital for this important

:40:20.:40:23.

sector of our economy. I hope that on that, as on the national living

:40:24.:40:29.

wage, we can find some agreement. The question I also put the Prime

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Minister, which perhaps he wasn't listening to, was what he was going

:40:37.:40:45.

to do... What I asked was what he's going to do about the UK-

:40:46.:40:51.

administered tax havens which receive large sums of money from

:40:52.:40:56.

dodgy sources which should and must be closed down, as should any tax

:40:57.:41:02.

evasion in the City of London. We need a British Government that is

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prepared to chase down this level of corruption. This Government has done

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more than any previous Government to deal with this issue, making sure

:41:12.:41:16.

that our overseas territories and Crown dependencies are not tax

:41:17.:41:21.

behave -- tax havens but behave in a responsible way. We are now taking

:41:22.:41:25.

part in the automatic exchange of tax information, which didn't happen

:41:26.:41:29.

before. We have signed up to a common reporting standard for

:41:30.:41:31.

multinational companies, which didn't happen before. And there will

:41:32.:41:36.

be central registry so we can find out who owns the companies. All of

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these things are real progress. Of course, we would like to go further

:41:42.:41:45.

in her public registry is beneficial ownership, as we are introducing in

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this country, not because of the Labour Government but because of a

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decision by a Conservative Prime Minister, but where I would urge him

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to be fair is that many of the Crown dependencies have gone much further

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than many developed countries. Indeed, you actually get more

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information now out of some of our Crown dependencies and overseas

:42:08.:42:09.

territories than you would out of the United States in terms of

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Delaware. Let's be fair on these, for which we have a responsibility,

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we are making them improve their record and he should acknowledge it.

:42:19.:42:23.

we are making them improve their Mr Speaker, a month ago, the Prime

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Minister informed the House that he welcomed the European Union

:42:28.:42:28.

proposals on country by country taxed transparency reporting. We

:42:29.:42:37.

agreed with that. Yet, on the 26th of April, Conservative MEPs voted

:42:38.:42:40.

against these proposals. Did they not received the memo of what?

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People expect that people pay their tax in this country. Tomorrow, the

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European Parliament will be voting again on country by country

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reporting. Can he assure the House that Conservative members of the

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European Parliament will support these measures as he told us they

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European Parliament will support thing is that we support these

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measures. The Government supports these measures. Indeed, these

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measures have only come forward because it has been a Conservative

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Government in the United Kingdom proposing them. The only area of

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disagreement, I would suspect, between himself and myself is, I

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don't think we between himself and myself is, I

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has always been a position of Labour Government and previous Conservative

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governments, that while we want to make sure that these territories

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behave properly, we don't actually make them set a minimum tax rate.

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That is the difference between us. If he wants to swap voting records

:43:50.:43:52.

of Labour and Tory MEPs, let's have a whole session, because I have

:43:53.:43:55.

plenty of material in here. That was a very long answer... When he could

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have quite simply said whether or not he supports these proposals, and

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if his Conservative MEPs will vote for them. Mr Speaker, the Prime

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Minister will be very well aware of the concern across the whole country

:44:28.:44:32.

about the question of unaccompanied child refugees across Europe. They

:44:33.:44:38.

are in a desperate plight and a dangerous situation. Everyone's

:44:39.:44:41.

heart reaches out to them, but we have to do more than that and be

:44:42.:44:46.

practical in our help for them. I got a letter this week from a

:44:47.:44:50.

voluntary worker with child refugees called Hannah. She wrote about these

:44:51.:44:55.

children, some of whom have family members in this country. Can the

:44:56.:44:59.

Prime Minister confirm that in respect of the response to Lord dubs

:45:00.:45:06.

amendment, there will be no delay whatsoever in accepting 3000

:45:07.:45:08.

unaccompanied child refugees into this country to give them the

:45:09.:45:12.

support they need and allow them to enjoy the childhood they and all our

:45:13.:45:18.

children deserve? All I can say is that we will follow his amendment.

:45:19.:45:23.

That is now the law the land. The amendment says we have to consult

:45:24.:45:27.

very carefully with local authorities to make sure that as we

:45:28.:45:32.

take these children in we are able to house them, clothe them and feed

:45:33.:45:36.

them, make sure the properly looked after. So we need to look at the

:45:37.:45:41.

capacity of our care system. If you look at some councils, particularly

:45:42.:45:45.

in Kent and southern England, they are already struggling because of

:45:46.:45:47.

the number unaccompanied children who come in. Two figures, last year,

:45:48.:45:53.

3000 unaccompanied children arrived and claimed asylum in the UK even

:45:54.:45:58.

before the scheme that is being introduced. Second, under Dublin,

:45:59.:46:03.

children with a connection to the UK can already claim asylum in France

:46:04.:46:08.

or Italy then come to the UK. We have accepted 30 such transfers

:46:09.:46:12.

since February. What I can say is, there will be no delay, we will get

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on with it as fast as we can, but in order to follow the law we have to

:46:17.:46:18.

talk to local authorities first. During President Obama's recent

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visit, was the Prime Minister able to talk to him about the Chinese

:46:29.:46:31.

dumping of steel and the robust action he has taken in the United

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States to address it, including increasing tariffs to 288%? Will he

:46:37.:46:46.

increased the tariffs and tell the Chinese to go to the back of the

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line? I did discuss this with President Obama and both the

:46:53.:46:56.

European Union and the US have taken action against Chinese dumping. The

:46:57.:47:01.

excess steel capacity in China is 25 times higher than the UK's entire

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production. The anti-dumping tariffs we have produced in the EU have been

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very effective and in some areas have reduced Chinese exports to as

:47:13.:47:17.

much as 98%. EU action does work and if we were outside the EU, we might

:47:18.:47:21.

be subject to those tariffs ourselves. The Prime Minister's

:47:22.:47:30.

government was elected with 37% of the vote, so I am sure he would

:47:31.:47:35.

acknowledge the success of Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP in being

:47:36.:47:41.

returned victoriously for a third time with 46%, the highest of any

:47:42.:47:48.

political party in national elections anywhere currently in

:47:49.:47:53.

Western Europe. Mr Speaker, on the anti-corruption Summit, has the

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Prime Minister read the appeals from Nigerian campaigners who say, our

:47:58.:48:02.

efforts are sadly undermined if countries such as your own are

:48:03.:48:08.

welcoming our corrupt to hide their ill gotten gains in your luxury

:48:09.:48:13.

homes, department stores, car dealerships and private schools and

:48:14.:48:17.

anywhere else that will accept their cash with no questions asked? The

:48:18.:48:25.

role of London's property as vessels to hide this money, what is the

:48:26.:48:33.

Prime Minister going to do about this? I am delighted to congratulate

:48:34.:48:38.

Nicola Sturgeon on her victory, as I want to congratulate Ruth Davidson

:48:39.:48:51.

on Harris. We have something in common, the SNP have gone from a

:48:52.:48:56.

majority to a minority, while the Conservatives have gone from

:48:57.:49:02.

coalition to a majority. Next week he can get on with asking me how we

:49:03.:49:06.

are getting on with ordering some more pandas for Edinburgh zoo. The

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question he asks about the corruption Summit is right. The

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whole point about holding this summit is to say that the action is

:49:15.:49:20.

necessary by developed countries as well as developing countries. One of

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the steps we are making is that foreign companies have to declare

:49:26.:49:29.

with the beneficial owner is to make sure that plundered money from

:49:30.:49:33.

African countries cannot be hidden in London. It would be helpful if he

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could confirm that that list would be publicly available and not just

:49:39.:49:42.

accessible to the police. Seeing as the Prime Minister is prepared to

:49:43.:49:45.

lecture other countries on corruption, could he explain why

:49:46.:49:50.

seven police forces in the UK have launched criminal investigations

:49:51.:49:53.

into Conservative MPs for potential electoral fraud? Mr Speaker, it is

:49:54.:50:02.

very serious, so how is it that a Conservative crime and policing

:50:03.:50:05.

commissioner can serve in such a role when being under police

:50:06.:50:10.

investigation? First of all, let's be clear about this anti-corruption

:50:11.:50:16.

Summit. Nobody is lecturing anybody. One of the reasons this issue does

:50:17.:50:20.

not get addressed is because countries and politicians are too

:50:21.:50:24.

worried about addressing it, knowing that no country is perfect, nor is

:50:25.:50:29.

any politician. It is right for Britain to take this lead, not least

:50:30.:50:34.

because we meet our contribution on aid, but we are entitled to raise

:50:35.:50:39.

this issue. As for the electoral commission, the whole point is it is

:50:40.:50:46.

independent and when it comes to operation on decisions by a police

:50:47.:50:50.

force they are independent as well. That is the hallmark of a

:50:51.:50:56.

non-corrupt country. I know my right honourable friend will want to join

:50:57.:50:59.

with me in congratulating Katie born who was re-elected as the Police and

:51:00.:51:05.

Crime Commissioner, topping the poll in Crawley, significantly for her

:51:06.:51:12.

work in helping victims. In that respect, will the Prime Minister

:51:13.:51:17.

introduce a British bill of rights as soon as possible? I am happy to

:51:18.:51:23.

make that commitment and let me join him in congratulating all the

:51:24.:51:28.

candidates who were successful. In a minute. What we saw in the Police

:51:29.:51:33.

and Crime Commissioner elections was a very large increase in turnout,

:51:34.:51:40.

sometimes as much as 25% point increase in turnout. This new role

:51:41.:51:46.

in our country is bedding in well. I am happy to congratulate Carwyn

:51:47.:51:50.

Jones, Arlene Foster, who will be First Minister of Northern Ireland.

:51:51.:51:55.

I spoke to her and the Deputy First Minister yesterday. I also

:51:56.:52:01.

congratulate Sadiq Khan who won a victory in London and we look

:52:02.:52:04.

forward to working with him for the benefit of Londoners. When Hall was

:52:05.:52:11.

left out of the government's plans for rail electrification for the

:52:12.:52:13.

North, whole business got for rail electrification for the

:52:14.:52:15.

and produce a privately financed scheme to do the work for the

:52:16.:52:21.

and produce a privately financed of Culture, 2017. It has been with

:52:22.:52:25.

the Department for Transport for two years. Does the Prime Minister think

:52:26.:52:27.

their attitude shows years. Does the Prime Minister think

:52:28.:52:30.

indifference to the scheme years. Does the Prime Minister think

:52:31.:52:36.

been put forward with private money? The honourable lady is being unfair

:52:37.:52:40.

on the department, not least because passengers will benefit from 500

:52:41.:52:43.

brand-new carriages and the passengers will benefit from 500

:52:44.:52:50.

of outdated trains. ?1.4 million of investment is going into the station

:52:51.:52:53.

to be delivered before it becomes the UK City of Culture. The

:52:54.:52:57.

Department for Transport is the UK City of Culture. The

:52:58.:53:00.

considering the case to complete electrification

:53:01.:53:03.

considering the case to complete how. We make these investments

:53:04.:53:07.

because we are investing in our infrastructure and have a strong

:53:08.:53:12.

economy. I recently visited Silent Night, will the Prime Minister join

:53:13.:53:20.

me in congratulating them on the success of this scheme which has

:53:21.:53:26.

allowed them to award all of their 1000 employees with a ?250 thank you

:53:27.:53:32.

bonus? I am happy to join my honourable friend in congratulating

:53:33.:53:38.

them. I remember visiting them in 2014. They employed 800 people.

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They're now employ 1100 people and that is a good example of a business

:53:44.:53:48.

expanding under this government. They are big backers of

:53:49.:53:52.

apprenticeships and our target is 3 million apprenticeships under this

:53:53.:53:58.

Parliament. Already in 2016, at least 46 women have been murdered in

:53:59.:54:02.

the UK. This number would be much higher if not for specialist

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refuges. I am standing to bake the Prime Minister to exempt refuge

:54:10.:54:12.

accommodation from the changes to housing benefit. This will certainly

:54:13.:54:20.

close services. I do not want to hear a stock answer about the 40

:54:21.:54:23.

million over the next few years. He knows that that will not stop

:54:24.:54:28.

refuges setting. Will he choose to save lives? Please. The honourable

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lady raises an important point and that is why we delayed the

:54:36.:54:38.

introduction of this change so we could look at all of the possible

:54:39.:54:42.

consequences and make sure we get it right so that we can help vulnerable

:54:43.:54:51.

people. HIV infection rates in the UK are on the rise. My right

:54:52.:54:56.

honourable friend will be aware that NHS England have refused to fund

:54:57.:55:04.

pre-exposure prophylactic treatment. Will my right honourable friend meet

:55:05.:55:08.

with me and leading aids charities so that we can review this

:55:09.:55:13.

unacceptable decision? My understanding is that NHS England

:55:14.:55:17.

are considering their commissioning responsibility. I want them to reach

:55:18.:55:21.

a decision on this quickly this month if possible. There is a rising

:55:22.:55:27.

rate of infection that these treatments can help and make a

:55:28.:55:30.

difference too. We are planning trial sites. They are already under

:55:31.:55:37.

way and we are investing ?2 million to support this. I will make sure he

:55:38.:55:41.

gets the meetings he needs to make progress with this. In my first year

:55:42.:55:49.

as an MP every person in my constituency advice surgery has been

:55:50.:55:53.

an anxious council tenant, usually mother, father and two children

:55:54.:55:56.

living in a one-bedroom flat and they are often in tears. They cannot

:55:57.:56:01.

afford to rent in the private market and they cannot afford to buy their

:56:02.:56:05.

council flat and they cannot afford a starter home. With the Prime

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Minister explain that I can read to them from Hansard White in his view

:56:11.:56:15.

the Housing Bill will not make their intolerable situation worse I see

:56:16.:56:20.

Mark what I would say is there are a series of things that will help

:56:21.:56:24.

them. First of all, making sure the right to buy is therefore a housing

:56:25.:56:29.

association tenants as well as council tenants with the full

:56:30.:56:33.

discount makes a difference. Because you have got help to buy, which

:56:34.:56:37.

means people need a smaller amount of equity to buy their house, that

:56:38.:56:42.

helps as well. Starter homes will make a difference because they will

:56:43.:56:47.

be more affordable. Added to that, shared accommodation homes means

:56:48.:56:54.

that where you previously needed a deposit of ?30,000, you may be able

:56:55.:56:58.

to buy a house for just a few thousand pounds deposit. All of

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those things make a difference and for those in estate that need

:57:04.:57:07.

regeneration we are backing the regeneration that never happened

:57:08.:57:11.

under a Labour government. I am proud this government has delivered

:57:12.:57:16.

a record low unemployment levels in my constituency of 6%. This

:57:17.:57:20.

government delivered the Cardiff city deal, and investment into

:57:21.:57:27.

infrastructure. Does the Prime Minister share my eagerness to see

:57:28.:57:34.

electrification of the city and Valley lines delivered in Wales? My

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honourable friend is right to raise these issues because the money is

:57:41.:57:45.

there and now, frankly, with a new Welsh government in place we need

:57:46.:57:50.

the action, particularly on the M4. We have given the Welsh government

:57:51.:57:55.

500 million increased borrowing powers, the delay in upgrading the

:57:56.:57:59.

motorway is damaging business in South Wales and it is high time the

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Welsh government got on with it. Mr Speaker, a report claims it is money

:58:09.:58:13.

rather than religious fervour that attracts recruitment to Isis, while

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the Syrian army pays less money and Isis can pay more money due to its

:58:26.:58:29.

funding and sophistication. Does the Prime Minister need much more needs

:58:30.:58:33.

to be done to offer alternative economic avenues for Syrians and to

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undermine the brains behind Isis? I agree with what he says about

:58:43.:58:45.

development and aid and that is why we have a serious aid budget. Right

:58:46.:58:52.

now in Syria it is difficult to get aid and benefit through. If we truly

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see this as them recruiting people because they are paying them, we

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would miss the point. The cancer of Islamist extremist violence is

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damaging our world and our country and not just in Syria and we have to

:59:06.:59:10.

understand the nature of that extremism if we are to defeat it. A

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business park in my constituency will create 300,000 new jobs. Will

:59:18.:59:22.

the Prime Minister join me in congratulating its first new talent,

:59:23.:59:33.

Fat Face? I think the claimant count in his constituency has fallen by a

:59:34.:59:39.

staggering 52% since 2010, and we need to keep on with this by making

:59:40.:59:43.

sure we are expanding the training and the apprentice that make sure

:59:44.:59:47.

that young people get the jobs. The Prime Minister said that the UK was

:59:48.:59:56.

becoming a surveillance state and he promised to sweep the whole edifice

:59:57.:00:00.

away. That he has made a U-turn and his investigative Powers Bill

:00:01.:00:06.

proposes to retain a record of everybody in the UK. Why is he

:00:07.:00:13.

championing ineffective mass surveillance in government? I

:00:14.:00:17.

disagree with the honourable gentleman and I hope he will follow

:00:18.:00:21.

and listen to the debates that take place on this vital bill. The fact

:00:22.:00:26.

is if you want to make sure that we can keep our country safe, just as

:00:27.:00:31.

we have been able to see the Communications data when two people

:00:32.:00:35.

talk to each other on a mobile phone or a fixed phone, so if that

:00:36.:00:39.

conversation is taking place on an Internet site, is he happy for plots

:00:40.:00:44.

to be hatched, terrorism to be planned,

:00:45.:00:57.

murderers to be arranged, because people are using an Internet site

:00:58.:01:01.

rather than a telephone? My answer is no. We have to modernise our

:01:02.:01:03.

capabilities to keep our country safe and that is what this bill is

:01:04.:01:06.

about. My right honourable friend said in 2015 that access to the

:01:07.:01:10.

Internet should not be a luxury, but right. The press release said that

:01:11.:01:15.

every home and business would have access to fast broadband by the hand

:01:16.:01:20.

this Parliament. With my right honourable friend say today that

:01:21.:01:25.

this Parliament. With my right this commitment will be honoured? My

:01:26.:01:25.

right honourable friend will have to wait for the Queen's speech when we

:01:26.:01:33.

set out how we are going to make this access available to our

:01:34.:01:34.

citizens. Will the Prime Minister this access available to our

:01:35.:01:41.

work with the Scottish Government to blood delivery of funding for the

:01:42.:01:47.

Tay area, Dundee and the surrounding area? I

:01:48.:01:50.

Tay area, Dundee and the surrounding commitment. I think city deals are

:01:51.:01:55.

working. They are working in Scotland

:01:56.:01:58.

working. They are working in for the Aberdeen city deal. City

:01:59.:02:02.

working. They are working in deals can only work if we are all

:02:03.:02:10.

part of one happy United Kingdom. Respected journalist Laura

:02:11.:02:13.

Kuenssberg has been subjected to an online hate campaign which appears

:02:14.:02:18.

to be a sexist witchhunt to silence her. Increasingly this is a tool

:02:19.:02:22.

used against people in public life by those who take an opposing view.

:02:23.:02:27.

Will my right honourable friend condemned this kind of harassment

:02:28.:02:28.

and will he work with condemned this kind of harassment

:02:29.:02:33.

social media platforms to reserve the right to speak freely without

:02:34.:02:39.

intimidation or hate? We must be able to speak freely and we must

:02:40.:02:44.

have a robust and lively democracy, but some of the things people say on

:02:45.:02:46.

twitter, knowing that they are in some way anonymous, are frankly

:02:47.:02:52.

appalling and people should be ashamed of the sort of sexist

:02:53.:02:58.

bullying that often takes place. Last week London elected the new

:02:59.:03:05.

Mayor... With an overwhelming mandate to tackle London's housing

:03:06.:03:11.

crisis, a crisis many of us fear the Housing Bill will make worse. Last

:03:12.:03:16.

April the Prime Minister launched a manifesto promising to replace

:03:17.:03:18.

council houses with affordable homes in the same area. Why is he

:03:19.:03:24.

proposing an amendment to the Housing Bill this afternoon which

:03:25.:03:26.

implements last year's manifesto commitments? Let me again

:03:27.:03:32.

congratulate Sadiq Khan for his victory and we look forward to

:03:33.:03:36.

working with him on issues that matter to Londoners. I would put the

:03:37.:03:41.

question back to the honourable lady. Our Housing Bill means that

:03:42.:03:45.

every high-value properties sold will mean two new affordable homes

:03:46.:03:52.

in London. Why is it the Labour Party and the other plays are

:03:53.:03:57.

opposing what will mean more houses, more affordable housing and more

:03:58.:04:02.

home ownership? They talk a good game, but at the end of the day they

:04:03.:04:11.

are the enemies of aspiration. During military operations in

:04:12.:04:16.

Afghanistan, British forces were reliant on local interpreters who

:04:17.:04:20.

constantly put themselvess in harm's way. I saw with my own eyes how

:04:21.:04:29.

brave these interpreters work. Does he agree it is a stain on our

:04:30.:04:32.

honoured that we have abandoned a large number of them to be

:04:33.:04:35.

threatened by the Taliban. Some have been murdered and others have had to

:04:36.:04:40.

flee in fear of their lives. We owe them a huge debt of gratitude and

:04:41.:04:44.

honour and we must provide safety and sanctuary for them here. We

:04:45.:04:51.

debated and discussed around the National Security Council table in

:04:52.:04:53.

the Coalition Government and announced in the House of commons a

:04:54.:04:57.

scheme to make sure that those people who had helped our forces in

:04:58.:05:01.

terms of translation and other services were given the opportunity

:05:02.:05:06.

of coming here. We set up one scheme to encourage that and another

:05:07.:05:10.

generous scheme to try and encourage those who wanted to stay, or who had

:05:11.:05:15.

not been translated for a long period, to stay in Afghanistan and

:05:16.:05:20.

help rebuild that country. It is important to have both schemes in

:05:21.:05:24.

place, rather than to say that everyone can come to the UK. Let's

:05:25.:05:28.

back Afghans to rebuild their own country. The Prime Minister has

:05:29.:05:33.

confirmed to me that should we leave the EU, then the European funding

:05:34.:05:39.

for the very poorest parts of Wales will cease. Will he confirm that in

:05:40.:05:44.

such a case the UK Government would make up such a difference? The point

:05:45.:05:49.

I would make to the honourable gentleman, as I would to anyone

:05:50.:05:53.

asking what would happen if we were to leave, is I do not think we could

:05:54.:05:58.

give a guarantee. I want to go on making sure that poor regions and

:05:59.:06:02.

part of our country are properly supported. If, as I think it is the

:06:03.:06:08.

case, that we would find our economy hit by leaving and our tax receipts,

:06:09.:06:12.

that will impact the amount of funding we can put into agriculture,

:06:13.:06:17.

research and poor are part of our country. The right option is boat to

:06:18.:06:27.

remain in. Can I support the Prime Minister in his comments about

:06:28.:06:31.

Nigeria and Afghanistan? I want to ask him if he will stop pouring

:06:32.:06:35.

hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money into those

:06:36.:06:39.

countries until they have cleaned up their act. Can he tell us where he

:06:40.:06:46.

has the European Union in his leak of corruption? I thank my honourable

:06:47.:06:54.

friend for his help and support and his tips on diplomacy as well. They

:06:55.:07:03.

are useful. Countries like Nigeria and Afghanistan, their leaders are

:07:04.:07:07.

battling hard against very corrupt systems and countries. In both cases

:07:08.:07:11.

they have made remarkable steps forward and I am keen to welcome

:07:12.:07:14.

them to the anti-corruption conference in London. But I do not

:07:15.:07:20.

think it would be right to withdraw the aid that we give because the

:07:21.:07:24.

problems in those countries come back and haunt us here, whether it

:07:25.:07:28.

is problems of migration or terrorism and all the rest of it. We

:07:29.:07:34.

are a country involved in a dangerous, global world and I our

:07:35.:07:40.

aid budget, 0.7%, alongside our defence budget, 2%, a way of keeping

:07:41.:07:49.

us safe in a dangerous world as well as fulfilling our moral

:07:50.:07:54.

responsibilities. The noise makes it necessary to outdo the Barclays

:07:55.:08:01.

Premier League matches in terms of injury time. It is a pleasure to

:08:02.:08:10.

recall Jill Furniss. 22 years ago we saw in the country's biggest

:08:11.:08:14.

sporting disaster. It is true we will not have the truth. Will the

:08:15.:08:28.

Prime Minister initiate an enquiry? The Home Secretary has met with that

:08:29.:08:31.

group and is considering the point is that they have put forward and

:08:32.:08:35.

they will come to their conclusions in the right time. Business leaders

:08:36.:08:42.

in Cornwall and up and down the country are awaiting news on airport

:08:43.:08:47.

expansion in the South East. Following this morning's

:08:48.:08:50.

announcement by Heathrow airport that they are accepting all the

:08:51.:08:55.

recommendations, and can the Prime Minister update the House and does

:08:56.:09:00.

he agree that the third runway at Heathrow offers the best for

:09:01.:09:08.

prosperity for our country? With my many unforced errors in the last 24

:09:09.:09:12.

hours, can I apologise to the honourable lady because I should

:09:13.:09:16.

have welcomed her to the House of commons and congratulated her on her

:09:17.:09:20.

by-election victory. She has already lost no time in speaking up for her

:09:21.:09:26.

constituents in a very powerful way. As we announced earlier this year,

:09:27.:09:29.

there are issues of air quality that need to be resolved. We are on our

:09:30.:09:34.

way to working out how to resolve them and when we do we welcome back

:09:35.:09:37.

to the House and announce happens next. My constituent's mother was

:09:38.:09:44.

killed in 1981 and at the time it was covered up as a suicide pact.

:09:45.:09:49.

But 18 years later it was discovered she was murdered by her father and

:09:50.:09:54.

his mistress. No one can imagine that the pain and suffering that her

:09:55.:09:58.

and her family have had to endure. But they now have had to relive this

:09:59.:10:03.

pain because ITV are dramatising their whole ordeal completely

:10:04.:10:08.

against their wishes, using not only their real names, but also her own.

:10:09.:10:12.

I have raised this with ITV and Ofcom and no rules have been broken,

:10:13.:10:16.

but does the Prime Minister not agree that victims' voices should

:10:17.:10:21.

have a far greater role? Will he meet with me and my constituent to

:10:22.:10:26.

discuss what more could have been done in this situation and how we

:10:27.:10:31.

can strengthen the regulation in future to protect victims? I was not

:10:32.:10:35.

aware of the case the honourable lady rightly raises. I remember my

:10:36.:10:41.

time working in the TV industry when there are times when these decisions

:10:42.:10:45.

are made that can cause a huge amount of hurt and upset to

:10:46.:10:48.

families. I will discuss this case to the culture Secretary and bring

:10:49.:10:52.

it to his attention and see if there is anything else that can be done.

:10:53.:11:00.

it to his attention and see if there Yesterday the local lord prior... I

:11:01.:11:13.

am happy to look at this issue closely. It is necessary to

:11:14.:11:19.

differentiate between smoking and e-cigarette because they have very

:11:20.:11:24.

different health effects. That is what is being achieved, but I will

:11:25.:11:28.

look carefully into this. Mr Tim Farron. Order! Order! However

:11:29.:11:41.

irritating the honourable gentleman... May be to government

:11:42.:11:54.

backbenchers, he has a right to be heard and he will be heard. Mr Tim

:11:55.:12:02.

Farron. I am grateful to you Mr Speaker. I heard the Prime Minister

:12:03.:12:11.

on two occasions this afternoon congratulate the new Mayor of

:12:12.:12:14.

London, Sadiq Khan, and I would like to repeat that myself. He did not

:12:15.:12:21.

apologise for the disgraceful racist campaign the Party chose to run in

:12:22.:12:28.

that campaign. Will he apologise for deliberately dividing communities in

:12:29.:12:33.

order to win cheap votes? It is a great way to end the session,

:12:34.:12:38.

getting a lesson in clean campaigning from the Liberal

:12:39.:12:38.

Democrats! That was probably the longest PMQs,

:12:39.:13:06.

apart from last week, which was also long. On current trends, PMQs will

:13:07.:13:13.

go one to 1pm. And by my cultivation, till mid October. We

:13:14.:13:16.

may need an extension on the Daily Politics to take us through to

:13:17.:13:21.

1:30pm. For the second week in a row, it was a strange PMQs. Last

:13:22.:13:25.

week was strange because the Prime Minister kept asking questions of

:13:26.:13:29.

the Leader of the Opposition. This week, it was strange because, much

:13:30.:13:34.

as we pride ourselves on new -- knowing the details of political

:13:35.:13:39.

discourse and issues, because we are anoraks to such thing, we frankly at

:13:40.:13:43.

the beginning had no idea what Jeremy Corbyn was talking about. It

:13:44.:13:47.

turns out, because we do our research, that it is a posted

:13:48.:13:52.

workers directive, issued by the European Commission will stop a

:13:53.:13:57.

posted worker is not a postal worker, that is different. A posted

:13:58.:14:05.

worker is defined by European law as an employee who is sent by his or

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her employer to carry out a service in another member state for a

:14:10.:14:13.

temporary period. What the directive is trying to do is to say, if these

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workers are posted from, say, to Poland -- from Poland to France by

:14:21.:14:25.

their employer to do a particular job, they should be paid the same

:14:26.:14:28.

money as they are the people they are working with in that particular

:14:29.:14:33.

factory or whatever. The interesting thing, which is why it is not

:14:34.:14:38.

entirely a matter for the British, is that the 11 EU member states have

:14:39.:14:42.

shown a yellow card to this proposal. Estonia, Hungary,

:14:43.:14:50.

Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech parliament, Latvia, Lithuania

:14:51.:14:56.

and Romania have all put a yellow card. They don't like this. They are

:14:57.:15:01.

likely worried it would be nuts of these workers would not then be

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posted to these jobs. I know you are sitting on the edge of your chair on

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this. There are almost 2 million posted workers in the EU,

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representing 0.7% of EU employment and almost 40 -- 50%, 44% to be

:15:18.:15:25.

exact, are in the construction business. There you go. Ask me

:15:26.:15:29.

anything you want to know about posted workers. I think you have

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told us. What did have your say? The viewers agree with you - they

:15:35.:15:39.

weren't quite up to scratch on what Martin from Stockport calls that

:15:40.:15:47.

posting workers directive stop. -- workers directive. Why can't he ask

:15:48.:15:51.

about things we understand and care about? Michael in Lincolnshire says,

:15:52.:15:57.

he has to stop focusing on menu sure when asking questions and learn to

:15:58.:16:01.

use sound bites. Until he does, David Cameron will run rings random

:16:02.:16:13.

stop. -- run rings round him. A huge mandate the labour, says one viewer,

:16:14.:16:19.

the greatest city on the planet and doesn't it deserve a mention?

:16:20.:16:24.

Another viewer says, dancing round menu sure on the EU. Someone else

:16:25.:16:32.

commented on the name of the Arctic survey ship. Lots of tweets

:16:33.:16:37.

congratulating Angus Robertson for asking questions about Tory election

:16:38.:16:42.

fraud. Well, it was an obscure issue to go

:16:43.:16:46.

on, but it is not often that I can see I am a net receiver of

:16:47.:16:50.

information on this issue, thanks to Mr Corbyn, because I now know more

:16:51.:16:54.

about posted workers directive is than I did before. That is helpful

:16:55.:16:58.

to me. In what way is it helpful to the Leader of the Opposition?

:16:59.:17:04.

Perhaps because this issue has been important to some of the unions,

:17:05.:17:08.

particularly the GMB, who had been a big whack of Jeremy Corbyn. If we

:17:09.:17:12.

think of the role that unions have played in his leadership, they have

:17:13.:17:16.

been campaigning for some time on this issue. The European countries

:17:17.:17:20.

are in the process of making a decision about moving forward on it,

:17:21.:17:26.

so it is a live issue or parts of the Labour Party and the unions.

:17:27.:17:30.

Some people might remember one of the controversies in this area in

:17:31.:17:35.

2009 was a big strike at an oil refinery where workers were brought

:17:36.:17:39.

in directly from Italy, and they were being paid less than the people

:17:40.:17:43.

who had been working there who were British. So, it is a niche issue,

:17:44.:17:48.

but important to some strands of the Labour Party and I think that is why

:17:49.:17:53.

he raised it. It is not really to do with free movement, it can only

:17:54.:17:57.

happen because of free movement. It doesn't cover the vast majority of

:17:58.:18:00.

workers crossing European boundaries in search of work. You have to be

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posted by your employer to a facility that that employer needs to

:18:06.:18:08.

provide labour to in another country. And you can see why the

:18:09.:18:14.

unions want to make sure that there is not what is referred to as social

:18:15.:18:20.

dumping, not a nice phrase, but you dump cheap labour into that area and

:18:21.:18:26.

undercut. I have no idea, in Britain, how widespread this is. I

:18:27.:18:32.

have to say, I am not sure either. We do know it is a matter of concern

:18:33.:18:38.

to parts of the union movement, and it is the kind of thing that Jeremy

:18:39.:18:41.

Corbyn cares about in the context of the EU referendum campaign. When we

:18:42.:18:45.

have heard him talking about standing up for a more social Europe

:18:46.:18:50.

that protects workers' rights and the strength we can get from being

:18:51.:18:54.

inside the EU, the kind of campaign he will run in the next six weeks or

:18:55.:18:58.

so, these are the kinds of issues that he may well be promoting in the

:18:59.:19:02.

campaign. The problem might be, how does that translate to most ordinary

:19:03.:19:15.

voters? I suspect that probably a good number of people were not

:19:16.:19:17.

familiar with what he was talking about. And he has 11 parliaments

:19:18.:19:22.

against it. If Kate Hoey were here, I'm sure she would say, if we left

:19:23.:19:26.

the EU, we could stop them coming in. Job done. It was a strange PMQs,

:19:27.:19:31.

not least because you had the Lib leader calling for an apology for

:19:32.:19:37.

the new Labour Mayor of London. You had the Conservative leader

:19:38.:19:42.

congratulating the new Labour leader of London, and the Labour leader

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saying happy birthday to David Attenborough. It was quite a strange

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session or run. We need a diagram. Hillary Benn, why did Jeremy Corbyn,

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instead of congratulating David Attenborough on his birthday, not

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congratulate Sadiq Attenborough on his birthday, not

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more votes personally than any Labour politician in history and now

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being the single biggest elected leader in Europe. Why did he not

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congratulate him leader in Europe. Why did he not

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like to apologise for what was said leader in Europe. Why did he not

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campaign? Mr Corbyn has already congratulated city can on his

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fantastic victory. I think the Prime Minister should have given Sadiq

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Khan an apology. to by the Leader of the Opposition.

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There are conservatives who have finally admitted to

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There are conservatives who have reservations they have. They have

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done themselves a huge amount of damage. That may well be true, but

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you are just widening the open goal for Mr Corbyn to kick

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you are just widening the open goal through. He should do so. Tim Farron

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didn't win London, your party did. People know that this was a grave

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error that has done the Conservative Party enormous damage with the

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ethnic minority community in London. They are going to rue the campaign

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they ran. That is not the question. I know you are good at

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filibustering, because I can see you are embarrassed. Why did your leader

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not stick it to the Prime Minister on this? Because he did so last

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week, Andrew. At PMQs? But he hadn't won. He did, he raised the issue and

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give him a hard time. John Hayes, I have a tough question for you. Is

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Government policy for or against the posted workers directive? I am a

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receiver of information and the net beneficiary from Mr Cobb and, as

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argued. So you don't know? The prime ministers said we understand the

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argument and approve of what the unions are saying, but I have come

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to this as fresh as you have. I quite often criticise politicians

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for not knowing the answer. In this case, I wouldn't dare. It would seem

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quite sensible that you can stop companies, say, based in Eastern

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Europe from sending over a tonne of workers to a facility in the UK,

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which is that that we would care about, and paying them half of what

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the British workers are getting there. That would seem only fair

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that if you're going to do that, they have to meet British standards.

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It is different from a sole plumber coming from Poland to work as a sole

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trader. It would seem fair that you would make sure that any employer in

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Poland or Latvia who does this would meet the standards here in the UK.

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Yes, that would seem fair. Let me say this - my dad was a shop

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steward, I am a member of the trade union. We make sure that we stand up

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for workers rights, it is a core part of my politics. A really good

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argument for staying in the European Union. They haven't got the director

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through. The directive is already in place. But it has been yellow

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carded. It was agreed by the legislative process of the European

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Union. There have been a number of court judgments, and this proposal

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has been made. The right to paid holidays comes because of the

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working Time directive. We're running of time. You can blame the

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speaker when you get back. I would not trust the Government with

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workers' rights in Britain if we vote to leave. When I say we have

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run out of time, we have. I want just to leave the next 15 minutes to

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Laura, who is going to go through the details of the posted workers

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directive. I think we can all consider ourselves net receivers of

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information after today. I can't resist saying, or was the person who

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said over the weekend who said that Labour had to stop missing own

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goals? Sadiq Khan. I didn't realise I was echoing him! Laura, good to

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see you. I will send you the link to the workers directive.

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It was a heated debate, so don't do it down.

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Now, it's the film the world has been waiting for.

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Forget the new X-Men, forget Captain America,

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today London's Leceister Square will play host to the world premiere

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In this film, I want to spell out our choice, do we want to live under

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a Europe-wide Government, a vast state machine which few of us

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understand and by people we don't know with the powers to impose laws

:25:29.:25:32.

we have debated and have little or no power to overturn? You cannot be

:25:33.:25:36.

a self-governing democratic nation and a member of the EU. That is

:25:37.:25:41.

impossible. We now seem to talk about going on holiday with a single

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currency as if that were the highest aspiration of mankind, but surely

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one of the Isner aspirations is to have the dignity of self-government.

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-- one of the highest aspirations. And the man behind the moving,

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director Martin Durkin, joins us now. Hello. Hello. The Premier is in

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Leicester Square. Celebrities will be attending, and you've got some

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massive names - Nigel for a rash, David Davies, Kate Hoey, a North Sea

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fishermen. You haven't invited Andrew. I

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thought he was coming. Will it be packed tonight? We have sold out,

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I'm told. I must say, I'm staggered. Nevertheless... What will it tell us

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that we don't know already? You asked me that last time. I'm so

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repetitive. It is all about how highly we value our freedom, and I

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think that people don't fully appreciate what the implications are

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of handing over the rights to determine our own laws and shape our

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own future. Last night I was thinking, why have I made this film?

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It was a pain to make it. It is the BBC. It was the BB 's -- if the BBC

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One the propaganda arm of the EU, I would not have had to go to the

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bother. Thanks for joining the Daily Politics! What bit of our

:27:19.:27:27.

coverage... Hold on, what bit of our coverage has been propaganda? You

:27:28.:27:34.

are worried about losing your charter, so you have scalawags on.

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You portray Eurosceptics as narrow-minded and cranks. In the

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film, you realise what it is about, and it is class struggle. It is

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ordinary taxpayers having a go at the tax concealing, publicly funded

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establishment. I don't associate Nigel Lawson, because I did look at

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the trailer, with the class struggle. It seems like a conspiracy

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movie from the 1970s - the EU is the source of all our ills, and that

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isn't the case. No, no. The BBC is. It is the political pass, of which

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you are apart, that once to... It would be like going to remedial

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camp. Good luck with the movie. Press that button, Hilary Benn, to

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find out which year it was. It was 1962, who has won?

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The one o'clock news is starting, part of our propaganda arm, is

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starting on the BC one. Joe and I will be back with more political

:28:56.:28:58.

propaganda tomorrow. And again on Friday and Sunday.

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