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Not one but two unguarded comments filmed at | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Undiplomatic day at Buck House yesterday as the Queen called | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
Chinese officials "very rude", just hours after David Cameron | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
told her that Nigeria and Afghanistan are | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
The two sides in the EU referendum wheel out their big guns today. | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
Boris kicks off a Vote Leave battle bus campaign in Cornwall | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
and Gordon Brown set out the "positive" arguments | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
And what will Jeremy Corbyn choose to ask David Cameron | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
at Prime Minister's Questions today? | :01:15. | :01:15. | |
We'll have full coverage live at midday. | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
And Brexit is getting the red carpet treatment tonight with a glitzy | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
world premiere of 'Brexit: The Movie'. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
It is the single most important political decision any of us will | :01:30. | :01:44. | |
make in our lifetime. Every continent is outgrowing Europe. It | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
is not with in our economic interests to remain in the European | :01:50. | :01:50. | |
Union. Why did we not get invited? We have. | :01:51. | :02:05. | |
Oh! Have you looked out your frock? Yes. All that is coming up in the | :02:06. | :02:18. | |
next hour and. With us for the duration, | :02:19. | :02:18. | |
and the Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn. | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
So, not one but two moments of candour caught on camera | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
First, the Queen was filmed at a garden party saying Chinese | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
officials were "very rude" to the British | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
Her comments came just hours after the Prime Minister | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
was recorded at an event to mark her 90th birthday talking | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
about this week's anti-corruption summit in London. | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
He said that Afghanistan and Nigeria were "fantastically corrupt". | :02:51. | :03:40. | |
David Cameron there. Hillary Benn, as the President of Nigeria and | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
Afghanistan are attending the summer, how awkward is that | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
conversation going to be when David Cameron greet them? I think it will | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
be a bit awkward. If you listen to what the relatively new Nigerian | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
President is trying to do, he's trying to tackle corruption in | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
Nigeria. If you look at the Transparency International | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
Nigeria. If you look at the you will find that they are quite | :04:10. | :04:10. | |
high up the list. I suppose it you will find that they are quite | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
is almost no such thing as a private conversation. It | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
is almost no such thing as a private They knew that Cameron was there but | :04:20. | :04:20. | |
perhaps they didn't think They knew that Cameron was there but | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
was full stop a diplomatic disaster or a hiccup? As Hillary said, if you | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
look at what they or a hiccup? As Hillary said, if you | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
Nigeria says that his country had become one of the most corrupt | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
countries and he is tackling it. It is said he was shocked and | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
embarrassed. Yes, but that is what he said about his own country. It is | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
not the same as someone else saying it. That is fair, but these | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
countries come because they know we have to do better. As a world | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
community, we have to cooperate to do the mac -- cooperate to deal with | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
some of the big issues around money-laundering and corruption. It | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
is more significant in the end than the comments themselves. Do you | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
think David Cameron was showing off? I think Hillary is right that there | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
is no such thing as a private conversation. We all say things, | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
is no such thing as a private don't we? Do we? Tell me. Don't we? | :05:22. | :05:22. | |
I don't we? Do we? Tell me. Don't we? | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
every single conversation they have... But when you have the Queen | :05:25. | :05:36. | |
every single conversation they informal situations. The reality is, | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
we know there are corruption problems in | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
we know there are corruption the world. There is an index of | :05:42. | :05:42. | |
these things, some the world. There is an index of | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
further to go, and we are determined to achieve more. Which bit of the | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
sentence was not true? David Cameron is right, isn't he? There is a | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
problem. There is grand corruption, where people take large amounts of | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
money and stuff it in their pockets or spirit it abroad, and that is why | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
action against money laundering is important. But the result is a petty | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
corruption. You have state officials and teachers who say, I will teach | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
your child but I am not paid enough of a salary to look after my family | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
and myself, so would you make a contribution? Is it happens in some | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
countries in the world. Not here? Of course, not here. Public sector | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
salaries are really low. There are two mac problems. You need good | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
governance, to collect your taxes effectively. Why are we giving aid | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
to Nigeria? Is our view is that in order to tackle some of the endemic | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
problems, you need all sorts of things. We have been giving it over | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
for a long time and he says they are still fantastically corrupt. You | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
would hardly take the view that every country that does not breach | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
our standards should not be a recipient of aid. Is it improving | :07:05. | :07:13. | |
Rabi throwing money down the drain? -- improving or are we throwing | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
money down the drinkers like do you stand by and do nothing, let people | :07:18. | :07:29. | |
suffer? Public policies have to be in place to address those problems. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
Let's turn to the Queen and her comments about Chinese officials, | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
because there was obviously an incident. In terms of revealing our | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
true feelings towards Chinese official, it shows how tense that | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
situation is between us and the Chinese on these formal state | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
visits, doesn't it? I wasn't aware of those tensions. The Queen in | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
particular is entitled to private conversation. I don't propose to | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
comment on what she said. What about you, John Hayes, will you comment? | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
Does this our things with China? It would be unpatriotic to comment on | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
what the sovereign says. Do you want every one of your private | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
conversations recorded? Certainly not. In those situations, if I were | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
there and had said something untoward, what impact do you think | :08:21. | :08:30. | |
it would have on relations? I think Her Majesty is widely respected | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
across the world. She has a lifetime of service, recognised here and | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
abroad, and that is what really counts. Why shouldn't she just | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
express our opinion? She was obviously irritated by what | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
happened. She is the sovereign, why shouldn't she say what she thinks? | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
Because she has a particular role which she has carried out with | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
extraordinary skill, diligence, dedication and grace over the years. | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Maybe she would take the view that there should not be a directional | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
mike pointing at me while I am having a private conversation. It is | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
the first time that I have noticed private conversations being picked | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
up. The cameraman for Buckingham Palace is paid for by the | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
broadcaster, but I don't know about the sound. It is interesting that | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
you raise that. I am working on a bill in the House, the investigatory | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
Powers Bill, which deals with these issues was not at what point and in | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
which way should privacy be protected? It is an important | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
discussion in our free society. We have always taken it as read that | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
there is a public space and a private space. This is a public | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
space. There is a camera and a microphone. It is a public event. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
The Queen has done these for years. She knows the score. It was her | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
camera that was there. She knows about the sound. The Prime Minister | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
knew it as well. They knew exactly what they were doing. There is a | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
difference between a conversation, and this was a conversational | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
matter, and a public statement, a pronouncement, a speech, a meeting | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
or discussion of a formal kind. That is the difference here. So are you | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
are not -- so you are not calling for these to be switched off? I | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
won't discuss what the Queen does and doesn't say. This is public, and | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
there is a microphone, so beware. And we know that the Queen watches | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
us every day when she can. Now the elections of last | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
week are out of the way, the EU referendum campaign has | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
intensified on both sides. The focus is now | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
the vote on June 23rd. Both sides have wheeled | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
out their big guns today. Boris Johnson launched a Vote Leave | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
battlebus tour in Cornwall and Gordon Brown made the patriotic | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
case for Britain to remain But they are just the latest | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
in a series of high Here's JoCo to bring | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
us up to speed. National security took centre stage | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
on Sunday as two former spy chiefs Jonathan Evans and John Sawers, | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
formerly of MI5 and MI6, said counter-terrorism was a "team | :11:12. | :11:21. | |
game" and that it was easier for countries to share | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
data within the EU. But the Justice Secretary | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
Michael Gove hit back, accusing the spy bosses | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
of being "flat wrong". And the Prime Minister raised | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
the stakes on Monday, arguing that He said Britain had brought together | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
countries that had been "at each other's throats for decades" | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
and that leaving the EU would risk But Boris Johnson hit back, | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
saying it was preposterous to suggest that leaving the EU | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
could trigger World War III. Smith tried to get the focus back | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
on to social justice, arguing that the EU was "a friend | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
of the haves rather morning, Gordon Brown described | :11:55. | :12:12. | |
leaving the EU as not British and not in keeping with the spirit of | :12:13. | :12:13. | |
Churchill. Britain is not a position only to be | :12:14. | :12:13. | |
a member of the European Britain is in a position and should | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
be a leader in the European This referendum if it's | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
about anything is about what kind of Britain we are and what kind | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
of Britain we aspire to become. We should be a leader in Europe, | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
not just a member. We should not be fully out | :12:28. | :12:39. | |
and we should not be half We should recognise that the world | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
has changed since the first referendum, and we should be | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
the advocates of cooperation in an Gordon Brown, speaking at the London | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
School of economic. Hilary Benn, Gordon Brown took Labour to one of | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
its worst defeats in modern times. He is distinctly less popular south | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
of the border than he is north of the border. Is he an asset for the | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
Remain camping? He certainly is. Look at the KC has made. This notion | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
that we are having to listen to from the League campaign that somehow we | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
put upon in Europe, that we have no influence, is nonsense. I think | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
everybody knows it. In the three years that he was Prime Minister, in | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
what way did the lead Europe? We have always played a leading part in | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
Europe. In his time in Chancellor and the part that Europe played in | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
making new commitments to aid and debt relief, that is leadership that | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
helps unlock change. When he was Minister, in what way... On climate | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
change. Everyone was in favour of that. Britain was the first country | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
to put climate change legislation on the statute book. We did that as an | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
individual country, not as a member of the EU. You are asking about the | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
influence we had. The leadership that Britain gave, including during | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
the time that Gordon was Prime Minister, on climate | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
the time that Gordon was Prime have an impact. You are seeing the | :14:19. | :14:19. | |
fruit of that. The have an impact. You are seeing the | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
agreed to climate change if it hadn't been for Britain? I'm not | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
saying that. I am saying that we are in | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
saying that. I am saying that we are the European Union helps us to | :14:34. | :14:34. | |
manage face in the world, whether it be | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
climate change, the refugee face in the world, whether it be | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
would be to deny us that shouldn't be turning our face away | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
from an important partnership with our immediate | :14:49. | :14:48. | |
from an important partnership with way have we lead on the refugee | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
crisis? Europe has had a difficult time on that. The Conservative | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
crisis? Europe has had a difficult the crisis, | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
crisis? Europe has had a difficult Minister has had to be pushed at | :15:02. | :15:01. | |
every stage. Minister has had to be pushed at | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
picture of the child appeared on the front pages, he said, we have done | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
enough for Syria. How should we have led? | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
How should we have lead? It is European countries working together. | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
He should not have had to be battered into agreeing to take | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
unaccompanied, child refugees who have made their way into Europe. At | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
least we have an institution that is trying to grapple with what you | :15:35. | :15:35. | |
would recognise as trying to grapple with what you | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
difficult issue. Are you worried that given Jeremy Corbyn's lukewarm | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
attitude to him that there is a problem getting the Labour vote out | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
for remain and that is why Mr brown could be important? We are all now | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
making the argument. The local elections are out of the way and the | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
Labour Party is focused on one thing only, which is winning the | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
referendum on the 23rd of June. We have a very distinct message we are | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
bringing because Europe has helped support workers' writes, | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
improvements in the environment. As Gordon said today, the idea that the | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
British way is somehow to turn our back on the European Union, the fact | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
is we are an influential and powerful nation. I was asking you | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
about the Labour vote because the Remain Campaign cannot win without | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
the Labour vote coming out in substantial numbers. It looks like | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
the conservative vote is going to split 55-45 to leave. So you need | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
that Labour vote, agree? Yes, indeed. The vast majority of the | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
Shadow Cabinet and the major unions, we are taking a distinct message as | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
to why it is good for growth investment and security. We have now | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
had two former head of MI5, one former head of MI6, 13 former | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
leading figures in the white House, former secretaries of State, all | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
warning about the UK leaving, all saying it would be bad about our | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
security. What bit of that message are you not getting? Europol is | :17:18. | :17:26. | |
taking the opposite view. There are all kinds of people who share my | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
view. That is two. The overwhelming weight of expertise is against you. | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
Of course Hillary is right, that many of the problems we face are pan | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
national. And of course Gordon brown is right, the world has changed | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
since 1975. But it means it has changed so we have to reach out well | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
beyond Europe. I have just come from a meeting with the head of Interpol. | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
They have reached to 190 countries. We have that whether we are in or | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
out. Precisely, that is my point. In what way are we more secure by | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
leaving? Two ways. There are issues about how we determine our security | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
policy and there is a creeping attempt by the European Union to | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
have more say over that and we have resisted that the government. Why | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
would that make us less secure? I believe our security and | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
intelligence services and successive governments have got security policy | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
right. I think we do have the skills and confidence. So we have got it | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
right as members of the EU, so why change? We do not have control. Are | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
you seriously telling me French intelligence is going to allow | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
Brussels of all places, after what has happened, Brussels to take | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
control of French intelligence? The European Union has a creeping desire | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
to take more control of security. We are resisting the government. Give | :19:05. | :19:13. | |
me an example. They are developing a pan-European policy view about how | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
security policy should be gauged and implemented. That is job. No, it is | :19:19. | :19:29. | |
the fact that we want to do things at our national level. We need to | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
share intelligence. Yes, that is operational, of course we need to | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
share information. Were we to leave the European Union, where it is in | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
the mutual interest of countries they will not continue to share | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
information? Will the French and the Germans do that? Of course not. Your | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
argument is undermined by the voices of experience, people whose job it | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
has been to keep the nation and the country safe and to protect us and | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
they said this would be bad for our security. We are not part of the | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
Schengen passport free arrangement which shows we are able to exercise | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
our own judgment on things like that, just as we are not in the | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
euro. But we participate in sharing information through the Schengen | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
information system. As you know, that is important to our security. | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
Why would you want to walk away from arrangements that help to protect us | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
when the voices of people whose day-to-day job it is, and has been, | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
to protect as I saying that would not be a good idea. Contrary to the | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
picture that the income paying want to paint, what I am saying is can | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
anyone seriously believe that countries would cease to want to | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
cooperate and share information like you describe if we were outside the | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
EU? Of course they would not because they want to keep their people say. | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
Let's assume we can continue to share bilaterally whether we are in | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
or out, but, Hillary and, what intelligence would we no longer | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
enjoy if we were not in the EU? A lot of it would depend on what | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
happens if the nation were to vote to leave. The honest answer is we do | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
not know. What exists among EU intelligence arrangements that we | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
would not enjoy if we left? Would we have access to the Schengen | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
information system. Can you explain what information Schengen shares. | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
Where there are warning notices and other information, there has been a | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
big step forward... Interpol do that. Hang on, the Parliament has | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
recently agreed arrangements on sharing of data which is helping to | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
make passenger names... We can do that already. If you filled in | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
advance to go to the United States, that happens in America, we could do | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
that to any country if we wanted to. We could, but you asked me what | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
would change? And the answer is we do not know and that is the weakness | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
of the Leave Campaign's argument. Let's take this passenger database. | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
You have had to share passenger data to go to the US for some time and | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
vice versa. There has been a push to get that done in Europe as well and | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
the European institutions, the European Parliament, have stopped | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
it. Where does that help us? It is only now they have finally agreed. | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
As you have just answered the question, the European Parliament | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
has now agreed to rules that would enable that data to be shared and | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
that is a practical example of how cooperation work. It took ten years. | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
It helps our security. We need cooperation work. It took ten years. | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
doing things in other parts... The idea that there is some kind of | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
competition that either we cooperate in Europe or globally, we need to do | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
both. We need to move on. We need to move on. We have got another several | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
weeks of this, there is no need to rush. | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
How many days? It says 42. | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
We don't want any "rogue markers" getting their hands on the answer | :23:31. | :23:51. | |
We've password protected the answer, locked it in a safe behind closed | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
And that was convenient having a guarding it with her life. | :23:58. | :24:14. | |
And that was convenient having a rogue marker | :24:15. | :24:15. | |
And, the only way you can win one of these is to tell | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
# Everybody's doing a brand-new dance now. | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
# I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now. | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
# I've got that feeling again and it ain't right. | :24:30. | :24:44. | |
# Don't take your love away from me. you want to dance? | :24:45. | :25:02. | |
# Don't you leave my heart in misery. | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
# If you go, then I'll be blue, because breaking up is hard to do. | :25:08. | :25:32. | |
# Well, it started about a year ago... | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
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It's coming up to midday here - just take a look at Big Ben - | :25:51. | :26:06. | |
and that can mean only one thing: yes, Prime Minister's | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
And that's not all - Laura Kuenssberg is here. | :26:10. | :26:18. | |
So, you have got quite a strong track record, so no pressure here. | :26:19. | :26:27. | |
What are the exact six questions that Jeremy Corbyn is going to ask | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
today? No questions about rogue marking or leaking of anything | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
before the real test comes. A couple of suggestions have made their way | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
to meet this morning. One is housing because the laws and the commons are | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
locked in because of the housing bill. Although it has not been | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
ringing bells all over the place because politics is so busy, one | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
minister described to me recently it is the most ideological | :26:55. | :26:56. | |
controversial thing that the government is trying to do. I was | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
struck by that. That would fit with Jeremy Corbyn's passions. There was | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
another suggestion he might start to talk about the EU referendum, which | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
is something he has not done until now. If he does, it is hard to see | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
where he could go on it. What is the question? This morning I am not | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
going to make a crystal clear prediction. I have made a couple of | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
suggestions, but no leaks in the Daily Politics studio. Is there any | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
chance you think that given the Prime Minister's quite strident | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
attack last week on the kind of platforms that Mr Sadiq Khan was | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
sharing, and he has no comfortably won the City Hall, more so than Mr | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
Livingstone or Mr Johnson, is there any chance that Jeremy Corbyn may | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
ask for our retraction or an apology or a withdrawal? That could be quite | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
controversial. Yes, it would and it would be difficult for the Prime | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
Minister as well. Whatever has happened in the campaign committee | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
is now one of the most powerful politicians in the country. And he | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
has reached out. And he has reached out in a very pointed way in | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
contrast to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. It would be tricky for | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
the Prime Minister, given that last week's Prime Minister 's questions | :28:28. | :28:35. | |
was more like Jeremy Corbyn's camp Corbyn. The Prime Minister used it | :28:36. | :28:47. | |
as a robust defence of that Goldsmith. You never know, it would | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
make for a very interesting positioning challenge for the Prime | :28:52. | :28:59. | |
Minister. Is problem is when he goes on something like housing, which is | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
hugely important, it should have been the most important subject in | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
the London election campaign, it was not important enough for last year's | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
general election, and it is not already up there in the headlines, | :29:14. | :29:15. | |
unless there is some major breakthrough or development, it | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
struggles to make its way into the news tomorrow unless there is | :29:22. | :29:28. | |
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, | :29:32. | :29:38. | |
grappling with the platform you get at PMQs, like it or not, it is the | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
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 | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
issues already preoccupying Westminster, those that we know the | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
public are very concerned about. You are right, that is a problem Jeremy | :30:06. | :30:08. | |
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. | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
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. | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, has had a very difficult | :30:37. | :30:43. | |
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 | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
test in which they won it is they sneaked it out on Friday when | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
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 | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
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 | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
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. | :31:23. | :31:29. | |
That was always the case. Why don't they get it when you have got such a | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
small majority? You have got to do what used to be done, you produce a | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
Green paper first of all to get the reactions, take into account the | :31:40. | :31:46. | |
criticism and then go to the policy. Or do what the government used to | :31:47. | :31:53. | |
do. In coalition they had a chord. They had a huge majority when the | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
Lib Dems and Tories got together, 80 or so. Your viewers might say it was | :31:58. | :32:04. | |
79. One minister said to me that all that used to have to happen was that | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
George Osborne used to have to get Nick Clegg to agree. They used to | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
have robust argument inside that quartet. They were tested. That | :32:14. | :32:19. | |
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 | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
where will the opposition pickles has gone. We go straight over. | :32:28. | :32:41. | |
This morning, I had meetings with ministers and colleagues and I will | :32:42. | :32:48. | |
have further meetings today. Even fantastically corrupt Nigeria | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
is asking Britain to clean up its act and introduce beneficial | :32:54. | :32:55. | |
ownership registers in the overseas territories. We'll be Prime Minister | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
achieve this tomorrow at the anti-corruption Summit? -- will be | :33:01. | :33:09. | |
Prime Minister? I want to check the microphone is on before speaking. I | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
thank him for his question. The answer is yes. We have asked three | :33:14. | :33:19. | |
things of the overseas territories and Crown dependencies - automatic | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
exchange of tax information, a common reporting standard for | :33:25. | :33:27. | |
multinational companies, and for central beneficial ownership | :33:28. | :33:30. | |
registry so that UK enforcement can know who owns companies based there. | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
They have delivered on the first two, and they will be following and | :33:35. | :33:37. | |
delivering on the third. That is what he asked for and what he is | :33:38. | :33:47. | |
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 | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
something that everybody really can aspire to? I want to thank my | :34:00. | :34:05. | |
constituency neighbour and honourable friend for raising that | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
question. The fact is, we are building more houses right across | :34:11. | :34:13. | |
England. We are building more affordable homes, and the | :34:14. | :34:17. | |
legislation going through this House and the other place will make sure | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
we deliver our pledge of 200,000 starter homes. Those are the ones we | :34:23. | :34:26. | |
want to see, affordable for people to buy. I hope that even at this | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
late stage, the Labour Party in the House of Lords. Blocking this bill. | :34:31. | :34:40. | |
Jeremy Corbyn. -- the Labour Party in the house of lords will stop | :34:41. | :34:48. | |
blocking this bill. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Since we | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
often celebrate great national event in this House, would be Prime | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
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 | :35:04. | :35:06. | |
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 | :35:12. | :35:19. | |
this side of the House, we are fully aware... I haven't asked the | :35:20. | :35:26. | |
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. | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
We'll be Prime Minister confirm that his Government will protect workers | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
and will back these reforms to stop this undercutting and grotesque | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
exploitation of workers across this continent? First, I join the right | :36:06. | :36:12. | |
Honourable gentleman in wishing a very happy birthday to David | :36:13. | :36:15. | |
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 | :36:31. | :36:42. | |
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 | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
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 | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
been invoked by national parliaments, demonstrating the | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
importance of these safeguards, much of which we reacted -- achieved in | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
my re-negotiation does not the best thing we can do for workers' writes | :37:08. | :37:13. | |
in this country is celebrate the national living wage introduced by | :37:14. | :37:16. | |
this Government. The national minimum wage was a Labour | :37:17. | :37:20. | |
introduction. The living wage proposed by the Chancellor is a | :37:21. | :37:24. | |
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 | :37:37. | :37:39. | |
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 | :37:45. | :37:50. | |
Prime Minister be absolutely clear? Will be British Government support | :37:51. | :37:53. | |
this very important reform to stop this exploitation? As I said, we are | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
working with the Dutch presidency. We think there is merit in a lot of | :38:00. | :38:03. | |
the proposals, but we want to make sure we get the details right. Let | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
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 | :38:21. | :38:25. | |
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 | :38:33. | :38:36. | |
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 | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
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 | :38:57. | :39:00. | |
might be aware that Patrick Minford, a former economic adviser to | :39:01. | :39:03. | |
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 | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
try to identify a question and answer as positively as I can. On | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
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 | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
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 | :40:30. | :40:36. | |
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 | :41:03. | :41:05. | |
prepared to chase down this level of corruption. This Government has done | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
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 | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
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 | :41:46. | :41:48. | |
this country, not because of the Labour Government but because of a | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
decision by a Conservative Prime Minister, but where I would urge him | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
to be fair is that many of the Crown dependencies have gone much further | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
than many developed countries. Indeed, you actually get more | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
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 | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
Delaware. Let's be fair on these, for which we have a responsibility, | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
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 | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
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? | :42:41. | :42:48. | |
People expect that people pay their tax in this country. Tomorrow, the | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
European Parliament will be voting again on country by country | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
reporting. Can he assure the House that Conservative members of the | :42:59. | :43:00. | |
European Parliament will support these measures as he told us they | :43:01. | :43:07. | |
European Parliament will support thing is that we support these | :43:08. | :43:09. | |
measures. The Government supports these measures. Indeed, these | :43:10. | :43:13. | |
measures have only come forward because it has been a Conservative | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
Government in the United Kingdom proposing them. The only area of | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
disagreement, I would suspect, between himself and myself is, I | :43:23. | :43:25. | |
don't think we between himself and myself is, I | :43:26. | :43:33. | |
has always been a position of Labour Government and previous Conservative | :43:34. | :43:35. | |
governments, that while we want to make sure that these territories | :43:36. | :43:40. | |
behave properly, we don't actually make them set a minimum tax rate. | :43:41. | :43:49. | |
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 | :43:56. | :44:12. | |
have quite simply said whether or not he supports these proposals, and | :44:13. | :44:19. | |
if his Conservative MEPs will vote for them. Mr Speaker, the Prime | :44:20. | :44:27. | |
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 | :46:13. | :46:16. | |
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 | :46:19. | :46:28. | |
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 | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
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 | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
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 | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
production. The anti-dumping tariffs we have produced in the EU have been | :47:07. | :47:12. | |
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 | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
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 | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
question he asks about the corruption Summit is right. The | :49:12. | :49:14. | |
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 | :49:21. | :49:25. | |
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 | :49:34. | :49:38. | |
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. | :53:39. | :53:43. | |
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 | :54:03. | :54:09. | |
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 | :54:29. | :54:35. | |
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 | :56:06. | :56:10. | |
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 | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
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 | :57:35. | :57:40. | |
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 | :58:00. | :58:08. | |
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 | :58:14. | :58:25. | |
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 | :58:34. | :58:42. | |
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 | :58:53. | :58:56. | |
see this as them recruiting people because they are paying them, we | :58:57. | :59:02. | |
would miss the point. The cancer of Islamist extremist violence is | :59:03. | :59:05. | |
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 | :59:11. | :59:17. | |
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 | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
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 | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
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 | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
posted to these jobs. I know you are sitting on the edge of your chair on | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
this. There are almost 2 million posted workers in the EU, | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
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 | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
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 | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
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 | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
saying happy birthday to David Attenborough. It was quite a strange | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
session or run. We need a diagram. Hillary Benn, why did Jeremy Corbyn, | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
instead of congratulating David Attenborough on his birthday, not | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
congratulate Sadiq Attenborough on his birthday, not | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
more votes personally than any Labour politician in history and now | :20:04. | :20:13. | |
being the single biggest elected leader in Europe. Why did he not | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
congratulate him leader in Europe. Why did he not | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
like to apologise for what was said leader in Europe. Why did he not | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
campaign? Mr Corbyn has already congratulated city can on his | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
fantastic victory. I think the Prime Minister should have given Sadiq | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
Khan an apology. to by the Leader of the Opposition. | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
There are conservatives who have finally admitted to | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
There are conservatives who have reservations they have. They have | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
done themselves a huge amount of damage. That may well be true, but | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
you are just widening the open goal for Mr Corbyn to kick | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
you are just widening the open goal through. He should do so. Tim Farron | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
didn't win London, your party did. People know that this was a grave | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
error that has done the Conservative Party enormous damage with the | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
ethnic minority community in London. They are going to rue the campaign | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
they ran. That is not the question. I know you are good at | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
filibustering, because I can see you are embarrassed. Why did your leader | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
not stick it to the Prime Minister on this? Because he did so last | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
week, Andrew. At PMQs? But he hadn't won. He did, he raised the issue and | :21:48. | :21:57. | |
give him a hard time. John Hayes, I have a tough question for you. Is | :21:58. | :22:06. | |
Government policy for or against the posted workers directive? I am a | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
receiver of information and the net beneficiary from Mr Cobb and, as | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
argued. So you don't know? The prime ministers said we understand the | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
argument and approve of what the unions are saying, but I have come | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
to this as fresh as you have. I quite often criticise politicians | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
for not knowing the answer. In this case, I wouldn't dare. It would seem | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
quite sensible that you can stop companies, say, based in Eastern | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Europe from sending over a tonne of workers to a facility in the UK, | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
which is that that we would care about, and paying them half of what | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
the British workers are getting there. That would seem only fair | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
that if you're going to do that, they have to meet British standards. | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
It is different from a sole plumber coming from Poland to work as a sole | :23:01. | :23:12. | |
trader. It would seem fair that you would make sure that any employer in | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
Poland or Latvia who does this would meet the standards here in the UK. | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
Yes, that would seem fair. Let me say this - my dad was a shop | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
steward, I am a member of the trade union. We make sure that we stand up | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
for workers rights, it is a core part of my politics. A really good | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
argument for staying in the European Union. They haven't got the director | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
through. The directive is already in place. But it has been yellow | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
carded. It was agreed by the legislative process of the European | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
Union. There have been a number of court judgments, and this proposal | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
has been made. The right to paid holidays comes because of the | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
working Time directive. We're running of time. You can blame the | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
speaker when you get back. I would not trust the Government with | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
workers' rights in Britain if we vote to leave. When I say we have | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
run out of time, we have. I want just to leave the next 15 minutes to | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
Laura, who is going to go through the details of the posted workers | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
directive. I think we can all consider ourselves net receivers of | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
information after today. I can't resist saying, or was the person who | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
said over the weekend who said that Labour had to stop missing own | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
goals? Sadiq Khan. I didn't realise I was echoing him! Laura, good to | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
see you. I will send you the link to the workers directive. | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
It was a heated debate, so don't do it down. | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Now, it's the film the world has been waiting for. | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
Forget the new X-Men, forget Captain America, | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
today London's Leceister Square will play host to the world premiere | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
In this film, I want to spell out our choice, do we want to live under | :25:14. | :25:25. | |
a Europe-wide Government, a vast state machine which few of us | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
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 | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
currency as if that were the highest aspiration of mankind, but surely | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
one of the Isner aspirations is to have the dignity of self-government. | :25:50. | :25:58. | |
-- one of the highest aspirations. And the man behind the moving, | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
director Martin Durkin, joins us now. Hello. Hello. The Premier is in | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
Leicester Square. Celebrities will be attending, and you've got some | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
massive names - Nigel for a rash, David Davies, Kate Hoey, a North Sea | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
fishermen. You haven't invited Andrew. I | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
thought he was coming. Will it be packed tonight? We have sold out, | :26:27. | :26:35. | |
I'm told. I must say, I'm staggered. Nevertheless... What will it tell us | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
that we don't know already? You asked me that last time. I'm so | :26:40. | :26:48. | |
repetitive. It is all about how highly we value our freedom, and I | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
think that people don't fully appreciate what the implications are | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
of handing over the rights to determine our own laws and shape our | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
own future. Last night I was thinking, why have I made this film? | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
It was a pain to make it. It is the BBC. It was the BB 's -- if the BBC | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
One the propaganda arm of the EU, I would not have had to go to the | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
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. | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
You portray Eurosceptics as narrow-minded and cranks. In the | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
film, you realise what it is about, and it is class struggle. It is | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
ordinary taxpayers having a go at the tax concealing, publicly funded | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
establishment. I don't associate Nigel Lawson, because I did look at | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
the trailer, with the class struggle. It seems like a conspiracy | :28:00. | :28:08. | |
movie from the 1970s - the EU is the source of all our ills, and that | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
isn't the case. No, no. The BBC is. It is the political pass, of which | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
you are apart, that once to... It would be like going to remedial | :28:21. | :28:30. | |
camp. Good luck with the movie. Press that button, Hilary Benn, to | :28:31. | :28:39. | |
find out which year it was. It was 1962, who has won? | :28:40. | :28:51. | |
The one o'clock news is starting, part of our propaganda arm, is | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
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. | :28:59. | :29:14. | |
Drinking small amounts of alcohol isn't without risk. | :29:15. | :29:18. |