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Hello, and welcome to The Daily Politics. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
She said she'd walk away from a bad deal with the EU, | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
and Theresa May certainly has a spring in her step | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
after yesterday's big Brexit speech, as her Brexit Secretary said this | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
morning "why on earth could it go wrong?" | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
Theresa May confirmed we would be out of the Single Market | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
and no longer full members of the customs union. | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
But what will our future trading relationship be with the EU | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
And Theresa May will face MPs for the first time | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
since her speech yesterday, we'll bring you PMQs live | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
And the Speaker said he'd retire next year, | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
who'll be pulled oh-so-reluctantly to the speakers chair once | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
All that in the next 90 minutes of the very finest public | :01:19. | :01:31. | |
And it's such an honour to appear on this programme, that our two | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
guests had to keep up what I can only assume is the pretence | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
of being reluctantly dragged into the studio this morning. | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
With us the Universities and Science Minister, | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
Jo Johnson, and Shadow Brexit Minister, Jenny Chapman. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
So it's the morning after the big speech, and Number Ten will no doubt | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
They might be encouraged by some of today's front pages. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
The Daily Mail hails the speech as "momentous", | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
and calls the Prime Minister as "the new Iron Lady". | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
The Daily Telegraph describes the speech as "bold", | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
picking up on the line that the UK might walk away if | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
The Times warns the EU not to try and punish the UK for Brexit, | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
saying that Britain could change its economic model and lure | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
The Daily Mirror chimes in on the same theme, | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
calling it May's "Brexit ultimatum: give us a deal...or we'll walk". | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
While the Sun has coined the new phrase "Brexodus". | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
And the Guardian leads with "May's Brexit threat to Europe". | :02:30. | :02:43. | |
What about the political reaction here in the UK? | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Well, MPs had a chance to express their views | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
in the Commons yesterday evening, here's a flavour of some | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
I think we should loyally support the Government. | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
In 45 minutes, the Prime Minister hasn't delivered a plan. | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
Let's talk of just one example raised by my colleague, | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
She said she wants us to leave the common commercial policy | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
and the common external tariff, but to have associate membership | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
A membership that doesn't yet exist, and nobody else has. | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
Can the Secretary of State tell us exactly what this means now, | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
for the deals like the Nissan deal, on which thousands | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
Or simply, what cake is it that he wants | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
My right honourable friend, I'm sure, would acknowledge | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
that the Prime Minister's speech is principled, is reasonable, | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
My right honourable friend in his speech made clear that no | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
In the unlikely, I'm sure, event that we were to get a bad deal, | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
and the House were to vote against it, what would be the impact | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
in terms of our status with the European Union? | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
What I don't understand, when reading the Prime Minister's | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
statement, or listening to my right honourable friend, is which country | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
in the world is going to enter into a trade agreement with this | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
country, on the basis that the rules are entirely what the British say | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
they are going to be on any particular day, and, if there's any | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
dispute about the rules, it's going to be sorted out | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
Theresa May's speech had less positive reviews in the European | :04:30. | :04:45. | |
press. The German newspaper Die Welt | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
compares Theresa May's speech Cinco Dias, a Spanish business | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
and finance newspaper, says Theresa May is defying | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
the European Union by choosing France's La Tribune echoes that, | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
calling her choice a "hard Brexit". This morning, in the European | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
Parliament, the President of the European | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has given his reaction | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
to Theresa May's speech. TRANSLATION: I welcome what the | :05:04. | :05:19. | |
Prime Minister of the UK said yesterday. I said yesterday a speech | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
alone cannot trigger negotiations. Once the UK has activated Article | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
50, the negotiations will start, and they should be concluded within two | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
years according to the treaty, the negotiations are going to be of | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
great significance to that country but also to the 27 other states. I | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
will do everything to make sure the negotiations will be according to | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
the rules, and will yield good results. That was the President of | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
the commission Jean-Claude Juncker. We're joined now from Berlin | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
by Daniel-Dylan Bohmer Welcome to The Daily Politics. | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
Theresa May says she wants the UK to be outside the single market but to | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
still have the best possible access to it. How has the speech gone down | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
in Germany? I would say in general, we are somewhat relieved that there | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
seems to be clarity now in London as for the cause that Theresa May's | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
government wants to take on those negotiations. Because lately there | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
has been the impression that the Brexit situation in the UK could | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
turn into chaos, that could potentially last forever. So, we are | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
happy here to see that there is a course she wants to take. As for the | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
nitty-gritty of what she said, I think some people here can't | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
understand that she is actually aiming for a hard Brexit, because we | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
thought that having even closer relationship with the European Union | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
would do better for Britain and the European Union. I think then there | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
are some who look at the words she said, and in particular staying | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
outside the common market, while having prime access to it. That | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
seems to us to be some kind of contradiction that is hard to | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
swallow for us. Except she says, if she doesn't get that or something | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
fairly close, she called it calamitous self harm. In other | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
words, German car manufacturers, German businesses, will suffer just | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
as much. What's been the reaction to that? Well, that of course is a | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
valid point, here. That's why in particular the chancellery has aimed | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
at negotiations likely to get the softest possible version of a hard | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
Brexit. Remember two things. For once, German business, including, | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
new factories, where rather relaxed on the props -- on the prospect of | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
Brexit, even before it was clear what kind of Brexit London was | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
aiming for. There was a survey done of major German companies a few | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
weeks ago showing that less than 10% think there could be strong negative | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
effects on their business. German business in general is relaxed on | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
that. Even though Angela Merkel recently appealed to German | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
business, to show a united front with EU governments in negotiations | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
over Britain's departure, urging them to support the principle of | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
full access to the single market only in exchange for signing up to | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
the four freedoms. That seems to demonstrate she's worried that | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
German business would be prepared to give Britain exactly what it once, | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
because it wouldn't want to have a negative affect on their own | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
industries. Angela Merkel can't afford for that to happen | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
politically. Well, that is definitely the case. On the other | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
hand, we have seen her acting as a very principled politician, not only | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
on moral grounds, but because she seems to fundamentally believe that | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
a policy can only work if it fundamentally in itself makes sense. | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
I think there's a sense here that whatever deal there is with the | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
Brits, there can't be a deal that puts into question the validity of | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
the core European liberties and freedoms. Because, of course, there | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
is a danger of contagion, if Europe gives Britain a deal that is too | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
soft, it could be a temptation to other countries to leave the | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
European Union. I think with the French elections ahead, where the | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
National Front has a clear chance to have someone from its own ranks as a | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
President and hold a referendum of its own, I think the cohesion of the | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
European Union and the future of the EU, that is a prime priority for | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
everyone here in Germany. That does include German business and German | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
companies. Very interesting to talk you, thank you. | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
Jo Johnson, the government committed to publish some sort of plan before | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
Article 50 was triggered. We heard the speech of today, is that it? | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
This is a strong plan that sets out our negotiating objectives. We can | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
see from the welcome offered from the business community and countries | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
such as Germany, is its welcome but we now know what our clear | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
objectives are... I want to clarify a couple of things before we come | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
onto some of the substance. There won't be a white paper now? This is | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
the plan, it's a strong, 12 point plan that sets out how the | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
government sees success. So it's on the basis of the text of Mrs May's | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
speech that you will trigger Article 50? It is, this is a clear | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
annunciation... Forgive me, but... This is the basis on which will be | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
triggering Article 50. I'm trying to get some clarity on the process. It | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
is interesting on this. When you come to trigger Article 50, if there | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
is to be a vote in Parliament, we wait on the Supreme Court ruling, | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
will that be a simple one clause Bill that this House votes to | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
trigger Article 50? That is prejudging the judgment... We can't | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
get ahead of ourselves. But if it is, what will you do? That's the | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
government to determine in light of any judgment from the Supreme Court. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
So you don't know? It's not for me to pre-empt the judgment. I'm simply | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
asking if the Supreme Court rules against you, which is widely | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
expected, will you then bring forward legislation that cannot be | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
amended? It's that the government to set that out in the light of the | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
judgment. What the Prime Minister made clear again was that the | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
government will be triggering Article 50 by the end of March. And | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
in a sense, this is as good as it gets, isn't it? This is the | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
negotiating position. It now has to go into negotiations, no matter how | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
good, you never get everything you want. So whatever we end up with | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
will be less than what Mrs May outlined yesterday. I think this is | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
a really strong foundation for a negotiation. We set out clearly what | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
success looks like. I think people can be reassured that it means the | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
greatest possible access to the single market, while not being | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
constrained by the jurisdiction of the European Court, while having | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
control over immigration and those sorts of things which were so | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
important in the referendum. I'm just trying to get a broad position. | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
David Davis said on the today programme's this morning that there | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
wouldn't be a single vote as the process goes on, there would be a | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
series of fights on major law changes before ratification. What | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
did he mean by that? I think David Davis set out clearly yesterday how | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
this process will unfold. Parliament will have a say over the deal, it | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
will be a vote in both houses of Parliament. There will be a role for | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
MPs in this process. He said that there wouldn't be a single vote, now | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
he's saying there will be a vote at the very end, but there would be a | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
series of fights on major law changes before ratification. What | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
does that mean? -- series of votes. The government has set out its plan | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
to enact a great repeal bill which will bring into legislation those | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
rules and regulations we want to continue to have effect in this | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
country after we leave the EU. That process will itself of course | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
require votes in Parliament. In addition to the votes which the | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
Prime Minister promised yesterday. I thought that was to simply transfer | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
existing European law on to British law, and then after ratification you | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
could take your time to decide what you're going to keep and what you | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
won't. You going to change some of these laws before we leave? The | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
government has set out its plans to... Do you change that before we | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
leave or not? Before we leave or afterwards? I put the idea was to | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
move these laws onto the British statute book, and then deal with | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
them after ratification of our leaving. Are we now saying some of | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
that will be changed before we leave? I think David Davis was | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
making clear that the plans the government has set out with a great | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
repeal Bill will be carried forward and will require votes in | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Parliament. Your boss Keir Starmer said yesterday the Prime Minister's | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
negotiating objectives were broadly on the right lines. We pushed the | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
Prime Minister into making this speech, we argued for a plan and | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
secured that in the House of Commons just before Christmas. Her response | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
has been to provide the speech yesterday, which actually did | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
contain the elements that we were requiring of her. We have the vote | :15:11. | :15:11. | |
at the end of the process now... I thought it was Labour's position I | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
wanted us to remain members of the single market? We think she could | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
have been more ambitions to give the negotiations of the single market | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
before negotiations start is lacking ambition. Given the spinningle | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
market, our membership of it or relationship to it is probably the | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
core of everything that is now going to happen. How can the Government | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
broadly be on the right lines when it's already admitted we will no | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
longer be members of the single market? That's the fascinating | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
things. She said yesterday she didn't want to be a member of the | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
single market but she clearly indicated in her speech that she | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
wanted to have all the elements of membership that we value most. So, | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
when we get to unravel what it is she's saying, we're finding her | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
ambition is being broadly termed a soft Brexit but the sting in the | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
tail is she threatens a hard Brexit should she not get the deal she | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
wants. If she gets the deal she outlined yesterday, we can support | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
that. We'll come on to more of that in a minute. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
Yesterday, Mr May said after Brexit we will be out of membership of the | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
single market. But what else did we learn about our future trading | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
relationship with the EU and with the rest of the world? Here's JoCo. | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
Theresa May made clear that after Brexit the UK will no longer | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
be a member of the single market, the group of European | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
countries subject to the free movement of goods, services, | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
She also said Britain will no longer be a full member | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
of the customs union, where goods can move freely | :17:01. | :17:02. | |
between European countries with common tariffs on goods | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
Members also have to sign up to the same rules and regulations. | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
The Prime Minister wants the UK to strike new free trade | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
deals around the world, which customs union membership | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
But she said she also wants cross-border trade with Europe to be | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
So if the UK is no longer a member of the customs union, | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
Theresa May suggested the UK could either be an "associate | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
member" of the customs union, or there could be a new form | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
She also said she had "an open mind" on the issue, | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
suggesting the Government does not yet have a preferred option. | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
Northern Ireland shares a border with an EU country, | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
and so could need a hard border to carry out customs checks if | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
That could be damaging to the peace process. | :17:56. | :18:07. | |
Jo Johnson, what's an Osh yacht member of the union? She wants | :18:08. | :18:17. | |
frictionless trade between the UK and other members of the European | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
Union but, at the same time, the freedom to agree ambitious trade | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
deals with the US and India etc. What would an Oshiate member of the | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
customs union mean? It would be a bespoke deal for Britain giving us | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
the friingsless deals we enjoy with the European Union. No tariffs on | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
goods. A strong relagship with the regulatory bodies on the services | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
side. We want to maintain that whilst gaining the freedom to strike | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
trade deals for Britain around the world. We would have the advantages | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
of the customs union with our ability to set our own tariffs and | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
trade deals with the rest of the world. How will the rest of Europe | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
react to that? It is in both sets of interests to maintain the current | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
friingsless trade which remains -- frictionless. It is in neither sets | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
of interests. We want to keep that while striking deals around the | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
world. If we set our tariffs for the rest of the world, surely there has | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
to be some mechanism by which any goods coming to this country moving | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
to Europe, the Europeans would have to investigate that? That's what the | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
rules of origin are. It could not be friction-free. We'll explore these | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
over the months to come. That's the fundamental issue. The goal, as | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
great an access as is possible to the single market whilst retaining | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
our ab-I will toy to strike trade deals around the world. Do you | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
accept if we get a Free Trade Deal with the EU, it cannot by definition | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
give us the same degree of access we currently enjoy? We have to start | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
with the status quo. It is exceptionally advantageous. We all | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
start with the status quo. That's what it means. A strong relationship | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
between our regulatory bodies. We don't want to lose that. There's no | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
Free Trade Deal as good as the access we currently have? Let's wait | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
and see. Why would the Europeans agree to that? If we have access we | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
have at the moment, certain conditions come with that we're not | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
prepared to pay. Free movement of peoples and capital and so on. | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
Clearly, it will be a step down from what we have at the moment? It is | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
just a matter of how much? This is to be seen. We want to have as fri | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
consider, tionless trade as possible with the European Union, the ability | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
to strike trade deals around the world. If we don't want to be a Jude | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
Kated by the European Court of Justice but we have a Free Trade | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
Deal, what courts would adjudicate on that Free Trade Deal? There are | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
various dispute resolutions niches around the world which don't rely on | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
the European Court of Justice. They'll be explored during the | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
negotiations. There are other mechanisms available, ones we might | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
want to create. If we had a Free Trade Deal with the European Union, | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
on the European Union side that would be the European Court of | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
Justice who would adjudicate? Not necessarily. This has to be thrashed | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
out during negotiations. We do not want to be part of the European | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
justice going forward. That's key from the referendum. How can we be | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
outside the customs union and not have a hard border between the north | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
and are you lick of Ireland? Again, the Prime Minister's speech was | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
clear... She didn't explain how she could do it. She has the aspiration? | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
How do you do it? Work closely with the republic and Northern Ireland | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
and make sure there isn't a return of things of the past. I'm asking | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
you if we're outside the customs union, how can you achieve that? | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
These are the issues we'll work our way through over the next 24, 25 | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
months. All rye. Jen ise, we talked about the single market before. Are | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
we right saying Labour would like to remain in the customs union? We | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
would like the unincumbent trade we currently have. Theresa May says we | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
can have all the bib fits... Sure, you accept we'll come out of the | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
single market though you don't don't support it. It wasn't your position | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
but you are in favour the remaining in the customs union contrary to | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
what she said yesterday? We want all the benefits of the customs union. | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
To get that, you have to be in the customs union. If there was a way of | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
achieving in an outside the customs union, which is what the Prime | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
Minister said she wants yesterday and what they promise add Nissan, | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
free and unincumbent trade, let's look at that. It is an incredibly | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
hard task to achieve. Right. But Labour would rather we remained in | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
the customs union but we couldn't pursue free trade deals across the | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
world? It would make it incredibly difficult. That is the challenge, | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
putting it lightly, that we have. If that's Labour position, you are | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
happy, or accept we come out of the single market but want to persuade | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
the Government to remain in the customs union without the | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
opportunity to receive new trade deal, that would be the worst of all | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
words. That's not what I said. It is what Theresa May said she could say | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
chief yesterday. We don't know how she can pull this off. It would be | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
the most incredible feat of diplomacy if she can pull it off. If | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
she can't, we're in a very different situation in two years' time when | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
you look at the deal. You sound like you don't necessarily think she can, | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
it is a very tall order. In we come towards Article 50, the towards the | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
type of Brexit Labour doesn't want or think she can achieve, will you | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
vote against it? We won't vote against Article 50. We've made that | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
clear. What are you going to do? We'll hold the Government to the | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
standards it set itself yesterday. How will you stop her coming out of | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
the single market or moving towards that? We get a vote. One of the | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
things she guaranteed us yesterday is a vote at the end of the process. | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
That was a very significant commitment from the Government. If | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
the vote is on the final deal and the choice is coming out of the EU | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
without a deal or voting for what's been negotiated even if you don't | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
like it, how would Labour vote? We'd have to look at what's on the table | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
at the time. We will not vote for a hard Brexit at that point. She also | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
said yesterday there would be no cliff edge which suggests | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
transitional arrangements. We would be in a position in two years' time | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
with a transitional arrangement so the choice isn't the Deal or No | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
Deal. Which is an old thing for her to have said yesterday. It would be | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
very have a transitional deal already in place. We can't predict | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
the position of the UK in relation to the EU in two years' time at this | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
early stage. Keir Starmer was asked about Labour's policy on free moment | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
today. He said the rules will have to change. We are not seeking the | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
status quo. Do you want free movement to change? We cant the | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
management to be reasonable. You don't want it to end? We want the | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
status quo. That's clear from the British public. | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
Now, the pound might have surged following | :26:29. | :26:30. | |
But those techie types at Apple have blamed the UK's weaker currency | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
following the EU referendum for a rise in the price of apps. | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
Yes, the California based corporation say they'll increase | :26:40. | :26:41. | |
the prices of their cheapest apps, which currently set you back 79 | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
That means it'll be more expensive to play Angry Birds, | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
a favourite of former Prime Minister David Cameron. | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
Candy Crush Saga, Pokemon Go and Minecraft, | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
a favourite of JoCo's, will all cost more too. | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
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Yes, Prime Minister's Questions is on its way. | :29:03. | :29:12. | |
And that's not all - Laura Kuenssberg is here. | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
Can Jeremy Corbyn avoid Europe? Of late, he has been going on the | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
subjects which are the subject of day more often. It will be | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
surprising if he choses not to go on Brexit. What angle would he go on? | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
This is where the complication comes in. Forgive me, I've been listening | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
to the last few minutes of the programme. It is not clear to some | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
people on the Labour benches what their position is. What did Keir | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
Starmer really mean when he said Theresa May ruled out a hard Brexit. | :29:44. | :29:50. | |
People say, had she? Did she really? Where's the party's position on | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
freedom of movement. It will be surprising if he doesn't go on | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
Brexit. This is such a momentous time. The speech yesterday will be | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
looked at a genuinely important moment in the tangled web of how we | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
extricate ourselves. We're relieved you watched the programme. We | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
thought you were too busy to do that! Nothing else. Blocked it out | :30:11. | :30:17. | |
in my diary. Doubled the ratings in one go. I understand Jo Johnson's | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
brother, other Foreign Secretary's been speaking about the French | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
president? If Jeremy Corbyn were nimble he would have put it to | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
Theresa May. Ghi us the line. This morning, Boris Johnson compared | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
Brexit to some escape from a World War II camp. He said if Mr Hollande | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
wants to administer some punishment beating to anyone trying to escape | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
like in a World War II movie, that is not the way forward. Of course, | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
that is immediately being written up as another one of the Boris Johnson | :30:52. | :30:58. | |
gaffes like the having cake and eating it, all of that. Implicitly, | :30:59. | :31:05. | |
some people are suggesting he's somehow comparing the French to the | :31:06. | :31:06. | |
Germans. Now over the common. Alcohol is a primary factor in | :31:07. | :31:36. | |
domestic violence attacks on women. Does the primers to recognise the | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
seriousness of the country's alcohol problems and the billions of pounds | :31:42. | :31:44. | |
of cost to the public purse and will she instructor government to address | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
these problems effectively and as a matter of urgency? I can certainly | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
say that I recognise the problem is that alcohol causes. He particularly | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
referenced not just problems for pregnant women but also the issue | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
around domestic violence and the part alcohol can often play on | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
domestic violence and abuse. That's why when I was Home Secretary we | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
produced an alcohol strategy, we worked on the issue and the | :32:10. | :32:11. | |
government continues to recognise the importance of this issue and to | :32:12. | :32:19. | |
work on it. Will the Prime Minister join me in paying tribute to the NHS | :32:20. | :32:24. | |
staff who provide us with such magnificent treatment day in, day | :32:25. | :32:30. | |
out? Will she also agree with me that people who miss NHS | :32:31. | :32:32. | |
appointments without cancelling them cost the NHS a great deal of money | :32:33. | :32:37. | |
and also take up slots which would otherwise be used by other patients? | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
Will she consider how she might let those people know of the | :32:43. | :32:47. | |
inconvenience they are causing? My honourable friend makes two | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
important points. I'm pleased to join with him in paying tribute to | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
the dedication and hard work of all those who work in our NHS. Secondly, | :32:55. | :33:00. | |
he is right to point out that if somebody misses an appointment it is | :33:01. | :33:06. | |
a cost on the NHS. There are a number of ways in which this is | :33:07. | :33:09. | |
being dealt with, including in some hospitals sending out text messages | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
reminding people of appointments and telling them how much it costs if | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
they miss that appointment. Jeremy Corbyn. Thank you Mr Speaker. Mr | :33:18. | :33:25. | |
Speaker, yesterday the Prime Minister snubbed Parliament, and | :33:26. | :33:34. | |
snubbed the Brexit committee's recommendations to bring forward a | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
white paper, while at the same time describing the referendum as a vote | :33:40. | :33:42. | |
to restore our Parliamentary democracy. This is about our jobs, | :33:43. | :33:50. | |
living standards and future prosperity. Why will it not be | :33:51. | :34:01. | |
scrutinised by this House? I say to the right honourable gentleman that | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
what I did yesterday was set out a plan for a global Britain. I set out | :34:06. | :34:13. | |
a plan that will put the divisions of last year behind us, that will | :34:14. | :34:24. | |
show a vision... That shows a vision for a stronger, fairer, more united, | :34:25. | :34:33. | |
more outward looking, prosperous, tolerant and independent, truly | :34:34. | :34:35. | |
global Britain. It was a vision which will shape a stronger future | :34:36. | :34:41. | |
and build a better Britain. Mr Speaker. Restoring democracy whilst | :34:42. | :34:56. | |
sidelining Parliament. It's not so much the Iron Lady as the irony | :34:57. | :35:12. | |
lady! Yesterday, Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister finally provided some | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
detail. Can I urge her to stop her threat of a bargain basement Brexit, | :35:17. | :35:24. | |
a low pay tax haven on the shores of Europe. It won't necessarily damage | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
the EU, but it would certainly damage this country. Businesses, | :35:30. | :35:33. | |
jobs and public services. She demeans herself and her office, and | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
her country's standing, by making these kind of threats. What I set | :35:38. | :35:44. | |
out yesterday was a plan for a global Britain bringing prosperity | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
to this country, and jobs to people, and spreading economic growth across | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
the country. But actually yesterday, we'll so learned more of the right | :35:55. | :35:56. | |
honourable gentleman's thinking on this issue. What he said was the | :35:57. | :36:08. | |
following. "She Has said will leave the single market but at the same | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
time says she wants to have access to the single market. I'm not sure | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
how that's going to go down in Europe. I think we have to have a | :36:17. | :36:21. | |
deal that ensures we have access to the market". LAUGHTER I've got a | :36:22. | :36:35. | |
plan, he doesn't have a clue! Mr Speaker, she made the threat. She | :36:36. | :36:45. | |
was the one he made the threat about slashing corporation tax. If you | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
reduce corporation tax to the lowest common denominator, this country | :36:52. | :36:58. | |
loses ?120 billion in revenue. How, then, do you fund public services as | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
a result of that? Last year, the Prime Minister said leaving the | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
single market would make trade deals considerably harder. And, while we | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
could certainly negotiate our own trade agreements, there would be no | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
guarantee that they would be on terms as good as those we now enjoy. | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
But yesterday, the Prime Minister only offered as vague guarantees. | :37:24. | :37:28. | |
Can I ask her, does she now disagree with herself? LAUGHTER The right | :37:29. | :37:37. | |
honourable gentleman might also have noticed that when I spoke in the | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
Remain Campaign, I said if we voted to leave the European Union, the sky | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
wouldn't fall in. Look at what has happened, actually, to our economic | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
situation, since we voted to leave the EU. I say he talks about the | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
future of this economy, I want us to be an outward looking nation, | :37:58. | :38:01. | |
trading around the world, bringing prosperity and jobs into the UK. The | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
one thing that would be bad for the economy is the answer is that the | :38:06. | :38:08. | |
right honourable gentleman has. He wants a cap on wages, no control on | :38:09. | :38:15. | |
immigration, and to borrow an extra ?500 billion. That wouldn't lead to | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
prosperity, that would lead to no jobs, no wages and no skills. The | :38:21. | :38:29. | |
Chancellor said after the referendum that to lose single market access | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
would be catastrophic. A few days later the Health Secretary said, the | :38:34. | :38:37. | |
first part of the plan must be clarity that we will remain in the | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
single market. The Prime Minister said something about frictionless | :38:43. | :38:45. | |
access to the single market and a bespoke customs union deal. Could | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
the Prime Minister give us a little bit of certainty and clarity about | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
this? Has she ruled out paying any kind of access to what she describes | :38:56. | :39:04. | |
as a frictionless market? I can say to the right honourable gentleman | :39:05. | :39:06. | |
that access to the single market is exactly what I was talking about | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
yesterday in my speech. One of the key principles, key objectives, is | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
that we negotiate a free trade agreement with the European Union | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
that gives us the widest possible access for trading with and | :39:21. | :39:23. | |
operating within the European Union. And he talks about frictionless | :39:24. | :39:27. | |
access, actually this was a separate point, which is about frictionless | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
borders in relation to the customs issue. A very important issue in | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
relation to our relationship between Northern Ireland and the Republic of | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
Ireland. The Taoiseach and I and all parties are absolutely on a single | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
page on this, we want to ensure we have the best possible arrangement | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
that doesn't lead to a Borders of the past in Northern Ireland. The | :39:49. | :39:56. | |
question was, would we have to pay for access to the market or not? The | :39:57. | :39:58. | |
Prime Minister hasn't given an answer on that. Yesterday she set | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
out a wish list on immigration referring to skills shortages and | :40:04. | :40:09. | |
high skilled migration. Does she now disagree with the Secretary of State | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
rural affairs, who told an employer 's conference, don't worry, you can | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
still have cheap EU labour after we leave the European Union? The Right | :40:18. | :40:23. | |
honourable gentleman talks about access. Yes, the whole point is that | :40:24. | :40:28. | |
we will negotiate a free trade agreement with the European Union, | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
but it's about the best possible access for British business to | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
operate in the European Union member states and for European businesses | :40:38. | :40:40. | |
to operate here in the United Kingdom. It's about sitting down and | :40:41. | :40:46. | |
negotiating the best possible deal for the United Kingdom. That's what | :40:47. | :40:49. | |
I'm committed to and that's what this government is going to deliver. | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
My question was about how much we are going to have to pay to have | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
access to the market. Still no answer. Yesterday she talked about | :40:59. | :41:05. | |
the pressure put on public services by migration. Can I just remind her, | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
as one of her honourable friends did earlier, but at the moment there are | :41:11. | :41:18. | |
55,000 EU citizens working in our NHS, helping to treat all of the | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
people of this country. There are 80,000 care workers helping our, | :41:24. | :41:29. | |
mainly elderly, people. There are 5000 teachers, educating our | :41:30. | :41:33. | |
children. The real pressure on public services comes from a | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
government that slashed billions from the social care budget, that is | :41:38. | :41:42. | |
cutting the schools budget, that is closing A departments and walk-in | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
centres and sure start centres. Instead of threatening to turn | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
Britain into an offshore tax haven, let's welcome those who contribute | :41:51. | :41:56. | |
to our public services and fund our public services properly, so that we | :41:57. | :42:01. | |
do have the fully functioning NHS that we all need and deserve! I made | :42:02. | :42:08. | |
clear yesterday, we value those who have come to the UK and contribute | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
to our economy and our society, and there will still be people coming to | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
the UK from the European Union, when we leave the EU. The crucial issue | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
is that it is this government that will be making decisions about our | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
immigration system for people from the European Union. But yet again, I | :42:28. | :42:31. | |
say to the right honourable gentleman, there is indeed a | :42:32. | :42:34. | |
difference between us. It's very simple, when I look at the issue of | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
Brexit, or indeed at any other issue like the National Health Service or | :42:40. | :42:46. | |
social care, I consider the issue, I set out my plan, and I stick to it. | :42:47. | :42:53. | |
It's called leadership, he should try it sometime! Yesterday was a day | :42:54. | :43:06. | |
for being bold and ambitious and I'm sure that she noted Lincoln city | :43:07. | :43:12. | |
football club... Qualify to the fourth round of the FA Cup. I noted | :43:13. | :43:18. | |
her recent comments about white working-class boys in university. In | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
ten years half a million fewer males have gone to university than | :43:23. | :43:29. | |
females. Exam result of lower -- exam results are lower at all | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
levels. I ask my right honourable friend, when can we expect to see | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
practical action on closing the gender education gap? Can I join my | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
honourable friend in congratulating Lincoln city on their victory last | :43:44. | :43:47. | |
night and say I think it was a fitting tribute to Graham Taylor | :43:48. | :43:50. | |
that they won that match. He's raised an important point. I have | :43:51. | :43:56. | |
highlighted the issue particularly of white working-class boys who are | :43:57. | :43:59. | |
the group in society least likely to go to university. We are committed | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
to making sure that every child gets the opportunity to fulfil their | :44:04. | :44:08. | |
potential, that is about ensuring apprenticeships are as accessible as | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
possible and I'm pleased to say that the number of apprenticeships | :44:13. | :44:15. | |
started by males have increased this year to almost 50%. Also, | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
universities expect to spend ?800 million this year in improving | :44:21. | :44:23. | |
access and success for disadvantaged students. We want everybody to | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
achieve their potential, whatever their background and whatever their | :44:29. | :44:33. | |
gender. Shortly after the Prime Minister confirmed she wants to take | :44:34. | :44:39. | |
the UK out of the single European market, the Scottish Parliament | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
voted by a large cross-party majority to remain in the single | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
European market, just as a large majority of people in Scotland voted | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
to remain in the EU. The Prime Minister has said that Scotland is | :44:54. | :45:01. | |
an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Does she still believe this | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
is true, or is she just stringing the people | :45:07. | :45:10. | |
I might refer the right honourable gentleman to my speech yesterday | :45:11. | :45:14. | |
where I reiterated my commitment to be working with the devolved | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
administrations to ensure their voice is heard of, their interests | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
are taken into account as we proceed along this path negotiating our exit | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
were European Union. I specifically references the Scotland plan. I | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
understand the Welsh Government will produce a plan for Wales for us to | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
look at too. That Scotland plan will be considered by the JMC on European | :45:36. | :45:39. | |
negotiations tomorrow, I believe. We'll look at it seriously, working | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
with the Scottish Government on the proposals they bring forward. | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
Scotland's leading economic forecaster says, real wages will | :45:49. | :45:56. | |
fall... LAUGHTER Tories jeering and cheering when the forecast for | :45:57. | :46:03. | |
people's income is as likely to drop by ?2,000 and that 80,000, Mr | :46:04. | :46:11. | |
Speaker, that 80,000 people may lose their jobs in Scotland as a result | :46:12. | :46:18. | |
of the hard Tory Brexit plan of the Prime Minister. Does the Prime | :46:19. | :46:24. | |
Minister believe that this is a price worth paying for her Little | :46:25. | :46:31. | |
Britain Brexit? I repeat what I said earlier. We'll work to ensure we get | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
the best possible deal in terms of access to the single market and | :46:37. | :46:41. | |
continuing to cooperate in part are inship with the 28 remaining member | :46:42. | :46:45. | |
states of the European Union. The right honourable gentleman once | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
again talks about the possibility of a negative impact on Scotland if | :46:51. | :46:53. | |
Scotland were not part of the single market. His party is dedicated to | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
taking Scotland out of the single market by taking it out of the UK. | :46:59. | :47:07. | |
Mr Speaker, this week directors of our larger companies have been told | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
by investors to reign in senior executive pay which is too often | :47:13. | :47:16. | |
distorted by long-term incentive plans which are too complex to | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
manage and too excessive in their rewards. Will my right honourable | :47:22. | :47:29. | |
friend look the such schemes as part of her corporate Government review? | :47:30. | :47:33. | |
I'm pleased to say this Government's taken action on executive pay | :47:34. | :47:37. | |
already giving shareholders the power to veto pay policies and force | :47:38. | :47:44. | |
companies to Des cloy their board's pay. I want to build on that. We've | :47:45. | :47:51. | |
pubbish Hirsched a Green Paper on how to strengthen shareholders' | :47:52. | :47:55. | |
influence over executive pay and have greater transparency. Will the | :47:56. | :48:03. | |
#3r50i789 provide a commitment today that no part of Great Repel Bill | :48:04. | :48:09. | |
will be subject to ennish votes for English laws? -- lengthish votes. | :48:10. | :48:19. | |
The honourable lady might recognise the Great Repel Bill will have a | :48:20. | :48:25. | |
number of complex issues it will be dealing with. It will be ensuring at | :48:26. | :48:33. | |
its heart will be the European communities act repeal. One of the | :48:34. | :48:37. | |
issues we'll need to look at looking at that bill and negotiating our way | :48:38. | :48:42. | |
out of the European Union is the issue of reserve matters and | :48:43. | :48:46. | |
devolved matters. There are many aspects... | :48:47. | :48:52. | |
THE SPEAKER: Order. Order. Members of the Scottish National Party led | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
by the right honourable gentleman on the front bench who's supposed to be | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
a statesman-like figure should demonstrate some calm and reserve | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
while being answered by the the Prime Minister who was questioned. | :49:06. | :49:09. | |
The Prime Minister. The honourable lady will know full well that any | :49:10. | :49:13. | |
legislation brought before this House, if any part of it only | :49:14. | :49:19. | |
applies to England then it will be subject to the English votes on | :49:20. | :49:25. | |
English laws. May I congratulate the Prime Minister on her delivery | :49:26. | :49:33. | |
yesterday of an historic, defin tiff, pragmatic, outward looking | :49:34. | :49:36. | |
speech which saw the pound rise to its highest level in two years and | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
the FTSE up today. Would she agree with me a strong and prosperous UK | :49:41. | :49:46. | |
as she has planned, would be a nightmare for the Leader of the | :49:47. | :49:52. | |
Opposition and the EU ruling class? I agree with my honourable friend, a | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
strong and prosperous Britain is what we want to build as we leave | :49:57. | :50:01. | |
the European Union. It is only a pitty it seems the Labour Party | :50:02. | :50:05. | |
aren't interested in doing that and want to do the opposite and bring | :50:06. | :50:13. | |
this economy down. Number 3, Mr Speaker. I always enjoy my visits to | :50:14. | :50:17. | |
Wales. I hope to visit Wales in the future. Quite an answer as to | :50:18. | :50:25. | |
whether she'll visit the Rhondda. I'm happy to accommodate her. I can | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
do bacon and eggs. More importantly, I could take her to see the best | :50:31. | :50:37. | |
brass band in the world. Or I could take her to the local food bank | :50:38. | :50:43. | |
which is based in the closed down Conservative Club. What's happening | :50:44. | :50:49. | |
at the moment is since 2010, the Government's closed the local | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
courts, closed the local tax office, the DWP office and the driving | :50:54. | :50:58. | |
centre. Now the Government's intending to close all the tax | :50:59. | :51:01. | |
offices in Wales and centralise them in Cardiff. We feel in the valleys | :51:02. | :51:05. | |
as if we're just ignored by the Government. Can I just beg her to | :51:06. | :51:10. | |
change direction and start putting Government offices in the small | :51:11. | :51:13. | |
towns, villages, valleys of this country? Can I say to the right | :51:14. | :51:18. | |
honourable gentleman, the last time I looked, Cardiff was actually in | :51:19. | :51:22. | |
Wales. He says we're going to take offices away from Wales but we'll | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
put them in Cardiff. I think he might find the whole point about | :51:28. | :51:33. | |
what the HMRC is doing is they are taking, moving from outdated offices | :51:34. | :51:37. | |
to large, modern, regional centres. That will make it possible for them | :51:38. | :51:43. | |
to modernise their ways of working, make tax collection more efficient | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
and improve customer services by HMRC. I welcome my right honourable | :51:50. | :51:56. | |
friend's speech for a global Britain. It shows you are list why | :51:57. | :52:05. | |
enning to this side of the House. The council leaders considering the | :52:06. | :52:08. | |
grater Manchester framework consultation responses as they | :52:09. | :52:13. | |
listen to the people, give us better infrastructure and protect our green | :52:14. | :52:19. | |
spaces. I thank my honourable friend for his comments and raising the | :52:20. | :52:26. | |
issue. The con siltation -- consultation closed earlier this | :52:27. | :52:29. | |
week. There has been a huge amount of interest from local people. I | :52:30. | :52:35. | |
echo his comment sayings local leaders should take all | :52:36. | :52:41. | |
representations into account. In the UK, we have 14 regional markets for | :52:42. | :52:51. | |
electricity disprobe Ewingses. Highlanders and islanders are facing | :52:52. | :52:57. | |
higher charges. They are an eye watering 84% higher than | :52:58. | :53:00. | |
distributary bugs charges for London. Will the Prime Minister | :53:01. | :53:06. | |
introduce a universal market for electricity pricing. Those of us who | :53:07. | :53:12. | |
live in the coldest windiest place are are diskrilled against by her | :53:13. | :53:18. | |
Government and it must end. The honourable gentleman draws attention | :53:19. | :53:21. | |
to the fact of course geography has an impact on these matters. He talks | :53:22. | :53:26. | |
about living in the coldest and windiest place. One of the issues | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
that's interesting to look at in relation to Scotland is the whoa | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
question of renewables and the opportunities for renewables. I can | :53:37. | :53:44. | |
tell him we are looking at the impact... We are looking at making | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
sure... We are looking at making sure energy markets in the UK are | :53:51. | :53:55. | |
indeed working properly. I'm very pleased the Prime Minister has said | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
she will take the necessary action on air quality to deal with the | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
40,000 premature deaths it causes across our country every year. As I | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
know she believes in her Government leading by example, will she make | :54:10. | :54:13. | |
sure that all diesel cars are removed from the Government car | :54:14. | :54:21. | |
service as soon as possible? My honourable friend is right, | :54:22. | :54:23. | |
improving air quality is a priority for this Government. We are | :54:24. | :54:29. | |
determined to cut harmful emissions. We've committed money since 2011 to | :54:30. | :54:33. | |
supporting the take-up of low-emission vehicles. The | :54:34. | :54:39. | |
Government car service is working to remove diesel cars from its fleet. | :54:40. | :54:45. | |
It has replaced a quarter and this work conditions to remove diesel | :54:46. | :54:49. | |
vehicles. Is the Prime Minister aware that I totally agree with what | :54:50. | :54:52. | |
she said yesterday. It is the job of people in this... Wait for it... | :54:53. | :54:59. | |
LAUGHTER We in this House have a real responsibility for our children | :55:00. | :55:03. | |
and grandchildren to have a bright future. But is she aware there are | :55:04. | :55:09. | |
dark clouds looming on the horizon in terms of intolerance, racism | :55:10. | :55:13. | |
across Europe and the foundering and flux of many of our great | :55:14. | :55:17. | |
institutions that have kept peace and prosperity since the last world | :55:18. | :55:22. | |
war. I speak of the in UN, Nato and indeed the European Union. Are we | :55:23. | :55:28. | |
fit for purpose in keeping this country safe, secure in that ward? | :55:29. | :55:35. | |
-- world. I recognise the important issue that the right honourable | :55:36. | :55:39. | |
gentleman raised in this area. It is pro sighsly as we move out of the | :55:40. | :55:44. | |
European Union, the UK will be more outward looking. We want to ensure | :55:45. | :55:49. | |
we play our part in the UN. That the UN itself is able to do the job that | :55:50. | :55:57. | |
everybody wants it to do. Nato has been the most important bull washing | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
in terms of maintaining safety and security across the European | :56:03. | :56:05. | |
continent. That's why we're continuing to support Nato. British | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
troops are in Estonia. British Forces in Poland, Romania, | :56:12. | :56:13. | |
continuing to show our commitment to Nato. The thrust of my speech | :56:14. | :56:20. | |
yesterday was we want a strong, strat edgic partnership with the | :56:21. | :56:23. | |
European Union. That access to the single market, that free trade | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
agreement but to continue to work with them on justice and security | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
matters. Now is not a time to cooperate less, it is a time to | :56:33. | :56:40. | |
cooperate more. Delighted the third round replay where Sutton united won | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
against Wimbledon. The pressing issue is to be able to get into work | :56:45. | :56:51. | |
on a day-to-day basis. Does the Prime Minister welcome the talks | :56:52. | :56:55. | |
between Aslef and Southern to finding a solution for hard pressed | :56:56. | :57:01. | |
commuters? As a former Wimbledon councillor, I am anot sure I share | :57:02. | :57:06. | |
the enthusiasm for the defeat of AFC Wimbledon. On the point about train | :57:07. | :57:10. | |
strikes, yes, I do. I hope those sitting around the table will | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
enensure we see an agreement reached which enables passengers to get on | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
with their lives, their jobs and not suffer the misery brought about by | :57:20. | :57:24. | |
the strike in the first place. Can I agree with the Prime Minister and | :57:25. | :57:28. | |
disagree with the last member about the reference to last night's | :57:29. | :57:33. | |
meeting and AFC's results. If the Prime Minister really believes that | :57:34. | :57:39. | |
GP surgeries should be open seven days a week, 12 hours a day, would | :57:40. | :57:44. | |
she be my guest at a meeting against Department of Health diktat which | :57:45. | :57:48. | |
will close a 6,000 strong surgery. Even better, could she just tell her | :57:49. | :57:54. | |
Government to stop cuts to GP Ps Sir verieses which force thousands to | :57:55. | :58:00. | |
attend hard pressed A's like St George's and St Helier or is she | :58:01. | :58:05. | |
happy to see the poisible collapse of the NHS on her watch? I might | :58:06. | :58:09. | |
remind the honourable lady, she and I sat on a council together where we | :58:10. | :58:17. | |
tried to keep Wimbledon playing in Wimbledon other at least in Murton. | :58:18. | :58:23. | |
GPs are part of the solution in terms of the NHS for the future. | :58:24. | :58:28. | |
We've seen more GPs coming into the NHS. Something like 5,000 more GPs | :58:29. | :58:34. | |
being trained and will be in place by 2020. But what we do want to | :58:35. | :58:39. | |
ensure is that GPs are open and providing the services at times when | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
the patients want to access them. Mr Speaker, it was quite clear from the | :58:45. | :58:47. | |
Prime Minister's speech yesterday that she seeks to build a Brexit | :58:48. | :58:52. | |
consensus and to bring our country back together. I thank her for that. | :58:53. | :59:00. | |
To that end, and to strengthen the Prime Minister's negotiating hand, | :59:01. | :59:03. | |
before Article 50 is triggered, would she please considerate least | :59:04. | :59:08. | |
publishing all those 12 objectives in a White Paper so that we can | :59:09. | :59:15. | |
debate them here in this place on behalf of all our constituents? My | :59:16. | :59:21. | |
honourable friend is right. I absolutely understand the point she | :59:22. | :59:25. | |
raised about Parliament's desire to be able to debate those objectives | :59:26. | :59:30. | |
which I set out in the plan yesterday. One of the objectives, | :59:31. | :59:34. | |
one of the principles was about certainly and clarity. It continues | :59:35. | :59:38. | |
to be the Government's intention that we will provide clarity | :59:39. | :59:43. | |
whenever it is possible and we will ensure that at appropriate times | :59:44. | :59:47. | |
both the public and Parliament are kept informed and are able to | :59:48. | :59:51. | |
consider and properly scrutinise these issues. Thank you, Mr Speaker. | :59:52. | :59:59. | |
While dedicated and talented staff at the royal Liverpool hospital's | :00:00. | :00:04. | |
A department struggle to find beds for sick people, around 135 patients | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
are unable to be discharged solely because of Government cuts to social | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
care. When will the Government recognise its responsibilities and | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
not try to blame GPs for a problem of the Government's own making? | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
There is a pressure on social care. I accept that and recognised this in | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
this House. That's why the Government's recognised it and put | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
improved funding through the better care fund and social care | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
pre-September. Liverpool raced ?8 million and they'll receive ?48 | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
million from the better care fund by 2019/20. This isn't just a question | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
of money. It is ensuring we have a sustainable social care system for | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
the future. That's what the Government's working on. Could I | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
commend by right honourable friend for her remarks yesterday, not least | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
the constructive terms to the future of the EU in marked difference from | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
others over the years. Would she confirm that constructive tone will | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
remain as the best base for getting an agreement between ourselves and | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
the EU and the default position of no deal will remain a default | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
position and not the Government's default position? Absolutely. We | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
want to get that good deal and expect to be able to get that good | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
deal. It is right that it is through goodwill and a positive approach on | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
both sides of these negotiations we will achieve that. I'm clear the UK | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
wants to see a continuing strong European Union of 27 member states. | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
We want to have a strong, strategic partnership with that Europon and | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
continue to work bilaterally with individual states. I made this point | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
to a number of European Union leaders yesterday when I spoke to | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
them after my speech, we want to approach this in a positive and | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
optimistic fashion. I believe a deal that is good for the UK, will be a | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
deal that is good for the European Union. This week, the national | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
auditor revealed the abject failures in the con accept tricks fiasco | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
which resulted in thousands of people wrongly denied their tax | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
credits. This was not one rogue contractors but a system designed by | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Government to pursue and chase down claimants for profit. So, does the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
Prime Minister agree with the Chief Executive of HMRC that payment by | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
ruts has no -- results has no mace in our welfare system. Will she | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
review this model or will she wait for the next scandal to hit | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
vulnerable people? I recognise many people received a poor service. It | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
is not the first time this has been highlighted in this chamber this was | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
not acceptable. I apologise for the poury and stress caused for people. | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
We have been clear about that service. HMRC will learn the lessons | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
from that contract. They remain committed to providing a high | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
quality service. It will not use a private sector service to undertakes | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
tax or fraud checks again. Further to the question from my honourable | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
friend, the Prime Minister did yesterday confirm her commitment to | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
parliamentary democracy. Therefore, I assume she accepts the long | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
standing convention that the he can he can tiff, the Government, is | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
continuously accountable to this House for the policies that she is | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
pursuing. Can she clarify whether or not she intends to make any further | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
statements of policy intentions to this House and whether she | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
anticipates this House having an opportunity to vote its approval for | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
those policies earlier than two years away when the whole | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
negotiation has been completed? My right honourable friend raises a | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
matter that not only our honourable friend has raised but others as | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
well. If I can simply make this point. Yesterday, my right | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
honourable, the Secretary of State for exiting the European Union came | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
here and answered questions for two hours. There is a further general | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
debate on exiting the European Union matters taking place today. There | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
have been a number of these do Bates already looking at the issues which | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
are part of the objectives we have set. We will have to consider the | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
result of the decision of the Supreme Court which may, if it goes | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
against the Government, require legislation to be brought before | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
this House. There will be an opportunity in the great wee peat | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
bill to look at issues around the exiting the I the the EU. We can't | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
vote on the deal until we know what the deal is. Parliament will have a | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
vote when we know what that deal is. The Prime Minister's passing | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
reference to the interests of Spanish fishermen in her speech | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
yesterday let the cat out of the bag that our fishing opportunities are | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
already on the table as a bargaining tool before the Brexit negotiations | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
have even started. What does the Prime Minister want to offer the | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
Spanish fishermen? I made a very simple point yesterday which is that | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
negotiation is not just about the UK. There will be others in the | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
European Union who will be looking for ensheering the deal we get is | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
good for the UK and for the European Union. I have to say to the | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
honourable lady, if she thinks continued membership of the common | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
fishers policy is not the case and one of the things we will vote | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
against. The people of Stafford shirt and Stoke-on-Trent are being | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
confronted with the possible loss of emergency services in Stafford or | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Burton when our Acute Hospitals are under intense pressure. Would the | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Prime Minister agree with me and others that closing A is no way | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
to deal with increased, real, not imagined, need. I would say to my | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
honourable friend, the important issue is the level of service | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
available for people in a local area. That's why the sustainability | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
and transformation plans being published are taking into account | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
and are being considered at a local level for local clinicians and local | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
people to agree what is best in their particular area. Mr Speaker, | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
last Friday I went to Blackpool Victoria Hospital where the number | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
of people waiting 12 hours or more in A doubled last year. 100 of | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
them aged 90 or over. Trust managers said the biggest factor is dig | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
charging people. Government cuts erodele support for them. Will she | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
stop waffling about her shared society, listen to her own budget | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
watchdog saying we'll need ?30 billion from older people in the | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
next ten years and put that money into local adult care and the NHS? | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
Well, just looking at the figures for what has happened for health in | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
his particular area, there are more doctors and significantly more | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
nurses in his NHS Foundation Trust. I know what the honourable gentleman | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
is talking about. I'm about to comment on it! But the honourable | :07:45. | :07:54. | |
lady who is shouting from a sedentary position might have | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
recognised he started talking about the NHS which is what I'm also | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
commenting on. THE SPEAKER: Order. I'm not having | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
an exchange across the dispatch box. Order. The Prime Minister was asked | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
a question. Order! I require no help from the honourable gentleman which | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
is of zilch value! The Prime Minister will answer and she will be | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
heard with courtesy, including by the honourable gentleman. The Prime | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Minister The honourable gentleman asked me about pressures on the | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
national health service. We are sighing more doctors and nurses in | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
his hospitals Foundation Trust and he health funding in the honourable | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
gentleman's area will be ?3 billion this year rising with a further 450 | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
million by 2021. In terms of the issue of social care, as I said in | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
this House before, we are putting extra money into social care, giving | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
local authorities the opportunity to raise more money and spend it on | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
social care. This is not just about more money. It is about ensuring | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
best practise is spread throughout the country. About a long-term | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
solution to sustainable social care for the future. An issue ducked by | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Governments, including a Labour Government for 13 years. On Friday, | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
the east coast of England faced threat of a tidal surge that | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
endangered tens of thousands of homes and thousands of lives. A | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
simple change in the weather meant flooding was averted. Will the Prime | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
Minister join me in praising the response of the emergency services | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
planning ahead, involving the army coastguard, the Fire Service and the | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
ambulance and police to make sure the best possible plans were made | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
and will she further join with me in making sure the public know these | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
warnings, in future, should always be taken seriously? My honourable | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
friend raises an important point. I'm happy to commend the action of | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
all those in the emergency service, Armed Forces, and local authorities | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
who worked so hard to make sure this problem, a change in weather took | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
place, but it is absolutely crucial that when these warnings are given, | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
people recognise they are given for a very good reason, because there is | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
a concern about the danger that could take place. The efforts put in | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
protected tens of thousands of properties. I'm pleased to see the | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
work we have learned from previous flooding incidents, the work between | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
emergency services, local services and the Armed Forces was much better | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
coordinated than perhaps has been in the past. We've been able to learn | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
from flooding in the past. Mr Speaker, in response to the | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
honourable member for Broxtow the Prime Minister talked about her | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
desire to give clarity around our exit of the EU. Many of my | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
constituency yentas are paying taxes. What assurances can she give | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
them about their future. Particularly if they change their | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
employer or are freelancers? What I said yesterday is about the | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
guaranteeing of rights for EU citizens living here in the UK. I | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
want to see the rights of UK citizens living in the 27 member | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
states being given guarantees as well. I encourage others across | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
Europe to agree this is an issue we should look at at an early stage and | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
as early a stage as possible in order to give people the confidence | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
and reassurance she is looking for. ? Supporting my right honourable | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
gentlemen in social care and the Health Service, can she endorse the | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
confidence in our hospitals in market towns across the country. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
They provide a vital piece of the jigsaw in our NHS such as the | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
Westminster memorial in stats brie? I'm sure as my honourable friend | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
says, the Westminster memorial in Shaftesbury is providing good | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
services for local people. What the structure of the local services | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
should be is a matter for discussion at local level. It is crucial local | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
clinicians agree and others agree we have a safe and secure service for | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
people. They are provided within the NHS services they need at the most | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
appropriate level. I accept very often we think only of major | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
District General Hospitals and acute hospitals but the NHS is made up of | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
different parts. Patients need to be treated at the most appropriate | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
level for their needs. How can aband onning membership of the customs | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
union that thaws 68% of Wales' exports, crucially 90% of our food | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
and drink exports and supports 200,000 jobs cause any other than | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
calamitous self-harm? What we will be doing is negotiating a free trade | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
agreement with the European Union to get the best possible access for | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
trade. We also want to be able to negotiate trade agreements with | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
other countries around the world. A number of countries have already | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
expressed interest in doing that. We want to open up, see new export | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
markets being delivered for businesses here in the UK, including | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
for the sort of trade that he's talking about in Wales. In the | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
customs aspect with the European Union, we want to have an | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
arrangement with them to have as frictionless borders as possible. | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
Were Prime Minister's Questions comes to an end there. | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
He began with some process about the role of Parliament in the Brexit | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
process, saying the Prime Minister should have made the speech before | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
Parliament rather than at Lancaster house yesterday and called her the | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
irony lady. He then moved on to matters of substance about access to | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
the single market. The Prime Minister through that back in his | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
face. About how much we would be paying there, we'll come on to that | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
in a minute. Finished up by talking about health as well. I'm not sure | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
this took us any further forward but will go through it nonetheless. | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
First, let's find out what you made of it. This view of those please | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
explain to me the difference between a freak trade deal with the EU and | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
access to the single market. No wonder people find so is confusing. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Another viewer, Mrs May continues to take the best possible deal for | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
Britain, it's meaningless to say so any substance to substantiate her | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
statement. Another viewer says, Mrs May, not rattled by a lightweight | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
Jeremy Corbyn but he tick-macro she was by Angus Robertson who shows a | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
credible opposition to the Tories. Another viewer, two questions on why | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
Theresa May didn't bring her speech to Parliament first, no one cares, | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
cut the stuff that matter to ordinary people. There's no point | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
asking her how much frictionless access will cost, she can't know, | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
the question is how much issue prepared to pay. Did I miss | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
something? I don't think it's moved us very much further forward in | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
terms of this whole thing. What was interesting was that the Speaker | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
called on... Them and Jeremy Corbyn have retreated to asking questions | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
of process. Talking to somebody in that camp yesterday, they felt down, | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
because their main argument has been trying to preserve membership of the | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
single market. That's gone. Theresa May killed that off yesterday. We | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
see them instead talking about Parliamentary process today. Ken | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
Clarke asking the question that Jeremy Corbyn tried to ask but | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
didn't quite get there. I think that's quite telling. At the moment | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
they are scratching their heads wondering where to take the fight | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
next. Another question that came up was the status of European Union | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
citizens currently working here. There's a lot of uncertainties, some | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
of them don't know what's going to happen, they would like clarity. Why | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
doesn't the British government turn around and say, if you are an EU | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
citizen, working here, you and your family are welcome and will have the | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
right to stay here for as long as you want? In .7 of her speech | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
yesterday she said as soon as she is able to do that and as soon as other | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
EU countries guarantee the same rights for UK nationals... You're | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
making them a bargaining chip when you say we are only going to do it | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
when we understand the rest of Europe is going to do it. Why would | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
we not take the high ground or, just to be pragmatic in laying the fizz | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
of these people, who have come here to work and brought their families, | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
just as they we hope that Europe treats are people well, too, but | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
whatever they do we are treating you well, why went you do that? Their | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
importance is underlined by the fact they've got their own place in the | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
Prime Minister's speech. She said, we value the contribution of EU | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
nationals... So why not give them clarity? So they are a bargaining | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
chip? We've got to have the same clarity for UK nationals. Why? So | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
you are making the EU citizens here a bargaining chip in the | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
negotiations? It is important we have reciprocity. The same rights we | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
want to be able to give the EU nationals are available to UK | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
nationals living in the European Union. This line we have quite a lot | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
from Mr Corbyn about a race to the bottom, and of what he regards as | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
the low tax economy, low regulation. He said, if you reduce corporation | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
tax to the lowest common denominator, I assume by that he | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
means to the low levels you may get in Ireland, Singapore, this country | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
loses ?120 billion in revenue. Do you agree with that? I think what | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
he's trying to say is that there is a vision hinted at by Philip | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
Hammond, that the UK could somehow become a tax haven off the coast of | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
Europe. Or a low tax economy, that's different. Philip Hammond was | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
clearly signalling we would be prepared to have a very different | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
type of economy in this country to one that we've ever had previously. | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
How do we lose ?120 billion in revenues if we slash corporation | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
tax? Philip Hammond was talking about... I'm asking you about what | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
Mr Corbyn asked the Prime Minister. What we are trying to say is that | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
the vision for the UK economy, which looks like a tax haven off the coast | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
of Europe, is something we will oppose. How could we lose ?120 | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
billion, if we slash corporation tax? When total corporation tax | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
revenues are under ?50 billion? He said, if you reduce corporation tax | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
to the lowest common denominator, not get rid of it all together but | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
make it really low, the country loses ?120 billion. How can you lose | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
that if it is at under ?50 billion? Jeremy says he doesn't want to undo | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
the way our economy has functioned since the Second World War... What's | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
the answer to my question? This is an economy that supports our public | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
services, the taxation that pays that our public health services, | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
that's very important. We oppose getting rid of that. The figures | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
don't add up. In what way would be more like Singapore be a race to the | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
bottom? If we change the economic consensus that we've had in this | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
country, which supports our public services, it provides the tax | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
revenue... Why would be like Singapore be a race to the bottom? | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
There are pensions, our health services, our free education system, | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
free health care at the point of need... Those other things we enjoy | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
in this country. Do you know what per capita incomes are in Singapore? | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
Per capita incomes in Singapore are $80,000 per year. They are $42,000 | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
in the UK. They've got the second highest life expense seat in the | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
world, much higher than Britain. Unemployment is 2% -- second highest | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
life expectancy. Why is that a race to the bottom? Singapore is a very | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
different society. Labour says that's what you have in mind. We | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
want to protect our public services and we want proper investment. We've | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
had a big debate about social care, about local government, about the | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
health service. You cannot provide those services in the way that this | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
country has enjoyed, in the way we say we want to continue to enjoy, if | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
you fundamentally change the economic... Would be being more like | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
Singapore, given the statistics, be a race to the bottom? I think it | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
would be. To have the second highest life expectancy in the world? We are | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
a very different country. We have high unemployment and lower per | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
capita income! We've got Boris Johnson's remarks. One of the | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
disappointing fact is that in the last 25 years, since the dawn of the | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
single market, it's other countries including India, that have done | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
better at exporting into the single market than we in the UK have. We | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
have no terrors about this prospect. I think if Mr Mr Mr Hollande wants | :22:10. | :22:22. | |
to issue punishment beatings, I don't think that is the way forward. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
Actually it's not in the interest of our friends and our partners. Why | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
pick a fight with the French President who won't even be there | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
after May? I think it's good the Foreign Secretary is in India | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
promoting trade deals but he's making the same point as the Prime | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Minister. It's in no 1's interest for the EU to reintroduce tariffs or | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
other barriers to trade... President land isn't even running again. -- | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
President Hollande. Why pick a fight with someone who will be essentially | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
irrelevant come the negotiations? He's reinforcing the Prime | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
Minister's point which is that it's in Europe's interests and our | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
interests to get a deal along the lines of the 12 point she sat out so | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
powerfully yesterday. Thank you very much. | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
Now, when he became speaker eight years ago, John Bercow said | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
That foolish hostage to fortune has set all sorts of hares running, | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
and the race is now well and truly on to replace him. | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
Now, Mr Bercow could just decide not to stand down next year, | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
but that hasn't stopped us fuelling the speculation. | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
Everyone knows he does more than just tell MPs off. | :23:35. | :23:46. | |
THE SPEAKER: The Prime Minister has finished and he can take it | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
They'd be big non-ceremonial shoes to fill, so who could do it? | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
An MP who's just as comfortable having a go at the PM | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
Let me indulge in the floxiknockinhilapipification | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
Of course, convention says the next Speaker should be | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
I don't know what I want to do next week, let alone in a year's time. | :24:18. | :24:35. | |
The Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle's name has also been in the frame. | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
But then he'd no longer be the voice of the balls, the man who draws | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
215 will cross-reference the member's name to the number. | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Douglas Carswell, Ukip's only MP has been cited as a possible suitor | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
Maybe it's his ability to keep other politicians | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
brief, to the point and, above all, prescient. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
If the British people vote to leave the European Union, | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
will the Prime Minister remain in office to implement | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
But the man most likely to be Speaker this time next year... | :25:07. | :25:18. | |
A fizz of excitement, here in the studio! | :25:19. | :25:32. | |
Ellie there with the runners and riders. | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
But who's the favourite to replace Speaker Bercow? | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
Jessica Bridge of the bookmakers Ladbrokes is outside Parliament. | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
Give us the odds! Good afternoon. Jacob Rees-Mogg is the favourite at | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
the moment with odds of 6-4. He is being touted as a very good speaker | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
to replace John Bercow. That's why he's in there as the favourite. He | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
does appeal to both sides of the party. He's been described as a man | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
of the people which I'm not sure I get personally! I don't know many | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
right wing Etonians who wed double-breasted suits in 2017! Then | :26:07. | :26:15. | |
Chris Bryant, he's probably going to struggle a bit because he needs to | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
appeal to more than his own party. He did make that gaffe about Kiss a | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
Ginger Day. Lindsay Hoyle is obviously the main Deputy Speaker | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
right now. He's very popular, he's got across both sides of the House. | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
Ladbrokes are going to be keeping a close eye on him. He's not an | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
outsider, he's not an underdog, but he's definitely the one we need to | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
keep an eye on. Thank you very much for that. Who do you fancy as the | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
next speaker? There's no way I'm answering that! Why not?! Offending | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
your colleagues isn't the best way to spend an afternoon. It's hard to | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
remove a speaker who doesn't want to be removed. We'll probably be where | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
exactly we are now in a year's time. I surprised Jacob Rees-Mogg is the | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
favourite? Jacob has the character to fill the role but John Bercow has | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
been the most extraordinary speaker. He may not be a giant of a man | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
physically but he's filled the space in the most extraordinary way. Do | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
you think you'll definitely go? At some point! He said he would go | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
after a certain amount of time. He doesn't have to actually go. What | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
about Lindsay Hoyle? He is very popular, isn't he? He is, he'd be a | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
great candidate. He has shown himself to be able to manage the | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
really tricky big parliamentary occasions with great skill and | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
humour. I think he'll be a very popular choice. I then understand | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
why his odds are so low. Convention, does that mean it should be Labour's | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
turn? I think this is up for grabs. It's a matter for the House to | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
determine. Let's put you out of your misery and give you the answer. It | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
was 2012. There was some great music in that film as well. Toby Simmons | :28:16. | :28:24. | |
from Orpington. Well done! The News At One is starting | :28:25. | :28:36. | |
over on BBC One now. Jo is going off to Strasbourg so I | :28:37. | :28:50. | |
will be here on my own, working hard as usual as she gallivant around | :28:51. | :28:52. | |
Strasbourg! Goodbye. | :28:53. | :28:57. |