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Good morning. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:46 | |
Welcome to the Daily Politics. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
They've been branded
mutineers this morning. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:49 | |
Tory rebels kept their powder dry
in the Commons last night, | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
but is this just mutiny postponed? | 0:00:52 | 0:00:53 | |
Jacob Rees-Mogg doesn't want to stop
the Brexit ship sailing | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
but does he want to throw
the Chancellor overboard? | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
We'll talk to him live. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
Tens of thousands of messages
were posted by Russian-based Twitter | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
accounts during the referendum
campaign, mostly backing Brexit. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:07 | |
So was it Putin wot won it? | 0:01:07 | 0:01:15 | |
Jeremy Corbyn says he won't punish
Labour MP Emma Dent Coad | 0:01:15 | 0:01:17 | |
after it was revealed she called
a black Conservative candidate | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
a "token ghetto boy". | 0:01:20 | 0:01:21 | |
Was the language she used
acceptable? | 0:01:21 | 0:01:29 | |
All that coming up and, of course,
Prime Minister's Questions - | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
live and uninterrupted at midday. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
And it's Hancock's hour
and a half - | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
Digital Minister
Matt Hancock, that is. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
And to complete the comic duo,
the Shadow Brexit Minister, | 0:01:40 | 0:01:42 | |
Labour's Jenny Chapman. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
So, the Government saw off
several attempts to change | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
the EU Withdrawal Bill
in the Commons last night. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:54 | |
But it was just the first of eight
days of debate in the House | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
of Commons and, with discontent
palpable among some on all sides | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
of the Chamber, and with MPs having
tabled more than 470 amendments, | 0:02:00 | 0:02:05 | |
Theresa May knows
there is trouble ahead. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:07 | |
Emma, talk us through it. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
With the DUP, Theresa May
has a working majority | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
of 13, but on Brexit,
where she should be able to rely | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
on pro-Brexit Labour MPs,
that rises to almost 25. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:23 | |
But it's reported up to 15 Tories
could defy the Government, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
enough to wipe out
that Brexit majority. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:32 | |
They were pictured
on the front page of today's | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
Daily Telegraph, which called them
"the Brexit mutineers". | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
Late in the Commons last
night, Anna Soubry, | 0:02:36 | 0:02:40 | |
one of those named in the paper's
splash, said it was a "blatant | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
piece of bullying that goes
to the very heart of democracy". | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
And Heidi Allen said
if fighting for the future | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
of the country meant
mutiny then bring it on. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
The potential rebels
are particularly angry about | 0:02:51 | 0:02:52 | |
the so-called "date amendment". | 0:02:52 | 0:02:58 | |
It was announced with great fanfare
by Theresa May last Friday, | 0:02:58 | 0:03:00 | |
also in the Daily Telegraph. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:01 | |
On Monday, another of
the potential rebels, | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
Nicky Morgan, told us that article
was "tin-eared" and "tone-deaf", | 0:03:03 | 0:03:09 | |
and likely to increase division
in the Conservative Party. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
Yesterday, veteran
pro-EU Conservative MP | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
Ken Clarke said the date
amendment was unnecessary. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
There are some very, very serious
issues to be settled in this | 0:03:20 | 0:03:25 | |
Bill and I ask the Government
to reconsider silly amendments | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
thrown out because they got a good
article in the Daily Telegraph, | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
which actually might do harm... | 0:03:30 | 0:03:31 | |
CHEERS AND JEERS | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
Tory MP, Ken Clarke. Matt Hancock,
what is the logic of putting down | 0:03:38 | 0:03:43 | |
this amendment fixing the date of
Brexit? We have made a decision over | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
when we are going to leave, it is a
consequence of triggering Article 50 | 0:03:46 | 0:03:50 | |
and the fact that there is two years
and it's funny, though - often in | 0:03:50 | 0:03:55 | |
taking a Bill through the Commons,
you get criticised for not putting | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
enough on the face of the bill. We
knew we were going to leave in March | 0:03:58 | 0:04:03 | |
2019. Why put down an amendment
fixing the date of Brexit on this | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
bill with a time? Because, as you
say, that's what is going to happen. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
You didn't need to put it in the
bill People called for more | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
certainty and asked for more to be
put on the face of the bill and less | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
to be put in regulation and this has
changed the way that we are doing | 0:04:17 | 0:04:22 | |
this from the date being in
regulation, to the date being on the | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
face of the bill, and that's because
that's the decision and ultimately, | 0:04:25 | 0:04:30 | |
frankly, it was the decision,
obviously as a result of a | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
referendum and then from the date of
triggering Article 50. Right but as | 0:04:33 | 0:04:37 | |
you say when we triggered Article
50, we knew what the timetable would | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
be. It's clear. It is two years'
later, March 2019. If it was so | 0:04:39 | 0:04:46 | |
important, why wasn't the date fixed
in the bill in the first place. The | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
bill as it was drafted put a lot of
things in regulation, actually one | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
of the criticisms of the bill was it
put too much into regulation, I | 0:04:53 | 0:04:57 | |
reject that. I think it was
reasonable that as much as is | 0:04:57 | 0:05:01 | |
necessary to go through regulations
will. But, one of the things we | 0:05:01 | 0:05:06 | |
know, for sure now, is the date of
leaving, so put it on the face of | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
the bill. Perfectly reasonable. We
always knew that date, it is as if | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
you forgot about it. Dominic Grieve,
seemingly fairly accommodating in | 0:05:13 | 0:05:19 | |
your party, said it was mad. Ken
Clarke calls it ridiculous and says | 0:05:19 | 0:05:28 | |
it could I willeniate people on your
side. Is it wise to do that when | 0:05:28 | 0:05:34 | |
your majority is so small? Ken voted
against triggering Article 50, but | 0:05:34 | 0:05:39 | |
if you voted to trigger Article 50,
as I did and as the vast majority of | 0:05:39 | 0:05:47 | |
MPs did, then that leads to the date
being set and since the date is | 0:05:47 | 0:05:53 | |
agreed, it's perfectly reasonable to
legislate for that. Right. Because | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
it's been agreed, why was it
necessary for the Prime Minister to | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
write an article which threatened
people who she said would try and | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
block this bill going through?
Everybody who signed up to Article | 0:06:04 | 0:06:08 | |
50 knew the date would be March
2019. So I say again - why have you | 0:06:08 | 0:06:13 | |
unnecessarily alienated so many of
your own side? Well, I don't think | 0:06:13 | 0:06:17 | |
that's right. You don't think they
are alienated? If you voted for | 0:06:17 | 0:06:22 | |
Article 50, it is a consequence of
that, that you are in favour of | 0:06:22 | 0:06:26 | |
leaving the European Union by that
date. Now we've said and we have put | 0:06:26 | 0:06:29 | |
it into the legislation, we will
leave on that date. So having taken | 0:06:29 | 0:06:33 | |
that decision, it's reasonable to
put it into legislation. And the | 0:06:33 | 0:06:39 | |
bigger picture is this - you know,
this bill is incredibly important | 0:06:39 | 0:06:44 | |
for making sure that we leave in a
sensible and orderly way, alongside | 0:06:44 | 0:06:49 | |
getting a good deal. So you've
committed an own goal basically | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
haven't you? Nicky Morgan called the
article tineared and tone deaf on | 0:06:53 | 0:06:58 | |
this programme. You really have
achieved healing the divisions | 0:06:58 | 0:07:02 | |
within your own party? I think
people - if you vote for Article 50, | 0:07:02 | 0:07:06 | |
most people did that, the vast
majority of MPs did that and the | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
reason we did that is because we
accept the result of the referendum. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:13 | |
No matter how you voted. But that
doesn't answer the question of why | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
you then had to fix a date a time,
11pm on 29th March, unless you were | 0:07:16 | 0:07:21 | |
going to be provocative or was it
about apiecing Brexiteers and the | 0:07:21 | 0:07:26 | |
skrurpt willings. -- and
eurosceptics. No we are leaving the | 0:07:26 | 0:07:33 | |
European Union, it sets out the
moment we leave. We were going to | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
have to do it at some point. Once
you have done it and set it it is | 0:07:36 | 0:07:40 | |
good practice to put it into the
primary legislation, I think it is | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
reasonable. Do you think you will
have to abandon the amendment in the | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
end? No, I think we're going to vote
for it. Do you think in the end you | 0:07:46 | 0:07:50 | |
will have to step down because you
won't be able to persuade people | 0:07:50 | 0:07:53 | |
like Dominic Grieve... I'm not going
to step down. Step down the | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
amendment? Withdraw it? No, the
important thing here is that we are | 0:07:57 | 0:08:04 | |
leaving the European Union, we have
got to do that at a particular | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
moment. Whether you do it in -
whether you make that into statute | 0:08:06 | 0:08:13 | |
in secondary legislation or
primary... You have made that clear, | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
but will this amendment, setting the
date, fixing the time and date of | 0:08:16 | 0:08:20 | |
Brexit make it on to the statute
book? I think so, yeah. Even with | 0:08:20 | 0:08:25 | |
the number of Tory MPs who are
saying they will not vote for T | 0:08:25 | 0:08:29 | |
Dominic Grieve, who I say is a
fairly reasonable person in the | 0:08:29 | 0:08:32 | |
negotiations within the Tory Party,
has said he will not vote for it and | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
then you will face defeat if enough
Tory MPs vote against it. Listened | 0:08:36 | 0:08:40 | |
to Dominic Grieve's speech yesterday
and the fact of the matter is that | 0:08:40 | 0:08:45 | |
we've got to leave the European
Union, and whether it is in | 0:08:45 | 0:08:50 | |
secondary or primary legislation is
less important than the fact that a | 0:08:50 | 0:08:54 | |
decision has now been taken as to
when we're going to leave and... But | 0:08:54 | 0:08:58 | |
it is about whether you are going to
be defeated on 24 amendment which | 0:08:58 | 0:09:03 | |
was a self-inflicted, if you like,
injury and wound to your own side | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
which wasn't necessary because as
you keep saying - we know when we | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
are going to leave But if you know
when you are going to leave, it is | 0:09:09 | 0:09:13 | |
perfectly reasonable to legislate on
that basis. I don't understand the | 0:09:13 | 0:09:17 | |
premise of your question, which is -
why are you putting into legislation | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
that which is going to happen? OK
Because we have decided it is going | 0:09:21 | 0:09:25 | |
to happen, therefore it is perfectly
reasonable to legislate for it and | 0:09:25 | 0:09:30 | |
the broader, the bill as a whole is
all about making sure that we can | 0:09:30 | 0:09:35 | |
have an orderly exit from the EU.
That's why it is such an important | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
piece of legislation. Jenny Chapman,
what's wrong with putting a time and | 0:09:39 | 0:09:43 | |
date a buffer, if you like, so that
people know - we are going to leave? | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
I voted to trigger Article 50. My
constituents voted to leave. I voted | 0:09:47 | 0:09:52 | |
for Article 50 in the knowledge that
we would be leaving in March 2019. I | 0:09:52 | 0:09:56 | |
don't need a clause in the bill to
make that clear to me. I think most | 0:09:56 | 0:10:01 | |
people see this for what it is,
which is just a political stunt to | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
try and make the Prime Minister seem
as if she has a backbone and she is | 0:10:05 | 0:10:11 | |
being clear and leading and she's
absolutely definitely in charge of | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
this process. When you do this sort
of thing, which is so transparently | 0:10:14 | 0:10:19 | |
a gimmick, it always backfires.
Because we - I'm sure when they | 0:10:19 | 0:10:23 | |
dreamt up this rus he can they
thought, brilliant, this is going to | 0:10:23 | 0:10:27 | |
make the Prime Minister look hard
and it'll be a trap for the Labour | 0:10:27 | 0:10:30 | |
Party. But we are beyond all that
with Brexit. We are way beyond | 0:10:30 | 0:10:34 | |
playing games with it. It is about
doing the right thing for the | 0:10:34 | 0:10:36 | |
country. What this clause does - for
a start you don't need it but also, | 0:10:36 | 0:10:41 | |
as David Davis has said, the
negotiations may go to the wire. Now | 0:10:41 | 0:10:44 | |
that wouldn't be unusual. It is
something that many people | 0:10:44 | 0:10:48 | |
reluctantly accept may happen. If
that happens, why do you need to | 0:10:48 | 0:10:53 | |
have a time to the minute for this -
for our exit? Because a lot of | 0:10:53 | 0:10:58 | |
people will not trust that you will
actually do what what you will say | 0:10:58 | 0:11:02 | |
you are going to do, and that is
leave. You may need a if you more | 0:11:02 | 0:11:06 | |
hours or days to get it right. What
everybody sensible seems to agree s | 0:11:06 | 0:11:10 | |
that a cliff edge and no-deal is a
desirable outcome. So putting this | 0:11:10 | 0:11:14 | |
in the bill is unnecessary, it is a
gimmick and actually could be | 0:11:14 | 0:11:17 | |
damaging. But actually Theresa May
will win this amendment if a lot of | 0:11:17 | 0:11:23 | |
your MPs back the Government come
what may? Well they don't seem | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
confident at the moment, do they?
How many of your MPs will back the | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
Government, do you think? How many
of the Labour Leave MPs will back | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
the Government? You may get five or
six. You may get five or six. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:39 | |
There's 15 Tory MPs, serious,
credible people who are leaders in | 0:11:39 | 0:11:44 | |
the Conservative Party very
well-established people, who have, | 0:11:44 | 0:11:49 | |
you know Parliamentlies listens to
these people. If you were in the | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
debate yesterday you will have seen
Parliament listening carefully to | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
what some of those individuals have
to say. And take them incredibly | 0:11:55 | 0:12:01 | |
seriously. Come back to you on that.
You aring, potentially defeat in the | 0:12:01 | 0:12:06 | |
face as a result of an unnecessary
clause and amendment. You will have | 0:12:06 | 0:12:10 | |
to rely own Labour Levers in order
to win? Jenny put the point, | 0:12:10 | 0:12:15 | |
actually explained well, it is
perfectly reasonable to put this in | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
the bill... It is a game. It is not.
Once a decision has been taken to | 0:12:19 | 0:12:23 | |
make something happen at a
particular moment, then it is | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
perfectly reasonable to legislate
for it. All right And then the | 0:12:26 | 0:12:30 | |
negotiations, of course, have to
deliver by that date. Otherwise, it | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
can just go on and on. It is a game.
A pathetic one. It is backfiring. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:38 | |
I'm sure the Government regrets it
already. If you are in favour of | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
leaving on a certain date, as you
are, because you voted for Article | 0:12:41 | 0:12:45 | |
50. What's wrong with legislating
for what you agreed? It is not | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
necessary. And unnecessarily
damaging our bargaining ability at | 0:12:49 | 0:12:53 | |
the end of this process. That is a
fact, Matthew. What you are doing is | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
a political game. You have been
found out and the Government is | 0:12:57 | 0:12:59 | |
going to end up, somehow, having it
of save face and back off. It is | 0:12:59 | 0:13:04 | |
just bizarre that Jenny says she is
in favour of something but doesn't | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
want toll legislate for it. I don't
need a law to tell me about it. Can | 0:13:07 | 0:13:12 | |
you guarantee the Government will
not back down on this amendment? I | 0:13:12 | 0:13:16 | |
think we're going to win the vote?
How? Well, with the help from people | 0:13:16 | 0:13:21 | |
from across the House including some
of your colleagues. You can | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
guarantee it'll not be withdrawn? I
think we're going to win the vote. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:28 | |
Let's leave it there. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
Now, The Times newspaper
is reporting this morning that | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
Russian Twitter accounts blitzed
the web with 48,000 Brexit-related | 0:13:33 | 0:13:35 | |
messages over just two days
during the referendum | 0:13:35 | 0:13:37 | |
campaign last year. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:39 | |
Earlier this week, it was revealed
how Russian agitprop attempted | 0:13:39 | 0:13:44 | |
to exploit the Westminster terror
attack, when the user | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
@SouthLoneStar, posing as "proud
Texan and American patriot", | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
posted this image with the line,
"Muslim woman casually | 0:13:49 | 0:13:51 | |
walks by a dying man. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:56 | |
#BanIslam". | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
On Monday night, the Prime Minister
surprised many by openly accusing | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
the Russians of mounting
"a sustained campaign | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
of cyber-espionage and disruption",
including "meddling in elections" | 0:14:05 | 0:14:08 | |
and "deploying its state-run media
organisations to plant fake stories | 0:14:08 | 0:14:13 | |
and Photoshopped images
in an attempt to sow | 0:14:13 | 0:14:15 | |
discord in the West
and undermine our institutions." | 0:14:15 | 0:14:22 | |
Can you give me examples of which
elections the Russians have directly | 0:14:22 | 0:14:29 | |
interfered in? I know this sounds
like not answering the question... | 0:14:29 | 0:14:33 | |
Well, that would be a change! It's
hard to go further than the Prime | 0:14:33 | 0:14:38 | |
Minister went on Monday. Stuart
along way, she said espionage, | 0:14:38 | 0:14:45 | |
meddling in elections and weapon
rising information, so which | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
elections is the Prime Minister
talking about when she says the | 0:14:47 | 0:14:54 | |
Russians have meddled? She was clear
that we know this is happening, we | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
are not going to let it succeed, we
are working with the tech | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
organisations to make sure that it
doesn't, and we will say more when | 0:15:01 | 0:15:05 | |
we are ready to. It's a very serious
matter. If it's that serious and you | 0:15:05 | 0:15:11 | |
say you're going to stop it, which
elections has the Kremlin in | 0:15:11 | 0:15:16 | |
deferred in? I'm not going to go
further than what the Prime Minister | 0:15:16 | 0:15:18 | |
said. -- interfered in. Why not? I
think it's important not to go | 0:15:18 | 0:15:26 | |
further than that because getting
this right is vitally important, | 0:15:26 | 0:15:30 | |
because you've got to have the
grounds and the bases for a debate. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
This morning, the head of the
national cyber security centre is | 0:15:33 | 0:15:37 | |
set out more details, and we will,
of course, explain what we find as | 0:15:37 | 0:15:44 | |
and when we are ready to. So you
haven't actually found any evidence | 0:15:44 | 0:15:51 | |
yet, that's why you can't told me.
That's not true. Don't put words | 0:15:51 | 0:15:59 | |
into my mouth. It's important that
we get this right. The Prime | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
Minister has made clear that we are
aware of this issue, we know what | 0:16:02 | 0:16:07 | |
the Russians are doing and we won't
let it stand. As and when we are | 0:16:07 | 0:16:13 | |
ready to say more and take further
action... What are they doing then? | 0:16:13 | 0:16:18 | |
Can you say what they are doing? If
it is as serious as the Prime | 0:16:18 | 0:16:22 | |
Minister says and as you seem to be
implying, did they affect the | 0:16:22 | 0:16:27 | |
outcome of elections that you won't
tell me? If you take the referendum | 0:16:27 | 0:16:33 | |
and the recent election, the number
of votes cast in those elections | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
were very, very significant, and so
I think that you've got to be | 0:16:37 | 0:16:41 | |
careful to draw a direct causal
link, and anyway, it's impossible to | 0:16:41 | 0:16:47 | |
know exactly why each person voted
as they did. But what we've got to | 0:16:47 | 0:16:52 | |
make sure is that the political
discourse in the run-up to an | 0:16:52 | 0:16:56 | |
election is of high quality, as high
a quality as possible. Elections are | 0:16:56 | 0:17:02 | |
always robust events, but that the
discussion is high quality and, | 0:17:02 | 0:17:07 | |
crucially, when people are saying
something, we know who it is that is | 0:17:07 | 0:17:11 | |
saying it. So how are you going to
combat this Russian meddling in | 0:17:11 | 0:17:17 | |
elections? The first port of call is
to make sure we are conspiracy over | 0:17:17 | 0:17:21 | |
who is saying what. How are you
going to do that? You are the | 0:17:21 | 0:17:25 | |
digital minister but you will not
tell me which elections have been | 0:17:25 | 0:17:29 | |
affected, although Theresa May says
there has been espionage and | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
meddling in British elections, and
weapon rising information. You say | 0:17:31 | 0:17:40 | |
more transparency will stop it?
Making sure that, when a tweet comes | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
from somewhere, you know where it's
from. The authentication take, for | 0:17:44 | 0:17:49 | |
example. But you can't stop them
doing it, can you? It's a difficult | 0:17:49 | 0:17:54 | |
area to get right. By the nature of
these platforms, somebody puts up a | 0:17:54 | 0:17:59 | |
tweet and it's immediately published
to everybody that wants. One of the | 0:17:59 | 0:18:03 | |
reasons I'm being careful in my
language, and I am glad you | 0:18:03 | 0:18:06 | |
understand why I can't go further,
is that getting the answers right to | 0:18:06 | 0:18:10 | |
this in a way that is reasonable,
that supports high-quality political | 0:18:10 | 0:18:16 | |
discussion, is really difficult. I
don't know why you can't go further, | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
because the Prime Minister has gone
further and was very strong in the | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
attack on Russia. Let me come to
you, Jenny Chapman. How much of a | 0:18:23 | 0:18:28 | |
threat does Mr Corbyn C from Russia?
I support what the government is | 0:18:28 | 0:18:33 | |
trying to do here, in that they are
flagging something that they think | 0:18:33 | 0:18:38 | |
maybe a Russian influence on our
democracy, and obviously we've had | 0:18:38 | 0:18:41 | |
debates around what's been happening
in the state as well. How much | 0:18:41 | 0:18:45 | |
effect does the Labour leader seen
from Russia? Honesty, we don't know | 0:18:45 | 0:18:50 | |
because we don't know what's been
happening. As Matt quite rightly as | 0:18:50 | 0:18:54 | |
saying, it's wrong for us to say
that there's been an outcome that | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
has been determined by influences
from other countries when we don't | 0:18:57 | 0:19:01 | |
actually know. I wonder whether the
Prime Minister's timing in all of | 0:19:01 | 0:19:05 | |
this was a rug making the appear
tough and that she's going to stand | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
up this country against interference
from Russia, how genuine the concern | 0:19:08 | 0:19:15 | |
is and whether it is to the level
that seemed to be implied by her | 0:19:15 | 0:19:19 | |
comments. You think that her concern
is confected? I wonder whether, to a | 0:19:19 | 0:19:24 | |
point, it may be. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:26 | |
Now she's only been
an MP since June - | 0:19:26 | 0:19:28 | |
the surprise Labour winner
in the London constituency | 0:19:28 | 0:19:30 | |
of Kensington. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:31 | |
Emma Dent Coad rose to prominence
after the Grenfell Tower fire | 0:19:31 | 0:19:34 | |
in her constituency. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:35 | |
But now Ms Dent Coad has
been accused of racism, | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
after the Guido Fawkes blog dug up
a blogpost she wrote about black | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
Conservative parliamentary candidate
Shaun Bailey back in April 2010. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
She wrote: | 0:19:42 | 0:19:44 | |
"One day he is the 'token ghetto
boy' standing behind D Cameron, | 0:19:44 | 0:19:47 | |
the next 'looking interested'
beside G Osborne. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:50 | |
Ever felt used?" | 0:19:50 | 0:19:52 | |
Now we did invite Emma Dent Coad | 0:19:52 | 0:19:54 | |
on the programme today -
she didn't respond to our request - | 0:19:54 | 0:19:57 | |
but talking to BBC London radio last
night, she said she was just quoting | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
Shaun Bailey's own words
and apologised for any offence | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
she might have caused him. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:05 | |
You've just repeated
the phrase countless times. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
Am I now going to criticise
you for quoting something that I've | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
quoted that somebody else said? | 0:20:10 | 0:20:12 | |
This is getting slightly ridiculous. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:13 | |
We're talking about... | 0:20:13 | 0:20:14 | |
I notice you're not apologising. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:15 | |
Do you want to apologise? | 0:20:15 | 0:20:16 | |
What, for quoting what
somebody else had said? | 0:20:16 | 0:20:18 | |
Yes. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:19 | |
If you've offended him,
if if he feels it's racist, | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
if he says even the BNP have never
called him anything so vile | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
and he doesn't recognise it
as being somebody else's comments | 0:20:25 | 0:20:27 | |
but your comments. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:28 | |
If he feels offended by it, of
course I apologise, of course, I do. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:32 | |
If somebody actually read the blog,
they would see I was quoting | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
other people's sources,
what people were saying at the time. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:44 | |
Well, Emma Dent Coad said she was
quoting Shaun Bailey himself, but he | 0:20:44 | 0:20:49 | |
didn't use the words token ghetto
boy. Is it an acceptable phrase to | 0:20:49 | 0:20:54 | |
use? No, it's unacceptable, and I
think that MS sees that and she's | 0:20:54 | 0:20:59 | |
apologised, and I'm glad that she
has. Wedge she was pushing back hard | 0:20:59 | 0:21:04 | |
saying, if she is offended. I mean,
why wouldn't he be offended? Then | 0:21:04 | 0:21:08 | |
she said she'd apologise. As she
behaved properly? You are right and | 0:21:08 | 0:21:15 | |
she should apologise. My
understanding is that she had | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
apologised in addition to the clip
that you just showed, and I think | 0:21:18 | 0:21:22 | |
that is right. I don't know the
context around why on earth she felt | 0:21:22 | 0:21:26 | |
that she could say what she did say,
but it is clearly unacceptable | 0:21:26 | 0:21:31 | |
language. I have read the blog post
and the context is that it gives the | 0:21:31 | 0:21:36 | |
impression that black people voting
Conservative are traitors to their | 0:21:36 | 0:21:39 | |
race. Is that acceptable? Of course
it's not. Is it racist? I'd need to | 0:21:39 | 0:21:47 | |
read it. Is token ghetto boy a
racist phrase? I think it probably | 0:21:47 | 0:21:54 | |
is. I think she's right apologise.
She has apologise. I don't know | 0:21:54 | 0:21:59 | |
whether that apology has been
accepted, but I think, you know, to | 0:21:59 | 0:22:03 | |
say you are sorry and that you
understand why something, why you | 0:22:03 | 0:22:09 | |
have caused offence to somebody,
that's the right thing to do in this | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
situation. Is it right for Jeremy
Corbyn, and you have admitted that | 0:22:11 | 0:22:16 | |
you think it is racist and it wasn't
acceptable, so why hasn't Jeremy | 0:22:16 | 0:22:22 | |
Corbyn suspended her? You'd need to
ask Jeremy about that and to speak | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
to Emma. Should he suspend her?
Should she lose the whip? She's | 0:22:25 | 0:22:33 | |
apologised and, as far as I'm
concerned, that apology is accepted | 0:22:33 | 0:22:37 | |
and she's shown she understands why
this is such a problem, then think | 0:22:37 | 0:22:40 | |
the right thing to do, rather than
punish somebody, is to be pleased | 0:22:40 | 0:22:44 | |
that they now understand and have
been reflected in that language will | 0:22:44 | 0:22:47 | |
not be used again for the let's look
at something else that she posted, | 0:22:47 | 0:22:52 | |
Emma Dent Coad, and this was also on
a blog post around the same time, | 0:22:52 | 0:22:57 | |
and it is the Conservative Party
logo, the tree, with a doodle in | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
front of it of a hangman. Do you
think that is acceptable? It's not. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:08 | |
I've never seen that before. I don't
think that is in any way acceptable. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:13 | |
So should she lose the whip? It's
not for me to say first that up to | 0:23:13 | 0:23:19 | |
Jeremy and he will probably be
taking advice on that. I don't want | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
to pre-empt what he may or may not
do, but it's not acceptable in any | 0:23:22 | 0:23:27 | |
way, shape or form and I don't
understand why she felt the need to | 0:23:27 | 0:23:31 | |
do that. She'd have to account for
herself. Jeremy Corbyn says he will | 0:23:31 | 0:23:36 | |
make chocolate people discuss the
use of language with people and | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
he'll remind people that they
shouldn't use that language. -- | 0:23:38 | 0:23:44 | |
Jeremy Corbyn says he will make sure
that people discuss the use of | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
language. He will no doubt be
thinking this through and reflecting | 0:23:47 | 0:23:52 | |
on the information that has come
forward. I don't know whether Jeremy | 0:23:52 | 0:23:56 | |
is seen that sketch, but I think in
these circumstances it probably | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
isn't helpful for me to sit here and
to make a sanction on the spot when | 0:23:59 | 0:24:03 | |
I had only just shown it. But you
yes. Hit me show you this, the Tory | 0:24:03 | 0:24:12 | |
run council in Kensington and
Chelsea have sent out leaflets | 0:24:12 | 0:24:17 | |
asking them to rate from one to ten
how important that how the families | 0:24:17 | 0:24:23 | |
from Grenfell Tower are treated is
to them for what should council have | 0:24:23 | 0:24:25 | |
sent out such a survey? I think they
were trying to understand an opinion | 0:24:25 | 0:24:32 | |
but to compare Bis completely wrong.
What am I comparing it to? I'm just | 0:24:32 | 0:24:38 | |
talking about Kensington and
Chelsea, and that is completely | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
different. They have out leaflets to
residents asking them to rate how | 0:24:40 | 0:24:45 | |
important that disaster is. What
would be the point of that? They are | 0:24:45 | 0:24:50 | |
clearly trying to understand and
deal with the consequences of this | 0:24:50 | 0:24:55 | |
terrible tragedy at Grenfell. From
zero to ten? It's the standard way | 0:24:55 | 0:25:00 | |
of doing things, but it's clearly
been done in a clumsy way. I haven't | 0:25:00 | 0:25:03 | |
seen that image of the tree before,
and it makes me feel sick to the | 0:25:03 | 0:25:08 | |
stomach. I have spoken to Jenny
Chapman about that and we are now | 0:25:08 | 0:25:12 | |
going to talk about this leaflet. Is
it really credible that people might | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
put zero down in terms of their
concern or importance of the | 0:25:15 | 0:25:20 | |
Grenfell Grenfell fire? I don't
think it is. So white sent out the | 0:25:20 | 0:25:26 | |
survey? B zero to ten thing is a
standard way of surveying, but I'm | 0:25:26 | 0:25:33 | |
not looking to quantify it. How
would you describe it? I would put | 0:25:33 | 0:25:40 | |
it at ten. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:41 | |
Now, are those late
night Commons sittings | 0:25:41 | 0:25:43 | |
taking their toll on MPs? | 0:25:43 | 0:25:44 | |
In the Chamber yesterday,
the Chairman of the Brexit | 0:25:44 | 0:25:46 | |
Select Committee -
Hilary Benn - attempted to compare | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
the Brexit negotiations
to the process of buying a house. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:51 | |
But his Labour colleague Frank Field
- who campaigned for Brexit - | 0:25:51 | 0:25:54 | |
suggested that buying a house
wasn't something Mr Benn, | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
whose father Tony was the second
Viscount Stansgate, | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
had ever experienced. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:04 | |
I've always bought my houses
and never inherited them. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:08 | |
LAUGHTER. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:13 | |
I bought mine, too. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
SPEECH DROWNED OUT BY HUBBUB. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:19 | |
Mr Chairman, I've been corrected
and I withdraw it, of course I do. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:30 | |
But the idea that we... | 0:26:30 | 0:26:37 | |
That the biggest decisions
in our lives, like buying | 0:26:37 | 0:26:40 | |
a house, we take the most time over
is not borne out by any research | 0:26:40 | 0:26:44 | |
whatsoever. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:46 | |
Can I now conclude... | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
I seriously apologise
to you on that point. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:59 | |
Harmony on all sides, and David
Lammy pars face was a picture. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:04 | |
Well, if Frank is truly sorry
and would like to make it up | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
to his Labour colleague Hilary Benn,
may we offer some humble advice. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
Nothing helps smooth over tensions
like a nice cup of tea. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:12 | |
And, even better, why not drink
it from the original, | 0:27:12 | 0:27:15 | |
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It's coming up to midday here -
just take a look at Big Ben - | 0:29:08 | 0:29:14 | |
and that can mean only one thing. | 0:29:14 | 0:29:16 | |
Yes, Prime Minister's
Questions is on its way. | 0:29:16 | 0:29:19 | |
And that's not all -
Laura Kuenssberg is here. | 0:29:19 | 0:29:26 | |
Welcome back to the programme. What
do you think Jeremy Corbyn is going | 0:29:26 | 0:29:31 | |
to talk about? Surely Brexit is
slightly off the agenda for both | 0:29:31 | 0:29:36 | |
sides. Brexit is difficult for both
sides, no question, so I think he | 0:29:36 | 0:29:41 | |
probably won't go there. But that's
what's been dominating the Commons | 0:29:41 | 0:29:44 | |
this morning, and all the chat is
about the front page of the | 0:29:44 | 0:29:48 | |
Telegraph, which I'm sure you have
discussed, but the mutineers or | 0:29:48 | 0:29:57 | |
scrutineers are cock-a-hoop of the
coverage, not least because of the | 0:29:57 | 0:30:00 | |
happy faces on the front page, and
some of them are joking about | 0:30:00 | 0:30:03 | |
whether they should buy pirate hat
and put them on when the key votes | 0:30:03 | 0:30:06 | |
come up. I don't think it's clear
what Jeremy Corbyn will go on. He | 0:30:06 | 0:30:11 | |
has been talking a lot about
education this week. Universal | 0:30:11 | 0:30:14 | |
Credit is high up on the list of
concerns, and we haven't talked | 0:30:14 | 0:30:17 | |
about it much but it's the budget
next week, and we expect movement on | 0:30:17 | 0:30:22 | |
Universal Credit, so that could be
where he goes today. Unemployment | 0:30:22 | 0:30:27 | |
figures have come out today, and we
never get a chance to talk about | 0:30:27 | 0:30:29 | |
them, but they have come down. They
have, but in an usual thing has | 0:30:29 | 0:30:36 | |
happened, so employment has also
fallen, the total number of people | 0:30:36 | 0:30:39 | |
in work, but unemployed has also
gone down. | 0:30:39 | 0:30:40 | |
I'm sure all members in the house
will like to enjoy me in congrate | 0:30:49 | 0:31:00 | |
lating Her Majesty the Queen and
Prince Phillip on their plait yum | 0:31:00 | 0:31:03 | |
wedding anniversary coming up. I
know the whole House would wish to | 0:31:03 | 0:31:07 | |
offer them our very best wishes on
this special occasion. This morning | 0:31:07 | 0:31:12 | |
I had meetings with ministerial
colleagues and others and in | 0:31:12 | 0:31:15 | |
addition to my duties in this House
I shall have further meetings today. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:19 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker, my right
honourable friend's stewardship of | 0:31:19 | 0:31:24 | |
the economy and her predecessor's
excel epted work in making sure this | 0:31:24 | 0:31:27 | |
economy grows, has seen confidence
in our country grow, despright the | 0:31:27 | 0:31:33 | |
troubles and tribulations set before
-- despite the troubles. Our debt | 0:31:33 | 0:31:39 | |
has come down. Will she take this
opportunity to spref in our economy | 0:31:39 | 0:31:43 | |
even more than she is already and
perhaps even take the chance to | 0:31:43 | 0:31:46 | |
build more homes? My honourable
friend makes a very important point | 0:31:46 | 0:31:54 | |
about investing in infrastructure.
He refers to housing particularly. | 0:31:54 | 0:31:58 | |
But we are doing exactly that. That
is why we have seen over a quarter | 0:31:58 | 0:32:04 | |
of a trillion pounds in
infrastructure spending since 2010 | 0:32:04 | 0:32:11 | |
and putting in another £22 billion
from central Government or economic | 0:32:11 | 0:32:16 | |
infrastructure. We are seeing the
rail projects and biggest | 0:32:16 | 0:32:19 | |
road-building programme ever for a
generation that this country, this | 0:32:19 | 0:32:23 | |
Government building a country fit
for the future. THE SPEAKER: Jeremy | 0:32:23 | 0:32:28 | |
Corbyn Thank you, Mr Speaker, I join
the Prime Minister in wishing Her | 0:32:28 | 0:32:33 | |
Majesty and Prince I will if I a
happy Platinum wedding anniversary | 0:32:33 | 0:32:38 | |
-- Prince Phillip. The thoughts of
the whole house will be to the | 0:32:38 | 0:32:42 | |
victims of the devastating
earthquake that hit Iraq and Iran on | 0:32:42 | 0:32:46 | |
Monday leaves hundreds dead and
thousands without shelter. I hope | 0:32:46 | 0:32:50 | |
the Government is offering all
necessary emergency help and support | 0:32:50 | 0:32:53 | |
that can be used to save lives. I
also hope, Mr speaker and I'm sure | 0:32:53 | 0:32:58 | |
the House will join me in sending
our sympathies to the family and | 0:32:58 | 0:33:03 | |
friends of the late Karl sergeant,
the Labour Assembly Member in Wales | 0:33:03 | 0:33:06 | |
who tragically died last week.
Mr Speaker, crime is up, violent | 0:33:06 | 0:33:13 | |
crime is up. And police numbers are
down by 20,000. Will the Prime | 0:33:13 | 0:33:19 | |
Minister urge her Chancellor, who I
note this week is sitting absolutely | 0:33:19 | 0:33:22 | |
next to her, so it'll be easier for
her to make this demand on him, to | 0:33:22 | 0:33:27 | |
provide the funding our police need
to make communities safe? Well, | 0:33:27 | 0:33:34 | |
first of all, can I say to the right
honourable gentleman, he raised | 0:33:34 | 0:33:37 | |
three points. First of all on the
earthquake that took place in Iraq | 0:33:37 | 0:33:41 | |
and Iran we are monitoring this
closely. It's a devastating | 0:33:41 | 0:33:44 | |
earthquake. We know. Our thoughts
are with those who have been | 0:33:44 | 0:33:48 | |
affected. We are looking at the
situation and stand ready to provide | 0:33:48 | 0:33:54 | |
assistance for urge epted
humanitarian needs if requested. -- | 0:33:54 | 0:33:55 | |
urgent. The Government will do what
is necessary and we'll stand ready | 0:33:55 | 0:33:59 | |
to help people. I join with him in
offering condolences to the family | 0:33:59 | 0:34:06 | |
and friends of Karl Sargeant. I'm
sure that goes for everybody across | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
this whole House. He raised the
issue of crime and policing. Crime | 0:34:09 | 0:34:13 | |
is traditional measured by the
independent crime survey are down by | 0:34:13 | 0:34:17 | |
well over one-third since 2010. We
have been protecting police budgets. | 0:34:17 | 0:34:23 | |
We have protected police budgets.
And we are putting more money into | 0:34:23 | 0:34:28 | |
counter-terrorism policing but what
matters is what the police do and | 0:34:28 | 0:34:32 | |
how they deliver and as I say, the
crime survey shows that crime is | 0:34:32 | 0:34:36 | |
down by nearly one-third since 2010.
Mr Speaker, I have been following | 0:34:36 | 0:34:42 | |
some of the tweets from some of her
friends along the front bench over | 0:34:42 | 0:34:45 | |
there. And one of them and I quote
says "Very disappointed and | 0:34:45 | 0:34:51 | |
mystified at the closure of Uxbridge
police station." | 0:34:51 | 0:35:01 | |
CHEERS AND JEERS For the want of any
doubt, Mr Speaker, that came from | 0:35:09 | 0:35:16 | |
the Foreign Secretary, who is
also... THE SPEAKER: I want to hear | 0:35:16 | 0:35:21 | |
about the Uxbridge police station.
Jeremy Corbyn? I'm very pleased you | 0:35:21 | 0:35:26 | |
do, Mr Speaker, the Foreign
Secretary is so excited, he won't | 0:35:26 | 0:35:30 | |
even hear the answer The real
reason, Mr Speaker is that it's | 0:35:30 | 0:35:35 | |
closing because of a £2.3 billion
cut to police budgets in the last | 0:35:35 | 0:35:39 | |
Parliament. And it gets worse. They
are going to be cut by another £700 | 0:35:39 | 0:35:45 | |
million by 2020. Mr Speaker. Under
this Government, there are, in... | 0:35:45 | 0:35:57 | |
There are 11,000 fewer firefighters
in England since 2010. Last year, | 0:35:57 | 0:36:02 | |
deaths in fires increased by 20%. In
the wake of the terrible Grenfell | 0:36:02 | 0:36:09 | |
Tower fire, the Prime Minister was
actually very clear and she said - | 0:36:09 | 0:36:13 | |
this could not be allowed to happen
again and money would be no object | 0:36:13 | 0:36:16 | |
to fire safety. Will she, therefore,
now, back the campaign to provide £1 | 0:36:16 | 0:36:25 | |
billion to local councils to retro
fit sprinklers in all high-rise | 0:36:25 | 0:36:29 | |
blocks? Well, first of all, on the
first question that the right | 0:36:29 | 0:36:35 | |
honourable gentleman raised the
first issue, he might not have | 0:36:35 | 0:36:39 | |
noticed but the Police and Crime
Commissioner in London is the mayor. | 0:36:39 | 0:36:50 | |
He is one of ours or one of yours?
The last time I looked, Sadiq Khan | 0:36:50 | 0:36:56 | |
was a Labour Mayor of London.
Although perhaps, perhaps the Leader | 0:36:56 | 0:37:05 | |
of the Labour Party thinks he is not
Labour enough for him and his brand | 0:37:05 | 0:37:08 | |
of Labour. But let's be very clear
about funding for the Metropolitan | 0:37:08 | 0:37:17 | |
Police. There is more money and more
officers for each Londoner than | 0:37:17 | 0:37:21 | |
anywhere else in the country. That's
the reality about funding for the | 0:37:21 | 0:37:26 | |
Metropolitan Police. Now, he asks...
He has asked about the issue of fire | 0:37:26 | 0:37:35 | |
and we absolutely take what
happened, the appalling tragedy of | 0:37:35 | 0:37:39 | |
what happened at Grenfell Tower
seriously and that's why I set up | 0:37:39 | 0:37:43 | |
the public inquiry. It's why my
right honourable friend the | 0:37:43 | 0:37:47 | |
communities' secretary has set up
already in work taking place on the | 0:37:47 | 0:37:52 | |
fire regulations and building
regulations to ensure that we do | 0:37:52 | 0:37:55 | |
have those right. It is why we
continue to support Kensington and | 0:37:55 | 0:38:00 | |
Chelsea Council in ensuring that we
deliver for those who have been | 0:38:00 | 0:38:04 | |
victims of this awful tragedy. But
he asked about sprinklers? We do | 0:38:04 | 0:38:08 | |
want to make sure that homes are fit
for those who live in them. There is | 0:38:08 | 0:38:13 | |
a responsibility on building owners
in relation to that. And some owners | 0:38:13 | 0:38:19 | |
do retro fit sprinklers but there
are other safety measures that can | 0:38:19 | 0:38:21 | |
take place. Perhaps he ought to look
at what Labour councils have said | 0:38:21 | 0:38:27 | |
about this. Har ingay rejected it,
and Lewisham said they want to weigh | 0:38:27 | 0:38:40 | |
up the issues because it can cut
through fire compartmentalisation, | 0:38:40 | 0:38:45 | |
another safety measure. Lambeth
Council said there were issue retro | 0:38:45 | 0:38:48 | |
fitting sprinklers and questions
about how effective they were. Even | 0:38:48 | 0:38:52 | |
Ises council say they need to look
at how effective spripgleers would | 0:38:52 | 0:38:56 | |
be. -- sprinklers.
Mr Speaker at Latmore House said | 0:38:56 | 0:39:07 | |
fitting sprinklers would be right
thing to do, the Chief Fire Officer | 0:39:07 | 0:39:11 | |
said it would be the right thing to
do, those local authorities that | 0:39:11 | 0:39:17 | |
have asked central Government for
support, to retro fit sprinklers | 0:39:17 | 0:39:21 | |
have all been refused by her
Government. Surely we need to think | 0:39:21 | 0:39:26 | |
about the safety of the people
living in socially rented high-rise | 0:39:26 | 0:39:32 | |
blocks. Yesterday I was passed a
letter from a lettings agency in | 0:39:32 | 0:39:38 | |
Lincolnshire, where Universal Credit
is about to be rolled out. The | 0:39:38 | 0:39:42 | |
agency, and I have the letter
here... | 0:39:42 | 0:39:48 | |
The agency is issuing all of its
tennants with a pre-emptive notice | 0:39:48 | 0:39:54 | |
of eviction because Universal Credit
has driven up arears where it's been | 0:39:54 | 0:39:58 | |
rolled out. And the letter, and I
quote says: "GAP Property cannot | 0:39:58 | 0:40:09 | |
sustain arears at the potential
levels Universal Credit could | 0:40:09 | 0:40:13 | |
create." Will the Prime Minister
pause Universal Credit so it can be | 0:40:13 | 0:40:18 | |
fixed? Or does she think it is right
to put thousands of families through | 0:40:18 | 0:40:25 | |
Christmas in the trauma of knowing
they are about to be evicted because | 0:40:25 | 0:40:29 | |
they are in rent arears because of
Universal Credit? Can I say to the | 0:40:29 | 0:40:38 | |
right honourable gentleman that
there have been concerns raised and | 0:40:38 | 0:40:42 | |
concerns raised in this House
previously over the issue of people | 0:40:42 | 0:40:45 | |
managing their budgets to pay rent.
But what we actually see - what we | 0:40:45 | 0:40:52 | |
see is that over - we see that after
four months the number of people on | 0:40:52 | 0:40:56 | |
Universal Credit in arears has
fallen by one-third. Now, it's | 0:40:56 | 0:41:00 | |
important that we do look at the
issues in this particular case. Now | 0:41:00 | 0:41:06 | |
the right honourable gentleman might
like to send the letter through. I | 0:41:06 | 0:41:10 | |
know, in an earlier Prime Minister's
Questions he raised a specific | 0:41:10 | 0:41:15 | |
constituent's case, of an individual
who had written to him about her | 0:41:15 | 0:41:18 | |
experience on Universal Credit, I
think it was Georgina. As far as I | 0:41:18 | 0:41:23 | |
am aware he has so far not sent that
letter to me, despite the fact I | 0:41:23 | 0:41:27 | |
have asked for it. Mr Speaker, I am
very happy to give the Prime | 0:41:27 | 0:41:35 | |
Minister a copy of this letter. I
suspect it's not the only letting | 0:41:35 | 0:41:39 | |
agency that is sending out that kind
of letter. She might be aware that | 0:41:39 | 0:41:50 | |
food bank usage has increased by 30%
in areas where Universal Credit has | 0:41:50 | 0:41:55 | |
been rolled out. 3 million families
are losing an average of £2,500 a | 0:41:55 | 0:42:02 | |
year through Universal Credit. The
Child Poverty Action Group estimates | 0:42:02 | 0:42:07 | |
more than 1 million will be in
poverty due to cuts imposed by | 0:42:07 | 0:42:11 | |
Universal Credit. If those aren't
reasons enough to pause the | 0:42:11 | 0:42:14 | |
roll-out, I don't know what there
are. And, Mr Speaker, last week the | 0:42:14 | 0:42:24 | |
Chief Executive... THE SPEAKER:
Order, order. Mr Morris. Calm | 0:42:24 | 0:42:28 | |
yourself. Behave with restraint. You
are seating in a prominent position. | 0:42:28 | 0:42:33 | |
Quiet. It will be good for your
well-being. Jeremy Corbyn. Thank | 0:42:33 | 0:42:40 | |
you, Mr Speaker. Last week the Chief
Executive of NHS England, Simon | 0:42:40 | 0:42:45 | |
Stevens wrote "The budget for the
NHS next year is well short of what | 0:42:45 | 0:42:52 | |
is currently needed A&E waiting time
targets hasn't been met for two | 0:42:52 | 0:42:57 | |
years, the 62-day cancer waiting
time target hasn't been met since | 0:42:57 | 0:43:01 | |
2015. So, again, account Prime
Minister spend the next week | 0:43:01 | 0:43:05 | |
ensuring that the Budget does give
sufficient funding to our NHS to | 0:43:05 | 0:43:09 | |
meet our people's needs? First of
all on the first issue the right | 0:43:09 | 0:43:15 | |
honourable gentleman raised, can I
remind him, yet again, Universal | 0:43:15 | 0:43:18 | |
Credit is ensuring that we are
seeing more people in work and able | 0:43:18 | 0:43:24 | |
to keep what they earn. He talks
about Simon Stevens says about the | 0:43:24 | 0:43:32 | |
National Health Service. Let's look
at what he says. "The quality of NHS | 0:43:32 | 0:43:38 | |
care is demonstrably improving.
Outcomes of care more most major | 0:43:38 | 0:43:43 | |
conditions are dramatically better
than three or five or ten years ago. | 0:43:43 | 0:43:47 | |
." He says what has been achieved
"More convenient access to primary | 0:43:47 | 0:43:54 | |
care services, expanding the primary
care workforce. Highest cancer | 0:43:54 | 0:43:57 | |
survival rates ever. Big expansion
in cancer check-ups, public | 0:43:57 | 0:44:06 | |
satisfaction, with hospitals
in-patients at its highest more than | 0:44:06 | 0:44:09 | |
two decades." That's the good news
of our National Health Service. | 0:44:09 | 0:44:17 | |
Well, it's very strange, Mr Speaker.
Very strange, Mr Speaker that the | 0:44:17 | 0:44:21 | |
Chief Executive of NHS providers
says "We are in the middle of the | 0:44:21 | 0:44:25 | |
longest and deepest financial
squeeze in history." I've got a | 0:44:25 | 0:44:28 | |
pretty good idea they know what they
are talking about. Let me give the | 0:44:28 | 0:44:33 | |
Prime Minister another statistic.
The number of people waiting more | 0:44:33 | 0:44:36 | |
than four hours in A&E has gone up
by 557% since 2010. Two weeks ago, | 0:44:36 | 0:44:43 | |
Mr Speaker the Opposition to us, the
Tories over there were very noisy | 0:44:43 | 0:44:47 | |
when I mentioned ... You are the
Government, we are the Opposition, | 0:44:47 | 0:44:53 | |
you are in opposition to us, it is
not complicated. It is not | 0:44:53 | 0:44:56 | |
complicated. | 0:44:56 | 0:45:04 | |
Two weeks ago, Mr Speaker, I raised
the question of cuts in school | 0:45:04 | 0:45:15 | |
budgets. Teachers and parents
telling MPs what the reality of it | 0:45:15 | 0:45:19 | |
was about. The Prime Minister was in
denial. Every Tory MP was in denial. | 0:45:19 | 0:45:23 | |
This week, 5000 headteachers from 25
counties wrote to the Chancellor | 0:45:23 | 0:45:32 | |
saying, we are simply asking for the
money that is being taken out of the | 0:45:32 | 0:45:37 | |
system to be returned. Will the
Prime Minister listen to | 0:45:37 | 0:45:43 | |
headteachers and give a commitment
that the budget next week will | 0:45:43 | 0:45:48 | |
return the money to school budgets,
so that our schools are properly | 0:45:48 | 0:45:51 | |
funded? Can I say to the right
honourable gentleman, actually, I | 0:45:51 | 0:45:57 | |
think this is a major moment. He has
got something right today. We are | 0:45:57 | 0:46:02 | |
the government and he is the
opposition. | 0:46:02 | 0:46:13 | |
CHEERING.
On the NHS, can we say, there are | 0:46:14 | 0:46:22 | |
1800 more patients seen within the
four hour A&E standard every single | 0:46:22 | 0:46:27 | |
day, compared to 2010. He talks
about school funding. We are putting | 0:46:27 | 0:46:33 | |
more money into our school budget.
We are seeing record levels of | 0:46:33 | 0:46:36 | |
funding going into our schools. And
this government is the first | 0:46:36 | 0:46:41 | |
government in decades that has
actually gripped the issue of a | 0:46:41 | 0:46:43 | |
fairer national funding formula, and
we are putting that into practice. | 0:46:43 | 0:46:50 | |
But you can only put record levels
of money into your NHS and your | 0:46:50 | 0:46:54 | |
schools with a strong economy, and
what do we see as the result of | 0:46:54 | 0:47:00 | |
policies which this Conservative
government has put into place? | 0:47:00 | 0:47:05 | |
Income inequality, down under the
Conservatives, up under Labour. | 0:47:05 | 0:47:09 | |
Unemployment, down under the
Conservatives, up under Labour. | 0:47:09 | 0:47:14 | |
Workless households, down under the
Conservatives, up under Labour. | 0:47:14 | 0:47:19 | |
Deficit, down under the
Conservatives, up under Labour. He | 0:47:19 | 0:47:21 | |
is planning a run on the pound. We
are building a Britain fit for the | 0:47:21 | 0:47:25 | |
future. Mr Speaker, I would have
thought that 5000 headteachers would | 0:47:25 | 0:47:37 | |
have a pretty good idea about the
funding problems of their schools, | 0:47:37 | 0:47:43 | |
and a pretty good idea of the effect
of government cuts on school budgets | 0:47:43 | 0:47:46 | |
on their staff and their students.
Indeed, the IFS says that school | 0:47:46 | 0:47:53 | |
funding will have fallen by 5% in
real terms by 2019 as a result of | 0:47:53 | 0:48:00 | |
government policies. Mr Speaker,
public services in crisis, from | 0:48:00 | 0:48:06 | |
police to the Fire Service, from NHS
to children's schools, while a | 0:48:06 | 0:48:09 | |
super-rich few dodge their taxes.
Oh, yes. Big up and sit on its hands | 0:48:09 | 0:48:17 | |
as billions are lost to vital public
services. The Conservatives cut | 0:48:17 | 0:48:23 | |
taxes for the view and vital
services for the many. It's not just | 0:48:23 | 0:48:30 | |
that there is one rule for the
super-rich... Order, order. I | 0:48:30 | 0:48:36 | |
apologised for interrupting the
right honourable gentleman. Both | 0:48:36 | 0:48:38 | |
sides of this house will be heard,
and the idea that, when somebody is | 0:48:38 | 0:48:44 | |
asking a question, they should be a
concerted attempt to shout that | 0:48:44 | 0:48:47 | |
person down, is totally undemocratic
and completely unacceptable, from | 0:48:47 | 0:48:54 | |
whichever quarter it comes and I
would just ask colleagues to give | 0:48:54 | 0:48:57 | |
some thought to how our behaviour is
regarded by the people who put us | 0:48:57 | 0:49:04 | |
here. Jeremy Corbyn. Mr Speaker,
quite simply, isn't the truth that | 0:49:04 | 0:49:11 | |
this is a government that protects
the super-rich, while the rest of us | 0:49:11 | 0:49:17 | |
pick up the bill through cuts,
austerity, poverty, homelessness, | 0:49:17 | 0:49:21 | |
low wages and slashing of local
services all over the country? That | 0:49:21 | 0:49:26 | |
is the reality of a Tory government.
We have taken £160 billion extra in | 0:49:26 | 0:49:35 | |
as a result of the action we have
taken on tax avoidance and evasion. | 0:49:35 | 0:49:40 | |
The tax gap is now at its lowest
level ever. If the tax gap had | 0:49:40 | 0:49:46 | |
stayed at the level it was under the
Labour Party, we would be losing the | 0:49:46 | 0:49:50 | |
equivalent of the entire police
budget for England and Wales. We in | 0:49:50 | 0:49:58 | |
the Conservatives are building a
Britain that is fit for the future, | 0:49:58 | 0:50:02 | |
the best Brexit deal, more high-paid
jobs, better schools the homes that | 0:50:02 | 0:50:08 | |
our country needs. Labour have
backtracked on Brexit. They have | 0:50:08 | 0:50:12 | |
gone back on their promise on
student debt. And they would cause | 0:50:12 | 0:50:14 | |
and lose control of public finances.
I say to the right honourable | 0:50:14 | 0:50:20 | |
gentleman, he may have given
momentum to his party but he'd bring | 0:50:20 | 0:50:24 | |
stagnation to the country.
CHEERING. | 0:50:24 | 0:50:39 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. In April
2015, the residents of browns over | 0:50:39 | 0:50:46 | |
saw their only GP surgery closed in
an area of rock B that once had | 0:50:46 | 0:50:53 | |
significant challenges but, thanks
to the great work of local | 0:50:53 | 0:50:57 | |
councillors, has been regenerated.
-- an area of rugby. My constituents | 0:50:57 | 0:51:03 | |
had short-term pain for the
regrettably, the surgery still has | 0:51:03 | 0:51:06 | |
not been started on, so I wonder if
the Prime Minister might meet on me | 0:51:06 | 0:51:10 | |
and the local patients' action group
to consider the slippage in this | 0:51:10 | 0:51:16 | |
much-needed facility. My honourable
friend is right to important issue | 0:51:16 | 0:51:22 | |
for his constituents and I had been
assured that, in this case, all | 0:51:22 | 0:51:26 | |
local health organisations remain
fully committed to this project. | 0:51:26 | 0:51:29 | |
They are confident it will bring
benefits to the local population in | 0:51:29 | 0:51:33 | |
the long term, but fully understand
the frustration my honourable friend | 0:51:33 | 0:51:37 | |
has at the delays that has taken
place. I understand he will meet | 0:51:37 | 0:51:42 | |
representatives of NHS England and
NHS property services later this | 0:51:42 | 0:51:46 | |
month, and it is those two
organisations that are in the best | 0:51:46 | 0:51:49 | |
position to insure that this project
is progressed as quickly as | 0:51:49 | 0:51:53 | |
possible, and I hope there will be
some positive news coming out of | 0:51:53 | 0:51:57 | |
that meeting but, as my honourable
friend has raised the issue of | 0:51:57 | 0:52:01 | |
access to local health services, I
would like to take this opportunity | 0:52:01 | 0:52:04 | |
as well to say how important it
is... No, this is an important issue | 0:52:04 | 0:52:12 | |
for people around this house and
outside of this house. Health | 0:52:12 | 0:52:16 | |
services, I want to make sure that
everybody who is entitled to a flu | 0:52:16 | 0:52:22 | |
jab this year goes and gets one. I
have had one as a type one diabetic | 0:52:22 | 0:52:26 | |
and I hope everybody in this house
is encouraging their constituents | 0:52:26 | 0:52:30 | |
who are entitled to those flu jab is
to get them. Thank you. Can I join | 0:52:30 | 0:52:39 | |
with the premise that and the leader
of the Labour Party in | 0:52:39 | 0:52:41 | |
congratulating the Queen and Prince
Philip for the impending platinum | 0:52:41 | 0:52:46 | |
anniversary of their wedding, and
I'm sure the house would want to | 0:52:46 | 0:52:49 | |
join me in welcoming the presiding
officer of the Scottish Parliament, | 0:52:49 | 0:52:52 | |
who is in the gallery today. Does
the Prime Minister agree with me | 0:52:52 | 0:52:56 | |
that we should be incredibly proud
of our emergency services, that they | 0:52:56 | 0:53:01 | |
do a heroic job, often putting
themselves in danger to keep us all | 0:53:01 | 0:53:05 | |
safe? First of all, can I join the
right honourable gentleman in | 0:53:05 | 0:53:11 | |
welcoming the presiding officer of
the Scottish Parliament to see our | 0:53:11 | 0:53:13 | |
proceedings today. As I have said
previously in this chamber, I am | 0:53:13 | 0:53:17 | |
happy to confirm it, our emergency
services do an amazing job. I was | 0:53:17 | 0:53:22 | |
very pleased at the pride of Britain
awards to be awarding, posthumously | 0:53:22 | 0:53:28 | |
awarding an award in the name of PC
Keith Palmer, who worked to keep | 0:53:28 | 0:53:33 | |
this place is safe, but other police
officers, the Leader of the | 0:53:33 | 0:53:36 | |
Opposition and the leader of the
Liberal Democrats gave to other | 0:53:36 | 0:53:39 | |
police officers who had also done
what they do and other emergency | 0:53:39 | 0:53:45 | |
services do, they run towards danger
when most of us would run away from | 0:53:45 | 0:53:48 | |
it. I associate myself with the
remarks of the Prime Minister, but | 0:53:48 | 0:53:53 | |
Scottish fire and police are the
only forces in the UK to be charged | 0:53:53 | 0:54:00 | |
VAT, depriving front line services
of £140 million since 2013. The SNP | 0:54:00 | 0:54:08 | |
has now raised this issue 30 times
in this chamber. Will the UK | 0:54:08 | 0:54:17 | |
Government now gives Scotland's
emergency services back £130 million | 0:54:17 | 0:54:22 | |
and scrap the VAT? This has been a
long-standing SNP campaign and we | 0:54:22 | 0:54:25 | |
will not give up. As the chief
secretary has made clear, officials | 0:54:25 | 0:54:34 | |
in HMRC will look at this and report
on it in due course. I am pleased to | 0:54:34 | 0:54:39 | |
say that constructive
representations have been made by my | 0:54:39 | 0:54:42 | |
Scottish colleagues on the
Conservative benches on this | 0:54:42 | 0:54:44 | |
particular issue. But let's be
clear. Because the right honourable | 0:54:44 | 0:54:51 | |
gentleman knows this, that before
the Scottish Government made the | 0:54:51 | 0:54:55 | |
decision to make Scotland's police
and Fire Services national rather | 0:54:55 | 0:54:59 | |
than regional bodies, they were told
that this would mean that they would | 0:54:59 | 0:55:02 | |
become ineligible for VAT refunds,
and they pressed ahead despite | 0:55:02 | 0:55:05 | |
knowing that. Grandparents have a
vital role to play in the upbringing | 0:55:05 | 0:55:17 | |
of their grandchildren, something
that, at a time of rising life | 0:55:17 | 0:55:25 | |
expectancy, they are better equipped
than ever to fulfil. Does the Prime | 0:55:25 | 0:55:28 | |
Minister agree with me that we
should send a strong signal from | 0:55:28 | 0:55:31 | |
this does, not only that they should
be a presumption in their favour | 0:55:31 | 0:55:34 | |
when it comes to adoption but that
they should be intimately involved | 0:55:34 | 0:55:39 | |
in those decisions, something that
has been sadly lacking in my | 0:55:39 | 0:55:41 | |
constituency. Can I say to my
honourable friend that, like him, I | 0:55:41 | 0:55:48 | |
have seen grandparents in my
constituency, through my surgery, | 0:55:48 | 0:55:52 | |
who have been concerned about
decisions that have been taken in | 0:55:52 | 0:55:55 | |
relation to their grandchildren,
when they themselves were willing to | 0:55:55 | 0:55:58 | |
provide that home and support for
them, so he has raised an important | 0:55:58 | 0:56:02 | |
issue. There is already a duty on
local authorities in legislation to | 0:56:02 | 0:56:06 | |
ensure that, wherever possible,
children are raised within their | 0:56:06 | 0:56:11 | |
family, and the statutory guidance
makes particular reference | 0:56:11 | 0:56:15 | |
grandparents, but adoption agencies
must also consider the needs of the | 0:56:15 | 0:56:18 | |
child first and foremost. Each case
will be different but I think the | 0:56:18 | 0:56:21 | |
message he is giving grandchildren
being able to be brought up in their | 0:56:21 | 0:56:24 | |
family wherever possible is a good
one. Had the Prime Minister accepted | 0:56:24 | 0:56:32 | |
my invitation to the Universal
Credit summit in Inverness, she | 0:56:32 | 0:56:36 | |
would have heard harrowing
constituency from and multiple | 0:56:36 | 0:56:38 | |
agencies, including Macmillan cancer
care partnership, who told not only | 0:56:38 | 0:56:45 | |
of patient dying while awaiting
payments but they are now forced to | 0:56:45 | 0:56:49 | |
self declared that they are dying
even if they did not want their | 0:56:49 | 0:56:52 | |
doctor to tell them their fate. Will
she stop this weight and end this | 0:56:52 | 0:56:56 | |
cruel condition? I made the point
earlier about the importance of | 0:56:56 | 0:57:02 | |
Universal Credit. We have made
changes in its implementation and we | 0:57:02 | 0:57:06 | |
are listening to the concerns that
are being raised. We are making more | 0:57:06 | 0:57:09 | |
advanced payments available. But the
honourable gentleman might also like | 0:57:09 | 0:57:14 | |
to recognise that, thanks to the
unprecedented devolution of powers | 0:57:14 | 0:57:18 | |
to Scotland that we have given,
including over welfare, the Scottish | 0:57:18 | 0:57:24 | |
Government have the ability to take
a different path, if they wish, so | 0:57:24 | 0:57:28 | |
that action in Hollywood might be
there. We are leaving the EU and, as | 0:57:28 | 0:57:39 | |
the EU Withdrawal Bill goes through
the House of Commons, does the Prime | 0:57:39 | 0:57:43 | |
Minister agree with me that it's
part of our job as Members of | 0:57:43 | 0:57:46 | |
Parliament, some might even say that
it's our duty, scrutinise that | 0:57:46 | 0:57:49 | |
legislation, to debate considered
amendments which seek to improve the | 0:57:49 | 0:57:54 | |
bill and which are constructive, and
which seek to ensure that a smooth | 0:57:54 | 0:57:58 | |
transition of our laws and the EU to
the UK? Importantly, that we come | 0:57:58 | 0:58:05 | |
together and deliver Brexit for our
country and the British people? My | 0:58:05 | 0:58:10 | |
honourable friend is right. We will
be leaving the European Union on the | 0:58:10 | 0:58:16 | |
29th of March 2019 and there is a
lively debate going on in this | 0:58:16 | 0:58:21 | |
place, and that is right and proper
and important, and there are strong | 0:58:21 | 0:58:24 | |
views held on different sides of the
argument about the European Union, | 0:58:24 | 0:58:29 | |
on both sides of this house. What we
are doing as a government is | 0:58:29 | 0:58:34 | |
listening to the contributions that
are being made. We are listening | 0:58:34 | 0:58:37 | |
carefully to those who wish to
improve the bill. And I hope that we | 0:58:37 | 0:58:41 | |
can all come together to deliver on
the decision that the country took, | 0:58:41 | 0:58:45 | |
that we should leave the EU. It's
been almost a year since I stood in | 0:58:45 | 0:58:51 | |
this chamber and told my personal
story and asked for a children's | 0:58:51 | 0:58:56 | |
funeral fund to be established. The
leader of the house recently | 0:58:56 | 0:58:59 | |
expressed sympathy for such a fund,
and I have written to the Chancellor | 0:58:59 | 0:59:04 | |
and urged him to include such a fund
in next week's budget. Will the | 0:59:04 | 0:59:09 | |
Prime Minister added her voice to
mine and ask her Chancellor to make | 0:59:09 | 0:59:13 | |
this provision a reality? The
honourable lady has been a | 0:59:13 | 0:59:19 | |
passionate campaign on this issue
and has very thoughtfully shared her | 0:59:19 | 0:59:24 | |
personal experience with this house,
and we recognise what an incredibly | 0:59:24 | 0:59:29 | |
painful experience it is to lose a
child, and I know that the whole | 0:59:29 | 0:59:35 | |
house are in sympathy with those who
do experience such a tragedy each | 0:59:35 | 0:59:39 | |
year, sadly, thousands of families.
Now, what has happened is that we | 0:59:39 | 0:59:47 | |
have put in place a piece of cross
government work to look at this | 0:59:47 | 0:59:50 | |
whole question of how we can improve
support for bereaved parents in a | 0:59:50 | 0:59:54 | |
variety of ways. That piece of work
is being led by the state for youth | 0:59:54 | 0:59:59 | |
justice. We are already supporting
the private members bill on parental | 0:59:59 | 1:00:04 | |
treatment that might honourable
friend, the member for Thirsk and | 1:00:04 | 1:00:08 | |
Malton, is introduced. We are making
it easier for parents to apply for | 1:00:08 | 1:00:11 | |
financial support and we are also
ensuring that support from across | 1:00:11 | 1:00:14 | |
government is brought forward so it
is easily accessible for bereaved | 1:00:14 | 1:00:19 | |
parents at a difficult time. With
the premise to join me in craving | 1:00:19 | 1:00:23 | |
the work of the community transport
partnerships like those provided | 1:00:23 | 1:00:28 | |
across the country, and can she
intervene to sort out the threat | 1:00:28 | 1:00:34 | |
that threatens their services going
forward and, in the meantime, can | 1:00:34 | 1:00:38 | |
she issue guidance that confirms
there was no need for local councils | 1:00:38 | 1:00:42 | |
to take enforcement action until
that consultation is complete? | 1:00:42 | 1:00:48 | |
We strongly believe they provide
vital services connecting people and | 1:00:48 | 1:00:50 | |
communities and reducing isolation.
I was very pleased to visit a number | 1:00:50 | 1:00:54 | |
of weeks ago to actually visit and
take a ride on one of the community | 1:00:54 | 1:00:58 | |
buses provided within the Wokingham
borough which services part of my | 1:00:58 | 1:01:01 | |
constituency. The Department for
Transport remains committed to | 1:01:01 | 1:01:05 | |
supporting community transport
operators, has no intention of | 1:01:05 | 1:01:07 | |
ending the permit system and to
support this, we have written to all | 1:01:07 | 1:01:12 | |
local authorities in Great Britain
to explain how they can comply with | 1:01:12 | 1:01:19 | |
the regulations without neglectively
impacting on all operators and | 1:01:19 | 1:01:22 | |
passengers. THE SPEAKER: Progress is
slow. Let's try to speed up The | 1:01:22 | 1:01:28 | |
Prime Minister is aware that a
supplier to the energy sector, has | 1:01:28 | 1:01:33 | |
entered administration, this would
putm 1,400 jobs in Scotland and | 1:01:33 | 1:01:38 | |
elsewhere under threat. Can I ask
the Prime Minister to work with the | 1:01:38 | 1:01:42 | |
company, the Scottish Government and
the council to do all she can and | 1:01:42 | 1:01:47 | |
what specific action they can take.
I'm happy to gift honourable | 1:01:47 | 1:01:50 | |
gentleman that assurance, I was able
to discuss this matter briefly with | 1:01:50 | 1:01:52 | |
the First Minister of Scotland
yesterday when I met her and I'm | 1:01:52 | 1:01:56 | |
pleased to say that my honourable
friend the member for devises, as a | 1:01:56 | 1:02:03 | |
minister there, speak to the
relevant minister in the Scottish | 1:02:03 | 1:02:06 | |
Government, yesterday about this
issue and we stand ready, Baize, HMT | 1:02:06 | 1:02:13 | |
and Government stand ready to work
with the Scottish Government and | 1:02:13 | 1:02:15 | |
others to ensure the best result can
be achieved. Thank you, Mr speaker. | 1:02:15 | 1:02:21 | |
Our NHS is a national treasure and
we must be bold to protect T each | 1:02:21 | 1:02:25 | |
week my constituents struggle to get
an appointment with the their | 1:02:25 | 1:02:28 | |
doctors. Whilst our fantastic
doctors are stretched to the limit | 1:02:28 | 1:02:32 | |
and practices are struggling to
recruit. To safe guard or NHS, will | 1:02:32 | 1:02:36 | |
the Prime Minister look at making
medical students sign a contract, | 1:02:36 | 1:02:40 | |
committing them to working within
the NHS for the first five years? | 1:02:40 | 1:02:45 | |
Stopping the brain drain of our
newly-qualified doctors overseas? | 1:02:45 | 1:02:51 | |
Well, this is an important issue and
my honourable friend is right, we do | 1:02:51 | 1:02:54 | |
need more GPs. That's why we are
increasing the number of places at | 1:02:54 | 1:02:59 | |
medical school by 1,500 and the
first 500 of those will be available | 1:02:59 | 1:03:02 | |
next September. On the specific
point she raises about committing | 1:03:02 | 1:03:08 | |
people who've been trained to work
in the NHS, this is - the Department | 1:03:08 | 1:03:12 | |
of Health has been looking at ways
on which we can maximise our | 1:03:12 | 1:03:17 | |
investment in medical education and
have asked Health Education to look | 1:03:17 | 1:03:21 | |
at this point and report back early
next year The Foreign Secretary told | 1:03:21 | 1:03:25 | |
this house he has seen no evidence
of Russian interference in UK | 1:03:25 | 1:03:28 | |
elections in the referendum. Yet on
Monday the Prime Minister warned | 1:03:28 | 1:03:33 | |
Russia not to meddle in Western
democracies and today the Times' | 1:03:33 | 1:03:38 | |
reports that fake Russian Twitter
accounts turned out thousands of | 1:03:38 | 1:03:42 | |
messages in an ato influence the EU
referendum result. Has the Foreign | 1:03:42 | 1:03:50 | |
Secretary been kept in dark of the
intejerks not read it or willfully | 1:03:50 | 1:03:54 | |
blind and will she stop dragging her
feet and set up the intejobs and | 1:03:54 | 1:03:58 | |
security committee to look urgently
into the Kremlin's attempts to | 1:03:58 | 1:04:02 | |
undermine our democracy? The
honourable lady is right, I spoke on | 1:04:02 | 1:04:08 | |
Monday about the issue of Russian
interference in elections. We have | 1:04:08 | 1:04:11 | |
seen that in a number of countries,
taking place in a number of | 1:04:11 | 1:04:15 | |
countries in Europe. Well it is all
very well Labour members pointing to | 1:04:15 | 1:04:18 | |
the Foreign Secretary, he made a
specific point about what was | 1:04:18 | 1:04:21 | |
happening in the United Kingdom and
if they care to look at the speech I | 1:04:21 | 1:04:24 | |
gave Monday they will see the
examples I gave of Russian | 1:04:24 | 1:04:29 | |
interference, were not in the United
Kingdom. But she raises issues about | 1:04:29 | 1:04:33 | |
the Intelligence and Security
Committee and it is being | 1:04:33 | 1:04:35 | |
established today. Mr Speaker, the
harmful aspects of the internet are | 1:04:35 | 1:04:42 | |
now causing a series of social
policy emergencies, particularly | 1:04:42 | 1:04:46 | |
amongst young people. While parents
across the country will welcome the | 1:04:46 | 1:04:51 | |
engagement of the Home Secretary
with the industry on these issues, | 1:04:51 | 1:04:54 | |
could the Prime Minister tell us
when we can expect legislation with | 1:04:54 | 1:04:58 | |
real teeth that recognises that our
children only have one chance at | 1:04:58 | 1:05:02 | |
childhood? Well, my honourable
friend, I know has taken a | 1:05:02 | 1:05:07 | |
particular interest in this issue
and in ensuring we are giving | 1:05:07 | 1:05:11 | |
support on security and safety for
young people on the internet that as | 1:05:11 | 1:05:15 | |
he says, is so necessary. We are
considering a range on options on | 1:05:15 | 1:05:18 | |
this issue, later this month - sorry
last month we published our internet | 1:05:18 | 1:05:22 | |
safety strategy. We are consulting
on a number of measures like a | 1:05:22 | 1:05:28 | |
social media code of practice,
social media levy and transparency | 1:05:28 | 1:05:30 | |
reporting but we do need to take
action to protect internet users, | 1:05:30 | 1:05:35 | |
especially young people, and that
includes considering a sanctions | 1:05:35 | 1:05:38 | |
regime to ensure compliance, as we
indeed said in our party manifesto. | 1:05:38 | 1:05:43 | |
Thank you Mr Speaker. Prime
Minister, in the past month, Adam | 1:05:43 | 1:05:50 | |
and Tommy have been fatally stabbed
in my constituency. This is part of | 1:05:50 | 1:05:55 | |
an increase in violent crime of 20%
in the last year. Since 2009 | 1:05:55 | 1:06:02 | |
Merseyside Police have lost over 1,7
under flooint staff. That includes | 1:06:02 | 1:06:07 | |
over 1,000, that's more than one in
five, police officers. 82 million | 1:06:07 | 1:06:13 | |
have been cut up to now, with more
for 2020-2022. How can you increase | 1:06:13 | 1:06:27 | |
the budget for more police on
streets. Merry side's Budget has not | 1:06:27 | 1:06:32 | |
been protected. -- Merseyside. I am
esure the sympathies and thoughts of | 1:06:32 | 1:06:37 | |
the whole House will have been with
those injured and stabbed in the way | 1:06:37 | 1:06:42 | |
the honourable lady has referred to.
Of course, we are concerned about | 1:06:42 | 1:06:45 | |
criminal acts of this sort that take
place. The question, as I said | 1:06:45 | 1:06:50 | |
earlier, in other answers, we have
been protecting the police budget. | 1:06:50 | 1:06:55 | |
We have been protecting police
budgets and of course... We do see a | 1:06:55 | 1:06:59 | |
higher percentage of police officers
now actually on the front line. | 1:06:59 | 1:07:04 | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. In July 2016
a 20-year-old Mane rived in my area | 1:07:04 | 1:07:16 | |
from Romania. Three weeks later in
broad daylight he held a shard of | 1:07:16 | 1:07:22 | |
glass to a 14-year-old schoolgirl,
forced her into bushes and raped | 1:07:22 | 1:07:28 | |
her. Efs sentenced to nine years' in
prison last week. Can the Prime | 1:07:28 | 1:07:33 | |
Minister explain what efforts she is
making in people like this entering | 1:07:33 | 1:07:38 | |
the done triand can she ensure that
the Brexit situation, will not | 1:07:38 | 1:07:42 | |
result in the weakening of security
operations with the EU He also | 1:07:42 | 1:07:47 | |
raises an appalling and horrific
crime and thoughts of members across | 1:07:47 | 1:07:50 | |
the House with the victim and her
family. I can assure him in the | 1:07:50 | 1:07:53 | |
specific case the Home Office will
be ensuring deportation action | 1:07:53 | 1:07:56 | |
against the individual. I understand
he met my right honourable friend | 1:07:56 | 1:08:00 | |
the Home Secretary and she will be
writing to him with further details | 1:08:00 | 1:08:03 | |
shortly. He makes a wider point,
though, about the continued work we | 1:08:03 | 1:08:10 | |
will have and partnership and
cooperationship we will have the EU | 1:08:10 | 1:08:12 | |
27 once we have left the European
Union. I'm very clear, as I was in | 1:08:12 | 1:08:16 | |
my Florence speech, we want to
maintain that cooperation in | 1:08:16 | 1:08:21 | |
security and on criminal justice and
law enforcement matters, it is | 1:08:21 | 1:08:24 | |
important to us all Thank you, Mr
Speaker. The Child Poverty Action | 1:08:24 | 1:08:29 | |
Group recently published some
figures that showed as a consequence | 1:08:29 | 1:08:32 | |
of the cuts to Universal Credit and
the benefits freeze, single parents | 1:08:32 | 1:08:38 | |
with children stand to lose, on
average, 2,380 pounds per annum from | 1:08:38 | 1:08:44 | |
the family. I would ask the Prime
Minister, when she is sitting down | 1:08:44 | 1:08:56 | |
with her Government ministers,
planning this, whether today she | 1:08:56 | 1:08:59 | |
feelings a sense of shame? Thank
you, Mr Speaker. As I said in answer | 1:08:59 | 1:09:06 | |
to a number of questions on
Universal Credit, I believe that the | 1:09:06 | 1:09:09 | |
introduction of Universal Credit is
very important in helping people get | 1:09:09 | 1:09:14 | |
into work, helping more people get
into work and also in ensuring that | 1:09:14 | 1:09:17 | |
people can earn more of what they
pay. Of course we looked at the | 1:09:17 | 1:09:23 | |
implementation and the impact the
implementation is having and we have | 1:09:23 | 1:09:26 | |
made a number of changes in that.
But Universal Credit itself is the | 1:09:26 | 1:09:30 | |
right thing to do, because it is
enabling more people to get into the | 1:09:30 | 1:09:36 | |
workplace and helping them when they
are in the workplace. With recent | 1:09:36 | 1:09:42 | |
events in Zimbabwe and total
electoral chaos in Kenya will the | 1:09:42 | 1:09:45 | |
Prime Minister join me in
celebrating the hugely successful | 1:09:45 | 1:09:49 | |
elections this week in Somaliland
and with direct help from this | 1:09:49 | 1:09:53 | |
country, from our Government, the
national Election Commission in this | 1:09:53 | 1:09:56 | |
country has conducted a template
election described by the | 1:09:56 | 1:09:59 | |
international observer mission as
"Peaceful, transparent, fair and." | 1:09:59 | 1:10:03 | |
What's more the winning candidate
has announced one of his first acts | 1:10:03 | 1:10:08 | |
will be to legislate against FGM as
a direct consequence of the work of | 1:10:08 | 1:10:15 | |
a British campaigner who serves...
My honourable friend raises an | 1:10:15 | 1:10:18 | |
important issue. This Government is
pleased at the work we have done to | 1:10:18 | 1:10:25 | |
support the Government in Somalia to
ensure that we can see those | 1:10:25 | 1:10:28 | |
elections taking place in the way
that my honourable friend has said | 1:10:28 | 1:10:30 | |
and we continue to do that. I was
pleased myself to Chair the Somalia | 1:10:30 | 1:10:36 | |
conference that took place here
earlier this year. I'm very pleased | 1:10:36 | 1:10:40 | |
to hear of the intention to deal
with the issue of female genital | 1:10:40 | 1:10:44 | |
mutilation. It is an important issue
raised by a number of members across | 1:10:44 | 1:10:48 | |
this House. We want to see it dealt
with, not just in Somalia but here | 1:10:48 | 1:10:52 | |
in the UK. As well. Thank you, Mr
Speaker, a couple in my constituency | 1:10:52 | 1:10:58 | |
have had their application for
Universal Credit delayed because the | 1:10:58 | 1:11:01 | |
mum doesn't have any photo ID. She
can't afford a passport and she | 1:11:01 | 1:11:05 | |
doesn't drive so. They now have to
wait for both her dentist and her | 1:11:05 | 1:11:10 | |
doctor who provide identification.
Now, with all the other chaos of | 1:11:10 | 1:11:14 | |
Universal Credit, will the Prime
Minister step in, show some common | 1:11:14 | 1:11:20 | |
sense and transfer legacy
identification from legacy benefits | 1:11:20 | 1:11:24 | |
over to Universal Credit, so these
unnecessary delays don't give my | 1:11:24 | 1:11:28 | |
constituents more pain and
suffering? Can I say to the | 1:11:28 | 1:11:35 | |
honourable lady, I'm sure she will
appreciate that it is important in | 1:11:35 | 1:11:37 | |
dealing with the benefits that we
ensure it is those who are entitled | 1:11:37 | 1:11:40 | |
to them who are receiving them and
we do look and continue to look at | 1:11:40 | 1:11:46 | |
how we are implementing Universal
Credit. And I'm sure that if she | 1:11:46 | 1:11:52 | |
would care to invite the point she's
making to the Secretary of State for | 1:11:52 | 1:11:59 | |
Work and Pensions he will look at
it. Businesses at the Dover flooint | 1:11:59 | 1:12:04 | |
are now preparing to leave the
European Union. Will the Government | 1:12:04 | 1:12:08 | |
consider earmarking at least £1
billion in the upcoming Budget to | 1:12:08 | 1:12:11 | |
make sure we are ready on day 1,
deal or no deal, and prepared for | 1:12:11 | 1:12:16 | |
every single eventuality? I thank my
honourable friend for his question. | 1:12:16 | 1:12:21 | |
Obviously in his constituency, this
issue of preparations for the | 1:12:21 | 1:12:25 | |
position when we leave the European
Union is very, very tightly-felt and | 1:12:25 | 1:12:31 | |
there is a great focus on it and I
appreciate why that is the case. We | 1:12:31 | 1:12:35 | |
have already madep funds available
for the preparations and work that | 1:12:35 | 1:12:39 | |
is necessary across Government, in
preparations for Brexit, and, of | 1:12:39 | 1:12:42 | |
course we will be looking at what
further work is necessary to ensure | 1:12:42 | 1:12:46 | |
that we are ready. We hope we're
going to get that good deal and | 1:12:46 | 1:12:50 | |
we're working to get that good deal
but either way there will need to be | 1:12:50 | 1:12:54 | |
some changes from a Government point
of view and we're ensuring the | 1:12:54 | 1:12:57 | |
resources are there to do that.
Yesterday the Brexit secretary gave | 1:12:57 | 1:13:02 | |
a pledge in the City that freedom of
movement would be preserved for | 1:13:02 | 1:13:06 | |
bankers and other members of the
financial services industry. Why | 1:13:06 | 1:13:10 | |
can't the same pledge be given to
other key economic sectors like | 1:13:10 | 1:13:15 | |
manufacturing and agriculture? As we
look towards the immigration rules | 1:13:15 | 1:13:20 | |
that will be introduced once we
leave the European Union, we are | 1:13:20 | 1:13:22 | |
very clear about the need to ensure
we take into account the needs of | 1:13:22 | 1:13:26 | |
our economy - that's precisely why
my right honourable friend the Home | 1:13:26 | 1:13:32 | |
Secretary has asked the independent
migrationly committee to look at | 1:13:32 | 1:13:34 | |
this issue and make recommendations
to the Government. Given the recent | 1:13:34 | 1:13:42 | |
reports P of Zimbabwe. What support
can Her Majesty's Government give to | 1:13:42 | 1:13:50 | |
Zimbabweans to help their country,
economically but also in terms of | 1:13:50 | 1:13:53 | |
the democratic systems of
Government? My honourable friend | 1:13:53 | 1:13:55 | |
raises an important point. We have
all seen what has been taking place | 1:13:55 | 1:13:59 | |
there. We are mob tore the
developments carefully Dobb | 1:13:59 | 1:14:04 | |
monitoring the developments
carefully. The situation is fluid. | 1:14:04 | 1:14:08 | |
We urge rep strants on all side. We
want to avoid violence. Our primary | 1:14:08 | 1:14:14 | |
consider is of British nationals in
Zimbabwe. We would recommend British | 1:14:14 | 1:14:23 | |
nationals in Harare to remain safely
at home until the situation becomes | 1:14:23 | 1:14:26 | |
clearer but on the point my
honourable friend has specifically | 1:14:26 | 1:14:31 | |
raise we are providing by lateral
support of over £80 million and part | 1:14:31 | 1:14:36 | |
of it is to support economic reform
and development as he says. Next | 1:14:36 | 1:14:40 | |
week will mark six months since the
tragic attack at the Manchester | 1:14:40 | 1:14:45 | |
Arena, will the Prime Minister join
me, once again, paying tribe Bute to | 1:14:45 | 1:14:49 | |
all of those who responded so
brilliantly to the aftermath? The | 1:14:49 | 1:14:52 | |
Prime Minister will also be aware
that the costs associated with this | 1:14:52 | 1:14:56 | |
attack, now imposed on the city, are
well in excess of £17 million. Costs | 1:14:56 | 1:15:01 | |
which the Government agreed to meet.
Yet, as of today, these monies have | 1:15:01 | 1:15:06 | |
yet to be reimbursed. Would she
today give a clear and categoric | 1:15:06 | 1:15:11 | |
commitment that these monies will be
reimbursed at the earliest | 1:15:11 | 1:15:14 | |
opportunity? | 1:15:14 | 1:15:19 | |
Our thoughts continue to be with
those all of those who were affected | 1:15:19 | 1:15:24 | |
by this terrible attack that took
place in Manchester. I myself, as | 1:15:24 | 1:15:29 | |
well as meeting some of the victims
immediately after the attack, I also | 1:15:29 | 1:15:33 | |
met some of the victims and those
who were involved in a matter of | 1:15:33 | 1:15:36 | |
weeks ago and talked to them about
the long-lasting this has on them, | 1:15:36 | 1:15:41 | |
and she has raised an important
issue, but I can say to her, in | 1:15:41 | 1:15:45 | |
relation to this funding, we will be
responding in full by the end of | 1:15:45 | 1:15:49 | |
next week, but I would expect that
responds to confirm that the | 1:15:49 | 1:15:52 | |
majority of funds will be made
available. The Prime Minister | 1:15:52 | 1:15:58 | |
represents a constituency in the
green belt, so will she issue of the | 1:15:58 | 1:16:00 | |
house that the government she leaves
will never weaken protection for the | 1:16:00 | 1:16:04 | |
green belt? We have been clear about
our position in relation to the | 1:16:04 | 1:16:09 | |
green belt and, indeed, we have
confirmed that in the housing White | 1:16:09 | 1:16:14 | |
Paper we set out, where we were
clear about that. We want to see | 1:16:14 | 1:16:18 | |
more homes being built in this
country and it's important that we | 1:16:18 | 1:16:22 | |
see more homes being built
particularly in London, but there | 1:16:22 | 1:16:25 | |
are many opportunities to do that
which don't affect the green belt. | 1:16:25 | 1:16:30 | |
Earlier in the year, the Prime
Minister told the country she was | 1:16:30 | 1:16:33 | |
the only person that could offer
strong and stable leadership in the | 1:16:33 | 1:16:39 | |
national interest. With her Cabinet
crumbling before her eyes, can she | 1:16:39 | 1:16:45 | |
tell us how it's going? Let me say
to the right honourable lady, what | 1:16:45 | 1:16:54 | |
we see this government delivering. I
spoke about some of the things | 1:16:54 | 1:17:00 | |
earlier, deficit and unemployment
down, we have seen record sums going | 1:17:00 | 1:17:05 | |
to our health service and schools,
and a government determined, with a | 1:17:05 | 1:17:09 | |
clear plan, as set out in my
Florence speech, a clear plan to | 1:17:09 | 1:17:13 | |
deliver the best Brexit deal for
this country. She is a member of a | 1:17:13 | 1:17:17 | |
party that can't even decide what it
wants from Brexit, let alone set a | 1:17:17 | 1:17:21 | |
plan for it. No serious negotiation
would normally allow one side to try | 1:17:21 | 1:17:29 | |
and dictate financial terms before
the wider terms were known. In | 1:17:29 | 1:17:32 | |
preparing to embrace the world when
it comes to trade through WTO rules, | 1:17:32 | 1:17:38 | |
will she please ignore the siren
voices and defeatist voices who got | 1:17:38 | 1:17:43 | |
project fear one wrong and our need
to join the Euro wrong? WAG can I | 1:17:43 | 1:17:50 | |
say to my honourable friend, what we
want to do is to negotiate a good, | 1:17:50 | 1:17:55 | |
close partnership, a special
partnership with the remaining EU | 1:17:55 | 1:17:59 | |
27, so we can continue to see good
trade, as far as possible, tariff | 1:17:59 | 1:18:05 | |
free and frictionless, between
companies here and in the UK and | 1:18:05 | 1:18:07 | |
those in the EU 27, but we also want
to have trade deals around the rest | 1:18:07 | 1:18:13 | |
of the world, to ensure that we are
taking advantage of the | 1:18:13 | 1:18:17 | |
opportunities those trade deals
give, because it means more | 1:18:17 | 1:18:19 | |
prosperity and jobs in the UK. Being
good neighbours, the Prime Minister | 1:18:19 | 1:18:26 | |
and I, from Maidenhead in Slough,
I'd like to place on record my | 1:18:26 | 1:18:30 | |
immense gratitude the Prime Minister
and half of her cabinet for having | 1:18:30 | 1:18:33 | |
come my aid recently to increase our
majority from 7000 to 17,000. I | 1:18:33 | 1:18:39 | |
couldn't have done it without you.
Mr Speaker, constituents, businesses | 1:18:39 | 1:18:46 | |
and unions in my constituency feel
very aggrieved that various | 1:18:46 | 1:18:50 | |
government announced initiatives
have seen little or no progress. The | 1:18:50 | 1:18:54 | |
electrification of the train line
between Slough and Windsor has now | 1:18:54 | 1:18:58 | |
been deferred... Order. I'm trying
to be accommodating to colleagues | 1:18:58 | 1:19:02 | |
and I want to hear the honourable
gentleman, but the rest of the | 1:19:02 | 1:19:06 | |
question must be just that I'm a one
sentence, and a question mark at the | 1:19:06 | 1:19:10 | |
end. Could the Prime Minister
assuage the concerns of my | 1:19:10 | 1:19:19 | |
constituents and reassure them that
the western rail link to Heathrow | 1:19:19 | 1:19:23 | |
will be treated as a priority
matter, so that it is dealt with | 1:19:23 | 1:19:26 | |
immediately? I'm pleased to say to
the honourable gentleman that we are | 1:19:26 | 1:19:32 | |
putting significant sums of money
into transport infrastructure and | 1:19:32 | 1:19:37 | |
rail infrastructure, crucially, of
course, we are electrifying the | 1:19:37 | 1:19:40 | |
great western mainline, which will
be of benefit to Slough and | 1:19:40 | 1:19:42 | |
Maidenhead. Will the Prime Minister
join me in welcoming the decision by | 1:19:42 | 1:19:50 | |
the people of Australia to vote in
favour of same-sex marriage? Does | 1:19:50 | 1:19:57 | |
she share my hope that the
government of Australia will quickly | 1:19:57 | 1:20:01 | |
legislate to introduce it and follow
the lead set by this house? I am | 1:20:01 | 1:20:05 | |
happy to join my honourable friend
in welcoming the green welcoming | 1:20:05 | 1:20:08 | |
that vote in Australia. I was proud
when we passed legislation in this | 1:20:08 | 1:20:14 | |
house to enable same-sex marriage in
the UK, and I hope the Australian | 1:20:14 | 1:20:19 | |
government will indeed take that
vote and act on it very soon. | 1:20:19 | 1:20:23 | |
I am | 1:20:31 | 1:20:31 | |
told that was the longest PMQs since
the election, and it lasted a long | 1:20:31 | 1:20:35 | |
time. The questions from Jeremy
Corbyn, the Labour leader, bearing | 1:20:35 | 1:20:39 | |
in mind that the budget is coming up
in a week, he talked about police | 1:20:39 | 1:20:42 | |
funding, because he said that crime
figures have gone up. The impending | 1:20:42 | 1:20:48 | |
-- the independent crime survey says
that overall crime is down on 2010 | 1:20:48 | 1:20:53 | |
but violent crimes are up. He talked
about the Fire Service and cuts to | 1:20:53 | 1:20:56 | |
the number of firefighters, in the
light of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, | 1:20:56 | 1:21:01 | |
and he asked the government about
the requisite money to retrofit | 1:21:01 | 1:21:06 | |
sprinklers in high-rise blocks. The
Prime Minister said that was the | 1:21:06 | 1:21:10 | |
responsibility, in terms of funding,
of local councils. He moved on to | 1:21:10 | 1:21:14 | |
Universal Credit, which has been
difficult for the government, he | 1:21:14 | 1:21:17 | |
said, because it's going to be
rolled out in Lincolnshire and the | 1:21:17 | 1:21:20 | |
number of people using food banks is
predicted to go up. Again, he'll be | 1:21:20 | 1:21:24 | |
hoping there is some respite, as he
would see it, in the budget, when | 1:21:24 | 1:21:28 | |
Philip Hammond gets to his feet next
week. Jeremy Corbyn went on to talk | 1:21:28 | 1:21:32 | |
about the NHS and targets, quoting
Simon Stevens, but there was a | 1:21:32 | 1:21:36 | |
battle of statistics on that from
the Prime Minister. Finally, school | 1:21:36 | 1:21:40 | |
budgets and funding. He called on
the Prime Minister to return the | 1:21:40 | 1:21:44 | |
money to the school budgets, to tell
her Chancellor to do so. There was a | 1:21:44 | 1:21:50 | |
question from Michael Tomlinson,
because Brexit wasn't mentioned by | 1:21:50 | 1:21:53 | |
Jeremy Corbyn, which was
unsurprising, saying there was a | 1:21:53 | 1:21:56 | |
duty on members of the house to
scrutinise all of the legislation, | 1:21:56 | 1:21:59 | |
and the Prime Minister said yes,
there was a lively debate and strong | 1:21:59 | 1:22:03 | |
views held on all sides, all in a
bid to pull the house together after | 1:22:03 | 1:22:08 | |
15 Tory MPs were called Brexit
mutinies. Laura, your thoughts. I | 1:22:08 | 1:22:12 | |
think it was a role reversal. Last
week, Jeremy Corbyn was really on | 1:22:12 | 1:22:16 | |
form. It felt the other way round
today, perhaps Jeremy Corbyn did | 1:22:16 | 1:22:21 | |
something that he also has done in
the past, which is to go through | 1:22:21 | 1:22:25 | |
almost every topic under the sun,
his greatest hits, and therefore not | 1:22:25 | 1:22:29 | |
really put Theresa May under
pressure. That said, he was | 1:22:29 | 1:22:32 | |
certainly getting on issues that
they're strong feelings inside the | 1:22:32 | 1:22:36 | |
Tory party that they will have to be
some movement in the budget on. It | 1:22:36 | 1:22:39 | |
will be up to Philip Hammond to
decide whether there is, but there | 1:22:39 | 1:22:42 | |
an expectation on Universal Credit
that the Chancellor will find | 1:22:42 | 1:22:48 | |
something to pull back, at least,
this idea of the waiting, that | 1:22:48 | 1:22:51 | |
people have to wait six weeks for
their initial payment, so there is | 1:22:51 | 1:22:55 | |
an expectation they will be some
tweaks in the budget, but I'm not | 1:22:55 | 1:22:59 | |
sure anything will come about
because of Jeremy Corbyn's | 1:22:59 | 1:23:01 | |
performance today. It didn't feel
like a seismic movement. Before we | 1:23:01 | 1:23:07 | |
talk to our guests, Mary Craig, the
Labour MP, raised the issue of | 1:23:07 | 1:23:11 | |
Russian interference, following what
Theresa May had said about it and we | 1:23:11 | 1:23:16 | |
spoke about it earlier. We had a bit
of news from Theresa May on back. | 1:23:16 | 1:23:20 | |
Yes, for a long time since the
election, there have been nerves and | 1:23:20 | 1:23:24 | |
frustration that the intelligence
and security committee, which is a | 1:23:24 | 1:23:28 | |
vital committee of MPs that is able
to see a lot of secret information | 1:23:28 | 1:23:32 | |
and do a lot of private scrutiny of
things that are going on and threats | 1:23:32 | 1:23:36 | |
to the UK, had not been set up. It
takes a while to get things going | 1:23:36 | 1:23:40 | |
after the election, but we are in
November now and the election was in | 1:23:40 | 1:23:43 | |
June. Theresa May said the committee
would be set up also today, and it | 1:23:43 | 1:23:48 | |
will then be up to the committee
itself to decide what it looks at, | 1:23:48 | 1:23:52 | |
and there is a lot of appetite in
the Commons at the moment for them | 1:23:52 | 1:23:56 | |
to look at what Russia was either
doing or not doing in the referendum | 1:23:56 | 1:24:01 | |
and, of course, the general
election. Before I come to the | 1:24:01 | 1:24:06 | |
guests, while we were listening and
watching PMQs, the husband of the | 1:24:06 | 1:24:09 | |
jailed British mother in Iran have
been describing his meeting with | 1:24:09 | 1:24:17 | |
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson,
which he said was positive and | 1:24:17 | 1:24:21 | |
constructive, but he said Boris
Johnson expressed reservations about | 1:24:21 | 1:24:24 | |
giving her diplomatic protection,
which is what he and the lawyers had | 1:24:24 | 1:24:27 | |
been calling for. Looking ahead to
the budget, Nicky Morgan, your Tory | 1:24:27 | 1:24:31 | |
colleague, early in the week said
that this was a time to reset the | 1:24:31 | 1:24:36 | |
narrative on the economy. Is she
right? I think lots of things are | 1:24:36 | 1:24:40 | |
going well in the economy. But is it
time to reset the narrative? We need | 1:24:40 | 1:24:46 | |
to ensure that we reiterate the
positive things that are going on in | 1:24:46 | 1:24:50 | |
the economy. Which are? Record low
unemployment, which we saw again | 1:24:50 | 1:24:57 | |
today, the deficit continuing to
come down and good tax receipts, the | 1:24:57 | 1:25:01 | |
productivity figures this morning,
which were very positive, and it was | 1:25:01 | 1:25:05 | |
odd, watching PMQs, because the
story told by Jeremy Corbyn across a | 1:25:05 | 1:25:13 | |
whole series of areas, it was
demands for more money in every | 1:25:13 | 1:25:16 | |
single area, as opposed to the
high-quality management of the | 1:25:16 | 1:25:18 | |
economy. We are going to have to
leave it there, because we don't | 1:25:18 | 1:25:24 | |
have much time, and we can talk to
Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Tory MP, who is | 1:25:24 | 1:25:29 | |
in central lobby. Since we are
talking about the budget, you've got | 1:25:29 | 1:25:33 | |
an alternative budget for Brexit.
How helpful is that to the | 1:25:33 | 1:25:37 | |
Chancellor? Let me show you this
fabulous red book, produced by | 1:25:37 | 1:25:41 | |
Patrick Mitford, which has all of
the detailed statistical analysis to | 1:25:41 | 1:25:44 | |
show that there will be an enormous
Brexit bonus for the government, | 1:25:44 | 1:25:51 | |
£135 billion extra from 2020 to
2025, £40 billion a year thereafter, | 1:25:51 | 1:25:56 | |
if we follow the right policies in
respect to Brexit. So your Tory | 1:25:56 | 1:26:03 | |
colleagues like Anna Soubry and
Dominic Grieve have got it all | 1:26:03 | 1:26:05 | |
wrong? Would you describe them as
mutineers? I wouldn't. I voted | 1:26:05 | 1:26:11 | |
against the government on European
issues in the past and I think it | 1:26:11 | 1:26:13 | |
would be unfair of me to criticise
people who have held pro-European | 1:26:13 | 1:26:17 | |
views for their whole life for the
stance they are currently taking. | 1:26:17 | 1:26:21 | |
They are parliamentarians and they
are entitled to follow their | 1:26:21 | 1:26:24 | |
conscience. What I think is
important is the figures out today, | 1:26:24 | 1:26:27 | |
which show a lower deficit,
improving productivity. This is in | 1:26:27 | 1:26:31 | |
line with what Patrick Mitford has
been forecasting. Viewers will not | 1:26:31 | 1:26:39 | |
necessarily know who Patrick Minford
is, important though he is to you | 1:26:39 | 1:26:42 | |
and that document you are holding.
Do you think, on the basis of what | 1:26:42 | 1:26:46 | |
you have said, the Treasury is too
pessimistic, as is Philip Hammond? I | 1:26:46 | 1:26:51 | |
think they have the wrong
forecasting model, it uses gravity | 1:26:51 | 1:26:55 | |
models that have been shown to fail
in the past. Should he be sacked? Is | 1:26:55 | 1:26:59 | |
he not the right man for the job at
the time Brexit? Of course not. | 1:26:59 | 1:27:04 | |
These medals -- models predate
Philip Hammond and they have been | 1:27:04 | 1:27:10 | |
consistently wrong. They produced a
panic forecast before the referendum | 1:27:10 | 1:27:13 | |
saying that, just by virtue of a
vote to leave, there would be a | 1:27:13 | 1:27:18 | |
recession. They are based on the
independent Office for Budget | 1:27:18 | 1:27:22 | |
Responsibility. Actually, those were
Treasury forecasts, and the Obiang | 1:27:22 | 1:27:25 | |
works on the mandate given to it by
the Treasury and the policies that | 1:27:25 | 1:27:32 | |
the Treasury proposes it will
implement. -- the OLB R. It is an | 1:27:32 | 1:27:36 | |
exceptional body but they work
within the constraints of the | 1:27:36 | 1:27:41 | |
Treasury's guidelines. Should Philip
Hammond ignore his own Treasury | 1:27:41 | 1:27:46 | |
forecasts? Of course he should.
Those forecasts are consistently | 1:27:46 | 1:27:49 | |
wrong. George Osborne and Gordon
Brown politicised them and Philip | 1:27:49 | 1:27:54 | |
Hammond is left with inaccurate
forecasts. Week in, week out, we are | 1:27:54 | 1:27:59 | |
seeing better figures, often
reported by the BBC in spite of | 1:27:59 | 1:28:02 | |
Brexit, than all of these gloomy
people were predicting, all of these | 1:28:02 | 1:28:10 | |
yours. What a thank you for joining
us. There is just time to put you | 1:28:10 | 1:28:13 | |
out of your misery and give you the
answer to guess the year. The year | 1:28:13 | 1:28:21 | |
was 1977 and, Jenny, would you like
to press that button? I'd be | 1:28:21 | 1:28:25 | |
delighted. Well done. You didn't
smash it like some of our guests! | 1:28:25 | 1:28:31 | |
The answer is Philip Biggs in
impotent. Congratulations you've got | 1:28:31 | 1:28:37 | |
ten seconds on a final thought on
the budget. Clearly a big debate in | 1:28:37 | 1:28:42 | |
the cabinet, do they say that
austerity is over? But in terms of | 1:28:42 | 1:28:47 | |
trying to persuade Philip Hammond to
change his approach, it's like | 1:28:47 | 1:28:50 | |
trying to explain the colours of the
rainbow to someone who only wants to | 1:28:50 | 1:28:54 | |
see in black and white. It's goodbye
from us. Bye-bye. | 1:28:54 | 1:28:59 | |
"My dear husband, I should like
Miss Schlegel to have Howards End." | 1:29:00 | 1:29:03 |