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Hello, and welcome to Monday in Parliament -

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George Osborne outlines plans to cut corporation tax -

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one MP asks if it will annox partners in the EU.

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When it comes to annoying otr European partners, I don't think

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this will be the thing that really tips the balance in the last couple

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of weeks. There are calls for clarification

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on the status of EU nationals living the UK -

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the Shadow Home Secretary phcks up "nobody necessarily stays

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anywhere forever". I hope the minister will go back and

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tell the Home Secretary that my own kids would quite like their mum to

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stay here forever, if that hs OK with her.

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And the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says anti-semhtism

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will not be tolerated in the Labour Party,

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and called remarks made by the former London

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He is under investigation. Hn those circumstances, it would be wholly

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inappropriate to be involved. But you are still a friend of hhs? I am

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not an enemy of Ken Livingstone I want Ken Livingstone to mend his

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ways. The Chancellor says his plans to cut

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corporation tax will show the UK is "open for business"

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following the vote to leave George Osborne said that nothing

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positive would come The Shadow Chancellor,

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John McDonnell, called him to the House of Commons,

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saying the Government was unprepared In my view, the strongest shgnal

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we could send the world that Britain after this referendum is opdn

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to the world and ready to do business would be to cut

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corporation tax still furthdr. We should aim for a rate of 15%

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and preferably lower, because if you are pro-business

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you are pro-jobs, poor living because if you are pro-business

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you are pro-jobs, pro-living The lack of planning for a Leave

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vote is becoming evident Instead of a clear plan of `ction,

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so far we have had a series of ad hoc statements and announcements,

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and these included, yes, the grateful abandonment

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of the Brexit budget, which was to increase sharply

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the level austerity being applied. The fiscal service target h`s been

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abandoned, and today the Ch`ncellor has announced planned reductions

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in the headline rate Rather than ad hoc announcelents,

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we need a framework When it comes to planning,

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let me say this. First of all, there have bedn

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extensive contingency plans in place to deal with financial

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market disorder The fact we are not debating that

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today shows that those conthngency We remain vigilant,

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but they were in place. The 2020 fiscal surplus target

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was always likely to be a casualty of the first sound

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of Brexit gunfire, Hence the need to take advantage

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of the Charter's flexibilitx. Does the Chancellor agree that

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what we need now at least to develop over the next few months,

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most effectively to bolster credibility over the coming years,

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is a rule that sets fiscal policy in a longer term framework,

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and one that is resilient to changes in the short-terl

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forecast by the OBR? Given that he has abandoned his

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fiscal rule, will he today rule out any plans to claw back the potential

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losses in revenue yield from the cut in corporation tax

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in the absence of behaviour`l change, through the mechanism

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of further attacks The overall message

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and the very clear message from the Business Council,

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the Prime Minister's Business Council, which met on Thursday, was,

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let us send a message out round the world that we are not

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closed for business. We are not turning our back

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on the world. We are open to business, and we are

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reaching out to the world. And that's why I think a good way

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of doing that is to further reduce corporation tax,

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and then we must make the most of those links, not just

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with our European friends, but with countries like China,

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India, the United States, where we should be seeking

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to strengthen our trading lhnks Cutting the corporation tax in this

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way is highly likely to annoy our EU partners,

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which is extremely foolish in the run-up

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to the Article 50 negotiations. Wouldn't a better way of avdrting

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the risk of recession be to promise to replace the EU funds

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which we are going to lose, and which were such

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an important part of Well, when it comes to annoxing

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our European partners, I don't think this is going to be

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the thing that really tips the balance in the last

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couple of weeks. But if you look at Ireland,

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a member of the European Unhon, it has of course got a 12.5$

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corporation tax rate. And when it comes to investlent

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in the North and Midlands, I am very much open

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to what further steps we can take. I do not pretend that we have done

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everything that is possible. I think there is more

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we are going to have to do, and all of us collectively,

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particularly those who reprdsent constituencies in the North

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and Midlands of this countrx, I think need to focus on wh`t we can

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do to make sure people feel more enfranchised and more

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connected with this With the benefit of hindsight,

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will the Chancellor accept that his original threat

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to introduce a deflationary budget in the event

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of a Brexit vote was both Well, what I was setting out

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with Alistair Darling, my immediate predecessor,

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was the realism that will bd required when we understand

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that the economy impacted by the vote will have an impact

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on the public finances, and that it will be up to the House

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of Commons to decide how we proceed. And it is important that information

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was in the public domain MPs have called from all sides

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of the House of Commons for clarity about the future of EU

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citizens living in the UK, as well as UK citizens living

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in the European Union. But the Home Office Minister James

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Brokenshire said it would bd unwise to make assurances bdfore

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striking a deal on the UK's The Urgent Question

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from the Leave campaigner Labour's Gisela Stuart

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follows similar comments from the Home Secretary

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and prime ministerial It has been suggested the Government

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could now fully guarantee ET nationals living in the UK

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the right to stay. This would be unwise

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without a parallel assurancd from European governments

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regarding British nationals Such a step might also

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have the unintended consequence of prompting EU

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immigration to the UK. It is in the best interests

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of all that the Government conducts detailed work on this issue,

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and that the new Prime Minister decides the best way forward

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as quickly as possible. It is deeply, deeply offenshve

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to assume that this is a cotntry that retrospectively changes

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the rights of its citizens. It is the duty of a Governmdnt

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to allow people to live and arrange their lives and be able

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to make predictions. We have 3 million citizens living

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in this country who are EU citizens. 1.2 million live in the EU

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at the moment. They have a right to expect

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from this Government What judgment has the Minister made

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about the best way to protect the interests of the more

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than 1 million British citizens living and in many cases working

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in other EU countries, so that at the end of this process

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nobody can be disadvantaged at all? I think that we need to enstre

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that there is an overall balance and careful consideration

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of all of these issues, That is why I think it would be

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mistaken to view this in a very narrow way and to potentially

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make statements now that could have an impediment on those

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broader discussions in relation to the position of British nationals

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who are in other European countries. The Shadow Home Secretary,

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Andy Burnham, reminded the House that his wife was a Dutch chtizen,

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and called Theresa May's When she adds that "Nobody

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necessarily stays anywhere forever," I hope the Minister will go back

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and tell the Home Secretary that my own kids would quitd

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like their mum to stay here forever, In retrospect, does he not `ccept

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that the Home Secretary's Is it not the case that people

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who have made a life here when it was perfectly legal

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to do so should not now havd the rug Further, isn't it entirely

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within the gift of the UK Government to remove this uncertainty today,

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and why isn't the Home Secrdtary Doesn't the very fact

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that we are having to hold this debate today illustrate how flawed

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the referendum campaign was? Didn't people have a right to know

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the answer to this crucial puestion Sending any EU nationals hole has

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enormous implications for f`milies, for public services,

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for the economy. So why on earth did the Govdrnment

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instruct civil servants not to carry out any contingency planning

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on the implications of Brexht? Wasn't that the very height

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of irresponsibility? I have been absolutely clear

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that there is no concept of bargaining chips or viewhng

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people in that way at all, and I've been absolutely cldar

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in terms of the contribution that I see EU citizens making to our

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country now and into the future too, which is why it will bd a part

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of that negotiation as we look towards a future, a positivd future

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for our country outside Any EU citizen who currentlx resides

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in the United Kingdom will continue to do so, as he suggested,

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but that once the repeal of the European Communities Act 1972

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has taken place, it will be a matter for domestic legislation

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here at Westminster to decide in our traditional, fair

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and reasonable manner on wh`t basis people should remain,

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having regard to the interests of UK The SNP pointed out that thd asker

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of the Urgent Question This is one of many questions

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to which it might have been prudent to have an answer before

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the honourable member for Birmingham Edgbaston

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and her fellow Brexiteers pdrsuaded so many of their fellow cithzens

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to vote to leave. Be that as it may, Mr Speakdr,

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Scotland voted overwhelmingly to stay within the European Union,

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and our fellow citizens who were born outside the UK are now

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and just to know what the rdferendum who were born outside the UK are now

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anxious to know what the referendum results mean for them,

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not just now, but in the future and so are EU citizens

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across the UK. It is wrong and irresponsible

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to prevaricate about this. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has

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told MPs that he "will not tolerate He was being questioned

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by the Home Affairs Committde, which is investigating

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whether prejudice against Last week the Labour Party published

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a report into anti-semitism It was sparked by remarks m`de

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by the former London Mayor Mr Corbyn told the committed

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he wanted Ken Livingston Why do you think there is so much

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criticism by Jewish members of the party and by the Jewhsh

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community and others about the way that you have distinguished

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between your incredibly strong record of fighting racism in respect

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to black and Asians and othdrs, but your weak record in dealing

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with the issue of anti-Semitism I have spent my life,

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as you correctly say, opposing racism in any

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form within our society. Since I became leader of thd party,

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it was brought to my attenthon that there were cases

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of anti-Semitic behaviour being reported at Labour Party

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events or, indeed, in public by members of the party,

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and our compliance unit took appropriate action,

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and some members of the party In total, less than 20 were

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suspended, all of which are I became concerned about thhs,

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and so I asked Shami Chakrabarti to undertake an enquiry along

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with David Feldman and Jan Royall. Shami Chakrabarti, the formdr head

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of Liberty, was sitting Keith Vaz said his committed found

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it "puzzling" that she hadn't take The Chakrabarti Inquiry did not take

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any evidence from Mr Livingstone, Do you want to take this opportunity

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of condemning the words used by Ken Livingstone

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and distancing yourself as leader of the Labour Party

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from what Ken Livingstone h`s said in his reference to Hitler's

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support for Zionism? Ken Livingstone made

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remarks that are wholly They were drawn to the attention

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of the party compliance A decision was made within ` very

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few hours to suspend The remarks are now being

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investigated by the party, Not happy to condemn,

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but you do condemn what he has said? You don't believe for one moment

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what he said to this committee, that the crisis has been sthrred up

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by embittered Blairites? No, I think we have to conddmn

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the way in which he made thd remarks and the remarks themselves

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and the equation of Hitler And as I said, his case

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is being investigated. In 2009, you shared a platform

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with Hezbollah, at an event where you describe them

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and Hamas as your friends. The language I used at that meeting

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was actually here in Parlialent and it was about encouraging

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the meeting to go ahead, encouraging there to be a dhscussion

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about a peace process... It was inclusive language I used,

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which with hindsight I would rather So you regret using those words

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that they are your friends? I regret using those

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words, of course. Jeremy Corbyn was also questioned

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by Conservative MPs. Those are the words

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that the President of the Board of Deputies chose when asked in this

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committee two weeks ago abott how he felt when he heard

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of Mr Livingstone's There are 300,000 Jewish

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people in this country. Are you upset that you and xour

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friend have upset them in this way? Ken Livingstone has been suspended

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from party membership following the remarks that he made,

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so obviously we have Is Ken Livingstone

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a friend of yours? I have known Ken Livingstond

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since 1971 as an extremely `ctive I first met him when he was

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a Lambeth councillor He went on to become

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leader of Chelsea... He is still a friend even though

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he has been suspended? I took part in his

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suspension from the party. In those circumstances it would be

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wholly inappropriate to be hnvolved. I am not an enemy of

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Ken Livingstone and I want Ken And he said he would not

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tolerate anti-semitism Nobody, he said, should be

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discriminated against. You're watching Monday in P`rliament

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- our roundup of news Still to come - MPs ask

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about the future of arts subjects, left out of the English

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Baccalaureate. Britain's future role

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with the European Union was also Questions were asked

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about Britain's diplomatic role The question came ahead of ` two

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day debate on Brexit - due to take place on Tuesdax and

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Wednesday. The nature of the relationship

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we secure with the EU will be determined by the next Government

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but we must not turn our back on Europe nor

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on the rest of the world. While we are still a member

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of the EU we will continue to engage with EU business and decision-making

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in the usual way. We will presumably have to start

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talks with individual countries but also with

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the European Union centrallx. What is the European Union

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going to do in response Secondly and very importantly how

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are we going to ensure that all our diplomatic skills

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are still engaged with the European Union in order to deal

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with the wider world, both for the interests of

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the European Union, and for Britain? Both of us must end up at the end

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of the day being winners in this The fact that there is a formal

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process does not exclude Talks around Europe have already

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happened and will Is it not crucial that we h`ve

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a British Government that is effective in office

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as soon as possible? And should not the members

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of the Conservative Party Have the leaders of the Leave

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campaign demonstrated that now they have got no idea how

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to take Britain forward? It is important that we listen

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to the views of all and the people decided that they wished to leave

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the European Union. When we have our two-day debate

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tomorrow and Wednesday, I and my officials will be listening

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very carefully to the views of all peers on all sides

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of the arguments because it will inform our way forward just

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as constituents can inform ` way forward for the Members

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of Parliament. May I ask that in the meanthme the

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Government will speak out against the way that people are being spoken

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to? He has got the complete Agrdement of

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this House. The big internal problems f`cing

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the Labour Party came in for some gentle mockery

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at Education Question Last week the post of

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Shadow Education Secretary went from Lucy Powell to Pat Glass

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and then to Angela Rayner - all part of the mass

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resignations of Ministers from Labour's front bench,

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done to try to force out thd party Conservative MPs seized

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on the sequence of events, as the question session deb`ted

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the pay of teachers in acaddmies Can I first of all congratulate

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and welcome the member for Ashton-under-Lyne

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for her appointment as the Shadow Secretary of State,

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following in the footsteps of the long serving honourable

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member for North West Durhal? I suspect she was more surprised

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than I was by her appointment. Having worked with her in sdeking

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to raise standards in Oldhal schools I know how able a Shadow Secretary

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of State she will be. Does my honourable friend agree

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with me it is absolutely essential that headteachers have the `bility

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to flex salaries to retain the very best staff and would he comlent

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on whether resigning after 48 hours in the Education sector

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sets a new record? I am grateful to my

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honourable friend. I think it must be a record

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for the shortest serving I am particularly offended though

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that there is no one to shadow me and I wonder what I have done

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to deserve that offence. Thank you, Mr Speaker,

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and it is a pleasure to facd the Minister for

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the first time today. As he mentioned previously we have

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discussed issues around education in one of the are`s

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of my constituency in Oldhal. It has also been a very

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interesting week. But I am really pleased

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that there are still two wolen at this dispatch box overseding

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education so that is We do face a crisis in the teaching

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workforce and this has not been made any better by the potential

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problems with teachers' pay. Almost 50,000 teachers

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quit this year. More left than were recruitdd

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and applications are still falling. Regarding teachers leaving,

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43,000 teachers left in 2014 but they were replaced by 44,00

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coming into the profession, and I have to say talking down

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the profession doesn't help encourage graduates to come

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into the teaching profession. Wherever I go I talk

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up the profession. I hope she in this role

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will do the same. I think every single teacher does

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an absolute superb job and H think that the benches opposite should

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listen to teachers when thex talk about the issues that they face

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every single day in the classroom. The Secretary of State

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sought to ban parents She has blocked Ofsted

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from inspecting Academy chahns. And she refuses to have any

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democratic oversight of reghonal In her final days in office

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with school improvement stalled according to the Chief Inspdctor,

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has she not realised that the command and control

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Whitehall knows best approach to schools and education

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does not work? This does seem like

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an upside-down House. We have the front bench

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on the backbenches and the back But can I say to the honour`ble

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gentlemen, we do intend to hncrease Academies' engagement with parents

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by creating an expectation that every Academy puts in place

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arrangements for meaningful engagement with parents

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and to listen to their It is not what I expected today

:22:46.:22:49.

to be on the backbenches, having resigned from a job

:22:50.:22:54.

which I have relished doing over Yesterday on the television

:22:55.:22:57.

the Secretary of State again gave the illusion that school budgets

:22:58.:23:09.

have been protected over thd course of this Parliament yet

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she and I both know that in real terms school budgets are facing

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significant cuts which are having I can see how much she loved

:23:15.:23:17.

doing her job as Shadow Secretary But the point is, the truth is,

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that we have protected the overall This year the core schools budget

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will be over ?40 billion which is the highest

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amount on record. The description on a parlialentary

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petition of the decision to exclude art, music and drama

:23:40.:23:45.

from the English This is the group of core stbjects

:23:46.:23:47.

in which state school pupils in England are expected to `chieve

:23:48.:23:55.

at least a grade C at GCSE level. David Lammy, a former

:23:56.:23:58.

cathedral chorister, There I was able to express

:23:59.:24:00.

myself in the context I really learnt the rigours

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and discipline of music. Which is why I took umbrage

:24:07.:24:21.

to the manner in which music, the performing arts or dram`,

:24:22.:24:27.

and I will come onto those, can be sidelined as somehow less

:24:28.:24:30.

than, not as academic, I challenge anyone who has got

:24:31.:24:33.

to grade eight at any part of the musical repertoire to tell me

:24:34.:24:41.

it is not fantastically hard A highly comprehensive studx

:24:42.:24:44.

produced by the German Socioeconomic Music improves cognitive

:24:45.:24:52.

and noncognitive skills mord In addition the study found that

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children who take music lessons had better school grades,

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are more conscientious, The purpose of the EBacc

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is to ensure that young people, all young people, are taking

:25:09.:25:18.

the combination of GCSEs th`t young people take in the most privileged

:25:19.:25:21.

schools in our country and in the best and most high

:25:22.:25:23.

achieving schools And it concerns us that young people

:25:24.:25:26.

from deprived backgrounds who are eligible for free school

:25:27.:25:33.

meals are half as likely to take that combination

:25:34.:25:35.

as their more fortunate peers. I'll be back at the same tile

:25:36.:25:45.

tomorrow - but until then, goodbye.

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