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Those are the headlines. I will back at 3am. Now it's time Hello | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
there, and welcome back to The Week In Parliament, as MPs and peers | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Coming up in the programme: David Cameron and Ed Miliband turn up | :00:11. | :00:26. | |
Coming up in the programme: David heat in the row over the cost of | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
fuel. We have a cost of living crisis in this country, energy bills | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
are rising and he supports the energy companies, not the consumer. | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
It is obvious why he wants to talk about the cost of living, because he | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
has not got an economic policy any more. We talk to three Westminster | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
reshuffles and the battles ahead. And with the election for a new | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
deputy speaker on the horizon we find out what it takes to do the | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
job. I found in my time that if find out what it takes to do the | :00:58. | :01:09. | |
jolly well hoped that somebody on the other side would do something | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
which could earn your rebuke as well. But first, Ed Miliband has | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
accused the Prime Minister of having no answer to his promise to freeze | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
energy prices for 15 months. But policy a "gimmick". The two men | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
energy prices for 15 months. But resuming battle at Prime Minister's | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Questions for the first time since before their party conferences. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
Questions for the first time since having wished David Cameron a happy | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Minister said there is a certain birthday, Ed Miliband launched his | :01:28. | :01:45. | |
amount you can do freezing energy prices. The Chancellor said it was | :01:46. | :01:46. | |
idea? The first of all, can I thank prices. The Chancellor said it was | :01:46. | :02:12. | |
idea? The first of all, can I thank Government is doing is legislating | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
to put people on to the lowest energy tariffs. That is a real step | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
forward. But I have to say on this issue of just promising a freeze, | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
this is a classic case of him saying one thing and doing another. Month | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
after month, he stood out this dispatch box as energy secretary and | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
regulation of the regulation, target after target all of which put energy | :02:28. | :02:37. | |
prices up. He says he wants to bring prices down, can he confirm that | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
since he became prime minister? I can say first of all that energy | :02:44. | :02:57. | |
Let me make this point. There is one international wholesale price of | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
gas. I know he would like to live in some sort of Marxist universe where | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
you can control all these things but economics. Mr Speaker, he says he | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
wants lower prices, but prices are going up on his watch, that is the | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
reality. Can he confirm that while his energy policy is so—called | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
virtually nobody, a 20 month freeze million households and 2.4 million | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
businesses across this country? The businesses across this country? The | :03:24. | :03:37. | |
problem is, 12 hours later, he said he might not be able to keep his | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
promise. This is not a policy, it's a gimmick and the reason is because | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
why he wants to talk about the cost he is in favour of a carbonisation | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
why he wants to talk about the cost of living, because he has not got an | :03:52. | :04:07. | |
in the Shadow cabinet. Energy bills me tell you the best present I could | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
in the Shadow cabinet. Energy bills are rising and he supports the | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
is. More spending, more borrowing energy companies, not the consumer. | :04:14. | :04:22. | |
is. More spending, more borrowing and more debt. That would lead to | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
higher taxes and higher mortgage rates. That is the double whammy | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
that would hit every family in this country. Not only have I got the | :04:28. | :04:39. | |
birthday present of the Shadow Chancellor staying in post and | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
incidentally also the birthday Secretary staying in post, I also | :04:41. | :04:54. | |
revealing their election campaign. He said it all depended on the two | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
of them together because "they would credibility". That is, I have to | :04:57. | :05:13. | |
say, like the captain of the Titanic running on his safety record. A | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
rousing return to Westminster for MPs after a three—week break for | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
their conferences. The annual autumn get—togethers are a chance for party | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
leaders to set out their ideas and rally the troops. But the return to | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
work has been a brutal one for some. reshuffled their ministers, and | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
work has been a brutal one for some. Labour leader too made changes to | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
his team. On the Government side, some lost their jobs, including | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
his team. On the Government side, Lib Dem MP for Taunton, Jeremy | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Browne. Then there was the surprise promotion to the Home Office of | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
wrote a book alleging a cover—up another Lib Dem, Noman Baker, who | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
wrote a book alleging a cover—up around the death of the scientist, | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
Dr David Kelly. The Shadow Leader of the Commons, Angela Eagle, toyed | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
with all this at Business Questions, beginning with the fate of the | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
Richard Benyon, who lost his job in beginning with the fate of the | :05:54. | :06:08. | |
on Monday and was good natured the shake—up. I must say I have | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
on Monday and was good natured enough to repeat a tweet he received | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
news. It said: Fisheries minister after he had been given the bad | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
news. It said: Fisheries minister sacked. Word is he's gutted. We | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
news. It said: Fisheries minister a Liberal Democrat sacked for being | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
I am surprised the Deputy Prime Minister managed to spare himself. | :06:22. | :06:39. | |
LAUGHTER. Then we realised the Prime Minister's new strategy was to stop | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
his backbench rebellions giving Minister's new strategy was to stop | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
many people as possible a job. It seems a small state needs a big | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
government. When it emerged that the deputy prime minister had put a | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
conspiracy theorist in the Home Office, behind the back of the | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
furious Home Secretary, I understand shooting up the charts as a result | :06:57. | :07:09. | |
Speaker, I am sure we all look forward to the new Home Office | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Minister telling us what really happened at Roswell, whether NASA | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
faked the moon landings and whether building. Light—hearted stuff there | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
from Angela Eagle, but after a busy spell of conferences and reshuffles | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
what changes are we really going to see? I gathered together three avid | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
Westminster—watchers. Charlotte Henry, a Liberal Democrat who writes | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
the blog, Digital Politico. Paul Richards, a labour campaigner, | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
author, tweeter and blogger. And from the right, Raheem Kassam, the | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
editor of the blog and website, Trending Central. I asked Charlotte | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
conference speech, holding open Trending Central. I asked Charlotte | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
voters. Think Clegg has put that government, would go down well with | :07:42. | :07:57. | |
voters. Think Clegg has put that equities didn't flag between the two | :07:57. | :07:57. | |
equidistant theme as we go towards parties. —— equidistant. I think he | :07:57. | :08:15. | |
equidistant theme as we go towards the next general election. I think | :08:16. | :08:16. | |
they pick who goes into Government, the next general election. I think | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
they pick who goes into Government, the voters. We pick how many seats | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
and votes each party gets is decided deciding who will run. There had | :08:24. | :08:34. | |
He did that in his conference speech been a call for Ed Miliband to come | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
He did that in his conference speech but that instantly provided a stick | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
for the Conservatives to beat him with. If you take the three leaders' | :08:43. | :08:52. | |
speeches, it is hard to remember any of them, apart from the fuel freeze, | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
imagination and is still part of the debate going into this Parliament so | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
this was a proper policy. Of course increasingly, the Tories don't know | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
how to attack it. It is breaking importantly. But David Cameron has | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
described it as Marxist. If that is the level of your response to a | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
sensible idea that resonate with people struggling with bills, great. | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
If that is the level of the debate he wants to have. The public are | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
saying the bills are too much. Only Ed Miliband has a response. David | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
Cameron in his speech did not say anything at all? That is probably | :09:27. | :09:39. | |
about right. The one thing I can remember from David's speech is | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
about right. The one thing I can necessarily the best talking point | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
for the public to pick up on. But I grassroots, for the base, for party | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
faithful, not the public. For the people I have spoken to, one of | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
faithful, not the public. For the people mentioned was Ed Miliband's | :09:53. | :09:53. | |
speech about energy prices. You people mentioned was Ed Miliband's | :09:54. | :10:16. | |
think it is. We have these quotes from Ed Miliband from two years | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
think it is. We have these quotes where he said fuel prices have to | :10:19. | :10:19. | |
this great goliath of climate change that is not occurring and the Tories | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
stick for a long time. Let's move that is not occurring and the Tories | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
stick for a long time. Let's move Westminster, things have moved on | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
come to you. The Liberal Democrats Westminster, things have moved on | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
come to you. The Liberal Democrats have got to start with Norman Baker. | :10:38. | :10:38. | |
understand Nick Clegg wanting to have got to start with Norman Baker. | :10:38. | :10:59. | |
understand Nick Clegg wanting to imprint liberalism on the Home | :10:59. | :11:07. | |
Office. But I think this is flaring the tension in the Home Office. | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
Instead of having somebody who can act as a conciliatory. What do you | :11:13. | :11:24. | |
think the Conservatives will make of the appointment of him? I think | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Charlotte is entirely right in the analysis that you needed someone who | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
can pull Theresa May a little bit more to the liberal side of the | :11:30. | :11:39. | |
spectrum. Softly, gently, rather than presenting her with a very | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
stark opposite number or whatever you would call it. But part of me | :11:42. | :11:52. | |
wants to believe there is some calculation about this. Regarding | :11:52. | :12:01. | |
the immigration vans and things calculation about this. Regarding | :12:01. | :12:12. | |
discussed in earlier months. That is to say they needed someone who would | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
mind, with a stream of consciousness to say they needed someone who would | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
mind, with a stream of consciousness about these issues. Baker will | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
certainly speak his mind. If you are a minister with those views, the | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
officials will freeze you out. You can speak your mind all you like but | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
if you cannot pull the levers of power, then you become frozen out. | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
You are a lame duck from the start. power, then you become frozen out. | :12:33. | :12:42. | |
You are a lame duck from the start. Miliband also reshuffled his team. | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
Much speculation about rooting out of Blairites. He has put together a | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
team that people like Liam Byrne are still there, others that you thought | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
front bench. And he has rewarded his might be moved out are still in | :12:57. | :13:13. | |
front bench. And he has rewarded his own supporters. Which leader doesn't | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
do that? But he has put together a balanced team. This is a team that | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
will take us into the next general election. He is putting together the | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
people who believes can reach out to voters. Whatever way you try to | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
people who believes can reach out to it, those guys who are big hitters | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
in the Labour movement have had their wings severely clipped on | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
in the Labour movement have had front bench. They may nominally | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
in the Labour movement have had on the front bench... I don't think | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
being those shadow ministers are Shadowing makes these things even | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
world. Solving world poverty is Shadowing makes these things even | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
a minor role. What it means you Shadowing makes these things even | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
out of the country for a lot of time. Let's come back to the stuff | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
that matters, Labour needs to pick up more votes, where will it get | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
more votes from? The tactic now up more votes, where will it get | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
living, practical policies. Ed Miliband has taken onboard criticism | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
that has been coming and he has tough talking on energy bills which | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
understand and you will hear more of this over the next few years. Very | :14:18. | :14:34. | |
practical as the band. David Cameron also reshuffled his pack. A lot | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
practical as the band. David Cameron talk about flat caps and minorities | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
and women and/or those kind of things. What is he trying to do | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
is this an attempt to shore up the reshuffle that he has had. | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
is this an attempt to shore up support in the north? I think so. It | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
that was a calculation in that as is very well done. It was a good PR | :14:56. | :15:08. | |
as George Osborne's reshuffle rather well. The Treasury appointment is | :15:08. | :15:22. | |
as George Osborne's reshuffle rather calculating conservative figure | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
as George Osborne's reshuffle rather David Cameron is. That will play to | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
the Conservative Party's strengths. You are keen on the idea that the | :15:30. | :15:38. | |
Conservative Party could hook up voters? We have this initiative | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
about how Conservatives can help is not about uniting the parties, | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
but about tactically voting to make sure that we do not have a Marxist | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
in power. It is unlikely that we are going to have a Marxist in power. | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
Even if he wins the election. I going to have a Marxist in power. | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
going to finish by asking you all the same question. What is your | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
party's Achilles' heel? We have the same question. What is your | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
to be very careful that as the economy turns around we do not let | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
the Conservatives get power, we economy turns around we do not let | :16:21. | :16:35. | |
Further cuts to top balance the to look at welfare reform. It is | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
Further cuts to top balance the books. If we are going to take | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
we front up to the difficult things. we must be careful to make sure | :16:42. | :16:55. | |
we front up to the difficult things. Because labour is ahead in the | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
say anything radical and hope for Because labour is ahead in the | :16:56. | :17:04. | |
say anything radical and hope for the best then we can cross the | :17:04. | :17:04. | |
catastrophic. We have to remain the best then we can cross the | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
radical reform party. Is it the the best then we can cross the | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
danger for you. The Conservative Party must not appear complacent? I | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
efforts to reach out to the people do not think that is quite correct. | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
efforts to reach out to the people who have defected to UKIP. There are | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
numbers are growing. We are going to see that at the European elections. | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
The Conservative Party need to start beating the left with the socialist | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
stick harder and harder. What Ed Miliband is doing is pulling them | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
further away to the left and getting away with it. I do not think Tony | :17:47. | :17:56. | |
Blair would have allowed that. I would contest that it will be as | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
relevant in the future. We need would contest that it will be as | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
start showing that the Labor Party should no longer be a party of the | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
far left. We look forward to an should no longer be a party of the | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
to rest interesting 15 months. —— interesting. Time to take a look | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
trading. The business Secretary —— interesting. Time to take a look | :18:15. | :18:27. | |
MPs that he was confident the shares were in the right place. That was | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
following claims the business was being sold off cheap. My very rough | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
estimate is that we have had about 700,000 applications and about seven | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
times oversubscribed. There was 700,000 applications and about seven | :18:41. | :18:51. | |
of interest. The culture Secretary told MPs that she hopes to put a | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
final version of the cross—party Charter on press regulation forward | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
for approval by the end of the month. Two versions of the charter | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
have been proposed, one from the race, one from the Parliament. They | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
came in response from the lettuce race, one from the Parliament. They | :19:05. | :19:14. | |
came in response from the lettuce and enquiry. —— the Leveson Enquiry. | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
effective self—regulation. The In the interim, we should make the | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
effective self—regulation. The environment Secretary has confirmed | :19:28. | :19:28. | |
spread of bovine tuberculosis. A environment Secretary has confirmed | :19:28. | :19:39. | |
coal is being carried out in two parts of southern England that | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
involves shooting animals. Can he confirm whether that is the case and | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
if so, what is the scope of the research is and what he has cause to | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
think the 2005 review that found the gassing of badgers could not be | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
think the 2005 review that found the is no longer valid? We made it clear | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
that we would look at other methods of removing wildlife. We will not | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
use gas and unless it is proven of removing wildlife. We will not | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
be safe, humane and effective. On produced its draft budget. The | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
Finance Minister said it would protect the NHS in Wales and boost | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
economic growth. Labour ministers through. They are due to vote on the | :20:25. | :20:41. | |
final version before Christmas. The name of the new deputy speaker | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
will be announced on Wednesday. The name of the new deputy speaker | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
vacancy arises after the resignation of Nigel Evans, who faces sexual | :20:48. | :20:56. | |
of the honourable member for report announced on the Commons on Tuesday. | :20:56. | :21:14. | |
them stopped to think about the Valley. In other words, wanted, | :21:14. | :21:26. | |
them stopped to think about the essential qualities they will need | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
for the job? Who better to ask than a former Deputy Speaker with 13 | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
reprimanded somebody on one side, able to demonstrate that you are | :21:34. | :21:47. | |
other side would do something that you would hope that somebody on | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
other side would do something that could only a rebuke. —— earn a | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
rebuke. This vacancy is for an MP from the coalition ranks. But the | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
whole house are going to be voting. How can the candidates reach out to | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
parties on all sides? It is very parties to decide between one person | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
and another. Other than personality. different line. I do not understand | :22:16. | :22:32. | |
how anyone imagines it would work. You will be working as part of a | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
speaker. The question is the house European affairs. You might only be | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
the Deputy, but when you are in European affairs. You might only be | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
cherry you are the one in charge. —— chair. What advice to Sir Alan have? | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
Take it cautiously. Try and find an early opportunity to show that you | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
are utterly trying to be evenhanded. That you understand the house. And | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
that you will seek to implement them. The house as a whole is a | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
that you will seek to implement place. It will want you to succeed, | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
I think. Occasionally, MPs just cannot help themselves. As an angry | :23:23. | :23:25. |