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Hello and welcome to The Week In Parliament. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
As the government's housing bill takes another hammering | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
in the Lords, we ask one of its leading opponents why peers | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
are so against the plans. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
The effect of the policy is to reduce the opportunities | 0:00:23 | 0:00:27 | |
for social rented, affordable rented housing for those | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
who are on the lowest income. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
The Government comes under fire over plans to turn all schools | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
in England into academies. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:38 | |
Teachers don't want it, parents don't want it, | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
governors don't want it and teachers don't want it, even his | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
own MPs don't want it. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:47 | |
I would say to outstanding or good schools they have nothing to fear | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
from becoming academies but a huge amount to gain. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:55 | |
And it's congratulations to Lib Dem John Thurso who's won | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
what must be the world's most exclusive election - to regain | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
a seat in the House of Lords. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
But first, it's been another difficult week for the government | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
in the Lords with peers defeating yet more of its legislation. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
They turned their fire once again on the Housing and Planning Bill, | 0:01:10 | 0:01:15 | |
one of the Conservatives' flagship policies in their | 0:01:15 | 0:01:17 | |
manifesto last year. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
On Monday, the bill took a battering over the government's so-called | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
pay-to-stay plan for social housing tenants in England. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
The bill proposes that subsidised rents for households earning more | 0:01:25 | 0:01:30 | |
than ?31,000, or 40,000 in London, be scrapped, with council tenants | 0:01:30 | 0:01:34 | |
being asked to pay rent at or near market rates. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:39 | |
But peers backed raising the thresholds when the higher rents | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
would kick in, slowing the rate at which they would rise and making | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
it voluntary for councils to adopt the new rules. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
It has become increasingly clear that the pay to stay proposals | 0:01:50 | 0:01:55 | |
are in reality a backdoor form of taxation. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:59 | |
Local authorities will collect the money but the Chancellor | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
gets to keep the income. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
How else could you describe this other than a locally collected tax? | 0:02:07 | 0:02:13 | |
This is I'm afraid one of those ideas which probably looks good | 0:02:13 | 0:02:18 | |
in the confines of the Treasury or in the rarefied world of special | 0:02:18 | 0:02:24 | |
advisers in Number 10 but in the real world outside it | 0:02:24 | 0:02:29 | |
doesn't look so good. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
I do think this is spiteful. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
I think it is unnecessary. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
I don't think it will bring in much income. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
I do not see why council tenants are expected to contribute | 0:02:38 | 0:02:43 | |
to reducing the deficit in this way when we are not. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:48 | |
My Lords, the policy is about fairness and our view | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
is that social housing at lower rents should be provided to those | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
households who need it most. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
Households who remain in social housing but can pay more should | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
be expected to do so. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
At the same time, the government is making home ownership more | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
accessable for tenants of both local authorities and housing associations | 0:03:07 | 0:03:13 | |
through the right to buy and shared ownership. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
But at the end of the debate peers rejected those arguments | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
and defeated the government by 64 votes. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
That means the bill has been defeated a grand total | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
of eight times so far, making it one of the most defeated | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
pieces of legislation of David Cameron's premiership. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
And it's still got one more day of detailed scrutiny to go. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:38 | |
So just why are their Lordships so against it? | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
Among those unhappy with the bill is the president | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
of the Local Government Association and former head of the civil | 0:03:44 | 0:03:46 | |
service Lord Kerslake, who we saw in action there. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:50 | |
When he came into the studio I asked him why the House of Lords | 0:03:50 | 0:03:53 | |
disliked the bill so much. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:55 | |
There are some of the proposals in the bill that the | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
Lords just don't like. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
For example, they're really concerned about proposals that give | 0:04:00 | 0:04:04 | |
opportunities to those who are on middle and higher | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
incomes at the expense of those on lower incomes | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
who desperately need housing. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
But there's also a concern about whether the bill was really | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
ready when it came into the Lords. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
A lot of missing detail, a lot of details which had to be | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
clarified as the bill has progressed and because they couldn't see | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
the detail there was a tendency to try and put that detail | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
on the face of the bill. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
Let's look at some of the things the House of Lords have inserted | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
into this bill. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:36 | |
One of them is that very local parish councils should be able | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
to appeal against developments if they think they go | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
against the local plan. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:43 | |
Shouldn't you be doing everything that you can | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
to encourage houses to be built? | 0:04:45 | 0:04:48 | |
We want to see more houses built, I'm sure that's true | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
across the House of Lords, but there's also a very strong view | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
about local power and local initiative and making sure that | 0:04:53 | 0:04:58 | |
when plans are agreed they absolutely go with the grain | 0:04:58 | 0:05:02 | |
of local sentiment. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:04 | |
You've also raised the threshold at which people in social housing | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
have to pay a higher rent or in future will have to pay it. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
If you live in London, you can now be earning ?50,000 | 0:05:10 | 0:05:14 | |
before you have to start paying a higher rent. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
For people on very low-income jobs, that will seem like | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
an awful lot of money. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:21 | |
Let's start with what's going on here. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
This is about household income, not about individuals' incomes, | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
so two people on really quite modest jobs, for example, a teaching | 0:05:28 | 0:05:34 | |
assistant or a caretaker, you add up the incomes | 0:05:34 | 0:05:36 | |
and they will go over the so-called threshold | 0:05:36 | 0:05:39 | |
that the government have created... | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
But with that you could be one person on a good income with no | 0:05:41 | 0:05:45 | |
dependents and not the pay the rent. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
That's right and the problem is raising income through this route. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
What is happening is this extra income is not going back | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
into benefiting the tenants who are part of the housing | 0:05:54 | 0:05:58 | |
association or local authority, it's going back to the Chancellor. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:02 | |
It's a form of taxation. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:04 | |
This bill has really taken a battering in the Lords. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
There have been eight defeats so far, will there be more to come? | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
Difficult to tell. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:11 | |
Monday is the last day of report as it's called and we will see | 0:06:11 | 0:06:15 | |
what comes out of that stage of the debate so there | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
could be more defeats. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:20 | |
We then go into third reading and ping-pong. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:25 | |
How problematic is it for the government and the civil | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
service if bills are very much torn apart in this way? | 0:06:27 | 0:06:31 | |
It depends on what happens next. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
The Lords recognise that where there's a manifesto commitment | 0:06:33 | 0:06:37 | |
from government we have to respect that and our role | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
is to review, revise, improve. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
So as we go into the final stages of this bill there will be | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
an appetite to see - can we reach agreement? | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
A compromise? | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
I very much hope the government is in listening mode. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
I know that peers want to find ways of agreeing and if we can do that | 0:06:55 | 0:07:02 | |
then perhaps some of these deeply difficult issues can be addressed. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:07 | |
Do you think it would be better if the government actually went back | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
to the drawing board and started again? | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
I suspect they wouldn't see it that way and there's been | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
a lot of work done here. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:16 | |
I do genuinely think that there are some difficult issues | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
but if we really work hard over the next two weeks we can actually | 0:07:19 | 0:07:23 | |
address quite a lot of the genuine concerns there are about the bill | 0:07:23 | 0:07:27 | |
as currently drafted. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
This is no way to make legislation. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:30 | |
A last-minute dash to get anything done before the end of the session. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
I would share that view. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
I'm a new peer and it's been an instruction from me. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:40 | |
Perhaps the lesson learnt here is that more time at the front | 0:07:40 | 0:07:45 | |
of the process would ease the passage of the bill | 0:07:45 | 0:07:49 | |
and actually get the work done to the same timetable. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:53 | |
Thank you very much. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
Lord Kerslake. | 0:07:58 | 0:07:59 | |
Now to Prime Minister's Questions where David Cameron defended his | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
plans to force all schools in England to become academies free | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
from local authority control. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn attacked the idea, describing it | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
as a top-down reorganisation that even senior Conservatives opposed. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:16 | |
Could the Prime Minister explain why he is intent on forcing good | 0:08:17 | 0:08:21 | |
and outstanding schools to become academies against the wishes | 0:08:21 | 0:08:26 | |
of teachers, parents, school governors and local councils? | 0:08:26 | 0:08:32 | |
The short answer is because we want schools to be run by head teachers | 0:08:32 | 0:08:37 | |
and teachers are not by bureaucrats. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
That is why we support the policy. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
We also support it because of the clear evidence of academies. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:47 | |
If you look at converter academies, 88% of them are either | 0:08:47 | 0:08:51 | |
good or outstanding, and, if you look at schools | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
started by academies, they see a 10% improvement | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
on average over the first two years. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
The results are better education is improving, | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
I say let's complete the work. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:05 | |
Can the Prime Minister explain why good school leaders should | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
focus their time and resources not on educating children | 0:09:08 | 0:09:12 | |
but on arbitrary changes imposed from above? | 0:09:12 | 0:09:17 | |
Let me make two points on the specific issue | 0:09:17 | 0:09:20 | |
he raises on spending. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:21 | |
I would say to outstanding or to good schools, they have | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
nothing to fear from becoming academies but a huge amount to gain. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:30 | |
Mr Speaker, we appear to be heading into some kind of fantasy land here. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:35 | |
The Institute for Fiscal Studies states that school spending | 0:09:35 | 0:09:40 | |
is expected it to fall by at least 7% in real terms in | 0:09:40 | 0:09:48 | |
the next four years. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
The biggest cuts since the 1970s. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
Why on earth is the Prime Minister proposing to spend ?1.3 billion | 0:09:53 | 0:10:00 | |
in a top-down reorganisation that wasn't in his manifesto? | 0:10:00 | 0:10:05 | |
Teachers don't want it, parents don't want it, | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
governors don't want it, headteachers don't want it, | 0:10:07 | 0:10:10 | |
even his own MPs and councillors don't want it. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
Can't he just think again and support schools and education, | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
not force this on them? | 0:10:18 | 0:10:25 | |
Let me answer his question very directly. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:26 | |
We have of course protected spending per pupil all the way | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
through the last Parliament and all the way through this | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
Parliament. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:33 | |
We are spending ?7 billion on more school places to make up | 0:10:33 | 0:10:37 | |
for the woeful lack of action under the last Labour government. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:41 | |
David Cameron, with, as ever, the last word | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
at Prime Minister's Questions. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:46 | |
The so-called Islamic State group is guilty of genocide | 0:10:46 | 0:10:50 | |
against Christian, Yazidi and other ethnic groups in Syria and Iraq. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:55 | |
That was the view of MPs who unanimously backed a motion | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
calling on the Government to ensure the United Nations | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
and the International Criminal Court takes action. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:05 | |
In the debate, every speaker condemned the group also known | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
as Daesh for its brutality. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
Several quoted the testimony of a young Yazidi girl | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
to a meeting of MPs. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
My father and my two brothers killed in front of me. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
They took me way from my mother. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
He grabbed my arm and my leg and then he raped me. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:30 | |
He was 32 years old. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
I was 15. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:34 | |
We know that those who are perpetrating these | 0:11:34 | 0:11:36 | |
crimes are doing so to exterminate and extinguish a people. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:41 | |
We know that they mean what they are doing | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
to be genocide and to have all of the bloody | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
and awful consequences of genocide. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:49 | |
Here is the chance for the United Kingdom to show leadership | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
and to take action. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:54 | |
To stand up and respond to the plea for help from | 0:11:54 | 0:11:58 | |
all of those who have suffered. | 0:11:58 | 0:11:59 | |
This is our chance. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:01 | |
So, like in 1942, will we do the right thing in 2016 | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
or are we just going to stand back, wring our hands | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
and watch as Daesh break their bitter harvest? | 0:12:09 | 0:12:13 | |
That | 0:12:27 | 0:12:30 | |
Wouldn't it be a contempt of Parliament for the | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
government to say this is non-binding? | 0:12:35 | 0:12:36 | |
In taking this matter to the Security Council for those | 0:12:36 | 0:12:42 | |
responsible for the crimes to be accountable. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:52 | |
As the Prime Minister has said, and I am aware he has | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
written to the noble Lord about this, he says genocide is about | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
legal, rather than physical opinion. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:06 | |
legal, rather than political opinion. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:07 | |
We are not the judge of the jury. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
We may not be all of those things but I | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
say to Daesh and the perpetrators, we have a long memory, we have | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
allies, we will not forget. | 0:13:14 | 0:13:19 | |
And they will play the price. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
Now let's take a look at some other news from around | 0:13:25 | 0:13:28 | |
Westminster in brief. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:29 | |
In the Lords, the government announced a concession over | 0:13:29 | 0:13:31 | |
trade union funding. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
Ministers were planning to end the collection of union subs | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
directly from employees' pay - a system known as check-off. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
But unions argued this would be more complicated for members | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
and lead to a loss of funds. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
In a major concession the practice will now continue if the employer | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
and the union agree. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
A peer has been suspended from the House of Lords for eight | 0:13:52 | 0:13:57 | |
months over the double-claiming of hundreds of pounds in expenses. | 0:13:57 | 0:14:01 | |
Lord Bhatia was found to have claimed mileage from the Lords | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
on 63 occasions while also claiming from another organisation. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
It's the second time he has been suspended from the House, | 0:14:06 | 0:14:10 | |
having been barred for eight months in October 2010 for wrongly claiming | 0:14:10 | 0:14:14 | |
over ?27,000 in overnight allowances and mileage expenses. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:20 | |
The Home Secretary was called to the Commons to reveal the budget | 0:14:20 | 0:14:23 | |
for the UK Border Force. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:24 | |
The force is part of the Home Office, responsible | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
for frontline border control operations at air, sea and rail | 0:14:27 | 0:14:29 | |
ports in the United Kingdom. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
It's also responsible for checking the immigration status of people | 0:14:32 | 0:14:35 | |
arriving in the UK, searching bags, vehicles and cargo | 0:14:35 | 0:14:38 | |
and patrolling the UK coastline. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:40 | |
Theresa May insisted Border Force spending was being protected, | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
despite Labour claims of a revenue cut. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:50 | |
She has announced a budget of 558 million. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:52 | |
In 2012/13, the budget was 617 million so | 0:14:52 | 0:14:57 | |
the budget is down by over ?50 million on her watch. | 0:14:57 | 0:15:02 | |
That is the Home Secretary's record on border funding. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
Border Force spending is protected. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:09 | |
Compared to 2015. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:11 | |
Over the next four years, we will invest ?130 million in state | 0:15:11 | 0:15:15 | |
of the art technology at the border. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:18 | |
Since I became Home Secretary six years ago, we've pursued | 0:15:18 | 0:15:21 | |
an ambitious programme of reform at the border | 0:15:21 | 0:15:23 | |
to keep this country safe. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:29 | |
Only 10% of dogs bought in the UK are from registered breeders. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:31 | |
The Environment Food and Rural Affairs committee | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
heard that the vast majority come from abroad | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
or from unlicensed operators. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:39 | |
The trend for fashionable breeds was driving a demand that could not | 0:15:39 | 0:15:42 | |
be easily met and that meant many animals were suffering ill health. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
There are clearly some of puppies that are | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
desirable in the UK. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
Those breeds are being bred in Eastern European | 0:15:49 | 0:15:51 | |
countries. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:52 | |
For example Hungary, Lithuania, Romania. | 0:15:52 | 0:16:01 | |
For example Hungary, Lithuania, Romania. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:16 | |
The conditions are shocking. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:17 | |
The provenance of the parents is not good. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:19 | |
I saw some examples where the parties had been | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
the product of siblings meeting. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:22 | |
They are being transported by road into the UK - | 0:16:23 | 0:16:25 | |
a trip of some 40 hours, | 0:16:25 | 0:16:26 | |
and brought into the country under | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
the Pet Travel Scheme which is | 0:16:28 | 0:16:29 | |
non-commercial movement, rather than commercial movement. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:31 | |
The passports are being falsified. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:32 | |
Last year, we received 3,500 calls about puppy farm | 0:16:32 | 0:16:34 | |
issues. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:38 | |
The sad fact is that 80% of these puppies were sold through | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
internet adverts. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:42 | |
The dreadful fact that comes out of it is that over | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
20% of those puppies actually die. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:46 | |
Their mortality is incredibly high. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:55 | |
The increasingly bitter EU referendum battle has | 0:16:55 | 0:16:56 | |
produced lively scenes at a Commons committee session. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:58 | |
The director of the Vote Leave campaign group, Dominic Cummings, | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
faced claims that Vote Leave had used misleading literature | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
when he was questioned about leaflets distributed | 0:17:03 | 0:17:04 | |
at hospitals in London. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:14 | |
You are saying in hospitals in your literature, aren't you, | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
that we can give a lot more money to hospitals. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:25 | |
You are distributing literature to that affect. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:26 | |
You are doing that, aren't you? | 0:17:26 | 0:17:28 | |
No, we are not. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
I have a piece of literature here with your logo, it | 0:17:30 | 0:17:35 | |
says vote leave, take control. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:42 | |
It says help protect your local hospital. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:47 | |
And it has got here at the | 0:17:47 | 0:17:51 | |
bottom, vote leave. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:52 | |
I'm asking you a straightforward, simple question. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
Is this a leaflet of your organisation? | 0:17:55 | 0:17:59 | |
Do you mean that individual leaflet? | 0:17:59 | 0:18:03 | |
I'm asking you if this leaflet is one of your | 0:18:03 | 0:18:08 | |
organisation's leaflets? | 0:18:08 | 0:18:09 | |
Yes, it is. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
We have arrived. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:14 | |
Let's try question two. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
Do you think that it is reasonable that somebody might | 0:18:17 | 0:18:25 | |
misconstrue this leaflet at first glance as leaflet produced by the | 0:18:25 | 0:18:29 | |
NHS, since this has NHS logo in the top right-hand corner? | 0:18:29 | 0:18:38 | |
No, | 0:18:42 | 0:18:42 | |
No, it | 0:18:42 | 0:18:42 | |
No, it says | 0:18:42 | 0:18:43 | |
No, it says vote | 0:18:43 | 0:18:43 | |
No, it says vote leave, | 0:18:43 | 0:18:43 | |
No, it says vote leave, take | 0:18:43 | 0:18:43 | |
No, it says vote leave, take control. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:46 | |
What do you make of that NHS logo? | 0:18:46 | 0:18:48 | |
Do you think it looks like the logo of the NHS? | 0:18:48 | 0:18:51 | |
It looks like it from here. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
Well, it looks roughly like it from almost | 0:18:54 | 0:18:56 | |
any distance. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
Here is an NHS document. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:03 | |
You will see the logo is strikingly similar. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:06 | |
They are almost identical. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
It takes an expert eye to tell that one is not the other. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:13 | |
One of them is italicised slightly, one | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
is not. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:20 | |
Do you, now that you have had a chance to consider it, and you | 0:19:20 | 0:19:24 | |
have agreed it looks like an NHS logo from any reasonable distance, | 0:19:24 | 0:19:28 | |
to think it might be good idea to think twice | 0:19:28 | 0:19:32 | |
about putting Outlook to | 0:19:32 | 0:19:34 | |
like this? | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
I certainly don't and I think you are confused about what my | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
answer was before. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
You were asking me if the leaflet in my hand could | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
be put into hospital, has that come from us? | 0:19:45 | 0:19:47 | |
And I was saying, no, it | 0:19:47 | 0:19:49 | |
hasn't come from us, as in we did not | 0:19:49 | 0:19:51 | |
distribute leaflets to the | 0:19:51 | 0:19:53 | |
hospital, we're as baffled as almost everyone else is out the story that | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
appeared on the website. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:57 | |
Dominic Cummings. | 0:19:57 | 0:19:58 | |
How would you feel if you won an election with 100% | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
of the electorate voting for you? | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
That's what happened in the week, when former MP John Thurso returned | 0:20:02 | 0:20:05 | |
to the House of Lords to sit as a hereditary peer | 0:20:05 | 0:20:07 | |
following a by-election triggered by the death of Lord Avebury. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:12 | |
It was a contest in which only the three existing Lib Dem | 0:20:12 | 0:20:16 | |
hereditary members of the House of Lords were able to vote. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
Viscount Thurso sat in the Lords between 1995 and 1999, | 0:20:19 | 0:20:23 | |
leaving when Labour's reforms axed most hereditary members. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:27 | |
He was then MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross from 2001 | 0:20:27 | 0:20:30 | |
until losing his seat in 2015. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:35 | |
He becomes the first person to go into the Lords, | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
then the Commons and back to Lords and keep his hereditary title. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:44 | |
Let's take a look at some of the other political | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
stories of the week. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:48 | |
Here's Chris Davies. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:49 | |
Fancy being an MP for a week? | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
Now you can, by playing Parliament's online game | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
game, way you put yourself in the shoes of an MP. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:02 | |
The game, designed for 11 to 16-year-olds, | 0:21:02 | 0:21:05 | |
did admittedly prove | 0:21:05 | 0:21:07 | |
a bit too difficult for the team at BBC Parliament. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:11 | |
Online retailer Amazon isn't participating in a | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
scheme to help people operate drones responsibly, | 0:21:13 | 0:21:16 | |
the Transport Minister told a Lords committee. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:19 | |
Constanza about the unlicensed use of the unmanned | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
aircraft were heightened last week after reports | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
of the drone strike | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
on a passenger plane approaching Heathrow. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
Mr Goodwill said a lot of drones were bought online which is | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
why the government were keen to engage with the company. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
How good is your maths? | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
Take a look at this equation. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
This is the Treasury's basic equation which measures the | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
level of trade between lots of different pairs of countries for | 0:21:41 | 0:21:44 | |
which data is available. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:45 | |
Easy. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:47 | |
Burger chain McDonald's says it is disappointed | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
by Labour's decision to | 0:21:49 | 0:21:51 | |
ban the company from its party conference in Liverpool this year. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
David Cameron couldn't resist a jibe at the decision, using the company's | 0:21:54 | 0:21:57 | |
slogan as a punch line. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:58 | |
Frankly, I'm loving it. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
And Her Majesty The Queen celebrated her 90th birthday this | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
week and although the main party took place in Windsor, Parliament | 0:22:03 | 0:22:07 | |
marked the occasion by lighting up the building in red, white and blue. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:12 | |
And staying with that regal theme, we end with tributes to the Queen. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
MPs and peers sent Her Majesty their best wishes as she | 0:22:24 | 0:22:27 | |
celebrated her 90th birthday. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:30 | |
Mr Speaker, in her 90 years, Her Majesty has lived through some | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
extraordinary times in our world. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:36 | |
From the Second World War, when her parents, | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
the king and queen, were | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
nearly killed as bombs dropped on Buckingham Palace to the Russians | 0:22:40 | 0:22:43 | |
with which she bought the material for her wedding dress. | 0:22:43 | 0:22:45 | |
From presenting the World Cup to England | 0:22:45 | 0:22:47 | |
at Wembley in 1966 to a man landing on the moon and number of years | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
later. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
From the end of the Cold War to peace in Northern Ireland. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
Throughout it all, as the sounds of culture sift and the tides of | 0:22:56 | 0:23:00 | |
politics at and flow, Her Majesty has been stood fast. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:04 | |
In her reign, Mr Speaker, she has seen off 12 | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
prime ministers. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
Whilst recently I attended my first state | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
dinner, she has received over 100 state visits and visited, | 0:23:18 | 0:23:22 | |
as the Prime Minister indicated, well over 100 countries | 0:23:22 | 0:23:25 | |
on our behalf. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
I admire her energy, wish her well in her continuing and | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
outstanding commitment to public life. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:35 | |
Throughout the decades of her | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
reign, she has been a regular visitor to Scotland. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:40 | |
For me, the most remarkable events have been in | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
recent years. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:44 | |
Including the 1999 reopening of the Scottish | 0:23:44 | 0:23:46 | |
Parliament, after recess of nearly 300 years. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:53 | |
Who can forget the entire chamber, all MSPs of all parties and | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
the public gallery, Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh, | 0:23:56 | 0:24:05 | |
all singing and Man is a Man for all that by Robert Burns. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:12 | |
She has seen technological advances race ahead | 0:24:12 | 0:24:14 | |
from one telegram or a radio programme was a thing of great | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
excitement to the prevalence of satellite television, the iPhone and | 0:24:17 | 0:24:19 | |
letters being supplanted by e-mail, playground conversations by tweets, | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
and Facebook status updates. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:24 | |
But through all those years of changes, | 0:24:24 | 0:24:27 | |
one thing has been a constant, and that has been Her Majesty's selfless | 0:24:27 | 0:24:36 | |
service to Britain. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:38 | |
Admired at home and around the world for her | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
constant and consistent advocacy of Britain at its best. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
One peer recalled a reception he'd attended. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
My colleague had the misfortune of being in the | 0:24:44 | 0:24:46 | |
process of eating a large biscuit. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:48 | |
LAUGHTER. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:49 | |
Something was bound to go wrong. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:51 | |
And indeed it did. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:53 | |
When he turned around, he was so astonished | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
to see her standing on the side of him, that he dropped this biscuit | 0:24:55 | 0:24:59 | |
onto the floor right in front of Her Majesty, at her feet. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
Now, Her Majesty, who has a great sense of | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
humour, she was most amused. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:06 | |
There are very few people to whom an archbishop can | 0:25:06 | 0:25:10 | |
open his heart, knowing that his confidences will go | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
no further. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
And suddenly, at the end, of the conversation, she would | 0:25:15 | 0:25:18 | |
go away affirmed and encouraged. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:21 | |
Let this be a day of thanksgiving and | 0:25:21 | 0:25:24 | |
much rejoicing for Her Majesty's birthday. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:27 | |
Long live the Queen! | 0:25:27 | 0:25:30 | |
ALL: Hear! Hear! | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
Those birthday wishes brings us to the end of this | 0:25:32 | 0:25:35 | |
edition of the programme, but do join Kristiina Cooper | 0:25:35 | 0:25:37 | |
on Monday night at 11 for another round-up of the best of the day | 0:25:37 | 0:25:40 | |
here at Westminster, including more debate on that | 0:25:40 | 0:25:42 | |
controversial housing bill. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:44 | |
But until then, from me, goodbye. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:46 |