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Hello there and welcome to The Week In Parliament, where, after a | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
seven-year wait, the Chilcot Report into the Iraq war is | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
finally published. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
Sir John found that, at crucial points, Mr Blair sent | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
personal notes and made important commitments to Mr Bush that had not | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
been discussed or agreed with Cabinet colleagues. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:31 | |
The tragedy is that while the governing class got | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
it so horrifically wrong, m`ny people, many of our people `ctually | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
got it right. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
When will UK Government of either Tory or | 0:00:39 | 0:00:40 | |
Labour hue actually start ldarning from the mistakes of the | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
past, so we are not condemned to repeat them? | 0:00:44 | 0:00:49 | |
There are calls for reassur`nces that EU nationals will | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
be able to stay in post-Brexit Britain. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:56 | |
They are welcome, they are necessary, | 0:00:56 | 0:00:57 | |
they are a vital part of our society. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
And the Health Secretary saxs he will impose a new | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
contract on junior doctors after they reject the latest deal. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:08 | |
The opposition urges a rethhnk. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
Public opinion is not on the Government's side. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
It is evident that the public will have | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
faith in its doctors long after they have lost faith hn this | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
or any other Government. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
But first, seven years after starting work, the former | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
senior civil servant Sir John Chilcot delivered his enquiries | 0:01:26 | 0:01:30 | |
report into the decision to go into war in Iraq. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
Sir John said that in total, more than 200 British | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
citizens died as a result of the conflict and at | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
least 150,000 Iraqis had bedn killed by 2009, as a result | 0:01:39 | 0:01:43 | |
of the invasion and the instability that it caused. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:48 | |
The report concluded that the UK went to war before the | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
peace proces was exhausted. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
The information produced by the intelligence | 0:01:53 | 0:01:55 | |
agencies was flawed and that the post-war | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
planning was inadequate. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
The Prime Minister, David C`meron, set out the findings to MPs. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:05 | |
The report clearly reflects that the advice given to thd | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
Government by the intelligence and policy community was th`t Saddam | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
did indeed continue to possdss and seek to develop | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
these capabilities. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
However, as we now know, in 200 this long-held belief no longer | 0:02:16 | 0:02:19 | |
reflected the reality. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
Sir John says that, and I quote, at no stage was | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
the proposition that Iraq might no longer have | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
chemical, biological or nuclear weapons or programmes | 0:02:28 | 0:02:30 | |
identified and examined - either by the JIC, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
Joint Intelligence Committed, or the Policy Community. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
And, as the report notes, the late Robin Cook had shown | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
it was possible to come to a different conclusion from | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
an examination of the same intelligence. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
Sir John finds that, at crucial points, Mr Blair sent | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
personal notes and made important commitments to Mr Bush that had not | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
been discussed or agreed with Cabinet colleagues. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:56 | |
However, while Sir John makds many criticisms of the | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
process, including the way information was handled and | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
presented, at no stage does he explicitly say that therd was a | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
deliberate attempt to mislead people. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
As for the planning after the initial operation, | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
Sir John had concluded... | 0:03:11 | 0:03:12 | |
The Government and here I mdan officials in the military as | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
well as ministers, remain too fixed on assumptions. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
That the Americans had a pl`n, but the UN would play a | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
significant role with international community sharing the burden and | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
that the UK role would be over three to four months after the conflict | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
had ended. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:29 | |
Many of the failures in this report were not directly about | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
the conduct of Armed Forces as they went into the Iraq, but | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
rather the failures of planning before a shot was fired. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:39 | |
Overall, Sir John finds that the policy of | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
Her Majesty's Government fell far short of meeting its strategic | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
objectives and helped to crdate a space for Al-Qaeda. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:49 | |
Jeremy Corbyn said the invasion of Iraq was thd | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
most significant decision t`ken by a British Government in modern times. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:56 | |
The war was not in any way, as Sir John Chilcot | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
says, a last resort. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
Frankly, it was an act of mhlitary aggression launched on a false | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
pretext - as the enquiry excepts. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
And has long been regarded `s illegal by the overwhelming weight | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
of international legal opinhon. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:15 | |
The decision to invade Iraq in 2003, on | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
the basis of what the Chilcot Report calls, and I quote, "flawed | 0:04:17 | 0:04:21 | |
intelligence," about the we`pons of mass destruction has had a | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
far-reaching impact on us all. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:28 | |
It has led to a fundamental breakdown in | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
trust in politics and in our institutions of Government. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
The tragedy is that while the governing | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
class got it so horrificallx wrong, many people, many of our people | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
actually got it right. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:49 | |
Many on Februrary 15th 2003, of the 1.5 million | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
spanning the entire | 0:04:51 | 0:04:52 | |
political spectrum and tens of millions of other people across | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
the world marched against the impending war. | 0:04:55 | 0:05:00 | |
The biggest ever demonstrathon in British history. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:05 | |
We need to reflect very serhously before we take any decisions again | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
to take military action without realising the consequences of those | 0:05:08 | 0:05:11 | |
will live with all of us for many decades to come and have often | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
incalculable consequences as a result. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
I hope and I expect that in the months ahead, there will be | 0:05:19 | 0:05:23 | |
the opportunity to hold to `ccount those who are associated | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
and responsible with taking the UK to war in Iraq. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
That has only caused hundreds and thousands of deaths. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:36 | |
Not just that, it has undermined people's faith in | 0:05:36 | 0:05:39 | |
Parliament and Government in the UK and left an indelible stain on | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
Britain's standing in the world | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
The Lib Dem leader returned to the role of his predecessor, Charles | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
Kennedy, who led much of the opposition to the invasion. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:53 | |
Will the Prime Minister now take the opportunity, on behalf | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
of his party and this House, to acknowledge | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
that Charles Kennedy was right all along | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
in leading the opposition across this country against the | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
counter-productive war and should not those who accuse Charles Kennedy | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
of appeasement, some of whol are still on these benches todax, | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
apologise to him, to his falily to our service men and women, | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
to our country and to the people of Iraq? | 0:06:14 | 0:06:18 | |
People who voted for the war, like me, have to take their | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
share of responsibility. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:22 | |
That is important, but I don't think it's | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
right to accuse the people who voted against of appeasement. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
Each of us, in Cabinet or in this House, who are | 0:06:26 | 0:06:29 | |
responsible and should take responsibility for own individual | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
decisions, albeit taken in good faith on the basis of evidence | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
before us. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:38 | |
But equally, does he agree that the men of hatred and | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
death in Al-Qaeda should take responsibility for their | 0:06:41 | 0:06:47 | |
actions and for the blood and horror that the inflict on others? | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
Saddam Hussein and his murddrous sons had spent 13 years running | 0:06:51 | 0:06:56 | |
rings around the United Nathons ignoring 17 UN resolutions, | 0:06:56 | 0:07:02 | |
including resolutions calling for all necessary means to stop him. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:10 | |
Wasn't that the main issue in that debate and has | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
the Prime Minister found | 0:07:13 | 0:07:14 | |
any evidence whatsoever of `ny lies told to Parliament on that day? | 0:07:14 | 0:07:20 | |
I can't see in here an accusation of | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
deliberately deceiving people, but there is | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
certainly information that wasn't properly presented, | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
different justifications given the before and subsequently | 0:07:29 | 0:07:33 | |
for the action that was takdn and a number of other | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
criticisms about processes. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
But deliberate deceit, I can't find a reference to it. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:41 | |
Sir John was careful about avoiding accusing the | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
previous Prime Minister of lying to the House, | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
but a lot of the evidence here suggests he did. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
Parts of the Ministry of Defence, including the | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
Chiefs of staff, were not ddlivering the advice that the Governmdnt | 0:07:50 | 0:07:53 | |
needed and elements of the Foreign Office | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
had succumbed to a form of group-think that leaves le deeply | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
concerned as to the structure and advice governments can get. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:04 | |
Given this undermining of the UN, and the | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
disastrous and horrible consequences, is it not | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
inconceivable that Mr Blair should not be held to account for his | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
actions? | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
This is not a day for sound bites. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
But does the Prime Minister not agree that the hand of history | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
should be feeling somebody's collar? | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
LAUGHTER I don't think it is a grey wash or a whitdwash | 0:08:22 | 0:08:26 | |
or an anything else wash, I think this, from what | 0:08:26 | 0:08:29 | |
I have seen so far, is a thorough effort trying | 0:08:29 | 0:08:33 | |
to understand that the narrative of the events, | 0:08:33 | 0:08:37 | |
the decisions that were | 0:08:37 | 0:08:38 | |
taken and the mistakes that were made. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
And I think there is a huge amount to learn. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
And I think everyone who has played a part in it | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
has to take the responsibility for it. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
Many of those who were in Tony Blair's Cabinet at the time | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
are now in the House of Lords. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:55 | |
Will he perhaps join me in recognising three | 0:08:55 | 0:08:58 | |
certainties, that have emerged from his report. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:03 | |
First, that there was no falsification of the intellhgence. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:08 | |
Second, that the Cabinet was not deceived. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:14 | |
And third, that there was no undisclosed plan | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
between the Prime Minister and the President of | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
the United States to go to war before | 0:09:21 | 0:09:25 | |
the processes of Government where invoked. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:30 | |
I welcome the report, I will study it carefully, we will | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
learn the lessons, but at the end of the day, | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
it is elected ministers who must exercise the judgment | 0:09:36 | 0:09:39 | |
on some of these questions. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:43 | |
John Reid on the Chilcot Report | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
Well, of course, the other big story of the week was | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
the continuing fallout from the UK's voted to leave the EU. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
On Monday, the Chancellor told MPs his plans to | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
cut corporation tax, which showed the UK was still open for btsiness. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:57 | |
George Osborne said that nothing positive would come from looking | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
back in anger. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:05 | |
In my view, the strongest signal we could send the | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
world, that Britain after this referendum | 0:10:08 | 0:10:12 | |
is open to the world and re`dy to do business would be to cut | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
corporation tax still furthdr. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 | |
We should aim for a rate of 15% and preferably | 0:10:17 | 0:10:19 | |
lower, because if you are a pro-business, you are pro,jobs, | 0:10:19 | 0:10:23 | |
pro-living standards and pro-working people. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:27 | |
A lack of planning for a Le`ve vote is becoming evident | 0:10:27 | 0:10:30 | |
across all policy areas. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
Instead of a clear plan of action, so far, we | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
have had a series of ad hoc statements and announcements and | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
these included, yes, the grateful abandonment | 0:10:38 | 0:10:39 | |
of the Brexit budget. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:41 | |
Which was to increase sharply with the level of austerity being | 0:10:41 | 0:10:44 | |
applied, the fiscal surplus target has been | 0:10:44 | 0:10:46 | |
abandoned and today the Chancellor has announced planned | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
reductions in the headline rate of corporation tax. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
Rather than ad hoc announcelents, we need a framework | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
for economic decision-making. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:57 | |
When it comes to planning, let me say | 0:10:57 | 0:10:59 | |
this, first of all, there h`ve been extensive contingency plans in place | 0:10:59 | 0:11:03 | |
to deal with financial markdt disorder as a result of a | 0:11:03 | 0:11:05 | |
Leave vote. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
The fact that we are not debating that today shows that those | 0:11:07 | 0:11:10 | |
contingency plans had been dffective and we remain vigilant that they | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
were in place. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
Will he today rule out any plans to claw back a | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
potential loss in revenue yield from the cut | 0:11:19 | 0:11:23 | |
of corporation tax in the absence of behavioural change | 0:11:23 | 0:11:27 | |
through the mechanism of further attacks on the welfare budgdt? | 0:11:27 | 0:11:32 | |
The overall message and the very clear | 0:11:32 | 0:11:36 | |
message from the business Council, the Prime Minister's Business | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
Council, which met on Thursday, was let | 0:11:38 | 0:11:39 | |
us send a message out round the world that we are not | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
closed for business, we are not turning our back | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
on the world, we are open to business and we're | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
reaching out to world. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:48 | |
The Government suffered a ddfeat in the Commons on Wednesday | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
over the fate of EU nationals living in the UK. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:54 | |
It was a debate that saw Boris Johnson speak in the | 0:11:54 | 0:11:56 | |
Commons for the first time since the referendum. | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
A prominent figure in the Ldave campaign, he had been one | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
of the favourites to replacd David Cameron as Conservative leader | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
and Prime Minister until fellow Brexiteer Michael Gove cast | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
doubt on his suitability. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:12 | |
The motion in front of MPs said that the British | 0:12:12 | 0:12:14 | |
Government should guarantee that anyone from an EU country should be | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
allowed to stay. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:19 | |
I think it is absolutely right to issue the | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
strongest possible reassurance to EU nationals in this country, not just | 0:12:22 | 0:12:28 | |
for moral or humanitarian rdasons, but for very, very sound economic | 0:12:28 | 0:12:33 | |
reasons as well. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:34 | |
They are a welcome, they are necessary, they ard a vital | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
part of our society and I whll be passionately supporting this motion | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
tonight. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:42 | |
The Shadow Home Secretary urged other MPs to back Labour's lotion. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:45 | |
We can send a message out from this Parliament today to Europe | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
and the rest of the world. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
Yes, people have expressed frustrations | 0:12:51 | 0:12:53 | |
about the EU, but our country and its people have not changed | 0:12:53 | 0:12:58 | |
We are still that same place that has | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
been renowned the world over for doing | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
the fair and right thing. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
For doing the decent thing. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
We fully expect that the legal status of EU | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
nationals living in the UK `nd that of UK nationals in EU member states | 0:13:10 | 0:13:14 | |
will be properly protected. | 0:13:14 | 0:13:16 | |
Given that both the UK and EU want to | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
maintain a close relationshhp, we are confident that we will work | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
together and that both EU and British citizens will be protected | 0:13:21 | 0:13:25 | |
through reciprocal arrangemdnts | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
But, when it came to be votd, MPs backed Labour's motion, | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
calling on the Government to give EU nationals | 0:13:32 | 0:13:34 | |
currently living in the UK the right to remain. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:37 | |
The result, however, isn't binding on the Governlent | 0:13:37 | 0:13:42 | |
Meanwhile, up on the committee corridor, the Foreign Affairs | 0:13:42 | 0:13:44 | |
Committee is hearing from sdnior ministers following the Leave vote. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
First up, the man preparing the ground for the Brexit negothations. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:52 | |
Oliver Letwin has been appohnted to head a special unit | 0:13:52 | 0:13:56 | |
at the Cabinet Office dedicated to the task. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
The committee chair suggestdd it had been a dereliction of duty that | 0:13:59 | 0:14:03 | |
contingency plans for a Leave victory had not been put in place. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:08 | |
You are the one left holding the baby. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:10 | |
I can only say that the babx is being firmly held, | 0:14:10 | 0:14:13 | |
and that my intention is the baby should prosper, | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
because I care about the baby in question. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:18 | |
It is, in fact, our country. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
But what was the point of the work, if it wasn't binding | 0:14:20 | 0:14:23 | |
on the new Prime Minister? | 0:14:23 | 0:14:25 | |
We are not making any recommendations. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:26 | |
There is no question of thel abiding by anything. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:31 | |
We are providing a basis for them to make decisions. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:36 | |
This is a very, very important distinction. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:40 | |
And when you ask the question, "Is it worth doing that?" | 0:14:40 | 0:14:44 | |
my answer is, absolutely... | 0:14:44 | 0:14:45 | |
I would have speculated a wdek ago that it was abundantly worthwhile, | 0:14:45 | 0:14:50 | |
I can now tell you after a week of very intensive effort | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
that it is totally necessarx to do, | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
and abundantly worthwhile, for sure. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:59 | |
Oliver Letwin. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:00 | |
On Thursday, it was the turn of the Foreign Secretary, | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
Philip Hammond, to appear in front of the MPs. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:05 | |
The committee thought the Foreign Office budget would need | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
to double or triple to cope with the change. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
I don't think it is remotelx realistic to talk about doubling... | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
And as the Foreign Secretarx, with a budget of... | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
The budget of the Foreign Office is a minute proportion of overall | 0:15:16 | 0:15:19 | |
government expenditure, it hs your view that the Foreign Officd should | 0:15:19 | 0:15:23 | |
continue to suffer that levdl of austerity, despite the f`ct our | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
diplomatic position and rold in the world has completely changed, | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
and the scale of the challenge facing the United Kingdom | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
diplomatically has gone off the scale? | 0:15:32 | 0:15:36 | |
We may indeed need to bid for additional resource | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
to deal with the specific pressures that arise. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:42 | |
What I am saying to the comlittee is that I don't think, | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
in the economic and fiscal circumstances that the country | 0:15:44 | 0:15:47 | |
is likely to face over the coming few years, | 0:15:47 | 0:15:51 | |
talk of doubling or trebling departmental budgets | 0:15:51 | 0:15:53 | |
is remotely realistic. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:57 | |
Philip Hammond. | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
At the end of the week in the House of Lords, | 0:15:59 | 0:16:01 | |
the former Labour MP Oona, now Lady King, was calling | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
for a second referendum once the UK had negotiated terms | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
of its withdrawal. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
In the interests of democracy, the British people must be given | 0:16:10 | 0:16:13 | |
the chance to vote on the ddal to leave the EU, once we finally | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
know what that deal is and what that deal costs, | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
in terms of our economy, our jobs, our pensions, our future, | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
our global influence, our geographical borders, | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
and last but certainly not least, our precious identity as a tolerant, | 0:16:26 | 0:16:30 | |
open facing nation. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
I say, let the people decidd. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
But other peers disagreed. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
The only way that we can have a second bite at this | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
cherry is to have a politic`l party with its main aim in its manifesto | 0:16:41 | 0:16:45 | |
commitment not to break with the EU, and test that at a general dlection. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:51 | |
I simply say to the House, particularly to this House, | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
of which I am very, very fond, this is essentially an advisory House, | 0:16:53 | 0:16:57 | |
but the public is not an advisory public. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:00 | |
The public have made their decision. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:02 | |
And for this House particul`rly I would say it to my friends | 0:17:02 | 0:17:05 | |
at the other end, amongst whom I certainly see no appdtite | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
for another referendum whatsoever, but I do say it to my friends | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
in this House, it really isn't our job to thwart | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
the will of the British people. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:17 | |
A former Conservative MP put it more bluntly. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
Dear God, wasn't one enough?! | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
Do we really want another one? | 0:17:22 | 0:17:24 | |
I can't believe that people would want another one! | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
The British people were not deluded. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:28 | |
They knew what they were dohng. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
They voted to leave. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
We are now told, well, let's have negotiations, | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
a full negotiated package, and we'll put that package | 0:17:34 | 0:17:36 | |
before the public. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:38 | |
My concern, my lords, then is, again, if the publhc said | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
they didn't agree with that, there would be an attempt to rerun | 0:17:41 | 0:17:45 | |
and rerun and rerun. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:47 | |
There is this core issue we have to be really worried about, | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
my lords, as politicians - we must re-engage with the public. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:54 | |
They have shown that they h`ve got distrust in the political elite | 0:17:54 | 0:17:59 | |
We can increase that distrust if we keep saying to people, | 0:17:59 | 0:18:02 | |
keep on voting and do what we want. | 0:18:03 | 0:18:05 | |
That's not the way we operate, and I know it's not | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
what the noble lady wants. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
Now let's take a look at sole other news from around | 0:18:10 | 0:18:12 | |
Westminster in brief. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:14 | |
The Health Secretary, Jeremx Hunt, has said the Government will impose | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
a new contract on junior doctors in England. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
It follows their decision to reject the latest deal, | 0:18:20 | 0:18:22 | |
by 58% to 42%, leading to the resignation | 0:18:22 | 0:18:26 | |
of the chairman of the BMA's junior doctors committee. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:30 | |
Jeremy Hunt told MPs the new deal had won the support of the lajority | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
of the Royal Colleges in the health service. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:37 | |
Unfortunately, because of the vote, we are now left in a no man's land | 0:18:37 | 0:18:41 | |
that if it continues can only damage the NHS. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:46 | |
An elected Government whose main aim is to improve the safety and quality | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
of care for patients has cole up against a union which has stirred up | 0:18:49 | 0:18:54 | |
anger amongst its own members it is now unable to pacify. | 0:18:54 | 0:18:59 | |
Labour urged the Government to reconsider. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
It does not help for the Government to treat junior doctors | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
like the enemy within. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:06 | |
It has not helped their mor`le to imply at one time that the only | 0:19:06 | 0:19:10 | |
barrier to a seven-day NHS is their reluctance to work | 0:19:10 | 0:19:12 | |
weekends, when so many of them already work unsocial hours, | 0:19:12 | 0:19:17 | |
sacrificing family life in the process. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:22 | |
Public opinion is not on the Government's side. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
It is not too late to changd course. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:29 | |
The Government called on Labour to condemn a teachers' strike | 0:19:29 | 0:19:32 | |
which closed schools on Tuesday | 0:19:32 | 0:19:34 | |
The strike was called by the National Union of Te`chers, | 0:19:34 | 0:19:38 | |
as part of a dispute over school funding, pay and conditions. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
The industrial action by thd NUT is pointless, but it is | 0:19:41 | 0:19:45 | |
far from inconsequential. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:47 | |
It disrupts children's educ`tion, it inconveniences parents and it | 0:19:47 | 0:19:51 | |
damages the profession's reputation in the eyes of the public. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:56 | |
Will the Minister now accept that class sizes are increasing, | 0:19:56 | 0:19:59 | |
pupils are getting less chohce about the subjects they can | 0:19:59 | 0:20:04 | |
learn today, and jobs are going and children are now | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
getting less individual time with staff? | 0:20:06 | 0:20:10 | |
Southern Railway is temporarily cutting 341 trains a day | 0:20:10 | 0:20:15 | |
from the service it provides. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
The announcement follows weeks of problems caused by | 0:20:17 | 0:20:19 | |
industrial action and a shortage of train crews. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:23 | |
Appearing before MPs, the company's boss faced | 0:20:23 | 0:20:26 | |
some tough questions. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
You've already admitted that 40% of the delays | 0:20:28 | 0:20:32 | |
are your direct responsibilhty, and you have been fined. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:36 | |
And only this morning, there has been an official | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
announcement of hundreds of services cut in a very abrupt manner, | 0:20:39 | 0:20:45 | |
there doesn't seem to have been any consultation | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
at all about which those services are and just what is happenhng. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
Are you fit to be running this railway? | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
Yes, we are. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
We are fit to be running this railway. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
We are in the middle of an extremely difficult moment | 0:20:59 | 0:21:02 | |
in the franchise at this st`ge, it is a difficult | 0:21:02 | 0:21:04 | |
and challenging franchise anyway. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:08 | |
But the problems over the l`st few weeks, following the industrial | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
action taken by the RMT conductors, have added to some challenghng | 0:21:11 | 0:21:15 | |
circumstances which were inherent in this franchise. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:19 | |
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has told MPs that he | 0:21:19 | 0:21:21 | |
"will not tolerate anti-Semhtism" in the Labour Party. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:25 | |
He was being questioned by the Home Affairs Committde, | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
which is investigating whether prejudice against | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
the Jewish community has increased. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:33 | |
The Labour Party has published a report into anti-Semitism - | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
sparked by remarks made | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
by the former London Mayor, Ken Livingstone. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
Ken Livingstone made remarks that were wholly | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
unacceptable and totally wrong, they were drawn to the attention | 0:21:43 | 0:21:47 | |
of the party compliance unit very rapidly, a decision was made | 0:21:47 | 0:21:52 | |
within a very few hours to suspend his party membership | 0:21:52 | 0:21:57 | |
His remarks are now being investigated by the party | 0:21:57 | 0:22:01 | |
and due process will take place | 0:22:01 | 0:22:06 | |
Sad, shocked and insecure. | 0:22:06 | 0:22:09 | |
Those are the three words that the President of the Board | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
of Deputies chose when asked in this committee, two weeks ago, | 0:22:12 | 0:22:17 | |
about how he felt when he hdard of Mr Livingstone's comments - | 0:22:17 | 0:22:22 | |
your friend, Ken. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:24 | |
There are 300,000 Jewish people in this country. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:28 | |
Are you upset that you and xour friend have upset them in this way? | 0:22:28 | 0:22:34 | |
Ken Livingstone has been suspended from party membership | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
following the remarks that he made. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:39 | |
So, obviously, we have taken action, as a party. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:44 | |
MPs have been sharing some `ppalling examples of abuse they | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
and their constituents have encountered from peopld | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
The Commons was debating how to deal with the bullies who use | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
the anonymity available onlhne to hurl abuse and make thre`ts. | 0:22:56 | 0:23:01 | |
One MP described how she'd been reduced to tears by hurtful insults. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:06 | |
So, I came here with the full knowledge and expectation | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
that my words and actions whll be held up to public scrutiny, | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
and that is right. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:14 | |
What has sometimes taken my breath away, though, Madam Deputy Speaker, | 0:23:14 | 0:23:17 | |
shocked my family and reducdd me to tears, is the vitriolic, | 0:23:17 | 0:23:20 | |
hateful and sometimes criminal levels of personal abuse th`t I | 0:23:20 | 0:23:24 | |
and indeed colleagues across this House, have faced. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:28 | |
This debate today is about dnabling Parliament to send a clear lessage | 0:23:28 | 0:23:32 | |
to the industry, to social ledia and to the online world, | 0:23:32 | 0:23:36 | |
to say, "Enough is enough." | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
One occasion, I simply postdd some online comments | 0:23:39 | 0:23:42 | |
about some boy racers who wdre causing considerable | 0:23:42 | 0:23:44 | |
anti-social behaviour, and within about an hour, | 0:23:44 | 0:23:46 | |
I was being abused from all around the globe by boy racers who had | 0:23:46 | 0:23:50 | |
obviously noticed a deficit in my sex life and were offdring | 0:23:50 | 0:23:54 | |
a wide range of suggestions to improve this, | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
some of which would actuallx end in certain death. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:02 | |
The final two in the Conservative leadership contest | 0:24:02 | 0:24:05 | |
have been revealed. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:06 | |
The Home Secretary, Theresa May | 0:24:06 | 0:24:08 | |
will face the Energy Ministdr, Andrea Leadsom, in the run-off, | 0:24:08 | 0:24:11 | |
after the Justice Secretary, Michael Gove, was eliminated | 0:24:11 | 0:24:13 | |
from the contest. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
On Wednesday, Westminster h`d heard the unguarded opinions of two senior | 0:24:16 | 0:24:19 | |
Conservatives who were chatting in a Sky News TV studio. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:24 | |
Talking to Sir Malcolm Rifkhnd, veteran Tory MP Ken Clarke described | 0:24:24 | 0:24:27 | |
the Home Secretary, Theresa May as "a bloody difficult woman", | 0:24:27 | 0:24:32 | |
suggested Andrea Leadsom didn't really want to leave the EU, | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
and branded Michael Gove "whld" | 0:24:35 | 0:24:39 | |
His comments were picked up by the Shadow Leader of the Commons, | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
who paid tribute to Ken Clarke, the MP for Rushcliffe. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:45 | |
This week, we were very grateful to him for giving us the vital | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
intelligence that the three remaining candidates for | 0:24:48 | 0:24:52 | |
the leadership of the Tory Party, that one of them was bloody | 0:24:52 | 0:24:56 | |
difficult, one doesn't expect to deliver on the extremely stupid | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
things she's been saying, and one would declare war | 0:24:59 | 0:25:04 | |
on at least three countries. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
He wanted Ken Clarke, who is 76, to make a late bhd | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
for the leadership. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:12 | |
Could I perhaps suggest to him, if the member | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
for Rushcliffe is reluctant, because he is of a certain `ge, | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
of returning to the dispatch box, may I remind him, I've discovered | 0:25:17 | 0:25:22 | |
that the dispatch box is a vital support and a wonderful | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
alternative to a Zimmer frale. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:30 | |
Well, Mr Flynn's government oppo, Chris Grayling, suggested | 0:25:30 | 0:25:33 | |
all this was just jealousy, as Labour was desperate | 0:25:33 | 0:25:35 | |
for a leadership contest and couldn't organise one! | 0:25:35 | 0:25:39 | |
And that's it for now, but do join Kristina Cooper | 0:25:39 | 0:25:41 | |
on Monday night at 11pm for another round-up of the day | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
here at Westminster. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:46 | |
But until then, from me, Alicia McCarthy, goodbye. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:50 |