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Hello and welcome to the Week In Parliament. | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
Coming up: After Brexit notes are caught on camera MPs demand | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
a bigger taste of the Government's plans for leaving the EU. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Can I suggest to the Prime Minister that | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
having your cake and eating it is | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
We are ambitious about getting the best | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
possible deal for trading with and | :00:38. | :00:38. | |
operating within the single European | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
Can I be the first member of Parliament to congratulate | :00:41. | :00:54. | |
Olney on her fantastic election yesterday, | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
overturning a majority of | :00:57. | :00:57. | |
we discover who won what in the Political | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has accused the government | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
of cutting business taxes, while failing to adequately fund | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
At question time, he seized on the absence of any new money | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
in the Autumn Statement to help ease the pressures - and accused | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
the Chancellor of presiding over falling growth, | :01:21. | :01:21. | |
But Theresa May rejected the claim that the Government's economic | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
The IMF says that this will be the fastest-growing advanced | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
We have record numbers of people in employment and | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
we have companies like Nissan, Jaguar Land Rover, Honda, Google, | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Facebook, Apple, investing in the UK, securing jobs here in United | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
That's what a good economic plan does. | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
Since she quotes the Institute for Fiscal Studies I think | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
she is being a little bit selective because they also went on to say | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
that the prospect for workers over the next six years was, and I quote, | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
They went on to say creating, and I quote, the worst | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
decade for living standards since the last | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
war and probably since the | :02:15. | :02:15. | |
I have to say to the right honourable | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
gentleman, I think given that he can't differentiate between the IMF | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
It's probably a good job he is sitting there and I'm | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
In the Autumn Statement last week the Chancellor | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
During that time he didn't once mention the | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
National Health Service or social care. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
1.2 million people are lacking the care they need. | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
Why was there not one single penny more for social care in | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
There is no doubt that the social care system is | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
Just look at the fact that there are 1 million more | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
people aged over 65 today than there | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
were in 2010, we see the sort of pressures on the social care | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
There is some very good practice up and down the country and | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
sadly there is some not so good practice. | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
What we need to do is make sure everybody is giving the best | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
possible service to people who need it. | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
Can I suggest to the Prime Minister that having your | :03:35. | :03:45. | |
cake and eating it is not a serious strategy for Brexit? | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
And that Britain deserves better than having | :03:49. | :03:49. | |
to rely on leaked documents to know the Government's plans? | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
How can she expect MPs to vote to trigger | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
Article 50 when she refuses to give any clarity as to what kind of | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
Brexit she is pursuing, and whether it will involve | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
Is it arrogance or is it incompetence? | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
I have answered this question many times in this House | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
and I can assure the honourable lady, she asked specifically about | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
the issue of the single market and trading with the European Union. | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
I have been clear we are ambitious about | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
getting the best possible deal for trading with and operating | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
And that question of how far the Government would go to hang | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
on to access to the single market came up the next day | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
when the Brexit Secretary, David Davis was taking | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Being questioned by a Labour MP he suggested Britain could continue | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
making payments to Brussels after it has left the European Union to | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Will the government consider making any contribution in any | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
shape or form for access to the single market? | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
It is very important because there is a distinction | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
between picking off an individual policy and setting out a major | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
criterion, and a major criterion here is, | :05:09. | :05:09. | |
I'm going to answer him if he lets me, the major criterion | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
here is that we get the best possible access for goods | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
and services to the European market and if that is included in what he's | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
talking about then of course we would consider it. | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
An SNP MP turned to alleged remarks by the foreign | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
secretary, Boris Johnson - since denied - that he supported | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
I would like to congratulate the government on the sophistication | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
of its approach to Brexit, I mean, deploying the Foreign | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
Secretary to declare his undying support for free movement of labour | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
is a masterly addition to the policy of chaos and confusion at the heart | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
But if 121 days is a long time in politics, how many days before | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
the 31st March will the Government narrow down its range of policies | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
We will use all 121 days to get the best possible policy for us | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
and we will put that single policy to the European Union. | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
And the Lords too wanted to have their say on Brexit. | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
In my view, the so-called opportunities of Brexit | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
Similarly, we must stop talking nonsense about becoming an offshore | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
Singapore or a haven of social dumping as many on the continent | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
Full participation in the single market on fair | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
The mood I find in Europe is not one of wanting to punish the UK | :06:29. | :06:40. | |
but of great sadness that a country that has done so much for peace | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
and prosperity on the continent should be turning its back on this | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
project at a time of such turbulence and danger in the world. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
And we should remember this is not just a trade issue. | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
There are a huge number of issues in relation to EU law, | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
justice, agriculture, fisheries, defence, home affairs, | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
And two years of negotiation will not be enough. | :07:04. | :07:14. | |
A former Home Office minister dismissed those who argued Britain | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
was not in a strong place to negotiate a good Brexit deal. | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
They've largely given up on the ploy of a second referendum | :07:25. | :07:34. | |
except for some noble Lords, and will now try to make | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
the case that the single market is absolutely | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
essential to future and | :07:40. | :07:40. | |
they claim that people did not vote to leave | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
the single market just the | :07:43. | :07:43. | |
People voted to take back control of our money, our | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
borders and our laws, and staying in the single market | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
Now to Friday in the Commons where a Liberal Democrat took | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
the chance to celebrate his party's success in the Richmond | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
Lib Dem Sarah Olney won the poll overturning a Conservative majority | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
The election was caused when the sitting Conservative MP, | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
Zac Goldsmith resigned - to campaign against | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
the Government's decision to back a third Heathrow runway. | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
But the Lib Dems campaigned - and won - on their | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
Tom Brake raised the victory during a question on the UK's | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
Can I be the first member of Parliament to congratulate Sarah | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
Olney on a fantastic victory yesterday overturning a majority of | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
23,000, and I'm sure the residents of Richmond | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
Park are interested in | :08:33. | :08:33. | |
Can I ask the Minister to confirm the | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
Government's desire to boost trade post-EU | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
referendum won't be at the | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
expense of the poorest countries around the world | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
Can he also use this opportunity to confirm that the | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
most effective way of distributing aid in the future is | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Union, that the Government won't hesitate to do that? | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
I will if I may pass over the first part of the | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
honourable member's comment and focus on the latter | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
Trade is absolutely vital to lift people out | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
If we can improve economies and improve the | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
functioning of economies in some of the world's | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
poorest nations that is | :09:16. | :09:16. | |
often the best way to ensure long-term sustainable development | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
and we will always look, and I have said already a number | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
of times today and previously, at our | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
international partners to ensure that we spend | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
taxpayers' money efficiently, and that will mean | :09:30. | :09:30. | |
deliver the outcomes we want to secure, | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
happen to be founded, based and run through the European Union or | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
They've been dubbed the Oscars of Westminster. | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
Big names from the worlds of politics and academia | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
were in London on Tuesday night for the Political Studies | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
It is the annual Political Studies Association awards. | :09:52. | :10:04. | |
Hillsborough campaigners Margaret Aspinall and Professor | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
Phil Scraton collected the | :10:08. | :10:08. | |
Campaigners of the Year award to a standing ovation. | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
Grayson Perry won the Contribution to the Arts and | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
The Enlightening the Public award went to the Iraq War | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
Inquiry team whose 12 volume report was published five years after its | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
It's a great pleasure to present the Enlightening | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
the Public award to the | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
Iraq Inquiry chaired by Sir John Chilcot. | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
I should say that Sir John was meant to get this award back in | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
John, he said, there is to be a inquiry | :10:42. | :10:52. | |
into the Iraq business, can | :10:53. | :10:53. | |
Sir John told us of the pressure he faced to complete the | :10:54. | :11:16. | |
Principally from bereaved families who really | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
wanted some kind of closure but also increasingly from media and | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
Yet if you want to do something on that scale | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
You can either compromise on the depth | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
and scale and quality of what you do or you can take the time you need. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
Baroness Smith of Basildon received Parliamentarian of the Year award | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
for her work leading the Labour peers. | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Everyone is saying tonight what a topsy-turvy strange political | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
House of Lords can be Parliamentarian of the Year | :11:50. | :12:10. | |
As well as talking, as a parliamentarian you | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
One of the great things about my Labour colleagues in | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
the House of Lords is that we pull together as a team. | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
It is that work as a team that helps us make a | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Now let us look at some of the other news around Westminster | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
Ministers are writing to all national sporting bodies asking them | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
to redouble their efforts to protect children | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
following accusations of child abuse in football. | :12:32. | :12:32. | |
Labour called the Minister to the Commons to ask what more | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
We need representatives from the FA, Government, schools and relevant | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
organisations to be working with the | :12:40. | :12:40. | |
police to ensure any historic claims are fully | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
investigated but also to | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
ensure that it is stamped out and our young | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
players have a safe and | :12:48. | :12:48. | |
The FA's internal review must be a proper investigation that looks | :12:49. | :13:02. | |
at the culture within football that meant that abuse took place | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
for so long and went unreported and uninvestigated for so long. | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Would she further agree with me that if this report | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
is to have credibility, it must be published | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
No good will come from anybody trying to cover anything up. | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
We need to know exactly what happened, how it happened, | :13:17. | :13:18. | |
what went wrong, and make sure that those mistakes | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
The government was defeated in the House of Lords on Wednesday | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
when peers insisted the go-ahead should be given to the second stage | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
of the Leveson Inquiry into ties between the press and the police. | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
Ministers have begun a consultation on whether or not to continue | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
But an independent peer tried to force the issue | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
into the Policing and Crime Bill, describing it as a matter of honour. | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
The government could have begun proceedings for Leveson part two | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
weeks ago, when the relevant trials had finished. | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Doing so would help draw a line under the countless scandals | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
involving both the police and the press. | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
My Lords, I do not think this is a trivial matter. | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
A commitment was made to Leveson that the victims wanted, | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
the public wanted, and for democracy to function well, we all needed. | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
The government has been faced with emotional appeals to airdrop | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
supplies to civilians suffering in Aleppo in the latest onslaught | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
Aleppo has become a key battleground in the war between forces loyal | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
to President Bashar al-Assad and Western backed rebels | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
The calls for action were led by a Labour MP. | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Mr Speaker, what Britain stands for on the world stage | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
There is no risk-free course of action left but I believe | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
Let us not stand and watch as one of the great cities | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
Let us not allow 100,000 children to starve in East Aleppo. | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Britain has the ability and indeed aspiration to play a significant | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
We, in 2013 in August, had that opportunity, | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
We had an opportunity there to hold Assad to account | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
and because of that, we have ended up in a situation | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
whereby both Russia and Daesh have now come in. | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
The question I posed to this House... | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
The question I posed now, and to the honourable lady | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
who screams from the seats is that unless this Parliament gives | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
the executive to support that we need, their hands are now | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
The Prisons Minister has told MPs the government has reached a deal | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
with the Prison Officers' Association over health | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
Last month, up to 10,000 prison officers in England and Wales | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
stopped work over claims of a surge of violence in jails | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
until a High Court injunction ordered them to end a protest. | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
As the House is aware, we have been in discussions | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
with the Prison Officers' Association over health | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
We have come to an agreement with the Prison Officers' | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
Association and the NEC on a deal that they would recommend | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
to their members that front-line staff will now get a new pay | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
We have also agreed a significant number of health and safety reforms, | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
as well as new powers for governors, in terms of how they deploy | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
A Plaid Cymru MP is calling for CCTV to be mandatory in abattoirs | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
Animal welfare charities say that while consumer pressure | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
on supermarkets helps ensure humane conditions for some animals, | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
as horse meat is not sold in the UK, there is far less demand on equine | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
And the moment, Defra have said they wish to encourage voluntary | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
The Welsh government have also indicated | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
that they support the use of CCTV in slaughterhouses and Wales. | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
But they have failed to legislate to make that mandatory. | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
It is clear this approach is not working. | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
The FSA and their board report of the 21st of September conference | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
that take up of CCTV had plateaued at 49% in red meat slaughterhouses. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
Where slaughterhouses have CCTV, they may not be | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
in the areas which allow them to monitor horse welfare. | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
Now, income tax powers worth ?12 billion were formally | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
transferred from Westminster to Holyrood in the week. | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
As BBC Westminster correspondent David Porter. | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
It has been long anticipated but now it has been delivered. | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
Since the Scottish Parliament was re-established in 1999, | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
people in Edinburgh have been talking about taxation | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
When the parliament was re-established, MSPs | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
have the powers to vary the standard rate of income tax by up | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
They decided not to use that but this is a completely | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
When the new powers come into operation, | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
in April of next year, Westminster will still set | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
the threshold but the rates and the bands of income tax will be | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
That means that the Scottish Parliament will be responsible | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
It means it will be responsible for collecting far more | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
Now, the UK Government says that with power goes responsibility | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
so the Scottish Government will have to make perhaps very | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
The Scottish Government, for its part, says it means that it | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
will be able to concentrate as far as income tax is concerned | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
on the priorities that it wants to bring in for Scotland. | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
People say, to some extent, it is the parliament growing up. | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
Now, let's go back to Brexit and the future of the UK economy. | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
MPs on the Treasury committee spoke to two experts on the subject. | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
First up, Paul Johnson, the head of the Institute | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
He told them it was too early to be sure how the referendum vote | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
would impact on the UK long-term, but unlike in most periods, | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
economic forecasters were at least able to be certain | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
that there was some uncertainty ahead. | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
Presumably, when you use the word some, you really mean a great deal. | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
Well, there is no non-loans, as it were. | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
As it turned out, we were subject to vast uncertainty in 2007, | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
And, actually, even in 2010, when most forecasters think | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
of the economy is growing much more strongly than it turned out to do. | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
So, actually, if you look back, you will see that there were periods | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
when outturns were vastly different to expectation. | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
What is different now is that we know there are certain | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
decisions about whether we stay in the single market or not, | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
and indeed, uncertainties about how the economy will respond over | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
the next couple of years which we know are uncertain. | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
I don't think it is within most people's band of uncertainty | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
that we will have anything close to what happened in 2008, | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
it is just that we know there are some changes coming along | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
and we don't really know exactly how the economy will respond to them. | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
The next day, the head of the independent Office | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
for the Budget of Responsibility was asked what he thought | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
My suspicion is that in particular, if we are in negotiations | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
in which nothing very much as agreed until everything is agreed, | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
we could be, you know, I could be retired in the Lords | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
and much time will have passed before we know where we are. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
I think we all deserve your peerage first. | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
You would agree, wouldn't you, that the crucial moment of most | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
uncertainty is likely to be the consequences of any | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
new arrangement put in place after we arrive in the arrival hall? | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
Which is your date for the arrival hall? | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
Well, as I say, I think it comes back in part to the degree | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
to which this ends up being a negotiation | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
in which nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
..it will be that much clearer in 2019, I fear possibly not. | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
You are about to take off, and there is a discussion taking | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
place about where to go, would your feeling of | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
uncertainty beat increased, decreased, or and changed, | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
if while you were having a conversation you took off? | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
The fact that I got onto an aircraft and people were still discussing | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
where they wanted to go would be a source of sufficient alarm before | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
You are very good at not answering the question. | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
Time now for our look at what has been happening in the wide world | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Is it time for Parliament to set sail? | :21:57. | :22:06. | |
Former head of the Royal Navy told peers that putting parliament | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
on a boat and towing it around the country might help combat | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
In the same debate, Lord Greaves suggested moving the capital | :22:15. | :22:25. | |
to the English Midlands or the North. | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
Peers were a flutter in the Commons as MP Gavin Newlands | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
But Ian Paisley MP opted for a bowtie. | :22:34. | :22:43. | |
He is back, but not on the front line. | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Former PM Tony Blair has announced a new organisation, | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
a platform for engagement in the political centre ground. | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
# It's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home. | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
And we end on a musical note for Theresa May. | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
She has won the backing of the 1970s songstress Kate Bush. | :23:05. | :23:14. | |
Finally, he was, until the early hours of Friday morning at least, | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
And on Wednesday, David Cameron's successor in the Oxfordshire city | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
He found the Conservative Party bleeding after three | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
He picked it up, restored its faith in itself, | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
Mr Speaker, I know first hand the effect that his leadership had | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
upon the party and on the country and on its fortunes. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
I was there on the streets and I felt the turning of the tide. | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
There is perhaps no greater tribute that I can pay David Cameron fantasy | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
that he made the Conservative Party believing itself again. | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
He made it fresh, dynamic, and able to communicate | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
In 1945, Albert Stubbs won the seat of Cambridgeshire | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
He was a famous trade unionist and he won his seat by a majority | :24:16. | :24:30. | |
of 44 by getting out on his motorcycle and riding around | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
the villages of Cambridgeshire and signing up for workers | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
He was known for his hard work for the people of that area | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Now, Mr Speaker, that record is one that I aspire to when I look | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
Now, honourable members need not worry, I'm not about to execute | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
the fastest defection in political history. | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
I mention this because Mr Stubbs was my great-grandfather. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
Now, I must watch my words carefully at this point. | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
Because his daughter, my grandmother, will be | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
Stop if I put a foot out of line, I'm going to get a very | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
I do, therefore, at knowledge at this stage, | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
that Mr Stubbs would be horrified by this. | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
But I hope he would at least approve of my work ethic. | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
Christina Cooper will be with you on Monday night at 11pm | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
for another round-up of the best of the day here at Westminster. | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
And I will be back with you at the same time next week. | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
But, so now, from me, Alicia McCarthy, goodbye. | :25:40. | :26:35. | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker, and I'm sure the whole House | :26:36. | :26:47. | |
will want to join me in wishing people across the | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
United Kingdom and the whole world a very happy St Andrews' Day. | :26:55. | :26:58. |