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Hello and Welcome to
the Week In Parliament..... | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
Where the government
promises "robust" action | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
following the poisoning of a former
Russian spy in the UK. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:34 | |
The investigation is moving apace
and this government will act without | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
hesitation as the facts become
clear. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
As the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
arrives for a three day visit - | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
the Prime Minister hails
the historic links | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
between the two nations. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
But Jeremy Corbyn condemns
the country's record | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
on human rights --
and argues the UK shouldn't be | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
selling arms there. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
They cannot be right that her
government is colluding in what the | 0:00:55 | 0:01:02 | |
United Nations says is evidence of
war crimes. We have a very tight | 0:01:02 | 0:01:08 | |
arms export regime in this country
and when there are allegations of | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
arms not being used within the lot
dummy expect that to be | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
investigated. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:14 | |
Also on this programme: Parliament
marks international women's day -- | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
but is it time for a statue
to the 18th Century author | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
and activist Mary Wollstonecraft? | 0:01:20 | 0:01:24 | |
And: Ever signed an online
petition to Parliament? | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
We find out if they really
make a difference: | 0:01:27 | 0:01:32 | |
We have seen that some petitions to
change the Government's mind. Maybe | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
not on gate to the Mac day one but
as we go through. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
But first.... | 0:01:39 | 0:01:40 | |
The Home Secretary told Mps
that the poisoning of a Russian | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
double agent and his daughter
in Salisbury was a "brazen | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
and reckless act." | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
Sergei Skripal was living in the UK
following a spy swap . | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
He was found slumped on a bench
in Salisbury in Wiltshire, | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
along with his daughter Yulia. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
The couple had been poisoned
with a rare nerve agent. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:58 | |
Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey
from Wiltshire police - | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
who went to help them -
was also taken to hospital. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
At prime minister's questions
on Wednesday Theresa May told | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
the Commons she'd held a meeting
of the national security council. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
And the next day the
Home Secretary came | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
to the Commons to update Mps. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:18 | |
The use of a nerve agent on UK soil
is a brazen and reckless act. This | 0:02:18 | 0:02:24 | |
was attempted murder and the most
cruel and public way. The | 0:02:24 | 0:02:29 | |
investigation is moving at a pace.
This government will act without | 0:02:29 | 0:02:35 | |
hesitation as the facts become
clearer. As my right honourable | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
friend the Foreign Secretary made
clear on Tuesday, we will respond in | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
a robust and appropriate manner once
we ascertain who was responsible. We | 0:02:43 | 0:02:51 | |
on this side of the House are
appalled that the idea that anyone | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
might be poisoned on the streets of
our towns and cities. We share with | 0:02:54 | 0:02:59 | |
the Government a determination that
this case be brought to a speedy and | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
just conclusion and that similar
incidents are prevented in the | 0:03:02 | 0:03:07 | |
future. I have written to her to ask
that there could be a review of 14 | 0:03:07 | 0:03:14 | |
other cases and she will know there
are many ways in which lack it | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
happen and precedents for doing so.
Can I also asked her, in terms of | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
this initiate the leader-mac
immediate investigation has she | 0:03:21 | 0:03:28 | |
considered going to the UN Security
Council to ask for a statement | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
calling on all nations to provide
assistance including willingness to | 0:03:31 | 0:03:36 | |
extradite suspects should not be
needed. She makes a suggestion | 0:03:36 | 0:03:41 | |
regarding international activity and
I can say to the right honourable | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
lady that at some stage we will be
coming back to the House with our | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
proposals but for now we are merely
preparing and concentrating on the | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
incident. Isn't it time we,
realistic and Russia and Canada Home | 0:03:52 | 0:03:58 | |
Secretary confirm whether that
memorandum of understanding between | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
UK and the Russian nuclear power
company that was so strongly | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
championed by the former Prime
Minister Mr Cameron has formally | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
ended. Event has been ended, can she
make it's ended so the previous love | 0:04:09 | 0:04:14 | |
in with Russia that we saw a few
years ago is completely finished. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:20 | |
Does the Home Secretary share my my
constituents anger of the cruel | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
nature of this crime which could've
resulted in considerably more | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
collateral damage. Will she assured
that eventually the full force of | 0:04:27 | 0:04:31 | |
the law will be brought down on the
perpetrators? My honourable friend | 0:04:31 | 0:04:36 | |
is exactly right. Just because you
want to approach this with a cool | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
tide in order to collect the
evidence doesn't mean that we do not | 0:04:39 | 0:04:45 | |
share the outrage that his
constituents and he himself clearly | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
feels about this. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:50 | |
Now let's take a look at some other
news from Westminster in brief. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
There was a call for misogyny to be
treated as a hate crime. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
MPs argued the definition should be
extended to include the abuse | 0:04:58 | 0:05:04 | |
of women, if they are targeted
simply because of their gender. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:09 | |
Misogyny is everywhere in our
society. To the point where we often | 0:05:09 | 0:05:14 | |
miss it because it's been so
normalised by being continually | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
unchallenged. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
She went on to detail,
in very explicit language, | 0:05:19 | 0:05:21 | |
some of the insults she'd received. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
Now all of these insults have been
put to me because I am a woman. We | 0:05:24 | 0:05:31 | |
can kid ourselves that these are a
few bad and ominous depot on twitter | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
but it's not. This is every day
common language. I think we need to | 0:05:34 | 0:05:42 | |
be careful about creating laws which
would an inverted leak conflict with | 0:05:42 | 0:05:45 | |
the principles of equality. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
MPs held their first big debate
on a bill to cap gas | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
and electricity prices. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:51 | |
The aim is to provide some
protection to customers who don't | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
shop around for the cheapest
possible energy deals. | 0:05:54 | 0:06:01 | |
Those paying the terrorists are much
more likely to be in reduced | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
circumstances. 80% of households
with an income of less than £18,000, | 0:06:05 | 0:06:10 | |
ten not switch supplier in the last
three years. I welcome the | 0:06:10 | 0:06:14 | |
governments foray into a policy
which are previously denounced as | 0:06:14 | 0:06:18 | |
Marxist. But it remains a case that
as a result of this government in | 0:06:18 | 0:06:23 | |
action, millions of households have
been left to scrape through this | 0:06:23 | 0:06:26 | |
winter facing a choice between cold
homes or astronomical bills. If the | 0:06:26 | 0:06:32 | |
average saving between the cheapest
tariff for the big six and a | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
standard tariff is £300 per annum,
then somebody else apart from he can | 0:06:36 | 0:06:42 | |
do the math to assess that the sums
that we sought to recover from this | 0:06:42 | 0:06:45 | |
company... | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
The big thaw following the big
freeze led to thousands of homes | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
being left without water
as engineers battled to deal | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
with leaks and burst pipes. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:55 | |
Some areas were without supplies
for several days, relying | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
on emergency stocks
of bottled water. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
There is absolutely no excuse for
water companies making huge profits | 0:07:01 | 0:07:07 | |
not being able to provide the
resilience by what a protected | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
businesses and indeed residents
around the country. Thames water | 0:07:10 | 0:07:15 | |
made pre-tax profits of £638 million
last year. Or is simply no excuse | 0:07:15 | 0:07:20 | |
for not having robust emergency
plans in place. Thames water are | 0:07:20 | 0:07:26 | |
very much under the spotlight. I'm
angry with them too. This is | 0:07:26 | 0:07:30 | |
returning. They recognise there's
been a change of ownership and | 0:07:30 | 0:07:32 | |
leadership. I'm determined that
Thames water customers receive a far | 0:07:32 | 0:07:37 | |
better service than they have today. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
Ministers have been urged
to introduce a licensing | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
regime for air weapons. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:42 | |
In the Lords, peers heard
that there had been thousands | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
of attacks on pets involving airguns
in the last five years. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:54 | |
The charity recorded 164 attacks and
cats within airgun last year while | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
they received nearly 900 calls to
their cruelty hotline to report in | 0:07:58 | 0:08:02 | |
air weapon attacks on animals making
4.5 thousand attacks in the last | 0:08:02 | 0:08:08 | |
five years. Is it time to licence
these weapons to ensure they are | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
possessed only for legitimate
purposes by responsible owners and | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
not by those who would truly inflict
pain and suffering and often death | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
and defenseless domestic animals.
The Government does take animal | 0:08:18 | 0:08:25 | |
welfare seriously. With causing
unnecessary suffering. We are | 0:08:25 | 0:08:35 | |
increasingly the maximum penalty for
this offence from six months | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
imprisonment and or in unlimited
fine to five years imprisonment and | 0:08:38 | 0:08:43 | |
or in unlimited fine. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
Does the fake fur bobble
on your winter hat contain real fur? | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
The Environment Committee has been
gathering evidence after a spate | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
of cases where garments trimmed
with fake fur contained | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
the real thing. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
Samples sent to a laboratory
were found to contain a variety | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
of different animal furs,
which were often cheaper | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
than synthetic fibres. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:05 | |
To the naked eye into the field you
wouldn't necessarily tell the | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
difference would you? No,
absolutely. The use of Friday of | 0:09:08 | 0:09:18 | |
completely unreliable cues including
price. 50% of people used cheap | 0:09:18 | 0:09:23 | |
price as an indicator of fake fur.
Colour. If it's bright pink then you | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
know there is no bright pink
animals. We've come a long way from | 0:09:27 | 0:09:34 | |
the 1930s. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
were used in circuses -
with lion tamers as | 0:09:36 | 0:09:38 | |
the star attraction. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:39 | |
Even into the 1960s elephants
were performing gravity defying | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
tricks to the amazement of children
crowded into the big top. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
Now one MP wants a total ban on wild
animals in circuses. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:49 | |
According to the department
for the environment there | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
are currently 18 wild animals
licensed for travelling shows | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
in England, including six reindeer,
three camels, three zebra, | 0:09:55 | 0:10:00 | |
three raccoons, one fox,
a macaw and a zebu. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
Is it right I question that we allow
wild animals to travel around the | 0:10:04 | 0:10:11 | |
country from temporary enclosures to
circus tent and back to a lorry for | 0:10:11 | 0:10:15 | |
a journey onto the town? What sort
of a life is bad for animals such as | 0:10:15 | 0:10:21 | |
zebras and camels? Without space to
forage and interact with other | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
animals of their own kind in the way
that they would naturally. These | 0:10:24 | 0:10:29 | |
wild animals cannot truly be said to
be wild. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:40 | |
Emboldened by her latest speech
on Brexit , Theresa May told | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
the Commons she's confident Britain
can reach an agreement | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
with the European Union. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:45 | |
She said she wants trade
across borders which is | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
as frictionless as possible,
and that while the UK | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
will leave the single market,
and the jurisdiction | 0:10:49 | 0:10:51 | |
of the European Court of Justice,
some regulations will remain | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
in step with the EU. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:58 | |
A short time later the chancellor
appeared in front of a committee | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
of MPs and told them the UK needed
a free-flowing border between Dover | 0:11:01 | 0:11:07 | |
and Calais and that he was setting
aside £3 billion over the next two | 0:11:07 | 0:11:10 | |
years to prepare for Brexit. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:12 | |
The next day it was the turn
of the Brexit Secretary | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
to answer questions. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:17 | |
In a lively session he was asked
whether the UK would stay in the EU | 0:11:17 | 0:11:21 | |
if Parliament voted down the final
Brexit deal in what's called | 0:11:21 | 0:11:23 | |
a "meaningful vote." | 0:11:23 | 0:11:29 | |
With respect that is been dealt with
at length. I don't want to retract. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:38 | |
I recommend you go back. When he was
a Minister your colleague on the | 0:11:38 | 0:11:45 | |
committees comments on this
matter... I think we have a right to | 0:11:45 | 0:11:54 | |
ask these questions. There's no with
respect. Will there be an | 0:11:54 | 0:12:01 | |
opportunity to suspend Article 50
the event that there isn't time to | 0:12:01 | 0:12:07 | |
have a meaningful vote? I don't
think a meaningful vote is | 0:12:07 | 0:12:13 | |
overruling the referendum. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:14 | |
And after a request
from the Committee Chair | 0:12:14 | 0:12:15 | |
for the government to tell the EU
it can't dictate terms, | 0:12:15 | 0:12:18 | |
David Davis gave his top tips
on how to negotiate. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:23 | |
At the beginning of this process I
said to the House one of the debates | 0:12:23 | 0:12:27 | |
that they would be astonished how to
play I was going to be in the next | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
two years. I take the view that when
public aggression in negotiations | 0:12:31 | 0:12:40 | |
generally doesn't work very well. It
creates an attitude on the other | 0:12:40 | 0:12:45 | |
side and I avoid it. What anyone
else does is up to them. We've give | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
me different advise? Now, two prime
Ministers questions were Theresa May | 0:12:49 | 0:12:59 | |
defended the UK's relationship with
Saudi Arabia the start of a | 0:12:59 | 0:13:03 | |
three-day visit by the crown prince.
His schedule included talks with | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
Theresa May and once with the queen. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:12 | |
The ground and is credited with
kick-starting economic forms in the | 0:13:12 | 0:13:18 | |
kingdom such as the the ban on women
driving. Despite much talk of | 0:13:18 | 0:13:27 | |
reform, there has been a sharp
increase in the arrest and detention | 0:13:27 | 0:13:32 | |
of dissidents, torture of prisoners
is common, human rights defenders | 0:13:32 | 0:13:37 | |
routinely sentenced to lengthy
prison terms. Unfair trials and | 0:13:37 | 0:13:42 | |
executions are widespread as Amnesty
International confirms. As if she | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
makes her arms sales pitch will she
also call on the crown prince to | 0:13:46 | 0:13:51 | |
halt this shocking abuse of human
rights in Saudi Arabia? I look | 0:13:51 | 0:13:56 | |
forward to welcoming the crown
prince from Saudi Arabia to this... | 0:13:56 | 0:14:03 | |
Labour backbenchers from sedentary
preventions are shouting shame. Can | 0:14:03 | 0:14:08 | |
I say to those backbenchers that the
point we have with Saudi Arabia is | 0:14:08 | 0:14:13 | |
historic, an important one, and it
has saved the lives of potentially | 0:14:13 | 0:14:18 | |
hundreds of people in this country.
Jeremy Corbyn moved on from Saudi | 0:14:18 | 0:14:25 | |
Arabia's human rights record to its
involvement in the war in Yemen, | 0:14:25 | 0:14:29 | |
where it is backing attempts to
restore the country's President. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:33 | |
Germany has suspended arms sales to
Saudi Arabia, but British arms sales | 0:14:33 | 0:14:38 | |
have sharply increased and British
military advisers are directing the | 0:14:38 | 0:14:42 | |
war. It cannot be right that her
government... Mr Speaker, it cannot | 0:14:42 | 0:14:48 | |
be right that her government is
colluding in what the United Nations | 0:14:48 | 0:14:53 | |
says is evidence of war crimes. We
have a very tight arms export regime | 0:14:53 | 0:14:58 | |
in this country, and when there are
allegations of arms not being used | 0:14:58 | 0:15:02 | |
within the lob and we expect that to
be investigated and to be -- lessons | 0:15:02 | 0:15:07 | |
to be learned on that. Theresa May. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
Ever felt so annoyed -
or so concerned - about an issue | 0:15:10 | 0:15:12 | |
that you wanted to have it
aired in Parliament? | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
Two recent debates by MPs -
one on live animal exports | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
and the other calling
for British Sign Language to be | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
on the National Curriculum -
both stemmed from online | 0:15:20 | 0:15:22 | |
petitions to Parliament. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:25 | |
So how does the system work? | 0:15:25 | 0:15:26 | |
There's a website where you can
click on a link to set | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
up your own petition. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:31 | |
If you can attract 10,000
signatures, the government | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
has to give a response. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:36 | |
If 100,000 people sign up,
the petition might be | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
debated in Parliament. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:44 | |
Liz Twist is on the Commons
Petitions Committee and was involved | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
in that recent sign language debate. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
On a rather windy day
at Westminster, I asked her why | 0:15:49 | 0:15:51 | |
petitions weren't automatically
debated once they reached that | 0:15:51 | 0:15:53 | |
magic 100,000 figure. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:58 | |
As the petitions committee,
we look at them quite carefully. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:00 | |
Sometimes they've been debated
very recently and it | 0:16:00 | 0:16:03 | |
will be repeated in debate. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
Sometimes they are about things that
perhaps the Government cannot deal | 0:16:06 | 0:16:08 | |
with, so rejected from that
point of view. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:12 | |
So, we have a certain
criteria that we look at. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:18 | |
That's a set of criteria. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
And how you do you decide? | 0:16:20 | 0:16:21 | |
What kind of thing are
you looking for in a petition? | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
Well, we are looking to see that it
has a clear point to make, | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
that it's something that can be
debated and that we are able | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
to take that forward. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
There is a threshold
for 100,000 signatures | 0:16:32 | 0:16:34 | |
for something to be debated,
but you do occasionally debate | 0:16:34 | 0:16:37 | |
things which don't reach
that 100,000 threshold. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
Your debate on sign language
being an example of that. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:46 | |
Yeah. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:47 | |
OK, so there are two things. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
First of all, once a petition
gets 10,000 signatures, | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
the Government has to produce
a response and publish that | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
on the petition's website. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:55 | |
Very often as a committee we ask
the Government to go back and look | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
at its response and improve it. | 0:16:58 | 0:16:59 | |
So, that is something
we take very seriously. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
But beyond that, we do look
at issues like the sign language | 0:17:01 | 0:17:04 | |
one, where we felt it would be
really difficult for the petitioners | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
to get to that 100,000 threshold. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
And yet it was still a matter
of great importance | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
in the public interest. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:16 | |
These debates are not
binding on the Government. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:18 | |
The Government doesn't have
to do anything once these | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
debates have been had. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
Do you think that it perhaps gives
people a bit of false hope | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
because they think I've signed this
petition, it's been debated, | 0:17:26 | 0:17:28 | |
something has to change now. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
I think everything has to start
somewhere, and for some people it | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
starts on the campaign
to raise awareness. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
But we have seen that some petitions
do change the Government's mind. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:37 | |
Maybe not on day one,
but as we go through, | 0:17:37 | 0:17:39 | |
for example the debate that was held
on brain tumours a couple of years | 0:17:39 | 0:17:43 | |
ago, has actually seen
the Government responding | 0:17:43 | 0:17:44 | |
and putting some extra money in,
£45 million into research. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:51 | |
Let's take a look at some
of the other stories making | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
the political news this week. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:56 | |
Here's Ryan Brown
with this countdown. | 0:17:56 | 0:18:01 | |
The UK's first purple plaque
was unveiled at Cardiff Bay. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
The plaque commemorates
notable women. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:16 | |
This one on their former
Welsh Assembly Member, | 0:18:16 | 0:18:18 | |
and equalities campaigner. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:19 | |
Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom
wishes resident rock star | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
Keith Richards a happy birthday. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:23 | |
I hear, Mr Speaker,
that he's 21 again. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
But actually, I might be confusing
that with his majority. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:33 | |
Former first lady meets her biggest
fan after a photo of her enamoured | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
by Michelle Obama's
portrait goes viral. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:38 | |
Shake it off, shake it off. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:42 | |
Ministers questioned
the environmental audit | 0:18:42 | 0:18:43 | |
committee's proposed 25p charge
on disposable coffee cups. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:47 | |
They say voluntary discounts
are better for shops. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:49 | |
Caffeine addicts are safe for now. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
At question time Jeremy Corbyn asked
Theresa May about human rights | 0:18:52 | 0:18:55 | |
abuses in Saudi Arabia
and reminds her of the importance | 0:18:55 | 0:18:57 | |
of International Women's Day. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:01 | |
I think that's what's
called mansplaining. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:06 | |
Women took to the streets to mark
International Women's Day, | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
including a march on Parliament
and mass strikes and | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
demonstrations in Spain. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:24 | |
In a speech in Westminster
the grandaughter of suffragette | 0:19:24 | 0:19:26 | |
Sylvia Pankhurst said 2018 could be
a turning point for women's rights. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:36 | |
Is it that one, two, three
generations down from that act we | 0:19:37 | 0:19:41 | |
have women who have been able to
occupy many more spaces through | 0:19:41 | 0:19:45 | |
education, through their work,
through political spaces, and they | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
are coming across all the continued
barriers and they are feeling that | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
maybe again another place, another
weight is required and it really | 0:19:51 | 0:19:55 | |
does feel that we are at one of
those moments that 2018 will be | 0:19:55 | 0:19:59 | |
remembered not because it's... That
because something else was | 0:19:59 | 0:20:03 | |
happening. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:04 | |
On international Women's day
itself the Commons held | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
a debate to celebrate that,
and to mark 100 years | 0:20:06 | 0:20:09 | |
since some women got the vote. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:10 | |
The Labour MP Jess Philips began
by reciting of women killed | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
by men in the last year. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:20 | |
As always the women are all ages and
were killed in violent episodes at | 0:20:20 | 0:20:24 | |
the hands of men. Violence against
women and girls is an epidemic. If | 0:20:24 | 0:20:28 | |
as many people died every week at a
sporting event or because they had a | 0:20:28 | 0:20:34 | |
specific job, there would be
national outcry. These women deserve | 0:20:34 | 0:20:39 | |
the same. We must all do better to
hear their stories and to end the | 0:20:39 | 0:20:44 | |
culture of male violence that killed
them. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
Over the next nearly four minutes,
she read out the names | 0:20:46 | 0:20:48 | |
of all the women who had died
from domestic violence | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
in the UK since the last
International Women's Day. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:56 | |
Our test should always be did we do
everything we could to protect all | 0:20:56 | 0:21:02 | |
women? For too many women in this
country the answer to this is still | 0:21:02 | 0:21:07 | |
simply now. We must do better. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:10 | |
An SNP MP argued sexism was deeply
embedded in our culture. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:13 | |
Other MPs spoke of encouraging more
women into politics - | 0:21:13 | 0:21:17 | |
We see it in this House, a juvenile,
grinning idiocy that is so offensive | 0:21:17 | 0:21:24 | |
sometimes that the smugness of a
minority of men who think that | 0:21:24 | 0:21:28 | |
supposedly clever point scoring
proves something. An | 0:21:28 | 0:21:33 | |
anti-intellectual nonsense that
makes this continuing debate so | 0:21:33 | 0:21:37 | |
tiring. There are many in this House
who had a record of opposing | 0:21:37 | 0:21:41 | |
progressive politics without
substantive argument, but with | 0:21:41 | 0:21:46 | |
plenty of bluster and filibuster,
opposing equality is as a playground | 0:21:46 | 0:21:51 | |
joke. I command I'm sure others, are
tired of engaging with men with so | 0:21:51 | 0:21:57 | |
little, so very little to offer. And
I am pleased that they represent a | 0:21:57 | 0:22:02 | |
tiny percentage of the men I
encounter. Other MPs spoke of | 0:22:02 | 0:22:07 | |
encouraging more women into politics
and Westminster. The best thing that | 0:22:07 | 0:22:11 | |
we are doing at the moment to
encourage young women to be | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
interested in politics is having a
female prime Minister, because | 0:22:14 | 0:22:19 | |
suddenly for me it was when I saw
Margaret Thatcher become prime | 0:22:19 | 0:22:22 | |
Minister and in the leader of the
party and prime Minister of our | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
country, which may politics relevant
for me. It turned politics from | 0:22:25 | 0:22:29 | |
being frankly a lot of old men in
grey raincoats to something which | 0:22:29 | 0:22:34 | |
was a Technicolor relevant issue for
me to be involved in as a | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
14-year-old girl living in South
Wales where there weren't too many | 0:22:37 | 0:22:41 | |
Tories around and I could see an
amazing role model on the | 0:22:41 | 0:22:49 | |
television. It is important that we
in this House take responsibility | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
for inspiring other women, our
daughters, but I think we should | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
also remember in this day that many
of us owe our inspiration to our | 0:22:56 | 0:23:01 | |
mothers and our grandmothers and
important women in our lives. My own | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
grandmother when she was born did
not have the right to vote, and I | 0:23:04 | 0:23:08 | |
wear her writing link to this
chamber every day and occasionally | 0:23:08 | 0:23:10 | |
it serves as a reminder of what we
owed to generations past -- I wear | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
her wedding ring. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
And while we're on the subject
of groundbreaking women, | 0:23:15 | 0:23:17 | |
this year sees several new statues
of suffrage campaigners to mark | 0:23:17 | 0:23:20 | |
the centenary of votes for women. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:21 | |
This one in Leicester
is of Alice Hawkins, with others | 0:23:21 | 0:23:24 | |
planned for Emmeline Pankhurst
in Manchester and Millicent | 0:23:24 | 0:23:26 | |
Fawcett in London. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
But women campaigners argue that
a statue to the pioneering | 0:23:29 | 0:23:33 | |
18th century feminist -
Mary Wollstonecraft - | 0:23:33 | 0:23:35 | |
is long overdue. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:39 | |
Now a group of male
Labour politicians has | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
joined that campaign. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:42 | |
Among them, Lord Adonis. | 0:23:42 | 0:23:48 | |
This is a statute to Emeline
Pankhurst, right by Parliament. She | 0:23:48 | 0:23:53 | |
was crucial in getting women to
vote, but Mary was it anything more | 0:23:53 | 0:23:58 | |
important. Her book, a vindication
of the rights of women published 225 | 0:23:58 | 0:24:03 | |
years ago established the whole idea
that women were on a par with men | 0:24:03 | 0:24:08 | |
when it came to social, political
and economic rights. That was a | 0:24:08 | 0:24:12 | |
revolutionary idea. It is now a
century since women got the vote and | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
as we look at the great achievements
of women over that period and how it | 0:24:16 | 0:24:20 | |
was that the social campaigns got
going, in order to give them those | 0:24:20 | 0:24:24 | |
rights, it all was back to Mary
Wollstonecraft and her extraordinary | 0:24:24 | 0:24:28 | |
book, the vindication of the rights
of women, which started the modern | 0:24:28 | 0:24:31 | |
feminist movement. When you read it
today, I got a copy here, I tried to | 0:24:31 | 0:24:35 | |
get a first edition from the House
of Lords but it was revolutionary | 0:24:35 | 0:24:38 | |
for the House of Lords in seven to
92 as they haven't got one. Even as | 0:24:38 | 0:24:46 | |
you read it now you realise how
explosive it was -- 17 92. This is | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
what Mary Wollstonecraft said in
1792 when Louis XVI was being | 0:24:49 | 0:24:51 | |
executed in Paris: to render her a
really virtuous and useful she must | 0:24:51 | 0:24:55 | |
not, if she did -- discharge occurs
all duties one individual is he that | 0:24:55 | 0:25:01 | |
production of the lot, she must not
be dependent on her husband's bounty | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
for her subsistence during her life
or support after his death. For how | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
can a woman be generous who has
nothing of her own? Or virtue is who | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
is not free? Those are revolutionary
ideas in 1792. We now regard them as | 0:25:11 | 0:25:18 | |
of course absolutely commonplace.
The fact that they were | 0:25:18 | 0:25:21 | |
revolutionary then,, lace now is why
they should be a statute to Mary | 0:25:21 | 0:25:26 | |
Wollstonecraft in Parliament Square
-- revolutionary then and | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
commonplace now. The heart of our
democracy since she did so much to | 0:25:28 | 0:25:33 | |
liberate women. Lord Adonis on the
revolutionary Mary Wollstonecraft. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
And that's it from me for now,
but do join Lucy Grey on BBC | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
Parliament, on Monday night at 11
for a round up of the day | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
here at Westminster. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:44 | |
But for now from me, goodbye. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:49 |