:00:13. > :00:13.Hello and welcome to Thursday In Parliament,
:00:14. > :00:17.our look at the best of the day in the Commons and the Lords.
:00:18. > :00:23.MPs react to the inquiry report saying President Putin "probably"
:00:24. > :00:29.approved the murder in London of Alexander Litvinenko.
:00:30. > :00:31.And it is a kleptocratic state that uses assassination
:00:32. > :00:36.Her refusal to act strongly in response to this,
:00:37. > :00:40.including taking this to the United Nations Security Council,
:00:41. > :00:44.will be seen as a sign of British Government weakness.
:00:45. > :00:49.It focuses attention on the consumer,
:00:50. > :00:53.rather than on the manufacturer, who should be reducing sugar
:00:54. > :01:00.And, Mock The Week - a Shadow Cabinet minister
:01:01. > :01:04.taunts his opposite number again over Europe.
:01:05. > :01:07.And we learned that the leader is going to be out-outed by
:01:08. > :01:12.who is not only an outer as far as the EU is concerned,
:01:13. > :01:18.that he wants to be out of the two Out campaigns.
:01:19. > :01:21.But first, the Home Secretary Theresa May has described as
:01:22. > :01:24."deeply disturbing" the probable involvement of the Russian state in
:01:25. > :01:29.the killing of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006.
:01:30. > :01:34.Mr Litvinenko, a former KGB agent, died at the age of 43,
:01:35. > :01:35.after drinking tea laced with radioactive
:01:36. > :01:43.He'd claimed asylum in the UK six years before.
:01:44. > :01:46.An inquiry, led by Sir Robert Owen, has found that the Russian president
:01:47. > :01:51.Vladimir Putin probably approved the killing of Mr Litvinenko.
:01:52. > :01:54.In the Commons, the Home Secretary said the Government took
:01:55. > :02:01.The inquiry, which in the course of its investigations,
:02:02. > :02:04.has considered an abundance of evidence, has found
:02:05. > :02:07.that Mr Litvinenko was deliberately poisoned by Andrei Lugovoy
:02:08. > :02:12.and Dmitry Kovtun, who he had met at the Millennium Hotel
:02:13. > :02:18.There is a strong probability that they were acting
:02:19. > :02:22.under the direction of the Russian domestic security service -
:02:23. > :02:30.And the inquiry has found that the FSB operation
:02:31. > :02:35.to kill Mr Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr Patrushev,
:02:36. > :02:42.the then-head of the FSB, and by President Putin.
:02:43. > :02:44.The conclusion that the Russian state was probably
:02:45. > :02:48.involved in the murder of Mr Litvinenko is deeply disturbing.
:02:49. > :02:52.It goes without saying that this was a blatant
:02:53. > :02:56.and unacceptable breach of the most fundamental tenets
:02:57. > :03:00.of international law, and of civilised behaviour.
:03:01. > :03:05.But we have to accept this does not come as a surprise.
:03:06. > :03:10.The inquiry confirms the assessment of successive governments that this
:03:11. > :03:17.She said the police investigation into Mr Litvinenko's death
:03:18. > :03:22.Sir Robert Owen is unequivocal in his finding that Andrei Lugovoy
:03:23. > :03:29.In light of this most serious finding, Russia's continued failure
:03:30. > :03:32.to ensure that the perpetrators of this terrible crime can be
:03:33. > :03:38.This, as the Home Secretary said, is one of the most shocking
:03:39. > :03:40.and disturbing reports ever presented
:03:41. > :03:47.It confirms that the Russian state, at its highest level,
:03:48. > :03:50.sanctioned the killing of a British citizen on the streets
:03:51. > :03:52.of our capital city, and in so doing,
:03:53. > :03:59.exposed thousands of Londoners to unacceptable levels of risk.
:04:00. > :04:01.The Home Secretary has indicated today
:04:02. > :04:04.that there will be new diplomatic pressure, and I welcome it,
:04:05. > :04:08.but I have to say, and I listened carefully to her, I am not sure it
:04:09. > :04:09.goes anywhere near enough in answering
:04:10. > :04:14.the seriousness of the findings in this report.
:04:15. > :04:18.Indeed, it could send a dangerous signal to Russia that our response
:04:19. > :04:21.is too weak, and what has been announced today cannot be the end
:04:22. > :04:25.of what the British Government is prepared to do.
:04:26. > :04:27.Given what we know about the way the Russian state
:04:28. > :04:31.operates, isn't there a case for a wide-ranging review
:04:32. > :04:33.of the nature and extent of this country's
:04:34. > :04:35.relations with it - diplomatic, political,
:04:36. > :04:42.Given the proven FSB involvement, will the Government consider
:04:43. > :04:47.expelling all FSB officers from Britain immediately?
:04:48. > :04:50.Sir Robert points out that not only has Lugovoy not been extradited
:04:51. > :04:54.to the UK, he has been lionised in Russia, become a member
:04:55. > :04:57.of the Duma, and indeed was awarded an honour by President Putin
:04:58. > :05:01.during the course of the inquiry's hearings.
:05:02. > :05:05.This is a calculated snub that adds insult to injury,
:05:06. > :05:07.and is it not clear that while this position is maintained
:05:08. > :05:11.and the suspects are not extradited, that the Putin Government can never
:05:12. > :05:14.and should never be treated as an equal and full partner
:05:15. > :05:20.Putin is an unreconstructed KGB thug and gangster,
:05:21. > :05:24.who murders his opponents in Russia and, as we know,
:05:25. > :05:26.on the streets of London, and nothing announced today
:05:27. > :05:29.is going to make the blindest bit of difference.
:05:30. > :05:33.We need much tougher measures to target Putin
:05:34. > :05:40.And those calling for a US-style Magnitsky Act are completely right,
:05:41. > :05:44.so that we can target the crooks and murderers involved in murders
:05:45. > :05:46.and corruption, prevent them from coming to the UK,
:05:47. > :05:49.prevent them from keeping their money in British banks
:05:50. > :05:52.and prevent them from buying property here in London.
:05:53. > :05:55.But I am very concerned about people up who are currently living in this
:05:56. > :05:59.country who have spoken out against the regime of Putin,
:06:00. > :06:03.We already knew they were in a dangerous
:06:04. > :06:06.they are in a proven dangerous position.
:06:07. > :06:08.I'd like to know if she is going to look
:06:09. > :06:11.at security arrangements for those people, and also the thought
:06:12. > :06:14.that this polonium-210 was just wandering
:06:15. > :06:20.Is she reviewing how that has come in and how secure we are living
:06:21. > :06:22.in a city with the threat of that just
:06:23. > :06:29.What is a certainty is that the Russian state under
:06:30. > :06:31.President Putin has killed over 100 opponents -
:06:32. > :06:35.lawyers, accountants, journalists, and politicians.
:06:36. > :06:38.And it is a kleptocratic state uses assassination as a policy weapon,
:06:39. > :06:42.so can I ask her what we intend to do
:06:43. > :06:46.Because we cannot tolerate them ordering
:06:47. > :06:50.assassinations on the streets of our country.
:06:51. > :06:53.The Government at the time took a number of measures,
:06:54. > :06:55.and some of those measures remain in place
:06:56. > :06:59.today, in relation to our relationship with the Russian state.
:07:00. > :07:03.So it is in no sense business as usual, as regards to the sort
:07:04. > :07:07.of relationship we would have with most states.
:07:08. > :07:10.Does the Secretary of State agree with me that her refusal to act
:07:11. > :07:14.strongly in response to this, including taking this
:07:15. > :07:17.to the United Nations Security Council, will be seen as a sign
:07:18. > :07:21.of British Government weakness by Putin?
:07:22. > :07:27.Can I say to the honourable lady, that I am not quite sure what action
:07:28. > :07:30.she thinks the United Nations Security Council,
:07:31. > :07:31.of which Russia is a permanent member,
:07:32. > :07:36.would take in relation to this matter.
:07:37. > :07:40.MPs on all sides have urged the Government to introduce a tax
:07:41. > :07:43.on sugary drinks to help tackle what has been dubbed
:07:44. > :07:50.The treatment of obesity and its consequences is currently
:07:51. > :07:52.thought to be costing the National Health Service
:07:53. > :07:59.Last November, a Health Committee report called for a sugar tax,
:08:00. > :08:04.as part of a bold and effective strategy to combat the problem.
:08:05. > :08:06.We have a situation, and we know this from
:08:07. > :08:10.the Child Measurement Programme in our schools, that around
:08:11. > :08:14.one in five children are entering into reception class either
:08:15. > :08:21.By the time they leave, in Year Six, we find that one third of children
:08:22. > :08:27.But perhaps even more worrying than that is the stark data around
:08:28. > :08:33.the health inequality of obesity, and that is to say that one quarter
:08:34. > :08:35.of children from the most disadvantaged groups
:08:36. > :08:40.in our society are leaving school not just overweight but obese,
:08:41. > :08:42.and that is more now than twice the rate
:08:43. > :08:46.of those children from the most advantaged families.
:08:47. > :08:49.Any strategy, she said, would need to look at the marketing
:08:50. > :08:55.Do I want to have a kilogram of chocolate for almost nothing
:08:56. > :09:03.Please don't make me walk past the chicanes of sugar
:09:04. > :09:07.at the checkout or while I'm queueing to pay for petrol,
:09:08. > :09:12.because we know that 37% of all the confectionery we buy
:09:13. > :09:16.It doesn't matter how much you are intending not to buy it,
:09:17. > :09:18.if it is presented to you on impulse,
:09:19. > :09:21.we know that is an extraordinarily powerful tool.
:09:22. > :09:27.I am aware I am rather overweight myself, and some may say I should
:09:28. > :09:31.practice what I preach, and I do try, but this is why I am
:09:32. > :09:34.so passionate about this agenda, as I
:09:35. > :09:37.know how much harder it becomes as you get older.
:09:38. > :09:40.As I was allowed to adopt bad habits that are hard to break,
:09:41. > :09:43.and that is why we need to educate the next generation
:09:44. > :09:48.Maybe a 20% sugar tax on soft drinks isn't very much to celebrity chefs
:09:49. > :09:53.like Jamie Oliver, and some of those individuals that are pushing an idea
:09:54. > :09:59.of a sugar tax, but around 12p per can, 37p per two litre bottle,
:10:00. > :10:02.for some of those on the lowest incomes,
:10:03. > :10:05.who we know proportionally buy these products, is a massive
:10:06. > :10:10.Mary Poppins, Madam Deputy Speaker, as you know, as you have,
:10:11. > :10:12.I'm sure, shown the film to your children
:10:13. > :10:18.at some stage, felt that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
:10:19. > :10:23.or nine teaspoons of sugar in a Coca-Cola can,
:10:24. > :10:29.Yet, in many schools, up and down the country,
:10:30. > :10:33.we have a situation where lunches provided by schools are generally
:10:34. > :10:36.very healthy, yet the foods children themselves,
:10:37. > :10:39.or provided by their parents, bring in to schools,
:10:40. > :10:43.Now we can only imagine how frustrating
:10:44. > :10:45.this is for teachers, and indeed, everybody who works in schools,
:10:46. > :10:49.when they see children filling themselves with junk food,
:10:50. > :10:52.knowing there is little they can do about it.
:10:53. > :10:55.Of course, we need more cooperation between schools and parents
:10:56. > :10:58.and teachers, and I back the committee's proposals that
:10:59. > :11:01.nutritional guidelines should be published for packed lunches,
:11:02. > :11:05.and that, where necessary, teachers should be able to have,
:11:06. > :11:07.perhaps, robust conversations with parents,
:11:08. > :11:11.so that these guidelines are followed.
:11:12. > :11:13.Any debate about how to make our children healthy must
:11:14. > :11:17.avoid finger-wagging at parents who are doing the very best
:11:18. > :11:21.they can, often in very difficult circumstances.
:11:22. > :11:24.It is important to support people to make
:11:25. > :11:26.healthy choices where possible, as opposed to shaking our heads
:11:27. > :11:35.The position from these ventures has always been that we have a concern
:11:36. > :11:40.that a sugar tax, in itself, could be regressive,
:11:41. > :11:43.and that it focuses attention on the consumer, who is often
:11:44. > :11:46.addicted to sugar, rather than on the manufacturer,
:11:47. > :11:50.who should be reducing sugar in their products,
:11:51. > :11:54.but, that said, I want to assure the Minister that it is right
:11:55. > :11:57.that we look at the emerging evidence from
:11:58. > :12:00.other countries, which has shown, where similar taxes have been
:12:01. > :12:04.introduced, that they have had a positive effect.
:12:05. > :12:06.You are watching our round-up of the day
:12:07. > :12:10.Still to come - the Culture Secretary is pressed over
:12:11. > :12:19.the future of both Channel 4 and the BBC.
:12:20. > :12:22.An extra ?100 million is to be given to people who received
:12:23. > :12:28.contaminated blood during NHS treatment in the 1970s and '80s.
:12:29. > :12:31.Around 6,000 patients were infected with Hepatitis C,
:12:32. > :12:39.Hundreds more are living with the serious consequences.
:12:40. > :12:42.Last year, David Cameron apologised to victims for what's been called
:12:43. > :12:47.The system for making payments to victims has been condemned
:12:48. > :12:53.The Health Minister announced a consultation on how
:12:54. > :13:01.I recognise that, for some, this will come too late.
:13:02. > :13:03.I can't right the pain and distress of 30 years,
:13:04. > :13:07.and the truth is that no amount of money could ever make up
:13:08. > :13:17.for the impact this tragedy has had on people's lives.
:13:18. > :13:23.For legal reasons I should be clear in the majority of cases it is not
:13:24. > :13:26.appropriate to talk about compensation, I have made that point
:13:27. > :13:32.before, I would like echo what has been said for in this House, sorry,
:13:33. > :13:37.on behalf of the government, for every person affected by this
:13:38. > :13:40.tragedy. Reform is a priority for myself and the government and I can
:13:41. > :13:46.announce today that the Department of Health has identified ?100
:13:47. > :13:51.million for the proposals set out in the consultation. This is in
:13:52. > :13:52.addition to the current spend and the ?25 million already announced in
:13:53. > :13:54.March 2000 15. She said that she had received
:13:55. > :14:05.many letters from people. One letter that struck me ask
:14:06. > :14:10.simply, please make me well. My intention through this new scheme is
:14:11. > :14:14.to provide an opportunity to enhance access to treatment, especially for
:14:15. > :14:14.those falling just short of current criteria for the NHS.
:14:15. > :14:20.Labour welcomed the Minister's announcements.
:14:21. > :14:26.She was right to apologise about the government and I would echo that
:14:27. > :14:30.because successive governments of all colours have failed to respond
:14:31. > :14:35.adequately to this scandal. In many ways this failure has only deepened
:14:36. > :14:41.the injustice felt by the victims. This scandal saw thousands die and
:14:42. > :14:46.thousands of families destroyed through the negligence of public
:14:47. > :14:50.bodies. Whilst the minister was absolutely right to say that no
:14:51. > :14:55.amount of money ever make up for the impact of the tragedy on peoples
:14:56. > :15:03.lives, we all owe it to those still living with the consequences, the
:15:04. > :15:08.dignity of a lasting settlement. We should never forget that this is
:15:09. > :15:11.a simple matter of justice. It is time, after all the apologies, that
:15:12. > :15:17.those affected, should feel that we are doing justice to that injustice.
:15:18. > :15:23.I hope she will agree with me that one of the important needs of any
:15:24. > :15:27.scheme is to be simple, comprehensive, predictable, and
:15:28. > :15:32.consistent. It is absolutely essential that the bewildering
:15:33. > :15:36.variety of provisions at the moment is resolved into that single, clear
:15:37. > :15:39.scheme. Will she concede that for those of
:15:40. > :15:42.us who worked closely with individual victims for a number of
:15:43. > :15:48.years the resolution has to go as far as possible, financially, to put
:15:49. > :15:55.them in the position they would have been, but for the grievous harm that
:15:56. > :15:58.has been done? That maybe, in some cases, a bespoke solution for
:15:59. > :16:02.individual victims. We are not dealing with numbers of people. --
:16:03. > :16:03.unlimited numbers. In the Republic of Ireland,
:16:04. > :16:15.there's a compensation Victims in Northern Ireland share
:16:16. > :16:18.the frustration but feel more pointedly the contrast with their
:16:19. > :16:22.friends in the south of Ireland who have had a path of justice available
:16:23. > :16:26.to them over a long number of years. I know that the Minister is sincere
:16:27. > :16:36.in her commitment to treatment, but will she give and is Europe's --
:16:37. > :16:39.give an assurance that the effort she is making will not distract from
:16:40. > :16:43.the effort we still have to make good this travesty that people have
:16:44. > :16:47.suffered? I recognise there may be aspects of
:16:48. > :16:54.the proposals that the honourable gentleman does not fair meet his own
:16:55. > :17:00.aspirations. So I again invite him to respond to the consultation,
:17:01. > :17:04.these are the proposals we are putting forward, the questions are
:17:05. > :17:12.very open and people can give us their views. Direct my something
:17:13. > :17:15.different happened in -- I recognise something different happened in
:17:16. > :17:19.Republic of Ireland but the circumstances were different.
:17:20. > :17:25.The founder of Lastminute Dot Com Martha Lane Fox has said
:17:26. > :17:27.in the House of Lords that the internet is controlled ,
:17:28. > :17:29.run, funded and used predominantly by men.
:17:30. > :17:32.She was speaking during a Lords debate on the contribution of women
:17:33. > :17:37.to the country's future economic growth.
:17:38. > :17:44.If we look through any cut of the numbers it is profoundly upsetting.
:17:45. > :17:48.About 4% of the world's software developers are women. The people
:17:49. > :17:56.controlling who think the Internet. 9% of businesses found that on the
:17:57. > :18:01.Internet are run by women. 10% of venture capitalists in the Internet
:18:02. > :18:05.space are women. Why can't we take one of the 800,000 women currently
:18:06. > :18:09.unemployed in this country and train them to fill our skills gap? How
:18:10. > :18:15.much more imaginative could we be, by matching some of the challenges
:18:16. > :18:18.we have? I have worked on projects recently, taking woman, with no
:18:19. > :18:26.understanding of computer science, just basic mask, and is six months
:18:27. > :18:38.they are Java ready, able to go into work. -- ASIC -- basic maths.
:18:39. > :18:42.It is incumbent on us to lay the foundations. And provide the right
:18:43. > :18:45.environment. We need to improve career
:18:46. > :18:54.preparation for woman. Whether in the humanities or not, even as early
:18:55. > :18:59.as primary School, because by the time women are exposed to inspiring
:19:00. > :19:02.role models, if at all, they tend to have already decided on their exam
:19:03. > :19:07.choices and their ambitions are potentially curtailed.
:19:08. > :19:10.We have heard some awesome statistics this afternoon but my
:19:11. > :19:13.favourite is from the woman's business Council which estimates
:19:14. > :19:17.that if women set up businesses at the same rate as men that would be 1
:19:18. > :19:20.million more businesses in Britain today.
:19:21. > :19:23.The as yet undetermined future of Channel Four television has
:19:24. > :19:27.Channel Four, which began broadcasting 33 years ago,
:19:28. > :19:28.is a publicly owned, not-for-profit corporation.
:19:29. > :19:31.But there's been speculation that it could be privatised.
:19:32. > :19:33.And some politicians fear an adverse effect on programme-making
:19:34. > :19:36.At Culture question time, a former Culture Secretary took
:19:37. > :19:53.Discussion then turned to the future of the BBC.
:19:54. > :20:00.Will he join me in congratulating Channel 4 on their record number of
:20:01. > :20:04.O and BAFTA nominations of this year? And does he agree that Channel
:20:05. > :20:07.4 will not be able to deliver its unique and invaluable agreement if
:20:08. > :20:13.it had to turn a profit to shareholders?
:20:14. > :20:18.As I said to the Right Honourable gentleman my concern is to guarantee
:20:19. > :20:23.the continuing success and viability of Channel 4 and that is why we are
:20:24. > :20:26.looking at a number of options, as indeed I understand the last Labour
:20:27. > :20:31.government did, also considering privatisation.
:20:32. > :20:35.Can the Secretary of State confirm that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
:20:36. > :20:38.and now believes that Channel 4 privatisation will bring the
:20:39. > :20:42.Conservatives much public opprobrium for a relatively small financial
:20:43. > :20:45.return, and that the Conservatives are now backing away from the idea
:20:46. > :20:50.of privatising this much loved institution?
:20:51. > :20:55.I hate to disappoint the honourable gentleman but as I said earlier no
:20:56. > :20:59.decisions have been taken. I have not yet had the opportunity to
:21:00. > :21:02.discuss the matter with the Chancellor of the Exchequer because
:21:03. > :21:04.we have not yet reached our own conclusions on this matter but I
:21:05. > :21:08.look forward to doing so in due course.
:21:09. > :21:12.Discussion then turned to the future of the BBC.
:21:13. > :21:18.This government has flogged off more national assets than any other, can
:21:19. > :21:22.we really trust them with the BBC? The charter expires at the end of
:21:23. > :21:28.this year and does provide an opportunity to look at all aspects
:21:29. > :21:33.of the BBC, in what is a very fast changing media landscape. That is
:21:34. > :21:39.the purpose of the review. 97% of the adult population of the
:21:40. > :21:44.UK use BBC services for an average of 18% every week and perceptions of
:21:45. > :21:47.the BBC have improved over the past ten years. His consultation on
:21:48. > :21:52.charter renewal) it over last year and he has now spent more time
:21:53. > :21:55.considering responses to the consultation than he allowed the
:21:56. > :22:01.public to respond. So when will he get his act together publish the
:22:02. > :22:05.results? Can you just have is a date, today, please?
:22:06. > :22:09.May I begin by welcoming the honourable lady to this position? I
:22:10. > :22:14.have been doing this job for a relatively short time, just eight
:22:15. > :22:18.months, but she is the third holder of opposition spokesperson position,
:22:19. > :22:24.I hope she survived longer than her apprentice. In relation to the
:22:25. > :22:28.question, I am keen to publish proposals but we did not anticipate
:22:29. > :22:37.an hundred 92,000 responses. She will understand that if I work to
:22:38. > :22:40.give up and publish conclusions in a short period she would be at the
:22:41. > :22:45.dispatch box claiming we had not done proper analysis and this was a
:22:46. > :22:49.cosmetic exercise. It is not a cosmetic exercise and we are reading
:22:50. > :22:53.them carefully. I am afraid he sounds like he is
:22:54. > :22:57.procrastinating. The charter expires at the end of this year but he has
:22:58. > :23:01.not even got around to publishing the White Paper yet because the
:23:02. > :23:06.consultation is taking so long to reply to. Can he guarantee that his
:23:07. > :23:12.department's time wasting will not result in some kind of debilitating,
:23:13. > :23:16.short-term charter extension beyond the end of the year? Can he be clear
:23:17. > :23:22.today that the next charter will be for a minimum of ten years?
:23:23. > :23:27.Charter review comes around once every ten years, I am determined to
:23:28. > :23:31.get it right. That means we will take however long it takes in order
:23:32. > :23:32.to fully consult and consider the options.
:23:33. > :23:35.The Shadow Commons Leader Chris Bryant and his opposite number
:23:36. > :23:37.Chris Grayling have once again exchanged barbed comments
:23:38. > :23:40.as the parliamentary week nears its end.
:23:41. > :23:42.Mr Bryant taunted Mr Grayling about the different positions
:23:43. > :23:47.of senior Conservatives on the coming EU referendum.
:23:48. > :23:49.While Mr Grayling focused on internal battles
:23:50. > :24:03.As we were debating psychoactive substances in this House the
:24:04. > :24:07.American Republican campaign seemed to be on psychoactive substances
:24:08. > :24:19.with Sarah Pailin endorsing Donald Trump, the ultimate case of
:24:20. > :24:28.Tweedledum and dumber. Two MPs have confessed to taking poppers in the
:24:29. > :24:32.chamber, well, not in the chamber, but they made their confession in
:24:33. > :24:40.the chamber? One is so determined to be out of that he wants to be out of
:24:41. > :24:44.the outcome pain! Talk of two bald men fighting over a comb! If men
:24:45. > :24:49.were dominoes, he would be the double blank.
:24:50. > :24:53.He did not ask me for a debate on his party's extraordinary new
:24:54. > :24:58.defence policy of sending out submarines to see with new missiles.
:24:59. > :25:02.He did not ask me for a statement on Syria so his party leader can settle
:25:03. > :25:07.out plans for negotiations with brutal murderers in that part of the
:25:08. > :25:11.world. He did not ask me for a debate on his party's new policy of
:25:12. > :25:14.reopening discussions on the future of the Falkland Islands with
:25:15. > :25:19.Argentina. But I am certainly willing to look for extra time and
:25:20. > :25:22.debate about the backbone, or lack of it, of members of the Shadow
:25:23. > :25:28.Cabinet, not brave enough to put their own jobs on the line when it
:25:29. > :25:31.comes to standing up to a Leader of the Opposition whose policies pose a
:25:32. > :25:35.real threat to this country. He has left the church of England because
:25:36. > :25:39.he believes its policies are unacceptable, but he will not do the
:25:40. > :25:40.same for a Shadow Cabinet, even though its policies are clearly
:25:41. > :25:41.unacceptable. But do join me for the 'Week
:25:42. > :25:47.in Parliament', when we not only look back over the last few days
:25:48. > :25:50.in the Commons and the Lords, but also look at the problems
:25:51. > :25:53.in trying to achieve accurate opinion poll figures,
:25:54. > :25:55.and look at the growing number of top political jobs now
:25:56. > :25:57.being done by women. But for now, from me,
:25:58. > :26:05.Keith Macdougall, goodbye