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The bill putting EU legislation into UK law sets out | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
Should England change the rules on organ donation | :00:26. | :00:37. | |
And MPs remember one of the bloodiest battles | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
it is difficult if not impossible to imagine the mud, the blood and the | :00:42. | :00:53. | |
horror and sheer scale of the losses of Passchendaele. | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
The government has launched a key part of its Brexit | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
The Repeal Bill - designed to convert existing EU | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
legislation into British law - was formally introduced | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
Opposition parties say they'll fight its passage through Parliament. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
At the start of the day the leader of the Commons hailed its arrival. | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
The EU withdrawal Bill will be presented to the House today, as the | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
Brexit secretary has said, this is one of the most significant pieces | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
of legislation that has ever passed through Parliament and it is a major | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
milestone in the process of our withdrawal. It means we will be able | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
to exit the European Union with maximum uncertainty, continuity and | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
control will stop that is what the British people voted for and it is | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
exactly what we will do. But her Labour shadow reckoned | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
despite the fanfare for the repeal bill MPs had had little to do | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
since the general election. I and other opposition members are | :01:49. | :02:01. | |
appalled, saddened and bewildered in equal measures. We have had the good | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
citizens of this country to vote for us and they have. And as we are in | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
the parliamentary democracy they have given their consent to be | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
governed to enable to form MPs to form a government, as the station | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
and form pulled members to account. We have not be allowed to do that. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
This is not the end of term we have no lessons and a late timetable, or | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
spending or same singing or whistling. It is a time of critical | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
importance to this country and the clock is ticking. We have been back | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
31 days and in that time only had seven votes. A zombie Parliament | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
makes it sound amusing, but this is serious. It is a threat to our | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
parliamentary democracy. She is raising some important points about | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
our parliamentary democracy but I do find it deeply disappointing that | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
the opposition are trying to make something of what is absolutely | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
normal situation following a general election... | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
The government was getting on with business "apace," she said. | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
I am left to conclude that this is gameplaying. The mean refer back to | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
what the Prime Minister said on the anniversary of her leadership of | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
this country. She asked the honourable lady is clearly not | :03:17. | :03:25. | |
glistening... She asked all members of come together in the interests of | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
our country to give their ideas and support as we succeed as seek to | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
fulfil the democratic will of the people of this country to leave the | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
EU and the opposition ridiculed it. They absolutely reject the concept | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
of working together in the interests of our country. 13 million people | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
voted with them and they should actually support those people in | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
their wish to see the democratic will of this country fulfilled. The | :03:55. | :04:03. | |
Great Repeal Bill is up to date, and invitation to climb aboard as it | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
tumbles over the cliff edge. Apparently Labour are going to | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
oppose it by defiantly agreeing with a Tory hard Brexit support except | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
that the single market and an the movement. But opposition is being | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
offered. In the meantime we will continue to look after Scottish | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
interests and fight for a place in the single market. I think it is a | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
great shame that he constantly talks about wanting to stay in the single | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
market which he knows Brad Barritt means not leaving the EU. In other | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
words they would seek to undermine the will of the United Kingdom and | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
that is totally undemocratic on the side of the House and I hub on the | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
opposition benches we will fulfil the will of the people. | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
Well, a short time later the Bill was formally put before Parliament. | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
But don't be deceived by that shout of tomorrow - | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
in parliamentary procedure a Bill is always said to be read tomorrow - | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
in reality the first big debate on the repeal bill will probably | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Southern Rail's parent company has been fined more than ?13 million | :05:14. | :05:22. | |
following widespread delays and cancellations to services. | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
Southern, owned by Govia Thameslink, has been embroiled in a bitter | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
dispute with the unions over driver-only operated trains. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
The Department for Transport said a recent report by Chris Gibb - | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
a non-executive director at Network Rail - made clear that | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
"the responsibility for disruption was primarily caused by industrial | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
"action led by RMT and Aslef and exceptional levels | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
The government says the fine it's imposed on Govia Thameslink will be | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
used to improve services for passengers hit | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
The continuing dispute was raised by Labour at Transport Questions. | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
Two weeks ago today the High Court of the Secretary of State 14 days to | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
make a decision over Southern Rail's claims that its appalling service | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
wasn't their fault but all down to industrial action. With the record | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
fine imposed today, such nonsense has been totally blown out of the | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
water after months and months of the Secretary of State and his ministers | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
coming to the dispatch box and blaming the unions, they have had to | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
come clean and accept the Southern Rail is not fit for purpose. Does he | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
know except that continuing to tolerate such an attitude, expecting | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
a rail service to rely on workers overtime and compromising saving the | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
accessibility, simply won't wash any longer and he now has to call time | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
on GTR? He is clearly still not read the judgment two weeks ago, a case | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
that we actually want. It's because about what has been done today. I | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
have for months that the problems on this railway are not purely down to | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
industrial action. There are other reasons. But I am very clear and so | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
is the Chris Gibb Report that the prime responsibility for the trouble | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
on that network has come from trade unions fighting the battles of 30 | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
years ago and still they get support from the Labour Party and the | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
reality is it is the Labour Party and the unions colluding to bring | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
trouble to passengers and it should stop. | :07:29. | :07:29. | |
Newly elected chair of the Transport Committee, | :07:30. | :07:30. | |
The ticketing information passengers are most interested in is the price. | :07:31. | :07:42. | |
Since 2014 commuter rail fare increases have been capped at RBI | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
but an acid to me yesterday the Rail Minister said that there is policy | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
is under review. Next month's inflation figures will determine the | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
cup for January 2018 and at the Department reverts to the old | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
formula, there could rise by 5% or more, pricing many off the railways. | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Next week when the Secretary of State announces his investment plans | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
for the control period six, will he pledged that improvements passengers | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
need will come at a price they can afford? I suppose I should welcome | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
her to her new position. She now seems to be wondering about what | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
will be occurring in the future. We have no intention in seeking to | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
raise there is in the way that she describes and I don't think that | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
would be appropriate. Is it that passengers first and we continue to | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
maintain the cup at the moment but we keep ball policies under review | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
at all times, she shouldn't read more into that and is actually | :08:40. | :08:40. | |
there. Another Labour MP asked | :08:41. | :08:41. | |
about provision in the We have heard many flowery words | :08:42. | :08:51. | |
from the Government benches about understanding the experience of our | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
constituents in the north-east forced to use crumbling Rolling | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
stock on Tyne Wear and metro, but flowery words will not get them to | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
work on time. Unless they are matched by investment. Will he now | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
commit to investing from the public purse in our rolling stock? She | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
should know that investment of course is central to what we want to | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
achieve. We are investing 370 million through an 11 year asset | :09:18. | :09:26. | |
renewal problem. We are undertaking major track renewals, refurbishing | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
and modernising stations and vehicles, new Smart style ticketing. | :09:33. | :09:33. | |
What is not to like about that? You're watching Thursday in | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
Parliament with me, Alicia McCarthy. The Defence Secretary has | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
told MPs that a report about civilian casualties in Iraq | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
by Amnesty International should be The human rights group has alleged | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
that Iraqi and coalition forces have used unnecessarily powerful weapons | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
in the battle to retake Mosul from so-called Islamic State - | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
or Daesh as MPs call it - and had failed to take adequate | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
measures to protect civilians. The report was raised by the Shadow | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
Defence Minister, Wayne David. It has been alleged that the actions | :10:10. | :10:21. | |
of the coalition in Mosul have been I quote, disproportionate and even, | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
I quote again, unlawful. I know that the deputy commander of the | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
international anti-Daesh coalition has condemned a report in the | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
strongest possible terms, saying that it is deeply responsible -- | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
irresponsible and he has emphatically stated that we should | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
not forget that it is Daesh who are deliberately killing civilians. | :10:48. | :10:48. | |
Sir Michael Fallon said he had not read the report, | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
but said RAF airstrikes were lawful and there were robust procedures | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
designed to minimise the risk of civilians casualties. | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
I have seen no evidence as of yet that an RAF strike has involved | :11:00. | :11:09. | |
civilian casualties. I wait to see that evidence being produced and if | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
anybody has any evidence then it needs to be forwarded to us as | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
indeed other organisations like air awards have been doing throughout | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
the conflict and we are ready to investigate, but otherwise I would | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
urge extreme caution in the handling of the Amnesty report. | :11:27. | :11:27. | |
An SNP MP voiced concern at what he said had been a dramatic | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
In June longer has been a 52% increase in comparison to the month | :11:31. | :11:45. | |
of May's estimated somewhere between 529 744, according to air war is who | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
he mentions in response to the Shadow Minister, of the 1350 UK | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
personnel fighting Daesh air war claim there is not one permanently | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
tasked with monitoring civilian casualties, so can the Minister | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
outline if he will make a commitment to greater scrutiny and transparency | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
on that? This is a highly compact city, very densely populated, with | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
Daesh pushing civilians into buildings, holding them hostage, | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
shooting them if they try to escape, this is a kind of urban warfare that | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
we have not seen and not be involved in since probably a Second World | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
War. A very complex military operation. | :12:31. | :12:31. | |
Now from the conflicts of today to the conflicts of the past. | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Because these were the fields where, 100 years ago, more than half | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
The battle of Passchendaele - through the summer | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
and autumn of 1917 - is generally regarded | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
as the bloodiest conflict of the First World War, | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
with these Belgian fields seeing weeks of heavy military bombardment | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
and fierce fighting, much of it in atrocious weather. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
By October 1917 British and Commonwealth forces had advanced | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
just a few kilometres with the loss of more than 300,000 men. | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
Casualties on the German side numbered 200,000. | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
A special Commons debate has taken place, to mark | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
It is important to remember that many of those who fought at | :13:17. | :13:26. | |
Passchendaele were conscripts and that this was a war which had | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
already led to huge changes around these islands. Women were already | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
playing a vital role in the war effort, particularly in the | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
production of munitions but the artillery which was so critical to | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
the outcome of the fighting. Many of us Passchendaele has come to | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
epitomise horrors of trench warfare on the Western front. But he | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
answered a question about the role of the medical profession after | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
Passchendaele and much of the trench warfare of the First World War given | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
the fact that we are commemorating those who lost their lives and those | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
who came home would have suffered many of them from shell-shocked, | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
some of the advices of psychiatry will end on the front line in | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
dealing with that on the impacts of armies and will not play any part in | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
the commemoration of those who survived? Will have those things in | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
mind. It is very difficult to go back and reinterpret events as they | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
were at the time and as they were experienced bitter at the time but I | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
think the honourable gentleman makes a very perceptive and worthwhile | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
point. Can I share with of photographs that shows Passchendaele | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
village in June 1917 and in December 1917 and even from a distance it is | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
possible to seek how entirely the landscape was obliterated by the | :14:42. | :14:42. | |
bombardment. A Labour MP said his father went | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
to Passchendaele at the age of 15 We cannot look at this without | :14:46. | :14:57. | |
remembering that many who lost their lives did not give their lives, they | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
were told if they went that they would stop the Huns bayoneting | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
Belgian babies. They went there as result of propaganda. We must | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
remember that if we learn the lessons of warfare and the immense | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
loss of life. An MP who's a military historian | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
read a first hand account The Germans did not have much to | :15:17. | :15:26. | |
fear from me that morning. There was no fire in my belly, nothing. I | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
staggered up the hill, I froze and became frightened because of big | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
shell at first and loading up group of our lads to bits. A terrible | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
sight, men blown to nothing. I stood there. It was still and misty. I | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
could taste their blood in the air. I could not move. I stood there, | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
staring. These men had just been killed. We just had to wade through | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
them to get on. That is one thing I will never forget. What I saw and | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
smelt. The battle is notorious not only for the number of casualties, | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
but conditions in which the battle was fought. The first few days of | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
the offensive remark by the heaviest rainfall in 30 years. Turning the | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
field into a quagmire trapping soldiers and horses, immobilising | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
weaponry. One century on in the safety and grandeur of this place, | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
it is difficult, if not impossible to imagine the mouth, the blood, and | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
the horror and sheer scale of the losses of Passchendaele. That is why | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
it is absolutely right that we do remember. 325,000 Allied casualties | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
is difficult to comprehend. As is their bravery, valour and sacrifice. | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
An MP who's a former army officer spoke about the effects | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
The men could not even get into the shell holes, they were full of | :16:53. | :17:01. | |
water. So they are absolutely sitting ducks. Covered in filth. | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
Trying to go forward, absolutely exhausted. And yet, they did. Some | :17:10. | :17:21. | |
of them sank to their waste in the mud, right down to their waists. It | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
took six soldiers for them to be pulled out. Stretcher bearers could | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
not move. There was no chance of stretcher bearers moving in that | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
mode at all. Our soldiers were not brave, of course they were brave, | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
what they really experienced was terror. | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
Theresa May's decision to do a ?1 billion deal with the DUP | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
to keep her government afloat clearly still rankles with some - | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
They argue that under what's known as the Barnett Formula - | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
the system under which money is allocated to Scotland, | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland - if Northern Ireland gets more money | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
The cause was taken up by a Plaid Cymru peer. | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
But the minister argued money had also gone | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
The naval Lord will be aware that 1 billion is being allocated to | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
schools and roads in Northern nine. Barnett elements. The government has | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
perceived an extra needed Northern Ireland, however that is defined. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Will they therefore move towards a needs -based former love, for | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
Scotland, Wales and the regions of England? | :18:44. | :18:44. | |
But the minister argued money had also gone | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
There are number of investment is taking place in Wales, outside the | :18:47. | :18:57. | |
Barnett Formula. The Cardiff capital region city deal. ?500 million. The | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
Swansea City deal, ?150 million. The Wales great deal. All outside of the | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Barnett Formula. Reflected in the particular needs of Wales. As the | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
deal reflects the particular needs of Northern Ireland. What advice | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
would the minister give us? What do we in Wales have to do to get an | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
extra ?1 billion? We spend ?120 in Wales for every ?100 we spend in | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
England. We continue to be committed to that. That is the reason why we | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
increased the overall capital borrowing limit to ?1 billion, up | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
from ?5 million. We continue to look for ways to grow the economy in | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
Wales within the Barnett Formula and outside it. Is it worth the Minister | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
noting, Northern Ireland appears to have considerably more disadvantaged | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
young people as against Scotland. And cannot afford the sort of things | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Scotland appears to be affording in social care and tuition fees? Does | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
the government understand this is an issue of trust. While the Barnett | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
Formula is not a legal requirement, it is clear to everyone in the House | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
that the additional 1 billion for Northern Ireland is a pork barrel, | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
as they would say in America. Politically induced donation. Which | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
ought to fall within the formula, if one was keeping to the conventions | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
of Parliament. I think it is wrong for the honourable lady to refer to | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
it in that way. The details have been made very clearly, published on | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
the website on the 26th of June. Written ministerial statements. In | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
terms of saying it is a donation. I will stand by a donation of 100 | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
million extra for health and education, 400 million for | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
infrastructure, 50 million form as well. 100 million for severely | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
deprived areas. ?150 million for broadband in one of the most needy | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
parts of the United Kingdom. In Westminster Hall a Labour MP | :21:10. | :21:10. | |
called for a change to the rules Dan Jarvis argued there should be | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
a switch to the same system used in Wales, | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
where it's presumed that organs are to be donated | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
after death, unless someone has He said more than 450 people died | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
every year waiting for a transplant. The truth is there is a common | :21:23. | :21:38. | |
misconception about how organ donation works. Only a very small | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
number of people die in such a way that allows for organ donation. The | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
vast majority of people on the organ donor register will never actually | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
donate their organs. The figures are startling. Around half a million | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
people die every year in the UK. Yet last year out of the half a million, | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
only 5681 people died in circumstances where donation was | :22:06. | :22:05. | |
possible. That was about 1%, so the simple | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
fact was there were not enough donors and people were dying | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
as a result. He accepted there | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
were sensitivities. That some members of Muslim and | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
Jewish communities have different interpretations of the Viv | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
-- the religious legitimacy of donations. I understand their views | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
and have the most upmost respect and sympathy for them. But I firmly and | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
wholeheartedly believe that not only do the benefits of an opt out system | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
far outweigh the risks. But that these risks can be mitigated through | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
first a public awareness campaign, tailored to different ethnic and | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
religious communities, and second, the use of in-hospital safeguarding | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
measures. But one MP raised what she called | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
some "notes of caution" The minister Doing nothing at all triggers a | :23:04. | :23:15. | |
consequence, silent action. Quite a major one. That action is that those | :23:16. | :23:24. | |
organs could be taken at a later date and transplanted. Their consent | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
is deemed even though they have done nothing at all. The crucial point as | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
to what affects a donation is the conversation that happens in the | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
room three medical professionals and bereaved families. We see examples | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
of families refusing consent, they are convinced their relatives really | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
wanted to donate it feels selfless to say no. If only we see that being | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
overruled. What we find is that the highest rates of donation are | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
achieved where we have specially trained nurses, who have that | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
conversation with the family in a sensitive way. | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
But she added the government was interested to see what happened | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
in Wales and it was something ministers were prepared | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
Earlier we heard Labour's Shadow Leader of the Commons, Valerie Vaz, | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
protesting about the way the government was organising | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
She returned to the issue a later when she applied | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
Valerie Vaz complained that the government had not given | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
any opposition parties the chance to organise debates and votes | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
in the Commons and said the rules needed to be changed to reflect | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
the fact that this session of Parliament would run for two years - | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
She had three minutes to make her case, after | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
which the Deputy Speaker, Eleanor Laing, gave her verdict. | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
I can tell the House that Mr Speaker is satisfied that the matter raised | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
by the Honourable member is proper to be discussed understanding order | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
number 24. I now wish to ascertain whether the honourable member has | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
the disease of the House. Labour and MPs from other | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
opposition parties stood up to indicate their support | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
for Valerie Vaz. The debate will take | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
place on Monday afternoon And that's it from me for now, | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
but do join me on Friday night at 11pm for our round-up of the week | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
here at Westminster when among other things we'll be | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
talking to the new chair of the Treasury Committee - | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
Nicky Morgan. And hearing from her fellow | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
backbencher, Simon Hart on what can be done to counter the abuse | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
being levelled at MPs and activists but for now from me, | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
Alicia McCarthy, goodbye. | :25:42. | :25:48. |