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Hello and Welcome to Tuesday in Parliament, our look at the best | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
of the day in the Commons and the Lords. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
On this programme. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
The Brexit Secretary tells MPs no constitutional problems have been | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
raised by the decision of the British people to vote | 0:00:24 | 0:00:29 | |
for a UK departure from the EU. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:33 | |
A proposal that could put parliament in opposition to the people | 0:00:33 | 0:00:39 | |
over something as simple as this is extraordinary... | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
The Culture Secretary speaks out about how to stop youngsters viewing | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
pornographic images on the internet. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
The NSPCC report that children as young as seven are being treated | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
for addiction to pornography. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:54 | |
The links between Libya and weaponry used by the IRA. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
Is it time to compensate victims? | 0:00:57 | 0:01:01 | |
The victims have waited long enough for answers. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
They are sick and tired of the | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
dilly-dallying and delays. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:11 | |
But first. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:12 | |
The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union says Britain has | 0:01:12 | 0:01:15 | |
'nothing to fear' in any of the outcomes to the negotiations | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
on Britain's departure from the EU. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
David Davis faced two and a half hours of questioning on different | 0:01:20 | 0:01:24 | |
aspects of Brexit from members of the Foreign Affairs committee. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
He said his 'Brexit' department contained 200 people, | 0:01:27 | 0:01:34 | |
and he made clear that there would be no second referendum, | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
following the decision of the British people | 0:01:37 | 0:01:38 | |
in June this year. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
Parliament will either be supporting the referendum or refusing the | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
referendum. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
What you would get to is Parliament versus the people. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
That is the key point. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
We can have some noise about elections but I would | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
not want you to go away and me not answer the constitutional question. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
But the Lords Constitutional committee has published | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
a report today which | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
contradicts what you just said. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:06 | |
It disagrees with what I said and that | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
is the point. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:10 | |
That's why I thought you might ask about it. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
The simple truth is that a proposal that could put Parliament in | 0:02:13 | 0:02:22 | |
opposition to the people over something as simple as this is an | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
extraordinary one. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
But was it an advisory referendum rather than? | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
If you look at the wording... | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
No. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:31 | |
Where does it say advisory? | 0:02:31 | 0:02:36 | |
The reason you haven't been asked about this - I rather | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
thought you had made your position clear | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
in a statement you gave to the | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
House of Commons last week... | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
He is entitled to challenge. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:53 | |
I do not think the position of the government | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
and your position is in any doubt. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:58 | |
The point is, go back to the debate. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:08 | |
Go to Hansard. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:09 | |
The Foreign Secretary said this is a matter for decision | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
by the British people. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:12 | |
The government in its manifesto said it would respect the | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
result of this referendum. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
The British people did not think they | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
were being asked their opinion. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:23 | |
The Prime Minister did not resign because he did not like their | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
opinion. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:27 | |
You have to take this seriously. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:32 | |
The referendum did not say we will trigger Article 50 the day | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
after the referendum. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:36 | |
You might note that that it was not the position in | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
the referendum. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:48 | |
It did not say it would be done in March or May. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
It surely has to be for Parliament to debate and decide | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
under which circumstances the article is invoked. | 0:03:53 | 0:04:01 | |
It is not for Parliament to gainsay the view of the | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
British people. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:13 | |
One does not want to compromise your position in this process but many of | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
us believe if access to the simple market | 0:04:17 | 0:04:21 | |
gained on both sides | 0:04:21 | 0:04:22 | |
reasonable to both sides then certainly for those who are subject | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
to tariffs, we should not be afraid to fall back to... | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
Is there any reason we should not be doing that? | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
Does that hold any fear for you? | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
Let me offer a philosophical approach to | 0:04:33 | 0:04:34 | |
negotiation, it is a very bad idea to go into | 0:04:34 | 0:04:40 | |
negotiations fearing the | 0:04:40 | 0:04:41 | |
outcome because that weakens you. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:42 | |
It is one of the areas we will assess. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
I was speaking to someone about the calculations that will go on. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:54 | |
We will assess not just what the costs | 0:04:54 | 0:05:02 | |
if you like of a given strategy is but what they are. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:12 | |
-- what are the policies with it. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
One of the things we can do which would be legally | 0:05:22 | 0:05:32 | |
ok to do that shows we are symbolically going in that | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
direction for instance one example is new | 0:05:35 | 0:05:36 | |
passports which are going to be issued from now on will go back to | 0:05:36 | 0:05:40 | |
the traditional British blue passport rather than the pink | 0:05:40 | 0:05:42 | |
things. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:43 | |
Could we do a symbolic gesture such as that to show the British | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
people we had absolutely serious about leaving the EU? | 0:05:46 | 0:05:48 | |
Attractive as the idea is, we are not in the | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
business, at least I am not in the business | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
of symbols, I am in the | 0:05:53 | 0:05:54 | |
business of delivering on this. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:55 | |
David Davis. Protests about inadequate | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
broadband speeds from angry | 0:05:57 | 0:05:58 | |
constituents are one of the most regular complaints that | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
come the way of MPs, especially those in the more rural | 0:06:00 | 0:06:02 | |
parts of the UK. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:03 | |
In fact, it's estimated that five percent of the UK | 0:06:03 | 0:06:06 | |
population is coping with substandard broadband. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:07 | |
The issue was uppermost in the minds of MPs | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
considering the Digital Economy Bill. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
As well as getting the right internet speeds - | 0:06:11 | 0:06:13 | |
members of parliament considered how to deal with the wide availability | 0:06:13 | 0:06:15 | |
of online pornography. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
The rate of jobs created in digital industries is | 0:06:17 | 0:06:27 | |
nearly three times as fast as the rest of the economy with 1.56 | 0:06:37 | 0:06:41 | |
million in 2015 and growing. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:42 | |
The government will not ally people to | 0:06:42 | 0:06:43 | |
be left behind when it is running a business, staying in touch with | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
distant family, watching catch up television | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
are helping children with | 0:06:48 | 0:06:49 | |
homework. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:50 | |
Everyone should have the right to decent connectivity. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
She raises quite rightly the impressive | 0:06:52 | 0:06:53 | |
programme of roll-out of superfast broadband. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
Does she share my concern that too many new homes are being | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
built without that as standard? | 0:06:58 | 0:06:59 | |
Will she work with her colleagues across government make sure that | 0:06:59 | 0:07:01 | |
situation changes? | 0:07:01 | 0:07:02 | |
The bill seeks to regulate access to adult content online. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
The culture secretary, Karen Bradley, explained that | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
children were spending more time online than watching TV, | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
and many were accessing pornograph. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:13 | |
We have an incredible problem of pornographic | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
images being available to children. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:21 | |
The NSPCC report that children as young as seven are being treated | 0:07:21 | 0:07:23 | |
for addiction to pornography. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
This is not something which can be addressed | 0:07:25 | 0:07:26 | |
through one measure alone. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
The measures in this bill will help but | 0:07:30 | 0:07:36 | |
this is not a silver bullet. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:37 | |
There has to be a joint approach across | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
the whole of government to deal with this. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:43 | |
We age classify films, we | 0:07:43 | 0:07:53 | |
restrict age-appropriate broadcasts after the | 0:07:55 | 0:07:56 | |
watershed, we keep children out of sex shops. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:58 | |
Equivalent measures are | 0:07:58 | 0:07:59 | |
needed online. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:00 | |
The National union of farmers and the Countryside Alliance | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
have been vocal in highlighting this government's shortcomings so I will | 0:08:02 | 0:08:06 | |
only add that it is an absolute disgrace that in 2016 there are | 0:08:06 | 0:08:11 | |
still people who cannot even download an e-mail. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:17 | |
Ms Onwurah pointed out that plans for the BBC to pay for TV Licenses | 0:08:17 | 0:08:20 | |
for the over-75s would have paid for the Great British Bake-off to be | 0:08:20 | 0:08:24 | |
retained 30 times over - prompting a reassurance | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
from a minister. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:30 | |
On the crucial issue of the Great British Bake Off, | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
Mr Speaker, of which I am an enormous fan. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:38 | |
I should correct what she just said and acknowledge that | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
the Bake-off after today's announcement will remain on free to | 0:08:42 | 0:08:46 | |
air terrestrial TV on Channel 4. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
As we move into the next generation of | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
5G services, these will require a huge number of very small | 0:08:53 | 0:08:59 | |
transmitters which may need to be attached to lamp posts in cities. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
We do not want to have individual planning applications for every | 0:09:02 | 0:09:05 | |
single one. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
It may be when we come to 5G that we will need to look | 0:09:08 | 0:09:12 | |
at planning laws again. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:16 | |
That is something I will leave with the Minister. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:24 | |
I worry that sometimes the government always wants to pat | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
yourself on the back in relation to this and actually | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
it is constantly striving difficulty to ensure that | 0:09:29 | 0:09:31 | |
everyone is able to participate. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:32 | |
There are people who only have 2 megabits per second. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
There are people who will have 10 megabits per | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
second who will have difficulty using an iPlayer. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:42 | |
I hope the ministerial team will not keep | 0:09:42 | 0:09:43 | |
congratulating themselves. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:45 | |
In many rural areas, including my constituency, | 0:09:45 | 0:09:50 | |
70% of people have no access to 4G whatsoever. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:59 | |
A Minister has accepted that "for too long" action has not been | 0:09:59 | 0:10:02 | |
taken to address "deep concerns" around the laws on dangerous driving | 0:10:02 | 0:10:04 | |
and the sentences available. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:05 | |
The admission, from the Justice Minister, Sam Gyimah, | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
came in a debate in Westminster Hall when an MP raised the case | 0:10:07 | 0:10:11 | |
of a 25-year old man, James Gilbey, who was killed on a pedestrian | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
crossing after a night out in Leeds. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
The car driven by Majid Malik hit him. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
It hit him so hard his body travelled 70 metres. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:30 | |
While he lay on the road, the drivers of both cars stopped. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
The driver reversed and went back to the scene | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
but only to try and retrieve his number plate which had been wrenched | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
off the car along with the bumper | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
by the force of the impact. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:41 | |
He then drove off. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:47 | |
He hid the car and burned his clothes and | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
he went to ground. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:53 | |
It was only after very substantial efforts by the | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
police he finally turned himself in. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:59 | |
He pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving, a charge | 0:10:59 | 0:11:03 | |
impossible to avoid as he was seen on CCTV and the car was registered | 0:11:03 | 0:11:06 | |
to him. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:10 | |
His friend did not plead guilty to causing death by dangerous | 0:11:10 | 0:11:17 | |
driving or indeed to racing his car despite the fact that his Audi car | 0:11:17 | 0:11:20 | |
was so close to the vehicle that hit James it was splashed with | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
James's blood. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
After a long and painful trial which James's | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
parents had to sit through, they received | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
an eight-year sentence for | 0:11:32 | 0:11:33 | |
what they had done. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:38 | |
It was clear the judge recognised the severity of this crime and his | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
inability to charge them with more. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
A Labour MP spoke of a case in her constituency. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:49 | |
The killer got six years of which he | 0:11:49 | 0:11:51 | |
will probably only serve three. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:53 | |
When he comes out at the age of 21 he | 0:11:53 | 0:12:01 | |
will be younger than Joseph was when he took his life. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:06 | |
It seems to me perverse even if we cannot try more cases as | 0:12:06 | 0:12:10 | |
manslaughter the maximum penalty for what is clearly manslaughter, | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
these gentlemen killed James Gilbey as surely as if they'd thrown | 0:12:12 | 0:12:14 | |
a knife or fired a gun. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
Their weapon of choice happened to be two tonnes of steel. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:27 | |
Surely the maximum tariff for the worst kind of | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
dangerous driving should be lifetime imprisonment. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:36 | |
I can only end by reading out what James's | 0:12:36 | 0:12:41 | |
father said, I want my son, to shake his hand, laugh and chat with | 0:12:41 | 0:12:45 | |
him over a pint. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:46 | |
But I cannot. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:47 | |
All I can do is kiss the earth, hold his | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
ashes, talk to pictures and light candles. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:59 | |
That | 0:13:03 | 0:13:03 | |
That is | 0:13:03 | 0:13:04 | |
That is not | 0:13:04 | 0:13:04 | |
That is not enough. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:05 | |
The Justice Minister, said the independent sentencing | 0:13:05 | 0:13:06 | |
council would review motoring offences involving | 0:13:06 | 0:13:08 | |
death or serious injury. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:09 | |
As the Prime Minister made clear last week, there are deep | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
concerns around the law of dangerous driving and the sentencing powers | 0:13:12 | 0:13:14 | |
currently available to the courts. | 0:13:14 | 0:13:15 | |
For too long, these concerns have not been acted upon. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:22 | |
So I would like today reaffirmed this government's | 0:13:22 | 0:13:24 | |
commitment to consulting on the penalties for dangerous driving | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
offences. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:28 | |
This consultation will begin before the end of the year. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
Blameless victims and their families must total confidence in our | 0:13:30 | 0:13:35 | |
criminal justice system. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:41 | |
To those people our message is clear, this | 0:13:41 | 0:13:43 | |
government is committed to making sure sentencing for those who kill | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
or seriously injure on our roads fit the crime. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:50 | |
You're watching our round up of the day in the Commons and the Lords. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
Still to come... | 0:13:53 | 0:13:57 | |
Should we be welcoming Chinese input in the building | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
of a new nuclear power station? | 0:13:59 | 0:14:02 | |
It's too early to say whether the ending of hostilities | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
in Syria will be maintained, following the brokering | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
of a temporary deal by the US and the Russians | 0:14:06 | 0:14:10 | |
in Geneva last weekend. The monitoring group - | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights - said it had | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
recorded no civilian deaths in the first 15 hours of the truce. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:20 | |
And the Syrian Army says it is implementing the truce. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:23 | |
Residents in the embattled city of Aleppo reported calm. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:28 | |
Humanitarian groups are hoping to make aid deliveries | 0:14:28 | 0:14:30 | |
to the worst-hit areas, including Aleppo. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:34 | |
In the House of Lords, a LibDem peer wanted to know | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
what the UK's involvement would be over the next few days. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
Can I enquire about the British contribution in making | 0:14:41 | 0:14:45 | |
sure that this does move beyond the initial ceasefire | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
into humanitarian aid and positive diplomacy? | 0:14:48 | 0:14:56 | |
Do we expect that RAF aircraft from Cyprus will play a role | 0:14:56 | 0:15:00 | |
in monitoring who is using Syrian airspace during the ceasefire | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
and in providing the humanitarian aid that is so desperately needed? | 0:15:03 | 0:15:08 | |
In relation to air strikes, as he is aware, the United Kingdom | 0:15:08 | 0:15:13 | |
has made air strikes against Daesh in the context | 0:15:13 | 0:15:16 | |
of the global coalition. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:21 | |
Our relationship with that global coalition continues, but we, along | 0:15:21 | 0:15:24 | |
with all parties to the coalition, will be watching very closely how | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
the cessation or ceasefire proceeds and, very particularly, | 0:15:27 | 0:15:31 | |
in the hope that it remains stable and enduring, that further | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
progress can then be made as outlined in the agreement | 0:15:34 | 0:15:37 | |
between the United States and Russia. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:39 | |
It is only appropriate to regard the leadership and governance | 0:15:39 | 0:15:44 | |
of Syria as a matter entirely for the Syrian people | 0:15:44 | 0:15:47 | |
and therefore to ignore the call for President Assad's removal | 0:15:47 | 0:15:51 | |
as a precondition of negotiations, which one occasionally hears | 0:15:51 | 0:15:53 | |
from Saudi Arabia and, indeed to some extent, | 0:15:53 | 0:15:57 | |
the United States, just as one hears opposition to that | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
from Iran and the soviet Union. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:01 | |
from Iran and the Soviet Union. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:03 | |
There's no question he is a barbaric dictator, | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
one who's acted unspeakably, but Northern Ireland, | 0:16:06 | 0:16:11 | |
amongst other experiences, shows that you do not set | 0:16:11 | 0:16:15 | |
preconditions for negotiations and, if you do, | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
those negotiations never occur. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:22 | |
Why would the government of Syria actually come to the negotiation | 0:16:22 | 0:16:25 | |
table if a precondition from the UK and others | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
is their president could not be present? | 0:16:28 | 0:16:33 | |
Well, I didn't say he should stand down now. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
What I did say was that the view of the United Kingdom government | 0:16:35 | 0:16:41 | |
has been consistent - that we do not consider | 0:16:41 | 0:16:43 | |
he can be part of the long-term future in Syria. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:45 | |
Will Her Majesty's government take account of the fact that he has | 0:16:45 | 0:16:48 | |
presided over the use of barrel bombs and chemical weapons? | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
Weapons of course which are essentially | 0:16:50 | 0:16:52 | |
of indiscriminate destruction. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:55 | |
In those circumstances, I hope Her Majesty's government | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
will give very careful attention to the extent to which he may be | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
thought to be a suitable part of any lasting peace settlement. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:06 | |
May I say to the Nobel Lord that the Assad regime is responsible | 0:17:06 | 0:17:10 | |
for the crisis in Syria? | 0:17:10 | 0:17:15 | |
I mean, over 400,000 Syrians have died so that Assad can | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
hold onto power and, um, his tactics and the tactics | 0:17:18 | 0:17:22 | |
of his regime do include, in my opinion, appalling conduct - | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
sieges, chemical attacks, indiscriminate attacks | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
on civilian areas - and that is why the United Kingdom | 0:17:27 | 0:17:33 | |
government considers that President Assad cannot be a part | 0:17:33 | 0:17:35 | |
of the long-term future in Syria. He must step down. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
Lady Goldie. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
"He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon." | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
A Tory backbencher alluded to the familiar proverb | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
when the Commons considered the news that the Government was delaying | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
the final decision on Hinkley C. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:51 | |
If approved on this site on the North Somerset coast, | 0:17:51 | 0:17:56 | |
the Hinkley C project would be the first new nuclear plant | 0:17:56 | 0:17:59 | |
to be built in the UK in 20 years. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
Construction will provide 25,000 jobs. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
Contracts were due to be signed in late July, but at the last | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
moment, the Energy Secretary said the Government was reviewing | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
the Hinkley plan. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:12 | |
The ?18 billion cost is being financed by the French | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
energy firm EDF and the Chinese. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:20 | |
And it was the Chinese input that was causing most concern | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
to one MP. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
May I say how strongly I support the Prime Minister's decision on this? | 0:18:25 | 0:18:30 | |
Given that China persists in trying to hack, not only state agencies, | 0:18:30 | 0:18:36 | |
but our commercial companies, and has put two fingers up | 0:18:36 | 0:18:43 | |
to the Arbitration Court in the Hague, which has ruled | 0:18:43 | 0:18:45 | |
that their development for military purposes of uninhabited atolls | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
in the South China Sea is unlawful. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:49 | |
These are people with whom we should sup with a long spoon and may | 0:18:49 | 0:18:53 | |
I commend to my right honourable friend the paper written by | 0:18:53 | 0:18:55 | |
the Intelligence Security Committee under Sir Malcolm Rifkind | 0:18:55 | 0:18:57 | |
three years ago. | 0:18:57 | 0:18:58 | |
Well, I'm grateful to my right honourable friend for his comments. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:03 | |
He will know that the commitment we've made is to look at all parts | 0:19:03 | 0:19:07 | |
of all components of the proposed deal and to make our decision | 0:19:07 | 0:19:10 | |
very shortly and, of course, I'll report back to the House | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
when we've done that and the reasons why we've taken | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
whatever decision we do. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:16 | |
Sir Edward Leigh. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:19 | |
The government is very wise to take a deep breath before committing | 0:19:19 | 0:19:22 | |
itself to the massive costs of Hinkley. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:27 | |
Evidence is mounting all the time in terms of new technology. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
In particular, fusion rather than fission. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:34 | |
Mini reactors, battery storage. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
So I do commend the government for considering this decision | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
very slowly indeed. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:44 | |
After putting 25,000 highly-skilled jobs at risk, | 0:19:44 | 0:19:52 | |
after jeopardising 500 much-needed stem apprenticeships, | 0:19:52 | 0:19:53 | |
after offending the Chinese government and risking ?18 billion | 0:19:53 | 0:19:57 | |
of investment in the nuclear industry that is a vital part | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
of our energy mix, after sending shock waves through the investment | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
community, who now think the Prime Minister doesn't | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
understand the meaning of fine investment decision, | 0:20:07 | 0:20:09 | |
does the Secretary of State agree with those in the industry, | 0:20:09 | 0:20:13 | |
who say that the Prime Minister's cautious approach now looks | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
more like dithering? | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
Well, Mr Speaker, I prefer the Prime Minister's cautious | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
approach to the approach of the honourable gentleman, | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
which is completely inconsistent as far as I can see. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:30 | |
He criticises the government for reviewing, quite rightly, | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
this important decision, but said, at the same time, | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
that we should take two to three months seriously | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
to review the decision. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
So there is a contradiction in his position. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:45 | |
On my recent summer surgery tour of my constituency of Lanark | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
and Hamilton East, a number of constituents raised concerns | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
about the cost to the taxpayer of the Hinkley Point C development. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:56 | |
Barclays estimated that, even if EDF delivers four years late | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
and 25% over budget, it would still make a profit | 0:21:00 | 0:21:04 | |
on the deal, with the deficit being picked up over the next | 0:21:04 | 0:21:07 | |
35 years by ordinary people. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:11 | |
Does the Minister think that such a gratuitous public subsidy | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
provides value for the taxpayer? | 0:21:14 | 0:21:20 | |
I do think it is a responsible act on the part of the government | 0:21:20 | 0:21:23 | |
to consider our energy supplies for the future in the long-term. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
I know the Scottish Government has turned its face against new nuclear. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:31 | |
We regard that as an important part of a diverse energy mix that gives | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
resilience to UK consumers. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:38 | |
Greg Clark. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:42 | |
Crticism has been made in Parliament about the lack of any compensation | 0:21:42 | 0:21:45 | |
given to victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA attacks during the years | 0:21:45 | 0:21:47 | |
of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
It's long been known that, during the regime of the former | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
dictator Colonel Gaddafi, the IRA was supplied | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
with Semtex explosives and other weapons from Libya. | 0:21:56 | 0:22:01 | |
In Westminster Hall, claims were made that British | 0:22:01 | 0:22:05 | |
victims of Libyan-backed violence had been treated differently | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
from American victims. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
Victims have waited long enough for answers. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:15 | |
They are sick and tired of the dilly-dallying | 0:22:15 | 0:22:17 | |
and the delays. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:22 | |
Many of them are coming to, let's face it, their latter years | 0:22:22 | 0:22:26 | |
Many of them are coming to, let's face it, the latter years | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
of their lives and they need answers before they pass the immortal tide, | 0:22:28 | 0:22:32 | |
and I think we need to face up to that and face up | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
to it pretty darn fast. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:38 | |
We in the SDLP support the victims of violence by the IRA using Libyan | 0:22:38 | 0:22:43 | |
weapons and believe that these claims should be worked | 0:22:43 | 0:22:45 | |
through by the Libyan and British governments, | 0:22:45 | 0:22:49 | |
because what happened by Colonel Gaddafi and the Libyan | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
government, in supplying those weapons to the IRA, was both | 0:22:53 | 0:22:59 | |
immoral, unacceptable and wrong, because it created unnecessary death | 0:22:59 | 0:23:01 | |
and destruction, which was never, ever justified. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:07 | |
On Friday, the House of Representatives in America voted | 0:23:07 | 0:23:16 | |
unanimously, as did the Senate in May, to pass into law a bill | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
known as JASTA - Justice Against State Terrorism - | 0:23:19 | 0:23:23 | |
the Justice Against State Terrorism Act, known as JASTA, | 0:23:23 | 0:23:30 | |
which will empower private citizens of the United States to sue those | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
involved in state-sponsored terrorism. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:35 | |
In my view, the fact that that was passed unanimously | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
in Congress throws open the whole issue of state-sponsored terrorism | 0:23:37 | 0:23:42 | |
and its relation to individuals and their ability to seek redress | 0:23:42 | 0:23:44 | |
through the courts. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:45 | |
The big question is the moral case. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:51 | |
We here, in the chamber, are here not just to talk | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
about legalities and talk about court cases | 0:23:54 | 0:23:55 | |
and precedents and so on. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
What we care about is fairness for victims, because so many | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
years now have elapsed and we are desperate | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
to get a solution on this. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:05 | |
Were we ever to get anything, any form of compensation from Libya, | 0:24:05 | 0:24:10 | |
I suspect we need to get our heads around the idea | 0:24:10 | 0:24:14 | |
that it will be a single sum. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:15 | |
It would be slid across the table and it would be for the victims' | 0:24:15 | 0:24:20 | |
organisations to actually assess how that is then divided up. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:25 | |
Libyans themselves, those in authority, would not want to be | 0:24:25 | 0:24:28 | |
involved in the detail of how that would then be divided up. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:32 | |
I just share that now, because these are very awkward, | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
difficult questions to raise. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:35 | |
Tobias Ellwood. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:39 | |
On the day that more details were announced | 0:24:39 | 0:24:41 | |
about the planned reduction in size of the House | 0:24:41 | 0:24:43 | |
of Commons - down from 650 | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
to 600 MPs - the House of Lords increased its size once again. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:50 | |
One of the new peers introduced into the Lords | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
was the former director of the civil liberties organisation Liberty. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
Shami Chakrabarti is a regular panellist on the BBC's Question Time | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
programme, but her elevation to the Lords proved controversial. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:05 | |
Earlier this year, she led an inquiry into anti-Semitism | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
in the Labour Party. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
Questions were asked about her independence | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
when it was revealed she'd joined Labour and was being nominated | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
for a peerage by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
She swore her oath of allegiance in the customary way. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:24 | |
I, Sharmishta, Baroness Chakrabarti, do solemnly, sincerely and truly | 0:25:24 | 0:25:29 | |
declare and affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance | 0:25:29 | 0:25:35 | |
to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, | 0:25:35 | 0:25:40 | |
according to law. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:44 | |
Lady Chakrabarti. And that's it for this programme. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:45 | |
Do join me for our next daily round-up. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:48 | |
Until then, from me, Keith Macdougall, goodbye. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:53 |