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Hello there and welcome to Tuesday in Parliament. | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
The Prime Minister calls the passing of the Brexit | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
We will be a strong, self-governing, global Britain with control once | :00:28. | :00:40. | |
again over our borders and laws. Labour says britain needs | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
an inclusive government. decisions are made that we will pay | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
the price for decades to come. Also | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
on this programme... A Scotland minister tells | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
Nicola Sturgeon to take a second independence referendum | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
"off the table". A leading economist backs | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
Philip Hammond's decision to raise national insurance | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
for the self employed. And an MP calls for English | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
sparkling wine to be served What could be a more appropriate | :01:03. | :01:14. | |
setting to promote English wine than the famed Ambassador's reception? | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Theresa May came to the Commons to make a statement following last | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
week's European Council meeting and told Mps the UK faces | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
a "defining moment" as it leaves the European Union. | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
Updating MPs on the Brussels meeting, Mrs May said European | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
leaders had discussed security in the western Balkans | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
and migration, and she announced the UK would be hosting a Somalia | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
Theresa May then turned to the UK's future relationship with the EU. | :01:35. | :01:46. | |
She was in the Chamber for the first time since legislation | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
allowing her to trigger the Brexit process cleared Parliament | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
Last night, the Bill on Article 50 successfully completed its passage | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
It will now proceed to royal assent in the coming days so we remain | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
on track with a timetable I set out six months ago and I will return | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
to this House before the end of this month to notify when I have formally | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
triggered Article 50 and begun the process | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
through which the United Kingdom will leave the EU. | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
This will be a defining moment for our whole country as we begin | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
to forge a new relationship with Europe and a new role | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
We will be a strong, self-governing global Britain, | :02:26. | :02:35. | |
with control once again over our borders and our laws. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
The new relationship with the EU that we negotiate will work | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
That is why we have been working closely | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
..including the Scottish Government, listening to their proposals | :02:47. | :03:00. | |
and recognising the many areas of common ground that we have come | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
to such as protecting workers' rights and our security | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
So, Mr Speaker, this is not a moment to play politics or create | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
There is no doubt that if the wrong decisions are made, | :03:16. | :03:26. | |
we will pay the price for decades to come. | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
So now more than ever Britain needs an inclusive government that listens | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
However, all the signs are that we have a complacent | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
government, complacent with our economy, complacent | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
with people's rights and complacent about the future of this country. | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
When the Foreign Secretary says no deal with the EU | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
would be perfectly OK, it simply isn't good enough. | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
Far from taking back control, leaving into World Trade | :04:00. | :04:09. | |
Organisation rules would mean losing control, jobs and, | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
So when the Prime Minister says a bad deal is better than no | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
deal, let me be clear - no deal is a bad deal. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
It was also Theresa May's first Commons appearance | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
since Nicola Sturgeon announced her intention to push | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
for a second independence referendum in Scotland. | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
The SNP's Westminster leader turned to what the Prime Minster | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
Last July we were told by the Prime Minister herself, | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
saying these very words, that she would not trigger | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
Article 50 until she had, and I quote her own words, | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
Now she knows that she has no agreement with the devolved | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
administration despite months of compromise suggestions | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
So will the UK Government, even at this very late | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
days to secure a compromised UK wide approach or does she still plan | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
to plough on regardless even though she knows what the consequences | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
He talks about a single market, he talks about the importance | :05:10. | :05:19. | |
of access to the single market of the EU. | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
I would simply remind him and his colleagues once again | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
that the most important single market for Scotland is the single | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
The Prime Minister has said that no deal is better than a bad deal, | :05:29. | :05:41. | |
and whilst we all wish her well in getting the best possible deal | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
for the UK, will she now publish what the effects would be | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
of crashing out of the EU on WTO rules so that we can have a debate | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
in the country about her assertion that no deal is better | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
I say to the right honourable lady, I'm grateful for the comment she has | :05:57. | :06:08. | |
made, being in support of the Government in looking ahead | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
and trying to negotiate the best possible deal for the United Kingdom | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
and that is precisely what we will be doing. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
As my right honourable friend launches into the negotiations, | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
I wonder if she has had time to consider the excellent House | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
of Lords report that says we have no legal obligation to pay any money | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
And does she share my view that this is an excellent basis | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
I can assure my honourable friend that I have noted the House of Lords | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
on the 23rd of June last year, I think they were very clear | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
they did not want to continue year after year to be paying huge sums | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
On the committee corridor, the Mayor of London called | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
on the Prime Minister to strike an early "interim deal" | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
on transitional trade arrangements with Brussels. | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
Labour's Sadiq Khan warned that banks "can't wait" for the full | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
two-year negotiation to be concluded and would start making plans to move | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
operations out of the UK as soon as Theresa May triggers | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
Facing the Exiting the EU Committee, Mr Khan said without assurances | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
on a trade deal London could face a catastrophe. | :07:22. | :07:33. | |
The Prime Minister talked about no deal being better than a bad deal. | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
Of course there are circumstances where that is the case. | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
If, for example, a bad deal with us paying a massive cheque | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
and all the rest of it, without the right benefits to us. | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
That's a bad deal, no deal may be better. | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
But in most circumstances, no deal means WTO terms, | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
which means tariffs for goods, nontariff barriers in relation | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
to regulation legal frameworks for services, and bearing in mind | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
we have a service surplus and when you speak to the service | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
sector in particular, no deal equates to WTO terms, | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
a catastrophe as far as they're concerned. | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
What is your perception of the impact of the referendum | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
result on what financial services companies are doing now? | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
The bad news is already in the public domain are some | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
of the decisions taken by financial institutions. | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
Whether it is UBS talking about 1000 of their 5000 | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
Whether it is JP Morgan, they employ 16,000 staff in the UK. | :08:25. | :08:35. | |
They have talked about moving 4000 out of the country. | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
HSBC, of course, massive employer in the country. | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
Their biggest presence is in the UK and Hong Kong. | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
They have said publicly that they worry about 20% | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
of revenue being affected and could move to Paris. | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
You have already made very clear that, in your view, | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
transitional arrangements in the absence of a deal | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
being signed up in 18 months, are essential for London. | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
I don't see a downside to having an interim deal there. | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
It could well be we reach a deal within two years, | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
which is fantastic, but an interim deal gives the certainty and clarity | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
You say that if we don't conclude a deal and revert back to WTO | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
that this will be a disaster and our economy will suffer. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
Surely your job as the Mayor of London actually is to talk up | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
London and tell people that London is going to be an even greater city | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
once we leave the European Union, not that it is at risk and it's | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
going to suffer all these dire consequences. | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
I appreciate the advice how to be a great Mayor but actually one | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
of my jobs is to articulate what businesses tell me. | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
It is my job and I can be naively optimistic | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
I am optimistic with reason because our underlying strengths | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
are not going to change but it will be, I think, unwise | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
for me not to articulate to you what is being told to me | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
about businesses by business leaders, from finance, | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
creative and culture, public services, to construction. | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
The transitional arrangement, as you envisage, is to make | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
There is no circumstance in which they will want to punish | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
us but wants to make that punishment painless. | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
That is a point of view you've got but my point of view is different. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
I am quite clear in relation to what businesses are telling me, | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
as demonstrated by the CBI in the evidence they have given | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
which is that an interim deal would provide certainty, | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
not least that financial services need in relation | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
Over in the Lords, a minister was called to the Chamber to deal | :10:41. | :10:52. | |
with the other big development of the week. | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
Nicola Sturgeon's announcement on Monday that she wants another | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
independence referendum for Scotland, to be | :10:58. | :10:58. | |
held between the autumn of 2018 and the spring | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
Lord Dunlop told peers why the Westminster government | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
The UK Government remains of the view that there should not be | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
a further referendum on independence and, even at this late hour, | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
we call on the Scottish Government to take it off the table. | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
Another referendum would be divisive and cause huge economic uncertainty | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
If a referendum is allowed, it is essential that it is held | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
after the Brexit negotiations are completed, not in the midst | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
of complex negotiations, with no ability whatsoever | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
to understand the implications of the detailed agreements | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
Nicola Sturgeon said yesterday that she wanted | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
I have to say, my Lords, I can think of nothing more | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
calculated to undermine the achievement of a good deal | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
than holding a divisive and disruptive independence | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
referendum during the last six months of one of the most important | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
peacetime negotiations this country has ever faced. | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
We certainly call on tough negotiations, tougher than the last | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
time, over the timing and the question, because it is | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
quite clear that Mr Alex Salmond ran rings round the Prime Minister | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
of the day at that time, and if they want any | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
advice on negotiations, I'm available. | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
It is not what people in Scotland want, not now nor after Brexit. | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
The SNP should stand by the Edinburgh agreement and stick | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
to their word that this was once in a generation, not | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
a never-endum to be repeated and repeated and repeated. | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
In the past half-hour, I have received an e-mail | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
from a leading player in the Scottish commercial property | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
market to say that overnight ?50 million worth of deals have been | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
withdrawn as a consequence of the possibility of | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
Would the noble Lord, the minister, agree with me that when the Scottish | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
economy is already weakened, while we are seriously | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
troubled about our education and our health sectors, | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
that the First Minister's action is one of unpardonable folly? | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
Well, yes, I would very much agree with the noble lady. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
I meet many Scottish businesses and I have yet to find one | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
who thinks it is a good idea to engender this uncertainty | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
by calling for another independence referendum. | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
You're watching Tuesday in Parliament with me, Alicia McCarthy. | :13:25. | :13:34. | |
Last week's surprise announcement in the Budget of a rise | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
in National Insurance paid by self-employed workers has been | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
supported in Parliament by Paul Johnson, of the Institute | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
The day after the Budget, Theresa May said decisions | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
on changing NI would be made in the Autumn. | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
At the Treasury Committee, Paul Johnson was asked about the gap | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
between the NI amounts paid by employed people and | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
Historically there has been a justification | :13:57. | :14:08. | |
which is that the self-employed have been entitled to significantly | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
smaller state benefits than employees. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
That gap is almost completely closed now, particularly | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
with the introduction of a single tier pension, so the only difference | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
is in terms of maternity benefits and contributing | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
That might imply a difference in national insurance rates of up | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
to one percentage point, certainly no more than that. | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
Other differences are first of all very different according | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
to the type of self-employment people are in. | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
Let's talk about the genuinely self-employed. | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
The self-employed self-employed, not people who might easily have | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
Let's just concentrate at that end of the sector. | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
Then you need to think about what exactly it is you want | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
Is it that you want to compensate or subsidise for, | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
as you were saying, risk people are taking? | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
And you need to ask is the best way of doing...? | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
First of all, why do we want to subsidise risk? | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
We don't subsidise all risk and we don't think all | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
Secondly, if you do want to do it, why do it through the tax system | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
in a blanket way which subsidises or helps an awful lot of people | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
Do you want to find some better way of achieving that. | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
Mr Johnson was challenged on his use of the word "subsidy". | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
On the whole, when one is talking about one group paying less | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
than another doing very similar things, one can think | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
Well, I think only if you assume that it is | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
If you think there is a case of horizontal equity. | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
And the Government isn't giving a subsidy by not taking your money. | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
I think linguistically that is very important because it slightly shows | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
To put it another way, you are charging other people more | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
tax in order to reduce the tax on another group. | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
You are charging people more tax not necessarily in order | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
to do anything else, you are just charging | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
But I think language is important because it gives an indication | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
You always seem to be in favour of higher taxes, which worries me. | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
What we are saying here is there is a case of horizontal | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
equity between people and if you want to have a lower rate | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
of tax across the board, that is absolutely reasonable. | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
I think there is a case, but it is much harder to make a case | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
for treating this group very differently from this | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
group when they are doing very similar things, | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
and that creates complexity at cost to the economy and to those | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
who are not benefiting from the reduced tax. | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
You didn't make a case for reduced tax for the others, | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
you made a case for higher tax per self-employed. | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
We are making a case for bringing the two together. | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
The House of Lords is too big, leading peers have admitted | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
The problem is no-one can agree on the best way to reduce it. | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
Lady Smith, the Labour leader in the Lords, | :17:01. | :17:02. | |
gave evidence along with the Lib Dem leader, Lord Newby, | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
and the convenor of the crossbench or independent peers, | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
Given how difficult it has been to attempt radical reform | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
of parliament's second chamber, they were asked what smaller | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
reforms they would make if it were up to them. | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
Labour's Paul Flynn began with a reference to the recent | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
BBC Two documentary Meet The Lords. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
My admiration for your house as a body for scrutinising | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
legislation far superior to what happens here. | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
But the position of the Lords, which is nothing to do with you, is | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
one that is indefensible in so many ways, in | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
that it is possible to buy a place in the Lords if you | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
contribute enough to any of the three main parties. | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
The fact it overrepresents London and underrepresents Scotland, | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
All the problems that arise, all the illogical | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
Could you list some practical ways to | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
reforming the excesses in the near future? | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
I think there are a number of things that can be achieved quite easily. | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
Ending the hereditary by-elections, which are complete and | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
utter nonsense and an embarrassment to the house would be | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
a first, that could be done tomorrow. | :18:23. | :18:23. | |
There is a private members bill which the | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
The Government takes the view there should be consensus. | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
To get complete consensus on anything is very difficult. | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
There is a broad consensus that the House of Lords | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
should be reduced in number, but there is no consensus | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
Not least because each of the parties are differentially | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
affected by virtually any reform that you might care to make. | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
The convenor of the crossbench peers wanted to see the brakes put | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
I would like an absolute cap but that depends | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
Prime Minister, frankly, whose prerogative is affected by the | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
appointments process said that she operates. | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
Interesting statistic to bear in mind, we had a vote | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
last week on the Brexit Bill, the largest | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
vote since the 19th century, and | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
Now, you test that against the nominal number of our membership, | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
which is over 800, and you can see that | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
actually, in practice, even | :19:26. | :19:26. | |
with all the efforts to get people in, | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
we don't get anything like the | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
800 people coming in and so there is a question as to the actual | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
working number, as opposed to the nominal number that is | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
I would go for a cap, frankly, at around 600. | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
And should there be a set retirement age? | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
There are members in their 80s making a | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
phenomenally great contribution, Alf Dubs, for example, on my side. | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
Then you've got others in their 30s who you | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
never see, so I think the committee will have to look at things like | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
attendance, activity, whilst not the same time | :20:01. | :20:01. | |
ignoring those people who | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
bring expertise when they do come in, but there should | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
Some of those things have been partially dealt with. | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
If you don't attend in a session now, | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
you're automatically retired and that's the end of your | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
Lady Smith was referring there to a committee set up | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
by Lord Fowler to aim to reduce the size of the House of Lords. | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
The SNP's Ronnie Cowan had another idea. | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
I've got a solution to this, which I'm sure you're not | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
Have a second chamber, which is elected by all the | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
people the United Kingdom and therefore will represent all the | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
regions of the United Kingdom, and that seems to solve a lot | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
Lord Newby agreed, although Lady Smith warned | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
an elected second chamber might be a challenge to the primacy | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
It's a dilemma presented to many a dog walker. | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
Everyone knows that owners are supposed to clean up | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
after their furry friend makes a doggy deposit, but increasingly it | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
seems many then don't know what to do with the plastic poop bag. | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
A Conservative MP set out the problem. | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
There is no doubt that dog fouling is an anti-social, environmentally | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
It blights parks, forests and farmland apart from | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
being left on fields and verges and, to compound the problem, | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
we've now seen the rise of the phenomenon of | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
Fellow walkers, cyclists and families out | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
with small children are met with lumps of dog faeces | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
wrapped in pink, blue, black, even | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
apricot coloured plastic, dangling from trees, | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
bushes or decoratively tied to people's fences. | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
Deers ingest the bags, children may handle | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
the packages, cyclists have | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
even ridden head on into them as they dangle from overhanging | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
She called for better signage so owners knew where bins were. | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
But there was an alternative in very rural areas. | :22:02. | :22:10. | |
If the walker is further on in their walk | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
out in a no-bin area, an area of natural habitats, | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
that walk should show dog walkers that, in that area, they ought to | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
This is an approach on the Forestry Commissions website. | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
Having been on the Jeremy Vine show trying to flick a pseudo-poo | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
eclair and didn't flick at all well, I can say it is actually quite | :22:26. | :22:35. | |
an effective, in reality, way of doing things but actually | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
stick and flick will cover the poo with leaves and vegetation, | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
so we need clear, easy to recognise graphics for these | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
The minister, Marcus Jones, said irresponsible dog owners | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
spoiled the environment and that local councils were looking | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
at improved signage and other "innovative solutions". | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
The new MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central has made his maiden | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Gareth Snell was speaking on the last day of the Budget debate. | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
He held the seat for Labour after Tristram Hunt stood down | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
from the Commons to become the director of London's Victoria | :23:08. | :23:09. | |
Gareth Snell turned to the potteries' most famous export. | :23:10. | :23:20. | |
We were the beating heart of a ceramic | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
empire that stretched to the | :23:27. | :23:27. | |
Today, proud members of the turnover club | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
can be seen inspecting their tableware for that | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
hoping to find neatly inscribed on the back of their plate the five | :23:33. | :23:46. | |
greatest words in the English language, | :23:47. | :23:47. | |
It is a ceremony, Mr Speaker, which may own | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
daughter Hannah has taken up with vigour. | :23:52. | :23:52. | |
In doing so enthusiastically, she wished to | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
discover the origins of the dinner plate that she has on occasion | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
forgotten to finish its contents before turning it over | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
there and depositing her lunch on her lap. | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
The new MP for Stoke on Trent, Gareth Snell. | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
Finally, feeling the need for a bit of sparkle in your life? | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
How about a nice, cool glass of fizz? | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
Not champagne, or prosecco, but English sparkling wine. | :24:16. | :24:16. | |
According to a Conservative MP, the industry is on the up, | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
with sales topping ?100 million in 2015. | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
And Nusrat Ghani wanted to give the trade a bit more of a boost. | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
She brought in a bill to have English wines served | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
In a post-Brexit world, we must do all we can to get behind | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
industries that show the sort of potential of our wine | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
industry and what better way to do that than to give the world a taste | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
by serving UK produced wine and sparkling wine | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
in our 268 embassies, high commissions and consulates around | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
What could be a more appropriate setting to promote | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
English wine than the famed Ambassador's reception? | :24:53. | :25:02. | |
However, the lack of consistency in embassy policies | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
for hosting and serving British product mean we are missing | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
opportunities to show it off in new markets that should be | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
fertile territory for export, such as China, | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
Japan, Singapore and even India where wine consumption among the | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
professional classes is growing exponentially. | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
So she argued the UK should make the most of the chance to promote | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
Ms Ghani won the right to take her bill forward, | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
though unless the Government backs it it may well fall flat. | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
And that's it from us for now, but do join me at the same time | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
tomorrow for another round-up of the day at Westminster, | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
including the highlights from Prime Minister's Questions. | :25:39. | :25:42. |