:00:15. > :00:26.Good evening, this is Susan Hulme at Westminster ,
:00:27. > :00:30.What people in the country `re worried about is the extra
:00:31. > :00:38.insecurity to their living standards, jobs, pensions following
:00:39. > :00:43.the referendum. He talks about job security, and my two months ago It
:00:44. > :00:48.may be my party's interest for him to be sitting there, but it is not
:00:49. > :00:51.in the national interest. For heavens sake, go.
:00:52. > :00:54.Also on the programme: A julp in reported hate crime incidents
:00:55. > :00:56.following the referendum le`ds to calls for urgent action:
:00:57. > :00:59.And as the saga of the BHS collapse continues to unfold -
:01:00. > :01:01.one MP reckons you couldn't make it up.
:01:02. > :01:08.Who's to blame for 22,000 pdnsions being reduced? This was alw`ys going
:01:09. > :01:14.to be tough PMQs for both p`rty leaders. David Cameron was facing
:01:15. > :01:19.MPs after a tough trip to Brussels where he had to explain the British
:01:20. > :01:22.decision to leave the EU to other European leaders. He said it was a
:01:23. > :01:29.meeting held in sorrow rathdr than anger. The contest to replace him is
:01:30. > :01:33.emerging, candidates are merging he would like to replace him as PM and
:01:34. > :01:45.party leader. But that domestic turmoil w`s put -
:01:46. > :01:48.briefly - to one side, as David Cameron turned first
:01:49. > :01:51.to the attack on Istanbul's main airport, which has left mord
:01:52. > :01:59.than forty people dead. I know the whole House when Joe
:02:00. > :02:03.condemning the terrible terrorist attacks in Turkey last night. Our
:02:04. > :02:08.thoughts and prayers are with those killed, injured and their f`milies.
:02:09. > :02:12.There are no reports of UK casualties, but the Foreign Office
:02:13. > :02:14.are working with Turkish authorities to establish the full facts.
:02:15. > :02:16.His sympathy was echoed by the SNP's Westminster leader, Angus Robertson,
:02:17. > :02:30.What people are worried abott is a filling jobs, pensions in the wake
:02:31. > :02:36.of the referendum. We have heard of some major companies, like Siemens
:02:37. > :02:40.leaving the country. Meetings have the Chancellor had with major
:02:41. > :02:46.companies, to try and stabilise the situation? I would say we are not
:02:47. > :02:49.strong position to meet these challenges, we have paid down so
:02:50. > :02:55.much of the deficit, strong growth and job creation. I do not belittle
:02:56. > :03:00.consequences will be diffictlt. There will be some choppy w`ters
:03:01. > :03:04.ahead. I don't turn back in the mornings I made during the campaign.
:03:05. > :03:09.We need to find the best wax through this. Jamie Koe been said Thursday's
:03:10. > :03:14.vote at the rejection of thd status quo. The Prime Minister has two
:03:15. > :03:21.months left, will he leave one nation legacy? And will there be the
:03:22. > :03:28.scrapping of the bedroom tax, the banning of zero hours contr`cts and
:03:29. > :03:32.cancelling cuts to universal credit? Where I would agree with thd
:03:33. > :03:37.honourable gentleman, of cotrse we would look to do more to tackle
:03:38. > :03:41.poverty, spread wealth and opportunity, but to try and pretend
:03:42. > :03:46.last Thursday's vote was as a result of the state of the British economy
:03:47. > :03:51.is complete nonsense. The British economy is stronger than it was six
:03:52. > :03:55.years ago. We have to reflect on our role in the referendum camp`ign I
:03:56. > :04:00.know the honourable gentlem`n says he put his back into it, all I would
:04:01. > :04:08.say, I would hate to see hil when he's not trying. Mr Speaker,
:04:09. > :04:13.government figures released yesterday show the number of
:04:14. > :04:19.children living in poverty has jumped by 200,001 year. A total
:04:20. > :04:25.disgraceful total, 3.9 millhon children in this country living in
:04:26. > :04:30.poverty. Does he not think, at the very least, he should apologise to
:04:31. > :04:35.them, and the parents being failed by his government, and do something
:04:36. > :04:43.about it, so we reduce the levels of child poverty in this country? If he
:04:44. > :04:47.is looking for excuses why the sign he and I were on on recommend them,
:04:48. > :04:52.you should look somewhere else. The honourable gentleman talks `bout job
:04:53. > :04:57.insecurity and my two months ago, it may be for my party's interdst for
:04:58. > :05:04.him to sit there, but not in the country's interest, I would say for
:05:05. > :05:08.heavens sake, go. A strong lajority voted for Scotland to remain in the
:05:09. > :05:11.European Union. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is in Brussdls
:05:12. > :05:16.meeting with the president of the pin commission, the president of the
:05:17. > :05:21.European Parliament. Yesterday there was a standing ovation when the case
:05:22. > :05:27.was made to protect Scotland's place in Europe. What will the UK
:05:28. > :05:32.Government do to protect Scotland's place in Europe? We need to
:05:33. > :05:38.negotiate the best possible deal for the United Kingdom. The closest
:05:39. > :05:42.possible relationship. That will also be the best possible ddal for
:05:43. > :05:49.Scotland, that is what needs to be done. When Ukip's MPs stood up, he
:05:50. > :05:53.received a frosty reception. I thank the Prime Minister for giving us
:05:54. > :06:08.last week's great exercise hn democracy. Order. The honourable
:06:09. > :06:13.gentleman will be heard. We only Leeds side should recognise that
:06:14. > :06:21.although we won, it was a n`rrow mandate plenty of decent, p`triotic
:06:22. > :06:23.people voting for Remain. Does the Prime Minister agree that they
:06:24. > :06:28.besides need to come togethdr to achieve a new post EU national
:06:29. > :06:32.consensus, whereby we have close links with friends and allids in
:06:33. > :06:37.Europe and beyond, whilst rdclaiming 17? Let me thank the honour`ble
:06:38. > :06:41.gentleman for making the pohnt, there were people with a dedp sense
:06:42. > :06:47.of packages on both sides of the argument. I also agree with him
:06:48. > :06:51.time for people and our country together together. We now h`ve to
:06:52. > :06:56.work hard, on what the alternatives are. These were discussed and
:06:57. > :07:03.debated in the referendum c`mpaign, that they were hypothetical, there
:07:04. > :07:09.are real alternatives. My constituency has received a list of
:07:10. > :07:12.essential amount of funding. The League campaign has promised that
:07:13. > :07:20.funding will continue even hf we leave. That the Prime Minister
:07:21. > :07:25.believe that even if we leave is a penny -- even if we lose a penny of
:07:26. > :07:29.that will be a crime. Difficult to give guarantees, you don't know what
:07:30. > :07:33.will happen to the economy, and it does face challenges. It will be a
:07:34. > :07:38.matter for my successor as we leave the EU, to make good on what they
:07:39. > :07:42.said at the time. When PMQs was over, David Cameron stayed on to
:07:43. > :07:48.talk about Tuesday's Europe`n Council meeting. Many backbdnch MPs
:07:49. > :07:52.expressed fears about the undeclared political direction facing Britain
:07:53. > :08:00.as it negotiates the exit from the EU. One MP said a second referendum
:08:01. > :08:05.should be held as second thoughts were always superior to first
:08:06. > :08:10.thoughts. The tone of the mdeting was one of sadness and regrdt. There
:08:11. > :08:14.was agreement that the decision of the British people should bd
:08:15. > :08:17.respected. We had positive discussions about the relathonship
:08:18. > :08:22.we want to see between Brit`in and our European partners, and the next
:08:23. > :08:25.steps leading the EU, including decisions that need to be worked
:08:26. > :08:31.very and the timing for triggering article 50. Last week's votd to
:08:32. > :08:36.leave the EU means the country is in an unstable position. The ndxt steps
:08:37. > :08:39.should be the most important, and should be taken with care. For the
:08:40. > :08:44.Prime Minister explain to the millions of people who voted to
:08:45. > :08:52.leave, while in the next few months, while awaiting a new Prime Linister,
:08:53. > :08:58.this country should start t`lking informally with Canada, Australia,
:08:59. > :09:01.Malaysia, other countries desperately keen to sign up to trade
:09:02. > :09:09.agreements? Why cannot we do these things? Does the Prime Minister
:09:10. > :09:13.agree with the Foreign Affahrs Committee that the construction of
:09:14. > :09:16.Article 50 means it is perfdctly likely that there will be no
:09:17. > :09:21.agreement on the other side of the negotiations requiring GMD from our
:09:22. > :09:27.partners and the European P`rliament at the end of the two years. That
:09:28. > :09:32.means we will still have access to the single market? I did look at the
:09:33. > :09:35.foreign affairs select commhttee report, while I am not fullx
:09:36. > :09:38.liberated and able to say btt I think, I thought the conclusions
:09:39. > :09:50.were I was thinking of a place in London,
:09:51. > :09:55.close to Dagenham, but I've not go there. I am bored with the lame duck
:09:56. > :10:00.attitude the Prime Minister is giving us. Take control, man. There
:10:01. > :10:05.are lots of things we could do, passing emergency legislation to
:10:06. > :10:08.make clear that every EU citizen living in this country is entitled
:10:09. > :10:12.to live and stayed there into the future. That would stop somd of the
:10:13. > :10:17.horrible campaigning alreadx happening. We know many millions of
:10:18. > :10:21.people in this country felt they were deceived by the exaggerations
:10:22. > :10:26.and the lies in the campaigns of both parties. They now feel
:10:27. > :10:32.themselves cheated by that result, millions of people have protested.
:10:33. > :10:38.Isn't it right we look again at the possibility of a second refdrendum
:10:39. > :10:44.in the 17th that all second thoughts are always superior to first
:10:45. > :10:49.thoughts. I don't think Ethdrley appreciates, certainly the Secretary
:10:50. > :10:53.of State, when we negotiated the Good Friday agreement, membdrship of
:10:54. > :11:00.the EU was taken as given, hn the fabric. The core of the agrdement is
:11:01. > :11:02.the principle of consent. The people of Northern Ireland find thdy are
:11:03. > :11:23.being dragged out of the European Union against their consent.
:11:24. > :11:31.Who is to blame for the fall of BHS? It went into administration with a
:11:32. > :11:39.hole in its pension pot. Sir Philip Green sold it to Retail
:11:40. > :11:43.Acquisitions. The working pdnsion business committee has launched a
:11:44. > :11:50.joint enquiry and heard frol key players. They recall the finance
:11:51. > :11:54.director of Sir Philip's Ac`dia Group and asked who was responsible?
:11:55. > :12:00.Who is to blame for the tob`cco at BHS? 11,000 people losing their
:12:01. > :12:09.jobs, 22,500 pensions seeing their totals reduced. Who is to blame In
:12:10. > :12:15.my view a number of people. It is a very sad thing that has happened. We
:12:16. > :12:20.can only apologise to the elployees, and want to sort out the pension. As
:12:21. > :12:25.you have heard this story unfolds over the past number of weeks, there
:12:26. > :12:34.are a number of people. If we had the benefit of hindsight, and to do
:12:35. > :12:43.things differently, we would. Surely the buck stops Sir Philip's and Lady
:12:44. > :12:46.Green's desk. Throughout all our evidence, they are the people who
:12:47. > :12:51.have determined what goes on. Although Sir Philip Kamen pointed
:12:52. > :12:56.everybody, the buck stops whth him, doesn't it? At the end of the day,
:12:57. > :13:04.Mr Field, we gave this business are enough dowry, and not unenctmbered
:13:05. > :13:09.assets, it had a business plan. We have heard from credible individuals
:13:10. > :13:13.like Michael Hitchcock, Darren top, if things were done quickly enough,
:13:14. > :13:17.we would not be in today. I honestly believe that. There are people who
:13:18. > :13:23.run businesses, big businesses around the country who will be
:13:24. > :13:27.holding their head in their hands. You are here to stand up for the
:13:28. > :13:31.thing they put their lives hnto the free market, business, growhng,
:13:32. > :13:35.innovating, giving people incomes. Securing people when they ldave
:13:36. > :13:41.companies. You are so straight question. Where does the buck stop?
:13:42. > :13:46.There is a clear answer. Yot are not prepared to give it? There `re many
:13:47. > :13:53.people involved. You have sden that over weeks, in terms of Grant
:13:54. > :13:59.Thornton, giving advice, thdre are a number of people.
:14:00. > :14:02.MPs from all parties have condemned a sharp increase in hate crhmes
:14:03. > :14:04.following last week's vote to leave the European Union.
:14:05. > :14:06.But at Question Time, David Cameron said a new pl`n
:14:07. > :14:09.would be published soon and promised action and extra cash.
:14:10. > :14:11.According to the police, reports of hate crime
:14:12. > :14:13.incidents have risen by 57%, something the Prime Minister utterly
:14:14. > :14:18.condemned after it was raisdd by the Labour leader.
:14:19. > :14:21.Can I ask the Prime Minister what monitoring systems
:14:22. > :14:24.he and the Home Secretary h`ve put in place, what reports he h`s
:14:25. > :14:26.received from the police and what extra resources
:14:27. > :14:28.are going to communities th`t have been targeted in these
:14:29. > :14:33.violent racist attacks that are taking place?
:14:34. > :14:37.Firstly I agree, these attacks are appalling and they need to stop
:14:38. > :14:40.and it is right that everyone in this House and everyone
:14:41. > :14:44.on all sides of the referendum debate utterly condemns thel.
:14:45. > :14:49.We monitor these attacks and the Home Secretary gets reports
:14:50. > :14:52.but we will be publishing a new action plan on tackling hate
:14:53. > :14:58.We want new steps for reporting hate crime, new CPS guidance
:14:59. > :15:04.to prosecutors on racially aggravated crime, a new fund
:15:05. > :15:07.for protective security measures at vulnerable institutions
:15:08. > :15:09.and additional funding to community organisations
:15:10. > :15:16.Whatever we can do, we will do to drive them out of our cotntry.
:15:17. > :15:19.Later in response to a government statement, there was condemnation
:15:20. > :15:22.of some of the attacks and LPs pointed to evidence that incidents
:15:23. > :15:29.of hate crime have been on the rise for some time.
:15:30. > :15:32.The incidents and behaviour we have seen in recent days including
:15:33. > :15:35.offensive graffiti and abusd hurled at people because they are lembers
:15:36. > :15:37.of ethnic minorities all because of their nation`lity
:15:38. > :15:47.We must stand together against such hate crime and ensure
:15:48. > :16:04.In Huntingdon, cards distributed outside homes and primary schools,
:16:05. > :16:06.all saying no more Polish vdrmin, in Hammersmith a Polish
:16:07. > :16:08.community centre daubed with racist graffiti.
:16:09. > :16:11.On Monday, a report of a Muslim schoolgirl cornered by a group
:16:12. > :16:13.of people who told her, get out, we voted Leave.
:16:14. > :16:15.More reports of incidents in Leicester today that my
:16:16. > :16:17.honourable friend has mentioned and yesterday, in Manchester,
:16:18. > :16:22.footage of a US Army veteran and university lecturer being told
:16:23. > :16:29.to go back to Africa by three youths on a tram.
:16:30. > :16:32.What is happening, Mr Speakdr, to the Britain we have known?
:16:33. > :16:35.This is not taking our country back, this is turning Britain into a place
:16:36. > :16:42.Hate crime by its very nature is a rejection of the British values
:16:43. > :16:51.Depictions of swarms or wavds of immigrants are dangerous
:16:52. > :16:59.The SNP rejects the tone and rhetoric of the debate
:17:00. > :17:01.on immigration during the ldad up to the referendum,
:17:02. > :17:04.instead we as a party believe immigration is essential
:17:05. > :17:07.to the strength of our nation and to our cultural fabric.
:17:08. > :17:10.I never believed that I would ever receive a telephone call
:17:11. > :17:15.in Brentwood and Ongar of someone frightened,
:17:16. > :17:18.of a Polish person being frhghtened, of a Frenchman being
:17:19. > :17:22.frightened, of their kids being bullied at school.
:17:23. > :17:28.Unless we take action, now, this will eat us alive from inside.
:17:29. > :17:31.The government alone cannot do this, she needs to work with local
:17:32. > :17:32.authorities, civic groups and voluntary organisations
:17:33. > :17:35.to ensure that we build the broadest possible coalition
:17:36. > :17:43.If those who make crass rem`rks during the referendum were not aware
:17:44. > :17:45.that they could be flicking the switch of those
:17:46. > :17:47.who are dangerous and troubled, then they are more ignorant
:17:48. > :17:53.This is not just about the far right, there is a far left,
:17:54. > :17:56.this is not just about racism, there is anti-Semitism and ` myriad
:17:57. > :17:59.of threats and dangers to the stability of what we believe
:18:00. > :18:05.This was one of the MPs whose neighbouring constituency
:18:06. > :18:11.was represented by Labour's Jo Cox who was shot and stabbed to death.
:18:12. > :18:14.Yesterday people in my constituency received a leaflet from the BNP
:18:15. > :18:18.saying Jo Cox took misguided action by helping Muslims in the country
:18:19. > :18:20.who may now go on to join Isis, alongside some
:18:21. > :18:33.I am sure the whole House is shocked, that is utterly,
:18:34. > :18:38.In the Lords, peers remain concerned about what the vote might mdan
:18:39. > :18:46.Does my noble friend recall that the Prime Minister madd it
:18:47. > :18:48.clear that EU citizens who are living in this country
:18:49. > :18:53.with employment in this country would be able to remain so?
:18:54. > :18:56.And could he recognise that people are sick and fed up of this
:18:57. > :18:59.continuing fear-mongering c`mpaign continuing after we have made
:19:00. > :19:02.a clear decision and it is hmportant that EU nationals who are rdsident
:19:03. > :19:08.in this country are reassured of that position.
:19:09. > :19:15.Those EU nationals who are hn the country at the present time can
:19:16. > :19:17.be reassured that there will be no change as our membership
:19:18. > :19:20.of the EU continues over the next number of years.
:19:21. > :19:25.Nevertheless, nevertheless, as the Prime Minister has
:19:26. > :19:28.made his position now clear, it is for the next Prime Minister
:19:29. > :19:30.in government to decide when to trigger Article 50
:19:31. > :19:36.and to carry on the relative negotiations.
:19:37. > :19:39.My Lords, does the government accept that there about 3 million DU
:19:40. > :19:41.nationals living at present in the United Kingdom,
:19:42. > :19:43.but there are also 1.2 millhon British people living
:19:44. > :19:51.When present tensions have calmed down, why would either Brussels
:19:52. > :19:54.or London want to do anything to upset this mutually
:19:55. > :20:04.And does the government agree my Lords however,
:20:05. > :20:08.that if the EU were to get difficult with our nationals living there
:20:09. > :20:16.it is we who hold the stronger hand if we retaliate?
:20:17. > :20:23.So many more of them are living here.
:20:24. > :20:26.Lord King said the mutual bdnefits were obvious and that would be
:20:27. > :20:31.The UK will hold a two-minute silence on Friday to honour those
:20:32. > :20:34.who fought in the battle of the Somme.
:20:35. > :20:37.The 1st of July marks 100 ydars since the bloodiest day
:20:38. > :20:45.The aims of the battle were to relieve the French @rmy
:20:46. > :20:53.fighting at Verdun and to wdaken the German Army.
:20:54. > :20:56.The Allies bombarded German trenches for seven days and then
:20:57. > :20:59.at dawn on July the 1st, sent 100,000 men over the top
:21:00. > :21:02.The Germans weathered the artillery fire in deep trenches
:21:03. > :21:05.As the British soldiers adv`nced they were mowed down
:21:06. > :21:13.In total over 19,000 British soldiers lost their lives.
:21:14. > :21:15.At the start of PMQ's, David Cameron mentioned
:21:16. > :21:21.Mr Speaker, this week marks the centenary of the battle
:21:22. > :21:23.of the Somme and there will be a national two-minute
:21:24. > :21:28.I will be attending a memorhal service near the battlefield
:21:29. > :21:32.and it is right that the whole country pauses to member
:21:33. > :21:34.the sacrifices of all those who fought and lost their
:21:35. > :21:39.Later, MPs held a debate to mark the anniversary.
:21:40. > :21:42.The sound of British artilldry guns could be heard across the Channel
:21:43. > :21:49.Mines detonated beneath the German trenches shook the ground.
:21:50. > :21:51.Within moments, cries of the wounded were echoing
:21:52. > :22:00.Every yard of the 60 mile front there were two British casu`lties
:22:01. > :22:02.and by the end of the battld, more than 1 million
:22:03. > :22:09.The terrible price paid by those soldiers reverberated across Europe
:22:10. > :22:16.Now many of those who lost their lives on the Somme
:22:17. > :22:18.were volunteers, men who put themselves forward after seding
:22:19. > :22:23.Lord Kitchener's famous recruiting poster.
:22:24. > :22:29.Those were minors, steelworkers glass workers, clerks,
:22:30. > :22:36.stonemasons and clerics, many of them friends and nehghbours.
:22:37. > :22:38.They joined up together, they trained together, they went
:22:39. > :22:45.to war together and ultimatdly many of them died together.
:22:46. > :22:49.This is a story true not just of the Barnsley Pals but of the many
:22:50. > :22:54.volunteer battalions up and down our country.
:22:55. > :22:56.Steinbrecher was right, the Somme has become a byword
:22:57. > :22:59.for tragedy, pointlessness, waste, but we should never lose
:23:00. > :23:04.sight of the achievements of our predecessors,
:23:05. > :23:13.be proud of them, be proud of Britain's first Citizen @rmy
:23:14. > :23:17.The prioe may have turned ott to be impossibly high,
:23:18. > :23:20.but they were doing the right thing in a just cause.
:23:21. > :23:27.The battle of the Somme remembered in the Commons.
:23:28. > :23:29.The SNP is demanding to be lade Parliament's official
:23:30. > :23:35.It's spokesperson Pete Wish`rt said that Labour was clearly in no
:23:36. > :23:38.shape to assume power if the government were to rdsign.
:23:39. > :23:41.He said the party was unabld to meet key responsibilities
:23:42. > :23:49.and obligations as outlined in the Parliamentary rule book.
:23:50. > :23:51.The current official opposition has lost two thirds
:23:52. > :23:53.of its Shadow Cabinet, its leader in what remains
:23:54. > :23:55.of the front bench no longer commands the support
:23:56. > :23:58.of the overwhelming majoritx of its backbench, it can now no
:23:59. > :24:03.longer provide shadows for lany Departments of State,
:24:04. > :24:07.it is clearly in no shape to assume power and unable to meet thdse key
:24:08. > :24:11.responsiblities and obligathons as outlined in Erskine May.
:24:12. > :24:14.Given these quite obvious f`ilings, what steps would now need to be
:24:15. > :24:16.taken to have this official opposition replaced with ond that
:24:17. > :24:22.can meet the responsibilitids that are set out clearly in Erskhne May?
:24:23. > :24:24.However, the Speaker said that while he had given
:24:25. > :24:26.thought to the issue, Labour remained the official
:24:27. > :24:31.Meanwhile all eyes turned to the Conservative leadership
:24:32. > :24:37.During Prime Minister's Questions, one former minister signalldd
:24:38. > :24:43.that he would not be backing former London Mayor Boris Johnson.
:24:44. > :24:45.Would my right honourable friend educate the House from his
:24:46. > :24:48.experience as Prime Minister, on how in terms of the country's
:24:49. > :24:50.reputation and success, he would compare the demonstrative
:24:51. > :24:52.competence and dignity of Angela Merkel with the theatrical
:24:53. > :25:06.and comical antics of Silvio Borisconi?
:25:07. > :25:12.Fortunately, for my honourable friend, neither of the people
:25:13. > :25:18.he is talking about are candidates and the selection is in an dlection
:25:19. > :25:22.I was given lots of advice on becoming Prime Minister `nd one
:25:23. > :25:25.of them was not to go to a party with Silvio Berlusconi
:25:26. > :25:28.and that is one piece of advice I took and stuck to.
:25:29. > :25:30.Which sound advice brings us to the end of this
:25:31. > :25:35.Do join me at the same time tomorrow when MPs ask questions
:25:36. > :25:38.about transport and debate the laws on homicide while peers ask
:25:39. > :25:40.questions about obesity and changes to constituency boundaries.
:25:41. > :25:46.For now, from me, Alicia McCarthy, goodbye.