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:00:17. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to Wednesday in Parliament.

:00:20. > :00:22.The Commons spends the day debating a call for parliament to be given

:00:23. > :00:28.a greater role in the UK's departure from the European Union.

:00:29. > :00:30.Westminster's major parties are asked what they're doing

:00:31. > :00:36.And calls for tougher prison sentences for stalkers.

:00:37. > :00:39.Despite it being such a violating and intrusive crime, despitd it

:00:40. > :00:42.having the capacity to do stch significant physical

:00:43. > :00:46.and mental harm, it's still being treated as a minor offence.

:00:47. > :00:48.But first, how far should Parliament have a sax

:00:49. > :00:53.on the UK's negotiations about leaving the EU?

:00:54. > :00:55.That was the question of the day at Westminster,

:00:56. > :00:57.where Labour had put forward a motion calling for a debate

:00:58. > :01:00.on the Government's plans and a chance to fully scruthnise

:01:01. > :01:05.them before triggering Article 0, the legal process allowing

:01:06. > :01:11.The Government accepted that in principle but added an alendment

:01:12. > :01:16.saying any such scrutiny shouldn't undermine its negotiating stance.

:01:17. > :01:18.Well, just before MPs got their teeth into the

:01:19. > :01:21.rights and wrongs of all of that, there was the small

:01:22. > :01:24.matter of Prime Minister's Questions to get through,

:01:25. > :01:27.where Jeremy Corbyn painted a gloomy picture of what had happened

:01:28. > :01:36.The reality is that since the Brexit vote, the trade deficit is widening,

:01:37. > :01:37.growth forecasts have been downgraded,

:01:38. > :01:41.value of the pound down 16%, an alliance of the Chamber

:01:42. > :01:43.of Commerce, Confederation of British industry, British Retail

:01:44. > :01:48.Consortium and Trades Union Congress have all made representation

:01:49. > :01:50.to the Prime Minister, demanding clarity.

:01:51. > :01:54.Is the Prime Minister reallx willing to risk a shambolic Tory Brdxit

:01:55. > :02:00.just to appease the people behind her?

:02:01. > :02:03.What the Conservative Party committed to in its manifesto

:02:04. > :02:06.was to give the British people a referendum on whether to stay

:02:07. > :02:10.We gave the British people that vote,

:02:11. > :02:14.We will be leaving the European Union and in doing

:02:15. > :02:17.that, we will negotiate the right deal for the UK which means the

:02:18. > :02:21.right deal in terms of oper`ting within and trading

:02:22. > :02:26.That's what matters to companies here in the UK and

:02:27. > :02:29.that's what we're going to be ambitious about delivering.

:02:30. > :02:32.We on these benches do respdct the decision of the British people

:02:33. > :02:39.But this is a Government th`t drew up no plans for Brexit, that now

:02:40. > :02:43.has no strategy for negotiating Brexit and offers no claritx,

:02:44. > :02:48.no transparency and no chance of scrutiny of the process

:02:49. > :02:54.The jobs and incomes of millions of our people are at stake.

:02:55. > :02:58.Business is worrying and the Government has no answers.

:02:59. > :03:01.The Prime Minister says she won't give a running colmentary,

:03:02. > :03:05.but isn't it time the Government stopped running away

:03:06. > :03:07.from the looming threat to jobs and businesses in this

:03:08. > :03:11.country and the living standards of millions of people?

:03:12. > :03:14.Unlike the Right Honourable gentleman, I'm optimistic

:03:15. > :03:18.about the prospects of this country once we leave the European Tnion.

:03:19. > :03:21.I'm optimistic about the tr`de deals that other countries now actively

:03:22. > :03:24.are coming to us to say that they want to do

:03:25. > :03:28.with the United Kingdom, and I'm optimistic about how we will

:03:29. > :03:31.be able to ensure that our dconomy grows outside of the Europe`n Union.

:03:32. > :03:34.But I have to say to the Right Honourable

:03:35. > :03:35.gentleman on this issue, Labour didn't want

:03:36. > :03:39.We gave them, the Conservathves gave them a referendum.

:03:40. > :03:43.We are listening to the British people and delivering on

:03:44. > :03:47.that result and now the Shadow Foreign Secretary is shouting

:03:48. > :03:55.The Shadow Foreign Secretarx wants a second vote.

:03:56. > :03:58.I have to say to her, I would have thought that L`bour MPs

:03:59. > :04:03.You can ask the same question again,

:04:04. > :04:06.you still get the answer yot don't want.

:04:07. > :04:14.The Prime Minister appears to have made a choice and that

:04:15. > :04:18.choice is to side with the protectionists and nationalhsts

:04:19. > :04:21.who have taken over her party as surely...

:04:22. > :04:27.As surely as Momentum have taken over the Labour Party.

:04:28. > :04:35.She has chosen a hard Brexit that was never on anybody's

:04:36. > :04:39.ballot paper and she has chosen to turn her back on British

:04:40. > :04:49.As a result, petrol prices `nd food retailers warn of huge pricd rises

:04:50. > :04:54.at the pumps and on the supdrmarket shelves in the coming days, so

:04:55. > :04:58.when will she put the interdsts of hard-working British people ahead

:04:59. > :05:06.of an extremist protectionism that absolutely nobody voted for?

:05:07. > :05:08.The Right Honourable gentlelan asks about who we are siding with.

:05:09. > :05:11.I'll tell him who this Government is siding with.

:05:12. > :05:15.We are siding with the Brithsh people who voted...

:05:16. > :05:18.Who voted to leave the European Union

:05:19. > :05:20.and it's high time the right honourable gentlelan

:05:21. > :05:22.listened to the vote of the British people

:05:23. > :05:25.and accepted that's exactly what we're going to do.

:05:26. > :05:30.Many people across the Housd will be reassured that the Government

:05:31. > :05:36.accepted the amendment to the opposition motion being debated

:05:37. > :05:39.later this afternoon, which guarantees that this House hs able

:05:40. > :05:44.properly to scrutinise the plan for leaving the European Unhon

:05:45. > :05:52.Can she tell us, will that scrutiny involve a vote?

:05:53. > :05:55.I have to say to the right honourable lady that the idda

:05:56. > :05:59.that Parliament somehow wasn't going to be able to discuss, debate,

:06:00. > :06:16.First of all, the Secretary of State

:06:17. > :06:18.for exiting the European Unhon has already made two statemdnts

:06:19. > :06:22.I believe four hours of questions followed those.

:06:23. > :06:26.A new select committee has been set up which crucially includes

:06:27. > :06:30.representatives from all parts of the United Kingdom which will be

:06:31. > :06:36.over a week ago, I announce that there will be a Great Repeal Bill

:06:37. > :06:38.in the next session of Parliament to repeal

:06:39. > :06:40.the European Communities Act, so Parliament is going to h`ve

:06:41. > :06:43.every opportunity to debate this issue.

:06:44. > :06:47.And so on to the day's Brexit debate.

:06:48. > :06:51.Labour set the tone in advance, publishing 170 questions

:06:52. > :06:55.it was putting to the Prime Minister about the negotiating terms -

:06:56. > :06:59.170 being the number of days until the 31st of March,

:07:00. > :07:03.by when Government aims to have triggered Article 50.

:07:04. > :07:06.Labour's Sir Keir Starmer, who's the Shadow Brexit Secretary,

:07:07. > :07:10.said the negotiations were hugely significant.

:07:11. > :07:13.Decisions that are going to be taken by the Government over the next few

:07:14. > :07:18.months and years in relation to exiting the EU are going to have a

:07:19. > :07:23.profound implication for thd future of this country, for its economy,

:07:24. > :07:27.for its people and for its place in the world.

:07:28. > :07:29.Does he believe the national interest will be best served

:07:30. > :07:33.by the Government coming to this place and explaining in precise

:07:34. > :07:37.before we've even walked into the room?

:07:38. > :07:40.Of course there is a degree of detail that can't be gond into.

:07:41. > :07:43.Of course there is a degree of flexibility that has to be

:07:44. > :07:46.Of course the starting position may not be

:07:47. > :07:51.But the question here is whether the basic terms

:07:52. > :07:55.The honourable gentleman, because I am very much

:07:56. > :07:59.minded to support his motion, is calling for a vote on the tdrms

:08:00. > :08:03.not just an examination, but a vote on the terms before we send

:08:04. > :08:16.But I do take it in two stages, because both of them are important.

:08:17. > :08:27.Scrutiny, putting the plans before the House really matters.

:08:28. > :08:30.There is a separate argument about a vote and I say

:08:31. > :08:33.there should be a vote, but what we mustn't do is gdt

:08:34. > :08:35.to a situation where in orddr to resist the vote,

:08:36. > :08:38.the Secretary of State won't even put the plans before the Hotse.

:08:39. > :08:41.There has been a vote of the British people,

:08:42. > :08:42.a vote that was delegated to the British...

:08:43. > :08:47.A vote that was delegated to the British people by

:08:48. > :08:50.the terms of the referendum act and the question he's got to answer,

:08:51. > :08:53.supposing there was a vote hn this House, how would he vote?

:08:54. > :08:56.Would he vote against Article 50 invocation

:08:57. > :09:07.I'm not going to take long responding to that,

:09:08. > :09:10.because I've made the point, the mandate on the

:09:11. > :09:13.23rd of June was not a mandate as the terms.

:09:14. > :09:15.I can't put it any clearer than that.

:09:16. > :09:18.The Brexit Secretary argued there would be plenty of ch`nces

:09:19. > :09:21.for MPs to scrutinise the Government's plans.

:09:22. > :09:25.We have already got plans - the House, not the Government -

:09:26. > :09:28.has got plans to put in place the so-called Brexht select

:09:29. > :09:31.committee which will take effect next month and we will be appearing

:09:32. > :09:35.It would be rather surprising to appear in front of

:09:36. > :09:38.that select committee and not be talking about some of our plans

:09:39. > :09:41.I expect to attend the commhttee regularly just as I will also attend

:09:42. > :09:46.the Lords committee, its effective equivalent.

:09:47. > :09:48.So we don't shy from scrutiny, we welcome it.

:09:49. > :09:50.But the Government wouldn't reveal everything.

:09:51. > :09:53.If you went to buy a house and you only

:09:54. > :09:56.looked at one house, you told the person you werd in love

:09:57. > :09:58.with their house and you made a bid for it,

:09:59. > :10:00.I suspect the price would go up and...

:10:01. > :10:11.If you make pre-emptive indications that you are willing

:10:12. > :10:14.to make a concession on somdthing, you actually reduce the valte

:10:15. > :10:19.of that concession, so in m`ny, many ways, we cannot give ddtails

:10:20. > :10:23.about how we are going to run the negotiation.

:10:24. > :10:26.We still have got no offer of a vote and we need some clarity

:10:27. > :10:29.about the policy the Government's going to pursud

:10:30. > :10:33.because the Government is accountable to this House

:10:34. > :10:36.for the policy choosing negotiations.

:10:37. > :10:41.This is about the country and whether Brexit works

:10:42. > :10:45.When I used to stand behind that dispatch box,

:10:46. > :10:48.the honourable member for Stone and many of his other fervent

:10:49. > :10:52.Brexiteers, I could always rely on them to marry their loathing

:10:53. > :10:55.of the European Union to their passion for the traditions

:10:56. > :11:02.They hated Brussels as much as they loved the House of Commons.

:11:03. > :11:05.They still hate Brussels, but they now appear to

:11:06. > :11:10.have been completely tongue tied, completely mute, silent when they

:11:11. > :11:12.have an opportunity to speak up for the traditional

:11:13. > :11:18.What the Government does is introduces its policy.

:11:19. > :11:21.It introduces its legislation to get that policy

:11:22. > :11:24.through and it has been cle`r responsibility for the negotiation

:11:25. > :11:31.Against that, no Government can exist unless it has

:11:32. > :11:36.At any day, if the Leader of the Opposition

:11:37. > :11:38.chooses to put down a vote of no-confidence in Her Majdsty s

:11:39. > :11:41.Government, Mr Speaker, as I understand it, you will take

:11:42. > :11:47.And therefore, if there is any part of the negotiathon,

:11:48. > :11:50.if there is any part of the discussion that takes place

:11:51. > :11:53.that this House presents or opposes, then the Government may be removed

:11:54. > :12:06.the first since Jeremy Corbxn was overwhelmingly re-electdd

:12:07. > :12:09.as Labour leader and the first since the break

:12:10. > :12:14.Jeremy Corbyn turned to a controversial announcelent

:12:15. > :12:16.from the Home Secretary Ambdr Rudd, who's department had briefed

:12:17. > :12:18.proposals for firms to disclose what percentage of their

:12:19. > :12:24.It had argued it was a way to encourage companies to hhre more

:12:25. > :12:30.local people and "flush out" those abusing existing rules.

:12:31. > :12:32.Jeremy Corbyn attacked the hdea suggesting it was at odds

:12:33. > :12:41.with Theresa May's stated ambitions for the UK.

:12:42. > :12:43.At the Conservative Party conference, the Prime Minister said

:12:44. > :12:46.she wants Britain to be a country where it doesn't matter

:12:47. > :12:50.But the Home Secretary's fl`gship announcement was to name and shame

:12:51. > :12:54.companies that employ foreign workers.

:12:55. > :12:57.Could the Prime Minister explain why where someone was born

:12:58. > :13:01.clearly does matter to members of her Cabinet?

:13:02. > :13:03.First of all, can I say to the right Honourable gentlelan,

:13:04. > :13:06.congratulations on winning the Labour leadership electhon?

:13:07. > :13:25.Can I welcome him back to his place in this House

:13:26. > :13:30.Can I say to him that the policy that he has just

:13:31. > :13:33.described was never the polhcy that the Home Secretary announced.

:13:34. > :13:35.There was no naming and shaling no published list

:13:36. > :13:39.of foreign workers, no published data.

:13:40. > :13:44.what we are going to consult on is...

:13:45. > :13:47...is whether we should bring ourselves in line

:13:48. > :13:50.with countries like the United States of America which collect

:13:51. > :13:52.data in order to be able to ensure that they're getting

:13:53. > :14:00.the right skills training for workers in economy.

:14:01. > :14:06.We heard her party is registering foreigners working in the UK. The

:14:07. > :14:11.crackdown and rhetoric against foreigners by this government has

:14:12. > :14:19.even led to you kept saying things have gone too far. Across the length

:14:20. > :14:22.and breadth of this land people are totally disgusted by the xenophobic

:14:23. > :14:29.language on display from her government. Will she now confirmed

:14:30. > :14:33.to this House that the intention of the Government is still to go ahead

:14:34. > :14:37.with the registration of foreign workers but apparently we should not

:14:38. > :14:45.worry because it will be kept secret by her government? Can I sax very

:14:46. > :14:48.gently to the gentleman that I answered two questions on that

:14:49. > :14:54.earlier and I suggest he should have listened to the answer I gave there.

:14:55. > :14:56.You're watching Wednesday in Parliament, with me,

:14:57. > :15:00.Four of the main parties at Westminster have been ch`llenged

:15:01. > :15:03.on what they are doing to increase the number of women in Parlhament.

:15:04. > :15:06.Of the 650 MPs, under a third - a total of 197 - are women.

:15:07. > :15:08.Labour has the best record with women,

:15:09. > :15:14.making up 43% of the parliamentary party.

:15:15. > :15:17.Meanwhile, 32% of SNP MPs are women, while the figure

:15:18. > :15:27.Of the eight Liberal Democr`t MPs, all are men.

:15:28. > :15:34.It seems slightly odd to have four white men are sitting in front of

:15:35. > :15:41.you giving evidence... With respect, that is your fault, not ours! I am

:15:42. > :15:46.very proud to be leader of the Labour Party and present our views

:15:47. > :15:51.on it. We have 43% of Labour MPs who are women. I would like it to be

:15:52. > :15:53.more and our aspiration is to gain at least 50% of women MPs in

:15:54. > :15:53.Parliament. all-women shortlists had made

:15:54. > :16:03.an incredible difference. It was very controversial when first

:16:04. > :16:09.promoted in the party in thd early 1970s. I was accused of being a far

:16:10. > :16:11.left extremist for promoting ideas like that. Can you imagine such a

:16:12. > :16:12.thing? to reports of bullying

:16:13. > :16:22.inside the Labour party. What assurances will you give to all

:16:23. > :16:26.of your members right now that your party will do more to end the

:16:27. > :16:32.intimidation currently taking place in your party? You are assuling the

:16:33. > :16:35.party is riddled with intimhdation. It is not. There is some

:16:36. > :16:41.intimidation which goes on. I am dealing with it. We have codes of

:16:42. > :16:46.conduct, rules, processes, `nd it has been dealt with. We are also a

:16:47. > :16:52.very large party with well over half a million members and growing fast.

:16:53. > :16:57.I want to make sure those ndw members all understand the rules,

:16:58. > :17:01.understand the code of condtct, understand the behaviour expected

:17:02. > :17:07.from them within the party. One last question, Jeremy, which is this ..

:17:08. > :17:10.Why do you think a woman dohng the job that I do as a member of

:17:11. > :17:17.Parliament is far more likely to receive abuse for doing it than me?

:17:18. > :17:22.The society in which we livd in is unfortunately still quite sdxist and

:17:23. > :17:26.in many cases quite misogynhst. Read the style of writing of a lot of

:17:27. > :17:28.popular newspapers that I al sure you do not and you will beghn to see

:17:29. > :17:31.where a lot of this comes from. why her party had not

:17:32. > :17:41.introduced all-women shortlhsts If you were pushed out the prime

:17:42. > :17:43.minister came to you and sahd, how are we going to get more

:17:44. > :17:51.conservative women MPs in Parliament, would you say all women

:17:52. > :17:57.short lists are the way to go? I think imposing VAT on the

:17:58. > :18:00.Conservative Association wotld possibly risk a resentment which

:18:01. > :18:13.would not help a member of Parliament. -- imposing VAT. --

:18:14. > :18:16.imposing this. What about the evidence of good positive

:18:17. > :18:19.discrimination? We can see hn this room some of us are here because we

:18:20. > :18:24.were on all women short lists and that is why we have got better

:18:25. > :18:31.representation. I am just worried that you are going, no, we don't

:18:32. > :18:34.want to do that. If I may s`y so, we have made progress. We want to make

:18:35. > :18:39.more progress. I think the progress that was made in the last tdn years

:18:40. > :18:43.has been with measures which we have taken which have been acceptable in

:18:44. > :18:47.the Conservative party. The Conservative party have onlx ever

:18:48. > :18:53.managed to get 123 women eldcted and we have thousands of women who are

:18:54. > :18:57.members. I hear warm words from you but how are you going to convince

:18:58. > :19:05.this committee that these w`rm words will lead to more women at the next

:19:06. > :19:10.election rather than a statts quo? Judge as by our actions and what has

:19:11. > :19:15.happened in the last few ye`rs. The thing that I would say is that we

:19:16. > :19:17.have made lots of progress `nd we are going to continue to do that.

:19:18. > :19:32.We have gone on a journey which has seen as implement mechanisms leading

:19:33. > :19:36.to significant change. The SNP is a very democratic political p`rty It

:19:37. > :19:39.does not happen because of the will of one person but there are people

:19:40. > :19:42.throughout the party, parliamentarians and members who

:19:43. > :19:44.have brought about that change and we are still in a process.

:19:45. > :19:47.that his party's record was "lamentable" but was

:19:48. > :19:52.looking at ways to improve the selection process.

:19:53. > :19:59.There are people in every p`rty who are out and out dinosaurs btt some

:20:00. > :20:04.who also consider themselves to be liberal, progressive, open-linded

:20:05. > :20:07.and tolerant but nonetheless bias they did not recognise in

:20:08. > :20:09.themselves. We all need to be trained to understand.

:20:10. > :20:12.was to avoid interference but he believed in what he called

:20:13. > :20:17."muscular liberalism" which meant making things happen.

:20:18. > :20:20.The courts in England and W`les must be given the power to imposd much

:20:21. > :20:25.That was the demand of a Conservative MP,

:20:26. > :20:27.Alex Chalk, who has introduced legislation to raise the maximum

:20:28. > :20:35.Stalking is a horrible and violating crime.

:20:36. > :20:38.It rips relationships apart, destroys

:20:39. > :20:42.careers and can cause lasting mental harm.

:20:43. > :20:45.All too often it is a gatew`y to serious violence.

:20:46. > :20:49.Bluntly, Mr Speaker, it shatters lives.

:20:50. > :20:52.But despite the vital progrdss made by

:20:53. > :20:55.the Coalition Government in criminalising stalking in 2012, the

:20:56. > :20:57.sentencing powers available to the courts to protect victils

:20:58. > :21:08.He talked about the MPs of ` constituent, a family doctor,

:21:09. > :21:17.stalked for seven years. Thd man was eventually jailed.

:21:18. > :21:19.In time, after a short prison sentence and in

:21:20. > :21:21.a pattern not uncommon with this type of offence

:21:22. > :21:25.Doctor Aston received packages at her office in Gloucester

:21:26. > :21:27.and at her home in Cheltenh`m and one message

:21:28. > :21:30.clear he knew where her children went to school.

:21:31. > :21:35.The second package simply rdad, "Guess who's back?"

:21:36. > :21:38.He said the court needed grdater sentencing powers, especially when

:21:39. > :21:41.dealing with repeat offenders. for shoplifting is seven

:21:42. > :21:45.years, two years longer. Burglary, another violating

:21:46. > :21:48.offence, 14 years. The fact is despite it being such

:21:49. > :21:57.a violating and intrusive crime, despite having capachty to do

:21:58. > :22:00.such significant physical and mental harm it is still treated

:22:01. > :22:02.as a minor offence. At the very least

:22:03. > :22:07.the maximum needs to be Alex Chalk said that demand

:22:08. > :22:12.was backed by charities, He won the right to take thd bill

:22:13. > :22:17.forward, but unless the govdrnment At the start of the academic year

:22:18. > :22:25.in September, schools in England were asked to start collecthng

:22:26. > :22:27.information on pupils' nationality. Ministers insist it will be used

:22:28. > :22:30.to assess the impact But opponents feared it may be used

:22:31. > :22:38.to find illegal immigrants. A crossbench peer raised thd

:22:39. > :22:41.requirement at Lords questions. . Where a minister tried

:22:42. > :22:50.to reassure the house. If there are pupils whose fhrst

:22:51. > :22:53.language isn't English we'll be able to see how well they are dohng

:22:54. > :22:57.and how we can help their school contribute meaningfully

:22:58. > :22:58.to raising pupil outcomes. This new data is solely

:22:59. > :23:01.for the department to use in Is the Minister aware

:23:02. > :23:08.parents are appalled these questions on nationalhty and

:23:09. > :23:12.place of birth, which have nothing Is he aware that

:23:13. > :23:21.a Freedom Of Information request has revealed the Hole Office

:23:22. > :23:23.has repeatedly used the Does he not then agree that these

:23:24. > :23:32.questions are as intrusive `s listing foreign workers and should

:23:33. > :23:38.be removed from the census? Well, my Lords, the

:23:39. > :23:40.census covers a range We should be aware children

:23:41. > :23:43.of foreign nationals can face additional challenges

:23:44. > :23:45.upon starting school in the UK. They are not likely to speak English

:23:46. > :23:47.fluently and may not have been

:23:48. > :23:50.here in the full school chohce and application round and are often

:23:51. > :23:53.placed in schools they would not choose

:23:54. > :23:56.and the system they had arrhved from may be different

:23:57. > :24:01.from the English system and they may be behind our dxpected

:24:02. > :24:04.to standard simply because they have yet to cover elements

:24:05. > :24:06.of our curriculum. Understanding nationalities helps

:24:07. > :24:08.to put the right policies in place to help

:24:09. > :24:13.these children and their Can I say in respect of these

:24:14. > :24:19.children and their potential to require special support,

:24:20. > :24:24.there is another way of looking at this, which is to say a lot

:24:25. > :24:26.of children of foreign nationals are

:24:27. > :24:28.extremely well able education that has

:24:29. > :24:31.been offered to them here and many of them

:24:32. > :24:34.are bilingual, which is helpful

:24:35. > :24:39.to them and their peers. Does he not agree that it is

:24:40. > :24:53.extremely unfortunate at this time that even

:24:54. > :24:55.in appearance of an 'us different kinds of children in our

:24:56. > :24:59.school system is really, re`lly unhelpful and whether or not

:25:00. > :25:01.the information is being usdd appropriately, it does give a most

:25:02. > :25:09.unfortunate impressing? Such information may possibly be of

:25:10. > :25:14.use educationally, but what purpose - can the Minister explain, for

:25:15. > :25:17.what reason is that same information Can I reassure the noble lord

:25:18. > :25:27.that the information is There has been some

:25:28. > :25:31.mischief in the press And can I reassure the Housd

:25:32. > :25:34.that this information is kept within the Department for education

:25:35. > :25:37.and is not passed on to the And that's it for now,

:25:38. > :25:41.but do join me tomorrow for another round up of the day in Westlinster,

:25:42. > :25:44.including environment questhons in the Commons and a debate

:25:45. > :25:48.on the expansion of grammar schools