:00:18. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to Wednesday in Parliament.
:00:20. > :00:23.Coming up: After her Brexit speech the Labour leader challenges
:00:24. > :00:40.Can't night urged her to stop the threats of the bargain basement
:00:41. > :00:41.Brexit? I have a plan, he does not have a clue.
:00:42. > :00:44.MPs demand the Government do more to help a persecuted
:00:45. > :00:49.According to reports the minority group have been subject to arson,
:00:50. > :00:51.rape and murder. MPs try to find out why
:00:52. > :00:53.we waste so much food. And: Pretty much everyone
:00:54. > :00:56.hates theirs - but could we be about to enter a new era
:00:57. > :01:08.for the passport photo? Any of us can send essentially a
:01:09. > :01:10.selfie to the passport office for our passport.
:01:11. > :01:12.But first: There'd been mutterings in the Commons on Tuesday
:01:13. > :01:14.after Theresa May decided to make her big Brexit
:01:15. > :01:17.speech not in the chamber but to an outside audience.
:01:18. > :01:20.So Prime Minister's questions was the first chance for MPs
:01:21. > :01:22.to grill her directly on her 12 point plan.
:01:23. > :01:25.In her speech Theresa May made clear that the UK would not stay
:01:26. > :01:28.in the single market, that MPs and Peers would get a vote
:01:29. > :01:32.on the final exit deal and insisted no deal was better than
:01:33. > :01:37.The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn began with a swipe at
:01:38. > :01:41.the Prime Minster for not setting out her plans in Parliament.
:01:42. > :01:45.Restoring parliamentary democracy while sidelining Parliament.
:01:46. > :01:55.Not so much the Iron Lady as the Irony Lady.
:01:56. > :02:09.Yesterday the Prime Minister finally provided some detail.
:02:10. > :02:13.Can I urge her to stop her threats of a bargain basement
:02:14. > :02:20.Brexit - a low-pay tax haven on the shores of Europe?
:02:21. > :02:23.It would not necessarily damage the EU, but it would certainly
:02:24. > :02:24.damage this country - businesses, jobs
:02:25. > :02:31.She demeans herself, her office and our country's
:02:32. > :02:41.What I set out yesterday was a plan for a global Britain,
:02:42. > :02:44.bringing prosperity to this country and jobs to people, and spreading
:02:45. > :02:51.Yesterday we learned a little more of the right honourable
:02:52. > :03:05.He said: "She has said, 'leave the single market,'
:03:06. > :03:09."but at the same time says she wants to have access to the single market.
:03:10. > :03:12."I'm not quite sure how that's going to go down in Europe.
:03:13. > :03:15."I think we have to have a deal that ensures we have
:03:16. > :03:30.I've got a plan - he doesn't have a clue.
:03:31. > :03:33.Last year the Prime Minister said that leaving the single market
:03:34. > :03:37.would make trade deals "considerably harder," and that
:03:38. > :03:42."while we could certainly negotiate our own trade agreements,
:03:43. > :03:48."there would be no guarantee that they would be on terms as good
:03:49. > :03:51."as those we enjoy now," but yesterday she offered us
:03:52. > :04:16.I also said it reported to leave the sky would not fall in and look at
:04:17. > :04:17.what has happened to our economic situation since we voted to leave
:04:18. > :04:18.the EU. Gentleman talks about
:04:19. > :04:24.the future of the economy. I want us to be an outward-looking
:04:25. > :04:27.nation trading around the world, and bringing prosperity and jobs
:04:28. > :04:29.into the United Kingdom. The one thing that would be bad
:04:30. > :04:32.for the economy is the answers He wants a cap on wages,
:04:33. > :04:37.no control on immigration That would not lead to prosperity -
:04:38. > :04:41.it would lead to no jobs, Will the Prime Minister provide
:04:42. > :04:45.a commitment today that no part of the Great Repeal Bill will be
:04:46. > :04:48.subject to English The honourable Lady knows full well
:04:49. > :04:54.that if any part of proposed legislation brought before this
:04:55. > :04:57.House applies only to England, it will be subject to English
:04:58. > :05:00.votes for English laws. It was quite clear from
:05:01. > :05:03.the Prime Minister's speech yesterday that she seeks to build
:05:04. > :05:06.a Brexit consensus and to bring our To that end, and indeed
:05:07. > :05:13.to strengthen the Prime Minister's negotiating hand, before Article 50
:05:14. > :05:17.is triggered, will she please at least consider publishing
:05:18. > :05:20.all those 12 objectives in a White Paper so that we can
:05:21. > :05:24.debate them here in this place I absolutely understand
:05:25. > :05:39.my right honourable Friend's point about Parliament's
:05:40. > :05:42.desire to be able to debate the objectives that I set out very
:05:43. > :05:45.clearly in my plan yesterday. One of the objectives
:05:46. > :05:48.and principles I set It continues to be the Government's
:05:49. > :05:55.intention that we will provide clarity whenever it is possible,
:05:56. > :05:58.and we will ensure that, at appropriate times,
:05:59. > :06:00.both the public and Parliament are kept informed and are able
:06:01. > :06:03.properly to consider Member for Broxtowe,
:06:04. > :06:12.the Prime Minister talked about her desire to give clarity
:06:13. > :06:14.around our exit from the EU. Many of my constituents are European
:06:15. > :06:17.citizens who are paying tax What assurance can she give
:06:18. > :06:22.them about their future, particularly if they change employer
:06:23. > :06:27.or are freelancers? One of the objectives I set out
:06:28. > :06:31.in my speech yesterday was something I have said before
:06:32. > :06:33.about the guaranteeing of rights for EU citizens
:06:34. > :06:37.living here in the UK, but I also want to see the rights
:06:38. > :06:42.of UK citizens living in the I remain open, and I encourage
:06:43. > :06:47.others across Europe to agree with me that this is an issue
:06:48. > :06:50.we should look at as early as possible in order to give people
:06:51. > :06:53.the confidence and reassurance that the honourable
:06:54. > :06:59.Lady is looking for. How can abandoning membership
:07:00. > :07:05.of a customs union that takes 68% of Wales's exports,
:07:06. > :07:08.including, crucially, 90% of our food and drink exports -
:07:09. > :07:12.and that supports 200,000 jobs What we will be doing
:07:13. > :07:20.is negotiating a free trade agreement with the European Union
:07:21. > :07:23.to get the best possible access for trade with the EU,
:07:24. > :07:28.but we also want to be able to negotiate trade agreements with
:07:29. > :07:33.other countries around the world. A number of countries have
:07:34. > :07:35.already expressed interest We want to do that to open up
:07:36. > :07:39.new export markets being delivered for businesses
:07:40. > :07:41.here in the United Kingdom, including the sort of trade
:07:42. > :07:43.in Wales that the honourable On the question of customs
:07:44. > :07:47.with the European Union, we want an arrangement that
:07:48. > :07:49.will involve the most The arguments on Brexit continued
:07:50. > :07:53.on the committee corridor, where there were calls
:07:54. > :07:55.for the Government to immediately guarantee the rights of EU
:07:56. > :08:01.citizens to stay in the UK. During the latest session
:08:02. > :08:03.of the Exiting the European Union committee that demand was made by EU
:08:04. > :08:06.nationals living here and by British We do not want to be
:08:07. > :08:10.these bargaining chips in the renegotiations and we
:08:11. > :08:14.feel we have been taken hostage. That is a very strong
:08:15. > :08:16.feeling people really feel in the communities
:08:17. > :08:18.that we are This is a political issue but not
:08:19. > :08:28.granting our rights... The Prime Minister
:08:29. > :08:36.has said she wants to achieve this soon,
:08:37. > :08:40.but in She tried to get agreement to
:08:41. > :08:47.discuss this last council meeting, a lot of European countries wanted
:08:48. > :08:51.to but Germany and others refused. Are you putting any pressure,
:08:52. > :08:54.or you tell me what pressure you are putting on your home governments
:08:55. > :08:59.to ensure they put pressure on the rest of the EU to
:09:00. > :09:01.settle Our position is we want the British
:09:02. > :09:08.Government to make the first move because the UK
:09:09. > :09:14.is leaving the EU, not the other way round,
:09:15. > :09:16.and that decision can only come
:09:17. > :09:20.from the British Government because in the EU the national
:09:21. > :09:25.governments have been told by the Commission
:09:26. > :09:28.they cannot open any talks or negotiation before
:09:29. > :09:30.Article 50 is triggered, Kafkaesque situation, as a result,
:09:31. > :09:34.because no one wants No-one in the EU can make any move
:09:35. > :09:41.because Article 50 You do not look up the Polish
:09:42. > :09:46.or Romanian or other governments at I would say we are focused on the
:09:47. > :09:52.British Government because we really believe they are the party that can
:09:53. > :09:55.make the first move. We live in the UK, our Government
:09:56. > :10:08.is the British Government. We want something to
:10:09. > :10:09.be done immediately, in line with the Prime Minister's
:10:10. > :10:11.speech yesterday. I think there should be
:10:12. > :10:14.a resolution on the day I think there should be a resolution
:10:15. > :10:20.in place by both houses of parliament calling on the other
:10:21. > :10:22.member states to make Of course, this can be prepared
:10:23. > :10:25.by diplomatic channels There is time between now
:10:26. > :10:28.and the end of March Do you agree with the Prime Minister
:10:29. > :10:33.that she should await for agreement from the other EU
:10:34. > :10:36.countries to protect British citizens living abroad before giving
:10:37. > :10:39.the rights to EU citizens here? It is the UK triggering
:10:40. > :10:41.this process, it is Therefore it would be a magnanimous
:10:42. > :10:48.gesture on the part of the Prime Minister and a good way
:10:49. > :10:52.of opening negotiations. you are negotiating you should try
:10:53. > :10:57.and offer benefits I think it would be an extreme
:10:58. > :11:01.magnanimous gesture by saying, look, nationals in the UK,
:11:02. > :11:23.we call upon you to do the same. These people cannot wait for it to
:11:24. > :11:27.be happy is to get a resolution. I would prefer she acted unilaterally
:11:28. > :11:32.now and that would encourage other countries to reciprocate, it would
:11:33. > :11:38.improve relationships at the start of the negotiations and I cannot see
:11:39. > :11:42.any reason why the 27 countries would not reciprocate.
:11:43. > :11:48.You have a huge displacement crisis in terms of 1 million people, the
:11:49. > :11:53.population of Birmingham, who are we can assume and I imagine are working
:11:54. > :11:58.in the shape form and our people that may have to look at returning
:11:59. > :12:03.to the UK or other arrangements, that does not include the May be
:12:04. > :12:08.married to foreign spouses, like myself. If that happened to me, how
:12:09. > :12:12.would my Italian wife and my son get the chance to stay in the UK? We're
:12:13. > :12:14.talking about splitting families as well.
:12:15. > :12:17.A foreign office minister has told MPs that Boris Johnson will raise
:12:18. > :12:19.concerns about allegations of human rights abuses in Myanmar
:12:20. > :12:21.when he meets the country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi shortly.
:12:22. > :12:23.Thousands of Rohingya muslims are said to have fled
:12:24. > :12:25.to neighbouring Bangladesh amid allegations that the Burmese
:12:26. > :12:28.army has carried out human rights abuses.
:12:29. > :12:33.Troops took control of the region after armed men raided police posts,
:12:34. > :12:39.The Minister Alok Sharma came to the Commons to answer an urgent
:12:40. > :12:42.While we condemn the attack and recognise the right of security
:12:43. > :12:45.forces to carry out security operations to root out
:12:46. > :12:48.the perpetrators, we remain deeply concerned by the conduct of the army
:12:49. > :12:54.Although restrictions on media, diplomatic and humanitarian access
:12:55. > :12:57.make the facts difficult to ascertain, we have been worried
:12:58. > :13:01.by numerous reports alleging widespread human rights violations
:13:02. > :13:08.As I said, we continue to monitor the situation closely.
:13:09. > :13:11.The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
:13:12. > :13:12.will visit Burma soon and will reiterate our
:13:13. > :13:19.It is very difficult to get accurate information for what is happening
:13:20. > :13:22.in the current states or in order to get to the truth beyond false
:13:23. > :13:26.reports, will he call for access for independent observers
:13:27. > :13:33.and journalists to visit displacement camps in this state?
:13:34. > :13:36.The asked about UK support for an international commission,
:13:37. > :13:41.I assume a UN type commission, and I just say that a UN-led
:13:42. > :13:44.commission and enquiry can be established in one of three ways,
:13:45. > :13:47.either by the UN Secretary-General, by the UN Security Council
:13:48. > :13:51.Establishing and enquiry in this way would acquire broad international
:13:52. > :13:53.support which we assess does not exist in the current
:13:54. > :14:01.The Minister rather sidestepped the question of action in the UN
:14:02. > :14:05.by saying that the government's opinion was that there
:14:06. > :14:08.was not a sufficient consensus at the present time
:14:09. > :14:14.Will the government commits to try and build that consensus
:14:15. > :14:19.as opposed to merely remarking that it doesn't exist?
:14:20. > :14:21.Will the Minister made very clear to the Burmese authorities
:14:22. > :14:25.that the welcome re-entry into the international community
:14:26. > :14:28.will not be helped if they fail to protect minorities
:14:29. > :14:32.and particularly this second community?
:14:33. > :14:35.A conservative returned to the plight of the Rohinga.
:14:36. > :14:37.Hundreds are being attacked, many are being murdered.
:14:38. > :14:41.The villages are being systematically burned or destroyed,
:14:42. > :14:43.many are being sold into slavery with the complicity
:14:44. > :14:50.The very authorities that treat the Rohinga.
:14:51. > :14:55.My honourable friend the Minister has avoided the challenge
:14:56. > :14:58.from the right honourable member from Gordon and my honourable friend
:14:59. > :15:04.It is not sufficient for the government to cooperate,
:15:05. > :15:08.the government needs to lead UN support if these reports are true.
:15:09. > :15:12.Since the Burmese security forces started the campaign in October it
:15:13. > :15:15.has been estimated that around 65,000 Rohinga.
:15:16. > :15:22.According to reports, the minority group have
:15:23. > :15:24.been subject to arson, rape and murder at the
:15:25. > :15:30.Such allegations are incredibly serious and it is for that reason
:15:31. > :15:34.I ask the Minister for the fourth time I believe if he will continue
:15:35. > :15:37.to call for the establishment of an independent investigation
:15:38. > :15:46.I hope Mr Speaker that I have made clear today that there are a huge
:15:47. > :15:49.number of avenues that we in the UK are pursuing in terms of getting
:15:50. > :15:53.humanitarian aid and making the case for minorities and actually making
:15:54. > :15:57.very clear that we care very deeply about these matters and at the end
:15:58. > :16:00.of the day that is something we will keep doing.
:16:01. > :16:04.Going back to the point about the approach from a UN
:16:05. > :16:07.perspective, as I have said, there are a number of areas
:16:08. > :16:12.in which the UN is already engaged and will continue to work with us
:16:13. > :16:15.to make the case that we must make sure there is resolution
:16:16. > :16:28.You are watching Wednesday in Parliament.
:16:29. > :16:30.Around 8 million tonnes of food, post-manufacture, as it is called,
:16:31. > :16:34.The environment, food and rule affairs
:16:35. > :16:37.committee is carrying out an enquiry into food waste in England and has
:16:38. > :16:39.been healing from a panel of supermarket chain representatives.
:16:40. > :16:48.One of the issues that get a lot of attention is what to do with
:16:49. > :16:51.misshapen fruit and veg that does not make the grade.
:16:52. > :16:53.Tesco has told the MPs about its Perfectly
:16:54. > :16:58.What we typically have done, and I know others have
:16:59. > :17:01.done the same, is we have widened our specifications to the point
:17:02. > :17:04.where that is still perfectly edible food and it can be sold either at
:17:05. > :17:09.discount, it takes account of the whole crop
:17:10. > :17:14.flash of a specific product we can then
:17:15. > :17:15.move extra product that would
:17:16. > :17:18.not make our specifications normally into this perfectly imperfect world
:17:19. > :17:23.and pretty much every customer who has ever bought one of those has
:17:24. > :17:25.come back and bought another on the basis
:17:26. > :17:31.that it works as a concept. Where the product is still outside
:17:32. > :17:36.the specifications then again, you will hear a slightly different
:17:37. > :17:37.story from Morrisons because of the
:17:38. > :17:40.vertical integration but in our world what we do is we facilitate
:17:41. > :17:43.for example potatoes that are too big or too small or into making our
:17:44. > :17:45.recipe dishes, so potato products made by one
:17:46. > :17:47.of her manufacturers are
:17:48. > :17:53.supplied with potatoes that we could not possibly
:17:54. > :17:55.sell within the stores because they would either be
:17:56. > :17:57.enormous and very tiny and they are utilised,
:17:58. > :17:58.165 tonnes or so loss but
:17:59. > :18:06.We take the manufacturing approach so anything that is the
:18:07. > :18:09.wrong shape or we could not sell goes into juices, smoothies, soups
:18:10. > :18:19.So we try to do the same thing but I guess in a slightly
:18:20. > :18:23.different way because we do not sell it in store messages in her basics
:18:24. > :18:29.Morrisons and said it sold 25,000 tonnes of wonky vegs last
:18:30. > :18:35.As of this year there will be 13 different types of fruit and
:18:36. > :18:38.vegetable that we sell which is out of normal spec, why we are selling
:18:39. > :18:41.more is because customers are more interested in the whole agenda and
:18:42. > :18:45.want to buy more of it so they can buy it at a lower price or any
:18:46. > :18:48.bigger back, but particularly because we have taken the extra step
:18:49. > :18:52.to market it it has driven that kind of interest in the customers and if
:18:53. > :18:54.you will pardon the pun, it is feeding the interest.
:18:55. > :19:04.But, said a Conservative committee member,...
:19:05. > :19:06.I wonder why you call these vegetables
:19:07. > :19:10.wonky or misshapen or less than perfect.
:19:11. > :19:12.They are perfect, they are just a different shape.
:19:13. > :19:15.And I think you are contributing, or I wonder if
:19:16. > :19:17.you are contributing by referring to them as some kind of weird
:19:18. > :19:22.Wouldn't it be better simply to sell them as they are?
:19:23. > :19:29.I think it helps customers to work out what the
:19:30. > :19:30.buying in store sold by designating them
:19:31. > :19:32.in a particular way it is
:19:33. > :19:38.So if you were to buy onions from our wonky range they might be
:19:39. > :19:41.more dirty, they may have more dirt on them and the sizes may be
:19:42. > :19:44.different, and if the customer is not aware that they are buying
:19:45. > :19:46.something slightly different to what they might ordinarily by typically
:19:47. > :19:51.they will come back and say is this the same product?
:19:52. > :19:54.And start to question what we are selling them.
:19:55. > :19:58.One of the things we are trying to do is to be clear about what it is
:19:59. > :20:01.customers are buying and provide choice.
:20:02. > :20:04.What we're trying to do particularly with the way the
:20:05. > :20:07.packaging is designed and in the way that we talk about it is to talk
:20:08. > :20:14.I don't think it is about saying that
:20:15. > :20:16.there is something we don't like or in fact
:20:17. > :20:20.it may not be perfect, but I
:20:21. > :20:23.don't think anybody around the table is sick guessing are trying to
:20:24. > :20:25.suggest in the way that the market these
:20:26. > :20:27.at the fruit and veg is
:20:28. > :20:29.anything other than perfectly good to eat.
:20:30. > :20:32.If you have that range, and most of us have a range which is
:20:33. > :20:34.usually three tiers or two tiers, if you
:20:35. > :20:37.introduce another part to the
:20:38. > :20:40.range and don't signal to the customers in some way what the
:20:41. > :20:41.purpose of that is, they find it pretty
:20:42. > :20:42.unhelpful and confusing, so
:20:43. > :20:45.we are adding to the choice, not just making it wider.
:20:46. > :20:47.The marketeers have kind of found this way and
:20:48. > :20:51.indifferent supermarket you will see different responses, it is the same.
:20:52. > :20:56.We let people reach their own conclusions.
:20:57. > :21:02.Millions of us have one and millions of us hate ours, I am
:21:03. > :21:08.The photo booth shockers are the embarrassment of many a seasoned
:21:09. > :21:10.traveller but couldn't be possible for people
:21:11. > :21:16.to their own picture, the
:21:17. > :21:18.so-called selfie, and send that in instead?
:21:19. > :21:22.As I understand it, the government is seeking to arrange
:21:23. > :21:25.that any of us can send essentially a selfie to the passport order
:21:26. > :21:34.The passport is the gold standard as far
:21:35. > :21:36.as identity assurance in this country is concerned.
:21:37. > :21:37.Why is the opportunity not been taken to
:21:38. > :21:41.prevent a situation in which people can afford to shop images to make
:21:42. > :21:44.sure there is proper certification of when an image has been taken,
:21:45. > :21:46.that it was duly carried out in the proper way
:21:47. > :21:55.secure and reliable basis on which we can prove your identity?
:21:56. > :21:58.The noble Lord is absolutely right, security standards are absolutely
:21:59. > :22:01.paramount whether it is under the old system, shall we call it,
:22:02. > :22:05.or indeed the new digital system and under
:22:06. > :22:08.both systems the security standards are exactly the same, let me
:22:09. > :22:18.Just by examples, both the USA and New
:22:19. > :22:25.Zealand allow people to take their own photographs.
:22:26. > :22:29.In terms of a selfie, a photograph that is
:22:30. > :22:32.identified as a selfie that does not meet those security standards
:22:33. > :22:34.and requirements are objected in the examinations process,
:22:35. > :22:36.but that gold standard as the noble Lord is right
:22:37. > :22:39.to point out is absolutely paramount as the robustness and confidence in
:22:40. > :22:49.this very important document going forward.
:22:50. > :22:51.Under the old system as it is called,
:22:52. > :22:53.someone has to certify on
:22:54. > :22:56.the back of the photograph that it is a true likeness of the passport
:22:57. > :22:59.holder, how is that going to be achieved if it is a completely
:23:00. > :23:05.My Lords, the current service that has
:23:06. > :23:10.been in place since April of last year actually is only available at
:23:11. > :23:15.this point in time to adults over the age of 26 who have previously
:23:16. > :23:23.held British passports, there is the rigour in the new process.
:23:24. > :23:25.What is the difference between a dodgy
:23:26. > :23:36.A dodgy selfie my Lords is one that does not meet the rigorous
:23:37. > :23:45.Finally, the Labour MP Tristram Hunt has made his last parliamentary
:23:46. > :23:50.As to Hunt, a historian, is leading the director of London's
:23:51. > :23:53.This decision will mean there will be a
:23:54. > :23:58.by-election in the Stoke-on-Trent Central constituency.
:23:59. > :24:00.Tristram Hunt said goodbye during the afternoon's
:24:01. > :24:02.debate on Brexit and its applications for security, one for
:24:03. > :24:09.It has been a profound privilege to represent
:24:10. > :24:10.Stoke-on-Trent Central in
:24:11. > :24:14.this chamber for six and a half years and I would like to place my
:24:15. > :24:16.thanks to the Speaker, the clerks of the house,
:24:17. > :24:18.the doorkeepers, staff, perhaps above all the library staff
:24:19. > :24:22.who I feel now face quite a drop in demand.
:24:23. > :24:25.It perhaps it seems particularly perverse to leave the
:24:26. > :24:28.house now and let me apologise to the political parties and people
:24:29. > :24:36.by-election upon them but it seems perverse to leave just as this place
:24:37. > :24:39.is about to enjoy the largest return of powers since the act of restraint
:24:40. > :24:45.In case you are wondering, an act of Parliament way
:24:46. > :24:48.It transfers powers from the Catholic Church to Henry
:24:49. > :24:55.Mr Hunt turned to what the impact of Brexit might be.
:24:56. > :24:57.And as power and sovereignty is returned to
:24:58. > :25:00.the UK Parliament I think the question we are debating today and
:25:01. > :25:03.you will be into the future is whether we see a Britannia
:25:04. > :25:05.unchanged, forging a new use of free trade, cultural exchange and
:25:06. > :25:08.innovation or whether the world today is my right honourable friend
:25:09. > :25:14.from Leeds Central suggested is so interconnected
:25:15. > :25:17.in terms of economy, security of political power that we
:25:18. > :25:19.have in leaving the EU expose ourselves to international headwinds
:25:20. > :25:21.that will batter rather than benefit us.
:25:22. > :25:24.And at this stage we have no answer to that.
:25:25. > :25:25.The outgoing Labour MP Tristram Hunt.
:25:26. > :25:36.And that is it from me for now but to join me again
:25:37. > :25:39.at the same time tomorrow for another
:25:40. > :25:41.round-up of the best of the