:00:19. > :00:32.As Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn face each other in the Commons one
:00:33. > :00:37.Labour will guarantee the triple lock and treat pensioners with
:00:38. > :00:42.respect. Unable to defend our country. Determined to raise tax on
:00:43. > :00:46.ordinary workers, no plan to manage our economy. Even his own supporters
:00:47. > :00:51.know he's not fit to run this country.
:00:52. > :00:56.And, how would you define an extremist?
:00:57. > :00:59.But first, it lasted almost an hour and was full
:01:00. > :01:04.The last Prime Minister's Questions before the general election
:01:05. > :01:10.Jeremy Corbyn questioned Theresa May on pensions and the NHS,
:01:11. > :01:21.I start, Mr Speaker, with Christopher who wrote to me this
:01:22. > :01:27.week and he says; in the last five years, my husband has had only a 1%
:01:28. > :01:33.increase in his wages. The cost-of-living has risen each year.
:01:34. > :01:38.We now have at least 15% less buying power than then. So where is
:01:39. > :01:42.Christopher and his husband's share in the stronger economy? What we
:01:43. > :01:45.know and what I can say to Christopher is that he will have a
:01:46. > :01:49.choice at the next election, a choice between the strong and stable
:01:50. > :01:54.leadership of the Conservatives which will secure our economy for
:01:55. > :01:59.the future and a Labour Party which would crash our economy which would
:02:00. > :02:00.mean less money for Public Services and the ordinary working families
:02:01. > :02:02.would pay the price. The Labour leader moved
:02:03. > :02:05.on to the campaign by the so called WASPI women seeking to overturn
:02:06. > :02:16.pension changes for women Maureen wrote to me this week. If I
:02:17. > :02:21.was you, I would listen to what Maureen has to say, I really would.
:02:22. > :02:27.I really would. Because she writes and she writes with a heavy heart:
:02:28. > :02:34.We have been treated disgustingly, most of us women born in the 1950s
:02:35. > :02:41.will not be receiving our pension until we are 66 with no notification
:02:42. > :02:45.of this drastic change. We have worked for 45 years and have accrued
:02:46. > :02:51.more than enough to be paid our pension. People want what is
:02:52. > :02:59.rightfully theirs. Maureen asks, what can be done to help the WASPI
:03:00. > :03:03.women? What I would say to the issue that Maureen's raised is that the
:03:04. > :03:10.Government's taken steps to help these women. We have put extra
:03:11. > :03:13.funding in and is available and we have ensured there is a limit to the
:03:14. > :03:17.period of time that is affected in relation to the changes. But if the
:03:18. > :03:20.Right Honourable gentleman wants to talk about pensions and pensioners
:03:21. > :03:26.looking to the future, once again there'll be a very clear choice at
:03:27. > :03:32.this election, a clear choice between a Labour Party who in
:03:33. > :03:39.Government saw the increase in basic state pension of 75p in one year and
:03:40. > :03:46.a Conservative Government whose changes to pensions mean basic state
:03:47. > :03:50.pensioners are ?1,250 better off. Millions of WASPI women will have
:03:51. > :03:54.heard that answer, as have the other questions I've put not been answered
:03:55. > :03:58.today. I simply say this - Labour will guarantee the triple lock.
:03:59. > :04:03.Labour will treat pensioners with respect and we won't move the
:04:04. > :04:11.goalposts to people looking forward to retirement. Cybil who witnessed
:04:12. > :04:14.the Labour founding of the National Health Service which made health
:04:15. > :04:21.care available for the many, not just the few, wrote to me this week
:04:22. > :04:24.and she says this: I'm 88 and have had a wonderful service from the
:04:25. > :04:31.National Health Service. But nowadays, I'm scared at the thought
:04:32. > :04:38.of going into hospital. With more people waiting more than four hours
:04:39. > :04:42.in the A, more people waiting on trolleys in corridors, more delayed
:04:43. > :04:47.discharges, Mr Speaker, thanks to the Tory cuts, isn't Cybil right to
:04:48. > :04:52.be frightened about the future of her NHS so long as this Government
:04:53. > :04:55.remains in office? Well, can I just say to the Right Honourable
:04:56. > :04:58.gentleman on the National Health Service, our National Health Service
:04:59. > :05:03.is now treating more patients than it ever has before. We are seeing
:05:04. > :05:08.more people having operations, we are seeing more doctors, more
:05:09. > :05:10.nurses, more midwives, more GPs and record levels of funding into our
:05:11. > :05:12.National Health Service. Theresa May said the Government
:05:13. > :05:14.would be campaigning on its record and she turned to a campaign
:05:15. > :05:27.she said was being run She has directed her supporters and
:05:28. > :05:33.followers to a website - I like Corbyn but...
:05:34. > :05:44.It says, how will he pay for all this? But... I've heard he wants to
:05:45. > :05:50.increase taxes. But, I've heard he's a terrorist sympathiser. But, his
:05:51. > :05:55.attitudes about defence worry me. They are right to be worried. Unable
:05:56. > :06:00.to defend our country, determined to raise tax on ordinary workers, no
:06:01. > :06:07.plan to manage our economy. Even his own supporters know he's not fit to
:06:08. > :06:10.run this country. Will the Prime Minister give a clear unambiguous
:06:11. > :06:19.commitment to maintaining the triple lock on the state pension? I've been
:06:20. > :06:23.very clear that under this Conservative Government we have seen
:06:24. > :06:34.pensioners benefit as a result of what we have done to the basic state
:06:35. > :06:38.pension. To the tune of ?1,250 a year and I am clear that, under a
:06:39. > :06:43.Conservative Government, pension and incomes would continue to increase.
:06:44. > :06:50.Pensioners right across this land are right to conclude that this Tory
:06:51. > :06:57.Prime Minister plans to ditch the triple lock on the state pension. Mr
:06:58. > :07:01.Speaker, too many women already face pensions inequality and the Tories
:07:02. > :07:05.now won't even guarantee the pensions triple lock and the only
:07:06. > :07:10.reason that they'll not guarantee it is because they want to cut
:07:11. > :07:16.pensions. Is not the message to pensioners, you cannot trust this
:07:17. > :07:20.Prime Minister, you cannot trust the Tories on your pension.
:07:21. > :07:25.I say to everybody as I've just said, if you want to know the party
:07:26. > :07:30.in Government that has improved a lot of pensioners across this
:07:31. > :07:36.country, it's the Conservative Party and, under a Conservative Government
:07:37. > :07:40.those pensioner incomes would continue to increase. And, he talks
:07:41. > :07:43.about inequality for women. It's the change in the structure of the state
:07:44. > :07:47.pension introduced by this Government that is going to improve
:07:48. > :07:52.a lot of women, female pensioners in the future, that is going to be much
:07:53. > :07:58.better for them. In the nine months that the Prime Minister's held her
:07:59. > :08:05.office, she has closed the door on desperate child refugees, she has
:08:06. > :08:08.ignored, ignored the plight of those suffering under the crisis of health
:08:09. > :08:13.and social care and she is responsible for the shameful rape
:08:14. > :08:19.clause. 20 years ago, she berated the Conservative Party for being the
:08:20. > :08:23.nasty party, but her party has never been NATSier. The legacy of this
:08:24. > :08:27.Parliament is the utter abject failure of Her Majesty's official
:08:28. > :08:33.opposition to effectively hold her Government to account for any of it.
:08:34. > :08:40.Is it not time that Britain had a strong, decent new opposition?
:08:41. > :08:46.Ewell, first of all let me pick up the point he made on child refugees.
:08:47. > :08:49.This Government has a proud record on taking in child refugees. We have
:08:50. > :08:53.been the second bilateral donor to the region in order to support
:08:54. > :08:57.millions of refugees, to educate children, as I saw when I visited
:08:58. > :09:01.Jordan recently. Of course, we've also supported some of the most
:09:02. > :09:02.vulnerable refugees, including children 3 bringing them here to
:09:03. > :09:17.make a new life in the United A reference there to the fact
:09:18. > :09:24.that the Lib Dems had reselected former MP David Ward to fight
:09:25. > :09:26.the seat of Bradford East. Mr Ward had been accused
:09:27. > :09:29.of anti-semitism and shortly after PMQs Tim Farron sacked him
:09:30. > :09:35.as the party's candidate. Well with this Parliament
:09:36. > :09:38.rapidly coming to a close, there were just a last handful
:09:39. > :09:41.of bills to deal with. MPs approved changes
:09:42. > :09:45.to the Criminal Finances Bill which aims to tackle money
:09:46. > :09:48.laundering and corruption, counter terrorist financing
:09:49. > :09:52.and recover the proceeds of crime. They also debated final amendments
:09:53. > :09:58.to the Bill that changes the way higher education is regulated
:09:59. > :10:01.in England and creates a new body Finally MPs rejected
:10:02. > :10:06.changes made to the Digital The bill includes a range
:10:07. > :10:12.of measures to tighten regulation on online pornography,
:10:13. > :10:17.ticket touts and broadband speeds. The Minister said the Government
:10:18. > :10:20.couldn't accept an amendment from peers on a code of practice
:10:21. > :10:33.for social media platform We agree with the spirit of the
:10:34. > :10:39.amendment that was agreed in the other place. We take harm caused by
:10:40. > :10:41.online abuse seriously. We offer an alternative clause that we think
:10:42. > :10:46.would achieve the intended outcome and form part of our work to tackle
:10:47. > :10:49.serious harms and online threats and improve Internet safety in the next
:10:50. > :10:53.Parliament. Our amendment in lieu seeks to provide a code of practice
:10:54. > :10:57.that will help protect users of online services and set out the
:10:58. > :11:02.behaviour expected of social media companies. The code is intended to
:11:03. > :11:05.give guidance for how social media providers should respond to harmful
:11:06. > :11:10.behaviour such as bullying. There's good work being done by some
:11:11. > :11:13.companies to prevent the use of platforms for illegal purposes and
:11:14. > :11:18.potential criminal conduct where reported to the police will continue
:11:19. > :11:22.to be libel to investigation out with any-- as with any other
:11:23. > :11:25.offence. On the social media conduct, we are delighted the
:11:26. > :11:28.Government's taken a decisive step in the right direction. This
:11:29. > :11:34.amendment requires the Secretary of State to issue a code of practise
:11:35. > :11:40.for online social media platforms in relation to bullying, directing
:11:41. > :11:45.insults or other behaviour intended to intimidate or humiliate. Whilst
:11:46. > :11:49.son-in-law media's brought transformative and significant
:11:50. > :11:54.change for the good, it's facilitated an exponential increase
:11:55. > :11:58.in bullying -- whilst social media. Seven in ten have experienced cyber
:11:59. > :12:02.bullying, with 37% experiencing it on a frequent basis. It can lead to
:12:03. > :12:06.anxiety, depression and suicide. This is the first time social media
:12:07. > :12:10.providers will be legislated for on this issue and will be required to
:12:11. > :12:12.have processes in place for reporting and responding to
:12:13. > :12:13.complaints around bullying. But a senior Conservative thought
:12:14. > :12:22.there was room to go further. Whether we'd consider the role for a
:12:23. > :12:27.broader obligation that could be placed in statute on these companies
:12:28. > :12:32.linked to a failure to act whereby if someone's referred to that
:12:33. > :12:34.company evidence of harmful content and misleading content, illicit
:12:35. > :12:41.material that's been distributed on that site, where it's been reported
:12:42. > :12:45.report and the company failed to act, there's some sort of redress
:12:46. > :12:49.upon them. This is an important first step looking at the broader
:12:50. > :12:51.obligations of social media companies and I welcome that.
:12:52. > :12:54.Whenever you open a bank account, book a flight online or perform
:12:55. > :12:56.many other common tasks, you hand over vital
:12:57. > :13:02.A Committee of Peers is investigating the sharing
:13:03. > :13:04.and protection of data between the UK and
:13:05. > :13:21.Do you have any concerns that are domestic legislation will affect our
:13:22. > :13:24.ability to share data with the EU after we leave and, are we going to
:13:25. > :13:29.find that there are restrictions on the way in which we can share data
:13:30. > :13:33.or they will accept the data? Is it going to be an area of friction
:13:34. > :13:37.afterwards or do you see it being straightforward? The Government's
:13:38. > :13:41.been clear that while we remain a member of the EU we are subject to
:13:42. > :13:45.the rite and obligations that that brings. At the point that we leave
:13:46. > :13:50.the EU, our domestic legislation, as I've said, will be compliant with EU
:13:51. > :13:55.law and should therefore not impede our ability the share data with the
:13:56. > :14:00.EU. Should the Government decide post-exit to amend our domestic
:14:01. > :14:06.legislation then of course we'll need to consider whether any of the
:14:07. > :14:12.proposed changes will impact on our relationship with the EU, including
:14:13. > :14:19.on issues such as data-sharing. I suppose the question there is, and
:14:20. > :14:24.it's very hard to say now what we'd do afterwards, but we clearly need
:14:25. > :14:29.to - the question is, would the need to share data be a factor in
:14:30. > :14:34.deciding on a sort of way in which our legislation might develop after
:14:35. > :14:37.we've left? I think it's very clear that we need to share data for
:14:38. > :14:42.reasons to keep the public safe. Yes, good. And that is a high
:14:43. > :14:51.priority and the Prime Minister's articulated that as well. On a
:14:52. > :14:54.number of occasions. You are watching Wednesday in Parliament
:14:55. > :14:58.with me Alicia McCarthy. Now, let's go back to that final
:14:59. > :15:00.Prime Minister's Questions. One reason the Speaker let
:15:01. > :15:03.the session run for so long was to allow MPs who were standing
:15:04. > :15:06.down to put one last question But before we get to them,
:15:07. > :15:10.there was one MP who got a very warm welcome from all sides of the House
:15:11. > :15:13.on his return to Westminster after a life-threatening
:15:14. > :15:16.bout of the potentially It's good to be back and, to be
:15:17. > :15:30.honest, it's good to be anywhere! Doctors and nurses at
:15:31. > :15:40.Russells Hall Hospital saved my life in January,
:15:41. > :15:43.but each year in the UK 44,000 Will my right honourable friend look
:15:44. > :15:52.at how we can take the measures we can take to reduce deaths
:15:53. > :15:56.from sepsis, including awareness-raising, including
:15:57. > :16:02.a national registry to properly record the burden of sepsis
:16:03. > :16:05.and effective commissioning levers The UK Sepsis Trust estimates that
:16:06. > :16:10.measures like these will save 50,000 Can I say to my honourable friend
:16:11. > :16:22.that it's fantastic to see him back in his place and I hope he will have
:16:23. > :16:26.noted the welcome he got from across the House
:16:27. > :16:28.for being back in his place. But he's absolutely right to bring
:16:29. > :16:31.a focus on this issue of this devastating condition of sepsis
:16:32. > :16:33.and every death from it But, as we know, something
:16:34. > :16:37.like 10,000 deaths per year could be avoided through prevention,
:16:38. > :16:40.early diagnosis and treatment. So we do need to get better
:16:41. > :16:43.at spotting sepsis across the NHS. The Department of Health
:16:44. > :16:46.is already beginning work We're having a new public awareness
:16:47. > :16:53.campaign and we expect a Nice quality standard to be published
:16:54. > :17:02.later this year. For other MPs, it was
:17:03. > :17:11.time to say goodbye. What assurances can
:17:12. > :17:14.the Prime Minister give to the 3.8 million people that voted
:17:15. > :17:17.Ukip at the last election, that if she is Prime Minister
:17:18. > :17:19.after the 8th June, the United Kingdom will become
:17:20. > :17:21.a sovereign country again, living under our own parliament,
:17:22. > :17:23.making our own laws? I will give an assurance
:17:24. > :17:27.to all those people who voted for the United Kingdom to leave
:17:28. > :17:30.the European Union and for all people across the country,
:17:31. > :17:32.regardless of how they voted, who now want to see this Government
:17:33. > :17:35.getting on with the job of Brexit That we want to see control
:17:36. > :17:40.of our borders, control of our laws, control of our money and this's
:17:41. > :17:42.what we'll deliver. A departing Labour MP paid tribute
:17:43. > :17:45.to his colleagues who'd stood up Doesn't the Prime Minister agree
:17:46. > :17:56.that their ongoing presence in this place is vital for the future
:17:57. > :17:59.of our British steel industry? Can I just say to the honourable
:18:00. > :18:03.gentleman that I believe he's standing down at the election,
:18:04. > :18:06.having said that that was to his significant and irreconcilable
:18:07. > :18:07.differences with the leadership This Conservative Government has
:18:08. > :18:11.taken steps to support the steel Mr Speaker, it's been an immense
:18:12. > :18:16.privilege to serve the people of Cannock and Burntwood
:18:17. > :18:19.and Aldershot for the past 34 years. I arrived in 1983 when one
:18:20. > :18:21.formidable and determined female Conservative Prime Minister
:18:22. > :18:24.was transforming the country's economic fortunes and I depart
:18:25. > :18:29.as another is determined to restore to this country the status
:18:30. > :18:31.of a sovereign nation state, As I too bid my right honourable
:18:32. > :18:41.friend, the Prime Minister, Godspeed for a resounding victory
:18:42. > :18:43.on the 8th June, may Aldershot just make one final plea
:18:44. > :18:48.in these troubled times. Please will she ensure
:18:49. > :18:51.that Her Majesty's armed forces are properly funded,
:18:52. > :18:53.manned, equipped and housed to defend and protect the people
:18:54. > :18:56.of this glorious sceptred isle, the United Kingdom of Great Britain
:18:57. > :18:58.and Northern Ireland. Three years ago, the Green Party
:18:59. > :19:13.peer and London Assembly member, Lady Jones, discovered her name
:19:14. > :19:15.featured on a Metropolitan Police database of people deemed
:19:16. > :19:21."domestic extremists." Lady Jones had taken part
:19:22. > :19:23.in environmental protests and spoken At Question Time in the Lords,
:19:24. > :19:28.Lady Jones criticised the compiling of such a database,
:19:29. > :19:31.believing police resources The definition of domestic extremism
:19:32. > :19:45.used by the police is not statutory. Questions about the police
:19:46. > :19:47.definition and their work on domestic extremism are matters
:19:48. > :19:49.for the police. I thank the noble Lady and Minister
:19:50. > :19:52.for her evasive answer. Quite honestly, of course it's
:19:53. > :19:54.a matter for the Home Office as to whether the police
:19:55. > :19:58.are misusing their time. There's now incontrovertible
:19:59. > :20:02.and huge amounts of evidence that says that the police are watching
:20:03. > :20:08.peaceful, non-violent campaigners, environmental campaigners, and,
:20:09. > :20:09.therefore, they are utterly wasting their time and not
:20:10. > :20:19.concentrating on the people who can this responsibility seriously
:20:20. > :20:46.about preventing serious crime and make sure that the police
:20:47. > :20:48.actually follow some reasonable guidelines
:20:49. > :20:50.on what a domestic extremist is. Well, my Lords, in terms
:20:51. > :20:53.of the police misusing their time, And, in terms of the question
:20:54. > :20:57.and the misleading answer, "To ask Her Majesty's Government
:20:58. > :21:00.whether they intend to refine the definition
:21:01. > :21:01.of domestic extremism." In the last Queen's Speech -
:21:02. > :21:06.I appreciate we're towards the end of this parliamentary session,
:21:07. > :21:08.so the opportunity to do something about what was in last
:21:09. > :21:10.Queen's Speech is diminishing - promised a Bill to look
:21:11. > :21:12.at preventing extremism. I understand that's been festering
:21:13. > :21:15.in the long grass ever since because of the difficulty
:21:16. > :21:17.in defining extremism. Perhaps the noble Lady could tell us
:21:18. > :21:20.whether it's going to carry on festering in the long grass
:21:21. > :21:22.or whether the Government is planning, if it manages to be
:21:23. > :21:24.re-elected, to bring forward proposals which will define
:21:25. > :21:27.extremism and which might then define whether or not the noble Lady
:21:28. > :21:30.is an extremist or indeed quite a number of us might be
:21:31. > :21:32.deemed by other colleagues in your Lordships'
:21:33. > :21:34.house as extremists. So how will the Government address
:21:35. > :21:37.that question because it told us it was going to in the Queen's
:21:38. > :21:39.Speech? Well, my Lords, clearly
:21:40. > :21:40.events have overtaken us. Tomorrow, we will pirogue and it
:21:41. > :21:43.will be in the hands of the next government,
:21:44. > :21:47.and should that government be a Labour Government,
:21:48. > :21:49.to decide whether to But, yes, that was,
:21:50. > :21:53.at the time of the last In the 1980s when Sheikhs
:21:54. > :22:05.were being persecuted throughout India and blamed and called
:22:06. > :22:10.terrorists and extremists. I was asked by the BBC,
:22:11. > :22:13."Am I a moderate or an extremists?" We must get beyond these smear
:22:14. > :22:19.definitions and look Well, I don't - as someone
:22:20. > :22:23.who is extremely moderate as well - I don't disagree with the noble
:22:24. > :22:25.Lord. The point that I was making,
:22:26. > :22:28.in answer to the question, is that this definition
:22:29. > :22:30.was a definition that was actually The Prime Minister has said
:22:31. > :22:40.she wants to open up new markets for Welsh
:22:41. > :22:42.businesses following Brexit. During a campaign visit to Wales,
:22:43. > :22:44.Theresa May said she wanted But in the Commons, opposition MPs
:22:45. > :22:50.accused her of "playing fast The Prime Minister has said that
:22:51. > :22:54.she's prepared to walk away from the negotiating table
:22:55. > :22:57.without a trade deal with the EU. The Foreign Secretary has said that
:22:58. > :23:00.no deal would be no problem. And yet no deal, as we've heard,
:23:01. > :23:03.could see tariffs of 30% to 40% on Welsh dairy farmers and meat
:23:04. > :23:06.producers and 10% tariffs So could I ask the Secretary
:23:07. > :23:12.of State, isn't it the case that this Tory Government
:23:13. > :23:15.is prepared to play fast and loose with the Welsh economy
:23:16. > :23:17.with an extreme Tory vision of Brexit that would push and put
:23:18. > :23:22.Welsh jobs and livelihoods at risk? Mr Speaker, I don't recognise
:23:23. > :23:24.the basis of the honourable We want the freest, most open
:23:25. > :23:30.trading agreement and, it seems to me, that the real
:23:31. > :23:33.investors, creating real jobs, We've seen a major investment
:23:34. > :23:36.from Nissan in Sunderland. We've seen a major investment
:23:37. > :23:39.from Toyota in Derbyshire. We've seen a major investment in my
:23:40. > :23:43.constituency with Aston Martin. That demonstrates their confidence
:23:44. > :23:46.in our vision as we leave Wales has a number of technological
:23:47. > :23:50.hotspots, particularly around Does he not think that they will
:23:51. > :23:56.benefit after Brexit from bilateral trade deals that we'll be able
:23:57. > :24:00.to make with the United States, Canada as well as
:24:01. > :24:05.the European Union? In leaving the European customs
:24:06. > :24:07.union, Welsh manufacturers and farmers will lose the solid
:24:08. > :24:10.protections offered by the bloc. Why doesn't he come clean today
:24:11. > :24:19.and admit it os the intention of the Tories to sell Welsh
:24:20. > :24:21.producers down the rivers in order to open up markets
:24:22. > :24:24.with the bankers of London? Well, the honourable member
:24:25. > :24:26.will recognise that exports from Wales have grown over the last
:24:27. > :24:30.year, they've grown He will also recognise the data
:24:31. > :24:41.I highlighted earlier about record levels of employment and low
:24:42. > :24:42.levels of unemployment. On that basis, he will recognise
:24:43. > :24:46.we want the freest, open trading arrangements that we can in support
:24:47. > :24:49.of Welsh farmers because we maintain How does he respond
:24:50. > :24:53.to their requests for a full assessment on the impact of Welsh
:24:54. > :24:55.agriculture should we be in a position of falling back
:24:56. > :24:58.on World Trade Organisation tariffs? Isn't it obvious that 40% tariffs
:24:59. > :25:00.would destroy Welsh agriculture? Mr Speaker, I'm disappointed
:25:01. > :25:02.with the approach the honourable I mean, he is assuming
:25:03. > :25:06.the worst-case scenario. We're having this general election
:25:07. > :25:08.in order to have strong and stable leadership
:25:09. > :25:10.in the challenging There are 27 EU nations that will be
:25:11. > :25:17.challenging everything as we negotiate to leave
:25:18. > :25:19.the European Union. Strong and stable leadership
:25:20. > :25:26.is needed now more than ever before. That's it from me for now,
:25:27. > :25:30.but do join me at the same time tomorrow for the last day that this
:25:31. > :25:32.parliament sits before But for now from me,
:25:33. > :25:36.Alicia McCarthy.