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Hello there, and welcome to the programme. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
Coming up in the next half-hour: | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
There's a different look to PMQs, but some familiar | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
questions for the Government about the Brexit negotiations. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
As a country, we have got 20 months to go until Brexit. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:35 | |
We absolutely have got to get a grip. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
It is conceivable that we would be offered a kind of punishment deal, | 0:00:38 | 0:00:42 | |
that would be worse than no deal. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
It's not our intention, we want to have a deal, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
we want to have a good deal. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:48 | |
The Government announces more money to help the Iraqi city of Mosul, | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
following the defeat of so-called Islamic State there. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:56 | |
And MPs speak up about the abuse they received from the public. | 0:00:56 | 0:01:00 | |
I accept that male politicians get abuse too. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
But I hope the one thing we can agree on in this chamber | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
is that it is much worse for women. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
But first, Theresa May was otherwise engaged on Wednesday lunchtime, | 0:01:09 | 0:01:13 | |
on parade for the formal visit for the King of Spain. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
So it was down to her Cabinet colleague, Damian Green, | 0:01:16 | 0:01:23 | |
who's the First Secretary of State, to fill in for her. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
As is the convention, when the PM is away, | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
the opposition also field a deputy. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
So he was facing the Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornbury, | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
across the dispatch box. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
She turned her attention to the Brexit negotiations, | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
saying ministers had to get a grip on Brexit and reveal the impact | 0:01:37 | 0:01:41 | |
of a no-deal scenario. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
This isn't some sinister nightmare, dreamt up by Remainers - | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
it was the Prime Minister who first floated the idea of no deal. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
The Foreign Secretary said it would be privately OK. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
The Brexit Secretary who said we'd be prepared to walk away. | 0:01:56 | 0:02:05 | |
But, since the election, the Chancellor has said that would be | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
a very, very bad outcome. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:09 | |
And a former minister has told Sky News that no deal is dead. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
So will the First Secretary clear this up? | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
Are ministers just making it up as they're going along...? | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
GENERAL CLAMOUR | 0:02:17 | 0:02:23 | |
Or is it still the Government's clear policy that | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
no deal is an option? | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
I recommend the right honourable lady read | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
the Prime Minister's Lancaster House speech, that is the basis | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
on which we're negotiating. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
But we're also saying that it is conceivable | 0:02:38 | 0:02:41 | |
that we would be offered a kind of punishment deal that | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
would be worse than no deal. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
It's not our intention, we want to have a deal, | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
we want to have a good deal. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
Can I also point out to her, that it is her leader | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
and her party's position that, whatever is on offer, | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
they will accept it. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
That is a terrible way... | 0:02:58 | 0:03:02 | |
That is a terrible way to go into a negotiation. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:06 | |
Emily Thornbury asked again what no deal would mean. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
And she made reference to the suspension of Anne Marie Morris | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
from the Conservative Party producing a racially offensive term. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:21 | |
Well, the First Secretary apparently didn't get | 0:03:21 | 0:03:23 | |
the Prime Minister's memo - you're supposed to be | 0:03:23 | 0:03:25 | |
building consensus, man. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:26 | |
CHEERING | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
And if we ignore the political bluster... | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
And if we ignore the political bluster, I think what | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
we heard was that no deal is still indeed an option. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
And if that's the case, can we turn to what we I might call | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
the East India Club question? | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
Because before of the member for Newton Abbot suddenly turned | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
herself into Nick Griffin, this was the question | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
that she was trying to ask - what does no deal actually mean | 0:03:49 | 0:03:54 | |
for our businesses, for our people and for issues such | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
as the Irish land border? | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
Damian Green said he was all for consensus, so... | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
I very much look forward to sharing the Labour Party's views this | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
morning on the unemployment figures. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:09 | |
CHEERING | 0:04:09 | 0:04:14 | |
Unemployment is now down to its lowest levels | 0:04:14 | 0:04:19 | |
since the early 70s. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
There are many members of this House who weren't born when unemployment | 0:04:21 | 0:04:26 | |
was as low as this Government has made it. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
As to the substance of the question, he said the Government was seeking | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
a good deal for Britain that enabled us to trade as freely as possible | 0:04:32 | 0:04:36 | |
with the EU while securing trade deals with other countries. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:40 | |
Emily Thornbury said the point of the session was for her to ask | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
the questions and Mr Green to answer them. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
We've got a Chancellor demanding transitional arrangements, | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
which a no-deal option makes impossible. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
We've got a Foreign Secretary making it up as he's going along. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
We've got a Brexit Secretary so used to overruling his colleagues that | 0:04:56 | 0:05:01 | |
he's started overruling himself. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:03 | |
And we've got a Prime Minister so bereft of ideas and she's started | 0:05:03 | 0:05:08 | |
putting suggestion boxes around Parliament. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:11 | |
But as a country, as a country, we have got 20 months | 0:05:11 | 0:05:16 | |
to go until Brexit. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
We absolutely have got to get a grip. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
And if the party opposite hasn't got the strength for the task, | 0:05:21 | 0:05:25 | |
when we've absolutely got to get rid of them. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:29 | |
What we would have, as we have seen from the Labour Party, | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
they have so far, I counted, had nine different plans on Europe. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
They want to be both in and out of the single market, | 0:05:35 | 0:05:39 | |
in and out of the customs union. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
They've said they wanted to remain, they voted for Article 50, | 0:05:41 | 0:05:45 | |
they split their party on that. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
And she made one point about whether she would prefer to be | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
at this dispatch box rather than at that dispatch box. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
I would also remind her of the other event that happened recently, | 0:05:54 | 0:05:58 | |
when the Conservative Party got more votes and more seats | 0:05:58 | 0:06:02 | |
then the Labour Party and won the election. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:06 | |
Can the First Secretary of State confirm the devolved administrations | 0:06:06 | 0:06:10 | |
will not face a diminution of powers as a result of the Repeal Bill? | 0:06:10 | 0:06:15 | |
I'm happy to reconfirm what my right honourable friend | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
the Prime Minister and others have said that, yes, under | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
the terms of the Brexit deal that we will negotiate, | 0:06:20 | 0:06:23 | |
there will be no diminution of the devolved administrations' | 0:06:23 | 0:06:28 | |
powers, and that we look to devolve more powers as a result | 0:06:28 | 0:06:32 | |
of this process. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
Damian Green. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:36 | |
Now, the Prime Minister has asked the Committee on Standards | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
in Public Life to conduct a review into the intimidation experienced | 0:06:39 | 0:06:43 | |
by parliamentary candidates. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
It follows reports of abuse experienced by many of those who | 0:06:45 | 0:06:49 | |
stood in June's general election. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
The scale of the problem was set out in Westminster Hall | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
by a Conservative MP, who called a debate on the issue. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:58 | |
I don't know how many colleagues have read the report | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
from BCS, who published a survey recently. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:06 | |
In a three-month period, MPs received 188,000 abusive tweets. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:11 | |
That's in a three-month period. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:12 | |
That's one in 20 tweets received by colleagues. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:17 | |
Meanwhile, he said older volunteers were scared to put up posters | 0:07:17 | 0:07:21 | |
and candidates were abused because of their | 0:07:21 | 0:07:22 | |
religion or sexuality. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
Simon Hart gave an example of the type of harassment being suffered. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
He cited the experience of the former Bristol | 0:07:29 | 0:07:31 | |
Conservative MP, Charlotte Leslie. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
Whose parents became victims of this particular abuse. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
The entire oil heating supply was drained into their garden | 0:07:38 | 0:07:46 | |
by somebody who had an objection to Charlotte's particular | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
position on fracking, which was a slightly | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
ironic way of dealing with an environmental consideration. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:53 | |
But, nonetheless, it caused enormous distress, | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
as did the scratching of "Tory scum" in her elderly parents' car. | 0:07:55 | 0:08:02 | |
Labour's Diane Abbott said abuse had been turbo-charged | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
by the use of the internet. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:07 | |
30 years ago, when I first became an MP, if you wanted to attack | 0:08:07 | 0:08:11 | |
an MP, you had to write a letter - usually in green ink - | 0:08:11 | 0:08:16 | |
you had to put it in an envelope, put a stamp on it and you had | 0:08:16 | 0:08:20 | |
to walk to the post box. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:21 | |
Now they press a button and you read file abuse which, 30 years ago, | 0:08:21 | 0:08:27 | |
people would have been frightened to even write down. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
So I accept that male politicians get abuse too, | 0:08:30 | 0:08:35 | |
but I hope the one thing we can agree on in this chamber is that | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
that's much worse for women. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
We are not talking here about a bit of political banter. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
We're not talking about the rough-and-tumble of political | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
debate or even satirising or caricaturing another | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
person's point of view. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:51 | |
We are talking about vile abuse, dehumanising people, | 0:08:51 | 0:08:56 | |
offering and inciting, sometimes, violence against people. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:57 | |
And this is the sort of activity which should not | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
be deemed acceptable in any democratic society. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:06 | |
My concern is it stops women especially entering politics. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:10 | |
I can very briefly give the example of a candidate | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
who unfortunately wasn't elected, who stood in Ealing. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
And because Members of Parliament have to declare their addresses | 0:09:15 | 0:09:17 | |
when they stand for parliament, she said she started becoming nervous. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
When she noticed activity during the election campaign | 0:09:21 | 0:09:25 | |
by the opponents when they started standing outside my door | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
at my home, spitting in my face and following me. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
I've been an MP for just over two years, and I can't remember | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
a single day that has gone by without receiving | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
some sort of abuse. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:37 | |
Whether that be death threats or a picture of me being mocked up | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
as a used sanitary towel and various other things. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
This last election was the most brutal I can certainly imagine. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
This is an assault on our democratic values and on our process. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:51 | |
And it has to stop, Mr Hanson. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
This is the worst I've ever encountered in any election, | 0:09:53 | 0:09:56 | |
and it is not acceptable, and it is, primarily, | 0:09:56 | 0:09:58 | |
in this particular regard, coming from one particular faction. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
And we should be honest about it, we should be honest about it. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
Andrew Percy. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
And we'll be speaking to Simon Hart about this | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
in The Week In Parliament, this Friday night, at 11pm. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:12 | |
Now, the Government has said it will only pay for fire safety | 0:10:12 | 0:10:16 | |
alterations to tower blocks ifs councils can show | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
they can't afford to do them. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:24 | |
In a debate in the Commons, four weeks after the Grenfell Tower fire, | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
Labour said the response of ministers and Kensington | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
and Chelsea Council has been too slow and inadequate. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:33 | |
The Minister promised the inquiry into the fire would be wide-ranging. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:37 | |
That necessarily means looking at circumstances | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
well beyond the design, construction, and modification | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
of the building itself. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
It will mean looking at the role of relevant public authorities | 0:10:44 | 0:10:49 | |
and the contractors and the broader implications of the fire | 0:10:49 | 0:10:51 | |
for the adequacy and enforcement of relevant regulations. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:55 | |
Birmingham has 231 tower blocks. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
The City Council has rightly decided that it will retrofit sprinklers | 0:10:58 | 0:11:02 | |
in all those blocks. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
That will cost ?31 million, in a council that's suffered | 0:11:04 | 0:11:09 | |
?700 million of cuts to their budget. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
Will the Government unequivocally commit to funding | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
all necessary safety measures, pending the outcome | 0:11:15 | 0:11:19 | |
of the inquiry? | 0:11:19 | 0:11:20 | |
If the Fire Service recommends something needs to be | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
done for safety reasons, obviously, they will go to the local authority | 0:11:23 | 0:11:27 | |
and the local authority will be first port of call | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
to pay for that. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:35 | |
I'm sure all local authorities will want to follow the Fire Service's | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
recommendations on this. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:39 | |
If the local authority can show that it can't afford it, then, | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
obviously, central Government will step in. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:43 | |
The inquiry, he said, will establish the facts and make | 0:11:43 | 0:11:45 | |
recommendations to avoid a repeat of the tragedy. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:50 | |
The Government will provide the inquiry with all the resources | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
it needs to complete its work thoroughly and rapidly. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
This was a terrible tragedy. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
We must learn the lessons to ensure nothing like it can | 0:11:57 | 0:12:03 | |
We must learn the lessons to ensure nothing like it can happen again. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
This is the measure of the Government's response | 0:12:06 | 0:12:08 | |
to the Grenfell Tower tragedy. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:10 | |
Too slow to react, too slow to grasp the gravity | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
and complexity of the problems. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:16 | |
One step off the pace at every stage. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
And he made this pledge... | 0:12:18 | 0:12:20 | |
We will not rest until all those who need help and a new home had it. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:28 | |
We will not rest until all those culpable have been | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
brought fully to account. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:32 | |
And we will not rest until all measures needed to make | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
sure this can never ever happen again are fully in place. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:39 | |
When a country as decent and well-off as ours fails to provide | 0:12:39 | 0:12:45 | |
to provide something as basic as a safe home for all its citizens, | 0:12:45 | 0:12:51 | |
then things must change. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:53 | |
When I was a junior Business Minister, I was asked | 0:12:53 | 0:12:56 | |
by people from Number 10, the Cabinet Office, | 0:12:56 | 0:12:59 | |
whether we should get rid of fire regulations in respect | 0:12:59 | 0:13:03 | |
to girls and ladies' nightdresses. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
Whether we should get rid of the fire regulations for furniture. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
I said no, we didn't get rid of them and or should we. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
And he's absolutely right, we must change the culture. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
Others turned to the criticism by some of the judge | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
heading the enquiry. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
I don't know how many colleagues have read the report | 0:13:21 | 0:13:22 | |
He's having a series of meetings to listen to the victim's families, | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
survivors and take their views. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:53 | |
I think it's welcome that the chair has been so open to ideas, | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
and that he said he wants to establish the terms of reference | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
as soon as possible, so that the inquiry can begin | 0:13:59 | 0:14:01 | |
the process of making sure that we know what happened and how | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
to stop it ever happening again. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:05 | |
This horrific event must be a game changer. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:10 | |
We need a thorough review of approaches to estate | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
development, the funding of social housing, and we need to listen | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
to the people affected and their warnings, | 0:14:15 | 0:14:16 | |
act upon their concerns and their priorities | 0:14:16 | 0:14:18 | |
with the transparency and honesty that have so clearly been missing. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
You're watching Wednesday in Parliament with me, Alicia McCarthy. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
The International Development Secretary, Priti Patel, | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
has announced that the Government is to spend another ?40 million | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
in humanitarian assistance for the people of the | 0:14:34 | 0:14:36 | |
Iraqi city of Mosul. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:40 | |
Iraq's Prime Minister formally declared victory over so-called | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
Islamic State earlier this week. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
The battle for Mosul has taken almost nine months, | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
left large areas in ruins, killed thousands of civilians and | 0:14:48 | 0:14:51 | |
displaced more than 920,000 others. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:55 | |
The urban combat has been described as the most | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
intense since World War II. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:04 | |
Making a statement to MPs, Priti Patel said the aid | 0:15:04 | 0:15:06 | |
would help to provide clean drinking water, food, tents, cooking | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
equipment and soap, and vaccination against the deadly diseases. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:13 | |
Britain will also provide extra funding to a UN-led stabilisation | 0:15:13 | 0:15:17 | |
programme that has helped 200,000 Iraqis return to Mosul. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:23 | |
Victory comes after three years of unimaginable oppression by Daesh. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:28 | |
Three years of fear, executions, abductions, | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
forced marriages, destruction of Iraqi's ancient heritage. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:41 | |
It comes after nine months of heavy fighting by the Iraqi security | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
forces who faced brutal Daesh tactics, including the use of human | 0:15:44 | 0:15:47 | |
shields and suicide bombers. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:48 | |
We must, though, be realistic about the challenges ahead. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:50 | |
Almost 50,000 homes have been destroyed. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
Although 200,000 people have returned to their homes in east | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
Mosul, over 700,000 people are still displaced and in need | 0:15:55 | 0:15:59 | |
of continued to assistance. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:09 | |
Explosive remnants of this war will be a problem for many, | 0:16:09 | 0:16:11 | |
many months to come. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:15 | |
I would like to pay tribute to the Iraqi security | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
forces and the people | 0:16:18 | 0:16:19 | |
of Mosul who have shown remarkable courage in the face | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
of Daesh's continued oppression. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
I would like to also pay particular tribute to the role of the UK | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
Government in its important work to provide critical aid | 0:16:27 | 0:16:29 | |
and emergency support. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:34 | |
The UK's continued role here in the coming days and weeks, | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
and the significant funding commitments announced | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
by the Secretary of State will save lives and help rebuild Mosul. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:44 | |
The UK Government must finally learn the lessons from Iraq, | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
Libya and Afghanistan. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
It cannot be allowed to happen in Mosul, as it has happened | 0:16:49 | 0:16:52 | |
in so many places before, that the cost and impact of UK military | 0:16:52 | 0:16:57 | |
action dwarves the relief and reconstruction efforts that follow. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:03 | |
She will know that if the experience of Fallujah and elsewhere | 0:17:03 | 0:17:05 | |
is to be followed in Mosul, | 0:17:05 | 0:17:07 | |
the vicious tactics of Daesh will be that every single house, | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
street and public place being booby-trapped and mined | 0:17:10 | 0:17:16 | |
and will take many, many years to clear that. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:20 | |
Will she, first of all, commit the Government to doing | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
all it can to help the technical matter of removing explosives? | 0:17:23 | 0:17:25 | |
Secondly, it is not the scorching heat of today we are worried about, | 0:17:25 | 0:17:28 | |
it is the cold of the Mosul winter we're worried | 0:17:28 | 0:17:31 | |
about coming along in three or four months' time, | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
by which time we have to find decent accommodation for the people. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
Can I press her on what specific funding will be offered | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
for the women and girls who have been subject to the most | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
unimaginable sexual violence at the hands of Daesh? | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
We must do more to support them. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:48 | |
Through the announcement we've made today, we will naturally | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
provide the humanitarian support that is required but also | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
46,000 vulnerable and displaced people, many of whom are women | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
and girls who have been subject to such | 0:17:55 | 0:17:58 | |
atrocities and violence, will see support from the money | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
we are announcing here today. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:02 | |
Priti Patel. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:04 | |
MPs of all parties have been urging the Government to remain part | 0:18:04 | 0:18:14 | |
of the European Atomic Energy Community - or Euratom. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
Euratom was set up in a treaty of 1957 to establish | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
a nuclear Common Market, giving nuclear workers and | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
material freedom of movement. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:24 | |
The UK joined in 1973. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:26 | |
Nowadays, Euratom regulates nuclear energy and funds research. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:28 | |
During a debate in Westminster Hall, several MPs raised concerns | 0:18:28 | 0:18:30 | |
about the impact of leaving Euratom on the nuclear industry | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
and the supply of medical isotopes. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:41 | |
The debate was initiated by the Labour MP Albert Owen. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
This debate is about getting it right and keeping | 0:18:44 | 0:18:49 | |
the UK as a world leader, in civil nuclear, in | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
research and development. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:53 | |
We have achieved the status of world leader by cooperation with working | 0:18:53 | 0:18:58 | |
with others across the world, but under the umbrella of Euratom. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:03 | |
I put it to the Government that there are ways forward | 0:19:03 | 0:19:05 | |
without having to have a cliff edge when Article 50 | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
negotiations are complete. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:09 | |
My concern is the impact of this on medicine. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:14 | |
Is he aware of the concerns of the Royal College of Radiologists | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
that a lack of being able to bring | 0:19:17 | 0:19:20 | |
isotopes easily into this country could affect 500,000 scans | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
and 10,000 cancer treatments? | 0:19:22 | 0:19:27 | |
These things cannot be stored because they have a short half-life | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
and we need Euratom. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:33 | |
I absolutely agree with the honourable lady and I have had | 0:19:33 | 0:19:36 | |
a lot of correspondence from experts across the field | 0:19:36 | 0:19:38 | |
including the Royal Marsden where cancer research is vital. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:44 | |
The issues she raised is aboslutely essentially to get right. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:46 | |
I think the burden of the case for staying in Euratom | 0:19:46 | 0:19:54 | |
that he would need to make | 0:19:54 | 0:19:56 | |
is why the same would not apply to every other agency that we're | 0:19:56 | 0:19:59 | |
leaving when we leave the European Union and why it | 0:19:59 | 0:20:01 | |
so impossible, as we leave these other agencies and regulatory | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
bodies and set up our own agencies and regulatory bodies, | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
under international standards, why that cannot also | 0:20:07 | 0:20:08 | |
be done with Euratom. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:09 | |
Who would be wanting to frustrate that? | 0:20:09 | 0:20:13 | |
I'm worried about a cliff edge of having to leave an organisation | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
that has been served as well for many years and has served | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
the whole global community, and doing so just | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
because we're leaving the European Union. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
I disagree with him that we'd have to deal with every other one. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
This is pretty unique in a sense. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:30 | |
Industry experts are worried about it. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:32 | |
It's not politicians worried about it, it is people | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
that understand and know our very industry. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:39 | |
Several Conservatives spoke up for the UK's membership of Euratom. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:41 | |
We shall do all of these possible legally to maintain those benefits | 0:20:41 | 0:20:48 | |
by whatever means it takes and we shall not allow any thoughts | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
of ideological purity to get in the way of achieving that. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
My judgment is that if we can legally remain | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
within Euratom, we shall do so. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
The energy minister Richard Harrington criticised | 0:20:59 | 0:21:03 | |
alarmist stories in press the saying the UK's ability to access | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
isotopes would not be a hit. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:08 | |
Remarks echoed Prime Minister's Questions by Damian Green who said | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
scaremongering was unnecessary. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
The Government will set out its position on Euratom on Thursday. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:19 | |
Down the corridor in the House of Lords, peers were urging | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
the Government to do more to encourage the use | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
of electric cars. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
Last week, the Swedish car-maker Volvo announced that, by 2019, | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
it will be producing only cars that are either purely electric or | 0:21:29 | 0:21:32 | |
hybrids combining electric and conventional engines. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:38 | |
The minister set out what was already being done | 0:21:38 | 0:21:40 | |
in the UK to boost use. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:42 | |
We have a number of initiatives in place to encourage ownership | 0:21:42 | 0:21:47 | |
and are investing more than ?600 million up to 2020 | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
to make the UK a leader in the development, manufacture | 0:21:49 | 0:21:52 | |
and use of electric vehicles. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:55 | |
We are cutting the upfront cost of purchase with our plug-in car, | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
van and motorcycle grants, and helping meet the costs | 0:21:59 | 0:22:02 | |
of installation of charge points at homes on residential streets | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
and in workplaces right across the UK. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:14 | |
The peer who put down the question when asked the question, | 0:22:16 | 0:22:18 | |
said she was the proud owner of a new lighter car. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
Is the future to be more electric | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
in order to reduce pollution and reliance on the Middle Eastern oil? | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
In which case, we need more infrastructure, more | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
points including right here in the House of Lords' car park. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
Or is the future not so good because there are downsides | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
to driving all electric? | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
For example, the cost of extra electricity. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:38 | |
We need to have an answer. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:44 | |
We don't want to find ourselves in another diesel debacle. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
Good yesterday but not so good tomorrow. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:50 | |
Lord Callinan accepted electric cars were no use | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
if there was nowhere to charge. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:55 | |
We already have over 11,000 public charge points the UK, | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
we have Europe's largest network of rapid chargers. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:04 | |
At the Autumn Statement last year, the Chancellor announced additional | 0:23:04 | 0:23:06 | |
funding of ?80 million for charging infrastructure | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
for the period to 2020. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:12 | |
Alongside this, Highways England has ?15 million to expand the existing | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
rapid charge point network. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:17 | |
Electricity does not come from nowhere. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:19 | |
Is it not a fact that, until recently, in this country, | 0:23:19 | 0:23:28 | |
electricity was roughly 20% nuclear, 20% coal, 35-40% gas and 10% - | 0:23:28 | 0:23:35 | |
rising towards 10% renewable. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:36 | |
That is where electricity comes from. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:37 | |
It's very interesting to have electric cars for what happens | 0:23:37 | 0:23:40 | |
on the streets of London but it is nothing to do | 0:23:40 | 0:23:42 | |
with the generation of electricity. | 0:23:42 | 0:23:48 | |
Of course the noble lord is quite correct, the life-cycle CO2 | 0:23:48 | 0:23:50 | |
value of electric cars depends on where the electricity | 0:23:50 | 0:23:53 | |
is generated from. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:54 | |
That is a statement of fact. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:59 | |
What is the Government's estimate of the impact of the increase | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
in electric car ownership over the next five years and the next ten | 0:24:02 | 0:24:09 | |
years on the tax take from the sale of petrol and diesel fuel, and how | 0:24:09 | 0:24:13 | |
will the Government compensate for or make up any reduction | 0:24:13 | 0:24:15 | |
in such tax revenues resulting from increasing | 0:24:15 | 0:24:17 | |
electric car ownership? | 0:24:17 | 0:24:21 | |
I think the noble Lords will realise it is very dangerous for me | 0:24:21 | 0:24:25 | |
to speculate on what the Chancellor might do in future budgets | 0:24:25 | 0:24:27 | |
with regard to tax levels. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:29 | |
Lord Callinan. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
Finally, as we mentioned at the top of the programme, | 0:24:31 | 0:24:35 | |
Theresa May wasn't at this week's PMQs as she was welcoming | 0:24:35 | 0:24:38 | |
the King of Spain, King Felipe, to the UK. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:43 | |
After a full ceremonial welcome, the king and queen | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
came to Westminster. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:46 | |
It is an honour... | 0:24:46 | 0:24:52 | |
..where after a brief speech from the Commons Speaker John Bercow, | 0:24:52 | 0:24:55 | |
King Felipe addressed both Houses of Parliament in the Royal Gallery | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
of the House of Lords. | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
He said that Brexit saddened Spain but that it fully respects | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
the will of the British people and that Britons who live | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
in Spain and Spaniards who live in the UK must be remembered. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
These citizens have a legitimate expectation of decent and stable | 0:25:07 | 0:25:09 | |
living conditions for themselves and for their families. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:11 | |
I therefore urge our two governments to continue working to ensure | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
that the agreement on the UK withdrawing from the EU provides | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
sufficient assurance and certainty. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:26 | |
The King of Spain. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:32 | |
And that's it from me for now but do join me | 0:25:32 | 0:25:35 | |
at the same time tomorrow when, among other things, it is transport | 0:25:35 | 0:25:38 | |
questions at the start of the day in the Commons and MPs commemorate | 0:25:38 | 0:25:41 | |
the Passchendaele campaign in the First World War. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
But for now, from me, Alicia McCarthy, goodbye. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:50 |