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Hello and welcome to the programme. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
As Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince
begins a three day visit to the UK | 0:00:19 | 0:00:23 | |
there are questions for Theresa May
about the UK's links to the country. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:28 | |
As she makes her arms sales pitch,
will she also call on the Crown | 0:00:28 | 0:00:32 | |
Prince to halt the shocking abuse
of human rights in Saudi Arabia? | 0:00:32 | 0:00:40 | |
We have with Saudi
Arabia is historic, | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
it is an important one, and it has
saved the lives of potentially | 0:00:43 | 0:00:47 | |
hundreds of people in this country. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:51 | |
Also on this programme: A call
to make misogynistic | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
abuse a hate crime. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
Misogyny is everywhere in our
society, absolutely everywhere. | 0:00:56 | 0:01:00 | |
To the point where we often miss it
because it has been so normalised. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:05 | |
And MPs investigate why your fake
fur bobble hat may not | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
be fake fur at all. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:13 | |
But first. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:14 | |
Theresa May has defended the UK's
relationship with Saudi Arabia | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
at the start of a three day visit
by crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
His schedule includes
talks with Theresa May | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
and lunch with the Queen. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
The Crown Prince is credited
with kick-starting economic | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
and social reforms in the kingdom,
such as the lifting | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
of the ban on women driving. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
But protestors have objected
to the country's human rights | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
record and its involvement
in the war in Yemen. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
Jeremy Corbyn raised the visit
at prime Ministers questions. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:43 | |
But the session began
with Theresa May updating Mps | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
on the suspected poisoning
of a former Russian spy | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
and his daughter in Salisbury. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
The police investigation is ongoing. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
Yesterday afternoon,
I chaired a meeting of the national | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
Security Council where
we were updated on that | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
investigation which is now being led
by counterterrorism police. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
And this morning, my
right honourable friend, | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
the Home Secretary, chaired
a meeting of the Government's | 0:02:05 | 0:02:07 | |
emergency committee, COBRA,
and has asked police | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
for an update later today. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
It was later revealed that a very
rare nerve agent had been used. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:18 | |
The Labour leader thanked
Theresa May for the update and then | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
began his first question. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:24 | |
Tomorrow is International Women's
Day, a chance to both celebrate how | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
far we have come for equality
on women, but also reflect | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
on how far we have to go,
not just in this country, | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
but around the world. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:40 | |
And with that in mind he turned
to the visit of Saudi Arabia's crown | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
prince Mohammed bin Salman. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:51 | |
Despite much talk of reform,
there has been a sharp increase | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
in the arrest and detention
of dissidents, torture | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
of prisoners is common. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:57 | |
Human rights defenders routinely
sentenced to lengthy prison terms, | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
unfair trials and executions
are widespread as Amnesty | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
International confirms. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:02 | |
As she makes her arms sales pitch,
will she also call on the crown | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
prince to halt the shocking abuse
of human rights in Saudi Arabia? | 0:03:05 | 0:03:13 | |
Well, first of all, can I thank
the right honourable gentleman | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
for telling me that it's
International Women's Day tomorrow. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:21 | |
I think that's what's
called mansplaining. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:27 | |
I welcome, I look forward to
welcoming Crown Prince Mohammed bin | 0:03:34 | 0:03:39 | |
Salman from Saudi Arabia to this... | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
Well, Labour backbenchers
from sedentary positions | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
are shouting "shame". | 0:03:45 | 0:03:47 | |
Can I just say to those backbenchers
that the link that we have | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
with Saudi Arabia is historic,
it is an important one and it has | 0:03:50 | 0:03:55 | |
saved the lives of potentially
hundreds of people in this country? | 0:03:55 | 0:04:05 | |
that waits for a visit of the crown
prince to raise. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:16 | |
We do regularly monitor
the situation and regularly raise | 0:04:16 | 0:04:18 | |
this question with the Saudi
government and we will | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
continue to do so. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:26 | |
started on the issue
of International Women's Day, | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
I welcome the fact that the crown
prince will be sitting down | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
with as the guest of a female Prime
Minister. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
As the crown prince sweeps
across Westminster and Whitehall, | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
will she pledge to raise a specific
case concerning the jailing | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
of writer Raif Badawi,
who languishes in a prison now | 0:04:38 | 0:04:40 | |
for six years all because he had
written something his | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
government didn't like? | 0:04:43 | 0:04:44 | |
His wife and children have now
claimed asylum in Canada. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
Will she pledge to raise his case
and do something that her | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
predecessor never could,
stand at the dispatch box, | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
say that Raif Badawi is not criminal
and that Raif Badawi should | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
be set free? | 0:04:54 | 0:04:55 | |
Can I say to the honourable
gentleman that I'll be raising | 0:04:55 | 0:04:57 | |
a number of cases with the crown
prince as I see him over | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
the next couple of days. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:02 | |
The case he specifically refers
to of Raif Badawi is not something | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
that waits for a visit of the crown
prince to raise. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
We do regularly monitor
the situation and regularly raise | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
this question with the Saudi
government and we will | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
continue to do so. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:18 | |
Jeremy Corbyn moved
on from Saudi Arabia's human rights | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
record to its involvement in the war
in Yemen, where it's | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
backing attempts to restore
the country's president. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
Has suspended ourselves
to Saudi Arabia, but British arms | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
sales have sharply increased
and British military advisors | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
are directing the war. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:39 | |
It cannot be right that her
government, Mr Speaker, it cannot be | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
right that her government
is colluding in what | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
the United Nations says
is evidence of war crimes. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:54 | |
We have a very tight arms export
regime in this country. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
And when there are allegations
of arms not being used | 0:05:56 | 0:05:58 | |
within the law, that we expect that
to be investigated and lessons | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
to be learned on that. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
Theresa May, well a short time later
a Foreign Office Minister came | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
to the Commons to answer an urgent
question, on the UK's | 0:06:08 | 0:06:11 | |
relationship with Saudi Arabia. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:16 | |
There will be wide spread concern
across parties at the fact that the | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
dictatorial head of a mid-evil,
theocratic regime is being given the | 0:06:19 | 0:06:24 | |
red carpet equivalent of a state
visit. And I also asked if he can | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
explain why the safeguards on the
use of British weapons which were | 0:06:28 | 0:06:34 | |
introduced at the end of the
coalition at the insistence of | 0:06:34 | 0:06:38 | |
myself for my liberal Democrat
colleagues are apparently no longer | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
being applied? We keep under strict
checks to ensure that | 0:06:40 | 0:06:46 | |
internationally mentoring lies
abided by, to make sure that we can | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 | |
provide the support of Saudi Arabia
that it needs in order to protect | 0:06:50 | 0:06:53 | |
itself. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:54 | |
Labour said it wanted a good
diplomatic and economic | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
relationship with Saudi Arabia,
but with any good relationship | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
there had to be honesty. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:02 | |
As long as they continued the
indiscriminate bombing of | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
residential areas of farms, and
markets in Yemen, as long as they | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
continue to restrict the flow of
food, medical supplies and fuels to | 0:07:09 | 0:07:15 | |
a population suffering from mass
epidemics of knowledge attrition and | 0:07:15 | 0:07:19 | |
cholera, then they should not expect
our support in that war and the | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
crown prince is not deserve to have
the red carpet rolled out for him | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
here in Britain. Because let us look
at the man who the British | 0:07:26 | 0:07:30 | |
Government are bearing and scraping
to today. The architect of the Saudi | 0:07:30 | 0:07:35 | |
air strikes and blockade in Yemen,
funding the hottie grooves in the | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
Syrian civil War, ordering his cards
to beat up the minute the Prime | 0:07:38 | 0:07:43 | |
Minister of limit on. And the eight
months since he became crown prince, | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
doubling the numbers of executions
in Saudi Arabia. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
The Minister said everyone wanted | 0:07:49 | 0:07:50 | |
to see an end to the conflict
in Yemen but simply | 0:07:50 | 0:07:53 | |
calling for a ceasefire
wouldn't make it happen. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
You have the facts on the ground to
make sure that a cease-fire actually | 0:07:57 | 0:08:02 | |
works. It is all very well for the
honourable lady to shake her head. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
She is not faced with some of the
issues that face of Government | 0:08:05 | 0:08:09 | |
Ministers in relation to this nor is
she giving full credit to the ethics | 0:08:09 | 0:08:13 | |
-- efforts that are being made to
try to bring this matter to an end. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
She is at the sole holder of condos
in this places we deal with the | 0:08:17 | 0:08:23 | |
difficulties of trying to deal with
the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
That is what we are seeking to do
and we will ban all of our efforts | 0:08:26 | 0:08:29 | |
to that and continued to do so with
or without her support. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:32 | |
The former Labour Prime Minister,
Gordon Brown, has called for police | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
to investigate "criminal wrongdoing"
by the Press. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
An ex-private investigator
who was used by The Sunday Times has | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
spoken about the activity
he was involved in to obtain | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
information for the paper. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
John Ford said his methods included
stealing rubbish and "blagging" | 0:08:47 | 0:08:52 | |
or pretending to be a bank
or utilities account holder. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
The Sunday Times said it "strongly
rejects" the claim that it had | 0:08:55 | 0:08:59 | |
ever commissioned anyone
to act illegally. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:03 | |
In the Commons, Labour called
for the Leveson Inquiry into press | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
standards to be re-opened. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
But the Culture Secretary stuck
to his announcement made last week | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
that the second stage of Leveson
should not go ahead. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:18 | |
The fact that this activity stopped
in 2010 underlines the point that | 0:09:18 | 0:09:22 | |
the world has changed. Practises
like these have been investigated, | 0:09:22 | 0:09:28 | |
newspapers today are in a very
different position to win these | 0:09:28 | 0:09:32 | |
alleged offences took place. This
view is in fact strengthened by | 0:09:32 | 0:09:36 | |
today by the example because the
behaviour we discovered today was | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
before the Levinson inquiry and
existing or is in place to deal with | 0:09:40 | 0:09:45 | |
it. Criminal behaviour should be
dealt with by the police and the | 0:09:45 | 0:09:49 | |
courts and anyone who has committed
a criminal offence should face the | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
full force of the law. Mr Speaker,
the world has not changed. The one | 0:09:51 | 0:09:57 | |
rogue blackguard offence has been
uttered from the knife of the | 0:09:57 | 0:10:04 | |
Secretary of State. And when he
announced last week that he was | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
dropping the Levinson inquiry, the
culture secretary said he was doing | 0:10:07 | 0:10:10 | |
so because the inquiry looked into
everything in this area. And it was | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
followed by a three police
investigations. We looked into these | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
things as a society. We had a
comprehensive and batch copperheads | 0:10:17 | 0:10:21 | |
of inquiry. He told us that the
matter was closed. There was nothing | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
more to see. Well, overnight, the
BBC has reported allegations by | 0:10:24 | 0:10:31 | |
another whistle-blower, John Ford,
who says he was a blackguard from | 0:10:31 | 0:10:33 | |
the Sunday Times for 15 years. I was
just a secretary when we set up the | 0:10:33 | 0:10:39 | |
inquiry and we, as a second stage of
the inquiry. If my right honourable | 0:10:39 | 0:10:46 | |
friend would not be surprised to
discover that I'd share some people | 0:10:46 | 0:10:51 | |
insist -- disappointed that it was
postponed. Does he really think that | 0:10:51 | 0:10:56 | |
there is no longer any sufficient
public interest in new allegations | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
of this kind? Or knowing which
newspapers were bribing, which | 0:10:59 | 0:11:07 | |
policemen because it was this long
ago as seven years. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:11 | |
The former Labour Leader,
Ed Miliband, said Sir Brian Leveson | 0:11:11 | 0:11:12 | |
himself wanted the next stage
of the inquiry to take place. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:17 | |
Of course the police are looking at
specific instances. But the | 0:11:17 | 0:11:22 | |
questions are Brian is posing is
what is the culture that allowed | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
this practise is to happen and how
can we have reassurance that that | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
culture has changed? How can he had
the reassurance without a Levinson | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
inquiry. Clearly, not only hasn't
already been a lemon -- a Levinson | 0:11:31 | 0:11:38 | |
inquiry today's areas, but it has
clearly changed. The fact that these | 0:11:38 | 0:11:44 | |
practises change in the best ten
underlines the fact that they are | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
historic practises. But we have to
address now is how to ensure that | 0:11:46 | 0:11:51 | |
there is high-quality journalism in
the years to come rather than going | 0:11:51 | 0:11:55 | |
into revisiting the time when he was
at the height of his powers. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
Ed Miliband unimpressed there
by that answer from Matt Hancock. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:03 | |
There was a call for misogyny to be
treated as a hate crime, | 0:12:03 | 0:12:06 | |
because Mps argued the power
imbalance in society meant | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
women were routinely
treated as a minority. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:13 | |
A debate in Westminster Hall heard
that the definition of a hate crime | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
should be extended to include
the abuse of women, | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
if they are targeted simply
because of their gender. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
And there was some strong
language used in this debate | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
to describe such abuse. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:31 | |
All forms of abuse are committed
disproportionately against women and | 0:12:31 | 0:12:37 | |
girls end the perpetrators are
usually men. Part of what is | 0:12:37 | 0:12:42 | |
stopping women achieving equality is
violence against women and girls. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:46 | |
This debate is about securing an
extension to existing hate crime | 0:12:46 | 0:12:51 | |
definitions and sentencing to better
prevent violence against women. To | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
support the early intervention
against lower-level incidents and | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
give women greater confidence and
reporting the actions that too often | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
have become the wallpaper of their
wives. When she talks about | 0:13:01 | 0:13:05 | |
misogyny, and I just wondered
whether we could take it as read | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
therefore that she thought that this
century should also be a hate crime | 0:13:08 | 0:13:13 | |
in exactly the same way and if she
doesn't, could just lay why she | 0:13:13 | 0:13:17 | |
thinks there should be one rule for
one original for the other | 0:13:17 | 0:13:39 | |
Mhairi Black then read out some
of the extreme abuse | 0:13:39 | 0:13:41 | |
she has received online -
which, because of the language, | 0:13:41 | 0:13:43 | |
we can't broadcast here. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:49 | |
I've been assured multiple times
because I don't have to worry | 0:13:49 | 0:13:53 | |
because I am so ugly because nobody
would want to rate me. All of these | 0:13:53 | 0:13:58 | |
have been tailored to be because I'm
a woman. We can kid ourselves that | 0:13:58 | 0:14:03 | |
these are a few bad on the anonymous
people on Twitter but it's not. This | 0:14:03 | 0:14:07 | |
is everyday, common line which. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:08 | |
This is everyday, common line which. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:09 | |
The Minister for Women insisted
the Government was taking | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
this issue seriously,
saying it had brought | 0:14:12 | 0:14:13 | |
in changes such as a new law
on revenge pornography. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
But... | 0:14:16 | 0:14:18 | |
I do think we need to be careful.
About creating laws which would | 0:14:18 | 0:14:25 | |
inadvertently conflict with the
principles of equality. If we were | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
to have a crime in relation to
gender I think we would have to | 0:14:28 | 0:14:32 | |
think through very carefully whether
that's applies to the whole of the | 0:14:32 | 0:14:38 | |
population as opposed to half of it. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:40 | |
opposed to half of it. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:41 | |
Victoria Atkins, who herself came
off Twitter because of the abuse | 0:14:41 | 0:14:45 | |
she suffered, also said hate crimes
were meant for minorities in society | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
and she was hesitant to put
women in that category. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:52 | |
You're watching Wednesday in
Parliament with me, Alicia McCarthy. | 0:14:52 | 0:15:01 | |
Let's go back to prime
minster's questions, | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
where Jeremy Corbyn used
the rest of his questions | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
to tackle Theresa May over
the problem of homelessness. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:12 | |
In November the Chancellor of the
Exchequer announced a task force and | 0:15:12 | 0:15:18 | |
£20 million for three pilot schemes
to hack a homelessness. I understand | 0:15:18 | 0:15:22 | |
for months on the task force has not
yet met. Not a penny has been spent | 0:15:22 | 0:15:28 | |
on that programme. Mr Speaker, there
is a homelessness crisis in this | 0:15:28 | 0:15:32 | |
country. Rough sleeping has doubled
since 2010. Doesn't the premise or | 0:15:32 | 0:15:37 | |
think it is a little unambitious to
say we're going to tackle rough | 0:15:37 | 0:15:42 | |
sleeping by 2027. Can I say we are
going to eliminate it. That's our | 0:15:42 | 0:15:50 | |
aim by 2027. But let me just
perhaps... Perhaps it would be | 0:15:50 | 0:15:56 | |
helpful if I was to update, because
a task force that he referred to has | 0:15:56 | 0:16:02 | |
in fact met. It met today. We are
funding for TA projects to help | 0:16:02 | 0:16:11 | |
rough sleepers into emergency
accommodations and to overcome the | 0:16:11 | 0:16:16 | |
issues like mental health and
substance abuse. It is why there | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
have been councils around the
country during severe weather | 0:16:19 | 0:16:25 | |
ensuring their providing
accommodation for people who are | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
sleeping on the streets. But also
dealing with the underlying issues | 0:16:28 | 0:16:31 | |
that lead to somebody sleeping on
the streets. It is why we are | 0:16:31 | 0:16:37 | |
ensuring that we are implementing
accounting first in a number | 0:16:37 | 0:16:41 | |
regions. To put entrenched rough
sleepers into accommodation as a | 0:16:41 | 0:16:45 | |
first step to rebuilding their
lives. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:47 | |
first step to
rebuilding their lives. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:48 | |
Plaid Cymru has called for UK
nationals to be allowed | 0:16:48 | 0:16:52 | |
to keep their European Union
citizenship after Brexit. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:56 | |
Holding a debate in the Commons
the party said that under | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
the proposal, British citizens
would be able to keep | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
their "European identity
and citizenship" either | 0:17:01 | 0:17:04 | |
by protecting existing arrangements
or by creating a new "associate | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
European citizenship." | 0:17:07 | 0:17:12 | |
The assumption so far however on
both sides of the EU and the | 0:17:12 | 0:17:17 | |
Government tear it is that you
citizenship lapses at the Poynter | 0:17:17 | 0:17:23 | |
exit the European Union. But
European Union citizenship to not | 0:17:23 | 0:17:30 | |
replace UK citizenship did not -- we
can't force. Both continue to | 0:17:30 | 0:17:37 | |
coexist. And leaving the EU does not
entail the end of the EU citizenship | 0:17:37 | 0:17:40 | |
for UK citizens. One thing that
depresses me is that by the end of | 0:17:40 | 0:17:46 | |
this Parliament perhaps uniquely,
there'll be fewer opportunities and | 0:17:46 | 0:17:52 | |
young people have fewer rights than
those of us who sit in this | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
Parliament today I've enjoyed. And
that is something that we should all | 0:17:56 | 0:17:59 | |
reflect on. At the end of any
Parliament regardless was a | 0:17:59 | 0:18:02 | |
government, regardless which party,
it should be aspiration of all of | 0:18:02 | 0:18:07 | |
us, and I do think the -- the young
people should have more | 0:18:07 | 0:18:13 | |
opportunities and better
opportunities than those who went | 0:18:13 | 0:18:15 | |
before them. That should always be
our goal. The Government has been | 0:18:15 | 0:18:20 | |
clear that the membership in the you
will end on the 29th of March 20 19. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:25 | |
We are content to listen to
proposals from the EU on associate | 0:18:25 | 0:18:30 | |
citizenship for UK nationals.
However, to date this has not been | 0:18:30 | 0:18:34 | |
formally proposed to the UK in the
negotiations. EU treaty provisions | 0:18:34 | 0:18:40 | |
state that only citizens of EU
member states are able to hold you | 0:18:40 | 0:18:44 | |
citizenship. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:45 | |
member states are able
to hold you citizenship. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
Does that woolly hat you pulled
on during the cold snap last week | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
have a fake fur bobble on it? | 0:18:50 | 0:18:51 | |
Well if it does, be
warned: that bobble may | 0:18:51 | 0:18:55 | |
contain actual animal fur. | 0:18:55 | 0:18:59 | |
The Environment Committee has been
gathering evidence after a spate | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
of cases where garments trimmed
with fake fur were contaminated | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
with the real thing. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
Samples sent to a laboratory
were found to contain a variety | 0:19:07 | 0:19:10 | |
of different animal furs,
which were often cheaper | 0:19:10 | 0:19:12 | |
than synthetic fibres. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:15 | |
The revelations emerged
after investigations | 0:19:15 | 0:19:17 | |
by Sky News and the BBC. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:24 | |
All the products we found were
labelled as for, they were all quite | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
cheap price point under the £30
mark. We have those items sent to | 0:19:27 | 0:19:33 | |
the fibres expert. One of the
leading experts in this area any | 0:19:33 | 0:19:38 | |
identified, they ranged in terms of
species from raccoons to dogs, -- to | 0:19:38 | 0:19:42 | |
rabbits. Most consistent with cats
for quite asked ordinarily. Because | 0:19:42 | 0:19:51 | |
fake fur does feel very much like
real fall -- for. To the naked eye | 0:19:51 | 0:19:56 | |
and to feel you would necessarily
tell the difference would you. No, | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
absolutely. And what we've told
people about the accuser used to | 0:20:00 | 0:20:06 | |
tell fake fur, these completely
unreliable cues. Including price. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:11 | |
People using price to indicate fake
fur. Including colour like bright | 0:20:11 | 0:20:18 | |
pink. All the queues of people using
our unreliable. It was a range of | 0:20:18 | 0:20:29 | |
reactions. Some were left crying,
frankly. I'm an animal rights | 0:20:29 | 0:20:39 | |
already constructing a somebody
would... We can reveal that she sold | 0:20:39 | 0:20:45 | |
us with pom-poms made with rabbits.
We took that to her. She burst into | 0:20:45 | 0:20:50 | |
tears. She said she would never do
that. She takes in strays or sell. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:54 | |
Then she admitted on camera that she
hadn't even asked her supplier | 0:20:54 | 0:20:58 | |
whether it was fake fur. John done
any fake check -- any checks. Have | 0:20:58 | 0:21:04 | |
master any paperwork. I break that
story in April, December admittedly | 0:21:04 | 0:21:10 | |
different brands. But rivals were
still being found. Although they | 0:21:10 | 0:21:15 | |
were small in number. These are big
brands that you would expect to have | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
these checks. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:19 | |
these checks. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:20 | |
So what did the shops have to say? | 0:21:20 | 0:21:26 | |
I figure the challenge is about
understanding the nature of the | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
problem. So on that resetting the
nature of the problem. The supply | 0:21:28 | 0:21:33 | |
chains are being contaminated
because the real furs than the fake | 0:21:33 | 0:21:36 | |
fur. With something that only came
to light Willie with the Sky News | 0:21:36 | 0:21:40 | |
inquiry. So knowing that... So back
in 2015 you are alerted to this, as | 0:21:40 | 0:21:47 | |
all your you're saying? Nothing was
happening in that way. Such that in | 0:21:47 | 0:21:53 | |
the choice of material we were
expected to be a fabric that... It's | 0:21:53 | 0:22:05 | |
interesting that you now feel it's
necessary, but you didn't feel is | 0:22:05 | 0:22:09 | |
necessary in 15, because otherwise
in 17 it wouldn't have been in your | 0:22:09 | 0:22:15 | |
shop and Skype -- and Sky News with
the fat in the BBC wouldn't have had | 0:22:15 | 0:22:20 | |
it. His board to carry on when the
heat dies down. Will you go back to | 0:22:20 | 0:22:29 | |
having some real fur traitorous fake
fur? With complete respect what our | 0:22:29 | 0:22:35 | |
systems have been a place in 2015
they continue. Each step if | 0:22:35 | 0:22:41 | |
something happens we learn and we
improve the system. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:43 | |
improve the system. | 0:22:43 | 0:22:44 | |
Dorothy Maxwell | 0:22:44 | 0:22:45 | |
from House of Fraser | 0:22:45 | 0:22:46 | |
Finally for now to the Lords,
where fears were raised that music | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
was being pushed out of school
curriculums in England. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:52 | |
The education minister insisted
money was going in to make sure | 0:22:52 | 0:22:55 | |
children still took up the subject. | 0:22:55 | 0:23:01 | |
Between 2016 and 2020 we are
providing £300 million of funding | 0:23:01 | 0:23:05 | |
for music education. To ensure all
pupils have the opportunity to learn | 0:23:05 | 0:23:10 | |
an instrument, saying, and perform
regularly, and have access to clear | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
roots of progression. In the last
year a low in England but it fell by | 0:23:14 | 0:23:22 | |
8%. Is he aware that a survey of six
and a half thousand schools, | 0:23:22 | 0:23:32 | |
teachers held the EU for this
decline. There's no evidence that | 0:23:32 | 0:23:40 | |
the subject of the client... Did the
proportion of time spent studying | 0:23:40 | 0:23:48 | |
music has remained broadly stable
since 2010. When there is so much | 0:23:48 | 0:23:54 | |
concern about child and adolescent
mental health would he accept that | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
it is important that within schools
there opportunities for children to | 0:23:58 | 0:24:03 | |
participate in music for the
therapeutic and social benefits they | 0:24:03 | 0:24:07 | |
convey his, and that is particularly
true of performing music groups. My | 0:24:07 | 0:24:12 | |
own Academy trust I appointed,
director music just before a point | 0:24:12 | 0:24:19 | |
just an acid to give me his early
feedback. But he has said on | 0:24:19 | 0:24:27 | |
listening -- pupils find listening
easier, listening longer. Pupils | 0:24:27 | 0:24:31 | |
readily try new things. Improved
multitasking skills. And in relation | 0:24:31 | 0:24:40 | |
to extracurricular ensemble, he
talks about pupils being better able | 0:24:40 | 0:24:44 | |
to understand commitment, time
management, perseverance, and | 0:24:44 | 0:24:46 | |
cooperation. Can you see why
facilities are so much worse than | 0:24:46 | 0:24:54 | |
they are in many private schools. A
situation which would be reversed by | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
that premium. Wars of the case of
the conservative government is quite | 0:24:57 | 0:25:02 | |
content for the study of music to be
the preserve of the wealthy? As to | 0:25:02 | 0:25:14 | |
music in schools. The commitment to
music remains. They are supporting | 0:25:14 | 0:25:22 | |
some 14,000 ensemble across the
country. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:26 | |
Lord Agnew. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:27 | |
And that's it from us for now,
but do join me on BBC Parliament | 0:25:27 | 0:25:31 | |
on Thursday night at 11 for a full
round up of the day at Westminster, | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
when it's environment
questions in the Commons | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
and both houses hold debates marking
international women's day. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:38 | |
But for now from me, AM goodbye. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:41 |