:00:17. > :00:23.I will do everything I can as prime minister to steady the ship over the
:00:24. > :00:28.coming weeks and months but I do not think it would be right for me to
:00:29. > :00:36.try to be the captain who steers our country to its next destination.
:00:37. > :00:41.24th of June 2016, the morning after the night before. A major upset for
:00:42. > :00:45.the political establishment, the EU friend ended in victory for the
:00:46. > :00:51.league campaign. It was a humiliation for David Cameron. It
:00:52. > :00:54.was also not to be like this. 13 months before, David Cameron had
:00:55. > :00:59.been triumphant, winning the general election outright against the odds.
:01:00. > :01:04.And one month before, the Queen had come to Parliament in time honoured
:01:05. > :01:08.fashion to set out the latest plans of the government, a Conservative
:01:09. > :01:10.government barely into its stride, having completed just the first of
:01:11. > :01:31.its five years in office. Legislation will be introduced to
:01:32. > :01:36.prevent radicalisation. My government will continue work to
:01:37. > :01:41.develop -- delivers NHS services to seven days of the week. Proposals
:01:42. > :01:45.will be brought forward for a British bill of rights. In England,
:01:46. > :01:51.further powers will be devolved to directly elected mayors. My
:01:52. > :01:57.government will hold a referendum on the membership of the European
:01:58. > :02:08.Union. The State Opening of Parliament on maybe 18. -- maybe 18.
:02:09. > :02:13.Ack then, may the 18th, how do you think David Cameron saw the script
:02:14. > :02:17.continuing at that point? There was a huge sense of expectation. The
:02:18. > :02:21.referendum was about to happen, he was in a holding pattern. There
:02:22. > :02:27.wasn't that much detail in the speech, one or two nods to his
:02:28. > :02:31.legacy, issues of life chances and reforms at schools and prisons, the
:02:32. > :02:36.kind of things that he thought in his head he would have a few years
:02:37. > :02:39.to work on. He was in that sort of mode. People broadly thought the
:02:40. > :02:46.referendum would be close but most thought that Remain would win at the
:02:47. > :02:51.end. He had won referendums in the past, he could do it again, he was
:02:52. > :02:56.famously known as the essay crisis Prime Minister who could always
:02:57. > :03:04.pluck a victory from defeat at the last minute. That was the general
:03:05. > :03:07.expectation. The European referendum campaign had been slowly climbing up
:03:08. > :03:14.the nation's political agenda. The Prime Minister decided February that
:03:15. > :03:25.the vote would be held in June. The campaign groups have been formed
:03:26. > :03:30.further Leave Remain sides. Grexit was the new catchword for those who
:03:31. > :03:37.wanted to leave the EU. The remains side never found anything to match
:03:38. > :03:44.it. -- Brexit. Battle buses started to the country to put the arguments
:03:45. > :03:48.to a sceptical public. One on the Leave campaign bus was certainly to
:03:49. > :03:51.prove controversial. In Parliament, the former London Mayor Boris
:03:52. > :03:56.Johnson was highlighting to a committee session his distaste for
:03:57. > :04:06.what he saw as interfering roles from the European Union. One of the
:04:07. > :04:18.rules you say is that an EU rule cannot recycle tea bags and children
:04:19. > :04:25.cannot blow up balloons. An adult is advised to blow up a balloon with
:04:26. > :04:29.children under eight. In my household, only children under eight
:04:30. > :04:36.are allowed to blow up households. It is ludicrous to have this kind of
:04:37. > :04:41.prescription. At a European level? I've got toy safety directive in
:04:42. > :04:47.front of me. It says warning, children under eight and it is
:04:48. > :04:52.asking that this warning be placed on the packaging, it is not
:04:53. > :04:56.requiring or forbidding... It is requiring to it to be placed on the
:04:57. > :04:59.package. It is requiring a warning to be placed on the packaging. You
:05:00. > :05:09.are in restricting what I began the session with which is very partial
:05:10. > :05:14.and busking, really, human risk approach to a very serious questions
:05:15. > :05:17.of the UK. Chancellor George Osborne and his team made a series of claims
:05:18. > :05:22.as part of the campaign to keep Britain in the EU, house values
:05:23. > :05:30.would tumble, holidays would cost more and the average family would be
:05:31. > :05:38.?4300 worse off. Businesses like this one, there would be hard hit.
:05:39. > :05:43.Should the claims be taken seriously or are they exaggerated, as the
:05:44. > :05:48.Treasury committee? Interest rates going up, house prices are going to
:05:49. > :05:52.slump. I'm wondering whether you are really strengthening or weakening
:05:53. > :05:56.your argument on its own terms by going in for all of this stuff? I
:05:57. > :06:02.completely reject what you have said. The claims on the packed in
:06:03. > :06:06.the economy has been supported by the Bank of England, the OECD, the
:06:07. > :06:12.director of the IMF, and every major credible institution in the world.
:06:13. > :06:17.Leave campaign is time the Whitehall machine was being used against them.
:06:18. > :06:24.This one made it clear. I think you will find you cannot keep up that
:06:25. > :06:30.website. We will look at our legal advice. It doesn't change, Prime
:06:31. > :06:43.Minister. If we can raise the funds,... Moving on... Better get
:06:44. > :06:47.back to the office fast. It seems to me, taking down a website is a bit
:06:48. > :06:53.like saying, you have to remove publications that people might
:06:54. > :07:01.already have. That is correct. We'll move on, Prime Minister. The levers
:07:02. > :07:07.stepped up their campaign. This, the former special adviser. Will the
:07:08. > :07:11.vote leave campaign been setting out their analysis of the economic
:07:12. > :07:17.impact of leaving the economic -- European Union? We won't be
:07:18. > :07:23.publishing the spurious numbers like this... I've heard what you were be
:07:24. > :07:28.publishing but what will you be publishing? Also is of analysis, on
:07:29. > :07:35.trade and how we think things will improve. Do you not see that leaving
:07:36. > :07:41.Europe puts at risk inward investment from companies like
:07:42. > :07:47.Hitachi. If Remainers were keeping the debate focused on economic
:07:48. > :07:58.gloom, Leave campaign is work focusing on immigration and... The
:07:59. > :08:02.arguments were surfacing at PMQs. Over 200,000 migrants came from the
:08:03. > :08:08.economic union and yet the propaganda sheets claims we maintain
:08:09. > :08:12.control of our borders. Have we withdrawn from the free movement of
:08:13. > :08:19.people or is that she'd simply untrue? The truth is this, economic
:08:20. > :08:24.migrants that come to the European Union do not have the right to come
:08:25. > :08:29.to the UK. What my right honourable friend has put forward is classic of
:08:30. > :08:31.the sort of scare story we get. Britain has borders, Britain will
:08:32. > :08:38.keep its borders, we've got the best of both worlds. If the British
:08:39. > :08:44.people vote to leave the EU, will the Prime Minister remain in office
:08:45. > :08:48.to implement their decision? Yes. Not exactly borne out by events.
:08:49. > :08:54.Eight days before the crucial vote, that comment is held its own final
:08:55. > :09:00.EU debate. It is very simple, it is about who governs us, and if we get
:09:01. > :09:03.this wrong, we will not be able to organise and to establish a
:09:04. > :09:10.democracy in this country, which is what the people fought and died for,
:09:11. > :09:16.not in just one world war but twice. I tell you what will happen, the
:09:17. > :09:20.pound will plummet, inflation will go up, we will be caught in a
:09:21. > :09:24.whirlwind of economic whirlwind which these people irresponsibly
:09:25. > :09:28.want to inflict on millions of our citizens. It is a scandalous
:09:29. > :09:37.position to take. There are no economic benefits to the EU
:09:38. > :09:41.fishermen -- British fishermen. 99% of fishermen are calling for the UK
:09:42. > :09:48.to leave. I say, let's throw them a lifeline and vote Leave. It is
:09:49. > :09:54.difficult to see how even the most upbeat Brexiteer couldn't see we
:09:55. > :10:00.face perhaps a decade of confidence sapping investment in eroding job
:10:01. > :10:05.destroying uncertainty that will take this country back to the dark
:10:06. > :10:11.days of 2008 and I for one never want to go there. Less than 24-hour
:10:12. > :10:13.is after the debate, the whole referendum campaign came to a
:10:14. > :10:20.shuddering halt. Reports alleged that thing and shipping -- a
:10:21. > :10:30.stabbing and shooting involving the MP Jo Cox. 41-year-old Jo Cox was
:10:31. > :10:34.the first member of Parliament to be murdered in the assassination of the
:10:35. > :10:41.conservative Ian Gow at the hands of the ire of Ray in 1990. The public
:10:42. > :10:47.were shocked that the brutal killing of an MP could happen in British
:10:48. > :10:49.politics. A 52-year-old man, Thomas Mayor, was charged with her murder.
:10:50. > :10:56.Campaigning stopped for three days and then Parliament returned for a
:10:57. > :11:03.few hours from its referendum break. Some MPs were grief stricken. Jo
:11:04. > :11:09.Cox's seat was empty, save for two roses, one white, one red. A minute
:11:10. > :11:14.silence was held. Colleagues, we need today in heartbreaking sadness
:11:15. > :11:23.but also in heartfelt solidarity. Any death in such awful
:11:24. > :11:31.circumstances is an outrage and a tragedy. Her community and the whole
:11:32. > :11:38.country has been united in grief. And united in rejecting the well of
:11:39. > :11:42.hatred that killed her. We need, Mr Speaker, a kinder and gentler
:11:43. > :11:47.politics. This is not a factional party. We all have a response will
:11:48. > :11:55.it in this house and beyond not to whip up hatred or so division. I
:11:56. > :11:59.first met Jo Cox in 2006. She was doing what she was so brilliant at,
:12:00. > :12:02.bravely working in one of the most dangerous parts of the world,
:12:03. > :12:12.fighting for the lives of refugees in Darfur. Not long after her son --
:12:13. > :12:15.she had her son, she came to a briefing and I remember it because
:12:16. > :12:21.she literally didn't stop kissing him all the way through the meeting.
:12:22. > :12:30.We will elect a new MP but no one will replace her. I like to think it
:12:31. > :12:35.was the deep strong roots in her community that allowed her to put
:12:36. > :12:42.her arms around the world. I was in awe of her, a bit envious. She was
:12:43. > :12:46.energetic, brave, dynamic, fit, beautiful, I can't ever remember
:12:47. > :12:52.recall seeing her sad negative or without hope. She was told me as my
:12:53. > :12:59.manager at Oxfam that she didn't do touchy-feely and I was being too
:13:00. > :13:05.emotional and we need to get on with it and we needed to sort out the
:13:06. > :13:09.campaign we were working on. The public wondered at the shock of her
:13:10. > :13:16.murder might produce a quieter more considerate view of politics. There
:13:17. > :13:21.was one big TV event to come. The public flocked to London's Wembley
:13:22. > :13:24.Arena for a two-hour debate. Leading figures slugged it out in front of
:13:25. > :13:34.jubilant supporters. In Britain that works with its
:13:35. > :13:40.friends and neighbours, it doesn't walk away from them. If we vote will
:13:41. > :13:46.even take back control, I believe that this first step can be our
:13:47. > :13:52.country's Independence Day. Referendum day, the 23rd of June was
:13:53. > :13:59.followed by flash flooding and torrential rain, a portent of the
:14:00. > :14:04.drama to come. Polls closed at 10pm and accounting started. The BBC's
:14:05. > :14:09.results programme got under way. Political editor Laura Kuenssberg
:14:10. > :14:14.noted something about the voting trends after 90 minutes in
:14:15. > :14:22.Sunderland. Two different sources suggest to me that Sunderland, but
:14:23. > :14:27.we expect for a leaf, might be very pro-leave. The first indications
:14:28. > :14:33.were confirmed, the story was going one way only. The total number of
:14:34. > :14:47.votes cast in favour of leave was 80 2000. Newcastle and Sunderland,
:14:48. > :14:50.David, don't anyone go to bed yet. They remaining counts are now
:14:51. > :14:57.selling out of sterling as quickly as they can. So far at least we have
:14:58. > :15:00.many more places where it leaves is doing better than expected and
:15:01. > :15:06.remain is doing better than expected. Leave our winning in
:15:07. > :15:12.places remained was expected to win. We have to face the possibility that
:15:13. > :15:18.leave will win the referendum and Britain believes the European Union.
:15:19. > :15:23.We have to face that large parts of the country are turning away from
:15:24. > :15:29.both major parties. You can see South East, Northwest, West
:15:30. > :15:37.Midlands, East Midlands and whales are all going Forli. In the small
:15:38. > :15:43.hours, Nigel Farage, who has spent his life fighting the EU was
:15:44. > :15:50.triumphant. This was the victory for real people. A victory for ordinary
:15:51. > :15:54.people. As dawn broke the game is up for the Remain camp, victory for
:15:55. > :16:00.leave. The British people have spoken and the answer is we are out.
:16:01. > :16:06.It was a bit amusing moment for many. But the sense of the world and
:16:07. > :16:11.was added to shortly after eight outside Downing Street. I was
:16:12. > :16:15.cleared about my belief that Britain is stronger, safer and better off
:16:16. > :16:19.inside the European Union but the British people have made a very
:16:20. > :16:25.clear decision to take a different path. As such, I think the country
:16:26. > :16:29.requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction. I will do
:16:30. > :16:33.everything I can as prime minister to steady the ship over the coming
:16:34. > :16:38.weeks and months but I do not think it would be right for me to try to
:16:39. > :16:45.be the captain that steers our country to its next destination. So
:16:46. > :16:49.David Cameron there without dramatic resignation announcement. James
:16:50. > :16:55.Landale is with me again. How much of a thunderbolt was it, the EU
:16:56. > :16:59.referendum result? It was a huge shock. There had always been doubts
:17:00. > :17:03.and I spoke to someone who had walked with David Cameron before the
:17:04. > :17:08.referendum and David Cameron said he did not know which way it was going
:17:09. > :17:12.to go. There was a realisation it would be tight but they thought they
:17:13. > :17:18.would always when so to lose and lose convincingly as the dead was a
:17:19. > :17:24.huge shock to the government. It was not how the script was supposed to
:17:25. > :17:29.call. The conventional wisdom of referendums is that governments only
:17:30. > :17:32.call them when they will win them. The floating vote always swings in
:17:33. > :17:39.behind the status quo in the end, and therefore vote remain. David
:17:40. > :17:44.Cameron was forced to call this referendum sometime ago, well before
:17:45. > :17:50.the last general election. He was forced to do so to say off set from
:17:51. > :17:55.Ukip and maintain Conservative Party unity. If you had not promised the
:17:56. > :17:59.referendum there was a strong chance that conservatives would have
:18:00. > :18:04.divided and been less likely to the election. In terms of floating
:18:05. > :18:10.voters and most people swinging to the status quo in referendums, that
:18:11. > :18:15.is true of most referendums but not the European Union referendums. If
:18:16. > :18:19.you look at than in other countries, towards the end there has always
:18:20. > :18:23.been a swing to the Euro-sceptic callers and that is one of the
:18:24. > :18:27.things which happened here. Do you think David Cameron had any option
:18:28. > :18:33.not to go ahead and have the referendum? I think it would've been
:18:34. > :18:37.very for him. The issue has been dividing British politics and voters
:18:38. > :18:41.for many years. There was a sense it was coming to a head and at some
:18:42. > :18:47.point the British people had to be given a chance to express that own
:18:48. > :18:52.views in a fundamental way. This was just the moment it happened. It
:18:53. > :18:56.would have been very difficult for David Cameron not to do it. Other
:18:57. > :19:02.people say, have the referendum but he should have campaigned in a
:19:03. > :19:06.different way. He looked quite sombre at that point, do you think
:19:07. > :19:12.he was a sad man on the 24th of June? Regretful, I think. This is
:19:13. > :19:17.not how he wanted to go and he was being forced out of Downing Street
:19:18. > :19:24.without the decorum that he would have liked. On the other hand, many
:19:25. > :19:28.people thought this is how British democracy war -- works. There has
:19:29. > :19:32.been an extraordinary vote by the people and he took the view that he
:19:33. > :19:37.did not have the confidence of the people and he had to go quicker than
:19:38. > :19:43.expected. He told me he wanted to serve a full second term but it was
:19:44. > :19:48.not to be. Thank you very much. We will talk again in a few moments.
:19:49. > :19:51.Both sides spend the weekend after the referendum recovering from the
:19:52. > :19:56.shock of the leaf victory. The Commons then regrouped on Monday
:19:57. > :20:00.afternoon. The British people have voted to leave the European union.
:20:01. > :20:05.It was not the result I wanted nor the outcome I think better the I
:20:06. > :20:11.love. Although leaving the EU is not the path I recommended, I am the
:20:12. > :20:18.first to praise the strengths of our incredible country. As we proceed
:20:19. > :20:23.with carrying out the challenges this will result in, I want to hold
:20:24. > :20:27.on to Britain which is respected abroad, engaged in the world and
:20:28. > :20:32.engaged with our partners for generations to come. Jeremy Corbyn
:20:33. > :20:40.criticise the way the referendum was fought. Half-truths were told. Many
:20:41. > :20:48.key figures spent themselves distancing themselves from the
:20:49. > :20:54.half-truths, not lose -- not least that the NHS would be handed ?350
:20:55. > :20:58.million a week if we left. We voted to remain in Scotland because we are
:20:59. > :21:03.European nation, it really matters to us that we live in an outward
:21:04. > :21:08.looking country, not diminished little bit. In Scotland we are now
:21:09. > :21:13.being told from Westminster that despite the majority against leave,
:21:14. > :21:20.we are going to have to do as we are told, we are going to be taken out
:21:21. > :21:23.of Europe against our wealth. The voters of the united kingdom have
:21:24. > :21:27.demonstrated the value of that great principle, the principle of
:21:28. > :21:34.democracy for which people fought and died. I can accept defeat but I
:21:35. > :21:40.will not give up. I have not changed my beliefs. Leaving aside the
:21:41. > :21:44.constitutional term I'll, the damage to the economy and the uncertainty
:21:45. > :21:47.which hangs over Britain was my place in the world, the leaders of
:21:48. > :21:51.the Brexit campaign had engendered an atmosphere were some people
:21:52. > :21:59.believe it is open season for racism. Could I ask him also to say
:22:00. > :22:05.today and condemn clearly those people who are almost implying that
:22:06. > :22:11.decent people all over this country who voted to leave the European
:22:12. > :22:15.Union are somehow closet racist. Well the premise in the with me that
:22:16. > :22:20.when he says the country needs to come together, does he accept that
:22:21. > :22:22.the first part of that is that everybody has to accept the result
:22:23. > :22:29.of the referendum whether they like it or not? The mood in the halls was
:22:30. > :22:38.far from celebratory. The campaign is over with now. It will be no bad
:22:39. > :22:43.thing if the campaigning organisations on both sides and I
:22:44. > :22:50.spoke as someone... Should shut up shop. As a Democrat, I respect the
:22:51. > :22:56.outcome of the referendum but I also suspect as many members across the
:22:57. > :23:00.House I am very saddened by the result and I have a deep anxiety
:23:01. > :23:05.about what the future holds for our country. Whatever the result of this
:23:06. > :23:11.referendum and the decision to leave the European Union, this country has
:23:12. > :23:16.not given up on its values. We are still the United Kingdom and our
:23:17. > :23:22.values remain exactly as they were. On Friday morning I woke not only
:23:23. > :23:28.with the song in my heart but also with the words of the Magnificat in
:23:29. > :23:34.my heart, that is he has put down the mighty from their seat and he
:23:35. > :23:39.has exalted the humble and the week. A few days later came the verdict of
:23:40. > :23:45.the Archbishop of Canterbury. The course of the campaign was both risk
:23:46. > :23:50.-- robust as it should be but at times it appeared over the line on
:23:51. > :23:56.both sides. It is not merely been robust but being unacceptable.
:23:57. > :24:01.Through those comments were created cracks in the thin crust of the
:24:02. > :24:04.politeness and tolerance of our society to which since the
:24:05. > :24:09.referendum we have seen an out willing of poison and heated that I
:24:10. > :24:15.cannot remember in this country for very many years. -- hatred. What
:24:16. > :24:21.about this verdict from a former cabinet secretary? After 65 years of
:24:22. > :24:29.service I do not remember such an unholy mess as we are now except
:24:30. > :24:34.perhaps after Suez affair which is as existential as our political
:24:35. > :24:38.crisis. David Cameron argued that badgers were known out of his hands
:24:39. > :24:42.but remain campaigners in labour were getting agitated. We know that
:24:43. > :24:47.many millions of people in this country felt they were deceived by
:24:48. > :24:51.the exaggerations and lies in the campaigns of both parties and they
:24:52. > :24:56.now feel themselves cheated by that result and millions of people are
:24:57. > :25:03.protesting. Is it not right that we look again at the possibility of a
:25:04. > :25:07.second referendum in this certainty that all second thoughts are
:25:08. > :25:12.superior to first thoughts? It was not just the Commons which called
:25:13. > :25:16.the second referendum, the Lords joined in as well. The British
:25:17. > :25:22.people must begin in the chance to vote on the deal to leave the EU
:25:23. > :25:27.once we finally know what that deal is and what it will cost. Do we
:25:28. > :25:33.really want another one? I cannot believe people want another one.
:25:34. > :25:37.After that it was confirmed a Parliamentary debate with be held on
:25:38. > :25:43.a second EU Referendum in early is September. There was a curious
:25:44. > :25:47.political symmetry in the weeks after the referendum, there was
:25:48. > :25:51.serious leadership turmoil in both the Conservatives and the Labour
:25:52. > :25:55.party. The apparent half-hearted support for the remain campaign by
:25:56. > :25:59.the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn led to the extraordinary spectacle of a
:26:00. > :26:05.motion of no-confidence in his leadership being passed by his MPs
:26:06. > :26:10.and then adamant that it series of resignations by the majority of
:26:11. > :26:17.front bench team. It was all designed to force the Labour leader
:26:18. > :26:23.out. But battered and embattled, Jeremy Corbyn wages doing resign and
:26:24. > :26:29.was in defiant mood at Prime Minister Westerns. -- refused to
:26:30. > :26:34.resign. Will the Prime Minister leave a one nation legacy and well
:26:35. > :26:39.that one nation legacy be the scrapping of the veterans tax, the
:26:40. > :26:45.banning of zero hours contracts and cancelling of the cuts to Universal
:26:46. > :26:50.Credit? I have to say to the honourable gentleman, he talks about
:26:51. > :26:54.job security and my two months to go, it might be in my party's
:26:55. > :26:58.interest for him to sit there but it is not in the national interest and
:26:59. > :27:04.I would say to him, but heavens sake, go. With Shadow Cabinet
:27:05. > :27:10.members resigning, David Cameron stepped up the mockery. We welcome
:27:11. > :27:16.the member -- new member for tooting to her place. I would advise to keep
:27:17. > :27:20.her mobile phone on, she met be in the shadow cabinet by the end of the
:27:21. > :27:25.day. The Conservatives could not afford to gloat too much, they had
:27:26. > :27:28.their own leadership difficulties. Candidates came forward as potential
:27:29. > :27:34.prime ministers. One declared herself like this... My future is
:27:35. > :27:42.very simple, my name is to these me and I am the best person to be Prime
:27:43. > :27:50.Minister. -- Teresa May. There were thoughts that Boris Johnson would
:27:51. > :27:55.win the top job but in a political manoeuvre, he was knifed by this
:27:56. > :27:59.man, Michael Gove. He did not have the capacity to build our team and
:28:00. > :28:07.laid-back team that the country needs at this moment. This led to
:28:08. > :28:14.the shock withdrawal of the contest to be wider of the party. I have
:28:15. > :28:22.concluded that that person cannot be me. Boris supporters were despondent
:28:23. > :28:24.when the majority of Conservative MPs turned against Michael Gove that
:28:25. > :28:31.left just one campaigner in the leadership contest, Andrea Leadsom
:28:32. > :28:36.and everyone expected and nine week battle between her and Teresa May.
:28:37. > :28:40.Then came her interview in the Times newspaper and one more twist in the
:28:41. > :28:47.tale. I am therefore withdrawing from the leadership election. Which
:28:48. > :28:53.left Teresa May to have what's known in Westminster language as a
:28:54. > :28:58.coronation. She became Britain's's 54th prime minister a contest.
:28:59. > :29:06.A huge amount of fallout from the EU referendum result. James Landau is
:29:07. > :29:12.with me. It is furious that wasn't any celebration for Leave. In fact,
:29:13. > :29:17.some of the key figures, Michael Gove, Nigel Farage, they left, they
:29:18. > :29:21.didn't see the initiative. There is an old saying that revolutions tend
:29:22. > :29:27.to eat their own children. That is what happened to the Leave campaign.
:29:28. > :29:33.Some members of that campaign did not think they would win. Some
:29:34. > :29:37.thought they might be establishing positions for themselves, showing
:29:38. > :29:40.they had a good fight, a good campaign, so they could present
:29:41. > :29:45.themselves another leadership ways. And why it happened, it was, we have
:29:46. > :29:50.to deal with this now. One of the great criticisms of the Leave
:29:51. > :29:54.campaign was that they have never been clear about what actually
:29:55. > :29:59.happens next, what is the elation ship that the British Godman should
:30:00. > :30:03.forge with the European Union and countries outside the European
:30:04. > :30:08.Union. There was a sense of hiatus, rather than celebration and victory.
:30:09. > :30:13.There was a celebration that they had won the campaign but instantly,
:30:14. > :30:18.it turned into, certainly with the Conservative Party, a battle about
:30:19. > :30:21.who is now going to lead this party. Everyone knew David Cameron was
:30:22. > :30:24.going so the leadership campaign got under way and that took any
:30:25. > :30:28.president over what does this mean for Britain. Extraordinary that
:30:29. > :30:34.there should be two parallel outbursts of leadership turmoil. Has
:30:35. > :30:39.that ever happened before? It is pretty rare but both were forced by
:30:40. > :30:44.the result. David Cameron announced his resignation because of his
:30:45. > :30:50.defeat and also Jeremy Corbyn 's perceived lack of enthusiasm for the
:30:51. > :30:53.Remain campaign was one of the triggers that convinced his
:30:54. > :30:59.opponents in the Labour Party that they had to get rid of him. Here was
:31:00. > :31:05.a moment where they had pretext, a reason to say, look, to the Labour
:31:06. > :31:10.Party, we were all in favour of remaining in the EU, Jeremy Corbyn
:31:11. > :31:13.was lacklustre, in their view, in the way he campaigned, this is why
:31:14. > :31:18.we cannot carry on with him as a leader because he is one of the
:31:19. > :31:23.factors that many Labour voters didn't come out to support the
:31:24. > :31:28.Remain campaign, they were attracted to a more Ukip style message so that
:31:29. > :31:33.triggered the Labour leadership contest as much as it did on the
:31:34. > :31:38.conservative side. Nine years ago, Tony Blair left the job of Prime
:31:39. > :31:43.Minister in a grand style with applause ringing out at the end of
:31:44. > :31:47.the PMQs that was more relaxed than normal. The idea appealed to David
:31:48. > :31:54.Cameron as he worked out how to bring to a close his tenure as the
:31:55. > :32:00.top job. The 13th of July saw his 182nd and final PMQs. This morning,
:32:01. > :32:06.I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. Other than
:32:07. > :32:10.one meeting with the Queen, the director of the rest of the day is
:32:11. > :32:15.remarkably light. Within 30 years of this house, watching five Prime
:32:16. > :32:19.ministers and several extra ministers, I have seen him achieve
:32:20. > :32:25.mastery of that dispatch box and paralleled in my time. This session
:32:26. > :32:30.does have admirers around the world. When I met me Bloomberg in New York,
:32:31. > :32:36.everyone knew him and came up to him and said, you are doing a great job,
:32:37. > :32:42.no one knew who I was until someone said, hey, Cameron, Prime Minister's
:32:43. > :32:46.Questions, we love your show! It is only right that after six years of
:32:47. > :32:54.Prime Minister, we thank you for your service. I have often disagreed
:32:55. > :32:59.with him. Isn't she writes that too many people into many places in
:33:00. > :33:04.Britain feel their economy has been destroyed in towns they are in
:33:05. > :33:07.because the industries have gone? There are levels of higher
:33:08. > :33:13.deployment or under employment and a deep sense of malaise. To be accused
:33:14. > :33:18.of sloth in delivery, let's take the last week we have both been having
:33:19. > :33:27.these leadership elections, we got on with it, we have had resignation,
:33:28. > :33:35.Coronation, and a new start. They have even decided but the rules are
:33:36. > :33:41.yet. If they ever got into power, it would take about a year to work out
:33:42. > :33:49.who would sit where. Democracy is an exciting and splendid thing and I am
:33:50. > :33:56.enjoying every moment of it. The Home Secretary, Mr Speaker, was
:33:57. > :34:02.talking of the economy, again, she said many people find themselves
:34:03. > :34:12.exploited by unscrupulous bosses, I can't imagine who she is referring
:34:13. > :34:14.to. But let me say something to him about the democratic process of
:34:15. > :34:19.leadership elections because I did say to him a couple of weeks ago,
:34:20. > :34:23.I'm beginning to admire his tenacity. He is reminding me of the
:34:24. > :34:31.Black night in Monty Python's holy Grail. He has been kicked so many
:34:32. > :34:39.times but he says keep going, it's only a flesh wound. I admire that.
:34:40. > :34:43.Mr Kenneth Clarke. He will have some plans for a slightly more enjoyable
:34:44. > :34:46.and relaxed Wednesday morning at lunchtime and nevertheless, he will
:34:47. > :34:52.still be an active participant in this house. As he faces a large
:34:53. > :34:59.number of problems over the next few years. Note to people know what
:35:00. > :35:06.Brexit means at the moment and we need his advice and statesmanship as
:35:07. > :35:09.much as we have had. I will watch these exchanges from the
:35:10. > :35:14.backbenches, I will miss the roar of the crowd, I will miss the barbs
:35:15. > :35:17.from the opposition, but I will be willing you on, and when I say
:35:18. > :35:22.winning yuan, and I'd don't just mean the new Prime Minister or
:35:23. > :35:25.willing on the front bench, defending the manifesto that I
:35:26. > :35:30.helped put together but I mean willing all of you on because people
:35:31. > :35:34.come here with huge passion for the issues they care about, they come
:35:35. > :35:38.here with great love for the constituents they represent, and
:35:39. > :35:43.also willing on this place because we can be pretty tough and challenge
:35:44. > :35:45.our leaders are perhaps more than other countries, but that is
:35:46. > :35:50.something we should be proud of and keep at it and I hope you will all
:35:51. > :35:55.keep at it and I will will you on as you do. The last thing I will say is
:35:56. > :35:58.that you can achieve a lot of things in politics, you can get a lot of
:35:59. > :36:02.things done. And that in the end, the national interest, that is what
:36:03. > :36:07.it is all about. Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to
:36:08. > :36:36.it. After all, as I once said, I was the future once.
:36:37. > :36:43.And with that ovation ringing in his ears, David Cameron returned for the
:36:44. > :36:48.final time to Downing Street, re-emerging a few hours later with
:36:49. > :36:51.family to say a few words to the waiting media, posing with wife
:36:52. > :36:57.Samantha and children on the Downing Street steps for those final, final
:36:58. > :37:01.photographs, before making a car journey to Buckingham Palace to
:37:02. > :37:07.tender his formal resignation to Her Majesty The Queen. He had been Prime
:37:08. > :37:10.Minister the six years and two months, moments later, his successor
:37:11. > :37:17.to reason me made her way to Buckingham Palace where she was
:37:18. > :37:20.invited to formalin in a stretch in. The Queen appointed her Prime
:37:21. > :37:25.Minister and first Lord of the Treasury. Returning from the palace,
:37:26. > :37:28.she spoke the first time as PM. Her Majesty The Queen has asked me to
:37:29. > :37:32.form a new government and I accepted. We are living through an
:37:33. > :37:37.important moment in our country's history. Following the referendum,
:37:38. > :37:43.we face a time of great national change. So, to reason me replacing
:37:44. > :37:49.David Cameron as Britain's Prime Minister. James Lando Hill again.
:37:50. > :37:55.How will history record the record of four Minister David Cameron? One
:37:56. > :37:59.word. Brexit. However much you would like it to be something else, that
:38:00. > :38:03.will be the word that hangs around him for ever. He will be the Prime
:38:04. > :38:07.Minister who called the referendum and lost it and as a result, the
:38:08. > :38:12.United Kingdom left the European Union. However it pans out in the
:38:13. > :38:17.future and whatever may happen, we don't know. That is something that
:38:18. > :38:22.happened on his watch. Yes, the second paragraph will say he was a
:38:23. > :38:25.man that made the conservator party electable again, who brought the
:38:26. > :38:29.Conservative Party together, he partially won one election and
:38:30. > :38:34.against all the odds, won outright second general election and won it
:38:35. > :38:38.clear mandate from the British people, who was there be good at
:38:39. > :38:42.being Prime Minister. Even his opponents would that, that he was
:38:43. > :38:46.good at doing the Prime Minister real thing, whether it was giving
:38:47. > :38:54.statements on grave matters such as the seven enquiry and bloody Sunday
:38:55. > :38:58.in Northern Ireland but also negotiating... He looked the part of
:38:59. > :39:01.the world stage. And she did introduce some reforms. People will
:39:02. > :39:05.look at some of the education reforms that he has brought in, the
:39:06. > :39:13.academies, the development of the whole agenda. There will be those
:39:14. > :39:18.bits of camera and things that will linger within the body politic but
:39:19. > :39:22.once they have said he won a referendum to keep the United
:39:23. > :39:26.Kingdom together, they will come back to this is a man who on his
:39:27. > :39:38.watch saw the United Kingdom believe the European Union. 13 years have
:39:39. > :39:43.passed since this happened. The invasion of Iraq by US and UK forces
:39:44. > :39:48.to destroy the regime of Saddam Hussein. The arguments have raged
:39:49. > :39:53.ever since, the rights and wrongs of the war in Iraq and the subsequent
:39:54. > :40:01.events. The report into the enquiry by Sir John Chilcot had been
:40:02. > :40:04.anticipated. It was 12 volumes and some 12 and a half million words.
:40:05. > :40:08.Although its findings were strong, it didn't have a huge impact
:40:09. > :40:12.originally envisaged. Chilcot concluded there had been a rush to
:40:13. > :40:16.war without a peaceful options look at and there had been too little
:40:17. > :40:20.planning for the postinvasion period. MPs responded to the
:40:21. > :40:28.enquiries report. The decision to invade Iraq in 2003 on the bases for
:40:29. > :40:31.the Chilcot enquiry calls flawed intelligence about the weapons of
:40:32. > :40:37.mass instruction stroke mass destruction has had a far reaching
:40:38. > :40:41.impact. It has led to a breakdown in trust in politics and a now wasted
:40:42. > :40:46.douches of government. The tragedy is that while the governing class
:40:47. > :40:53.got it so horrifically wrong, many of our people got it white. The lack
:40:54. > :40:59.of planning has also been evident since in oration to Afghanistan, to
:41:00. > :41:04.Libya, to Syria, and most recently with absolutely no plan whatsoever
:41:05. > :41:10.in regard to Brexit. The then Prime Minister must take full
:41:11. > :41:15.responsibility for encouraging this house to take the decision that it
:41:16. > :41:19.did with disastrous consequences into stabilising the world. The
:41:20. > :41:25.horrors of Saddam Hussein, what he did to his own people, they were
:41:26. > :41:33.fully documented, and I think we were right to take that into
:41:34. > :41:36.account. Parts of the Ministry of Defence were not delivering the
:41:37. > :41:40.advice the government needed an element of the Foreign Office had
:41:41. > :41:44.succumbed to a form of groupthink that leaves me deep to concerned as
:41:45. > :41:48.to the structure and advice Gomez can get. Whatever we think about the
:41:49. > :41:51.judgment that was made, we should acknowledge that the bond of trust
:41:52. > :41:57.between the government, this house on the public has been damaged by
:41:58. > :42:02.the decision that was taken in 2003. And we here in this place today now
:42:03. > :42:05.have an absolute need to put that right for the future. And in the
:42:06. > :42:11.Lords, opinions differed about Tony Blair. I have never believed that he
:42:12. > :42:15.lied to the British people. And I accept that he was sincere in
:42:16. > :42:24.believing that military action to remove Saddam Hussein was necessary
:42:25. > :42:27.as a last resort. To coin his own phrase, it is right that Tony Blair
:42:28. > :42:33.should feel the hand of history on his soldier -- shoulder. If I was
:42:34. > :42:38.back in the same place, he said, with the same information, I would
:42:39. > :42:44.take the same decision. If that is left to stand unchallenged, Chilcot
:42:45. > :42:49.will have failed. Let's be quite clear about that. That statement is
:42:50. > :42:52.accessed double. Those of us who had top-secret intelligence files put in
:42:53. > :42:57.front of us, it is the menaces adaptive, you want to believe it,
:42:58. > :43:01.you think you are extremely privileged to have access to this
:43:02. > :43:05.information, and you need some wise old heads around who can say, there
:43:06. > :43:11.may be a few other considerations that one needs to take into account.
:43:12. > :43:15.When Theresa May selected her line-up of ministers, the changes
:43:16. > :43:19.were expensive and bold and brutal. With 24-hour was of comings and
:43:20. > :43:24.goings in Downing Street, virtually every job in the cabin lay in new
:43:25. > :43:28.hands. The appointment of Boris Johnson as new Foreign Secretary
:43:29. > :43:34.caused a mild sensation. There was a new Chancellor, new Home Secretary,
:43:35. > :43:37.Nu Justice Secretary, in fact there was newness everywhere. But some of
:43:38. > :43:40.the issues in the new Prime minister's in tray were
:43:41. > :43:45.long-standing one. Like the big decision on whether to go ahead with
:43:46. > :43:48.a ?31 billion programme to replace the fleet of Trident nuclear
:43:49. > :43:53.submarines. Theresa May came to the Commons.
:43:54. > :44:02.I call the Prime Minister. There is no greater responsibility as prime
:44:03. > :44:06.minister than ensuring the safety and security of our people which is
:44:07. > :44:11.why I have made it my first duty to move the motion so weak and get on
:44:12. > :44:14.with the job of renewing an essential part of our national
:44:15. > :44:22.security for generations to come. Keeping and renewing our nuclear
:44:23. > :44:26.weapons is so vital to our security so therefore every other country
:44:27. > :44:30.should seek to require nuclear weapons and does she really think
:44:31. > :44:38.the world would be a safer place if the dead? We are driving nuclear
:44:39. > :44:43.weapons not the opposite? I do not accept that at all. I have to say to
:44:44. > :44:46.the honourable lady that she and some members of the Labour party
:44:47. > :44:54.seem to be the first to defend our country's enemies... Is she
:44:55. > :44:59.personally prepared to authorise a nuclear strike that could kill
:45:00. > :45:08.100,000 innocent women and children? Yes. And I have to say, the whole
:45:09. > :45:14.point of a deterrent is that our enemies need to know that we would
:45:15. > :45:19.be prepared to use it. Unlike some suggestions that we did have a
:45:20. > :45:23.nuclear deterrent but not actually willing to use it which came from
:45:24. > :45:28.the Labour party front bench. Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the new prime
:45:29. > :45:35.minister. I wish her well and I am glad her election was quick and
:45:36. > :45:40.short. On these benches, despite our differences, we have always argued
:45:41. > :45:45.for the aim of a nuclear free world. We met different about how it will
:45:46. > :45:52.be achieved but we are united in our commitment to that end. Last year
:45:53. > :45:57.the party conference voted in favour of a nuclear deterrent so why are we
:45:58. > :46:03.hearing a defence of the government measure from the detached or --
:46:04. > :46:08.dispatch box now? Party policy is also to review our policies which is
:46:09. > :46:12.why we have reviews. The priority of this government and sadly too many
:46:13. > :46:18.people on the Labour benches at a time of Tory uncertainty and
:46:19. > :46:21.economic uncertainty is to spend billions of pounds on outdated
:46:22. > :46:27.nuclear weapons which we do not want, do not need and could never
:46:28. > :46:32.use. In the end the Commons back the renewal of the Trident nuclear
:46:33. > :46:38.weapons system by a massive majority of 355 votes. 60% of Labour MPs
:46:39. > :46:43.supported renewal, therefore going against the views of their leader --
:46:44. > :46:48.their leader and underlying the split in the Labour ranks. A strong
:46:49. > :46:54.start for Teresa May and she was in place for her first PMQs a couple of
:46:55. > :47:04.days later. Order, questions to the Prime Minister. Mr Speaker, I am
:47:05. > :47:09.sure that the whole House will wish to join me in welcoming today's
:47:10. > :47:15.employment figures which show employment at another record high.
:47:16. > :47:22.Howard government is already missing its targets on debt, deficit and
:47:23. > :47:26.productivity. Six years of government austerity has failed. The
:47:27. > :47:34.long-term economic plan is clearly dead, is there a new one? It is the
:47:35. > :47:38.long-term economic plan which has delivered the record level of
:47:39. > :47:48.employment. He talks about austerity, I call it living within
:47:49. > :47:52.our means. He talks about austerity but actually it is about not
:47:53. > :47:57.saddling our children and grandchildren with significant
:47:58. > :48:01.debts. In her speech on the steps of Downing Street, she also addressed
:48:02. > :48:05.insecure workers saying you have a job but you don't always have job
:48:06. > :48:12.security. Does that mean she is proposing to scrap the employment
:48:13. > :48:16.tribunal fees, ban zero hours contracts as more than one dozen
:48:17. > :48:20.European nations have already done? That would help to give greater job
:48:21. > :48:26.security to many very worried people in this country. I have insisted he
:48:27. > :48:29.refers to the situation of some workers who might have job
:48:30. > :48:34.insecurity and potentially unscrupulous bosses. I suspect that
:48:35. > :48:39.our many members on the opposition benches who might be familiar with
:48:40. > :48:46.an unscrupulous boss. Our boys who does not listen to his workers. --
:48:47. > :48:54.our boss. Our boss who require some of his workers to double their
:48:55. > :49:06.workloads? And maybe even a boss who exploits the rules to further his
:49:07. > :49:09.own career? Reminds him of anybody? Teresa May doing her first Prime
:49:10. > :49:14.Minister's Questions. James Landale is with me again. A remarkable
:49:15. > :49:19.cleared out of ministers and officials by Teresa May, stamping
:49:20. > :49:27.her own authority and making it clear she is not going to be just
:49:28. > :49:32.Cameron 2.0. Definitely. She has made a clear statement that the
:49:33. > :49:37.Cameron reign is over. Most people think that was a sensible decision.
:49:38. > :49:43.Yes, it is difficult because you store up a lot of unhappiness on the
:49:44. > :49:48.backbenches. All the backbenchers will be watching everything she does
:49:49. > :49:52.and they will hold her to her words which she uttered in Downing Street,
:49:53. > :50:02.one nation of conservatism, helping the poor, Oliver is moderate,
:50:03. > :50:07.centrist, some might say positioning herself to take things of the Labour
:50:08. > :50:12.party. The Cameron team will hold her to that. If she does not
:50:13. > :50:19.deliver, they will pick her up on it. That is the risk she was always
:50:20. > :50:23.going to take but she made it a clear strategic decision, you cannot
:50:24. > :50:28.just lose the Cameron and keep George Osborne. Keep them perhaps as
:50:29. > :50:32.Foreign Secretary, a bit of continuity, that was the argument
:50:33. > :50:37.but she took the view that the team Cameron had to call and she was
:50:38. > :50:40.quite ruthless at the top and the bottom taking out the Cameron
:50:41. > :50:48.supporters and saying this is my team now. What will it be like for
:50:49. > :50:52.British ministers when they negotiate their British withdrawal
:50:53. > :50:58.from European union? It will be very hard indeed. We are not used to this
:50:59. > :51:05.whole process. Nobody knows how this will operate. It is down to
:51:06. > :51:09.nitty-gritty like if we for example leave a European union, what are the
:51:10. > :51:14.regulations which will have to apply to our farmers over the way they
:51:15. > :51:20.milk cows? Over the way they spray their crops with various chemicals?
:51:21. > :51:27.What protections that are currently European to rebid UK Government
:51:28. > :51:34.reinstates? What about subsidies to farmers? Do we repeat the same
:51:35. > :51:39.amount? That is just one small thing. Think about all the
:51:40. > :51:43.regulations for businesses. These are hugely technical. Thousands and
:51:44. > :51:47.thousands of EU regulations will have to be looked at and thought
:51:48. > :51:52.about. The British Government and Civil Service will have to decide if
:51:53. > :51:57.we keep this, and end it or ditch it. It is a process which will take
:51:58. > :52:03.years. Thank you very much for joining us. Once again Parliament's
:52:04. > :52:07.committees have had a lively term, probing issues and shining lights in
:52:08. > :52:12.dark places but the witnesses have not always been rushing to face the
:52:13. > :52:18.MPs. Mike Ashley is the man at the top of sports direct, a firm which
:52:19. > :52:23.forced many of its place to except low rates of pay and work in a harsh
:52:24. > :52:27.regime. Mr Ashworth initially refused to come to Westminster to
:52:28. > :52:34.answer MP questions but when he finally came, he argued that sports
:52:35. > :52:40.direct had become too big to manage. I did not build sports direct, it
:52:41. > :52:45.built me. It is like going out one day and you have a tiny inflatable
:52:46. > :52:52.and you are in control and the next, you wake up and you are an oil
:52:53. > :52:59.tanker. You cannot be all over that oil tanker. If there is a problem on
:53:00. > :53:04.that oil tanker, you are still responsible as I am ultimately
:53:05. > :53:07.responsible for sports direct. Lots of organisations have grown and
:53:08. > :53:12.given employees permanent contracts, why is it so difficult for you? I
:53:13. > :53:17.have given a lot of people permanent contracts. You're not being fair,
:53:18. > :53:21.you're trying to twist what I say. That is why I fear coming to things
:53:22. > :53:26.like this because you try to put words in my mouth and twist what I
:53:27. > :53:31.am saying. I'm telling you it was physically impossible over the last
:53:32. > :53:35.ten years as to do what we had to do with that amount of people unless we
:53:36. > :53:41.went to external agencies who are professionals. You have to accept
:53:42. > :53:47.the internet growth was a phenomenon that none of us could have allowed
:53:48. > :53:51.for. You have to accept, I have to accept that sports direct made some
:53:52. > :53:58.mistakes. We have to look to the future. I have offered you guys to
:53:59. > :54:04.come any time you want to know. I have even offered to come back in a
:54:05. > :54:07.year if you want me to. I will not have everything right, it will be
:54:08. > :54:13.impossible that I could get everything right, I am one human
:54:14. > :54:17.being. He was then asked about British home stores, the store
:54:18. > :54:25.collapsed in April with debts in excess of one and a quarter billion
:54:26. > :54:31.pounds. Did you want to buy VHS? -- British home stores? I think it is
:54:32. > :54:37.unfair and it is a no comment. Mr Ashley, thank you for your time. I
:54:38. > :54:48.cannot resist, I wanted to buy British home stores. Oh my God. Why
:54:49. > :54:53.was that stopped? Please, that is why I am not city trained, that is
:54:54. > :55:00.why they say they cannot House trained me. You ask me something, I
:55:01. > :55:04.blurt out the answers. Eight days after that performance by Mike
:55:05. > :55:10.Ashley, a retailer with an even bigger reputation is in the hot
:55:11. > :55:16.seat. Like Mr Ashley, Sir Philip Green, the former owner of British
:55:17. > :55:20.home stores also reluctant to go through a Westminster interrogation.
:55:21. > :55:24.Why had he sold the company to the racing driver Dominic Chappell, and
:55:25. > :55:31.I'm in recent years declared bankrupt at least twice. Whether we
:55:32. > :55:35.got misled or jute, unfortunately there seems to be a lot of people
:55:36. > :55:44.who accepted the sky at face value. Lawyers, accountants, all sorts of
:55:45. > :55:49.other people. -- accepted this guy. Banks who were prepared to write
:55:50. > :55:57.letters comedies where the facts. Unfortunately, it was the wrong
:55:58. > :56:03.person. -- these are the facts. Would I do that deal again? I would
:56:04. > :56:09.not. And on to the idea of selling BHS to sports direct. You did
:56:10. > :56:16.nothing to ensure that sports direct could begin in wartime to consider
:56:17. > :56:24.this? Which deal? The deal to buy BHS. We have spent five hours, on
:56:25. > :56:30.what possible bases would I want to stop somebody buying it if they
:56:31. > :56:36.would rescue it? Come on, that is an insult. That is really rude. I find
:56:37. > :56:43.that really rude. I do apologise because I do not mean to be rude.
:56:44. > :56:49.You couldn't make in excess of that and you did not want another retail
:56:50. > :56:55.billionaire to do it. I think that is disgusting and it is a sad way to
:56:56. > :57:02.end it. We have not finished yet. I think that is out of order and I
:57:03. > :57:05.think you should apologise. Here's a business where if there is are
:57:06. > :57:11.reliable buyer, I have offered to add to his purchase price for free.
:57:12. > :57:17.To put X million pounds and in top of what he wanted to pay and I have
:57:18. > :57:22.tried to block it, it is laughable. You should all me an apology for
:57:23. > :57:29.that. I have sat you for six hours and I have not been rude to. You It
:57:30. > :57:34.is nothing to do with any eagle. Sir Philip Green. Politics is not what
:57:35. > :57:40.it used to be, the country has a women prime minister for the second
:57:41. > :57:44.time. Women are in key positions in the legislature. Three of the
:57:45. > :57:50.political parties in Scotland are led by women. The DUP in Northern
:57:51. > :57:58.Ireland is led by women. Plaid Cymru is led by a woman. Neil election
:57:59. > :58:03.victories are not newsworthy events. The winner of the Speaker election
:58:04. > :58:08.was a man. Norman Fowler. I would like to have -- thank the House
:58:09. > :58:12.sincerely for the exceptional support they have given me and say
:58:13. > :58:21.that I will do the art was to live up to this trust. This is the first
:58:22. > :58:29.time a man has been elected to the role of Lord Speaker. Ladysmith
:58:30. > :58:36.reflecting on an unlikely glass ceiling being smashed. -- Lady
:58:37. > :58:40.Smith. Parliament is now in recess. MPs are scheduled to return on
:58:41. > :58:45.Monday, September one. Parliament will be kept busy in the autumn
:58:46. > :58:50.debating the issues resulting from Brexit. Interesting times lie ahead.
:58:51. > :58:51.But from me, Keith McDougall,