Now on bbc news wednesday in parliament. Hello there, and welcome to wednesday in parliament where theres more pressure on the government to extend its Job Retention scheme. Support the businesses affected, dont withdraw furlough. Weve been saying it for months. When is the Prime Minister finally going to act . The snp dismiss borisjohnsons pledge to throw his arms around workers under threat. Prime minister, i can tell you, the last thing those 61,000 scots are looking for is a hug from you. But the Prime Minister says his government will. Come up with the appropriate, creative and imaginative schemes to keep them in work. Here, here. Also on this programme. A warning that 7,000 lorries could be stuck in kent come the new year because they arent prepared for new customs checks. And theres a row over a law which the government says will protect service personel from vexacious legal claims. But Opposition Mps reckon it creates an unequal system. Thats whats objectionable about this bill. It does away with the idea of equality before the criminal law. But first borisjohnson came under pressure at pmqs over his handling of coronavirus with attacks over the testing regime and repeated calls for the Job Retention furlough scheme to be extended. Good evening. The struggle. Millions tuned in to the Prime Ministers address to the nation on tuesday night where he explained why he was bringing in tougher rules, encouragaing people to work from home, extending the wearing of facemasks, shutting pubs early and toughening up the penalties for non compliance. The labour leader said he supported the measures but said there were still problems with the testing system. Three weeks ago, millions of children went back to school. Thats a good thing. Then the inevitable happend, kids get coughs, bugs, flu, thats what happens its in the job description. But there is no effective system in place to deal with it. Many cant get tests quickly, schools are allocated only ten tests, many wait days for results. The outcome is obvious child and siblings off school, mum, dad or carer off work, and in some cases, all year groups off school. How on earth did we get into this mess . Prime minister. Oh, come on, mr speaker. He knows perfectly well, and he will have read the advice from the four chief medical officers that there is an exceptionally small risks to children of primary and secondary school age from this disease. He knows that children have significantly less, a lower rate of infection. Thats all in the letter that they published today. But he also knows, he also knows that we are doing our level best to get every child a test who has symptoms. And further, that thanks to the efforts of teachers in this country, of parents, pupils, 99. 9 of our schools are now back hear, hear and in spite of all of his attempts, i may say, throughout the summer, to sow doubt on the idea that schools were safe, the people of this country had more common sense, mr speaker. Kier starmer. Such a poor defence, thats such a poor defence. The point isnt whether the children have got covid. Its that theyve got covid symptoms, and then they are off school. The reality is losing control of testing is a major reason why the Prime Minister is losing control of this virus. As a result, he is phasing in health measures, restrictions which we do support but at the same time, he is phasing out economic support. Health measures and economic measures are now dangerously out of sync. Yesterday, 6,000 jobs were lost at whitbred, one of the major employers in the hospitality sector. The cbi, the tse and trade unions, the federation of small businesses, the British Chamber of commerce, the governor of the bank of england, they are all calling on the Prime Minister to stop and rethink. Support the businesses affected, dont withdraw furlough. We have been saying it for months. When is the Prime Minister finally going to act . Prime minister. Mr speaker, these are indeed tough times, and i have no doubt that many businesses, many employees, are feeling a great deal of anxiety and uncertainty, and we will do our level best to protect them throughout this period. But we will get through this, mr speaker, by precisely the methods that we have outlined and that were agreed upon in this house yesterday. I may say, i think that what the reality of the opposition position has been exposed. That cats out of the bag, mr speaker, because it was his shadow education secretary who said of the present crisis, she said, dont let a good crisis go to waste. Thats the real approach of the labour party, mr speaker seeking to create political opportunity out of the crisis, out of the difficulties and dangers this country is going through, whilst we are taking the tough decisions. The snps westminster leader said a combination of covid and brexit could lead to a winter of discontent, and he called for an immediate extension of what he called the vital and life saving furlough scheme. Mr speaker, the first steps to any recovery is admitting that there is a problem. Even the governor of the bank of england is telling the Prime Minister to stop and rethink. The solution for millions of people right now is an extension, an extension, Prime Minister, of the furlough scheme beyond october. The alternative is putting 61,000 jobs in scotland at risk. Yesterday, the only reassurance the Prime Minister gave those scottish workers was saying that he would throw his arms around them. Prime minister, i can tell you the last thing those 61,000 scots are looking for is a hug from you. We will continue to provide the best support we can possibly give to keep people, get people, and newjobs are being created, mr speaker, and get people into work whilst suppressing the virus. I know that he may not know it, i can imagine that he doesnt want a hug for me, but that was a metaphor, mr speaker. What, perhaps, its physically incarnated by the {12. 7 billion of consequentials that we are seeing come from the uk exchequer to support people across the whole of our country. Borisjohnson. The government says that in the worst Case Scenario, 7,000 lorries could be stuck in kent after the end of the year when the uk leaves the eu Single Market and customs union. Imports and exports could be disrupted in january, with delays of as much as two days on routes between dover and calais. Thats because half of freight trucks travelling to the eu may not be ready for new border controls. The Cabinet Office minister said it was vital businesses were prepared whether or not the uk gets a free trade deal with the eu. Today, we are publishing reasonable worst Case Scenario planning assumptions indicating what could happen if we dont all secure improved preparedness. I should stress that this is not a prediction or a forecast, its just a prudent exercise in setting up what could in the worst circumstances occur if we dont improve preparedness. The uk government will be contacting haulage companies, they will be running targeted advertising, they will be publishing an updated haulier handbook, and they will launch advice stands at uk service stations. Madam Deputy Speaker, why arent these essential prerequisites for a smooth transition not already here . The prospect of 7,000 trucks queuing to cross the channel will send a chill through my constituents, because we know what effect that has on all the roads in kent, and its disastrous. So, i would very much support my right honourable friend in his work to prepare the road haulage industry for the end of the transition period, but can i ask about the governments own preparations, and specifically the smart Freight System which he mentioned, which is essential for the smooth running of traffic across the channel . Can he give a guarantee that that system will be fully up and running and operational from january . Michael gove replied that the system had been developed and was being shared with business. Labour said companies were concerned. For months now, those who move goods for a living across the straits have been warning, ministers, that the systems of trading wont be ready in time, and of the industry says it has been fitted up to take the blame for the governments failure to grasp, in the words of one logistics expert involved in the talks, real world complexities. 7000 hgv lorries parked end to end would stretch from this building to dover, thats the scale of the problem the secretary of state is setting out. Where are the 29 extra lorry parks going to be . We need to know that. This is about government preparedness. His statement seems to be all about passing the blame onto business for the chaos being caused by his government. No, and the right honourable gentleman in emphasising that figure is helping, because, of course, what we want to do is avert that scenario. As i pointed out, it is not a prediction, but it is a warning. There is a responsibility, he is quite right, on government, and thats why we have invested in the sites in northfield, in ashford and elsewhere. In march last year, the honourable gentleman said, and i quote, we did not vote to leave without a deal. Now we are staring down the barrel of a no deal brexit, the consequences of which will be magnified by the economic fallout from brexit. What does he say, what does the honourable gentleman say to those who voted for his government on the basis that it had an oven ready brexit and now feel utterly betrayed . Well, i havent met anyone in that position. The truth is, of course, we left on the 31st ofjanuary. Theres breaking news just now that if a deal is conducted late, there, indeed, may not be an extension of transition period, but there may be a two year implementation period, so what i would like to have now from the secretary of state is an absolute commitment, no extensions to transition, no implementation period, we want a clean break as we promised via the electorate at the end of this year. Michael gove said he agreed with all that. Mps spent the afternoon debating a bill designed to provide greater Legal Protections to Armed Forces Personnel serving on military operations overseas. Ministers argue it will be protect them from vexatious claims and endless investigations and would limit false and historical allegations by introducing a presumption against prosecution making it exceptional for personnel to be prosecuted five years or more after an incident. But campaigners and some senior military figures have warned that the legislation will create a presumption against prosecution for torture and other serious crimes, except rape and sexual offenses. This bill is not an amnesty, a statue of limitation or a decriminalization of erroneous acts. We will continue to protect the independence of our prosecutors and our police. We will investigate, and if necessary, prosecute Service Personnel who break the law. But what we will not accept is the vexacious stations handling of veterans and our armed forces by amnesty rating lawyers motivated not by the search for justice, but for their own crude financial enrichment. This is the government of Great Britain bringing in a legal presumption against prosecution for torture, for war crimes, for crimes against humanity. This is the government of Great Britain saying, sexual crimes are so serious, they will be excluded from this presumption but placing crimes outlawed by the Geneva Convention on a less serious level and downgradeding our unequivocal commitment for upholding International Law that we in britain ourselves after the Second World War helped to establish. I will indeed. What is appalling, madam Deputy Speaker, is the strawmen being put up time and time again by a Labour Party Half funded by these ambulance chasing lawyers. There were shouts from both sides, and the Deputy Speaker stepped in to calm things down before ben wallace could continue. Much of the mess we are having to come and clean up today is because of your illegal walls, your events in the past, and the way you have run this. The safety for our forces, and to put up strawmen and make wild allegations that are wholly inaccurate and disputed by much more learned people than him, i think is a disservice to our troops and its all about making an excuse for not supporting this bill. What it does is it creates presumption against prosecution for a class of defendants, placing one group above the other in the eyes of the law, and will he agree with me that that is unprecedented in our domestic legal system, for either the speaker of england and wales, or the separate and independent jurisdiction of scotland. Thats unprecedented, thats whats objectionable about this bill, it does away with the idea of equality before the criminal law. By putting barriers in the way of prosecution, then, actually, you do no favours to those who are accused of criminal acts in the first place. Because there is no line ever drawn underneath it for them. We cannot have any command hesitate to be carrying out his or her legitimate orders, and we cannot have any soldier hesitate in the heat of battle. As the men and women of our armed forces still promise to give everything, even unto death. Now, that is not something any other employer asks of their team or their staff. Youre watching wednesday in parliament, with me, alicia mccarthy. Mps have been warned that extremists could exploit the financial crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The head of the commission for countering extremism sara khan told the Home Affairs Committee that high unemployment could combine with increasing rates of violence and hate crime to fuel extremism. We have a very robust counterterrorism infrastructure in this country. What we dont have is a counterterrorism machinery. Its weak, its disjointed, its behind the curve, its not operational, and that has to fundamentally change if we are now going to deal with this huge growing problem of extremism. And just to make this point, really, that as a commission, we feel that the threat of extremism has increased over the last decade. The face of modern day extremism has changed substantially. The ecosystem of hateful extremism has changed beyond recognition. She said extremists had professionalised their operation and were exploiting the covid pandemic. But if we see whats coming down the pipeline now as a country, we know there are going to be huge unemployment rates, we know that local authorities are going to have to make massive cuts because they are going to be experiencing financial black hole. We are seeing increasing rates of violence, soaring hate crime rates. That condition is, and that kind of climate, is going to be very conducive for extremists and for extremism. And what weve seen throughout history is that that type of climate will be very conducive and extremists will seek to exploit that. And the question we have to ask ourselves is do we have the resource and the strategy to be able to deal with that . Because we know its coming down the pipeline. Sara khan wanted ministers to focus on what she called hateful extremism such as behaviour making a moral case for violence that wasnt covered by anti terror laws. Some Committee Members were sceptical about what they called two tier extremism. If you did a Public Consultation today, you would find people that would say that, for instance, black lives matter are hateful extremists. People are wary of where youre going with this. 20 years ago, gerry adams and Martin Mcguinness could have been deemed hateful extremists. And yet, in the end, they formed an important part of the peace process. What are your views on Extinction Rebellion . Are they or their recent activity extremist in your view . Its really important to make the distinction between individuals in an organisation who may be engaging in criminality, and we make sure that the law would deal with them in the right way. But to brandish the entire organisation and many people, many of our colleagues and our friends who support Extinction Rebellion and the issue of climate change, brandishing the entire organisation as an extremist organisation, i think, is blatantly wrong. There have been concerns about some Senior Leaders promoting anti semitic views. Again, i think we should challenge that, raise that, highlight that issue. But the work of Extinction Rebellion clearly does not meet my threshold for hateful extremism. Later, the uks head of counterterrorism policing backed sara khan on extremism. So, you agree that there has been a rise in hateful extremism, and you are seeing the consequences in terms of the terrorist threat . Yeah, i mean, i dont just think that. Thats what the joint terrorist Analysis Centre would say. Its what the Home Office Office of security and counterterrorism would say, its what their internal unit would say, and its what my experts would say. Just overall, what impact has covid and the subsequent lockdown had on your work in counterterror policing . What i am seeing particularly in the right wing terrorism space and this is anecdotal so it is not academic, but there is an increase in lots of young people being attracted to this. So, we are seeing people as young as 13 starting to talk about committing terrorist acts. When youve been locked down with social media having such an influence on every single one of us and our daily lives, and youre able to sit there and just take all of that in on a permanent basis with no other form of distraction or protective factor around you and im thinking schooling, employment, other friends, family members who are not influenced or potentially extremist themselves that is a concern. Neil basu there. The governments been told to restore the ban on evictions in england and wales orface a pandemic of homelessness. The temporary ban, initially introduced in march and extended twice, has just run out. The former liberal democrat leader, tim farron, said 55,000 households were in immediate danger of losing their homes. The scale of the hardship that is now being unleashed is unprecedented and no one is ready for it. Shelter estimate that a colossal 322,000 private renters are newly in arrears since the pandemic began. So, things will get worse even more quickly. Whether its in the lakes or in london, the british people are united in their decency in their belief that the virus should not bring families to their knees and dump them on the street. The minister has the power to prevent a pandemic of homelessness. The minister said unprecedented measures had been taken to protect renters. Court actions have been stayed on eviction for six months, the longest period of intervention in our history. I should remind him that its the courts themselves that wish to reopen and begin to hear cases again because the master of the rolls, sir terence etherington, and mr Justice Knowles are really quite clear they believe landlords and tenants alike should have access tojustice. So, the court should not remain closed. The courts are able to prioritise cases and of course, it is a matter for them. They will prioritise the most egregious cases first. Is it scandalous that this government is lifting the ban just as were heading into a second wave of coronavirus . The chief medical officer gave a stark warning but 16 Public Health bodies and charities also warned of a rise in covid infections if the Government Forces people into homelessness or overcrowding. In march as we all know, the secretary of state promised no renter who has lost income due to coronavirus will be forced out of their home, nor will any landlord face unmanageable debts, and the government has reneged on that promise. Good landlords repair properties, they get them back into use, and they provide millions of properties that would otherwise fall to the public and quasi sectors. But sadly too often, landlords are demonised. Would my right honourable friend agree that it is now right and fair that we allow courts to exercise due discretion, sensitivity as they always do, in deciding on the correct pathways from now on . The families who are going to be effected over the next few months face years in temporary accommodation. What support is the minister giving to local councils to ensure that the temporary accommodation they find, which will be long term in anybodys imagination is fit for them and allows them to remain in theirjobs, in their schools, and close to their support networks . The minister said a great deal of money had been invested in local councils. He had a message of reassurance. Tenants will not have to leave their homes over christmas, and weve also made it clear that over the Christmas Period and also in areas of lockdown, there will be no evictions between the 11th of december, mrspeaker, and the 11th of january. There will be no evictions. Christopher pincher. In the lords peers described as savage Interest Rate cuts due to come in at National Savings and investments, ns i, which issues premium bonds. Ns i allows people to lend money to the government. From november Interest Rates on some products will fall sharply. For example, its direct saver will offerjust 0. 15 interest, down from 1 . It will also reduce the chances of those who own premium bonds from winning any of the monthly prizes including the £1 million jackpot. The minister explained why the change had been made. Her majestys treasury set ns i an annual target of net financing to raise. Injuly, this was revised from the £6 billion set at the budget to £35 billion to support the governments higher financing requirement. Ns i reviewed the Interest Rates on its products regularly and recommended a reduction in Interest Rates with the objective of meeting its financing target while returning to a more normal market position. My lords, ns is decision to cut Interest Rates drastically to near zero is a direct consequence, as my noble friend hasjust said, of the governments net financing target. A devastating decision for millions of savers who find their income detonated or worse. My lords, ns i is a key source of government borrowing but it has a broader mission. I quote from its annual report. We want to inspire a stronger savings culture. My lords, that objective is out of the window. So he wondered would the government think again. The minister stood firm. I can understand peoples disappointment at the rate reductions. Can i reassure my noble friend that actually on premium bonds, the prize fund rate at 1 even after the reductions remains a very competitive rate relative to the savings market . And could also remind him that although the ns i does have a remit to encourage a savings culture, it also has to balance that remit against providing value for money for the taxpayer, and also its position on effect on the Broader Financial Services sector. And i indeed have savings, products with ns i and i was stunned yesterday morning to get an e mail announcing savage cuts to its rates. Every bank will now cut its offers in light of the ns i decision leaving millions of small savers essentially getting zero returns. And as lord young said, the rate cut rests at the door of treasury because it sets the funding target for ns i. Does the minister accept that this will destroy confidence, that it will make savers even more reluctant to spend, and its an act of self harm for an economy already in free fall . My lords, i disagree with the noble lady that the decision on ns i Interest Rates will have an impact on Interest Rates in the wider market. Its partly because ns i Interest Rates were so out of line with the wider market that this decision was taken, and i would also point out to the noble lady that yes the Interest Rate decision was taken in light of the governments net financing target but that net financing target was increased from £6 billion to £35 billion in response to the pandemic. Lady penn. And thats it from me for now but do join me again at the same time tomorrow for another round up of the day here at westminster, but for now from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. Hello there. Another autumnal feeling day ahead for most of us. Even in the sunshine, itll be a cooler day than weve become used to. We had plenty of showers, though, through the day yesterday. That was whitby in north yorkshire. Plenty of sunshine, that said, for parts of Northern Ireland and scotland. And so, where weve had the clear skies, the starry skies through the night, temperatures will start the day close to freezing in the glens. But across eastern england, weve had a bout of heavy rain and strong winds. Those are starting to clear out into the north sea, but hot on their heels another area of low pressure which will cross england through the day. So, again, a spell of heavier rain sweeping its way northwards, Gale Force Winds picking up following to push in or usher in clusters of heavy showers with hail and thunder in their midst. And this rain could get stuck in some areas. And even to the south of it, given that therell be stronger winds, gusts up to 60 mph in exposed coastal areas that could cause some local damage, with gusty winds inland as well. Only 15, i think, the high, compared with the 21 that we had yesterday, and some real downpours around. And cold if youre stuck under this rain band in the north east, possibly southern scotland, even parts of Northern Ireland, although the majority here having dry and sunny weather and so, too, for the north and west of scotland. But only 11 12 degrees, a far cry from what weve become used to in the last week or so. Therell be plenty more showers following as we go through the night, and again itll turn chilly under the clearer skies further north. But i think friday will feel chillier still for many of us, and thats because of a change in wind direction. Weve pulled the low pressure away into the north sea and the low countries, and instead we get this northerly wind. Weve got High Pressure starting to move in from the west, which will quieten the shower activity down. It wont be dry altogether. Well still see some in western areas. We could have almost Gale Force Winds down the north sea coasts, bringing in rain to lincolnshire, east anglia and the south east as well. So, it will feel chillier, distinct wind chill in this part of the world as well. But some sunnier skies prevailing further west eventually, and those will prevail through the weekend potentially with that area of High Pressure continuing. Although near the north sea coasts, theres always the chance of brisker winds ushering showers, possibly even longer spells of rain at times through saturday and sunday. 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