Monday in parliament. Hello and welcome to monday in parliament. We have a new Commons Speaker the question is that sir lindsay takes the chair of this house is speaker. Sir Lindsay Hoyle will succeed john bercow. This house will change but it will change for the better. And he gets a warm welcome. Youll also bring gore signature to our proceedings. We have a problem if they can hold the executive to account and i know that you will stand up for that principle. So after several hours of voting sir Lindsay Hoyle was finally elected to one of the most important jobs in politics. It fell to the longest serving mp, the former conservative chancellor, now independent mp, Kenneth Clarke to deliver the results. Sir Lindsay Hoyle beat six other candidates. The job of speaker comes with a salary of 150 thousand pounds and the added bonus that now he doesnt have to campaign in the coming election because its customary for candidates not to stand against the speaker. So no wonder sir lindsay was
Just after half past midnight here in bbc news. It is now time for tuesday in parliament. Hello, and welcome to tuesday in parliament, where the government bill setting out the terms of the uks divorce from the eu clears its first hurdle in the commons. The ayes to the right, 329. The noes to the left, 299. But mps reject a tight timetable to get it through the commons by october the 31st. The Prime Minister says because of that, hell put the brexit bill on hold. But insists. One way or another, we will leave the eu with this deal, to which this house has just given its assent. Also on this programme. A plea for the government to help british children trapped in syria. And condemnation of Barclays Bank as opts out a scheme allowing customers to get cash at post offices. It seems that some banks are only interested in big cashless customers that have large deposits. But lets start by going back to the beginning of the day. Boris johnson opened the first general debate on the bill which
Now on bbc news, a look back at saturday in parliament. If we have been half hearted europeans, then it follows logically that with part of our hearts, with half our hearts, we feel something else. A sense of love and respect for european culture and civilisation, of which we are a part. He said the agreement provided for a real brexit, hello there, and welcome taking back control of money, to this special edition laws, fisheries and trade, of saturday in parliament, as the commons and the lords sit and removed the Northern Ireland backstop. He moved on to the customs at a weekend for the first time in 37 years to discuss arrangements for Northern Ireland. Borisjohnsons brexit deal. Our agreement ensures, and i quote, unfettered access, but the Prime Minister is defeated market access, for goods moving from Northern Ireland to the rest of the united again, as mps back delay. Kingdoms internal market. It ensures that there should be the ayes to the right, 322. No tariff on goods circula
That they will have to for every Single Movement of goods they will have to put in place a declaration. Now on bbc news what it would say is you can say wednesday in parliament. To them we will be engaging and working and fully committed to making sure that that business transaction, that the movement of those goods will be as easy and as straightforward as we can do. Its obviously in the governments interest in this case, in the hmrc interest, its in the eu interest. What county do you live in . Hello, and welcome to i live in North Yorkshire and in london. If you had to move goods wednesday in parliament. A day when mps expressed from North Yorkshire to london and had to fill out a form, their horror at the deaths of 39 you would feel pretty people inside a container aggrieved about that. Lorry in essex. Can we just think for a moment of what it mustve been i have move goods to my constituents like for those 39 people, manufactured or grown here to london obviously in a desperate and
Has complied with the law. Parliaments request has complied with the law. Pa rliaments request has has complied with the law. Parliaments request has been conveyed to the eu. Labour say whatever deal gets through should be subject to a second referendum. There is a trap door to no deal at the end of 2020 that we need to deal with and close, and we can do that with and close, and we can do that with legislation. And of course we need an amendment to say that whatever deal gets through, it should be subject to a referendum. Eu leaders met to discuss their response to the uks request for an extension this morning, insiting that the deal is not dead police in hong kong fire tear gas at protesters, as violence erupts at an illegal march in one of the cities main shopping districts. There have been protesters throwing petrol bombs at the police. And so that is clear. And after a nail biting finish, wales won themselves a place in the Rugby World Cup semifinal. Now, highlights of a historic s