The un says up to six Million People in yemen are being denied desperately needed aid because Houthi Rebels are stopping its passage. The houthis, supported by iran, have been fighting the government backed by saudi arabia and the us for the last five years. Chinas leader has made a rare public appearance to highlight the governments efforts to combat the coronavirus. Speaking to medical workers, xijinping called for more decisive measures to combat the outbreak. More than 1,000 people have died so far and 42,000 cases confirmed. The us state of New Hampshire is in the spotlight as voters get ready for tuesdays primary election. Analysts say this is a vital moment for former Vice President joe biden, and other democratic candidates, to boost theirflagging president ial campaigns. The caucus last week in iowa ended in chaos. Now on bbc news, its monday in parliament. Hello, and welcome to the programme. 0ur headlines. Mps accuse the government of ignoring the mistakes of the windrush scandal as ministers push ahead with plans to deport 50 people to jamaica. When when will black lives matter once again but a minister defends the deportation flight. The Foreign National offenders on the flight have been sentenced to a total of 300 years in prison. And an mp describes the chilling threats made against her. Im already organising her to be hurt. Amazing what crackheads will do for £100. Im going to get her beat up. But first, more than 170 mps urged the government to stop a flight deporting 50 people to jamaica on tuesday until the review into the windrush scandal is published. Many of those who had arrived from caribbean countries between 1958 and 1971 were detained or deported despite having the right to live in the uk for decades. A leaked draft of the windrush review said the government should consider ending the deportation of foreign born offenders who came to the uk as children. The arguments began during questions to the home secretary. Does the home secretary accept that these deportations constitute double jeopardy because the persons have already served an appropriate sentence for their crime . And is the home secretary aware that over 170 members of parliament from all Political Parties have written to the Prime Minister calling for this deportation flight to be halted . I say to the right honourable lady, and im sure that she is aware of this, that under the uk borders act 2007, a deportation order must be made in respect of foreign criminal activity sentences for a period of 12 months or more imprisoned. And therefore every person on this flight has been convicted of a serious offence and received custodial sentences of 12 months or more, which means under the act introduced by the Labour Government in 2007, mrspeaker, a deportation order must be made. At the end of that session, a labour mp rose to ask an urgent question on the matter. To ask the secretary of state as she leaves the chamber if she will make a statement on the suppression of the windrush learned review and its implications for the deportation flight that is to leave the country on wednesday. Labour mps shouting shame as priti patel left. David lammy made his point to a junior minister. People watching see the way that this government holds in such disrespect the contribution of west indian, caribbean and black people in this country when when will black lives matter once again well, thank you, mr speaker. Lets be clear, lets start with the review. When will it come . Ultimately this is an independent review and the timing is in the hands of the reviewer. Ministers cannot compel it to be produced by a particular date. And lets be clear, the status, there are no british nationals on that flight. And lets be clear, the Foreign National offenders on the flight have been sentenced to a total of 300 years in prison. Its totally unacceptable that this charter flight could proceed before all the lessons of windrush are learned. Windrush should change everything. Instead, the home office carries on as if nothing has changed. Will the minister admit that this flight will include people who were entitled to petition for nationality but could not access it because of complicated and expensive nationality procedures, for example one individual in the care system . Mobile access for citizenship only be made affordable and simple . Does he accept that many on this flight have a far stronger connection with britain than jamaica . Again well be clear that we have checked that there is no one on the flight who would be eligible for british citizenship or nationality. And again, we would not be able to deport them if they were. Shrill virtue signalling and faux outrage simply ignore the political and legal realities of this issue. My parents immigrated to the uk in the 1960s from commonwealth countries and they could have been caught up in the windrush issue,
thankfully they were not. But this is an issue for which the government has apologised and for which its taking remedial action. Can the minister confirm british citizenship is a privilege, not a right, and those Foreign National offenders who take. Abuse their time here need to face the full force of the law . The ministers tone and his response to this debate has been quite shameful. My constituent came here from jamaica when he was five years old. All of his family also live here. But he is set to be deported on this flight tomorrow having served a seven month custodial sentence in 2015. Now, given the leaked Lesson Learned review issues, is it not right for the minister and for the home secretary and for the government to actually take stock, hold this flight, just to make sure you do not inflict any further harm because youve made this mistake
previously when people were deported and they ended up dead . Yes, we want to make sure we prevent further harm and thats preventing further harm to future victims of crime that may be committed by the persistent or serious offenders who are on this flight. Parliament in 2007 passed legislation to require the government to deport those who were guilty of serious offences. In the circumstances, were the government not to do it, would my friend agree with the government itself will be liable to expert review equipment the reason for our concerns relate to our expectation that the independent review will say when it is published that those who came to this country as children should not be deported. And this flight should not go ahead before that review is officially published and its recommendations published in full. Surely he can see that that is the only way we will know that we have not deported our own citizens thank you, mr speaker. Again i repeat there is no british citizen on that flight
and the windrush potential eligible for protection has been checked. And the minister said the law was being applied based on criminality, not nationality. Now an emergency aid package has been made available by the government for those areas particularly in the north of england which have been hit by severe flooding in the wake of storm ciara. Heavy rain and high winds also brought wide for disruption to transport networks and cuts to Power Supplies for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses. Mps have called for further urgent investment in flood defences. In a statement in the commons, the environment secretary said many homes had been successfully protected from the floods but acknowledged more needed to be done. Storm ciara brought rainfall ranging between 40 80 cm in 2a hours across much of northern england. The highest levels were recorded in cumbria, with 179. 8 cm of rain over the course of the day. Particularly severe impacts have been felt in yorkshire along the river calder, in lincolnshire along the river ripple, in Greater Manchester along the river and in appleby on the eden. Emergency aid was being made available to councils in those areas worst affected. And Theresa Villiers said 25,000 properties have been saved by recent improvements to flood defences. But we know that more needs to be done and we are determined to deliver. Since the events of boxing day 2015, we have been taking action on a range of schemes to strengthen defences and improve resilience. We are investing more than ever before in these defences in a £2. 6 billion programme up to 2021 to manage floods and coastal erosion risk. This will enable better protection of over 300,000 properties. I want to see ministers look afresh now at what can be done now that parliament has declared a climate emergency. A new plan for flooding should recognise the reality of the climate crisis, reverse the cuts to our front line services, invest in comprehensive flood prevention, promote land use change, encourage Habitat Restoration and acknowledge in the funding settlements for councils the higher risk in those areas who face flooding so often. I recognise that some new flood schemes have been delivered, but the list the secretary of state gave out is what she has done, not what she will do in response to this flooding. Will the minister now accept that a comprehensive plan for flooding is now needed . We must get councils clearing culverts and drains of leaves and clearing them out. And also does she agree when it comes to housing developments, we must stop this tarmacing and paving of our green fields which gives no space or no capacity for rain runoff when we have severe storms like these. Calderdale in west yorkshire
was among the areas worst hit. The absolute devastation across calderdale that for so many residents are in the same position again having flooded in 2015 on boxing day. To update the secretary of state, we are looking at 400 properties flooded, 400 businesses, eight schools, two care homes and two bridges which have sustained damage. Leeds in many ways saw a close escape yesterday but there remains a £23 million gap between what the government have committed to flood defences and what is needed to protect us against the floods we experienced just four years ago. Many of my constituents who were flooded over the weekend are some of the same people who were flooded in boxing day 2015, which really is completely unacceptable. Can she assure me that the Flood Defence Programme the government has in place will ensure that my constituents in shipley wont have to suffer
this fate yet again . Well, im afraid there can be no absolute guarantees on flooding. But what i can assure him is the government is determined to press on with its major investment in our flood defences to better protect thousands of homes and businesses across the country and certainly one of the things we will do as a result of whats happened over the weekend is a fresh look to make sure that Everything Possible is being done to keep those flood defence projects on track for delivery. Theresa villiers. Youre watching monday in parliament with me, mandy baker. Now, a Parliamentary Investigation Team found that between september 2018 injuly 2019, there were 238 crimes targeting mps. One of those crimes is the abuse
received by labours yvette cooper. The perpetrator was convicted last week, she described what happened. On friday, the deputy chair of the local conservative association was jailed for nine weeks for menacing communication, including threats against me and i am already organising her to be hurt. Amazing what crackheads will do for £100. Im going to get her beat up. The chair of the local association has today written to me, expressing regrets and apologies for what he describes as the grave and unacceptable actions of their member, who has since been expelled. And i welcome that letter and that support. But it is a concern to me that there has been thus far no similar condemnation or sense of regret expressed by the National Party. There is no place in society or in public life for threats and intimidation. Let me, mr speaker, say this right
now on the floor of the house that that is categorically unacceptable and wrong. Theres no place for intimidation at all in public life. In terms of the National Party response, she can take it from me right now that i am hugely apologetic for what she has had to put up with. That is simply unacceptable, and that is also something that we should all be mindful of and look into as representatives of major Political Parties. None of this should be tolerated. But then there was a commotion involving the snpsjoanna cherry, who, as you might be able to hear, accused the home secretary of being insincere. Mr speaker, i see that the lady on the opposite benches is chuckling away. This is a very serious matter, and actually this is not a laughing matter. I think it is fair to say, mr speaker, that the sincerity sits with the honourable lady who made that remark. Later, joanna cherry explained her remark. In 2017, before the general election in that year, Amnesty International carried out
a search into abused female mps. The result was that the right honourable, my honourable friend the member was the most abused female mp in the United Kingdom by a country mile. I was the second most abused female mp in the uk, although far behind my right honourable friend who has had a lot to put up with. That was her perspective from which i made my comments in exasperation during the last exchange. So mr speaker, i simply want to put on the record that that was the context in which i made my comments and to say that the level of abuse which ive continued to receive has taken its toll on me, my girlfriend, my family and my friends. I really do hope the government is going to tackle it in this session. The speaker had a message for mp5. Ijust want to reassure the house that in fairness to the home secretary and myself will take very serious threats against mps and candidates during the last election, so much so that we constantly
were in touch to make sure that support was being given. That support will continue for all mps and please, if there is a threat to any mp, make sure that you report it in. That said, the house and i and the home secretary will ensure your safety comes first. So please, do not shy away from reporting any incident. The security minister has given a preview of emergency laws to block the automatic Early Release of convicted terrorists who were believed to pose threats to the public. This government will be introducing emergency legislation in parliament tomorrow. It will end the automatic Early Release of terrorist offenders without there first being a thorough Risk Assessment done by the parole board. Those considered still a threat to Public Safety will be forced to spend the rest of their time in prison. These changes will mean around 50 terrorist prisoners already serving effective sentences will see their automatic release halted. We will not hesitate to take Decisive Action to ensure we do all we can to protect the public and keep our streets safe. Can my right honourable friend update the house on the steps his department is taking to ensure those who are released from prison at the end of terrorism related offences faced the most stringent monitoring and reporting requirements . Absolutely, mr speaker. I am pleased to say to my honourable friend that last week we are considering with the new legislation is requiring additional reassurance when terrorist offenders are released from prison. There are measures available, including stringent conditions to impose licence periods, notification requirements for terrorist offences, which only last year the government has already strengthened. Serious Crime Prevention orders extended to terrorist offenders last year, they provide the police with the strength and powers to manage terrorists along with terrorism prevention and investigation measures. As i say, we will continue to review everything to make sure we do everything we can to keep the public safe. Another talking point at Home Office Questions was the governments proposed New Australia style point based immigration system. I would like to ask the minister to provide some clarification regarding the proposed immigration system it is been called australian styled, but be aware that the australian system is actually a permissive system designed to encourage migration and as a hostile environment rages on, surely this is not what the government aims to do. Raise migration. So will the minister clarify what exactly the system is and confirm if this government will scrap the net migration target, which was dreamt up without evidence and has never once been met. I thank the honourable lady for her question and she will note that the hostile environment as she called it dates back to previous governments. The point of this system, mr speaker, is that we want a simpler, faster, firmer, better system, one that fulfills our promises to the people where we seize that once in a Generation Opportunity to take
back control of our borders and end free movement, which i appreciate members on the opposite side of the house simply do not want. We will restore democratic control over immigration that is effectively what the british people voted for. Mr speaker, its important to remember that it actually was a Labour Government that introduced a points based system but it is also important to remember that many workers that we need in this country cannot come in under an immigration cap of £30,000 and the home secretary has looked into this for some professions. Will she make sure that we look at that to make sure that we get the workers that we need . I think it is important, mr speaker, that there will be immigration legislation that will come forth before this house in due course with regards to the Labour Market and also the skills that this country needs. The decisions made around the points based system will be based upon the needs and the skills that this co