Question time. Each week the house of commons is in session, we bring you prime Minister Boris Johnson taking questions from members of the house of commons live Wednesday Mornings here on cspan2. Now live to the floor of the british house of commons. Before we move to prime Ministers Questions, id like to inform the house that its been just over 60 years since the first ever Pm Cruise which took place on the 18th of july, 1961. On that day the speaker at the time was harry Milton Foster who was the last speaker to die at post s so i hope not to [laughter] the prime minister, harold mcmillan, wassing willing to try this experiment for the remainder of the session. If that be the wish of the house that after 60 years, 12 prime ministers, Pm Cruise has become one of the most high profile events of the parliamentary i think we can say that the experiment has been a success depending on who was [laughter] but ive got to say today we mark its 60th anniversary. The prime minister will join t
1961. On that day the speaker at the time was harry Milton Foster who was the last speaker to die at post s so i hope not to [laughter] the prime minister, harold mcmillan, wassing willing to try this experiment for the remainder of the session. If that be the wish of the house that after 60 years, 12 prime ministers, Pm Cruise has become one of the most high profile events of the parliamentary i think we can say that the experiment has been a success depending on who was [laughter] but ive got to say today we mark its 60th anniversary. The prime minister will join the questions via Video Link for obvious reasons, demonstrating the prime ministers questions when we need to. Im sure that we will have a rebirth and hopefully shorten questions and answers. And finally, before we get i would like to point out the Sign Language Interpretation [inaudible] but, please, everyone have a good recess after tomorrow. We now come to [inaudible] mr. Speaker, thank you very much, and im delighted to
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important don t know the questions. first, the leader of the conservative party, the prime minister, theresa may. applause. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. good evening prime minister, yourfirst is from abigail. why should the public trust you when you have a known track record of broken promises and backtracking during your time as home secretary and prime minister? thank you david and thank you. applause. thank you for you coming to be an audience tonight, which is an important part of campaign. let me tell you about some of the things i did as home secretary. i said i would ensure we we re secretary. i said i would ensure we were dealing with extremist hate preachers and excluded more than any other before me. i said i would do something about stop and search, i don t think anybody should be stopped and searched because of the colour of their skin. i said i would be tough on crime and ensure our police and security services had the powers they need to do theirjo
coming up: the government heads off the threat of a defeat on the queen s speech, by offering a concession on abortion rights for women in northern ireland. we will be funding her department with additionalfunding so that she can make a grant to the external organisations who will provide these services. the culture secretary says she s minded to refer fox s proposed takeover of sky to the competition watchdog. and is another parliamentary tradition about to disappear, as the speaker hints he s relaxing the dress code? the question of whether that member is wearing a tie is not absolutely front and centre stage. but first, the government has seen off a possible rebellion in the commons by announcing that it will fund abortions for women who travel from northern ireland to england. a cross party group of mps was threatening to back an amendment to the queen s speech put forward by the labour mp stella creasy. with a tiny majority in the commons the government bowed to the dema