he donated to campaigns for brexit before the referendum was generated from his own businesses in the uk and none came from russia. tributes are paid to the former cabinet secretary and head of the civil service, sirjeremy heywood who has died from cancer aged 56. an investigation‘s begun into how eight children fell from an inflatable slide at a fireworks display in woking last night — seven of them have now been discharged from hospital. leicester city players arrive in bangkok to join funeral ceremonies for their chairman who died in a helicopter crash. a 33—year—old man from lincolnshire has become the first person to swim around the british coast. ross edgley crossed the finish line in margate after swimming 1,780 miles. now, david cornock takes a look back at what's been happening in the political world in the week in parliament. hello, welcome to

the week in parliament. our look at the week in westminster and beyond with all the boring bits taken out. in this week's programme, drama as mps vote on the budget. this is the first time a member of the government has resigned during the votes on a budget, as a direct result of the chancellor's policies, thank you. are we ready for brexit? the clock is ticking. we've only got five months left! if there is no deal, surely you will have done... it should be one of the top priorities to do a security assessment. did you hear the one about the chancellor who wanted to be a comedian? spreadsheet phil makes way for standup phil. the new mandatory business rates

relief for public lavatories. so that, so that, local authorities can at last relieve themselves. it's the way he tells them. more on politicaljokes, later. but, first, it's become a modern tradition that budgets tend to unravel. think of george osborne's pasty tax or the omnishambles, or gordon brown's problems with his 10p tax rate. philip hammond was cheered by conservative mps for bringing forward income tax cuts and finding money for health, schools and potholes in england. but within days, a minister, tracy crouch, had resigned over his decision to delay curbs on high—stakes gambling. one expert said the budget itself was a bit of a gamble with its loosening of the purse strings. austerity is coming to an end, but discipline will remain. austerity is coming to an end, but discipline will remain

and that is the clear dividing line in british politics today. the reality is that whatever the chancellor claims today, austerity is not over. and far from building a strong economy, eight years of austerity has damaged our economy, delayed and weakened the recovery and endlessly postponed fixing the deficit. after the chancellor sat down, away from the cameras in the public gallery, women who have been told they have to wait longer for their state pensions staged a protest, prompting applause from the labour and smp benches, as the deputy speaker tried to keep control. stamp duty reserve tax, blacklisted securities and connected persons, motion number 49, be to back—up. .. applause. order! cheering.

i must say, it's disappointing, in some respects, that the speech this afternoon was affected by a protest in the gallery, but let me say this: we all recognize that what we saw today was very much the spirit of the suffragettes. we on this side of the house understand the suffering of the women born in the 1950s that have been betrayed by this government. mps then began to digest the budget, amid claim and counterclaim about the end of austerity, who was right? the treasury committee brought in a referee. you described the budget as and i quote, "the largest discretionary fiscal loosening of any fiscal event since the creation of the obr". speaking with a yes or no answer, does that not equally to the end of austerity? it depends on what you

mean by austerity. that's not a yes or no answer. no, because as i say, you know, it's not a yes or no question. it wasn't austerity, but the future of fixed odds betting terminals, fobts, that caused the government the biggest political headache. ministers had already announced plans to reduce the maximum stake from £100 to £2. but that cut was expected to happen in april of next year, not six months later. within 2a hours, the lords and the church of england were on the case. these machines are predominantly found in the poorest of areas, the research is quite clear, it's causing huge poverty. on top of that, the estimates are that something between one and two people every day are committing suicide for gambling—related reasons. by thursday, the westminster rumour mill suggested that tracy crouch the sports minister whose brief included gambling was thinking of quitting. labour forced an urgent question in the comments. what this amounts to, mr speaker,

is a betrayal of the promise made by his two predecessors, the secretary of state, it's a betrayal of the government own three year review, that was meticulously conducted by the member... the culture secretary denied there was a delay. but it was also right to consider planning to reduce the effect ofjob losses for those working in betting shops on the high street, and allowing time for that planning to take effect. it also has be recognised, that right though this change is, money for public services coming from the use of fobts has to be replaced or public services will have less funding. that failed to pacify his critics. don't give me warm words, give me action. april 2019, we cannot lose any more lives, because of these dreadful, dreadful machines. only a few were prepared to defend the policy.

fobts are not the first most dangerous forms of gambling, they're the fifth most dangerous forms of gambling. and can i suggest to him that he does take into account the losses that will be suffered on the high street in terms ofjobs for men and women and young people, who also will suffer poverty and also the losses to the horse racing industry. later, as the budget debate neared its conclusion, afterfour days, a former conservative leader made an 11th—hour plea. i wonder if she'd give an undertaking, date time for the finance bill we will certainly return to this. i don't think it's an issue for the finance bill, but i certainly am happy to discuss it with my honourable friend about what more we can do. within minutes, mps had approved the budget and tracy crouch had left the government. getting a hug from labour's carolyn harris who broke news of her resignation to mps.

can the chancellor confirm to the house that this is the first time a member of the government has resigned during the votes on a budget as a direct result of the chancellor's of policy? of the chancellor's policies? thank you. that may not be the end of the story. labour will try to get cross—party support to force a vote on the policy in the weeks to come. now, how prepared are we for brexit? it's currently the most—asked question by mps on a variety of select committees. it's fair to say that quest for answers has had a mixed success rate. the immigration minister had a bruising encounter with the home affairs cmmittee on tuesday, they're trying to find out whether employers will have to check the immigration status of eu migrants if there is a no—deal brexit. i'm still struggling to understand this time next year, as opposed to in five years‘ time, but this time next year, will there be any change as to who has a right to work here or not?

yeah, because we will have brought forward the future immigration system and eu citizens will not have an automatic right to work in the uk, unless they've been through the same processes that we are going to apply to the rest of the world. we are very conscious that this is an enormous challenge, and the question is, do you wish us to discriminate against those eu citizens who have absolutely every right to be here and work, or should we have a pragmatic approach, and make sure that we implement a system, as part of our future immigration system, whereby eu citizens who are coming here for more for more than a visit, have to go through the same process as everybody else. ok, i'm just still really baffled... perhaps senior officials could help the minister out and leave yvette cooper less baffled. surely we have a right to know whether or not there's going to be less security information available to our border force officers when making a decision on whether or not to let someone in the country.

so, the answer is that we're doing all that we can to mitigate the potential disruption... i'm sure you are, i'm sure that you will be doing absolutely everything you can to mitigate these risks, but what i want to understand is what is the scale of the risks and surely parliament has a right to know this information. it's probably better for me to come back to the committee. it strikes me that part of the answer to your question can only be known once we've actually had the conversations necessary if we find ourselves in that position, so the sort of things that they're talking about it involved interpol and bilateral arrangements in terms of... you've only got five months left. if there's no deal, surely you have done, it has to be one of the top priorities to do a security assessment of what the consequences are of no deal at the border. but if the government is less than well—prepared, what about parliament? if brexit means brexit, it also means of legislation for the government to get through the commons

and the lords by the end of march next year. ruth fox is the director which monitors these things so you don't have to. well there is two big legislative objectives. it has to bring in series of bills, to prepare ourselves for life outside the eu, so things like agriculture bill, about immigration and we also need a bill to deal with the withdrawal agreement if that's what we get later this year. and there is a whole level of other legislation, known as statutory instruments, which need to be passed by the 29th of march. the government estimate something in the region of 800—1,000 of them, to prepare our statute book, our body of law for life outside the eu. that sounds a huge work load, how will they get all that done? it's a lot, and at the moment

they will have to, i think, change sitting times, possibly in the new year. it all depends on whether or not we get a deal. if we do get a deal, the time frame may extend and we will have transitioned and implication period of some of this legislation we will be meeting by the 29th of march. the problem is, whilst we don't know whether we'll get a deal, we have to prepare for it, in legislative terms. but at the moment, that doesn't really seem within parliament to be that pressure on that timetable. and the worry is that a lot of it will get backed up from december through march. when you talk about the statutory instruments, almost in a technical way, it's almost changing a word here, and a word there, so that's possibly not a big deal? some of it is, i mean, what might seem technical and not a big deal to you and i, if you are a farmer how the registration of your livestock is regulated, for example, who you are accountable to, in regulatory terms, that would matter. some of these issues have quite

important consequences, in terms of the power coming back from europe and the regulation coming back and where it's going to reside in the uk those are big policy policy decisions. and members of parliament need time to scrutinize that and the concern is running now and march that the time for that is getting compressed. as you say, big political decisions, no effective government majority support from with the support of big dup and mps, how does the government actually get these through, can they be nodded through as statutory instruments or will that create a bit of a fuss? no, they can't nod them through. i mean, these 800 to 1,000 have to go through a parliamentary process and, in fact, when they agreed the european withdrawal act in the summer, they agreed to a new scrutiny process that enables a committee, in the house of commons, specially set up for the purpose, to scrutinise a significant portion of them.

and decide whether they should be upgraded to a higher level of scrutiny. so, in terms of process, there is time that's needed to do it, but also, we are expecting some of these instruments could be 150 pages long, according to the department of the environment. wow! so, mps and parliament's lawyers need time to look at the detail, as well, to ensure that they are correct and they're happy with them. so that is the biggest problem — it's time and it's space to do the scrutiny, but of course we're up against that 29th march deadline, which creates difficulties. and we can follow all this on your snappily entitled statutory instrument tracker on your website. yes. i mean, the hansard society, we've been examining statutory instruments from before brexit and the scrutiny of them has been long problematic. brexit has really brought the issues to the fore and what we're doing is tracking the data, so we can see the progression that the government is making. and, at the of october, they had only brought forward 105 of the at least 800 they need,

so they're only about 13% of the way there. that gives you some sense of the scale of the problem. it does indeed. ruth fox, thank you very much indeed. a quick look now at some of the other parliamentary moments in the item we call the round—up. peers complained they‘ re being kept in the dark over the brexit negotiations. it is extraordinary that we find ourselves in the situation where michel barnier is briefing meps almost daily and sharing draft texts, when select committees in westminster are kept in the dark. mps on the environmental audit committee got some sustainable fashion tips that may surprise you. the base layer garment, which i have had since i was 20—years—old, believe it or not, i'm 48 now, so that is still perfectly functional. is it m85?! no, it's another brand. it's perfectly functional as an outdoor product and works really well,

as well as it did back then. it's made from plastic. i've got the equivalent garment here, which i really like, because it's really soft and it's natural, but this is full of holes now. and mps on the transport committee found out why young people don't use buses. apparently, tickets and how to pay for them are rather confusing. the embarrassment factor was one of the key barriers. "do i need to have the right change?" "will i know where to get off?" "will i make a fool of myself in front of my mates?" and this is all the stuff that we, as an industry, really need to make very, very clear. now, he's been known as spreadsheet phil or even, sarcastically, box office phil. philip hammond has tried to live down his less—than—exciting image with jokes at his own expense, but in his third, and possibly last, budget, the chancellor of the exchequer turned to lavatory humour. yes, toiletjokes. new mandatory business rates relief for public lavatories, so that local authorities can

at last relieve themselves. groans. for the convenience of the house, mr deputy speaker... groans. ..and without wishing to get unduly bogged down on this subject... groans and laughter. ..this relief, the house will be interested to know, that this relief... well, at least i'm demonstrating that we are all british, aren't i? and he's not the only politician who has tried a bit of comedy, with predictable results. this report does contain some flashing images and some terrible jokes. and, of course, one other big event happened in my life, this year. the one the media was most interested in. my nosejob. 27th july. they even gave it

a name — ed nose day. i want to get back to my hotel room to watch strictly. do you watch it? of course you do. it is a well— known truth that every lib dem activist fancies himself in sequins. now, the problem with this series, though, i think, is that edwina currie just isn't a patch on our vince, is she? no, i think we need vince back on. well, what is it about politicians and comedy? a few hits and misses, there. let's talk to ayesha hazarika, who has worked in both worlds of politics and comedy. let's look at philip hammond's budget. leave the budget aside, what about his timing and delivery? i thought they were pretty grim, to be honest. i thought some of the puns were absolutely terrible! i'm very disappointed he didn't get the classic pun which is "all cisterns go".

i mean, if you're doing a toilet kind of thing, i'm available, phil, if you need me, just give me a call. i kind of thought... these budget speeches, the set—piece speeches are very difficult, because there lots is a lot of content in them and often you need these moments, to try and lighten the mood. and sometimes, a good joke in politics is excellent, because it really cuts through everything and it can make quite a powerful point, but these felt slightly gratuitous. it felt like a bunch of advisers were sort of thrown into a room and told to come up with the best toilet jokes that they possibly could. and even he seemed to slightly lose confidence with his delivery, so i would have to say, i would probably give that a one—star review. and what is it, what does make a good political joke? what works in an audience like the house of commons or even a party conference, as we saw there? well, you're right. they are the two key places to try and land a good joke, as a senior politician. i think you need a couple of things. first of all, it does need to be funny, but i think it also has to be authentic to the person making thejoke.

i wrote for a number of different politicians — gordon brown, harriet harman, ed miliband. they couldn't have done the same material. i think the mistake that sometimes politicians make is you get a text message from a senior politician going, "can you text me a joke, immediately?", that they can just crowbar into their speech. it has to sound like it's something they would say. it has to sound authentic, notjust to their voice, but to their character and to their politics and, also, there has to be a truth behind it. you are not a stand—up comedian in politics, you are notjust standing up, making random surreal odd jokes. you're trying to make a political point or score a political win, so i think the bestjokes in politics have got a real sting of truth, so people are laughing because the joke is funny. but it's funny because they think, "yeah, that is on the money with what's happening". you have written for very different politicians. why is it that some politicians can carry it off and others are sarah teather? poor sarah! i have to say, i am very supportive of women in comedy, but even i was, like, "aargh, make it stop, make it stop!" i think confidence is a big thing.

and that's also what stops, i think, a lot of women trying humour, but actually one of the people i worked for who nobody thought was funny, but actually did some brilliant jokes in the house of commons, if i do say so myself, was harriet harman. so, i think part of it isjust having the confidence to give it a go, knowing that sometimes, particularly at the beginning, when you're trying jokes, they possibly won't work particularly well, but you have to just keep testing them, keep trying them. don't do something that feels completely out of your character, as i said before, completely out of your comfort zone. but i think it is important to try, but you have to think, not for going for the really obvious things. you have to think about linking it to who you are and the political point you'll make. and also, self—deprecation is normally a very good tool in political communication, because sometimes, if you've had a bad thing happen to you, but you make the joke at your own expense, it makes you look stronger and it blunts the attack coming from your opponent, as well. you are on tour at the moment.

it looks like you've got a new warm—up act. phil hammond's available! spreadsheet phil! he's going to be amazing! this is the new cross—party politics that we've all been yearning for! good luck with that. thank you. ayesha hazarika. so, what's has been going on in the wider world of politics this week? with our countdown, here's carol hall. at five — if counting sheep doesn't work for you, nicky morgan has another suggestion. this session is actually being broadcast, so should you suffer from insomnia and watch bbc parliament in the middle of the night, you may find yourselves being broadcast. at four — wes streeting warns a panel of economics experts against the dangers of crossing some bbc parliament viewers. i would just say that lots of pensioners watch bbc parliament, so i hope you've got good security at home! at three — the tallest statue in the world was unveiled in india this week and it's182—metre high tribute to a politician,

independence leader sardar patel. at two — in plymouth, a crowdfunding campaign was launched aiming to raise a statue to nancy astor, the first female mp to take a seat in parliament. and, at one — the rapperformer formerly known as kanye west announced that he is stepping back from politics. ye says he wants to focus on creativity. carol hall. on wednesday, the choirs of the uk parliament and the german bundestag held a joint concert with the southbank sinfonia in westminster hall, to mark the centenary of the armistice which ended the first world war. it's a great honour for me to stay here and i think it's a very important symbol that our choirs sing together. we were enemies during the two world

wars and now we are friends since the end of the second world war. it is very important to stay together. choral music. now for the tale of a prime minister, a painter and the myth of perseus. arthur balfour was a young and wealthy tory mp when he asked his friend, the pre—raphaelite artist edward burne—jones, to decorate the drawing room of his london home. as a new show at tate britain reveals, it proved an epic project. the perseus cycle is one of burne—jones‘ great achievements.

itjust shows the sheer ambition of his vision, in wanting to produce something on this scale and in such detail. burne—jones insisted that the room be completely redecorated, so he tore up all the fitments, put in wood panelling, blocked out the windows, and put some coloured glass in some of them and designed the lighting. so you have this dim light, so that the figures would flicker and move across the wall. he wanted to create a totally immersive experience. so, he was working on the perseus cycle at the same time he was working on other projects, so the whole process or evolution was incredibly slow and balfour had to be very patient. in the end, burne—jones completed four of the oils, but we are able to recreate the whole ensemble because he produced cartoons, highly worked out cartoons, for each scene within the cycle.

after burne—jones‘s death, they came into balfour's possession, and we do know that he displayed them at the state dining room at ten downing street, the fourfinished oils. you canjust imagine the impact they would have on people coming into the room. and the edward burne—jones exhibition is on until february at tate britain. it is only a short walk from the commons, so you might see some mps popping in on their short half—term break. that's it from the week in parliament. thank you for watching. bye for now. it's not been too bad this afternoon

for many of us, not of dry weather around and lighter winds because we have seen the former hurricane oscar clearing north into iceland. taking strong winds with it. the south west of this next feature already bringing outbreaks of rain to the south—west of england and parts of wales and light rain in the midlands. a fine afternoon in the south—east, much of scotland and northern ireland has the best of the sunshine and it was mild. this evening, that rain will move on north across the irish sea but for most places, it should be dried. if you are heading out to firework events, many places will be dry and lighter winds, bats and for the 5th of november evening, it looks drier for most pretty much across the board and staying mild. that rain across the south—west and the irish sea will begin to move north, pop up in strength and it could be quite heavy across northern ireland and western scotland by the end of the

night. further south and east, dry and unbearable cloud, temperatures no lower than 6—11 in the south west. this is the pressure chart for monday, the weather fronts affecting western and northern parts of the country but elsewhere it should be largely dry. we are importing this mild airfrom the near continent, we should see the best of the sunshine in central and eastern parts, cloudy with our bags of rain in the north and west but that rain tending to ease down as we head to the afternoon and outbreaks of rain in the norm. 16 degrees across the south—east with good spells of sunshine. tuesday, this area of low pressure remains in the west of the uk but it will encroach a little bit further as we had through the rest of the day. more cloud, rain and the wind will pick up in western areas the further east you are, it will probably stay drier with a better chance of seeing the sunshine. pretty decent temperatures, 17 likely across east anglia and the south—east. feeling a touch cooler

for the west because of the strength of the wind. the weather front continues further east on wednesday, quite unsettled with outbreaks of rain pretty much anywhere but most of it across western areas where some will be heavy. temperatures, although quite mild, down a degree or so on tuesday. as the week goes on, it will remain fairly mild, particularly early in the weekend there will be increasing chances of wind and rain pushing from the west. it will be heavy at times. that your latest weather. this is bbc news. the headlines at 3pm: leave supporter arron banks insists all the money he donated to campaigns for brexit before the referendum was generated from his own businesses in the uk — and none came from russia. i'm telling you it came from a uk company... which company? ..which had cash generated in the uk. which uk company? rock services. we have evidenced that to the electoral commission. rock services is a shell company, it doesn't generate money. tributes are paid to the former cabinet secretary and head

of the civil service, sirjeremy heywood who has died from cancer aged 56. an investigation‘s begun into how eight children fell from an inflatable slide at a fireworks display in woking last night — seven of them have now been discharged from hospital. we don't still know yet exactly what happened, but eight children appear to have come off near the top of the slide, around the top of the slide, we are not quite sure yet,