mr speaker, i repeat the point ijust made. the home secretary is doing an outstanding job and i have every the italian prime minister has confidence in her. if there are allegations, of course it is right announced a radical new restrictions in an effort to contain the spread that they should be properly investigated by the cabinet office of coronavirus. the restrictions and that is what is happening. for the purpose of clarity, will affect roughly 16 million if the inquiry into allegations people in the northern region of that the home secretary breached the ministerial code establishes lombardy. giuseppe conte described that her conduct fell below the standard expected, in any way and on any occasion, can the prime minister confirm the measures as rigourous but necessary because of what he called that she would be expected to resign or be removed from office? a national emergency. chinese the home secretary is doing an outstanding job delivering authorities have said at least four change, putting police out people have died following the on the street, cutting crime and delivering a new immigration system and i am sticking by her. resignation of an experienced civil servant. sacking of a government aide. colla pse people have died following the collapse of more than 70 people have been trapped. —— the collapse of a building that was being used as a quarantine for people with coronavirus. people stranded on the with this government, it seems as if allegations of bullying orjust being grand princess are being tested for coronavirus. the authorities will bring the ship to a non—commercial port and quarantine people there. incompetent, gets you promoted.

now on bbc news, the week and whereas standing up to it, you lose yourjob. what does this say about this prime minister? parliament. —— mr speaker, i loathe bullying. but i will not take any lessons from a party that has presided over systematic bullying and discrimination against those who stick up for the jewish community and for israel in this country. and we have still yet to hear hello and welcome. a proper apology from the labour in a week dominated by coronavirus, party and leadership what steps is the government taking? more allegations emerge of bullying by priti patel, we ask a former permanent for what they've done. secretary for his thoughts. they could face huge pressures in they could face huge pressures in the scenario but there are well, the resignation of a top civil they could face huge pressures in the scenario but there are ‘s they could face huge pressures in the scenario but there are ‘s some servant is highly unusual. reassurance. it is a perception that what's also highly unusual is that if you are older and you get this sir philip rutnam is now suing the government for virus, you are gone. absolutely not. constructive dismissal. i invited into the studio kaajal nathwani, who's an employment lawyer at the legal firm curwens, great majority will recover from and sir leigh louis, a former permanent secretary this virus. prime minister at work and pensions. with the government investigating whether the home secretary breached encourages new measures on sick pay to encourage people to self isolate the ministerial code, i began by asking sir leigh if they they have the virus. what exactly the ministerial code said about bullying.

they are helping to stop the spread. we ask a secretary for this in relation to the issues we are talking about, thoughts. with this government, it it is admirably clear. and just to quote a couple of lines seems that allegations of bullying from the very beginning of the code. orjust being "ministers should be professional and treat all those seems that allegations of bullying or just being incompetent with whom they come into contact seems that allegations of bullying orjust being incompetent get you with consideration and respect. promoted, whereas standing up to it, harassing, bullying, or other inappropriate or discriminating behaviour, wherever it takes place, you lose yourjob. they say is not consistent with the ministerial code and will not be tolerated." coronavirus is now being passed from person to person. they said they we re person to person. they said they were trying to delay the spread of covid-19 so that were trying to delay the spread of covid—19 so that the peak was likely but there's a fine line after other winter pressures on the between someone being quite firm with people who work for them, wanting them to do something, nhs were passed. professor whitty and actually that said the number of cases would going into bullying. is it not quite hard to see the difference there, finish. whether they have crossed the line? several cases we cannot see where it is, of course, and there this has come from in terms of the is no straight line. but i think that if you've been in a leadership role clear transmission, either somebody has come directly from overseas or in an organisation, you tend to know whether a particular set because they have had close contact of behaviours is one side of the line or the other. with somebody recently returned from and who can a civil servant go overseas. that i think makes it to if there is a problem?

highly likely therefore that there probably in the first instance, he or she would go to their own line manager. is some level of community but if it was a problem in relation transmission in this virus in the uk to how they thought they had been now. i think we should work on the treated by a minister, assumption it is here. at very low it would probably pretty quickly reach the permanent secretary. so who decides if the ministerial levels at this point in time, that i code has been breached? think should be the working well, that is a very good question. assumption on from which we go it is up to the prime minister first of all to decide whether they want to ask the cabinet forward. how exactly is it office to investigate the facts — transmitted? it is primarily a in this instance, that's what the prime minister has done. respiratory droplet so if someone but it is then finally up to the prime minister to decide coughs or sneezes usually within a couple of metres. whether the code has been breached in any individual case. it is a difficult decision for him, isn't it? inevitably because it is a question of weighing the facts. but it is also, as is only too evident, there are other that is the usual way considerations in play. what sort of other considerations? with these and probably a secondary route will be through our hands. the way our hands do this is by getting, touching mouth, nose and eyes. this is the reason why it is so critical people a prime minister is always wash their hands because that's the way in which germs which are on surfaces go from the surfaces to the individual. that is the route of transmission. considering the politics so just to translate that advice, if i may ask you to someone who is perhaps living in the same house as someone who has the virus. of a situation, always considering in that situation, providing the personalities involved. you wash your hands regularly, that is why some people have

you're not going to catch it suggested that actually, it ought to be more down to some through breathing the same air kind of independent personal body as someone else. to decide whether breaches of the code have taken place. so, washing your hands now kaajal, you're an employment lawyer. will prevent the route, what does constructive if you've touched the surface dismissal mean? they coughed over, and it goes constructive dismissal is essentially where an employee into the mouth. that would deal with that. resigns in response to a fundamental it won't if there are respiratory breach of their employment contract. droplets in the environment, and that fundamental breach can i think it is widely known either be a breach of an implied for example that one of the first term, which is the implied term ways of transmission in the uk of mutual trust and confidence — was lots of people living close and that is an automatic term that together in a ski chalet and that exists in the employment relationship. will be a prolonged exposure and more often than not, to a relatively sealed environment. where there are allegations of bullying and harassment, it is the implied term of mutual trust and confidence can fit and healthy people die from this virus? yes, fit and healthy people can die from virtually anything. but it is incredibly rare to happen. any of you and i can die from flu, that is relied upon. but it's very unlikely to happen. in your modelling, what is mortality rate for the over 80s? the mortality rate seemed to be somewhere between eight and nine percent. put the other way around, that means around 90% of over

eighty—year—olds survive it even they resign in response to that in the stretched health service breach, and those alleged breaches in china during this epidemic. so i think it is clear that the risk have to be more than minor or trivial. is very heavily weighted they have to essentially go towards older people, to the root of the employment but i think you would translate that contract in order for a constructive into if i'm old and they get it, unfair dismissal claim to be successful. i am likely to pass away. but presumably it is hard to prove? actually, the great majority it is. a whole raft of employment tribunal of people will survive this. claims centre around constructive even if they are in their 805. unfair dismissal, and quite often there are other heads of claims which are attached as well for discrimination, whistle—blowing, etc. but for stand—alone constructive unfair dismissal claims, they are difficult to succeed in because the burden of proof is on the employee to show the factual circumstances which aligned to the allegations, professor chris whitty. that the implied term the prime minister has announced is completely broken. thank you both very much. that workers will get statutory sick pay from their first day off work, rather than from the fourth, the government has rejected claims to help contain coronavirus. that it "sat on its hands" people have been urged to self—isolate if they suspect as the airline flybe collapsed. they may have the virus, to protect others. the downfall of the exeter—based borisjohnson delivered the news carrier has put 2,000 jobs at risk. at prime minister's questions. its failure comes two months when the prime minister brings after the government announced a rescue deal for the airline. forward the emergency legislation, flybe said its problems had been compounded will he guarantee that workers' rights to sick pay from day one by the coronavirus outbreak. as he has indicated, will apply on sick pay and all claimants and all those who are not currently eligible the directors therefore decided for statutory sick pay, it was not viable therefore will have to make to keep flybe operating. a terrible choice between unfortunately, in a competitive

health and hardship. the right honourable gentleman market, companies do fail is raising a very important point and we are very much and it is not the role aware of the issues faced of government to prop them up. by the self—employed and those the collapse of flybe is disastrous on zero—hours contracts. i should stress that some of them news for passengers and employees will be entitled to statutory sick alike, and will cause real pay — a great many. anxiety in many regions others will be entitled to help through the existing system such throughout this country. as universal credit, the loss of 2,000 jobs — and we are urgently looking at the application process many in areas very heavily reliant to reflect on the advice on self isolation. on aviation — it will be an extremely heavy blow. a series of conservative mps whose constituencies include regional airports highlighted the consequences of the collapse. this is devastating news for devon yesterday, the governor of the bank and regional connectivity for the south west. now is the time to invest of england suggested a financial in the south west, and my colleagues and i will be watching the budget with great interest. 84 years ago, the first spitfire flew from southampton airport bridge be made available to assist markets through any volatility. in my constituency on 5 march, 1936. if there is a financial bridge for markets, can the prime minister the news last night will be tell us, will there be a financial devastating to the 1,500 people that bridge for all workers and indeed rely on southampton airport those that rely on benefits that in my constituency. should not risk the threat the minister will know that 95% of sanction, if they cannot of flights are provided by flybe

at southampton airport, and that the short runway means make the appointments. it is unlikely the other carriers will be able to take the brunt of the replacement services. we will take every step that we can will she work with me and cornwall council, to ensure that businesses are protected, that the economy and the industry to find another remains strong and that no one, carrier to pick up this vital route whether employed or self—employed, as urgently as possible? whatever the status of their employment, is penalised for doing i thank my honourable friend. the right thing. i can confirm that we are determined to make sure that route continues. and i will, of course, work with my honourable friend and cornwall council in order to deliver that. kelly tolhurst. now, you may have noticed that sitting next to borisjohnson senior conservatives lined up was the home secretary, priti patel, to tear into the government's who's at the centre of a storm over decision to give the chinese allegations of bullying. sir philip rutnam, the most senior technology firm huawei a role official at the home office, in providing the 5g mobile resigned, alleging ms patel‘s conduct towards staff included phone network in the uk. "swearing, belittling people, and making unreasonable and repeated demands". the attack was led by a former conservative leader. there have been reports imagine in 1939, had we been developing our radar systems, of similar behaviour we decided actually to have one when she was at the department for work and pensions. of the nazi companies in germany and on wednesday fresh allegations become involved emerged about her time directly in doing it. at international development. 0h! priti patel denies all the allegations. the government is carrying out but we reduced the level an internal cabinet office inquiry — of involvement to 35% so only 35% but that didn't satisfy was controlled by them.

i wonder how ridiculous that is. i was surprised on a radio programme i heard a couple weeks ago that the labour leader. a director of huawei in this country who happens to be a former permanent secretary described huawei as being rather like john lewis... laughter will he now commit to an independent investigation ..in that was owned into the home secretary's conduct by its employees, and that we'd led by an external lawyer and commit all got this wrong. to a date when its findings does he agree with me will be made public? that that is an absurd characterisation of huawei? mr speaker, of course it is right that there should be well, it is either an investigation into any allegations of bullying, completely absurd, and that is what the cabinet office is doing it that is with or i am going to review my sir alex allen would be doing. purchases from john lewis. but since he mentions the home my socks may yet even be bugged. secretary, that she is keeping this an snp mp was struck country safe by putting record numbers of police officers, by the line—up of speakers. she believes in stopping the early you can tell this is important release of offenders because of the variety and she is bringing in a system of personalities sat here behind me. to tackle our migration crisis with an australian—style we have several points—based system. former cabinet ministers, a government cannot be judge and jury over its own conduct, a former deputy prime minister, there has to be an independent the chairman of the foreign affairs element to that investigation. 0vernight, mr speaker, selecthommittee, further allegations have emerged that the home secretary repeatedly the chairman and the former harassed and humiliated her private secretary while she ran chairman of the dcms committee the department for international were here earlier. development.

if this is true, this suggests if the tory party had a politburo, a shocking and unacceptable pattern this would be it, mr chairman. of behaviour across three government departments. on each occasion, tens of thousands laughter chi 0nwurah started her career of pounds of hard earned taxpayers as an electrical engineer money has been spaffed up the wall working for major telecoms firms. to buy their silence. if someone had said to me was the prime minister aware that a couple of decades later, of these allegations? 00:09:11,213 --> 2147483051:41:20,321 and if he was, why 2147483051:41:20,321 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 did he appoint her? we would be incapable of building a european telecoms network without a chinese supplier, i would have been absolutely dumbfounded. the minister tried to reassure mps. overtime, our intention is to reduce our reliance on high—risk vendors as market diversification takes place. and we want to get to a position where we do not have to use a high—risk vendor in our telecoms network at all. matt warman. now, the parliament's petitions website is back up and running. any submission that gets 10,000 signatures will receive a response from the government. those that get 100,000 will be considered for a parliamentary debate. the committee chair told faye kidd that petitions can lead to further investigation. and we did that into brain tumour research, which resulted in getting

more funding from the government. we also looked at workplace dress codes and whether women should be forced to wear make—up and high heels at work. and that resulted in the government issuing a new guidance on the issue. so there are a number of areas where we have genuinely made an impact and made a difference — not us in parliament, but the petitioners themselves who have called for this change. so, since it's reopened, how many petitions have you got? so, the petitions website onlyjust reopened a couple of days ago, but already in the last 2a hours, we've had 7a petitions tabled, and 6,000 signatures added to them, it's probably going up as we speak. so get on there and have a look, and if there is something that you want to support, get your name added. or if there is something that you'd like to raise, get a petition done, get five people to support it, and off you go. now, let's have a look at some other news from westminster. peers have called on the government to take firm action against china over the harvesting of detainees' organs for transplant. over 7,000 doctors in china

are involved in the systematic killing of prisoners through the horrific enforced body harvesting trade in that country. mps have been told that hs2 didn't make public problems with the project in its annual report because it didn't want to "scare the horses". in 2015, hs2 was predicted to cost £56 billion, but it could reach double that. there was lots of work going on with the supply chain. we were confident that we could find a way to get back to an affordable position. we felt it would be inappropriate to sort of say otherwise, because that would scare the horses. you knew, the department knew, word was beginning to leak out. but you, in your words, "did not want to scare the horses". i'lljust remind you that some of the horses in this race are the taxpayer. the government's decision not to appeal against a court of appeal judgement over a proposed third runway at heathrow has caused concern among some mps. the court ruled that

current plans were unlawful because they didn't take climate commitments into account. in the event that heathrow are successful at the supreme court, will the minister confirm that the government will not intervene to stop expansion occurring? any outcome of a supreme court ruling will be respected. long—awaited trade talks between the uk and the eu got under way in brussels on monday. the uk's chief negotiator, and his entourage of 100 advisers and civil servants, will focus on everything from fishing to financial services. in the commons, the government answered concerns about a trade deal with america. we will not be diminishing or lowering our standards as part of a us trade deal. and we will also not be paying more for drugs prices in the nhs. that is clearly laid out in our objectives for everyone to read. and if — which i don't believe to be the case — but if the us were to demand that, we will simply walk away. each year, the commons holds a debate to mark international women's day. it's become a grim tradition

for one labour mp to read out a roll call of women who've been killed by men in the past year. it took her four minutes. zoe 0rton. beatrice yankston. levi ogden. tessa gouiri. gabriel miriam. there was woman who lived on the street next to the street that i live on, and i saw the sirens and heard the roar, and knew i would have to read out her name. jess phillips. now, how do you fancy another summer bank holiday? 0ne conservative mp has introduced a bill calling for one to fall on the friday closest to 23june. but why then? we can celebrate the monarch, who has her official birthday in june. we can celebrate un public services appreciation day, which is 27 june. —— which is 23rd june. we could also, of course,

celebrate the fact that we had the greatest democratic debate and participation on 23june 2016 in the eu referendum. now, if there's anyone that doesn't support the monarchy or doesn't support the public services or doesn't support the union or doesn't support the referendum, well, they can always go to work on 23june. well, it's very likely we will all be going to work on 23june, because there's almost no chance his will make it into law. let's take a look at the wider world of politics. faye kidd has our countdown. at five — popularity polls... 60% of people asked by yougov said that they didn't know who you were. ..and awkward pauses, relations remained tense in the welsh assembly. at four — 5 march can only mean st piran's day, a celebration of cornwall‘s patron saint. "cornwall forever" — well, that's what we think the prime minister said. i wish him a happy st piran's day, and... speaks in cornish ..mr speaker. cheering at three — the union flag,

or is it the unionjack? oh, no, it's definitely the union flag. oh, i give up! i'll letjacob rees—mogg clear this one up. there is this pedantic, but erroneous view that it should be called the union flag. and it is used by people who are more pedantic than they are wise. at two — mps celebrated international women's day, but anne mclaughlin got a bit confused about who was sitting in the speaker's chair. mister — i mean, madam deputy speaker. i'm the second woman to call you mr speaker. and at one — how would you prepare for a tough negotiation? britain's chief brexit negotiator david frost enjoys a patriotic fry—up. bacon, eggs, beans and, mmm, brexit! faye kidd. finally, let's return to the subject of coronavirus and one very eminent doctor in the lords was troubled by social interaction. it seems to me that simply not shaking hands

is only part of the problem. social kissing seems to be something that we should not be doing. it's very easy to do that. somebody‘s tried to kiss me twice today, and i don't mean... laughter ..and i don't mean in the way that my wife, who might be listening to this debate, is concerned. the minister lord bethell had this to say on the matter. the noble lord is absolutely right about kissing. kissing is...wonderful, but potentially dangerous. but the analysis... laughter that's always been the case! and he went on to say that the most important thing was not to touch your nose. apparently, we touch our noses between 70—100 times a day, and that's why you need to wash your hands, so that when you touch your nose, there's no risk. and that public health message brings us to the end of the programme. don't forget, we look back at the day in parliament every weekday at 11pm on bbc parliament. but for now, from me, mandy baker, goodbye.

hello. saturday brought contrasting weather fortunes across the british isles, the south and east. dry for the most part. further north and west, it turned out to be a pretty wet and windy sort of day — not just on the ayrshire coast either. much of that brought about by this weather front which, through sunday, takes relatively mild air over towards the continent, leaves us with something slightly fresher. the isobars begin to open up a touch but there's still a fairfew of them, so it's a brighter day, yes, but there will be a scattering of showers. no great organisation about them, i suspect. the heaviest of them perhaps out towards the west, and a few more of them as well. but the temperatures just falling back a degree or two from the lofty heights of saturday. and we get into a showery regime to finish off the week

but the monday and the tuesday look to be mild and wet and windy. and for all of that, you have to look quite a way out into the atlantic, but with time, so that system works its way towards the western side of the british isles. monday starts off dry enough. don't be fooled. northern ireland, you cloud up in the morning and here comes that wind and rain, and then that pushes into the west of scotland, widely across the west of england, through wales. some really quite heavy rain in there. and it's driest for longest yet again further towards the east, both in the north—east of scotland and the eastern side of england. you get to see the wind and rain there later on in the day on monday. and then just when you hope that that frontal system will move away, itjust kinks a wee bit there, so we keep the cloud and the rain for the greater part of england and wales. for scotland, northern ireland, something a little bit brighter, but there are plenty of showers to be had across the north and west of scotland on what is going to be a blustery day right across the piste. but that front really makes

a difference because across central and southern areas — look at this — 15, 16, possibly 17 degrees! it's not overly cold further north, but you're closer to 8 to about 12 degrees or so because the air is coming in from just south of west and we keep it coming from that sort of direction through wednesday. but the weather front will have moved away, taking the very mildest of the air with it. brighter skies, therefore, for many of us on wednesday but still with a packet of showers across many northern and western areas. much drier, brighter prospect, though, further east, but notjust as mild as was the case perhaps for some of you during the course of tuesday. the second half of the week, as i say, the temperatures just begin to dribble away. no more the 17, but not bad for the time of year.

good morning. welcome to breakfast with ben thompson and nina warhurst. 0ur headlines today: new emergency laws to tackle coronavirus as the government says it wants to make it easier to recruit volunteers to care for those who become ill. italy also brings in emergency measures to fight the outbreak, which could stop people entering or leaving the worst affected regions.

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