israeli air strikes on gaza and rocket fire by palestinian militants towards southern israel have continued after a day of protests in the occupied west bank. three palestinians were killed in clashes with the israeli security forces in ramallah and nearby israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says palestinian militants have been �*set back many years�* by nine days of israeli bombardment. in new york, the latest meeting of the un security council has failed to reach consensus. spain has deployed troops after 8,000 migrants entered its north african enclave of ceuta from morocco. spanish officials say the migrants either swam around the border fences thatjut out into the sea or walked across at low tide. spain's prime minister has vowed to restore order.

now on bbc news it is time for tuesday in parliament. hello, and welcome to tuesday in parliament. as labour turns up the heat on borisjohnson. time and again, ministers act like the rules are for other people — none more so than the prime minister himself. but a minister says that line of attack isn't plausible. it is based not on fact, but speculation, innuendo, also in this programme: a carer recalls the challenges he faced getting help to fund dementia care for his mother. i understand bureaucracies. but this was kafka—esque, is the only way i could - describe it. but first: labour have stepped up their attacks

on boris johnson's fitness to govern, accusing the prime minister of acting "like rules are for other people". hello. as the pm toured a vaccination centre in london, labour's deputy leader, angela rayner, questioned the supply of covid contracts, the refurbishment of the downing street flat, and the issue of who paid for the prime minister's holiday to mustique — something that's currently being investigated. but the cabinet office minister, penny mordaunt, said her claims were based on "speculation, smear and innuendo" and rejected calls for further investigations. she'd been responding to angela rayner�*s urgent question. the ministerial code is clear — there must be no misuse of taxpayers money, nor actual or perceived conflicts of interest. but time and again, ministers act like the rules are for other people, none more so than the prime minister himself. last year, he declared £15,000 from a tory donor for his sleazyjet trip

to a private island. this weekend, mr speaker, we read that the real cost was double that and paid by someone else entirely. now, people might ask "why is this important, mr speaker?" it's important because it goes to the very heart of our democracy. who does our government answer to, the public or private interests? she thought the independent adviser on ministers interests should investigate their involvement in ppe contracts. when the home secretary lobbied on behalf of a former adviser flogging substandard facemasks who lands a £100 million contract without tender and double the going rate, who cannot perceive this as a conflict of interest? penny mordaunt said priti patel had been perfectly entitled to forward an offer of help from her local chamber of commerce. the charge she makes

is that the people she names are somehow on the take. that's the charge she's making here today on the floor of the house — that they have been focused not over the last 16 months on working their socks off to save lives, to get a vaccination programme up and running, to do the things that the public need us to do, but they have unbelievably entered into politics, made sacrifices, overcome the obstacles that she will be aware of to get into this place, not to serve in public life, but to do a mate, or more accurately a tory mate, or someone that they vaguely know, or met in a lift once or perhaps don't know at all, a favour. that is the accusation that she is making today. i'm afraid this is why the labour line of attack is not getting traction, well rehearsed though it is. it's not getting traction with the public because it is not plausible. it is based not on fact, but on speculation, innuendo and smear. the snp asked whether david cameron's work

for the collapsed finance firm greensill capital had broken the rules. given david cameron what was an adviserl for greensill capital has - reported, it had share options worth tens of - millions of pounds. does the 57 messages to senior officials that we're aware - of regarding greensill capital give any cause for suspicion. of impropriety, and will that be investigated - by an independent adviser? these issues are being looked at. there are reviews in train, and it would not be appropriate for me to comment on those until they have reported. i think all members of this house will want things looked at. they will want to ensure that we get to the bottom of these issues, and i hope too that we will look at the wider issues around gfg and the role of the snp in those matters. the steel company gfg was greensill�*s largest client — it was also lent money by the scottish government.

a conservative said the national audit office had found no evidence that ministers interfered in ppe contracts. does my right honourable friend agree that throwing unsubstantiated mud like this for party political advantage does notjust damage the government, but it damages our political processes and is deeply irresponsible. well, i agree with my honourable friend, and it's also damages business. the private sector...without the private sector, whether it be production lines changing what they produce to produce what the country needs, without the effort of the private sector, we would've been really sorry state. but labour kept up the pressure. if the prime minister doesn't| respect the ministerial code, how can he be expected tojudge the behaviour of other— ministers who may have breached it? i the prime minister does respect the ministerial code, and he is the arbiter on it. what we really need is a judge led inquiry with the power

to order production of evidence and to take evidence on oath and with the threat of appropriate sanctions for noncompliance and for perjury or equivocation. in preparing for this urgent question today, i had in my pack a list of the inquiries that are going on into one aspect oranother, and it ran to something like one and a half pages. my personal view is i don't think we need any more reviews. we have the committee on standards, we have the house authorities, we have the boardman review, we have all of these pieces of work looking at all of the issues honourable members have raised this afternoon. penny mordaunt. labour has called on the government to set a deadline ofjune next year to ensure buildings in england with dangerous cladding are made safe. june 2022 will be the fifth anniversary of the grenfell towerfire, in which 72 people died. as mps debated the queen's

speech setting out the government's plans, the housing secretary defended his approach and hailed proposed changes to planning in england. the government has announced plans for new safety rules for high—rise blocks in the building safety bill. but labour argued it would fail to protect leaseholders. after 11 years of a conservative government, that's become a pipe dream. their market driven ethos just won't create the homes we need. and for people trapped in buildings with dangerous cladding, that dream has become twisted and become a waking nightmare. the housing secretary focused on the government's determination to increase the supply of housing in england "at pace". and that means taking decisive action to remove the barriers that for too long have held us back. my department has a unique opportunity to achieve transformational change that will improve the lives of millions of people. we will be working on the most substansive reform of leasehold, and property rights and of building safety,

renters rights and of planning in a generation. 0n fire safety, he said the government aimed to raise £2 billion from developers to help deal with the issue of dangerous cladding. as members are aware, leaseholders in high—rise, high—risk buildings over 18 metres will pay nothing — with their costs either being paid by the developers, the insurers, the warranty providers, or by the taxpayer through our £5 billion government fund. the largest ever government investment in building safety and five times the size of the building safety fund that the party opposite set out in their manifesto. fire safety in scotland is a matter for holyrood. scotland has only a handful of grenfell type claddings l on buildings, while this. is a much more widespread problem across england. we in scotland can look forward to a single building assessmentj programme, soon to be launched carrying out safety assessments i of all properties with external

cladding so that the scale - of the funding needed can be identified for. the necessary remedial work. there will be no first—come . first—served approach when it comes to buildingl safety in scotland. and there was further cross—party criticism of the building safety bill. when the building safety bill comes before us, ministers will find amendments to provide that protection to leaseholders, but we are not giving up, and there is a growing number of members in this house, including on the government benches, who are determined to do right by our constituents because they've run out of patience, and they are running out of time. as their lives remain on hold, their flats remain worthless, they face monthly bills for waking watches and insurance premiums, and the demands are starting to arrive for sums of money that basically do not have. wouldn't it be even better if the government was to do a u—turn now and decide not to lay out the door of those people who are blameless

the cost, the price incurred by those who are guilty of recklessness and lethal decisions in both the development side and in the government regulation side and the development of properties over the years. it is absolutely outrageous that we are apparently about to penalise the innocent for the failures of the guilty. before this legislation, i leaseholders were facing unpayable ruinous costs of pounds each, literally trapped in fire trapped l buildings, mortgagable, - unsellable, with no way out, and after this bill— is enacted with its regulator and its new homes ombudsman and its new framework- to provide national oversight of construction products, - they will still be in - exactly the same position. but a senior tory pointed to the £5 billion of taxpayers�* money going into the removal of dangerous cladding. i would caution my colleagues who think that they will be able to get substantially more money coming from the treasury. what we have to do is to ensure

that we get the end of forfeiture, which is why i welcome the leaseholder reform. we need to ensure that the cost falls in the appropriate place, not on leaseholders, and that we don't absolve developers and builders of their responsibility to put right the mistakes that they created. the reality is that we need to protect leaseholders from the unscrupulous behaviours of developers. under the leasehold reform bill, that will take things forward from now onwards, but we have to combat people like bellways who sell the freeholders from under the noses of the leaseholders without even informing them to finance companies that exploit them to no end. bob blackman. you're watching tuesday in parliament with me, david cornock. don't forget, if you don't make it back from the newly re—opened pub in time for our daily highlights from westminster, you can catch up via the bbc iplayer. now, if you were watching monday in parliament,

you'll have seen the health secretary, matt hancock, tell mps that the majority of those hospitalised by the indian variant of coronavirus in bolton had not been vaccinated — even though they were eligible for a jab. in the lords, labour questioned his approach. i regret to say this, but it seemed to me yesterday that the secretary of state was reverting to a blame game. perhaps to deflect from the fact that the government didn't do enough to protect us from this new variant. but he said that people infected by the new variant in bolton had refused or not taken up the vaccine, and had chosen not to take the jab. and i felt that that was very unfair. my honourable friend, the mp for bolton, says that the vaccine was not easily accessible to some of the poorer and bame communities in bolton. for example, people having to take three buses to get to the vaccine centre in the centre of town. and if you're not mobile

and don't have flexibility in your working hours, or are a key worker and have caring responsibilities in a multi—generational household, you are not refusing the vaccine if you can't get to it. the noble baroness spoke touchingly, i think, about the feeling of blame associated with those who hear that those in hospital are those who haven't taken the vaccine. and i hear her comments. but my lords, there is no attribution of blame and i hear her comments. but my lords, there is no attribution of blame meant in this. it is a simple statement of fact that if you do not take the vaccine that is offered to you, if you don't take two doses and you expose yourself to the virus, that is putting yourself in substantial danger. and it is a clinical observation that many of those who have ended up in hospital with severe disease are those who haven't had the vaccine, even though they may have been offered it. lord bethell. more from him in a moment.

0rganisations that support people with dementia have called on everyone to "pool the risk" by paying more tax to fund social care. they were speaking to the health and social care committee which, during dementia action week, is investigating how to improve treatment. the mps heard from john 0'doherty, a former senior financial officer for a local authority who was diagnosed with vascular dementia. over a less—than—perfect line, he described how, as his condition got worse, he was unable to handle even small amounts of money. i was slowing down and could no longer... inaudible personality-wise, it was awful. _ and it got to the stage where i changed from a person to go to to a person to avoid. a carer talked about the challenges he faced getting funding for his mother's nursing care. after delays and errors, a panel of health and council officials decided that she didn't qualify.

the way in which they handled that was appalling, they wouldn't tell me the reasons for that, they didn't even tell me there was that panel — so when i appealed, because i thought it was an admin mistake, it transpires it wasn't. just an utter catalogue of errors. so we were back in the same position of, you know, my mum's hard—won savings being used to fund her care. life progresses, her illness progressed. i didn't want to have to go through that process of arguing with this awful bureaucracy — and as i said, i was a senior civil servant, i understand bureaucracies. but this was kafka—esque, is the only way i could describe it. his appeal against the decision was rejected. no support was provided whatsoever for mum. i had no choice but to sell her home to make sure we could continue to pay those fees. and, less than six — i think it was 3—4 months

after that appeal... actually, no, forgive me, two months before they rejected the appeal, so in january, mum died. listening to this powerful testimony were organisations that help individuals living with dementia. let me just ask you very- bluntly — if you were secretary of state for a day, _ what would be top of your list of things to change if we're going to improve the care i of people with dementia? the stories told byjonathan and john are so powerful, and something that we hear outside of society day in and day out. absolutely heart breaking, particularly through this pandemic. it's been the toughest year for people affected by dementia. so, you're right, there are, a multiplicity of things that we need to tackle in what is, you know, without a doubt, the biggest challenge that we face in health and social care. if we put infectious diseases to one side,

this is the biggest non—communicable challenge that we're facing. you know, there are issues and things that we can tackle around prevention and risk reduction because we know that through the commission, 40% of dementia in the future could be reduced in terms of the risk by taking steps particularly in midlife. but the most important in the most urgent and pressing need is for social care reform, because we know whilst at the moment, the diseases that cause dementia are not curable yet, we know that there are things that can be done by the government to really ensure that the stories that we're hearing from jonathan and john are not everyday occurrences. the health committee published a report last year on improving social care. if the chancellor was here, he'd say that the select committee's on a report said this would cost a minimum of an extra £7 billion a year into the adult social care budget by the end of the parliament — but potentially, more than that, {10—12 billion a year more. so, where will that

money come from? just briefly, because i think we can't really have an intelligent debate about this unless we're honest about the fact that the money has to come from somewhere. we're all going to have to pay more if we're i going to have a decent social care system. - and i think that's ok. i think it's something for everybody. - this is often just viewed i as an older people's issue, but it's not. obviously, there are younger people with disabilities. - you can fall down the stairs. tomorrow and have a serious brain injury at 30 and | need long—term care. so this is something - that we should have in our society and we all need to pay. caroline abrahams. now on monday, the brexit minister, lord frost, told a group of mps that relations between the uk and the european union could remain "bumpy for some time". the tension�*s over new trading arrangements for northern ireland, and the minister said issues over the supply of a drug used to treat lung cancer highlighted the problems. he accused the eu of wanting to regulate cancer drugs in northern ireland rather than the uk. but when the issue was raised

in the lords, a minister tried to reassure peers. my lords, the innovative lung cancer drug tagrisso has recently had its licence expanded to include patients with early—stage lung cancer through project 0rbis. i'm pleased to confirm that tagrisso is currently available to all patients, including in northern ireland, at clinical discretion with no delays. the uk government is committed to support parity of access for medicines across all parts of the uk. my lords, people will be reassured to hear that. but the factor of the matter is, surely, that the use of this drug for early treatment of lung cancer remains subject to the approval of that ema. and access at the moment is available on an application by clinicians on an individual—case basis — which is not the same ease of access as exists in the rest of the uk. while it may be a matter

of some assurance that the ema is expected to approve its use for this purpose of early treatment in the near future, that remains wholly outside the government's control. what does that say about the integrity of our national health service, and how long can this situation go on? lord bethell? minister? well, my lords, we estimate that there are currentlyjust eight patients in northern ireland who would benefit from the expanded use of tagrisso for early—stage treatment. can i assure my noble friend that they will all have the same access as in the rest of the united kingdom without any delay or restraint on that access? i do fear that what seemsj to be, my lords, a certain complacency in the department of health about what will- happen in northern ireland from next january, - when brussels takes over. control of medicines coming into northern ireland.

how can a conservative i and unionist party actually accept that our national health service is now going to be - separated out — whatever- the goodwill of my noble lord is to make sure this is not happen? - well, my lords, i do reject the accusation of complacency. we've worked unbelievably hard with northern irish and with eu colleagues in order to make sure the smooth supply of medicines in northern ireland. and the facts do speak for themselves — so far, they've run extremely smoothly, indeed. but i'd like to assure the noble baroness the uk government is committed to parity of access for medicines across the uk, including northern ireland. despite different approval works, we have ensured that all patients have access to medicine at the same time, and we will maintain that commitment. lord bethell. back in the commons atjustice questions, labour pressed the government on its plans to tackle violence against women and girls. mr speaker, the government's

2019 manifesto promised to do right by victims and fight crime against women and girls. but i have to say to the secretary of state, nothing has seemed further from the truth. women don't need rhetoric, they need legislation. but he appears more interested in silencing protests then giving a voice to victims of sexual crimes, more interested in defending statues than women and girls. will the secretary of state show he cares by working cross party to implement labour's bill on ending violence against women and girls? well, that wasn't a question, mr speaker, that was a sound bite which bears no reality to what this government has been doing. we've passed landmark domestic abuse legislation, we've worked tirelessly in the fight against violence against women and girls, and we continue to do that in our new bill — a golden opportunity for the party opposite to work together with us. and what are they do? they vote against it, they vote the whole thing down.

until i see the party opposite truly match their rhetoric with their deeds, then i will believe it. so far, their record has been dismal and weak. but the story of one woman who'd been sexually assaulted in the street united both politicians. in 2019, phillip leece viciously raped a woman on her way home from a night out. she was 26 and soon to be married. adding insult to injury, he published the name of his victim online and ridiculed her as being "too fat" and "disgusting" to rape. for this, he received a pathetic £120 fine. if he won't commit to implementing labour's whole bill on ending violence against women, will he at least agree to implement labour's proposals for tougher sentences for those who name and shame victims of sexual offences? the naming of victims of sexual abuse, and indeed other types

of offending, as well, where anonymity is an essential part of the process is notjust wrong, it is criminal. and we will do whatever it takes to help stamp it out. robert buckland. the business secretary has told mps that the government's already delivering its ambition of a green industrial revolution six months after it launched its ten—point plan. kwasi kwarteng reminded mps that the uk will host the cop 26 climate conference later this year. the ten—point plan demonstrates not only our commitment to this green recovery, but also to the kind of leadership we want to show in this vitally important year. all of these actions, mr speaker, bring us a step closer to net zero by 2050, meeting this planet's greatest threat with ambition and innovation that is absolutely necessary if we are to hit our goals.

labour said it recognised that the government's targets were ambitious by international standards. but the secretary of state's central challenge is whether targets are matched by the scale of action required in this decisive decade. and i do have to say to the secretary of state that, once again, his statement shows that the government is very good at self—congratulation, but perhaps less good at self—awareness. because i think the evidence is that there is a wide gap between rhetoric and reality. key crucial areas not dealt with, the scale of finance not delivered, leading us to be off—track on our target. ed miliband. and that was tuesday in parliament, thank you for watching. i do hope you canjoin me at the same time tomorrow for wednesday in parliament, including the first prime minister's questions of the new session. until then, from me, david cornock, bye for now.

hello. although the weather will be a little quieter across the uk overall today, in contrast to recent days, it's not settling down properly any time soon. the end of the week looking very stormy indeed, and that will be thanks to this area of low pressure barreling in on thursday and friday. we've kind of got a weak area of low pressure still with us for today. it's going to feed in a band of more organised showers to the south for first thing. this should clear the south—east, though, by the time we get to lunchtime. cloud and some patchy rain drifting south across scotland, and then through the afternoon, livelier, thundery showers develop, particularly across eastern scotland and the eastern side of england. a few elsewhere towards the west, but generally much drier for wales and the south—west and many parts of the midlands than it has been of late. as we move through the overnight period, clear skies and light winds, actually pretty chilly into the small hours of thursday with a risk of a few pockets of ground frost, particularly for central and eastern areas. in the west, the wind will already, though, be starting to pick up, the cloud piling in and this deep area of low pressure

starts to make itself felt first thing on thursday. wind and rain into the west, spreading to all areas through the day. yes, there will be some heavy rain, but potentially not as heavy as some of us have seen out of the recent showers. the big issue is likely to be the wind, particularly gusty in areas adjacent to the irish sea, gusting 45—50mph, strong enough to do some damage and cause some disruption. 0ur temperatures still very unremarkable for the time of year, at least a couple of degrees below where we'd expect to see them. thursday into friday, the area of low pressure continues its progress across the uk, so another windy day on friday. perhaps a little bit drier towards the far south and to the far north, but overall, plenty of showers still set to swirl around that low.

and the biggest headache yet again will be the winds. very strong gusts across southern britain on friday. and still our temperatures, well, we're barely scraping into the mid—teens. for the weekend, it looks like things will become somewhat quieter, certainly on saturday, perhaps some dry weather towards the west. yet more showers, though, on sunday.

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