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next we look back at highlights of the recent parliamentary session in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic including uk relations with russia and china and protest in response to the death of george floyd. from the bbc parliament, this is just about one hour. >> welcome for the last few months have not all been about coronavirus, the next half hour we will take a look at the other big story since december. include lead boris johnson gets his brexit parliament. >> this bill is a lesson of the last parliament and will reject any further delay. >> he labors a new leader. >> he has been found out, he gave a question.

>> also on this program, a new short-lived budget, tensions rise with russia and china, the uk's colonial history comes under the spotlight and as new mps make their first, one has struggled to get into politics. >> i was not initially told that the chances someone like me will be very slim and not to either bother trading. >> boris johnson took over from teresa may and july 2019, they are faced the same old problem, a parliament with no majority to push through as a brett enter brexit divorce deal. upon the deadlock he tried and failed to call upon election but he eventually opposition agreed to the balance and got their fingers and as boris johnson swept with an 80 seat majority. and by labor in the north of

england, the nice other big winners were the scottish national was scotland's 59 constituencies, it was a dismal showing for the labor ending up with 202 seats down 60 while the liberal democrats called the election and gain some but lost more including their leader joe simpson who was rejected when voted. later on december the 19th the queequeen came to westminster to help 66 vote for parliament. although this was a far more dressdown of usual, it was a brief speech, no surprise what was at the top. >> my governance priority is the united kingdom departure from the european union on the 31st of january. my ministers will bring forward legislation to ensure the united kingdom exit on that date, and to make the most of the opportunities and this brings all the people the united

kingdom. >> boris johnson promised voters he would make a start getting brexit done but at the time they sat down for the christmas lunch. he put his work in the next day paving the way for brexit on january the 31st 2020. he said it was time to break the deadlock and reunite the country. >> this is the time when we move on and discard the old labels. >> the very word seems tired from the two begin and views at the end of the plague. >> the uk would leave the ui generator 31st the one year transition in which things would remain pretty much the same allowing time for uk negotiations on the future relationships. boris johnson insisted on like the divorce talk, the transition would not be extended. >> this bill knows the parliament unlike members and

rejects any further delay. >> theresa may's government was the northern islands democratic to get votes through, not so boris johnson is the only arrangement in the deity was not happy. >> he needs to understand the concerns for northern ireland past the differentials, the potential to protect any needs to understand the concerns that we share because we want to ensure we leave as one nation. >> after its election the accepted parliament cannot go on with the results but boris johnson's bill was guiding the uk with the regulation and what he calls a toxic deal with donald trump. >> the choice we now face is between keeping the highest environmental food standard in order to get the future trade deal with the european union or slashing through standards to match those of the united states

where there are so-called except the goal levels, and orange juice it is true, wales, england and wales, northern ireland is getting a special deal on the right to decide our future. the prime minister offers scotland nothing. >> the uk anti-brexit party except it is time to move on. >> my passionate relief that uk is better off as a proud member inside that you then it is irrelevant overnight. i no longer choose to voice his opinion. and to stop brexit is over. during a hall pass it passed its third common vote at the christmas lunch pledge, on boris

johnson's primer ship making changes on citizen rights and legal rulings from the eu. but the biggest route was over unaccompanied child refugees. lou dobbs came and was unhappy that the withdrawal agreement bill would no longer allow children to come to the uk to be reunited with their families trade minister said child refugees were protected by other legislation, he was not satisfied. >> by giving young people as well as the inhumane with the opportunity to join family members here. >> the minister said the government was committed to protecting bondable children. >> we received over 3000 asylum claims from unaccompanied children in 2018. the third-highest intake of any eu number state.

>> peers were persuaded and the government was defeated. >> content 300, not content 220. >> boris and the others were overturned in the divorce bill passed just a week before brexit on generator 31st. >> i have to notify the house in accordance with the act of 1967 that your majesty has signified the following act, european union with full agreement act 2020. order order. >> with that it was time to talk with you on that uk's relationship with the biggest trading partner would be when transition ends on december the 31st. those negotiation continued but the two sides seem far apart in the little closer together as a summer went home.

>> having brexit get there boris johnson moved to put a stamp on his cabinet, reshuffling his ministers in mid-february, that produced an immediate shock when they reject the prime ministers order despite his team of eight, he was replaced and a month later found himself delivering one of parliament's big events, the budget. he had drawn up plans for the growing coronavirus crisis and there was plenty else in his speech too, he announced rises to the national insurance threshold on fuel and alcohol, 600 billion pounds of the investment on packaging. >> this is for the government to get things done adding taxes, keeping the cost of living low, investing in our nhs, investing in our public services, ideas backing business protecting our

environment, building roads, building railways, building colleges, building houses, building our union and it delivers on our promises of people's budget from a people government and i commend it to this hour. >> by tradition opposition not the charge letter response to the government statement. >> into force down the living standard and the chances of millions of our people for decades, the talk of leveling up is a cruel joke. the government is trying to say this is a budget that will take action change. you see it freeze again, 27 billion pounds 24000-millions of road that does not sound like it to me. and announced it's going to make a difference, 1 billion pounds on green transport measures, this is completely absurd. >> as of the debate computed,

reviews did not get any warmer. >> in the hedge funds and they're not going to argue the government needs to listen to the questioning for our concerns and it's ravaged our communiti communities. jeremy's appearance at the budget was one of his last appearances and he would stand down after the disasters election result. >> the privilege of my life, the elected as leader of the labor party. >> with coronavirus at its height, the announcement victory came by video as his message to support his promising to work constructively and his opposition. and with growing stocks and hospitalize a covid-19, the two did not face each other until early may, at a time of national

crisis, the early exchanges were low-key but as the weeks passed the new labor leader increasingly pressured the pm over policy such as rate of child privity. >> last week from the government social ability commission concluded that to an outside center thousand more children living in relative poverty within 2012. the report went on to say, child poverty rate are injected to increase to five-point to million by 2022. what does the prime minister think because that? absolute poverty, relative poverty has both declined in the government there are hundreds of thousand, 400,000 fewer families living in poverty now than there were in 2010. >> he was so unhappy with those answers he raised the figures again the following week. >> mr. speaker there is a theme to these exchanges, about child

poverty. she said absolute child poverty relative child poverty has declined under the government, on monday the office of the children commissioner mostly false. he's been found out, he gave the duchess a question. >> the 100,000 fewer children, 500,000 children within the threshold of low-income and material deprivation. it is massively increasing a universal credit, 7 billion mo more. >> it will force immediate families in our country. >> boris johnson reckoned it was labor leader who changed his mind on key issues. >> away from westminster offering deadlocks the government was finally restored to northern island. in the coalition led by the d uc collapsed and generate 2017 and

it was broken by smith and the irish foreign minister and it was a short-lived trial for the northern ireland and five weeks later he was fired and boris johnson's reshuffle. the initial meeting of the northern ireland assembly appointed the dop army and as the deputy. members of the scottish parliament both 64 - 54 for a new referendum on scottish independence. the minister wants to hold the pole this year but for that to happen the prime minister boris johnson might have to agree, something he is rejected, as he set out her case. >> today and asking parliament to endorse a basic principle and they haven't won since the 1950s, instead by all of us who live here in called scotland home, lesbian from by why we are

here today, not because the first minister think she's going to hold the referendum this year, she knows that's not going to happen. the reason we've been called here today, because she needs to convince the yes movement behind her and beyond that something is happening. or that something is not actually happening then don't worry, will be happening soon. mostly understood in this parliament and in this debate this afternoon is that the people of scotland do not want another independence referendum anytime soon. >> we need to move on and unite the country, we need to tackle the challenges that we all face and if we do that we will have a better scotland and a better united kingdom. >> what needed celebration from the national assembly to take its title to the welsh parliament, the 60 elected members of the senate i don't geestimated it will cost around 290,000 pounds over five years,

the change was not just cosmetic, it was also the voting age for senate election from 18 - 16. elections at whatever age were the answer for 100,000 antiracism demonstrations who took to the street across the uk following the death of african-american george floyd killed by u.s. police. one of the biggest gatherings was in london where the police set up for a peaceful protest to face entirely in violence and disorder. 27 police officers were injured, and brussels edward a prominent 17th century slave trader was ripped down and thrown into the dark. the attacks on police were strongly condemned by the secretary. >> there is no excuse of the officers, during fights at police officers. attempting to disrespect the senate and vandalizing for

statue of winston churchill. >> is behind do they recognize their structural inequality, discrimination and racism in our country, behind secretary recognize people want to see action from this government, my son turned three, i do not have to wait until he's a teenager before we see changes in this country. >> she is graphic language to recall racism is shamefaced. >> i am saddened that the oval lady has not understand racial inequality on that basis it must have been a very different home secretary who is a child that goes to plan the playground, a different secretary he was racially abused industry or even advised to drop her phone and use her husband's to advance her career, when it comes to racism and for racial justice, i will

not take this from the other side of the hand. >> let's take a quick look at some of the bills that the parliament of this year. legislation to reduce between divorcing couples. the divorce dissolution is separation was a big shakeup in 50 years. previously one stop had to allege adultery on behavior separation. now they won't have to stay with the marriage or civil partnership has broken down irretrievably. emergency legislation was passed in the release of convicted terrorist halfway through the sentence. the measures were drawn up after attacks including one on london bridge in which two people were killed, and stabbings with london in the last two injured, in both cases the attacks happened between her senses. the news was the parliament to prevent the third man who was accused to be freed at the end

of february. while the uk was strengthening its anti-terror lords to get the chinese more power in hong kong and what passed out in the thousands, and 2019 demonstrators took to the street over up and eventually withdrawn to allow extradition's to mainland china. but in spring 2020, china went back on the offensive with the new national security look, experts say it fundamentally changes the legal system and introduces new crime was severe penalty and allows mainland security personnel in hong kong with punitive. in condonation around the world and if beijing crosses the head and the british national oversee consulate. >> even at this stage i sincerely hope china will reconsider its approach, but if not the uk will not look the other way when it comes to the people of hong kong.

>> this is increasingly clear that we need an alliance of democracy to ensure that we can maintain as he said and construct dialogue with china and shared challenges and not climate change while standing up to aggressive behavior and breaches in international law. >> they contributed to debate by video link, but away with the governor of hong kong backing international action. >> the government itself to take a lead in putting together international contact group which can keep in touch the developments and continue to press china not to breach its international treaty obligation and not to breach the commitments it's made for high degree in hong kong. >> meanwhile a successful campaign by government backbenchers force ministers over the use of chinese tech companies while white and building the uk future 5g and

communication network. set to dramatically increase data speed and internet capacity. huawei insisted dependence of the chinese government but the u.s. to be excluded on security ground. at the start of the year and piling on the pressure. >> i hope the minister will see the concern that the whole house feels towards while wife in the idea that we should be nasty that dragon and we should be allowing the thoughts into the in-house would really we should be guarding. >> words are homegrown suppliers, what does the government dude to build the sector and is the minister is set upset the leadership from the government has brought us to this situation. >> it grew when the government announced they would be allowing huawei and limited vote in the 5g network. >> in the chinese commonest party has to be honest about

that and try to shape government policy and we have no friends out there on this issue whether the canadians, the americans, the australians, the new zealanders and they all disagree with us and the government saw the majority come to 24 and it rebelled the leader smith. just before the summer break, the government announced it will be stripping out huawei but with a price. >> today's decision to ban the procurement of the equipment from the end of this year will delay rollout by the third year end add half a billion pounds to cost, requiring operators in addition to remove huawei equipment from the 5g network by 2027 will allow hundreds of millions of pounds further to

the cost in further delay rollout. >> china was not the only nati nation, the long-awaited report by the intelligence and security committee on alleged russian interference on the uk democracy was controversial long before it was even published. it had been angered but had not been made public before december's election, then how long it was taking to reform the ifc "after words". when he did finally meet the members rejected, the government candidate for chairman chris, the fellow tory judy who was boosted out of the conservative parliamentary party. when the report was finally published it accused ministers of underestimating the threat of russian interference. it raised concerns about the progress of russian money in the uk and the government had actively avoided investigation kremlin interference in the brexit referendum. it insisted the uk had took action against russia

wrongdoing. >> we have been clear that russia must exist on its attacks in the uk and our allies, we are defending our country, our democracy and our values. >> he said the government was committed to do legislation on espionage, the opposition was scaling. >> no wonder the government was so desperate to delay the publication of this report. sitting on its immense and block it is publication before the general election. >> the report concluded russia money was being used for influencer crossed a wide sphere of the british establishment. >> time mystify the government ministers are taking millions of pounds from russian all the cart. we have to clean up her act in a has to start with the government. >> a conservative and former minister poses on a reference would directly russian companies links to the kremlin. >> some seem to be defending

indefensible, mainly the regime. i would've my noble friend could ensure that there is a closer investigation into one or two links that people have with the regime. >> i think it's extremely important that we should be on our guard, all of us against activities of the prudent regi regime. >> finally back in the comment, the general election brought in 140 new faces, right of passage for every new is to make better or speech. traditionally their lighthearted affairs recognizing that the assessor, electra and the unviable of their constituency. too many it's a chance to get their story. >> i want to tell the advisor with politics, i was allegedly told that someone like me in the parliament would be very slim

and not even bother trying, unlike parliamentary figures by naming him. >> another revealed she had been prevented with different career options. >> my mom who is regularly served in the same thing was true, while mom,. [laughter] given i have a biology degree on the nature of modern politics is a very good chance i've achieved through. >> the career advice brings us to the end of the program, would you please join us from september the first of the government at westminster finalizes brexit in the new mps phase more of test and dramas of west mr. life. but for now goodbye ♪ ♪