including changes to the house floor, and the malaysian airliner that was shot down in ukraine. mccarthyiament's elisha hosts this one-hour program. ♪ hello and welcome to "westminster in review," are look back at all the big events in parliament since easter. coming up, the government gets a stamp of disapproval as tens of thousands of people are forced to wait weeks. >> this is a sorry shamble. >> the government will do everything he can while maintaining the security to make sure people get their passports in time. of patients,se children, and the vulnerable is revealed. >> a callous, opportunistic, wicked creditor -- predator.

>> the rights and wrongs of assisted dying. and after the european elections, we ask what now? still have might been munching the final fragments of their easter eggs. everything was far from business thetwo ministers were forced to defend the weatherization of royal mail. shares went up by more than one third. the national audit office criticized the handling of the selloff, accusing the business department of rushing. insisted thef mp's selloff had been a success. >> these shares were undervalued when they were floated. successful a flotation. we expected it to go to a premium on the first day.

you would have been critical if it had been wrongly writes -- priced and people lost a great deal of money, including the people who worked for the company. >> the approach seemed to do everything to ensure that it was sold. money for the taxpayers was a secondary interest. >> no. >> the strong advice that we received was if we had attempted d thesh the price beyon upper end of the range, there was a possibility that the large number of the people would have walked away from the transaction. by a feare motivated of failure. i understand that. i am happy with that viewpoint, but at least the general public -- by all accounts, they lost between

1.1 billion and 1.2 billion pounds. if what you say about supporting your argument -- you were wrong. >> no apologies, no regrets. and thely no apology recognition that hindsight is a wonderful thing about price. given the circumstances at the time and the fax that we had, the correct decisions were made. on "primeue appeared the nexts questions" day. >> there are conditions by the postal workers. can he explain why postal workers were told they could not sell their shares for three years? but hedge funds were told they could cash in on day one? who runs these hedge funds? they have been very coy on who runs these hedge funds.

none other than the chancellor's lead man. it is one rule if you deliver the chancellor's best man speech and it is another if you go to a chancellor's post. deficitt talk about the because it is falling. he cannot talk about the economy because it is growing. he cannot talk about jobs because there are 1.5 million more people in work. >> it is the government's confidence over the spending of questioned,as being it's experience in the air was questioned by travelers. it was estimated by some that over 500,000 applications for passports were stuck in the system. they claimed the normal application process had reached six weeks in some cases. the home secretary said the

majority of applications were being dealt with in time. that was no consolation for people waiting for the new passports. >> the government will do everything it can to make sure he will get their passport in time. bang singlebig solution. we will take a series of -- so we will take a series of measures to address the pitch points and sourcing measures. >> this is a sorry shamble. a secretary who cannot even bring herself to say the word. meansment incompetence people are at risk of missing their holidays, or honeymoons, their businesses. inundated andeen the secretary does not seem to know what is going on. >> ministers i know receive weekly updates about the flow of

applications and the turnaround. it is beyond belief and not credible that ministers were not aware of this trouble. >> yesterday, the opposition claimed that tens of thousands of people were having their holidays canceled because of passport delays. meanwhile, the association of travel agents have seen no increase in cancellations because of past four delays. who should we believe? will the home secretary apologized to my constituents, who are foster parents, applied , and weeksport later, they had a phone call from the office saying that the and theywas on its way book their holiday. six weeks after that, they still had not gotten a passport. child was not able to go on holiday with his parents. will she apologize to them? >> at this time, they should be

assisting their constituents and not cheap, smug, self-satisfied -- conservative. one other government response ability service repeatedly over the last few months, the planned introduction of a new benefit him a universal credit. the controversial scheme, which rolls six benefits into a single payment, was meant to cover one million people by last april. but the program has been reset amid continuing problems. it is now being rolled out to another 92 centers and more changes are being made. everybodyeve that will be on by 2017. >> i think it is the first time we have not heard the secretary of state say that this project is on time and on budget. but we still hear complacency.

at this rate, it will take 1052 years before universal credit is fully rolled out. so what do we have esther mark universal credit delays. arsenal independence payments to place -- payments delays. his incompetence is not only wasting tens of hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayer money, but it is causing untold pain and hardships for some of the most vulnerable people in our country. >> this government has entered into the biggest welfare reform program. you're getting more people into work. record numbers in work. more young people into work. more young people who have been long-term unemployed back to work. people have been cap, 6000 have moved into work. job match for 6.9 million people registered. -- these areram

all records of success and welfare. >> smith defending his universal credit program. of course, when it comes to government competence, this man is concerned with one thing, the performance of the economy. chancellor george osborne has been keen to don a hard hat and go around the country. to show business is bouncing back. it is a point he has been hammering home in the comments too. >> let me be clear. we said we would get the deficit down. the deficit has come down. we said we would recover and the recovery is taking place. would loseeople their jobs and 1.5 million jobs have been created. andeven on the deficit living standards are not rising. they are falling year on year on

year on year. does this chancellor really think his economic plan is working? let him answer this one simple question. , after fiveelection years of this chancellor, will the working people be better off than they were in 2010? yes or no? course written will be better off because we will not have the mess of an economy on the brink of collapse. >> george osborne in a characteristically robust exchange. down the corridor, many of the big issues of the day came up. there was also a small, quiet revolution. take a look at this. >> i move that this bill be read for the third time. the not read all

third time, millions treated in contempt. move that this bill do now, at last, pass. many of opinions as our content and not content. the contents have it. >> that might not appear to be anything extraordinarily, but it masked the passing of a latest attempt to pass a bill that allows peers who retire or be andwn out for attendance not breaking the law. this time, it went right to the wire of the parliamentary session before clearing its in the ceremony the next day.

>> house of lords reform act. bill justds reform squeezing through on the last day of the session. the program for the next parliamentary year and a list of introduced in the state opening of parliament a couple of weeks later. peers took a break. that did not mean that politics was on hold. campaigning was in full swing in the northern elections and european elections. came, wereen they dubbed by some eurosceptic earthquakes. in second while the conservatives dropped behind. across europe, the number of mp's from eurosceptic parties doubled.he --

surprisess was not a to many people here, but how was it seemed to the rest of europe? that was kind of a shock not only were they successful in the united kingdom, but there were so many other critical anti-european parties being very successful in france, especially. alsohen in hungary and germany. for the first time, you had a party that was not anti-eu, but anti-euro. >> what has been the reaction to the decision of the david cameron that he wants to negotiate britain's position with the eu? >> in general, it has been quite critical. it seemed like the united kingdom wants special treatment. they already have a special rebate when it comes to the budget. they have not opened their

borders. in otherot cooperate areas. why do they now want to renegotiate european policies? >> do you think it is a suggestion that angela merkel is open to? would she be willing to get into renegotiation with david cameron? >> i think that is now a very critical question. angela merkel has a very good relationship with david cameron. that was proven last year when she invited david cameron with his wife and children to the official summer residence of the german government. that was a gesture from merkel personally to say i want a good relationship with the british government. ther that, you had arguments about the future european head of commission, jean-claude juncker. , butnly in germany

especially in germany, it was seen as a provocation. it has made it much more difficult for david cameron to renegotiate and get a better deal for the united kingdom and europe. europe. >> is britain as isolated as it appears? arely other countries skeptical about the eu project. >> there are a lot of european countries that are skeptical of the european union. the germans are also highly critical. the question is, how do you do it? do you do it in a friendly way and try to find consensus or do you do it, especially from germany and such, in a very controversial and provocative way? this is what the british prime minister has done. by that, he has caused a lot of criticism. >> with the european elections

over, it is time for parliament to reconvene. with all of the pop of the traditional ceremony, the queen came to open the procession. it was a rather gray morning in london. the ceremony can be traced back to the 14th century. this year, there was a modern touch. the queen traveled in the new diamond jubilee coach. once again, the duchess of cornwall us underlying that one day, it will pass to the next generation. a quick last of the trumpets and the queen moves through the royal gallery to the house of lords. the queen and the duke of edinburgh take their places on the throne. people always remember, the slamming of the door in his face, a symbol of

independence of mp's. times andknocks three is finally let in. as usual, there is a very audible heckle from dennis skinner. >> demands the honorable house attends her majesty immediately in the house of peers. >> coalition's last stand. >> and the walk from the comments to the lords with rival politicians engaging in polite conversations. funnel into the lords and the queen finally reveals the secrets of her speech. among the bills, changes to pensions and child care payments and legislation and infrastructure. >> my government will implement major reforms to the electricity market and reduce the use of carrier bags to protect the

environment. >> the new session of parliament was dominated by events not of this government's making. of theead or -- horror celebrity dj. major reports from two of them announcing the findings. apologized for what has gone on in the health service and said the whole entry would share a deep sense of revulsion at what the reports revealed. >> as a nation, at that time, we held him in our infection -- in our affection as a somewhat national treasure. today's reports have, in reality, he was a sickening and prolific sexual abuser who spiteddly spy did the --

the trust of the nation. one of his teenage victims believed she was pregnant as a result of his abuse. he had jewelry made from glass eyes from bodies taken in the mortuary. rific details are too hor to reveal in this house. he was a horrific editor -- pre people,o abused many including young people. on such a day, i want to apologize on behalf of the government and the nhs to all of the victims who were abused in nhs-run institutions. we let them down badly. however long ago it may have been, many are still reliving the pain they went through. how a celebrity dj and predatory accessender came to have to vulnerable patients across

the nhs and the keys to its highest security hospital surely ranks as one of the worst failures of patient protection our country has ever seen. incidents where we do not have evidence of the abuse. the complainant was unconscious at the time. does my right honorable friend agreed that no proof is not the same as it did not happen and that his welcome words of apology should apply to all of those who think they may have been abused? >> there are several people who are in this affair still enjoying substantial nhs pension. why don't we consider docking their pensions as a consequence for their behavior and a clear warning to others? >> i do not rule that out at all. if someone has behaved in a way

where there is a way to have legal redress such that things like pensions can be docked, and i think they should face the full consequences of that. with historical child abuse back in the news, an independent inquiry and how public bullies dealt with allegations of abuse. he also said there would be a second inquiry and how the office handled information given to it in the 1980's following the allegations that they were not acted upon. parliamentbmitted in . >> the investigation found that 114 potential he relevant files were not available.

the home office and the investigators destroyed missing or not found. investigator made it clear he found no evidence to suggest the files had been removed or destroyed inappropriately. thattigator was satisfied the home office passed all credible information from mr. dickens and elsewhere to the police so they could be investigated. >> she then moved onto to the calls for a wider inquiry into historic allegations of abuse. >> i can tell the house that the government will establish an independent inquiry panel of to consider whether public bodies and other nonstate institutions have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse. the panel will be chaired by an appropriately senior and experienced figure. it will begin its work as soon as possible after the appointment of the chairman.

>> her first choice was a lady butler sloth. she sit down after criticism she was too much of an establishment figure. her late brother was attorney general in the 1980's. >> the secretary is right to announce that she has changed her position and response. but i wanted to press her on the details. we need three things. justice for the victims, the truth about what happened and how the home office and others responded, and stronger child protection and reforms for the future. any allegations of a child who has been abused must be thoroughly investigated by the police, even if it took lazy decades ago. ex-whip said that the office routinely helped mp's with scandals, including those involving small boys and they

did it to exert control over those individuals and prevent profits to the government. just one example of how personal and political interests can conspire to prevent just this from happening. consider notwill just the police and social services, but will also look at what happened in the heart of our. be overturnedwill , whether it makes life uncomfortable for political parties, parliament. >> much of the discussion we have had today has been about abominable cases. the lady confident that it would be treated in a much better manner today? that if a hope similar bundle of documents was handed to the home office today,

it would ensure that those documents went to the police and that they were properly investigated. in the case of the materials that came in, it was material that should have been handed to the police and was handed to the police. we will be looking to make sure that is what took place. obviously, i would also expect that appropriate records will be kept today if such material was handed to the home office and the home office would make sure that the police were taking those matters on board appropriately. may, now a culture of fear and intimidation. boys and girls separating in class. told of white prostitutes. some of the inspections in birmingham. the investigation into 21 schools was launched after a letter announced that muslim extremists were plotting to take over state schools. six schools, including some that were rated good or outstanding,

were put into special measures. another 12 all made improvements. of theretary summary trojan horse investigation was uncompromising. >> teachers reported and organizing -- an organized campaign to target schools with a culture of fear and intimidation. nationalized and forced out of their jobs. one school leader was so frightened about speaking to the authorities that a meeting had to be arranged in a supermarket car park. are trying tos propose a narrow, faith-based ideology in non-faith-based schools by using school funds inappropriately. at one secular school, terms prostitutes" were used in front of the assemblies by muslims -- by muslim staff.

senior leaders told inspectors that a madrasah had been established and paid for from the school budget. the school was not adequately ensuring people had the opportunity to learn about faith in a way that permits tolerance and harmony between different cultures. as education secretary, i am taking decisive action to make sure that those children are protected. schools that are proven to have failed will be taken over with new leadership and taken in a fresh new direction. any school could not be subject to rigorous, on the spot inspections with no advance warning and no opportunities to conceal failure. and we will promote british values at the heart of every school. >> our focus has to be on froming successful futures schools identify today. what the recent weeks have shown

is that the education secretary's vision of controlling every school from behind a desk does not work. think about the nature of the inspection system. city council has knowledge, from top questions to ask to the quality of leadership and its children and young people. >> what is clear from the reports being published today is thatthe central charge is stop has been an organized has not been met. there has been bad governance which has let children, parents, and staff down, and each must be tackled. >> this affront to british values might extend to schools outside the area. will my right honorable friend ensure that there is no hiding place in any part of the british education system for the

misogyny and homophobia that underpins so much of the religious fundamentalism in so much of our schools? michael's statement came two days after he apologized to the home secretary, saying he had failed to drain the swamp of extremism. theresa may accused him of failing to act four years ago. the prime minister later intervened, telling the pair to, in effect, kiss and make up. speaking of apologies, david cameron apologized for pointing this man, andy kaufman. his former head spin doctor was found duty of one charge of conspiracy to hack phones. the jury was later discharged after it failed to reach a verdict on two other charges against him of misconduct in public office. during a noisy session, ed liband said he mi

was wrong to take on the former head the daily news. >> the charge against the prime minister is not one of ignorance, it is willful negligence. that is at the heart of this scandal. an innocent victim of phone hacking that he did not stand up for. the prime minister will always be remembered as being the first ever occupant of his office who brought a criminal into the heart of downing street. >> all of these issues were examined by the levinsohn inquiry. to examine the calls we make and the leadership we give, i am happy to any time because it is leadership that has got this economy moving. it is leadership that has gotten our deficit down. it is leadership that is putting britain that to work. and it is the total absence of leadership from the labour party that shows they have nothing to say about britain's economic future. >> david cameron. passionate speeches, our full

arguments, and touching personal stories as they debated whether or not people suffering from terminal illnesses and close to death should be able to ask doctors to help them die. for their name down to speak. with aful argument persuasive case. >> the current situation leaves the rich able to go to switzerland. the majority rely on amateur assistance. the compassionate treated like criminals. no safeguards with respect to undue pressure now and many people caring so much for those who they leave behind, dying early or alone because they feared advocating their loved ones in a criminal enterprise. they put a plastic bag over their head when they are alone. >> there have been several failed attempts to change the law. the former archbishop of canterbury declared that he

changed his mind and now supports assisted dying. the archbishop of york reminded everyone of the official church of england position. he said the end of life should be a special time. discovered she had aggressive throat cancer, she was expected to live a few weeks. she was able to live for 18 months. ableg this time, we were to get to know her ran mother. this was a gift. >> this was 1990. my father, age 77, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. he was very ill. the doctors thought they could prolong his life for some months with chemotherapy. he died before the chemotherapy began. later, why husband, age 38, was also diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, which

was well advanced and very aggressive. he was given less than two months to live. i do not know what the outcome would have been if my noble friends had been on the statute book, but i am profoundly grateful because i do know that my husband longed for relief and i do know that today, my son still has a father and i still have a husband. own experience with leukemia did not have quite such a happy ending. she fought it as long as she could, made the most of her life , getting to know her grandchildren. in the end, she was in a hospital bed begging for help. she was in agony. help.begged for i ran around the hospital trying to find a medic who would do something. they argued that she was getting

as much morphine as they dared to give her. anymore would be illegal and they could not help. this billeferred to as offering a loaded gun. if my mother could have grass that loaded gun, she would have fired it. if she could not have, i think i would have fired it for her. >> this bill is about me. i do not ask for it. i do not want it. disputes this and if i i will beance to die, refused. you can be sure that there are doctors and lawyers. this bill offers no comfort to me.

greatestrance of difficulty. campbell. that phil will be considered in detail before the general election next year. it stands no realistic chance of becoming law. back to the committee corridor, where mp's are told that whales should be given more control over how it is police. they argued that it should be the responsibility of the welsh government. the recommendation came in the second part of the silk review, set up the u.k. government to examine the settlement in wales. >> the evidence strongly pointed to the interrelationship between the police and services helping crime prevention. the other emergency services that are involved.

and the bodies that we spoke to .ur very clear it would be helped and improved if the strategy was confessed. cock-up or conspiracy that a man expected of bombing by the hyde park -- accused of no longerde park was wanted by police. over 200 people were told they were no longer wanted for crimes committed before the 1998 agreement. it became the focus of controversy after the collapse of the case against john downey in the 1982 hyde park bombing, charges he denied. the case was dismissed after it as revealed that there was letter by government officials saying he would not face criminal charges for the bombing.

>> you had to give advice under very difficult circumstances. the voice of the public, public opinion and all. was this conspiracy? >> the big thing i suggest you it was athis is that bona fide intention to deal with a difficult situation in a way which did not damage the justice system and did not involve removing people from prosecution in circumstances were prosecution was justified. ,f prosecution was justified they would not get a comfort letter. that is what the bona fide intention was. unfortunate. it is mind, it does not have the legitimacy of process that was

being undertaken. >> the committee heard from two families who had lost loved ones. maxine was killed in the 1974 public comings. michael lost his son. >> it appears the government were willing to do anything to placate the terrorists to the detriment of the victims. excuses such as, it was not an amnesty. waseed to accept that it deceitful and dishonest. the truth is, we were never expected to know about this had the downey kids not came to life. >> do your colleagues believe you have been denied justice because of this? >> absolutely. what have you have -- what you even though it, the0 years, 16 years, problem is, why do you want to let his people off the hook?

i want to make sure they are looking over their shoulder for the rest of your lives -- the rest of their lives. why would you give them a letter that says you can go on and enjoy your life? >> there is never a face to put to a name. we think it is important that will you see who our sister was. on the 21sturdered of november, 1974. us,each and every one of our intelligent sister will be in our memories until the day we die. we miss her today as we have done. think that victims, in a perverse way, are even more forgotten? >> yes. we have been utterly and totally

forgotten. we have a memorial in birmingham. do you know how long it took to get that memorial? 21 people who were murdered. any shadow of a doubt. what is the purpose of our politicians setting their legislation to not follow the same legislation. what is the point if no one is going to follow it? >> separately, in mid july, a judge-let review into the letters found the system had systematic flaws but was not unlawful in system. founddy justice said she two other cases where errors were made. those who received letters should not regard them as get out of jail free cards. politics in scotland have been entirely dominated by the independence referendum due on

september 18. the arguments for and against surfaced repeatedly in the commons and the lords. here is a sliver of the debate. in may, the mp later -- the mp leader argued for novo. -- no vite. -- vote. he highlighted some of the tactics that were used. they are being subjected by the project fear campaign. described by its own supporters as negative, nasty, threatening. and that the prime minister is toxic in scotland. why are his own colleagues saying this? see the honorable gentleman talking about the project when we has a first

deliver what i can only describe as project ridiculous. , people of the matter living in the border constituencies, there are benefits to being part of the united kingdom. they want us to walk away from these benefits. of his ownmembers campaign have told people in the borders and the rest of scotland that they will have to show a passport at the border, drive on the right-hand side of the road, worry about their pensions when people are being told they are safe. london -- why do his colleagues think that the people of the borders and the restless: will fall to this demeaning, insulting nonsense? borders, question of it highlights perfectly how the

scottish nationals want to have their cake and eat it. on one hand, you tell us we can have a common travel area, which would work very well with the republic of ireland as present. at the same time, they tell us we will have a widely divergent immigration policy, which the republic of ireland does not have. >> it has certainly been a bloody battle on both sides. with me to discuss it all is david maddox. has it really been all about money? and arguments of heart versus head, which i we had more often? >> it is a lot about money, much more than i expected. seen havets i have been promising people 400 pounds or 500 pounds or even 3500 pounds for different things. if they vote yes.

it has been less of the heart than i thought it would be. focused anvity was awful lot on scotland might lose. it went more for the heart in recent months. how manye got any idea people have actually changed their mind from one camp to the other? >> we do not. my newspaper actually commissioned some of these polls, but i am not sure if we can entirely trust polls. this is an election like no other. pound,ey said no to the we saw it go up by five points. people are slightly worried about that. had them saying the

pound might stay with scotland after independence, then we saw it reversed. >> do you think that this election is going to be won or key groupich is the of voters, as you can see? >> there are two key groups of voters. there are the people who have never voted before and will probably never vote against but will probably vote in this election. many of those fall into this very large undecided group. it is very difficult to read which way they will go. in our lower income groups could ominously, people are quite often aligned with welfare. people that the party should be reaching out to better and has not. nationalistshe have managed to get a foothold in scotland. i think they are key to this.

i also think that women are key to this. the polls have been strongly supportive of the a. it has been an interesting dynamic. alexander does not seem to be able to reach out to women voters. problem inmilar scotland. >> turnout will be crucial to this. you are feeling it will be massive. let's i think it will be of high importance to see people turn i think it will be in the 80's and 90's percentagewise. almost certainly very high turnout. >> thank you very much for coming in. a number of international office have dominated the news in recent months. syria continues into its fourth year. the government here has changed to the it provides aid

country. the move follows the growing inability to reach starring civilians. almost 90% of humanitarian help has been going to those in government-controlled areas. urgently needed supplies have now reached more than one million people. britons have committed hundreds of millions of pounds to the international relief effort. with as been in crisis rise of the militant islamic group in the northwest of the country. isis once a separate state covering parts of iraq and neighboring syria. it has up to 10,000 fighters who have taken power in the region. the foreign secretary call developments in iraq extremely grave but said the option for britain did not involve military intervention. meanwhile, events in ukraine took an even more violent turn in mid july with the shooting down of a malaysian passenger jet over the country, killing nearly 300 people. the unrest in ukraine originally

again after a call for closer ties from the eu. since then, russia has annexed the crimean peninsula and is accused of arming separatists in southeastern provinces, who have declared independence from kiev. david cameron made a statement to the commons. >> alongside sympathy for the victims, there is also anger. there is anger that this could happen at all. there is anger that the murder of innocent men, women, and children has been compounded vice sickening reports of looting the victims possessions and interference with the evidence. and there is rightly anger that a conflict that could have been curtailed by moscow has instead and for mended by moscow. no one is saying that president mh17 the shutdown. for mh17 to be shot

down. but this is russia's attempt to destabilize a sovereign state, violate its territorial integrity, and arm and train militias. his is a defining moment for russia. the world is watching. resident putin faces a clear choice in how he decides to respond to this appalling tragedy. i hope that he will use this moment to find a path out of this festering and dangerous crisis by ending russia's support for the separatists. does nots not -- if he change his approach to ukraine in this way, europe and the west must fundamentally change our approach to russia. should not in europe need to be reminded of the consequences of turning a blind eye when big countries bully smaller countries. >> all of us have been outraged by the images of the site, a site that is open for anyone to travel over, the way the bodies have been treated with casual indifference.

we have all been horrified. what must it be like for the families of the deceased to see this? >> the prime minister also commented on the worsening situation in gaza. council expressed serious concern about rising casualties and called for respect from international humanitarian law and the protection of civilians. we strongly endorse that call. that hamas recognizes the need to enter serious negotiations to end this crisis. we urge hamas to engage the cease-fire for postal put forward by the egyptian government. it is only by security of the cease-fire that the space will be created to address the underlying issues and return to a long and painstaking task of building a lasting security that we all want to see. thisnce the start of conflict, 20 israelis have been killed, 18 of them soldiers. over 500 palestinians have been killed, including countless children. youngare innocent,

children, their short lives ended in the most brutal and horrific of circumstances. you cannot reduce this conflict to a measure of casualties. but we must acknowledge the scale of suffering in gaza. life of a palestinian child is worth every bit as much as the life of an israeli child. israel,t really be that with all of the sophisticated military technology at its disposal, and only protect itself by the kind of operations which the secretary-general of the united nations has called atrocious? >> a lot is being made of what is or is not proportionate. the arguments being made that it should be an eye for an eye. according to international law, the response should be proportionate to the threat. would you agree that israel has no alternative but to stop them? ofwith my experience as head

the foreign affairs select committee, he is right to quote that informed definition of international law. that is the correct position. that is what israel understandably feels under pressure to stop the missile attacks that have brought this situation to come about. >> the last few months have seen a frenetic round of parliamentary musical chairs. two new faces at the top of common select committees. rory stewart was elected chair of the defense committee. voted head of was the health committee. culture secretary after maria miller resigned. the most dramatic resignation was this man, patrick mercer, who quit parliament after being found to have breached lobbying rules.

jenrette being sworn in in june. thed to suspend conservative council leader for the rest of this parliament after it was decided he claimed allowances on which he did know parliamentary work. cameronuly, a vid surprised watchers with a comprehensive reshaping of his cabinet. out were familiar faces, including ken clark and the education secretary, who became chief whip. william hague went from common -- etary >> he spent four years traveling the world. he has rubbed shoulders with angela merkel. he has hobnobbed with angelina. and now i am afraid he is stuck in commons. i do not know whether he would

call that the motion, emotion, promotion, or locomotion, but we are certainly looking forward to it. >> the former education secretary, angela said he had not had the most auspicious start. yesterday, he not only lost his first vote, but he managed to get stuck in the toilet and nearly broke his own whip. >> william hague said he asked for this job. whiplcoming the new chief and made fun of us. knowledge of who is in the toilets is a very important piece of information for any chief whip. i take this as evidence that he was carrying out his duties for his constituents. >> big winners including nicky morgan. philip hammond. and liz trust.

those are all people david cameron wanted to move to new jobs. there was one man that prime minister could not budge. the is jean-claude juncker, man being put forward as the next president of the european commission. david cameron made it clear he was resolutely opposed to mr. juncker, seen as too much of a brussels man. leadersting of european to discuss the nomination, david cameron insisted on a vote. bya show of hands, he lost 26 votes. only hungary voted with britain. david cameron made a statement to the commons. >> i firmly believe that it should be for the european council, the heads of national government -- it should not be for the european parliament to try to dictate that choice to the council.

principle onnt of which i was not prepared to budge. facing the prospect of being outvoted, some might have swallowed their misgivings and gone with the flow. i believe it was important to push the principal and are deep misgivings about this issue right to the end. >> the truth is, the prime minister returned to britain on friday having failed. failure ofg relationship building, winning support, and delivering for britain. i know it is inconvenient to remind him, but he lost by 26 votes. and then he comes to this chamber and seems to claim it as a complete vindication of his tactic. his party may think it represents a splendid isolation.

it is not. it is utter humiliation. >> david cameron hit back. >> well, we have heard yet another performance -- rhetoric.ns and no questions, no grit, no ability to stand up for britain. >> go back to the decision of the prime minister when he was running for his party leadership to approve the withdrawal of the british conservatives from the people's party. ncker was the candidate of the e.p.p. at his party been a member, they could have influenced in private. , what dide corridor they make of it all? >> it is hard to find a normal person who knows why this job is so important.

might it create public support for the government's eu reforms if they were to reveal the commissions role to execute all eu law and regulations binding in all eu countries? or could it be that the government shares the bbc's view that if the british people understood just how irrelevant this parliament has become and how antidemocratic the eu really is, it might become irresistible? now on ast word for subject that is not going to go away in the run-up to the next election. do join us when parliament returns at the start of september. until then, goodbye. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by

national captioning institute] >> because parliament is in recess, "prime minister's questions" will not be seen this wednesday. you can watch it live on c-span two. to catch up on other prime minister's questions, go to c-span.org. a conversation with dan pfeiffer. at 11:00 p.m., "q&a." the another chance to see bbc review of the latest session of the british parliament. >> senior adviser to president obama dan pfeiffer says he would not discount the possibility of republicans pursuing the impeachment of the president if he takes aggressive action on immigration reform.

he made those remarks at a christian science monitor in this series. -- breakfast series. he also made remarks on russia, unaccompanied immigrant children, and the elections. the christian science monitor bureau chief is david cook. he moderated the event. >> ok, here we go. i am david cook. the assistant to the president and the senior advisor. he was here exactly a year ago. he is a wilmington, delaware native andy george towne university grad who by age 24 was already operating on the national stage as a spokesman for al gore's presidential campaign. he also worked for senators tim johnson, tom daschle before joining barack obama's