emily thornberry said the firstjob of government was to keep its citizens safe.vernment is serious about putting the country first, the whole of our country, will the minister for the cabinet office accept that that means finally getting serious about the cross party negotiations and putting the option of a customs union on the table? i can say that the substance and the tone of those conversations between the government team and the opposition team have been constructive — i think there is a genuine attempt to find a way through, but i won't hide the fact that this is very difficult. because if it is going to work, it will mean both parties need to make compromises, and us ending up with a solution that, unlike any other so far proposed, will get a majority in the house. the dup's westminster leader ended the session where it began, reflecting on the death of lyra mckee. in standing with lyra today, we stand with everyone — journalists, police officers, all who serve the community in northern ireland. an attack on any one of them is an attack on us all. david li

if he does not, that will cause trouble with many of his own mps, that also includes emily thornberrye is not able to go tonight, she says that if that is not one of the things thatjeremy corbyn is not going to be pushing with the prime minister, there has to be a boat to change the policy. —— a vote. die issue for both parties here when it comes to brexit if i theresa may —— that are issues for both parties here when it comes to brexit, and one person says that the atmosphere is toxic. the language going between the two sides describing each other cannot be repeated on the tv stuff bite meanwhile, an extraordinary afternoon on the floor at the house as well. this is another day by backbench mps had taken control of what has been going on. the government dictating the date debate today, it is a group that says that they are trying to bring in a bell that would force the prime minister to delay brexit. legally force her to delay brexit. legally force her to do it. earlier, as they discuss whether the bill should be looked at oi’ whether the bill should be looked at or discuss today, th

pressure there was some coming very loudly across wednesday from emily thornberry. yes.oday. going to these talks between theresa may and jeremy corbyn, two things that expected we re corbyn, two things that expected were on the table. one is a move towards a softer brexit, a customs union possibly adding onto her deal. and the second is this pressure for a vote which was developed by peter kyle and phil wilson, two labour mps, they had their first idea as backbench mps, they then did quite a lot of work across the two parties to get support from both labour and tory mps, they have people like hugh merryman, villa hammond's pbs, they have got their amendments whipped by labour, which after being developed with input from keir starmer, sans iver high level, the labour party has been involved in this. —— philip hammond. the big question what this is, will actually a, be considered by theresa may, who, she has been a truly strong on throughout this process is to say there is no way i would never consider a second referendum. it is something that and debates, she has been st

confirmation we referendum on a permanent deal, and then later in the date you got a letter from emily thornberry that it should be there attached to any deal and remain should be on the ballot if it came toa should be on the ballot if it came to a vote. sebastian and jill still with me. there's a lot of talk today a trap has been set forjeremy corbyn. they're going to come back today —— come back tomorrow and try again. is he the midwife for a conservative act brexit was yellow i think probably not. he is a long—standing euro sceptic. think probably not. he is a long-standing euro sceptic. he could easily live with some kind of brexit. for him to tip his hands in the conservative brexit will be very problematic for labour at the next election. but it think is more likely to emerge in these talks is an agreement to hold a series of binding votes next week. we've had all these indicative votes where mps have proven they cannot agree on anything. what mrs may and mr corbyn will come to an agreement on as they will come to an agreement on as they will allow mps to have a runoff where mps can rank wh

to insist on any brics a deal being put to a referendum is dividing labor is it on wednesday emily thornberry the shadow foreign secretary wrote to colleagues insisting a failure to do so would breach party policy now twenty five labor m.p.'s almost all from leave voting areas have won jeremy corbyn not to seek a new referendum in a letter they called the talks an opportunity for a deal including a customs union and protecting workers' rights saying at the general election we were clear about respecting the twenty sixteen vote and about securing those labor goals therefore we feel it compromises necessary to achieve this deal and avoid fighting the european elections we should go the extra step to secure this with the government also split on the way forward it fell to the chancellor to make clear to resume a would need to make concessions some kind of customs arrangement is clearly going to be a part of the future structure but look when you when you enter into a negotiation like this to find a compromise way forward both parties have to give something up there's going to be pain on both sid

i was reflecting when you are saying that, what a gear change for emily thornberry this morning.resting whether she tackles david liddington over the us president‘s visit because she put out a very toughly worded statement yesterday saying it was a waste of taxpayer‘s mani, donald trump no longer reflected their shared values between the uk and the us, and calling on mrs may to stand up us, and calling on mrs may to stand up to donald trump. interesting to see whether she firmly plants labour‘s flagpole against the tramp visit. as for david liddington, he is in the commons at the moment. —— the trump visit. he will be one hour by the time it gets to pmqs. what annette is going on with brexit? what is going on with cross—party talks with the labour party? i am sure there will be criticism if tory backbenchers get the chance to press on about that. ok, for the moment, thank you very much. norman smith at the houses of parliament. before those questions, it is time for a look at the weather forecast. it has been won and dry recently but we have some rain in the forecast today. we ha

while theresa may and jeremy corbyn were in belfast, david lidington and emily thornberry deputised forand northern ireland came up. does the cabinet office agree with me that this is one of the central reasons why we must find an answer to the northern irish border question rather than get these evil terrorists the divisions that they crave? i do not think that those murderers and dairy were motivated by any thoughts about the border or about customs arrangements, important those issues are. here's elaine again on whether people have been making connections between the many brexit discussions and this awful story. i think it is too simplistic to connect brexit in conversations about customs unions arrangements or the murder of lyra. i will say, they have consistently said that they believe any hardening of the border would see the return of violence in northern ireland and they are afraid that the dissident republicans would exploit this for their own political and ideological reasons and criminality, such as back then. but for those involved in the incident on thursday last week, it i

whether to insist on any bricks that deal being put to a referendum is dividing labor on wednesday emily thornberry the shadow foreign secretary wrote to colleagues insisting a failure to do so would breach party policy now twenty five labor m.p.'s almost all from leave voting areas have won jeremy corbyn not to seek a new referendum in a letter they called the talks an opportunity for a deal including a customs union and protecting workers' rights saying at the general election we were clear about respecting the twenty sixteen vote and about securing those labor goals therefore we feel it compromises necessary to achieve this deal and avoid fighting the european elections we should go the extra step to secure this with the government also split on the way forward it fell to the chancellor to make clear to resume a would need to make concessions some kind of customs arrangement is clearly going to be a part of the future structure but look when you when you enter into a negotiation like this to find a compromise way forward both parties have to give something up there's going to be pain on both sid

to insist on any bricks that deal being put to a referendum is dividing labor is it wednesday emily thornberry the shadow foreign secretary wrote to colleagues insisting a failure to do so would breach party policy now twenty five labor m.p.'s almost all from leave voting areas have won jeremy corbyn not to seek a new referendum in a letter they called the talks an opportunity for a deal including a customs union and protecting workers' rights saying at the general election we were clear about respecting the twenty sixteen vote and about securing those labor goals therefore we feel it compromises necessary to achieve this deal and avoid fighting the european elections we should go the extra step to secure this with the government also split on the way forward it fell to the chancellor to make clear to resume a would need to make concessions some kind of customs arrangement is clearly going to be a part of the future structure but look when you when you enter into a negotiation like this to find a compromise way forward both parties have to give something up there's going to be pain on both sid

we know emily thornberry the shadow foreign secretary is also said she thinks there should be a votevote on any deal that is arrived at. also tom watson the deputy leader of the labour party is talked about labour how they can sit on the fence if they wa nt to they can sit on the fence if they want to counter the brexit party but the problem for labour is in a lot of those labour heartlands and a north of england there are paper who voted for brexiting might feel let down so you have got labour mps saying they shouldn't be calling for another public vote so it is one of thoseissues another public vote so it is one of those issues where labour is very much divided. thank you very much. more details on that on tuesday when they meet. aid agencies have raised concerns about the effect of heavy rain on communities prone to flooding and landslides, after a powerful cyclone hit mozambique. up to 80 centimetres of rain is expected to fall in the coming days and 30,000 people have already been evacuated, after homes collapsed and the power supply was cut off. cyclone kenneth made landfall on

involved in this letter are not the only ones, people within the shadow cabinet for example, emily thornberry talked about any deal should be put to a vote and of course the government and labour are in discussions over whether or not they can back the prime minister's deal, no clarity on what will happen with that, but labour's problem is on the other side of that they have mps who are worried about the idea of supporting a confirmatory referendum because in some of the key marginal seats in the north of england for example labour voters voted for brexit and so would they feel let down by labour if that became something that it was campaigning on the european referendum? so it is a key issue that for labour is advisory one. absolutely, susanna, thank you for that. --is a divisive one. the snp is to decide on a new currency plan for an independent scotland as its spring conference opens in edinburgh. the party leadership, including first minister nicola sturgeon, wants scotland to keep the pound in the years after independence. they say the country could then look to introduce its own currenc

this is what emily thornberry was saying. 268-275.n at do you think that if we go for a second referendum, what are the risks? do you think we have simply assumed that a second referendum would vote to remain? olivia: no. -- >> know. personally, it's not clear to me that a second referendum nor an election guarantees the e.u. resolve anything. it is conceivable and depends on the nature of the second referendum. if theresa may says the deal is the deal, parliament cannot agree to it. parliament cannot tell me what it wants. unless there is a majority that comes out of one of the indicative scenarios that is constructed out of parliament in the next week or so, that she could say we either remain or that postwar referendum. that would be an entirely reasonable approach to take and could resolve matters. think, you know, there is a danger. if you have any kind of open-ended referendum or a simple rerun, there are lots of problems. you might get a different turnout. if you get a lower turnout, it would have the same validity. it is the s

whether to insist on any brics a deal being put to a referendum is dividing labor on wednesday emily thornberry the shadow foreign secretary wrote to colleagues insisting a failure to do so would breach party policy now twenty five labor m.p.'s almost all from leave voting areas have won jeremy corbyn not to seek a new referendum in a letter they called the talks an opportunity for a deal including a customs union and protecting workers' rights saying at the general election we were clear about respecting the twenty sixteen vote and about securing those labor goals therefore we feel it compromises necessary to achieve this deal and avoid fighting the european elections we should go the extra step to secure this with the government also split on the way forward it fell to the chancellor to make clear to resume a would need to make concessions some kind of customs arrangement is clearly going to be a part of the future structure but look when you when you enter into a negotiation like this to find a compromise way forward both parties have to give something up there's going to be pain on both sid

we have seen the likes of emily thornberry and tom watson publicly suggesting that he must put that downe now understand that ian livery, the party chairman, he offered to resign twice after he defied party policy in the inductive loads that we have the —— had the other day in the commons by not backing a confirmatory referendum and it points to the fact that yes, there are profound divisions in the tory party, but there are serious divisions on the labour party side, particularly over this idea of a second referendum. thank you, norman. well, it is supposed to be the case that mps are heading off on their easter break but that has been kibosh to because of what is going on. so the house will be sitting next week because... and we are hearing from andrea leadsom telling us hearing from andrea leadsom telling us that what happens in the commons in terms of process and votes and debates, it depends on the progress of those talks between the labour party and the conservative party. so that will be determining the agenda of parliament but andrea leadsom suggesting it may be the case that par

is interesting, and in line with what emily thornberry was writing the letter to labour mps earlier,house we had fun and games tonight and the house by all accounts, that printer broke down as well, so they could not print the bell, printer broke down as well, so they could not print the hell, that yvette cooper had put forward, so for a period of time, they did not actually know what they were debating anyway and it seems that they are and throes of it now, this is the committee stage of the proceedings that will get a third reading this evening around ten o'clock so maybe another belt but the voting has been closed today, and so let's hear from ed that cooper sponsored the bill. we had put forward this bill, as a cross party bill, in order avert no deal on april 12, and had been set for the fear of damage that no deal will do to all of our constituencies. we understand that the cabinet secretary and national security adviser to the government told the cabinet yesterday that no deal that would make our country safe. and the cabinets have a responsibility to listen to that advise, an

the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry is here.t thing is we have a run amendment in managed code form which is not on the order paper, but it is speaking again to our essential policy. we are happy voting for that because that is our policy. and that does say not being a member of the single market, but being as close to the single market as we can be. close alignment to the single market, being in the customs union, dynamic alignment of rules and regulations, and being in eu institutions. that's what we want. freedom of movement? part of the problem of the single market is the issue of freedom of movement. that issue of freedom of movement. that is why we have said for the last couple of years it is difficult for us couple of years it is difficult for us to be in the single market. we have talked to the europeans about it and have talked to the europeans about itand said, have talked to the europeans about it and said, we cannot pretend that the debate in the country was not partly about freedom of movement when it came to the re

up, @guardianheather this is from heather stewart at the guardian, "shadow foreign secretary emily thornberryour mps, insisting jc mustn't agree to any deal without a referendum attached. "yes, any deal agreed by parliament must be subject to a confirmatory public vote, and yes, the other option on the ballot must be remain." i think both parties, or knew no one is going to like it, christian is in westminster, the fact that the opposition leader of the country meeting together, but attacks from all sides over this. yes, jeremy corbyn was circumspect about how it went today, they talked about customs and how it might work, future trading relationships. this evening when he came to speak he said they also raised an issue ofa of a complementary vote on whatever agreement they came to, i think he put that in there because there was some reporting earlier that day that maybe he was a setting that as a condition and then you got this letter from condition and then you got this letterfrom emily condition and then you got this letter from emily thornberry to np saying it should be in there and when

the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry says brunei should be, expelled from the commonwealth,stoning for gay sex and adultery. she made the comments at a protest by several hundred people outside the dorchester hotel, which is owned by the sultan of brunei. the foreign office said that "threatening to kick countries out of the commonwealth" was not the best way forward, although it too has expressed its opposition to the new laws. the chancellor, philip hammond, says he's optimistic that brexit talks between the government and the labour party can reach "some form of agreement". but the labour leader jeremy corbyn this afternoon said he was still waiting to see some movement on the prime minister's so—called "brexit red lines". with all the sport now, here's lizzi greenwood—hughes at the bbc sport centre. thanks very much. good evening. tiger roll has become the first horse since red rum to win consecutive grand nationals. the favourite, trained by ireland's gordon elliott, won with the shortest odds for a century. 0ur correspondent andy swiss was watching at aintree. he's the

the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry has written to labour mps this evening, insisting that a second referendum to any deal he agrees with the prime minister. but there are reports — and they are only reports at the moment — that the labour leader did not request a peoples vote in his talks today with mrs may. two leaders then in a mutually difficult position. their parties divided, the parliament divided, the country divided. speaking to the bbc, attorney general geoffrey cox struck a conciliatory tone that suggested the government might be serious about reaching a compromise with labour. he said that if the prime minister wasn't willing to set aside some of her red lines there was a very real risk she wouldn't be able to pass any deal through the house of commons, and the uk wouldn't leave the eu at all. if we were not to leave because we were unprepared in a situation where we now face to move any of the redlines that we have sent, then we would effectively mean that we would never leave at all because that is the situation that we now face. i'm joined by helen thomas, fo

because it has been said very clearly by him, john mcdonnell, keir starmer, emily thornberry, other members the legitimacy for that, and there is a risk that it is seen that, and there is a risk that it is seen by levers and remainers in 2016 is not what they voted for and i think there is a fundamental question of legitimacy for any deal going forward, needs to go back to the people, let them have the final say. thanks very much. i should say there has been a trickle of cabinet ministers going in and out of downing street today. we think they are getting some sort of update on what the prime minister‘s planning next, with brexit, no meetings confirmed with the labour party yet so we confirmed with the labour party yet so we will have to keep asking what is going on? we ask that every hour of every day. we do try and get a nswe rs , of every day. we do try and get answers, as well. nick, thank you very much. in the next hour, the chief negotiator of the eu michel barnier is meeting with the taoiseach of ireland, leo varadkar. our ireland correspondent, emma vardy, is in dublin. is this abou