i caught up with the snp's leader at westminster, ian blackford, after the meeting.e to ta ke the meeting. we recognise we have to take action as parliament. not a cce pta ble take action as parliament. not acceptable to the public. we have had a situation where staff members, journalists, people with legitimate accusations against members of parliament have not have the mechanisms to do that. it has to be absolutely clear they will be on tolerance for bad sexual behaviour, zero tolerance oi'i tolerance for bad sexual behaviour, zero tolerance on bullying. we have to discuss how luke davison a cross—party basis. we would do this ina timely cross—party basis. we would do this in a timely manner, and recognise we have to get this right. there is a feeling that something has to be done quickly at westminster, on the back of the allegations. for some the idea of a working group, it will sound like it is being kicked down the road. the promise of the working group will publish the detail can bring forward some of the details by the beginning of december, will be welcomed

ian blackford on behalf of the scottish national party, their leader in the house of commons, and onplaid cymru, the welsh national party. he is followed by vince cable, the new leader of the liberal democrats. nigel dodds, the leader of the democratic unionist party in the house of commons for northern ireland. and now in an addition to this ceremony and now in an addition to this ceremony at the speaker of the house of commons john bercow. and the speaker of the house of lords lord fowler. after him, the foreign secretary borisjohnson who lays after him, the foreign secretary boris johnson who lays flowers after him, the foreign secretary borisjohnson who lays flowers on behalf of the overseas territories, places like the nude, cayman islands and falklands and gibraltar and st —— places like bermuda, cayman islands and falklands and gibraltar and st helena. now the first of the high commissioner is, they normally come at the end, but they are the oldest members of the commonwealth, canada, australia, new zealand, south africa and india, all of whom had thousands and india, all of w

ian blackford and debate on the budget continues for another four days.sday is usually prime minister's questions. on budget day, though, it is merely a curtain—raiser for the chancellor. but despite second billing, pmqs did deliver a surprise of its own — the leader of the opposition‘s six questions are almost always a brexit—free zone, but not this time. mr speaker, the irish prime minister who has discussed brexit with the british government says sometimes it doesn't seem like they have got all this through. so can the prime minister reassure him by clearly outlining the government's policy on the irish border? we are very clear, first of all that in relation to the movement of people the common travel area will continue to operate as it has done since 1923, and on trade and movement of goods across the border we will not see a hard border being introduced. we have been very clear. yesterday, the foreign secretary said there could be no border, that would be unthinkable, and that may be but they have had 17 months to come up with an answer to this ques

ian blackford insisted the scottish parliament did not have the ability to introduce new benefits based away from that. are the conservatives in scotland really saying that the scottish parliament, the scottish government, should clear up the mess, again, which was left by this conservative government? we've already spent £400 million of the scottish government mitigating the worst effects of tory austerity. i think the government can find this money. it's no good blaming the scottish parliament. it is a uk issue, full stop. and i can assure the honourable gentleman that i will be backing him. we made a manifesto pledge regarding this issue. the reason why i am here as a spokesman of the party today is because we do support it, we will go through the lobby on it and i do think that the waspi women will be better served if we had a debate that was not divisive or about point—scoring. it's not a party. whether it is the liberal, labour or conservative parties which has not cause this problem. but the minister said, the government wasn't changing track. we cannot change of policy which has

. >> ian blackford. >> thank you, mr. speaker. may i congratulate the queen of the impending platinum and diverse array of their wedding. i am sure the house men would like to welcome the lady to the scottish parliament. we should be incredibly proud of our emergency services. they do a heroic job putting themselves in danger to keep us all safe. >> i joined the right honorable gentleman in welcoming. as i have said previously and this chamber, i am happy to confirm that. i notice he says they do a great job. the pride of britain awards posthumously awarded an award in the name of a man who worked to keep this place safe. other awards were given to police officers for what they do. they run toward danger when most of us would run away from it. >> ian blackburn. >> mr. speaker, scottish fire and police are the only forces in the united kingdom to be charged for providing services of 140 million homes since 2013. the s&p has raised this issue 30 times in this chamber. none of scotland's emergency services -- this has been a long-sta

. >> ian blackford knch. >> thank you, mr. speaker. when the prime minister talked about the zero tolerance there has to be for bad sexual practices and behavior. i certainly commit my members to work with the government to make sure we can have a system that we can be proud of that will protect all members of the house of parliament. can i also pass on my condolences to the family and friends of frank dodd for his untimely death. can the prime minister tell the house how much a working single parent can expect to lose because of the roll out of universal credit? >> can i first of all say to the honorable gentleman that i'm grateful for him for agreeing that he wants to work across the house on this important issue. he referred to sexual misconduct. i think that is important is that any processes that are put in place don't just look at sexual misconduct, but look at issues like bullying as well because i think that is also important. he's raised universal credit with me before. he knows the reason we've brought into place universal cr

anna edwards joined by ian blackford. we will be back with anna later in the program.ublicly saidhas she is open to fresh elections, but does she really prefer a grand coalition? we discuss that next. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: this is "bloomberg surveillance" and i'm francine lacqua in london. here is nejra cehic. jra: hacker stole the data of 57 million users and drivers. this week the ride hailing firm ousted the chief security officer and a deputy for their roles in keeping the hack under aaps, which includeed $100,000 payment to the hackers. hewlett-packard enterprise slumped after hours. meg whitman says she is leaving the role, and will step down on february 1 and be replaced by president antonio neri. tesla has been burning money at a rate of about $8,000 per minute. if the trend continues, the committee will exhaust the current cash pile on august 6 next year. the carmaker blamed hitches and ramping up the model 3. investors do not seem too concerned and shares rose 3% in new york, taking the market cap to $53 billion. francine: let's talk germany now and

ian blackford. cani flu jab to get one. ian blackford.ften emergency services, that they do a heroic job, often putting emergency services, that they do a heroicjob, often putting themselves in dangerto keep heroicjob, often putting themselves in danger to keep us all safe. first of all, can ijoin the right honourable gentleman in welcoming the prime minister —— presiding officer of the scottish parliament to see our proceedings today. as i have said previously in this chamber, iam happy have said previously in this chamber, i am happy to confirm that our emergency services do do an amazing job. i was very pleased at the pride of britain awards to be awarding posthumously and award in the name of pc keith palmer, who worked to keep this place safe, but other police officers, the leader of the opposition and the leader of the liberal democrats gave awards to other police officers who had also done what they do and what other emergency services do, they run towards danger when most of us would run away from it. i associate myself with the r

ian blackford, do you think the outcome of the meeting was enough?will set up a working group with that aim we have a grievance procedures in place by the beginning of next year, the outline of what will be proposed has to come together by the 1st of december. i think it is important we work on a cross—party basis. we should be under no doubt what the public expects, to show leadership. how does having a grievance procedure finally in place stopped mps behaving so appallingly? we have to set out zero tolerance of bad behaviour, bad sexual behaviour, bullion. we have to see it as a watershed moment, leadership has to be shown across the political parties and we have to say anybody behaving unacceptably, they will pay a price, there will be consequences. anyone that comes across in constituency offices, they will know they will be protected, that they will be encouraged to come forward with any allegations of bad behaviour and this will be taken seriously. this is our one chance to show we are serious about this, not just about parliament, it is about

ian blackford hasjust joined me, snp leader in the house of commons.the exchequer this afternoon. what he didn't say in real terms over the lifetime of the parliament is another cut of 250 million because of the inflationary aspects of the five—year period. we have had a cut to a budget of 2.9 billion over the lifetime of the last parliament, so this in a sense isa last parliament, so this in a sense is a continuation of austerity. what we have argued that austerity must end because we're taking money out of the public sector workers, so it has been a massive missed opportunity to make sure we are investing to grow the economy, and what we have is in real terms a cut. i was picking up earlier on a lot of positivity around the issue of police, vat funding, and that is something you have wanted.” police, vat funding, and that is something you have wanted. i will give credit that at long last the government has removed vat from scottish fire and police, the only two authorities in the whole of the united kingdom that were paying vat. it was nasty and acti