Updates: Prime Minister holds briefing with Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance as MPs vote to renew coronavirus law
An initial review of the parliamentary art collection uncaught 232 articles similar to the transatlantic slave industry, the House of Commons said, of which 189 others represent 24 other people with links to the slave industry and 40 coins make up 14 other people who were abolitionists.
There are more than 9,500 works of art in the collection and a review is underway, driven by considerations raised through the Black Lives Matter movement.
Hywel Williams, deputy of Plaid Cymru who chairs the President’s Art Works Advisory Committee, said:
The interpretation of our works is reviewed, but this is the first time we have systematically read about the entire collection by examining slavery and representation-like disorders.
We will examine the tactics for expanding and contextualizing the works of the collection through our online page and on the curtains we hand over to visitors to Parliament. And we will seek tactics to be gentler with MPs who have worked hard to end slavery.
Details of the 232 articles can be found here (pdf).
The fishing industry has warned the government not to sell it in the Brexit negotiations after it was learned that the UK had proposed a three-year transition agreement for the sector to conclude an agreement with the industry until December.
“The concern from the beginning that we were sold back as we were in the 1970s,” Barrie Deas, director of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organizations, said at this morning’s briefing.
But he warned the government to sell them.
What we would agree on is to cede fishing rights to participate in an industrial agreement.
The government would place this politically very complicated among its own supporters, to mention the kicks it would get in the press, from the fishing industry, if it came back here with a bad deal in fishing.
But he said “all the signs” were that would be fulfilled.
He believed that an era of transition “one of the moving parts” of the negotiations and that the industry could simply be content with a “progressive movement towards the quota system” sought through industry.
Alok Sharma is (rightly) widely criticized through newscasts for suggesting that it is unfair for broadcasters to ask ministers about the main points of the coronavirus restrictions. (See 10:01 a. m. ) Here are some of the comments you draw on Twitter.
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Sophia Sleigh of the Evening Standard says Alok Sharma used the line “I caught you” (see 10:01 a. m. ) in three separate interviews this morning.
Tom Newton Dunn of Times Radio thinks he wrote a script.
Alok Sharma, the trade secretary, warned that hounds should ask ministers if they knew they were detailing the lockout restrictions. Speaking this morning on Radio 4’s Today show, he said:
There is a “gotcha” detail in terms of this question line. You’re a serious flagship news program and it’s not a quiz.
Sharma spoke in the context of the prime minister’s inability to the new blockade restrictions imposed in north-east England during a consultation and response consultation yesterday. Hours before Boris Johnson made the consultation, Education Minister Gillian Keegan did not respond. consultation on the Today program.
As soon as Sharma asked her question program, Today’s host Martha Kearney asked if she was seriously arguing that asking ministers about coronavirus regulations was as trivial as a test question. At that time, Sharma subsidized a little, responding:
No, I’m sure not. But what I’m telling you is that the vital thing is that if other people need to perceive the express restrictions they have in smaller areas, move on to [local authorities’] websites.
The paintings said Sharma sought to excuse incompetence. Alex Norris, a shadow health minister, said:
The Prime Minister wishes to perceive the regulations he is asking a large number of people to follow. It’s not a trap, it’s just a fundamental government jurisdiction.
Temporary service restrictions will be established at Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, South Wales, after coronavirus cases have been identified, PA Media reports.
Restrictions, which take effect at 2 p. m. today, they come with the suspension of planned surgery with the exception of a small number of urgent cancer cases that have been clinically prioritized.
Lately, 82 cases of coronavirus are known in the hospital, which is located in Rhondda Cynon Taf, one of the regions of Wales subjected to local blockade restrictions.
Last week, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board said 34 Cases of Covid-19 had been reported in two departments of the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, basically similar to on-site transmission.
On a Wednesday, the fitness board said that even though the groups were running to handle the outbreak, “additional cases similar to transmission within the hospital had been shown in recent days. “
In his Today interview, Steve Baker gave a clue on the imaginable basis of an agreement between ministers and advocates of the Commons to have more voice in Covid’s regulations (see 9:23) when he pointed to 3 principles.
I believe that there is a non-unusual understanding between the government and us in three things: that the government will have to retain the capacity to act temporarily and effectively, that we do not believe vexych opportunism in the component of opposition components and, thirdly, that I want to approve measures in advance, primary measures at the national level, and I even believe that at the regional level. Arrangements that take away people’s freedoms. This is Parliament’s basic point: legitimizing, authorizing, limiting citizens’ freedom in the public interest. And for now, Members are becoming increasingly powerless because they are unable to protect their constituents.
Yesterday, Sir Bernard Jenkin, Chairman of the Commons Liaison Committee, presented his own imaginable compromise proposal and, in a letter to the Prime Minister, said:
Several proposals are made that would require vote approval from the House of Commons before or without delay after new restrictions come into force. Most of us are precept and we are waiting for the government to accept it, too.
It should be noted that conservative rebels do not require that each and every new coronavirus regulation be voted on through parliamentarians before it takes effect. Here is the amendment tabled through Sir Graham Brady, who says that the coronavirus Act will be renewed:
provided that ministers ensure, as far as possible, that by exercising their pandemic control powers under the Coronavirus Act 2020 and other number one laws, adding, for example, Part 2A of the Public Health Act of 1984 (Disease Control), Parliament can debate and vote on any secondary law that takes effect in England or the United Kingdom before its entry into force.
Hello, Brexit intended to fear the “resumption of control” through Parliament, but one of the additional ironies of 2020 is that Britain’s departure from the European Union coincided with the government’s implementation of the highest draconian restrictions on peacetime life, most of them. say about the procedure at all. Key blocking measures have become legislation as regulations passed under emergency powers. Because of the way this secondary law is being considered, Members did not have the opportunity to vote before the legislation came into force, the few votes taken were retrospective (after the legislation is already in place) and, at most, the regulations were not voted on or debated.
Today, many members of Parliament have had enough. Tonight there will be a debate about the extension of the powers of the Coronavirus Act and many amendments have been tabled saying that members deserve to have more voice. The vital maxim was presented through Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Conservative committee. , and won the help of dozens of conservatives. The amendments will most likely not be put to a vote for procedural reasons and ministers know that if they do not solve this challenge now, the rebels will soon align themselves with the opposition to defeat them in this factor and, therefore, the discussions will be positioned this morning on a imaginable compromise.
In an interview on Today this morning, Steve Baker, the former conservative minister and one of the rebels on this subject, said that
What I have noticed when talking to colleagues in secondary banking, and indeed to colleagues at the front, is that other people are incredibly involved in parliamentary democracy and the rule of law, the basis of our freedoms and prosperity in this crisis. And I mean the ministers . . . I was surprised by the big smiles I got from ministers on this crusade. There is widespread fear in Parliament in all parties and throughout the Conservative Party that we are not up to parliamentary democracy and the rule of law, and that is really what we are talking about today.
Baker said Law 247 delegated to bring the coronavirus restrictions into effect had been implemented. He said it was not well-tested and that members of the public might simply not attach to it. , clarity and stability and I think we’ve noticed them coming out the window with this virus, ” he said.
When such a giant and transformative legislation is obtained, it is seen that even ministers and the Prime Minister stand.
What hope can the public have? One minister told me yesterday, with terror in his eyes from the disease, that we might have to change the law every 24 hours.
We probably can’t expect another 70 million people to comply with the law that adjusts every 24 hours; would be chaos and ruin.
We’ll hear a lot about that as the day progresses. Here’s the agenda.
9am: Boris Johnson presides over the cabinet.
10:15 a. m. : Thérése Coffey, Secretary of Labour and Pensions, testifies to the Committee on Labour and Pensions on Coronavirus and Benefits.
12:00 a. m. : Johnson faces Sir Keir Starmer at PMQ.
12:15 p. m. Array: The Scottish government must conduct its briefing on the coronavirus.
12:30 p. m. : Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of Culture, answers an urgent question about the government for professional and amateur sport.
2. 30 p. m. : Anne Longfield, Commissioner for Children of England, testifies to the Committee of Commons on Women and Equality about the effect of coronavirus on children’s education.
5 p. m. : Johnson holds a press conference with Professor Chris Whitty, a leading government adviser, and Sir Patrick Vallance, his leading clinical advisor.
Subsequently, after 7 p. m. , there will be a 90-minute debate on the renewal of powers in the Coronavirus Act, the insurgent amendment is not expected to be called, and it is imaginable that ministers and insurgents agree on a compromise before the debate. begins, but the discussion will at all times give Members the opportunity to express themselves on this issue.
Politics Live has had the live blog of the British coronavirus for some time and, since the Covid crisis eclipses everything, this will continue for the foreseeable future, but we will also look at political stories that do not belong to Covid, and where they appear most vital and interesting. , will take precedence.
Here’s our blog on global coronavirus.
I check to monitor below-line comments (BTL), but it is highly unlikely that you will read them all. If you have a direct consultation, come with “Andrew” somewhere and I’m more likely to find it. check the output to respond to queries, and if they are of general interest, I will post the query and above-line response (ATL), I can’t promise you’ll do it for everyone.
If you need to get my attention quickly, Twitter is probably more productive. I’m on @AndrewSparrow.
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