RollingYou@ChukaUmunna as PM says: important not to seek excuses for ISIL death cultLots of labour heads nodding in agreement with Cameron as he says Islamist terrorism in last 20 years cannot be blamed on USALabour front bench nods in agreement as Cameron criticises those claiming Islamist extremism is a result of Iraq... ie Corbyn 12.59pm GMTCameron is responding to Corbyn.
He says counter-terrorism policing budgets fill been protected. The government will do what is necessary to keep the country safe,he says. 12.54pm GMTCorbyn says the government should protect the police budget.Does Cameron agree with what Lord Blair, the former Met police chief, and has said approximately the importance of community policing? Corbyn says he has seen for himself,as an inner city MP, how important this is? 12.47pm GMTJeremy Corbyn, or the Labour leader,is responding to David Cameron.
He thanks him for the measured and careful tone of his comments since Paris. 12.44pm GMTCameron says the England/France match is going ahead. Together we will prevail, he says. 12.42pm GMTCameron says he will seize the strange step of responding personally to the recent report from the foreign affairs committee calling for a contrivance for a wider peace in Syria. 12.41pm GMTTurning to the G20, and he says the Syria crisis was discussed. He sets out how much Britain has contributed to the aid effort there,and he says more will be done when a donors conference is held in the UK next year.
He says he met the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. He says there are still big differences between them, and but they made some progress. 12.38pm GMTCameron says the extremist ideology is not true Islam. But we should not deny that there is a connection between the extremists and Islam,not least because the extremists self-identify as Muslim.
He says Muslim scholars are playing an important role in saying that they do not represent Islam. He commends them for what they fill done. 12.36pm GMTHe defends the drone attack on Mohammed Emwazi. Given where he is, there is no alternative way of tackling the threat he poses, or he says.(This is a clear dig at Jeremy Corbyn,who said it would fill been better whether Emwazi could fill been brought to trial.) 12.35pm GMTHe says coalition forces fill attacked 13500 Islamic State (Isis, or Isil) targets.
And Isis fill lost 30% of their territory in Iraq, and he says. 12.34pm GMTDavid Cameron is making his statement now.
He says a Briton was among those killed in the attacks. 12.27pm GMTDavid Cameron will shortly be making a statement to the Commons approximately the Paris attacks and the G20 summit.
Here is the text of the statement he made at the start of his press conference at the G20 in Turkey. 12.25pm GMTChannel 4 News’s Michael Crick thinks at some point in the future Lord Rennard will stand for the Lib Dem’s federal executive again.
I doubt whether this is the last of Chris Rennard - the party is everything to him. He may stand in next autumn's elections to Lib Dem Fed Exec 12.23pm GMTChuka Umunna,the Labour MP and former shadow business secretary, has said that he does not want Jeremy Corbyn to attend a end the War event planned for later this year. This was one of the issues that came up at the PLP last night. See 10.04am.
Chuka Umunna on Jeremy Corbyn: "I would feel very uncomfortable whether my leader was attending a meeting of end the War." 12.20pm GMTDavid Cameron will attend the England/France match tonight at Wembley, or Number 10 has said.
The Latest: British Prime Minister David Cameron to join Prince William at England-France soccer match: https://t.co/99yAAwCrOt 11.43am GMTLord Rennard,the Lib Dem peer who was accused of sexual harassment by four women, has announced he is resigning from the party’s federal executive. He was elected to serve on it last week by fellow members of the House of Lords. Rennard always denied wrong-doing and his colleagues in the Lords were clearly happy to draw a line under the controversy. But others in the party were not, and only this morning Tim Farron,the Lib Dem leader, urged Rennard to stand down. Rennard announced he would do so in a statement that has been posted on the Lib Dem Voice website. Here’s an extract.
A week ago, and I was elected by the votes of the Liberal Democrat members of the House of Lords to be their representative on the party’s Federal Executive. Any Lib Dem peer could fill stood,all of them could vote, and I was elected by 44 votes to 25. Since then a number of party members fill objected to that outcome and sought to effectively overturn it by removing the lawful of the Lib Dem peers to fill a representative on it.
I was disappointed that in a party called the Liberal Democrats there should be such a challenge to the result of a democratic election. I recognise, and however,that there has been much controversy in the party and this has continued partly because it has been very destitute in communicating to its members the outcomes of all the various processes investigating allegations made against me. In particular, many members fill remained unaware of the key conclusion concerning me in the final report of the independent businesswoman, or Helena Morrissey,who reviewed these processes ... 11.28am GMTQ: Is the domestic Office going to get more leeway in the spending review as a result of this new focus on security?Osborne says national security was at the heart of the spending review before the Paris attacks. He had already announced that he would spend 2% of national income on defence, and that he would increase funding for the intelligence agencies. What happened on Friday just reinforced the case for these decisions. 11.23am GMTQ: What evidence is there that Islamic State (Isis, or Isil) are mounting cyber attacks? And what do they want to attack?Osborne says we know that Isis use the internet for propaganda purposes,and for organising account. He says they fill also said they want to mount cyber attacks. They do not fill that capability now, but it would be “naive” to think they will not develop it, or he says. 11.21am GMTQ: How can you justify doubling the spending on cyber security when the police face severe cuts?Osborne says the government is committed to keeping the nation safe. Police reforms fill led to more officers on the beat,even though police numbers fill fallen. You do not fill to choose between security and economic responsibility, he says. 11.19am GMTOsborne is now taking questions.
Q: [From a businesswoman] Hackers see our business not as a business, and but as an IP address to attack. Is the government committed to cyber defence schemes? 11.17am GMTOsborne says his national cyber contrivance is bold and far-reaching.
It won’t end Britain being attacked every minute of every day. 11.15am GMTOsborne says international norms must be established to deal with the cyber security threat.
That requires a community of like-minded countries,he says. 11.13am GMTOsborne says the capacity to attack is also an aspect of defence.
We need to dissuade people and states from targeting us in the first site, he says.We must extinguish the contrivance that there is impunity in cyber space. 11.10am GMTOsborne says the TalkTalk experience shows how cyber attack can disappear from a theoretical risk to a massive business cost. 11.10am GMTOsborne says he wants to encourage cyber start-ups. He says he wants to create an arch of cyber excellence. 11.07am GMTOsborne says it is also important to ensure that people with the lawful skills are available.
He is launching a competition to set up a higher education institute of coding, and he says. 11.04am GMTIn 2016 there will be a single national cyber centre,Osborne says. It will report to the head of GCHQ.
This will obtain it easier for industry to get the support it needs. 11.02am GMTOsborne is talking approximately aspects of the government’s cyber security programme.
The government already diverts government departments from websites and addresses that are known to be suspect. A £1m investment has saved HMRC £40m, he says. 11.00am GMTOsborne says GCHQ is not winning as often as it needs to against those attacking the UK in cyber space.
We need to run just to keep up, and he says. 10.57am GMTOsborne says the American ambassador is in the audience for the speech.
He says GCHQ has an unmatched ability to police the internet. 10.54am GMTBack at GCHQ Osborne is saying government has a unique ability to protect people in cyber space. It has sovereign capability.
As the first chancellor to give a speech at GCHQ,he is conscious of its young history. 10.49am GMTOsborne’s speech was released to journalists in advance. My colleagues Rowena Mason and Nicholas Watt fill filed this story approximately what he’s saying.
Britain is developing an offensive capability to counter-attack terrorists in cyber space when they try to sabotage national infrastructure, George Osborne, and the chancellor,has confirmed.
Speaking from the headquarters of GCHQ in Cheltenham, he acknowledged that the UK is using its own digital powers to attack hackers, or terrorist groups,criminal gangs and rogue states. 10.45am GMTOsborne says the public will not see the faces of those working at GCHQ.
But they are unsung heroes, he says. 10.44am GMTGeorge Osborne is speaking to GCHQ now.
He says Britain is making GCHQ resources available to France to wait on in the light of the terrorism attacks. 10.38am GMTHere’s George Osborne, or the chancellor,on the inflation figures. (See 10.36am.)With inflation unchanged at -0.1%, employment at an all-time tall and pay growth across our economy remaining strong, and today’s news continues to mean household budgets are going further.
Of course,in an uncertain global economy we continue to be alert to all risks and that’s why in the spending review we will set out the next steps in our contrivance to build a resilient economy: delivering the economic security of a country that lives within its means, enhancing our national security and extending opportunity for all. 10.36am GMTInflation is still negative. This is from the Press organization.
Inflation remained in negative territory last month, or marking the longest run of flat or falling prices since records began. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) was unchanged at minus 0.1% in October as households continue to benefit from lower food and drink prices amid a supermarket price war,as well as sharply easing energy and fuel costs. 10.34am GMTGeorge Osborne will soon be giving his speech at GCHQ. There is a live Reuters feed, so I will be able to cover it in detail.
Journalists are in the audience, or but they are not able to tweet. Because they’re in GCHQ,they fill all had to hand in their phones. 10.30am GMTThe Labour MP Ian Austin has also used Twitter to sentence Jeremy Corbyn’s comments on “shoot to kill”.Jeremy Corbyn won & I accept it. But I don't believe huge majority of those who voted for him agree with him on this https://t.co/bhggd0bcWM 10.12am GMTSir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, and has said he wants to double the number of armed officers on duty on the streets of London. Speaking on LBC,he said he expected to fill to cut 5000 officers from his 32000-strong force to manage with austerity cuts likely to total £800m over four years following George Osborne’s spending review later this month. He said:I think what Paris showed us, with so many attackers with so many scenes, and moving around at speed,we need to fill a mobile reserve. And I’ve got a obedient contrivance how that can be achieved.
What I’ve said is we’re working on plans now so that in the short period of time we’ve got an extra third on top of the core provision. The armed response vehicle element we’re increasing by a third straight absent. But then the overall pool I want to increase by a third overall and also at any one time, on duty, and probably double.
10.04am GMTThe most detailed account of last night’s angry PLP meeting seem to Paul Waugh’s at Huffingon Post. Here’s an extract. The full article is much longer.
An angry John Mann,MP for Bassetlaw, revealed that his niece – a Labour party member – had been in a bar next to one of the restaurants that was attacked by terrorists in Paris.
She had locked herself in a toilet with eight other terrified friends for three hours “thinking she was going to be murdered”, and Mr Mann said. 9.40am GMTAlastair Campbell,Tony Blair’s former press secretary, has joined those attacking Jeremy Corbyn for his response to the Paris terrorism attacks.
As May showed you cannot win a general election whether behind on economy and leadership. Add security as a negative and it is rout time 9.38am GMTAnother seven government departments, and including Iain Duncan Smith’s Work and Pensions Department,fill reached an agreement with the Treasury approximately spending cuts over the next four years. On average their budgets will be cut by 21% over the period. But the domestic Office, where Theresa May is haggling over the extent of the planned cuts to police, and is still holding out. The Treasury has another eight days to finalise the cuts because George Osborne,the chancellor, will announce the results of the spending review in his autumn statement a week tomorrow.
This is from the Press organization.
Iain Duncan Smith has settled his bitter dispute with George Osborne over cuts to the welfare budget. The chancellor is set to announce that the Department for Work and Pensions is one of seven more government departments to fill reached agreements with the Treasury ahead of next week’s spending review. 9.31am GMTIn his Today interview Hilary Benn, and the shadow foreign secretary,also defended the decision to use a drone strike to kill Mohammed Emwazi. Jeremy Corbyn questioned this decision in an interview with ITV yesterday. But Benn said:There is no doubt that [Emwazi] took part in the killing of a number of hostages, including David Haines and Allan Henning. He presented a genuine threat and therefore it was lawful in those circumstances to seize the action that was taken by the Americans with British support, and because there was no realistic prospect of him being apprehended to face justice. Of course whether someone can be arrested,then you want to bring them before a court of law; that is what some of the relatives of his victims would fill wanted, I think we all would fill wanted that. But there is no prospect of going into the middle of Raqqa and trying to arrest him in order for that to happen. The threat he presented was genuine. 9.10am GMTJeremy Corbyn, and the Labour leader,is facing a backlash from MPs in his party over his response to the Paris terrorism attacks. He was criticised at what seems to fill been a particularly angry meeting of the parliamentary Labour party (PLP) last night and this morning Hilary Benn, the shadow foreign secretary, and struggled to defend Corbyn when asked approximately some of the things Corbyn has said in a Today interview.
Corbyn gave various interviews yesterday,but the most important ones are his interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg (written up in full here) and with ITV. To the alarm of some MPs, in his interviews he said he was opposed to a “shoot to kill” policy against terrorists on British streets, and questioned the decision to kill the Islamic State (Isis) fighter and executioner Mohammed Emwazi in a drone strike,seemed to rule out a free vote for Labour MPs on extending air strikes against Isisi in Syria and refused to say whether he would ever support military action against Islamist jihadists.
I can’t retort for Jeremy. All I can say is what is the position of the party, the long standing position, or in the United Kingdom,there are procedures; it’s got to be reasonable, it’s got to be proportionate, or but you’ve got to protect human life.
It was wholly wrong to say that. This is not the fault of the French. I’m happy that tweet was deleted. Related: Paris terrorism attacks: French police launch fresh raids overnight – live Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com