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Afternoon, folks. Welcome to the Daily Politics on Friday. Is Europe

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facing "Armageddon"? Or at the very least a Lost Decade? There are

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fears the crisis in Europe could tip the whole world back into

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recession. President Obama appealed directly

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to European leaders last night to take drastic action to avert global

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In the face of the euro crisis, can Britain avoid another downturn? As

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the Chancellor prepares his autumn statement there is a fierce battle

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raging across Government about how to save the economy.

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As Theresa May fights for her political survival in a row about

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Britain's borders, we ask a former Home Secretary if the Home Office

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All that coming in the next 30 minutes of public service

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broadcasting at its finest. With me today, no expense spared. Mehdi

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Hasan from the New Statesman and Rachel Sylvester from the Times.

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Welcome to you both. As we come on air the Greeks are due to swear in

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their new Prime Minister. His name is Lucas Papademos. We

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reported he would be the new Prime Minister of Greece a week ago, and

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we were wrong and then, but we are right now. We might be wrong again

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He's a former vice-president of the European Central Bank. The Italians

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are also likely to appoint a so- called technocrats government led

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by the former EU commissioner Mario Monti. You Macie a bit of a pattern

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here, a former central bank European governor coming in, into

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Athens and Rome to replace democratically-elected politicians.

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The Italian senate is voting later on austerity measures designed to

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avoid a bailout. But will these technocrats be able to save the

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euro and prevent economic disaster? Can they prevent economic disaster

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and carry their people with them? There is now increasing anxiety

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that across the pond but the Eurozone's inability to sort itself

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but could drag America into recession again. The US Treasury

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Secretary said this morning that Europe must move quickly to resolve

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the crisis. Maybe you should not hold his breath. Nick Clegg said

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this morning time was running out. The situation is clearly very

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serious. The clock is ticking. We don't have much more time to wait.

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We need a solution, eight decisive solution and the Eurozone, not just

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for euro-zone itself for all UK, but for the world economy. That is

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why with each passing day the urgency for a clear, decisive

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solution becomes ever more pressing. We're joined now by the editor of

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City AM, Allister Heath. Even if nothing dramatic happens, are we in

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much doubt that the Eurozone and probably Britain as well I heading

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back into recession next year? afraid that's very likely. The

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Eurozone is already in recession and the UK economy may be

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contracting as a re- -- direct result of that. The problem is, if

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you're a business in Britain, you don't want to invest or hire people

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because you do not know how bad the situation is going to get. There is

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a huge amount of uncertainty out there. A couple of technocratic

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leaders in a couple of European countries is not going to be enough

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to resolve this because the challenges of our massive and the

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threat is spreading from one country to the next. It is all very

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well for the Americans to say something must be done but what

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needs to be done is extremely complicated and nobody agrees on

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what has to be done and it involves a whole bunch of governments doing

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slightly different things, not just someone at the centre pulling a

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lever. It seems Greece is a sideshow and all eyes are on Italy.

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France is now coming up on the rails as well. Are the only two

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people mattering in this at the moment Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela

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Merkel? Do we have any idea what they propose to do if, for example,

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French bonds, under pressure or the Italians are simply unable to get

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rid of their debt. That is the big question. Will they announce some

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sort of course I merger to make the countries closer together very

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quickly. Forget the fringe countries and go for the integrated

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fiscally a politically integrated countries to try and save the last

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60 years of European integration. Those are the kind of questions

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they must be asking each other. French bonds have already started

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to go up and they have to pay almost twice as much as the Germans

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to borrow, which is very significant. The cost in which

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Spain can borrow has been creat -- creeping up on a daily basis. I

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think the crisis is spreading to the other countries. The only be

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the euro-zone economy immune from this is Germany -- beak euro-zone

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economy. There is no surprise there because there is no plan to resolve

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it. There are trillions of Euros in debt and the only thing people are

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talking about is getting central bank to print money to buy the debt.

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It could be a short term solution, but is the buying of Italian debt

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over the last couple of days calming things down a long service

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of -- long-term solution? It's not a long-term solution to say a

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central bank needs to federalising or socialise trillions of debt and

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otherwise there is no plan we hereof. I am very worried about all

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this and I do think that the French and Germans may decide to try and

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take emergency, drastic action to change the politics of the European

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Union. If that happens, there would be a major opportunity and a major

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headache for the British Government because it would bring forward the

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day there is a new treaty and a choice that needs to be made with

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the UK in wary one study in the EU. The how likely to -- how likely is

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this because the Eurozone is -- how likely is the Eurozone going to

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survive? I was just reading the Economist to predicted that

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financial crisis and he said any three things can save the euro, one

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if the ECB becomes an unlimited lender of last resort, too, if it

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cuts rates to zero, and three if Germany starts doing fiscal

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stimulus. I don't think any of those three will happen in the

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foreseeable future, if ever. I guess, sadly, we are heading to an

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Armageddon situation. If any of us knew that we'd make an awful lot of

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money. It doesn't look good, and the problem with the markets is it

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is to do with confidence on the one thing lacking undermined his

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confidence. Nobody seems to know what they are doing. None of the

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leaders -- the think the market's lack is confident. None of the

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leaders know what they are doing and that leadership is what is

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missing. Putting aside the short term, if you look at the to

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systemic solutions possible, either a closer fiscal union with massive

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transferred payments, or a break-up of the Eurozone where the Club Med

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countries go there away and you haven't more than euro-zone. Either

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of these, and they may be right in the long term, I suggest you it

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would put such a shock to the system in the short term that it

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would either throw Europe into deep recession. I'm afraid to say a

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thing that's absolutely right. Even with a combination of the two

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options. All these options require a default on some debt and probably

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require at least one country, if not more, leaving the euro. What

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that really means is huge amounts of so-called wealth being wiped out,

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and that is a massive shock to the system which will make people

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poorer and hit a lot of institutions, not just banks, but

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pension funds, companies, so the recession is unavoidable,

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especially in Europe, and probably in the UK as well. Thank you very

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much for marking our car bomb that. We didn't promise did she you up --

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marking it hour card on that. We did not promise to cheer you up. So

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while Europe implodes, what about over here? Ahead of the autumn

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statement on November 29th. Which we'll carry live here in a Daily

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Politics Special. There is a debate raging as to what should be done to

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secure economic growth. Earlier in the week the CBI said it was time

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to "get shovels in the ground" and called for "Plan A plus". This was

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echoed in the Telegraph this morning by more than 30 leading

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businessmen who have called for the government to scrap the 50p rate of

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tax, increase the personal tax allowances and bring forward

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spending on infrastructure. However it's believed any planned tax cuts

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would run into considerable opposition from the Liberal

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Democrats. Speaking to the BBC yesterday Vince Cable said that,

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"It is difficult to make tax cuts in an environment where we are

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trying to get budget discipline and bring the deficit down". Earlier

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this year David Cameron commissioned businessman Adrian

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Beecroft to come up with a series of proposals on how to make Britain

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more competitive. He's proposed relaxing employment laws to make it

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easier for companies to fire staff, in the hope that they will be more

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willing to take risks and hire people. It's an idea that's been

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welcomed by the Prime Minister's policy guru Steve Hilton, but has

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Joining me now is the Liberal Democrat peer, Matthew Oakeshott,

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and Andrew Haldenby who is the director of Reform, a right wing

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think tank. Is this idea dead in the water and now? It looks like

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it's and it is a terrible shame because I think it was by far the

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best idea put forward in this Parliament to improve growth and we

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just have to compare ourselves to the other continental countries

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like France and Germany. Over the years we have had more relaxed

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employment laws, lower unemployment and we want more of the same and

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his ideas would definitely have reduced employment in the country.

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Would it? The problem is is a lack of demand. A lack of demand for our

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exports because the rest of the world looks like it is going into

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recession. A lack of demand from consumers because real living

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standards are falling and the lack of demand from business because it

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is not investing. So even if you had the most liberal labour laws in

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the world, I don't really understand how that get you growth

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at this precise time. I would agree with you two years ago but we are

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to use on from the recession and has holes have improved their

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financial position. Consumer spending is in the tank. People

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have been saving and paying off their debts in getting in a

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stronger position. Companies are ready to invest if they have the

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right rules and regulations. Employment laws is by far the best

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focus for politicians. I am flabbergasted, amazed, that David

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Cameron should have blocked this. He is probably doing it to keep

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your lot happy. We need to act both on the supply and the demand side.

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He is talking about the supply side, and there are some good ideas but

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also... I think there is something to be said for bringing in four

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small businesses the automatic enrolment of putting everyone into

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an automatic Chekhov for a pension scheme, because the danger of that

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is there is a regulatory burden and dictate spending at -- it takes

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spending out of that question. He also has wacky ideas, meaning he

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was trying to cut down women's rights in the workplace and that

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has been seen off in a panic by Number Ten. But to actually make it

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Ahsan, spot culture is quite wrong. You mention Germany. -- based

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sacking on the spot culture. Germany have tougher labour laws

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and they are doing better and they have good manufacturing in that. We

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want to encourage people to support and nurture their staff so sacking

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them on the spot is not right. Coming to the demand side, where

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the real problem is, and we have collapsed consumer confidence, not

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nearly enough spending in the economy and not nearly enough

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investment. The businessmen have a point, which we have thought about

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for some time, which they must be more capital investment in

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infrastructure and particularly housing. Vince Cable, George

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Osborne, I am doing my bit feeding in. How much more will there be?

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They should be a lot of capital investment. Just a minute. On the

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current side, cutting the 50 p rate there is no evidence that improves

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entrepreneurialism. Where they are right, and it is a Lib Democrat

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policy, is increasing the personal allowance at the bottom because

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every pound you put into the pocket of a low-paid work is going to go

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out and get spent. Why don't you put in the pockets of everyone

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around here? A below paid get a very small percentage of the

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overall tax break. But it does help incentives to work, at the bottom.

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On the capital side, which is important, where we have these low

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interest rates we should not be treating them as a virility symbol

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we should see them as a fantastic opportunity to get long-term

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capital in, many billions from the private sector. That is what the

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Greeks did for the last 10 years. am talking to the big institutions.

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It might work in the city, but maybe not in the real world.

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does. They are desperate to see things with a return on housing,

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Politicians do themselves no favours when they play this old

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card. The Prime Minister wrote an article calling for more

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infrastructure two weeks ago. It created 1,000 jobs. There are 2.5

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million people unemployed, he created a 1,000 jobs. It is not

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like the 1930s, you don't absorb hundreds of thousands of people

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with infrastructure problems. do! You don't. I said housing. That

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is the key. Last year we had 100,000 houses completed, the worst

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since 1923. Where you get white van man motoring and getting jobs is by

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having much more housebuilding. That is what we are talking about

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with of private sector. The rest is... Housing is real. Do you get a

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sense of fiddling while Rome burns? You stole the words from my mouth.

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To fiddle with maternity rights and Employment Rights while we are on

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the verge of another great depression is absurd. You talked

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about a lack of demand, that is the key. When people talk about needing

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to improve consumer spending, one of the reasons people are not

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spending is because they are worried about losing their jobs.

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The coalition says Let's Make your jobs even more insecure. Her the

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coalition is not saying that. venture capitalist said let's make

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people's jobs more insecure. him speak. I will blame you for one

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thing. What about VAT? If you want one proposal that will kick-start

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the economy is cutting VAT back to 7.5%. It has raised inflation,

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damaged small businesses. Her what about the bond markets? You will

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add 12 million to the deficit. much will cutting the 50 p tax?

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Can I respond on VAT? VAT cut across the board is much too

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expensive. It would be very... What Lib Dems believe and I have been

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arguing for and has been argued in government is we have a cut on VAT

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on house improvements, house repairs. That would be very

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effective. That is Lib Dem policy and has been picked up by Ed Balls.

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A targeted VAT cut is very important. Rachel, we have seen an

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argument between the two sides of the coalition, but there's even an

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argument about this in the Conservatives. Absolutely. As much

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if not more than Tory Lib Dem, it is a blue one blue fight. It is

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exemplified by Lord Young and Lord Heseltine, the two advisers on

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growth to the Prime Minister. Lord Young is a Thatcherite who is the

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regulatory, low-tax, a lot of enterprise. Lord Heseltine wants

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intervention, he is in charge of the regional growth fund. David

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Cameron has got bits of both. He is struggling between the two at the

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moment. He is calling on Europe to have a big bazooka. We need a big

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bazooka here, too. Lord Heseltine is an honorary Liberal Democrat for

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this purpose, like Ken Clarke. Thank you very much. All will be

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revealed on 29th November in the pre-Budget statement taking place

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in the afternoon. It will be live on BBC Two.

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Now, security at our borders has been front of most people's minds

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this week, not least Theresa May's, with the news that the UK Border

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Agency relaxed rules on entry into the UK this summer. Theresa May

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appears to have survived, but you don't need a long memory to know

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that this is not exactly the first time the Home Office has been in

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trouble over immigration. In the first of our new series looking at

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what happens when the dust settles on a political storm, Adam speaks

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to Charles Clarke about the foreign Crisis at the Home Office, where

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have I heard that before? The Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, is under

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intense pressure after admitting more than 1,000 foreign criminals

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were released from British prisons instead of facing deportation.

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Parliament heard that convicted murderers and rapists from abroad

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were still on the streets when they might have been sent out of the

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country. It was a failure, I have acknowledged that and it must be

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got right. Amid the public or cry, opposition politicians called for

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Charles Clarke to resign. The Home Secretary's position is now

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untenable. Looking back from his new job at the University of East

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Anglia, he still accepts errors were made, but he says the media

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storm just got too big. People haven't been considered third

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deportation and the media was entirely justified to make that

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point. However, what it then became overlaid with was the politics of

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the moment and the issue of the overall political situation facing

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the Prime Minister and the Labour government at that time. That

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became a bigger story and there was some element of the media which

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were very varied aggressive in their attacks, but only because of

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the issue itself, but the overall political picture. And 10 days into

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the crisis, Labour suffered a disastrous set of local election

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results which littered Tony Blair reshuffling his cabinet. -- which

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led to. A drop to Tony Blair and note the day before the reshuffle

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saying to things. Firstly, in my view he should make it clear that

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he would remain as Prime Minister until 2008. Secondly, if he didn't

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want me to continue as Home Secretary, I didn't want to serve

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in another role. He asked me to come round to Number Ten

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immediately, which I did. He said it was my view -- his view for me

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not to think -- remain as Home Secretary. Five years on nearly all

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foreign prisoners are now considered for deportation, but

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that doesn't mean they actually all leave. The latest figures show 3775

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released foreign prisoners are still living here, including 87 who

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have served terms for most serious crimes. Charles Clarke says things

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didn't improve after he was sacked. The Home affairs Select Committee

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looked into the situation in detail, I gave them evidence. Their

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conclusions, I thought, not an exoneration, but no criticism. The

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Home Office is a department dealing with tough problems and it is

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always in the firing line. I was told when I first arrived by the

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then permanent secretary at that total problems would always occur

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in the Home Office. I said I thought that wasn't acceptable, we

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could predict many of the things that would happen. It was our job

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to get on top of that and stop it happening. My sadness about this is

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I believe I was on course to do that. In his autobiography, Tony

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Blair says he now regrets Charles Clarke left the Cabinet. He felt he

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should not have sacked me as he did and I agree with that! But it is in

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politics -- but in politics it is the judgment you make at the time

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that count. History might have been different. A man who thinks he

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should not have been sacked! Joining us now is Tony McNulty -

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former Labour MP and former immigration minister. Are Veronique

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echoes of the foreign prisoner crisis in the current crisis? --

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are there any echoes. One crucial one, and that is that Charles stood

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up and take it on the -- to good on the Gyan himself. He did not say to

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anybody, find me a body to put in front of me to shield me and blame

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everyone but himself for the issues. That is to his credit. Theresa May

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will rue the day when she has almost sacked -- found somebody

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guilty and then said, let's see what went wrong. If a senior

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minister tells their civil servants to do something and they do that

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and then do something else, which they have been explicitly told not

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to do, what should a minister do? They should go through the entire

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process, give the person their day in court and then arrive at a

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decision. You shouldn't do it backwards. Brodie Clark will

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contest that he did not do it at all. His boss said she did. I know

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Rob Whiteman very, very well, but a dark he is backing the Home

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Secretary. He has been imposed six weeks of up he had barely been

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there three or four weeks and would not have someone brand new have...

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I think we saw it a bit with Ed Miliband next week, a problem for

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Labour on immigration. No matter if the Tories are not living up to

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their promise or have made a mistake or blaming civil servants,

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rightly or wrongly, the general perception of the country is you

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have made a Horlicks of immigration and you have no standing on it.

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That is right to an extent. It is wrong, but the perception is right.

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Yvette Cooper got to that when she was talking to Theresa May. We

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recognised in 2005 what we needed to do. Charles is right that the

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prescription we had post 2005 was the right one.. Bases, economically

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driven. -- points basis. The systemic problems were being dealt

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with when the foreign national prisoners stuff brewed. But I think

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on balance, it is wrong for aid to go anywhere near this on Wednesday

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and he should have left it to Yvette. Rather like Ken Clarke, I

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thought he would have learned from Ken Clarke. When Ken Clarke was

:25:45.:25:49.

embroiled in the issue over rape sentencing, Ed Miliband knows he

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was wrong to use the precious time of PMQ has to go on that narrow

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focus. Give Me Your brief headline thought on the whole Theresa May

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business this week. Whether she survives on what is a separate

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question. With Rome burning, Ed Miliband shouldn't have used all

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his questions. Labour never understand that they will not win

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the populist argument on immigration with the Conservatives.

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They will not win the Daily Mail vote. Even the Conservatives don't

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win the Daily Mail vote! They have to make a different, more

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interesting case about immigration and migration. It is just that

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competence, it is not about immigration or numbers or anything,

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it is about competence and whether Theresa May lost it. It is very

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dangerous to go to war with civil servants. We shall see what happens.

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Tony, thank you. Thank you. Get on with your memoirs!

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Time now to see what else has been going on in the last seven days -

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here's Giles with the week in 60 Home Secretary Theresa May found

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herself in the middle of an immigration row, minus cat. She

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claimed former borders Chief Brodie Clark took a pilot scheme to relax

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the rules further than authorised all but he doesn't beat. On Tuesday

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it was arrivederci Silvio, but at least he'll have more time to spend

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with his friends. A dashing Prince rode into battle this week after

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the much respected FIFA tried to ban footballers wearing a

:27:27.:27:33.

Remembrance poppy. Wills won,. James Murdoch was back facing

:27:33.:27:37.

questions from one MP who clearly sees him as less Harry Potter, more

:27:37.:27:41.

Michael Corleone. You must be the first Mafia boss in history who

:27:41.:27:44.

didn't know he was running a criminal enterprise. Mr Watson,

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please. I think that's inappropriate. Across the pond,

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Rick Perry forgot his own policies. It is three agencies of government

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when I get there that are gone. Commerce, education and... What is

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the third one? Oops. The words he was looking for were

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Department of Energy. He may soon have plenty of time to remember

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that. That's all for this week. Jo will

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be back here on Monday with more Daily Politics. And join Jon Sopel

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for the Politics Show on Sunday, BBC One at 3.10pm - he'll be

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