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Tonight, the Chancellor tells Newsnight that there can be NO | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
This is the vote. There is no second vote. This is the vote, this is the | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
crucial decision of our lifetime. We sit down | :00:21. | :00:30. | |
with him in Berlin to discuss how the negotiations are going, | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
and what it means for Britain. Sparkling diamonds, they are giving | :00:37. | :00:37. | |
Hatton Garden sleepless nights! The nearest thing to an Ealing | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
comedy that real crime gets. Three men are convicted | :00:46. | :00:45. | |
for the Hatton Garden heist - what it is about jewellery | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
theft that makes it such And we talk to Juliet Stevenson | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
about her friend and co-star The Chancellor has told Newsnight | :00:50. | :01:15. | |
there can be no second vote on Europe and called | :01:16. | :01:16. | |
on the British people to focus on what he calls a 'once | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
in a lifetime decision'. His comments are being interpreted | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
as a direct response to some campaigning on the Leave side - | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
who had floated the idea - behind the scenes - | :01:27. | :01:27. | |
of having two referendums - so that people would feel freer | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
to vote to leave if it meant Britain then having another chance | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
at negotiating a BETTER deal - an idea the Chancellor | :01:35. | :01:35. | |
was quick to scupper today. George Osborne also suggested that | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
in key EU member states a consensus was emerging that Britain had made | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
a perfectly reasonable case for change which would | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
improve not just the UK - Whilst talk was of renegotiation | :01:45. | :01:45. | |
he also staked his claim The next Conservative manifesto | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
in 2015, will ask for a mandate from the British people | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
for a Conservative government to negotiate | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
a new settlement with our European And with that the Prime Minister let | :02:15. | :02:14. | |
the blue touchpaper for the big It was perhaps no surprise | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
that he appointed his long-term ally, George Osborne, | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
alongside the Foreign Secretary, And, over the past few | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
months in a flurry of summits and meetings, | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Britain's demands have fallen One, sorting out the relationship | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
between euro members Two boosting competitiveness | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
and reducing red Three protecting sovereignty | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
by exempting Britain from ever close the union and bolstering | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
national parliaments, and four, measures to restrain | :02:58. | :02:58. | |
migration, such as limiting The Chancellor is in Berlin today, | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
continuing the arguments on all that with the German and French | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
finance ministers. Now obviously migration has | :03:14. | :03:13. | |
caused some friction And it is that that has attracted | :03:14. | :03:14. | |
most public attention. But don't let it detract | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
from the things going on in the renegotiation, | :03:22. | :03:22. | |
in particular, one way of looking is as a ginormous U-turn | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
in British foreign policy. You see, for years, | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
the mantra has been, we have to cling on to | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
the idea of one Europe, Britain in that Europe, | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
sitting at the top table alongside John Major talked of Britain | :03:39. | :03:39. | |
being at the heart of I want us to be where we belong, | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
at the very heart of Europe. Tony Blair referred | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
to Britain as full players I believe we in Britain should start | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
to have a little more confidence in our ability to shape | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
arguments, have influence, play our part in Europe, | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
without constantly worrying that Europe will turn | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
into a conspiracy against Britain. So the renegotiation | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
wraps all that up. You might even call | :04:16. | :04:15. | |
it a tear-jerker. Because what it tries to do | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
is put into writing, Europe, codifying the relationship | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
between members of the euro Britain still in the EU, | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
but not at its heart. One stop on his brief trip to Berlin | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
to was a trendy office space for business start-ups, | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
a tour with the French economy minister. | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
And there he sat down. And there he sat down with me. | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
Chancellor, many people think of the renegotiation is just for show. | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
People who support the efforts you are making, what do you see in it | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
that is important? There are some people in Britain who definitely | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
want to leave Europe and others want to remain. I think the majority want | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
to stay in a reformed European Union and that is why this negotiation | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
matters because it offers the chance of a new settlement between Britain | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
and Europe where we are not part of of a new settlement between Britain | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
ever closer union, with the Eurozone cannot impose changes on us, | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
ever closer union, with the Eurozone need consent. If we achieve that | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
settlement they will have finally put at ease that often fractious | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
relationship between Britain and put at ease that often fractious | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Europe. Give me a practical example. put at ease that often fractious | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
Let's hold migration aside put at ease that often fractious | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
difference it makes. Welcoming put at ease that often fractious | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
is one practical example. Just put at ease that often fractious | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
before the summit the Eurozone tried to land Britain with the bill for | :06:09. | :06:09. | |
the Greek bailout. That would have had an impact on British taxpayers. | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
the Greek bailout. That would have because of agreements we had already | :06:19. | :06:18. | |
reached at a political level but it was a close run thing. We need | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
permanent changes so that British taxpayers do not bail and European | :06:27. | :06:27. | |
countries. Another example, some businesses were told they could not | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
locate in Britain because it businesses were told they could not | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
part of the Eurozone. businesses were told they could not | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
challenged that. But we want to enshrine it in the | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
challenged that. But we want to just enshrine it in the rules of the | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
challenged that. But we want to European Union but of a safety | :06:46. | :06:45. | |
mechanism that enables us to enforce those rules. You are saying that | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
this marks a significant rewriting of the relationship between members | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
and nonmembers of the euro, for example? For me, as the finance | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
minister, at least the most important part of what we are trying | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
to achieve is ensuring that Britain can operate alongside Eurozone that | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
is integrating and creating ever closer political and economic and | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
financial union, because Britain doesn't want to be part of that and | :07:14. | :07:14. | |
I don't want Britain doesn't want to be part of that and | :07:15. | :07:15. | |
choose, as some would say, between doesn't want to be part of that and | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
joining a single currency, something we never want to do, and leaving the | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
European Union. You know how these we never want to do, and leaving the | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
negotiations are going, have you made up your mind on how you will | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
vote in the referendum? What I want to do is achieve a successful | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
renegotiation, that is one thing I want to do in Berlin. But we can | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
achieve that we can recommend to the British people that we can stay | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
achieve that we can recommend to the this reformed European Union. Until | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
the conclusion of that renegotiation, we rule nothing out. | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
So you, George Osborne, really could actually recommend to the British | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
people that we the European Union? As I say, we rule nothing out. | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
Accent I don't go into these things, David Cameron is not going to these | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
things, my Cabinet colleagues do not go into these things thinking that | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
we will fail. We watched as exceed in these negotiations. Here in | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
Berlin just weeks before a crucial European Council when we will make | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
these decisions, I am pretty optimistic. We can see the central | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
pieces of the deal falling into place. We will achieve a more | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
competitive Europe, make sure we will not be part of ever closer | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
union. We will be able to secure our rights as a country not part of the | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
euro and I think we will be able to deal with the abuse of free movement | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
and people travelling just to claim welfare benefits. Achieve those | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
things and you are dealing with many of the major concerns people have | :08:55. | :08:55. | |
about the status quo in Europe. A big step forward. Is the Treasury | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
planning contingencies for bricks at -- Brexit? This is where the | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
resources of the Treasury are deployed... Six months from | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
negotiating an exit, you are open-minded about whether we will | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
stay in or go out and you are not prepared for it! As I say, our | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
efforts on making sure that we achieve a successful renegotiation. | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
And I see, not just in Germany but in France, in other key states, | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
consensus emerging that Britain has made a reasonable case for change, | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
and this new settlement is not only better for Britain but potentially | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
better for the rest of Europe as well. I am optimistic. One of the | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
reasons we got this far is because a lot of hard work has been done, not | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
just by the politicians but by civil servants, to achieve it. In the | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
interests of plain speaking and clarity, most people know that you | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
support EU membership and you will be optimistic that you will be | :10:09. | :10:09. | |
supporting it because the renegotiation is going well enough | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
for us to stay in. You would not defer from what I have just said is | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
a summary of your position? I will put my way. I hope to be able to | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
recommend that we should stay in a reformed European Union. I came into | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
the House of Commons in 2001, I'm a Eurosceptic like many of my | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
conservative colleagues because I'm Eurosceptic like many of my | :10:34. | :10:34. | |
concerned about some of the things that happened in the European Union. | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
That's why I want to make this changes... Let's talk about seeking | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
a position where we can achieve this changes. Then we can have the best | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
of both Wells, we can be in the European Union, yet not run by it. | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
To use an old, but apt slogan. Let's talk about something that matters | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
more on the continent and possibly more to the people of Britain, which | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
is migration, refugees, flows of people. David Cameron implied that | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
is migration, refugees, flows of for Europeans to come to Britain | :11:13. | :11:13. | |
they would need a job. Then he implied that if they were there for | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
six months without a job they would have to go home. It seems that all | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
of that has been dumped and we have a much watered-down objective in | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
of that has been dumped and we have terms of the migration of objective | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
and renegotiation. Is that right? The objective that we are seeking is | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
the one we put in our manifesto that button voted on last year. That is, | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
you cannot abuse the free movement of people just to come to our | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
country and claim benefits. And we need to address this... It has been | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
watered down from what the prime ministers said in 2014. I don't | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
think that's true. David Cameron, in a speech at Bloomberg, said we had | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
to address the abuse of free movement. Benchmark one Commons | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
select committee was told, on a specific proposal of curbing | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
benefits, he said it would not have much impact, do you agree? I don't, | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
actually. Budget have you looked at the impact that it will have? The | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
work that has been done, including by bodies like independent Europe, | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
respected think tank, is that this would help reduce the flow of | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
migration to the UK. Paige will it get it down? Do you seek European | :12:29. | :12:37. | |
migration coming down, post renegotiation? If you remove the | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
unnatural drawer of our welfare system, you will be able to reduce | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
it... Down to 10s of thousands, the overarching objective of this | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
government? It will contribute to it. Has 10s of thousands will | :12:52. | :13:01. | |
include migration from non-European countries so we will take measures | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
to make sure that that is not abused either. Many people have said you | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
have been clever with the living wage proposal, raising it to ?9 or | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
more by the end of parliament. If that helps British workers it will | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
be an enormous drawer to Polish or central European workers, won't it? | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
What we want our migrants who make a big contribution to our | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
What we want our migrants who make a paid their taxes, and that is a good | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
thing for our country but we want that migration to be controlled and | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
we don't want our migration system to be abused. OK if they come for | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
the minimum wage, as long as they do not come for benefits. Using to be | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
saying, yes if they are working, no if it is benefits. I am not saying | :13:51. | :14:01. | |
that migration is a bad thing per se but and must be controlled. On this | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
issue of borders which will clearly be a big part of the campaign, Alan | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
Johnson, on this programme last might, said that if we leave, you | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
will not get your borders back. Any plausible scenario, he said, about a | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
new relationship with Europe, we will, like Norway and Switzerland, | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
maintain free movement of people. Is that your view? If we vote out when | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
the referendum comes, we will probably end up with free movement | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
anyway? I agree with Alan that if you look at the other models offered | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
like Norway and Switzerland and the like, there are open borders in the | :14:44. | :14:44. | |
sense that this is part of the deal that they had to sign up to. I would | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
say Britain has the best of both worlds. The reason why we don't have | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
won a million refugees flowing in, in the way that Germany has had, is | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
precisely because we are in control of our borders. Benchmark will we | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
have a border or not after the referendum? Will we have free | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
movement, this is a basic question and we don't seem to have a clear | :15:13. | :15:12. | |
answer to it. We have a border today because | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
Britain is not part of Schengen from a -- the free movement. We are not | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
part of the single currency. You raise a perfectly good question, | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
which is, if it comes to the referendum, and there are people | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
advocating that we leave in that referendum, they will have to answer | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
the question, what is the alternative, are we going to have | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
free movement of people, are we going to have to pay into the | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
European budget to have access to their market anyway, will we have | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
European budget to have access to sign up to the rules even if we | :15:51. | :15:51. | |
don't have a vote on those rules, these are all the things that | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
countries like Norway face today. And they will be good questions to | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
put giving a referendum campaign. Do you think a referendum will settle | :16:01. | :16:10. | |
it? I think it will, for at least a generation, for my lifetime. Some | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
people talked about a second referendum. This is the vote. There | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
is no second vote. This is the crucial decision of our lifetimes. | :16:19. | :16:28. | |
Anyone who votes out on the assumption a year or two later you | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
can have another vote to go back in is being unrealistic. It is | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
important British people focus on the fact this is a | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
once-in-a-lifetime decision. Last one, you are going around capitals | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
of Europe and they are worried about migration, terrorism, Paris events, | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
ten killed in Turkey. Do they not look at you and think they have | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
bigger things to worry about? Talking to Germans here. Businesses, | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
some of the German people and the politicians, they understand many of | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Britain's frustrations and share some of them. They want Europe to | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
succeed and create jobs and growth and offer security, let's achieve | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
the reforms and have that settlement so we can vote to remain in that | :17:22. | :17:22. | |
reformed Europe. It was like the plot | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
of an Ealing comedy. A gang of ageing criminals, | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
with bus passes and sleeping bags, pull off a ?14 million raid on safe | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
deposit boxes in Hatton Garden - astonishing Scotland Yard, | :17:36. | :17:35. | |
and perhaps themselves, too. Three of them convicted | :17:36. | :17:36. | |
at Woolwich Crown Court of involvement in the country's | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
biggest burglary. Of course, no crime is victimless, | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
and much of the money and jewellery But no one was hurt in the raid, | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
and for romantics of a certain Sparkling diamonds, their value | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
running into millions, are giving Hatton Garden | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
sleepless nights. Willie Sutton, the most famous | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
American bank robber, they asked why he robbed banks | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
and he said, because that is where Last Easter raiders got | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
into the Hatton Garden vaults, lowered themselves down a lift shaft | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
and used high power drills to access It was like a reboot | :18:30. | :18:30. | |
of the Lavender Hill Mob, except this lot were | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
like the Over The Hill Police say the gang who broke | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
into a vault in Hatton Garden... They said the thieves | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
were organised. There was a theory it had | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
to be an international gang like the Pink Panther, this | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
famous gang of robbers and thieves. That there was not enough British | :19:05. | :19:16. | |
ingenuity left to carry it out, that we have two imports doctors and IT | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
people and footballers and we have to import criminals, also. But the | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
elite international cartel theory took a dent after the flying squad | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
arrested a group of British criminals getting on in years. In | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
fact they had a combined age of 500. A lot of them are having to go like | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
this to hear the evidence. They have to to be excused periodically | :19:46. | :19:46. | |
because they need to pay a visit. There is a lot of talk about hip | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
replacements and bladder problems and so on. The firm included | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
76-year-old Brian Reader, also known as the governor, who admitted his | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
part in the job. He went as the governor, who admitted his | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
burglary by bus with the Freedom pass and apparently got cold feet | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
after the crooks fail to crack the vault on the first night. Kenny | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
Collins, 75, admitted his involvement, he drove the getaway | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
car and kept watch outside the vault but the court heard he fell asleep. | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
Daniel Jones ex 60 almost the baby of the group. Police found a copy of | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
forensics for dummies at his house. He took part in the theft. William | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
Lincoln claimed he had been at Billingsgate Fish market at the | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
time, but was convicted of his part in it. Noel Razor Smith has served | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
time for armed robbery and for many years has gone straight as an author | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
and journalist. Professional criminals are always after the big | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
one and the big one is something that is a job you can undertake and | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
retire and never go back to that is a job you can undertake and | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
criminality or prison again, and this was their big one, which is why | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
I'm surprised they messed it up so badly. Rule number one when you | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
start out in this game, if you are going to the trouble of doing a job | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
like that, do not have the gear around you afterwards. The number of | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
people who can do this is very small and it is a matter of the flying | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
squad looking at who is in or out, who is dead, who is abroad, and the | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
list is small. If you are on the list, you will be contacted. As | :21:38. | :21:46. | |
their dreams turn to dust the ageing ringleaders faced the prospect of | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
spending their declining years inside. Daniel Jones confessed and | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
told police he could lead them to his stash, under the headstone of | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
told police he could lead them to one of his dear departed in a north | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
London cemetery. Before that outing took place, officers came to the | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
cemetery by themselves and under another headstone belonging to | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
another member of Jones' extended family they found a second larger | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
hall of loot, which Jones had strangely omitted to tell them | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
about. When he was confronted about this, he said, oh, that, that was | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
for my future use. To most professionals, giving back what you | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
have stolen is anathema. You do not want to do the work, do the prison | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
sentence and come back to nothing. You do not want to give back what | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
you have stolen, a hard fact with criminality. Why do it and then give | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
the money back? Putting a job together takes patience and money | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
and skill. Today's criminals have not got that. They are the last of | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
their kind. The dinosaurs of the criminal world and the last to be | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
taken down. Police surveillance tapes captured the gang's hopeless | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
bravado. Danny Jones, one of the guilty men, tells Terry Perkins, | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
another of the guilty men, on this tape, well, at least, Terry, we can | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
say we gave it one last go. I think it would make a good title for the | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
film. You hear them talking about it is the biggest, expletive deleted, | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
burglary in the expletive deleted world. | :23:32. | :23:44. | |
He had a capacity to fell you with a look or lift | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
you with a word, Emma Thompson said today. | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
Paying tribute to her friend and co star, Alan Rickman. | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
When his death was announced earlier it felt to many like a thump | :23:58. | :23:58. | |
An actor whose powerful and commanding presence | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
gave him a unique voice - and the adoration of millions - | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
He reached film fame relatively late in life - but then his | :24:06. | :24:15. | |
list of successes - Die Hard, Sense And Sensbility, | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood and Severus Snape | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
in the Harry Potter films showed his range and the depth | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
Juliet Stevenson played his partner in Truly Madly Deeply - | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
an achingly moving film about loss and grief. | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
She joins me, but first, a reminder of the scene | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
in which he appears to her from beyond the grave. | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
# A deep shade of blue is always there. | :24:45. | :25:02. | |
# The sun ain't gonna shine any more. | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
# The moon ain't going to rise in the skies. | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
# The tears are always clouding your eyes. | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
That film is unbearably poignant. Doubly more so today. Looking at it | :25:16. | :25:46. | |
I am thinking it is a good representation of what he could do, | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
which was basically everything. Make people cry, laugh, fall in love with | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
him. Very sexy, delicious, surprising, challenging. He could do | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
anything and you get a sense of his surprising, challenging. He could do | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
range in that film. Those scenes were improvised? That scene was | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
improvised because there is not much dialogue in it and it was the | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
hardest scene to shoot. The great gift of making that film with him | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
was it was clever casting by Anthony Minghella because we had known each | :26:22. | :26:22. | |
other a long time and I Minghella because we had known each | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
him like many people as a family member more than a friend, even. We | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
had a lot of history and it played in well to the story of the film. He | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
was inventive to work with, very creative, thinking all the time | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
about the bigger picture. He had his eye on everything will stop what the | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
camera was doing, what the design was. He thought very big and had | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
many kinds of talent that could was. He thought very big and had | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
address itself to all parts of the job will stop he had a lot to offer | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
in every department will stop he was more than an act but an inspiration | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
to everyone on the crew as I am sure he was on every group. The voice was | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
hypnotic. Sometimes there was a look, as Emma Thompson said, one | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
look, one word, and I broke, a glance. -- an eyebrow. He was the | :27:18. | :27:27. | |
most economic person. He is looking down now saying, just think before | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
you speak. He could make you roar with laughter with a couple of | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
words. He could say something insightful with just one line. | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
Astonishingly economic, but he had a laser beam accuracy about what | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
needed to be said, whether it was funny, insightful, tricky, | :27:46. | :27:55. | |
challenging. Is that from his stage structure that came before film? He | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
was a theatre actor for a long time before he became a big movie star. | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
He was a classical actor on stage and we met at the Royal Shakespeare | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
Company. A lot of busted who were friends of him. He had an incredible | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
technique. As for that capacity, he always have that. -- as a lot of us | :28:16. | :28:23. | |
were. He was instinctive, intuitive. His judgments came from an amazing | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
blend of the mind, intuition, hunch, observation. And great humanity. We | :28:29. | :28:38. | |
think about the baddies that he relished playing, but also the | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
uptight characters that gave so little away like the kernel in sense | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
and sensibility, when it was so English and restrained. Which he was | :28:48. | :28:55. | |
not in many ways. He did not come from the English upper class. I | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
think he was genuinely a classless person. There was no hierarchy for | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
his heart. He treated everybody with the same courtesy and generosity of | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
spirit. That is one reason he is very loved. He would be as courteous | :29:11. | :29:17. | |
to the driver, dresser, or the director of a movie and it is not | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
sentimental to say that. He saw the possibilities in everybody. He was | :29:23. | :29:37. | |
famously and and most generous. He would give people the courage to go | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
in a direction, help young people find their path. Was there a scene | :29:41. | :29:47. | |
or conversation or an exchange that lies in the heart of your | :29:48. | :29:55. | |
relationship together? There are so many of those. I have just come from | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
a house full of close friends and his wife, where everybody is | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
a house full of close friends and stories. We feel we have lost our | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
leader. Because he was who we look to for guidance. He was more than a | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
close friend, he was a great light in our community. We all | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
close friend, he was a great light have lost the steering wheel in our | :30:21. | :30:21. | |
car. We will rumble along the have lost the steering wheel in our | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
but not know quite which way to go for a while. I do not know if | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
but not know quite which way to go pick out a single thing. When I | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
played pick out a single thing. When I | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
measure and had success with it, playing a virtuous, intelligent and | :30:38. | :30:39. | |
forthright playing a virtuous, intelligent and | :30:40. | :30:41. | |
see a is good, but now I think you should | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
is good, but now I think you should play her as though she had bright | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
red six inch heels. I thought, what do you mean? And then, I see what | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
you mean. There needs to be sexuality in this character. He | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
always pushed you in a surprising direction you may not have | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
always pushed you in a surprising recognised, but he was almost | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
invariably right. None of us who loved him really know how we will | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
get along without him. Thank you so much. | :31:13. | :31:24. | |
For eight long months, one of the unanswered questions | :31:25. | :31:26. | |
of the general election is why the result took so many by surprise. | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
Where, in other words, did the polling go wrong? | :31:30. | :31:31. | |
Next week, we will see the findings of the official report into it. | :31:32. | :31:34. | |
But today, leading psephologist John Curtice made his | :31:35. | :31:36. | |
What emerges isn't rocket science, but a failure quite simply to talk | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
One pollster who got the prediction right - | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
And published it before the result came out | :31:44. | :31:55. | |
He says that the problem was much bigger than that - | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
that there was a failure to talk to the politically disengaged. | :32:00. | :32:01. | |
To put it another way, you don't ask those who go to church | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
You also ask those who only turn up at Christmas, | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
last to's general election produced the most unexpected result in a | :32:10. | :32:15. | |
generation. The opinion polls pointed to an incredibly close | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
contest. Pundits, forecasters and politicians thought I hang | :32:19. | :32:25. | |
Parliament was inevitable. They were all wrong. Before the election I | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
uncovered a series of statistical patterns that suggested that things | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
were not as they seemed. Looking at historical patterns, local | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
elections, by-elections and what people thought of the leaders I was | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
convinced that the headline numbers were wrong. But how were the opinion | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
polls so far off? Politics in were wrong. But how were the opinion | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
last Parliament was unusual. Two thirds of two ready ten Lib Dems | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
abandon the party. The pollsters got back right. Although they thought | :32:55. | :32:56. | |
more people would vote Labour than Tory. They were right in thinking | :32:57. | :33:02. | |
that the vote share of Ukip would quadruple although wrong in thinking | :33:03. | :33:05. | |
it would hurt the Tories much more than Labour. That is how the | :33:06. | :33:08. | |
pollsters ended up in complying with than Labour. That is how the | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
this result of 2015. After the election I dug into the results and | :33:14. | :33:16. | |
found the Tories were gaining more votes from the Lib Dems than | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
believed and Labour was losing more support to Ukip than indicated. The | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
narrative around the changes in the British political landscape was | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
wrong. Wax to Mark White? To measure public opinion, pollsters do not ask | :33:31. | :33:38. | |
everyone. One sample of 1000 people can be enough to give an accurate | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
estimate although it must be representative, or made | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
representative. Pollsters, put more weight on the types of voter | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
representative. Pollsters, put more they have too few of and less weight | :33:52. | :33:55. | |
on people whose opinion they have too much of. This time it went | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
wrong. The study conducted after every general election uses a | :34:01. | :34:04. | |
different method. Unlike convention in polling where you would call 1000 | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
people and then wait them against that they looked like the general | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
population we take addresses more less out of the hat and we went to | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
those houses and interviewed the people who lived there. The end | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
result is that first you get a sample that looks more like the | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
general population without re-weighting. And secondly for | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
political purposes the number of people who said they voted for each | :34:29. | :34:33. | |
party looked almost the same as the election result and like most | :34:34. | :34:39. | |
pre-election polls. My analysis suggested they ended up with too | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
many political in gauge to people. Sampling was behind the mistake. -- | :34:43. | :34:49. | |
politically engaged people. The young respondents were not | :34:50. | :34:51. | |
representative of their age group. As if they were putting too much | :34:52. | :34:58. | |
weight on Twitter users with a political axe to grind. People voted | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
for one the coalition parties in 2010 and switching to an opposition | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
party were overrepresented. Those who voted Tory in 2010 and stayed | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
loyal in 2015 were under-represented. In simple terms | :35:11. | :35:16. | |
we'd need more people who do not engage with politics. Or don't vote. | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
We overestimated the turnout. We will want to do a better job on that | :35:23. | :35:30. | |
next time. The huge challenge will be polling for Britain's EU | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
membership referendum, the electorate will vote across party | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
lines making weighting method is less effective than before, which | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
places an even greater premium on getting a representative sample. | :35:43. | :35:47. | |
Pollsters have been examining political activity, browsing habits | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
and even whether they watch Newsnight. If they are going to get | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
this right pollsters need to work towards more representative samples. | :35:56. | :36:01. | |
One of the intere Lunch Mac sting things is not | :36:02. | :36:03. | |
result, but what effect it had on the election result as a whole. | :36:04. | :36:10. | |
Tom Baldwin worked for Ed Miliband until he lost the election. | :36:11. | :36:13. | |
Rosie Campbell, from Birkbeck University, | :36:14. | :36:14. | |
has research interests in voting behaviour | :36:15. | :36:15. | |
Tom, looking back, what did it change? I think it made both | :36:16. | :36:28. | |
campaigns more risk averse. People were talking about it being a very | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
close campaign and a lot was at stake. And it changed the end of the | :36:33. | :36:41. | |
campaigns. In those final two weeks, all the news was about the risk of a | :36:42. | :36:41. | |
campaigns. In those final two weeks, Labour government propped up by the | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
SNP. The BBC was particularly obsessed by this story. We could not | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
get our 's story, the risk of a Tory second term, a Tory majority, up at | :36:51. | :36:57. | |
all. I think that changed the campaign and might even have had | :36:58. | :37:00. | |
some influence on the result. If the opinion polls had been accurate you | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
would have had a final stage of the campaign where people would have | :37:05. | :37:06. | |
been looking at a Tory majority government. Were people scared with | :37:07. | :37:15. | |
whatever they thought was going to be the result? That is the only way | :37:16. | :37:16. | |
you will get people to vote against it. Certainly you must talks if I go | :37:17. | :37:24. | |
opponents. The Tories were very successful at talks if eyeing us. We | :37:25. | :37:27. | |
were raising legitimate points about what would happen to the tax credits | :37:28. | :37:34. | |
and the NHS. But got no airtime in the final weeks. The contrast with | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
2010 when everyone expected a Tory majority and Gordon Brown pulled | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
back a bit of the end because people were talking about Tory majority | :37:44. | :37:47. | |
government, that did not happen this time. Rosie, the problem is that if | :37:48. | :37:53. | |
they get people who are not politically engaged, if pollsters | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
keep going to people who are offering good opinions, that cements | :38:00. | :38:02. | |
the problem. Some of it is about statistical literacy. We need to | :38:03. | :38:05. | |
know what is a good-quality pole and what is not. And actually the | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
high-quality darter discussed in the video, they make between six and | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
nine attempts to reach the same individual, whereas some of the | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
pollsters are making one attempt. That costs money. It has been an | :38:21. | :38:26. | |
investment in resources. Who was not spending that? Nobody apart from one | :38:27. | :38:35. | |
server is being able to put in that money and effort, so it's a plug for | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
social research, to understand what the electorate once you must invest | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
in high-quality surveys. While doing your own internal survey was there | :38:46. | :38:51. | |
not a sense from you, from the MPs, from politicians, we always hear | :38:52. | :38:54. | |
about the doorstep, does no one say anything helpful on the doorstep? I | :38:55. | :39:00. | |
think everyone got this wrong, the pundits, the politicians, the | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
pollsters. You are the party so innocents you know if someone likes | :39:06. | :39:10. | |
you. One thing that is true is come in every election I can remember, | :39:11. | :39:18. | |
including mine and seven, 2001, 2005, with the exception of 2010, | :39:19. | :39:21. | |
the Labour vote has been slightly overestimated in the opinion polls. | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
That is why a lot of us were a little sceptical about whether we | :39:27. | :39:29. | |
would win a majority will be the biggest party. Very sceptical. | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
Whether opinion polls affect the way that the media covered the campaign | :39:36. | :39:41. | |
and the fact that perceptions, that is the big question. Interesting | :39:42. | :39:44. | |
when we talk about lazy Labour, is the big question. Interesting | :39:45. | :39:49. | |
shy Tories, as if people were lying is the big question. Interesting | :39:50. | :39:51. | |
on the phone, they didn't, if this was right. There is no evidence of | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
lying. It looks as if it is a sample biased issue and Labour voters were | :39:57. | :40:01. | |
easier to read so if you made one attempt to contact the body you will | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
more likely to reach a Labour voter. The young people either on the phone | :40:06. | :40:08. | |
or the Internet were the kind of young people who are interested in | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
politics, a rare breed, and they are more likely to vote Labour. And | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
there's something else about Labour voters, they seem to be more readily | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
available. Tom, if you were doing it again now, knowing how the polls | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
were skewered, what would you have done differently in those last few | :40:28. | :40:38. | |
weeks? No Ed Stone, more focus on travel? What would you have told Ed | :40:39. | :40:44. | |
Miliband to do? Is a lesson to everyone. Pollsters and parties. | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
Opinion polls should not be the basis, the frame on which campaigns | :40:49. | :40:55. | |
run. There were 700 of them last year. It was driving a lot of what | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
we were doing, a lot of of the media were doing. We were not really | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
having a debate about different programmes of government, it was a | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
gigantic process story, what happens if Labour are propped up by the SNP. | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
That wasn't doing the electorate any favours. It wasn't allowing them to | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
make a rational choice about the options available. Would there have | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
been a different policy wore different language used by Labour, | :41:24. | :41:29. | |
knowing what you know now? We would have talked much more about the | :41:30. | :41:30. | |
prospect of a Tory majority government and what it would mean. | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
What does this mean, going ahead, we have a year | :41:36. | :41:46. | |
full of elections now, not least the EU referendum. Does this mean we | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
don't rely on pollsters, or we have collective amnesiac and go back in? | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
I think what we should do is treat opinion polls with caution. The | :41:54. | :41:56. | |
chances of collective amnesiac are high because copy will be needed for | :41:57. | :42:01. | |
newspapers so there will be polls, although I think the commentators | :42:02. | :42:06. | |
will take them with a pinch of salt. I am sceptical about the polling | :42:07. | :42:12. | |
industry funding the silver bullet that will solve its problems. Labour | :42:13. | :42:14. | |
has a credibility problem and I think the polling industry does as | :42:15. | :42:18. | |
well. Finding out you did not reach in of Tory voters is like us saying | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
that we did not rich enough Tory ones! Thank you both. I am afraid | :42:24. | :42:34. | |
that is always have time for tonight, but we will be back | :42:35. | :42:35. |