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There were five candidates this morning - one is Theresa May,

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I'll be lending my whole hearted support to Theresa May,

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who is overwhelmingly in the best position to be the next

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Prime Minister and the leader of the Conservative Party.

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I've decided to give my support to Theresa May.

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I intend to work closely with her, to campaign for her,

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and I am sure she'll be a very fine Prime Minister of this country.

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There is still a battle of the Brexiteers for second place,

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and a chance to appeal to Tory party members.

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But is it futile, given Theresa May's lead?

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Since the referendum result, of the 12 projects that we have

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people working on, for submission for an end of August deadlines,

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on four of those projects researchers in other European

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countries have said they no longer feel the E-UK should be a partner,

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because they don't have confidence in what the future is going to hold.

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In a Baghdad suburb they've counted 175 dead from an ISIS car bomb.

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In Westminster, they're about to publish the Chilcot report.

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Will this report bring security back?

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Or bring back someone who died from a car bomb?

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Or a widow who lost her husband, or lost her kids?

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Hello, it's too early to tell you who our new Prime Minister is,

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but we did learn today that it is not going to be Liam Fox.

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He was eliminated in the first round of the leadership election.

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Stephen Crabb then withdrew, so it won't be him.

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But both of them gave their backing to Theresa May,

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who was already the runaway leader, with half of Tory MPs backing her.

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But at this stage, the race for second place is still open.

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The battle of the Brexiteers, to be Theresa May's rival,

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is between Andrea Leadsom and Michael Gove.

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It's more exciting than Wimbledon, and there's now one

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round on Thursday, before it goes to an audience vote.

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Our political editor Nick Watt is with me.

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Talks takes through the drama? As you were saying a decisive win for

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Theresa May there, there are 16 a 5 votes for -- 165 votes for her, but

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led not a member of the Cabinet, the Brexiteer 66 higher than expected,

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that is a serious performance, but let us not forget Michael Gove, he

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got 48 vote, and that was higher than expected. The work and pension

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secretary Stephen Crabb did OK, 34 votes and in final fifth place there

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is Liam Fox on 16 votes and he came last, so sorry Liam, you are out of

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the contest. But shortly after he was formally

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eliminated Stephen Crabb as you said he was still in the contest, he

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decided to go and he endorsed Theresa May, but the really

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significant endorsement for Theresa May was Liam Fox, a prominent

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Brexiteer and he said he would travel the country with her, which

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will help her because she could be up against one of those two

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Brexiteers. You look at the figures and the endorsement of MP, and I

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know they don't choos choose, it has to be Theresa May? On paper Theresa

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May is untouchable but she is nervous about Andrea Leadsom. I

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talked to one of her supporters and this person said to me, look Andrea

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Leadsom is fresh, she was in the television debate, she maybe popular

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with the membership and this cabinet minister said maybe Theresa May will

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do so well on Thursday, that perhaps the others will stand down, but that

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is not the official Theresa May position, the official Theresa May

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position is I want this contest to go the full course, I want to face

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the country because I want a proper mandate. What is going to happen

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now? What happens on Thursday? What will happen is Theresa May will

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shore up her sup for, but there is Machiavellian thinking, perhaps

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because she is so far ahead she could lend 30 votes to Michael Gove.

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That would knock Andrea Leadsom out and Theresa May would be maybe not

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certain about beating Andrea Leadsom, but would be very certain

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about beating Michael Gove, but Theresa May, I am not in favour of

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tactical voting, so that is not the official position. Let us not forget

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Michael Gove, he thinks is a serious contender and he thinks Andrea

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Leadsom has two weakness, one is she didn't have a great performance in

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font of the 1922 Committee. And her stellar CV. Thank you.

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Earlier in the day, there was a flurry of excitement,

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thanks to a candid assessment of the leading candidates

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from Ken Clarke, caught on a Sky microphone.

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Many were wondering if it was right to air the comments,

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as he was apparently unaware he was being recorded, but, well,

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it just turned out to be too good for broadcasters not to run.

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I think with Michael as Prime Minister, we would go

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to war with at least three countries at once.

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He did us all a favour by getting rid of Boris.

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The idea of Boris as Prime Minister is ridiculous.

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I don't think either Andrea Leadsom or Boris Johnson are actually

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in favour of leaving the European Union.

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Theresa May is a bloody difficult woman, but you and I worked

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Well, joining me now are David Davis, the former

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Shadow Home Secretary, who is supporting Theresa May,

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and Tim Loughton, who is running Andrea Leadsom's campaign.

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Ront of the 1922 Committee. And her stellar CV. Thank you. We will take

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the microphones off later. Let us start on the issue of whether

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Theresa May is unassailable. Could you imagine a Coronation in which

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she is just Theresa May is too far ahead in MP votes? Absolutely not.

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The MPs role is an advisory role. It is up to the membership to decide

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the final candidate, who becomes leader, who then becomes Prime

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Minister. The membership will feel cheated if we deny the choice and

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deny them the choice of a Brexiteer and remainor, David Davis isn't

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there a problem, if 200 MPs support Theresa May, and the next candidate

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gets you know, vastly less, 70, I mean what happens? Tim is right.

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They are having a candidate foisted on them. I can't think of a

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parallel. Our rules are that the MPs put up the two candidates and the

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party chooses, now the party may take into account what the MPs do,

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but it is down to the party at the end of the day. If they choose to

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elect somebody other than Teresa, that is their choice. David know, he

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has been through it. I remember that process. You would be happy and you

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would serve under Andrea Leadsom, if even if she was way behind Theresa

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May in MP terms. The outcome is the outcome. We have Parliamentary

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sovereignty. On this subject, picking of the party leader and in

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this case the PM, it is down to the party members of the country. Are

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you nervous about tactical voting on Thursday, Tim, I know a lot of and

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dra's supporters seem to worry there may be some of that. This is my

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fourth leadership competition I have been in, I have been in Parliament

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for 19 year, in the past there have been a few hints some of her

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colleagues have not backbench up front about who they are supporting.

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Straight forward electorate? Wonderful colleagues may actually

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not do something they have said they would do, and there is a lot of

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shenanigans going on, I think the membership would feel cheated if

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they didn't have Teresa and Andrea. There is a certain niceness and

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neatness about having an all women the short list that is genuine,

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hasn't been gerrymandered by two strong women candidate, one from

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Leave, one from Remain, two who both went to state school. This is

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something new for the Tory party, it would be a good process, in what

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changes are coming about as well. Are you suggesting if Michael Gove

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pips Andrea Leadsom to the second place post on Thursday, are you

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suggesting that would probably be a result of tactical voting rather

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than MPs making a straight forward choice? Well we think that Michael

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got more votes than we expected him to today. We predicted for Andrea 65

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votes she got 66, so we have had to shoot her Chief Whip. Those are

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genuine people, who, who back Andrea, because they believe in

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Andrea, the fresh approach she has got, the experience she has got

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outside of Parliament. So we are going to increase the votes by

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people who are coming from Liam and from Stephen Crabb, but also from

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people who backed Teresa, because they gave Teresa their backing

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before Andrea came into the campaign, she wasn't in the campaign

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five days ago, to go from zero to 66, which is is double the

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predictions this horning is no mean feat. I repeat the question, if

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Michael Gove beats Andrea Leadsom on Thursday, would you be saying that

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is almost certainly the result of some kind of tactical voting, rather

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than honest voting? I I think there would be a steward's inquiry about

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where the extra votes came from but democracy is democracy. Is is there

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going to be tactical voting Of course there can be, this is a

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sophisticated electorate. There is no guidance from us, think of it in

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these term, let us imagine there are 35 votes in play, so, Teresa could

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go to 200 vote, right, or she could give the 35 votes to somebody else,

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in order to switch round, why would we do that? Firstly... Because it is

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easier to beat Michael Gove as you know. I don't agree with that. But

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not having, having 200 vote, which is the other alternative is a better

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outcome, Teresa is the unity candidate. She has pulled together

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Liam Fox and Stephen Crabb, me, not people you would necessarily expect,

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and the purpose is to unify the Tory party, the country, she wants the

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biggest vote. She is not going to give votes to anybody else. It is

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bonkers. Out of interest, one of the things that everyone has said about

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reading the view of the electorate in the referendum, is there was an

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anti-establishment vote, people were looking for someone who was

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different. I wonder whether either of you has a a candidate who has

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that. Andrea Leadsom, a city work e I think she went to Warwick, member

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of a black tie dining club. I was talking to her about this, we never

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remember that, we dined at hotels in Leamington Spa, the only time I died

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and my grandmother came in. I was at Warwick University, so we all have

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that in common. I was I was not part of any dining club, Dan was not. We

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a really mystified. Warwick is perhaps not the most blue chip. Is

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it fair to say that... So what She was an investment banker, she worked

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in fund management, in financial industry, in the city, in which she

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was widely respected and which she run teams of 3 hundred, she was

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involved in financial crisis in 2008, working alongside Eddie

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George, she has run businesses in the real world for 25 years before

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she came into Parliament, and starting to get into politic. The

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notion the only experience you could get inside politics, she has more

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outside politics than any of the candidates. She has been an MP for

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six year, day David Cameron was only a member for four years she is a

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highly respected minister. Your candidate has been in office for so

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many years and associated with failures that were associated with

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the defeat of the campaign that the referendum campaign on whose side

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she was. As you said in office she was in the most difficult job in

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Government, the one that kills people, in being Home Secretary,

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when I was Shadow Home Secretary for five years I had four Home

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Secretaries opposite me, she did the job for six years, it is a record in

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modern times and she was formidable. Things like the negotiation with

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Jordan over, series of things, incredibly important, that is why

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she got so many votes today, because they see a track record, a tough

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lady who knows what he is doing, decisive, competent capable. We have

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your thoughts on the credentials of your candidates. Let us talk about

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Brexit. Do you think Brexiteers can trust Theresa May?

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I just think if we are to have a Prime Minister who we need to

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negotiate, the most important settlement that we have ever faced

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in parliament, you need to have someone who is committed to the

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cause well researched and that caused and showed passion for it

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during the referendum, stuck up your neck on the block as a minister for

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the cause and knows how to negotiate. All those boxes are to

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buy Andrea Leadsom. The issue is not whether you voted for Brexit or

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whether you can deliver it. It is going to be one of the most

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sophisticated negotiations we have ever seen, not just us but the

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generation before us. It will require a competent and capable

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person, someone who can look Angela Merkel in the eye, who carries that

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gravitas but also has the intellect to do it. Today, not to pick fights,

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but up until today or yesterday, Andrea Leadsom, have you lost to go

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straight to Article 50 and trigger the negotiation. She is a tough nut

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she has done negotiation, she has dealt with foreign business people,

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dealt with foreign politicians in her role as Energy Minister and city

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minister. She is a no-nonsense, fresh start in politics and that is

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what we need. I'm afraid this is much bigger than that. Heads of

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state, there are really big arguments to take case and you will

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have to carry it off not just through the experience of one to

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energy negotiations, but a huge experience and that is what Theresa

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has got. She has a track record in the Home Office and when it comes to

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delivering the best deal for British people coming out of Europe, Theresa

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May, but Andrea will! Thank you both very much.

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Before the referendum, British universities were clear

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that they wanted Britain to remain in the EU.

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Now, of course, they are having to assess how Brexit will affect them.

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The Russell Group of top ranked research universities issued

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"We are just as open and welcoming to students,

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staff and ideas as we were before the referendum", they said,

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putting a brave face on it, but there are deep

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Our policy editor, Chris Cook, went to the university city

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of Sheffield, to find out what's on higher education minds.

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One vice Chancellor revealed his university is already feeling shock

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waves from the referendum. Sheffield was a major shock on

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referendum night. A big prosperous northern city but which voted to

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leave. And the two universities

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in Sheffield, like others elsewhere, are now deeply concerned

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about what comes next. British universities get around 5%

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of their students from the EU, around 15% of their staff,

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and around ?800 million It is possible all of those

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relationships and flows will continue in the future, but right

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now, uncertainty is causing real problems for our higher

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education institutions. One Vice Chancellor has broken

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cover, exclusively for Newsnight, to reveal

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a major problem. In order to secure research funds,

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our researchers need to bid You bid competitively

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and increasingly in an international environment, you bid

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in international teams. Since the referendum result,

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of the 12 projects that we have people working

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on for submission for an end of August deadline, on four of those

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projects researchers in other European

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countries have said they no longer feel that the UK should be a partner

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because they don't have confidence Three other vice

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chancellors have given us similar accounts,

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as academics here and abroad fear that

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post Brexit Britain might be excluded from the EU run

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research frameworks. One of them is the international

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engagement that our leading researchers have, the other

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one is mobility for younger So for our established researchers,

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because they are part of international

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networks at the moment, being published, but they know what

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is going on on the lab bench with And they know why decisions are

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being made about which particular For the younger researchers,

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the key thing is the opportunity to work

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in So as well as their experience

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of working in another country, they build up new contacts with those

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networks and those then support And we're going to

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miss out on both of Norway and Switzerland

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are out of the EU, but But the uncertainty

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is painful, and university We get quite a lot of research

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funding from the EU across a whole And we collaborate with

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all the EU countries. But one example of this

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is our Insignia research institute which is looking

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at how to develop cures for motor And other neuro

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degenerative disorders. So I think we wouldn't be able to do

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that research at that level without Now you might be

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expecting that, but what Stuff that both of Sheffield's

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universities called EU funded research also supports local

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high-tech manufacturing jobs. We work with British

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companies and companies in South Yorkshire

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as part of the supply chain to big

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companies like Rolls-Royce, Airbus We train 250 apprentices a year,

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with 195 small companies in This sort of work relies

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on attracting great researchers who can help local businesses

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develop their But vice chancellors already have

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case studies of prospective staff deciding not

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to come to Britain. And they fear losing students. I am

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really comfortable here but since the last vote, all the people from

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Spain do not know how it is working here, they're worried about that,

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quite worried about their situation. They do not know what will happen

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here to me. They do not know if people will still be nice or do not

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want us here. The UK may stay half in the U science infrastructure and

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take another pad, some Leave campaign is hoped up UK science

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bent, but academics need to know. For them it is a particularly

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chilling interregnum. As if we didn't have enough

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news to worry about, brace yourselves for tomorrow,

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when the Chilcot inquiry Another chance for establishment

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politician to take a kicking. The report has been seven

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years in the making - It's not designed to point

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the finger of blame at the mistakes made, it is designed

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to document the lessons But, of course, some of the lessons

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we may learn are that certain Sir John has been managing

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expectations of the report, The main expectation that I have,

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is that it will no be possible in future to engage in a military,

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or indeed a diplomatic endeavour on such a scale and of such gravity

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without really careful challenge, analysis and assessment,

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and collective political judgment Now, our diplomatic editor

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Mark Urban will be locked in a room with a number of other journalists

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to read the report at 8.00am Sir John Chilcot will talk

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about his findings at 11, and after that, the journalists can

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report on anything that their speed Let's start with Tony Blair. Where a

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lot of interest is in this and how the report will handle him and it. I

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think there will be a good deal of criticism of Tony Blair and the way

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he ran this but if after the smoking gun, key memo proving he knew that

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intelligence was false and lied to the people and Parliament, I do not

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think that is going to be there. I think there will be criticism of the

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style of government where Cabinet was not fully in the picture, a

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certain naivete going into it, absence of attention to detail and

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post-war planning. We may learn other things about Tony Blair as

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well, perhaps that he also realised it was going horribly wrong rather

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quicker than President Bush did. What about criticisms generally, how

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broad will they go, don't Tony Blair? I think it is key to

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understand that dozens of people will be centred explicitly or

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implicitly hi-vis. Officials, intelligence people who may not have

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given the right rigour, who may have allowed their work to be processed

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in a way that was too political. And not sufficiently caveat it. I think

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the military will be a substantial area of criticism. I think the

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report will point out that they lobbied for a big role in Iraq and

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then when Afghanistan was splitting up in 2005, they lobbied for a big

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role there before the business was finished in Iraq. All of that

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influence the level of resources and equipment that the military were

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able to have. So I expect to see a good deal of criticism of the way

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the campaign was conducted and the role of senior officers as well as

:23:10.:23:10.

other officials. By the way, Mark will

:23:11.:23:13.

share his observations on the inquiry with you tomorrow,

:23:14.:23:19.

as soon as Sir John stops talking. That'll be about 11.30 tomorrow

:23:20.:23:25.

morning, via Facebook Live. Go to the BBC's Facebook page,

:23:26.:23:29.

and you'll see it there, and you can Well, tomorrow's report

:23:30.:23:33.

will encapsulate in prose the mistakes made at the various

:23:34.:23:36.

stages of the war, and the suffering of both the Iraqi people

:23:37.:23:39.

and the British serviceman I am Reg Keys, I am

:23:40.:23:41.

the father of the late Lance Corporal Tom Keys who was killed

:23:42.:23:59.

in Iraq four days short of his 21st In the run up to the 2003 war,

:24:00.:24:02.

we were hearing all these information about the different

:24:03.:24:13.

types of bombs that are going to be launched on us, the different types

:24:14.:24:16.

of technology that is going to cause damage to our country,

:24:17.:24:21.

it was just so scary. believed my Prime Minister,

:24:22.:24:23.

Tony Blair, that Iraq had these dreadful weapons of mass destruction

:24:24.:24:27.

that were about to be unleashed

:24:28.:24:30.

on the British people at any time, indeed he could deploy

:24:31.:24:34.

in 45 minutes. At the start, when Americans came

:24:35.:24:38.

in, But then that's totally

:24:39.:24:40.

changed straightaway, when they saw things

:24:41.:24:46.

were getting worse. They are not getting better,

:24:47.:24:50.

we have American flags hanging on palaces, I had once

:24:51.:24:55.

a Laser gun on my chest because I was standing

:24:56.:25:02.

my balcony, someone in my house holding a gun towards me,

:25:03.:25:05.

saying this is freedom, this is democracy.

:25:06.:25:07.

Conditions were dire, I

:25:08.:25:08.

remember him saying we did a biological

:25:09.:25:09.

weapon attack drill, he

:25:10.:25:11.

said I put the rubber suit on, this is in

:25:12.:25:13.

stifling heat, these lads were

:25:14.:25:15.

training, feared for their lives, remember they may well be attacked

:25:16.:25:19.

when they were in no danger whatsoever from WMD, but as he put

:25:20.:25:23.

the face mask on, I recall him saying the rubber round the seal

:25:24.:25:26.

During the invasion we didn't go to school.

:25:27.:25:29.

I don't know why they waited till the end of

:25:30.:25:39.

They bombed electricity, they bombed telephone

:25:40.:25:48.

lines, OK, if you won the war, why are you bombing it and letting

:25:49.:25:51.

Tom and some of his colleagues were asked to give

:25:52.:25:54.

out sweets to children to win them over, and there was one dreadful

:25:55.:25:57.

incident, where two young lads, probably 12 or 13, Tom said, had

:25:58.:26:01.

taken sweets off them, and they were grabbed

:26:02.:26:03.

by a mob, taken off, tied to

:26:04.:26:05.

a lamp post and burned alive, as a lesson not

:26:06.:26:07.

to collaborate with the

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There was no law, there was no order, there

:26:10.:26:17.

The risk of death and serious injury goes along with being a serving

:26:18.:26:32.

soldier, I signed the paperwork for Tom to join the army because he was

:26:33.:26:36.

under 18 and I now have to come to terms with this. I was dealing with

:26:37.:26:40.

that until I started to find out that the weapons of mass destruction

:26:41.:26:45.

did not exist, that the war was based on a falsehood and

:26:46.:26:48.

misrepresentation of intelligence data. And then to my horror, I found

:26:49.:26:55.

that Tom had virtually no equipment, just 50 rounds of ammunition, no

:26:56.:27:02.

radio. No distress flares, no smoke grenade, no hand grenades. For a

:27:03.:27:08.

normal citizen living in Iraq at the moment, the Chilcot report will do

:27:09.:27:14.

nothing, will this report wingback security, will it bring electricity

:27:15.:27:20.

back will it make people feel safe? We want to know exactly why this

:27:21.:27:26.

country went to war with Iraq on the premise of a falsehood of WMD

:27:27.:27:33.

without a second UN resolution. The blood of those who died in Iraq

:27:34.:27:38.

stains the halls of Westminster, it was a shambolic episode in British

:27:39.:27:42.

politics, a disgrace and should never be allowed to happen again.

:27:43.:27:49.

And we will devote the programme tomorrow to the Chilcot report.

:27:50.:27:52.

The Labour Party is in the grip of a fierce

:27:53.:27:55.

Constitutionally, the party belongs to the members,

:27:56.:27:57.

but the MPs feel they have special rights to it as well.

:27:58.:28:00.

And the two are in a standoff over who should be leader.

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But, while I say that, it has not come to a vote -

:28:04.:28:06.

we just assume that the members would reaffirm their support of

:28:07.:28:09.

Especially, given a surge in new members post-referendum?

:28:10.:28:14.

Well, soon they may be given the chance to vote on a leader,

:28:15.:28:17.

so Lewis Goodall has been travelling the country to sound

:28:18.:28:19.

Meetings of local constituency Labour parties in every corner of

:28:20.:28:42.

the kingdom. There will be strong opinions.

:28:43.:28:46.

Before the meeting starts have a chance to catch up with sop some of

:28:47.:28:50.

the members to see if their support for the leader has soured. Soured.

:28:51.:28:55.

It was for the people round Corbyn, from the beginning there were so

:28:56.:28:59.

many media leaks and bits of things about him not being suitable, but in

:29:00.:29:06.

fact how can you say he is not? His vision is excellent and so many

:29:07.:29:10.

followed hipment Because a small my orty of the party which is a

:29:11.:29:14.

majority of the faction of the party are against him, does not mean he

:29:15.:29:17.

should go. Aren't they more than just a faction? No, that are a

:29:18.:29:21.

faction of the party. They are a fact hundred of the party. And if

:29:22.:29:26.

you want to listen to the party and you want members to be involved and

:29:27.:29:30.

you give them the right to join the party or just pay ?3 to have say you

:29:31.:29:34.

cannot take that away from him because you don't like the decision.

:29:35.:29:39.

If the Labour MPs feel the Labour Party is unrepresentative o their

:29:40.:29:42.

views or the views of their constituents they are within their

:29:43.:29:47.

rights to refuse the Labour whip. Even for Corbyn's detractors it is

:29:48.:29:50.

hard to oppose without an alternative. Why have we got to

:29:51.:29:55.

second guess the Parliamentary Labour Party. There are no

:29:56.:30:00.

candidates. There are no credible candidates coming forward. It does.

:30:01.:30:07.

There is all this movement against the leader, but nobody is standing

:30:08.:30:13.

up and saying I can do a better job. The PLP are acting in a sense of

:30:14.:30:16.

frustration, they are keen to bring about change and change to help

:30:17.:30:21.

ordinary people. Is that why they abstain on the Welfare Bill and why

:30:22.:30:25.

the previous Shadow Chancellor said he would accept some cuts to tax

:30:26.:30:30.

credits? The person who has been most outed is Angela Eagle. Do you

:30:31.:30:35.

have enthusiasm for that? Not at all. I don't think the Labour Party

:30:36.:30:40.

should return to new Labour but our style We shouldn't have a split in

:30:41.:30:45.

the party, which led to the SDP. We haven't got an alternative candidate

:30:46.:30:49.

out yet. Owen Smith's name is being touted. Let us wait and sigh. Would

:30:50.:30:56.

there be more support for him? Him? There is not a vacancy. We have a

:30:57.:31:01.

leader, and the leader has said he is staying put. The Labour Party

:31:02.:31:06.

isn't about one man, and we need, in order to be able do that job

:31:07.:31:10.

effectively, then Jeremy Corbyn needs the support of his MPs, and it

:31:11.:31:15.

seems he doesn't have that. In the event of another leadership election

:31:16.:31:19.

how many of you think Jeremy Corbyn would likely win? And in the event

:31:20.:31:26.

of another leadership election how many of you think you would likely

:31:27.:31:32.

vote for him yourself? Many of their comrades agree. During the meeting

:31:33.:31:37.

three motions were put down in support of Jeremy Corbyn, all three

:31:38.:31:41.

were overwhelmingly carried. All of the motions here were in

:31:42.:31:46.

favour of the leader, but, maybe the people who will determine the next

:31:47.:31:49.

leader of the Labour Party, aren't the people here at all but the

:31:50.:31:53.

people joining the party, to vote against Jeremy Corbyn.

:31:54.:31:58.

The rebels have to hope there are lots of people out there liker can

:31:59.:32:02.

and her daughter aimy from Cleethorpe, they are two of the

:32:03.:32:06.

60,000 people who have joined the party since the referendum. They

:32:07.:32:09.

have never been a member of a party before, but are joining now to vote

:32:10.:32:14.

for anyone but Corbyn. I have always voted, I think it is very important

:32:15.:32:21.

to vote, but I feel that the party I normally vote for isn't there any

:32:22.:32:25.

more, and I feel the next election, I wouldn't know who to vote for.

:32:26.:32:31.

Just feels like momentum have the car keys and they have gone for a

:32:32.:32:35.

joyride and they are not letting us have it back, and they would rather

:32:36.:32:40.

driver it off a cliff than give up power, because this is their moment.

:32:41.:32:44.

I read that so many people are joining and momentum say it is to

:32:45.:32:49.

join to vote for Corbyn, and I know I vote, join to vote against Corbyn,

:32:50.:32:53.

and I think he will hang on and I think it will be the end of the

:32:54.:32:57.

party. I think it could split the party, because people like me, that

:32:58.:33:01.

traditionally always vote Labour won't vote for Jeremy Corbyn in the

:33:02.:33:04.

next election. Will you vote for him in the next election? No. Who would

:33:05.:33:09.

you vote for instead? That is a tough one. I don't think, I don't

:33:10.:33:14.

think I could vote Tory, I think it would have to be the Lib Dem,

:33:15.:33:17.

because I use my vote, I think it is important to vote, and I feel I

:33:18.:33:21.

don't have anyone to vote for. You have voted Labour? Always voted

:33:22.:33:26.

Labour. But the other side are trenched too.

:33:27.:33:31.

Patrick Smith is secretary of Hull north Labour Party and a momentum

:33:32.:33:35.

organiser. Since the coup was launched, last week, we have seen

:33:36.:33:41.

more than 30 members a day, joining, so we are growing rapidly, and I

:33:42.:33:45.

would say that is thanks to Jeremy Corbyn. Do you think it is fair to

:33:46.:33:49.

say Labour is in a state of Civil War right now? Absolutely. I mean,

:33:50.:33:53.

how could you describe it any other way? But it's the MPs who have gone

:33:54.:33:58.

to war with the membership, not the membership who have gone to war with

:33:59.:34:02.

the MPs. Do you feel like you are going to bin that war? Yes. There is

:34:03.:34:09.

a lot more of us than there is of them.

:34:10.:34:14.

Well, if the Labour party is in a standoff, as Lewis

:34:15.:34:17.

suggests it might be, is it perhaps time to call

:34:18.:34:19.

For the party to split into its two component wings?

:34:20.:34:22.

Separating is all the fashion at the moment, after all.

:34:23.:34:25.

There were two influential political columnists today,

:34:26.:34:27.

one in the Times and one in the Financial Times,

:34:28.:34:29.

suggesting that this is no longer an unthinkable option.

:34:30.:34:31.

Proponents hate to call it an SDP mark 2,

:34:32.:34:33.

I'm joined by former Business Secretary Vince Cable,

:34:34.:34:38.

Ayesha Hazarika, who worked for Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman,

:34:39.:34:40.

Can I just start with you, have you had any conversations or heard any

:34:41.:35:00.

conversations about the idea of there being some break away or a

:35:01.:35:04.

split? I have spoken to a number of MPs and people round the Labour

:35:05.:35:08.

Party, today, and certainly there is lots of talk about it, it is in the

:35:09.:35:13.

zeitgeist. I think as much as it is trendy to talk about a conscious

:35:14.:35:18.

uncoupling, I think actually people's heart are not in it. Even

:35:19.:35:21.

though it is a very difficult time for the Labour Party, whether you

:35:22.:35:25.

call it Civil War, whether you call it an impasse, I think actually

:35:26.:35:30.

people's hearts are for sticking with the Labour Party, Neil Kinnock

:35:31.:35:34.

made an impassioned speech at Monday's night meeting of the

:35:35.:35:37.

Parliamentary Labour Party. People feel if the Labour Party was to

:35:38.:35:41.

split now, there might be a short kind of feel-good factor but it

:35:42.:35:47.

would do us real damage, on a long ongoing basis and probably deliver a

:35:48.:35:54.

right-wing Government, for decades. Could I ask though, we have sat, I

:35:55.:35:57.

don't know whether we have sat you in these seats or not. You are

:35:58.:36:02.

closer to Vince Cable, like you are this far from Vince Cable and you

:36:03.:36:05.

are this far from Jeremy Corbyn. You are much closer. You are much closer

:36:06.:36:10.

to Vince Cable than Jeremy Corbyn. I am going to push back on that, I

:36:11.:36:14.

think at the moment, the impasse we have got is not so much an

:36:15.:36:20.

ideological divide, lots of o people are welcoming of jer m's politics,

:36:21.:36:24.

social justice, equality, they are of their time, particularly the

:36:25.:36:27.

anti-austerity rhetoric. It is about the quality of his leadership. That

:36:28.:36:33.

is the issue. It is not ideological divide it is leadership. Vince

:36:34.:36:39.

Cable, close to sigh that. That is the honest answer. ? What would your

:36:40.:36:47.

advice be to the 150, 170 Labour MPs who are dissatisfied with their

:36:48.:36:52.

leader, they will be stuck with him because the party constitution will

:36:53.:36:57.

impose him on them. The present situation is not sustainable. They

:36:58.:37:01.

will be massacred at the next election, we are looking for the

:37:02.:37:04.

first time for decades, fundamental realignment. It is more likely to

:37:05.:37:10.

happen now, because the bonds of the voters to parties have gradually

:37:11.:37:13.

eroded and people are more open to it. It can happen in two ways, one

:37:14.:37:20.

is that my party rises from the Ashes, it is growing rapidly again

:37:21.:37:24.

and we then attract individuals, probably from the Labour Party, and

:37:25.:37:29.

some Tories too. And it becomes a genuine centre movement. The

:37:30.:37:32.

alternative is that the Labour Party split, you get a large chunk of not

:37:33.:37:38.

just old Social Democrats but centrist type Labour people. They

:37:39.:37:42.

become the centre of activity, and the anti-Tory front, and they try to

:37:43.:37:48.

work with us, the Greens and other, there are two different way, one

:37:49.:37:52.

will happen. There is a huge difference, one is a left-wing thing

:37:53.:37:55.

and another is a seven tourist thing. And I people in have been

:37:56.:37:58.

talking about the models as if they are one and the same. They are

:37:59.:38:03.

different. Rachel. I don't know whether you are a paid up member of

:38:04.:38:07.

Labour, I know you are more sympathetic to him. What do you feel

:38:08.:38:11.

when you hear Vince Cable outline the two paths? Well, I think I am

:38:12.:38:18.

more inclined to agree with Ayesha in the sense I don't think the

:38:19.:38:22.

Labour Party really wants to split. I think the people who are, have

:38:23.:38:28.

been having problems with Corbyn and voted against him, when it comes to

:38:29.:38:33.

down to it, don't really want to split the party, I mean it wouldn't

:38:34.:38:36.

be in their interests to split, and you know, go alone and be a small

:38:37.:38:42.

independent faction without the funding, and the organisational

:38:43.:38:46.

mechanisms and the backing of the Labour Party, and I think that you

:38:47.:38:50.

know, it wasn't that great that the vote of no confidence was carried

:38:51.:38:54.

out in a secret ballot but one of the advantages of after that is that

:38:55.:38:59.

we don't need to know, nobody need ever know who voted how, so that in

:39:00.:39:05.

the hopefully forthcoming reconciliation process, there is a

:39:06.:39:09.

way back, there is way to talk to core birntion and find way to

:39:10.:39:16.

resolve the issues, Unite have offered to mediate, they are

:39:17.:39:20.

professionally mediating. You are talking with Corbyn there, you are

:39:21.:39:24.

not saying let's save the party so my side will step down. I am talking

:39:25.:39:29.

about save the party, one of the major things about saving the party

:39:30.:39:32.

is saving the democratic processes of that party, you can't throw them

:39:33.:39:36.

in the air because you don't like the leader, because if you throw

:39:37.:39:40.

away the democratic process you have thrown away the party. Although the

:39:41.:39:44.

members are very important, but the Labour Party is a union between the

:39:45.:39:49.

members, and the people who are elected, to Parliament, by their

:39:50.:39:54.

constituencies, the public and MPs do lots of good work in Parliament.

:39:55.:39:58.

We have talked a lot about that over the last three week, particularly

:39:59.:40:02.

the light of Jo Cox, so the members are important, but the Labour Party

:40:03.:40:06.

is not just a pressure group. We have got think about the next

:40:07.:40:09.

general election, we have got to think about winning seat, not just

:40:10.:40:13.

stacking up a share of the vote. It is starting to great the implication

:40:14.:40:17.

that the people who support Corbyn are not interested in winning

:40:18.:40:20.

election, of course we are. Of course we are interested in power,

:40:21.:40:24.

that is what we are in it for, we want to see progressive change, we

:40:25.:40:29.

want an anti-austerity platform, now, we might disagree about the

:40:30.:40:33.

mechanisms, but there is a process, there is a democratic process, the

:40:34.:40:41.

party has. We need a good leader. The country is in massive crisis,

:40:42.:40:46.

right now, I mean, enormous, we have not had this in my lifetime. We

:40:47.:40:50.

desperately need a coherent opposition to face the Government.

:40:51.:40:53.

Whether it is in Parliament or in fresh election, and as long as the

:40:54.:40:59.

Labour Party is immersed in this totally navel-gazing, inward looking

:41:00.:41:02.

debate, that problem cannot be confronted. They have to start

:41:03.:41:08.

looking out ward. They do. They will not survive if they don't. I get the

:41:09.:41:13.

impression from MP, you and I are ain agreement Rachel. I don't think

:41:14.:41:17.

we want the party to split. There would be a heavy price to pay for

:41:18.:41:21.

that and there is one man that can stop that and that is Jeremy Corbyn.

:41:22.:41:25.

You are saying we agree we don't want to it split, I want your side

:41:26.:41:35.

to give way to mine. No. You are saying keep Corbyn, If the situation

:41:36.:41:40.

is versed I would say the same thing. Would they? Would you expect

:41:41.:41:46.

people to say things they do not believe out of loyalty for Jeremy

:41:47.:41:49.

Corbyn? Would he do that? Would he stick by a leader come what may?

:41:50.:41:54.

That is the thing, when it comes down to it, what is it, what are the

:41:55.:41:59.

policies that these MPs disagree with Corbyn on? What is it about...

:42:00.:42:06.

It is not an ideological... It is come fence in leadership. When you

:42:07.:42:11.

go for your next apraisele you can't say I think I am brilliant, even

:42:12.:42:16.

though I am sure they will, you can't just declare you are

:42:17.:42:19.

brilliant. When you win the leadership of the Labour Party, you

:42:20.:42:24.

win the right to, to lead, you win an opportunity to lead. You don't

:42:25.:42:28.

win a divine right to fail and cling on and destroy the party. I want to

:42:29.:42:34.

bring Vince in on this. The story of the SDP haunts this. You were there,

:42:35.:42:39.

you were involved. I was. Do you think of it being a success, what

:42:40.:42:41.

lessons would you draw? Some of the personalities are at the

:42:42.:42:52.

same, Jeremy Corbyn was a big figure in North London Labour. Europe was

:42:53.:42:57.

in the background. The difference is the way that the parties have

:42:58.:43:00.

changed, the old tribal loyalties have gone. From the point of view of

:43:01.:43:07.

Labour activists it was a failure because the Tories continued in

:43:08.:43:12.

power. In a deeper sense probably it was successful, it forced the Labour

:43:13.:43:17.

Party to confront electability and so you had real Kimmich and then

:43:18.:43:24.

John Smith and Tony Blair who made the party a highly successful party

:43:25.:43:28.

of government until the Iraq War. -- Neil Kinnock. Without the SDLP it

:43:29.:43:34.

would have been much more difficult to achieve. We will see if there is

:43:35.:43:41.

a split. Any predictions of that happening? I think the Labour Party

:43:42.:43:44.

will fight to reconcile and get some kind of marriage counselling sorted

:43:45.:43:51.

out, that is my hope. I think marriage counselling is the way

:43:52.:43:55.

forward, absolutely. If there are not irreconcilable differences.

:43:56.:43:57.

Now, before we go, it's the biggest day in Welsh

:43:58.:43:59.

football history tomorrow, as they take on Portugal

:44:00.:44:01.

in the semi-final of the European Championships.

:44:02.:44:03.

To get you in the mood, here's former National Poet

:44:04.:44:05.

of Wales, Gillian Clarke, who has recorded a special

:44:06.:44:07.

version of her poem, Stadium, just for us.

:44:08.:44:09.

The legend goes like this: the land is cold and bare,

:44:10.:44:19.

when the people wake to a strange new hope and a mood

:44:20.:44:22.

There is one with a silver boot and one with a raptor's stare,

:44:23.:44:27.

and all of them young and strung with steel, and ready

:44:28.:44:29.

There is one with the speed of a hound, and one with the heart

:44:30.:44:36.

of a hare, and millions to surge and urge them on,

:44:37.:44:38.

A cloud lifts from the land, the sun stands in the air,

:44:39.:44:45.

when the ball goes straight through the golden gate,

:44:46.:44:47.

like a comet with streaming hair, the bells will ring and the people

:44:48.:44:50.

Good evening. A rather cool might on the way but any early chill one

:44:51.:45:11.

debate but the sunshine tomorrow morning. The cloud increases from

:45:12.:45:16.

the West, turning some of the sunshine

:45:17.:45:18.

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