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The national anthem is ringing out across Rio this month. | :00:08. | :00:29. | |
After a summer of the strangest political | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
shenanigans, is sport making Britain look serious? | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
We're on the medal trail tonight, symbols of success | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
that have the power to lift a nation. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
So how exactly have we | :00:39. | :00:39. | |
The woman in charge of UK Sport will tell us what | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
we're doing right and whether it can last. | :00:47. | :01:06. | |
The most unfriendly rivalry - in Donetsk and on the | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
Crimean peninsula, new tension between Russia and Ukraine. | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
We'll ask if Brexit Britain should be | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
trying to reset its relationship to Russia. | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
And it is this man, Joseph Chamberlain, the new Guru | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
He promised better housing, minimum wage, to crack down | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
He promised many things that Theresa May promised the | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Are you one of those people who can't help poring over the medal | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
Taking delight in the fact that Britain, number two, | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
are ahead of China, for the moment at least? | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
It is certainly more fun when your country is doing well, | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
and for the third Games in a row, Britain is looking | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
It wasn't always like that - some of us can remember our typical | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
haul of three or four gold medals, the numbers we achieved at Munich | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
Five golds was a good Games haul - Barcelona in 1992, for example. | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
After the embarrassment of Atlanta, we went up one gear, | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
and then after Athens, we went up another. | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
Other countries have seen their fortunes shift, | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
too: Australia had no golds in Montreal but rose | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Fortunes wax and wane, and fortunes are spent. | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
Given the capacity of the Olympics to instil feelings of national well | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
being, it's worth asking, what is it that makes | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
What have we done right, and is it going to last? | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
Let's start with some facts and analysis from Secunder Kermani. | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
We must be doing something right. Yesterday, we won five gold medals, | :02:33. | :02:43. | |
and there were more today. In Atlanta in 1996, Great Britain won | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
just one medal. Is this all simply the result of more and better | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
focused funding? In Sydney in 2000, Britain's Olympians received ?59 | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
million in funding. They won 28 medals. That's around ?2.1 million | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
per medal. London 2012, Olympians received ?264 million and won 65 | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
medals, just over ?4 million per medal. This time round, | :03:11. | :03:25. | |
they got ?274 million, and if, as looks likely, they reach their | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
target of 48 medals, that would work out at ?5.7 million per medal, and | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
it would be Britain's most successful overseas Olympics. I am | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
most surprised by how people are surprised by how well we're doing. | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
We have increased funding, good systems and structures in place, and | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
in the past, we went to the Olympic Games would hope rather than | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
expectation. Given the investment we have made in the last 20 years so, | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
we can expect rather than hope. You might have thought that the bigger | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
and richer a is, automatically the more medals it gets. This graph | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
compares total medals won in 2012 with GDP full stop America, for | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
example, lots of money, lots of medals. But it's not quite that | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
straightforward. India, with a big economy, underperforms massively, | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
while Cuba does better than you would expect. Britain is above the | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
line, which means it did well. With population, the correlation is even | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
bleaker. Outliers like India, massive population but few medals. | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
Cuba, small population but many medals. These are more pronounced. | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
So how do you explain these results? It might come down to the things | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
such as the health of the population, Government policy, | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
cultural importance of sport and other factors. You have to have the | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
will and commitment to do that. In India, they have a vast population, | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
which would presumably generate hundreds of thousands of Olympic | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
athlete if the nation were really committed to developing them, but | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
they are just not. Addicting the Olympics and understanding results | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
has become a bit of an obsession. This formula was formulated by | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
German academics. It includes GDP, whether there is a centralised | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
economy, and whether the population is mainly Muslim, which can affect | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
how many female athletes there are. A colleague of mine at the | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
University of Colorado carried out an exercise when he compared the | :05:23. | :05:34. | |
prediction of the models. The model predicted pretty much everything. It | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
is hard to make like-for-like comparisons between competing | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
nations and their level of funding, but Britain has been spending more | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
than its other less successful rivals. For now, though, few will | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
complain. It is worth saying, by the way, | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
that there has been medal inflation: there are a lot more events | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
in the Olympics these days. So there are 306 gold | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
medals this year. Liz Nicholl is the Chief Executive | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
of UK Sport and she joins Lovely to speak to you, and | :06:00. | :06:13. | |
congratulations on what is going on over there. On the target, the 48, | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
we will bust through that, won't we? Are you thinking it is possible | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
Britain will outperform its London 2012 performance? The target, as you | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
said, is at least 48. And yes, we are on track to achieve that over | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
the coming days. Will we reach 66? Who knows? We know there is a good | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
number of possible medal opportunities over the next week, | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
and we will have to see where we get to. There is very little... The | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
space between a fourth and a third and a second and a first is minute, | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
so we will have to see how it plays out here in 30. It is costing us, | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
depending on how many medals we end up with, around ?5 million of | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
investment per medal, isn't it? Do you think about those figures, what | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
it costs to get one in swimming and one in hockey? Do you work that way | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
in working out the funding allocation? We work it out by | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
identifying the athletes that have the potential to deliver medals in | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
the Olympic Games environment, and then the sport developed a strategy, | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
and we call that a what it takes to win strategy. It is omitted to us at | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
UK Sport for review, and that will include what it takes to surround an | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
athlete with world-class coaching, sports science, sports medicine, | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
competition opportunities, innovation work where appropriate, | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
and alongside that strategy, like in any business, we have a what it | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
costs to win assessment. Each sport has unique check the wood features, | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
and we have done a lot of work to prepare for our big Tokyo investment | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
in December. My understanding was, which you haven't talked about, that | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
we have the most brutal system of the big countries in terms of | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
punishing sport that don't do very well, taking money away, and giving | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
it to spot that don't do so well, which a lot of people say is | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
perverse because you are taking money from the ones that need it. Is | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
that a big part of it - the carrot and the stick? No, there is no | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
punishment and no reward. We invite hast -- reinvest National Lottery | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
funding. Our aim is to support every athlete with medal potential in any | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
Olympic sports that are competing at the games, so it is a fair system | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
that gives the opportunity to every athlete of equal talent. If they | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
have the talent to deliver a medal, we support them. We are always | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
investing in future potential, so we are not punishing past performances | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
if they were not as successful as they should have been. We are | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
investing in future potential of athletes. We have invested | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
significantly in Rio, and our plan is to invest in Tokyo. Is it | :09:18. | :09:27. | |
possible, particularly looking at our performance, because you put in | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
a lot more money and got more medals, but everyone is not going to | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
start doing what we are doing. We are getting into an arms race. We | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
will have to spend ?10 million per medal next time. Is that something | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
that could happen? No, I think that we need to be very smart about the | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
way that we invest the National Lottery and Government exchequer | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
funding in the right athletes and the right sports for the right | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
reasons. A lot of other countries are copying our system here, which | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
has been incredibly successful, as you can see from the performances | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
and results to date here in Rio. So, yes, there will be other countries | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
investing, competition will get stronger, the spread of medals will | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
go wider across more nations as other countries actually look to try | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
to copy the successful system we have created here. You know there is | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
a bit of a pattern to host nations, is in their? They do well in the | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
games before the one-day house, they do fantastically well in the one-day | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
host and then there is a depreciation effect where it tails | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
off. Argue confident that we can buck that trend? Do you think we | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
will have a similar target in Tokyo? Might we expect 50 or more medals in | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
Tokyo? I am confident that with the support of the National Lottery | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
players, with the continued support of Government, that we can live | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
sustained success with British athletes in the Olympic and | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
Paralympic games environment. I'm confident that, in fact, we can | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
build on... You are right - before the home games, there is an uplift | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
because there is a stronger strategic focus on trying to deliver | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
something that will make the nation proud. We saw the impact of that in | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
Beijing. We saw then the full benefit in London. And since then, | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
the athletes that we have funded have been delivering volunteer days | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
to inspire the next generation, so that special impact of success that | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
we felt in London, that we are feeling now from the performances | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
here, is also giving added value to the country, to the nation, by | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
inspiring the next generation of talent to come through with an | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
ambition to achieve great things in the Olympic environment. Let's hope | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
so. Liz Nicholl, thank you very much indeed. Enjoy the evening air. | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
The festering tensions between Ukraine and Russia have | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
In the last few days, the Russians have claimed that | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
Ukraine orchestrated some kind of terrorist attack on Crimea that | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
killed a Russian soldier and security officer. | :12:08. | :12:08. | |
But both sides appear to be putting their military on alert. | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
Let's talk to Tom Burridge, who is in Kiev. | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
Tom, you have been to the unrecognised border between Crimea | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
and Ukraine. What is happening there? Essentially, Ukrainians | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
crossed the border, hit the beaches, see family friends, pretty much | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
business as usual this weekend, a relaxed atmosphere at odds with the | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
tension we have seen between Moscow and Kiev in recent days. We saw no | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
evidence of a Ukrainian military build-up in the region, even driving | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
around, which tallies with the idea and a belief of most people that | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
some sort of military incursion from the south by Russia is unlikely, and | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
this tension is more likely to do with the wider Ukrainian - Russian | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
relations. The Russians said there was some kind of incident and a | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Russian soldier was killed, so what is the truth of it? What we know | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
about what actually happened? It is hard to answer. With Russian | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
involvement and strategy vis-a-vis Ukraine, we saw it with the | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
annexation in 2014, the line between fact and fiction is often blurred | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
and it makes it harder for western countries to respond with their own | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
strategy. We know that around the time of this alleged plot, there was | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
some incident, some reports of firing on the administrative border | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
between Crimea and southern Ukraine, but one element of the Russian | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
account of events, if you like, doesn't seem to stack up and stop | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
the Russians said there was an artillery bombardment by the | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
Ukrainians into Crimea just around the time, just after, basically. In | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
this day and age, you would expect there to be some video evidence, and | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
we have not seen that so far. We interviewed the brother of one of | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
the Eurocrat is who is being detailed -- Ukrainians who is being | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
detained and accused of being a plotter, creeping into Crimea to | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
carry out this alleged attack. On the face of it, he doesn't seem to | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
have the profile of a special Ops soldier. In the words of these | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
brother, he was overweight, could hardly run 100 metres without being | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
out of breath. Until recently, he was a minibus driver at a nuclear | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
power plant 150 miles from Crimea, and on the face of it, his brother | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
's account, his animosity and his claim that his brother is a victim | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
of a bigger political picture seems genuine. Tom, thank you very much. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
Well, there is basically one big strategic choice in foreign policy: | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
It is a question that's at the heart of our relationship with Russia. | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
Remember that Britain is looking for new post-Brexit relationships. | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
And remember, too, we no longer have the energy independence | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
We're joined by Sir Tony Brenton, former British Ambassador to Russia, | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
and Nancy Soderberg, who was Deputy National Security | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
Good evening to you both. Nancy Soderberg, do you think this is a | :15:06. | :15:15. | |
time for conciliation or toughness in relation to Russia? Vladimir | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
Putin all now understands toughness. The United States has gone through | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
this, we tried a reset and it didn't work. He is looking for a fight and | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
we need to make sure he does not get another one in Georgia or Ukraine. I | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
think he is trying to fabricate incidents and make up the mess, the | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
UK is moving troops and making it clear we will defend our friends and | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
that's the only message she will understand. I don't entirely agree. | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
Nancy is right we need to be on our guard and not offer the Russians any | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
opportunities to exploit any disagreements. But over the last | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
three years we have been sliding rapidly towards people are | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
describing as a new Cold War. Those of us who remember the old Cold War | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
will remember it was fantastically expensive and occasionally very | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
dangerous and it seems to me we need to look for ways to stop that slide, | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
looking for ways of cooperating with Russia where we can. Syria is an | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
obvious example, the United States is already finding ways to work with | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
the Russians to help get the situation under control. I don't | :16:23. | :16:32. | |
think you will disagree with that Nancy Soderberg? We obviously need | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
to Russia on our strategic challenges not just in Syria but | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
also Iran, they continue to support our arms control agreements in those | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
pictures but on territorial disputes and brute force against not only | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
their own population but some of their neighbours I think we need to | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
stand up to that. Of course I am a diplomat as well and believe in | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
diplomacy but I think with Russia he does not understand consolatory | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
messages and will take every and she can. We are having this debate in | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
the United States with our own presidential candidate on the | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Republican side questioning Nato and are use of nuclear weapons. I think | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
any source of weakness which would come from the United States would be | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
dangerous for Britain and all our allies in that region. You will | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
agree where cooperation is useful we should cooperate but it's on the | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
other things, it is how you can overlook the fact how the Russian | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
state appeared to be involved in the assassination of a British citizen, | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
they invaded Crimea, took it from a sovereign nation. That is all true, | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
Russia is a pretty difficult international customer. But it's | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
also true that Russia is not the great threat which it has been | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
presented as in Washington and London. It's important to remember | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
at that Russia spends on its defence about one tenth of what we in need | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
to do. It has at no economy about one 20th the size of us. It sees | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
itself as threatened by us. You are any classic situation where each | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
side sea itself threatened by the other and you need to look for ways | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
to get those false impressions on both sides down. A quick answer on | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
that Nancy Soderberg? It is Russia creating false impressions by saying | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
it had to go to the Ukrainian defence. We have to look at areas of | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
cooperation but Russia is a very dangerous regional power, it's no | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
longer a superpower so we are not headed towards a new Cold War but we | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
are headed towards a possibility of not having a partner in Russia and | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
having a regional, very weak governmental lashing out in a | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
dangerous way. We need to try and contain them as we did in the Soviet | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
Union but on a much smaller scale. This president is not one who will | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
understand anything but strength from Nato and it's important to | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
convey that. You will not agree on that point but let asked if Brexit | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
makes a difference, does it mean we need to Russia as a friend, is it | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
time for a re-set? I don't think Brexit makes a huge difference, at | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
the harder end of that, our position on this I understand will not change | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
very quickly and from the EU point of view, one thing we have brought | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
to their party has been our foreign policy and defence expertise and I | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
am sure they will want to maintain those links as strongly as they can. | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
Nancy Soderberg I am guessing you will worry about the effects of | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
Brexit, Britain was pulling the UK towards your position? -- pulling | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
the EU to urge position? I think it's a mistake for the UK to pull | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
out of the EU, I think a stronger EU is in everyone's interest. I can | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
guarantee Vladimir Putin is loving this debate about watching Europe | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
fall apart amongst itself over no big issue. I think it's unfortunate, | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
I think it is survivable but it doesn't help put a unified front | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
against Russia when the biggest foreign policy power, the most | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
respected part of the EU, frankly, Leeds. That's not good for anyone. | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
Nancy Soderberg, Sir Tony Brenton, thank you very much. | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
Theresa May has been Prime Minister for over a month now, | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
but it still doesn't feel like we really know | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
Early days, but maybe we have a clue as to her thinking in the fact that | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
on the steps of Downing Street she name-checked Joseph Chamberlain, | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
a politician who helped define modern Conservatism. | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
He wasn't really a Conservative at all. | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
He was a radical and a liberal who built his career by building | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
Lewis Goodall reports on Joseph Chamberlain | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
In 30 years, Birmingham grew into a dirty, | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
The transformation that was to come was more astonishing. | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
Elegant thoroughfares, sewers, clean water, | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
beautiful civic buildings like the law courts | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
One man is responsible for this - Theresa May's new lodestar. | :21:18. | :21:27. | |
You could say that Joseph Chamberlain | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
was Britain's first truly modern political | :21:32. | :21:32. | |
political organiser, someone who was truly transformative. | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
He turned Birmingham from being just a quiet, | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
provincial backwater into one of the most advanced and progressive | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
Joseph Chamberlain became mayor of the city | :21:43. | :21:51. | |
This Victorian chameleon was a radical liberal, a guardian of | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
the working class, and a godfather of municipal conservatism, and he's | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
The political hero of one Nick Timothy, Theresa May's | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
chief of staff and most trusted adviser, is none other than | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
And who should be mentioned in her first policy speech | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
From Robert Peel to Lady Thatcher, from Joseph Chamberlain to Winston | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
Churchill, throughout history, it has been the Conservative Party's | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
role to rise to the occasion and to take on the vested interests before | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
Listen to the kind of language she uses - | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
We don't just believe in individualism | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
We value the role that only the state can play. | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
Chamberlain took the waterworks and gas supply | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
into city ownership and disease fell. | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
This was local nationalisation, and the profits were | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
This was the Civic Gospel, that famous Victorian morality. | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
The Civic Gospel was born of a religious idea. | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
Chamberlain was a Unitarian and a nonconformist. | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
His approach terrified the middle classes of the | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
day, who saw him as a gas and water socialist. | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
We have not the slightest intention of making profit, he said. | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
We shall get our profit in the comfort and health of our | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
I think it was Chamberlain's business sense to take | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
that risk, to see that there was potential that they could gain | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
profit, and that that profit could fund | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
other ventures, such as the | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
building of the museum and art gallery which we are standing in | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
The university is one of Chamberlain's most abiding legacies. | :23:39. | :23:49. | |
It represents the power of civic pride that made | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
Birmingham the first of | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
In the shadow of the old Joe clock tower, Malcolm Dick explains | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
Chamberlain's primary contribution to Conservative history - the appeal | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
We can see him emphasising a social reform | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
strand, at least in as far as linking working-class aspirations, | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
social and economic aspirations, with the state. | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
And a tradition of strong local authorities versus a | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
Chamberlain began life as a liberal, but split over home-rule, founding | :24:24. | :24:33. | |
Then he took them into the Conservative Party. | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
He believed in the union and in | :24:40. | :24:40. | |
policies that appealed to the working class. | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
But Chamberlain was also an avowed imperialist. | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
He was colonial secretary and progenitor of the | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
He wanted the Empire to be a single trade block. | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
He designed Corporation Street, a Parisian-style | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
boulevard running through Birmingham to sell its wares. | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
And the taxes on those goods would be | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
Imperialism was probably his fatal mistake, but a politically | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
He promised better housing, old-age pensions, the | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
minimum wage, to crack down on immigration. | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
things that Theresa May promised the day. | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
It is the only industrial city where the | :25:30. | :25:38. | |
Conservative Party has survived in significant numbers. | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
A strong presence in the council chamber | :25:43. | :25:43. | |
Their local leader relishes a Tory shift | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
I think we will see a focus on an industrial | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
Theresa May talked about the importance of | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
making sure that key industries aren't taken out of the country. | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
And I think we will see some changes on | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
devolution, a speeding up of the devolving | :26:04. | :26:05. | |
strings to allow cities to really make the best deal they can. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
Theresa May has been in politics for 30 | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
years, and Home Secretary for the last six, yet | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
we know surprisingly little about her political beliefs. | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
Chamberlain may well be her lodestar, and if he is, the | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
Conservatives are in for a bit of a shock, | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
strand of conservatism and Conservative thought that would mark | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
the biggest departure for the party since 1979. | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
Churchill said of Chamberlain that he was a politician | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
If Theresa May is serious in reawakening this | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
strand of thinking, she may well yet manage the same. | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
Back to the Olympics now, and time to join one of the country's | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
Not Stephen Smith, needless to say, but the evergreen former Olympics | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
and Match of the Day commentator, Barry Davies. | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
Will Stephen Smith complete his Olympic marathon? | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
Oh, you can really feel it in the pelotons. | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
Just getting into the spirit after Jason Kenny and Laura Trott, | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
It was for me, I didn't get off the couch until four. | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
I must say it's an absolute treat to have a proper | :27:40. | :27:47. | |
I think it's exhilarating stuff, we're doing far better | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
I wonder if I'm really setting the right tone sitting on a sofa | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
Is this what Lord Reith had in mind when he began sports coverage? | :27:58. | :28:06. | |
COMMENTATOR: Into the finishing straight, Jason Kenny has got this | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
and Jason Kenny wins the gold medal for the second time! | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
You half expect the lead guy to throw some tacks over | :28:12. | :28:13. | |
COMMENTATOR: It is gold medal number five. | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
And Max Whitlock has gone ahead of Louis Smith. | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
Do these guys basically dislike each other? | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
They can't help but be sore and jealous if things don't | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
I mean, I know the Americans like to say we are only | :28:31. | :28:48. | |
going for gold but if you get a medal you have done darn well. | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
The contrast this summer between the Olympians | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
with the performance of the England team at Euro 2016. | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
The major difference is that these guys, certainly | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
in their first Olympics, have to do something | :29:06. | :29:07. | |
They are not making money at an early stage of their lives. | :29:08. | :29:14. | |
Some young footballers are making a lot of money for their potential, | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
Can you remember some Olympic moment, maybe you had an iffy tummy, | :29:18. | :29:29. | |
I did an Olympic Games, doing the opening | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
By making sure you are prepared for the disaster. | :29:36. | :29:45. | |
Do you wish you were out there this time? | :29:46. | :29:54. | |
Talking to you is worth probably a copper. | :29:55. | :30:02. | |
It's always good to see a sportsman working hard. | :30:03. | :30:12. | |
At the height of his game, yeah. | :30:13. | :30:14. | |
But if you're an older viewer and you have a funny feeling | :30:15. | :30:26. | |
that the Olympic women's gymnastics are a little bit more... | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
Well, more everything than you remember from your youth, | :30:30. | :30:31. | |
we leave you with this rather clever comparison made by the music channel | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
MTV which suggests that you're absolutely right. | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
Hello. After a day in which we saw sunny skies from Shetland to the | :30:38. | :31:29. | |
Channel Islands, a fine start to Tuesday morning. Things will be on | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
the cool side in the countryside but quickly warming up as blue skies for | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
most of the day, some cloud towards eastern coasts. For most, sunny | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
skies throughout. Northern is | :31:44. | :31:44. |