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It's Sunday Morning and this is the Sunday Politics. | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
The Chancellor says that to embark on a spending spree | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
in Wednesday's Budget would be "reckless". | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
But will there be more money for social care and to ease | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
The UK terror threat is currently severe, | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
but where is that threat coming from? | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
We have the detailed picture from a vast new study of every | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
Islamist related terrorist offence committed over the last two decades. | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
What can we learn from these offences to thwart future attacks? | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
The government was defeated in the Lords on its | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
We'll ask the Leader of the House of Commons what he'll do if peers | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
Plus, will our Metro majors help the wheels on the bus go | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
All that coming up in the next hour and a quarter. | :01:27. | :01:40. | |
Now, some of you might have read that intruders managed | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
to get into the BBC news studios this weekend. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Well three of them appear not to have been ejected yet, | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
so we might as well make use of them as our political panel. | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
Tom Newton Dunn, Isabel Oakeshott and Steve Richards. | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
They'll be tweeting throughout the programme. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Philip Hammond will deliver his second financial | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
statement as Chancellor and the last Spring Budget | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
for a while at least - they are moving to the Autumn | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
There's been pressure on him to find more money | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
for the Health Service, social care, schools funding, | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
But this morning the Chancellor insisted that he will not be | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
using the proceeds of better than expected tax receipts to embark | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
What is being speculated on is whether we might not have borrowed | :02:25. | :02:36. | |
quite as much as we were forecast to borrow. You will see the numbers on | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
Wednesday. But if your bank increases your credit card limit, I | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
do not think you feel obliged to go out and spent every last penny of it | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
He is moving the budget to the autumn, he told us that in his | :02:50. | :03:01. | |
statement, so maybe on Wednesday it will be like a spring statement | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
rather than a full-blown budget. Tinkering pre-Brexit and in November | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
he will have a more clear idea of the impact of Brexit and I suspect | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
that will be the bigger event than this one. It looks as if there will | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
be a bit of money here and there, small amounts, not enough in my | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
view, for social care and so on, possibly a review of social care | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
policy. A familiar device which rarely get anywhere. I think he has | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
got a bit more space to do more if he wanted to do now because of the | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
politics. They are miles ahead in the polls, so he could do more, but | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
it is not in his character, he is cautious. So he keeps his powder dry | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
on most things, he does some things, but he keeps it dry until November. | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
But also, as Steve says, he will know just how strong the economy has | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
been this year by November and whether he needs to do some pump | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
priming or whether everything is fine. He said it is too early to | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
make those sorts of judgments now. What is striking is the amount of | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
concern there is an Number ten and in the Treasury about the tone of | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
this budget, so less about the actual figures and more about what | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
message this is sending out to the rest of the world. I think some | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
senior MPs are calling it a kind of treading water budget and Phil | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Hammond has got quite a difficult act to perform because he is | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
instinctively rather cautious, or very cautious, and instinctively | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
slightly gloomy about Brexit. He wanted to remain. But he does not | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
want this budget to sounded downbeat and he will be mauled if he makes it | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
sound downbeat, so he has to inject a little bit of optimism and we may | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
see that in the infrastructure spending plans. He has got some room | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
to manoeuvre. The deficit by the financial year ending in April we | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
now know will not be as big as the OBR told us only three and a half | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
months ago that it would be. They added 12 billion on and they may | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
take most of that off again. He is under pressure from his own side to | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
do something on social care and business rates and I bet some Tory | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
backbenchers would not mind a little bit more money for the NHS as well. | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
He is on a huge pressure to do a whole lot on a whole load, not just | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
social care. There is also how on earth do we pay for so many old | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
people? There is the NHS, defence spending, everything. But his words | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
this morning, which is I am not going to spend potentially an extra | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
30 billion I might have by 2020 because of improved economic growth | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
was interesting. You need to hold something back because Brexit might | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
go back and he was a bit of a remain campaign person. If you think | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
Britain is going to curl up into a corner and hideaway licking its | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
wounds, you have got another think coming. That 30 billion he might | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
have extra in his pocket could be worth deploying on building up | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Britain with huge tax cuts in case there is no deal, a war chest if you | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
like. He will have more than 27 billion. He may decide 27 billion in | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
the statement, the margin by which he tries to get the structural | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
deficit down, he will still have 27 billion. If the receipts are better | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
than they are forecast, some people are saying he will have a war chest | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
of 60 billion. That money, as Mr Osborne found out, can disappear. He | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
clearly is planning not to go on a spending spree this Wednesday. It is | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
interesting in the FTB and the day, David Laws who was chief Secretary | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
for five minutes, was also enthusiastic about the original | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
George Osborne austerity programme and he said, we have reached the | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
limits to what is socially possible with this and a consensus is | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
beginning to emerge that he will have to spend more money than he | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
plans to this Wednesday. This is not just from Labour MPs, but from a lot | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
of Conservative MPs as well. People will wonder when this austerity will | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
end because it seems to be going on for ever. We will have more on the | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
budget later in the programme. Now, the government was defeated | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
last week in the House of Lords. Peers amended the bill that | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
will allow Theresa May to trigger Brexit to guarantee the rights of EU | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
nationals currently in the UK. The government says it will remove | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
the amendment when the bill returns But today a report from | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
the Common's Brexit committee also calls for the Government to make | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
a unilateral decision to safeguard the rights of EU | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
nationals living here. If the worst happened, | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
are we actually going to say to 3 million Europeans here, | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
who are nurses, doctors, serving us tea and coffee in restaurants, | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
giving lectures at Leeds University, picking and processing vegetables, | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
"Right, off you go"? No, of course we are not | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
going to say that. So, why not end the | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
uncertainty for them now? will help to create the climate | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
which will ensure everyone gets to say because that's | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
what all of us want. That is why we have unanimously | :08:26. | :08:35. | |
agreed this recommendation that the government should make unilateral | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
decision to say to EU citizens here, yes, you can stay, because we think | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
that is the right and fair thing to do. | :08:46. | :08:46. | |
And we're joined now from Buckinghamshire by the leader | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
of the House of Commons, David Lidington. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
Welcome back to the programme. The House of Lords has amended the | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
Article 50 bill to allow the unilateral acceptance of EU | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
nationals' right to remain in the UK. Is it still the government was | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
my intention to remove that amendment in the comments? We have | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
always been clear that we think this bill is very straightforward, it | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
does nothing else except give the Prime Minister the authority that | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
the courts insist upon to start the Article 50 process of negotiating | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
with the other 27 EU countries. On the particular issue of EU citizens | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
here and British citizens overseas, the PM did suggest that the December | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
European summit last year that we do a pre-negotiation agreement on this. | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
That was not acceptable to all of the other 27 because they took the | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
view that you cannot have any kind of negotiation and to Article 50 has | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
been triggered. That is where we are. I hope with goodwill and | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
national self interest on all sides we can tackle this is right that the | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
start of those negotiations. But it is not just the Lords. We have now | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
got the cross-party Commons Brexit committee saying you should now make | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
the unilateral decision to safeguard the rights of EU nationals in the | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
UK. Even Michael go, Peter Lilley, John Whittington, agree. So why are | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
you so stubborn on this issue? I think this is a complex issue that | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
goes beyond the rise of presidents, but about things like the rights of | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
access to health care, to pension ratings and benefits and so on... | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
But you could settle back. It is also, Andrew, because you have got | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
to look at it from the point of view of the British citizens, well over 1 | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
million living elsewhere in Europe. If we make the unilateral gesture, | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
it might make us feel good for Britain and it would help in the | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
short term those EU citizens who are here, but you have got those British | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
citizens overseas who would then be potential bargaining chips in the | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
hands of any of the 27 other governments. We do not know who will | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
be in office during the negotiations and they may have completely | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
extraneous reasons to hold up the agreement on the rights of British | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
citizens. The sensible way to deal with this is 28 mature democracies | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
getting around the table starting the negotiations and to agree to | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
something that is fair to all sides and is reciprocal. What countries | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
might take on UK nationals living in the EU? What countries are you | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
frightened of? The one thing that I know from my own experience in the | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
past of being involved in European negotiations is that issues come up | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
that maybe have nothing to do with British nationals, but another issue | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
that matters a huge amount to a particular government, it may not be | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
a government yet in office, and they decide we can get something out of | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
this, so let's hold up the agreement on British citizens until the | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
British move in the direction we want on issue X. I hope it does not | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
come to that. I think the messages I have had from EU ambassadors in | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
London and from those it my former Europe colleague ministers is that | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
we want this to be a done deal as quickly as possible. That is the | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
British Government's very clear intention. We hope that we can get a | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
reciprocal deal agreed before the Article 50 process. That was not | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
possible. I understand that, you have said that already. But even if | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
there is no reciprocal deal being done, is it really credible that EU | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
nationals already here would lose their right to live and work and | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
face deportation? You know that is not credible, that will not happen. | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
We have already under our own system law whereby some people who have | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
been lawfully resident and working here for five years can apply for | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
permanent residency, but it is not just about residents. It is about | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
whether residency carries with it certain rights of access to health | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
care. I understand that, but have made this point. But the point is | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
the right to live and work here that worries them at the moment. The Home | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
Secretary has said there can be no change in their status without a | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
vote in parliament. Could you ever imagine the British Parliament | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
voting to remove their right to live and work here? I think the British | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
Parliament will want to be very fair to EU citizens, as Hilary Benn and | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
others rightly say they have been overwhelmingly been here working | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
hard and paying taxes and contributing to our society. They | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
were equally want to make sure there is a fair deal for our own citizens, | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
more than a million, elsewhere in Europe. You cannot disentangle the | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
issue of residence from those things that go with residents. Is the | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
Article 50 timetabled to be triggered before the end of this | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
month, is it threatened by these amendments in the Lords? I sincerely | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
hope not because the House of Lords is a perfectly respectable | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
constitutional role to look again at bills sent up by the House of | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
commons. But they also have understood traditionally that as an | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
unelected house they have to give primacy to the elected Commons at | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
the end of the day. In this case it is not just the elected Commons that | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
sent the bill to be amended, but the referendum that lies behind that. It | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
is not possible? We are confident we can get Article 50 triggered by the | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
end of the month. One of the other Lords amendments | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
will be to have a meaningful vote on the Brexit deal when it is done at | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
the end of the process, what is your view on that? What would you | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
understand by a meaningful vote? The Government has already said there is | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
going to be a meaningful vote at the end of the process. What do you mean | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
by a meaningful vote? The parliament will get the opportunity to vote on | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
the deal before it finishes the EU level process of going to | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
consideration by the European Parliament. Parliament will be given | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
a choice, as I understand, for either a vote for the deal you have | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
negotiated or we leave on WTO rules and crash out anyway, is that what | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
you mean by a meaningful choice? Parliament will get the choice to | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
vote on the deal, but I think you have put your finger on the problem | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
with trying to write something into the bill because any idea that the | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
PM's freedom to negotiate is limited, any idea that if the EU 27 | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
were to play hardball, that somehow that means parliament would take | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
fright, reverse the referendum verdict and set aside the views of | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
the British people, that would almost guarantee that it would be | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
much more difficult to get the sort of ambitious mutually beneficial | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
deal for us and the EU 27. Your idea of a meaningful vote in parliament | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
is the choices either to vote to accept this deal or we leave anyway, | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
that is your idea of a meaningful vote. The Article 50 process is | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
straightforward. There is the position of both parties in the | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
recent Supreme Court case that the Article 50 process once triggered is | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
irrevocable. That is in the EU Treaty already but we are saying | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
very clearly that Parliament will get that right to debate and vote. I | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
think the problem with what some in the House of Lords are proposing, I | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
hope it is not a majority, is that the amendments they would seek to | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
insert would tie the Prime Minister's hands, limit and | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
negotiating freedom and put her in a more difficult position to negotiate | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
on behalf of this country than should be the case. One year ago you | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
said it could take six to eight years to agree a free-trade deal | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
with the EU. Now you think you can do it in two, what's changed your | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
mind? There is a very strong passionate supporter of Remain, as | :17:56. | :18:09. | |
you know. I hope very much we are able to conclude not just the terms | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
of the exit deal but the agreement that we are seeking on the long-term | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
trade relationship... I understand that, but I'm trying to work out, | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
what makes you think you can do it in two years when only a year ago | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
you said it would take up to wait? The referendum clearly makes a big | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
difference, and I think that there is an understanding amongst real the | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
other 27 governments now that it is in everybody's interests to sort | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
this shared challenge out of negotiating a new relationship | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
between the EU 27 and the UK because European countries, those in and | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
those who will be out of the EU, share the need to face up to massive | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
challenges like terrorism and technological change. All of that | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
was pretty obvious one year ago but we will see what happens. Thank you, | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
David Lidington. Now, the Sunday Politics has had | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
sight of a major new report The thousand-page study, | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
which researchers say is the most comprehensive ever produced, | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
analyses all 269 Islamist telated terrorist offences | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
committed between 1998-2015. Most planned attacks were, | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
thankfully, thwarted, but what can we learn | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
from those offences? For the police and the intelligence | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
agencies to fight terror, Researchers at the security think | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
tank The Henry Jackson Society gave us early access to their huge | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
new report which analyses every Islamism related attack | :19:51. | :20:00. | |
and prosecution in the UK since 1998, that's 269 cases | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
involving 253 perpetrators. With issues as sensitive | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
as counterterrorism and counter radicalisation, it is really | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
important to have an evidence base from which you draw | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
policy and policing, This isn't my opinion, | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
this the facts. This chart shows the number | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
of cases each year combined with a small number | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
of successful suicide attacks. Notice the peak in the middle | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
of the last decade around the time of the 7/7 bombings | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
in London in 2005. Offences tailed off, | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
before rising again from 2010, when a three-year period accounted | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
for a third of all the terrorism cases since the researchers | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
started counting. What we are seeing is a combination | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
of both more offending, in terms of the threat increasing, | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
we know that from the security services and police statements, | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
but also I believe we are getting more efficient in terms | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
of our policing and we are actually A third of people were found to have | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
facilitated terrorism, that's providing encouragement, | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
documents, money. About 18% of people | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
were aspirational terrorists, 12% of convictions were related | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
to travel, to training And 37% of people were convicted | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
of planning attacks, although the methods have | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
changed over time. Five or six years ago, | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
we saw lots of people planning or attempting pipe bombs and most | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
of the time they had Inspire magazine in their possession, | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
that's a magazine, an Al-Qaeda English-language online | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
magazine that had specific More recently we have seen | :21:38. | :21:38. | |
Islamic State encouraging people to engage in lower tech knife | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
beheading, stabbings attacks and I think that's why we have | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
seen that more recently. Shasta Khan plotted with her | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
husband to bomb the Jewish In 2012 she received | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
an eight-year prison sentence. She's one of an increasing | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
number of women convicted of an Islamism related offence | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
although it is still overwhelmingly a crime carried out | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
by men in their 20s. Despite fears of foreign terrorists, | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
a report says the vast Most have their home in London, | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
around 43% of them. 18% lived in the West Midlands, | :22:12. | :22:20. | |
particularly in Birmingham, and the north-west is another | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
hotspot with around 10% Richard Dart lived in Weymouth | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
and tried to attend a terrorist He was a convert to Islam, as were | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
60% of the people in this report. He was a convert to Islam, as were | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
16% of the people in this report. Like the majority of cases, | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
he had a family, network. What's particularly interesting | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
is how different each story is in many ways, | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
but then within those differences So your angry young men, | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
in the one sense inspired to travel, seek training and combat experience | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
abroad, and then the older, recruiter father-figure types, | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
the fundraising facilitator types. There are types within | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
this terrorism picture, but the range of backgrounds | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
and experiences is huge. And three quarters of those | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
convicted of Islamist terrorism were on the radar of the authorities | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
because they had a previous criminal record, they had | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
made their extremism public, or because MI5 had them | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
under surveillance. To discuss the findings of this | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
report are the former Security Minister Pauline Neville-Jones, | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
Talha Ahmad from the Muslim Council of Britain, and Adam Deen | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
from the anti-extremist group The report finds the most segregated | :23:44. | :23:58. | |
Muslim community is, the more likely it is to incubate Islamist | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
terrorists, what is the MCB doing to encourage more integrated | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
communities? Its track record on calling for reaching out to the | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
wider society and having a more integrated and cohesive society I | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
think is a pretty strong one, so one thing we are doing for example very | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
recently I've seen we had this visit my mosque initiative, the idea was | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
that mosques become open to inviting people of other faiths and their | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
neighbours to come so we were encouraged to see so many | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
participating. It is one step forward. Is it a good thing or a bad | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
thing that in a number of Muslim communities, the Muslim population | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
is over 60% of the community? I personally and the council would | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
prefer to have more mixed communities but one of the reason | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
they are heavily concentrated is not so much because they prefer to but | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
often because the socio- economic reality forces them to. But you | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
would like to see less segregation? Absolutely, we would prefer more | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
diverse communities around the country. What is your reaction to | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
that? Will need more diverse communities but one of the | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
challenges we have right now with certain organisations is this | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
pushback against the Government, with its attempts to help young | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
Muslims not go down this journey of extremism. One of those things is | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
the Prevent strategy and we often hear organisations like the MCB | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
attacking the strategy which is counter-productive. What do you say | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
to that? Do we support the Government have initiatives to | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
counteract terrorism, of course we do. Do you support the Prevent | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
strategy? We don't because it scapegoats an entire community. The | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
report shows that contrary to a lot of lone wolf theories and people | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
being radicalised in their bedrooms on the Internet that 80% of those | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
convicted had connections with the extremist groups. Indeed 25% willing | :26:03. | :26:22. | |
to Al-Muhajiroun. I think this report, which is a thorough piece of | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
work, charts a long period and it is probably true to say that in the | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
earlier stages these organisations were very important, of course | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
subsequently we have had direct recruiting by IS one to one over the | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
Internet so we have a mixed picture of how people are recruited but | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
there's no doubt these organisations are recruiting sergeants. You were | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
once a member of one of these organisations, are we doing enough | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
to thwart them? If we just focus on these organisations, we will fail. | :27:00. | :27:09. | |
We -- the question is are we doing enough to neutralise them? The | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
Government strategy is in the right place, but where we need to focus on | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
is the Muslim community or communities. The Muslim community | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
must realise that these violent extremists are fringe but they share | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
ideas, a broad spectrum of ideas that penetrate deeply within Muslim | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
communities and we need to tackle those ideas because that is where it | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
all begins. Are you in favour of banning groups like Al-Muhajiroun? | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
Yes, it was the right thing to do and I can tell you the community has | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
moved a long way, Al-Muhajiroun does not have support. Do you agree with | :27:48. | :27:55. | |
that? Yes, but it is very simplistic attacking Al-Muhajiroun. ISIS didn't | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
bring about extremism, extremism brought about ISIS, ISIS is just the | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
brand and if we don't deal with the ideological ideas we will have other | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
organisations popping up. The report suggests that almost a quarter of | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
Islamist the latest offences were committed by individuals previous | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
unknown to the security services. And this is on the rise, these | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
numbers. This would seem to make an already difficult task for our | :28:29. | :28:30. | |
intelligence services almost impossible. Two points. It is over | :28:31. | :28:38. | |
80% I think were known, but it shows the intelligence services and police | :28:39. | :28:46. | |
have got their eyes open. But the trend has been towards more not on | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
the radar. That has been because the nature of the recruitment has also | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
changed and you have much more ISIS inspired go out and do it yourself, | :28:57. | :29:04. | |
get a knife, do something simple, so we have fewer of the big | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
spectaculars that ISIS organised. Now you have got locally organised | :29:10. | :29:18. | |
people, two or three people get together, do something together, | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
very much harder actually to get forewarning of that. That is where | :29:23. | :29:29. | |
intelligence inside the community, the community coming to the police | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
say I'm worried about my friend, this is how you get ahead of that | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
kind of attack. Should people in the Muslim community who are worried | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
about individuals being radicalised, perhaps going down the terrorist | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
route, should they bring in the police? Absolutely and we have been | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
consistent on telling the community that wherever they suspect someone | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
has been involved in terrorism or any kind of criminal activity, they | :29:59. | :30:01. | |
should call the police and cooperate. As the so-called | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
caliphate collapses in the Middle East, how worried should we be about | :30:10. | :30:11. | |
fighters returning here? Extremely worried. They fall into | :30:12. | :30:24. | |
three categories. You have ones who are disillusioned about Islamic | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
State. You have ones who are disturbed, and then you have the | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
dangerous who have not disavowed their ideas and who will have great | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
reasons to perform attacks. What do we do? Anyone who comes back, there | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
should be evidence looked into if they committed any crimes. But all | :30:44. | :30:50. | |
those categories should all be be radicalised. You cannot leave them | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
alone. Will we be sure if we know when they come back? That is | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
difficult to say. They could come in and we might not know. There is a | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
watch list so you have got a better chance. And you can identify them? | :31:07. | :31:14. | |
This is where working with other countries is absolutely crucial and | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
our border controls need to be good as well. I am not saying and the | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
government is not saying that anyone would ever slip through, but it is | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
our ability to know when somebody is coming through and to stop them at | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
the border has improved. An important question. Given your | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
experience, how prepared are away for a Paris style attack in a | :31:36. | :31:43. | |
medium-size, provincial city? The government has exercised this one. | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
It started when I was security minister and it has been taken | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
seriously. The single biggest challenge that the police and the | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
Army says will be one of those mobile, roving attacks. You have to | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
take it seriously and the government does. All right, we will leave it | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
Now, Brexit may have swept austerity from the front pages, | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
but the deficit hasn't gone away and the government is still | :32:08. | :32:10. | |
Just this week Whitehall announced that government departments have | :32:11. | :32:13. | |
been told to find another ?3.5bn worth of savings by 2020. | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
Last November the Independent office for Budget Responsibility | :32:18. | :32:20. | |
said the budget deficit would be ?68 billion in the current | :32:21. | :32:23. | |
It would still be ?17 billion by 2021-22. | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
On Wednesday the Chancellor is expected to announce | :32:30. | :32:31. | |
that the 2016-17 deficit has come in much lower than the OBR forecast. | :32:32. | :32:37. | |
Even so, the government is still aiming for the lowest level | :32:38. | :32:40. | |
of public spending as a percentage of national income since 2003-4, | :32:41. | :32:46. | |
coupled with an increase in the tax burden to its highest | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
So spending cuts will continue with reductions in day-to-day | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
government spending accelerating, producing a real terms cut of over | :32:55. | :32:58. | |
But capital spending, investment on infrastructure | :32:59. | :33:05. | |
like roads, hospitals, housing, is projected to grow, | :33:06. | :33:09. | |
producing a 16 billion real terms increase by 2021-22. | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
The Chancellor's task on Wednesday is to keep these fiscal targets | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
while finding some more money for areas under serious | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
pressure such as the NHS, social care and business rates. | :33:22. | :33:28. | |
We're joined now by Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. | :33:29. | :33:33. | |
Welcome back to the programme. In last March's budget the OBR | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
predicted just over 2% economic growth for this year. By the Autumn | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
Statement in the wake of the Brexit vote it downgraded back to 1.4%. It | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
is now expected to revise that back around to 2% as the Bank of England | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
has again. It is speculated on the future. It looks like we will get a | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
growth forecast for this year not very different from where it was a | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
year ago. What the bank did was upgrade its forecast for the next | :34:06. | :34:08. | |
year or so, but not change very much. It was thinking about three or | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
four years' time, which is what really matters. It looked like the | :34:14. | :34:18. | |
OBR made a mistake in downgrading the growth in the Autumn Statement | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
three months ago. It was more optimistic than nearly all the other | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
forecasters and the Bank of England. It was wrong, but not as wrong as | :34:28. | :34:35. | |
everybody else. We don't know, but if it significantly upgraded its | :34:36. | :34:38. | |
growth forecast for the next three or four years, I would be surprised. | :34:39. | :34:45. | |
It also added 12 billion to the deficit for the current financial | :34:46. | :34:48. | |
year in the Autumn Statement, compared with March. It looks like | :34:49. | :34:54. | |
that deficit will probably be cut again by about 12 billion compared | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
to the last OBR forecast. It is quite difficult to make economic | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
policy on the basis of changes of that skill every couple of months. | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
That is one of the problems about having these two economic event so | :35:09. | :35:13. | |
close together. My guess is the number will come out somewhere | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
between the budget and the Autumn Statement numbers. There was a nice | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
surprise for the Chancellor last month which looked like tax revenues | :35:22. | :35:26. | |
were coming in a lot more strongly than he expected. But again the real | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
question is how much is this making a difference in the medium run? Is | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
this a one-off thing all good news for the next several years? If | :35:35. | :35:40. | |
growth and revenues are stronger, perhaps not as strong as the good | :35:41. | :35:44. | |
news last month, but if they are stronger than had been forecast in | :35:45. | :35:48. | |
the Autumn Statement, what does that mean for planned spending cuts? It | :35:49. | :35:53. | |
probably does not mean very much. Let's not forget the best possible | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
outcome of this budget will be that for the next couple of years things | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
look no worse than they did a year ago and in four years out they will | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
still look a bit worse, and in addition Philip Hammond did increase | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
his spending plans in November. However good the numbers look in a | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
couple of days' time, we will still be borrowing at least 20 billion | :36:16. | :36:21. | |
more by 2020 than we were forecasting a year ago. Still quite | :36:22. | :36:27. | |
constrained. George Osborne wanted to get us to budget surplus by 2019. | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
That has gone. Philip Hammond is quite happy with a big deficit and | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
is not interested in that. But what he is thinking to a large extent, as | :36:40. | :36:44. | |
you have made clear, there is a lot of uncertainty about the economic | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
reaction over the next three or four years. He says he wants some | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
headroom. If things go wrong, I do not want to announce more spending | :36:54. | :36:58. | |
cuts or more tax rises to keep the deficit down. I want to say things | :36:59. | :37:01. | |
have gone wrong for now and we will borrow. And I have got some money in | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
the kitty. He will not spend a lot of it now. I understand the | :37:08. | :37:12. | |
Chancellor is worried about the erosion of the tax base and it is | :37:13. | :37:18. | |
hard to put VAT up by more than 20%, millions have been taken out of | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
income tax, only 46% of people pay income tax, fuel duty is frozen for | :37:24. | :37:29. | |
ever, corporation tax has been cut, the growth in self-employed has | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
reduced revenues, is that a real concern? These are all worries for | :37:33. | :37:38. | |
him. We have as you said in the introduction to this, got a tax | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
burden which is rising very gradually, but it is rising to its | :37:43. | :37:48. | |
highest level since the mid-19 80s, but is not doing it through | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
straightforward increases to income tax. Lots of bits of pieces of | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
insurance premium tax is here and the apprenticeship levied there, and | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
that is higher personal allowance of income tax and a freeze fuel duty, | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
but at some point we will have to look at the tax system as a whole | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
and ask if we can carry on like this. We will have to start increase | :38:12. | :38:18. | |
fuel duties again, or look to those big but unpopular taxes to really | :38:19. | :38:25. | |
keep that money coming in to keep the challenges we will have over the | :38:26. | :38:31. | |
next 30 years. He is going to set up a commission on social care. He has | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
had quite a few commissions on social care. Thank you for being | :38:37. | :38:38. | |
with us. It's just gone 11.35, | :38:39. | :38:40. | |
you're watching the Sunday Politics. We say goodbye to viewers | :38:41. | :38:42. | |
in Scotland who leave us now Coming up here in twenty | :38:43. | :38:45. | |
minutes, the Week Ahead. Will this English site of civil war | :38:46. | :38:53. | |
steer Labour into calmer waters? The fight for Lancashire - | :38:54. | :39:03. | |
can Jeremy Corbyn fend off his critics and the Conservatives in one | :39:04. | :39:06. | |
on his next big battle grounds? And it's a good old fashioned | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
scrap between red and Angela Eagle is the Labour | :39:12. | :39:13. | |
MP for Wallasey. And David Nuttall is | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
the Conservative for Bury North. David, the House of Lords | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
stuck its collective neck on the line this | :39:22. | :39:23. | |
week, didn't it? Throwing the Brexit bill | :39:24. | :39:25. | |
back to the Commons. Yeah, not entirely | :39:26. | :39:28. | |
unexpected, I think. Certainly everybody who was watching | :39:29. | :39:29. | |
the proceedings thought that it was highly likely that | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
in the House of Lords, where the Conservatives do not have a | :39:34. | :39:36. | |
majority, the other parties can very easily outvote the Conservative | :39:37. | :39:38. | |
peers at any time they like. I rather expect, and | :39:39. | :39:45. | |
indeed hope, that the Bill will be sent back to the House | :39:46. | :39:48. | |
of Lords in its original form, deleting the amendment that has been | :39:49. | :39:52. | |
made by the House of Lords. Angela, Jeremy Corbyn | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
has described it as Is it the right thing to do, | :39:58. | :39:59. | |
to push this amendment through, considering that we did vote | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
to leave the European Union? Well, it doesn't | :40:04. | :40:07. | |
effect is leaving the European Union, what it would do | :40:08. | :40:09. | |
is guaranteed the rights of residents for those EU citizens | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
that were in our country, contributing | :40:13. | :40:14. | |
to our economic success. It would just guarantee | :40:15. | :40:24. | |
those rights. It would put it on the | :40:25. | :40:26. | |
face of a piece of I think that would be | :40:27. | :40:29. | |
a massively important goodwill gesture, which would just take some | :40:30. | :40:32. | |
of the nasty taste in the mouth that has happened since the Birmingham | :40:33. | :40:35. | |
speech that the Prime Minister made at the Tory party conference where | :40:36. | :40:44. | |
the Home Secretary started talking about foreign workers | :40:45. | :40:46. | |
and things like that. I would like to see the Government | :40:47. | :40:48. | |
thinking about this and actually accepting this amendment | :40:49. | :40:50. | |
and I hope there will be another amendment next week, | :40:51. | :40:53. | |
which will actually Commons a meaningful vote at the end | :40:54. | :40:54. | |
of the negotiations. But wouldn't that just slow | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
it down again, Angela, when there has been | :40:59. | :41:00. | |
a vote to get out? It's not that we have | :41:01. | :41:02. | |
to slow it down. If the Government accepted | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
the amendment, all they would be doing would be | :41:07. | :41:08. | |
guaranteeing the rights of those who already | :41:09. | :41:10. | |
are living and working and contributing | :41:11. | :41:11. | |
into our community... Well, I think are getting | :41:12. | :41:13. | |
ahead of ourselves. We are getting into | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
issues that were raised The only reason why | :41:18. | :41:19. | |
we are having this bill is because the Supreme Court ruled that | :41:20. | :41:32. | |
had to be a short bill authorising the triggering of the two-year | :41:33. | :41:35. | |
notice, what is referred to as the David, it's about Parliamentary | :41:36. | :41:38. | |
scrutiny of how the Government are taking forward | :41:39. | :41:43. | |
the decision that the British people Well, there will be | :41:44. | :41:45. | |
plenty of time now. There will be plenty of time | :41:46. | :41:49. | |
for that as we deal with the great repeal Bill after the | :41:50. | :41:52. | |
great Queen's speech. But in any case, the Prime Minister | :41:53. | :41:54. | |
has made it clear, the Prime Minister has made it | :41:55. | :41:56. | |
absolutely clear that in terms of rates of residents for EU citizens, | :41:57. | :41:59. | |
that will be right up there as one The first things that she deals | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
with as part of the I have talked to a lot of people | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
in that position and they are really now questioning our | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
commitment to them and their commitment to our country | :42:11. | :42:13. | |
and the beginning to make plans to move | :42:14. | :42:16. | |
go elsewhere, and I just think that the terrible indictment | :42:17. | :42:18. | |
The vast majority have been here for over five years | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
anyway, so they've got no reason to worry whatsoever. | :42:23. | :42:24. | |
If the EU had accepted what was tabled by our Prime | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
Minister when she said, "Look, we will allow | :42:29. | :42:30. | |
"all the EU citizens to stay, if you will do the same | :42:31. | :42:33. | |
We'll have to leave it there. We will have to leave it there. | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
Now, the wheels on Britain's buses went round and round 12% less | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
last year as routes were ditched and timetables | :42:44. | :42:45. | |
were cut, but with the | :42:46. | :42:47. | |
people going up and down in Greater Manchester | :42:48. | :42:50. | |
and in the Liverpool city region on the buses, well, help is | :42:51. | :42:52. | |
That's because Metro Mayors are going to get local power | :42:53. | :42:58. | |
over transport once they are elected in May, but is everyone on board? | :42:59. | :43:01. | |
At Buckthorne Community Centre in Chorlton, they | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
are cooking up a campaign to get the number 84 reinstated. | :43:07. | :43:08. | |
The bus company cut the route last month, | :43:09. | :43:11. | |
replacing it with one which doesn't run as often, as late, | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
At the moment, we have to get three buses to get | :43:16. | :43:23. | |
20 minutes or half an hour each day makes it two hours before | :43:24. | :43:29. | |
It's hoped communities like this one could be helped by the Government's | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
Currently, most 90 separate companies run buses | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
So, for example, if you wanted to get from | :43:38. | :43:48. | |
home in Earlam to work at Trafford Park, | :43:49. | :43:50. | |
first Manchester bus to the Trafford Centre, | :43:51. | :43:53. | |
then change to a Stagecoach service to finish the journey. | :43:54. | :43:56. | |
A longer journey and two different tickets. | :43:57. | :44:03. | |
However, if the bus services Bill goes through as well a single | :44:04. | :44:05. | |
ticketing, some routes that are not profitable but are socially valuable | :44:06. | :44:08. | |
We can't make it fully integrated without these | :44:09. | :44:11. | |
powers over the network as a whole, so in terms of fares, we'd have a | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
universal fare structure across Greater Manchester. | :44:16. | :44:17. | |
But one MPs says buses and trams in his town work | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
Does this not make the point for the extension of | :44:24. | :44:26. | |
the potential to extend municipal bus companies, | :44:27. | :44:27. | |
Passengers in Greater Manchester were more positive, | :44:28. | :44:30. | |
Why can't they cover every area with just one ticket? | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
I think it's ridiculous that every different | :44:35. | :44:36. | |
If I could catch a bus and then connects | :44:37. | :44:39. | |
with the trams, it would make my journey a lot easier and a lot | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
Every single bus takes you to the same place, but there are | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
different tickets that you have to buy. | :44:49. | :44:50. | |
Back in Chorlton, it's given me community hope. | :44:51. | :44:53. | |
I think it would help people an immensely. | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
It just makes so much economic sense to have a | :44:58. | :45:00. | |
system that as not-for-profit, but is about people being able | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
to get to places of work, education and | :45:05. | :45:15. | |
hopefully if the bus service Bill goes through Parliament, | :45:16. | :45:18. | |
to do that more effectively, because they would be able to run | :45:19. | :45:21. | |
If the bill is passed, passengers here are hoping | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
it will be the end the line for their replacement bus. | :45:26. | :45:27. | |
David, the end of the free market on the buses. | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
It feels like renationalisation in all but name. | :45:31. | :45:32. | |
Well, I'm going to declare that as far as the bus services Bill is | :45:33. | :45:35. | |
concerned, I will be chairing the committee | :45:36. | :45:37. | |
stage of the bill in the | :45:38. | :45:38. | |
This particular bill cited in the House of Lords. | :45:39. | :45:41. | |
It has been through all its stages there and it has now passed | :45:42. | :45:44. | |
This week, it was passed its second reading without a division. | :45:45. | :45:51. | |
If there had have been a division, because I am chairing the | :45:52. | :45:55. | |
committee stage, I wouldn't have been able to take part and there is | :45:56. | :45:58. | |
a Labour MP who will also be chairing the Bill. | :45:59. | :46:00. | |
So, we cancel each other out when it comes to the | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
There on Wednesday for the debate over the second reading and | :46:05. | :46:11. | |
as you say, there was cross-party agreement | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
discussion about whether it deregulation had failed communities | :46:16. | :46:20. | |
Well, I think if one looks at the wider | :46:21. | :46:31. | |
issue as to the structures of public or private provision generally, | :46:32. | :46:33. | |
leaving aside the issue of the bus services Bill, my experience has | :46:34. | :46:36. | |
been that the public are more concerned with whether a structure | :46:37. | :46:39. | |
is actually delivering the service that they want to see. | :46:40. | :46:44. | |
This is the same, whether it's in the NHS or | :46:45. | :46:52. | |
I mean, I think that the bus services | :46:53. | :47:02. | |
Bill is a good, tiny step in the right direction, that this power | :47:03. | :47:05. | |
But actually, I'd like to see the capacity for all local | :47:06. | :47:09. | |
authorities to start dealing with the bad | :47:10. | :47:11. | |
effects of deregulation of buses, which happened everywhere in the | :47:12. | :47:13. | |
country outside of London in the 1980s and has fragmented | :47:14. | :47:16. | |
We have seen all of the kind of confusion that your piece | :47:17. | :47:20. | |
Fewer bus mile are driven and social routes not | :47:21. | :47:30. | |
Bus companies being able to farm the subsidies, so they | :47:31. | :47:33. | |
make the maximum money, but our communities | :47:34. | :47:35. | |
still get the resources and the services they need. | :47:36. | :47:37. | |
So, I think I would do the bus services Bill, | :47:38. | :47:39. | |
but I would do it for everybody, not just Metro Mayers. | :47:40. | :47:42. | |
And we will see how it goes in Liverpool city region | :47:43. | :47:45. | |
and in Greater Manchester starting in May after the | :47:46. | :47:47. | |
Now, next, it may not be all out war, but the Shadow | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
Chancellor this week said that the Labour leadership | :47:52. | :47:52. | |
After losing the recent by-election battle in | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
Cumbria, one of Jeremy Corbyn's next challenges will come in Lancashire. | :47:57. | :47:58. | |
Labour wrested control of the county council from the Conservatives four | :47:59. | :48:01. | |
years ago, but can he cling on in May? | :48:02. | :48:03. | |
The Conservative Party candidate, 13700 | :48:04. | :48:06. | |
CHEERING Labourer putts lost the fight to the | :48:07. | :48:21. | |
CHEERING Labourer putts lost the fight to the | :48:22. | :48:24. | |
north of us, but survived a skirmish to the south. | :48:25. | :48:28. | |
Here is the next big battle ground test from Labour and | :48:29. | :48:31. | |
its leader, keeping control of Lancashire County Council. | :48:32. | :48:39. | |
On behalf of the people of Chorley, first of all, | :48:40. | :48:41. | |
Later won here four years ago when Ed Miliband was a regular | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
on the campaign trail, but will Jeremy | :48:47. | :48:47. | |
I think Jeremy is an asset where ever | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
I think particularly any like Lancaster where people are | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
interested in environmental issues and education issues. | :48:58. | :49:00. | |
I think Jeremy is always very welcome in | :49:01. | :49:08. | |
Do you want him up your walking the streets with you? | :49:09. | :49:14. | |
If he can fit it in his diary, I think it | :49:15. | :49:17. | |
These Lancaster Labour students, two of | :49:18. | :49:20. | |
them student counsellors, were not Corbyn supporters, | :49:21. | :49:21. | |
but say the party is united at a local level. | :49:22. | :49:24. | |
I think at the moment, there is a lot of negativity | :49:25. | :49:26. | |
going round about the Labour Party nationally. | :49:27. | :49:28. | |
But luckily, I think we still have amazing activists. | :49:29. | :49:30. | |
I think it is more about local issues, because | :49:31. | :49:32. | |
people want to know what will directly affect them. | :49:33. | :49:34. | |
I really think we talk up far too much how much the | :49:35. | :49:37. | |
national day-to-day picture affects things at a local level. | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
Local council elections for a lot of people | :49:41. | :49:42. | |
are still about dog poo, bins | :49:43. | :49:43. | |
During the English Civil War, the Royalists and | :49:44. | :49:47. | |
the round heads fought with these fields in the Battle of Preston. | :49:48. | :49:54. | |
Today, this area is a crucial one in the upcoming elections. | :49:55. | :50:01. | |
So, what do voters around here think of Labour's | :50:02. | :50:04. | |
I don't like Jeremy Corbyn and I think he ought to go. | :50:05. | :50:12. | |
I think the whole Government is EXPLETIVE, to be fair. | :50:13. | :50:14. | |
Would you look at the Opposition perhaps? | :50:15. | :50:16. | |
I'd need to think about it and see what happens. | :50:17. | :50:20. | |
What you think about Labour at the moment? | :50:21. | :50:22. | |
CHEERING Labour gained 12 seats from the | :50:23. | :50:27. | |
According to one expert, they could be tough to | :50:28. | :50:30. | |
It will be very difficult, because the matter what | :50:31. | :50:33. | |
people think about opinion polls, by and large, the opinion polls are | :50:34. | :50:36. | |
And the truth is that Labour is extremely | :50:37. | :50:38. | |
And there is not much local administration can do | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
Ian is a postman, a union man and the man in charge of | :50:43. | :50:55. | |
How do you sense union feeling towards the | :50:56. | :50:58. | |
Some unions are sitting on the fence, but by and | :50:59. | :51:03. | |
large, the union world is supporting them. | :51:04. | :51:05. | |
Do you feel that support is still there? | :51:06. | :51:07. | |
From whatever side you're on, in that effort towards defeating the | :51:08. | :51:13. | |
But if the red rosed party is to hold the red | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
its leader can't afford to be a thorn in his own side's chances. | :51:18. | :51:34. | |
Angela, the Lancashire candidate for Lancashire there talked | :51:35. | :51:36. | |
about how Jeremy Corbyn is an asset to the Labour Party were ever he | :51:37. | :51:39. | |
Is that true, is that which you are hearing on the doorsteps? | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
Well, look, what we are doing is campaigning to try to strengthen | :51:44. | :51:46. | |
Labour's position in local government. | :51:47. | :51:47. | |
Up and down the country, Labour councils are actually in | :51:48. | :51:49. | |
power locally and they are doing their best | :51:50. | :51:51. | |
austerity and the cuts they are battling. | :51:52. | :51:54. | |
They are battling to deliver good services and do | :51:55. | :51:56. | |
innovative things, build new council houses... | :51:57. | :51:58. | |
And yet they are at a loss after more than 80 years. | :51:59. | :52:01. | |
Yes, 89 councils of Labour pay the living | :52:02. | :52:03. | |
So, there is a difference when Labour is in power locally and that | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
I'm not going to sit here and pretend | :52:08. | :52:10. | |
that our opinion poll ratings nationally are satisfactory at the | :52:11. | :52:13. | |
We have to improve their position and we've got | :52:14. | :52:17. | |
to go out and campaign for Labour values and | :52:18. | :52:19. | |
for the Labour Party will | :52:20. | :52:20. | |
Do you think Copeland was a protest against | :52:21. | :52:23. | |
I think that Copeland was a result that is a huge | :52:24. | :52:32. | |
problem for the Labour Party, there is no point in saying that it isn't. | :52:33. | :52:35. | |
I think it was a reflection of our position nationally in the polls. | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
We have got to have a good look at that | :52:39. | :52:40. | |
to see how we can move forward and try to get | :52:41. | :52:43. | |
back on the right side of | :52:44. | :52:44. | |
People do vote differently in council elections | :52:45. | :52:48. | |
than they do in constituency elections, don't they, David? | :52:49. | :52:50. | |
Do you think that the Conservatives can pull it back | :52:51. | :52:52. | |
Well, I don't think that we should be under any | :52:53. | :52:56. | |
illusion that this will be straightforward. | :52:57. | :52:57. | |
Later this year, we will pass the halfway point of this | :52:58. | :53:07. | |
Parliament and all governments go through midtown difficulties. | :53:08. | :53:14. | |
I don't think we should think that this will be an easy fight. | :53:15. | :53:18. | |
The situation in Lancashire is that Labour have a majority, but of the | :53:19. | :53:21. | |
84 seats, ten are controlled by other parties. | :53:22. | :53:23. | |
There is not an overall majority, no overall control | :53:24. | :53:25. | |
And so, you know, I think the bookies would probably, at | :53:26. | :53:44. | |
this point in the electoral cycle, have asked as second favourite. | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
But that is not to say that we will be | :53:51. | :53:53. | |
trying to do all we can to wrest control of the council from Labour. | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
Angela, Labour are fighting for council | :54:00. | :54:01. | |
seats and yet lost one in | :54:02. | :54:03. | |
Look, I think we have a tough position in | :54:04. | :54:10. | |
I think the issues on Brexit have caused terrible | :54:11. | :54:20. | |
And Jeremy Corbyn supporters said it's | :54:21. | :54:22. | |
because the rest of the party didn't get behind it, so is everyone to | :54:23. | :54:25. | |
blame for not endorsing the party leader? | :54:26. | :54:27. | |
Well, I don't think that we should... | :54:28. | :54:29. | |
We are a party that has got ideas and we are an umbrella party that | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
has a range of people in it from the left | :54:35. | :54:36. | |
to the right of politics in the | :54:37. | :54:38. | |
social democratic sphere and it's right | :54:39. | :54:39. | |
that we have debates about the | :54:40. | :54:41. | |
Nobody likes to see elections losing two seats but... | :54:42. | :54:45. | |
But is the image of unity not important | :54:46. | :54:47. | |
There is the perception of being united behind your reader. | :54:48. | :54:52. | |
Unity is important in debate and it's important that | :54:53. | :54:54. | |
after the Brexit vote, which will completely change | :54:55. | :54:56. | |
the way that our country has to live and prosper in the world, that we | :54:57. | :54:59. | |
start talking about economic renewal, that we look forward to the | :55:00. | :55:02. | |
problems of the future, that we talk about how we can revive our | :55:03. | :55:12. | |
industrial strategy that is meaningful, protects | :55:13. | :55:14. | |
We are having those debates in the party. | :55:15. | :55:16. | |
David, whoever wins is going to have one heck of a job on | :55:17. | :55:22. | |
their hands looking after social care, with budgets being cut. | :55:23. | :55:24. | |
We know that in Bury, by 2020, Bury Council | :55:25. | :55:27. | |
will have lost 70% of that | :55:28. | :55:28. | |
Do you think the Government are going to start | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
Well, we have got the Budget coming up next week. | :55:34. | :55:36. | |
I have no idea what will be in the Budget, | :55:37. | :55:38. | |
but there may be measures in the Budget. | :55:39. | :55:40. | |
Throughout all my time in politics, I have always... | :55:41. | :55:44. | |
This is new, you've got Conservative councils | :55:45. | :55:47. | |
telling a Conservative Government that they cannot cope any more with | :55:48. | :55:50. | |
Well, under the last Labour Government, we | :55:51. | :55:53. | |
had Labour-controlled councils telling the Labour Government that | :55:54. | :55:55. | |
they didn't have any money and Bury Council was one of them. | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
Bury Council regularly used to go down to | :55:59. | :56:00. | |
London to complain that they didn't have | :56:01. | :56:01. | |
enough money, so there is | :56:02. | :56:02. | |
My own local authority, Wirral, will have lost | :56:03. | :56:19. | |
nearly 50% of its budget by the end of this Parliament. | :56:20. | :56:22. | |
Social care, with the 3% council tax premium, | :56:23. | :56:24. | |
that gives us the ?19 million extra, but there are ?40 million of | :56:25. | :56:27. | |
pressure is just because of the number | :56:28. | :56:29. | |
of older people who live in | :56:30. | :56:30. | |
So, actually, some local authorities are | :56:31. | :56:33. | |
in danger of falling over and not being able to deliver their | :56:34. | :56:36. | |
This is something the Government has got to deal with. | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
We will see in the Budget next week whether social care | :56:41. | :56:43. | |
Now, is not just the Labour Party dealing with a bit of | :56:44. | :56:47. | |
internal strife, the rest of this week's news, | :56:48. | :56:49. | |
A school was closed and teachers suspended after they were | :56:50. | :56:54. | |
pictured drinking and chanting following a dispute with the head. | :56:55. | :56:56. | |
This primary in Bowden has appointed an interim headteacher to oversee | :56:57. | :56:59. | |
Passengers faced disruption after the RMT union voted to strike | :57:00. | :57:11. | |
against plans for a driver only trains. | :57:12. | :57:13. | |
Bottom of the class, Liverpool has had the biggest drop | :57:14. | :57:18. | |
in the country of children securing places that their first choice | :57:19. | :57:21. | |
The City Council said population growth is partly to | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
A Cheshire councillor called for Parliament to step in after | :57:26. | :57:30. | |
foxhounds rampaged through a Macclesfield | :57:31. | :57:34. | |
foxhounds rampaged through a Macclesfield estate during a hunt. | :57:35. | :57:36. | |
There was literally hound after hound, 15 to 20 hounds | :57:37. | :57:38. | |
And a rouse kicked off of Liverpool football | :57:39. | :57:45. | |
club's proposed training ground move. | :57:46. | :57:51. | |
The West Derby MP Stephen Twigg doesn't want large-scale housing on | :57:52. | :57:54. | |
Before we go, just time to remember Gerald Kaufman. | :57:55. | :57:57. | |
Now, I never met Gerald, but anyone who | :57:58. | :57:59. | |
loves Singing In The Rain as much as that, I'm sure I would get along | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
Angela, you probably knew him a little bit better than David. | :58:04. | :58:06. | |
What's your outstanding memory of him? | :58:07. | :58:08. | |
Very acute about politics, loved ice cream. | :58:09. | :58:10. | |
He was a great connoisseur of ice cream. | :58:11. | :58:12. | |
And also something that I shared with him very much, we used to talk | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
Do you think we'll have those sorts of politicians going | :58:17. | :58:22. | |
forward, who stay in one area and stick with it? | :58:23. | :58:24. | |
Well, Gerald was in Government, probably before you were | :58:25. | :58:26. | |
And he was in Harold Wilson's kitchen Cabinet, so he was | :58:27. | :58:30. | |
The peak of his career came with the 18 years | :58:31. | :58:33. | |
that Labour was out of power during the Thatcher era. | :58:34. | :58:36. | |
What about you, David, from being on the Opposition | :58:37. | :58:38. | |
Yeah, obviously, I only really got to know him I'm over the last | :58:39. | :58:42. | |
seven years and the last few months obviously | :58:43. | :58:45. | |
seven years and the last few months obviously he has been ill, he | :58:46. | :58:48. | |
He was a great parliamentarian and to | :58:49. | :58:51. | |
represent the same area for 47 years is just such an incredible | :58:52. | :58:54. | |
He will be sadly missed by all as family and his friends and | :58:55. | :58:58. | |
Of course, we had political disagreements, but he always | :58:59. | :59:01. | |
I think that will be no doubt be one of the reasons that he was always | :59:02. | :59:06. | |
elected with huge majority, time after time, because his constituents | :59:07. | :59:09. | |
knew that in Gerald they had someone they could rely on to fight their | :59:10. | :59:12. | |
Angela, he has been described as a socialist, which you | :59:13. | :59:30. | |
don't necessarily hear very regularly used | :59:31. | :59:31. | |
Well, he was in Harold Wilson's kitchen Cabinet. | :59:32. | :59:36. | |
He talked about the modernisation of socialism and in | :59:37. | :59:39. | |
fact, he was regarded as a left winger when he came into the house. | :59:40. | :59:43. | |
He then fell out with Tony Benn and was very a | :59:44. | :59:54. | |
about what was known as the longest suicide note in history. | :59:55. | :59:57. | |
He had a good deal of experience, a great | :59:58. | :00:03. | |
deal of knowledge and obviously, you will be sorely missed. | :00:04. | :00:05. | |
I think I will miss most that little twinkle | :00:06. | :00:07. | |
in his eye when he came into the tea room to nick all the newspapers to | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Reaction to the Budget from us next week. | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
But before I hand you back to Andrew in London, we leave | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
you with some tributes to and memories of the late Gerald Kaufman. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
He was an outstanding parliamentarian. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
I swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Gerald could be very acerbic and he used it ruthlessly as | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
I'm going to justify that to my inner city constituents | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
on the basis that running the same competently | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
and doing your job, it | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
He was always there for his constituents. | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
And I said, how has an ice cream parlour suddenly arisen in | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
my constituency without me knowing about it? | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
I went to him on a number of issues and he always helped me. | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
Many of the Labour Party's foreign policy positions | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
positions Sir Gerald Kaufman set as the Shadow Foreign Secretary. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
It is time to remind you all, that the | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
star of David belongs to all jews and not his repulsive government. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
I disagreed with him vehemently on that, but I respected | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
the sincerity and integrity of his views. | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
I was talking to members of his family and | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
his great nephews and great nieces and I asked, "How would you | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
And they said, "He was an awesome uncle," and I think we | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
need Crossrail as well. We will be poring over the entrails of the | :01:44. | :01:53. | |
budget next week. Thank you very much indeed. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
So the Brexit Bill is back in the Lords next week and the Lib Dems | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
They've ordered pizza and camp beds to encourage their peers | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
to keep talking all night, only to be told by the Lord's | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
authorities that their plans fall foul of health and safety laws. | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
Laws that they probably voted for. What did you make of David | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
Liddington's remarks on the Lords amendments, particularly not just | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
the one on EU nationals, but on what is regarded as a meaningful vote at | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
the end of the process? Let's be clear, as ministers like to say, the | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
meaningful vote vote is by far the biggest thing that will happen in | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Parliament. It puts EU citizens into a tiny corner. It will decide not | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
just who is going to have the final say on this, but who the EU is | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
negotiating with. Is it directly with Theresa May or is it with | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
Parliament? Who will decide the shape of Brexit, Parliament or | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Theresa May? The Lords amendment is just the first chapter. They have | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
voiced Theresa May to give them a veto on everything she does, and | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
there is a possible chance in the Commons could uphold this amendment. | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
The meaningful vote amendment? The meaningful vote amendment. But is it | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
a meaningful vote if the choice is to either back the deal or crash out | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
of the deal? That is what the remain supporting MPs or hardline people | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
who want to remain fear. What they want is the power to be able to send | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Theresa May back to the negotiating table. Why is that anathema to many | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
Brexit supporters? They believed it would crucially and critically | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
undermine Theresa May's negotiating hand and also create a long period | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
of uncertainty for business. There is already great uncertainty and | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
this could extend it. The government's position is in there | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
was a proper, meaningful vote which Parliament could reject what was on | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
offer, that would be an incentive to the EU to give us a bad deal? I | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
think that is the fear. If you are saying to the people you are | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
negotiating with that that is another authority and Theresa May | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
will have to go back and have all of this approved, I think it would have | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
a very significant undermining effect on her negotiating hand. | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
Things change from day to day. We are talking about 2019 and 2018 at | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
the earliest, but if the government lost a vote on the Brexit deal, | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
would he not have to call in someone else? That is why the vote will be | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
meaningful even if the amendment on this meaningful vote will be lost. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
You cannot do a deal on something as historic as Brexit and have | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
Parliament against you. So, whatever form this vote takes, whenever it | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
happens, it will be hugely meaningful. Whatever label that is | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
given and if she lost it she would call a general election. She could | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
not impose it. To call a general election now you need a majority of | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
MPs which she will not have, so maybe she will not get her election | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
after all. It would be very unlike Labour not to vote for an election. | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
It would be very unlike Labour not to vote for an election. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
The elections to Stormont have given a boost to the republicans and put | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
the long term status of Northern Ireland in some doubt. | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
Sinn Fein's leader Gerry Adams spoke to reporters | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
Yesterday was in many, many ways a watershed election, | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
and we have just started a process of reflecting what it all means, | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
but clearly the union's majority in the Assembly has been ended, | :06:01. | :06:16. | |
and the notion of a permanent or a perpetual unionist majority | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
Is he right? Is this a watershed? The nationalist vote in the assembly | :06:19. | :06:31. | |
will now come to 39 and the Unionists 38. It is only one member, | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
but it is significant. This is a very serious moment and because of | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
everything else going on with Donald Trump and Brexit it is taking a | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
while for people here to realise just how significant this is. | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
Talking to someone who only recently left a significant role in Northern | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Ireland politics last night, they said they were very worried about | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
what this means. It is likely there will be a call for some kind of | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
international figure to chair the talks to try and see if there is a | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
way of everybody working together. All sides will probably try to | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
extract more money from the Treasury, but it is a very dangerous | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
moment. Should we regard Michelle O'Neill, who has replaced Mr | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
McGuinness as the leader, it is she the First Minister death probably | :07:21. | :07:29. | |
not quite. An interesting thought. Indeed, the daughter of an IRA man, | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
a fascinating concept in itself. But there are are still a large amount | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
of MLAs who will not give Sinn Fein what they need. But what effect does | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
this have on the legacy of the prosecutions and the great | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
witchhunts which the British Government has vowed to end. There | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
is a majority left on the Stormont assembly to end those. But some | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
would keep them going for time continuing, which is a headache for | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
Theresa May. You have now got 27 Sinn Fein members, 28 DUP, then the | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
SDLP bumps up the numbers a little bit. You have got the British | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
Government transfixed with Brexit which has huge implications for the | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
border between North and South in Ireland, and the Irish government is | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
pretty wavering as well and if there is an election there, Sinn Fein | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
could do well in the Dublin parliament as well. There are a lot | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
of moving pieces. There are and there is a danger that we look at | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
everything through the prism of Brexit, but I found Friday and this | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
weekend fascinating. Theresa May and Scotland were Nicola Sturgeon is | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
framing Brexit entirely through an argument to have a second referendum | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
on independence which she wants to hold it she possibly can. And the | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
Irish situation with the prospect of a hard border with Northern Ireland | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
voting majority to remain, quite a substantial majority, again a few of | :09:08. | :09:16. | |
the instability at the moment. That is on both sides. We will be keeping | :09:17. | :09:17. | |
We will be keeping an eye on it for sure. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Yesterday, US President Donald Trump tweeted allegations | :09:23. | :09:23. | |
that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had ordered | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
his phones to be tapped during the election campaign. | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
"Terrible!", Trump wrote, "Just found out that Obama | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
I'm not quite sure what McCarthyism that is. | :09:36. | :09:48. | |
He followed up with a series of tweets comparing it to Watergate. | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
"How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
The sacred election process, I think at one stage he said it was a dodgy | :09:58. | :10:11. | |
election process, but now it is sacred. | :10:12. | :10:12. | |
You are frightened to go to bed at night, you do not know what you are | :10:13. | :10:25. | |
going to wake up to. Completely uncharted territory here. Little | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
more than a month ago at the inauguration they were making the | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
veneer of small talk and politely shaking hands. He saw Barack Obama | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
and Michelle off on the helicopter. You do not know what is coming next. | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
Is there a scintilla of evidence to back up Donald Trump's claims? Yes, | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
there is, although he is very muddled about it all. I will | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
explain. Remember what happened to Mike Flynn, talking to the Russian | :10:57. | :11:09. | |
and Ambassador will stop they were listening. Barack Obama does not | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
sign of warrants, but somebody else did. So why on earth would you not | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
want to listen to the president elect himself in case he might also | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
be breaking the law. Does that sound to you like convincing evidence or | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
just a supposition? I think Tom should go and work for him, that is | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
the most credible interpretation I have heard for a long time. Start | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
tweeting the case for the tweet. What is interesting about this is my | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
theory is he does not really like the idea of being a president. That | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
wild press conference he gave a couple of weeks ago there was one ad | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
lib that did not get repeated which was, I suppose I am a politician | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
now, as if he was humiliated at the idea of being a president. He likes | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
being the businessman with a swagger tweeting around the clock. And | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
campaigning again. He keeps going to what looked like campaign rallies. I | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
disagree with you about him not liking being president. I think he | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
loves the idea of being the president, but the reality is so | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
frustrating on every level, finding he does not have unlimited room for | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
manoeuvre and so many things have been put in place to stop them doing | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
things he would do in the business environment. We have had two more | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
tweets from him this morning, I guess when he woke up. Who was it | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
who secretly said to the Russian president, tell Vladimir that after | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
the election I will have more flexibility? Who was that? Possibly | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
Hillary Clinton. Is it true the Democratic National committee would | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
not allow the FBI access to check server or other equipment after | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
learning it was hacked? Can that be possible? This was all an issue in | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
the campaign. He is now a president. Shall I point out the flaw in Tom's | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
theory. They were not bugging Michael Flynn's phone, it was the | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Russian Ambassador's telephone they were barking. Mr Neil, I would never | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
contradict you on this programme. But if you suspect there was | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
criminal activity going on, as there was by Michael Flynn, why would you | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
not want to put on a tap? I don't know. That is it for today. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
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