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This programme contains some flashing images.

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We're live from sunny Birmingham on day one of

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the Conservative Party Conference, where, three months after Britain

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voted to leave the European Union, the Prime Minister has given

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us her first inkling of how she plans to do it.

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Morning, folks - welcome to the Sunday Politics.

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Theresa May says she will trigger Article 50, starting the two year

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process of negotiations that will culminate in Britain

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leaving the EU, before the end of March next year.

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So Brexit by Easter 2019 - but what kind of relationship

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A Great Repeal Bill will also be voted on next Spring,

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but won't be enacted until we leave, at which point EU laws will be

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And what do Conservative MPs want to hear from their new leader?

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Coming up on Sunday Politics Scotland: Here, Ruth Davidson says

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Brexit has to create the conditions for Scotland's industries

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to flourish - we'll be asking her what that means.

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explore the potential rise of Sidcup Man.

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So far no Great Repeal Act to get rid of the Sunday Politics Panel -

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Steve Richards, Rachel Sylvester and Tom Newton Dunn.

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It's 100 days since we voted to leave the EU and the clamour has

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grown for the Government to tell us what Brexit would look like.

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This morning, as the Tory faithful gather in Birmingham,

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we still don't expect to be told what Brexit means but we do know

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more about the timetable and the extrication process.

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A Bill will go before parliament this spring to repeal the 1972

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European Communities Act, which legalised our membership

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But it won't actually come into force until we leave.

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Theresa May also told the Andrew Marr Show that

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Article 50 would be invoked by March of next year -

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starting the two year process of renegotiation before we leave.

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I have been saying we would not trigger it before the end of this

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year, so that we get confirmation in place. I will be saying in my speech

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today that we will trigger before the end of March next year. The

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remaining members of the EU have to decide what the process of

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negotiation is. I hope, and I will be saying to them, that now they

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know what the time is going to be, it is not an exact date, but they

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know it will be the first quarter of next year, that we will be able to

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have some preparatory work so that once the trigger comes we have a

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smoother process of negotiation. Theresa May, on this channel, just

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over an hour ago. What do you make of it? Saggy as you said, we know

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more about when but we don't know what Brexit is going to be. We don't

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know how the relationship will work out, we don't know what the Prime

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Minister's negotiation position will be, we haven't worked out anything

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about the free market access and freedom of movement. All of the

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substance. It is a significant announcement but we don't actually

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know anything really big about what our lives are going to be like in

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future. Is there a risk from the Prime Minister? Is there a risk

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putting this before Parliament to repeal the 1972 Communities Act?

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Undoubtedly. Anything you put before the House of Commons or the House of

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Lords, where there is no Tory majority, let alone a Brexit

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majority, risks getting amended. She runs the risk. There is also a risk

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of not saying this, not having the greater appeal, which is actually a

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great repeal act, when is being repealed, but she needed to throw

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the Tory right red meat, and they got it this morning. There is always

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the potential of a constitutional crisis. If the Lords were to dig in

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over this, or even digging over Article 50, demand a vote on that,

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lawyers are arguing whether you need it or not, it may not be plain

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sailing when you have a majority of 12? It definitely isn't going to be

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with a majority of 12. The scope for constitutional crisis is many.

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Clashes with the Lords, clashes with the Commons, Scotland is still there

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in the background allows a significant factor. It will always

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be there, but perhaps in a different context. I don't think this will be

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the trigger for a constitutional crisis. You have to admire the

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elegant choreography. I was told ages ago that she knew she could not

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keep carry on saying Brexit means Brexit, there will have to be new

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lines. This is beautiful. We kind of knew that Article 50 was going to be

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triggered early in next year. David Davis even said that. It was a fair

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bet it would be before Easter. They couldn't spend the next two years

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negotiating Brexit and refocusing the entire legislative programme to

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spend the next two years rejigging the mountain of legislation we are

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affected with. They have turned a logistical, unavoidable

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inevitability into a sense of momentum this weekend. Very clever

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presentation. There are going to be huge crises to come over this.

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Picking off the 1972 Act, putting it all into British law and

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legislation, rather than dependent on Europe, that is what the

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Brexiteers wanted. To that extent, she has thrown them a bit of red

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meat today? Yes, but we still don't know what Brexit is going to be. But

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a bit of red meat keeps you going for a while. Maybe get them through

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to lunch time. Today or tomorrow? Really just today. The tactic is to

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get some stuff about Brexit out, get them talking about that and then

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move onto agenda she wants, domestic. What do you think? Good

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luck with that! Are you reading my script coming up? It was on the

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autocue, I'm sorry! Clearly, she is accessed about not making his

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premiership all about Brexit. It will be, but she is desperate. She

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needs to define herself away from Brexit, who is Theresa May, what did

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she really believe? We have heard whispers, but the next few days as a

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chance to do that. The fringe, Liam Fox is talking at two fringes. Two

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opportunities for a story. David Davis as well. These two men of

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great talent and potentially great ego, they will not be able to stop

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themselves having feelings heard. And Boris. Boris who? I have not

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seen him on the fringes. Fringe meetings have been quite dull at

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party conferences recently. Because of this issue, I think people are

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going to pack them out. That is where words might be said, explosive

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words. We live for fringe meetings! The PM hopes her announcement

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will deal with Brexit on day one so the conference can get on to talk

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about other matters. But as you can see from this not

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so slim tome - the conference guide- there are plenty of other issues

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to talk, maybe even argue about. Our Ellie caught up with two Tory

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MPs from different sides of the party before they set off,

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to see what they think lies in store # Just can't wait to

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get on the road again # The life I love is making

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music with my friends # And I can't wait to get

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on the road again...# Do you actually enjoy going

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to conference? It's not as much fun

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as when you're not an MP, because now people want to talk

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to you and everybody But do you make contacts,

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do you network? Do think Theresa May gets

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nervous about conference, I think if you are performing

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on a big stage, whoever you are, you ought to have a few

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nerves jangling around. But she's a polished performer,

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I'm sure she'll know Theresa May will also know she has

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several contentious issues she needs It is perhaps not surprising,

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then, that day one of We're pretty well balanced

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between those of us like myself, representing constituencies

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with really high levels of research, science

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and agriculture, who will be very keen, but probably pragmatically

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understanding that we are not going to hear everything

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tomorrow, and the rest of the party who are just

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desperate for information. If they don't think the deal

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is going in the right way, they will want to say

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something about it. I think the time frame

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is pretty clear. We are going to trigger Article 50

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at some point relatively That means we will get

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the negotiations done a good year The rest is going to be

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important meat on the bones. But, in terms of the core strategy,

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Theresa May goes into this So, a unified front,

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albeit perhaps fragile. But then there is the question

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of grammar schools. Depends whether we hear

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more about it. You know, the concept

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in its one-dimensional sense, you can't have a problem

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with that, can you? Giving parents choice,

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giving bright children the chance But, for me, for many of us,

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it has to be a package Our teachers are pretty

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stressed and overworked I'm not actually sure

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this is the right time. I would rather see emphasis

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being put on fairer funding. Constituencies like mine have been

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underfunded for decades. If you go into politics

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and government scared of your own shadow, unprepared to do

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anything bold or brave, I think there is no risk-free

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option. Of course, people have different

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views on grammar schools and it is a totemic political

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issue as well. But I think if you read the green

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paper, the Prime Minister has set out a very sensible,

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carefully calibrated approach, The new PM also faces big strategic

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decisions on expensive projects like airport expansion,

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an area even her Cabinet With all these big infrastructure

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projects, HS2, Heathrow, issues around fracking,

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nuclear as well, I think we have got to take the right decisions

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for the country, make sure Britain Each one of those is

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thorny in its own right. But what I think is most important

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is we look at it very carefully, That is where we all start to see

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the metal in Theresa, Whilst on the one hand,

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having a Prime Minister - nobody could have been more

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delighted than me that we managed to cut the tax credits changes -

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but having a Prime Minister that sticks to her guns,

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I'm not for U-turning, How confident are you,

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going to this conference, that it is all going to be sorted

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and you are going to be Well, people predicted an economic

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nosedive after the referendum. People said there would

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be political chaos. Actually, the economy

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has proved resilient. I think there is a sense of resolve

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on all sides of the party on all of these different issues

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to get behind this Prime Minister Last year, you got into a bit

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of trouble, being quite vocal Some suggestion you weren't

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a proper conservative. I think I am absolutely

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a proper conservative. I think my party needed reminding

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what conservative was. Our job is to help people who need

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a leg up. Her opening speech in Downing Street

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told me she absolutely is. Like all of these things,

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we will hear more about this week. # And I can't wait to get on the

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road again. # And we're joined now

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by the Transport Secretary, who was a leading Leave campaigner,

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Chris Grayling. Welcome back to the programme. The

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great repeal act, what exactly does it repeal? It repeal the 1972

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European Communities Act. It means the European Court of Justice no

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longer has sway in the United Kingdom. It means the European

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Commission and Parliament no longer make laws for us. As of today, in

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our system, European law is supreme over UK law, and it repeal that.

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Except what it does is it consolidates all existing European

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legislation into British law. It would be more accurate to call it

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the great Consolidation act? Is This is what I argued for during the

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League campaign. The remaining campaign said you could not do it,

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it will take years, it will be a disaster. My response then is what

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it is now, the best way to do it is to consolidate existing legislation,

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much of which we will want to keep, the environmental measures, the

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workers' rights measures, what we want to do is to make sure we can

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get certainty before the event and after the event, for workers,

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businesses, but what the legal position will be. Over time, we have

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the freedom, outside the European Union, free from the control of the

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European Court, to change our legal system in the way that we want. It

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does mean we would leave the EU with all of this EU law still part of

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British law. Now, what would you wish to change in the aftermath?

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There is a whole variety of different things we will be looking

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at a change. For example, if you want a practical one, it is unlikely

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that after we have left the European Union we will still be paying child

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benefits to children that have never even entered the United Kingdom.

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That is the kind of thing we will be free to change after we have left.

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What else? Much of it we will want to keep, environmental measures, not

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all that has been done in the European Union for 40 years has been

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bad for Britain. How long will it take to pick all of this after we

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leave? Will be down to the Government to decide... Ten years?

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20 years? It will take it as long as we choose. What is right and proper

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is that on the day after there is a degree of certainty for businesses.

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It would not be fair for a company to be operating under a set of

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rules, for there to be a cliff edge where they do not know what is going

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to happen the day after. Let's make it an evolution, not a revolution. A

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lot of the things you have to agree to enter negotiations mean it will

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have to remain law even after we leave? This clearly the case that if

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a business in this country is continuing to sell a product in the

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European Union, it will have to make the standards of the European Union.

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Those rules will apply. That is the same if we're selling to the United

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States, the rules of the United States would apply to a business

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planning to sell a product there. What happens if you lose the vote?

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It is inconceivable that Parliament can look at the view of the British

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public and ignore it. Parliament voted overwhelmingly for the

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referendum to take place in the first place, the people have given a

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mandate and I am certain Parliament will fulfil it.

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What would happen? You have a majority of only 12 and there was a

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majority for remain in the Commons and there is a large majority in the

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house of lords. If the parliament does not seamlessly agree for what

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you call the great repeal act, what would happen? Both houses are full

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of Democrats and they will respect the will of the people. But we could

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be faced with a constitutional crisis? We have taken the decision

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to leave and parliament voted for the referendum and it is

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inconceivable that Parliament would not allow that process to go

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forward. If the inconceivable happen, you'd have to cores and --

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call an election. Inconceivable is a bit of a stretch. Plenty of voices,

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particularly in the House of Lords, would use this as a an opportunity

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to thwart you. And I don't think the House of Lords will turn around and

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say we should not fulfil that. There may be dissenting voices but they

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will view it as a democratic mandate that we have to fulfil. Has your

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party don soundings in the Commons to make sure you can get this

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through? I've not been involved in that discussion but parliament will

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respond to the will of the people. That's the way this country works.

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That's what you hope. We shall see how it works. We've been told by the

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Prime Minister this morning that article 50 will be triggered by the

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end of March. That means that we are out by Easter 2019. Can you confirm

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that those British members of the European Parliament currently in

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Strasberg, there will be no more for them after this. If we have left by

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the end of the two-year period. It is technically possible to extend

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it. After that period, there wouldn't be EP is after that point

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in 2019. -- MEPs. For Brexit to mean Brexit, the famous phrase, which is

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basically tautology. It would mean the freedom to have our own trade

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laws. It would mean the ability to do that? You are leading me to

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answer questions about the specific legal structures. It means our own

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free-trade deals? Correct. It would mean we are no longer subject to the

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rules of the European Court of Justice. Also correct. And we would

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have whatever control we desire over immigration? The Prime Minister has

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been clear that we need to control the flow of immigration into the

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country. Any of these counts as out from being a member of the single

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market. So can we agree that there is no way we can remain a member of

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the single market? There is no such thing as a member of the single

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market. There are a number of different trading agreements within

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the EU. We are effectively a member of the single market now but we

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can't be after this. The question you have asked me, do we want to be

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Norway, Switzerland, Canada when it comes to trading arrangements? We

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want to be the United Kingdom. We are the biggest customer of German

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car-makers, French farmers... I don't want to have the referendum

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fight again. It seems as black as black or as White is white that if

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you want all of that we cannot be a member, we can have access on terms

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yet to be agreed, we will have a relationship, but why cannot you say

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that we won't be a member in the way that we are currently a member of

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the single market? We won't be a member of the European Union but

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there is no such thing as a member of the single market. There is no

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single market in services, for example. There is but it is not as

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developed as goods. I believe we will end up with a trading

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partnership with the European Union on terms to be agreed that will work

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for both of us. Access but not membership. You cannot be a fully

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paid-up member of the single market without the European Court of

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Justice ruling on it and you don't want that. I don't understand your

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problem. Your pre-merging -- prejudging the outcome of

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negotiations. We want the best possible trading arrangements with

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European neighbours and that is what we will work towards. Where

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different to the other countries that have been involved in these

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negotiations before. We have heard all that before in the referendum

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and we wanted some clarity on what it would mean. Transport, when will

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you give is the decision on runway expansion? I'm not going to set a

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date today. I've spent the summer looking at the three different

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options. We have three very well presented packages. The airport

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commission has looked at it carefully and the Prime Minister and

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I want to understand the options in detail and understand the strengths

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and weaknesses of each and we will reach our decision shortly. I'm not

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going to set a date on it. Shortly means in this year, surely. I don't

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want to wait unnecessarily long to take the decision but nor do I want

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to set a date so to to work towards that. Will there be a free vote? I

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need to identify the best option for Britain and take the best possible

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approach to get the support of parliament Porritt. Will there be a

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free vote? Decisions have not been taken but we will do the best for

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the interests of the country. Theresa May has said the options for

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an expansion to Heathrow are seriously flawed. Philip Hammond has

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described the Heathrow option as dead as a Norwegian parrot. Can you

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be sure that the Prime Minister and Anna Chancellor will vote for your

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proposal? We are looking at three options that are very new. One of

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them is Heathrow. Warrant -- they are very different options to what

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has been proposed in the past. They are all very well crafted proposals.

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They are interesting and have potential and we need to decide.

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That is why I am asking you. HS2, high-speed train, can you state

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categorically it will go ahead? It's due to start construction in the

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spring. The hybrids Bill Haas to continue its passage through the

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house of law -- the hybrid Bill Haas to continue through its passage in

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the house of lords. Will it be 2026? Will it be on-time and on budget?

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The select committee of MPs said it is unlikely and will certainly be

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over budget. I expected be absolutely clear and on -- expected

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to be absolutely on-time and on budget. The latest estimate for

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phase one, the core cast is ?14 billion but there is contingency on

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top of that. How much? It is set to Treasury rules. It is always going

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to be over. If you really believed in the Northern powerhouse wouldn't

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this money be better spent instead of making it quicker to come to and

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Birmingham from London in under 90 minutes, which you already can,

:25:22.:25:26.

wouldn't it be better to spend the money on state of the art road links

:25:27.:25:38.

between East and West in the north. I think we need to do both. We can't

:25:39.:25:46.

get more freight onto rail without creating more space. By taking fast

:25:47.:25:54.

trains off the West Coast main line which is already busy and put fast

:25:55.:25:59.

freight trains onto the new route, you create more capacity for places

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like Milton Keynes Dons Northampton, Coventry. It is about making sure we

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have a transport system that can cope with the demands of the

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21st-century. Thank you very much. Now, as we speak, voters in Hungary

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are going to the polls to vote on whether to accept mandatory EU

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quotas for relocating migrants. The country's government has been

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campaigning for voters to reject the EU's proposals and has run

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a highly controversial campaign, accusing migrants of terrorism

:26:25.:26:26.

and crime - and the Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said today he'll

:26:27.:26:28.

quit if the country votes In response to the ongoing migrant

:26:29.:26:31.

crisis, the EU wants to establish a permanent European resettlement

:26:32.:26:36.

programme, under which, member states must take their fair

:26:37.:26:38.

share of asylum seekers, depending on the size of each

:26:39.:26:40.

country's population and economy. If countries refuse,

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the European Commission has proposed that they would incur a financial

:26:45.:26:46.

penalty of 250,000 euros per person, to cover the cost of another

:26:47.:26:51.

country taking them. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter

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Szijjarto said the plan Last year, Hungary rejected

:26:57.:26:58.

an emergency EU plan that would have seen tens of thousands of refugees

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transferred out of the country in return for accepting a quota

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of almost 1300 refugees As an EU border country,

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Hungary has received 18,500 In 2015, it received the most asylum

:27:11.:27:16.

applications relative to its population of any EU state -

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1800 for every 100,000 local people, though the majority of those then

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travelled onwards to other Although the referendum

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result will have no affect on the EU's decision,

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the Hungarian government hopes the weight of public opinion

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will help it resist the plans, running a very controversial

:27:41.:27:43.

referendum campaign. For example, this poster saying

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migrants carried out We're joined now from Budapest

:27:47.:27:48.

by our Correspondent, Nick Thorpe. I understand that the polls are

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pretty clear that the government will win this referendum but it

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needs a turnout of at least 50% for it to matter. What indication of

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turnout so far? As of 11am, turnout was just over 16% of the electorate.

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We have an electrode of 8.3 million, the government is campaigning

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strongly for a no vote. The government have framed the question

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in such a way that it is hard to vote, yes, we do want this imposed

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on us. The issue of turnout is important because the opposition

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have campaigned not to vote or to spoil votes. Even if the government

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wins on the numbers, if more people vote against the quotas, is it a

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symbolic defeat for the government if that was to happen? Some people

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will argue it would be a symbolic defeat if they don't get 50%. We've

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heard that ministers are backing off the whole issue of turnout. They are

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hoping for at least 3 million people to vote. Even 4 million which would

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be the 50%, voting no to migrant quotas. They say that all of those

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votes will give them a strong moral hand. In the words of the Prime

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Minister, it will sharpen the Hungarian sword in the battles

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ahead. Thank you very much. Malin Bjork is Swedish

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MEP and Vice Chair of the Confederal Group

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of the European United Left Welcome to the programme. The quota

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system proposed already seem to be dying if the Hungarians vote the way

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they are expected to today, that will kill it, will it not? I think

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we should have it as a point of departure whether we have seen that

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Hungary is a model in any of the fields that we want hungry -- Europe

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to be. I don't think Hungary is the model. I don't think we should give

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him the kind of weight that he actually claims. He wants more

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weight to this referendum. I don't think we should give it to him.

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It is not just Hungary, is it? There are meant to be 100,000 migrants

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covered by the quota system, fewer than 5% have been covered by it. It

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is just not happening, whether Hungary votes for or against? No, it

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is totally... But that means it is not operational, it is simply not

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working. There are serious criticisms to have towards

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implementing partners in this. But I do think when it comes to the

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political course, Hungary is playing a very dangerous, racist and right

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nationalist game. I don't think we should adapt to it. If it comes to

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it, we have to be prepared to be behind those that do not want to be

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the Europe that is taking responsibility globally. Let me

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clarify what you mean by that. The Foreign Minister of Luxembourg has

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already said that Hungary should be expelled from the European Union. Is

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that what you are saying as well? No, no. You know what I think? As a

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progressive politician on the left side, I do have a lot of criticisms

:31:47.:31:52.

to the European Union. But there are planets apart from the kind of

:31:53.:31:55.

models that Viktor Orban is trying to build, where he does not respect

:31:56.:32:01.

human rights, laws and media freedoms, and now he attacks refugee

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rights. Given all of that, let's accept what you say is true about

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that, others may dispute it, but let's accept that as true, why

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should Hungary remain a member of the European Union? Well, it is up

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to each country that has voted to stay, and voted to become members,

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voting to stay, I don't think Orban has any intention of leaving EU. I

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think he wants more influence in the EU. I think he wants more influence

:32:30.:32:33.

domestic league through the referendum and more influence in the

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EU. The question the rest of the countries have to ask themselves is

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if we are going to give it to him or adapt to his politics in any of

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these fields he is active in? I think we should make a stand against

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it. We should have political forces in other countries that have exactly

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the same kind of agendas, which we don't want to see strengthened.

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Isn't the problem that may be Hungary is on the trend, and you are

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not? We have seem the right, some may call it the far right even, on

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the march in Austria, Poland and in Hungary, even in Germany, with the

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recent elections in Berlin and Angela Merkel's backyard, even

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progressive social Democratic Sweden, your third biggest party is

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now the Sweden, Democrats, a hard right nativist party. Why are forces

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on the move, and while the forces used and four on the defensive? The

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more progressive forces, I think they are growing in many countries

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also, such as Spain, Ireland and other countries. It is not just for

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the left, it is for the broader political spectrum to counteract

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nationalist, right-wing and racist forces. We know where they lead, a

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dead end. It is a challenge in the European countries. Why is Europe

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going in this direction? In 2016, why are the forces of the rights so

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strong? To be honest, I have to be a little bit more humble

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and say are we failing people in some way? Yes, austerity policies

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are not working. Inequalities have grown for over 20 years in Europe.

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Of course it is a failure. We are capable of saving banks, but not

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refugees. People see this. It is political failure and I think we

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have to sit down and create different pacifists. What is

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have to sit down and create happening now is worrying. I see

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some of the political forces in Europe. -- create different

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patterns. I see parties in Europe adapting to racism nationalist

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voices. I think we have to be the different parties that will not

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adapt to nationalist stories. They paint imaginary enemies. A huge

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chunk of Hungary's public spending comes from the European Union, net

:34:55.:34:58.

contributors like Sweden and the United Kingdom. If Hungary votes

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this way, should that continue? Should we continue to bankroll it?

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The way Europe and the European Union, individual members develop,

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of course we should lead discussions about money and heel spending to the

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respect for rule of law, the respect for human rights and the respect for

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international rights that are being infringed by the Hungarian

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government. Of course, we have to have such a discussion and it has to

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be frank. It's just gone 11.35,

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you're watching the Sunday Politics. We say goodbye to viewers

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in Scotland who leave us now Good morning and welcome

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to Sunday Politics Scotland. As the Conservatives

:35:44.:35:45.

gather in Birmingham, Theresa May will announce

:35:46.:35:49.

a Great Repeal Bill to end The party's Scottish leader

:35:50.:35:51.

Ruth Davidson says Brexit must meet the needs of Scottish business,

:35:52.:35:58.

I'll be asking her what she means and how on earth she intends

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to get her way. We have had two seemingly momentous

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bits of news about Brexit this morning. Theresa May says she will

:36:20.:36:23.

trigger Article 50, the formal process that will move to not likely

:36:24.:36:26.

to Britain leaving the EU by next March.

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But that doesn't leave us any clearer about what great that

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This all sounds terribly momentous, but do we really know any more about

:36:43.:36:52.

where we're going to end up? I think we are getting more on the process

:36:53.:36:59.

of it, but on the politics, on what brand it actually means and a strict

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definition, we are not much closer today than we were a couple of weeks

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ago, than we were in June. The key announcement this morning is on the

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triggering of Article 50, the former all process of leaving the EU. That

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will happen, Theresa May says, by the end of March, is in the UK on

:37:17.:37:22.

course to leave the EU by April, 2019. That is down to a host of

:37:23.:37:27.

different factors. If all EU countries decided they wanted to

:37:28.:37:31.

extend the process, it could be for longer. It could also be shorter if

:37:32.:37:35.

there is an agreement to that end. A bit more detail on what happens

:37:36.:37:41.

after we leave, that greater appeal act, which ends the supremacy of

:37:42.:37:45.

European law in the UK. All European laws would then be converted into UK

:37:46.:37:51.

law. We will go through them line by mine, figuring out what we want to

:37:52.:37:54.

keep and what we want to get rid of. I suspect will be some questions in

:37:55.:37:58.

the coming days and weeks. Questions about what that means in a Scottish

:37:59.:38:04.

context, whether Holyrood has to be consulted, whether it has a vote on

:38:05.:38:08.

certain elements of repealing those laws, whatever happens. On the

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politics, no real detail yet of what the UK Government actually wants,

:38:17.:38:20.

the key things we will be taking into those talks with European

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partners. We did get a head from Theresa May this morning, a subtle

:38:24.:38:27.

one, that immigration and control over borders could be more important

:38:28.:38:34.

than access to the single market. That could put the UK Government on

:38:35.:38:40.

a collision course with the Scottish governments. Nicola Sturgeon has

:38:41.:38:43.

made it clear that not just access the membership of the single market

:38:44.:38:47.

is a key demand from Hollywood's in Brexit talks. The UK Government has

:38:48.:38:53.

also been clear that it won't be negotiating in public, so in terms

:38:54.:38:59.

of the ins and outs of what we will see, I don't think we are much

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closer. The other thing is that Theresa May has said she doesn't

:39:05.:39:07.

want this conference to be completely dominated by Brexit. I

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presume the other big thing will be trying to present themselves as, we

:39:12.:39:14.

are not the David Cameron governments, this is something

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different. Are we going to see anything on this front? I expect

:39:19.:39:24.

that his rights. Theresa May pates and tribute David Cameron when she

:39:25.:39:27.

was on Andrew Marr's programme this morning, she also wants to set out

:39:28.:39:31.

to run stall. She wants to make it clear that this government is hers,

:39:32.:39:36.

taking her messages forward. Although Brexit is the reason she is

:39:37.:39:40.

by Minister will be the dominating issue for governments, it is not the

:39:41.:39:44.

only one she wants to talk about. If you look anywhere around this whole,

:39:45.:39:49.

you see the message, a country that works for everyone. That was the

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message when she took over in Downing Street and something we will

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hear a lot more about over the next few days. Today, in some sense, is

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about getting the breaks apart on the table, getting some of the

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logistics out of the way. There will be a session this afternoon where

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they will all give speeches on what they think could be the positives of

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Brexit, but after that, I suspect by Wednesday, when we get to Theresa

:40:17.:40:21.

May's main speech, she will want to be giving more details of the

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nitty-gritty of governments, the issues she cares about, the things

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she thinks will benefit the country. Thank you very much.

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A short while ago I spoke to the leader of the Scottish

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Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, who's in Birmingham.

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I began by asking her how she proposed to influence the Brexit

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negotiations in Scotland's interest. I have already sat down with the

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Foreign Secretary and spoken in the last few days with David Davis, as

:40:47.:40:50.

well as regular conversations with Number ten. It's important that

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Scotland is my voice is heard. I'm Number ten. It's important that

:40:52.:40:55.

pleased to see the written understanding within the UK

:40:56.:40:58.

Government that they want to take the devolved administrations along

:40:59.:41:02.

with them. David Davis spoke to Nicola Sturgeon last night about the

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announcement today on Brexit. As the laying out of things. It's important

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that we do this as a whole country and in the manner. But you have said

:41:10.:41:15.

that you want to stay in the single market, is that still your ambition?

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I think there is a misnomer about the single market but it is a binary

:41:21.:41:24.

choice to be in or come out. It's not, it is a quotation of access. As

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someone that those hidden works pretty hard to campaign to stay in

:41:30.:41:33.

the EU as a whole, of course I want to have the maximum amount of access

:41:34.:41:37.

to the single market. That's one of the reasons I was campaigning on the

:41:38.:41:40.

side of a Zen. I think we heard today from the prime minister, what

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we have heard from others and governments, is a real

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acknowledgement that we have got to make certainty there are businesses

:41:47.:41:50.

across the UK, for investors in the UK, to make sure they know... Just

:41:51.:41:58.

to take one example, you talks this morning about wanting Scottish

:41:59.:42:03.

financial businesses to have passport thing in the European

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Union. This is a system whereby if you are back, for example, you

:42:07.:42:10.

register in one European country and you have access across the EU. I

:42:11.:42:15.

know what no suggestion that you can maintain our sporting and financial

:42:16.:42:19.

services unless you are a full member of the single market. All I

:42:20.:42:25.

was saying today in the papers is what people have been saying to me.

:42:26.:42:29.

I have had people through my office over the summer and into awesome,

:42:30.:42:32.

from different sectors in Scotland, saying the opportunities they see

:42:33.:42:35.

from Brexit, the protections they want when we come out, because see

:42:36.:42:39.

they issues that might affect them that you mentally. I making sure I

:42:40.:42:43.

am plugged in as passing all about back to the UK Government. I would

:42:44.:42:46.

expect the Scottish Government is doing the same thing and I know...

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What I am suggesting to you is that it will be impossible to have passed

:42:54.:42:59.

voting for financial services without being a full member of the

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single market. There is no sign whatsoever from any of Theresa May's

:43:06.:43:10.

ministers that they are entertaining such an idea. But again I think you

:43:11.:43:15.

are falling into the trap that the single market is a binary choice of

:43:16.:43:19.

in or out. It's not, it is about the levels of access we have. There has

:43:20.:43:24.

never been a country that has left the EU before, so all of this we are

:43:25.:43:27.

starting from scratch. There is work going on to make sure we get the

:43:28.:43:32.

best deals in the UK, including Scotland. I know the Scottish

:43:33.:43:34.

Government has been included in that as we go forward. All of these

:43:35.:43:39.

things will be on the table when it comes to the negotiations. We have

:43:40.:43:42.

heard this morning from the Prime Minister how we start moving towards

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that. Would you like to keep free movement of Labour? As I keep coming

:43:47.:43:56.

back to, I was quite enthusiastic in supporting the remaining campaign,

:43:57.:43:58.

which included free movement of Labour, so that was one of the

:43:59.:44:03.

things I was arguing for. Unfortunately 17.5 million people

:44:04.:44:07.

disagreed with me. There was a wish within the country, not my wish, but

:44:08.:44:11.

a wish within the wider UK, that there were some restrictions put on

:44:12.:44:15.

my of this country. For me, that wasn't something I was arguing for,

:44:16.:44:20.

in fact, I was arguing very strongly against it. That means that is going

:44:21.:44:23.

to have to happen. How can we shape that and make sure that we get the

:44:24.:44:29.

best Labour force to the UK? Irrespective of whether that comes

:44:30.:44:32.

from within the EU, outside the EU, or accommodation of the two. Before

:44:33.:44:41.

we move on, can I suggest a nice celebratory party conference

:44:42.:44:43.

sentence for you to say, given what is in the papers this morning? How

:44:44.:44:47.

about saying, I have confidence in Boris Johnson? I have always had

:44:48.:44:52.

confidence in the role of the Foreign Secretary. That's not the

:44:53.:44:58.

same as saying my sentence! I suggested you say, I have confidence

:44:59.:45:02.

in Boris Johnson. We know you love the poster Foreign Secretary. I sat

:45:03.:45:08.

down with Boris, we had a very good meeting, he is taking the role

:45:09.:45:13.

incredible is seriously. He speaks five languages and has worked in

:45:14.:45:18.

Brussels. He was born in America. In terms of cost conditions for the

:45:19.:45:22.

job, he has got them in spades. He is applying himself to the job. I

:45:23.:45:26.

think that shows a real will. He is wanting to engage with the Scottish

:45:27.:45:31.

Government, adding to engage with Scotland to make sure... Why won't

:45:32.:45:35.

you say the sentence? I have confidence in Boris Johnson! Why

:45:36.:45:41.

won't you say it? I have confidence that like I have more confidence in

:45:42.:45:44.

him now that I have sat down with him than I had before. That's

:45:45.:45:49.

ambiguous! If you want to say and what happens in the Brexit

:45:50.:45:52.

negotiations, why shouldn't there be a formal sabre Nicola Sturgeon? Her

:45:53.:45:57.

party was elected as the government of Scotland. Your party wasn't. She

:45:58.:46:03.

might have some input but she does no right to say that some of the

:46:04.:46:07.

things you want M financial passport and has to be in the deal. As I

:46:08.:46:12.

said, there is a full acknowledgement from the UK

:46:13.:46:15.

Government 's that the consultation will go one with the Scottish

:46:16.:46:18.

Government. David Davis spoke to Nicola Sturgeon last night. He has

:46:19.:46:23.

already sat down with Mike Russell, the Minister Nicola Sturgeon has put

:46:24.:46:26.

in charge of the negotiations on behalf of the Scottish Government. I

:46:27.:46:29.

think there has to be an understanding that this was a UK

:46:30.:46:33.

wide vote. The UK is the member state. Foreign affairs is reserved

:46:34.:46:37.

to the UK. Even Nicola Sturgeon acknowledged that before the

:46:38.:46:40.

campaign because she was down in England is on TV debates in England

:46:41.:46:44.

speaking to people across the UK about the boat we were all taking

:46:45.:46:49.

part in. The bottom line here is, there is a bottom line here, if

:46:50.:46:56.

Theresa May's governments ignores your views on Brexit and what you

:46:57.:47:03.

would like to see and ignores the Scottish Government's views and

:47:04.:47:05.

implements Brexit, there is absolutely nothing, for example, if

:47:06.:47:10.

they implement the hard Brexit that Liam Fox once, there is absolutely

:47:11.:47:14.

nothing either you or Nicola Sturgeon can do about it. This is

:47:15.:47:19.

just blather. The prime minister has been clear about that just this

:47:20.:47:22.

morning, that she is not talking about a soft Brexit are hard Brexit

:47:23.:47:26.

but getting the best deal. That has to be a bespoke deal because this

:47:27.:47:30.

has never happened before. I country has never left the EU. We will be

:47:31.:47:33.

making sure it negotiations start from Britain's best interests. But

:47:34.:47:37.

this isn't about my will Nicola Sturgeon's will this is about the

:47:38.:47:42.

will of 17.5 million across the United Kingdom. I wasn't one of

:47:43.:47:46.

those people but there were 1 million people in Scotland were.

:47:47.:47:51.

Politicians have a choice. This is important. They have a choice to

:47:52.:47:55.

make. Even if it went against them, as it did with me. I was a strong

:47:56.:47:59.

supporter of the remaining campaign. You either go off and a half or try

:48:00.:48:02.

to make this work and implement the will of the people. I'm working hard

:48:03.:48:09.

to sit down with people from across the sectors, across Scotland, what

:48:10.:48:14.

they need and what they want out of the European Union. By making sure I

:48:15.:48:18.

am doing my darndest to make that happen. There are clearly very

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different views within the cabinets. Some, like Philip Hammond, or

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perhaps closer to your review. People Fox are not those to your

:48:30.:48:38.

view. You think Parliament should be given the decision, maybe not on

:48:39.:48:42.

Article 50 but at some point Parliament should have the right to

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say, we like Visteon we accept it or we don't? I will refer you back to

:48:48.:48:53.

the prime minister's interview this morning, when she started laying out

:48:54.:48:56.

the process that is involved and how Parliament is involved in that. The

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first of the repeal act that she unveiled today which shows the

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continuity that is going to happen after the day we do that. That gives

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stability to businesses. There will be other stages in this, too. I

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won't run through all of them today and we probably don't even know all

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of the stages. The idea that Parliament will be bypassed is a

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misnomer. As matters stand, if Parliament doesn't have a right to

:49:22.:49:25.

vote on the final package, if Liam Fox kept his way and is a hard

:49:26.:49:29.

Brexit, I know it's hypothetical but let's say there is, as matters

:49:30.:49:33.

stand, there is no formal process by which members of Parliament could

:49:34.:49:38.

vote against that. I think there also has to be an understanding that

:49:39.:49:43.

members of parliament voted by 6-1 to make this decision, the decision

:49:44.:49:50.

of the individual people of the UK. 6.5 million, more than in any other

:49:51.:49:53.

democratic lives were that we have ever had... I'm not suggesting

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Parliament should be able to overturn the referendum, but they

:49:58.:50:01.

should have the right to veto a final deal. If you were suggesting

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it is a yes or no, they could leave it, there is a suggestion you are

:50:08.:50:11.

saying that Parliament would be able to override the will of the UK

:50:12.:50:13.

people. Either that or I am misunderstanding the question. What

:50:14.:50:19.

I'm suggesting is if Liam Fox, for example, gets his way and we leave

:50:20.:50:24.

the EU and operate by WTO rules, this seems to be no point at which

:50:25.:50:27.

Parliament can say, we don't want bad, we agree with Ruth Davidson, we

:50:28.:50:32.

want is to have some relationship with the single market, to have some

:50:33.:50:34.

free movement of Labour. The like. The Minister has put that

:50:35.:50:48.

to one side. This will be a bespoke agreement that includes free

:50:49.:50:51.

movement of people and access to the single market and all of these

:50:52.:50:55.

issues that we will discuss that he has already stated on the record

:50:56.:50:58.

Julia and before today that there will be a role for parliament in

:50:59.:51:01.

that process. The first one that we talked about in terms of the

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timescale was... Did I misunderstand you, at you just said that to reason

:51:09.:51:11.

they made it clear that whatever agreement she comes to will include

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a free movement of labour? What I said was that negotiations will

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include the free movement of labour, they will include access to the free

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market, she said all of this this morning. On another subject, Damian

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Green the Work and Pensions Secretary announced that benefits

:51:30.:51:34.

retest for the chronically ill would be scrapped. Do you welcome that? I

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do, these are tests that were brought in and architected by the

:51:43.:51:45.

last Labour government who hired the company who is doing them, we have

:51:46.:51:49.

seen that there are significant problems with how they are carried

:51:50.:51:52.

out and personally I am pleased that when people have either degenerative

:51:53.:51:55.

conditions that they do not have to keep going back and we are able to

:51:56.:51:59.

make sure that there is medical grounds for that. Do you think they

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should follow-up by scrapping the Bedroom Tax? I think that is a

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decision for people in the other parts of the UK, obviously we have

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our own settlement here. Would you like to see them scrap the Bedroom

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Tax? I think there is a difference in terms of the way I would have

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done it if I had read them I would have got it in as a kind of late

:52:25.:52:28.

entry thing so it did not affect people who were already in the hole

:52:29.:52:31.

but for people who regulated goods to social housing because of course

:52:32.:52:36.

this already existed for housing benefits in private rented

:52:37.:52:38.

accommodation is so I would have though it's differently to how it

:52:39.:52:42.

was permitted. It does not exist in Scotland, if you support devolution

:52:43.:52:44.

you have to let people in other parts of the UK make their own

:52:45.:52:48.

decisions just as we expect to be able to make our own decisions here.

:52:49.:52:52.

There are big questions that we will be talking about in my speech about

:52:53.:52:56.

social justice, because there are lots of new powers over benefits and

:52:57.:52:59.

welfare coming to the Scottish Parliament, we will be doing a lot

:53:00.:53:01.

of discussion and investigation into how we can use them to help the most

:53:02.:53:07.

vulnerable in Scottish society. In publishing a paper today that shows

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some of the things we can already do with the powers we do have so it is

:53:12.:53:15.

not just topping about the symptoms of poverty... I understand what

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you're saying. You seem to be suggesting that he would quite like

:53:24.:53:27.

them to scrap the Bedroom Tax at least as it stands. What I'm seeing

:53:28.:53:32.

is I would have brought it in in a different way but it is a decision

:53:33.:53:36.

for people in other parts of the UK. I would like to talk about the paper

:53:37.:53:40.

we wanted, it is important that as an opposition we don't just say no

:53:41.:53:45.

to the government but that we also suggest improvements and

:53:46.:53:47.

alternatives. One of the things we're looking at is how we can

:53:48.:53:51.

intervene Elliott upstream to some of the big issues that cause poverty

:53:52.:53:55.

or vulnerability in our society, like addiction and family breakdown

:53:56.:53:58.

and how we can use the power of the Scottish Parliament already has two

:53:59.:54:04.

address that. We will let you get off. I am sure Boris John was to

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have copy the view now is that you have more confidence in him than you

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had before. Than ever before, yes. It could be a problem with

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the software or an administrative misunderstanding but either way it's

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causing farmers a lot of heartache. European Common Agricultural Policy

:54:18.:54:20.

payments in Scotland are in chaos leaving some without their

:54:21.:54:22.

subsidies, others with stop-gap loans and the Scottish Government

:54:23.:54:24.

in danger of facing a serious Joining me from our Inverness studio

:54:25.:54:26.

is the SNP MSP Stewart Stevenson, who sits on the Rural

:54:27.:54:33.

Economy Committee, Stewart Stevenson, you are supposed

:54:34.:54:52.

to pay money to farmers to the common agricultural policy and you

:54:53.:54:55.

make a mess of that and to compensate you give them loans as

:54:56.:54:59.

you make a mess of that. He could not make this up. The important

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point is that following the difficulties that have been with the

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IED system which have been acknowledged, that we put in place a

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way in which farmers can make sure they have money in the bank to keep

:55:14.:55:16.

their businesses going, and every single farmer has had the

:55:17.:55:22.

opportunity to take a loan. I believe a tiny handful have chosen

:55:23.:55:27.

not to. The bottom line is in the circumstances of the difficulties in

:55:28.:55:33.

the system, we have made sure that we have addressed the financial

:55:34.:55:37.

needs of farmers and nature that they have money to keep their

:55:38.:55:40.

businesses going. I think that is the right approach in these

:55:41.:55:43.

difficult circumstances, which the government has absolutely

:55:44.:55:49.

acknowledged stem from the IT system that we are responsible for. They

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are not responsible for computer glitches? This has been a shambles

:55:54.:55:59.

from start to finish, ten months on the still 576 farmers who have not

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been fully paid from last year, what we have got to understand is that

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even with giving a loan out for 80% of what they are entitled to hand

:56:12.:56:13.

the government said they will deliver it next month, that is one

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of before they should get all the money, so they will only get a loan

:56:19.:56:23.

of 80% next month, we must remember that 30% of farmers have an income

:56:24.:56:29.

of less than ?10,000 per year and with 80% of the subsidy, they are

:56:30.:56:34.

not getting ?6,000. That is a heck of a lot of money not to get when

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you are entitled to have it and there has been one disaster after

:56:41.:56:44.

another. I am astonished that this so-called computer glitch, it is

:56:45.:56:49.

costing ?117 million so far and it has been a complete shambles from

:56:50.:56:54.

beginning to end. What we want to do is call the government minister to

:56:55.:56:58.

Parliament next week and I will race is on the business bureau on

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Tuesday, with support from other business managers, to have him make

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a statement because we cannot have the system go on. Nobody is taking

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responsibility. It is about responsibility, isn't it? There are

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not huge numbers of people involved here and it is all very well saying

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it is a computer glitch but isn't it the responsibility of good

:57:19.:57:23.

government not to make excuses like that and to intervene where the

:57:24.:57:27.

problems emerge and to get it sorted out? Perhaps one can understand if

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it was a computer glitch this was all for just not paying the CAP

:57:31.:57:33.

payments but when you can't even make the loan payment which are

:57:34.:57:36.

supposed to replace the cap payment you can make, it is not good enough

:57:37.:57:42.

just to say it is all about technology. I am most certainly not

:57:43.:57:48.

saying it is all about technology and nor am I shedding the

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responsibility that there is for the IT system and its failure to work.

:57:52.:57:56.

The contractors have let the government down but ultimately the

:57:57.:57:59.

government has to address that, but let's be clear, there is money in

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every farmer's bank account from the Scottish Government. By the job of

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October we are expecting the last of the applications from farmers to the

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end and I think it is worth looking at what the National farmers union

:58:16.:58:18.

themselves said in the middle of September on the subject, they

:58:19.:58:25.

continued to say that it is unsatisfactory from the IT system

:58:26.:58:29.

and they said that the government has taken the action necessary to

:58:30.:58:34.

make sure that the rule economy is supported by money from the

:58:35.:58:37.

government and they have welcomed that. -- the rural economy. That is

:58:38.:58:42.

the right response when you have a difficult situation with our IT

:58:43.:58:45.

system that you nonetheless make sure that money is getting to

:58:46.:58:48.

farmers bank accounts and that is what the government has done.

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I take your point about the incomes of farmers, but we are topping about

:58:55.:58:59.

subsidies here and if people are getting 80% of what they would

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otherwise get, I mean OK, it might not be ideal but it is hardly that

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big a deal is it? It is a huge deal especially for the third of farmers

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whose income is less than ?10,000, and then not getting ?6,000. How

:59:15.:59:18.

many farmers are we talking about in that situation? One third of them,

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30% of the 80,000 so well over 6000 farmers. The point I'm here is this

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subsidy system is a ridiculous system we have at the moment, the

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average subsidy per farmer to farm business is ?31,000 on average. The

:59:36.:59:41.

farm income on average is ?23,000, sold most farmers actually make a

:59:42.:59:46.

loss and if they did not have the subsidy they would have a negative

:59:47.:59:52.

income. It is a ridiculous system. ?3 million goes to one farmer under

:59:53.:59:56.

the scheme, it is a stupid system and the person responsible is

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furnished viewing. -- Fergus Ewing. What is it you want Stewart

:00:04.:00:07.

Stevenson and his colleagues to do? You're complaining but what

:00:08.:00:11.

precisely what then to do? What I want them to do is make sure that

:00:12.:00:14.

the actual systems that they have run properly, but more importantly I

:00:15.:00:19.

have said several times to Fergus Ewing and Stewart on the committee

:00:20.:00:23.

as well has heard me say this, but what we should be doing is looking

:00:24.:00:28.

to renew the system. When we leave the EU the entire responsibility for

:00:29.:00:31.

this falls on Fergus Ewing's shoulders and they said to him in

:00:32.:00:36.

four years' time you will have the responsibility to pay this money out

:00:37.:00:39.

of farmers in subsidies and the subsidy system we have now is wrong.

:00:40.:00:43.

We have one farmer getting ?3 million in subsidies well one third

:00:44.:00:47.

of farmers are not less than ?10,000 that he will not do it. I have asked

:00:48.:00:53.

them to set up a committee of specialists to look at the options

:00:54.:00:57.

for the future and he is burying his head in the sand. This is indicative

:00:58.:01:01.

of the whole process we have seen with cap payments. It will go on to

:01:02.:01:08.

the future. You're shaking your head Stewart, presumably the Scottish

:01:09.:01:10.

Government will set up given Brexit and all the rest of it, you are

:01:11.:01:12.

going to set up the kind and all the rest of it, you are

:01:13.:01:15.

committee that my grumbles is calling on? You'll have to. 100 days

:01:16.:01:22.

after the Brexit forward we have no answers from the UK, and very little

:01:23.:01:26.

can proceed until we get some but what I'm hearing from Mike rumbles

:01:27.:01:31.

is an indication that he wants to abolish the subsidy system

:01:32.:01:33.

altogether. How on earth is that going to help those farmers who are

:01:34.:01:42.

under a living wage? What he is -- that is what he's saying and that is

:01:43.:01:44.

not what this government is doing what the government also doing is

:01:45.:01:48.

addressing the requirements of the large farmers... And failing. And

:01:49.:01:55.

ensuring the most active farmers get the money. I'm sorry to cut you off

:01:56.:01:58.

but we are pressed for time. Let's go back to our top story today

:01:59.:02:00.

and we're joined by the Scottish minister for Brexit

:02:01.:02:03.

negotiations, Mike Russell, Mike Russell, what do you make of

:02:04.:02:20.

these two announcements to has made today about the repeal legislation

:02:21.:02:24.

and triggering article 50 by March next year? Neither take as much

:02:25.:02:31.

further forward, there has to be read your legislation, it is the

:02:32.:02:34.

only way you could have done this and everyone has an honour for a

:02:35.:02:37.

while. The only question was the timing of the legislation.

:02:38.:02:39.

Repeatedly the UK Government has said that the first part of next

:02:40.:02:44.

year will have article 50, the reader may knows that March is in

:02:45.:02:48.

the first part of next year so that is not take as much further forward

:02:49.:02:51.

either. Do you feel from the discussions you have been having

:02:52.:02:57.

that you are any clearer as to what Brexit will actually mean? We have

:02:58.:03:00.

had Ruth Davidson of the programme talking about how she would like to

:03:01.:03:02.

see some relationship with the single market, she supported free

:03:03.:03:07.

movement of labour and she wants to see passport in for financial

:03:08.:03:11.

services. And he had any indication that any of these things are

:03:12.:03:18.

possible? Ruiz has become a born-again Brexit fan, she has

:03:19.:03:23.

kissed and made up with the Brexit is, and I do not think we are much

:03:24.:03:27.

further forward in terms of the port and issues for the people of

:03:28.:03:30.

Scotland in the area of outstanding now. We don't all about free

:03:31.:03:34.

movement of labour or the people who are here presently will be allowed

:03:35.:03:37.

to stay. That is a vitally important and could be decided today. That

:03:38.:03:40.

announcement should have come from the Tory party conference because it

:03:41.:03:44.

would have said some people's minds at rest. The Scottish Government is

:03:45.:03:47.

being clear about what it wants to see, what we are not hearing back

:03:48.:03:52.

any preferences but we are hearing a lot of things being rolled out by

:03:53.:03:58.

rumour and there have been a lot of worries about passports. That is

:03:59.:04:05.

vital for jobs in the private sector in Scotland. Today's announcers are

:04:06.:04:13.

designed to pacify the Tory right wing. There has been much

:04:14.:04:17.

consultation between the British and Scottish Government over Brexit and

:04:18.:04:21.

you have been involved in some of that but the fact is, or is it, do

:04:22.:04:27.

you have any formal rule? Do you have any ability to see on any

:04:28.:04:32.

issue, look, this is important for us the Scottish Government, that has

:04:33.:04:36.

to be part of any Brexit steel. Or do you feel that on anything you say

:04:37.:04:40.

that the British government will just say thank you very much real

:04:41.:04:46.

advice no thank you. We're too early to say definitively what the

:04:47.:04:49.

situation is. Those meetings are continuing and there is another

:04:50.:04:53.

plenary meeting this month. There is some small print in the government

:04:54.:04:56.

announcement today which seems to imply that we will be asked in the

:04:57.:04:59.

announcement today which seems to devolved administrations for the

:05:00.:05:02.

ideas and views, that is not consultation and is certainly not be

:05:03.:05:06.

to reason a full engagement and involvement that she promised. So we

:05:07.:05:10.

have to keep arguing for a pressing for an insisting upon the

:05:11.:05:12.

involvement of the Scottish Government and the other devolved

:05:13.:05:17.

administrations in the meat of these matters. What do you mean by that?

:05:18.:05:23.

That are clearly things that are fully devolved matters within

:05:24.:05:28.

Scotland, the fishing industry is one and agriculture as even talking

:05:29.:05:31.

about is another one, there are huge issues in education and the

:05:32.:05:35.

environment, issues that the Scottish Government deals with

:05:36.:05:37.

anti-Scottish ballad deals with. We have to make sure that we are

:05:38.:05:40.

involved in the negotiations of those matters, we can be a gushy. We

:05:41.:05:45.

are not hearing that so we have to have a structure up to Article 50

:05:46.:05:47.

that develops Are you saying you want to veto or

:05:48.:06:01.

that you won the Scottish Government to be involved in the act one

:06:02.:06:06.

negotiations with the EU? Well, there are issues which are issues

:06:07.:06:09.

for the Scottish Government and not issues with the UK Government. A

:06:10.:06:14.

piece of legislation such as what Theresa May is promising, this great

:06:15.:06:17.

repeal act, will require the approval of the Scottish Parliament.

:06:18.:06:21.

A legislative consent motion will be required. The Scottish Government,

:06:22.:06:26.

Scottish Parliament, has a formal role better. We need to make sure we

:06:27.:06:29.

are in there discussing these matters, because on what we are

:06:30.:06:34.

hearing so far, the matters of great importance, three movements, a whole

:06:35.:06:38.

range of matters on education and environment... It doesn't make me

:06:39.:06:43.

think our vital interests are being protected. Will you vote against the

:06:44.:06:49.

repeal bill in the Scottish Parliament? There is presently a

:06:50.:06:52.

majority against it. We have had three votes in the past three weeks

:06:53.:06:55.

on European matters and all have been in favour of the single market.

:06:56.:07:00.

And against what appears to be the current position of the hard

:07:01.:07:03.

Brexiteer 's who were pushing Theresa May is trying to force her

:07:04.:07:07.

into the camp. At the present moment, that would appear to be the

:07:08.:07:10.

case. Thank you very much for rushing to join us. Now it's time to

:07:11.:07:14.

look at what is coming up in the I'm joined by Andy Maciver,

:07:15.:07:19.

who is a former head of communications for

:07:20.:07:22.

the Conservatives, and is now Director of the PR

:07:23.:07:23.

firm Message Matters. And by the journalist and writer

:07:24.:07:25.

Katie Grant. There was great kerfuffle a few

:07:26.:07:39.

months ago when Nicola Sturgeon suggested that the Scottish

:07:40.:07:42.

Parliament could perhaps block Brexit by refusing to back a motion.

:07:43.:07:47.

From what Mike Russell suggested, it looks like this situation has arisen

:07:48.:07:51.

quicker than we thought. I thought it would be much more equivocal

:07:52.:07:55.

about bad. It's a very difficult situation to decide what to do about

:07:56.:07:59.

that particular motion. I'm not convinced that they actually well.

:08:00.:08:02.

It's a very delicate balance of them. He said they probably would.

:08:03.:08:09.

Yes, I'm quite surprised by that. I'm not sure that's what Nicola

:08:10.:08:12.

Sturgeon would've said. The delicate bouncers standing up for their

:08:13.:08:19.

interests, the interest of the voters, but also doing what appears

:08:20.:08:24.

to be the right thing by the UK. And helping the will of the UK people

:08:25.:08:29.

into practice. It's a difficult one. If Mike Russell does what Mike

:08:30.:08:36.

into practice. It's a difficult one. Russell as suggested, I'm sure the

:08:37.:08:40.

British Parliament can override that, but it is something of a

:08:41.:08:46.

concert usual crisis. If you got the Scottish Parliament saying, see that

:08:47.:08:52.

repeal bill? No. There would be a constitutional crisis and I don't

:08:53.:08:55.

know how it would be resolved, but the Scottish Government needs to

:08:56.:09:00.

remember that... I was voting remain but over 1 million Scots did vote to

:09:01.:09:05.

leave. They need to be aware of Scotland as a whole and not just of

:09:06.:09:09.

their... I know most Scots voted to remain, but we didn't buy every

:09:10.:09:17.

single Scot. The Scottish Government in these negotiations needs to

:09:18.:09:19.

represent the whole of Scotland are not just their own narrow interests.

:09:20.:09:27.

But they can say we're representing that they would say, you can never

:09:28.:09:31.

represent all the people, all the time, and over 60% voted to stay in

:09:32.:09:35.

the EU, so we are presenting the people of Scotland and not just SNP

:09:36.:09:40.

support. Is going to be very difficult because they will ban had

:09:41.:09:43.

to sell bad as somehow being a positive when it will look like a

:09:44.:09:48.

large negative. Everybody knows that we are in the UK and the UK voted to

:09:49.:09:54.

leave, so it is a difficult thing to sell. The Scottish rural and saying

:09:55.:09:58.

they're going to veto it and therefore what happens next? The

:09:59.:10:02.

race debate over whether the legislative consent motion is

:10:03.:10:06.

actually required. Some constitutional experts say it would

:10:07.:10:09.

not. It's worth noting that not everybody would agree that the

:10:10.:10:13.

legislative consent motion is required. You can sense of

:10:14.:10:18.

frustration. In a sense, I'm not sure if it's fair to say that David

:10:19.:10:19.

Davis looks but all this talk of how sure if it's fair to say that David

:10:20.:10:25.

she will be making sure Boris Johnson does this, that and the

:10:26.:10:27.

other and will stand up for Scotland. In a formal sense, neither

:10:28.:10:37.

the Scottish Government nor Ruth Davidson, nor indeed members of

:10:38.:10:39.

the Scottish Government nor Ruth Parliament, seem to have any formal

:10:40.:10:42.

role in this. If they have, we don't know what it is yet. I think the

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fact that we don't know what it is yet his person to the debate. Ruth

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Davidson has been a lot stronger than a lot of people in sticking to

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her guns as what you might call a soft Brexiteer. I think Mike Russell

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was probable quite unfair on her in saying she was a born-again

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Brexiteer. I Dabiq she is. -- I don't think she is. If anything, the

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soft- hard line which is unhelpful. It will be negotiation based on

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individual circumstances. The trouble is, it's all becoming a bit

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Clintonesque. Bill, not Hillary! It depends what you mean by social

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market. For example, on this issue of past voting or financial

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services, asset managers in Scotland, by having a business set

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up in one European union country, you're automatically allowed to do

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business in other. I have not heard any suggestion that it would be

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possible to keep that without, and let's get away from talking about

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what the supermarket means, but without accepting the European Court

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of Justice, free movement of Labour. I've never had any suggestion. It's

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a very confusing issue because is a difference between regulation and

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trade. The past porting issues regulation issues, not trade issues.

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Membership of the single market is also different from access to the

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civil market. In all of these discussions and debates that you

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see, it's very difficult to get into that level of detail and difficult

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to understand what is actually being sad. I'm not sure that's entirely as

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the case. I've seen some arguments that suggest that past porting is

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possible based on it being a regulatory issue, if the regulars

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re-routing in this country is exactly the same as in EU countries

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which it might be. On a slightly different subject, we are talking

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earlier about how Theresa May will want this party conference about the

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size that this is no longer the David Cameron government. This isn't

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the Bollington club running things any more. Do you think it's

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important for her to do that, because Labour will see, and they

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ran a party with a broadcast after their conferences week saying,

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actually, this is just the same old Tories. I think it will happen

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anyway. She has a different manner from David Cameron, she is a woman.

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Brexit, which is obviously a failure in some ways of David Cameron, is

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written all over the conference whatever she tries to say about

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domestic... And they've already said they will get rid of George Osborne.

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IDC has already made... It's a bit lame of Labour to say it's just a

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continuation of the same old, same old. It's clearly not. Nothing that

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Theresa May has done or said have looked like a continuation. I think

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that's a bit of a lame argument. I think her manner is also different.

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She's much more formal, is used to meet she speaks in a different way.

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She's not as Pali, there won't be so much chilling. Thank you both

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I'll be back at the same time next week.

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