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Morning folks. Welcome to the Sunday Politics. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Fears that Politics. | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
invasion escalate this morning as Russian forces take control of | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
invasion escalate this morning as Crimea. President Obama and his | :01:05. | :02:44. | |
invasion escalate this morning as taking no notice. This is now | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
turning into the worst stand-off between Russia and the West since | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
the conflict between Georgia and Russia in 2008, though nobody | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
expects any kind of military response from the West. Foreign | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
Secretary William Hague is on his way to Kiev this morning to show his | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
support for the new government, though how long it will survive is | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
another matter. We can speak to our correspondent David Stern, he's in | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
Kiev. As things look from Kiev, can we | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
take it they've lost Crimea, it is now in all essence under | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
take it they've lost Crimea, it is control? Yes, well for the moment, | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
take it they've lost Crimea, it is Ukrainians. They seem to be taking | :03:27. | :05:03. | |
more of a long-term gain. They are waiting for the figs's first move. | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
They are trying not to create any excuse that the Russians can stage | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
an even larger incursion into Crimea or elsewhere, for that matter. They | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
also seem to be trying to get international support. It should be | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
said, this is a new Government. It has only been installed this week. | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
They are trying to gain their footing. This is a major crisis | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
They have to count on the loyalty of the army they might have some | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
resistance from solders from the eastern part of the country | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
resistance from solders from the Russian speaking. They probably | :05:39. | :05:39. | |
could count Russian speaking. They probably | :05:40. | :07:22. | |
on historical feelings of Russia being an imperial force. | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
Joining me is MP Mark Field who sits on the security Security and | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
Intelligence Committee in the House of Commons. What should the western | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
response be to these events? I can understand why William Hague is | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
going to Kiev tomorrow to stand side by side whizz whoever's in charge. | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
They need to CEOP sit numbers and also President Putin. The truth is | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
we are all co significant fatries to also President Putin. The truth is | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
years ago may not be but the Kremlin's not | :08:01. | :09:43. | |
watching how we voted on the Syrian issue? In relation to Syria, it was | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
where is the western resolve here. The truth ask Putin's position is | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
considerably less strong. In diplomatic terms. He had a victory | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
in Syria in relation to chemical weapons and in relation to the | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
West's relationship with Iran. Putin is a vital inter locking figure | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
West's relationship with Iran. Putin demographic and economic terms, | :10:12. | :10:11. | |
Russia's in very deep trouble. The demographic and economic terms, | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
oil price started to fall to any degree, | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
oil price started to fall to any importance of mineral wealth and | :10:22. | :10:22. | |
exports for importance of mineral wealth and | :10:23. | :12:00. | |
whole appetite for the reforms politically and economically will be | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
closed very much within a matter of a short period of time. It has | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
longer term implications. Mark Field, thank you. | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
We're joined now by BBC News night's Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban. Is | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
there any prospect of a western military response? Clearly at the | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
moment, it is nil. The boat has sailed with the Crimean. It has been | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
per performed by Russian forces It is now | :12:37. | :14:19. | |
per performed by Russian forces It demonstrations, many extremists he | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
was unable to deal with that. Now we have the other side, if you like, | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
the Russian speakers, the other side of the fight, Russian nationalists | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
showing they can get away with unilateral action more or less with | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
impunity. The Ukrainian chiefs have been sacked. I think there are | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
considerable questions now as to whether Ukraine is falling apart | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
and, if that happens, we're into a Yugoslav-type situation which will | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
continue posing very serious questions for the EU and NATO | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
continue posing very serious months or years to come. | :15:00. | :16:39. | |
continue posing very serious entire Ukraine to come into the | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
Russian ambit. Barack Obama is saying this will not stand. He has a | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
90 minute conversation with Vladimir Putin and what is his response? I am | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
suspending my cooperation in the run-up to the Sochi Summit. What is | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
the EU doing? Nothing. There is nothing they can do and Putin knows | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
there are a series of lines that he is able to cross and get away with | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
it. Why should Berlin, London, Washington be surprised by the | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
strength of Vladimir Putin's reaction? It was never going to let | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
Ukraine just fall into the arms of the EU. That is the interesting | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
point. And the EU. That is the interesting | :17:21. | :18:58. | |
control their own budgets, ushering in free schools, focusing on | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
toughening exams and making them the core of the curriculum with less | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
coursework, and offering heads more discretion on tougher discipline. | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
And he is in a hurry to put all this in place. But has that shut out any | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
chance for a Labour Government to change it all themselves and do they | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
really want to? Any questions? Visiting a different school, first | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
in line to get a crack at that Visiting a different school, first | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
would-be Labour's third shadow education secretary since 2010, | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
Tristram Hunt. In post, he has not been taken about fine tuning | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
previous direct opposition been taken about fine tuning | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
schools and he has also suggested teachers in England would have to | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
schools and he has also suggested licensed under a Labour Government, | :19:39. | :21:16. | |
schools and he has also suggested look at a serious review of | :21:17. | :21:38. | |
accountability measures. That is really what ways on teachers every | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
single day. Actually they would look at restoring the possibility, for | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
example, of local councillors to be able to open schools. That seems | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
eminently sensible. If they are not going to move back from the free | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
schools and academies programme at the very least they need to say that | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
academy chains will be inspected because at the moment they are not. | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
Labour have balls in the air on education and are still throwing | :21:54. | :21:54. | |
around precise policy detail. There education and are still throwing | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
are areas that they could grab hold of and | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
are areas that they could grab hold the rounding of the people, | :22:00. | :21:59. | |
developing the rounding of the people, | :22:00. | :23:35. | |
vocational education, making sure that the forgotten 15% is properly | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
addressed in our education system. What we saw in your package was an | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
interesting description of how we have seen structural reforms in the | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
names of schools. Academies, free schools, all the rest of it. | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
International evidence is clear that it is the quality of leadership of | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
the headteachers and the it is the quality of leadership of | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
teaching in the classroom that transforms the prospects of young | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
people. Instead of tinkering around the names of schools, we focus on | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
teacher quality. Viewers will be shocked to note that this Government | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
approves of unqualified teachers in the classroom. | :24:09. | :26:04. | |
approves of unqualified teachers in free schools, I think, would only be | :26:05. | :26:06. | |
allowed where there is a shortage of places. That means that where there | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
is an excess of bad schools, parents will have no choice. They still have | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
to send their kids to bad schools. And we have to transform bad schools | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
and that was always the Labour way in Government. At the moment we just | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
have an insertion of new schools. Schools currently underperforming | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
are now underperforming even more. Children only have | :26:19. | :26:20. | |
are now underperforming even more. education. What about their time in | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
school? Our focus is on the leadership of the headteacher and | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
having quality teachers in the classroom. So they cannot set up new | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
better schools and they have to go to the bad schools. Tony Blair said | :26:28. | :26:28. | |
it should to the bad schools. Tony Blair said | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
set up new schools where they are dissatisfied with existing schools. | :26:32. | :26:31. | |
You are not saying that. dissatisfied with existing schools. | :26:32. | :28:14. | |
the solution to that? Making sure we share excellence among the existing | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
schools and making sure we have quality leadership in schools. Those | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
schools in Stoke-on-Trent are all academies. It is not a question only | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
of structure but of leadership. It is also a question of going back to | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
the responsibility of parents to make sure their kids are school | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
ready when they get to school. To make sure they are reading to their | :28:34. | :28:35. | |
children in the evening. We can t make sure they are reading to their | :28:36. | :30:34. | |
industry, the but also to get an apprenticeship at Jaguar Land | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
Rover, JCB, Rolls-Royce. That is why Ed Miliband's focus on the forgotten | :30:40. | :30:45. | |
15%, which we have just not seen from this Government, focusing on | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
technical and vocational pathways, is fundamental to Your headmaster | :30:49. | :31:09. | |
was guiles Slaughter. Was he a good teacher? | :31:10. | :32:53. | |
This is the top Sundaytimes school of the year. The school in derby | :32:54. | :33:06. | |
where this Government allowed unqualified teaching assist taints. | :33:07. | :33:09. | |
We had teachers who could barely speak English. That is because if | :33:10. | :33:12. | |
you have unqualified teachers you end up with a dangerous situation. | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
The problem with that school was not unqualified teachers. People were | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
running that school who were unfit to run a school. We have an issue | :33:23. | :33:26. | |
about discipline to run a school. We have an issue | :33:27. | :33:29. | |
management in some of our schools. Some of | :33:30. | :35:07. | |
management in some of our schools. don't want to do this, will you fire | :35:08. | :35:10. | |
them? It is not an unreasonable suggestion is that the teachers in | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
charge of our young people have qualifications to teach and inspire | :35:15. | :35:18. | |
our young people particularly when we face global competition from | :35:19. | :35:24. | |
Shanghai, Korea and so on. The head teacher of Brighton college finds | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
incredibly inspeechational teachers who don't' necessarily have a | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
teaching qualifications. It is a different skill to teach ten young | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
nice boys and girls in Brighton to teaches 20 or 30 quids with | :35:43. | :35:44. | |
challenging circumstances, teaches 20 or 30 quids with | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
ability. Being a teacher dining areas that are needed to feed | :35:50. | :37:26. | |
so many extra youngsters. More on that shortly. First, let's meet the | :37:27. | :37:29. | |
two politicians who'll be with me for the next 20 minutes. Annette | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
Brooke is the Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole, and | :37:33. | :37:35. | |
Penny Mordaunt is the Conservative MP for Portsmouth North. Let me ask | :37:36. | :37:54. | |
you about Mike Hancock. Do you agree with Nick Clegg's decision to | :37:55. | :38:01. | |
suspend him? I think Nick Clegg did the right thing when he had a | :38:02. | :38:07. | |
situation put before him and it is important that everything takes its | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
course and we don't make judgements in advance. | :38:12. | :39:44. | |
seat, maybe not hold onto a Cabinet post. In Mike Hancock's case, he has | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
also been ill, so I would have thought most people would have stood | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
down, not been in the limelight, let it be worked out, have the proper | :39:54. | :39:59. | |
investigation and court case and then concludes, and when people have | :40:00. | :40:06. | |
had a rest, come back into a front`line role if they are all | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
cleared. It is a bit odd that he has been so keen to still be there and | :40:12. | :40:18. | |
it is peculiar there is no candidate standing against him. What do you | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
think about Michael Fallon no point voting when they're being | :40:23. | :42:04. | |
ignored by local politicians. It has already been decided. The | :42:05. | :42:14. | |
government is not talking great things about us. Sometimes, people | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
feel we are leftovers of the community and no one is looking | :42:21. | :42:26. | |
after us, so we are here on a temporary vacation. But that's not | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
true. People have lived in for nine years with a family. | :42:31. | :42:33. | |
Now a group's been launched to try and encourage more of the estimated | :42:34. | :42:36. | |
two million EU migrants to register and vote. Roger Casale is the chair | :42:37. | :42:42. | |
of New Europeans and joins me now. How many people are we talking | :42:43. | :42:44. | |
about? democracy. Democracy works better if | :42:45. | :44:23. | |
all of those entitled to vote do so, and I appeal to the parties to do | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
more to engage European citizens in this country, to understand their | :44:29. | :44:34. | |
concerns and listen to them because there is a large number of votes up | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
for grabs, not just for the European elections, but for local elections. | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
3% of the electorate in the UK is made up of them. It does show how | :44:46. | :44:59. | |
things are changing when you have so many people who have taken advantage | :45:00. | :45:01. | |
of the free movement within has helped all political parties | :45:02. | :46:43. | |
have a greater reach. Liberal Democrats seem to be moving towards | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
this European election saying they are the party of in. We definitely | :46:48. | :46:57. | |
want to get people out to vote who do believe we should stay in. That | :46:58. | :47:06. | |
is a majority. I am concerned about the generally low turnout in | :47:07. | :47:12. | |
European elections. We are lucky if we get 34%. It's very low. We are | :47:13. | :47:24. | |
heading into an election. We are leaving an open goal for | :47:25. | :49:01. | |
to vote more. Feeling they have a stake in the community is something | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
that will encourage them to vote. They do have a big stake in this | :49:06. | :49:10. | |
community in Southampton. If we can get it right with this group, if we | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
can find a way to communicate with the EU citizens who feel more remote | :49:16. | :49:19. | |
with our democracy, we can get participation wider. | :49:20. | :49:26. | |
A free school lunch for every primary school pupil. It sounds like | :49:27. | :49:31. | |
a great idea that nobody could have reservations about. But as our | :49:32. | :49:33. | |
Dorset political reporter, Tristan Pascoe, has been finding out, there | :49:34. | :49:37. | |
are a few snags in the funding. Maybe there really is no such thing | :49:38. | :49:39. | |
as a free lunch. ticking. We are looking at less than | :49:40. | :51:23. | |
two terms. We are in favour but we need to get on with it. The | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
school's local authority in Bournemouth supports the idea but | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
the council says it is still awaiting further information as to | :51:34. | :51:37. | |
how it will all be funded. It says it is working out the capacity of | :51:38. | :51:42. | |
its schools to prepare and serve thousands of extra meals. In Paul, | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
the borough council says it is preparing for the impact of the | :51:47. | :51:50. | |
scheme being rolled out as best it can. One of the things is the | :51:51. | :51:57. | |
arrangements over mealtimes for children because we don't have the | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
capacity to set them all at the same time. It | :52:03. | :53:39. | |
additional morale `` additional equipment in staff. Those tables | :53:40. | :53:51. | |
cost ?2000 a pop! This seat six. Is there any regret this promise was | :53:52. | :53:58. | |
made? This is a policy which takes so many boxes colon health, `` boxes | :53:59. | :54:10. | |
colon health. All of those things are incredibly important. It is | :54:11. | :54:18. | |
really important that pilot studies have shown the benefits | :54:19. | :55:58. | |
But I would say, let's look at the procurement of this. Those tables, | :55:59. | :56:01. | |
dishwashers, let's have a sensible approach to buying in kit for | :56:02. | :56:08. | |
schools. Things can always be done better. We have got a few months and | :56:09. | :56:16. | |
everyone is settled on the fact this is a good idea. We have got to make | :56:17. | :56:22. | |
happen. Asked as local MPs and councillors are there to facilitate | :56:23. | :56:25. | |
that. If people aren't getting the money, we will get Michael Gove and | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
a pincer movement! The pilots show In gender balanced terms, should we | :56:33. | :58:17. | |
be doing this as well? It is true. It's really important you have role | :58:18. | :58:26. | |
models. Pupils need to relate to family. Recycled clothes, I can | :58:27. | :58:33. | |
think of some clothes of yours that might end up getting recycled! I am | :58:34. | :58:42. | |
thinking of a swimsuit? I can't watch this! Did it take a while to | :58:43. | :58:53. | |
get over that? Was it painful? Emotionally, | :58:54. | :00:41. | |
Aspiration's always been our core value. About helping people get on | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
with life. Giving people ladders of opportunity. That's why our symbol | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
must reflect our opportunity. That's why our symbol | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
aspiration and why I'm calling for our symbol to be changed from a tree | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
to a ladder which symbolises social mobility and stands up for | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
everything conservatism represents. I like an he will fanned, an animal | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
that never forgets. We're the only party | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
that never forgets. We're the only life was like before the NHS and | :01:16. | :02:54. | |
that never forgets. We're the only went to privilege rather than earned | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
income. Rebranding is not enough. The one question the modernisers | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
never asked themselves when they took party ten years ago is the | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
thing we know as the Conservative Party, salvageable as a brand? I'm | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
beginning to think it isn't. If you look at all public opinion research, | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
there are lots of people in this contrary with Conservative views. | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
They won't vote Tory or contemplate the possibility of voting Tory. Can | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
we get over the electoral problems by relaunching as a different | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
we get over the electoral problems pro-business, pro-worker party. | :03:34. | :05:13. | |
we get over the electoral problems Manchester. They have this terrible | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
problem. You're right for them to pick up on the five Etonians writing | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
their manifesto. David Cameron sir rounding himself with his own. He | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
doesn't have to do that. I seas things like isn't Robert Halpen | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
great. He decides and has his own. He has some more slightly common | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
people from St Paul's! One of the ways the Conservatives | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
people from St Paul's! One of the broaden their appeal is the tougher | :05:49. | :05:48. | |
line on immigration. broaden their appeal is the tougher | :05:49. | :07:35. | |
about it. Immigration, even if they were meeting the target, I don't | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
think the public would believe it. It is like crime a few years ago, | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
the crime rates had been declining for the best part of 20 years but | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
the fear of crime remains high. There's such a degree of cynicism | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
that regardless of your administrative record in Government, | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
the public will remain hostile to you. This is where Nigel Farage can | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
be potent. He said it is not about numbers. It is about | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
be potent. He said it is not about is about people seeing | :08:08. | :09:51. | |
come in until their economies grow. That's future accession states. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
That's Turkey in ten years' time It is causing divisions with the | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
coalition. She's bashing Vince Cable. You often see Liberal | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
Democrats bashing the Tories. You don't often see a Tory minister bash | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
Vince Cable. She does on the immigration figures. He thought they | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
were good news. Last week, Vince responded to the news by saying it | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
was a policy he was happy for the gift to flunk. The problem was going | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
for a cap. There are six moving parts. UK citizens leaving, | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
for a cap. There are six moving back. EU citizens leaving and coming | :10:27. | :12:14. | |
whether this has worked. It has been described as an historic moment and | :12:15. | :12:24. | |
incremental of what John did. The trade union block voters disappeared | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
a long time ago. They still have 50% of the vote. But 2,000 of union | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
members voting for this guy has gone. It is a reform from 20 years | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
ago. Welcome but not historic. Ed Miliband's stored up trouble. Len | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
McCluskey wants a million new homes | :12:48. | :14:31. |