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Here we are on Westminster Green. The Shadow Foreign Secretary has | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
been sacked. The Shadow Cabinet is resigning at the rate of one an hour | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
this morning. Is it all over for Mr Corbyn? Not at all. Jeremy isn't | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
going anywhere. He was elected nine months ago. The biggest mandate of | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
any political leader in our country and he isn't going anywhere. What | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
does he do if half the Cabinet will walk out on him today? He will | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
replace them. What is so disappointing in this is that we | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
have no government at the moment. Those promises that were made in the | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
referendum have been reneges upon almost on an hourly basis. The | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
country is in a difficult position now is the time for the opposition | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
to hold together. Hilary Benn says Mr Corbyn is not the leader and you | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
cannot win an election with him. I think they should calm down and | :01:21. | :02:03. | |
listen to their members. Who trust polls any more? I have seen polls | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
saying we are on the path for victory. Calm down and | :02:07. | :02:36. | |
And the confidence of the Parliamentary Labour Party? People | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
who are softer or party members. I am saying to all members of the | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
Shadow Cabinet, respect the wishes of the members. In that way, we can | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
hold together and win the next election. This is all about one of | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
the basic principles of our party, solidarity. The membership may not | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
be representative of the wider Labour family in terms of labour | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
voters. Labour voters on Thursday did not listen to Jeremy Corbyn or | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
the wider membership? That is true. We argued in the campaign that we | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
should campaign for remain and reform. We lost by a close margin. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
Hilary Benn was the leader in the Shadow Cabinet of that campaign. We | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
did everything to support it but we lost. We have to respect that. It | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
does not mean that those people who voted to leave the European Union | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
will translate that Broad against Labour in the future. Every | :03:35. | :03:35. | |
electoral test Jeremy Corbyn has faced he has one. Apart from the | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
referendum. That was on pole at -- one issue, it was not party | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
political. Jeremy was told he has to deliver two things, Labour voters | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
and young people. Seven out of ten Labour voters voted for Remain. He | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
delivered. Take London out of that and remember the fact that young | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
people did not vote mate in large numbers and it can hardly be a | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
success. If he's going to fight back, how does he do it today. I | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
have heard to Michael Moore Shadow ministers resigning before we came | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
on air. How does he do it? He puts forward the policy programme that we | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
need to negotiate a better deal with Europe on. He shows leadership in | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
that way, which is doing, and he mobilises the membership to go to | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
the Labour supporters to back that programme. We have got to listen to | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
the Labour supporters that did not Broad for the remain campaign and | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
listen to their views. Lots of that is about communities being left | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
behind, the issue he has been highlighting for the last decade. | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Does anyone like to Jeremy Corbyn for a lead on this no? 24 hours ago, | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
maybe more, he was saying we should trigger Article 50 immediately, but | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
within 12 hours, he was saying, maybe we should not do that? What we | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
want to know is what the deal will be with Europe. What Jeremy will be | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
doing with the rest of the Labour Party, the rank and file in | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
particular, is shaping that the land campaigning around it. We will be | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
hoping that in the absence of government leadership we will be | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
able to get the best deal we can. Our relationship with the European | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
leaders, and social and democratic parties, has been enhanced by | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
Jeremy's leadership. We think we can negotiate a better deal than this | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
government. What would you say to any shadow ministers watching who | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
are thinking of following in the foot steps of Hilary Benn, resigning | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
and triggering a leadership crisis? I know how disappointed people are | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
at the loss of the European referendum but now is the time that | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
we hold together. There is no government in place. We've got to | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
provide that leadership. Listen to your party members who voted in | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
overwhelming numbers for Jeremy nine months ago. Solidarity is key. Some | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
people have been telling us that you have been on leadership movers. No. | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
I will never stand for leadership of the Labour Party. If Jeremy stands | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
for another leadership election I will cheer his campaign. I think the | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
party members will like him again. It is unnecessary. The next few | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
months are key for the Labour Party. We can lead the country but we need | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
to hold together. If Jeremy Corbyn was to fall on his sword tomorrow... | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
He is not. You would not stand? He is not. And any circumstances would | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
you stand as leader of the Labour Party? Jeremy is not falling on his | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
sword. He is not going anywhere, and if you did, I would not be standing. | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
Let's be clear, he is not going anywhere. Over the last 48 hours, on | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
-- over 200,000 people have signed a petition to support Jeremy Corbyn. | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
His new style of caring, compassionate, honest politics, I | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
think it has a grip in the country. As a result, we have one on every | :07:10. | :07:18. | |
electoral test on it comes to a party campaign and we will do it at | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
the next general election -- the next general election. Why has part | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
of your shadow team been going around Labour MPs canvassing support | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
for John McDonnell to be leader? She has not. I am told she has. She has | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
not, but if she has, let me make this clear, she has not spoken to me | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
about this. I am not standing as leader of the Labour Party. She is | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
part of my team, as a loyal supporter of Jeremy, and has been | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
until now. If she's phoning around, I think that is wrong. I think it is | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
disinformation. I do not want to blame the media for this. Some in | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
the party have tried to divide and rule all the time. It is never going | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
to happen. Jeremy and I have been close friends for 30 years, the best | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
political allies. I will always have his back. If he has to stand for | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
another leadership election, I will be his campaign manager. If he does | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
not stand again, there are no circumstances in which you would | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
stand for leader of the Labour Party? Norway. He is going nowhere. | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
You have said that, I am not arguing. I am not standing and he is | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
not going. He was elected with an overwhelming mandate. So your | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
colleague, if she's doing it, she should stop? She is not. She would | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
not do it without asking me. She is wasting her time? She would not do | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
it without asking me, it is a myth. Propaganda against us. I wonder | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
where that would come from? John McDonnell, thank you for being with | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
us. Thank you to Andrew Marr. This is now the Sunday Politics, coming | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
live from Westminster. The sun is now coming out, and what a week, | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
what a date has been in politics, from the moment the referendum | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
result was confirmed, events have leapt forward at an alarming speed. | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
Ellie Price has been watching it unfolds. The British people have | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
spoken and the answer is we are out. It is a victory for ordinary people, | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
decent people, it is a victory against the big merchant banks, | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
against big businesses and against big politics. I will do everything I | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
can as Prime Minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
months. But I do not think it would be right for me to try and be the | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
captain that steers our country to its next destination. We are well | :09:56. | :10:05. | |
prepared for this. Her Majesty's Treasury and the Bank of England | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
have engaged extensive contingency planning and the Chancellor and I | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
have remained in close contact, including through the night at this | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
point. I am fully aware of how this series and dramatic this moment is | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
politically. There is no way of predicting all the political | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
consequences of this event. Especially for the UK. It is a | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
significant and material change in circumstances, and it is therefore a | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
statement of the obvious that the option of a second referendum must | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
be on the table. It is on the table. It was the morning that changed | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
everything. But the day belonged to the Leave campaign, even if not | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
everyone agreed. Shame on you, Boris, you are a parasite. The man | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
who could well be next try minister made a victory speech with a | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
conciliatory tone. To those who may be anxious, at home or abroad, this | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
does not mean that the United Kingdom would be in anyway less | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
united. Nor does it mean it would be any less European. I want to speak | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
to the millions of people, directly to the millions of people, who did | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
not thought for this outcome. Especially young people. You may | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
feel that this decision in some way involves pulling up a drawbridge, or | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
any kind of isolationism, because I think the very opposite. Whoever | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
becomes the new Conservative leader will have to find a way of dealing | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
with the opposites in their own party. The morning after the night | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
before, Tory MPs insisted they were already looking forward. I am not | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
really interested in the sense that the deep Windsor in the real world. | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
I am not interested in the party. For the first time since the 1970s I | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
have seen people speak in a way that I had not seen in the last 40 years, | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
Colin, get these immigrants out, calling me a traitor. I have never | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
seen such unpleasantness unleashed. We have got to heal. That is where | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
we have got to do the work, the restoration we have to do. Is this | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
the moment the Conservatives stop banging on about Europe? I suppose | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
it might be. Do you fancy yourself as leader? I am not going to make | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
any decision about that until we have rested over the weekend, we | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
have had a chance to speak to colleagues. I would not rule | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
anything out. Only of my colleagues thought there was a chance of | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
reaching over from that Leave side to the other side of the party in | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
what would be a healing process. I hope you have a woman in the final | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
two. It is important in 21st century Britain. Whether it is near one of | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
my brilliant female colleagues, that will be for the party to decide. | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
Plenty of talk about the future of the Tory leadership at Westminster. | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
They will be a meeting on Monday of the influential backbench 1922 | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Committee to discuss that. It will not be the only meeting of MPs. The | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
Parliamentary Labour Party will be having a catch up with Jeremy | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
Corbyn. That can often be acrimonious and Mandy could | :13:25. | :13:41. | |
be the most acrimonious yet. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn watched on when | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
David Cameron resigned, but his leadership was called into question | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
by some of his own MPs. He should not escape the result, they say and | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
there may be a motion of no-confidence. If we have the | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
prospect of an early general election, these are serious times, | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
and we have to make sure that we have leadership that can a chance of | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
reaching beyond our corner. It is not clear that are currently the | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
ship can even mobilise our core support, looking at the results we | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
have had so far. Yesterday Jeremy Corbyn sought to confront is | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
critics, announcing a review of the party's immigration policy and | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
answering questions about his leadership. If there is a leadership | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
contest, William and again? Yes, I am here, thank you. | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
APPLAUSE I ran a campaign which travelled the | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
length and breadth of this country. I pointed out there were | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
difficulties with the European Union, that is obvious, but I also | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
pointed out that we would achieve better social protections, better | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
levels of employment, investment, in my view, if we remained part of the | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
European Union. It was not enough. This morning that Shadow Foreign | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
Secretary, Hilary Benn, was sacked by Jeremy Corbyn, after plans | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
emerged to coordinate front bench resignations. After that the Shadow | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
Health Secretary, Heidi Alexander, resigned. It is understood up to | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
have the Shadow Cabinet could follow. The ripple effect of the | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
referendum result is still being felt. Westminster may look the same | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
on the outside, but politics here has changed forever. Our panel of | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
the best and the brightest are here to help this page as the events of | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
the last few days. I think the got the referendum along -- wrong. | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
Isabel Oakeshott, Janan Ganesh, Helen Lewis. Let's start with | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
Labour, the breaking story this morning. Hilary Benn fired, Shadow | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
Cabinet ministers resigning. John McDonnell telling me that Jeremy | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
Corbyn will fight on and that he is never going to be a candidate for | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
the Labour leadership. Reaction. It is fair to say there is scepticism | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
among Labour MPs about the words of John McDonnell. This has been | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
brewing since the referendum result came in. Labour MPs feel the Jeremy | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
Corbyn's heart was not in the campaign. They feel they are in tune | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
with Labour activists, not necessarily Labour voters. They are | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
very pro -- EU. They want to act before the national executive | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
committee may change the rules. There is a possibility that if there | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
is another leadership election it will not be automatic that Jeremy | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
Corbyn to get on the ballot. The Kubot came there. If Jeremy Corbyn | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
is going to fight on but is facing the resignation of up to 50% of his | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
Shadow Cabinet today, we do not know, some have gone, how does he | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
fight on? With great difficulty. By Monday you could end up in a | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
scenario where Jeremy Corbyn cannot populate his Shadow Cabinet and the | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
second year shadow ministerial positions. If you cannot deliver the | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
numbers to form a viable opposition it becomes difficult for him to | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
remain. During my lifetime the two great political parties have taken | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
it in turn to meltdown. Labour did it in the 1980s, the Tories did it | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
in early 2000. It is unprecedented to have both melting down at the | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
same time. The implications for government are obvious. John Kerry | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
is visiting soon. It is a measure of how noticed across the world our | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
disorder in public life is at the moment. The referendum has been a | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
massive international story, not just a European one. John McDonnell | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
says there are plenty of other Labour MPs ready to join the Shadow | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Cabinet and Jeremy Corbyn has the support of the membership. Clearly | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
Jeremy Corbyn thinks he can brazen it out. The big question is what is | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
Tom Watson going to do, his deputy? He is a big figure within the party. | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
He is trying to make his way back from Glastonbury. It looks like his | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
mobile phone is about to run out of juice. Here's a couple of hours to | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
wait until he can get the train back. Total pandemonium. On any | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
other day, this meltdown in the Labour Party would be the biggest | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Tory, but to a lot of people today, it feels like a sideshow to the key | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
question is, what happens after Brexit and two will be the next | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
Prime Minister? Who will be the next Prime Minister? | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
I think he would be a fool to make a prediction. It is hard to see | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
someone being able to come from relative obscurity as David Cameron | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
did, in order to join the front rank of politicians. The question really | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
is if everyone gets behind someone like Theresa May, because she is | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
seen as the only viable big beast who could take on Boris. Norris was | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
the face of the winning side. There will be a stop Boris candidates, I'm | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
sure, among MPs. Is that Theresa May? I'm flattered you're still | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
interested in my opinion, having got the prediction on the referendum so | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
horribly wrong. I don't see how a country which has just voted to | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
leave the European Union can have a Prime Minister who believes it is a | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
bad idea because the Prime Minister has to negotiate the terms of exit. | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
I would say the Prime Minister, chancel and Foreign Secretary all | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
have to be committed believers now. They have all got to be on the same | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
page. That is almost certainly right, isn't it? Yes, I always | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
thought Boris would be a shoo-in particularly with the accelerated | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
timetable the Prime Minister has given this leadership contest. I am | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
having a moment of doubt as to whether Boris is a shoo-in. It is | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
strange that in the last 24 hours he doesn't seem to have been on | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
manoeuvres like so many of his colleagues. He has been flat-footed, | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
we haven't seen much of him, and already we have seen quite strong | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
signs of a backlash against Boris. I wouldn't say he is a shoo-in. But if | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
it comes down to the final two, and goes to the country, he wins, does | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
he not? All of the polling suggests he is wildly popular with the | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
members, however that breaks down in an interesting way. He's incredibly | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
popular when you want to say who do you have a beer with? During a | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
national crisis, he scores less well and people might feel this is a time | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
of national crisis but he's very hard to beat among the membership. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
We thought we would get a rest after the referendum, that is never going | :20:39. | :20:39. | |
to happen. You may currently be | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
unfamiliar with Article 50 You won't be alone, with half | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
the civil service scrabbling to read It is actually an amendment to the | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Treaty of Maastricht. But given it's the key that | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
unlocks our membership of the European Union, | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
chances are we will all become very familiar with it over | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
the next months and years. The UK will be the first country | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
to trigger Article 50, and it has been left deliberately | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
vague so that each member state can decide how | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
and when it wants to leave. As soon as it is invoked, | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
it opens a two-year window However, David Cameron has | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
effectively paused the process until the Conservative leadership | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
contest is over. Once Article 50 is invoked, | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
the terms of negotiations will be set by our 27 counterparts | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
in the European Commission. What will be the substance | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
of the talks? Our budget contributions will be | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
discussed, as will transition arrangements for expats | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
and cross-border companies. It is also likely to cover how EU | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
financial programmes in the UK are phased out, | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
and whether there should be transitional arrangements and rights | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
conferred by the EU, But a new trade deal would have | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
to be arranged separately, could take significantly longer, | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
and will require ratification from each of the 27 | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
national parliaments. Once a British exit deal has been | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
hammered out, it will be put to the European Council | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
and will need support from a qualified majority, | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
at least 20 of the 27 members, If a deal is reached, | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
it will then be subject to a vote If a deal cannot be reached, | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
the two-year period can be extended, but only through a unanimous vote | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
of the council. There we are, much more of that to | :22:35. | :22:44. | |
come in the weeks ahead. Earlier I spoke to the former | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
Labour Prime Minister, Tony Blair. I began by asking him if he accepted | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
Thursday's result that we are now out of the European Union | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
for the forseeable future. I accept the result was to get out | :22:55. | :23:05. | |
of Europe, that is clear. What do we do now? What I also think is that we | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
have got to be very careful now to take our time and work out what the | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
consequences are of exit and what our new relationship with Europe | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
will be. Here is where I think it is important we don't rush this | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
process, there is no need to rush it. I think in the next two or three | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
months, the present by Minister has got an important role to play in | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
shaping how that negotiating framework will proceed, and I think | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
it is important for the country to see what are the actual | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
consequences. What's the reality of leaving, and what possible options | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
are there for new relationships. The leaders of Europe, including | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
President Jean-Claude Juncker, have said there is no point waiting, just | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
apply for Article 15 out, start the process, let's get on with it. What | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
do you say to that? I understand their frustration and dismay at the | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
result in Britain but it is not in the interests of Europe or Britain | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
to rush this. We are dealing with vast consequences, and we have got | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
to take it very carefully. I have worked very closely with Angela | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Merkel, I know her very well. She is a very sensible person. I mean, she | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
has those good German qualities of practical common sense and realism, | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
and she will want to do this, I think, in a way that gets the best | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
for Europe and indeed for Britain because people want to retain that | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
relationship with Britain. I don't know how much room for manoeuvre | :24:42. | :24:52. | |
these people that have led the Leave campaign have. But I think they also | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
have a big responsibility to help our country get itself through what | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
is going to be an agonising and highly complicated process of | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
defining a new relationship with Europe. The odd thing about this | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
referendum, when you think about it, it's like saying to someone, right, | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
you are going to swap your house. You know where you live but you will | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
swap it for another house. And right now, we can give you two people, you | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
cannot see that the house but we can give you two people who tell you | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
what they think. One says this house will be fantastic, great for you, | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
and the other says this house is structurally on sound, you will hate | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
it. We have taken the decision to swap homes, if you like, without | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
having seen what the other thing looks like. Over this period of | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
time, we will see what it looks like. We will then get right into | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
the detail because the detail matters. For example financial | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
services, if we don't have the EU passport for our financial services, | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
what does that mean for the City of London? You could get thousands of | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
jobs going so how do you preserve it? What does the car industry do? | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
We have hundreds of thousands of jobs dependent on it. I think the | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
detail will really matter and we need to take our time over this so | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
that the country also carries on being engaged in a debate about what | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
this really means. But what would you advise Boris Johnson and Michael | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Gove to go for in terms of the overall relationship? The details | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
will take a long while, I understand that, but broadly what kind of | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
relationship would you advise them to have going forward? I think one | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
that preserves as much as we can of our access to the market in Europe | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
because that is essential, I mean half of our trade is with Europe, | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
but secondly which allows us at least some decisions that will be | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
made that have a direct bearing on Britain. One of the things that so | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
curious about this whole process is that we are an independent country, | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
we are an independent country now. I say to people, I think the ten years | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
I had as by Minister, I cannot think of a single decision that Europe | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
said to me I had to make or I couldn't make other than those to do | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
with Europe specifically. We will now be in this new relationship with | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Europe, we have got to work out what is in our interests. We have got to | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
understand something as well, I think it is very important about | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
where the country is today. I think it is deeply divided. The Leave camp | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
won, but 48% voted Remain. I think there was a lot of dismay and anger | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
among that 48%. I think a lot of young people particularly feel their | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
future has been changed in a way they profoundly disagree with. And | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
so, if there is a desire in the Leave camp to try to bring the | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
country back together, if there is a maturity there in the politics of | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
Leave, we have also got to show a majority for the politics of Remain | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
and work out how we do this best for the country but that argues for a | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
negotiating process which allows the country at every stage to see, this | :28:15. | :28:23. | |
is the reality. It is no longer about claims and counterclaims. Do | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
you rule out another referendum? As I'm looking at it here, I can't see | :28:31. | :28:38. | |
how we would do that. You will have a reality to test yourself against. | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
For example, in the last few days there has been this vast crash in | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
the financial markets, something like $3 trillion has been wiped out | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
financial markets globally, the pound has obviously fallen | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
dramatically, but maybe studies itself in the days to come. The | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
British people and the Europeans need to see that reality. Maybe as | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
we get into it, there are companies that say, we are perfectly happy, we | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
can live with the new arrangement, others say, we can't. If we finally | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
see the structure, what is in the new house, we see the house we will | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
now move into outside the EU, should that go for a referendum? As I say, | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
I cannot see how you would go through the mechanics of another | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
referendum now, but on the other hand there will be a lot of people | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
in the country that say, let's have a look at this. Parliament will want | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
to look at it. Remember, the one thing, again what was strange and | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
unsatisfactory about the referendum campaign is the devil really is in | :29:46. | :29:48. | |
the detail with this. I was trying to say to people, if you are | :29:49. | :29:51. | |
deciding whether to join the European Union, that is one kind of | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
debate, but when you are deciding whether to leave after four decades | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
of membership, with intricate relationships, we need to see that. | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
We need to see for example who will win that battle in French politics | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
between those who say the border should go back to Dover now or the | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
border will stay in Calais. All of these things I think are low us now | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
to be, now we are going to see the new home, now we will look at it and | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
test it, we will be going round it, we will be seeing what it really | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
means. And so in a sense, what I'm saying is we have a divided country | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
but I think there is the possibility of bringing people back together if | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
we are sensible about it and don't let our dismay on either side of | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
this argument get the better of our judgment. Why did Remain lose? I | :30:47. | :30:55. | |
don't think that is very hard to work out. You could buy the wake of | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
this type of referendum anywhere in Europe at the moment and you would | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
have the potential for the result to be the same. One of the things I | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
think is important for us as we go into this European negotiation, it | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
is Europe can take one of two views. They can say, get out as fast as | :31:15. | :31:20. | |
possible. The other thing they could do and maybe they should do when | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
they reflect about it, if we approach this negotiation sensibly, | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
is to think the British had their referendum but actually we have the | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
same strains of opinion and the same anxieties in our own countries, | :31:34. | :31:38. | |
let's think about how we deal with those and let's not look upon the | :31:39. | :31:46. | |
Brits as outliers. They were always difficult in Europe, now we have got | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
rid of the difficult people. No, every country is anxious about the | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
effect of globalisation on jobs and so on. I think it is not hard to see | :31:56. | :32:03. | |
why Leave won. Personally I think it is a very serious mistake for us but | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
there it is. It's not hard to see how they win. You still haven't told | :32:08. | :32:16. | |
me why they won. Because when you take a dissatisfaction with the | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
status quo politically and anxiety about flat-lining incomes, worries | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
about immigration particularly, and immigration has always been... Let's | :32:25. | :32:33. | |
be very clear, you and I go back 30, 40 years. Immigration has always | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
been an issue. Where you mobilise opinion around it, particularly when | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
the British media are prepared to take your platform and run with it, | :32:42. | :32:47. | |
a referendum in those circumstances is going to be a tough thing. But | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
immigration has never been bigger and a lot of the British people felt | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
not so much about the numbers coming in, as it is very well for these | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
politicians to let the people in but they are not building the schools | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
and hospitals. They are not building the public services that we need if | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
these numbers are to go and they felt the British political elite on | :33:12. | :33:14. | |
the left and right were not listening to them and they may have | :33:15. | :33:15. | |
been right. I thought my last election campaign | :33:16. | :33:25. | |
on immigration. I know what a strong issue it is. But the answer to the | :33:26. | :33:28. | |
problems and the pressures from Eastern Europe in particular, | :33:29. | :33:32. | |
because I think the Eastern European is make a good contribution to this | :33:33. | :33:36. | |
country. You did not build the houses for them coming in, neither | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
did the last Labour government, and this government has not built | :33:42. | :33:44. | |
enough? That was the reaction. I would suggest it is also why the | :33:45. | :33:48. | |
Labour Party could not mobilise its vote for a massive turnout for movie | :33:49. | :34:07. | |
Mac. -- Remain. You were the man that made the Labour Party love the | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
EU. That is true. We invested massively in these communities, in | :34:13. | :34:15. | |
education and health care care particularly. What not in housing? | :34:16. | :34:21. | |
Housing is a real issue. We have to take it seriously. The right way to | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
deal with it is to have a housing policy for the population as a | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
whole. The other thing about immigration, it all gets lumped | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
together. I think a lot of people's anxieties about immigration were not | :34:37. | :34:39. | |
centred around those from Europe of those from outside Europe, however, | :34:40. | :34:44. | |
I do except there were communities, and when people see their | :34:45. | :34:47. | |
communities changing around them as a result of an influx of people, you | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
have got to deal with that. Yes, I agree, but the answer is not to get | :34:54. | :34:57. | |
out of Europe. Would your side perhaps have won if Labour had not | :34:58. | :35:02. | |
fought such a half hearted campaign? I have made my comments on the | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
campaign. What is important for us is to make sure that our own people | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
understand why we were so passionate about staying in Europe. None of the | :35:13. | :35:18. | |
problems that our voters face, problems and pressures on housing, | :35:19. | :35:23. | |
jobs, health care, education, they will might be resolved by leaving | :35:24. | :35:26. | |
Europe. One of the things that will also happen over the months to come | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
is that as this reality, I keep seeing, now you can test this by | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
reality, as that sinks in, there will be lots of Labour voters that | :35:37. | :35:41. | |
realised this was not a smart move that the country has made. This | :35:42. | :35:45. | |
morning, after the sacking of Hilary Benn, a prominent supporter of movie | :35:46. | :35:52. | |
Mike -- Remain in the Shadow Cabinet, there seems to be amounting | :35:53. | :35:56. | |
to inside the Parliamentary Labour Party against Jeremy Corbyn. Should | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
there be at two? I was coming on this programme to talk about Europe. | :36:02. | :36:15. | |
-- a coup. I understand why you have to ask me. I know nothing more than | :36:16. | :36:18. | |
I have read in the newspapers and seen on in years. This is for the | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
Parliamentary party. It is not helpful for me to intervene, so I am | :36:24. | :36:25. | |
not going to. The former Prime Minister Tony | :36:26. | :36:27. | |
Blair, speaking to me But not about Labour's mounting | :36:28. | :36:37. | |
troubles today. They have just got more serious. Another Labour MP, | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
Ivan Lewis, who is running for M -- for me than Manchester, has called | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
on Jeremy Corbyn to step down. -- for mayor. | :36:51. | :36:51. | |
Now Jo Coburn is here with us this morning. | :36:52. | :36:53. | |
She's high up on the rooftops, casting her eye over events | :36:54. | :36:55. | |
Events are so fast moving politically, the next Prime Minister | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
in the Conservative Party leadership, and what happens to the | :37:02. | :37:07. | |
UK after Brexit. Let's get some reaction from a former cabinet | :37:08. | :37:09. | |
minister. With me now is the former | :37:10. | :37:10. | |
Cabinet Minister Francis Maude, who was a Europe minister under | :37:11. | :37:12. | |
Margaret Thatcher and negotiated You never made it clear before the | :37:13. | :37:21. | |
referendum what side you were wrong. Can you tell us no? I am not going | :37:22. | :37:27. | |
to see which way I voted until May direct my memoirs many years from | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
now. You surprised by the result? I thought it would be a narrow victory | :37:33. | :37:38. | |
for Remain but there was lots of anxiety around. My concern is that | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
this is not a binary thing. The referendum result? The referendum | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
clearly was, and it has to be, all or nothing, yes or no. The reality | :37:48. | :37:54. | |
is, for quite some time, we have been a 65% per participant in the | :37:55. | :37:59. | |
European Union. We are not part of the currency, or the Schengen | :38:00. | :38:03. | |
agreement. At the end of this process, we should not be a | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
nonparticipant. Boris Johnson said yesterday we are European nation. We | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
will continue to be. The result of this cannot be pulling up the | :38:14. | :38:16. | |
drawbridge into some sort of isolation. That is the language | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
you're using, but the fact is the UK has voted to leave the European | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
Union. Negotiations will start. They should not be rushed. They should | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
not be rushed? No, Tony Blair was right when he said it is neither in | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
Britain's or in the EU's interest for it to be rushed. There is a | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
debate in the EU. People are talking about what happened in Britain on | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
Thursday, but that is not a completely unique British | :38:49. | :38:52. | |
phenomenon. But no one else has left the EU. There is anxiety about the | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
direction of the EU in other countries, for example, the | :38:57. | :39:00. | |
Netherlands. When I was doing European stuff 24 years ago, that | :39:01. | :39:04. | |
was the most deeply pro-EU country that there was. That debate within | :39:05. | :39:11. | |
the EU that someone spotted, Donald Tusk has spotted it, Angela Merkel | :39:12. | :39:16. | |
has spotted it, that carrying on and assuming that this rigid doctrine, | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
one size fits all, that approach, assuming that is the only way you | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
can go, if that continues to be the case, there is a severe danger that | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
the EU will spring apart. You think this could trigger a series of | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
events that could be the beginning of the end for the EU? Unlettered | :39:33. | :39:39. | |
reacts in a grown-up, sensible way. Why would it do that? I have heard | :39:40. | :39:42. | |
European leaders saying that actually we have to see Great | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
Britain, the United Kingdom, heard by leaving the EU, or what signal | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
does it send to the one else? The signal it would send is it as an | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
organisation which is willing to self harm in order to protect the | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
very narrow, rigid approach to how countries collaborate and work | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
together. Britain is the fifth biggest economy in the world, the | :40:07. | :40:09. | |
biggest trading partner with our partners in the EU. To do something | :40:10. | :40:15. | |
which damaged our economy deliberately would actually damage | :40:16. | :40:19. | |
the European Union as well. Talking of harm... Europe would pretty soon | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
start sneezing if we caught the cold. What about the Conservative | :40:25. | :40:29. | |
Party? Lots of people were shocked when David Cameron resigned on | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
Friday morning? Where you? I was disappointed. He has been an | :40:35. | :40:37. | |
excellent Prime Minister and has led some excellent reforms. I sat round | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
the Shadow Cabinet table with him for ten years and I am full of | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
admiration for the leadership they give the party. It has to be his | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
decision. I understand his view that the negotiations about the new | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
arrangements of Britain's relationship with Europe has to be | :40:55. | :40:59. | |
undertaken by someone who has been in the campaign. Like Boris Johnson? | :41:00. | :41:06. | |
I have worked closely with Boris, Michael Gove, I am full of | :41:07. | :41:09. | |
admiration for him. There are some very serious candidates. They would | :41:10. | :41:15. | |
give the right leadership in the country and the party. Is Boris | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
Johnson unstoppable? I have no idea, I am not in the House of Commons, so | :41:20. | :41:25. | |
I do not know. In terms of advice, let's imagine Boris Johnson and | :41:26. | :41:28. | |
Michael Gove are part of the negotiating team once there is a | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
leadership contest. What would you say to them? The starting point, so | :41:33. | :41:37. | |
far as economic relationship with our current partners in the European | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
Union is concerned, the starting point should be that others need to | :41:42. | :41:44. | |
show why we should not be able to trade on the same kind of bases that | :41:45. | :41:52. | |
we do at the moment. Bielik Norway, or Switzerland? Nothing has to be | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
quite so one size fits all as you're suggesting. There is no single | :41:57. | :42:02. | |
model. Britain is the fifth biggest economy in the world. It is a | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
different kind of relationship. It has always had a different kind of | :42:07. | :42:09. | |
relationship within the European Union. This will be another | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
different relationship in the future, unique and distinctive. When | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
people start saying, of course, Britain cannot be part of the single | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
financial market, the answer is, why not? You need to show why. Everyone | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
has been saying that Europe as well as Britain benefits from being in | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
the single financial market. Why would you want to commit an act of | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
self harm to deny that? You sound as though it will be smooth and | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
straightforward, Britain will get what it once in terms of the | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
benefits of being in the EU, despite having left, and none of the things | :42:45. | :42:47. | |
that the goal voted on, freedom of movement for example? Freedom of | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
movement is coming under criticism, absolute freedom of movement, as it | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
is framed at the moment, it has been coming under criticism from many | :42:59. | :43:01. | |
parts of the political spectrum, both in Britain and across the EU. | :43:02. | :43:07. | |
What was part of their original deal was freedom of movement of labour, | :43:08. | :43:09. | |
people moving to where they had jobs. That is different from what we | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
have seen at the moment, which is what is cause such concern, not just | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
in Britain but in other parts of the European Union. I'll do surprise but | :43:20. | :43:26. | |
the reaction of European Union, -- European Union leaders, foreign | :43:27. | :43:28. | |
ministers, who are saying that this is not an amicable divorce, telling | :43:29. | :43:34. | |
Britain to get on with it? It depends on who you talk to. Donald | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
Tusk has not been speaking in that kind of language. Angela Merkel has | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
not been speaking in that kind of language. It depends on who you | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
listen to. There is no sense for European neighbours to be acting in | :43:50. | :43:53. | |
a way that deliberately harms Britain because, by harming Britain, | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
they harm themselves. If you inflict deliberate damage and your nearest | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
neighbour, your biggest trading partner, that has a blowback effect | :44:03. | :44:10. | |
on them as well. When tempers cool, I understand they are irritated by | :44:11. | :44:14. | |
all of this, but when it comes down, and people start to think about what | :44:15. | :44:19. | |
is in their collective self-interest, then I think you | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
start to get a more rational, more sensible approach, which does not | :44:25. | :44:27. | |
need to be full of hostility and anger. Have you been approached to | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
be part of the negotiating team? I have not. Would you say yes? You | :44:32. | :44:37. | |
have had experience and you're familiar with negotiating within the | :44:38. | :44:42. | |
EU. I am not pitching for that. I have left the front line in politics | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
and I am happily engaged in a new phase of my life. But it really | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
matters that we get this right and I would be happy to advise whoever is | :44:52. | :44:56. | |
the new government, if they wanted to hear advice. Should the key | :44:57. | :44:59. | |
negotiating team be full of people who campaigned to leave? I think it | :45:00. | :45:07. | |
needs to be pretty broad. This was not a massive vote. It was decisive | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
and clear, there is no room for argument, but it was not a massive | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
vote to leave. I think the new government and Prime Minister will | :45:17. | :45:21. | |
need to take his or her role as leader of the nation as seriously as | :45:22. | :45:24. | |
the role as leader of the party. Francis Maude, thank you very much. | :45:25. | :45:30. | |
Back to you, Andrew. I have the words of Ivan Lewis, the Labour MP | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
who is running for the mayor of Manchester. It is clear Jeremy | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
Corbyn cannot lead us back to government and there is a real risk | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
we will suffer worse election result than in 2015. Ivan Lewis, MP. No | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
more shadow ministers have resigned so far. Maybe some of them having | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
second thoughts after they watched interview with John McDonnell. I am | :45:53. | :46:01. | |
joined now by one of the Conservative's leading Leave | :46:02. | :46:04. | |
campaigner, Liam Fox. What is your road map for getting out of the EU? | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
We need to have the establishment of the unit in Whitehall, which I would | :46:10. | :46:12. | |
like to see Derek Rae answerable to Number 10 rather than the Foreign | :46:13. | :46:16. | |
Office of the Treasury, to begin discussions with our European | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
partners ahead of what would be a trigger for Article 50. Presumably | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
when we have a new Prime Minister in place. You go along with the | :46:25. | :46:28. | |
existing prime ministers's timetable, that Article 50 begins | :46:29. | :46:32. | |
the formal Brexit process? You do not want a trigger that before the | :46:33. | :46:40. | |
autumn? No. It makes sense to decide our position in the UK. We have to | :46:41. | :46:43. | |
put mechanics in place, increase the size of the Foreign Office, | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
established a trade department. We will want to see as members of | :46:48. | :46:50. | |
Parliament tomorrow what work has been done in preparation for a | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
Brexit. This idea that no contingency planning was done is | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
preposterous. That would have been responsible. We will want to see | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
what work has been done and we will have to get such a unit under way so | :47:04. | :47:07. | |
that there is no vacuum being created. I have heard some people in | :47:08. | :47:13. | |
the Leave campaign saying it could be later than the autumn that we | :47:14. | :47:17. | |
begin the formal process. The end of the year, the beginning of the new | :47:18. | :47:22. | |
Year. That would be difficult. You would be looking to get an exit from | :47:23. | :47:27. | |
the European Union at the beginning of the year. The financial year of | :47:28. | :47:30. | |
the European Union is at the start of the calendar year. That would | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
bring added complications. You want to get it tidied up. We want to see | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
a process that means we can leave the European Union on the 1st of | :47:41. | :47:43. | |
January 2019. That seems like a reasonable timetable. European | :47:44. | :47:49. | |
leaders, particularly those in Brussels, the president of the | :47:50. | :47:52. | |
commission and so on, they do not want to wait. They want to start the | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
discussion is now. They may not want to agree to your ideal formal | :47:57. | :48:01. | |
discussions therefore we present the Lisbon Treaty button. -- informal | :48:02. | :48:07. | |
talks. Article 50 only gets triggered when there is a letter or | :48:08. | :48:10. | |
a clearer definition. It is only Britain that can trigger it? Yes. | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
What the European bureaucrats on, the ones that are on elected and not | :48:17. | :48:19. | |
answer book to anyone, their attitude is different to the | :48:20. | :48:23. | |
Chancellor of Germany, who herself is facing real action next year. You | :48:24. | :48:28. | |
will see an increasing split between the on elected bureaucrats with no | :48:29. | :48:32. | |
one to answer two and politicians with real economies to manage. You | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
are confident we can get meaningful, informal discussions to sketch out | :48:38. | :48:42. | |
some principles, not necessarily details, this side of triggering | :48:43. | :48:43. | |
Article 50? Yes and we need to begin soon | :48:44. | :48:52. | |
because there will be a willingness from our elected parliament to be in | :48:53. | :48:59. | |
those discussions. The brothel -- Brussels bureaucracy regard as | :49:00. | :49:02. | |
impertinent to wanted to have leave the European Union, but we have got | :49:03. | :49:05. | |
to do it quickly because we have got to show we have some momentum in | :49:06. | :49:10. | |
this. Otherwise, if we create a vacuum it is a recipe for | :49:11. | :49:16. | |
instability. Who should head up our negotiations? That is up to the | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
Prime Minister but I think there needs to be a mixture of people who | :49:21. | :49:29. | |
understand the views of trade experts... But who should lead, | :49:30. | :49:37. | |
Michael Gove? He is an excellent suggestion, we also have Peter | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
Lilley, who was involved in one of the most recent trade rounds, but we | :49:41. | :49:44. | |
need to get it under way and Parliament needs to see what | :49:45. | :49:49. | |
preparatory work needs to be done. Since we voted to leave, Nigel | :49:50. | :49:52. | |
Farage has said it was a mistake to promise more money for the NHS. Dan | :49:53. | :49:59. | |
Hannan, Tory MP, has said the leave campaign never promised a radical | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
decline in immigration. So continuing with the Department of | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
honesty, can we now agree that there is an extra 350 million quid a week | :50:09. | :50:15. | |
to spend on other public services? An extra 10 billion per year, but of | :50:16. | :50:24. | |
course that is only available once we have actually left the European | :50:25. | :50:29. | |
Union, which will be 2019, and those decisions have to be taken by the | :50:30. | :50:33. | |
Government of the day. That will be very different from the one we have | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
now. It is a long time in the future but what the Leave campaign, and | :50:38. | :50:44. | |
what people didn't grasp was that it wasn't an election, they were | :50:45. | :50:47. | |
reluctant to give future governments greater choice over the actions they | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
could pursue if they wanted. So I will log that the 350 is more like | :50:53. | :51:03. | |
160. Will the Tory department whittle down the leadership hopefuls | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
to a short list of two by the time the Parliament across the road goes | :51:09. | :51:13. | |
off to the summary says on July the 21st? It is a decision that will be | :51:14. | :51:19. | |
taken by the 1922 committee. I think we should have a timetable similar | :51:20. | :51:23. | |
to the one we had in 2005, not least because our party membership will be | :51:24. | :51:29. | |
involved in the decision. What was that timetable? We didn't have the | :51:30. | :51:35. | |
MPs' ballot until after the party conference so people could see a | :51:36. | :51:42. | |
range of candidates they might have. So you would like a beauty parade at | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
the Tory party conference in the first week of October that includes | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
all of the Tory candidates? That is what we did last time, that was the | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
system that produced David Cameron's election. Then the party... Know, | :51:59. | :52:06. | |
first the House of Commons would have to reduce five or six | :52:07. | :52:13. | |
candidates down to two, then the party and the country would have to | :52:14. | :52:17. | |
decide who is right so the Prime Minister may be there until | :52:18. | :52:21. | |
November. Potentially, under that timetable. I don't think that has | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
huge drawbacks because we need to get that period of the pre-talks | :52:26. | :52:31. | |
under way, then you have the new Prime Minister and can trigger | :52:32. | :52:38. | |
article 50. Is it realistic to have a lame duck government from the end | :52:39. | :52:44. | |
of June until the beginning of November? My view is that having | :52:45. | :52:50. | |
that period does not make a huge difference to the process, but it | :52:51. | :52:53. | |
might make a better choice for leadership and a better process for | :52:54. | :52:59. | |
the party. And if it is a beauty parade at the party conference, | :53:00. | :53:03. | |
William Fox be part of that beauty parade? I don't know, I haven't | :53:04. | :53:09. | |
decided yet. I am thinking about it, I will make a decision once I have | :53:10. | :53:12. | |
spoken to my colleagues in Parliament this week. And if you're | :53:13. | :53:18. | |
hat is not in the ring, do you have a favourite you would support? I | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
might have and you will be among the first million to know, Andrew! Thank | :53:24. | :53:26. | |
you for that, Liam Fox. Well, Friday was a | :53:27. | :53:50. | |
pretty dramatic day. But Thursday was also | :53:51. | :53:51. | |
a pretty dramatic night. Adam Fleming once again | :53:52. | :53:53. | |
behind the scenes at It is referendum night, so call in | :53:54. | :54:05. | |
someone who has done it all before. How does this compared to presenting | :54:06. | :54:13. | |
it in 1975? I cannot remember anything about 1975 except my hair | :54:14. | :54:18. | |
was brown and not white. What were you doing in 1975? Were you born? I | :54:19. | :54:32. | |
was a twinkle in my father's eye. We are going to have to do things the | :54:33. | :54:36. | |
old-fashioned way, wait for the results to come in one by one. Early | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
to declare Sunderland went Leave's away by more than they had expected. | :54:43. | :54:49. | |
Newcastle opted for remain by not -- but not by a lot. It felt very | :54:50. | :54:56. | |
close. Look, both on 50%. Do we know what is happening at this point? No, | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
and I have just responded to a tweet sent by a colleague. And still we | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
start to see results from the south east, because the Remain come out | :55:07. | :55:13. | |
predicating a win on a good showing in London, Surrey, East Sussex, | :55:14. | :55:20. | |
Hampshire, that sort of area. Until I see some results elsewhere, no, | :55:21. | :55:29. | |
not yet. In between, politicians did radio interviews in strange places. | :55:30. | :55:36. | |
Come round here, and there is Amber Rudd, a member of Parliament, in the | :55:37. | :55:40. | |
kitchen. I am waiting to do an interview, it is living the dream. I | :55:41. | :55:47. | |
will have an Americano with a dash of milk. Labour areas, lots of them | :55:48. | :55:55. | |
voted out, but according to Labour that was actually a good thing. What | :55:56. | :56:00. | |
do you think when you see that? It is what I was expecting. I have been | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
saying all the way along it will be touch and go, really close. This has | :56:06. | :56:13. | |
demonstrated exactly where the country is, fairly Eurosceptical but | :56:14. | :56:20. | |
pragmatic and wants to remain within. Whichever way it goes, I | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
think there will be a few percentage points either way and Jeremy will be | :56:25. | :56:27. | |
a reflection of how the country feels and that is what you want in a | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
leader. The percentages were not going Remain's away, as proved by | :56:33. | :56:42. | |
the miserable faces up their party. Brexit campaigners like Jacob | :56:43. | :56:46. | |
Rees-Mogg started to think about dreams of their own. | :56:47. | :56:55. | |
I'm opening a fete on Saturday and that will be a great celebration | :56:56. | :56:58. | |
Actually, I promised to take my four-year-old to the toy | :56:59. | :57:04. | |
shop because it was his birthday yesterday and he can | :57:05. | :57:07. | |
He may get a slightly better present if there is a Brexit. | :57:08. | :57:11. | |
Finally, just before 5:00am, David Dimbleby declared | :57:12. | :57:13. | |
The decision taken in 1975 by this country to join the Common Market | :57:14. | :57:17. | |
has been reversed by this referendum to leave the EU. | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
The action moved from the studio to Westminster and they denouement | :57:22. | :57:23. | |
I love this country and I feel honoured to have | :57:24. | :57:30. | |
The Prime Minister going, Britain's destiny changed, | :57:31. | :57:37. | |
David Cameron's early morning announcement of his resignation | :57:38. | :57:51. | |
on Friday fired the starting gun on the first Conservative leadership | :57:52. | :57:54. | |
To stand for the party leadership, candidates only need to be | :57:55. | :58:05. | |
If more than two candidates stand, a ballot of MPs whittles that down | :58:06. | :58:09. | |
via first past the post, until they are left | :58:10. | :58:11. | |
Those two are then put to the full membership of the party, | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
said to be about 150,000 strong, who decide the winner | :58:17. | :58:19. | |
David Cameron has said he wants a successor in place | :58:20. | :58:25. | |
by the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, which starts | :58:26. | :58:27. | |
But it will be the backbench 1922 Committee which decides | :58:28. | :58:34. | |
They will meet tomorrow to set the process in train. | :58:35. | :58:41. | |
I'm joined now by the Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party | :58:42. | :58:49. | |
Is it not inconceivable, given that the country has voted to leave the | :58:50. | :59:04. | |
EU, that it can be anything but a Brexit leader to take over? That may | :59:05. | :59:08. | |
be the case but it will be up to the members and Parliamentary party to | :59:09. | :59:15. | |
decide. My point is that, given the way the country has voted, given the | :59:16. | :59:20. | |
Conservative Party voted even more that way to leave, that you need to | :59:21. | :59:25. | |
have a leader that embodies... Was there for the fight on that side. It | :59:26. | :59:31. | |
may be that the party membership decides for those reasons to vote | :59:32. | :59:35. | |
for a Brexit leader, but it may be that they vote for someone over all | :59:36. | :59:39. | |
who they think will best serve the country and party, it is just | :59:40. | :59:43. | |
unknown. Will they be likely to trust somebody that said vote to | :59:44. | :59:48. | |
remain to head up the divorce negotiations to leave? I don't think | :59:49. | :59:53. | |
that will come into the equation because the country has voted to | :59:54. | :59:57. | |
leave, I don't believe in the second referendum. I believe our party has | :59:58. | :00:02. | |
moved forward now so people want to consider a range of things. Who are | :00:03. | :00:08. | |
the main candidate in your view? Who knows, because no one has put | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
themselves forward yet. Clearly Boris will be one of them, maybe | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
Stephen Crabb, who knows. What about Theresa May? We haven't heard from | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
her. I'm sure we will hear from people over the next week. Including | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Theresa May? She seems to be missing in action. We will see. Are George | :00:30. | :00:39. | |
Osborne's leadership hopes now in toast? We will see. The country has | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
made its decision. You are reluctant remainer, is that fair? Yes, because | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
with the terrorism I believe it is better to be in an alliance of | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
democracy. I think as a party we have faced three existential | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
challenges. One is in terms of how people perceive us and whether we | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
are seen as a passionate Conservative Party, second way in | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
terms of our infrastructure. If we are honest or infrastructure is | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
dying in the country and our membership is ageing, and thirdly it | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
will be best at restoring party unity. I want someone who will deal | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
with those serious issues that really threaten our existence as a | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
party. They are even more relevant because the Labour Party will get | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
its act together and get rid of Jeremy Corbyn. The European issue | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
has destroyed the careers of the last three Conservative prime | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
ministers. Margaret Thatcher, John Major, now David Cameron. Is there | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
any chance now the country has taken the decision to leave that it | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
doesn't become the toxic issue it has been for your party? I think we | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
should follow perhaps the 11th commandment for every conservatism, | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
pessimism is a luxury know one should allow themselves. Obviously | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
the renegotiations will be difficult but we need to move on and discuss | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
other issues that are facing the country. Finally, what do you make | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
of what Liam Fox has told this programme, that rather than MPs | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
rushing to create the short list of two names that then goes to the | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
wider Conservative Party and the country, to do that by July the 21st | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
with summer hustings and a combination of the Tory conference | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
if I can put it that way, that in fact it should all be on hold until | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
the Tory conference and that you should have hustings there, then | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
whittle it down to two, and have a new leader by the beginning of | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
November. My own feeling is that it will be up to 1922 and the | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
membership to decide. I would prefer that we don't go on forever choosing | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
a leader. I think we need a new leader for the stability of the | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
country, but we need someone who will put compassionate conservatism | :03:02. | :03:02. | |
at the forefront. Your fellow MPs have to get a short | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
list of two by July the 21st? Am not telling them, but we should have a | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
leadership contest sooner rather than later, because the country | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
needs stability. I will take that as a yes. Robert Halfon, thank you very | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
much. It's not just Her | :03:26. | :03:26. | |
Majesty's Government feeling the after-shocks | :03:27. | :03:27. | |
of Plates also appear to be | :03:28. | :03:28. | |
shifting for Her Majesty's Opposition, with Jeremy Corbyn | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
sacking Hilary Benn from his Shadow Cabinet last night | :03:35. | :03:35. | |
and facing a vote of no confidence at tomorrow's meeting | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
of the The secret ballot will not | :03:39. | :03:39. | |
have any formal status, but backers hope it will embolden | :03:40. | :03:49. | |
others to speak out, and build an unstoppable momentum | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
against their leader. So far, MPs, including | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
Stephen Kinnock, Frank Field, Caroline Flint and Tristram Hunt, | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
have already said they However, in order to depose | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
a sitting Labour leader, a challenger will have | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
to put themselves forward, and receive the support | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
of 20% of the party's MPs. There are currently 229 Labour MPs, | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
so 46 would have to back the leadership challenge by writing | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
to general secretary Iain McNicol If a nominee secures | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
that level of support, a contest will be held | :04:19. | :04:29. | |
at the party's autumn conference, taking place in Liverpool | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
at the end of September. If any further MP wanted to enter | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
the race, they would also need Voting takes place on a one member, | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
one vote basis by Labour members, affiliates and registered | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
supporters. If more than two candidates stand, | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
voters will rank their preferences. If no candidates get above 50% | :04:51. | :05:01. | |
on first preference, the last placed candidate | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
is eliminated and their vote is transferred until one gets | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
above the threshold. We are now hearing that another | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
Shadow Cabinet minister has resigned, Gloria del Piero. One of | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
the younger intake of Labour politicians from the North, ought to | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
be in tune with what Labour needs to do in the North. | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
With me now is the Shadow Defence Secretary Emily Thornberry. | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
Are you going to resign? No, and I can tell you why. I think that at a | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
time like this, when the Tory party is pulling themselves apart, when | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
nobody has any idea with the country ought to go next, the challenge for | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
the Labour Party is to show some leadership. And to be a centre of | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
composure, to think about where we are going, and I think we should be | :05:47. | :05:56. | |
thinking about the nation first. What is happening in your Shadow | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
Cabinet? Why is this happening? I do not really understand it. We had a | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Shadow Cabinet meeting on Friday and there were lots of opportunities | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
than for people to express what they thought. I made it clear that the | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
defence of UI have been working on for the last 56 months would need to | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
be redrafted. I would need to think again about it. In light of what is | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
happening? Yes, it has a big impact on defence. It was disappointing for | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
me but the important thing is we remain unified as a party and focus | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
on what is important. The important thing is what are we going to do | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
now. The pound is falling, look at what is happening to share prices. | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
We need to be calm, and we need to show a bit of foresight and | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
leadership. Focus. Now, or fall times now, people think it is a good | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
idea to go for a leadership challenge? It is extraordinary. It | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
seems that lots of your colleagues in the Shadow Cabinet and even more | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
in the parliamentary party, they seem to be angry that there was not | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
enough leadership during the referendum campaign from Jeremy | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Corbyn, and they do not think that Hilary Benn is a leader and they do | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
not think he can take you to victory in 2020. That is all coming from | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Hilary Benn given that he ran the campaign. I'll so think that if | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
Jeremy had been allowed, David Cameron, if he had stepped aside and | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
let Jeremy take a leadership role in this campaign, I think we would have | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
done better. In what way did David Cameron stop Jeremy Corbyn? David | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
Cameron made it all about him, about his brilliant deal, getting onto the | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
media all the time, always being blue on blue. When I spoke to David | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
Cameron during the referendum campaign, he was complaining he was | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
having to do all the heavy lifting. He was not just complaining about | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
the lack of support from the Labour Party, but from the Tories as well. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Where did he stop Jeremy Corbyn making his mark? Jeremy made 30 | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
speeches up and down the country. There was very little space us to | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
get inserted into that debate. People criticise Jeremy for saying | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
that he was only in favour of the European Union, 7.5 out of ten. I | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
think that was truthful and real, and it reflected the views of lots | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
of people in the country. Lots of people will have voted to remain. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
Those on the fence would have questioned whether they were in | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
favour. Jeremy's voice was more truthful. Does that mean he is a | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
better leader than David Cameron? I suspect it does. When did Jeremy | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Corbyn complain he was not been allowed to do more? We were always | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
complaining. I went to Birmingham with half of the women from the | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
Shadow Cabinet. We spoke to women in workplaces and so on. What was the | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
coverage we got? There was a little clip, a film of us going into | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
summer, and the voice-over being, nobody knows what Labour says on the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
referendum. Nonsense. You can complain you did not get the media | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
coverage you wanted. That is true. I do not remember Mr Corbyn rushing to | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
accept one-on-one interviews. There were plenty of offers. In the end, I | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
think he did one on Sky News in the evening. If he was champing at the | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
bit to get it across, why did they not agree to do more interviews and | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
programmes like this? The truth is that Jeremy had a straightforward | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
response to the referendum. I think he should have been given an | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
opportunity to get that out more. If he had been able to, that would have | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
rung true with the country. I'll so think the Jeremy was also elected | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
less than a year ago and 60% of the membership voted in his favour. Now | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
is not the time for us to go for a leadership challenge, this is | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
nonsense. We have you here, arguing your case, effectively as always. It | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
is not true of all Labour people. I think that Mr Watson has been to | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Glastonbury. I am not quite sure what the silent disco is. There he | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
is, the deputy leader of the Labour Party. Would you rather be there | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
with him or here with me? I would always rather be with you. I knew | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
you would say that. What would use it to your colleagues in the | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
Parliamentary Labour Party to face this motion of no confidence that | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
could be placed before the PLP tomorrow night? I am told there | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
could be a majority forehead. I do not think there will be a motion of | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
no confidence tomorrow night. They could vote the next day? Or the week | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
afterwards, depending on how you interpret it. Could you lose? I | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
think members of Parliament need to look at what the country is calling | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
out for. The country is calling out for the Labour Party to step up and | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
show an alternative. We must do that in a unified way. There is not the | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
time for internal fighting. It is quite marketable we have a Prime | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
Minister who has just resigned, there will not be a new Prime | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
Minister at least until the beginning of October, if Liam Fox | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
gets his way, it may not be until November. And the Labour Party is in | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
the middle of its own turmoil as well. I have covered situations | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
where one party has been in turmoil and the other one has taken | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
advantage, but you are now both in turmoil. It is unprecedented? I | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
agree, and the future is in hands. It is up to us, what we decide to do | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
in the next few days. I will urge my colleagues to take a responsible | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
view of this and think of the country first. The country needs us | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
to be there. You're right, the Tories went into this, the two parts | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
of the Tories, the Brexiteers went in not knowing what would happen if | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
we got the Leave vote, and the government went in with no plan B. | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
There is no plan at the moment, and our country needs a party to step up | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
and do that role. That is what we should be doing. What do you say to | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
those Labour supporters, not members, but supporters and voters, | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
in the heartlands of the North and the Midlands, who did not follow | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
your party's advise? They voted in substantial numbers to leave. They | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
do not think that this Labour Party represents them. What do you say to | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
them? One thing that came out clearly from this Brexit vote, is | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
that half the country feels that the system does not help them. They are | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
getting a raw deal, and whether that is because they cannot get their | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
kids housing, or because they are having problems with their jobs and | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
their terms and conditions, weather data not get access to public | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
services, all these things are wrapped up in the vote. The tragedy | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
is that we have answers to that nationally, and if we have a decent | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
government prepared to address those issues, perhaps people would have a | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
slightly different view. Now we have to reach out and speak to them. We | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
must not do what happened after the Scottish referendum, when the Labour | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
Party turned in on itself. We have running out of time. Can you give me | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
a one sentence inkling of how your defence review might change? There | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
is a question of how we defend borders now. If the GDP goes, we're | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
2% of GDP being spent on defence. What happens if GDP goes through the | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
floor? Will have cuts? I also think that the EU and Nato two sides of | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
the same coin. International relationships will change. A whole | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
range of things will be affected. Thank you very much, Emily | :13:48. | :13:48. | |
Thornberry. Now, as one union was broken | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
with the vote on Thursday, the fate of another | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
came into sharp focus. In Scotland, First Minister Nicola | :13:54. | :13:54. | |
Sturgeon of the SNP said the option | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
of a second referendum on independence was now very much | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
back on the table after Scotland voted by a significant margin | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
in favour of remaining within the EU, | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
only for votes elsewhere in Britain to swing | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
Here she is speaking earlier on the Andrew | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
At this stage I am not prepared to accept that certain things are | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
inevitable. I have a job to do to protect Scotland and negotiate the | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
best way forward. I look on at what is happening at Westminster with a | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
sense of utter despair and a half of people across England and other | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
parts of the UK, as the vacuum of leadership in the Tories and Labour | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
develops. There is no vacuum of leadership in Scotland. As First | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
Minister I will do everything I possibly can to prevent Scotland | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
been taken out of the European Union, because the consequences of | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
allowing us to be so will be devastating. | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
Well, Scotland's not the only part of the | :14:52. | :15:03. | |
UK where there are calls for constitutional change | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
In Northern Ireland Sinn Fein have suggested that British | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
withdrawal from the EU has strengthened the case for | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
I'm joined now from Londonderry by the Deputy First Minister | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
of Northern Ireland, Martin | :15:15. | :15:15. | |
Welcome to the programme, Martin McGuinness. Thank you. First of all, | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
what makes you say that the 56% vote to remain as overwhelming? It is a | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
very clear vote by a majority of people in the North, which are made | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
up of unionists, nationalists and Republicans, who wished to remain in | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
Europe. I think that cannot be ignored, either by the British | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
government, the Irish government, or the powers that be at the European | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
Union. What we do need in the immediate future is an all Ireland | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
solution to the problem. That requires the attention of the | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
Taoiseach in particular. I was very disturbed over the last couple of | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
days, when the Taoiseach focused on how sympathetic the Irish government | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
would be to British government that was negotiating its way out of | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
Europe over the course of the two years. Rather he should have been | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
focusing on how the democratically expressed wishes of the majority of | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
people in the north, to remain in Europe, could be catered for. I | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
spoke to the Irish government Foreign Minister on Friday and I | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
have requested an urgent meeting with the Taoiseach on this matter. | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
Right, but to get back to this idea that there is an overwhelming | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
desire, following that vote to remain in Northern Ireland, to | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
remain in the EU, why would that translate to an overwhelming, to use | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
your word, to have a referendum on Irish unification? The border poll | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
was part of the Good Friday Agreement. It is something I think | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
you'd be conducted in a very civilised and cordial fashion, just | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
as the debate on Scottish independence was conducted in | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
Scotland. There is not an overwhelming desire, stated just | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
from the vote last Thursday, from what you're calling for? I did not | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
say that there was. What I did say was that I do believe that that | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
exercise is one that should be undertaken at some stage in the | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
future. The immediate focus, the immediate focus needs to be on how | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
we continue our relationship with the European Union? That is where my | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
focus is. That is where my focus is on that is why I think discussions | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
with the Taoiseach are urgent and require immediate attention, as the | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
discussions with the powers that be at the European Union are. When you | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
consider the position of Scotland, which is also overwhelmingly voted | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
to remain in Europe, there is a massive responsibility no given that | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
we have these two massive centres of population that want to remain in | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
Europe. The powers that be within the European Union need to take | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
account of the democratically expressed wishes of the people of | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland. That is to do with the relationship with | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
the European Union. Enda Kenny, the Irish Taoiseach, seemed some | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
distance from welcoming your demand for a border poll. He said, we have | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
more serious issues to deal with in the medium term and that is where | :18:22. | :18:22. | |
our focus lies. My focus lies on how we can continue | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
to maintain our relationship with the European Union. So you are not | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
against holding this border poll? No, we do believe there should be | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
one in the future. In the immediate future the focus needs to be on the | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
whole issue of how we can maintain our relationship with Europe, which | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
has been so beneficial over the course of the last number of | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
decades. Whenever you consider the dangers for us in terms of the | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
dangers to our ability to develop our economy, the dangers to the | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
prospect of border controls, which I think would represent a very serious | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
undermining of the Good Friday Agreement, the whole issue of | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
foreign direct investment which is now threatened by the decision to | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
pull out of Europe, particularly from Northern America. But you | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
cannot do that, can you, unless there was some sort of referendum on | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
Irish reunification. You cannot do that from within the UK, since the | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
UK has voted as a whole to leave. I'm saying there needs to be special | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
arrangements which take account of the democratically expressed wishes | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
of the people of Northern Ireland and the people of Scotland, who | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
wished to remain and maintain our contacts and ability to work with | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
very senior officials and governmental authorities within | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
Europe. So I think that from my perspective, although you are | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
focused on the issue of the border poll, the immediate task has to be | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
how the democratically expressed wishes of the people here in the | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
north of Ireland can be catered for in the context of these huge debates | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
which will consume over the course of the next number of months. Of | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
course we are very disturbed that the British Prime Minister has | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
clearly indicated that there will be no engagement with Europe on the | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
whole issue of article 50 until there is a new British Prime | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
Minister. Martin McGuinness, thank you. It is a fast-moving story here | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
this morning. We now have Gloria De Piero's | :20:36. | :20:57. | |
resignation letter, and a letter from Margaret | :20:58. | :21:10. | |
Hodge. We need to believe Jeremy Corbyn should consider his position. | :21:11. | :21:23. | |
When he did engage she was half-hearted, and in the end of | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
Labour Party members and voters didn't know where the leader really | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
stored. That is the latest from there. We have reassembled just for | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
a few minutes before we go to the nations and regions our dream team | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
panel. So we have a lame duck government, the dysfunctional | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
opposition, and we voted to leave the EU. Anything else happening in | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
politics today? It doesn't look like these resignations are petering out. | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
It is only about an hour since the last one! I think Gloria De Piero is | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
very significant because she was a close ally of Tom Watson, it looks | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
like it is picking up steam now. She is one of those Labour MPs from the | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
north. She had been in the media but seemed to be firmly rooted in the | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
north, away from the Metropolitan chattering classes so that is | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
significant. Not from a privileged background. She is going, there is a | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
rumour Charlie Faulkner is also going, and he was always the bridge | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
between the moderates and the Corbyn supporters. You ask if anything else | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
is going on in politics at the moment, there is the potential | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
unravelling of the UK itself. In the vacuum of leadership which has | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
emerged since Friday morning, David Cameron going, Jeremy Corbyn being | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
weak in his position, the closest thing I have seen in leadership is | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
Nicola Sturgeon north of the border. You may or disagree with her | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
position but she has a plan. The markets will be opening at 7am | :23:09. | :23:18. | |
tomorrow here in London. The sterling, the FTSE could take a | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
knock. Doesn't the Prime Minister now have to give a clear idea of | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
where Britain goes now? Of the beginning of the informal talks, the | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
process. Even though he is on his way out, isn't his duty to steady | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
the ship? The biggest question is where on earth is the Chancellor in | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
all of this. He is responsible in overseeing what will happen in the | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
next few days in terms of the economy. We have that dignified and | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
reassuring statement from Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
England on Friday morning. Since then, where is George Osborne. He is | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
nowhere to be seen, I find it extraordinary. It is no good to say, | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
I don't think, that he's busy talking behind the seems to the | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
people that matter. He should be showing some leadership. Maybe he's | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
sharing the same safe house is Theresa May, maybe they are holed up | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
together working out how to stop Boris Johnson as being the next | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
leader of the Tory party. Over the coming weeks there will be the | :24:29. | :24:41. | |
so-called ABBs, Anyone But Boris. They didn't keep out Jeremy Corbyn | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
so they may have a fight on their hands. | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
It's just gone 11.30, you're watching the Sunday Politics. | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
We say goodbye to viewers in Scotland who leave us now | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
Hello and welcome to the Sunday Politics Wales. | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
At the end of the biggest political week for decades, | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
this morning the fallout shows no sign of waining. | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
Hilary Benn's sacking has led in several other shadow ministers | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
either standing down or considering doing so. | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
The pressure on Jeremy Corbyn to go is now increasing. | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
The Labour MP for Aberavon, Stephen Kinnock, has backed calls | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
for Jeremy Corbyn to face a no confidence motion. | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
I spoke to him a few minutes ago and asked him why Corbyn had to go. | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
It will require a Labour leader who is a negotiator. | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
I have a huge amount of respect for Jeremy as a | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
long-standing and committed constituency MP, campaigning on | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
I do not see him as a negotiator with the skills and experience we | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
need to take us forward during this unprecedented time. | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
We have heard from John McDonnell, the Shadow | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
Chancellor this morning, saying Jeremy Corbyn | :26:01. | :26:01. | |
The membership of the party have given | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
him an overwhelming majority to Jeremy Corbyn as leader | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
I accept the membership gave Jeromy a huge | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
mandate but that was then and this is now. | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
Everything has changed and I hope that our membership will see... | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
Why has Brexit changed everything in terms | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in the eyes of your members? | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
The Brexit has changed everything because it is going to | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
completely dominate British politics for the next three to five | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
Also there will be a general election. | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
I think this autumn the new leader of the Conservative Party will have | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
That election will take place completely in the context | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
We need a leader of the party who understands | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
the European Union, understands the implications of being in or out | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
of the single market, what it means for business, | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
what it means for workers' rights, jobs, growth, | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
If there is a general election, one of your colleagues, a | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
Welsh Labour MP, has told us today you could lose as many as 70 MPs. | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
With Jeremy Corbyn in a general election, perhaps | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
later this year, you could lose a serious number of your | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
That is absolutely central to our concerns. | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
We have to ensure we go into that general election with | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
a leader who is right in the context of a post Brexit | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
The job description has changed, the mandate Jeromy got | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
from the membership when he was elected was in a different | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
Who is the right personfor the job to take | :27:51. | :28:00. | |
over and use that mandate for the future? | :28:01. | :28:02. | |
You are not going to draw me on that. | :28:03. | :28:04. | |
If you're going to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
you can't think nobody is there ready to take over as a leader. | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
It will be up to those candidates to come forward | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
They have to explain to the membership why. | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
You are not going to draw me on that. | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
There are some strong candidates out there. | :28:24. | :28:25. | |
the debate in the Parliamentary Labour Party tomorrow | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
We have the motion of no-confidence vote and then we have | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
It will be up to each of the candidates | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
to set out their stall, to explain why they are the right leader to | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
take us it into the general election which is almost certainly coming | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
Stephen Kinnock, thank you very much for coming | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
Our political editor, Nick Servini has been speaking | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
On the record, a lot of them have gone to ground this morning. Clearly | :28:53. | :29:06. | |
what we are seeing that as a fall assault by the party on Jeremy | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
Corbyn. To Shadow Cabinet members are gone. Any more will follow | :29:12. | :29:18. | |
today. There are two things at play. As you heard from Stephen Kinnock, | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
deep concern among many MPs that if it is a general election and in all | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
likelihood they will be sooner rather than later, as a result of | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
what has happened with that result, then an element of self-preservation | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
here. A lot are going to lose their jobs or they feel they could lose | :29:38. | :29:44. | |
their jobs. Then you've got the wider question. We have to remember | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
Jeremy Corbyn was overwhelmingly backed by your own, grassroots | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
members fired up about the principles he stood for. I've spoken | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
to figures in the party who said they have had e-mail after e-mail | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
saying in effect, agreeing with Stephen Kinnock, the Brexit of | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
results a game changer because so many of these people as well as | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
being very supportive of Jeremy Corbyn, they are fiercely | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
pro-European and they feel Jeremy Corbyn did not run a good campaign. | :30:18. | :30:19. | |
Now everything that has happened this morning is linked directly | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
to last week's referendum vote to leave the EU. | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
So what now for Wales' relationship with Europe? | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
The Welsh Secretary has told this programme that AMs should look | :30:30. | :30:31. | |
at why voters in Wales voted for Brexit when so many communities | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
have had so much EU grant aid spent on them. | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
More from our Political Correspondent, Daniel Davies. | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going! | :30:45. | :30:47. | |
After a bruising encounter, Brexit won out. | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
Blaenavon in Torfaen, one of two counties, | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
along with neighbouring Blaenau Gwent where the Leave vote | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
Late in the campaign, one senior Labour politician told me | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
some of his constituents were using the referendum to whinge | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
But in places like this, they did more | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
than just whinge, they went to the ballot box and let | :31:16. | :31:17. | |
You voted to leave, I guess? | :31:18. | :31:25. | |
Yes. Definitely. | :31:26. | :31:26. | |
I just feel with grandchildren and great-grandchildren coming up we | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
No, I couldn't make up my mind so I decided not to. | :31:32. | :31:39. | |
I felt like I'd woken up in a foreign country, it is absolutely | :31:40. | :31:42. | |
Wales gets lots of grants from the EU for things the central | :31:43. | :31:48. | |
government won't even dream to think of. | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
It was Heritage Day in Blaenavon yesterday and there is a solid | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
Labour was plunged into turmoil in the early hours today | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
when Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn was sacked | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
Some MPs say attacking the leader is a distraction. | :32:05. | :32:11. | |
I've supported Jeremy during his leadership and what I | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
think is really important now is we don't focus on an individual. | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
It is very important that as a Labour Party we have a period | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
of reflection, we have to look at what the voters have said | :32:22. | :32:27. | |
The really important issue isn't about individuals | :32:28. | :32:32. | |
but how we respond now as a party. | :32:33. | :32:34. | |
Others say this to Mr Corbyn's critics. | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
There have been groups in the Labour Party who have been | :32:38. | :32:40. | |
saying this since the day Jeremy was elected. | :32:41. | :32:42. | |
Every pretext has been carried out to undermine you. | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
Labour's Welsh leader says the timing of this | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
I warned it was a mistake to have a referendum six weeks after an | :32:51. | :32:58. | |
Mr Jones's Welsh Government has spent billions of | :32:59. | :33:03. | |
pounds of EU aid in Valleys communities including on projects | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
like this, dualling the Heads of the Valleys road. | :33:08. | :33:10. | |
Yet, most people there still voted to leave. | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
I think everyone has to look at the sorts of | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
European policies that were being developed by the Welsh | :33:18. | :33:19. | |
Government but by the UK Government that didn't have that connection | :33:20. | :33:21. | |
The public did not recognise the outcomes that were | :33:22. | :33:27. | |
At the very moment when the party should be ganging up | :33:28. | :33:34. | |
on the Conservatives who will soon need a new leader. | :33:35. | :33:38. | |
A Welsh MP, Work and Pensions Secretary, Stephen Crabb is tipped | :33:39. | :33:42. | |
as a contender to succeed David Cameron. | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
Well, it is far too early to speculate. | :33:47. | :33:48. | |
Only a short period of time has passed since the | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
Prime Minister announced his resignation. | :33:53. | :33:54. | |
I don't think there are any names out there formally. | :33:55. | :33:56. | |
There is pure speculation at the moment. | :33:57. | :33:58. | |
I'm not going to enter any speculation. | :33:59. | :33:59. | |
There was one question on the ballot paper but it has | :34:00. | :34:02. | |
The Welsh Government's cabinet starts its | :34:03. | :34:06. | |
search for answers when it meets tomorrow. | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
Plenty to talk about then with my guests, the Leader | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew RT Davies, and the former | :34:15. | :34:18. | |
MEP and current AM and Peer, Eluned Morgan. | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
Thank you both for coming in. I will start with Eluned Morgan, what went | :34:24. | :34:30. | |
wrong on Thursday? The entire Labour Establishment in Wales were all pros | :34:31. | :34:35. | |
remain and have been given a bit of a bloody nose. There was a | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
disconnect between the people leading the Labour Party and the | :34:41. | :34:45. | |
traditional communities we can usually rely up to support us. I | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
think it was more than just the European Union. People were focused | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
on it but I think it is also about globalisation, the fact the world | :34:57. | :34:59. | |
has changed and they don't feel they have got control any more. Now, they | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
think they will have control. It is interesting to see already it is the | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
market that are determining what our future is going to be and that | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
control will be even less, I fear. We spoke during the course of the | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
evening on Thursday on our overnight programme and you said there needed | :35:20. | :35:21. | |
to be some serious soul-searching for Labour in Wales. We have heard | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
Carwyn Jones saying, it wasn't my referendum, it was all about the | :35:28. | :35:32. | |
timing, it was all about giving the Tories are kicking. He isn't | :35:33. | :35:36. | |
entering a period of soul searching and reflection. Until we reconnect | :35:37. | :35:41. | |
with our working class voters are in serious trouble. We didn't listen to | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
them and they were not listening to us. We need to get a better method | :35:47. | :35:52. | |
of communication, we need to be in listening mode and we need to act. | :35:53. | :35:56. | |
Is that coming from the leadership? Do you think Arwyn Jones is aware of | :35:57. | :36:03. | |
that? Carwyn Jones luck that the results and the results of the | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
Assembly elections. We did well in the terms of number of seats but we | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
did badly in then number of votes. That is a real problem for us. Until | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
we respond we are going to be in deep trouble as a political party. | :36:18. | :36:24. | |
Andrew RT Davies, looking ahead, what happened Thursday morning was | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
the pound had a terrible drop, the market reacted badly. Was that worse | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
than you expected? Did you anticipate that would happen or were | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
you concerned about what happened was Mike the market was down by 3.5% | :36:38. | :36:44. | |
closed on Friday. None of the deals that were in place on Thursday | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
morning had gone by Friday morning. They will not be gone by Monday | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
morning. The project is funded, the schemes that they will begin to ring | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
and the jobs will be continuing. Negotiations now start and it'll be | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
up to the UK Government to enact Article 50. Now was not the time for | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
hotheads. Now is it time for reflection and vision. There is a | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
lot of work to be done. In terms of the money coming into Wales our | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
viewers will be concerned, hundreds of millions of pounds came to Wales | :37:21. | :37:23. | |
the EU grants. At that will continue. Is that definite? It is a | :37:24. | :37:33. | |
fact that when people go to work on Monday morning, when they go to work | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
in 18 months' time, that many were still becoming an eco-zit is a | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
seven-year programme up to 2020 and that many is guaranteed to come in | :37:42. | :37:51. | |
and stop what if we have left a 2018? What happens between then and | :37:52. | :37:58. | |
2020. It will be for the government of the day to continue with the | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
programmes and make the money available. How's that many is | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
distributed will be up to the UK Government and the devolved | :38:07. | :38:12. | |
governments. Let me explain the point in time to make. The central | :38:13. | :38:15. | |
argument that was on the ballot paper was allowing people to take | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
decisions and vote politicians in to enact those decisions. The general | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
election in 2020 will be mapping out the territory we will will be | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
undertaking. It will be for people the length and breadth of these | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
islands to vote on the government they wish to serve. The other point | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
I was making was about reflection, vision for the future and where we | :38:39. | :38:42. | |
want to be. That is big game we're doing now. Where we want this | :38:43. | :38:46. | |
country to go because the public have spoken. There is plenty of | :38:47. | :38:49. | |
reflection about who should have done this and that. I was on a | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
programme with a First Minister this morning and he said this wasn't his | :38:54. | :38:56. | |
election. We have heard from Nicola Sturgeon, | :38:57. | :39:06. | |
there are plans in place and stop those Carwyn Jones have plans in | :39:07. | :39:08. | |
place? Wherein a situation of economic coal | :39:09. | :39:16. | |
and constitutional meltdown. There's no point shying away from that. We | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
need is strong leadership. But is there a plan? | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
Nobody foresaw this situation in quite the way it is panning out. | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
What we did have is a whole load of promises that were made by people | :39:31. | :39:34. | |
like Andrew RT Davies that we were going to see three and ?50 million a | :39:35. | :39:40. | |
week coming into how our NHS. That many would still come in to the | :39:41. | :39:48. | |
Buddhist communities stop Nicola Sturgeon is engaging with other | :39:49. | :39:52. | |
countries, making plans and moving ahead. It seems to me we are still | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
licking wounds and saying that money has to come from somewhere rather | :39:58. | :40:02. | |
than going after that. Carwyn Jones has set out clear | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
radius of what he once to be involved in. He was to make sure | :40:07. | :40:10. | |
that money keeps on coming to Wales. The first thing we have to do is to | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
stabilise the economy. People are pulling money out out of our | :40:15. | :40:20. | |
economy. Jobs are being lost and many will not be graceful tax. Our | :40:21. | :40:26. | |
services... Is Carwyn Jones showing leadership? | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
Is he a strong enough leader for this turbulent period? | :40:31. | :40:35. | |
Carwyn Jones came out fighting the next day. He set out clear proposals | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
and one of those was he wants to be at the negotiating table. What we | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
know is we cannot leave the European Union without the endorsement of the | :40:46. | :40:49. | |
Welsh Government. That is something that have to be sought and which | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
means he will be... You are happy Carwyn Jones | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
continues? Absolutely, without question. He is | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
showing the leadership. It is difficult because Wales voted no | :41:03. | :41:08. | |
Mac. It puts him in a difficult city ratio. We cannot come in all good | :41:09. | :41:15. | |
conscience, go to Brussels and make the same case that Nicola Sturgeon | :41:16. | :41:20. | |
is making. We will wait to see who the next | :41:21. | :41:26. | |
leader of the Conservative Party has. You say then needs to be a | :41:27. | :41:30. | |
prime, surely people at home will be asking what on earth is the plan? | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
You well hoping for this. This referendum was in our manifesto | :41:36. | :41:41. | |
in 2015. It isn't an unforeseen referendum. There were lots of other | :41:42. | :41:44. | |
commitments made in that manifesto that was endorsed by the public. | :41:45. | :41:52. | |
What is the plan after Brexit? To go into negotiations with European | :41:53. | :41:55. | |
Union over balancing our relationship will stop we trade | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
globally, we trade with our allies that that is a bright future for | :42:01. | :42:03. | |
this country. We have a fifth-largest economy. We are not | :42:04. | :42:10. | |
any more. We are the sixth. People want to talk down the democratic | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
decision now was taken on Thursday. It was endorsed by 17 of the 22 | :42:15. | :42:24. | |
areas counted in Wales. What happens next? You are talking in platitudes | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
of being the sixth largest economy. That isn't something you can go to | :42:31. | :42:33. | |
Brussels and saying. There is nothing... | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
We will continue to trade and have access into market whether they be | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
European or global and we will have the money available to send around | :42:43. | :42:48. | |
the regions and countries as committed to stop that happen. Every | :42:49. | :42:51. | |
five years there will be an election. The government will give | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
their priorities. People will speak through the ballot box for the first | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
time in 45 years. It is important politicians raise their game, don't | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
look back with acrimony and work on vision for the future, a future that | :43:06. | :43:11. | |
looks very bright. Eluned Morgan, you said the Welsh Government has to | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
give its stamp of approval in this referendum. Nicola Sturgeon has said | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
she's not sure if the Scottish parliament will do that. If this was | :43:20. | :43:25. | |
government refused for this to be ratified it be huge betrayal for the | :43:26. | :43:30. | |
people of Wales who voted for it. We've got two years before we get to | :43:31. | :43:35. | |
the end of the negotiation. The EU will be a different place within two | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
years. Issues like the free movement of people whisper on the table | :43:40. | :43:47. | |
within DEV. We shouldn't really press ahead to quickly here. Now was | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
the time for calm heads, we need stability in the markets, we need to | :43:52. | :43:55. | |
make sure people feel they can invest in our economy and that is a | :43:56. | :44:01. | |
long-term prospects for our country. We have got much time left. Andrew | :44:02. | :44:07. | |
RT Davies, if it turns out the Welsh Government, Scotland and Northern | :44:08. | :44:17. | |
Ireland use the power to stop the referendum going ahead? | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
These discussions need to take place first. Ultimately, it'll be for the | :44:22. | :44:27. | |
deal to be put before the legislators and Parliament and | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
assemblers of the UK and it could be there was a general election in 2020 | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
that would determine it by a vote of the whole country. We have a | :44:36. | :44:41. | |
government in place only recently elected with key commitments, key | :44:42. | :44:44. | |
manifesto pledges which it will continue to deliver. This | :44:45. | :44:50. | |
referendum, the people spoke. 48% of the population chose to remain Mac. | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
It is vital that views Alison to. Thank you both are coming in. We | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
have two knock it on behalf of there. | :45:02. | :45:02. | |
This morning's events prove that nowadays a day | :45:03. | :45:04. | |
is a long time in politics, never mind a week. | :45:05. | :45:06. | |
Frankly, no-one knows how the next few days, | :45:07. | :45:08. | |
never mind the next few weeks and months, will pan out. | :45:09. | :45:11. | |
We do however know that there are events this week | :45:12. | :45:13. | |
which will affect the direction the UK takes in the long run. | :45:14. | :45:16. | |
Get your pens out and find me a window in your diaries as we look | :45:17. | :45:20. | |
First thing tomorrow morning, Carwyn Jones will meet his cabinet | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
to discuss the Welsh Government's latest reaction to Brexit. | :45:25. | :45:28. | |
MPs will return to Parliament to feverish speculation | :45:29. | :45:32. | |
about who will be Prime Minister when David Cameron stands down. | :45:33. | :45:35. | |
Will it be Boris Johnson or Theresa May? | :45:36. | :45:37. | |
Or do others, like Stephen Crabb, stand a good chance? | :45:38. | :45:41. | |
Equally feverish will be the speculation about the future | :45:42. | :45:43. | |
Tomorrow night is the weekly meeting of Labour MPs. | :45:44. | :45:50. | |
You would pay good many to be a fly on the wall there. | :45:51. | :45:53. | |
On Tuesday, AMs from all parties will get the chance to quiz | :45:54. | :45:56. | |
Carwyn Jones about his reaction to Brexit during First | :45:57. | :45:59. | |
In Brussels, a special sitting of the European Parliament | :46:00. | :46:07. | |
will discuss what has happened and David Cameron | :46:08. | :46:09. | |
will address the leaders of the other 27 EU member states. | :46:10. | :46:11. | |
On Wednesday, those states will meet without the UK for the first time to | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
Back in the Commons, MPs will have their first chance | :46:16. | :46:20. | |
to question the Prime Minister since the vote. | :46:21. | :46:23. | |
who can say where we will be at that point? | :46:24. | :46:27. | |
But this is an enough for is be to getting on with, I think. | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
Well, I can't think of a week where there has been more | :46:32. | :46:34. | |
to talk about in politics, so we thought we'd invite two | :46:35. | :46:36. | |
stalwarts who know all the main players and have got their finger | :46:37. | :46:39. | |
The Sonny and Cher of political punditry! | :46:40. | :46:42. | |
The analyst Valerie Livingston and our political editor, | :46:43. | :46:45. | |
One of the things I listen to this morning, is the current government, | :46:46. | :47:04. | |
is that strong and stable enough for the tumultuous period to come? | :47:05. | :47:11. | |
Opening the door possibly to some kind of formal coalition between | :47:12. | :47:15. | |
Labour and Plaid Cymru which is the kind of questions being asked. In | :47:16. | :47:19. | |
answer to that, Leanne Wood is saying she is in listening mode and | :47:20. | :47:22. | |
there is a need for unity. In terms of what we have heard from Carwyn | :47:23. | :47:26. | |
Jones I think he is pretty cool on the idea. He and word was talking | :47:27. | :47:32. | |
about a joint negotiating team heading to London or Brussels. In | :47:33. | :47:38. | |
the conversations and the interviews we had with Carwyn Jones he wants to | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
be in the top team heading to Brussels. I'm not sure if he wants | :47:43. | :47:47. | |
to book a seat for Leanne Wood. He sees it in his role. That call for | :47:48. | :47:54. | |
unity may have merit. We're going to have some really acrimonious moments | :47:55. | :47:59. | |
in the weeks and months ahead. Maybe we can expand on them. In terms of | :48:00. | :48:06. | |
this negotiating process that will be kicked off soon, we see Nicola | :48:07. | :48:12. | |
Sturgeon already being proactive than Wales. Is that the sense you | :48:13. | :48:18. | |
are getting? We are seeing clear leadership from Scotland. Carwyn | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
Jones has set out his approach already. His hand isn't so strong. | :48:24. | :48:29. | |
She had the voter Remain in Scotland. Carwyn Jones on the other | :48:30. | :48:35. | |
hand had the votes to Leave. It be more difficult for him to make some | :48:36. | :48:38. | |
of the arguments Achille Sturgeon is making. What does that say about | :48:39. | :48:48. | |
labour in Wales? They didn't manage to get their supporters to support | :48:49. | :48:56. | |
an important issue. There are huge questions to answer here. Carwyn | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
Jones is talking about having to disconnect bash deal with this | :49:01. | :49:06. | |
disconnection with communities. No sense from him he wants to take | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
responsibility for it. In reality he was heading up a campaign to remain | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
in that palpably failed in Wales. Clearly, the question is being asked | :49:19. | :49:24. | |
that the Assembly campaign. The reality was all of the politicians | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
in Wales including us were focused on the Assembly at the same time | :49:31. | :49:36. | |
Wales was heading towards a Brexit. On the Brexit side, they were | :49:37. | :49:38. | |
delighted with that. They were pleased with the direction this was | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
going. From the Remain side laboured in particular they weren't engaging | :49:43. | :49:48. | |
with people on the doorstep. The huge fear was the word confuse | :49:49. | :49:56. | |
people. When they did go out and they witnessed this, it was an | :49:57. | :49:59. | |
extraordinary example of momentum in politics. When the anti-EU | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
sentiments, particularly in the South Wales Valleys, had established | :50:04. | :50:11. | |
itself you couldn't remove it. Compare and contrast by what we saw | :50:12. | :50:13. | |
in Northern Ireland, Scotland and London. What did they do that Wales | :50:14. | :50:23. | |
didn't? They all started from different political places. In | :50:24. | :50:26. | |
Scotland with another debate about Scotland's constitutional process. | :50:27. | :50:34. | |
In Wales, the Constitution has been a bit more settled. This is the | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
first time we'd had some of these debates. People may be felt they | :50:39. | :50:50. | |
hadn't been heard before. Do get the sense, it is necessarily Scotland is | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
plural European, people feel they have been listened to. Scotland have | :50:56. | :51:01. | |
been thinking about constitutional issues and understand how the EU | :51:02. | :51:07. | |
impact on their life. Europe hasn't been high on the political agenda in | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
Wales. We have heard an awful lot this | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
morning from the challenge facing Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the | :51:18. | :51:24. | |
-- Leader of the Opposition. What about the leader of the Conservative | :51:25. | :51:30. | |
Party? How likely is it we might face a general election this year. | :51:31. | :51:36. | |
The big question seems to be is it inevitable that we will have a | :51:37. | :51:42. | |
Brexit ear as the next prime in day? That person will be heading up the | :51:43. | :51:48. | |
negotiations and will have to reflect the democratic will of the | :51:49. | :51:50. | |
United Kingdom and it would be odd if that person was and is prominent | :51:51. | :51:56. | |
in the campaign. The flip side is, how divisive this has been for so | :51:57. | :52:01. | |
many people. It was a narrow victory to leave in the end. There is a huge | :52:02. | :52:05. | |
Shankhar the population who still has to be represented. Yuri former | :52:06. | :52:11. | |
political strategist, if you were advising Labour MPs at the moment, | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
when you look at the Conservatives think there are a fair of problems | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
going on there, is this the good time for them to take out there | :52:21. | :52:25. | |
leader? Labour has been and the pressure for nine months. Is it a | :52:26. | :52:31. | |
surprise we have yet more pressure in a moment of crisis? I wonder if a | :52:32. | :52:37. | |
general election is the right thing. The Pru is being endorsements for a | :52:38. | :52:40. | |
new Prime Minister, the cons being more stability as we are in a | :52:41. | :52:48. | |
uncertain period. If you're the leader of the Conservative Party, | :52:49. | :52:51. | |
you would go for a fresh election. You could have a split Labour Party. | :52:52. | :53:02. | |
Look at Gordon Brown's experience. Perhaps, you would but so many | :53:03. | :53:07. | |
factors to take into consideration. Either parties -- are the parties in | :53:08. | :53:12. | |
any state to fight a general election? Is the media in any state | :53:13. | :53:18. | |
to take on another general election? What about the next week or two? | :53:19. | :53:25. | |
That is cabinets sorry morning, First Minister's Questions on | :53:26. | :53:28. | |
Wednesday. It is difficult to predict. It is worth saying we have | :53:29. | :53:38. | |
got to of the major parties are not bound. That is all too scene in the | :53:39. | :53:43. | |
events playing out of this morning in labour. The fundamental question | :53:44. | :53:51. | |
is a rough time scale has been set out by David Cameron in terms of the | :53:52. | :53:58. | |
leadership election in the summer. Once that leader is in place, to put | :53:59. | :54:02. | |
together a negotiating team and to set the motion. Where there it is | :54:03. | :54:09. | |
because in the U, whether that timescale is feasible, bearing in | :54:10. | :54:12. | |
mind the tough talking we have had from the EU already. When that they | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
do she seemed team starts, Carwyn Jones wants to be in a top team that | :54:17. | :54:24. | |
goes out and stop is that likely? Him and the first ministers of more | :54:25. | :54:28. | |
from Ireland and Scotland? Part of the team perhaps but how well heard | :54:29. | :54:36. | |
Will our voices be? Carwyn Jones has we can considered -- compared with | :54:37. | :54:39. | |
Nicola Sturgeon. That's it from me at the end | :54:40. | :54:41. | |
of a momentous week. We'll be back next Sunday | :54:42. | :54:44. | |
with all the latest news. You can follow all the latest | :54:45. | :54:46. | |
developments on Twitter, Diolch am wylio, thanks | :54:47. | :54:48. | |
for watching, time to go added together. OK, thank you very | :54:49. | :54:53. | |
much indeed. Andrew, back to you. Welcome back, in a moment we'll look | :54:54. | :55:05. | |
ahead to what's going to be Let's give a look at what we have | :55:06. | :55:20. | |
behind us. The world's press and cameras are here. This is the back | :55:21. | :55:26. | |
short of us, where we are along with the other networks and international | :55:27. | :55:29. | |
networks following the story as it unravels. It is turning out to be | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
sunny and warm day here in Westminster. Those who didn't watch | :55:35. | :55:39. | |
the Sunday Politics in East Midlands, I can tell you that Vernon | :55:40. | :55:44. | |
Coker, the Northern Ireland Shadow Minister, has said he is positioning | :55:45. | :55:47. | |
his position in the Shadow Cabinet as well, as well as the shadow | :55:48. | :55:53. | |
Scottish secretary Iain Murray. In a moment we will be looking ahead to a | :55:54. | :55:57. | |
busy week in politics but first let's go to Jo. As you said, it is | :55:58. | :56:07. | |
all going on, we have a vote of no-confidence in Jeremy Corbyn, | :56:08. | :56:11. | |
Shadow Cabinet resignations with more expected later today, and with | :56:12. | :56:19. | |
any at all the grass movement Momentum will be very important. | :56:20. | :56:24. | |
With me now is James Schneider from that group, joined by Stephen | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
Kinnock, who backs that no-confidence motion. What is wrong | :56:30. | :56:36. | |
with Jeremy Corbyn's leadership? In terms of accountability it was a | :56:37. | :56:39. | |
half-hearted and lacklustre campaign, and led to the wrong | :56:40. | :56:44. | |
result for the people we are elected to represent. There is a real | :56:45. | :56:47. | |
important issue of capability as well. The results of the referendum | :56:48. | :56:51. | |
has completely changed British politics. The next free, five, ten | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
years will be about the Brexit negotiations. We need a negotiating | :56:57. | :57:01. | |
team where the Leader of the Opposition plays a key role, that | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
means he has to be a negotiator, someone who can roll up their | :57:06. | :57:09. | |
sleeves and work to secure the best possible deal for the British | :57:10. | :57:13. | |
people. Whilst I have a huge amount of respect for Jeremy as a | :57:14. | :57:17. | |
politician, he's not a negotiator. I don't think he has the skills or | :57:18. | :57:22. | |
experience we need. It is over, we have had Shadow Cabinet | :57:23. | :57:27. | |
resignations, it has been confirmed Iain Murray will resign, the Labour | :57:28. | :57:32. | |
Party doesn't have any MPs who could serve in Scotland in that Shadow | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
Cabinet, he has got to go. He doesn't have to go at all. The | :57:38. | :57:43. | |
membership is still behind him. More importantly, the country cannot | :57:44. | :57:47. | |
afford for us to be having this divisive civil war right now. | :57:48. | :57:51. | |
Politics has changed, we are in this crisis period, and I think we will | :57:52. | :57:55. | |
be looked on very badly by the electorate for having spent the next | :57:56. | :57:59. | |
three months talking about ourselves, fighting with ourselves, | :58:00. | :58:02. | |
rather than putting together a strong case for how we can get | :58:03. | :58:07. | |
something decent out of this Brexit. But how does he go on from here? If | :58:08. | :58:12. | |
you doesn't have the support, he cannot fill those posts. Of course | :58:13. | :58:18. | |
it can go on. People will fill those positions. Diane Abbott, a member of | :58:19. | :58:25. | |
the Shadow Cabinet, very supportive of Jeremy Corbyn, has just said that | :58:26. | :58:28. | |
no-confidence motion is nonsense really. It has no status and you | :58:29. | :58:34. | |
should go on from another party. Of course it will be up to Jeremy to | :58:35. | :58:37. | |
decide whether he wants to stand again. The key point about the | :58:38. | :58:42. | |
mandate is that it is true he got a thumping mandate but that was then | :58:43. | :58:48. | |
and this is now. What I think is very important is the membership | :58:49. | :58:51. | |
understands we are going to have a general election before the end of | :58:52. | :58:55. | |
this year. The new Tory leader will have to seek a fresh mandate, and | :58:56. | :58:59. | |
the mandate for the leader 's pre-referendum is completely | :59:00. | :59:07. | |
different to the post referendum. That is completely untrue. If you | :59:08. | :59:10. | |
look at the response from the grass-roots to this corner of | :59:11. | :59:14. | |
no-confidence, there is a petition calling for no-confidence which has | :59:15. | :59:18. | |
maybe 1000 people have signed it online. Many more of called for a | :59:19. | :59:26. | |
vote of confidence for him. We cannot afford to have this silly | :59:27. | :59:30. | |
infighting. Right now, we should be talking about what offer we will | :59:31. | :59:35. | |
make to those voters that have left Labour, those voters that voted for | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
Brexit. What felt we will make and how to play a constructive role in | :59:41. | :59:45. | |
this exit negotiation. Having a three-month long fight, which Jeremy | :59:46. | :59:48. | |
Corbyn will win, is not the way to do it. I hope the membership will | :59:49. | :59:54. | |
understand that the world has completely changed since the | :59:55. | :59:57. | |
Thursday result, and that's why the job description for the leader of | :59:58. | :00:01. | |
the Labour Party has completely changed. The motion of no confidence | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
has been put in motion so the idea that we are not now going to have | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
this divisive debates, I'm afraid it is happening so let's wake up, smell | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
the coffee and move on. But what about the point that Jeremy Corbyn | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
will win another leadership contest, if the membership is still very much | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
behind him he will plead again. That is the debate we must have. I hope | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
we can refrain so the membership can see we need a different job | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
description. Who could do this better than Jeremy Corbyn? Someone | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
who is used to being in a room where people disagree with him. Jeremy | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Corbyn is used to being part of rallies where everybody agrees with | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
him. But you have to have an idea. Because of the Labour leadership | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
rules, if you want to have a new leader in place, who will it be? You | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
have to rally round someone. You are not going to draw me on putting | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
names out there. We have to get candidates to set out their stall | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
but they have to be basing their stall on the new job description. In | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
a way Jeremy Corbyn lost the referendum, he was not on the site | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
to leave the EU. Neither was I. I was pro-quote-macro. So was I, we | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
lost. In the same way it would be silly to blame you for the fact that | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
something like 60% of people in your constituency voted for Leave, that | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
is not the right response. This debate is going to continue whether | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
I am going to stop it or not but that is it from us here. Back to | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
you, Andrew. Just to confirm that Iain Murray has resigned live | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
on-air. We have our panel back here for the final few moments on our | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
network broadcast. Just to finish off on what has happened, the Labour | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
Party has Tom Watson stuck in the mud in Glastonbury but probably on | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
his way back now, deputy leader, Old Labour, what will his role be? I can | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
see a way in which he presents himself as a stability candidate. At | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
the same election Jeremy Corbyn won convincingly, so did Tom Watson, and | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
he has his own support base. He was involved in another Labour coup you | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
remember some time ago. With Gordon Brown. I think he would come out of | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
this quite well. We were talking earlier about a lame duck | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
government, almost most important is the Chancellor that has gone | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
missing. Doesn't George Osborne, given the potential short-term | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
impact on the markets, have to say something? | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
In a certain these same as the Governor of the Bank of England did. | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
What I have heard, he has been talking to financial institutions. | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
The government can do enough to prevent absolutely -- absolute | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
pandemonium in either the equity markets or the currency markets, | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
rather than the Guild markets. Can they do enough to prevent a real | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
economy downturn in either this quarter or the next quarter. I think | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
it is out of their hands. There might be a general election during a | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
recession, relatively soon. I cannot imagine the last time that happened | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
in this country. The Tories have got to choose a new leader to be Prime | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Minister. The Prime Minister has got to give a rough idea of how he's | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
going to negotiate. Or she. I think in this case, probably not. We will | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
see. How they are going to negotiate out of the EU. Should they call an | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
election first to get a mandate for that? I think this is a red herring. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
I cannot see why any new arrival at Number 10 would want to take that | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
risk. Remember how wafer thin the Tory majority is already. This is an | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
incredibly febrile atmosphere. It feels too unpredictable, I would | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
have thought, for any new prime ministers to take that risk. Too big | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
a risk? Absolutely. Even if the Labour Party is still in chaos? If | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
the Labour Party brings in a leader who is less alienating to large | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
parts of the country, it will focus the minds of the Conservatives. The | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
big advantage at the Conservatives have is the probably have the money | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
to fight another election, Labour do not. Would a new leader of the | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
Conservative Party, if there is still running gorilla war against | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, would they be tempted to call an election | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
or would it be too big a risk? When there is a change of Prime Minister, | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
voters quite like the idea they should have a say. Lots of people in | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
Westminster have been influenced by what happened to Gordon Brown in | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
2007. He took over without a general election and always seemed to lack | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
legitimacy as a result. He did not even have an internal competitive | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
Labour Party. That is different. Boris Johnson will have to go | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
through quite a slog against a serious rival to get that job, which | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
lends a certain degree of legitimacy, so it is not incumbent | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
on him or her to call an election. If they called an election and | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
Jeremy Corbyn was leader, you would expect them to win. That is why | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
Labour are going out of their way to install a more credible leader, | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
before that happens. We cannot have an election in November. We will | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
see. Stay tuned to the news channel for updates throughout the day, and | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
tonight on BBC One, at 6:30pm, there is a Question Time special. The | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Daily Politics tomorrow is on at the earlier time of 11 o'clock. | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
Remember, if it's Sunday, it's the Sunday Politics. | :06:16. | :06:21. |