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career in the fox hunters. We will also have the football and rugby. | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
We thought we would be talking about Paris tonight and the arrest in | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Belgium, but no, in Duncan Smith has put paid to that. With this is a | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
columnist from the daily Mirror and Tim Stanley, columnist for the daily | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
Telegraph. Welcome to you both. An exciting evening. Front pages. The | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
Telegraph leads on in Devon Smith's resignation, saying it risks from | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
the government into disarray. The Times says he chose to resign | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
despite a U-turn by George Osborne. The FT says in Devon Smith has | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
inflicted serious damage on the Chancellor. The Independent has an | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
image of the arrests in Brussels. The minister is a warning from the | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Welsh first Minister that an English vote to leave the European Union | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
would prompt a constitutional crisis if the Welsh chose to remain. | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Carson, the headline on the Daily Mirror next to a picture of Salah | :01:12. | :01:28. | |
Abdeslam. That begin with The Papers that God in Devon Smith on their | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
front page in time. Cabinet minister quits over budget cut. David Smith | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
quits after disability benefit changes. Interesting that they | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
didn't name him because he is a big name. This happened so late in the | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
day. Most newspapers are primping and getting ready for bed at 67 | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
o'clock. To suddenly have this kind of stuff that comes through, you | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
have got five minutes to do an entire new leader, A column, a | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
front-page story of 500 words and get a headline bashed out quick and | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
get it to the printers. They have done well to get it on their front | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
page. The significance of this and the background to it. We knew their | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
were cuts that had been announced in the budget on Wednesday and the ones | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
that concerned people, it seemed, were the ones that would affect | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
some, not all, but some, people in receipt of certain disability | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
benefits. This is a disaster for David Cameron and George Osborne. It | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
capped a week of clock ups. It started with a budget that lacked | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
clarity but contained a throw away proposal that was stolen from the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
DWP to reform benefits which people interpreted as cutting them. The | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
next day, Nicky Morgan, said on BBC question Time that it was only a | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
suggestion as though Parliament was a giant focus group. The next day, a | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
person closed in Devon Smith, said she did not know what she was | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
talking about and later that evening, but is this evening, number | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
ten told newspapers that the entire disability benefit reform package | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
was being kicked into the long grass. Then in Devon Smith resigned. | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
What he said in his letter is that he is angry about two things. One is | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
the ideas he had with welfare reform being stolen from him and put into | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
projects which are all about cutting and, too, he does not like the | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
impression that his welfare reform programme is part of an austerity | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
programme that, to use his words, people perceive as political rather | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
than in the national interest. Duncan Smith is quitting. There will | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
be personal background to this, but he has done so in such a way that | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
casts doubt upon the entire economic programme of George Osborne and will | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
validate in the minds of many voters, the criticisms that Labour | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
has made of the austerity agenda. Why not go on budget day? Why wait | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
until today at the point at which the government is say we are not | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
bothering? If you have a moral objection to cuts or reforms or | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
however you reform edge permit, to welfare programmes and when you are | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
not cutting things like state pensions, then quietly that six | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
years until you decide it is unbearable. One of the most | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
important things today is that there has been a court judgment on an F | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
I/O request made to the DWP asking them to reveal some internal | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
documents about how they assessed Universal Credit, the main reform | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
that in Devon Smith or intimidate. He was told to release these papers | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
three times. The third time is today and he cannot keep appealing it and | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
refusing today. These documents, which are widely expected to show a | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
catalogue of mistakes, are going to have to come out. You have also had | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
the Treasury knifing Duncan Smith today over at this budget. The DWP | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
said they were bounced into producing these figures for the | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
budget. The Treasury and the DWP for making it part of the budget and not | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
think that sums right and now they are rolling back and think they | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
wanted. They have made his position untenable. You have also got to | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
remember, this is someone who is at the centre of the Brexit debate. | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
There is a split party here. Out of the Conservatives want in and have | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
one vote. In Duncan Smith is against the premise to and George Osborne in | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
this matter. Because of the disability reforms which are | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
planned, but has provided a further reason for the party to split and | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
there are Tory MPs saying they will not support the government honoured. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
It is a way of capitalising on a massive differences they have got | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
and dividing everything thoroughly down the middle. The Telegraph have | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
said IDS quits over fury over welfare cuts. In his statement, he | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
said he is proud of his department and the changes to welfare that they | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
have ushered in. Of course, huge controversy, a couple of people | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
critical about the hardships that has brought the people who | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
previously would have received benefits. Other people are saying it | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
has got more people into work because work now pays. How much less | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
likely it would he have been to have walked at this point if it were not | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
for his views on our future in Europe? I agree with that. Because | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
of the Brexit campaign, in Duncan Smith has somewhere to go when he | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
quits. If he had quit and the campaign wasn't on he would have | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
gone back to the backbenches. Now he can become a leading player in the | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
league campaign and can devote his time to it. The complaint if you | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
weeks ago that the civil service were not allowed access to documents | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
which was a civil service policy. Documents related to Brexit. The | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
defence of in Devon Smith and his record, or to try to explain how he | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
would have said, he has regarded it as a moral thing, as being about | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
taking people out of the trap of welfare and helping them into work. | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Whether you judge that is accurate or not, he argues that by taking his | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
policies, by stealing them, and putting them into the budget, the | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
Chancellor was reinterpreting in the public imagination, something that | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
was supposed to help people into something that was saving money when | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
the government cut taxes for the rich. There is also a personal | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
dimension. I have a source who has worked with both men and says that | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
the tension between them was extraordinary and, in fact, as he | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
put it, curse words were thrown around in chapters which, in Tory | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
speak, is almost like killing. There is a personal background to this. I | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
think IDS is trying to cast this as a materialistic, libertarian | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
Chancellor stealing his compassionate conservatism agenda | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
and miss using it to make austerity. There is a lot of that in the | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
budget. The stuff on academic -- academies is something that the | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Education Secretary should announce. Instead it was used in the budget. | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
There were things like policies which would usually go to ministers | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
that they have worked out, they would get credit for, go on the news | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
to talk up and to sell and, instead, Osborne gets the glory. How much | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
will that be a problem for George Osborne because he was talking about | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
other cuts, I'd take that risk? This will turn into something worse than | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
his terrible budget in the early days of the coalition because what | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
this will show is that Osborne will find it difficult now. He has been | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
seen for a while as the natural successor to David Cameron when he | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
steps down and this will be difficult because if he is the | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
person who is accused behind the scenes of stealing everyone else was | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
macro policies, the party will not support him in pushing through to | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
the leader ship. In Duncan Smith is not a potential leader again, he had | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
his chance and he bled. He is outside the tent, he is very, very | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
loose cannon and the chances of knifing Osborne, he has already | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
knifed him today fairly thoroughly and he has blamed the Chancellor for | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
all his problems for six years, now he will like left right and centre | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
as part of the Brexit debate for the 15 months and the next couple of | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
years. The Institute of fiscal studies have said further cuts would | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
be necessary, so there will be more cuts to debate. All of this | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
validates, I cannot believe I am saying this, John McDonald's | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
criticism of the government which is that it insisted austerity was | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
necessary in order to bring the deficit down and that hasn't | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
happened. Given that it hasn't happened, either can make the | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
argument, why don't we invest in infrastructure and now they can | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
point to a letter by a former cabinet minister that says austerity | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
could be interpreted as being political, rather than a necessity. | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
This is a real winner for the Labour Party and we will see if they have | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
got the confidence to use it. We will move on and give another story | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
a begin tonight. We will come back to this at half past 11. World's | :10:35. | :10:44. | |
most wanted man arrested, police finally sees the key Paris attack | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
suspect after four months on the run. This is the 26-year-old Salah | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
Abdeslam who, they think, might have been in the flat that they raided on | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
Tuesday thinking the apartment was empty in another part of Belgium and | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
now come here they were in this district very close to the centre of | :11:04. | :11:14. | |
Brussels. Near his brother's address, which you would think they | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
would check. This is a part of Europe where it feels like Europe is | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
not necessarily represented. There is a gun trade there, there are | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
large communities of Muslims, some of whom appear to have been | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
radicalised. I just think, one thing I hope comes out of this is a -- | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
aside from punishment and retribution, which will be | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
necessary, we could to better understand why he did this. They | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
have got him alive. That is rare when dealing with these kinds of | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
terrorists. As well as finding out what he knows and confirming things | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
to Islamic State, we need to know exactly who he is working with, I | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
really hope this will experience can contribute to public understanding | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
of exactly why it is that young men from an immigrant background, he was | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
from Morocco, he was not exactly destitute, he slipped in and out of | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
petty crime, he didn't have much point in his life, why it was that | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
he turned, and his brother turned, into terrorists. I hope that comes | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
out of this. Five people detained today, including three members of | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
one family who seem to have been helping him. Hugely important for | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Belgium because it is a strained relationship with France, | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
suggestions the Belgian authorities had been lax in their pursuit of | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
terrorist suspects. They got him by accident. If they went after him he | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
would probably be dead. Belgian authorities were found to have left | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
the guns across the border for the Charnley had the attacks at the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
beginning of last year. By the attacks at the end of last year they | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
were still letting comes across the border. The Belgian police are not | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
exactly the hottest and added to which they have been living for this | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
man for four months and it turns out he was in the suburb he was living | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
in beforehand and people have been saying that everyone in that area | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
knew he was there and the police had not bothered to go down there and | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
make someone tell them where he was. There is another assessment of this | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
that some people thought he might have gone to Syria, other people | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
saying no, if you want to stay hidden, you do not move around too | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
much. You do not create waves. You keep quiet and electronic data as | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
well. That makes sense. You will be noticed crossing borders. That is | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
where they are looking for people. Why on earth did they not check | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
where he had been? We know how it works. Go of grid. He seems to have | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
done that quite well. I would be surprised if, when we look into it, | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
we do not find that he was popping down the newsagents every morning | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
and they should have picked him up a lot sooner. The suggestion is that | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
he will be extradited, the French want him back to put on trial there. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
How easy will that be? Well Belgium not want to make an example of him? | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
He has not committed any crimes, as far as we know, in Belgium. The main | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
crime he is wanted for his involvement with murders in France. | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
The French will have first chance in terms of the European wristwatch. It | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
is amazing they have a terrorist this important alive. It shows why, | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
going in and killing someone like Osama Bin Laden is not necessarily | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
the best thing to do. The marker of them. It is better to have them and | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
need to look bad. An important date for the family and friends of those | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
who were killed. 130 people died in those attacks. That is it for The | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
Papers this hour. Tim and Susie will be back for another look at the | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
front pages at half past 11. Coming up next it is time for sports | :15:05. | :15:05. |