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The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, is coming under pressure | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
over his plan to increase National Insurance payments for many | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
Some of his own MPs are unhappy with the plan. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
Those on higher earnings will be paying a little bit more. We think | :00:23. | :00:34. | |
that is fair, we think it is a reasonable way to go forward, given | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
the benefits entitlement of the self-employed has improved so much. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Labour threatened to unite with Tory rebels to force a government | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
climb-down. A former undercover policeman | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
who posed as an addict to infiltrate risks he took and how he was stabbed | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
and stripped naked at gun point. And we'll be live in central London | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
as the Queen honours British military personnel who have served | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
in Iraq and Afghanistan. In half an hour, we'll be | :01:07. | :01:19. | |
answering your questions, so please do get in touch | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
with anything you want to know about your family | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
or business finances. If you text, you will be charged | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
at the standard network rate. The Chancellor is facing | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
accusations of breaking an election pledge by increasing | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
National Insurance contributions After his Budget announcement, | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
Philip Hammond is facing growing pressure to reconsider his plan | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
from some Conservative MPs. The Treasury has rejected | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
calls for a re-think, insisting the increase will make | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
the National Insurance Let's get more on this from our | :01:59. | :01:59. | |
political guru, Norman Smith. How much pressure is he under? Huge | :02:00. | :02:15. | |
pressure. It is not just Mr Hammond has broken the Conservative Party | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
election manifesto, many Tories oppose on principle a tax rise on | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
people's income, but more than that, they believe this hit on the | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
self-employed is basically hitting people who the Tory party believe | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
are there people, they go out, start a business, form a company. Look at | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
some of the conservative supporting newspapers this morning. This is no | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
laughing matter, Tories break tax vow. At the moment, the Treasury is | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
hanging tough, saying there is no U-turn. Philip Hammond is still | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
defending the line that they didn't break the manifesto. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
We regard that issue has dealt with, we dealt with it in 2015. What I did | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
yesterday was address a basic continuing unfairness in the current | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
system, the benefits available to the self-employed have significantly | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
improved, they have full access to the state pension now, that is worth | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
?1800 a year on average to a self-employed person. As we go | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
forward with our negotiations with the EU, we need to make this country | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
strong and fit and ready for the future. My take is either Mr Hammond | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
is a much braver Chancellor than any of us have given him credit for or | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
his political and ten I have gone on the blink. If it is the former, he | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
is being extraordinarily brawled -- antennae. Maybe the Treasury think | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
it is a taxonomically that needs to be ironed out. It is simply unfair | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
they pay less tax, the self-employed, maybe. It is costing | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
the Treasury a whopping amount of money for stock this year alone it | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
is thought it is costing the Treasury ?5 billion. As we move into | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
an increasingly digital economy, it is thought more people will work for | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
themselves. In other words, the potential for much bigger losses of | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
money down the line are leave very significant and perhaps that is in | :04:28. | :04:39. | |
the back of the Chancellor's mind when he chooses to make what is | :04:40. | :04:39. | |
still a hugely controversial decision. What is your thought on | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
that? Do let us know. Now let us catch up with the rest of the news. | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has told the BBC | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
that the common-sense time for a second independence referendum | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
A vote can only take place with the permission | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
But her remarks, to the BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
are the clearest signal yet that the SNP is planning to hold | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
another vote before the UK leaves the European Union. | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
In Westminster, some politicians think you're bluffing | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
I always think that sometimes kind of says more about them than it does | :05:12. | :05:23. | |
about me because it suggests that there are politicians | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
in Westminster who think Brexit and all of this is some | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
It's not a game, it's really, really serious and the implications | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
for the UK are serious and the implications | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
Some of your colleagues talk about autumn, | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
Within that window, as the outline of a UK deal becomes clear, | :05:45. | :05:56. | |
and the UK exiting the EU, I think it would be the common-sense time | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
for Scotland to have that choice if that is the road we choose | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Just to be clear, you're not ruling out autumn, 2018? | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
Theresa May is travelling to Brussels today to attend what's | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
expected to be her final EU summit before Brexit is formally triggered. | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
EU leaders will decide whether to extend the term of the former | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, as President | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
despite opposition from some in his home country. | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
A United Nations report is to call for an independent investigation | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
into the potential health impact of the UK's largest | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
Residents living near the Ffos-y-Fran site in South Wales | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
have led a long campaign against air and noise pollution. | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
The mine's operator, Miller Argent, says the company has a proud record | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
A memorial honouring the British military personnel and civilians | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since the first | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Gulf War will be unveiled by the Queen this morning. | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Members of the public donated more than ?1 million | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
to fund the monument, as Robert Hall reports. | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
The military deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan over a 24-year | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
period represent the longest and most intense series | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
of operations since the Second World War. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
682 British service personnel lost their lives. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Many others came home with life-changing injuries. | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
The new memorial was first mooted in 2014 and fundraising began | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
It stands on the bank of the Thames, alongside reminders | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
The new monument doesn't just commemorate the Armed Forces, | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
it gives equal prominence to the civilians who worked | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
on the humanitarian side of operations. | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
Government, aid and charity workers, all of whom showed the twin values | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
Although British public opinion was divided over the merits | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
of the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, no-one questions | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
the dedication shown by both military and civilians trying to get | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
The team behind the memorial accept that there is no clear end to this | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
Today's ceremony will reawaken shared experiences | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
We will have live coverage from the unveiling of the new war memorial | :08:19. | :08:34. | |
later in the programme. Hawaii has become the first US state | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
to challenge President Trump's Hawaii's attorney general said | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
Mr Trump had violated the constitution with his redrawn | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
executive order banning travel from He said it would damage | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
state commerce, including its lucrative tourism | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
industry. Guatemala is observing three days | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
of national mourning after 22 teenage girls died | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
in a fire at a government-run Police say the fire started | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
after some of the girls set alight mattresses following an attempt | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
to escape from the Malta's famous rock arch, | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
which featured in a number of films and the TV series Game of Thrones, | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
has collapsed into the sea. The Azure Window, on Gozo, | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
was damaged by heavy storms. The Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
said it was heartbreaking. A study | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
of the arch in 2013 said A man in Australia who posed | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
online as Justin Bieber has been charged with more than 900 | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
child sex offences. The 42-year old man is accused | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
of persuading fans of the star Police say he had been | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
using a number of sites, including Facebook and Skype, | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
to communicate with children. We understand that the charges go | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
back as much as ten years, to 2007, and he was actually caught, | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
it is alleged, through an international operation | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
with police in America and Europe becoming aware of him, | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
before he was tracked back Now they suggest what he was | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
doing was going online, posing as Justin Bieber, | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
and soliciting indecent images from children, so really winning | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
and abusing their trust, some very young and | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
vulnerable victims. And the scale of it, the police say, | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
is really quite horrific. An actor from the Harry Potter films | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
is in intensive care after a head-on car crash left him with a broken | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
neck and punctured lung. Jim Tavare, known for his role | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
in Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban, also suffered 15 broken | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
ribs and breaks in his right leg. His wife, Laura, posted a picture of | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
him in a hospital bed on Facebook. That's a summary of | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
the latest BBC News. Thank you. Just after 9:30am, we | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
will talk to a personal finance expert. If you have any questions | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
about the Budget, let us know. Do get in touch with us | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
throughout the morning - If you text, you will be charged | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
at the standard network rate. One person is saying, I watched the | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
Budget and I do not understand whether it is business as usual for | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
me. I am a serving soldier. We will be asking our guest at half past | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
nine the answer to that for you. If you have questions, we would love to | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
have them. Right now, let us catch up with the sport. There is only one | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
story in town, Barcelona pulling off the greatest comeback in the history | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
of the Champions League. I did not see it because I was watching | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Manchester City against Stoke. Absolutely gutted! Incredible match | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
will stop Woody been compared to the greatest comeback in sporting | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
history. -- incredible match. It has already been compared to. Liverpool | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
2005, back from 3-0 down to beat Inter Milan. Barcelona needed to | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
overturn a four goal deficit. They were 3-0 up after 50 minutes. Then | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
this happened. PSG scored. Absolutely out of sight, 5-3 on | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
aggregate. This from Neymar. Seven minutes to play. Outstanding free | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
kick from Neymar to make it 4-1. Still needed two. Neymar 91st minute | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
with a penalty controversially won by Luis Suarez. 95th minute, | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
Roberto. Look at the celebrations! And listen to this commentary on | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
Spanish radio. SHOUTING | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
Chelsea! Chelsea! Chelsea! Roberto! Barca! Barca! Barca! PSG! | :12:55. | :13:23. | |
Absolutely brilliant. I thought we would play it in full for you | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
because it is brilliant. The reaction on Spanish radio. I do not | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
think they have seen anything like it. The celebrations will be going | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
on I am sure now. I am so glad you played that. I did not think it | :13:38. | :13:48. | |
would end! Hill. What about social media? Social media went mad. -- | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
brilliant. So many tweets. At one point in one minute, 83,000 tweets | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
sent out about this game. We picked out a couple of them. Sergio Romero | :13:56. | :14:06. | |
-- Roberto, we made it together, incredible! Playing at centre back | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
last night, a picture of the Barca players in the dressing room with | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Messi showing off his 12 pack. Good picture. This was from FC Arsenal in | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
the official Twitter feed. We did it! Fabulous to be on the winning | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
side. What about Harry St Germain? It is how they comeback. -- Paris St | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
Germain. To lose in that manner, they got the tactics wrong. The | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
manager has three times led his former club Seville to the Europa | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
League title. They got it wrong last night, sat behind the ball. They | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
were punished. You look at the French league table, still three | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
points behind Monaco. As for Barcelona, they have won the | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
European Cup five times. After that last night, you would not rule out | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
number six. See you later. Neil Woods was an undercover | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
policeman who risked his life to infiltrate criminal drugs gangs | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
around the UK. Posing as an addict, | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
he moved in a violent world where he was stabbed | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
and held at gunpoint. At the weekend, he returned | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
to his normal life as a family man. Over his 14-year career, | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
Neil's evidence put numerous But he now thinks the only | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
way to end the war Welcome. Obviously you go into the | :15:29. | :15:47. | |
police to be a law enforcing member of the community. You found yourself | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
in a very dangerous world. How did you feel about that? I wasn't so | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
great at uniform policing to start with and I was fortunate to find a | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
drug squad attachment for a month. They suggested I tried buying crack | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
cocaine. That shaped the next 14 years of my life. What preparation | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
was there? At the time this kind of undercover work was completely new | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
in this country. The working at the bottom level and working your way up | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
was completely new. There was no training for about four years and | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
then I helped design that for other people. You were feeling your way in | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
a world where, was made clear to you what the moral boundaries where? | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
Only when the training came in. But that was after four years. Yes, the | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
ethical boundaries were defined as we went along. Finding our way with | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
what worked and what didn't. What worked and what didn't? As the job | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
has got longer and longer and more and more difficult as organised | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
crime got used to what I was doing, basically I had to befriend people | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
and empathise with people and it became like weapon icing empathy. | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
You have to move amongst the people on the streets, people who are | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
problematic drug users and befriend them. That makes sense but it has to | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
be more than that, doesn't it? Don't you have to pass off as somebody | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
credible in that world, doesn't that mean taking drugs? I never had to | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
take heroin or crack cocaine but I once had to take amphetamine. I make | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
the mistake of presenting myself to be a connoisseur of that drug which | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
was a mistake. Somebody gave me a present and it was 40% pure, | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
normally the drug would be 5% pure. To avoid imminent violence I had to | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
take some of that drug. That was quite terrifying. I was awake for | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
three nights. Only on one occasion ever did you take drugs? I had to | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
take cannabis in a few times but that was it. What about dealing | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
drugs? I pretended to be a dealer very often. Sometimes I would make | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
myself out to be a travelling burglar, wheeler dealer. I was | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
buying large quantities in order to present that but I would never | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
actually sell drugs. Did you raise suspicions, if you are in the world | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
and you want taking drugs? That's where the art of the craft comes in. | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
It's often not too difficult when you are buying heroin. The trade | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
tends to be in those alleys and places where people might find you, | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
organised crime likes to deal in the public eye because that is the | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
safest place to do it. Did you ever feel your life was in danger? We | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
said at the beginning there was a moment where you were threatened | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
with a knife, you were stripped naked, tell us about those moments. | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
I've had many, many moments where I thought this was it, this is all | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
going to end. In Stoke I knocked on a door. I had been buying off a | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
heroin dealer, I thought he was happy with me. He answered the door | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
and put a sword to my throat. I thought this was it. My life is | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
over. Then I heard laughing and there was a woman behind him, she | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
said, I thought he was going to say he was drug squad then. They were | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
laughing, they were just winding me up. Maybe he wanted to try out his | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
new sword. You talk about it as if it was like another day in the | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
office, but at the time how frightening was that? It's very | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
frightening. If got to keep working all day after things like that. You | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
can't suddenly run away, you have to keep doing it. It adds up and it | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
takes its toll. When you say keep working all day, described how your | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
day was defined, what would you do? I would buy heroin, then maybe do | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
and evidence drop to someone to get that delivered, then I would go and | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
buy some crack cocaine off someone else, then I would go shoplifting | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
with some people. And make friends with other drug users. It was all | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
about what connections you can make and how you can manipulate people to | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
introduce you further up the ladder. That takes a lot of time. You did do | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
shoplifting which obviously was a crime. It's only a crime if you | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
don't intend to give it back. So you would return what you take? Yes, at | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
a much later time. Thankfully it was never me who had to return it! I | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
mentioned that you were stripped naked at gunpoint and a camera was | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
found on you, what happened? I didn't have a camera on me the day I | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
was stripped naked, that was in Northampton. They showed me a gun | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
and told me to strip. Thankfully I didn't have a camera but I had a | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
camera found once in Leicester. A gangster had been very happy with | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
me, I had been trading with him for about four months. On this occasion | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
I went to sell him some counterfeit clothing as part of my cover and he | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
brought two of his friends with me and they were suspicious. One of | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
them searched me and found a camera. I was in an isolated car park, I | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
can't say the words I said on the television but I gave them a torrent | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
of abuse to try and interrupted his ability to tell his friend what he | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
had found. I then had to deliberately, as slowly as possible, | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
fold up the clothing. If you run a way that's confirming suspicions. | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
Very slowly I walked away. I managed to gain enough metres so that when | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
he convinced his companion and they came after me in a car, and tried to | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
run me over, I must have escaped that by two metres. My intelligence | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
guide joked later run because he said he didn't know why they didn't | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
just shoot me because they had a gun in the car. At the same time you had | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
two young children and a wife, you would go home to that environment at | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
weekends. Would you put everything behind you and slip easily from one | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
well to the other? Yes, I don't think my children ever picked up on | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
anything. I would still take them swimming on a Sunday morning. It | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
must have seemed surreal. It did, sometimes. I think I managed them as | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
best I could. There has been a lot of scrutiny of undercover police | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
work and we've talked about how when you started out in 1993 it was a | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
very different time. You helped to draw up guidelines at a later stage. | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
Now, with that scrutiny, the fact compensation has been paid to women | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
who have been affected by undercover policing, duped into relationships | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
that were not genuine, how do you see what the boundaries are, for | :23:36. | :23:44. | |
instance having sex with somebody when you undercover? But was never | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
an issue for the kind of work I did. I hope that as we continue to | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
examine undercover tactics we consider what an impact they have. | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
Undercover policing is the nuclear option. You can't go into a | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
community without incredibly affecting people's lives. Most | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
undercover policing is about drugs. The harm I caused, the people's | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
lives I massively influenced, people who are vulnerable and needed help, | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
and I manipulated them, I put them in increased danger, I had them sent | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
to prison where treatment would have been more appropriate. All of these | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
things happened for something which, essentially, there is no evidence | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
that it has any benefit. I put people imprisoned for over 1000 | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
years from I undercover work. How far up the food chain were they? | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
Most of them were very nasty gangsters getting nine years apiece. | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
Lots of people were just vulnerable people getting sent to jail for 2-3 | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
years. The people taking... The people I manipulated to get | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
introductions to the gangsters. I put those people into prison for so | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
long and didn't interrupt the drug supply. They clearly had committed | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
crimes so why does but weigh heavily on you? It doesn't take long to | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
realise problematic drug users need help. For example, as any drug | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
counsellor will tell you, two thirds problematic heroin users are | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
self-medicating for childhood abuse. They need help and they are being | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
trampled on by policing drugs. It causes harm and it's futile. Futile | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
would be bad enough but actually the tactics I used only causes organised | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
crime to get more violent, because the ultimate defence against the | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
tactics I used is to intimidate whole communities successfully. Is | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
that something you saw happening? I saw it happening year after year. | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
Give us an example. I gave up undercover work. I'd had enough of | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
the damage it was causing. I think in 2004 I was called up and they | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
said you've got to do this job because these gangsters are raping | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
people as punishment for drug debts. They are incredibly vicious. I was | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
tempted back into it again. The same thing happened. It's not just | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
futile, each year it's the best defence. The most successful | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
organised crime groups are the ones that are most violent. What's | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
causing that never-ending arms race is policing drugs. It sounds like | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
you are putting a lot of the burden of that on your own shoulders. You | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
were putting people who are doing bad things away. Why do you see a | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
direct link between what criminals were doing to stop getting caught | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
and what you were doing? It's not on my shoulders it's on the shoulders | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
of drug policy. Drug policy has created the situation. Isn't it on | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
the shoulders of people doing the crimes? If you had a regulated drug | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
market gangsters wouldn't be running the market. Brewery bosses don't | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
have shoot outs. If you look at how the murder rate dropped after | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
Prohibition ended in the United States. Violence gets worse at the | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
moment. Is the argument you make about that that if something becomes | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
unpalatable enough and the state feels it can't deal with it, you | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
therefore legalise it, so it's almost an incentive for people doing | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
bad things to make it so unpalatable. There's a drastic | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
difference between drug criminality and any criminality because it is a | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
a prohibited thing. Burglaries will always be wrong. Drug policy is | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
about health. As soon as you try and make it about policing you've | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
created a nightmare which is organised crime. We need to get | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
drugs under control because they can be dangerous. I know that is | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
something you now work on doing. You are the UK chair of the law | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
enforcement against Prohibition. The government is making clear it won't | :28:00. | :28:06. | |
be heading down that path. You can break drug policy into different | :28:07. | :28:18. | |
pockets policy. In news this week, in Durham they have said they will | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
prescribe heroin. In a similar way to the methadone programme. It isn't | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
decriminalising but is monitored. It is a regulation because you are | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
taking the market away from gangsters, undermining the power of | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
those people controlling the market with violence. You also cut down on | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
the crime caused by those people trying to feed their habit. Drug | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
policy should be about saving lives and reducing harm. This is an | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
example of a policy that does that. What about the message but is sent, | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
if something is illegal kids are brought up knowing it's illegal, | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
that's the framework around it. If something is not illegal it I | :28:57. | :29:03. | |
default becomes acceptable. Messages don't save lives. They really don't. | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
Drug policy is in a complete mess. You talk about messages to children, | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
at the moment gangsters have the messages to children. Look at the | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
cannabis market, that is where organised crime recruits for the | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
future. Teenagers can't get hold of alcohol. Less than 1% of them can | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
buy it but in this country half of them can get easy access to alcohol. | :29:25. | :29:32. | |
We have the easiest teenage access to cannabis and this is where | :29:33. | :29:35. | |
organised crime recruit the gangsters of tomorrow's. How have | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
your colleagues in the police reacted to your new perspective? | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
Initially, obviously with writing the book, it's a whistle-blowing | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
book. I was Public enemy number one in the covert policing world. In the | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
last few months I've had overwhelming support and we are | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
recruiting massively. Only yesterday I met with the police and crime | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
commission of the North Wales, he has just joined the organisation. He | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
is a serving police and crime commission. He has said he supports | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
Ron Hogg completely and will be looking into how he can implement | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
the same policy. The work you are doing now, do you see it almost as a | :30:15. | :30:24. | |
way of solving your conscience? You have suffered from press dramatic | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
stress disorder of a type which is called moral damage. | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
It is about remembering we can be harmed by threats of violence to | :30:35. | :30:41. | |
ourselves but also by causing harm to others. I am fine now, completely | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
well. It is not so much easing conscience but doing the right | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
thing. Undercover I was fighting the good fight, catching bad people, | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
making society safer. Once you realise that policing drugs is only | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
causing harm and the evidence does support what I am saying, with my | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
experience, I think I was duty bound to speak out. Thank you very much | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
for talking to us. Get in touch with your thoughts on what Neil has been | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
talking about. Neil's book Good Cop, | :31:16. | :31:18. | |
Bad War is published today. We'll have more reaction | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
to the Chancellor's budget, including changes to | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
National Insurance contributions I'll hear from some who may be | :31:26. | :31:26. | |
affected by the change. Honouring those who have served | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
in Afghanistan and Iraq - we're live at the unveiling | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
of a new war memorial. Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom | :31:36. | :31:44. | |
with a summary of today's news. The Chancellor is facing | :31:45. | :31:45. | |
accusations of breaking an election pledge by increasing | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
National Insurance contributions After his Budget announcement, | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
Philip Hammond is facing growing pressure to reconsider his plan | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
from some Conservative MPs. The Treasury has rejected | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
calls for a re-think, insisting the increase will make | :32:00. | :32:01. | |
the National Insurance What I did yesterday was address a | :32:02. | :32:15. | |
basic continuing unfairness in the current system, the benefits | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
available to the self-employed have significantly improved, they have | :32:21. | :32:23. | |
full access to the state pension now, that is worth ?1800 a year on | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
average to a self-employed person. As we go forward with our | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
negotiations with the EU, we need to make this country strong | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
and fit and ready for the future. Nicola Sturgeon has told the BBC the | :32:37. | :32:48. | |
common-sense time for a second referendum would be autumn next | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
year. Her remarks are the clearest signal yet the SNP is planning to | :32:54. | :32:56. | |
hold another vote before the UK believes that EU. | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
The Queen will unveil a memorial in London this morning in honour | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
of all those from the UK who served in Iraq and Afghanistan | :33:05. | :33:07. | |
The monument is dedicated to civilians as well as | :33:08. | :33:10. | |
Members of the public donated more than ?1 million to fund it. | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
We'll be live at the memorial in the next half an hour. | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
A man in Australia who posed online as Justin Bieber | :33:21. | :33:23. | |
has been charged with more than 900 child sex offences. | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
The 42-year old man is accused of persuading fans of the star | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
Police say he had been using a number of sites, | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
including Facebook and Skype, to communicate with children. | :33:36. | :33:46. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News. | :33:47. | :33:48. | |
Is it the greatest sporting comeback of all time? The biggest in | :33:49. | :33:59. | |
Champions League history. Barcelona overturned a lead against PCG. It | :34:00. | :34:05. | |
saw them through to the quarterfinal with two of them coming in added | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
time. Sergio Romero toe with the winner. Arsene Wenger has said this | :34:11. | :34:17. | |
morning he has not made up his mind about whether he will stay in the | :34:18. | :34:20. | |
job but he says the opinion of the fans will have a bearing. | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
Potentially decisive blow for Manchester City after a goalless | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
draw at home to Stoke. With Tottenham in second place on goal | :34:31. | :34:46. | |
difference, ten points behind the leaders, Chelsea. The second round | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
of the WTA event, Heather Watson now faces yet anaconda. -- Konta. | :34:52. | :35:03. | |
First to the reaction to Philip Hammond's first Budget, | :35:04. | :35:05. | |
and the Chancellor will have woken up this morning to newspaper | :35:06. | :35:08. | |
The Chancellor is facing growing pressure from backbench MPs | :35:09. | :35:12. | |
to reconsider plans to increase National Insurance contributions | :35:13. | :35:14. | |
He's been accused of breaking a manifesto pledge, but the Treasury | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
says the change will return fairness to the National Insurance system. | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
Let's look now at how the budget might affect you. | :35:23. | :35:25. | |
We are joined by a panel of people here in the studio and in different | :35:26. | :35:29. | |
Oliver Beach is a school governor and former teacher. | :35:30. | :35:37. | |
Ian Adams is a man with a van and is self-employed and he joins us from | :35:38. | :35:44. | |
his white van this morning. Sue Jenkins is a full-time | :35:45. | :35:48. | |
carer for her mum. Alettia Elwin is self-employed | :35:49. | :35:51. | |
and teaches music to children. And to help with any | :35:52. | :35:53. | |
questions we might have along the way is Simon Gompertz, | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
who is the BBC's personal finance correspondent, and Sarah Pennells, | :35:57. | :35:58. | |
editor of Savvywoman.co.uk. Thank you all for joining us. Let us | :35:59. | :36:08. | |
go straight to Ian in the white van. The headlines, Philip Hammond, | :36:09. | :36:14. | |
focusing on white van man. What are your thoughts on the Budget? It is a | :36:15. | :36:23. | |
tax hikes, but it is... Mr Hammond could have done something for all of | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
us, including the self-employed, and that was returned VAT to the level | :36:29. | :36:33. | |
it was before the financial crisis. Another tax hike on the working | :36:34. | :36:40. | |
people. A lot of us after the financial crisis went out and set up | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
our own businesses. This sends out a bad message to people who may want | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
to do the same. The government and the taxes, never gives. -- only | :36:51. | :36:58. | |
taxes. You are also self-employed, what do you think about it? We have | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
not done the exact figures but it looks like it will be several | :37:05. | :37:07. | |
hundred pounds a year. Admittedly, it is not going to make us | :37:08. | :37:12. | |
destitute, but with everything else that goes up, the fuel rises, food | :37:13. | :37:18. | |
rises, car insurance, it makes a massive difference. You feel like, | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
why is he targeting small businesses when there are so many global | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
multinational companies that pay very little tax at all in the UK? | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
What do you think about the broken manifesto pledge? Philip Hammond is | :37:33. | :37:41. | |
insisting it is not. Most people, the man on the street, find | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
headlines about broken election promises not exactly news. When you | :37:46. | :37:54. | |
are talking about another tax hike, most of us, we are so used to | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
hearing the stories about these politicians breaking promises, I am | :37:59. | :38:07. | |
not surprised. Are you angry? Do you accept the Chancellor's view it is | :38:08. | :38:10. | |
about levelling the playing field on tax? Not really, no. There was a | :38:11. | :38:17. | |
great increase in the number of self-employed after the financial | :38:18. | :38:20. | |
crash. They properly saw packs revenues fall because of that -- | :38:21. | :38:31. | |
probably saw tax revenues. It is a market they have missed out revenue | :38:32. | :38:37. | |
on. It is not a surprise that this government or any government would | :38:38. | :38:46. | |
again make a tax hike. You are a pub landlord, Sean, you were unexpected | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
winners in this budget. It seems that way. I represent a lot of pubs, | :38:52. | :39:00. | |
29 pubs, very large increase averaging 27,000 in rental values. | :39:01. | :39:03. | |
?1000 in the first year is good. We were hoping for a fundamental review | :39:04. | :39:10. | |
on the rate system and are specifically looking at public | :39:11. | :39:13. | |
houses because they are a community asset. Threatened at the moment | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
especially in the south-east. Business rate relief being a good | :39:18. | :39:20. | |
thing for pubs. What about the national insurance? The national | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
insurance, I am self-employed, the national insurance is... I see it as | :39:26. | :39:32. | |
an attack on the entrepreneur, someone taking a risk. The idea was | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
you do not get the same benefits as those who are employed. The point of | :39:37. | :39:39. | |
having slightly lower national insurance was to take on the risk | :39:40. | :39:46. | |
level. I am not 100% sure what the figure is we will have to pay in | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
addition but it is another tax on a lot of self-employed people who are | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
supposed to be driving the recovery of the recession. Sue Jenkins, | :39:56. | :40:02. | |
full-time carer for your mum. There has been a lot of discussion around | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
social care in the run-up to the Budget and whether money would be | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
found for it. The taxes are going up, money is being given to social | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
care, how do you see that? It is not enough and it is not going to be | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
enough and it will take time to implement. I am in a crisis | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
situation at the moment. I was looking after my mother, nursing | :40:28. | :40:34. | |
her, for six years under continuing health care funding, a negligent | :40:35. | :40:36. | |
assessment was done last year will, they did not look at all of the | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
evidence. She was transferred to social care on the 13th of January. | :40:42. | :40:50. | |
Since then, it has been a disaster. Social services have threatened me | :40:51. | :40:51. | |
that if I go over budget which was already out of date with an out of | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
date care plan that I will be personally responsible for the | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
overspend which has forced me into a crisis situation. Just explain that. | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
You would be personally responsible for the overspend? Yes, they have | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
said that they cannot provide the care is to me, CHC who are supposed | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
to be funding the night care cannot provide carers which has forced me | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
into going to an agency, a very good one, but they are charging ?21 50 an | :41:20. | :41:26. | |
hour, which they have to, to get decent care. It is pushing me into | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
an overspend. I am going without essential care I need. I am up night | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
after night nursing my mother because if I do not have a second | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
carer at night, I am the other night care, I am on the go all day dealing | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
with massive complex medical issues, dementia, Alzheimer's, complex | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
spinal care, a lot of issues going on. She also has epilepsy. This is a | :41:52. | :41:56. | |
serious situation and it is grinding me down into the ground. We | :41:57. | :42:00. | |
absolutely hear the pressure you are under. Under a lot of string with | :42:01. | :42:07. | |
that situation. I want to bring in Sarah, what has been announced in | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
the budget is obviously aimed at trying to alleviate the pressure on | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
people like Sue. What difference will it make? Not enough difference. | :42:18. | :42:24. | |
?2 billion, ?1 billion in the coming tax year. Estimates say up to ?2.8 | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
billion is needed in this year to plug the gap. You would like to | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
think Sue's express is unusual but sadly I do not think it is. Part of | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
the problem is a few years ago people caring for others were given | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
control of their budgets if they wanted to. -- Sue's experience. The | :42:42. | :42:48. | |
problem is in the intervening years, any support from local authorities | :42:49. | :42:51. | |
has been taken away. There are people like Sue who are not only | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
caring for an elderly mother or father around the clock, but they | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
are also having to deal with essentially mini accounts to try to | :43:02. | :43:04. | |
work out the best way of planning the care and being threatened that | :43:05. | :43:07. | |
if they go over budget, it is their problem. The word crisis has been | :43:08. | :43:13. | |
used and I do not think it is incorrect in this case. There was | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
nothing specifically for people like Sue who are actually saving the | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
Government millions and billions of pounds and one of the things I know | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
from my own work is while there are some carers who qualify for what is | :43:27. | :43:31. | |
called carer's allowance, a benefit you get if you care for someone for | :43:32. | :43:38. | |
over 35 hours a week, 95% of carers careful someone for less time but | :43:39. | :43:41. | |
still over 20 hours and they are losing out on state pension because | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
they are not claiming national insurance credits they are entitled | :43:46. | :43:49. | |
to. The Government is aware. There are not any measures to help them. | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
This help, it will make a difference, but there will still be | :43:55. | :43:58. | |
people in a similar situation to sue. Oliver, you are here | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
representing the education centre, school governor, former teacher, | :44:03. | :44:09. | |
money for education in this budget and focus on technology. The | :44:10. | :44:15. | |
introduction of the T levels which will upscale young people, prepare | :44:16. | :44:17. | |
them for the digital economy and create a parity of esteem on | :44:18. | :44:25. | |
vocational education. There is quite a lot of stigma in secondary | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
schools. It is great. To have an emphasis on the nontraditional | :44:30. | :44:34. | |
routes, away from A-levels to get kids ready for an almost automated | :44:35. | :44:42. | |
economy, to help them get ready for it... The money going into schools, | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
a lot of schools were hoping for something to ease the pressure of | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
the savings that are being made across schools and the money seems | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
to be going to free schools or Grammar schools which is not helpful | :44:56. | :44:58. | |
to the platter of secondary schools and primary schools which are | :44:59. | :45:06. | |
suffering huge cuts -- plethora. Simon, money is being given to some | :45:07. | :45:09. | |
and taken away from others and some people footing a bill for different | :45:10. | :45:14. | |
things. Obviously, it is always a balancing act for a Chancellor, no | :45:15. | :45:20. | |
free money. What is the overview in terms of what is going where? A | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
heightened state of tension in the last few weeks over the problems | :45:25. | :45:28. | |
with social care, it has concentrated minds in Downing | :45:29. | :45:31. | |
Street. The picture behind the scenes is Theresa May wanted more | :45:32. | :45:35. | |
money and the Chancellor needed to find it. The thing to do with taxing | :45:36. | :45:40. | |
the self-employed was perhaps in the pipeline, they decided to do it now, | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
despite promises given in the Tory manifesto before the election. I | :45:46. | :45:50. | |
think there two things that will strike the self-employed. They felt | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
they were promised there would not be National Insurance increases. The | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
pledge in the manifesto, our commitment, no increases in VAT, | :45:59. | :46:02. | |
national insurance or income tax. In the small print, something slightly | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
different. What was that? The problem with national insurance is | :46:08. | :46:11. | |
it is very complicated, four classes of payment. Class one, employed | :46:12. | :46:20. | |
people pay that. Self-employed pay class two and class four. The | :46:21. | :46:23. | |
self-employed thought they were in for a tax cut next year. Class two | :46:24. | :46:28. | |
was being abolished. The ?2 80 a week they pay. Instead the ship has | :46:29. | :46:34. | |
turned around and the Government decided it does not want to treat | :46:35. | :46:37. | |
self-employed people in that way and the other class self-employed | :46:38. | :46:41. | |
National Insurance class four, a percentage of your income, that will | :46:42. | :46:45. | |
be increased. The Chancellor has portrayed this as something that is | :46:46. | :46:48. | |
bad for wealthier self-employed people, they will lose out several | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
hundred pounds, but the fact is, anyone earning over ?16,000 will | :46:53. | :47:00. | |
lose out overall. Anyone earning over ?8,000 a year will lose out | :47:01. | :47:06. | |
from the abolition... Increase in class four contributions. | :47:07. | :47:12. | |
The Chancellor's perspective is it is levelling the playing field and | :47:13. | :47:19. | |
when you look at the situation with needing to find money for social | :47:20. | :47:22. | |
care this was an obvious anomaly to put right. Are you happy to pay the | :47:23. | :47:28. | |
extra tax to take a look at the social care situation? Social care | :47:29. | :47:31. | |
definitely needs more money. Don't get me wrong. But I think they've | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
taken the easy route by taxing us instead of going for the bigger | :47:37. | :47:40. | |
companies. I think it's a bit lazy of them quite frankly. Let's bring | :47:41. | :47:48. | |
in some of your questions from home. One question from a soldier two | :47:49. | :47:52. | |
years away from retirement, he says, on any changes for like me? No | :47:53. | :47:58. | |
specific changes. In some ways it was a thin budget because there were | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
not that many measures. We are now going to have an autumn budget and | :48:04. | :48:08. | |
my feeling is we will see major changes there. There wasn't anything | :48:09. | :48:12. | |
specifically, several things have already be announced like the | :48:13. | :48:18. | |
increase in personal allowance. All the budget did yesterday was to | :48:19. | :48:27. | |
reaffirm that would go up to 11 -- 11,000 500. There weren't any | :48:28. | :48:30. | |
specific changes that will leave him any better or worse. Another viewer | :48:31. | :48:35. | |
has said, do the self employed receive statutory sick pay, no, this | :48:36. | :48:43. | |
is the nominee that needs to be cleared up. The Chancellor says the | :48:44. | :48:47. | |
reason for levelling the playing field is not because of an anomaly | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
like that but because the benefits received at the same for everybody. | :48:54. | :48:58. | |
This issue accounts for a lot of the anger amongst self-employed people. | :48:59. | :49:01. | |
Traditionally there has been an assumption that because of the risks | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
they have, they don't have the job security of employed people, and | :49:07. | :49:08. | |
they haven't traditionally had the same benefits from the system, but | :49:09. | :49:13. | |
that is how you get something back from the system. The situation has | :49:14. | :49:19. | |
changed slightly in that the state pension system was loaded against | :49:20. | :49:23. | |
the self-employed. They could only get the basic state pension, not the | :49:24. | :49:28. | |
various top ups. That's now been reformed. They've done well out of | :49:29. | :49:32. | |
reforms to the pension system but there are other things you don't | :49:33. | :49:36. | |
get. You don't get holiday pay, you don't get sick pay. You are in a | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
more precarious situation as a self-employed person. I think there | :49:42. | :49:45. | |
is a lot of anger out there, there is a signal in this budget that that | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
need not any longer be recognised. You are nodding vigorously listening | :49:52. | :49:57. | |
to that. I agree, I concur with the whole being. The risks we've taken | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
to set up our business have been massive. We support other | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
self-employed people and they also have taken massive risks. None of us | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
get holiday pay, sick pay. Unless we work, we don't get the money. To | :50:12. | :50:17. | |
have some more taken of us means we have to work harder in order to | :50:18. | :50:21. | |
stand still financially and it's a blow, it's a knock. One fewer | :50:22. | :50:26. | |
hazards, how is the budget going to benefit those going to in 2017 -- | :50:27. | :50:34. | |
one viewer has said. The only changes announced was that there | :50:35. | :50:40. | |
would be student maintenance loans available for part-time study and | :50:41. | :50:47. | |
also for pre-university degrees. You don't have too necessarily be | :50:48. | :50:51. | |
studying for a university degree. That is coming in in 2018. Nothing | :50:52. | :50:58. | |
specific for students starting to do the degree courses that 400,000 | :50:59. | :51:03. | |
students do every year. Another viewer says, I was hoping to see a | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
tax for online retailers, how do we protect our way of life from the | :51:10. | :51:13. | |
internet? There has to be a bigger look at the tax system. This has | :51:14. | :51:21. | |
already been discussed. I think big companies, whether they are online | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
or off-line have got quite a favourable tax regime. The | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
government has made noises about the fact it will look at how online | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
retailers are taxed but for a lot of people working off-line, in the high | :51:35. | :51:38. | |
street or have their own businesses, there is nothing massive in the | :51:39. | :51:41. | |
budget that will make a big change either way. Another viewer says, | :51:42. | :51:46. | |
overall state of the nation's finances. It seems there are always | :51:47. | :51:51. | |
mixed messages. Second fastest-growing economy in the G7 | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
last year, inflation going up, growth forecast for this year up, | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
the overall tax burden is the highest it's been for 30 years. | :52:00. | :52:05. | |
Better just now than people feared. Still worrying if you look further | :52:06. | :52:11. | |
ahead. The Office for Budget Responsibility tells the Chancellor | :52:12. | :52:15. | |
what they think the outlook is. They are predicting a 2% growth this year | :52:16. | :52:22. | |
which is pretty good compared to what people feared, but then going | :52:23. | :52:26. | |
down again later on. Because of that great, we are managing not to borrow | :52:27. | :52:30. | |
so much every year. The borrowing remains stubborn in later years. Not | :52:31. | :52:38. | |
so bad now, not so good later on. I think particularly this coming year | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
is universally acknowledged its going to be a year of struggle for | :52:44. | :52:49. | |
families. We have these cuts, or this frees to tax credits and | :52:50. | :52:55. | |
benefits at a time when prices are rising. That means people are going | :52:56. | :53:00. | |
to be struggling to make ends meet. A final thought from you as a | :53:01. | :53:05. | |
business owner, do you feel like it's been a austerity for some time | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
and more to come? How do you feel about the outlook and particularly | :53:11. | :53:13. | |
bearing in mind the impact on new of the latest budget? It's more taxes, | :53:14. | :53:21. | |
more burden on the people who have to pay them. You tend to find they | :53:22. | :53:28. | |
always come after the people who don't have much power in opposing | :53:29. | :53:36. | |
their tax rises, larger companies, Google or these people who have a | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
lot more clout get away with not paying anything. That's because they | :53:41. | :53:45. | |
have clout, people such as me just have to put up and take it from | :53:46. | :53:48. | |
these types of people. The Chancellor could have done everybody | :53:49. | :53:52. | |
a favour and returned VAT back down to what it was before the financial | :53:53. | :53:56. | |
crisis which would have helped all businesses and everybody. Again, | :53:57. | :54:02. | |
more tax hikes. It makes you wonder, where do they spend this money? Do | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
we need Trident? There's a lot of money being wasted there. It's not | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
good news. Thank you for your thoughts on the budget macro and | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
thank you for your questions from home. Breaking news about knife | :54:17. | :54:22. | |
crime, this is from a home affairs correspondent. The number of people | :54:23. | :54:26. | |
caught carrying knives has risen to its highest level for six years, | :54:27. | :54:30. | |
there were 19,000 offences in England and Wales last year, the | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
highest since 2011. Figures from the Home Office show 41% of adult | :54:36. | :54:40. | |
offenders were jailed. The proportion of 10-17 -year-olds sent | :54:41. | :54:45. | |
to prison was 11%. Those figures just through, the number of people | :54:46. | :54:49. | |
caught carrying knives has risen to its highest level for six years. | :54:50. | :54:54. | |
The Queen will this morning unveil a memorial dedicated to all those | :54:55. | :54:56. | |
who served in conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf War | :54:57. | :54:59. | |
The memorial, by sculptor Paul Day, will also mark the contribution made | :55:00. | :55:03. | |
2,500 veterans have been invited to Horse Guards Parade | :55:04. | :55:06. | |
Ben Brown is at Horse Guards Parade for us now. | :55:07. | :55:18. | |
The Queen will be here for this service of dedication in Horse | :55:19. | :55:27. | |
Guards Parade starting at 11am. It is to remember all those who served | :55:28. | :55:32. | |
in the conflicts of the last quarter of a century from 1990 onwards up to | :55:33. | :55:38. | |
2015, in the Gulf campaign, in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Not just the | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
military, the organisers are keen to stress it is civilians as well. Aid | :55:43. | :55:48. | |
workers, humanitarian workers, people involved in the | :55:49. | :55:50. | |
reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan. A service here followed | :55:51. | :55:57. | |
by the Queen unveiling this specially built memorial which will | :55:58. | :56:03. | |
be on the Victoria and and gardens. I am going to speak to the chaplain | :56:04. | :56:09. | |
of the fleet, the man leading the service at Horse Guards Parade. Tell | :56:10. | :56:12. | |
us what is the ambition of this service and the memorial? This is | :56:13. | :56:18. | |
about recognition of the wider field of participants in the Iraq and | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
Afghanistan conflicts. There were many people beyond the military who | :56:24. | :56:28. | |
played a role in the reconstruction and the emotional rebuilding of | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
those countries. People like the police force and educators, and the | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
non-government authorities. It really is a very widespread, and | :56:40. | :56:44. | |
quite unusual when we are surrounded by military monuments. One | :56:45. | :56:48. | |
distinctly goes beyond that. This is a period of time, the last quarter | :56:49. | :56:52. | |
of a century is a long period of conflict that the United Kingdom has | :56:53. | :56:57. | |
been involved with in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I think the | :56:58. | :57:00. | |
recognition is important. It has been a long haul and a lot of | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
dedication from a range of people to do that. The fact that the monument | :57:06. | :57:14. | |
is almost made up of two parts, a military and a non-military part, I | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
think we are going to try and so that together in the service today. | :57:19. | :57:23. | |
For the first time we are surrounded by military and I'm going to be | :57:24. | :57:27. | |
backed by the National police choir which is really unusual. They sound | :57:28. | :57:31. | |
fantastic, we are looking forward to it. It is a drumhead service which | :57:32. | :57:37. | |
means they will pile the drums on top of each other to create and | :57:38. | :57:41. | |
alter. On a battlefield where you have no church, typically on eve of | :57:42. | :57:48. | |
battle a thanksgiving service, and alter will be made from a pile of | :57:49. | :57:54. | |
drums. We'll see the bandsmen pile up the drums and then the standard | :57:55. | :57:59. | |
of the regiment, in this case the national army standard which is a | :58:00. | :58:05. | |
beautiful union Jack, is laid over the alter of drums to create a | :58:06. | :58:11. | |
sacred place. Thank you. The chaplain of the fleet who will be | :58:12. | :58:15. | |
leading the service starting at 11am, we will bring you live | :58:16. | :58:22. | |
coverage on the BBC News Channel. Carol is herewith the weather. | :58:23. | :58:28. | |
It is mild. It's not just London. This was taken this morning in | :58:29. | :58:37. | |
Pembrokeshire. In Derbyshire, look at that lovely blue skies. In | :58:38. | :58:43. | |
Cornwall it is a bit of a different story. As we travel south-west | :58:44. | :58:50. | |
through Cornwall the cloud is thicker, visibility is poor and | :58:51. | :58:54. | |
damp. Let me show you the satellite picture. Huge areas without cloud. | :58:55. | :59:04. | |
Lots of blue skies this morning. This area is a weather front, | :59:05. | :59:08. | |
producing murky conditions across Cornwall. Tonight it's going to come | :59:09. | :59:12. | |
back in again. Although the fog we have all lift into low cloud, then | :59:13. | :59:17. | |
it will come back again as folk later on this evening. Just | :59:18. | :59:25. | |
affecting the bottom part? Explain what will happen. We will carry on | :59:26. | :59:30. | |
with some murky conditions and down into the Channel islands through | :59:31. | :59:32. | |
today and later tonight. Overnight it. To head east. This morning it | :59:33. | :59:41. | |
has been a fine start to the day for some of us but there has been a bit | :59:42. | :59:45. | |
of cloud breaking up. We are looking at Sunny spells almost across the | :59:46. | :59:49. | |
board but not quite. It smiled for the time of year. This is the | :59:50. | :59:55. | |
weather front across the Channel Islands and Cornwall. It will pivot | :59:56. | :00:00. | |
round and take a swipe at the rest of the UK and also the North. Today | :00:01. | :00:06. | |
away from but there will be a lot of sunshine. The stronger winds across | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Northern Ireland, Central and southern Scotland and England, | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
easing. Across the far north of Scotland we will hang on to the | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
stronger winds and the showers. Through the evening will see a bit | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
of a change. We hang onto that low cloud across Cornwall and also the | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Channel Islands. It will be quite murky for some of us at times. For | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Devon as we head into Kent and the Isle of Wight, a beautiful afternoon | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
like a bit of sunshine. The same for Wales, the Midlands into East | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Anglia. Same for Northern England and also into Northern Ireland and | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Scotland the showers will continue, some possibly heavy with hail and | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
blunder. Somewhere in the south-east could see 16 or 17 Celsius. | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
Generally across the board we are looking at temperatures higher than | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
we would expect at this stage in March. As we go through the evening | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
and overnight, the temperature will drop quickly in East. Cool enough in | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
parts of frost. Here is this weather front returning, coming in through | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
the West and north. It will deposit some patchy rain and drizzle, | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
primarily on hills and coasts. It will be cold further east under the | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
clearer skies. Tomorrow morning will start with some sunshine. The front | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
in the West is drifting eastwards and it does mean it's going to be | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
cloudy tomorrow for most of us than today. Having said that, in the West | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
particularly if you are in the shelter of some hills it will | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
brighten up through the day. Quite breezy. Temperatures across the far | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
north of England and Scotland down on today and although they are down | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
in Northern Ireland, the rest of England and Wales are above where | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
they should be. As we move on through the course of the weekend, | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
we've got a couple of fronts. The first one heading south. A bit of a | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
lull and then the next weather front comes in from the west. That doesn't | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
mean it'll suddenly turn cold, just cooler than in the next couple of | :02:08. | :02:08. | |
days. from the abolition... Increase in | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
class four contributions. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
is coming under pressure over his plan to increase | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
National Insurance payments for many He says the change is fair, | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
despite accusations that he has Those on higher earnings, | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
the 40% on higher earnings, We think that's fair, | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
we think that's a reasonable way to go forward, given | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
that the benefits entitlement of the self-employed | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
has improved so much. At Westminster, Labour threatened to | :02:39. | :02:53. | |
join ranks with Tory rebels to force a government climb-down. Ministers | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
say it could mean less cash for social care. A man in the straight | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
here is charged with more than 900 child sex offences after allegedly | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
posing as pop star Justin Bieber online. | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
Up to 20 of his victims are believed to be in the UK. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
We're live in Sydney and Brisbane with the latest. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
And British military personnel who have served in Iraq | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
and Afghanistan are to be honoured this morning with the unveiling | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
of a new war memorial in Central London. | :03:22. | :03:22. | |
Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news. | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
The Chancellor is facing accusations of breaking an election pledge, | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
by increasing national insurance contributions for many | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
After his Budget announcement, Philip Hammond is facing growing | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
pressure to reconsider the plan from some Conservative MPs. | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
The Treasury has rejected calls for a re-think, | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
insisting the increase will make the National Insurance system fairer | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has told the BBC | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
that the common-sense time for a second independence | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
referendum would be autumn next year. | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
A vote can only take place with the permission | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
But her remarks are the clearest signal yet that the SNP is planning | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
to hold another vote before the UK leaves | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
The European Court of Human Rights has backed a key element of the | :04:10. | :04:19. | |
Government's anti-terrorism measures. The court rejected a claim | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
the Government had acted unlawfully when its stripped the Sudanese | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
suspect of his British citizenship. The man was suspected of taking part | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
in terrorism related activities in Somalia. Hawaii has become the first | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
US state to challenge President Trump's revised travel ban. The | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Attorney General said Mr Trump had violated the constitution with his | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
redrawn executive order banning travel from six predominantly Muslim | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
countries. He said it would damage, is particularly tourism. Doctors say | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
they have successfully performed in India weight reduction surgery on a | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
woman who was said to be the heaviest. Her family claim she had | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
weighed 78 stone and she was flown to Mumbai earlier this year and | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
admitted to a specially built unit at a local hospital. Her family said | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
she had not left her house for 25 years. | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10:30am. | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
Do get in touch with us throughout the morning - | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
use the hashtag Victoria Live, and if you text, you will be charged | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Now the latest sport. Many have already labelled it the greatest | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
sporting comeback of all time, the biggest in Champions League history. | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
Barcelona overturned a 4-0 deficit against PCG. They were 3-0 up after | :05:52. | :06:01. | |
15 minutes, but then it went 3-1. It looked completely out of sight for | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Barcelona. PSG with the away goal. Still needed three goals. Neymar | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
scored this. Luis Suarez and won a penalty which Neymar converted in | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
the 91st minute. Still they needed one more goal. They got it through | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
Roberto with 95 minutes on the clock and Barcelona through to the | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
quarterfinals for the tenth year in a row. A huge reaction on social | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
media to the extraordinary game. Between 7:45pm and 11pm, almost 2 | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
million tweets published about Barcelona's comeback. The man of the | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
moment said... This was from FC Barcelona's | :06:44. | :07:05. | |
official account, simply, we did it. One man linked with the Barcelona | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
job is Arsene Wenger and he says he will consider the opinion of fans | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
when he considers his future at Arsenal. | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Talking to the media this morning, Wenger said he hadn't yet | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
made up his mind, and certainly hadn't told the players | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
Unrest has grown amongst supporters following a dismal run | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
in the Premier League and that 10-2 thumping by Bayern Munich | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
Manchester City could have gone second in the Premier League last | :07:32. | :07:49. | |
night but it did not go to plan. Stoke helped them to a goalless draw | :07:50. | :07:50. | |
with a game of few clear-cut chances. The first time they have | :07:51. | :07:51. | |
failed to score at home since Pep Guardiola took over. | :07:52. | :07:51. | |
There'll be an all-British tie in the WTA event | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
Heather Watson came from a set down to beat the American Nicole Gibbs | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
and reach the second round, where Johanna Konta is waiting. | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
It'll be the first time the pair have played each other on the Tour. | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
Konta will be the strong favourite at number 11 in the world. Heather | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
Watson dropped to 108 this week. The headlines that 10:30pm. | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
More comments from you on the Budget. Hammond is too scared to go | :08:19. | :08:30. | |
over the -- to go after the big companies. Affordable rented housing | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
hit the headlines but no mention of money for it. I am a card-carrying | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
Labour member and I regard the furore as unfortunate. I enjoyed | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
generous tax breaks for many years as the self-employed can enjoy much | :08:51. | :09:01. | |
the same support from the state in times of need. If that party is | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
over, so be it. I do not like Tory policies but the money has to come | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
from somewhere. Terry says, the self-employed people will ... When | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
the Government tries to make it fair when compared with employees, those | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
required to pay their fair share they like children deprived of their | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
sweets. More political reaction from Norman Smith in Westminster. Thank | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
you. No white flag over the Treasury at the moment but there is no doubt | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
the huge pressure they are under this morning, not just from | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
opposition MPs, but predominantly from their own party. And from all | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
wings of the party. Eurosceptics are unhappy, pro-Europeans, fiscal hawks | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
unhappy, social... The whole Tory party seems to be unhappy with Mr | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
Hammond. The reason is not just because of the broken manifesto | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
promise, it is because it is a tax rise on people's basic income which | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
is anathema to many Conservatives. Most Tory MPs take the view it is a | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
hit on their people, folk who go out, take a risk, start a business | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
on their own and build a company, the sort of people they are seeking | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
to encourage and help. Instead Mr Hammond seems to have delivered a ?2 | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
billion hit on them. This morning Mr Hammond did not rule out a U-turn | :10:42. | :10:42. | |
but it is pretty clear he believes it is essential to introduce these | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
changes, partly on the grounds of fairness, it is not fair people | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
earning a decent amount of money who are self-employed pay less tax than | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
those who work for a company, but above all, I sense, because he | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
fears, down the line, more of us will work on our own. There is a | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
major headache looming for the Treasury. No sign of gift from Mr | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
Hammond this morning. In 2015 we introduce legislation to give effect | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
to the tax lots we talked about in our manifesto and we spelt out | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
clearly how we would do it, focusing on class one National Insurance, the | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
national insurance paid by 85% of people in this country who are in | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
employment. And what I announced yesterday was a small increase in | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
class four National Insurance contributions for the minority of | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
self-employed people who are on higher incomes. The majority of | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
self-employed people will pay less national insurance as a result of | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
the announcements I made yesterday. I think the decision we have made is | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
fair, to ask self-employed people to pay just a little more contribution | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
for the services they receive. This is not in any way an attack on | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
business. Hugely supportive of business. I want people to have | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
choices about the way they work. But I want them to make those choices of | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
the bases of what is right, not on the basis of what tax advantages | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
they bring. The Treasury do not want to back down. Mr Hammond said | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
yesterday he reckoned this advantage for the self-employed was currently | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
costing the Treasury around ?5 billion a year. However, remember | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
the row over tax credits, when George Osborne announced the changes | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
to tax credits, huge rumpus on the Tory backbenches, in part because it | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
was seen as an attack on people who were working hard, maybe not earning | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
much, but going out and doing a decent day's work and they risked | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
losing tax credits. What happened? George Osborne had to beat a | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
retreat. Could the same happen? We know there is almost certainly going | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
to be a vote on it. Labour will try to force a vote and it may be, I | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
don't know that there has to be legislation to bring about the | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
changes anyway. It looks like a parliamentary showdown on this is | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
unavoidable. Thank you. Keep your thoughts coming in. All of the usual | :13:11. | :13:11. | |
ways of getting in touch. A man in Australia is charged | :13:12. | :13:20. | |
with over 900 child sex offences after allegedly posing online | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
as popstar Justin Bieber. We're live in Brisbane | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
with the latest. Cancer experts have issued a warning | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
that children in the UK could be missing out | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
on potentially life-saving drugs. Currently, EU regulations allow drug | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
companies to opt out Scientists are calling for the rules | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
to be changed so that adult drugs They argue that many drugs treat | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
a variety of cancers which may have the same genetic target, | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
meaning they could be effective in children, | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
even when it does not seem So, what could these changes mean | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
for families facing this situation? Let's talk to Professor Louis | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
Chesler, a leader in child tumors as the Royal Marsden Hospital in | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
London. the charity Christopher's Smile | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
in memory of their son Professor, first of all, explained | :14:08. | :14:19. | |
the situation as it stands. Currently drugs can be trialled on | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
adults that could be trialled on children but they are not. Explain. | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
As you may know, there is a new generation of cancer medicines being | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
tested recently and in the last decade, it attacked particular | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
cancer targets, proteins and jeans driving the cancers. In large part, | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
these drugs have been developed to attack adult cancers and there has | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
been a loophole in EU legislation that says if a particular cancer | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
does not exist in a child, it is not mandated that they targeted cancer | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
drug would be developed simply because the adult cancer does not | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
exist in a child. Now what we calling for and what the EU | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
legislation is addressing is to close the loophole. What it says is | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
that if the cancer target is present in the children's cancer, even if it | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
is a different kind of cancer from which the drug initially was not | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
developed for, companies will stall have to study that drug in | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
children's cancers and potentially make them available to clinical | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
trials. Kevin Rudd Karen, what difference do you think it would | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
make? -- and Karen. It would make a huge difference in terms of a step | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
change in how we treat children. It would offer the opportunity to move | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
away from using what I would call the blunt tools of chemotherapy and | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
radiotherapy and give us a chance to make a difference to those children | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
who currently with the old treatments sometimes do not have a | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
chance of a queue and there are certain types of childhood cancers | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
were that is still the case -- cure. The only way to move forward is by | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
having access to the new targeted drugs which we believe are going to | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
work in a much cleverer fashion than the old standard treatments which in | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
the main is still all we have access to for our children. | :16:32. | :16:43. | |
Tell us more about how your experience has shaped your view. | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
After you see children in a paediatric oncology ward, showing so | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
much courage and hope, and yet you know that a quarter of them went | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
make it. That's a hard, hard thing to take in and you never forget it. | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
That's what has provided the backbone of our enthusiasm and our | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
passion to try and make things better for other children. We | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
couldn't do anything for Christopher sadly. We lost him in 2008. We want | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
to make a difference for the children that will be diagnosed | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
tomorrow, in a month's time, in a year's time. Did you feel at the | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
time that you were battling red tape? I think when we went through | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
treatment with Christopher, that was pretty much the only thing we could | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
focus on. It is an unbelievably tough time, you exist in a parallel | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
world. We didn't have a lot of opportunity to be honest to look | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
beyond what was available for Christopher at that time. A couple | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
of months after he died, in the October 2008, we started working | :18:03. | :18:12. | |
with Christopher Smile to fund research into new treatments, | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
knowing that there were children who weren't going to survive with what | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
was on offer at the time. It is something you have to go through to | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
understand the challenge of sitting beside your child and suffering | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
alongside them, wishing every moment of the day you could be in their | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
place. I think that will always live within us and that is our driver, to | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
make that difference for other families and other children. | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
Professor, do you believe there are treatments that could actually be | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
saving lives right now if only the red tape where changed? There's no | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
question that this modern generation of cancer drugs is more effective. I | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
think in terms of red tape, it is one factor. It's complicated to | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
deliver these drugs, as you know, they are very expensive to produce. | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
The issue of delivering them effectively to children is | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
multifactorial. I think we are seeing changes to the legislation | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
which will help, clinical trials are becoming better and we sequence | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
children now with genomic technology so we know that the target is | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
President. That maximises the chance that these drugs can work more | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
effectively. -- that the target is present. Many clinicians and parents | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
are working together to help deliver these drugs to children and we are | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
seeing an increase in the number of compounds and drugs available. Is | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
this a case of regulation, catching up with where the science is? Or are | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
they good reasons behind not giving these drug trials to kids? Could | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
they do more harm then good? I don't think anyone consciously would want | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
to restrict a life-saving drug from a child with cancer. Developments of | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
incredibly expensive drugs for very small patient populations is very | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
challenging. What it needs is a concerted effort from changes in | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
legislation, which this change addresses, it'll close a loophole | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
that should increase the number of drugs we see for these kids. There | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
are other approaches. We need academia, governments and | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
pharmacology to work together to create incentives and creative ways | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
to help us as clinicians and carers to deliver these drugs to patients. | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
Thank you. NHS bosses are to report back to MPs | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
today about how the roll out of seven-day-a-week | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
services is going for GPs. The Government has previously | :21:01. | :21:01. | |
committed to providing an extra ?528 million of funding by 2021 | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
to help this happen. But doctors have warned they are | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
already feeling over worked. The MPs' committee will be asking | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
how many surgeries are switching to a seven-day service | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
and whether this is Let's talk to Dr John Cormack, | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
a GP from Essex, who says he'd consider quitting if he was forced | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
to open seven days a week. And Bridgit Sam-Bailey, | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
a retired teacher, from London, who says she can rarely get | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
an appointment at her GP. Thank you for joining us. Why would | :21:30. | :21:44. | |
you consider quitting if you had to go seven days a week? Well, because | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
I am pushing 70 and because I work with the NHS than nothing. In a | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
sense I do work seven days... So you work for the NHS for nothing? The | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
practice is poorly funded so in order to make it work we have to use | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
more nurses than is usual in a practice and I have to work free of | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
charge. You don't have a salary? No, I've changed my name by deed poll in | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
order to embarrass the people who hold the purse strings at the NHS | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
but unfortunately they aren't easily embarrassed. Is that how you sign | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
your name? Unfortunately the GMC won't let me use that name in | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
practice because if you put that name on a death certificate it won't | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
go down very well. I think that's a reasonable decision. In terms of | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
funding, you've got 6000 patients at your practice. What do you get per | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
year from central funding for each patient? Well, it's something like | :22:55. | :23:04. | |
95- ?99 per year per patient. That's about ?600,000 per year for your | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
practice. We've recently taken on a lot of extra patients. So you've got | :23:08. | :23:17. | |
more than 6000? We were 4500, we are now 6000. There is vast disparity. | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
In terms of your practice, you've got ?600,000 coming in a year but | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
you say that level of income isn't enough for you to get a salary? It's | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
not been enough to pay me until now, because obviously, you could say the | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
choice is yours, you could sack if you staff, you could cut down on the | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
service. In order to provide a reasonable service we have to work | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
with nurses and with me not taking a salary. You said until now you've | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
not been able to have a salary. I haven't taken a salary. We lost | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
about ?10,000 last year. In a sense not only do I not take a salary but | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
I have to pay in at the end of the year. Use a seven week services is | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
not viable for your practice? I go in at weekends for terminal care | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
patients, I give them my mobile phone number so they can get seen. | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
If people who are working in the practice are worried about a patient | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
on a Friday they will leave me a message so why will see them. I was | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
forced to open and run regular surgeries on Saturday and Sunday | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
would cause problems because then the running costs would go up. Is | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
that what you would like to see practice is doing? I think there is | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
a need for GPs to work seven days a week, not necessarily the same GPs. | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
There should be a writer. After all, GPs are human beings, they've got | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
family commitments. They need time off to re-energise. For the same GP | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
working seven days a week... But as a patient you would like to be able | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
to access the server seven days a week? Yes. Was your current | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
experience? As it is now, if I want to see my GP, it is impossible. I | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
have to queue up in the morning from about 7am. Queue at the gates and | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
because I'm not really physically mobile, when the gate opens the | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
able-bodied people just rush through, and I'm left at the end. Or | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
my son has to leave his home and come and stand in the queue to make | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
me an appointment. When he's given an appointment he will telephone me | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
and say, is this going to be all right? We liaise like that and he | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
lets them know if it's acceptable. As an older person, I must say we | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
have got rather complex needs. We need to be able to access a GP more | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
easily. When a person has, for example, high blood pressure, you | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
end up having diabetes or something like that. You could have coronary | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
problems. So you need to be able to access your GP. Another thing is, I | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
don't like changing GPs. I would rather see the same person every | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
time I go. So I become accustomed that person. But Doctor doesn't have | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
to start all over again. That's very important. What do you think is the | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
best way to go about setting up services in order to deliver that | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
sort of care? Well, the way we do it is to make access more | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
straightforward. We do do and unbacked surgery where people piling | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
everyday and will be seen because there is a demand. Every practice | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
does it differently. A lot of practices have a system whereby you | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
either have to turn up early or start phoning at 8am. That makes it | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
difficult for patients to get appointments at times that suit | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
them. I think patients with complex needs me to see the same GP. Small | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
practices have advantages but are closing in droves because of the | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
push to open super surgeries. Also because of the financial pressures. | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
Indeed, small practices are under huge financial pressure. The move is | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
to make them federate or to formally join together in these huge | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
practices which are very impersonal and where you don't always see the | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
same person. Would you be prepared to do away with that if there was | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
less of a personal service, but more of a guarantee you could get what | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
you wanted when you wanted it? I think we need both. You need that | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
bit of personal confidence in your GP. But of course it needs funding. | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
Without the funds they can't give you the service. I'm not complaining | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
about the GPs, I'm complaining about system. That causes them to work in | :28:09. | :28:16. | |
that way. There's got to be funding, they've got to be supported, and | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
they have to have more staff. They need stability because I find that | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
each time I go to my surgery, someone I saw the last time is no | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
longer with the surgery. So we start all over again. Thank you very much. | :28:31. | :28:41. | |
We have a statement from the Department of Health saying we want | :28:42. | :28:43. | |
all patients to have access to high-quality surgeries which is why | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
we have invested an extra ?2.4 billion as well as boosting the | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
workforce with an extra 5000 doctors in general practice by 2020. Some GP | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
practices open, close or merge, what is important is that patients | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
continue to get access to the services they need and there is | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
already a clear legal responsibility for NHS England to make that happen. | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
We asked for a Minister to come on the programme, but they declined. | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
A spokesman for the Department of Health has previously told us | :29:13. | :29:14. | |
it's invested an extra ?2.4 billion into primary care, | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
and is boosting the workforce with an extra 5,000 GPs by 2020. | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
Let us know your thoughts and experiences on GP practices. | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
A man in Australia who allegedly posed online as Justin Bieber | :29:28. | :29:29. | |
and persuaded fans to send him explicit pictures has | :29:30. | :29:31. | |
been charged with more than 900 child sex offences. | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
Police believe he had around 150 victims, up to 20 | :29:35. | :29:36. | |
Our correspondenet, Hywel Griffith, is in Sydney. | :29:37. | :29:47. | |
This man was apprehended after an international search involving | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
police in the UK. We understand in mainland Europe and in the US as | :29:54. | :29:59. | |
well. They believe that this man from Brisbane was using his computer | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
to pose online as the Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber, enticing and | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
targeting young fans, winning their trust and then using communication | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
through social media and Skype sadly to solicit explicit images. When | :30:15. | :30:24. | |
they confiscated his computer, they came across a huge cachet of images | :30:25. | :30:35. | |
resulting in 930 new child sexual offences against him, including | :30:36. | :30:37. | |
charges of rape and indecent children of children, as well as | :30:38. | :30:44. | |
multiple charges of making, possessing and distributing indecent | :30:45. | :30:47. | |
images. He will be in court next week. What are police saying about | :30:48. | :30:55. | |
online safety? They say it is a reason for a big rethink as to how | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
society deals with online safety for children. It is a difficult area to | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
police. What they want is for children to be educated and police | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
themselves, to understand that on the internet particularly not | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
everything is as it seems. You get a sense of scale with this, you may | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
have a potential offender in Australia but children in the UK, | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
the US and many other countries are targeted and the technology means | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
sadly they can then share, be abused, and the images can be shared | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
multiple times. Although the police have found 157 victims, they believe | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
there may be many more out there. The investigation is going on. Thank | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
you. We're be live as the Queen and other | :31:44. | :31:45. | |
members of the royal familty arrive for the unveiling of a new war | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
memorial for those who served And we'll have more on Barcelona's | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
spectacular comeback against Paris St Germain | :31:55. | :31:56. | |
in the Champions League. Let us join the newsroom for an | :31:57. | :31:58. | |
update. Good morning. The Chancellor is facing accusations | :31:59. | :32:11. | |
of breaking an election pledge, by increasing National Insurance | :32:12. | :32:13. | |
contributions for many After his Budget announcement, | :32:14. | :32:15. | |
Philip Hammond is facing growing pressure to reconsider the plan | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
from some Conservative MPs. The Treasury has rejected | :32:20. | :32:24. | |
calls for a rethink, insisting the increase will make | :32:25. | :32:26. | |
the National Insurance The number of people caught carrying | :32:27. | :32:36. | |
knives in England and Wales has risen to the highest level for six | :32:37. | :32:38. | |
years. The Home Office says there were more than 19,000 offences of | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
knife possession last year. Government figures show a record 41% | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
of adult offenders were jailed. The European Court of Human Rights has | :32:50. | :32:52. | |
backed a key element of the Government's anti-terrorism mergers. | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
It stripped the Sudanese terror suspect of his citizenship and | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
barred him from re-entering Britain -- measures. The man was suspected | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
of taking part in terrorism related activities in Somalia. | :33:08. | :33:10. | |
Malta's famous rock arch, which featured in a number of films | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
and the TV series Game of Thrones, has collapsed into the sea. | :33:15. | :33:16. | |
The Azure Window, on Gozo, was damaged by heavy storms. | :33:17. | :33:19. | |
The Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, said it was heartbreaking. | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
A study of the arch in 2013 said it was eroding but wasn't | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
An actor from the Harry Potter films is in intensive care after a head-on | :33:27. | :33:35. | |
car crash left him with a broken neck and punctured lung. | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
Jim Tavare, known for his role in Harry Potter and the Prisoner | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
of Azkaban, also suffered 15 broken ribs and breaks in his right leg. | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
His wife, Laura, posted a picture of him in a hospital bed on Facebook. | :33:48. | :33:53. | |
Doctors in India say they have successfully performed weight | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
reduction surgery on an Egyptian woman believed to be | :34:00. | :34:01. | |
Eman Ahmed, who's believed to have weighed 500 kilos, or 78 stone, | :34:02. | :34:16. | |
was flown to Mumbai earlier this year and admitted to a specially | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
Her family said she had not left her house for 25 years. | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
Join me for BBC Newsroom live at 11am. | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
We will have coverage of the unveiling of the Iraq and | :34:28. | :34:39. | |
Afghanistan memorial. Let us go to the sport. | :34:40. | :34:40. | |
Is it the greatest sporting comeback of all time? | :34:41. | :34:41. | |
It's certainly the biggest in Champions League history. | :34:42. | :34:42. | |
Barceolona overturned a 4-0 deficit against Paris St Germain with a 6-1 | :34:43. | :34:43. | |
win in the most dramatic fashion at the Camp Nou. | :34:44. | :34:52. | |
Barca scored three goals in the last seven minutes to see them | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
through to the quarterfinal, with two of them | :34:56. | :34:57. | |
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said this morning that he hasn't yet | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
made up his mind whether to stay on in the job but admits | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
that the opinion of the fans and potential protests | :35:05. | :35:06. | |
A potentially decisive blow for Manchester City's Premier League | :35:07. | :35:11. | |
title hopes after they were held to a goalless draw at home to Stoke. | :35:12. | :35:14. | |
They're now 10 points behind leaders Chelsea and with Tottenham in 2nd | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
And there'll be an all-British tie in the second round of the WTA event | :35:18. | :35:24. | |
Heather Watson beat Nicole Gibbs and now faces Johanna Konta. | :35:25. | :35:27. | |
It'll be the first time the pair have played each other on the Tour. | :35:28. | :35:30. | |
We will have more sport for you on the news channel throughout the day. | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
Thank you. Let's get more reaction now | :35:35. | :35:37. | |
to the Chancellor's first budget With our political Guru, Norman | :35:38. | :35:47. | |
Smith. A fairly unique moment. He has managed to unite not just the | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
Conservative Party but also Labour MPs, Liberal Democrat MPs, all of | :35:54. | :35:58. | |
whom seem opposed to the ?2 billion hit on the self-employed. Albeit Mr | :35:59. | :36:04. | |
Hammond and the Treasury team at the moment are insisting no retreat. We | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
shall see. Let us discuss that with the Conservative MP Nigel Mills and | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
Labour's member of the Treasury team. Is Mr Hammond going to have to | :36:16. | :36:23. | |
back off? I suppose we will see how much the Government feel they need | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
to make the reform. There is a problem to address. If you are | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
employed, the national insurance bill is just under 26%, | :36:33. | :36:40. | |
self-employed, 9%. There is a big unfairness. Costing 5 billion to the | :36:41. | :36:46. | |
Exchequer, you can see why they need to tackle it, especially with rising | :36:47. | :36:49. | |
self-employment. The issue is lots of people are made to be | :36:50. | :36:53. | |
self-employed by employers, they are banking the saving, and they would | :36:54. | :36:58. | |
much rather be employed. We need to work out how we can fix that | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
situation and then look at how we change the tax position. If we can | :37:03. | :37:06. | |
fix it, the amount being lost would be less. What happens if Mr Hammond | :37:07. | :37:13. | |
sticks to his position? He has to get a bill through parliament to get | :37:14. | :37:17. | |
the rise through, he has until next April. People across the spectrum | :37:18. | :37:22. | |
want to see how we fix the self-employment situation so only | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
those people who are actually self-employed are self-employed. It | :37:28. | :37:30. | |
is that they have a slightly lower tax rate because they get fewer | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
benefits. I think he needs to work out the overall big picture rather | :37:38. | :37:39. | |
than starting with the difficult tax rise... What do you say to the | :37:40. | :37:44. | |
Labour people who say, Philip Hammond is onto something? It is a | :37:45. | :37:48. | |
progressive and fair tax change. Bottom line is the Government have | :37:49. | :37:51. | |
already set in play a review of self-employment and the gig economy | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
with the whole ambit of it. It has not reported yet, not until the | :37:58. | :38:01. | |
summer. He has not even had the provisional findings. What is the | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
point of setting off a review in train of this type of issue and then | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
pre-empting it in advance question that it seems a bit crass. Your | :38:12. | :38:15. | |
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell was pretty clear this morning Labour | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
will oppose the changes. The question is, why? Why would you want | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
a differential taxation system between people employed by a boss | :38:24. | :38:26. | |
and people who employ themselves? The point at the end of the day and | :38:27. | :38:30. | |
I think Nigel picked it up, it is not just about the rates, the whole | :38:31. | :38:35. | |
point is people are effectively enforced to be self-employed. I know | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
lots of them are forced to do it and the employer is getting away without | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
paying a fair share of national insurance. It falls to the employee | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
in effect to pay their share and now they are getting clobbered for it | :38:51. | :38:53. | |
and it is not right. It has to be dealt with in the round. The way | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
this was managed, the politics, it is becoming increasingly ludicrous | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
for ministers to insist they have not broken the Tory manifesto. I | :39:02. | :39:07. | |
think the manifesto was pretty clear, it said no National Insurance | :39:08. | :39:11. | |
rise. The Government have a technical defence that the building | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
put through did not say class four. I think what I'd stood was there | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
would be no rise overall. I would say it looks like a breach. -- I | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
understood. Some grounds for saying it is a situation that we have to | :39:27. | :39:31. | |
look at, we cannot allow the 5 billion revenue... In terms of | :39:32. | :39:37. | |
selling it, an old maxim, when in a hole, stop digging. Accept, we have | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
had to break the manifesto, there are reasons for that. I would rather | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
than use that defence, yes, it would be more honest and transparent. The | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
people will understand, when you have very high earning lawyers and | :39:51. | :39:55. | |
accountants in partnerships who are paying a lower rate of national | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
insurance than people earning a low-wage, people understand that | :40:00. | :40:02. | |
perhaps ought to change. They will also understand what we do not want | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
to do is have a system where we are encouraging unscrupulous employers | :40:08. | :40:10. | |
to pretend their employees are self-employed. We need to level the | :40:11. | :40:13. | |
playing field. There are good grounds for this but those people | :40:14. | :40:16. | |
who are genuinely self-employed trying to grow the business, who get | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
less rights, they would quite rightly probably be quite angry | :40:21. | :40:26. | |
about this. Picking up that point, we have heard from the Resolution | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
Foundation, hang on a sec someone earning up to ?50,000 self-employed | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
could be paying less tax than someone earning less because they | :40:38. | :40:40. | |
are employed by a boss. The problem with the House of Commons, we are in | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
a binary position. I do not think it is one or the other. It has to be in | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
the round. You cannot say, we will deal with one element, the rate of | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
National Insurance contributions, it has to be in the round. The | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
Government recognise that and that is why they have set up the review. | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
What in God's name is the point of setting up a review if you | :41:03. | :41:09. | |
completely pre-empt it? A last word, at your brief, short advice to the | :41:10. | :41:12. | |
Chancellor, about what he should do now. I think he should go away, | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
think again and pull the plan. I think he should get the review of | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
the issue of self-employment out so we can look at it in the round and | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
see what the fair policies are to tackle it. Thank you very much. Huge | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
pressure on the Chancellor to address some of the concerns we have | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
been hearing about. To date, no signs so far of a rethink. | :41:36. | :41:43. | |
Thank you, Norman. Let me tell you, we are going to bring you coverage | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
of the Queen unveiling a memorial dedicated to all of those who served | :41:48. | :41:55. | |
in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan in a little while. This is Horse | :41:56. | :41:58. | |
Guards Parade in central London where the memorial will be unveiled | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
and we will be there in a few moments. First, Scotland's First | :42:04. | :42:10. | |
Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told the BBC a common-sense time for a | :42:11. | :42:13. | |
second independence referendum would be autumn, 2018. | :42:14. | :42:19. | |
A final decision on holding such a vote has not yet been taken, | :42:20. | :42:22. | |
but Ms Sturgeon insisted she was "not bluffing" | :42:23. | :42:24. | |
She was speaking to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg. | :42:25. | :42:27. | |
In Westminster, some politicians think you're bluffing | :42:28. | :42:29. | |
I always think that sometimes kind of says more about them than it does | :42:30. | :42:36. | |
about me because it suggests that there are politicians | :42:37. | :42:41. | |
in Westminster who think Brexit and all of this is some | :42:42. | :42:44. | |
It's not a game, it's really, really serious and the implications | :42:45. | :42:47. | |
for the UK are serious and the indications | :42:48. | :42:53. | |
--implications for Scotland are serious. | :42:54. | :43:00. | |
Some of your colleagues talk about autumn, | :43:01. | :43:02. | |
Within that window, as the outline of a UK deal becomes clear, | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
and the UK exiting the EU I think would be the common sense time | :43:07. | :43:09. | |
for Scotland to have that choice if that is the road we choose | :43:10. | :43:12. | |
Just to be clear, you're not ruling out autumn, 2018? | :43:13. | :43:16. | |
Let us get the thoughts of Ian Murray. From Edinburgh, the SNP, | :43:17. | :43:34. | |
Miles breaks. Ian Murray, what do you think about the prospect of a | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
referendum? Completely unnecessary. With the uncertainty across Brexit, | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
the last thing you need is another Scottish referendum. If you want to | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
destroy the Scottish economy, this is the best way to do it. Maybe we | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
will have one... It looks as if we have more clarity today. It is clear | :43:55. | :44:02. | |
the Scottish people do not want another independence referendum. The | :44:03. | :44:06. | |
polls have shown that. The SNP wake up every single day of the week to | :44:07. | :44:09. | |
try to deliver independence and they are using Brexit to do that and the | :44:10. | :44:14. | |
people who suffer will be the Scottish people in terms of economic | :44:15. | :44:20. | |
downturn. 2014, the issues then more prominent now and the fiscal deficit | :44:21. | :44:25. | |
Scotland currently carries would be detrimental to any kind of | :44:26. | :44:28. | |
independent Scotland and there is no answer to the big questions about | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
people's jobs, livelihoods and what the Scottish economy would look like | :44:33. | :44:38. | |
in the future. Miles? I agree with what Ian has said. Yet more | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
uncertainty. The politics of Nicola Sturgeon. For the last ten years, | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
she has used this issue to divide our country and she is continuing to | :44:47. | :44:50. | |
do that today. We need to move on as a nation and look at how we better | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
run public services in Scotland and it is that fact Nicola Sturgeon does | :44:56. | :44:58. | |
not want to maybe look at the failings for government have that | :44:59. | :45:01. | |
she is using this issue yet again. It is time to turn the page on the | :45:02. | :45:08. | |
constitutional demons dividing our country and work to get the best | :45:09. | :45:17. | |
deal for the UK leaving the EU Scotland did not want Brexit. I | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
voted remain but it was a UK wide referendum and we as a country now | :45:24. | :45:29. | |
are all leaving the EU and we need to get the best possible deal. That | :45:30. | :45:32. | |
is where I have been really impressed with the way the UK | :45:33. | :45:35. | |
Government has been engaging with the Scottish Parliament and with all | :45:36. | :45:38. | |
parties across Scotland, to listen to the views of industry in | :45:39. | :45:41. | |
Scotland, to make sure we get the best possible deal for Scotland and | :45:42. | :45:47. | |
the UK. Theresa May could block a referendum if that option was to be | :45:48. | :45:53. | |
pursued. Do you think she should? The issue has never been that there | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
be a referendum, both the Prime Minister and our leader Ruth | :46:00. | :46:02. | |
Davidson have been clear. The issue is, should there be? People do not | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
want... If a decision was taken by the SNP, yes, we will go for one, | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
Theresa May could block it, should she? They are a minority government | :46:14. | :46:16. | |
in the Scottish Parliament so they would have to bring forward the vote | :46:17. | :46:19. | |
and we would see how parties approach it. For people in Scotland, | :46:20. | :46:24. | |
they would want to see how the Government is thinking this through. | :46:25. | :46:27. | |
Over the next two years, there is a lot of work to do to secure the best | :46:28. | :46:34. | |
deal for Scotland. I am not sure the focus is currently on that and I | :46:35. | :46:37. | |
think that is why people in Scotland will soon punish them for that at | :46:38. | :46:41. | |
the local elections in May, the best opportunity voters will have to | :46:42. | :46:44. | |
knocked a strong team of Conservative councillors to send a | :46:45. | :46:48. | |
message to the SNP on this issue -- to elect. | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
Nicola Sturgeon would need to get permission from Westminster to hold | :46:54. | :47:01. | |
a referendum, should they withhold it? The issues around it would be | :47:02. | :47:08. | |
part of the negotiations so it would depend what that negotiation looks | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
like. I agree with everything he's just said. If they have brought us | :47:15. | :47:21. | |
to this brink. They ran an election campaign pitting Scots against | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
England. David Cameron came to the steps of Downing Street the morning | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
the result was announced and announced English votes for English | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
laws. Then they brought us to a position Brexit. It's about time his | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
party brought responsibility. Let's get the second referendum of the | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
table and work to get the best possible Brexiteer over Scotland and | :47:45. | :47:52. | |
the UK. -- best possible Brexit deal for Scotland and the UK. | :47:53. | :47:55. | |
Nicola Sturgeon's interview was recorded for the BBC documentary | :47:56. | :47:57. | |
Brexit: Britain's Biggest Deal - to be broadcast this evening | :47:58. | :48:00. | |
on BBC Two in England, Wales and Northern Ireland at 21:00 | :48:01. | :48:02. | |
Thank you for your comments on our interview with Niall Woods. One | :48:03. | :48:12. | |
viewer has said, good to hear an honest account of the drug trade and | :48:13. | :48:18. | |
a pragmatic sensible approach to minimising it. Neal worked as an | :48:19. | :48:21. | |
undercover policeman who risks his life to infiltrate criminal drug | :48:22. | :48:25. | |
gangs. He describes some of his experiences and how he was able to | :48:26. | :48:31. | |
cope. Basically I had to befriend people and empathise with people. It | :48:32. | :48:42. | |
became like weaponising empathy. You have to move among people who are | :48:43. | :48:45. | |
problematic drug users and befriend them. But doesn't it have to be more | :48:46. | :48:50. | |
than that, don't you have to pass off as somebody absolutely credible | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
in that world, doesn't that mean taking drugs? I never had to take | :48:55. | :49:01. | |
heroin or cocaine. But I once had to take amphetamine. I made the mistake | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
of presenting myself to be a connoisseur of that drug which was a | :49:07. | :49:09. | |
mistake in the end. Someone gave me a present and it was 40% pure. | :49:10. | :49:16. | |
Normally the drug would be 5%. To avoid imminent violence I had to | :49:17. | :49:21. | |
take some of that drug. That was quite terrifying. I was awake for | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
three nights. Only on one occasion in 14 years did you take drugs? I | :49:27. | :49:31. | |
had to take cannabis a few times. But that was it, other than those | :49:32. | :49:37. | |
occasions. What about dealing drugs? We didn't deal. I pretended to be a | :49:38. | :49:41. | |
dealer. Sometimes I would make myself out to be a burglar, wheeler | :49:42. | :49:47. | |
dealer. I was buying large quantities in order to present that. | :49:48. | :49:53. | |
I would never actually sell drugs. I did have a camera found once in | :49:54. | :50:01. | |
Leicester. I'd been trading with a gangster for about four months. On | :50:02. | :50:05. | |
this one occasion I went to sell him some counterfeit clothing as part of | :50:06. | :50:12. | |
my cover. He brought two friends who were instantly suspicious. One of | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
them searched me and found a camera. I was in quite an isolated car park. | :50:18. | :50:23. | |
I can't say the words I said. Basically I gave him a torrent of | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
abuse to try and interrupters ability to tell his friend what it | :50:29. | :50:34. | |
found. Then I had to deliberately and as slowly as possible fold up | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
the clothing. If you run a way that is confirming someone's suspicions. | :50:39. | :50:44. | |
Very slowly I walked away. I managed to gain enough meat so that when he | :50:45. | :50:47. | |
convinced his companion and they came after me a car, I escaped it by | :50:48. | :50:57. | |
two metres. My intelligence guy joked saying he didn't know why they | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
didn't just shoot be because apparently there was a gun in that | :51:03. | :51:14. | |
car. The Queen is unveiling a memorial to all those who served in | :51:15. | :51:20. | |
Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf War between 1990 and 2015. We are here | :51:21. | :51:25. | |
in a Horse Guards Parade. The Queen will be arriving soon with many | :51:26. | :51:28. | |
other members of the Royal family for this service of dedication here. | :51:29. | :51:35. | |
At shortly after 11:30am the Queen will unveil the Iraq Afghanistan | :51:36. | :51:43. | |
memorial at Victoria embankment Gardens. Its cost about ?1 million | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
to create. Members of the public have donated that money and it | :51:49. | :51:53. | |
recognises the contribution not only of the troops who have fought and | :51:54. | :51:58. | |
served in the various conflicts since 1990, the Gulf campaigns in | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
Iraq and Afghanistan, but also civilians, aid workers, people who | :52:05. | :52:09. | |
have worked in the reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, in that long | :52:10. | :52:15. | |
period of 25 years from 1990 until 2015 and the withdrawal of British | :52:16. | :52:19. | |
troops from Afghanistan. The service of dedication here at Horse Guards | :52:20. | :52:25. | |
Parade is going to be witness not only by the Queen and members of the | :52:26. | :52:31. | |
Royal family but the Prime Minister, Theresa May and former prime | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
ministers David Cameron, Tony Blair and so on are here as well. My | :52:36. | :52:40. | |
colleague is going to be watching events unfold here at Horse Guards | :52:41. | :52:42. | |
Parade. The | :52:43. | :52:46. |