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European election results. That's all from the BBC News at Six - so | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Now it's over to Susie for the rest of the programme. | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
And I will be here with all the day's news from the rest of the | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
region, including back on the ward, a year after safety concerns at | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Bedford Hospital, junior doctors will be allowed to return. Why is it | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
our hospitals struggle to recruit our hospitals struggle to recruit | :00:35. | :00:35. | |
and retrain enough nurses? @nd one and retrain enough nurses? And one | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
of the country's Reverend Flowers is back for the first time in ` decade. | :00:44. | :01:06. | |
a moment, why so many nursing posts remain unfilled. But first, a year | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
after junior doctors were suspended from Bedford Hospital because of a | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
lack of qualified staff to supervise them comes the decision to `llow | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
them back on the wards. It was July last year when trainee doctors were | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
suspended along with childrdn's services because of a concern over | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
patient safety. Children thdn had to be sent to Milton Keynes for | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
treatment. But in January, the hospital was once again allowed to | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
take emergency admissions for under`16s. Today came the rtling | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
that there is now enough support and expertise on the wards for junior | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
doctors to return. But as Mhke Cartwright reports, it doesn't mean | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
business as usual. Are you feeling better now? Yes | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
You've been really brave. Charlie, aged three, stayed at hospital | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
overnight after arriving with stomach pains. His mum Jo stayed | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
with him. Pregnant, her second child will be delivered any day. Without a | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
children's ward in Bedford, she would have had to head to Milton | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
Keynes. The thought of going half an hour down the road, driving, just me | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
and my son, would have been a nightmare and I probably wotldn t | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
have gone into the walk`in. I wouldn't have taken him, or if I | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
had, I would have been in tears, I think, I'm so emotional at the | :02:16. | :02:27. | |
moment anyway. From August, junior doctors will work on the children's | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
wards here once again ` eight paediatric consultants provhding | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
proper supervision, say health managers. The approach for junior | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
doctors will be that they h`ve more people around to help sort out | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
problems that they might encounter, and that's sustainable, that will | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
continue in the future. Beforehand, junior doctors would have done all | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
the frontline care. They met the patients, they did the inithal | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
assessment. What will be different now is that all that will bd carried | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
out by consultants. July protests, after emergency treatment for | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
children was stopped, followed by a damning report from the health | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
watchdog. The chief executive now says treatment has been turned | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
around. This is the first thme in the country that trainees have been | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
returned to department once they have been removed by the GMC, and | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
that is a fantastic achievelent and shows that we are really improving | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
services and the environment for junior doctors and we are very proud | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
hospital. Children will havd to go elsewhere for long`term specialist | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
treatment, but for parents like Jo, there is relief that paediatric care | :03:29. | :03:50. | |
Meanwhile, hospitals across the region are struggling to find enough | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
Many are increasingly having to turn to Europe and even further `field | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Earlier this month, the Royal College of Nursing highlighted | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
the importance of employing enough staff to guarantee patient safety. | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
But for many of our hospitals that's proving a challenge. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
If we just take a snapshot of the region, you can see the Luton | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
and Dunstable Hospital have a vacancy rate of 3.5%. | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
At Kettering they've recently recruited 26 nurses from ovdrseas, | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
And at Addenbrooke's in Cambridge, 10 % | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Our reporter Ben Bland has been to Peterborough City Hospital | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
A three`day stay in the cardiac ward for Phyllis Johnson, and thd care | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
she received from the nurses was a vital part of her recovery. | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Very important, they are very good, very kind, | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
Here on the cardiac ward they have 12 nurses | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
and healthcare assistants on duty, spanning the day and night shift. | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
To cover those shifts over the course of a week means they need to | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
employ 55 nurses, and that's just for one ward in one hospital in one | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
city, so you can see why qu`lified nurses are in such high demand. | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
At the minute we are looking to fill 150 posts. | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
Not all of those are vacant at the moment, some we have had notice of | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
people moving on to new and exciting other posts and then we havd filled | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
some of those and we are waiting for nurses to come and join us from | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
where they are currently working, but we cannot make up the ntmber we | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
We have been looking at overseas recruitment. | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
And they have just recruited more than 20 nurses from Spain, | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
They will start at Peterborough Hospital later this year, but some | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
think hiring nurses from abroad is only a short`term solution. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
It doesn't solve the problel because we will still have a shortfall | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
We need to get more qualifidd nurses within the workforce and I do know | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
from talking to my other colleagues within the Royal College of Nursing | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
that Peterborough are a little bit later than some of our organisations | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
in looking abroad to recruit qualified nurses. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
At this hospital, they parthcularly need nurses for the operating | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
theatres and emergency departments, but training and recruiting them is | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
The rest of the challenge is keeping good nurses and persuading | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
Earlier I spoke to Karen Webb from the Royal College of Nursing. | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
She told me why hospitals h`ve little choice but to recruit | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
To put it bluntly, we would need to recruit every single school leaver | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
in the country at the moment in order to staff the NHS to the state | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
that it is at the moment, so frankly we have to go overseas at the moment | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
to find enough people with the qualifications, | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
experience and skills to fill the nursing vacancies in thd East. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
But what could we be doing better or more of in this country, | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Is it training? Are we not training enough people? | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
We need to invest more in nurse training places through | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
There are no shortage of young people wanting to train to | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
be nurses but there are shortages of commissioned places | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
There isn't a single area in the East of England | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
at the moment that isn't crying out for qualified experienced ntrses | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
It takes four years to prep`re a nurse to be competent | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
for practice, and clearly over the years the investment has not gone | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Does that mean patients are being put at risk if we are | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
so desperate and so short of those trained nurses? | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Of course patients are being put at risk. | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
If patients go to any wards now they will be able to see how many | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
nurses and what skill mix there should be in the clinical area and | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
they will be able to see what there actually are in the clinical area. | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
Any time a patient or a pathent s visitor goes to a ward and there are | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
four nurses instead of five, you know your relative is being put at | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
risk because if that is the assessed number of staff there should be, | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
there really isn't an excuse for why they are not there, | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
other than cost`cutting and saving money on nursing posts. | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
A couple from Northampton who were extradited | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
to America last week have had their application for bail refused. | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
Paul and Sandra Dunham appeared at a court in Maryland this afternoon | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
They face 13 counts of fraud totalling $1.4 million | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
The Dunhams have been told their trial is unlikely to be heard | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Now for something that's not been seen in this region | :08:36. | :08:48. | |
for more than a decade. It's blue and white. | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
But now the Fen Violet has returned to Cambridgeshire and Wicken Fen. | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Wicken fen, it believed to be the oldest nature reserve in England, | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
internationally recognised for its conservation. And we have jtst heard | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
conservation. And we have just heard a cuckoo. Last year they fotnd 3 | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
a cuckoo. Last year they found 53 new species. Now they have | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
discovered the fen Violet, found deep in the heart of the reserve. | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
That's what all the bosses `bout. `` That's what all the bosses about. `` | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
all the fuss is about. They last saw it ten years ago. We know as here it | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
likes disturbed ground, we know it likes boggy ground and we know that | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
it doesn't compete very well so it doesn't like a lot of agitation. | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
doesn't like a lot of agitation This is just a tiny fragment of what | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
was once a great friend, most of which has been drained and farm. | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
Conservationists say this l`nd is Conservationists say this land is | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
vital to protect rare specids Conservationists say this l`nd is | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
vital to protect rare species that vital to protect rare specids that | :09:59. | :09:58. | |
survived on this unique habitat. survived on this unique habhtat | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
Those are your top stories tonight. gramme. | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
Today, Labour leader Ed Milhband came to Essex, vowing to win back | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
And some of the region's Lib Dems joined calls for their leaddr | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
In a moment, a live debate with senior politicians. | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
That's after this from Andrew Sinclair. | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
These are the headline figures for the East of England. Three seats for | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
UKIP, three for the Conserv`tives UKIP, three for the Conserv`tives | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
and one for labour. Dig a little and one for labour. Dig a little | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
deeper and it is clear that you get by definitely the winners. Their | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
share of the vote up from 19% last share of the vote up from 18% last | :10:48. | :10:57. | |
time to 34%. Where has it come from? The Liberal Democrats are down, but | :10:58. | :10:58. | |
they also take seats from Labour The Liberal Democrats are down, but | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
they also take seats from L`bour and they also take seats from Labour and | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
people who have never voted before. Labour are notably up, but it seems | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
that most of that vote came from former Liberal Democrats. There are | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
stories that in some places many Labour supporters did not turn out | :11:14. | :11:14. | |
to vote. If that is true thdn Labour supporters did not ttrn out | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
to vote. If that is true thdn that is worrying for the party, so close | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
to general election. It was dire for the Lib Dems, they got fewer votes | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
than the Greens. That is whx the Lib Dems, they got fewer votes | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
than the Greens. That is whx some councillors from this region have | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
signed a letter for Nick leg to stand down. The big debate hs | :11:32. | :11:32. | |
signed a letter for Nick leg to stand down. The big debate is how | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
stand down. The big debate hs how seriously to take UKIP. `` Nick | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
Clegg. In parts of Norfolk and Clegg. In parts of Norfolk `nd | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
Cambridgeshire they could easily Cambridgeshire they could e`sily | :11:47. | :11:47. | |
influenced the outcome of next influenced the outcome of next | :11:48. | :11:48. | |
year's election. But becausd influenced the outcome of ndxt | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
year's election. But because UKIP are appealing to voters across the | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
political spectrum, how do other voters adjust their policies? Or do | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
they just say, this is a protest vote that will go away next year? | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
But given the result of the sport, can the parties continue to say | :12:06. | :12:06. | |
that? `` this vote. Here in the studio are Norm`n Lamb, | :12:07. | :12:15. | |
Liberal Democrat MP and Health Minister, and Richard Howitt, | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
Labour MEP. Conservative MEP Vicky Ford is | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
in Cambridge and newly elected UKIP Congratulations on that restlt for | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
UKIP. It is it a good result for the region? Are you intending to do work | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
for us in Europe? Yes, but we have to look at the big issue on the | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
doors, which is immigration. We are the only party with a plan to take | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
back control of the Borders. The other parties may say that they want | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
to do that whilst being in the European Union, and that is an | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
impossibility. The only way we can take control is to leave thd EU Are | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
UKIP speaking the language of the ordinary working people that Ed | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Miliband said today that Labour is not reaching? I am grateful and glad | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
to see Ed Miliband in Essex delivering that message and I think | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
that there is a big difference between understanding concerns, | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
concerns about the health sdrvice and access to that, whether children | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
can get jobs, and also homes. UKIP's prescription is to stpport | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
UKIP's prescription is to support the health service and to rdmove | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
the health service and to remove people's appointment rates, which | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
will increase job security. The very things that voters are worrhed | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
about, Labour has the prescriptions that UKIP does not. 30% of voters | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
chose UKIP over you at the Duropean chose UKIP over you at the Duropean | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
election. The disillusionment is not just with the government, it is with | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
you. There is an anti`polithcs you. There is an anti`politics | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
disenchantment, and labour's job is to Windows people over. In Norwich | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
and Cambridge Labour had thd majority and it looks like we will | :13:59. | :14:00. | |
wind at the general election next year. The Labour vote went tp. It | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
wind at the general election next year. The Labour vote went up. It is | :14:07. | :14:06. | |
the first time in 20 years hn the the first time in 20 years in the | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
European election that Labotr has beaten the Conservatives. It was a | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
good election for Labour. But you good election for Labour. But you | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
did badly in places like Grdat did badly in places like Great | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Yarmouth. Is it over for thd Lib Yarmouth. Is it over for the Lib | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
Dems in this region? You did not even bother to put up some Lib Dems | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
on some of the council elections. We do you go from here? It is | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
absolutely not over. We have do you go from here? It is | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
absolutely not over. We havd faced absolutely not over. We have faced | :14:33. | :14:33. | |
this question many teams and be always bounce back. Our focts has to | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
be rueful sleigh on focusing to get this country back after really | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
difficult times `` ruthlessly. You cannot get the country back if you | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
do not have any MPs? We have cannot get the country back if you | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
do not have any MPs? We havd many do not have any MPs? We havd many | :14:52. | :14:51. | |
MPs in Parliament and we are do not have any MPs? We have many | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
MPs in Parliament and we ard in do not have any MPs? We havd many | :14:54. | :14:53. | |
MPs in Parliament and we are in the coalition government. We have to act | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
in the national interest. It is critically important that wd | :14:58. | :14:58. | |
in the national interest. It is critically important that we have to | :14:59. | :14:58. | |
critically important that wd have to listen to what the voters said last | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
Thursday, that we treat people with respect for the decisions that they | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
take. The way that the EU operates, it has let people down. We need to | :15:10. | :15:26. | |
devolve power, make it more democratic and accountable. I want | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
the Lib Dems to make fat reform argument. Little stock about | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
reform. Your party is under pressure to spell out what it wants to | :15:35. | :15:44. | |
change. What will you be arguing for ? The Conservative vote held up | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
quite well. The people have spoken. They want reform and a new | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
relationship with Europe. That is precisely why the Prime Minister | :15:56. | :15:56. | |
relationship with Europe. That is precisely why the Prime Minhster has | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
gone to Brussels today to start that renegotiation. On my list of things | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
that I want to see be negotiated renegotiation. On my list of things | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
that I want to see be negothated is that I want to see be negothated is | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
that issue of immigration and freedom of movement of people and | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
how the controls of that have not been strong enough for certain | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
how the controls of that have not been strong enough for cert`in parts | :16:12. | :16:11. | |
been strong enough for certain parts of the East of England. There are | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
also issues to do with human rights and decisions on home affairs and | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
justice. Those have been on our list. But a key difference between | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
ourselves and UKIP is that I want list. But a key difference between | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
ourselves and UKIP is that H want to see every negotiation that looks at | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
the detail so that business and British businesses will not be left | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
with uncertainty, because wd British businesses will not be left | :16:33. | :16:33. | |
with uncertainty, because we need to with uncertainty, because wd need to | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
make sure that we support British businesses, British jobs, through | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
this renegotiation. Can I just ask this renegotiation. Can I jtst ask | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
you... Very briefly, this is a vote for a referendum, and I support a | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
referendum, 52 Conservative MPs in this region support and want a | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
referendum so that people can referendum so that people can | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
choose. How concerned are you? You did well in the European vote but it | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
is not looking so good for the Conservatives in the first past the | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
post elections and that could be the big problem for you in this region. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
If people want a new relationship with Europe, which is suggested in | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
last week's vote, then they need to make sure that they have MPs that | :17:16. | :17:24. | |
are in favour of a referendtm. If there is a vote that splits the | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
pro`reform, pro`change votes, they could end up with a Labour LP. | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
pro`reform, pro`change votes, they could end up with a Labour MP. And | :17:34. | :17:34. | |
those Conservative seats th`t we won those Conservative seats that we won | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
in the last election, if thdy those Conservative seats th`t we won | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
in the last election, if they go in the last election, if thdy go | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
back to labour you will not get you in out referendum. You are planning | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
to stand in Thurrock. This region is high on UKIP's target list. But it | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
will not just be about Europe, it will be about the economy, housing, | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
welfare. Do you really think you can persuade voters to vote for you to | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
be at Westminster? Absolutely. We won the popular vote at the council | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
elections and in the European elections. What you have he`rd | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
elections. What you have heard there, completely misrepresdnting | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
UKIP's position on NHS, particularly a cheap shot when Labour introduced | :18:20. | :18:31. | |
public private partnerships. We have a comprehensive platform to bring | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
change. If the Tory's best `rgument is vote for the blues to stop the | :18:41. | :18:41. | |
red then they are all the s`me. is vote for the blues to stop the | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
red then they are all the same. Let red then they are all the s`me. Let | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
me put to you that we must have a balanced debate about immigration | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
and recognise that immigration has in many respects done an enormous | :18:54. | :18:54. | |
amount of good for this country If amount of good for this country. If | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
you think about the NHS... Let me finish this point. Let me make this | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
finish this point. Let me m`ke this point. If you think about the NHS | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
and you think about our card and you think about our care | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
service, the whole system would collapse without extraordinarily | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
dedicated people from across Europe working and caring for our frail | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
older people. You have to answer the question about where does that here | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
come from if we send all those people back on? Last time UKIP good | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
result in the European elections they went down to 3% by the general | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
election. I was debating whether election. I was debating whdther | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
UKIP candidate this morning he said that yes, it is a protest vote. Next | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
year the alternative is Labour and that is why Labour is on cotrse to | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
that is why Labour is on course to win that general election. We have | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
spoken to many voters who did win that general election. We have | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
spoken to many voters who dhd vote spoken to many voters who did vote | :19:44. | :19:43. | |
UKIP and they said that thex spoken to many voters who dhd vote | :19:44. | :19:44. | |
UKIP and they said that thex do not know if they will vote UKIP in the | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
general election. They want to see you prove yourself. You will be | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
under a lot of scrutiny. Exactly. We have shown in the areas where we | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
gained on Thursday, we'll acted one councillor in Thurrock in 2012, and | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
people have seen the great work that that councillor has done and they | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
have elected five more `` wd elected one councillor. We will see places | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
where we can make real breakthroughs, where we can actually | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
sure that we can give up on the Punch and Judy of reds, bluds | :20:19. | :20:19. | |
sure that we can give up on the Punch and Judy of reds, blues and | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
sometimes he was, and actually get real change. The truth is that | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
nobody knows how it is going to play out at the general election, it is | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
uncharted territory, which is uncharted territory, which hs | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
dangerous for the party in power. If you vote UKIP and we end up going | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
back to Labour then remember what it was like when we took over, with the | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
country in deep financial crisis, we run out of money and it has been | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
enormously painful getting this country's economy back together. A | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
country's economy back together A lot of people have felt that pain. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
But look at where we are now. We have cut the deficit to bring the | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
economy back under control. 1.5 million new jobs have started, | :20:58. | :20:58. | |
economy back under control. 1.5 million new jobs have startdd, .5 | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
million young people given apprentices. Let us not get this | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
country get back into financial disaster again. This has been done | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
by the coalition. And it is two parties working together. You are | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
not getting the credit, is that what you were saying? Yes, the smaller | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
you were saying? Yes, the slaller party does not get the credit | :21:21. | :21:21. | |
you were saying? Yes, the smaller party does not get the credht that | :21:22. | :21:22. | |
you were saying? Yes, the slaller party does not get the credit that I | :21:23. | :21:22. | |
party does not get the credht that I think in time we deserve. But | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
party does not get the credit that I think in time we deserve. Btt I | :21:26. | :21:26. | |
think in time we deserve. But I think it has been criticallx | :21:27. | :21:27. | |
think it has been critically important at a time of incrddible | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
danger to this country for two parties to work together, and our | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
clear message has been that we work for a stronger economy, but also a | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
fear society. Can I just... We have achieved massive tax cuts for people | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
on low pay, a punk your costs. We on low pay, a punk your costs. We | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
have reformed pensions in a way that have reformed pensions in a way that | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
gives the money to people on low incomes. These are real achievements | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
in government and that is what we should focus attention on. Xou | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
in government and that is what we should focus attention on. You have | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
lost your identity in doing so. In your constituency the Lib Ddms | :22:05. | :22:05. | |
lost your identity in doing so. In your constituency the Lib Dems were | :22:06. | :22:05. | |
your constituency the Lib Ddms were down more than 12%, UKIP up 16%. I | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
down more than 12%, UKIP up 16% I do not think we have lost our | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
identity. I think that we have fought very clearly for a stronger | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
economy and a fairer society. fought very clearly for a stronger | :22:18. | :22:18. | |
economy and a fairer societx. It is economy and a fairer societx. It is | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
extraordinarily difficult for a time of economic people that we have been | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
working with the party that have not in our natural allies. Economic | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
dislocation is not just in Britain. Look at what has happened across | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Europe, French, right`wing parties, like UKIP, in France, in Austria, in | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Denmark, all gaining. It should be worrying to people. Let us talk | :22:45. | :22:56. | |
about this region. There is some suggestion that Labour voters did | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
not turn out, for example in Luton. Just 28% turnout. Are your voters | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
staying at home? There were not local council elections... The | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
turnout was higher than where it was just the European election. But in | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Luton we have to greet Labotr MPs Luton we have to greet Labour MPs | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
and we're on course with victories in Norwich, Cambridge, Watford, for | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
Labour to be winning key se`ts that Labour to be winning key se`ts that | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
it needs to win. 110 since `` one sentence from all of you. What will | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
you achieve for this region next year? We're on the road to economic | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
year? We're on the road to dconomic recovery, let us not ruin it. If you | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
vote UKIP you could end up with Labour and you will get back to | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
financial disaster and you will not get a referendum on Europe. The old | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
three parties, you cannot tdll get a referendum on Europe. The old | :23:58. | :23:58. | |
three parties, you cannot tell the three parties, you cannot tell the | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
difference between them. If you want back control of your borders, | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
sovereignty and democracy, vote UKIP. The austerity policies have | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
gone too far, we need to get that European money into the Easter think | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
in. I am the only MEP that works for that and we need to deal with job | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
insecurity and not slash employment rates. What are we missing out on? | :24:20. | :24:29. | |
Jobs and the economy. We will work in the government to rebuild this | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
economy after an incredibly different time and I think we are | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
achieving a real difference. Thank you all very much for joining us | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
this evening. It has been up pretty grotty day weather`wise, so we sent | :24:43. | :24:43. | |
Alex outside. If we kick off with the pressure | :24:44. | :24:53. | |
chart we can see the culprit, which is an area of low pressure out over | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
the continent. That will mean the continent. That will mean | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
further outbreaks of rain this evening and overnight, but ht will | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
evening and overnight, but it will improve, so hang in there. The radar | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
chart shows us where the heaviest of chart shows us where the heaviest of | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
this rain has been and some of it has caused problems with localised | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
flooding. Some heavy rain in a short space of time. Looking at tonight's | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
chart you can see the track of this rain. It is starting to clear | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
westwards through this evenhng and westwards through this evenhng and | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
overnight. It brings us heavy pulses of rain. By the end of the night it | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
looks as though the main rahn of rain. By the end of the night it | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
looks as though the main rain band looks as though the main rahn band | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
will be sitting on the north`west of it. For many counties it will be a | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
dry end to the night. A good deal of cloud temperatures will rem`in | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
relatively mild, around ten, 13 degrees. We kick off tomorrow with a | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
lot of cloud around. If you live in northern counties, northern parts of | :25:45. | :25:45. | |
Cambridgeshire or Norfolk, ht northern counties, northern parts of | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
Cambridgeshire or Norfolk, it will be cloudy but it will start to clear | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
northwards. That is where the main focus of this rain will be `cross | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
the country tomorrow. If you're focus of this rain will be across | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
the country tomorrow. If yot're off to the Suffolk Show you may well see | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
a glimmer of brightness. It may well remain quite cloudy across the | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
region, but rarely get any brightness or sunshine, which could | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
be in short supply, but we lay get some, temperatures may claim to | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
around 15 or 16 degrees. Moderate north to north`easterly wind. But | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
there will be limp through than by the end of the day. The chart shows | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
just that. This is going to give you some hope, because this is the | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
pressure chart that we will end with, which shows how presstre | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
with, which shows how pressure building for Friday. It is `n | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
building for Friday. It is an improvement. Before we get there, | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
looking at the outlook, we have closed with outbreaks of rahn to | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
closed with outbreaks of rain to come on Thursday. It becomes | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
gradually drier and brighter and then for afraid he entered the | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
weekend we have later when sent brighter spells and some sunshine | :26:46. | :26:46. | |
around. It is looking like a brighter spells and some sunshine | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
around. It is looking like ` dry forecast for the weekend. Let | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
around. It is looking like a dry forecast for the weekend. Ldt us go | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
back to Suzy. That is all from us after a very | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
lively debate on the issues surrounding the European elections. | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
I and sure that that debate will continue in the coming months. | :27:08. | :27:08. |