0:00:07 > 0:00:11Brexit means Brexit, and we're going to make a success of it.
0:00:13 > 0:00:15Well, what DOES it mean?
0:00:15 > 0:00:18For the last year, it's meant a battle for the soul of Britain,
0:00:18 > 0:00:21and I've been on the inside of it.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23We did it!
0:00:23 > 0:00:25CROWD CHEERS
0:00:25 > 0:00:28It's a battle where passions run high...
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Just punch him.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33..where nothing is certain...
0:00:33 > 0:00:36To put it mildly, it's gone tits up.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38..even when victory seems assured...
0:00:39 > 0:00:43We know who wears the trousers in this party - it's Theresa May,
0:00:43 > 0:00:46and they're whatever trousers she wants.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49..but, above all, it's a battle at the highest levels of government...
0:00:51 > 0:00:54To pretend that it's going to be plain sailing
0:00:54 > 0:00:57is such knuckleheaded lunacy it makes one wonder
0:00:57 > 0:01:00why anyone who thinks that is in politics.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03..a battle whose rumbles and murmurings
0:01:03 > 0:01:05I've captured at every turn.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19I'm at Britain's most famous street
0:01:19 > 0:01:25to see the nation's most powerful couple being turfed out by Brexit.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Glamorous young things are to be replaced by order,
0:01:28 > 0:01:30clarity and certainty...
0:01:35 > 0:01:38..and that's the last we see and hear of the new PM
0:01:38 > 0:01:40and her ministers for months.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44From behind the net curtains,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46word seeps out that Brexit will be no bother.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Underway by next March without any debate,
0:01:50 > 0:01:54without any opposition and without any election.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58But Brexit has a way of proving everyone wrong.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13ALL CHANT AND SING
0:02:13 > 0:02:15In a blow to the new PM,
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Appeal Court judges rule that Parliament has got a right
0:02:18 > 0:02:20to debate Brexit after all.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26Hearing a case brought by a private citizen,
0:02:26 > 0:02:29model turned hedge funder Gina Miller.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31The Daily Mail, well, they're looking at the judges
0:02:31 > 0:02:33who took that decision...
0:02:33 > 0:02:37The decision immediately stirs a powerful newspaper to anger.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40..tore into "an unelected panel of out of touch judges".
0:02:40 > 0:02:42This is something we'll be discussing...
0:02:42 > 0:02:45The Daily Mail is an absolute disgrace.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47They should be ashamed of themselves.
0:02:47 > 0:02:52They have taken political reporting to the gutter in this country.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56Engaging in bully boy tactics that is dangerous for democracy.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01I think that was the most disgraceful and disgusting headline
0:03:01 > 0:03:04I have read in my entire life -
0:03:04 > 0:03:08that the judges in this country are the enemies of the people.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12They are actually the guarantors of the freedom of the people
0:03:12 > 0:03:15and I think it was a disgusting headline.
0:03:15 > 0:03:16Have you said so to them?
0:03:16 > 0:03:20I have said so to them, in terms, and said so all day long
0:03:20 > 0:03:24for those who have bothered to read it on my absurd Twitter account.
0:03:24 > 0:03:25LAUGHTER
0:03:25 > 0:03:2722,100 followers, please note.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35The judges' decision ends Mrs May's Parliamentary honeymoon,
0:03:35 > 0:03:39encouraging a handful of Tory Remain MPs to have another crack.
0:03:39 > 0:03:44The Government has so far resisted any even meaningful debate
0:03:44 > 0:03:49to take place in Parliament about our future relationship with the EU.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Why? I don't know.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53What are they frightened of?
0:03:53 > 0:03:56This into the terrified of allowing members of Parliament -
0:03:56 > 0:03:59A, that we can't have a vote,
0:03:59 > 0:04:01and secondly, they seem to be determined
0:04:01 > 0:04:05that we can't even debate and discuss the fundamental principles.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10Anna's defiance enrages the Tory Brexiteers,
0:04:10 > 0:04:11never shy about having a row.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16Yeah, but you have to remember, come of the Remoaners
0:04:16 > 0:04:18in the Conservative Party,
0:04:18 > 0:04:20they're very bruised from the referendum.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24They not only lost the referendum, they lost Government office
0:04:24 > 0:04:29and if you wanted to be cynical, as I might be at this moment,
0:04:29 > 0:04:33you'd say that their only way back into high Government office,
0:04:33 > 0:04:35probably any time soon,
0:04:35 > 0:04:39is if Brexit's a complete economic disaster,
0:04:39 > 0:04:41and you really have to see everything they say
0:04:41 > 0:04:43and everything they do through the prism of that self interest.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47Quite honestly, I think Theresa May understands
0:04:47 > 0:04:51that if we let the people down on delivering Brexit -
0:04:51 > 0:04:54and proper Brexit, not staying in the single market -
0:04:54 > 0:04:59the political landscape is so volatile
0:04:59 > 0:05:03that, you know, the politicians who appear on the scene
0:05:03 > 0:05:07over the next five or 10 years, if we let the people down,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10will make Farage and Trump look like moderates.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19Around the globe, Brexit upends the old order -
0:05:19 > 0:05:23no cosy international diplomacy, a wholly new type of leader.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH:
0:05:29 > 0:05:33Behind those net curtains, Mrs May and her team
0:05:33 > 0:05:37say some very disobliging things about Donald Trump,
0:05:37 > 0:05:38confident he can't win.
0:05:40 > 0:05:45Sorry to keep you waiting. Complicated business. Complicated.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48The President-elect wastes no time in repaying her snub.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53He suggests one of Mrs May's oldest, bitterest foes
0:05:53 > 0:05:55as UK ambassador to Washington.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59The man he calls Mr Brexit.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Come here, come here, Nigel. Come here. This guy.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08You know, they go around calling me Mr Brexit,
0:06:08 > 0:06:10and I said, there's only one, really. How are you, Nigel?
0:06:10 > 0:06:13It's a pleasure to meet you. What a great win.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14Thank you very much.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16To the Government's consternation,
0:06:16 > 0:06:19they discover this isn't entirely a joke.
0:06:19 > 0:06:20Trump thinks he owes his victory
0:06:20 > 0:06:23to Farage's anti-establishment template.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25We'll see you in a couple of seconds. Thank you.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26What a great honour.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28He has suggested, of course,
0:06:28 > 0:06:32that I become the UK's ambassador in Washington.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Now, I'm told the wine cellar's very good...
0:06:35 > 0:06:39It's not going to happen, is it? It's not going to happen, but...
0:06:39 > 0:06:41But, sensibly, I do know a lot of the team,
0:06:41 > 0:06:44who are taking quite senior places in the administration.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46I've known some of them for years.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Surely there's something I can do to help cement relations
0:06:49 > 0:06:53between an administration in Britain who've been rude about Trump,
0:06:53 > 0:06:54and him as the incoming president.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57I mean, common sense says there's something I can do.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02We're at Nigel's favourite Mayfair restaurant.
0:07:02 > 0:07:0611:30am, time for a sharpener.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Rumours swirl that Brexiteers in the new Government
0:07:09 > 0:07:12want him made a Lord and put in the Cabinet.
0:07:12 > 0:07:17Mrs May backs the Remain side, but does so in a very lukewarm manner.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21She then becomes the Prime Minister and says, "Brexit means Brexit."
0:07:21 > 0:07:25I think, "Gosh, this is good, I like the sound of this. This is great".
0:07:25 > 0:07:30And then five months go by and nothing happens.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31I want to see some direction,
0:07:31 > 0:07:34because I'm hearing this new Chancellor fellow,
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Hammond is his name, no-one knows who he is, saying we
0:07:36 > 0:07:38might stay in the customs union,
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Boris saying we're definitely leaving.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42The left-hand and the right-hand
0:07:42 > 0:07:44clearly are not quite sure what's going on.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47I'm worried they're going to fudge it.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Now only four months to go till that Brexit deadline.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00Cabinet members mutter to me about "Kim Jong May",
0:08:00 > 0:08:01about it being her way or no way.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Sure enough, she appeals the judges' decision,
0:08:06 > 0:08:09going all the way to the Supreme Court.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12It's the first major test of her Government.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15Her opponent stays publicly silent.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17It's pretty intense.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19"We know where you are, we know where you live,
0:08:19 > 0:08:22"you're traitors," I need to be a second Jo Cox,
0:08:22 > 0:08:24and all this sort of stuff has started up again.
0:08:24 > 0:08:28Some senior police round the house last night,
0:08:28 > 0:08:30who put in panic alarm systems all around the house,
0:08:30 > 0:08:35because the worry now is that if anyone discovers our home address.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39This Gina Miller... Yes. ..woman is now...
0:08:39 > 0:08:42"Oh, people are being nasty to me, I've had a death threat."
0:08:42 > 0:08:44I've got 10 death threats in there I've had this week,
0:08:44 > 0:08:46which I've sent to the Metropolitan Police -
0:08:46 > 0:08:48and do you know what they'll do? Nothing.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53So, this has all been presented,
0:08:53 > 0:08:57that Brexit has led to a rise in hate crime
0:08:57 > 0:08:58and all this appalling behaviour -
0:08:58 > 0:09:02yeah, I'm sure a few louts have behaved pretty badly since Brexit.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05I suspect they were behaving pretty badly before Brexit,
0:09:05 > 0:09:09to be honest with you - but the hate that's being put against us,
0:09:09 > 0:09:13on our side of the argument, that story isn't getting a look in.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17I think the trouble is, with people like Nigel Farage,
0:09:17 > 0:09:21I'm actually not sure that you can have, any longer,
0:09:21 > 0:09:25a sensible, reasoned conversation with them. That's what worries me.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28If he would like a one-way ticket to America,
0:09:28 > 0:09:32and continue his campaigning and his work in America,
0:09:32 > 0:09:34I'm sure I could organise a whip-round.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37In fact, I'd probably pay for that one-way ticket myself.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Day two of the hearing.
0:09:46 > 0:09:50It's looking increasingly likely that Mrs May is going to lose.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54Her barrister, top QC David Pannick, trounces the Attorney General.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58I thought Lord Pannick's case was absolutely magnificent.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02I watched it here - I should've been writing letters -
0:10:02 > 0:10:03and I watched it here,
0:10:03 > 0:10:07and he was as smooth as a Vaselined otter, I thought.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09He was absolutely wonderful.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11I mean, it was a privilege to watch that
0:10:11 > 0:10:14and I just do not see the Supreme Court
0:10:14 > 0:10:18overturning the judgment of the lower court. I don't see it.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23ALL CHANT: Theresa May, hear us say, immigrants are here to stay.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26Public gain, private pain.
0:10:26 > 0:10:27There's a cost to all this.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30I got home last night to find out
0:10:30 > 0:10:32that the police had made an arrest last night,
0:10:32 > 0:10:36and the charge is inciting violence.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43The police decide to keep the arrest quiet
0:10:43 > 0:10:46for fear of triggering more dangerous incidents.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51To my surprise, it's a fear the Brexiteers turn out to share -
0:10:51 > 0:10:53if for rather different reasons.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56Oh, the consequences of not delivering Brexit
0:10:56 > 0:10:59would be extremely serious in the country at large.
0:10:59 > 0:11:05In 1832, the Duke of Wellington had to put iron shutters in his windows
0:11:05 > 0:11:09because the great hero of Waterloo was being pelted with stones
0:11:09 > 0:11:12by people who thought he was obstructing reform.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14It is very, very rare in British history
0:11:14 > 0:11:17that the British people have taken to the streets
0:11:17 > 0:11:19over a denial of democracy,
0:11:19 > 0:11:21but it is not impossible.
0:11:24 > 0:11:25In this fevered environment,
0:11:25 > 0:11:29the Labour Party decide they would like to take advantage
0:11:29 > 0:11:33of the divisions opening up in the hitherto impregnable Government.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37We may have said one thing one day, another thing the next day,
0:11:37 > 0:11:38and then, usually, on the third day,
0:11:38 > 0:11:40a spokesperson says, "We haven't decided".
0:11:40 > 0:11:43I think the Prime Minister is struggling
0:11:43 > 0:11:45with the different elements in her party
0:11:45 > 0:11:48who have been fighting over Europe for 40 years.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52The future of this country is bound up with these negotiations.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55Keir asked that the Government satisfying five conditions
0:11:55 > 0:11:57before Brexit.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59I discover he's been privately assured
0:11:59 > 0:12:01that a bunch of Tories are ready to rebel.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03The vote on the 23rd of June
0:12:03 > 0:12:08was not a vote to write those that voted to remain
0:12:08 > 0:12:10out of their own history.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14Brexit or no Brexit, politics is eternal -
0:12:14 > 0:12:16the assurances are worthless.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19There's only one unrepentant Tory rebel.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21..to leave the European Union.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23I think the truth is -
0:12:23 > 0:12:25and yesterday's debate confirmed this in my mind,
0:12:25 > 0:12:29that nobody - probably from the Prime Minister downwards -
0:12:29 > 0:12:32has the first idea how events are going to unfold next year.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34We're on an unknown journey.
0:12:34 > 0:12:39They have no agreement on any important feature of policy
0:12:39 > 0:12:41between themselves.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Their policy wouldn't fill one side of A4 at the moment,
0:12:44 > 0:12:46and they're still discussing it.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Trouble piling up for the PM.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Final day at the Supreme Court.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55To my nonlegal eyes, it's not looking good.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03At four o'clock, the Law Lords retire for their verdict.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Gina Miller poised for victory -
0:13:05 > 0:13:09a victory the ever-loyal Brexiteers are already decrying.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13I think the, "This is a day of history"
0:13:13 > 0:13:15is a good thing to say at the top of the six o'clock news
0:13:15 > 0:13:19to encourage people to carry on watching until 6:25,
0:13:19 > 0:13:22but isn't necessarily more profound than that.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24Has Mrs Miller spent her money wisely?
0:13:24 > 0:13:29That's a matter for Mrs Miller. People have all sorts of hobbies.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32Some people like yachts, some people like being litigants,
0:13:32 > 0:13:34and clearly, Mrs Miller likes being a litigant.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36It's absolutely worth it.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Why would anybody want to make themselves a celebrity
0:13:39 > 0:13:41so that you get death threats?
0:13:41 > 0:13:43At the end of the day, you attack the person -
0:13:43 > 0:13:46not the policies or the arguments - when have nowhere else to go,
0:13:46 > 0:13:48and, frankly, they're just cowards.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51I'm sorry, be a man - cos most of them are men -
0:13:51 > 0:13:53come and talk to me, and find out my motivation.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56If you don't have the courage, then just shut up.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00This whole portrayal of good v bad - she's good.
0:14:00 > 0:14:04She said earlier today that she'd received abuse
0:14:04 > 0:14:08for what she'd done, it's because she is black. That's why. Yeah.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10Says it all, doesn't it?
0:14:10 > 0:14:13Says it all - and yet that gets broadcast -
0:14:13 > 0:14:16and, again, we're all meant to think that's true.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19Can you imagine the media portraying a story
0:14:19 > 0:14:22that I've been unfairly treated because of who I am?
0:14:22 > 0:14:23You know, I'll do a press conference -
0:14:23 > 0:14:25"I went to a public school and I'm white,
0:14:25 > 0:14:27"and that's why they're being beastly to me."
0:14:27 > 0:14:28Do you think they'd run that?!
0:14:35 > 0:14:36It's Christmas.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Now only three months to go till that Brexit deadline...
0:14:41 > 0:14:43..and there's an odd, fashion-oriented sign
0:14:43 > 0:14:45of the tension privately gripping Downing Street.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51One of the few Tory Remainers
0:14:51 > 0:14:54criticises Mrs May's choice of trousers
0:14:54 > 0:14:56in a Vogue fashion shoot.
0:14:57 > 0:15:02Immediately, the spinners shoot down the former Education Secretary,
0:15:02 > 0:15:04banning her from No 10.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08The regret is, if you have concerns you should voice them privately
0:15:08 > 0:15:11to the Prime Minister, and her team and her office.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15Not being asked about them in, you know, a newspaper interview.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18We live and learn, and that's the whole point about this...
0:15:18 > 0:15:19this thing of politics.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23A hint that Number 10's tactics have backfired,
0:15:23 > 0:15:25only strengthening her resolve.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27It would be nice to see that there,
0:15:27 > 0:15:30you know in the early part of 2017, that there is a plan,
0:15:30 > 0:15:31that it is published,
0:15:31 > 0:15:33that it is there for parliamentary scrutiny,
0:15:33 > 0:15:35and that we have it before the Government triggers Article 50.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39But for now, Nicky is still a mere speck
0:15:39 > 0:15:41in the ocean of Brexiteer joy.
0:15:43 > 0:15:44I'm completely happy,
0:15:44 > 0:15:46especially after the opposition day debate,
0:15:46 > 0:15:48that we have the votes to get it through Parliament.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51I don't mind voting to leave the European Union every week.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54I mean, it suits me, and it suits my constituents,
0:15:54 > 0:15:58and...it will show those members of Parliament, perhaps,
0:15:58 > 0:16:00who have a disregard for...
0:16:01 > 0:16:03..public opinion and democracy.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05But you are a singer, Bridgen?
0:16:05 > 0:16:08No, I'm not, but if... You know, I do like singing.
0:16:08 > 0:16:12He's so moved he offers to see out 2016 in song.
0:16:12 > 0:16:16Give us it. You want it? I want it!
0:16:16 > 0:16:19# Even when the stormy clouds are in the sky
0:16:19 > 0:16:21# You mustn't sigh
0:16:21 > 0:16:23# And you mustn't cry
0:16:23 > 0:16:28# Spread a little happiness as you go by. #
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Thank you. Great. APPLAUSE
0:16:34 > 0:16:37But I hear his happiness isn't universal.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41The PM is privately worried about her majority,
0:16:41 > 0:16:43a wafer-thin 12,
0:16:43 > 0:16:45and increasingly alarmed by mutterings about
0:16:45 > 0:16:47what on Earth Brexit does mean.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50So on a cold, winter morning,
0:16:50 > 0:16:54she sets off for Lancaster House to silence the doubters.
0:16:54 > 0:16:55APPLAUSE
0:16:56 > 0:16:58As a priority,
0:16:58 > 0:17:01we will pursue a bold and ambitious free trade agreement
0:17:01 > 0:17:03with the European Union.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06It should give British companies the maximum freedom
0:17:06 > 0:17:10to trade with and operate within European markets.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12But I want to be clear.
0:17:13 > 0:17:18What I am proposing cannot mean membership of the single market.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21Absolutely delighted.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24I think the Euro-sceptics are fully vindicated,
0:17:24 > 0:17:27and it's going to go down really well in the country.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29I mean, at the end of the day Brexit is going to mean Brexit,
0:17:29 > 0:17:31and, you know, a Prime Minister,
0:17:31 > 0:17:33a politician actually delivering on
0:17:33 > 0:17:36what they've got a mandate from the people to do so, how novel!
0:17:36 > 0:17:38I think it might catch on. It will be very popular.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42What we do know is... We know who wears the trousers in this party,
0:17:42 > 0:17:45and its Theresa May, and they're whatever trousers she wants.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49And I don't believe that the EU's leaders will seriously tell...
0:17:49 > 0:17:51I thought that it was good.
0:17:51 > 0:17:56And I understand from the one ambassador that I have spoken to
0:17:56 > 0:18:00this afternoon that they thought it was much better than they feared.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02So I think it was good.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Now, I've spoken to Nick Clegg on the way down in the lift,
0:18:04 > 0:18:06who believes that it's Hiroshima.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08But the Brexiteers are thrilled, with, you know,
0:18:08 > 0:18:11front of the queue and all that sort of stuff...
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Yes, but the Brexiteers, darling old things, you know, they're...
0:18:14 > 0:18:15They're pleased, but it doesn't take much,
0:18:15 > 0:18:17you chuck them a bit of red meat
0:18:17 > 0:18:19and they have an absolute accident on the spot, you know?
0:18:19 > 0:18:20I mean, they're...
0:18:20 > 0:18:23But they don't have any idea of how long it takes to do a trade deal.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27So are you feeling a bit lonely at the moment?
0:18:27 > 0:18:29Oh, I always feel lonely. Hell, I'm a Conservative!
0:18:29 > 0:18:31No, no, no.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34Being serious, no, not really, you just battle on, don't you?
0:18:35 > 0:18:38And Number 10? What are they saying do you?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40They don't like to talk to me.
0:18:40 > 0:18:41I'm just a mere backbencher.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45You know, this place is being excluded from the process,
0:18:45 > 0:18:50so your voice is not being heard, especially if you're a 48 percenter.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02Brexit was meant to enable the UK to turn to traditional allies,
0:19:02 > 0:19:05but things are still no better across the pond.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09No date's been set for a first visit by the British PM.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Donald Trump is about to be inaugurated.
0:19:12 > 0:19:17He decides to reassert the public importance of HIS British ally.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Oh, wow! Can I get a picture taken with you?
0:19:21 > 0:19:24How are you? God bless you. We love you. Oh!
0:19:24 > 0:19:25Wonderful.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29Nigel grabbed the opportunity to rub Theresa's nose in it.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33Welcome to America. That's right. God bless you. You helped us.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Yeah, well, Brexit did... Yeah! Brexit!
0:19:35 > 0:19:36Yeah, Brexit! Unbelievable!
0:19:36 > 0:19:41So it's just come together, Trump, you and America,
0:19:41 > 0:19:45we're all here to see the greatest president.
0:19:45 > 0:19:49MUSIC: Se Vuol Ballare by Mozart
0:19:50 > 0:19:53Then he invites me to a high society bash.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58How do you think this is going down back home?
0:19:58 > 0:20:02Well, I hope that the logical conclusion she'll draw
0:20:02 > 0:20:04is that actually myself and my friends
0:20:04 > 0:20:06have got some fantastic connections here in Washington
0:20:06 > 0:20:07that ought to be used.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09I'm sure logic will win through.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Right. And how do you think it IS going to go back home?
0:20:12 > 0:20:13Oh, terrible.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15LAUGHTER
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Absolutely sh... I think they're appalled! You know?
0:20:17 > 0:20:21MUSIC: Largo Al Factotum by Rossini
0:20:24 > 0:20:25It's inauguration day.
0:20:33 > 0:20:34How's today?
0:20:36 > 0:20:37More like a coronation.
0:20:40 > 0:20:45Backstage, Nigel gets the audience the PM can only dream of.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00Just two months till Brexit, and I'm back at the Supreme Court.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02It's D-Day.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Does Parliament get the say in Brexit
0:21:04 > 0:21:07that the PM doesn't want it to have?
0:21:09 > 0:21:12A bag of nerves, this morning. Lots of different emotions.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Relieved that it's going to be over, finally,
0:21:15 > 0:21:16and I can get my life back,
0:21:16 > 0:21:19because I only anticipated it going up to October,
0:21:19 > 0:21:21it wasn't supposed to be quite so many months.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23I can't think about it about winning,
0:21:23 > 0:21:24it's just about the right thing.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26I'm thinking about it by righting wrong,
0:21:26 > 0:21:27rather than winning or losing,
0:21:27 > 0:21:31because I think it's right that we uphold our constitutional law
0:21:31 > 0:21:34and that we go to Parliament and the people we elect do their job.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36And I think it's wrong of the Government to have thought
0:21:36 > 0:21:38that they could just go off and do what they wanted to.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43I see she's now a philanthropist. Self-styled, I presume.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46That's how the BBC describe her, philanthropist,
0:21:46 > 0:21:49so she must be a good person. Mustn't she?
0:21:49 > 0:21:51I just find that description of her fascinating.
0:21:54 > 0:21:55In broad terms,
0:21:55 > 0:22:00Article 50 provides that a country wishing to leave the EU
0:22:00 > 0:22:02must give a notice in accordance with
0:22:02 > 0:22:05its own constitutional requirements.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09Therefore, the Government cannot trigger Article 50
0:22:09 > 0:22:11without Parliament authorising that course.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15PHONE RINGS It has the opposite effect. Yes.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18The referendum is of great political significance.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Of course I'm not, I'm listening to the judgment.
0:22:21 > 0:22:22BLEEP. Cretin.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Cretin.
0:22:25 > 0:22:30For all the playing to my camera, Farage is an astute politician.
0:22:30 > 0:22:34He knows Mrs May has been wounded by today's ruling.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37The one thing I'm just beginning to think is
0:22:37 > 0:22:41I'd always thought there's no chance of an early general election,
0:22:41 > 0:22:43you know, Mrs May's not the kind of person that takes risks
0:22:43 > 0:22:47and does things, but I'm just in the last 24 hours beginning to think
0:22:47 > 0:22:52that if Copeland goes to the Tories, and if Stoke were to go to Ukip,
0:22:52 > 0:22:56you would have a really fatally weakened Labour Party
0:22:56 > 0:22:59and that may be her opportunity to go for a spring election.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06No general election yet,
0:23:06 > 0:23:11but instead a surprise by-election, as a Labour MP resigns,
0:23:11 > 0:23:14It's in the very place the Government want.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19The Brexit capital of Britain.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23It's a pivotal moment in political history.
0:23:23 > 0:23:27For Labour, Brexit poses an existential crisis.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30It gives the Labour Party a great headache,
0:23:30 > 0:23:34because the Labour Party is so deeply split
0:23:34 > 0:23:37between its different electoral voting bases.
0:23:37 > 0:23:42So its major metropolitan London voting base
0:23:42 > 0:23:46is very international, it's very...
0:23:46 > 0:23:47pro-European.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51It's very much the intellectual elite.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Its voting base outside London,
0:23:54 > 0:23:56particularly in the north of England,
0:23:56 > 0:23:59was very much at the forefront of wanting to vote to leave,
0:23:59 > 0:24:03and they represent seats where 70% voted to leave,
0:24:03 > 0:24:07and those two voting bases have been sundered apart,
0:24:07 > 0:24:09and it's very hard to bring those two together.
0:24:11 > 0:24:12The Labour Party.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15I mean, they were hopeless last year in the referendum campaign
0:24:15 > 0:24:16and they're hopeless now.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18And I actually feel very sorry for friends who are in the
0:24:18 > 0:24:21Labour Party because I think they are watching their party
0:24:21 > 0:24:22go through its death throes.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Ukip are desperately hoping they'll replace Labour
0:24:28 > 0:24:32as the party of opposition, sweeping up their heartland seats.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Privately, Number 10 wouldn't mind that, too.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Ukip's new leader announces he'll stand.
0:24:41 > 0:24:42So, how's it going?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44It's going really well.
0:24:44 > 0:24:45On the doors, very good.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47Looking positive.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Opinion poll yesterday's got us six points ahead, so...
0:24:50 > 0:24:51You know, we're pretty confident.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53And what's happening to the Labour vote?
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Well, people all are crying out for change.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57That's the one thing which keeps coming back, all the time.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00They've had a Labour MP for 50 years,
0:25:00 > 0:25:01people now want something better.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03The Liberals?
0:25:03 > 0:25:04Haven't seen them.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07And the Labour guy? Haven't seen him either.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09HE LAUGHS
0:25:13 > 0:25:17Labour may be a shambles, but it turns out Ukip are no better.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Personality issues gnaw away at their campaign.
0:25:21 > 0:25:22The cry goes up.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26Bring back the man who's had enough of politics.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Safely back in W1,
0:25:30 > 0:25:32it's a rather different, private story.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35We've got a very tough couple of weeks coming up.
0:25:36 > 0:25:37And I think Ukip...
0:25:39 > 0:25:43I think Ukip needs... to make one or two changes.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46At the moment, I'm not entirely happy with where we are
0:25:46 > 0:25:48but I've got a big meeting with Paul this afternoon.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50And don't forget, I mean, I've, you know...
0:25:50 > 0:25:54I'm a veteran of these by-elections, I know how it works,
0:25:54 > 0:25:57and I would hate to see us lose by 600 votes,
0:25:57 > 0:25:59or 1,000 votes, or whatever it is,
0:25:59 > 0:26:01because we just hadn't quite done it properly
0:26:01 > 0:26:03so, you know, there's still all to play for,
0:26:03 > 0:26:05but we're going to have to up our game, slightly.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07I didn't lose anybody that day.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10You say you lost a close personal friend? No...
0:26:10 > 0:26:13Unfortunately, what happens is that Paul Nuttall gets drawn
0:26:13 > 0:26:15into another damaging personal row.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17January 9th, 2012, on your own site...
0:26:17 > 0:26:21Whether he was or was not at the Hillsborough disaster.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23It's on your own website, Paul.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27The story was twisted, and I am...
0:26:27 > 0:26:29pretty disgusted by it, to be honest with you.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33I think that this issue should be above politics
0:26:33 > 0:26:37and I don't think people should try to score political points from it.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39How's it going, candidate?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41It's going OK. Yeah...
0:26:41 > 0:26:44Interesting weekend for you? I've been under attack.
0:26:44 > 0:26:45Sustained attack.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49I suppose it's to be expected. It is... This is touch-and-go.
0:26:49 > 0:26:53This is really tight, and, you know, they know that.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59Proof indeed that it IS touch-and-go, right outside.
0:26:59 > 0:27:00I am going to vote against Ukip.
0:27:00 > 0:27:06I am one of the very few who voted to stay in the EU.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08My father was an immigrant.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11And he was the loveliest man you could ever meet.
0:27:11 > 0:27:17How dare Paul Nuttall show his face in this city?
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Racist, anti-immigration bastard.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24The polls close.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29Labour win...
0:27:29 > 0:27:32853 votes. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:27:34 > 0:27:36..Ukip lose.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40I mean, wouldn't Nigel Farage have done better? Ha-ha! No chance.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42No, not at all. No chance?!
0:27:44 > 0:27:48For all the bluster, Ukip know they've blown a golden opportunity.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Can all the press get back?
0:27:53 > 0:27:56The very next day, a surprise visitor.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Come to bathe in Labour's Lazarus-like escape.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02How are you? Lovely to see you, Gareth.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Congratulations, Gareth.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06Wonderful result. Wonder... JOURNALISTS CLAMOUR
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Wonderful to have you elected, Gareth.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Are you still in favour of a general election?
0:28:10 > 0:28:14Can I be the first to come here to come here today to congratulate you
0:28:14 > 0:28:17on being elected the new MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central?
0:28:17 > 0:28:19APPLAUSE
0:28:19 > 0:28:21It doesn't go entirely to plan.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26Mr Corbyn? Mr Corbyn? What about Copeland, Mr Corbyn, what do you...?
0:28:26 > 0:28:29One thing I've learned about the media is that
0:28:29 > 0:28:31you're incredibly rude to each other. Why don't you...
0:28:31 > 0:28:34Why can't you learn to be polite to each other?
0:28:34 > 0:28:39JOURNALISTS TALK OVER EACH OTHER AND CORBYN
0:28:39 > 0:28:42STORM OF CLICKING LENS SHUTTERS
0:28:50 > 0:28:53Only a month till Theresa May's Brexit deadline.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55Two of her certainties, gone.
0:28:55 > 0:28:57Labour are alive,
0:28:57 > 0:29:01and Parliament is set to debate Article 50.
0:29:01 > 0:29:03We will not be threatened into not fulfilling
0:29:03 > 0:29:05our normal constitutional role.
0:29:06 > 0:29:09Mrs May's core team couldn't care less.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11They know Labour will have to go along with them,
0:29:11 > 0:29:13or risk electoral suicide.
0:29:15 > 0:29:18It's the opposition INSIDE Government that worries them.
0:29:18 > 0:29:22Eventually, one minister breaks rank to talk to me.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26This is real, uncharted waters.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30The prospect of getting a single collective voice
0:29:30 > 0:29:31amongst the 27,
0:29:31 > 0:29:34let alone the European Parliament,
0:29:34 > 0:29:39and the Walloons, and the potential referenda in one or two countries,
0:29:39 > 0:29:41means that the chance of getting
0:29:41 > 0:29:44that kind of coherent unanimity we need
0:29:44 > 0:29:48around a constructive deal is fraught with difficulty.
0:29:48 > 0:29:53And I can't see, at the moment,
0:29:53 > 0:29:58any route to a pain-free exit.
0:29:59 > 0:30:03I think a lot of people will sort of turn over in the middle of the night
0:30:03 > 0:30:06and think, is there a way out of this?
0:30:07 > 0:30:09But at the moment, I don't think there is one.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14Where are the divisions inside Government?
0:30:14 > 0:30:18Tory Remainers resist whips' blandishments and fight on.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22I need to look at the numbers, but there were nine of us
0:30:22 > 0:30:24who sat out and abstained from the vote
0:30:24 > 0:30:26and that was a big block of abstentions
0:30:26 > 0:30:28and I think that was noticed.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30We wait to see.
0:30:30 > 0:30:32This is going to be a long game,
0:30:32 > 0:30:35we are at only the start of the whole Brexit process.
0:30:35 > 0:30:40We are now properly a group and this is all about putting down markers
0:30:40 > 0:30:42so that when the moment comes,
0:30:42 > 0:30:45the bigger battles, which undoubtedly will be ahead of us,
0:30:45 > 0:30:50hopefully we will gain the support and common sense will prevail.
0:30:50 > 0:30:55But Remainers' plucky resistance outside and inside of Government
0:30:55 > 0:30:59isn't enough to stop the Brexit juggernaut.
0:31:10 > 0:31:1429th of March - Brexit finally means Brexit.
0:31:14 > 0:31:16Article 50 is to be triggered.
0:31:18 > 0:31:22Cometh the hour, cometh the media.
0:31:24 > 0:31:26Cometh a man who has always loved
0:31:26 > 0:31:29and benefited from the limelight.
0:31:29 > 0:31:31You've been triggered.
0:31:31 > 0:31:33LAUGHTER
0:31:36 > 0:31:40OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:31:42 > 0:31:45It's almost as though Stoke never happened.
0:31:45 > 0:31:49How are you, all right? Thank you so much... Good man.
0:31:52 > 0:31:55It's very nice to see you again. Well, it's great to be here.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00MAY: The Article 50 process is now under way.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03Britain is leaving the European Union.
0:32:03 > 0:32:06We are going to make our own decisions and our own laws.
0:32:11 > 0:32:13Nigel, you have a pint in your hand
0:32:13 > 0:32:16and Theresa May's letter in your other hand - are you a happy man?
0:32:16 > 0:32:18Oh, very happy. Look, today for me
0:32:18 > 0:32:21was the day that the impossible dream came true.
0:32:21 > 0:32:26What do you want to say to French people today? Come and join us.
0:32:26 > 0:32:30Take back your independence! Come on in, the water's lovely.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38Joy, however, is not entirely unconfined.
0:32:38 > 0:32:41OK, right, hello. Hello, enjoying yourself?
0:32:41 > 0:32:44Yes, well, I have just been asked to nominate what song I want to have
0:32:44 > 0:32:48on the radio in a moment when I do it. Someone is saying Ode to Joy.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51The day has arrived, the phoney war is over.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53Now the negotiations start.
0:32:53 > 0:32:59THEY SING: Ode to Joy
0:33:08 > 0:33:12Yes, an excellent day. The process is now under way.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15So as you ripped the covers off this morning,
0:33:15 > 0:33:17what was your first thought?
0:33:17 > 0:33:19My first thought, erm...
0:33:19 > 0:33:23Oh! Salve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo.
0:33:23 > 0:33:25Which I can even play for you, actually.
0:33:25 > 0:33:28I've been listening to this. Here we go.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33GREGORIAN CHANT PLAYS What is it?
0:33:33 > 0:33:38Hail, festal day, venerable through all ages.
0:33:38 > 0:33:43It just seems to me an entirely appropriate theme for Brexit.
0:33:43 > 0:33:46Because we are finally getting out of the European Union.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54I mean, for people like me - and there are many of us,
0:33:54 > 0:33:57there are millions of us - this is a sad day.
0:33:57 > 0:34:01However, this is the beginning, not necessarily the end.
0:34:01 > 0:34:03It is the beginning of who knows what.
0:34:03 > 0:34:07My job is to continue to scrutinise. My fear is that...
0:34:07 > 0:34:11What is the one thing we know the hardline Brexiteers don't want?
0:34:11 > 0:34:12They don't want time,
0:34:12 > 0:34:14because the British people might come to their senses.
0:34:14 > 0:34:18Yeah. They might change their mind. I shouldn't be too upset today.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21You are though, aren't you? It's just a bit shit, isn't it?
0:34:23 > 0:34:25Happy days are here.
0:34:26 > 0:34:30Theresa May is walking on air at the moment.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32I suggested we went for a snap election
0:34:32 > 0:34:35immediately after triggering Article 50
0:34:35 > 0:34:39but Number 10 are not going to go for that.
0:34:45 > 0:34:47But what do you know?
0:34:47 > 0:34:51The last of Mrs May's Brexit certainties crumbles.
0:34:51 > 0:34:55She calls a general election, and rams it through Parliament.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58I think everyone was taken completely by surprise.
0:35:00 > 0:35:05I just did not see that it was going to get through the House of Commons
0:35:05 > 0:35:07until she made the decision, and then I thought,
0:35:07 > 0:35:10she's going to get this through the House of Commons
0:35:10 > 0:35:13because the Labour Party are going to be a bunch of lemmings
0:35:13 > 0:35:14and in this massive sort of
0:35:14 > 0:35:17sacrificial act of collective suicide,
0:35:17 > 0:35:19they are going to vote for an election.
0:35:19 > 0:35:24Hoo-hoo. So she has played a blinder and the judgment of getting it
0:35:24 > 0:35:28through the Commons, which in my view is the biggest hurdle overcome,
0:35:28 > 0:35:30is a stroke of genius.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34I'm still a bit disbelieving.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39When you are going into those negotiations, you don't want to be
0:35:39 > 0:35:42watching your back in Westminster at the same time.
0:35:42 > 0:35:44We do have a relatively small majority,
0:35:44 > 0:35:47and we do have some Remoaners, as you know,
0:35:47 > 0:35:50some irreconcilable Remoaners. But they seem quite reconciled now
0:35:50 > 0:35:53from what I have seen the last few days.
0:35:53 > 0:35:56A general election does pull the Conservative Party together.
0:35:56 > 0:35:59It pulls any party together. Obviously not the Labour Party -
0:35:59 > 0:36:01we can't find many Labour MPs
0:36:01 > 0:36:04who would actually vote for Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister,
0:36:04 > 0:36:06but that's understandable, isn't it?
0:36:10 > 0:36:13Newspaper polls give the PM a commanding lead.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16Labour's internal ones are even worse.
0:36:18 > 0:36:22You voting in the election? I am. Are you voting this way?
0:36:22 > 0:36:23Of course. Excellent, excellent.
0:36:23 > 0:36:27I'm in Stoke as Eddie Izzard comes to give life support
0:36:27 > 0:36:30to two despairing MPs. Hello.
0:36:30 > 0:36:35New boy Gareth Snell, and his minder, Ruth Smeeth.
0:36:35 > 0:36:38I don't feel like I have stopped from the by-election so this is...
0:36:38 > 0:36:41Just as I have started to recover a little bit, off we go.
0:36:41 > 0:36:43And this is in my constituency,
0:36:43 > 0:36:45well, we will be in my constituency in a minute.
0:36:45 > 0:36:48And what are the odds for you? I am currently projected to lose.
0:36:58 > 0:37:02By contrast, the leitmotif of the Tory campaign is total control.
0:37:05 > 0:37:08The public, and all but the most loyal of the media,
0:37:08 > 0:37:12are ruthlessly excluded from all press events.
0:37:12 > 0:37:15I am outside the East Midlands launch to hear the faithful.
0:37:17 > 0:37:21Theresa gave her rousing speech to launch the campaign
0:37:21 > 0:37:25in the Midlands, talking about strong and stable leadership
0:37:25 > 0:37:26and the choice that is there.
0:37:26 > 0:37:28There was quite a good piece
0:37:28 > 0:37:31written by a former Labour MP who is a journalist.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34He spoke about John McDonnell, who he said,
0:37:34 > 0:37:38despite appearing an affable cove, with his affable exterior,
0:37:38 > 0:37:41you can't help but think at night he's making lists of people
0:37:41 > 0:37:44who'll be shot straight after the revolution.
0:37:47 > 0:37:51Theresa, give us a wave! Go on!
0:37:51 > 0:37:53There will be wobbles.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55There'll be a wobbly Wednesday and a tetchy Tuesday
0:37:55 > 0:37:57and a sort of Thursday tantrum.
0:37:57 > 0:38:00It's in the nature of campaigns. But I have to say,
0:38:00 > 0:38:03it's pretty steady at the moment.
0:38:03 > 0:38:08No-one else is really sort of making any impact, I sense.
0:38:10 > 0:38:13There's certainly no threat from UKIP.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15I'm at their campaign press launch,
0:38:15 > 0:38:18only to see it turn into a disaster.
0:38:18 > 0:38:22Why are you putting up racist propaganda?
0:38:22 > 0:38:25People are allowed to wear what they like!
0:38:25 > 0:38:27Women are... Don't touch me.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29Do not touch me. Excuse me, could you please leave?
0:38:29 > 0:38:32Women are allowed to wear what they like.
0:38:32 > 0:38:35Women are allowed to wear what they like.
0:38:35 > 0:38:38SHOUTING
0:38:38 > 0:38:41..a racist bigot, fake Scouser...
0:38:47 > 0:38:50100 miles east, the party's former leader
0:38:50 > 0:38:54may have started the year with the US president
0:38:54 > 0:38:57but now, to make ends meet, he is at the end of the pier.
0:39:03 > 0:39:06What happened to the protest? Don't know.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09Didn't materialise, by the looks. I think there might be
0:39:09 > 0:39:13somebody in here who knows. I must be going downhill.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16Please put your hands together for Mr Nigel Farage.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19APPLAUSE
0:39:20 > 0:39:24An Evening with Nigel Farage contains 20 years of hits.
0:39:26 > 0:39:30I'll let you into a little secret. Angela Merkel in private
0:39:30 > 0:39:34is even more miserable than she appears to be in public.
0:39:34 > 0:39:36I am not anti-European at all.
0:39:36 > 0:39:39I have married German women.
0:39:39 > 0:39:40LAUGHTER
0:39:40 > 0:39:43Oh, Juncker, he's... Crikey.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47I thought I liked a drink - bloody hell!
0:39:47 > 0:39:49LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:39:49 > 0:39:54And in private, a rather familiar threat.
0:39:54 > 0:39:58At the moment, I have done pretty much all I can do.
0:39:58 > 0:40:01And if, the end of this Brexit period, the Government
0:40:01 > 0:40:04have not done what the people asked them to do,
0:40:04 > 0:40:07then I would have no choice but to don khaki
0:40:07 > 0:40:11and head back to the front lines. If that's what it comes to.
0:40:14 > 0:40:17In the trenches, it's not looking great for Labour.
0:40:17 > 0:40:19Hello, darling, it's Ruth.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24Oh, darling, I really wish you hadn't done that.
0:40:24 > 0:40:26You know you'd be voting for me, not for him.
0:40:32 > 0:40:35But you know... Oh, I know.
0:40:35 > 0:40:36It's going well, then(!)
0:40:36 > 0:40:38LAUGHTER
0:40:38 > 0:40:40He's thrown his postal vote away.
0:40:40 > 0:40:44There is unfortunately a bit of a theme at the moment.
0:40:44 > 0:40:48At this point I honestly think it'll be just as we heard -
0:40:48 > 0:40:50when people have got their ballots in front of them,
0:40:50 > 0:40:53I don't think they know yet what they're going to do with them,
0:40:53 > 0:40:56whether they think they're voting for me, whether they think
0:40:56 > 0:40:59they're voting Labour or whether they think they're voting for
0:40:59 > 0:41:04Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, and I don't think anyone knows yet. Right.
0:41:04 > 0:41:06So the count will be fun!
0:41:06 > 0:41:08LAUGHTER
0:41:15 > 0:41:16But incredibly,
0:41:16 > 0:41:20imperceptibly, the polls are tightening.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23Labour's leader is a man reborn,
0:41:23 > 0:41:27his Brexit trauma a distant memory.
0:41:27 > 0:41:32At 12 o'clock in a Reading car park, the crowds flock to him.
0:41:32 > 0:41:34Let's give him a round of applause - Jeremy Corbyn...
0:41:34 > 0:41:39He even turns Mrs May's refusal to debate him into a positive.
0:41:39 > 0:41:42It's very odd that you have an election campaign
0:41:42 > 0:41:45where we go out and talk to people all the time
0:41:45 > 0:41:48and the Prime Minister seems to have difficulty
0:41:48 > 0:41:51in meeting anyone or having a debate, and so...
0:41:51 > 0:41:54There is a debate in Cambridge tonight.
0:41:54 > 0:41:57I don't know what she's doing this evening,
0:41:57 > 0:42:00but it's not far from London, I invite her to go to Cambridge
0:42:00 > 0:42:03and debate her policies, debate her record,
0:42:03 > 0:42:05debate their plans... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:42:05 > 0:42:09..debate their proposals and let the...
0:42:09 > 0:42:11And let the public make up their minds.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:42:14 > 0:42:17I know it's uncharacteristic of me to say this,
0:42:17 > 0:42:20but I think a little bit of humility is due.
0:42:20 > 0:42:23I have no idea, I think the idea the Tories are going to get a landslide
0:42:23 > 0:42:27of 150 seats is absolute rubbish.
0:42:27 > 0:42:30I think we'll get a decent working majority.
0:42:38 > 0:42:41Off to Cambridge for said debate, and another hero's welcome.
0:42:54 > 0:42:58No Mrs May, of course, just a brave Home Secretary.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01BOOING AND JEERING
0:43:10 > 0:43:14Eight days remain before we, the electorate, make our choice.
0:43:14 > 0:43:17Tonight the representatives of seven parties are here
0:43:17 > 0:43:20to make their pitch to our audience here in Cambridge
0:43:20 > 0:43:21and to you at home.
0:43:23 > 0:43:25Away from the crowd's adulation,
0:43:25 > 0:43:28the debate's a sticky experience for Labour's leader.
0:43:30 > 0:43:32..we have to stop thinking, as you do,
0:43:32 > 0:43:34that there's a magic money tree.
0:43:34 > 0:43:37What we need to do is recognise the human rights and justice
0:43:37 > 0:43:40of people all around the world...
0:43:40 > 0:43:44I want to make sure that we get the right result under Theresa May...
0:43:44 > 0:43:47You stood on a platform just about a year ago
0:43:47 > 0:43:49saying you thought that Britain
0:43:49 > 0:43:52would be safer, stronger and better off in the EU.
0:43:52 > 0:43:56THEY SPEAK OVER EACH OTHER
0:43:58 > 0:44:03But just turning up has given Labour the PR advantage it needs.
0:44:03 > 0:44:07If I was Amber Rudd, I would be on the phone to Theresa May tonight
0:44:07 > 0:44:09and say, "Listen, Theresa, I know we're friends,
0:44:09 > 0:44:10"but quite frankly,
0:44:10 > 0:44:14"I had a really hard time tonight and you really owe me.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16"Because you put me in a very difficult position
0:44:16 > 0:44:19"and you should have gone and done that job yourself."
0:44:21 > 0:44:23OK.
0:44:23 > 0:44:25Lots of big smiley faces!
0:44:25 > 0:44:27The polls tighten,
0:44:27 > 0:44:30Labour make hay with Tory care plans,
0:44:30 > 0:44:33alarm is felt in even the bluest of blue seats.
0:44:34 > 0:44:37I don't know what the result is going to be any more than you do,
0:44:37 > 0:44:42but I suspect the social-care thing put a brake on our progress
0:44:42 > 0:44:48and I think it took the froth and the cream off a very big majority.
0:44:49 > 0:44:53I worry for the Prime Minister that this could rebound on her.
0:44:54 > 0:44:57I wish I knew what it was going to be like on Thursday night.
0:45:04 > 0:45:07Somebody peed on my poster.
0:45:07 > 0:45:09They don't realise they were caught on CCTV!
0:45:09 > 0:45:11SHE LAUGHS
0:45:11 > 0:45:13They've trashed our posters.
0:45:13 > 0:45:17They've pulled them down, they've put graffiti on.
0:45:17 > 0:45:18Bastards!
0:45:24 > 0:45:26And yes, I have worn these shoes
0:45:26 > 0:45:28throughout the whole of the campaign.
0:45:28 > 0:45:30I bought them at the beginning of the campaign,
0:45:30 > 0:45:34they're incredibly comfortable. And they're knackered now!
0:45:35 > 0:45:37And what about that landslide?
0:45:37 > 0:45:39I have no idea.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42And even if I did know, I wouldn't share it with you.
0:45:42 > 0:45:45I don't know, would I share it with you? No, I think we'll do well.
0:45:45 > 0:45:47I think she'll get 50, 80, it could be higher.
0:45:47 > 0:45:49Cabinet, who's going to be in that?
0:45:49 > 0:45:52I don't know, but I can tell you one thing - I won't be there!
0:45:52 > 0:45:55Bet you any money, she'll not have me back!
0:45:55 > 0:45:57I won't be back!
0:45:57 > 0:45:59Do you know what? I can say this
0:45:59 > 0:46:02because you're not going to broadcast it till after -
0:46:02 > 0:46:06I wouldn't be surprised if Amber Rudd becomes chancellor.
0:46:06 > 0:46:08Boris?
0:46:08 > 0:46:11I have no idea. I don't know what's going to happen to Boris.
0:46:14 > 0:46:17See, whenever I see Boris, I'm always nice to him
0:46:17 > 0:46:19and we always have a lot of fun.
0:46:19 > 0:46:22But I do struggle with him as our Foreign Secretary,
0:46:22 > 0:46:24I think we do need a big serious grown-up.
0:46:33 > 0:46:38We await the start of this last debate between Jeremy Corbyn
0:46:38 > 0:46:40and Theresa May in front of an audience of voters,
0:46:40 > 0:46:43coming up in about ten minutes' time.
0:46:43 > 0:46:46Another sign of Tory nerves.
0:46:46 > 0:46:48The Foreign Secretary is brought out
0:46:48 > 0:46:51from whatever cupboard he's been hidden in.
0:46:53 > 0:46:55I think it's perfectly obvious that...
0:46:55 > 0:46:57So you think that's a good deal? ..the Labour Party
0:46:57 > 0:47:00do not have a credible... More expensive goods is a good deal?
0:47:00 > 0:47:03..for negotiating with the European Union, they are prepared to take...
0:47:03 > 0:47:06You've upset most of the European Union.
0:47:06 > 0:47:10And I doubt... Can you leave a list of the countries you have not upset
0:47:10 > 0:47:12in your drawer when you leave? I doubt very much...
0:47:12 > 0:47:15What about the pensions? What about the social-care cap?
0:47:20 > 0:47:22Yeah... Punch him.
0:47:27 > 0:47:29The leader of the Conservative Party,
0:47:29 > 0:47:31the Prime Minister, Theresa May.
0:47:35 > 0:47:38The leaders are evenly matched, but in the spin room,
0:47:38 > 0:47:41the Tory's attack dog overplays his hand.
0:47:41 > 0:47:43THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER
0:47:43 > 0:47:45Sorry, Boris, just a second.
0:47:45 > 0:47:47You helped co-ordinate this Labour campaign...
0:47:47 > 0:47:49Boris, just a second. BORIS CONTINUES TO INTERRUPT
0:47:49 > 0:47:51He's just been shouting in my ear.
0:47:51 > 0:47:52Just a bit of peace.
0:47:52 > 0:47:54You helped co-ordinate this campaign.
0:47:54 > 0:47:57He has never used a food bank - he's never been to a food bank.
0:47:57 > 0:48:00Actually, I started several when I was Mayor of London.
0:48:00 > 0:48:03You should take that back, old boy. Take it back. Boris...
0:48:03 > 0:48:05Sort this out... Hang on a second...
0:48:05 > 0:48:07Why don't you take it back? I just want to hear...
0:48:07 > 0:48:09He just pointed in my face.
0:48:09 > 0:48:12I want to hear... Let's hear from Jeremy Corbyn.
0:48:12 > 0:48:15This is what he had to say about that nuclear deterrent.
0:48:17 > 0:48:19How do you think it went?
0:48:19 > 0:48:23I mean, you know, I thought that... Genuinely,
0:48:23 > 0:48:28I thought the Prime Minister's performance was extremely good,
0:48:28 > 0:48:32you know, she was crisp, robust, she got all the points across,
0:48:32 > 0:48:36and I was very alarmed by Corbyn,
0:48:36 > 0:48:39and I think it's extraordinary that at this point in our history,
0:48:39 > 0:48:41the Labour Party should have thrown up
0:48:41 > 0:48:44this character as their candidate.
0:48:44 > 0:48:46Nick Soames thinks we've reached peak Corbyn.
0:48:48 > 0:48:52Ah, look, you know, we'll see what happens next week, but...
0:48:56 > 0:48:58It's the eve of the election.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02And Boris' deputy is every bit as worried as his master.
0:49:04 > 0:49:09The mood amongst the voting public I would say has gone sour.
0:49:10 > 0:49:12And we've ended up with a campaign
0:49:12 > 0:49:16which has begun to make Jeremy Corbyn look credible.
0:49:16 > 0:49:19That's not a happy achievement.
0:49:19 > 0:49:23Some of the traditional Labour voters who he used to alienate
0:49:23 > 0:49:27are now saying, "OK, well, at least he's not a Conservative."
0:49:27 > 0:49:30So I think this has closed quite a lot,
0:49:30 > 0:49:33and to me, I think the mood is very worrying.
0:49:35 > 0:49:39He points the finger firmly at those advising the Prime Minister.
0:49:39 > 0:49:43One thing I think has been particularly distasteful is having,
0:49:43 > 0:49:45if you like, pre-shuffle briefing,
0:49:45 > 0:49:47about who's going to be the next Chancellor -
0:49:47 > 0:49:50in the middle of an election campaign?
0:49:50 > 0:49:54I mean, this is culpable. This is utterly unacceptable.
0:49:56 > 0:50:00I think the animosity towards the sort of coterie
0:50:00 > 0:50:02has become very, very, very intense.
0:50:03 > 0:50:06And, um...it is a problem.
0:50:06 > 0:50:11Whether a really big thumping result would see that go away altogether,
0:50:11 > 0:50:13I'm afraid I'm now not sure.
0:50:18 > 0:50:22DAVID DIMBLEBY: Over 30,000 people, 144 polling stations
0:50:22 > 0:50:24were questioned today.
0:50:30 > 0:50:32And by the magic of psephology,
0:50:32 > 0:50:36we're able to predict what we think has happened tonight.
0:50:36 > 0:50:38BIG BEN CHIMES
0:50:38 > 0:50:43And what we're saying is the Conservatives are the largest party.
0:50:43 > 0:50:47Note, they don't have an overall majority at this stage. 314...
0:50:47 > 0:50:49If those are even vaguely accurate,
0:50:49 > 0:50:51then I don't need a concession speech tonight,
0:50:51 > 0:50:53which I've just finished writing.
0:50:53 > 0:50:55LAUGHTER
0:50:55 > 0:50:59I'm delighted if we are a step closer to a Labour Government,
0:50:59 > 0:51:02but if we're in a period of instability,
0:51:02 > 0:51:05of unstable government, not this strong and stable thing
0:51:05 > 0:51:09that she's been pushing... We're renegotiating Brexit.
0:51:09 > 0:51:12And because of the arrogance of the Prime Minister,
0:51:12 > 0:51:15what happens now, this is, you know, the country,
0:51:15 > 0:51:18the world, has never been more scary or unsettled.
0:51:18 > 0:51:22When are we going to negotiate our exit?
0:51:22 > 0:51:24We have triggered Article 50.
0:51:24 > 0:51:26What happens next?
0:51:26 > 0:51:28DIMBLEBY: Boy, oh boy, oh boy, are we going to be
0:51:28 > 0:51:31hung, drawn and quartered if this is all wrong...
0:51:31 > 0:51:33LAUGHTER Yes.
0:51:39 > 0:51:43I leave the happy family and belt 60 miles down the road to Beeston.
0:51:43 > 0:51:48Counting is just under way, and it looks like Anna is in trouble.
0:51:48 > 0:51:53We called this election on the basis we were 20 points ahead.
0:51:55 > 0:51:57That we had this astonishing Prime Minister.
0:51:59 > 0:52:01Who... We were all her candidates,
0:52:01 > 0:52:05she was strong, stable and everything else.
0:52:05 > 0:52:08And, to put it mildly, it's gone tits up.
0:52:08 > 0:52:12If Theresa is in trouble, the strong and stable leader...
0:52:12 > 0:52:14is Jeremy Corbyn.
0:52:16 > 0:52:19That landslide that we all predicted, the 90-plus,
0:52:19 > 0:52:20isn't going to happen.
0:52:27 > 0:52:31It's not just her. Up and down the country, safe seats are falling.
0:52:31 > 0:52:35Hello. With more than 90 seats counted in the general election,
0:52:35 > 0:52:36Labour have gained three seats -
0:52:36 > 0:52:40one from the SNP in Scotland, and three from the Tories.
0:52:40 > 0:52:43I'm very upset so many of my good colleagues have lost -
0:52:43 > 0:52:48Jane Ellison has lost. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Very sad.
0:52:48 > 0:52:51Another shock on a night of shocks.
0:52:51 > 0:52:56Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrats, 19,756.
0:52:56 > 0:53:03Jared O'Mara, Labour Party, 21,881.
0:53:03 > 0:53:05CHEERING
0:53:09 > 0:53:12Hang on a moment, I'm sending a text to Nick Clegg. Are you?
0:53:12 > 0:53:15What are you saying? I'm not telling you that.
0:53:17 > 0:53:22100 miles south, and it's time for the Ruislip result.
0:53:22 > 0:53:26The number of votes cast for each candidate is as follows.
0:53:26 > 0:53:30Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Conservative Party,
0:53:30 > 0:53:3523,716.
0:53:35 > 0:53:37His majority halved.
0:53:37 > 0:53:39But Boris is still an MP.
0:53:39 > 0:53:42And I'm proud to be re-elected as the Member of Parliament
0:53:42 > 0:53:46for Uxbridge and South Ruislip. Thank you very much.
0:53:47 > 0:53:51Mr Johnson... It's early, it's too early to comment.
0:53:52 > 0:53:56For once, he rushes away without talking to the media.
0:53:56 > 0:54:00No hostages to fortune if there's going to be a leadership battle.
0:54:00 > 0:54:02DIMBLEBY: We have just heard a rumour,
0:54:02 > 0:54:04I put it no stronger than that,
0:54:04 > 0:54:06that the Tories may be in trouble in Hastings.
0:54:06 > 0:54:08It's a tight race there. Amber Rudd.
0:54:11 > 0:54:15A certain BBC journalist has just sent me a text saying,
0:54:15 > 0:54:17"Many commiserations."
0:54:19 > 0:54:21And I replied, "I haven't lost yet!"
0:54:23 > 0:54:27He said, "Blimey, misinformed. I'm very embarrassed. Apologies."
0:54:29 > 0:54:33But Labour and Tory ARE neck and neck. The clerk orders a recount.
0:54:42 > 0:54:47Back in Stoke, both Ruth and Gareth have won against the odds.
0:54:49 > 0:54:52Presidential politics doesn't work in this country.
0:54:52 > 0:54:54May wanted Theresa versus Jeremy, and what she got was
0:54:54 > 0:54:56the Tory party versus the Labour Party
0:54:56 > 0:54:57and the Labour Party smashed her.
0:54:57 > 0:55:00She can't deliver anything now, she needs to go.
0:55:00 > 0:55:03She's lost the election. I just hope that it's not another election.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06The likelihood is still there's going to be a Tory Government of some sort,
0:55:06 > 0:55:09whether it's a minority or propped up by the DUP.
0:55:09 > 0:55:12What there will be is a strong and stable Labour opposition,
0:55:12 > 0:55:14I guarantee that.
0:55:15 > 0:55:17I need a holiday. I need some sleep.
0:55:17 > 0:55:20Joy in the morning in Stoke,
0:55:20 > 0:55:23but back down the road, it's still tense.
0:55:25 > 0:55:30Soubry, Anna Mary, the Conservative Party candidate,
0:55:30 > 0:55:3525,983.
0:55:35 > 0:55:36CHEERING
0:55:36 > 0:55:39Anna's squeaked it by 800 votes,
0:55:39 > 0:55:41and wastes no time in letting me,
0:55:41 > 0:55:44and pretty much anyone, know how she feels.
0:55:44 > 0:55:46It's a disaster, nationally.
0:55:46 > 0:55:50It's absolutely appalling that we called this to increase our majority
0:55:50 > 0:55:53and apparently to strengthen the Brexit hand.
0:55:53 > 0:55:57Election programme, they want to get you on as soon as, if possible.
0:55:57 > 0:56:01Which election programme? The BBC ONE election programme. Yeah.
0:56:01 > 0:56:03I think she's in a very difficult place.
0:56:03 > 0:56:06She's a remarkable and she's a very talented woman
0:56:06 > 0:56:09and she doesn't shy from difficult decisions,
0:56:09 > 0:56:12but she now has to obviously consider her position.
0:56:19 > 0:56:23A year on, and I'm back at Downing Street,
0:56:23 > 0:56:27the PM once again mortally wounded by Brexit
0:56:27 > 0:56:29and all it actually means.
0:56:31 > 0:56:33Rumours swirl amongst the media.
0:56:33 > 0:56:34A very good night,
0:56:34 > 0:56:37he did turn the tide in that election against Mrs May.
0:56:37 > 0:56:42She's going, she's not. Jeremy Corbyn is measuring the curtains.
0:56:43 > 0:56:46Eventually, news seeps out she's off to the Palace,
0:56:46 > 0:56:48her government kept in place
0:56:48 > 0:56:52by a deal with Ulster's hardline Democratic Unionists.
0:56:56 > 0:56:59Back from Her Majesty, in defiant mood.
0:57:02 > 0:57:06It is clear that only the Conservative and Unionist Party
0:57:06 > 0:57:10has the legitimacy and ability to provide that certainty
0:57:10 > 0:57:13by commanding a majority in the House of Commons.
0:57:15 > 0:57:17That's what we will deliver.
0:57:17 > 0:57:19Now let's get to work.
0:57:26 > 0:57:28It's very easy to say, "Oh, no, get rid of her."
0:57:28 > 0:57:31But it's very difficult to say, "This is what should follow."
0:57:31 > 0:57:37So, unless we risk having splits everywhere, complications,
0:57:37 > 0:57:42you know... It doesn't bear thinking about.
0:57:42 > 0:57:45Just be sensible, be steady,
0:57:45 > 0:57:50no plotting, no manoeuvring, make this work.
0:57:51 > 0:57:54I think what will happen is that almost any...
0:57:54 > 0:57:56You've seen it in the way
0:57:56 > 0:57:58the news has reacted over the last year,
0:57:58 > 0:58:01you know, Mrs Miggin's cat run over - Brexit.
0:58:01 > 0:58:04You know, your neighbour moves house - Brexit.
0:58:04 > 0:58:07You know, house prices up - Brexit. House prices down - Brexit.
0:58:07 > 0:58:09Everything is ascribed to Brexit.
0:58:09 > 0:58:11There'll be bumps on the road,
0:58:11 > 0:58:15some plaster will come off the ceiling from time to time
0:58:15 > 0:58:18and there will be some excitable headlines,
0:58:18 > 0:58:20but we'll end up in a very, very good place.
0:58:20 > 0:58:22So what about Boris?
0:58:24 > 0:58:27Um, well, he's...
0:58:27 > 0:58:31just got to... resist the temptation to...
0:58:32 > 0:58:35..you know, play games, really.
0:58:35 > 0:58:40He mustn't do that. And he must just be part of the stable, you know,
0:58:40 > 0:58:43Cabinet, Government we want to see.
0:58:43 > 0:58:46Forgive me for this, I have to ask the boring question.
0:58:46 > 0:58:48No run against her, she stays where she is?
0:58:48 > 0:58:50No, absolutely not.
0:58:50 > 0:58:53I think nobody wants to see...
0:58:53 > 0:58:55I think, as the Prime Minister has said,
0:58:55 > 0:58:57and what everybody I talk to wants,
0:58:57 > 0:59:00from... Everybody wants is...
0:59:00 > 0:59:04calm, Government getting on,
0:59:04 > 0:59:07not just delivering Brexit, but delivering all the priorities
0:59:07 > 0:59:10of the people, that's what we've got to do.
0:59:11 > 0:59:15MUSIC: Casta Diva from Norma by Bellini
0:59:44 > 0:59:45I think the country
0:59:45 > 0:59:47requires fresh leadership.
0:59:47 > 0:59:49MUSIC: Power by Kanye West
0:59:49 > 0:59:50Here we all are,
0:59:50 > 0:59:52the kingdom for the taking.
0:59:52 > 0:59:55# No one man should have all that power... #
0:59:55 > 0:59:57Boris is a rock star.
0:59:57 > 0:59:59There's nothing more Machiavellian...