:00:17. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to this special edition of One Hundred Days.
:00:20. > :00:20.I'm Christian Fraser in Westminster, our headlines:
:00:21. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to this special edition of One Hundred Days.
:00:24. > :00:25.I'm Christian Fraser in Westminster, our headlines:
:00:26. > :00:27.Hello and welcome to this special edition of One Hundred Days.
:00:28. > :00:29.I'm Christian Fraser in Westminster, our headlines:
:00:30. > :00:30.Theresa May takes the UK by surprise.
:00:31. > :00:32.The Prime Minister announces a snap election
:00:33. > :00:36.At this moment of enormous national significance
:00:37. > :00:37.there should be unity here in Westminster.
:00:38. > :00:41.The country is coming together, but Westminster is not.
:00:42. > :00:44.And will the snap election change anything?
:00:45. > :00:47.And Scotland's First Minister describes it
:00:48. > :00:48.as a huge political miscalculation -
:00:49. > :00:50.will this affect her independence bid?
:00:51. > :00:56.A legal battle is underway in Arkansas,
:00:57. > :00:59.where authorities are trying to carry out
:01:00. > :01:05.before one of the drugs required expires.
:01:06. > :01:07.And President Trump's team is on the move.
:01:08. > :01:24.his top cabinet members are in some of the world's hot spots.
:01:25. > :01:28.there would be no general election until 2020.
:01:29. > :01:31.The country needs stability, she said,
:01:32. > :01:35.That was the position before the Easter recess.
:01:36. > :01:37.But while on a walking holiday in Wales last week,
:01:38. > :01:43.An unelected Prime Minister needs a mandate.
:01:44. > :01:46.In the polls, here's just one of them from YouGov,
:01:47. > :01:50.Theresa May and the Conservatives have a commanding lead.
:01:51. > :01:52.Her allies were telling her there was no better time
:01:53. > :01:57.So, if this parliament here votes tomorrow
:01:58. > :01:59.to approve her call for a snap election -
:02:00. > :02:03.then Britain will vote again in six weeks' time,
:02:04. > :02:05.They are calling it the Brexit election.
:02:06. > :02:15.Our political editor Laura Kuensberg begins our coverage.
:02:16. > :02:24.Did she surprise them? Did she surprise you? Did Theresa May even
:02:25. > :02:32.surprise herself? Her biggest decision as Prime Minister taken
:02:33. > :02:36.only days ago. I have just chaired a meeting of the Cabinet where we
:02:37. > :02:42.agreed that the government should call a general election to be held
:02:43. > :02:46.on the 8th of June. That was not her plan. But she says to get Brexit
:02:47. > :02:51.done, she needs more support around here. In recent weeks, Labour have
:02:52. > :02:56.threatened to vote against the final agreement we reach with the European
:02:57. > :03:00.Union. The Liberal Democrats have said they want to grind the business
:03:01. > :03:04.of government to a standstill. The Scottish National Party say they
:03:05. > :03:08.will vote against the legislation that formally repealed Britain's
:03:09. > :03:12.membership of the European Union. And unelected members of the House
:03:13. > :03:18.of Lords have vowed to fight as every step of the way. Our opponents
:03:19. > :03:22.believe because the government's majority is so small that our
:03:23. > :03:28.resolve will weaken and that they can force us to change course, they
:03:29. > :03:32.are wrong. So, tomorrow there will be a vote in parliament that will
:03:33. > :03:35.all but certainly get the process going and if you are in any doubt
:03:36. > :03:42.about how the Tories will bring your choice... I have only recently and
:03:43. > :03:44.reluctantly come to this conclusion. Since I became Prime Minister, I
:03:45. > :03:51.have said that they should be no election until 2020, but now I have
:03:52. > :03:55.concluded that the only way to guarantee certainty and stability
:03:56. > :04:00.for the years ahead is to hold the selection and secure support for the
:04:01. > :04:05.decisions I must take. Most of her ministers had been in the dark. Only
:04:06. > :04:10.in the last three days did she decide. Theresa May only moved in
:04:11. > :04:13.the year 279 days ago, and she said consistently there should be no
:04:14. > :04:17.early general election. But quite simply she has changed her mind and
:04:18. > :04:22.what happens next to Theresa May will be up to you. Labour will
:04:23. > :04:26.support to moral's vote to boost the bottom, even though the weakness of
:04:27. > :04:30.Jeremy Corbyn is one of the reasons why an early election is on. Yet his
:04:31. > :04:35.supporters hope his ideas can cut through. I welcome the opportunity
:04:36. > :04:39.for us, to put the keys to the people of Britain to stand up
:04:40. > :04:43.against this government and its failed economic agenda, which has
:04:44. > :04:49.left our NHS in problems, which has left our schools are underfunded and
:04:50. > :04:52.so many people uncertain. We want to put a case out there for the people
:04:53. > :04:57.of Britain of a society that cares for all, an economy that works for
:04:58. > :05:01.all and a Brexit that works for all. More than ever, perhaps, this
:05:02. > :05:06.election will not just be about what happened here. The whole country's
:05:07. > :05:10.Constitution. The Tories will not promise another vote on independence
:05:11. > :05:14.in Scotland, but a Nicola Sturgeon well. This is a biggest U-turn in
:05:15. > :05:18.recent political history but it is very clear that the announcement
:05:19. > :05:22.today is one all about the narrow interests of her own party, not the
:05:23. > :05:28.interests of the country overall. On the road already as planned for the
:05:29. > :05:32.local elections, the Lib Dems the opportunity to come back from rock
:05:33. > :05:35.bottom. It is an opportunity for the people of this country to change the
:05:36. > :05:40.direction of this country, to decide that they do not want a hard Brexit,
:05:41. > :05:44.they want to keep Britain in the single market and indeed it is an
:05:45. > :05:49.opportunity for us to have a decent, strong opposition in this country
:05:50. > :05:52.that we desperately need. How many more times are you going to change
:05:53. > :05:58.your mind Prime Minister? When and Theresa May is get some
:05:59. > :06:01.political problems but the hurly-burly of any political
:06:02. > :06:02.campaign causes some problems too, just ask anybody who has ever left
:06:03. > :06:04.at this address. and David Lammy from
:06:05. > :06:15.the Labour party. Welcome, all of you. Thanks for
:06:16. > :06:19.being with us. I was always conscious, Dominic, when I saw the
:06:20. > :06:22.Prime Minister going to Europe, that she must have felt she was the only
:06:23. > :06:26.one sitting at the table without a mandate and that must have played on
:06:27. > :06:30.her mind. She has certainly got a mandate for a referendum, with 34
:06:31. > :06:34.million people participating. I think the truth is that she did not
:06:35. > :06:38.ideally want to go to an election but she knows it is necessary,
:06:39. > :06:42.necessary to give us the best chance of getting the best out of these
:06:43. > :06:45.negotiations but also to keep the economy firing on all the wonders
:06:46. > :06:48.and to deal with some of these pressing social issues, education
:06:49. > :06:52.for youngsters to social care. This is about leadership and the
:06:53. > :06:57.comparison between her and Jeremy Corbyn in this, looking back to some
:06:58. > :07:00.socialist paradigms from the 70s or the Lib Dems wanting to tear up the
:07:01. > :07:04.result, is going to be stark and clear for the country. It certainly
:07:05. > :07:08.helps if you are now two pro Minister rather than one who has
:07:09. > :07:12.been shovelled into the job on the back of a referendum vote. In terms
:07:13. > :07:15.of the Brexit negotiations, we have got the biggest direct democratic
:07:16. > :07:19.mandate and living history but it is clear, I think, to the Prime
:07:20. > :07:22.Minister, having taken advice from senior ministers, that to do all the
:07:23. > :07:25.things that this government wants to achieve, yes on Brexit but also the
:07:26. > :07:28.economy and some of those pressing social justice issues that she has
:07:29. > :07:32.talked a lot about, she will need to have the mandate from the people and
:07:33. > :07:35.I think, as I said, this will be about leadership and all those
:07:36. > :07:39.areas. So, David, the Conservatives are going to campaign on leadership.
:07:40. > :07:43.We will speak to the Lib in moment but they will campaign on Brexit,
:07:44. > :07:47.what is Jeremy Corbyn going to campaign on question I watched him
:07:48. > :07:50.in buying them dropping about the NHS, housing, education, you didn't
:07:51. > :07:56.mention Brexit. -- talking about. I have been an MP for 17 years. I
:07:57. > :07:59.cannot see any scenario in which the next two and a half months we are
:08:00. > :08:05.going to be able to run an election solely on the issue of Brexit. Of
:08:06. > :08:08.course it will be on the button but if you have elderly parents, you
:08:09. > :08:12.care about the collapse of care system. If you're waiting seven
:08:13. > :08:14.hours A, you care about the fact the images of the crisis. If you
:08:15. > :08:19.have a child in state school, you are aware of the huge cuts to
:08:20. > :08:22.education funding. Those are the bread-and-butter issues. Yes, Brexit
:08:23. > :08:25.was also about living standards, of course it was, and that will be
:08:26. > :08:37.central to the discussion, but right across the general election cycle,
:08:38. > :08:39.as night follows day, people will come back to the ordinary issues
:08:40. > :08:42.that matter to them and I think Jeremy was right. When you go out
:08:43. > :08:45.campaigning, as you may do towards the end of this week, and put out
:08:46. > :08:47.your literature, are you going to have Jeremy Corbyn pictured? Jeremy
:08:48. > :08:50.is my next door neighbours so of course, he wants my campaign last
:08:51. > :08:55.time round! In that context, you're asking the wrong person! Will you
:08:56. > :08:57.take him to the doorstep? I will hope he will not be in the top and
:08:58. > :09:02.constituency and that is because we are not usually described as a
:09:03. > :09:05.marginal! I hope he gets around the country. Tim Farron was in the South
:09:06. > :09:09.West today, where he is open to do well, not so well in 2015 of course.
:09:10. > :09:12.They lost a lot of MPs down there, the Lib Dems. I hear the already
:09:13. > :09:18.booked, the literature is already there ready to go. There is 300
:09:19. > :09:22.candidates, so the Lib Dems were prepared for this? We had prepared
:09:23. > :09:26.for a possible snap general election in autumn last year. So we have had
:09:27. > :09:30.candidates in players who have been campaigning in anticipation of that
:09:31. > :09:33.election. They were kept in post because we pushed it back to the end
:09:34. > :09:36.of May. Now we have got the election and are ready for it and looking
:09:37. > :09:40.forward to fighting the campaign, and the Prime Minister has chosen
:09:41. > :09:44.the territory that we would want to fight the election. She wants to go
:09:45. > :09:47.for hard Brexit, we think the UK should stay in the single market and
:09:48. > :09:52.Customs union and we will make that a central feature of her campaign
:09:53. > :09:54.because millions of jobs, the livelihood of millions of Britons,
:09:55. > :09:57.depend on it. The bright spot for you was Richmond Park in south-west
:09:58. > :10:01.London, where you took a seat, overturning a huge majority for a
:10:02. > :10:05.former Conservative MP, but he did not do too well in stalk and I am
:10:06. > :10:09.wondering north of Watford, basically, I've country going to
:10:10. > :10:13.thank you for are running the issues of the referendum? Well, what we are
:10:14. > :10:16.council by-elections, another barometer of how parties are doing,
:10:17. > :10:31.all across the country, it does not matter where it is,
:10:32. > :10:35.please is supposedly ordered that wouldn't remain, we are making more
:10:36. > :10:37.games than all of the other parties. So even in Stoke-on-Trent, for
:10:38. > :10:38.instance, we have even made advances. I think, had the
:10:39. > :10:41.Manchester by-election taken place in fact been intended, we would also
:10:42. > :10:44.got a very good result there. We may well have taken that the from
:10:45. > :10:48.Labour. What is a good majority? That is for the pundits in the
:10:49. > :10:52.media. She has took until the backbencher. If you are a politician
:10:53. > :10:56.going into a general election, the last thing you want to do is make
:10:57. > :11:00.assumptions or be presumptuous about the voters. They get to decide but
:11:01. > :11:04.we have got a terrific record on creating almost 3 million new jobs.
:11:05. > :11:10.We have taken 4 million of the lowest paid out of income tax. Tom
:11:11. > :11:13.was talking about education. Actually, sorry, David, we have got
:11:14. > :11:17.1.8 million more children in state schools deemed good or outstanding
:11:18. > :11:21.than we had in 2010. We are looking forward to running on a record but
:11:22. > :11:24.also a positive vision, not looking back to the 1970s and socialist
:11:25. > :11:27.utopia, not ripping up the referendum trying to pretend that we
:11:28. > :11:36.do not have a duty to follow through on the will of the British people.
:11:37. > :11:38.We are the ones actually with a positive agenda today putting
:11:39. > :11:41.forward. They are shaking their heads. We can do this more, we have
:11:42. > :11:43.got six weeks! Thank you very much indeed.
:11:44. > :11:45.I suppose one of the things that strikes me listening to that
:11:46. > :11:50.discussion is the sense in which this is going to be a really unusual
:11:51. > :11:53.election. I mean, 83 was the last big landslide for the Tories, 1997
:11:54. > :11:57.for labour and already there seems to be an expectation that it is not
:11:58. > :12:01.going to be much of a cliffhanger. Well, you could say that at the
:12:02. > :12:06.moment but we know that politics is pretty unpredictable at the moment.
:12:07. > :12:09.I think winter is me was walking in the -- I think when Theresa May was
:12:10. > :12:14.walking in the Welsh hills, I think she probably reflected on some of
:12:15. > :12:16.these polls, there has been no sitting prime ministers since 1983
:12:17. > :12:20.for the Conservatives who are violating the ball flight she has at
:12:21. > :12:23.the moment but we also know that holes must not always be trusted. We
:12:24. > :12:28.have seen that over the last three years. The other thing that she will
:12:29. > :12:32.also consider, John, is that she has only a smallish majority and there
:12:33. > :12:35.will be times along this path of negotiation on Brexit were she will
:12:36. > :12:38.have to compromise and it is much easier to compromise if you do not
:12:39. > :12:41.have to keep looking over your shoulder at the backbenchers. The
:12:42. > :12:45.third thing, and I was just making this point to Dominic, is that when
:12:46. > :12:48.she goes to Europe, it does strengthening her hand as she is
:12:49. > :12:51.sitting there with the majority, with a mandate from the British
:12:52. > :13:05.people for the things that she is probably
:13:06. > :13:08.going to be denied Conservative Party manifesto.
:13:09. > :13:11.And I guess a lot of people around the world must be bewildered by the
:13:12. > :13:13.idea that you could call a snap election, particularly when Britain
:13:14. > :13:14.passed a law that was meant to prevent that. Anyway! Let us move
:13:15. > :13:14.on. And for more on the reaction
:13:15. > :13:17.from Europe to today's announcement, with the BBC's
:13:18. > :13:23.Gavin Lee in Brussels. There was a real shock actually. It
:13:24. > :13:27.get a sense that there was no pre-warning from Theresa May because
:13:28. > :13:31.I was sitting in the usual press briefing, where all of the issues on
:13:32. > :13:34.the European Union agenda, and the officials are presenting the head of
:13:35. > :13:38.the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said, when I asked him
:13:39. > :13:42.about what his first response was, said he knew nothing, what is this?
:13:43. > :13:46.I think there was a genuine sense of shock. Obviously article that he has
:13:47. > :13:54.already been triggered so, in a sense, presumably it is going to be
:13:55. > :13:56.a five-week hiatus while they are busy fighting the election and
:13:57. > :13:58.nobody is there negotiating. Yes, but there was already some ground
:13:59. > :14:00.amid a privately between EU officials and British Brexit
:14:01. > :14:03.officials, given the fact there was the French elections and it was a
:14:04. > :14:07.period of calm, allowing the EU officials to get their ducks in
:14:08. > :14:12.order, really, when it came to how they would negotiate this, which is
:14:13. > :14:17.about a 5-6 week period. She has chosen that time. Behind the scenes,
:14:18. > :14:21.what is interesting, in the UK some MPs were seeing this strengthens
:14:22. > :14:25.Theresa May 's hand. If she wins this election, she goes in with a
:14:26. > :14:28.stronger voice. The EU officials I have spoken to the actually what
:14:29. > :14:34.this might do is give a single channel to talk to, and any chance
:14:35. > :14:38.of behind-the-scenes hard Brexit years having an effect on the talks
:14:39. > :14:42.might go away. They know if Theresa May wins this election, there may be
:14:43. > :14:45.a single channel, that her vision is a stronger if that is reinforced in
:14:46. > :14:48.the polls. Thank you very much.
:14:49. > :14:50.Well, with me now is Michael Gove - former Education and Justice
:14:51. > :14:52.Secretary for the Conservative Party.
:14:53. > :15:00.He is one of the chief architect for Brexit. I keep coming to talk to us.
:15:01. > :15:03.Just telling me that you are very excited to be going camping again
:15:04. > :15:08.shortly but he did not know. You were at Notting Hill tube station! I
:15:09. > :15:11.had no idea. My wife rang the other was getting on the tube and asked me
:15:12. > :15:14.what was going on, she had no idea. My wife rang the other was getting
:15:15. > :15:17.on the tube and asked me what was going on, she is a press conference
:15:18. > :15:26.and I had no idea. Made it clear that she wanted to have a second
:15:27. > :15:28.independence referendum and really tried to put, you know, tried to
:15:29. > :15:31.undermine Teresa's progress, I thought I might be a strong case but
:15:32. > :15:34.everybody said that it was not going to happen. You could have knocked me
:15:35. > :15:36.down with a feather when the news broke. In the next few weeks, I
:15:37. > :15:39.would imagine the Prime Minister is going to put together her manifesto,
:15:40. > :15:44.and one would expect the manifesto will be her blueprint for Brexit.
:15:45. > :15:47.Would that be fair? Yes, I think it will be. The Prime Minister clearly
:15:48. > :15:52.feels that when it comes to making sure that we can implement our
:15:53. > :15:55.departure from the European Union on her terms, then having won an
:15:56. > :15:59.election, which I am confident she will, having her own mandate and
:16:00. > :16:03.manifesto, which the country has endorsed, will strengthen her hand
:16:04. > :16:06.hugely. Not just in negotiating with Brussels but also in dealing with
:16:07. > :16:10.the political problems here. The House of Lords is full of people who
:16:11. > :16:13.are deeply disappointed with the Brexit result, have not come to
:16:14. > :16:18.terms with that, once too frustrated and a mandate will allow to raise up
:16:19. > :16:21.to be able to ensure that the former Brexit the people voted for and that
:16:22. > :16:24.she believes then can I be permitted. -- will allow Theresa May
:16:25. > :16:27.to be sure. The debate within the Conservative
:16:28. > :16:31.Party within the next few weeks will be something to be watched, because
:16:32. > :16:37.Robbie backbenchers who will not want to compromise on some of the
:16:38. > :16:39.issues related to the negotiation. One of the things that has been
:16:40. > :16:43.striking ever since she became pregnant as, even though there have
:16:44. > :16:46.been individuals, such as Ken Clarke, overall she has enjoyed a
:16:47. > :16:51.greater degree of unity and support than many people might have
:16:52. > :16:55.imagined. -- since she became Prime Minister. Having someone who was a
:16:56. > :16:58.reluctant the men are in charge of the party, determined to implement
:16:59. > :17:04.Brexit infill, has actually worked in terms of reassuring both remain
:17:05. > :17:09.and Brexit falters that the Prime Minister will respect the result but
:17:10. > :17:12.will do so in a way which is statesman-like. David Cameron used
:17:13. > :17:16.to quit effectively in previous election campaigns. He wanted you to
:17:17. > :17:21.be devious the party, particularly within the media. Do you think
:17:22. > :17:26.Theresa May -- to represent the party. Do you think she will do the
:17:27. > :17:29.same? I think we will see a lot of a talented range of ministers, Amber
:17:30. > :17:33.Rudd, the Home Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, the party chairman. You
:17:34. > :17:38.were one of the chief architects of Brexit, you will not be brought into
:17:39. > :17:41.the fold? I am a backbencher now. I will be fighting my constituency and
:17:42. > :17:47.I will be there on the stump helping colleagues in some of the seats that
:17:48. > :17:51.we hope to win. So I am a fit soldier. I will do what I can to
:17:52. > :17:55.help in any capacity, but I suspect that the real stars of this election
:17:56. > :17:59.campaign will be people like Amber red, Patrick McLoughlin, Patel and
:18:00. > :18:03.Michael Fallon. You have just confirms you are going to run again.
:18:04. > :18:07.What about George Osborne, I think you will. Even though he has taken
:18:08. > :18:11.up the job at the Evening Standard? Absolutely. I think George is a
:18:12. > :18:15.great asset to public light. I hope he stays in Parliament and I think
:18:16. > :18:18.you will. He will be able to campaign as well as run a newspaper
:18:19. > :18:21.You can keep up to date with the latest news and weather throughout
:18:22. > :18:24.the day via our Twitter feed I think you will be able to be an MP and run
:18:25. > :18:27.a newspaper as. As for what happens during the campaign, I don't know
:18:28. > :18:29.but I should say that in the last election he was both Chancellor of
:18:30. > :18:35.the Exchequer and a campaigner both in his constituency and campaigns
:18:36. > :18:39.elsewhere. He is talented and I think George is more than capable of
:18:40. > :18:42.running a highly effective campaign represented middle of tartan and
:18:43. > :18:46.also making sure that he contributed not always as well. Thank you for
:18:47. > :18:51.coming to talk to us. -- for the people of his constituency.
:18:52. > :18:55.We have heard a lot of English MPs talking about this being a Brexit
:18:56. > :18:56.negotiation. I can imagine the view north of the border is different.
:18:57. > :18:58.Let's get the view from Edinburgh now -
:18:59. > :19:01.our Scotland Editor Sarah Smith is there.
:19:02. > :19:06.If you are an SNP leader, you would say this election was about whether
:19:07. > :19:09.there was a vote on Scottish independence?
:19:10. > :19:12.That is almost certainly what the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon will be
:19:13. > :19:15.sent. Nicola Sturgeon has come out today and said she thinks it is very
:19:16. > :19:19.opportunistic of the Prime Minister to call this election. It does not
:19:20. > :19:23.sound as if she is the port of the idea that but that will not stop
:19:24. > :19:26.going and campaigning as hard as she can, seeing that every good for the
:19:27. > :19:29.SNP as a vote for another independence referendum. You will
:19:30. > :19:32.remember, although Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants motherboard, and
:19:33. > :19:36.although the Scottish Parliament has voted to say there should be another
:19:37. > :19:39.vote on Scottish independence, the Prime Minister has said that cannot
:19:40. > :19:44.be won until well after the UK has left the EU. -- she want another
:19:45. > :19:48.fault. That issue of whether they should be one and whether it should
:19:49. > :19:53.be sooner than that will dominate the election in Scotland. If the SNP
:19:54. > :19:55.do really were, they can use that to bolster Girardi made as to why they
:19:56. > :20:00.should have an independence referendum. But they did so well in
:20:01. > :20:04.2015, in the last general election, the 156 out of the 59 seats in
:20:05. > :20:07.Scotland, they cannot do better than that and it is difficult to see how
:20:08. > :20:12.they can do as well as that again. If they lose even just a handful of
:20:13. > :20:15.seats, their opponents will seize on that and the their support has gone
:20:16. > :20:18.down, meaning voters do not want another referendum on independence.
:20:19. > :20:21.So it is fraught with difficulty on both sides.
:20:22. > :20:23.Fascinating stuff. Thank you very much indeed.
:20:24. > :20:28.Joe Twyman from the polling service YouGov is with me.
:20:29. > :20:34.We have been talking about the alleged that the Prime Minister has.
:20:35. > :20:40.You have been tracking voting intentions for some weeks now. Tell
:20:41. > :20:44.of that about them. Over the last months, in fact over the last few
:20:45. > :20:47.years, the Conservatives have done extremely well. You usually expect
:20:48. > :20:51.mid-term blues during the parliamentary campaign but that is
:20:52. > :20:55.usually for the government, not the opposition. Consistently, we have
:20:56. > :21:01.seen the Conservatives well ahead and most recently, 21 points ahead.
:21:02. > :21:05.Labour on 23, the Conservatives on 44. There is a margin of error
:21:06. > :21:11.associated with all pause, it might be 42, might be 46, might be 25, but
:21:12. > :21:15.it is still a significant need them please, one big enough that Theresa
:21:16. > :21:21.May thinks she can convert to have a three figure majority. But the polls
:21:22. > :21:23.are they are at the moment and the only other snapshot of public
:21:24. > :21:27.opinion at the time. Things will change with the campaign.
:21:28. > :21:30.We have not talked about the UK Independence Party, who were
:21:31. > :21:33.instrumental in the Brexit vote. Some are suggesting that they might
:21:34. > :21:37.get squeezed a little bit, because Brexit has already happened. They
:21:38. > :21:41.have been a fall in the side of the Conservatives for some years, so
:21:42. > :21:46.what do you think might happen to the Ukip vote? Well, with Ukip, they
:21:47. > :21:49.have lost their leader, a charismatic figure, a lot of their
:21:50. > :21:53.funding and their reason for existence and their MP. They are not
:21:54. > :21:58.a good position. They certainly have the potential and 2015 to start
:21:59. > :22:01.taking votes away from Labour in the Northern industrial towns. Whether
:22:02. > :22:04.they can organise and mobilise to the degree that is required for that
:22:05. > :22:11.remains uncertain. I think they are going to be very tough time of but
:22:12. > :22:13.politics is looking for an antiestablishment candidate not just
:22:14. > :22:15.in this country but, as we have seen, in other countries. Maybe they
:22:16. > :22:19.can position themselves there but it is certainly a tough task.
:22:20. > :22:25.As for Labour, we had a by-election in Stoke Central, a big Brexit area,
:22:26. > :22:28.there were almost 70% and it was a labour hole. It does not necessarily
:22:29. > :22:32.follow that in those areas where Brexit was particularly strong that
:22:33. > :22:35.Labour might struggle. We do not know the degree to which Britain has
:22:36. > :22:39.redefined British politics yet. Has it gone as far as Scotland did with
:22:40. > :22:43.the Scottish referendum were everything becomes about that, I
:22:44. > :22:45.doubt it. The Lib Dems were hopeful that had entered. Labour needs to
:22:46. > :22:49.improve on their performance at the last election. That is a fight,
:22:50. > :22:54.nothing to do with blogging. They need to win back supporters of
:22:55. > :23:00.Conservatives in the south east. -- that is a fact, nothing to do with
:23:01. > :23:04.Paul's. They needed to win over new voters, nonvoters. The evidence from
:23:05. > :23:09.by-elections, local elections and council elections is that has not
:23:10. > :23:11.happened yet. And so, as it stands, they are in a very difficult
:23:12. > :23:13.position. Thank you very much for being with
:23:14. > :23:19.us. Joe... Christian, sorry, we have
:23:20. > :23:24.talked about policies, we have talked about polls, take me through
:23:25. > :23:28.procedure. What has to happen now? Was a thing brought in some years
:23:29. > :23:32.ago called the fixed violence act which means that there should not be
:23:33. > :23:35.-- there should be five years between one election and the next
:23:36. > :23:38.and to overcome but you have to have a vote in the parliament, in the
:23:39. > :23:43.House of Commons across the road, and two thirds of the MPs have to
:23:44. > :23:46.vote in favour. We would be seeing today that the Prime Minister has
:23:47. > :23:50.called an election. She has not, she has indicated she wants a snap
:23:51. > :23:53.election and needs the support of the Lib Dems, labour and you have
:23:54. > :23:56.just heard that they are going to war along with that. Also you would
:23:57. > :23:58.think the SNP. It would be quite interesting to see the court
:23:59. > :24:02.tomorrow because, of course, Nicola Sturgeon, as you were hearing from
:24:03. > :24:05.Sarah, has been quite critical of the Prime Minister. How will they
:24:06. > :24:09.vote tomorrow? We will see. I would suspect they would probably all vote
:24:10. > :24:13.in favour of it. OK, christian, thank you very much
:24:14. > :24:14.indeed. A lot more still to come on this fascinating day at Westminster
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:24:16. > :24:16.of Pennsylvania say a man wanted in
:24:17. > :24:19.connection with a murder They say Steve Stephens
:24:20. > :24:23.was spotted by officers and shot himself
:24:24. > :24:24.after a brief pursuit. A nationwide manhunt had been
:24:25. > :24:26.launched for Stephens after a grandfather was shot dead
:24:27. > :24:29.in Cleveland, Ohio, and footage of the incident posted
:24:30. > :24:39.on the social media website. French security forces have arrested
:24:40. > :24:41.two Islamist militants suspected of planning an attack before
:24:42. > :24:43.the presidential election on Sunday. Reports said guns and bomb-making
:24:44. > :24:46.chemicals were found in raids The French Interior Minister said
:24:47. > :24:50.an attack was imminent. Measures have been taken
:24:51. > :24:57.to protect the candidates. At least one of the men identified
:24:58. > :25:02.was with Islamic State. Archaeologists in Egypt say
:25:03. > :25:04.they've unearthed a tomb and discovered
:25:05. > :25:07.a new collection of mummies. The find includes colourfully
:25:08. > :25:08.decorated wooden coffins and more
:25:09. > :25:10.than 1,000 statuettes. It's believed the tomb belonged
:25:11. > :25:13.to a nobleman who worked as a judge. the tombs have escaped
:25:14. > :25:23.looting by robbers. You're watching
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