:00:11. > :00:16.Tonight at company ten: David Cameron in the spotlight for five
:00:16. > :00:20.hours at the Leveson Inquiry. I swear by Almighty God that the
:00:20. > :00:26.evidence I shall give... He admits he worked hard to win over the
:00:26. > :00:30.press, but he never traded policies in rurn for -- return for support.
:00:30. > :00:35.There was no overt deal for support, no covert deal, no nods and Wwnks.
:00:35. > :00:38.He is pressed to explain his friendship with Rebekah Brooks of
:00:38. > :00:40.News International and accepts that the press and politicians got too
:00:40. > :00:45.close. I think that the relationship has
:00:45. > :00:49.not been right. I think it has been too close as I
:00:49. > :00:53.explained in the, in my evidence. I think we need to try to get it on a
:00:53. > :00:58.better footing. The Prime Minister defended his
:00:58. > :01:05.decision to ask Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, to judge the bid
:01:05. > :01:09.for BSkyB. Also: The Chancellor is still -- is to lend �80 billion to
:01:09. > :01:13.the banks so that they can lend more to customers.
:01:13. > :01:16.A lack of credit is damaging businesses and costing jobs. The
:01:16. > :01:22.Government and the Bank of England have been working together to
:01:22. > :01:25.develop the right response. The Last Post... 30 years after the
:01:25. > :01:29.lin ration of the Falklands, a service of remembrance in Port
:01:29. > :01:34.Stanley. And what next for
:01:34. > :01:39.#? After his abrupt departure today from Tottenham Hotspur.
:01:39. > :01:44.In BBC London News: The first of the Olympic lanes appears in Surrey.
:01:44. > :01:54.Motorists say it is causing confusion. 100 days of peace, a
:01:54. > :02:00.
:02:00. > :02:05.campaign by the parents of London's murdered teenagers.
:02:05. > :02:08.Good evening. David Cameron spent five hours
:02:08. > :02:12.today giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press
:02:12. > :02:16.standards. He said it was nonsense to suggest he had traded policies
:02:16. > :02:21.in return for media backing, but he admitted that press and politicians
:02:21. > :02:24.had become too close and he was repeatedly questioned about his
:02:24. > :02:31.links with Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of News International.
:02:32. > :02:40.Our Political Editor has the story. The press and the Prime Minister...
:02:40. > :02:45.Forced to live together... Today, effectively on trial together.
:02:45. > :02:50.Today the nation's leader was invited to trade the comforts of
:02:50. > :02:54.Downing Street for five hours of cross-examination in the Royal
:02:54. > :02:59.Courts of Justice, where plain Mr Cameron spoke on oath.
:02:59. > :03:01.I swear by Almighty God, whereby the evidence I give is the truth,
:03:01. > :03:05.the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
:03:05. > :03:11.The truth in question, his relations with the Murdochs and
:03:11. > :03:15.Rebekah Brooks. His version of it to condemn what he called
:03:15. > :03:19.unjustified conspiracy theeris. There was no overt deal for support,
:03:19. > :03:25.no covert deal, no nods and Wwnks, there was a Conservative politician,
:03:25. > :03:28.me, trying to win over a newspaper s, trying to win over tradition,
:03:28. > :03:31.prop pirators but not trading policies for that support.
:03:31. > :03:36.The Prime Minister looked comfortable when defending his
:03:36. > :03:40.judgments, much, much less so when it came to the awkward details.
:03:40. > :03:46.Details like a text message sent by Rebekah Brooks to him on the eve of
:03:46. > :03:52.his party conference speech. , "I am so rooting for you tomorrow,
:03:52. > :04:01.not just as a personal friend but as professionally we are in this
:04:01. > :04:06.together. Speech of your life, yes, he can." That from the head line of
:04:06. > :04:11.a best-selling daily which switched from backing Labour to the Tories.
:04:11. > :04:15.Details of how he and his wife used to meet the newspaper boss who was
:04:15. > :04:18.their friend and newspaper in the country.
:04:18. > :04:25.And he called Samantha Cameron 'Lady Prime Minister'.
:04:26. > :04:34.When at your questions at weekends, did you see her every weekend or
:04:34. > :04:42.most weekends in the period of 2008/2009? Not every weekend.
:04:42. > :04:46.Most weekends? Hmm... The news soon travelled this that he had seen the
:04:46. > :04:49.boss of the News of the World, the Times and the Sunday Times a lot,
:04:49. > :04:53.but after lunch there was no information.
:04:53. > :04:58.Mrs Cameron keeps a better weekend diary record than I do. She reckons
:04:58. > :05:02.we did not see them more than on average once every six weeks, that
:05:02. > :05:07.is a better answer than I was able to give you earlier.
:05:07. > :05:11.Next, what check has he made before hiring Andy Coulson as the spin
:05:11. > :05:14.doctor? How did he know that the former editor of the News of the
:05:14. > :05:19.World didn't know about phone hacking that had happened at the
:05:19. > :05:25.paper? I remember clearly seeking that assurance and getting it, but
:05:25. > :05:27.as I say, there do seem to be some differences, but they may well be
:05:28. > :05:33.compatible in the way that I have suggested.
:05:34. > :05:37.Next, the decision to make the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt and
:05:37. > :05:42.Murdoch cheerleader, responsible for their �8 billion bid for BSkyB.
:05:42. > :05:45.It was put to the Prime Minister it was a decision taken at speed with
:05:45. > :05:50.only hurried and incomplete legal advice.
:05:50. > :05:53.It was not some rushed, botched political decision. If anyone had
:05:53. > :05:56.told me that Jeremy Hunt couldn't do the job I wouldn't have given
:05:56. > :06:01.him the job. But the Prime Minister insisted he
:06:01. > :06:06.wanted to protect people like this, the family of the murdered teenager,
:06:06. > :06:13.Graeme McDowell. They needed a new system for regulating the press.
:06:13. > :06:17.We want to know that if an individual suffers press intrusion,
:06:17. > :06:22.has an inaccurate article written about them, has their life turned
:06:22. > :06:25.around in some way, all of these things that have happened, that it
:06:25. > :06:30.really is worthwhile going to a regulator, however established and
:06:30. > :06:34.that they will get a front-page apology and the newspaper properly
:06:34. > :06:40.brought to book. That is what does not happen.
:06:40. > :06:44.Agreeing how to do it has eluded pretty much every Government since
:06:44. > :06:47.the war. Lord Justice Leveson is a man even
:06:47. > :06:51.the Prime Minister stands up for. Nick, how satisfied would David
:06:51. > :06:56.Cameron be with the way that this turned out today? I was in court
:06:56. > :06:59.today, as he left he looked tense, I have to say. He did say thank you
:06:59. > :07:06.to the QC who asked him the questions, but he looked like he
:07:06. > :07:11.wanted to be out of there. I have no doubt he thinks he has put to
:07:11. > :07:17.bed the conspiracy theories and the decision to make Jeremy Hunt in
:07:17. > :07:21.charge of the BSkyB was taken as a official thought it a good idea and
:07:21. > :07:26.he had legal advice, but, it is a big but, he knows that the politics
:07:26. > :07:31.is about impressions and the impressions of those of us who sat
:07:31. > :07:35.in court for five hours was extraordinary vagueness. Asked to
:07:35. > :07:38.recall meetings with newspaper executives, he could not recall
:07:38. > :07:42.them again and again. Asked to explain the checks he made that
:07:42. > :07:47.Andy Coulson did not know about phone hacking, there was a dispute
:07:47. > :07:51.between the two men about what the evidence was, that was vague. Asked
:07:51. > :07:54.about the legal advice on Jeremy Hunt it was revealed it was a
:07:54. > :07:59.single mobile phone call to a government lawyer on holiday at the
:07:59. > :08:04.time. All of that may be forgotten but what not be though is this, a
:08:04. > :08:08.text message from Rebekah Brooks that says, "We are all in it
:08:09. > :08:18.together." That was a Conservative slogan, meant to say to the country,
:08:18. > :08:23.we are all in the -- in it together, to help with the economic crisis.
:08:23. > :08:27.Nick, thank you very much. The Bank of England has announce
:08:27. > :08:32.twod ambitious schemes to try to boost levels of growth and activity
:08:32. > :08:36.in the British economy. From next month �80 billion is made available
:08:36. > :08:40.to banks on condition that they pass it on to customers in the
:08:40. > :08:45.forms of business loans and mortgages. The other schemes
:08:45. > :08:50.starting as early as tomorrow make it is easier and cheaper for banks
:08:50. > :08:52.to borrow and ease their cash flow. The Chancellor gave details of the
:08:52. > :08:56.policies this evening in mansion House.
:08:56. > :09:02.Robert Peston is there. Every now and then the Chancellor's
:09:02. > :09:06.annual speech to bankers here at the majestic mansion House actually
:09:06. > :09:11.matters. Tonight with the British economy so weak and theow ez --
:09:11. > :09:17.eurozone crisis becoming more acute, well, it is one of those occasions.
:09:17. > :09:19.As it happens, the Chancellor and the Government of the Bank of
:09:19. > :09:24.England probably appeared to be responding to the criticisms that
:09:24. > :09:29.maybe they had not been doing enough to kick-start the economy.
:09:29. > :09:33.Tonight they came up with two potentially important initiatives.
:09:33. > :09:36.A grand City dinner in a time of recession again. The Chancellor and
:09:36. > :09:40.the governor of the Bank of England, still apparently working together,
:09:40. > :09:45.on their way to reassure the country's leading bankers and
:09:45. > :09:50.businesses that they have a plan to revive our anaemic economy.
:09:50. > :09:55.We are not powerless in the face of the eurozone debt storm. Together
:09:55. > :09:59.we can deploy new firepower, to defend our economy from the crisis
:09:59. > :10:04.on our doorstep. Funding for lending to the family, aspiring to
:10:04. > :10:09.own their own home and the business that wants to expand. The bank and
:10:09. > :10:15.the Treasury are working together on a funding for lending scheme.
:10:15. > :10:19.It would provide funding to banks for an extended period of several
:10:19. > :10:24.years at rates below the current matter rates and linked to the
:10:24. > :10:28.performance of banks in sustaining or expanding their lending to the
:10:28. > :10:31.UK non-financial sector during the present period of heightened
:10:31. > :10:36.uncertainty. There will be two schemes to
:10:36. > :10:41.provide cheaper loans to bank. One will involve the Bank of England
:10:41. > :10:45.lending bank as minimum of �5 billion a month to aassure them
:10:45. > :10:50.they will not run out of money even in the eurozone banking crisis gets
:10:50. > :10:54.worse. The second scheme will provide loans to banks for three to
:10:54. > :10:58.four years on the condition that the banks pass on the money in
:10:58. > :11:03.loans to households and businesses. The Bank of England will see it as
:11:03. > :11:08.a success if it leads to �80 billion of additional loans.
:11:08. > :11:11.Over the British economy is the long shadow cast by the financially
:11:11. > :11:16.stretched banks and the governments of the eurozone. For Spain the cost
:11:16. > :11:22.of borrowing for ten years rose today to the unaffordable level of
:11:23. > :11:27.7%. Days after it was promised a 100 billion Euro bail out.
:11:27. > :11:32.With the Greek election looming and fears that the result will prompt
:11:32. > :11:37.Greece to leave the Euro, the Chancellor was clear that the time
:11:37. > :11:43.for piecemeal solutions is over. One thing is for sure, if exit is
:11:43. > :11:47.the chosen route, then the eurozone must have a very good plan in place
:11:47. > :11:52.to prevent contagion. The worst case for everyone would be exit
:11:52. > :11:55.without a sufficiently ambitious response, but carrying on with the
:11:55. > :12:04.current uncertainty and instability is not much better.
:12:05. > :12:09.A time for decisions has come. In Italy tempers rise as the
:12:09. > :12:13.economy shrinks. Italy's borrowing costs rose too
:12:13. > :12:18.today to dangerous levels and with the Italian economy, and Italian
:12:18. > :12:21.banks so big and important if they get into serious difficulties, the
:12:21. > :12:26.Chancellor will need more than two new lending schemes to protect us
:12:26. > :12:30.from the after shocks. Well, I have managed to grab one of
:12:30. > :12:34.our leading bankers tonight to ask him whether the new initiatives
:12:34. > :12:39.will encourage his bank to lend more. He says that the problem is
:12:39. > :12:43.that businesses and households are so anxious that they don't want to
:12:43. > :12:47.borrow. So the Bank of England may give him all of this cheap money,
:12:47. > :12:50.but he is not persuaded that he will be able to get it out into the
:12:50. > :12:52.marketplace. That is something with the economy so weak that should
:12:52. > :12:56.trouble us. Back to you.
:12:56. > :13:00.Thank you very much, Robert Peston for us at the mansion House.
:13:00. > :13:04.Well, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor has warned that her
:13:04. > :13:09.country's financial clout should not be overestimated by those who
:13:09. > :13:13.believe that German money can solve all problems. The German Government
:13:13. > :13:22.seems to rule out guaranteeing the debts of other eurozone countries.
:13:22. > :13:27.Stephanie Flanders has been finding Germans were willing to pay a high
:13:27. > :13:33.price to reunify the country often 1989. Now the world is telling them
:13:33. > :13:38.they must pay out again to prevent the eurozone from falling apart but
:13:38. > :13:42.today the Chancellor warned us not to expect too much. Her speech was
:13:42. > :13:48.to the German parliament but it was expressed to the outside world.
:13:48. > :13:53.TRANSLATION: We are convinced Europe is our destiny and future
:13:53. > :13:58.and if the euro fails, Europe fails, but we also know that Germany's
:13:58. > :14:01.strength is limited. What the markets would like Angela Merkel to
:14:01. > :14:07.say is that she and the other eurozone Government's stand behind
:14:07. > :14:12.each other's debts. The common version of that, euro bonds,
:14:12. > :14:16.Germany has ruled out but people were hoping that they were inching
:14:16. > :14:22.towards a temporary compromise. Today I found out they were taking
:14:22. > :14:29.that off the agenda as well. I spoke to Angela Merkel's deputy
:14:29. > :14:37.finance minister after her speech. Debt is a national responsibility
:14:37. > :14:43.question and I do not see any strategies where we socialise and
:14:43. > :14:50.redistribute the negative political decision made by some, who...
:14:50. > :14:54.the proposal by the German expert? It is a quiet outspoken
:14:54. > :14:58.constitutional arrangement that we are not allowed to do so. That no
:14:58. > :15:04.from Germany will be about as popular in many European capitals
:15:04. > :15:09.as Germany winning Euro 2012, but for all the griping about Greece,
:15:09. > :15:14.most Germans are still fans of the single European currency. People
:15:14. > :15:19.here know that Europe's strongest economy does have to do its bit.
:15:19. > :15:23.is the European Union. If you do not do that for the other countries,
:15:23. > :15:30.it might fall back to you and then we have a much bigger problem in
:15:30. > :15:34.Germany. I think the Germans, the really understand if they don't
:15:34. > :15:38.help the country, it could be difficult for the whole of Europe.
:15:38. > :15:42.The trouble is that Germany thinks it has already given a lot to
:15:42. > :15:46.rescuing the euro. The minister says we should stop panic thing
:15:46. > :15:51.about the markets and focus on that. It does not make any sense to
:15:51. > :15:58.question what we have achieved on a weekly basis and develop new
:15:58. > :16:03.concepts. What we need now is a calm political decision process.
:16:03. > :16:06.Angela Merkel says we should stop looking for a quick fix to the
:16:06. > :16:15.eurozone crisis. By now, I think people have but if Germany
:16:15. > :16:18.continues to say no, there might not be a solution at all.
:16:18. > :16:21.A British soldier from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards has been
:16:21. > :16:24.killed in an explosion in Afghanistan. The Ministry of
:16:24. > :16:27.Defence said the soldier, who has not been named, was part of a
:16:27. > :16:32.patrol to disrupt insurgent activity in the Helmand Province.
:16:32. > :16:35.His family has been told. A service of remembrance has taken
:16:35. > :16:39.place in Port Stanley to mark the 30th anniversary of the liberation
:16:39. > :16:42.of the Falkland Islands from Argentine forces. As veterans
:16:42. > :16:44.joined residents to remember those who lost their lives, the Argentine
:16:44. > :16:48.president was telling the United Nations that her country would
:16:48. > :16:58.never surrender its claim to sovereignty. From the Falklands,
:16:58. > :16:58.
:16:58. > :17:04.Caroline Wyatt sent this report. Today the violence gathered to
:17:04. > :17:07.remember and give thanks. -- the islands. The Last Post was founded
:17:07. > :17:12.at the memorial. Falkland islanders stood with the veterans who stood
:17:12. > :17:18.by them when the islands were invaded by Argentina. All sorts
:17:18. > :17:26.here but with the men, friends of the comrades who never came home.
:17:26. > :17:31.The 255 British servicemen who gave their lives to insure the Falkland
:17:31. > :17:35.islanders' freedom. Many remember this moment 30 years ago today,
:17:35. > :17:41.when the British flag was raised after 74 days of occupation, but
:17:41. > :17:46.victory came at a price. For veterans, like Barry Avery, Boer
:17:46. > :17:52.War cast a long shadow. memories are always there. -- Boer
:17:52. > :17:57.War. Different people deal with things differently. It was good and
:17:57. > :18:02.bad. For the islanders, if sacrifices made will never be
:18:02. > :18:05.forgotten. Trudi McPhee helped to resupply British forces during the
:18:05. > :18:10.war regardless of the dangers but her gratitude is for the men who
:18:11. > :18:17.risked their lives for her liberty. I think of all the families, their
:18:17. > :18:23.loved ones have not returned... Yes. And for that we will always be
:18:23. > :18:26.grateful. But Argentina is still far from giving up its claim to
:18:26. > :18:32.these islands. Tonight the country's president, Cristina
:18:32. > :18:39.Kirchner, went in person to the UN to make her case for possession of
:18:39. > :18:45.what Argentina calls Las Malvinas. TRANSLATION: An issue that even
:18:45. > :18:51.goes beyond the national issue of Argentine sovereignty. Indeed, it
:18:51. > :18:55.goes beyond and becomes an affront to the world which we all dream of.
:18:55. > :19:00.Falkland islanders were at the UN as well trip up that claim, sending
:19:00. > :19:05.a firm message that they are determined to remain British -- to
:19:05. > :19:09.refute that claim. The people of the eye lens remain profoundly
:19:09. > :19:14.grateful to the men who came from 8,000 miles away to insure their
:19:14. > :19:18.freedom, and even as the Argentine President States have claimed a
:19:18. > :19:24.game to these islands, the people here remain proudly and defiantly
:19:24. > :19:27.British. Coming up on tonight's programme: A
:19:27. > :19:37.stand-off in Cairo. The political crisis deepens ahead of this
:19:37. > :19:37.
:19:37. > :19:41.weekend's presidential elections. The way child poverty is measured
:19:41. > :19:47.in the UK is to be redefined by the government as part of a new
:19:47. > :19:49.approach to addressing the problem. Ministers want to replace the
:19:49. > :19:55.current measure, based on family income, with broader criteria
:19:55. > :20:01.including parents' employment. Our home editor has the details.
:20:01. > :20:06.Are these children Paul? What decides is not whether they have
:20:06. > :20:12.enough to eat and a roof over their head but how their family's income
:20:12. > :20:16.compares with middle earners, the concept of poverty that currently
:20:16. > :20:21.underpins official measures. But for these children, it simply means
:20:21. > :20:25.mum and dad relying on vouchers from Barnardo's. They provide us
:20:25. > :20:30.with non-perishable food which is great, because you can guarantee
:20:30. > :20:33.that you can make meals out of it. The current definition of child
:20:33. > :20:41.poverty is based on children who live in a family with a weekly
:20:41. > :20:49.income is less than 60% of the middle income in the UK. In 2010
:20:49. > :20:53.that was �259 a week. Last year it fell to �251 a week. Any child in a
:20:53. > :21:01.household with an income between those two is technically no longer
:21:01. > :21:05.poor, but of course they are not a penny richer. The result is that
:21:05. > :21:09.300,000 people have been lifted out of poverty even the British incomes
:21:09. > :21:15.are falling. Iain Duncan-Smith believes that is perverse and today
:21:15. > :21:19.announced plans to redefine poverty. He will consult on how to widen the
:21:19. > :21:25.criteria. This government is committed to eradicating child
:21:25. > :21:31.poverty. We want to tackle it at its source, with it be welfare
:21:31. > :21:37.addiction, debt, education favour you, or dysfunctional family
:21:37. > :21:44.breakdown. -- education failure. The idea of relative poverty came
:21:44. > :21:49.out of campaigns in the 1960s. take these up... It took decades
:21:49. > :21:52.for the concept to win political acceptance across the spectrum.
:21:52. > :21:56.Pete Townshend founded the Child Poverty Action Group, arguing that
:21:56. > :22:01.income is lower than the average exclude people from wider society
:22:01. > :22:04.and the charity is anxious that his legacy may be squandered. We have
:22:04. > :22:08.been campaigning for decades for this and we finally got the Child
:22:08. > :22:13.Poverty Act, with the support of the whole sector. This could be a
:22:13. > :22:19.real moment to use things. There is the opportunity of a generation and
:22:19. > :22:24.if we lose it, we will probably not get it back. Few would argue that
:22:24. > :22:29.the relative poverty measure does have -- does not have witnesses,
:22:29. > :22:35.but the fee is reigniting the debate about what being poor is
:22:35. > :22:38.were fatally undermine Britain's statutory commitment to eradicate
:22:38. > :22:42.poverty. There is more political turmoil in
:22:42. > :22:44.Egypt on the eve of the country's presidential election. Egypt's
:22:44. > :22:48.supreme constitutional court has ruled that the parliamentary
:22:48. > :22:51.elections held last year were illegitimate and should be re-run.
:22:51. > :22:54.The court also ruled that the former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq
:22:54. > :23:00.is eligible to stand in this weekend's presidential election.
:23:00. > :23:06.Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Cairo.
:23:06. > :23:10.Found with the military, they shout. Revolution! The young
:23:10. > :23:14.revolutionaries are back on Tahrir Square tonight, enraged by the
:23:14. > :23:19.Supreme Court's decision to dissolve Egypt's first democratic
:23:19. > :23:28.parliament. The end of the Egyptian revolution. Our dreams now become
:23:28. > :23:33.dead. You can see the anger and the passion on the faces of the young
:23:33. > :23:37.people here. These are the same people who fought to bring down the
:23:37. > :23:41.Hosni Mubarak regime 18 months ago in this same square. Tonight they
:23:41. > :23:46.believe that the military who supported him for so long are
:23:47. > :23:52.trying to steal their revolution. Not all Egyptians are unhappy
:23:52. > :23:58.though. Across town, an equally passionate crowd is suing barmaids
:23:58. > :24:04.Rafique. One year ago, this alive was in disgrace -- Ahmed Shafik.
:24:04. > :24:08.Now he could be on the verge of being proclaimed Egypt's president,
:24:08. > :24:12.an extraordinary turnaround for the old regime. The last year has been
:24:12. > :24:16.about creating a perception of instability that was somewhat
:24:16. > :24:20.greater than the reality on the ground, creating a perception that
:24:20. > :24:24.things were spinning out of control to drive them into the arms of the
:24:24. > :24:31.stability candidate. The question is how well the Muslim Brotherhood
:24:31. > :24:35.reactor. Until today, it controlled Egypt's parliament. Its
:24:35. > :24:38.presidential candidate could still win but to do so, the Muslim
:24:38. > :24:46.Brotherhood must translate anger on the streets today into support for
:24:47. > :24:49.its candidate at the ballot box on Saturday.
:24:50. > :24:53.Harry Redknapp says he enjoyed every minute of his three and a
:24:54. > :24:56.half years as manager of Tottenham Hotspur. He was speaking after the
:24:56. > :25:01.club confirmed his exit, despite Spurs finishing fourth in the
:25:01. > :25:04.Premier League last season. Mr Redknapp had made it known that he
:25:04. > :25:10.wanted to go into the new season on a new three-year deal, but the club
:25:10. > :25:14.was not prepared to make that offer, as James Pearce reports.
:25:14. > :25:18.For good times and bad, there has always been one constant for Harry
:25:18. > :25:25.Redknapp. Happy to give an interview through a car window.
:25:25. > :25:29.Good morning! Difficult 24 hours. What has
:25:29. > :25:32.happened from your perspective. What has happened is obviously I
:25:32. > :25:38.met with the chairman and the club decided to move in a different
:25:38. > :25:41.direction with the manager and that is their decision. I have had four
:25:41. > :25:48.fantastic years at Tottenham, I loved every minute of it. When
:25:48. > :25:52.Harry Redknapp took over at Spurs, he turned a team that was then
:25:52. > :25:56.bottom-of-the-table into a regular top-five finishes, but there were
:25:56. > :26:01.distractions. In February he was found not guilty of tax evasion,
:26:01. > :26:06.after a trial that he described as a nightmare, and there was some bad
:26:06. > :26:09.luck. Last month, Chelsea's Champions' League victory cost
:26:09. > :26:13.Tottenham a place in next season's competition but it was the FA
:26:13. > :26:20.decision to overlook him for the England manager's job that heard
:26:20. > :26:23.him the most. I was very sad. I texted him this afternoon but I do
:26:23. > :26:29.not expect him to reply because I imagine he will be snowed under
:26:29. > :26:33.with sympathetic messages. I am disappointed for him. It is a
:26:33. > :26:39.spectacular reserves fall of fortune for a man who looked to be
:26:39. > :26:42.on the brink of one job that he had always craved -- reversal of
:26:42. > :26:47.fortune. As it turned out, the destruction caused by the England
:26:47. > :26:50.speculation has probably caused a part of his downfall. Perhaps buzz
:26:50. > :26:57.decided Harry Redknapp was not sufficiently committed to their
:26:57. > :27:02.cause -- perhaps Spurs. A recent meeting to discuss a contract
:27:02. > :27:05.extension ended in a contract termination. There seems to have
:27:05. > :27:09.been a breakdown in communication and they cannot agree the terms and
:27:09. > :27:14.it is pretty surprising that Harry is leaving the club on such a
:27:14. > :27:18.position of having got such great success over four years. When Harry