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hospitals in England cannot be guaranteed, after days of bruising | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
criticism of the health watchdog. The Care Quality Commission is | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
facing accusations that its staff covered up their failings. The | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
Health Secretary says it's "fundamentally flawed". I think we | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
have to be honest with people. We do not have a regulatory structure fit | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
for purpose, and we are changing that as fast as we can. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
With the reputation of the regulator badly hit, we'll be looking at how | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
public trust might be restored. Also tonight: The teacher jailed for | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
five-and-a-half years for sexual offences with an underage pupil. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Jeremy Forrest is banned from working with children for life. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Emergency talks in Brazil as anti-government unrest reaches a new | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
peak. More than a million people joined the latest nationwide | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
protests. And support for the British and | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
Irish Lions, hours away from the In Sportsday, we'll be looking at | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
what lies in wait for Andy Murray at Wimbledon when he begins his | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
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Good evening. The Health Secretary says he cannot | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
guarantee the safety of hospitals in England, describing the Care Quality | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
Commission watchdog as "fundamentally flawed". The | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
organisation has been under considerable pressure after a report | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
alleged it had covered up its own failings at one hospital in Cumbria. | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
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Today Jeremy Hunt called it "not fit for purpose". Here's Dominic Hughes. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
The regulator that is meant to provide assurance on the safety of | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
hospitals in England is in trouble. First, the Care Quality Commission | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
failed to spot opens at Morecambe Bay NHS Trust. Then managers | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
allegedly attempted to cover up the mistake. Today, the Health Secretary | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
could not guarantee that hospitals are now being properly inspected but | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
he offered support for disciplinary action against anyone involved in a | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
cover-up at the CQC. They are very serious allegations and they should | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
have serious consequences if they are proved to be right. I will back | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
the CQC to the hilt and try to make sure justice is done. Management of | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
the CQC, led by chief executive Cynthia Bower, was severely | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
criticised in the independent report that exposed failures at Morecambe | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
Bay, but a former inspector turned whistleblower is not surprised. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Management were very concerned about their reputations and keeping the | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
reputation of the CQC squeakyclean. But in doing so, they lost sight of | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
what they ought to be looking at and doing, and that was properly | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
inspecting. We were all telling them how it should be done and they were | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
not listening. The Care Quality Commission has carried out thousands | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
of inspections at around 170 hospital trusts across England, but | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
given the mistakes at the Morecambe Bay trust, the question is how | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
reliable are those inspections and is the regulator still fit for | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
purpose? The Care Quality Commission was formed in 2009 by the merger of | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
three specialist regulators, the Health Care Commision, the | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
Commission for Social Care and the Mental Health Act Commission. It was | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
meant to be a single regulator for health and adult social care in | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
England. It also oversees GPs, dentist and thousands of care homes, | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
overwhelming the organisation, say critics. They are not fit for | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
purpose. It does not matter about the platitudes, they are just not | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
fit for purpose. We have run out of excuses and reasons why things went | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
wrong. In the wake of the scandals at Stafford Hospital and now at | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
Morecambe Bay, the government has signalled a move back to the old | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
specialisms, with the creation of a new post, chief inspector of | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
hospitals, and more recently the chief inspector of GPs and chief | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
inspector of social care. But a question hangs over the future of | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
the Care Quality Commission, at organisation that was already | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
struggling for credibility. It now sees its reputation in tatters. | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Our health correspondent Branwen Jeffreys is here. Where does all | :04:33. | :04:43. | |
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this leave the watchdog? There is no doubt that it has been extremely | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
messy and damaging for the CQC. This new team of leadership was put in to | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
restore public confidence after the enquiry into Stafford Hospital. | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Instead, they found their judgement questioned, as first they refused to | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
name officials, and then named them, only for the allegations to be | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
disputed. Can confidence be restored? A large part of that job | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
will rest on the post of the first chief inspector of hospitals. That | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
is going to be Professor Sir Mike Richards, Doctor, cancer specialist, | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
very well respected within the NHS, credited as the man who has | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
transformed cancer care in England in the last decade. But he takes on | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
the job at such a difficult time, after this mess, with 14 hospitals | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
under review for their death rates. Although we know that patients | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
experience good care by and large, public faith in the ability of the | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
NHS to be open, honest and transparent when things go wrong has | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
been very severely tested. A maths teacher who had an affair | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
with a 15-year-old pupil before taking her to France has been jailed | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
for five-and-a-half years. Yesterday, Jeremy Forrest was | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
convicted of abducting the teenager. Today, he pleaded guilty to five | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
further charges of sexual activity. The judge said he'd been "motivated | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
by self interest" and hadn't shown any "genuine care" for the girl's | :06:03. | :06:13. | |
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welfare. Duncan Kennedy reports. Jeremy Forrest was brought to court, | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
supposedly to be sentenced for abduction, but that soon changed | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
once he was inside. Instead, in an extraordinary move, the Crown Court | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
temporarily sat as a magistrates court, so five additional charges of | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
sexual abuse could be added, which Forrest pleaded guilty to. The | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
judge, Michael Lawson QC, told him, you chose to ignore the cardinal | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
rule of teaching. Time and again your colleagues warned and advised | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
you and offered support. You lied to them about the nature of your | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
relationship. He was in a position of authority and trust over children | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
in his care, something parents and the wider community expect to be | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
upheld at all costs. The girl was not in court today but her mother | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
was. Her witness impact statement revealed the extent of the family | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
breakdown following the case. Last week, the 15-year-old told the court | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
about her extensive sexual contact with Forrest. Today, mother said, I | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
feel her childhood has been robbed from me. I feel like she has died | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
and I am grieving for her. The pair went on the run last September, | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
taking a ferry to France. They tried to hide in Bordeaux, acting like a | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
couple in love. This was the fake CV Forrest used to try to find work. He | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
changed his name, claimed to have a degree in journalism, and said he | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
was living in France. Like his affair with a schoolgirl, it was all | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
a dangerous fantasy. After today's sentencing, his family had a | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
statement read, in which he offered an apology. This is a sorry episode | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
for all concerned and Jeremy is sorry for his actions. Despite the | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
verdict, there are many factors in the case which need to be examined | :08:05. | :08:14. | |
and addressed. The case of the music loving teacher is now the subject of | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
an investigation by a number of agencies, including the police and | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
the school, asking how could he have carried on the relationship for so | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
long. Tonight, Jeremy Forrest has been moved to Lewis prison, to start | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
his sentence. The judge also banned him from ever working unsupervised | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
with children again. His liberty and life in his chosen profession is now | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
at an end. An emergency Cabinet meeting's been | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
held in Brazil amid the worst unrest in the country for 20 years. The | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
latest demonstrations have been the biggest so far, with anger over poor | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
public services, corruption, and the money being spent on next year's | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
World Cup. Most of the protests have been in Rio de Janeiro. From there, | :08:55. | :09:05. | |
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Alistair Leithead sent this report. Police acted firmly and decisively | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
to break up the biggest demonstration since this crisis over | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
bus fares escalated into violence a week ago. They are the worst | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
protests in 30 years, since the end of the dictatorship, and still there | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
has been no word from the president, who has been holding | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
emergency meetings today. More than 1 million people took the streets | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
across the country. In Rio, attempt to march on the City Hall were met | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
with tear gas and rubber bullets. The protesters have set fires down | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
the end of the road. The police are again moving forward. They have been | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
steadily inching their way down, firing tear gas in front of them, | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
firing rubber bullets and other explosives to try to keep the | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
protesters at a. -- at bay. Today, there was a lot of cleaning up to | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
do. There will be no World Cup, the graffiti reads, but FIFA says there | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
are no plans to cancel this week was my Confederations Cup, let alone | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
next year's main event. This man was injured last night as he tried to | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
escape tear gas in what he said was a peaceful protest. The Brazilian | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
people have been waiting for an opportunity for their voices to be | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
heard for such a long time. There are many reasons. The protest has | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
united Brazilians across the social spectrum. What started with anger at | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
increased bus fares has become about so much more. We are trying to show | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
them that we run this country, and they have to work for us. Roderigo | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
is a university professor who agrees with the young activists. He does | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
not think the government is spending money in the right way. | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
TRANSLATION: The movement mixes the upper middle-class, the lower | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
middle-class and the poor. We want our rights, our voices to be heard, | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
fair and transparent government. This was not the image Brazil wanted | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
the world to see. Even though some social media pages have been taken | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
down, more demonstrations are being planned, as the government and the | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
people decide where this mass movement goes next. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
More than 500 people have died in flooding and landslides caused by | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
heavy monsoon rain across northern India. Roads and bridges have been | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
washed away, stranding around 50,000 people. The worst affected area is | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, where thousands of | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
Hindu pilgrims had been visiting local shrines. The Indian army is | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
leading rescue efforts, though its soldiers are yet to reach some | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
remote mountain areas. Official figures have shown that | :11:42. | :11:50. | |
government borrowing increased slightly in the last financial year. | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
Using new data, the Office for National Statistics revised the | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
borrowing figures for the past two years. The Treasury insists the | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
coalition is taking the right action on deficit reduction. Here's Hugh | :12:00. | :12:10. | |
Pym. Today's figures show what the | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
government has been borrowing, what is being run up on the nation's | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
credit card, to add to all the unpaid debt from previous years. And | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
the numbers are still big. The Chancellor has set great store by | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
reducing the bills year by year. We discovered today that he actually | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
borrowed a bit more in the latest financial year than in the previous | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
12 month period. Deficit reduction is a thing of the past. He has | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
failed to do it. It has stalled totally. He has failed on the | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
economy and unless you get the economy moving, you will not deal | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
with high levels of rowing. Annual government borrowing, stripping out | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
special factors, had been estimated at just under �121 billion for | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
2011-12. That has now been revised down to �118.5 billion. The latest | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
estimate is nearly �119 billion, an increase on the previous year. The | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Treasury view is that this is not some sudden bad news. Far from it. | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
The changes are because of a downward revision to borrowing in a | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
previous year. They argue that the underlying trend is exactly as it | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
was when set out in the budget. trend continues to be downward if | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
you look at the deficit as a percentage of the overall economy. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
But it is right that the government remains focused on reducing the | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
deficit, making sure we can live within our means. We have to remain | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
focused on that, even when the economy has not grown as fast as we | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
would have liked. Last month, a Swiss sweetener for the British | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
government's finances. More than �3 billion handed over by Swiss | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
authorities as part of a deal to get tax paid on bank accounts held by | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
British citizens. That helped to bring borrowing below the figure in | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
May for the previous year. But the fundamental issues remain the same, | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
getting the annual credit card bill down. It has been a big challenge | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
for the Chancellor and is likely to levels through a third day in | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
Singapore, with the state bank did in smog caused by illegal forest | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
fires in Indonesia. At quality is considered good if it lies between | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
zero and 50 on the country's pollution index. It is unhealthy | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
between 100 and 200 and considered hazardous at over 300. Today, the | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
index in Singapore chiefly hit a new high of 401, which meant schools | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
were closed and people were advised to stay indoors. | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
A pale, grey cloud has descended on Singapore. Its skyscrapers are | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
almost lost in the haze. The air is thick with tiny particles, carried | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
on the wind from Indonesia. People working outdoors have been warned to | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
take special care. Everyone is feeling the impact. I'm finding it | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
difficult to breed. I am surprised the officers are still open. -- | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
breathe. With the environment, you don't feel motivated to step out | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
unless you have to. The greatest risk is to anyone suffering from | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
asthma. In this class, almost all of the children are wearing masks, even | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
indoors. Such is the concern about the smoke. For these kids, there is | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
no question of playing in the open. At one point today, what is called | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
the pollution standard index, the PSI, reached a record level. | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
Obviously with the PSI being at 400 right now, it is really not safe for | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
them to be going out. My daughter has mild asthma. I don't want her to | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
be exposed at all, if possible. satellite picture from NASA shows | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
the scale of the cloud of smoke reaching from Indonesia, across to | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
Singapore and Malaysia. By zooming in, the authorities can actually see | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
the fires. They have already blamed eight companies that have been | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
clearing forest to make way for plantations. The fires are designed | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
to prepare the ground, to cultivate palm oil. This kind of burning is | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
against the law, but it is rarely enforced. The result is that the | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
fires, that may now be out of control, are generating a dense | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
haze, drifting on the wind. They are likely to keep burning for weeks or | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
even months. Indonesia is now under massive | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
pressure. Its firefighters face an almost impossible challenge. They | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
are up against powerful local interest is, clearing land for | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
plantations is very big business. Burning happens when, after the | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
major trees have been cleared for timber, there will be scrub forest, | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
grassland or peatland remaining. The planters will literally pour petrol | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
on the ground and set fire to it, with the hope of clearing that | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
scrub. One view of the haze over Singapore. The pollution has raised | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
tensions in the region. But the fires may go on until the rains come | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
in several months time. The UKIP leader Nigel Farage has | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
admitted he made a mistake by setting up a trust fund in an | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
offshore tax haven seven years ago. He said he did it on the basis of | :17:25. | :17:34. | |
advice from his former financial The UKIP leader has been enjoying | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
the limelight recently, with his party soaring in the polls. Now, | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
Nigel Farage's reputation as a man of the people has taken a hit. A | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
Mirror newspaper investigation revealing he set up an offshore | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
trust fund. All perfectly legal, but he said he soon realised it was | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
inappropriate. It is something tens of thousands of people do. Having | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
said that, really, I should never have bought the policy. I am not | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
rich enough. I have to say, one side set it up and put the initial check | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
in to get the thing started, I began to feel a bit uncomfortable, | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
frankly. How did it operate? Well, in 2003 he set up a company called | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
Farage Ltd. He transferred company shares into the trust, based on the | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
Isle of Man. He says he did not personally benefit. Dividends were | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
paid to his brother. The whole issue of tax avoidance has become a hot | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
political topic, with big companies like Google and Starbucks accused of | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
not paying their fair share. Last month, Nigel Farage said that | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
officials at the European Commission were just as bad. They pay tax of | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
12%. It is tax fraud on an absolutely massive scale. I would | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
say to you, how can that be deemed to be fair? Part of Nigel Farage's | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
appeal to voters is that he is different from other politicians at | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
Westminster, that he is more in touch with the real world. The | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
revelation he set about offshore trust to protect his children's | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
inheritance tax is pretty damaging. His political opponents have accused | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
him of saying one thing and doing another. | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
The monitoring agency GCHQ is said to have secretly accessed | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
fibre-optic cables carrying huge amount of Internet and | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
communications data. According to the Guardian newspaper, the agency | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
is able to tap into and store data from the cables for up to 30 days so | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
that it can be analysed. GCHQ insists it is scrupulous in | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
complying with the law. For the last decade, Sir Mervyn, | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
soon-to-be Lord King, has been the governor of the Bank of England, | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
throughout the financial crisis. Next week, he retires. Stephanie | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
Flanders has this assessment of his economic legacy. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Sir Mervyn has been a familiar face at the Bank of England for more than | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
30 years, and its governor for ten. The sport loving economist would | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
probably admit it has been a game of two halves. Few British policymakers | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
such global respect. He took the Bank of England, effectively, into | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
an independent monetary institution. People put down their blackberry and | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
mobile phones and listen to him because he is Mervyn King. | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
constant questioning of what was going on, how we should do things, | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
what we should think about, that is an example of how to be a policy | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
maker who can both be assertive and flexible. Central banks are all | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
about stability. His regular press conferences on inflation after 1993 | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
helped pave the way for making the bank independent in 1997 and made | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
him a natural choice for governor in 2003. He was instrumental in making | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
it work on the new construction. That is very important. Around the | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
world, we look to the Bank of England as a model of how central | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
banking should be done. The early record on inflation was stellar. | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
Prices rose 2% a year on average in his first five years as governor, | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
bang on target. Since then, inflation has averaged more than 3% | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
per year. And that wasn't all he had to deal with in the second half. In | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
2007, things got a lot more complicated at the bank. Financial | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
markets took fright, credit started to dry up. Critics said the governor | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
was a bit slow to grasp how much the world had changed. The bank as a | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
whole, perhaps, didn't see the financial crisis coming the way it | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
should have. It took some time for the Bank of England to adjust. Once | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
he realised what was happening, and that the next challenge was not | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
going to come from the inflation side, but from the financial side, | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
Mervyn King responded quickly and aggressively. The Chancellor at the | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
time, Alistair Darling, has criticised the way the governor | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
handled the rescue of northern rock. But when the bank cut rates, it put | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
them quickly and made history, creating hundreds of billions of | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
pounds with quantitive easing. It did not produce a strong recovery. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
But most economists say that things would be even worse without it. What | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
Labour finds harder to forgive is the governor's public endorsement of | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
the coalition's deficit strategy in 2010, only hours after the | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
government was formed. Inside and outside the bank, many worried he | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
had strayed too far into party politics. The Chancellor has a | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
different view. I don't think anyone would question that Mervyn King is a | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
completely independent figure. Independent not just as governor of | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
the central bank, but also independent because he has the | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
intellectual self-confidence to be independent. Everyone can agree he | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
is a man that knows his own mind and loves his cricket. Also, art, tennis | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
and Aston Villa. There is probably never a harder time to be governor | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
of the Bank of England. Mervyn King says that historians will judge how | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
he did. As we already know that the Bank of England would be a different | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
place without him. The anticipation is building. In 12 | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
hours, the British and Irish Lions take on Australia in the first test. | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
It is 12 years since the teams last met. That in 2001, it was the | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
Aussies who emerged victorious. So, what are the Lions chances? Live in | :23:35. | :23:45. | |
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Brisbane is done in Rome. -- Dan Roan. | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
Much day has finally arrived. Soon we will discover if British and | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
Irish rugby is good enough to overcome Australia. Nothing stays | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
the blood like a Lions tour. The team will not be lacking support. | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
It has been 12 years in the making. It finally the Lions are ready to | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
make themselves heard in Australia once again. Brisbane is brimming | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
with British and Irish fans, all here to witness one of rugby's most | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
cherished traditions. It means everything. You are part of one huge | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
family. An understrength team lost their last warmup match last week. | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
Now it is time for the real test. George North has emerged as their | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
most potent attacking weapon. The Welsh winger told me that the squad | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
are full of confidence. If you go into a battle thinking you are going | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
to lose, there is no point playing it. I think the format we showed up | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
until, unfortunately, Tuesday, I think we are an exceptional shape. | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
We have to go in confident, attacking and keep the pressure on. | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
The Lions may be intent on ending eight winless streak. But they have | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
done their best to be good tourists, from climbing the Sydney Harford A* | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
Harbour Bridge to serving. All a far cry from 1988, when the first Lions | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
visited Australia. Since then, they have won 15 matches. But Australia | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
claimed the last series in 2001. These games are very close. We will | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
attack the team. But it will be very close. But I just see the Lions | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
being a little bit more together than the Australian team at the | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
moment. The first match in the test series will be pivotal. This is | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
where it will take place, in Brisbane, where the tourists have an | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
opportunity to become part of Lions legend. Having been cocooned in a | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
training camp for weeks, Australia may not be as battle hardened as the | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
Lions. But they insist they are braced for whatever the tourists | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
throughout them. They have been very confrontational, that is the way | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
they have played a lot of therapy. It is a big job for the guys are | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
prone to make sure that we not only match that, but take the ascendancy. | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
Meanwhile, the Lions have received a message of Obviously you English | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
chaps will be leading from the front... From another team preparing | :26:12. | :26:20. | |
to face Australia. Killed an!This is something that few expected to | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
see, three lions using an open-air pool for a recovery session. The | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
tourists have made a stir of the pitch. Now they must perform on it. | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
After losing three successive series, the Lions need a win here, | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
more than, perhaps, ever before. Australia will be strong, but there | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
is a growing sense that the British and Irish Lions have the talent and | :26:43. | :26:49. |