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Politics. Labour and the Tories argue over who is to blame for

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unnecessary deaths in NHS hospitals as a critical report slams the

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standard of care at 14 hospital trusts in England. The Government

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outlines options for replacing Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent

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programme, but the Lib Dems and Conservatives cannot agree on a

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plan, we talk to both. What would Britain look like if we leave the

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EU? Nigel Lawson will explain why he is backing a 100,000 euros prize to

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find the best route map out of Europe. Tony Blair likes them,

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Gordon Brown loves them. As the UK swelters, should ice cream vans be

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allowed to play their chimes more often? We have the inside scoop,

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And an hour full of puns, no doubt. With us for the whole programme is

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Richard Lloyd, executive director of the consumer organisation Which,

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welcome to the programme. Hundreds and thousands of pounds, even!

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report from Which says that Britain's big six energy firms

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should be forced to separate their generation businesses from their

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retail arms to ensure customers are not overcharged. Are you suggesting,

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like the banks, that we break up the big six? Exactly what you should do

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is but a ringfenced between the part of the energy companies that have a

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generation business and that sell it to us in the retail market. They are

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able to sell themselves power and then sell it on to us, and that part

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of the business is completely not transparent, it is impossible to see

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whether they are competing properly with each other. They are very often

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hiding behind trades of huge volumes of gas and electricity, and that is

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a massive chunk of our bills at the end of the day. So what we want a

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disease is a clear division between those two parts of unified

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businesses that do generation and retail, and proper transparency,

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proper competition. Would it actually bring down bills? Npower

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has said it is the government's predictions on savings with more

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investment in green technologies that has pushed up the bills, not

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their profits, not from cycling a bit from generation to retail, but

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that is what is pushing up the bills on the Government was over

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estimating what can be saved. have got a blame game going on. The

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suppliers are saying it is the Government's fault because of the

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cost of taking Harman out of electricity generation, in

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particular. -- carbon. There is a bit of truth in what both sides are

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saying. We what we want now is to see wheelchair and by the

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across-the-board. If the Government is going to negotiate for a new

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nuclear power station, let's make sure there is transparency. We pay

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for that through our bills, and at the same time we have this problem

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in the wholesale market, where generators probably are not being

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forced to compete with each other really strongly, and that, we

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think, would keep prices in check, too. Across-the-board we need to see

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these costs kept under control, much more honesty about what is driving

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prices and bills. At the moment it is all done behind closed doors, it

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is not transparent, the Government needs to ensure consumers we are

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getting a good deal. I think they are starting to see that you cannot

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persuade consumers to pay for this stuff unless you are honest about

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how much it is going to cost and that they are fighting our corner

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for a good price. It remains to be seen how much of the new legislation

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that is about to go through Parliament is going to bring about

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the transparency we are calling for. Well, it is time for our daily quiz.

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Vladimir Putin is famous for photos done is showing off his virility, so

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the question for today is, what's daredevil escapade has the Russian

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president got up to now? Was it wrestling a giant squid? Skydiving

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from a fighter jet? Travelling 50 metres under the sea in a high-tech

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submersible? Or serving one of the world's largest waves in Hawaii? At

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the end of the show, Richard will hopefully give us the correct

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answer! Britain's Trident nuclear system is coming to the end of its

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life. Ministers will have to decide if and how to replace it. Chief

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Secretary Danny Alexander has been tasked with answering the question,

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what type of deterrence does the UK need? As we have the head of Which

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on the show, we thought we would review the options, although it will

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be for the Government in 2016 to decide which is the best. Investors

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could decide on a like-for-like replacement, that is expensive. --

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ministers. Building four new submarines could cost �25 billion.

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But it will allow the UK to operate a continuous deterrent, as we have

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done since the 1960s. This will get the stamp of approval from the

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Conservatives. David Cameron has said he is crystal clear that it has

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to continue in its current form. We could downgrade Trident, cutting the

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number of submarines down to either two three. The Lib Dems say this

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would save billions, money that could shore up conventional military

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budgets. But it would mean the end of the round-the-clock deterrent,

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something that Philip Hammond says is a reckless gamble with national

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security. It is the option favoured by the Lib Dems, arguing the current

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Cold War system is out of date. The UK could of course get rid of

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Trident entirely, but with Labour saying it supports a nuclear

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deterrent, that looks like the one option that will not prove popular.

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The Defence Secretary said any talk of cutting back on Trident was

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naive. Moving away from a tried and tested system which has protected us

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for over 45 years now to try something different, potentially

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more costly, certainly more risky, at a time when Russia is spending

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$150 billion rebuilding its armed forces, including its nuclear

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forces, Iran is attempting to attain nuclear warheads to put on its

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existing ballistic missile Isles, I think this would be an extremely

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foolhardy thing to do at this stage. -- ballistic missiles. I have been

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joined by Penny Mordaunt and Nick Harvey, welcome to you both. Nick

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Harvey, we have seen this morning two former chiefs of defence staff,

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people of all political colours lining up to say this review is

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wrong. I think they are wrong. We have had the first serious look at

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this question for several decades, coming at it with an open mind,

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looking at what we need in the 21st century, rather than what we needed

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at the height of the Cold War, and I think now is the opportunity to take

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a few steps down the nuclear ladder, to come off continuous at

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sea deterrent. It might have made sense at the height of the Cold War

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when we had a known nuclear anniversary, the Soviet Union,

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patrolling as 24-7. But that ended 25 years ago, and it does not make

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any sense in this day and age. the report does not make any clear

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recommendations, does it? The review does produce options, but it does

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not tell us anything we did not know. It does not back up your

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political case. It never set out to make recommendations. It set out to

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inform a political debate, and I can see that debate running from now

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until the 2015 general election, when I think the nuclear deterrent

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will be an issue for the first time since 1983. I think public attitudes

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have shifted a great deal since 1983, and when people look at the

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opportunity cost of putting all this money into a Cold War scale nuclear

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deterrent, they will question the wisdom of that when there are so

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many other competing demands, not least in the military, not least in

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the surface navy, which is dear to Penny's hard in Portsmouth. You are

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a former Royal Navy reserve cadet, looking at this review and the

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options set out, is there anything that changes your mind about having

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a continuous deterrent? No, it backs up what we knew all along, which is

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that if you are going to have this, you needed all year round, and the

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best value and most effective deterrent is what we are currently

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got. The tragedy about this is that the two - boat option, which is what

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the Liberals seem to be moving towards, was not part of the review.

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It is such a nutty option, because it relies on is basically persuading

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malign regimes and state-sponsored terrorists not to attack us on

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months of the year which do not have the letter A in the name. Danny

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Alexander ruled it out. He said it would be a crazy option. It is not

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in the detailed costings. The three-boat option, which the

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Liberals were going for, has now been shown to yield so little

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savings, and not until 2025, that they are reverting to the two-boat

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idea. It is good news, it backs up what we have been saying all along.

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Do you accept the world has changed? We do not live in the Cold War

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anymore, we do not face those same dangers. We face difference dangers,

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but not the same ones, so it maybe that would provide cover, but do we

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need it? We do need it. This is not a capability that would be used in

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all scenarios, so some terrorist activity, Somali pirates, it is of

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no use, but that is not an argument for not having it, because it will

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cover us for a whole variety of scenarios. Your viewers will know

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about North Korea and Iran. Russia, which might seem like a very

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friendly country towards us at the moment, just last year was talking

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about a first strike against US missile bases in Poland. The really

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important fact is we have not got to just plan for what is happening

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today with the deterrent, but what will happen over the course of its

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life. But we have no known nuclear anniversary. Not at the moment.The

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national-security strategy has downgraded the nuclear threat to a

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second tier. There is no other part of our military capability that we

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keep on constant patrol. We keep the skills, the equipment, and we have a

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contingency basis, and we deploy them when we need them. There is no

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reason why the nuclear deterrent should not be operated on that

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basis. This is a threat we face, it is a threat that we will face over

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the life of the next deterrent, and when you are looking at... This is

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coming down to money, and to run the four-boat solution is 1% of the

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welfare budget. �25 billion is a lot of money. But what it gives us, as

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long as there are nuclear weapons in the world, our public want us to

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have systems that will protect us from them being used against us, and

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that is what this does very effectively. Would you feel less

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secure without this deterrent? think most people will be thinking

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it is right to look hard at the cost of all of this, is it still the

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right thing to be doing? Have things changed so much that we should be

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thinking again? I think, for most people in the run-up to the next

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election, they will be thinking about where money is being cut from

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many other budgets, pressure on public spending across-the-board.

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This hypothetical defence question, it is going to be very hard for

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voters to engage in it, but the numbers are enormous. You cannot

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escape the track record of the Ministry of Defence in procuring

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equipment, it is appalling. Absolutely right to be having a hard

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look at this, exploring all the options, and are there more cost

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effective ways of doing this? have to build two boats anyway,

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because of the state of the current submarines, we need two to continue

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the policy as it currently stands. So we are talking in the difference

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in cost between two submarines, three and four, and the more you

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build, the cost drops. So what are the savings? If we are talking about

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�1,000,000,000... This is nonsense. Those figures... Villa Pam and is

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making its figures up as he goes along. -- Philip Hammond. If you

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look at the Vanguard submarines, the first one cost 40% of the total

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project, the subsequent ones cost 20%. I am not asserting that you

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would say 40% by reducing from four to two, but you would certainly save

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substantial sums, and if you went down to two, you could save as much

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as 8 billion, and if you went down to three, as much as four billion.

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And then crewing two three for 40 years, you are racking up savings of

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possibly half a billion or more. bring us back to where we started in

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all of this. If you are going to have a nuclear deterrent, you need

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it available all year round. You cannot do that on less than four

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submarines. The idea that things only work if you are using them the

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whole time is self-evidently nonsense. The only other way to do

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it is wait until London has been taken out or things are escalating,

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and then send your submarines out with warheads. What would happen in

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a prolonged stand-off? That is a more likely scenario than the idea

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Penny is proposing that it will come out of nowhere. Even the current

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nuclear deterrent would take three or four days to be ready to fire, so

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we are not ready at a moment's notice, as we were at the height of

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the Cold War. That.You would not get into a situation where a new

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adversarial has popped up from nowhere and is threatening to

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obliterate the United Kingdom overnight. You would be sensitive to

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the situation and crack capacity up to something far more acting to this

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as you felt it coming. If we were in a 1939 situation where the future of

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the state was seriously at risk, we would have to have enormous

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rearmament right across the board, nuclear and non-nuclear. I would

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throw the gauntlet down to the Lib Dems and say, if you are really for

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some kind of nuclear deterrent and are prepared to pay hell of a lot

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more money for two boats, why don't we get a move on and sign up to two

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now this side of the general election? We don't need to and it

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wouldn't be right for the public purse to make contracts before they

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need to. This contract will be signed in 2016. We now have the

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opportunity for a national debate. Is it a red line in the sand for

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post-2015 coalition politics? If they principle you will stand by?

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is something to put on the table and discuss in a coalition. This is

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critical to protect the UK. We should commit ourselves to replacing

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this deterrent. It has stood us in good stead and we don't know what

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world we will be facing in 20 years time and we have to have that back

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up. The public wanted, and we should get on and sign for it. We will have

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two ended there but no doubt we will have to do have this discussion

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again. Fancy entering a competition which could net you 100,000 euros?

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It's quite a prize, and all you have to do is write a 2,000-word essay

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explaining how Britain would thrive if we leave the European Union.

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We'll talk to the former Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson

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about this in just a moment. He is chairing the panel that will decide

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the winner. First though, here's a flavour of the debate amongst

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British and world leaders about Britain's place in Europe that's

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know... If we don't address these challenges, the danger is Europe

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will fail, and the British people will drift towards the exit. I do

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not want that to happen. I want the EU to be a success. And I want the

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relationship between Britain and the European Union that keeps us in it.

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My priority will always remain yes, reform it, a referendum whether

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circumstances are right, as we set out in law, but above and beyond

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everything else, promoting growth and jobs and building a stronger

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economy in a fairer society. Labour 's position has been consistent and

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that's the right thing to do. We've said is not right now to have a

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referendum in four years time because we think this bigger issues

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the country faces at the moment. would ask the inhabitants of this

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wonderful island that you can be very happy but you won't be happy if

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you are alone in this world. can't do Europe a la carte. Imagine

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Europe as a football club and you join. You can't then say let's play

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rugby. Everything must be decided in Brussels and by Brussels. We do

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indeed differentiate, but cherry picking is not an option.

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probably want to see if you can fix what is broken. In a very important

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relationship before you break it off. It makes some sense to me.

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we've been joined by the former Conservative Chancellor Nigel

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Lawson. Just explain to us exactly, there isn't a further stage before

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you win that 100,000 euro prize? Everyone is asked to do a 2000 word

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essay. The top 20 will then be invited to do a more substantial

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piece of work between 10000 and 20,000 words, more thorough job and

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come on the basis of that, we will award prizes. What is the point of

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it? Why do you need a prize for someone to set out a blueprint for

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Britain leaving the EU? It encourages people to do it, no bad

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thing, and has been done over the centuries to get things going on.

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The purpose is that there's going to be an in out referendum at least.

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What people have on their minds is, OK, we realise that the European

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union is very unattractive in various ways. But what will be the

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consequences of leaving? And this will be an exercise in looking at

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what the economic consequences are, the legal consequences and political

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consequences are, and how we would handle those. I think it's something

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people will want to be informed about. Then they can cast their vote

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in the referendum. You would like to set out what has not been debated in

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full to encourage more people to perhaps make that choice in favour

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of Britain leaving the EU? I have come to the conclusion we should

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leave the EU and I have written at length the reasons. And I think a

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number of people are concerned about all the bureaucracy, the fact the

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regulation has become a bit of a bureaucratic monstrosity, the

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interference when none is needed and so on, but they are concerned, so

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they don't love the EU. But they fear leaving. They fear the unknown

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so it's important that, although the future is unknown, we need to make

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it slightly more mapped out. But we don't know what would happen. It's

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all theoretical so that fear, to some extent, is well founded. Do you

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think Britain is drifting, even though David Cameron has said he is

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negotiating to stay and eventually? I think what most people think is

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there's a few good things coming from Brussels, lower mobile roaming

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charges in time for the summer holidays, things which matter to

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people in their daily lives, and squeezed budgets, being helped by

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the decisions made in Brussels. Other things people can't stand

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about it but, in the end, it does feel as if the views of consumers

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and businesses are being rather swept aside by a very intense

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political debate. I'm not sure that will be helped by your prize. I'm

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sure people will be willing to write about it. There's huge issues at

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stake here and to talk just about lower mobile roaming charges is

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trivialising it. That's important to many numbers of the public.

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goodness sake, you have to decide where the balance of advantage lies.

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I'm not saying members of the EU are wrong but it's a question of whether

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it brings more good than harm. You have to judge where the balance is,

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where it's going and the fact of the matter is, the European Union has

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changed. There's been a fundamental change since the coming of the

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common currency and the Eurozone which, quite rightly, we are not a

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member of, and that is change the whole nature of the European Union,

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and Britain's relationship with it and therefore it's time to take

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stock. What I think you could usefully do with your prize is to

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get people to focus on what matters to people in their daily lives about

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Europe, good and bad. There are some very practical changes that affect

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us all, as a result of the barriers between countries coming down, as a

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result of the EU, and I think he should get people to concentrate on

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that as much as the risks and what might happen if we exit. There's got

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to be a debate about this, absolutely but, frankly, it seems to

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be the debate is already happening without your prize. What do think in

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terms of those Conservative MPs who going along at the moment with the

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idea of renegotiating our relationship with Europe? Will they

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be disappointed? I think so. I think it's clear from the interviews you

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had before this discussion, that the European Union is not prepared to

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make any significant changes. Any changes which David Cameron is able

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to negotiate with Ed Miliband, will be, in my judgement, and I have

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known the EU very well and have many, many friends there for many

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years, I think they will be inconsequential. Do you agree with

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that? David Cameron is campaigning for a new relationship with Europe

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and then, when it comes to the referendum, if he still Prime

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Minister, he will campaign to stay in, not what many of his

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backbenchers would like to hear. He's got a problem keeping his

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backbenchers and his party onside, and I think for most people looking

:24:20.:24:24.

on, it does seem a bit odd to be having a referendum and, at the same

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time, to be saying is Prime Minister, I want to stay in if

:24:27.:24:32.

that's what you believe. Then you should stay in and promote the

:24:32.:24:35.

benefits to businesses and consumers. If you want to get out,

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take further steps faster towards getting out. Why does he think he

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can renegotiate successfully a different relationship? Maybe he's

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an optimist and I certainly wish the best of luck my own judgement is

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that he is not going to get anything of any significance whatsoever. The

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same with Harold Wilson, we've been through this before, in the 1970s.

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He said he will renegotiate the terms and he got absolutely nothing

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and there was a 1975 referendum where he got nothing but the

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majority of people, it is a different setup, and we voted in

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favour of it. What's interesting is that you're asking for people to

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write a blueprint as to what happens to Britain if it leaves the EU. We

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heard from European leaders saying you can't cherry pick, we're not

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going to give up everything but we also heard from Barack Obama who

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said it would be better to fix it and leave. Of course, Barack Obama

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is not the president of Britain but the USA. The United States once as

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in, why? Because they're afraid of anti-Americanism the European Union.

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That they want a spinner. They want us to remain in for their interests.

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If I was an American, I would be the same, but that's not the question

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before the British people. It is about spheres of influence. Have

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they got a lot to be frightened of about leaving as perhaps some people

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think? Maybe we will shed some light on this through the essays Lord

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Lawson will generate but for most people, they aren't much more

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relaxed about the prospect of staying in for the long term. -- and

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they are. Hoping the poem to get successions bashed hoping the Prime

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Minister get some successes in his renegotiations. We must give credit

:26:35.:26:38.

to the economic Institute of economic affairs. They just asked me

:26:38.:26:44.

to do this and judge it. Will the winning peace be presented to

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anyone? Will we see it in lights? Of course, it will be prominently

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published. I will take it to number ten and I'm sure they will be

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anxious to read it. I'm sure they will. You need to get your entry,

:26:58.:27:08.
:27:08.:27:08.

it be your neighbours' loud music? Don't get me started! People putting

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their feet on the train seats? Or even apostrophes put in the wrong

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place? Well, for our next guest, the Lib Dem MP Mike Crockart, the most

:27:15.:27:18.

irritating thing is none of these. It's nuisance calls. Unwanted phone

:27:18.:27:22.

calls from firms trying to sell you anything from insurance to double

:27:22.:27:31.

glazing. And he's got a plan to deal with them. Here's his soapbox.

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Excuse me, is this a good time to talk? Have you considered a

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stairlift? I'm calling in regard to your property. We are a country

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under siege. 90% of the people I speak you don't realise it's on

:27:46.:27:49.

their policy. I'm fed up with nuisance calls to my mobile phone

:27:49.:27:54.

and landline and I mean unwanted marketing calls. Silent calls,

:27:54.:28:00.

abandoned calls, text messages and recorded messages. Being pestered

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day in and day out by these calls. And I know I'm not alone. If you

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have this done you will notice a difference in your energy bills.

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It's absolutely free. constituents have contacted me in

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great numbers for stories about complaints about companies who

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pester them. You may be entitled to payment protection insurance.

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single month last, the independent regulator of Com recorded 10,000

:28:33.:28:40.

complaints about nuisance calls. Payment protection insurance and

:28:40.:28:43.

insurance Company is where responsible for more than half

:28:43.:28:46.

unwanted calls and are frequently blamed for this rise. They are an

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annoyance for most people but, for many elderly people, they are also a

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menace and one which puts them at risk of fraud, just as much as if a

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pushy salesman turned up at their doorstep. Many of my constituents

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complain about receiving nuisance calls despite being registered with

:29:05.:29:09.

the Telephone preference service. A scheme designed to block cold calls

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from telemarketing firms. The problem is, the calls just keep

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coming and coming. Is this a good time to talk? With 19 million

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members registered with a telecom preference service, around three

:29:22.:29:28.

quarters of all landlines in the UK, something clearly isn't working. I

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want one single point of contact, one regulator who takes in all forms

:29:33.:29:36.

of unsolicited contact and one single simple process for any

:29:36.:29:40.

individual who wants to protect the privacy but, for now, I will settle

:29:40.:29:45.

for changes in the laws around how personal data is used and more

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powers for the regulators to tackle companies which break the law. And

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Mike Crockart is here now. And from Glasgow, we're joined by Anne Marie

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Forsyth, Chief Executive of the Customer Contact Association, which

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is a professional body for contact centres. And still with us is

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Richard lloyd of Which? You can understand how frustrating and

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irritating nuisance calls are. Absolutely, we are living in a 24-7,

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always on world, and about 1 million people work in customer contact

:30:16.:30:20.

centres across the UK, just about all of them dealing with 3.5 billion

:30:20.:30:27.

inbounds transactions, lots of them very complex. Every time we do a

:30:27.:30:31.

transaction, whether financial or anything, any interaction we do, we

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tend to leave trails, and of course the whole thing becomes appealing to

:30:34.:30:38.

organisations who want to contact us. So I can understand the

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frustration. I think the most recent statistics I heard was a average of

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two nuisance calls per week, and this has been hugely exacerbated by

:30:48.:30:52.

the recent PPI thing. The news there is that once PPI is out of the road,

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if it ever is, there will be other things, we live in a compensation

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culture. It is not just small businesses doing this, it is also

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big companies and big corporations, who are using and may be abusing the

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idea of cold calling. The air. As you point out, there are two very

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separate things going on, large organisations which, in some cases,

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can be helpful, they called to tell you you are overdrawn, for example,

:31:19.:31:24.

a text to say your shopping will be late or something of that nature,

:31:24.:31:29.

perhaps your security has been threatened through fraud. All of

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these calls are being drowned out somewhat by the nuisance and the

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random, less targeted, and for larger organisations, the

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reputational risk in doing these things is absolutely huge. The work

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we do, we work between organisations and consumers, and our advice always

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to organisations is, K, it is a very small percentage of the overall

:31:57.:32:03.

customer service world, tiny, less than 5%, but it is huge in

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reputational risk, and it is rather silly organisations who think they

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can flout the law or just be careless in not checking the

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processes. OK, let me come to Mike Crockart, because on that basis

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nuisance calls are a pain, but there are legitimate reasons. Larger

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organisations to make those goals, as we heard, and there is

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legislation in place, is it not being applied very well? There are

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two aspects here. Some of the legislation is not being applied

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stringently enough, but also there are gaps, huge, yawning gaps in the

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legislation. If we look at the level of annoyance this is causing people,

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you know, we have 10,000 calls, 10,000 complaints per month to Ofcom

:32:51.:32:55.

about silent and abandoned calls, 4000 about TPS, and we have no idea

:32:55.:33:01.

how many are going to others about this. This is a huge problem, not

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just a few calls being made by legitimate companies, it is

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enormous. So there is the Telephone Preference Service in place, but who

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is in charge of regulating nuisance calls? This is part of the problem,

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too many people are in charge, at least five regulators have something

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to do with it. That is because there are so money different parts of the

:33:22.:33:25.

law that go towards dealing with nuisance calls, so there is a claims

:33:25.:33:33.

management regulator that deals with PPI claims companies, there is Ofcom

:33:33.:33:35.

that deals with silent calls, and there is the Information

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Commissioner, that deals with nuisance calls and texts that are

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unsolicited, laws of data than not allowed. We want the government to

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get all those regulators to work together properly, we have started

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having conversations, interrupted by a spam text the other day, with the

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Minister and the regulators about how they can work together better.

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Why not have one regulator? That would make things much clearer, one

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organisation accountable, but they have all said the law is not clear

:34:04.:34:08.

enough. It requires a lot of distress to be proved before the

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regulators can find companies for using these techniques for getting

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in touch with people. But companies are fined, and they? The current

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fine is up to �500,000, a lot of money, that would break quite a lot

:34:22.:34:31.

of businesses. It would not break some of the major companies that are

:34:31.:34:34.

involved. The powers that the Information Commissioner's office

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has to chase up those fines is not strong enough, so if someone ignores

:34:38.:34:42.

the Information Commissioner for a month, the powers that they have to

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force them to pay that fine are actually quite limited. What we need

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to do, actually, is to massively change the whole way that consent is

:34:53.:34:57.

organised around this. Because it is all about whether people want to

:34:57.:35:02.

receive these calls, and clearly they don't. I was slightly worried,

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reading the background to this, that consumers who tick the box that

:35:05.:35:10.

say, yes, please send my details to a third party, for all those people,

:35:10.:35:14.

including myself, who do not take that box, yet that information is

:35:14.:35:20.

somehow sold on, that is illegal, isn't it? There is a massive issue

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here around complexity, and as consumers I don't think we often

:35:26.:35:32.

realised that we are doing this. Sometimes we are desperate to get to

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the end of a script without reading it. I completely agree with that

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piece. One of the reasons the regulator is an issue, we need a

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stronger and better working of what we have got. We have recently seen

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some of these large and well publicised fines, but perhaps they

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are not big enough. Your point by breaking companies, we want to make

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sure that legislation works and people do not -- who do not wish to

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recall not called, and also those organisations which are dragging

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down the whole customer services industry are properly dealt with,

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you know, and a good example is the recent BBC Three documentary about

:36:11.:36:16.

the company in Wales, the rather opportunistic company who ended up

:36:16.:36:21.

with a very large fine. More of these, I think, will help with that.

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Can I make a separate point? Very quickly! Regulation is one half, and

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the other half is standards. The reputational risk to large brands,

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if they are not seen to be staying within the law or annoying

:36:35.:36:39.

customers, is huge. There are standards, we need to have more

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adoption of standards that are well recognised, there is a global

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standard. We need to have more of this, and we need to make it a

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boardroom issue. Too often we see on the cover of stories, people are

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shock are about things... Very briefly. Standards will not fix

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this. Over half of nuisance calls come from PPI claim companies that

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will disappear overnight if they are fine. Only proper regulation will

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fix this and proper powers for a single regulator. Thank you very

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much. Later this afternoon, the Health Secretary will make a

:37:16.:37:19.

statement about a critical report into care at 14 hospital trusts in

:37:19.:37:24.

England. The report, led by NHS England medical director Professor

:37:24.:37:28.

Bruce Keogh, was commissioned after the Stafford Hospital scandal.

:37:29.:37:33.

Jeremy Hunt has been answering help questions in the Commons, including

:37:33.:37:38.

this from Andy Burnham. Seven of the 14 hospitals in the review have,

:37:38.:37:47.

between them, cut a shocking 1117 nursing jobs on this government's

:37:47.:37:51.

watch. Unsurprisingly, A&E performance has plummeted at all

:37:51.:37:57.

seven. All 14 hospitals were meeting the A&E target in my time in office.

:37:57.:38:00.

None of them are meeting at under him. Surely the right response to

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this review is to stop dithering and act now on safe staffing levels.

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Well, I am surprised that he wants to talk about the Keogh review

:38:13.:38:17.

before we have our statement, but I'm particularly surprised because

:38:17.:38:24.

it is the review that Labour never wanted to have. In all those

:38:24.:38:27.

hospitals, stretching right their way back to 2005, a record of

:38:27.:38:33.

inaction by Labour. I think the house might be interested. As a

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former Labour councillor, a Mid Staffs campaigner, Ken Lowndes said

:38:37.:38:42.

today, can you imagine this review and Andy Burnham or any Labour

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Health Secretary? Not a chance! can talk to Vicki Young, who joins

:38:48.:38:52.

us from outside Parliament. We have not had the report yet, but already

:38:52.:38:55.

the politicians are lining up to blame each other for failings in a

:38:55.:38:59.

number of NHS hospitals. What is interesting is that you have the NHS

:38:59.:39:03.

leaders in England, if you like, trying to move on, to go into these

:39:03.:39:08.

hospitals, which is what Sir Bruce Keogh's team did, going to speak to

:39:08.:39:13.

patients and staff about what is going on, to see what improvements

:39:13.:39:17.

can be made, DC the regulatory system is robust enough, to see if

:39:17.:39:21.

people are taking responsibility for what is going on. Whereas, as you

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saw there, the Conservatives wanting to go back to the past, and there

:39:24.:39:27.

has been a huge political Barney about this going back to the big

:39:27.:39:32.

debate, the big row about Mid Staffs. The Tories have Andy Burnham

:39:32.:39:35.

in their sights, the man who was the Labour Health Secretary for just 11

:39:35.:39:40.

months, and he has come out and given his works to robust defence of

:39:40.:39:46.

Labour's record in office. He says there is no evidence of a cover-up

:39:46.:39:49.

by him, no evidence he was ignoring the warnings. He says completely the

:39:49.:39:52.

opposite, that some of these hospitals, about five of these 14,

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when he left office, he left a health warning on them, so this had

:39:56.:40:01.

been flagged up by him and he said, going back to Mid Staffordshire, he

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organised the first inquiry into that, even as civil servants did not

:40:04.:40:07.

want him to. What the politicians at the end of this want to be able to

:40:08.:40:13.

say is that the NHS is not safe in their opponents' hands. What period

:40:13.:40:17.

of time was Sir Bruce Keogh covering? Did it include the time

:40:17.:40:20.

that Andy Burnham was Health Secretary in the last government, or

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is it solely looking at the years under the coalition? It has been

:40:26.:40:29.

triggered because these 14 trusts had a higher than normal mortality

:40:29.:40:32.

rate over the last two years, but it is certainly the case that in some

:40:32.:40:36.

of these hospitals there were problems before, and I think that is

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Andy Burnham's defends here. He is saying, look, I didn't like this up

:40:41.:40:46.

when he was Health Secretary. But of course it is a much bigger debate

:40:46.:40:49.

about the NHS, how will it cope in the future with higher demand, all

:40:49.:40:54.

of us getting older, not much more money to go around? A lot of people

:40:54.:40:57.

think some hospitals will have to close. The Labour I commit is that

:40:57.:41:01.

the coalition has tried to paint the NHS in a bad light in order to

:41:01.:41:09.

soften the public for changes. -- We are joined by Priti Patel, one of a

:41:09.:41:18.

group of Labour MPs who have accused Andy Burnham of ignoring... Welcome

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to both of you. Priti Patel, he went out of his way to sound bipartisan,

:41:26.:41:29.

why has the Conservative Party and you decided to take the gloves off

:41:29.:41:35.

now? From my own point of view, in the county of Essex, there are two

:41:35.:41:39.

hospitals on the list of 14 hospitals, and I have just found and

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my colleagues have discovered that the culture in the NHS around these

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hospitals and some of the questions we have been asking have actually,

:41:46.:41:50.

we have uncovered a range of not just failures but institutional

:41:51.:41:53.

defensiveness, basically, where there has been a degree of denial

:41:53.:41:57.

about what has happened in the past, and that's just fails patients

:41:57.:42:02.

and does not mean we can move on in an adequate way to address the wider

:42:02.:42:05.

concerns around patient care and the neglect of patients and

:42:05.:42:10.

constituents. And you are blaming Labour for the institutionalised

:42:11.:42:15.

objection and not helping or listening to patients? Well, if you

:42:15.:42:22.

go back and listen to those who were around under the previous Labour

:42:22.:42:24.

government, some of the independent experts, like Brian Jarman as well

:42:24.:42:27.

and Baroness young, who was heading up the CQC, they have said there was

:42:27.:42:31.

a culture at the time, the denial machine is how it is referred to by

:42:31.:42:35.

Brian Jarman, but also Baroness Ye Yang has said there was a focus on

:42:35.:42:39.

talking about good news, as opposed to dealing with things such as the

:42:39.:42:44.

high death rates at these hospitals. Many of the challenges associated

:42:44.:42:51.

with were patient care that the CQC has been trying to expose. That get

:42:51.:42:55.

a response to that from Andrew Gwynne. That is not the full

:42:55.:42:59.

picture, because it was under the last Labour government that

:42:59.:43:01.

regulation of hospitals was introduced. It was under the last

:43:01.:43:07.

Labour government that all these death rates were published on the

:43:08.:43:11.

website. And of course if you were trying to cover these issues up, you

:43:11.:43:16.

certainly wouldn't be going fully for transparency by publishing all

:43:16.:43:21.

the mortality data online. Now, what about the patients in this, Richard

:43:21.:43:25.

Lloyd? One of the biggest complaint is that they were not listened to,

:43:25.:43:30.

they will not listened to by medical staff in many cases. This is why it

:43:30.:43:34.

is so disappointing to see this being used as a political football,

:43:34.:43:38.

and we want all the politicians to focus on why it was that patients

:43:38.:43:42.

and their families, who time after time ran out the red flag and said

:43:42.:43:47.

things were going horribly wrong, were ignored. How can we make the

:43:47.:43:52.

regulator, the inspectors be made to respond to the patient voice? How

:43:52.:43:56.

can we create a stronger patient voice? As well is getting data out,

:43:56.:44:00.

the information out about how hospitals are performing, right down

:44:00.:44:03.

to the individual consultant level. We need to see more transparency,

:44:03.:44:08.

more honesty about what is going on, but also that responsiveness to

:44:08.:44:12.

patients and their families when they do say, hang on, look how I

:44:12.:44:16.

have been treated, this is not right. Is it fair to play politics

:44:16.:44:21.

over deaths in hospitals? I do not think this is about politics at all.

:44:21.:44:26.

You said that Andy Burnham's job was not sustainable. This is about

:44:26.:44:30.

patients, and we have discovered there is this culture where they

:44:30.:44:34.

have not been listened to, and to be fair, as the Parliamentary questions

:44:34.:44:38.

I have been asking have demonstrated, 1500 red flags went

:44:38.:44:41.

into the Department of Health, raising concerns about these

:44:41.:44:45.

hospitals, and this comes back to the lack of transparency within the

:44:45.:44:49.

NHS in terms of what just happened. We have to learn lessons of the back

:44:49.:44:53.

of this review, when we hear the statement later, and not just for

:44:53.:44:57.

hospitals to learn, but for them to engage with patients and their

:44:57.:45:01.

families and the public to work with them in terms of managing

:45:01.:45:07.

expectations and providing good clinical care. 1500 warnings about

:45:07.:45:12.

the trusts but why were they not acted upon? They were acted upon and

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that's where I take issue with what Priti Patel has said. In 2009, I

:45:19.:45:23.

went to see Andy Burnham when he was the Health Secretary and I was a

:45:23.:45:27.

backbencher at the time, along with my two colleagues who also

:45:27.:45:33.

represented Tyneside and repainted the complete picture of what was

:45:33.:45:38.

going on at a Tyneside. His officials told him he couldn't act,

:45:38.:45:43.

as Secretary of State because it was a foundation trust and these words

:45:43.:45:49.

were that there was no place in our NHS for substandard care and he

:45:50.:45:56.

ordered the sea QC to go in and announced to Tyneside Hospital which

:45:56.:46:02.

has happened right up to the review. Do you know what is the most

:46:02.:46:08.

scandalous thing? For the last three years, there were still problems at

:46:08.:46:12.

Tyneside except, up until March this year, when they gave it a clean bill

:46:12.:46:17.

of health. That's battling to people. Shouldn't you be more

:46:17.:46:21.

worried about conditions in these hospitals now? It's all very well

:46:22.:46:24.

getting people to take responsibility for what happened in

:46:24.:46:30.

the last government but Andy Burnham has been saying all of 14 are

:46:30.:46:34.

missing their AMD targets and it is understood, the report will point to

:46:34.:46:38.

the concerns over nurse staffing levels in the hospitals under

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investigation. We are missing the point. Nurse staffing levels are too

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low in these hospitals and it's led to poor standards of care. Bruce

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Keogh has referred to that but that is not the full answer to the actual

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challenges faced by these hospitals. We are talking about quality of care

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and transparency. Actually, this is about the culture in these hospitals

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and the NHS. I am convinced this is just the tip of the iceberg right

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now. Some of these hospitals will go to special measures today and we

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should be deeply concerned about that but as I have said this is

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about transparency in the NHS, learning lessons and ensuring

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patients are listened to and they and their families get the care

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required. Andrew Gwynne and Priti Patel, thank you very much. Now,

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remember this? The number of votes recorded for the candidates at each

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election is as follows. Martin Bell, Neil Hamilton, 18,000.

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scandal back in 1997. Or a surprise for me! Counts still provide much of

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the drama of election night. But a report out today from the Electoral

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Commission says that, despite a generally successful set of

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elections in May of this year, provision of information at some

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counts was patchy and in some cases announcements were infrequent or

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inaudible. Goodness. We've been joined by Tom Hawthorn, head of

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electoral policy at the Electoral Commission. And Mike More, Chief

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Executive and Returning Officer at Westminster City Council. Can I

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start with you, Michael. Were you happy with the way the elections

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were done in May? I, personally, was not responsible for the elections in

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May but I was very happy with them. We have them coming up in London

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next summer aligned with the European elections, but yes, I think

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what has happened across the country in the last couple of years has been

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a good story. Do you agree? Apart from picking up on this patchiness,

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what do you mean by that? Where were they patchy? What we found overall

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weight the elections were run, backed up by what the voters were

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told, 90% said it was well run. In a couple of places we saw on election

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night there were some places where the communication wasn't as good as

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it could've been and maybe it was good and bad in parts. Does this

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concern of voters, how local elections and national elections are

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run? Remember big queues when people couldn't actually getting beyond the

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ten o'clock cut-off point? I think in the 2010 example, when it goes

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wrong, people are up in arms and rightly so. What we should be

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thinking about is how to make elections engaging, encouraging

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people to get involved, people to maybe stay up late and watch it all

:50:21.:50:26.

night and see the results, helpfully audibly. There's a need to keep the

:50:26.:50:30.

excitement about elections and the results going. Otherwise, more and

:50:30.:50:35.

more people will drift away from the process and won't engage with it. So

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how we do does matter. What about the idea some returning officers are

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inaudible? It's not good if you can't hear the result. We saw

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announcements which are really good but the PA system in place wasn't

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good enough. Probably, it's all right for some candidates have been

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doing this for lots of years, they've been around a bit and they

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understand what's going on but if you are a new candidate, you don't

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understand and you need to know what's happening so you can provide

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that essential element of transparency. What is your response?

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Maybe this has not come across terribly well. Some colleagues don't

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come across well but they should do. Surely they should be able to speak

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loudly enough? My role is to talk to all the players, front of House,

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this is what's going to happen next, no surprises, the result will

:51:30.:51:34.

be a surprise but they're not surprised by the process, so keeping

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communication going all the way through that, culminating in the

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very clear, positive presentation. You're not going to sack the ones

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who don't speak clearly or hold some sort of poll to find out? We are

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front of House agent and we can agree that's what we are there for.

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We have some good examples of excellent practice and will work

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with colleagues and returning officers to explain a best practice

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model for people to use for next year 's elections. How worried are

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you about the next two years because there's a lot on your plate?

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London, we have the European and council elections at the same time,

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the third week of May, individual electoral registration, new process,

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and then the general election. you, gentlemen, very much, and I

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heard you perfectly, both of you. Now, in case you hadn't noticed,

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it's rather hot outside. Time for an ice cream you might think. Well, in

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a seasonal slashing of red tape, ice cream van drivers will be allowed to

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sound their chimes for a whole 12 seconds, up from the current four.

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But not until this autumn. But what will really freeze your brains is

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noise campaigners think the Government has been wasting its

:52:46.:52:56.
:52:56.:52:57.

time. Our very own Mr Whippy, Giles Dilnot, is finding out why. I've

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come to the conclusion I'm rapidly becoming a Daily Politics culinary

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correspondence having done a burger tasting last week, following a tub

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of ice cream but weirdly, it's not about how ice cream tastes, but how

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it sounds. Confused? Meet Leander. Tell me why we are discussing the

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sound of ice cream? The law used to be it was the four seconds you were

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allowed to play it, but now it is changed to 12 seconds. What would be

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the difference of seconds for us? What difference does that make?

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Apparently it can affect your business. We had a lot of customers

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complaining that we weren't coming down their streets but of course,

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they weren't hearing is because the times were not chiming for long

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enough. They are complaining they don't get to hear you at all?

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love the chiming, that's what British summer is all about.

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would we have the noise abatement Society with us, because it's not

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about the fact we don't like this, but about the fact that this was an

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exercise in government cutbacks and you tell me why it didn't work.

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code of practice was put in place to protect the mobile food industry and

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by local agreement, vendors could have chimed for as long as they

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wanted to anyway. The four second guidance was put in place 30 years

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ago for worst-case scenarios, never to not allow the industry to China.

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It was the consultation, the wait was carried out and put forward,

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actually could potentially endanger the industry and set a dangerous

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precedent for noise pollution in general. The government says it

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spoke to noise stakeholders, I'm not sure what that is, but I would have

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thought it would include your society. So would I. We worked on

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the original code of practice I don't understand who they spoke to

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but they did not speak to us. We could've had a chat, and ice cream

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together, and worked out ourselves. Is there a push for you, soon there

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was a relaxed, we can do 12 seconds now? We were surprised that there

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was a fuss in the first place because ice cream is one of the

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things Britain does best in the world. You'll never see an ice cream

:55:25.:55:30.

van as good as ours. To be honest, for us, it's a lot better 12 seconds

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because it's what people want to hear. I've not show sure about the

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parents when the children ask for ice cream. It's good for us.

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there any suggestion people don't like it? There's occasions when

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certain times of day when children are sleeping, or elderly people, who

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might be ill, sometimes people with special needs, can react strongly to

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certain types of noises, so there is a need to have a legislation and

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guidance in place, but it was never about stopping mobile food vendors.

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It's about striking a balance. you regulate yourselves and think,

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we tend not to go down there because not many customers want us and as a

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residential area? People wouldn't come out if they didn't want it. We

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would waste our time otherwise. can't think of any other industry

:56:25.:56:29.

that is allowed to use sound to advertise in this way and

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presumably, we wouldn't want to go back to Victorian times when people

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are shouting in the streets? Absolutely not. It's important to

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understand why the code was put in place to protect the industry as an

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exceptional case against the control of pollution act, and the

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regulations which would normally apply. Essentially, the government,

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to cut red tape, has made more work for itself and didn't need to do

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this? It was a completely pointless exercise but at least we still have

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the mobile food vending industry chiming in the streets for those who

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want ice cream. We may as well taste some of it so let's have an ice

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cream. There's no point doing this unless you get to eat the food. Come

:57:14.:57:24.
:57:24.:57:24.

on. Thank you. Thank you. enjoyed your ice cream is because

:57:24.:57:29.

Richard and I will suffer without. I did like it when they said the best

:57:29.:57:35.

ice cream vans in the world, but not at the best ice cream is. Do you

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have a view on the times? I think it will wrap up a storm of protest who

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will be pestered even more by their children but I think we should

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relax. I think we can probably live with it. There's just time before we

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go to find out the answer to our quiz. If you can remember what it

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was. Let me remind you. So what daredevil escapade has the Russian

:57:55.:57:59.

President got up to now? Was it: Wrestling a giant sea squid?

:57:59.:58:04.

Sky-diving from a fighter jet? Going under the sea in a submarine? Or

:58:04.:58:14.
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surfing in Hawaii? Richard, what's the answer? My choice is that he

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went in a submersible. I think we might be able to show that picture.

:58:24.:58:28.

This may not be very politically correct but I think he could be a

:58:28.:58:33.

good James Bond villain. Do you think, Vladimir Putin and a

:58:33.:58:39.

submersible? Was that a cat sitting with him? He's obviously a he-man.

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That's all for today. Thanks to Richard Lloyd and all my guests. The

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