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Tomorrow voters across Britain will go to the polls | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
in the largest set of elections, outside of a general election, | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
English councils, London, police commissioners, | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
A chance for every voter in the land to cast a ballot. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
So what will it mean for the political landscape? | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
The Government signals that it may give ground on accepting child | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Ministers are due to hold talks with Tory rebels in an attempt | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
It should all provide some good knockabout | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
for Prime Minister's Questions - we'll have all the action, | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
All that in the next hour and a half. | :01:23. | :01:40. | |
Scheduled by the BBC and so far not by government ministers. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
And with us for the whole programme today the former Conservative | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
minister and party chairman, Grant Shapps, and the shadow cabinet | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
Jon is one of the MPs for Leicester, who's football team | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
have won something called the Premier League - | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
Grant's local team is Hatfield Town FC. | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
Apparently, like Leicester, they also play in blue. | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
But, as far as we can tell, that is where the the similarities | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Anyway, I don't know whether the next 90 minutes will be | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
like watching Leicester or Hatfield, but I'm hoping there | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
The government could be about to change its stance | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
on whether to resettle child refugees who are already in Europe, | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
With lots of their own MPs concerned about the issue, they could face | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
defeat in the Commons next week, unless some sort of deal is reached. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
And potential Tory rebels are meeting the Immigration Minister | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
Meanwhile, Sir Erich Reich, who himself came to Britain | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
on the Kindertransport in the 1930s, has called on the government | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
Unaccompanied children, they're in Europe and Mr Cameron | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
thinks they're safe, but they are not. | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
They hide in woods, they hide from authorities. | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
All kinds of things and tens of thousands of | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
children have been lost, nobody knows where they are. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
My view is, given I came on what was called the | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
Kindertransport, Britain should help a little bit more. | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
Grant Shapps, should the government change its mind and take some of | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
these unaccompanied child refugees in Europe? Yes. How many? I don't | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
know, once you get into the detail it becomes quite complicated. What | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
you don't want to do is create factors which means people decide to | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
send their kids to Europe and cause more people to risk their lives on | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
the journey, but I think the problem the government has is, no country in | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
Europe is doing more in Syria, ?2 million spent in that region, we are | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
taking another 3000, but the problem is that it kind of, when you get | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
down to what is happening on your doorstep, looks and feels not quite | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
right. Has the government got the message? I expect it has. I don't | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
have any inside information but, fundamentally the Prime Minister is | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
a decent man, he will be seeing this, you heard what he said. They | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
have stuck firmly to their guns. We spoke to a number of ministers about | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
this. They have firmly defended the Prime Minister, the central tenet is | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
to not taken refugees unless they have a close relative. You think | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
they will give way on that? I think the concern is real. People have | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
been dismissive of the concern of creating the situation like in | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
Germany. Is it a case that migrants can go back to Turkey, those that | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
cross the sea? Does that remove the pool factor? This is one of many | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
reasons, you can get into the complexities, this is why it is so | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
complicated. But you asked the question of whether I think the | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
government needs to move on it and I think they should. Will it be enough | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
if the government says it is prepared to allow unaccompanied | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
children to come to Europe if they have distant relatives? Will that be | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
enough? I don't know the specifics. My colleagues are closer to the | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
issue. But I do know like many people in this country, my father | :06:08. | :06:18. | |
came after being chased out, we are doing more than any other European | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
nation in Syria to sort it out, but we are in danger of undoing that | :06:24. | :06:33. | |
good work. What do you say to Grant Shapps, who says the government | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
should change its mind? I agree with Brad and he made a very reasonable | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
case. The signal seems to be that the Prime Minister and ministers are | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
meeting to see if an agreement can be thrashed out. I hope they meet | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
the Lord who has been moving it in the House of Lords, he was on the | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
news earlier raising questions about what this deal could be. I hope they | :06:58. | :07:07. | |
will meet him. An agreement would be allowing 3000? That was the motion I | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
supported but to be honest if we can reach consensus with the government | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
I would go along with whatever consensus is reached. There is | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
already a replacement mechanism in place. Other countries are not doing | :07:29. | :07:41. | |
their bit. Is enough being done in terms of dealing with child | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
refugees? I don't think enough is being done but that does not mean we | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
should not be doing anything. We have heard the stories of children | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
going rough. I would be happy to go along with whatever consensus is | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
reached, I just want us to get consensus. | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
Yes, it is finally upon us, the biggest set of elections outside | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Voters in every area of the country will be able to vote | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
in English Local Council Elections, Scottish Parliament Elections, | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
Welsh Assembly Elections, Northern Ireland Assembly Elections, | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
mayoral elections, including for the London mayor, | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
and Police and Crime Commissioner elections. | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
And if that wasn't enough there are also two Westminster | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
by-elections in Ogmore and in Sheffield Brightside. | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
Here's our Jeremy Vine with a taster of what is in store. | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Thursday is very exciting because there's going to be | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
There is a chance for everyone in the UK to have a vote, | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
there are even two Westminster by-election in Ogmore and | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
Let's look first at the Northern Ireland Assembly, | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
because that's up for election with its complicated, | :08:58. | :08:58. | |
And then there's the Welsh assembly as well. | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
Here is the map as it was left last time in 2011. | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
The question here is whether actually these Labour | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
strongholds in the south can be dislodged in any way | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
Plus there is the Scottish parliament. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
Let's look at the result five years ago. | :09:18. | :09:18. | |
They got more than the 65 seats they need for an overall majority. | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
They govern alone with 69 and left Labour in a distant | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
Bring on the other parties and we'll see the map tells the story. | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
This wash of SNP yellow just covering Scotland. | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Is there any chance they could do even better this time? | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Firstly, the result in 2011 showing the SNP on 46% here. | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
But actually if we move forwards to 2015, the general election year, | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
50%, half of the vote for Nicola Sturgeon's party. | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
Now if they repeat that this year in the Parliamentary elections, | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
you have to wonder whether any Labour seat is safe. | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
Let's not forget another election is taking place. | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
That's for the Police and Crime Commissioner. | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Where it's pink, an independent won in that area. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
There's almost no end to this, is there? | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
Liverpool, Salford, Bristol and of course London, the locations. | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
Not so well in other parts of the South of England, | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
The Assembly election happening in London as well. | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
As you can see, this Labour red will help Siddique Khan, | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
maybe, if he becomes London's Labour mayor. | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
It will offset Labour losses elsewhere. | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
Elsewhere, what about those English councils? | :10:48. | :10:48. | |
Councillors up and down England being elected. | :10:49. | :11:01. | |
It's worth us looking at what happened in 2008 to Labour. | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
They had a very, very bad year under Gordon Brown and they've | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
Gordon Brown in third place in local elections in 2008. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
He's in a kind of honeymoon period by this year, 2012. | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
This is crucial that 2012 was the last year these councillors, | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
this particular set of councillors, were elected. | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
And Labour did rather well, didn't they? | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
So, they had to get 38% just not to lose councillors on Thursday, | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
The Conservatives, by contrast, only had to do better | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
We'll bring the graph to the end here and let's have a look and this | :11:32. | :11:41. | |
And you can see, 35% to the Conservatives and 29 for Labour. | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Let's not forget Ukip in there, 13% above the Liberal Democrats. | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
My goodness, so much data coming our way on Thursday. | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
And you can see more in-depth results and analysis | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
with the elction results programme with Huw Edwards tomorrow night | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
We're also joined now by the SNP's Deputy Leader Stewart Hosie. | :12:01. | :12:15. | |
Let me start with the English local elections. Grant Shapps, why should | :12:16. | :12:24. | |
voters trust the Tories when even the Prime Minister's Mum saves a | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
petition opposing cuts to the council? Not all councils are doing | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
the right thing. I don't have all the details but not every council | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
gets it right. On balance, the Conservative council does a good | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
job. My local council, they faced a budget that was the near to making | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
the council go bust and years later the council is perfectly solvent. | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
How can the majority of Conservative councillors be doing the right thing | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
when Gary Porter, he says, even if councils stop filling in potholes, | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
maintaining parks, close children centres, libraries, leisure centres, | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
turn off every street light, they will still not have saved enough | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
money to plug the financial black hole. Look at the reality. That is | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
the reality! People said if we have these cuts there will be councils | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
going bust. I am not aware of any council that has. He is the Tory | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
leader of local government. He probably has an agenda about getting | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
more money to local government. So he is wrong? Yes, he is wrong. I | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
don't think local government is about to go bankrupt. If you look | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
back six years, if councils undertake the kind of cut they had | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
in the last parliament they will go bust, you said, the answer is, the | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
government has given flexibility to local authorities including the | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
ability to keep 100% of business rates. They have put the future of | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
local government financing in the hand of local authorities. Are you | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
denying that has been deep cuts to important services? There has been | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
tough times all round. I did not say that. I am telling you as I see it, | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
I've not seen a single Council which has run into the kind of financial | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
Armageddon that was predicted. By better sharing, doing things in more | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
intelligent ways, using the benefits of business rate retention, we are | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
seeing councils rostering. I've got a good idea for something to save | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
on, traffic lights, we've had a massive increase in out-of-control | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
junctions. Cut down on that. I am sure getting rid of traffic | :15:08. | :15:23. | |
lights will be a huge advantage. About 16 billion pounds saving each | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
year. Is there any cuts to local government? We think it is unfair. | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
The poorer councils in poorer areas are disproportionately cut to some | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
other councils. We did that on the Sunday Politics show, that cuts to | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Labour areas per Capita have been higher than Tory areas. Are you | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
against any kind of cuts now to local government? Jeremy Corbyn and | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
John McDonnell have been clear of the scale of the cuts, hitting a | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
surplus target later in this Parliament. So we don't need some of | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
these cuts they are forcing through. I understand you don't like a number | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
of the Tory cuts and they may be ideological, but are you against any | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
further cuts? We don't think these cuts are necessary to hit the | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
surplus at the end of the parliament. We feel these cuts are | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
falling unfairly on the poorest areas, and we don't think it is the | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
right way to approach local government finance. Are you | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
depressed, given the number of cuts made, given the budget that | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
unravelled very quickly this year, the embarrassment of the Prime | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
Minister over the Panama papers, and so on. Rather than fighting these | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
elections fair and square you embroiled in an anti-Semitism row in | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
the Labour Party? I am depressed about it. I want to be talking about | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
cuts to local government, rising class sizes and the waiting list for | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
hospital appointments and the budget and the cuts George Osborne tried to | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
do to disability benefits. It is a problem. We are told it is up to 50. | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
As I understand it that is not the correct figure. You don't think it | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
is just a smear as Diane Abbott described it? The Labour Party is | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
not an anti-Semitic party. Where we find individuals through their | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
Twitter and Facebook accounts or high profile individuals going round | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
TV studios and making offensive remarks, we deal with them, suspend | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
them and we send the message we don't want people with those views | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
in the Labour Party. Grant Shapps, you are a former chairman of the | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
Conservative Party, the electoral commission is meeting today with | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
police and prosecutors to see if they get more time to launch | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
possible criminal investigations into ?38,000 of Tory campaign | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
spending that seems to have been wrongly lodged. I will put it no | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
higher than that for the moment. This shambles happened under your | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
watch? I am not one to shirk my responsibilities, I resigned from my | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
last government job to take responsibility related to somebody | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
else. I can tell you that compliance was not my area. So you knew nothing | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
about this? I didn't. As chairman of the party you allowed expenses of | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
these campaigners who were going to local constituencies, staying in | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
local hotels, you allowed them to be charged to the national campaign and | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
not the local campaign? I was co-chairman, campaigning was my | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
side, not the money and the finance. You were behind the battle bus | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
business? The campaigning, not the finance. You didn't wonder whether | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
charges being made. I don't like shirking my responsibilities but | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
this side of things was not my side. Is it not palpably wrong, since | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
these campaigners were going to help local Conservatives fight, that any | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
expenses, hotel bills in particular, should be charged to the | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
constituency? Everything has to be done within the law. It is for the | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
electoral commission and others to judge that. If you are asking me | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
about the specifics, compliance wasn't my side. I am asking you | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
about the printable, if a bunch of Tories go to help, not a national | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
campaign, but fight for a local Tory candidate, their costs must go on | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
the constituency budget? As I understand it, you have to apply | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
costs as they fall. But there are lots of areas where it isn't | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
straightforward. For example, what if the Prime Minister and others | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
come into town and, does that go on to the local constituency? It was | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
all filed correctly, I believe. They have admitted, if you were not in | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
charge of compliance, who was? Other people in the party at the time. | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
Who, Lord Feldman? I don't want to go into details. If you weren't in | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
charge of compliance, you were obliged to know who was? There was a | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
separate compliance department. You want to spread the blame. As a party | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
you are bang to rights on misappropriation of electoral | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
spending and it is a criminal offence. They have said they have | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
complied correctly. The electoral commission is there to make those | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
decisions. I am asking for your view as chairman of the time? It was all | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
correctly done. Never one to shirk my responsibilities, you are going | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
on a point I cannot help you with. Clearly, should the electoral | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
commission be granted more time so this doesn't get kicked into the | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
long grass? They need more time to investigate this, agree? I don't | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
know. You don't know? What did you do as party chairman? You are asking | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
me about something that happened over a year ago which I had no | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
control over. It is not for me to decide. Education is under the | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
control of the Scottish Parliament. If you are a poor student from a | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
poor background, why is Scotland now the worst part of the United Kingdom | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
in which to try to get to university? It is not. If you think | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
what we have done to help people, nurseries maintained. EMAs | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
maintained, tuition is free. There is an issue about the kids of the | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
poorest backgrounds get into university, not just in Scotland. | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
But it is worse in Scotland? That is why the First Minister has made it | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
clear we want to see 750 million over the terms of this Parliament to | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
get 20% of the University intake from children from the 20% poorest | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
backgrounds. You have been in power for nine years, why is it, if you | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
are from a poor background you have the least chance of getting to | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
university than any part of the United Kingdom? These are marginal | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
differences. I will give you the figures. If you are from the top 20% | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
in England, you have 2.5 times more chance of getting to university than | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
if you are from the bottom 20%. In Scotland, it is 3.5 times, 30% | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
worse, in a country which has always prided itself, that poor kids will | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
get a decent education. Why is it worse than Northern Ireland, Wales | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
and England after nine years of your rule? We recognise the problem, | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
which is what we have set about changing. But you have been there | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
for nine years. With 20% of the kids from the poorest backgrounds | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
targeted to get 20% of university places, it is not all about | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
university education. As you know, we have 119,000 full-time college | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
place it which lead to positive out comes. 25,000 apprenticeships every | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
year, moving to 30,000. Youngsters have the choice to go to university, | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
do a trade, go to college, go straight into work. You are right, | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
it is not always about university, so let's look at the standards of | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
reading, writing and numeracy, check that you whether you go into | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
university, go to work, or further education. According to a survey, | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
the reading, writing and counting, an old-fashioned word, 413 and 14 | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
new has been falling since 2011. -- 13 and 14 new roles. It is amongst | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
poor pupils. That is why we're putting in extra the extra teachers | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
and the new build schools. You have been in power for nine years, why | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
has this happened on your watch? These things come and go under every | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
administration, every authority and government. It isn't wringing our | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
hands when we identify a problem... You have failed to rectify the | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
problem. You make the point it has fallen for the last couple of years. | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
It rose in the previous years we were in power. You are falling back. | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
You cannot stand still, you have to look at the numbers and fix it. The | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
attainment funding has been put in place. All of the things we are | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
doing is to remedy the problems you identify. In 2007, your party | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
promised to reduce the average class sizes in primary schools in Scotland | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
down to 18. What is it washed and Mark it is higher than that, sadly. | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
It is a lot higher, 23.3. You took money from primary schools and put | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
it into free tuition fees for middle-class students. At the | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
beginning of the interview you were going on about people going to | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
university, but you cannot allow people to go to university and | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
support them using unlimited amounts of money over steer times. We had to | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
make difficult choices. I taking money away from primary schools? The | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
money and the choices we are making now will remedy the problems you are | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
identifying. You are right want comparing England with Scotland. | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
Spending per head in primary and secondary school is higher in | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
Scotland. School spending has fallen by 5% in real terms and has | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
increased in England by 3%. As much as spending per head primary and | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
secondary remains higher in Scotland than it does in the rest of the UK, | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
and that is the right thing to do. Stuart Posey, thank you very much. | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
Donald Trump is the nomination for the Republican party in the United | :26:38. | :26:49. | |
States. It was a bruising and bare-knuckle fight and when he takes | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
on Hillary Clinton, and she has the Democratic nomination, even though | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
she couldn't win Indiana yesterday, that will come up in election in | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
November. We can expect it to be just as bloody. But viewers, you | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
have a tough contest on your hands right now. | :27:06. | :27:19. | |
So to be in a with a chance of winning one of these - | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
see if you can remember when all this happened. | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
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Though, the engineers point out, unlike a | :28:13. | :28:14. | |
plate of spaghetti, it stands up and it's highly planned. | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
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We have been told the French presidential election will be on | :28:56. | :29:02. | |
April 23 and the second knockout round will be on made the seventh. | :29:03. | :29:04. | |
Put it in your diary. To midday here, just | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
take a look at Big Ben, Yes, Prime Minister's | :29:10. | :29:11. | |
Questions is on its way. And that's not all - | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
Laura Kuenssberg is here. You have had a good track record in | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
telling us what Jeremy Corbyn is going to go on, so no pressure. The | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
Prime Minister is going to announce a form of climb-down over taking in | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
child refugees from continental Europe. The details haven't been | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
confirmed, but I have been told to expect him to make an announcement | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
about what might he branded humanitarian visas, a time-limited | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
permission the children who are vulnerable in camps on mainland | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
Europe to be brought to this country. It is not exactly what the | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
many rebels who have been amassing over this have been asking for, but | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
there have been lots of discussions about compromises behind-the-scenes | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
in the last 36 hours. I think David Cameron will give ground on this in | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
the last half an hour. This time last week, he was absolutely adamant | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
in the House in response to that Cooper's blistering questions in the | :30:13. | :30:21. | |
last couple of days, Downing Street under severe pressure with the | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
referendum going on, helps matters from the rebel's point of view has | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
made the calculation he will have to move. Was it just the waiter | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
political opinion. Grant Shapps said the Prime Minister should move on | :30:37. | :30:43. | |
this. That is the prospect. Losing next week under pressure during the | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
referendum campaign is not something where they want to go. | :30:47. | :31:12. | |
greater resilience and a great team effort. I've had meetings with | :31:13. | :31:19. | |
others and additional meetings later today. Martin Day. May I start by | :31:20. | :31:29. | |
associating myself with the comments regarding Leicester City. The | :31:30. | :31:35. | |
Foreign Secretary said there is a need for a new initiative in the | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
Syrian dialogue to keep it alive. Will the Prime Minister withdraw his | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
ear strakes and redouble his efforts? What I think we should do | :31:46. | :31:56. | |
is both things, continue to hit Daesh terrorists but do everything | :31:57. | :32:05. | |
we can to support dialogue between the opposition and the Syrian regime | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
which is what the process has been about. My right honourable friend | :32:09. | :32:19. | |
will be aware that Conservative candidates are standing and Labour | :32:20. | :32:27. | |
will lose some seats. We are aware of the stamping out of racism and | :32:28. | :32:34. | |
anti-Semitism. Would my right honourable friend join me and our | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
colleagues in condemning the actions and propaganda of Hezbollah and | :32:40. | :32:52. | |
Hamas? I wish my candidates well. If you want well-run services and want | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
to keep costs and taxes don't it is right to vote Conservative. But the | :32:56. | :33:02. | |
point he makes about Hamas is important. They are a terrorist | :33:03. | :33:09. | |
group who believe in killing Jews. Whatever the right honourable | :33:10. | :33:12. | |
gentleman says about combating anti-Semitism, it will mean nothing | :33:13. | :33:15. | |
until he withdraws the remark that they were his friends. He should do | :33:16. | :33:17. | |
it today. I join the Prime Minister in | :33:18. | :33:31. | |
congratulating Leicester City on their amazing achievements. I hope | :33:32. | :33:38. | |
it is not an indication that he is going to support another football | :33:39. | :33:41. | |
team or is he going to stick with the two he has got already? | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
Later today, commemorations begin for Holocaust Memorial Day in | :33:48. | :33:57. | |
Israel. I hope there is agreement across all parts of this house in | :33:58. | :34:07. | |
sending our best wishes to those commemorating the occasion, and | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
sending a statement that anti-Semitism has no place in our | :34:11. | :34:13. | |
society whatsoever and we have a duty to oppose it. Tomorrow, people | :34:14. | :34:20. | |
will go to the polls in council elections in England. Nine of the | :34:21. | :34:23. | |
ten most deprived councils are set to see cuts higher than the national | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
average with eight facing cuts more than three times the national | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
average, meaning less money for youth services, adult social care | :34:33. | :34:35. | |
and those in areas of the greatest need. The Prime Minister used to say | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
we are all in it together. What happened to that? Left me -- let me | :34:41. | :34:48. | |
join the right honourable gentleman in saying that we should always | :34:49. | :34:54. | |
support Holocaust they. -- Holocaust Day. I am going to press him on this | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
point. He said, it will be my pleasure and my honour to host an | :34:59. | :35:04. | |
event in Parliament where our friends from Hezbollah will be | :35:05. | :35:13. | |
speaking, I have also invited friends from Hamas to speak as well. | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
They believe in killing Jews around the world. If he wants to clear up | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
the problem of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, now is a good time to | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
start, withdraw that they are your friends. Mr Speaker, I've made it | :35:28. | :35:42. | |
clear that Labour is an antiracism party and there is no place for them | :35:43. | :35:49. | |
in it. We have suspended all members and -- who have taken part in | :35:50. | :35:57. | |
anti-Semitism and established an enquiry. The point he was making | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
relate to a discussion I was hosting in order to promote peace process | :36:02. | :36:09. | |
and it was not an approval of those organisations, I absolutely do not | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
approve of those organisations. Mr Speaker, the reality is vulnerable | :36:15. | :36:21. | |
people are being abandoned in this country. The Prime Minister has said | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
that social care and support for the elderly is a priority for him. If | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
that is the case, why has he cut 4.5 billion since 2010, leaving 300,000 | :36:33. | :36:39. | |
older people without care and support they need to live in | :36:40. | :36:45. | |
dignity? We are putting more money into social care and allowing | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
councils to raise council tax. I'm afraid he will need to do this one | :36:51. | :37:02. | |
more time. He referred to Hamas and Hezbollah as his friends. Are they | :37:03. | :37:06. | |
your friends or not? Those organisations believe in persecuting | :37:07. | :37:13. | |
and killing Jews. They are anti-Semitic, racist organisations. | :37:14. | :37:16. | |
He must stand up and say that they are not his friends. Mr Speaker, | :37:17. | :37:27. | |
obviously anyone that commits racist attacks or is anti-Semitic is not a | :37:28. | :37:33. | |
friend of mine. I would also invite him to think for a moment about the | :37:34. | :37:39. | |
conduct of his party and his candidate in the London mayoral | :37:40. | :37:46. | |
election. The way in which they systematically are smearing my | :37:47. | :37:49. | |
friend, the member for tooting, who is our candidate for mayor. I wish | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
him well and I invite the Prime Minister to undertake to ensure that | :37:56. | :38:01. | |
the Conservative Party assists from the actions it is taking in smearing | :38:02. | :38:08. | |
my friend. Last week, the Joseph Rowntree foundation's destitution | :38:09. | :38:15. | |
report found 1.25 million people in Britain were unable to afford the | :38:16. | :38:30. | |
essentials to stay fed and clean. When will the stronger economy mean | :38:31. | :38:32. | |
that fewer people need to use food banks? It means there are over 2 | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
million more people in work than when I became Prime Minister, you | :38:40. | :38:46. | |
can earn ?11,000 before you pay tax, and we've introduced a national | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
living wage, which was never done in 13 years of a Labour government. I | :38:52. | :38:57. | |
reject what he says about Labour's candidate for the London mayoralty. | :38:58. | :39:06. | |
We are not responsible for everything anyone says when they are | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
with us, but there is a pattern of behaviour for the honourable member | :39:11. | :39:15. | |
for Tooting. He shared a platform with the man whose trained the | :39:16. | :39:27. | |
ringleader of the 7/7 attacks. He shared a platform with a man who | :39:28. | :39:35. | |
called for Jews to be drowned in the ocean. He described this as flowery | :39:36. | :39:43. | |
language. If he wants to know why they have a problem with | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
anti-Semitism it is because they share platforms with anti-Semitic | :39:49. | :40:02. | |
people. Withdraw the remark about Hamas and Hezbollah being your | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
friends. Last week the Prime Minister tried to smear my friends, | :40:08. | :40:16. | |
the Minister for Tooting. It turns out that one of those is an active | :40:17. | :40:28. | |
Conservative supporter. He should reflect on the word is said by Lord | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
Lansley, that racism was endemic within the Conservatives. We have | :40:34. | :40:43. | |
set up an enquiry and I would suggest he does the same. It has | :40:44. | :40:49. | |
been said that the housing bill removes the security these people | :40:50. | :40:55. | |
need, it is fundamentally wrong. Homelessness is up a third. A voter | :40:56. | :41:04. | |
wrote to me and said he and his family will lose their home if the | :41:05. | :41:08. | |
housing bill goes through. Why can't the Prime Minister followed the | :41:09. | :41:15. | |
example from the Welsh Labour government in placing illegal | :41:16. | :41:25. | |
responsibility -- a legal responsibility to help people during | :41:26. | :41:31. | |
a housing crisis? What this government has done in England, | :41:32. | :41:37. | |
rebuilt twice as much council housing in the last six years as | :41:38. | :41:42. | |
Labour did in 13. I will not let this rest about the honourable | :41:43. | :41:56. | |
member for Tooting. He raised the case for Ghani. Do you want to know | :41:57. | :42:05. | |
the views of the person your leader has just quartered? He described | :42:06. | :42:13. | |
women... The honourable member for Islington may be interested. He | :42:14. | :42:19. | |
described women as subservient to men, he said homosexuality was an | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
unnatural act. He stood on a platform with people who wanted an | :42:24. | :42:31. | |
Islamic state. That is why his attempts to deal with anti-Semitism | :42:32. | :42:33. | |
are utterly condemned to failure. He will not even condemn people who sit | :42:34. | :42:43. | |
on platforms with people like that. I was trying to help the Prime | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
Minister, I did point out that the gentleman concerned is a | :42:48. | :42:47. | |
conservative. Maybe he would think about that. | :42:48. | :43:03. | |
Another former Conservative candidate said, I will be voting | :43:04. | :43:09. | |
Labour, I am ashamed of the repulsive campaign of hate. Mr | :43:10. | :43:20. | |
Speaker, homelessness has been reduced by 67% in Wales since the | :43:21. | :43:23. | |
new regulations came in. Why can't he do the same in this country? | :43:24. | :43:30. | |
Inequality is getting worse, education should be a route out of | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
poverty. But new figures show that the number of people participating | :43:35. | :43:42. | |
on an adult education course fell by a fifth. How can we tackle | :43:43. | :43:47. | |
inequality when the Prime Minister is taking away opportunities for | :43:48. | :43:52. | |
people to find a pathway out of poverty. Inequality has gone down | :43:53. | :44:08. | |
under this government. It is because we've got a growing economy, a | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
living wage, more jobs, people paying less tax. I say to him, we | :44:13. | :44:20. | |
are investing in the schools to give people opportunities, schemes to | :44:21. | :44:25. | |
allow people to own homes. He opposes those things because the | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
truth is, he may be a friend of Hamas but he is an enemy of | :44:33. | :44:34. | |
aspiration. Mr Speaker, politics is about | :44:35. | :44:52. | |
choices. The Prime Minister cart... Order, order. Order, order. Let me | :44:53. | :45:01. | |
very gently say to the assiduous but slightly overenthusiastic whip, the | :45:02. | :45:07. | |
member for Hexham, his role is to be seen and not heard. No further noise | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
from the honourable gentleman today or his sidekick to his right. We | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
will not shout people down in this chamber. The quiet or leave. Very | :45:19. | :45:24. | |
simple. Jeremy Corbyn. Thank you Mr Speaker. This government has cut | :45:25. | :45:33. | |
capital gains tax for the richest, every turn they make the wrong | :45:34. | :45:38. | |
choices. Tomorrow, people can make their own choices about the crisis | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
of social care, the housing crisis in this country. The unprecedented | :45:44. | :45:49. | |
cuts to local councils in areas of greatest need. The cuts to further | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
education, taking opportunities away from young people. The choices have | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
been made will stop they cut taxes for the rich. We want to ensure | :46:01. | :46:05. | |
there is proper taxation to ensure there are decent services for the | :46:06. | :46:12. | |
rest. Prime Minister. Tomorrow is about choices, you can choose a | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
party on the side of security for hard-working people, who wants to | :46:18. | :46:20. | |
make sure there are more jobs, better pay, lower taxes, good | :46:21. | :46:24. | |
schools for your children, a seven-day NHS you when you need it. | :46:25. | :46:30. | |
Or the other choice, you can back a party that puts extremists | :46:31. | :46:34. | |
overworking people. And is incapable of providing the leadership your | :46:35. | :46:39. | |
local council needs, or the country needs. | :46:40. | :46:47. | |
Does my right honourable friend agree with me in order to create a | :46:48. | :46:53. | |
northern powerhouse that can produce innovation and prosperity, | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
investment is needed in vital transport links in northern cities? | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
Of particular concern to my constituents is the junction of the | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
834 and the A5 60 Gatley. Will the Prime Minister and his ministers | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
meet with me and discuss how we can keep traffic moving in and out of | :47:11. | :47:15. | |
Manchester and alleviate congestion in my constituency of Cheadle. She | :47:16. | :47:20. | |
is right to raise this and that is why we established transport for the | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
North to look at schemes like the one she proposes, so we can speak | :47:25. | :47:31. | |
with one voice. It is why we are investing 13 billion. Planning for | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
the next strategy is now underway. It is the right time to make the | :47:36. | :47:45. | |
point that she does. Last week, the Prime Minister took issue when I | :47:46. | :47:49. | |
raised the issue of unaccompanied Syrian refugee children in Europe. | :47:50. | :47:55. | |
And the candid transports of the 1930s. Since then he has been | :47:56. | :48:04. | |
written to by the chairman of Kindertransport. He said the echoes | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
of the past haunt many fellow and I. I feel it is incumbent on us to | :48:10. | :48:18. | |
demonstrate our compassion and human compassion to provide sanctuary to | :48:19. | :48:21. | |
those in need. Why has it taken so long and the threat of a | :48:22. | :48:26. | |
Parliamentary defeat for the Prime Minister to begin changing his mind. | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
Let me pay tribute to the gentleman the honourable member raises. And | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
also, let's be clear, no country has done more than others when it comes | :48:37. | :48:42. | |
to Syrian refugees. No country has raised more money and only the | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
United States has spent more money. I do want us to proceed with as much | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
support across the House as we can. It is right to stick to the | :48:53. | :48:55. | |
principle we shouldn't be encouraging people to make this | :48:56. | :48:58. | |
dangerous journey. It is right to stick to the idea we keep investing | :48:59. | :49:03. | |
in the refugee camps and neighbouring countries. It is right | :49:04. | :49:06. | |
not to take part in the EU relocation and resettlement schemes, | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
which have been, in my view, a failure. We are taking in migrants, | :49:12. | :49:17. | |
child migrants with the direct family scheme. We will talk to Save | :49:18. | :49:23. | |
the Children to see what we can do for children who came here before | :49:24. | :49:26. | |
the EU Turkey deal was signed. What I don't want to do is take steps | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
that will encourage people to make this dangerous journey. Otherwise, | :49:33. | :49:37. | |
our actions, however well-meaning, could result in more people dying, | :49:38. | :49:41. | |
rather than more people getting a good life. Last week I accused the | :49:42. | :49:47. | |
Prime Minister of walking by on the other side when he defended his then | :49:48. | :49:52. | |
policy opposing further help for unaccompanied refugee children in | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
Europe will stop if, what we are hearing now, is the beginnings of a | :49:57. | :50:01. | |
U-turn, I very much welcome it as I'm sure all members on side of the | :50:02. | :50:05. | |
House do. I encourage him to think more about what can be done, given | :50:06. | :50:11. | |
the Kindertransport help 10,000 children from Europe. I asked the | :50:12. | :50:19. | |
Prime Minister to thank Lord Alf Dobbs and all campaigners who have | :50:20. | :50:22. | |
worked hard for the UK to live up to the example and the spirit of the | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
Kindertransport. I think all those people deserve recognition for the | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
work they have done to put this issue so squarely on the agenda. I | :50:33. | :50:37. | |
do reject the comparison with the Kindertransport. And for this | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
reason, I would argue that what we are doing primarily which is taking | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
children from the region, vulnerable people from the camps, going to the | :50:48. | :50:50. | |
neighbouring countries and taking people into our country, housing, | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
clothing and feeding them and making sure they have a good life, that to | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
me is like the Kindertransport. To say the Kindertransport is taking | :51:02. | :51:06. | |
today, children from France, Italy or Germany, safe countries that our | :51:07. | :51:10. | |
democracy, that is an insult to those countries. Because of the | :51:11. | :51:15. | |
steps we are taking, it won't be necessary to send the amendment back | :51:16. | :51:19. | |
to the other place, the amendment doesn't mention a number of people. | :51:20. | :51:23. | |
We will go round the local authorities and see what more we can | :51:24. | :51:26. | |
do. But let's stick to the principle we should not be taking new arrivals | :51:27. | :51:35. | |
to Europe. The Department of Health are looking to introduce a self DNA | :51:36. | :51:43. | |
test for pregnant women, in order to reduce the number of miscarriages. | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
This will have the consequence of increasing the number of abortions | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
with those with down syndrome. I know there is nobody in this House | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
who cares more for those with special needs for protection and the | :52:00. | :52:02. | |
safety of those with special needs, so will the Prime Minister meet with | :52:03. | :52:08. | |
me and representatives of the East Lancashire down syndrome support | :52:09. | :52:11. | |
group to look at ways to protect those with down syndrome and it will | :52:12. | :52:18. | |
not simply be screened out? He raises an important issue. A local | :52:19. | :52:21. | |
people of down syndrome parents came to my constituency surgery on Friday | :52:22. | :52:28. | |
and made these arguments to me. I am taking this up with the Department | :52:29. | :52:33. | |
of help to make sure all the processes are followed. There are | :52:34. | :52:35. | |
moral and ethical issues that need to be considered in these cases. On | :52:36. | :52:39. | |
the other hand, we have to respect the view that women want to have | :52:40. | :52:43. | |
screening and testing about the health of their children. We should | :52:44. | :52:48. | |
be in favour of maximum transparency. On the basis it is | :52:49. | :52:52. | |
optional, rather than mandatory, but it is part of routine care. Health | :52:53. | :52:58. | |
Secretary will have to find a way through this, but we have to make | :52:59. | :53:02. | |
sure we go about it in the right way. UNESCO car components for Ford | :53:03. | :53:08. | |
and Nissan cars and employs hundreds of people, including from my | :53:09. | :53:11. | |
constituency. I'm sure the Prime Minister knows the need to get right | :53:12. | :53:16. | |
our manufacturing industry. Does he agree with the managing director, | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
Mike Matthews, who said it would be business suicide for the UK to leave | :53:21. | :53:28. | |
the EU? I listen to all the business voices, particularly those in | :53:29. | :53:31. | |
manufacturing, and so many say we are better off in a reformed | :53:32. | :53:35. | |
European union. We get an enormous amount of investment from Japanese | :53:36. | :53:40. | |
motor industries. I will be welcoming the Japanese Prime | :53:41. | :53:42. | |
Minister to the UK tomorrow, when I am sure this is on the agenda. | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
Closed question, Doctor Julian Lewis. Nato is the cornerstone of | :53:47. | :53:53. | |
Britain's defence but our place in the EU is a vital part of protecting | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
national security. It helps by ensuring the issues are settled by | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
dialogue and helping to provide assistance in particular | :54:05. | :54:05. | |
circumstances, for example, the Balkans. I entirely agree with the | :54:06. | :54:11. | |
Prime Minister's remarks about Nato. Does he accept that whilst | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
dictatorships often attacked democracies or other dictatorships, | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
democracies seldom, if ever, go to war with each other. If an aim of | :54:22. | :54:28. | |
the EU, is to prevent conflict between its own members, as in World | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
War I and World War II, is it not heading in precisely the wrong | :54:34. | :54:39. | |
direction by trying to create an unelected supranational government | :54:40. | :54:42. | |
of Europe, which is accountable to nobody? My honourable friend has | :54:43. | :54:49. | |
very long standing and passionate views on this. I will make a couple | :54:50. | :54:55. | |
of points. I don't think we should forget some of the country is now in | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
the European Union, until recently, were not democracies, but what forms | :55:01. | :55:03. | |
of dictatorship. The second point, those countries that have worked | :55:04. | :55:09. | |
towards an omission of EU have had to put in place all sorts of | :55:10. | :55:12. | |
democratic and other norms to help them on their way. The final point, | :55:13. | :55:18. | |
we have had an unparalleled period of peace and prosperity in Europe | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
and my argument with me, whether you want to attribute all of that to | :55:23. | :55:26. | |
Nato, or some of that to the EU, why would you want to put it at risk? | :55:27. | :55:32. | |
The findings of the NHS in England report into the sudden closure of | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
Bootham Park mental health hospital in your, has confirmed the | :55:38. | :55:41. | |
relationships and authorities between all NHS bodies and is | :55:42. | :55:46. | |
defined under the health and social care at 20 of 12 are dysfunctional | :55:47. | :55:50. | |
and failed patient at -- patient safety. Harm occurred and life has | :55:51. | :55:56. | |
been lost. Will the Prime Minister accept his health act has to change | :55:57. | :56:02. | |
due to the serious risk created and in line with NHS England's | :56:03. | :56:05. | |
recommendations? I will look carefully at what she said my | :56:06. | :56:10. | |
understanding is she called for action on an outdated and dangerous | :56:11. | :56:13. | |
facility last year. That is what happened. I am pleased action was | :56:14. | :56:21. | |
taken, it wasn't fit for purpose. The CQC identified serious and | :56:22. | :56:24. | |
life-threatening issues on patient safety and they were not right. As a | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
result, there was a decision to close and reopen the facility after | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
the changes. You will have incidents of poor practice. What matters, do | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
we intervene fast enough and put them right. At this case, I will | :56:40. | :56:44. | |
look again at what she said, but it does look like action was taken. The | :56:45. | :56:49. | |
Christian News Edie and sheer children in Syria are suffering from | :56:50. | :56:56. | |
genocide by Daesh and we should recognise it as such. My urge to the | :56:57. | :57:03. | |
Prime Minister, to indeed do more to replicate the Kindertransport of the | :57:04. | :57:10. | |
1930s. That is what we are doing in taking children directly from the | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
camps in Syria. If we were to take 16-year-olds from a safe environment | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
in Europe, we would be causing more misery and encouraging the people | :57:21. | :57:27. | |
traffickers. He asked me two questions, whether there is more we | :57:28. | :57:30. | |
can do to label what has happened as genocide. This has always been | :57:31. | :57:35. | |
something done under a legal definition, but I believe very much | :57:36. | :57:40. | |
it is clearly heading, there is a strong case for saying it is | :57:41. | :57:44. | |
genocide. I hope it will be portrayed unspoken as such. On the | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
issue of the Kindertransport, I would agree, we have an enormous | :57:50. | :57:52. | |
amount of what we can be proud of. The money we put into the camps, we | :57:53. | :58:00. | |
raised more in London on Monday than any humanitarian conference has ever | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
raised in the world. We are going to do more for children already | :58:05. | :58:08. | |
registered in Europe after, before the EU Turkey deal. But the | :58:09. | :58:14. | |
principle we should try to cling do is we shouldn't do anything that | :58:15. | :58:16. | |
encourages people to make the perilous journey. That has been the | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
cornerstone of our policy and it should remain the case. For the | :58:22. | :58:27. | |
benefit of the House and 410 and 11-year-olds up and down the | :58:28. | :58:31. | |
country, will the Minister explain what the past progressive tense is. | :58:32. | :58:39. | |
Will he set out his definition of a modal verb? I will say to the | :58:40. | :58:46. | |
honourable lady, the point of these changes is to make sure our children | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
are better educated than we are. That is why I am delighted with | :58:52. | :58:55. | |
three children in state schools going off to do these tests. I am | :58:56. | :59:04. | |
delighted they are going to be. Thank you Mr Speaker. Three years | :59:05. | :59:09. | |
ago, three years ago... Order, order. Three years ago five members | :59:10. | :59:17. | |
of a family from County Durham were killed in a tragic accident A18. The | :59:18. | :59:27. | |
coroner said he had no confidence in the work of the proposed work of the | :59:28. | :59:31. | |
highway authority to remedy the situation. The council wants to do | :59:32. | :59:36. | |
all they can and have committed to carry out the work. But resources | :59:37. | :59:42. | |
are very limited. Could my right honourable friend give serious | :59:43. | :59:44. | |
consideration to an application from the council for additional | :59:45. | :59:44. | |
resources? I will have a close look I will look to see if more | :59:45. | :00:03. | |
evidence can be done to make it safe. Eritrea was described as the | :00:04. | :00:09. | |
North Korea of Africa in the recent inaugural all-party group meeting. | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
There was government forced indefinite constriction. Will the | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
Prime Minister personally and urgently review Home Office guidance | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
which says it is safe to transport asylum seekers back to Eritrea? I | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
will look at what he says. We know Eritrea is a deeply, undemocratic | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
and autocratic country. It has done appalling things to its people and | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
that is one of the reasons why so many of those seeking to cross the | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Mediterranean, through the Libyan route, have come from a country. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
When I have the opportunity to meet the Eritrea leadership in Malta, I | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
made those points very strongly. Four years ago, I asked my right | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
honourable friend on behalf of my mother, if the EU referendum vote | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
could be brought forward because of her age. She was then 100. She now | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
wishes to know if she needs to set a world record for longevity before | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
the Chilcott report is published? I think I can reassure Maud, that this | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
summer she will have a double opportunity to deal with these | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
things. I referendum on June the 23rd and I'm sure the Chilcott | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
report will come not too much longer after that. I imagine she will want | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
a backbench business debate on the matter. Tata steel wishes to | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
complete the sale of its assets by the middle of June and one referred | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
bidder in place by the end of this month. Does the Prime Minister think | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
it is a realistic time frame and there will be a credible process of | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
due diligence? What processes is the Prime Minister taking to make sure | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
Tata is making good on its promises as a responsible seller? The | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
positive news is the deadline yesterday was met by a number of | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
serious enquiries of interest into buying all of Tata, and that is good | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
news. We need to work intensively with Tata and the buyers to get the | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
list down to those who are seriously intending to bid. What it is a short | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
timetable. What we are doing is talking intensively with Tata to | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
make sure they do everything they can to make sure this is a serious | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
sales process. The Prime Minister made an important announcement with | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
regard to refugee children. Obviously, time is of the essence | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
because of the peculiar vulnerability of children without | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
the guidance and protection of their families. Could the Prime Minister | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
give an indication to the House of how quickly he expects to have those | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
arrangements in place? I am grateful to my right honourable friend, who | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
has spoken passionately about this issue. I don't see any reason why | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
there needs to be a long delay. We need to carry on conversations with | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
local councils, because many of them, particularly in the south of | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
England, are under pressure because of the number of child refugees who | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
have come. Then hopefully we can make progress during this year. | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
Documents leaked earlier this week appeared to confirm what most have | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
feared, that the transatlantic trade and investment partnership makes | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
unacceptable concessions to public health and safety regulations, | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
opening the doors for US investors to sue for loss of rockets. Will the | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
Prime Minister recognise the concern raised by the French president and | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
Talbot House what this government is seeking for a national health | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
service and public service? This is the register of red herrings. The | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
health service is completely protect did under this agreement, as it is | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
under other agreements. They're all sorts agreements people might be | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
against free trade and wanting to see an expansion of and investment | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
and jobs. People should be honest and say they don't want to see these | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
things happen instead of inventing total red herrings. Calm yourself, | :04:23. | :04:31. | |
Mr Campbell, you are supposed to be a senior statesman in the House. | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
Calm down. Take up yoga, I have told you before. Cheryl Murray. The | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
lifeboat celebrates its 150th anniversary this year in my | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
constituency. Will he congratulate them, not just the new one, but all | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
of them who keep us safe at sea? I am very happy to do that, in | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
conjunction with my honourable friend. Very brave people, having | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
met some of them, especially during the flooding earlier in the year. | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
They put their lives at risk all the time to save others. They are the | :05:15. | :05:26. | |
bravest. What matters is what works. In the long-term interests of the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
country, fixed term parliaments are an important of that. Can the Prime | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
Minister ensure his government's performance includes the long | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
overdue creation of a centre evidence on sexual abuse of children | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
something I raised in PMQs with Margaret Thatcher. We can deal with | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
the awful consequences of child sex abuse on victims and perpetrators, | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
but we must use early intervention expertise to stop it from happening | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
in the first place. Will the Prime Minister backed the excellent work | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
of ministers and members from all parties and get this much-needed | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
centre up and running without delay, within the five-year term of this | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
government? I am glad the honourable gentleman rescued his own question | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
with those last words. We are grateful to him, constitutionally at | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
least. I am sorry it has taken a question | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
in 1989 to get an answer. Setting up a centre of expertise on sexual | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
abuse is what the Home Office is doing. It will identify and share | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
high-quality evidence. Alongside this, the Department for Education's | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Centre will ensure social workers across the country can learn from | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
the best examples. It is a good example of government reform, which | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
I know he supports. The Prime Minister and we aren't these benches | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
can be proud of the fact, in recent years we have reduced relative | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
poverty and income inequality. We are a one nation party, or we are | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
nothing. Does he agree with Lord rose, the leader of the Remain | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
Campaign that if we were to lead the EU and exercise greater control over | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
immigration for the sake of public services, wages would rise even | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
faster? What would happen, if we were to lead the EU, we would see an | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
impact on our economy that would be negative. That is the view of the | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
Bank of England, the IMF, the OECD and a growing number of | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
international bodies. Anybody who wants to make this choice, it is a | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
choice for the British people to make. We have to be clear of the | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
economic consequences. In 1972, aged 19, nine months married and six | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
months pregnant with their first child, my constituent, Susan | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
received the knock on the door to say her husband had been killed in | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
action in Northern Ireland. Yet when she married and found love again, | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
she lost all compensation for her and her daughter. She still has no | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
compensation for having made that huge sacrifice. It is a disgraceful | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
way to treat those who have lost loved ones serving our country. Will | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
the Prime Minister meet with me and Susan to discuss this case and the | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
injustice which still faces war widows in this country Western Mark | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
I will make sure she gets the meeting and the attention she | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
deserves. I know the Minister met with the war Widows Association to | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
put forward their case. It was this government but did make a historic | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
change, so war widows who remarried from April one 2015, would retain | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
their war widows pension. That was a change long as four and only | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
delivered under this government. At the moment, we are of the view of | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
the long-standing policy of successive governments, we shouldn't | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
make these changes and apply them retrospectively. Yesterday the | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
foreign affairs select committee started our enquiry on Anglo Russian | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
relations. This afternoon, I have a Westminster Hall debate on Anglo | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
Russian relations. Despite the tension that exists, will the Prime | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
Minister give us an assurance he will redouble his efforts to lower | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
tensions with his fellow permanent member of the UN Security Council? | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Of course we want to keep tensions low and the one good relations, but | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
we cannot ignore the fact Russian backed and direct its separatists | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
have effectively tried to redraw the boundaries of Europe. When we | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
consider how dangerous exercises like that have been in the past, we | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
have to take it extremely seriously in the present. | :09:48. | :10:00. | |
Can I thank the Prime Minister for joining Leicester MPs and the rest | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
of the planet in congratulating Leicester City football club on | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
their historic success in the Premier League. During this amazing | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
season, the local Leicester hero, Gary Lineker, thought the idea of | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
Leicester winning was so far-fetched, he said if they did | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
when he would present match of the day in his underwear. | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
As an Aston Villa supporter and my commiserations to the Prime Minister | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
on their season, does he agree in politics, as well as in football, | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
when you make a promise, you should keep it? I absolutely agree. I have | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
been watching everything Gary Lineker has said since. He is not | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
quite answering the question. Something nobody gets away with in | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
this House. I hope it is the start of him joining the blue team. | :11:01. | :11:14. | |
As PMQ's finally comes to an end, an extraordinary Prime Minister's | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
Questions, not just because of the length but also because the Prime | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Minister and the Leader of the Opposition were like ships passing | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
in the night. Jeremy Corbyn began by asking about local spending, an | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
appropriate question, David Cameron replied by asking if he still | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
thought he was friends with Hamas and Hezbollah, the militant groups | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
lined up against Israel. Jeremy Corbyn went on to ask about | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
government spending, the Prime Minister asked if he was still | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
friends with Hamas and Hezbollah. So it went on for six questions, then | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
it spilled over into the London mayoral candidate, with, inevitably, | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
Zac Goldsmith being brought up, he has made comments about the | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
platforms, the Prime Minister hitting back at Jeremy Corbyn for | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
the platforms he has shared, and vice versa. Just when you thought it | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
could not get any more unusual or interesting, Angus Robertson stood | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
up and asked the question about the refugees, children, unaccompanied | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
child refugees and whether the government was changing policy. | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
After a long answer, it became clear that David Cameron has changed | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
policy, and the amendment in the House of Lords, the Prime Minister | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
slipped and at the very end of his answer that they will now accept | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
that amendment. There we go. It was long but it was unusual. Most people | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
wrote in about the exchanges between the Prime Minister and Jeremy | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
Corbyn. It went down hill from there. All he needs to do is | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
withdraw the comments about Hamas. The Prime Minister has raised a | :13:30. | :13:38. | |
problem for Jeremy Corbyn. The Speaker should remind the | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
increasingly red-faced David Cameron that it is questions to the Prime | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
Minister, not the Leader of the Opposition. Another agrees, | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
disgraceful from the Speaker letting David Cameron hijack PMQs. What do | :13:53. | :14:04. | |
we make of it? It was extraordinary, and extraordinarily brutal. David | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
Cameron trying to use every single second to transfer it into Jeremy | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
Corbyn's question Time. Trying to change it. The Labour Leader kept | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
trying to return to the subject he wanted to talk about. I think it was | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
a very memorable session because it was more like a very rough and tough | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
campaign debate rather than what that is meant to be about, which is | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
the Prime Minister of the day being held to account on the big issues of | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
the day. It was not until Angus Robertson got to his feet that we | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
got to anything like the traditional format. We have had the | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
anti-Semitism row rumbling on in the Labour Party. We have got major | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
elections tomorrow across the country. Given the length the Prime | :15:00. | :15:10. | |
Minister went to to bring up a Hamas, I wonder if the Tories have | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
got private polling of focus groups that show that this is resonating? I | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
think they see that there is clearly an opportunity to claw back a pretty | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
safe lead in the London mayoral election. We don't really know, the | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
code won't be until Friday night, but the widespread assumption has | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
been that London is pretty safe for Labour. That is a crucial piece of | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
the jigsaw for Jeremy Corbyn. His critics believe as long as he can | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
hold on to London, he is basically safe for now. I think the fact that | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
David Cameron demonstrably brought this up and made this an issue, he | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
was armed with quotes as long as your arm, all sorts of information, | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
he became mob handed and determined to make that point that they think | :16:07. | :16:16. | |
is having an impact. Labour sources said it would be impossible for it | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
not to have any impact at all, the chaos of the last week, but whether | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
it has a significant impact is something that they don't. As ever | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
in politics, whilst we are fascinated with the detail, most | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
will have seen the noise and chaos, but will not have been following | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
every single detail. In London it is not working. The more dirt thrown at | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
Sadiq Khan, the bigger the polling. That is quite a substantial lead he | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
has got, this attempt, not to claim he is an extremist himself but to | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
taint by association, does not seem to be working. I think you're right | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
and I don't know what will happen in London. It operates in a bubble. | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
Very wary of reading into too many opinion polls. I would hesitate. Can | :17:13. | :17:21. | |
I make a slightly different point? When Jeremy Corbyn became leader | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
saying they would be a different atmosphere, every leader does this. | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
But PMQs turned into Punch and Judy. Every week, it is Angus Robertson | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
who asks the question where you go, why didn't Jeremy Corbyn lead on | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
that subject? Today it should have been that question. That would have | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
been the sensible one. You mention, does this resonate outside | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
Westminster? It is such a basic tenet of modern politics that a | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
mainstream party is not racist or anti-Semitic that people cannot | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
believe we're having this discussion in the 21st century. This is why it | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
keeps coming back to the floor. The vast majority of Labour MPs now this | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
is true and they are in despair. The seminal intervention in last week's | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
PMQs was Yvette Cooper, senior Labour backbencher. She has been in | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
the vanguard of this issue. Labour has backed her. Here is an issue of | :18:35. | :18:49. | |
progress. And yet, the Leader of the Opposition is effectively handing | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
this over to the leader of the Parliamentary party of the Scottish | :18:53. | :19:04. | |
nationalists. He has been vocal on the issue, just not today. Just | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
listen to Laura, he would know that the whole was breaking here, things | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
were changing. Why would you not go on that issue which plays to | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
everything Labour is meant to stand for? I'm sure Jeremy had in mind | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
that we have got the local government elections and he raised a | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
series of legitimate questions. He has got six questions. I think the | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
questions he put to David Cameron were entirely reasonable and good | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
questions. He did not get the answers because David Cameron knows | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
that he is cutting into local government. As you will know. Is it | :19:45. | :20:01. | |
hurting? If you have the Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party associated with | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
Ken Livingstone's remarks on Hitler and Zionism, with the anti-Semitic | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
tweets coming out from members of the Labour Party, David Cameron | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
dragging up this old phrase about friends of Hamas and Hezbollah. Is | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
it hurting? Let me talk about the phrase, Hamas is an organisation | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
that do not even believe Israel has a right to exist. We do not support | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
Hezbollah. Your leader has not condemned it. He said in PMQs today, | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
he does not approve. What was the phrase he had with reference, he | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
does not support racist and anti-Semitic organisations. He | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
condemns racist organisations. That suggests he was condemning them. He | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
could not bring himself to say the names? I am condemning Hamas and | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
Hezbollah. We do not believe these organisations should be associated | :21:15. | :21:25. | |
with. What is also not clear is what the government's position is on | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
child refugees. It is obvious there is movement but they will be under | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
pressure to give convincing details and if they don't, they might find | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
themselves with a big problem and a potential defeat next week. | :21:38. | :21:49. | |
Welcome to the programme Greg Mulholland, Hywel Williams | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
Welcome to the two of you so far. Hywel, antiestablishment parties are | :21:52. | :22:10. | |
in the March, is this one Plaid Cymru must make a breakthrough? We | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
are working very hard indeed and split might be between the Tories | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
and Labour, in Wales, it is Plaid against Labour and Plaid has the | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
momentum with Leanne Wood. So you think you will increase your seats | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
significantly? What does significantly mean? What does it | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
mean to you? The system we have in Wales is stacked against dramatic | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
breakthroughs unless you have the situation you have in Scotland when | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
it is Tamil chillers. Labour are worried. Jeremy Corbyn referred to | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
the situation in Wales. If I was him, I wouldn't have done so, but he | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
thinks they are in trouble. John Ashworth, are you in trouble in | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
Wales, there is a lot of scrutiny on Labour's record there. Nigel Farage | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
predicted Ukip would get five seeds on the watch is only. And now we | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
have Plaid saying they will make the breakthrough? We are taking nothing | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
for granted and we are campaigning hard. Let's see where we are on | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Friday morning when we see the results. I think we will continue to | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
have a Labour government in Wales on Friday morning. A Labour government | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
on its own or will it have to go into coalition? We will see when the | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
results come through, but I am confident Labour will continue to be | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
in government in Wales. In government army yes. Labour would be | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
in government, but will they be governing alone or will they have to | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
look to the other parties because they may only just be the largest | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
party? We are taking nothing for granted and we are working hard. I | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
will be on election night coverage, but I think I will be on your rival | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
competitor programmes. Surely not. Do you agree with Jeremy Corbyn? | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
Labour won't lose any seats in these elections? Let's see where we get | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
to. We are enthusiastically campaigning confidently and we are | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
not taking anything for granted. Let's see where we get to after 10pm | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
tomorrow night. Hywel, what about Ukip taking five seats, you will | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
then lose to Ukip? We will see about that later on. We are confident of | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
keeping our constituencies and winning some more as well. Ukip, in | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
this election, they are a significant sideline issue, but | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
really it is Plaid against Labour. Who do you want to run Wales, the | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
tired Labour government or Plaid with exciting manifesto? Let's talk | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
to Diane James from Ukip. You are contesting less than half of the | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
seats innings councils, why aren't you contesting more? Because we have | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
gone for the target seats, if you like, where we believed we stand a | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
really good chance of success. Let's put it into perspective, we are | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
party of just over 20 years of age and we haven't got the | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
infrastructure to support candidates in every seat. We have learned | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
lessons from other elections, we're putting a huge amount of effort into | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
supporting those candidates that are standing for us. We are hopeful of | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
success on their behalf. If Ukip doesn't gain council seats in | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
England when other anti-populist groups are gaining ground across | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
Europe, will be be any point to Ukip after the June referendum? Yes there | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
will, this is the question you both ask Ukip personnel on every | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
programme. And there is a point, and the point is, it is Ukip that | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
achieved the referendum. David Cameron had to react to the Ukip | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
threat by ensuring the referendum was delivered and included in his | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
manifesto. Look at the mess he is in now, as a result. In terms of | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
council seats, we are defending council seats were eight individual | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
stood on the Ukip banner. We are confident they will get back in. And | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
an accredited polling organisation from the University has said we are | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
on course to take 40. I am confident from that point of view. I think we | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
have Greg Mulholland now from the Liberal Democrats. Your fight to | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
campaign on unnecessary cuts to services, how will the electorate | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
take you seriously when during the coalition a number of local services | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
for Kotze? First of all, people are seeing what a majority Conservative | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
Government does with unnecessary ideological cuts, rather than | :26:52. | :26:53. | |
dealing with the deficit in the economy. People will also take the | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
Liberal Democrats seriously, because you have two main parties in England | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
who are at each other's threads in the most extraordinary civil war. | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
Labour are tearing themselves apart and the Conservatives are tearing | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
themselves apart. People want a centre party who have progressive | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
values and stand up the people in their communities. That is why | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
people will be looking to elect Liberal Democrat members, Scottish | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
Parliament and MSPs tomorrow. When you talk about services being cut | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
ideological and by the Conservatives, but they were | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
different cuts when UN coalition, during that time, 350 libraries | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
close, 350 youth centres in England and sure start centres in England | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
close. What is different about those cuts as you say to the ones are | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
happening now? Those cuts were made by councils, largely Labour and | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
Conservative councils. The situation financially for local government is | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
tough. So no responsibility at all for you in government? Where we | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
write to seek to bring down the levels of public spending at a time | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
when it was out of control? Yes. Is the need to carry on making the cuts | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
Labour and Conservative ministers are carrying on making the services? | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
Absolutely not. But going back to classic politics where we are | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
talking to people on the streets and people are responding. We want to | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
see the good old-fashioned Liberal Democrat policies coming back. We | :28:31. | :28:32. | |
will have to we're almost out of time. The answer | :28:33. | :28:41. | |
to guess the year was 1972. We were all wrong in the studio. | :28:42. | :28:49. | |
We will be doing the US elections with Donald Trump undoubtedly the | :28:50. | :29:01. | |
Republican nominee. I thought you were going to | :29:02. | :29:02. |