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Fresh from triggering Boris Johnson's departure | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
from the Conservative leadership race, Michael Gove sets out his case | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
The Justice Secretary is due to launch his campaign in the next | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
And with the full field of five candidates now fighting for votes | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
amongst Conservative MPs, we'll assess their chances ahead | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
Jeremy Corbyn insists he's not going anywhere | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
and there's no sign, yet, of a concrete challenge | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
We'll assess what happens next in the Labour Party's civil war. | :01:19. | :01:36. | |
All that in the next half hour and with us for the whole | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
of the programme today, the Sun's political editor | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
Tom Newton Dunn, and the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams. | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
The Conservative leadership battle is turning into an episode | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Yesterday morning we were getting ready for Boris Johnson | :01:48. | :02:00. | |
to make his move to be the Capo di Capo with sidekick Andrea Leadsom | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
But all that changed when Michael Gove made his move | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
and whacked Boris by running himself, saying that "Boris cannot | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
provide the leadership or build the team | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
Andrea Leadsom then announced she was going for the top job, | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
leaving Boris to look at the numbers and decide there wasn't | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Now there are five declared candidates, with Gove and Leadsom | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
joined by Stephen Crabb, Liam Fox and the current favourite, | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
But the plan is a series of votes beginning next Tuesday until there | :02:28. | :02:44. | |
Then all Conservative Party members across the country get to vote | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
with a new boss taking charge by the 9th of September. | :02:56. | :03:07. | |
And they will also be our Prime Minister. | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
In the last half an hour, Boris Johnson was asked by reporters | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
as he left home about Michael Gove's decision to stand for | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
I cannot, unfortunately, get on with doing what I wanted | :03:19. | :03:31. | |
to do so it will be up to somebody else now. | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
Do you have any regrets about campaigning for Leave? | :03:35. | :03:48. | |
No, I think it will be great for our country and we | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
I think everybody needs to take advantage of what I think will be | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
That was Boris Johnson walking, we are not sure where that he was | :03:56. | :04:09. | |
walking a bit of mumbling, we could not catch all of it. We are hearing | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
that some Conservative ministers are now pressing Michael Gove to | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
withdraw which would be interesting since it was only on yesterday | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
morning that he announced he was standing. They want to rally round | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
Theresa May so that she wins by a huge amount and that kind of | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
determined it. If that happens, don't ask me! What I can take it | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
that he will be speaking after Boris Johnson withdrew yesterday, I doubt | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
he will do. Where are we? I'm hamstrung by not understanding the | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
Conservative psyche. It doesn't help! It is baffling. If Michael | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
Gove were to withdraw and leave it open for Theresa May, they still | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
have 2% two names to the party members. And then the other is what, | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
Liam Fox? That is technically right but they are a bit better at making | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
it up as they go along than Labour. If Theresa May was to emerge from a | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
first or second ballot is a clear front runner, there would be | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
pressure on the other is to stand down. They would call the | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
consistency chairman around the country. None of this may happen but | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
that is the kind of world we are in. I don't buy it. You are right that | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Theresa May will top the ballot and it is hers to lose. However, there | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
is still this schism in the Tory body between Remain and Leave. The | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
little referendum last week! The idea you can send want tendered to | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
the entire membership who is a Remainer, they have to have those on | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
the ticket to resolve this is a huge party. You may be right. I saw a | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
wonderful pressie for an American audience which said that Theresa May | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
campaigned for Remain but is now in favour of Leave which is exactly the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
opposite of Jeremy Corbyn. No! Exactly the same! Completely | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
confused! She was indivisible Tom Corbyn. I'm lost as well! -- from | :06:37. | :06:46. | |
Corbyn. Do we know yet what triggered the Brutus act of Michael | :06:47. | :06:57. | |
Gove? Yes. Did you not read the Sun? We think we have got to the nub of | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
it. It was the letter to Andrea Leadsom. Offering her the | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
chancellorship? She was ready to pull out and go with team Boris. It | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
was orchestrated by Michael Gove and all Boris had to do was offer in | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
writing the job of Chancellor. Boris apparently did write this letter but | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
it was never delivered to Andrea Leadsom at this Tory summer party. A | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
huge amount of conspiracy theories on both side as to what it was not | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
deliberate but it ended up with her saying, I will run against you and | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
let's go to war. All this was the excuse, I use that word carefully, | :07:42. | :07:51. | |
to say that Boris is an incompetent. Some people say that it was one | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
Michael Gove's supporters that was meant to deliver the letter. I have | :07:55. | :08:04. | |
a supporter of Andrea Leadsom waiting. There was no pigeon | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
involved? It is beginning to sound more like the Camorra than the | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Mafia! We can talk now to the Conservative | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
MP Tim Loughton, who He is supporting Andrea Leadsom. Was | :08:15. | :08:26. | |
she offered the shadow chancellorship or, not the shadow, | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
the chancellorship, by Mr Johnson? I don't know, Andrew. There are more | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
twists and plots than Shakespeare. I'm not interested in who did what | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
to whom when, all I'm interested in is making sure we have a good | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
candidate to be Prime Minister and Andrea Leadsom is that person will | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
stop she had been a junior She has been a junior minister for | :08:54. | :09:06. | |
two years. Why would a junior minister be equipped to be Prime | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Minister? I think David Cameron had been an MP for only four years when | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
he became leader of our party and he had never been a minister at the | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
time. He wasn't going to be Prime Minister straightaway. She has had a | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
very long and distinguished career in finance, highly regarded in the | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
city. She had been over six years in Parliament and a very successful and | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
promoted minister as well. She has got the skills but she is also | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
widely respected and liked across not only the whole of the party but | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
the whole Parliament. She is the real deal and we need somebody who | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
has the experience in finance and in negotiation because these are | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
challenging times ahead. She was the most passionate Brexit supporter. | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
When did she tell you she was running? It was all rather | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
last-minute. I was asked to put together a campaign team which met | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
firstly yesterday morning. When did she tell you she was running? I | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
spoke to her on the night before she put in. She had been considering | :10:19. | :10:27. | |
this... How long had she been talking to you? I rather lose track | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
of time as well. She's my closest friend in politics, I spent a couple | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
of days with her last week and we were talking through all the | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
different scenarios and how she could stand, if she should but she | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
wants to give more choice to the party. She is particularly | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
passionate, and she was the most passionate Brexiteer. She is | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
single-minded on that. I understand that it's her position. What was the | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
biggest thing that triggered her decision to run? Because she wants | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
to do the deal on Europe for Britain. That is her single most | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
important task and the most important thing is facing the | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
country. She threw herself into the referendum debate not to promote | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
herself but because she passionately believed that Britain's best future | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
is outside the EU. I understand all that... She now wants to see it | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
through. And she did not think that Boris Johnson would be able to do | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
the kind of Brexit deal that she wants? As I say, she wanted to have | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
a choice of Brexit candidates. There were concerns on some of the things | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
that Boris had said on rowing back but she is absolutely clear on where | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
she wants to go on Europe and the sort of renegotiation we need. And | :12:00. | :12:10. | |
briefly, what would be a good result for her in the first ballot? What | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
are you hoping for? I do know how the figures are going to fall. We | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
are spending the next few days speaking to an awful lot of | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
colleagues and my office was filled with MPs knocking on the door asking | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
to come and help so I think she will get a respectable score. It is too | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
early to know. She will be in the final two and may the best woman | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
win. Did you see what he did! Thank you very much for joining us, a busy | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
weekend ahead for you. What do you make of that? I think there is a | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
fairly decent chance that could come true. The unpopularity of Michael | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Gove Indy has hazard commons amongst the Tories is so big. I think he | :12:58. | :13:07. | |
will run -- in the House of Commons. Going back a step, we have to talk | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
about the policies in this, nobody has talked about Brexit policy. That | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
is because they don't have any. They have to that a leadership contest. | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
Why do they hate Michael Gove so much? Look at his rear-view mirror, | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
in the last week he has taken Britain out of the EU, killed off | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
the Prime Minister and now Boris Johnson. The bodies are piling up | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
behind him. It is literally a case of personal honour, they think he is | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
dishonourable but they are asking how they can trust him. There will | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
certainly be a big stop Michael Gove campaign. As there was with Boris. | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
Of course, the Conservatives aren't the only party facing leadership | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
The slow-motion uprising against Jeremy Corbyn looks set | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
to continue into next week, with no sign of a formal challenge | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
This morning the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, has been speaking | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
about the economic implications of the vote to leave | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
Our political correspondent Ben Wright was watching his | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
Then, what was he telling us? John McDonell is talking about Brexit | :14:21. | :14:33. | |
policy in its broadest sense, the red line is that he says Labour | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
should have as it takes part in preacher discussion about the terms | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
of our exit, so he talked, unsurprisingly, about the need to | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
protect workers' writes, financial passport in for the city, the rights | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
of EU citizens here. Very, very broad brush and pretty vague but | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
questions soon got onto the leadership issue, of course, and I | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
asked John McDonnell how important this was, considering the fact that | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
most of the Shadow Cabinet, the vast majority of MPs, want Jeremy Corbyn | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
to quit, how plausible it was that Mr Corbyn would still be in the | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
lead's seat by the time Brexit negotiations began and Mr McDonnell | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
was quite emphatic that Jeremy Corbyn would still be there. He did, | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
though, say, bring it on, really, to challenge us. Mr Corbyn is resisting | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
any move to force him to resign, that's quite clear. He's digging in | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
and the challenge is to Angela eagle, Owen Smith and others, if you | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
want a leadership contest you are going to have to make a move and do | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
it yourself. John McDonell pretty much said, get on with it and do it | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
in the next few days. Thank you very much for that. Another developer | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
and, John McDonell speaking. He himself on the Sunday Politics last | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
weekend and again this morning has ruled himself out from standing as | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
Labour leader. Of course, Michael Gove ruled himself out of standing | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
as Conservative leader. We've been joined by Manuel Cortes, | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
the general secretary of the transport union, | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
TSSA, who are backing Jeremy Corbyn. Welcome to the programme. Good | :16:04. | :16:13. | |
morning. Mr Corbyn, when he was running the campaign for the | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
leadership last year, the campaign was called JC4PM. How does that work | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
on our? He's got a lot of support within our party but also if you | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
look at the election result under Corbyn, they've been very good. | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
We've won every single by-election. The Mayor of Bristol, something that | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
Ed Miliband failed to do, and over the piece we've been doing extremely | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
well. I think it's really sad that it appears that many within the PLP | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
have lost their senses. At a time when the Tories are bitterly | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
divided... Let me narrow the question down and ask you this. We | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
haven't got much time. How could he form a government when AT the centre | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
of the Parliamentary party has no confidence in him was I tell you | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
what's really important... It's really important that you answer my | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
question. MPs need to take the weekend off under threat and what | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
they're doing because what Labour voters want us to do is to join | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
behind the leader and challenge the Tories. The Tories are bitterly | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
divided. There is going to be blood over carpet when it comes to the | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
contest for the next leader of the Tory party and we should be taking | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
advantage. That's fine but that is just rhetoric. With the current | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
Parliamentary party, he can't even form a Shadow Cabinet, much less a | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
government. So it would follow that he could only form a government | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
after the next election with a very different Parliamentary party. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
Correct? Well, this is not about challenging those MPs that are | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
currently within Westminster. Lets wait and see what happens. We are a | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
democratic party. We have got a constitutional process by which the | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
leader of the Labour Party can be challenged and what these people are | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
doing is childish and petulant. They haven't even got a candidate. You | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
would have thought if somebody was challenging the leader of the Labour | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
Party, they would have agreed somebody to stand against him. I | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
understand all that but these are just debating points. I'm trying to | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
get to the heart of this matter, which is how does Mr Corbyn form a | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
government, become Prime Minister, if AT % of the Parliamentary party | :18:29. | :18:37. | |
is against inquest -- 80%. He is standing firm and telling his MPs | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
that they need to unite to make sure that we do not disappoint the | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
millions of people who need a Labour government. They should spend the | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
weekend reflecting on their actions they're coming across as childish | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
and petulant and it is time they grew up. And if they don't grow up, | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
to use your words, surely if Mr Corbyn is serious about becoming | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Prime Minister, he has to have a Parliamentary party that reflects Mr | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
Corbyn. There have to be major changes before the election among | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
those who stand for your party. For him to become Prime Minister, we | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
have to win many more seats, well over 106. There will be a lot of new | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
talent coming into the party but we must not forget that there are a lot | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
of talented people currently within the PLP. And asking them to reflect | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
on their actions. You've done that three times and we will see if they | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
do it. Sorry, you supported Mr Corbyn. Are you going to write a | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
book now about Labour's downfall? I supported Jeremy Corbyn because he | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
did represent something that the members clearly wanted. He had a | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
voice of hope, he seemed really radically different to the same old | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
diet that the other three were offering. What do they do now? I | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
genuinely think the failure to make the European case properly is | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
decisive. I think it was terrible and I think we're in... I want to | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
take issue with that. I share many platforms with Jeremy and he was | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
making the point to remain in Europe but, like him, as a socialist I've | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
got a different vision of the kind of Europe I want. Me to! But the | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
point that he made... You cannot change Europe without being part of | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
it and that's why we were committed to staying. You say you were | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
committed to staying batik plainly wasn't committed to staying. It was | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
obvious that he wasn't a remain and that has caused a crisis. Let me | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
talk, because you've talked a lot. There has been a hard core of | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
Blairite MPs trying to get rid of him but I do not think that is the | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
situation now. As Andrew says, it is AT % of MPs, huge amount of people | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
in the Labour Party who would have supported a change of vision, a | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
change of vision, but cannot support somebody who cannot articulate the | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
case that was so important to the Labour Party and to Labour Party | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
members. If I could finish quickly... You made a good point so | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
he should reply. Let's be brutally honest. Many people who voted for | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
Brexit did so in former industrial heartlands. They are looking for a | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
message of hope and I think that Jeremy is the only person who could | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
deliver that. But he didn't because otherwise they would have voted for | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
his side in the Remain vote. If they believed in, they would have stayed | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
with him for the Europe vote and they didn't believe him. It is very | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
difficult to expect someone to change the body politics of this | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
country in nine months. After 40 years of one-way traffic, I think we | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
should give him a chance. I think he's on the right track to talk our | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
by-election results have been good. You've said that. I want to ask a | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
question. We've just heard that the Austrian Supreme Court has ruled | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
that there has to be a rerun in the presidential election in Austria, | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
which was narrowly won against a pretty hard right alternative | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
candidate. That is a rerun of the presidential election in Austria. A | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
lot of Labour MPs say to me, it's not about whether he is left or | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
right, they think he's just useless as a leader. Does it not take a | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
particularly special expertise to organise and anti-Semitism | :22:19. | :22:19. | |
conference and lump Israel together with Islamic State, which is what Mr | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
Corbyn did yesterday? I think you'll find this morning that some of those | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
comments that were treated to him have no longer been backed up. I | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
know exactly what he said. I've heard the tape. He said so-called | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
Islamic state and other organisations and Israel was in that | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
sentence. What could he mean why so-called Islamic State? It has to | :22:41. | :22:50. | |
include Islamic State. He has a proven track record all his life of | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
fighting racism... So why lump Israel with Islamic State? I wasn't | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
there, I don't know in what context... It is on tape. I haven't | :23:02. | :23:10. | |
heard the tape. One quick question. Is splitting the Labour Party into, | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
a formal split, STP labour, what a writ is called, the price you are | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
winning to pay to keep Jeremy in? That, you must admit, is a real | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
prospect it up I don't see the prospect of a Labour Party split. I | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
think people need to reflect on their actions. We've got the weekend | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
coming up and I think at a time where... You set such a lot of store | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
by the weekend! Well, it's going to be a big weekend! We need cool | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
heads. They are a Democratic party, they need to find a challenger if | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
that's what they want but let's talk about the leader until that happens. | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
Manuel Cortes, we'll leave it there. I think we are going around in | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
circles now. I'm grateful for you to spelling out your position. It will | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
be a very interesting weekend for a change. We haven't had an | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
interesting weekend for years in politics! Let's assume a challenger | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
does emerge at some stage, I would have thought, otherwise they will | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
look foolish, and the election goes to the country, to the Labour Party | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
in the country. Does Mr Corbyn win again and if he does, does that | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
split the Labour Party? I think the answer is probably, not least | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
because 60,000 people just joined the Labour Party. You talked MPs now | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
and they are absolutely adamant, this is it. Corbyn wins again, we | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
go, and we'll take some unions with us, but it is curtains for Labour. | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
I'm afraid we finished with you. We haven't got much time. You've had a | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
good innings! You scored a few runs as well! I don't know if the 60,000 | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
are joining momentum. I think they're on the other side. Secondly, | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
I don't think the split is going to come from that direction. I think of | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
Corbyn goes in and wins, he will stage a deselection from | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
constituencies. We need to move on to adopt we're rushed to date it up | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
it's a shame we haven't got more time. It is a shame but there's | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
something called Wimbledon that we've been cut down for. It's not as | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
if the countries and political crisis or anything! Please help me, | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
Manuel! As we were discussing earlier, | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
Michael Gove has been setting out his pitch | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
for the Conservative leadership. Speaking in the last few minutes | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
he said that whilst he may not have glamour or charisma, | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
he is the right person I knew that we needed a leader | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
who both believed in this new path and could build and lead a united | :25:27. | :25:36. | |
team to guide us through | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
the challenges ahead. I believed that Boris Johnson, | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
who had campaigned alongside me with such | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
energy and enthusiasm, I so wanted that plan to work | :25:43. | :25:43. | |
and worked night and day for it. But I came to realise this week | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
that, for all Boris's formidable talents, he was not the right | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
person for that task. That realisation meant that I once | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
more faced a Could I recommend to | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
friends, colleagues and the country of course in which I no | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
longer believed? I had to stand up | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
for my convictions. I had to stand up for a different | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
course for this country, I had to stand for the leadership | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
of this party. And in standing I cannot promise | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
that all the days ahead for I cannot pledge that | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
a few bold strokes will heal all our divisions | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
and solve the quick All I can pledge is that I will | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
always be guided by principle. I will govern as captain of the team | :26:35. | :26:43. | |
and I will always, always put my country and our people | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
above everything. This country voted for change | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
and I am going to deliver it. I'm the candidate for leader | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
who changed our education system. changing our prisons | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
and justice system. I'm the candidate for leader who led | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
the case for change in this referendum campaign | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
and the country voted for change. The country voted for no more | :27:07. | :27:08. | |
politics as usual, no more business as usual, | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
and that is why I'm standing That is Mr Gove beginning his | :27:14. | :27:26. | |
leadership bid for the Conservative Party, to be the next finalist. He | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
went on to say that he did think immigration numbers should come | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
down, that seemed to be a matter of dispute between him and Boris | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
Johnson of the week and. We had hoped to be speaking to Dominic | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
Raab, a big supporter of Mr Gove, but in the course of the programme | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
he's pulled out. There's a lot of that going on at all sides! Isn't Mr | :27:43. | :27:50. | |
Gove's bid marred by what has happened in the past 72 hours? It's | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
defined by it. It absolutely would not have happened if he happens to | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
the knife into Cameron and then Boris and he has two somehow park | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
that and persuade people to forget about that. I think you'll find it | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
very hard. Are we heading towards the Conservatives having the second | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
woman Prime Minister in our history? Quite possibly. I can't see them | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
going for gof. -- Michael Gove. The funny thing about Theresa Yobe is, | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
she does, in this chaos, you kind of want the safety option. She does | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
seem like a solid rock. We need to leave it there. Even you want to hug | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
Theresa May! There will be no holding on this programme. | :28:36. | :28:37. | |
I thank you both. I'll be back on Sunday | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
with the Sunday Politics. It is on at 11 o'clock on Sunday | :28:42. | :28:49. | |
morning. Clearly there will be a lot to update you on an report so I hope | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
you can join me. Sunday Politics 11 o'clock this Sunday morning. | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
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open roads, blue skies, one of history's most iconic muscle cars. | :29:04. | :29:10. | |
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