:00:00. > :00:00.Bullying among young Conservative campaigners. Another day, another
:00:00. > :00:17.damning dossier - with questions for the party chairman Lord Feldman.
:00:18. > :00:21.So complaints ant mark Clarke would be something that Conservative
:00:22. > :00:28.Central Office have known about for a very long time.
:00:29. > :00:33.Also tonight. Donald Trump is calling for a total and complete
:00:34. > :00:35.shut down of Muslims entering the United States.
:00:36. > :00:40.We'll examine what it is that people like about him, and what those that
:00:41. > :00:52.And this. You can watch my full interview with this man, with this
:00:53. > :00:55.amazing suit, really fancy, tonight on... BBC Newsnight. I think it is
:00:56. > :01:02.the moment of fashion. Lord Feldman - Andrew Feldman -
:01:03. > :01:05.is chairman of the Conservative Party. He's a close
:01:06. > :01:08.confidante of the Prime Minister, and a man substantially responsible
:01:09. > :01:10.for upholding decent standards And he finds himself now
:01:11. > :01:19.in the midst of a crisis over the behaviour of
:01:20. > :01:22.one senior campaigner, Mark Clarke. The crisis arose,
:01:23. > :01:24.when a young activist killed himself earlier this year, citing
:01:25. > :01:26.as a cause bullying by Mr Clarke. Questions were raised,
:01:27. > :01:29.not least by this programme. Had Former party chairman Grant Shapps
:01:30. > :01:32.accepted blame, But Lord Feldman has defended
:01:33. > :01:44.his own role, by saying he knew nothing of
:01:45. > :01:47.the problem until summer this year. The Prime Minister's inner circle
:01:48. > :02:05.has been described as a shamocracy - David Cameron's propensity to
:02:06. > :02:07.surround himself with But of all his relationships,
:02:08. > :02:13.it is his friendship with this man Lord Feldman is not only
:02:14. > :02:21.the Conservative Party chairman, but he is also David Cameron's
:02:22. > :02:24.former university tennis partner. It perhaps explains why the party
:02:25. > :02:27.was comfortable to see Grant Shapps resign over the affair, but
:02:28. > :02:38.determined to protect Lord Feldman. We will dive into the market and
:02:39. > :02:42.meet some market traders. But Feldman's career hangs
:02:43. > :02:45.on how much he knew about disgraced activist Mark Clarke's alleged
:02:46. > :02:47.bullying, and whether he acted with enough alacrity
:02:48. > :02:58.when complaints were first made. Mark Clarke denies the allegation.
:02:59. > :03:03.The student vote is really important. We
:03:04. > :03:05.Since the death of the young activist Elliott
:03:06. > :03:08.Johnson in September, there has been a stream of revelations about
:03:09. > :03:11.Last week, the party effectively acknowledged
:03:12. > :03:13.its internal investigation had been inadequate when it handed its
:03:14. > :03:20.But the biggest threat to Lord Feldman's career may come
:03:21. > :03:22.from a statement his own party made three weeks' ago.
:03:23. > :03:43.Tonight, a former Conservative activist tells
:03:44. > :03:48.Newsnight Lord Feldman was made aware of bullying long before 2015.
:03:49. > :03:58.Patrick Sullivan has known Clark since 2006.
:03:59. > :04:01.He says he has attempted to stop bullying in the youth wing
:04:02. > :04:05.of the Conservative Party called Conservative Future.
:04:06. > :04:07.He claims that he, along with Conservative MP Ben
:04:08. > :04:12.Howlett, compiled a dossier of complaints about bullying,
:04:13. > :04:21.which was handed into Feldman five years ago, in 2010.
:04:22. > :04:30.I have known Ben how let for annum of years he won an election for
:04:31. > :04:34.Conservative Future chairman, he was subject to bullying during that
:04:35. > :04:38.campaign and during hiss chair map ship. He has a strong anti-bullying
:04:39. > :04:48.stance in his campaign, because there had been a culture of bully,
:04:49. > :04:57.as soon as he is elected, myself, Ben, helped to compile a dossier,
:04:58. > :05:02.that dossier was given by Ben to Lord Feldman, and another. There
:05:03. > :05:08.were complaints about Mark Clarke given to Roger Pratt in 2008. So
:05:09. > :05:10.complaints about Mark Clarke have been something that Conservative
:05:11. > :05:17.Central Office have known about for a very long time.
:05:18. > :05:21.It is believed the dossier contained the complaints of a number of young
:05:22. > :05:25.activists and would have ended up in the building behind me. We have
:05:26. > :05:29.spoken to a couple of peek who have helped compile the dossier, and they
:05:30. > :05:35.say that Mark Clarke's name was in it. Patrick Sullivan says that the
:05:36. > :05:44.response to the dossier was initially very positive. Said Warsi
:05:45. > :05:48.was very vigilant in regards to bullying and ensured that anybody
:05:49. > :05:54.with a reputation of bullying was not involved in Conservative future
:05:55. > :05:59.or given access to young people. That somehow changed later on? That
:06:00. > :06:05.somehow changed later on, after she left. Sullivan's testimony appears
:06:06. > :06:10.to support what Ben Howlett told Newsnight three weeks' ago. Lord
:06:11. > :06:15.Feldman has been well aware of all of this, for a very long period of
:06:16. > :06:18.time. Howlett has refused to discuss the contents of the dossier with
:06:19. > :06:22.Newsnight. He says he will pass his information to the inquiry. This is
:06:23. > :06:27.the latest in a series of revelations that raises questions
:06:28. > :06:32.about whether the party dealt appropriately, with warnings of
:06:33. > :06:37.bullying, and Clark. Last week Newsnight reported that a memo had
:06:38. > :06:41.been handed into CC HQ by a party worker in August. The memo said
:06:42. > :06:46.Clark wases so thick and dangerous. And warned that if he was not kept
:06:47. > :06:51.grey the party's youth wing the result could be devastating.
:06:52. > :06:56.Lord Feldman orders an internal investigation after seeing that
:06:57. > :06:59.memo, however, Clark wasn't suspended by the party, until after
:07:00. > :07:07.Elliott Johnson's death a month later. I think it was quite shocking
:07:08. > :07:10.that Mark Clarke was able to continue with his road trip 2020
:07:11. > :07:15.while this investigation was in process.
:07:16. > :07:18.Elliott Johnson's father Ray believes there need to be more
:07:19. > :07:23.accountability at the top of the Conservative Party. I have no
:07:24. > :07:27.personal answer against Lord Feldman but I believe any head of an
:07:28. > :07:31.organisation should take responsibility for what happens in
:07:32. > :07:36.an organisation, if he has been made wear some years ago he should take
:07:37. > :07:41.responsibility and go. Lord Feldman continues to stress
:07:42. > :07:44.that he simply did not know about bullying, or about Mark Clarke.
:07:45. > :07:59.Tonight we have a statement from Lord Feldman himself saying:
:08:00. > :08:04.Such behaviour is abhorrent to me, had this been brought to my
:08:05. > :08:07.attention I would have taken immediate action to investigate as I
:08:08. > :08:12.have done since I received the complaint in August 2015.
:08:13. > :08:15.Donald Trump has made a habit of lighting the blue touch paper
:08:16. > :08:18.He did it again yesterday, and the fireworks duly ignited.
:08:19. > :08:20.Everybody in the Republican and Democrat political establishment
:08:21. > :08:23.in America has condemned his newly proclaimed policy of barring
:08:24. > :08:28.Actually, politicians here too condemned it,
:08:29. > :08:31.from David Cameron, to Nigel Farage, who called it a step too far.
:08:32. > :08:34.But if Mr Trump's appeal is based on anti-establishment credentials, it's
:08:35. > :08:37.not clear whether his supporters will care about the criticism.
:08:38. > :08:55.But there's no doubt, Trump has been the talk of America today.
:08:56. > :08:57.The White House has denounced the Trump plan.
:08:58. > :09:05.It shows the new furore over Donald Trump, showing you raising your hand
:09:06. > :09:09.We have from Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on
:09:10. > :09:11.American Islamic Relations saying, "Are we talking internment camps,
:09:12. > :09:13.are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question?
:09:14. > :09:17.You're increasingly being compared to Hitler, does that
:09:18. > :09:21.No, because what I'm doing is no different to what FDR -
:09:22. > :09:23.FDR's solution for Germans, Italians, Japanese, you know,
:09:24. > :09:32.We have places in London that are so radicalised, that the police are
:09:33. > :09:40.Rather than debate the specific merits of the policies
:09:41. > :09:44.he's proposing, we thought we might look at what people like about him.
:09:45. > :09:47.I'm joined by the Iraq war veteran Joel Arends from South Dakota,
:09:48. > :09:49.chairman of Veterans for a Stronger America, which endorsed
:09:50. > :09:55.And from Washington we're joined by the journalist
:09:56. > :10:07.Good evening, after noon to your both. Joel, let me start with you,
:10:08. > :10:10.there has been lots of criticism about what Donald Trump said. Now
:10:11. > :10:15.has that made any difference to you in your view of what he announced
:10:16. > :10:19.his policy was on foreign Muslims entering the US? Well, there is
:10:20. > :10:24.always going to be strong criticism of the kind of policy he has
:10:25. > :10:28.suggested. Look, it is a workable policy if we are able to restrict
:10:29. > :10:35.immigration from certain countries of origin. What you are seeing in
:10:36. > :10:39.America right now is there is an intense determination among many in
:10:40. > :10:42.the electorate to want to stop radical Islamic terrorism, and in
:10:43. > :10:46.order to stop that, we are looking at new ideas and so I think what
:10:47. > :10:50.Donald Trump is doing is voicing a lot of the frustration, but also a
:10:51. > :10:56.lot of the resolve and determination that Americans have, to want to stop
:10:57. > :11:01.the terrorism from coming to our shore, we saw it in San Bernadino,
:11:02. > :11:06.Americans are on edge, Donald Trump is giving voice to those people and
:11:07. > :11:10.their concern, so when he announces a major policy shift like that, you
:11:11. > :11:14.will see the kind of criticism, he is not one to shy away from
:11:15. > :11:22.criticism. That is certainly another... Dick Cheney, he is hardly
:11:23. > :11:26.Mr Liberal, and everybody in the establishment has criticised him.
:11:27. > :11:31.Does that in way strengthen your support for Trump or make you
:11:32. > :11:36.question? Well, I don't think it makes his question his suppose as to
:11:37. > :11:39.what it says to us as have the current and existing policies been
:11:40. > :11:43.work something no, they haven't. They haven't stopped terrorism
:11:44. > :11:48.coming to our shore, what do we do next? We need to look at restricting
:11:49. > :11:52.or putting a temporary pause on immigration, Rupert Murdoch came out
:11:53. > :11:57.today and said a temporary pause is a great idea as well. Until question
:11:58. > :12:02.get a handle on how to best defend the home land, maybe we should make
:12:03. > :12:05.a temporary pause a part of the dialogue, Donald Trump has certainly
:12:06. > :12:09.done that, I think there is constitutional issue there's that
:12:10. > :12:13.will have to be worked through. It is constitution Ali permissible in
:12:14. > :12:18.America, to stop immigrants from coming from certain countries of
:12:19. > :12:22.origin, whether or not the religious test would survive a constitutional
:12:23. > :12:26.challenge is a little uncertain but that is part of his Donald Trump
:12:27. > :12:31.appeal, he is plain spoken and he is talking to people's concerns. Plain
:12:32. > :12:36.spoken and constitutional issues deal with them later. Before I move
:12:37. > :12:41.on, let us talk about this, today Donald Trump said parts of London
:12:42. > :12:45.are so radicalised the police are afraid for their own lives. I live
:12:46. > :12:51.in London, for a few year, I can tell you I think that is not true.
:12:52. > :12:56.Now, does that matter to you, that I, who live in London tell you that
:12:57. > :13:00.Donald Trump has just made up something, that is, you know,
:13:01. > :13:05.basically balderdash, nonsense and spouted it as a fact. Does it matter
:13:06. > :13:11.to you that he does that or not? I think what he is giving rise to, he
:13:12. > :13:15.is certainly giving a reference to some of the no-go zones that, that
:13:16. > :13:18.appear throughout Europe. I think, you know, we have seen that in
:13:19. > :13:23.France, there are certain places, we even see it in America today, where
:13:24. > :13:27.there are certain towns in America where you have seen... I don't want
:13:28. > :13:30.to argue about it with you, because we don't have it in London. He said
:13:31. > :13:35.we have it in London. What I want to know whether it matters to you
:13:36. > :13:41.whether the truth value of what he says is a of any significance or
:13:42. > :13:48.whether he is giving voice to the concerns that is the appeal? He is a
:13:49. > :13:51.bombastic figures she going to say exaggerated things from time to
:13:52. > :13:54.time, in order to make his point. It is how he is cutting through like a
:13:55. > :13:57.knife to the rest of the American public, because they understand what
:13:58. > :14:01.he is say, they understand what he is trying to get through with these
:14:02. > :14:04.30 second sound bites that most of America can't get past. He is
:14:05. > :14:07.getting through, he is getting past, they understand it, they understand
:14:08. > :14:12.that there is no-go zones round Europe, whether or not they are in
:14:13. > :14:17.London or not is irrelevant to the major policy issue of is it happen
:14:18. > :14:22.something Thank you. Stay there. I am going to put some of that to my
:14:23. > :14:26.other guest. What is your theory as to why Donald Trump has been so
:14:27. > :14:32.unbeatable in this Republican contest this year? I think we are
:14:33. > :14:36.witnessing the death rattle of white supremacy in America. It is an
:14:37. > :14:39.ideology of exclusion, there are people who want to conTrickett
:14:40. > :14:43.America and others who want to stretch America to accommodate
:14:44. > :14:48.minorities and freedoms. All the studies show that Trump is appealing
:14:49. > :14:51.to the disaffected white voter. So the surveys show the white voter is
:14:52. > :14:59.saying this America no longer belongs to me, I can no longer
:15:00. > :15:01.become a protagonist. America has become a minority country. He has
:15:02. > :15:17.support. It is not negligible support. This
:15:18. > :15:22.race plays interfere. What Donald Trump does cynically, he marries
:15:23. > :15:26.anger with hate, with ignorance and creates a lot of cocktail and
:15:27. > :15:29.projects strength by lobbying it against a perceived enemy, the
:15:30. > :15:35.other. In this case banalities, Muslims, women, black men, Mexican
:15:36. > :15:41.immigrants. He says I will protect you against them. Disagree, this is
:15:42. > :15:45.the irony, he has given Islamic State a premature early Christmas
:15:46. > :15:52.gift. Basically they're number recruitment tool is the West is at
:15:53. > :15:56.war with Islam. President Obama said to not divide along religious or
:15:57. > :16:03.ethnic lines, because that helps Islamic State. And Dawn Trump says
:16:04. > :16:08.I'm going to ban Muslims. He gave a nice gift to Isis and I'm sure they
:16:09. > :16:13.e-mailed him and said thank you for doing our job. There is plain
:16:14. > :16:17.speaking, this was a phrase used and you have to admit that it is more
:16:18. > :16:22.interesting to listen to the guy speak than a lot of other guys
:16:23. > :16:26.speaking. That is part of his appeal. He positioned himself as
:16:27. > :16:32.saying I'm not these old-timers, not part of the establishment, I am
:16:33. > :16:37.self-made, I have my own money, I will tell it like it is. I do not
:16:38. > :16:40.bow down to political correctness and I will rationalise your hate, be
:16:41. > :16:45.a spokesman for your frustration and say what I have got to say. I do not
:16:46. > :16:50.care about moderation. Of course that is attractive to a base
:16:51. > :16:54.according to all the studies that those fields disaffected and sees
:16:55. > :16:57.the country slipping away. There is anger and frustration but it is
:16:58. > :17:00.channelled in the most poisonous way which divides Americans along
:17:01. > :17:08.religious and ethnic lines. That helps our enemies. Joel, that film.
:17:09. > :17:13.Network, the catchphrase is I am mad as hell and I will not take this any
:17:14. > :17:18.more. That is what Donald Trump is appealing to. Do you recognise that
:17:19. > :17:25.in yourself for example, angry white man? Absolutely not, I reject any
:17:26. > :17:29.such notion. What Donald Trump is speaking to is the hopes and dreams
:17:30. > :17:37.of Americans in general. Looking at is minority support, he has
:17:38. > :17:44.phenomenal support with the African American community and Hispanic
:17:45. > :17:48.community relatively speaking. In the African-American community in
:17:49. > :17:52.fact he has increased levels of support because they understand that
:17:53. > :17:55.cheap labour flowing across the borders in the form of illegal
:17:56. > :18:00.immigration is running African-American communities. We are
:18:01. > :18:05.going to lose the line. Let me go back to Wajahat Ali. What is
:18:06. > :18:09.interesting is how hard it has been for opponents to lay a glove on
:18:10. > :18:19.Donald Trump. What would be your advice because if you argue with
:18:20. > :18:22.him, if you taken seriously and argue with him you give him
:18:23. > :18:26.credibility. If you ignore him you're just undignified and the guy
:18:27. > :18:31.is the centre of the show. When Dick Cheney, the most Muslims consider
:18:32. > :18:37.the manifestation of the Sith Lord himself, basically says Trump is too
:18:38. > :18:41.extreme, that is telling. What a lot of the Republicans and many
:18:42. > :18:46.Americans have to say is OK, this guy is a bustling, a character, then
:18:47. > :18:50.spoken and fun to watch but he is dividing us and making us less safe.
:18:51. > :18:54.That is what you say because his rhetoric is poisonous and assist our
:18:55. > :18:59.enemies both abroad and at home. What type of future do we have for
:19:00. > :19:06.the rest of America, all Americans regardless of religion, ethnicity
:19:07. > :19:09.and gender, if I might Donald becomes president and enacted
:19:10. > :19:17.policies. It would be World War II. Maybe he wants those internment
:19:18. > :19:25.centres. Hopefully that will not happen. We are living in an era
:19:26. > :19:28.where these events do seem to happen, what would be the chance
:19:29. > :19:36.that he gets the Republican nomination and goes on to beat
:19:37. > :19:39.Hillary Clinton? It is a scary time because he is double down on his
:19:40. > :19:43.anti-Muslim rhetoric, he sees it working with his base and now he's
:19:44. > :19:46.the leading candidate for the Republicans. He might be the leading
:19:47. > :19:51.candidate and I see this as the death rattle of a certain white
:19:52. > :19:55.supremacy in America. I do not think he will win because we have seen
:19:56. > :19:58.solidarity even with Republicans and the Conservatives and all along
:19:59. > :20:04.religious and ethnic lines saying that this is enough, this is toxic
:20:05. > :20:05.and we reject it. So I remain hopeful and please remain hopeful in
:20:06. > :20:08.the future of America. When I looked a little earlier this
:20:09. > :20:11.evening, the weather forecast was for further rainfall across much of
:20:12. > :20:14.Scotland and northern England during John Sweeney is in Kendal today
:20:15. > :20:19.in the heart of the Lake District. The town didn't get
:20:20. > :20:22.a flood protection scheme that was planned, and now
:20:23. > :20:25.much of it has been flooded. John spent the day with families who
:20:26. > :20:27.had been washed out of As the floodwaters recede,
:20:28. > :20:35.what is striking is the grace and courage of the ordinary people
:20:36. > :20:38.of Cumbria whose living rooms Kendal sits in a bowl of hills
:20:39. > :20:46.and on Saturday night and Sunday morning it was swamped
:20:47. > :20:53.by a month's worth of rain. There is a culvert,
:20:54. > :20:56.an underground river beneath us, that overfilled and then a wall of
:20:57. > :20:59.water like a mini tsunami battered And the poor people living here had
:21:00. > :21:06.no idea what was going to hit them. At finishing time I collected
:21:07. > :21:08.my wife from work We struggled to get home in the car
:21:09. > :21:14.because they had closed bridges. So we had to go all the way
:21:15. > :21:17.round the town to get back here. And in the meanwhile I phoned
:21:18. > :21:20.my son who was at home doing some artwork, totally
:21:21. > :21:26.oblivious of what was going on. So I rang up and said,
:21:27. > :21:28.will we get somewhere A foot and a half
:21:29. > :21:36.of water was flowing down the road. Jude Harrison,
:21:37. > :21:44.shopkeeper and grandmother. And the thing that upset her
:21:45. > :21:46.the most? I had kept the letter that my son
:21:47. > :21:50.had written me, for 16 years. And I have just found it,
:21:51. > :21:52.it is ruined. Ashley Harrison,
:21:53. > :21:59.son and tattoo artist. I think after the water had actually
:22:00. > :22:07.come up through there was kind of a And just that moment of well,
:22:08. > :22:12.we can't do anything. So we sat down and had a glass
:22:13. > :22:18.of wine and just had a bit Wendy and Russell Dawson,
:22:19. > :22:24.they live for their dogs. So unfortunately Newsnight
:22:25. > :22:27.doesn't have smell-ovision. I cannot tell
:22:28. > :22:29.the viewer what it smells like. But you live here,
:22:30. > :22:31.this is your home. As the waters rose outside, what
:22:32. > :22:44.to do about their trail hounds? All
:22:45. > :22:50.of a sudden it came through the back It just rose and it was just grab
:22:51. > :22:56.the dogs and straight upstairs. Seven dogs, me and my wife
:22:57. > :23:00.and my son in the bedroom. And these are working
:23:01. > :23:02.dogs that live outside! Andrew Henshaw
:23:03. > :23:08.and Danny Hawes were told by an elderly neighbour when they
:23:09. > :23:27.moved in, Sandylands never floods. and I turned round and it was just
:23:28. > :23:31.coming through the floor. Within about 30 seconds we were
:23:32. > :23:34.in two inches of water. So we turned the power of
:23:35. > :23:37.at the fuse box because we don't We went upstairs and we thought,
:23:38. > :23:41.we can cope with soggy carpet You came down
:23:42. > :23:45.about 20 minutes later and it was up And then at half past eight we knew
:23:46. > :23:49.it was too late We just decided to leave because
:23:50. > :23:56.we didn't know what else to do. These houses were built in 1923
:23:57. > :23:59.and people said they had never People in the town talked about
:24:00. > :24:07.global warming, bare hills causing This is where the Lake District
:24:08. > :24:19.meets The Italian Job. The mini's owners are
:24:20. > :24:21.in sunny Spain. I have been told there is
:24:22. > :24:24.a covert which runs across the estate and of course the water could
:24:25. > :24:27.not get into the River Kent because It's backed up and all
:24:28. > :24:31.of a sudden it would come over I think that is exactly
:24:32. > :24:34.what has happened. Cleaning up this stinking mess
:24:35. > :24:37.would spoil anyone's Christmas. But there is something about
:24:38. > :24:39.the quiet stoicism of the people of We don't meet enough glamorous
:24:40. > :24:51.fashionistas on this programme so it's nice to bring you a rising
:24:52. > :24:55.star of the scene, with even more glittering friends and social media
:24:56. > :24:57.followers than we have. Frenchman Olivier Rousteing is
:24:58. > :25:02.creative director of the house of Balmain, now linking up with
:25:03. > :25:05.a name familiar in the UK, H He's adopted, and has scaled the
:25:06. > :25:10.commanding heights of French couture despite lacking the traditional
:25:11. > :25:13.advantages of being white and old - In an exclusive interview, he's
:25:14. > :25:28.been speaking to Stephen Smith. Olivier Rousteing is young enough
:25:29. > :25:33.and pretty enough to be a model. In fact, he is creative designer for
:25:34. > :25:36.one of fashion's leading brands. Now collaborating with
:25:37. > :25:41.high street chain H It is a big challenge, but it's
:25:42. > :25:44.an amazing challenge for a designer Because usually you speak to
:25:45. > :25:50.a niche, to a really small crowd. Because not everyone can afford
:25:51. > :25:53.the Balmain clothes. So I have to say that it's really
:25:54. > :25:56.exciting for me to work Because you talk to a really big
:25:57. > :26:07.crowd, like more global, and all my fans that maybe love the
:26:08. > :26:11.brand and love the Balmain work but cannot afford the clothes, actually
:26:12. > :26:14.now can afford the clothes. Rousteing has nearly two million
:26:15. > :26:19.followers on social media. He is so well-connected,
:26:20. > :26:22.it's thought he may know who all My generation it is Facebook,
:26:23. > :26:28.Twitter, Instagram, it is one click. So I have to say that also my way
:26:29. > :26:31.of working is the same, If you don't like me,
:26:32. > :26:37.you just un-follow me. So there's something really honest
:26:38. > :26:39.that we don't have sometimes in fashion, because when you're part
:26:40. > :26:42.of a magazine, maybe you can be a big advertiser, where on social
:26:43. > :26:46.media I think it is something really How easy or difficult has it been
:26:47. > :26:53.for somebody like you to make it I had been adopted
:26:54. > :26:59.by my white parents. I don't know where I come from,
:27:00. > :27:03.because I was born in the late '80s, when the mum was giving up
:27:04. > :27:06.the baby, she could leave without So I think fashion always helped me
:27:07. > :27:18.to actually define who I am Because not knowing where you come
:27:19. > :27:25.from, not knowing your parents, Because I think we can't forget that
:27:26. > :27:30.sometimes fashion is defined So I think I have been lucky, but
:27:31. > :27:37.at the same time I work so hard. And I almost thank my past because I
:27:38. > :27:41.think it is my past that makes me There is great debate
:27:42. > :27:45.about the size, shape, of catwalk models, people say they
:27:46. > :27:51.are too skinny, they're not real. So I think we're going back to real
:27:52. > :28:00.bodies, to embrace real femininity And all my catwalk,
:28:01. > :28:04.all my girls are naturally like They can be mums, they can be young,
:28:05. > :28:08.it is just depending. But I love just showing reality
:28:09. > :28:11.on my catwalk. And I think we are
:28:12. > :28:13.going back to that. You have got
:28:14. > :28:15.into trouble with a belfie or two. It is when you take photos
:28:16. > :28:20.of your backside, your ass. Your bosses weren't too keen,
:28:21. > :28:26.is that right? I think they were not
:28:27. > :28:28.like the happiest person But when they see my ass,
:28:29. > :28:32.they were OK! Like, I took a selfie
:28:33. > :28:38.a long time ago of my body, and actually after I had it changed
:28:39. > :28:42.to do a cover naked for a magazine. I just want to show myself,
:28:43. > :28:45.how I am, without a double-breasted jacket and in French we say
:28:46. > :28:52."mise a nu", literally being naked. The Paris attacks happened in
:28:53. > :28:57.your neighbourhood where you live. I was with my assistant and we were
:28:58. > :29:04.speaking about the next collection. And she asked me,
:29:05. > :29:06.is it going to take long, the So she texted her boyfriend
:29:07. > :29:14.and said we are not going to go to the restaurant,
:29:15. > :29:16.because she should have had dinner, and this dinner was exactly
:29:17. > :29:20.at the place where they shot. So she felt really lucky, obviously,
:29:21. > :29:23.because she was with me in the office when we heard
:29:24. > :29:25.the news on our phone. We locked the office
:29:26. > :29:29.and we just didn't want to go out. The past few days have seen
:29:30. > :29:31.considerable success for I don't think we need to respond
:29:32. > :29:50.by extremist ideas. I think Front National is
:29:51. > :29:53.like a really bad thing for France. I think people should vote and I
:29:54. > :29:56.think people should actually not go We can't answer an extreme story
:29:57. > :30:01.with extreme political ideas. I'm really wondering
:30:02. > :30:05.about my country because I'm really worried, I think we can't forget
:30:06. > :30:09.that what is amazing about France is I don't think there's any freedom
:30:10. > :30:15.in Front National. With all that's happened with Paris,
:30:16. > :30:20.I want to make sure my next collection is
:30:21. > :30:23.a reflection of the beautiful So it is going to be a lot
:30:24. > :30:32.of diversity, it is going to be a beautiful Paris and it is going
:30:33. > :30:35.to be a homage to my country. And showing that Paris is amazing
:30:36. > :30:38.and we have to keep it strong and not forget that Paris is
:30:39. > :30:50.the city of light. It's been a difficult week
:30:51. > :30:52.for the Stop the War coalition. It failed to Stop the War in that
:30:53. > :30:55.Commons vote last Wednesday. And today,
:30:56. > :30:58.the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas stepped down as a patron, troubled
:30:59. > :31:01.by some statements of the campaign. It's Jeremy Corbyn's connection to
:31:02. > :31:14.Stop the War that is keeping it Lfie. In belfie. What happened
:31:15. > :31:18.today? So, Stop the War organisation that has been round since early
:31:19. > :31:22.2000, to oppose military intervention in places like
:31:23. > :31:26.Afghanistan and irrang, Caroline Lucas and Jeremy Corbyn being
:31:27. > :31:33.lifelong supporters of it. Caroline Lucas pulls out. She says that
:31:34. > :31:37.reports end didn't let Syrians speak at a meeting in November. Stop the
:31:38. > :31:40.War deny that. That is one of the reasons she is citing and the other
:31:41. > :31:47.is she is unhappy about comments they made in the aftermath of par
:31:48. > :31:51.Ritz. One supporter was supposed to have said... She accepts the
:31:52. > :31:55.comments are been taken down but she says it was the Vice-President. She
:31:56. > :31:58.didn't feel she could take, keep an eye on what they were up to so she
:31:59. > :32:03.pulled out. This puts pressure on Jeremy Corbyn, at the weekend on
:32:04. > :32:09.Friday, he is due to be speaking at one of their big dinner, ?50 a head.
:32:10. > :32:14.Three course, Turkish meal? A glass of wine and the night will feature
:32:15. > :32:19.music, comedy and speeches, including one from Jeremy Corbyn. It
:32:20. > :32:24.is his position, they have reiterated it to me, Stop the War is
:32:25. > :32:28.a vital democratic campaign, organised the biggest demonstration
:32:29. > :32:33.in British political history and this quote, called it right, Jeremy
:32:34. > :32:37.Corbyn is not pulling out, but, I think that Caroline Lucas pulling
:32:38. > :32:42.out might change it, because she is a fellow traveller of his. It is not
:32:43. > :32:47.like Tristram Hunt, he is on a different wing of the party, who at
:32:48. > :32:50.the weekend he said Stop the War was deplorable. This is coming from a
:32:51. > :32:53.different quarter. Thank you very much.
:32:54. > :32:55.A lot of race being discussed in the programme today.
:32:56. > :32:58.I'd like to say it was thematic planning, but it wasn't.
:32:59. > :33:01.However it was exactly 50 years ago today that the Race Relations Act
:33:02. > :33:04.The law prohibited discrimination on "grounds of colour, race,
:33:05. > :33:07.or ethnic or national origins " in public places.
:33:08. > :33:09.It didn't cover housing, it didn't cover employment.
:33:10. > :33:14.But it did mark a pretty big legal change.
:33:15. > :33:16.It was back in days when the phrase "colour bar" didn't
:33:17. > :33:21.We asked writer Benjamin Zephaniah, who's a little older than the Act,
:33:22. > :33:23.to look back, and at how far we've come.
:33:24. > :33:30.There is some bad language in his piece.
:33:31. > :33:34.And Britain was a very different place.
:33:35. > :33:38.There were colour bars - landlords would refuse to rent to
:33:39. > :33:46.Most people are suspicious when they first meet something different.
:33:47. > :33:48.Immigrants are different. There were pubs with signs,
:33:49. > :33:51."no blacks, no Irish, no dogs". Want to keep Britain. Keep it white,
:33:52. > :34:04.as it should be. The Race Relations Act
:34:05. > :34:06.of 1965 changed things. It was now illegal to discriminate
:34:07. > :34:09.in public on the grounds of colour, It was a civil and not
:34:10. > :34:15.a criminal offence, and it didn't Three years later,
:34:16. > :34:20.the law was toughened up following Enoch Powell's infamous
:34:21. > :34:35.rivers of blood speech. In this country, in 15 or 20 years'
:34:36. > :34:40.time, the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.
:34:41. > :34:46.Notting Hill is famous for its carnival. Not the notorious race
:34:47. > :34:53.riots of 1958. This used to be the front line. A danger no go area for
:34:54. > :34:56.some. But now, it is one of the trendiest most multicultural parts
:34:57. > :35:01.of London. Time has moved on, and racism has evolved. We don't really
:35:02. > :35:06.see gangs of racist thugs roaming the streets like they did back in
:35:07. > :35:12.the day. They now wear suits and ties. Some form political party,
:35:13. > :35:20.some build websites and some of them are academics. The whites have
:35:21. > :35:22.become black. A particular sort of violent, distrucktive nihilistic
:35:23. > :35:27.gangster culture has become the fashion.
:35:28. > :35:27.Racists have become more sophisticated.
:35:28. > :35:42.He picked on me, sat next to me on packed train on the way to
:35:43. > :35:47.Liverpool. He like, he called me all of the names you can think of and
:35:48. > :35:53.more and started doing monkey sounds and you know, jungle sounds and told
:35:54. > :35:57.me to get out of his country, his grandfather fought in the war so
:35:58. > :36:03.dirty Africans like me could get out. Nobody jumped to my rescue. I
:36:04. > :36:07.said I was on there, on my own for 45 minute, it was only when I I was
:36:08. > :36:20.was physically assaulted one person, one man finally came to my defence.
:36:21. > :36:26.It isn't enough for me to make more or less Indian work or work that
:36:27. > :36:34.refers if you like to my past, what I am interested in, is how it is
:36:35. > :36:39.that one can be you know, one can rid one's self of that colonial
:36:40. > :36:46.yolk. Something to do with this both, the expectations of one's self
:36:47. > :36:49.and the expectation given by a political socio-political context
:36:50. > :36:53.that says in order to be the cutting-edge on the cutting-edge,
:36:54. > :36:58.you have to deal with this question of your blackness. Well, actually do
:36:59. > :37:04.you? In my generation we are using to it. Definitely used to getting
:37:05. > :37:09.not getting a job because your name is a certain name or having people
:37:10. > :37:13.harass you because your hair is difference, that is insidious
:37:14. > :37:18.racism. What happened to me is kind of what we think happens in America,
:37:19. > :37:23.what we think happened to our parents and our grandparents. I no
:37:24. > :37:28.longer have to run away from skin head thugs but I still get stopped
:37:29. > :37:33.by the police. On the whole society is more accepting but we Silva
:37:34. > :37:36.institutional racism. Company boardrooms are very white, and
:37:37. > :37:42.ethnic minority communities are still very suspicious of the police.
:37:43. > :37:46.After the death of Steven Lawrence the report said the Met was
:37:47. > :37:50.institutionally racist, and that hasn't gone away. Black people are
:37:51. > :37:55.still disproportionately stopped and searched, and the amount of black
:37:56. > :38:00.people, like my cousin Mikey Powell that die in custody is very
:38:01. > :38:06.worrying. It seems to me we live in a society
:38:07. > :38:12.where we are always being told to fear someone. The other. Those who
:38:13. > :38:17.are not like us, and the newest targets are migrants, those who
:38:18. > :38:26.David Cameron refers to as the swarm. We also live in a time of a
:38:27. > :38:32.new kind of does one call it racism? One does, Islamophobia, you know, it
:38:33. > :38:37.is as if it has given full measure, you are allowed to you know, look at
:38:38. > :38:43.those people who wear a hijab or whatever else it is, and say are you
:38:44. > :38:46.going to bomb me now? You know, how many incidents have there be
:38:47. > :38:53.recently, and how watchful do we have to be? Very, I say.
:38:54. > :39:01.This is just one of the many racist rants on public transport that have
:39:02. > :39:10.recently gone viral. Bitches -- bitches. Isis bitches.
:39:11. > :39:15.Laws can control people's actions but they can't control people's
:39:16. > :39:20.thoughts. As racism becoming more subtle we need to keep pressuring
:39:21. > :39:25.our institutions to change. So yes, society is a lot more tolerant than
:39:26. > :39:32.it was 50 years ago but there is still work to do.
:39:33. > :39:39.The struggle continues. We need to stop blaming each other.
:39:40. > :39:43.You see, I am not the problem, but I bear the brunt of silly playground
:39:44. > :39:49.taunts an racist stunts. I am not the problem. I am a born academic
:39:50. > :39:53.but they have me on the run. Now I am branded athletic, I am not the
:39:54. > :39:57.problem, if you give me a chance I will teach you of Tim buck too. I
:39:58. > :40:03.can do more than dance, I am not the problem, I greet you with a smile,
:40:04. > :40:07.you put me in a pigeon hole but I am versatile. Well, these conditions
:40:08. > :40:13.may affect me, as I get older, and I am positively sure I have no chips
:40:14. > :40:18.on my shoulders, black is not the problem, mother country, get it
:40:19. > :40:23.right. And just for the record, some of my best friends are white!
:40:24. > :40:31.That is just about it for this evening. Before we go I am not sure
:40:32. > :40:34.whether it is austerity to me the fashion for flamboyant Christmas
:40:35. > :40:42.light displays seem to have passed its peak. At least that is what I
:40:43. > :40:46.thought, then this display in Texas came along courtesy of the Johnson
:40:47. > :40:54.family in San Antonio.