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Now on BBC News, it is time for Newsnight with Emily Maitlis. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Tonight - after Isis, the NHS, and creative celebrities - | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
now house prices become the latest weapon in the EU Referendum debate. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
There would be a hit to the value of people's homes of | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
At the same time mortgages will get more expensive | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
Have we hit the bottom, or is there more to come? | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
We talk the politics of panic and preposterous claims. | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
As French investigators question or staff at Charles de Gaulle Airport | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
a major multinational search for the missing Egyptian air jet finds | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
And as the police investigate 29 Tory | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Constituencies to look at claims of overspending, we ask what the | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Electors are getting increasingly concerned that we are moving back | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
to the days of the rotten boroughs where a party can buy an election. | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
And we hear from the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, as he | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Any good politician knows that if you want Middle England to sit up | :01:07. | :01:20. | |
and listen, sooner or later you have to start talking about house prices. | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
So tonight, yes, even real estate has become fair | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
game in the war of words that is the EU referendum debate. | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
The Chancellor, George Osborne, has claimed that price | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
of our home will be hit by at least 10% in what he calls the | :01:34. | :01:45. | |
"profound economic shock" that would result from a vote to leave the EU. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
He revealed that the Treasury analysis being carried out on the | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
short-term economic consequences concludes that by 2018, home owners | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Next week the Treasury will publish an announcement of what the | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
immediate consequence will be. There will be a key to the value of | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
peoples homes have at least 10% and up to 18%. At the same time | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
mortgages will get more expensive and mortgage rates will go up. Some | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
people will say that a price we are saying, I say we are stronger and | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
better off inside the EU. Our political editor | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
Nick Watt is here. What do you make | :02:23. | :02:23. | |
of this intervention, Nick? Let's look at the small print and | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
then the big print. The big print is that George Osborne | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
wants us to think that if we left the European Union | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
our home values would fall by 10%. Let's look at the small print, she | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
did not say that proper developers could fall coming he said they would | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
be hit because what those figures mean is that they would fall between | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
0.6% and 0.8% because they are saying that the Office for | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Budget Responsibility says property What he's saying that they will | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
fall off that percentage. So it is about not rising | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
rather than falling. We also heard from the Leave side, | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
Michael Gover making claims about the number of people who | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
would enter the UK The idea of looking after a new | :03:16. | :03:34. | |
group of patients equivalent of size to four the size of Birmingham is | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
unsustainable. That would have huge consequences for the NHS. There | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
would be a rise in accident and emergency attendances, up to six and | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
13 million a year, an enormous additional demand on a system | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
already under pressure. The small print, the Leave believe | :03:48. | :03:48. | |
that this is one of their trump card -- cards because of the way that | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
used in European expanded and they say that if four new | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
Western and Balkan countries join the immigration from those countries | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
by 2030 would be between 2.7 million and 5 | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
million. The first is that those five | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
countries will all join in 2020. EU is very keen to get former | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
Yugoslav republics in because it stabilises that former war zone, | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
but not keen on getting tricky in. Assumption number two, you don't | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
impose transitional controls, that is, limiting immigration to | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
those countries the seven years. The UK did not do it in 2004 | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
although they did it in 2007. If you have transitional controls it | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
goes down to 2.7. The third assumption, Turkey joining | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
in 2020, which is highly unlikely. In France they would have to be | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
a referendum for Turkey to join. Only one country is keen on Turkey | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
joining and that is the UK, and now that the UK is having to consult | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
voters they are becoming less keen. Sir John Mills is the chair | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
of Labour Leave and is also a businessman and has | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
chaired many housing committees. I'm going to start by looking | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
at this idea that George Osborne raises, that a Brexit will massively | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
affect the price of our homes. To be honest, | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
of all the threats to the British economy Brexit is relatively small, | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
if a threat at all, compared to what is happening in China and | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
in Greece and potentially in Italy. Would you accept short-term that | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
there could be profound economic shocks, | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
which could hit the housing market? I am not sure that I buy the idea | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
of a profound economic shock. I think life will go on much | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
as it was before after Brexit. They will keep on creeping up, if | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
anything, because of demand exceeding supply, | :06:01. | :06:12. | |
but the chance of an enormous reduction but even if there was I | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
am not so sure that this is such a bad thing anyway because prices are | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
very high in the housing market. Let me ask you if honestly hand | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
on heart you would tell apart some -- tear apart some of the wider | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
claims on your side. We have heard Michael Gove | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
suggesting that net immigration could swell to another five million | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
if we stay, putting I do think it is likely that | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
immigration will go up. A lower figure than | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
the one they quote yet still a lot, if we have a living wage of ?5 an | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
hour which is more than twice what So, as a Labour figure, would you | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
say that price is too high, that ?9? No, there is a lot to be said | :06:52. | :07:01. | |
for a living wage but it will also attract people in from the | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
continent, particularly if there are very high | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
levels of unemployment continuing. And he used this strong phrase, | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
that it would put the NHS Sounds like it would spell the | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
end of the NHS if we stayed in. There is a big problem | :07:17. | :07:29. | |
because we don't spend nearly enough because of our rising population on | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
new hospitals, schools and roads. That is why there is a bit | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
of a crisis in all these areas. you would sit on a very different | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
side to Michael Gove. Is your version of Out the same | :07:42. | :07:52. | |
as his, would you want to be on You'd say that's the right way to | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
go? I think there is something to be | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
said for doing that because to control our borders we have to be | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
outside the single market but it You don't have to be in | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
the single market to sell to bed. He said | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
we would be another Albania, does There's | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
a new treaty coming with Canada. It did take a long time, but we're | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
there and that seems a more I wonder if you feel happy, though, | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
with the way that the Vote Leave You don't agree with that figure | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
of 5 million new immigrants. You clearly don't agree that the NHS | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
would collapse under this sort Is this helping your side to hear | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
those sorts of claims I think there has been a | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
fair bit of hyperbole on both sides You are much better off sticking to | :08:59. | :09:08. | |
figures that people find credible and there is plenty of data | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
around which is very important in this debate and I don't think you | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
need to gild the lily to make the At the beginning of the week David | :09:19. | :09:36. | |
Cameron was invoking Remain as a vote for ISIS. In between, actors | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
popped up to reassure us that Britain would be more creative as | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
part of the EU and Michael Gove suggested immigration could grow by | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
another 5 million if we stayed in, as you have just been hearing. And | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
the NHS would be under unsustainable pressure. Is anything sacred in this | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
debate? Erie is the former adviser to Nick Clegg and a political | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
columnist for the Daily Mail. Nice to see you. I wonder, Peter, if you | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
look at the polls that seem now to put Remain with this ten point lead | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
whether you think they have on the economic argument that was at the | :10:16. | :10:28. | |
heart of all of this? I don't think so. I wouldn't say they have won it. | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
I wouldn't be in favour of Leave if I thought the economic argued that | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
was right. There are divisions. It hasn't been done very well and they | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
need to sort themselves out in the three or five weeks that are left. | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
So you think they can heal those divisions and how would they do | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
that? I think the remain campaign has been very well run. There's been | :10:53. | :11:01. | |
a consistent message. Whereas the Leave campaign, there are couple of | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
lots... And the Labour lot. Yes. And they are saying different things. | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
For me it is pretty obvious that we would flourish outside of the EU. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
When I introduced you I spoke about the weeks starting with this idea of | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
ISIS, welcoming Brexit, and homeowners seeing prices tumble by | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
80%. It is all rather apocalyptic on the remain macro side? By the | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
ditties on both sides. -- Remain. On the one hand you have terrifying | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
predictions about the NHS and people practically dying on the streets. On | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
the other side with all practically be homeless, although it is the | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
first thing I heard that might persuade me to vote Leave, that | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
homes might become more affordable. At it goes on to say that mortgage | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
rates will go up a master which is a recession as opposed to a cheaper | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
housing market. I am still persuaded that we should vote In, but I am not | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
looking to politicians to provide me with facts about the future. It is | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
impossible to know. In the end is in the end is it is -- it is about an | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
assessment of risk and possibility. Do you think we have run this the | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
wrong way? We keep asking politicians what Out looks like. | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
There are of course six different ways it could look like. You say | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
from inside that you don't think politicians can provide those facts. | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
So was there another way of tailoring this debate? Away from | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
preposterous argument? Of course. There are quite good fact check | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
outfits. But it doesn't stop people repeating the thing that they want | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
to repeat. I think that curiously enough to Leave campaign have been | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
more responsible. If you look at the inflammatory stuff from the Prime | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Minister, he invokes the caliphate of IS, I mean this is bullocks. He | :13:04. | :13:14. | |
is invoking world war three. He is taking leave of his senses. When Mr | :13:15. | :13:26. | |
Johnson, Boris Johnson, provides alerted observation... -- a good | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
observation. The second Napoleon, there have been numerous attempts. | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
But if you look at the response from Lord Heseltine or others, sensible | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
remarks by Boris Johnson, they are fanatical. It goes back to a | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
technique used... I did a pamphlet called Guilty Men about the campaign | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
to keep us in the euro. Out there there are extremists, that was the | :14:01. | :14:10. | |
line. Do you think that's true? Being In is quiet and nice? Is that | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
how it has been played? I think what Peter is describing his politics. | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
People do speak in exaggerated tones and they do make a case with these | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
hyperbolic suggestions and implications about the future. It | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
has always been thus. If you look at the referendum there were claims | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
that babies would die if we voted for OV. Do you quietly by the | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
north-east when you hear David Cameron saying that without the EU | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
there would be war or ISIS want us to leave? Or do you say fair game? | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
It is what you expect. They have to speak in simplistic terms because | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
the amount of time people will spend thinking about this in the end is | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
quite limited and they do look to politicians to do a lot of the | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
macro... Most students cannot even name | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
the date of the EU referendum, do you still think at the end | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
of this that politicians are talking to themselves in a tiny | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
circle or is it reaching out? This is an important debate, | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
but I do repeat, the main case, particularly the Prime Minister, | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
he's being reckless, making absurd statements, but I reckon the leave | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
lot are being much more responsible. What you are trying to say | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
in his studio, there is the awful lot on the one hand and awful | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
on the other, but the BBC is part of the problem, you are playing | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
it up. The Hitler story about Boris, which | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
is a constructed story. What was the thing that you didn't | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
like that I asked you about? What you are doing, creating | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
a forced dichotomy between one lot of people telling lies and another | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
a lot of people telling lies. The people telling the worst lies | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
are David Cameron, George Osborne, Let's not pretend that you | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
are impartial, by the way. You inflame the Hitler analogy | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
and you turned that into a story. Would you | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
like to have the last word? When people are biased like Peter | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
and myself, we listen to politicians and we assume the people that we | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
like our telling the truth and the people we don't like are not telling | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
the truth, that is hard-wired into our brains | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
and Peter has lost touch with that. To say that Isis are supporting the | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
remain campaign, perfectly normal? There is a basic level of public | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
debate which the remain side are At the risk of sounding biased, | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
that is it. French aviation investigators are | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
understood to have begun checking and questioning all ground staff | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
at the Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris who had either | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
a direct or an indirect link to The flight crashed | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
into the Mediterranean just 20 minutes before it was due to land, | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
killing all 66 on board. Investigators are pouring over the | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
list of the plane's passengers and crew to look for a criminal record | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
or ties to terror watch lists. So far, nothing has come to light | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
that directly connects this Gabriel Gatehouse is in Paris | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
and sent this report. More than 24 hours | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
after it crashed, the first bits Investigators say they have | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
recovered objects including luggage and human remains, | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
belonging to passengers aboard EgyptAir flight 804, but they | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
haven't yet found the crucial black box | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
flight data recorders. The search and recovery operation | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
which is led by Egypt is for the moment focused on a relatively small | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
area, 40 miles in radius, just under But the longer the search goes on, | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
the wider they need to look, as the current carries the bits of mangled | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
wreckage in different directions. The Airbus A320 that disappeared | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
yesterday had previously made an emergency landing, in 2013, while | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
en route from Cairo to Istanbul. The pilot noticed one | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
of the engines was overheating The problem was said | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
to have been fixed. The Egyptian authorities have said | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
they believe terrorism is the most likely cause | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
although they have offered no Here in France, ministers have | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
appealed for caution, saying they TRANSLATION: All hypotheses | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
are being examined. There is no specific one being | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
favoured because we have had no indication of the cause of the | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
accident as yet, and we are still France has sent three | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
investigators from its Air Accident But there is another investigation | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
going on here at home. At Charles de Gaulle airport today, | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
the usual security checks. This is already a country under | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
a state of emergency. The investigation here is focusing | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
on the question of whether anyone could have planted | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
a bomb on board in Paris. A police source has told Newsnight | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
that they are now pouring over hours The focus | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
of the investigation is to try and trace the movement of everyone | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
who had access to that plane. That means not just passengers | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
and crew, but ground staff, as well, baggage handlers, | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
technicians, catering staff. For what it's worth, | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
the source added that they thought it was unlikely that | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
a bomb could have been smuggled on board in Paris because of enhanced | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
security measures already in place. European security officials have | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
told the Associated Press news agency that they have checked | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
the list of passengers and crew who boarded the flight in Paris and none | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
was on any terror watch list. In Cairo, people gathered this | :20:18. | :20:27. | |
afternoon to pray For now, we are still no closer | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
to discovering why EgyptAir flight 804 dropped out of the sky in the | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
early hours of yesterday morning. Police are investigating a number | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
of Tory held constituencies over allegations they broke | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
their local spending rules An investigation by Channel 4 News | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
has questioned whether the Conservative party declared | :20:48. | :20:56. | |
expenses centrally - instead of locally - which would have taken | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
them over agreed spending limits. So what difference would it make | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
if it were found to be illegal? In other words, | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
is it beaurocratic nitpicking, In the 18th century, elections | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
were filthy, corrupt affairs. This is the 1754 contest | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
from the paintbrush of William Hogarth. There is bribing voters, | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
mob violence and widespread fraud. Modern election rules were | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
supposed to stop all this. Electors are getting increasingly | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
concerned that we're moving back to the days of the rotten boroughs | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
where a party can buy an election. I don't think as an election lawyer | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
I could put my hand on my heart and say for the last 15-20 years | :21:45. | :21:53. | |
we've had a copper-bottom guarantee that | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
we've got free and fair elections I think we're losing | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
that guarantee. OK, so I don't think they had battle | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
buses in Hogarth's day. But Conservatives are accused | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
of driving a coach, if not horses, The story was broken | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
and developed in the past three To make sense of this story you have | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
to realise there are two different The first is local, | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
constituency spending limits. Here, roughly, | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
a candidate can spend a maximum of It varies depending on the number | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
of electors and the type of seats. However, there is also | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
a national limit on what parties can Assuming they are contesting every | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
seat in the election, which none of them do, they could spend | :22:36. | :22:44. | |
a maximum of ?19.5 million in the 12 However, these are separate types | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
of spending. One is local on local constituency | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
campaigning, and the other is Local spending limits were never | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
much of a problem because the parties had armies | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
of volunteers to tramp But since 2005 half of Tory | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
activists have left the party. The Tories were targeting 100 | :23:07. | :23:15. | |
key seats at the election. In many of those seats they did not | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
have the party members on So what they decided to do was build | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
up a big activist base of volunteers who were signed up | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
through the party centrally and then to move them in buses to the area | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
where they were needed most. At the last general election | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
the Conservatives had five buses ferrying volunteers | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
into target seats. Here is one arriving | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
in the target seat of Thanet South. Then party chairman Grant Shapps was | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
desperate to defeat Nigel Farage who Let's get out there | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
and let's get campaigning. It is clear they have come to help | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
the Conservative candidate You will be working with | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
a good number of our locals. But unlike those locals, | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
all the bussed in campaigners needed transport, | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
feeding and a place to stay. In order to get people to turn out | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
and campaign you have to make it If you give them food, | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
say a free curry at the end of the day, and a beer, and encourage them | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
to have a bit of fun together, you Channel 4 uncovered thousands | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
of pounds worth of receipts on hotels and food for campaigners | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
in target seats like Thanet South. None of which was recorded | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
against local candidate spending. Gavin Miller QC is a specialist | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
in election law and a former Labour What the law looks at is | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
the end product of that work which has been done and then it looks back | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
to see how you have funded it. So if the work that is being done | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
by those campaigners is with the aim of promoting or procuring the | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
particular election of a particular candidate in a constituency, | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
the Labour candidate, the Liberal candidate, the Tory candidate, | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
whoever it may be, if money is spent getting them there and locating them | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
there to enable them to do that work, transport costs, subsistence, | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
that is an election expense. We asked Craig McKinley, | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
now Conservative MP for He referred us to the | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
Conservative Party press office who If it is a mistake, | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
it is because the rules are not being implicit enough | :25:34. | :25:55. | |
about where the costing should go. And is it a mistake if it is that, | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
unique to the Conservatives? What we are seeing, | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
there is a conspiracy of silence in the other parties | :26:03. | :26:04. | |
because they are all culpable. If there is a mistake being made, | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
all the parties have made it and it does not seem fair that only | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
Conservative MPs have been singled Labour also took activists to key | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
seats using a bus they called The main difference with the | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
Conservative operation seems to be that it was far smaller, and since | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
Labour did not win many target seats, there are not many Labour MPs | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
who are liable to legal challenge. I think since we introduced national | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
spending limits it has given an excuse, a cover, to the national | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
parties, where they have the money and can identify a particular | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
constituency that is one of their marginals or one they want to win, | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
where they need a little extra help, to spend money | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
in that constituency and apportion Labour also declined our request | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
for an interview and gave us The Lib Dems completely reject the | :26:51. | :26:59. | |
idea that they bussed in activists. It is frustrating that | :27:00. | :27:18. | |
the Conservatives are now trying to say that the leaders bus which each | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
of the parties has and has always been deemed to be national expense, | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
equates to the five battle buses that the Conservatives ran, | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
crammed full of activists often because their own local activists | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
were too old and not coming out. Bussed in to seat after seat | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
after seat, week after week, during the campaign, where they were going | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
in to canvas and deliver leaflets, do the things you would expect | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
for a particular local candidate. Fiona Jones arrived at the criminal | :27:49. | :27:50. | |
court to face a criminal charge... The penalties for misreporting | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
your election spending are severe. In 1999 Labour MP Fiona Jones was | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
convicted and immediately barred from public office, although the | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
verdict was overturned on appeal. A dozen police forces are now | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
investigating and Whatever happens next, | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
it's a shame we don't have Hogarth That's all we have time | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
for this evening. Before, we introduce you to No | :28:15. | :28:27. | |
Such Thing as the News, a brand new series from the QI Elves with | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
their own curious take on the week. Coming up next we have Artsnight | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
which features the author We play you out tonight with | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson. I grabbed a couple | :28:38. | :28:46. | |
of words with him before the first show of his Pet Sounds tour tonight | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
at the London Palladium. # Round, round, get around, | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
I get around... # Tell the teacher we're | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
surfing # Wouldn't it be nice if we could | :28:59. | :29:00. | |
wake up... I wanted to make | :29:01. | :29:13. | |
an album that was just about as good as Rubber Soul, so we did it | :29:14. | :29:15. | |
with my friend Tony Asher. We wrote God Only Knows and then | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
we wrote the rest of the album. And Rubber Soul made such an impact | :29:20. | :29:22. | |
on you, I wonder if you can take us When I heard it it was November | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
1965. I was so blown away, | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
it blew me away so much that I made What was the song, | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
do you remember the song that you # I sat on the rug, | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
drinking her wine And what was the sense at that | :29:38. | :29:45. | |
moment, that you wanted to take away from it and create Pet Sounds, was | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
there an emotion or a melody? A melody, a melody was | :29:53. | :29:55. | |
the first thing I heard. After it was released, | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
you heard from Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney said God Only Knows | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
was the greatest song ever written. # God only knows what I'd be without | :30:04. | :30:15. | |
# Though life would still go on, believe me | :30:16. | :30:31. | |
# The world could show nothing to me | :30:32. | :30:33. | |
# So what good would living do me? | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
# God only knows what I'd be without you | :30:38. | :30:45. | |
# God only knows what I'd do without you... # | :30:46. | :31:03. | |
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