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:00:07. > :00:10.Tonight - as the voter registration deadline is extended, we ask

:00:11. > :00:15.what we know about the demographics of how the country will vote.

:00:16. > :00:19.We speak to the polling expert prepared to put himself on the line

:00:20. > :00:23.and call it with two weeks to go - and to Labour's Harriet Harman.

:00:24. > :00:25.And we're in Cardiff conducting our own extremely

:00:26. > :00:29.Well, I'm just wondering whether I could offer

:00:30. > :00:39.I've not voted in bureaucrats in Brussels.

:00:40. > :00:50.He basically said, "It's my business, I can do what I want."

:00:51. > :00:58.I'm going to come down there and kill you.

:00:59. > :01:00.The commons select committee hears allegations of death threats

:01:01. > :01:03.and serial lying from the men who've been at the top of BHS.

:01:04. > :01:05.We talk to the pensions minister Ros Altman.

:01:06. > :01:06.Does she understand what went wrong?

:01:07. > :01:09.An Eritraen man is extradited to Italy on allegations

:01:10. > :01:15.It's the first arrest of its kind in the migration crisis,

:01:16. > :01:18.but tonight suggestions surface they may have the wrong man.

:01:19. > :01:21.Everybody is saying this is my friend, my childhood friend.

:01:22. > :01:24.He's just a refugee from a camp in Sudan in 2015.

:01:25. > :01:41.Around this time last night - just an hour before the deadline -

:01:42. > :01:43.the crashing of the website for voter registration sent those

:01:44. > :01:46.wishing to sign up for the EU referendum poll into something

:01:47. > :01:53.Popular wisdom believes late registration favours the Remain camp

:01:54. > :01:57.- with those for Brexit long energised and already signed up.

:01:58. > :02:00.Impossible to prove of course - before the 23rd of June -

:02:01. > :02:03.but when the deadline was extended until tomorrow night,

:02:04. > :02:06.it led to voices from the Leave camp warning it was on the 'cusp

:02:07. > :02:15.This referendum is a moment when every

:02:16. > :02:18.the safe seats of a general election do not exist -

:02:19. > :02:21.and tonight, we're exploring what that means for the campaigns.

:02:22. > :02:29.First to our Political Editor, Nick Watt.

:02:30. > :02:34.Egg dramatic developments since the website crashed last night and we

:02:35. > :02:39.reported it on Newsnight. The government realised they had to grab

:02:40. > :02:43.hold of this one quickly, so we will see the introduction in Parliament

:02:44. > :02:46.of emergency secondary legislation, allowing for what you were talking

:02:47. > :02:52.about, the extension of the deadline to tomorrow night. The Leave

:02:53. > :02:56.campaign were initially suspicious, thinking it might be a ruse by the

:02:57. > :03:00.government to increase the size of the electorate to the advantage of

:03:01. > :03:07.the Remain campaign. The official vote Leave campaign had been

:03:08. > :03:15.operating on the basis of a low turnout. Aware of the danger of

:03:16. > :03:19.appearing like conspiracy theorists, they have come out and say they

:03:20. > :03:25.wholly were open this. And they have made a virtue of it saying, if you

:03:26. > :03:29.want to get turkey out the European Union, even more people can vote

:03:30. > :03:34.leave. We have a defection, we haven't had a defection in politics

:03:35. > :03:38.for some time. Doctor Sara Woollaston, the independent minded

:03:39. > :03:46.conservative MPs Totnes has announced that she is moving from

:03:47. > :03:53.vote Leave to Remain. She is unamused by the vote Leave campaign

:03:54. > :03:56.that Britain spends ?350 million a week to the European Union, the net

:03:57. > :04:02.figure is a third of that. The second reason is she says there

:04:03. > :04:06.would be a penalty on the NHS if we left because it would hit the

:04:07. > :04:10.economy and of course she is a GP. And looking back at this extension

:04:11. > :04:14.to the deadline, we don't know, but is there a sense that this would

:04:15. > :04:20.genuinely favour one side over another? What is your gut feeling?

:04:21. > :04:23.The government says it is acting entirely selflessly, and doing this

:04:24. > :04:28.to promote democracy, transparency and openness, but there is no doubt

:04:29. > :04:31.the smiles were on the Remain ministers today, because as you say

:04:32. > :04:36.they believe that if you get a higher turnout, then you are more

:04:37. > :04:40.likely to have voters who don't wake up every day thinking about the EU,

:04:41. > :04:45.they think of bread and butter, therefore they hope they are more

:04:46. > :04:49.likely to vote for Remain. It is interesting Remain have been

:04:50. > :04:53.nervous, this is why I am spending time in the north-west of England

:04:54. > :04:57.because there is a fear that in some of those natural Labour heartlands

:04:58. > :05:01.whilst we are focusing on the blue on blue showing within the

:05:02. > :05:06.Conservative Party, we are perhaps missing out on a more dangerous

:05:07. > :05:09.story for the Remain site, the inability of the Labour Party, the

:05:10. > :05:13.bread elite to get out the red grassroots. Thank you.

:05:14. > :05:19.We will hear from a senior Labour politician in a moment.

:05:20. > :05:23.But first let's get into the question of what the campaigns

:05:24. > :05:29.do know about who to target with our Policy Editor Chris Cook.

:05:30. > :05:36.Lots of elements of this campaign are ageless. Doorknocking,

:05:37. > :05:40.gladhanding, battle buses. But a referendum is not a general

:05:41. > :05:44.election. On June the 23rd, the whole nation will be one

:05:45. > :05:53.constituency. So how are the two campaigns choosing where to fight? I

:05:54. > :05:56.think this referendum has been more about globalisation than persuasion.

:05:57. > :06:01.Both campaigns have been focusing heavily on their core areas. This

:06:02. > :06:06.map shows the distribution of marginal seats that were really

:06:07. > :06:10.fought over at the 2015 general election. Scotland has loads of

:06:11. > :06:14.marginal seats. If you look down the east coast of England there are not

:06:15. > :06:20.many. In London there are a few here and there. The referendum is going

:06:21. > :06:22.to be very different. Each side will be going to areas where they think

:06:23. > :06:27.they are strongest and trying to get out the vote in this biggest

:06:28. > :06:34.numbers. So where are those numbers? Starting with the Leave campaign,

:06:35. > :06:38.most Eurosceptic areas according to one poll. The East of England, the

:06:39. > :06:46.area so neglected at the last election, is essential to the

:06:47. > :06:48.referendum. The Remain, London and Scotland in particular are

:06:49. > :06:54.absolutely critical if they are going to win. There is a literature

:06:55. > :06:58.on getting out the vote that was effectively used by President Obama

:06:59. > :07:01.and his teenager in the election which basically suggests that the

:07:02. > :07:06.tighter your operation is, the more you contact voters on the day, you

:07:07. > :07:11.can give yourself another one, two, three points by pushing voters out

:07:12. > :07:15.of their armchairs into the polling stations. This is rather tough for

:07:16. > :07:20.the main parties who are fighting in a lot of areas they have neglected

:07:21. > :07:25.for a long time. This isn't like a general election where the focus is

:07:26. > :07:28.on a handful of marginal seats. In lots of places, areas that aren't

:07:29. > :07:34.used to full pelt campaigning at a general election have got huge areas

:07:35. > :07:40.of activities going on. In some of our best areas, every household in

:07:41. > :07:45.that parliamentary constituency has been visited more than once. That

:07:46. > :07:48.probably didn't happen in a general election. You could be forgiven for

:07:49. > :07:53.finding it hard to follow this campaign. It does not help at the

:07:54. > :07:57.polls are not trusted. Academics were wrong last year, most of the

:07:58. > :08:01.forecasts were wrong ahead of the general election. The polls have not

:08:02. > :08:06.convinced most people that they have got this one nailed down. There are

:08:07. > :08:11.significant variations between phone polls and online polls, and we all

:08:12. > :08:16.mode the story of the expert who didn't see Jeremy Corbyn coming.

:08:17. > :08:20.Before that didn't see a Conservative majority government

:08:21. > :08:25.coming. And then possibly didn't see President Trump coming. So a lot of

:08:26. > :08:29.people got a lot of things wrong. Elections are getting more complex

:08:30. > :08:33.to follow anyway as campaigns get ever less national. Campaigners can

:08:34. > :08:38.now quietly tailor ads to recipients online and in the posts with greater

:08:39. > :08:41.sophistication. And it's seriously tough to get any sense of a campaign

:08:42. > :08:48.where you don't even know what arguments are being put to your

:08:49. > :08:50.neighbours. Chris Kirk, there. In the moment we will speak to Labour's

:08:51. > :08:55.former deputy leader Harriet Harman. First, Lord Hayward,

:08:56. > :08:56.a Tory psephologist who was on John Major's team

:08:57. > :09:04.in the 1992 election and predicted Tell us what you feel will happen

:09:05. > :09:07.this time round? As far as I'm concerned the polls are

:09:08. > :09:11.overestimated how close it will be. As far as I can see there are more

:09:12. > :09:17.people deviating towards Leave. If you take any particular demographic,

:09:18. > :09:21.let's say bankers, who should be overwhelmingly in favour, my

:09:22. > :09:26.conversations and say actually the banking industry, Surrey, which will

:09:27. > :09:32.should be rock-solid Remain, they are not as solid as people think.

:09:33. > :09:38.Then you've got Labour areas, they are not as solid as people would

:09:39. > :09:41.expect. But these are just conversations, and you are at odds

:09:42. > :09:45.with a lot of other pollsters. And I've been at odds on previous

:09:46. > :09:50.occasions. I started with the polls and what they are predicting. And

:09:51. > :09:54.then gone out, discussed it with other people, listened over months

:09:55. > :09:58.to what people were saying and said, how often am I speaking to somebody

:09:59. > :10:06.who is actually deviating from what should be the polling Norm? Do you

:10:07. > :10:10.see yourself as a Leave supporter? I am a Remain supporter. So in saying

:10:11. > :10:15.Leave are doing better than the polls suggest I am arguing against

:10:16. > :10:20.my own position. So where are the gaps? Who isn't showing up? You've

:10:21. > :10:24.talked about the banking community. I think it is pretty general. There

:10:25. > :10:27.are problems you are going to go on to talk about, the Labour

:10:28. > :10:31.supporters, the professional community in general. And I think

:10:32. > :10:37.the campaign has been male dominated. There's been very poor

:10:38. > :10:44.messaging, we would expect women to be much more solidly Remain because

:10:45. > :10:50.they genuinely generally vote according to pocketbook issues. Your

:10:51. > :10:55.assumption is a male dominated campaign tells what, more women to

:10:56. > :10:59.go with the male voices? And saying there is no messaging being received

:11:00. > :11:02.by large parts of the community. Whether it is the standard

:11:03. > :11:05.traditional Labour voter or the female voter, the professional

:11:06. > :11:12.photo, they are not receiving the message on economic issues. You will

:11:13. > :11:14.forgive our viewers if there is a lot of scepticism about any pollster

:11:15. > :11:19.at this point in proceedings telling them what will happen. I have a

:11:20. > :11:24.history of telling pollsters they are wrong and on this occasion I

:11:25. > :11:29.think they are wrong. The tendency is more towards Leave at the moment.

:11:30. > :11:33.It can be turned around for Remain. If the turnout is high and based on

:11:34. > :11:38.different messaging from where we are at the moment, the result may be

:11:39. > :11:43.different. One has to remember that within the next few days 20% of the

:11:44. > :11:51.population will have already voted. Could be as high as 18%. Harriet

:11:52. > :12:02.Harman, do you accept that the traditional Labour voter does not

:12:03. > :12:05.look like a Remainer or a Leaver? We have a unified position within the

:12:06. > :12:12.Labour Party. For people who vote Labour and support baby and share

:12:13. > :12:15.the principles, it is not much help to them to see Michael Gove slugging

:12:16. > :12:20.it out with David Cameron, because actually they are not interested.

:12:21. > :12:25.And their point of view is not what motivates them. And I think the

:12:26. > :12:30.problem has been that there are Labour arguments for staying in that

:12:31. > :12:35.our voters haven't been able to hear us putting across. Your voters, 45%

:12:36. > :12:43.of Labour voters said in a poll at the end of last month they were not

:12:44. > :12:46.sure of your party's position. That's not surprising bearing in

:12:47. > :12:53.mind the airwaves have been absolutely dominated by the argument

:12:54. > :12:57.within the Tory party. You think SNP supporters, Lib Dem supporters or

:12:58. > :13:00.green supporters would say that? Presumably you would know your

:13:01. > :13:05.party's position if you were an actual supporter or voter? If you

:13:06. > :13:10.look at Loughborough University research, it shows not only is it am

:13:11. > :13:15.elated by men but it is dominated by Tory men, and that is the fact of

:13:16. > :13:18.the debate so far. Therefore what we need is more ability for women to

:13:19. > :13:23.hear specific arguments that we certainly want to put forward about

:13:24. > :13:28.why it is important to stay in. And for people to hear Labour arguments

:13:29. > :13:32.because we have different arguments. For example on the health service,

:13:33. > :13:35.we think there are problems with the health service. You can't just say

:13:36. > :13:41.the Tories are too loud. People will turn round and say Labour has been

:13:42. > :13:45.nonexistent. We are saying the huge volcanic bust up in the Tory party

:13:46. > :13:50.is, not surprisingly, grabbing media attention. But if we want balance in

:13:51. > :13:53.this debate in order to help people make up their mind so that they make

:13:54. > :13:58.the sort of decision that they really want to make, the balance

:13:59. > :14:03.needs to not just be between Leave and Remain, it leads to also be

:14:04. > :14:07.between men and women and also between Labour and Tory. Our

:14:08. > :14:11.supporters are entitled to hear why we as Labour people are urging them

:14:12. > :14:15.to vote in. So for example on the health service point, Leave are

:14:16. > :14:21.saying you've got to leave if you care about the health service. We

:14:22. > :14:24.are saying actually we think the government are doing things

:14:25. > :14:28.completely wrong, so we don't agree with David Cameron on what he is

:14:29. > :14:33.doing the health service, but we say blame the government, not the EU.

:14:34. > :14:38.That point could have been made very clearly by Jeremy Corbyn if he

:14:39. > :14:43.wanted to share a Platt with David Cameron. We have been making these

:14:44. > :14:49.points, but it is difficult to get them through. When I was acting

:14:50. > :14:53.leader, I set up the Labour in campaign as a separate campaign,

:14:54. > :14:59.because I felt we needed to get our message across separately. Was it a

:15:00. > :15:05.missed opportunity? For Jeremy Corbyn to sound alongside David

:15:06. > :15:11.Cameron and say, we are sharing a platform because it is bigger than

:15:12. > :15:14.party politics. As Leader of the Labour Party, he wants to put

:15:15. > :15:19.forward Labour's arguments. I have appeared at some things with David

:15:20. > :15:24.Cameron, not because I agree with him, but because I want people to

:15:25. > :15:28.see that Labour is four in. It is important that we have separate

:15:29. > :15:33.arguments, because we have our own points of view. For example, at

:15:34. > :15:36.work, we think that the EU guaranteeing maternity pay and

:15:37. > :15:42.holiday leave, it is important that the EU does that, because we do not

:15:43. > :15:49.trust future Tory governments to not decide to repeal all of those. We

:15:50. > :15:54.have just seen Nick, who is in Salford and other areas, safe Labour

:15:55. > :15:59.seats for ages. You think these places have been ignored, or have

:16:00. > :16:05.been left off the chart? If nearly half your voters in a poll just two

:16:06. > :16:10.weeks ago don't know your party's position, that is catastrophic. It

:16:11. > :16:16.is for us to do make sure they know what our position is and why, and

:16:17. > :16:21.that they haven't been ignored. This is a different proposition. Normally

:16:22. > :16:25.it is vote for this person in this party in this area. But we've got

:16:26. > :16:30.Labour values and principles about why we want to stay in, and we need

:16:31. > :16:35.to get that across to our voters, and it is to all of us in the Labour

:16:36. > :16:38.Party to get that idea across. Thank you for coming in.

:16:39. > :16:41.Well, we know there's a divide between young and old when it comes

:16:42. > :16:43.to the suggested voting patterns of the EU.

:16:44. > :16:47.Katie Razzall took the referendum road to South Wales this week -

:16:48. > :16:52.to look at the generational divide that appears to be emergeng there.

:16:53. > :16:54.Pettigrew Bakeries in Cardiff caters to all tastes.

:16:55. > :16:56.Mixing the traditional with the modern, there's so much

:16:57. > :17:03.But when it comes to the referendum, the choice is down to in or out.

:17:04. > :17:05.So, for Newsnight's visit, we requested a twist on some

:17:06. > :17:12.of the bakery's most popular products.

:17:13. > :17:17.I'm just wondering whether I could offer

:17:18. > :17:27.Well, well, I feel democracy, really.

:17:28. > :17:29.I've not voted in bureaucrats in Brussels who I don't even know.

:17:30. > :17:32.One reason for the generational divide in this referendum may be

:17:33. > :17:36.that many young voters, like this 26-year-old artisan baker,

:17:37. > :17:39.see their identity as bound up with Europe.

:17:40. > :17:42.I've always classed myself as European, so it would be nice

:17:43. > :17:45.to still go to France and think that we are one

:17:46. > :18:01.I can't work out which one of them is lying.

:18:02. > :18:03.I can't work out which one of them's planned for the future.

:18:04. > :18:14.Whether it's in the Welsh valleys or further afield,

:18:15. > :18:17.received wisdom in this referendum is that the young are in favour

:18:18. > :18:32.In the Swansea Valley, we gathered three generations

:18:33. > :18:37.of the same family, who appeared to some up those divisions.

:18:38. > :18:40.I'm going to vote to stay in, because I see myself having

:18:41. > :18:43.a better future in the EU, with the jobs.

:18:44. > :18:49.I've never had any doubt at all.

:18:50. > :18:53.I didn't want to go in in the first place.

:18:54. > :18:56.I know that the Remain campaign had a campaign during this referendum

:18:57. > :18:59.which was "Persuade your granny onto your side".

:19:00. > :19:04.I love my youngest granddaughter very much,

:19:05. > :19:09.I've had no doubt right from the start.

:19:10. > :19:17.We are being taken over, and we are being told what to do

:19:18. > :19:25.I see myself having a better future in Europe, like if you look

:19:26. > :19:30.at things like workers' rights, immigration and free movement

:19:31. > :19:33.as well, because you look at the way things are now,

:19:34. > :19:37.it might be that I have to move into Europe to work myself one day,

:19:38. > :19:41.and it's going to be a pain if I'll have to apply for a visa with every

:19:42. > :19:45.So I think, for me and my future, it's better to stay in.

:19:46. > :19:48.And it's my generation that has to deal with the fallout if we go.

:19:49. > :19:52.I think of you all the time, Charlotte.

:19:53. > :19:54.Do you know how you're going to vote?

:19:55. > :19:59.I'm hoping that somebody's going to say something and I'm

:20:00. > :20:05.It's me that's got to pick up the pieces eventually.

:20:06. > :20:09.No offence to you guys, but, like.

:20:10. > :20:15.It's going to be me and my children that have to clean up that

:20:16. > :20:20.Because we're not part of the EU any more, so we will just be

:20:21. > :20:23.on the island by ourselves drowning, saying, help us, and the EU's

:20:24. > :20:25.going to go, no, you're not our problem any more.

:20:26. > :20:28.Are most of your friends of your age group, do you talk about it?

:20:29. > :20:32.The ones that are voting are voting to remain.

:20:33. > :20:37.A lot of young people aren't interested in things

:20:38. > :20:47.The young could keep the UK in the EU, but only if they

:20:48. > :20:51.These Cardiff students are keenly political.

:20:52. > :20:55.Their University Challenge - to get others to follow their lead.

:20:56. > :20:58.I'm Beth Button, President of NUS Wales, and I'm going to be voting

:20:59. > :21:03.I am a second year philosophy and politics student,

:21:04. > :21:10.I'm a third year history student, and I'll be voting to remain.

:21:11. > :21:14.I'm studying Spanish and Italian, and I'm going to vote Leave.

:21:15. > :21:18.I'm a fourth year law student at Cardiff University,

:21:19. > :21:22.and I'll be voting to leave the European Union.

:21:23. > :21:25.I have a very positive case for staying in the EU.

:21:26. > :21:27.I think, for young people particularly, there's jobs out

:21:28. > :21:29.there, there's opportunities for travel, education

:21:30. > :21:35.We have a lot of power because we are part of the EU.

:21:36. > :21:39.If were not part of the EU any more, there's no guarantee that we will

:21:40. > :21:43.The referendum isn't about putting rockets on Dover and propelling us

:21:44. > :21:46.We are always going to be part of Europe.

:21:47. > :21:48.And of course, we're going to be stronger in Europe.

:21:49. > :21:51.It's the European Union that makes decisions and trade deals on our

:21:52. > :21:55.There is a large democratic deficit at the moment within the EU

:21:56. > :21:57.and the European institutions, and I think if we left

:21:58. > :22:00.there would be a lot more opportunity for young people,

:22:01. > :22:03.if Britain was a more sovereign nation.

:22:04. > :22:05.I think it's really funny when you use the term,

:22:06. > :22:09.I'm pretty sure there's a lot of Welsh and angry Scottish people

:22:10. > :22:16.as well who would say that the UK isn't democratic enough.

:22:17. > :22:19.This guy said to me, this older man, literally said to me,

:22:20. > :22:21.you younger generation need to just realise that

:22:22. > :22:24.you don't have the knowledge and the experience to know what's

:22:25. > :22:28.You need to let the older people make the decision for you.

:22:29. > :22:32.And that, for me, really stung, because I thought, actually,

:22:33. > :22:35.we not only have a right to vote and have a voice in this referendum,

:22:36. > :22:44.Back in the Swansea Valley, it's too late to change

:22:45. > :22:52.But would Charlotte and her Remain - supporting husband have more

:22:53. > :22:54.luck in their local, a traditional mining pub,

:22:55. > :22:57.where many, but not all, disagree with them?

:22:58. > :23:05.HE SPEAKS WELSH. Does that mean leave or remain?

:23:06. > :23:12.I think Cameron, when he did his so-called deal with the EU,

:23:13. > :23:16.gained nothing whatsoever, and if we vote to remain now,

:23:17. > :23:24.When we ruled ourselves, we were all using outside toilets.

:23:25. > :23:32.Now, it's so bloody good, everyone wants to come here.

:23:33. > :23:45.Could Yarrick and Charlotte persuade the older punters?

:23:46. > :23:57.As for the people that are coming in, we simply can't afford

:23:58. > :24:04.But is it not true that the ones that come here to work actually

:24:05. > :24:06.contribute more into the system

:24:07. > :24:10.Why do you think it is that your views don't chime

:24:11. > :24:15.I think it's because I care about different things

:24:16. > :24:19.They are focusing on immigration, you know, politics, that sort

:24:20. > :24:21.of thing, our own sovereignty and so on.

:24:22. > :24:23.I care about our scientific institutions, farming

:24:24. > :24:34.There aren't enough pints that I could buy them!

:24:35. > :24:35.Their minds are made up.

:24:36. > :24:40.So, you know, I think it's just an age thing.

:24:41. > :24:44.They come from a small, Welsh mining village,

:24:45. > :24:48.They are not ready to change their minds, which is fine.

:24:49. > :24:50.Everyone's entitled to their opinion.

:24:51. > :24:54.Families and the generations disagreeing on the right

:24:55. > :25:03.This referendum has got them talking.

:25:04. > :25:05.Ocassionally the serene quiet of a select committee hearing gets

:25:06. > :25:10.Today - as the BHS family saga unravelled before MPs -

:25:11. > :25:15.BHS chief executive Darren Topp and his financial lieutenant

:25:16. > :25:18.Michael Hitchcock called Dominic Chappell- the man

:25:19. > :25:21.who bought BHS for a pound - a "Premier League liar"

:25:22. > :25:28.Topp claimed Chappell threatened to kill him when he'd

:25:29. > :25:33.Mr Chappell denied this - and the claim he owned a gun -

:25:34. > :25:35.but - pantomime aside - what did we learn today

:25:36. > :25:44.Here's our Business Editor, Helen Thomas.

:25:45. > :25:47.In life, BHS's understated styles captured the British

:25:48. > :25:55.Instead, a tawdry and increasingly lurid slanging match.

:25:56. > :26:00.At issue: who is to blame for the failure of a story high

:26:01. > :26:04.street name and the loss of 11,000 jobs.

:26:05. > :26:08.Lawyers, accountants, advisers, trustees and regulators.

:26:09. > :26:12.They've all been questioned on what went wrong.

:26:13. > :26:15.Today was the latest stage of the postmortem.

:26:16. > :26:19.Dominic Chappell, the man who bought BHS from billionaire retailer

:26:20. > :26:27.Sir Philip Green for just ?1. It collapsed barely a year later.

:26:28. > :26:28.MPs were presented with two competing visions of

:26:29. > :26:33.In one version of reality he was a total liability.

:26:34. > :26:36.A compulsive liar who didn't understand BHS, and who shouldn't

:26:37. > :26:44.In the other version, his own, he was a hard-working businessman

:26:45. > :26:46.whose attempts to turn round BHS were blocked.

:26:47. > :26:50.Both versions raised questions for Sir Philip Green.

:26:51. > :26:53.He'll have his turn in Westminster next week.

:26:54. > :26:58.A trio of BHS managers laid out the case against Mr Chappell.

:26:59. > :27:07.And if it doesn't smell right invariably it is not right.

:27:08. > :27:13.Over ?1.5 million Dominic Chappell took out of the company.

:27:14. > :27:22.If I take out all the expletives he basically said, "Do not

:27:23. > :27:26."I've had enough of you telling me what to do over

:27:27. > :27:30."It's my business, I can do what I want."

:27:31. > :27:33."And if you kick off about it I'm going to come down

:27:34. > :27:37.So why did a businessman as experienced as Philip Green sell

:27:38. > :27:44.And why did respected advisers like Grant Thornton and Olswang

:27:45. > :27:49.One explanation had been that Dominic Chappell had shown he had

:27:50. > :27:56.But it was suggested today he'd got that money from investors,

:27:57. > :28:00.not to pump into BHS but instead to higher property off

:28:01. > :28:09.What we learnt today was that the ?35 million had been earmarked

:28:10. > :28:12.to acquire another property, not part of the BHS group,

:28:13. > :28:17.but part of Sir Philip's broader empire, we understand.

:28:18. > :28:21.And that was the sole purpose of the ?35 million.

:28:22. > :28:24.So it does put the seller in an intriguing situation

:28:25. > :28:28.where they were looking for credibility on ?35 million

:28:29. > :28:33.to bolster the credibility of the buyer of BHS.

:28:34. > :28:37.But that ?35 million was actually intended to acquire a property

:28:38. > :28:40.which is not part of the BHS group, but was presumably known

:28:41. > :28:47.In Dominic Chappell's version, Sir Philip Green should

:28:48. > :28:52.Do you think he is a successful businessman?

:28:53. > :28:54.He's been very successful at raising large amounts of money out

:28:55. > :28:57.of companies by taking huge dividends out of them, yes.

:28:58. > :28:59.There were shops there that had no heating.

:29:00. > :29:01.There were shops there that had no air handling.

:29:02. > :29:04.There were shops there where the staff, bless them,

:29:05. > :29:07.who loved and adored BHS, came in at weekends to paint,

:29:08. > :29:11.to replace lights, because no one had given that company any money

:29:12. > :29:17.And another disagreement over pensions.

:29:18. > :29:19.Mr Chappell said the stand-off between Sir Philip Green

:29:20. > :29:22.and the pension regulator hurt his attempts

:29:23. > :29:30.He has spent the last however many years doing deals and it is a quite

:29:31. > :29:33.You can't simply go to the pension regulator and say,

:29:34. > :29:40.I will put ?50 million into this pension scheme,

:29:41. > :29:45.It just doesn't work like that and it shouldn't work like that.

:29:46. > :29:53.A defiant Dominic Chappell said today pushed thereby

:29:54. > :29:57.You should expect Sir Philip Green to vigorously contest much

:29:58. > :30:05.Indeed BHS's last Chief Executive Darren top told me that he disagreed

:30:06. > :30:07.with Mr Chappell's assertion that Sir Philip had tipped the business

:30:08. > :30:13.Mr Topp said that decision was taken unanimously at a BHS board

:30:14. > :30:29.Mr Topp said business had simply run out of money.

:30:30. > :30:31.Raising funds against its property had fallen short.

:30:32. > :30:33.An MP said today that they were getting closer to the truth

:30:34. > :30:38.One thing seems clear, no one looks set to emerge untainted.

:30:39. > :30:44.Simon Walker - from the Institute of Directors - joins me now.

:30:45. > :30:57.Along with Ros Altman the pensions minister. Welcome, both. When you

:30:58. > :31:03.see this kind of squalid soap opera unfolding, it must make you wince?

:31:04. > :31:05.It is completely an excusable and absolutely outrageous. What worries

:31:06. > :31:12.me is that it makes people think that's what petition business is

:31:13. > :31:14.like. And British business is about hard-working people who have often

:31:15. > :31:19.mortgaged their houses in order to get companies going. This is as far

:31:20. > :31:23.from the world of normal businesses in this country as can be. So what

:31:24. > :31:28.went wrong? Where did the regulations fail here? Everything

:31:29. > :31:34.failed at every stage. I don't think Sir Philip was the only villain but

:31:35. > :31:39.as someone said, selling that company to a twice bankrupt racing

:31:40. > :31:44.driver with no retail experience was the equivalent of giving your keys

:31:45. > :31:50.to your car to a five-year-old and then saying, you crashed it. It is

:31:51. > :31:54.completely wrong to have done that. But your report rightly asks, where

:31:55. > :32:00.were the advisers? One of the most important law firms in the City of

:32:01. > :32:04.London was standing by them. Rand Thornton, a well-known accountancy

:32:05. > :32:08.deal was there. Lord Grabban QC is the chairman of Arcadia and seems to

:32:09. > :32:12.have been extremely relaxed about the sale of BHS. He wasn't even on

:32:13. > :32:19.the subcommittee, he learned about it five days later. The pension

:32:20. > :32:22.regulator said she learned about it in the newspaper sometime later.

:32:23. > :32:28.Everything went wrong. It is a scar on the face of British business, its

:32:29. > :32:32.damages everyone. If you believe, as I do, that capitalism is worthwhile

:32:33. > :32:35.and works in the interest of ordinary people, you have a

:32:36. > :32:39.particular responsibility to say how appalling this is. Dominic Chappell

:32:40. > :32:42.knew something was going wrong, and he brought the government and you

:32:43. > :32:46.personally into that meeting by saying he asked to meet you? He did

:32:47. > :32:50.ask to meet me and I did not think it was appropriate for him to try to

:32:51. > :32:55.meet the Minister, to go round the back door and bypass the pensions

:32:56. > :32:58.regulator. Why would it be the back door, if he was worried about the

:32:59. > :33:03.way the business was being handled, he could see things were not right,

:33:04. > :33:07.is that not responsible thing to do, contact the pensions minister? Not

:33:08. > :33:12.at all. The appropriate thing to do is go the pensions regulator and

:33:13. > :33:18.work out any issues that you have if you've got a problem with your

:33:19. > :33:22.pension scheme. Don't try and come to the Minister. Do you think the

:33:23. > :33:25.pensions regulator is the right body to deal with these issues after

:33:26. > :33:30.everything we have heard over the past few weeks? I do actually, and I

:33:31. > :33:34.would like to reassure the members of the BHS pension scheme and the

:33:35. > :33:41.workers who worked so royally, that their pensions are protected by the

:33:42. > :33:45.pension protection fund. Why did the pensions regulator say that they'd

:33:46. > :33:49.heard it through a newspaper report when we know that actually Philip

:33:50. > :33:52.Green had got in touch with them before he'd corrected the head of

:33:53. > :33:56.the pensions regulator and why, for example, was Philip Green not

:33:57. > :34:00.allowed to put money into the pension fund to try to increase the

:34:01. > :34:05.amount that was there? Again I think it is important for business owners

:34:06. > :34:08.to understand that a pension fund and its liabilities are real

:34:09. > :34:12.liabilities, and they have lives attached. And there are appropriate

:34:13. > :34:17.ways to deal with the pension scheme. Because what they should be

:34:18. > :34:21.doing is going to the pensions regulator and saying, if you have a

:34:22. > :34:26.big deficit, how am I going to be able to sort this out? How will I be

:34:27. > :34:29.able to look after my pension, as there are established processes that

:34:30. > :34:33.the pensions regulator will sit down with any business and say, if you

:34:34. > :34:37.want to deal with your pension fund and you have a problem, let's sit

:34:38. > :34:41.round the table and talk about it. It was said that it was not taken

:34:42. > :34:46.seriously by the pensions regulator when they offered to go in and sort

:34:47. > :34:50.it out. That is not the case as far as I am aware. And the impression

:34:51. > :34:54.here has been that the business doesn't understand the

:34:55. > :34:58.responsibility that they actually have under pensions law for the

:34:59. > :35:01.pension scheme, and the pension promises they have made to their

:35:02. > :35:06.members. The business should be going to the pensions regulator. The

:35:07. > :35:10.pensions regulator will ask for lots of information. If the business does

:35:11. > :35:15.not supply that information, the regulator cannot do anything. How do

:35:16. > :35:29.you see Philip Green at the end of all of this? He was appointed a tsar

:35:30. > :35:35.at the end of 2010. Efficiency tsar. We will have to wait for these

:35:36. > :35:40.investigations to run. You think he will be in the clear? I cannot

:35:41. > :35:46.prejudge anything. But I want to reassure people that we have a

:35:47. > :35:49.pension protection fund. EU law requires us to protect pensions,

:35:50. > :35:55.whereas previously British law did not. HBOS took eight years and have

:35:56. > :36:02.not reported fully on what led to the fall of that bank. We cannot

:36:03. > :36:05.wait until 2025 to work out where the regulators, lawyers, accountants

:36:06. > :36:10.let us down. So what needs to happen? We need the select committee

:36:11. > :36:13.to give some findings and come to the truth, otherwise it will damage

:36:14. > :36:18.the reputation of business as a whole, and we need to know the

:36:19. > :36:21.answers quickly. The regulators will report back by the end of the year.

:36:22. > :36:24.An Eritrean man suspected of running a huge human trafficking network

:36:25. > :36:26.that sent thousands of migrants to Europe has been extradited

:36:27. > :36:29.from Sudan to Italy - in the first operation of its kind

:36:30. > :36:32.to bring an African people smuggler to justice for his role

:36:33. > :36:37.However tonight, suggestions are starting to emerge

:36:38. > :36:40.that the joint operation - which was based on intercepting

:36:41. > :36:42.telephone calls - may actually have got the wrong man.

:36:43. > :36:48.This is meant to be Mered Medhanie as he arrives in Italy to face

:36:49. > :36:51.An alleged top people smuggler who styled

:36:52. > :36:56.He was arrested in Khartoum in a joint

:36:57. > :36:57.operation by British, Italian and Sudanese authorities

:36:58. > :37:04.Medhanie and his gang are a significant organised

:37:05. > :37:11.They have been involved with the movement of thousands of

:37:12. > :37:15.So we would consider this to be a major

:37:16. > :37:19.disruption of an organised crime group.

:37:20. > :37:22.But tonight there are growing reports that they picked up the

:37:23. > :37:27.wrong man and instead of notorious people trafficker, Mered Medhanie,

:37:28. > :37:29.they have arrested an ordinary Eritreans refugee who happens to

:37:30. > :37:37.That's according to one prominent Eritrean

:37:38. > :37:40.rights activist who was actually interviewed the real Mered Medhanie

:37:41. > :37:43.I don't believe they have the right person.

:37:44. > :37:45.The person that they have is a 28-year-old refugee

:37:46. > :37:49.who happens to have the same first name as him.

:37:50. > :37:55.I have spoken to his sister, spoken to his friends, I

:37:56. > :37:58.have received over 400 testimonies from people who know the person

:37:59. > :38:01.Everybody is saying this is my friend, my childhood friend.

:38:02. > :38:05.He is just a refugee in a camp in Sudan in 2015.

:38:06. > :38:08.We spoke to two friends of another Medhanie,

:38:09. > :38:43.Italian authorities, though, who earlier in the day

:38:44. > :38:46.gave a press conference, still say they have the right

:38:47. > :38:49.person, and the National Crime Agency here has said it's too early

:38:50. > :38:57.So what do we know about the man who the police were actually after?

:38:58. > :39:01.We've been told the real Medhanie was living in Khartoum,

:39:02. > :39:03.but he had previously reportedly been living in Tripoli,

:39:04. > :39:10.The smuggling route he allegedly operated goes from Eritrea,

:39:11. > :39:13.through Ethiopia and Sudan to Libya, where packed boats head off

:39:14. > :39:17.to the Italian islands of Lampedusa and Sicily.

:39:18. > :39:20.In one telephone conversation intercepted by authorities,

:39:21. > :39:26.Medhanie boasts that in the first half of 2014:

:39:27. > :39:35.Medhanie had teams working in Italy too,

:39:36. > :39:44.He reportedly charged up to 5000 euros for the whole journey.

:39:45. > :39:47.One of the smuggling operations British authorities linked

:39:48. > :39:51.to Medhanie's group ended in disaster three years ago.

:39:52. > :39:57.Over 300 people drowned off the coast of Lampedusa.

:39:58. > :40:08.But the search to bring those responsible for the deaths,

:40:09. > :40:11.And for many others might not be over yet.

:40:12. > :40:14.We leave you this scene filmed during the flash floods

:40:15. > :40:16.in Woodcote Road, Wallington in South East London,

:40:17. > :40:18.following the recent spell of hot weather.

:40:19. > :40:48.Today's storms have faded away now, a dry start for tomorrow. Early mist

:40:49. > :40:54.and fog in the West, low cloud in the East burning off more slowly.

:40:55. > :40:55.Sunny spells widely by the afternoon, warm day