:00:00. > :00:09.Once he was the High Vis Chancellor, now he's been disappeared.
:00:10. > :00:19.Is the PM intending to cut George Osborne's
:00:20. > :00:23.We've learned that Theresa May may abandon his language of a Golden Era
:00:24. > :00:26.between China and the UK - will the change of tone
:00:27. > :00:29.If we're resetting China downwards, and we're resetting Europe
:00:30. > :00:32.downwards, and we're faced with the possibility of Mr Trump
:00:33. > :00:36.in the United States, who are we going to reset upwards?
:00:37. > :00:41.Just I get Coca-Cola to my face.
:00:42. > :00:44.And swearing at me, in the middle of the day.
:00:45. > :00:49.They say, "You BLEEP refugee, why are you speaking your
:00:50. > :00:55.A month after Brexit, the migrants of Corby
:00:56. > :00:57.are waiting to hear their fate, and whether they're
:00:58. > :01:01.And remember this token of a bygone age?
:01:02. > :01:05.The British passport wasn't so much something you presented
:01:06. > :01:12.for inspection by some grubby little border policeman,
:01:13. > :01:15.These days they have something smaller and flimsier
:01:16. > :01:18.and looking like a passbook of the Nuneaton Building Society.
:01:19. > :01:29.Is it time for the British passport to make a dignified comeback?
:01:30. > :01:34.There's sacking a man, and then there's dismantling his
:01:35. > :01:36.entire decade's work - and right now, it's not
:01:37. > :01:38.entirely clear which path Theresa May will chose.
:01:39. > :01:42.But the signs over the past couple of weeks suggest she was no fan
:01:43. > :01:44.of George Osborne or his policies in government.
:01:45. > :01:48.The Prime Minister has launched an industrial strategy,
:01:49. > :01:51.which some are reading as a reversal of many of her former colleague's
:01:52. > :01:54.priorities: Her instant rejection of the austerity project,
:01:55. > :01:58.her calculated pause over Hinckley Point, her reconfiguration
:01:59. > :02:02.of the Northern Powerhouse to include all UK cities.
:02:03. > :02:05.Osborne is rumoured to have said he was prepared to be the most
:02:06. > :02:09.unpopular man in Britain to get things done.
:02:10. > :02:12.For a while every tweet he sent out seemed to confirm that ambition
:02:13. > :02:17.But what if his legacy is now being used -
:02:18. > :02:20.by the new PM - to take economic policy in a whole new directio,
:02:21. > :02:23.even resetting the relationship with China?
:02:24. > :02:40.In office he heralded the march of the makers, but the one-time maker
:02:41. > :02:45.in chief is now a mere bystander, as his legacy is unceremoniously
:02:46. > :02:51.marched off stage. Today marks the moment when Theresa May moved on
:02:52. > :02:55.from Osborne economics as she summoned ministers for a new Cabinet
:02:56. > :03:00.committee which will set her government's overall approach on the
:03:01. > :03:04.economy. That rather 1970s notion of an industrial strategy is back, and
:03:05. > :03:11.relations with China have taken a bit of a hit, after a review was
:03:12. > :03:16.announced into the Hinckley know -- nuclear power plant. Downing Street
:03:17. > :03:20.insists the delay with Hinkley Point is to allow the new Prime Minister
:03:21. > :03:24.to study the details of such a mammoth project, but Newsnight
:03:25. > :03:29.understands that Theresa May intends, at the very least, to
:03:30. > :03:33.oversee a modest resetting of Britain's relations with Beijing.
:03:34. > :03:38.Officials speak of a tonal change, in which there will be no more talk
:03:39. > :03:42.of a golden era in which, as George Osborne used to say, Britain would
:03:43. > :03:45.act as China's best partner in the West.
:03:46. > :03:50.I don't think that Theresa May and Philip Hammond come from quite the
:03:51. > :03:55.same angle that George Osborne did on this. May, coming from a Home
:03:56. > :03:59.Office angle, might have a little more concerned about some of the
:04:00. > :04:05.human rights types of questions associated with China, and I think
:04:06. > :04:09.that George Osborne saw China, China's ambition to get into the
:04:10. > :04:12.European Union via the UK as an important part of his own strategy.
:04:13. > :04:16.That isn't going to happen now in the same way, so I think there is
:04:17. > :04:21.some rethink about what the nature of the engagement with China is. But
:04:22. > :04:26.former ministers have told Newsnight they are surprised that the new
:04:27. > :04:29.Prime Minister is willing to risk Britain's reputation as a stable
:04:30. > :04:34.investment destination by such an abrupt move on Hinkley Point.
:04:35. > :04:40.I certainly don't think we should be grovelling, should be kowtowing. We
:04:41. > :04:43.should treat the Chinese with respect and expect them to do the
:04:44. > :04:49.same here, which is broadly what has happened so far. If we're resetting
:04:50. > :04:55.China downwards, and we're resetting Europe downwards and web based with
:04:56. > :04:59.the possibility of Mr Trump in the United States, who are we going to
:05:00. > :05:04.reset upwards? This is a question worrying quite a lot of people,
:05:05. > :05:09.probably. Theresa May believes one of the key challenges for Britain
:05:10. > :05:13.outside the EU lies in rebalancing the economy and improving
:05:14. > :05:19.productivity, by revising two words rarely heard since the days of the
:05:20. > :05:25.coalition, industrial strategy. It is welcome Theresa May is reviving
:05:26. > :05:30.industrial strategy, it is something we did in the coalition, it was very
:05:31. > :05:33.popular with the business community, particularly people in manufacturing
:05:34. > :05:39.and creative industries. It gives long-term confidence to our
:05:40. > :05:45.industries here and it's a way by which government and business can
:05:46. > :05:50.work together. I was very sad that it fell into decline when the Tories
:05:51. > :05:56.took power, but if Mrs May wants to revive it, that's very welcome.
:05:57. > :06:00.George Osborne's pet project, creating a Northern Powerhouse, has
:06:01. > :06:05.been reconfigured as the new Cabinet committee made clear it aims to
:06:06. > :06:09.boost all parts of the country. There is some anxiety in the North
:06:10. > :06:13.of England, as to whether the new Prime Minister is as committed to it
:06:14. > :06:17.as George Osborne was. He had a northern seat and it was one of the
:06:18. > :06:23.themes he had. We will soon see how sincere they are.
:06:24. > :06:28.Members of the regime are bruised by the speed of change, but there is a
:06:29. > :06:32.crumb of comfort. One of the main brains behind George Osborne's
:06:33. > :06:36.Northern Powerhouse has been given a seat in the heart of Downing Street,
:06:37. > :06:40.drawing up the government's new industrial strategy.
:06:41. > :06:44.Revisionism may put a very different spin onto Osbornomics
:06:45. > :06:49.The long terms legacy of his work will not be fully
:06:50. > :06:53.But how will the reset button - if that's what it is -
:06:54. > :06:59.Here to discuss are Anne Pettifor, economist and member of Labours
:07:00. > :07:00.economic advisory committee, and Dia Chakravorty
:07:01. > :07:11.It is lovely to have you both here. We should start by saying that
:07:12. > :07:13.actually, when you look at the Osborne legacy, in terms of
:07:14. > :07:16.employment numbers and business creation and that pension
:07:17. > :07:24.liberalisation, some of his achievements word truly remarkable.
:07:25. > :07:29.The longer and weakest recovery in history. If you want to look at
:07:30. > :07:33.public debt, which continues to rise, despite massive fiscal
:07:34. > :07:38.consolidation, it started off it was going to be five years and turned
:07:39. > :07:48.into ten. He just had bigger ambitions, is that the crime? That
:07:49. > :07:52.-- debt continues to rise. There is that and low wages, low
:07:53. > :07:56.productivity, about which he has done very little, did very little.
:07:57. > :08:01.There is the fact wages are so low and he did respond to that with the
:08:02. > :08:05.minimum wage, but a little too late, too little too late. What else is
:08:06. > :08:11.there? Low investment. What is interesting is at the beginning of
:08:12. > :08:16.his role as Chancellor, he delivered a lecture, and nice lecture, in
:08:17. > :08:21.which he talks about imbalances in the economy, global imbalances, and
:08:22. > :08:25.then never talked about it again. Would you choose any of those points
:08:26. > :08:30.as criticisms of Osborne? Would you say it was wrong of him to go after
:08:31. > :08:36.cutting the deficit and after austerity?
:08:37. > :08:43.One thing and points out is true, debt went from 1.3 trillion to 1.6
:08:44. > :08:47.trillion. Was that he is doing his failure to manage expectations? It
:08:48. > :08:52.was his failure to do enough to bring it down, but to be fair to
:08:53. > :08:55.him... I have spent most of my career attacking George Osborne's
:08:56. > :08:59.policies, but his legacy is very much a mixed bag. There are some
:09:00. > :09:03.good things come as bad things sounds OK things. If you look at the
:09:04. > :09:08.good side of it, he did inherit an ailing economy, which he never tired
:09:09. > :09:14.of reminding us about. But he did inherit that and he did bring
:09:15. > :09:18.deficit down from 10% of GDP to 4% of GDP. What would you say to the
:09:19. > :09:24.minimum wage being raised over ?9 or the number of jobs? At the end of
:09:25. > :09:28.the day he realised real low wages, lower than they were before the
:09:29. > :09:33.crisis ten years ago, were harming the economy. He woke up to that very
:09:34. > :09:38.late in the day. Even then he has done very little about it. For
:09:39. > :09:41.example, today the cleaners in HMRC are going on strike because although
:09:42. > :09:46.they have been granted this new minimum wage of ?9, they are told
:09:47. > :09:51.they will have fewer hours. Theresa May now talking in explicit terms
:09:52. > :09:56.about an industrial strategy, not a phrase we have heard for 20 years or
:09:57. > :10:00.whatever. Is that the right way to go, to forget the Northern
:10:01. > :10:03.Powerhouse, to say is about every city, is it deliverable? The
:10:04. > :10:07.Northern Powerhouse always sounded like a gimmick, a desperate attempt
:10:08. > :10:10.to hold onto something... We needed a powerhouse everywhere across the
:10:11. > :10:16.country. It didn't make much sense to me. One thing I would say that I
:10:17. > :10:20.would like to see is scrapping of vanity projects like HS2, which is a
:10:21. > :10:25.massively expensive project which is about to hit 90 billion by our own
:10:26. > :10:30.research. We focus those on infrastructure policies which are
:10:31. > :10:36.actually going to benefit people, because this is a pernicious project
:10:37. > :10:39.which is bankrupting the transport infrastructure budget as a whole.
:10:40. > :10:44.Things like that are really important and now with a good
:10:45. > :10:48.opportunity. Really important that you shouldn't follow these things?
:10:49. > :10:52.Exactly, take the opportunity of the new administration. Doesn't that
:10:53. > :10:57.waste millions of pounds, millions of hours of work, in constantly
:10:58. > :11:01.recalibrating what might have been a good idea? If it isn't a good idea
:11:02. > :11:06.and you still see it through, you end up wasting more money in the
:11:07. > :11:09.long run. You have to be smart. The trouble with the idea of an
:11:10. > :11:16.industrial strategy as it needs financing and unless we address the
:11:17. > :11:21.issues facing the City of London, and the City of London doesn't act
:11:22. > :11:23.as a servant to the economy but master of the economy, does little
:11:24. > :11:27.about that. He allowed the City of London to carry on as before the
:11:28. > :11:34.crisis. This is what has happened since the crisis, banks have not
:11:35. > :11:37.lent into the real economy. Is Theresa May going to make a
:11:38. > :11:41.difference or have her first row with the city question that will she
:11:42. > :11:46.take them on question I doubt it, that's why don't think an industrial
:11:47. > :11:50.strategy will work. Where does your industrial committee sit at the
:11:51. > :11:53.moment, does it this question mark it does exist, activities are
:11:54. > :11:58.suspended until after the leadership election. We're waiting for the
:11:59. > :12:03.leadership election to stop do you feel when you listen to Theresa May
:12:04. > :12:06.now that she is an Labour territory, speaking your language? Or do you
:12:07. > :12:12.immediately want to push back? Definitely she is trying to switch
:12:13. > :12:18.the Tory party away from this kind of elitism which existed under
:12:19. > :12:23.Cameron. She has been quite ruthless. Some really bold moves,
:12:24. > :12:28.and I'd expect, in terms of removing some of the old personalities and
:12:29. > :12:35.the old ideologies. And China? Resetting that? Interesting to see
:12:36. > :12:45.what to choose sex with China. More kowtowing less? It has to be a
:12:46. > :12:48.balance. -- choose what she does with China foster I think she had
:12:49. > :12:52.shown a lot of grit and I think that's what she needs to continue to
:12:53. > :12:54.show. We are out of time, thank you both for coming in.
:12:55. > :12:56.Well, more than a month after the Brexit vote,
:12:57. > :13:00.life has gone as normal for the vast majority of people in the country.
:13:01. > :13:02.One group, though, who are anxiously awaiting the details
:13:03. > :13:04.of our disentanglement are migrants from the EU who are fearful
:13:05. > :13:07.about what will happen to them and anxious about whether
:13:08. > :13:09.they are still welcome in post-Brexit Britain.
:13:10. > :13:11.Secunder Kermani has been to the Midlands town of Corby
:13:12. > :13:13.to hear about their experiences since June 23rd.
:13:14. > :13:19.There's some strong language in his report.
:13:20. > :13:22.Corby steelworks attracted hundreds of migrant workers from Scotland
:13:23. > :13:30.Today steel has been replaced by food processing plants
:13:31. > :13:36.And the migrants coming to work there are Poles,
:13:37. > :13:43.But nearly two thirds of voters here backed Brexit.
:13:44. > :13:47.Over a month on from the referendum, this group of Polish students
:13:48. > :13:52.growing up in the town are clear it's had an impact on relations.
:13:53. > :13:57.I think the most general comment would be, "foreigners".
:13:58. > :13:59.That's the most common that I would hear.
:14:00. > :14:03.What would you say when you heard someone say that?
:14:04. > :14:06.I'd just turn around and they'd be like, oh no, that's
:14:07. > :14:12.Who else are you saying it to when there is no one
:14:13. > :14:18."I wish all foreigners went back to their country."
:14:19. > :14:21.And I was the only foreigner in the class.
:14:22. > :14:25.The vote has affected what people say.
:14:26. > :14:28.I think people find that it's more acceptable to say that now,
:14:29. > :14:35.Four years ago I've been in school and I've been bitten like three
:14:36. > :14:42.So now I'm not in school, I'm in the workplace,
:14:43. > :14:45.and I find working with English and British people,
:14:46. > :14:47.it's better than going to school with little kids.
:14:48. > :14:50.My friend used to go out with me all the time and play football,
:14:51. > :14:55.And after the referendum he told me he was scared to go
:14:56. > :14:57.out because something might happen to him.
:14:58. > :14:59.You've lived here for ten years, you're only 13, I guess Britain
:15:00. > :15:04.Does it still feel like where you belong?
:15:05. > :15:09.It does, but I'm feeling more distant to it now.
:15:10. > :15:12.It makes me feel sad, because I lived here for six years,
:15:13. > :15:17.And if I had the choice to stay here or go back to Poland,
:15:18. > :15:23.At the Euro market, others say they've also been targeted
:15:24. > :15:27.in the rise in hate crime reported since the referendum.
:15:28. > :15:29.Like Lena, originally from Lithuania, who has been
:15:30. > :15:36.One time it happened that I was speaking in my own language
:15:37. > :15:44.with my grandma from Lithuania and just I get Coca-Cola to my face.
:15:45. > :15:46.And swearing at me, in the middle of the day.
:15:47. > :15:50.They say, "you fucking refugee, why are you speaking your
:15:51. > :15:53.Has anything like this ever happened to you before?
:15:54. > :15:58.I have three kids who even speak better English
:15:59. > :16:09.Hard times because it's not safe any more, I think.
:16:10. > :16:12.The government has announced new measures against hate crime,
:16:13. > :16:15.but hasn't guaranteed EU citizens already here their rights
:16:16. > :16:23.I really don't want to go back to Poland, I wish to stay here.
:16:24. > :16:27.But what is going to be, you never know.
:16:28. > :16:29.Under current rules, EU migrants who have spent
:16:30. > :16:32.five years in Britain, qualify for permanent residence.
:16:33. > :16:39.That's part of the reason why some aren't so worried
:16:40. > :16:44.Others without families here say they can easily go elsewhere.
:16:45. > :16:47.I feel I'm welcome here, I stay.
:16:48. > :16:52.I feel I'm not welcome here, I go home.
:16:53. > :16:53.For even the first country, I think Germany.
:16:54. > :17:09.Because a lot of people are coming here to get benefits.
:17:10. > :17:12.Many of the EU migrants in Corby find work through
:17:13. > :17:17.The Home Affairs Select Committee has said there could be a surge
:17:18. > :17:25.But they haven't seen any evidence of that here.
:17:26. > :17:27.Rather than a surge, at the moment many EU migrants seem
:17:28. > :17:33.to be questioning their future in the new Britain.
:17:34. > :17:38.It's hard when you know that you've come here to live a better life
:17:39. > :17:41.and you're working like other people, you're paying bills,
:17:42. > :17:47.And they start to treat you like that.
:17:48. > :17:49.Like rubbish, you feel like rubbish, it's that simple.
:17:50. > :18:01.Two weeks on from the attempted coup in Turkey, President Erdogan will be
:18:02. > :18:04.able to use powers granted by the three month state
:18:05. > :18:08.of emergency to issue direct orders to his military -
:18:09. > :18:13.talking to heads of his army, air force and navy - himself.
:18:14. > :18:16.The coup attempt involved only 1.5 percent of the armed forces -
:18:17. > :18:18.according to Turkish media - but the plotters used
:18:19. > :18:21.Turkish ministers say this overhaul to the military command structure
:18:22. > :18:28.But it comes at a time when the country is deeply divided
:18:29. > :18:31.and many fear the move could create more hate and distrust.
:18:32. > :18:35.Today the President once again blasted western powers for what he
:18:36. > :18:37.called support for the coup - and suggested it was 'supporting
:18:38. > :18:41.terrorism' by not leaping to his defence.
:18:42. > :18:44.Three weeks ago on the night of the 15th of July the world
:18:45. > :18:47.watched as an attempted coup was televised.
:18:48. > :18:49.The Turkish military issued a statement saying
:18:50. > :18:54.Istanbul's bridges were blocked, TV stations closed,
:18:55. > :19:02.President Erdogan's FaceTime plea for supporters to take
:19:03. > :19:07.Civilians fought back, the coup had failed,
:19:08. > :19:11.Erdogan returned to Istanbul and to his jubilant supporters.
:19:12. > :19:17.He blamed the American-based cleric Fethullah Gulen for the dissent
:19:18. > :19:22.and started to weed out those considered to be his dissenters.
:19:23. > :19:24.Turkey is now under a state of emergency.
:19:25. > :19:27.3,000 military officers have been dismissed and 160
:19:28. > :19:32.3,000 judges and prosecutors have been pushed out,
:19:33. > :19:34.over 100 media organisations have been closed, 40
:19:35. > :19:41.So far all in all, more than 60,000 people in the military, judiciary,
:19:42. > :19:43.civil service and schools have been either detained,
:19:44. > :19:52.Talip Kucukcan is on the Foreign Relations Committee
:19:53. > :20:06.Thank you for coming in. Your president we stated today that this
:20:07. > :20:10.coup against him was supported by the West and intimated that the West
:20:11. > :20:16.was supporting terrorism. Do you stand by those words? What we see in
:20:17. > :20:22.Turkey is a threat to Turkish democracy and elected government and
:20:23. > :20:30.we have seen that people were killed who defended their democratically
:20:31. > :20:38.elected government. When you look at the gravity of the problem and those
:20:39. > :20:42.involved in the coup attempt, they might be a conspiracy theory but
:20:43. > :20:45.also there are facts on the ground if you look at the testimony of
:20:46. > :20:53.those people, they indicate there are certain groups behind that.
:20:54. > :20:59.Particularly the Fethullah Gulen movement. The exiled cleric. The
:21:00. > :21:02.exiled cleric. If you look at the testimony of those involved in the
:21:03. > :21:08.coup attempt they said they were members and they were given the job
:21:09. > :21:12.of listening to the army people, the president, the chief of staff. When
:21:13. > :21:17.you spoke about Western powers supporting terrorism, that is not
:21:18. > :21:20.quite the same thing. What Turkey expected from the Western powers is
:21:21. > :21:27.to be with Turkey when there was such a big threat to Turkish
:21:28. > :21:30.democracy. It is not only the coup attempt that Turkey is based, in
:21:31. > :21:36.recent years and especially in the last decades we have seen a threat
:21:37. > :21:42.from the PKK to Turkey, then the threat from Daesh and the Syrian
:21:43. > :21:48.crisis. I think Turkey expected a firmer stand for the Turkish
:21:49. > :21:54.democracy, for Turkish civil liberties. I think this in my
:21:55. > :21:59.understanding on the part of Erdogan, he wanted to become part of
:22:00. > :22:05.Europe, that is the story of Turkey since he came to power in 2002. You
:22:06. > :22:11.remember all those reforms for Turkey to become part of the EU. So
:22:12. > :22:17.heart -- how our relationship between Turkey and the EU and how
:22:18. > :22:22.does the migrants deal now stand? As far as I can see the deal is still
:22:23. > :22:25.on the table and Jackie really has been carrying out its own
:22:26. > :22:29.commitments because of the three main objectives to the deal, want to
:22:30. > :22:38.stop the death of people on the Aegean Sea. This is not put you off?
:22:39. > :22:43.If you look at the deal, Turkey is carrying out its responsibilities.
:22:44. > :22:46.One was taking refugees illegally arrived on the Greek islands and
:22:47. > :22:53.that is taking place but when it comes to Visa liberalisation, that
:22:54. > :22:58.is not resolved. And looking at burden sharing, this also has not
:22:59. > :23:02.been carried out by the European partners. When the West looks at
:23:03. > :23:06.Turkey and its response, and they may have been sympathy for Erdogan
:23:07. > :23:16.against the coup, but when you look at what has happened now, the purge
:23:17. > :23:21.of 60,000 people, the tensions in Ankara, 1500 university deans told
:23:22. > :23:24.to step down, the academics, the journalists, the imprisonment of
:23:25. > :23:30.people who clearly did not have any part in that coup itself, it looks
:23:31. > :23:35.like Turkey is not a democracy that the West can deal with. We
:23:36. > :23:40.understand the concerns of our Western partners, of course. But if
:23:41. > :23:46.you look... So you say we should not done it? They might of course be
:23:47. > :23:51.some concerns and voices, but when we look at the state of emergency in
:23:52. > :23:58.Turkey as I have just explained, the enormity of the threat that we have
:23:59. > :24:02.been facing, it is not just the academics and the deans, but an
:24:03. > :24:07.organisation whose members have been infiltrating into the state system.
:24:08. > :24:11.The judiciary, the army and intelligence. So there might be
:24:12. > :24:18.more? There might be more. We now have to see, when the dust settles
:24:19. > :24:21.we will see things case-by-case. At the moment you have 60,000 in
:24:22. > :24:27.prison, do think that the number will rise question mark no, not in
:24:28. > :24:31.prison, the numbers you talk about include those people suspended from
:24:32. > :24:35.their work, it does not mean that they are in prison. How hard could
:24:36. > :24:43.the number rise? I have no idea at the moment, I cannot say, but if you
:24:44. > :24:46.want to work in state institutions you have to take sensually organised
:24:47. > :24:51.tests. What we know today is that questions were stolen by the members
:24:52. > :24:57.of this Fethullah Gulen organisation. And now we will find
:24:58. > :25:00.out who these people where when they wanted to become judges,
:25:01. > :25:03.prosecutors, policemen, intelligence. We know Erdogan does
:25:04. > :25:09.not tolerate dissent against him even in the form of best satirical
:25:10. > :25:12.poem. One such poem was written by Boris Johnson, our Foreign
:25:13. > :25:16.Secretary, I wonder how well received he would be in Turkey now.
:25:17. > :25:22.Of course he will be received well because Turkey and the UK have been
:25:23. > :25:28.allies for a long time. If you look at the relation between Turkey and
:25:29. > :25:33.the UK, there is a lot of trade between the two countries, many
:25:34. > :25:37.British companies are active in Turkey with a lot of investment. I
:25:38. > :25:40.think these are issues that we've got to look at rather than the
:25:41. > :25:44.perception. Thank you for coming in. Now that we've voted
:25:45. > :25:46.to leave the European Union, do we have any further use
:25:47. > :25:49.for our EU passports? Post Brexit, some are calling
:25:50. > :25:51.for a return to the sturdy, personalised, navy passports of old,
:25:52. > :25:54.personally signed by the monarch and - no less importantly -
:25:55. > :25:56.weighted with the endorsement of previous presenters
:25:57. > :25:58.of this programme. So would this be a welcome
:25:59. > :26:00.restoration of a proud national institution -or a return to good
:26:01. > :26:04.old days of the british rail buffet Stephen Smith - who,
:26:05. > :26:08.confusingly lists his occupation as 'journalist' in his passport -
:26:09. > :26:11.throws the deabte - # Come fly with me, let's
:26:12. > :26:22.fly, let's fly away #. Oh, the golden days of travel -
:26:23. > :26:25.the cabin trunks, the silver service,
:26:26. > :26:29.the monogrammed sick bags... In the days when the sun never set
:26:30. > :26:32.on the British Empire, it seemed the holder of a British
:26:33. > :26:35.passport never had It wouldn't last forever,
:26:36. > :26:41.as this evenhanded piece by a young The British passport wasn't so much
:26:42. > :26:47.something you presented for inspection by some grubby
:26:48. > :26:49.little border policeman, It was solid, sturdy
:26:50. > :26:59.and understated, like the front door of number ten, the radiator grille
:27:00. > :27:02.of a Rolls-Royce or the These days people still
:27:03. > :27:08.want to travel in style, but they have to do so on something
:27:09. > :27:12.smaller and flimsier, and looking like a passbook
:27:13. > :27:17.of the Nuneaton Building Society. Today the Sun called for the return
:27:18. > :27:21.of the navy blue British passport, saying, "The Government must make
:27:22. > :27:24.plans to reintroduce the blue ones, We'll be the first in
:27:25. > :27:29.the queue for a new blue." CHANITNG: "WE WANT
:27:30. > :27:34.OUR COUNTRY BACK!" This was former Ukip leader
:27:35. > :27:40.Nigel Farage during Nobody's over keen on their passport
:27:41. > :27:49.photo, good luck to this loser But what do people feel
:27:50. > :28:01.about the passport itself? I feel like I'm being interrogated
:28:02. > :28:04.by the Bulgarian secret police... The director of the Design Museum
:28:05. > :28:07.never leaves the house without his. If you open it up, you find
:28:08. > :28:11.those immortal words about her Britannic Majesty requests
:28:12. > :28:13.and requires us to leave, If you actually look
:28:14. > :28:16.at a contemporary passport, it's full of feel-good
:28:17. > :28:20.notions of Britishness. This looks like the Wind
:28:21. > :28:23.In The Willows deep down. There's a dragon fly
:28:24. > :28:28.in there somewhere, and strangely, isobars, which I guess
:28:29. > :28:32.is about the weather. My family came from a country
:28:33. > :28:35.that no longer exists, They arrived in the 1930s,
:28:36. > :28:42.and for a long time they had to have their Yugoslav passport
:28:43. > :28:45.with its blazing flags of communism and its star of socialism,
:28:46. > :28:47.stamped with the words, For my parents, getting their first
:28:48. > :28:52.blue British passport What about the thoughts of a travel
:28:53. > :29:01.writer, forever crossing frontiers, collecting exotic stamps
:29:02. > :29:06.in their passport? We found one who's just
:29:07. > :29:08.been using hers to get I don't have any romantic attachment
:29:09. > :29:15.to it, and I think that the idea of going back to the old passport
:29:16. > :29:18.is pure jingoism with no The last thing we need at the moment
:29:19. > :29:27.is to be more inward looking. We need to find ways of connecting
:29:28. > :29:32.with Europe at this time. For families trying to get away
:29:33. > :29:35.on holiday this summer, kipping in their cars at Dover,
:29:36. > :29:39.uppermost on their minds has been Our current passport isn't
:29:40. > :29:47.beautiful, it's functional. When I looked at the thing
:29:48. > :29:51.in the Sun, the blue one, it's even clunkier, a clunky
:29:52. > :29:55.passport, not beautiful at all. We've got to start thinking
:29:56. > :29:59.of beauty, and that can be done... There's a big difference
:30:00. > :30:04.between funky and beauty, and design can make something
:30:05. > :30:06.beautiful, and that sums up Now, where's that bloke
:30:07. > :30:43.in the arrivals hall, holding up Hello. Wednesday's weather brings
:30:44. > :30:46.with it a day of contrasts. We will see some dry, sunny and windy
:30:47. > :30:47.weather across England and