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The unravelling of a prime-ministerial legacy,

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less than three months after he's gone.

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It's about time people just stopped dissing him all the time,

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and actually see him for what he has done for my party and,

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Did Cameron's party always disliked what he did, or does every new

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leader have to dump the narrative of the last one? We ask one of his

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earlier supporters, Nicholas Soames. Also tonight in Strasbourg,

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Europe asks how it can shape its future without us

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to help them along. The man charged by Parliament with

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negotiating Brexit has this to say. Stop the politics of division,

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and seize this opportunity not to kill Europe, as some of you want,

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but to reinvent Europe. The former Prime Minister

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of Finland thinks Brexit And, the EU migrants

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in Britain facing deportation TRANSLATION: If you're working,

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it's not a problem, but if you can't find work to support yourself,

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then it's hard. You won't have anywhere to sleep,

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because if you're not paid, "History will be kind to me",

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Winston Churchill once said, Every living Prime Minister has

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to watch as their legacy For some though, it

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comes rather quickly. Our former Prime Minister, David

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Cameron, relinquished all the final trappings of power this week,

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as he stepped down as an MP. Barely had he left the scene than

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a new narrative began to emerge. One where he faces criticism

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for his intervention in Libya in 2011, where his education

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policies are turned upside down, where austerity becomes a word

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of a bygone age and where we're no There seems to be little love

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lost between Theresa May and David Cameron,

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and every leader wants But there is a nakedness to leaving

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office, a vulnerability exposed Newsnight has learned that senior

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advisers to Theresa May think that the differentiation strategy from

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David Cameron has gone too far. It was bloodless, but it was a

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purge. Theresa May has not yet reached her first 100 days in

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office, at already our new leader has gone out of her way to hairbrush

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David Cameron from history. -- to airbursh. Theresa May is

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absolutely right saying I am my own woman, this is the person that I am.

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She's absolutely right to do that. She has to put a bit of blue water

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between herself and the previous administration. It may be the most

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rapid transfer of power in recent history, but the Prime Minister had

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clearly been thinking long and hard about how she would differentiate

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herself from David Cameron. Out went most of the eater Tony ands, the

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northern powerhouse, and in came Grammar schools. -- out went most of

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the Etonians. She is definitely trying to be different to David

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Cameron. She knows that Cameron at the start talks about education and

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progress, but he didn't talk about selection, he took a stand against

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selection. She has chosen to go in favour of selection. It can't but be

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intentional. It has upset some of Cameron's most ardent supporters.

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We've got to stop trashing David Cameron. And I'm not a Cameroon. I

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didn't go to any parties at Chequers. I'm not part of his in a

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circle. I'm just grateful for everything he's done for my party at

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my country. I thought he was an outstanding Prime Minister and

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fabulous leader of my party. It's about time people stopped dissing

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him and saw him for what he has done for our country. Some of his allies

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are biding their time before deciding when to strike back.

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Newsnight understands that one of his friends shouted out viva Cameron

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when she fired the shot and sacked him.

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Perhaps some of the elements of their differentiation strategy have

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gone too far. An old friend of the former Prime Minister's, who is

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helping him with his memoirs, wings that the differences are being

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exaggerated. We're right to think about those differences and comment

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on them, but we may then be missing something which is also important,

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which is similarities about one centrist, modernising Conservative

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Prime Minister giving way to another centrist modernising Conservative

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Prime Minister. He thinks that Theresa May should be given support

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for consistency for her support for selection. I was director of policy

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when she was Shadow Secretary of State for Education and William

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Hague was the leader of the Conservative Party and this was the

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agenda that she developed then. She has had to wait all this time

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diplomat it. If she had been part of the Cameron in a government, as it

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were, she would probably have done some of this by now. So because of

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being slightly outside it whilst still being a moderniser, she has

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got a change agenda but inside that sort of Cameron worldview. I think

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that's probably quite a good balance. One veteran Tory says we

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should remember that Theresa May has taken over in wholly different

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circumstances to the last two Prime Minister 's who entered number ten

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without an election. There was an elements of failure both with Tony

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Blair and Mrs Thatcher that gave a chance to a new leader and they

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could take on something different. David Cameron, in my mind, that

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wasn't really the case. Of course, the referendum turned out to be an

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Arab and a catastrophic one and it has cost him. But the rest of the

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policy was going in a way where he could say made some successes. The

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economy has picked up. He was points ahead in the opinion polls and all

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that. So it wasn't quite the same circumstances. David Cameron is

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living up to his commitment to go dark, but he will be back. With

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Churchill's dictum about the importance of recording the first

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draft of history, he is busy scribbling away at his memoirs. We

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will have more from Nick Watt later. But now Sir Nicholas Soames,

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one of David Camerons earliest parliamentary supporters,

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joins me now. I don't think I've ever done this

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before but we don't actually know where you stand on his legacy.

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You were booked on the basis that we agreed to "suck it and see"!

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Why don't we start by getting a sense, do you think this is the

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dismantling of Cameron's policy? I don't. This is a new Prime Minister.

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David Cameron has left, to my sadness, is under 58 and still with

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a lot more to give, but he has decided to go and he has gone and

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the party has moved quickly to elect a new Prime Minister, and she has

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every right to have who she wants in our cabinet, who she wants in what

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job, and she is part of the very first Cameron government and I think

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she is building on it. A complete coincidence that he acknowledges his

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resignation ten minutes before Justine Greening gets up to stand on

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grammar schools, or that she made a speech and very first words are

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about elitism being rejected, about austerity being rejected? About all

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those things we've heard so much about over the past six years? I'm

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the wrong person to get on this because I don't know anything about

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the ins and outs, I'm not being naive about it but I just don't

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know. I believe that David Cameron was right to resign, actually,

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because I think he does feel that every time he chooses to say

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something, and he will want to say stuff as a member of Parliament, he

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will be put, as Ted Heath was, in a very ill judged time that he was out

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of office. So I think he was right to do that. I think the situation

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is, as Nick Watt said in his piece, the situation has completely

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changed. We have this extraordinary challenge of Brexit. The very harsh

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austerity... But even her own advisers think that she's gone too

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far. In terms of differentiation, if you pick five things in the last

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week, and I'm not even counting the Libya report which obviously has

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come independently, whether it is education, whether it is this bores

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on Hinkley Point, which we will know about soon, whether it is HS two,

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the relations with the Chinese, the grammar schools, all the rest of it,

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you don't have to look very far to see all the Cameron thinks she is an

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doing. I don't see it as a big issue. I think Hinkley Point is one

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of the most expensive and extreme the controversial projects. I think

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any incoming Prime Minister would want to have a very careful look at

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it. The Rona Fairhead thing, I don't know what the issues are there, but

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she's totally entitled to do this. It is a new administration. But it

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is an administration that is quite clearly going to build on what is on

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gunnery and others would like to see and I think it will go further than

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David was able to go. So let's take it one further, you think she is in

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the right direction? If these things get under, even though you were a

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firm supporter of Cameron's, you wouldn't get quite upset? I'm not

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upset, but politics is a harsh, rough and quite bloody business.

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Theresa May is the Prime Minister and she takes a certain view and she

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is entitled to take her Administration in the way she sees

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fit. But she is building on the Cameron inheritance. What does the

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Tory party do? Does the Tory party say yes, we're all for academies,

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yes we are all for grammar schools... Whether you're for

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grammar schools, it is not to say that you're not for academies. I'm

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absolutely pro-anything that is going to enhance the life chances of

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a lot of people who really are not getting a fair crack of the whip. If

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you choose to put a grammar school in a post-industrial town where

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there are no good schools, I think that is a wonderful thing to do. A

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wonderful thing to do. So I think she's going to press on. And I think

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she has the space and the opportunity, in a way... And you

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think she will succeed with Brexit? Well, I think Brexit is a very

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difficult, complex matter which you're going to discuss with the

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former Prime Minister of Finland. It's either going to go smoothly for

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us, which I don't think it will, or it will be a very bitter and

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protracted affair. And I'm afraid it will be a very bitter and protracted

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affair and could last a long time. I'm sure the Prime Minister is very

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aware but the world is not going to wait for Britain to make its mind

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up. We need to get on with this. Sir Nicholas Soames, thank you very

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much. Joining me now, the Times Columnist

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Tim Montgomerie, and Polly Toynbee, Nice to have you both here. You

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heard from Sir Nicholas a sense that it is business as usual and this is

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just what you do. Tim, are you hearing a proper, new territory with

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Theresa May now? A differentiation strategy? Look, on the 23rd of June

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I think Britain just didn't -- didn't just vote for Brexit, there

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were a huge of this affected poorer Britons, who in their vote were

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crying out for change. With Theresa May at the new Prime Minister, seeds

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-- if she didn't acknowledge that as well as wanting to leave the

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European Union there was a call for a different time politics, she would

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be failing... David Cameron won the general election on his policies a

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year ago. He won with 36% of the vote against a pretty weak Labour

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leader in Ed Miliband. What Brexit, the referendum, a bigger referendum

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of what people thought of Britain. I think if David Cameron had been in

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the position that Theresa May was in now, he would be recalibrating

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policy as well. What is remarkable is that there is much more

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continuity between Theresa May and David Cameron and we are inevitably

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focusing on the differences. I agree with Tim, there you go! I think what

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we're going to see is Nermark double amount of continuity. What she's

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done is get rid of his chums and people she doesn't like and brought

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in her own chums, the way that prime ministers do. What really matters in

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the end is what she does about the economy. We have been through a

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government where George Osborne and Cameron were committed to reducing

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the size of the state in Britain to about the same size as the American

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state, down to 35%. They said they would get it down today, not an

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emergency measure, but that was how it was going to stay. As a result,

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public services have been absolutely cut-throat across-the-board, in

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those Schalke, the NHS and is a lot of fields. -- cut right across the

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board in the NHS and those areas. Is she a greater evil or a lesser evil?

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You were no fan of Cameron. I think they're very much on the same track.

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They are considerably to the right. Cameron and Osborne had a much more

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relaxed the near. They were much harder than Mrs Thatcher. Their cuts

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have been much more profound than anything that Margaret Thatcher

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thought she could begin to do. I think that will continue. That's

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nonsense. It's too early to judge where Theresa May is going to go on

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economic policy. One of the most interesting interventions we have

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had since Brexit was from the Thatcherite minister Sajid Javid,

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who said we should be boring 20 billion extra a year to put into

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infrastructure and housing, to make the northern powerhouse real, a

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central project of George Osborne. That hasn't gone. What has happened,

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which is where Emily is guilty of a bit of exaggeration, all that has

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happened was that Theresa May has said that the northern powerhouse

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was too focused on Manchester. But she has taken these phrases that we

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have been fed on for the last few years... The first thing she said

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was, austerity will be looked at again. The northern powerhouse is

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not about the North, it is about all the country. That is

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differentiation. It isn't. If the government of Britain didn't respond

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to one of the most historic vote in our nation's history and recalibrate

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policy, it would be wrong. So does that mean that all the people who

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voted for David Cameron, voted him into power in 2015, didn't like his

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policies? I don't think so. Who knows? It's always a choice. People

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go for what they think is the most competent person. The idea there is

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going to be a great shift... We had a very good speech from her on the

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threshold of number ten talking about the poor, talking about

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opportunity. Mac but we have been there before. It is exactly what

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David Cameron did in the run-up to taking power. The problem is that

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she hasn't even tested. She's arrived without any kind of election

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or selection. She hasn't been grilled by the likes of you, so that

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when she comes up with a policy like grammar schools, she hasn't had the

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chance to test it out. I think she's making mistake after mistake. The

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grammar schools one is going to be a big embarrassment, because there are

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a lot of Conservatives who know that most people get the School of their

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choice. After grammar schools, 80% will not. What came on Monday was

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timed to perfection. That wasn't just accident. Who knows? David

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Cameron is going through emotional turmoil, I imagine. He won a general

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election a year ago. He has been humbled. He is a sensible enough

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politician to know that his successor needs to have her own

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agenda. I think what we are seeing is a review of policy that is

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necessary, but on some of the key fundamentals, getting our deficit

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under control, passing tax cuts to the low paid, ensuring the education

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system serves the disadvantaged, she is more of a camera and politician

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than a Thatcherite one. -- a Cameron politician. This is the one thing

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that I worry about with Theresa May. The defining Wallasey she was

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associated with was control of immigration, but when she had the

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opportunity to deliver the means of controlling immigration by leaving

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the EU, she hesitated. She has every reason to feel resentment against

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David Cameron. The legacy he's left her is appalling. The Brexit

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conundrum is dreadful and will overwhelm her government. At the

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same time as the state of the NHS, and a number of other problems on

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her plate. He really has left her with some pretty bad stuff, and I

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wouldn't be surprised if she was grinding her teeth. Nick Watt has

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slipped back into the hot seat. What will happen with this? Laura

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Kuenssberg, political editor of the BBC, is reporting that a source is

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saying that both the Chinese and US governments will approve the

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Hinckley power deal, which should be improved tomorrow. Sources close to

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the deal are saying that the Chinese are unlikely to accept conditions

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unless they get a guarantee over their hope that they will have the

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right to be the sole builder of that second nuclear power plant at

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Bradwell. Theresa May called a halt to the Hinkley C points decision,

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which was one of the first things she did as Prime Minister. If she

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had stopped it, that would have left you a crisis with Britain's

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relations with China. But she couldn't just leave it how it was.

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So she is accept in it with some conditions. Talking about

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continuity, you mentioned the men was coming out with Lord Finkelstein

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on David Cameron. What will that bring? Lord Finkelstein is a

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familiar and friendly face in the Newsnight Village, and will be

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helping David Cameron with his memoirs. David Cameron takes pride

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in his first from Oxford, so why would he need help with the writing?

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I think he realises it will be a mammoth task, so why not have one of

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the UK's finest political writers helping out? David Cameron has

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clearly been thinking about these memoirs for some time. He hasn't

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done a Tony Benn notepad under the table in the Cabinet room, but

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clearly he has been doing some work on these memoirs. Thank you.

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When the 27 EU countries gather for their first post-Brexit vote

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summit this weekend, it will be tempting

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Indeed, it's what the European Commission President

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Jean Claude Juncker struck a slightly elegiaic note today,

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as he acknowledged in his State of the Union Address that Brexit

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was a blow for the Union, and pressed for more integration

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TRANSLATION: The European Union is currently not in top condition.

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The number of areas where we come together, spontaneously

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The number of areas where we collaborate in

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Too often, interests that are exclusively

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But how much solidarity actually exists within the bloc?

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Divisions are opening up between those who want Britain to be

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treated harshly and those prepared to give a bit of leeway.

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The same divisions perhaps reveal where our European neighbours

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themselves stand on that critical issue of freedom of movement.

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When thinking about what the rest of the EU wants from us,

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We will be dealing with 27 states, each with different priorities.

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So what can we say about what they will want?

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Well, first, we know Ireland is going to be very important.

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It's an EU member so exposed to us that it's desperate

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Lots of our other close trading partners, like Germany,

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are also likely to want to minimise the disruption of Brexit.

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Donald Tusk, the European Council President, is also a pragmatist.

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But Francois Hollande of France is in another camp.

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We have neighbours who'd quite like to give us a kicking

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Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European

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But there are other blocs with their own Brexit agendas.

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The Baltics and Finland, understandably, see security

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We are one of Europe's big military powers,

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and hardline on Moscow, so defence co-operation might become

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We might also become a pawn in internal EU arguments.

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For example, the southern states, often slightly misleadingly called

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the "Club Med" countries, are lobbying for a change

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Next month, Matteo Renzi in Italy faces a constitutional referendum.

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Lithuania is going to hold a general election.

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Then, later this year, Romania will hold one too.

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Francois Hollande looks likely to lose a forthcoming French

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Angela Merkel faces a general election by next autumn.

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So it's a negotiation with 27 countries, some of whom have local

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fixations, some of whom may change leaders midway,

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and may in fact win power on pledges about Brexit.

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what shape any European deal will take.

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Joining me here in the studio is Alexander Stubb, the former

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And in Strasbourg, where Mr Juncker made his speech today,

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is the Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan.

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Thank you both very much indeed for being with us. It is interesting.

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Juncker has insisted this is not going to be a summit about Brexit.

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Are they really not going to talk about it?

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Of course they will. Usually when you say you are not talking about

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something, it is what you are going to talk about. Then there will be a

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process for the future of Europe, because I think Brexit is a tough

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lesson to learn for all European leaders, and they are trying to suss

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out what happened. How long do you think Brexit will take? It will be a

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long process. Five to ten years. The unravelling of the British Empire

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took a long time. To try to take yourself out of these you when you

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are talking of over 100,000 pages of secondary legislation, it does not

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happen fast. I am in London for a week to try to figure out if Brexit

:24:36.:24:42.

means Brexit, what does Brexit mean? I do think anybody knows. Five to

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ten years is not something that happens briefly after Christmas. It

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is a process after an event. When we get back Southern tree, that is when

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we begin to diversion. When we leave, all of our regulations are

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still in place. Then we can choose which ones we want to keep and which

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ones we don't. What we want is the tightest relationship with our

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European friends in terms of security cooperation, military

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alliance, open markets, compatible with being a fully sovereign country

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who makes its own laws, like Canada and the US. But you would not

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disagree with that time frame? Brexit as a legal fact will come

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into effect when British laws are against supreme in our own

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territory. There is a timescale there. I think everybody accepts, as

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Geva hushed output yesterday, we could not have another election.

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Brexit will come into effect by 2019, at the latest. We still have

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quite a lot of assimilated EU acts, and that is when we will decide

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which ones to keep. We can do that with the consent and the approval of

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our European friends. We want to avoid acting unilaterally or

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precipitously. That is exactly the word. There are many within that

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block watching to see what happens with freedom of movement who don't

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really want it any more themselves. That is one of the difficult issues.

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One of the big endgames is going to be the internal market. Second,

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linked to that, the freedom of movement. And third, how much that

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will cost. Does freedom of movement have to break? It is one of the

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fundamental freedoms of the EU. The UK was one of the only countries to

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go for free -- true freedom of movement in 2004. A lot of others

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went for a transitional period. It is a Catch-22 situation for other EU

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leaders. Ritz did their part, then suffered through Brexit. If freedom

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of movement will not disappear, we have to acknowledge that we will not

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be part of the single market, and that all the ministers coming up

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with various interpretations are at odds with each other, let alone the

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rest of the EU. That was to you, Dan. I'm sorry, I cannot see the

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studio! We are going to have access to the single market. Virtually the

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whole world has access to the single market. If you look at the back of a

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smartphone, it says, designed in California, made in China. Neither

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of those states have any agreement with the EU. Whether we can trade is

:27:45.:27:50.

not the issue, it is whether we are subject to the same regime. There

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may be some specific businesses and sectors where it suits them to be

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part of the same regime, but for the vast majority, it may be better to

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not apply those rules to our domestic commerce and industry. Is

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it not a problem that, listening to conversations between David Davis

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and Theresa May, you see that no one really understands the contours of

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what Brexit is. Different comments about the single market over ten

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each other, and junior ministers don't seem to have a clue. It is

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pretty clear that we will be outside the common external tariff. The

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advantage of Brexit is we will be able to have free trade agreements

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with China and India and others. It is in our interests for the EU to be

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prosperous. Alexander Stubb, do you want Europe to give us concessions?

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Is it in their interest to do this nicely? I think Brexit is a blues -

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lose proposition, unfortunately. I think it is in the interests of all

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of us to make this divorce as amicable as possible. We are going

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to have similar rules and regulations. This is the future.

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Look at technological advancement. My kids are going to be printing

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their sneakers on 3-D printers. There will not be trade rules in

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between. There is going to be a very long, cumbersome and difficult

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process for the EU, which we will talk about for the next ten years.

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Thank you very much indeed. A paediatric pathologist

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in Northern Ireland has resigned over interventions

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by Northern Ireland's Attorney General on abortion laws surrounding

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fatal foetal abnormality. Dr Caroline Gannon investigated

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the deaths of babies, including She said the final straw was having

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to advise a couple to use a picnic cooler bag to return their baby's

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remains to Northern Ireland following an abortion

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they were made to have in England. The 1967 Abortion Act,

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which established legal abortion, has never applied in Northern

:30:05.:30:06.

Ireland. Abortion is only allowed

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in Northern Ireland in cases Fatal foetal abnormalities,

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rape and incest are not circumstances in which abortions can

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be performed legally. Last year, a High court judge ruled

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the ban on terminations in instances of sexual crime or fatal foetal

:30:22.:30:25.

abnormalities were incompatable But Attorney General John Larkin

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appealed against that ruling. Dr Gannon said her position had

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been made untenable, and that the interventions by Mr

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Larkin had proved a tipping point. Joining us now from Belfast

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is Caroline Gannon, former paedatric pathologist who

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has just resigned from her job. We appreciate you joining us. Can

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you try and explain a little better than I did the emotional trigger

:30:57.:31:01.

which really lead to you feeling you had to step down? I think you

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explained it very well. It has become increasingly difficult over

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the last 18 months. It's not just the termination ruling, it is also

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the stillbirth ruling, that we have a situation here where stillbirth

:31:16.:31:19.

can be reported to the coroner and an autopsy carried out by Kara

:31:20.:31:22.

O'Neill legislation without any input from the parents. -- coronial

:31:23.:31:34.

the deflation. They have no say when they get their baby's body back, for

:31:35.:31:38.

example. It's not just the termination ruling, it is also the

:31:39.:31:42.

stillbirth ruling. Over the last 18 months I have found that I have

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become increasingly, mice by these rulings, which has had a big impact

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on the work I do for families. Just explain to us the couple who were

:31:54.:31:58.

not allowed to have their dangerously ill foetus terminated in

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Ireland, what happened there? They had received a diagnosis of fatal

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faecal abnormalities and they wanted a termination of pregnancy and they

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had to go to England for that. This was very much a wanted baby, a

:32:17.:32:21.

planned baby, and they were very distressed that this would go ahead.

:32:22.:32:27.

This was part of their family, this was their baby and they didn't want

:32:28.:32:34.

to leave him in Northern Ireland. It was only through the sheer luck that

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they were speaking to a very experienced midwife who knew me

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personally and she put them in touch with me so I could give them

:32:44.:32:48.

information about how best to bring the body home and how to preserve

:32:49.:32:52.

the tissue though that we could get all the information they would need.

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I'm sure there are other families out there who did not access that

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information and had to leave their baby behind in England. Just give us

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a sense, do you feel, and you weren't worried closely with this,

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that abortion laws have become more rigorous in Northern Ireland in

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recent years? Very much so. I started working in

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Northern Ireland as a consultant in 2003 and bank then we did get some

:33:18.:33:21.

babies coming into our department where the families had had an

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induction of labour because of a lethal abnormality. That seemed to

:33:30.:33:33.

stop completely in about 2008. So we do seem to be becoming more strict

:33:34.:33:40.

over the rules here and I do feel it is interfering with family life

:33:41.:33:43.

quite significantly. I think parents should have the right to make a

:33:44.:33:47.

decision about their babies and they have been denied that, both in

:33:48.:33:53.

stillbirths and in babies where they opt to end the pregnancy early.

:33:54.:33:56.

There was this ruling by a High Court judge in Belfast that some of

:33:57.:34:03.

the parts of the law contravenes international human rights. Why

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didn't that go through? There is no will install mod for that to go

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through. There seems to be very little public debate about the

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impact this is having on families at an individual family level. The

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impression I'm getting from the media is that this is being

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portrayed as an all or nothing situation, that either no

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terminations can be carried out or if we say yes to terminations for

:34:28.:34:32.

lethal abnormalities, that opens the door to every other type of

:34:33.:34:35.

termination of pregnancy. We're talking about termination of

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pregnancy in a very specific circumstance, where the baby has an

:34:42.:34:45.

abnormality that is not compatible with life, and it's only a very

:34:46.:34:48.

small number of cases each year. It's just that one particular

:34:49.:34:52.

scenario that we are looking at. This is not going to become abortion

:34:53.:34:56.

on demand but that is the way it's being presented in the media and

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that is the way that our MPs in Stormont are behaving. When you

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explained to a couple what they would have to do, because they were

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not allowed to have their baby terminated with you in Northern

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Ireland, what was their response to that? I don't want to get into too

:35:12.:35:17.

many details, because obviously the family deserve confidentiality. But

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the father seemed to deal with this by taking a step back and being

:35:24.:35:27.

quite detached about the whole thing. I'm sure he wasn't coming he

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was very distressed and upset. I have to say, the conversation, I

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deal with this everyday, I deal with postmortem's everyday, but that was

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quite simply the most upsetting conversation I'd had in 16 years as

:35:42.:35:46.

a consultant. To talk to a father about what size of picnic cooler we

:35:47.:35:52.

would need to estimate the size that his baby might be, to determine the

:35:53.:35:56.

size of the cooler and to explain about keeping the tissues at four

:35:57.:36:00.

degrees Celsius so we could preserve them the best we could for genetic

:36:01.:36:04.

testing when the baby got back to us in Northern Ireland, it really was

:36:05.:36:08.

quite appalling and quite surreal to have to discuss that. I just found

:36:09.:36:14.

it extremely difficult. Thank you very much indeed. Thanks for joining

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us this evening. Thank you. The Attorney General's office

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told the BBC today that the law on abortion is currently under

:36:20.:36:21.

consideration by Court of Appeal. We're going to take you back to that

:36:22.:36:32.

news that has broken whilst we have been on air, we understand there has

:36:33.:36:38.

been a decision on Hinckley. At the moment there is only one source

:36:39.:36:42.

giving as this but the Times has got that the French claim the nuclear

:36:43.:36:47.

plant has been approved at Hinkley Point. Just take us through, Nick,

:36:48.:36:54.

for those who missed it earlier, what state of the deal we think we

:36:55.:37:00.

are at with Hinkley Point now? The Times are citing a report by

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Bloomberg News saying that EDF, the French energy giant meant to be

:37:05.:37:10.

partnering on this, they have been informed that this deal is going

:37:11.:37:13.

ahead, but crucially there will be conditions, and the big question is

:37:14.:37:18.

that it looks like the conditions may be attached to the Bradwell

:37:19.:37:23.

plant, the second plant in Essex, which China is hoping to build on

:37:24.:37:26.

its very own. As we've been reporting in recent weeks, some of

:37:27.:37:34.

Theresa May's chief aides have voiced concerns about Chinese

:37:35.:37:37.

security and whether they should have sole control over the building

:37:38.:37:47.

of a nuclear power plant. We should say the government is denying any

:37:48.:37:50.

deal has been made, but they would, wouldn't they, at this point? Tim,

:37:51.:37:57.

what would you make of it or understand by this? You always

:37:58.:37:59.

expected Hinkley Point to go through? No, one of the interesting

:38:00.:38:05.

things in the Times report is that the government are insisting that

:38:06.:38:10.

the EDF, the French board of the EDF have two re approved the can deal

:38:11.:38:16.

under new conditions. It was quite a narrowly balanced judgment last time

:38:17.:38:20.

and it could be that with the new conditions the French opt out and

:38:21.:38:25.

therefore it won't be Britons saying to China pulling out of this deal,

:38:26.:38:30.

they're trying to get France to pull out. I'm personally disappointed if

:38:31.:38:34.

it does go ahead. Hinkley Point is a commitment for the British energy

:38:35.:38:39.

payer, the average householder, to really be paying above the odds for

:38:40.:38:43.

energy costs for decades ahead. It could saddle British industry with

:38:44.:38:48.

higher energy costs for a long time. But presumably without it that would

:38:49.:38:51.

have meant we're not going to invest in nuclear power? On this scale.

:38:52.:38:56.

There are other nuclear models. This is the bet I think we're taking if

:38:57.:39:01.

we approve Hinkley Point. We're betting that technology that exist

:39:02.:39:06.

now we will still be committed to 43040 years, when actually there is

:39:07.:39:11.

an awful lot of evidence that solar energy for example, more portable,

:39:12.:39:14.

smaller, nuclear energy is, might actually be much cheaper in ten or

:39:15.:39:19.

20 years' time, so we will be saddled with this providing 7% of

:39:20.:39:24.

British energy, when actually our economic competitors could be using

:39:25.:39:27.

new technologies that allow their industry and consumers to be paying

:39:28.:39:32.

much cheaper bills. If this is the decision, I think it's quite

:39:33.:39:36.

regrettable. We will take you quickly through the papers, which I

:39:37.:39:40.

am looking for the first time too. The Times has this inquiry into

:39:41.:39:47.

police over the 1980s clash with miners. The Telegraph has got

:39:48.:39:56.

"Doubts over prostate treatment". Thousands of men told they could

:39:57.:40:02.

avoid surgery affects the Guardian leading with the BBC forced to

:40:03.:40:05.

reveal salaries of star names. That's it for tonight but we leave

:40:06.:40:06.

you with this. French football

:40:07.:40:13.

legend Michel Platini, who said farewell today as President

:40:14.:40:14.

of the European sport's governing body, Uefa, to warm applause

:40:15.:40:17.

from their congress. It didn't seem to matter that he's

:40:18.:40:19.

been barred from football-related activities for four years,

:40:20.:40:21.

following that unfortunate business with Sepp Blatter

:40:22.:40:23.

and 2 million swiss francs. Hello there. The weather is going to

:40:24.:41:16.

get back to normal as we end the week, but one more very warm day to

:41:17.:41:20.

come for some of us, particularly seeing sunshine from the word go

:41:21.:41:22.

across southern

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