:00:08. > :00:10.100 days in office, so many accomplishments.
:00:11. > :00:13.Lowered my golf handicap, my Twitter following increased by 700.
:00:14. > :00:15.And, finally, we can shooot hibernating bears.
:00:16. > :00:22.Tomorrow Donald Trump marks 100 days in the White House.
:00:23. > :00:25.What has he done to justify the hopes - and the fears -
:00:26. > :00:32.There's not a coherent foreign policy, whether it's Russia, China.
:00:33. > :00:36.What you can do is you can still get lots of retail sanity, but have some
:00:37. > :00:38.wholesale madness riding in the back.
:00:39. > :00:44.But this former CIA director thinks the President knows what he's doing.
:00:45. > :00:45.Also tonight, are the Tory election strategists
:00:46. > :00:50.A weak and unstable coalition government.
:00:51. > :00:52.That choice between confidence and chaos.
:00:53. > :00:57.Jeremy Corbyn, clearly a security risk.
:00:58. > :01:12.For the past 17 years I have been working on and dreaming of a bridge
:01:13. > :01:16.that will cross London in complete silence. A bridge with a garden on
:01:17. > :01:16.it. The project with serious financial
:01:17. > :01:22.issues exposed by this programme has "I'm a nationalist and a globalist",
:01:23. > :01:37.President Trump declared yesterday - reminding us of one thing
:01:38. > :01:41.above all else. Trump is whatever he decides
:01:42. > :01:44.to be, based - some say - A chameleon who picks up
:01:45. > :01:53.the colour beneath him, endlessly adaptable,
:01:54. > :01:54.in thought and tongue. As he approaches his 100th day
:01:55. > :01:57.in office, he candidly admits the job was bigger,
:01:58. > :01:59.harder than he thought. He describes tonight
:02:00. > :02:01.the potential for a "major, And, it seems now,
:02:02. > :02:04.no-one is even surprised. Tonight we look back
:02:05. > :02:06.at the beginning of the Trump presidency -
:02:07. > :02:08.militarism, the diplomacy, the executive orders
:02:09. > :02:11.and of course the tweets - and ask if his heart is really
:02:12. > :02:14.in it for the long haul. First, here's his first 100
:02:15. > :02:20.days in 100 seconds. Donald Trump has governed
:02:21. > :02:33.as he campaigned. His relentless focus on ratings
:02:34. > :02:37.landed him in hot water early on. This was the largest
:02:38. > :02:39.audience to ever witness This kind of dishonesty in the media
:02:40. > :02:46.is making it more difficult... He set about his executive
:02:47. > :02:51.orders with zeal. Then came the travel ban,
:02:52. > :02:53.blocked by the courts By Valentine's Day, he lost his
:02:54. > :02:59.National Security Adviser. But his address to Congress
:03:00. > :03:02.was praised as presidential. His attempts to smear Obama
:03:03. > :03:06.for spying were unsuccessful. His attempts at humour incurred
:03:07. > :03:11.the stony Merkel glare. But it was the health bill that
:03:12. > :03:14.fully exposed his frailty, a President caught between Democrats
:03:15. > :03:17.who found it too harsh, We came really close today,
:03:18. > :03:29.but we came up short. Day 77 showed his military muscle,
:03:30. > :03:32.shots fired on Assad's Syria. What he moved by dying
:03:33. > :03:34.children, or by the memory He confirmed Neil Gorsuch
:03:35. > :03:44.on the Supreme Court. A day later, to everyone's surprise,
:03:45. > :03:47.dropped the Mother Of All And we will be stronger,
:03:48. > :03:50.and bigger, better... The first 100 days of Trump has been
:03:51. > :03:53.volatile and spontaneous. Did his legion of fans or his
:03:54. > :03:56.manifold critics expect any less? As a candidate he opposed
:03:57. > :04:04.Nafta and Nato - he's As a candidate he swore
:04:05. > :04:09.to put America first - but turned his military
:04:10. > :04:13.might on Syria. Trump has pulled in credible people
:04:14. > :04:16.to the roles of Defence and Secretary of State and National
:04:17. > :04:19.Security. But no-one knows if he trusts his
:04:20. > :04:22.own daughter's judgments more. So what does Trump's foreign
:04:23. > :04:24.policy now look like? And is he following a strategy
:04:25. > :04:29.or just a voice in his head? Here's our diplomatic
:04:30. > :04:43.editor Mark Urban. American foreign policy is made in a
:04:44. > :04:48.looking glass world, shaped by powerful officials, competing
:04:49. > :04:52.agencies and interest groups. But the President's role is crucial, and
:04:53. > :04:58.this President, it is clear, puts domestic issues first. We are
:04:59. > :05:03.getting a lot of things done. I don't think there has ever been
:05:04. > :05:07.anything like this. He hasn't travelled abroad during his first
:05:08. > :05:11.100 days, and the prevailing view in Washington is that he has devolved
:05:12. > :05:19.much of foreign policy-making to his Cabinet. This does not amount to a
:05:20. > :05:23.coherent view of foreign policy. There is not a coherent foreign
:05:24. > :05:26.policy, a coherent sense of what our priorities are, our attitude towards
:05:27. > :05:30.human rights, what that should be. You know, how we should develop
:05:31. > :05:35.certain alliance relationships, how we should have a long-term strategy
:05:36. > :05:40.for dealing with opponents, whether it is Russia, China, what have you.
:05:41. > :05:45.What you can do is you can still get lots of retail sanity, but have some
:05:46. > :05:51.wholesale madness riding in the back. Under Obama, the military
:05:52. > :05:56.complained of micromanagement. Trump, by contrast, has signed off
:05:57. > :05:59.broad powers to the Pentagon. From Syria to Afghanistan, Somalia and
:06:00. > :06:04.Libya, more Americans are heading in harms way. Rules of engagement are
:06:05. > :06:09.being relaxed and, if the military wants to drop the mother of all
:06:10. > :06:14.bombs, so be it. Trump has given them what they wanted. But what he
:06:15. > :06:20.hasn't given them is policy boundaries. He hasn't given them his
:06:21. > :06:23.full philosophy, his worldview, his risk calculation about how much risk
:06:24. > :06:29.he is willing to take in terms of civilian casualties or other things,
:06:30. > :06:34.so that they can actually operationalise. I think it is really
:06:35. > :06:37.detrimental to our men and women in uniform who want to know if the
:06:38. > :06:42.justification for why they are taking risks is going to stay the
:06:43. > :06:46.same from day-to-day. As for the non-kinetic, or soft power side of
:06:47. > :06:52.life, the new Secretary of State has had to accept a 39% budget cut and
:06:53. > :06:57.is only now, after initially being frozen out by the White House,
:06:58. > :07:01.assuming a bigger role. So, if Trump has discarded some of his wilder
:07:02. > :07:07.campaign rhetoric, about Nato being obsolete, having a trade war with
:07:08. > :07:11.China or cosying up to Putin, what is the problem? Particularly if he
:07:12. > :07:16.has done so as a result of listening to expert members of his Cabinet.
:07:17. > :07:20.Well, the President's foreign policy critics would say all he knows how
:07:21. > :07:27.to do is respond to day-to-day stimuli, that he's got no idea of an
:07:28. > :07:31.overall strategy. Underlying the policy vacuum is the slowness of
:07:32. > :07:36.appointments by this administration. The State Department has 200 vacant
:07:37. > :07:41.political posts, from ambassadors to assistant secretaries and policy
:07:42. > :07:44.division heads. Maybe I could be accused, the last administration
:07:45. > :07:48.could be accused of being too focused on process. The fact is, put
:07:49. > :07:52.people like Secretary Mattis, secretary Tillerson, they don't just
:07:53. > :07:57.come in and make decisions, they have to work through various levels
:07:58. > :08:00.that people have worked over the issues at levels below them, and
:08:01. > :08:04.made sure we were doing something that was smart, and made sense with
:08:05. > :08:08.overall foreign policy objectives. That is largely made by the whole
:08:09. > :08:11.contingent of political appointees, many of whom are Senate confirmed,
:08:12. > :08:15.that are largely absent from this administration. Some blame the
:08:16. > :08:20.absence of political appointees for the recent mishap where a carrier
:08:21. > :08:29.was sent by the White House to be heading for Korea, when actually it
:08:30. > :08:35.was far away and getting further. Underlying all of the criticisms is
:08:36. > :08:40.a view that, with some changes of course by the President himself, it
:08:41. > :08:45.is he that lack strategy and fosters uncertainty. He will never come to
:08:46. > :08:55.see the importance of consistency and predictability, stability and
:08:56. > :08:59.maturity in foreign affairs. He still believes it is a good thing to
:09:00. > :09:04.be unpredictable, that it is a good thing to be very spontaneous and
:09:05. > :09:12.very transactional. That's very dangerous. Ultimately, the efficacy
:09:13. > :09:18.of Trump's delegated approach is likely to be tested in a crisis,
:09:19. > :09:19.with a host of issues, from Korea to Iran or Syria and resolved, that may
:09:20. > :09:22.not be long in coming. Joining me now from New York
:09:23. > :09:24.is Ambassador James Woolsey, former director of the CIA who also
:09:25. > :09:27.advised President Trump And from DC, Janine Davidson,
:09:28. > :09:31.who served as Under Secretary of the US Navy under President
:09:32. > :09:45.Obama. It is very nice to have you both.
:09:46. > :09:49.Ambassador Woolsey, if I can start with you, do you understand a
:09:50. > :09:53.foreign policy on what Jon does? I think one may be starting to emerge.
:09:54. > :09:59.The first 100 days of any administration is not a good time to
:10:00. > :10:07.expect consistency and coherence. We are doing our American checks and
:10:08. > :10:10.balance thing. The checks and balances often run away with the
:10:11. > :10:13.substance. The bright side of that is that President Trump has been
:10:14. > :10:19.willing to rethink some things that he thought he got wrong. I think he
:10:20. > :10:23.was focusing too much on the probability of very cordial
:10:24. > :10:31.elections with Russia, took another look at it and is now starting to
:10:32. > :10:38.come I think, take a tougher line. He did sort of reverse with China,
:10:39. > :10:41.having put out some very strong statements about trade, and then
:10:42. > :10:44.thinking about it a bit, realising, yes, the Chinese are trying to
:10:45. > :10:48.dominate the South China Sea, and we don't like that. But he is getting
:10:49. > :10:54.along with China a lot better, I think, than he was. Let me put that
:10:55. > :10:57.to Janine Davidson, I guess that is right, every President lives on the
:10:58. > :11:00.job, there is no other way to do it and we should encourage a President
:11:01. > :11:05.that feels able to change his mind when he sees things differently?
:11:06. > :11:10.Sure, I genuinely hope that a bus of the Woolsey is correct and what we
:11:11. > :11:14.are seeing here with these strange reversals is a President who is
:11:15. > :11:20.learning. I like to think that is the case. It does coincide with his
:11:21. > :11:24.changeover in the national Security Council, his appointment of
:11:25. > :11:29.McMaster, which is probably the smartest thing he has done. However,
:11:30. > :11:32.the array of actions, words, flipping and flop and we have seen,
:11:33. > :11:41.as you have just described, is troubling. It is too soon to tell if
:11:42. > :11:45.what Ambassador Woolsey is saying is true, we should see consistency from
:11:46. > :11:49.here on out. I don't think what we have seen in his temperament so far
:11:50. > :11:52.leads us to believe we are going to see that consistency. I still worry
:11:53. > :11:58.that we are going to have a rocky road. Do you take that on board?
:11:59. > :12:02.That it is about temperament, not about changing your mind on certain
:12:03. > :12:05.issues, it is about the fact nobody can see where you are going, where
:12:06. > :12:15.your last action has come from accept as the last thought in your
:12:16. > :12:21.head? I think one doesn't want to overestimate what I call President
:12:22. > :12:29.Trump's shtick. A vaudeville turn. What does that mean? His playful
:12:30. > :12:35.demeanour, as part of attracting experimentation. What he has done,
:12:36. > :12:39.in small meetings, and I have only been in a couple, he's extremely
:12:40. > :12:43.reasonable, very straightforward. He asks good questions, he answers
:12:44. > :12:47.questions well. He's a normal, rational, smart human being. If he
:12:48. > :12:52.goes from there, as he with one meeting with me, before 10,000,
:12:53. > :12:58.15,000 people, he gets really bombastic. It is a personality
:12:59. > :13:04.trait. A lot of people thought it was a terrible thing to be acting
:13:05. > :13:08.that way during the campaign, and then he won the presidency. But you
:13:09. > :13:12.can't afford to have that trait, can you? He is now the US President, he
:13:13. > :13:15.has military men and women wondering if they are going to be asked to
:13:16. > :13:19.perform uniform and go to war and he is talking about bombing over
:13:20. > :13:24.chocolate cake and mixing of Iraq and Syria. It can't get more serious
:13:25. > :13:31.than that, can it? Well, to those that work with him, I think he is
:13:32. > :13:44.rational and stable. I don't think one ought to exaggerate that
:13:45. > :13:50.bombastic, what I call shtick. Again, I hope what you are saying is
:13:51. > :13:53.true, but being the President of the United States is, by definition, a
:13:54. > :13:58.very theatrical role. You have to be a grown-up about it. What you say
:13:59. > :14:02.has the consequences. Coming out of the gate like he did and saying so
:14:03. > :14:07.many of the things he said, Nato is obsolete, now it is no longer
:14:08. > :14:14.obsolete. Being bombastic like that, like you described, it has our
:14:15. > :14:18.allies asking questions. Can we trust the President? If he is going
:14:19. > :14:24.to say something one day and flip on it the next, how can we be trusting
:14:25. > :14:31.of him? This is very important for national security. It rests on our
:14:32. > :14:34.alliances and they need to be able to trust us. It is a somewhat
:14:35. > :14:40.bombastic way to say our allies need to kick in 3% in Nato and not doing
:14:41. > :14:43.it. He could have been a bit more polite and gracious in the way he
:14:44. > :14:45.said it, but he said it in a tough manner and it looks like some of
:14:46. > :14:51.them are starting to step up contributions. I'm afraid people are
:14:52. > :14:56.going to have to get used to some of his personality style. What about
:14:57. > :15:01.his policy style? Janine, let's put this wanted union. He has taken more
:15:02. > :15:08.action, he has gone in where Obama indecisive, into Syria, he played
:15:09. > :15:11.with Putin in a way people did not expect to do, he has put people on
:15:12. > :15:13.edge to send a message. It must be quite impressive, the witty manage
:15:14. > :15:22.the relationships? I think some people are attracted by
:15:23. > :15:25.the bombastic style. That kind of thing is only going to work once
:15:26. > :15:30.because people will wonder whether the first thing he says is
:15:31. > :15:37.trustworthy. It's troubling. It's only the first 100 days and I'd like
:15:38. > :15:41.to be cautiously optimistic. I will say one thing which is his desire to
:15:42. > :15:44.delegate so much, down to the operational and tactical level to
:15:45. > :15:47.the military. I have great respect for the military but they are only
:15:48. > :15:56.one voice in the national security sphere. Secondly, in order to
:15:57. > :16:00.delegate down like that you have to be in sync with your senior advisers
:16:01. > :16:07.on your philosophy. I'm not sure we know what his philosophy is. I think
:16:08. > :16:20.it's pretty clear we aren't there yet. You don't need a philosophy to
:16:21. > :16:24.say... He has stood up to Syria as Obama did not. Obama talked about
:16:25. > :16:28.the red Line and shrugged and handed the problem over to the Russians. I
:16:29. > :16:34.don't think you can do much worse than that in running American
:16:35. > :16:39.foreign policy. He is also accused Obama of spying on him which as a
:16:40. > :16:44.CIA director must have had you pulling your hair out. This is a
:16:45. > :16:51.very complex subject and we don't have time to deal with it here. Was
:16:52. > :16:57.he right? I think everybody finally understood what had happened. The
:16:58. > :17:02.point is that he is, I think, working at developing new ideas and
:17:03. > :17:09.standing up for what he thinks is right in Syria. And becoming, each
:17:10. > :17:13.day, a bit more capable. There will be glitches, there will be problems,
:17:14. > :17:18.there will be accidents, but compared with other presidents and
:17:19. > :17:22.their first 100 days, I don't think he's far back in the crowd at all. I
:17:23. > :17:25.think he's up towards the front. Thank you.
:17:26. > :17:28.It was Lynton Crosby in 2015 who urged the then PM to scrape
:17:29. > :17:31.Forget, in other words, the peripheral, social issues
:17:32. > :17:34.and concentrate on the big stuff, the economy, and make
:17:35. > :17:38.the character assassinations personal and profound.
:17:39. > :17:41.This time around, it appears, Team May has taken that
:17:42. > :17:47.The repeated slogan is back, and the attack on Jeremy Corbyn
:17:48. > :17:50.by Boris has that whiff of the PR guru's direction once again.
:17:51. > :17:53.So are we back on Groundhog Day, where spontaneity has
:17:54. > :17:59.# Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye...#
:18:00. > :18:00.At the last election, some people noticed,
:18:01. > :18:03.shall we call it, a eerie similarity, between Lynton Crosby's
:18:04. > :18:07.attack ads on Ed Miliband and those he run against an Australian
:18:08. > :18:13.In any other line of work, this might be considered charging
:18:14. > :18:23.Let's see if you can spot the message.
:18:24. > :18:25.It will be a choice between strong and stable leadership,
:18:26. > :18:29.in the national interest, with me as your Prime Minister.
:18:30. > :18:31.The next Prime Minister walking through that door
:18:32. > :18:38.You can choose an economy that grows...
:18:39. > :18:42.Or weak and unstable coalition government led by Jeremy Corbyn...
:18:43. > :18:51.Or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband...
:18:52. > :18:54.Vote for a weak and failing Jeremy Corbyn, propped up
:18:55. > :18:57.Into this mix, it's not uncommon for the odd
:18:58. > :19:02.We saw that when he fought his own brother.
:19:03. > :19:09.He's just an Islingtonian herbivore and muddleheaded mugwump.
:19:10. > :19:14.All designed to get us talking about whether Jeremy Corbyn is a mugwump.
:19:15. > :19:17.If you are the Prime Minister, though, you never engage
:19:18. > :19:20.in mudslinging or deviate off the core message.
:19:21. > :19:27.What I recognise is that what we need in this country
:19:28. > :19:35.What Sir Lynton Crosby get paid the big bucks to know
:19:36. > :19:38.is that there are really only two election campaigns you can run.
:19:39. > :19:41.If you're in opposition, you run "Time For A Change."
:19:42. > :19:44.In government, you run "Don't Risk A Change."
:19:45. > :19:49.That'll be ?500,000 and a share of the ad spend, please.
:19:50. > :19:52.Ayesha Hazarika was Special Adviser to Ed Miliband during the 2015
:19:53. > :19:55.election campaign, and is now a spin doctor and stand-up comedian.
:19:56. > :19:58.Rebecca Lowe-Coulson was a parliamentary candidate
:19:59. > :20:00.for the Conservative Party in 2015, and now contributes
:20:01. > :20:12.You both remember what it was like on the stump and what it was like to
:20:13. > :20:16.have Lynton Crosby in charge, then. Talk us through, Rebecca, do you
:20:17. > :20:23.sense the same strategy is being wheeled out? I think the strong and
:20:24. > :20:29.stable leadership message and the coalition of chaos message, the
:20:30. > :20:33.long-term economic plan... We are going to get that 30 times a day.
:20:34. > :20:40.People are already counting. This is done the political procedure these
:20:41. > :20:44.days, I think. As a candidate, what did you have? Did you have your list
:20:45. > :20:49.of things you had to get in on the doorstep? There was definitely an
:20:50. > :20:53.attempt to get candidates to stay on message. That's something that comes
:20:54. > :20:58.with Lynton Crosby. I was running in a non-target seat so I had a bit
:20:59. > :21:03.more freedom over this. Theresa May is somebody to whom messaging is
:21:04. > :21:08.more important in general. Under David Cameron I think the broad
:21:09. > :21:12.message was we need to fix the economy. Under Theresa May we've
:21:13. > :21:15.seen, from her first moments outside Downing Street, one nation
:21:16. > :21:20.conservatism, and at the party conference we've seen a country that
:21:21. > :21:27.works for everyone. This isn't someone leaving us open to criticism
:21:28. > :21:30.is. Under David Cameron we had, we are going to address welfare
:21:31. > :21:35.spending. There are great reasons to do that but to fix the economy, not
:21:36. > :21:39.so much. Messaging and centralisation are already key to
:21:40. > :21:43.Theresa May. Tell us what it was like to be on the receiving end of
:21:44. > :21:47.that. It wasn't just the repeated slogans you had and the idea of it
:21:48. > :21:53.being chaos under Ed Miliband but it was very personal attacks.
:21:54. > :21:58.Absolutely. It was tough because there was this absolute relentless
:21:59. > :22:02.shelling of the Labour camp with these core messages. We were also
:22:03. > :22:07.getting squeezed from the SNP because they were saying, you know,
:22:08. > :22:14.we'll be doing some sort of deal. What's different about this election
:22:15. > :22:17.to the last election was, and Ed it was more plausible to make that
:22:18. > :22:22.argument about the coalition because of the way the numbers were looking.
:22:23. > :22:26.And certainly the personalised attacks, particularly from Michael
:22:27. > :22:30.Fallon, and it's interesting he's been wheeled out again and we've
:22:31. > :22:34.seen Boris making highly personalised attacks against Jeremy
:22:35. > :22:38.Corbyn. That's the Lynton Crosby playbook and it was very effective
:22:39. > :22:43.at the last general election. How did you counter it? Did you go into
:22:44. > :22:46.a huddle and say, what is our fightback strategy or did you
:22:47. > :22:51.pretend it wasn't there? You are always prepared for the slings and
:22:52. > :22:54.arrows in the heat of an election campaign. Our slogan was a better
:22:55. > :22:59.plan for a better future, and we had a whole set of policies that we felt
:23:00. > :23:03.very confident in. But you know that you're not going to go into an
:23:04. > :23:07.election campaign where you're not going to get attacked. We were
:23:08. > :23:11.attacking Cameron in terms of, don't let him take us back to the 1980s.
:23:12. > :23:17.We had a bit of Britain can do better and all that type of thing. I
:23:18. > :23:20.think the message discipline was quite ferocious from the
:23:21. > :23:23.Conservatives. The only thing about this time that is slightly
:23:24. > :23:31.different, we've had a lot of elections since 2015. We have a 2015
:23:32. > :23:34.election, then the EU referendum. I think people are going to be more
:23:35. > :23:40.savvy and want to know more than just this mantra. They want to know
:23:41. > :23:44.what the Conservatives can offer. They do work. We think we can see
:23:45. > :23:48.the strings or feel the strings but they work, presumably. I think
:23:49. > :23:51.that's true. I completely agree that to run a fair campaign you have to
:23:52. > :23:57.be up against somebody that people are frightened of. I imagine these
:23:58. > :24:01.personal attacks on Jeremy Corbyn in terms of more specific, I don't know
:24:02. > :24:07.whether its Trident or the IRA comments... I imagine we may see
:24:08. > :24:09.this later on if the polls are starting to narrow. At the moment
:24:10. > :24:13.it's the strong and stable leadership and it's also Brexit. The
:24:14. > :24:16.election campaign is when we normally run along the lines of
:24:17. > :24:20.leadership and the economy. Brexit has taken the place of that. Is
:24:21. > :24:26.there a danger of them going to personal? I do think there is a
:24:27. > :24:31.danger for the Conservatives. Nobody wants this to be a coronation is a
:24:32. > :24:36.Theresa May. I think people will think, hang on a minute, you can be
:24:37. > :24:39.nasty about somebody but actually what are your policies. The
:24:40. > :24:43.Conservatives are steering away from actually saying what they are
:24:44. > :24:46.wanting to do. Michael Fallon this week was saying, we aren't going to
:24:47. > :24:51.give too much detail in our manifesto. They need to be quite
:24:52. > :24:56.wary about that. What does Jeremy Corbyn have to do? Is he somebody
:24:57. > :25:00.who thinks of how to cope with strategy... I did think he and his
:25:01. > :25:04.team are sitting there doing lots of tactical planning. I don't think
:25:05. > :25:10.that's his thing. I think they will basically be doing much more of a
:25:11. > :25:13.bread and butter Labour Party issues, the NHS, Brexit, housing,
:25:14. > :25:16.education. I think they are the issues the Labour Party should be
:25:17. > :25:22.focusing on. And I hate this phrase but I think they have to let Jeremy
:25:23. > :25:31.Butler Jeremy. He's a very unique person -- let Jeremy be Jeremy. To
:25:32. > :25:35.some extent, you could see Jeremy Corbyn as being a reasonably
:25:36. > :25:39.successful leader, on his own terms. He wants to change the narrative.
:25:40. > :25:45.Does he want to be Prime Minister? I did think he probably does. That's
:25:46. > :25:47.quite a claim, he wants to be Prime Minister. He wants to be Prime
:25:48. > :25:52.Minister. He's not really acting in a way... It's all very good that the
:25:53. > :25:56.Conservatives need to be careful about not looking too arrogant.
:25:57. > :25:59.There are lots of domestic issues that people are worried about. I
:26:00. > :26:02.think they will be fighting the kind of campaign which is people already
:26:03. > :26:06.know the Conservatives are holding the fort, this is the kind of
:26:07. > :26:10.election campaign with the last time. Theresa May was part of that
:26:11. > :26:15.last government. The success they had with schools, the economy.
:26:16. > :26:22.People already know this. And on Brexit as well... Until they have a
:26:23. > :26:26.coherent policy on Brexit I think it will be hard for them to move up in
:26:27. > :26:30.the polls. Thank you. If you were watching closely last
:26:31. > :26:33.year, you may have noticed a series of reports on Newsnight
:26:34. > :26:35.about the controversy surrounding The plan was to build a new,
:26:36. > :26:38.flowery, pedestrian It was backed by the likes
:26:39. > :26:42.of Joanna Lumley, George Osborne But the scheme became
:26:43. > :26:45.bogged down by delays, we revealed investors were pulling
:26:46. > :26:47.out and there was Well, today the plans appeared
:26:48. > :26:50.completely submerged as London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced
:26:51. > :26:52.he won't spend any more Hannah Barnes did a lot
:26:53. > :26:56.of the running on this story for us and joins me
:26:57. > :27:05.now, is this the end? Officially it is not the end but
:27:06. > :27:09.unofficially it certainly looks that way. What Sadiq Khan has said is
:27:10. > :27:12.that if the bridge were ever to be built, he won't guarantee those
:27:13. > :27:18.ongoing maintenance costs. The reason that is seen as the nail in
:27:19. > :27:21.the that guarantee is part of the planning permission and other
:27:22. > :27:27.licenses that the bridge needs. Without that, they fall foul of the
:27:28. > :27:32.planning permission. Of course, it's possible that the team behind the
:27:33. > :27:36.bridge could find someone else to guarantee those maintenance costs
:27:37. > :27:39.but it looks pretty unlikely, for a few reasons. Firstly, time isn't on
:27:40. > :27:43.their side. Planning permission expires at the end of the year. Most
:27:44. > :27:48.importantly, they haven't found people to fund the building of the
:27:49. > :27:52.bridge itself. Let alone ongoing maintenance costs. We know there's a
:27:53. > :27:56.?70 million shortfall. There is already something like ?40 million
:27:57. > :28:03.but has disappeared, do we know where that has gone? ?37 million has
:28:04. > :28:08.been spent, that's gone. Where has it gone? ?22 million on
:28:09. > :28:12.preconstruction, that's it, there's no further detailed breakdown. We
:28:13. > :28:15.know the engineers have had a million, the designer has had ?2.6
:28:16. > :28:20.million but really, we don't know where that has gone. If this is the
:28:21. > :28:24.end of the project, a further ?9 million will have to be paid by the
:28:25. > :28:28.government in cancellation costs so that takes you up to ?46 million.
:28:29. > :28:34.There was some talk today the Public Accounts Committee should look at
:28:35. > :28:39.this, that isn't likely to happen. The chair of that committee called
:28:40. > :28:42.it a sad tale. Although the Garden Bridge trust are saying they are
:28:43. > :28:45.confident they can still find the money, it's looking difficult to see
:28:46. > :28:49.where it's going to come from. Thank you.
:28:50. > :28:56.Now the papers. The Guardian has the NHS to pay ?9 million to victims of
:28:57. > :29:01.the rogue surgeon. That's the man who has just been found guilty of
:29:02. > :29:05.carrying out needless breast operations on patients who were left
:29:06. > :29:09.traumatised and scarred. Ian Paterson convicted. The Daily
:29:10. > :29:16.Telegraph has that story, the same cover-up, let the rogue surgeon play
:29:17. > :29:20.God. This accuses the image is of ignoring concerns with a picture of
:29:21. > :29:24.one of his victims. Then a line by the former finance minister of
:29:25. > :29:29.Greece who says Germany admitted that posterity would destroy Greece.
:29:30. > :29:32.It was forced to sign up to crippling austerity policies, even
:29:33. > :29:36.though the German finance minister privately admitted he wouldn't have
:29:37. > :29:43.endorsed the deal. On the front of The Times, we've got the suspect who
:29:44. > :29:44.has been seized in a raid on an active terror plot.
:29:45. > :29:49.Until then, have a good bank holiday weekend.
:29:50. > :30:11.Hello. The bank with a weekend is set to start off promising, with
:30:12. > :30:16.some sunshine coming through, largely dry and the wind direction
:30:17. > :30:19.from the south. With some sunshine, some warmth. The temperature is
:30:20. > :30:20.recovering. Temperatures