:00:08. > :00:12.A Prime Minister fighting for her political life. I think she's in a
:00:13. > :00:17.lot of trouble. I think she's a dead woman walking. How long she stays on
:00:18. > :00:22.death row? Who knows. Ready and waiting to take power, a man who
:00:23. > :00:29.just weeks ago was dismissed as unelectable. It is seismic. It will
:00:30. > :00:34.be recorded as such. Labour found its heart and soul again. Britain's
:00:35. > :00:39.approach to Brexit in the balance. They should remember, they have seen
:00:40. > :00:44.Tory leader after Tory leader after Tory leader try the Brexit line and
:00:45. > :00:50.fail. All this the consequence of an election almost everyone believed
:00:51. > :00:53.Theresa May would win and win big. My phone was ringing off the hook
:00:54. > :00:57.with people telling me what have we done, this is going down like a
:00:58. > :00:59.bucket of cold sick on the doorstep. This is the story what have really
:01:00. > :01:24.happened. At 7. 30am, Monday morning. People
:01:25. > :01:27.were standing there with freshly blow dried hair and fresh Chanel
:01:28. > :01:35.suits on ready to roll, I thought, we're on. Theresa May would have
:01:36. > :01:38.thought to herself, this isn't a huge gamble, because she's not a
:01:39. > :01:43.known risk taker. I have just chaired a meeting of the Kabul,
:01:44. > :01:45.where we agreed -- of the Cabinet, where we agreed the Government
:01:46. > :01:48.should call a general election. It will be a choice between strong and
:01:49. > :01:55.stable leadership in the national interest, with me as your Prime
:01:56. > :01:58.Minister, or weak and unstable coalition Government, led by Jeremy
:01:59. > :02:01.Corbyn. This is something that looks pretty set. She would be returning
:02:02. > :02:11.back to the House of Commons with an increased majority. But people can
:02:12. > :02:17.take you by surprise in an election. You're joking. Not another one! Oh,
:02:18. > :02:22.for God's sake, I can't honestly - I can't stand this. There's too much
:02:23. > :02:26.politics going on at the moment. Why does she need to do it. Why does she
:02:27. > :02:30.need to do it, asked Brenda in Bristol. Why indeed. What is it
:02:31. > :02:34.about the recent 20% opinion poll that first attracted you to the idea
:02:35. > :02:38.of a general election? I've taken this decision, and I took it
:02:39. > :02:43.reluctantly. I've thought about, it as I said yesterday, when I was -
:02:44. > :02:49.before Easter I had the opportunity to really take some time out to
:02:50. > :02:53.think about this - You can't resist this Prime Minister, we're going to
:02:54. > :02:57.win, win big. We're going to crush the saboteurs, defeat the Labour
:02:58. > :03:01.Party. Let's get on with it. Look, Nick, every election has a risk. How
:03:02. > :03:06.risky could it be against Jeremy Corbyn? They would have thought this
:03:07. > :03:10.is a walkover. Jeremy Corbyn surely wasn't electable. Jeremy Corbyn
:03:11. > :03:14.looked like someone who couldn't be the Prime Minister, who had no
:03:15. > :03:17.credible economic policies and indeed, was associated with a team
:03:18. > :03:18.that looked like the hard left. Can't perform in front of the media.
:03:19. > :03:33.They thought they were home and dry. And they weren't the only ones. Many
:03:34. > :03:41.in Jeremy Corbyn's own party thought he'd be a disaster. This is Hove,
:03:42. > :03:45.near Brighton. Do you think you'll be voting for me? I would probably
:03:46. > :03:48.vote for you, but not necessarily the for the other guy, that's in
:03:49. > :03:53.charge. You mean Jeremy? Jeremy Corbyn. Panorama's been following
:03:54. > :03:59.three Labour candidates in three key marginals. Peter Kyle was the MP for
:04:00. > :04:04.Hove when this election was called. His majority just 1200 votes. He was
:04:05. > :04:08.the only Labour MP in the south-east outside London. There's no doubt
:04:09. > :04:15.that Jeremy has been a degree on this campaign. He's coming up on
:04:16. > :04:21.door after door after door. It's a really strange position to be in, as
:04:22. > :04:26.a candidate, because, you know, I'm proud of Labour, but I realise that
:04:27. > :04:32.if I associate myself with Jeremy, then we're dead here. To keep his
:04:33. > :04:38.hopes alive, Peter Kyle was telling voter in Hove that he'd fight
:04:39. > :04:47.against a hard Brexit. In the EU referendum this area voted 70% in
:04:48. > :04:51.favour of Remain. This is not a community that just rolls over
:04:52. > :04:58.because Theresa May stamps her feet and says, "I want to have a stronger
:04:59. > :05:01.mandate to negotiate Brexit with." This is an incredibly special
:05:02. > :05:10.community that is thinking very carefully about its own voice and
:05:11. > :05:15.what is in its own best interests. It's up to us to use the power of
:05:16. > :05:20.the ballot box to change our society. That is what this election
:05:21. > :05:28.is about. CHEERING
:05:29. > :05:34.The young had been outvoted in the EU referendum, were determined their
:05:35. > :05:42.voice would be heard this time. This election is about you. They were
:05:43. > :05:46.saying oh, yeah, big crowds, but you're talking to the converted. The
:05:47. > :05:51.young people, yeah, they might be - but they'll never turn out. If you
:05:52. > :05:55.looked at those crowds, they comprised large numbers of young
:05:56. > :05:59.people. Unbelievable enthusiasm. I thought we have a phenomenon here
:06:00. > :06:02.that people have never seen before. I think it's going to happen.
:06:03. > :06:08.Theresa May's team was so convinced she was a winner and Corbyn a loser
:06:09. > :06:13.they planned a campaign all about her. It's about having a strong and
:06:14. > :06:18.stable Government. Strong and stable leadership. A strong and stable
:06:19. > :06:21.Government. In a way it felt very Trump like in some respects. Because
:06:22. > :06:24.Donald Trump, the whole campaign was not about the Republicans, it was
:06:25. > :06:31.about him. This campaign wasn't about the Conservative Party, it was
:06:32. > :06:35.about Theresa May. Who will lead Britain through Brexit and beyond?
:06:36. > :06:40.Will it be me and my team, showing the strong and stable leadership
:06:41. > :06:46.that our country needs? Or will it be Jeremy Corbyn? Prime Ministers
:06:47. > :06:49.may get to choose the date of an election, but they don't get to
:06:50. > :06:54.choose what that election is about, no matter how many times they keep
:06:55. > :06:58.parroting the same slogan. Theresa May wanted the electorate to believe
:06:59. > :07:03.the choice was between her and Jeremy Corbyn, as to who negotiated
:07:04. > :07:08.Brexit. But the Labour leader had other ideas. After seven years of
:07:09. > :07:12.austerity, of spending cuts, of squeezed incomes, he believed the
:07:13. > :07:25.choice was really between change and more of the same. Jeremy! Corbyn's
:07:26. > :07:32.vision for change was summed up in his little red book. It's a
:07:33. > :07:37.blueprint of what Britain could be and a pledge of the difference a
:07:38. > :07:41.Labour Government can and will make. Labour pledged to spend more, a
:07:42. > :07:48.whole lot more, promising something for everyone. More for the NHS and
:07:49. > :07:52.schools, more pay for public workers, more cash to scrap student
:07:53. > :07:57.fees. One thing there was less of - caution. I was overjoyed that here
:07:58. > :08:03.was not only a manifesto, but a leadership that believed in it and
:08:04. > :08:08.could passionately deliver it. To most people didn't it simply say:
:08:09. > :08:12.Enough of austerity? Yeah, absolutely that was the essence of
:08:13. > :08:15.it. We're not having five more years of austerity. We're going to give
:08:16. > :08:26.you an alternative. We're going to make your life better, we're on your
:08:27. > :08:30.side. Derby north, a Midlands marginal Labour had to win. Jeremy
:08:31. > :08:42.Corbyn's friend Chris Williamson was the party's candidate. This is the
:08:43. > :08:49.best Labour manifesto since 1945. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
:08:50. > :08:52.And for those who are saying, "Oh, it's extreme left-wing." I say
:08:53. > :08:58.you're talking utter nonsense. Let's win Derby north, because the road to
:08:59. > :09:05.Downing Street goes straight through the middle of Derby north. For Chris
:09:06. > :09:12.Williamson, this fight was personal. He'd lost this seat in 2015 by just
:09:13. > :09:15.41 votes. It made it the most marginal in England. As this
:09:16. > :09:22.campaign began, the polls were as bad as the weather. It's depressing
:09:23. > :09:25.to see the latest news broadcast talk about the opinion polls. But
:09:26. > :09:31.that's not reflected by what I'm seeing. I've been knocking on doors
:09:32. > :09:36.and the support for the Labour Party, the support, they genuinely
:09:37. > :09:40.love Jeremy Corbyn, it's palpable. It was, ironically, the Tory
:09:41. > :09:43.manifesto which lit the fire beneath Labour's campaign. Theresa May
:09:44. > :09:47.believed she could reach the parts of the electorate which other Tory
:09:48. > :09:51.leaders had long struggled to reach - working-class voters in the north
:09:52. > :09:57.of England, the people who'd voted to leave the EU, who she now
:09:58. > :10:07.believed would vote to leave Labour and leave Ukip too and do the almost
:10:08. > :10:12.unthinkable and vote Tory. This is Halifax, a mill town in West
:10:13. > :10:21.Yorkshire, a Labour seat for 30 years, but in this election, a key
:10:22. > :10:27.Tory target. Theresa May parked her tanks on Labour's lawn, by launching
:10:28. > :10:34.the Conservative manifesto here. It is a detailed programme for
:10:35. > :10:39.Government, rooted in the hopes and aspirations of ordinary, working
:10:40. > :10:48.people across the land. You can't block this. Tories in a mill in
:10:49. > :10:53.Yorkshire, you couldn't make it up. We're just going to Mixenden, part
:10:54. > :10:59.of north Halifax. Labour's Holly Lynch began this campaign worried
:11:00. > :11:11.she might lose. This is good. Labour posters up. From the Labour Party.
:11:12. > :11:17.Not interested? Really nice to meet you. Good luck. Thanks a lot. See
:11:18. > :11:21.you later. Her majority just 428 votes seemed to be getting smaller
:11:22. > :11:25.by the minute. How are you feeling about Labour this time? Not very
:11:26. > :11:32.happy. Have you voted Labour before? Yes, all my life. OK. I'm 77 this
:11:33. > :11:37.year. I'm going to vote Conservative because I just don't think Corbyn
:11:38. > :11:41.will do right, with the exit. I don't think he's strong enough.
:11:42. > :11:46.Holly Lynch was struggling to persuade Leave voters to stick with
:11:47. > :11:52.Labour, but Theresa May's manifesto contained an unexpected present - a
:11:53. > :11:57.Tory policy that was scaring voters, a new way of paying for care for the
:11:58. > :12:01.elderly. We'd always known that adult social care is a long-term
:12:02. > :12:05.problem, in fact, Theresa May would say often, politicians have been
:12:06. > :12:09.ducking this problem for years. We can never fix the long-term problems
:12:10. > :12:12.in hospitals and people at home without addressing it. But it's not
:12:13. > :12:20.something you whack into a manifesto and try to brief overnight. The plan
:12:21. > :12:25.was to make those people who needed to be cared for at home pay more, if
:12:26. > :12:31.they own their own house. There was no cap on what they might be
:12:32. > :12:37.charged. It was quickly dubbed "the dementia tax". Things like this
:12:38. > :12:41.dementia tax, you know, home ennership scare me quite a bit. We
:12:42. > :12:48.didn't buy a house to pass it on to the Government. We bought a house to
:12:49. > :12:53.pass it on to her. Mabel. My phone was ringing off the hook with people
:12:54. > :12:56.telling me, what have we done, this is going down like a bucket of coal
:12:57. > :12:58.sick on the doorstep. The ground was shifting, as the Prime Minister
:12:59. > :13:11.herself discovered on the doorstep. Theresa May appeared to have
:13:12. > :13:16.pensioners in her sights and candidates of all parties were
:13:17. > :13:20.finding people didn't like it. This time, I'm going to vote for you. Are
:13:21. > :13:23.you? Well, she's threatening the winter fuel allowance and what's the
:13:24. > :13:34.other one - The triple lock on pensions. Yeah. And then social care
:13:35. > :13:37.as well. I'm afraid it confirmed the stereotypical idea that
:13:38. > :13:41.Conservatives didn't care, were not compassionate, this is the tragedy
:13:42. > :13:45.and the problem for Theresa that somehow we were the nasty party,
:13:46. > :13:49.after all. What we needed to explain better was that we were dealing with
:13:50. > :13:53.an unfairness, where some people are pagan awful lot, other people
:13:54. > :13:58.weren't paying at all. Electorally, a disaster? Electorally, it took a
:13:59. > :14:07.lot of explaining and clearly, there are lessons to learn from that. Four
:14:08. > :14:12.days later, one ex-Tory MP headed to work, the new editor the London's
:14:13. > :14:15.Evening Standard had a scoop. I got wind that there was going to be a
:14:16. > :14:18.U-turn on the social care policy, which had been the centrepiece of
:14:19. > :14:23.the manifesto just a couple of days earlier. So with just 45 minutes to
:14:24. > :14:29.go, till our first edition, we got the story onto the front page and
:14:30. > :14:33.delivered this headline. I think it destroyed the sense of momentum in
:14:34. > :14:36.the Tory campaign, the sense that this was going to be a coronation.
:14:37. > :14:40.It also, of course, undermind the central slogan - strong and stable -
:14:41. > :14:44.you notice that basically disappeared then from the Tory
:14:45. > :14:49.campaign. Theresa May tried to reassure people
:14:50. > :14:52.they wouldn't lose all the value of their house. She promised there
:14:53. > :14:58.would be a cap on social care payments. Did she say "we've
:14:59. > :15:02.listened, we've learned, we've changed our minds"? Not exactly.
:15:03. > :15:07.Nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. Let's be clear, we have not
:15:08. > :15:14.changed the principles that we set out in the manifesto.
:15:15. > :15:21.Understandably voters were still confused. It is your mum you're
:15:22. > :15:25.caring for? She has dementia. We don't know if she'll have to go into
:15:26. > :15:32.a home, but do I have to sell her house? They were saying in one
:15:33. > :15:35.thing, you know what I mean, you've got ?100,000, you don't have to sell
:15:36. > :15:40.your house. The next day they are putting cap on it. But they are not
:15:41. > :15:43.telling us what the cap is. Theresa May wanted the policy in her
:15:44. > :15:47.manifesto to make sure Parliament couldn't block it.
:15:48. > :15:53.If the public vote for this, then you can get it through the House of
:15:54. > :15:56.Commons and the House of Lords, because politician cannot vote what
:15:57. > :16:00.the public have voted for in a manifesto. That is the way to make
:16:01. > :16:03.things happen. Then came an event which would stop the campaign in its
:16:04. > :16:22.tracks. Greater Manchester Police said they
:16:23. > :16:25.believed one man carried out the bombing at a pop concert in the
:16:26. > :16:32.city. Killing 22, some of them children.
:16:33. > :16:36.When the campaign resumed four days later, it brought renewed focus on
:16:37. > :16:41.Jeremy Corbyn's past. The Tories had already been targeting him.
:16:42. > :16:50.I've been involved in opposing anti-terror legislation, ever since
:16:51. > :16:52.I wept into Parliament in 1983. This US-style attack ad was watched by
:16:53. > :16:59.six million The aim to portray Jeremy Corbyn as
:17:00. > :17:08.soft on terror. Are you refusing to condemn what the
:17:09. > :17:13.IRA did? Jeremy? In any other election, that might
:17:14. > :17:16.have been game over. Well, we thought it right, given he wanted to
:17:17. > :17:23.be Prime Minister, to draw attention to his record and make sure he was
:17:24. > :17:28.asked searching questions about his past sympathy with various terrorist
:17:29. > :17:31.groups of one sort or another. In British politics and British society
:17:32. > :17:35.generally, they don't like personalisation of politics in that
:17:36. > :17:40.way. It was almost counterproductive for them. At the same time it turned
:17:41. > :17:45.Jeremy into an underdog and British people quite like underdogs.
:17:46. > :17:50.Jeremy Corbyn wasn't the only one with a record to defend. The Tories
:17:51. > :17:56.were coming under mounting pressure over their record in Government. For
:17:57. > :17:58.first time in my lifetime, the economy was scarcely mentioned by
:17:59. > :18:03.the Conservatives in an election campaign. They didn't really talk
:18:04. > :18:07.about the deficit. Perhaps they recognised more and more voters were
:18:08. > :18:13.growing sick of the fact there seemed to be very little light at
:18:14. > :18:18.the end of a long tunnel. There's a conversation I remember
:18:19. > :18:21.with a teacher, who had voted for me in 2010 and 2015, and said, you know
:18:22. > :18:25.I understood the need for a pay freeze for a few years to deal with
:18:26. > :18:29.the deficit. You are asking for that to go on for ten to 11 years and
:18:30. > :18:35.that is too much. That is something Jeremy Corbyn was able to tap into.
:18:36. > :18:38.Even if he didn't know how much his own headline promise on childcare
:18:39. > :18:42.would cost. So how much will it cost? I will
:18:43. > :18:48.give you the figure in a moment. You don't know it? Um! You are logging
:18:49. > :18:52.into your iPad here. You have announced a major policy and don't
:18:53. > :18:57.know how much it will cost. Can I give you the exact figure in a
:18:58. > :19:02.moment. Is this the issue with... Once again Corbyn had survived what
:19:03. > :19:09.might have sunk another leader. Jeremy Corbyn's campaign was all
:19:10. > :19:13.blue skies, magic money trees, buy a unicorn. It inspired people to
:19:14. > :19:18.believe in some sort of future and the other tragedy of this campaign
:19:19. > :19:22.was we failed then pitfully to take on what he was putting forward, have
:19:23. > :19:27.the argument and put the economy at the heart of the campaign. And we
:19:28. > :19:32.know every campaign is won on the economy.
:19:33. > :19:37.The longer the campaign went on, the more confident Jeremy Corbyn became.
:19:38. > :19:40.After one shock forecast of a hung parliament, he turned up to a
:19:41. > :19:45.leaders' debate, which Theresa May was boycotting. I think the first
:19:46. > :19:55.rule of leadership is to show up. You don't call a general election...
:19:56. > :20:02.APPLAUSE You don't then not be bothered to
:20:03. > :20:04.debaited the issues at stake... Is it ours to win on June 8th. Is
:20:05. > :20:15.that OK? The Corbyn surge seemed to be based
:20:16. > :20:20.on a hunger for change, not just at home, change as well to Theresa
:20:21. > :20:27.May's threat to leave the EU without a deal.
:20:28. > :20:33.Undetected by his opponents and undetected by his own candidates and
:20:34. > :20:37.by most pollsters Jeremy Corbyn was assembling a coalition of those
:20:38. > :20:43.opposed to the Tories, opposed to austerity, opposed to Brexit as
:20:44. > :20:45.well. Two-Party Politics was coming back and yes, the young were going
:20:46. > :21:00.to vote. On the last night of his campaign,
:21:01. > :21:08.Jeremy Corbyn came home to Islington, in North London.
:21:09. > :21:14.He's going out and reaching out to people and people who I have never,
:21:15. > :21:19.ever seen care about politics are finally getting involved.
:21:20. > :21:23.I finally have someone that I can believe. Someone that I know will
:21:24. > :21:27.deliver. Someone that can unite people. And he will change Britain
:21:28. > :21:34.for the better. I mean it from the bottom of my heart.
:21:35. > :21:44.Sum up in a word what he represents. Peace. Hope. Hope? Yes, hope,
:21:45. > :21:48.definitely hope. It is fitting Labour chose this, a
:21:49. > :21:53.chapel for his final election rally. Just look at this - religious
:21:54. > :21:59.fervour. They believe in the good book. Labour's manifesto. They
:22:00. > :22:03.believe in the direction that points to a promised land. But above all,
:22:04. > :22:08.they believe in him. JC.
:22:09. > :22:13.And this campaign has brought together people in a way that I've
:22:14. > :22:17.never experienced before in politics. It's brought together
:22:18. > :22:21.people from all sorts of different backgrounds and walks of life. And
:22:22. > :22:27.you know what's brought them together - hope.
:22:28. > :22:33.Even then few in this vast crowd dared to hope they could do more
:22:34. > :22:40.than limit their losses to the Tories.
:22:41. > :22:45.But just 24 hours later all that would change.
:22:46. > :22:49.And what we're saying is the Conservatives are the largest party.
:22:50. > :22:55.Note, they don't have an overall majority at this stage. 314 for the
:22:56. > :23:00.Conservatives. That's down 17. If these numbers are correct, then
:23:01. > :23:05.Theresa May has played a high-risk political game and she appears she
:23:06. > :23:10.may have lost her gamble. Nick Robinson is in Islington North,
:23:11. > :23:14.Jeremy Corbyn's seat. Everybody is going to be cautious
:23:15. > :23:20.about this exit poll because it comes as such a surprise.
:23:21. > :23:25.It became clear the exit poll was right. The next Prime Minister...
:23:26. > :23:31.Jeremy Corbyn walked into his count looking like a winner. Minutes
:23:32. > :23:38.later, in Maidenhead, Theresa May looked like a woman who knew she'd
:23:39. > :23:43.just committed political suicide. A Prime Minister with a majority had
:23:44. > :23:47.thrown it away. And it wasn't just the Tories who
:23:48. > :23:50.were surprised. Labour's candidate in Halifax had been preparing to
:23:51. > :24:03.find a new job. Line Holly Lynch... A majority of
:24:04. > :24:08.less than 500 increased to more than 5,000.
:24:09. > :24:17.I am a bit overquhelmented. It is a fantastic result in the end.
:24:18. > :24:21.And in Derby North... Chris Williamson is duly elected Member of
:24:22. > :24:25.Parliament for the Derby North constituency... I was saying to
:24:26. > :24:32.people they had literally not just changed the course of this election,
:24:33. > :24:37.but changed the course of history. What about Labour's Peter Kyle in
:24:38. > :24:49.Hove, who believed his leader was a liability? Peter Kyle, Kyle, 36,
:24:50. > :24:53.942. A majority of 1200 had gone up to 18,000. What we have done is
:24:54. > :24:59.remarkable. We could well have saved our country from a hard Brexit. That
:25:00. > :25:04.is something that history will thank Jeremy Corbyn for. Brexit was meant
:25:05. > :25:09.to be the Tory's secret weapon, but listen to the man Theresa May had
:25:10. > :25:14.just made her new Chief of Staff. We are very clear in my seat, the area
:25:15. > :25:19.of the constituency where Labour did best, was the area that had voted
:25:20. > :25:24.heavily for remain. There is clearly evidence that people who are angry
:25:25. > :25:30.about Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn managed to get them behind him.
:25:31. > :25:37.Now you might be forgiven for thinking Jeremy Corbyn had just won
:25:38. > :25:43.the election. It is seismic. It will be recorded
:25:44. > :25:50.as such in history as a moment when, in a sense, Labour found its heart
:25:51. > :25:52.and its soul again. I see it as being the first step, one more step
:25:53. > :25:56.to Government. I don't think we will see Jeremy
:25:57. > :26:02.Corbyn in Downing Street. I think a lot of people actually supported him
:26:03. > :26:08.confident that he wouldn't get into Downing Street. Never in my lifetime
:26:09. > :26:11.did I think that we would see a socialist Parliament in Number Ten.
:26:12. > :26:15.Never thought it would happen again. Not in my lifetime. It's going to
:26:16. > :26:20.happen. It is worth remembering he did not win this election. He was
:26:21. > :26:26.still 56 seats behind us. But fair play to him. He fought a good
:26:27. > :26:30.campaign. In contrast, Theresa May had a
:26:31. > :26:34.dreadful campaign. And when she returned to Downing Street she
:26:35. > :26:39.couldn't bring herself to mention that she'd actually lost her
:26:40. > :26:44.majority. What the country needs more than
:26:45. > :26:48.ever is certainty. And having secured the largest number of votes
:26:49. > :26:53.and the greatest number of seats in the general election, it is clear
:26:54. > :26:57.that only the Conservative and Unionist Party has the legitimacy
:26:58. > :27:01.and ability to provide that certainty by commanding a majority
:27:02. > :27:08.in the House of Commons. Now, let's get to work.
:27:09. > :27:11.I was expecting like a lot of Conservatives were, a speech in
:27:12. > :27:15.which she acknowledged the election had not gone the way she hoped. Good
:27:16. > :27:19.Conservative colleagues had lost their seats and she would try harder
:27:20. > :27:24.and work together to provide stable Government. We heard none of that.
:27:25. > :27:29.So, I am afraid this headline wrote itself. At any other time Theresa
:27:30. > :27:33.May might have been forced to quit. But no Tory dares risk another
:27:34. > :27:38.election now. So how long can she survive? I think she's in a lot of
:27:39. > :27:44.trouble. I think she's a dead woman walking. Lounge she stays on Death
:27:45. > :27:49.Row, who knows. Brexit will continue to sour the atmosphere and in the
:27:50. > :27:53.background the Europeans constantly saying, no, these are the terms.
:27:54. > :27:59.These are the terms. Take it or leave it.
:28:00. > :28:06.And two years of that, the maximum, I guess, is the background in which
:28:07. > :28:12.a weak Government without a majority day by day would be buffeted by the
:28:13. > :28:16.storm of events. Theresa May faces the toughest set
:28:17. > :28:20.of negotiations any Prime Minister has faced since the war. With her
:28:21. > :28:27.authority shattered, and with no majority in Parliament.
:28:28. > :28:30.The cynics say if voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. Well
:28:31. > :28:36.they couldn't be more wrong. Voting has just changed Britain in ways
:28:37. > :29:02.almost no-one predicted. And that change has a long, long way to run.
:29:03. > :29:08.I've had enough... ..alternative facts.
:29:09. > :29:17.here to help you get the facts straight.
:29:18. > :29:21.Search online, for BBC Reality Check.