:01:41. > :01:47.Canon Nick Clegg Bristol the furniture inspired a Liberal
:01:47. > :01:57.Democrats? And had get don't for the summer's
:01:57. > :01:57.
:01:57. > :35:39.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2022 seconds
:35:39. > :35:49.contributions for keeping this I was outside does have a jolt
:35:49. > :35:51.
:35:51. > :35:56.Armando. There is a cross country campaign and this first step deeper
:35:56. > :36:01.came from Cambridge to come over. It is important that people are
:36:01. > :36:03.coming together, acquiring for a review of this decision. Our
:36:03. > :36:10.review of this decision. Our survival rates for some of the best
:36:10. > :36:18.survival rates for a step it is really important that MPs by
:36:18. > :36:25.booking together with this. Will it make any difference? Are we are
:36:25. > :36:30.hoping that this new evidence will be looked at. We are hoping Jeremy
:36:30. > :36:34.Hunt will agree there will be a wider review. It is really
:36:34. > :36:40.important that everybody books together - the clinicians, a
:36:40. > :36:49.patient groups MPs. The decision to close the unit is a wrong one.
:36:49. > :36:58.Mickey, you hosted a meeting, looking at keeping this unit. What
:36:58. > :37:03.looking at keeping this unit. What came up to that meeting. We have
:37:04. > :37:09.looked at additional evidence. Things like the expected numbers of
:37:09. > :37:16.patients, a mortality rate of the unit, the additional pressures on
:37:16. > :37:21.the beds already in Birmingham. The view is that the review team do not
:37:21. > :37:27.know the whole picture. Liz, John and I sat down with these people,
:37:27. > :37:31.representing other MPs, and we have spoken to Jeremy Hunt already.
:37:31. > :37:35.is the opposite case - you on this in your backyard, but your
:37:35. > :37:39.government is responsible for making these cuts. This is not
:37:39. > :37:44.making these cuts. This is not about cuts. This arises from the
:37:44. > :37:49.Bristol Heart scandal forced up it was all to do with having bigger
:37:49. > :37:54.and save the unit's. The argument we are making is we have at a
:37:54. > :37:59.world-leading, specialised service end Leicester. Doing really want to
:37:59. > :38:03.put in jeopardy? Can start as a same do not ruin it. This is not a
:38:03. > :38:09.party political issue. There are plenty up NHS policy areas I
:38:09. > :38:16.disagree with. This is not party political. That is what we are
:38:16. > :38:23.working together with this, trying to get this decision reviewed.
:38:23. > :38:28.What is that sound? That is the sound of the Liberal Democrats and
:38:28. > :38:32.the East Midlands! The party may be in government in Westminster, but
:38:32. > :38:42.right here, it has been losing power and seats. Nick Clegg came to
:38:42. > :38:47.the region ahead of this week's Lib Dem conference to raise support
:38:47. > :38:51.cost up they could all hear him, but what they are listening?
:38:51. > :39:00.Limp -- Nick Clegg knows that the message of them gets a sceptical
:39:00. > :39:06.hearing. The party faces a struggle. But Nick Clegg believes long-term
:39:07. > :39:11.decisions, taken by the Lib Dems in government, will win back voters.
:39:11. > :39:16.government, will win back voters. Whether it is the big tax changes,
:39:16. > :39:21.Whether it is the big tax changes, whereby you will not pay tax on
:39:21. > :39:26.your first �10,000, whether it is the fact pensioners have the
:39:26. > :39:29.largest tax increase in the state pension, where there it is the
:39:29. > :39:37.biggest number of new apprenticeships and the East
:39:37. > :39:42.Midlands and the last 20 years, the pupil premium, a lot of these
:39:42. > :39:45.things have taken up at a time to come through. That Deputy Prime
:39:45. > :39:52.Minister had been invited by the Nottingham poster face an audience
:39:52. > :40:00.of its readers. He took questions of the calf. He won prizes for
:40:00. > :40:06.honesty and been prepared to face voters. It was interesting, did not
:40:06. > :40:09.anything you. Was not overwhelmingly convinced. I got the
:40:09. > :40:15.feel of this is a government not listening well enough to the real
:40:15. > :40:22.people. It was really nice to hear from Nick Clegg himself, first hand,
:40:22. > :40:31.without the purse having third taken up. Not too keen on his
:40:31. > :40:35.opinion. There was an even more hostile reception from Nick Clegg
:40:35. > :40:42.at Trent Bridge, as the Deputy Prime Minister met Liberal
:40:42. > :40:46.Democrats inside, outside, unions staged a protest. It is to get the
:40:46. > :40:49.message across to Nick Clegg and his allies that it is about time
:40:49. > :40:59.they stopped backing this Government and stuttered to stand
:40:59. > :41:01.
:41:01. > :41:05.up to it. By now, he is used to the criticism. Where people want to
:41:05. > :41:09.criticise Liberal Democrats, we should take it on the chin, but we
:41:09. > :41:15.should also hold our heads up high for stepping up to the plate when
:41:15. > :41:20.the country was on the brink, back in 2010. We have done this
:41:20. > :41:25.painstaking, unpopular will go to prepare and reform the British
:41:25. > :41:29.economy. It has also boosted jobs and the Green economy, making sure
:41:29. > :41:35.children from poor backgrounds could do better start in life,
:41:35. > :41:40.giving pensioners a decent state pension. Nick Clegg was once an
:41:40. > :41:48.East Midlands MEP. He knows it could take time the Lib Dem for a
:41:48. > :41:55.chance to improve and the region. You were at that meeting at Trent
:41:55. > :42:01.Bridge with Nick Clegg. What did he say to you? He did not need to say
:42:02. > :42:06.too much, because we already have a love to have that morale. The
:42:06. > :42:11.members in the East Midlands are fairly positive and energetic. We
:42:11. > :42:17.have had a few setbacks and the local elections, but we still
:42:17. > :42:22.control two local authorities. he did not apologise? No, but we
:42:22. > :42:30.discussed a buzz of issues around the coalition and Hank will we need
:42:30. > :42:34.to cement are so put in the region. After the meeting, it did you say
:42:34. > :42:38.anything that prompted that pilot she? There was a discussion on a
:42:38. > :42:44.range of issues, and one of the was a student tuition fees. Nick Clegg
:42:44. > :42:48.has been up and down the country, and Martin was the last stop.
:42:48. > :42:56.During that time, he has been listening to members up and down
:42:56. > :43:04.the country. Surely, some of them are painting quite a gloomy picture.
:43:04. > :43:10.We do not have any Lib Dem MPs and the East Midlands. We don't, do we
:43:10. > :43:15.have an active MEP. We are the strongest opposition in two county
:43:15. > :43:20.councils. So, you are comfortable with the situation as it is? We are
:43:20. > :43:24.not comfortable. We want to do better. We are not completely
:43:24. > :43:31.complacent about the situation, but we are also not at a loss with
:43:31. > :43:35.morale. Are you worried that disaffected Lib Dem voters would be
:43:35. > :43:42.turning to Labour? It will be interesting to find out where the
:43:42. > :43:50.Lib Dem voters to go. Local by- election results tend to suggest
:43:50. > :43:54.they are split over the place. Some go to Labour, some come to us, and
:43:54. > :43:59.some will stay with the Lib Dems for a step in Loughborough, a lot
:43:59. > :44:06.of people went to the Lib Dems because of the Iraq war, and the
:44:06. > :44:14.question will be whether that will still be an issue. What about this
:44:14. > :44:20.took of a Lib Dems turning to Labour? There will be relations
:44:20. > :44:25.between all sorts of politicians. There will be Labour politicians,
:44:25. > :44:29.Lib Dems, Conservatives. I am not sure what the country will think of
:44:29. > :44:35.it for a stab at the moment, we would try to go for a majority
:44:35. > :44:39.government. Would you party work with the Lib Dems? We need to
:44:39. > :44:45.rebuild trust with the British people. If it but you back under
:44:45. > :44:49.government? And that all happen in the next election? With people who
:44:49. > :44:57.we have strong sympathies with, like Linda -- Vince Cable, or we
:44:57. > :45:01.will work with him. But let us be clear with Nick Clegg's apologies -
:45:01. > :45:05.he has apologised for making the pledge and the first place. It is a
:45:05. > :45:11.rather cynical manoeuvre, would you think back to the general election,
:45:11. > :45:16.they used this as a campaigning tool. This was not a casual pledge.
:45:16. > :45:21.This is what they campaigned on. could be said you are haemorrhaging
:45:21. > :45:30.support in the East Midlands. Is that the man at the top who is to
:45:30. > :45:36.blame? No. The apology he has made, we have to respect somebody who, in
:45:36. > :45:41.politics, feels that mistakes have been made. There are not many
:45:41. > :45:47.politicians to make apologies on public platforms. Tony Blair and
:45:47. > :45:51.never made an apology for the ruck or, and golden brown did not make
:45:51. > :45:56.any apologies for selling gold reserves at half-price. Patricia
:45:56. > :46:03.Hewitt never made any apologies over the commitment she later
:46:03. > :46:09.Lister Hospital. It takes a certain level of politician... A OK, but we
:46:09. > :46:14.have heard, on the doorstep, people are campaigning. When they go to
:46:14. > :46:22.the disturbed and say Nick Clegg's main, people do not want to know.
:46:22. > :46:26.knock and us every week. Things are getting progressively better. Since
:46:26. > :46:31.we lost our local councillors, we are not getting the service we used
:46:31. > :46:37.to have before from local Lib Dem councillors. That is where Labour
:46:37. > :46:42.had taken control. Labour take local communities for granted.
:46:42. > :46:49.tie your tactics for when East Midlands come back? We have to
:46:49. > :46:54.continue to work go have a strength - hour care ended up communities in
:46:54. > :46:56.the upper community politics for a step Liberal Democrats are the
:46:56. > :47:02.strongest under work at your local people for a step you're no putting
:47:02. > :47:07.anyone up for Police Commissioner - is that Pat of a plan for a step
:47:07. > :47:14.that a share it is do we feel that local people make a decision for a
:47:14. > :47:24.step numbers and the East Midlands felt that there was none needs for
:47:24. > :47:24.
:47:24. > :47:34.a step this is the first Sunday politics since the summer break, an
:47:34. > :47:39.
:47:39. > :47:42.older, they have for us is that we Has a back and the party
:47:42. > :47:51.conferences are a planners, it is time to prepare the garden for the
:47:51. > :47:55.return. It has been such a memorable summer. Now, back to a
:47:55. > :48:01.routine, and in the political undergrowth, it is not that
:48:01. > :48:06.difficult to find and uncovers some familiar political problems. You
:48:07. > :48:16.wheeze Minch was first of the block. Her surprise resignation gave ppm
:48:16. > :48:23.and early summer headache. The result? An unwelcome parliamentary
:48:23. > :48:27.by-election. She stated families being the prime reason, but she
:48:27. > :48:32.also felt she had not been rewarded for her media appearances and
:48:32. > :48:39.supporting government. What was the Prime Minister's reaction? They are
:48:39. > :48:43.upset. A clubby by-election and the election of the year police and
:48:43. > :48:53.crime commissioner as well give us an insight into the political mood
:48:53. > :48:53.
:48:54. > :48:57.of the East Midlands. Them and his disappointment. David Cameron came
:48:57. > :49:07.in to do with the deficit and promote growth, and growth is non-
:49:07. > :49:11.
:49:11. > :49:16.existent. Then there was David Cameron's reshuffle. The others, a
:49:16. > :49:26.case of a political pruning. Out winds Edward Garnier a, Ken Clarke
:49:26. > :49:27.
:49:27. > :49:33.was shunted a tough justice. Grantham and Stamford's MP is now
:49:33. > :49:38.planning minister. Prime Ministers are strongest in the first up to a
:49:38. > :49:47.three years of government. It would be hardest for him in the future to
:49:47. > :49:57.stamp his political will in the future. By at a time, a Sunday
:49:57. > :50:00.politics Dutch as Archbishop at the medals. So there goes to reach
:50:00. > :50:06.mention for his sprinting over the finishing line by resigning as
:50:06. > :50:10.clubby MP, to Madrid is into the job. And go to - Richards the third,
:50:10. > :50:17.who offered his kingdom for a close and produced a comeback of the
:50:17. > :50:21.summer. Arguing that just have unearthed to what they are
:50:21. > :50:25.convinced of the remains of the former King of England buried in a
:50:25. > :50:29.car park in Leicester for a step if it does turn out to be Richard the
:50:29. > :50:39.third, he would likely to have be state funeral?
:50:39. > :50:41.
:50:41. > :50:48.I would come and I would like him to be buried in Leicester Cathedral.
:50:48. > :50:54.We heard it there that Cameron is very upset at Louise's resignation.
:50:54. > :50:59.How do you feel about it? I think Louise had been a good MP, but I
:50:59. > :51:06.feel sad and. She tried very hard to juggle all the different bits of
:51:06. > :51:11.her life, and being an MP is so hard if you have young children.
:51:12. > :51:18.it too much for her? The difficulty was she met and married somebody
:51:18. > :51:21.last year, who was based in the States. What I have heard is the
:51:21. > :51:27.Prime Minister did everything he could to try to make it possible
:51:27. > :51:33.for her to juggle things, and it did not work. It is not good to
:51:33. > :51:41.lose a fellow woman MP. Absolutely. She made such a remark in
:51:41. > :51:45.Parliament. She was changing the perceptions are politics. Louise
:51:45. > :51:51.engaged with the public. To lose someone like that is a great shame.
:51:51. > :52:01.It has been an inch a stink reshuffle. We now have a health
:52:01. > :52:02.
:52:03. > :52:09.minister here. Nicky has been made a blip, and I am delighted for her.
:52:09. > :52:18.I do not understand why Edward Garnier got the sack. But I have
:52:18. > :52:23.got to say, he was decent. He go to a knighthood. Were though, it there
:52:23. > :52:30.was nothing for the women. We have been hearing this week about the ex
:52:30. > :52:39.MP for Gedling, the new Chief Whip, cooling the police plebs! It has
:52:39. > :52:44.grossed a behaviour. And as soon brie is already making the
:52:44. > :52:50.headlines are disturbed by a big part of your new job to rain
:52:50. > :52:55.colleagues in? I am not sure whether that is possible. That
:52:55. > :52:58.interview was just an hour through him through. People want to see
:52:58. > :53:04.personalities in politics. There were undersea ministers to listen
:53:04. > :53:14.to what people are telling them. I know she will be doing that. It is
:53:14. > :53:15.
:53:15. > :53:21.a massive task. There are lots and lots of changes. The whip's Gerber
:53:21. > :53:28.is a mixture of administration, planning what goes through
:53:28. > :53:33.Parliament and dealing with MPs. And listening and working with all
:53:33. > :53:40.sorts of personalities. Will that take you away from the constituency
:53:40. > :53:46.and constituents? We spend more time with Westminster paperwork?
:53:46. > :53:51.The good thing about being a wet is that there as though a little
:53:51. > :53:58.paperwork. My PHI does come a week hence, of the assessors are here to
:53:58. > :54:03.be spent in Loughborough. When I was elected, I wanted to put the
:54:03. > :54:10.leftovers in the heart of Westminster. That will make that
:54:10. > :54:19.two Job harder? Representing Loughborough? But then goes back to
:54:19. > :54:27.Women in politics - and we did it multi-tasking and juggling? You can
:54:27. > :54:32.I put a minister. And that is how a good to speak to Jeremy Hunt. The
:54:32. > :54:37.links will continue. Joan, what is at the top of you to do list?
:54:37. > :54:43.same issue is has been for the last 12 months - economy and
:54:44. > :54:52.unemployment. Although, actually, unemployment came down by 13 in my
:54:52. > :54:59.constituency. Youth unemployment is still too high. We need a problem -
:55:00. > :55:09.- proper government scheme. What about you, Nicky? Journeys write
:55:10. > :55:11.
:55:11. > :55:21.about jobs and skills. The my other great passion is mental health.
:55:21. > :55:22.
:55:22. > :55:30.all happened about that? I let the debate in June. Last week, we saw
:55:30. > :55:37.the men to hurt discrimination book at his second reading in Parliament.
:55:37. > :55:39.We have got to go further. I hope that I am other colleagues can work
:55:39. > :55:44.with our local health services and see how they are looking after
:55:44. > :55:54.people for a step let us catch up on the other name Stowers of them
:55:54. > :56:01.
:56:01. > :56:11.In a 19% Swing Glenn that Labour has won a County Council election
:56:11. > :56:11.
:56:11. > :56:16.for a step or 2000 jobs could be crude a day and had business
:56:16. > :56:23.package bed Baker ended up to 50 companies are attracted by the City
:56:23. > :56:29.does my Bignell a manufacturer's first step Nigel says much for us
:56:29. > :56:38.and the East Midlands have shown to spare tape since the defection of
:56:38. > :56:45.Conservative MEP for a stab Rach -- road show left at the Conservative
:56:45. > :56:48.Party for a step closer our plans anything over a government decision
:56:48. > :56:58.not to do it protected status to a PCSO chip!
:56:58. > :57:08.
:57:08. > :57:18.A 19% swing to Labour. Is this a sign of things to come? It is a
:57:18. > :57:20.
:57:20. > :57:27.sign that results are all over the place. There were always local
:57:27. > :57:33.factors at play. It is a big swing. It was an independent who died in
:57:33. > :57:38.caused the by-election. There all sorts of factors. People are voting
:57:38. > :57:45.on local candidates, local factors. It is very hard to discern any kind
:57:45. > :57:53.of overall movement. You should be picking up votes. A spectacular