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There's another candidate in the race to become Ukip's next | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
leader: Suzanne Evans, the party's former deputy chairman, | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
This man might have something to say about that. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
Paul Nuttal was Nigel Farage's deputy for many years. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
So is he now ready to throw his hat in the ring? | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
The battle for Mosul: the Iraqi army and its allies advane | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
on the country's second city which has been in the hands of | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
In the East Midlands: from this key clash? | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
Three of our police forces working more closely, | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
but will it mean more bobbies on the beat? | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
And universities fear tougher immigration rules | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
one of the richest cities in the world. Should all private landlords | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
be licensed to help tackle the squalor? | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
And with me - as always - the best and the brightest political | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
panel in the business: Toby Young, Polly Toynbee and Tom Newton Dunn - | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
The last leader was in the job a mere 18 days before she decided | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
The favourite to succeed her then quit the party after a now infamous | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
Ukip's biggest donor says the party is at "breaking point". | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
This morning, the former Deputy Chairman, Suzanne Evans, | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
announced that she would be running for the leadership. | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
I've thought long and hard about this leadership bid, | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
and one of the reasons I've perhaps delayed announcing it is | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
because I wanted to be absolutely sure that I had the support | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
And I can confirm that I have more than enough signatures | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
on the nomination form already to be able to go forward. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Let's not forget that 3,000 people signed a petition in support of me | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
I know head office was besieged with letters in support. | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
I would not be doing this if I didn't have the backing | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
of our members, because our members are the most important | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
Well, Paul Nuttall was Nigel Farage's deputy for many years | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
and plenty of people saw him as a leader-in-waiting. | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
Let's ask the man himself - Paul Nuttall joins me now. | :02:48. | :02:56. | |
Yes. I've made the decision that I'm going to put my name forward to be | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
the next leader of Ukip. I have huge support across the country, not only | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
amongst people at the top of the party in Westminster and with the | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
MEPs, but also the grassroots. I want to be the unity candidate. Ukip | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
needs to come together. I'm not going to gild the lily. Ukip is | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
looking over a political cliff at the moment. It will either step four | :03:22. | :03:33. | |
step back, and I want to tell us to step backwards. You say it faces an | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
ex-distension or threat, which means it's possible it has no future at | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
all. Students of political history know that political parties take a | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
long time to get going. They can disappear pretty quickly. Ukip is | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
facing an existential crisis. What happened over the summer has put us | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
on a... We could be on a spiral that we can't get off. But I believe I am | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
the man to bring the factions together, to create unity within the | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
party, and to build on the structure and get us ready for the common | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
challenges. Why didn't you stand last time? Because I have spent the | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
last four or five years of my life travelling around the country. I | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
have done more Ukip meetings than anybody else, spending a lot of time | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
away from home. With Brexit, I felt that my job and Nigel's job was done | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
and we could hand over to the next generation. That doesn't seem to be | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
the case, and maybe it's time for someone who is an old hand. I'm very | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
experienced and I know the party inside out. Maybe it's time to step | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
in and bring the party together. You told the Liverpool Echo on the night | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
of July that you didn't wish to take on Nigel Farage, you didn't want | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
that to happen to your family and friends. What has changed? The party | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
is facing an existential crisis, and I want to make sure that Ukip is on | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
the pitch to keep the ball into the open net we have in politics. We | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
have a Conservative Party who is moving toward Brexit, but we have to | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
be there too. Why would you be better than Suzanne Evans? Suzanne | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
would be an excellent candidate. I thought the 2015 manifesto was the | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
best out of all the political parties. I would be the best | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
candidate because of my experience. I am not part of any faction within | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
the party. Is she? I get on well with everybody, and I believe I | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
could be the man to bring the party together. Do you get on with Iain | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
Banks, -- Aaron Banks, who is supporting one of your rivals? Yes, | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
I get on well with him. He is able to choose whoever he wants to be the | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
next leader of the party. After November 28, the leadership | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
election, we all say, the past the past. It becomes Daisy row for the | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
new leader. We forget all that has before and move on. You won the | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
referendum. Mrs May is adopting some of your policies, like grammar | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
schools. What is the point of Ukip these days? Twofold. We don't have | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Brexit. Mrs May said she would not invoke Article 50 until the end of | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
March, and we don't know if that will happen. We need to ensure a | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
strong Ukip to make sure that Brexit really does mean Brexit. We have a | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
huge opportunity in working class communities where the Labour Party | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
no longer represents them. I believe Ukip can become the voice of working | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
people. If you were the leader, would Ukip be a bigger threat to | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
Labour in the north or the Tories in the South? You save Labour in the | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
north, and people often to make that mistake. There's working class | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
communities right across the country is. There are working-class | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
communities in Bristol just as in Newcastle. We are second in a | :07:03. | :07:17. | |
number of northern seats, and southern seats as well, and I | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
believe the party can move into these communities. It can only do so | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
if Ukip is on the pitch, and I intend to make sure that's the case. | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
I don't think we have portrayed a good image over the summer. Is that | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
called British understatement? A bit. It is dysfunctional. We have to | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
move on beyond Nigel Farage. We have to build a strong national Executive | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
Committee. We need to ensure our branches are ready for the fight and | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
concentrate on local elections. I've got the experience. I'm now throwing | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
my hat into the ring, and I'm the only person who can keep Ukip in the | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
game. What role would you give Nigel Farage, if any? I will be the | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
candidate of compromise. I would see what Nigel wanted to do. Would you | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
keep in the leader of the freedom and democracy group in the European | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
Parliament? There would have to be compromise on both sides, and we | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
would need to talk about it. I don't know what Nigel wants to do. Do you | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
think his support, his association with Donald Trump, helps Ukip win | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
female votes in this country? Personally, I would not have gone | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
out and campaigned or said anything about Donald Trump, but I don't | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
think Ukip has come out and backed Donald Trump 100%. Personally, I | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
wouldn't have even spoken about the American election, because I think | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
the two candidates are quite appalling. Some up for us. If you | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
win, what would be the hallmark of your Ukip leadership? The first | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
couple of months would be ensuring that Ukip unifies. Saying no to | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
factions, bringing people together. Suzanne Evans, Nigel Farage, all of | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
the MEPs, and ensuring that Ukip can move forward. If we don't unify, | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Ukip will not be around for much longer. Thanks for being with us | :09:14. | :09:14. | |
this morning. We won't have to wait too long | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
to find out who Ukip's new leader will be - | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
the winner will be announced Who would be the best leader for | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
Ukip? I think the difference between the field a few weeks ago and today | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
is that this field is a lot stronger. Whether it's Paul or | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
Suzanne, I think... It is hard to say, with Aaron Banks and apparently | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
Nigel Farage hacking another candidate, Raheem, but I want Ukip | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
to be a strong force in British politics. I think the fact there is | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
a stronger field now is good news for Ukip. Is it a Labour's worst | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
nightmare in the north of England? It is. I think the personality | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
difference and presentational difference is interesting. Suzanne | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Evans is going for the Conservative county vote. There's a lot to be | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
taken there by Ukip. He would probably be more appealing to the | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
Labour vote. It is interesting. At the moment, pollsters say that the | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
Ukip vote splits pretty easily between Labour and Tory. But things | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
always collapse. When they have made inroads into Tower Hamlets and | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Barking, they collapse, because they fight amongst each other so much. | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
But not always with fists! Does Ukip have a future? And who would best | :11:03. | :11:11. | |
secure that future? It does for at least two years, until we Brexit. We | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
have to believe that that will happen. That was an impressive pitch | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
there from Paul, certainly as the unity candidate, after the car crash | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
we have seen on TV screens this morning. But it doesn't go beyond | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
May 20 19. What then? There is no point being called the United | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
Kingdom Independence party any longer. What will happen after May | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
2019? If you want to hoover up votes of the back of Brexit, you need to | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
start looking further ahead than two years. The person who wins that | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
leadership contest is the person who will sum that up the best. We shall | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
see. In June 2014, the group which calls | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
itself the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant captured Iraq's | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
second city, Mosul. Later that month the group announced | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
it was establishing a 'caliphate', or an Islamic state, | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
on the territories it This week 30,000 Iraqi troops, aided | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
by Iranian-backed Shia fighters, Kurdish Peshmerga and Western air | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
support, began the assault Then they spot a truck bomb | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
from so-called Islamic State. They destroy it before | :12:20. | :12:37. | |
it destroys them. These are the first steps | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
in the battle for Mosul, the Northern Iraqi city IS has | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
made its stronghold since 2014. Controlling the city of around | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
2 million people means that they established governance, | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
they establish a territorial base. This is what has obsessed everyone, | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
because with a territorial base you are capable of doing more | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
than if you are simply an insurgency movement in the fabric | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
of another society. It's being billed as the biggest | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
military operation in Iraq since the war in 2003, the biggest | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
moment in the international effort Here is how the various forces | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
are approaching the city. Heading to Mosul from the south, | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
the elite troops of the Iraqi army. Known as the Golden division, | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
trained and accompanied From the North, a force made up | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
of Kurds, known as the Peshmerga, Also from the South, | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
a militia made up of Shia fighters who have been accused | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
of human rights abuses. British planes have bombed outlying | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
villages, reportedly guided in by British personnel | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
on the ground. To the North West, a corridor | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
has been left for some of the 3000 plus IS fighters, | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
in theory an escape route which could limit the bloodshed | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
when fighting starts in the city. We've had 4-5 days of battle | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
and it's taking place in the outlying villages | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
and there have been some successes and some failures, | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
but the momentum is building. And the real question will be | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
when the attackers get towards the city itself, | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
how strong are the defences? It will crack but it might crack | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
within 48 hours or 2-3 weeks. IS has fought back, | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
on Friday they attack sites in the city of Kirkuk, | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
including a power station. The United Nations believes hundreds | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
of thousands of families have been rounded up | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
as potential human shields. The battle could be bloody, | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
but what about when it's over? The Shia militias, the Iraqi army, | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
the Peshmerga guerrillas, some of the Turkish elements, | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
they all want a share of the action. They are in Mosul, not | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
for altruistic reasons. They are there because they want | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
to be part of whatever happens next. The biggest issue is how the Sunni | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
majority in Mosul reacts to the Shia militias which have | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
helped to liberate them. ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: When Sir Francis | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
Humphrey went to Mosul If it all seems like something | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
from the archive, when the Middle East went up in flames | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
and was then carved up, it is because that is what is | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
happening in Iraq right now. National identity has been cut | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
across by other identities such And that means that putting together | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
a so-called nation state again Almost certainly there will be | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
a new form of Kurdish state, almost certainly in northern Iraq | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
at the end of this crisis, and what is happening in Mosul | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
is a microcosm of what is happening elsewhere across the Levant | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
which is that it is melting down. Big questions, questions that | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
come after the battle. The coalition forces are advancing | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
but this is just the beginning. I'm joined now by the International | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
Development Minister Rory Stewart. In a former life he was | :15:53. | :16:02. | |
the coalition Deputy-Governor of two provinces in Southern Iraq following | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
the Iraq intervention of 2003. Is there any doubt that at some | :16:06. | :16:20. | |
stage Mosul will fall to the forces of Iraq and its allies? The first | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
thing is that war is very uncertain and there are cliches about it being | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
the graveyard of predictions and we don't want to make confident | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
predictions but the basic structure is that there are 30,000 Iraqi | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
forces outside and only a few thousand Daesh fighters inside and I | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
would say it is overwhelmingly likely that the batter will one | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
STUDIO: -- the battle the won by the Iraqi forces. | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
June 2014 was a great success, they took a city of over in people and | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
they created what they tried to create a million state of 7 million | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
people, stretching across the Iraqi Syrian border, but since then they | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
have lost territory quite rapidly. Now they are losing the outskirts of | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
Mosul, and that is a fundamental blow. Islamic State is all about | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
territory and holding state, that is what makes it different from | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
Al-Qaeda. If they lose Mosul that will be a cynic -- significant blow | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
to their credibility. Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday's | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
presidential debate that when Iraqi forces with their allies including | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
the United Kingdom gain control of Mosul they should continue to press | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
into Syria to take back Raqqa which is the de facto capital of the | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
caliphate, what is left of it, do we want Iraqi forces to pursue IS into | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
Syria? Very important question. Delayed in Raqqa needs to come from | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
people on the Syrian side of the border and that is an important | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
principle -- the lead. In the end of that enemy, Islamic State, is a | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
common enemy for odd members of the coalition including the Iraqi | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
government. -- all members. There is likely to be a humanitarian crisis | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
especially if it ends up with street to street fighting and IS are | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
difficult to dislodge what are we doing about that? We are doing very | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
detailed scenario planning. It is very uncertain what the scenario | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
will be but much investment has gone into creating a network of camps, | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
refugees STUDIO: Refugee camps around cash refugee camps, and that | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
is where money, British money, ?40 million has gone recently into | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
supporting that, especially in terms of medical support to people. The | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
United nation's emergency response budget is ?196 million but only one | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
third funded which sounds like we are putting up a big chunk of what | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
is already being funded. Why is that? The international committee | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
can't say they haven't seen this assault coming, and the humanitarian | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
fallout they may see from it. You are absolutely right. We have seen | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
it coming and we have been planning since debris and we have put in | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
about ?167 million into this -- planning since February. There has | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
been a change in the nature of the appeal, and if there is a lag in the | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
accounting of it, but the money we need at this stage is in place and | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
we do have the support structure in place for those refugees. You are | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
right the United Nations is continuing with its appeal and is | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
asking for more money at the moment. The converse magazine wrote this | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
week that preparations for a big exodus of people leaving the city | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
have been made -- Economist magazine. But confidence is not high | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
in the preparations, is that a unfair conclusion? If you can | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
imagine the different scenarios, it could be a few thousand and it could | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
be a few hundred thousand coming out of the city through a front line | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
where the war is going on, that is very difficult. You have to screen | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
those people and disarm them, and keep families together, and | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
transport them and you have to bring them into the refugee camps. The | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
people working on this have been working on this for long time, we | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
have mapped the different routes we have good camp infrastructure in | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
place and we have people who have worked in south to dam and other | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
areas who are putting their structures in place -- South Sudan. | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
It is never easy but I think we have done everything we can in the | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
preparation for this. What is the British role in what will probably | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
be an even bigger issue, assuming that Mosul is liberated and retaken, | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
the humanitarian crisis is dealt with, what role will we play in the | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
rebuilding of Mosul? That will be crucial to the future of Iraq, the | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
second-biggest city and it will need to be rebuilt. It will need to be | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
rebuilt as a community as well as bricks and mortar. And eight Sunni | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
community that is not harassed by the Shia. -- and eight. You are | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
right. One of the core drivers is that the Sunni community felt | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
excluded and they did not feel they have the trust from the Baghdad | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
government. A lasting solution is stopping some of Islamic State | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
coming back, that involves making sure the Sunni community have a | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
stake in their future. That is making sure that the governing | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
structures are in place. The UK's response is twofold, we have got to | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
get the humanitarian aid right, that is the short term, people who might | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
be malnourished, coming out of the front line. The second thing is | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
working with the Iraqi government to make sure that as we rebuild Mosul | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
we do so in a way that that population feels a connection to the | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
Iraqi state. Islamic State is losing territory everywhere in the Levant, | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
it is almost finished in Iraq, we think. It is down to one district in | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
Libya, as well, just one small part of the town. I suppose the risk is, | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
if life is becoming more difficult across these areas, it can start to | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
look more in Europe and the United Kingdom as a place to continue its | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
terrorist attacks? That is a real danger. You are right. This is a | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
group which has proved over the last five years very unpredictable and it | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
changes for it quickly full stop often it does unexpected things. In | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
2009 its predecessor had been largely wiped out in Iraq and when | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
it was under pressure in Syria it went back into Iraq, and in the past | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
it didn't hold territory but now it holds territory, so you are right. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
There is a serious risk that as it gets squeezed in the middle East it | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
will try to pop up somewhere else and Mac could include Europe and the | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
United States -- that could. They say that is something they have | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
focused on full stop we also have a big focus on counterterrorism | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
security and making sure that we keep the United Kingdom and Europe | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
say. One final question. -- say. -- safe. Maybe events in Mosul could | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
add to the migration crisis in Europe, is that a possibility? | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
Again, you are right, we have seen in Syria it can push migration, the | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
biggest push the migration was the conflict in Syria, and that's the | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
reason why we have but so much energy into getting those refugee | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
camps in place and getting the humanitarian response in place -- | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
put so much energy. People will want to remain in their homes, this is | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
their country, but we have got to make it possible for them and that | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
means in the short term looking after their shelter and in the | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
medium to long-term making sure they have livelihoods, jobs and an | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
economic development which is why our support in Iraq is in the UK | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
National interests because it deals with these issues of migration and | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
terrorists. Thanks for joining us. I'm joined now by the Shadow Defence | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
Secretary. Does Labour support British | :24:42. | :24:58. | |
participation in this offensive? We fully support the participation in | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
this offensive, extremely important move forward and we voted for this | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
back in 2014. We are asking the government question is, of course, I | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
was asking the Secretary of State this week about this very offensive | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
but we are fully behind our RAF pilots out there and be trading that | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
has been going on to help the forces on the ground. -- the training full | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
stop that is very clear. I wonder if you'll lead it shares that clarity | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
and that position. -- is your leader. This is what Jeremy Corbyn | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
has said. What's been done in Iraq | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
is done by the Iraqi government, and currently | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
supported by the British government. I did not support it | :25:40. | :25:41. | |
when it came up. Well, I'm not sure how successful | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
it's been, because most of the action now appears to be | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
moving in to Syria, so I think we He doesn't sound very supportive. | :25:48. | :25:59. | |
The issue about Mosul, it has been very carefully prepared as Rory | :26:00. | :26:01. | |
Stewart said and I hope we have learned the lessons from previous | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
offensives where we haven't learnt sufficiently, and that is going to | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
be crucial in this context. How the aftermath is going to be dealt with. | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Of course will stop that clip was from November last year, and things | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
have changed. Two weeks ago he told the BBC" I'm not sure it is | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
working", in reference to air strikes in Iraq, but it is working. | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
We have got to see what happens in Mosul, it is a very high-risk | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
operation, but we also have to face the fact that the people there are | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
living under tyranny at the moment. We have to ask very cirrus question | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
shall stop he says he's not sure it is working, when Mosul is the last | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
major target be cleared of Islamic State in Iraq. The combination of | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
Allied air power has worked, why is he not sure it is working? Because | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
we have seen difficulties in the past. But this was two weeks ago. It | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
is essential that the work is done, both planning for the refugees as | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
Rory Stewart referred to, but also in terms of reconstruction of the | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
city and its community as you mentioned. These are vital. This was | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
about the ability to make progress with Allied air power, special | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
forces in Iraq, on the ground, do you accept so far that has a | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
strategy that seems to be working to read Iraq of Islamic -- to read Iraq | :27:28. | :27:39. | |
of Islamic State the question of the car began placement. Ulloa -- we | :27:40. | :27:52. | |
can't be complacent. The problems they are creating where ever they | :27:53. | :27:54. | |
are urged that we must continue to pursue them. This is the first time | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
we have spoken to since you have become the Shadow Defence Secretary. | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
I hope we will have a longer interview. Will Labour's next | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
manifesto include a commitment to the renewal of Trident? It will. We | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
made that commitment in 2007, that is a firm commitment and we will | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
honour that to our coalition allies and our industrial partners and that | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
is the vote which was taken democratically and repeatedly has | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
been reaffirmed by Labour conference and we are a democratic party vote | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
up you have squared that with Jeremy Corbyn? He's in favour of democracy | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
and he understands the situation, but we also want to push for the UK | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
to play a much bigger role on the international stage on multilateral | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
disarmament talks. You were very clear there, I thank you for that. | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
Support for Trident will be in the next Labour manifesto. What has | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
happened to Labour's review of Trident policy? That review has been | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
taking place over the year, we had a very clear reaffirmation in the | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
conference boat this year, we are reaffirming our commitment to | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
Trident -- vote. The review can't change that? There is a process of | :29:09. | :29:15. | |
review and a fair number of issues related to defence, all parties do | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
this. Of course. The review can't change the commitment to Trident? We | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
are not changing the commitment to Trident. Russia is now the main | :29:26. | :29:31. | |
strategic threat to this country? It is a major strategic threat and we | :29:32. | :29:33. | |
have got to work with our Nato allies very closely and make sure | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
that we respond and that we do not let things pass. For example, we | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
should be calling out Russia for the way it has been a bombing | :29:42. | :29:47. | |
humanitarian aid and we should be taking them to international court | :29:48. | :29:49. | |
over this, but we should also be strengthening sanctions, somewhat | :29:50. | :29:57. | |
imposed over Ukraine. We try to do that, but the Italians wouldn't let | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
us. The Italians did not want to participate in the European | :30:03. | :30:03. | |
initiative but that doesn't stop individual countries for the Britain | :30:04. | :30:10. | |
should step up? Yes, we should look at what is practical to impose. | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
Thanks for joining us. Mosul is not the only major battle | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
being waged in the Middle East. The city of Aleppo in northern Syria | :30:20. | :30:21. | |
has seen some of the heaviest bombardment since Syria's | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
five-year-long civil war began. This week Russian warships, | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
in a deliberate show of power, sailed west through the English | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
channel en route to Syria. Nato says it's Russia's "largest | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
surface deployment" since the end of the Cold War in what is thought | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
to be preparation for a final assault | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
on the besieged city of Aleppo. In the city itself fighting | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
resumed overnight - following a 3-day ceasefire - | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
with more air strikes and heavy clashes in the city's | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
rebel-held eastern districts. Almost 500 people have been | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
killed and 2,000 injured since Syrian government forces, | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
backed by Russian air strikes, This week Theresa May condemned | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
Vladimir Putin's involvement in Syria, accusing Moscow | :31:05. | :31:12. | |
of being behind "sickening atrocities" in support | :31:13. | :31:14. | |
of President Assad's regime. But European leaders are divided | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
on how to respond and, with the United States preoccupied | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
with domestic politics, President Putin senses this | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
is his moment to bring the Syrian I'm joined now by the BBC's former | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
Diplomatic and Moscow Correspondent, Bridget Kendall, who is now Master | :31:29. | :31:36. | |
of Peterhouse College in Cambridge. Welcome. Good to see you in the BBC | :31:37. | :31:50. | |
studio again. Let me put up this satellite image of Aleppo here, to | :31:51. | :31:56. | |
get an idea of the scale. It was the biggest city in Syria. It was the | :31:57. | :32:01. | |
commercial capital and a huge cultural hub as well. Almost the New | :32:02. | :32:06. | |
York of Syria, to give you an idea of its significance to the country. | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
Let me show you now how it's been divided. The rebels are now in | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
control of the eastern part, about eight miles long and three miles | :32:17. | :32:23. | |
wide there, they're in purple. They are under great attacks still. Is it | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
inevitable that that purple part falls to the regime? That is what | :32:28. | :32:36. | |
President as Saad, the Russians and the Iranians hope. The fierce | :32:37. | :32:42. | |
bombardments we have seen is part of that. I'm reminded very much in the | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
Russian tactics of what happened in grudgingly in Chechnya in 2000, when | :32:47. | :32:51. | |
the Russians said, a warning for all civilians to lead, and then they | :32:52. | :32:57. | |
went ahead and they basically raised it to the ground. They are talking | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
about Al Nusrah as being one of the rebel groups. They got rid of all of | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
the terrorists. They talk about it being an Al-Qaeda offshoot. The | :33:09. | :33:12. | |
purpose of going in is to get rid of them. You get the civilians out and | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
then you take it. But this isn't like Chechnya. It is much more | :33:17. | :33:22. | |
complex. We have seen an attempt to take Aleppo before, and then there | :33:23. | :33:26. | |
was a rebel counter offensive. It's not so certain. And there are so | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
many different parties involved. We have seen the alarm in the west of | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
the extent of the civilian casualties. There have been | :33:35. | :33:44. | |
rumblings in the west of, shouldn't the United States do something? | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
Shouldn't they stop the Syrian air force? This Russian aircraft carrier | :33:48. | :33:50. | |
steaming its way towards the Eastern Mediterranean is a symbolic gesture, | :33:51. | :33:56. | |
both to its own people, but also to the West, to say, don't get involved | :33:57. | :34:02. | |
in Aleppo if we go ahead. Don't try and stop us because we could up the | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
ante. They have not been great visual pictures, because the | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
aircraft carrier looks a bit clapped out, belching out smoke! If the | :34:13. | :34:19. | |
rebel controlled area does fall, it would be seen as a great victory for | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
President as Saad and his Russian allies. What is the aim of Russia | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
here? What would they then do, if Aleppo Falls? It is part of a plan | :34:29. | :34:33. | |
that President Putin set out in his UN speech in 2014, before Russia | :34:34. | :34:40. | |
went into Syria. The aim is to put President Assad back in charge. | :34:41. | :34:43. | |
President Putin said this weekend that either is Assad in Damascus, or | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
its Al Nusrah. There is nothing in between. They want to eliminate the | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
argument for a moderate opposition. They want to make it plain that the | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
only way to get a stable Syria is to have Assad back in charge. Even sue | :35:00. | :35:07. | |
argue for a rump steak lit, leaving aside what is happening with IAS. | :35:08. | :35:15. | |
They have already said they want to have an enlarged military presence | :35:16. | :35:19. | |
at their bases. And they have a big naval base. It is. It is a chance to | :35:20. | :35:27. | |
push for this when he sees the West is being distracted and divided. | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
Europe and America, by elections and so on. Just before the US elections. | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
The Americans are worried about that, Europeans are being distracted | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
by Brexit. He can push to his maximum advantage now, before there | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
is a new US president. If they do take that part of Aleppo, and that | :35:49. | :35:59. | |
part of northern Syria, does Mr Putin want us to recognise, to | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
admit, that that is now his sphere of influence? I think the rhetoric | :36:04. | :36:09. | |
from the Russians is that they want the West to recognise that they are | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
an equal powerful partner. It's not just the US that runs the writ in | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
the Middle East. Russia is as important as it is. It is engaging | :36:19. | :36:25. | |
with Saudi Arabia and has mended fences with Turkey. Syria is the | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
place from which it can launch its message that it is a big player in | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
the Middle East. Russia wants the West to understand that this isn't a | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
country that was dismembered after the end of the Soviet Union and is | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
now a week. It is back, and it is strong. That is an important | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
message. Looking at the economy. It is in recession. GDP has been | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
falling, partly because of the price of oil. It is highly dependent on | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
hydrocarbons, and is expected to fall again. Its people are falling | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
again. People don't realise how small the Russian economy is. Its | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
GDP is about the size of Italy's. It is smaller than the UK economy. | :37:12. | :37:16. | |
Bigger than it was 15 or 20 years ago. But so is Britain's does it | :37:17. | :37:26. | |
help to take people's mind of this? A huge shock to the Russian economy | :37:27. | :37:32. | |
was a drop in the price of oil and a price of gas. A drop in the price of | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
the ruble as well. This is hurting the people of Russia. On the one | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
hand, it is the war in Syria, which is very important for Russia to sort | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
out that part of the world and dispensed terrorists who might be | :37:48. | :37:55. | |
danger to -- is dangerous to Russia. But he had also has presidential | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
election is going up. They are supposed to be 2018, but some feel | :38:01. | :38:04. | |
he will bring them forward to 2017, because the economy is not doing so | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
well. But you need a good story for the Russian people. Thank you very | :38:10. | :38:11. | |
much. We say goodbye to viewers | :38:12. | :38:13. | |
in Scotland who leave us now In the East Midlands: A step towards | :38:14. | :38:23. | |
an East Midlands Police force? Three forces agree | :38:24. | :38:26. | |
to work more closely. Changing how the police work - | :38:27. | :38:29. | |
will greater cooperation between the And could Brexit put the brakes | :38:30. | :38:31. | |
on our fast-growing universities? The students who come | :38:32. | :38:40. | |
in here are genuine, motivated, and want to succeed, | :38:41. | :38:42. | |
and not necessarily, certainly Hello, I'm Marie Ashby, | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
and casting their eyes over the political week | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
here in the East Midlands are Edward Garnier, | :38:53. | :38:54. | |
the Conservative MP for Harborough, and Roger Helmer, a Ukip MEP | :38:55. | :38:56. | |
representing the East First, let's look at some | :38:57. | :38:59. | |
of the voting patterns and polls Safe seats for the Conservatives | :39:00. | :39:06. | |
and Labour respectively in this Edward Garnier, your party didn't do | :39:07. | :39:12. | |
as well as expected. Yes, and the new member | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
of Parliament got the same majority as David Cameron got | :39:17. | :39:26. | |
when he first stood for that seat, way back in 2005, | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
so that is all right. But by-elections are by-elections | :39:31. | :39:32. | |
and every Government I am sure every Opposition member | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
will say how dreadful The Liberal Democrats | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
are getting wildly overexcited. We are 18% percentage points ahead | :39:41. | :39:43. | |
of the Labour Party nationally. The Liberal Democrats had eight | :39:44. | :39:52. | |
seats on Wednesday night and they have got eight | :39:53. | :39:54. | |
seats on Sunday morning. I am sure the leader | :39:55. | :39:56. | |
of the Liberal Democrats is very overexcited, | :39:57. | :39:59. | |
but, frankly, I don't think there is much to read | :40:00. | :40:00. | |
from the Whitney by-election, other than the fact that | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
a Conservative MP was replaced Since Roger is here, | :40:05. | :40:06. | |
I could say that Ukip, the poor dears, lost their deposit, | :40:07. | :40:14. | |
but that would be terribly rude. Ukip are slipping in | :40:15. | :40:16. | |
the polls, though, Roger. Have all the recent events, | :40:17. | :40:18. | |
and has that altercation Let's be honest, we had a terrible | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
week, in which a newly elected leader of the party decided not | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
to go ahead with the position, and in which two of my colleagues | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
behaved in a way which I think most I think perhaps they are | :40:31. | :40:34. | |
ashamed of it as well. We had a bad week, and I am sure | :40:35. | :40:38. | |
that had some impact. But both of these two by-election | :40:39. | :40:41. | |
results we are looking One is a former Prime Minister, | :40:42. | :40:44. | |
and the other one is following a real tragedy, | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
when the major Opposition party took I think the conclusion we can draw | :40:50. | :40:51. | |
from those two by-elections No, I think Steven Woolfe | :40:52. | :40:59. | |
is possibly in a crisis. And there are those | :41:00. | :41:05. | |
who might think that So, would you fancy | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
going for leader? I mean, you are a long serving | :41:11. | :41:13. | |
member of the party. I appreciate the invitation, | :41:14. | :41:15. | |
but I think... I was just asking whether you | :41:16. | :41:18. | |
would like to go for it. It is a bigger job than I would wish | :41:19. | :41:22. | |
to take over at my time of life. The other point I would make | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
is that we are seeing more and more arguments around Brexit, | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
about how Brexit should be done. So the need for Ukip and for a clear | :41:33. | :41:34. | |
voice saying we want out of the European Union, | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
with no conditions, please, is stronger | :41:39. | :41:41. | |
than ever. Next, three police forces covering | :41:42. | :41:43. | |
the East Midlands have announced that they're | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
going to work more closely. Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire | :41:48. | :41:49. | |
and Northamptonshire will look at combining resources | :41:50. | :41:51. | |
to become more efficient. But will it mean more | :41:52. | :41:54. | |
bobbies on the beat, and is it a step towards | :41:55. | :41:56. | |
an East Midlands police force? Here's our political | :41:57. | :41:59. | |
editor, Tony Roe. There was a time when | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
policing was local. In the days of the Nottingham city | :42:04. | :42:05. | |
force, a powerful Chief Constable and ex-military man called | :42:06. | :42:08. | |
Athelstan Popkess ruled with a rod An innovator, the city had the first | :42:09. | :42:12. | |
police dogs and the first cars We have, of course, moved | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
on from the days of the 1920s police box made famous | :42:18. | :42:25. | |
by Doctor Who. They even had a gas lamp on top | :42:26. | :42:27. | |
to summon the police. They were made redundant | :42:28. | :42:30. | |
when phone boxes came in. And people may not like it, | :42:31. | :42:33. | |
but we have moved on from stopping The type of crime the police | :42:34. | :42:36. | |
are needed for has changed. When did you last see | :42:37. | :42:40. | |
a policeman on your street? Never. | :42:41. | :42:51. | |
Oh, yeah, but they weren't just patrolling. | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
I have not seen a PC on the beat, as such. | :42:58. | :42:59. | |
I can't recall seeing a policeman on my street. | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
And would you know how to contact the police if you needed to? | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
I don't know the number, but, yes, I get by, yeah. | :43:09. | :43:12. | |
I think there is another number that you can ring, but I haven't | :43:13. | :43:17. | |
When you ring 111, or whatever it is... | :43:18. | :43:24. | |
I think the whole point of this is that we shouldn't know | :43:25. | :43:36. | |
There are even fewer police stations. | :43:37. | :43:46. | |
They are being closed around the country to save money. | :43:47. | :43:48. | |
Not all will be saved like this one, which will be open to people | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
This is now part of the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham. | :43:53. | :43:58. | |
Next year, it will be renamed the National Justice Museum. | :43:59. | :44:01. | |
Will we ever have a national police force? | :44:02. | :44:03. | |
The plan now is forces working together with greater collaboration, | :44:04. | :44:10. | |
There was a time when serious crimes like murder would mean | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
And during the miners' strike, they were flying police in | :44:16. | :44:18. | |
from all over the country to combat the pickets. | :44:19. | :44:23. | |
And, just in case you're wondering, the number to ring for | :44:24. | :44:25. | |
111 will get you the NHS helpline, though. | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
So what's driving the plans for more cooperation | :44:30. | :44:31. | |
Here's the Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire, Sue Fish. | :44:32. | :44:37. | |
I think we see crime changing quite significantly, | :44:38. | :44:39. | |
and it has been doing that for some time. | :44:40. | :44:41. | |
The internet has absolutely transformed how we police, | :44:42. | :44:44. | |
And that does not respect geographic boundaries. | :44:45. | :44:50. | |
I think, again, the threat around terrorism continues | :44:51. | :44:52. | |
to evolve and change, and challenge us. | :44:53. | :44:58. | |
The threats that are posed by child sexual exploitation... | :44:59. | :45:01. | |
Let's be honest, the public purse is tight. | :45:02. | :45:04. | |
We are bringing in a new cadre of recruits next month in November, | :45:05. | :45:10. | |
and that is really exciting, because it has been two years now, | :45:11. | :45:13. | |
and we have had to stop recruiting because it has not been affordable. | :45:14. | :45:18. | |
And one of the reasons why we cannot afford to recruit is because of | :45:19. | :45:24. | |
the level of cooperation that has saved the money. | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
Let's find out more about this with Willy Bach, the Labour Police | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire and Rutland. | :45:34. | :45:35. | |
So, how far will this co-operation go? | :45:36. | :45:37. | |
Are we talking about eventual merger of forces? | :45:38. | :45:39. | |
At a time of reduced resources, it is really just a sensible thing | :45:40. | :45:46. | |
to do, to bring together, for example, back office staff, IT, | :45:47. | :45:48. | |
You work together if you can to save money, so that you can do | :45:49. | :45:58. | |
the things in your own locality that you really need to do. | :45:59. | :46:01. | |
We have to wait and see what the position is. | :46:02. | :46:07. | |
I hope there will be very few job losses. | :46:08. | :46:10. | |
I have not come into this job in order that other police officers | :46:11. | :46:13. | |
or police staff should lose their jobs. | :46:14. | :46:14. | |
But 500 officers have been lost over the last ten years. | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
Oh, a huge number in my patch in Leicestershire | :46:19. | :46:21. | |
20% less police officers and 20% staff, which is one of the reasons | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
why it is absolutely crucial to collaborate now. | :46:26. | :46:28. | |
So there is still money for local policing. | :46:29. | :46:31. | |
It is local policing, neighbourhood policing that matters | :46:32. | :46:33. | |
Because we heard, didn't we, they are, from Nottingham's | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
Chief Constable Sue Fish, saying that the public | :46:38. | :46:39. | |
So this is what this is about, then, isn't it? | :46:40. | :46:42. | |
As Tony said in his report, there has always been collaboration | :46:43. | :46:47. | |
between police forces, and it makes sense. | :46:48. | :46:49. | |
Across the five East Midlands forces, there is a lot | :46:50. | :46:51. | |
of collaboration on serious organised crime, on murder come | :46:52. | :46:54. | |
of collaboration on serious organised crime, on murder, | :46:55. | :46:55. | |
on forensics and all of that works extremely well. | :46:56. | :46:58. | |
Now, this is it, kind of, practical step, to collaborate a bit | :46:59. | :47:01. | |
And I am only going to go with it if it is practical | :47:02. | :47:07. | |
I am not going with it just for the sake of it. | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
It seems to me that people want to see their own police forces | :47:13. | :47:16. | |
Edward Garnier, tri-force cooperation, as it has been called, | :47:17. | :47:20. | |
might be good news if our police forces are becoming more efficient. | :47:21. | :47:23. | |
But if it is because they are having to make cuts, | :47:24. | :47:26. | |
I do not know what the reason for it is, but it is a sensible | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
The Army has, let's say, ten tank regiments, and they do not | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
The MoD buys the tanks and distributes them. | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
They may all fight in different places. | :47:40. | :47:40. | |
Similarly, the Leicestershire and the other two police | :47:41. | :47:42. | |
forces seems to be, let's all buy their cars from the same | :47:43. | :47:45. | |
place and distribute them sensibly amongst the three police forces. | :47:46. | :47:47. | |
Willy and I have had a discussion about a spate of shop thefts... | :47:48. | :48:02. | |
Yes, because you have been talking about this very recently | :48:03. | :48:04. | |
I do not mind where Willy buys his police cars, | :48:05. | :48:08. | |
but what I want is to make sure that he distributes the police | :48:09. | :48:11. | |
officers and the investigators so that they are concentrating | :48:12. | :48:14. | |
on places like Market Harborough and rural Harborough... | :48:15. | :48:17. | |
So why don't you give them more money to do | :48:18. | :48:19. | |
Speaking to a former Labour minister who | :48:20. | :48:23. | |
The serious point is that at a time of financial constraint, | :48:24. | :48:32. | |
every public organisation has to think about how | :48:33. | :48:35. | |
And I think administrative cooperation between the forces, | :48:36. | :48:40. | |
not just the three forces we have been talking about, but right | :48:41. | :48:42. | |
across the East Midlands, is a sensible idea if it frees up | :48:43. | :48:45. | |
money to allow police officers to be there | :48:46. | :48:48. | |
Roger Helmer, Ukip policy is for more cooperation, | :48:49. | :48:52. | |
but fewer PCCs like Willy Bach, but it is people like | :48:53. | :48:55. | |
Willy Bach you are driving through this collaboration. | :48:56. | :48:57. | |
Well, I think we can well do that with cooperation between police | :48:58. | :49:02. | |
forces without necessarily creating additional administrative posts. | :49:03. | :49:03. | |
I think in principle, the idea of local policing is excellent. | :49:04. | :49:06. | |
Clearly, the idea of combining back office functions to increase | :49:07. | :49:14. | |
efficiency and therefore you have more money | :49:15. | :49:16. | |
I think there is an outbreak of consensus on that point. | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
But I would be very interested to know whether Willy has a view | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
about the opinion expressed by the Leicestershire force that | :49:25. | :49:26. | |
perhaps they should not investigate burglaries | :49:27. | :49:27. | |
where the householder has not locked up. | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
My view is, as is the Leicestershire police force's, of course | :49:32. | :49:40. | |
you investigate all burglaries, whether of domestic | :49:41. | :49:42. | |
That is progress. Thank you. | :49:43. | :49:47. | |
Derbyshire's police Chief Constable Mick Creedon tells | :49:48. | :49:50. | |
us that his force is not considering joining this alliance. | :49:51. | :49:52. | |
I mean, actually what he has told us is that there is no | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
financial benefit to them, but they are keen to collaborate. | :49:58. | :49:59. | |
Is it disappointing that Derbyshire won't come to the party, | :50:00. | :50:02. | |
I'm hoping that in due course Derbyshire in the venture will. | :50:03. | :50:05. | |
I am watching as one of the three PCCs, to see that the suggestions | :50:06. | :50:12. | |
that come through from full business cases, as they are called, | :50:13. | :50:15. | |
It was once called, this three for staying, strategic alliance. | :50:16. | :50:23. | |
That was much too highfalutin a phrase for what is a bit of | :50:24. | :50:26. | |
It is made necessary, I'm afraid, by the huge, | :50:27. | :50:34. | |
huge cuts that were made to all three police forces over | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
What about the people in our report who basically said that... | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
Some of them actually said they had never seen a police officer | :50:43. | :50:45. | |
Does that matter, Edward Garnier, that there are not bobbies | :50:46. | :50:48. | |
on the beat, and not as visible as they used to be? | :50:49. | :50:51. | |
Because policing has changed, hasn't it? | :50:52. | :50:54. | |
Visible policing creates confidence amongst the law-abiding public, | :50:55. | :50:57. | |
and that is again what we want to see in Market Harborough. | :50:58. | :51:00. | |
Clearly, even if you are in the Metropolitan Police in London, | :51:01. | :51:03. | |
where there are 20, or 30,000 police officers, | :51:04. | :51:05. | |
the chances of a police officer coming across a burglary red-handed | :51:06. | :51:07. | |
during his working hours is very, very slight. | :51:08. | :51:09. | |
But what we do need is intelligent deployment of police officers. | :51:10. | :51:12. | |
This is difficult in big rural areas. | :51:13. | :51:19. | |
In market towns like Market Harborough... | :51:20. | :51:22. | |
Most of the bad guys, I am afraid, and most of the easy crime | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
So it is difficult for the Chief Constable to deploy his forces | :51:27. | :51:33. | |
where everyone would like them, but we do need, and I hope that this | :51:34. | :51:36. | |
collaboration between the three forces on admin will allow | :51:37. | :51:38. | |
the Chief Constable and Willy to distribute police officers. | :51:39. | :51:43. | |
Edward is quite right that the average police officer | :51:44. | :51:45. | |
on the beat is unlikely to come across a burglary in the act | :51:46. | :51:49. | |
The visible policing on the street is a great deterrent to burglary | :51:50. | :51:52. | |
It is no good to say, he will not catch the odd criminal. | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
He will deter crime to a considerable extent. | :51:59. | :52:00. | |
He can help deter crime, but of course a lot of criminal does | :52:01. | :52:03. | |
not happen on the street in the way that it used to happen. | :52:04. | :52:06. | |
We all know about the terrible amount of child sexual | :52:07. | :52:09. | |
We know about how grooming takes place. | :52:10. | :52:12. | |
The police have very limited resources, and have got to use those | :52:13. | :52:16. | |
Personally, I am absolutely committed to visible policing. | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
What people want is to see police in their town. | :52:21. | :52:27. | |
But I'm afraid that the resources are such that police cannot forget | :52:28. | :52:31. | |
the other jobs that they have got to do to protect us all. | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
And it is very important that they know how | :52:36. | :52:37. | |
to get in touch with the police, as well. | :52:38. | :52:39. | |
That has got to be a priority. | :52:40. | :52:42. | |
999 in an emergency, and 101 in other cases. | :52:43. | :52:47. | |
Thank you very much for doing that for me. | :52:48. | :52:49. | |
They're economic powerhouses, employing tens of thousands | :52:50. | :52:51. | |
of people and pumping billions into the East Midlands economy. | :52:52. | :52:55. | |
No, they're not high-flying businesses, they're universities. | :52:56. | :52:57. | |
Across the region they've been through spectacular growth | :52:58. | :53:00. | |
in the last ten years, but now senior academics are worried | :53:01. | :53:02. | |
that the Government's crackdown on immigration could threaten that. | :53:03. | :53:07. | |
Here's our political reporter, Tim Parker. | :53:08. | :53:12. | |
You would be forgiven for thinking it is boomtime for our universities. | :53:13. | :53:16. | |
There is a serious amount of building work going on here at | :53:17. | :53:18. | |
Also, up at Leicester University and at Nottingham. | :53:19. | :53:24. | |
Loughborough University is considering spending ?40 million | :53:25. | :53:26. | |
Last year, Derby and Nottingham Trent University open | :53:27. | :53:32. | |
But is all of this construction work going to be worth it if plans | :53:33. | :53:38. | |
by the Home Secretary to tighten up on student visas goes ahead? | :53:39. | :53:42. | |
In her recent speech, the Tory party conference speech, | :53:43. | :53:45. | |
the Home Secretary Amber Rudd talking about student | :53:46. | :53:48. | |
immigration rules said, the current system allows students | :53:49. | :53:51. | |
irrespective of their talents and the University's quality | :53:52. | :53:54. | |
favourable employment prospects when they stop studying. | :53:55. | :53:58. | |
She questions whether that is adding value to our economy. | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
Now, she goes on to say it is not about pulling up the drawbridge, | :54:04. | :54:06. | |
but that is not the impression that some of our universities | :54:07. | :54:09. | |
It has been coming out for the last seven, eight or nine years, | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
but I really do feel that universities now have | :54:16. | :54:17. | |
That the students who come in here are genuine, motivated, | :54:18. | :54:20. | |
And not necessarily, and certainly the majority, not in the UK. | :54:21. | :54:25. | |
They want to go home and take their new skills | :54:26. | :54:28. | |
And it is not just University staff who have concerns. | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
The students at De Monfort University in Leicester | :54:34. | :54:36. | |
from inside and outside the EU say that the vote to leave | :54:37. | :54:40. | |
My friends and I were so disgusted, because, | :54:41. | :54:44. | |
Well, it belongs to the European Union. | :54:45. | :54:49. | |
It is weird to think that it is going to get out | :54:50. | :54:52. | |
Yeah, we will need a passport to come and... | :54:53. | :54:55. | |
For future generations, I would still encourage them to come | :54:56. | :55:02. | |
here, because you get to meet people from all over and exchange ideas. | :55:03. | :55:06. | |
To come here and have the intelligent experience, | :55:07. | :55:08. | |
Studying abroad is always the best choice to make. | :55:09. | :55:18. | |
What we are looking for is messaging that supports the fact that the UK | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
is indeed not just open but welcoming to international students. | :55:24. | :55:28. | |
That they do bring something that we in the UK, as well as in | :55:29. | :55:31. | |
Universities across the region will be hoping their expanding | :55:32. | :55:35. | |
campuses can still welcome students from the EU, | :55:36. | :55:39. | |
and run the world, whatever the eventual Brexit deal. | :55:40. | :55:44. | |
So, Edward Garnier, there are around 26,000 foreign | :55:45. | :55:48. | |
students at universities in the East Midlands, generating | :55:49. | :55:50. | |
The universities want a positive message from Government | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
about foreign students, and that doesn't seem | :55:56. | :55:57. | |
Well, I think at the moment while they are trying to work out | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
Don't get me on "Brexit means Brexit". | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
But whilst we are trying to work out how we are going to leave | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
the European Union, and whether we will | :56:09. | :56:10. | |
have a stupid departure or an intelligent departure... | :56:11. | :56:12. | |
Soft or hard, I think they are saying. | :56:13. | :56:14. | |
Stupid or better or intelligent, is the better phrasing. | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
It is confusing for universities and for students. | :56:20. | :56:24. | |
I would want to see Britain open to trade and I want to see it open | :56:25. | :56:28. | |
to intellectual research and scientific research | :56:29. | :56:30. | |
and so forth, and I want to see foreign students coming to make use | :56:31. | :56:34. | |
of our brilliant universities here in the East Midlands. | :56:35. | :56:36. | |
But it is confusing, then, isn't it? | :56:37. | :56:38. | |
When there are reports this week that the Chancellor Philip Hammond | :56:39. | :56:40. | |
He says he wants students to be counted in immigration | :56:41. | :56:45. | |
I thought it was the other way around. | :56:46. | :56:49. | |
But you are demonstrating the confusion. | :56:50. | :56:51. | |
I do not think this sort of confusion is helpful. | :56:52. | :56:54. | |
I wish the Government was more clear about what it meant, | :56:55. | :56:57. | |
You are correct, actually, it is the other way around. | :56:58. | :57:01. | |
That will either confuse the correction or correct the confusion. | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
But the short point is that we have superb universities right | :57:06. | :57:08. | |
across the UK and particularly here in the East Midlands, | :57:09. | :57:11. | |
and in the county of Leicestershire as well. | :57:12. | :57:14. | |
I want to see students from Europe and I want to see students | :57:15. | :57:17. | |
from across the world coming to our universities. | :57:18. | :57:20. | |
Both because they then go home and think well of our country, | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
but also because they bring money into this country and it creates | :57:25. | :57:27. | |
a form of internationalism which I think is very important. | :57:28. | :57:29. | |
I happen to be a trustee of a thing called the China | :57:30. | :57:32. | |
Oxford Scholarship Fund, which brings about 10-20 Chinese | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
postgraduates and Hong Kong postgraduates to Oxford every year. | :57:37. | :57:40. | |
So you can see the benefits of that | :57:41. | :57:42. | |
What I do not see the benefit of is an absence of certainty, | :57:43. | :57:47. | |
and that I'm afraid is going to continue until the Government | :57:48. | :57:50. | |
We are almost agreeing with each other here. | :57:51. | :57:53. | |
I think it is critical that the Government is clear | :57:54. | :57:56. | |
We need to understand that education is a vitally visible | :57:57. | :58:01. | |
We must not allow anything to stand in its way and the student | :58:02. | :58:06. | |
who comes here for, say, three years and then goes home | :58:07. | :58:08. | |
is entirely different to an economic migrant who comes intending to live | :58:09. | :58:11. | |
So we have got to focus on reassuring the universities | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
that we want them to continue to educate foreign students... | :58:17. | :58:20. | |
Saw how will an EU student be able to come here post Brexit? | :58:21. | :58:23. | |
On exactly the same basis as a Chinese student or a Japanese | :58:24. | :58:26. | |
We need some kind of arrangement for student visas, but the important | :58:27. | :58:31. | |
thing is that we are reassured that on completion of their course, | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
either they go home, as Edward has suggested, | :58:37. | :58:39. | |
or they may well wish to stay here, and this educated person may wish | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
In that case, they should be subject to the same selection criteria that | :58:45. | :58:49. | |
would apply to anybody else seeking to come into our country. | :58:50. | :58:52. | |
And if they are contributing to our economy, we should be | :58:53. | :58:55. | |
I think we are agreeing with each other. | :58:56. | :58:59. | |
The problem we face at the moment is that the Government have yet | :59:00. | :59:02. | |
to work out what they intend to achieve by the end of March, | :59:03. | :59:06. | |
Throughout this period, we will have confusion. | :59:07. | :59:08. | |
It is aggravated by ministers saying different things, | :59:09. | :59:13. | |
and then being told by number ten they should not have said | :59:14. | :59:16. | |
I want to see a uniform approach to this and an organised approach, | :59:17. | :59:22. | |
and an approach which is welcoming and internationalist. | :59:23. | :59:24. | |
So, students, as you say, should be able to carry on coming | :59:25. | :59:27. | |
The essence of Brexit is that European students will not be | :59:28. | :59:35. | |
treated in a different way from students from the Commonwealth | :59:36. | :59:38. | |
Like Edward, I too want to see a free | :59:39. | :59:43. | |
We could not be that within the protectionist European Union. | :59:44. | :59:48. | |
Time now for a round-up of some of the other political stories | :59:49. | :59:52. | |
Rushcliffe Borough Council has defended a policy to fine | :59:53. | :00:03. | |
After we revealed the plan last Sunday, there was criticism from | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
The council says that the fines are a last resort and only | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
The East Midlands has the worst hand-over times from ambulances | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Figures from the Labour Party show that the number of people waiting | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
for more than one hour has trebled in two years. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
The debate at Westminster over proposals to close the children | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
heart surgery unit at Leicester's Glenfield Hospital heard | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
cross-party opposition to the plans from East Midlands MPs. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
If this proposal goes ahead, the East Midlands will be the only | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
region in the country without a children's | :00:40. | :00:40. | |
Businesses affected by construction work on Nottingham's tram | :00:41. | :00:49. | |
system have received ?3.5 million in compensation. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
The average pay-out was ?27,000, but some companies say | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
That's the Sunday Politics in the East Midlands. | :00:58. | :01:09. | |
Thanks to Edward Garnier and Roger Helmer. | :01:10. | :01:10. | |
Next week, Pauline Latham and Vernon Coaker will be here. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
go ahead with this policy, I know. And now back to Andrew. | :01:14. | :01:26. | |
So, Brexit, airports, Calais and the chances | :01:27. | :01:27. | |
With what Rory Stewart was saying there, it is clear that Islamic | :01:28. | :01:50. | |
State is losing territory in Iraq now, and could come under pressure | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
in Syria as well. It used to control a whole swathe of the coast of | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
Libya, and is now down to a small area of Sirte in Libya. But | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
curiously, it could make them more dangerous here if they are being | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
driven out of the Maghreb and the Levant, they could be more dangerous | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
here. Discuss. That was a very interesting admission from a | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
government minister, of all people, and a well-informed one. Chasing | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
Isis around the Middle East is about... Like chasing Al-Qaeda | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
around Afghanistan and Pakistan. You smash them somewhere, and they pop | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
up somewhere else. He is right to warn that these guys will go | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
somewhere. And it may well be, in Sirte, for example, across the magic | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
oration -- across the Mediterranean into Italy. A lot of the foreign | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
fighters in Mosul have already gone, we heard, which raises the question, | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
to where? I think it is quite right for government ministers to warn | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
that it might have repercussions here. We have been involved in this, | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
with full public consent, as far as we can tell. If it doesn't happen, | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
if there are horrors and outrages here and in the rest of Europe, | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
that's fine. If it does happen, at least the government is prepared. We | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
knew surprised about how categorical Nia Griffith was? She was | :03:36. | :03:46. | |
categorical about support for the Allied action in Iraq, and | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
categorical about Russia. So much so that perhaps written should take | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
tougher sanctions on its own, even if it can't get the Europeans to | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
fall in line. I found that interesting. I was surprised by | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
that. Tom may be right that Rory said more than perhaps he was | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
intending, but I thought that some of what she said sounded politically | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
imprudent in the current context of the Labour Party. I'm not sure she | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
cleared those lines with the Labour office. I'm not sure she and Jeremy | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
are in the same place about it. I'm not sure there is that much | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
leadership. People at the moment get out there and say what they think | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
it's right for the party. She sounded dead right to me. Whether it | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
is ill-advised or not, people should answer... I want to move on, because | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
Brexit never goes away. This week we saw Hilary Benn, former Shadow | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
Foreign Secretary. He is going to be the chair of the select committee in | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
the Commons which will monitor the Department for Brexit. All sorts of | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
people will be coming to give testimony and so one. Let's hear | :05:00. | :05:00. | |
what he told Andrew Marr. I think it will be very important | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
for the government to indicate that if it is not possible within the two | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
years provided for by Article 50 to negotiate both our withdrawal | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
agreement and a new trading relationship, market access, | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
including for services, 80% of our economy, million jobs, | :05:14. | :05:14. | |
in financial services, that it should tell the House | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
of Commons that it will seek a transitional arrangement | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
with the European Union. If the deal is not done at the end | :05:20. | :05:31. | |
of the two-year Article 50 process, would the government go for an | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
interim agreement, or would it fall back on WTO, World Trade | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Organisation, Rawls? My understanding is the article 15 | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
negotiation doesn't specifically include what Britain's future | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
trading relationship with the EU would be. It is perfectly possible | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
that Article 50 could be triggered, and after two years we don't have a | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
trade deal, but the trade deal negotiations are ongoing when we are | :06:00. | :06:12. | |
outside the EU. But the trade deal negotiations are the most important | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
thing. If Article 50 doesn't cover it, what is it about? Absolutely | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
essential. The trade deal with Canada has taken nine years, and now | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
it looks like it is fading, because of the Walloons. Just one small part | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
of the country. If you cannot do a free-trade deal with Canada, a | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
progressive, social Democratic Canada, who can the EU do a trade | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
deal with? You would think it would be easy with us, because we have all | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
of the level playing field agreements in place. You would hope | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
it would be easier, but it may not be, because in the end, it will | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
hinge on the single market and if we are in or out. If we are in, can we | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
have a small break on immigration? It looks like not. What is | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
interesting about the opinion polls is, in the last two opinion polls | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
there was a significant change in public opinion, where people are now | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
saying they think that actually trade, the economy, the single | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
market is more important than immigration. If it is really true, | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
as the observer is reporting today, that banks are on the move, and in a | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
year's time there could be a significant collapse in the income | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
we get from finance, the income that the Treasury gets, then public | :07:34. | :07:45. | |
opinion might change. They may say, we don't want more immigration, but | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
this isn't a price worth paying. Everything tends to be seen through | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
the Brexit lens at the moment. Things are not always as they seem. | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
The Canadian- EU free trade agreement was about increasing free | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
trade between the EU and Canada, and therefore subject to the | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
ratification of all members. Any deal we do will not give us the same | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
access we have at the moment. The question is, how much will it be | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
diminished? It may not be subject to the same ratification process. | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
Absolutely right. Another unbelievably technical point that we | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
still don't know is, if we can get this free-trade deal with the EU at | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
the same time as our Brexit talks and deal, the divorce deal as well | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
as the remarriage deal, then one gets signed off by QM V. The trade | :08:41. | :08:50. | |
deal may still need all 28, all 27, including the people from the | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
Walloons. And the MEPs. The majority of parliament. This is exactly why | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Theresa May would like the transitional deal to push this one | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
deeper. I was surprised to hear Hilary Benn pushing this line this | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
morning. The remainers have been all over the place. They wanted a vote | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
after Article 50 had been triggered about the deal. Then they wanted a | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
vote before Article 50. Now they are talking about a vote before article | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
Article 50 is triggered about a trade deal. They need to make up | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
their minds about what it is they are pushing for, and what their best | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
hope of obstructing Brexit is, and stick with it. Something else we see | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
through the Brexit lens, which isn't always helpful, is Calais. The | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
French bulldozers will move in tomorrow. We will see some pretty | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
disturbing scenes on the TV. We will see some horrible scenes. The | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
government has handled this very badly. Having passed an amendment in | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
April saying we would take something like 3000 children, a lot of those | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
children have disappeared. Save the Children, one of the charities | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
there, are very worried that people traffickers have been in there, and | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
a lot of those children have vanished. We haven't sent social | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
workers in. No preparations have been made what ever. You are raising | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
an interesting point. We don't know how many we are meant to be taking. | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
The huge argument has arisen over what the age is of some of the ones | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
coming in. Is this another problem for the Home Office? To some extent. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Didn't Theresa May 's too well to survive six weeks of this? Amber | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
Rudd has been there for three months. It is clear that the Home | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
Office didn't prepare for this. They didn't prepare for the age | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
verification or when it will go. It needs to be an perfect. We don't | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
know how many we will take, because the Home Office will not say. I want | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
to talk about airport capacity, but I won't, because I don't think we | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
have anything to say about it until the statement on Tuesday from | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Transport Minister Grayling. When you look at the polls and see the | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
decision on airport runway expansion being kicked into the long grass for | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
a year, are we heading for an early election next year or not? I think | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Theresa May will do everything she can to avoid it. If there is an | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
election before 2020, it is bound to be about Europe, and that is a much | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
harder case for her to win than just a question of who is the best Prime | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Minister. She will have a tough time, because it will be a general | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
election about in or out of the single market. Half of her party | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
will peel away. How do she conduct a general election when the likes of | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Anna Soubry will not stand on the same platform? It will be difficult. | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
But she may reach such a stalemate that she just calls one. No general | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
election next year because it will split the Tory party. There will be | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
won in 2019 when she cannot get Brexit through the House of Commons. | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
You really can have too much of a good thing. I just want to show a | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
little clip of the former Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, from Strictly | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
last night. Let's just watch this. There he is. | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
Where is the hand? That is the worrying bit! We will no longer be | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
saying that Ed Balls is a safe pair of hands! Can we agree on that? | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
Remarkable that he was once the man most feared by David Cameron! Labour | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
leader 2021. He has hit popular culture in the way that many few | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
politicians do. Charm, gusto, bravery, no worries about being | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
embarrassed. All the things that you don't like about being a politician. | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
We have run out of time. You can get it on social media. | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
Jo Coburn will be back with the Daily Politics tomorrow | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
And I'll be back here next Sunday at the same time. | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
Remember if it's Sunday, it's the Sunday Politics. | :13:31. | :14:04. | |
Everyone's living these amazing lives, | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
You're like a... Different person? | :14:07. | :14:17. | |
Delve deeper. Ordinary Lives continues... | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
They have something on me that I can actually remember. | :14:27. | :14:27. | |
They have something on me that I can actually remember. | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
The final chapter between Gibson and Spector. | :14:32. | :14:36. |