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With just 11 days to go until the EU referendum, | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
we get two campaigners to interrogate each other. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
Tory Chris Grayling for Leave and Labour's Mary Creagh for Remain. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
We'll hear from two Labour MPs who have recently | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
declared their positions on In or Out. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
And is the EU putting controversial legislation on ice and pushing it | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
off the agenda until after the referendum is out of the way? | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
Everything difficult, everything contentious has | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
been put in the fridge until the 24th of June. | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
If we vote to stay in, it will all come tumbling out. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
In the capital: Is this the most Eurosceptic part of Britain? | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
So we are gauging the mood in the borough of Havering. | :01:23. | :01:37. | |
So, all the highs and the lows, the ups and downs. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
The European Football Championships started this weekend and I'm | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
joined by the France, Germany and Spain of political | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
commentary, Janan Ganesh, Julia Hartley Brewer | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
and Anushka Asthana, who'll be tweeting | :01:53. | :01:53. | |
So a series of stark economic warnings from David Cameron who says | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
he might not be able to protect spending on pensions, | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
the NHS and defence if the UK votes to leave the EU. | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
The Prime Minister said the strain on public finances caused by Brexit | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
would even threaten the "triple lock" which guarantees | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
Here is David Cameron talking to Andrew Marr earlier. | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
The fact is, if we did face a 20-40 billion black hole | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
in our public finances, we would have to make | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
Our pensions promise is based on a growing and succeeding economy, | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
and all of the experts, and I agree with them, | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
most people in business agree, if we leave the single market, | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
if we cut ourselves off from the most important market, | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
our economy will be smaller and that has consequences. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
Cabinet minister, Leader of the House Chris Grayling | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
If the Prime Minister is saying we voted to leave, he cannot, in fact, | :02:51. | :03:06. | |
implement key parts of the 2015 manifesto, what legitimacy would | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
your government have to continue? Well, I don't buy the argument. I | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
have to completely disagree with him on this, it's only six months since | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
he was telling us if we chose to leave the European Union we would do | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
fine and well. This figure, 20 billion or 40 billion, it is based | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
on analysis by the National Institute Of Economic And Social | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Research, it assumes the pound goes down, making exports cheaper, but | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
people buy fewer, which makes no sense, and it assumes we lose the | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
ability to sell within Europe, when the reality is that we buy far more | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
from Europe than they do from us. It would cost French, German, Spanish | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
and Italian jobs if they don't continue trading normally. He might | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
be right or wrong, but is it not remarkable that he should say, if | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
you vote to leave, all the things I promised I would do if you elected | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
me, the key things, defence, the NHS, the triple lock on pensions, | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
that is all of the agenda? I'm very surprised he has chosen to use those | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
examples. I don't believe that is right, I don't believe we would back | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
away from manifesto promises and I don't believe we would need to. I | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
think the economic statistics behind the figures he has quoted do not | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
hold up. They include some inherent contradictions and assumptions of | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
doom and gloom. We buy more from the rest of Europe than they do from us, | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
they are going to want to continue trading in the UK market. If we do | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
leave, there was a downturn, because of uncertainty, it might not be long | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
or deep, but if there was, it would hit public finances? It would mean | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
tax rises, more public spending because of the extra welfare due to | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
unemployment, or a, nation or both and more borrowing? Well, the | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
question is if. If you look at what some of the international bodies | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
have been saying, we heard from the IMF, that got the figures so wrong | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
to matter years ago it had to apologise to the Chancellor. The | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
chief economist at the World Bank says he thinks our trade situation | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
would improve if we left the European Union. What you make of the | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Prime Minister's strategy? There is a certain level of sheer panic in | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
his eyes, if you look very closely. Amid the tiredness, because we | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
learned today he did 357 media appearances as part of this | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
referendum campaign. I think what he is trying to do is to take on the | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
argument that Chris and the Leave campaign are making around | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
migration, saying, we know you are really worried about your borders | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
and you want to close them, you want to do it because it is affecting | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
your livelihood. The Prime Minister is saying, actually, there is | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
something else here that might affect your livelihood and are | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
really trying to get into the idea that it is going to affect people's | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
lives. Even to the extent of saying all the things I promised you, key | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
things on defence spending, extra money for the NHS, the triple lock | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
on pensions, all of these things that probably got him elected, or | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
were a key part, he is prepared to say I can't do any of that? He's | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
just breaching even more of the trust of the British people. Another | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
key pledge he made was that he was going to get immigration down to | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
tens of thousands. He knows he has broken that because of the EU and | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
other failings in immigration policy. The reality is that they are | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
so desperate in Downing Street now because they thought they would be | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
ten points ahead at this point. It is still very close, if you would | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
still say that Remain would edge it on the day. He has even deployed his | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
own wife, she was never that Keane at even turning up at party | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
conferences and kissing on stage. He has got someone at Downing Street to | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
write an article from some Cameron. That is how desperate they are, | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
which is telling. When I spoke to the Chancellor on Wednesday night in | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
the interview and I raised the issue of pensions, I said, why would the | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
state pension be hit either way in or out, because we have the triple | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
lock. By definition, it cannot fall in real terms, in or out. He didn't | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
really dispute that. He went along with that. Today, we have the Prime | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Minister, only a few days later saying we might not even be able to | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
afford the triple lock if you voted to leave. What is happening? What | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
makes it doubly confusing is that it was Cameron, above anybody else | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
that was incredibly possessive over the pension commitment and the | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
pension benefit commitment in the previous parliament. Even when he | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
came under internal lobbying to soft in the policy, to create fiscal room | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
to maybe soft and cuts elsewhere, he resisted it. So he deserves | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
criticism now for seemingly weakening the position. In many | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
ways, Cameron himself is the least important Remain politician for the | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
next 11 days. They need Labour voters to vote by a margin of 2 1, | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
if not 3-1, four Remain to win the referendum. You don't do that with a | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
Prime Minister they do not like and voted against. For the remaining 11 | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
days, I think that Remain need to push Cameron less and Jeremy Corbyn | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
more, if he is willing to do it It's not that, Gordon Brown, who we | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
saw do a video, Harriet Harman, a few other Labour figures. I think | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
that is where it hinges, the Labour voters, especially in the north of | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
England. If it is down to Labour to Pollitt off, some of the leave | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
campaign should be opening the champagne early? -- pull it off The | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
vast majority of Labour MPs want people to vote to Remain. Some | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
people were apparently in tears when they saw the latest poll. The Labour | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
problem in heartlands goes deeper than this. I don't think it is | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
whether or not David Cameron is campaigning or Jeremy Corbyn. In | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
some of those seats, there are the biggest fears about immigration and | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
they wanted to see Labour talking their language. For all that said, I | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
think Chris and his colleagues also have questions to answer. You can't | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
just dismiss all of these reports like the IFS report, saying there | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
might be a ?40 billion black hole. I think only 15 Labour MPs have come | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
out for Leave, but 40% of Labour voters are Eurosceptic, and they | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
will be switching straight to Ukip, the next set of elections. They are | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
already the second party in the north of the country. If you are a | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
sensible Labour MP, you should be keeping quiet about Remain. Is the | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
biggest danger, in most referendums there are swings to the status quo | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
in the final days, it has a built-in advantage. The Scottish referendum, | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
the alternative micro referendum. Don't you risk that? We have to make | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
sure that doesn't happen and campaign relentlessly over the last | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
ten days. We have to keep getting messages across. We have new | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
revelations about the discussions taking place between the European | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Union and Turkey. You will be dealing later in the programme with | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
this wave of more Europe due to come. There are all kind's of | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
different things that are going to hit the airwaves the moment we voted | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
to remain, if we do. I hope people realise that more Europe is on the | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
way and they have to votes to leave. You are not going away yet. | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Last week we had campaigners for In and Out interrogate each other. | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
And we're going to repeat that today. | :10:44. | :10:44. | |
The Conservative Leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling, | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
who wants to Leave and the Labour MP Mary Creagh, who's | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
They will put each other on the spot. | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
I'll mostly just be sitting back to watch. | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
Maybe I'll have a cup of tea. A short while ago they tossed a coin | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
to see who goes first. Mary was the winner, or loser, depending on your | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
point of view. She has chosen to cross-examine Chris. So, before we | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
start, let's see Chris's pitch to undecided voters as to why they | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
should vote to leave. In ten days' time, we are going to | :11:16. | :11:31. | |
be taking the biggest decision of this country has taken for a | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
generation. Should we remain or leave? What would be our future | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
relationship with Europe, given the fact we are already the biggest | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
customer for European products like these ones? When you take your | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
decision, I want you to ask yourself one simple question. Do I want to | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
live in a country that is free to take its own decisions in the | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
interests of its people? Or am I happy to be in a country that has | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
given up control over key decisions that affect all of our futures? We | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
have already given up control over a whole variety of areas of crucial | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
importance to us. We are not allowed to forge our own free-trade | :12:10. | :12:10. | |
agreements with Commonwealth partners, we are not allowed to set | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
limits on the number of people that come and work here and is | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
immigration pressures. All of that has happened already. There is more | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
to come. At the same time, we are spending a fortune on being part of | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
the EU. Our contribution is ?35 million overall every week. We only | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
see half of that money back, money that could be spent on our | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
priorities like the National Health Service and cutting fuel bills. If | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
you have any worries that if you vote to leave on the 23rd of June, | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
the Germans are still going to sell these cars, the French will still | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
sell us our wines and cheeses. What we will have done is taken back | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
control of our country. We will be in charge of the key decisions that | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
matter to all our futures. We will be a properly independent country | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
again and that is what I want for all our children and grandchildren. | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
Here are risk Grayling and Mary Cray. Mary has seven minutes to | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
interrogate Chris. Vote Leave have claimed that EU | :13:12. | :13:21. | |
regulations cost businesses ?60 million a week. It doesn't take into | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
account the benefits of the regulations, does it? The key issue | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
for most businesses in this country, you have to remember that most | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
businesses do no trade at all within the European Union, most operate | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
just in the United Kingdom. They are all subject to the regulations that | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
international businesses have to deal with. Typically, they are small | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
businesses, they don't have the staff, the compliance to do it. It | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
places a huge extra cost on small business. I've talked to small | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
businesses up and down the country. Again and again, they tell me they | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
have to do box ticking and form filling. It is nothing to do with | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
the environment they are operating in, it takes a huge amount of time | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
and money that could be spent on hiring more people. The same report | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
shows that these measures have a net benefit to the UK, so we will not | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
save ?600 million a week if we leave? There is not a cash saving of | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
?600 million a week. What you do is free of business to do new things, | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
to take advantage of new opportunities. On day one, you don't | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
just save ?600 million on the spot. As we gain the freedom to reduce the | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
regulation on small business, not to reduce worker rights, not to make | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
workplaces more dangerous, but to end some of the box ticking and form | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
filling that comes from Brussels, those businesses have more time to | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
sell... The figure includes the cost of rights at work, the rights of | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
four weeks paid holiday, paid maternity leave and equal pay for | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
fixed term and agency workers. Which would you scrap? We've always been | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
better than the rest of the European Union on workers' rights. One of the | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
things I would not do, after the gulf of Mexico oil disaster, even | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
though we have the best safety standards in the North Sea, they | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
decided to rewrite them. No benefit to safety or businesses, at a time | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
when jobs are being lost in the North Sea, companies have had to | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
deal with extra costs, to no benefit at all except to keep bureaucrats | :15:17. | :15:26. | |
happy. You've been clear we would not save ?600 million from leaving | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
the EU. Hundreds of thousands of women lost tens of thousands of | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
pounds when you changed the state qualifying age for the pension. Why | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
should they rely on you to protect their rights? You changed the | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
goalposts. It was the Labour Party that started changing the retirement | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
age, we've both chosen to do that because the life expectancy of | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
people in this country is rising. Inevitably, as retirement years | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
become longer, it becomes more of a challenge, and both we and the | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
Labour Party have said because of that we need to raise the state | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
retirement age. You would surely agree as a champion of equality it | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
is sensible for men and women to retire at the same age. I want to | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
move on to what you said about the Commonwealth. We do more trade with | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
Ireland than 53, Love countries put together. Europe puzzles would mean | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
we'd need to have a land border between Ireland and Northern | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Ireland. I will that help? I don't buy that. We had the Common travel | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
area since 1923, before the European Union was streamed off. There's no | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
reason for that to change. -- dreams. The issue is about living | :16:34. | :16:43. | |
and working in the UK, getting a national insurance number, | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
registering for state support. That creates a back door for EU migrants | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
to coming to Northern Ireland and Ahern has decided Theresa Villiers, | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
because he says we are talking about EU citizens and non-EU nations | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
seeking a way into Britain. He says smuggling would undergo a revival, | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
endless profit-making opportunities for criminals. You're talking about | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
illegal immigration, I'm talking about a situation where we have | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
77,000 people a year arriving just looking for a job. I'm talking about | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
Northern Ireland. We've got 200 roads between the countries. Are you | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
going to have an army of bureaucrats checking passports? We never have | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
and we will not. If you are a European citizen crossing the border | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
and seeking to get a job, if you don't have the right to work year, | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
there will be set rules in place so you demonstrate you have a job | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
before you come to the UK. You will not be able to work legally. What is | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
your alternative economic plan? Do you want the UK to be like | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
Switzerland? I want the UK to be like the UK. The reason we will do | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
trade deals with the EU, Carry On trading freely, is because we buy | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
more from them than they buy from us. I buy more from Lidl than they | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
buy from me but I would say the economic power in that relationship | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
is on Lidl. They sent 8% of exports to us. Where is the power in that | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
relationship? I think the power is with you, the consumer, because you | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
can go to another supermarket. In what world would the French say to | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
their farmers, we are going to endanger your livelihood by taking | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
away your ability to sell your products to the UK? We represent 17% | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
of exports. Why would they put that in danger? Millions of EU jobs | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
depend on British consumers. One of your economists have said about to | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
leave would mostly eliminate Britain's manufacturing centre and | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
Michael Gove cannot guarantee people would not lose their jobs. Are you | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
happy with 18% of the British economy is stopping happening? He is | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
one of your economists. I don't accept that. So your saying he is | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
wrong? On this, I think he is. Is Michael Gove wrong when he says he | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
cannot guarantee jobs? Look at Patrick Bamford. Your colleague | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
Michael Gove, said he cannot guarantee jobs. He said he could not | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
Darren T the jobs of the British members of the European Parliament | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
-- could not guarantee. On manufacturing, look at James Dyson, | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
these are people who are captains of industry, saying we should leave. | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
Have you ever join the gym? I never have. I see from your register of | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
interests you are an honorary member of the RSC club. If a member | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
cancelled their membership on Monday and turned up expecting to use the | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
swimming pool, what with the other members say? What would they say? We | :20:13. | :20:24. | |
will need to leave it there. It is now the turn of Mary to be cross | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
examined. Let's look at her pitch as to why voters should vote to remain? | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
In 1940, Churchill urged towns and cities to fund raise for the war | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
effort. These towns outside Wakefield he did that call and | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
raised enough money to buy a Spitfire. This Polish pilot flew | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
that plane in the Royal air force. He shot down four German planes | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
before losing his life over France. His bravery and that of thousands of | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
other service men is commemorated at this memorial. In 1000 years of | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
European history we've had 70 years of peace, largely because of the | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
European Union. Billions of pounds of British exports and millions of | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
jobs and on our membership of the EU. The pressure on the NHS, schools | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
and housing is not caused by European immigration but I had right | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
Tory Government failing to and staff the NHS, cutting budgets for schools | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
and overseeing the lowest house building since the 1920s. When you | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
thought on June 23, remember this pilot, Polish immigrant, shot down | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
over France, for the freedoms we enjoy today. Remember as well that | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
the people that want us to leave are not friends and allies in the USA, | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
but right wing politicians, Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, Vladimir | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
Putin. Ask yourself, is that a risk you are willing to take with your | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
children's futures in this battle for Britain? As before, you've got | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
seven minutes to question merely. The trade figures show we have the | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
biggest ever trade deficit in the EU. Why do you think are trading | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
position has become so much worse in the single market? I think it is | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
important we stay in the EU, it gives us the largest domestic market | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
in the world, a market of 500 million people, and as I said to | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
you, it is important that we stay because 80% of the economy depends | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
on services freely traded and 2 % of the economy is manufacturing. Those | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
sectors will be put at risk if we leave. You did not answer my | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
question. Why do you think the trading position has got worse over | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
the years? I think our economy is changing, we've had a big recession, | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
and we've had six years of Conservative government. I think | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
Britain is better off, safer and more secure as part of the European | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
Union. The issue around trading figures, do we create more jobs and | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
growth by remaining or should we take this leap in the dark with | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
security and prosperity? The trade position was getting worse even in | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
the Labour years. Why is that? The trade position is that we do more | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
trade with Ireland than with 53 members of the Commonwealth. That is | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
something your campaign wants to put at risk and I don't think that is a | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
risk we can take. It is important we stay in, we work on closing that | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
deficit, but we must not wreck the economy and have a new recession by | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
voting to leave. That is what every single economic forecaster has said | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
will happen. We will check recession, the economy will shrink, | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
and the trade deficit will get worse. We would be outside the club | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
and they would tell us what rules we would abide by. Why did they help | :24:39. | :24:48. | |
make the position worse by moving the production of Ford transit vans | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
from Southampton to Turkey. I don't know about that, but what is | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
clear... They gave grants to Turkey to move production from Southampton | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
to Turkey. It helped contribute to making it worse. I don't accept they | :25:05. | :25:14. | |
did that, I don't know about the details, but in a globalised world, | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
big companies are looking at this referendum, making decisions, we got | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
investment in the north-west, they think, if we are no longer the | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
Gateway to the European market we will not receive foreign direct | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
investment into the economy, harming jobs, growth, and the economy of the | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
UK. In that market, why do you think unemployment fell and is 50% in | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
Spain? Unemployment in those countries is unacceptably high and | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
in some cases that is because of structural factors at work. When I | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
was working in Brussels, the unemployment rate was always double | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
and there has been structurally higher levels of unemployment. There | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
is also the austerity policies that have been pursued by the European | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
Union. There have been imbalances in those markets, Spain had a market | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
based on selling houses, Greece had an economy where nobody collected | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
taxes properly. These have been shown up by the recession, leading | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
to consequences. Are you in favour of the UK having the ability to set | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
limits on the number of EU citizens who come and work here? What I want | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
us to do is have access to the single market. We are outside of the | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
passport free Schengen zone, we are not part of the asylum policy. We | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
choose the number of asylum seekers that come to this country. Your | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
government has control over who comes here from outside the EU. | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
There is more migration from outside the EU than from within the U. The | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
question is, that free movement of people is one of the factors that | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
gives us access. People have concerns. Do we throw the baby out | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
with the bath water and wreck the economy with a vote to leave? You | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
did not answer my question. Are you in favour of having any ability to | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
set limits on the number of people from the EU who live and work here? | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
Your Prime Minister has negotiated an opt out so that people who come | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
here have to contribute to the economy for four years before they | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
can access housing, social benefits, except try. -- etc. I think that is | :27:48. | :27:55. | |
welcome and it is important that your government starts making | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
investment in the NHS, housing, and in schools, the investment we need | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
for those coming here. There are more people coming here from outside | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
than from inside. You have control of that. Why are you not stopping | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
it? Do you think people should be able to come from elsewhere in the | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
EU to look for a job? There are 77,000 people who turn up at | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
Victoria Coach Station or to near Port. Do you think that is OK? I | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
think we have over a million people living in Spain have chosen to | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
retire there, live and work there. We have 2 million British citizens | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
who have chosen to live, work and invest in other European Union | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
countries. When people come here to look for work, they look for work | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
and generally find it, and we know that they generally put more into | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
the economy than they take out. You are happy for people to come in | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
unlimited numbers to look for work here. I've said there are more | :28:58. | :29:04. | |
people coming from outside the EU, given visas from your government, | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
and people make a contribution. What we don't want to do is throw the | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
baby out with the bath water, wrecked the economy. That would mean | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
less money for public sector services, and a weaker economy. | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
You're happy that there should be no limits. More people come from | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
outside the EU than come from inside. | :29:30. | :29:31. | |
One of the main arguments of the Leave campaign is that the EU | :29:32. | :29:38. | |
But are there signs that several EU initiatives have been put on ice | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
or pushed off the agenda in an effort to avoid | :29:43. | :29:45. | |
stirring up controversy until after the referendum? | :29:46. | :29:46. | |
Critics have suggested that the Budget and proposals paving | :29:47. | :29:48. | |
the way for a so-called EU army are being kept secret. | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
Others suggest some awkward legislation like new eco-friendly | :29:54. | :29:55. | |
regulations banning some kitchen appliances like toasters could be | :29:56. | :29:57. | |
The familiar sights, things people expect to see in this | :29:58. | :30:20. | |
great European city, the administrative home of the EU. | :30:21. | :30:31. | |
But, underneath it all, there's something else. | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
A place only a few people know about. | :30:35. | :30:36. | |
The Musee des Egouts - The Sewer Museum. | :30:37. | :30:43. | |
Do you get to see them on a daily basis? | :30:44. | :30:50. | |
So, there are still some surprises lurking here in Brussels. | :30:51. | :30:59. | |
The EU's critics say it is doing the same thing, that there | :31:00. | :31:01. | |
is some nasty business still in the pipeline. | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
They are keeping everything back until after the 24th, | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
and then there's going to be a deluge, a tsunami. | :31:10. | :31:19. | |
There's going to be all sorts of problems that | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
on others, regulations they've held back, especially on things | :31:23. | :31:25. | |
This is things like the Port Services Directive, which is ruinous | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
Things like the licensing for art imports, which is a disaster | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
The banning of high-power electrical appliances. | :31:33. | :31:35. | |
And then, a little bit further down the line, | :31:36. | :31:37. | |
more bailouts, higher budget contributions and, ultimately, | :31:38. | :31:39. | |
the harmonisation of military capacity, what the European | :31:40. | :31:41. | |
Commission describes as the strategic necessity | :31:42. | :31:42. | |
Is the commission holding back on certain legislation that would be | :31:43. | :31:54. | |
The commission is not saving up proposals. | :31:55. | :32:01. | |
We are continuing to work on the basis of our | :32:02. | :32:03. | |
Now, as to the question about the EU army, yes, | :32:04. | :32:10. | |
I can also say very clearly that we have no plans | :32:11. | :32:13. | |
But there are those in the European Parliament who think | :32:14. | :32:20. | |
Britain's referendum is playing a role in delaying EU business. | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
That's exactly what happened to the EU budget, according | :32:25. | :32:26. | |
to the vice chair of the European Parliament's | :32:27. | :32:28. | |
We would normally have the budget by now. | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
It is being delayed, yes. | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
I think everyone knows that Brexit and the vote, the referendum, | :32:37. | :32:44. | |
There is certainly the migration reason for delaying it. | :32:45. | :32:50. | |
But then, on the other hand, in politics commuting to say | :32:51. | :32:53. | |
that this is the reason, then there are other things. | :32:54. | :33:03. | |
The Green MEP that works on regulation to make kitchen | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
appliances more eco-friendly says toasters were never | :33:08. | :33:08. | |
Is there a sense here that there is much business in the EU | :33:09. | :33:15. | |
being held up before the British referendum? | :33:16. | :33:17. | |
Of course, the EU commission is very cautious, some legislative proposals | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
We do that because we do not want to create negative stories | :33:22. | :33:31. | |
which often are completely out of the blue and without any proof, | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
because that is the reality of the British media. | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
The Toaster Unit is somewhere, hidden in a secret, locked corridor. | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
The Toaster Unit is what some journalists have called a special | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
task force set up within the EU commission to deal with issues | :33:48. | :33:50. | |
So called because of those stories in the British press that the EU had | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
decided to shelve plans to change our toasters. | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
It's led by the father of British Eurocrats, | :34:00. | :34:01. | |
He has been here since the 70s, plays cricket, drinks tea, | :34:02. | :34:09. | |
kind of understands some of what may explode in the UK. | :34:10. | :34:12. | |
But we do know there is a British task force that has been dubbed | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
Is that not evidence that you are at least prepared to hold | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
I appreciate the effort to introduce into the commission pressroom | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
tabloid terminology, there are issues to be addressed, | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
Parliamentary questions to be answered. | :34:31. | :34:33. | |
There is a whole internal work of coordination | :34:34. | :34:37. | |
between the services, advice to the commission. | :34:38. | :34:40. | |
So there is nothing special, extraordinary or toaster | :34:41. | :34:43. | |
related aspects in the work of our colleagues. | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
With less than two weeks to go until the referendum, | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
it's maybe not surprising those in Brussels are keen | :34:54. | :34:55. | |
the British public see the EU's best side. | :34:56. | :34:58. | |
But, for others, it belies a "selfie-interest" - | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
exactly what those wanting to leave say is wrong with the EU. | :35:02. | :35:12. | |
We are joined from Shipley by the Labour MEP Richard Corbett. | :35:13. | :35:19. | |
He is a former advisor to the President of the European | :35:20. | :35:22. | |
Council so knows the workings of the EU very well. | :35:23. | :35:24. | |
To your knowledge, is The Financial Times right to report that the EU | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
Commission has delayed a second eco-friendly assault on household | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
goods such as hairdryers and hostess trolleys until after the referendum? | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
You know, in general, it is one of those scare stories, isn't it? They | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
are about to spring proposals on us and they are holding them back. The | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
nastier and worse they are, the better it is for the story. When you | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
look into it, it is something as banal as the design of household | :35:56. | :36:00. | |
appliances, to save people money and make them more efficient, not | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
limiting their power but making them more efficient. Why were The | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
Financial Times, probably the most pro-EU paper in the United Kingdom | :36:11. | :36:16. | |
run a scare story? The Financial Times is also keen to ensure | :36:17. | :36:21. | |
balance, it gives a say to each side. This is a news story, not an | :36:22. | :36:28. | |
opinion piece? The question is, surely, so what? The European | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
Commission only proposes, it is not the side. The proposals have to come | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
to the Council of ministers, with a British minister around the table, | :36:38. | :36:40. | |
answer to the European Parliament, for a decision. We are part of the | :36:41. | :36:44. | |
decision taking process. It is not them telling us what to do, it is | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
sitting around the table with our neighbouring countries to work out | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
common rules for the common market to protect consumers, protect the | :36:53. | :36:55. | |
environment or whatever the subject might be. What is wrong with that? | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
What about the report in the Sunday Times this morning from diplomatic | :37:01. | :37:05. | |
cable traffic that it looks like the deal between the EU and Turkey on | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
controlling migration isn't going so well, and they are worried that | :37:12. | :37:14. | |
Turkey might just open the floodgates again, but they are | :37:15. | :37:18. | |
keeping it under wraps until after the vote on June the 23rd? Is that | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
another scare story? I think the ongoing negotiations with Turkey | :37:25. | :37:27. | |
have had their ups and downs for several months now. That is a very | :37:28. | :37:31. | |
difficult situation. It would be no easier if we were outside the | :37:32. | :37:35. | |
European Union or in. The flood of refugees coming out of Syria, going | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
through Turkey and other countries, some in, some outside the EU like | :37:41. | :37:45. | |
Macedonia and Serbia, that needs a cooperative effort at European level | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
to try to reach agreement to handle that better. It is far better that | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
we are in those negotiations than peripheral to them. It is in our | :37:54. | :37:57. | |
interest to our say. What about moves to an EU army? It's the, | :37:58. | :38:07. | |
quote, the framing of a progressive defence policy that might lead to a | :38:08. | :38:09. | |
common defence. Why would there not be moves to having a EU army? The | :38:10. | :38:17. | |
operational word is might. If you look at the procedure, it needs the | :38:18. | :38:20. | |
unanimous consent of every single member state. By the way, in law, in | :38:21. | :38:28. | |
Britain now, such a transfer of responsibilities to the European | :38:29. | :38:30. | |
Union would require another referendum. Nothing like that can | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
possibly happen without the British people agreeing with it. What I m | :38:35. | :38:40. | |
trying to find out, is the idea .. The idea has been around since the | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
early 1950s, the French national parliament rejected it in 1954. | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
Various people come out and say wouldn't it be a good idea? And it | :38:49. | :38:52. | |
has never happened. It may never happen, but it doesn't mean it | :38:53. | :38:57. | |
won't. Many things have happened that you would think would never | :38:58. | :39:00. | |
have happened 40 years ago. Jean-Claude Juncker wants a EU army, | :39:01. | :39:06. | |
that is one powerful voice in favour? So do various people, but | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
the commission can't decide it, it can only make suggestions. It is the | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
member states. Every single member state has to agree, so it's not | :39:15. | :39:19. | |
going to happen. Well, we don't know, do we? There are many things | :39:20. | :39:22. | |
we were told would not happen, but they do. I'm trying to work out why | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
people are not talking about these things at the moment. Not without | :39:27. | :39:33. | |
our agreement, Andrew. The German defence minister says that the | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
future belongs to a European army, it would strengthen Europe's | :39:38. | :39:41. | |
security. We are told a German white Paper on this has been postponed | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
until after the referendum. There is a second powerful voice in favour of | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
it? Maybe it would, maybe it would not be a strengthening of European | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
defence. The point is, for that to happen you would need a British | :39:57. | :39:58. | |
government to agree it and it is enshrined in our national law that | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
the decision, itself, would need a new referendum. Of course lots of | :40:04. | :40:17. | |
people think X, Y, Z would happen, but they could not happen without | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
our agreement. Officials in Brussels are talking about or preparing | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
papers on a new treaty, higher budget, a EU intelligence service, a | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
European army, more economic integration, new powers over health | :40:31. | :40:39. | |
policy, scrapping zero rate VAT mandatory sharing of gas, even a | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
common position on the IMF. We know that in the years ahead, some of | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
that, by no means all, some of that will happen, won't it? It is the job | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
of the European Commission to think of ideas, where it thinks it might | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
be a good idea for the whole of Europe to work together on those | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
subjects. But the commission does not decide. It puts that to the | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
member states, the Council of ministers, a minister from every | :41:05. | :41:07. | |
country around the table. Some of the things you have mentioned would | :41:08. | :41:11. | |
even need a treaty change. All of that needs the agreement of the | :41:12. | :41:14. | |
member states. The commission will come up with all kind of ideas, | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
weird and wonderful, or sensible. That is its job. It is up to our | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
ministers to accept or reject them. In many cases, it needs the approval | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
of parliament, or even a referendum, according to British law. We are | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
told this by people like you time and time again, it's not going to | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
happen, if it does it will need our approval and the rest of it. We were | :41:38. | :41:43. | |
told by a Labour minister... It might happen, if we were to agree to | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
it. We were told by a Labour minister that the Charter of | :41:48. | :41:49. | |
fundamental rights would have no more legal status than the Beano. | :41:50. | :42:01. | |
Now it turns out it is written into the European Court of Justice and | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
applies to Britain. It turned out to be a bit more important than the | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
Beano, didn't it? If you look into that, actually, what the charter | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
does is restrict what the European Union institutions can do. It more | :42:15. | :42:17. | |
or less binds them to follow the same rules that we apply in Britain | :42:18. | :42:25. | |
about human rights, which we negotiated in the separate deal on | :42:26. | :42:28. | |
the European Convention of human rights. It applies to Britain? The | :42:29. | :42:35. | |
fact is, it applies to Britain and we were told it didn't? What applies | :42:36. | :42:43. | |
to Britain is very different, it's nothing to do with the EU, the | :42:44. | :42:49. | |
European Convention On Human Rights. Churchill was a great champion not | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
of that. I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about the Charter of | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
fundamental rights and it is written into the European Court of justice? | :42:59. | :43:07. | |
We were told it wouldn't be? Yes. What it says very clearly, that was | :43:08. | :43:12. | |
clear when Britain ratified it, is that it binds the European | :43:13. | :43:15. | |
institutions and the field of European Union law, even when we are | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
applying it, to recognise and respect those fundamental rights | :43:20. | :43:22. | |
that we would expect everybody to follow, and now that is also binding | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
on the European institutions. It restricts them in what they can | :43:27. | :43:30. | |
propose and what they can do to make sure they respect the same rights | :43:31. | :43:33. | |
that we would want them to respect. Thank you for joining us today. | :43:34. | :43:36. | |
At this late stage in the EU referendum campaign, | :43:37. | :43:38. | |
the majority of MPs have announced their voting intentions. | :43:39. | :43:40. | |
But there are a few who are still making up their minds and some | :43:41. | :43:43. | |
This week, John Mann and Dennis Skinner put the number | :43:44. | :43:47. | |
of Labour MPs declaring they'd vote to leave the EU into double figures | :43:48. | :43:50. | |
And Labour MP Khalid Mahmood announced he's joining | :43:51. | :43:54. | |
the campaign to keep Britain in the European Union - | :43:55. | :43:56. | |
after previously backing the campaign to leave. | :43:57. | :43:59. | |
Khalid joins us from the Birmingham studio and John Mann | :44:00. | :44:01. | |
John Conner let me come to you first. You said you are going to | :44:02. | :44:12. | |
vote to leave. You told us that on Friday. Why did you leave it so late | :44:13. | :44:16. | |
to declare? I had to weigh up all of the issues, these are not | :44:17. | :44:20. | |
straightforward decisions. The big question for me is, the EU is | :44:21. | :44:25. | |
broken, fundamentally broken. Can it be reformed from the inside or not? | :44:26. | :44:30. | |
My conclusion is that it can't be. One of the reasons is that David | :44:31. | :44:37. | |
Cameron's negotiations, even on the absurdity of child benefits being | :44:38. | :44:39. | |
paid to children that have never been in this country, he could not | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
get agreement on that. It is because the structures of the European Union | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
do not allow that kind of common-sense change to take place. | :44:50. | :44:54. | |
It is there, in the rules, and it can't be changed. Khalid Mahmood, | :44:55. | :45:01. | |
you previously backed the campaign to leave, you now think we should | :45:02. | :45:04. | |
remain. You say you are worried about the threat to workers' rights | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
if we leave the EU. How have you only realise that now? | :45:09. | :45:16. | |
I wanted to look at the wider agenda and work to resolve that. A lot of | :45:17. | :45:25. | |
the debate has focused on issues that have frightened people, | :45:26. | :45:33. | |
particularly on the Leave side, and people trying to contextualise it | :45:34. | :45:36. | |
about immigration. The whole thing is about how we deal to it -- with | :45:37. | :45:43. | |
it. If you don't doctor Europe, it makes immigration far worse. We need | :45:44. | :45:44. | |
to look at how you to restrict borders, | :45:45. | :45:52. | |
stop people coming in. We've done that with an agreement with France | :45:53. | :45:58. | |
to put up fences to stop people coming onto the trains through the | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
tunnel. We've worked together to do that. What do you say to that? The | :46:04. | :46:17. | |
European Union has failed. Angela Merkel unilaterally decided on | :46:18. | :46:24. | |
behalf of Germany to have 1 million Syrians come to Germany. What was | :46:25. | :46:31. | |
less noticed was she a load huge numbers of Kosovans to come to | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
Germany. -- she allowed. The German economists said they needed 3 | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
million workers. That has a huge impact on the rest of the European | :46:43. | :46:48. | |
Union. This concept of the European citizen rather than the British | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
citizen, the German citizen, is the fundamental fault line in the | :46:53. | :46:58. | |
European Union, that it cannot fix. If that was fixed it would be a | :46:59. | :47:02. | |
different proposition but it cannot be. That is why the issue of | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
immigration is so toxic. We don t know what will happen in ten, 2 , 30 | :47:08. | :47:14. | |
years. We have no control over it. The only way we will know is if we | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
engage with it and make the decisions from inside. We are the | :47:19. | :47:25. | |
final destination. If we don't cooperate with Europe and France, | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
and the Borders are open, and the French have no incentive not to let | :47:31. | :47:41. | |
people come through, we have to work together to resolve these issues. | :47:42. | :47:51. | |
We've only got a couple of minutes. We are being told by a number of | :47:52. | :47:54. | |
Labour politicians on both sides of the argument that it is proving a | :47:55. | :48:01. | |
struggle to get the Labour vote out for remain. Have you found that The | :48:02. | :48:12. | |
reason I joined is we want to get the vote out more effectively. If it | :48:13. | :48:19. | |
is struggle? We are working hard to make sure we get people out. Yes, | :48:20. | :48:24. | |
that is why I wanted to join, push people forward. You think it's a | :48:25. | :48:31. | |
struggle. Most people are making up their own minds. The Westminster | :48:32. | :48:40. | |
bubble debate and the Leave campaign against the Remain campaign is not | :48:41. | :48:44. | |
the same as the debate going on in workplaces and households. There is | :48:45. | :48:47. | |
an entirely different debate going on. It is quite clear the Labour | :48:48. | :48:54. | |
Party is not entirely in touch with Labour voters on this issue. I thank | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
you both for joining us. It's coming up to 11.50, | :48:59. | :49:01. | |
you're watching the Sunday Politics. We say goodbye to viewers | :49:02. | :49:03. | |
in Scotland who leave us now Coming up here in 20, | :49:04. | :49:06. | |
the Week Ahead. First though, the Sunday | :49:07. | :49:08. | |
Politics where you are. And let's say hello straight away | :49:09. | :49:20. | |
to Kwasi Kwarteng, the Conservative MP for Spelthorne, | :49:21. | :49:27. | |
who supports the Leave campaign and by Andy Slaughter | :49:28. | :49:29. | |
the Labour MP for Hammersmith, who supports the campaign to Remain | :49:30. | :49:31. | |
in the EU. Welcome to you both. What does | :49:32. | :49:49. | |
Jeremy Corbyn have to do to help you win the Remain campaign? He is | :49:50. | :49:55. | |
setting exactly the right note, emphasising the positive reasons | :49:56. | :50:00. | |
that will go down well with Labour voters about why we should stay in | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
the EU, to do with protection, environmental protection, social | :50:06. | :50:08. | |
protections, the same things we benefited from and which protect | :50:09. | :50:15. | |
ordinary people from the ravages of capitalism at its worst. At the same | :50:16. | :50:24. | |
time people know that Jeremy is sincere. It hit the right note. | :50:25. | :50:36. | |
You're on the other side from your leader. How do you think he's been | :50:37. | :50:42. | |
handling the campaign? I think the campaign is rattled. The edge is | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
still with Remain, to be honest but they are clearly very worried this | :50:49. | :50:54. | |
will not go their way. The Prime Minister has started saying, there | :50:55. | :51:00. | |
must not be any blue on blue attacks, then you saw quite strong | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
attacks on Boris Johnson. Clearly there has been a shift. I think the | :51:06. | :51:13. | |
Remain campaign is quite worried and therefore we are hearing more | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
personal attacks. Let's get into some of the detail. One of the areas | :51:18. | :51:28. | |
is, when you ask people whether strongholds are of the Leave | :51:29. | :51:31. | |
campaign, people suggest parts of Kent and their sixth. | :51:32. | :51:34. | |
As do northern towns full of disaffected Labour voters. | :51:35. | :51:36. | |
But according to research, the place with the strongest | :51:37. | :51:38. | |
yearning to leave the EU is the East London borough of Havering. | :51:39. | :51:41. | |
Andrew Cryan is there for us this morning. | :51:42. | :51:44. | |
While opinion polls tend to suggest that Londoners are leaning more | :51:45. | :51:47. | |
towards In than Out, according to one bit of research | :51:48. | :51:50. | |
east London's Havering wants to leave the EU more than any other | :51:51. | :51:53. | |
Earlier this year, the council even became the first in the country | :51:54. | :51:59. | |
to officially passed a motion that next EU backed Brexit. | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
So if this really is the most Eurosceptic place in the country, | :52:04. | :52:06. | |
First things first, much of Havering looks and feels much more | :52:07. | :52:15. | |
like the English countryside than its capital city. | :52:16. | :52:19. | |
Half the borough is protected green belt land and, until the 1960s, | :52:20. | :52:22. | |
it was officially classed as Essex, rather than London. | :52:23. | :52:25. | |
Many locals still feel that old identity. | :52:26. | :52:29. | |
I feel Essex because historically I think the boundaries | :52:30. | :52:35. | |
There are some super little villages are still left. | :52:36. | :52:47. | |
But whether London or Essex, Havering is most | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
In Romford market, flags were on proud | :52:52. | :52:54. | |
display, along with Vote Leave banners. | :52:55. | :52:57. | |
100% Out, yeah. | :52:58. | :52:59. | |
It's all the housing, benefits, I think we are losing control. | :53:00. | :53:10. | |
These criminals that are coming in, we've got no way of | :53:11. | :53:12. | |
controlling them, no way of knowing where they are. | :53:13. | :53:14. | |
I think it will put the Great back in Great Britain. | :53:15. | :53:20. | |
We've been in Romford market talking to people for probably about an hour | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
or so and there has been a couple of people that didn't know | :53:25. | :53:27. | |
which way they were going, one person said they weren't | :53:28. | :53:29. | |
going to vote, but apart from that everybody has said they want | :53:30. | :53:32. | |
Reasons as far afield as the price of houses, schools | :53:33. | :53:37. | |
the state of the NHS, the state of Romford market. | :53:38. | :53:40. | |
It's almost as if leaving Europe has become the answer to almost | :53:41. | :53:43. | |
Five generations of the Robins family have worked in | :53:44. | :53:50. | |
They are now joined by 15 Lithuanians. | :53:51. | :53:54. | |
Like many locals, this business started in the East End, but moved | :53:55. | :53:58. | |
According to matriarch June, that migration eastwards | :53:59. | :54:04. | |
explains why Havering people feel so strongly. | :54:05. | :54:07. | |
They have moved out of the area where they have been | :54:08. | :54:10. | |
living and brought up because they were | :54:11. | :54:12. | |
In Upton Park, where I was brought up, I'm very proud to be English. | :54:13. | :54:20. | |
This shop is very clean, as you've, you have | :54:21. | :54:22. | |
It's beautiful and clean, anyway you look, | :54:23. | :54:25. | |
They gut their fish, gut their chickens, it | :54:26. | :54:42. | |
If we control our borders - we can't get them people out now, | :54:43. | :54:51. | |
Of course, not everybody here feels the same way about immigration. | :54:52. | :54:55. | |
Others did tell us they were worried about a loss of British identity. | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
Everyone you talk to, they say it's not Britain now. | :55:01. | :55:07. | |
I wouldn't class myself as European at all. | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
There's no question that there's a lot of support on the ground | :55:12. | :55:25. | |
But we'll have to wait until the referendum results to find | :55:26. | :55:31. | |
out if it really is the most Eurosceptic place in Britain. | :55:32. | :55:43. | |
Do you think those concerns are widespread in London? I think he's a | :55:44. | :55:51. | |
ring has a particular character that came out in your video. -- Havering. | :55:52. | :56:00. | |
I was in my constituency, just outside the Greater London boundary, | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
we had a great Tea Party celebrating Her Majesty's 90th. About everyone I | :56:06. | :56:16. | |
spoke to was going to vote Leave. There were concerns in your | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
constituency about the levels of immigration? I don't think you will | :56:22. | :56:27. | |
have the same level of concern, because there are borrowers which | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
are much more at ease with the changes, the economy thrives on a | :56:33. | :56:37. | |
fast moving population so I don t think you will find exactly the same | :56:38. | :56:48. | |
sentiments but you do find in the suburbs, those sentiments are widely | :56:49. | :56:52. | |
held. Are you concerned about the levels of immigration? I was out | :56:53. | :56:58. | |
yesterday knocking on doors and I thought even what we've been told we | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
would concentrate on the core Labour areas, working-class areas, and | :57:04. | :57:12. | |
overwhelmingly for Remain. Even more so than wealthy middle-class parts. | :57:13. | :57:19. | |
A real understanding of issues. It was very gratifying. Still over half | :57:20. | :57:28. | |
of the immigration is from outside of the EU. Do you think there is too | :57:29. | :57:40. | |
much EU immigration, the levels of EU immigration are too high? About | :57:41. | :57:45. | |
15% of my constituents are EU nationals. Almost 50% were born | :57:46. | :57:52. | |
outside the UK. It is simply part of the cultural mix. The Polish | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
community but we've had that since after the Second World War. It is | :57:58. | :58:06. | |
honestly not an issue. For me and my constituents. I do understand it is | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
elsewhere and I will be trying to maximise the Remain thought. Nobody | :58:12. | :58:18. | |
has thought about it since the Second World War, but what has | :58:19. | :58:21. | |
happened is the free movement is hundreds of thousands of EU migrants | :58:22. | :58:26. | |
have come in. To say this is the normal state of affairs is simply | :58:27. | :58:32. | |
not true. The scale of immigration. I'm the son of immigrants and I know | :58:33. | :58:36. | |
about this subject. The scale is completely different to what was the | :58:37. | :58:39. | |
case in the 50 years after the Second World War. It is a completely | :58:40. | :58:45. | |
different order and to protect it is not different is to turn a blind | :58:46. | :58:54. | |
face against the voters. You are fighting against history. There are | :58:55. | :58:57. | |
millions of British people who've chosen to go and live in Europe | :58:58. | :59:04. | |
Sorry to interrupt the flow, let's try and get a bit more from | :59:05. | :59:09. | |
Havering. Our reporter is in a pie and mash shop. | :59:10. | :59:17. | |
We are in the pie and mash shop you saw in the film. Lawrence, the polls | :59:18. | :59:33. | |
suggest that London is leaning towards Remain, why is it different | :59:34. | :59:38. | |
here? Despite the best efforts of the government, we are still able to | :59:39. | :59:41. | |
think for ourselves and we want out, we will not be swayed by Cameron's | :59:42. | :59:46. | |
scare tactics. Is it as simple as that? In the film, a lot of people | :59:47. | :59:53. | |
said that they are old East Enders, they moved out here, partly because | :59:54. | :59:56. | |
of immigration, they didn't like what happened, we heard one person | :59:57. | :59:59. | |
in the film saying that immigrants had the tone of old East End. I did | :00:00. | :00:06. | |
not see the video, but we are voting for one thing alone, who governs the | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
country. That is the only thing we are voting on. When you speak to | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
people in Havering, ten different people will give you ten different | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
reasons, but it is basically who makes the laws that govern the | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
country. Lets get back to that, you talk to ten different people, you | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
get ten different reasons, it's to do with benefits, the NHS, the price | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
of houses, the state of the market. You cannot pretend that all of those | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
problems will be solved if we leave the EU? You mentioned immigration, | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
we like to call the free movement of people, that is what it is in the | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
EU. There is clearly an impact on the Health Service, schools, | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
housing, all of those things are driven by the numbers of people | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
coming to settle in this country. The Office of National Statistics, | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
their own figures show that last year 590,000 people from the EU came | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
to settle in the UK, or were given national insurance numbers, which | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
they need to live, work or claim benefits. If Havering feels so | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
strongly, what does that mean for votes, why does that not translate | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
into votes for Ukip? It's not translate into people wanting to | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
vote for you? The winning party only got 28%, we are not that far behind. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Things are progressively moving It's the first time we have fought | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
back hard in Havering. To win seven seats, from zero, it's pretty good. | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
Why do you think it is that the rest of London is leaning towards Remain? | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
You mention that yourself, there is a huge demographic change across | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
London, many people in the boroughs are EU citizens that have come here | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
to improve their lot in life, and nobody can blame them for that, but | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
they are probably not going to vote to leave. Thank very much. Next week | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
I will be in the London Borough of Lambeth, which according to the same | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
bit of research that said Havering wanted to leave, claims that Lambeth | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
is the place that wants to stay the most. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
Kwasi Kwarteng, what is your calculation about the impact of | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
immigration? Is the pressure that they put on infrastructure | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
outweighed by the economic benefit? To say there are no benefits, | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
clearly immigration has been part of western countries, the world, for | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
many years. To turn your face against overwhelming evidence that | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
it poses pressure on services, certainly in my constituency, school | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
places are very difficult to find now as a consequence of the weight | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
of the population increase. If we don't plan for it, the problem will | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
not get easier, it will get worse. You must be seen that in Hammersmith | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
and Fulham? The guy from Ukip, he could not really answer the question | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
why London is a Remain city, the EU national don't even have a vote in | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
the referendum, that level of ignorance... Are there no pressures | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
on infrastructure in Hammersmith and Fulham? There are, there are | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
pressures on infrastructure because we are not building the houses we | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
should be, we are building luxury houses. In the areas where they are | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
building them, are they going to be affordable? You are demolishing the | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
major hospital when there is an increasing demand for A services. | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Let's put the blame where it lies, with a Conservative government. How | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
can it be the Conservative Government? Who was in government | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
towards the end of the 2000s, when one had to make plans in preparation | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
for this influx of EU migrants? It began with Labour? Absolutely, can I | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
make a point? Yes, after I have answered the question. It's an | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
extraordinary thing to say. We are in the process now, we are beginning | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
to build homes. They are not the right kind of homes. The government | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
by Chris at the wrong target, and Boris Johnson as well, not building | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
affordable housing. This is typical of the Brexit misinformation that we | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
are having. Let's get this straight... Europe is responsible | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
for everything, let's put the blame where it lies, on our own | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
government. They miscalculated the effect of the expansion of the EU, | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
they said it would be 16,000 people a year, in 2004, they admitted, you | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
can read the memoirs, they said they got it wrong. Tony Blair, Gordon | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Brown, Alistair Darling, they miscalculated the number of people. | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
If you miscalculate, you're not going to be able to plan. They | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
didn't know there would be 150, 00. When Polish people are coming over | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
here with education, graduates, their training, all paid for by the | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
Polish, we are getting that for free, often they are doubling up, | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
not living in particularly fantastic conditions, you have already | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
conceded that they are providing a net economic benefit which we are | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
going to lose? Forgive me, the point about this hard it is not if we are | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
having immigration or not, it is how we can control it. By near virtue of | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
having a Bulgarian passport, if you have the right to come into Britain, | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
and the minimum wage in Bulgaria is ?1 per hour, it is a huge incentive | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
for people to come and we don't have a choice. It's not like we can look | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
up their credentials and training, they have an automatic right to come | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
to Britain. That is where the tension is and that is where Vote | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
Leave will win. London is built on immigrant labour. Nobody denies | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
that! You set up a free enterprise group, famous for saying that | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
British workers were the most idle in the world. Prominent members are | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
the likes of Liz Truss and Sajid Javid, and are now in the Cabinet | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
and are now Remain! Maybe Boris will give you a job in the Cabinet? | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
It was a central pledge in his campaign manifesto - | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
to freeze transport fares for four years. | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
What did that mean? Well, not all fares. It emerged it would apply to | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
transport for London services for which he was responsible. | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
Sidiq Khan's manifesto could not be any clearer. | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
On page eight it says, Londoners won't pay a penny | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
more for their travel in 2020 than they do today. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Words which Sidiq Khan reiterated throughout | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
However, just above that was this line, which suggested it would only | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
I only have the power to set fares on TfL services. | :06:50. | :07:01. | |
Londoners who only use travel cards or who only use Network Rail | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
services will find the cost of their travel | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
For pay-as-you-go customers, weekly and daily caps will also | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
It attracted criticism from London assembly members who believed | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
He has been, at the very least, disingenuous in not | :07:20. | :07:28. | |
introducing caveats during the campaigns so people | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
actually understood what they were voting for. | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
The freeze is expected to cost ?640 million, higher | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
than Sadiq Khan's estimate of ?450 million but significantly | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
lower than transport for London s ?1.9 billion estimate. | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
So, after a short honeymoon, has Sidiq Khan's post-election | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
Has it? I think that he is a very skilful politician, he said lots of | :07:42. | :07:56. | |
things on the campaign trail and he even contradicted himself on the | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
campaign trail. If you look at his endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn to win | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
the nomination to beat Tessa Jowell, seen as the Blairite candidate, then | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
he turned on Jeremy Corbyn in the run-up to the election because he | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
realised he was not particularly popular among swing voters. He | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
controls are some TfL fares, was it misleading? I don't know what was | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
going through his mind. Clearly there is some mismatch between what | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
he is saying now and what he said before the election. The public or | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
the Conservatives misunderstanding because nobody seemed to raise the | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
question? They should have done an oversight in our campaign. He | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
clearly backtracked or shifted his position from where he was before | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
the election. Can there be any doubt in Londoners' minds that they were | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
being promised a freeze and they would not pay a penny more when they | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
travelled within London for four years? The facts on this, we have | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
?640 million, it is higher than the estimate, but it is a third of what | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
Zac Goldsmith, he was going to put fares up by 17%, said it would cost. | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
That is helpful, but... That ?6 0 million will be coming through | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
better running. It might be helpful background, but could Londoners have | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
been in any doubt from Sadiq Khan they were not going to pay any more, | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
even if... So far, exactly what he said. Even if they were travelling | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
on the railways, even if they were paying by travel card, were they | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
entitled to believe that they were not going to pay any more? I don't | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
think this is being reported properly. Everything he can do | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
within his power, he is doing. And he will do more, provided that the | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
train companies and the government co-operate. Do you think he should | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
have clarified this? If you can transfer south-east and south-west | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
trains over to control of TfL, who I think we'll run it better, if the | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
government get tough with a train companies... Lots of ifs is Mark OK, | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
you have a go. EU you have spoken a lot, lot 's of | :10:02. | :10:12. | |
ifs, but there is clearly a mismatch between a freeze and the prices up. | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
A ten-year-old can see there is a mismatch. I'm not saying he lied, | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
but there is a mismatch between what he promised before the election | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
Presumably one reason why the Conservatives didn't point this out | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
is because it could have highlighted the fact that we would have all | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
asked, is the government not going to guarantee to freeze the element | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
of the rail fares coming in which are not owned by TfL? The Government | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
would not have done that. I don t want to rerun the campaign, I don't | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
know why we didn't say that. If a candidate says there will be a | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
freeze and then says there will not be, there is a problem, the voters | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
have been misdirected. Can I just say, you could be a bit too clever | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
by half in a campaign? We have had this suggestion with housing as | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
well, but it seemed pretty clear to people it was going to be all fares? | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
He's done everything in his power, he can do more if the Government | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
cooperate. The average family will save ?240. He's giving back ?64 | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
million back to Londoners. Are you saying it is too complicated to | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
explain to Londoners? It was explained. A freeze is not | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
complicated, it is clear! For those people coming in from your | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
constituency into London, appealed to the Department for Transport now | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
to freeze it? We do that all the time. But a freeze is very | :11:44. | :11:44. | |
different. Thank you both. Just time to tell you about BBC | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
London's referendum debate tonight. Is London better | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
in or out of the EU? Politicians and leading business | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
people will debate the key issues affecting the capital in front | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
of a studio audience. That's Better In or Out, | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
A BBC London Referendum Special this Sunday night at 10.35 | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
on BBC One. My thanks to my guests | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
Kwasi Kwarteng and Andy Slaughter. The House of Commons inquiry into | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
the collapse of the HS rumbles on. We're joined in the studio | :12:11. | :12:26. | |
by the Conservative member of the Business Select Committee | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
Richard Fuller. The former owner Sir Philip Green | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
has been summoned to face questioning by Richard's committee | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
on Wednesday but the retail billionaire yesterday declared | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
he was "not prepared to participate" unless the chair of the Work | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
and Pensions committee Frank Field My response is that the House of | :12:41. | :13:19. | |
Commons appoints the chairman. The select committees, because there are | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
two expect Sir Philip to appear on Wednesday. Sir Philip has a lot of | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
key questions to answer. He calls the shots, he is the person that can | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
actually answer. Parliament expects him to turn up on Wednesday. | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
Richard, nobody expects Frank Field to resign? No. Is full of green | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
looking for a way of trying to avoid appearing? -- Philip Green. He may | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
call the shots at British Home Stores, but no matter how big you | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
are, you don't call the shots on Parliament. Obviously he knows that, | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
he must be trying to express his own concerns. He thinks it is because of | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
the committee. But lots of the evidence against him has come from | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
the people he sold the company to, advisers to him on that transaction. | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
They are going against each other now, aren't they? Those that sold | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
and bought the company, it is like rats in a sack, isn't it? If I was | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
an employee had British Home Stores, I would be shocked at how little | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
regard was paid by any of these people in their employment, in their | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
stores, and if I was someone with a pension, I would be concerned why | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
somebody was taken out of the profits and the reserves, the | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
important thing is that Philip Green took the money out of the reserves. | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
There was a need to put money back in and he was found wanting. Can you | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
force him to appear? I think the force of public opinion will suggest | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
that he should come. I don't know that Parliament needs to send the | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
Sergeant at Arms to drag him, kicking and screaming. Why should he | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
be susceptible, a billionaire, who splits his time between Monaco and | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
Park Lane, where does he come face-to-face with public opinion? He | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
has his own reputation, he made assertions he was trying to do the | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
right thing, come and show that two us. Secondly, he relied on advisers, | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
that he was the director of the company and their response validity | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
needs to answer. -- there are respot abilities he needs to answer. If | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
it's so important, you talk about the pensioners, people who are | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
retired, they depend on their pension, 11,000 BHS workers who have | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
done nothing wrong at all apart from turn up every day and work hard for | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
their store, they now lose their job as well. Shouldn't Parliament, if | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
you were a US congressional committee, you would have the power | :15:52. | :15:52. | |
to subpoena him. We discussed on my committee with | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
Mike Ashley. In the end he decided to come. We did not need to take | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
further action. My understanding is opinion is divided on this, it is | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
not clear if a Parliamentary select committee can for somebody to give | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
evidence. Exactly right. It is not clear whether we have the ultimate | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
sanction of forcing someone to come under law. There has always been an | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
expectation that if people are asked to account for their actions they | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
would come. If Sir Philip Green wants to be the first person to | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
stand against that then so be it. VHS was sold for ?1. That puts a big | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
neon sign above the whole transaction. -- BHS. It was sold to | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
a man who was three times bankrupt. We don't know why the business | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
department or the regulators let this happen. If Parliament is to | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
matter it surely has to be able to force these people to come and speak | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
to it? The moral pressure had an excerpt is still fairly impressive. | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
We did see Mike Ashley, a billionaire. Rupert Murdoch was | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
forced to turn up by pressure. What happens if there is an empty seat? | :17:27. | :17:35. | |
Mike Ashley, we're not suggesting he did anything legally wrong. His | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
company was not paying the minimum wage. Even that moral pressure was | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
enough to get him to turn up, as a billionaire retailer. Parliament is | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
still pretty impressive. My understanding is it is a quasi | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
judicial event, and he can be dragged in front of the Speaker of | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
the house, and absolutely we should do that. It has been a terribly bad | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
week for business, it put them in a very bad light. The idea you can | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
have a knighthood and be a billionaire on your jot and put two | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
fingers up to the representatives of the British people, I don't think | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
so. What is your take on this? Thousands of jobs that they sold for | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
a poem, the allegations that have been made by the gentleman who | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
bought the business are eye watering. I'm sure the public would | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
like to see Sir Philip Green brought kicking and screaming. He can decide | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
not to come but that would tell everyone answers to the questions we | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
want him to answer. It is a chance for him to put the record straight | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
if there is a story for him to tell otherwise people will draw their own | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
conclusions. He can bring Kate Moss on his arm. What would we do if he | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
does not turn up, would that be grounds for being stripped of the | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
knighthood? I have always said we need to wait for him to come and | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
answer the questions and there are very serious concerns about his | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
behaviour if he does not come, and at that stage then within the rules | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
of how you can be stripped of an honour I think they would very | :19:26. | :19:26. | |
seriously look at that. Jeremy Corbyn's advisers | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
are sceptical of what they call Perhaps that's why, on Friday night, | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
the Labour leader appeared to explain his views on Europe, | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
not on a political analysis programme but on the Channel 4 | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
comedy gig The Last Leg. And if you thought the great | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
Jezza was all allotments It seems he also does | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
Bentleys and bling. Why? To show that he's up for a | :19:49. | :20:39. | |
laugh. People will think that. There is a risk because other people might | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
open the newspaper and see the pictures. So it was all right to do | :20:45. | :20:54. | |
that? I think so. You never know? People might think he does that at | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
the weekend. Old jumpers during the week. Fake fire at the weekend? You | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
might be right. I find that a stretch. They wanted to show he had | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
a sense of humour. He came across very well. It was very witty. Unless | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
you want to be Prime Minister. People who want to be by Minister | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
cannot be the type of people who want to have a laugh? -- Prime | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
Minister. I do think people like to take seriously people who want to | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
become Prime Minister. Was it an attempt to put more humanity on him? | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
They must have thought long and hard about doing this. I'm not sure they | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
think long and hard about anything. Your initial question was why, I | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
think the answer is I don't think he wants to be premature and I don t | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
think he thinks he will ever be Prime Minister and therefore the | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
cost of this type of gesture is minimal. He is not missing out on | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
vote that he wants anyway. He said one thing during the performance | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
which the press interpreted as embarrassing, he said 70% Remain. | :22:11. | :22:21. | |
More than I thought he was. I think, perversely, might resonate with more | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
marginal voters than we think, people who will grudgingly consider | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
voting to stay in. I wonder whether he has arrived at a line which is | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
more persuasive than David Cameron. I thought he performed quite well, | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
this relief that he can open his top button, Showtime. He could have a | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
future with an acting career. We have the tooting by-election. Don't | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
mention any of the candidates or I need to go through the lot. It is | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
being overshadowed by the referendum. Is it significant? It | :23:01. | :23:09. | |
was reasonably tight at the last election and before Sadiq Khan one, | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
people said it could be lost for Labour. I would be surprised, in the | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
wake of the mayoral election, which gave a boost to Labour. The money is | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
on Labour to keep the seat. If the Tories when it will be very | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
significant, actually, by-elections are not very significant. You say | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
that but some of us needs to be up on the night to cover them. It would | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
be significant for the Tories to win it. A long shot while they are | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
knocking lumps out of each other. The most telling thing is even in | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
the current state they are three points ahead of Labour. Tooting is | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
trending long-term because there are more prosperous people in it. This | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
might be a bit too early to take advantage of that but you could | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
imagine it is one of those seats in 2020 that could | :24:17. | :24:16. | |
turn blue if Jeremy Corbyn is still leader. Thank you for being with us. | :24:17. | :24:27. | |
We will look with interest to see who is with you on Wednesday. Maybe | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
with the fur coat? If you would like to know the result, June in on ABC | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
one on Thursday night. We will bring you the live coverage of the result | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
from the tooting by-election. That's it from today. Remember, if it is | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
Sunday, it is the Sunday Politics. I work for the Serious Fraud Office. | :24:52. | :25:34. | |
Is that why you were there? What do you think this is, | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
some kind of conspiracy? ..or watch all of Case One | :25:41. | :25:50. | |
on BBC iPlayer now. | :25:51. | :25:54. |