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With just 11 days to go until the EU referendum,

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we get two campaigners to interrogate each other.

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Tory Chris Grayling for Leave and Labour's Mary Creagh for Remain.

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We'll hear from two Labour MPs who have recently

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declared their positions on In or Out.

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And is the EU putting controversial legislation on ice and pushing it

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off the agenda until after the referendum is out of the way?

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Everything difficult, everything contentious has

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been put in the fridge until the 24th of June.

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If we vote to stay in, it will all come tumbling out.

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In the capital: Is this the most Eurosceptic part of Britain?

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So we are gauging the mood in the borough of Havering.

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So, all the highs and the lows, the ups and downs.

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The European Football Championships started this weekend and I'm

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joined by the France, Germany and Spain of political

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commentary, Janan Ganesh, Julia Hartley Brewer

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and Anushka Asthana, who'll be tweeting

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So a series of stark economic warnings from David Cameron who says

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he might not be able to protect spending on pensions,

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the NHS and defence if the UK votes to leave the EU.

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The Prime Minister said the strain on public finances caused by Brexit

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would even threaten the "triple lock" which guarantees

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Here is David Cameron talking to Andrew Marr earlier.

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The fact is, if we did face a 20-40 billion black hole

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in our public finances, we would have to make

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Our pensions promise is based on a growing and succeeding economy,

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and all of the experts, and I agree with them,

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most people in business agree, if we leave the single market,

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if we cut ourselves off from the most important market,

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our economy will be smaller and that has consequences.

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Cabinet minister, Leader of the House Chris Grayling

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If the Prime Minister is saying we voted to leave, he cannot, in fact,

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implement key parts of the 2015 manifesto, what legitimacy would

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your government have to continue? Well, I don't buy the argument. I

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have to completely disagree with him on this, it's only six months since

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he was telling us if we chose to leave the European Union we would do

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fine and well. This figure, 20 billion or 40 billion, it is based

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on analysis by the National Institute Of Economic And Social

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Research, it assumes the pound goes down, making exports cheaper, but

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people buy fewer, which makes no sense, and it assumes we lose the

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ability to sell within Europe, when the reality is that we buy far more

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from Europe than they do from us. It would cost French, German, Spanish

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and Italian jobs if they don't continue trading normally. He might

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be right or wrong, but is it not remarkable that he should say, if

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you vote to leave, all the things I promised I would do if you elected

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me, the key things, defence, the NHS, the triple lock on pensions,

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that is all of the agenda? I'm very surprised he has chosen to use those

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examples. I don't believe that is right, I don't believe we would back

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away from manifesto promises and I don't believe we would need to. I

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think the economic statistics behind the figures he has quoted do not

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hold up. They include some inherent contradictions and assumptions of

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doom and gloom. We buy more from the rest of Europe than they do from us,

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they are going to want to continue trading in the UK market. If we do

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leave, there was a downturn, because of uncertainty, it might not be long

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or deep, but if there was, it would hit public finances? It would mean

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tax rises, more public spending because of the extra welfare due to

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unemployment, or a, nation or both and more borrowing? Well, the

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question is if. If you look at what some of the international bodies

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have been saying, we heard from the IMF, that got the figures so wrong

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to matter years ago it had to apologise to the Chancellor. The

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chief economist at the World Bank says he thinks our trade situation

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would improve if we left the European Union. What you make of the

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Prime Minister's strategy? There is a certain level of sheer panic in

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his eyes, if you look very closely. Amid the tiredness, because we

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learned today he did 357 media appearances as part of this

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referendum campaign. I think what he is trying to do is to take on the

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argument that Chris and the Leave campaign are making around

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migration, saying, we know you are really worried about your borders

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and you want to close them, you want to do it because it is affecting

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your livelihood. The Prime Minister is saying, actually, there is

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something else here that might affect your livelihood and are

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really trying to get into the idea that it is going to affect people's

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lives. Even to the extent of saying all the things I promised you, key

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things on defence spending, extra money for the NHS, the triple lock

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on pensions, all of these things that probably got him elected, or

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were a key part, he is prepared to say I can't do any of that? He's

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just breaching even more of the trust of the British people. Another

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key pledge he made was that he was going to get immigration down to

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tens of thousands. He knows he has broken that because of the EU and

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other failings in immigration policy. The reality is that they are

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so desperate in Downing Street now because they thought they would be

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ten points ahead at this point. It is still very close, if you would

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still say that Remain would edge it on the day. He has even deployed his

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own wife, she was never that Keane at even turning up at party

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conferences and kissing on stage. He has got someone at Downing Street to

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write an article from some Cameron. That is how desperate they are,

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which is telling. When I spoke to the Chancellor on Wednesday night in

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the interview and I raised the issue of pensions, I said, why would the

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state pension be hit either way in or out, because we have the triple

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lock. By definition, it cannot fall in real terms, in or out. He didn't

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really dispute that. He went along with that. Today, we have the Prime

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Minister, only a few days later saying we might not even be able to

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afford the triple lock if you voted to leave. What is happening? What

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makes it doubly confusing is that it was Cameron, above anybody else

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that was incredibly possessive over the pension commitment and the

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pension benefit commitment in the previous parliament. Even when he

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came under internal lobbying to soft in the policy, to create fiscal room

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to maybe soft and cuts elsewhere, he resisted it. So he deserves

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criticism now for seemingly weakening the position. In many

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ways, Cameron himself is the least important Remain politician for the

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next 11 days. They need Labour voters to vote by a margin of 2 1,

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if not 3-1, four Remain to win the referendum. You don't do that with a

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Prime Minister they do not like and voted against. For the remaining 11

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days, I think that Remain need to push Cameron less and Jeremy Corbyn

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more, if he is willing to do it It's not that, Gordon Brown, who we

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saw do a video, Harriet Harman, a few other Labour figures. I think

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that is where it hinges, the Labour voters, especially in the north of

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England. If it is down to Labour to Pollitt off, some of the leave

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campaign should be opening the champagne early? -- pull it off The

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vast majority of Labour MPs want people to vote to Remain. Some

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people were apparently in tears when they saw the latest poll. The Labour

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problem in heartlands goes deeper than this. I don't think it is

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whether or not David Cameron is campaigning or Jeremy Corbyn. In

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some of those seats, there are the biggest fears about immigration and

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they wanted to see Labour talking their language. For all that said, I

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think Chris and his colleagues also have questions to answer. You can't

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just dismiss all of these reports like the IFS report, saying there

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might be a ?40 billion black hole. I think only 15 Labour MPs have come

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out for Leave, but 40% of Labour voters are Eurosceptic, and they

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will be switching straight to Ukip, the next set of elections. They are

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already the second party in the north of the country. If you are a

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sensible Labour MP, you should be keeping quiet about Remain. Is the

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biggest danger, in most referendums there are swings to the status quo

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in the final days, it has a built-in advantage. The Scottish referendum,

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the alternative micro referendum. Don't you risk that? We have to make

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sure that doesn't happen and campaign relentlessly over the last

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ten days. We have to keep getting messages across. We have new

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revelations about the discussions taking place between the European

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Union and Turkey. You will be dealing later in the programme with

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this wave of more Europe due to come. There are all kind's of

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different things that are going to hit the airwaves the moment we voted

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to remain, if we do. I hope people realise that more Europe is on the

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way and they have to votes to leave. You are not going away yet.

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Last week we had campaigners for In and Out interrogate each other.

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And we're going to repeat that today.

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The Conservative Leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling,

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who wants to Leave and the Labour MP Mary Creagh, who's

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They will put each other on the spot.

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I'll mostly just be sitting back to watch.

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Maybe I'll have a cup of tea. A short while ago they tossed a coin

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to see who goes first. Mary was the winner, or loser, depending on your

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point of view. She has chosen to cross-examine Chris. So, before we

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start, let's see Chris's pitch to undecided voters as to why they

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should vote to leave. In ten days' time, we are going to

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be taking the biggest decision of this country has taken for a

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generation. Should we remain or leave? What would be our future

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relationship with Europe, given the fact we are already the biggest

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customer for European products like these ones? When you take your

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decision, I want you to ask yourself one simple question. Do I want to

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live in a country that is free to take its own decisions in the

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interests of its people? Or am I happy to be in a country that has

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given up control over key decisions that affect all of our futures? We

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have already given up control over a whole variety of areas of crucial

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importance to us. We are not allowed to forge our own free-trade

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agreements with Commonwealth partners, we are not allowed to set

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limits on the number of people that come and work here and is

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immigration pressures. All of that has happened already. There is more

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to come. At the same time, we are spending a fortune on being part of

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the EU. Our contribution is ?35 million overall every week. We only

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see half of that money back, money that could be spent on our

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priorities like the National Health Service and cutting fuel bills. If

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you have any worries that if you vote to leave on the 23rd of June,

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the Germans are still going to sell these cars, the French will still

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sell us our wines and cheeses. What we will have done is taken back

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control of our country. We will be in charge of the key decisions that

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matter to all our futures. We will be a properly independent country

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again and that is what I want for all our children and grandchildren.

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Here are risk Grayling and Mary Cray. Mary has seven minutes to

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interrogate Chris. Vote Leave have claimed that EU

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regulations cost businesses ?60 million a week. It doesn't take into

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account the benefits of the regulations, does it? The key issue

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for most businesses in this country, you have to remember that most

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businesses do no trade at all within the European Union, most operate

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just in the United Kingdom. They are all subject to the regulations that

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international businesses have to deal with. Typically, they are small

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businesses, they don't have the staff, the compliance to do it. It

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places a huge extra cost on small business. I've talked to small

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businesses up and down the country. Again and again, they tell me they

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have to do box ticking and form filling. It is nothing to do with

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the environment they are operating in, it takes a huge amount of time

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and money that could be spent on hiring more people. The same report

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shows that these measures have a net benefit to the UK, so we will not

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save ?600 million a week if we leave? There is not a cash saving of

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?600 million a week. What you do is free of business to do new things,

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to take advantage of new opportunities. On day one, you don't

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just save ?600 million on the spot. As we gain the freedom to reduce the

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regulation on small business, not to reduce worker rights, not to make

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workplaces more dangerous, but to end some of the box ticking and form

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filling that comes from Brussels, those businesses have more time to

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sell... The figure includes the cost of rights at work, the rights of

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four weeks paid holiday, paid maternity leave and equal pay for

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fixed term and agency workers. Which would you scrap? We've always been

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better than the rest of the European Union on workers' rights. One of the

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things I would not do, after the gulf of Mexico oil disaster, even

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though we have the best safety standards in the North Sea, they

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decided to rewrite them. No benefit to safety or businesses, at a time

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when jobs are being lost in the North Sea, companies have had to

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deal with extra costs, to no benefit at all except to keep bureaucrats

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happy. You've been clear we would not save ?600 million from leaving

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the EU. Hundreds of thousands of women lost tens of thousands of

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pounds when you changed the state qualifying age for the pension. Why

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should they rely on you to protect their rights? You changed the

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goalposts. It was the Labour Party that started changing the retirement

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age, we've both chosen to do that because the life expectancy of

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people in this country is rising. Inevitably, as retirement years

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become longer, it becomes more of a challenge, and both we and the

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Labour Party have said because of that we need to raise the state

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retirement age. You would surely agree as a champion of equality it

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is sensible for men and women to retire at the same age. I want to

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move on to what you said about the Commonwealth. We do more trade with

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Ireland than 53, Love countries put together. Europe puzzles would mean

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we'd need to have a land border between Ireland and Northern

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Ireland. I will that help? I don't buy that. We had the Common travel

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area since 1923, before the European Union was streamed off. There's no

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reason for that to change. -- dreams. The issue is about living

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and working in the UK, getting a national insurance number,

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registering for state support. That creates a back door for EU migrants

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to coming to Northern Ireland and Ahern has decided Theresa Villiers,

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because he says we are talking about EU citizens and non-EU nations

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seeking a way into Britain. He says smuggling would undergo a revival,

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endless profit-making opportunities for criminals. You're talking about

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illegal immigration, I'm talking about a situation where we have

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77,000 people a year arriving just looking for a job. I'm talking about

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Northern Ireland. We've got 200 roads between the countries. Are you

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going to have an army of bureaucrats checking passports? We never have

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and we will not. If you are a European citizen crossing the border

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and seeking to get a job, if you don't have the right to work year,

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there will be set rules in place so you demonstrate you have a job

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before you come to the UK. You will not be able to work legally. What is

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your alternative economic plan? Do you want the UK to be like

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Switzerland? I want the UK to be like the UK. The reason we will do

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trade deals with the EU, Carry On trading freely, is because we buy

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more from them than they buy from us. I buy more from Lidl than they

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buy from me but I would say the economic power in that relationship

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is on Lidl. They sent 8% of exports to us. Where is the power in that

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relationship? I think the power is with you, the consumer, because you

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can go to another supermarket. In what world would the French say to

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their farmers, we are going to endanger your livelihood by taking

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away your ability to sell your products to the UK? We represent 17%

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of exports. Why would they put that in danger? Millions of EU jobs

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depend on British consumers. One of your economists have said about to

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leave would mostly eliminate Britain's manufacturing centre and

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Michael Gove cannot guarantee people would not lose their jobs. Are you

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happy with 18% of the British economy is stopping happening? He is

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one of your economists. I don't accept that. So your saying he is

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wrong? On this, I think he is. Is Michael Gove wrong when he says he

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cannot guarantee jobs? Look at Patrick Bamford. Your colleague

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Michael Gove, said he cannot guarantee jobs. He said he could not

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Darren T the jobs of the British members of the European Parliament

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-- could not guarantee. On manufacturing, look at James Dyson,

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these are people who are captains of industry, saying we should leave.

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Have you ever join the gym? I never have. I see from your register of

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interests you are an honorary member of the RSC club. If a member

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cancelled their membership on Monday and turned up expecting to use the

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swimming pool, what with the other members say? What would they say? We

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will need to leave it there. It is now the turn of Mary to be cross

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examined. Let's look at her pitch as to why voters should vote to remain?

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In 1940, Churchill urged towns and cities to fund raise for the war

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effort. These towns outside Wakefield he did that call and

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raised enough money to buy a Spitfire. This Polish pilot flew

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that plane in the Royal air force. He shot down four German planes

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before losing his life over France. His bravery and that of thousands of

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other service men is commemorated at this memorial. In 1000 years of

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European history we've had 70 years of peace, largely because of the

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European Union. Billions of pounds of British exports and millions of

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jobs and on our membership of the EU. The pressure on the NHS, schools

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and housing is not caused by European immigration but I had right

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Tory Government failing to and staff the NHS, cutting budgets for schools

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and overseeing the lowest house building since the 1920s. When you

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thought on June 23, remember this pilot, Polish immigrant, shot down

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over France, for the freedoms we enjoy today. Remember as well that

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the people that want us to leave are not friends and allies in the USA,

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but right wing politicians, Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, Vladimir

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Putin. Ask yourself, is that a risk you are willing to take with your

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children's futures in this battle for Britain? As before, you've got

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seven minutes to question merely. The trade figures show we have the

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biggest ever trade deficit in the EU. Why do you think are trading

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position has become so much worse in the single market? I think it is

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important we stay in the EU, it gives us the largest domestic market

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in the world, a market of 500 million people, and as I said to

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you, it is important that we stay because 80% of the economy depends

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on services freely traded and 2 % of the economy is manufacturing. Those

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sectors will be put at risk if we leave. You did not answer my

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question. Why do you think the trading position has got worse over

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the years? I think our economy is changing, we've had a big recession,

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and we've had six years of Conservative government. I think

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Britain is better off, safer and more secure as part of the European

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Union. The issue around trading figures, do we create more jobs and

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growth by remaining or should we take this leap in the dark with

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security and prosperity? The trade position was getting worse even in

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the Labour years. Why is that? The trade position is that we do more

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trade with Ireland than with 53 members of the Commonwealth. That is

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something your campaign wants to put at risk and I don't think that is a

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risk we can take. It is important we stay in, we work on closing that

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deficit, but we must not wreck the economy and have a new recession by

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voting to leave. That is what every single economic forecaster has said

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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

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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?

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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,

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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.

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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,

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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

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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

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ordinary people from the ravages of capitalism at its worst. At the same

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time people know that Jeremy is sincere. It hit the right note.

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You're on the other side from your leader. How do you think he's been

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handling the campaign? I think the campaign is rattled. The edge is

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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

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attacks on Boris Johnson. Clearly there has been a shift. I think the

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Remain campaign is quite worried and therefore we are hearing more

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personal attacks. Let's get into some of the detail. One of the areas

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is, when you ask people whether strongholds are of the Leave

:51:29.:51:31.

campaign, people suggest parts of Kent and their sixth.

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As do northern towns full of disaffected Labour voters.

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But according to research, the place with the strongest

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yearning to leave the EU is the East London borough of Havering.

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Andrew Cryan is there for us this morning.

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While opinion polls tend to suggest that Londoners are leaning more

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towards In than Out, according to one bit of research

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east London's Havering wants to leave the EU more than any other

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Earlier this year, the council even became the first in the country

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to officially passed a motion that next EU backed Brexit.

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So if this really is the most Eurosceptic place in the country,

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First things first, much of Havering looks and feels much more

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like the English countryside than its capital city.

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Half the borough is protected green belt land and, until the 1960s,

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it was officially classed as Essex, rather than London.

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Many locals still feel that old identity.

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I feel Essex because historically I think the boundaries

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There are some super little villages are still left.

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But whether London or Essex, Havering is most

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In Romford market, flags were on proud

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display, along with Vote Leave banners.

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100% Out, yeah.

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It's all the housing, benefits, I think we are losing control.

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These criminals that are coming in, we've got no way of

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controlling them, no way of knowing where they are.

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I think it will put the Great back in Great Britain.

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We've been in Romford market talking to people for probably about an hour

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or so and there has been a couple of people that didn't know

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which way they were going, one person said they weren't

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going to vote, but apart from that everybody has said they want

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Reasons as far afield as the price of houses, schools

:53:33.:53:37.

the state of the NHS, the state of Romford market.

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It's almost as if leaving Europe has become the answer to almost

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Five generations of the Robins family have worked in

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They are now joined by 15 Lithuanians.

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Like many locals, this business started in the East End, but moved

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According to matriarch June, that migration eastwards

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explains why Havering people feel so strongly.

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They have moved out of the area where they have been

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living and brought up because they were

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In Upton Park, where I was brought up, I'm very proud to be English.

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This shop is very clean, as you've, you have

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It's beautiful and clean, anyway you look,

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They gut their fish, gut their chickens, it

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If we control our borders - we can't get them people out now,

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Of course, not everybody here feels the same way about immigration.

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Others did tell us they were worried about a loss of British identity.

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Everyone you talk to, they say it's not Britain now.

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I wouldn't class myself as European at all.

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There's no question that there's a lot of support on the ground

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But we'll have to wait until the referendum results to find

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out if it really is the most Eurosceptic place in Britain.

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Do you think those concerns are widespread in London? I think he's a

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ring has a particular character that came out in your video. -- Havering.

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I was in my constituency, just outside the Greater London boundary,

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we had a great Tea Party celebrating Her Majesty's 90th. About everyone I

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spoke to was going to vote Leave. There were concerns in your

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constituency about the levels of immigration? I don't think you will

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have the same level of concern, because there are borrowers which

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are much more at ease with the changes, the economy thrives on a

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fast moving population so I don t think you will find exactly the same

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sentiments but you do find in the suburbs, those sentiments are widely

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held. Are you concerned about the levels of immigration? I was out

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yesterday knocking on doors and I thought even what we've been told we

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would concentrate on the core Labour areas, working-class areas, and

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overwhelmingly for Remain. Even more so than wealthy middle-class parts.

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A real understanding of issues. It was very gratifying. Still over half

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of the immigration is from outside of the EU. Do you think there is too

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much EU immigration, the levels of EU immigration are too high? About

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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

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community but we've had that since after the Second World War. It is

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honestly not an issue. For me and my constituents. I do understand it is

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elsewhere and I will be trying to maximise the Remain thought. Nobody

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has thought about it since the Second World War, but what has

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happened is the free movement is hundreds of thousands of EU migrants

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have come in. To say this is the normal state of affairs is simply

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not true. The scale of immigration. I'm the son of immigrants and I know

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about this subject. The scale is completely different to what was the

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case in the 50 years after the Second World War. It is a completely

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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

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Sorry to interrupt the flow, let's try and get a bit more from

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Havering. Our reporter is in a pie and mash shop.

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We are in the pie and mash shop you saw in the film. Lawrence, the polls

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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

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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

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in the film saying that immigrants had the tone of old East End. I did

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not see the video, but we are voting for one thing alone, who governs the

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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

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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

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their store, they now lose their job as well. Shouldn't Parliament, if

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you were a US congressional committee, you would have the power

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to subpoena him. We discussed on my committee with

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Mike Ashley. In the end he decided to come. We did not need to take

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further action. My understanding is opinion is divided on this, it is

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not clear if a Parliamentary select committee can for somebody to give

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evidence. Exactly right. It is not clear whether we have the ultimate

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sanction of forcing someone to come under law. There has always been an

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expectation that if people are asked to account for their actions they

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would come. If Sir Philip Green wants to be the first person to

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stand against that then so be it. VHS was sold for ?1. That puts a big

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neon sign above the whole transaction. -- BHS. It was sold to

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a man who was three times bankrupt. We don't know why the business

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department or the regulators let this happen. If Parliament is to

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matter it surely has to be able to force these people to come and speak

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to it? The moral pressure had an excerpt is still fairly impressive.

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We did see Mike Ashley, a billionaire. Rupert Murdoch was

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forced to turn up by pressure. What happens if there is an empty seat?

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Mike Ashley, we're not suggesting he did anything legally wrong. His

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company was not paying the minimum wage. Even that moral pressure was

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enough to get him to turn up, as a billionaire retailer. Parliament is

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still pretty impressive. My understanding is it is a quasi

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judicial event, and he can be dragged in front of the Speaker of

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the house, and absolutely we should do that. It has been a terribly bad

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week for business, it put them in a very bad light. The idea you can

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have a knighthood and be a billionaire on your jot and put two

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fingers up to the representatives of the British people, I don't think

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so. What is your take on this? Thousands of jobs that they sold for

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a poem, the allegations that have been made by the gentleman who

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bought the business are eye watering. I'm sure the public would

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like to see Sir Philip Green brought kicking and screaming. He can decide

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not to come but that would tell everyone answers to the questions we

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want him to answer. It is a chance for him to put the record straight

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if there is a story for him to tell otherwise people will draw their own

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conclusions. He can bring Kate Moss on his arm. What would we do if he

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does not turn up, would that be grounds for being stripped of the

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knighthood? I have always said we need to wait for him to come and

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answer the questions and there are very serious concerns about his

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behaviour if he does not come, and at that stage then within the rules

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of how you can be stripped of an honour I think they would very

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seriously look at that. Jeremy Corbyn's advisers

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are sceptical of what they call Perhaps that's why, on Friday night,

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the Labour leader appeared to explain his views on Europe,

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not on a political analysis programme but on the Channel 4

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comedy gig The Last Leg. And if you thought the great

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Jezza was all allotments It seems he also does

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Bentleys and bling. Why? To show that he's up for a

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laugh. People will think that. There is a risk because other people might

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open the newspaper and see the pictures. So it was all right to do

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that? I think so. You never know? People might think he does that at

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the weekend. Old jumpers during the week. Fake fire at the weekend? You

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might be right. I find that a stretch. They wanted to show he had

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a sense of humour. He came across very well. It was very witty. Unless

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you want to be Prime Minister. People who want to be by Minister

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cannot be the type of people who want to have a laugh? -- Prime

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Minister. I do think people like to take seriously people who want to

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become Prime Minister. Was it an attempt to put more humanity on him?

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They must have thought long and hard about doing this. I'm not sure they

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think long and hard about anything. Your initial question was why, I

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think the answer is I don't think he wants to be premature and I don t

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think he thinks he will ever be Prime Minister and therefore the

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cost of this type of gesture is minimal. He is not missing out on

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vote that he wants anyway. He said one thing during the performance

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which the press interpreted as embarrassing, he said 70% Remain.

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More than I thought he was. I think, perversely, might resonate with more

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marginal voters than we think, people who will grudgingly consider

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voting to stay in. I wonder whether he has arrived at a line which is

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more persuasive than David Cameron. I thought he performed quite well,

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this relief that he can open his top button, Showtime. He could have a

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future with an acting career. We have the tooting by-election. Don't

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mention any of the candidates or I need to go through the lot. It is

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being overshadowed by the referendum. Is it significant? It

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was reasonably tight at the last election and before Sadiq Khan one,

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people said it could be lost for Labour. I would be surprised, in the

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wake of the mayoral election, which gave a boost to Labour. The money is

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on Labour to keep the seat. If the Tories when it will be very

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significant, actually, by-elections are not very significant. You say

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that but some of us needs to be up on the night to cover them. It would

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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

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the current state they are three points ahead of Labour. Tooting is

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trending long-term because there are more prosperous people in it. This

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might be a bit too early to take advantage of that but you could

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imagine it is one of those seats in 2020 that could

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turn blue if Jeremy Corbyn is still leader. Thank you for being with us.

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We will look with interest to see who is with you on Wednesday. Maybe

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with the fur coat? If you would like to know the result, June in on ABC

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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

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