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Good morning and welcome to the Sunday Politics. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
New CCTV images are released showing suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
on the night he attacked Manchester Arena, killing 22 people. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Are the politicians and the security services doing | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Theresa May says Britain needs to be "stronger and more resolute" | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
in confronting extremist views, as she outlines plans | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
for a new Commission to counter extremism. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
We'll be talking to the Security Minister. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
Jeremy Corbyn says a Labour government would recruit 1,000 | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
more staff at security and intelligence agencies. | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
We will be talking to one of his key supporters. In London, we look at | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
what the Conservatives are offering the capital, having voted Remain. | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
To help guide me through this morning, I'm joined by | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
Steve Richards, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Tim Marshall. | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
They'll be sharing their thoughts on Twitter and you can join | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
So, with a week and a half to go, the election campaign | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
And some recent polls suggest the race is just | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
We'll be taking a closer look at that in just a moment but, first, | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
here are some of the key events over the next 10 days or so: | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Tonight at 6pm will see the third of the party leader interviews. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
This time it's the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon facing questions | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
While many across the UK will be enjoying tomorrow's bank holiday, | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
there will be no break in campaigning for | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
And in the evening it will be the turn of Ukip's Paul Nuttall | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
On Tuesday the SNP publish their manifesto - | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
the last of the major parties to do so - after last week's | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Then on Wednesday, the BBC's Election Debate will see | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
representatives from the seven main parties debate in front | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
On Thursday, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron will have his interview... | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
Before Friday's Question Time special with Theresa May | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
They won't debate each other, but will take questions | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
consecutively from members of the audience. | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
The final week of campaigning is a short one, with politicians | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
cramming in three days of door-knocking before voters go | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
We'll have an exit poll once voting has ended at 10pm, | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
with the result expected early in the morning of June 9th. | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
Well, it's Sunday, and that always means a spate of new opinion | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
And they make for fascinating, if a tad confusing, reading. | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
There are five new opinion polls today, which have | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
the Conservative lead over Labour anywhere from six | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
points to 14 points. So, what's going on? | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
Professor John Curtice is the expert we always turn | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
to at times like this, and he joins me from Glasgow. | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
Take us through these polls. They seem to be all over the place? They | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
may seem to be but there is a very consistent key message. Four of | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
these five polls, if you compare them with what they were saying | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
before the Conservative manifesto launch on the 18th, four say the | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Conservatives are down by two points. Four of them say the Labour | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
vote is up by two points. A clear consistent message. The Conservative | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
lead has narrowed. Why does this matter? It matters because we are | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
now in a position where the leads are such that the Conservatives can | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
no longer be sure of getting the landslide majority they want. Some | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
posters suggesting they may be in trouble and it is going to get | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
rather close. Others suggested is further apart. There are two major | :04:29. | :04:38. | |
sources of... The Poles agree that young voters will vote Labour if | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
they vote. Older voters will vote for the Conservatives. How many of | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
those younger voters will turn out to vote? The second thing is whether | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
the evidence in the opinion polls that the Conservatives are advancing | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
more in the North of England and the Midlands is realised that the ballot | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
box? If it is not realised, the Tories chances of getting a | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
landslide look remote. If it is, they could still well indeed get a | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
majority more than 80%. The Conservatives have lost some ground | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
depending on which opinion poll you look at. What about the Labour | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
Party? It is gaining ground. It has been gaining ground ever since week | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
one. They started on 26, they now average 35. There were a lot of | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
people out there at the beginning of the campaign who were saying, I | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
usually vote Labour but the truth is I'm not sure about Jeremy Corbyn. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
They seem to have decided the Labour manifesto wasn't so bad. They have | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
looked at Theresa May and have said, we will stick with Labour. Labour | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
have managed to draw back into the fold some of their traditional | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
voters who were disenchanted, together with, crucially, some of | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
those younger voters who have never voted before, who have always been a | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
particular target for Jeremy Corbyn. What is your reaction to previous | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
opinion polls and elections weather has been a feeling that some of the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Labour support has been overstated? This be a worry this time? That is | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
one of the uncertainties that faces the opinion polls and the rest of | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
us. We had a conference on Friday at which it was carefully explained | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
that pollsters have been trying to correct the errors that resulted in | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
an overestimation of Labour support a couple of years ago, particularly | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
among younger voters. You shouldn't assume the opinion polls will be | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
wrong this time because they were wrong the last time. We want in | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
truth know whether or not the polls have got it right. Even if they are | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
wrong in terms of the level, they are not wrong in terms of the trend. | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
The trends have been dramatic so far. A big rise in Tory support | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
early on at the expense of Ukip. And subsequently, a remarkable rise in | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Labour support, albeit from a low initial baseline. This election has | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
already seen quite a lot of movement. We shouldn't rule out the | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
possibility there will be yet more in the ten days to come. | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
That is his analysis. Let's talk to the panel. Julia, how concerned | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
should Conservative headquarters be at this particular point at what | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
looks like an apparent surge by Labour? Depends if you want a | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
massive landslide majority or might not. I assume the Tory party do. | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
Whether anybody thinks that is a good idea is a different matter. | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
Undoubtedly the manifesto league was a total disaster. Social care policy | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
and the U-turn. Lots of stuff in the Labour manifesto was very appealing. | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
The tactic from Sir Lynton Crosby was clear. It is all about Theresa | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
May. Don't even mention the candidate or the party. The Labour | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Party, the candidates are on the moderate side are saying, don't | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
mention Jeremy Corbyn. This has been a battle between two big people. The | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
more we have seen of Theresa May, she has gone down. The more we have | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
seen of Jeremy Corbyn, he has gone up. If you make it about strong and | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
stable leadership and then you do something like a massive | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
unprecedented U-turn on a key policy like social care, the knock is even | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
greater. Do you think that is the reason for the change in the opinion | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
polls or is Labour gaining some momentum? I think it is part of the | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
reason. You can understand why the focus was on her at the beginning | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
because her personal ratings were stratospheric. What is interesting | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
is all successful leaders basically cast a spell over voters in the | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
media. None of them are titans. All of them are flawed. It is a question | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
of when the spell is broken. This is a first for a leader's spell to be | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
broken during an election campaign. That was a moment of high | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
significance. The fact the Labour Party campaign is more robust than | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
many thought it would be is the other factor. I think it is the | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
combination of the two, that the trend, as Professor John Curtis | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
said, the trend has been this narrow. There has not been much | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
campaigning. Local campaigning resumed on Thursday, national | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
campaigning on Friday. Do you think, Tim Marshall, that the opinion polls | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
are reflecting what happened in Manchester and people's thoughts | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
about which party will keep them safe? No, I think that will come | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
next week. I think it is too soon for that. It was quite | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
understandable from the V -- the very beginning for Lynton Crosby to | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
frame the campaign in terms of Theresa May and Brexit. The | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
electorate can have its own view. You always have to go back to | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
Clinton's it's the economy stupid for most of the electorate. It is | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
framed in your electricity bill. It is framed in your jobs. Both | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
manifestos have got more holes in them than Swiss cheese. It comes | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
down to which manifesto you believe. The Labour manifesto makes more | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
promises about things you care about like your electricity bill. | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
Interesting, but in the end despite while we thought would be a Brexit | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
election, it has been a lot about public services. It always comes | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
down to bread-and-butter issues. I don't think we have quite seen how | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
the terrorist you has played out. We had the Westminster attack only a | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
couple of months ago. That was already factored in in terms of who | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
you trust and who you don't trust. The IRA stuff from Jeremy Corbyn is | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
already factored in. People actually care about how ordinary government | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
policies affect their lives. Thank you very much. | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
The election campaign was, of course, put on hold | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
following the terrorist attack in Manchester | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
But now that campaigning has resumed, it's hardly | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
surprising that security is now a primary concern. | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
The Labour Party has announced it would recruit 1,000 more | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
Jeremy Corbyn, speaking on ITV at short while ago, says previous cuts | :11:10. | :11:23. | |
have undermined security. It seems that the cuts in police | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
numbers have led to some very dangerous situation is emerging. It | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
is also a question of a community response as well. So that where, an | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
imam, for example, lets the police he is concerned about a muddy, I | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
would hope they would act. And I would hope we have -- and I would | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
hope they would have the resources to act as well. | :11:46. | :11:46. | |
Joining me now from Leeds is the Shadow Justice | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
Good morning. You have announced a thousand more Security and | :11:49. | :11:57. | |
Intelligence agency staff. That is in line with what the government has | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
already announced and the Shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott, has | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
said you would not be spending any more money. It doesn't amount to | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
much, does it? That is just one of the parts of our pledge card on the | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
safer communities. There is also 10,000 extra police, because the | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
Conservatives cut the police by 20,000. That 10,000 extra police | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
would mean in -- and extra police officer in each neighbourhood. There | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
are 3000 extra put -- prison officers. Prison staff has been cut | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
by 6000. That is a third. It is not helping keep communities safer. We | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
are pledging 3000 extra firefighters. Also, a thousand extra | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
security staff and 500 extra border guards. There have been 13 areas | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
identified where our borders are not as secure as they should be. That is | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
the list of numbers you have given. If we concentrate on the security | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
services, because it was Jeremy Corbyn he said there will be more | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
police on the streets under Labour. If the security sources need more | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
resources they should get them. Why aren't you giving them more? We are | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
committing to a thousand more police. The Godinet is doing that as | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
well. You are not committing anything more. The government has | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
not delivered on that promise. We will deliver on that promise is -- | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
promise. What Jeremy has made very clear is that you can't do security | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
on the cheap. Austerity has to stop at the police station door, and at | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
the hospital door. But we will be giving the resources required to | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
keep our communities safer. So you will give them the resources and | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
more powers? Well, the police need to be empowered. But when you listen | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
to what the Police Federation are saying, they have been speaking out | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
for a long time about the danger caused by police cuts. And I'm | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
talking not only about terrorism, not only about acts of extreme | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
violence, but anything from anti-social behaviour to burglary. | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
Use it more powers. What sort of powers are you thinking of giving | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
the security services? We need to listen to them. That is not a power. | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
We need to listen to the intelligence community and the | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
security service, to the army and the police, about what they think | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
and how they think our communities could be made safe. One thing is | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
clear. Cutting the number of police by 20,000 makes our community is | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
less safe, not more safe. You said you will listen to the security | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
services. Can voters be reassured and guaranteed that Jeremy Corbyn | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
will listen to the security services and the police in terms of more | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
powers if that is what they want? Until now he has spent his whole | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
political career voting against measures designed to tackle | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
home-grown and international terrorism. Jeremy Corbyn's speech on | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
safer communities earlier this week made clear he is listening to the | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
security services. So he would grant those new powers. He voted against | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
the terrorism Act in 2000, into thousands and six. In 2011. And in | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
2014, the data retention and investigatory Powers act. Which new | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
powers will he be happy to enact? Just to say, Jeremy Corbyn along | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
with Theresa May, David Davis and many Conservative MPs, voted against | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
legislation where they thought it would be ill-advised, ineffective or | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
actually counter-productive. It is a very complex situation. What we | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
don't want to do is introduce hastily prepared laws with one eye | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
to the newspaper headlines, which can act as recruiting sergeants for | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
terrorism. And actually, when I said earlier that Jeremy Corbyn made | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
clear in his speech this week that he has been listening to the | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
security services, what he said about the international situation | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
has also been said by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington, and | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
her predecessor. As well as president of back -- President | :16:21. | :16:21. | |
Barack Obama. You say he will give the police and | :16:22. | :16:30. | |
security services the resources and powers they need. If we look back at | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
some of the legislation Jeremy Corbyn and others voted against in | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
2000, it gave the Secretary of State the -- new powers... Does Jeremy | :16:40. | :16:49. | |
Corbyn still think that is a bad idea? Jeremy Corbyn along with | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Theresa May, David Davis and others... I know you want to bracket | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
it with Conservatives but I'm interested in what Jeremy Corbyn | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
will do when he says we are going to be smarter about fighting terrorism. | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
If he's not prepared to vote in favour of those sorts of measures, | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
or trying to impose restrictions on suspects, I'm trying to find out | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
what he will do. It is a complex situation. With this legislation the | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
devil is often in the detail. If it was a simple and stopping terrorism | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
by voting a piece of legislation through Parliament, it would have | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
been stopped a long time ago. Sadly there are no easy answers, and that | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
is recognised by Barack Obama, Stella Rimington, the head of the | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
MI5, by David Davis and other Conservative MPs. What is clear, as | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
Jeremy made clear in his speech this week, is the way things are being | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
done currently is not working. We have got to be tough on terrorism | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
and the unforgivable acts of murder, but also tough on the causes of | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
terrorism as well. The sad truth is there are no easy answers. If there | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
were, the problem would have been solved a long time ago. If you more | :18:04. | :18:15. | |
security and terrorism officers but your leader is still uncomfortable | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
with giving them the powers they need to do their jobs because it is | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
complicated legislation, they will want to know how you are going to do | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
it. At another stop the War rally in 2014, Jeremy Corbyn said the murder | :18:24. | :18:38. | |
of a charity worker was jingoism. At the beginning of that speech he | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
mentioned the importance of the one-minute silence for the memory of | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
Alan Henning who was murdered. What he has also made clear is | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
responsibility for acts of terrorism and murder lies with the murder, and | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
something that's really disappointed me is that the Prime Minister said | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
the other day that in Jeremy Corbyn's speech on this on Monday, | :19:04. | :19:16. | |
he said... Whether she agrees with him on his politics, she knows he | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
didn't say that in his speech, but what troubles me is you have got a | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
Prime Minister who must have sat down with her advisers earlier that | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
day and said, well I do know he didn't say that but if we say he did | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
we might win some votes. I think that is shameful and it shows | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Theresa May cannot be trusted. These issues should transcend party | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
politics. We need to pull together on this issue. Thank you very much. | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
Well, the Conservatives have promised a new statutory commission | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
The party says it will identify extremism, including | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
the "non-violent" kind, and help communities stand up to it. | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
Also this morning, the Security Minister, Ben Wallace, | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
has attacked internet giants for failing to tackle terror | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
online, and accused them of being ruthless money-makers. | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
Welcome to the Sunday Politics. Those comments you have made about | :19:59. | :20:11. | |
social media companies failing in their responsibility to take down | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
extremist material, what will you do to compel them? I think we will look | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
at the range of options. The Germans have proposed a fine, we are not | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
sure whether that will work, but there are range of pressures we can | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
put onto some of these companies. Some have complied. In the article | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
in the Sunday Telegraph today I did say it is not all of them. They are | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
not immune to pressure. We can do internationally, and the Prime | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
Minister urged at the G7 and international response. I think | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
there are a range of issues. We could change the law. You mentioned | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
the G7, and rhetoric and warm words are fine to an extent but it is | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
action people want. If you have made these impassioned remarks in the | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
newspapers about them failing to do the job, people want to know what | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
powers do you have now to say to social media companies take down | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
this material? We have an act that was recently passed. In this area we | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
have just finished consulting on one of the areas we could use but we | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
cannot pre-empt the consultation. We have right now officials from my | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
department over in the United States with American officials working with | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
CSPs because what we see is that they do respond to pressure. The | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
best example is we think they have the technology and the capability to | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
change the algorithms they use that maximise profit over safety. But you | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
are relying on these companies devoting more resources to this line | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
of work that you would like to see them do. Have you got any evidence | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
they will do that? They said, only a few weeks ago before the election | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
was called the Home Secretary hosted a Round Table with them. We have | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
evidence they are trying to improve it. A few are refusing to or being | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
difficult, and that's why the Prime Minister was right to step up not | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
only the language she was using but to say we are not going to allow | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
this to progress any more. People will be worried about who will make | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
the judgment about what is unacceptable and what should be | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
taken down. Let me show you this, which was shared widely across | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
social media. If you read that quote you could argue it is at the same | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
end if you like. The man in the picture is a terrorist hate | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
preacher, the jihadist who was killed in Yemen by the Americans. Is | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
this the sort of thing you would be demanding social media companies | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
take down? You have to look at the context it was deployed in. I could | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
show you some of the 270,000 pieces we have had removed since 2010 from | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
internet sites that have been extreme. The big issue is not often | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
the individual image, it is the way these companies set up the | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
algorithms to link you. If you were watching that on Facebook delivered | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
to you, perhaps you would like to look at this, because that's how | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
they set it up. If you go onto YouTube, you can get let down the | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
path from looking at Manchester... I understand your example, but from a | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
practical level are you expecting media companies to take down that | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
sort of posts if it appeared? Yes... You are? Who will make the decisions | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
about what will radicalise young people that could lead someone down | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
the path to let off a bomb? If I invite your viewers to look at the | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
work the Guardian have done on Facebook guidance, to say for | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
example it is OK to produce videos or broadcast videos of | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
seven-year-olds being bullied as long as it wasn't accompanied by | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
captions, I don't think you need to be an expert to say that is not | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
acceptable. Something more worrying for you as a journalist and me as a | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
politician, another set of guidance that says... I think this is quite | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
menacing... That certain people don't deserve our protection. That | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
includes journalists and politicians and people who are controversial. So | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
I think there is more work to be done but at the end of the day it is | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
the pathway this stuff leads to. It is more about examining how much | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
progress you can make. The Government says there are up to | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
23,000 potential terrorist attackers in this country, 3000 of those | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
posing a serious threat being monitored. That is pretty | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
disturbing, these are big numbers. Yes, and the tragedy of Manchester | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
shows this is not about failure, it is about the scale of the challenge | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
we face and that is why it is important that alongside people is | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
powers. Should you double the size of MI5 for example? We have | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
increased year-on-year in real terms not only the money but the numbers | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
of people in MI5. It is now 2000 we have committed to increased to... | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
Before the attack. Before our manifesto we had recruited, we have | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
increased the whole of government spending on counterterrorism from | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
?11.7 billion in 2015 up to 15.7 billion. Would you expand the number | :25:50. | :25:58. | |
of people in MI5? I have asked them on a regular basis if they have the | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
resource if they are happy with it, and the answer comes back time and | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
time again, yes we are. You have quite extensive powers at your | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
disposal, the question is if you are using them. Measures were introduced | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
in 2012 to replace control orders, but they have rarely been used. Only | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
seven are currently in operation. Why? Because there are a whole... It | :26:24. | :26:33. | |
is just one tool in the tool box. Other powers we use, we take away | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
people's passports if we think they are about to travel. How many? I | :26:37. | :26:45. | |
cannot comment, it is a sensitive issue. Plenty of people are finding | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
their passport has been removed and at the same time we strip people of | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
citizenship to make sure they don't come back. On top of that, because | :26:53. | :27:01. | |
of the investment made in GCHQ, MI5 and counterterrorism, we have more | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
powers and more ability to monitor them. But are you using them enough? | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
Only seven TPIMs are in operation. You won't give me any of the other | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
measures at your disposal, but if they are only in single figures, | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
that doesn't seem to compare with the numbers who are being monitored. | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
Also, we have to strike a balance between... We have to satisfy the | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
court so we have to make sure there is enough evidence to restrict | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
people's freedoms. TPIMs do all sorts of good things to keep people | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
safe. It sends people away from where they live, it tags them... I | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
tell you why they are better. The control orders were on track to be | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
struck down by the courts because one of the things we have to satisfy | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
is the courts but we also have to satisfy, we have to make sure we get | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
the balance between the community is right and the measures we take. If | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
we alienate our communities, we won't get the intelligence that | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
allows us to catch it. There is no point in having more police and | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
intelligence services if you don't give them the powers to do the job. | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
Jeremy Corbyn were licensed James Bond to do precisely nothing. And -- | :28:24. | :28:33. | |
thank you. The revelation that the Manchester | :28:34. | :28:35. | |
suicide bomber, 22-year-old Salman Abedi, was born in this | :28:36. | :28:43. | |
country has raised fresh concerns about the effectiveness of the UK's | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
counter-extremism policy. In a moment we'll be talking to two | :28:47. | :28:48. | |
people who've spent their careers investigating | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
radicalisation in the UK. Douglas Murray, | :28:52. | :28:52. | |
of the Henry Jackson Society, and Sara Khan, author of The Battle | :28:53. | :28:54. | |
for British Islam and CEO of the counter-extremism | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
organisation Inspire. We asked both for a personal take | :28:58. | :28:58. | |
on how to confront the problem of Islamist extremism. | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
First up, here's Douglas Murray. Even after all these dead, | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
all this mourning and defiance, We remain stuck in the John Lennon | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
response to terrorism - Our politicians still refuse | :29:10. | :29:27. | |
to accurately identify the sources of the problem, | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
and polite society This country gave asylum to | :29:32. | :29:33. | |
the Libyan parents of Salman Abedi. Their son repaid that generosity | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
by killing 22 British people, one for each year of life this | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
country had given him. We need to think far more | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
deeply about all this. Eastern Europe doesn't | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
have an Islamic terrorism problem France has the worst problem | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
because it has the most Islam. Are we ever going to draw | :29:59. | :30:05. | |
any lessons from this? For the time being, the game | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
is to be as inoffensive as possible. The rot isn't just within | :30:10. | :30:17. | |
the Muslim communities. Consider all those retired British | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
officials and others who shill, and are in the pay of the Saudis | :30:22. | :30:24. | |
and other foreign states, even while they pump the extreme | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
versions of Islam into our country. It is high time we | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
became serious too. Islamist extremism is | :30:35. | :30:44. | |
flourishing in our country. We're failing to defeat it, | :30:45. | :30:52. | |
so what can we do about it? Whenever I say we must counter those | :30:53. | :30:59. | |
Muslim organisations who are promoting hatred, | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
discrimination, and sometimes even violence, I'm often either ignored | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
by some politicians out of a misplaced fear of cultural | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
sensitivity, or I find myself experiencing abuse by some | :31:13. | :31:14. | |
of my fellow Muslims. These groups and their sympathisers | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
tour Muslim communities, hold events, and have hundreds | :31:19. | :31:26. | |
of thousands of followers Yet there is little counter | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
challenge to their toxic anti-Western narrative, | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
which includes opposition I've seen politicians | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
and charities partner with and support some of these | :31:40. | :31:44. | |
voices and groups. Many anti-racist groups | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
will challenge those on the far right but not Muslim hate preachers, | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
in the erroneous belief that to do But it's Islamophobic not | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
to challenge them because it implies Following the attack on Monday, | :31:59. | :32:06. | |
it cannot be business as usual. We must counter those | :32:07. | :32:15. | |
who seek to divide us. Sarah Karen Allen Douglas Murray | :32:16. | :32:29. | |
join me know. You wrote a book, strange death of Europe. What did | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
you mean in your film when you said, let's get serious? Several things. | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
Let me give you one example. The young man who carried out this | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
atrocious attack was a student at Salford University for two years. He | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
was on a campus which is, from its leadership to its student | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
leadership, opposes all aspects of the government's only counter | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
extremism programme. They boast they are boycotting it. They always did | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
this. The university he was at was against the only counter extremism | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
policy this state has. This is just one example of a much bigger | :33:10. | :33:15. | |
problem. What are you suggesting? Shut down the University? Force them | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
to change their policies? I think in the case of Salford, which | :33:21. | :33:28. | |
discourages students from reporting Islamic extremism... When you | :33:29. | :33:35. | |
discover you have produced a suicide bomber in Manchester, you should be | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
held responsible. What do you say to that? I think it is quite clear from | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
I am experienced there have been politicians who have undermined | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
Prevent, community organisations, Islamist groups who have been at the | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
forefront of undermining and countering Prevent, but also wider | :33:53. | :34:01. | |
counter extremism measures. Islamist -- Islamist extremes and has | :34:02. | :34:03. | |
flourished in this country. If Summer Rae had given us a crystal | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
ball ten years ago and said, look forward and you will see hundreds of | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
people leave this country to join Isis, we will have hundreds of | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
people convicted of Islamist offences, I think we would have been | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
quite shocked that things have got worse as opposed to getting better. | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
Douglas Murray, the essence of your argument when you made the | :34:25. | :34:27. | |
comparison between the numbers of Muslims in other countries is that | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
we have too much Islam in Britain? The aunt Tilly Muslim Brotherhood | :34:32. | :34:35. | |
give is that the answer to absolutely everything is Islam. Less | :34:36. | :34:41. | |
Islam is a good thing. Let me finish. The Islamic world is in the | :34:42. | :34:45. | |
middle of a very serious problem. It has been going on since the | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
beginning. I think it is not worth continuing to risk our own security | :34:51. | :34:52. | |
simply in order to be politically correct. I would disagree with | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
Douglas on that. Nobody is going to deny that since the end of the 20th | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
century there has been a rise in Islamist extreme terror | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
organisations. Yes, there is a crisis within contemporary Islam, | :35:09. | :35:11. | |
but there is a class. There are competing claims about what the | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
faith stands for. While we are seeing Islamist terror | :35:16. | :35:18. | |
organisations, leading theologians are saying that the concept of a | :35:19. | :35:25. | |
caliphate is outdated. Muslims should be adopting a human rights | :35:26. | :35:31. | |
culture. I entirely agree with that. There are obviously people trying to | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
counter that. I would urge us to take the long view. In the history | :35:37. | :35:39. | |
of Islam there have been many reformers. Most of the time they | :35:40. | :35:44. | |
have ended a up being the ones on the brunt of the violence. I deeply | :35:45. | :35:47. | |
resent what you and others do in this country. I want you to win. But | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
they are a Billy good minority. A poll last year found that two thirds | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
of British Muslims found they would not report a family member they | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
found to be involved in extremism to the police. You are proposing more | :36:02. | :36:11. | |
Draconian measures. I wish they could win. We should do everything | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
we can to support people like that. What we should recognise the scale | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
of the problem is beyond our current understanding. You counter | :36:21. | :36:24. | |
radicalisation on a university campus or online? Discussion we had | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
with Ben Wallace about the material that is out there. If we pursue in a | :36:29. | :36:35. | |
hard-line way perhaps the sort of thing Douglas Murray is suggesting, | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
gone is freedom of speech, gone is freedom of debate and discussion? | :36:41. | :36:46. | |
The best way to counter extremism is through the prism of human rights. | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
We cannot abandon our human rights to fight extremism. Where I think we | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
are going wrong, where there is a gap, is the lack of counter work to | :36:57. | :37:03. | |
challenge Islamist ideals. How many people are going to say we need to | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
counter that strict narrative? That is where we are not doing enough | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
work. What about the human rights point, that you cannot take away | :37:14. | :37:19. | |
people's human rights? I'm not suggesting that. I'm suggesting we | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
do things that ensure that 22 people don't get blown up on an average | :37:26. | :37:31. | |
Monday again, OK? Dissent to be opposed to people want to blow up | :37:32. | :37:37. | |
our daughters is not opposing human rights. If you're taking government | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
money and you are an institution like Salford University you should | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
be held responsible for not cooperating with standard security | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
measures. You can challenge extremism without abandoning human | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
rights. We have got to actually counter the Islamist narrative. | :37:56. | :37:58. | |
We're not doing enough. This is not about closing down free speech. This | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
is encouraging it. This is the most effective way of countering the | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
Islamist narrative. Why isn't it doing better? A number of reasons. | :38:08. | :38:15. | |
One is there is a denial taking place. A lot of apologetics. Part of | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
it is the way we talk about Muslims in this country. We use the term | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
Muslim community as if they are homogenous. There is a positive | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
trend but there is a negative trend among British Muslims. We need to | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
counter those promoting the idea that Muslims are part of a | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
collective identity. I agree. It is also the case there is massive push | :38:39. | :38:41. | |
back because a lot of Muslims are defending the faith in this country. | :38:42. | :38:45. | |
We think we can push them down a better path but they are defending | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
absolutely everything. We need to get real about that. Thank you very | :38:50. | :38:51. | |
much. It's just gone 11.35, | :38:52. | :38:52. | |
you're watching the Sunday Politics. We say goodbye to viewers | :38:53. | :38:54. | |
in Scotland, who leave us now Coming up here in 20 | :38:55. | :38:57. | |
minutes, the Week Ahead. First though, the Sunday | :38:58. | :39:00. | |
Politics where you are. Jo, thanks very much. | :39:01. | :39:11. | |
Hello and welcome to us. We've got the Conservatives' | :39:12. | :39:16. | |
offer to London very much And with me here is a former | :39:17. | :39:18. | |
leader of the party, Iain Duncan Smith. | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
Welcome. We'll be going thorugh a number | :39:23. | :39:23. | |
of policy areas in a moment. But on the story, the issue | :39:24. | :39:27. | |
that its hard to get away from. Let's look at policing. Can London | :39:28. | :39:41. | |
possibly be safer now than it was in 2010 after ?600 million worth of | :39:42. | :39:47. | |
cuts? I think London is safer but nothing is absolute. You don't make | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
predictions about this. The safety of London depends on what people | :39:52. | :39:54. | |
recognise is going on in their communities, in the Islamic | :39:55. | :39:59. | |
community, and reported to the authorities, so the authorities can | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
take action. The key areas that deal with counterintelligence, those | :40:04. | :40:07. | |
areas have been massively reinvested in. What about community policing? | :40:08. | :40:20. | |
Doesn't that matter? 100 million is gone. 400 million to go. Do you | :40:21. | :40:26. | |
defend those cuts? I do because the way you are effective in life | :40:27. | :40:29. | |
doesn't depend on the mat of money you'd spend. It is how you deploy | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
your resources. In the Metropolitan Police there is a rethink of how | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
best to deploy resources, to make them more effective, get them on the | :40:41. | :40:46. | |
front line, get the back up. With falling crime, and there has been | :40:47. | :40:50. | |
falling crime in all those years, the Met police is probably no more | :40:51. | :40:53. | |
efficient and effective than at any time. Crime has been falling. Some | :40:54. | :41:00. | |
would say one of the reasons it has been falling is because police | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
numbers and police investment has been up. You are making all of these | :41:05. | :41:12. | |
cuts to policing. It is no accident that knife crime and violent crime | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
is shooting up again? The issue about knife crime is an area that | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
needs to be looked at carefully and separately. A huge amount of that is | :41:22. | :41:24. | |
down to the growth in street gangs in United Kingdom, and certainly | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
here in London, and the way it is dealt with. Where I live, we have | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
started to look at tackling violent street gangs. In America they show | :41:35. | :41:41. | |
you that you need strong community groups. You need those to be helping | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
the police. Take the serious guys out and the them. That is a process. | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
Not everywhere is doing that. There needs to be a concerted effort. The | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
mayor should lead the charge on getting the different boroughs | :42:00. | :42:06. | |
involved. That is how to do with it. It is not just more numbers. You | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
have to focus on how you break the gangs. The Mayor of London recently | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
described your leader as the... The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
recently accused Theresa May of being the most anti-London | :42:21. | :42:23. | |
Prime Minister since Would the Conservative manifesto | :42:24. | :42:25. | |
disadvantage the capital? Please welcome the Prime Minister, | :42:26. | :42:43. | |
Theresa May. This year's Conservative manifesto may have had | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
an almost unique impact. According to opinion pollsters, there is no | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
example of these documents making a party less popular. But this may be | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
an exception. Because it is the responsibility of leadership to be | :42:56. | :43:01. | |
upfront and straight with people. At least according to the Labour mayor | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
Sadiq Khan, this is the most anti-London government for decades. | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
Time and again there are references to power and wealth being too | :43:11. | :43:13. | |
concentrated in the capital. It goes so far as to say that closing the | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
gap between London and other cities is the biggest prize in Britain | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
today. There is no doubt the Conservative manifesto, in the way | :43:23. | :43:25. | |
it looks at London, has the sense that London has over performed. And | :43:26. | :43:30. | |
that is somehow bad for the rest of the country and we need to Tikrit | :43:31. | :43:35. | |
authors away from London. In the manifesto, there is a promise to | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
push ahead with the new funding formula for schools. Unlike the last | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
Conservative manifesto, there is no mention of Crossrail two. There is a | :43:46. | :43:49. | |
place to move service jobs outside London and to move Channel 4. While | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
rebalancing the UK economy may sound like a good idea in principle, the | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
reality is that London has the highest unemployment rate of | :44:00. | :44:01. | |
anywhere in Britain. So if the Tories are talking about moving | :44:02. | :44:05. | |
thousands of jobs from London and putting them somewhere else, do they | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
not risk making one of London's most serious problems even worse? There | :44:10. | :44:17. | |
we are. Lovely day. But more than anything else is the Conservative | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
reforms to social care that have drawn criticism. Currently you get | :44:24. | :44:26. | |
free care from the state if you have assets of less than ?23,000. But the | :44:27. | :44:34. | |
plans will see that threshold rise. However, that now includes the value | :44:35. | :44:37. | |
of your home. Since almost every home in the capital is worth at | :44:38. | :44:46. | |
least 100,000, people will have to pay for their care with their home, | :44:47. | :44:49. | |
including Margaret and her husband Eddie, who has Alzheimer's. His care | :44:50. | :44:54. | |
bills are currently around ?3000 a month. | :44:55. | :45:01. | |
By announcing that 100,000 limit to what you would lose, it was such a | :45:02. | :45:12. | |
shock, and one felt out of control. You thought, oh dear. The reforms | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
have been dogged in dementia tax, criticised for making people pay for | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
having illnesses like Alzheimer's which require long-term care and | :45:23. | :45:28. | |
treatment. It is a disease of the brain and this is another issue that | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
the people with dementia have a chronic disease, why should they be | :45:34. | :45:40. | |
paying really for the whole of the care in many cases as proposed, when | :45:41. | :45:47. | |
it is a health issue? It is radical measure from a government trying to | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
harness the incredible wealth is now tied up in London's housing. But in | :45:52. | :45:57. | |
terms of dealing with the causes of the capital's housing crisis, the | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
only direct reference in the manifesto is a promise not to | :46:02. | :46:05. | |
concentrate development in the south-east of England. We need to | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
build homes elsewhere as well. It is a very London view to save housing | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
crisis is just a problem in our city. There are other parts of the | :46:15. | :46:19. | |
country where the affordability ratio is at unaffordable levels. If | :46:20. | :46:24. | |
I am the housing minister after the reaction my job is to solve the | :46:25. | :46:29. | |
housing crisis across the country. This is a key battle ground for the | :46:30. | :46:33. | |
Conservatives, but to do that they will need to convince Londoners they | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
have the best interests of the capital at heart. | :46:38. | :46:41. | |
It was an interesting expression in there about closing the gap between | :46:42. | :46:47. | |
other cities and London. Has that balance been wrong? Do you accept | :46:48. | :46:51. | |
that in redressing the balance in London may have to go through a | :46:52. | :46:54. | |
transitional phase when it is not getting the same as others? I don't | :46:55. | :46:59. | |
think that what you do when you try to redress the balance is strip | :47:00. | :47:04. | |
stuff from London. You encourage people to do more in other regions. | :47:05. | :47:11. | |
I will be looking at regional productivity, and we have almost | :47:12. | :47:14. | |
uniquely in this country very big disparity between London and the | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
south-east and the rest of the UK, in some parts really enormous. It is | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
right for the Government to say, look, we need to do more to get | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
things right in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds... So in other | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
words you think it will be levelling up. Looking at education, how can | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
that be the case we know the shortages and cost of living are | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
disproportionately high in London, how can a 7% real terms reduction | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
per-pupil spending by the Conservatives over the next five | :47:48. | :47:53. | |
years, how can that help? The 4 billion extra of the Conservative | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
Party has said we will put back into education means in real terms, | :47:58. | :48:01. | |
including inflation and everything else, school funding will go up. | :48:02. | :48:11. | |
Per-pupil? Numbers go up because there is a rising number of pupils | :48:12. | :48:15. | |
going into schools, here particularly in London, so the | :48:16. | :48:18. | |
Government has gone one stage further and said any reassessment - | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
because they have gone through this reassessment of how the money is | :48:24. | :48:28. | |
spent - those schools will not lose out, they have guaranteed that | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
money. That is the funding formula but the overall investment | :48:34. | :48:35. | |
Conservatives are putting into schools in real terms, will you tell | :48:36. | :48:41. | |
me if any of your head teachers anywhere, have any of them said they | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
are happy with current resources? I have teachers and head teachers say | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
they are concerned, of course they will be. My constituency is slightly | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
divided, but the key point I have made is we have had a huge | :48:56. | :48:59. | |
investment in schools over the last ten years, I really enormous amount, | :49:00. | :49:03. | |
and going forward getting the economy right means the chances of | :49:04. | :49:07. | |
reinvesting much more money in the future are higher there. The choice | :49:08. | :49:11. | |
for London at the end of the day is not just about is it more or less, | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
it is who do you think will be able to afford to make those pledges. OK, | :49:16. | :49:27. | |
social care, this tricky one. Did you want to see a cap in the | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
manifesto? I have always believed there would be a cap because this is | :49:32. | :49:35. | |
not a policy statement, it is a Green paper coming out after the | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
election. So were you surprised when there was no cap in the manifesto? I | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
just assumed you don't put everything into the manifesto | :49:46. | :49:52. | |
because it is a Green paper... Really? Something so crucial? The | :49:53. | :49:55. | |
policy is about the Green paper about how we afford long-term care | :49:56. | :50:00. | |
and one of the biggest problems is, and what isn't clear in your report | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
is that right now people who have people in residential care, the | :50:06. | :50:08. | |
houses are taken into consideration. The report was wrong on the 23,000, | :50:09. | :50:14. | |
you can go down as low as 14,000 before... But now we know property | :50:15. | :50:21. | |
is responsible for providing care. In which case we don't say 14,000 in | :50:22. | :50:27. | |
savings, we say 100,000, never below, and with the cup it means you | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
will be limited the amount you have to contribute. Which means do you | :50:32. | :50:36. | |
accept by the looks of it anyone earning or with an estate over | :50:37. | :50:42. | |
200,000 will gain? Do you think this is fair person owning an estate of | :50:43. | :50:51. | |
?1 million pays the same as someone owning ?200,000? The people who can | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
afford it will make a greater contribution, but the cap on the | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
amount is clearer now at 100,000, secondly there will be no fear that | :51:00. | :51:04. | |
someone in the house... It is not clear because we don't know where | :51:05. | :51:09. | |
the cap is. It will be really essential. Right now it is forecast | :51:10. | :51:16. | |
to be around 70 2000. That will be the discussion point in the Green | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
paper. Can you understand the uncertainty that comes across. How | :51:22. | :51:27. | |
damaging has it been? I don't think it has been damaging, there has been | :51:28. | :51:31. | |
concern about it. The problem is most people don't know because they | :51:32. | :51:35. | |
don't end up getting care, but if they do have to end up getting care | :51:36. | :51:41. | |
they will actually end up paying significant sums of money for it. So | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
this stops that happening and it stops the sale of the house at any | :51:46. | :51:49. | |
cost until after both parties... Some people with long memories will | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
remember the Conservatives attacking Labour for the same thing. Right now | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
you can be asked to sell your house because they need the money to pay | :52:00. | :52:04. | |
upfront. Some councils don't but some do and that causes anxiety, so | :52:05. | :52:09. | |
this is a much better deal for people who are living... Another | :52:10. | :52:14. | |
disproportionate impact in London is the question of benefits. Child tax | :52:15. | :52:20. | |
credit cut and so on. You resigned from the Government over the cuts to | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
disability and none of these things have been reversed in anyway. What | :52:25. | :52:31. | |
do you say about that? We wanted to get more people into work, and more | :52:32. | :52:37. | |
people with disability into work and both of those things are happening. | :52:38. | :52:46. | |
My view was clear, I was posed to any change and the recent I resigned | :52:47. | :52:53. | |
was because it was proposed to reduce that and I stopped fart so it | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
isn't happening now. The truth is benefit payments rose by 60% under | :52:59. | :53:03. | |
the last government and that became unsustainable for people who were by | :53:04. | :53:07. | |
and large working but seeing no increase in their salaries. We know | :53:08. | :53:10. | |
how much you talked about trying to help people through the universal | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
credit, which you were responsible when you were the Minister for | :53:15. | :53:20. | |
developing. It is rolling out brilliantly, it will change people's | :53:21. | :53:36. | |
lives. You were also very unhappy... You will accept that in the | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
manifesto those don't change, disproportionate impact on London | :53:41. | :53:43. | |
again. These are the details you won't get into in a manifesto but I | :53:44. | :53:47. | |
have continued to argue it would be the right thing to do to start | :53:48. | :53:50. | |
restoring much of those allowances because it will encourage people to | :53:51. | :53:55. | |
go back to work, but that is a matter for the Government. My | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
argument remains the same. Universal credit will have a dramatic and | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
positive effect on people's lives. It does affect about 50% of the | :54:05. | :54:11. | |
people in London, apparently it has led already to being inventive | :54:12. | :54:19. | |
arrears. No, the roll-out has reassessed the whole process and the | :54:20. | :54:24. | |
reality is the rent arrears are not directly due to universal credit. | :54:25. | :54:28. | |
Universal credit now has a much better system. Those who are renting | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
houses can access universal credit. They can figure out who is on | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
benefits, and if they start running up arrears they can hand them back | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
to direct payment, that happens immediately under universal credit, | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
it didn't under the old system. They could go on for months running up | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
arrears. Universal credit will be a much better system for helping | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
people with problems. Slow progress, and now you are not there will it be | :54:57. | :55:04. | |
allowed to wither. No, it is rolling out now. Yes, but slowly. Let's move | :55:05. | :55:12. | |
on. The Prime Minister called the snap | :55:13. | :55:16. | |
election - she says - to give her a strong mandate | :55:17. | :55:19. | |
to secure the best But how does that work for Londoners | :55:20. | :55:21. | |
when the capital voted to remain in the EU, | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
and when so much in the capital is at stake, from house building | :55:26. | :55:28. | |
to the health of the City of London? Dan Freedman has been | :55:29. | :55:31. | |
investigating. When she launched her party's | :55:32. | :55:33. | |
manifesto earlier this month, the Prime Minister put Brexit | :55:34. | :55:35. | |
front and centre. With the right Brexit deal secured, | :55:36. | :55:36. | |
my mainstream government And in the party manifesto, | :55:37. | :55:39. | |
Theresa May says Brexit will define us, our place in the world, | :55:40. | :55:43. | |
our economic security by these broad brush | :55:44. | :55:45. | |
stroke Brexit pledges? That we'll no longer | :55:46. | :55:54. | |
members of the single market or customs union, | :55:55. | :55:56. | |
we will enact a Great law into UK law, and we continue | :55:57. | :56:00. | |
to believe that no deal is better London voted 60% | :56:01. | :56:04. | |
to remain in the EU. Its success partly built | :56:05. | :56:08. | |
on attracting international finance, global talent, and being seen | :56:09. | :56:10. | |
as a gateway to the European market. So, will these Conservative | :56:11. | :56:13. | |
commitments cut it in the capital? So anecdotally my feeling is that | :56:14. | :56:18. | |
around 50% of our workforce comes If you reduce that, if you put | :56:19. | :56:21. | |
barriers in the way, that's a significant hurdle | :56:22. | :56:28. | |
to overcome and you will have real If we've already got a skills | :56:29. | :56:31. | |
shortage at the moment in the UK, if you make it harder for people | :56:32. | :56:37. | |
to come in, how is that skills You're going to have a rising wage | :56:38. | :56:40. | |
demand, it could lead Bad news in a city where, | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
after eight years of a Conservative mayoralty, | :56:45. | :56:49. | |
the population grew by 900,000 A few miles away in Canary Wharf, | :56:50. | :56:51. | |
and financial technology - or FinTech - is becoming another | :56:52. | :56:59. | |
area where London's blowing European So, for us, really the big concern | :57:00. | :57:02. | |
is around uncertainty. We don't know what's happening | :57:03. | :57:11. | |
in regards to the trade agreements. We need the best Europeans | :57:12. | :57:15. | |
to want to work for us, so for us it would be sensible | :57:16. | :57:18. | |
to think about relocation For us, it's actually the freedom | :57:19. | :57:21. | |
of movement argument So, because we have that | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
development office in Latvia and because we are growing | :57:26. | :57:29. | |
there quite rapidly, Are we still going to have access | :57:30. | :57:31. | |
to that after Brexit? And while they do have | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
questions about Brexit, who they think should negotiate | :57:37. | :57:38. | |
it is clear. I think there's no question that | :57:39. | :57:41. | |
Theresa May is the person that you would want at the table | :57:42. | :57:43. | |
negotiating on our behalf. Probably Theresa's job to do this | :57:44. | :57:48. | |
and to get the UK out of whatever How can the party have any | :57:49. | :58:16. | |
credibility including this pledge on immigration, where you don't explain | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
how you will get to it and there is no assessment of the impact it will | :58:22. | :58:24. | |
have in London, and we have heard from all of the business groups of | :58:25. | :58:29. | |
just how important migrant labour is? I wrote a paper about this a few | :58:30. | :58:33. | |
months ago and the Government I think is heading in roughly the same | :58:34. | :58:37. | |
direction. We have to take back control of our borders so we have | :58:38. | :58:41. | |
controlled migration, controlling who comes in and what they come | :58:42. | :58:46. | |
forth. You base it around jobs so we have a work permit process... Why is | :58:47. | :58:54. | |
this not in the manifesto? The Government has already spoken about | :58:55. | :58:59. | |
the work permit process. It hugely depends on... That is the real | :59:00. | :59:03. | |
problem because people are being asked - you accept that? I | :59:04. | :59:09. | |
understand people's concerns but we are just about to start the | :59:10. | :59:14. | |
negotiations. The Evening Standard, edited by your old friend George | :59:15. | :59:19. | |
Osborne, said economically illiterate. I actually think for | :59:20. | :59:33. | |
example through the 1990s with very happily settled in migration but | :59:34. | :59:37. | |
under a controlled basis that was well within that scope. The economy | :59:38. | :59:42. | |
is growing at the moment... The economy was growing them. The idea | :59:43. | :59:46. | |
uncontrolled migration is required for the economy to grow is total | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
nonsense. Controlled migration is what we are talking about. Let me | :59:52. | :59:56. | |
give you an example. What assessment has been done of the construction | :59:57. | :00:01. | |
sector? There are currently 60,000 vacancies, how will you fill those? | :00:02. | :00:07. | |
If you deal with entry-level trades, for example heavy goods vehicle | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
drivers, you can deal with the construction industry, railways... | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
There is a huge demand in these areas but many don't bother to train | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
British workers. When I was running the DWP, we had queues of people who | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
would love to have been... You blame business? They haven't trained | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
people, and they will admit it. It was too easy to go somewhere else | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
and get skilled people in without having to commit to that. Heavy | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
goods vehicle, when you approach those companies they say they cannot | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
find anybody. I bought a bunch of courses for them, got the costs | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
down. What happens in the interim? There is no interim, that's the key | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
point. With a controlled border we need to look at upscaling people. | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
I was talking to a Belgian producer the other day and he loved. He said, | :01:11. | :01:22. | |
we explored to you because we think you go for low skilled, imported | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
workers. We invest in training. That is why we can sell around the world | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
and sometimes your companies don't. We need to look at getting British | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
people trained properly. That will help the productivity position of | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
the UK. Yes, there will be in word migration. The Sunday Times today | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
speculating that IDS may be back in the Cabinet. Have you had | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
discussions? No, certainly not. I'm a free spirit and I can get on down | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
to debate the issues I want. I want the Conservative government to get | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
re-elected. Is the only choice for strong and stable leadership. | :02:04. | :02:04. | |
Now, after the Manchester attack, will the final week of election | :02:05. | :02:19. | |
campaigning different in tone from what came before? My panel are here. | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
Tim Marshall, it will be very front of Centre for the next few days. Is | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
that a good thing for the election if it is going to be framed to who | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
do you feel more safe with? It is inevitable but I think it will only | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
be part of the election. As I said before the opt out, for many voters | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
this is also about economics, unemployment. It is not all about | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
Brexit, nor is it only about security. What it will do, I hope, | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
is get the tone of the debate right. Although I have already seen the | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
tone being lowered. I wasn't impressed with Mr Corbyn's speech | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
last week blaming it on a foreign policy, which is a wafer thin | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
analysis of what is going on. Inappropriate timing too soon? No, I | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
think the argument is utter nonsense. I don't want to attack | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
just one side. The Conservative party, I've forgotten which minister | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
has already said that we would be safer under a Tory Prime Minister, | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
it has got nothing to do with Labour or Tory government, the next Islamic | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
attack. It is to do with jihadist ideology, not party policies. You | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
raise an important issue about tone. It also points to a broader | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
argument, one we were having earlier, has politics been two | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
courses with this issue of extremism? Has the conversation | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
about it tiptoed around some of the sensitive issues? And by the media. | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
You highlight the problem of this being part of the election campaign | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
by saying, has politics been too cautious? Who do you mean by | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
politics? And in an election campaign there is a duty to be a | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
divide, and adamant about values, policies etc. Security is an issue | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
that transcends those political divides. So I think it is deeply | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
unhealthy. It is nobody's fault a tragedy occurred. But if you ask me | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
does it help or enhance an election debate? Emphatically not. A tragic | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
event brings politics, as you call it, together. Security is an issue | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
that is complex and doesn't divide neatly. Elections are political | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
battles, by definition. So I think the coming together of this, a | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
tragedy occurred anyway, but it is an unfortunate context. Do you agree | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
or do you think this is a time to talk about these issues? Is it a | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
time to review the level of argument? This is a political | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
debate. I personally think the politicians should have been out and | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
about on Wednesday. There is no wrong time to get it right. We | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
mustn't let the terrorists affect our way of life. But they have when | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
we disrupt the election campaign. It may be party political. But for a | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
lot of voters, including me, I want to hear from party leaders. What do | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
you plan to do about this? Right now, I've not heard anything that | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
suggests any of these parties have got to grips with the real problem, | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
which is that we are not actually tackling the problem in our midst. | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Douglas Murray touched on it earlier. We have not even come to | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
grips with the scale of the problem. Does Labour have a grip -- Power | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
Point in terms of terrorist legislation? It is complicated. And | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
not all of it has worked or is used enough by government? It is another | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
example where this doesn't work in an election debate because David | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
Davis has opposed a lot of this terrorism legislation. He is now | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
heading Brexit. There is a civil liberties argument which I | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
personally have doubts about. Again, it brings people together from the | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
major parties. And Corbyn didn't actually say it was the cause of | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
terrorism, British foreign policy, but it helped to facilitate | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
terrorism, which is a different argument. Again, that would be | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
supported by some Tories as well. That is why it is difficult in an | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
election campaign for this issue to dominate. The front page of the | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Sunday Times talks about a campaign relaunch, which may not, grow as a | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
great surprise following the social care fiasco. Do we know what that | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
will entail? It sounds like Boris Johnson will play a role. The whole | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
point is it was all about Theresa May and it turns out that is not | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
quite good enough. The more we have seen of Theresa May, the less | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
impressive she has looked. Certainly the Andrew Neil interview just | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
repeating the same thing again and again. Voters don't like that. They | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
like people who are honest and actually engage with them. When we | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
see beat interviews in the next few days, I think it will be interesting | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
to see if she changes tack and tries to engage with what people are | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
asking. If it is back to leadership and Brexit, and the economy, will | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
that be more comfortable ground? I think so. I understand framing it in | :07:59. | :08:08. | |
terms of Brexit. But she has got to broaden it out. I think that is why | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
she is broadening it out. I don't think the tragic events will | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
absolutely dominate. That would be a small victory for terrorism. This is | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
a country of 65 million people with an awful lot of issues. We have 65 | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
million votes, well, 65 million people with opinions in two weeks. | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
It is quite a long campaign. There is still time to go. What do you | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
think Labour will be focusing on from now on? I would imagine they | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
will look very closely at where they are well ahead in the opinion polls | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
and focus on that relentlessly. Public services, NHS etc. And try to | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
get it off as soon as possible from security and fees is used which, on | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
one level at least, appear to be a gift to the Conservatives. I assume | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
that is what they are going to do. But this is a very unpredictable | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
campaign where nothing has gone according to plan. Let's look ahead. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
On Wednesday evening we have got an election debate. It is in Cambridge. | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
Leaders of some of the parties. Amber Rudd will be representing the | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
Conservatives. We don't know yet who will represent Labour. Today we have | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
had Amber Road and Diane Abbott against each other on Andrew Marr. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Let's have a look. I think there is something to be said for a Home | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
Secretary who has actually worked in the Home Office. I work in the home | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
office for nearly three years as a graduate trainee. This government | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
has always felt that urgency. That is why we have been putting in | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
additional money. It is significant that the commission for extremism in | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
the manifesto was put in before Manchester. We need to do more. You | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
voted against prescribing those groups. Because there were groups on | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
that list I deemed to be dissidents rather than terrorist organisations. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
We are making good progress with the companies who put in place | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
encryption. We will continue to build on that. It was 34 years ago. | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
I had a rather splendid Afro at the time. I don't have the same | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
hairstyle. And I don't have the same views. It is 34 years on. The | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
hairstyle has gone. Some of the views have gone. So you no longer, | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
you regret what you said about the IRA? The hairstyle has gone, the | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
views have gone. I would say to Diane Abbott that I have changed my | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
hairstyle are few times in 34 years but I have not changed my view of | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
how we keep the British public safe. Let's get away from hairstyle sides | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
talk about the prospect of the two of them taking part in the election | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
debate. Would you like to see that? On one level I would like to see it | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
and another the level I would like to see an intelligent debate. I'm | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
glad I never had an Afro or supported the IRA. Whenever Diane | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Abbott steps out in a TV studio or a radio studio, Labour haemorrhage | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
votes. She cannot say things like my regret supporting this or that | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
legislation. She is an absolute disaster. If Labour put her up, they | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
are beyond mad. Who do you think Labour should put up? By the way, I | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
did have an Afro! I based my whole log on Kevin Keegan and it was good. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
That is the wrong question. I will explain why. The Labour campaign, it | :11:50. | :12:02. | |
seems to me there were only five or six people put up. That is the fault | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
of others who refused to take part. It also shows the degree to which | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
the current leadership can only rely on five or six people. I would | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
imagine we are talking about a pool of five or six people. As for my | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
judgment as to who the best public performer is in that pool, it would | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
be by some margin John McDonnell, who is a very good interviewee and | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
performer. I think he is a very good performer. It would come back to the | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
economy at some point, presumably. But then it comes back to the IRA. I | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
don't think the debate will be very illuminating. I think if Amber Rudd | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
is there, Diane Abbott should be there. I think the leaders should be | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
debating. Some people say it is froth. I think the leader -- the | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
electorate gets a sense of the leaders. On haircuts, I would like | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
to thank both of them are talking about the haircuts. I am looking | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
forward to tomorrow's papers and the theme that will run through the | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
week. Let's not finish on the hair. Thank you very much for being our | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
guests. That is it for today. Thank the panel for Jonny May. Andrew Neil | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
will be back next weekend. And I will be back on BBC Two on Tuesday. | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
That is at midday with more daily politics. In the meantime, have a | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
very lovely bank holiday. From all of us here, bye-bye. | :13:34. | :14:08. | |
As voters prepare to go to the polls to choose who represents them | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon joins me for the Andrew Neil Interviews. | :14:12. | :14:21. | |
One minute to get the food on the plate. | :14:22. | :14:22. | |
..team them up with a Michelin starred chef, | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
putting their reputation on the line. | :14:28. | :14:28. | |
..which team will have the recipe for success? | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
One minute to get the food on the plate. | :14:37. | :14:39. |