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It's Sunday morning and this is the Sunday Politics. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
A row has broken out between Number Ten and former | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Cabinet minister Nicky Morgan over Brexit and, believe it or not, | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
the price of Theresa May's leather trousers. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
I feel as though I'm one of the people that | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
If you do that, you are likely to attract attention, | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
It's not just Nicky Morgan making life difficult | :00:58. | :01:09. | |
for the Prime Minister - we'll be taking a look at the rest | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Fully paid-up rebel Ken Clarke joins us live. | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Protestors disrupted a speech by Jeremy Corbyn yesterday, | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
but is his biggest problem Labour's miserable performance | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
Corbynite Ken Livingstone and Corbyn critic Chris Leslie | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Plus: These two are in step, but is the North West too segregated | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
think of it as an early Christmas present from us. | :01:34. | :01:52. | |
We guarantee you won't be disappointed. | :01:53. | :01:53. | |
And speaking of guaranteed disappointments - I'm joined | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
by three of the busiest little elves in political journalism. | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
It's Iain Martin, Polly Toynbee and Tom Newton Dunn. | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
So, we knew relations between Theresa May and some | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
of her backbenchers over Europe weren't exactly a bed of roses. | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
But signs of how fractious things are getting come courtesy of this | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
morning's Mail on Sunday which has the details of a series of texts | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
from one of Mrs May's senior advisers to and concerning | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
the former Cabinet minister Nicky Morgan. | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
Mrs Morgan is one of those arguing for a so-called soft Brexit, | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
and has been pressing the PM to reveal more of her negotiation | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
She's also apparently irked Downing Street by questioning | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
Mrs May's decision to purchase and be photographed in a ?995 pair | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
She said she had "never spent that much money on anything apart | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
Mrs Morgan was due to attend a meeting at Number 10 this week | :02:57. | :03:06. | |
But that invitation seems to be off, after a fairly extraordinary | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
argument by text message with Mrs May's joint chief | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
She texted the MP Alistair Burt, another of those arguing | :03:13. | :03:22. | |
for a so-called soft Brexit, cancelling Nicky Morgan's invitation | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
and telling him to not "bring that woman to Number Ten again". | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
The following day Nicky Morgan texted Fiona Hill, saying | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
"If you don't like something I have said or done, please | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
If you don't want my views in future meetings you need to tell them." | :03:39. | :03:52. | |
Shortly afterwards she received the reply "Well, he just did. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
And according to the Mail, Mrs Morgan, who you'll see | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
in our film shortly, has now been formally banned | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
So, Tom, much ado about nothing or telling you about the underlying | :04:04. | :04:20. | |
tensions over Brexit? Both, if I am allowed to choose both. It says | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
something about British politics today, that this is the most | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
important thing we can find to talk about, because the Government are | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
not giving us anything to talk about cs especially on Brexit because they | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
don't have a plan as we know. There is is a lot of truth that are being | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
spoken from this row, one is that Mrs May comes into Downing Street | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
with a lot of baggage including spectacular fall outs with Cabinet | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Ministers in the past. Nicky Morgan being one. We heard about the row | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
over banning children from school. She fell out with Boris Johnson, so, | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
she then enters Number Ten with history. When you are in Number Ten | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
you start, you cannot be controversial and my way but the | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
high way, which is why Fiona Hill kept Theresa May in the Home Office. | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
You need to behave differently in the top job. It is surprising Nicky | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
Morgan hats taken such a robust line. She seemed such a gentle soul | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
as a minister. She did, Brexit has done funny things to people. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
Everything has been shaken up. It reveals really how paranoid they | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
are, I mean you cannot have a situation really in which the, in | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
which you know, Number Ten has got realise if the Prime Minister's | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
entire stick is her authenticity and incredible connection, which is | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
genuine, with voters outside the Metropolitan bubble, when she | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
chooses to wear ?995 leather trousers you have to anticipate that | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
journalists and MPs are going to take the mickey, that is how life | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
works, but I think they are trying to run Number Ten as they ran the | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
Home Office, and you see that in the rows they have had with Mark Carney | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
and Boris Johnson this week, now you might be able to run one Government | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
department in that control freakish way but not Government will hold | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
together for too long, if it is run in that fashion. By try doing the | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
whole Government like one department. This is just the start, | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
Polly, we are still several months away from triggering Article 50. We, | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
The Tory party is split down the middle, the thing that mattered most | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
to the nation since the last war, it is not frivolous. It may look as if | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
it is about trousers, it is about the most serious thing. What was | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
split down the middle? Aren't the Euro-files and the Eurosceptics used | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
to be the outliers, it is now the Europhiles, it is not a split down | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
the middle. They won't vote against Brexit but they will, I think exert | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the maximum influence they can, to make sure that it is not a Brexit, a | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
self-harming Brexit, to make sure that the country understand, when it | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
comes to that point, that there may be really hard decision to make, do | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
you want a real economic damage to be done to the country, to your own | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
wallet, in, in exchange for being able to stop free movement or is | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
that trade off in the end going to be just too expensive? We have seen | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
polls suggesting people are beginning to move, and not willing, | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
a poll out now saying people wouldn't be willing to sacrifice any | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
money at all, for the sake of stopping immigration. So if itself | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
comes to that trade off, the people are going to need to be confronted | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
with that choice. The Irony is, I think the Tories are in the most | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
exceptionally strong position, I mean what is happening here is that | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
British politics is being realigned and remade along leave and remain | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
lines, if the Prime Minister's luck hold, the Tories are looking at | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
being somewhere 45, 46, 47% of the vote with an opposition split | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
between a far left Labour Party and depleted Liberal Democrats, that | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
sound like a recipe for something similar to what happened in the | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
1980s. You are seeing extraordinary alliances between left and right. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
The Scottish referendum rebuilt Scottish politics along the lines of | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
pro independence, anti-independence and now Brexit maybe doing the same. | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
So, rows within the Conservative Party over the price | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
of trousers might be new, but over Europe, not so much. | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
And this week's Commons vote on when the Government will fire | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
the starting gun on Brexit, and what it will say | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
about its plans before it does so, confirmed that instead | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
of the eurosceptics being the outsiders, | :08:58. | :08:58. | |
it's now the Remainers who are leading the resistance. | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
While the Prime Minister was schmoozing in the gold-plated | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
Gulf this week, back home the Commons was voting | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
on a Labour motion forcing her to publish a plan for Brexit. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Through some parliamentary jiggery-pokery, the Government | :09:17. | :09:17. | |
basically got its way, but it did provide a platform | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
for some mischiefmaking by Tory MPs who voted to remain, | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
We are getting somewhat tired, are we not, of this constant level | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
of abuse, this constant criticism that we are somehow Remoaners | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
that want to thwart the will of the people, | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
go back on it and that we don't accept the result. | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
I don't like the result, and yes, I do believe the people | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
It's not good enough that these things are dragged | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
out of the Government by opposition day motions. | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
I'm pleased that it's happened but I wish the Government was taking | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Is Nicky Morgan really listening to her constituents | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
I think I'm one of the people who stuck their head | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
above the parapet so if you do that you're likely to attract attention, | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
you're likely to attract abuse, but also actually levels of support. | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
I'm having e-mails from around the country with people saying thank | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
you for what you are doing, party members around | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
the country saying thank you for what you are doing | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
and saying, and I and others will continue to do that. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
I just think, as a backbench Member of Parliament, | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
you've got to be there, particularly when we have a weak | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
opposition, to ask the question that government needs to be scrutinised | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
on before we embark on such a huge issue. | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
Nobody comes into politics to become a thorn in their party leader's | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
side, but at the end of the day it's such a massive issue that | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
if you don't stand up for what you believe in, | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
I'm not sure what the point is of going into politics. | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
That puts her on a collision course with activists in her local | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
party like Adam Stairs, a committed leader who accuses | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
Nicky has promised me and the rest of our Conservative association | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
she will be voting for Article 50 and she will support | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
the Prime Minister's timetable, and we have just got to trust that | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
and hope that goes ahead, but there's a lot of people | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
who think she's taking sideswipes at the Government | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
The Conservatives are very popular, she wants to be a Conservative MP | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
and we want to see a Conservative government being | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
I have no idea what she's playing at, I think she just needs to get | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
on with her job as an MP, which she does very well, | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
Now let's head to Anna Soubry's constituency nearby to see | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
how her stance is going down with the voters. | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
If Anna Soubry doesn't fully back Brexit, what does | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
Well, she's going to have a little bit of a problem because the voters, | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
especially in this area, they voted to come out of the EU | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
so she will definitely have a little bit of a problem. | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
She should stick for what she believes in, | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
but I guess from a democratic perspective she does... | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
She has admitted the fact over and over again that she wanted | :11:58. | :12:13. | |
to remain, but her views at the moment, even in her e-mails, | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
depicted the fact she's anti-Brexit still. | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
Theresa May will host her most pro-European MPs at Downing Street | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
this week to discuss the countdown to Brexit. | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
Although now we know not everyone is invited. | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
And the MP leading the resistance in the Commons on Wednesday | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
was Ken Clarke, he was the only Conservative MP who voted | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
against the Government's plan to trigger Article 50 by the end | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
of March and he joins us now from Nottingham. | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
Welcome back to the programme Ken Clarke. Now, tell me this when David | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
Cameron resigned after losing the referendum, you had to pick a new | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
leader, which candidate did the Tory Europhiles like you put up to | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
deliver a so-called soft Brexit, or no Brexit at all? Well, I can't | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
speak for the others but I voted for Theresa May, I gave a notorious | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
interview, it wasn't meant to be, I was chatting to Malcolm Rifkind but | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
somebody turned a camera on, I called her a bloody difficult woman | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
which the Tory party probably needs, compared with Margaret Thatcher and | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
said I was going to vote for her, I gave a vote for one of the younger | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
ones first, but I told Teresa I would vote for her, she was the only | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
serious candidate in my view. You voted for somebody you thought was a | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
difficult woman, she is being difficult in ways you don't like, | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
your side of the Tory party, you had your chance to put up somebody more | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
in line with you, instead you shut up, so, why the complaints about it | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
not going in your direction? I am not making complaint, it is not | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
Teresa's fall we are in the dreadful mess, she was on the Remain side, | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
she made a good speech during the campaign on the referendum, setting | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
out the economic case for being in, setting out the security case for | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
being in, which was Home Secretary, she was particularly expert in, it | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
wasn't her fault that not a word it was reported anywhere, in the | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
national media. Now, my views have been the same, I am afraid | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
throughout my adult life, for the 50 years I have been in politics, and | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
my views have been the mainstream policy of the Conservative Party | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
throughout all that time, I don't expect to have a sudden conversion | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
on the 24th June, and I think what I owe to my constituency, and to | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
Parliament, is that I exercise my judgment, I make speeches giving my | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
reasons, I make the best judgment that I can, of what is the national | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
interest. I understand that. I would be a terrible hypocrite if I... Of | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
course that is not what I am asking. How many Conservative MPs do you | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
think you can count on to oppose this so-called hard Brexit? Is it | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
40, 20, 10, 5, 1? I have no idea, because Anna, and Nicky, who you | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
have just seen on the video who are also sticking to their principle, | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
they are only saying what they are been saying ever since they have | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
been in politics, probably may have more idea than me. | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
That is three, how many more? I don't know, we will find out. We are | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
living in a bubble in which the tone of politics is getting nastier and | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
the reporting is getting sillier, so it is all about Theresa May's | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
trousers and whether Boris has made some inappropriate jokes. What we | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
need if we are going to abandon the basis upon which we made ourselves a | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
leading political power in the world for the last 40 years and the basis | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
upon which our economy has prospered because Margaret Thatcher got the | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
others to adopt the single market and we benefited from that more than | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
any other member state, so now we need a serious plan, a strategy. | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
What is our relationship going to be in the modern world? How will our | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
children and grandchildren make the best union they can? We need | :16:20. | :16:29. | |
Parliament's approval of a White Paper and then start years of | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
negotiation. This will run and run. This interview hasn't got time to | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
run and run so let me get another question in. You seem to be quoted | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
in the mail on Sunday this morning as saying if the Prime Minister | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
sides too much with the heart Brexit group, she won't survive, is that | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
your view? Yes because only a minority of the House of Commons | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
think it is frightfully simple and you can just leave. The referendum | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
campaign, the only national media reporting of the issues were | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
completely silly and often quite dishonest arguments on both sides. | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
Let me just check this, explain to me the basis... Know, excuse me, I | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
have to interrupt because you said the Prime Minister won't survive so | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
just explain to our viewers why she won't survive. She will be in a | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
minority she starts adopting the views of John Redwood or Iain Duncan | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
Smith. It's clear majority of the House of Commons doesn't agree with | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
that and it would be pretty catastrophic if that is what we were | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
going to do when we turn up and faced 27 of the nation state, and | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
tell them we are pulling out of the biggest market in the world. How | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
long do you give the Prime Minister then? If you don't think she will | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
survive by going for a heart Brexit? I don't think she will go for a | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
heart Brexit. Really, surrounded by David Davis and Liam Fox? Do you | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
think Liam Fox will determine the policy of the Cabinet? Liam has | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
always been ferociously against the European Union although he served in | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
a government that was pro-European for about two and a half years. Does | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
he not survive either? You're trying to reduce it to my trying to | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
forecast Cabinet reshuffle is which I haven't got a clue whether there | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
will be a Cabinet reshuffle, they may be ministers for the next ten | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
years, I have no idea. Liam and me, but also Liam and the majority of | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
his Cabinet colleagues don't start from the same place. The way forward | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
is for them to produce a White Paper setting out the strategy on which | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
all the Cabinet are agreed. People should stop leaking the Cabinet | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
papers they are getting, they should stop leaking against each other, get | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
down and do the work when they have got the agreed strategy. I'm sorry | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
to interrupt again but we haven't got much time. We saw in our film | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
that a number of constituency members in those areas which are | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
strongly Remain MPs like yourself, in our case in this film it was | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
Nicky Morgan, the constituency party members are unhappy about this. | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
What's your message to them? Don't they deserve an MP that reflects | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
their way of thinking? Leavers are unhappy and Remainers are very | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
grateful. Mine don't go in for abuse... That's probably because | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
you're not on e-mail, Mr Clarke. I get more from Remainers. I'm a great | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
fan of Anna Soubry and Nicky Morgan, I don't agree with them on | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
everything, but the views they are putting forward are the ones they've | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
always held and I think we are doing the Government to favour by saying | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
what it now depends on is your success in agreeing a policy and | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
then explaining to the public what you want to do. I shall be surprised | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
if they manage that by the end of March, I think it is best to get the | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
policy right first but we shall see. Have you been invited then, you say | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
you are being helpful, have you been invited to this meeting in Downing | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
Street on Wednesday for the soft Brexiteers? No, because I haven't | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
been joining any of these groups. It's fair to say most of my | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
colleagues know exactly what my views are. No doubt those that | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
haven't had this kind of discussion with their colleagues before have | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
been invited. I didn't expect to be invited. I get on perfectly well | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
with Theresa May but I haven't been invited, but I don't think there's | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
much significance in that. What do you think of the way Downing Street | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
has handled Nicky Morgan? I feel sorry for women in politics. I'm | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
glad to say men in politics don't have great lead stories about what | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
they are wearing. Apart from my suede shoes, I'm lucky because I'm | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
not a very snappy dresser. It is tedious in these days that we still | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
have a absurd pop newspaper stories about what they are wearing. | :21:39. | :21:50. | |
That commenting on the Prime Minister's trousers, is it really | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
grounds for banishment? No, of course not. Nikki and Teresa will | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
have serious political discussions and if they want to have an argument | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
about what they are wearing, their closest friends will advise them to | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
keep it private. It is absurd. Given that the party appears to be | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
deciding it has been all -- ordered to changes policies about Britain's | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
relationship with the world, it needs to be taken seriously and this | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Lola. Is filling a vacuum before the serious discussion starts. Thank you | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
for filling our vacuum this morning and of course no one would ever | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
criticise how you dress. Of course. Now, seasoned observers will warn | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
against reading too much into parliamentary by-elections, | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
but they can provide a vital boost for a party leader under pressure, | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
or provide damaging ammunition Following a disappointing result | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
for Labour last week in Richmond, Jeremy Corbyn may have been hoping | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
for an early Christmas present at this week's | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
contest in Lincolnshire. In Sleaford and North Hykeham, | :22:56. | :22:56. | |
a constituency that supported Leave in the EU referendum, | :22:57. | :23:05. | |
there was little Christmas cheer for Labour as it fell from second | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
in 2015 to fourth place. That was at least a better | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
performance than in Remain-supporting Richmond Park, | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
where the party's candiate lost his deposit after attracting | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
fewer voters than the reported number of local | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
Labour Party members. Speaking for the Labour Party this | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
week, MP Vernon Coaker said their policies on other major | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
issues were "lost to an extent Some MPs feel that a lack of clarity | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
is holding the party back. This week three frontbenchers | :23:35. | :23:46. | |
were among the 23 Labour MPs to defy the party line and vote | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
against a motion to begin the process of leaving the EU | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
by the end of March. And a number of Labour MPs we've | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
spoken to since Thursday's vote have said they fear the party now runs | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
the risk of being squeezed by the Lib Dems and UKIP, | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
or in the words of one, "being cannabilised, | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
eaten from both ends". To compound their troubles, | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
a national poll released on Friday put Labour | :24:15. | :24:15. | |
at a seven-year low, trailing 17 It's still a season of joy | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
for many of Mr Corbyn's supporters - they point to a series of victories | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
under his leadership, including a by-election win | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
in Tooting and the London mayoral Though neither candidate was a | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
Corbynite. But there's a distinct lack | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
of goodwill on the party of his critics - although having | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
failed comprehensively to challenge him this summer, | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
what they intend to do This morning Diane Abbott played | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
down the significance of the results. The reports of the Labour | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
Party's demise are exaggerated, we are the largest social Democratic | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
party in Europe and the surging membership is down to the current | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
leadership. We have the right policies on the NHS, investing in | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
the economy, and as you know the Tories are fatally split on Europe. | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
And we're joined now by the former mayor | :25:15. | :25:15. | |
of London Ken Livingstone, and the former Shadow | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
Ken Livingstone, in the most recent by-election Labour collapsed from | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
second to fourth place, the one before that your party lost its | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
deposit. What is the positive gloss on that? There's nothing new in | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
this, where you have got seats which are solidly Tory, often voters | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
switched to Lib Dem to kick other voters out. We have had good swings | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
that indicate a Labour government so don't pay too much attention. It is | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
like Orpington 50 years ago. Labour voters switched just to kick the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
Tories out. Don't read too much into these results, Labour did win | :26:02. | :26:11. | |
tooting so it is OK. First of all I don't think it was a problem with | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
the candidates in the by-elections, they did a really good job locally, | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
but there is an issue with those residents and their attitudes to the | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
national party, and I just think that when you have warning bells | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
going off like that, we have to listen to what people are saying. I | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
think what they are saying is they want an opposition party to have a | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
plan. So yes we have got to attack the Conservatives where they are | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
going wrong on the NHS, running headlong over the cliff for a hard | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
Brexit, but we also need a plan for what Labour's alternative will be. | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
When do we get that plant? Effectively you have got it already. | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
John McDonnell has gone on relentlessly for the need for a | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
massive public investment. For decades now under Labour and Tory | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
governments we haven't invested in infrastructure, our roads are a | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
disgrace, a broadband is antique. We need to be honest about this, if | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
Theresa May can come back and say I've done a deal, we are leaving the | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
EU, we will control our borders, we won't have to pay 350 million a year | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
and stay in the single market, well... But that won't happen. If we | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
are going to stumble along for two years heading for an economic | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
disaster, that's why only eight MPs voted to leave, because they knew | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
the harm it would do to their voters. If you have got a plan, why | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
are things getting worse for you in the national polls, 17 points | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
behind? If you look back, when I was leader of Chelsea my poll rating | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
went down... But you have not been as bad since 1983 when you lost an | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
election by a landslide. Over the next two years our economy will not | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
grow strongly, it will limp along at best, as we get closer to Brexit it | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
will get worse. All Labour MPs should be focusing on the economic | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
alternative because nobody ever wins an election without a credible | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
economic strategy. So as long as the country goes to hell in a hand | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
basket, Labour will be fine. That's not good enough. You're not a | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
commentator any more, you are part of the leadership of the party. It | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
is to you. I will continue to argue the case for credibility, | :28:41. | :28:42. | |
particularly in our policies, but the leadership cannot just sit back | :28:43. | :28:49. | |
and watch this drift. On the Brexit situation, the Conservative | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
manifesto at the last general election promised it would be yes to | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
the single market, why aren't we holding them to account for the | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
broken promise potentially they are about to do? If I had still been an | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
MP, I would have been voting with you, rebelling, because we are not | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
going to get any good deal to leave. Theresa May will stumble on for a | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
couple of years trying to balance... The party policies were heard from | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
Diane Abbott this morning is to get the best possible deal to leave. And | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
I will believe it when it happens. So you don't believe a central part | :29:26. | :29:31. | |
of Jeremy Corbyn's policy? Jeremy has accepted the fact people voted | :29:32. | :29:38. | |
to leave. He now said we now need to get the best possible deal and you | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
don't think it's achievable. I don't, because why would the other | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
27 members give us a better deal staying outside? You've confused me, | :29:48. | :29:54. | |
why are you such a big supporter of Corbyn with his policy you don't | :29:55. | :29:56. | |
think it's achievable? Everybody knows we are not going to | :29:57. | :30:07. | |
get a soft exit, so we either have the hard Brexit and we lose perhaps | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
millions, certainly hundreds of thousands of jobs, or we have to say | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
we got it wrong. I mean, you, a lot of people have been saying that all | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
Labour's unclear on Brexit, that is why it is going wrong, I would | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
suggest to you, that actually what the concentration on is the Tories | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
are unclear about Brexit, they are in power, that is what matters, a | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
bigger problem for Labour is whether Mr Corbyn's leadership will cut | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
through or not. I think the YouGov poll this weekend not only gave us | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
that double punch of a 17 point lead for the Conservatives but it had a | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
33 point lead, 33 point, for Theresa May over Jeremy Corbyn, so part of | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
the plan, think, has to be to address this leadership issue, to | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
make sure it is also a party that is listening to the wider public and | :31:00. | :31:06. | |
not just the small number of members or the trotsites in Momentum or | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
whoever is the latest Marxist on the... You The thing that is ox | :31:13. | :31:22. | |
fibbing Labour. One MP said Labour has quoted bunkum. We have has 18 | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
months of Labour MPs stabbing Jeremy in the back and some in the front. | :31:27. | :31:33. | |
The vast majority of Labour MPs have stopped undermining Jeremy. You | :31:34. | :31:36. | |
weren't doing that well before. Can you imagine a situation in which you | :31:37. | :31:39. | |
have elected a new leader and the first year it is all about getting | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
rid of imand undermining him. I disagree with Tony Blair on lots of | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
policy issue, I didn't run wound saying this man is not fit to | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
govern. That is because you had no support for that at the time. The | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
idea people will take lectures from Ken on divisiveness, that is like | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
takes lectures from Boris Johnson on diplomacy, you have to make sure, | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
yes, that we find some accommodation after the leadership election this | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
summer, but the plan is not there right now, and you and the rest of | :32:13. | :32:19. | |
the leadership has to be held accountable for delivering that, I | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
want to hear what the plan is. It is FDR he told us earlier. If you have | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
got now because as we saw in the Autumn Statement, debt to GDP ratio | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
at 90%, you can't convince the public by saying we will throw more | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
money at the problem, the public want a credible plan, where the sums | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
add up, that you are not making promises that won't be delivered. | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
They want that plan. We need to point out our history, when Labour | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
Waugh the election in 45 Government debt was two times that it was now.. | :32:54. | :33:02. | |
Now.. They generated exports and within 50 years we virtually paid | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
off that debt. Austerity is not the way to go. Our economy is a disgrace | :33:07. | :33:13. | |
compared with Germany. I agree. What we have to start saying, there is | :33:14. | :33:16. | |
decent jobs, where are they going to be coming from, can we have a | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
society based on fair play and prosperity for everybody not just | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
the wealthy, that means saying, some time, that people have to | :33:26. | :33:27. | |
contribute, they have to put in, so we have to listen to what the public | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
are saying on issues for instance like immigration, as they said in | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
the Brexit referendum, but make sure we have our approach set out | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
clearly, so people know there is a ability to manage, and control these | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
things, not just ignore them. Those tax dodgers who launder their money | :33:47. | :33:54. | |
through Panamanian banks. If we crackdown on what might be 150 | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
billion a year of tax evasion and avoidance. That is a real outlier | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
estimate as you know, way the highest, you cannot build the FDR | :34:08. | :34:11. | |
programme on tax evasion revenues, alone, but let me ask you. You can | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
say to Starbucks, if you are not going to pay tax on your profits we | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
will tax every cup of coffee. Why don't you nationalise it? I was just | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
checking that would be the policy. Let me ask you this. By what time do | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
you get, start to get worrieded if the polls haven't given to turn | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
round? I mean, I think they will turn round. When do you start to get | :34:37. | :34:41. | |
worried? If they haven't? If in a year's time it was as bad as this we | :34:42. | :34:44. | |
would be worried. I don't think it will be. Jeremy and his team will | :34:45. | :34:50. | |
knows can on the economy, and that is wins every election. Bill | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
Clinton, remember it's the economy stupid. People know if you are going | :34:56. | :34:58. | |
to spend money they want to see where it is coming from, otherwise | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
they will think it is their taxes that will go up and the | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
Conservative, Theresa May, will scare the British public over plans | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
that are not properly... What do you do if things haven't got better in | :35:12. | :35:17. | |
12 months? We lost the leadership election in the summer but we will | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
hold our leadership to account. What does that mean? It means asking for | :35:23. | :35:28. | |
the plan, testing what the proposals are, are they properly credible, do | :35:29. | :35:33. | |
they make sure that they meet the test the public... You just have to | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
bite the bottom lip now, you privately, a lot of you think your | :35:39. | :35:44. | |
party is heading for catastrophe. I don't think it is acceptable that we | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
have this level of performance, currently, I am sure Ken agrees the | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
opinion polls, and those by by-election were just not good | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
enough. We have to show leadership, certainly on Brexit, hold the | :35:58. | :35:59. | |
Government to account. Attack them for the crisis in the NHS, yes and | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
on the economy, to deliver credible policy force, example on defending | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
national security and making sure we stand up for humanitarian | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
intervention. Final point, your party has lost Scotland. You are now | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
in third place behind the stories -- Tories. I never thought I would be | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
able to say that in a broadcast, if you lose the north too, you are | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
heading for the smallest Parliamentary Labour Party since the | :36:27. | :36:30. | |
war, aren't you. But that is our weakness, we in the 13 years of the | :36:31. | :36:34. | |
last Labour Government neglected rebuilding our manufacturing in the | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
way the Germans have done. Millions of people used to have good job, we | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
used to have 8 million jobs in manufacturing it is down two. It is | :36:44. | :36:47. | |
in the north, that Jeremy's strategy has the most relevance, of actually | :36:48. | :36:49. | |
getting the investment and rebuilding. All right. We will see. | :36:50. | :36:54. | |
Come back in 12 months if not before and we will check it out. | :36:55. | :36:59. | |
It's just gone 11.35, you're watching the Sunday Politics. | :37:00. | :37:01. | |
We say goodbye to viewers in Scotland, who leave us now | :37:02. | :37:03. | |
Coming up here in 20 minutes, we'll be talking | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
about Boris Johnson's tour of the Middle East after straying | :37:08. | :37:09. | |
off message, again, and the protestors attempting | :37:10. | :37:11. | |
First though, the Sunday Politics where you are. | :37:12. | :37:22. | |
Coming up in the North West: These two are in step, | :37:23. | :37:28. | |
but is the region too segregated to dance to the same tune? | :37:29. | :37:37. | |
First, affordability. People cannot afford to move to these areas. | :37:38. | :37:44. | |
Second, choice. People choose to live in their own areas so we cannot | :37:45. | :37:46. | |
force that agenda. Joining me in the studio, | :37:47. | :37:48. | |
but not dancing together - yet - Yasmin Qureshi is the Labour MP | :37:49. | :37:51. | |
for Bolton South East And Nigel Evans is the Conservative | :37:52. | :37:54. | |
MP for Ribble Valley. We're going to start at this week's | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
Commons debate on Brexit - where Andy Burnham had some cutting | :38:01. | :38:07. | |
words to say about Labour's It is not working for the more | :38:08. | :38:14. | |
deprived parts of our country. Especially those where traditional | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
industry has been replaced by lower skill, wage employment. It is time | :38:19. | :38:21. | |
for many on this sides of the house to hear the hard | :38:22. | :38:30. | |
truth. It's undermining our communities and safety on the | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
streets. I'm no longer prepared to be complicit, we need answers for | :38:35. | :38:37. | |
our public concerns, based on hope, not hate. | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
Yasmin, Andy Burnham with strong words there. The failure of the | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
Labour Party to confront immigration is endangering safety on the | :38:48. | :38:49. | |
streets, he gave it context later and said in action from the left is | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
leading to hate from the right which is dangerous. Is that right? I've | :38:54. | :39:00. | |
knocked on doors in my constituency and the issue of immigration is a | :39:01. | :39:06. | |
problem for my constituents. It doesn't mean that you are being | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
racist or it is about racism, it's a genuine concern and people, | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
especially poor people, whose economic lives have not gone up. We | :39:15. | :39:20. | |
know all of this but what we don't know is what the Labour Party are | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
doing about it? They have said the way to deal with the issue is to, | :39:25. | :39:29. | |
for example, introduce minimum wage. Now we argue we should be | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
introducing a living wage. So people are paid a proper amount of money. | :39:34. | :39:38. | |
But, can you see why people think Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott have | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
their heads in the sand when it comes to immigration? They say they | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
will not budge or be bullied on it. It's those debates that get heated. | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
I do not think anyone is against, for example, a set of rules on | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
immigration. People coming based on what jobs are available and I do not | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
think anyone would object. But what happens is, different parts of the | :40:00. | :40:06. | |
country have different experiences at immigration. There are a lot of | :40:07. | :40:10. | |
jobs, and in future as well, with an ageing population, they will be | :40:11. | :40:13. | |
needing quite a lot of immigration coming into the country. | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
That's true, I think people want more clarity from the leader of the | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
Labour Party. Niger, that debate ended with the House of Commons | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
agreeing on Theresa May's timeline on withdrawal from the EU, but will | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
she regret publishing her exit plan? -- Nigel. Thank goodness that | :40:34. | :40:39. | |
Parliament have addressed these issues. She will not show her | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
forehand, of course not. Sometimes I play poker and I would love to play | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
against the Labour Party, they're negotiating strategy is to show your | :40:49. | :40:52. | |
hand to your opponent! It will be tough and we would be bonkers if we | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
told them exactly what our Brotton prize was! She has had to | :40:57. | :41:02. | |
compromise, we cannot deny that -- our bottom price. | :41:03. | :41:05. | |
"Worrying levels" of segregation still exist in towns like Oldham, | :41:06. | :41:07. | |
Blackburn and Burnley, according to a government | :41:08. | :41:09. | |
The Casey Review said schools remain divided, | :41:10. | :41:12. | |
and Muslim women are being held back by what it called "regressive | :41:13. | :41:14. | |
But others criticised the report for focusing | :41:15. | :41:17. | |
Song and dance at Oldham's Festival of light. An Interfaith celebration, | :41:18. | :41:37. | |
in a week where headlines have been about segregation. We have | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
challenges, but I'm always heartened by nights like tonight. Because, we | :41:42. | :41:47. | |
see people mixing and I've had to turn down people today because we do | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
not have any room. Despite events like this, Oldham is one of the | :41:53. | :41:57. | |
areas highlighted in Louise Casey's reporters having problems, | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
especially with integration among the Muslim community. This week, | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
schools in old are out of kilter with the area they are based in. | :42:07. | :42:15. | |
Here, 90% of the population is white that a majority of pupils here are | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
from minority backgrounds. They've tried to help integration by | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
merging two schools into this Academy six years ago, one mainly | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
white and the other mainly Asian. If you look at that school now, our | :42:32. | :42:36. | |
young people are more respectful, tolerant and resilience towards one | :42:37. | :42:40. | |
another. Tricky elements are that people are not moving out of their | :42:41. | :42:46. | |
traditional areas. There's the issue of affordability, people cannot | :42:47. | :42:50. | |
afford to move, and the second is about choice. People choose to live | :42:51. | :42:54. | |
in their own area so we cannot force that agenda. But could Muslim | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
communities do more to improve the situation for women? The The Casey | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
Review accuses them of aggressive attitudes. I had a case of a woman | :43:05. | :43:10. | |
at home, with limited English, she could not dial 999 because she could | :43:11. | :43:13. | |
not say where she lived and struggled with the questions. We | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
should not be limiting a woman's opportunity to have conversations | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
with anyone. She spoke of the fear people have about bringing up | :43:24. | :43:24. | |
segregation issues but other -- others caution about going too | :43:25. | :43:33. | |
far in the other direction. Many people in the Muslim community have | :43:34. | :43:36. | |
tried for years to build relationships. When people like | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
Louise Casey, for the government, focused too much on the Muslim | :43:41. | :43:43. | |
community, it creates an even greater sense of feeling the rest of | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
the world is against us. We must be so careful about it. | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
Events like this are a positive sign that not everybody is convinced the | :43:53. | :43:55. | |
integration effort across the region is worth applauding just yet... | :43:56. | :44:01. | |
Yasmin, Louise Casey does not beat around the bush, she is explicit. | :44:02. | :44:07. | |
Members of SummerSlam communities are not doing enough to integrate, | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
is that fair? I disagree with her. I'm not impressed by her report -- | :44:12. | :44:22. | |
members of some Muslim communities. I do not accept this. But do you | :44:23. | :44:30. | |
accept that SummerSlam women cannot leave their home without permission | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
from their husband? If it happens to be true, fine. But that is not the | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
case. Do you deny that it happens? It has not happened in any of my | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
family. Are you saying that the report is inaccurate? My mother | :44:44. | :44:51. | |
raised three children... We aren't talking about your mother Bert the | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
fact it cannot -- but the fact it exists. I came from a traditional | :44:58. | :45:01. | |
Muslim background, I don't remember my father stopping her from doing | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
what she wanted to do. But that is your family, not every Muslim | :45:07. | :45:09. | |
family. The report accepts that integration is getting better but | :45:10. | :45:12. | |
there are pockets where it is terrible. But within all | :45:13. | :45:17. | |
communities, especially religious communities, it is not just Muslim | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
but other religions, there's a degree of some element of | :45:23. | :45:25. | |
conservatism and if it's the case somebody is stopping their wife or | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
someone from leaving home because they are stopping them, that is | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
clearly wrong but if it is happening, of course it must be | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
addressed. I think this report seems to have talked about that, and these | :45:38. | :45:43. | |
issues when actually, the greater issue, as the gentleman in your | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
report alluded to, a lot of people cannot afford to go out and into | :45:49. | :45:55. | |
more expensive areas. Nigel, she has a point about socio economic | :45:56. | :46:00. | |
elements. It is poverty causing segregation as much as religion. Is | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
the Conservative government doing enough to address it? I think Yasmin | :46:05. | :46:07. | |
has a point and we have to do more to integrate. I think it is pockets. | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
The vast majority of the UK, I do not think there is a real issue that | :46:14. | :46:18. | |
there are pockets. I remember going into Bradford where you can look on | :46:19. | :46:25. | |
the streets... But it talks about poverty and social inequality leads | :46:26. | :46:26. | |
to social Segregation. The only way we will | :46:27. | :46:36. | |
get around that problem is by having a growing economic and creating more | :46:37. | :46:41. | |
jobs, better paid jobs. The government is addressing that. When | :46:42. | :46:45. | |
Theresa May was first elected as Prime Minister, she talked about | :46:46. | :46:48. | |
immediately the people left behind. We will have a government that will | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
work for them. For a lot of people left behind, there are people in | :46:54. | :46:59. | |
these communities that Yasmin and the report addresses. But it's not | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
happening at the rate we would like, is it? Not at all. We have to do | :47:04. | :47:07. | |
more about it, and lowering taxes is a way of doing that, by the way! Not | :47:08. | :47:13. | |
everybody agrees! We saw the water head Academy in that report were two | :47:14. | :47:17. | |
schools that were quite segregated were pushed together. | :47:18. | :47:24. | |
By combining the schools, it breeds respect and tolerance. | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
It depends where problems are, in a vast majority of the country there | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
are not issues but where there are pockets, I accept that there may be | :47:35. | :47:38. | |
some were slim ladies told by their husbands that they cannot go out | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
unless they have permission. I think it is awful... But is defending | :47:44. | :47:46. | |
faith schools the right way? But there is not an issue within the | :47:47. | :47:50. | |
vast majority of schools. Faith -based or not. There is not an | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
issue, there is not a problem. People would dispute that, if you | :47:56. | :47:58. | |
are only surrounded by people with the same heritage as you in terms of | :47:59. | :48:02. | |
religion, it won't encourage integration once you leave school? I | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
think the way that the school that was pictured, pushing two schools | :48:08. | :48:10. | |
together and mixing them, where there is a real issue in that | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
particular town then yes, you should address it. Yasmin, our faith | :48:15. | :48:19. | |
schools the way forward? I do not think there are issues with faith | :48:20. | :48:25. | |
schools. I think the issues are economic. We talk about communities | :48:26. | :48:30. | |
together, for example. When there are an | :48:31. | :48:36. | |
immigration issues, people coming into the same area where people knew | :48:37. | :48:41. | |
each other, they live there and there were cheaper homes. A lot of | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
those people and financially well off. | :48:47. | :48:53. | |
-- are not. If you are from a nice detached house in the leafy part of | :48:54. | :48:56. | |
town, I will take it but I cannot afford it. If there is any of that | :48:57. | :48:59. | |
going... We will all take it! This programme has learned that most | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
benefit claimants who've been moved onto Universal Credit are failing | :49:05. | :49:06. | |
to pay their rent and running up Private landlords say the situation | :49:07. | :49:10. | |
is 'unsustainable' and they're now refusing to house | :49:11. | :49:13. | |
people receiving it. The government insists | :49:14. | :49:19. | |
Universal Credit is working Lots of people who have got no money | :49:20. | :49:30. | |
will be in arrears and could get evicted. Their rock people out there | :49:31. | :49:37. | |
who cannot manage their money. -- there are people. People on benefits | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
will be the last choice for landlords. | :49:41. | :49:41. | |
The problems were widely predicted, and now, three years | :49:42. | :49:43. | |
after it was introduced, landlords say they're millions | :49:44. | :49:45. | |
of pounds out of pocket due to Universal Credit. | :49:46. | :49:53. | |
In Speke, South Liverpool Homes runs this shop where people can | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
For the ?2.50, it is ?15 worth of shopping. | :49:58. | :50:09. | |
And the staff here tell stories of those on the benefits unable | :50:10. | :50:12. | |
to manage their money and cover their bills. | :50:13. | :50:14. | |
It is heartbreaking to see some of the people who come here. If you are | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
given ?100 for your rent and your child needs some shoes or a coat, or | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
something to eat... What will you do? | :50:24. | :50:25. | |
Universal Credit brings together six benefits in one monthly payment. | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
That's instead of weekly. But there can be weeks without money when | :50:31. | :50:33. | |
claimants are moved onto it. After years of having their rent | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
paid, and receiving any other money every week, it appears many | :50:38. | :50:40. | |
claimants aren't managing, and it's led to a 64 percent | :50:41. | :50:42. | |
increase in rent arrears. We have had to change our business | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
plan assumptions to make sure that we can accommodate what we can | :50:49. | :50:54. | |
predict. It could be a sizeable increase in rent arrears. And it's | :50:55. | :50:57. | |
not just here people are struggling. The eight housing associations | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
in the North West who gave us information said between them, | :51:04. | :51:06. | |
2200 of their tenants are now All but one say among those tenants, | :51:07. | :51:08. | |
rent arrears have increased. Arrears at New Charter Housing | :51:09. | :51:14. | |
in Tameside are up 30% while at Helana Homes, | :51:15. | :51:21. | |
94% of people on Universal In the private sector | :51:22. | :51:23. | |
the Residential Landlords Association says the situation | :51:24. | :51:35. | |
is 'unsustainable' and with 63% of those tenants who're receiving | :51:36. | :51:37. | |
the new benefit in arrears. Their members are now refusing | :51:38. | :51:39. | |
to take on new tenants If you do not get that rent payment | :51:40. | :51:46. | |
on a regular basis committee could lose the property and the tenant | :51:47. | :51:48. | |
would lose out because of that. "Reasons for rent arrears | :51:49. | :51:50. | |
are complex so it's misleading It says "Universal Credit | :51:51. | :51:53. | |
is designed to mirror the world of work and give people control | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
over their own finances, With the roll out of | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
Universal Credit set to continue, housing providers say they're expect | :52:03. | :52:04. | |
the increase in rent This week, the annual State | :52:05. | :52:07. | |
of the North conference It looks at how the region's | :52:08. | :52:16. | |
economy, and levels of social The Chief executive | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
of the Joseph Rowntree foundation was there - | :52:21. | :52:22. | |
they work to combat poverty. I started by asking her | :52:23. | :52:24. | |
whether Universal credit is making life harder for our most | :52:25. | :52:27. | |
vulnerable. In principle, I think it is very | :52:28. | :52:35. | |
good but there are many things about the design which are undoubtably | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
making it more difficult for people. The sanctions regime and how | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
payments are made, they are all matters of practice which could be | :52:43. | :52:45. | |
changed but currently, they are making life very difficult for | :52:46. | :52:48. | |
vulnerable people. And Steve think that the government gets it, but | :52:49. | :52:52. | |
they'd be -- could they be doing they'd be -- could they be doing | :52:53. | :52:55. | |
more to lift people out Earth poverty? It's down to local | :52:56. | :53:00. | |
authorities and businesses to reverse this terrible trend of one | :53:01. | :53:04. | |
in five people living in poverty. The government knows what it needs | :53:05. | :53:07. | |
to do, research evidence is there and they have to work with local | :53:08. | :53:10. | |
authorities to get it right. You will be leaving your role as the | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
leader of the Joseph Rowntree foundation after a decade, in 2016, | :53:16. | :53:19. | |
did you think that more than one in five people would be in poverty and | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
more than half of them would be in work? | :53:24. | :53:26. | |
We've been reporting the increasing number of people in work who are | :53:27. | :53:29. | |
poor. Numbers have gone up in the last ten | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
years and I would never have predicted that, that our labour | :53:34. | :53:36. | |
market would become so insecure it would lead people in poverty. I | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
would never have imagined one and a quarter million people in this year | :53:41. | :53:43. | |
would be living destitute lives. The labour market has changed | :53:44. | :53:47. | |
radically, but how much can the government do about it? Universal | :53:48. | :53:51. | |
credit was designed to help people navigate our complex labour market. | :53:52. | :53:55. | |
It's not kept up to speed with it, all with help the housing market | :53:56. | :54:00. | |
operates. The government has to intervene to make sure we have | :54:01. | :54:03. | |
enough housing so that people can be secure in their homes and that jobs | :54:04. | :54:07. | |
do provide a decent route out of poverty. | :54:08. | :54:10. | |
Some praise but she stops short of saying that it just isn't working, | :54:11. | :54:16. | |
when it comes to the detail, the most vulnerable in society are | :54:17. | :54:20. | |
really suffering? It's a mixed bag, I think things are improving but it | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
is not enough for a lot of people. If you are talking about over 1 | :54:25. | :54:28. | |
million people living in poverty, we must do some thing about it. That is | :54:29. | :54:32. | |
why I said about Theresa May talking about those who are struggling and | :54:33. | :54:35. | |
clearly there are too many people who are struggling. We must make | :54:36. | :54:40. | |
sure the benefits available are paid through, and the sanctions regime | :54:41. | :54:45. | |
was mentioned. Sometimes I think the sanctions regime is used unfairly | :54:46. | :54:48. | |
against people with mental health needs or something like that. | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
Suddenly they end up with no money. Is it time to admit that universal | :54:53. | :54:55. | |
credit is not working and sometimes it is best for the money to go to | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
the landlord so it bypasses issues where we see people affected. It's | :55:01. | :55:05. | |
early days, we have to look at the process where we see there are | :55:06. | :55:10. | |
deficiencies. We must listen to someone from the Joseph Rowntree | :55:11. | :55:13. | |
Association, she's been there ten years and knowing -- and knows | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
exactly some of the issues there. We've always said the government, | :55:19. | :55:21. | |
nobody should be better off out of work than in work. It's a major | :55:22. | :55:26. | |
principle of universal credit and we must make certain that those who | :55:27. | :55:29. | |
desperately need support get it. That is why they accepted that in | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
some areas, the sliding scale of benefits works, compared to how much | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
you are in work, it means you are incentivised to go back to work but | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
people believe under Jeremy Corbyn it would not be the case. | :55:44. | :55:46. | |
He wants to scrap caps on benefits and those who pay a lot of tax, | :55:47. | :55:50. | |
believe they went to be rewarded in the same way? I doubt think it is | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
such a bad system. Where it falls down, -- I do not think. Wait. Is | :55:56. | :56:07. | |
the way the operators apply it. I have a number of constituents who | :56:08. | :56:11. | |
have made decisions about benefits -- where it falls down is the way | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
the operators apply it. When people are not getting their benefits | :56:17. | :56:19. | |
right, they want to pay for their food and drink, and the rent will be | :56:20. | :56:23. | |
the last thing they are thinking about. Or, when people are | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
sanctioned unfairly. I had a case, and I've had a lot of them, where I | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
cannot understand why people are being sanctioned. A young man told | :56:33. | :56:36. | |
me he had to take a job, and he was happy to, but it meant that he had | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
to get to work for 3am and he does not have a car and there is no | :56:41. | :56:45. | |
public transport... What is the solution? People would argue that | :56:46. | :56:48. | |
under Labour and Jeremy Corbyn, there are hand-outs going left right | :56:49. | :56:51. | |
and centre. I don't think that is right. When Labour were in power, | :56:52. | :56:57. | |
and when they've been out of power, there's aways been a need for a | :56:58. | :57:00. | |
reasonable level of benefits so people can survive. It is right that | :57:01. | :57:08. | |
these people work. But with what is happening with this or in the past, | :57:09. | :57:12. | |
the way that the systems have been administrated with sanctions, it | :57:13. | :57:18. | |
takes months and months for the arrears... It needs to be addressed, | :57:19. | :57:26. | |
doesn't it? Those delays in payments have catastrophic consequences. Yes, | :57:27. | :57:30. | |
in terms of human consequences but looking at rent arrears, it could | :57:31. | :57:34. | |
well be that the system where money is not being paid direct me to the | :57:35. | :57:39. | |
landlord has to be looked at again. If, at the end of the day, people | :57:40. | :57:43. | |
are using rent money for other things, it is clearly wrong -- not | :57:44. | :57:46. | |
being paid directly. The landlords are missing out and | :57:47. | :57:51. | |
eventually the people because they wed get accommodation. Do you accept | :57:52. | :57:56. | |
that, in a way, it has worked? People who have not known how to | :57:57. | :58:00. | |
manage money have learned a lot which is a good thing? For me, I | :58:01. | :58:05. | |
don't know if people have learned that much about management but what | :58:06. | :58:09. | |
we seem to be learning is people who are not bad about management... If | :58:10. | :58:14. | |
manage? The number of people I get manage? The number of people I get | :58:15. | :58:22. | |
on different types of benefits, if something has gone wrong, and they | :58:23. | :58:26. | |
aren't getting the money, people getting money in time are able to | :58:27. | :58:30. | |
pay in time. A single mum with a couple of kids and suddenly they are | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
on benefits, then it stops because of an unfair sanctioned... What | :58:36. | :58:39. | |
happens? It is clearly cruel. It seems that you are both in agreement | :58:40. | :58:42. | |
that there must be a slicker system to make sure they get benefits. We | :58:43. | :58:46. | |
are singing from the same Now, are spending cuts soon to be | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
a thing of the past? With that and the rest of the week's | :58:52. | :58:58. | |
news, here's Judy Hobson. Could an end to austerity | :58:59. | :59:01. | |
be on the cards? The Labour leader of Blackpool says | :59:02. | :59:03. | |
the outlook for councils appears The scale of the challenge has been | :59:04. | :59:12. | |
sheer chat I think we are getting there. -- has been huge. | :59:13. | :59:19. | |
- were in Manchester to launch a charity to help victims | :59:20. | :59:23. | |
The Offside Trust wants funding from The FA and Premier League. | :59:24. | :59:27. | |
Plans for faster trains from Liverpool to Manchester | :59:28. | :59:29. | |
and across to Yorkshire could be in the offing. | :59:30. | :59:31. | |
But is the Transport Secretary sold on the idea? | :59:32. | :59:33. | |
We need much faster journey times across the North. Are we going to | :59:34. | :59:38. | |
see those promises come to fruition? I am waiting to see how transport | :59:39. | :59:42. | |
from the North think we should live... | :59:43. | :59:44. | |
A jury heard how Liverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger was subjected | :59:45. | :59:47. | |
Joshua Bonehill-Paine was convicted of racially aggravated harassment. | :59:48. | :59:50. | |
And the future's flatpack - Liverpool has 15,000 people | :59:51. | :59:56. | |
on a waiting list for homes and reckons these could be | :59:57. | :59:58. | |
Thank you to Yasmin Qureshi and Nigel Evans. | :59:59. | :00:07. | |
I'll be back next week for a final appearance before Christmas. | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
For now, I'll hand you back to Andrew Neil in London. | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
still the biggest factor. We are running out of time. | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
Now, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was rebuked | :00:17. | :00:30. | |
by Downing Street this week - yes, again - after the Guardian | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
revealed he had accused Saudi Arabia of being among countries engaged | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
in fighting "proxy wars" in the Middle East, breaking | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
the Foreign Office's convention of not criticising a key UK ally | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
in the region and annoying the prime minister who'd just returned | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
The Defence Secretary Michael Fallon was asked about it | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
And let's be very clear about this, the way some of his remarks | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
were reported seemed to imply we didn't support the right | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
of Saudi Arabia to defend itself, and it is being attacked by Houthi | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
terrorists from over the border with Yemen, | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
didn't support what Saudi is doing in leading the campaign to restore | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
Some of the reporting led people to think that, and that is all... | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
This was simply the way it was reported and interpreted. | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
The way it was interpreted left people with the impression | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
that we didn't support Saudi Arabia and we do. | :01:21. | :01:29. | |
Well, Mr Johnson has been in the Saudi capital | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
Riyadh this morning, so how's he been received? | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
Our security correspondent Frank Gardner is in neighbouring | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
Bahrain, where Mr Johnson was earlier in the weekend. | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
It has probably been a long time since there has been such interest | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
in a British Foreign Secretary visiting the gulf region. What are | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
the political elites there making of it all? Well, they think to be | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
honest it is a bit of a storm in a tea cup this is a bit of a Whitehall | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
story, I think a lot of people I have spoken to tend to believe that | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
Number Ten have made such a fuss about this, that it has created a | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
story in itself. That said, though, I think that behind the scenes there | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
was a certain amount of damage limitation taking place between | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
London and Riyadh, a bit of smoothing of feathers and reassuring | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
and the Stade Saudis tell me they are reassured the message they are | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
taking is. Coming from Number Ten and they are not taking Boris | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Johnson's comments to heart. He is in the dam, he has met the king, I | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
tweet add picture of that just a few minutes ago. He has been meeting | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Crown Prince, and he is now meeting the Foreign Minister, so the Saudis | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
got an opportunity to brief him according to their vision of the | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Middle East. They will share their security concern, which is not just | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
what is going on in Yemen, but they are very concerned about what they | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
see as Iranian expansionism, that has been a theme here at this | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
conference in Bahrain that Boris Johnson addressed only a day or two | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
ago. If we put aside Mr Johnson's supposed gaffes or even the Downing | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Street slapping down of him, we have had the Prime Minister in the region | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
earlier this week, we have got Mr Johnson there now, can we yet divine | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
what the May Government strategy is in the Golf? -- Guff. In three | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
words, in Boris Johnson's words Britain is back. He was very quick | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
to say not in a jingoistic running up flags, new imperial list way, | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
although that is Howley be seen by some. He gave a very forceful speech | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
which seemed to go down well the gulf hosts here on Friday night | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
which said Britain made a strategic mistake in, after 1968 in | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
withdrawing east of Suez and it will reverse that decision, and invest ?3 | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
billion over the next ten years in building up its military not bases | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
exactly but facilities -- facilities that are here in this part of the | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
world. There are currently 15 hundred hundred British servicemen | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
and women in this region, seven warships and so on. It isn't | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
entirely true to say Britain withdrew east of Suez because we | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
have had a military presence on and off here, the RAF had a base here in | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
Bahrain during the Gulf War of 91. In 2003, of course, British planes | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
and troops deployed from this area, but he and Theresa May are both | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
saying post-Brexit, Britain's big emphasis or one of the big pushes is | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
going to be to redouble its ties with gulf Arab nations, that isn't | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
going to come as an easy bit of new, I think, to human rights campaigners | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
and anti-arms campaigners because a large part of the ?7 billion of | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
bilateral trade Britain did with Saudi Arabia comes from arms deals | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
and those arms are being used in the conflict in Yemen, in some cases | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
with tragic consequences. Thank you very much for talking to us. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
Instead of concentrating on Mr Johnson's gaffes, or Downing Street | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
reaction to it. Frank Gardner there has just given us a really important | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
development, or explained what the British are up to there now. They | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
want to be back in the gulf big time. Isn't that something we should | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
be debating and discussing? It is fascinating. It is yet another | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
example post-Brexit I would say this is someone who voted to Brexit, that | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
the world is changing, and Britain's role is going to be transformed | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
post-Brexit. I mean just on the Boris point, I completely agree, I | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
think a lot of it is ridiculous, in a Whitehall belt way stuff, but I | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
think what is really important about it, is that Number Ten feel | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
threatened by him, and the reason that these ridiculous gaffes and | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
many of them are not even gaffes are pounced upon is he is the main rival | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
for the Crown, so it is high level power play politics, and it is May | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
trying to keep him in his place. What do you make though, of Britain | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
is back in the gulf? That is the big story, is it not. Utterly bizarre, | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
post imperial fantasy, the idea we are back east of Suez? We are | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
breaking off from our closest ally, most like us, the rest of Europe, | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
democratic, decent human rights country, and instead we are allying | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
ourself to perilous, dangerous, unpleasant countries... Why should | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
we be back in the gulf? If that is the trade off, these are, you know, | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
these renasty kingdoms, petty unpleasant and unstable countries. | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
Don't we have to keep the straits open otherwise the oil supply | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
collapses and the world economy will go into the worst recession | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
depression ever? Don't we have to be involved in that We do, and I think | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
what happens is if we leave Europe and we need trade everywhere else, | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
we have to travel the world on our knees begging for friends from the | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
most unsavoury people, where ever they are, whether it is... You keep | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
saying we are leaving Europe, that is a geographic impossibility. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Britain is part of Europe, we are the... Not what Liam Fox is saying. | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
The key power in Nato, we are leaving the European Union, that is | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
a different Tring from Europe. I am trying to move away from Mr Johnson, | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
or even Downing Street to... You got yourself into a Brexit row. | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Everything is through the prism of Brexit, even what you have for | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
breakfast, when you mix up the word like I did last week. What do you | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
make of what Frank Gardner told us? I am somewhere between the two. It | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
is a nighs the line say we are back in the Middle East and we will take | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
this part of the world seriously, the truth is our military is almost | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
tiny, it is smaller than it was in the Napoleonic wars, that is not a | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
huge amount more. Of course there S one of the two new aircraft | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
carriers, that will be deployed in the gulf, to help the Americans keep | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
the straits of her muz open, because it is in Europe's interest, not just | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
Britains, Europe's interest that these straits stay open, which is | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
more so than America. That is what FRANK was talking about. That is no | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
change, British foreign policy has been keeping the straits open... Now | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
we have the ability do it. We don't have an aircraft aier at the moment. | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
Nor do we have the fleet of ships it needs. It is a great thing to be | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
trade morgue with the Nice, to be turning -- Middle East, to be | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
turning round more tax revenues and the like. Even selling weapons. I | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
don't know what more can be done. You look at what has happened. BBC | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
has had horrific reports from the Yemen and if you look at what the | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
weapons are being used for, is that the trade we want? Right. Let us | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
move on. Mr Corbyn was giving a speech yesterday but he was | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
inter#ru79ded by Peter Tatchell. -- interrupted. | :09:41. | :09:41. | |
Peter, could we leave this to the questions please? | :09:42. | :09:54. | |
Peter, we are trying to make a speech here and then | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
Was Peter Tatchell right do that yesterday? It is a bit of a | :09:57. | :10:10. | |
distraction really. Jeremy Corbyn 17% in the polled is not going to be | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
able to change... You mean his personal rating. If you want to do | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
something about Syria you ought to be addressing the Government rather | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
than a failing Labour leader. Peter Tatchell's line was Labour in | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
general, Mr Corbyn in particular had not been vocal enough in condemning | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
what the Russians and their Assad allies are doing in Aleppo. It was | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
interesting Mr Corbyn had to ask Emily Thornberry if and when had | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
they condemned what the Russians were doing? It was unclear. Other | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
than Mrs Thornbury herself. There is a fascinating fault line in politics | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
which is the Trump administration, the way in which parts of the | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
British left have made themselves useful idiots once again for the | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
Kremlin and it its policies. I think more broadly, you consider all the | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
things we have been discussing, it is a national tragedy what is | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
happening to the Labour Party. You don't know whether to laugh or cry | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
watching that event. Corbyn was at a stop the war rally event only last | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
week, and they of course are very close to the Kremlin, they blame the | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
west, well they blame the west much more... They always blame the west. | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
And not the Russians. I agree Jeremy Corbyn having to check with Emily | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Thornberry what the Labour Party's policy was on bombing Aleppo... If | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
and when they condemned it. He needs to no better. The fact that we are | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
talking about what was a pretty small scale protest, rather than | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
anything Corbyn said, shows he wasn't saying anything relevant. We | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
will get a huge amount of tweet saying the BBC are anti-Corbyn. I | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
understand that, that shouldn't intimidate us from saying, from | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
analysing what is happening, and here is one yard stick, of course it | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
is fundamentally the Government's choice, but it could be an indicator | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
of whether the Labour Party is relevant or not in only issues, in | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
reason pert Murdoch is making a take over bid for all of Sky and so far | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
you would have to bet, policy, that it is going to get through pretty | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
much unscathed. It is extraordinary. It is connected with Leveson, and | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
the fact that that has disappeared. That the idea of restraining the | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
press in any way at all, and virtual will I the whole of the press is | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
behind that, and it seems to go with allowing what wasn't allowed before. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
He was judged as unfit before. He is as unfit now, to control that much | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
of the media, and as he was when he made the last bid for Sky. It is | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
time people stood up and said so. You look at the press he runs, the | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
cultural effect he has has on this country which has been appalling, | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
you know about this. Tom, I better let you have a word. I don't agree | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
at all Polly but the lesson for the Labour Party, is if they don't want | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
to have any influence at all, they have to be credible, and stand a | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
reasonable chance of becoming Prime Minister or becoming Government, | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
that is the only way they will get leverage. We need to leave it there. | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
I was going to say we will come back to it. We will see. The Daily | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
Politics will be back at noon tomorrow. | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
and we'll be back here next Sunday for the last show of 2016. | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
Remember - if it's Sunday, it's the Sunday Politics. | :13:45. | :13:52. |