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Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and citizens of seven

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mainly Muslim countries sparks protests at several US airports.

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And in the north-west: Is the Northern Powerhouse picking up pace?

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Plus, the Lancashire MP taking the lead on loneliness,

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part of the legacy of the late Jo Cox.

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Should she have spoken out more strongly?

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We'll ask former Ukip leader and Trump confidant Nigel Farage

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what he makes of the travel ban and the Prime Minister's

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In London this week, the mayor, Sadiq Khan,

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has been coming under pressure to explain his fares freeze

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and why it doesn't apply to everybody.

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And with me, the best and brightest political

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panel in the business - Steve Richards, Julia

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They'll be tweeting throughout the programme.

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It was soon after Theresa May left the White House on Friday that

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Donald Trump signed the executive order banning citizens from seven

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President Trump's 90-day ban covers Iran, Iraq,

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Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Syria, from

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where refugees are banned from until further notice.

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Donald Trump's executive order also imposes a complete ban

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on all refugees coming to the US for the next 120 days.

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Mr Trump said that the ban would keep radical Islamic terrorists out

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But the ban has sparked protests across the US,

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as people affected and already in the air were detained

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US laws have begun legal action to challenge the ban, which many

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At a press conference in Ankara, Turkey, Theresa May was asked

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about the refugee ban three times before giving this response...

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Well, the United States is responsible for the United States'

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The United Kingdom is responsible for the United Kingdom's policy

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on refugees, and our policy on refugees is to have a number

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of voluntary schemes to bring Syrian refugees into the country.

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Downing Street later issued a statement saying:

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This morning, the Treasury Minister, David Gauke, was asked why

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Theresa May had refused to condemn the travel ban at yesterday's

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The Prime Minister is not a shoot-from-the-hip

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She wants to see the evidence, she wants

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to understand precisely what the implications are.

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She'd been in a series of very lengthy meetings with

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President Erdogan, and she's someone who wants to see the briefing and

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understand it, and then will respond to that.

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I think there are times where, you know, there's always

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pressure to respond within a news cycle and so on.

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The important thing is, we are saying we disagree with it

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We're joined now from North London by the Conservative

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Should the Government in general and Theresa May in particular be more

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vocal in their criticism of Donald Trump's travel bans? Well, as David

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just said, it is obviously right that Theresa has now said this is an

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appropriate and not something we agree with in our Government, but I

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wish she had said something at the time, not least because it affects

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our own citizens. One of our own MPs, Nadhim, for example, because it

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is also a global crisis. She had clearly built an excellent with

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Donald Trump -- she had built an excellent relationship with him, but

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she could have been firmer. Mrs May hasn't said any word of criticism

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about the travel bans. She refused to say anything three times in

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Ankara, and it is merely an anonymous Downing Street

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spokesperson that has issued the subsequent mild criticism. We have

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not heard from the Prime Minister at all on this matter in terms of

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criticism. No, but the spokesperson will be speaking with her blessing,

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so it is clearly something she has acknowledged. As I said before, I

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wish she had said something at the time. The global climate at the

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moment is delicate and we need our leaders to work together to address

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things like the refugee crisis. Potentially, this plays into the

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hands of Daesh. It is absolutely not the right message. What would you

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like the Prime Minister to say? As with any new relationship, it is

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about testing the boundaries. They had clearly got on well, so she

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should have felt braver to say something there and then. I would

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have preferred her to say, for example, I need to talk to Donald

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Trump about this. It is not something I support and I want to

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understand why because I believe there is a better way to deal with

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the terrorist threat. I would have liked her to suggest that she would

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engage with him to do that. The president has instituted a 90 day

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temporary ban on people coming from seven mainly Muslim majority

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population countries. The seven were on President Obama's list of the

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biggest terrorist threats to the United States. Mr Trump wants this

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temporary ban until he puts tougher vetting procedures in place. What is

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wrong with that? Because it appeared to me that it wasn't thought through

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and it was affecting ordinary citizens and some British citizens.

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It can't be right that a president in that position of power can

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arbitrarily come up with executive powers like that. It has already

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been challenged by his own courts. So it is not the considered approach

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I want to see in a global leader. Who do you believe will be hurt by

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this, given that there can be exceptions on a case-by-case basis?

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I think potentially, our global reputation is going to be hurt by

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this. I have been to the refugee camps in Europe myself. There are

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desperate people trying to free persecution who will be hurt by

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this. We are trying to heal the wounds in this country not only

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because of Brexit. This is a time of coming together, not about saying it

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is located discriminatory against race and religion in this way. Do

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you believe that Mr Trump's state visit should go ahead? Well, he is

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the leader of America, so it does need to go ahead and we need to work

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with him. I believe Theresa has started in a positive manner was

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that she just needs to continue in that vein. If he comes to our

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country, he needs to respect the way we feel about things. But yes, he is

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the president, so he does need to come to the UK. There is some debate

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within Westminster as to where it is appropriate for him to speak to MPs,

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but it is right that he comes. But if he does come on a state visit,

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should he be granted what this country has always thought of as a

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great honour, which is a joint address to both Houses of

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Parliament? I haven't been an MP long enough to understand the

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protocol of where is the right location for him to do that, but I

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believe in the past, it has been the greatest leaders, when they have

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achieved great things globally, it is Westminster Hall. But there are a

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number of MPs saying that is not the most appropriate place and I am

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inclined to agree. You don't think he should be accorded the privilege

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of speaking to a joint session of Parliament? I think there are places

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where he can do that, but Westminster Hall is not yet the

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right place. Thank you for joining us.

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Steve, within 24 hours, we have seen the difficulty of becoming Donald

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Trump's best friend. On the one hand, it could have huge advantages,

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particularly for a Brexit Britain. On the other hand, if you are going

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to be his best friend, you don't have to give a running commentary on

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every major thing he does. Yeah. We have learned a bit about Theresa

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May, that when she has to produce a set piece speech which she has time

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to prepare, she can get it totally right and sometimes more than right.

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When she is faced with a fast-moving story, she is leaden footed and

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can't think quickly on her feet. We know, did she regret not saying

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more? Evidently she did, because we got a statement from the Downing

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Street spokesperson saying more. So she can't think quickly. She's going

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to have to think very quickly in response to some of the things he's

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going to be doing, because she will be asked about it all the time. It

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does highlight the wider danger that the assumption that the special

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relationship is always a safe and fertile place to be has been proven

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wrong before and I think it will be proven wrong big-time in this case.

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You're shaking your head. I don't see why we are responsible for

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American domestic policy. I am as appalled as the next person by what

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Donald Trump has done. He said he was going to do this, which was why

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I did not want Americans to vote for him. In fact, what he has

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implemented is much less than what he said he would do when he was

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campaigning. I have always felt that the campaigning Trump was the real

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Trump. But what he has done is actually constitutional. He has the

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executive power to issue this order. It is within the rules in terms of a

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class of aliens deemed to be a risk to the United States. It is a 90 day

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limited ban. The last president who did this was a Democrat president,

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President Carter. He did it in the aftermath of the Iranian crisis.

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Well, given the spate of terror attacks on American territory in

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recent years, you could argue that he meant well. I don't agree with

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Donald Trump. But have people from these countries that he has banned

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been involved in terrorist attacks? That is the absurdity. He has not

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included Egypt or Pakistan. But I don't remove everyone getting in

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such a state about President Carter. The reality is that it is a legal

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thing for him to do. I don't like it. But it is not my territory. It

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is illegal, because they have been given a right to remain by a judge

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in Brooklyn and another judging Alexandra. That is a different issue

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for people who have already gone through the vetting. I don't agree

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with this. However, I don't think it's reasonable to say that Theresa

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May, because she wants to do a deal with Donald Trump, I don't give is

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reasonable to say she have to agree with each of his policies. It is

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nonsense. But the issue, Janan, is not whether she needs to agree with

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him. The question is that she will be questioned about him all the time

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now. And although these are matters of domestic policy, the refugee

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policy is international. They speak to issues that affect Britain as

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well, and I would suggest that she will not get away with this

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anonymous statement from Downing Street. People will demand a she

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says something on the record. She would get away with it indefinitely.

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These situations will recur every time Donald Trump says or does

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something contentious. She will be pressed to this associate her

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administration from his. She will probably be in a better logistical

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situation to do so. She has spent a big chunk of the past 72 hours in

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the air. She flew from Washington to Ankara, than from Ankara to London.

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We don't have Air Force One, we don't have those frictionless

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communications with the ground. She would have been incommunicado for

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large periods of time when this story was breaking. That doesn't

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excuse the stiff response when she landed and issued a statement via

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Downing Street. But during that delay, she did have a plausible

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excuse. She has also got a much more tricky geopolitical situation than

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many other world leaders. She has to strike a favourable trade deal with

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the new US president. It is all very well people saying Justin Trudeau of

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Canada was much more vociferous in his criticism of Donald Trump. He is

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already in Nafta, he is not striking a new deal. For how long, we don't

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know. Exactly, he's trying to stay in Nafta, but he is in a less tricky

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situation than she is. Now, Theresa May's was the first

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foreign leader to meet President Trump and the visit

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was seen as quite a coup for the Prime Minister,

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keen for a new trading relationship with the United States

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in the wake of Brexit. The Prime Minister congratulated

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the new US President for his "stunning election victory"

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but might not have intended to be pictured walking

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through the White House with him That picture of Donald Trump helping

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Theresa May down the steps through the White House colonnade

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will be the enduring image Mrs May said the President

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told her he was "100% behind Nato". And for her part, the Prime Minister

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said she would work hard to make sure other Nato countries

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increased their defence spending It's been announced

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that there will be a new trade negotiation agreement,

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with high-level talks The hope is that this will lead

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to a new trade deal between the two countries as soon as

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Britain leaves the EU. Mr Trump said he believed "Brexit's

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going to be a wonderful thing". On Russia, Theresa May made clear

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to Donald Trump her continued

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backing for sanctions. And following the controversy over

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the President's support for torture, Mr Trump said he would defer

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to his Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis, who argues

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that the practice doesn't work. And I'm joined now by the former

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Ukip leader, Nigel Farage. Do you agree with Mr Trump's

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decision to ban Syrian refugees indefinitely from entering the

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United States? I agree with the concept of democracy, a point which

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appears to be missed by almost all commentators including the BBC. He

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was elected to get tough and say he would do everything in his power to

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protect America from infiltration by ISIS terrorists. There are seven

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countries on that list. He's entitled to do this. I didn't ask if

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he was entitled, I asked if agree with it. I do, because if you just

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look at what's happening in France and Germany, if you look at Angela

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Merkel's policy which was to allow virtually anyone in from anywhere,

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look what it led to. You said in 2013 there's a responsibility on all

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of us in the free west to help some of those people fleeing Syria

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literally in fear of their lives. That's the Christian community in

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virtually all of those country, it is almost too late because many have

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been wiped out but if you are looking for a genuine definition of

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a refugee, going back to 1951, it is someone in direct fear of

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persecution of their life because of their race, religion or beliefs. But

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you didn't talk about only Christians, and in January 2014 you

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said, I seem to recall it was Ukip who started the debate on allowing

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Syrian refugees, you seem to be in favour of allowing proper refugees

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into this country. If they can be defined. Mr Trump won't let any in.

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He is running American policy, not British policy. Since I made those

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comments, we have had the Angela Merkel madness and I think Trump's

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policy in many ways has been shaped by what Angela Merkel did. He is

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fully entitled to do this, and as far as we are concerned in this

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country, I would like to see extreme vetting. Since 9/11 can you name any

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terrorist event in the United States that has involved refugees that have

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been allowed into the country? No, in fact the terrorist events have

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been US citizens radicalised. When you have a problem already, why

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would you wish to add to it? I would remind you that of the eight people

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that committed those atrocities in Paris, five of them had got into

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Europe posing as refugees so there is an issue here. But perhaps not

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for America because it has the most rigorous and lengthy screening

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process in the world, especially for Syrians. You have to register with

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the UN agency for refugees, which then recommend certain names to

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America, they then go through biometric screening, database

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screening, intelligent screenings, including four separate intelligence

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agencies screening you. How more rigorous would you want it to be? It

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is much more rigorous than we are or the rest of Europe. This is why we

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have elections, so voters can make choices and they voted for Donald

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Trump to become president and he said he would put bans in place and

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then move towards extreme vetting. As far as the Syrians are concerned

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he's made that decision but that's what he was voted in fourth. Since

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you know him, you have met him, you are confident of his, I'm testing

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you on the logic of it. Not that he's democratically elected, I'm not

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asking about that, I'm trying to get the case, particularly since if you

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take the seven countries of which the ban applies for 19 days, again,

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of these seven countries, its citizens have not been involved in

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terrorist attacks in the United States. It would be a mistake to say

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it is just Muslim countries because the biggest Muslim countries in the

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world have not been included in this. The point is they have made

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this assessment, they bought themselves 90 days to think about

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the policy. This is exactly what Trump's voters would have wanted him

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to do. You said the President's rhetoric on immigrants made even you

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feel very uncomfortable. Because he started by saying there was a total

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ban, then amended it to say there would be vetting. My guess is that

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what he will do is try to genuinely help Syrian people and he will be

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talking about the creation of some safe zones. Let's see. He hasn't. We

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will see. I suspect something like that is coming down the trap. What

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advice did you give to the president and his advisers ahead of Theresa

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May's visit? That I wanted us to talk about trade and to give the

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Prime Minister the impression that actually... When she has been

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surrounded by her whole career by civil servants and politicians who

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say that everything takes five years or seven years or ten years, to make

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it clear to the Prime Minister that if there is will, these things can

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be done quickly. Isn't there a danger of a British Prime Minister

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who has to deal with the president of the United States, to Ally

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herself so closely with such an unpredictable, controversial

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president, banning Muslims in certain ways and refugees, building

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a war with Mexico, threatening trade was with other countries, thinking

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of ending sanctions against Russia? I missing something here, what is

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controversial about defending the Mexican border? Bill Clinton spoke

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in tough terms, George Bush built six miles of fence, and because it

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is Donald Trump there is uproar. So you think there is no risk of the

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British by Minister being the best friend of this type of president? I

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think there is no risk in putting together a trade deal and no risk in

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her being the bridge between America and the rest of Nato to say to Nato

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members if you don't pay your 2% he is serious so on those things there

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is no risk at all. It was clear from her Lancaster house speech that the

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Brexiteers in the Government had won pretty much every argument in terms

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of negotiations to come out. What you want from her? She was very good

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as Home Secretary, Tory party conferences, the Tory press saying

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this was the new Thatcher and she failed. She even failed to control

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immigration from outside the European Union so yes, it was a good

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speech and for many on the Eurosceptic side of the argument, I

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could scarcely believe that a British Prime Minister was saying

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things which I had been roundly abused and vilified for. But I have

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a feeling we may be in for a very frustrating 2017. The mood as I can

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see it in Brussels is that negotiating with Britain is not a

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priority, they are far more worried about Dutch elections, French

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elections, German elections and possibly even Italian elections. I

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worry that by the end of this year we may not have made much progress

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and that's why the Trump visit suddenly things brings into focus.

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What if by the middle of June, for argument 's sake, the Americans say

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OK we reached this position with the British, compromised on the tough

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stuff, food standards and things like that, we are ready to sign a

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deal now, and Theresa May is to say actually Mr Juncker says I cannot

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sign this until we leave. What will they do? They cannot throw us out,

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we are living anyway. But everybody agrees you can talk about the deal,

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maybe even do the heads of agreement but you cannot sign a treaty until

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we have left the EU. Let me predict that at the end of this year we will

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find a European Union who frankly don't want to talk to us and

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countries around the world that want to get on and do things and that

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will be the big tension for Mrs May over the course of this year. If the

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Prime Minister is giving you everything you want on Brexit, you

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agree that she's trying to get from your point of view the right things.

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If she delivers on that and get Brexit on the terms of which you

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approve, what's the point of Ukip? You could argue that about any

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political party. If we have achieved the goal that we set out to achieve,

:23:51.:23:56.

there are right now out there 4 million people who are Ukip

:23:57.:23:59.

loyalists. They are delighted that by voting Ukip we got a referendum,

:24:00.:24:04.

they will be even happier if they seek us leave the European Union and

:24:05.:24:09.

I think there is still a gap in British politics for a party that

:24:10.:24:13.

says it as it sees it, is not afraid by political correctness and is seen

:24:14.:24:16.

to be on the side of the little people, and that's why, with the

:24:17.:24:21.

Labour Party is fundamentally split, and it really is totally split over

:24:22.:24:26.

this European question, I think Ukip is in good shape. That proposition

:24:27.:24:31.

will be put to test at the Stoke Central by-election, one of Ukip's

:24:32.:24:35.

best prospects in the country. Some people call it the capital of

:24:36.:24:39.

Brexit. Labour is in chaos over Article 50, is picked a candidate to

:24:40.:24:46.

fight Stoke Central who has described Brexit is a pile of notes.

:24:47.:24:55.

If your successor, Paul Nuttall, cannot win the Stoke by-election,

:24:56.:24:59.

there's not much hope for you, is there? I think he will. I've always

:25:00.:25:03.

been told don't make predictions but I think he will win. If you doesn't

:25:04.:25:09.

it will be tough, we will still have our 4 million loyalists, but if it

:25:10.:25:15.

does we can actually see Labour are beatable in their heartlands and

:25:16.:25:19.

Ukip will be off to the second big stage. Nigel Farage, thank you for

:25:20.:25:21.

being with us. It's just gone 11.25,

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you're watching the Sunday Politics. We say goodbye to viewers

:25:24.:25:24.

in Scotland, who leave us now Coming up here in 15 minutes, I'll

:25:25.:25:27.

be talking to our political panel. The Lancashire MP taking a lead

:25:28.:25:36.

on loneliness and the legacy Seema Kennedy on that

:25:37.:25:41.

campaign a little later. But here in this studio

:25:42.:25:48.

we welcome Justin Madders, the Labour MP for Ellesmere Port

:25:49.:25:50.

and Neston, and Mark Menzies, We start with Brexit and this week's

:25:51.:25:53.

ruling that Parliament will vote on whether we begin

:25:54.:26:00.

the exit process. Here are a couple of MPs

:26:01.:26:03.

who've said they will vote The Government are trying

:26:04.:26:06.

to persuade the public they can It is all going to end in tears

:26:07.:26:11.

in one way or another unless people reflect positively,

:26:12.:26:16.

and with clarity, on the outcome when negotiations are complete,

:26:17.:26:18.

and that requires, I think, Up until now, I have not heard

:26:19.:26:20.

any convincing argument from the Government about the kind

:26:21.:26:27.

of negotiation that they want to enter into, which will look

:26:28.:26:30.

after the people of So, no surprises on the Lib Dem

:26:31.:26:32.

stance - they want a public vote Much trickier for Labour

:26:33.:26:37.

MPs and Conservative, whose constituents voted to remain

:26:38.:26:40.

in the European Union, Justin, is Jeremy Corbyn right

:26:41.:26:43.

to impose a three-line whip on this, knowing there will be a big crisis

:26:44.:26:48.

of conscience for lots of his MPs? Well, he is the leader so he has got

:26:49.:26:52.

to lead on these things, and I think sometimes people

:26:53.:26:55.

are a bit unfair on him So, I think the shoe's

:26:56.:26:58.

on the other foot. The criticism of him on this,

:26:59.:27:01.

I think, is a bit misplaced. But I do appreciate that MPs

:27:02.:27:04.

who are representing constituencies who heavily voted for Remain

:27:05.:27:08.

are going to be put in a very difficult position,

:27:09.:27:11.

and they have got to listen to what the constituents say,

:27:12.:27:13.

as well as the wider electorate. Jeff Smith and Ann Coffey have both

:27:14.:27:17.

declared that they will vote Do you think we are likely

:27:18.:27:19.

to see more rebellion? I think, certainly, we have got

:27:20.:27:24.

to look at what the votes That is to try to predict

:27:25.:27:27.

where people are going to vote, and obviously Jeff's example, 76%

:27:28.:27:31.

of his constituents voted Remain, and I don't think anyone can

:27:32.:27:34.

argue that he is not reflecting the wishes of his own

:27:35.:27:37.

individual constituents. But I think the majority of Labour

:27:38.:27:39.

MPs will vote to trigger Article 50. Has the Prime Minister had

:27:40.:27:45.

to compromise twice this week, once conceding to the House when it

:27:46.:27:48.

comes to voting on triggering, and secondly she has said

:27:49.:27:52.

she will reveal her hand when it She did not want to do

:27:53.:27:55.

either of those things. Well, compromise is

:27:56.:27:58.

a word that you use. I would actually say

:27:59.:28:00.

"setting out a clear position". So, you know, people have been

:28:01.:28:02.

asking for some clarity The Prime Minister,

:28:03.:28:05.

not just on the issue of the White Paper this week,

:28:06.:28:09.

but more importantly in the speech that she made the previous week,

:28:10.:28:12.

made it very, very clear on the key points were that she

:28:13.:28:15.

would be entering in And one of the principal thinks

:28:16.:28:17.

that people in the north-west is one of the principal things

:28:18.:28:23.

that the Prime Minister's concerned about, is ensuring

:28:24.:28:26.

that there is no free movement of people in the way

:28:27.:28:28.

that we had in the past, and also ensuring that we have got

:28:29.:28:31.

as much access for British goods and services, not just in Europe

:28:32.:28:34.

but across the globe. Well, we learnt a little bit this

:28:35.:28:38.

week in that respect. One man who has an unenviable task

:28:39.:28:41.

over the next couple of years is Lindsay Hoyle,

:28:42.:28:44.

the Deputy Speaker of the House. He is going to have to go

:28:45.:28:47.

through all of those amendments This is going to be an incredibly

:28:48.:28:50.

messy divorce, isn't it? Do you think the two-year timetable

:28:51.:28:54.

for agreeing on a deal, I suppose one of the criticisms

:28:55.:28:57.

we can marvel at Theresa May is that she could have got

:28:58.:29:05.

on with this process a little bit earlier,

:29:06.:29:07.

had she fought the court case. That has been a complete

:29:08.:29:10.

waste of time and money, because every legal opinion

:29:11.:29:12.

was clear that she was not So we have lost considerable time,

:29:13.:29:14.

but we could have been And I think it is very important,

:29:15.:29:21.

from my constituents' perspective, that the rights that we have got

:29:22.:29:25.

from Europe, particularly in terms of employment protection,

:29:26.:29:28.

are retained, and of course for the manufacturing industry

:29:29.:29:29.

in my area that we have as good access as possible

:29:30.:29:32.

to the free market. And that means no

:29:33.:29:34.

tariffs, if possible. Prime Minister back in the autumn

:29:35.:29:36.

made it very clear that Article 50 Article 50 will be

:29:37.:29:44.

triggered in March. It looks set to the timetable

:29:45.:29:47.

for now, but I am sure we will be The cabinet came to

:29:48.:29:54.

the north-west this week. With an industry-themed 60

:29:55.:29:57.

Seconds, here's Carol Lowe. From Westminster to Warrington -

:29:58.:30:04.

the Prime Minister brought the top table of Government

:30:05.:30:06.

to the north-west to unveil her industrial strategy and commitment

:30:07.:30:08.

to the local economy. Investment in the Northern

:30:09.:30:13.

Powerhouse that will bring jobs - that's part of our industrial

:30:14.:30:15.

strategy, which is about ensuring the economy is working

:30:16.:30:18.

across the whole country. Later in the week, the Minister

:30:19.:30:22.

in charge of delivering the Northern Powerhouse came

:30:23.:30:25.

to Ellesmere Port to open Also in the money was Blackpool,

:30:26.:30:28.

which is hoping to bring back party conferences with ?15 million

:30:29.:30:33.

of Government funding I hope it will start to make many,

:30:34.:30:35.

many people in Blackpool feel that Labour's Steve Rotheram

:30:36.:30:43.

launched his campaign for metro mayor of the Liverpool City region

:30:44.:30:48.

with a pledge to improve apprenticeships and fight

:30:49.:30:50.

for more devolved powers. And one of the region's most

:30:51.:30:55.

prestigious manufacturers is celebrating a record year -

:30:56.:30:57.

there were bumper sales So, I met the Prime Minister on

:30:58.:31:01.

Monday when she was in Warrington. The thing that stood out

:31:02.:31:12.

about my interview with her was, in the space of a very short

:31:13.:31:14.

interview, she mentioned She was really reluctant to use that

:31:15.:31:17.

phrase last summer, wasn't she? And can we take from that fact

:31:18.:31:21.

it's alive and well? Does it feel like it's something

:31:22.:31:23.

tangible, Justin, to you? Or is it just a phrase

:31:24.:31:26.

that means nothing? I've always felt it was a little bit

:31:27.:31:29.

of PR spin, and not a lot The announcements on investment

:31:30.:31:32.

this week have been repeated twice before,

:31:33.:31:35.

so there is nothing new there. And particularly I am disappointed

:31:36.:31:38.

for my constituency because we had a bid put in to regenerate

:31:39.:31:47.

Ellsemere Port town centre, which appears to have been

:31:48.:31:49.

completely kicked out. But we do know there will be highway

:31:50.:31:51.

improvement in and Cheshire, funding for new bridges and cycle

:31:52.:31:54.

routes, all around Well, it's no bad thing, but,

:31:55.:31:56.

at the moment, my constituents can't get from one side

:31:57.:32:02.

of the constituency to the other on public

:32:03.:32:04.

transport after six o'clock. The whole area turned

:32:05.:32:06.

into gridlock whenever there's an accident on the M56,

:32:07.:32:08.

because the Government And when you have six times as much

:32:09.:32:10.

investment per person in London as you get in the rest

:32:11.:32:14.

of the country, I think we are miles away

:32:15.:32:17.

from the Northern Powerhouse Well, let's have a look at how the

:32:18.:32:19.

rest of the money was divided up. We found out that, in total,

:32:20.:32:24.

there will be more than ?320 million for local enterprise partnerships

:32:25.:32:27.

across the north-west. Greater Manchester will get almost

:32:28.:32:29.

as much as Liverpool And Cumbria got just

:32:30.:32:31.

less than ?13 million - less than a tenth of what it

:32:32.:32:36.

had bid for. Do you think that Cumbria,

:32:37.:32:41.

Cheshire and Lancashire are missing out because they've not reached

:32:42.:32:44.

a devo deal? No, I think more importantly

:32:45.:32:46.

it is about the quality of the leadership in

:32:47.:32:48.

the local enterprise partnerships... A few of them have dynamic people

:32:49.:32:50.

leading and driving them But to pick up just on one thing -

:32:51.:32:54.

we saw in your package Blackpool For years, people in Blackpool have

:32:55.:32:58.

been crying out for investment Conferences, as you know,

:32:59.:33:03.

on the big scale, have gone People were marched up the hill

:33:04.:33:07.

by Labour promising them a super-casino to be let

:33:08.:33:13.

down at the last minute. This is now starting to deliver

:33:14.:33:15.

to the tourist economy That's something this

:33:16.:33:18.

Government has delivered But certainly come up in Cumbria,

:33:19.:33:21.

they think that the LEP They think they are being punished

:33:22.:33:25.

by the Government for not Well, on Monday I asked

:33:26.:33:30.

a question on nuclear. I mean, nuclear fuels

:33:31.:33:35.

in my constituency, nuclear power is hugely significant

:33:36.:33:37.

for the north-west. Greg Clark, in his reply, started

:33:38.:33:39.

to lay out the nuclear vision, which will impact on great tens

:33:40.:33:42.

of thousands of jobs Nuclear power station in Cumbria -

:33:43.:33:44.

21,000 jobs alone. The Prime Minister has made it

:33:45.:33:50.

clear that she backs it. Now, that, to me, is

:33:51.:33:53.

a Northern Powerhouse. And, Justin, when it comes to job

:33:54.:33:56.

creation and when it comes to industry and when it comes

:33:57.:33:58.

to unemployment, that is somewhere where public perception is much more

:33:59.:34:01.

on the side of the public Government Well, I think there's a whole

:34:02.:34:05.

debate that we need have We know that real earnings have not

:34:06.:34:09.

risen for ten years, and there's millions of people

:34:10.:34:13.

now in insecure And I think when we are looking

:34:14.:34:15.

at investing in industry, we also need to look at what sort

:34:16.:34:19.

of jobs we create. Are we creating sustainable,

:34:20.:34:22.

long-term jobs that allow people to put down roots and invest

:34:23.:34:24.

in their own futures as well? Do you feel there is that

:34:25.:34:27.

pressure in Cheshire as well to form a devolution deal,

:34:28.:34:29.

to have an elected mayor so that you can stand

:34:30.:34:32.

as one voice and say, To put in bids the way that

:34:33.:34:34.

Greater Manchester and Merseyside I think there is a very

:34:35.:34:38.

clear message coming from the Government on that,

:34:39.:34:41.

and I think it does, kind of, contradict a little bit

:34:42.:34:44.

the whole devolution stance, in the sense that the Government

:34:45.:34:46.

is saying, you can have devolution but it has to be

:34:47.:34:49.

on these specific terms. That's not really listening to

:34:50.:34:51.

what local communities are saying. Are they holding

:34:52.:34:53.

communities to ransom? I was up in Wyre this

:34:54.:34:55.

week, which is not far They have no interest in having

:34:56.:34:58.

an elected mayor there, and yet they would be handed money,

:34:59.:35:01.

literally, if they agree to it. No, I think that the town

:35:02.:35:04.

of Wyre are right. And I think there is no such thing

:35:05.:35:07.

as one size fits all. The principle of combined

:35:08.:35:10.

authorities in many parts of the country is absolutely

:35:11.:35:12.

the right thing to do, And I think, in my part

:35:13.:35:15.

of the world as well, I'm beginning to question

:35:16.:35:22.

what is in it for the people that I represent in a combined authority,

:35:23.:35:26.

and I think we are going to see The Government have told us, though,

:35:27.:35:29.

the Department for Communities and Local Government told me this

:35:30.:35:34.

morning that you simply are in a position to make stronger

:35:35.:35:36.

bids if you are part of a combined authority, and a unified voice is

:35:37.:35:40.

better than a lot of single voices. I think some of this

:35:41.:35:43.

is about Emperor's new clothes. But I think it's time that we got

:35:44.:35:47.

solutions that fitted each area, Very quickly, Justin,

:35:48.:35:52.

would you like to see Personally, I don't think it's

:35:53.:35:55.

the right fit for Cheshire. There's lots of different towns

:35:56.:36:03.

with different priorities. It's not like in Liverpool

:36:04.:36:06.

and Manchester when you've got a very clear city

:36:07.:36:09.

centre and hinterland. I would like to see more

:36:10.:36:11.

devolution and more power is going to local communities,

:36:12.:36:13.

but, personally, I'm not persuaded that a mayor is the right

:36:14.:36:16.

vehicle to deliver that. Seven months ago, the murder

:36:17.:36:18.

of Jo Cox shocked the country, and close to the Labour MP's heart

:36:19.:36:24.

was what she called Before her death, the mum-of-two

:36:25.:36:27.

from Yorkshire started a cross-party Now a Conservative from this side

:36:28.:36:33.

of the Pennines is looking At the Seasons group in Preston,

:36:34.:36:38.

older people come together to talk They come, they get a coffee,

:36:39.:36:47.

and they sit and chat These gatherings are organised

:36:48.:36:52.

by Longford community church, but anyone is welcome

:36:53.:36:56.

whether they're religious or not. Figures suggest millions

:36:57.:36:59.

of older people feel Before her murder, Jo Cox had begun

:37:00.:37:07.

planning a Loneliness Commission She wanted it to be cross-party

:37:08.:37:14.

and she wanted to involve lots of partner organisations

:37:15.:37:18.

and have a year of looking at the issue of loneliness,

:37:19.:37:21.

which is a really heading Now, Seema Kennedy and colleagues

:37:22.:37:26.

are taking the mantle on, working with 13 charities to look

:37:27.:37:37.

into loneliness and come up So, Beryl, what was it that brought

:37:38.:37:39.

you to Seasons for the first time? Well, I'd heard about Seasons

:37:40.:37:44.

because I was lonely ,and I was looking for a church

:37:45.:37:46.

as well, but he came here because there were people

:37:47.:37:49.

who were like-minded The highlight of many people's

:37:50.:37:51.

day is the food that The Commission will also look at how

:37:52.:37:54.

other age groups are affected. Key is a charity in Leyland that

:37:55.:38:00.

helps vulnerable teenagers They can meet other young

:38:01.:38:05.

people who have been through similar situations,

:38:06.:38:09.

and we know that they can feel a real sense of

:38:10.:38:11.

belonging to this place. What's your experiences

:38:12.:38:13.

of coming down to Key Youth? Coming here, it just feels more

:38:14.:38:17.

better than being sat at home. I will come here and drop

:38:18.:38:22.

in to colour and talk What she said in her maiden speech,

:38:23.:38:26.

and what we think about, there is more in common and we need

:38:27.:38:32.

to love like Jo and have that great empathy for everybody

:38:33.:38:36.

in our communities. The commission

:38:37.:38:38.

will produce a manifesto and call on Government to take action,

:38:39.:38:42.

but it's also hoped that highlighting the issue over the next

:38:43.:38:46.

year will ensure individuals make And a successful commission

:38:47.:38:49.

on loneliness that crosses party divides would be a great legacy

:38:50.:38:57.

for someone who is obviously You know, Seema was working on this

:38:58.:39:00.

with Jo at the time of Jo's death. And rather than let this drop,

:39:01.:39:07.

you know, Seema feels that she owes this, and is working together

:39:08.:39:11.

with Labour MPs such as Rachel Reeves in order

:39:12.:39:14.

to really drive this, and make it happen as part

:39:15.:39:16.

of the memory, just part And, you know, why this matters

:39:17.:39:19.

is that there are thousands of people in all of our areas,

:39:20.:39:25.

in my constituency, of all age It is people that suffer

:39:26.:39:28.

from bereavement. They may have gone through a health

:39:29.:39:32.

crisis, and they find themselves suddenly isolated,

:39:33.:39:38.

and just needing a bit of support, And there is nothing

:39:39.:39:42.

more cruel or wicked And, Justin, is it something you see

:39:43.:39:46.

in your constituency as well, And it needs intervention

:39:47.:39:50.

from the state? It does, and I think it needs

:39:51.:39:54.

as all to have a look at ourselves There is in my constituency a great

:39:55.:39:57.

organisation that has started having elderly people in who are isolated

:39:58.:40:02.

and getting them a meal, getting them a bit of entertainment

:40:03.:40:04.

and a bit of company, and that really can make such

:40:05.:40:08.

a difference to people's lives. We should do an awful

:40:09.:40:11.

lot more of it. It can be the tiniest

:40:12.:40:13.

thing, that it? There is an organisation

:40:14.:40:15.

called Just Good Friends. A nice plug for

:40:16.:40:17.

Just Good Friends, there. A big thank you to

:40:18.:40:21.

this week's guests, It's time to hand you back

:40:22.:40:26.

to Andrew Neil in London. air-pollution. Thank you for being

:40:27.:40:31.

here. Welcome back and let's get back

:40:32.:40:37.

to Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and citizens from seven

:40:38.:40:41.

mainly Muslim countries. Earlier, the Labour leader,

:40:42.:40:47.

Jeremy Corbyn, told ITV that a state visit by President Trump to the UK

:40:48.:40:50.

should not go ahead I think it would be totally wrong

:40:51.:41:03.

for him to be coming here while that situation is going on. He has to be

:41:04.:41:08.

challenged on this. So until the ban is lifted, you don't think he should

:41:09.:41:12.

come? I am not happy about him coming here until the ban is lifted.

:41:13.:41:16.

Look at what is happening with those countries. What will be the long

:41:17.:41:21.

term effect of this on the rest of the world? Is this state visit going

:41:22.:41:26.

to become a matter of huge political debate in this country? It would be

:41:27.:41:32.

anyway, but it is a temporary ban, so Jeremy Corbyn is on safe

:41:33.:41:36.

territory. It will be over by April and he is not due to come until

:41:37.:41:39.

summer. But there are three bands. There is the 90 day ban on people

:41:40.:41:45.

coming from the southern countries. There is the 120 day ban on refugees

:41:46.:41:49.

from anywhere in the world, and there is the indefinite ban on

:41:50.:41:53.

Syrian refugees. So there may still be some bans in place. But bear in

:41:54.:41:59.

mind the number of Syrian refugees and refugees from around the world

:42:00.:42:02.

that President Obama took over his eight years. There were years when

:42:03.:42:06.

it was not even up to 50 Syrian refugees that were taken since the

:42:07.:42:12.

civil war has started. This is an ongoing American policy. 12,500

:42:13.:42:17.

Syrian refugees have come in the last year. Before that, it was a

:42:18.:42:26.

hundred and sometimes under 50. But they are reasonable numbers now,

:42:27.:42:29.

although not something America couldn't absorb. Donald Trump is

:42:30.:42:35.

discovering that being a president is different from being a business

:42:36.:42:39.

man. And Jeremy Corbyn has to learn the art of leadership, having been a

:42:40.:42:42.

backbench MP, and has struggled to do it, as we are about to discuss

:42:43.:42:48.

with article 50. With this, you have to dramatise the politics of this,

:42:49.:42:52.

and this is what he has done with that statement. Most controversial

:42:53.:42:56.

ever state visit now? I would imagine so. Even regardless of any

:42:57.:43:00.

opposition from the opposition to trump's physical presence in the

:43:01.:43:06.

streets, the presence of demonstrators will be an

:43:07.:43:11.

international new story. If trump's demands for the details of the visit

:43:12.:43:15.

are quite as extreme and as picky as some of the Sunday papers have

:43:16.:43:18.

suggested, that could also be the source of controversy. What do you

:43:19.:43:22.

have in mind? Isn't he anxious that only certain members of the Royal

:43:23.:43:27.

Family turn up? He doesn't want a one-on-one with Prince Charles. Who

:43:28.:43:33.

would, though! Some people may be sympathetic on that. It is the one

:43:34.:43:40.

subject where he is in line with British opinion. Playing golf in

:43:41.:43:44.

front of the Queen may be a higher priority. We have to be realistic.

:43:45.:43:48.

Given the other people from around the world that the Queen has played

:43:49.:43:51.

host to, like the Chinese president and Saudi kings and the like, we

:43:52.:43:55.

have had a lot worse come to visit than Donald Trump. Brexit - how

:43:56.:44:01.

serious our neighbour's problems on this? Very serious, but they often

:44:02.:44:05.

are with Europe. Labour were splits when we joined in the 70s, and still

:44:06.:44:12.

won general elections, in 1974 and 1975. There were all over the place

:44:13.:44:15.

in terms of the single currency. Blair said one thing one day and the

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opposite the next day. Brown did the same.

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Brown usually set the opposite of what Blair said! They won landslide

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because they have the political skills to put all of the pressure on

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the major government, even though their position on the single

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currency was the same as major's. It is about with Europe the art of

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leadership. You have to be a political conjuror, you have to

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dissemble authoritative leak when you lead a divided party over

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Europe, and Jeremy Corbyn to his personal credit cannot dissemble,

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but he's not an individual person on this. He's leading a split party in

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danger of falling apart, and you need the skills of a political

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conjurer. Clearly self-evidently he's not displaying it because we

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are talking about the chaotic split which will manifest itself in that

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vote on Article 50. Labour and the SNP and the Lib Dems too I would

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have thought will all put amendments down to the short Article 50 piece

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of legislation. Do they have any chance of succeeding? No substantial

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world is changing amendments. I don't think Theresa May has much to

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worry about actually. I think if anything the reason she's pushed the

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legal appeal is that it helps her to have a big chunk of the media and a

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big chunk of public opinion worrying that the popular will of last year

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is in danger of being overturned and so even if it was a completely

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hopeless legal appeal, it generated headlines for a week that as an

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incumbent Prime Minister trying to execute believe vote suits you

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politically. I think it is a much bigger problem for Labour, we've

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already seen some Shadow Cabinet issues in the previous week. You

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have got to remember it's not just a majority of Labour MPs that want to

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stay in the European Union, but a majority of Labour constituencies,

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and a majority of labour macro voters wanted to stay as well so we

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have three lines of division. One amendment that might get through if

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it was called, and it is in the hands of the Deputy speaker who will

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be chairing these debates, and that will be an amendment that said

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regardless of how the Europeans treat our citizens in Europe, all EU

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citizens here will be afforded full rights to remain. That might get

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through. It may indeed and lots of backbench MPs would backpack. We all

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know there will not be mass deportations, it is not legal, it

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won't happen, it is simply a negotiating tactic. I agree with

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those who say you shouldn't be using people as a negotiating tactic, but

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the reality as it is the EU leaders that are doing that because it's

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already been offered. The remain as should be attacking the EU

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governments for not offering that in return. Article 50 is the easy bit

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for her. I agree with other members of the panel that she will get it

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through and the court case almost helps her by getting an easy journey

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through Parliament, then it gets really difficult. All of this has

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been a preamble and once she begins that nightmarish negotiation, there

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will be opportunities for a smart opposition to make quite a lot of

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the turmoil to come. Whether Labour are capable of that, let's wait and

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see. The divisions in Labour are nightmarish for them but by no means

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unprecedented. Arguably it was much more complicated in the early 1970s

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when you had Titans on either side, big ex-cabinet ministers... Tony

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Benn... Michael Foot, they were all at it. The fundamental issue of in

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or out, and they won two elections, so you have got to be really clever.

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But also how money more Labour MPs will resign. We shall find out this

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week. The Daily Politics is back

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tomorrow at midday and all I'll be back here

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on BBC one next week. Remember - if it's Sunday,

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it's the Sunday Politics.

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