:00:40. > :00:43.Politics. Farewell Abu Qatada. It's only taken
:00:43. > :00:46.us eight years to send you packing. The extremist Muslim cleric has
:00:46. > :00:50.already arrived in Jordan this morning. We'll be talking to Justice
:00:50. > :00:54.Secretary Chris Grayling. We know what Nigel Farage thinks -
:00:54. > :00:57.he's never off the telly. But what about the rest of UKIP? Stay tuned
:00:57. > :01:01.for the biggest survey yet of UKIP councillors. We'll be putting our
:01:01. > :01:04.results to the party leader. As Ed Milliband and Union baron Len
:01:04. > :01:14.McLuskey come to blows, we'll be asking political bruiser John Reid
:01:14. > :01:17.
:01:17. > :01:20.who's in charge of Labour? And imagine coming out of the care
:01:20. > :01:30.system at 16 and finding yourself homeless. There is new legislation
:01:30. > :01:30.
:01:30. > :32:44.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1873 seconds
:32:44. > :32:47.to fix the issue but does it go far this point you seem reluctant to
:32:47. > :32:50.talk about and instead bash Labour which is not what I am asking about
:32:50. > :32:56.at all. We have seen that many people who might have voted for you,
:32:56. > :33:00.who voted Conservative in the past, will now vote for MrFar and --
:33:00. > :33:04.MrFarage. Maybe in enough numbers to give MrMiliband the keys to Downing
:33:04. > :33:08.Street which you say would be a disaster and MrMcCluskey and the
:33:08. > :33:12.rest of them. I ask again why don't you do a deal to stop that
:33:13. > :33:15.happening? Well, you don't do deals. You fight for your principles, you
:33:15. > :33:18.fight for what you believe is right. The Conservative Party isn't going
:33:18. > :33:21.to go to a general election having done a deal with someone else. We
:33:21. > :33:26.are going to a general election and fight on the principles we believe
:33:26. > :33:30.in. If you take the issue of Europe, the one on which a number of people
:33:30. > :33:34.have expressed concerns in the last few years. On Friday the entire
:33:34. > :33:38.Conservative Party went to the House of Commons and voted for a
:33:38. > :33:44.referendum on the European Union. We face opposition to that from Labour
:33:44. > :33:49.and the Lib Dems. Not from UKIP. Why can't you do a deal with a party
:33:49. > :33:53.that's already full of people who used to be Conservatives? Look, we
:33:53. > :33:56.have to get legislation through the House of Commons. The reality of the
:33:56. > :34:00.House of Commons is that it's Labour and the Lib Dems who have more votes
:34:00. > :34:03.than us in the House of Commons. So therefore if we are going to win the
:34:03. > :34:07.argument the only way we will be able to change these things, the way
:34:07. > :34:11.we can deliver a referendum, a renegotiation first because that's
:34:11. > :34:14.crucial, we have to have a renegotiation so there is a genuine
:34:14. > :34:21.deal to offer, we have to get a majority Conservative Government.
:34:21. > :34:25.understand that. But you are only trailing Labour by 6-10% in the
:34:25. > :34:29.polls, it's not a huge amount Labour is ahead at the moment. A deal with
:34:29. > :34:33.UKIP would make it much more likely that you form a Government after the
:34:33. > :34:39.next election. You have seen the election projections, no deal with
:34:39. > :34:46.UKIP, MrMiliband could win an overall majority with less than 35%
:34:46. > :34:49.of the vote. Well, the deal I want to do is not with another party.
:34:49. > :34:52.It's with voters. It's with voters who might be tempted to vote for
:34:52. > :34:56.UKIP, voters who might be tempted to vote for the Labour Party or Lib
:34:56. > :35:00.Dems. We have to say to them if you want a referendum on Europe, if you
:35:00. > :35:04.want new human rights laws, to carry on with welfare reform, if you want
:35:04. > :35:07.more education changes of the kind you believe in, if you want a
:35:07. > :35:12.tougher criminal justice system you need a majority Conservative
:35:12. > :35:17.Government. All right. Abu Qatada back in Jordan today. The Home
:35:17. > :35:21.Secretary said in the aftermath of this we need to look at the European
:35:21. > :35:24.Court of Human Rights and nothing should be off the table, quote. But
:35:24. > :35:29.nothing off the table, does that include the possibility that we
:35:29. > :35:33.would leave the European Convention on Human Rights? Yes, it does. We
:35:33. > :35:36.have been very clear. We are currently doing detailed work on
:35:36. > :35:39.options. I have personal responsibility within the
:35:39. > :35:44.Ministerial team for human rights issues. We are currently looking at
:35:44. > :35:48.what the options are for us. I have been very clear indeed, we are not
:35:48. > :35:52.ruling anything in, we are not ruling anything out. I have said
:35:52. > :35:56.clearly at a minimum there will be a replacement for the Human Rights
:35:56. > :35:59.Act. We will have a fundamental change to our realise with the
:35:59. > :36:06.European Court of Human Rights. We cannot go on with a situation where
:36:06. > :36:11.we have people who want to do real damage to this country able to stay
:36:12. > :36:15.here, when they represent a threat to us A future Conservative
:36:15. > :36:19.Government with a majority, one of the options would be to leave the
:36:19. > :36:24.convention altogether? One of the options, I have ruled nothing in and
:36:24. > :36:28.out. A future Conservative Government with a majority will make
:36:28. > :36:30.wholesale changes to human rights laws. The problem is not the
:36:30. > :36:37.original convention written by Conservatives and is a sensible
:36:37. > :36:40.document. It's the way in which the European Courts interpret it and
:36:40. > :36:43.re-interpret it You can't change the convention yourself. You can't
:36:43. > :36:48.change it. Well, that's why we are working through detailed options and
:36:48. > :36:52.we will come up later this year with a clear plan. We will go to the next
:36:52. > :36:56.election in our manifesto with a clear plan for change that will set
:36:56. > :37:00.out exactly what we will do, when we will do it, how we will do it, what
:37:00. > :37:04.the legal basis will be. We will have that in good time for the
:37:04. > :37:08.election but I am absolutely clear there will be wholesale changes to
:37:08. > :37:11.the way that human rights laws operate in this country. I am sure
:37:11. > :37:17.UKIP will agree with you, but I understand there will be no deal,
:37:17. > :37:26.you have made that clear. Thank you for joining us. Coming up in 20
:37:26. > :37:33.minutes, I will be looking at the week ahead with our panel. Welcome
:37:33. > :37:43.to Sunday Politics Scotland. What more can be done to help those
:37:43. > :37:45.
:37:45. > :37:52.marooned by the system after 16? had no family down here. The Battle
:37:52. > :37:57.of Falkirk. Ed Miliband wants to mend the union link.
:37:57. > :38:05.And the social media cyber war. How Yes Scotland and Better Together
:38:05. > :38:08.wrestle it out in the digital world. It is a familiar story across the
:38:08. > :38:15.country. Young people leave the care system only to find themselves
:38:15. > :38:20.homeless. The Scottish Government is trying to change that through the
:38:20. > :38:27.Children and Young People's Bill. Some believe it does not go far
:38:27. > :38:31.enough. For this person the search for a
:38:31. > :38:36.place to call home has been difficult. Now settled with his
:38:36. > :38:42.partner and his daughter it is a different picture to five years ago.
:38:42. > :38:52.The clear unit he was placed on was closed down. Unable to go home,
:38:52. > :38:55.homelessness was his only option. had no family down here. I was in a
:38:55. > :39:03.bed and breakfast. You were not allowed to be there during the day.
:39:03. > :39:07.You had to be outside. I was lost. In towns and cities across the
:39:07. > :39:10.country thousands of people have similar stories to tell. The nature
:39:10. > :39:16.of homelessness means that hard and fast figures are difficult to come
:39:16. > :39:26.by. It is estimated that one third of Scotland's homeless population
:39:26. > :39:29.
:39:29. > :39:36.have spent time in care. I had two younger brothers who has
:39:36. > :39:43.left the care system at an early age. They were homeless. They passed
:39:43. > :39:53.away at the age of 18. There is a real disconnect when a young person
:39:53. > :39:55.
:39:55. > :39:59.has grown up in the care system and then they leave the system.
:39:59. > :40:09.The organisation Who Cares Scotland has supported -- has provided
:40:09. > :40:10.
:40:10. > :40:17.support and employment. Every person has the same aspirations. They want
:40:17. > :40:23.a job. They want a family. We have not given them the tools for that to
:40:23. > :40:27.happen. If we look at the different sources that are paying for the
:40:27. > :40:37.services that young people use and put that back into investing in the
:40:37. > :40:39.
:40:39. > :40:49.longer term. The legislation proposes to raise the age that
:40:49. > :40:58.
:40:58. > :41:02.support is available from 21 at 226. -- from 21 to 26. The economic sense
:41:02. > :41:05.of acting early is there to be seen. There are many preventive measures
:41:06. > :41:13.in this legislation that will help us to ensure that young people 's
:41:13. > :41:17.lives are positive will stop but Who Cares Scotland are not alone in
:41:17. > :41:24.thinking the Bill needs to go further.
:41:24. > :41:32.I would like to see some consideration of 16-year-olds and
:41:32. > :41:40.17-year-olds, the possibility that they can be received back into care.
:41:40. > :41:49.The Bottom Line for this person is that those leaving care in future
:41:49. > :41:59.should not face the same situation he did. People should be able to say
:41:59. > :42:00.
:42:00. > :42:05.that they need the support. It should be a baseline. Joining me now
:42:05. > :42:14.is the Chief Executive of Who Cares Scotland, Duncan Dunlop, and Mary
:42:14. > :42:18.Fee, who is on the equal opportunities to midday will stop
:42:18. > :42:28.and we have Marco Biagi who is also on the Equal Opportunities
:42:28. > :42:29.
:42:29. > :42:33.Committee. Paint a picture for us. How serious is the problem? We have
:42:33. > :42:39.to look at it relative to what happens to other young people. The
:42:39. > :42:48.average age of young people leaving home in Scotland is 26. The majority
:42:48. > :42:58.of people are leaving care at 16. Yet they have not had the stability
:42:58. > :42:59.
:42:59. > :43:06.through childhood and adolescence. The consequences of this are dire.
:43:06. > :43:16.We have to take this seriously. They need the right to be able to return
:43:16. > :43:19.
:43:19. > :43:29.to care, or stay in care until 26. As the legislation and is
:43:29. > :43:31.
:43:31. > :43:41.opportunity? It needs to go further. Children and Young People's Bill
:43:41. > :43:45.
:43:45. > :43:49.need the right to return to care or to stay in care until age 26.
:43:49. > :43:58.Biagi, what do you have to say about what Duncan Dunlop has been pointing
:43:58. > :44:08.out? The legislation has perhaps not gone far enough? The legislation
:44:08. > :44:11.extends the duty of corporate parenting by councils. Many of the
:44:11. > :44:17.most successful projects for people who have let care are those that
:44:17. > :44:24.have ongoing support, not simply putting them in a House, but having
:44:24. > :44:28.support staff that come round and help them with life skills. That
:44:28. > :44:35.kind of support is very important. It is being rolled out with the
:44:35. > :44:41.changes that are taking place. When a young person leaves care they are
:44:41. > :44:45.dependent on the grant that the Scottish Government has stepped in
:44:46. > :44:55.to protect from Westminster cuts. There is a great deal already
:44:56. > :44:58.
:44:58. > :45:03.happening. The legislation is a huge step already. Would you go as far as
:45:03. > :45:09.what Duncan Dunlop is proposing? That would give many the chance to
:45:09. > :45:14.go through higher education and make their way in the world. This
:45:14. > :45:20.legislation includes provision that local councils would have to listen
:45:20. > :45:24.to calls for help from these people up to the age of 26. I do not want
:45:24. > :45:29.to be prescriptive about the particular approach. There are a lot
:45:29. > :45:33.of methods of support out there. We have seen a great deal of work with
:45:33. > :45:37.councils, not just with people who are leaving care, but is trying to
:45:37. > :45:42.intervene to stop people going into care. The prevention agenda is not
:45:42. > :45:46.just after you leave care. It is trying to deal with difficult
:45:46. > :45:54.situations that can lead to an young people needing care in the first
:45:54. > :46:01.place. Mary Fee, on the Equal Opportunities Committee you were
:46:01. > :46:07.pointing out that the age should be raised to 18. What about the idea
:46:07. > :46:11.that the support should be there until the age of 25? It is crucial
:46:11. > :46:21.that the support is there until the age of 25 if that is what they
:46:21. > :46:21.
:46:22. > :46:31.want. Many of the young care leavers told us that 16 is too young to
:46:32. > :46:32.
:46:32. > :46:38.leave care. We heard harrowing story from a young person who was taken to
:46:38. > :46:48.temporary accommodation on his 16th birthday. He did not have the life
:46:48. > :46:49.
:46:49. > :46:59.skills to sustain that tenancy. What is your reaction? When politicians
:46:59. > :47:10.
:47:10. > :47:16.know about this issue. They now understand this issue. We are
:47:16. > :47:19.evolving the thinking. This legislation needs to go further. We
:47:19. > :47:29.have not refused the legislation. We just need to look at it in more
:47:29. > :47:30.
:47:30. > :47:40.detail. It is too complex. We need to compare it to what other young
:47:40. > :47:40.
:47:40. > :47:45.people have in their lives. They have parents who gave them. At the
:47:45. > :47:52.moment there are too many different relationships, different places, and
:47:52. > :48:02.these young people do not know who to trust. That is why going to
:48:02. > :48:12.another set of relationships from age 16 does not necessarily help.
:48:12. > :48:20.
:48:20. > :48:24.Perhaps we are lacking in support. Is there a financial issues here?
:48:24. > :48:31.Councils at and down the country bear the cost of having to clean up
:48:31. > :48:41.after terrible incidents that could have been prevented will stop --
:48:41. > :48:48.
:48:48. > :48:51.prevented. The kind of measures that are in the legislation will embed
:48:51. > :48:57.that approach. That is an approach that a lot of councils will
:48:57. > :49:02.appreciate. Right now there is a tight financial situation imposed on
:49:02. > :49:06.Scotland. It is hard to make that shift without cutting somewhere
:49:06. > :49:16.else, but over the long term that is a shift in service provision that
:49:16. > :49:20.
:49:20. > :49:27.everybody wants to see. That is not necessarily true. In the short-term
:49:27. > :49:33.it could be expensive. How much does it cost to put someone through the
:49:33. > :49:43.justice system? How much does it cost for somebody to be an employed
:49:43. > :49:45.
:49:45. > :49:48.and not involved in education? A preventative agenda would make
:49:48. > :49:55.Scotland the best place to grow up. It is a great opportunity for
:49:55. > :50:05.Scotland to do this. Mary Fee, are you going to press for further
:50:05. > :50:08.
:50:08. > :50:15.changes? I don't think the bill does go far enough. Many children leave
:50:15. > :50:21.the key system without the proper system. We have to look very
:50:21. > :50:26.carefully at corporate patenting. We should expect the same things for
:50:26. > :50:35.those children as we aspire to for our own children. It is a key issue
:50:35. > :50:39.for me. I want to ask about the Falkirk situation for the Labour
:50:39. > :50:43.Party at the moment. Do you think it is possible to mend a link with the
:50:43. > :50:47.unions? Absolutely I think it is possible. The situation in Falkirk
:50:47. > :50:57.is alive peace enquiry so it would be inappropriate for me to comment.
:50:57. > :50:59.
:50:59. > :51:06.John Hanlan and -- Joanne Lamb and has been involved in that. It is not
:51:06. > :51:10.just a Falkirk issue, it is a UK issue. It is a far wider issue.
:51:10. > :51:17.is not just a Falkirk problem, there are claims today that unite tried to
:51:17. > :51:25.take in the shadow Foreign Secretary when a review pitched him against
:51:25. > :51:29.Jim Sheridan, what do you see about that? That is ludicrous. You cannot
:51:30. > :51:34.compare the two situations. Clearly easily could have suffered in the
:51:34. > :51:39.boundary changes. A boundary changes did not go ahead and MPs would have
:51:39. > :51:42.been up against each other had they gone ahead. The situation is
:51:42. > :51:47.completely different. It is only natural when there is a selection
:51:47. > :51:52.process that people will come in and join the party but it is crucial we
:51:52. > :51:59.get the best possible people standing in seats. Thank you all for
:51:59. > :52:09.an interesting discussion. Since Obama's rise to office social media
:52:09. > :52:11.
:52:11. > :52:21.and the Internet have seen as crucial campaign tools. Better
:52:21. > :52:25.
:52:25. > :52:30.Together had a big change. The battle for America 2008 is the one
:52:30. > :52:36.to beat. With the West Wing 's dream of having a political campaign like
:52:36. > :52:40.that, as ground-breaking as its outcome was historic. Trucial to the
:52:40. > :52:45.success was the way the Obama campaign used the Internet and
:52:45. > :52:50.social media to get their message out and bring donations in. The
:52:50. > :53:00.company behind that digital effort has been advising the Better
:53:00. > :53:01.
:53:01. > :53:06.Together campaign ahead of Scottish independence. They had to build an
:53:06. > :53:12.organisation from scratch so they wait to digital to do that. Often
:53:12. > :53:15.the digital team is often put in the corner, in the cupboard far-away,
:53:15. > :53:18.decisions are made in an organisation or political campaign
:53:19. > :53:23.and then very close to the time I campaign is launched that gets
:53:23. > :53:31.involved with the digital team. The digital team in 2008 was at the top
:53:31. > :53:39.table. It is not just a case of talking to the Facebook is and those
:53:39. > :53:44.on twitter. Activists across the country are kept on message. We are
:53:44. > :53:48.grassroots organisation with tens of thousands of volunteers. Part of
:53:49. > :53:53.what we want them to do is go out and evangelise through digital
:53:53. > :53:59.media. Equally important is for them to talk to people face-to-face in a
:53:59. > :54:02.cafe, with their family, in a pub or out of it for much. Our job is to
:54:02. > :54:06.make sure those people have the tools they need and the information
:54:06. > :54:12.they need to be able to carry on those conversations in an effective
:54:12. > :54:17.way. Around the country I have instruct IB comments made by young
:54:17. > :54:23.people. There are times when politicians attempts to use social
:54:23. > :54:27.media go horribly wrong. Gordon Brown's intervention on the expenses
:54:27. > :54:37.scandal through YouTube was ridiculed for being awkward and in
:54:37. > :54:42.effect live. Some candidates have said stupid rings online. It is
:54:42. > :54:52.keeping a sense of a new self online and remembering it is for ever so if
:54:52. > :54:54.you are not willing to stand by it then do not see it. Some see online
:54:54. > :55:00.campaigning as an alternative to off-line campaigning, knocking on
:55:00. > :55:07.doors to you and me. But they have to get the message to new groups of
:55:07. > :55:10.voters. It allows us to tailor our message to different audiences and
:55:10. > :55:17.measured exactly how they have responded to it so we can further
:55:17. > :55:21.polish our messages for people. Scotland and better together insist
:55:21. > :55:25.they are grassroots campaigns and the referendum be won and lost in
:55:25. > :55:33.online communities. With online networks playing a bigger part in
:55:33. > :55:41.people's lives, being a wireless battle to dwell the week to win.
:55:41. > :55:46.With me now is social media strategist. Thank you for coming in.
:55:46. > :55:51.I'll be any where near the Obama level of online campaigning? Even
:55:51. > :55:55.the level they were wrapped in 2008? Tell Michael I think both sides
:55:55. > :55:59.would love to see they are in the hope that this Obama magic would rub
:55:59. > :56:06.off on them but in terms of gathering data, the tools are very
:56:06. > :56:09.similar. If the tool is available in America it is easily sent over here.
:56:09. > :56:15.What all sides are missing is that what works in America does not
:56:15. > :56:20.necessarily work in Britain. In America, Obama had local
:56:20. > :56:23.fundraisers, people going round to each other was Mike houses, watching
:56:23. > :56:28.videos of Obama and leaving donations, I do not see anyone in
:56:28. > :56:37.Scotland rushing round to watch a video of Nicola Sturgeon or Alistair
:56:37. > :56:42.Darling, it is not the same sort of politics. What is the key for this
:56:42. > :56:49.kind of digital strategy? Equal is in the name, it is called social
:56:49. > :56:54.media. -- the clue is in the name. It is not just about broadcasting
:56:54. > :56:59.the message. For both sides being at close and cons. They want to put
:56:59. > :57:03.their message out there but the beauty of social media is companies
:57:03. > :57:07.coming back and changing things after listening to the audience.
:57:07. > :57:12.They are reaching out to communities asking what the issues are at a
:57:12. > :57:16.local level. The big problem is, neither side is going to back down
:57:16. > :57:23.on anything. They do not want to be seen as looking weak or indecisive
:57:23. > :57:27.or have the other side jump on them. Until we have a grown-up debate
:57:27. > :57:36.about that EDL we will be more or less broadcasting rather than true
:57:36. > :57:42.social media. -- about that easier. In this day and age politicians
:57:42. > :57:46.should remember they are servants of the people. They should he
:57:46. > :57:53.reflecting the desires of the people. If people want more taxes or
:57:53. > :57:56.better childcare the job of the politician is to turn around and
:57:56. > :58:02.respond to that. It has never been easier for the politician to the act
:58:02. > :58:09.to the electorate. They are trying to hard to shout at people and top
:58:09. > :58:16.down to them instead of seeing we will do one thing and by speaking
:58:16. > :58:26.across Scotland we will see it as a bigger issue. That shows real change
:58:26. > :58:28.
:58:28. > :58:31.and maturity online. In the US last night there was a method in twitter
:58:31. > :58:37.that you could access slightly longer tweets and get more
:58:37. > :58:42.information, what is the next big thing in social media? It ends on
:58:42. > :58:47.the generation. For geeks like myself it is fascinating. You have
:58:47. > :58:53.got people 25 and up to use Facebook, Twitter, blogs, they are
:58:53. > :58:58.day-to-day tools now, not to much new media, just the media day use.
:58:59. > :59:06.Youngsters are using tools that the average politician would not know
:59:06. > :59:10.what it meant. It is not one tool, this is where many people struggle.
:59:10. > :59:18.In days gone by a few appeared on shows like this or in the Herald or
:59:18. > :59:23.Scotsman the coverage was done. Now it is a multi-fragmented platform.
:59:23. > :59:30.The tools that need to be brought into day have to be used in weeks up
:59:30. > :59:36.to the election. It is still a year away. You do not know what will
:59:36. > :59:42.happen. The minute you win the election you start planning for the
:59:42. > :59:47.next one, this has been the longest one in history for people to know.
:59:47. > :59:52.With social media editors normally done quickly, 15 seconds, this is
:59:52. > :59:58.something where people have a real chance to build relationships over
:59:58. > :00:05.the long haul. You have to synchronise the online and off-line
:00:05. > :00:10.campaign? Yes, it is one big connected world now. Thank you for
:00:10. > :00:15.coming in to talk to us, really interesting to speak to you. Now you
:00:15. > :00:21.are watching Sunday politics Scotland, after the news it might be
:00:21. > :00:25.recess but that does not mean it has been a quiet week in politics. I
:00:25. > :00:33.will be joined by my guests from the Herald and times to discuss more
:00:33. > :00:36.about what has been in the news and a little sporting event that is
:00:36. > :00:45.coming up this afternoon. Now we have the news and Reporting
:00:45. > :00:49.Scotland. Good afternoon. The radical Muslim cleric Abu could had
:00:49. > :00:56.has arrived in Jordan after being deported from Britain. He has been
:00:56. > :01:06.taken to court in Amman this morning. That brings to an end eight
:01:06. > :01:08.
:01:08. > :01:16.years of legal wrangling. Applicant had on his way out of Britain. For
:01:16. > :01:19.years people have wanted to see this site but he frustrated them. A new
:01:19. > :01:26.decision meant he could be put on a plane to Jordan where he has twice
:01:26. > :01:31.been convicted in his absence of terror plots. I was absolutely
:01:31. > :01:37.delighted. This is something this government said it would get done
:01:37. > :01:42.and we have got it done. It is an issue that, like the rest of the
:01:42. > :01:46.country, it has made my blood boil. This man who had no right to be in
:01:46. > :01:52.our country and who was a threat to our country, that it has taken so
:01:52. > :01:55.long to deport him. Now he is back in Jordan, that is excellent news.
:01:55. > :02:02.Now the government wants to change the rules that made him so difficult
:02:02. > :02:05.to deport. They want fewer appeals in cases. You want a fundamental
:02:05. > :02:11.change in Britain's relationship with the European Court of human
:02:11. > :02:21.rights which the claim for delaying this case. One of the options would
:02:21. > :02:24.be to have nothing more to do with this court. We need to ensure we
:02:24. > :02:27.protect human rights and this country has a fine record in
:02:27. > :02:31.relation to the protection of human rights but we do want to make sure
:02:31. > :02:39.that when there is somebody in this country who is dangerous and who
:02:39. > :02:43.poses a threat, that we are able to remove them. With him finally landed
:02:43. > :02:48.in Jordan how best to achieve that balance will be contested and the
:02:48. > :02:54.world will watch to see whether he gets the fair trial here promised by
:02:54. > :02:58.the officials in Jordan and expected by British politicians. Place in
:02:58. > :03:04.Canada say they expect the number of casualties to rise after a tanker
:03:04. > :03:09.train was derailed and exploded in a small-town intubate. Dozens remain
:03:09. > :03:15.unaccounted for. More than 2000 people have been evacuated. The
:03:15. > :03:22.train was carrying crude oil when it apparently started to roll away
:03:22. > :03:28.after being parked by its driver. Andy Murray will attempt to win his
:03:28. > :03:33.second title this afternoon. All tickets have been sold but many
:03:33. > :03:37.queued overnight in the hope of watching the game on the big screen
:03:37. > :03:45.inside. That is all the news for the moment. We will have more news at
:03:45. > :03:51.half past seven tonight. Good afternoon. As you have healing Andy
:03:51. > :03:59.Murray takes on Novak Jaco bitch in the main's singles at Wimbledon
:03:59. > :04:07.tonight. -- Novak Jaco bitch. Our reporter was at the all England
:04:07. > :04:12.club. It is quickly -- pretty quiet year on centre court right now. Andy
:04:12. > :04:18.Murray will step out in front of 15,000 fans. If he wins he will make
:04:18. > :04:25.history. Standing in his way is the best player on the planet. The world
:04:25. > :04:35.number one has won most of his meetings. The last time they met it
:04:35. > :04:41.was Murray who took the honours. Labour leader Ed Milli band has
:04:41. > :04:46.dismissed rumours he wants to end their relationship between the party
:04:46. > :04:51.and the trade unions. First Minister Alex Salmond has accused Scottish
:04:51. > :04:54.Labour leader Johann Lamont of being silent on the issue while her party
:04:54. > :05:03.has imploded. has imploded.
:05:03. > :05:08.Time for the weather Dry bright and sunny across most of the country.
:05:08. > :05:18.Any cloud in the south tending to break. Slightly cooler further
:05:18. > :05:19.
:05:19. > :05:27.break. Slightly cooler further north. That is the forecast. I will
:05:27. > :05:37.now hand you back to Andrew. In a moment we will be discussing
:05:37. > :05:44.
:05:44. > :05:54.the big stories, but first let us its 65th anniversary this week. --
:05:54. > :05:56.
:05:56. > :06:05.the NHS celebrated. The MP Tom Watson left as the Labour
:06:05. > :06:13.general election court it. The right to buy council houses at a
:06:13. > :06:23.discount will be scrapped by 2017. Glasgow lost out in its bid to host
:06:23. > :06:24.
:06:24. > :06:32.the youth Olympic games 2018. We are proof that the men who died
:06:32. > :06:42.in July 1980 are not forgotten. The 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha
:06:42. > :06:47.
:06:47. > :06:57.Labour's troubles in Falkirk have dominated the news and will no doubt
:06:57. > :07:00.
:07:00. > :07:04.play a big role in the week ahead. I am now joined by Lindsay McIntosh
:07:04. > :07:07.and Robbie Dinwoodie. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining me.
:07:07. > :07:17.We will get straight to the top story that is dominating the
:07:17. > :07:23.
:07:23. > :07:28.headlines. Ed Miliband is set on reform.
:07:28. > :07:38.It has been a disastrous week for Labour. It is not going away any
:07:38. > :07:48.time soon. The more that Ed Miliband wants to put this behind him the
:07:48. > :07:56.harder it gets because he is simply pushing the unions away. This is the
:07:56. > :08:03.labour movement. It is not easy to separate it out. Lord Reid was
:08:03. > :08:10.talking about this ideological divide earlier. It looks like this
:08:10. > :08:14.is a war that will continue. It is a battle for the soul of the Labour
:08:14. > :08:22.Party that is going on here. They have to modernise in order to see
:08:22. > :08:31.that's all. Labour has been successful in the past decade or so
:08:31. > :08:38.when they have taken a centrist approach. We cannot have this lurch
:08:38. > :08:45.back to union control. It is not going to fly. Do you think that Ed
:08:45. > :08:52.Miliband can mend the link with the unions? He has to make sure that
:08:52. > :08:56.more moderate trade union leaders are on his side. At the same time
:08:56. > :09:03.they have to be very weary of accepting everything that has
:09:03. > :09:07.happened and austerity because ordinary people are beginning to see
:09:07. > :09:13.that enough is enough. That is the two tensions that are pulling at
:09:13. > :09:17.him. We have been seeing a lot of Johann Lamont in the newspapers
:09:17. > :09:25.today. She has been portrayed as a puppet in the press. She has been
:09:25. > :09:30.quiet on this issue. We have not seen much of her in the past week.
:09:30. > :09:38.She has not come out on this issue at all. It is an issue for the UK
:09:38. > :09:42.party, but Johann Lamont has made much of the fact that she is in
:09:42. > :09:46.control of the Scottish party. We do need to see her upfront. I believe
:09:46. > :09:53.she is doing a lot behind the scenes, but she should come out and
:09:53. > :09:58.say that. Does this call her leadership into question? It does
:09:58. > :10:06.not call her leadership into question. That I am baffled by the
:10:06. > :10:10.tactics. If, as Labour claimed, she is at one with Ed Miliband on this
:10:10. > :10:15.and has been having conversations every step of the way, why has this
:10:15. > :10:25.statement is not reflected that? Why have not been comments issued in the
:10:25. > :10:33.
:10:33. > :10:43.name of Johann Lamont? For her to be completely silent strikes me.
:10:43. > :10:46.
:10:46. > :10:51.Headline about the Unite union. There is the review of the boundary
:10:51. > :10:56.Commission coming up. Jim Sheridan is portrayed as the man likely to
:10:56. > :11:06.take the seat. Labour spokesperson has said something that I even
:11:06. > :11:08.
:11:08. > :11:18.mention on here. United deny that anything untoward happens. This is
:11:18. > :11:26.not on the same scale as Falkirk at all. But the fact that they were
:11:26. > :11:34.willing to take on Alexander suggests that they are pretty
:11:34. > :11:38.confident and pretty keen to seize power of this party. The Unite union
:11:38. > :11:43.denied the allegation in the article. Are there are further
:11:43. > :11:53.problems ahead for its Miller band? There is talk of this happening in
:11:53. > :11:56.
:11:57. > :12:00.40 seats? If two constituencies had been merged then you should not be
:12:00. > :12:07.surprised that some people will side with one and some will side with
:12:07. > :12:17.another. What happened in Falkirk was different. Back in February
:12:17. > :12:17.
:12:17. > :12:24.there was bleated vote rigging. -- there was clear vote rigging. This
:12:24. > :12:30.is a controversy that is not going away.
:12:30. > :12:35.And what some may call and artists impression of Andy Murray. Perhaps
:12:35. > :12:42.history can be made this afternoon? It would be brilliant to have a
:12:42. > :12:48.Scottish winner, a British winner. It would be great. He deserves it.
:12:48. > :12:53.It is a brutal sport. It would be great if he did it. If he does not
:12:53. > :13:00.do it this time I think he and Novak Djokovic will dominate for the next
:13:00. > :13:08.few years. And I am sure your colleagues will be heading to
:13:08. > :13:14.Dunblane. It would be great to have a winner from there. They are very
:13:14. > :13:21.proud of him. Any political reverberations if a Scottish man
:13:21. > :13:31.wins Wimbledon? I doubt it. I am not a great believer that sporting
:13:31. > :13:31.
:13:31. > :13:38.events have a political knock-on effect. Are they not often tied in?
:13:38. > :13:45.Yes they are. Both sides try to make capital out of it. But we try to