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

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Should Wales follow Finland's lead and give

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people a monthly income, no strings attached?

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And what should Labour do about Brexit ahead of this

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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,

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

:23:59.:24:01.

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

:24:02.:24:06.

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

:24:07.:24:11.

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

:24:12.:24:15.

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

:24:16.:24:18.

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

:24:19.:24:23.

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

:24:24.:24:28.

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

:24:29.:24:33.

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

:24:34.:24:37.

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

:24:38.:24:42.

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

:24:43.:24:48.

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

:24:49.:24:57.

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

:24:58.:25:01.

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

:25:02.:25:05.

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

:25:06.:25:12.

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

:25:13.:25:17.

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

:25:18.:25:21.

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

:25:22.:25:23.

being with us. It's just gone 11.25,

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

:25:26.:25:27.

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

:25:28.:25:29.

be talking to our political panel. Hello and welcome to

:25:30.:25:38.

the Sunday Politics Wales. He's not a politician,

:25:39.:25:41.

not officially at least, but in his last interview

:25:42.:25:46.

as Archbishop, Barry Morgan tells us why the Church needs

:25:47.:25:48.

to speak out on politics. And after Jo Stevens'

:25:49.:25:52.

resignation, what should Labour A senior Labour frontbencher

:25:53.:25:54.

will be here to tell us. But first how would you feel

:25:55.:26:00.

about getting a wad of money every Ministers in Wales say giving

:26:01.:26:03.

everyone a guaranteed minimum income could help tackle

:26:04.:26:07.

poverty and inequality. Others say it would be

:26:08.:26:11.

far too expensive. Should every citizen receive

:26:12.:26:12.

an automatic basic income to spend however they want,

:26:13.:26:19.

no strings attached? It isn't a new question

:26:20.:26:22.

and philosophers have debated it The policy does have fresh support

:26:23.:26:24.

from the left and the right and here in Wales,

:26:25.:26:30.

the Finance Secretary recently It is an idea with

:26:31.:26:32.

considerable roots in our Always struggled to manage

:26:33.:26:40.

to find a practical way of taking it forward but it is

:26:41.:26:44.

an opportunity for us in Wales, to watch what is being attempted

:26:45.:26:48.

elsewhere and to see whether we can do anything practical

:26:49.:26:51.

with the idea ourselves. It isn't clear if or how

:26:52.:26:56.

the Welsh Government could introduce a universal basic income

:26:57.:26:58.

but Mark Drakeford says he will keep an eye on developments in Scotland

:26:59.:27:04.

where there are efforts to launch The initiative has

:27:05.:27:07.

cross-party support and the backing of

:27:08.:27:10.

the RSA think tank. It explains a basic income

:27:11.:27:15.

would be paid to everyone, regardless of whether they work

:27:16.:27:17.

or not and so there is an extra incentive for unemployed people

:27:18.:27:20.

to find a job as they wouldn't have to worry about losing benefits,

:27:21.:27:24.

as happens under the current system. With a basic income,

:27:25.:27:29.

moving from a system where you weren't working into one

:27:30.:27:32.

you were, you will You retain your consistent payment

:27:33.:27:34.

throughout that period. You are given the security to be

:27:35.:27:51.

able to choose to work and also actually to be able to choose

:27:52.:27:55.

work or training and set up your own In a way that is more beneficial

:27:56.:27:58.

to you, rather than one Universal basic income has

:27:59.:28:02.

already been trialled in a number of countries including

:28:03.:28:05.

Brazil, India and the Netherlands and on the 1st of January this year,

:28:06.:28:07.

Finland launched its own 2,000 unemployed people have been

:28:08.:28:10.

picked at random to take part and they will each receive 560 euros

:28:11.:28:16.

a month for the next two years, replacing money they

:28:17.:28:19.

already get in benefits. And to put that figure into some

:28:20.:28:23.

kind of context, the average private sector salary

:28:24.:28:25.

in Finland is 3,500 euros a month. The scheme is managed by the agency

:28:26.:28:28.

responsible for administering social The biggest response

:28:29.:28:31.

from the big group of The biggest question has

:28:32.:28:36.

been, is this for real? I can keep this 560 euros and then

:28:37.:28:48.

take on a job and keep the earnings So this does not reduce my social

:28:49.:28:52.

security and it is basically income. That is one response,

:28:53.:28:56.

a very positive one. Critics say handing out

:28:57.:29:00.

regular, unconditional payments to everyone could encourage

:29:01.:29:03.

laziness and boost immigration. This is not a workable

:29:04.:29:05.

scheme because it is It creates a tremendous tax

:29:06.:29:17.

and disincentive for the average person further up

:29:18.:29:20.

the income scale who is paying taxes Mark Drakeford has said he thinks

:29:21.:29:23.

this is an attractive idea. It is quite worrying for Wales

:29:24.:29:27.

because it is very expensive and if Wales did it on its own it is going

:29:28.:29:33.

to be very expensive. Now, we are used to

:29:34.:29:36.

the communist state north of Hadrian's Wall but I'm hoping Wales

:29:37.:29:39.

won't go the same way towards this sort of extremely expensive

:29:40.:29:44.

socialist experiment. The UK Government

:29:45.:29:49.

rejected the idea last year, describing universal basic

:29:50.:29:51.

income as unaffordable. Mark Drakeford meanwhile

:29:52.:29:54.

accepts securing public support for the scheme

:29:55.:29:57.

would be a challenge in light of negative tabloid

:29:58.:30:01.

headlines in Scotland. This afternoon a special service

:30:02.:30:08.

will be held for the retiring Barry Morgan is the longest serving

:30:09.:30:11.

Archbishop in the Anglican Church, and he's never been afraid

:30:12.:30:15.

to intervene in politics, He's busy today, of course,

:30:16.:30:17.

so Felicity Evans spoke to him a few days ago,

:30:18.:30:23.

when she asked whether having the Church interfere

:30:24.:30:26.

in politics was appropriate. Some people, of course,

:30:27.:30:31.

Christians among them, think that the Christian faith only

:30:32.:30:32.

has to do with going to church, saying your prayers

:30:33.:30:35.

and reading your Bible. They haven't looked very

:30:36.:30:39.

carefully at the Bible because it has a great deal to say

:30:40.:30:41.

about justice, a great deal to say about poverty and both the prophets

:30:42.:30:44.

and Jesus said, it's no good just offering me worship unless you live

:30:45.:30:49.

justly, if you don't take care of the poor,

:30:50.:30:54.

if you don't look after refugees. Have you ever come out on a side

:30:55.:30:58.

at some point and in retrospect thought, actually, I got that wrong

:30:59.:31:09.

and I shouldn't have said that? I was on the wrong

:31:10.:31:12.

side of the argument? There were some people who thought

:31:13.:31:15.

I was wrong to come out over the deemed consent about organ

:31:16.:31:17.

donation and the Welsh Government. I still believe that it was right

:31:18.:31:20.

for the Church to speak as it did and I spoke on behalf

:31:21.:31:23.

of the Church in Wales and on behalf of the bishops

:31:24.:31:28.

because the clue was in the Some people misunderstood

:31:29.:31:31.

that and thought that I was against organ donation

:31:32.:31:37.

and of course, I'm certainly not. I was urging people to give organs

:31:38.:31:40.

but to do so voluntarily. What about the Syria bombing

:31:41.:31:47.

debate, when you urged MPs to vote against British military

:31:48.:31:51.

involvement in bombing in Syria? In retrospect, having seen

:31:52.:31:56.

the suffering inflicted upon civilian populations

:31:57.:31:58.

across Syria by government and Russian bombing campaigns,

:31:59.:32:00.

do you regret that Well, I'm not sure that

:32:01.:32:01.

people listen to any advice that comes from

:32:02.:32:14.

the episcopal bench anyway. You must have assumed

:32:15.:32:16.

you had influence or you wouldn't have

:32:17.:32:20.

said it, surely? Well, I'm speaking to my own

:32:21.:32:22.

constituency and getting people to think about some

:32:23.:32:25.

of the moral issues. I mean, our record in Iraq

:32:26.:32:27.

and Afghanistan is not a happy one And when you look at the walls

:32:28.:32:30.

of Llandaff Cathedral you see that we have been

:32:31.:32:39.

involved in Afghanistan for a couple of hundred years and it has

:32:40.:32:41.

always ended in tears. There is no kind of

:32:42.:32:46.

right answer, is there? I just wish the situation

:32:47.:32:49.

in Syria is not as it is but perhaps if we had gone in,

:32:50.:32:52.

it might even be worse. What was your biggest

:32:53.:32:56.

challenge, do you think, on taking up the position

:32:57.:32:59.

of Archbishop of Wales? I don't know if I've thought of it

:33:00.:33:02.

in terms of challenges like that. You know, you deal with

:33:03.:33:09.

things from day-to-day So certainly I think it didn't make

:33:10.:33:11.

any sense at all for women to be ordained to the diaconate

:33:12.:33:20.

and to the priesthood and not to be ordained to the episcopate

:33:21.:33:23.

because there are three orders I think that was pretty important

:33:24.:33:25.

as a matter of justice, as a matter of equality and as a matter

:33:26.:33:32.

of doing what was right, really. We have a resurgent Russia,

:33:33.:33:40.

we have the crisis in Syria and the wider Middle East,

:33:41.:33:43.

we have President Trump, What is your assessment

:33:44.:33:45.

of the direction that we are heading in and

:33:46.:33:51.

Wales's place in it? I think all the Church can do is be

:33:52.:33:58.

with people as they wrestle with these issues and give

:33:59.:34:02.

some kind of moral lead. I'm leaving, as you say,

:34:03.:34:08.

and it is no longer my job to I will have my private

:34:09.:34:11.

views but I think I shall It's been another week of high drama

:34:12.:34:18.

on the Brexit front, but much of the focus has

:34:19.:34:27.

been on Labour. The Shadow Welsh Secretary Jo

:34:28.:34:31.

Stevens resigned on Friday over being forced to support triggering

:34:32.:34:33.

Article 50. The Shadow Solicitor General and MP

:34:34.:34:37.

for Torfaen, Nick Thomas-Simmonds, Good morning and thanks for coming

:34:38.:34:54.

in. First of all, on the point about Jo Stevens and whether you think

:34:55.:34:58.

more of your fellow Labour MPs will follow, is that what you expect?

:34:59.:35:03.

Not necessarily. In respect of Jo Stevens, I think she was if a

:35:04.:35:07.

drastic shadow were said and she has a great future in the party. Our

:35:08.:35:15.

position is to respect the result of the referendum. It was the highest

:35:16.:35:21.

national turnout since 1992. My constituency, Wales and the UK all

:35:22.:35:25.

voted to leave. I think there is a crucial point here. Going around the

:35:26.:35:29.

doors in the referendum I got the sense of people saying they didn't

:35:30.:35:33.

feel politicians listened to them. I think it would be a mistake not to

:35:34.:35:37.

listen to the result of the referendum, that would further

:35:38.:35:42.

exacerbate the alienation in politics.

:35:43.:35:44.

Is the difficulty for you and the Labour Party that around two thirds

:35:45.:35:51.

of Labour Party members work for remain, but two thirds of Labour

:35:52.:35:54.

constituencies were four leaf and to try to bring those things together

:35:55.:36:00.

was almost impossible? -- were in favour of leaving.

:36:01.:36:03.

The results are therefore everyone to see in various constituencies.

:36:04.:36:10.

What unites us is the post Brexit Britain we want to see and in the

:36:11.:36:14.

House of Commons we will see in above amendments by the Labour Party

:36:15.:36:17.

to shape post Brexit Britain, maintaining the environmental

:36:18.:36:23.

protections, workers' rights, trying to secure tariff free access to the

:36:24.:36:28.

single market which is crucial to Wales because 60% of our exports go

:36:29.:36:32.

to the EU and we need to ensure that we don't become some giant tax

:36:33.:36:38.

haven. Coming onto those details in a

:36:39.:36:43.

minute. Just on the Labour and Jeremy Corbyn issue. Was he right,

:36:44.:36:48.

considering this is a huge issue for all Labour MPs, to use its three

:36:49.:36:53.

line whip to say you must vote this way?

:36:54.:36:56.

I think we need to be understanding about colleagues who take a

:36:57.:36:59.

particular view because they have to. I do think it was very important

:37:00.:37:03.

we sent out a signal that we respected the result of the

:37:04.:37:06.

referendum. That is exactly what we are doing. We are now fighting to

:37:07.:37:13.

protect jobs... Does that mean those Labour MPs who

:37:14.:37:20.

don't vote to trigger Article 50 are not respecting the overall result,

:37:21.:37:23.

such as Jo Stevens? What every MP has to do is look at

:37:24.:37:28.

the conflicting issues, like all MPs do before they vote in the House of

:37:29.:37:32.

Commons. Looking at their constituency and broader concerns

:37:33.:37:36.

and what they judge best. This is a quite unprecedented situation and I

:37:37.:37:41.

am sympathetic to colleagues who take a different view. Over the next

:37:42.:37:45.

few weeks with the amendments being put down we will be fighting for the

:37:46.:37:50.

kind of post Brexit Britain, a fair one that we want to see.

:37:51.:37:54.

How local are you that over the next couple of weeks there will be

:37:55.:37:59.

discussions about triggering Article 50 and it will be more broadbrush.

:38:00.:38:04.

How confident are you that there will be a settled well in the House

:38:05.:38:08.

of Commons that Labour MPs and surgeon Conservative MPs will have a

:38:09.:38:15.

settled view on these votes? -- and surgeon Conservative MPs? I

:38:16.:38:20.

don't know if we will until we see where the conversation is going

:38:21.:38:24.

forward. We will do all we can to shape Brexit going forward but it is

:38:25.:38:29.

the government that is doing the negotiation and people did not vote

:38:30.:38:32.

to become poorer and it is for the government to carry out that

:38:33.:38:37.

instruction from the public in a way that doesn't make Briton Laura.

:38:38.:38:40.

They will be judged upon that. I guess on that point the government

:38:41.:38:48.

won't want to have... You wouldn't want to see tightening of the

:38:49.:38:51.

wriggle room you can give Theresa May because by doing that you are

:38:52.:38:55.

handing the negotiation position by those dashed to those other EU

:38:56.:39:00.

countries. I used to be a lawyer and mediator.

:39:01.:39:04.

Nobody is suggesting you hand over the details of negotiation before.

:39:05.:39:12.

We don't want Britain as an island tax haven... We need to be straight

:39:13.:39:19.

on the trade-offs going forward. Immediately that cuts away to May's

:39:20.:39:23.

last option because she has said she is willing to walk away and have low

:39:24.:39:29.

tax, low regulation. You are immediately saying you can't have

:39:30.:39:32.

that. What I'm absolutely saying is the

:39:33.:39:36.

kind of nightmarish vision she is talking about, this bargain basement

:39:37.:39:40.

Britain, where we would be competing to be a tax haven with the single

:39:41.:39:46.

market would be a disaster. That doesn't cut away any of her

:39:47.:39:51.

negotiating strength. Who would see that as an option to make the

:39:52.:39:56.

country stronger? She needs to be held to account.

:39:57.:40:02.

File with that sort of manifest itself over the next couple of

:40:03.:40:06.

weeks? What kind of votes do you think we can see coming forward from

:40:07.:40:09.

the Labour Party? You will see amendments on workers'

:40:10.:40:14.

rights, environmental rights, consumer protection, a broader

:40:15.:40:18.

amendment on post Brexit Britain, including tariff free access to the

:40:19.:40:23.

single market, which is vital, but also an anti-tax avoidance amendment

:40:24.:40:25.

to avoid is becoming a tax haven. Another big political week ahead -

:40:26.:40:27.

we'll be back to talk about it We're @walespolitics on Twitter,

:40:28.:40:30.

but for now that's all from me. Welcome back and let's get back

:40:31.:40:39.

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

:40:40.:40:43.

mainly Muslim countries. Earlier, the Labour leader,

:40:44.:40:49.

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

:40:50.:40:52.

should not go ahead I think it would be totally wrong

:40:53.:41:05.

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

:41:06.:41:10.

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

:41:11.:41:14.

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

:41:15.:41:18.

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

:41:19.:41:23.

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

:41:24.:41:28.

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

:41:29.:41:34.

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

:41:35.:41:38.

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

:41:39.:41:42.

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

:41:43.:41:47.

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

:41:48.:41:51.

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

:41:52.:41:55.

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

:41:56.:42:01.

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

:42:02.:42:05.

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

:42:06.:42:08.

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

:42:09.:42:14.

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

:42:15.:42:19.

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

:42:20.:42:28.

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

:42:29.:42:31.

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

:42:32.:42:37.

discovering that being a president is different from being a business

:42:38.:42:41.

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

:42:42.:42:44.

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

:42:45.:42:50.

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

:42:51.:42:54.

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

:42:55.:42:58.

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

:42:59.:43:03.

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

:43:04.:43:08.

streets, the presence of demonstrators will be an

:43:09.:43:13.

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

:43:14.:43:17.

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

:43:18.:43:20.

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

:43:21.:43:24.

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

:43:25.:43:29.

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

:43:30.:43:35.

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

:43:36.:43:42.

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

:43:43.:43:46.

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

:43:47.:43:50.

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

:43:51.:43:53.

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

:43:54.:43:57.

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

:43:58.:44:03.

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

:44:04.:44:07.

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

:44:08.:44:14.

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

:44:15.:44:17.

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

:44:18.:44:21.

opposite the next day. Brown did the same.

:44:22.:44:27.

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

:44:28.:44:36.

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

:44:37.:44:39.

the major government, even though their position on the single

:44:40.:44:44.

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

:44:45.:44:49.

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

:44:50.:44:53.

dissemble authoritative leak when you lead a divided party over

:44:54.:44:57.

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

:44:58.:45:01.

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

:45:02.:45:06.

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

:45:07.:45:12.

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

:45:13.:45:15.

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

:45:16.:45:20.

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

:45:21.:45:24.

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

:45:25.:45:28.

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

:45:29.:45:35.

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

:45:36.:45:39.

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

:45:40.:45:43.

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

:45:44.:45:47.

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

:45:48.:45:53.

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

:45:54.:45:56.

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

:45:57.:46:01.

incumbent Prime Minister trying to execute believe vote suits you

:46:02.:46:05.

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

:46:06.:46:10.

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

:46:11.:46:14.

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

:46:15.:46:19.

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

:46:20.:46:24.

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

:46:25.:46:28.

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

:46:29.:46:32.

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

:46:33.:46:35.

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

:46:36.:46:40.

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

:46:41.:46:46.

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

:46:47.:46:52.

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

:46:53.:46:58.

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

:46:59.:47:03.

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

:47:04.:47:07.

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

:47:08.:47:11.

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

:47:12.:47:16.

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

:47:17.:47:20.

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

:47:21.:47:25.

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

:47:26.:47:28.

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

:47:56.:47:59.

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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