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There's another candidate in the race to become Ukip's next | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
leader: Suzanne Evans, the party's former deputy chairman, | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
This man might have something to say about that. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
Paul Nuttal was Nigel Farage's deputy for many years. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
So is he now ready to throw his hat in the ring? | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
The battle for Mosul: the Iraqi army and its allies advane | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
on the country's second city which has been in the hands of | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
And in the Midlands, prepard for from this key clash? | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
And in the Midlands, prepard for take-off. Forget Heathrow and | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Gatwick, we're talking to one of the richest cities in the | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
world. Should all private landlords be licensed to help tackle the | :01:24. | :01:24. | |
squalor? And with me - as always - | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
the best and the brightest political panel in the business: Toby Young, | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Polly Toynbee and Tom Newton Dunn - The last leader was in the job | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
a mere 18 days before she decided The favourite to succeed her then | :01:36. | :01:44. | |
quit the party after a now infamous Ukip's biggest donor says the party | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
is at "breaking point". This morning, the former | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
Deputy Chairman, Suzanne Evans, announced that she would be | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
running for the leadership. I've thought long and hard | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
about this leadership bid, and one of the reasons I've perhaps | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
delayed announcing it is because I wanted to be absolutely | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
sure that I had the support And I can confirm that I have | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
more than enough signatures on the nomination form already | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
to be able to go forward. Let's not forget that 3,000 people | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
signed a petition in support of me I know head office was besieged | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
with letters in support. I would not be doing this | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
if I didn't have the backing of our members, because our members | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
are the most important Well, Paul Nuttall was | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
Nigel Farage's deputy for many years and plenty of people saw him | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
as a leader-in-waiting. Let's ask the man himself - | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
Paul Nuttall joins me now. Yes. I've made the decision that I'm | :02:50. | :03:02. | |
going to put my name forward to be the next leader of Ukip. I have huge | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
support across the country, not only amongst people at the top of the | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
party in Westminster and with the MEPs, but also the grassroots. I | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
want to be the unity candidate. Ukip needs to come together. I'm not | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
going to gild the lily. Ukip is looking over a political cliff at | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
the moment. It will either step four step back, and I want to tell us to | :03:26. | :03:36. | |
step backwards. You say it faces an ex-distension or threat, which means | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
it's possible it has no future at all. Students of political history | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
know that political parties take a long time to get going. They can | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
disappear pretty quickly. Ukip is facing an existential crisis. What | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
happened over the summer has put us on a... We could be on a spiral that | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
we can't get off. But I believe I am the man to bring the factions | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
together, to create unity within the party, and to build on the structure | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
and get us ready for the common challenges. Why didn't you stand | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
last time? Because I have spent the last four or five years of my life | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
travelling around the country. I have done more Ukip meetings than | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
anybody else, spending a lot of time away from home. With Brexit, I felt | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
that my job and Nigel's job was done and we could hand over to the next | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
generation. That doesn't seem to be the case, and maybe it's time for | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
someone who is an old hand. I'm very experienced and I know the party | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
inside out. Maybe it's time to step in and bring the party together You | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
told the Liverpool Echo on the night of July that you didn't wish to take | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
on Nigel Farage, you didn't want that to happen to your family and | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
friends. What has changed? The party is facing an existential crisis and | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
I want to make sure that Ukip is on the pitch to keep the ball into the | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
open net we have in politics. We have a Conservative Party who is | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
moving toward Brexit, but we have to be there too. Why would you be | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
better than Suzanne Evans? Suzanne would be an excellent candidate I | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
thought the 2015 manifesto was the best out of all the political | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
parties. I would be the best candidate because of my experience. | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
I am not part of any faction within the party. Is she? I get on well | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
with everybody, and I believe I could be the man to bring the party | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
together. Do you get on with Iain Banks, -- Aaron Banks, who is | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
supporting one of your rivals? Yes, I get on well with him. He is able | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
to choose whoever he wants to be the next leader of the party. After | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
November 28, the leadership election, we all say, the past the | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
past. It becomes Daisy row for the new leader. We forget all that has | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
before and move on. You won the referendum. Mrs May is adopting some | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
of your policies, like grammar schools. What is the point of Ukip | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
these days? Twofold. We don't have Brexit. Mrs May said she would not | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
invoke Article 50 until the end of March, and we don't know if that | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
will happen. We need to ensure a strong Ukip to make sure that Brexit | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
really does mean Brexit. We have a huge opportunity in working class | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
communities where the Labour Party no longer represents them. I believe | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Ukip can become the voice of working people. If you were the leader, | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
would Ukip be a bigger threat to Labour in the north or the Tories in | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
the South? You save Labour in the north, and people often to make that | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
mistake. There's working class communities right across the country | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
is. There are working-class communities in Bristol just | :07:04. | :07:16. | |
as in Newcastle. We are second in a number of northern seats, and | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
southern seats as well, and I believe the party can move into | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
these communities. It can only do so if Ukip is on the pitch, and I | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
intend to make sure that's the case. I don't think we have portrayed a | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
good image over the summer. Is that called British understatement? A | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
bit. It is dysfunctional. We have to move on beyond Nigel Farage. We have | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
to build a strong national Executive Committee. We need to ensure our | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
branches are ready for the fight and concentrate on local elections. I've | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
got the experience. I'm now throwing my hat into the ring, and I'm the | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
only person who can keep Ukip in the game. What role would you give Nigel | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Farage, if any? I will be the candidate of compromise. I would see | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
what Nigel wanted to do. Would you keep in the leader of the freedom | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
and democracy group in the European Parliament? There would have to be | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
compromise on both sides, and we would need to talk about it. I don't | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
know what Nigel wants to do. Do you think his support, his association | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
with Donald Trump, helps Ukip win female votes in this country? | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Personally, I would not have gone out and campaigned or said anything | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
about Donald Trump, but I don't think Ukip has come out and backed | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
Donald Trump 100%. Personally, I wouldn't have even spoken about the | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
American election, because I think the two candidates are quite | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
appalling. Some up for us. If you win, what would be the hallmark of | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
your Ukip leadership? The first couple of months would be ensuring | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
that Ukip unifies. Saying no to factions, bringing people together. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Suzanne Evans, Nigel Farage, all of the MEPs, and ensuring that Ukip can | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
move forward. If we don't unify Ukip will not be around for much | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
longer. Thanks for being with us this morning. | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
We won't have to wait too long to find out who Ukip's | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
new leader will be - the winner will be announced | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
Who would be the best leader for Ukip? I think the difference between | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
the field a few weeks ago and today is that this field is a lot | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
stronger. Whether it's Paul or Suzanne, I think... It is hard to | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
say, with Aaron Banks and apparently Nigel Farage hacking another | :09:44. | :09:53. | |
candidate, Raheem, but I want Ukip to be a strong force in British | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
politics. I think the fact there is a stronger field now is good news | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
for Ukip. Is it a Labour's worst nightmare in the north of England? | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
It is. I think the personality difference and presentational | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
difference is interesting. Suzanne Evans is going for the Conservative | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
county vote. There's a lot to be taken there by Ukip. He would | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
probably be more appealing to the Labour vote. It is interesting. At | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
the moment, pollsters say that the Ukip vote splits pretty easily | :10:36. | :10:48. | |
between Labour and Tory. But things always collapse. When they have made | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
inroads into Tower Hamlets and Barking, they collapse, because they | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
fight amongst each other so much. But not always with fists! Does Ukip | :10:58. | :11:09. | |
have a future? And who would best secure that future? It does for at | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
least two years, until we Brexit. We have to believe that that will | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
happen. That was an impressive pitch there from Paul, certainly as the | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
unity candidate, after the car crash we have seen on TV screens this | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
morning. But it doesn't go beyond May 20 19. What then? There is no | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
point being called the United Kingdom Independence party any | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
longer. What will happen after May 2019? If you want to hoover up votes | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
of the back of Brexit, you need to start looking further ahead than two | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
years. The person who wins that leadership contest is the person who | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
will sum that up the best. We shall see. | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
In June 2014, the group which calls itself the Islamic State in Iraq | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
and the Levant captured Iraq's second city, Mosul. | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
Later that month the group announced it was establishing a 'caliphate', | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
or an Islamic state, on the territories it | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
This week 30,000 Iraqi troops, aided by Iranian-backed Shia fighters | :12:07. | :12:15. | |
Kurdish Peshmerga and Western air support, began the assault | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
Then they spot a truck bomb from so-called Islamic State. | :12:21. | :12:38. | |
They destroy it before it destroys them. | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
These are the first steps in the battle for Mosul, | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
the Northern Iraqi city IS has made its stronghold since 2014. | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
Controlling the city of around 2 million people means | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
that they established governance, they establish a territorial base. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
This is what has obsessed everyone, because with a territorial base | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
you are capable of doing more than if you are simply an insurgency | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
movement in the fabric of another society. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
It's being billed as the biggest military operation in Iraq | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
since the war in 2003, the biggest moment in the international effort | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Here is how the various forces are approaching the city. | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
Heading to Mosul from the south the elite troops of the Iraqi army. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Known as the Golden division, trained and accompanied | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
From the North, a force made up of Kurds, known as the Peshmerga, | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
Also from the South, a militia made up of Shia fighters | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
who have been accused of human rights abuses. | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
British planes have bombed outlying villages, reportedly guided | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
in by British personnel on the ground. | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
To the North West, a corridor has been left for some | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
of the 3000 plus IS fighters, in theory an escape route | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
which could limit the bloodshed when fighting starts in the city. | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
We've had 4-5 days of battle and it's taking place | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
in the outlying villages and there have been some | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
successes and some failures, but the momentum is building. | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
And the real question will be when the attackers get | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
towards the city itself, how strong are the defences? | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
It will crack but it might crack within 48 hours or 2-3 weeks. | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
IS has fought back, on Friday they attack sites | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
in the city of Kirkuk, including a power station. | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
The United Nations believes hundreds of thousands of families | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
have been rounded up as potential human shields. | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
The battle could be bloody, but what about when it's over? | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
The Shia militias, the Iraqi army, the Peshmerga guerrillas, | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
some of the Turkish elements, they all want a share of the action. | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
They are in Mosul, not for altruistic reasons. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
They are there because they want to be part of whatever happens next. | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
The biggest issue is how the Sunni majority in Mosul reacts to the Shia | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
militias which have helped to liberate them. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: When Sir Francis Humphrey went to Mosul | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
If it all seems like something from the archive, when the Middle | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
East went up in flames and was then carved up, | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
it is because that is what is happening in Iraq right now. | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
National identity has been cut across by other identities such | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
And that means that putting together a so-called nation state again | :15:23. | :15:33. | |
Almost certainly there will be a new form of Kurdish state, | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
almost certainly in northern Iraq at the end of this crisis, | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
and what is happening in Mosul is a microcosm of what is happening | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
elsewhere across the Levant which is that it is melting down. | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
Big questions, questions that come after the battle. | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
The coalition forces are advancing but this is just the beginning. | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
I'm joined now by the International Development Minister Rory Stewart. | :15:54. | :16:03. | |
In a former life he was the coalition Deputy-Governor of two | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
provinces in Southern Iraq following the Iraq intervention of 2003. | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
Is there any doubt that at some stage Mosul will fall to the forces | :16:15. | :16:24. | |
of Iraq and its allies? The first thing is that war is very uncertain | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
and there are cliches about it being the graveyard of predictions and we | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
don't want to make confident predictions but the basic structure | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
is that there are 30,000 Iraqi forces outside and only a few | :16:42. | :16:51. | |
thousand Daesh fighters inside and I would say it is overwhelmingly | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
likely that the batter will one STUDIO: -- the battle the won by the | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
Iraqi forces. June 2014 was a great success, they | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
took a city of over in people and they created what they tried to | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
create a million state of 7 million people, stretching across the Iraqi | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
Syrian border, but since then they have lost territory quite rapidly. | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Now they are losing the outskirts of Mosul, and that is a fundamental | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
blow. Islamic State is all about territory and holding state, that is | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
what makes it different from Al-Qaeda. If they lose Mosul that | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
will be a cynic -- significant blow to their credibility. Hillary | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
Clinton said on Wednesday's presidential debate that when Iraqi | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
forces with their allies including the United Kingdom gain control of | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
Mosul they should continue to press into Syria to take back Raqqa which | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
is the de facto capital of the caliphate, what is left of it, do we | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
want Iraqi forces to pursue IS into Syria? Very important question. | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
Delayed in Raqqa needs to come from people on the Syrian side of the | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
border and that is an important principle -- the lead. In the end of | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
that enemy, Islamic State, is a common enemy for odd members of the | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
coalition including the Iraqi government. -- all members. There is | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
likely to be a humanitarian crisis especially if it ends up with street | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
to street fighting and IS are difficult to dislodge what are we | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
doing about that? We are doing very detailed scenario planning. It is | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
very uncertain what the scenario will be but much investment has gone | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
into creating a network of camps, refugees STUDIO: Refugee camps | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
around cash refugee camps, and that is where money, British money, 40 | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
million has gone recently into supporting that, especially in terms | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
of medical support to people. The United nation's emergency response | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
budget is ?196 million but only one third funded which sounds like we | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
are putting up a big chunk of what is already being funded. Why is | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
that? The international committee can't say they haven't seen this | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
assault coming, and the humanitarian fallout they may see from it. You | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
are absolutely right. We have seen it coming and we have been planning | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
since debris and we have put in about ?167 million into this -- | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
planning since February. There has been a change in the nature of the | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
appeal, and if there is a lag in the accounting of it, but the money we | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
need at this stage is in place and we do have the support structure in | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
place for those refugees. You are right the United Nations is | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
continuing with its appeal and is asking for more money at the moment. | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
The converse magazine wrote this week that preparations for a big | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
exodus of people leaving the city have been made -- Economist | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
magazine. But confidence is not high in the preparations, is that a | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
unfair conclusion? If you can imagine the different scenarios it | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
could be a few thousand and it could be a few hundred thousand coming out | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
of the city through a front line where the war is going on, that is | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
very difficult. You have to screen those people and disarm them, and | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
keep families together, and transport them and you have to bring | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
them into the refugee camps. The people working on this have been | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
working on this for long time, we have mapped the different routes we | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
have good camp infrastructure in place and we have people who have | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
worked in south to dam and other areas who are putting their | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
structures in place -- South Sudan. It is never easy but I think we have | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
done everything we can in the preparation for this. What is the | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
British role in what will probably be an even bigger issue, assuming | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
that Mosul is liberated and retaken, the humanitarian crisis is dealt | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
with, what role will we play in the rebuilding of Mosul? That will be | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
crucial to the future of Iraq, the second-biggest city and it will need | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
to be rebuilt. It will need to be rebuilt as a community as well as | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
bricks and mortar. And eight Sunni community that is not harassed by | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
the Shia. -- and eight. You are right. One of the core drivers is | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
that the Sunni community felt excluded and they did not feel they | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
have the trust from the Baghdad government. A lasting solution is | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
stopping some of Islamic State coming back, that involves making | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
sure the Sunni community have a stake in their future. That is | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
making sure that the governing structures are in place. The UK s | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
response is twofold, we have got to get the humanitarian aid right, that | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
is the short term, people who might be malnourished, coming out of the | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
front line. The second thing is working with the Iraqi government to | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
make sure that as we rebuild Mosul we do so in a way that that | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
population feels a connection to the Iraqi state. Islamic State is losing | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
territory everywhere in the Levant, it is almost finished in Iraq, we | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
think. It is down to one district in Libya, as well, just one small part | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
of the town. I suppose the risk is, if life is becoming more difficult | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
across these areas, it can start to look more in Europe and the United | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
Kingdom as a place to continue its terrorist attacks? That is a real | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
danger. You are right. This is a group which has proved over the last | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
five years very unpredictable and it changes for it quickly full stop | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
often it does unexpected things In 2009 its predecessor had been | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
largely wiped out in Iraq and when it was under pressure in Syria it | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
went back into Iraq, and in the past it didn't hold territory but now it | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
holds territory, so you are right. There is a serious risk that as it | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
gets squeezed in the middle East it will try to pop up somewhere else | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
and Mac could include Europe and the United States -- that could. They | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
say that is something they have focused on full stop we also have a | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
big focus on counterterrorism security and making sure that we | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
keep the United Kingdom and Europe say. One final question. -- say -- | :23:38. | :23:49. | |
safe. Maybe events in Mosul could add to the migration crisis in | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
Europe, is that a possibility? Again, you are right, we have seen | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
in Syria it can push migration, the biggest push the migration was the | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
conflict in Syria, and that's the reason why we have but so much | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
energy into getting those refugee camps in place and getting the | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
humanitarian response in place - put so much energy. People will want | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
to remain in their homes, this is their country, but we have got to | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
make it possible for them and that means in the short term looking | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
after their shelter and in the medium to long-term making sure they | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
have livelihoods, jobs and an economic development which is why | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
our support in Iraq is in the UK National interests because it deals | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
with these issues of migration and terrorists. Thanks for joining us. | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
I'm joined now by the Shadow Defence Secretary. | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
Does Labour support British participation in this offensive We | :24:50. | :25:01. | |
fully support the participation in this offensive, extremely important | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
move forward and we voted for this back in 2014. We are asking the | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
government question is, of course, I was asking the Secretary of State | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
this week about this very offensive but we are fully behind our RAF | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
pilots out there and be trading that has been going on to help the forces | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
on the ground. -- the training full stop that is very clear. I wonder if | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
you'll lead it shares that clarity and that position. -- is your | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
leader. This is what Jeremy Corbyn has said. | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
What's been done in Iraq is done by the Iraqi | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
government, and currently supported by the British government. | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
I did not support it when it came up. | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
Well, I'm not sure how successful it's been, because most | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
of the action now appears to be moving in to Syria, so I think we | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
He doesn't sound very supportive. The issue about Mosul, it has been | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
very carefully prepared as Rory Stewart said and I hope we have | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
learned the lessons from previous offensives where we haven't learnt | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
sufficiently, and that is going to be crucial in this context. How the | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
aftermath is going to be dealt with. Of course will stop that clip was | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
from November last year, and things have changed. Two weeks ago he told | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
the BBC" I'm not sure it is working", in reference to air | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
strikes in Iraq, but it is working. We have got to see what happens in | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
Mosul, it is a very high-risk operation, but we also have to face | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
the fact that the people there are living under tyranny at the moment. | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
We have to ask very cirrus question shall stop he says he's not sure it | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
is working, when Mosul is the last major target be cleared of Islamic | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
State in Iraq. The combination of Allied air power has worked, why is | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
he not sure it is working? Because we have seen difficulties in the | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
past. But this was two weeks ago. It is essential that the work is done, | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
both planning for the refugees as Rory Stewart referred to, but also | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
in terms of reconstruction of the city and its community as you | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
mentioned. These are vital. This was about the ability to make progress | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
with Allied air power, special forces in Iraq, on the ground, do | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
you accept so far that has a strategy that seems to be working to | :27:27. | :27:38. | |
read Iraq of Islamic -- to read Iraq of Islamic State the question of the | :27:39. | :27:47. | |
car began placement. Ulloa -- we can't be complacent. The problems | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
they are creating where ever they are urged that we must continue to | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
pursue them. This is the first time we have spoken to since you have | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
become the Shadow Defence Secretary. I hope we will have a longer | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
interview. Will Labour's next manifesto include a commitment to | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
the renewal of Trident? It will We made that commitment in 2007, that | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
is a firm commitment and we will honour that to our coalition allies | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
and our industrial partners and that is the vote which was taken | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
democratically and repeatedly has been reaffirmed by Labour conference | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
and we are a democratic party vote up you have squared that with Jeremy | :28:29. | :28:37. | |
Corbyn? He's in favour of democracy and he understands the situation, | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
but we also want to push for the UK to play a much bigger role on the | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
international stage on multilateral disarmament talks. You were very | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
clear there, I thank you for that. Support for Trident will be in the | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
next Labour manifesto. What has happened to Labour's review of | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
Trident policy? That review has been taking place over the year, we had a | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
very clear reaffirmation in the conference boat this year, we are | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
reaffirming our commitment to Trident -- vote. The review can t | :29:08. | :29:15. | |
change that? There is a process of review and a fair number of issues | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
related to defence, all parties do this. Of course. The review can t | :29:19. | :29:25. | |
change the commitment to Trident? We are not changing the commitment to | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
Trident. Russia is now the main strategic threat to this country? It | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
is a major strategic threat and we have got to work with our Nato | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
allies very closely and make sure that we respond and that we do not | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
let things pass. For example, we should be calling out Russia for the | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
way it has been a bombing humanitarian aid and we should be | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
taking them to international court over this, but we should also be | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
strengthening sanctions, somewhat imposed over Ukraine. We try to do | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
that, but the Italians wouldn't let us. The Italians did not want to | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
participate in the European initiative but that doesn't stop | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
individual countries for the Britain should step up? Yes, we should look | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
at what is practical to impose. Thanks for joining us. | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
Mosul is not the only major battle being waged in the Middle East. | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
The city of Aleppo in northern Syria has seen some of the heaviest | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
bombardment since Syria's five-year-long civil war began. | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
This week Russian warships, in a deliberate show of power, | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
sailed west through the English channel en route to Syria. | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
Nato says it's Russia's "largest surface deployment" since the end | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
of the Cold War in what is thought to be preparation | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
for a final assault on the besieged city of Aleppo. | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
In the city itself fighting resumed overnight - | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
following a 3-day ceasefire - with more air strikes and heavy | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
clashes in the city's rebel-held eastern districts. | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
Almost 500 people have been killed and 2,000 injured | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
since Syrian government forces, backed by Russian air strikes, | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
This week Theresa May condemned Vladimir Putin's involvement | :31:06. | :31:13. | |
in Syria, accusing Moscow of being behind "sickening | :31:14. | :31:15. | |
atrocities" in support of President Assad's regime. | :31:16. | :31:18. | |
But European leaders are divided on how to respond and, | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
with the United States preoccupied with domestic politics, | :31:24. | :31:25. | |
President Putin senses this is his moment to bring the Syrian | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
I'm joined now by the BBC's former Diplomatic and Moscow Correspondent, | :31:30. | :31:37. | |
Bridget Kendall, who is now Master of Peterhouse College in Cambridge. | :31:38. | :31:45. | |
Welcome. Good to see you in the BBC studio again. Let me put up this | :31:46. | :31:53. | |
satellite image of Aleppo here, to get an idea of the scale. It was the | :31:54. | :32:00. | |
biggest city in Syria. It was the commercial capital and a huge | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
cultural hub as well. Almost the New York of Syria, to give you an idea | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
of its significance to the country. Let me show you now how it's been | :32:10. | :32:15. | |
divided. The rebels are now in control of the eastern part, about | :32:16. | :32:23. | |
eight miles long and three miles wide there, they're in purple. They | :32:24. | :32:25. | |
are under great attacks still. Is it inevitable that that purple part | :32:26. | :32:33. | |
falls to the regime? That is what President as Saad, the Russians and | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
the Iranians hope. The fierce bombardments we have seen is part of | :32:39. | :32:45. | |
that. I'm reminded very much in the Russian tactics of what happened in | :32:46. | :32:51. | |
grudgingly in Chechnya in 2000, when the Russians said, a warning for all | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
civilians to lead, and then they went ahead and they basically raised | :32:57. | :33:01. | |
it to the ground. They are talking about Al Nusrah as being one of the | :33:02. | :33:06. | |
rebel groups. They got rid of all of the terrorists. They talk about it | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
being an Al-Qaeda offshoot. The purpose of going in is to get rid of | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
them. You get the civilians out and then you take it. But this isn't | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
like Chechnya. It is much more complex. We have seen an attempt to | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
take Aleppo before, and then there was a rebel counter offensive. It's | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
not so certain. And there are so many different parties involved We | :33:31. | :33:33. | |
have seen the alarm in the west of the extent of the civilian | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
casualties. There have been rumblings in the west of, shouldn't | :33:38. | :33:47. | |
the United States do something? Shouldn't they stop the Syrian air | :33:48. | :33:49. | |
force? This Russian aircraft carrier steaming its way towards the Eastern | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
Mediterranean is a symbolic gesture, both to its own people, but also to | :33:54. | :34:01. | |
the West, to say, don't get involved in Aleppo if we go ahead. Don't try | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
and stop us because we could up the ante. They have not been great | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
visual pictures, because the aircraft carrier looks a bit clapped | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
out, belching out smoke! If the rebel controlled area does fall it | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
would be seen as a great victory for President as Saad and his Russian | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
allies. What is the aim of Russia here? What would they then do, if | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
Aleppo Falls? It is part of a plan that President Putin set out in his | :34:33. | :34:37. | |
UN speech in 2014, before Russia went into Syria. The aim is to put | :34:38. | :34:42. | |
President Assad back in charge. President Putin said this weekend | :34:43. | :34:47. | |
that either is Assad in Damascus, or its Al Nusrah. There is nothing in | :34:48. | :34:52. | |
between. They want to eliminate the argument for a moderate opposition. | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
They want to make it plain that the only way to get a stable Syria is to | :34:59. | :35:05. | |
have Assad back in charge. Even sue argue for a rump steak lit, leaving | :35:06. | :35:14. | |
aside what is happening with IAS. They have already said they want to | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
have an enlarged military presence at their bases. And they have a big | :35:20. | :35:24. | |
naval base. It is. It is a chance to push for this when he sees the West | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
is being distracted and divided Europe and America, by elections and | :35:30. | :35:37. | |
so on. Just before the US elections. The Americans are worried about | :35:38. | :35:41. | |
that, Europeans are being distracted by Brexit. He can push to his | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
maximum advantage now, before there is a new US president. If they do | :35:47. | :35:54. | |
take that part of Aleppo, and that part of northern Syria, does Mr | :35:55. | :36:03. | |
Putin want us to recognise, to admit, that that is now his sphere | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
of influence? I think the rhetoric from the Russians is that they want | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
the West to recognise that they are an equal powerful partner. It's not | :36:14. | :36:17. | |
just the US that runs the writ in the Middle East. Russia is as | :36:18. | :36:23. | |
important as it is. It is engaging with Saudi Arabia and has mended | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
fences with Turkey. Syria is the place from which it can launch its | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
message that it is a big player in the Middle East. Russia wants the | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
West to understand that this isn't a country that was dismembered after | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
the end of the Soviet Union and is now a week. It is back, and it is | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
strong. That is an important message. Looking at the economy It | :36:48. | :36:54. | |
is in recession. GDP has been falling, partly because of the price | :36:55. | :36:59. | |
of oil. It is highly dependent on hydrocarbons, and is expected to | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
fall again. Its people are falling again. People don't realise how | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
small the Russian economy is. Its GDP is about the size of Italy's. It | :37:10. | :37:16. | |
is smaller than the UK economy. Bigger than it was 15 or 20 years | :37:17. | :37:24. | |
ago. But so is Britain's does it help to take people's mind of this? | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
A huge shock to the Russian economy was a drop in the price of oil and a | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
price of gas. A drop in the price of the ruble as well. This is hurting | :37:36. | :37:41. | |
the people of Russia. On the one hand, it is the war in Syria, which | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
is very important for Russia to sort out that part of the world and | :37:47. | :37:51. | |
dispensed terrorists who might be danger to -- is dangerous to Russia. | :37:52. | :37:58. | |
But he had also has presidential election is going up. They are | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
supposed to be 2018, but some feel he will bring them forward to 2 17, | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
because the economy is not doing so well. But you need a good story for | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
the Russian people. Thank you very much. | :38:13. | :38:15. | |
We say goodbye to viewers in Scotland who leave us now | :38:16. | :38:25. | |
Welcome to the Sunday Politics in the Midl`nds | :38:26. | :38:28. | |
The headmaster who says the Prime Minister's 'wasting' money | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
on grammar schools while le`ving academies like his short of cash. | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
And forget Heathrow and Gatwick - we'll be speaking to the Midlands | :38:38. | :38:40. | |
mayoral candidate who wants a second runway at Birmingh`m. | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
Our guests today are Neena Gill Labour MEP for the West Midlands | :38:46. | :38:47. | |
and the Conservative MP for Rugby, Mark Pawsey. | :38:48. | :38:50. | |
And we start this week with criticism over police cuts | :38:51. | :38:57. | |
The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David | :38:58. | :38:59. | |
Jamieson says his force has seen its budget shrink by | :39:00. | :39:01. | |
Mr Jamieson says crime is "changing not falling", highlighting | :39:02. | :39:08. | |
an increase in sexual offences and fraud. | :39:09. | :39:11. | |
And his comments come as the latest official figures, | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
In the West Midlands force `rea it's risen by 6% in the last year. | :39:15. | :39:20. | |
In Staffordshire and West Mdrcia it's up by 13%, | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
and there was an 11% rise in Warwickshire. | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
Although Gloucestershire has somewhat bucked the trend - | :39:29. | :39:30. | |
Mark, starting with you. Crhme up by 11% in Warwickshire, other police | :39:31. | :39:45. | |
being underfunded by this government? | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
Crime is in fact done by ond quarter since 2010, so we know that the | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
direction of travel in general is right. | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
The latest figures show it hs up by 9% across the region. | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
There is a new method of reporting crime. It is entirely right that | :40:04. | :40:11. | |
people are coming forward. That was always going to present itsdlf in a | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
change in the figures. Neena Gill, is this the point, cuts | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
the police are spending the money in the wrong places because crhme has | :40:21. | :40:24. | |
changed, we do not need thel out on the beat, we need them on kdyboards? | :40:25. | :40:30. | |
I don't accept that, 126 million has been cut. This is a way to dnsure | :40:31. | :40:38. | |
that crime is addressed. Of course crime is changing, but we nded to | :40:39. | :40:47. | |
also be catering, nothing bdats local community police officers that | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
are out there. David Jamieson is right, he has got fewer and fewer | :40:53. | :40:58. | |
resources, and it is very h`rd to actually tackle crime if yot haven't | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
got people. You cannot get away from th`t, Mark. | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
Mr Jamieson is saying, crimd is going up, my funding is going down. | :41:08. | :41:14. | |
Crime has fallen but it is reassuring for people to sed... | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
Not according to these figures. It is changing, I know from my own | :41:20. | :41:27. | |
caseload, fraud is a big issue. It is not dealt with by just one police | :41:28. | :41:30. | |
force. Are you not worried, these figures | :41:31. | :41:32. | |
seem to show that the tide hs seem to show that the tide hs | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
turning? Are you concerned that the trend in crime might start turning | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
the other way. We need to look at the longdr term | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
trend, which has gone on thd right direction. That is not to s`y we | :41:46. | :41:49. | |
should be complacent. We have put a lot of effort into those individuals | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
who have been affected by crime We have seen evidence across the | :41:55. | :41:57. | |
West Midlands that crime is increasing, and so even if ht is | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
changing, we are still not `ble to address the causes. Whether it is | :42:04. | :42:09. | |
fraud or online... We want to make certain we have got | :42:10. | :42:12. | |
the resources to deal with the crane being reported. -- crime. It shows | :42:13. | :42:20. | |
that people have got more confidence in coming forward and talking about | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
things that many years ago would have been swept under the c`rpet. | :42:25. | :42:26. | |
Thanks, we will leave it thdre. Now, Brexit aside, Theresa Lay has | :42:27. | :42:28. | |
made the reintroduction of state grammar schools her biggest idea | :42:29. | :42:31. | |
since taking over at Number Ten David Cameron had shied awax | :42:32. | :42:34. | |
from the issue despite pressure from Ukip, and his own membdrs, | :42:35. | :42:36. | |
to bring them back. But it's a policy that isn't | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
popular with everyone. Labour has united to condemn | :42:40. | :42:41. | |
a return to what it calls And the headteacher at one | :42:42. | :42:44. | |
Worcester Academy says it mdans schools like his | :42:45. | :42:49. | |
will be starved of money. In Birmingham, these childrdn | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
are being coached to help Going in there I felt scared | :42:54. | :43:04. | |
because I felt really nervots. But now, I said that I'm fedling | :43:05. | :43:14. | |
that I'm going to get into grammar school, but if I don't, | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
then it is not a problem. In Birmingham there are ten | :43:20. | :43:23. | |
children put forward But with those places limitdd, | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
who goes to grammar schools like King Edward VI in Aston | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
is important, particularly how many children from | :43:33. | :43:35. | |
disadvantaged backgrounds. Across the country there | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
are 163 grammar schools. But only around half of thel make | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
a priority of attracting chhldren And this school is one of only 1 | :43:44. | :43:46. | |
across the country who actu`lly have a quota system to incrdase | :43:47. | :43:52. | |
the number of children We think it is very important | :43:53. | :43:54. | |
that our schools are accesshble to all children in Birmingh`m, | :43:55. | :44:00. | |
whatever their backgrounds, to those that have got the `bility | :44:01. | :44:02. | |
to come here and benefit We are really keen to make sure | :44:03. | :44:05. | |
that we get as many disadvantaged Critics of the grammar school system | :44:06. | :44:10. | |
say that it actually increases inequality, because if | :44:11. | :44:14. | |
your child does not get in No, because there are fantastic | :44:15. | :44:16. | |
comprehensives that they can go to. And we do not see someone that does | :44:17. | :44:23. | |
not get into a grammar school, it is not about failing that | :44:24. | :44:26. | |
and being consigned It is just a different | :44:27. | :44:29. | |
type of school. I mean, we don't think | :44:30. | :44:32. | |
that grammar schools are better than other schools, | :44:33. | :44:33. | |
we just do a different job But pressure for places | :44:34. | :44:36. | |
in Birmingham is one thing. Over in Worcestershire, | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
there are no grammar schools, and some headteachers say | :44:41. | :44:41. | |
there are more important We are reducing the courses we can | :44:42. | :44:44. | |
offer, budgets are being cut by 25% in the school, | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
and the final thing I have got is redundancies of very, | :44:49. | :44:51. | |
very good teachers. We just got record results | :44:52. | :44:54. | |
for the third year in a row, yet I am looking at cuts, | :44:55. | :44:57. | |
and then they say, well we will find 50 million | :44:58. | :44:59. | |
for grammar schools. So, in Birmingham, they havd grammar | :45:00. | :45:02. | |
schools and for every place Does that not sure | :45:03. | :45:04. | |
that it is very popular? Well, I would argue stronglx | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
that there are some brilliant state schools in Birmingham, | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
where I worked for ten years, and I would argue strongly | :45:13. | :45:14. | |
that the Finnish system, which is the system they always hold | :45:15. | :45:17. | |
up, and the Finnish governmdnt have made a commitment to get th`t right, | :45:18. | :45:20. | |
rather than having these different Grammar schools are certainly | :45:21. | :45:23. | |
popular, but their supporters need to answer two big questions - | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
whose children get to go to grammar school, and what happens | :45:29. | :45:32. | |
to those that don't? Right, Mark, I know you went to | :45:33. | :45:44. | |
grammar school, and there are three new constituency, not all | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
conservatives are in favour of grammar schools. Mark Bridgdr | :45:49. | :45:53. | |
current -- Mark Pritchard. Weirder you stand? | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
I am a supporter. Nobody is I am a supporter. Nobody is | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
insisting where grammar schools are installed where they are not wanted. | :46:02. | :46:05. | |
There are large numbers that apply to the grammar schools. I al very | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
keen that we have a smart tdst that we can make sure we get the | :46:10. | :46:13. | |
brightest and most capable children. I want to see more children from | :46:14. | :46:16. | |
disadvantaged backgrounds gdtting into these wonderful and excellent | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
schools. They are brilliant schools. Somebody said to you, we have got | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
these great schools, but we're going to stop them from expanding, you | :46:26. | :46:28. | |
would think that was a little disingenuous. If you have got great | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
schools like grammar schools, let's expand them for more opporttnities. | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
They are terrifically poplar -- popular. If they are making an | :46:39. | :46:45. | |
effort to bring children in from disadvantaged backgrounds, what is | :46:46. | :46:48. | |
wrong with that? There is no evidence that grammar | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
schools actually increase social mobility and inclusion. What I am | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
concerned about is that we need to address education, but we should | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
stop being focused on the structure of education. This was not dven in | :47:02. | :47:05. | |
the Tory manifesto as to whdther they were going to address ht, so it | :47:06. | :47:09. | |
has come from nowhere. My concern is that we have got to increasd our | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
education, especially with Brexit, to ensure that there are skhlls | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
everywhere, all schools are performing, and that is where the | :47:20. | :47:23. | |
focus should be going. That we have schools that can deliver. There are | :47:24. | :47:26. | |
some good examples of gramm`r is working, King Edward, to | :47:27. | :47:34. | |
transferable skills and bring them up. That is fine. But I think this | :47:35. | :47:40. | |
idea of somebody taking 50 lillion and putting that away and t`king it | :47:41. | :47:46. | |
from well performing academhes, I think it is wrong. | :47:47. | :47:50. | |
The truth is, Mark, in somewhere like Birmingham, a huge indtstry is | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
built up around tutoring. Middle-class parents to thehr | :47:56. | :48:00. | |
children to get them into the schools. That does not help social | :48:01. | :48:06. | |
mobility, does it? I'm very much in favour of ` smarter | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
test. We need to get the right school for the right child, and that | :48:11. | :48:13. | |
is where the development will come. One of the frustrations we have in | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
Rugby is with our three excdllent grammar schools. There are fewer | :48:19. | :48:24. | |
places available for childrdn from Rugby. It was a local decishon made | :48:25. | :48:32. | |
in Rugby. The politicians in Rugby who fought to keep grammar schools | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
did so for the benefit of children in B. | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
Only 4% of children from deprived neighbourhoods make it to grammar. | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
But some of the schools are making a big effort to try and bring... | :48:47. | :48:53. | |
But it does not address the inequality, and if you take money | :48:54. | :48:56. | |
away from schools which alrdady are feeling cuts, you're going to mean | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
the rest of them are going to fall further. | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
That is a fair point. Children come from huge areas to go to thd | :49:07. | :49:11. | |
schools, you are getting thd brightest children, and you are now | :49:12. | :49:14. | |
talking about using funding for new grammar schools which could be going | :49:15. | :49:20. | |
to other schools, could be going to the regular comprehensive and | :49:21. | :49:27. | |
We want to allow existing grammars We want to allow existing grammars | :49:28. | :49:34. | |
for... for... | :49:35. | :49:41. | |
There is a snobbery factor `gain. It is the most superb leg up and | :49:42. | :49:46. | |
will set them up for life. It was not in the manifesto, nobody | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
was expecting this? There is more freedom in edtcation | :49:52. | :49:54. | |
now. We have got academies, and the ability for academies to select part | :49:55. | :49:59. | |
of their intake is a logical progression for the academy | :50:00. | :50:00. | |
programme. programme. | :50:01. | :50:04. | |
It will lead to a huge uphe`val That means that teachers, instead of | :50:05. | :50:08. | |
focusing on making sure thex are turning out the next generation of | :50:09. | :50:15. | |
engineers and others, they `re going to be focusing... | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
But perhaps great for bright children from normal backgrounds? | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
Great children will thrive hn most schools provided they have the | :50:25. | :50:27. | |
resources. If you take thosd resources away from those children | :50:28. | :50:30. | |
who may be, for whatever re`son cannot get to those schools, are | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
going to struggle. It is always a hot topic, wd will | :50:36. | :50:39. | |
have to leave it there. Now, it's the political dechsion | :50:40. | :50:40. | |
that no-one wants to make. After years of delays the government | :50:41. | :50:42. | |
is due to announce its prefdrred It seems to be a straight choice | :50:43. | :50:47. | |
between a third one at Heathrow But what about another option - | :50:48. | :50:53. | |
a new runway at Birmingham? Well that's the suggestion | :50:54. | :50:58. | |
of the Liberal Democrat candidate for West Midlands | :50:59. | :51:01. | |
Mayor Beverley Nielsen. We'll be asking her | :51:02. | :51:03. | |
about that in a moment. First though our Political Dditor | :51:04. | :51:06. | |
Patrick Burns takes a look `t We've gone from "either/or" - | :51:07. | :51:10. | |
Heathrow or Gatwick - Would a second runway | :51:11. | :51:17. | |
here at Birmingham really mdan London wouldn't need | :51:18. | :51:25. | |
another one at all? Managers here say this will be | :51:26. | :51:28. | |
Britain's first HS2 airport They've expanded the termin`l | :51:29. | :51:31. | |
already, with another ?100 lillion Now, they say, they have | :51:32. | :51:36. | |
to fill it up. It could handle twice the ctrrent | :51:37. | :51:42. | |
11 million passengers a year. But talk of that second runway comes | :51:43. | :51:45. | |
and goes - and comes again. On a site near junction 4 | :51:46. | :51:49. | |
of the M6 and, close by, the high-speed rail interch`nge | :51:50. | :51:53. | |
a short runway, so regional airliners wouldn't get in the way | :51:54. | :51:56. | |
of the heavy jets. That idea was bounced into the long | :51:57. | :51:59. | |
grass when compromises were needed for planning permission | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
for the existing runway extdnsion. Green campaigners think it should be | :52:04. | :52:06. | |
kicked out all together. The Liberal Democrats are aligning | :52:07. | :52:09. | |
themselves with big business, so I don't think they've consulted | :52:10. | :52:12. | |
communities over this. We are not in favour of HS2, | :52:13. | :52:14. | |
which any airport's expansion here, any second runway, | :52:15. | :52:17. | |
would be dependent upon. But the man in the cabinet hotseat | :52:18. | :52:20. | |
has much more expansive ide`s about Birmingham Airport is already | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
a really important connection for this country to countrids | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
like India, to the Middle E`st. The arrival of HS2, the linkage | :52:30. | :52:32. | |
we get for the new Birmingh`m interchange station, | :52:33. | :52:35. | |
is going to make a real It will attract more | :52:36. | :52:37. | |
people to Birmingham, Its one existing runway is puite | :52:38. | :52:40. | |
sufficient for the double-ddcker superjumbos arriving every day | :52:41. | :52:45. | |
at this, one of only four British Having only one runway isn't | :52:46. | :52:48. | |
stopping Gatwick handling a whopping 40 million | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
passengers per year. But isn't this where | :52:55. | :52:58. | |
that story began? No wonder we've been | :52:59. | :53:03. | |
going round in circles The Liberal Democrat candid`te for | :53:04. | :53:18. | |
the West Midlands Mayor joins me. We know what you think about this, | :53:19. | :53:22. | |
companies the rest of us. -, confidence. | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
The nature of connectivity hs changing, and how do we cre`te more | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
jobs for people in the West Midlands? We have a challenge as a | :53:32. | :53:35. | |
country, how we accommodate the growth that we require is a nation. | :53:36. | :53:41. | |
We have a very congested habit Heathrow and we're talking `bout | :53:42. | :53:47. | |
spending 6 billion to accomlodate the M25. With the arrival of the HS2 | :53:48. | :53:53. | |
interchange, we have got connectivity to London that is | :53:54. | :53:57. | |
within 38 minutes, which we did not have in the past. We have got | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
there is an additional factor. We there is an additional factor. We | :54:02. | :54:08. | |
have hub busters. That will allow the entry of lower cost airlines, it | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
is not about big business, ht is about residents, much better choice | :54:14. | :54:16. | |
for our people. But why does that require another | :54:17. | :54:23. | |
runway? They are only at 11 million in terms of passenger numbers, they | :54:24. | :54:26. | |
have capacity for twice that. Another runway is not necessary | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
But once we have got HS2 we can move people up the country inste`d of | :54:33. | :54:34. | |
down the country, the natur`l movement in this country is always | :54:35. | :54:38. | |
down to London. But we can get people moving in both corrections, | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
which will change everything. We can also then attract the low-cost | :54:43. | :54:46. | |
airlines into an airport, which we have not had before. We havd these | :54:47. | :54:54. | |
two factors, so we can save the nation ?6 billion of money, and we | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
can invest that for people hn Solihull, for the West Midl`nds | :54:59. | :55:01. | |
region, we can invest in vital infrastructure. We need to love our | :55:02. | :55:05. | |
people and goods is a mixed manufacturing economy. | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
We can save the country mondy and ship the pollution and disrtption up | :55:10. | :55:12. | |
here, you heard what the Grden Party said, you were aligning yourself | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
with big business. I totally dispute that. The hub | :55:18. | :55:24. | |
asked claims, they are much cleaner, less emissions, if you move | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
everything to Heathrow they are already breaching the noise and | :55:29. | :55:30. | |
pollution emissions down thdre. We spread the wealth opportunity, we | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
spread the opportunity for this region, which has been starved of | :55:36. | :55:38. | |
investment for at least 30 xears, and we put some of the monex that we | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
have not had over that period into our region. | :55:43. | :55:45. | |
Mark, what is your feeling `bout this? | :55:46. | :55:50. | |
I started opposing the crazx idea the previous government put forward | :55:51. | :55:57. | |
for an airport at Rugby. I think the Davis commission suggested that | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
there should be some expanshon at Heathrow, I think that is entirely | :56:03. | :56:06. | |
sensible. We need to make as much use of our asset as we can hn | :56:07. | :56:10. | |
Birmingham. Can I press you on Beverly's idea? | :56:11. | :56:20. | |
I think it is premature. It is a HS2 era which will improve conndctivity, | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
but at a time when we're seding substantial investment in | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
Birmingham, running at 50% of the existing capacity, there is going to | :56:30. | :56:35. | |
be no business case for the runway, but we do need to make as mtch use | :56:36. | :56:38. | |
as we possibly can of our local airport. It is a great part of | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
building the Midlands engind and building connectivity. | :56:43. | :56:47. | |
Neena Gill, this has been going on for so long, RU Gatwick or Heathrow? | :56:48. | :56:54. | |
I would say it is astonishing that this issue has been going on for so | :56:55. | :56:56. | |
long, given we made a decishon to leave the European Union, in a | :56:57. | :57:03. | |
shorter time than we have m`de a decision on Heathrow or Gatwick We | :57:04. | :57:08. | |
do need to maximise our links, especially in terms of Birmhngham, | :57:09. | :57:12. | |
because all the evidence shows that good transport links to lead to | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
growth. I have written a letter supporting Gatwick. | :57:18. | :57:23. | |
Would you support Beverly on a second runway? | :57:24. | :57:28. | |
If we can deal with the cap`city issue, yes, in the longer tdrm. In | :57:29. | :57:31. | |
the short term, we need to build up harming. HS2 is a game changer, in | :57:32. | :57:39. | |
that we're going have that hub. -- Birmingham. It is crucial wd get the | :57:40. | :57:44. | |
government to make a decision, because there are so many | :57:45. | :57:49. | |
indications... What is not being spoken about the | :57:50. | :57:51. | |
changing technology in the `ircraft industry. The nature of avi`tion is | :57:52. | :57:59. | |
changing, we are well-posithoned to take advantage. We can create up to | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
100,000 jobs on the back of this, massive advantage, and take away the | :58:04. | :58:09. | |
strain. It is not good to help our | :58:10. | :58:12. | |
Heathrow makes more sense for us. Heathrow makes more sense for us. | :58:13. | :58:19. | |
We will have to leave it thdre. Thank you very much. | :58:20. | :58:21. | |
Now, it's time for our regular round-up of the political wdek | :58:22. | :58:23. | |
This week it's brought to us by Kathryn Stanczyszyn. | :58:24. | :58:31. | |
Unemployment in the West Midlands has risen by 3,000, | :58:32. | :58:34. | |
taking the jobless total here to 168,000. | :58:35. | :58:38. | |
West Midlands MEP and Ukip leadership contender Bill Etheridge | :58:39. | :58:42. | |
said he'd welcome high profile candidates like | :58:43. | :58:44. | |
Suzanne Evans and Paul Nutt`ll entering the race for the top job. | :58:45. | :58:49. | |
Labour's Andy Burnham renewed calls for legal funding | :58:50. | :58:51. | |
to support the families of the Birmingham pub bomb victims. | :58:52. | :58:54. | |
He said the delays were "shameful" and he called | :58:55. | :58:57. | |
Mondelez, the American owners of Cadbury, didn't pay any | :58:58. | :59:01. | |
corporation tax at all last year, despite generating | :59:02. | :59:05. | |
And MPs backed calls for Sir Philip Green to be stripped | :59:06. | :59:11. | |
of his knighthood, with David Winnick branding | :59:12. | :59:14. | |
A billionaire spiv who should never have received a knighthood, | :59:15. | :59:25. | |
a billionaire spiv who has shamed British capitalism! | :59:26. | :59:37. | |
And of course, it is the hotse forfeiture committee that would have | :59:38. | :59:44. | |
the final say if Sir Philip Green was to join the likes of Anthony | :59:45. | :59:50. | |
Green, Leicester Piggott, in having his knighthood removed. Jacob Rees | :59:51. | :59:57. | |
Mogg said this week that thhs was an abuse of Parliamentary power, this | :59:58. | :00:00. | |
man has not broken any laws, should they be debating this? | :00:01. | :00:08. | |
I do not agree with Jacob. H have a lot of sympathy with David because I | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
think this is the man who h`s created a whole and pensions of | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
something like 571 million. 11, 00 people have lost their jobs. He has | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
not paid any corporate tax. How can you give this man and honour on the | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
basis of services? That is a vote for stripping it | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
It is not for MPs to decide who gets and losers and honour. What we can | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
agree on is that Sir Philip Green has acted morally wrong. I want to | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
see the law changed to make sure that he sees the consequencds. We | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
should not have the system of capitalism being abused in this way. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
We need to have strong powers to deal with that. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
I'm not sure that a yes or no. I'm afraid that is where we're going to | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
have to wrap up this week. My thanks to our guests tod`y - | :01:02. | :01:02. | |
Neena Gill and Mark Pawsey. Finally from me just time to mention | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
that on tomorrow's 'Inside Out' programme they'll be looking | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
at the impact of the growing numbers of people with diabetes | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
and the cost to the NHS. One medic has called the explosion | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
in the condition "an epidemhc That's on BBC One | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
tomorrow evening at 7.30pm. Now though it's time to rejoin | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
Andrew Neil in London. So, Brexit, airports, | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
Calais and the chances With what Rory Stewart was saying | :01:20. | :01:49. | |
there, it is clear that Islamic State is losing territory in Iraq | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
now, and could come under pressure in Syria as well. It used to control | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
a whole swathe of the coast of Libya, and is now down to a small | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
area of Sirte in Libya. But curiously, it could make them more | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
dangerous here if they are being driven out of the Maghreb and the | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Levant, they could be more dangerous here. Discuss. That was a very | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
interesting admission from a government minister, of all people, | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
and a well-informed one. Chasing Isis around the Middle East is | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
about... Like chasing Al-Qaeda around Afghanistan and Pakistan You | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
smash them somewhere, and they pop up somewhere else. He is right to | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
warn that these guys will go somewhere. And it may well be, in | :02:47. | :02:57. | |
Sirte, for example, across the magic oration -- across the Mediterranean | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
into Italy. A lot of the foreign fighters in Mosul have already gone, | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
we heard, which raises the question, to where? I think it is quite right | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
for government ministers to warn that it might have repercussions | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
here. We have been involved in this, with full public consent, as far as | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
we can tell. If it doesn't happen, if there are horrors and outrages | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
here and in the rest of Europe, that's fine. If it does happen, at | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
least the government is prepared. We knew surprised about how categorical | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
Nia Griffith was? She was categorical about support for the | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
Allied action in Iraq, and categorical about Russia. So much so | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
that perhaps written should take tougher sanctions on its own, even | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
if it can't get the Europeans to fall in line. I found that | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
interesting. I was surprised by that. Tom may be right that Rory | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
said more than perhaps he was intending, but I thought that some | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
of what she said sounded politically imprudent in the current context of | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
the Labour Party. I'm not sure she cleared those lines with the Labour | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
office. I'm not sure she and Jeremy are in the same place about it. I'm | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
not sure there is that much leadership. People at the moment get | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
out there and say what they think it's right for the party. She | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
sounded dead right to me. Whether it is ill-advised or not, people should | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
answer... I want to move on, because Brexit never goes away. This week we | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
saw Hilary Benn, former Shadow Foreign Secretary. He is going to be | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
the chair of the select committee in the Commons which will monitor the | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
Department for Brexit. All sorts of people will be coming to give | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
testimony and so one. Let's hear what he told Andrew Marr. | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
I think it will be very important for the government to indicate that | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
if it is not possible within the two years provided for by Article 5 | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
to negotiate both our withdrawal agreement and a new trading | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
relationship, market access, including for services, | :05:15. | :05:15. | |
80% of our economy, million jobs, in financial services, | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
that it should tell the House of Commons that it will seek | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
a transitional arrangement with the European Union. | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
If the deal is not done at the end of the two-year Article 50 process, | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
would the government go for an interim agreement, or would it fall | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
back on WTO, World Trade Organisation, Rawls? My | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
understanding is the article 15 negotiation doesn't specifically | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
include what Britain's future trading relationship with the EU | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
would be. It is perfectly possible that Article 50 could be triggered, | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
and after two years we don't have a trade deal, but the trade deal | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
negotiations are ongoing when we are outside the EU. But the trade deal | :06:04. | :06:14. | |
negotiations are the most important thing. If Article 50 doesn't cover | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
it, what is it about? Absolutely essential. The trade deal with | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
Canada has taken nine years, and now it looks like it is fading, because | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
of the Walloons. Just one small part of the country. If you cannot do a | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
free-trade deal with Canada, a progressive, social Democratic | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
Canada, who can the EU do a trade deal with? You would think it would | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
be easy with us, because we have all of the level playing field | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
agreements in place. You would hope it would be easier, but it may not | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
be, because in the end, it will hinge on the single market and if we | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
are in or out. If we are in, can we have a small break on immigration? | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
It looks like not. What is interesting about the opinion polls | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
is, in the last two opinion polls there was a significant change in | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
public opinion, where people are now saying they think that actually | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
trade, the economy, the single market is more important than | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
immigration. If it is really true, as the observer is reporting today, | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
that banks are on the move, and in a year's time there could be a | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
significant collapse in the income we get from finance, the income that | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
the Treasury gets, then public opinion might change. They may say, | :07:37. | :07:47. | |
we don't want more immigration, but this isn't a price worth paying | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
Everything tends to be seen through the Brexit lens at the moment. | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
Things are not always as they seem. The Canadian- EU free trade | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
agreement was about increasing free trade between the EU and Canada and | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
therefore subject to the ratification of all members. Any | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
deal we do will not give us the same access we have at the moment. The | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
question is, how much will it be diminished? It may not be subject to | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
the same ratification process. Absolutely right. Another | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
unbelievably technical point that we still don't know is, if we can get | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
this free-trade deal with the EU at the same time as our Brexit talks | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
and deal, the divorce deal as well as the remarriage deal, then one | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
gets signed off by QM V. The trade deal may still need all 28, all 27, | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
including the people from the Walloons. And the MEPs. The majority | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
of parliament. This is exactly why Theresa May would like the | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
transitional deal to push this one deeper. I was surprised to hear | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Hilary Benn pushing this line this morning. The remainers have been all | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
over the place. They wanted a vote after Article 50 had been triggered | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
about the deal. Then they wanted a vote before Article 50. Now they are | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
talking about a vote before article Article 50 is triggered about a | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
trade deal. They need to make up their minds about what it is they | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
are pushing for, and what their best hope of obstructing Brexit is, and | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
stick with it. Something else we see through the Brexit lens, which isn't | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
always helpful, is Calais. The French bulldozers will move in | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
tomorrow. We will see some pretty disturbing scenes on the TV. We will | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
see some horrible scenes. The government has handled this very | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
badly. Having passed an amendment in April saying we would take something | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
like 3000 children, a lot of those children have disappeared. Save the | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Children, one of the charities there, are very worried that people | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
traffickers have been in there, and a lot of those children have | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
vanished. We haven't sent social workers in. No preparations have | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
been made what ever. You are raising an interesting point. We don't know | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
how many we are meant to be taking. The huge argument has arisen over | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
what the age is of some of the ones coming in. Is this another problem | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
for the Home Office? To some extent. Didn't Theresa May 's too well to | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
survive six weeks of this? Amber Rudd has been there for three | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
months. It is clear that the Home Office didn't prepare for this. They | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
didn't prepare for the age verification or when it will go It | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
needs to be an perfect. We don't know how many we will take, because | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
the Home Office will not say. I want to talk about airport capacity, but | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
I won't, because I don't think we have anything to say about it until | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
the statement on Tuesday from Transport Minister Grayling. When | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
you look at the polls and see the decision on airport runway expansion | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
being kicked into the long grass for a year, are we heading for an early | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
election next year or not? I think Theresa May will do everything she | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
can to avoid it. If there is an election before 2020, it is bound to | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
be about Europe, and that is a much harder case for her to win than just | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
a question of who is the best Prime Minister. She will have a tough | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
time, because it will be a general election about in or out of the | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
single market. Half of her party will peel away. How do she conduct a | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
general election when the likes of Anna Soubry will not stand on the | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
same platform? It will be difficult. But she may reach such a stalemate | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
that she just calls one. No general election next year because it will | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
split the Tory party. There will be won in 2019 when she cannot get | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Brexit through the House of Commons. You really can have too much of a | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
good thing. I just want to show a little clip of the former Shadow | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
Chancellor, Ed Balls, from Strictly last night. Let's just watch this. | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
There he is. Where is the hand? That is the | :12:35. | :12:46. | |
worrying bit! We will no longer be saying that Ed Balls is a safe pair | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
of hands! Can we agree on that? Remarkable that he was once the man | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
most feared by David Cameron! Labour leader 2021. He has hit popular | :12:59. | :13:07. | |
culture in the way that many few politicians do. Charm, gusto, | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
bravery, no worries about being embarrassed. All the things that you | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
don't like about being a politician. We have run out of time. You can get | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
it on social media. Jo Coburn will be back | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
with the Daily Politics tomorrow And I'll be back here next | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
Sunday at the same time. Remember if it's Sunday, | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
it's the Sunday Politics. Everyone's living these | :13:32. | :14:05. | |
amazing lives, You're like a... | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
Different person? Delve deeper. | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
Ordinary Lives continues... They have something on me | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
that I can actually remember. They have something on me | :14:28. | :14:28. | |
that I can actually remember. The final chapter between | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
Gibson and Spector. | :14:33. | :14:37. |