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

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mainly Muslim countries sparks protests at several US airports.

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In the West: Why are they still at it?

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why is it not yet last orders for Leave and Remain?

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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

:23:57.:23:59.

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

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

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

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

:24:14.:24:16.

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

:24:17.:24:21.

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

:24:22.:24:26.

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

:24:27.:24:31.

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

:24:32.:24:36.

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

:24:37.:24:40.

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

:24:41.:24:46.

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

:24:47.:24:55.

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

:24:56.:24:59.

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

:25:00.:25:03.

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

:25:04.:25:09.

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

:25:10.:25:14.

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

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

:25:20.:25:21.

being with us. It's just gone 11.25,

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

:25:23.:25:25.

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

:25:26.:25:27.

be talking to our political panel. First though, the Sunday

:25:28.:25:31.

Politics where you are. We've got a shorter segment

:25:32.:25:41.

for you this week, but ready to pack a lot in are our guests

:25:42.:25:48.

Clive Efford, Labour MP for Eltham, and Chris Philp, Conservative MP

:25:49.:25:56.

for Croydon South. Let's kick off with proposals

:25:57.:25:58.

to devolve more financial powers to the Mayor

:25:59.:26:01.

and the capital's boroughs. The suggestions are contained

:26:02.:26:03.

in the second report of the London Finance

:26:04.:26:07.

Commission, out this week. The first report, you may remember,

:26:08.:26:08.

happened under Mayor Boris Johnson. This one's gone further in what it's

:26:09.:26:11.

asking for: retention of income tax, maybe a share of VAT,

:26:12.:26:14.

as well as control of property taxes And it recommends looking

:26:15.:26:17.

at new taxes like a London tourism The commission chair

:26:18.:26:21.

is Tony Travers. What we're recommending that's

:26:22.:26:25.

different this time is that in the spirit of further devolution,

:26:26.:26:27.

which the Government itself has been talking about,

:26:28.:26:30.

the possibility of greater health devolution, skills and further

:26:31.:26:32.

education, possibly more transport They've launched a new news

:26:33.:27:28.

website and are considering If we want to organise

:27:29.:27:31.

a rally, if we want to give information on what's

:27:32.:27:36.

happening, we have a massive following, so we can touch a lot

:27:37.:27:41.

of people through our messaging. A recent rally in Bristol

:27:42.:27:44.

drew hundreds to And it's unfair that my generation

:27:45.:27:47.

should have to leave the EU, when we didn't get to vote

:27:48.:27:54.

on it in the first place. Whether you can overthrow

:27:55.:27:57.

Brexit itself, I don't know. We have to fight for the best

:27:58.:28:02.

conditions, I'm ready to bend

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anybody's hear about this. We don't know what we are

:28:04.:28:07.

letting ourselves in for. And at Bath University

:28:08.:28:11.

this week, the man who wrote Article 50 is now

:28:12.:28:15.

drawing huge crowds. And at Bath University

:28:16.:28:28.

this week, the man who wrote Article 50 is now

:28:29.:28:30.

drawing huge crowds. When he wrote it, as a senior

:28:31.:28:32.

diplomat, he never imagined And he still believes

:28:33.:28:35.

Brexit could be stopped. You can't ask 48% of the country

:28:36.:28:38.

to stay at home and shut up. Everybody who took

:28:39.:28:42.

part in the debate Some Leavers would say,

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this question is Now we need to discover

:28:44.:28:49.

what being outside is. Can we have our cake and eat it?

:28:50.:28:54.

We were told we could. And for many, there

:28:55.:28:57.

is a simple reason why the debates and campaigns

:28:58.:29:02.

are still so passionate. The ballot paper in

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the European referendum. But it turns out that interpreting

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the result For many Brexiteers,

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Leave means not just leaving the EU, but the customs union, the single

:29:13.:29:17.

market, and plenty else besides. For Remainers, Leave

:29:18.:29:24.

means an agreement to depart. It wasn't a decision

:29:25.:29:26.

about the destination. And while there is still

:29:27.:29:27.

that argument about what the result means,

:29:28.:29:29.

people will always want Let's pick up on a few of those

:29:30.:29:31.

issues and talk about them. Julie Girling, you're

:29:32.:29:40.

a Conservative MEP. Are you getting the cold shoulder

:29:41.:29:44.

over there from your We are still very much

:29:45.:29:46.

part of the mainstream. I've always been

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an MEP who worke hard on committee, I saw my role

:29:52.:29:54.

as making sure that European legislation is fit for purpose

:29:55.:29:57.

for the UK. You told me when I met

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you in Strasbourg last year that, if it went the wrong way for you,

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you'd have nothing much to do. Well, that's clearly not the case,

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because what's happened is, we have no clear view whether we're

:30:07.:30:09.

in or out of the single market. We don't know what the trade

:30:10.:30:12.

deal's going to be. So we have no idea whether we

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are going to be subject So I work on the basis,

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business as usual. We are in there until the day we

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leave and I carry on doing my job. You saw Lord Kerr,

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who is a retired senior diplomat. So, as he says, if we can't

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have our cake and eat it, Do you accept that

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might be a good idea? Well, there was a poll last week

:30:40.:30:43.

and, out of the people who have voted Remain,

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only 49% were unhappy And 51% said that they don't want

:30:47.:30:49.

a second referendum. And we have what were

:30:50.:30:56.

reluctant Remainers, who had listened to Project Fear,

:30:57.:31:09.

and voted Remain because of it, I just want to pick up

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on what Lord Kerr said. He wrote Article 50,

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or helped to draft it. He said, "We can change our minds

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and, if the benefits aren't there, "it might be sensible

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to think about that." I just wondered

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what your opinion was. We believe once Article 50 has

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been invoked, that's it. And so, this has

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a different...say on it. So, if it turns out that

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Project Fear, as you like to call them, were right, you don't think

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there should be a second chance No, I don't.

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We've had a referendum. We were told it would be

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a binding referendum. Nigel Farage told us before the

:31:59.:32:12.

referendum that if he lost he would not give up, you keep asking for

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another referendum. And now he expects everybody else to shut up.

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Are you sitting around in little huddles in Europe working out how to

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thwart what appears to be the will of the people? Not at all. It

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doesn't work like that, does it? I don't know. We had a very clear

:32:32.:32:36.

signal in the referendum. Everybody accepts that. But one question was

:32:37.:32:39.

asked. It was a very simple question. Everybody interested in

:32:40.:32:44.

what is going to happen next, and what the deal is going to be. I

:32:45.:32:47.

don't understand why people are so frightened to ask people what they

:32:48.:32:51.

think of the final deal, when it comes. What is wrong with that? It

:32:52.:32:54.

is so complex, people have the is so complex, people have the

:32:55.:33:00.

right, I think, to comment on it. It is just Brexit, not hard, soft or

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whatever Brexit. The people who voted to leave voted so that they

:33:05.:33:09.

could retain control over their borders. They wanted to make their

:33:10.:33:13.

own laws. They wanted to stop sending money to the EU, and they

:33:14.:33:17.

wanted to make their own free-trade agreements. None of that was on the

:33:18.:33:24.

ballot paper. There was no clear Brexit manifesto. It was made clear

:33:25.:33:28.

by Cameron, Osborne, it was made clear by Michael Gove. And they all

:33:29.:33:33.

said, if you vote to leave it means leaving the single market. We are

:33:34.:33:40.

running out of time on this discussion, but now that the courts

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have decided that it has to go to Parliament before Article 50 can be

:33:45.:33:47.

triggered, do you think it is right that MPs should vote on their

:33:48.:33:54.

conscience and vote against it? I believe MPs should consider very

:33:55.:33:58.

carefully. They shouldn't just vote with what their constituency voted

:33:59.:34:01.

weigh up the pros and cons, and the weigh up the pros and cons, and the

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most important thing for parliamentarians, they sit in our

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Parliament, if they wish to be sovereign, they should be asserting

:34:10.:34:14.

that on my behalf are your behalf. We have the right, in my view, to be

:34:15.:34:24.

consulted before and after the deal and Article 50. Should they vote

:34:25.:34:27.

against it? If they believe it is the right thing to do. Julia? They

:34:28.:34:34.

voted 6-1 on the referendum -- on the Referendum Bill to say that the

:34:35.:34:38.

decision to be that of the British people. So I think they should

:34:39.:34:44.

honour that,... They represent the British people. We vote for them to

:34:45.:34:50.

represent us. What is wrong, why are you so frightened of giving

:34:51.:34:53.

Parliament the opportunity of having a say in how the deal should be

:34:54.:34:56.

negotiated and saying at the end whether it is a good deal? Why are

:34:57.:35:02.

you so scared of that? If it had been Leave against Remain on a

:35:03.:35:06.

constituency basis as if it was for a general election, then Leave would

:35:07.:35:11.

have won overwhelmingly. That doesn't answer the question. It

:35:12.:35:16.

tells you that the majority of MPs are in constituencies where people

:35:17.:35:21.

voted to leave. That tells you do something about the British

:35:22.:35:25.

electrician system. -- election system. Let's have a look at the

:35:26.:35:31.

political news in the West in 60 seconds. Here is our Martin. There

:35:32.:35:42.

were protests in Bath this week as councillors finally decided where to

:35:43.:35:48.

put a new park and ride. But campaigners are still not happy.

:35:49.:35:51.

Pretty upset but I suppose it was inevitable. We didn't think we were

:35:52.:35:56.

ever going to shift the opinion of this council, try as we might. The

:35:57.:36:02.

director of GCHQ Edmonston these quitting his job. Robert Hannigan

:36:03.:36:06.

has run the government intelligence agency in Cheltenham since 2014. He

:36:07.:36:11.

says that it is for family and health reasons. This new road in

:36:12.:36:15.

Taunton could cost taxpayers ?10 million. It is two years behind

:36:16.:36:19.

schedule with Somerset County Council and its contractor locked in

:36:20.:36:23.

a legal row. The loser faces a hefty bill. Bristol West MP confirmed she

:36:24.:36:30.

would vote against triggering Article 50, in defiance of Labour

:36:31.:36:37.

Leader Jeremy Corbyn. It came after Kerry McCarthy told us last week

:36:38.:36:42.

that she would likely do the same. That was the week in 60 seconds.

:36:43.:36:47.

Again, let's return to the chat about Europe. Labour obviously

:36:48.:36:55.

having great problems over this debate. Conservative MPs have been

:36:56.:36:59.

relatively quiet. When is your party going to have its next punch-up?

:37:00.:37:06.

Everyone is distracted by what is happening in labour which is just a

:37:07.:37:11.

complete train crash. But we are not talking about labour, we are talking

:37:12.:37:16.

about you and the King -- the history of rows that the

:37:17.:37:19.

Conservative Party has had about the EU? It has always been a very toxic

:37:20.:37:24.

issue for us, it still is, but we are more disciplined and holding it

:37:25.:37:28.

together. I'm not in the House of Commons, so I'm not party to the

:37:29.:37:34.

daily chat. But we do have Conservative MPs. I live in a

:37:35.:37:38.

constituency that voted to remain. My MP is a Brexiteer. How is he

:37:39.:37:44.

going to vote taking the point that you go with your constituency? We

:37:45.:37:49.

are not without our own issues. You go with a vote of the nation. Let's

:37:50.:37:55.

talk about future trade. We know that the Prime Minister is in

:37:56.:37:57.

Washington talking to President Trump. Would you be prepared to

:37:58.:38:04.

lower standards of food production, say, in order to get a free-trade

:38:05.:38:10.

deal with the United States? No, no. Already at the moment, figures show

:38:11.:38:17.

that the United States is the biggest importer of our goods. So,

:38:18.:38:23.

if they are quite happy to import our goods to the standard they have

:38:24.:38:27.

at the moment. It is their stuff coming in. Would you take stuff of a

:38:28.:38:33.

lower standard, for example, chickens washed in chlorine, which

:38:34.:38:37.

would not pass EU regulations? Mirror. It is the same with growth

:38:38.:38:42.

hormones. They are allowed to use growth hormones to make their

:38:43.:38:48.

animals to choose more milk. So why, then, are we turning our back on the

:38:49.:38:54.

EU? Because it is easier to note -- to negotiate a bilateral trade deal

:38:55.:38:59.

with just two countries than for one country, seeing the problem with

:39:00.:39:03.

Canada, it has taken years to Canada to negotiate a trade deal because it

:39:04.:39:14.

has 28 countries. Bilateral trade deals, yes, but I'm saying it is

:39:15.:39:18.

very difficult, the EU has not been very successful, because it is not a

:39:19.:39:22.

bilateral trade deal. They have to have 28 countries in agreement. We

:39:23.:39:27.

have seen what happened with the Canadian one. Some people in Belgium

:39:28.:39:31.

decided they did not want some particular aspect of it. Do you get

:39:32.:39:36.

the sense that our EU partners are likely to punish us for wanting to

:39:37.:39:40.

leave and give us a bad deal? I would not use the word punish. I

:39:41.:39:44.

don't think there is any and tension to be punitive. What I think they

:39:45.:39:48.

are saying is, we're not going to give you a deal that makes it better

:39:49.:39:52.

and easier for you to be outside than on the inside. Even if it

:39:53.:39:57.

causes them to lose out, to lose jobs. They will make a calculation

:39:58.:40:02.

on that basis. Everybody on the Leave side is saying that we are too

:40:03.:40:07.

big a trading partner to throw away. Don't you believe it. The odds are

:40:08.:40:11.

not stacked in that direction. We are one country, they are 27. Thank

:40:12.:40:18.

you. That is it from a smack this week, thank you to my guests, Julie

:40:19.:40:28.

Girling and Doctor Julia Reed. We are shorter today because of the

:40:29.:40:30.

football, as you know. air-pollution. Thank you for being

:40:31.:40:31.

here. Welcome back and let's get back

:40:32.:40:37.

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

:40:38.:40:41.

mainly Muslim countries. Earlier, the Labour leader,

:40:42.:40:47.

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

:40:48.:40:50.

should not go ahead I think it would be totally wrong

:40:51.:41:03.

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

:41:04.:41:08.

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

:41:09.:41:12.

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

:41:13.:41:16.

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

:41:17.:41:21.

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

:41:22.:41:26.

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

:41:27.:41:32.

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

:41:33.:41:36.

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

:41:37.:41:40.

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

:41:41.:41:45.

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

:41:46.:41:49.

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

:41:50.:41:53.

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

:41:54.:41:59.

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

:42:00.:42:03.

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

:42:04.:42:06.

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

:42:07.:42:12.

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

:42:13.:42:17.

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

:42:18.:42:26.

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

:42:27.:42:29.

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

:42:30.:42:35.

discovering that being a president is different from being a business

:42:36.:42:39.

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

:42:40.:42:42.

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

:42:43.:42:48.

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

:42:49.:42:52.

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

:42:53.:42:56.

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

:42:57.:43:01.

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

:43:02.:43:06.

streets, the presence of demonstrators will be an

:43:07.:43:11.

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

:43:12.:43:15.

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

:43:16.:43:18.

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

:43:19.:43:22.

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

:43:23.:43:27.

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

:43:28.:43:33.

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

:43:34.:43:40.

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

:43:41.:43:44.

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

:43:45.:43:48.

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

:43:49.:43:51.

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

:43:52.:43:55.

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

:43:56.:44:01.

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

:44:02.:44:05.

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

:44:06.:44:12.

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

:44:13.:44:15.

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

:44:16.:44:19.

opposite the next day. Brown did the same.

:44:20.:44:25.

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

:44:26.:44:34.

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

:44:35.:44:37.

the major government, even though their position on the single

:44:38.:44:42.

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

:44:43.:44:47.

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

:44:48.:44:51.

dissemble authoritative leak when you lead a divided party over

:44:52.:44:55.

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

:44:56.:44:59.

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

:45:00.:45:04.

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

:45:05.:45:10.

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

:45:11.:45:13.

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

:45:14.:45:18.

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

:45:19.:45:22.

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

:45:23.:45:26.

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

:45:27.:45:33.

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

:45:34.:45:37.

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

:45:38.:45:41.

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

:45:42.:45:45.

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

:45:46.:45:51.

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

:45:52.:45:54.

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

:45:55.:45:59.

incumbent Prime Minister trying to execute believe vote suits you

:46:00.:46:03.

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

:46:04.:46:07.

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

:46:08.:46:12.

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

:46:13.:46:17.

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

:46:18.:46:22.

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

:46:23.:46:26.

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

:46:27.:46:30.

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

:46:31.:46:33.

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

:46:34.:46:38.

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

:46:39.:46:44.

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

:46:45.:46:50.

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

:46:51.:46:56.

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

:46:57.:47:01.

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

:47:02.:47:05.

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

:47:06.:47:09.

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

:47:10.:47:14.

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

:47:15.:47:18.

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

:47:19.:47:23.

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

:47:24.:47:26.

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

:47:27.:47:31.

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

:47:32.:47:35.

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

:47:36.:47:41.

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

:47:42.:47:47.

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

:47:48.:47:53.

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

:47:54.:47:57.

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

:47:58.:48:02.

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

:48:03.:48:10.

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

:48:11.:48:16.

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

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