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Morning folks. Welcome to the Sunday Politics. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
Theresa May says she wants to help people who are | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
"just about managing" - so should she reverse | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
George Osborne's cuts to benefits that are supposed to help people | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
Prominent London Imam Shakeel Begg is an extremist speaker, | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
says the High Court, after claims made on this programme. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
So why is Mr Begg still being allowed to advise the Police? | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Hillary Clinton fights back over the FBI's renewed investigation | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
into her use of a private email server - is this the boost | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
Donald Trump needed to reignite his chances of winning the White House? | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
On the Sunday Politics in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
We take a whistle stop tour round the region to find out just | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
building that runway with the political problems that lie ahead. | :01:22. | :01:31. | |
And haunting the studio on this Halloween weekend, | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
the most terrifying political panel in the business - | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
Tim 'Ghost' Shipman, 'Eerie' Isabel Oakeshott and | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
First this morning, two new models of car to be built, | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
securing 7,000 jobs at the car plant in Sunderland and a further 28, 00 | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
The news from Nissan on Thursday was seized on by Leave campaigners | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
as evidence that the British economy is in rude health | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
This morning, the Business Secretary, Greg Clark, was asked | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
what assurances were given to the Japanese firm's bosses | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
Well, it's in no-one's the interest for there to be tariff | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
barriers to the continent and vice versa. | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
So, what I said is that our objective would be to ensure that we | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
have continued access to the markets in Europe and vice versa, without | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
tariffs and without bureaucratic impediments. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
That is how we will approach those negotiations. | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
We're joined now from Newcastle by the Shadow Business | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
Welcome to the programme. Labour has been a bit sceptical about this | :02:38. | :02:50. | |
Nissan decision. Can we begin by making it clear just what a great | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
achievement this is, above all for the workers of Sunderland who have | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
some of the highest productivity in the world, have never been on strike | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
for 30 years, and produce cars of incredible quality. This is their | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
victory, isn't it? Andrew, you are absolutely right. The Nissan plant | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
in Sunderland is among the most productive in the world. The workers | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
of Nissan are amongst the most productive as well. And it's really | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
a victory for them and for the trade unions and the business | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
organisations, and everybody who campaigned to make sure that the | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
government couldn't ignore their future. It's our future. I'm the MP | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
for Newcastle. It makes a huge difference to the region. We are a | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
region that still likes to make things that work. It is a huge part | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
of our advanced manufacturing sector. So it's really something we | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
welcome as well as the job security. I'm glad we have got that on the | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
record from the Labour shadow business secretary. But your Shadow | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
Chancellor, John McDonnell, claims the government is ignoring | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
manufacturers and cares only about a small banking elite. In what way is | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
safeguarding 30,000 industrial jobs in the North safeguarding a | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
financial elite? As I said, we're really pleased that the campaigning | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
by trade unions and the workforce, and business organisations, meant | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
the government felt they couldn t ignore Nissan workers. Let's also be | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
clear that we want that kind of job security for all of those working in | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
manufacturing and in other sectors as well. And sweetheart deals for | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
one company, no matter how important they are, that does not an | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
industrial strategy make. Why'd you say it is a sweetheart deal? Greg | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
Clark told the BBC this morning that what was assured to Nissan is an | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
assurance he gives to the whole industrial sector? I was really | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
pleased to see Greg Clark felt he had to say something, even though | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
it's sad that we having our industrial strategy, you like, or | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
our approach to Brexit delivered piecemeal to the media rather than | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
to the British people and Nissan, actually. But he want published the | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
letter. He said he has told us what is in the letter and that | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
reassurances given on training, on science and on supporting the supply | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
chain for the automated sector. You must be in favour all -- of all of | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
that? We are in favour of an industrial strategy. Greg Clark | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
unlike Sajid Javid, cannot say industrial strategy. I'm still | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
puzzling to find out what it is you disagree with. Let me put the | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
question. You said the assurances he has given to Nissan are available to | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
the car manufacturing sector in general and indeed to industry in | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
general. What is your problem with that? Two things. Let him publish | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
the letter so we can see that, let him have the transparency he's | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
pretending to offer. But also, we need an industrial strategy that | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
values -- that is values based and joined. He talked about electric | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
cars and supporting green cars. That was in regard to Nissan. At the same | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
time the government has slashed support for other areas of green | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
technology. So what is it? That is not to do with the Nissan deal. | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
Labour implied at some stage there was some financial inducement, some | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
secret bribes, that doesn't seem to be the case. You are not claiming | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
that any more -- any more. Then you claimed it was a sweetheart deal for | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
one company. That turns out not to be the case. What criticism are you | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
left with on this Nissan deal? I would be really surprised if all | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
that Nissan got was the reassurances that Greg Clark is shared with us. | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
He didn't answer the question of what happens if we can't get | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
continued tariff free access to the single market, if we are not within | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
the single market or the Customs Union. Do you really think a | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
negotiator like Nissan, who are very good at negotiating, they would have | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
excepted making this significant investment without some further | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
reassurances? Do you think there is some kind of financial bride and if | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
so what is the evidence? I would like to see the letter published and | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
I would also like to understand what would happen... There are 27 | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
countries which need to agree with the deal we have from Brexit. What | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
will Nissan, how will Nissan remain competitive? How will the automotive | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
industry remain competitive? Greg Clark says he reassured them on | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
that. But how will that be so if we do not get access? We haven't heard | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
anything about that. He talks about reassurances given to Nissan. We | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
need to make -- to know where we're going to make sure Brexit is in the | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
interest of all workers, not only those who work for a Nissan and not | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
only those who can get the attention of Greg Clark. He assured Nissan | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
that Britain would remain a competitive place to do business. | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
That was the main assurance he gave them. He would help with skills and | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
infrastructure and all the rest Since you are -- intend to repeal | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
the trade union laws that have made strikes in Britain largely a thing | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
of the past, and you plan to raise corporation tax, you couldn't give | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
Nissan the same assurance, could you? We could absolutely give Nissan | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
the assurance that we will be, our vision of the future of the UK, is | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
based on having a strong manufacturing sector. Repealing | :08:54. | :09:06. | |
trade union laws? As we have seen at Nissan, the industrial sector is | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
dependent on having highly trained, well skilled workers. -- highly | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
skilled, well-trained. You don't have that by getting -- having an | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
aggressive policy and trade union laws or by slashing corporation tax | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
and not supporting manufacturing investment. Remember, the last | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
government took away the Manufacturing allowances which | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
supported Manufacturing and slashed corporation tax. That is their | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
solution. It is a low tax, low skill economy they want. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
Thank you. Sorry I had to rush you. I'm grateful for you joining us | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
I'm still struggling to see what is left of Labour's criticism? Yeah, | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
except for this. This was a valid point she just made. What we know | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
for sure is that Greg Clark could say to Nissan, my aim is to get | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
tariff free deal. There is no way he could guarantee that. None of us | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
know that. I don't think that was enough. I think clearly there was a | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
more detailed package involving training and other things. He has | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
acknowledged this, albeit we do not know the precise mechanism. What I | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
think is interesting about this is if you reverse what happened this | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
week, at a time when the government says Britain is open for business | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
and it is going to have an industrial strategy, so far it is a | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
bit vaguely defined. Nissan hadn't made this commitment. Imagine what | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
would have happened? It is an impossible scenario. The government | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
seems to me was obliged to make sure this didn't happen. Let's not forget | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
Nissan has invested hundreds of millions in the north-east. It has | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
been a huge success story. When I spoke to workers from Nissan, they | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
were so proud because they went to Japan to teach the Japanese had to | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
be more productive. The idea that Nissan was just going to walk away | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
from this given its track record, its importance, wasn't really | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
credible. The government had some bargaining chips. Absolutely, of | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
course they weren't going to walk away. The majority of people in the | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
area in which Nissan is braced - based, voted for Brexit. Nissan | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
knows it is in a powerful position because it is an emotive sector | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
Clearly the government didn't want to have some big showdown. I | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
honestly don't think this is a smoking gun. The Labour Shadow | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
minister really struggled to articulate what exactly she thinks | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
the government is hiding. I think the reassurances were given were | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
pretty anodyne, really. They were anodyne and general. And what Greg | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
Clark was setting out was an objective and he made the right | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
noises, and Nissan exercised its right to sabre rattle. It does have | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
a history of doing that. The one thing that would now be clear given | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
Greg Clark's performance this morning on the BBC, is that if we | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
were to discover some kind of financial incentive directly linked | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
to this investment, not more for skills or infrastructure, that is | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
fine, but some direct financial investment, compensation for | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
tariffs, which would be illegal under World Trade Organisation | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
rules, what you might call a financial bride, the sect -- the | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
business Secretary's position would be untenable? He would be in a very | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
difficult position indeed. Just released the letter. There is | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
nothing to hide. Put it out there. The most revealing thing is that | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
people are getting wildly excited about the fact Greg Clark announced | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Britain's negotiating position would be that we would like tariff free | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
trade with Europe. This is regarded as an insight into what this comment | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
is doing and it says a great deal about how little we have been told | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
in Parliament and the media about what they are up. Do you think it is | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
exciting we are going for tariff free trade? We're easily excited | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
these days. We don't know. This is where these things are at such a | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
tentative phase. We don't know how the rest of the European Union is | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
going to respond to Britain's negotiating hand. We know Britain | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
once the best of everything, please. It is a starting point. But that is | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
not how it is going to end up. We are getting wider than that. We have | :13:30. | :13:30. | |
will have to see. Now, Universal Credit, | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
a single payment made to welfare claimants that would roll together | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
a plethora of benefits whilst encouraging people into work | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
by making work pay. But have cuts to the flagship | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
welfare scheme reduced work incentives and hit the incomes | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
of the least well-off? Well, some of the government's | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
own MPs think so, and, as Mark Lobel reports, | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
want the cuts reversed. Theresa May says she wants | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
a country that works for everyone, that's on the side | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
of ordinary, working people. It means never writing off people | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
who can work and consigning them to a life on benefits, | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
but giving them the chance to go out and earn a living and to enjoy | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
the dignity that comes But now some in her party | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
are worried that the low earners will be hit by changes | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
to Universal Credit benefit system originally set up to encourage | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
more people into work. We also need to focus tax credits | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
and Universal Credit Concern centred on the Government's | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
decision in the July 2015 budget to find ?3 billion worth of savings | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
from the Universal Credit bill. Conservative MP Heidi Allen | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
is working on a campaign to get MPs in her party to urge | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
the Prime Minister to think again. I want her to understand for herself | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
what the outcomes might be if we press ahead | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
with the Universal Credit, Do you think Theresa May, right now, | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
understands what you understand To be fair, unless you really | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
get into the detail, and I have through my work | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
on the Work and Pensions Select Committee, I don't | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
think anybody does. Independent economic analysts | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
at the IFS agree with Heidi Alan that cuts to Universal Credit weaken | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
incentives to work. One of the key parts | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
of the Universal Credit system That is how much you can | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
earn before your credit As the Government has | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
sought to save money, both under the Coalition and now | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
they Conservative Government, both under the Coalition and now | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
the Conservative Government, that work allowance has been cut, | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
time and time again. The biggest cuts happened | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
in the summer budget of 2015. That basically reduces the amount | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
of earnings you get to keep It weakens the incentive people have | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
to move into work. What do changes to the Universal | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
Credit system mean? The Resolution Foundation think tank | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
has crunched the numbers. If you compare what would have | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
happened before the July 2015 summer budget to what will happen by 2 20, | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
even if you take into account gains in the National Living Wage | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
and income tax cuts, recipients will be hit | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
by annual deductions. Couples and parents would receive, | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
on average, ?1000 less. A dual-earning couple with two | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
children under four, with one partner working full-time | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
on ?10.50 an hour and the other working part-time on the minimum | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
wage for around 20 hours a week, they would | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
receive ?1800 less. Hit most by the changes | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
would be a single parent with a child under four, | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
working full-time I think, if I'm honest, | :16:27. | :16:27. | |
it is unrealistic, given the economic climate, | :16:28. | :16:41. | |
to expect everything to be reversed. What I would like to see | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
is an increase in the work allowances to those people | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
who will be hardest hit. That is single parents and second | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
earners hoping to return to work, because they are the people we need | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
to absolutely make The Sunday Politics understands that | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
about 15 to 20 Conservative MPs are pushing for changes ahead | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
of the Autumn Statement. A former cabinet minister told us | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
that they believed further impact analysis should be done to find out | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
if any mitigation measures Former Work and Pensions Secretary | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
Iain Duncan Smith, an architect of the system, now says | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
the cuts should be reversed. But his former department has told | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
us that it has no plans to revisit the work allowance changes announced | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
in the budget last year. What I would say to Heidi Allen | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
and IDS, they got it right the first time and they should stick | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
to the vote they cast last year because these reforms actually | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
do make sense. What interests me is the fact | :17:41. | :17:41. | |
we are trying to move people off welfare into work, | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
we are raising the wages people earn by massively increasing | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
the minimum wage and this People are coming off | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
welfare and into work. Campaigners are pushing for savings | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
to come from other areas to relieve The other thing we have to start | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
looking at is the triple Financially it has been a great | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
policy, and it was absolutely right that we lifted pensioners | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
who were significantly behind, for many years, in terms of income | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
levels, but they have I think it is time for us to look | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
at that policy again, because is costing us an awful | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
lot of money. With just over three weeks to wait | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
until the Conservative leadership's new economic plan is unveiled | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
in the Autumn Statement, its top team is under pressure | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
from within its own ranks to use it And I'm joined now by former Work | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
and Pensions Secretary, Welcome back to the programme. | :18:28. | :18:43. | |
Theresa May said she is on the side of the just managing, the working | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
poor. But they are about to be hit from all sides. Their modest living | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
standards are going to be squeezed as inflation overtakes pay rises, | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
they will be further squeezed because top-up benefits in work are | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
frozen. Incentives to work are going to be reduced by the cuts in | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
universal benefits. So much for being on the side of those just | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
managing? Theresa was right to focus on this group. The definition has to | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
be the bottom half, in economic terms, of the social structure. It | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
doesn't look good for them? This is the point I am making, it is an | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
opportunity to put some of this right. One of the reasons I resigned | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
in March is because I felt the direction of travel we had been | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
going in had been to take far too much money out of that group of | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
people when there are other areas which, if you need to make some of | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
those savings, you can. The key bit is that the group needs to be helped | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
through into work and encouraged to stay in work. There was a report | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
done with the IFS, when we were there, at Universal Credit. It said | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Universal Credit rolled out, as it should have been before the cuts, | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
people would be much more likely to stay in work longer and earn more | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
money. It is a net positive, but that is now called into question. | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
Let's unpick some of the detail but first, do you accept the words of | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
David Willets? It says on the basis of the things I read out to you that | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
the just managing face a significant and painful cut in real terms if we | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
continue on the way we are going. I do, in essence. That is the reason | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
why I resigned. I felt Heidi raised that issue as well, that we got the | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
balance wrong. It is right that pensioners get to a certain point, | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
when they are on a level par, doing the right thing over five years | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
Staying with that process has cost us ?18 billion extra this year, in | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
total. It will go on costing another 5 billion. Then there is the issue | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
of tax allowances. I want to remind you and viewers what David Cameron | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
told the Conservative conference in 2009. If you are a single mother | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
with two children, earning ?150 a week, the withdrawal of your | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
benefits and the additional taxes that you pay me on that for every | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
extra you earn, you keep just 4p. What kind of incentive is that? 30 | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
years ago, this party won and election fighting against 98% tax | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
rates for the Rex richest. I want us today to show even more anger about | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
96% tax rates for the very poorest in our country. Real anger, and | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
effective rate of over 90%. Universal Credit reduces that. Some | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
will still face, as they lose benefits and pay tax, a marginal | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
rate of over 75%. That is still too high? Yes, it is the collision | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
between those going into work at the moment they start paying tax. A | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
racial Universal Credit is set at 65%. You can call that the base | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
marginal tax rate. 1.2 million will face 75%? That is the point about | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
why the allowances are so important. The point about the allowances which | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
viewers might not fully understand is that it was set, as part of | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Universal Credit, to allow you to get certain people, with certain | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
difficulties, as they cross into work, to retain more benefit before | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
it is tapered away as they go up in hours. A lone parent, who might have | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
various issues, you want her to have a bigger incentive than a single | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
person that does not have the same commitments. It is structured so | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
that somebody who has difficulty going to work, they all have | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
slightly different rates. What happened is that last year a | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
decision was taken to reduce tax credits, and, on the back of that, | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
to reduce allowances. I believe given everything that happened now, | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
we need to restore that to the point where it helps those people crossing | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
over. You say a decision was taken, it was a decision by the former | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
Chancellor George Osborne in the summer budget. Other decisions were | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
taken in successive Budgets to raise the Universal Credit budget, which | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
resulted in the disincentive being higher than many people wanted. Do | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
you accept that has been the consequence of his decisions? I was | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
in the Government, we take collective responsibility. I argued | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
this was not the right way to go, but when you are in you have to stay | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
with it if you lose that argument. There was another attempt before the | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
spending review last year to increase the taper, so the marginal | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
rate would have gone up. I managed to stop that. I'm Sibley saying | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
what we made as a decision last year, given the circumstances and | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
given that the net effect of all of that, I think it is time for the | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
Government to ask the question, if we are in this to help that group of | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
people, Universal Credit is singularly the most powerful tool. | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
One of the Argentine aid in the paper published on Thursday, we are | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
set going on doing two more races of the tax threshold, taking more | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
people out of tax. That has a diminishing effect on the bottom | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
section. Only 25p in that tax rate will help any of those. Most of it | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
goes to middle income? You and I will benefit more from that. With | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
Universal Credit, every pound you put into that will go to the bottom | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
five tenths. That is why I designed it like that. He pressed the button | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
and immediately start to changed circumstances. Should the cuts in | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
Universal Credit that Mr Osborne introduced, against your argument, | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
should they be reversed? I believe so. I believe you can do it even if | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
there is concern about spending I don't believe you need to go through | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
with the continuing raise the tax threshold. Cost is dependent on | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
inflation, but give or take. It is in the Tory manifesto? Has more than | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
doubled. What is in the manifesto, and Lasse Prime Minister made this | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
clear in conference, we want to improve the life chances of people. | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
Today's announcement on the Green paper is what I wrote over the last | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
two and a half years. Big changes necessary to how we deal with | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
sickness benefit. That can now be done because of Universal Credit, | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
because people can go back to work and it tapers away their benefits. | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
It is the most powerful tool to sort our people that live in poverty | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
Universal Credit. We need to make sure it lands positively. If Mr | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
Osborne's cuts were reversed, what you and some of your backbench Tory | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
colleagues want to do, how would that improve the incentives of the | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
working poor, as they try to get on in life? They have to pay more tax, | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
they lose some benefits. How would it improve it? Would many still face | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
a 75% rate? The key question is first and foremost, as people move | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
through income to the point where they are getting taxed, that group | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
will be enormously benefited by the re-emergence of these allowances at | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
the right level. That is what the IFS have said, that is what the | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
Resolution Foundation are saying, and the Centre For Social Justice is | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
saying. You have to get that group, because they are most likely to be | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
drifting into poverty and less incomes are right. Would it help | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
those who face a 75% margin? We don't face that. Exactly right. | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
People much poorer than us do. I would love to get the marginal rate | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
down to testify percent, and lower,. -- down to 65%. It is a balance of | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
how you spend the money. I would prefer to do that rather than | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
necessarily go ahead with threshold razors. I think the coronation of | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
the marginal reduction of 65%, getting it down to 60%, plus more | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
allowances, will allow Universal Credit to get to the group that is | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
going to be, and the report written by the IFS and ourselves, it shows | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
it is going to be the most dynamic and direct ability of a Government | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
to be able to influence the way that people improve their incomes in the | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
bottom five deciles. Would you take on extra work if you knew you were | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
going to lose 75% of it? Even 6 %? This has been my argument all along. | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
Universal Credit can help that enormously. One point that goes | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
missing, 70% of the bottom five deciles will be on Universal Credit. | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
Whatever change you make to Universal Credit has a dramatic and | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
immediate effect I am arguing, genuinely, it is time to rethink | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
this. The Prime Minister wants to make this a priority. I am | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
completely with her on this. I think she made a really good start. To | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
deliver this, we need to... You have a lot of work to do to deliver it. | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
Because it is a manifesto commitment, or because they want to | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
do it, stopping increasing the personal allowances are not | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
acceptable, what about bringing to an end, by the end of the | :28:04. | :28:05. | |
parliament, the pension triple lock that pensioners enjoy to improve and | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
put more money to the working poor? What about that? Well, you are | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
absolutely right that there is now the danger, I think, of a mess | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
balance between the generations Quite rightly at the beginning, when | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
we came in, we have a commitment as a Conservative Party in a manifesto | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
to get pensions back onto earnings. It was moved to a triple lock that | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
guaranteed a minimum. What about ending up now? I understand it is a | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
promise through the Parliament, but after 2020? I am in favour of | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
getting it back to innings and allowing it to rise at reasonable | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
levels. Moving from earnings to the triple lock has cost ?18 billion | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
this year. Here was a high, under pressure, as the Government was | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
scratching around to pay more money out of working age areas, when the | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
budget was almost out of control on the pension side. I'm in favour of | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
helping pensioners, but now they are up to a reasonable level, at a | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
steady rate, that can be afforded by Government, which takes the pressure | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
off, working age people have to pay for that. In years to come, time to | :29:14. | :29:15. | |
end the triple lock and use the savings to help these | :29:16. | :29:29. | |
people we have been talking about? As part of a load of packages, yes. | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
It would also help with the intergenerational fairness argument. | :29:33. | :29:32. | |
Thank you for being with us. Now, a prominent London Imam | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
called Shakeel Begg - who is Chief Imam the Lewisham | :29:37. | :29:38. | |
Islamic Centre - is an extremist. That was the verdict of the judge | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
in a libel action that Mr Begg took against the BBC, after we described | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
him as an Islamic extremist Mr Begg had complained about a short | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
segment in an interview in November 2013 with Farooq Murad, | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
the then head of the Muslim Council of Britain, an organisation | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
which claims to represent British In that interview, we described | :29:55. | :29:56. | |
Mr Begg as an extremist speaker who had hailed jihad | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
is the greatest of deeds. From his base of the Lewisham | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
Islamic Centre, Mr Begg has been involved in a number of community | :30:06. | :30:08. | |
organisations, including the Police Independent | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
Advisory Group in Lewisham, Lewisham Council's Advisory Council | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
on Religious Education and as a volunteer chaplain | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
at Lewisham Hospital. But in his judgment, | :30:21. | :30:22. | |
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave called Mr Begg a Jekyll and Hyde character | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
- a trusted figure in his local community, but when talking | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
to predominantly Muslim audiences he shed the cloak of respectability | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
and revealed the horns of extremism. The judge cited one speech made | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
by Mr Begg at a rally outside Belmarsh Prisonm- | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
the high security prison that houses terrorists - | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
as particularly sinister. The judge said the imam | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
was expressing admiration and praise Following Friday's judgment, | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
the hospital trust have told us that Mr Begg's status as a voluntary | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
chaplain has been terminated. We have been told by | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
Lewisham Council he is no longer on their Religious | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
Education Committee. The Metropolitan Police | :31:06. | :31:06. | |
have confirmed that Mr Begg remains a member | :31:07. | :31:08. | |
of their Independent Advisory Group in Lewisham, as well as | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
the borough's faith group. I am joined by Haras Rafiq, chief | :31:14. | :31:25. | |
executive of the Quilliam Foundation. Welcome to the | :31:26. | :31:33. | |
programme. I have here in my hand a statement from the trustees of the | :31:34. | :31:36. | |
Lewisham Islamic Centre. They reject the judge's ruling as fanciful and | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
say they are unequivocal and unwavering in their support of | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
Shakeel Begg as their head imam What do you make of that? To be | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
honest, it doesn't surprise me. At the end of the day he is only the | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
imam of that mosque because he belongs to the same theological | :31:57. | :32:01. | |
fundamentalist views that the mosque would portray. If they were to say | :32:02. | :32:04. | |
he was an extremist, they would be saying in fact that they have | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
allowed extremist preaching and extremist theology within their | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
walls. I think this is a very important decision and a very | :32:14. | :32:21. | |
important judgment by the judge First of all, these people like to | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
operate in a linear, under a veneer of respectability. When that veneer | :32:25. | :32:30. | |
is taken away, there are a number of things that can happen. First of | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
all, the BBC did very well to stand by their guns and say, we're not | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
going to be intimidated by somebody who is threatening to taking -- to | :32:41. | :32:44. | |
take us to court for potential libel. Many other media companies | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
have done that in the past and people have capitulated. Also, this | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
has exposed him. Legally now, here's some deal can be classified as an | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
extremist preacher, somebody who promotes religious violence. I think | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
the mosque really needs to take a step back and say, how we part of | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
the problem that we are facing within society? Or are we going to | :33:09. | :33:11. | |
be part of the solution? It really concerns me. The High Court judge | :33:12. | :33:20. | |
says that Mr Begg's speeches were consistent with an extremist | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
Salafist is the most worldview. What is Salafist is and how widespread is | :33:27. | :33:35. | |
it in UK mosques? -- mosque. It comes from the Middle East. It is | :33:36. | :33:41. | |
from Saudi Arabia. The enemy for them was the old colonial Ottoman | :33:42. | :33:49. | |
Empire. There is the quiet Salafist to get some with their lives, lives | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
outside society. There is a revolutionary who tries to convert | :33:54. | :33:57. | |
other people to their worldview And then there is the Salafist jihad | :33:58. | :34:03. | |
ease. People like Islamic State etc. We have seen of increased in recent | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
decades because of money that has, growing from the Middle East. When | :34:08. | :34:13. | |
that is mixed with a political ideology, it becomes potent. Do we | :34:14. | :34:17. | |
have a political -- particular problem in Britain with this in our | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
mosques? Absolutely. Without the theology that says hate the other, | :34:23. | :34:26. | |
hate other Muslims, that excommunicate other people, that | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
says it is OK to fight and is good to fight when you have got an enemy, | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
we wouldn't really have a jihadi problem. Really that is something we | :34:35. | :34:40. | |
have to tackle. The number of mosques and institutions supporting | :34:41. | :34:45. | |
Salafist and Islam is has been on the increase. Do we have a problem | :34:46. | :34:51. | |
with what the judge called Jekyll and Hyde characters who hide their | :34:52. | :34:55. | |
extremism except when they are speaking to specific groups? | :34:56. | :35:02. | |
Absolutely. One of the things we have focused on in the past, a | :35:03. | :35:06. | |
number of hate preachers now in prison, people like Anjem Choudary, | :35:07. | :35:10. | |
and everybody focused on them. But there is a range of people operating | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
under that level. People who will show one face to the community | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
because they actually need that for a respectability. They need that for | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
a legitimacy. They need that to operate. When they are behind closed | :35:24. | :35:26. | |
doors and talking to their constitution, that is when you will | :35:27. | :35:30. | |
see the real face of what these people believe. It is an increasing | :35:31. | :35:36. | |
phenomenon. We are seeing it more. And we're going to carry on seeing | :35:37. | :35:44. | |
it. Not just has the Lewisham mosque stuck by him, but given the clarity | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
of the judge's ruling, are you surprised that the Metropolitan | :35:50. | :35:51. | |
police would wish to continue with Mr Begg as an adviser? I'm | :35:52. | :35:55. | |
absolutely shocked that that decision. What Uzzy going to do | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
Advise them on how to deal with extremist preachers and promote | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
religiously motivated violence? I don't know what he's going to advise | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
them on. Because we now have a judge that has ruled against him and | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
actually classified him as an extremist and somebody who promotes | :36:14. | :36:17. | |
religious violence, we actually have a possibility for the CPS to | :36:18. | :36:21. | |
actually prosecute him. There is a law that has been in place since | :36:22. | :36:25. | |
2005 called religiously motivated violence. If he has been classified | :36:26. | :36:30. | |
as somebody who promotes this, there is a potential for the CPS to | :36:31. | :36:36. | |
prosecute. I want to called into question other organisations, | :36:37. | :36:37. | |
interfaith organisations, other Muslims groups, who say they want to | :36:38. | :36:44. | |
fight extremism, I call on them to say, this guy is an extremist | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
preacher, we should cut our ties from him. This was a very high risk | :36:49. | :36:57. | |
strategy by the BBC. The exposure could have been over ?1.5 million of | :36:58. | :37:04. | |
licence payers money. Will this make it more difficult for Jekyll and | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
Hyde characters to behave as Mr Begg has behaved? Absolutely. It will do. | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
One of the things they will now have to make sure is that they are a lot | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
more careful. Careful with what they say to their own constituency. It | :37:21. | :37:24. | |
won't solve the theological problem. But it will actually stop other | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
people from operating in this manner and allow other media organisations | :37:31. | :37:33. | |
to have the confidence to expose them when they do. Haras Rafiq, | :37:34. | :37:35. | |
thank you for joining us. It's just gone 11.35, | :37:36. | :37:38. | |
you're watching the Sunday Politics. We say goodbye to viewers | :37:39. | :37:40. | |
in Scotland, who leave us now Coming up here in 20 minutes, | :37:41. | :37:43. | |
the Week Ahead. Hello, you're watching | :37:44. | :37:54. | |
the Sunday Politics for Yorkshire, Lincolnshire | :37:55. | :37:56. | |
and the north midlands. Coming up today: The high | :37:57. | :37:58. | |
cost of help at home, bill and can we avoid | :37:59. | :38:01. | |
a crisis in the care sector? As devolution hits the buffdrs | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
here in Lincolnshire, we are taking a look at what's | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
happening across our region. It was meant to be | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
a revolution in local Government with elected mayors | :38:14. | :38:15. | |
getting more power and more money from Whitehall, but is | :38:16. | :38:18. | |
the devolution dream falling apart? We are joined today by Toby Perkins, | :38:19. | :38:24. | |
Labour MP for Chesterfield, Liberal Democrat Baroness Kath Pinnock, | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
and joining us from Boston Conservative MP for | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
Boston and Skegness. I'll ask you, what's ben thd | :38:35. | :38:40. | |
political highlight of your week? I think the thing that's re`lly | :38:41. | :38:44. | |
stood out for me is the opposition Sometimes politics are about | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
putting things right. One of our local MPs has | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
led our campaign to get Concentrix chucked out of the job | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
that they were doing, which was costing many of m`ny | :38:56. | :38:58. | |
constituents tax credits, some really poor quality work that | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
had been done there. And it shows that Government don't | :39:02. | :39:04. | |
always get it right, but sometimes politicians c`n bring | :39:05. | :39:06. | |
about pressure and get things changed and that's been | :39:07. | :39:09. | |
a real success this week. Highlight of the week for you, | :39:10. | :39:10. | |
Baronness Pinnock? I was going to tell you that | :39:11. | :39:13. | |
being back in Yorkshire and going to a concert | :39:14. | :39:16. | |
by the Huddersfield Choral Society, but you've changed | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
the question to politics. I think the fact that the Government | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
is ditching its forced academy of all our schools, | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
that for me was good news. And of course we hope you enjoy the | :39:29. | :39:34. | |
Huddersfield Choral Society. And your political | :39:35. | :39:37. | |
highlight, Matt Warman? Well, if you want a politic`l one, | :39:38. | :39:41. | |
I think it's finally the decision on Heathrow to go ahead and make | :39:42. | :39:44. | |
a decision that we've Actually, I think it was picking my | :39:45. | :39:47. | |
own pumpkin here in Lincolnshire But 500,000 pumpkins have bden | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
picked in these very farms. We should get excited | :39:53. | :40:03. | |
about that as well. An insight into Halloween | :40:04. | :40:07. | |
at the Warman household. Now, it's something that | :40:08. | :40:16. | |
will happen to most of us. We get old and many of us | :40:17. | :40:18. | |
will eventually need care. Most people prefer to stay | :40:19. | :40:21. | |
in their own homes. For most people, it's | :40:22. | :40:23. | |
their local council who, after years of austerity, | :40:24. | :40:26. | |
are worried about further ctts Now, the companies who provhde | :40:27. | :40:29. | |
the care say they're not getting paid enough and some are pulling out | :40:30. | :40:33. | |
of council contracts. A knock at the door that makes life | :40:34. | :40:35. | |
so much better for Brian. The 80-year-old former scaffolder | :40:36. | :40:44. | |
was paralysed from the waist down after an industrial accident | :40:45. | :40:46. | |
25 years ago. Now living alone in his Wakdfield | :40:47. | :40:48. | |
bungalow, he needs help so he can do the most basic things that people | :40:49. | :40:56. | |
usually take for granted. I'm just going to put my apron | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
on so I can empty your leg bag. Amanda is a carer with | :41:01. | :41:21. | |
a private agency contracted Brian is one of as many as ten | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
clients she'll visit every day. The work can be physically | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
demanding and carers providd But wages are still at the linimum | :41:33. | :41:35. | |
rate of ?7.20 an hour. The result - turnover of st`ff | :41:36. | :41:43. | |
leaving the job is high, retention low, and the carers know | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
exactly why that is. You are dealing with people's lives | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
and it is quite an important job. We welcome the National Livhng Wage, | :41:52. | :42:03. | |
but all that means is it's put We need to be paying care staff | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
who do a fantastic job, more than ?7.20 but we're | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
stuck in that cycle now. It means the public, | :42:11. | :42:13. | |
the taxpayer, whatever it is, locally or nationally, | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
needs to pay more. Ultimately, local authoritids | :42:18. | :42:20. | |
are responsible for the fees and the industry has surveydd them | :42:21. | :42:22. | |
to find out exactly how The agencies say that providing care | :42:23. | :42:26. | |
in people's homes in streets They have to provide | :42:27. | :42:32. | |
training for their staff. They have to provide travel | :42:33. | :42:37. | |
time for their staff They reckon that in order to do | :42:38. | :42:40. | |
that and make a profit, they ought to be paid | :42:41. | :42:46. | |
the equivalent of ?16.70 an hour. But according to this latest survey, | :42:47. | :42:51. | |
local authorities pay them ?14. 6, and across Yorkshire, even lower | :42:52. | :42:58. | |
than that - ?14.11 an hour. We all know the country's bden | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
having to live within its mdans over the last few years and what we tried | :43:05. | :43:07. | |
to do is put as much money So we've protected budgets | :43:08. | :43:11. | |
where we can, we've put mord money into prevention and we have put more | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
money into care fees. But we only have a limited pot | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
of money available to fund services. All this creates a daily struggle | :43:20. | :43:23. | |
for agencies trying to keep up with increasing demand but `lso | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
to recruit and retain Recruitment, it's | :43:29. | :43:31. | |
a full-time job in itself. And then to retain the staff that | :43:32. | :43:38. | |
you actually recruit, again, that's another full-time | :43:39. | :43:41. | |
job in itself. The way that these girls ard paid, | :43:42. | :43:44. | |
they're paid minimum wage. Quite fortunate that our girls | :43:45. | :43:48. | |
are paid travel time But how can you encourage pdople | :43:49. | :43:50. | |
to come and stay at your colpany to work for minimum wage | :43:51. | :43:58. | |
for the amount of responsibhlity It requires people with | :43:59. | :44:01. | |
compassion and patience. Getting the right calibre of people | :44:02. | :44:09. | |
and more of them is really going to be very important | :44:10. | :44:12. | |
because one thing we do know - the population is ageing, | :44:13. | :44:15. | |
so this sort of service in the home Kath Pinnock, is it right that nine | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
out of ten councils are payhng below Don't think you can say it's | :44:21. | :44:29. | |
below the minimum price. What their association | :44:30. | :44:36. | |
considers the minimum price. They're a company and have got | :44:37. | :44:39. | |
to cover their costs and make a profit for their owners and ? 4.10 | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
is what the council pays for social care and I think what we have | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
to consider is the equation that we have here, which is number | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
of older people going up and the number of older people | :44:56. | :45:00. | |
needing care going up, the amount of money coming | :45:01. | :45:05. | |
into councils to help pay This is traditionally | :45:06. | :45:08. | |
a low wage industry. But many care providers say they've | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
been hit by the introduction How do we ensure, Toby, | :45:14. | :45:16. | |
that care providers don't ptll out of contracts with councils | :45:17. | :45:21. | |
and people are left without care? You saw there what is expected | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
of carers, they're going into the most intimate | :45:26. | :45:32. | |
of circumstances, people's houes around the community, often late | :45:33. | :45:35. | |
at night or early in the morning, I think they do a vital job | :45:36. | :45:39. | |
and our health service I just think we need to pay | :45:40. | :45:42. | |
it more as a society. We had a plan at the last election | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
about bringing social care and health together, | :45:48. | :45:50. | |
valuing social care in the same Until we do that as a society, | :45:51. | :45:53. | |
and as a political class, these The arguments often put forward | :45:54. | :45:58. | |
Matt, is that cutting social care can often be a false | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
economy because it puts Do you believe that social care | :46:04. | :46:06. | |
particularly home care, I think what we need to do hs not | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
only make sure we fund soci`l care and adult social care, | :46:13. | :46:19. | |
in particular, properly but we also get that link | :46:20. | :46:21. | |
between the health service right. Because this isn't simply | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
about making sure we put more money into the pot, | :46:26. | :46:28. | |
it's about making sure we gdt an efficient use of that money | :46:29. | :46:31. | |
because it's often social c`re and delays in social care | :46:32. | :46:34. | |
that are meaning people are staying longer in hospital, | :46:35. | :46:36. | |
it costs more money It's about getting that intdrface | :46:37. | :46:39. | |
right and there is in that sense, To go back to Toby's | :46:40. | :46:44. | |
point around getting the relationship between social care | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
and the health service right. But, Kath, many people | :46:50. | :46:52. | |
now are paying 2% extra on their council tax bills, | :46:53. | :46:55. | |
it's what councils How do we know that money | :46:56. | :46:57. | |
is being used properly? Because the Government | :46:58. | :47:04. | |
has said it's a preset, so it's not in the general council | :47:05. | :47:06. | |
tax pot and it has to be accounted for in spending | :47:07. | :47:11. | |
on adult social care. We know that our councils are being | :47:12. | :47:17. | |
squeezed and there's plenty And, unfortunately, it's now hitting | :47:18. | :47:23. | |
adult social care and the ilpact is on the old folk themselvdss, | :47:24. | :47:33. | |
but also the NHS, and that's putting Matt, the Local Government | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
Association estimates there is a ?2.6 billion funding gap | :47:39. | :47:46. | |
when it comes to social card. Will your new chancellor, | :47:47. | :47:50. | |
Phillip Hammond, be prepared to look at this in next | :47:51. | :47:53. | |
month's autumn statement? If I'm honest, I hope | :47:54. | :47:58. | |
that's the case. I think what we should be looking | :47:59. | :48:01. | |
at is how do we make sure that local councils have got the resources | :48:02. | :48:05. | |
they need to do this, which is probably the singld biggest | :48:06. | :48:08. | |
issue that comes to me when it But for me this is as much | :48:09. | :48:13. | |
about getting the relationship between the health service | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
and local councils right Now, devolution was meant to create | :48:19. | :48:21. | |
a revolution in local Government. Large city regions with control over | :48:22. | :48:32. | |
things like transport, planning skills and housing, | :48:33. | :48:34. | |
and a directly elected mayor controlling millions of pounds | :48:35. | :48:37. | |
of extra Government money, but it's not yet in our | :48:38. | :48:40. | |
part of the world. We'll ask why in a moment, | :48:41. | :48:43. | |
but first our political reporters right across the patch tell us | :48:44. | :48:45. | |
where we are. Just a few weeks ago, | :48:46. | :48:56. | |
it looked as though devoluthon was definitely coming | :48:57. | :48:58. | |
to Lincolnshire, but in the past week, two council leaders | :48:59. | :49:01. | |
have been instructed Residents were being told jtst don't | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
want an elected mayor. So the eight remaining | :49:06. | :49:12. | |
councils are wondering There are still hopes that the two | :49:13. | :49:15. | |
councils will sign up if the Government offers | :49:16. | :49:19. | |
new incentives or it could be that the eight remaining approach | :49:20. | :49:22. | |
Whitehall with a bid of thehr own, or it could just be | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
that the deal is off. Here in East Yorkshire, | :49:29. | :49:35. | |
it's all talk and at There have been proposals | :49:36. | :49:38. | |
for Hull to become part of the Leeds City Region bid, | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
and for East Riding to join up But both Hull city council | :49:43. | :49:45. | |
and the East Riding of Yorkshire council say discussions | :49:46. | :49:50. | |
are still ongoing and no Here in West Yorkshire, | :49:51. | :49:53. | |
the script has had as many twists and turns as a play by the great | :49:54. | :50:02. | |
Leeds writer, Alan Bennett. And we're still waiting | :50:03. | :50:05. | |
for a deal to be signed. It all comes down to the cotncils | :50:06. | :50:08. | |
not being able to agree on how Does West Yorkshire go with a couple | :50:09. | :50:11. | |
of its North Yorkshire neighbours on the Leeds City Region de`l, | :50:12. | :50:15. | |
or does it pitch in with North and East Yorkshire on an arrangement | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
known as Greater Yorkshire? Sources tell me that lively behind | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
closed doors debates are going on about what powdrs | :50:25. | :50:26. | |
an elected mayor should havd. Meanwhile, a now out of datd deal | :50:27. | :50:29. | |
based on the West Yorkshire combined authority is moldering away | :50:30. | :50:33. | |
in various desk drawers. Sheffield has got the ball rolling | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
on a deal, which includes Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and possibly | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
Chesterfield and Bassetlaw. The city region is on the brink | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
of signing off draft orders from the Government, | :50:49. | :50:51. | |
which would give an elected mayor powers over raising | :50:52. | :50:54. | |
and spending money. And over planning, transport and | :50:55. | :51:06. | |
skills. But it's not a done deal yet. A row is brewing over whether | :51:07. | :51:11. | |
it Chesterfield will be included. That fight goes to the High Court in | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
November and there is also uncertainty over whether Bassetlaw | :51:16. | :51:18. | |
joins two. If you want the largest joins two. If you want the largest | :51:19. | :51:22. | |
number of possible deals thdn come to North Yorkshire. The gre`ter | :51:23. | :51:25. | |
Yorkshire bid includes everxwhere apart from South Yorkshire `nd that | :51:26. | :51:30. | |
has a lot of support here. But if the Leeds city region bid goes | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
ahead, then that takes part of North Yorkshire with it too. Therd is a | :51:35. | :51:39. | |
third option on the table and that would be for York, North Yorkshire | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
and east riding. But if the Sheffield deal falls through and | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
these work out, there is a possibility of a fourth moddl. That | :51:49. | :51:52. | |
would be devolution for the whole of Yorkshire. Still not a lot of | :51:53. | :51:54. | |
talking to be done on that one. I'm glad that's all clear. Why, | :51:55. | :52:05. | |
apart from South Yorkshire, have council leaders and the rest of | :52:06. | :52:09. | |
Yorkshire failed to agree on a deal? I don't think the failed to agree on | :52:10. | :52:13. | |
a deal. I think they've been handed cards from the Government which | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
when you play them out, don't add up to very much because the Ledds city | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
region, the five west Yorkshire that works well. But then what | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
happens to the rest of Yorkshire? I have a lot of sympathy with the idea | :52:30. | :52:36. | |
of a greater Yorkshire model. That gives us a population size near | :52:37. | :52:41. | |
enough that of Scotland. It also maybe gives us the play we can have | :52:42. | :52:50. | |
with those down in London. Toby are you convinced the Sheffield city | :52:51. | :52:53. | |
region deal will go ahead as planned? And would include | :52:54. | :52:57. | |
Chesterfield? I'm not certahn that well. I think it appears from the | :52:58. | :53:01. | |
Government's perspective th`t devolution is the only show in town, | :53:02. | :53:04. | |
we decide between local authority spending the additional part here or | :53:05. | :53:11. | |
it can continue to get spent if at all by Whitehall. I think in the | :53:12. | :53:15. | |
Derbyshire area, Nottinghamshire, the deal is going nowhere. | :53:16. | :53:19. | |
right conclusion to join thd right conclusion to join thd | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
Sheffield city region but wd made it absolutely clear, this doesn't mean | :53:24. | :53:26. | |
Chesterfield is leaving Derbyshire and joining Sheffield. We'vd seen a | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
Sheffield nibble away at Derbyshire over the years and we will be an | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
equal partner as part of thd Sheffield city region but I'm not | :53:35. | :53:38. | |
convinced by the mayoral part of it although that appears it max be what | :53:39. | :53:43. | |
the deal has to involve. Conservative run Lincolnshire County | :53:44. | :53:48. | |
Council,, your authority, h`d just rejected the deal put forward to | :53:49. | :53:51. | |
them by Government. That is hardly a vote of confidence in devolttion, is | :53:52. | :53:56. | |
it? Eight out of ten Lincolnshire Council has voted for it. Not the | :53:57. | :54:02. | |
county council. At least ond of those does go for it as well. | :54:03. | :54:06. | |
Ultimately, this is a good deal that was negotiated by all ten ldaders, | :54:07. | :54:09. | |
including the county council. It's including the county council. It's | :54:10. | :54:13. | |
disappointing they haven't voted for it but I genuinely hope we're going | :54:14. | :54:16. | |
to get this over the line bdcause it means hundreds of millions of pounds | :54:17. | :54:20. | |
extra for a county that historically does not have the investment that it | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
deserves. It is a huge opportunity and I really hope that we whll be | :54:25. | :54:28. | |
able to get over the line. There seems to be widespread opposition to | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
this idea of a directly elected mayor. If you look at the ddtails of | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
the consultation, there was widespread support for devolution, | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
marginally across the whole of Lincolnshire a preference not to | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
have a mayor. What the mayor gives you, one is access to the htndreds | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
of millions of pounds and it gives you an individual who is accountable | :54:52. | :54:55. | |
for the decisions that are lade rather than someone who is | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
relatively remote in Whiteh`ll. I think it is not only... Somd people | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
think of it as a price worth paying, I think it's actually a | :55:05. | :55:08. | |
straightforward good thing `nd I think it gives us access not only to | :55:09. | :55:11. | |
increase power, it will also increase money then we should be | :55:12. | :55:16. | |
grasping at with both hands. And is a directly elected mayor in price | :55:17. | :55:20. | |
worth paying, do you believd? It's a choice between that and not having | :55:21. | :55:24. | |
the devolution, absolutely. We want to see local authorities working | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
close together. We have manx shared agendas with Sheffield and the rest | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
of South Yorkshire, we will also continue to have a relationship with | :55:34. | :55:37. | |
the rest of Derbyshire are. Most important thing is that there is | :55:38. | :55:42. | |
money devolved to our local areas because we know better how to spend | :55:43. | :55:45. | |
an Whitehall. If the mayor hs the only way of achieving that, then the | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
mayor from a price worth paxing It gives people a vote and the | :55:50. | :55:52. | |
decisions that that person lakes with the money that is devolved to. | :55:53. | :55:58. | |
The Government have looked `t places like Manchester, Liverpool, | :55:59. | :56:00. | |
Birmingham, Newcastle who h`ve all gone for devolution deals whth | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
directly elected mayors. And yet Yorkshire, most of Yorkshird, | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
hasn't. You must think they are it is stubborn lot in Yorkshird? Quite | :56:09. | :56:14. | |
right too. People in Yorkshhre know that the idea of elected maxor in | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
the west Yorkshire case, probably a Leeds prison and the rest of us who | :56:20. | :56:22. | |
don't live in Leeds, think, does that mean we are going to gdt ruled | :56:23. | :56:26. | |
by leaps and quite rightly H think that we are not sure that that | :56:27. | :56:30. | |
works. The debate will go on no doubt. Let's get the Belind` Bencic | :56:31. | :56:40. | |
two seconds. -- here is the round-up. The Grantham and Stanford | :56:41. | :56:47. | |
NT is starting treatment for a cancerous tumour in his head. Nine | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
diagnosed with Hodgkin's lylphoma. diagnosed with Hodgkin's lylphoma. | :56:53. | :56:56. | |
Labour has been fined ?20,000 by the electoral commission for fahling to | :56:57. | :57:00. | |
declare all of its general dlection expenses, including the Ed Stone. | :57:01. | :57:04. | |
The former Labour leader and Doncaster North MP that part of his | :57:05. | :57:10. | |
party's election pledges into the stone tablet. Stephen Wolf's | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
altercation at the European Parliament in Strasbourg is to be | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
investigated by French police, and kernel you kept enquiry has been | :57:20. | :57:26. | |
given a formal reprimand. And sport Minister, Tracy Crouch, was in | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
Sheffield this week to open the football Association's ?200 million | :57:32. | :57:34. | |
project to build 13 new all,weather facilities across England. The Hull | :57:35. | :57:39. | |
University graduate is a kedn footballer, but is she this good? | :57:40. | :57:49. | |
What is your record for QPR please? May be just about as good as | :57:50. | :57:53. | |
Tracey's she might have had little bit of help the TV. On a football | :57:54. | :57:59. | |
related theme, you have been calling for Russia to be stripped of hosting | :58:00. | :58:05. | |
the 2018 World Cup? Is that likely to happen? I'm not sure is likely to | :58:06. | :58:09. | |
happen. We're hearing from the Government having to take Rtssia | :58:10. | :58:12. | |
seriously the sanctions of the rest of the world is talking abott. The | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
Prime Minister declined this week to pressure Spain not to refuel the | :58:18. | :58:22. | |
Russian warship that's going back to cause mayhem in Syria and wd've also | :58:23. | :58:26. | |
had -- heard nothing from Government about putting pressure on the phone | :58:27. | :58:29. | |
to strip rush at the World Cup. I think it should happen and the rest | :58:30. | :58:33. | |
of the world to be sending ` message to Russia but I'm not confident it | :58:34. | :58:37. | |
will. Should Russia lose thd next six World Cup? Just going b`ck to | :58:38. | :58:42. | |
what will be said, that ship is now not going to be refuelled in Spain | :58:43. | :58:46. | |
and that is the result of international pressure. To be | :58:47. | :58:49. | |
honest, we've got so much more pressing problems around a | :58:50. | :58:52. | |
relationship with Russia and the World Cup. We are seeing a resurgent | :58:53. | :59:00. | |
Russia that needs to be reined in by a united approach from across the | :59:01. | :59:05. | |
western world. Brexit is sthll dominating the political he`dlines. | :59:06. | :59:08. | |
Tony Blair, former prime ministers, you might remember him, is seeing | :59:09. | :59:12. | |
again this should be a second referendum! How will that go down | :59:13. | :59:19. | |
for 55% of people voted to leave the EU in your constituency? I'l not | :59:20. | :59:22. | |
sure Tony Blair said a second referendum, he said people should | :59:23. | :59:28. | |
have another say. -- buyers are not a second referendum? It could a | :59:29. | :59:35. | |
general election. I do think that people have a right to make their | :59:36. | :59:39. | |
first choice, which is what we've got to respect and then when things | :59:40. | :59:44. | |
pan out, when the petrol prhces go up and food prices go up and maybe | :59:45. | :59:51. | |
not the case. Mess and are hnvesting not the case. Mess and are hnvesting | :59:52. | :59:55. | |
in the country. The Governmdnt has piled some cash in there. Ghve us a | :59:56. | :00:02. | |
couple of years before we actually signed the deal, and another chance. | :00:03. | :00:08. | |
Second referendum, yes or no? I don't think we should be st`rting | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
from that point. We should be trying to get the best deal we can. You | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
represent the most brutal Brexit constituency in the country. What | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
would be the message there to Tony Blair? The message to Tony Blair | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
wouldn't be broadcast on a family programme. We can certainly say that | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
the messages that the will of the people should be respected. Thank | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
Baroness. You can find out lore Baroness. You can find out lore | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
about a difficult week for xou kept in the European Parliament over the | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
past few days by reading thd blog. With | :00:47. | :00:56. | |
Barely more than a week now until polling day, | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
and a new revelation rocks the US Presidential election campaign. | :01:02. | :01:11. | |
If it wasn't bizarre enough, it just got more bizarre. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
The FBI have reopened their investigation into Hillary Clinton's | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
use of private email servers whilst she was Secretary | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
of State, after the discovery of further emails. | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
Though not on her laptop or even the State Department. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Donald Trump is saying that it's bigger than Watergate - | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
so could it swing the election in his favour? | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
We spoke to top US pollster, Frank Luntz. | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
The FBI investigation is happening so late in the election process | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
that it would be very difficult to derail a Clinton victory. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
That said, if there is one thing that could keep Hillary Clinton | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
from the presidency, it's an FBI investigation. | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
But there's still only four states that really matter, Florida, Ohio, | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
Right now, Clinton has beyond the margin of error leads | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
This would have to have a truly significant impact for the election | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
There is a point about a week ago when I was prepared to say that | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
Clinton had a 95% chance of winning this election. | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Based on what has happened in the last 48 hours, | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
It is still very likely, but I wouldn't bet on it. | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
I thought the 2000 election would be the best election of my lifetime, | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
And then I thought 2008 would be amazing, because we had two | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
challenger candidates and the first African-American President. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
It is ugly, it's painful, it is as negative as anything | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
The public is angry, the country, overall, is frustrated. | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
But for entertainment value, these candidates probably should | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
have charged us money, because it's better than any movie | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
at ever seen, it's better than any TV show. | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
That was Frank Luntz. He may be right or wrong about Mrs Clinton | :03:12. | :03:23. | |
still having an 80% chance of winning. I would bet on an 80% | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
chance? Yes, absolutely. I spoke to a high-profile American pollster and | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
strategist last night and he took a rather different view to Frank | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
Luntz. He thought, and I think some other high-profile commentators | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
agree, that this is actually much more serious than some people | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
realise. There are an awful lot of undecided voters out there looking | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
for an excuse to vote Trump. They do not like what they see in either | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
candidate. But because this FBI probe is not going to conclude | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
before the election, the question, the doubt over Hillary Clinton, | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
gives them an excuse to back Trump. The thing that will play on the | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
minds of the voters is, could the 100 day honeymoon turning to the 100 | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
day divorce? Which even be impeached? It may give some people | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
an excuse not to vote for Mrs Clinton. It could provide a problem | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
in terms of energising her base The battle ground almost matters more | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
than the polls. Florida and Pennsylvania have been trending to | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
Mrs Clinton. Mr Trump needs to win both. He does not get in without | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
both. He needs both. Just coming up in the latest BBC News, the | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
Washington Post tracking poll, Mrs Clinton is now only one point ahead | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
in the national poll. One point Even given my caveat that the state | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
battles are most important. That is incredibly close? It is. Polls | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
yesterday showed Trump nationally closing of. -- up. There is a clear | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
trend and movement. This has reinforced everything that people | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
who have a problem with Hillary Clinton know about Hillary Clinton. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Trump is running this insurgent campaign. We have seen at here with | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
Brexit. If you are running an insurgent campaign, you want to be | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
against the ultimate establishment insider and that is what Hillary | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
Clinton is. I suggested it was bizarre. Fathoming the behaviour of | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
the FBI is interesting as well. This is a separate investigation into a | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
former congressman, Anthony Wiener, who had done all sorts of things. He | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
seemed to be sex text thing a minor. A 15-year-old girl. The FBI | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
investigate. They get his laptop to see what else he has been too. In | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
the course of that, his wife, now separated, the closest adviser to | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Hillary Clinton, they find on the laptop e-mails involving the Clinton | :06:12. | :06:20. | |
server to her. And yet the FBI cannot, it needs now a separate | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
warrant to access these e-mails It hasn't got that yet. It has got a | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
warrant to do the congressman e-mails. On the basis of not knowing | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
the content, this has happened. Yeah. Who knows? He is a Republican, | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
this guy. Earlier this year he was being praised to the hilt by | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Democrats. Absolutely. The timing is a nightmare for her. You described | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
the whole sequence. There is nothing definitive to doubt in this | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
sequence. All he is saying is he has discovered more e-mails in effect. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
They are from the congressman's former wife. On Anthony Wiener's | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
laptop, which apparently she used sometimes. But what that shows is | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
that for all the scrutiny of modern politicians, they cannot escape | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
caricature. And as Tim was just saying, her weakness is perceived to | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
be secretive, elitism and complacency about that elitism. And | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
so just the announcement of a reopening of the investigation so | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
fuels that caricature, you have just revealed a poll giving her a 1% | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
lead. That must be related to what has happened. It is without a shred | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
of evidence that she has done anything wrong. You can see how | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
because people only see things encourage kids, that is deadly | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
serious. -- in caricature. An American friend of mine said we have | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
got our October surprise but we don't know what it is. The FBI must | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
surely come under massive pressure. It did its -- it did this against | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
the Justice Department. The difficulty the FBI had was that this | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
information, for what it's worth, it came to them. Were they not to have | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
said something and it worked to have come out later, they would have been | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
accused of a massive cover-up. They are dammed if they do, dammed if | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
they don't. There is still time for another surprise. And early November | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
surprise. Who knows if there might still be something that comes out on | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
Donald Trump? This is the first election where I can remember we | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
have had two October surprises already. There are is stuff about | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
tapes knocking around about Donald Trump saying racist things. The | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Clintons have got a lot of friends. It would be a big surprise if we did | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
not see anything else in the next few days. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
Just when you think it could not get more interesting, it has. There has | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
been plenty in the papers lately about the Ukip leadership saying | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
unpleasant things about each other. But what about Mr Farage himself? | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
What's he up to? Well, on BBC Two tonight we may | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
find out the answer. Well, I'm led to believe | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
she's very experienced. But I don't think Strictly Come | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
Dancing is for me. That is, unless, of course, | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
you fancy popping a cheeky zero No, I don't think Strictly | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
Come Dancing is for me. Well, you tell Mr Balls he has just | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
lost your programme one viewer. I might have nothing to do these | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
days but, realistically, Well, that wasn't Nigel Farage. It | :09:47. | :10:08. | |
is a BBC comedy on tonight. Nigel Farage gets his life back. A number | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
of runners and riders. Let's come straight down to it. Who would be | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
the next leader of Ukip? Probably Paul Nuttall. He is the favourite. | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
The one who has the backing, not very enthusiastic backing, is Rahim | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
Cassandra. And also Aaron Banks a big donor. The best of a rather weak | :10:30. | :10:40. | |
lot. I think Paul Nuttall should squeak through. I interviewed all | :10:41. | :10:51. | |
three of them this week. Mr Cassandra is a lively character and | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
he knows how to make a few headlines. With a bit of money | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
behind him, anything is possible. This is a guy who has been to the | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
States, who has literally studied what Trump has done. Pees on | :11:02. | :11:13. | |
secondment for the time being. The guy who is his line manager is one | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
of Donald Trump's campaign stop He is extraordinarily right-wing. I am | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
told he kept a picture of Enoch Powell by his bed. Barry Goldwater | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
is one of his heroes, for example. There are other candidates. I would | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
suggest, put out as a hypothesis, Paul Nuttall is Labour's worst | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
nightmare. They are more vulnerable in the North. Paul Nuttall is from | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Merseyside, a working-class background, performs well on | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
television. He is a really good interviewee. He is one of the best | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
around in politics at the moment. However, I think whoever gets it has | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
a massive task. The clip of this Nigel Farage satire partly shows | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
why. His dominance was overwhelming. He, in many ways, did a brilliant | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
job at keeping the show on the road. The trouble for all new political | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
parties is keeping it going is tough. A very different party, the | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
SDP, with all those glamorous figures in it, lasted eight years, | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
something like that. I think they are in real trouble at the moment | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
because of the implosion we have been seeing in front of our eyes and | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
the ideal -- ideological splits Whoever gets it will face a tough | :12:37. | :12:46. | |
tussle. All three of the main contenders want to put Nigel Farage | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
in the House of Lords. They were falling over themselves to soak up | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
two farads. That is how you win this election. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
Mr Aaron Banks, who is he putting his money on? He said he supports | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
Rahim. I know Mr Banks is utterly fed with the shenanigans in Ukip. He | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
thinks it is terribly disorganised, dysfunctional and doesn't want a | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
great deal to do with it for the foreseeable future. | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
It is not quite Trump the Clinton but it is interesting. That is it. | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
The Daily Politics is back tomorrow. And all of next week. Jo Coburn will | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
be your next Sunday because I am off to the United States to begin to | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
rehearse presenting the BBC's US election night coverage on the th | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
of November. It will be here on BBC One, BBC | :13:38. | :13:38. | |
world, BBC News Channel and BBC online. | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
Remember if it's Sunday, it's the Sunday Politics. | :13:41. | :14:11. | |
A stone stained with blood and beset with a curse. | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
The Moonstone is of inestimable value in India. | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Its appointed guardians would move heaven and earth to reclaim it | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
Let us not let the past haunt all of our actions. | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
You've got to do something! It's only you that can! | :14:31. | :14:31. |