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It's Sunday Morning, and this is the Sunday Politics. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Theresa May says she has no plans to increase tax levels, | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
but refuses to repeat David Cameron's 2015 manifesto | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
promise ruling out hikes in VAT, national insurance and income tax. | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
The leaders of the EU's 27 member states unanimously | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
agree their negotiating strategy for the upcoming Brexit talks, but | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
And in the last of our series of interviews ahead of Thursday's | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
local elections, I'll be talking to the leader of Plaid Cymru Leanne | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
On the Sunday Politics in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire: | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
The row over Nestle's decision to shift jobs to Poland. | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
It's reopened the debate about whether more more firms | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
They hit an all-time low after coalition government, | :01:21. | :01:47. | |
but are the Lib Dems poised to bounce back, | :01:48. | :01:47. | |
And with me to analyse the week's politics, | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
Isabel Oakeshott, Steve Richards, Tom Newton-Dunn. | :01:54. | :01:54. | |
They'll be tweeting using the hashtag #bbcsp. | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
So when Theresa May was interviewed just over an hour ago | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
on The Andrew Marr Show, the Prime Minister was asked | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
to confirm that she would repeat David Cameron's 2015 election | :02:03. | :02:03. | |
promise not to raise VAT, national insurance and income tax | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
We have absolutely no plans to increase the level of tax, | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
but I'm also very clear that I don't want to make specific proposals | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
on taxes unless I'm absolutely sure that I can deliver on those. | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
But it is, would be my intention as a Conservative Government | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
and a Conservative Prime Minister, to reduce the taxes | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
The Tories like to have a clear tax message in elections, are they | :02:22. | :02:31. | |
getting into a bit of a mess? That method wasn't clear, but does it | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
mean, saying they have no plans to increase the level of tax? We are | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
clear there will not be a rise in VAT, a lot of commentators will get | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
overexcited about that, but there was no great expectations there | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
would be a rise in VAT. Tempting as it is, because even one percentage | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
point on VAT rate is 4.5 billion for the exchequer so it is tempting but | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
there has been no speculation that would happen. We can see that she | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
clearly wants to reiterate the language about hard-working families | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
but I don't think we are that much the wiser. Even if she does not put | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
up rates, according to projections the overall tax burden, as a | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
percentage of GDP, is rising, will rise in the years ahead. That is why | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
it was an odd phrase, I know she is doing it to be evasive but to say | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
they have no plans to raise the general level of taxation, they do | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
have. We also know they have specific plans because it was in the | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
last budget, they had a tax rise which they had to revise, National | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
Insurance rises, so very wisely in my view they are keeping options | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
open, the 2015 tax-and-spend debate was a fantasy world, totally | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
unrelated to the demands that would follow. They now have the | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
flexibility, one of the arguments you had heard last time was Philip | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Hammond saying to her, we have to break away from the 2015 manifesto | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
commitment and we can only do it this way, that is one of the better | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
arguments. The Tories like to talk about tax cuts in elections, whether | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
they do it is another matter, but they are not being allowed to talk | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
about tax cuts, they are now on the defensive over whether they will | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
raise taxes. That is not a healthy position for the campaign to be in. | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
If you look at the numbers, quite frankly, if you will not do this at | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
this election with eight 20 point lead over Labour, then when will you | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
take these tough decisions? Reading between the lines of what Theresa | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
May has said all over different broadcasters this morning, income | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
tax will go down for low-income families, such as the threshold rise | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
that microbes that was already factored in. She has had to commit | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
to it again. VAT will be fat, national insurance contributions | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
will go up. Do you think they will go up? I think so, she had plenty of | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
opportunity to rule it out and she didn't. There was a terrible mess | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
with the budget, it is a good tax argument but not a good electoral | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
argument that you are eroding the base so heavily with people moving | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
into self-employment that as you raise national insurance | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
contributions for everybody but the self-employed, it is something the | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Treasury will have to look at. The other triple lock on pensions, we | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
don't know if they will keep to that either? If they are sensible they | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
will find a form of words to give them flexibility in that area as | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
well. I would say there is no question over that, that has gone. | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
As Mrs May would say, you will have to wait for the manifesto. That is | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
what all the party leaders tell me! Labour have spent the weekend | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
pushing their messages Speaking at a camapign rally | :05:56. | :05:56. | |
in London yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn promised a Labour | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
government would fix what he called People are fed up, fed up with not | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
being able to get somewhere to live, fed up waiting for hospital | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
appointments, fed up with 0-hours contracts, fed up with low pay, fed | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
up with debt, fed up with not being able to get on in their lives | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
because we have a system that is rigged against so many. | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
I've been joined from Newcastle by Labour's elections | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
and campaigns co-ordinator, Ian Lavery. | :06:28. | :06:28. | |
Good morning. To deal with this rigged economy, as Mr Corbyn calls | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
it, the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has a 20 point plan for | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
workers out today. When you add up everything he plans to do to help | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
workers, how much will it cost? The full costings, one thing I need to | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
say at the very beginning, the costings of any policy which we have | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
already ruled out and any policy we will be ruling out in the next few | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
days and weeks will be fully costed in the manifesto and in addition to | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
the fact that it will be fully costed, we will see it in the | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
manifesto how indeed it has been funded, so we are very clear, | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
anything we have seen already, and there are some exciting policy | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
releases and there will be more in the future, anything we are going to | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
do will be fully costed and in the manifesto. You announced a 20 point | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
plan but cannot tell me what the costs will be this morning so at the | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
moment it is a menu without prices? It is not a menu without prices, it | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
is a fantastic opportunity. This 20 point plan is something which will | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
transform the lives of millions of millions of people in the | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
workplace... But what is the cost? It will be welcomed by many people | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
across the UK. The fact the costings have not been released, you will | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
have to be patient, it will be released very clearly, it will | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
identify that in the manifesto. Let me come down to one of the points, | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
the end of the public sector pay freeze. Can you give us any idea how | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
much that will cost? The end of the public sector pay freeze, so | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
important to the future of the Labour Party, it is an massive | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
policy decision. Let me say at this stage, Theresa May, the Prime | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Minister, this morning, on The Andrew Marr Show, did not have the | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
common decency, courtesy all respect to condone the fact that nurses, the | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
heroes of the NHS, have had a reduction of nearly 14% in their | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
wages since 2010 and are using food banks to feed themselves! Does that | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
not say everything that is wrong with today's society? So can you | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
tell me what it will cost, which is what my question was? What I will | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
say is everything the Labour Party pledges, everything that we come out | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
with, what we will roll out between now and the 8th of June, will be | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
fully costed, people will be very much aware of how much the costings | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
will be, where the funding will come from, when the manifesto is | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
published. What about doubling paternity leave, nu minimum wage, | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
four new bank holidays, any idea what it will | :09:18. | :09:28. | |
cost? These are exciting new proposals and of course today cost | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
money but we are the sixth richest economy in the world. It is about | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
redistribution of the wealth we create. We are seeing growth in the | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
economy, it is how we utilise the finances in the best way we possibly | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
can for a fairer society for the many and not the few. You just can't | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
tell me how much it will cost? That is why I will repeat again that you | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
need to be very patient. Do you know the cost yourself? You are the head | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
of the campaign, do you know the cost of these things yourself? I am | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
very much aware of how much the costings are likely to be, they have | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
been identified, they will be published in the manifesto. You | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
really do understand I would not be releasing today, live on your show, | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
any costings or predictions with regards the manifesto. Why not? You | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
have released the policy, why not the cost? Because there is a fine | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
detail and we will identify it to the general public in the manifesto. | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
We not only explain how much it will cost but we will explain where the | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
funding comes from. Be patient. Will some of the costs be met by | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
increasing taxes? I would think at this point in time there is not any | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
indication to increase basic taxes and again the taxes and spending of | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
the Labour Government with the proposals of the 20 point plan, the | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
issues we have got, housing, the NHS, crime, education will all be | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
identified with the costings in the publication. Can you tell us this | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
morning, we'll tax for most people rise or not to finance this? We in | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
the Labour Party are looking to a fair tax system which will be | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
clearly identified in the manifesto. Mr McDonnell also wants to ban all | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
0-hours contracts. Would that include those who actually like | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
those contracts? There are nearly 1 million, depending on which figured | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
you'd use, there are nearly 1 million people on zero-hours | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
contract and the vast proportion of those want to be able to live a | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
decent life, a secure life, they want to understand whether they will | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
be at work the next day, they're included hours... I understand a lot | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
of people don't like zero-hours contract and your proposal will | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
address that, but there are those, I saw one survey where 65% of people | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
on zero-hours contract like the flexibility it gives them. Will you | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
force them off zero-hours contract or if they like them will they | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
continue with them? We will discuss it with employee is to make sure | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
individuals in the workplace have the right to negotiate hours in that | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
workplace. Guaranteed hours is very, very important. Zero-hour contracts | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
are an instrument in which employers abuse and exploit mainly young | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
people, mainly female people in the workplace. We would be banning | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
zero-hour contract. But there are those, students for example, who | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
like them, would they be forced off zero-hour contracts in your | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
proposal? Our proposal would be banning zero-hour contract and | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
introducing contracts which have set hours in the workplace. You also say | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
no company will be able to bid for a public contract unless the boss | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
earns no more than 20 times the lowest paid, or the average wage, | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
I'm not quite sure which. What would happen if British Aerospace bids to | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
build more joint strike Fighters and the boss is paid more than 20 times? | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
I understand the point you raise but we have an obscene situation in this | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
country, Andrew, in which the bosses at the very top make an absolute | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
fortune... But what would happen then? Who would build joint strike | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
Fighters... The difference in wages between the top earners in the | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
country and the people in the factories, in the workshops, | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
producing the goods, is vast. I understand that is the reason you | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
want a ratio. What I am saying is, what happens if the ratio is | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
greater? Who gets the contract if not British Aerospace? Who else | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
builds the planes? We are going to introduce a wage rate CEO of one to | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
20. -- wage ratio. We want to close the gap between the people at the | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
very top and people who produce the goods. Let me try one more Time, who | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
would build the joint strike fighter? We would look at the issue | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
as it came along but the policy is clear... Can you name a single | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
defence contractor weather boss' salary is less than 20 times average | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
earnings? We are not reducing, we have rolled that out as part of this | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
fantastic plan to transform society to get rid of discrimination, to try | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
and bring together our communities. We will introduce a pay ratio of one | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
to 20. Fair enough, thank you very much. | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
It's a month after the triggering of Article 50, and EU leaders - | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
with the exception of Britain - met in Brussels this weekend | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
to agree their opening negotiating stance, to get the divorce | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
It is inside this psychedelic chamber where Britain's 'Grexit' | :14:57. | :15:13. | |
future will be decided over the next two years, but there is a vast gulf | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
in rhetoric coming from the UK and the EU. With parallel narratives | :15:19. | :15:28. | |
emerging for both sides. There is broad agreement that an orderly | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
withdrawal is in the interests of both sides. But Theresa May's | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
position is that the terms of our future trade deal should be | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
negotiated alongside the terms of our divorce. Meanwhile the EU says | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
the terms of the UK's exit must be decided before any discussion on a | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
future trade deal can begin. But don't forget that divorce | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
settlement. Don't remind me. In Brussels, many think written should | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
pay even more, while in the UK ministers said the divorce bill | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
should be capped at 3 billion. After you. Thank you. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
For are you looking forward to it? Isn't that divorce bill a bit high? | :16:08. | :16:18. | |
Isn't this about punishing Britain? We are very united, you all seem so | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
surprised but it's a fact. How soon can we get a deal? We have to wait | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
for the elections. It was the decision of Mrs May. It took over an | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
hour for the leaders to make their entrances but once inside it's just | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
a few minutes to agree the negotiating guidelines. They set out | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
three main areas. The first phase of talks on the divorce settlement will | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
deal with the existing financial commitments to the EU, the Northern | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
Ireland border and the rights of EU citizens in the UK. They said a UK | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
trade agreement can be discussed when the first phase of talks | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
reaches significant progress. And that there must be unity in the | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
negotiations, that individual EU members won't negotiate separately | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
with the UK. They are quite good here at negotiating because they are | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
used to it. They set a maximum and then they have to recede a little | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
bit depending on what the other side is prepared to offer. I think there | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
is room for manoeuvre in some issues, but I don't think some of | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
the baseline things will change that much. For example I don't think the | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
European Union will concede on the rights of citizens who are already | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
in the UK. It will be very difficult for them to accept that they will | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
not be any exit bill, and the question of Northern Ireland is very | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
important as well, the hard order question. The baseline things are | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
not going to move that much, then you have room for manoeuvring | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
between. On security, defence and the fight against terrorism, the | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
guidelines said the EU stands ready to work together. And after lunch, | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
friendly signs from some EU leaders as they gave individual press | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
conferences. Paul and said the talks should open doors to new | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
opportunities and even German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
earlier said some in Britain were deluded about Brexit, softened her | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
tone saying there was no conspiracy against the UK. Unity was the | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
buzzword at this summit and for once everybody seemed to be sticking to | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
the script. That unity is not only amongst the 27 states, it's also | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
among the institutions so many of the divisions we have seen in the | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
past at European level do not exist. That is very important and it's not | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
be unity that is directed somehow against the UK because I think we | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
all want this to be an orderly process and part of that is that the | :18:52. | :19:04. | |
EU side is unified. So although there are no surprises here, what | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
took place in this room was a significant step towards the real | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
Brexit negotiations which will begin soon after the general election in | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
June, said to be the most complex the UK has faced in our lifetimes. | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
Isabel, Steve and Tom are still with me. | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
Isabel, doesn't the British media have to be a bit careful here? We | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
would never take at face value anything a British politician tells | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
us. We would question it, put it in context and wonder if they are | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
bluffing, but we seem to take at face value anything a European | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
politician says about these negotiations. You only have to look | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
at the front page of the Sunday Times today to see that. They quoted | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
at length Juncker, who didn't like the food at the reception and this | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
and that, and I think the mood is very optimistic. The key thing is | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
the EU trade Commissioner has said we will get a free trade deal and a | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
lot of people seem to be wilfully ignoring that incredibly big | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
concession. That is what will happen in their view. Everything that is | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
said at the moment needs a slight rerun over. They are all in | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
negotiating positions, plus we seem to be completely unaware that they | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
all have their own domestic constituencies as well. Angela | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
Merkel has an important election coming up in September, | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
Euroscepticism is quite different from Britain of course, but there's | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
a different kind of euro scepticism in Germany, she has got to deal with | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
that. Of course she has, which is why you are right, nothing should be | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
taken too seriously out of the mouths of British politicians or | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
European politicians until October this year. We have got to wait for | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
the French elections, then German elections, and if you look through | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
this you can see a way forward. There's no trade talks until pay up, | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
but what was actually written was no trade talks until we make | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
significant progress on the money. You can define significant progress | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
in a lot of ways but come December, fireworks over the summer, we all | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
get very excited about it, in these chairs I'm sure, come December | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
things will look a lot smoother. The German elections are at the end of | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
September but I've seen reports in German press, depending how it goes | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
it could take until Christmas before a new coalition government is put | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
together. The Brussels long-standing negotiating tactic of nothing is | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
agreed until everything is agreed, then I guess the British could say | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
we agree a certain sum of money if that's what it takes but that | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
depends on them, what good trade deal we get. If we don't get that, | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
the sum of money is off the table. In that sense, the two are going | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
parallel. However, I wouldn't entirely dismiss what people are | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
saying in their pre-election periods to their own electorates because | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
they have to some extent to deliver subsequently. Of course Angela | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
Merkel is campaigning and electioneering, who wouldn't, she | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
has a tough election to fight, but she is measured and thoughtful and | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
when she says things like some of the British are delusional, that is | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
unusually strong language for her. What was she referring to? I don't | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
know, it wasn't specific. Have the cake and eat it perhaps the | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
sequencing the British don't want. When they thought the British | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
government was going to effectively demand membership of the single | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
market, that's not going to happen now. Unless you sign up to the four | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
pillars, that's the cake and eat it proposition, which they are right in | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
saying Theresa May has made. But everybody has access, even with no | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
deal you have access. The other side of it is I think there will be a | :23:06. | :23:15. | |
united position from them. And so, as somebody pointed out in that | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
report, they are experienced, tough negotiators, so I don't think it | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
will be quite as easy as some think. I spoke to one of those who drew up | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
Article 50 and they said to me they deliberately put this two year | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
timetable in to make it impossible for anybody to think about leaving. | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
This is really tight, this negotiation. Easy, it isn't. | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
This coming Thursday, voters up and down the country | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
will be going to the polls in this year's local elections. | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
Over the past few weeks I've interviewed representatives | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
of the Conservative Party, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, | :23:56. | :23:56. | |
Today it's the turn of Plaid Cymru and the SNP. | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
A little earlier I spoke Alex Salmond, who until 2014 | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
I started by asking him why Scots should vote SNP in local elections | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
when the Scottish Government had just cut central Government funding | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
It's actually a funding increase going into Scottish councils this | :24:10. | :24:25. | |
year, and if you look at the funding position for example between | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
Scottish councils and those in England, which are obviously | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
directly related through the Barnett formula, the funding in Scotland has | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
been incomparably better than that in England so there's a whole range | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
of the -- of reasons... What's happening south of the border | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
indicates the protection the Scottish Parliament has been able to | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
put in that helps vital services in Scotland. But there hasn't been a | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
funding increase, the block grant from Westminster to Edinburgh was | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
increased by 1.5% in real terms but the grant to councils was cut by | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
2.6%. It was going to be a cut of 330 million, the Greens got you to | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
reduce it to 170 million but it is still a cut of 2.6%. Your own | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
Aberdeenshire Council has had a cut to 391 million. You have cut the | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
money to councils. Yes, but councils have available to them more | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
resources this year, and as you say the budget increased that further | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
which is why we put forward an excellent local government budget in | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
Aberdeenshire and resisted a Tory attempts to knock ?3 million off... | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
You asked me about Aberdeenshire, and Aberdeenshire has put forward a | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
budget for investment expansion and resisted a Tory attempts to knock ?3 | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
million off the education budget, and I'm very grateful you have given | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
me the opportunity to make that point. The Government in Edinburgh | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
has cut the money to Aberdeenshire by ?11 million. It is a cut. But | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
there is an investment budget in Aberdeenshire that has been made | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
available by the ability to increase the council tax by 2.5% after a | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
nine-year freeze in Scotland, and that has brought more resources into | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
local government and that's why the butchered in Aberdeenshire has been | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
an investment budget including protection of the education budget | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
in the face of a Tory and liberal attempt to cut bit. You have to | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
compare what is happening in Scotland and England, and there's no | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
doubt Scottish local authorities have been much better funded than | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
those in England over the last few years and that's been the ability of | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
the Scottish Government to protect the services at local level. A good | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
reason for voting SNP. If they have been so well funded, why after a | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
decade of SNP rule do one in five Scottish pupils leave primary school | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
functionally illiterate? You have got to take these things... Nicola | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
Sturgeon has made it a top priority to address these challenges but | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
let's take another statistic. 93% of Scottish kids are now emerging from | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
school to positive destinations, that means to further education, | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
apprenticeships or work. Why are one in five functionally illiterate? You | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
argue one statistic, I'm arguing Scottish education is putting in | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
some substantially good performances like the 93% going on to positive | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
destinations. You can't have a failing education system if you have | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
got that 93%, and incidentally a record low youth unemployment in | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
Scotland without the second lowest unemployment rate in Europe. These | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
pupils are being prepared by the Scottish education system. Let's | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
take the figures in the round on education. It's so important. Under | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
your watch, under your government, the Scottish schools in the most | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
important global comparison have fallen from tenth to 19th in | :28:14. | :28:23. | |
science, and 11 to 24th in maths, that is a record of decline and | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
failure. That is by the OECD and first questions about that, but the | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
OECD has also described Scotland is one of the best educated societies | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
in the world. That was from the school system in previous years gone | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
by. For those who are currently in Scottish schools, you have fallen | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
from 11th to 24th in mathematics. The OECD was commenting on | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
introduction of the new curriculum for excellence in which they have | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
given a resounding thumbs up to it, and that's the same source as the | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
rankings which you are comparing. Nicola Sturgeon has said there are | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
challenges on Scottish education, particularly the access through the | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
education system and the attainment gap but don't tell me it's failing | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
when 55% of our pupils have gone on to higher education. That's one of | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
the most impressive figures in the world. Why have you cut 4000 | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
teachers? The pupil numbers in Scotland have been falling over | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
recent years as well and now of course we are increasing the number | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
of people going through teachers training so we can make sure that | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
number increases, but listen, the Scottish Government and Scottish | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
Parliament, as you very well know, are subject to real terms spending | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
cuts over the last few years and all public services have been under | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
pressure. The main reason in terms of teacher numbers has been an | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
attempt on the Scottish Government to protect the teacher pupil ratio, | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
and that will now be enhanced by a further taker -- intake. You | :30:00. | :30:07. | |
promised you would reduce primary class sizes to 18 and instead they | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
are now 23.5 and rising. You broke that promise. You didn't mention | :30:13. | :30:19. | |
where we started from. We have kept the teacher pupil ratio very solid | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
in Scotland and that's been against a range of public expenditure cuts | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
but the new intake of teachers into the new teacher training in Scotland | :30:28. | :30:29. | |
I think will enhance the system. You have spent in the pasty in | :30:30. | :30:40. | |
Hollywood 43 hours on Government time debating independence. How many | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
hours have you debated education on Government time? I don't have that | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
they get a hand... The answer is zero, you have spent zero-hours | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
debating education on Government time. Isn't it time the SNP got back | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
to concentrating on the day job? Andrew, as you very well know Nicola | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
Sturgeon has identified a key priority, closing the attainment gap | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
in Scottish education. That is exactly what she has done. Let me | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
answer the question, it is difficult to be in a remote location, if you | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
talk before I answer the question then the view was will not be able | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
to listen. I let you answer that without saying a word. Is this | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
general election about independence, as you say it is, or not about | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
independence, as Mrs Sturgeon says it is? No, I have said exactly the | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
same as Nicola Sturgeon on that. The issue what independence will be | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
decided in a national referendum of the Scottish people. The mandate for | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
that referendum was gained in last year's Scottish elections. What this | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
election is about is backing the right of the Scottish parliament to | :31:53. | :31:55. | |
exercise that mandate and also providing real opposition to this | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
Tory Government and allowing the Scottish Parliament to reverse | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
austerity and some of the public expenditure cutbacks you have been | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
talking about, that is what this is about, backing our Scottish | :32:08. | :32:08. | |
Parliament. Alex Salmond, speaking | :32:09. | :32:10. | |
to me earlier. I'm now joined by the leader | :32:11. | :32:12. | |
of Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood. You accuse the Government of wanting | :32:13. | :32:19. | |
an extreme Brexit, those are your words. What is the difference | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
between hard Brexit and extreme Brexit? My concern is the way in | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
which we leave the European Union could be very damaging to Wales if, | :32:28. | :32:32. | |
for example, there are tariffs introduced then that would have a | :32:33. | :32:36. | |
real impact in terms of Welsh jobs, and I want to make sure that we have | :32:37. | :32:42. | |
a Brexit that doesn't cause the damage to Wales that could be | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
caused. But what is the difference between extreme and hard? Anything | :32:47. | :32:52. | |
that puts Welsh jobs at risk is either extreme or hard and | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
unacceptable to Plaid Cymru, and we will do what we can to protect those | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
jobs. You want Wales to remain a member of the single market even if | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
the UK isn't, which would mean Wales having to accept the free movement | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
of people, still being under the jurisdiction of the European Court, | :33:09. | :33:19. | |
and you also want to stay in the customs union which means you could | :33:20. | :33:22. | |
not do your own free trade deals. What is the difference between that | :33:23. | :33:25. | |
and being a member of the European Union? We would be like Norway, | :33:26. | :33:27. | |
outside the European Union and inside the single market. The key | :33:28. | :33:29. | |
question is the issue of jobs and the ability to continue to trade. | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
Wales exports, we are the biggest exporter in the whole of the UK, so | :33:35. | :33:38. | |
there are many jobs reliant upon those goods being able to be sold to | :33:39. | :33:46. | |
the single market. Is it central to the UK? Out of the four countries | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
that make up the UK... Proportionally, yes. If you remain | :33:53. | :34:00. | |
in the single market, it is hard to see how Wales could stay in the | :34:01. | :34:04. | |
single market if the UK -- when the rest of the UK was not, you cite | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
Norway, that has free movement, it has to be said, it effectively have | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
to accept the jurisdiction of the European Court, it is not in the | :34:14. | :34:17. | |
customs union so it can do some of its own free trade deals, but the | :34:18. | :34:26. | |
Welsh people voted to leave. We have to accept the principle of free | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
movement if there is not going to be a hard border between the north and | :34:31. | :34:33. | |
south of Ireland. There is going to be free movement within Ireland and | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
therefore freedom of movement, as we said in the referendum campaign, | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
would be very, very difficult to rule out. You lost that campaign, as | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
you know, Wales voted to leave, 17 Council areas voted to leave, only | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
five voted to remain. Doesn't it explain why your party is going | :34:56. | :34:59. | |
nowhere? A majority in Wales voted to leave but you effectively want to | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
support that and de facto remain in the EU? I don't accept that, we | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
accepted the result but Plaid Cymru now is about defending Wales. There | :35:11. | :35:15. | |
are so many risks facing our people from the jobs perspective, the | :35:16. | :35:19. | |
privatisation perspective, the cuts perspective, and from the fact that | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
the Tories would like to grab power was back from our National Assembly, | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
so the key point... If you look at the Wales bill that went through | :35:29. | :35:32. | |
recently, the list of reserved powers there suggests there are some | :35:33. | :35:35. | |
powers currently within the Welsh Assembly jurisdiction that would be | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
dragged back. Which power was will Westminster take back? They could | :35:43. | :35:47. | |
take powers back over the NHS, for example. There is no indication they | :35:48. | :35:54. | |
want to do that. The Tories have attacked the Welsh NHS. That is my | :35:55. | :36:03. | |
point! Quite viciously. If they increase their mandate, I wouldn't | :36:04. | :36:06. | |
put it past them to try to take power was back over the NHS and then | :36:07. | :36:11. | |
of course we risk our NHS being privatised though this election is | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
all about defending Wales, protecting Welsh people from further | :36:17. | :36:19. | |
privatisation and cuts and a power grab from the Tories. Why is there | :36:20. | :36:24. | |
never a breakthrough for your party, Plaid Cymru? Labour dominated in | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
Wales for years, the Tories do quite well, Ukip had a surge for a while, | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
it looks like the Tories will have another surge, never you, always the | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
bridesmaid, never the bride. Wait until Thursday and I think you will | :36:38. | :36:41. | |
see that in many parts of Wales we will increase our representation at | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
a local council level. In the Rhondda, where I am assembly member, | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
we are looking to increase our representation... You are only 13% | :36:52. | :36:59. | |
in the polls will stop which is half of even the Tories in Wales! If you | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
don't breakthrough in the selection, if the real problem is going | :37:04. | :37:10. | |
nowhere, do you think you will pack it in? Robert Green not, I have a | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
job to do, a vision of Wales which is about building up our nation and | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
standing on our own two feet and my job is not done yet. Thank you for | :37:21. | :37:23. | |
being with us as part of your job, we will see how it goes on Thursday. | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
It's just gone 11.35, you're watching the Sunday Politics. | :37:28. | :37:29. | |
We say goodbye to viewers in Scotland who leave us now | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
You're watching the Sunday Politics for Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. | :37:33. | :37:40. | |
Why many are seeing red over Nestle's decision to move production | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
of the Blue Riband chocolate bar to Poland. | :37:45. | :37:46. | |
It's reopened the debate about whether more more firms | :37:47. | :37:48. | |
could move jobs abroad because of Brexit. | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
And with local elections taking place on Thursday, | :37:53. | :38:02. | |
who will the people of Doncaster choose as their Mayor? | :38:03. | :38:09. | |
We are joined live this Sunday morning by Rachel Reeves, Labour MP | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
for Leeds West and by Stuart Andrew, Conservative MP for Pudsey. Hello, | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
both. What you make of the campaign so far? Who is winning the war of | :38:22. | :38:25. | |
words? There is a disconnect between what is being spoken about | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
nationally and what people are saying to us on the doorsteps. The | :38:30. | :38:32. | |
Prime Minister wants to make this election all about Brexit. And yet | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
on the doorsteps, people are talking about their insecurity at work. | :38:39. | :38:49. | |
About cuts to the NHS and their local schools. And also about the | :38:50. | :38:51. | |
cost of living. Many people, particularly in the public sector | :38:52. | :38:54. | |
weather has been a pay freeze for seven years, but also in the private | :38:55. | :38:56. | |
sector, where people feel insecure in work. They want to know what the | :38:57. | :38:59. | |
parties are going to do on that, and I think some of Labour's messages on | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
wages, contract and public sector pay are cutting through. Can you sum | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
up the campaign so far without using the word is strong and stable | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
leadership? I have to say that the message is getting through, because | :39:13. | :39:15. | |
I had a conversation with people yesterday and they repeated that | :39:16. | :39:18. | |
message to me. But they couldn't actually repeat what the Labour | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
messages. I think people are concerned about who is going to our | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
Prime Minister, because we are about to embark on an incredibly important | :39:28. | :39:30. | |
negotiations and they want to know that they have confidence in the | :39:31. | :39:33. | |
Prime Minister who is going to do that. At the moment what I'm picking | :39:34. | :39:38. | |
up is that Theresa May is certainly the favourite. Well, the news that | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
confectionery giant Nestle is planning to cut almost 300 jobs by | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
shifting production of its Blue Riband chocolate to Poland sparked a | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
war of words in the first week of campaigning. | :39:53. | :39:55. | |
The company said the move was not directly linked to Brexit, | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
but some point out it isn't the first and won't be the last firm | :39:59. | :40:01. | |
Sarah Urwin reports from Nestle's factory in York. | :40:02. | :40:07. | |
# I got those, can't get enough of those Blue Riband Blues # | :40:08. | :40:10. | |
Blue Riband's the wafer biscuit I always choose.# | :40:11. | :40:21. | |
Nestle saysit is cutting 275 jobs in the UK | :40:22. | :40:23. | |
of its Blue Riband biscuit to Poland. | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
It was on Tuesday that the Nestle job losses were announced. | :40:28. | :40:30. | |
The company denies that Brexit had any impact on the decision. | :40:31. | :40:32. | |
But the local MP needs some convincing. | :40:33. | :40:34. | |
Devastating for workers, their families and the community. | :40:35. | :40:36. | |
Jobs, not products, being exported to the EU. | :40:37. | :40:38. | |
And as ever, York's skilled jobs are replaced | :40:39. | :40:40. | |
In the light of the special deal at Nissan in Sunderland, | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
will the Prime Minister meet with me, trade unions | :40:45. | :40:46. | |
and the company to strike a special deal to save these jobs? | :40:47. | :40:48. | |
We don't actually know what the Nissan deal was. | :40:49. | :40:52. | |
But the Japanese car company said it had been given support | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
Rachael Maskell says all companies are looking for leadership | :40:57. | :41:02. | |
Business decisions are being made now, and that's why when we see jobs | :41:03. | :41:08. | |
going from Nestle to Poland, they're early warning signs | :41:09. | :41:14. | |
And I can assure her, we're already in contact with the company | :41:15. | :41:18. | |
to understand our plans and the next steps. | :41:19. | :41:25. | |
DWP of course stands ready to put in place that rapid response service | :41:26. | :41:32. | |
to support any workers made redundant, by helping them | :41:33. | :41:33. | |
back into employment as quickly as possible. | :41:34. | :41:35. | |
Nestle say the plans for job losses are just a proposal at the moment, | :41:36. | :41:38. | |
and are consulting with workers and trade unions. | :41:39. | :41:40. | |
In a statement, they say these changes would be necessary | :41:41. | :41:42. | |
irrespective of the UK's decision to leave the EU. | :41:43. | :41:45. | |
But Gulcin Ozkan reckons there will be more job | :41:46. | :41:48. | |
A company like Nestle, when operating in Poland, | :41:49. | :41:54. | |
would benefit from cheap and skilled labour. | :41:55. | :41:57. | |
The possibility of operating without tariffs as well as a huge | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
A number of other companies such as Microsoft, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, | :42:03. | :42:09. | |
So if you think about it from an economic point of view, | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
it does make sense, although it's very difficult from | :42:16. | :42:18. | |
the view of the families who are involved, clearly. | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
So are people in York actually worried about job | :42:24. | :42:25. | |
We don't know what's going to happen, it's no | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
I think people are concerned, just generally about | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
And I can't see a reason why we shouldn't be all right. | :42:37. | :42:45. | |
As long as Mr Corbyn don't get in, I think we'll be all right. | :42:46. | :42:48. | |
The one thing that is certain is uncertainty in the economy. | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
With one union claiming millions of pounds worth of investment | :42:54. | :42:56. | |
in Yorkshire companies are on hold, as firms wait to see | :42:57. | :42:59. | |
Were joined in the studio by the regional secretary for the GMB | :43:00. | :43:15. | |
union. Let me ask Stuart Andrew first of all, how does this fit into | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
a Theresa May's narrative of creating a strong and stable economy | :43:21. | :43:23. | |
when hundreds of jobs are being exported to Poland? The first thing, | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
this is incredibly disappointing. And it will be a big worry for those | :43:28. | :43:33. | |
people who work there. But what has already happened is that Greg Clark, | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
the Business Secretary, has already been in touch with the company and | :43:38. | :43:40. | |
is making sure that the government is there ready to listen. I | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
understand from the company as well, they've made it clear that this | :43:45. | :43:48. | |
isn't about Brexit, it's about external pressures in this industry. | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
Of course it's not. What have got to do is make sure we have a strategy | :43:54. | :43:57. | |
in place, so we're investing in things like the York city centre | :43:58. | :44:00. | |
enterprise zone to helping courage those jobs. I spoke to Andrew Percy, | :44:01. | :44:06. | |
Northern Power has minister, there's an enormous amount of work going on | :44:07. | :44:10. | |
to ensure we have investment to bring about enterprise and jobs to | :44:11. | :44:14. | |
the north of England. Rachel Reeves, how do you prevent big companies | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
moving jobs abroad, when clearly production costs are cheaper | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
overseas, and labour costs are cheaper? I think what Stuart Andrew | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
has said and what the government are saying is incredibly complacent, and | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
it will make workers at Nestle pretty angry. They do want to see | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
regeneration of York city centre, but they want to see their jobs | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
protected. These are good quality, high paid and high skilled jobs that | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
shouldn't be going overseas. And the problem is that the type of Brexit, | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
the extreme Brexit that Theresa May and her government are pursuing, is | :44:50. | :44:54. | |
putting jobs at risk. Because businesses want to know and want the | :44:55. | :44:59. | |
assurances that Nissan has had that there will be able to trade without | :45:00. | :45:03. | |
additional barriers, whether terrorist or other rules and | :45:04. | :45:06. | |
regulations that are going to be put in place that will make those trade | :45:07. | :45:12. | |
deals much harder to do -- whether tariffs or other rules and | :45:13. | :45:17. | |
regulations. The risk at this general election is that Theresa May | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
is going to be given a blank cheque to pursue the type of Brexit she | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
wants, and the reality is she has to be held to account. Because these | :45:26. | :45:28. | |
jobs have got to remain in this country. We need jobs and | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
investment. We don't want the export of jobs overseas. Neil Derrick from | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
the GMB union, why is your company saying Nestle job losses are the tip | :45:38. | :45:41. | |
of the Brexit iceberg when the company says this move is not about | :45:42. | :45:46. | |
Brexit? Firstly, we do not concede any job losses at York or Halifax, | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
or indeed across the Nestle estate, 300 jobs. Morris 45 days' | :45:51. | :45:59. | |
consultation enough to deal with this. It'll take as long as it takes | :46:00. | :46:03. | |
in order to secure the future of these and their families. If it's | :46:04. | :46:10. | |
not about Brexit, that's a surprise to us. This business, who we work | :46:11. | :46:15. | |
well with on a UK and European level, has not shared this | :46:16. | :46:18. | |
information with us, has not discussed or made this disclosure | :46:19. | :46:23. | |
until after the Brexit trigger. You would have expected them to have | :46:24. | :46:27. | |
shared these plans if there are long-term plans, before with the GMB | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
and other trade unions. We know for a fact that after the fall in the | :46:32. | :46:38. | |
value of the pound, it has cost Nestle up to ?100 million extra to | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
import their raw materials, sugar, cocoa, palm oil and that type of | :46:43. | :46:48. | |
thing. Whether they are prepared to say publicly it's about Brexit or | :46:49. | :46:54. | |
not, it's a factor. What I'm picking up across the Yorkshire economy from | :46:55. | :46:59. | |
other businesses, the lady on the package said we should wait and see. | :47:00. | :47:02. | |
That is not good enough for businesses. Businesses are saying | :47:03. | :47:06. | |
now that they can't afford to wait and see. They are making decisions | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
about stopping investment, stopping investment in skills and plant | :47:11. | :47:12. | |
machinery because they don't know what's going to happen. Stuart | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
Andrew, what do you make to that point that the companies are putting | :47:18. | :47:21. | |
investment on hold because of the uncertainty over Brexit? Were about | :47:22. | :47:24. | |
to embark on these negotiations, and I hope we can start to really make a | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
good progress on those quite rapidly. We are of course in a | :47:30. | :47:33. | |
period of uncertainty. The nation has spoken, we had this referendum. | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
We've now got to get the very best deal for Britain and our economy. | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
But also that's good for the EU, too. That is what Theresa May has | :47:43. | :47:47. | |
said all along. She's determined to go in there and make that case, and | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
ensure she get the best deal for British workers. Theresa May was | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
asked by the York MP whether there was any concrete plans or proposals | :47:57. | :48:02. | |
to help the workers in York. The response was tantamount to saying go | :48:03. | :48:05. | |
to the job centre, get on your bike and look for work response, | :48:06. | :48:10. | |
Jobcentre plus is available. The government needs to have the | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
that they can share with businesses that they can share with businesses | :48:15. | :48:18. | |
and trade unions, and listen to them about their concerns and put into | :48:19. | :48:22. | |
plan sector by sector, which identifies what the problems will be | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
for each sect in our economy. It's not just wait and see. It's not fair | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
to say the watch is saying is go to the job centre. She has asked Greg | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
Clark, the Business Secretary, to speak to the company, to listen to | :48:37. | :48:39. | |
what they are saying. The whole ministerial team are involved in it, | :48:40. | :48:44. | |
too. Local MPs from across the political divide are also working | :48:45. | :48:48. | |
hard on this issue. To say she is dismissing it is wrong and unfair. | :48:49. | :48:52. | |
You can talk about uncertainty and confusion over Brexit or Stuart | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
Andrew. Uncertainty and confusion over Labour's Brexit policy. If we | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
move on from Nestle to the bigger picture, it is clear that people | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
voted to leave the European Union. Labour accepts the result of that | :49:07. | :49:09. | |
referendum, and MPs including myself referendum, and MPs including myself | :49:10. | :49:12. | |
and the Labour leadership voted to allow the government to trigger | :49:13. | :49:16. | |
Article 50. That was the right thing to do. What is now in debate is what | :49:17. | :49:21. | |
It is clear that people in my It is clear that people in my | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
constituency and across the country want tougher rules on immigration, | :49:27. | :49:30. | |
fairer rules on immigration. But they don't want to see jobs and | :49:31. | :49:34. | |
investment go overseas. And that means keeping very close trading | :49:35. | :49:37. | |
relationships and partnerships with European countries. I would like us | :49:38. | :49:42. | |
to stay in the single market and have those close trading | :49:43. | :49:45. | |
relationships, because they are key to jobs, particularly in | :49:46. | :49:48. | |
manufacturing in our region. I'm manufacturing in our region. I'm | :49:49. | :49:50. | |
throwing the baby out with the bath throwing the baby out with the | :49:51. | :49:52. | |
water in all of this. Who do you water in all of this. Who do you | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
think the vast majority of your members would like to see leading | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
the negotiations, Jeremy Corbyn or Theresa May? Jeremy Corbyn. Theresa | :50:02. | :50:06. | |
May visited a Leeds workplace this week. The only people she didn't | :50:07. | :50:09. | |
beat whether workers in that workplace. Jeremy Corbyn would have | :50:10. | :50:17. | |
responded to Rachael Maskell's request with practical assistance. | :50:18. | :50:19. | |
Will mention that later, but thank Will mention that later, but thank | :50:20. | :50:21. | |
you for your thoughts today. Now, there have been | :50:22. | :50:24. | |
some interesting The Ukip leader Paul Nuttall has | :50:25. | :50:25. | |
confirmed he will be standing in the Boston and Skegness | :50:26. | :50:29. | |
constituency at That part of Lincolnshire | :50:30. | :50:30. | |
saw the highest vote Ukip came second to Conservatives | :50:31. | :50:33. | |
in the 2015 election. That is a constituency. We'll be | :50:34. | :50:40. | |
keeping an eye on it. And now with the rest | :50:41. | :50:44. | |
of the week's election news in our part of the world, | :50:45. | :50:47. | |
David Rhodes has our Theresa May made her first campaign | :50:48. | :50:49. | |
visit to Yorkshire and chose the Labour stronghold | :50:50. | :50:55. | |
of Harehills in Leeds. To make this appeal | :50:56. | :50:58. | |
to Northern voters. Every vote cast for me through local | :50:59. | :51:00. | |
Conservative candidates in cities like Leeds and up and down | :51:01. | :51:09. | |
the country will strengthen my hand. But speaking in Morley, | :51:10. | :51:12. | |
Labour's shadow Brexit secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, accused | :51:13. | :51:14. | |
the Prime Minister of creating Loss of businesses are saying to me, | :51:15. | :51:17. | |
"We need greater clarity So I think the uncertainty | :51:18. | :51:21. | |
is what is the primary concern of businesses across the country, | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
including here in Yorkshire. The former Bradford East MP | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
David Ward was sacked as a Liberal Democrat candidate | :51:30. | :51:31. | |
by the party's leader, Tim Farron, over comments he described as deeply | :51:32. | :51:35. | |
offensive and anti-Semitic. We will have to have absolutely no | :51:36. | :51:39. | |
tolerance, zero tolerance, And the Green party launched | :51:40. | :51:42. | |
its election campaign in Sheffield, which is clearly aimed at securing | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
the student vote, with a pledge It's all starting to hot up. Rachel | :51:47. | :52:06. | |
Reeves, you're Labour, the Conservatives say there are no no go | :52:07. | :52:09. | |
areas when it comes to the prospect of them winning seats in the North | :52:10. | :52:13. | |
of England. Do you fear you're heading for a brutal defeat? Opinion | :52:14. | :52:19. | |
polls suggest that Theresa May will have a large majority at the | :52:20. | :52:23. | |
election. But we are out there in the constituency is fighting for | :52:24. | :52:27. | |
every vote, taking nothing for granted. But Labour MPs in Yorkshire | :52:28. | :52:31. | |
and across the country are also fighting on their records in Leeds | :52:32. | :52:38. | |
West, my record of getting investment at Kirkstall Forge, | :52:39. | :52:40. | |
keeping Branly baths open, helping when we had the floods in 2015. | :52:41. | :52:47. | |
Every Labour MP in the region will be standing on their track records, | :52:48. | :52:50. | |
because it is our names on the ballot paper. And people have to | :52:51. | :52:53. | |
choose who they want to be their local MP to stand up and championed | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
their area. In my error, the Tories are not there, they don't listen to | :52:59. | :53:02. | |
the concerns of people in my patch. And people decide who they want to | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
stand up for them locally. Stuart Andrew, you are Theresa May's wanted | :53:07. | :53:13. | |
him to lead, to Harehills. Not what you would call natural territory. -- | :53:14. | :53:22. | |
natural territory for Tories. Why isn't she meeting people. She is. | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
There were Tory activists, she wasn't on the streets. It was a | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
party rally. At the last general election, the leader of the Labour | :53:31. | :53:33. | |
Party came to my constituency goodness knows how many times and | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
held private rallies in every part of the constituency. It doesn't mean | :53:38. | :53:40. | |
he didn't then go off and meet members of the public, and it's the | :53:41. | :53:44. | |
same for Theresa May. If you look, even recently, she was out on the | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
doorstep with our candidate in the West Midlands. She goes out | :53:51. | :53:54. | |
campaigning. It's a bit of campaigning she really enjoys. This | :53:55. | :53:57. | |
nonsense that she is not interested... It all seems very | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
stage-managed. You're talking about the rallies. There's the other side | :54:02. | :54:05. | |
of the election, and we're only in week one. Let's wait and see. You | :54:06. | :54:10. | |
will see has begin to the public. That is not the way election | :54:11. | :54:13. | |
campaigns are usually conducted. Come on! You're telling me that Tony | :54:14. | :54:25. | |
Blair and Ed Miliband didn't have... At the last election, I went with Ed | :54:26. | :54:27. | |
Miliband to workplaces in Yorkshire, and the workers were there and asked | :54:28. | :54:29. | |
him questions. They won't always easy questions, but he took people | :54:30. | :54:33. | |
on. And have a debate with people. Theresa May kicked the workers out | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
of the building. That's not true. Why have an event in the workplace | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
and not invite the workers? It was a party rally. A very different events | :54:43. | :54:48. | |
than what you're talking about. It seems a long time since John Major | :54:49. | :54:51. | |
and his soapbox. We won't see scenes like that again. As at the | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
Conservative councillors conference, and one thing she said there is "I | :54:57. | :55:00. | |
look forward to all of you being on the doorstep, because I'll be with | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
you." She goes on to the doorstep, goes campaigning, knocking on doors. | :55:05. | :55:08. | |
Wait and see. She has been Prime Minister for nine months. This is | :55:09. | :55:11. | |
the first time she's come to Yorkshire in those nine months. She | :55:12. | :55:14. | |
comes up here and does her rally, the Yorkshire people are not full. | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
They know she has come here to ask for votes rather than a lure for | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
local people. She should have gone to a Nestle factory. You'll see her | :55:23. | :55:32. | |
come to Yorkshire on more than just this one occasion. You will see her | :55:33. | :55:38. | |
meeting people from right across the county. That's what she likes doing. | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
Let me ask you briefly, there is one issue some suggest could derail the | :55:43. | :55:46. | |
Conservative election campaign, that is the battle bus expenses | :55:47. | :55:49. | |
investigation. I expecting an update on that during the pen came -- | :55:50. | :55:57. | |
during the campaign? Is not a lot I can say about this, other than to | :55:58. | :56:00. | |
make very clear that the battle bus was part of the national spend and | :56:01. | :56:04. | |
was returned as such. All parties had those buses. You don't put them | :56:05. | :56:08. | |
in your local returns. I didn't do that, the Labour Party didn't do | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
that, I wouldn't expect them to. We followed very absolute guidance from | :56:14. | :56:17. | |
our party that said it would be a national spend, and that's what we | :56:18. | :56:19. | |
did. You're confident you won't end up in court? I followed the right | :56:20. | :56:24. | |
rules, that's what I was told to do and I did it. | :56:25. | :56:27. | |
A significant test of the way the political wind is blowing | :56:28. | :56:30. | |
will come on Thursday in the local elections. | :56:31. | :56:32. | |
Voters in Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, Derbyshire | :56:33. | :56:33. | |
and Nottinghamshire will decide who runs their county councils. | :56:34. | :56:35. | |
There are no council elections taking place in most | :56:36. | :56:37. | |
parts of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Humberside, | :56:38. | :56:39. | |
but the people of Doncaster will choose an elected mayor. | :56:40. | :56:42. | |
And it seems the debate in Doncaster has been dominated by the question | :56:43. | :56:45. | |
of whether the town should be ruled by a mayor covering the wider | :56:46. | :56:48. | |
James Vincent has been speaking to the candidates. | :56:49. | :56:57. | |
Doncaster is getting ready to pick a mayor, | :56:58. | :56:59. | |
but getting people interested in that when there's a general | :57:00. | :57:01. | |
election on as well is like trying to entice people into your shop | :57:02. | :57:04. | |
on as a full on military parade going past outside. | :57:05. | :57:11. | |
The Kings Own Light Infantry have their museum in Doncaster. | :57:12. | :57:13. | |
People seemed much more interested in the parade | :57:14. | :57:15. | |
Doncaster should have been having three elections, actually this year. | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
They should have been helping choose a city mayor | :57:21. | :57:27. | |
for the Sheffield City Region, much like Birmingham | :57:28. | :57:29. | |
But some of the candidates in this election aren't sure Doncaster | :57:30. | :57:38. | |
should be getting friendly with the neighbours down the road. | :57:39. | :57:40. | |
No drawbridge mentality here, we work with everyone who's | :57:41. | :57:42. | |
going to help Doncaster go forward and thrive. | :57:43. | :57:44. | |
And therefore, we sit at the table and actually make sure | :57:45. | :57:47. | |
we get our fair share of money that's coming in through | :57:48. | :57:49. | |
I've already told them I don't want anything to do with Sheffield. | :57:50. | :57:55. | |
And I want to get Doncaster airport called Doncaster | :57:56. | :58:00. | |
International Airport, and Doncaster station | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
It's a thing we've got to work with, with this Sheffield City Region. | :58:05. | :58:12. | |
Which is, like, just been knocked back. | :58:13. | :58:14. | |
I'll work with it if there's something in it for Doncaster. | :58:15. | :58:18. | |
I don't want to go down the avenue of having a begging bowl. | :58:19. | :58:22. | |
As for the Sheffield City Region, I'm opposed to that. | :58:23. | :58:24. | |
Quite simply, Doncaster is not a suburb of Sheffield to be tacked on. | :58:25. | :58:27. | |
We've got our own identity, and we're proud of that. | :58:28. | :58:31. | |
The impression I get is that it's been forced on people. | :58:32. | :58:33. | |
I'm not sure there's been any consultation there. | :58:34. | :58:35. | |
I think, you know, people around Doncaster and the rest | :58:36. | :58:38. | |
of South Yorkshire, should have a proper say on whether or not | :58:39. | :58:41. | |
we should have that level of local government. | :58:42. | :58:45. | |
The Conservative candidate George Jabbour says with increased | :58:46. | :58:47. | |
devolution, it's important that the mayor has the right skills. | :58:48. | :58:54. | |
People in Doncaster have a full deck of polling cards. | :58:55. | :58:57. | |
They'll elect a mayor and new councillors next week. | :58:58. | :59:00. | |
Then five weeks later, they'll help elect a new government. | :59:01. | :59:10. | |
No sign of any cross-party concerns in Doncaster, it looks like. Rachel | :59:11. | :59:17. | |
Reeves, on Thursday voters in Manchester, Liverpool the West | :59:18. | :59:19. | |
Midlands will vote for these new metro mayor bro. Do you think there | :59:20. | :59:26. | |
is appetite for devolution on the side of the Pennines? I think with | :59:27. | :59:33. | |
all the good wheel in the world, the ministers and civil servants in | :59:34. | :59:38. | |
Westminster and Whitehall don't know our regions and cities and towns as | :59:39. | :59:41. | |
well as local people do. I would like to see more powers being given | :59:42. | :59:46. | |
to Leeds and Yorkshire more widely. I think that would make sense. I | :59:47. | :59:49. | |
would like to see some sort of devolution to the whole of | :59:50. | :59:53. | |
Yorkshire. That would work well for our region, and there is strong | :59:54. | :59:57. | |
Yorkshire identity. We are seeing on the streets right now with the | :59:58. | :00:01. | |
Twitter Yorkshire, people lining the streets. They are being let down by | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
politicians who don't want to work with other politicians in | :00:06. | :00:07. | |
neighbouring boroughs. I think you're right. Devolution offers a | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
real opportunity, and I'm concerned we'll see other parts of the country | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
having these deals and we are left behind. It's important to come up | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
with the right deal. South Yorkshire is being dealt with, let's get on | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
with West, North and East. Will see how that pans out. Thank you both | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
for your thoughts, and enjoy the rest of the campaign. It has just | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
gone 12 noon, back to Andrew we will take the mandate that we | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
want. To all three of you, thank you. Andrew, back to you. | :00:40. | :00:51. | |
So, how will Thursday's local election results affect | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
Who's winning the election ground war? | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
And as he celebrates 100 days in the White House, | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
We have the local elections, Metro elections in Liverpool, greater | :00:59. | :01:14. | |
Birmingham, West Midlands, how will they play into the general election? | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Significantly, it is very unusual. People keep comparing this with the | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
election in 83, not! Margaret Thatcher was nervous and to wait | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
until after the local elections to call the election to see the result. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
We are getting these result in the middle of an election campaign so it | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
will be important, whoever does badly will suffer a dent in | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
confidence in terms of how they approach the election and we are | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
also going to have mayoral figures as a reminder of another big | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
difference with the 80s that however big, say, the Conservatives win in | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Westminster, there are now sectors of power in other parts of the | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
United Kingdom which were not there in the 80s. One of the reasons | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
niches that are rated in 83 was memories were still alive in | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
political circles of 1970, Wilson saw the local election results and | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
thought, I can win, he was told he would win by the Economist magazine, | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
who had done the analysis, and of course he lost, so that is why she | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
waited, Mrs May does not need to wait for that at all now, and on the | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Metro elections, the one she will be looking at is the West Midlands, | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
that is the one that is a competition. I think she can really | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
lose on Thursday in the local elections, governing parties are | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
supposed to take effect again, losing lots of council seats. She is | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
projected to put on 100 or so seats, Labour projected to lose around 200, | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
the first time the main opposition party has shed seats since something | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
like 83 so clearly the local elections give Mrs May great | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
momentum going into the general election campaign but there is a | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
downside in that, which is what we have already heard fighting about | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
this morning, if it looks like it is going too well for the Tories, it | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
says to voters, why bother turning up? Sushi comes up with totally | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
unbelievable sound bites this morning that this is the most | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
important general election in her lifetime. Really?! For her it is! It | :03:17. | :03:25. | |
always is until the next one! I wonder if voter turnout is a | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
problem? Tory voters are more likely to vote than Labour voters. If there | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
is a sense that it is all over bar the shouting, the overall turnout | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
will be low that Tory voters are still likely to turn out more than | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
Labour voters so she would still win some. I don't think she needs to be | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
too worried, I think there will be a significantly low turnout, even I am | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
finding it hard to be that excited about this general election. Really, | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
the policies, we have spent a lot of time talking about them today and we | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
have to examine them, but all this is about is, do you want Theresa May | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
or Jeremy Corbyn in Number Ten? Those are the only question is, | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
apart from possibly how strong do you feel about Brexit, that will be | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
on the voters' minds. You may say that but I will not be put off from | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
going through a list of policies that we have already had in the last | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
24 hours. On the Conservatives, more powers to stop company bosses under | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
pensions, of course Philip Green was in mind there. Labour has come up | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
with quite a few policies, actually, give all work of equal rights, | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
whether part-time or full-time, temporary or permanent. Ukip, scrap | :04:45. | :04:54. | |
VAT or takeaway -- on takeaway food and end the BBC licence fee. The | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Liberal Democrats have come out posed to the runway at Heathrow. I | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
thought I knew that already? Will any of these policies make a | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
difference? They are all nice handy things that people quite liked but | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
probably not, is the answer. They are an awful way away from polling | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
day now for people to remember and latch onto. I don't think you make | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
your mind up on small issues like Heathrow, unless you live in | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Richmond-upon-Thames, maybe, but the problem Labour have got with | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
unfailing a lot of these retail type policies which, in themselves, are | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
very popular, is no one will listen to them until they get over the | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
leadership credibility issue. Jeremy Corbyn could the world on a stick, | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
but if no one believes he can deliver it then he will not be | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
listened to and he has not done much apart from a speech yesterday in | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
which is claim to fame was getting arrested, I don't see how that would | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
work for him getting to Number Ten. They are not making progress on it. | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
Labour has rolled out a number of policies which, taken individually, | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
would have certain traction in normal times, quite interesting | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
ideas, this sense of unfairness, a feeling that ordinary workers have | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
not done well out of the recovery, those who caused the crash have, 20 | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
points, I went through some of them earlier, putting aside they are not | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
costed, we are assured they will be. The problem I suggest is not the | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
costing but the cut through? Every election has a context which is | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
determined by opinion polls, however sceptical we are these days, and if | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
one party is way ahead it is difficult for the other party to | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
appear relevant, because if people assume they are not going to win, | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
even some of its own MPs are saying, we are not going to win this, so you | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
can vote for us, it is very hard to get attention and relevance. Where I | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
think all the parties are bad with their current leaders is framing | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
arguments, so those policies you have highlighted makes sense. The | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
best leaders are brilliant framers of an argument and neither Theresa | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
Maynor Jeremy Corbyn R. They have been campaigning, their manifestos | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
are not out yet, both sides have been telling us we have to wait for | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
costings, but it has not stopped them campaigning. Let's remind you | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
of where they have been and what they have been doing so far. | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
Let's start with Jeremy Corbyn, his first official visit was in the | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
ultra-marginal Conservative seat of Croydon Central where the MP Gavin | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
Barwell has a lead of just 165. That is not the only Conservative seat he | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
has visited, along the way he popped in on Bristol North West, a | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
Conservative majority of nearly 5000. The Tory seat of Cardiff | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
North, a lead of just over 2000, Warrington South, just over 2700, | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
and Crewe and Nantwich, Tory majority of three and a half | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
thousand. Yesterday he visited Bethnal greed and Bob, a Labour lead | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
of 20 4000. Theresa May kicked off her campaign in Bolton, Labour | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
majority of over 4000. On her way round the UK she had a comfy stop in | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
her own maidenhead seat, where she is defending a majority of nearly | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
30,000, before travelling to other Labour marginals including Dudley | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
North, a Labour lead of 4000. Bridgend, a lead of just under 2004 | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Labour, before becoming ambitious and visiting shadow minister Richard | :08:43. | :08:56. | |
Bergen's Leeds East seat, which he won by over 12,500 votes. Yesterday | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
she went north of the border to Aberdeenshire, where amongst other | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
places she visited the SNP seat of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
where the Tories would have to gain over 7000 votes to unseat the NP. | :09:05. | :09:05. | |
What do you make of it all so far? It is remarkable she is doing these | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
visits in Scotland. Past but even five years and the idea of a Tory | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Prime Minister going round Scotland would be utterly counter-productive, | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
and actually they are ambitious for Scotland now under with Davidson, a | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
prospect of multiple seats, and that would be a real genuine shift in | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Scottish politics, the likes of which we have not seen for 15 or 20 | :09:30. | :09:39. | |
years. If she gets that, that helps towards 100 seats, because if she | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
wins ten in Scotland, it is effectively 20, the SNP lose ten, | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
she gains ten, she wants to do that in the Midlands with Labour, and the | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
North. To get the 100 majority, other than Scotland, she has to win | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
Labour seats, that is all that is there. And clearly she has been | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
told, it is obvious, that she has a chance of doing so, otherwise you | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
don't go to these parts of the country in the first few days of the | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
campaign. All logic points to her being able to pull it off as well. | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
The opinion polls, the state of the Labour Party. The only qualification | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
I have in this is that politics is so wild and free Braille at the | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
moment, it doesn't feel like landslide to rain. That is true, it | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
doesn't. It is early days, we haven't yet had the manifestos, the | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
campaign is yet to gather momentum. It doesn't feel like landslide | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
territory. I disagree, look at every single poll, the Tory lead is 10% in | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
Wales, you can see her picking up 20 seat there. Put this together, I am | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
told by the way she is going into traditional Labour heartland again | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
tomorrow, the key is the Ukip vote. That will implode... Crumble towards | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
Tories? If she can hoover that up and retain the Tory vote, she will | :11:07. | :11:21. | |
have a majority of 150. I cannot let you go without | :11:22. | :11:22. | |
reminding you that it is Donald Trump's 100 days. He's not making a | :11:23. | :11:23. | |
lot of it now, this is what he said last night. | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
We are just beginning in our fight to make America great again. | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
Now, before we talk about my first 100 days, which has been very | :11:29. | :11:37. | |
exciting and very productive, let's rate the media's 100 days. | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
Because, as you know, they are a disgrace. | :11:43. | :11:57. | |
There you go, still bashing the media, that was at a rally in | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
Virginia, the 100 days was last night. He seems happier campaigning | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
than running the country. You each have 20 seconds to give me your | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
board on the first 100 days. Remarkable, he will not stop | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
slagging off the media but America first has not meant America first in | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
terms of national policy, he has reneges on what he said about Nato | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
being obsolete. He is moving from the old right to the centre because | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
that is where you get things done, he is a pragmatist, also is about's | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
friend Nigel Parrott is no longer welcome, we read this morning! | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
Allegedly! He loves campaigning but finds governing much more difficult. | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Who would have thought being president of the United States was a | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
difficult job?! He loves rallies but being president and politics is a | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
very difficult thing indeed. Thank you, there we go, Mr Trump's 100 | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
days, we will see what the next 100 brings. | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
The Daily Politics is back on BBC Two after the bank holiday | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
on Tuesday at midday, with all the latest | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
And I'll be back here on BBC One next Sunday | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
Remember - if it's Sunday, it's the Sunday Politics. | :13:18. | :14:23. | |
The East End girl who became the nation's favourite. | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
We don't know what it is, but she definitely has... Something. | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
From stage to screen and into our hearts. | :14:32. | :14:41. | |
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Ooh, in't she wonderful? | :14:42. | :14:44. |