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:00:10. > :00:13.Good morning from Manchester, where the Labour Party are gathering

:00:14. > :00:16.for their annual conference as British politics adjusts to what

:00:17. > :00:54.the rest of the UK. in Scotland might mean for

:00:55. > :01:00.Scotland's decision to vote 'no' means more powers heading north

:01:01. > :01:07.But what about Home Rule for England?

:01:08. > :01:12.Independence for Scotland has been his life's work. Alex Salmond tells

:01:13. > :01:17.us why he is stepping down after losing Thursday's vote. And we've

:01:18. > :01:23.got an exclusive survey of what the people who want to be Labour MPs

:01:24. > :01:30.think about immigration, the cue and their party. We will ask the Shadow

:01:31. > :01:33.Business Secretary if he agrees. In London, thoughts of more tax-raising

:01:34. > :01:47.powers and more freedom to spend. But what is the next devolution step

:01:48. > :01:49.for the capital? With me, the best and brightest political panel in the

:01:50. > :01:54.business, at least that is what they pay me to say every week. Nick Watt,

:01:55. > :02:00.Helen Lewis and, this week, we have done some devolution ourselves to

:02:01. > :02:05.other areas, and we have Sam Coates from the times. The union survived,

:02:06. > :02:08.but only at the cost of more powers for the Scottish parliament and

:02:09. > :02:12.enshrining the formula that gives Scotland a privileged position when

:02:13. > :02:18.it comes to public spending, which has MPs on both sides of the Commons

:02:19. > :02:22.of in arms. The Scottish question has been answered for now. Suddenly,

:02:23. > :02:32.the English question takes centre stage, doesn't it? Absolutely. It

:02:33. > :02:36.has a grubby feel, when that vow was put to the Scottish people, that

:02:37. > :02:42.they hoped would swing the vote, there was nothing about English-only

:02:43. > :02:46.votes. It was unconditional? The Tory proposal did talk very core

:02:47. > :02:49.justly about looking at the proposals by a former clerk of the

:02:50. > :02:58.House of Commons that looked at this issue. That was very cautious. --

:02:59. > :03:01.cautiously. These proposals will not get through Westminster unless David

:03:02. > :03:05.Cameron addresses the English-only issue. You look at people like Chris

:03:06. > :03:08.Grayling in the Sunday Telegraph. Alistair Darling on the Andrew Marr

:03:09. > :03:12.Show said you could not have a link between what you are giving Holyrood

:03:13. > :03:22.and English-only MPs. Back on says, is welshing on the deal. -- comic he

:03:23. > :03:29.They were furious that he gave away these tax powers and inscribed the

:03:30. > :03:38.Barnett formula. They said they weren't going to vote for it. It is

:03:39. > :03:41.a shameless piece of opportunism. Now they can say that Labour are the

:03:42. > :03:45.ones that don't trust you and don't want to give you more powers. He

:03:46. > :03:49.knows it is going to be a tight timetable. The idea of getting a

:03:50. > :03:53.draft of this out by Burns Night, most people would say, given they

:03:54. > :03:56.had six years to set up Scottish parliament, the idea we will solve

:03:57. > :04:04.these huge constitutional questions in four months is absurd. But they

:04:05. > :04:10.don't care about the constitutional questions, the one they care about

:04:11. > :04:14.is English votes? There is a simple reason they won that. If you look at

:04:15. > :04:19.the MPs in England alone, the Tories have a majority of 59, an

:04:20. > :04:22.overwhelming bias, and if you strip out Wales Scotland and Northern

:04:23. > :04:25.Ireland, so this has become a partisan issue. The question is

:04:26. > :04:30.whether David Cameron can follow through on the promise. He said he

:04:31. > :04:36.would link the two Scottish powers, but it's not clear you will get

:04:37. > :04:40.either before the general election. It's not but the purpose is to cause

:04:41. > :04:46.Labour Party discomfort, and it is. You can see with date -- Ed Miliband

:04:47. > :04:49.this morning, they find it very hard to answer the question, why

:04:50. > :04:55.shouldn't there be English votes for English laws? Ed Miliband this

:04:56. > :05:00.morning was saying how London MPs get to vote on London transport and

:05:01. > :05:03.English MPs don't outside of London and it is confusing, but Labour is

:05:04. > :05:08.in a difficult position. They were before the Prime Minister made his

:05:09. > :05:12.announcement. The yes side triumphed in Glasgow, the largest city in

:05:13. > :05:15.Scotland, a Labour heartland, and the Prime Minister is saying that if

:05:16. > :05:20.Labour don't agree to this by the time of the general election, he is

:05:21. > :05:23.handing a gift to the SNP, that that would be the party that the natural

:05:24. > :05:29.Labour voters would vote for to see off the plan. It's not just Tory

:05:30. > :05:31.backbenchers. There are Labour backbenchers saying there should be

:05:32. > :05:35.in which bodes for English laws. Even people in the Shadow Cabinet

:05:36. > :05:41.think it is right. The cases unarguable. If you say her chewing a

:05:42. > :05:44.partisan way, you can't sell it to the country. Ed Miliband is on

:05:45. > :05:51.course to have a majority of about 20, and you take the 40 English MPs,

:05:52. > :05:55.and he hasn't got it. This is a coalition government where the

:05:56. > :05:59.Conservatives haven't got really to be in charge, they have put in

:06:00. > :06:03.sweeping laws. Labour should probably take the bullet on this

:06:04. > :06:10.one. Let's leave it for the moment. But don't go away. As they struggle

:06:11. > :06:13.to keep the United Kingdom in one piece, David Cameron, Ed Miliband

:06:14. > :06:14.and Nick Clegg promised to keep something called the Barnett

:06:15. > :06:17.Formula. It wasn't invented in Barnet,

:06:18. > :06:20.but by man called Joel Barnett. And it's how

:06:21. > :06:22.the UK government decides how much public money to spend in Scotland,

:06:23. > :06:24.Wales and Northern Ireland. It's controversial,

:06:25. > :06:26.because it's led to public spending being typically 20% higher

:06:27. > :06:28.in Scotland than in England. Well, some English MPs

:06:29. > :06:31.aren't happy about that. I'm joined now by the

:06:32. > :06:43.Tory MP Dominic Raab. Welcome to the Sunday Politics. How

:06:44. > :06:47.can the Prime Minister scrap the Barnett Formula when he has just

:06:48. > :06:53.about to keep it on the front page of a major Scottish newspaper? If we

:06:54. > :06:57.are going to see financial devolution to Scotland, more powers

:06:58. > :06:59.of tax and spend, it's impossible not to look at the impact on the

:07:00. > :07:04.wider union, and there have been promises made to the Scottish and we

:07:05. > :07:07.should do our best to deliver them, but there have been promises made to

:07:08. > :07:11.the English, Welsh and Northern Irish. If you look at the Barnett

:07:12. > :07:15.Formula which allocates revenue across the UK, it is massively

:07:16. > :07:19.prejudicial to those other parts. We have double the number of ambulance

:07:20. > :07:23.staff and nurses compared to England. The regional breakdown is

:07:24. > :07:27.more stark with double the amount spent on social housing in Scotland

:07:28. > :07:30.than in Yorkshire and the North West and the Midlands. The Welsh do very

:07:31. > :07:34.poorly on social services for the elderly. What are we saying? That

:07:35. > :07:40.they need our children, patients and the elderly are worth less than the

:07:41. > :07:45.Scots? That's not the way to have a sustainable solution. I understand

:07:46. > :07:48.the distribution impact of the Barnett Formula, but Westminster

:07:49. > :07:53.politicians are already held in contempt by a lot of people and to

:07:54. > :07:59.rat on such a public pledge would confirm their worst fears. Your

:08:00. > :08:03.leader would have secured the union on a false prospectus. First of

:08:04. > :08:09.all, it's clear from the Ashcroft poll that the offer made in the

:08:10. > :08:11.Scottish newspaper had zero effect and if anything was

:08:12. > :08:14.counter-productive to the overall result because two thirds of swing

:08:15. > :08:19.voters in the last few days voted for independence. But we can't keep

:08:20. > :08:24.proceeding without looking at the promises made to the English. We

:08:25. > :08:28.said in the referendum that we would have English laws -- English votes

:08:29. > :08:31.on English issues. The Liberal Democrats, in their manifesto,

:08:32. > :08:35.pledged to scrap the Barnett Formula. We have to reconcile all of

:08:36. > :08:39.the promises to all parts of the UK, and Alex Salmond talks about a

:08:40. > :08:44.Westminster stitch up, but what he's trying to do is, with gross double

:08:45. > :08:50.standards, is in French stitch up in rapid time, which would be grossly

:08:51. > :08:56.unfair to the rest of the rest of UK -- is contrive stitch up. What is

:08:57. > :09:02.unfair about the current spending formula? The extra money Scotland

:09:03. > :09:07.gets from Barnet, is covered by the oil revenues it sends to London.

:09:08. > :09:10.Scotland is only getting back on spending what it pays in tax. There

:09:11. > :09:17.is no analysis out there that suggests it is the same amount.

:09:18. > :09:22.Having voted to stay in the UK. Let me give you the figures. Last year

:09:23. > :09:30.revenues were 4.5 billion, and the Barnett Formula was worth 4.5

:09:31. > :09:33.billion to Scotland. It is awash. A huge amount of British taxpayer

:09:34. > :09:37.investment has gone into extracting North Sea oil, and if we move to a

:09:38. > :09:41.more federal system, we would need to look at things like the

:09:42. > :09:45.allocation of resources, but the Barnett Formula has been lambasted

:09:46. > :09:49.as a national embarrassment and grossly unfair by its Labour Party

:09:50. > :09:54.architect, Lord Barnett. So what we need is to change this mechanism so

:09:55. > :09:58.it is based on need. The irony is, when the Scots allocate Avenue to

:09:59. > :10:01.the -- revenue to their local authorities, it's done on a needs

:10:02. > :10:06.basis, and what is good for Scotland must be good for the rest of

:10:07. > :10:11.Britain. One final question. The Prime Minister is now making his

:10:12. > :10:14.promise of more home rule for Scotland conditional on English

:10:15. > :10:18.votes for English laws. Why didn't he spell out the condition when he

:10:19. > :10:22.made his bow to the Scottish people? Why has this condition been tacked

:10:23. > :10:28.on by the Prime Minister? In the heat of the referendum debate lots

:10:29. > :10:33.of things were said, but the truth is that Parliament must also look at

:10:34. > :10:37.this and make its views known, and English MPs as well. You will find

:10:38. > :10:40.that conservative as well as a lot of Labour MPs would say, we cannot

:10:41. > :10:46.just rush through a deal that is unsustainable. It has to be good for

:10:47. > :10:49.all parts of Britain. Yes, we should deliver on our promises for more

:10:50. > :10:52.devolution to Scotland, but let's deliver on promises to be English,

:10:53. > :10:57.and Northern Irish. Why are they locked out of the debate? Let's

:10:58. > :10:59.leave it there. Thank you for joining us.

:11:00. > :11:01.The man responsible for taking Scottish nationalism from

:11:02. > :11:03.the political fringes to within touching distance of victory, Alex

:11:04. > :11:06.Salmond, has a flair for dramatic announcements, and he gave us

:11:07. > :11:08.another on Friday when he revealed he's to stand

:11:09. > :11:13.Friends and foes have paid tribute to his extraordinary career.

:11:14. > :11:15.In a moment I'll be speaking to Alex Salmond,

:11:16. > :11:18.but first here's Adam Fleming with the story of the vote that broke

:11:19. > :11:40.The BBC's HQ on the Clyde, the whole place converted into a studio for

:11:41. > :11:43.Scotland's big night. You know what you need for big events, big

:11:44. > :11:47.screens, and there are loads of them here. That one is three stories

:11:48. > :11:51.high, and this is the one Jeremy Vine uses for his graphics. The

:11:52. > :11:56.other thing that is massive is the turnout in the referendum, it is

:11:57. > :12:01.enormous. It was around 85% of the electorate, that is 4 million ballot

:12:02. > :12:14.papers. First to declare Clackmannanshire. No, 19,000. 19,000

:12:15. > :12:19.and 36. The first Noel of the night, and there were plenty more. -- the

:12:20. > :12:23.first no vote. The better together campaigners were over the moon, like

:12:24. > :12:28.Jim Murphy, who had campaigned in 100 different towns. I don't want to

:12:29. > :12:38.sound schmaltzy, but it makes you think more of Scotland. It makes you

:12:39. > :12:40.small tree. Yes, 194,779. Around five a.m., the Yes campaign

:12:41. > :12:47.applauded as they won Scotland's biggest city, Glasgow. Dundee went

:12:48. > :12:50.their way as well, but just for areas out of 32 opted for

:12:51. > :12:55.independence. How many copies have you had? This is my second cup of

:12:56. > :13:00.tea on the morning -- how many copies. He was enjoying the

:13:01. > :13:05.refreshments on offer, but the yes campaigners were not in a happy

:13:06. > :13:09.place. We are in the bowels of one of the parts of the British

:13:10. > :13:14.establishment that, I've got to say, has probably done its job in this

:13:15. > :13:19.referendum, because I think the BBC has been critical in shoring up the

:13:20. > :13:24.establishment and have supported the no campaign as best as they could.

:13:25. > :13:29.But there was no arguing with the numbers, and by sunrise, the BBC

:13:30. > :13:35.called it. Scotland has voted no in this referendum on independence. The

:13:36. > :13:38.result, in Fife, has taken the no campaign over the line and the

:13:39. > :13:45.official result of this referendum is a no. There we go, on a screen

:13:46. > :13:49.three stories high, Scotland has said no to independence. As soon as

:13:50. > :13:54.the newsprint was driving north of the border, the focus shifted south

:13:55. > :13:58.as the Prime Minister pledged more devolution for Scotland but only if

:13:59. > :14:00.it happened everywhere else as well. Just as Scotland will vote

:14:01. > :14:05.separately in the Scottish Parliament on their issues of tax,

:14:06. > :14:09.spending on welfare, so to England, as well as Wales and Northern

:14:10. > :14:14.Ireland, should be able to vote on these issues, and all this must take

:14:15. > :14:19.place in tandem with and at the same pace as the settlement for Scotland.

:14:20. > :14:28.It began to dawn on us all that we might end up doing this again. See

:14:29. > :14:31.you for an English referendum soon? Northern Ireland. There could be

:14:32. > :14:39.another one in Scotland. But not next weekend? Give me a break. There

:14:40. > :14:43.was no break for Nick, because Alex Salmond came up with one last twist,

:14:44. > :14:49.his resignation was as leader, my time is nearly over. But the

:14:50. > :14:56.Scotland, the campaign continues, and the dream shall never die. So,

:14:57. > :14:57.the referendum settled, the Constitution in flux, and a leader

:14:58. > :15:08.gone. All in a night work. Alex Salmond is to stand down as

:15:09. > :15:12.First Minister of Scotland. He shows no signs of going quietly. Last

:15:13. > :15:16.night, I spoke to the SNP leader in Aberdeen and began by asking him if

:15:17. > :15:21.it was always his intention to resign if he lost the referendum. I

:15:22. > :15:24.certainly have thought about it, Andrew. But for most of the

:15:25. > :15:30.referendum campaign I thought we were going to win. So, I was...

:15:31. > :15:34.Yeah, maybe a few months back I considered it. But I only finally

:15:35. > :15:42.made up my mind on Friday lunch time. Did you agonise over the

:15:43. > :15:52.decision to stand down? I'm not really an agonising person. When you

:15:53. > :15:58.get beaten in a referendum, you have to consider standing down as a real

:15:59. > :16:01.possibility. Taking responsibility and politics has gone out of fashion

:16:02. > :16:06.but there is an aspect, if you need a campaign, and I was the leader of

:16:07. > :16:10.the Yes Campaign, and you don't win, you have to contemplate if you are

:16:11. > :16:13.the best person to lead future political campaigns. In my

:16:14. > :16:18.judgement, it was time for the SNP and the broader yes movement, the

:16:19. > :16:23.National movement of Scotland, they would benefit from new leadership.

:16:24. > :16:26.In your heart of hearts, through the campaign, as referendum on day

:16:27. > :16:32.approached, you did think you were going to win? Yes, I did. I thought

:16:33. > :16:40.for most of the last month of the campaign, we were in with a real

:16:41. > :16:43.chance. In the last week I thought we had pulled ahead. I thought the

:16:44. > :16:49.decisive aspect wasn't so much the fear mongering, the scaremongering,

:16:50. > :16:52.the kitchen sink being thrown at Scotland by orchestration from

:16:53. > :16:56.Downing Street, I thought the real thing was the pledge, the vow, the

:16:57. > :17:01.offer of something else. A lot of people that had been moving across

:17:02. > :17:04.to independence saw within that, a reason to say, well, we can get

:17:05. > :17:12.something anyway without the perceived risks that were being

:17:13. > :17:19.festooned upon them. You were only five points away from your dream.

:17:20. > :17:23.You won Scotland's largest city. There is now the prospect of more

:17:24. > :17:30.power. Why not stay and be an enhanced First Minister? Well, it is

:17:31. > :17:34.a good phrase. I'm not going away, though. I'm still going to be part

:17:35. > :17:38.of the political process. In Scotland, if people in Aberdeenshire

:17:39. > :17:43.wish to keep electing me, that is what I will do. But I don't have to

:17:44. > :17:48.be First Minister of Scotland, leader of the Yes Campaign, to see

:17:49. > :17:53.that achieved. The SNP is a strong and powerful leadership team. There

:17:54. > :17:57.are a number of people that would do a fantastic job as leader of the

:17:58. > :18:03.party and First Minister. I've been leader of the party for the last 24

:18:04. > :18:07.years, I think it is time to give somebody else a shot. There are many

:18:08. > :18:10.able-bodied people that will do that well. -- many able people that will

:18:11. > :18:18.do that well. I'm still part of the national movement, arguing to take

:18:19. > :18:22.this forward. I think you are right, the question, one of the irony is

:18:23. > :18:25.developing so quickly after the referendum, it might be those that

:18:26. > :18:31.lost on Thursday end up as the political winners and those that won

:18:32. > :18:36.end up as the losers. When we met just for the vote, a couple of days

:18:37. > :18:39.before the vote, you said to me that there was very little you would

:18:40. > :18:46.change about the campaign strategy. Is that still your view? Yes. There

:18:47. > :18:52.are one or two things, like any campaign, there is no such thing as

:18:53. > :18:57.a pitcher campaign. I would refer not to dwell on such things. I will

:18:58. > :19:01.leave of my book, which will be called 100 Days, coming out before

:19:02. > :19:05.Christmas. Once you read that, I will probably reveal the things I

:19:06. > :19:09.would have changed. Basically, broadly, this was an extraordinary

:19:10. > :19:13.campaign. Not just a political campaign, but a campaign involving

:19:14. > :19:17.the grassroots of Scotland in an energising, empowering way, the like

:19:18. > :19:21.of which in on of us have witnessed. It was an extraordinary phenomenon

:19:22. > :19:27.of grassroots campaigning, which carried the Yes Campaign so far,

:19:28. > :19:38.almost to victory. If Rupert Murdoch put his Scottish Sun behind you,

:19:39. > :19:46.would have that made the difference? If ifs and ands were pots and

:19:47. > :19:50.pans... Why did he not? I would not say that, you have form with him

:19:51. > :19:56.that I do not have. I'm not sure about that. I was very encouraged.

:19:57. > :20:01.The coverage, not in the other papers, The Times, which was

:20:02. > :20:05.extremely hostile to Scottish independence, but the coverage in

:20:06. > :20:14.the Scottish Sun was fair, balanced and we certainly got a very fair

:20:15. > :20:18.kick of the ball. In newspapers, I would settle for no editorial line

:20:19. > :20:21.and just balanced coverage. We certainly got that from the Scottish

:20:22. > :20:27.Sun and that was an encouragement. I think you saw from his tweets,

:20:28. > :20:37.certainly in his heart he would have liked to have seen a move forward in

:20:38. > :20:42.Scotland and I like that. He said if you lost, that was it, referendum

:20:43. > :20:48.wise, for a generation, which he defined as about 20 years. Is that

:20:49. > :20:52.still your view? Yes, it is. It has always been my view. It's a personal

:20:53. > :20:57.view. There are always things that can change in politics. If the UK

:20:58. > :21:00.moved out of the European Union, for example, that would be the sort of

:21:01. > :21:04.circumstance. Some people would argue with Westminster parties, and

:21:05. > :21:10.I'm actually not surprised that they are reneging on commitments, I am

:21:11. > :21:13.just surprised by the speed they are doing it. They seem to be totally

:21:14. > :21:19.shameless in these matters. You don't think they will meet the vow?

:21:20. > :21:23.You don't think there will keep to their vow? They are not, for that

:21:24. > :21:28.essential reason you saw developing on Friday. The Prime Minister wants

:21:29. > :21:31.to link change in Scotland to change in England. He wants to do that

:21:32. > :21:36.because he has difficulty in carrying his backbenchers on this

:21:37. > :21:39.and they are under pressure from UKIP. The Labour leadership are

:21:40. > :21:42.frightened of any changes in England which leave them without a majority

:21:43. > :21:48.in the House of Commons on English matters. I would not call it an

:21:49. > :21:54.irresistible force and immovable object, one is resistible and one is

:21:55. > :21:57.movable. They are at loggerheads. The vow, I think, was something

:21:58. > :21:59.cooked up in desperation for the last few days of the campaign. I

:22:00. > :22:06.think everybody in Scotland now engines that. -- recognises that. It

:22:07. > :22:11.was the people that were persuaded to vote no that word tricked,

:22:12. > :22:16.effectively. They are the ones that are really angry. Ed Miliband and

:22:17. > :22:23.David Cameron, if they are watching this, I would be more worried about

:22:24. > :22:30.the anger of the no voters than the opinion of the Yes Vote on that

:22:31. > :22:36.matter. If independence is on the back burner for now, what would you

:22:37. > :22:42.advise your successor's strategy for the SNP to be? I would advise him or

:22:43. > :22:49.her not to listen to advice from their predecessor. A new leader

:22:50. > :22:53.brings forward a new strategy. I think this is, for the SNP, a very

:22:54. > :23:00.favourable political time. There have been 5000 new members joined

:23:01. > :23:03.since Thursday. That is about a 25% increase in the party membership in

:23:04. > :23:15.the space of a few days. More than that, I think this is an opportunity

:23:16. > :23:19.for the SNP. But my goal is the opportunity for Scotland. I would

:23:20. > :23:25.repeat I am not retiring from politics. I'm standing down as First

:23:26. > :23:29.Minister of Scotland. On Friday, coming back to the north-east of

:23:30. > :23:36.Scotland, I passed through Dundee, which voted yes by a stud --

:23:37. > :23:40.substantial margin. There was a line of a song I couldn't get out of my

:23:41. > :23:48.head, and old Jacobite song, rewritten by Robert Burns, the last

:23:49. > :23:56.line is, so, tremble falls wakes, in the midst of your glee, you've not

:23:57. > :23:59.seen the last of my bonnets and me. So you are staying a member of the

:24:00. > :24:04.Scottish Parliament, shall we see you again in the House of Commons?

:24:05. > :24:11.What does the future hold for you? Membership of Scottish Parliament is

:24:12. > :24:15.dependent on the good folk of Aberdeenshire east. If they choose

:24:16. > :24:20.to elect me, I will be delighted to serve. I've always loved being a

:24:21. > :24:23.constituency member of Parliament, I have known some front line

:24:24. > :24:27.politicians that regarded that as a chore. I'm not saying they didn't do

:24:28. > :24:33.it properly, I am sure they did. But I love it. You get distilled wisdom

:24:34. > :24:36.from being a constituency member of Parliament that helps you keep your

:24:37. > :24:40.feet on the ground and have a good observation as to what matters to

:24:41. > :24:45.people. I have no difficulty with being a constituent member of

:24:46. > :24:56.Parliament. Can you promise me it will never be Lord Salmond? Yes!

:24:57. > :25:04.Thanks for joining us. Great pleasure, thank you. Now, the

:25:05. > :25:08.independence referendum is over, the next big electoral test is a general

:25:09. > :25:14.election. It is just over seven months away. In a moment I will be

:25:15. > :25:18.talking to Chuka Umunna, but what are the political views of the men

:25:19. > :25:22.and women fighting to win seats for the Labour Party? The Sunday

:25:23. > :25:28.Politics has commissioned an exclusive survey of the

:25:29. > :25:30.Parliamentary candidates. Six out of seven Labour candidates

:25:31. > :25:35.say that the level of public spending during their last period of

:25:36. > :25:39.office was about right. 40% of them want a Labour government to raise

:25:40. > :25:43.taxes to reduce the budget deficit. 18% favour cutting spending. On

:25:44. > :25:49.immigration, just 15% think that the number coming to Britain is too

:25:50. > :25:52.high. Only 7% say we generous to immigrants. Three in ten candidates

:25:53. > :25:56.believe the party relationship with trade unions is not close enough.

:25:57. > :26:02.Not that we spoke to think it is too close. Or than half of the

:26:03. > :26:06.candidates say want to scrap the nuclear deterrent, Trident. Four in

:26:07. > :26:11.five want to nationalise the railways. If they are after a change

:26:12. > :26:20.of leader, Yvette Cooper was their preferred choice. Chuka Umunna came

:26:21. > :26:24.in fourth. And he joins me now for the Sunday interview.

:26:25. > :26:31.Why is Labour choosing so many left-wing candidates? I don't think

:26:32. > :26:34.I accept the characterisation of candidates being left wing. I don't

:26:35. > :26:39.think your viewers see politics in terms of what is left and right. I

:26:40. > :26:43.think they see it in terms of what is right and wrong. Obviously, many

:26:44. > :26:46.of the things we have been talking about, how we ensure that the next

:26:47. > :26:49.generation can do better than the last, how we raise the wages of your

:26:50. > :26:54.viewers, who are currently working very hard but not making a wage they

:26:55. > :26:58.can live off, that is what they are talking about and that is what the

:26:59. > :27:02.public will judge them on. But they want to raise taxes, they don't want

:27:03. > :27:04.to cut public spending, they want to re-nationalise the railways, they

:27:05. > :27:08.don't think there is too much immigration, they want to scrap

:27:09. > :27:13.Trident. These are all positions clearly to the left of current party

:27:14. > :27:16.policy. But that is your characterisation. If you look at our

:27:17. > :27:21.policy to increase the top rate of tax to 50% for people earning over

:27:22. > :27:23.?150,000, that is a central position. It is something that

:27:24. > :27:32.enjoys the support of the majority of the public. Trident? If you talk

:27:33. > :27:35.to the British public about immigration, yes, there are concerns

:27:36. > :27:39.about the numbers coming in and out, yes people want to see integration,

:27:40. > :27:42.yes, people want to see people putting a contribution before they

:27:43. > :27:47.take out, the people recognise, if you look at our multicultural

:27:48. > :27:50.nation, we have derived a lot of benefits from immigration. I don't

:27:51. > :27:56.think your characterisation of those positions, that is your view... It's

:27:57. > :28:02.not, it is their view. They are saying... You describe it... You

:28:03. > :28:05.described those positions as left wing positions. I am saying to you

:28:06. > :28:10.that I actually think a lot of those positions are centrist positions

:28:11. > :28:14.that would enjoy the support of the majority of your viewers. I don't

:28:15. > :28:18.think your viewers think the idea of the broadest shoulders bearing the

:28:19. > :28:22.heaviest burden in forms of tax are going to see it as a way out,

:28:23. > :28:26.radical principle. They want to scrap Trident, not party policy? It

:28:27. > :28:36.isn't. I think that 73... Well, we will

:28:37. > :28:40.have 400 Parliamentary candidates at the time of the next general

:28:41. > :28:45.election, not including current MPs. This is 73 out of over 400 of them.

:28:46. > :28:51.I think we also need to treat the survey with a bit of caution. They

:28:52. > :28:54.are not representative? You are basically quoting the results of a

:28:55. > :28:58.small percentage of our Parliamentary candidates. It's

:28:59. > :29:02.pretty safe to say when you look at their views, they might be right or

:29:03. > :29:07.wrong, that's not my point, it's fairly safe to say that new Labour

:29:08. > :29:15.is dead? Again, I don't think people see things in terms of gold -- old

:29:16. > :29:18.or new Labour. We are standing at a Labour Party. We are a great

:29:19. > :29:23.country, but we have big challenges. We want to make sure that people can

:29:24. > :29:27.achieve their dreams and aspirations in this country. Too many people are

:29:28. > :29:30.not in that position. Too many people worry about the prospects of

:29:31. > :29:34.their children. Too many people do not earn a wage they can live off.

:29:35. > :29:37.Too many people are worried about the change. We have to make sure we

:29:38. > :29:41.are giving people a stake in the future. That is a Labour thing, you

:29:42. > :29:44.want to call it old or new come I don't care. It's a choice between

:29:45. > :29:55.Labour and the Conservatives in terms of who runs the next

:29:56. > :29:57.government. That one of your candidate we spoke to things that

:29:58. > :30:00.the party's relationship with the unions is to close. 30% of them

:30:01. > :30:04.think it should be closer. You have spoken to 73 out of 400 candidates.

:30:05. > :30:10.Why should the others be any different? It's a fairly

:30:11. > :30:14.representative Sample. Many people working on this set are the member

:30:15. > :30:16.of the union, the National union of journalists. People that came here

:30:17. > :30:21.to this Conference would have been brought here by trade union members.

:30:22. > :30:26.Do you think the relationship should be closer? I think it is where it

:30:27. > :30:30.should be. It should not be closer? I think that trade unions help

:30:31. > :30:35.create wealth in our country. If you look at some other success stories

:30:36. > :30:40.we are in the north-west, GM Vauxhall is there because you have

:30:41. > :30:44.trade unions working in partnership with government and local employees

:30:45. > :30:48.to make sure we kept producing cars. I'm not asking if unions are good or

:30:49. > :30:52.bad, I'm asking if Labour should be closer. You are presupposing, by the

:30:53. > :30:59.tone of your question, that our relationship is a problem. Let's

:31:00. > :31:03.turn to the English question. Why do you need a constitutional

:31:04. > :31:06.conversation where you have to discuss whether English people

:31:07. > :31:10.voting on English matters is unfair? We want to give the regions

:31:11. > :31:14.and cities in England more voice, but let's get it into perspective,

:31:15. > :31:22.we have had a situation where the Scottish people, as desired buying

:31:23. > :31:27.rich people, have to remain part of the UK -- by English people. What is

:31:28. > :31:31.the answer to the question? I don't want to get to a situation where

:31:32. > :31:33.people have voted for solidarity where you have a prime ministers

:31:34. > :31:39.talking about dividing up the UK Parliament. Let me put this point

:31:40. > :31:44.you. Most Scottish voters think it is unfair that Scottish MPs get to

:31:45. > :31:48.vote on English matters. That comes out in Scottish polls. Why don't you

:31:49. > :31:53.see it as unfair? If the Scots see it as unfair, why don't you? This is

:31:54. > :31:56.an age-old conundrum that has been around for 100 years and it's not so

:31:57. > :32:00.simple. You're talking about making a fundamental change to the British

:32:01. > :32:06.constitution on a whim. It's not just an issue, in respect of

:32:07. > :32:11.Scottish MPs. As a London MP, I can vote on matters relating to the

:32:12. > :32:15.transport of England and transport is a devolved matter in London. In

:32:16. > :32:18.Wales, there are a number of competencies that Welsh MPs can vote

:32:19. > :32:22.on and they've been devolved to them. So with all of these different

:32:23. > :32:26.votes, you will exclude different MPs? I think the solution is not

:32:27. > :32:29.necessarily to obsess about what is happening between MPs in

:32:30. > :32:34.Westminster. That turns people politics. We need to devolve more. I

:32:35. > :32:39.think we should be giving the cities and regions of England more autonomy

:32:40. > :32:43.in the way that we are doing in Scotland, but I've got to say,

:32:44. > :32:46.Andrew, it's dishonourable and in bad faith for the Prime Minister to

:32:47. > :32:51.now seek to link what he agreed before the referendum to this issue

:32:52. > :32:55.of English votes for English MPs. That is totally dishonourable and in

:32:56. > :32:59.bad faith. You have promised to devolve more tax powers to Scotland.

:33:00. > :33:03.What would they be? This is being decided at the moment. I cannot give

:33:04. > :33:08.you the exact detail of what the tax powers would be. Could you give us a

:33:09. > :33:11.rough idea? There is a White Paper being produced before November and

:33:12. > :33:18.there will be draft legislation put forward in January. Your leader has

:33:19. > :33:21.vowed that this will happen. And you haven't got a policy? You can't tell

:33:22. > :33:26.us what the tax powers will be? I can't tell you on this programme

:33:27. > :33:29.right now. But we have accepted the principle on further devolution on

:33:30. > :33:33.tax, spending on welfare and we will have further details in due course.

:33:34. > :33:38.Your leader promised to maintain the Barnett Formula for the foreseeable

:33:39. > :33:42.future. Why is that fair when it enshrines more per capita spending

:33:43. > :33:46.for Scotland than it does for Wales, which is poorer, and more than many

:33:47. > :33:52.of the poorer regions in England get? Why is that fair? We have said

:33:53. > :33:54.that in terms of looking at go -- local government spending playing

:33:55. > :33:58.out in this Parliament, we have looked at what the government has

:33:59. > :34:01.done which is having already deprived communities having money

:34:02. > :34:05.taken away from them and wealthier communities are getting more. We

:34:06. > :34:11.accept that the Barnett Formula has worked well. How has it works well?

:34:12. > :34:16.There is a cross parliamentary consensus as they don't know what to

:34:17. > :34:23.do about it. Why has it works well, when Wales, clearly loses out? I'm

:34:24. > :34:25.not sure by I accept that when you look at overall underspend --

:34:26. > :34:32.government spending. It is per capita spending in Scotland, which

:34:33. > :34:35.is way ahead of per capita spending in Wales, but per capita incomes in

:34:36. > :34:41.Scotland are way ahead of Wales. Why is that fair Labour politician? We

:34:42. > :34:45.have said we want to have more equitable distribution. You haven't,

:34:46. > :34:49.you have said you will keep the Barnett Formula. I'm not sure

:34:50. > :34:53.necessarily punishing Scotland is the way to go. The way that this

:34:54. > :34:57.debate is going, what message does it send to the Scottish people? I

:34:58. > :35:01.want to be clear, I am delighted with the result we have got. The

:35:02. > :35:06.unity and solidarity where maintaining across the nations of

:35:07. > :35:08.the United Kingdom. All of this separatist talk, setting up

:35:09. > :35:12.different nations of the UK against each other goes completely against

:35:13. > :35:16.what we've all been campaigning for over the last two years, and we

:35:17. > :35:19.shouldn't have any truck with it. Coming onto the announcement on the

:35:20. > :35:25.minimum wage, you would increase it by ?1 50 to take it to ?8, which

:35:26. > :35:29.would be over five years. That is all you are going to do over five

:35:30. > :35:37.years. Have you worked out how much of this increase will be clawed back

:35:38. > :35:43.in taxation and fewer benefits? Work has been done on it. How much? I

:35:44. > :35:48.can't give you an exact figure. The policy pays for itself. The way we

:35:49. > :35:51.have looked at this, we looked at the government figures, and if

:35:52. > :35:55.people are earning more, they would therefore be paying more in income

:35:56. > :35:59.tax and they will be receiving less in benefit and will pay out less in

:36:00. > :36:03.tax credits, so we are confident that this will pay for itself. I'm

:36:04. > :36:08.not asking about the pavement, I'm asking what it means for low paid

:36:09. > :36:12.workers will stop they will get an extra 30p per hour -- about the

:36:13. > :36:17.payment. How much of the 30p to they get to keep? In terms of what they

:36:18. > :36:22.get in the first instance, somebody on the minimum wage now, with our

:36:23. > :36:26.proposal, would get in the region of ?3000 a year more than they are at

:36:27. > :36:35.the moment. That is before tax and benefits. How much do they keep? I

:36:36. > :36:38.cannot give you an exact figure. Why don't you give me an exact figure if

:36:39. > :36:41.you've done the modelling? We are talking about some of the lowest

:36:42. > :36:44.paid people in the country, and I would suggest to you that going down

:36:45. > :36:51.this route, they would face a marginal rate of tax of 50 or 60%

:36:52. > :36:55.and they will not keep most of this increase you are talking about. I

:36:56. > :37:00.don't accept your figures. But you haven't got any of your own. I just

:37:01. > :37:05.don't have any in my head I can give you right now. Don't you think out

:37:06. > :37:08.policies before you announce them? Of course we think our policies

:37:09. > :37:11.before we announce them but we are confident people have more in their

:37:12. > :37:14.pocket and will be better off with the changes proposed, and we are

:37:15. > :37:18.also seeking to incentivise employers to pay a living wage as

:37:19. > :37:22.well. At the end of the day, as I said, the economy is recovering,

:37:23. > :37:26.great, but we know, at the moment, it's still not delivering for a huge

:37:27. > :37:29.number of your viewers and we're determined to do something about it.

:37:30. > :37:33.The status quo is not an option. And even joining me. Twice in three

:37:34. > :37:36.days. You can't have too much of a good thing. I am mad. He said that,

:37:37. > :37:39.not me. It's just gone 11.35, you're

:37:40. > :37:41.watching the Sunday Politics. We say goodbye to viewers in Scotland

:37:42. > :37:44.who leave us now for Coming up here in twenty minutes,

:37:45. > :37:49.we'll be joined by John Prescott to talk about the challenge facing

:37:50. > :37:51.Labour as their conference starts First though,

:37:52. > :00:58.the Sunday Politics where you are. First though,

:00:59. > :00:59.the Conservative mayor's policy. No more time I'm afraid. Andrew, back

:01:00. > :01:07.to you. Welcome back the to Labour

:01:08. > :01:09.conference, where we're joined by the latest hot new stand-up

:01:10. > :01:13.comedian on the Manchester circuit. I speak of course of former Deputy

:01:14. > :01:18.Prime Minister John Prescott. In between giving tub-thumping

:01:19. > :01:20.speeches to rally the party faithful this week,

:01:21. > :01:23.he's appearing at the Comedy Store. He was also of course the man

:01:24. > :01:36.behind the last attempt to solve Our political panel is with me as

:01:37. > :01:39.well. John, we have got Scottish votes for Scottish laws, and more

:01:40. > :01:44.Scottish votes for Scottish laws, why not English votes for English

:01:45. > :01:48.laws? That's an English parliament in a major constitutional change and

:01:49. > :01:52.that is what has started. I certainly don't agree with that. I

:01:53. > :01:56.campaign for powers to be given to the regions. When I first tested it

:01:57. > :01:59.in the Northeast, I lost. Why? Because they said they were not the

:02:00. > :02:05.same powers you are giving to Scotland. So, basically, we must do

:02:06. > :02:11.that, decentralised, not just with a Westminster Parliament. As you know,

:02:12. > :02:17.in 32 years I produce the alternative. You've kept that for 32

:02:18. > :02:20.years? I took it off my shelf and everybody was talking about it now,

:02:21. > :02:26.but they weren't in 1982. This was my five plan. 200 meetings all

:02:27. > :02:32.around the country -- five-year plan. You wrote this morning, not 35

:02:33. > :02:36.years ago, that this was a plot to turn Westminster into a Tory

:02:37. > :02:42.dominated English parliament. But if that is how England had voted, it's

:02:43. > :02:46.not a plot, it's democracy. You can get reform in a more federal

:02:47. > :02:48.structure, and even English parliament does fit into the federal

:02:49. > :02:53.structure and that is what the Liberals say, but you need a fairer

:02:54. > :02:57.representation. It might be quite radical, and we could get rid of the

:02:58. > :03:02.Lord's, and have representation in the region there. It can't be done

:03:03. > :03:07.in two weeks. Alex Salmond, he's assuming he has been sold out, and

:03:08. > :03:12.it was less than a week ago they remain the announcement. We have to

:03:13. > :03:15.get it carried out will stop but don't connect it to the English

:03:16. > :03:20.parliament that fixes it in their favour. It may be pretty low

:03:21. > :03:27.politics from David Cameron to come up with something that was not in

:03:28. > :03:30.the vowel -- a bow on the front page of the daily record, but if they do

:03:31. > :03:33.not agree with what he said at the time of the general election, he

:03:34. > :03:37.will say two in which voters, if you want real protection in England,

:03:38. > :03:41.vote Conservative, and if you want Scottish MPs deciding on your level

:03:42. > :03:46.of taxation, vote Labour. He is scared to death of UKIP may have

:03:47. > :03:49.been saying it for a while. In the constitutional changes have to see

:03:50. > :03:54.what is fair and equitable, the same with the Barnett fallen -- formula.

:03:55. > :03:58.But what you have to do is get a fair system. It takes time to

:03:59. > :04:02.discuss it. I was doing a 32 years ago and nobody wanted to know. We

:04:03. > :04:06.had better start a debate, and don't mixed up the constitutional type of

:04:07. > :04:12.English parliament with what we are promising in Scotland. It is about

:04:13. > :04:16.trust and politics. So the turnout of the north-east regional assembly

:04:17. > :04:21.and they voted against it. The turnout that the police and crime

:04:22. > :04:24.commissioners was low. How'd you get people interested in the process and

:04:25. > :04:27.it doesn't feel like a conversation in smoky rooms and you go back to

:04:28. > :04:32.British people and tell them what you decided? If you look at the

:04:33. > :04:36.turnout in Scotland whether they were interested in, now it is

:04:37. > :04:38.phenomenally interesting. It is about real power, having real

:04:39. > :04:42.influence. What they said to me in the north-east, they said we know

:04:43. > :04:46.you have an idea for devolution and you will give us assemblies but it

:04:47. > :04:50.doesn't have the power of Scotland, but now we are talking about

:04:51. > :04:53.equity, similar distribution of power and similar resources. The

:04:54. > :04:59.English people are entitled to that. They have been robbed of it for too

:05:00. > :05:02.long. Labour has long struggled with what it should do over devolving

:05:03. > :05:06.power to the regions and you came up with regional assemblies. Ed

:05:07. > :05:10.Miliband has a different idea of city regions. Aren't they the same

:05:11. > :05:14.idea of yours but without a democratic accountability? Can we

:05:15. > :05:17.really trust the greater region of Manchester or Birmingham to deliver

:05:18. > :05:24.if there is not the same kind of democratic link with the people? I

:05:25. > :05:28.live in whole, and it stops on the boundary of the Pennines -- the city

:05:29. > :05:31.of Hull. We have city regions from Labour because I failed in the

:05:32. > :05:36.north-east to get the assemblies in, and now we have to look at those

:05:37. > :05:40.options. Do you work through city regions? Mainly in the north, I

:05:41. > :05:43.might say. Even the federal structure they talk about my be in

:05:44. > :05:47.the North or Midlands with Birmingham, but there are a number

:05:48. > :05:50.of options and that is where I believe that what the White Paper

:05:51. > :05:55.should do is to put those options in. Instead of having to put them

:05:56. > :05:58.together, state what you want to do in the English regions. Leave it to

:05:59. > :06:02.the legislation, which is what will happen with the Scottish, and once

:06:03. > :06:07.you've agreed it, you do it after. You have to start the radical debate

:06:08. > :06:12.about giving the English regions, not centralised in London, but

:06:13. > :06:14.decentralised. Do you need to have a separate English parliament?

:06:15. > :06:20.Wouldn't it just satisfy the English if you simply said to MPs, when it's

:06:21. > :06:24.in English matter in the House of Commons, stop interfering? I would

:06:25. > :06:29.disagree with that. I would say put the option in the White Paper. The

:06:30. > :06:32.White Paper seems to be talking about Scotland. If you don't put the

:06:33. > :06:37.commitments to what you want to do with the English regions, people

:06:38. > :06:41.might say I'm not supporting that. Put the framework in the White

:06:42. > :06:44.Paper, but a different timetable. Devolution in this country has been

:06:45. > :06:48.to a different timetable, whether it's Wales, Northern Ireland. Start

:06:49. > :06:56.looking fundamentally at it and the Labour Party should be leading the

:06:57. > :07:00.debate. Let's come the no campaign lost Glasgow. The cradle of British

:07:01. > :07:03.socialism. -- let's come to something that happened with the

:07:04. > :07:07.referendum as the no campaign lost Glasgow. Is it a sign that the

:07:08. > :07:13.Labour Party are finding it hard to what -- hold on to their traditional

:07:14. > :07:15.working class vote question mark its different in Manchester. They would

:07:16. > :07:25.say it is a message about decentralisation. If we change the

:07:26. > :07:28.message a bit maybe. We have been thinking that now it is that either

:07:29. > :07:33.the Labour Party to recognise it is not the old message and old areas

:07:34. > :07:37.that will win it. I remember covering the 1997 referendum in

:07:38. > :07:41.Scotland and you gave a tub thumping speech in a big hall in Hamilton and

:07:42. > :07:44.you really connected. Obviously it was a different referendum because

:07:45. > :07:49.that was about a parliament, not independence and Alex Salmond was on

:07:50. > :07:53.your side, but you, and Ingush MP, an English minister, connected to

:07:54. > :08:01.the core Labour voters in a way that Ed Miliband is failing to do -- an

:08:02. > :08:06.English MP. You make a fair point. In the big rally, I had to point out

:08:07. > :08:12.I was Welsh. Enough of this. Get on with it. What I was saying there was

:08:13. > :08:17.that I supported you, as I did for 30 odd years when Labour MPs were

:08:18. > :08:20.against any thinker Scotland. I support you, but I expect you to

:08:21. > :08:24.come in with your Scottish MPs and make sure the English get their

:08:25. > :08:28.share of the powers and resources and that is what that speech was

:08:29. > :08:33.about, and by God, it's as relevant today as it was then. I haven't got

:08:34. > :08:41.any Scottish MPs, I live in Knightsbridge. Did you get the vote?

:08:42. > :08:48.No. What would you have done? I can't tell you. You would have voted

:08:49. > :08:55.yes, come on. I'm interested. What do you want to hear from the speech

:08:56. > :09:00.by Ed Miliband? People are wondering about where Labour stands. There are

:09:01. > :09:06.many issues we have flown around, and we've done the discussion just

:09:07. > :09:10.now. What he has got to do where he started off on the minimum wage. You

:09:11. > :09:14.are trying to deal with those left behind. Those are the bottom. That

:09:15. > :09:18.is the Labour message. The National Health Service is our creation and

:09:19. > :09:21.we have to say it will be saved. If you can save all of these bankers

:09:22. > :09:25.with all the money and say you haven't got the money for the NHS,

:09:26. > :09:30.say where we stand. That will be the priority. The third one, housing. I

:09:31. > :09:34.have had a revolutionary idea that you can buy a house without a

:09:35. > :09:39.deposit and without the interest or paying the stamp duty, and you buy

:09:40. > :09:44.it by rent. The government gives ?150 billion guaranteed housing for

:09:45. > :09:47.up to 600,000. Get down to ordinary people who can use their rent to buy

:09:48. > :09:51.the house. It's happening in the north-east. Why are they not

:09:52. > :09:54.listening to you? You have said more to connect with ordinary people in

:09:55. > :09:59.three minutes than we will probably hear in an hour. I've been telling

:10:00. > :10:04.them, made, and we have a commission coming out. People don't want

:10:05. > :10:09.commissions, they want action. I say, I know what we do, housing,

:10:10. > :10:14.health, the people. That is our language. That is why we are Labour.

:10:15. > :10:17.That a lot of people run away. I think in Glasgow, they wondered

:10:18. > :10:21.about that. If you turn up on the same three platforms, and I know

:10:22. > :10:25.it's a critical thing to say, they think in Scotland it is a coalition.

:10:26. > :10:30.I don't like coalitions. It looks like a coalition, didn't it? Maybe

:10:31. > :10:34.it was saved because Rupert Murdoch started the The Times about the

:10:35. > :10:41.polls and he couldn't even get the sun to say that they wanted. We

:10:42. > :10:45.haven't got time. I wondered how long it would take is to get to

:10:46. > :10:50.repot Murdoch. You beat the record. -- to Rupert Murdoch. Labour is

:10:51. > :10:54.quite behind on the economy, and people are looking at Labour, trying

:10:55. > :11:00.to work out if they can trust you to the stewards of the economy given

:11:01. > :11:03.2010. Under Labour 's plans there is 20 billion of cuts to make in the

:11:04. > :11:10.next Parliament. Will we hear anything about that? It is about the

:11:11. > :11:15.proportion of debt to GDP. I know it sounds historic, but our debt when

:11:16. > :11:19.we came in in 1997 was a proportion of GDP, and you must know this, and

:11:20. > :11:26.that was less than Thatcher's. Why did we get done on debt? You guys

:11:27. > :11:30.run around saying a lot about it, but the fact is it was worse under

:11:31. > :11:36.Thatcher. Thatcher is now seen as a hero. If you look at the debt, it is

:11:37. > :11:40.still a problem. Gordon Brown did an awful lot to solve those problems,

:11:41. > :11:44.but they were still left with us. What we have to have is a sensible

:11:45. > :11:47.discussion like we had on devolution and now we are talking about

:11:48. > :11:52.finances. Let's look at the public sector debt and the price we pay. We

:11:53. > :11:55.need to be putting the record straight. The problem is they tell

:11:56. > :11:59.me, John, we have to look to the future not the past. We are getting

:12:00. > :12:02.screwed on the past and we have to change it and perhaps Gordon Brown

:12:03. > :12:09.coming in could do something. Finishing on the future, when we did

:12:10. > :12:14.a poll of the Labour candidates, you were watching on the big screen,

:12:15. > :12:20.when it came up that their favourite to succeed Ed Miliband was Yvette

:12:21. > :12:28.Cooper, why did you shout no! That is alive. -- alive. -- that is not

:12:29. > :12:38.true. I know resistance is not strong. What did that mean?

:12:39. > :12:47.You can't get away with anything at a Conference, John. I was dropping

:12:48. > :12:53.comments them to pick up everywhere, I do not wear -- nowhere they got

:12:54. > :12:59.that one from. Good to have you back. Round of applause for former

:13:00. > :13:00.Deputy Prime Minister. That's it for today. Don't applaud them, they are

:13:01. > :13:02.useless. my guests. I'll be back here at

:13:03. > :13:07.Labour conference for the Daily 11:30am tomorrow when we'll bring

:13:08. > :13:11.you live coverage of the speech by We're here all week, and next Sunday

:13:12. > :13:17.you can find us in Birmingham for Remember if it's Sunday,

:13:18. > :13:24.it's the Sunday Politics.