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It's Sunday Morning, and this is the Sunday Politics. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Theresa May says she has no plans to increase tax levels, | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
but refuses to repeat David Cameron's 2015 manifesto | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
promise ruling out hikes in VAT, national insurance and income tax. | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
The leaders of the EU's 27 member states unanimously | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
agree their negotiating strategy for the upcoming Brexit talks, but | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
And in the last of our series of interviews ahead of Thursday's | :01:02. | :01:11. | |
local elections, I'll be talking to the leader of Plaid Cymru Leanne | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Wood, and the former leader of the SNP Alex Salmond. | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
They hit an all-time low after coalition government, | :01:21. | :01:49. | |
but are the Lib Dems poised to bounce back, | :01:50. | :01:49. | |
And with me to analyse the week's politics, | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
Isabel Oakeshott, Steve Richards, Tom Newton-Dunn. | :01:56. | :01:56. | |
They'll be tweeting using the hashtag #bbcsp. | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
So when Theresa May was interviewed just over an hour ago | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
on The Andrew Marr Show, the Prime Minister was asked | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
to confirm that she would repeat David Cameron's 2015 election | :02:05. | :02:05. | |
promise not to raise VAT, national insurance and income tax | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
We have absolutely no plans to increase the level of tax, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
but I'm also very clear that I don't want to make specific proposals | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
on taxes unless I'm absolutely sure that I can deliver on those. | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
But it is, would be my intention as a Conservative Government | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
and a Conservative Prime Minister, to reduce the taxes | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
The Tories like to have a clear tax message in elections, are they | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
getting into a bit of a mess? That method wasn't clear, but does it | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
mean, saying they have no plans to increase the level of tax? We are | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
clear there will not be a rise in VAT, a lot of commentators will get | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
overexcited about that, but there was no great expectations there | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
would be a rise in VAT. Tempting as it is, because even one percentage | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
point on VAT rate is 4.5 billion for the exchequer so it is tempting but | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
there has been no speculation that would happen. We can see that she | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
clearly wants to reiterate the language about hard-working families | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
but I don't think we are that much the wiser. Even if she does not put | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
up rates, according to projections the overall tax burden, as a | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
percentage of GDP, is rising, will rise in the years ahead. That is why | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
it was an odd phrase, I know she is doing it to be evasive but to say | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
they have no plans to raise the general level of taxation, they do | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
have. We also know they have specific plans because it was in the | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
last budget, they had a tax rise which they had to revise, National | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
Insurance rises, so very wisely in my view they are keeping options | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
open, the 2015 tax-and-spend debate was a fantasy world, totally | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
unrelated to the demands that would follow. They now have the | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
flexibility, one of the arguments you had heard last time was Philip | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
Hammond saying to her, we have to break away from the 2015 manifesto | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
commitment and we can only do it this way, that is one of the better | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
arguments. The Tories like to talk about tax cuts in elections, whether | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
they do it is another matter, but they are not being allowed to talk | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
about tax cuts, they are now on the defensive over whether they will | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
raise taxes. That is not a healthy position for the campaign to be in. | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
If you look at the numbers, quite frankly, if you will not do this at | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
this election with eight 20 point lead over Labour, then when will you | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
take these tough decisions? Reading between the lines of what Theresa | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
May has said all over different broadcasters this morning, income | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
tax will go down for low-income families, such as the threshold rise | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
that microbes that was already factored in. She has had to commit | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
to it again. VAT will be fat, national insurance contributions | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
will go up. Do you think they will go up? I think so, she had plenty of | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
opportunity to rule it out and she didn't. There was a terrible mess | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
with the budget, it is a good tax argument but not a good electoral | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
argument that you are eroding the base so heavily with people moving | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
into self-employment that as you raise national insurance | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
contributions for everybody but the self-employed, it is something the | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Treasury will have to look at. The other triple lock on pensions, we | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
don't know if they will keep to that either? If they are sensible they | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
will find a form of words to give them flexibility in that area as | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
well. I would say there is no question over that, that has gone. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
As Mrs May would say, you will have to wait for the manifesto. That is | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
what all the party leaders tell me! Labour have spent the weekend | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
pushing their messages Speaking at a camapign rally | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
in London yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn promised a Labour | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
government would fix what he called People are fed up, fed up with not | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
being able to get somewhere to live, fed up waiting for hospital | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
appointments, fed up with 0-hours contracts, fed up with low pay, fed | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
up with debt, fed up with not being able to get on in their lives | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
because we have a system that is rigged against so many. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
I've been joined from Newcastle by Labour's elections | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
and campaigns co-ordinator, Ian Lavery. | :06:30. | :06:30. | |
Good morning. To deal with this rigged economy, as Mr Corbyn calls | :06:31. | :06:41. | |
it, the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has a 20 point plan for | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
workers out today. When you add up everything he plans to do to help | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
workers, how much will it cost? The full costings, one thing I need to | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
say at the very beginning, the costings of any policy which we have | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
already ruled out and any policy we will be ruling out in the next few | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
days and weeks will be fully costed in the manifesto and in addition to | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
the fact that it will be fully costed, we will see it in the | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
manifesto how indeed it has been funded, so we are very clear, | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
anything we have seen already, and there are some exciting policy | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
releases and there will be more in the future, anything we are going to | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
do will be fully costed and in the manifesto. You announced a 20 point | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
plan but cannot tell me what the costs will be this morning so at the | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
moment it is a menu without prices? It is not a menu without prices, it | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
is a fantastic opportunity. This 20 point plan is something which will | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
transform the lives of millions of millions of people in the | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
workplace... But what is the cost? It will be welcomed by many people | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
across the UK. The fact the costings have not been released, you will | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
have to be patient, it will be released very clearly, it will | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
identify that in the manifesto. Let me come down to one of the points, | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
the end of the public sector pay freeze. Can you give us any idea how | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
much that will cost? The end of the public sector pay freeze, so | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
important to the future of the Labour Party, it is an massive | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
policy decision. Let me say at this stage, Theresa May, the Prime | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
Minister, this morning, on The Andrew Marr Show, did not have the | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
common decency, courtesy all respect to condone the fact that nurses, the | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
heroes of the NHS, have had a reduction of nearly 14% in their | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
wages since 2010 and are using food banks to feed themselves! Does that | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
not say everything that is wrong with today's society? So can you | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
tell me what it will cost, which is what my question was? What I will | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
say is everything the Labour Party pledges, everything that we come out | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
with, what we will roll out between now and the 8th of June, will be | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
fully costed, people will be very much aware of how much the costings | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
will be, where the funding will come from, when the manifesto is | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
published. What about doubling paternity leave, nu minimum wage, | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
four new bank holidays, any idea what it will | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
cost? These are exciting new proposals and of course today cost | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
money but we are the sixth richest economy in the world. It is about | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
redistribution of the wealth we create. We are seeing growth in the | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
economy, it is how we utilise the finances in the best way we possibly | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
can for a fairer society for the many and not the few. You just can't | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
tell me how much it will cost? That is why I will repeat again that you | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
need to be very patient. Do you know the cost yourself? You are the head | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
of the campaign, do you know the cost of these things yourself? I am | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
very much aware of how much the costings are likely to be, they have | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
been identified, they will be published in the manifesto. You | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
really do understand I would not be releasing today, live on your show, | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
any costings or predictions with regards the manifesto. Why not? You | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
have released the policy, why not the cost? Because there is a fine | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
detail and we will identify it to the general public in the manifesto. | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
We not only explain how much it will cost but we will explain where the | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
funding comes from. Be patient. Will some of the costs be met by | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
increasing taxes? I would think at this point in time there is not any | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
indication to increase basic taxes and again the taxes and spending of | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
the Labour Government with the proposals of the 20 point plan, the | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
issues we have got, housing, the NHS, crime, education will all be | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
identified with the costings in the publication. Can you tell us this | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
morning, we'll tax for most people rise or not to finance this? We in | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
the Labour Party are looking to a fair tax system which will be | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
clearly identified in the manifesto. Mr McDonnell also wants to ban all | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
0-hours contracts. Would that include those who actually like | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
those contracts? There are nearly 1 million, depending on which figured | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
you'd use, there are nearly 1 million people on zero-hours | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
contract and the vast proportion of those want to be able to live a | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
decent life, a secure life, they want to understand whether they will | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
be at work the next day, they're included hours... I understand a lot | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
of people don't like zero-hours contract and your proposal will | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
address that, but there are those, I saw one survey where 65% of people | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
on zero-hours contract like the flexibility it gives them. Will you | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
force them off zero-hours contract or if they like them will they | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
continue with them? We will discuss it with employee is to make sure | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
individuals in the workplace have the right to negotiate hours in that | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
workplace. Guaranteed hours is very, very important. Zero-hour contracts | :12:21. | :12:29. | |
are an instrument in which employers abuse and exploit mainly young | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
people, mainly female people in the workplace. We would be banning | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
zero-hour contract. But there are those, students for example, who | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
like them, would they be forced off zero-hour contracts in your | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
proposal? Our proposal would be banning zero-hour contract and | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
introducing contracts which have set hours in the workplace. You also say | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
no company will be able to bid for a public contract unless the boss | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
earns no more than 20 times the lowest paid, or the average wage, | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
I'm not quite sure which. What would happen if British Aerospace bids to | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
build more joint strike Fighters and the boss is paid more than 20 times? | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
I understand the point you raise but we have an obscene situation in this | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
country, Andrew, in which the bosses at the very top make an absolute | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
fortune... But what would happen then? Who would build joint strike | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
Fighters... The difference in wages between the top earners in the | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
country and the people in the factories, in the workshops, | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
producing the goods, is vast. I understand that is the reason you | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
want a ratio. What I am saying is, what happens if the ratio is | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
greater? Who gets the contract if not British Aerospace? Who else | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
builds the planes? We are going to introduce a wage rate CEO of one to | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
20. -- wage ratio. We want to close the gap between the people at the | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
very top and people who produce the goods. Let me try one more Time, who | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
would build the joint strike fighter? We would look at the issue | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
as it came along but the policy is clear... Can you name a single | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
defence contractor weather boss' salary is less than 20 times average | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
earnings? We are not reducing, we have rolled that out as part of this | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
fantastic plan to transform society to get rid of discrimination, to try | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
and bring together our communities. We will introduce a pay ratio of one | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
to 20. Fair enough, thank you very much. | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
It's a month after the triggering of Article 50, and EU leaders - | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
with the exception of Britain - met in Brussels this weekend | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
to agree their opening negotiating stance, to get the divorce | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
It is inside this psychedelic chamber where Britain's 'Grexit' | :14:59. | :15:15. | |
future will be decided over the next two years, but there is a vast gulf | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
in rhetoric coming from the UK and the EU. With parallel narratives | :15:21. | :15:30. | |
emerging for both sides. There is broad agreement that an orderly | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
withdrawal is in the interests of both sides. But Theresa May's | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
position is that the terms of our future trade deal should be | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
negotiated alongside the terms of our divorce. Meanwhile the EU says | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
the terms of the UK's exit must be decided before any discussion on a | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
future trade deal can begin. But don't forget that divorce | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
settlement. Don't remind me. In Brussels, many think written should | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
pay even more, while in the UK ministers said the divorce bill | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
should be capped at 3 billion. After you. Thank you. | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
For are you looking forward to it? Isn't that divorce bill a bit high? | :16:10. | :16:20. | |
Isn't this about punishing Britain? We are very united, you all seem so | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
surprised but it's a fact. How soon can we get a deal? We have to wait | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
for the elections. It was the decision of Mrs May. It took over an | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
hour for the leaders to make their entrances but once inside it's just | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
a few minutes to agree the negotiating guidelines. They set out | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
three main areas. The first phase of talks on the divorce settlement will | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
deal with the existing financial commitments to the EU, the Northern | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
Ireland border and the rights of EU citizens in the UK. They said a UK | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
trade agreement can be discussed when the first phase of talks | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
reaches significant progress. And that there must be unity in the | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
negotiations, that individual EU members won't negotiate separately | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
with the UK. They are quite good here at negotiating because they are | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
used to it. They set a maximum and then they have to recede a little | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
bit depending on what the other side is prepared to offer. I think there | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
is room for manoeuvre in some issues, but I don't think some of | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
the baseline things will change that much. For example I don't think the | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
European Union will concede on the rights of citizens who are already | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
in the UK. It will be very difficult for them to accept that they will | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
not be any exit bill, and the question of Northern Ireland is very | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
important as well, the hard order question. The baseline things are | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
not going to move that much, then you have room for manoeuvring | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
between. On security, defence and the fight against terrorism, the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
guidelines said the EU stands ready to work together. And after lunch, | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
friendly signs from some EU leaders as they gave individual press | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
conferences. Paul and said the talks should open doors to new | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
opportunities and even German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
earlier said some in Britain were deluded about Brexit, softened her | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
tone saying there was no conspiracy against the UK. Unity was the | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
buzzword at this summit and for once everybody seemed to be sticking to | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
the script. That unity is not only amongst the 27 states, it's also | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
among the institutions so many of the divisions we have seen in the | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
past at European level do not exist. That is very important and it's not | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
be unity that is directed somehow against the UK because I think we | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
all want this to be an orderly process and part of that is that the | :18:54. | :19:06. | |
EU side is unified. So although there are no surprises here, what | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
took place in this room was a significant step towards the real | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
Brexit negotiations which will begin soon after the general election in | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
June, said to be the most complex the UK has faced in our lifetimes. | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
Isabel, Steve and Tom are still with me. | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
Isabel, doesn't the British media have to be a bit careful here? We | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
would never take at face value anything a British politician tells | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
us. We would question it, put it in context and wonder if they are | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
bluffing, but we seem to take at face value anything a European | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
politician says about these negotiations. You only have to look | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
at the front page of the Sunday Times today to see that. They quoted | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
at length Juncker, who didn't like the food at the reception and this | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
and that, and I think the mood is very optimistic. The key thing is | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
the EU trade Commissioner has said we will get a free trade deal and a | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
lot of people seem to be wilfully ignoring that incredibly big | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
concession. That is what will happen in their view. Everything that is | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
said at the moment needs a slight rerun over. They are all in | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
negotiating positions, plus we seem to be completely unaware that they | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
all have their own domestic constituencies as well. Angela | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
Merkel has an important election coming up in September, | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
Euroscepticism is quite different from Britain of course, but there's | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
a different kind of euro scepticism in Germany, she has got to deal with | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
that. Of course she has, which is why you are right, nothing should be | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
taken too seriously out of the mouths of British politicians or | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
European politicians until October this year. We have got to wait for | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
the French elections, then German elections, and if you look through | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
this you can see a way forward. There's no trade talks until pay up, | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
but what was actually written was no trade talks until we make | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
significant progress on the money. You can define significant progress | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
in a lot of ways but come December, fireworks over the summer, we all | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
get very excited about it, in these chairs I'm sure, come December | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
things will look a lot smoother. The German elections are at the end of | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
September but I've seen reports in German press, depending how it goes | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
it could take until Christmas before a new coalition government is put | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
together. The Brussels long-standing negotiating tactic of nothing is | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
agreed until everything is agreed, then I guess the British could say | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
we agree a certain sum of money if that's what it takes but that | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
depends on them, what good trade deal we get. If we don't get that, | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
the sum of money is off the table. In that sense, the two are going | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
parallel. However, I wouldn't entirely dismiss what people are | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
saying in their pre-election periods to their own electorates because | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
they have to some extent to deliver subsequently. Of course Angela | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
Merkel is campaigning and electioneering, who wouldn't, she | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
has a tough election to fight, but she is measured and thoughtful and | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
when she says things like some of the British are delusional, that is | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
unusually strong language for her. What was she referring to? I don't | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
know, it wasn't specific. Have the cake and eat it perhaps the | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
sequencing the British don't want. When they thought the British | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
government was going to effectively demand membership of the single | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
market, that's not going to happen now. Unless you sign up to the four | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
pillars, that's the cake and eat it proposition, which they are right in | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
saying Theresa May has made. But everybody has access, even with no | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
deal you have access. The other side of it is I think there will be a | :23:08. | :23:17. | |
united position from them. And so, as somebody pointed out in that | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
report, they are experienced, tough negotiators, so I don't think it | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
will be quite as easy as some think. I spoke to one of those who drew up | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
Article 50 and they said to me they deliberately put this two year | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
timetable in to make it impossible for anybody to think about leaving. | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
This is really tight, this negotiation. Easy, it isn't. | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
This coming Thursday, voters up and down the country | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
will be going to the polls in this year's local elections. | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
Over the past few weeks I've interviewed representatives | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
of the Conservative Party, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, | :23:58. | :23:58. | |
Today it's the turn of Plaid Cymru and the SNP. | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
A little earlier I spoke Alex Salmond, who until 2014 | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
I started by asking him why Scots should vote SNP in local elections | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
when the Scottish Government had just cut central Government funding | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
It's actually a funding increase going into Scottish councils this | :24:12. | :24:27. | |
year, and if you look at the funding position for example between | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
Scottish councils and those in England, which are obviously | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
directly related through the Barnett formula, the funding in Scotland has | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
been incomparably better than that in England so there's a whole range | :24:39. | :24:49. | |
of the -- of reasons... What's happening south of the border | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
indicates the protection the Scottish Parliament has been able to | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
put in that helps vital services in Scotland. But there hasn't been a | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
funding increase, the block grant from Westminster to Edinburgh was | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
increased by 1.5% in real terms but the grant to councils was cut by | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
2.6%. It was going to be a cut of 330 million, the Greens got you to | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
reduce it to 170 million but it is still a cut of 2.6%. Your own | :25:17. | :25:27. | |
Aberdeenshire Council has had a cut to 391 million. You have cut the | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
money to councils. Yes, but councils have available to them more | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
resources this year, and as you say the budget increased that further | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
which is why we put forward an excellent local government budget in | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
Aberdeenshire and resisted a Tory attempts to knock ?3 million off... | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
You asked me about Aberdeenshire, and Aberdeenshire has put forward a | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
budget for investment expansion and resisted a Tory attempts to knock ?3 | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
million off the education budget, and I'm very grateful you have given | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
me the opportunity to make that point. The Government in Edinburgh | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
has cut the money to Aberdeenshire by ?11 million. It is a cut. But | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
there is an investment budget in Aberdeenshire that has been made | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
available by the ability to increase the council tax by 2.5% after a | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
nine-year freeze in Scotland, and that has brought more resources into | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
local government and that's why the butchered in Aberdeenshire has been | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
an investment budget including protection of the education budget | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
in the face of a Tory and liberal attempt to cut bit. You have to | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
compare what is happening in Scotland and England, and there's no | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
doubt Scottish local authorities have been much better funded than | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
those in England over the last few years and that's been the ability of | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
the Scottish Government to protect the services at local level. A good | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
reason for voting SNP. If they have been so well funded, why after a | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
decade of SNP rule do one in five Scottish pupils leave primary school | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
functionally illiterate? You have got to take these things... Nicola | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
Sturgeon has made it a top priority to address these challenges but | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
let's take another statistic. 93% of Scottish kids are now emerging from | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
school to positive destinations, that means to further education, | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
apprenticeships or work. Why are one in five functionally illiterate? You | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
argue one statistic, I'm arguing Scottish education is putting in | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
some substantially good performances like the 93% going on to positive | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
destinations. You can't have a failing education system if you have | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
got that 93%, and incidentally a record low youth unemployment in | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
Scotland without the second lowest unemployment rate in Europe. These | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
pupils are being prepared by the Scottish education system. Let's | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
take the figures in the round on education. It's so important. Under | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
your watch, under your government, the Scottish schools in the most | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
important global comparison have fallen from tenth to 19th in | :28:16. | :28:25. | |
science, and 11 to 24th in maths, that is a record of decline and | :28:26. | :28:32. | |
failure. That is by the OECD and first questions about that, but the | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
OECD has also described Scotland is one of the best educated societies | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
in the world. That was from the school system in previous years gone | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
by. For those who are currently in Scottish schools, you have fallen | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
from 11th to 24th in mathematics. The OECD was commenting on | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
introduction of the new curriculum for excellence in which they have | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
given a resounding thumbs up to it, and that's the same source as the | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
rankings which you are comparing. Nicola Sturgeon has said there are | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
challenges on Scottish education, particularly the access through the | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
education system and the attainment gap but don't tell me it's failing | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
when 55% of our pupils have gone on to higher education. That's one of | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
the most impressive figures in the world. Why have you cut 4000 | :29:22. | :29:28. | |
teachers? The pupil numbers in Scotland have been falling over | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
recent years as well and now of course we are increasing the number | :29:33. | :29:35. | |
of people going through teachers training so we can make sure that | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
number increases, but listen, the Scottish Government and Scottish | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
Parliament, as you very well know, are subject to real terms spending | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
cuts over the last few years and all public services have been under | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
pressure. The main reason in terms of teacher numbers has been an | :29:54. | :29:56. | |
attempt on the Scottish Government to protect the teacher pupil ratio, | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
and that will now be enhanced by a further taker -- intake. You | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
promised you would reduce primary class sizes to 18 and instead they | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
are now 23.5 and rising. You broke that promise. You didn't mention | :30:15. | :30:21. | |
where we started from. We have kept the teacher pupil ratio very solid | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
in Scotland and that's been against a range of public expenditure cuts | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
but the new intake of teachers into the new teacher training in Scotland | :30:30. | :30:31. | |
I think will enhance the system. You have spent in the pasty in | :30:32. | :30:42. | |
Hollywood 43 hours on Government time debating independence. How many | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
hours have you debated education on Government time? I don't have that | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
they get a hand... The answer is zero, you have spent zero-hours | :30:53. | :30:55. | |
debating education on Government time. Isn't it time the SNP got back | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
to concentrating on the day job? Andrew, as you very well know Nicola | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
Sturgeon has identified a key priority, closing the attainment gap | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
in Scottish education. That is exactly what she has done. Let me | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
answer the question, it is difficult to be in a remote location, if you | :31:15. | :31:20. | |
talk before I answer the question then the view was will not be able | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
to listen. I let you answer that without saying a word. Is this | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
general election about independence, as you say it is, or not about | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
independence, as Mrs Sturgeon says it is? No, I have said exactly the | :31:36. | :31:41. | |
same as Nicola Sturgeon on that. The issue what independence will be | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
decided in a national referendum of the Scottish people. The mandate for | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
that referendum was gained in last year's Scottish elections. What this | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
election is about is backing the right of the Scottish parliament to | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
exercise that mandate and also providing real opposition to this | :31:58. | :32:00. | |
Tory Government and allowing the Scottish Parliament to reverse | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
austerity and some of the public expenditure cutbacks you have been | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
talking about, that is what this is about, backing our Scottish | :32:10. | :32:10. | |
Parliament. Alex Salmond, speaking | :32:11. | :32:12. | |
to me earlier. I'm now joined by the leader | :32:13. | :32:14. | |
of Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood. You accuse the Government of wanting | :32:15. | :32:21. | |
an extreme Brexit, those are your words. What is the difference | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
between hard Brexit and extreme Brexit? My concern is the way in | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
which we leave the European Union could be very damaging to Wales if, | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
for example, there are tariffs introduced then that would have a | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
real impact in terms of Welsh jobs, and I want to make sure that we have | :32:38. | :32:44. | |
a Brexit that doesn't cause the damage to Wales that could be | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
caused. But what is the difference between extreme and hard? Anything | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
that puts Welsh jobs at risk is either extreme or hard and | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
unacceptable to Plaid Cymru, and we will do what we can to protect those | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
jobs. You want Wales to remain a member of the single market even if | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
the UK isn't, which would mean Wales having to accept the free movement | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
of people, still being under the jurisdiction of the European Court, | :33:11. | :33:21. | |
and you also want to stay in the customs union which means you could | :33:22. | :33:24. | |
not do your own free trade deals. What is the difference between that | :33:25. | :33:26. | |
and being a member of the European Union? We would be like Norway, | :33:27. | :33:29. | |
outside the European Union and inside the single market. The key | :33:30. | :33:31. | |
question is the issue of jobs and the ability to continue to trade. | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
Wales exports, we are the biggest exporter in the whole of the UK, so | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
there are many jobs reliant upon those goods being able to be sold to | :33:41. | :33:48. | |
the single market. Is it central to the UK? Out of the four countries | :33:49. | :33:54. | |
that make up the UK... Proportionally, yes. If you remain | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
in the single market, it is hard to see how Wales could stay in the | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
single market if the UK -- when the rest of the UK was not, you cite | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
Norway, that has free movement, it has to be said, it effectively have | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
to accept the jurisdiction of the European Court, it is not in the | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
customs union so it can do some of its own free trade deals, but the | :34:20. | :34:28. | |
Welsh people voted to leave. We have to accept the principle of free | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
movement if there is not going to be a hard border between the north and | :34:33. | :34:35. | |
south of Ireland. There is going to be free movement within Ireland and | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
therefore freedom of movement, as we said in the referendum campaign, | :34:41. | :34:45. | |
would be very, very difficult to rule out. You lost that campaign, as | :34:46. | :34:51. | |
you know, Wales voted to leave, 17 Council areas voted to leave, only | :34:52. | :34:57. | |
five voted to remain. Doesn't it explain why your party is going | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
nowhere? A majority in Wales voted to leave but you effectively want to | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
support that and de facto remain in the EU? I don't accept that, we | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
accepted the result but Plaid Cymru now is about defending Wales. There | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
are so many risks facing our people from the jobs perspective, the | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
privatisation perspective, the cuts perspective, and from the fact that | :35:22. | :35:25. | |
the Tories would like to grab power was back from our National Assembly, | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
so the key point... If you look at the Wales bill that went through | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
recently, the list of reserved powers there suggests there are some | :35:35. | :35:37. | |
powers currently within the Welsh Assembly jurisdiction that would be | :35:38. | :35:44. | |
dragged back. Which power was will Westminster take back? They could | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
take powers back over the NHS, for example. There is no indication they | :35:50. | :35:56. | |
want to do that. The Tories have attacked the Welsh NHS. That is my | :35:57. | :36:05. | |
point! Quite viciously. If they increase their mandate, I wouldn't | :36:06. | :36:08. | |
put it past them to try to take power was back over the NHS and then | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
of course we risk our NHS being privatised though this election is | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
all about defending Wales, protecting Welsh people from further | :36:19. | :36:21. | |
privatisation and cuts and a power grab from the Tories. Why is there | :36:22. | :36:25. | |
never a breakthrough for your party, Plaid Cymru? Labour dominated in | :36:26. | :36:30. | |
Wales for years, the Tories do quite well, Ukip had a surge for a while, | :36:31. | :36:34. | |
it looks like the Tories will have another surge, never you, always the | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
bridesmaid, never the bride. Wait until Thursday and I think you will | :36:40. | :36:43. | |
see that in many parts of Wales we will increase our representation at | :36:44. | :36:46. | |
a local council level. In the Rhondda, where I am assembly member, | :36:47. | :36:53. | |
we are looking to increase our representation... You are only 13% | :36:54. | :37:01. | |
in the polls will stop which is half of even the Tories in Wales! If you | :37:02. | :37:05. | |
don't breakthrough in the selection, if the real problem is going | :37:06. | :37:12. | |
nowhere, do you think you will pack it in? Robert Green not, I have a | :37:13. | :37:17. | |
job to do, a vision of Wales which is about building up our nation and | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
standing on our own two feet and my job is not done yet. Thank you for | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
being with us as part of your job, we will see how it goes on Thursday. | :37:26. | :37:29. | |
It's just gone 11.35, you're watching the Sunday Politics. | :37:30. | :37:31. | |
We say goodbye to viewers in Scotland who leave us now | :37:32. | :37:34. | |
Coming up here in 20 minutes, the Week Ahead. | :37:35. | :01:00. | |
We have the local elections, Metro elections in Liverpool, greater | :01:01. | :01:16. | |
Birmingham, West Midlands, how will they play into the general election? | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
Significantly, it is very unusual. People keep comparing this with the | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
election in 83, not! Margaret Thatcher was nervous and to wait | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
until after the local elections to call the election to see the result. | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
We are getting these result in the middle of an election campaign so it | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
will be important, whoever does badly will suffer a dent in | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
confidence in terms of how they approach the election and we are | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
also going to have mayoral figures as a reminder of another big | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
difference with the 80s that however big, say, the Conservatives win in | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
Westminster, there are now sectors of power in other parts of the | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
United Kingdom which were not there in the 80s. One of the reasons | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
niches that are rated in 83 was memories were still alive in | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
political circles of 1970, Wilson saw the local election results and | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
thought, I can win, he was told he would win by the Economist magazine, | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
who had done the analysis, and of course he lost, so that is why she | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
waited, Mrs May does not need to wait for that at all now, and on the | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
Metro elections, the one she will be looking at is the West Midlands, | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
that is the one that is a competition. I think she can really | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
lose on Thursday in the local elections, governing parties are | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
supposed to take effect again, losing lots of council seats. She is | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
projected to put on 100 or so seats, Labour projected to lose around 200, | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
the first time the main opposition party has shed seats since something | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
like 83 so clearly the local elections give Mrs May great | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
momentum going into the general election campaign but there is a | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
downside in that, which is what we have already heard fighting about | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
this morning, if it looks like it is going too well for the Tories, it | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
says to voters, why bother turning up? Sushi comes up with totally | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
unbelievable sound bites this morning that this is the most | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
important general election in her lifetime. Really?! For her it is! It | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
always is until the next one! I wonder if voter turnout is a | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
problem? Tory voters are more likely to vote than Labour voters. If there | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
is a sense that it is all over bar the shouting, the overall turnout | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
will be low that Tory voters are still likely to turn out more than | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Labour voters so she would still win some. I don't think she needs to be | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
too worried, I think there will be a significantly low turnout, even I am | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
finding it hard to be that excited about this general election. Really, | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
the policies, we have spent a lot of time talking about them today and we | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
have to examine them, but all this is about is, do you want Theresa May | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
or Jeremy Corbyn in Number Ten? Those are the only question is, | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
apart from possibly how strong do you feel about Brexit, that will be | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
on the voters' minds. You may say that but I will not be put off from | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
going through a list of policies that we have already had in the last | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
24 hours. On the Conservatives, more powers to stop company bosses under | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
pensions, of course Philip Green was in mind there. Labour has come up | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
with quite a few policies, actually, give all work of equal rights, | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
whether part-time or full-time, temporary or permanent. Ukip, scrap | :04:47. | :04:56. | |
VAT or takeaway -- on takeaway food and end the BBC licence fee. The | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Liberal Democrats have come out posed to the runway at Heathrow. I | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
thought I knew that already? Will any of these policies make a | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
difference? They are all nice handy things that people quite liked but | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
probably not, is the answer. They are an awful way away from polling | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
day now for people to remember and latch onto. I don't think you make | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
your mind up on small issues like Heathrow, unless you live in | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
Richmond-upon-Thames, maybe, but the problem Labour have got with | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
unfailing a lot of these retail type policies which, in themselves, are | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
very popular, is no one will listen to them until they get over the | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
leadership credibility issue. Jeremy Corbyn could the world on a stick, | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
but if no one believes he can deliver it then he will not be | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
listened to and he has not done much apart from a speech yesterday in | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
which is claim to fame was getting arrested, I don't see how that would | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
work for him getting to Number Ten. They are not making progress on it. | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
Labour has rolled out a number of policies which, taken individually, | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
would have certain traction in normal times, quite interesting | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
ideas, this sense of unfairness, a feeling that ordinary workers have | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
not done well out of the recovery, those who caused the crash have, 20 | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
points, I went through some of them earlier, putting aside they are not | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
costed, we are assured they will be. The problem I suggest is not the | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
costing but the cut through? Every election has a context which is | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
determined by opinion polls, however sceptical we are these days, and if | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
one party is way ahead it is difficult for the other party to | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
appear relevant, because if people assume they are not going to win, | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
even some of its own MPs are saying, we are not going to win this, so you | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
can vote for us, it is very hard to get attention and relevance. Where I | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
think all the parties are bad with their current leaders is framing | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
arguments, so those policies you have highlighted makes sense. The | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
best leaders are brilliant framers of an argument and neither Theresa | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Maynor Jeremy Corbyn R. They have been campaigning, their manifestos | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
are not out yet, both sides have been telling us we have to wait for | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
costings, but it has not stopped them campaigning. Let's remind you | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
of where they have been and what they have been doing so far. | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
Let's start with Jeremy Corbyn, his first official visit was in the | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
ultra-marginal Conservative seat of Croydon Central where the MP Gavin | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
Barwell has a lead of just 165. That is not the only Conservative seat he | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
has visited, along the way he popped in on Bristol North West, a | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Conservative majority of nearly 5000. The Tory seat of Cardiff | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
North, a lead of just over 2000, Warrington South, just over 2700, | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
and Crewe and Nantwich, Tory majority of three and a half | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
thousand. Yesterday he visited Bethnal greed and Bob, a Labour lead | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
of 20 4000. Theresa May kicked off her campaign in Bolton, Labour | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
majority of over 4000. On her way round the UK she had a comfy stop in | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
her own maidenhead seat, where she is defending a majority of nearly | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
30,000, before travelling to other Labour marginals including Dudley | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
North, a Labour lead of 4000. Bridgend, a lead of just under 2004 | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
Labour, before becoming ambitious and visiting shadow minister Richard | :08:45. | :08:58. | |
Bergen's Leeds East seat, which he won by over 12,500 votes. Yesterday | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
she went north of the border to Aberdeenshire, where amongst other | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
places she visited the SNP seat of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
where the Tories would have to gain over 7000 votes to unseat the NP. | :09:07. | :09:07. | |
What do you make of it all so far? It is remarkable she is doing these | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
visits in Scotland. Past but even five years and the idea of a Tory | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
Prime Minister going round Scotland would be utterly counter-productive, | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
and actually they are ambitious for Scotland now under with Davidson, a | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
prospect of multiple seats, and that would be a real genuine shift in | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
Scottish politics, the likes of which we have not seen for 15 or 20 | :09:32. | :09:41. | |
years. If she gets that, that helps towards 100 seats, because if she | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
wins ten in Scotland, it is effectively 20, the SNP lose ten, | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
she gains ten, she wants to do that in the Midlands with Labour, and the | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
North. To get the 100 majority, other than Scotland, she has to win | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
Labour seats, that is all that is there. And clearly she has been | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
told, it is obvious, that she has a chance of doing so, otherwise you | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
don't go to these parts of the country in the first few days of the | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
campaign. All logic points to her being able to pull it off as well. | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
The opinion polls, the state of the Labour Party. The only qualification | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
I have in this is that politics is so wild and free Braille at the | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
moment, it doesn't feel like landslide to rain. That is true, it | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
doesn't. It is early days, we haven't yet had the manifestos, the | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
campaign is yet to gather momentum. It doesn't feel like landslide | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
territory. I disagree, look at every single poll, the Tory lead is 10% in | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
Wales, you can see her picking up 20 seat there. Put this together, I am | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
told by the way she is going into traditional Labour heartland again | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
tomorrow, the key is the Ukip vote. That will implode... Crumble towards | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
Tories? If she can hoover that up and retain the Tory vote, she will | :11:09. | :11:23. | |
have a majority of 150. I cannot let you go without | :11:24. | :11:24. | |
reminding you that it is Donald Trump's 100 days. He's not making a | :11:25. | :11:24. | |
lot of it now, this is what he said last night. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
We are just beginning in our fight to make America great again. | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
Now, before we talk about my first 100 days, which has been very | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
exciting and very productive, let's rate the media's 100 days. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
Because, as you know, they are a disgrace. | :11:45. | :11:59. | |
There you go, still bashing the media, that was at a rally in | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
Virginia, the 100 days was last night. He seems happier campaigning | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
than running the country. You each have 20 seconds to give me your | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
board on the first 100 days. Remarkable, he will not stop | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
slagging off the media but America first has not meant America first in | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
terms of national policy, he has reneges on what he said about Nato | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
being obsolete. He is moving from the old right to the centre because | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
that is where you get things done, he is a pragmatist, also is about's | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
friend Nigel Parrott is no longer welcome, we read this morning! | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
Allegedly! He loves campaigning but finds governing much more difficult. | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
Who would have thought being president of the United States was a | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
difficult job?! He loves rallies but being president and politics is a | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
very difficult thing indeed. Thank you, there we go, Mr Trump's 100 | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
days, we will see what the next 100 brings. | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
The Daily Politics is back on BBC Two after the bank holiday | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
on Tuesday at midday, with all the latest | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
And I'll be back here on BBC One next Sunday | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Remember - if it's Sunday, it's the Sunday Politics. | :13:21. | :13:30. |