:00:48. > :00:52.Good morning and welcome. A new season, a new vehicle, a new studio,
:00:52. > :00:58.we have made changes over the summer. What a summer it's been.
:00:58. > :01:01.Look up at the stars, not down at your feet said Professor Stephen
:01:01. > :01:04.Hawking, but how do we keep that spirit of optimism and human
:01:04. > :01:08.possibility going. It is a challenge for my guests this
:01:08. > :01:12.morning who come from the the worlds of education and sport. The
:01:12. > :01:17.papers are full of upbeat coverage of the Paralympics and here to
:01:17. > :01:21.review them, Tim Hollingsworth, head of the British British
:01:21. > :01:24.Paralympic Association and Sarah Baxter, editor of the Sunday Times
:01:24. > :01:29.magazine. As politicians return to Westminster, it is back to earth
:01:29. > :01:36.with a bump. The economy has come to a shuddering halt, among many
:01:36. > :01:41.critics of the government, the Tory peer Lord MacLaurin says the whole
:01:41. > :01:46.thing is Mori bund. You get to some momentum into industry. You have to
:01:46. > :01:51.change something, growth will not just happen. That is aimed at the
:01:51. > :01:56.chancellor George Osborne. There's been more of the same over the past
:01:56. > :02:00.week. How does he respond. Tax cuts? Spending on infrastructure?
:02:00. > :02:02.This morning we are going to be asking him just what he intends to
:02:02. > :02:06.do now about Britain's grim economic plight.
:02:06. > :02:11.No doubt the shadow business secretary secretary will have
:02:11. > :02:14.plenty of advice. Is there any new thinking from Labour. Also this
:02:14. > :02:17.morning, schools are back and thousands of them are going to be
:02:17. > :02:24.told they must do better as a new inspection regime for England comes
:02:24. > :02:31.into force. The head of Ofsted and Chief Inspector for schools is here
:02:31. > :02:36.to explain. I will be asking about the row over GCSE results. Parades
:02:36. > :02:41.end has been winning plaudits for showing costume drama doesn't have
:02:41. > :02:49.to be cosy. I will be joined by the screen writer behind this, Sir Tom
:02:49. > :02:56.Stoppard. Finally, be uplifted by the wonderful violinist Nicola
:02:56. > :03:00.Benedetti. One of the stars of this Proms
:03:01. > :03:06.season, she will be performing for us later in the show.
:03:06. > :03:10.A busy first show back. Let's kick off with the news.
:03:10. > :03:13.Good morning. The Prime Minister has indicated he will try to
:03:13. > :03:17.reassert his political authority with a series of measures to get
:03:17. > :03:21.the economy moving again. Writing in the Mail on Sunday, David
:03:21. > :03:25.Cameron made clear he was ready to take on his critics with
:03:25. > :03:29.controversial plans to boost growth. Mr Cameron has been challenged by
:03:29. > :03:33.some Conservative MPs to prove he isn't what he call a political
:03:33. > :03:38.mouse. He's also working on his first major cabinet reshuffle.
:03:38. > :03:45.There's been a gold rush for the British Paralympics team at London
:03:45. > :03:50.2012. Crowds cheered Ellie Simmonds to gold. Richard Whitehead came
:03:50. > :03:56.from behind to a stunning victory in the 200m. Golds in the dressage
:03:56. > :04:01.and cycling also. The poster girl of the pool
:04:01. > :04:05.fulfilling a Paralympic dream. After double successes as a 13-
:04:05. > :04:09.year-old four years ago, she delivered gold in done done and --
:04:09. > :04:16.London and with it a record to delight the home crowd. The race
:04:16. > :04:24.was billed as a battle between Simmonds and Victoria ar Len, and
:04:24. > :04:28.didn't disappoint. Stroke by stroke Ellie Simmonds wrote her name in
:04:28. > :04:33.history. There could be more to smile about.
:04:33. > :04:37.An historic day for Queen of the velodrome, with one gold already in
:04:37. > :04:44.the Games, Sarah Storey was aiming for the ninth of her career, after
:04:44. > :04:53.watching her husband win gold with Neil Fachie in the tandem, another
:04:53. > :04:59.performance saw her roar home to victory victory.
:04:59. > :05:06.To a golden day in Greenwich where Natasha Baker was victorious in the
:05:06. > :05:12.individual grade 2 dressage. She set a new Paralympic record. For
:05:12. > :05:16.Lee Pearson it was silver. But perhaps the most startling sight of
:05:16. > :05:20.the day was that of Richard Whitehead. He holds the world
:05:20. > :05:24.record for the marathon but denied the chance to compete over the
:05:25. > :05:29.longest distance, he took to sprinting. How his endurance would
:05:29. > :05:34.show. In last place coming out of the bend, he stormed through on the
:05:34. > :05:40.home strait a show of strength to rival anything already seen in the
:05:40. > :05:43.Olympics stadium. A Superman on a truly superSaturday for Great
:05:43. > :05:48.Britain. Police have begun an investigation
:05:48. > :05:51.after the bodies of a man and two children were found at a flat in
:05:51. > :05:56.Wiltshire. Officers had been called to the scene in Tidworth by
:05:56. > :06:02.paramedics. The deaths are being treated as sprition but police say
:06:02. > :06:08.they are not looking for anyone else. Jordan says it needs more
:06:08. > :06:13.money to cope with the influx of refugees from Syria. The request
:06:13. > :06:18.comes as fighting continues to rage across Syria, increasing the number
:06:18. > :06:22.of fleeing civilians. One of the most celebrated
:06:22. > :06:31.lyricists in popular music Hal David has died in Los Angeles at
:06:32. > :06:35.the aining of -- age of 91. What Do You Get When You Fall In
:06:35. > :06:44.Love. Ha he was well-known for his long
:06:44. > :06:48.standing musical partnership with Burt Bacharach.
:06:48. > :06:54.That is all from me for now. I will be back with the headlines just
:06:55. > :07:04.before 10.00. To the front pages as usual. Lots
:07:05. > :07:08.
:07:08. > :07:18.Politics is making its return as well.
:07:18. > :07:20.
:07:20. > :07:24.The Sunday Times has a different take. Party threat to oust Clegg.
:07:24. > :07:28.And Ellie Simmonds is on more front pages than any other face we will
:07:28. > :07:32.see this morning. There is a very nice picture on the front of the
:07:32. > :07:37.Observer. More politics as well. Tony Blair
:07:37. > :07:42.should face trial over the Iraq war, says Desmond Tutu.
:07:42. > :07:52.Mail on Sunday, again, Ellie Simmonds, but another political
:07:52. > :07:59.
:07:59. > :08:04.story, Cameron roars back "I'm no Scotland on Sunday, different story
:08:04. > :08:09.there about breast cancer treatment on the National Health Service in
:08:09. > :08:15.spont land and also campaigning for every school child in Scotland to
:08:15. > :08:19.be taught a classical instrument. We have Nicola Benedetti on talking
:08:19. > :08:27.about that. She is Scottish and a great violinist. That is all good
:08:27. > :08:31.and organised. Tim and share Tim Sarah, thank you for joining us.
:08:31. > :08:35.You must be thrilled by the extent and tone of the Paralympic coverage
:08:35. > :08:45.this morning?. I am, the job this morning was to pick the paper to
:08:45. > :08:50.
:08:50. > :08:54.The The one I want for was the Telegraph. There's more coverage of
:08:54. > :08:59.the Paralympics than there was of the Olympics. I think what there is
:08:59. > :09:04.is the most astonishing growth of coverage. I am very proud of it. We
:09:04. > :09:08.can talk about how the nation is reacting, but we had fantastic
:09:08. > :09:12.performances yesterday. My one in the Telegraph was this pure gold of
:09:12. > :09:16.Ellie. I was in the Aquatics Centre shouting my head off yesterday for
:09:16. > :09:25.what was an incredible race. She was just one, we saw Richard
:09:25. > :09:28.Whitehead on the news, Sarah Storey, Barney Storey.
:09:28. > :09:33.Why has the coverage and interest in the Paralympics suddenly taken
:09:33. > :09:38.off in this way. I don't remember this being the case in the same way
:09:38. > :09:44.at Beijing. Three reasons actually. One we have an organising commitee
:09:44. > :09:49.for London 2012, which right from the get go has seen Paralympics as
:09:49. > :09:55.part of the story. They have done in all their work, as we have tried
:09:55. > :09:58.to, to build the pro fail with the media. The fact we had such a
:09:58. > :10:02.fantastic Olympics has to be part of the mix. It was a great wave we
:10:02. > :10:06.were riding. This is a genuinely sport loving nation and we have got
:10:06. > :10:15.it and it's at home. We have been falling in love with people every
:10:15. > :10:20.day. A new star is created every five minutes. That is very exciting.
:10:20. > :10:24.The opening ceremony made a big splash. Bits of it I didn't quite
:10:24. > :10:30.understand at the beginning, because it was quite scientific.
:10:30. > :10:34.was. Enlightenment was the theme and it shone through. Being in the
:10:34. > :10:41.stadium which was a huge privilege, perhaps you didn't get everything
:10:41. > :10:45.people at home were getting. I think we did the event enormous
:10:45. > :10:48.achievement by that opening ceremony, to bring to life the
:10:48. > :10:53.issues we are seeing in front of us with the sport. It is really the
:10:53. > :10:57.people that are coming through. Ellie, she seemed like a 13-year-
:10:57. > :11:02.old girl city when she talks, but in the pool what a tiger.
:11:02. > :11:06.Let's talk about some other stories. What is your first story. I was
:11:06. > :11:11.going to briefly mention another side to things, because there is an
:11:11. > :11:16.astonishing extract from Victoria Pendleton's memoir today. What it
:11:16. > :11:25.took for her to become a Gold Medalist. We shouldn't lose sight
:11:25. > :11:29.of that, for our ordinary Murphy- O'Connor for ordinary Olympians.
:11:29. > :11:36.She had a difficult relationship with her dad. She was questioning
:11:36. > :11:40.whether he he loved her. On the night she won gold in Beijing she
:11:40. > :11:45.cut herself. It was extraordinary, lifting of the curtain really on
:11:45. > :11:51.sometimes what goes on, but all power to her and to all our
:11:51. > :11:57.wonderful stars. This is sports stars coming into the realm of real
:11:57. > :12:01.superstars. It also means that all the under side of sport is there
:12:01. > :12:07.for the Paralympics too, accusations of cheating. You have a
:12:07. > :12:10.story about the French. I found it somewhere. It wasn't too high-
:12:10. > :12:16.profile. The Mail on Sunday has got a piece, we can't afford to compete
:12:16. > :12:19.with you. The French have accused us of what they call techno
:12:19. > :12:23.cheating, which is the equipment that is needed for the athletes and
:12:23. > :12:27.they are talking about wheelchair racers and the chairs they are
:12:27. > :12:32.using in the Games. They had a go at our Olympic colleagues during
:12:32. > :12:37.the cycling, saying their wheels were too round. I would say one
:12:37. > :12:44.thing on this, the technology in Paralympic sport is the essential
:12:44. > :12:48.part of it. But David Weir who seems to be our wheel care racer
:12:48. > :12:54.racing tonight, who wouldn't have made the final without his chair,
:12:54. > :12:59.but he won two golds in Beijing without the chair. Let's return to
:12:59. > :13:05.politics. It's pretty clear politics is back at full throttle.
:13:05. > :13:11.The big beasts of the jungle are back. But the big question is are
:13:11. > :13:15.they really mice. The Independent going for the mice look. Here is
:13:16. > :13:20.David Cameron going for the big beast effect, saying he is no mouse.
:13:20. > :13:25.He's written an article to prove it, but he says it is time to stop
:13:25. > :13:32.dithering. It sounds a bit wingy this article, but he is saying it
:13:32. > :13:35.is our fault, he is saying there is so much holding us back. What we
:13:36. > :13:40.are really saying is come on David, get on with it and show us some
:13:40. > :13:42.government. I have noticed, everyone knows there is a
:13:42. > :13:47.government reshuffle coming. But the more you look at all the
:13:47. > :13:52.stories about it, the clearer it is, nobody has the faintest clue about
:13:52. > :13:57.who is going to be moved. wonder if David Cameron has a clue.
:13:57. > :14:03.People do want to see some change. I don't know whether it will be
:14:03. > :14:11.tinker about the edges. They are in a bit of a bind because the Lib
:14:11. > :14:17.Dems have their own problems. The Conservatives, David Davies is out
:14:17. > :14:25.in force today saying cut taxes, do something more dramatic. You can't
:14:25. > :14:29.have a cut on wealth. The Americans have a real contest going on and
:14:29. > :14:32.there is good coverage of the American elections too. We are only
:14:32. > :14:37.just start to go notice how interesting it is. People have been
:14:37. > :14:44.feeling disappointed with Obama and Romney has become known as the 50
:14:45. > :14:48.shades of grey man without the sex! But it is an important election, an
:14:48. > :14:52.important divide between the two, and important for the rest of us.
:14:52. > :14:55.Janet daily is interesting on that in the Sunday Telegraph today
:14:55. > :15:01.because the question is whether the free market and capitalism can pay
:15:01. > :15:04.for all the social benefits we expect. We have been getting along
:15:04. > :15:07.well having both. She has been asking a question which connects
:15:07. > :15:13.the American choice with what is happening here, can we pay for it
:15:13. > :15:18.all. Yes, ever since the crash of 2008, that's becoming the big
:15:18. > :15:21.question. I don't think we are ready to give up welfare and we
:15:21. > :15:27.don't want to give up the free market either. Who is going to
:15:27. > :15:31.resolve this. It is a big question. You have chosen a story about
:15:31. > :15:36.another fallen American hero, Lance Armstrong. It was partly to pay
:15:36. > :15:41.tribute to the Sunday Times. Still want to be careful in terms of what
:15:41. > :15:45.one says, but without question the story that's highlighted here and
:15:45. > :15:52.the headline on the front page. cyclist accused of cheating using
:15:52. > :15:58.drugs who has dropped his fight to clear his name. Yes. The reason for
:15:58. > :16:03.picking this out is that I know your paper Sarah had six or seven
:16:03. > :16:07.years ago was taken to court by him and sued by him. For the story that
:16:07. > :16:11.is coming out. When he was part of his team, seven times Tour de
:16:11. > :16:15.France winner. The wider point is that this was a cultural thing
:16:16. > :16:21.within the sport of cycling which we are seeing across the tour and
:16:21. > :16:27.the Olympics and Paralympics, sweeping the nation. It is a craze
:16:27. > :16:31.in sporting terms. You can see from what is going on in the tour, the
:16:31. > :16:37.times are slower, the journeys up the hill are slower. You get the
:16:37. > :16:47.sense the sport is changing. David Walsh needs credit for the work he
:16:47. > :16:54.did. Let's get down and dirty with The People, finally, my wild night
:16:54. > :17:00.with naked Harry. Not my wild night! Let's be clear about this.
:17:00. > :17:04.am not even sure if it was her wild night. It is a very fuzzy picture
:17:04. > :17:07.of a lady who claims to have spent the night with our young Prince.
:17:07. > :17:14.it was a real kiss and tell there would have been more detail, it
:17:14. > :17:17.would have been a bigger story. wouldn't have seen these smudged
:17:17. > :17:21.posing for the People's camera. This story comes with a health
:17:21. > :17:27.warning but it is quite fun. Something for all tastes, thank you
:17:27. > :17:31.both very much indeed. It's been the wettest summer in a century. I
:17:31. > :17:37.had some excellent refreshing rain therapy in the Westcountry but if
:17:37. > :17:47.there was any justice we would be in for an Indian summer. So, are
:17:47. > :17:49.
:17:49. > :17:53.we? Let's hear from the weather Things are set to improve,
:17:53. > :17:57.brightening up from the north. The cloud is extensive across the
:17:57. > :18:03.southern half of the UK. There has been rain across Wales. But most of
:18:03. > :18:08.that will tend to fade by the afternoon. The best of the sunshine
:18:08. > :18:14.is to be found further north. Should be lovely across Scotland.
:18:14. > :18:18.The winds are lighter than yesterday.
:18:18. > :18:23.Always more cloud across the southern counties but the rain has
:18:23. > :18:25.fizzled out. We will see bright spells coming through. A a
:18:25. > :18:29.reasonable afternoon. In the south-west there is the
:18:29. > :18:33.chance of a spot of rain. Most places will be fine and dry
:18:33. > :18:39.with bright spells. Similar story in the south of Wales. The odd spot
:18:39. > :18:42.of rain around. A lovely afternoon in Northern
:18:42. > :18:46.Ireland. A a different day for Northern Ireland and Scotland
:18:46. > :18:49.tomorrow, because wind and rain will be gathering for later in the
:18:49. > :18:59.day. For England and Wales, a lovely day.
:18:59. > :19:00.
:19:00. > :19:10.Early mist and fog clearing to Before politics and this programme
:19:10. > :19:10.
:19:10. > :19:13.took a summer break things were looking good for Labour. Yet their
:19:13. > :19:20.policies were just a little vague. Nothing much has changed. As the
:19:20. > :19:26.conference season approaches the party's economic policy is becoming
:19:26. > :19:31.under renewed scrutiny and reports of tensions suggest a new autumn
:19:32. > :19:37.drama to amuse the political classes. I am joined by Chuka
:19:37. > :19:40.Umunna, shadow business secretary. You are bibs secretary, you are in
:19:40. > :19:44.government, what is the first thing you do? We would give an immediate
:19:44. > :19:49.stimulus to our economy. Remember, we are in our third quarter of
:19:49. > :19:57.negative growth now. The reality of these big national figures, I have
:19:57. > :20:02.over ten people people chasing every job, and so we would give an
:20:02. > :20:06.immediate boost to the economy. What does that mean? In London at
:20:06. > :20:10.the moment micro businesses do not get a national insurance break when
:20:11. > :20:15.they take on extra workers. We would give them a national
:20:15. > :20:19.insurance break to encourage them to take on extra workers. We would
:20:19. > :20:23.reduce VAT, reversing the hike the government implemented towards the
:20:23. > :20:27.beginning of this parliament, which would get money money back into our
:20:27. > :20:31.economy and also the big thing which is going to figure in the
:20:31. > :20:35.discussion this week, bringing forward infrastructure investment.
:20:35. > :20:40.Because that has a dual benefit. Not Not only does it provide a
:20:40. > :20:45.boost to the economy but also provides a platform for future
:20:45. > :20:48.growth. One of the problems we have is that at the moment major
:20:48. > :20:53.infrastructure investment projects are falling back backwards. If you
:20:53. > :20:57.hear they are going to bring forward infrastructure structures,
:20:57. > :21:02.you will say we will vote for that, we applaud what the government is
:21:02. > :21:09.doing. That will be very welcome. There's been delay and indecision
:21:09. > :21:13.all along the way. What you can't do presumably is a great big old-
:21:13. > :21:18.fashioned boost for the economy. Look at the borrowing figures and
:21:18. > :21:24.no government has much wriggle room. You can cut VAT but you will have
:21:24. > :21:29.to find a way for baying for that. You can't spend more money?
:21:29. > :21:39.point is, unless we get people into work, over 275 million people out
:21:39. > :21:43.of -- 2.5 million people out of work. You can't nonetheless push
:21:43. > :21:47.borrowing up even beyond where it is at the moment. Despite the
:21:47. > :21:52.rhetoric, this government hasn't cut much when it comes to current
:21:52. > :21:55.expenditure. Unless you get people back into work, you can't reduce
:21:55. > :21:59.the borrowing. One of the interesting things is, some
:21:59. > :22:04.business organisations have not seen eye to eye with what we have
:22:04. > :22:09.been saying around deficit reduction, but one interesting and
:22:09. > :22:13.quite quite interesting moment this week, head of the British Chambers
:22:13. > :22:17.of Commerce said there was wriggle room to do a stimulus. They want to
:22:18. > :22:22.tear up a lot of the regulations to make it difficult to hire and fire
:22:22. > :22:29.people, fewer controls, fewer regulations. Many of them want a
:22:29. > :22:34.cut in the minimum wage. All things labour will never give them.
:22:34. > :22:44.thing he said, is that in the same way if you don't sort out your debt
:22:44. > :22:44.
:22:44. > :22:48.problems and deficit, that will spook the bum market. You have got
:22:48. > :22:51.to get growth back again. In terms of actual measures, the key thing
:22:51. > :22:54.and this is something that came out from the Institute of Directors
:22:54. > :22:57.poll of their members a couple of weeks ago, yes, I am not saying
:22:57. > :23:01.that for businesses regulation is not an issue, but the problem at
:23:01. > :23:05.the moment is confidence and their worry about the economy. The other
:23:05. > :23:08.really big issue is that if we want to unlock the private sector
:23:08. > :23:14.investment that many people talk about, there's a lot of talk about
:23:14. > :23:19.companies sitting on a lot of cash, you have got to provide them with
:23:19. > :23:24.policy certainty. What we are going to see announcements later this
:23:24. > :23:29.week around planning. This is a classical example of where the
:23:29. > :23:32.government creates huge policy uncertainty. You must applaud a
:23:32. > :23:35.relaxation in planning laws, if that is what we see, because that
:23:35. > :23:39.is the kind of structural boost you have been talking about. But what
:23:39. > :23:42.you want is certainty in your policy-making. I am not saying
:23:42. > :23:47.don't do something about planning but I am saying make your mind up
:23:47. > :23:51.and stake to it. The problem was they published a whole new national
:23:51. > :23:55.planning policy framework, back in March, which local authorities have
:23:55. > :24:00.been working to ensure they comply with by April and now we are going
:24:00. > :24:04.to see them throwing all the chips up in the air again. That makes it
:24:04. > :24:12.impossible to plan when you want to make investment decisions. Let me
:24:12. > :24:22.ask you about some domestic issues Labour Party wise. You sit in the
:24:22. > :24:23.
:24:23. > :24:29.cabinet shadow meetings. Does Ed Balls Does -- it has been reported
:24:29. > :24:35.through the naips there is tension between Ed Balls and edmill land.
:24:36. > :24:40.It's not true. I won't deny all of us have checked our black bris
:24:40. > :24:43.during meetings. I have the second principal brief during Shadow
:24:43. > :24:47.Cabinet. There are large parts of the policy review, looking at plans
:24:47. > :24:53.for a British investment bank, which report to the three of us,
:24:53. > :24:59.two Eds and myself. The picture I have seen paint indeed these
:24:59. > :25:05.frivolous pieces is... No bad blood, no tension, no difficulty, the big
:25:05. > :25:11.beast Ed Balls flexing his muscles and think about the top spot?
:25:11. > :25:15.We are singly focused on the moment on winning back the support of the
:25:15. > :25:19.British people. We went to a catastrophic defeat and we have to
:25:20. > :25:24.approach that task with humility and we do and we have to be focused
:25:24. > :25:27.on what concerns people and what we learnt towards our end of our time
:25:27. > :25:32.in government when we turned in on ourselves, it didn't work. Thank
:25:32. > :25:36.you very much for joining us this morning.
:25:36. > :25:41.Sir Michael willshire appointed to be Chief Inspector of schools, has
:25:41. > :25:45.been described as a hero by the Education Secretary. They share a
:25:45. > :25:49.vision of schools characterised by strong discipline and rigorous
:25:49. > :25:54.academic standards and thousands are going to be told to pull their
:25:54. > :25:58.socks up. The satisfactory grading is being abolished. What will this
:25:58. > :26:03.mean for school heads, teachers and students. Sir Michael is with me
:26:03. > :26:07.now. Good morning. Some people would say that just
:26:07. > :26:12.changing a piece of terminology and saying satisfactory isn't
:26:12. > :26:16.satisfactory, it has to be good is window dressing. It is not window
:26:16. > :26:20.dressing. It is not just changing the terminology. At the heart of
:26:20. > :26:23.what we are trying to do is ensure all children have the chance of a
:26:23. > :26:27.good education. They have one chance at it. What happens in
:26:27. > :26:30.school determines what happens for the rest of their life. Parents
:26:30. > :26:36.want to send their children to a good school. Children want to go to
:26:36. > :26:40.a good school. Two-thirds of our schools are good or better. We have
:26:40. > :26:46.got a third of schools, 6,000 schools that are not good, that are
:26:46. > :26:50.satisfactory and below. Your argument is that schools that are
:26:50. > :26:52.called satisfactory aren't satisfactory at all, they are not
:26:52. > :26:57.good enough. They are not good enough, the teach something not
:26:57. > :27:00.good enough, the leadership often isn't good enough and the progress
:27:00. > :27:04.and outcomes of children aren't good enough. We have to make sure
:27:04. > :27:08.that schools know they have got to get to good s soon as possible. We
:27:08. > :27:11.have given them a prescribed period of time in which to get to good.
:27:11. > :27:16.You are going to change the way inspections happen, they are going
:27:16. > :27:21.to be more sudden? Yes. The day before, there will be a day before
:27:21. > :27:24.notice, rather than the two day- knots now because we want to see
:27:24. > :27:29.schools as they normally are. We want to reduce the tension that
:27:29. > :27:34.builds up before inspectors walk in. You want to catch people out?
:27:34. > :27:41.it is not about catching people out. This is about actually seeing
:27:41. > :27:44.schools as they are. I suppose the fundamental question is how you
:27:44. > :27:48.measure what a good school really is, because you have all the
:27:48. > :27:52.statistics, you have the exam results, some of them are
:27:52. > :27:55.controversial and measurements of different kinds but presumably you
:27:55. > :27:59.would agree it is about the inspirational teachers who draw
:27:59. > :28:07.people out and make kids think about things they have never
:28:07. > :28:11.thought about before. Inspectors will be spending more time in
:28:11. > :28:14.lessons now than ever before. We won't be looking at as much
:28:15. > :28:17.paperwork as we used to. It is about being in the heart of the
:28:17. > :28:24.school, looking at what really matters, which is what is happening
:28:24. > :28:29.in the classroom. A good school is about good teaching. It is simply
:28:29. > :28:33.about good teaching. The Big Issue is that head headteachers have to
:28:33. > :28:36.see themselves as leading teaching. They are not head administrators or
:28:36. > :28:42.organisers or head business managers, they are headteachers.
:28:42. > :28:45.They have to be remarkable people. There are not good headteachers,
:28:45. > :28:49.the question is how do you get more of these people. They don't grow on
:28:49. > :28:54.trees. I am optimistic we are. I have seen, I have been in teaching
:28:54. > :28:58.a very long time, better people coming into teaching now than ever
:28:58. > :29:03.before. The status has risen. We are getting really talented people
:29:03. > :29:08.coming in. They will emerge into leadership positions. They will
:29:08. > :29:13.become - they will go into headteacher positions as a younger
:29:13. > :29:19.age. The person who took over my job in Hockney is a person in their
:29:19. > :29:23.30s. We have a growing number of strong powerful leaders who are
:29:23. > :29:26.taking over groups of schools who can help and support less
:29:26. > :29:30.experienced colleagues. How do you get rid of the people you want to
:29:30. > :29:35.get rid of. You are talk being getting rid of people too?. It is
:29:35. > :29:38.about good performance management in schools and up to now it has not
:29:38. > :29:44.been robust enough. That is something we will look at more
:29:44. > :29:48.carefully in the new round of inspections. It is making sure
:29:48. > :29:54.headteachers identify and reward good teachers and do something
:29:54. > :30:01.about the teachers who are not good enough. The GCSE row, there is a
:30:01. > :30:09.good argument that GCSEs need fob looked at, but a large co hort of
:30:09. > :30:14.kids who have taken these examines have been treated unjustly. The
:30:14. > :30:21.exam was being marked as a level they didn't realise. Many have lost
:30:21. > :30:26.their only chance of a good College Place. We inspect a lot of things
:30:26. > :30:31.but don't inspect the inspection system. You need to talk to Ofqual.
:30:31. > :30:35.But what I will say, this is a really good opportunity for our
:30:35. > :30:38.system and the Secretary of State to look at our examination system
:30:38. > :30:44.and ask whether it is rigorous enough, whether what's happened
:30:44. > :30:48.over the last few years in terms of resits, early entries and modular
:30:48. > :30:52.approach to to examination is actually raising standards. Because
:30:52. > :30:56.the issue is not really summer against January and what happened
:30:56. > :30:59.last year as opposed to this. It is whether our examination system
:30:59. > :31:02.stands up with the best in the world. One of the worries I have
:31:02. > :31:06.and I know other people have, is that our standards are falling in
:31:06. > :31:11.relation to other countries in the rest of the world. As a former
:31:11. > :31:15.headteacher would you like to see GCSEs thoroughly overhauled.
:31:15. > :31:19.Absolutely. We should not be looking at how we have done in the
:31:19. > :31:23.past, we should be looking at how we are doing around the world.
:31:23. > :31:26.We are getting worse. Reading and English is the world language, it
:31:26. > :31:32.is the business language, we know that we have fallen from seventh in
:31:32. > :31:35.reading tho 25th in the world. In maths from 7th to 28th. That is not
:31:35. > :31:39.good enough. We have to look at what is happening in the rest of
:31:39. > :31:43.the world. Our youngsters when they leave school, will be going into a
:31:43. > :31:46.global marketplace, they have to compete not just against
:31:46. > :31:52.competitors here but the rest of the world. Ofqual are right in
:31:52. > :31:55.tanging tough on this? Yes. returning to what appears to be an
:31:55. > :32:00.injustice done to a particular group of people, you have no
:32:00. > :32:06.thoughts about what might happen. It is an issue for Ofqual, I would
:32:06. > :32:11.rather wait for the final report to come out. Thank you very much.
:32:11. > :32:17.He is one of Britain's, indeed Europe's greatest living writers W
:32:17. > :32:21.a catalogue of famous plays spanning five decades, Rozencrantz
:32:21. > :32:25.and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, these are the ones constantly in
:32:25. > :32:28.production around the world. Sir Tom Stoppard is no less eminent a
:32:28. > :32:35.screen writer. Shakespeare in Love was one of the aclaimed scripts to
:32:35. > :32:43.emerge from his pen. He now has two dramas to talk about, the film
:32:43. > :32:52.version of Anna Karenina, and Parade's End. It is the duty of the
:32:52. > :33:01.employers to look after the welfare of their employers. Who thinks
:33:01. > :33:09.that? You married above your intellect. The new liberal peers
:33:10. > :33:16.won't be necessary. Sir Tom welcome. I will have to confess, I am one of
:33:16. > :33:20.a large number of people never read the novels on which you have based
:33:20. > :33:29.this. There are some devastating script lines in there, I am
:33:29. > :33:32.wondering how many of those are Stoppard. Sometimes actually I have
:33:33. > :33:37.difficulty in remembering which ones came out of the book and which
:33:37. > :33:42.ones from my head. I did identify with that world very strongly in
:33:42. > :33:45.the year I was writing it. The best line in episode one involves the
:33:46. > :33:51.steam coming off the water at the crocodile house in the in the zoo
:33:51. > :33:58.as a met for as the sexual vapour coming off the crowd, that is Ford.
:33:58. > :34:03.It is an unusual, certainly a very unusual protagonist for an evening
:34:03. > :34:08.historical drama on television because you have a man who is too
:34:08. > :34:12.honourable to act on his sexual and emotional impulses. He is a very
:34:12. > :34:18.buttoned up, very English character of perhaps a kind we don't see so
:34:18. > :34:23.much of these days. I don't know you saw that much of him in those
:34:23. > :34:29.days either. What you say of him is true. Of course he does go as we
:34:29. > :34:36.say in the business on a journey. He ends up actually in the end, he
:34:36. > :34:40.is really saying that when you live by a code of honour, people take
:34:40. > :34:50.you to be a fool and he says I am coming round to their opinion.
:34:50. > :34:56.
:34:56. > :35:01.is in many ways, particularly the way it looks, a anti-down tonne -
:35:01. > :35:09.anti-Downton Abbey. Did you see that period needs reviving and we
:35:09. > :35:13.need to think about it again? never really consider Parade's End
:35:13. > :35:23.out of its own context. The proposal was to make a television
:35:23. > :35:25.
:35:25. > :35:32.drama from this book. I have always been attracted to the period. This
:35:32. > :35:38.is a period which is reasonant with what's to come and what it's
:35:38. > :35:45.emerged from. It is a key period. The book is a key book in that
:35:45. > :35:54.cauldron where modernism in literature was emerging. So I had a
:35:54. > :36:00.strong pre-disposition. Ford Maddocks Ford, a good show on him
:36:00. > :36:05.last night, he was the centre of this. He was mates with Joseph
:36:05. > :36:12.Conrad and almost anybody who was anybody in writing at that period?
:36:12. > :36:16.Ford had two critical moments, was the editor of a literary magazine
:36:16. > :36:22.and had a good touch of knowing what was coming, should be coming,
:36:22. > :36:28.DH Laurence. Anna Karenina, it is hard to think of a larger canvass
:36:28. > :36:33.to be asked to put on to an ordinary length cinema film. It's
:36:33. > :36:37.got a huge swathes of the Russian countryside, different love affairs,
:36:37. > :36:41.complicated family arrangements. How do you set about turning that
:36:41. > :36:45.into a film? The first thing you do is tell each other we are going to
:36:45. > :36:50.leave out everything about local government and agriculture. There
:36:50. > :36:58.is a lot about that. There is a lot about that. The character of Levin
:36:58. > :37:01.-- the story is two love stories, Tolstoy used Levin as something as
:37:01. > :37:06.a spokesperson for himself, not a phrase he would have used, but it
:37:06. > :37:13.is really a book which is famously a romantic drama, it is about love,
:37:13. > :37:21.the penalties to be paid for certain kinds of love or narrowing
:37:21. > :37:28.of the possibilities of love. have Keira Knightley as the adult
:37:28. > :37:35.certificate adult -- adulter ess. She is younger than many people
:37:35. > :37:41.conceive of Anna as being, but I think the director went young, he
:37:41. > :37:46.wanted to go young. It is about to hit the cinema screens, a very big
:37:46. > :37:56.moment. Any dramatic, any of your own plays beginning to gestate at
:37:56. > :37:59.
:37:59. > :38:03.the moment? Gestating I would say is fair. Thank you very much indeed.
:38:03. > :38:08.From all sides George Osbourne is being told he needs to plan for
:38:08. > :38:11.growth, since the Government came to office the economy has in effect
:38:11. > :38:16.flat-lined. For the past nine months it's been shrinking. This is
:38:16. > :38:20.its second bout of recession. Public spending is soaring. Any
:38:20. > :38:24.serious government it says would now reaffirm its determination to
:38:24. > :38:28.get the economy under the control. George Osbourne joins me now. These
:38:28. > :38:31.are grim times? They are difficult times for the British economy.
:38:31. > :38:36.Difficult times for the world economy but our economy is healing.
:38:36. > :38:40.Jobs are being created. It is taking time. But there is no easy
:38:40. > :38:47.route to a magical recovery. We have got to do the hard work of
:38:47. > :38:49.paiing off our debts, booking a more competitive -- becoming a more
:38:49. > :38:53.competitive country and make can sure Britain has its place in the
:38:53. > :38:58.world. Borrowing is rising. You haven't been able to cut
:38:58. > :39:02.expenditure in a substantial ways. Three-quarters of negative growth.
:39:02. > :39:08.Zero percent is what we are told this way. It isn't working. I would
:39:08. > :39:12.disagree with all of that. It is statistically unexceptional.
:39:12. > :39:18.deficit is down by 25% since the Government came into office.
:39:18. > :39:23.much have you been able to cut current spending by. We have cut
:39:23. > :39:26.welfare spending by �18 billion but debt interest, because of the debts
:39:26. > :39:30.we inherited is making up a larger proportion of currency. You are
:39:30. > :39:33.falling back. I want to make sure we are not paying so much in debt
:39:33. > :39:37.interest to the creditors around the world. We are getting on top of
:39:37. > :39:40.the deaf sit. Private sector are being created. If you are telling
:39:40. > :39:43.me there are a lot of economic challenges out there, I know that.
:39:43. > :39:48.If you look around the world, every western government is basically
:39:48. > :39:52.facing the same choice, which is do you sink for swim in the economy of
:39:52. > :40:00.the future. I am absolutely clear, as you saw with the Olympic Games,
:40:00. > :40:03.Britain can compete and succeed, Britain can be its best if we
:40:03. > :40:07.confront the difficult times, that we are not been prepared to
:40:07. > :40:11.confront. People like the British Chambers of Commerce, representing
:40:11. > :40:14.100,000 of the businesses we all depend fon for prosperity, say you
:40:14. > :40:20.have to do a lot more faster. would agree with that. We have to
:40:20. > :40:23.do more and we have to do it faster. In the next weeks you will see us
:40:23. > :40:31.introducing into parliament legislation to speed up planning
:40:31. > :40:34.decisions, speed up the processes which means we can build roads more
:40:34. > :40:38.quickly, guarantee infrastructure projects. We will have legislation
:40:38. > :40:41.published next week so government can use the low interest rates we
:40:42. > :40:46.have earned by being tough on the deficit to underwrite construction
:40:46. > :40:49.probably jects. We are doing all these things to use the good name
:40:49. > :40:54.the government has built up internationally, the low interest
:40:54. > :40:59.rates we've got to fund our banks. To get the economy moving to make
:40:59. > :41:02.sure the jobs we are create nothing this economy continue to be created.
:41:02. > :41:07.Let's pick through some of those. Changes to the planning laws. Will
:41:07. > :41:10.that involve making easier to build on the green belt? First of all we
:41:10. > :41:13.already have in place important changes to the planning laws which
:41:13. > :41:17.are bringing about important development around our country. I
:41:17. > :41:23.was in the north-east of England this week and saw that for myself.
:41:23. > :41:26.We can speed up planning. It is It is absolutely ludicrous that it
:41:26. > :41:32.takes years to get planning decisions in this country. You can
:41:32. > :41:36.get much faster decisions on the Continent of Europe. This country
:41:36. > :41:40.in the in the current economic environment cannot afford to wait
:41:40. > :41:43.years for development. When it comes to the green belt, we have
:41:43. > :41:49.published our national planning fame work in March. We are not
:41:49. > :41:53.proposing to tear that up. If you look ats around Cambridge, one of
:41:53. > :41:58.our great success stories as a city, they have been smart about swapping
:41:58. > :42:04.some bits of the green belt for other bits, allowing developments
:42:04. > :42:11.om some parts of the green belt. Those powers exist. I would like to
:42:11. > :42:14.see more of that. It doesn't sound like a big bang?. We are making
:42:14. > :42:17.substantial changes to planning that make it easier to have
:42:17. > :42:22.sustainable development. At the moment it is not working. We are
:42:22. > :42:25.not getting the growth we are looking for?. I would say jobs are
:42:25. > :42:30.being created, 9,000 jobs in the private sector. But Britain's
:42:30. > :42:35.economic problems are deep-rooted, built up over many years. We have a
:42:35. > :42:39.very unbalanced economy. It is healing but there is not some easy
:42:39. > :42:43.road. Believe you me, if there was a quick fix or an easy road, I
:42:43. > :42:48.would be the first on it. There isn't. It is a hard road to
:42:48. > :42:52.recovery but there is no alternative easy road. What about
:42:53. > :42:56.your critics on the Conservative right, who say you need to cut back
:42:56. > :43:00.taxes, slash regulation, you need to make it easier for people to
:43:00. > :43:04.hire and fire as well as build. want to make it easier to build. I
:43:04. > :43:09.want to make it easier to hire people, do all those things.
:43:09. > :43:12.you? I look forward to the support of Conservative MPs in in doing
:43:12. > :43:16.those things. And the support of the Liberal Democrats. We are a
:43:16. > :43:19.coalition. One of the thing the country has is political political
:43:19. > :43:24.stability a strong government with a big majority in government that
:43:24. > :43:34.is able to do these things because we have a coalition. Quef a
:43:34. > :43:37.
:43:37. > :43:40.government, whether it is a strong government people would ask. There
:43:40. > :43:45.is a more left wing version which is spend a lot more money and you
:43:45. > :43:49.can't do that, and therefore it is a little bit of that and a bit of
:43:49. > :43:53.that and you can't make the bid radical changes you would like to.
:43:53. > :43:57.Even though we are a coalition government, the first in a
:43:57. > :44:02.generation, we have actually taken very big radical decision toss
:44:02. > :44:05.reform education and welfare, cut business tax, make this a more
:44:05. > :44:08.attractive country for wealth creators. We are doing difficult
:44:09. > :44:12.things on top of dealing with the deficit. Of course, I read all
:44:12. > :44:17.these people coming out with different proposals of what we
:44:17. > :44:21.should do, quite often they are mutually contradictory. I would say
:44:21. > :44:24.get behind the government, on the labour side and even in the
:44:24. > :44:28.coalition, I would say get behind the government in making it easier
:44:28. > :44:32.to develop things, get things built, to support infrastructure
:44:32. > :44:37.development. That is deregulation. That is all about speeding up the
:44:37. > :44:42.creation of jobs in our country. Let me ask but a specific specific
:44:42. > :44:48.thing in the papers, which is either a third runway at Heathrow,
:44:48. > :44:53.or if not that, speedy plans to build a new major airport for the
:44:53. > :44:57.south east. Where do you stant on this? We need more airport capacity
:44:57. > :45:02.in the south-east of England. We need more runway capacity. Then
:45:02. > :45:08.there is a question of where it should go, Heathrow, new airport,
:45:08. > :45:13.Stansted, Gatwick, people have lots of options. Let's examine all the
:45:13. > :45:19.options, do it now, let's make sure we can try and create a political
:45:19. > :45:24.consensus. Can we not have a commission for another few years.
:45:24. > :45:27.There is opposition across communities to particular airport
:45:28. > :45:31.developments, I represent a constituency with Manchester
:45:31. > :45:36.airport in it, I understand about the local pressures, but you have
:45:36. > :45:40.to as a nation be able to overcome those and make a sensible decision
:45:40. > :45:43.about where it should be. We are going to get no kind of decision
:45:43. > :45:47.before the election?. What we are going to get is a decision that we
:45:47. > :45:51.need new runway capacity and seek to achieve a political agreement
:45:51. > :45:55.across the political parties on where that should be. What about
:45:55. > :46:00.new roads and railways, are you going to speed those up? I would
:46:00. > :46:05.like to see the speeding up of the delivery of those things. You are
:46:05. > :46:08.prepared to open the coffers to get infrastructure spending now?.
:46:08. > :46:13.prepared to underwrite big infrastructure projects, that is
:46:13. > :46:15.something no chancellor has done before me. In the past,
:46:15. > :46:19.infrastructure spending has been cut? Infrastructure spending
:46:19. > :46:24.compared to the plans we inherited from the Labour Party is higher.
:46:24. > :46:28.But what I would say is, I am as frustrated as anyone that it takes
:46:28. > :46:33.so long to get a road built, so long to do the rail improvements.
:46:33. > :46:37.We have tried to make that easier. You will see in the next couple of
:46:37. > :46:44.weeks legislation to speed up the process of development. Of course
:46:44. > :46:47.to allow for legitimate objection, but it can be heard and
:46:47. > :46:51.acknowledged and adjudicated on in less than a couple of years. We
:46:51. > :46:57.don't need to take so long. What I think we have found... Are you
:46:57. > :47:04.going to speed up planning? building a new runway was simple it
:47:04. > :47:09.would have been done over the last 20 years. You have to find ways of
:47:09. > :47:13.doing this more quickly and you are going to radically simplify the
:47:13. > :47:18.planning system? We have to up the tempo of development and activity
:47:18. > :47:21.in this country. All of us as a nation have to come to terms with
:47:21. > :47:25.the fact, not only have we had a difficult five years as an economy,
:47:25. > :47:29.but this country faces a big question about its future in the
:47:29. > :47:32.world and whether it is about our school system, our welfare system
:47:32. > :47:36.or about the the infrastructure we have, have we got the appetite as a
:47:36. > :47:46.country to make the changes necessary to provide the nobs, not
:47:46. > :47:49.just today -- job, not just today, but for our grandchildren. I talk
:47:49. > :47:52.to people with smaller companies, they still say they can't get the
:47:52. > :47:56.money from banks. They are quite attracted to the notion of some
:47:56. > :48:00.kind of government-backed bank to get more money into business more
:48:00. > :48:04.quickly. The weakness in our banking sis tempt is one of the --
:48:04. > :48:09.system is one of the biggest problems we have got. We have
:48:09. > :48:13.announced a funding for lending scheme, to help reduce the cost of
:48:13. > :48:18.lending so businesses can borrow more. We do need to consider now
:48:18. > :48:24.and work on as we are in the Treasury, a small business bank
:48:24. > :48:28.sponsored by the government that can bring together all the alphabet
:48:28. > :48:33.soup of existing schemes and also have existing powers. It is true
:48:33. > :48:37.small businesses are the innocent victims of the credit crunch.
:48:37. > :48:42.Listening to you it sounds like there is a new sense of energy, we
:48:42. > :48:48.must do that and this, we have had a silly argument some people might
:48:48. > :48:53.say about plan A, plan A plus and all the rest of it. Is it the case,
:48:53. > :48:57.looking at the dep of the 69 -- depth of the trouble, that you have
:48:57. > :49:01.a renewed since you have to do more and more quickly. This government
:49:01. > :49:04.means business. We have come back this autumn from the Olympics and
:49:04. > :49:08.Paralympics absolutely determined to confront the problems the
:49:08. > :49:13.British economy has, to overcome the objections to growth that exist
:49:13. > :49:17.in our country. We have got that energy. You have come back from the
:49:17. > :49:21.summer to go faster and further?. We are determined to do more,
:49:21. > :49:25.whether it is in terms of economic development or reforming education
:49:25. > :49:29.or welfare to make sure this country can earn its way not just
:49:29. > :49:33.today but in the future. Western countries are going to sink or swim
:49:33. > :49:37.over the next few decades and I am absolutely determined Britain is
:49:37. > :49:42.one of the great success stories of the future. The reason that you are
:49:42. > :49:45.talking this way presumably is that what has happened so far isn't
:49:46. > :49:50.working. We can argue about the reasons for it, but you look at the
:49:50. > :49:58.statistics and they could not be clearer. You could have any Finance
:49:58. > :50:02.Minister of any western country in the world, we are all confronting
:50:02. > :50:05.similar problems of weak banking systems, big borrowing in the good
:50:06. > :50:09.years. This government has a confidence around the world by
:50:09. > :50:15.confronting those problems. Of course, I would like the recovery
:50:15. > :50:18.to be stronger. But we are overcoming enormous deep-seated
:50:18. > :50:22.problems in our own economy. We have a difficult international
:50:22. > :50:26.backdrop against which to be doing it. I would say people look at the
:50:26. > :50:29.UK over the last few months and they say not only have they a
:50:29. > :50:34.strong government commanding the confidence of the debt market. They
:50:34. > :50:41.are saying we can put on things like the Olympic Games, we can can
:50:41. > :50:45.deliver when they have the effort and energy. I think we have
:50:45. > :50:50.demonstrated this summer that we are a competent and strong nation.
:50:50. > :50:53.Let's carry that spirit through the autumn. People may not apply it
:50:53. > :50:58.directly to the government. A lot of your own critics say if there is
:50:58. > :51:02.one person who ought to be 110% focused on the economy, it is you
:51:02. > :51:06.and therefore it is wrong that you are also having the strategic role
:51:06. > :51:11.as an election planner and adviser on the Conservative cause and you
:51:11. > :51:19.should put that to one side and simply concentrate on the day job.
:51:19. > :51:24.It is nonsense, I am 110% focused on the economy. The government's
:51:24. > :51:28.political strategy is tightly burned out with its economic
:51:28. > :51:31.strategy as well. A lot stems from people not really prepared to
:51:31. > :51:37.accept that the Prime Minister and chancellor work incredibly closely
:51:37. > :51:40.and spend a lot of time talking to each other about these problems. I
:51:40. > :51:45.know that is unusual given our recent history in Britain. I know
:51:45. > :51:50.it is unusual. You were asking Chuka Umunna about Ed Balls and
:51:50. > :51:53.edMiliband. But in this government, we spend a huge amount of time at
:51:53. > :51:58.the top of government working together on some of the biggest
:51:58. > :52:04.problems that country has faced. the coming reshuffle you will carry
:52:04. > :52:08.on doing two two jobs. You need to get David Cameron into your new set
:52:08. > :52:14.if you want to talk about the reshuffle. The top team is
:52:14. > :52:17.absolutely focused on the economic recovery. It won't change? You can
:52:17. > :52:21.ask David Cameron about the reshuffle. I am clear the economy
:52:21. > :52:26.team in the government which starts with the first lord of the Treasury
:52:26. > :52:30.is totally focused on getting the economy moving. Vince Cable to stay
:52:30. > :52:36.doing his job as business secretary, working closely with you? I work
:52:36. > :52:41.very closely with Vince Cable. This country did not elect a majority
:52:41. > :52:44.government. In exceptionally difficult political circumstances,
:52:44. > :52:49.Vince Cable, Nick Clegg myself, David Cameron and others have put
:52:49. > :52:53.together a stable government that is there for the five years and of
:52:53. > :52:57.course we are all focused on the economy recovery. You mention Nick
:52:57. > :53:01.Clegg here. When you hear him saying this is a time for the rich
:53:01. > :53:07.people in the country to pay quite a bit more in tax to help everybody
:53:07. > :53:13.out, do you just snort and say this is pre-conference manoeuvring it
:53:13. > :53:20.means nothing? Of course, they have been calling for wealth taxes for
:53:20. > :53:24.100 years, it is not surprising. We have asked the rich to pay more. I
:53:24. > :53:30.have increased taxes on the rich, but we have also got to be careful
:53:30. > :53:35.going forward we do not drive away wealth creators from this country.
:53:35. > :53:39.And we are in a fiercely competitive world. I thought it was
:53:39. > :53:42.reassuring last week, one of the world's biggest companies moved
:53:42. > :53:47.back to Britain, having moved away from Britain a few years ago.
:53:47. > :53:51.are terribly unpopular as chancellor. You don't seem to
:53:51. > :53:55.radiate self-doubt but do you ever ask yourself am I the right person
:53:55. > :54:00.for this job or do you feel completely confident that you are
:54:00. > :54:03.across this? Personally I am focused on this and I feel a very
:54:03. > :54:07.heavily responsibility to get this job right, to do what I can and
:54:07. > :54:15.make sure the government does what it can to get the economy going. If
:54:15. > :54:19.I was trying to win a popularity stakes there are easier things I
:54:19. > :54:22.could do. In a difficult economic environment it is not surprising
:54:22. > :54:30.the Chancellor is not the most popular member of the government.
:54:30. > :54:34.It would be somewhat surprising if he was. Thank you very much.
:54:34. > :54:38.Now the news headlines. The Chancellor has told this
:54:38. > :54:42.programme the economy is healing. But there is no easy route to
:54:42. > :54:48.recovery. Mr Osbourne said there would be new legislation to speed
:54:48. > :54:54.up the planning process, this could include building on the green belt
:54:54. > :55:00.if it is swapped for other land. That is all from me for now. The
:55:00. > :55:04.next news on BBC One is at midday. Now a look at what is coming up
:55:04. > :55:07.after the programme. Today on Sunday morning live
:55:07. > :55:12.squatting in England and Wales became a criminal act yesterday but
:55:12. > :55:17.with many empty houses and homelessness rising, is squatting
:55:17. > :55:20.actually immoral? And the Government is giving Ghana over �80
:55:20. > :55:27.million in foreign aid but is it time to prioritise the vulnerable
:55:27. > :55:34.here? The violinist Nicola Benedetti has
:55:34. > :55:44.been one of the of the stars of the Proms season. It's been a busy year
:55:44. > :55:45.
:55:45. > :55:54.for her. She has performed at the Titanic centenary contest in
:55:54. > :55:59.Belfast. And she's just released a new album, the silver violin.
:55:59. > :56:04.Welcome. You have had to work very hard to
:56:04. > :56:09.achieve everything you have done. There is a big drive in your native
:56:09. > :56:13.Scotland to get kids learning classical instruments. Do you think
:56:13. > :56:18.there is a simple get out there, hard work, practise message that
:56:18. > :56:22.people need to relearn perhaps in this country? Absolutely. It is a
:56:22. > :56:27.privilege for me to be able to really give that message at a time
:56:27. > :56:30.when so many people are. In Scotland it is an incredible time.
:56:30. > :56:35.There are a lot of key inspirational people who are
:56:35. > :56:45.serious about culture and music and young people working hard. You have
:56:45. > :56:49.done rock concerts, the Proms. Do you have a venue you prefer?
:56:49. > :56:55.best acoustics are where you feel most comfortable but I am
:56:55. > :56:59.determined classical music can fit into lots of setings. You have Last
:56:59. > :57:04.Night of the Proms. Tell us a bit about what you are going to be
:57:04. > :57:11.playing for us now. This is film music from Schindler's List? Yes,
:57:11. > :57:19.the theme tune to Schindler's List. A piece that I recorded on my CD. A
:57:19. > :57:24.very emotive piece. Most popular down load I think. It went to one
:57:24. > :57:28.in the pop charts, but it is great for classical music. Thank you very