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Great British political menu. For starters, we are serving up, what

else, horsemeat, with all the trimmings,. Jay Rayner gives his

review. If the supermarkets are going to make a dog's dinner,

perhaps it's time for the Government to take the reigns.

For the main course, we are feeding the squeezed middle. Jane Moore is

adding extra salt. As the coalition's shaky marriage heads

towards the rocks of a by-election, I'll be speed dating a selection of

galloping gourmets. Who will be my Valentine? Is political pudding

going out of fashion with men in the spotlight feeling the pressure

to look good, pop sensation Lamar flexes his muscles. You don't get

these from nothing. Men should take pride in their appearance, just

like Andrew. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the This Week

kitchen! Evening all. Welcome to This Week

where you find us here under starters orders, champing at the

bit with long faces all round. Despite the revelation that call me

Dave and Rebekah's horse has rocked up in Black Beauty pudding, when it

comes to looking a script gift horse in the mouth, we like to

think we have standards higher than Becher's Brook. Yet we are faced

with a hurdle that's impossible to clear, namely avoiding the stampede

of Shergar burger puns being trotted out around the press

paddock and our week began so promisingly dear viewers. As we

lounged around the This Week production office twiddling our

thumbs and fiddling our expenses, the only dead horse we plan to flog

tonight was sparkling, German and blue. But Azhar old MacMillan once

said, eventing dear boys. And now we are forced to shut the stable

door. How can we go on after all this after the puns have already

bolted? So all we can offer you is our lack of originality is a

hygiene guarantee of our own. The programme you are about to consume

contains no contamination from either horse, pork, Donny or

Newsnight and that's a promise worth making. Speaking of show

ponies, heading for the glue factory, I'm joined on the sew

phaetonite by two of Westminster's most valuable studs, the Joan

Collins and Oliver Tobias of the late-night political chat. I speak

of Jacqui Smith and Michael Portillo. Your moment of the week?

Gary walk waug was paid at least �500,000 to be got rid of -- Gary

Walker. He was made to sign a gagging order. It was an Orwellian

situation. The National Health Service is causing the deaths of

patients and it's paying off with masses of taxpayers' money, people

to two away and say they've found fault with the system, and my quiz

question for the night is, is there anything that would shame the Head

of The National Health Service into resigning? Is there anything that

will shame the Government into firing this man? Interesting. Good

stuff. Your moment of the week? There's been dancing on the streets

of Westminster and around the world today as part of the one billion -

it's not you two - but still time, as part of the one billion rising

campaign. One billion relates to the one billion women likely to be

raped or beaten in their lives and this is a campaign where today

women and the men who want to support them got out on the streets,

danced and protested. It's a good example of a modern campaign.

Although in the UK it's been led by Stella Creasey, Shadow Home Office

Minister, it's cross party and non- party, it uses celebrities and

social media to spread the word, it's part of a really exciting

burgeoning new young feminist movement as well, so a very good

campaign, one I hope for which there'll be a lot of support.

will go on I suspect. Horsemeat passed off as beef is an issue that

is not going away. With each day, there's another of Michael's ready

meals recalled from the shelves. If it carries on like this, he's going

to waste away. What is to be done and who should take responsibility?

Who better to ask than food writer Jay Rayner. This is his take of the

If ever there was a scandal designed for the self-satisfied

chatter of the British middle classes, it's that involving the

discovery of horsemeat in cheap ready meals. The argument will be

familiar, anybody buying overly cheap food gets what they deserve.

We should all abandon the supermarkets in favour of

independent shops like this one. In a perfect world, that rhetoric

would apply. Consumers have a responsibility for what they buy

and what they eat, but in an age of austerity with wages falling and

prices rising, food is one of the few things that people can cut back

on. Consumers cannot be blamed for shopping in the value ranges. The

blame lies elsewhere. The supermarkets must take some

responsibility. The sheer economic might of these corporates is

dangerous. They made this scandal all but inevitable by using their

huge buyer power by forcing the suppliers to cut corners. There is

a real economic incenti to pass horse off as its mooing cousin. A

couple of rib-eyes, please. -- incentive. A proper corporate

social responsibility must come. In effect, they are custodians of our

food supply chain, but it's a task in which they've failed dismally,

they must be called to account. Can Thank you very much. There's a

problem with regulation of the food industry. I don't think it's

coincidence that this scandal comes off the back of major cuts to the

organisations like the Food Standards Agency. I find it galing

that the Government should have been using the Food Standards

Agency as a political shield to take the flak while it gets to

grips with the crisis. If this scandal proves anything,

it's that these agencies need more powers, not fewer, not something

this Government supports. If the supermarkets will not police

themselves with sufficient riggour, the state will have to do it for

them. Consumer trust depends upon -- rigour.

Welcome to the programme. Are the supermarkets fundamentally holding

the responsibility here? They're the ones who label the food and

they haven't done enough testing as to make sure the labels they put on

is accurate? Ie been speaking to a number of producers, it's one of

the things I do, they've all been saying to me for a long time that

the incredible tight detail, the tight crush on margins that the big

supermarkets enforce upon their producers was going to lead to

something or other. None of them foresaw that it would be horsemeat

instead of beef but they said it was absolutely inevitable. When

margins are cut that thin and when you are threatened with delisting

from the big companies, things will happen and they've said it's simply

a consequence. When I buy a Hamburger that says beef on the

label and it turns out to be in some cases 100% horse instead, is

my first port of call of blame the supermarket for misselling?

Obviously the retailer is responsible for what they've done.

There is a wider responsibility I think for the way various

Governments over 20 years, 25 years have allowed that market to develop.

You can go back to the early 90s when supermarkets expanded. They

ended up with the big ring road businesses and became dominant in

the food market. It's the economic mechanism which has resulted in

this so there is a role for Government and regulation and for

the supermarkets. I think the big companies should be paying in to a

central body who police them. The supermarkets have to take

responsibility, but in the end it's the job of Government to keep them

isn't it, the Government should have the back spot of regulation

that makes sure the supermarkets are doing what they should be doing

and that hasn't happened? One step back. I think British supermarkets

are superb. I think we get high quality food at good prices,

although the market's dominated by supermarkets there's intense

competition between them. When I travel abroad I'm struck by what an

amazing variety of products there are in the supermarkets. The basic

problem with Britain today is that you can have little chance of

ending up in handcuffs. We need more people in handcuffs, we need

Chief Executives of supermarkets in theory knowing they'll be arrested,

they should be responsible for the supermarkets. They should know what

is going on. It isn't the point of this programme at the moment, but

you can't end up in handcuffs for fixing interest rates or not

looking after patients in hospitals. People are not going to take

seriously their responsibilities if they believe they are never going

to be held accountable for anything. I don't believe creating more

inspectors of supermarkets is going to solve the problem. There are

people already responsible, make their truly responsible. It's funny,

there used to be 1700 inspectors employed by the FSA, now there are

800 and we have a scandal. The FSA, they hadn't been testing for

horsemeat since 2003? But you have Trading Standard and Environmental

Health officers doing spot checks. We have seen massive cuts in

budgets, 32%. Nobody in the business predicted this was going

to happen. It is clearly a mess and one of these things... This is not

ever yet, there'll be a new thing coming out in the next few days.

Has Labour been right to be scaremongering on this? So far it's

a food labelling story, not a food safety story? Mary Creagh has been

active in stark contrast to... In the Select Committee today they

said the Government should be... Chaired by Anne Mackintosh, the

Tory MP... Yes and they'd been flat-footed. You had Owen Paterson

saying he'd eat a Findus lasagne, but you have the Minister for Food

saying... Unless somebody told him what it was! But the minister

saying these should be returned to the shop where you bought them from.

That's a confused message. You need to get to the bottom of it as soon

as possible, you need to tell the public what they need to know and

the Government need to get a grip. Do you think they've known? You've

got Owen Paterson standing there before going into that EU meeting

yesterday saying there were going to be more raids coming forward, we

think, although I don't really know. He sounds very, very flat-footed.

So much food regulation these days isn't done by national Government

now, it's European? But the national Governments have the

choice whether to fund the enforcement bodies. I do in one

regard agree with Michael. I'm not on principle against supermarkets,

they have been advantageous to food health in Britain, but they have

too much control of too much of the market.

Food scares are a nightmare for politicians aren't they? They are

and this is a prime example. Every scandal, they are so foolish to

give reassurances, they are urged by the Civil Service to give

reassurances and it's bonkers. You can't at one moment say it's

criminal activity which indeed it is and say there's nothing scary

about it. If it's a criminal activity you have no idea where

this stuff is coming from or what's been done to it. Why don't you

bring in the police? This is a scandal, because it's so come pleck,

people have chosen their targets, so some people who don't like our

European partners plumped for Romania despite the fact that it

was Ireland that pointed out the problem to us in the first place.

Some people who have a thing against supermarkets have chosen to

focus on supermarkets, I'm not saying you, Jay. Some people who

are concerned about quangos have chosen to focus on the FSA despite

the fact this Government took some of their powers back into

Government at the point at which they... Back into DEFRA? Exactly.

A lot of reasonably well off broadcasters are saying we need to

go back to the local butchers, see meat raw again and all the rest of

it. This is driven by chicks and for a lot of not well off people,

they are north-wested to buy those things -- forced to buy those

things? All those culpable, you have the enforcement agencies, the

investment companies, the Government and supermarkets, right

down the bottom I think I'm going to put the people who've been

buying the stuff as culpable, and in fact I wouldn't put them on

theley. Those consumers are in tight economic circumstances. They

went and bought either brands or from retailers that they had every

right to trust and they've been let down. Do you normally think that

instant mass produced food is cheaper? It's all about economies

of scale. When you break down some of the deals and what goes into

this stuff, it's terrifying they've managed to get it at that priesz.

It does scare me. There's this great myth that the poor are time

rich and cash poor. But actually, often, they are time poor and cash

rich, they don't have the time to do these things and the cost-of-

living is enormous and the proportion of their income. We talk

about how small a proportion of income, 10-11% food is, not if you

are on a low income, suddenly it's 30 or 40%. It's unlikely that this

will change our eating habits very much? We are still going to buy

modern lifestyles and we'll still go for this stuff? We are seeing

change, consumer power is calling big businesses to account, like we

saw in Starbucks. You have electronics companies like Amazon

producing in dodgy factories. You will see consumer pressure to the

supermarkets to clean up their act. It's late. Crimewatch Update late,

damn you Kirsty Young, damn you BBC schedule yulers. But stick with us.

As if this studio wasn't drop dead gorgeous enough, waiting in the

wings is Lemar, to talking about the pressure on men to look good.

And for those of you who want to avoid any form of "internet

grooming", we do ignore all your desperate pleas for attention on

the Fleecebook, the Twitter and our website. It wouldn't be right if I

didn't wish you a happy Valentine's Day, so I take it upon myself to

fill the gaps in your personal life. We are a romantic lot here on This

Week. Honestly. It is hard to get Michael to sit on his side of the

sofa sometimes. But it hadn't been all kisses and cuddles at

Westminster. The Sun's Jane Moore did get a date tonight. This is her

So it's Valentine's Day, when romantic and commercially minded

couples squeeze themselves into restaurants all over the country

too show their love for one another. Still I suppose we all need

something to celebrate. What with Ed Miliband pointing out that we're

all worse off... People are working harder than ever before. But for

far too many, wages are falling and prices are rising, and they feel

worse off, not better off. there is one thing I'm not willing

to compromise on. Also I don't really want to miss out on the

national "lurve"-a-thon either, so I thought I would try a spot of

speed dating. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. Starter, prawn

mayonnaise. Main course, rib-eye steak and a side-saddle. Dessert

Red Rum Baba? I hope my first date is more appealing. I know I said I

wanted a stable relationship but this isn't quite the Italian

stallion I had in mind. Now Tesco and Findus lasagne is off

the menu for most, the horsemeat crisis deepens daily. It has become

a nightmare for David Cameron. Prime Minister is rightly shocked

that many products contain 100% horse. Does it -- that if tested

many of his answers may be 100 bull? I really think we've got to

get a grip of this rather than make a joke about it. But they are so

tempting. A horse walks into a bar... Time for my next date.

From man you were to mature. I know I like an older man but I reckon

his hip goes out more than he does. Still, maybe he will benefit from

the Government's plans to finance some care for the elderly. One in

ten of us will spend more than �100,000 on our social care costs.

By putting a cap in the limit on how much anyone has to pay, we will

make it possible for people to plan much earlier in their life. First

their child benefit was cut, then the marriage tax postponed, now the

inheritance tax pledge abandoned. Little wonder that the Tory middle

classes are feeling slightly hard done by. Some feel that by paying

inheritance tax they've already paid the cost of their old care and

now they are being singled out to pay the cost for others. Time for

my next date. Let's hope it's an improvement shall we? Hop it,

granddad. Hello, I don't suppose you get out

much do you! As Chris Huhne wishes he could turn back the clock, no,

hang on a mint, maybe not. He awaits his fate, which may be a

custodial sentence. In his former constituency of Eastleigh, a host

of suddenly concerned politicians are jockeying for position speed

dating potential voters. It must be a crucial by-election. You have to

show that you can hold on to seats like this in the south of England.

If you cannot, your prospects for the elections are pretty poor.

confident we will hold on the this seat but not because I say so but

because the people of Eastleigh like the fact that's Liberal

Democrats who've been cutting council tax. I've seen a few by-

elections in my time and nothing settles until all the candidates

are there. We know from the opinion polls that we are ahead or we are

just lightly behind, so I think there's a lot to find for. Labour

is here to set out our one-nation alternative and to give people a

way of sending a real protest to the G There is this huge issue of

Romanian and Bulgarian entry next year in unlimited numbers. Jobs and

house itting are real issues here. A rocky patch in the coalition's

uneasy marriage. I know you are not supposed to talk

about politics or religion on a first date but I've messed up on

the politics already, so I might as well go for broke. So, are you a

believer? Hang on, are you sure you're looking for a relationship?

That's a big a shock as the Pope resigning from Vatican City to join

Vatican United. Is that right? You're jogging -- you're joking,

the Pope? Oh, my God. Oh, I'm so shocked. He has been such a short

time with us. Meanwhile Rupert Murdoch has tweeted that he's

considering putting page 3 out to grass. Mind you, as he's been

saying that in private for the past decade at least, it is a bit of an

old horse chestnut, so I wouldn't hold your breath. Time for my last

day. Maybe topless isn't so bad after

all! Cheers. They really blew the extras budget

on that one. That was Jane Moore, with special thanks to Miles of "My

Cheeky Butler". I must remind you that you can find a full list of

all the candidates standing in the Eastleigh by-election on the BBC

News website. We have to do that, so I've done it.

Michael, can the Tories still hope to win the next election if living

standards in 2015 are lower than 2010? Yes. Government can win

elections in all sorts of circumstances. I fleb the 1980

winning an election with 3 million unemployed. It depends crucially on

whether people believe that the opposition is ready to take over,

which is why Ed Miliband's appearance today is quite

interesting. Mr Miliband, he is going to ask the Reagan question

used so effectively in 1980. He said, are you better off than you

were in 1976? Mr Miliband will say, are you better off now than in

2010? Mr Reagan wasn't in power in 1976 but Mr Miliband was in 2010.

That's part of the reason why he's not only put in place some headline

policies that illustrate the economic approach to he wants to

take, but to put in place with the 10p tax rate a policy that says we

got it wrong in Government and this is one of the ways in which we are

going to demonstrate that we've learnt that lesson. Do you think

that on the scrapping of the 10p tax rate, he said, quote, that was

a mistake made by Gordon Brown. Will the voters give him credit for

track his old boss? That is the problem of course with trashing

your record in Government and continuously apologising for your

record in Government. To be fair Gordon Brown himself has said he

was wrong about that decision. bet Gordon is really comfortable

about the way Ed Miliband said that today. I hope there were no mobile

phones lying around. I suspect he will hope Labour wins the next

election. It is a tactical thing. It is much more important what's

happened under the coalition, which has been under a lot of Lib Dem

pressure, to lift the threshold at which people pay tax to �10,000. If

you make a 10p tax rate, Miliband said today it was worth �2 a week,

but once you've taken off the effect on benefits and so on it is

probably 66p. It is nothing. week? A week. It is a �1,000 band

at the moment on which the 10p will... That's assuming the mansion

tax gets you �2 billion. I've seen estimates that suggest you will be

lucky to get �1 billion. To be fair about the �2 billion, those are

figures that are based on IFS figures. I think they might be

based on the Lib Dems. That should give you confidence. That's the

other point about this, this is the adoption of a policy the Lib Dems

have promoted. The 10p tax rate, if you increase the rate at which you

pay tax, you benefit those people at the bottom. If you reintroduce a

10p tax rate you benefit 25 million basic rate taxpayers as well.

Except those on the very high. everyone who is paying income tax

benefits as well: Isn't the reason Ed Miliband said it today is that

he fierce it is going to be done in a budget? Therefore it is also...

It is one of the reasons why Gordon Brown wanted rid of it. To make a

real difference, tour create a 10p tax rate between 9,500 and up to

12,000, the total cost is �7 billion. That would make a

difference but there is no mansion tax, unless you want to kill the

housing market in Britain altogether, that is ever going to

make �7 billion. The 10p is a �1,000 band today. And raises

nothing. 67P as Michael says. it makes a very important point for

all taxpayers and reinforces the argument that Ed Miliband is making.

An echo of Barack Obama, that the difference a Labour Government

would take is to build the economy from the middle. But that whole

squeezed middle is not only the people who are suffering gurks

people who will provide the everyone us to grow. Put aside the

detail. Having interviewed Ed Balls today the details are sketchy.

Looction at the direction of the travel. Tax the -- location of the

direction of travel. Use the proceeds to cut the tax of the rest.

Does that still have potency in the 21st century? I suspect so, as

there are many more people who regard themselves as poor as rich.

However, the introduction of a wealth tax, which is what it is, is

a major step. It breaks with all press den, except that we have been

before in a situation where you tax people on their assets who may not

have any income. It generally ends badly, because among the people who

own these �2 million houses are people who are retired and have no

income. They are asset rich and income poor. Thefpblts will be

driven from their houses. They will be driven from their houses.

other policy is social care and the inheritance tax. Do the

Government's proposals broadly make sense or not? Well, they broadly

make sense in as much as they are the model that Andrew Dilnot

brought forward in terms of the look he took at this. They make

sense because this is an enormously important area that needs to be

solved for the long term. The difficulty with them is that while

they make sense in five years' time they don't solve today's problems.

They of course in setting the cap at �57,000 set it considerably

higher than Dilnot profd, therefore impact on fewer people. -- proposed,

therefore impact on fewer people. $:/STARTFEED. It's potty. They are

introducing a thing which will penalise everybody by restricting

the threshold on inheritance tax. So everybody knows they are going

to be poorer and none of the people who benefit know it will be them

who benefit. Everybody knows this is about protecting the legacies

passing from well off people to their well off children. It seems

ludicrous when we are in a period of austerity to expand ways of

expanding the welfare state. Isn't the source of this the tuition

fees? The Tories made a promise at the last election in 2007 to raise

the inheritance tax threshold to �1 million. They are cutting that in

real terms. For those who voted Tory for that... The irony is that

that was the promise that stopped Gordon at the election. It's huge.

Just as the Lib Dem's fees was. And this is too? And all for nothing,

for a policy that doesn't make any sense. Final question to you, jack

quay -- Jacqui. How should Labour fight this. He's the one-nation

Labour guy so he needs to show well in places like that -- show he can

do well in places like that. He could let the Tories in because of

the Lib Dem votes? It's about trying to get back to the pre-1977

situation when we say we could win in the south. What about his

dilemma? The better he does has got to be the expense of Lib Dem

defectors. The more Lib Dem defectors, the more likely the Tory

also win? I think in the long run the most important thing is for him

to show that Labour with him in leadership is in a position where

it could gain the sort of votes in the south where it would be

necessary... So if he only comes a half decent third, that's good

enough even if it means giving the seat to the Tories? You can't back

off on the basis that you might at some point in the future want Lib

Dem support because he wants to win a majority and the only way you can

do that is if you are going to get decent votes in places like

Eastleigh. According to highly reputable

research which we found on the Internet, faced with a choice of

candidates for president, more often than not, Americans choose

the tallest. They also historically tend to go for the heavier. For the

Republicans looking for a winner for 2016, the obvious one is Chris

Christie of new Jersey. Why is he getting so much grief for packing

the political pounds? All 300 plus of them? We decided it was time to

weigh up this issue and put male body image in this week's Spotlight.

Whether it's A listers or politicians, there is strict image

guidelines and pressure to look the part. Although fashionable facial

hair was the accessory on the red carpet, in Westminster, the lack's

never gone down well. Chris Christie is feeling the brunt

of an image conscious society with questions raised over what he's too

fat to be president. Maybe that's why call me Dave's been stepping up

his exercise regime and revealing this week he got a �7 conditional

500 discount from his personal trainer. Nick Clegg claiming he's

finally off the ciggies and there's been accusations that Harold

Wilson's pipe has been airbrushed from BBC screens to give him a

Take it from me and I know a lot about male style, if looking good

is key to popularity, maybe a bit of Lamar's swagger is what

politicians need to impress the voting public.

I'm delighted to say we are joined by Lamar. Welcome to This Week. You

are looking good obviously. Obviously we are too! Obviously,

yes. Obviously. How much pressure are you under as a man to stay

looking sharp? I don't know if pressure is the right word, but you

have to stay conscious of your appearance, especially in a day and

age where Twitter is massive, the spwe net is, it's a very digital

age -- Internet. There are lots of uncharitable people out there?

a bad picture lasts a lifetime these days. People in your position,

more often than not you have been judging looks rather than music?

They go hand in hand, you know. It's a very visual age we live in.

Suppose you put on a few pounds, grew a straggly beard, would that

affect your career? Would the record company say, what's

happening?: luckily on this album I'm the record company so no-one

can tell me anything. What would you say to yourself? Get it in gear,

come on, look at the way you look, come on! So it would matter?

depends on the motivation, as long as the motivation's right. If you

are staying healthy because people are picking on you, maybe not, but

if it's because you want to look good, you don't like what you see

or you would rather you wore something different, why not.

Governor Christie too fat to be President? He may be. I think there

was a President who was his weight but the concern the voters have is,

will this man last the presidential term because nowadays, so little

consideration is given to choosing the Vice-President. The Vice-

President is chosen for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do

with their suitability to become President if something goes wrong.

You worry, are you going to get a Sarah Palin who ran for the

Republicans four or five years ago? So you must worry. People are

always poking fun at Eric Pickles. Sometimes cruelly. He's got a way

of using his weight to his advantage? Yes, he is funny like

Chris Christie was there. The idea that I am going to be sympathetic

to a bunch of men moaning about the fact that they are getting judged

on their appearance is a little bit difficult for me. Like you even

repeating that point. You guys have to get over yourselves and get on

with it. The thing that often gets people is that politicians are,

particularly Government ministers and oppositions, are always

lecturing us on health and what we should be eating. Smoking - when

you look at them - they are not the healthiest themselves are they?

think it takes all sorts, if you are in the public eye inevitably if

you are waking up seeing images of you that you don't particularly

like, you are going to make an effort in whatever way to improve

that. Whether it affects your ability to do your job, I don't

know... What's this thing about the Holyrood stars, and you --

Hollywood stars, and you yourself, like when I asked George Clooney at

a party myself and Ben Affleck as well. I'm not a name-dropper, but I

said, I'll see you tomorrow and Thursday. What's this thing about

beards? They are all wearing them at the moment, aren't they? They

are, yes. I wish I could grow a bit more but my genetics don't allow me.

This is as good as it gets. Beards have always been a no-no in

politics, haven't they, in modern times? Yes, although we showed a

few there. David Blunkett maybe for special reasons but Robin Cook,

Alistair Darling, there are some. Things go through phases, don't

they. They all got rid of their beards. Perhaps led by Ben Affleck

and Lamar, who knows, perhaps we might see more. An incredible

amount of work to be done on them, they are sculpted. They are works

of art. They are. When you look back at British political history

was there ever a time when the three party leaders were just as

fit looking as they are now? They are all quite young men, very, very

presentable, they've got good firks, they make an issue of their health,

it's a sign of the times, isn't it -- good figures. Men in the public

eye now, are they not really just having to endure this kind of

judgment which women in the public eye have always had to endure?

I think so. Because it's such a digital age and one pictures

travels -- picture travels quickly and one picture lasts a long time,

people are conscious of their image. BBC Parliament's running footage

about the Harold Wilson years, there were pictures of Harold

MacMillan and Mr Douglas-Hulme, looks do seem to matter more now

than they do now. Is that the television age? I'm not sure if

they do, but if they do, it's Lamar's point that we live in this

television age where you have to make an impact very quickly on the

television in photographs and if you can't do that, you... Harold

Wilson was the man who came into our living room through the

television screen and it wasn't good looks. It was the Yorkshire

accent, the first TV Prime Minister. Why the Tories picked Heath because

they tried to match it. What are you up to? Promoting an album

called Invincible. I'm just having a really good time celebrating my

fifth album so it's great. Stay off the chips! There you go, I'm

trying! That is your lot for tonight. It's

not for us though, because with the devastating news that Roman

wrestling is to be dropped from the Olympics, Michael's wiping away the

tears and wiping on the baby oil for one last time. We leave you

tonight with a glorious moment from this week's PMQs, speaker Bercow

doing his very, very, very, very best... Thank you, Mr Speaker.

Schools... Sorry, Mr Speaker, the opposition don't want... Very