19/06/2014 This Week

Tonight on This Week, as we roll out the oriental rug for the Chinese

Premier, we're in the mood for a little bit of This Week fighting.

Iraq asks America for airstrikes against advancing

jihadis - former adviser to Tony Blair, John McTernan, tells us

why his old boss is definitely not "unhinged" about Iraq.

McTernan. Blair's right. Iraq needs all the help it can get in this

fight. The Chinese leader took tea with

the Queen and even kowtowed to But is the Labour leader more

"Kung Fu Panda" than successful Funky Guardian man Nic Watt is

a little bit frightening. Ed, some call him Red, found himself

under fire but he fought back with a series of tough policy

announcements. The Chinese Premier relied

on a translator to communicate, but must you be able to speak English to

be considered "truly British"? Forget shirt watch,

we have "jumper-watch" with Sarah Lund, otherwise known

as Danish actor Sofie Grabol. Everybody was This Week Fighting.

Those kicks were fast as lightning. Evenin' all, welcome to This Week,

coming to you live from a channel High-brow home of hit TV shows such

as Homes Under the Hammer, Flog It! Because, dear viewer, due to the

huge national interest in tonight's crucial football match between, er,

Japan and Greece - for days Britain has spoken of nothing else - and the

total lack of national interest in a militant jihadist attempt to destroy

the state of Iraq, redraw the boundaries of the

Middle East, create a medieval Islamist caliphate then come gunning

for us, we've been forced to leave our usual berth on BBC One

and find any old port in a storm. One that even Old Paxo

has now abandoned. Fortunately

for us we've been granted the highly prestigious 'post-Newsnight' slot

here on BBC Two, the berth of documentaries nobody wants to see,

repeats and Conference Round Up. So we're praying that either

of Newsnight's viewers - or maybe - bother to stay with us

for the duration. Speaking of hugely important

geopolitical events that always play second fiddle to 22 grown -men

kicking a ball around a field, I'm joined on the sofa tonight by

two people whose commentary always captures the excitement and energy

of important global events. Think of them as the Trevor Nelson

and Phil Neville I speak of course of #baffled

Diane Abbott. And #sadmanonatrain Michael

"just been knocked out of the World England hasn't yet but it is hanging

on by its finger tails My topic of the week is the Spanish monarchy.

They are having to invent these things as they go. They don't have

the long-term stability that we have. Secondly, to recall that

because Spain uses in its democracy the list system of proportional

representation, they don't have the same democracy that we do. I'm so

sorry that our democracy's been polluted by list systems which are

now in use in Scotland and the European elections, which are

nondemocratic and antidemocratic. And one of the reasons the King has

had to abdicate is he was caught elephant hunting and carrying on the

high life at a time when Spain had within ruined by going into the

euro. The economy there has been devastated, like so many European

economies. It is worth remembering that we in this country, although

we've had a rough time, we haven't been devastated by being in the

euro. He's on a roll tonight. I thought he would never stop! So did

I. I thought I was going to have to rugby tackle him to the ground. Die

afternoon, your short moment of the week. It is always short to hear him

talking about Spain. Actually it was listening to President Obama's

statement about reactionier this evening. I was relieved because he

resisted the pressure from crazy Republicans to put American boots

back on the ground in Iraq. President Obama is so brave to say

that he won't. We are going on to talk about that. Have you forgot on

the take your medication tonight? When I say 'Portillo',

you say 'train'. When I say 'Abbott',

you say 'baffled'. And when I say Blair,

everyone says 'Iraq'. Such is the toxicity

of the 2003 invasion that, more than 10 years on - in this country

at least - we still view events in the Middle East through the prism

of the former Prime Minister. So, as the Iraqi Government calls

for American airstrikes against advancing jihadist militants,

will the West - should the West - be drawn back into a conflict we

thought we'd left behind? We turned to Tony Blair's former

Director of Political Operations, You probably think you know exactly

how history will treat Tony Blair and his actions in Iraq. I'm Leary

to item you you are completely wrong. The truth is we were right to

go into Iraq and we left too early. We left for our own selfish

political reasons. And now in Iraq's greatest need, it would be wrong for

us to leave Iraq on its own. Supporting the Middle East's only

other functioning democracy after Israel remains great moral cause it

was when I worked for Tony Blair when I worked for the Prime Minister

of Baghdad. It is an appalling reflection on the House of Commons

that many MPs who voted for the Iraq war are shirking their

responsibility now. Unlike Tony Blair our current leaders have no

idea what to do. People say that everything that's wrong with Iraq is

the fault of Blair and bush. They say there was no Al-Qaeda in Iraq

before 2003. Let's be clear what that actually. Is it is the kind of

bloodless amoral pragmatic foreign policy speak worthy of a Henry

Kissinger. They are really saying Saddam Hussein may have been a

genocidal fascist dictator but at least he kept the Iranians and the

jihadists at bay. If we don't act now, we'll surely act later. We have

to go back to Iraq to defend democracy. After all, as Margaret

Thatcher said at the time of the Falklands crisis, why else do we

have Armed Forces? And from the Imperial War Museum in Southwark to

our own war museum in the heart of Westminster. John McTernan, welcome.

So what exactly should we do? We shall initially be giving strong

moral support for the Kurds and the Iraqis. We do not want to see

dislodged a democracy fully supported since 2003. All of which

people turned out in greater numbers and people risked their lives to go

to vote. That's not a policy, that's a series of opinions. But we have to

be clear, the UK, the US, the European Union, that we do not want

to see the democracy fall and we have to give the support. What shall

we do? We were in the situation where with America we are able to

offer logistical support, humanitarian support, support

through intelligence and we can offer, we could use drones if we

chose to take out the leadership of ISIS and have notify zones. What's

the point of a no-fly zones for a bunch of terrorists that don't have

planes We do fly over them and bomb them. ISIS don't have any planes.

There's a range of military options we could have. You think British

jets should be flying over Iraq? I think Britain should be prepared to

do anything they can to stop terrorists taking over a democratic

state in Iraq. What do you say to that? It's a touching display of

loyalty. To whom? For Tony Blair from his former aide. It is not we

going into Iraq, but other people's sons and daughters. Your argument is

that we should have gone into Iraq to change the regime. I was in

Parliament at the time and the one thing Parliament wasn't prepared to

do was to vote to go to war to change the regime. I know it's a

minor matter to a Blair acolyte but we still live in a democracy. What

are you laughing at? Never mind. John McTernan, what's the answer to

that? The change of regime was as a consequence of Saddam Hussein

failing to implement United Nations reduces. You don't understand what I

am saying. You can talk over me if you like! Tony Blair made a point of

insisting that we weren't going in for regime change. He knew that was

illegal and the House wasn't vote for it. It is not you and Tony Blair

who sends poem's sons to war. They couldn't get a majority in

Parliament,s that correct? I said we should go to Iraq to defend

democracy, not defend a regime change. There's a regime change

there. If Diane is happy to see terrorists overturn the regime

there... There are far more terrorist there is than there were

at the beginning. Isn't one of the ironies of the situation that we

into Iraq because it was supposed to be an existential threat to us. It

is now choc-a-block with terrorist and we are unable to go in because

of what happened before. And tests so violent even Al-Qaeda has

rejected them. The answer to that is that the terrorism occurred and

ISIS's growth is post 2011, after the UK and the US left. It was not

right to leave that country. It was too early. This is all academic

isn't it? It's quite clear from tonight that Mr Obama is going to do

everything it takes to avoid any major intervention. If the Americans

aren't going to go in this any major way, no-one's going in this any

major way, except Iran. I agree with you that's academic, but to be fair

to our guest, I think there is a perfectly good case for bombing the

hell out of these terrorists, because they are very dangerous

people as David Cameron said the other day, this isn't some distance

place about which we don't care, this is a place seething with

terrorists who are likely to attack Britain. The point they didn't

address is whether bombing the people back to the Middle Ages...

But they are in the Middle Ages anyway. All the evidence suggests

that so far we've made our less safe. Whatever we may think about

defending democracy isn't an offer. What is now on offer is that we

fight on behalf of a Shia regime in Baghdad which is a client state of

the regime in Iran against a whole lot of Sunnis who've been

dispossessed by the Shias. Let John McTernan answer. The Government

hasn't yet been formed following the most recent general election, and

Nouri Al-Maliki, his support weakened fourth in this general

election than the one before The key in Iraq has always been and is today

the Kurds. They demonstrate that you can have a nonsectarian part of

reaction defended safely by their own security. The Kurds are part of

Iraq. But they are going their own way. The Kurds are simply securing

the defence of the Kurdish autonomous region. That's what you

would expect them to do. If they were more like the peshmerga, you

wouldn't have them running away in Mosul. You seem to be glossing over

that. You don't have to have Sunni Shia conflict that's Civil War, or a

sectarian Government. You can have the European Union, the UK and the

US have responsibility here to be pressuring Malaki to be forming a

grander coalition. He's not going to. Supposedly the American position

is that help is available but only if Al-Malaki reforms. So is that

your position, because if it is, what you are really saying is, you

are not going to do anything. Obama is stalling for time. He

knowsal-Malaki won't do a deal, so is that your position? I think there

is a huge possibility potential for this conflict to change the balance

of power in the region. I don't think it's in ours or America's

interests... Is it yours and Blair's position that we should bomb now

before Malaki's done a deal or is it Obama's position that we should wait

until Malaki does it now, which he'll never do. My position is my

position, I don't control the UK. But your position on this? Is that

we all in Britain, Europe require ISIS to be defeated. Sorry, before

you deal with Malaki bomb them now? You can't make it conditional. Let

me come back to the broader picture, Diane. We went into Iraq, it's a

shambles. We didn't go into Syria, it's a shambles. What are the

lessons to be learned? It's a shambles either way and maybe it has

to be resolved by the people and the regional powers there? Actually,

that's what Obama was saying this evening. The lesson to be learn

suicide this kind of interventionists from outside, can't

be resolved from the Ottoman Empire. We cannot resolve this from outside.

Why is it rub snish For 20 years we have protected the Kurdish

autonomous region for 20 years. Clearly, it's possible for us to

protect and grow a stable democracy. Possible to protect the Kurds but

not possible to go from outside into a Sunni Shia Civil War. Your

question invites a reflection on the point made in the film that we were

right to get rid of Saddam Hussein because he was a murderous person,

even though he was a balancing power against Iran and controlled the

Al-Qaeda within Iraq. I'm afraid my position is that the Prime Minister

of Britain and the Foreign Secretary of Britain should be responsible for

and responsive to British interest and it was undoubtedly in British

interest that Saddam controlled Al-Qaeda in Iraq and that Iraq be

balanced against Iran. Since that has been removed, there is no doubt

that that's been against British interests. Tony Blair had the policy

of supporting Gaddafi in Libya, recognising that he, another

murderous horror, was actually a ball Wark against terrorism. He has

inconsistent... We are running out of time. I want to fin Nishing on

this point. You look at the White House's reluctance to do very much,

the Kurds are going their own way in the north and the Iranians are

moving in to the Shia part of Iraq. Day facto the country is

partitioned? I don't believe that will be the end consequence of this

and I don't believe that is the final act in this. We have a

strategic interest in the Middle East of growing stable democracies

and you can share your head all you can, Diane. It's a cliche. It's not

a cliche. It's not Mr Obama's objective? He rejected that in his

UN speech 679 The cowardice of Cameron and Obama has nothing to do

with me. The cowardice? Complete cowardice. Anyway, we have grown

democracy successfully in Europe through the 70s and 80s, defeating

communism. We have to have defeat Jihadism and Islamism and help the

democracy there is in Iraq, there in Israel, have one in Palestine, help

them grow in Egypt and do something that doesn't mean there's a bigger

and bigger mess. This will draw us into this in sort point of another.

It's late, like a trapped German potholer, we are dragging things out

for a happy ending. Hang on in there, because waiting in the wings

from The Killing, Sophie is here to talk fluently and without subtitles

about speaking English. For those who're not even on nodding terms

with the mother tongue, don't forget you can display your liberty

vocabulary on the Twitter, Fleecebook and interweb.

The poor Chinese premier after filling out all the tedious visa

forms finally arrived in Great Britain this week for a special

visit. With a bulging fanny pack of Chinese

Yuen. He feel ready to pick up some assets for the communist Phoebes

back home. What did he get his chums? A T-shirt that said "my

premier went to London, all he got me was a lousy stake in HS2". You

can understand the disappointment. The round-up of the my Al week. No

journalists were armed in the making of this film -- the round-up of the

mittical week. -- political week.

A carpet of the finest communist red was rolled out this week for the

Chinese premier. Even the Queen dusted off the finest bone heroin

for his wife at Windsor Castle. The premier of the people's Republic

of China, your Majesty... The Chinese could soon be building

and running our civil near power plants. In return, we gave the

Chinese premier a box DVD Dickens set and a signed script of Downton

Abbey. Apparently, there's something about the hierarchical nature of the

British aristocracy that appeals to the communists. We have more Chinese

investment into the UK in the last 18 months than in the whole of the

last 30 years combined. TRANSLATION: China is continuously

pushing forward on human rites, in close dialogue with if UK and other

countries. -- the UK. In many ways, we can learn a lot from each other,

even as we follow our own paths. To ensure it pours into Britain, we are

maybing it easy for Chinese visitors to apply for visas.

We had high end hand bags in Paris sold in higher numbers. Hopefully

the Chinese travellers applying for visas will have a better time than

the poor old Brits hoping for a passport. Would you like to

apologise? I absolutely recognise the anger and distress that some

people have suffered and I would like to put on record yes, that in

every case where we have not met our service standards and not met the US

mayors' needs, yes, we are sorry for that. So we take that as an apology

1234 It is an apology. Excellent. Days after Michael Gove was strong

armed into saying he liked Theresa May, one of the closest allies

poured out his bile over just about everybody in Downing Street.

Fighting talk was from Dominic Cummings, the revolutionary brain

behind the free schools programme. He laid into David Cameron for

having no priorities, focus or grip. He laid into the Prime Minister's

Chief of Staff as a third rate sucker, sycophant, presiding over

the shambolic court and the Prime Minister's director of

communications is just clueless. Ouch. The Prime Minister hit back

and described Cummings as a career psychopath. Michael Gove played all

innocent and said it had nothing to do with him.

Internal Whitehall squabbles all seemed trivial as the march of the

Sunni insurgent forces from the ISIS group towards Baghdad threatened the

partition of Iraq. The Iraqi Government pleaded with

the US to launch airstrikes on the Sunni insurgent forces, placing

Washington on the same side as Iran, a development the Foreign Secretary

was keen to encourage as he announced the re-opening of the

British Embassy in Tehran. It's an important step forward in

our bilateral relations with Iran in addition to discussing our

interests. We'll continue to press Iran to reach a deal with us and

other nations of the E 3 plus 3 on its nuclear programme and to promote

stability by ending its support for sectarian groups.

The success of the Sunni insurgents and the threat that they could pose

to the UK meant that Prime Minister's Questions was a rather

sombre affair as Ed Miliband asked about the future of Iraq. It's

deprived David Cameron of his chance to taunt Ed Miliband about THAT

picture with The Sun. The cut and thrust of domestic

politics soon returned as the Labour Leader announced plans to replace

out of work benefits for 18-21-year-olds with a less

expensive means tested payment linked to training.

We should abolish the 16-hour limit on training that has for decades

held young people back. And to pay for the changes in tough times we

should say young people will be entitled to financial support only

if they really need it. ? Labour regards the announcement as

a defining moment as Ed Miliband fights the chance that he needs the

welfare party. Miliband wants to show he understands the challenge

identified by the IPPR director Nick Pearce that Governments can no

longer spend their way to greater equality. But there was some

uncomfortable opinion polls with one showing that the Labour Party would

be better off with David Miliband in charge. Luckily, there was some

comraderie advice at hand. What Ed is trying to do is approach politics

in a rather different way from the way in which Tony Blair and New

Labour approached it. Do you think it's working? It may well work and

be successful. The preelection politics of the summer is final hi

taking shape. -- finally taking shape. Labour

frontbenches believe Ed Miliband is hampered by fundamental flaws while

George Osborne, the man booed at the Olympic Stadium, finally seems to be

benefitting from the economic upturn.

Still fighting his way out. Miranda's with us. Welcome back.

Diane, is Ed Miliband right to say that young people who refuse to take

training courses should lose their welfare payments? Depends what he's

trying to do. If he's trying to show that we can be tough on benefits,

pragmatically it's right. Whether cutting household income of some of

the poorest families will encourage some to go back to work remains to

be seen. Is he right or wrong? I gave you an obscure political

answer. I'm aware of that. I listen to politicians giving me these sorts

of answers. I'm going to get nowhere there then. What's the mood like on

the Labour backbenches? Well... If I'm honest, it's... Don't say that.

There is a feeling that it would be more comfortable to be further ahead

than we are now because some of us can remember being ahead of Kinnock.

Is your leader accident prone? Not particularly. He comes under

scrutiny of 24-hour media. Would you not expect him to be if he poses

with The Sun newspaper give Whant he said about Rupert Murdoch? Well, I

have to say that I think we got the worst of it. He shouldn't have posed

but then he apologised which made it all worse. Why would it not dawn on

him that posing with The Sun newspaper was a political threat to

him? You are asking me, Andrew! Back en. Bench Labour MPs have been

saying that all week. The man who stood up to Murdoch, holds his

biggest-selling newspaper. Except in Liverpool where it doesn't sell a

single copy. A Labour heartland. Is it because he's, in his own way, out

of touch with ordinary people, as Mr Cameron is? I wouldn't say that. I

think he's got people around him. Alan Johnson often sits there and

says Ed needs to overcome his geek image? I think that Ed has too many

people around him that don't have too much of a feel for how the

public thinks. Including him himself? People like Tim. He still

works for the Archbishop of Canterbury, which is a type of

politics but not Labour politics. Very well. Michael,Chinese leader

comes, he comes to Britain. It is no longer a matter of controversy;

there used to be demonstrations, but now China's economically important

to us, it's money that matters now? There used to be the demonstrations

and the police used to put lots of vans in front of the demonstrators

sothat when the premier came, he wouldn't be troubled by the

demonstrators and wouldn't have to know that people hated his human

rights record. It's amazing, when you go to China, you go to Tiananmen

Square and there is a huge picture and when you pick up your Yuen, the

currency, there on the bank notes he is there and he is probably the

greatest mass murderer of the 20th century. Bigger than Stalin. Who is

not on Russian bank notes? Who makes it look like a picnic. If you found

Adolf Hitler's poster on the ban denburg gate, or if you found that

your coins had Hitler on them, you would be appalled, yet you are

supposed to accept them. China is making huge investments in Africa

and the Third World. We have to watch that. Your leader was bundled

out of the room wasn't he? Metaphorically. Somebody has to

raise it, but it is quite recent I would say for the Government to have

a Deputy Prime Minister of a different party say it. Because then

it's not the Prime Minister and it's not the Foreign Secretary. I think

worry you're absolutely right, we'll be discussing human rights for as

long as we, let's hope, have an active business relationship with

China. But China is such a phenomenon and we don't know how to

react to it, because it challenges all out of values. What did you make

of Dominic Cummings, part of the Michael Gove team, no longer now. He

described the Prime Minister as, quote, bumbling. What did you make

of that? It is extraordinary that Michael Gove, if he is as loyal to

Michael Gove as he seems, that Michael Gove can't stop him making

these attacks on the Prime Minister himself. I think this idea of

Michael Gove, I think Michael Gove is utterly sincere in his desire to

promote social mobility but some of the ways he's antagonised the whole

of the educational world are coming back to bite him. I think having

Dominic Cummings, this uncontrolled figure, spitting out bile is not...

This is like Vince Cable and Lord Oakeshott. You say he is

uncontrolled but I find it hard to believe that Michael Gove isn't

aware he is saying these things. He also fired Ed Llewellyn as a closet

Lib Dem and, a classic sycophant presiding over a shambolic court.

Why doesn't he say what he means? He went on to describe Craig Oliver as

clueless. What did you make of, that Michael? I thought it was

extraordinary. Someone who had recently been an adviser to a

Secretary of State. Remarkable. He's used all the words. Is he right? I

think most Conservatives think that there's a problem at the heart of

the Prime Minister's operation, yes. So there's a problem at the heart,

you've revealed tonight, of Mr Miliband's operation and at the

heart of the Prime Minister's. Well. We are not exactly in the territory

of Alastair Campbell. We do not have a dominant figure who is controlling

and intimidating and driving the press and putting out the Government

message. You couldn't say we are in that situation, could you? No, I

think that would be fair. What's the truth of these stories that Mr Clegg

is beginning to think maybe we should have a referendum on Europe

after all? There is an active conservation going on. Personally I

think it is not just inevitable but it would be a good idea to change

the position on the referendum. It was a bit of a muddle I think. I

think a clear promise to hold a referendum and to fight for a let's

admit stay in would be more honest and is the right position for a

Democratic Party, one which had the word democrat in its name. I think

it is millennium mensually significant. As you know, it is my

-- I think it is immensely significant. It is my view that they

will not win an overall majority. There isn't going to be a referendum

because there isn't going to be a majority Government. If the Lib Dems

change their view, there is another chance of a coalition between

That's why we've decided to put speaking English in this week's

spotlight. You are probably more familiar with grebe Juan

According to he can's social Social Attitude Survey 95% of people claim

the ability to speak English is essential if you want to be

considered truly British. In Brazil you can hear many of the world's

languages, but as commentator Phil Neville found out, just because you

speak English, sort of, doesn't mean the world wants to hear you. That's

why I think and you know and I think you know... In football. As the

Chinese premier pays us a visit and the PM employs a translator, has

Chinese economic power become so great can we no longer call English

the international language of business? How important is the

mother tongue to identity and social cohesion. Does the English language

still matter or matter more than ever. Should everyone be talking

like what we do on he can, innit? Welcome to he can. Your English is

much better than many British people's English. I doubt it. Why is

that? Obviously it's not. I think you just proved that it is. Thank

you. It is probably better than your Danish. Yes, that's not a high bar.

I know. I will crawl over it. Obviously I come from a very small

country and we have to I think speak other languages. In order to

communicate with the rest of the world. It is not just other

languages is it? There seems to be an assumption in Denmark everyone

should speak English to a decent standard. I'm told 85 % of Danes

have English as a second language. I thought it was more. It is because

we are a very small nation and we can't be self - what's the word -

self supplying with anything. Certainly not culturally speak, so

we are used to importing culture. We get a lot of music and films and

culture from America and England. We are used to hearing it. But when it

comes to television in this country, the only imports we normally have

are American, because of the same language. There's always been

resistance to watching programmes with subtitles. You changed that.

You made subtitles acceptable in this country. Somebody told me

actually when The Killing was on the BBC that it was the third time that

the BBC had shown a series with subtitles. And now you can't get

away from them. We've got Borgen, The Bridge, the French one on Canal

Plus. All sorts of things but we still don't speak these languages.

But you don't have to. The that's the wonderful thing about subtitles.

What I think, on the one hand, it is just lovely that a thing is

successful and that it is well received. But it was very clear to

me, especially with the way the British received The Killing, that

on the one hand you have this show being entertaining and making and

getting an audience, but there was a cultural exchange, which makes me

proud. It proves to me the importance of sharing our stories.

Thank to Borgen we now know how coalition Government works. We never

did until this lot tried it. Now we understand it. And you are about to

take to the stage at the Edinburgh festival, your first English

language play. Your English is excellent but is it still daunting

to perform a play in a second language? A bit. It is terrifying. I

have to, I have just started rehearsing. Yes, it is terrifying.

And all the other actors are Scottish, so I'm like, I understand

almost everything they say, but still it's a completely different,

and I'm not going to even attempt to speak Scottish. I wonder, because

you are going to be playing Queen Margaret. I ought to speak Scottish.

Except she came from Denmark. She came to Scotland when she was 12. Do

you think she picked up a Scottish accent? Don't you? I think she spoke

fluently Scottish. So are you not going to try it with a Scottish

accent? Because I can help. The aristocracy in Scotland don't use a

Scottish accent. I think they did back then. How do you know that? I

don't. I said, I think. They hadn't been contaminated by going to

English public schools and sounding like you. You You can always

impersonate something. Can we go back to British values. I think you

need to know a language almost perfectly, 99%, not be in some way

excluded. I speak fairly decent Spanish but when I go to Spain I'm

that were there's a barrier between me and the proper conversation I

would like to have, because I'm not anywhere near that 99%. You are at

99%. No I'm not. In a way it doesn't matter about you for a moment, but I

do think people in Britain. My father I think was substantially

excluded because his flower was only 70%. Diane? Quite often foreigners,

including from the West Indies and all sorts of places, speak better

English than some English people. They may have an accent but they

speak better and more grammatical English, mainly because they were

taught grammar. You've got to pick up the current slang. You've got to

be in with the humour, to have all the nuances. If you hang around with

the Scots, you will pick that up. We open at the Edinburgh festival. It

is a co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland and the National

Theatre. Good luck with it. When you get on that plane in the final

episode of The Killing, where did you go? I think I took a plane to

Iceland. You are not coming back? Is definitely not. That's a pity. Good

luck with the play. But not for us,

because it's Boris Johnson's He's managed to reach 50 -

years that is, not affairs. Michael says he'll wait outside

in the car. But we leave you tonight with

a call from Peter Tapsell, Father of the House of Commons,

for Tony Blair to be impeached. "Impeach the President" was a cry

during Watergate, but it hasn't been His English isn't too good,

so I hope you can understand him. Nighty-night,

don't let President Blair bite. so I hope you can understand him.

The ancient but still existing power of backbenchers to commence the

procedures of impeachment should now be activated, to bring Mr Tony Blair

to account for allegedly misleading the House on the necessity of the

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