26/11/2015 This Week

Tonight on This Week, join us for the Autumn Statement Watch, as we

study interesting and unseen political behaviour

Rutting politicians, rather than stags, in the House

of Commons, as Chancellor George Osborne does a U-turn or two.

And we spot some unseasonal behaviour from

The BBC's Business Editor, Kamal Ahmed,

Is George Osborne King of the Jungle and did he imagine

in his wildest dreams that the main attack on him by the

opposition would be a not wildly funny joke about Chairman Mao?

The Prime Minister wants us to come out of military hibernation as

he makes the case for air strikes against Islamic State in Syria.

Peace campaigner and head of CND, Kate Hudson, thinks bombing is

As the evenings draw in, Jeremy Corbyn's bringing the warmth

of common-sense to Parliament on air strikes, Trident and austerity.

And just as the seasons change over time,

Joining us to discuss, Liverpudlian Bollywood star, Amy Jackson.

Chaotic? Unusual clothing? Languages you don't understand? It is hard

work being on this show! This Week's natural habitat,

curled up on the sofa with And yes, it is still

officially Autumn - just. A week in which Boy George executed

This Week. A week in which Boy George executed

a U-turn on tax credits. Shadow Chancellor John McDonald,

who earlier this week, said "We are going to destroy Osborne's

credibility", then proceeded to almost destroy his own, by telling a

cracking joke about Chinese inward investment levels using

Chairman Mao's Little Red Book Tom Watson looked like he had

swallowed a wasp. Lenin's "What is to be done?"

A pile that no doubt includes Enver Hoaxha's Albanian bonkbuster,

political pot-boiler, Uzbekistan On The Threshold of The

21st Century, Challenges to Stability and Progress.

Speaking of judging a book by its cover, I'm joined on the sofa

Think of them as the Lady Colin and Lady Shave

I speak of course, of #thelamminator David Lammy.

And #sadmanonatrain Michael 'choo choo' Portillo.

Welcome to you both. David, your moment of the week? Were it not for

Syria, the story we would be talking about today is the fact that net

migration is up 336,000, that is my story because why did George Osborne

get those ?27 billion of receipts? Hidden in the OBR, the secret,

because of migration, all those immigrants coming in and paying

their taxes and working. That is the reason because I told you that

before I came on air! It is not the only reason. It is significant. No,

it is not. It is a reason. There is a cap. They have got a cap, which

they haven't met. Haven't met? We are now seeing the truth of it.

Migrants come and they contribute to our economy. Very well. And cuts are

reduced as a consequence. Am I briefing you throughout this

programme? Let's see. Alright. Fine. What is your moment of the week?

Well, it was a busy week with Syria and the Autumn Statement. I suppose

I was really shocked when I saw that a Russian jet had been downed by

Turkish fighters and for someone with a sense of history, this was

the first time that a NATO country had downed a Russian jet since 1953,

the date of my birth, therefore I know it to be an extraordinarily

long time ago. Through most of my life, if a NATO jet had downed a

Russian plane, we would have expected that to be the prelude to a

nuclear exchange. I wondered what the consequences would be. Probably

in the end, consequences will probably not be very severe. There

is a momentum now between NATO and the Russians to do some sort of deal

over Syria and this inconvenient fact of the shooting down, it will

probably not get in the way of that. It was a hold your breath moment?

Yes. It just had that amazing historic resonance. If you ever

thought, you know, 20 years ago that you woke up and saw that headline,

you were going to be in big trouble. Thank you.

Now, the Prime Minister stood before Parliament this morning to

make the case for air strikes on Islamic State in Syria.

He will not press for a vote unless he's convinced he will win it.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn has written to his MPs saying he cannot

One member of the Shadow Cabinet criticised the Labour leader's

"ridiculous party games" - and I don't mean the kind Michael has

This has sparked furry in parts -- fury in parts of the Labour Party.

It seems Mr Corbyn isn't just the Leader of the Opposition, but the

Leader of the Opposition to his own Parliamentary Labour Party.

But Kate Hudson, head of the CND, thinks Labour MPs need to put up

The Chancellor had a cheap shot at Jeremy Corbyn yesterday,

claiming that his front bench contributes to comedy.

On the contrary, Mr Osborne, Jeremy Corbyn is the serious politician.

He's been fairly and squarely elected.

He's true to his word and he brings good sense to politics.

MPs on the right of Labour need to accept that they

They are the minority in the party, not Jeremy Corbyn.

They should show some solidarity and open their minds to the democratic

With debate raging over bombing Syria and Trident replacement,

some of the press headlines about him seem like bad punchlines.

Jeremy knows exactly what he's doing, he was right about the war

on Iraq and he's much more in step with party members than

Most people don't want expensive nuclear weapons

and they have fears about military intervention in Syria.

We see the tragic consequences of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya

Jeremy Corbyn is asking the questions that need to be asked

and he's being put through the wringer for it.

Scrutiny in public office is to be welcomed, but there is nothing funny

Some on the backbenches should have a little humility.

Their policies led to declining support for Labour after 1997.

And they lost the last two elections.

It may be, as polls this week suggest, that while Jeremy has the

support of the party, he still has to win some support from the public.

Given a fair chance, I have every confidence that he can do it.

And from the Museum of Comedy to our own pack of jokers,

Welcome to the programme. The Prime Minister laid out the case for

extending British bombing into Syria within a wider strategy. Did you buy

it or didn't you? Not entirely. First of all, I could see there is a

good reason why we would want to be alongside the Americans, the French

and the Russians. There isn't a strong case for saying our

participation makes any difference to the number of bombs or the way in

which the bombs are delivered. I think most people think that if this

job is going to be done, it has to be done thoroughly, that would mean

ground forces. There is still quite a big gap in the explanation that's

being made. If you were in the Commons and this is going to come up

next week, how would you vote? If I were in the common, I would vote for

the bombing. I think on the first grounds that allies do have the

right to see us alongside. David Lammy, how will you vote? I'll be

voting against. I went with an open mind. I'm not a pacifist. I want

Isil dealt with. I did not hear a plan that really explained whose

side we are on given the Russians are not really on our side, and that

the airspace is crowded with the Americans, the French, the Turks all

there. I didn't hear a plan for what comes afterwards because this is not

like Iraq, with an Iraqi force, and a strong Kurdish minority at it on

the ground. I think the third thing for me, which is very important, I

think of my own constituency, it is clear when we bombed in Iraq, and we

dealt with Al-Qaeda, it led to Isil, it led to a radicalisation amongst

some of the youth in that part of the world and I'm not convinced that

whilst we might deal with Isil it will not lead to jihadist groups and

movements as a consequence of our bombing, so for those reasons, I'm

not convinced. How does Jeremy Corbyn, who has made it clear he

agrees with David Lammy, how does he carry his Shadow Cabinet, which

there seems to be if not a majority, a substantial number of figures who

don't agree with Mr Corbyn? I think what Jeremy has to do is exactly

what he's doing at the moment. He has to explain why he has problems

with the Prime Minister's case, he obviously clearly doesn't feel that

David Cameron has made a compelling case. He's set out a series of

arguments and questions which are much the same as the Foreign Affairs

Select Committee have laid out and he has the right to expect those

answers to be made. If they are not made to his satisfaction, then he

can't then support the war. I know his position. I understand that. But

how does he convince, how do we have a situation where we have

how does he convince, how do we have of the party, and the Shadow

Chancellor, too, they almost certainly take one view, and leading

Secretary take a different view. How does that work? Jeremy

Secretary take a different view. How convince them of the case. If he

can't convince them of the case, then they will have divergent views.

I can't imagine Jeremy will knuckle under and change his view... He

I can't imagine Jeremy will knuckle not going to knuckle under,

I can't imagine Jeremy will knuckle resolve this? It is extremely

unusual that for a vote that is this important, there isn't a whip Labour

unusual that for a vote that is this position. Having said that, we

unusual that for a vote that is this clear in his views for many years. I

understand all of that. clear in his views for many years. I

like it is going to be a free clear in his views for many years. I

If it is not, doesn't it rip the Labour Party apart? The truth is, as

Members of Parliament, and I said this before, you go with an open

mind this before, you go with an open

conscience. So... That has to be a free vote then. No, you expect in

these circumstances that some people will defy the whip. Should there be

a free vote? I'd rather that they had a whipped vote on Jeremy

Corbyn's position. That is a position which is popular amongst

the majority of the party members. It may not be popular amongst all

the Shadow Cabinet. We will see how the MPs feel about that. It's an

ongoing debate and different positions are being put. Would you

rather have that at the price of ripping Labour apart with multiple,

the air tonight in Westminster is rife at talk of resignations? There

is too much talk about Labour ripping apart. This is an internal

party debate where people have changed their minds on this. You

can't have a static position and say you can't have a discussion about

this because Labour's going to look as though it is split. You have to

get the issues out there and discuss them. We are having a discussion,

the Shadow Cabinet met this afternoon, they had a discussion. At

the end, you have to stop discussing and come to a view.

the end, you have to stop discussing reconcile the views of Jeremy Corbyn

and Mr McDonnell and major other figures in the Shadow Cabinet?

There were divergent views between Well...

There were divergent views between Clare Short and Tony Blair on the

war in Iraq. The Cabinet came to a collective

view in favour of the invasion. What will the collective view be on this?

Well, I don't know what the collective view is going to be. I

think we are probably going to end up with a free vote. I said it was

unusual, but what is unusual in these circumstances is that we have

a leader of a major political party who clearly has a pacifist position

in relation to these matters. That is honourable in our country's

history. I accept that. I would be the last person not to enjoy the

embarrassment of the Labour Party but it seems to be the important and

serious issue is whether there is going to be enough Labour rebels and

a small enough number of Conservative rebels for this to be

carried and unless the Government thinks there is going to be a

situation like that, the motion will not be put. I hear it said at the

moment that the Government is growing in confidence and that I

think there is a general expectation that the motion will be put and it

will be carried. I don't envy the Government whips. It's difficult

enough on your own side, it's extraordinarily difficult to count

the other side, particularly when people on the other side have a

large number of reasons for not telling the Government what they are

thinking of doing. How many on the Labour side will vote for the

Government do you think? Do you know what, I think, I don't think David

Cameron is very good at putting these cases in Parliament. He's not

as persuasive as he could be. How many? I would have said there might

be something like 50-60. I wouldn't be surprised if they were. Then Mr

Cameron wins. He'll be all right with 50 or 60. I'm not sure whether

David is right with 50 or 60, although he's in a better position

to know than I am. The number reached a peak immediately after

Paris, probably faltered somewhat after the shooting down of the

Russian jet which complicates the situation. I do rather agree with

David that I'm not sure, given the demands that were made by the Select

Committee as to what sort of explanation should be provided, I'm

not sure the Prime Minister met the criteria. He basically said, we've

got to be in it because the others are in it. This is a great country,

we don't just fight because others are fighting, you have got to make

the case for what comes afterwards and why in tend the streets of

Britain will be safer as a consequence of this and not worse

because they'll be -- there'll be further Jihadists on our streets

because they felt we bombed them. If you were Prime Minister, you would

think it was very important, you would think the Americans have just

about reached a position with Britain when they think we are an

unreliable allie and you would think that was important. Do you think

with, as you read it the direction the Labour Party is going, that

within say a year's time, the Labour Party will be unilateralist nuclear

disarming party and solidly against foreign military intervention? On

the question of Trident replacement, I very much hope that the Labour

Party during its review will come to the conclusion that Britain has

better ways. I understand that. What I meant was... It's not just a

question of CND... But do you think that is the direction in which

Labour is going? I think that change is the way in which the country is

going. Let me try again, do you believe it's the direction Labour is

going in? I think, along with a change in attitudes across the rest

of the country, across many parties, I think Labour is likely to go in

that direction because it's the only sensible direction to go in if we

want to meet the real security needs of the 21st century, so yes, I

imagine Labour may well adopt a change in policy.

Thank you. Diane Abbott dozing-off

during the Prime Minister's Defence But you should stay wide awake

and pour yourself another three fingers of Blue

Nectar because waiting in the wings, British Bollywood star, actress

Amy Jackson is here to tip-toe And don't forget,

for those who are particularly thin-skinned, we're still ignoring

all your comments on The Twitter, The Fleecebook and Gordon Brown's

World Wide Web-sphere. Now, awkward schoolboy, Bullingdon

toff, austerity chancellor. It feels like George Osborne's

had more makeovers than Madonna. Unveiling his Spending Review

yesterday, the man who would be PM was keen to

shed his unfashionable cuts to tax Sadly, we're not a very stylish

bunch here on This Week. So we turned to the BBC's Business

Editor, Kamal Ahmed and sent him This is his well-groomed roundup

of the political week. # You're more than a number

in my little red book...# Now, I don't know exactly how

George Osborne starts his day, it's probably not reading

the latest thoughts of Chairman Mao or even going for a wet shave,

but we know he's a Chancellor who The country, of course,

was braced for cuts. But the Chancellor suddenly lathered

up the voters with, what is known in business circles,

asurprise on the upside, ratchet up the expectation of cuts

and then, when a U-turn comes, The big controversy -

Tax Credits for working people It created quite a stink

when it was announced in the Budget four short months ago and George

Osborne this week decided to do what all brave politicians do when faced

with a politically toxic situation. I've had representations that

these changes to Tax Credits I've listened to the concerns,

I hear and understand them and because I've been able to

announce today an improvement in the public finances, the simplest thing

to do is not to phase these changes Like a particularly pungent soap,

the Chancellor's avoidance strategy then seemed to take on a life

of its own. He avoided the Tax Credits bear trap

but then with thoughts turning to Paris, he turned to the issue

of the UK's security. Mr Speaker,

the police protect us and we are This new newnificent Chancellor said

there would be more money for schools, more money

for the NHS, more money for road and There were cuts to Government

departments and higher taxes for large businesses

for council tax payers and for those Like a tourist bagging

the best bits of the beach, Mr Osborne has laid a great big

towel over the centre ground. He was attacked by the

Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, And then this, have you heard

the one about Chairman Mao, asset sales and the UK's reliance

on Chinese investment? A lot

of Labour MPs wished they hadn't. We must learn to do economic work

from all who know how, no matter who they are, we must esteem them

as teachers, learning from them But we must not to pretend to

know what we do not know. So the Shadow Chancellor literally

stood at the despatch box and read Mr McDonnell was sadly a bit like

the best man making a joke about the mother of the bride that just

hasn't worked and the tumbleweed There is

of course a bigger theme here, the drum beat of conflict in the

Middle East and the War on Terror. The Chancellor spoke of a security

Spending Review aligning economic Today, David Cameron said he wanted

to deal with that security issue, calling on the Commons to back

Britain joining military air strikes against so-called Islamic state

strongholds in Syria. If we won't act now,

when our friend and allie France has been struck in this way, then our

allies in the world can be forgiven All that Isil stands for and does is

contrary to everything those of us on these benches have struggled

for over many generations. There is no doubt that it poses

a threat to our own people. The question must now be

whether extending the UK bombing from Iraq to Syria is likely to

reduce or increase that threat. Whatever the outcome of that debate,

it could of course be Prime Minister Osborne dealing with

the issue by 2019. The ultimate and final make-over for

this always flexible Chancellor. BBC Business Editor, Kamal Ahmed,

being groomed And we're joined on the sofa

by former BBC Economic Editor, and now high-flying City

strategist, Stephanie Flanders. For various technical reasons and

differences in modelling, the OBR produced a wind fall for the

Chancellor of ?27 billion. He proceeded to spend it all. Was that

wise? I think it was something that wiz handed to him with those big

changes to the forecasts. Pretty much every Chancellor, if you stick

around long enough, you get to this position where some of the news is

getting better and the numbers get quite big if you have money coming

in. It's surprising when you can do all that you did and still meet the

key tarts he set himself and still he'll be taking money out of welfare

by the end of the Parliament and getting that back from surplus. He

didn't spend every penny and the fact he was still able to his

targets, that was sensible. He did change too this time because before

the election all the thrust of the deficit reduction was to be on cuts

to public spending, but suddenly, there's been a number of tax

increases, substantial ones, the apprenticeship levy will be ?9

billion on business, stamp duty on landlords and other taxes as well.

It's a different strategy he's on now? And actually, if you put in

also the increase in the living wage in that as well which is effectively

a burden on business as well, there's been a big movement in that

direction. I was struck, there were two headlines this morning that were

the same, end of austerities were in the Mail and the Telegraph I think,

both intended to be critical headlines attacking the Chancellor,

but actually end of austerity is not a bad headline for this Chancellor

to have. It's probably what most people want is an end to austerity.

I think actually if you wanted to question his judgment, you might go

back to July and say, well, you know, if you were going to introduce

the universal benefit anyway, why exactly did you need to cut Tax

Credits anyway. This thing is going to take care of itself, as you

change from one benefit to another, as there is a rollover of new

claimants who're going to make the savings later rather than sooner. I

think the judgment needs to be questioned of not this one but the

previous one in July. Of getting into this? It's great when you can

get credit for reversing a decision. You yourself announced a few months

before. If you look at the Chancellor's strategic position on

spending, on the apprenticeship levy, on more money from the Health

Service or ?6 billion for housing, and for not cutting, I mean he told

us in March he was going to take over ?20 billion out of Government

departments, it turns out it's only ?10 billion. He's moved his tanks on

to the centre ground and in some areas, with the apprenticeship levy

on to the centre-left ground. Where does that leave it? Let's get behind

this. The truth is, there'll still be very serious cuts in Local

Government. There'll be libraries up, day care centres closed, there

are very serious cuts in other departments beyond the protected

health, education development, and now the police ringfenced within

Home Office. I think it's also right to say that if we just went back a

month, this is actually a Chancellor that is going to run into serious,

serious problems. He would have cut the police massively. They have

already had ?1.3 billion in London. He would have gone further, he would

have gone through with Tax Credits so there is questions about his

political judgment that I think hang over him despite the fact that

people are saying his currency is up. George Osborne always goes a

little too far and, even on your clip, he always looks like he's

enjoying the game just a little bit too much and actually out there it's

real people. I worry about that. We are overdoing this flexible side.

The great moment of flexibility he had was in the first term, the first

five years as Chancellor when he was proclaiming his commitment to

austerity while showing a lot of wiggle room around the borrowing,

borrowing a lot more, allowing us as a country to have twice the deficit

of a typical eurozone country and to have a lot of deficit-supported

growth while saying he was being austere. We have the opposite now I

think, where he's suggesting he's very flexible and withdrawing these

cuts at the end of austerity, because the underlying picture I'm

not sure I agree with your depiction Andrew because you are looking at

still overall a huge reduction in the size of the state, bigger than

any country has achieved over a ten-year period an taxes being

capped at a low rate as a share of GDP. I take the point there are

costs put on to businesses not showing up in the tax calculation,

but I think this is still... Can I go to David Lamy's point about what

it would have meant if it was a month ago. Politicians get and

deserve their luck and there is a fair amount of luck in this. I said

about a month ago or whenever it was when he lost the vote in the House

of Lords on the Tax Credits that they'd done him an immense favour.

If it would have gone through, he'd be saddled with that retchid cut and

come the spring there would be these families ?1500 a year worse off. The

constituency post bags would have been unbearable. He was saved all of

that because thank God the Government lost in the House of

Lords. A lot of the same changes will come

through with the Universal Credits... The ones in there will be

protected. It is quite different to say this person getting ?1,500 less

than they would have done if they had applied last month. There is one

other group we should talk about - students. As you remember, back in

2012, we put fees up, we said that you would pay back the loans at

?21,000, very quietly George Osborne changed the fact that we were going

to operate that ?21,000 five years later. A lot of people now will pay

back their loans a lot sooner and at the same time, nurses will not get

direct grants, they too will be on loans. No-one can argue that nurses

make the kinds of salaries that on average university graduates do. If

you go through the budget statement, you can find all sorts of examples

of that, where several hundred million have been saved here and

there. But on the broad judgment, what I'm not clear is, is the fiscal

consolidation plan in your view too tight, about right, or it should be

looser? Clearly, just over ?10 billion worth of cuts is preferable

to ?20 billion. So, from a Labour perspective, it's better. We have

some victories here. I am pleased... Should the deficit be reduced in the

manner and at the speed that he plans? Or should it be slower? Look,

he has - he's broken the benefit cap already. I suspect that... I'm not

asking you for a commentary on the Tory position. I'm asking you for

what you think Labour's position should be. Well, Labour's position

at the moment is something according to Chairman Mao. Let me clarify for

a second time. I didn't ask you what Labour's position was. I asked you

what you thought Labour's position should be. I think that Labour's

position has got to be consistent with the vast majority of people and

that is anti-austerity, not going too soon, actually ironically, we

arrive somewhere in that place in George Osborne's budget. That is as

a consequence of pressure from us. About right. So, it is OK because it

is your budget? It's not my budget, it his HIS budget. We fought hard

against those police cuts, we fought hard on tax credits, we won those

victories. Alright. You followed and watched George Osborne for a number

of years. He's clearly positioning himself to be the next Conservative

Leader? Has he got it in him to be the Prime Minister? Michael's

probably seen more of his prime ministerial qualities than I have. I

have seen the Chancellor, shifting and changing... Is he building up

into being prime ministerial material? In terms of the way he's

now talking on a much wider range of issues, and the way in which he's

credited with still an enormous amount of political strategy and

acumen, despite some of the reversals. He is shaping up, you

might say, rather better than the last Chancellor who then became the

Prime Minister. Wo would that be? Remind me. Someone from north of the

border. Ten years ago, I knew both of these people very well. Ten years

ago, my feeling was that George Osborne would be the better

candidate to be leader of the Conservative Party. I was probably

wrong at that time. There was an underlying point. There is an

extraordinary resilience in George. There is a solidity. As things

stand, is he the likely next leader? Yes. I think he still lacks a little

bit of the charisma that you associate with the Prime Minister. I

think in every other way, all the boxes are being picked. What did you

think when John McDonnell brought out his little Red Book? Ill-judged.

Did you read it yourself? I haven't read it myself. We touched on it

briefly in a history class in A-level. I think the Chamber of the

House of Commons is, at that level, with - I know why he did it. He did

it to illustrate the point that they were selling everything off to the

Chinese, however it was badly judged. Alright.

Now, some of our older viewers will probably remember the

They're back in the game - if leader Tim Fan-Dabi-Dozi is to be believed.

According to Tiger Tim, Boy George's dramatic U-turn

yesterday on tax credits was apparently "a massive Lib Dem win".

Well, that's certainly one way of looking at it, but maybe Tim

shouldn't be so sensitive about who gets the credit - after

all, people have far more important things to worry about, or do they?

We're not sure - that's why we're putting 'sensitivities'

It might seem a stretch to call this controversial but Yoga's touched

Campaigners got a campus class shutdown, complaining the exercise

The new Star Wars film is on the way and there's a battle raging over

the adverts and whether you should serve religion with your popcorn.

Some cinemas won't be showing a Church of England advert

featuring the Lord's Prayer, receiving condemnation from

Just ask actor Benedict Cumberbatch whether sensitivity's ever been

In new comedy Zoolander II, the actor's transgender character is

no laughing matter for some who're calling for a

boycott of the movie on the grounds of his cartoonish portrayal.

I think he's asking do you have a hot dog or a bun.

Does the first Scouser in Bollywood suggest people are far less

They call you bling, bling, Mr Singh.

Actress Amy Jackson may be white and from Liverpool

but plays characters from a different ethnic background and has

captured Indian imaginations with a string of acclaimed performances.

This Week, smoothly navigating your cultural sensitivities, since 2003.

If that doesn't get us a Bollywood contract, nothing will!

You were born on the Isle of Man, raised in Liverpool, so how did you

end up in Mumbai? It has been a whirlwind, really has. Now it is my

new life. Bollywood movies is basically what is happening right

now. I got scouted back when I was 17. This was over in America, and

basically the director saw a picture of me in the Daily Mail and he said

this is what I want for my movie, this is the lady I want to cast, and

it was a 1940s period drama. You now I pick roles where I think I can do

justice to the character. It's not like, I'll do this role, or that

role. If I feel I can do well and portray it properly, that's when

I'll decide. Is everything you do in English? No, it's not. Tell us more?

Hindi is Bollywood, I've done two Bollywood films, regional cinema,

there are 47 different languages in India. The main movies I've been

working on are Tamil films. The Hindi ones also.

It speaks volumes for India, doesn't it? It really does. Indian cinema is

international, global, people watch it all over the world and it's on

the rise. What about British cinema? Definitely. Are you up for that?

100%. I didn't realise acting was my passion until I was thrown into the

deep end and now wherever cinema may take me, especially where I come

from Britain and obviously overseas, it's definitely on the cards. So

there is a lot of cultural sensitivity around, but you show

that people are prepared, not to be too sensitive, but they are prepared

to go with the flow, if they see a success they back it, they like it.

Do you live in India now? Yes, end of austerity got a place in Mumbai,

so between Mumbai and London, I'm travelling all over for shoots and

Mumbai is such a cosmopolitan city, and Bollywood is global. Yes. It's

always expanding. Can you walk down the street in Mumbai? It's getting

very full on which is good and, with each movie that releases and with

each movie that is a success, obviously I'm more recognised. David

has a problem in London, he can barely walk. Are you a sensitive

soul, David? LAUGHTER

Looks very sensitive! Underneath that rough ex-tarior, Michael is

very sensitive aren't you? I am. You have got a movie coming out --

exterior. Yes, it's releasing worldwide on 18th December. The

music released today on iTunes, it's a romantic album so check that out

if you are into Tamil movie cinema. Good luck with the film, great to

have you. That's your lot for tonight, folks,

but not for us because it's Grant Shapps Night at Lou Lou's

and we're off to strenuously deny all knowledge of any wrong-doing

on the dance-floor. We leave you tonight with exclusive

footage from the This Week archives. And proof that,

despite reported disagreements in the shadow cabinet, at least some

of the Corbyn leadership team are Nighty night,

don't let Madame Mao bite. Why is it right to wear a

Maoist T-shirt but obviously wrong - because it is

- to wear a Hitler T-shirt? I suppose some people would judge

that on balance, Mao did more good than harm,

you can't say that about Marxist. I've just had this debate with

my son. I wish this were in Private Eye,

I really do. You still

like all these old lefty dictators. Mao killed tens of millions

of people. Just tell me what was the good that

he did that made up for the 60 He helped defeat the Japanese and he

left his country on the verge... ...could have beaten the Japanese,

too. The way in which

we create and consume food A seemingly sci-fi future

is actually a reality. I'll be joined by a team of experts

and we'll scour the globe