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Tonight, it's the This Week, All Star Family Fortunes. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
With us, the Letts family from Taxhaven, the Wallis family | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
from Fleet Street, and the Haye family from Knockemdead. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Our survey of newspaper editors found they're not very happy. | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
Neil Wallis, former News of the World man, says it's time | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
The BBC and their mates at Hacked Off wanted to stop the press poking | :00:30. | :00:45. | |
around in people's lives. They got what they wanted and they are still | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
not happy. Funny that. Quentin Letts thinks he's already | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
won the luxury holiday to Panama. Family fortunes offshore, and at | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
home party political fortunes, that has been the game at Westminster | :01:00. | :01:00. | |
this week. And up for grabs, a night | :01:01. | :01:01. | |
in the ring with former world heavyweight champ, | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
David "The Hayemaker" Haye. I have taken a lot of punishment as | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
a boxer, but nothing as punishing as this show tonight. | :01:16. | :01:16. | |
Evenin' all and welcome to This Week, your Stairway to Political | :01:17. | :01:28. | |
And you join us reeling from eyebrow-raising | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
news that the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby's real | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
father is not the man he thought he was. | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Some say there's no public interest, and it's a gross | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
invasion of privacy, but after agreeing to take | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
a DNA paternity test, it has now been confirmed | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
that his biological father is, in fact, John Flasby Whittingdale, | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Secretary of State for Culture, Media, Sport and | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
Maybe I've got that wrong. But I think I'm on firm ground when I tell | :01:54. | :02:10. | |
you John Whittingdale briefly dated a woman who turned out to be a | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
dominatrix sex worker, but the romance never flourished. She dumped | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
him when she discovered he was a Tory MP and not the Archbishop of | :02:20. | :02:20. | |
Canterbury. Speaking of dirty secrets, I'm | :02:21. | :02:30. | |
joined on the sofa tonight by two Think of them as the Question | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Avoidance and Question Evasion I speak, of course, of #fourpercent | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
Liz "Miserables" Kendall. And #sadmanontrain Michael | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
"Choo Choo" Portillo. Michael, your moment of the week. I | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
think the issuing, at taxpayers' expense, of this miserable leaflet, | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
which sets out the entirely tendentious one-sided propaganda | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
case... Say what you think! It beggars belief that the taxpayer has | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
to pay for the Government to express its opinion is in what is | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
effectively an election. I hope the impact on people who receive this | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
leaflet will be that they will be very angry their money has been | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
wasted upon it and I hope it will cause them to vote against the | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
Government's position. And I think it will upset Tories a great deal. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
And I think it is making David Cameron a highly divisive figure, | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
such that even if he succeeds in this referendum, you wonder what his | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
position will be. My moment of the week is the journalist Isabel | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
Hardman, who I think you know, calling out sexism in the lobby when | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
she was referred to as Totty by a Tory MP. She was right, she is | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
gutsy, and I say good for her. She has not named the Tory MP but some | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
people think they know who it is. She has kept her source is quiet but | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
she says this is the 21st-century and we are not putting up with that | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
language any longer, and I am very pleased she did. | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
Now, earlier this week the BBC revealed details | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
of John Flasby Whittingdale's private life, and a previous | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
relationship the Culture Secretary had with a woman he discovered | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
But if you wanted to know which celebrity couple took out | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
a super-injunction to suppress details of alleged infidelity, | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
with a spot of olive oil wrestling on the side, you'd have | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
to move to Scotland or the States to read about it. | :04:33. | :04:47. | |
I am told Michael is trying to work out how to include olive oil in one | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
of his training documentaries. So after phone hacking | :04:52. | :04:52. | |
and the Leveson Inquiry, has the pendulum swung | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
back too far on privacy? Here's tabloid poster boy | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
Neil Wallis, formerly of The People, The Sun and News of the World, | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
with his take of the week. It's been a week of conspiracy, | :05:01. | :05:19. | |
smear, counter smears, So I've come for a bacon sarnie | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
and a cuppa to calm down. But you know what, it's not often | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
I can say this. It's not been the gutter press that | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
has been responsible for trampling their way | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
through the private lives You know what, "single man has sex | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
with single woman" doesn't It's true, 20 years ago | :05:38. | :05:57. | |
we would have run a version But you wanted Leveson, | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
and you got it. And now you have to live | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
with the consequences. But what's happened this | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
week has been like Alice The BBC, for decades, has set itself | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
up as the vanguard of privacy, railing against these | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
nasty, intrusive tabloids. But now, this week, you have the BBC | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
teaming up with Hacked Off and some nut job conspiracy theorist website, | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
to attack the press for not printing a non-story about someone most | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
people have never even heard of. Of course, the issue of privacy | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
and public interest And of course, all media | :06:52. | :07:01. | |
are beholden at all times But the suggestion that there | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
is a parallel between this story and the privacy super | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
injunction is ridiculous. It's simply crazy that | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
in the post-Levenson world it should be acceptable that a famous couple | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
could use their glamorous lifestyle and their children | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
as a lucrative marketing tool, and then use their ridiculous wealth | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
to hire lawyers to persuade judges to gag the rest of us from knowing | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
the truth about them. The BBC and their mates | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
at Hacked Off said they wanted to stop the press poking around | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
in other people's lives. From the Queen's Head cafe | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
in Vauxhall to thumbing through our own greasy little | :07:48. | :08:00. | |
This Week menu, Welcome to the programme. The | :08:01. | :08:15. | |
minister and the dominatrix, you would have pub -- published that in | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
a flash. 20 years ago, yes. Ten? I am not sure. The mood started to | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
change even before Leveson. Is it right that the mood has changed? | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
Yes, it has. Why do you think the newspapers that had the story did | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
not publish? Two reasons. First, and incidentally what is important is | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
that they did not all have this story together, they had it | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
sequentially. Why didn't they publish? They thought, who knows | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
this guy? And essentially, because it was long before he became a | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
minister. Single man dates single woman. That is it. What is the story | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
there? It is absolutely woman. That is it. What is the story | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
the head of a select committee, a significant select committee. But | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
the bottom line, the media are in the business of telling | :09:19. | :09:19. | |
the bottom line, the media are in things that are interesting about | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
people they are interested in. Even today, I suspect, if you put John | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Whittingdale's picture in front of 100 people, 99.9 of them even now | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
would not know who he was. You managed to bash the BBC and every | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
second sentence, which is fair enough, but surely there was some | :09:40. | :09:40. | |
public enough, but surely there was some | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
newspapers, which fall under this minister's dream it, had an | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
embarrassing story about him. It was not embarrassing because they | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
embarrassing story about him. It was weren't interested. He said it was | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
embarrassing. It was embarrassing to weren't interested. He said it was | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
newspapers looked at a weren't interested. He said it was | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
decided it was not interesting is not a hold over him. This is not | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
some vast conspiracy. I never used some vast conspiracy. I never used | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
the word conspiracy. I am simply suggesting maybe it was in the | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
public interest that people knew that this minister, with newspapers | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
in his remix, had a story they that this minister, with newspapers | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
he would have preferred would not come out. -- his remix. This was | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
presented as a great conspiracy by national newspapers collectively not | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
to publish the story so they could have a hold over the Minister. There | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
is not, apart from Hacked Off and BBC Newsnight, there is not a shred | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
of evidence there is any truth in that. Were the newspapers right to | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
not publish the story? I think they were right not to publish it. John | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
Whittingdale is a single man and what he does in his private life is | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
his business. My concern is more why the Prime Minister and John | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
Whittingdale have not fulfilled their commitment to the victims of | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
phone hacking, the public and indeed fulfilled the will of the House of | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Commons on the measures there. The world has moved on from them. Were | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
the newspapers right not to publish? I want to answer this way, I think | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
the story is not particularly damaging to John Whittingdale so you | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
can't regard it as a sort of Damocles. That said, I think it is | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
unlucky for John Whittingdale that the story was not published, because | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
since it was not, it puts him in the position of being suspected of | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
having a conflict of interest. I think the story was not actually | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
damaging and so that is not particularly logical, but I think it | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
puts him in that unfortunate position. And by the way, I don't | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
often defend the BBC, but I think the BBC is right to say it raises | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
that question. You think the BBC was right to broadcast the story it did? | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
Yes. Not because it wished to invade his privacy, but because it wished | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
to it raise the question of whether the Minister had a conflict of | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
interest. This is an issue of scale. This was not a story that simply | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
appeared on BBC Newsnight. This was a huge story on the today programme, | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
which we know sets the agenda for the day. The follow-up to the | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
Newsnight story. It was the lead on the BBC News website. I was asked on | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
to just about every major BBC News outlet, the today programme, five | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
live, BBC News, even Victoria Derbyshire. They went mad for it. | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
May I make one other point. You were saying before that there is no point | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
putting anything about John Whittingdale because no one had | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
heard of him. There was a man of whom literally no one had heard | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
whatsoever who was absolutely pushed all over the tabloid newspapers. He | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
was a member of the House of Lords. You could say he was a married man, | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
as though that made all the difference, but I am not sure it | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
does. But I simply do not believe your proposition that the tabloids | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
have moved on, that they have decided that now if something is | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
just a private matter for people's private lives... Do you think the | :13:26. | :13:35. | |
BBC was right to do the story? I understand what Michael is saying | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
about raising the question of whether the newspapers held this | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
story back either because they thought it was not a story, or | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
because they knew he was favourable to them because he has always been | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
on the record as being anti-Levenson. The truth is we will | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
never know the answer to that. But the real issue, if I can come back | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
to it, is that there have been commitments from the Prime Minister | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
about implementing Leveson, and the will of the House of Commons has | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
been that we have passed legislation to say there should be strong | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
incentives for newspapers to sign up to an independent Leveson - | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
compliant body, and those that don't could face exemplary damages. The | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
Government is walking away from that and I would suggest because it does | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
not want to do it, not because of any story on John Whittingdale. But | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
that is the will of the house. To change their position, they need to | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
come back and do it. They are not going to do it if they don't want | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
to. I would like the Prime Minister to explain to victims of phone | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
hacking and the public and come to the House of Commons and explain why | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
he is not doing what he said he would do. | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
If it's not in the public interest to publish this story, why are the | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
tabloids gagging to publish the story about the celebrity couple? | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
You are talking about bananas and cucumbers, what you have on the | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
celebrity threesome story is a world famous couple who've used their | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
family status, who've paraded their children, used it as a marketing | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
ploy, then using their vast wealth to basically hire expensive lawyers | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
to try to gag the rest of the world from seeing it. Sure, but that's not | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
the tabloids stopping this, they'll sell a lot more newspapers than the | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
story on John whiting gale. There is an element of that. A big element. | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
But the issue of how you gag a story like that which I would argue is | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
completely in the public interest. Why is their private life in the | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
public interest? Hypocrisy. He's saying putting a different picture | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
ahead of what the reality is. But... If you had been a famous MP | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
campaigning against abortion, but that you had had last year an | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
abortion, would that not be in the public interest? Yes, it would, but | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
what you are saying, from what I understand it, is that however they | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
may behave in their pill vat life, they may have their private life | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
too. I don't know who the celebrity couple is. You must be the only | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
one... I do understand though that in the case of a legislator who is | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
advocating a public policy... That's completely different. I don't know I | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
don't understand why, because these people are famous, their public | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
lives are up for grabs. It's about hypocrisy. I But why is it in the | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
public interest? What is hypocritical? Because when they have | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
their children, it was almost like the birth of a Royal Prince. It | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
was... What has that got to do with what they do in their bedroom? I'm | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
afraid this is bananas and cucumbers, you have a view on this | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
and we have another. Is Labour right to call for John Whittingdale to be | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
removed from new newspaper and regulation because, now this story's | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
out, the newspapers could hardly influence themth him if there's any | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
more? The focus should be on more on asking him to fulfil the will of the | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
House in him doing what he said he would do for the newspaper toes | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
comply with Leveson. So you are saying the strong incentive is, if | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
they don't sign up under the Leveson plan, even if they don't want a | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
court case, they would have to sign up. Come back to the House and | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
explain to MPs... The Government's position... By the way, accusations | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
made against the BBC is that the BBC done this against John whiting gale | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
dale is because they are in a tussle with him over the licencify. It's | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
prosecution it is rows. You want to get him recaused if giving any sort | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
of influence on that decision -- licence fee. My understanding is | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
that the licence fee was set up by the Chancellor anyway. Thank you | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
very much. Now, it's late - Corbyn | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
speech on Europe late. And if you want further proof, take | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
a look who's waiting in the wings. Former heavyweight champion of the | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
world David Haye is here, and Liz certainly | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
fancies her chances. And if you can't hold back, | :18:51. | :18:51. | |
why don't you come out swinging and Gordon Brown's Intergalactic | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
Chat Bot. Now, when Boy George | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
cut the top rate he was asked at the time | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
whether he would personally benefit, I'm not personally | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
affected," he told the BBC. Well, now we know he has, | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
in fact, been benefiting from his own tax cut, | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
after Gideon was forced to publish his tax return this | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
week, following the lead of the Prime Minister | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
and the Panama Papers leak. Although he only published his most | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
recent return, so we have no idea whether or how much he stood | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
to gain in previous years. Maybe it doesn't matter | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
to you, maybe it does. Which is exactly how we feel about | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
the Daily Mail's Quentin Letts. Here's his tax-tastic offshore | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
round-up of the political week. Nothing irregular or criminal, | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
or morally dubious. Just a quick inventory | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
of This Week's offshore assets. Between you and me, if the costume | :19:59. | :20:08. | |
budget is anything to go by I'm not sure there will be much | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
in the vaults here at This Week's But everything has | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
to be accounted for. And accounting for investments | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
is what David Cameron had to do The Prime Minister had to fess up | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
that he had profited While his finances were all legit, | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
the leaked Panama Papers raised issues of tax | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
transparency and regulation. The publication of a Prime | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
Minister's tax information in this way is unprecedented, but I think | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
it's the right thing to do. But let me be clear, | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
I am not suggesting that this The Chancellor has today published | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
information on his tax return, in a similar way | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
to the Shadow Chancellor This begs the question of how far | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
the publication of tax With all this stuff about tax | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
havens, Labour ancient He was duly red-carded | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
by the Speaker. I know, I know what | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
you're saying to me. This man has done more to divide | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
this nation than anybody else. I order the honourable member | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
to withdraw immediately from the House | :21:38. | :21:49. | |
for the remainder of Oh, I say! | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
from the Conservative's man May I support the Prime Minister | :21:53. | :22:14. | |
in fending off those who are attacking him, particularly | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
in thinking of this place, because if he doesn't, | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
we risk seeing a House of Commons which is stuffed full of low | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
achievers who hate enterprise, hate people who look | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
after their own family, and who know absolutely nothing | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
about the outside world? With politicians' tax | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
returns being published, the Prime Minister had a pop | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
at Jeremy Corbyn, I'm glad he wants to get | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
onto our responsibilities I thought his tax return | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
was a metaphor for Labour policy. It was late, it was chaotic, | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
it was inaccurate, it was uncosted. Mr Speaker, I'm grateful | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
to the Prime Minister for drawing attention to my own tax return, | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
there, warts and all. The warts being my handwriting, | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
"all" being my generous I actually paid more tax than some | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
companies owned by people Labour is worried that | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
steel-maker Tata wants to leave The question of nationalisation | :23:14. | :23:25. | |
is buzzing around Westminster and the Business Secretary hinted | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
that the Government was not ruling out some | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
form of intervention. The formal sales | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
process begins today. I've been in contact with potential | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
buyers, making clear that the Government | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
stands ready to help. This includes looking | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
at the possibility of co-investing I welcome the long overdue admission | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
from this Government that it is their duty to help find | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
a future for UK steel-making. I just hope it isn't a case | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
of too little, too late. Former Foreign Secretary David | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
Miliband was in town this week, shoring up support for the vote | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
to stay in Europe campaign. And finally, posties up and down | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
the land have been delivering a controversial EU referendum | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
leaflet, promoting a vote This vexed the Brexiteers, | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
who said public money was being used to push | :24:17. | :24:27. | |
one side of the debate. At PMQs, David Cameron | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
was reminded of strong feelings Have we withdrawn from the free | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
movement of people, or is that The nation has been waiting | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
for Jeremy Corbyn to lay out his deck chairs on the EU, | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
and finally we've learned Not rest and recuperation, | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
but remain and reform. There is a strong socialist case | :24:53. | :25:01. | |
for staying in the European Union, just as there is also a powerful | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
socialist case for reform That's why we need a Labour | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
government, to stand up at the European level for industries | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
and communities in Britain, to back public ownership | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
and public services, to protect and extend workers' | :25:27. | :25:28. | |
rights, and to work with our allies to make both Britain and Europe work | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
better for working people. There's been the offshore tax hoo-ha | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
and then the row For some, that's been | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
too much secrecy. Now, how about that | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
This Week inventory? Quentin Letts locked | :25:48. | :26:07. | |
inside the high Security vault in Leadenhall Street's Revolution | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
Bar. Michael, the Panama papers quickly | :26:13. | :26:26. | |
narrowed down in this country to a story about the Prime Minister and | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
the Prime Minister's late father. Did either of them do anything | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
wrong? Certainly nothing's been proven wrong that either one of them | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
did. I think it's a kind of political things. I'm quite a highly | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
paid person and yet I've never had any dealings with any off shore | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
investmentstrusts so I deduce from that that those who do have contacts | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
with a very tiny minority of the population indeed so as it were the | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
political sin is to be associated with something incomprehensible from | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
the mass population. Did either of them do anything wrong? Not by the | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
letter of the law but I would agree with Michael, the Conservatives' | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
political strategy has been to try to detoxify the party, move to the | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
centre say they're a compassionate one-nation. Cameron's succeeded on | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
issues like gay marriage but not on economic issues. They have done good | :27:29. | :27:36. | |
things around raising the minimum wage, far outweighed by the cuts to | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
the minimum wage. Few at the top do well but get fewer breaks, whether | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
it's on capital gains tax or inheritance tax. It blows a hole | :27:50. | :27:57. | |
through the central Seattly. Posh, wealthy, privileged and so on. As | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
long as off shore assets are declared by required by the law, and | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
we live in a globalised world, what's wrong with having them, MPs' | :28:09. | :28:16. | |
pension find is offshore, the Guardian has offshore... What is The | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
Real Story here about Panama that's got lost in Cameron and his father | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
and about MPs publishing their tax returns. It's the extremely wealthy | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
individuals trying to hide their money to try to avoid paying taxes. | :28:33. | :28:42. | |
And everyone from Assad, Mugabe and Putin trying to avoid that. That is | :28:43. | :28:50. | |
very interesting. Isn't it the case that the Panama papers raise issues | :28:51. | :28:58. | |
about taxes. Sometimes Government themselves using these things to | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
hide it. Maybe the parochial concerns about tax returns, the | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
Prime Minister's father, have dedelected from the much bigger | :29:09. | :29:10. | |
issues? Yes. It is interesting because Putin | :29:11. | :29:20. | |
is facing no scrutiny whatsoever because the press is not free. I | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
agree it has been a diversion, and the greater diversion was into | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
inheritance tax. The legislation is clear on inheritance tax. It has set | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
out all the ways in which you can make it a voluntary tax. If you are | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
willing to give away wealth during your lifetime and are lucky enough | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
to live seven-year is, you can effectively not pay inheritance tax. | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
It is not dodgy, it is set out in statute. And it was in place when | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
Gordon Brown was Prime Minister and when Tony Blair was Prime Minister. | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
I take your point that what is done is done in this country, so was Mr | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
Cameron right to publish his tax return? I think he had to in the | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
end. But that does not deal with the big question. Cameron has made a | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
small step forward by getting agreements among some of our | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
territories that they will compile this register of beneficiary | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
ownership, but it doesn't go far enough. We don't know whether anyone | :30:21. | :30:28. | |
other than UK authorities can scrutinise those registers. There | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
are increasing OECD agreements coming into place, and there are | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
already EU agreements. Since the crash in 2008, there has been | :30:37. | :30:43. | |
pressure on governments to do more. But they are not public so you have | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
to know there is a problem to ask. The only way to deal with it is to | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
make them public. There will be automatic exchange of information. | :30:53. | :30:55. | |
Not public, but automatic between jurisdictions, and that will make a | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
difference. It will, but I would like to see them public, to make | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
sure that authorities in other countries can scrutinise what is | :31:06. | :31:07. | |
happening in our territories. There is more we can do, and the | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
distraction about MPs tax returns has taken our eye off the real | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
question. Maybe it has been a distraction because surely by | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
definition tax returns only tell voters how public figures are | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
complying. If they are not complying, it will not be in the tax | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
return. I certainly think there are enough disincentives to become a | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
member of Parliament. If you took drugs when you were 16, had a gay | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
relationship at 17, whatever... And now you have to publish your tax | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
return as well. I know Alan Duncan made his point in a clumsy way in | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
the House of Commons... In an obnoxious way. I was massively upset | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
by it, shocked, to be honest. I don't know why! If it becomes the | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
norm that MPs have to publish tax returns, we will have even fewer | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
people stepping forward. I must say, I find one of the great joys of not | :32:07. | :32:09. | |
being in the House of Commons is that I do not have to answer | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
questions about my private income. Do you buy the | :32:15. | :32:15. | |
questions about my private income. loves the European Union? He did not | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
say that. I thought he loves the European Union? He did not | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
honest. You might be surprised to hear me say this but I think he | :32:24. | :32:25. | |
probably hear me say this but I think he | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
a lot of people, which is sceptical. It needs to change, but on balance, | :32:31. | :32:32. | |
stay in. I think that is It needs to change, but on balance, | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
right. The less glorious putting that is that we are unhappy | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
being in it and too frightened to leave. If that is the best that can | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
be said for it, it is a hopeless situation. I do not know why Jeremy | :32:48. | :32:49. | |
Corbyn is under such scrutiny. I situation. I do not know why Jeremy | :32:50. | :32:55. | |
don't believe Jeremy Corbyn is any more euro enthusiastic than Jeremy | :32:56. | :32:58. | |
Corbyn. There is a final issue to address. It is clear that a majority | :32:59. | :33:05. | |
of Conservative voters will probably vote to leave. It could be 55-45. So | :33:06. | :33:12. | |
of Conservative voters will probably how are you going to get this | :33:13. | :33:12. | |
Labour, Mr Cameron needs how are you going to get this | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
vote to win. This was an important speech. Labour voters and supporters | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
needed to hear the Labour leader say speech. Labour voters and supporters | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
this because all they have heard so far is a Tory leader, and they are | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
relying on us to get the vote out. He has said it more than two months | :33:30. | :33:35. | |
before polling day. And he will say it again. I doubt he will. I think | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
he feels he has done what he had to do. Anything two months before | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
polling day is irrelevant. Who remembers Iain Duncan Smith? It is | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
completely irrelevant and I don't think there will be any great effort | :33:49. | :33:54. | |
to turn out the Labour vote. Do you think he will campaign, do lots of | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
rallies? I am an East Midlands European champion and I am busting a | :34:00. | :34:06. | |
gut to get the Labour vote out. Then I am sign the more frightened than I | :34:07. | :34:13. | |
was! -- I am slightly more frightened than I was. | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
The second rule of This Week is, you do not talk about This Week. | :34:17. | :34:25. | |
And the third rule of This Week is, if I yell, "Stop", | :34:26. | :34:28. | |
which I'm told happens quite a lot these days, | :34:29. | :34:33. | |
then This Week is over, we roll the credits, | :34:34. | :34:35. | |
to Lou Lou's to lick our wounds and sip a Blue Nun cocktail. | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
And that's why we're putting Fight Club in this week's Spotlight. | :34:40. | :34:50. | |
British boxer Anthony Joshua isn't about to let his guard down. | :34:51. | :34:52. | |
No sooner had he won a world heavyweight title than The Haymaker | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
Former number one David Haye says he's on a comeback. | :34:56. | :35:02. | |
So why do some people love the fight so much that they just can't avoid | :35:03. | :35:06. | |
Put on a proper suit, do up your tie and sing | :35:07. | :35:12. | |
Forum for democratic debate, or bare-knuckle bearpit? | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
David Cameron pledged to put an end to Punch and Judy politics | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
But doesn't he live for the fight, too? | :35:21. | :35:25. | |
This week has certainly been a bruising one | :35:26. | :35:27. | |
I know that I should have handled this better. | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
And how does the Prime Minister's new sparring partner deal | :35:34. | :35:35. | |
Jeremy Corbyn might have called for a kinder politics, | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
but maybe you have to beat your rivals at their own game. | :35:40. | :35:43. | |
I don't do interviews under any circumstances. | :35:44. | :35:46. | |
Liz could have been a contender for Labour leader until she got | :35:47. | :35:56. | |
And the man in the blue corner certainly knows how she feels. | :35:57. | :36:02. | |
So whether your sport is boxing or politics, | :36:03. | :36:04. | |
how do you fight on, and when do you throw in the towel? | :36:05. | :36:15. | |
David Haye is with us now, welcome to the programme. Do you like being | :36:16. | :36:24. | |
in a fight? Tyler it. It sounds crazy and a lot of people probably | :36:25. | :36:31. | |
could not relate to it, but I feel at my most comfortable in the heat | :36:32. | :36:35. | |
of battle, when I am in there with somebody and fighting. I can't hear | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
anybody else, I am just in the zone that no other walk of life can get | :36:41. | :36:46. | |
me into. I am fortunate we live in a society where I am allowed to do it. | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
It is a place that I believe I am truly genetically designed to do | :36:53. | :36:59. | |
that. To be in there, competing. But you retired in 2012 and you said | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
that being hit in the face for 20 years was long enough. I had a plan | :37:04. | :37:10. | |
from when I was a kid that I would retire before I was 31. I believed | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
competing for 20 years, it's a long time. But I believed I could achieve | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
what I wanted in 20-year is. I was the undisputed cruiserweight champ | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
of the world. No other British fighter had ever done that before. I | :37:28. | :37:31. | |
then went up to heavyweight and won the heavyweight title, beating the | :37:32. | :37:33. | |
biggest ever heavyweight champion in history. Then I went to unify the | :37:34. | :37:43. | |
titles against Vladimir Klitschko. I went to do that just before my 31st | :37:44. | :37:50. | |
birthday and I lost on points. So I did not quite achieve it. I wanted | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
that perfection in my career. If I had that I would have been able to | :37:55. | :37:59. | |
retire. I had been saying I would retire since I was ten so I thought | :38:00. | :38:02. | |
I would do so anyway. Sitting at home, on a beach somewhere going, | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
something is not right, there is still work to do. A number of boxes | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
outside the ring, including you, gentle, softly spoken. Is it easy to | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
go from that to the aggression required to win? It is harder being | :38:19. | :38:27. | |
here now, being a healthy member of society. That is the hard part. | :38:28. | :38:34. | |
Michael has found that, too. He is still working on it. Believe it or | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
not, the easiest thing for me is once I'm in the ring, there is a | :38:40. | :38:46. | |
referee there, me and my opponent. I do not see the referee. I know he is | :38:47. | :38:53. | |
there, but I am just in this own. Not many people can get it because | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
not many people have been there, but it is a special place. But now, even | :38:58. | :39:02. | |
before you get in the ring you are expected to do this face-off, stare | :39:03. | :39:05. | |
at each other and look angry and serious and threatening. Is that a | :39:06. | :39:12. | |
mind game, or just show business? It is a bit of show business. | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
Unfortunately, I have been in a situation where someone got too | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
close and it ended up kicking off and I had a punch-up in a press | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
conference. In front of 200 members of the press. Terrible. Everyone | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
said it was a disgrace, terrible, but after that it was one of the | :39:33. | :39:39. | |
biggest grossing fights. That was the best possible promotion for a | :39:40. | :39:44. | |
boxing match, strangely. All of the writers who said it was disgusting | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
they were there in the front row saying, what a great fight, much | :39:49. | :39:52. | |
anticipated. It was a genuine grudge match. Politics is pretty | :39:53. | :40:02. | |
adversarial, isn't it? There is a lot of fighting talk. Even the | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
metaphors. We talk about who wins PMQs. The big beast, all of that. | :40:09. | :40:18. | |
Who wins, the upper hand... I have always found it fascinating about | :40:19. | :40:21. | |
the chamber that it is really exposing. Under pressure, people | :40:22. | :40:29. | |
cannot hide who they are. It is both a fight, but it is also theatre, in | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
the real sense that people are very exposed and their real tendency | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
comes out. I think the number of people really stimulated by the | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
fight in politics are very few, and they get to the top. People like | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
Tony Blair and David Cameron are exceptionally good, really | :40:50. | :40:52. | |
stimulated by it. And they triumphed because of that. When you were | :40:53. | :40:58. | |
talking about being in the zone and loving it, you could say that about | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
politicians. You are also saying that you are a rare beast. You are, | :41:03. | :41:09. | |
I am sure, and so are they. When you gave up the political fight, and I | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
know you have no thoughts of coming back, was there something in the | :41:15. | :41:17. | |
back of your mind that said, this may just be for a while? Well, that | :41:18. | :41:23. | |
is how it was because I was defeated and I had this idea of unfinished | :41:24. | :41:27. | |
business, like what David has said. I came back because I had unfinished | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
business. The second time I decided to leave, the first time I left | :41:33. | :41:37. | |
voluntarily, that was it. No question whatsoever. But I am also | :41:38. | :41:43. | |
absolutely sure that I lacked the aggression that David has described, | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
and the aggression that David Cameron or Tony Blair or Margaret | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
Thatcher displayed. Every day you have to get back on your feet, | :41:52. | :41:54. | |
forget the insult and keep driving forward. Our country has a new world | :41:55. | :42:03. | |
champion, Anthony Joshua. You want to fight him. I would love to. He | :42:04. | :42:08. | |
did a great thing the other night, had an American champion come over | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
and he dispatched him. This country is good at boxing. We are doing | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
fantastic. We have 12 current world champions. Why is that? It might | :42:19. | :42:26. | |
have been the spur of the Olympics. Maybe kids are seeing champions and | :42:27. | :42:31. | |
believing they have a chance. Amateur kids believing that they can | :42:32. | :42:35. | |
be there one day. It Israeli popular in my constituency. We have a couple | :42:36. | :42:42. | |
of local gyms. -- it is really popular. My next fight is on the | :42:43. | :42:49. | |
21st of May, fighting a Kosovan, 29 fights, never lost. He is going to | :42:50. | :42:56. | |
get knocked out. I might need a sparring partner. | :42:57. | :42:59. | |
That's your lot for tonight folks, but not for us. | :43:00. | :43:01. | |
We're giving Lou Lou's a miss tonight and heading | :43:02. | :43:03. | |
to Big Nick's Nightclub in what was formerly | :43:04. | :43:05. | |
the People's Republic of Hackney and is now | :43:06. | :43:07. | |
Not just tax-free Blue Nun, but I'm told Diane has been dancing | :43:08. | :43:12. | |
of David Cameron, who this week turned up at the Remain Campaign | :43:13. | :43:22. | |
phone bank and wished he hadn't, after he dialled the wrong | :43:23. | :43:25. | |
We can debate my policies, argue about them, but my motivation has | :43:26. | :43:46. | |
always been about that. My motive now, with no question in my mind, is | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
that I am concerned that this Government that I want to succeed is | :43:52. | :43:52. | |
not able to do the kind of things it Government that I want to succeed is | :43:53. | :43:58. | |
should, because it has become too focused on narrowly getting the | :43:59. | :43:59. | |
deficit down focused on narrowly getting the | :44:00. | :44:02. | |
say where that should fall, other than simply on | :44:03. | :44:04. | |
say where that should fall, other progressively can less afford | :44:05. | :44:11. | |
say where that should fall, other have that fall on them. The more you | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
can keep going on that keep going until June the 23rd. Many thanks for | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
talking to us. All right, take care. | :44:21. | :44:23. |