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Tonight, it's the This Week, All Star Family Fortunes.

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With us, the Letts family from Taxhaven, the Wallis family

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from Fleet Street, and the Haye family from Knockemdead.

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Our survey of newspaper editors found they're not very happy.

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Neil Wallis, former News of the World man, says it's time

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The BBC and their mates at Hacked Off wanted to stop the press poking

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around in people's lives. They got what they wanted and they are still

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not happy. Funny that. Quentin Letts thinks he's already

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won the luxury holiday to Panama. Family fortunes offshore, and at

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home party political fortunes, that has been the game at Westminster

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this week. And up for grabs, a night

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in the ring with former world heavyweight champ,

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David "The Hayemaker" Haye. I have taken a lot of punishment as

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a boxer, but nothing as punishing as this show tonight.

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Evenin' all and welcome to This Week, your Stairway to Political

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And you join us reeling from eyebrow-raising

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news that the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby's real

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father is not the man he thought he was.

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Some say there's no public interest, and it's a gross

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invasion of privacy, but after agreeing to take

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a DNA paternity test, it has now been confirmed

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that his biological father is, in fact, John Flasby Whittingdale,

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Secretary of State for Culture, Media, Sport and

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Maybe I've got that wrong. But I think I'm on firm ground when I tell

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you John Whittingdale briefly dated a woman who turned out to be a

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dominatrix sex worker, but the romance never flourished. She dumped

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him when she discovered he was a Tory MP and not the Archbishop of

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Canterbury. Speaking of dirty secrets, I'm

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joined on the sofa tonight by two Think of them as the Question

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Avoidance and Question Evasion I speak, of course, of #fourpercent

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Liz "Miserables" Kendall. And #sadmanontrain Michael

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"Choo Choo" Portillo. Michael, your moment of the week. I

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think the issuing, at taxpayers' expense, of this miserable leaflet,

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which sets out the entirely tendentious one-sided propaganda

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case... Say what you think! It beggars belief that the taxpayer has

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to pay for the Government to express its opinion is in what is

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effectively an election. I hope the impact on people who receive this

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leaflet will be that they will be very angry their money has been

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wasted upon it and I hope it will cause them to vote against the

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Government's position. And I think it will upset Tories a great deal.

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And I think it is making David Cameron a highly divisive figure,

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such that even if he succeeds in this referendum, you wonder what his

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position will be. My moment of the week is the journalist Isabel

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Hardman, who I think you know, calling out sexism in the lobby when

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she was referred to as Totty by a Tory MP. She was right, she is

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gutsy, and I say good for her. She has not named the Tory MP but some

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people think they know who it is. She has kept her source is quiet but

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she says this is the 21st-century and we are not putting up with that

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language any longer, and I am very pleased she did.

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Now, earlier this week the BBC revealed details

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of John Flasby Whittingdale's private life, and a previous

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relationship the Culture Secretary had with a woman he discovered

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But if you wanted to know which celebrity couple took out

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a super-injunction to suppress details of alleged infidelity,

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with a spot of olive oil wrestling on the side, you'd have

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to move to Scotland or the States to read about it.

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I am told Michael is trying to work out how to include olive oil in one

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of his training documentaries. So after phone hacking

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and the Leveson Inquiry, has the pendulum swung

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back too far on privacy? Here's tabloid poster boy

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Neil Wallis, formerly of The People, The Sun and News of the World,

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with his take of the week. It's been a week of conspiracy,

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smear, counter smears, So I've come for a bacon sarnie

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and a cuppa to calm down. But you know what, it's not often

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I can say this. It's not been the gutter press that

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has been responsible for trampling their way

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through the private lives You know what, "single man has sex

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with single woman" doesn't It's true, 20 years ago

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we would have run a version But you wanted Leveson,

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and you got it. And now you have to live

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with the consequences. But what's happened this

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week has been like Alice The BBC, for decades, has set itself

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up as the vanguard of privacy, railing against these

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nasty, intrusive tabloids. But now, this week, you have the BBC

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teaming up with Hacked Off and some nut job conspiracy theorist website,

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to attack the press for not printing a non-story about someone most

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people have never even heard of. Of course, the issue of privacy

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and public interest And of course, all media

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are beholden at all times But the suggestion that there

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is a parallel between this story and the privacy super

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injunction is ridiculous. It's simply crazy that

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in the post-Levenson world it should be acceptable that a famous couple

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could use their glamorous lifestyle and their children

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as a lucrative marketing tool, and then use their ridiculous wealth

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to hire lawyers to persuade judges to gag the rest of us from knowing

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the truth about them. The BBC and their mates

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at Hacked Off said they wanted to stop the press poking around

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in other people's lives. From the Queen's Head cafe

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in Vauxhall to thumbing through our own greasy little

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This Week menu, Welcome to the programme. The

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minister and the dominatrix, you would have pub -- published that in

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a flash. 20 years ago, yes. Ten? I am not sure. The mood started to

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change even before Leveson. Is it right that the mood has changed?

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Yes, it has. Why do you think the newspapers that had the story did

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not publish? Two reasons. First, and incidentally what is important is

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that they did not all have this story together, they had it

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sequentially. Why didn't they publish? They thought, who knows

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this guy? And essentially, because it was long before he became a

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minister. Single man dates single woman. That is it. What is the story

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there? It is absolutely woman. That is it. What is the story

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the head of a select committee, a significant select committee. But

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the bottom line, the media are in the business of telling

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the bottom line, the media are in things that are interesting about

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people they are interested in. Even today, I suspect, if you put John

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Whittingdale's picture in front of 100 people, 99.9 of them even now

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would not know who he was. You managed to bash the BBC and every

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second sentence, which is fair enough, but surely there was some

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public enough, but surely there was some

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newspapers, which fall under this minister's dream it, had an

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embarrassing story about him. It was not embarrassing because they

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embarrassing story about him. It was weren't interested. He said it was

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embarrassing. It was embarrassing to weren't interested. He said it was

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newspapers looked at a weren't interested. He said it was

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decided it was not interesting is not a hold over him. This is not

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some vast conspiracy. I never used some vast conspiracy. I never used

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the word conspiracy. I am simply suggesting maybe it was in the

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public interest that people knew that this minister, with newspapers

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in his remix, had a story they that this minister, with newspapers

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he would have preferred would not come out. -- his remix. This was

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presented as a great conspiracy by national newspapers collectively not

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to publish the story so they could have a hold over the Minister. There

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is not, apart from Hacked Off and BBC Newsnight, there is not a shred

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of evidence there is any truth in that. Were the newspapers right to

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not publish the story? I think they were right not to publish it. John

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Whittingdale is a single man and what he does in his private life is

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his business. My concern is more why the Prime Minister and John

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Whittingdale have not fulfilled their commitment to the victims of

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phone hacking, the public and indeed fulfilled the will of the House of

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Commons on the measures there. The world has moved on from them. Were

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the newspapers right not to publish? I want to answer this way, I think

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the story is not particularly damaging to John Whittingdale so you

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can't regard it as a sort of Damocles. That said, I think it is

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unlucky for John Whittingdale that the story was not published, because

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since it was not, it puts him in the position of being suspected of

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having a conflict of interest. I think the story was not actually

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damaging and so that is not particularly logical, but I think it

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puts him in that unfortunate position. And by the way, I don't

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often defend the BBC, but I think the BBC is right to say it raises

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that question. You think the BBC was right to broadcast the story it did?

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Yes. Not because it wished to invade his privacy, but because it wished

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to it raise the question of whether the Minister had a conflict of

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interest. This is an issue of scale. This was not a story that simply

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appeared on BBC Newsnight. This was a huge story on the today programme,

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which we know sets the agenda for the day. The follow-up to the

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Newsnight story. It was the lead on the BBC News website. I was asked on

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to just about every major BBC News outlet, the today programme, five

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live, BBC News, even Victoria Derbyshire. They went mad for it.

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May I make one other point. You were saying before that there is no point

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putting anything about John Whittingdale because no one had

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heard of him. There was a man of whom literally no one had heard

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whatsoever who was absolutely pushed all over the tabloid newspapers. He

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was a member of the House of Lords. You could say he was a married man,

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as though that made all the difference, but I am not sure it

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does. But I simply do not believe your proposition that the tabloids

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have moved on, that they have decided that now if something is

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just a private matter for people's private lives... Do you think the

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BBC was right to do the story? I understand what Michael is saying

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about raising the question of whether the newspapers held this

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story back either because they thought it was not a story, or

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because they knew he was favourable to them because he has always been

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on the record as being anti-Levenson. The truth is we will

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never know the answer to that. But the real issue, if I can come back

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to it, is that there have been commitments from the Prime Minister

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about implementing Leveson, and the will of the House of Commons has

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been that we have passed legislation to say there should be strong

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incentives for newspapers to sign up to an independent Leveson -

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compliant body, and those that don't could face exemplary damages. The

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Government is walking away from that and I would suggest because it does

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not want to do it, not because of any story on John Whittingdale. But

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that is the will of the house. To change their position, they need to

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come back and do it. They are not going to do it if they don't want

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to. I would like the Prime Minister to explain to victims of phone

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hacking and the public and come to the House of Commons and explain why

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he is not doing what he said he would do.

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If it's not in the public interest to publish this story, why are the

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tabloids gagging to publish the story about the celebrity couple?

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You are talking about bananas and cucumbers, what you have on the

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celebrity threesome story is a world famous couple who've used their

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family status, who've paraded their children, used it as a marketing

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ploy, then using their vast wealth to basically hire expensive lawyers

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to try to gag the rest of the world from seeing it. Sure, but that's not

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the tabloids stopping this, they'll sell a lot more newspapers than the

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story on John whiting gale. There is an element of that. A big element.

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But the issue of how you gag a story like that which I would argue is

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completely in the public interest. Why is their private life in the

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public interest? Hypocrisy. He's saying putting a different picture

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ahead of what the reality is. But... If you had been a famous MP

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campaigning against abortion, but that you had had last year an

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abortion, would that not be in the public interest? Yes, it would, but

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what you are saying, from what I understand it, is that however they

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may behave in their pill vat life, they may have their private life

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too. I don't know who the celebrity couple is. You must be the only

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one... I do understand though that in the case of a legislator who is

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advocating a public policy... That's completely different. I don't know I

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don't understand why, because these people are famous, their public

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lives are up for grabs. It's about hypocrisy. I But why is it in the

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public interest? What is hypocritical? Because when they have

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their children, it was almost like the birth of a Royal Prince. It

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was... What has that got to do with what they do in their bedroom? I'm

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afraid this is bananas and cucumbers, you have a view on this

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and we have another. Is Labour right to call for John Whittingdale to be

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removed from new newspaper and regulation because, now this story's

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out, the newspapers could hardly influence themth him if there's any

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more? The focus should be on more on asking him to fulfil the will of the

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House in him doing what he said he would do for the newspaper toes

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comply with Leveson. So you are saying the strong incentive is, if

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they don't sign up under the Leveson plan, even if they don't want a

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court case, they would have to sign up. Come back to the House and

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explain to MPs... The Government's position... By the way, accusations

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made against the BBC is that the BBC done this against John whiting gale

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dale is because they are in a tussle with him over the licencify. It's

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prosecution it is rows. You want to get him recaused if giving any sort

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of influence on that decision -- licence fee. My understanding is

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that the licence fee was set up by the Chancellor anyway. Thank you

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very much. Now, it's late - Corbyn

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speech on Europe late. And if you want further proof, take

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a look who's waiting in the wings. Former heavyweight champion of the

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world David Haye is here, and Liz certainly

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fancies her chances. And if you can't hold back,

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why don't you come out swinging and Gordon Brown's Intergalactic

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Chat Bot. Now, when Boy George

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cut the top rate he was asked at the time

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whether he would personally benefit, I'm not personally

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affected," he told the BBC. Well, now we know he has,

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in fact, been benefiting from his own tax cut,

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after Gideon was forced to publish his tax return this

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week, following the lead of the Prime Minister

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and the Panama Papers leak. Although he only published his most

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recent return, so we have no idea whether or how much he stood

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to gain in previous years. Maybe it doesn't matter

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to you, maybe it does. Which is exactly how we feel about

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the Daily Mail's Quentin Letts. Here's his tax-tastic offshore

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round-up of the political week. Nothing irregular or criminal,

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or morally dubious. Just a quick inventory

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of This Week's offshore assets. Between you and me, if the costume

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budget is anything to go by I'm not sure there will be much

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in the vaults here at This Week's But everything has

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to be accounted for. And accounting for investments

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is what David Cameron had to do The Prime Minister had to fess up

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that he had profited While his finances were all legit,

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the leaked Panama Papers raised issues of tax

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transparency and regulation. The publication of a Prime

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Minister's tax information in this way is unprecedented, but I think

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it's the right thing to do. But let me be clear,

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I am not suggesting that this The Chancellor has today published

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information on his tax return, in a similar way

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to the Shadow Chancellor This begs the question of how far

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the publication of tax With all this stuff about tax

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havens, Labour ancient He was duly red-carded

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by the Speaker. I know, I know what

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you're saying to me. This man has done more to divide

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this nation than anybody else. I order the honourable member

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to withdraw immediately from the House

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for the remainder of Oh, I say!

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from the Conservative's man May I support the Prime Minister

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in fending off those who are attacking him, particularly

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in thinking of this place, because if he doesn't,

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we risk seeing a House of Commons which is stuffed full of low

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achievers who hate enterprise, hate people who look

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after their own family, and who know absolutely nothing

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about the outside world? With politicians' tax

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returns being published, the Prime Minister had a pop

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at Jeremy Corbyn, I'm glad he wants to get

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onto our responsibilities I thought his tax return

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was a metaphor for Labour policy. It was late, it was chaotic,

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it was inaccurate, it was uncosted. Mr Speaker, I'm grateful

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to the Prime Minister for drawing attention to my own tax return,

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there, warts and all. The warts being my handwriting,

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"all" being my generous I actually paid more tax than some

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companies owned by people Labour is worried that

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steel-maker Tata wants to leave The question of nationalisation

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is buzzing around Westminster and the Business Secretary hinted

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that the Government was not ruling out some

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form of intervention. The formal sales

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process begins today. I've been in contact with potential

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buyers, making clear that the Government

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stands ready to help. This includes looking

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at the possibility of co-investing I welcome the long overdue admission

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from this Government that it is their duty to help find

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a future for UK steel-making. I just hope it isn't a case

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of too little, too late. Former Foreign Secretary David

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Miliband was in town this week, shoring up support for the vote

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to stay in Europe campaign. And finally, posties up and down

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the land have been delivering a controversial EU referendum

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leaflet, promoting a vote This vexed the Brexiteers,

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who said public money was being used to push

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one side of the debate. At PMQs, David Cameron

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was reminded of strong feelings Have we withdrawn from the free

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movement of people, or is that The nation has been waiting

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for Jeremy Corbyn to lay out his deck chairs on the EU,

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and finally we've learned Not rest and recuperation,

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but remain and reform. There is a strong socialist case

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for staying in the European Union, just as there is also a powerful

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socialist case for reform That's why we need a Labour

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government, to stand up at the European level for industries

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and communities in Britain, to back public ownership

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and public services, to protect and extend workers'

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rights, and to work with our allies to make both Britain and Europe work

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better for working people. There's been the offshore tax hoo-ha

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and then the row For some, that's been

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too much secrecy. Now, how about that

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This Week inventory? Quentin Letts locked

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inside the high Security vault in Leadenhall Street's Revolution

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Bar. Michael, the Panama papers quickly

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narrowed down in this country to a story about the Prime Minister and

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the Prime Minister's late father. Did either of them do anything

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wrong? Certainly nothing's been proven wrong that either one of them

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did. I think it's a kind of political things. I'm quite a highly

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paid person and yet I've never had any dealings with any off shore

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investmentstrusts so I deduce from that that those who do have contacts

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with a very tiny minority of the population indeed so as it were the

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political sin is to be associated with something incomprehensible from

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the mass population. Did either of them do anything wrong? Not by the

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letter of the law but I would agree with Michael, the Conservatives'

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political strategy has been to try to detoxify the party, move to the

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centre say they're a compassionate one-nation. Cameron's succeeded on

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issues like gay marriage but not on economic issues. They have done good

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things around raising the minimum wage, far outweighed by the cuts to

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the minimum wage. Few at the top do well but get fewer breaks, whether

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it's on capital gains tax or inheritance tax. It blows a hole

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through the central Seattly. Posh, wealthy, privileged and so on. As

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long as off shore assets are declared by required by the law, and

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we live in a globalised world, what's wrong with having them, MPs'

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pension find is offshore, the Guardian has offshore... What is The

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Real Story here about Panama that's got lost in Cameron and his father

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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.

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And everyone from Assad, Mugabe and Putin trying to avoid that. That is

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very interesting. Isn't it the case that the Panama papers raise issues

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about taxes. Sometimes Government themselves using these things to

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hide it. Maybe the parochial concerns about tax returns, the

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Prime Minister's father, have dedelected from the much bigger

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issues? Yes. It is interesting because Putin

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is facing no scrutiny whatsoever because the press is not free. I

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agree it has been a diversion, and the greater diversion was into

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inheritance tax. The legislation is clear on inheritance tax. It has set

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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

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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

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Gordon Brown was Prime Minister and when Tony Blair was Prime Minister.

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I take your point that what is done is done in this country, so was Mr

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Cameron right to publish his tax return? I think he had to in the

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end. But that does not deal with the big question. Cameron has made a

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small step forward by getting agreements among some of our

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territories that they will compile this register of beneficiary

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ownership, but it doesn't go far enough. We don't know whether anyone

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other than UK authorities can scrutinise those registers. There

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are increasing OECD agreements coming into place, and there are

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already EU agreements. Since the crash in 2008, there has been

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pressure on governments to do more. But they are not public so you have

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to know there is a problem to ask. The only way to deal with it is to

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make them public. There will be automatic exchange of information.

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Not public, but automatic between jurisdictions, and that will make a

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difference. It will, but I would like to see them public, to make

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sure that authorities in other countries can scrutinise what is

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happening in our territories. There is more we can do, and the

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distraction about MPs tax returns has taken our eye off the real

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question. Maybe it has been a distraction because surely by

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definition tax returns only tell voters how public figures are

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complying. If they are not complying, it will not be in the tax

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return. I certainly think there are enough disincentives to become a

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member of Parliament. If you took drugs when you were 16, had a gay

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relationship at 17, whatever... And now you have to publish your tax

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return as well. I know Alan Duncan made his point in a clumsy way in

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the House of Commons... In an obnoxious way. I was massively upset

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by it, shocked, to be honest. I don't know why! If it becomes the

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norm that MPs have to publish tax returns, we will have even fewer

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people stepping forward. I must say, I find one of the great joys of not

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being in the House of Commons is that I do not have to answer

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questions about my private income. Do you buy the

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questions about my private income. loves the European Union? He did not

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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

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probably hear me say this but I think he

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a lot of people, which is sceptical. It needs to change, but on balance,

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stay in. I think that is It needs to change, but on balance,

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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

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be said for it, it is a hopeless situation. I do not know why Jeremy

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Corbyn is under such scrutiny. I situation. I do not know why Jeremy

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don't believe Jeremy Corbyn is any more euro enthusiastic than Jeremy

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Corbyn. There is a final issue to address. It is clear that a majority

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of Conservative voters will probably vote to leave. It could be 55-45. So

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of Conservative voters will probably how are you going to get this

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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

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this because all they have heard so far is a Tory leader, and they are

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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

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he feels he has done what he had to do. Anything two months before

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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

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gut to get the Labour vote out. Then I am sign the more frightened than I

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was! -- I am slightly more frightened than I was.

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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,

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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.

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British boxer Anthony Joshua isn't about to let his guard down.

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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.

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So why do some people love the fight so much that they just can't avoid

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Put on a proper suit, do up your tie and sing

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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?

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This week has certainly been a bruising one

:35:26.:35:27.

I know that I should have handled this better.

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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,

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how do you fight on, and when do you throw in the towel?

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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

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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.

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It is a place that I believe I am truly genetically designed to do

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that. To be in there, competing. But you retired in 2012 and you said

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that being hit in the face for 20 years was long enough. I had a plan

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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

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retire. I had been saying I would retire since I was ten so I thought

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I would do so anyway. Sitting at home, on a beach somewhere going,

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something is not right, there is still work to do. A number of boxes

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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

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here now, being a healthy member of society. That is the hard part.

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Michael has found that, too. He is still working on it. Believe it or

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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.

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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

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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,

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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

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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.

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