07/07/2016 This Week

Tonight, on the This Week Wing, a former Prime Minister

Tony Blair says going to war in Iraq with his American mates was the most

agonising decision he ever made, a decision John Chilcot

Author Douglas Murray flies the flag for intervention.

One failed war does not make all wars wrong, and we've

But do we really want our foreign policy decided by China

Accusations of dirty tricks and a stitch up in the race

for Number Ten, an opposition leader who says he's not going anywhere.

No sign of the political drama abating at Westminster.

The Spectator's Isabel Hardman says you couldn't make it up.

The plots and plotting intensified in Westminster this week,

Comedian Omid Djalili asks, why are the masses so

A week in which dark, sinister forces have been at work

trying to undermine my bid for the Tory leadership by claiming

Eton, Oxford, Harvard, the Brigade of Guards,

Goldman Sachs, Rothschild's, long-standing presenter

What bit of that rather glittering track record is untrue?

Of course, I may have embellished a few bits here and there,

but who hasn't bigged up their CV when applying for the big job?

If anything, I've rather understated my achievements,

since I make no mention of my stint as chief cook and bottle washer

for Her Majesty at Balmoral, or part-time Dauphin

You may have seen me on the eponymous series

To question my credentials is unworthy even of a backstabbing

Aberdonian fishmonger's son, and we know how low they can go.

Speaking of Andrea Leadsom's time as Governor of the Bank of England,

I'm joined on the sofa tonight by two bloody difficult men who just

Think of them as the Big Lie and Porky Pie of late-night

I speak, of course, of the #lammynator David Lammy,

#sadmanonatrain Michael "Choo Choo" Portillo and the only one you really

care about, #mollythedog, with her little stepsister

Your moment of the week? Well, today when it emerged that the next Prime

Minister of the United Kingdom will be a woman. It takes you back more

than 40 years, when the Conservative Party first chose a woman as a

leader, an awfully long time ago. I would just like David to reflect

that for all the women only short lists in the Labour Party, all the

Blair babes, the Labour Party has never come close to producing a

woman leader, and the Conservative Party is about to produce its second

woman leader. It's interesting that it's not all about interfering with

the process, it's sometimes just about what pops through a party.

Don't rise to the bait because I will come back to it later. Give me

your moment. It has been a tough week, so I think the moment is out

of politics. It's got to be the football. It's the week of

underdogs. Iceland, arriving back home to that fantastic Viking

charmed, and Wales not quite doing it but the atmosphere in Cardiff,

unbelievable. That's my moment. Now, after seven years of waiting,

yesterday saw the publication of the Chilcot report into the Iraq

War. Far from the whitewash

it was expected to be, the report gave a damning account

of how then-Prime Minister Tony Blair took Britain

into a "disastrous and unnecessary" war, for which post-conflict

planning was wholly inadequate. Chilcot's role was not

to make a pronouncement on the legality of the invasion,

but the 2.6 million-page document leaves the door open

for the families of soldiers who died in the campaign

to bring a challenge. But do the failings of Iraq mean

we should kiss goodbye to the possibility of unilateral

action in the future? And who should have to sign off

on Britain going to war? Here's Douglas Murray

with his take of the week, The Chilcot report has

delivered a damning verdict But it will have done nothing

to change people's minds. If you thought that Tony Blair

was a liar and a war criminal And if you didn't think that,

then you still don't. In any case, one failed war does not

make all wars wrong. We have a tendency

to remember only those We rightly talk about the mess

that's been created in Iraq and in Libya, but very rarely talk

about those interventions that Sierra Leone, for instance,

or Kosovo. It's worth remembering that polls

showed public support for Tony Blair in 2003,

and although the usual suspects are talking

about this as an illegal war, the Chilcot Inquiry does not

come to that conclusion. In any case, whatever your views

on Iraq, why should the Russians and the Chinese have the ability

to veto UK decision-making Russia and countries

in the Middle East won't shy away Do we really want to clear the stage

and allow them to set the agenda? In all the recriminations

and rightful regret over Iraq, it is worth remembering that

Britain isn't the worst war It is an outrage that people

who have been apologists for the worst regimes in the world

are currently trying to portray Yes, I'm thinking of Jeremy Corbyn

and his cronies, and their And just when we need a strong

Labour Party, the result The Corbynistas need to go,

but Chilcot has just pulled out everything from under the Blairite

wing of the party. Instead of endlessly rowing

about 2003, we need to decide what we're going to learn from it,

and also to realise what a disaster it is that our foreign policy,

as well as our politics as a whole, And from Bunker 51 paintball

in Greenwich to our own little underground shelter on This Week,

Douglas Murray joins us now. Michael, was the Chilcot report

worth waiting for? I don't think it told us anything we did not know 13

years ago, certainly nine years ago when it was set up. It is welcome

that it does not pull its punches but I think everything was on the

table along time ago. Was it more robust, even more damning you

expected? I was pleased it was not a whitewash. It was a serious piece of

work. His language was very British but very clear and incisive. And

clearly, it's a very, very sad week for British foreign policy. Is at

the final nail in Tony Blair's reputation? History will judge Tony

Blair on a whole raft of things, but clearly, the chaos that is Iraq now,

on any analysis, the lack of planning and the sectarian violence

that we have in that country and in the region, as a consequence, must

mean that it was a catastrophe, in that sense. It gives no comfort,

Douglas, to those who think he is a war criminal. No, those people are

trying to do as much as they can with what they have got but I think

they will be disappointed in that regard. The people who want Tony

Blair to be tried, they will keep going. One of the saddest things

about the press conference that he did was that one could not help

thinking this was a man who knew he was going to have at least civil

actions and others coming against improbably for the rest of his life.

George Galloway on the Daily Politics today said he thought the

war criminal route could not be pursued now but they were going to

pursue misconduct in public office, also a criminal offence. Could that

be a runner? It could be. All of these things will be tried. As it

was with Henry Kissinger and others, there will be endless attempts. I

think Tony Blair knows that. It is said that Iraq will make it much

harder to mount military intervention, but since then we have

intervened in Libya and our planes are over the skies of Iraq and

Syria. Doing very, very limited operations in the latter case you

give. Maybe that's right. It might be right, it might be a consequence.

As a country, we have to think seriously about whether it is

appropriate that somebody in Tony Blair's position, or David Cameron's

position, should have hanging over them in perpetuity the idea of

endless legal cases against them. I dislike it when that happens to

members of the Armed Forces, and I think it basically makes our

politics and foreign policy pretty inoperable. Of course, you stay

within the bounds of the law. The bounds of the law on many of these

things are clear. But the idea that any British Prime Minister could

constantly fear every branch of international law, is something that

will simply mean that politicians who believe in the status quo and

never doing anything are the only politicians we will ever get. Iraq

clearly changes the mood for intervention but does not rule it

out entirely. We have been -- intervened since Iraq. I think it

changes are very much on both sides of the Atlantic. One of the legacies

from David Cameron is the idea that we now need a parliamentary vote

before we take military action, which, I'm afraid, people listening

will think I am being undemocratic, but I think that is inoperable. If

all of our potential enemies believe a Prime Minister has to toil day and

night to put together a coalition in the House of Commons to support

military action, we have no deterrent effect whatsoever. David.

I have voted against all the literary action since Iraq. I felt

so let down by an intelligence service that was not properly

scrutinised at the time. And I think it is not that you cannot intervene.

It is the terms. The second thing is, when you intervene you have to

be prepared to be there for the long term. There is this sense that you

can quickly drop a few bombs and leave. It takes money, lots of

money. Look at what happened in Germany after the Second World War,

a whole Marshall plan, therefore the long term. I don't see any of that

in the international context. We were not prepared to commit, for the

part of Iraq we were responsible for, the greater Basra area, we were

not prepared to commit either the men or the material for it. And I

think there is something shameful about getting involved in a

situation we are not ready to see through. We have discovered recently

that the government did not even plan for Brexit, so it is not

surprising that the government had not planned for post operation in

Iraq. I want to pick up on something David said about intelligence. I

must correct you a bit on that. To pretend we were sent the let down by

our intelligence services is in part to misunderstand what Chilcot says.

Chilcot says, and we are still absorbing it, a long report, that

there was clearly, people in your party at the time, like Jack Straw,

were clearly reaching for intelligence to justify conclusions

they wanted to come to. Intelligence is never a straightforward business.

Nobody ever says, this is a slam dunk. It is always a process of

adding up a set of things that are themselves half and quarter truths

and trying to stick them together into a picture which may reflect

reality. There is a clear sign from the Chilcot report that Jack Straw

and others were going to the intelligence community to get

information they wanted from them. I think it is quite wrong to blame the

intelligence community for that failure. That was a political

failure. But they did allow politicians to talk about the

intelligence in ways that could not be justified by the intelligence

they had given. The broader point is that if you look back in the lead

up, the years up to Iraq, we were probably too keen to intervene as a

British government into many areas. We started a big intervention in

Afghanistan but had not finished in Iraq. It was probably the climax of

that. There is or has the danger that the pendulum goes the other

way, David, and we are now too reluctant to intervene when we

should. We intervened in Sierra Leone and

Bosnia, we were in Afghanistan and we were seriously stretched. Some of

the complaints about weaponry and equipment are unforgivable. The

pendulum has swung to a place where in the US and the UK it is fine to

drop bombs from aerial bombardment and drones but you will not commit

troops on the ground. There is a question about whether you do that

if you need to intervene. There has to be a serious plan, you have to do

it for a long time. We interviewed, or intervened, in Iraq, we occupied,

it is a mess, and Libya is a mess, we did not intervene in Syria or

occupy, it is a mess, so where is the lesson? The lesson is that you

can only intervene if you have the resources, and I take up what David

and Douglas have said, you need to be willing to intervene for the

long-term. It is like imperialism. We used to go into places with a

view to being there 20, 30, 40 years, people making their careers

there. We have lost that mentality. It is an extraordinary revolt

against our history. We do is to take a superior view, the Americans

were anti imperialist because they did not understand what it meant,

and we had a history of it, and we achieved some benign results along

the way. What Iraq needed was a thorough commitment. Do we have any

idea what Jeremy Corbyn's policy is? Theresa May's? No, and in both

parties they are shying away from this. They regard foreign policy as

being a quagmire which is best not to get involved in. The problem is

that events make things happen, and Iraq happened because of 9/11.

Washington decided they had the capability to go after another

American enemy, and they decided it was Saddam Hussein. We don't know if

a Paris like attack happened in London what our interventionist

foreign policy would be, who is planning it, who would do something.

It is not a coincidence that the most interventionist leader in

Europe these days is from what I want. He has the lowest ratings of

any French president in 50 years. There are a lot of reasons for that.

So if you too have "an entrenched need to gossip, particularly

when Blue Nun is taken, as it all too often seemed

to be", then pour yourself another three fingers.

Because waiting in the wings, comedian Omid Djalili is here

to talk about his new Iraq War documentary We Are Many,

And remember, we're still ignoring you all on the Twitter,

and Gordon Brown's International Superhighway.

Now, we take our duties of impartiality seriously

What other programme would allow shirts like this on air?

But it turns out we've been getting it all wrong!

Yes, apparently, the BBC's been too impartial over its reporting of

So now that we can say what we like, the first thing I'd like to point

out is that there's absolutely nothing like the cool,

refreshing taste of sweet sparkling German wine.

Talking of fizz, we sent the Spectator's Isabel Hardman down

to Wimbledon for her roundup of the week and a well-deserved

Yes, definitely hard at work in the lobby.

No, no-one has resigned yet, but I will keep you updated if

Sometimes you just have to get out of the Westminster bubble.

These days, politics is an awful lot like tennis.

You never quite know who's going to turn up on court.

Top seeds have crashed out, the bookies are scrabbling to find

new odds, and on Monday it was the turn of wild card

Nigel Farage to throw down his racket again.

During the referendum campaign I said I want my country back.

What I'm saying today is I want my life back,

Farage's resignation did surprise many political pundits,

mainly because he actually seems determined to stick to it,

The Ukip star player may have been the first to drop out this week

Over on Centre Court, the play was about

Against the odds, Theresa May is now the number-one seed

But as a Remainer, her road to the title is hardly a safe

So she and her supporters have decided to take

As part of the negotiation we will to look at this question

of people who are here in the UK from the EU, and I want to ensure

that we are able to not just guarantee the position for those

people but guarantee the position for British citizens

who are in other member states in other countries in

But some, like the unseeded Andrea Leadsom, saw this

I commit today to guaranteeing the rights of our EU friends

who have already come here to live and work.

It was a good return, but there are still questions

And just how united are the Leave side anyway?

The mixed doubles are fighting to be number-two seed and even get

The result of round one was pretty much as expected,

although it eliminated not just one but two contestants.

I will be lending my wholehearted support to Theresa May.

Rumours started to fly of dirty tricks.

Perhaps some of Michael Gove's supporters were trying to convince

those who backed Mrs May to lend him their support in order

to get him onto the ballot and keep Andrea Leadsom,

who might prove more popular with Conservative activists

We scarcely had a breather before it was on to the semifinals.

We always knew that Theresa May was going to make it all the way

But who was she going to end up playing?

Therefore, Michael Gove, having the lowest number of votes,

Whoever the next Prime Minister of this country will be,

it will be a female Prime Minister, and a female Prime Minister who has

formidable skills, and I know whichever one of the two wins,

Politics was on the verge of returning to business as usual,

but on Wednesday that long-awaited Chilcot report was published,

to remind us, if the referendum hadn't already, that politics

Sir John was deeply critical of the case that had been

We have concluded that the UK chose to join the invasion of Iraq before

the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted.

Military action at that time was not a last resort.

The debate in the Commons seemed measured, muted even.

MPs did not really want to shout all round, but instead talked

about the lessons governments needed to learn to stop something

But for many, especially the families, there was only one

I express more sorrow, regret and apology then you may ever

There were no lies, there was no deceit,

there was no deception, but there was a decision.

A decision to remove Saddam and a decision to be with America.

Tony Blair seems genuinely tormented by the aftermath of the Iraq War.

In hoarse tones, at his two-hour press conference after the report

was published, he pleaded with those listening to believe

It's almost as though Sir John's criticisms

of Tony Blair's Government, or his failure to stand up

to George Bush on important points, was less important than that people

believe the former Prime Minister had acted in good faith.

Jeremy Corbyn later apologised for Labour's role in the Iraq War.

He went much further in a speech outside of Parliament

and in his response to David Cameron in the Commons.

So I now apologise sincerely on behalf of my party

for the disastrous decision to go to war in Iraq.

The apology is owed first to all the people of Iraq,

hundreds of thousands of lives lost, and the country is still living

with the devastating consequences of war and the forces it unleashed.

At the end of the week, where does this leave

Well, Jeremy Corbyn is definitely still hanging

Well, some of them are getting rather nervous, but others

are arguing, "We just need to hold firm until Corbyn crumbles."

But currently, no play is scheduled for this court.

So perhaps after this week, politics will settle down a bit.

What this country needs is something to cheer it up,

Theresa May against Andrea Leadsom, is that a choice of which the Tories

can be proud? Andrea Leadsom is so untested, it would be a tremendous

risk, especially in the present circumstances. I voted for Brexit,

but I don't hold back from saying that we are in a perilous situation.

I would want to see the person of the greatest possible experience,

who had been tested and most exposed over a long period of time in that

role. The election when it goes to the grassroots will be between

Tories who take Michael's view, somebody with experience, Theresa

May, but on the other hand most voters voted for Brexit, they will

want somebody who was a Leaver. Absolutely. It will be fascinating

and nail-biting, because it is about who is the next Prime Minister, a

serious job interview. Ken Clarke did Theresa May a huge service this

week, being overheard describing her as a difficult woman is bubbly

boosting her chances massively, comparing her to Margaret Thatcher,

and saying out she is very good, pointing out she is the only grown

up in the room, and we have a massive national crisis now, how do

we deal with Brexit, who do we appoint as negotiators, to have a

colleague point out that you are capable and difficult is a huge

boost. The danger, was it not a major mistake to imply that EU

citizens already in this country could be a bargaining chip, when

even the most rabid of Leavers said, no, of course everybody who is

already here can stay? Within 24 hours Theresa May made to U-turns,

she rephrased tobogganing counterpoint, and she reneges on the

position taken previously about withdrawing from the European Court

of Human Rights. She had a pretty difficult period, and Andrea Leadsom

has had a difficult period in the debate about her CV. Just at the

moment neither one is looking especially shiny. It is causing a

lot of concern among EU citizens in this country. That is not fair.

Everybody involved in this said that whoever is he stays, even if the

Europeans are nasty to us, and identical they will be, but we look

after the people who are already here. If she wanted to make it about

that, she could not get it through the Commons. It is extraordinarily

unlikely he would enter into a decision's situation that was

retrospective. That is not how you behave. People have been worried

enough to leave. The problem is creating a climate. People get up

and think it is not safe anymore and leave. The insecurity for expat

Brits abroad and for domestic... It is awful, not knowing your future.

No planning and plans being made... We are all agreed. That all Molly is

from France, she is from Romania, they are worried now.

Have we seen the last of Nigel Farage? I doubt it. I am sure he

will be back in some form. Let me say a word about him. Because of the

catastrophic blunder committed by David Cameron, Nigel Farage deserves

a place in history. He was the man who spooked the Prime Minister. He

had a party with zero seats, now one seat, and he spooked the Prime

Minister into holding a referendum which the Prime Minister lost. He is

responsible for this country leaving the European Union. You are right,

but we should not celebrate it. A few years ago, Nigel Farage was the

complete bogeyman of British politics. We have now had a week of

the most awful xenophobic racism, terrible hate crimes, and I have to

say there is a great danger... Where is the evidence of this? The police

have been very careful to say there has been an increase in the

reporting of these crimes. On the streets of London I have seen and

heard things I have never seen and heard before. The danger is when

mainstream politicians line up with the hard right, this is what

happens. I hope we have seen the back of him. He has been a pollutant

to our politics. Ukip might now be a bigger threat to you in the north

than it is to the Tories in the South. Why would people keep on

voting Ukip? The motivation of people in the North feeling

abandoned by the other parties is strong. And they have lost the habit

of voting Labour. I think Ukip could clean up in some of those Labour

seats. We should not overdo it. We had a general election not long ago

and everybody said they would clean up. They did not. They never clean

up in general elections. Never. They might do if your party does not get

its act together. Over 80% of the PLP have no confidence in Jeremy

Corbyn but they have yet to mount a leadership challenge. It is a farce.

It is, I am afraid. It is an internet sign war that we should not

be having at a time when we should be focusing on the major debate,

which is Europe. Certainly, this has dragged on now for... That is just

sloganising. The Labour Party cannot get rid of its leader when you have

the present electoral system. And you can't get rid of the electoral

system unless the Labour Party splits and the moderate form a new

party. I am deeply worried that we actually have three parties. We have

a northern party that would like to be far harder line on immigration, a

London Liberal left party, led by Jeremy, and a centre party, maybe

Chuka Umunna is the leader, that could probably join with the Tories.

Which one are you in? I am not joining any tribes. That is why I

have focused on the main thing, Brexit. You want us to rerun the

referendum because you did not get your results. I have simply pointed

out that round about 37% of the country voted for this. The economy

is going south. 52% voted to come out. On the 70% turnout, if you

combine those that stayed at home and those that voted to stay, it is

about that is percent. If you go along with that argument, Ukip will

sweep you in the north. They will wipe you out if you count like that.

There is a reason why, when making becomes the Jewish law change, you

have a two thirds majority. Why did you not do that. The? This was not

my referendum, it was David Cameron's. When Scotland voted for

its own parliament it did not have a two thirds majority. Cameron

introduced this referendum. We had a referendum on Europe. The irony is

that those who want Brexit once sovereignty back, but why do we

believe in a sovereign parliament? Good luck on that. Nigel Farage

could well come back if Labour take that line. We have run out of time,

Miranda. Oui sad. Nice to see you. Now, it's no secret that most

of our BBC colleagues would like to see the back of us,

to be replaced with something far They claim my appeal is far too

narrow, that David Lammy isn't up to the job,

and that Michael Portillo's dress And whilst they may have a point

about Michael, we don't rely on the approval of Dimbleby,

Humphries and Marr for our leadership position in BBC current

affairs, because our mandate comes And you can't argue with last

week's record 1.3 million And that's why we're putting "people

power" in this week's Spotlight. If there are 500,000 on that march,

that is still less than the number of deaths Saddam has

been responsible for. Marching in their millions,

they failed to stop But did these protesters still send

a signal that politics was entering a new era when ordinary folks

demanded their voices to be heard? That's a question asked

by documentary We Are Many, exec produced by

comedian Omid Djalili. It claims the global anti-war

protest mobilised millions and forced people power

to be taken seriously. If you keep coming back, at some

point you will make the change. Much easier these days,

thanks, of course, to the Twitter Only nine months ago I was very

honoured to be elected leader I am carrying on with

that responsibility. People power can certainly

influence Labour politics. Jeremy Corbyn insists the support

of party members gives him the mandate to remain as leader,

even if his parliamentary colleagues A giant democratic experiment

in which over 17 million Brits decided we should

leave the European Union. It seems you can't ignore

the will of the people. So are politicians finally starting

to learn that? Olic Lily joins us. Most people know

you as a comedian. -- on the Ed Joe Lily. Omid Djalili. I came across a

kick-start on Twitter and it was an old school friend who was a

director. I got on board and we have been on this amazing journey for the

last five years putting this film together and promoting it, and it

has been a tremendous eye-opener. I love the way you are talking about

people power, trying to crowbar things like Brexit into it. That is

just a split, not people power. That is just 52% versus 48%. You are also

trying to bring in Jeremy Corbyn, and that narrative is basically

people saying he has to leave, and the silent majority not protesting

to keep him in. So when people march on the streets it is people power,

but when they vote at the ballot box, that is not people power? I

thought our film was about people power, but that particular

demonstration, a global demonstration... It is interesting,

we had John Prescott who saw the movie. I had done a TV commercial

with him so we were friendly. He said, I have seen the film. He said,

bearing in mind we were in the Cabinet deciding on these things and

we knew there was a demonstration of a million people but we had no idea

of the scale. 800 cities globally, 30 million people. He said, things

might have been different. But even that did not stop the war. So our

film is talking about this whole paradigms, where we have to look at

the relationship between the individual, community, which is

humanity, and institutions. If 30 million people protest now against

something and they are ignored, basically we are ignoring the second

superpower, global public opinion. I am completely mystified by this. 1

million people marched in Britain, if that is what it was. It was a

small minority of the British people. At the time, opinion polls

showed the British people were in favour of the Iraq war. At the

subsequent election, Tony Blair was returned with a handsome majority.

What is your point? 1.5 million people is not an expression of

people power, but a demonstration by a very small minority. It is a large

demonstration. It was a minority that failed because they had no

plan. Like we were saying with Brexit, we voted for it but there is

no plan. Why should a minority succeed? I am not saying they should

succeed. You say it failed, but why should it succeed? It failed because

the war took place. I call that failure, don't you? The point of the

film is to show the legacy of that, because it inspired the Arab Spring.

For many people, they were proved right. At the end of the day, yes.

Those who marched were not normal lefties and students but Middle

England, Middle Scotland, Middle Wales, the general populace saying,

we don't want to see war. When you say they marched, that is an

exaggeration. It was a warm afternoon and people took a stroll

in the park. They did not make any self-sacrifice, did not do anything

that demanded great effort, did not put themselves in peril or danger,

they did not lie down in front of tanks. They took a stroll in the

park on Sunday afternoon. For many people it was more than that. Let me

bring in David. Given that many conclude that the march was

vindicated, they were right and the government was wrong, even so, is

the number of people marching the right way to determine policy?

Because I could show you pictures of massive crowds outside Buckingham

Palace when Chamberlain came back from Munich with peace in our time,

and everybody was in favour of it on the streets. That turned out not to

be right. I remember my friends marching and saying, we marched and

no one listened. I took them back to civil rights and reminded them that

the listening does not necessarily come instantaneously. And it is the

case that this week largely those that were marching against the Iraq

war have been vindicated. I might say also on Saturday there were

50,000 people marching because of wrecks it, and communicating their

deep concern. How many of them do you think had voted? I wish many of

them have marched before. Many of them had never been on a march

before, were not terribly political, just deeply concerned. Where does

this go, from the lesson of 2003? I understand what Michael Portillo was

saying, that they did not achieve anything, but there is a voice of

people... White macro it laid down a marker. At the end of the day, we

look at the Chilcot report and that says we need to take greater care

with war. That is the biggest oxymoron, a caring war. People were

saying, we do not want war. There was a tremendous outpouring of

empathy. We knew the people of Iraq would suffer. People were saying, we

do not want people suffering, killed. The human body is one. When

you stub your toe, the furthest apart from your brain, you want the

pain to go away. Those demonstrations were saying, we will

starve our toe, and then the whole of the body was affected. Now we are

in a much worse situation. You have done this documentary and you are

still on tour. After being really serious, I am going back to the

Edinburgh Festival and a massive tour. Good to see you, and good luck

with the documentary. Thank you. That's your lot for tonight,

folks, but not for us, because it's Deficit Reduction Night

at Lou Lou's and we're off to dance on the grave of the Government's

quietly-shelved key economic policy. But we leave you tonight

with a ridiculous display of people power when this morning almost two

dozen Andrea Leadsom ultras marched on Westminster,

calling for the former Governor of the Bank of England to be

made Prime Minister. According to the Met,

"organisers of public processions are required by law to notify police

at least six days before the event occurs of the date, time,

proposed route and name I'm not sure Andrea's

law-breaking campaign manager, MP Tim Loughton, did any of this,

so I'm sure Officer Dibble will be Nighty night, don't let Andrea's

fantastic CV bite. # And the world can't

erase his fantasies # All your dreams will

come true right away # Our voices will ring

forever as one...#