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Hello it's Wednesday, it's 9.15, I'm Victoria Derbyshire, | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Coming up - the father of a young Conservative activist | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
who took his own life after claiming he had been bullied by a senior | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
member of the party's youth wing tells us police should | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
widen their inquiry and calls again for the co-chairman of the party | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
It is quite clear to me that David Cameron is protecting his friends. | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
He should consider where his loyalty should be. It should not be to his | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
friends, it should be to justice. Also today - we'll talk exclusively | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
to the man who has made a hate crime complaint to the police | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
about Tyson Fury's alleged anti-gay rant after watching a discussion | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
about it on this programme. I did not say I have got a problem | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
with homosexuals or abortionists or paedophiles. I did not say I am | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
against it. I just said what I am taught in Scriptures. | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
And residents in storm-hit Cumbria are warned of more heavy | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
We'll speak live to some of those affected. | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
We're on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel until 11 this morning. | :01:20. | :01:40. | |
We'll talk later about the famous pride of lions featured on the BBC | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
wildlife programme Big Cat Diary that have allegedly been poisoned. | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Our correspondent has just reached the Masai Mara game reserve. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
We'll talk to him before the end of the programme. | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
As always, we're keen to hear from you on all the subjects | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
we are talking about this morning - do get in touch. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Texts will be charged at the standard messaging rate. | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
And you can watch our programme and find all our best interviews | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
on our programme page - bbc.co.uk/Victoria. | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
He was found dead by a railway track in September. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
He had been hit by a train, having apparently taken | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
off his shoes, laid down on a towel and waited for a train. | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
After his death his mother and father found three suicide notes | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
- one to his parents, another | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
to friends and a third was titled to his "bullies and betrayers". | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Elliot Johnson claimed he had been bullied by the party's youth | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
Those claims have rocked the party with further allegations | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
of bullying, harassment and blackmail by Mark Clarke | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
continuing to emerge over the last few months. | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
The key question is who knew what when. | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
This morning the man who is effectively in charge | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
of running the party, Lord Feldman, is facing claims he was first told | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
about the bullying five years ago, but he insists he first he heard | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
Our political guru Norman Smith is here. | :03:13. | :03:22. | |
This story is about what exactly? Well, this is a story about who knew | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
what when in the highest reaches of the Conservative Party. It is a | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
story about whether the Conservative Party failed in its duty of care to | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
some of its youngest supporters. Some of them only 16 or 17. It is a | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
story about the way young people can be treated in the brutal world of | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Westminster. The story begins last year in March, when a vibrant new | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
Tory youth campaign was set up called Road Trip. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
They are bused in for the day and promised a "great time", | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
curry and a free bar into the night as reward for a hard | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
But it all came to a shuddering halt with the death of Elliott Johnson. | :04:08. | :04:20. | |
Amid claims of bullying and abuse and sexual harassment. On the 18th | :04:21. | :04:32. | |
of November this year, the man who set up ten Road Trip, Lancelot, was | :04:33. | :04:46. | |
booted out of the party for life. He had previously been known as Tatler | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Tory, because Tatler magazine had big team up as a high-flyer. He was | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
booted out of the party. One leek waiter, on the 27th of November this | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
year, Fijalek's father went public with his concerns. This is when this | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
story went nuclear. He called it a dry rot within the Conservative | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Party, where the party hierarchy turned a blind eye to what was going | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
on in the youth wing because they thought they were achieving results. | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
They did not want to know. And he dismissed the internal inquiry which | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
had been set up by the Conservative Party as a cover-up. He said it was | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
not acceptable to have party officials investigating themselves. | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
He questioned whether senior figures in the party were fit to govern if | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
this was how they treated his son's death. We now know that something | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
like 40 people have come forward to give evidence to this inquiry. So, | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
the implication is that there are and awful lot of people who might | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
have been potential victims of this sort of bullying. And this goes to | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
the top of the Tory party? It doesn't. It raises questions about | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
the position of the current chairman, Siddique, and also the | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
then chairman Grant Shapps. If we go to the day after Kirmond went | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
public, on the 28th of November, Grant Shapps suddenly resigns. He | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
was the man who brought Lancelot into the Tory party and encouraged | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
this sort of youth campaign. He resigned, saying, the buck stops | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
with me. He took full responsibility. But that did not end | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
it. Questions were then raised about the current chairman Siddique and | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
what he knew and why he did not do anything. Two days later, on the | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
30th of November, he issued an unequivocal statement saying he was | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
completely unaware of these claims. But this becomes politically | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
complicated. Siddique is a very close friend of the Prime Minister. | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
They go back to | :06:56. | 0:00:01 |