01/07/2016

:00:08. > :00:10.Hello, it's nine o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling,

:00:11. > :00:14.Commemorations are being held here and in France to mark

:00:15. > :00:26.the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.

:00:27. > :00:29.It was one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War -

:00:30. > :00:33.more than one million men were killed and wounded.

:00:34. > :00:36.As Michael Gove, Justice Secretary and would-be Prime Minister,

:00:37. > :00:40.prepares to delivers his pitch for the top job, we'll look

:00:41. > :00:44.back on one of the most tumultuous weeks in politics.

:00:45. > :00:46.Plus a special report from Great Yarmouth,

:00:47. > :00:49.which saw one of the highest referendum Leave

:00:50. > :00:53.We'll hear from residents about their concerns

:00:54. > :01:05.We are not a racist town. We are concerned about job losses. My

:01:06. > :01:09.biggest fear is that the British people will be taken over by

:01:10. > :01:12.immigration. I fear that these people will come in without any

:01:13. > :01:18.conditions. It will be unlimited. Hello, welcome to the programme,

:01:19. > :01:22.we're live until 11 this morning. We'd love to hear what you make

:01:23. > :01:25.of the last seven days. Wherever you stand on the EU,

:01:26. > :01:27.whichever party you support, I'm sure you'll agree it's been

:01:28. > :01:31.a roller-coaster of a week. Do get in touch on all the stories

:01:32. > :01:35.we're talking about this morning - use #VictoriaLive, and if you text,

:01:36. > :01:38.you will be charged at the standard People have fallen silent

:01:39. > :01:42.across Europe this morning for two minutes to mark the centenary of one

:01:43. > :01:46.of the bloodiest battles of the First World War:

:01:47. > :01:49.the Battle of the Somme. More than 19,000 British

:01:50. > :01:51.soldiers lost their lives on the first day alone,

:01:52. > :01:54.the worst day in the history More than one million servicemen

:01:55. > :01:59.were killed or injured on all sides as the British and French

:02:00. > :02:20.armies fought the Germans. As the time approached, the Kings

:02:21. > :02:21.first artillery fire their guns. Then silence, as people stopped to

:02:22. > :02:23.remember. At the Grave of the Unknown Warrior

:02:24. > :02:26.in Westminster Abbey, in Edinburgh, at the Scottish

:02:27. > :02:27.National War Memorial, at the Somme Museum

:02:28. > :02:40.in Northern Ireland. In Wales, at cafes Park in Cardiff.

:02:41. > :02:41.Children were silent at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.

:02:42. > :02:42.And in France, at the Thiepval Memorial,

:02:43. > :02:46.Then, as Big Ben chimed, the sound of whistles,

:02:47. > :02:50.the signal that sent the men over the top,

:02:51. > :02:56.This was one of the sites where the battle began,

:02:57. > :03:00.At precisely 28 minutes past seven,

:03:01. > :03:06.British soldiers had tunnelled through the trenches

:03:07. > :03:09.underneath the German lines to plant explosives.

:03:10. > :03:12.What remains is the Lochnagar Crater,

:03:13. > :03:16.almost 300 feet in diameter and 70 feet deep.

:03:17. > :03:20.It has been preserved so people will never forget.

:03:21. > :03:24.Today, children laid a wreath of conciliation, representing

:03:25. > :03:27.the 21 nations from where people lost their lives and were injured.

:03:28. > :03:39.that we will not let the stories from this place be forgotten.

:03:40. > :03:47.And I think the desire to pay tribute, to remember, to honour our

:03:48. > :03:52.respective nation 's war dead, has not diminished. And we still feel

:03:53. > :03:54.the need to be here. All through the night,

:03:55. > :04:05.vigils were held around the country. Now the nation remembers that first

:04:06. > :04:09.day of the battle. In Exeter, each of the 19,240 soldiers who died on

:04:10. > :04:15.this day, have been represented by a 12 inch figure wrapped and bowed in

:04:16. > :04:16.a hand-stitched shroud, another symbol that they will never be

:04:17. > :04:19.forgotten. Sophie Long is at a service

:04:20. > :04:39.of remembrance at the Thiepval We are listening to very rousing

:04:40. > :04:43.music being played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Most of the

:04:44. > :04:48.10,000 guests here today have now taken their seats. In the next hour

:04:49. > :04:53.or so we are expecting the VIPs to arrive, several members of the Royal

:04:54. > :04:57.family. Prince Charles will be here with the Duchess of Cornwall, the

:04:58. > :05:02.Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. We are expecting David

:05:03. > :05:07.Cameron and President Hollande to attend. Before the service gets

:05:08. > :05:13.under way, a film will be played. The Battle of the Somme. It was

:05:14. > :05:19.filmed by two cameramen during the Battle 100 years ago. They were

:05:20. > :05:23.filming in the front line. It was played in 1916 to more than 22

:05:24. > :05:26.million people. At an early stage the Battle of the Somme became part

:05:27. > :05:30.of the national consciousness. After that, we are going to hear the

:05:31. > :05:37.stories of a lot of men who fought here. Men who didn't go home. The

:05:38. > :05:41.Thiepval Memorial was inaugurated in 1932 and has been a focal point of

:05:42. > :05:45.commemorating and remembering what happened here 100 years ago. It is

:05:46. > :05:48.hard to imagine, but on this day, the first day of the Battle of the

:05:49. > :05:53.Somme, this would have been a battlefield. So many people know the

:05:54. > :05:57.horrors that unfolded. There was hope it was going to be a decisive

:05:58. > :06:03.battle but that was not the case. It ended up being the bloodiest day in

:06:04. > :06:06.British military history. On that Memorial, the names of 72,000 men,

:06:07. > :06:11.all of whom fought here and were never found. Towards the end of the

:06:12. > :06:19.ceremony, Rita Will be laid by Prince Charles and President

:06:20. > :06:21.Hollande, and 300 Reddish schoolchildren and 300 French

:06:22. > :06:25.schoolchildren will lay floral tributes at the graves of many

:06:26. > :06:26.unknown soldiers at the other side of the memorial.

:06:27. > :06:35.Now a summary of the rest of the day's news.

:06:36. > :06:37.The civil war in the Conservative Party continues,

:06:38. > :06:40.as Michael Gove prepares to set out why he thinks he should

:06:41. > :06:42.be the party's leader and our next Prime Minister.

:06:43. > :06:44.His declaration yesterday that he would run is seen by some

:06:45. > :06:47.as a betrayal of his fellow Brexiteer, and previous

:06:48. > :06:50.Meanwhile, in the Labour camp, Angela Eagle yesterday

:06:51. > :06:53.postponed her anticipated decision to challenge Jeremy Corbyn,

:06:54. > :06:57.though the Labour leader remains under intense pressure

:06:58. > :07:00.Let's get more from our political correspondent

:07:01. > :07:17.Let's talk about Michael Gove. And absolutely stinging attack from Ken

:07:18. > :07:25.Clarke? It has been an extraordinary 24-hour is in Westminster because of

:07:26. > :07:28.this race in the Conservative Party. We had these surprising events

:07:29. > :07:33.yesterday in which not just Michael Gove entered the race, but Boris

:07:34. > :07:37.Johnson pulled out of the race. Nobody was expecting that. What we

:07:38. > :07:42.have had this morning is more of the fallout, with Kenneth Clarke, the

:07:43. > :07:47.euro friendly Tory grandee, laying into Mr Gove and saying, it is time

:07:48. > :07:52.for him to step down. This is too much of a distraction, he believes,

:07:53. > :07:57.to the substance of the challenge the Prime Minister is going to face.

:07:58. > :08:00.Withdrawing Britain from the European Union, disentangling

:08:01. > :08:08.ourselves from 40 years of law and legislation, trying to get a good

:08:09. > :08:12.deal on trade. All while trying to bring down immigration. We have the

:08:13. > :08:14.Civil War on the front benches of the Conservative Party between some

:08:15. > :08:20.of those leading figures after the events of yesterday. Who is falling

:08:21. > :08:24.behind who? We are seeing some shifting sands of support. And some

:08:25. > :08:30.very hostile headlines about Michael Gove. Words like betrayal, treachery

:08:31. > :08:35.being used. Saying that Boris Johnson was Brexecuted over this.

:08:36. > :08:41.What we have later is Michael Gove setting out his pitch for what he

:08:42. > :08:45.wants to be Prime Minister. I'm sure that will help to distract from some

:08:46. > :08:50.of the personality politics. I spoke to Dominic Rabb, a key ally of

:08:51. > :08:54.Michael Gove. He is backing him for his bid to be leader and Prime

:08:55. > :08:57.Minister. I put to him some of those issues about the questions about Mr

:08:58. > :09:03.Gove. Frankly, it feels to many people

:09:04. > :09:07.outside in the country, like the parlour games of the Westminster

:09:08. > :09:10.village. When the dust settles we have a huge decision to make this

:09:11. > :09:15.country, who will lead us forward. We have great candidates but there

:09:16. > :09:21.is one candidate, Michael Gove, who has the vision to lead us out of the

:09:22. > :09:24.EU in a positive and optimistic way, or raising the life chances of our

:09:25. > :09:29.children. They are the two golden ingredients we need in a leader.

:09:30. > :09:34.Things are not looking any more settled for a Labour?

:09:35. > :09:37.Absolutely. The turmoil continues. Since Sunday we have had a mass

:09:38. > :09:42.exodus from the Labour front benches. Jeremy Corbyn still has

:09:43. > :09:47.dozens of Shadow ministerial post he has to fill. We have what was

:09:48. > :09:50.looking like a leader -- leadership challenge from Angela Eagle do to be

:09:51. > :09:55.announced yesterday. That did not happen. We wait to see what happens

:09:56. > :09:59.today. We are going to get John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor, a

:10:00. > :10:07.big ally of Mr Corbyn, giving a speech later about the economic

:10:08. > :10:10.impact in his view of Brexit. That that will be an attempt by Mr

:10:11. > :10:14.McDonnell to show that the leadership continues. Trying to be

:10:15. > :10:16.in opposition. I think those questions about Mr Corbyn and

:10:17. > :10:17.potentially the challenge go on. Tom Bateman.

:10:18. > :10:20.MPs are urging the Government to make radical changes

:10:21. > :10:22.to the laws on prostitution in England and Wales.

:10:23. > :10:25.The Home Affairs Select Committee says soliciting should no longer be

:10:26. > :10:28.a crime for sex workers, and those who have a criminal record

:10:29. > :10:30.for offences related to prostitution should

:10:31. > :10:37.Scientists say they've discovered the first clear evidence

:10:38. > :10:40.that the ozone layer over Antarctica has begun to heal.

:10:41. > :10:43.Last year, the hole had shrunk since the year 2000 by an amount

:10:44. > :10:48.Scientists say it may be down to the phasing out of ozone-harming

:10:49. > :10:56.The electric car company Tesla is being investigated

:10:57. > :10:59.in the United States after one of its cars crashed into a lorry

:11:00. > :11:01.while on autopilot, killing its driver.

:11:02. > :11:04.It's believed to be the first death linked to the technology,

:11:05. > :11:06.which takes control of the car to change lanes

:11:07. > :11:10.The car maker says drivers were warned to keep their hands

:11:11. > :11:17.on the steering wheel even when autopilot is engaged.

:11:18. > :11:21.That's a summary of the latest BBC News, more at 9:30.

:11:22. > :11:25.In a moment we'll have more on an extraordinary week in politics.

:11:26. > :11:30.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning, use #VictoriaLive,

:11:31. > :11:37.and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate.

:11:38. > :11:46.Let's ketchup with all the sport. We can get latest from Tim.

:11:47. > :11:49.Good morning. Extraordinary for Wales in the last few weeks. They

:11:50. > :11:55.are getting ready for their most important match in 50 ages. Chris

:11:56. > :12:00.Coleman's side Aaron Lille to take on Belgium. -- 50 years. Their

:12:01. > :12:05.captain, Ashley Williams, is fit to play after being taken off against

:12:06. > :12:09.Northern Ireland at the weekend. For Welsh football fans, it does not get

:12:10. > :12:15.any bigger than this, does it, Katie Gornall? No, it doesn't. They are

:12:16. > :12:19.within a whisker of the semifinal for the first time in a major

:12:20. > :12:24.tournament. We have seen more Wales fans arriving during the morning. A

:12:25. > :12:29.lot of Belgium fans as well. Wales fans making themselves heard last

:12:30. > :12:34.night. They will be heavily outnumbered here today. We are just

:12:35. > :12:39.more -- less than ten miles from the Belgian border. We might as well be

:12:40. > :12:44.in Belgium. There are a Belgian flags flying above the square. Above

:12:45. > :12:49.the municipal buildings as well. We are expecting 150,000 fans to come

:12:50. > :12:52.to the stadium today. Wales will have to be in fine voice. They are

:12:53. > :12:56.the underdogs but it is a very special moment for this country,

:12:57. > :13:00.something Wales fans have been talking to me about. Something

:13:01. > :13:09.Gareth Bale has been discussing, but his pride in seeing Wales here.

:13:10. > :13:14.It is amazing to be in the round of 16 and to get the victory. To have

:13:15. > :13:19.our families there, it was amazing to share it with them. Obviously the

:13:20. > :13:23.kids came on at the end. It was emotional. We have not seen them in

:13:24. > :13:26.a long time. We can look back at pictures and videos and have an

:13:27. > :13:31.amazing memory of that time. Hopefully there's more to come. Why

:13:32. > :13:33.have Wales done so well? There has been a lot of talk about their team

:13:34. > :13:40.spirit in tournament. That is right. spirit in tournament. That is right.

:13:41. > :13:44.Their team spirit, we have seen, is very strong. Their work ethic.

:13:45. > :13:47.Everyone on this team has contributed. I think a lot has to be

:13:48. > :13:53.said for the contribution of Gareth Bale. He is their star player, the

:13:54. > :13:57.world's most expensive player. He has scored three goals already. He

:13:58. > :14:05.has been one of the standout players at Euro 2016. They know they are the

:14:06. > :14:08.underdogs coming into this game against Belgium, ranked second in

:14:09. > :14:13.the world. Wales do have a good record against them. They took four

:14:14. > :14:18.points off them in qualifying. They have to play better than they did

:14:19. > :14:23.against Northern Ireland. They had to rely on an goal. It big test for

:14:24. > :14:27.Wales against Belgium. The good news is they have their captain, Ashley

:14:28. > :14:32.Williams, back. They can look to that good record. And also, Belgium

:14:33. > :14:34.have some problems in defence. An injury and suspension. That is

:14:35. > :14:38.something Wales will look to exploit. If they can do that, they

:14:39. > :14:42.will reach their first-ever semifinal in a major tournament and

:14:43. > :14:49.play Portugal. First, they have to get past Belgium tonight. And what a

:14:50. > :14:56.prize it is. Katie Gornall. Very excited about this match. Just

:14:57. > :14:59.11 hours to wait. Yes, come on, Wales!

:15:00. > :15:03.It's a week since the country voted to leave the EU and it's fair to say

:15:04. > :15:06.it would have been hard to predict just how much political upheaval

:15:07. > :15:09.We've lost a Prime Minister, kicking off a leadership contest

:15:10. > :15:13.and Labour MPs are in open revolt against their leader.

:15:14. > :15:18.There's barely anyone left to figure out

:15:19. > :15:20.how we actually go about leaving the EU in practice.

:15:21. > :15:26.You're not the only one, here's a quick reminder.

:15:27. > :15:28.If the EU referendum was supposed to provide clarity

:15:29. > :15:36.about the UK's future, it did anything but.

:15:37. > :15:38.But the British people have made a very clear decision

:15:39. > :15:41.to take a different path, and as such, I think the country

:15:42. > :15:46.requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction.

:15:47. > :15:48.It is therefore a statement of the obvious that the option

:15:49. > :15:51.of a second referendum must be on the table,

:15:52. > :16:00.On Sunday, Labour MPs began calling for their party's leader,

:16:01. > :16:10.I no longer had confidence in his leadership,

:16:11. > :16:14.and he then dismissed me from the Shadow Cabinet.

:16:15. > :16:16.I feel that I have served in the best way I can

:16:17. > :16:27.12 members had left Jeremy Corbyn's team

:16:28. > :16:30.of Shadow Cabinet ministers, believing their leader had failed

:16:31. > :16:32.to campaign hard enough to keep the UK in the EU.

:16:33. > :16:34.The total number would later reach 20.

:16:35. > :16:37.But if they thought it would be a knockout blow, it wasn't.

:16:38. > :16:44.Don't let those people who wish us ill divide us.

:16:45. > :16:48.for the kind of world we want to live in.

:16:49. > :16:52.At the same time, Tory front runners began jostling

:16:53. > :16:55.for position with Boris Johnson the early favourite.

:16:56. > :16:58.He showed that he had gone up a level, I think,

:16:59. > :17:03.in people's estimation, in the debates.

:17:04. > :17:05.On Tuesday, the limelight fell back on Corbyn

:17:06. > :17:07.as he unveiled his new Shadow Cabinet.

:17:08. > :17:11.Later that day, however, MPs in his own party passed

:17:12. > :17:16.a motion of no confidence in him by 172 votes to 40.

:17:17. > :17:19.But he was not the only person we were all talking about.

:17:20. > :17:22.I know that virtually none of you have ever done a proper

:17:23. > :17:31.Or worked in business, or worked in trade,

:17:32. > :17:40.Nigel Farage told the EU what he thought of them,

:17:41. > :17:50.The British people voted in favour of the exit, why are you here?

:17:51. > :17:56.While Scottish MEP Alyn Smith fought for his country's EU status.

:17:57. > :18:02.Remember this. Scotland did not let you down.

:18:03. > :18:08.Please, I beg you, chers collegues, do not let Scotland down now!

:18:09. > :18:10.By Wednesday, deputy Labour leader Tom Watson said Corbyn

:18:11. > :18:18.Corbyn was putting the party at risk of long-term damage by staying put.

:18:19. > :18:21.My party is in peril. We are facing an existential crisis.

:18:22. > :18:24.And I just don't want us to be in this position

:18:25. > :18:27.because I think there are millions of people in the country

:18:28. > :18:30.who need a left-leaning government who can give people opportunity.

:18:31. > :18:37.It might be in my party's interest for him to sit there,

:18:38. > :18:42.And I would say, for heaven's sake, man, go!

:18:43. > :18:49.Angela Eagle seems likely to mount a challenge against Corbyn,

:18:50. > :18:51.while five contenders are trying to become the next Conservative

:18:52. > :19:00.Boris Johnson ruled himself out of the race.

:19:01. > :19:05.Having consulted colleagues, and in view of the circumstances

:19:06. > :19:10.in Parliament, I have concluded that person cannot be me.

:19:11. > :19:14.The favourites to become the next Prime Minister

:19:15. > :19:16.are now Theresa May and Michael Gove.

:19:17. > :19:19.Under my leadership, the Conservative Party will be able

:19:20. > :19:22.to come back together and govern, not just in the interests

:19:23. > :19:25.of the 17 million Leave voters, or 16 million Remain voters,

:19:26. > :19:30.but in the interests of the whole country.

:19:31. > :19:35.This is about making sure that our country can make a success

:19:36. > :19:37.through the challenges and the opportunities that lie ahead.

:19:38. > :19:40.The next leader should be in place by early September,

:19:41. > :19:43.when proper negotiations with EU leaders can begin.

:19:44. > :19:54.Maybe then we will see a period of stability, perhaps.

:19:55. > :20:03.who worked for Nick Clegg while he was Deputy Prime Minister.

:20:04. > :20:05.Sean Worth was a special adviser to David Cameron

:20:06. > :20:09.Michael Jacobs, special adviser to the former Prime Minister

:20:10. > :20:14.And joining us down the line is Geoff Aberdein,

:20:15. > :20:16.who was Alex Salmond's chief of staff during Scottish

:20:17. > :20:27.Thank you all for joining us. That was quite a punch line from Boris

:20:28. > :20:32.Johnson yesterday, were you are shocked as everyone else? Yeah,

:20:33. > :20:43.definitely, I think a lot of the people in his team, certainly his

:20:44. > :20:46.supporters, were shocked by the move from Michael Gove, people talking

:20:47. > :20:49.today about treachery, stabbing him in the back. The important thing is

:20:50. > :20:55.to have this flushed out now, because I do not think he will be

:20:56. > :20:59.fleshed out in the first round of voting, which ends on Tuesday, see

:21:00. > :21:04.if he can get back onto the policy agenda. That is the biggest issue

:21:05. > :21:07.for him, the move on Boris. I mentioned you work for David

:21:08. > :21:13.Cameron, over the years there has been so much speculation about who

:21:14. > :21:17.harbours which ambitions, and in a week all of these things have

:21:18. > :21:22.unfolded at speed. What have you been thinking? I always suspected

:21:23. > :21:26.that Michael Gove might have this ambition, he denies it, but he is

:21:27. > :21:30.very well liked, and people in the party say they would like him to do

:21:31. > :21:34.it. Yesterday, he was saying that people pushed there and all that,

:21:35. > :21:40.and I always suspected that, but I didn't think it would come about

:21:41. > :21:47.like this. So yeah, huge surprise. Polly, what you think about what is

:21:48. > :21:54.going on? For Michael, it is all about framing this as a debate about

:21:55. > :21:58.what happens next, because Theresa was in the Remain campaign, and if

:21:59. > :22:03.he can define this as, who can you trust to pull as out of the EU, he

:22:04. > :22:06.has got a chance of winning. I always expected Michael would do

:22:07. > :22:10.this, he was so polished in his denials about wanting to be Prime

:22:11. > :22:17.Minister, you have to be a bit suspicious of that. It is treachery

:22:18. > :22:22.laid bare for voters to see in a way that we have not seen very often in

:22:23. > :22:24.politics. It does feel like a political thriller, but in a way

:22:25. > :22:29.Michael can use that to his advantage. He has sacrificed all of

:22:30. > :22:37.his personal friendships for the sake of Brexit, and if you are a

:22:38. > :22:41.passionate Brexiter, which so many Conservative Grassroots members are,

:22:42. > :22:45.that is what you want, someone who put it before personal friendships.

:22:46. > :22:49.Michael, everybody is talking about politics right now, we have talked

:22:50. > :22:54.to some eight times around elections that voters are not necessarily that

:22:55. > :22:59.engaged, but it seems it is all anyone is talking about. The tragedy

:23:00. > :23:03.for the country is that at a time when we are facing a huge

:23:04. > :23:07.constitutional, foreign policy, economic crisis as a result of the

:23:08. > :23:10.referendum, the Conservative Party, which runs the Government, is

:23:11. > :23:17.embroiled in a very nasty and rather shallow leadership debate. And the

:23:18. > :23:22.Labour Party is... And the Labour Party has also fallen apart. If you

:23:23. > :23:25.are a voter who trusts or want to trust you had these to take

:23:26. > :23:30.decisions about what the country is doing, you are looking at gassed at

:23:31. > :23:34.the political class, and we are running into very serious economic

:23:35. > :23:37.problems, and we neither have an economic policy from the Government

:23:38. > :23:41.nor do we have one from the opposition. That is a betrayal of

:23:42. > :23:47.the people who voted in the referendum last week, and it shows

:23:48. > :23:50.that this was a referendum called on shallow grounds, not a serious

:23:51. > :23:54.attempt to run the country, and I think the Prime Minister needs to

:23:55. > :24:02.take a share of the blame, a very large share of the blame for calling

:24:03. > :24:07.the referendum. Geoff, you worked with Alex Salmond, he went after the

:24:08. > :24:12.Scottish referendum was lost, and there was a coronation of Nicola

:24:13. > :24:17.Sturgeon, a smooth transition. Looking at the aftermath of this

:24:18. > :24:21.referendum, what you think? You are right, the benefits of a smooth

:24:22. > :24:27.transition of there for all to see, the SNP have gained from the Labour

:24:28. > :24:31.Party in Scotland. It is not just the SNP, though, in Scotland in

:24:32. > :24:36.general we have seen Ruth Davidson taking over from Annabel Goldie, a

:24:37. > :24:40.seamless transition, and she is a formidable leader in Scotland. Kezia

:24:41. > :24:47.Dugdale is respected as an up and coming leader. We look in Scotland,

:24:48. > :24:50.what is happening in Westminster, I heard the civil war described as a

:24:51. > :24:55.political thriller, but I think it is a political horror. It does not

:24:56. > :24:57.describe my experience of politics in Scotland. There is something to

:24:58. > :25:04.be said for the smooth transition process. You have had experience of

:25:05. > :25:08.an attempt with Gordon Brown. There is a huge difference between what

:25:09. > :25:12.happened in the Scottish referendum, where the result, though close, was

:25:13. > :25:17.for the status quo, and the earthquake here and the country.

:25:18. > :25:21.Really, that comparison doesn't hold. It is not surprising things

:25:22. > :25:25.were relatively smooth in Scotland, we didn't have that as quake. And

:25:26. > :25:28.you cannot have a coronation to an obvious new leader when the parties

:25:29. > :25:31.are completely divided about the direction of travel. The

:25:32. > :25:35.Conservative Party has to make this decision about what kind of Brexit

:25:36. > :25:39.it once, the Labour Party has to make a decision about whether it is

:25:40. > :25:43.going to the left or the centre, and if the party cannot unite around a

:25:44. > :25:47.single leader, you cannot have a smooth transition. So uncomfortable

:25:48. > :25:52.as this is, this is a way it has to be? Well, as Michael was saying, it

:25:53. > :25:56.is awful that the political parties are going through this process just

:25:57. > :26:00.when the country is about to face the toughest negotiations of its

:26:01. > :26:06.life, and potentially a shift back into recession. But unless there is

:26:07. > :26:10.this upheaval, this process in the political parties, there was an

:26:11. > :26:17.absence of leadership. To be fair, nobody plans to put the entire

:26:18. > :26:22.political climate into such chaos! What was the plan, do you think? If

:26:23. > :26:25.the vote had gone this way? The Prime Minister has decided to resign

:26:26. > :26:29.because he lost the referendum, and he probably had to do that. He

:26:30. > :26:35.didn't just walk off straightaway, he is going to manage the process,

:26:36. > :26:39.but his team did not want the outcome, but that is the democratic

:26:40. > :26:43.results that they have to respect. The Labour Party being in meltdown

:26:44. > :26:47.at this particular time is an fortunate, because they could really

:26:48. > :26:57.make a out of this situation. -- unfortunate. But, yeah, all of these

:26:58. > :27:00.events have coalesced around this particular one time, it is just an

:27:01. > :27:06.astonishing period in politics, but it wasn't planned at. But it was

:27:07. > :27:10.deliberately not planned by the Government, the civil service, to

:27:11. > :27:14.put forward any Brexit proposals. I would not have wanted them to do,

:27:15. > :27:18.because I am devastated by the decision. They were closing their

:27:19. > :27:23.eyes? As with the Scottish referendum, they made the decision

:27:24. > :27:26.that you do not plan, you do not put together an economic plan for what

:27:27. > :27:30.you do if you lose, because the opposition parties will use that

:27:31. > :27:37.against you. You know, they liked to be able to say that, you know, they

:27:38. > :27:41.are absolutely committed to the Government being other side of

:27:42. > :27:46.remains. In Scotland, it worked, but of course in this referendum it

:27:47. > :27:51.really didn't. I just wanted to make the point that, yes, privately the

:27:52. > :27:55.civil service should have been planning, because what happened

:27:56. > :27:59.after Thursday was a complete and utter vacuum. You had the Leave

:28:00. > :28:03.campaign in disarray, they did not expect to win, they did not know

:28:04. > :28:05.what Brexit plans they wanted to initiate, and David Cameron very

:28:06. > :28:09.honourably fell on his sword with a great speech, but he did not speak

:28:10. > :28:13.again until Monday. The reason Nicola Sturgeon has come across as a

:28:14. > :28:17.formidable leader is the door was open for her to walk in, establish

:28:18. > :28:23.leadership, and show that she had a plan. Want. I think that, you know,

:28:24. > :28:29.the regret on behalf of both of the campaigns, why didn't we have a

:28:30. > :28:36.plan? -- she had a plan for Scotland. It is a fair point, isn't

:28:37. > :28:39.it? Why not plan in secret? That is absolutely right, except there is

:28:40. > :28:43.now a huge decision about what kind of Brexit we want, do we want to be

:28:44. > :28:48.in the EEA, or do we want something more dramatic? That is why Nick

:28:49. > :28:52.Clegg, among others, have called for a general election or some process

:28:53. > :28:54.that calls for more people than just Conservative Party members in

:28:55. > :28:58.deciding what kind of Brexit we have. Because the economic

:28:59. > :29:02.consequences of that decision are enormous for everybody up and down

:29:03. > :29:07.the country, and the truth is that the Leave campaign had offered two

:29:08. > :29:10.separate and incompatible visions, one of the Europe where we are still

:29:11. > :29:14.very much involved, and one of Europe where we pull out completely.

:29:15. > :29:19.They do not have the legitimacy decide. Do you think there has to be

:29:20. > :29:24.an election? The danger in calling it, although first of all it is

:29:25. > :29:27.possibly attractive for the new Conservative Party leader, because

:29:28. > :29:31.the Labour Party is in such disarray, they would imagine that

:29:32. > :29:35.they could be Corbyn pretty easily, increasing their majority. However,

:29:36. > :29:38.the risk of the early referendum, you will end up having a referendum

:29:39. > :29:43.on the referendum result, effectively. Nobody in the

:29:44. > :29:48.Conservative Party would want that. I don't know what you think,

:29:49. > :29:52.Michael? I think the real question would be, what kind of economic

:29:53. > :29:56.policy is put to the country, whether there is an election or not.

:29:57. > :30:01.If there is, the Labour Party, whoever is the leader, will have to

:30:02. > :30:04.put an alternative policy, economic policy forward. We are going into

:30:05. > :30:08.recession, what you have heard from George Osborne earlier this week

:30:09. > :30:14.was, because we are likely going into recession, we will have more

:30:15. > :30:16.austerity. That is a disaster, economically illiterate, and it

:30:17. > :30:20.would be terrible for the country if we pulled further demand out of the

:30:21. > :30:23.economy by having more austerity, and the Labour Party has an

:30:24. > :30:30.opportunity to speak to all those disenfranchised voters.

:30:31. > :30:38.Labour has the responsibility, rather than seeing them defect to

:30:39. > :30:42.Ukip, which is a protest vote... There is an alternative. Is this a

:30:43. > :30:49.time for a less party politics? We had coalition before. The Tories

:30:50. > :30:52.have a majority. It is not a coalition scenario. But in terms of

:30:53. > :30:58.politicians coming together, could that be achievable, sensible? There

:30:59. > :31:05.has been an idea mooted that this Brexit unit in the civil service

:31:06. > :31:13.will work with cross-party involvement. That would be sensible.

:31:14. > :31:21.But it feels to me, and certainly Remain MPs drunk to Boris, were

:31:22. > :31:26.being told that there will be some moderation, there will be

:31:27. > :31:29.compromises, we will do something more sensible than some of you

:31:30. > :31:35.feared. It does feel like that will happen. That is precisely what

:31:36. > :31:39.Michael used against Boris, by suggesting he would not deliver true

:31:40. > :31:42.Brexit. That desire to be accommodating is not what the

:31:43. > :31:49.Conservative Party grassroots want. I don't think that is true. David

:31:50. > :31:53.has e-mailed, I would like to know why nobody has criticised David

:31:54. > :31:57.Cameron for not following through on taking the UK through the Brexit

:31:58. > :32:02.vote? I do believe the Conservative government will not follow through

:32:03. > :32:06.on the referendum. Another says, there is no next -- exit plan, which

:32:07. > :32:10.proves the Conservatives are incompetent. Ravi says, Labour MPs

:32:11. > :32:15.and are divided over how to depose Jeremy Corbyn. It says it all. Thank

:32:16. > :32:24.you very much. It is busy something we keep talking about. -- obviously.

:32:25. > :32:27.Keep letting us know what you think. Coming up, referendum aftermath. We

:32:28. > :32:31.will have a special report from Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, which was

:32:32. > :32:38.one of the highest Leave votes in the UK. And what is the future for a

:32:39. > :32:39.driverless cars after the first known fatal crash involving one in

:32:40. > :32:57.the United States? Good morning. League two minute

:32:58. > :33:00.silence has been held across Europe this morning in memory of the

:33:01. > :33:05.hundreds of thousands of men who lost their lives in World War I's

:33:06. > :33:12.lobbyist battle, the Battle of the Somme. -- a two-minute silence.

:33:13. > :33:18.Events were also held across the UK to mark the moment 100 years ago

:33:19. > :33:24.when troops left their trenches to go over the top. Britain suffered

:33:25. > :33:27.more than 60,000 dead and wounded on the first day alone in what became

:33:28. > :33:35.the bloodiest battle of the First World War. The surprise challenger

:33:36. > :33:38.for the Conservative Party leadership, Michael Gove, were

:33:39. > :33:46.formally set out his pitch for the job in just over an hour. Boris

:33:47. > :33:52.Johnson has now pulled out and has not said who he is backing. Mr Gove

:33:53. > :33:53.phases Theresa May, as well as Stephen Crabb, Andrea Leadsom and

:33:54. > :33:55.Liam Fox. MPs are urging the Government

:33:56. > :33:57.to make radical changes to the laws on prostitution

:33:58. > :33:59.in England and Wales. The Home Affairs Select Committee

:34:00. > :34:01.says soliciting should no longer be a crime for sex workers,

:34:02. > :34:04.and those who have a criminal record for offences related

:34:05. > :34:07.to prostitution should Scientists say they've discovered

:34:08. > :34:13.the first clear evidence that the ozone layer over Antarctica

:34:14. > :34:16.has begun to heal. Last year, the hole had shrunk

:34:17. > :34:20.since the year 2000 by an amount Scientists say it may be down

:34:21. > :34:25.to the phasing out of ozone-harming The electric car company Tesla

:34:26. > :34:31.is being investigated in the United States after one

:34:32. > :34:34.of its cars crashed into a lorry while on autopilot,

:34:35. > :34:38.killing its driver. It's believed to be the first death

:34:39. > :34:40.linked to the technology, which takes control of the car

:34:41. > :34:42.to change lanes The car maker says drivers

:34:43. > :34:47.were warned to keep their hands on the steering wheel even

:34:48. > :35:05.when autopilot is engaged. That is a summary of the latest

:35:06. > :35:08.news. Let's catch up with the sport. The countdown is on for the Welsh

:35:09. > :35:15.football team ahead of their biggest match in 58 years. The last

:35:16. > :35:20.remaining home nation at Frank -- Euro 2016 play Belgium in Lille this

:35:21. > :35:26.evening. The prize is a semifinal match with Portugal. The Portuguese

:35:27. > :35:31.beat Poland on penalties last night. 1-1 after extra time but Portugal

:35:32. > :35:36.squeezed through on spot kicks. Spain have already headed home but

:35:37. > :35:42.their foreword, nollie toe, is on the move. Manchester City have

:35:43. > :35:50.confirmed his signing for around ?14 million. It is another big day for

:35:51. > :35:54.the Brits at Wimbledon. Dan Evans takes on Roger Federer. Andy Murray

:35:55. > :35:55.is already in round three. He went through in straight sets yesterday.

:35:56. > :36:09.I am back at ten o'clock with more. Britain's decision to leave the EU

:36:10. > :36:15.took many by surprise. Even the leader, Nigel Farage thought his

:36:16. > :36:18.side had lost. He was wrong. More than 17 million people decided to

:36:19. > :36:19.cut our ties with Brussels and in some areas the vote for Brexit was

:36:20. > :36:22.very strong. Great Yarmouth in Norfolk

:36:23. > :36:24.saw the fifth highest Leave vote in the country,

:36:25. > :36:26.at a staggering 71.5%. Michael Cowan has spent the week

:36:27. > :36:37.by the seaside to hear the locals In his film, voters often express

:36:38. > :36:39.views that are uncomfortable but it -- but expressive of what many

:36:40. > :36:40.people feel. In terms of Westminster,

:36:41. > :36:41.the politicians, politics, My biggest fear is that the British

:36:42. > :37:03.people will be taken I would like to see

:37:04. > :37:08.the numbers come down. I would like to see some of the ones

:37:09. > :37:13.on benefits being shipped back. I think the ones that

:37:14. > :37:16.are here right now working, leave them be, but the ones

:37:17. > :37:18.that are trying to get We are too small, mate,

:37:19. > :37:24.we can't fit any more people in, In Yarmouth, the entire Brexit

:37:25. > :37:45.debate is encapsulated on King Over the last decade,

:37:46. > :37:48.they have seen a growing Last year, it rose by 9.3%

:37:49. > :37:52.on the previous year. It is largely Portuguese,

:37:53. > :37:56.who come into the area to work. And what's the telephone number,

:37:57. > :37:59.darling? Sharon's shop has been

:38:00. > :38:02.here for 30 years. She runs daily knitting workshops,

:38:03. > :38:05.or as she affectionately calls them, Now that we've left,

:38:06. > :38:13.what's that going to mean? It means that we can make more

:38:14. > :38:17.of our own decisions for trade Hopefully the jobs will come

:38:18. > :38:23.for most people, and the hospitals and that, hopefully, will get

:38:24. > :38:28.better, and more money to spend. If they get a pansy Prime Minister

:38:29. > :38:37.again, we'll end up with a pansy I've nothing against foreigners

:38:38. > :38:42.here, it's just that they seem They are very loud when speaking

:38:43. > :38:51.and gesturing and it can put some And I think as well in Yarmouth,

:38:52. > :38:59.it's quite a high And they remember how it was and how

:39:00. > :39:03.it is now, and I think that You know there is quite a movement

:39:04. > :39:08.of people who would say people who voted Out

:39:09. > :39:13.were racist, or xenophobic. My quibble with that is,

:39:14. > :39:18.I'm not racist because I have I think people have just had

:39:19. > :39:25.enough, haven't they? And we need to be able to do more

:39:26. > :39:30.for ourselves, the people This time it wasn't like a general

:39:31. > :39:41.election, you never saw any councillors out saying

:39:42. > :39:43.anything about anything. And all the money that they put

:39:44. > :39:45.into those leaflets. When it's a general or local

:39:46. > :39:47.election clustered outside the polling stations,

:39:48. > :39:50.you know, you see them. But we saw nobody this time,

:39:51. > :39:55.from any side whatsoever. Ukip were high here,

:39:56. > :39:57.in places where people And ultimately I think

:39:58. > :40:02.that is what it boils down to. It's that no one is listening to us

:40:03. > :40:06.so the only way you can Across the street in a local pub

:40:07. > :40:18.we met Matthew, Alex and Hayden. They buck the national trend

:40:19. > :40:21.of all being under 30 and voting Yes, finally being on the winning

:40:22. > :40:31.side of something so important that will change the future of this

:40:32. > :40:33.country quite dramatically, It's been good that we've been

:40:34. > :40:37.involved with it for so long and fought so passionately

:40:38. > :40:40.on an issue. It's certainly what we've

:40:41. > :40:42.been campaigning for, We certainly didn't

:40:43. > :40:46.see any visible Remain They were not interested in us,

:40:47. > :40:50.same as the Westminster parties We are too far out of the way

:40:51. > :40:58.in Great Yarmouth for some people. I think for me it is

:40:59. > :41:00.about democracy. I don't feel the EU

:41:01. > :41:02.is a very democratic system. I believe that our generation

:41:03. > :41:07.are stewards of democracy. I don't think it is ours to give

:41:08. > :41:09.away to some unelected I think it's important

:41:10. > :41:14.that our government actually is in control of our own affairs,

:41:15. > :41:17.and that we, the people can vote them in and vote them out

:41:18. > :41:21.depending what they want. Even if this was the worst decision

:41:22. > :41:25.that we've ever made, and so far we have been proven

:41:26. > :41:28.right, the markets haven't crashed, we haven't all lost our jobs,

:41:29. > :41:32.we are not suffering from world War three yet, is that,

:41:33. > :41:34.even if it was the worst decision we ever made,

:41:35. > :41:37.we made it, it wasn't someone else And I think that is

:41:38. > :41:43.what is important. Yarmouth is the 20th most

:41:44. > :41:47.deprived borough in England. It is a busy market today

:41:48. > :41:50.and the area is a popular choice Secondly, it is nice

:41:51. > :42:01.to have England as England, to be able to do the things

:42:02. > :42:08.we want to do when we want to do it. And have our own say,

:42:09. > :42:10.rather than rely on other people. What does that mean to

:42:11. > :42:13.you when you say England is England? What does that look

:42:14. > :42:15.like in the future, now? Er, well obviously I've got

:42:16. > :42:18.grandchildren so I've voted for them as well and I think if we had stayed

:42:19. > :42:22.in there wouldn't have been much I think it's going to take time,

:42:23. > :42:27.I think eventually that will and up being a nice country

:42:28. > :42:30.like it always was. I voted to leave for the fishing

:42:31. > :42:34.industry, so hopefully it We have been in business

:42:35. > :42:41.here for 70 years. And I am hoping that my children

:42:42. > :42:44.will take over this, I believe by voting Out,

:42:45. > :42:54.it's going to help. I voted because I wanted

:42:55. > :42:58.Britain to be British laws. Not being told what to

:42:59. > :43:09.do by other people. Other countries tell us how we have

:43:10. > :43:11.to live, really. We survived for years before

:43:12. > :43:14.we went in, my grandfather, my great-grandfather,

:43:15. > :43:19.everyone, know what I mean. What we fought for would not have

:43:20. > :43:24.lasted two world wars... Everywhere in England

:43:25. > :43:31.the homelessness problems, poverty problems, food problems,

:43:32. > :43:35.do you know what I mean? Me, myself, I was homeless

:43:36. > :43:38.and it took me ages No offence to immigrants,

:43:39. > :43:44.but they come to England, they don't go on the streets,

:43:45. > :43:47.they get put into homes. I am not racist,

:43:48. > :43:51.no things like that. But why should an English person

:43:52. > :43:54.have to go on the streets? Looking forwards, what does

:43:55. > :43:57.that mean for you? It seems like it was a bad move,

:43:58. > :44:02.really, just what people are saying, feeling you racist for wanting

:44:03. > :44:07.to come out of the EU, it is just crazy stuff,

:44:08. > :44:09.like people are scared You're damned if you do,

:44:10. > :44:15.you're damned if you don't. People that voted In are getting

:44:16. > :44:18.slated, people that voted Out, I think it's something the town has

:44:19. > :44:28.had to do. It's a case of, we are not

:44:29. > :44:31.a racist town, we are a town My biggest fear is that the British

:44:32. > :44:36.people will be taken I fear that these people will come

:44:37. > :44:41.in without any conditions, it will be unlimited,

:44:42. > :44:45.and it will be, and it was, and The people of Great Yarmouth can

:44:46. > :44:55.only hope their vote will lead But for a town who feels betrayed

:44:56. > :45:00.and ignored by Westminster, the vote to leave has given

:45:01. > :45:20.them a resounding voice. You can watch that report and again

:45:21. > :45:24.on our programme page. So while voters reflect on the implications

:45:25. > :45:27.of the decision to leave the EU and politicians reel from the

:45:28. > :45:28.repercussions, how are British people living abroad feeling about

:45:29. > :45:32.it all? Jacquelyn MacLennan is a lawyer

:45:33. > :45:38.living in Brussels, Ralph Fenwick is a pensioner

:45:39. > :45:40.living near Malaga in Spain, and Claire Waterhouse

:45:41. > :45:49.is a music teacher in Frankfurt. Thank you all very much for joining

:45:50. > :45:54.us, Ralph, tell us how you are feeling about the fact that we have

:45:55. > :45:58.voted to leave the EU. Well, actually, I am quite sad about the

:45:59. > :46:06.whole thing. I think it has been a long decision, it has been mainly

:46:07. > :46:10.based on racism, on immigration. And it made off you know, we have just

:46:11. > :46:14.had a report issued by the British Embassy who said there will be no

:46:15. > :46:21.change, but that is only for the next two years. There is definite

:46:22. > :46:24.changes which is affecting the older generation here, especially in

:46:25. > :46:31.Spain. The pound has crashed, the exchange rate is plummeting. And

:46:32. > :46:38.within one week, the retired people that are living here in Spain have

:46:39. > :46:43.lost... Their pensions have been devalued about 10% in one week. How

:46:44. > :46:47.are you feeling about your future in Spain? You say the reassurance from

:46:48. > :46:52.the British Embassy has not done much to reassure you. Well, the

:46:53. > :46:57.thing is, there is nothing going to happen for at least two years, and

:46:58. > :47:00.this is what they are saying. Nothing has changed fundamentally

:47:01. > :47:09.yet, because until we sign the Article 50 and actually come out of

:47:10. > :47:14.Europe, nothing can be done, and the benefits that we get here, the

:47:15. > :47:21.health service, the Spanish health service is fantastic, and they get

:47:22. > :47:27.very cheap prescriptions. So that is not going to change for at least two

:47:28. > :47:33.year. The biggest effect that it has had at the moment is the devaluation

:47:34. > :47:38.of the pound, and the exchange rate. We have got Jacqueline back, sorry,

:47:39. > :47:43.Ralph, I want to go to her, because you have been living in Brussels for

:47:44. > :47:49.a long time. Your kids are there, tell me how you are feeling about

:47:50. > :47:53.that. Yes, good morning, we are very shocked, three generations of my

:47:54. > :47:56.family are very shocked, we live in Brussels, my parents live in the

:47:57. > :48:01.North of Scotland, one of my children is in the UK, the other is

:48:02. > :48:09.still in school in Brussels. And we all feel that this was equivalent to

:48:10. > :48:16.a bereavement in some sense, that there is just this huge uncertainty,

:48:17. > :48:21.and my parents feel that this vote has really deprived my children and

:48:22. > :48:27.others in their situation of the future that they could expect. And

:48:28. > :48:32.so that is something which we are dealing with at the moment. I think

:48:33. > :48:39.your kids are trying to get citizenship there, is that what you

:48:40. > :48:42.are doing? Yes, my children, their immediate reaction was that they

:48:43. > :48:48.have grown up in Brussels, they have the right to Belgian citizenship,

:48:49. > :48:51.and they should activate that right immediately. That was not something

:48:52. > :48:58.that they had done before, my sons are in their early 20s, my daughter

:48:59. > :49:02.is 18, but they went to the commune this morning and paid 150 euros

:49:03. > :49:10.each, and that complete their dossier. They signed up to an

:49:11. > :49:14.agreement with the Belgian constitution, and it is explicit in

:49:15. > :49:18.their agreement to ensuring that fundamental rights are at here to

:49:19. > :49:23.do. And I thought that was terribly ironic, because at the same time

:49:24. > :49:26.Theresa May, who has put herself forward as the candidate, confirmed

:49:27. > :49:31.that she would move forward with Brexit and that she would move

:49:32. > :49:38.forward to take the UK out of the European can on human rights. So I

:49:39. > :49:45.do feel very sad that the situation has come to this and that other kids

:49:46. > :49:49.in the UK, particularly in the north of Scotland, where indeed there may

:49:50. > :49:54.be challenges with employment opportunities, but they could see

:49:55. > :49:58.their futures... I want to bring in Clare, a music teacher living in

:49:59. > :50:04.Frankfurt, how are you feeling? Do you feel your future is secure? I'm

:50:05. > :50:09.not sure at the moment! Like I have said, we know that nothing is going

:50:10. > :50:13.to happen soon, so we know no immediate changes will happen, but

:50:14. > :50:18.there is definitely an underlying sense of uncertainty, it is like

:50:19. > :50:22.being in a weird sense of limbo, and it is what people keep asking me,

:50:23. > :50:26.are you going to be OK to work, are you allowed to stay? We genuinely

:50:27. > :50:31.don't know! I was hoping to start up a company over the summer, and now

:50:32. > :50:37.and stomach and just thinking, how much more complicated is it going to

:50:38. > :50:41.be? What about people living around you? How are they viewing the

:50:42. > :50:46.decision by the UK to leave the EU, your friends and neighbours, what

:50:47. > :50:49.are they saying? Everybody has been shocked and surprised, I have not

:50:50. > :50:55.spoken to anyone who has supported the Brexit. Somebody actually

:50:56. > :50:57.offered me their condolences, so that is true that people feel a

:50:58. > :51:05.sense of bereavement. Everyone I have spoken to has just been so

:51:06. > :51:09.surprised, and then both expats and locals here, and other British

:51:10. > :51:15.people I have spoken to, the expats that I've been here for longer, they

:51:16. > :51:20.feel a sense of shame, which is so sad. And then other expats I have

:51:21. > :51:24.spoken to, some English, some from other places but have an English

:51:25. > :51:28.passport, or thinking, I don't know what is going to happen, just

:51:29. > :51:31.worried about what could be around the corner, because we don't know,

:51:32. > :51:35.and it would be such a shame for something to happen that means I am

:51:36. > :51:41.not able to work here, or my partner is not able to stay here. Because we

:51:42. > :51:47.want to stay. Ralph, have you spoken to locals about their view of

:51:48. > :51:49.Brexit? Well, first of all, I wholeheartedly agree with the last

:51:50. > :51:55.correspondent, with absolutely everything she said. It is a total

:51:56. > :52:01.shock, and here in Spain the people I have spoken to, overwhelmingly,

:52:02. > :52:05.they voted to stay in, those of us who were allowed to vote, because

:52:06. > :52:11.people who have lived in Spain for over 15 years were not allowed to

:52:12. > :52:16.vote. So, really, there was not too many people voted from Spain, they

:52:17. > :52:20.had to vote online, and it was made extremely difficult. There is one or

:52:21. > :52:26.two people I have spoken to since voted to come out. They have

:52:27. > :52:35.actually said to themselves, what have we done? When it sinks in,

:52:36. > :52:39.Boris, as you know, he was very important in this debate, and now he

:52:40. > :52:44.has left the sinking ship, he has run away and left it an awful mess

:52:45. > :52:49.to clear up. But as the lady said, from Brussels, nothing is going to

:52:50. > :52:53.happen immediately. But the uncertainty is there, and what the

:52:54. > :53:00.people are concerned about is being is like especially their health.

:53:01. > :53:08.Presently, most of the Brits have got what they call an E111 from the

:53:09. > :53:12.National Health Service in the UK which allows them free health

:53:13. > :53:16.treatment here... Thank you all for joining us, Brits living abroad,

:53:17. > :53:20.your thoughts and feelings on the Brexit. Lots of you at home,

:53:21. > :53:24.watching and getting in touch after our discussion earlier about the

:53:25. > :53:29.politics of it all, Steve has tweeted is obvious in England needs

:53:30. > :53:31.its own parliament away from London. Christopher has e-mailed, I would

:53:32. > :53:37.like to suggest the country has a referendum on whether we should have

:53:38. > :53:42.had a referendum at all. If the answer was no, we do away with the

:53:43. > :53:46.result. Monica says, Labour cannot run their own party, how could they

:53:47. > :53:52.run a country? Fred says, the two who go through to leadership battle

:53:53. > :54:01.will be Theresa May and whoever Boris endorses, not Gove. Norman has

:54:02. > :54:07.tweeted, the Brexit vote was out, anything else is undemocratic.

:54:08. > :54:10.Britain, believe in yourself. Thank you for all your thoughts.

:54:11. > :54:14.Coming up... being held to remember

:54:15. > :54:20.the Britain's bloodiest battle, We speak to the the family

:54:21. > :54:25.of one of the thousands of British soldiers

:54:26. > :54:30.who went over the top on that day. Investigators in the United States

:54:31. > :54:32.are looking into the first known fatal accident involving a vehicle

:54:33. > :54:36.being driven on autopilot. The driver of a Tesla electric car

:54:37. > :54:39.died in a collision with a lorry in Florida, as he was using

:54:40. > :54:42.technology which allows the vehicle So where does this leave

:54:43. > :54:50.the future of driverless cars? Professor Noel Sharkey should know,

:54:51. > :54:52.he's professor of artificial intelligence and robotics

:54:53. > :55:04.at University of Sheffield. Thank you very much for joining us,

:55:05. > :55:09.what you think, hearing that there has now been the first fatality in a

:55:10. > :55:15.driverless car? It is very bad news for the field, I think, in general.

:55:16. > :55:20.There is no clear message yet about what caused the accident, which is

:55:21. > :55:26.very worrying. Tesla is saying that the car was not able to recognise

:55:27. > :55:30.the white side of a tractor trailer that the car was involved in a

:55:31. > :55:36.collision with against a brightly lit sky, it had driven across the

:55:37. > :55:41.car's pad. Is that an understandable, acceptable

:55:42. > :55:45.explanation to my no, I don't think it is. It would explain why the

:55:46. > :55:51.front facing camera was fooled, but there is also front facing radar,

:55:52. > :55:56.and it is surrounded by six sonar sensors, ultrasonic sensors, and

:55:57. > :55:59.those all work on sound. So there is no way bright light would affect

:56:00. > :56:05.those at all, so they should have detected it. I suspect what it is,

:56:06. > :56:10.because the Tesla car is so low, this was supposed to be a very high

:56:11. > :56:12.trailer, so it did not actually detect the trailer, but the

:56:13. > :56:17.windscreen smashed into it. The camera would be able to see a bit

:56:18. > :56:21.higher than the other sensors, so that is probably a problem. But if

:56:22. > :56:26.the sensors were higher, perhaps on the roof, it wouldn't have happened.

:56:27. > :56:30.Obviously, in any situation where you are handing over control to

:56:31. > :56:36.something or someone else, you need to have complete faith in it. This

:56:37. > :56:41.is only the first fatality, but what you think it might do to trust in

:56:42. > :56:47.this system? Well, you can never... Unpredictable things happen on all

:56:48. > :56:52.roads, and Tesla cars have done 194 million miles, and the world average

:56:53. > :56:55.for a fatalities 64 million miles. I think it could disrupt public trust,

:56:56. > :56:59.and this is just the first accident. The trouble is that these people

:57:00. > :57:03.keep selling the idea that there will be less fatalities on the road

:57:04. > :57:06.as a result of driverless cars, and I believe that will be the case

:57:07. > :57:10.eventually, but there is no evidence for it at the moment. We should go a

:57:11. > :57:16.bit slowly, they are going for long at this, because if we lose public

:57:17. > :57:21.trust, the technology will be toast. How much is this technology being

:57:22. > :57:28.rolled out at the moment? Well, in California, there are nine companies

:57:29. > :57:31.now driving around, and Californian law, not in this country, but

:57:32. > :57:36.Californian law has changed to accommodate it. But they need to be

:57:37. > :57:39.insured by Google. Google were planning to sell their cell thriving

:57:40. > :57:46.cars, they are much more advanced, they were planning to sell them this

:57:47. > :57:50.year, but the bill in California means they can only lease them, and

:57:51. > :57:54.they have to be fully accountable for any accident. Tesla is trying to

:57:55. > :57:58.get out of this, but they are saying somebody should always have their

:57:59. > :58:02.hand on the wheel at all times, and the car actually reminds you of

:58:03. > :58:06.that. But it is a very big ask, if you are driving a long distance, and

:58:07. > :58:10.you have very much reduced attention, your mind is going to

:58:11. > :58:14.wander, but when you are not actually controlling the car, with

:58:15. > :58:18.your hands on the wheel, your mind is going to wonder. You also get

:58:19. > :58:22.something called automation bias, which means that if something works

:58:23. > :58:27.well most of the time, you just come to trust it and do not use your own

:58:28. > :58:33.judgment at all. So it is a bit of a worry. Thank you for joining us,

:58:34. > :58:36.thank you. We will have the latest news in just a few moments, but

:58:37. > :58:43.first a weather update with Peter. It may be hard to believe given

:58:44. > :58:47.recent experiences, but this time last year on the first to light we

:58:48. > :58:53.were in the middle of a heatwave, temperatures at Heathrow reached a

:58:54. > :58:57.scorching 37 degrees. -- on the 1st of July. Today we will be lucky of

:58:58. > :59:00.anywhere gets above 20 degrees, definitely on the cool side and set

:59:01. > :59:05.to stay this way through the weekend. Breeze is blowing in from

:59:06. > :59:09.the Atlantic bringing some spells of sunshine, but also a scattering of

:59:10. > :59:12.fairly heavy showers, and more persistent rain across the far

:59:13. > :59:15.south-east is taking its time to get out of the way as well. That is the

:59:16. > :59:19.message for the rest of the day, sunny spells and showers, some quite

:59:20. > :59:23.heavy, hail and thunder in the mix across Scotland, Northern Ireland

:59:24. > :59:27.and northern England, but equally some decent gaps between them,

:59:28. > :59:31.rattling through quite quickly on a brisk wind. Mid-teens at best across

:59:32. > :59:36.the northern half of the UK, maybe high teens as you come further

:59:37. > :59:40.south. Out of the breeze, it will feel OK. For Wimbledon, the chance

:59:41. > :59:44.of one or two interruptions, but we should see a fair amount of play

:59:45. > :59:47.through the course of the day, just a few annoying showers potentially

:59:48. > :59:52.drifting through. That freshening breeze could make it tricky for the

:59:53. > :59:54.players out on court. Through this evening and overnight, we're going

:59:55. > :59:59.to keep the show was going, because the breeze keeps blowing in from the

:00:00. > :00:03.Atlantic, particularly across northern and western parts. Quite a

:00:04. > :00:06.few clear spells, on the cool side by the end of the night,

:00:07. > :00:10.particularly across northern areas, well down into single figures. As we

:00:11. > :00:14.move into the start of the weekend, it is low pressure that is

:00:15. > :00:18.dominating at the moment across the UK. High pressure is wishful

:00:19. > :00:22.thinking! That is where it is likely to stay for the moment, in the

:00:23. > :00:28.south, and low pressure means and settled weather, brisk winds blowing

:00:29. > :00:33.through, against sunshine and showers for Saturday. The further

:00:34. > :00:37.south you are, the better your chance of missing the showers. From

:00:38. > :00:41.Northern Ireland and northern England northwards, 14-15d at best,

:00:42. > :00:45.well below the seasonal average. Different for Sunday, just a chance

:00:46. > :00:49.of some thicker cloud, patchy rain running in across southern most

:00:50. > :00:53.areas, some uncertainty about that. Still showers across Scotland and

:00:54. > :00:56.Northern Ireland, in between not too bad a day, perhaps try with lighter

:00:57. > :01:03.winds as well, and looking ahead into the early part of next week, it

:01:04. > :01:05.is a very similar pattern, signs of thing settling down a little bit

:01:06. > :01:08.across the South, temperatures beginning to pick up just a touch,

:01:09. > :01:11.but still a chance of a few showers the further north you are.

:01:12. > :01:12.Hello, it's 10 o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling.

:01:13. > :01:15.Welcome to the programme if you've just joined us.

:01:16. > :01:20.The seven days since the UK voted to leave have brought political

:01:21. > :01:23.turmoil, shocks to the financial market and recriminations

:01:24. > :01:29.Our studio audience give us their take on the last

:01:30. > :01:35.week and what the future holds for Brexit Britain.

:01:36. > :01:37.Plus, a special report from Great Yarmouth,

:01:38. > :01:40.which saw one of the highest Leave votes in the country.

:01:41. > :01:48.People living there tell us how they voted and why.

:01:49. > :01:59.Enough. It is saturated now. And we need to be able to do more for the

:02:00. > :02:01.people here already. You can see the full report on our

:02:02. > :02:09.programme page. Remembering the Somme -

:02:10. > :02:11.one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War,

:02:12. > :02:15.where more than a million men Glory beckons for Wales -

:02:16. > :02:22.if they beat Belgium tonight, Now over to the BBC Newsroom

:02:23. > :02:37.and Anita with a summary People have fallen silent

:02:38. > :02:47.across Europe this morning for two minutes -

:02:48. > :02:49.to mark the centenary of one of the bloodiest battles

:02:50. > :02:52.of the First World War: the battle More than 19,000 British

:02:53. > :02:55.soldiers lost their lives on the first day alone,

:02:56. > :02:58.the worst day in the history More than one million servicemen

:02:59. > :03:01.were killed or injured on all sides as the British and French

:03:02. > :03:04.armies fought the Germans. As the time approached, the King's

:03:05. > :03:15.First Artillery fired their guns. Then silence, as people

:03:16. > :03:19.stopped to remember. At the Grave of the Unknown Warrior

:03:20. > :03:22.in Westminster Abbey, in Edinburgh, at the Scottish

:03:23. > :03:25.National War Memorial, at the Somme Museum

:03:26. > :03:28.in Northern Ireland. In Wales, at Cathays

:03:29. > :03:32.Park in Cardiff. Children were silent

:03:33. > :03:35.at the National Memorial And in France,

:03:36. > :03:39.at the Thiepval Memorial, Then, as Big Ben chimed,

:03:40. > :03:45.the sound of whistles, the signal that sent

:03:46. > :03:48.the men over the top, This was one of the sites

:03:49. > :03:55.where the battle began, At precisely 28 minutes

:03:56. > :03:58.past seven, British soldiers had tunnelled

:03:59. > :04:05.through the trenches underneath the German lines

:04:06. > :04:08.to plant explosives. What remains is the Lochnagar

:04:09. > :04:11.Crater, almost 300 feet in diameter

:04:12. > :04:15.and 70 feet deep. It has been preserved

:04:16. > :04:19.so people will never forget. Today, children laid a wreath

:04:20. > :04:22.of conciliation, representing the 21 nations from where people

:04:23. > :04:28.lost their lives and were injured. that we will not let the stories

:04:29. > :04:36.from this place be forgotten. And I think the desire to pay

:04:37. > :04:39.tribute, to remember, to honour our respective nations' war dead,

:04:40. > :04:45.has not diminished. And we still feel the need

:04:46. > :04:49.to be here. All through the night,

:04:50. > :04:53.vigils were held around the country. Now the nation remembers that

:04:54. > :04:57.first day of the battle. In Exeter, each of the 19,240

:04:58. > :05:01.soldiers who died on this day, have been represented

:05:02. > :05:10.by a 12 inch figure wrapped and bound in a hand-stitched shroud,

:05:11. > :05:13.another symbol that they will In just over an hour,

:05:14. > :05:21.the surprise challenger for the Conservative leadership,

:05:22. > :05:22.Michael Gove, will formally set out

:05:23. > :05:25.his pitch for the job. Mr Gove, currently the Justice

:05:26. > :05:27.Secretary, declared that he would run yesterday morning,

:05:28. > :05:29.confounding expectations that he'd be supporting a bid

:05:30. > :05:33.from Boris Johnson. The former Mayor of London has now

:05:34. > :05:36.pulled out, and hasn't Mr Gove faces the new frontrunner

:05:37. > :05:42.Theresa May, as well as Stephen MPs are urging the Government

:05:43. > :05:49.to make radical changes to the laws on prostitution

:05:50. > :05:51.in England and Wales. The Home Affairs Select Committee

:05:52. > :05:54.says soliciting should no longer be a crime for sex workers,

:05:55. > :05:57.and those who have a criminal record for offences related

:05:58. > :05:59.to prostitution should Scientists say they've discovered

:06:00. > :06:07.the first clear evidence that the ozone layer over Antarctica

:06:08. > :06:09.has begun to heal. Last year, the hole had shrunk

:06:10. > :06:13.since the year 2000 by an amount Scientists say it may be down

:06:14. > :06:16.to the phasing out of ozone-harming That's the news for now.

:06:17. > :06:35.I'll have more at 10.30. Thank you. A of you getting in touch

:06:36. > :06:46.on the aftermath of the referendum result, a week on. -- lots of you.

:06:47. > :06:50.Margaret has e-mailed, why are we concentrating on all of these

:06:51. > :06:56.self-serving politicians? All of them are grubby candidates, anxious

:06:57. > :07:01.to jump on the leadership platforms. Significant number of people to vote

:07:02. > :07:04.to leave have now changed their minds. Politicians need to govern a

:07:05. > :07:09.country by doing what is best for the UK by voting in the House of

:07:10. > :07:15.Commons to reverse Brexit. And another says that Theresa May should

:07:16. > :07:19.not be trusted on Brexit. She wants to kick Article 50 as far down the

:07:20. > :07:28.road as she can. Thank you for getting in touch. I will be talking

:07:29. > :07:29.to our audience in a few minutes. Do stay with us.

:07:30. > :07:33.Now let's catch up with the sport. Here's Tim.

:07:34. > :07:39.We are hoping there could be some triumph for everyone to cheer

:07:40. > :07:43.tonight? Absolutely. It has been a big week for the country but Wales

:07:44. > :07:47.are getting ready for their biggest match in 58 years. They take on

:07:48. > :07:53.Belgium in the quarterfinals of Euro 2016 this evening. Tata nationally

:07:54. > :07:58.Williams is fit to play after being taken off against Northern Ireland

:07:59. > :08:01.at the weekend. The squad had a look at the Stadium yesterday and the

:08:02. > :08:05.much criticised pitch which has already been relayed during the

:08:06. > :08:07.tournament. Not that Wales will worry as they look to make history.

:08:08. > :08:10.It is amazing to be in the round of 16 and to get the victory.

:08:11. > :08:12.To have our families there, it was amazing

:08:13. > :08:15.Obviously the kids came on at the end.

:08:16. > :08:21.We can look back at pictures and videos and have an

:08:22. > :08:29.amazing memory of that time. Hopefully there's more to come.

:08:30. > :08:35.The winners of Wales against Belgium will play Portugal in the

:08:36. > :08:41.semifinals. They beat Poland on penalties last night. It was 1-1

:08:42. > :08:45.after extra time. When they eventually got to spot kicks,

:08:46. > :08:54.Ricardo Quaresma scored for Portugal. One player who appeared at

:08:55. > :08:58.Euro 2016 is Spain foreword Lolito. He has signed for Manchester City

:08:59. > :09:04.this morning from Celta Vigo. He has agreed a four-year contract. --

:09:05. > :09:11.Nolito. He is the fourth signing of Pep Guardiola's rain as Manchester

:09:12. > :09:18.City manager. The two previously worked together at Barcelona. Some

:09:19. > :09:22.more transfer news. Crystal Palace have signed midfielder Andros

:09:23. > :09:27.Townsend from Newcastle for ?30 million on a five-year deal.

:09:28. > :09:32.Townsend just missed out on a place in the England squad for Euro 2016.

:09:33. > :09:36.Although he might be happy about that given the Iceland result.

:09:37. > :09:40.Another chance for Britain to shine at Wimbledon. Dan Evans faces the

:09:41. > :09:46.biggest challenge of his career as he takes on seven time champion

:09:47. > :09:49.Roger Federer on centre court. Andy Murray is safely through to the

:09:50. > :09:56.third round after a comfortable win against -- against Yen-Hsun Lu. The

:09:57. > :10:05.second seed winning in straight sets. Murray will now face John

:10:06. > :10:08.Marcus Willis against Roger Federer Marcus Willis against Roger Federer

:10:09. > :10:13.on Wednesday. Today it is the turn of another Briton, Tara Moore. She

:10:14. > :10:19.is aiming to try to produce an almighty shock. She is a wild card

:10:20. > :10:26.ranked 227th in the world. She played brilliantly to come through

:10:27. > :10:30.against Svetlana Kuznetsova. That against Svetlana Kuznetsova. That

:10:31. > :10:38.match is second on Court number three. Play starts at 11 o'clock.

:10:39. > :10:46.Julia Stepanov has been cleared to compete as a neutral athlete at the

:10:47. > :10:51.rear -- Rio Olympics. She revealed that doping was rife in Russian

:10:52. > :10:55.track and field. The Russian Athletics Federation remains banned

:10:56. > :10:59.from international competition for state-sponsored doping. Plenty of

:11:00. > :11:02.sport around today. Thank you. We are hoping for some

:11:03. > :11:04.good British glory today. Fingers crossed.

:11:05. > :11:07.We've had resignations, sporting embarrassments,

:11:08. > :11:10.A week ago, Britain was part of the EU.

:11:11. > :11:13.But come last Friday morning, the UK had voted to leave

:11:14. > :11:15.and David Cameron had stepped down as Prime Minister.

:11:16. > :11:18.The EU Parliament had its first meeting in over 40

:11:19. > :11:23.We already know the Conservative candidates who want to be the next

:11:24. > :11:28.One of the front runners, Boris Johnson, has announced

:11:29. > :11:30.he won't be standing, after Michael Gove withdrew

:11:31. > :11:34.his support, and said he would stand himself.

:11:35. > :11:36.Theresa May, Liam Fox, and Stephen Crabb have also

:11:37. > :11:39.launched their bids, as has the Energy Secretary,

:11:40. > :11:43.And in the Labour Party, the former Shadow Business Secretary,

:11:44. > :11:45.Angela Eagle, has delayed her plan to challenge Jeremy Corbyn

:11:46. > :11:55.after a week of resignations from the shadow cabinet.

:11:56. > :11:58.We're going to speak to our studio audience shortly.

:11:59. > :12:10.What is being said in Westminster today? What a difference a week

:12:11. > :12:15.makes, particularly in politics. The focus is on Michael Gove's speech in

:12:16. > :12:20.about an hour, setting out his vision for a post Brexit world under

:12:21. > :12:23.his leadership and under his prime minister ship. The next leader of

:12:24. > :12:27.the Conservative Party will become the next Prime Minister. I think it

:12:28. > :12:31.is very to say he has not exactly had a totally positive response from

:12:32. > :12:36.them picking up on his treachery, them picking up on his treachery,

:12:37. > :12:41.and his betrayal. One even suggested he had taken a big part in the

:12:42. > :12:49.Brexecuted of Boris Johnson. There are a number of Tory MPs who say he

:12:50. > :12:51.has been treacherous. Let's hear what... Sorry, I have forgotten who

:12:52. > :12:57.it was! This is what Ken Clarke said. We

:12:58. > :13:00.need to have a Prime Minister firmly in place as quickly as possible and

:13:01. > :13:04.I think Michael would do us all a favour if he now stood down. It

:13:05. > :13:13.Prime Minister and leader of a party needs to be trusted by his or her

:13:14. > :13:18.colleagues. Michael's behaviour is, frankly, almost bizarre. I was

:13:19. > :13:25.strongly against Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister. But this

:13:26. > :13:32.sudden move by Michael, who was his right-hand man on he suddenly

:13:33. > :13:35.wielded the knife, I think upon reflection means he is not

:13:36. > :13:39.altogether suitable for the time being.

:13:40. > :13:43.One of the candidate who has been having a positive outing is Theresa

:13:44. > :13:47.May. This morning, she has had the backing of the daily Mail newspaper.

:13:48. > :13:52.Last night we heard she had two Cabinet colleagues on her side,

:13:53. > :13:58.Patrick Magoffin and Michael Fallon. There are five candidates in the

:13:59. > :14:01.race. Stephen Crabb, Andrea Leadsom and Liam Fox. This is a fight we

:14:02. > :14:06.will be hearing plenty about. And it will be a fierce one.

:14:07. > :14:12.Thank you. So many names to grapple with right now. The question is,

:14:13. > :14:15.what happens next for the Conservatives and Labour? With me,

:14:16. > :14:19.our audience of eight people to talk about this. And where we go from

:14:20. > :14:30.here. Neil Walker voted Lib Dem last year but is a former Labour voter.

:14:31. > :14:35.He once Jeremy Corbyn to go. Release once Jeremy Corbyn to stay. Then

:14:36. > :14:38.wants to see a Brexit lead the Conservative Party. Tony Murray

:14:39. > :14:43.voted independent in the last election. He voted Leave but never

:14:44. > :14:47.expected this outcome. Shea is a labour voter upset about the Labour

:14:48. > :14:51.resignations but happy that Boris has not put himself forward for the

:14:52. > :14:56.Conservative leadership. Esther Green, a floating voter, would like

:14:57. > :14:59.to see Theresa May as the next leader of the Conservative Party.

:15:00. > :15:03.Jamie Cunningham is conservative, very disappointed that Boris Johnson

:15:04. > :15:08.is not standing but is now backing Michael Gove to be Conservative

:15:09. > :15:09.party leader. Kim Allen, Conservative voter, is optimistic.

:15:10. > :15:20.Thank you all. Keima, you are optimistic? Yes, I

:15:21. > :15:25.think the decision from last week as a result of the referendum, it just

:15:26. > :15:31.demonstrates, of course, the country is split in terms of what they want

:15:32. > :15:36.the outcome to be. I'm optimistic, but we will have to address some of

:15:37. > :15:41.the underlying issues that people feel about immigration and services.

:15:42. > :15:44.So I'm optimistic that once we get through the turbulence that we are

:15:45. > :15:51.going through now, things will stabilise, and once we have strong

:15:52. > :15:56.leadership, things will get back to the way they were. A lot of you have

:15:57. > :16:00.been here through the week, can you believe what has been unfolding? It

:16:01. > :16:04.has been unbelievable, you have got Nicola Sturgeon cosying up with the

:16:05. > :16:12.EU, Nigel Farage moving things over four us! You know, Jeremy Corbyn

:16:13. > :16:16.walking the plank. And you have got the Conservatives, they looked like

:16:17. > :16:21.they are a split as anybody, with knives coming out. You couldn't make

:16:22. > :16:28.it up, really, you know. Shakespeare would have got four long plays out

:16:29. > :16:33.of it, it is unbelievable. I'm just laughing at the idea that Nigel

:16:34. > :16:40.Farage was moving things over four us... I was joking! Every time you

:16:41. > :16:44.wake up, there has been more little power playing, manoeuvring,

:16:45. > :16:47.jostling. I think it is really sad. A few weeks ago, we were talking

:16:48. > :16:51.about how we should value our MPs more, be less cynical about them,

:16:52. > :16:54.but when you see the kind of behaviour that as a boulder June the

:16:55. > :17:05.campaign and since, is it any wonder that people are cynical and don't

:17:06. > :17:13.know who to trust? Does anyone know where we are going now? It is a car

:17:14. > :17:17.crash in slow motion. You can't rule anything out, that is the problem. I

:17:18. > :17:21.don't think anybody has a plan of what is going to happen,

:17:22. > :17:26.particularly in the Labour Party, I have no idea, day-to-day, what is

:17:27. > :17:29.going on there. Equally, with the Conservative Party leadership, we

:17:30. > :17:33.are still waiting to hear what each of the candidates have to say, to

:17:34. > :17:37.sort of really understand who is going to be our next Prime Minister,

:17:38. > :17:43.whether we will get a general election, so we can decide whether

:17:44. > :17:46.it is somebody we support. Uroosa, is this part of the democratic

:17:47. > :17:51.process that we have to go through now? Or would you like to see things

:17:52. > :17:56.being done differently? There should definitely be a new general

:17:57. > :18:04.election. Do you all agree about that? No, I don't think so. If they

:18:05. > :18:08.are going to pursue the position of Prime Minister, we should have a

:18:09. > :18:11.chance to vote them in, they should not just assume the position and do

:18:12. > :18:18.what ever they want to do, that is not how it works. No, I think we

:18:19. > :18:23.vote political parties in, the most important thing is we stabilise,

:18:24. > :18:27.give some certainty to the country and have strong leadership on both

:18:28. > :18:31.sides. And I think it will take some time for either political party to

:18:32. > :18:39.actually express and sort of say exactly what they plan to do for the

:18:40. > :18:42.country. So an early general election, at this time, it wouldn't

:18:43. > :18:46.be the right thing to do. If you are really serious about democracy, the

:18:47. > :18:49.mandate that the Tories now have is significantly... Well, I don't

:18:50. > :18:52.believe they have a mandate as a result of the referendum, but their

:18:53. > :18:57.manifesto will have to change from the basis on which they were elected

:18:58. > :19:01.15 months ago, and if you want to assume authority and take us through

:19:02. > :19:06.the process of extracting ourselves from Europe, and all the obligations

:19:07. > :19:10.of that, public services, further austerity or not, you have to put a

:19:11. > :19:16.manifesto together and get the electorate to vote on that. It is

:19:17. > :19:18.not democratic to just assume... If they were just replacing the Prime

:19:19. > :19:22.Minister because he had left, and they were carrying on with the old

:19:23. > :19:26.manifesto, that is one thing. But we are talking about a different

:19:27. > :19:31.direction, and don't the public have a right, particularly from a party

:19:32. > :19:37.that goes on about undemocratic institutions in their European

:19:38. > :19:42.Union? What do you think on this? I completely agree with Neil, to be

:19:43. > :19:46.honest with you. The repercussions of the assault from the EU

:19:47. > :19:50.referendum are massive, and I think it completely undermines the mandate

:19:51. > :19:54.that the Tories had 15 months ago when they were elected. -- the

:19:55. > :19:58.result. Whoever comes in, it would be disingenuous of them to move

:19:59. > :20:02.forward and not call an election, they must do that, because by the

:20:03. > :20:07.same token, right, Leave campaigners were criticised for having no plan,

:20:08. > :20:11.but the Government didn't have a plan either. They were firmly of the

:20:12. > :20:18.mind that we would vote to remain, so they have no plan. So we have to

:20:19. > :20:22.go back to the electorate and say, look, this is what we are offering,

:20:23. > :20:26.let's press forward. I disagree, we have the biggest popular mandate in

:20:27. > :20:30.history to leave the European Union, and once we have a new leader of the

:20:31. > :20:34.Conservative Party, it is their job to stabilise the country, activate

:20:35. > :20:39.Article 50 and take us out of the EU, because that is what the people

:20:40. > :20:44.voted. The majority of MPs were not in agreement with leaving, so are

:20:45. > :20:48.you confident that MPs will deliver what the country has voted for? I

:20:49. > :20:53.think there will have to respect the mandate that the people have given

:20:54. > :20:58.towards Brexit. It is not up to them to decide against the will of the

:20:59. > :21:04.people, when the majority of people decided we should not remain in the

:21:05. > :21:09.European Union. I respect the decision, but it is about a

:21:10. > :21:12.manifesto. That was a mandate to leave, we are talking about a

:21:13. > :21:17.manifesto for the next four or five years, and those things are quite

:21:18. > :21:21.separate. Otherwise we are facing a government that stays in power until

:21:22. > :21:25.2020 and makes decisions based on our decision to leave Europe. I

:21:26. > :21:31.think the new leader of the Conservative Party will want to have

:21:32. > :21:35.her own... I am sure it is going to be a woman, I am sure Theresa May

:21:36. > :21:39.will be the next leader! I am rooting for her, but I think that

:21:40. > :21:44.the mood is not right, the country are still in shock. The political

:21:45. > :21:51.leaders need to get together, come together, decide where we go from

:21:52. > :21:56.here, get things stabilised. Tony Watt to say something. I think the

:21:57. > :22:00.most important thing is that we are not lied to. Whoever is elected, be

:22:01. > :22:05.honest with the British people, what we are going to do, what you think

:22:06. > :22:10.you can get. Do not lie anymore, as much as possible! There is a danger

:22:11. > :22:14.of a snap election making people power hungry and doing whatever they

:22:15. > :22:18.can to get votes and not be authentic. What people want, with

:22:19. > :22:24.Corbyn being laid at the moment, they want authenticity and honesty.

:22:25. > :22:31.Can I just make one last point? Jeremy Corbyn, I am an ex Labour

:22:32. > :22:35.supporter, and I would sooner have a Labour Party that had morals and

:22:36. > :22:40.stood by their ideals in opposition and held the Government to account

:22:41. > :22:44.on my behalf, that have a Labour that was Conservative light and in

:22:45. > :22:51.power. At the moment, the problem is, to have a strong opposition, you

:22:52. > :22:54.have to be united behind your leader, and the Labour MPs who are

:22:55. > :22:58.resigning from the Shadow Cabinet, and those who are potentially taking

:22:59. > :23:02.leadership campaigns, waiting to stay if he steps down, the

:23:03. > :23:05.opposition does not look robust enough, strong enough to counter

:23:06. > :23:09.what ever the next Conservative Prime Minister does. When you look

:23:10. > :23:13.at the political figures who are standing within their parties, or

:23:14. > :23:19.wanting to stand, if there is a leadership

:23:20. > :23:24.deliver what you are all talking about, which is MPs who will listen?

:23:25. > :23:30.I think Jeremy Corbyn is Labour's only hope, personally. He's not

:23:31. > :23:34.listening to his MPs right now. They are not listening to him, he has the

:23:35. > :23:38.mandate from the membership. The MPs in your party are listening to their

:23:39. > :23:45.grassroots, they are saying that this guy is not electable. I would

:23:46. > :23:48.think that you had Ed Miliband before, and they weren't listening.

:23:49. > :23:55.They said, we have to listen to get into government, and I think that is

:23:56. > :23:58.where a lot of MPs, 80 almost, they decided they would rather

:23:59. > :24:01.respectfully ask him to step down. I think that is the right thing for

:24:02. > :24:05.him to do. But the Conservative side, of course, you have got

:24:06. > :24:07.Theresa May, and I have explained that I am backing her because I

:24:08. > :24:15.think she's a strong candidate and would be able to bring the country

:24:16. > :24:18.together and move the country forward. The Labour Party have been

:24:19. > :24:22.clear on this, if you want a leadership election, 51 MPs sign a

:24:23. > :24:26.nomination form and back one candidate. You do not resign, you do

:24:27. > :24:33.not put letters at there, stabbing your leader in the back as you walk

:24:34. > :24:37.out of the door. What I really struggle with this argument in the

:24:38. > :24:39.Labour Party, it has been framed as the Parliamentary Labour Party

:24:40. > :24:43.against the grassroots membership. There is another significant part in

:24:44. > :24:48.that relationship, which is the electorate, OK? If you want to move

:24:49. > :24:52.into power, ultimately, you have to engage with the electorate, and I

:24:53. > :24:55.and many of my friends and some of my family, who did support Labour in

:24:56. > :25:01.the past, feel there is not a place for us in the party because we are

:25:02. > :25:05.being... The focus is very much on politics because of what is going on

:25:06. > :25:09.in politics, but is it what you want the focus to be on? We have just had

:25:10. > :25:14.the referendum is old, and the issues going forward are about how

:25:15. > :25:20.that is delivered. -- the referendum result. We all need to calm down a

:25:21. > :25:24.little bit, you have got the vote that has happened, and that is done,

:25:25. > :25:28.and that will progress forward, slowly but surely. There is no panic

:25:29. > :25:33.over that, and we desperately need to try and disentangle these issues.

:25:34. > :25:37.The vote has happened, the Government still functions, markets

:25:38. > :25:41.have recovered, people have got some of their money back, everything is

:25:42. > :25:45.OK, let's stop panicking. But the political chaos is something

:25:46. > :25:51.different, the process of people scrambling on, over each other's

:25:52. > :25:54.heads to try to get to the top. Isn't the danger how we got the

:25:55. > :26:00.vote? That is causing a lot of uncertainty and fear, you are seeing

:26:01. > :26:04.the rise in hate crime. I don't see one candidate from any party that

:26:05. > :26:11.has all possesses the required tools to unify their party or even the

:26:12. > :26:15.country. There is no-one on the list from either side that can do that,

:26:16. > :26:19.and this has opened the lid on a much bigger problem. We have a

:26:20. > :26:24.political system that doesn't listen properly, it never does, and people

:26:25. > :26:27.feel, you know, removed and disenfranchised from that. As a

:26:28. > :26:32.country, one of our next big questions is, do we need to change

:26:33. > :26:35.our system? Do we need to look at PR? Something has got to change to

:26:36. > :26:44.start to be able to represent people properly. Uroosa? The campaigns were

:26:45. > :26:48.not clear, they were not operating on facts, it was a whole exaggerated

:26:49. > :26:52.thing, appealing to extremists on both sides, that is what it did. It

:26:53. > :26:55.didn't appeal to anybody in the middle, there were no hard facts

:26:56. > :27:01.given to the public, this will happen if we leave, this will happen

:27:02. > :27:11.if we remain. A week and, you all reconciled to be was old -- the

:27:12. > :27:18.result? Is everybody on that page or not? I am not happy. In the sense

:27:19. > :27:24.that, like I say, I voted to come out of the EU, but not for the

:27:25. > :27:27.break-up of the United Kingdom... So you have got regret? There is a time

:27:28. > :27:31.for Scottish independence and for Sinn Fein to test the people of

:27:32. > :27:37.Northern Ireland, but I do not think this is the time. I agree that we

:27:38. > :27:42.need a period of calm, you know, before... Nicola Sturgeon is in

:27:43. > :27:45.Europe... You cannot be calling for calm... The Scottish people feel

:27:46. > :27:50.like they were lied to chewing their referendum, hold on a moment. I was

:27:51. > :27:54.not in favour of Scottish independence, but it is a decision

:27:55. > :28:01.for them. But now I can see why they want to do this, they absolutely

:28:02. > :28:03.want to leave, because the Leave campaign, take our country back.

:28:04. > :28:08.Nicola Sturgeon is taking her country back for the Scottish

:28:09. > :28:14.people, that is down to them. Over 1 million Scottish people voted to

:28:15. > :28:20.remain. Sorry, voted to leave! Voted to leave!. You were trying to make a

:28:21. > :28:23.point. You ask if we were reconciled, and I am still gutted

:28:24. > :28:28.that we are going to be leaving, I know lots of people who voted to

:28:29. > :28:32.remain, and lots of young people. I don't think there is going to be a

:28:33. > :28:36.second referendum, I do not think there is any likelihood of Article

:28:37. > :28:40.50 not being triggered, just waiting it out. I think we will come to the

:28:41. > :28:47.conclusion that it is to do happen. What was quite good to see over the

:28:48. > :28:51.referendum campaign, whether the campaign was that some people have

:28:52. > :28:55.said that there were lies being told on either side, but things were

:28:56. > :28:58.focused on policy in fact, not personality. And yet in the

:28:59. > :29:02.aftermath we have seen a lot of focus on personality of Jeremy

:29:03. > :29:05.Corbyn, on the way Theresa May dresses, on the personality of

:29:06. > :29:10.Michael Gove, whether he is treacherous. It is a shame not to

:29:11. > :29:14.have the focus on policy again, in the leadership campaigns, and still

:29:15. > :29:17.have that focus on personality and personal politics, rather than the

:29:18. > :29:22.policies that they want to propose for the country. I want to get from

:29:23. > :29:26.each of you your view on who should be the Labour leader and the Tory

:29:27. > :29:34.leader, we'll start with you, Neil. The Tory side, it is like sticking a

:29:35. > :29:39.pain in a bunch of them, Theresa May would be the acceptable face, that

:29:40. > :29:43.as far as I am prepared to go. The rest are just... Well, it is very

:29:44. > :29:49.difficult. Angela Eagle would be an interesting healing person, but I am

:29:50. > :29:53.not sure, I think we need to skip a generation, with all due respect.

:29:54. > :29:59.Look at something like Stephen Kinnock. Jeremy Corbyn should stay

:30:00. > :30:04.for Labour. Tories? Look up and don't like any of them! If you had

:30:05. > :30:09.to pick one? May be Theresa May. I'm glad Boris Johnson is not in it. If

:30:10. > :30:14.it were in my gift, I would go Andrea Leadsom. For Labour, I just

:30:15. > :30:19.couldn't pick, they are as horrendous as one another.

:30:20. > :30:28.Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May. Jeremy Corbyn and I don't want any

:30:29. > :30:35.of the Conservative Party candidates. Theresa May and if

:30:36. > :30:40.Jeremy Corbyn were to step down, I would like to see Stella Creasy.

:30:41. > :30:45.Michael Gove is the right person to take this country forward. For the

:30:46. > :30:50.Labour Party, I don't think there is a credible leader. The party will

:30:51. > :30:59.have to split eventually. I like Theresa May. I don't think the

:31:00. > :31:05.Labour Party needs a stronger candidate than Jeremy Corbyn. It has

:31:06. > :31:07.got the country talking about politics. Thank you. Keep your

:31:08. > :31:12.thoughts coming in. We'll have more on the

:31:13. > :31:15.centenary commemorations being held to remember the bloodiest

:31:16. > :31:19.day in the history of the British Army,

:31:20. > :31:31.the Battle of the Somme. we speak to the Wales fans who can't

:31:32. > :31:37.quite believe that their team are on the brink of a place

:31:38. > :31:58.in the semifinals. First, the news. Good morning. A

:31:59. > :32:01.two-minute silence has been held across Europe this morning in memory

:32:02. > :32:05.of the hundreds of thousands of men who lost their lives in World War

:32:06. > :32:16.I's bloodiest battle, the Battle of the Somme. Events were also held

:32:17. > :32:20.across the UK to mark the moment 100 years ago when troops left their

:32:21. > :32:24.trenches to go over the top. Britain suffered more than 60,000 dead and

:32:25. > :32:26.wounded on the first day alone in what became the bloodiest battle of

:32:27. > :32:28.the First World War. In around half an hour,

:32:29. > :32:31.the surprise challenger for the Conservative leadership,

:32:32. > :32:32.Michael Gove, will formally set Mr Gove, currently

:32:33. > :32:35.the Justice Secretary, declared that he would run yesterday

:32:36. > :32:38.morning - confounding expectations that he'd be supporting

:32:39. > :32:43.a bid from Boris Johnson. The former mayor o London has now

:32:44. > :32:45.pulled out, and hasn't Mr Gove faces the new

:32:46. > :32:48.frontrunner Theresa May, as well as Stephen Crabb,

:32:49. > :32:54.Andrea Leadsom and Liam Fox. MPs are urging the Government

:32:55. > :32:56.to make radical changes to the laws on prostitution

:32:57. > :32:58.in England and Wales. The Home Affairs Select Committee

:32:59. > :33:01.says soliciting should no longer be a crime for sex workers,

:33:02. > :33:03.and those who have a criminal record for offences related

:33:04. > :33:05.to prostitution should Scientists say they've discovered

:33:06. > :33:11.the first clear evidence that the ozone layer over Antarctica

:33:12. > :33:14.has begun to heal. Last year, the hole had shrunk

:33:15. > :33:17.since the year 2000 by an amount Scientists say it may be down

:33:18. > :33:22.to the phasing out of ozone-harming The electric car company Tesla

:33:23. > :33:29.is being investigated in the United States after one

:33:30. > :33:32.of its cars crashed into a lorry while on autopilot,

:33:33. > :33:36.killing its driver. It's believed to be the first death

:33:37. > :33:38.linked to the technology, which takes control of the car

:33:39. > :33:41.to change lanes The car maker says drivers

:33:42. > :33:44.were warned to keep their hands on the steering wheel even

:33:45. > :33:57.when autopilot is engaged. That is a summary of the latest

:33:58. > :34:06.news. Join me at 11 o'clock for BBC newsroom life. Let's catch up with

:34:07. > :34:10.the sport. Thank you. The countdown is on for the Welsh football team

:34:11. > :34:15.ahead of their biggest match in 58 years. The last remaining home

:34:16. > :34:21.nation at Euro 2016 play their quarterfinal against Belgium in

:34:22. > :34:25.Lille this evening. The prize is a semifinal match with Portugal. The

:34:26. > :34:34.Portuguese beat Poland on penalties last night. Not a great game.

:34:35. > :34:38.Portugal squeezed through 5-3 on spot kicks. Spain have already

:34:39. > :34:44.headed home but there are forward, Nolito, is on the move. Manchester

:34:45. > :34:49.City have confirmed his signing from Celta Vigo for around ?14 million.

:34:50. > :34:54.It is another big day for the Brits at Wimbledon. Dan Evans takes on

:34:55. > :34:58.Roger Federer for a place in round three, on Centre Court. Andy Murray

:34:59. > :35:04.is already there. He comfortably went through in straight sets

:35:05. > :35:07.yesterday. More sport with me on the BBC News channel throughout the day.

:35:08. > :35:09.We will follow all the build-up to that match.

:35:10. > :35:12.It will go down in history as the bloodiest battle

:35:13. > :35:15.In 1916, the Battle of the Somme, claimed the lives

:35:16. > :35:17.of a million British, French and German young men.

:35:18. > :35:20.On this day alone - July the 1st - 20,000 British

:35:21. > :35:26.Today marks the centenary of the battle.

:35:27. > :35:30.Communities up and down the country have been coming together to

:35:31. > :35:33.remember those that gave their lives for the freedoms that followed.

:35:34. > :35:49.Let's take a look at the events here and in France so far.

:35:50. > :35:56.Hundreds of men in full fighting kit and strangely quiet came streaming

:35:57. > :36:01.down, packing the front line and reserve trenches. We have been

:36:02. > :36:07.informed of the huge mine which will be blown up at 7:30am, and the great

:36:08. > :36:11.explosion will be the signal to go over the top. We took up our

:36:12. > :36:17.position in the communication trench leading into the front line. There,

:36:18. > :36:21.we stood rather silently, wondering if we had much longer to live. And

:36:22. > :36:28.suddenly brushing the ugly thought of death away. Just as the waiting

:36:29. > :36:34.was becoming unbearable, and the terrible strain causing some men to

:36:35. > :36:39.alter almost unnatural noises, we felt a queer, dull forward. And our

:36:40. > :36:42.trench rocked and a great blue flames shot Mac into the sky,

:36:43. > :36:46.carrying with it hundreds of tonnes of earth. The great mine had gone

:36:47. > :39:03.up. It was 7:30am. Zero hour. That was the silence a little

:39:04. > :39:06.earlier this morning. Earlier I spoke to Tricia Platts,

:39:07. > :39:09.whose great uncle, Percy Dixon, served in the Battle of Somme

:39:10. > :39:12.and sadly died later in war in 1918. Tricia began by telling me how

:39:13. > :39:24.she first became to learn I have been aware of him probably

:39:25. > :39:28.all my life, just as all our family work, simply because of the little

:39:29. > :39:32.photograph on the mantelpiece. It was only when I gave up work that I

:39:33. > :39:39.pursued him in detail and did some research. I was amazed to discover

:39:40. > :39:44.that he was in fact a Bradford pal. I did not realise that at the time

:39:45. > :39:50.the family had any connection with Bradford. But Percy's father had

:39:51. > :39:53.died in 1896, leaving mother with ten children. Seven of the children

:39:54. > :39:59.she then took from North Lancashire to Bradford to find work, which is

:40:00. > :40:08.why Percy was there in 1914 when war was declared. And he was a young man

:40:09. > :40:11.of about 24 in August, 1914. You said you were always aware of him

:40:12. > :40:16.because of a little photograph on the mantelpiece. Is that because

:40:17. > :40:21.the family and loss of the fact he the family and loss of the fact he

:40:22. > :40:26.died so young? It is difficult to say at this distance. As a young

:40:27. > :40:31.person, as a child, you don't ask questions. It was uncle Percy, he

:40:32. > :40:35.was lost in the war, you know. And of course we didn't know. But we

:40:36. > :40:41.didn't think to ask the questions. It was only much later I decided to

:40:42. > :40:46.look at what had happened to him. He was a Bradford pal. Tell us exactly

:40:47. > :40:51.what that was? He was not a professional fighter. He was a local

:40:52. > :40:55.boy who volunteered alongside others like him? Exactly like that. They

:40:56. > :41:01.were different for two reasons. They were all volunteers. And the

:41:02. > :41:06.Battalion was raised by the city of Bradford. It happened and lots of

:41:07. > :41:10.other towns as well, not just in the North of England, but Birmingham and

:41:11. > :41:15.some in the south, where the local mayor and the local alderman got

:41:16. > :41:21.together, formed a committee and said, we will raise a battalion for

:41:22. > :41:26.the city. In Bradford they raised two -- Battalions pretty quickly.

:41:27. > :41:31.How do you feel about that being a part of your family history? It is a

:41:32. > :41:34.part of everyone's history, I guess. I could be one of thousands of

:41:35. > :41:38.people sitting here this morning talking about an ancestor who was a

:41:39. > :41:43.pal. The majority of the army at that time came through as

:41:44. > :41:48.volunteers. I could be anyone, really. And I'm sure there will be

:41:49. > :41:54.lots of people watching who have an ancestor who was a pal of some sort

:41:55. > :41:58.from some town across England. And today, as we think about the start

:41:59. > :42:04.of that battle 100 years ago, think of those young men as they went over

:42:05. > :42:07.the top, it does make it feel quite personal, particularly when you have

:42:08. > :42:13.a story like yours in your family where you can put a face to it. How

:42:14. > :42:20.do you feel today remembering that? Well, a huge mixture. Admiration. I

:42:21. > :42:27.don't feel personally a sense of pride. I think it's too far away for

:42:28. > :42:35.that. I think it's more a sense of admiration, respect and certainly do

:42:36. > :42:40.think that these young men, the average age was actually over 25,

:42:41. > :42:45.imagined themselves to be very ordinary chaps who just did

:42:46. > :42:49.something together, joined together, served together, and then of course,

:42:50. > :42:56.a lot of them died together four were wounded at the same time. It is

:42:57. > :43:00.a huge mix of feelings. Yes, quite emotional as well. I know that you

:43:01. > :43:06.are going to be marking the day in Bradford as you have done for the

:43:07. > :43:14.last ten years. Tell us what you will be doing? The city of Bradford,

:43:15. > :43:18.I don't know, in the early 2000s started commemorating the first day

:43:19. > :43:23.of the Somme because of growing interest really in the history of

:43:24. > :43:28.the city. And at 11 o'clock they hold a service at the Cenotaph in

:43:29. > :43:33.Bradford and remember men of the pals but also men of the West

:43:34. > :43:37.Yorkshire Regiments and Jill -- of the regiments in which men from

:43:38. > :43:42.Bradford served during the Battle of the Somme. It is the first day of

:43:43. > :43:46.the long 148 day battle. So we have a lot to think about in the next

:43:47. > :43:50.three or four months. It is interesting when you talk about

:43:51. > :43:53.growing interest. As these events get ever further away, there is

:43:54. > :43:58.always discussing about whether it means for the younger generations

:43:59. > :44:03.that it is something, that there is such a distant connection to...

:44:04. > :44:13.There is lessening interest. How do you see it? Of course. British

:44:14. > :44:19.history is taught, 20th century history, is taught in British

:44:20. > :44:24.schools now. So events like the Great War, the Second World War, are

:44:25. > :44:27.part of the curriculum. So young people, I think, are better informed

:44:28. > :44:32.today than I was when I was at school. I don't recall ever doing

:44:33. > :44:35.any 20th-century history in the classroom. I think it is coming

:44:36. > :44:42.across to children much more than it did in my time. And I think, of

:44:43. > :44:43.course, people of my generation are realising that our ancestors were

:44:44. > :44:47.closely involved. Tricia Platts, whose uncle,

:44:48. > :45:02.Percy Dixon, served We're looking at live pictures from

:45:03. > :45:05.Thiepval. You can see President Hollande, the first of many

:45:06. > :45:11.dignitaries arriving for a memorial service. Around 10,000 people

:45:12. > :45:17.gathered there underneath the Thiepval Memorial, which, as you can

:45:18. > :45:23.see, stands high over those fields were so many fell.

:45:24. > :45:28.Members of the Royal Family will be attending, the Prince of Wales, the

:45:29. > :45:33.Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry,

:45:34. > :45:37.also Prime Minister David Cameron, and the French president and other

:45:38. > :45:43.leaders will be joined there at that memorial today to mark 100 years

:45:44. > :45:50.after the day that the Battle of the Somme commenced, the bloodiest day

:45:51. > :45:54.in British military history. Let's talk more about the Battle of the

:45:55. > :46:01.Somme with Paul Nixon, who is a military historian, joining us from

:46:02. > :46:06.France on this day. Paul, tell us more about the Battle of the Somme,

:46:07. > :46:16.why it was so bloody. It is very hard to imagine how so many people

:46:17. > :46:22.could have died on this one day. It was never intended to be that way.

:46:23. > :46:28.The British Army felt that they had obliterated the German defences,

:46:29. > :46:32.there was a week-long artillery bombardment of the German lines

:46:33. > :46:35.prior to going over the top. The attack was postponed because of bad

:46:36. > :46:39.weather. When the troops went over on the 1st of July, the thought was

:46:40. > :46:43.that there would be no Germans left, and they would simply walk over. Of

:46:44. > :46:47.course, that was not the case, the Germans had been sheltering in very

:46:48. > :46:52.deep dugouts, the bombardment lifted ten minutes before they went over,

:46:53. > :46:56.giving the Germans time to mount their machine guns and line up

:46:57. > :47:01.British troops in their sights. So that is why we lost 19,240 men

:47:02. > :47:06.killed on that first day. And amongst those men, young men, many

:47:07. > :47:12.who had never fought before, obviously, people who volunteered in

:47:13. > :47:18.huge numbers, alongside men like them in their local communities. To

:47:19. > :47:24.a large extent, it was a group of inexperienced people going to war.

:47:25. > :47:29.Well, it was. I don't think we should think that it was due to

:47:30. > :47:36.inexperience that the result was so many casualties. Experienced troops

:47:37. > :47:41.also met the same fate, but it was Kitchener's army, there were many

:47:42. > :47:47.Pals battalions within them, they have trained hard from August 1914

:47:48. > :47:52.and had not gone out to France until later. So they were well trained,

:47:53. > :47:55.but there was only so much... No training would have prepared them

:47:56. > :48:01.for bullets coming straight at them from machine guns, it was simply a

:48:02. > :48:05.slaughter. As we talk to you, Paul, we can see the Duke and Duchess of

:48:06. > :48:13.Cambridge arriving, also Prince Harry. As they arrive for this

:48:14. > :48:57.service at Thiepval. Writes and there are also ceremonies

:48:58. > :49:04.across the United Kingdom toonie be hundreds of thousands who died in

:49:05. > :49:14.the Battle of the Somme, which started on July the 1st 1916. It was

:49:15. > :49:19.the time when British, Commonwealth and French forces went over the top

:49:20. > :49:24.100 years ago. The British Army suffered almost 60,000 casualties on

:49:25. > :49:28.the first day alone, and in all more than 1 million men were killed or

:49:29. > :49:30.wounded on both sides over the course of that battle, which lasted

:49:31. > :49:43.141 days. There the Duke and Duchess of

:49:44. > :49:51.Cambridge joining thousands who are gathered there in Thiepval for a

:49:52. > :50:00.service to honour those who died 100 years ago.

:50:01. > :50:07.And here yesterday the Queen led events to mark the 100 year

:50:08. > :50:12.anniversary, there have been services in Westminster Abbey in

:50:13. > :50:17.London, also services in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. And the

:50:18. > :50:22.Duke of Cambridge has already paid tribute to the fallen soldiers,

:50:23. > :50:33.saying, we lost the flower of a generation.

:50:34. > :50:43.And those fields that we are looking at there in Thiepval, which are in

:50:44. > :50:50.the centre of those fields, that memorial at Thiepval, that is where

:50:51. > :50:54.so many soldiers fell. That is where they are remembered today, and still

:50:55. > :51:00.many people go to the cemeteries and the memorials of northern France, a

:51:01. > :51:05.very moving experience if you have ever done it, in order to run under

:51:06. > :51:09.those who file. Of course, so many fell, and their bodies were not

:51:10. > :51:22.recovered, so names are marked on many memorials.

:51:23. > :51:30.And that Battle of the Somme, which was one of the bloodiest of the

:51:31. > :51:37.First World War went on for five months, and it was fought over a 15

:51:38. > :51:42.mile front. But it was a war which had a heavy towel, a million killed

:51:43. > :51:55.and wounded in that battle. -- toll. OK, we will have more coverage as

:51:56. > :52:03.events there in Thiepval get under way.

:52:04. > :52:06.It is nine minutes before 11 o'clock, let's turn our attention to

:52:07. > :52:11.Wales, football, they are playing their biggest game in nearly 60

:52:12. > :52:14.years tonight, taking on Belgium at the European Championships in

:52:15. > :52:18.France. They have gone further than any of the Home Nations at Euro

:52:19. > :52:23.2016. Wales know a win would see them facing Portugal in the last

:52:24. > :52:28.four. Katie Gornall is in Lille, where the atmosphere is building, a

:52:29. > :52:33.lot of expectation and hope. Well, hope! Definitely hope, I think

:52:34. > :52:36.everyone here in eight Welsh shedders keeping their fingers

:52:37. > :52:41.crossed, it is getting a lot more lively here in Stade Pierre-Mauroy,

:52:42. > :52:50.we have seen more fans arriving over the past hour or so. -- in a Welsh

:52:51. > :52:54.shirt is. This is almost like a home game for Belgium, we are very close

:52:55. > :53:03.to the border. There is a party going on in the bars down there,

:53:04. > :53:07.earlier I saw Belgian fans doing a conga around the square. I have a

:53:08. > :53:11.couple of Welsh fans with me now, Andy and Charles have made the trip

:53:12. > :53:17.over, what a match, how excited I knew about this game, the first time

:53:18. > :53:20.since 1958 that Wales are playing in the quarterfinal of a major

:53:21. > :53:25.tournament? There have been some big qualifiers over the years, but not

:53:26. > :53:28.thing like this, these are at home is massive, 25,000 fans turning out

:53:29. > :53:33.for it, you can sense the atmosphere, massive game. Andy, are

:53:34. > :53:37.you concerned about being outnumbered by the Belgian fans

:53:38. > :53:43.coming over the border? Not really, we have all been having a good time,

:53:44. > :53:49.it does not matter how many is here, 20 35,000, we will make ourselves

:53:50. > :53:54.heard, we will have a great time. How do think this game is going to

:53:55. > :53:58.go today? Wales are underdogs, Belgium are second in the world. We

:53:59. > :54:03.are obviously the underdogs, but Gareth Bale as impressed in the week

:54:04. > :54:08.that we are Belgium's bogey team, we played them twice in qualifying, won

:54:09. > :54:12.in Cardiff and true in Brussels, they did not score past us. They

:54:13. > :54:16.have got some amazing attacking players, but if we can keep it tight

:54:17. > :54:21.at the back, a moment of magic from Bale and we can do it. I know that

:54:22. > :54:24.you were telling me before that you have been to some of the game is

:54:25. > :54:29.already in this tournament, but what plans did you have to change to make

:54:30. > :54:34.this game? I don't think every Wales fan would have expected you to get

:54:35. > :54:43.this far. I did not by God us getting past the train down to Paris

:54:44. > :54:47.at two days' notice. -- I did not bank on. You do not have much time

:54:48. > :54:53.to plan these things, but you just get it done. You are meant to be on

:54:54. > :54:56.a stag do. I'm going to try to catch the last day of tomorrow, he is

:54:57. > :55:03.getting married next week, so would we make the final, I might be there!

:55:04. > :55:09.Sorry about this, Henry, but I'm sure he will understand if Wales get

:55:10. > :55:14.to the final. How do you think it is going to go today? I think we will

:55:15. > :55:22.win 1-0. I am pretty confident to be fair, and I am never normally

:55:23. > :55:27.confident. I like your confidence! If Wales do win, it would be their

:55:28. > :55:31.first appearance in a semifinal of a major tournament ever. We spoke

:55:32. > :55:36.about 1958, that was against Brazil, they were beaten 1-0 by Pele, so

:55:37. > :55:39.they are hoping to do better against Belgium. Belgian Marrack second in

:55:40. > :55:44.the world, they have got Eden Hazard playing for them, but Wales have a

:55:45. > :55:50.good record, they picked up four points against them in qualifying.

:55:51. > :55:54.-- Belgium are ranked. Chris Coleman just want is players to enjoy the

:55:55. > :55:58.occasion, and if they make the semifinal, Portugal weight, so we

:55:59. > :56:03.would see the whole Wales come out to Lille for that. Not just the

:56:04. > :56:12.whole of Wales, they are the home late in, will they can do it! -- the

:56:13. > :56:19.only home nation left in. Back to two per barrel in France, the

:56:20. > :56:26.service to remember the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. -- back to

:56:27. > :56:33.Thiepval. We are awaiting the arrival of the Prince of Wales.

:56:34. > :56:39.Others have already arrived, that is the memorial at Thiepval, with the

:56:40. > :56:49.many thousands of names inscribed on the side. Thousands among the 1

:56:50. > :56:53.million who, in all, fell, 1 million killed or injured over the course of

:56:54. > :57:01.the five-month Battle of the Somme. And there the fields where so many

:57:02. > :57:08.fell in that battle that lasted 141 days, fought over a 15 mile stretch

:57:09. > :57:16.of front line. And this day, 100 years ago, was the bloodiest day in

:57:17. > :57:21.the history of the British Army. 19,240 British soldiers died on that

:57:22. > :57:26.first day of the battle, on that 15 mile front, near to the River Somme

:57:27. > :57:33.in northern France. The British captured three square miles of

:57:34. > :57:38.territory on that first day. Five months later, the British had

:57:39. > :57:43.advanced just seven miles, and the German defence had not been broken.

:57:44. > :57:49.In all, more than a million dead and wounded on all sides, including

:57:50. > :57:56.420,000 British, about 200,000 from France, and an estimated 465,000

:57:57. > :58:01.from Germany. It had been intended that the Battle of the Somme would

:58:02. > :58:06.be a decisive victory for the British and French against the

:58:07. > :58:11.German forces. And there you can see the people who are gathered to

:58:12. > :58:14.attend the service of commemoration, 10,000 members of the public chosen

:58:15. > :58:24.by ballot, hundreds of schoolchildren among them. And we

:58:25. > :58:28.will have coverage of that service on BBC Newsroom Live, which is

:58:29. > :58:32.coming up next, attended by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of

:58:33. > :58:35.Cornwall. She will lay a wreath at the grave of her own great-uncle.

:58:36. > :58:43.Thank you very much for your company today. Have a good afternoon.

:58:44. > :58:46.? The weather fittingly sombre there in northern