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Hello, it's nine o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling, | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
Commemorations are being held here and in France to mark | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. | :00:15. | :00:26. | |
It was one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War - | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
more than one million men were killed and wounded. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
As Michael Gove, Justice Secretary and would-be Prime Minister, | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
prepares to delivers his pitch for the top job, we'll look | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
back on one of the most tumultuous weeks in politics. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Plus a special report from Great Yarmouth, | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
which saw one of the highest referendum Leave | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
We'll hear from residents about their concerns | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
We are not a racist town. We are concerned about job losses. My | :00:54. | :01:05. | |
biggest fear is that the British people will be taken over by | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
immigration. I fear that these people will come in without any | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
conditions. It will be unlimited. Hello, welcome to the programme, | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
we're live until 11 this morning. We'd love to hear what you make | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
of the last seven days. Wherever you stand on the EU, | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
whichever party you support, I'm sure you'll agree it's been | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
a roller-coaster of a week. Do get in touch on all the stories | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
we're talking about this morning - use #VictoriaLive, and if you text, | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
you will be charged at the standard People have fallen silent | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
across Europe this morning for two minutes to mark the centenary of one | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
of the bloodiest battles of the First World War: | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
the Battle of the Somme. More than 19,000 British | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
soldiers lost their lives on the first day alone, | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
the worst day in the history More than one million servicemen | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
were killed or injured on all sides as the British and French | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
armies fought the Germans. As the time approached, the Kings | :02:00. | :02:20. | |
first artillery fire their guns. Then silence, as people stopped to | :02:21. | :02:21. | |
remember. At the Grave of the Unknown Warrior | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
in Westminster Abbey, in Edinburgh, at the Scottish | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
National War Memorial, at the Somme Museum | :02:27. | :02:27. | |
in Northern Ireland. In Wales, at cafes Park in Cardiff. | :02:28. | :02:40. | |
Children were silent at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. | :02:41. | :02:41. | |
And in France, at the Thiepval Memorial, | :02:42. | :02:42. | |
Then, as Big Ben chimed, the sound of whistles, | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
the signal that sent the men over the top, | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
This was one of the sites where the battle began, | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
At precisely 28 minutes past seven, | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
British soldiers had tunnelled through the trenches | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
underneath the German lines to plant explosives. | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
What remains is the Lochnagar Crater, | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
almost 300 feet in diameter and 70 feet deep. | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
It has been preserved so people will never forget. | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
Today, children laid a wreath of conciliation, representing | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
the 21 nations from where people lost their lives and were injured. | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
that we will not let the stories from this place be forgotten. | :03:28. | :03:39. | |
And I think the desire to pay tribute, to remember, to honour our | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
respective nation 's war dead, has not diminished. And we still feel | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
the need to be here. All through the night, | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
vigils were held around the country. Now the nation remembers that first | :03:55. | :04:05. | |
day of the battle. In Exeter, each of the 19,240 soldiers who died on | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
this day, have been represented by a 12 inch figure wrapped and bowed in | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
a hand-stitched shroud, another symbol that they will never be | :04:16. | :04:16. | |
forgotten. Sophie Long is at a service | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
of remembrance at the Thiepval We are listening to very rousing | :04:20. | :04:39. | |
music being played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Most of the | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
10,000 guests here today have now taken their seats. In the next hour | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
or so we are expecting the VIPs to arrive, several members of the Royal | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
family. Prince Charles will be here with the Duchess of Cornwall, the | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. We are expecting David | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Cameron and President Hollande to attend. Before the service gets | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
under way, a film will be played. The Battle of the Somme. It was | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
filmed by two cameramen during the Battle 100 years ago. They were | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
filming in the front line. It was played in 1916 to more than 22 | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
million people. At an early stage the Battle of the Somme became part | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
of the national consciousness. After that, we are going to hear the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
stories of a lot of men who fought here. Men who didn't go home. The | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
Thiepval Memorial was inaugurated in 1932 and has been a focal point of | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
commemorating and remembering what happened here 100 years ago. It is | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
hard to imagine, but on this day, the first day of the Battle of the | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
Somme, this would have been a battlefield. So many people know the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
horrors that unfolded. There was hope it was going to be a decisive | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
battle but that was not the case. It ended up being the bloodiest day in | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
British military history. On that Memorial, the names of 72,000 men, | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
all of whom fought here and were never found. Towards the end of the | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
ceremony, Rita Will be laid by Prince Charles and President | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
Hollande, and 300 Reddish schoolchildren and 300 French | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
schoolchildren will lay floral tributes at the graves of many | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
unknown soldiers at the other side of the memorial. | :06:26. | :06:26. | |
Now a summary of the rest of the day's news. | :06:27. | :06:35. | |
The civil war in the Conservative Party continues, | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
as Michael Gove prepares to set out why he thinks he should | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
be the party's leader and our next Prime Minister. | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
His declaration yesterday that he would run is seen by some | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
as a betrayal of his fellow Brexiteer, and previous | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Meanwhile, in the Labour camp, Angela Eagle yesterday | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
postponed her anticipated decision to challenge Jeremy Corbyn, | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
though the Labour leader remains under intense pressure | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Let's get more from our political correspondent | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
Let's talk about Michael Gove. And absolutely stinging attack from Ken | :07:01. | :07:17. | |
Clarke? It has been an extraordinary 24-hour is in Westminster because of | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
this race in the Conservative Party. We had these surprising events | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
yesterday in which not just Michael Gove entered the race, but Boris | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Johnson pulled out of the race. Nobody was expecting that. What we | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
have had this morning is more of the fallout, with Kenneth Clarke, the | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
euro friendly Tory grandee, laying into Mr Gove and saying, it is time | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
for him to step down. This is too much of a distraction, he believes, | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
to the substance of the challenge the Prime Minister is going to face. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
Withdrawing Britain from the European Union, disentangling | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
ourselves from 40 years of law and legislation, trying to get a good | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
deal on trade. All while trying to bring down immigration. We have the | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
Civil War on the front benches of the Conservative Party between some | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
of those leading figures after the events of yesterday. Who is falling | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
behind who? We are seeing some shifting sands of support. And some | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
very hostile headlines about Michael Gove. Words like betrayal, treachery | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
being used. Saying that Boris Johnson was Brexecuted over this. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
What we have later is Michael Gove setting out his pitch for what he | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
wants to be Prime Minister. I'm sure that will help to distract from some | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
of the personality politics. I spoke to Dominic Rabb, a key ally of | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Michael Gove. He is backing him for his bid to be leader and Prime | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Minister. I put to him some of those issues about the questions about Mr | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Gove. Frankly, it feels to many people | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
outside in the country, like the parlour games of the Westminster | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
village. When the dust settles we have a huge decision to make this | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
country, who will lead us forward. We have great candidates but there | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
is one candidate, Michael Gove, who has the vision to lead us out of the | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
EU in a positive and optimistic way, or raising the life chances of our | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
children. They are the two golden ingredients we need in a leader. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Things are not looking any more settled for a Labour? | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
Absolutely. The turmoil continues. Since Sunday we have had a mass | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
exodus from the Labour front benches. Jeremy Corbyn still has | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
dozens of Shadow ministerial post he has to fill. We have what was | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
looking like a leader -- leadership challenge from Angela Eagle do to be | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
announced yesterday. That did not happen. We wait to see what happens | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
today. We are going to get John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor, a | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
big ally of Mr Corbyn, giving a speech later about the economic | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
impact in his view of Brexit. That that will be an attempt by Mr | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
McDonnell to show that the leadership continues. Trying to be | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
in opposition. I think those questions about Mr Corbyn and | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
potentially the challenge go on. Tom Bateman. | :10:17. | :10:17. | |
MPs are urging the Government to make radical changes | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
to the laws on prostitution in England and Wales. | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
The Home Affairs Select Committee says soliciting should no longer be | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
a crime for sex workers, and those who have a criminal record | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
for offences related to prostitution should | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
Scientists say they've discovered the first clear evidence | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
that the ozone layer over Antarctica has begun to heal. | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Last year, the hole had shrunk since the year 2000 by an amount | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
Scientists say it may be down to the phasing out of ozone-harming | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
The electric car company Tesla is being investigated | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
in the United States after one of its cars crashed into a lorry | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
while on autopilot, killing its driver. | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
It's believed to be the first death linked to the technology, | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
which takes control of the car to change lanes | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
The car maker says drivers were warned to keep their hands | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
on the steering wheel even when autopilot is engaged. | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News, more at 9:30. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
In a moment we'll have more on an extraordinary week in politics. | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Do get in touch with us throughout the morning, use #VictoriaLive, | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
Let's ketchup with all the sport. We can get latest from Tim. | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
Good morning. Extraordinary for Wales in the last few weeks. They | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
are getting ready for their most important match in 50 ages. Chris | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
Coleman's side Aaron Lille to take on Belgium. -- 50 years. Their | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
captain, Ashley Williams, is fit to play after being taken off against | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Northern Ireland at the weekend. For Welsh football fans, it does not get | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
any bigger than this, does it, Katie Gornall? No, it doesn't. They are | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
within a whisker of the semifinal for the first time in a major | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
tournament. We have seen more Wales fans arriving during the morning. A | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
lot of Belgium fans as well. Wales fans making themselves heard last | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
night. They will be heavily outnumbered here today. We are just | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
more -- less than ten miles from the Belgian border. We might as well be | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
in Belgium. There are a Belgian flags flying above the square. Above | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
the municipal buildings as well. We are expecting 150,000 fans to come | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
to the stadium today. Wales will have to be in fine voice. They are | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
the underdogs but it is a very special moment for this country, | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
something Wales fans have been talking to me about. Something | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Gareth Bale has been discussing, but his pride in seeing Wales here. | :13:01. | :13:09. | |
It is amazing to be in the round of 16 and to get the victory. To have | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
our families there, it was amazing to share it with them. Obviously the | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
kids came on at the end. It was emotional. We have not seen them in | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
a long time. We can look back at pictures and videos and have an | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
amazing memory of that time. Hopefully there's more to come. Why | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
have Wales done so well? There has been a lot of talk about their team | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
spirit in tournament. That is right. spirit in tournament. That is right. | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
Their team spirit, we have seen, is very strong. Their work ethic. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
Everyone on this team has contributed. I think a lot has to be | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
said for the contribution of Gareth Bale. He is their star player, the | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
world's most expensive player. He has scored three goals already. He | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
has been one of the standout players at Euro 2016. They know they are the | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
underdogs coming into this game against Belgium, ranked second in | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
the world. Wales do have a good record against them. They took four | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
points off them in qualifying. They have to play better than they did | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
against Northern Ireland. They had to rely on an goal. It big test for | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
Wales against Belgium. The good news is they have their captain, Ashley | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
Williams, back. They can look to that good record. And also, Belgium | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
have some problems in defence. An injury and suspension. That is | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
something Wales will look to exploit. If they can do that, they | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
will reach their first-ever semifinal in a major tournament and | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
play Portugal. First, they have to get past Belgium tonight. And what a | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
prize it is. Katie Gornall. Very excited about this match. Just | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
11 hours to wait. Yes, come on, Wales! | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
It's a week since the country voted to leave the EU and it's fair to say | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
it would have been hard to predict just how much political upheaval | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
We've lost a Prime Minister, kicking off a leadership contest | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
and Labour MPs are in open revolt against their leader. | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
There's barely anyone left to figure out | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
how we actually go about leaving the EU in practice. | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
You're not the only one, here's a quick reminder. | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
If the EU referendum was supposed to provide clarity | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
about the UK's future, it did anything but. | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
But the British people have made a very clear decision | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
to take a different path, and as such, I think the country | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction. | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
It is therefore a statement of the obvious that the option | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
of a second referendum must be on the table, | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
On Sunday, Labour MPs began calling for their party's leader, | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
I no longer had confidence in his leadership, | :16:01. | :16:10. | |
and he then dismissed me from the Shadow Cabinet. | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
I feel that I have served in the best way I can | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
12 members had left Jeremy Corbyn's team | :16:17. | :16:27. | |
of Shadow Cabinet ministers, believing their leader had failed | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
to campaign hard enough to keep the UK in the EU. | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
The total number would later reach 20. | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
But if they thought it would be a knockout blow, it wasn't. | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
Don't let those people who wish us ill divide us. | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
for the kind of world we want to live in. | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
At the same time, Tory front runners began jostling | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
for position with Boris Johnson the early favourite. | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
He showed that he had gone up a level, I think, | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
in people's estimation, in the debates. | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
On Tuesday, the limelight fell back on Corbyn | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
as he unveiled his new Shadow Cabinet. | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
Later that day, however, MPs in his own party passed | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
a motion of no confidence in him by 172 votes to 40. | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
But he was not the only person we were all talking about. | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
I know that virtually none of you have ever done a proper | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
Or worked in business, or worked in trade, | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
Nigel Farage told the EU what he thought of them, | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
The British people voted in favour of the exit, why are you here? | :17:41. | :17:50. | |
While Scottish MEP Alyn Smith fought for his country's EU status. | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
Remember this. Scotland did not let you down. | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
Please, I beg you, chers collegues, do not let Scotland down now! | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
By Wednesday, deputy Labour leader Tom Watson said Corbyn | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
Corbyn was putting the party at risk of long-term damage by staying put. | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
My party is in peril. We are facing an existential crisis. | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
And I just don't want us to be in this position | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
because I think there are millions of people in the country | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
who need a left-leaning government who can give people opportunity. | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
It might be in my party's interest for him to sit there, | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
And I would say, for heaven's sake, man, go! | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
Angela Eagle seems likely to mount a challenge against Corbyn, | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
while five contenders are trying to become the next Conservative | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
Boris Johnson ruled himself out of the race. | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
Having consulted colleagues, and in view of the circumstances | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
in Parliament, I have concluded that person cannot be me. | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
The favourites to become the next Prime Minister | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
are now Theresa May and Michael Gove. | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
Under my leadership, the Conservative Party will be able | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
to come back together and govern, not just in the interests | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
of the 17 million Leave voters, or 16 million Remain voters, | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
but in the interests of the whole country. | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
This is about making sure that our country can make a success | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
through the challenges and the opportunities that lie ahead. | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
The next leader should be in place by early September, | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
when proper negotiations with EU leaders can begin. | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
Maybe then we will see a period of stability, perhaps. | :19:44. | :19:54. | |
who worked for Nick Clegg while he was Deputy Prime Minister. | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
Sean Worth was a special adviser to David Cameron | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
Michael Jacobs, special adviser to the former Prime Minister | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
And joining us down the line is Geoff Aberdein, | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
who was Alex Salmond's chief of staff during Scottish | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
Thank you all for joining us. That was quite a punch line from Boris | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
Johnson yesterday, were you are shocked as everyone else? Yeah, | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
definitely, I think a lot of the people in his team, certainly his | :20:33. | :20:43. | |
supporters, were shocked by the move from Michael Gove, people talking | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
today about treachery, stabbing him in the back. The important thing is | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
to have this flushed out now, because I do not think he will be | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
fleshed out in the first round of voting, which ends on Tuesday, see | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
if he can get back onto the policy agenda. That is the biggest issue | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
for him, the move on Boris. I mentioned you work for David | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
Cameron, over the years there has been so much speculation about who | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
harbours which ambitions, and in a week all of these things have | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
unfolded at speed. What have you been thinking? I always suspected | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
that Michael Gove might have this ambition, he denies it, but he is | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
very well liked, and people in the party say they would like him to do | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
it. Yesterday, he was saying that people pushed there and all that, | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
and I always suspected that, but I didn't think it would come about | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
like this. So yeah, huge surprise. Polly, what you think about what is | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
going on? For Michael, it is all about framing this as a debate about | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
what happens next, because Theresa was in the Remain campaign, and if | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
he can define this as, who can you trust to pull as out of the EU, he | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
has got a chance of winning. I always expected Michael would do | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
this, he was so polished in his denials about wanting to be Prime | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Minister, you have to be a bit suspicious of that. It is treachery | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
laid bare for voters to see in a way that we have not seen very often in | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
politics. It does feel like a political thriller, but in a way | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
Michael can use that to his advantage. He has sacrificed all of | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
his personal friendships for the sake of Brexit, and if you are a | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
passionate Brexiter, which so many Conservative Grassroots members are, | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
that is what you want, someone who put it before personal friendships. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Michael, everybody is talking about politics right now, we have talked | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
to some eight times around elections that voters are not necessarily that | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
engaged, but it seems it is all anyone is talking about. The tragedy | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
for the country is that at a time when we are facing a huge | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
constitutional, foreign policy, economic crisis as a result of the | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
referendum, the Conservative Party, which runs the Government, is | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
embroiled in a very nasty and rather shallow leadership debate. And the | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
Labour Party is... And the Labour Party has also fallen apart. If you | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
are a voter who trusts or want to trust you had these to take | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
decisions about what the country is doing, you are looking at gassed at | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
the political class, and we are running into very serious economic | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
problems, and we neither have an economic policy from the Government | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
nor do we have one from the opposition. That is a betrayal of | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
the people who voted in the referendum last week, and it shows | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
that this was a referendum called on shallow grounds, not a serious | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
attempt to run the country, and I think the Prime Minister needs to | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
take a share of the blame, a very large share of the blame for calling | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
the referendum. Geoff, you worked with Alex Salmond, he went after the | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
Scottish referendum was lost, and there was a coronation of Nicola | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
Sturgeon, a smooth transition. Looking at the aftermath of this | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
referendum, what you think? You are right, the benefits of a smooth | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
transition of there for all to see, the SNP have gained from the Labour | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
Party in Scotland. It is not just the SNP, though, in Scotland in | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
general we have seen Ruth Davidson taking over from Annabel Goldie, a | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
seamless transition, and she is a formidable leader in Scotland. Kezia | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
Dugdale is respected as an up and coming leader. We look in Scotland, | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
what is happening in Westminster, I heard the civil war described as a | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
political thriller, but I think it is a political horror. It does not | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
describe my experience of politics in Scotland. There is something to | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
be said for the smooth transition process. You have had experience of | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
an attempt with Gordon Brown. There is a huge difference between what | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
happened in the Scottish referendum, where the result, though close, was | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
for the status quo, and the earthquake here and the country. | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
Really, that comparison doesn't hold. It is not surprising things | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
were relatively smooth in Scotland, we didn't have that as quake. And | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
you cannot have a coronation to an obvious new leader when the parties | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
are completely divided about the direction of travel. The | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
Conservative Party has to make this decision about what kind of Brexit | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
it once, the Labour Party has to make a decision about whether it is | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
going to the left or the centre, and if the party cannot unite around a | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
single leader, you cannot have a smooth transition. So uncomfortable | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
as this is, this is a way it has to be? Well, as Michael was saying, it | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
is awful that the political parties are going through this process just | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
when the country is about to face the toughest negotiations of its | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
life, and potentially a shift back into recession. But unless there is | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
this upheaval, this process in the political parties, there was an | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
absence of leadership. To be fair, nobody plans to put the entire | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
political climate into such chaos! What was the plan, do you think? If | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
the vote had gone this way? The Prime Minister has decided to resign | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
because he lost the referendum, and he probably had to do that. He | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
didn't just walk off straightaway, he is going to manage the process, | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
but his team did not want the outcome, but that is the democratic | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
results that they have to respect. The Labour Party being in meltdown | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
at this particular time is an fortunate, because they could really | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
make a out of this situation. -- unfortunate. But, yeah, all of these | :26:48. | :26:57. | |
events have coalesced around this particular one time, it is just an | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
astonishing period in politics, but it wasn't planned at. But it was | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
deliberately not planned by the Government, the civil service, to | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
put forward any Brexit proposals. I would not have wanted them to do, | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
because I am devastated by the decision. They were closing their | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
eyes? As with the Scottish referendum, they made the decision | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
that you do not plan, you do not put together an economic plan for what | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
you do if you lose, because the opposition parties will use that | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
against you. You know, they liked to be able to say that, you know, they | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
are absolutely committed to the Government being other side of | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
remains. In Scotland, it worked, but of course in this referendum it | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
really didn't. I just wanted to make the point that, yes, privately the | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
civil service should have been planning, because what happened | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
after Thursday was a complete and utter vacuum. You had the Leave | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
campaign in disarray, they did not expect to win, they did not know | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
what Brexit plans they wanted to initiate, and David Cameron very | :28:04. | :28:05. | |
honourably fell on his sword with a great speech, but he did not speak | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
again until Monday. The reason Nicola Sturgeon has come across as a | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
formidable leader is the door was open for her to walk in, establish | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
leadership, and show that she had a plan. Want. I think that, you know, | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
the regret on behalf of both of the campaigns, why didn't we have a | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
plan? -- she had a plan for Scotland. It is a fair point, isn't | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
it? Why not plan in secret? That is absolutely right, except there is | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
now a huge decision about what kind of Brexit we want, do we want to be | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
in the EEA, or do we want something more dramatic? That is why Nick | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
Clegg, among others, have called for a general election or some process | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
that calls for more people than just Conservative Party members in | :28:53. | :28:54. | |
deciding what kind of Brexit we have. Because the economic | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
consequences of that decision are enormous for everybody up and down | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
the country, and the truth is that the Leave campaign had offered two | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
separate and incompatible visions, one of the Europe where we are still | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
very much involved, and one of Europe where we pull out completely. | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
They do not have the legitimacy decide. Do you think there has to be | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
an election? The danger in calling it, although first of all it is | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
possibly attractive for the new Conservative Party leader, because | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
the Labour Party is in such disarray, they would imagine that | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
they could be Corbyn pretty easily, increasing their majority. However, | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
the risk of the early referendum, you will end up having a referendum | :29:36. | :29:38. | |
on the referendum result, effectively. Nobody in the | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
Conservative Party would want that. I don't know what you think, | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
Michael? I think the real question would be, what kind of economic | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
policy is put to the country, whether there is an election or not. | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
If there is, the Labour Party, whoever is the leader, will have to | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
put an alternative policy, economic policy forward. We are going into | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
recession, what you have heard from George Osborne earlier this week | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
was, because we are likely going into recession, we will have more | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
austerity. That is a disaster, economically illiterate, and it | :30:15. | :30:16. | |
would be terrible for the country if we pulled further demand out of the | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
economy by having more austerity, and the Labour Party has an | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
opportunity to speak to all those disenfranchised voters. | :30:24. | :30:30. | |
Labour has the responsibility, rather than seeing them defect to | :30:31. | :30:38. | |
Ukip, which is a protest vote... There is an alternative. Is this a | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
time for a less party politics? We had coalition before. The Tories | :30:43. | :30:49. | |
have a majority. It is not a coalition scenario. But in terms of | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
politicians coming together, could that be achievable, sensible? There | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
has been an idea mooted that this Brexit unit in the civil service | :30:59. | :31:05. | |
will work with cross-party involvement. That would be sensible. | :31:06. | :31:13. | |
But it feels to me, and certainly Remain MPs drunk to Boris, were | :31:14. | :31:21. | |
being told that there will be some moderation, there will be | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
compromises, we will do something more sensible than some of you | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
feared. It does feel like that will happen. That is precisely what | :31:30. | :31:35. | |
Michael used against Boris, by suggesting he would not deliver true | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
Brexit. That desire to be accommodating is not what the | :31:40. | :31:42. | |
Conservative Party grassroots want. I don't think that is true. David | :31:43. | :31:49. | |
has e-mailed, I would like to know why nobody has criticised David | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
Cameron for not following through on taking the UK through the Brexit | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
vote? I do believe the Conservative government will not follow through | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
on the referendum. Another says, there is no next -- exit plan, which | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
proves the Conservatives are incompetent. Ravi says, Labour MPs | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
and are divided over how to depose Jeremy Corbyn. It says it all. Thank | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
you very much. It is busy something we keep talking about. -- obviously. | :32:16. | :32:24. | |
Keep letting us know what you think. Coming up, referendum aftermath. We | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
will have a special report from Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, which was | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
one of the highest Leave votes in the UK. And what is the future for a | :32:32. | :32:38. | |
driverless cars after the first known fatal crash involving one in | :32:39. | :32:39. | |
the United States? Good morning. League two minute | :32:40. | :32:57. | |
silence has been held across Europe this morning in memory of the | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
hundreds of thousands of men who lost their lives in World War I's | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
lobbyist battle, the Battle of the Somme. -- a two-minute silence. | :33:06. | :33:12. | |
Events were also held across the UK to mark the moment 100 years ago | :33:13. | :33:18. | |
when troops left their trenches to go over the top. Britain suffered | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
more than 60,000 dead and wounded on the first day alone in what became | :33:25. | :33:27. | |
the bloodiest battle of the First World War. The surprise challenger | :33:28. | :33:35. | |
for the Conservative Party leadership, Michael Gove, were | :33:36. | :33:38. | |
formally set out his pitch for the job in just over an hour. Boris | :33:39. | :33:46. | |
Johnson has now pulled out and has not said who he is backing. Mr Gove | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
phases Theresa May, as well as Stephen Crabb, Andrea Leadsom and | :33:53. | :33:53. | |
Liam Fox. MPs are urging the Government | :33:54. | :33:55. | |
to make radical changes to the laws on prostitution | :33:56. | :33:57. | |
in England and Wales. The Home Affairs Select Committee | :33:58. | :33:59. | |
says soliciting should no longer be a crime for sex workers, | :34:00. | :34:01. | |
and those who have a criminal record for offences related | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
to prostitution should Scientists say they've discovered | :34:05. | :34:07. | |
the first clear evidence that the ozone layer over Antarctica | :34:08. | :34:13. | |
has begun to heal. Last year, the hole had shrunk | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
since the year 2000 by an amount Scientists say it may be down | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
to the phasing out of ozone-harming The electric car company Tesla | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
is being investigated in the United States after one | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
of its cars crashed into a lorry while on autopilot, | :34:32. | :34:34. | |
killing its driver. It's believed to be the first death | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
linked to the technology, which takes control of the car | :34:39. | :34:40. | |
to change lanes The car maker says drivers | :34:41. | :34:42. | |
were warned to keep their hands on the steering wheel even | :34:43. | :34:47. | |
when autopilot is engaged. That is a summary of the latest | :34:48. | :35:05. | |
news. Let's catch up with the sport. The countdown is on for the Welsh | :35:06. | :35:08. | |
football team ahead of their biggest match in 58 years. The last | :35:09. | :35:15. | |
remaining home nation at Frank -- Euro 2016 play Belgium in Lille this | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
evening. The prize is a semifinal match with Portugal. The Portuguese | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
beat Poland on penalties last night. 1-1 after extra time but Portugal | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
squeezed through on spot kicks. Spain have already headed home but | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
their foreword, nollie toe, is on the move. Manchester City have | :35:37. | :35:42. | |
confirmed his signing for around ?14 million. It is another big day for | :35:43. | :35:50. | |
the Brits at Wimbledon. Dan Evans takes on Roger Federer. Andy Murray | :35:51. | :35:54. | |
is already in round three. He went through in straight sets yesterday. | :35:55. | :35:55. | |
I am back at ten o'clock with more. Britain's decision to leave the EU | :35:56. | :36:09. | |
took many by surprise. Even the leader, Nigel Farage thought his | :36:10. | :36:15. | |
side had lost. He was wrong. More than 17 million people decided to | :36:16. | :36:18. | |
cut our ties with Brussels and in some areas the vote for Brexit was | :36:19. | :36:19. | |
very strong. Great Yarmouth in Norfolk | :36:20. | :36:22. | |
saw the fifth highest Leave vote in the country, | :36:23. | :36:24. | |
at a staggering 71.5%. Michael Cowan has spent the week | :36:25. | :36:26. | |
by the seaside to hear the locals In his film, voters often express | :36:27. | :36:37. | |
views that are uncomfortable but it -- but expressive of what many | :36:38. | :36:39. | |
people feel. In terms of Westminster, | :36:40. | :36:40. | |
the politicians, politics, My biggest fear is that the British | :36:41. | :36:41. | |
people will be taken I would like to see | :36:42. | :37:03. | |
the numbers come down. I would like to see some of the ones | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
on benefits being shipped back. I think the ones that | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
are here right now working, leave them be, but the ones | :37:14. | :37:16. | |
that are trying to get We are too small, mate, | :37:17. | :37:18. | |
we can't fit any more people in, In Yarmouth, the entire Brexit | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
debate is encapsulated on King Over the last decade, | :37:25. | :37:45. | |
they have seen a growing Last year, it rose by 9.3% | :37:46. | :37:48. | |
on the previous year. It is largely Portuguese, | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
who come into the area to work. And what's the telephone number, | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
darling? Sharon's shop has been | :37:57. | :37:59. | |
here for 30 years. She runs daily knitting workshops, | :38:00. | :38:02. | |
or as she affectionately calls them, Now that we've left, | :38:03. | :38:05. | |
what's that going to mean? It means that we can make more | :38:06. | :38:13. | |
of our own decisions for trade Hopefully the jobs will come | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
for most people, and the hospitals and that, hopefully, will get | :38:18. | :38:23. | |
better, and more money to spend. If they get a pansy Prime Minister | :38:24. | :38:28. | |
again, we'll end up with a pansy I've nothing against foreigners | :38:29. | :38:37. | |
here, it's just that they seem They are very loud when speaking | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
and gesturing and it can put some And I think as well in Yarmouth, | :38:43. | :38:51. | |
it's quite a high And they remember how it was and how | :38:52. | :38:59. | |
it is now, and I think that You know there is quite a movement | :39:00. | :39:03. | |
of people who would say people who voted Out | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
were racist, or xenophobic. My quibble with that is, | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
I'm not racist because I have I think people have just had | :39:14. | :39:18. | |
enough, haven't they? And we need to be able to do more | :39:19. | :39:25. | |
for ourselves, the people This time it wasn't like a general | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
election, you never saw any councillors out saying | :39:31. | :39:41. | |
anything about anything. And all the money that they put | :39:42. | :39:43. | |
into those leaflets. When it's a general or local | :39:44. | :39:45. | |
election clustered outside the polling stations, | :39:46. | :39:47. | |
you know, you see them. But we saw nobody this time, | :39:48. | :39:50. | |
from any side whatsoever. Ukip were high here, | :39:51. | :39:55. | |
in places where people And ultimately I think | :39:56. | :39:57. | |
that is what it boils down to. It's that no one is listening to us | :39:58. | :40:02. | |
so the only way you can Across the street in a local pub | :40:03. | :40:06. | |
we met Matthew, Alex and Hayden. They buck the national trend | :40:07. | :40:18. | |
of all being under 30 and voting Yes, finally being on the winning | :40:19. | :40:21. | |
side of something so important that will change the future of this | :40:22. | :40:31. | |
country quite dramatically, It's been good that we've been | :40:32. | :40:33. | |
involved with it for so long and fought so passionately | :40:34. | :40:37. | |
on an issue. It's certainly what we've | :40:38. | :40:40. | |
been campaigning for, We certainly didn't | :40:41. | :40:42. | |
see any visible Remain They were not interested in us, | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
same as the Westminster parties We are too far out of the way | :40:47. | :40:50. | |
in Great Yarmouth for some people. I think for me it is | :40:51. | :40:58. | |
about democracy. I don't feel the EU | :40:59. | :41:00. | |
is a very democratic system. I believe that our generation | :41:01. | :41:02. | |
are stewards of democracy. I don't think it is ours to give | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
away to some unelected I think it's important | :41:08. | :41:09. | |
that our government actually is in control of our own affairs, | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
and that we, the people can vote them in and vote them out | :41:15. | :41:17. | |
depending what they want. Even if this was the worst decision | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
that we've ever made, and so far we have been proven | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
right, the markets haven't crashed, we haven't all lost our jobs, | :41:26. | :41:28. | |
we are not suffering from world War three yet, is that, | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
even if it was the worst decision we ever made, | :41:33. | :41:34. | |
we made it, it wasn't someone else And I think that is | :41:35. | :41:37. | |
what is important. Yarmouth is the 20th most | :41:38. | :41:43. | |
deprived borough in England. It is a busy market today | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
and the area is a popular choice Secondly, it is nice | :41:48. | :41:50. | |
to have England as England, to be able to do the things | :41:51. | :42:01. | |
we want to do when we want to do it. And have our own say, | :42:02. | :42:08. | |
rather than rely on other people. What does that mean to | :42:09. | :42:10. | |
you when you say England is England? What does that look | :42:11. | :42:13. | |
like in the future, now? Er, well obviously I've got | :42:14. | :42:15. | |
grandchildren so I've voted for them as well and I think if we had stayed | :42:16. | :42:18. | |
in there wouldn't have been much I think it's going to take time, | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
I think eventually that will and up being a nice country | :42:23. | :42:27. | |
like it always was. I voted to leave for the fishing | :42:28. | :42:30. | |
industry, so hopefully it We have been in business | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
here for 70 years. And I am hoping that my children | :42:35. | :42:41. | |
will take over this, I believe by voting Out, | :42:42. | :42:44. | |
it's going to help. I voted because I wanted | :42:45. | :42:54. | |
Britain to be British laws. Not being told what to | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
do by other people. Other countries tell us how we have | :42:59. | :43:09. | |
to live, really. We survived for years before | :43:10. | :43:11. | |
we went in, my grandfather, my great-grandfather, | :43:12. | :43:14. | |
everyone, know what I mean. What we fought for would not have | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
lasted two world wars... Everywhere in England | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
the homelessness problems, poverty problems, food problems, | :43:25. | :43:31. | |
do you know what I mean? Me, myself, I was homeless | :43:32. | :43:35. | |
and it took me ages No offence to immigrants, | :43:36. | :43:38. | |
but they come to England, they don't go on the streets, | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
they get put into homes. I am not racist, | :43:45. | :43:47. | |
no things like that. But why should an English person | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
have to go on the streets? Looking forwards, what does | :43:52. | :43:54. | |
that mean for you? It seems like it was a bad move, | :43:55. | :43:57. | |
really, just what people are saying, feeling you racist for wanting | :43:58. | :44:02. | |
to come out of the EU, it is just crazy stuff, | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
like people are scared You're damned if you do, | :44:08. | :44:09. | |
you're damned if you don't. People that voted In are getting | :44:10. | :44:15. | |
slated, people that voted Out, I think it's something the town has | :44:16. | :44:18. | |
had to do. It's a case of, we are not | :44:19. | :44:28. | |
a racist town, we are a town My biggest fear is that the British | :44:29. | :44:31. | |
people will be taken I fear that these people will come | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
in without any conditions, it will be unlimited, | :44:37. | :44:41. | |
and it will be, and it was, and The people of Great Yarmouth can | :44:42. | :44:45. | |
only hope their vote will lead But for a town who feels betrayed | :44:46. | :44:55. | |
and ignored by Westminster, the vote to leave has given | :44:56. | :45:00. | |
them a resounding voice. You can watch that report and again | :45:01. | :45:20. | |
on our programme page. So while voters reflect on the implications | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
of the decision to leave the EU and politicians reel from the | :45:25. | :45:27. | |
repercussions, how are British people living abroad feeling about | :45:28. | :45:28. | |
it all? Jacquelyn MacLennan is a lawyer | :45:29. | :45:32. | |
living in Brussels, Ralph Fenwick is a pensioner | :45:33. | :45:38. | |
living near Malaga in Spain, and Claire Waterhouse | :45:39. | :45:40. | |
is a music teacher in Frankfurt. Thank you all very much for joining | :45:41. | :45:49. | |
us, Ralph, tell us how you are feeling about the fact that we have | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
voted to leave the EU. Well, actually, I am quite sad about the | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
whole thing. I think it has been a long decision, it has been mainly | :45:59. | :46:06. | |
based on racism, on immigration. And it made off you know, we have just | :46:07. | :46:10. | |
had a report issued by the British Embassy who said there will be no | :46:11. | :46:14. | |
change, but that is only for the next two years. There is definite | :46:15. | :46:21. | |
changes which is affecting the older generation here, especially in | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
Spain. The pound has crashed, the exchange rate is plummeting. And | :46:25. | :46:31. | |
within one week, the retired people that are living here in Spain have | :46:32. | :46:38. | |
lost... Their pensions have been devalued about 10% in one week. How | :46:39. | :46:43. | |
are you feeling about your future in Spain? You say the reassurance from | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
the British Embassy has not done much to reassure you. Well, the | :46:48. | :46:52. | |
thing is, there is nothing going to happen for at least two years, and | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
this is what they are saying. Nothing has changed fundamentally | :46:58. | :47:00. | |
yet, because until we sign the Article 50 and actually come out of | :47:01. | :47:09. | |
Europe, nothing can be done, and the benefits that we get here, the | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
health service, the Spanish health service is fantastic, and they get | :47:15. | :47:21. | |
very cheap prescriptions. So that is not going to change for at least two | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
year. The biggest effect that it has had at the moment is the devaluation | :47:28. | :47:33. | |
of the pound, and the exchange rate. We have got Jacqueline back, sorry, | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
Ralph, I want to go to her, because you have been living in Brussels for | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
a long time. Your kids are there, tell me how you are feeling about | :47:44. | :47:49. | |
that. Yes, good morning, we are very shocked, three generations of my | :47:50. | :47:53. | |
family are very shocked, we live in Brussels, my parents live in the | :47:54. | :47:56. | |
North of Scotland, one of my children is in the UK, the other is | :47:57. | :48:01. | |
still in school in Brussels. And we all feel that this was equivalent to | :48:02. | :48:09. | |
a bereavement in some sense, that there is just this huge uncertainty, | :48:10. | :48:16. | |
and my parents feel that this vote has really deprived my children and | :48:17. | :48:21. | |
others in their situation of the future that they could expect. And | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
so that is something which we are dealing with at the moment. I think | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
your kids are trying to get citizenship there, is that what you | :48:33. | :48:39. | |
are doing? Yes, my children, their immediate reaction was that they | :48:40. | :48:42. | |
have grown up in Brussels, they have the right to Belgian citizenship, | :48:43. | :48:48. | |
and they should activate that right immediately. That was not something | :48:49. | :48:51. | |
that they had done before, my sons are in their early 20s, my daughter | :48:52. | :48:58. | |
is 18, but they went to the commune this morning and paid 150 euros | :48:59. | :49:02. | |
each, and that complete their dossier. They signed up to an | :49:03. | :49:10. | |
agreement with the Belgian constitution, and it is explicit in | :49:11. | :49:14. | |
their agreement to ensuring that fundamental rights are at here to | :49:15. | :49:18. | |
do. And I thought that was terribly ironic, because at the same time | :49:19. | :49:23. | |
Theresa May, who has put herself forward as the candidate, confirmed | :49:24. | :49:26. | |
that she would move forward with Brexit and that she would move | :49:27. | :49:31. | |
forward to take the UK out of the European can on human rights. So I | :49:32. | :49:38. | |
do feel very sad that the situation has come to this and that other kids | :49:39. | :49:45. | |
in the UK, particularly in the north of Scotland, where indeed there may | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
be challenges with employment opportunities, but they could see | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
their futures... I want to bring in Clare, a music teacher living in | :49:55. | :49:58. | |
Frankfurt, how are you feeling? Do you feel your future is secure? I'm | :49:59. | :50:04. | |
not sure at the moment! Like I have said, we know that nothing is going | :50:05. | :50:09. | |
to happen soon, so we know no immediate changes will happen, but | :50:10. | :50:13. | |
there is definitely an underlying sense of uncertainty, it is like | :50:14. | :50:18. | |
being in a weird sense of limbo, and it is what people keep asking me, | :50:19. | :50:22. | |
are you going to be OK to work, are you allowed to stay? We genuinely | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
don't know! I was hoping to start up a company over the summer, and now | :50:27. | :50:31. | |
and stomach and just thinking, how much more complicated is it going to | :50:32. | :50:37. | |
be? What about people living around you? How are they viewing the | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
decision by the UK to leave the EU, your friends and neighbours, what | :50:42. | :50:46. | |
are they saying? Everybody has been shocked and surprised, I have not | :50:47. | :50:49. | |
spoken to anyone who has supported the Brexit. Somebody actually | :50:50. | :50:55. | |
offered me their condolences, so that is true that people feel a | :50:56. | :50:57. | |
sense of bereavement. Everyone I have spoken to has just been so | :50:58. | :51:05. | |
surprised, and then both expats and locals here, and other British | :51:06. | :51:09. | |
people I have spoken to, the expats that I've been here for longer, they | :51:10. | :51:15. | |
feel a sense of shame, which is so sad. And then other expats I have | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
spoken to, some English, some from other places but have an English | :51:21. | :51:24. | |
passport, or thinking, I don't know what is going to happen, just | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
worried about what could be around the corner, because we don't know, | :51:29. | :51:31. | |
and it would be such a shame for something to happen that means I am | :51:32. | :51:35. | |
not able to work here, or my partner is not able to stay here. Because we | :51:36. | :51:41. | |
want to stay. Ralph, have you spoken to locals about their view of | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
Brexit? Well, first of all, I wholeheartedly agree with the last | :51:48. | :51:49. | |
correspondent, with absolutely everything she said. It is a total | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
shock, and here in Spain the people I have spoken to, overwhelmingly, | :51:56. | :52:01. | |
they voted to stay in, those of us who were allowed to vote, because | :52:02. | :52:05. | |
people who have lived in Spain for over 15 years were not allowed to | :52:06. | :52:11. | |
vote. So, really, there was not too many people voted from Spain, they | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
had to vote online, and it was made extremely difficult. There is one or | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
two people I have spoken to since voted to come out. They have | :52:21. | :52:26. | |
actually said to themselves, what have we done? When it sinks in, | :52:27. | :52:35. | |
Boris, as you know, he was very important in this debate, and now he | :52:36. | :52:39. | |
has left the sinking ship, he has run away and left it an awful mess | :52:40. | :52:44. | |
to clear up. But as the lady said, from Brussels, nothing is going to | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
happen immediately. But the uncertainty is there, and what the | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
people are concerned about is being is like especially their health. | :52:54. | :53:00. | |
Presently, most of the Brits have got what they call an E111 from the | :53:01. | :53:08. | |
National Health Service in the UK which allows them free health | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
treatment here... Thank you all for joining us, Brits living abroad, | :53:13. | :53:16. | |
your thoughts and feelings on the Brexit. Lots of you at home, | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
watching and getting in touch after our discussion earlier about the | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
politics of it all, Steve has tweeted is obvious in England needs | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
its own parliament away from London. Christopher has e-mailed, I would | :53:30. | :53:31. | |
like to suggest the country has a referendum on whether we should have | :53:32. | :53:37. | |
had a referendum at all. If the answer was no, we do away with the | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
result. Monica says, Labour cannot run their own party, how could they | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
run a country? Fred says, the two who go through to leadership battle | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
will be Theresa May and whoever Boris endorses, not Gove. Norman has | :53:53. | :54:01. | |
tweeted, the Brexit vote was out, anything else is undemocratic. | :54:02. | :54:07. | |
Britain, believe in yourself. Thank you for all your thoughts. | :54:08. | :54:10. | |
Coming up... being held to remember | :54:11. | :54:14. | |
the Britain's bloodiest battle, We speak to the the family | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
of one of the thousands of British soldiers | :54:21. | :54:25. | |
who went over the top on that day. Investigators in the United States | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
are looking into the first known fatal accident involving a vehicle | :54:31. | :54:32. | |
being driven on autopilot. The driver of a Tesla electric car | :54:33. | :54:36. | |
died in a collision with a lorry in Florida, as he was using | :54:37. | :54:39. | |
technology which allows the vehicle So where does this leave | :54:40. | :54:42. | |
the future of driverless cars? Professor Noel Sharkey should know, | :54:43. | :54:50. | |
he's professor of artificial intelligence and robotics | :54:51. | :54:52. | |
at University of Sheffield. Thank you very much for joining us, | :54:53. | :55:04. | |
what you think, hearing that there has now been the first fatality in a | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
driverless car? It is very bad news for the field, I think, in general. | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
There is no clear message yet about what caused the accident, which is | :55:16. | :55:20. | |
very worrying. Tesla is saying that the car was not able to recognise | :55:21. | :55:26. | |
the white side of a tractor trailer that the car was involved in a | :55:27. | :55:30. | |
collision with against a brightly lit sky, it had driven across the | :55:31. | :55:36. | |
car's pad. Is that an understandable, acceptable | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
explanation to my no, I don't think it is. It would explain why the | :55:42. | :55:45. | |
front facing camera was fooled, but there is also front facing radar, | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
and it is surrounded by six sonar sensors, ultrasonic sensors, and | :55:52. | :55:56. | |
those all work on sound. So there is no way bright light would affect | :55:57. | :55:59. | |
those at all, so they should have detected it. I suspect what it is, | :56:00. | :56:05. | |
because the Tesla car is so low, this was supposed to be a very high | :56:06. | :56:10. | |
trailer, so it did not actually detect the trailer, but the | :56:11. | :56:12. | |
windscreen smashed into it. The camera would be able to see a bit | :56:13. | :56:17. | |
higher than the other sensors, so that is probably a problem. But if | :56:18. | :56:21. | |
the sensors were higher, perhaps on the roof, it wouldn't have happened. | :56:22. | :56:26. | |
Obviously, in any situation where you are handing over control to | :56:27. | :56:30. | |
something or someone else, you need to have complete faith in it. This | :56:31. | :56:36. | |
is only the first fatality, but what you think it might do to trust in | :56:37. | :56:41. | |
this system? Well, you can never... Unpredictable things happen on all | :56:42. | :56:47. | |
roads, and Tesla cars have done 194 million miles, and the world average | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
for a fatalities 64 million miles. I think it could disrupt public trust, | :56:53. | :56:55. | |
and this is just the first accident. The trouble is that these people | :56:56. | :56:59. | |
keep selling the idea that there will be less fatalities on the road | :57:00. | :57:03. | |
as a result of driverless cars, and I believe that will be the case | :57:04. | :57:06. | |
eventually, but there is no evidence for it at the moment. We should go a | :57:07. | :57:10. | |
bit slowly, they are going for long at this, because if we lose public | :57:11. | :57:16. | |
trust, the technology will be toast. How much is this technology being | :57:17. | :57:21. | |
rolled out at the moment? Well, in California, there are nine companies | :57:22. | :57:28. | |
now driving around, and Californian law, not in this country, but | :57:29. | :57:31. | |
Californian law has changed to accommodate it. But they need to be | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
insured by Google. Google were planning to sell their cell thriving | :57:37. | :57:39. | |
cars, they are much more advanced, they were planning to sell them this | :57:40. | :57:46. | |
year, but the bill in California means they can only lease them, and | :57:47. | :57:50. | |
they have to be fully accountable for any accident. Tesla is trying to | :57:51. | :57:54. | |
get out of this, but they are saying somebody should always have their | :57:55. | :57:58. | |
hand on the wheel at all times, and the car actually reminds you of | :57:59. | :58:02. | |
that. But it is a very big ask, if you are driving a long distance, and | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
you have very much reduced attention, your mind is going to | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
wander, but when you are not actually controlling the car, with | :58:11. | :58:14. | |
your hands on the wheel, your mind is going to wonder. You also get | :58:15. | :58:18. | |
something called automation bias, which means that if something works | :58:19. | :58:22. | |
well most of the time, you just come to trust it and do not use your own | :58:23. | :58:27. | |
judgment at all. So it is a bit of a worry. Thank you for joining us, | :58:28. | :58:33. | |
thank you. We will have the latest news in just a few moments, but | :58:34. | :58:36. | |
first a weather update with Peter. It may be hard to believe given | :58:37. | :58:43. | |
recent experiences, but this time last year on the first to light we | :58:44. | :58:47. | |
were in the middle of a heatwave, temperatures at Heathrow reached a | :58:48. | :58:53. | |
scorching 37 degrees. -- on the 1st of July. Today we will be lucky of | :58:54. | :58:57. | |
anywhere gets above 20 degrees, definitely on the cool side and set | :58:58. | :59:00. | |
to stay this way through the weekend. Breeze is blowing in from | :59:01. | :59:05. | |
the Atlantic bringing some spells of sunshine, but also a scattering of | :59:06. | :59:09. | |
fairly heavy showers, and more persistent rain across the far | :59:10. | :59:12. | |
south-east is taking its time to get out of the way as well. That is the | :59:13. | :59:15. | |
message for the rest of the day, sunny spells and showers, some quite | :59:16. | :59:19. | |
heavy, hail and thunder in the mix across Scotland, Northern Ireland | :59:20. | :59:23. | |
and northern England, but equally some decent gaps between them, | :59:24. | :59:27. | |
rattling through quite quickly on a brisk wind. Mid-teens at best across | :59:28. | :59:31. | |
the northern half of the UK, maybe high teens as you come further | :59:32. | :59:36. | |
south. Out of the breeze, it will feel OK. For Wimbledon, the chance | :59:37. | :59:40. | |
of one or two interruptions, but we should see a fair amount of play | :59:41. | :59:44. | |
through the course of the day, just a few annoying showers potentially | :59:45. | :59:47. | |
drifting through. That freshening breeze could make it tricky for the | :59:48. | :59:52. | |
players out on court. Through this evening and overnight, we're going | :59:53. | :59:54. | |
to keep the show was going, because the breeze keeps blowing in from the | :59:55. | :59:59. | |
Atlantic, particularly across northern and western parts. Quite a | :00:00. | :00:03. | |
few clear spells, on the cool side by the end of the night, | :00:04. | :00:06. | |
particularly across northern areas, well down into single figures. As we | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
move into the start of the weekend, it is low pressure that is | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
dominating at the moment across the UK. High pressure is wishful | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
thinking! That is where it is likely to stay for the moment, in the | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
south, and low pressure means and settled weather, brisk winds blowing | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
through, against sunshine and showers for Saturday. The further | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
south you are, the better your chance of missing the showers. From | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Northern Ireland and northern England northwards, 14-15d at best, | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
well below the seasonal average. Different for Sunday, just a chance | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
of some thicker cloud, patchy rain running in across southern most | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
areas, some uncertainty about that. Still showers across Scotland and | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Northern Ireland, in between not too bad a day, perhaps try with lighter | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
winds as well, and looking ahead into the early part of next week, it | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
is a very similar pattern, signs of thing settling down a little bit | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
across the South, temperatures beginning to pick up just a touch, | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
but still a chance of a few showers the further north you are. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Hello, it's 10 o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling. | :01:12. | :01:12. | |
Welcome to the programme if you've just joined us. | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
The seven days since the UK voted to leave have brought political | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
turmoil, shocks to the financial market and recriminations | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Our studio audience give us their take on the last | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
week and what the future holds for Brexit Britain. | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
Plus, a special report from Great Yarmouth, | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
which saw one of the highest Leave votes in the country. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
People living there tell us how they voted and why. | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
Enough. It is saturated now. And we need to be able to do more for the | :01:49. | :01:59. | |
people here already. You can see the full report on our | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
programme page. Remembering the Somme - | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War, | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
where more than a million men Glory beckons for Wales - | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
if they beat Belgium tonight, Now over to the BBC Newsroom | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
and Anita with a summary People have fallen silent | :02:23. | :02:37. | |
across Europe this morning for two minutes - | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
to mark the centenary of one of the bloodiest battles | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
of the First World War: the battle More than 19,000 British | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
soldiers lost their lives on the first day alone, | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
the worst day in the history More than one million servicemen | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
were killed or injured on all sides as the British and French | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
armies fought the Germans. As the time approached, the King's | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
First Artillery fired their guns. Then silence, as people | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
stopped to remember. At the Grave of the Unknown Warrior | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
in Westminster Abbey, in Edinburgh, at the Scottish | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
National War Memorial, at the Somme Museum | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
in Northern Ireland. In Wales, at Cathays | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Park in Cardiff. Children were silent | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
at the National Memorial And in France, | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
at the Thiepval Memorial, Then, as Big Ben chimed, | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
the sound of whistles, the signal that sent | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
the men over the top, This was one of the sites | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
where the battle began, At precisely 28 minutes | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
past seven, British soldiers had tunnelled | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
through the trenches underneath the German lines | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
to plant explosives. What remains is the Lochnagar | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
Crater, almost 300 feet in diameter | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
and 70 feet deep. It has been preserved | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
so people will never forget. Today, children laid a wreath | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
of conciliation, representing the 21 nations from where people | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
lost their lives and were injured. that we will not let the stories | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
from this place be forgotten. And I think the desire to pay | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
tribute, to remember, to honour our respective nations' war dead, | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
has not diminished. And we still feel the need | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
to be here. All through the night, | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
vigils were held around the country. Now the nation remembers that | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
first day of the battle. In Exeter, each of the 19,240 | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
soldiers who died on this day, have been represented | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
by a 12 inch figure wrapped and bound in a hand-stitched shroud, | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
another symbol that they will In just over an hour, | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
the surprise challenger for the Conservative leadership, | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
Michael Gove, will formally set out | :05:22. | :05:22. | |
his pitch for the job. Mr Gove, currently the Justice | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
Secretary, declared that he would run yesterday morning, | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
confounding expectations that he'd be supporting a bid | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
from Boris Johnson. The former Mayor of London has now | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
pulled out, and hasn't Mr Gove faces the new frontrunner | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Theresa May, as well as Stephen MPs are urging the Government | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
to make radical changes to the laws on prostitution | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
in England and Wales. The Home Affairs Select Committee | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
says soliciting should no longer be a crime for sex workers, | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
and those who have a criminal record for offences related | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
to prostitution should Scientists say they've discovered | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
the first clear evidence that the ozone layer over Antarctica | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
has begun to heal. Last year, the hole had shrunk | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
since the year 2000 by an amount Scientists say it may be down | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
to the phasing out of ozone-harming That's the news for now. | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
I'll have more at 10.30. Thank you. A of you getting in touch | :06:17. | :06:35. | |
on the aftermath of the referendum result, a week on. -- lots of you. | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
Margaret has e-mailed, why are we concentrating on all of these | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
self-serving politicians? All of them are grubby candidates, anxious | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
to jump on the leadership platforms. Significant number of people to vote | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
to leave have now changed their minds. Politicians need to govern a | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
country by doing what is best for the UK by voting in the House of | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
Commons to reverse Brexit. And another says that Theresa May should | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
not be trusted on Brexit. She wants to kick Article 50 as far down the | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
road as she can. Thank you for getting in touch. I will be talking | :07:20. | :07:28. | |
to our audience in a few minutes. Do stay with us. | :07:29. | :07:29. | |
Now let's catch up with the sport. Here's Tim. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
We are hoping there could be some triumph for everyone to cheer | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
tonight? Absolutely. It has been a big week for the country but Wales | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
are getting ready for their biggest match in 58 years. They take on | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
Belgium in the quarterfinals of Euro 2016 this evening. Tata nationally | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Williams is fit to play after being taken off against Northern Ireland | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
at the weekend. The squad had a look at the Stadium yesterday and the | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
much criticised pitch which has already been relayed during the | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
tournament. Not that Wales will worry as they look to make history. | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
It is amazing to be in the round of 16 and to get the victory. | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
To have our families there, it was amazing | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
Obviously the kids came on at the end. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
We can look back at pictures and videos and have an | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
amazing memory of that time. Hopefully there's more to come. | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
The winners of Wales against Belgium will play Portugal in the | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
semifinals. They beat Poland on penalties last night. It was 1-1 | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
after extra time. When they eventually got to spot kicks, | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Ricardo Quaresma scored for Portugal. One player who appeared at | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
Euro 2016 is Spain foreword Lolito. He has signed for Manchester City | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
this morning from Celta Vigo. He has agreed a four-year contract. -- | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
Nolito. He is the fourth signing of Pep Guardiola's rain as Manchester | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
City manager. The two previously worked together at Barcelona. Some | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
more transfer news. Crystal Palace have signed midfielder Andros | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
Townsend from Newcastle for ?30 million on a five-year deal. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
Townsend just missed out on a place in the England squad for Euro 2016. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Although he might be happy about that given the Iceland result. | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Another chance for Britain to shine at Wimbledon. Dan Evans faces the | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
biggest challenge of his career as he takes on seven time champion | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Roger Federer on centre court. Andy Murray is safely through to the | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
third round after a comfortable win against -- against Yen-Hsun Lu. The | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
second seed winning in straight sets. Murray will now face John | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
Marcus Willis against Roger Federer Marcus Willis against Roger Federer | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
on Wednesday. Today it is the turn of another Briton, Tara Moore. She | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
is aiming to try to produce an almighty shock. She is a wild card | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
ranked 227th in the world. She played brilliantly to come through | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
against Svetlana Kuznetsova. That against Svetlana Kuznetsova. That | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
match is second on Court number three. Play starts at 11 o'clock. | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
Julia Stepanov has been cleared to compete as a neutral athlete at the | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
rear -- Rio Olympics. She revealed that doping was rife in Russian | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
track and field. The Russian Athletics Federation remains banned | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
from international competition for state-sponsored doping. Plenty of | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
sport around today. Thank you. We are hoping for some | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
good British glory today. Fingers crossed. | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
We've had resignations, sporting embarrassments, | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
A week ago, Britain was part of the EU. | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
But come last Friday morning, the UK had voted to leave | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
and David Cameron had stepped down as Prime Minister. | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
The EU Parliament had its first meeting in over 40 | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
We already know the Conservative candidates who want to be the next | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
One of the front runners, Boris Johnson, has announced | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
he won't be standing, after Michael Gove withdrew | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
his support, and said he would stand himself. | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Theresa May, Liam Fox, and Stephen Crabb have also | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
launched their bids, as has the Energy Secretary, | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
And in the Labour Party, the former Shadow Business Secretary, | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
Angela Eagle, has delayed her plan to challenge Jeremy Corbyn | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
after a week of resignations from the shadow cabinet. | :11:46. | :11:55. | |
We're going to speak to our studio audience shortly. | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
What is being said in Westminster today? What a difference a week | :11:59. | :12:10. | |
makes, particularly in politics. The focus is on Michael Gove's speech in | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
about an hour, setting out his vision for a post Brexit world under | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
his leadership and under his prime minister ship. The next leader of | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
the Conservative Party will become the next Prime Minister. I think it | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
is very to say he has not exactly had a totally positive response from | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
them picking up on his treachery, them picking up on his treachery, | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
and his betrayal. One even suggested he had taken a big part in the | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
Brexecuted of Boris Johnson. There are a number of Tory MPs who say he | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
has been treacherous. Let's hear what... Sorry, I have forgotten who | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
it was! This is what Ken Clarke said. We | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
need to have a Prime Minister firmly in place as quickly as possible and | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
I think Michael would do us all a favour if he now stood down. It | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
Prime Minister and leader of a party needs to be trusted by his or her | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
colleagues. Michael's behaviour is, frankly, almost bizarre. I was | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
strongly against Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister. But this | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
sudden move by Michael, who was his right-hand man on he suddenly | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
wielded the knife, I think upon reflection means he is not | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
altogether suitable for the time being. | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
One of the candidate who has been having a positive outing is Theresa | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
May. This morning, she has had the backing of the daily Mail newspaper. | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
Last night we heard she had two Cabinet colleagues on her side, | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Patrick Magoffin and Michael Fallon. There are five candidates in the | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
race. Stephen Crabb, Andrea Leadsom and Liam Fox. This is a fight we | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
will be hearing plenty about. And it will be a fierce one. | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
Thank you. So many names to grapple with right now. The question is, | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
what happens next for the Conservatives and Labour? With me, | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
our audience of eight people to talk about this. And where we go from | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
here. Neil Walker voted Lib Dem last year but is a former Labour voter. | :14:20. | :14:30. | |
He once Jeremy Corbyn to go. Release once Jeremy Corbyn to stay. Then | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
wants to see a Brexit lead the Conservative Party. Tony Murray | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
voted independent in the last election. He voted Leave but never | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
expected this outcome. Shea is a labour voter upset about the Labour | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
resignations but happy that Boris has not put himself forward for the | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Conservative leadership. Esther Green, a floating voter, would like | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
to see Theresa May as the next leader of the Conservative Party. | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
Jamie Cunningham is conservative, very disappointed that Boris Johnson | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
is not standing but is now backing Michael Gove to be Conservative | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
party leader. Kim Allen, Conservative voter, is optimistic. | :15:09. | :15:09. | |
Thank you all. Keima, you are optimistic? Yes, I | :15:10. | :15:20. | |
think the decision from last week as a result of the referendum, it just | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
demonstrates, of course, the country is split in terms of what they want | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
the outcome to be. I'm optimistic, but we will have to address some of | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
the underlying issues that people feel about immigration and services. | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
So I'm optimistic that once we get through the turbulence that we are | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
going through now, things will stabilise, and once we have strong | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
leadership, things will get back to the way they were. A lot of you have | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
been here through the week, can you believe what has been unfolding? It | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
has been unbelievable, you have got Nicola Sturgeon cosying up with the | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
EU, Nigel Farage moving things over four us! You know, Jeremy Corbyn | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
walking the plank. And you have got the Conservatives, they looked like | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
they are a split as anybody, with knives coming out. You couldn't make | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
it up, really, you know. Shakespeare would have got four long plays out | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
of it, it is unbelievable. I'm just laughing at the idea that Nigel | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
Farage was moving things over four us... I was joking! Every time you | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
wake up, there has been more little power playing, manoeuvring, | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
jostling. I think it is really sad. A few weeks ago, we were talking | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
about how we should value our MPs more, be less cynical about them, | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
but when you see the kind of behaviour that as a boulder June the | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
campaign and since, is it any wonder that people are cynical and don't | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
know who to trust? Does anyone know where we are going now? It is a car | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
crash in slow motion. You can't rule anything out, that is the problem. I | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
don't think anybody has a plan of what is going to happen, | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
particularly in the Labour Party, I have no idea, day-to-day, what is | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
going on there. Equally, with the Conservative Party leadership, we | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
are still waiting to hear what each of the candidates have to say, to | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
sort of really understand who is going to be our next Prime Minister, | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
whether we will get a general election, so we can decide whether | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
it is somebody we support. Uroosa, is this part of the democratic | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
process that we have to go through now? Or would you like to see things | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
being done differently? There should definitely be a new general | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
election. Do you all agree about that? No, I don't think so. If they | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
are going to pursue the position of Prime Minister, we should have a | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
chance to vote them in, they should not just assume the position and do | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
what ever they want to do, that is not how it works. No, I think we | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
vote political parties in, the most important thing is we stabilise, | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
give some certainty to the country and have strong leadership on both | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
sides. And I think it will take some time for either political party to | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
actually express and sort of say exactly what they plan to do for the | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
country. So an early general election, at this time, it wouldn't | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
be the right thing to do. If you are really serious about democracy, the | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
mandate that the Tories now have is significantly... Well, I don't | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
believe they have a mandate as a result of the referendum, but their | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
manifesto will have to change from the basis on which they were elected | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
15 months ago, and if you want to assume authority and take us through | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
the process of extracting ourselves from Europe, and all the obligations | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
of that, public services, further austerity or not, you have to put a | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
manifesto together and get the electorate to vote on that. It is | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
not democratic to just assume... If they were just replacing the Prime | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
Minister because he had left, and they were carrying on with the old | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
manifesto, that is one thing. But we are talking about a different | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
direction, and don't the public have a right, particularly from a party | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
that goes on about undemocratic institutions in their European | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
Union? What do you think on this? I completely agree with Neil, to be | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
honest with you. The repercussions of the assault from the EU | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
referendum are massive, and I think it completely undermines the mandate | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
that the Tories had 15 months ago when they were elected. -- the | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
result. Whoever comes in, it would be disingenuous of them to move | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
forward and not call an election, they must do that, because by the | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
same token, right, Leave campaigners were criticised for having no plan, | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
but the Government didn't have a plan either. They were firmly of the | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
mind that we would vote to remain, so they have no plan. So we have to | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
go back to the electorate and say, look, this is what we are offering, | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
let's press forward. I disagree, we have the biggest popular mandate in | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
history to leave the European Union, and once we have a new leader of the | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
Conservative Party, it is their job to stabilise the country, activate | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
Article 50 and take us out of the EU, because that is what the people | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
voted. The majority of MPs were not in agreement with leaving, so are | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
you confident that MPs will deliver what the country has voted for? I | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
think there will have to respect the mandate that the people have given | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
towards Brexit. It is not up to them to decide against the will of the | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
people, when the majority of people decided we should not remain in the | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
European Union. I respect the decision, but it is about a | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
manifesto. That was a mandate to leave, we are talking about a | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
manifesto for the next four or five years, and those things are quite | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
separate. Otherwise we are facing a government that stays in power until | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
2020 and makes decisions based on our decision to leave Europe. I | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
think the new leader of the Conservative Party will want to have | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
her own... I am sure it is going to be a woman, I am sure Theresa May | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
will be the next leader! I am rooting for her, but I think that | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
the mood is not right, the country are still in shock. The political | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
leaders need to get together, come together, decide where we go from | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
here, get things stabilised. Tony Watt to say something. I think the | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
most important thing is that we are not lied to. Whoever is elected, be | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
honest with the British people, what we are going to do, what you think | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
you can get. Do not lie anymore, as much as possible! There is a danger | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
of a snap election making people power hungry and doing whatever they | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
can to get votes and not be authentic. What people want, with | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
Corbyn being laid at the moment, they want authenticity and honesty. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Can I just make one last point? Jeremy Corbyn, I am an ex Labour | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
supporter, and I would sooner have a Labour Party that had morals and | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
stood by their ideals in opposition and held the Government to account | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
on my behalf, that have a Labour that was Conservative light and in | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
power. At the moment, the problem is, to have a strong opposition, you | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
have to be united behind your leader, and the Labour MPs who are | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
resigning from the Shadow Cabinet, and those who are potentially taking | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
leadership campaigns, waiting to stay if he steps down, the | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
opposition does not look robust enough, strong enough to counter | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
what ever the next Conservative Prime Minister does. When you look | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
at the political figures who are standing within their parties, or | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
wanting to stand, if there is a leadership | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
deliver what you are all talking about, which is MPs who will listen? | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
I think Jeremy Corbyn is Labour's only hope, personally. He's not | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
listening to his MPs right now. They are not listening to him, he has the | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
mandate from the membership. The MPs in your party are listening to their | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
grassroots, they are saying that this guy is not electable. I would | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
think that you had Ed Miliband before, and they weren't listening. | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
They said, we have to listen to get into government, and I think that is | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
where a lot of MPs, 80 almost, they decided they would rather | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
respectfully ask him to step down. I think that is the right thing for | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
him to do. But the Conservative side, of course, you have got | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
Theresa May, and I have explained that I am backing her because I | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
think she's a strong candidate and would be able to bring the country | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
together and move the country forward. The Labour Party have been | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
clear on this, if you want a leadership election, 51 MPs sign a | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
nomination form and back one candidate. You do not resign, you do | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
not put letters at there, stabbing your leader in the back as you walk | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
out of the door. What I really struggle with this argument in the | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Labour Party, it has been framed as the Parliamentary Labour Party | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
against the grassroots membership. There is another significant part in | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
that relationship, which is the electorate, OK? If you want to move | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
into power, ultimately, you have to engage with the electorate, and I | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
and many of my friends and some of my family, who did support Labour in | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
the past, feel there is not a place for us in the party because we are | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
being... The focus is very much on politics because of what is going on | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
in politics, but is it what you want the focus to be on? We have just had | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
the referendum is old, and the issues going forward are about how | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
that is delivered. -- the referendum result. We all need to calm down a | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
little bit, you have got the vote that has happened, and that is done, | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
and that will progress forward, slowly but surely. There is no panic | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
over that, and we desperately need to try and disentangle these issues. | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
The vote has happened, the Government still functions, markets | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
have recovered, people have got some of their money back, everything is | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
OK, let's stop panicking. But the political chaos is something | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
different, the process of people scrambling on, over each other's | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
heads to try to get to the top. Isn't the danger how we got the | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
vote? That is causing a lot of uncertainty and fear, you are seeing | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
the rise in hate crime. I don't see one candidate from any party that | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
has all possesses the required tools to unify their party or even the | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
country. There is no-one on the list from either side that can do that, | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
and this has opened the lid on a much bigger problem. We have a | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
political system that doesn't listen properly, it never does, and people | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
feel, you know, removed and disenfranchised from that. As a | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
country, one of our next big questions is, do we need to change | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
our system? Do we need to look at PR? Something has got to change to | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
start to be able to represent people properly. Uroosa? The campaigns were | :26:36. | :26:44. | |
not clear, they were not operating on facts, it was a whole exaggerated | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
thing, appealing to extremists on both sides, that is what it did. It | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
didn't appeal to anybody in the middle, there were no hard facts | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
given to the public, this will happen if we leave, this will happen | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
if we remain. A week and, you all reconciled to be was old -- the | :27:02. | :27:11. | |
result? Is everybody on that page or not? I am not happy. In the sense | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
that, like I say, I voted to come out of the EU, but not for the | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
break-up of the United Kingdom... So you have got regret? There is a time | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
for Scottish independence and for Sinn Fein to test the people of | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
Northern Ireland, but I do not think this is the time. I agree that we | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
need a period of calm, you know, before... Nicola Sturgeon is in | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
Europe... You cannot be calling for calm... The Scottish people feel | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
like they were lied to chewing their referendum, hold on a moment. I was | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
not in favour of Scottish independence, but it is a decision | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
for them. But now I can see why they want to do this, they absolutely | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
want to leave, because the Leave campaign, take our country back. | :28:02. | :28:03. | |
Nicola Sturgeon is taking her country back for the Scottish | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
people, that is down to them. Over 1 million Scottish people voted to | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
remain. Sorry, voted to leave! Voted to leave!. You were trying to make a | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
point. You ask if we were reconciled, and I am still gutted | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
that we are going to be leaving, I know lots of people who voted to | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
remain, and lots of young people. I don't think there is going to be a | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
second referendum, I do not think there is any likelihood of Article | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
50 not being triggered, just waiting it out. I think we will come to the | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
conclusion that it is to do happen. What was quite good to see over the | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
referendum campaign, whether the campaign was that some people have | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
said that there were lies being told on either side, but things were | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
focused on policy in fact, not personality. And yet in the | :28:56. | :28:58. | |
aftermath we have seen a lot of focus on personality of Jeremy | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
Corbyn, on the way Theresa May dresses, on the personality of | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
Michael Gove, whether he is treacherous. It is a shame not to | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
have the focus on policy again, in the leadership campaigns, and still | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
have that focus on personality and personal politics, rather than the | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
policies that they want to propose for the country. I want to get from | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
each of you your view on who should be the Labour leader and the Tory | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
leader, we'll start with you, Neil. The Tory side, it is like sticking a | :29:27. | :29:34. | |
pain in a bunch of them, Theresa May would be the acceptable face, that | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
as far as I am prepared to go. The rest are just... Well, it is very | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
difficult. Angela Eagle would be an interesting healing person, but I am | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
not sure, I think we need to skip a generation, with all due respect. | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
Look at something like Stephen Kinnock. Jeremy Corbyn should stay | :29:54. | :29:59. | |
for Labour. Tories? Look up and don't like any of them! If you had | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
to pick one? May be Theresa May. I'm glad Boris Johnson is not in it. If | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
it were in my gift, I would go Andrea Leadsom. For Labour, I just | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
couldn't pick, they are as horrendous as one another. | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May. Jeremy Corbyn and I don't want any | :30:20. | :30:28. | |
of the Conservative Party candidates. Theresa May and if | :30:29. | :30:35. | |
Jeremy Corbyn were to step down, I would like to see Stella Creasy. | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
Michael Gove is the right person to take this country forward. For the | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
Labour Party, I don't think there is a credible leader. The party will | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
have to split eventually. I like Theresa May. I don't think the | :30:51. | :30:59. | |
Labour Party needs a stronger candidate than Jeremy Corbyn. It has | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
got the country talking about politics. Thank you. Keep your | :31:06. | :31:07. | |
thoughts coming in. We'll have more on the | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
centenary commemorations being held to remember the bloodiest | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
day in the history of the British Army, | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
the Battle of the Somme. we speak to the Wales fans who can't | :31:20. | :31:31. | |
quite believe that their team are on the brink of a place | :31:32. | :31:37. | |
in the semifinals. First, the news. Good morning. A | :31:38. | :31:58. | |
two-minute silence has been held across Europe this morning in memory | :31:59. | :32:01. | |
of the hundreds of thousands of men who lost their lives in World War | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
I's bloodiest battle, the Battle of the Somme. Events were also held | :32:06. | :32:16. | |
across the UK to mark the moment 100 years ago when troops left their | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
trenches to go over the top. Britain suffered more than 60,000 dead and | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
wounded on the first day alone in what became the bloodiest battle of | :32:25. | :32:26. | |
the First World War. In around half an hour, | :32:27. | :32:28. | |
the surprise challenger for the Conservative leadership, | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
Michael Gove, will formally set Mr Gove, currently | :32:32. | :32:32. | |
the Justice Secretary, declared that he would run yesterday | :32:33. | :32:35. | |
morning - confounding expectations that he'd be supporting | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
a bid from Boris Johnson. The former mayor o London has now | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
pulled out, and hasn't Mr Gove faces the new | :32:44. | :32:45. | |
frontrunner Theresa May, as well as Stephen Crabb, | :32:46. | :32:48. | |
Andrea Leadsom and Liam Fox. MPs are urging the Government | :32:49. | :32:54. | |
to make radical changes to the laws on prostitution | :32:55. | :32:56. | |
in England and Wales. The Home Affairs Select Committee | :32:57. | :32:58. | |
says soliciting should no longer be a crime for sex workers, | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
and those who have a criminal record for offences related | :33:02. | :33:03. | |
to prostitution should Scientists say they've discovered | :33:04. | :33:05. | |
the first clear evidence that the ozone layer over Antarctica | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
has begun to heal. Last year, the hole had shrunk | :33:12. | :33:14. | |
since the year 2000 by an amount Scientists say it may be down | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
to the phasing out of ozone-harming The electric car company Tesla | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
is being investigated in the United States after one | :33:23. | :33:29. | |
of its cars crashed into a lorry while on autopilot, | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
killing its driver. It's believed to be the first death | :33:33. | :33:36. | |
linked to the technology, which takes control of the car | :33:37. | :33:38. | |
to change lanes The car maker says drivers | :33:39. | :33:41. | |
were warned to keep their hands on the steering wheel even | :33:42. | :33:44. | |
when autopilot is engaged. That is a summary of the latest | :33:45. | :33:57. | |
news. Join me at 11 o'clock for BBC newsroom life. Let's catch up with | :33:58. | :34:06. | |
the sport. Thank you. The countdown is on for the Welsh football team | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
ahead of their biggest match in 58 years. The last remaining home | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
nation at Euro 2016 play their quarterfinal against Belgium in | :34:16. | :34:21. | |
Lille this evening. The prize is a semifinal match with Portugal. The | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
Portuguese beat Poland on penalties last night. Not a great game. | :34:26. | :34:34. | |
Portugal squeezed through 5-3 on spot kicks. Spain have already | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
headed home but there are forward, Nolito, is on the move. Manchester | :34:39. | :34:44. | |
City have confirmed his signing from Celta Vigo for around ?14 million. | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
It is another big day for the Brits at Wimbledon. Dan Evans takes on | :34:50. | :34:54. | |
Roger Federer for a place in round three, on Centre Court. Andy Murray | :34:55. | :34:58. | |
is already there. He comfortably went through in straight sets | :34:59. | :35:04. | |
yesterday. More sport with me on the BBC News channel throughout the day. | :35:05. | :35:07. | |
We will follow all the build-up to that match. | :35:08. | :35:09. | |
It will go down in history as the bloodiest battle | :35:10. | :35:12. | |
In 1916, the Battle of the Somme, claimed the lives | :35:13. | :35:15. | |
of a million British, French and German young men. | :35:16. | :35:17. | |
On this day alone - July the 1st - 20,000 British | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
Today marks the centenary of the battle. | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
Communities up and down the country have been coming together to | :35:27. | :35:30. | |
remember those that gave their lives for the freedoms that followed. | :35:31. | :35:33. | |
Let's take a look at the events here and in France so far. | :35:34. | :35:49. | |
Hundreds of men in full fighting kit and strangely quiet came streaming | :35:50. | :35:56. | |
down, packing the front line and reserve trenches. We have been | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
informed of the huge mine which will be blown up at 7:30am, and the great | :36:02. | :36:07. | |
explosion will be the signal to go over the top. We took up our | :36:08. | :36:11. | |
position in the communication trench leading into the front line. There, | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
we stood rather silently, wondering if we had much longer to live. And | :36:18. | :36:21. | |
suddenly brushing the ugly thought of death away. Just as the waiting | :36:22. | :36:28. | |
was becoming unbearable, and the terrible strain causing some men to | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
alter almost unnatural noises, we felt a queer, dull forward. And our | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
trench rocked and a great blue flames shot Mac into the sky, | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
carrying with it hundreds of tonnes of earth. The great mine had gone | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
up. It was 7:30am. Zero hour. That was the silence a little | :36:47. | :39:03. | |
earlier this morning. Earlier I spoke to Tricia Platts, | :39:04. | :39:06. | |
whose great uncle, Percy Dixon, served in the Battle of Somme | :39:07. | :39:09. | |
and sadly died later in war in 1918. Tricia began by telling me how | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
she first became to learn I have been aware of him probably | :39:13. | :39:24. | |
all my life, just as all our family work, simply because of the little | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
photograph on the mantelpiece. It was only when I gave up work that I | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
pursued him in detail and did some research. I was amazed to discover | :39:33. | :39:39. | |
that he was in fact a Bradford pal. I did not realise that at the time | :39:40. | :39:44. | |
the family had any connection with Bradford. But Percy's father had | :39:45. | :39:50. | |
died in 1896, leaving mother with ten children. Seven of the children | :39:51. | :39:53. | |
she then took from North Lancashire to Bradford to find work, which is | :39:54. | :39:59. | |
why Percy was there in 1914 when war was declared. And he was a young man | :40:00. | :40:08. | |
of about 24 in August, 1914. You said you were always aware of him | :40:09. | :40:11. | |
because of a little photograph on the mantelpiece. Is that because | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
the family and loss of the fact he the family and loss of the fact he | :40:17. | :40:21. | |
died so young? It is difficult to say at this distance. As a young | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
person, as a child, you don't ask questions. It was uncle Percy, he | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
was lost in the war, you know. And of course we didn't know. But we | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
didn't think to ask the questions. It was only much later I decided to | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
look at what had happened to him. He was a Bradford pal. Tell us exactly | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
what that was? He was not a professional fighter. He was a local | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
boy who volunteered alongside others like him? Exactly like that. They | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
were different for two reasons. They were all volunteers. And the | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
Battalion was raised by the city of Bradford. It happened and lots of | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
other towns as well, not just in the North of England, but Birmingham and | :41:07. | :41:10. | |
some in the south, where the local mayor and the local alderman got | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
together, formed a committee and said, we will raise a battalion for | :41:16. | :41:21. | |
the city. In Bradford they raised two -- Battalions pretty quickly. | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
How do you feel about that being a part of your family history? It is a | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
part of everyone's history, I guess. I could be one of thousands of | :41:32. | :41:34. | |
people sitting here this morning talking about an ancestor who was a | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
pal. The majority of the army at that time came through as | :41:39. | :41:43. | |
volunteers. I could be anyone, really. And I'm sure there will be | :41:44. | :41:48. | |
lots of people watching who have an ancestor who was a pal of some sort | :41:49. | :41:54. | |
from some town across England. And today, as we think about the start | :41:55. | :41:58. | |
of that battle 100 years ago, think of those young men as they went over | :41:59. | :42:04. | |
the top, it does make it feel quite personal, particularly when you have | :42:05. | :42:07. | |
a story like yours in your family where you can put a face to it. How | :42:08. | :42:13. | |
do you feel today remembering that? Well, a huge mixture. Admiration. I | :42:14. | :42:20. | |
don't feel personally a sense of pride. I think it's too far away for | :42:21. | :42:27. | |
that. I think it's more a sense of admiration, respect and certainly do | :42:28. | :42:35. | |
think that these young men, the average age was actually over 25, | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
imagined themselves to be very ordinary chaps who just did | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
something together, joined together, served together, and then of course, | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
a lot of them died together four were wounded at the same time. It is | :42:50. | :42:56. | |
a huge mix of feelings. Yes, quite emotional as well. I know that you | :42:57. | :43:00. | |
are going to be marking the day in Bradford as you have done for the | :43:01. | :43:06. | |
last ten years. Tell us what you will be doing? The city of Bradford, | :43:07. | :43:14. | |
I don't know, in the early 2000s started commemorating the first day | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
of the Somme because of growing interest really in the history of | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
the city. And at 11 o'clock they hold a service at the Cenotaph in | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
Bradford and remember men of the pals but also men of the West | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
Yorkshire Regiments and Jill -- of the regiments in which men from | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
Bradford served during the Battle of the Somme. It is the first day of | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
the long 148 day battle. So we have a lot to think about in the next | :43:43. | :43:46. | |
three or four months. It is interesting when you talk about | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
growing interest. As these events get ever further away, there is | :43:51. | :43:53. | |
always discussing about whether it means for the younger generations | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
that it is something, that there is such a distant connection to... | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
There is lessening interest. How do you see it? Of course. British | :44:04. | :44:13. | |
history is taught, 20th century history, is taught in British | :44:14. | :44:19. | |
schools now. So events like the Great War, the Second World War, are | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
part of the curriculum. So young people, I think, are better informed | :44:25. | :44:27. | |
today than I was when I was at school. I don't recall ever doing | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
any 20th-century history in the classroom. I think it is coming | :44:33. | :44:35. | |
across to children much more than it did in my time. And I think, of | :44:36. | :44:42. | |
course, people of my generation are realising that our ancestors were | :44:43. | :44:43. | |
closely involved. Tricia Platts, whose uncle, | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
Percy Dixon, served We're looking at live pictures from | :44:48. | :45:02. | |
Thiepval. You can see President Hollande, the first of many | :45:03. | :45:05. | |
dignitaries arriving for a memorial service. Around 10,000 people | :45:06. | :45:11. | |
gathered there underneath the Thiepval Memorial, which, as you can | :45:12. | :45:17. | |
see, stands high over those fields were so many fell. | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
Members of the Royal Family will be attending, the Prince of Wales, the | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
also Prime Minister David Cameron, and the French president and other | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
leaders will be joined there at that memorial today to mark 100 years | :45:38. | :45:43. | |
after the day that the Battle of the Somme commenced, the bloodiest day | :45:44. | :45:50. | |
in British military history. Let's talk more about the Battle of the | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
Somme with Paul Nixon, who is a military historian, joining us from | :45:55. | :46:01. | |
France on this day. Paul, tell us more about the Battle of the Somme, | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
why it was so bloody. It is very hard to imagine how so many people | :46:07. | :46:16. | |
could have died on this one day. It was never intended to be that way. | :46:17. | :46:22. | |
The British Army felt that they had obliterated the German defences, | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
there was a week-long artillery bombardment of the German lines | :46:29. | :46:32. | |
prior to going over the top. The attack was postponed because of bad | :46:33. | :46:35. | |
weather. When the troops went over on the 1st of July, the thought was | :46:36. | :46:39. | |
that there would be no Germans left, and they would simply walk over. Of | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
course, that was not the case, the Germans had been sheltering in very | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
deep dugouts, the bombardment lifted ten minutes before they went over, | :46:48. | :46:52. | |
giving the Germans time to mount their machine guns and line up | :46:53. | :46:56. | |
British troops in their sights. So that is why we lost 19,240 men | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
killed on that first day. And amongst those men, young men, many | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
who had never fought before, obviously, people who volunteered in | :47:07. | :47:12. | |
huge numbers, alongside men like them in their local communities. To | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
a large extent, it was a group of inexperienced people going to war. | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
Well, it was. I don't think we should think that it was due to | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
inexperience that the result was so many casualties. Experienced troops | :47:30. | :47:36. | |
also met the same fate, but it was Kitchener's army, there were many | :47:37. | :47:41. | |
Pals battalions within them, they have trained hard from August 1914 | :47:42. | :47:47. | |
and had not gone out to France until later. So they were well trained, | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
but there was only so much... No training would have prepared them | :47:53. | :47:55. | |
for bullets coming straight at them from machine guns, it was simply a | :47:56. | :48:01. | |
slaughter. As we talk to you, Paul, we can see the Duke and Duchess of | :48:02. | :48:05. | |
Cambridge arriving, also Prince Harry. As they arrive for this | :48:06. | :48:13. | |
service at Thiepval. Writes and there are also ceremonies | :48:14. | :48:57. | |
across the United Kingdom toonie be hundreds of thousands who died in | :48:58. | :49:04. | |
the Battle of the Somme, which started on July the 1st 1916. It was | :49:05. | :49:14. | |
the time when British, Commonwealth and French forces went over the top | :49:15. | :49:19. | |
100 years ago. The British Army suffered almost 60,000 casualties on | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
the first day alone, and in all more than 1 million men were killed or | :49:25. | :49:28. | |
wounded on both sides over the course of that battle, which lasted | :49:29. | :49:30. | |
141 days. There the Duke and Duchess of | :49:31. | :49:43. | |
Cambridge joining thousands who are gathered there in Thiepval for a | :49:44. | :49:51. | |
service to honour those who died 100 years ago. | :49:52. | :50:00. | |
And here yesterday the Queen led events to mark the 100 year | :50:01. | :50:07. | |
anniversary, there have been services in Westminster Abbey in | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
London, also services in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. And the | :50:13. | :50:17. | |
Duke of Cambridge has already paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, | :50:18. | :50:22. | |
saying, we lost the flower of a generation. | :50:23. | :50:33. | |
And those fields that we are looking at there in Thiepval, which are in | :50:34. | :50:43. | |
the centre of those fields, that memorial at Thiepval, that is where | :50:44. | :50:50. | |
so many soldiers fell. That is where they are remembered today, and still | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
many people go to the cemeteries and the memorials of northern France, a | :50:55. | :51:00. | |
very moving experience if you have ever done it, in order to run under | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
those who file. Of course, so many fell, and their bodies were not | :51:06. | :51:09. | |
recovered, so names are marked on many memorials. | :51:10. | :51:22. | |
And that Battle of the Somme, which was one of the bloodiest of the | :51:23. | :51:30. | |
First World War went on for five months, and it was fought over a 15 | :51:31. | :51:37. | |
mile front. But it was a war which had a heavy towel, a million killed | :51:38. | :51:42. | |
and wounded in that battle. -- toll. OK, we will have more coverage as | :51:43. | :51:55. | |
events there in Thiepval get under way. | :51:56. | :52:03. | |
It is nine minutes before 11 o'clock, let's turn our attention to | :52:04. | :52:06. | |
Wales, football, they are playing their biggest game in nearly 60 | :52:07. | :52:11. | |
years tonight, taking on Belgium at the European Championships in | :52:12. | :52:14. | |
France. They have gone further than any of the Home Nations at Euro | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
2016. Wales know a win would see them facing Portugal in the last | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
four. Katie Gornall is in Lille, where the atmosphere is building, a | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
lot of expectation and hope. Well, hope! Definitely hope, I think | :52:29. | :52:33. | |
everyone here in eight Welsh shedders keeping their fingers | :52:34. | :52:36. | |
crossed, it is getting a lot more lively here in Stade Pierre-Mauroy, | :52:37. | :52:41. | |
we have seen more fans arriving over the past hour or so. -- in a Welsh | :52:42. | :52:50. | |
shirt is. This is almost like a home game for Belgium, we are very close | :52:51. | :52:54. | |
to the border. There is a party going on in the bars down there, | :52:55. | :53:03. | |
earlier I saw Belgian fans doing a conga around the square. I have a | :53:04. | :53:07. | |
couple of Welsh fans with me now, Andy and Charles have made the trip | :53:08. | :53:11. | |
over, what a match, how excited I knew about this game, the first time | :53:12. | :53:17. | |
since 1958 that Wales are playing in the quarterfinal of a major | :53:18. | :53:20. | |
tournament? There have been some big qualifiers over the years, but not | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
thing like this, these are at home is massive, 25,000 fans turning out | :53:26. | :53:28. | |
for it, you can sense the atmosphere, massive game. Andy, are | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
you concerned about being outnumbered by the Belgian fans | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
coming over the border? Not really, we have all been having a good time, | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
it does not matter how many is here, 20 35,000, we will make ourselves | :53:44. | :53:49. | |
heard, we will have a great time. How do think this game is going to | :53:50. | :53:54. | |
go today? Wales are underdogs, Belgium are second in the world. We | :53:55. | :53:58. | |
are obviously the underdogs, but Gareth Bale as impressed in the week | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
that we are Belgium's bogey team, we played them twice in qualifying, won | :54:04. | :54:08. | |
in Cardiff and true in Brussels, they did not score past us. They | :54:09. | :54:12. | |
have got some amazing attacking players, but if we can keep it tight | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
at the back, a moment of magic from Bale and we can do it. I know that | :54:17. | :54:21. | |
you were telling me before that you have been to some of the game is | :54:22. | :54:24. | |
already in this tournament, but what plans did you have to change to make | :54:25. | :54:29. | |
this game? I don't think every Wales fan would have expected you to get | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
this far. I did not by God us getting past the train down to Paris | :54:35. | :54:43. | |
at two days' notice. -- I did not bank on. You do not have much time | :54:44. | :54:47. | |
to plan these things, but you just get it done. You are meant to be on | :54:48. | :54:53. | |
a stag do. I'm going to try to catch the last day of tomorrow, he is | :54:54. | :54:56. | |
getting married next week, so would we make the final, I might be there! | :54:57. | :55:03. | |
Sorry about this, Henry, but I'm sure he will understand if Wales get | :55:04. | :55:09. | |
to the final. How do you think it is going to go today? I think we will | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
win 1-0. I am pretty confident to be fair, and I am never normally | :55:15. | :55:22. | |
confident. I like your confidence! If Wales do win, it would be their | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
first appearance in a semifinal of a major tournament ever. We spoke | :55:28. | :55:31. | |
about 1958, that was against Brazil, they were beaten 1-0 by Pele, so | :55:32. | :55:36. | |
they are hoping to do better against Belgium. Belgian Marrack second in | :55:37. | :55:39. | |
the world, they have got Eden Hazard playing for them, but Wales have a | :55:40. | :55:44. | |
good record, they picked up four points against them in qualifying. | :55:45. | :55:50. | |
-- Belgium are ranked. Chris Coleman just want is players to enjoy the | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
occasion, and if they make the semifinal, Portugal weight, so we | :55:55. | :55:58. | |
would see the whole Wales come out to Lille for that. Not just the | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
whole of Wales, they are the home late in, will they can do it! -- the | :56:04. | :56:12. | |
only home nation left in. Back to two per barrel in France, the | :56:13. | :56:19. | |
service to remember the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. -- back to | :56:20. | :56:26. | |
Thiepval. We are awaiting the arrival of the Prince of Wales. | :56:27. | :56:33. | |
Others have already arrived, that is the memorial at Thiepval, with the | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
many thousands of names inscribed on the side. Thousands among the 1 | :56:40. | :56:49. | |
million who, in all, fell, 1 million killed or injured over the course of | :56:50. | :56:53. | |
the five-month Battle of the Somme. And there the fields where so many | :56:54. | :57:01. | |
fell in that battle that lasted 141 days, fought over a 15 mile stretch | :57:02. | :57:08. | |
of front line. And this day, 100 years ago, was the bloodiest day in | :57:09. | :57:16. | |
the history of the British Army. 19,240 British soldiers died on that | :57:17. | :57:21. | |
first day of the battle, on that 15 mile front, near to the River Somme | :57:22. | :57:26. | |
in northern France. The British captured three square miles of | :57:27. | :57:33. | |
territory on that first day. Five months later, the British had | :57:34. | :57:38. | |
advanced just seven miles, and the German defence had not been broken. | :57:39. | :57:43. | |
In all, more than a million dead and wounded on all sides, including | :57:44. | :57:49. | |
420,000 British, about 200,000 from France, and an estimated 465,000 | :57:50. | :57:56. | |
from Germany. It had been intended that the Battle of the Somme would | :57:57. | :58:01. | |
be a decisive victory for the British and French against the | :58:02. | :58:06. | |
German forces. And there you can see the people who are gathered to | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
attend the service of commemoration, 10,000 members of the public chosen | :58:12. | :58:14. | |
by ballot, hundreds of schoolchildren among them. And we | :58:15. | :58:24. | |
will have coverage of that service on BBC Newsroom Live, which is | :58:25. | :58:28. | |
coming up next, attended by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of | :58:29. | :58:32. | |
Cornwall. She will lay a wreath at the grave of her own great-uncle. | :58:33. | :58:35. | |
Thank you very much for your company today. Have a good afternoon. | :58:36. | :58:43. | |
? The weather fittingly sombre there in northern | :58:44. | :58:46. |