09/03/2017

:00:09. > :00:16.The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, is coming under pressure

:00:17. > :00:18.over his plan to increase National Insurance payments for many

:00:19. > :00:22.Some of his own MPs are unhappy with the plan.

:00:23. > :00:34.Those on higher earnings will be paying a little bit more. We think

:00:35. > :00:40.that is fair, we think it is a reasonable way to go forward, given

:00:41. > :00:45.the benefits entitlement of the self-employed has improved so much.

:00:46. > :00:46.Labour threatened to unite with Tory rebels to force a government

:00:47. > :00:50.climb-down. A former undercover policeman

:00:51. > :00:53.who posed as an addict to infiltrate risks he took and how he was stabbed

:00:54. > :01:03.and stripped naked at gun point. And we'll be live in central London

:01:04. > :01:06.as the Queen honours British military personnel who have served

:01:07. > :01:19.in Iraq and Afghanistan. In half an hour, we'll be

:01:20. > :01:27.answering your questions, so please do get in touch

:01:28. > :01:30.with anything you want to know about your family

:01:31. > :01:34.or business finances. If you text, you will be charged

:01:35. > :01:40.at the standard network rate. The Chancellor is facing

:01:41. > :01:46.accusations of breaking an election pledge by increasing

:01:47. > :01:48.National Insurance contributions After his Budget announcement,

:01:49. > :01:53.Philip Hammond is facing growing pressure to reconsider his plan

:01:54. > :01:55.from some Conservative MPs. The Treasury has rejected

:01:56. > :01:58.calls for a re-think, insisting the increase will make

:01:59. > :01:59.the National Insurance Let's get more on this from our

:02:00. > :02:15.political guru, Norman Smith. How much pressure is he under? Huge

:02:16. > :02:18.pressure. It is not just Mr Hammond has broken the Conservative Party

:02:19. > :02:24.election manifesto, many Tories oppose on principle a tax rise on

:02:25. > :02:28.people's income, but more than that, they believe this hit on the

:02:29. > :02:35.self-employed is basically hitting people who the Tory party believe

:02:36. > :02:38.are there people, they go out, start a business, form a company. Look at

:02:39. > :02:48.some of the conservative supporting newspapers this morning. This is no

:02:49. > :02:52.laughing matter, Tories break tax vow. At the moment, the Treasury is

:02:53. > :02:58.hanging tough, saying there is no U-turn. Philip Hammond is still

:02:59. > :03:02.defending the line that they didn't break the manifesto.

:03:03. > :03:09.We regard that issue has dealt with, we dealt with it in 2015. What I did

:03:10. > :03:16.yesterday was address a basic continuing unfairness in the current

:03:17. > :03:19.system, the benefits available to the self-employed have significantly

:03:20. > :03:25.improved, they have full access to the state pension now, that is worth

:03:26. > :03:28.?1800 a year on average to a self-employed person. As we go

:03:29. > :03:32.forward with our negotiations with the EU, we need to make this country

:03:33. > :03:42.strong and fit and ready for the future. My take is either Mr Hammond

:03:43. > :03:47.is a much braver Chancellor than any of us have given him credit for or

:03:48. > :03:54.his political and ten I have gone on the blink. If it is the former, he

:03:55. > :04:00.is being extraordinarily brawled -- antennae. Maybe the Treasury think

:04:01. > :04:05.it is a taxonomically that needs to be ironed out. It is simply unfair

:04:06. > :04:10.they pay less tax, the self-employed, maybe. It is costing

:04:11. > :04:15.the Treasury a whopping amount of money for stock this year alone it

:04:16. > :04:19.is thought it is costing the Treasury ?5 billion. As we move into

:04:20. > :04:23.an increasingly digital economy, it is thought more people will work for

:04:24. > :04:27.themselves. In other words, the potential for much bigger losses of

:04:28. > :04:39.money down the line are leave very significant and perhaps that is in

:04:40. > :04:39.the back of the Chancellor's mind when he chooses to make what is

:04:40. > :04:41.still a hugely controversial decision. What is your thought on

:04:42. > :04:47.that? Do let us know. Now let us catch up with the rest of the news.

:04:48. > :04:49.Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has told the BBC

:04:50. > :04:52.that the common-sense time for a second independence referendum

:04:53. > :04:56.A vote can only take place with the permission

:04:57. > :05:03.But her remarks, to the BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg,

:05:04. > :05:06.are the clearest signal yet that the SNP is planning to hold

:05:07. > :05:08.another vote before the UK leaves the European Union.

:05:09. > :05:11.In Westminster, some politicians think you're bluffing

:05:12. > :05:23.I always think that sometimes kind of says more about them than it does

:05:24. > :05:25.about me because it suggests that there are politicians

:05:26. > :05:28.in Westminster who think Brexit and all of this is some

:05:29. > :05:35.It's not a game, it's really, really serious and the implications

:05:36. > :05:37.for the UK are serious and the implications

:05:38. > :05:44.Some of your colleagues talk about autumn,

:05:45. > :05:56.Within that window, as the outline of a UK deal becomes clear,

:05:57. > :06:00.and the UK exiting the EU, I think it would be the common-sense time

:06:01. > :06:03.for Scotland to have that choice if that is the road we choose

:06:04. > :06:06.Just to be clear, you're not ruling out autumn, 2018?

:06:07. > :06:10.Theresa May is travelling to Brussels today to attend what's

:06:11. > :06:13.expected to be her final EU summit before Brexit is formally triggered.

:06:14. > :06:20.EU leaders will decide whether to extend the term of the former

:06:21. > :06:22.Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, as President

:06:23. > :06:25.despite opposition from some in his home country.

:06:26. > :06:27.A United Nations report is to call for an independent investigation

:06:28. > :06:30.into the potential health impact of the UK's largest

:06:31. > :06:35.Residents living near the Ffos-y-Fran site in South Wales

:06:36. > :06:41.have led a long campaign against air and noise pollution.

:06:42. > :06:44.The mine's operator, Miller Argent, says the company has a proud record

:06:45. > :06:50.A memorial honouring the British military personnel and civilians

:06:51. > :06:54.who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since the first

:06:55. > :06:59.Gulf War will be unveiled by the Queen this morning.

:07:00. > :07:02.Members of the public donated more than ?1 million

:07:03. > :07:04.to fund the monument, as Robert Hall reports.

:07:05. > :07:06.The military deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan over a 24-year

:07:07. > :07:10.period represent the longest and most intense series

:07:11. > :07:14.of operations since the Second World War.

:07:15. > :07:18.682 British service personnel lost their lives.

:07:19. > :07:22.Many others came home with life-changing injuries.

:07:23. > :07:26.The new memorial was first mooted in 2014 and fundraising began

:07:27. > :07:35.It stands on the bank of the Thames, alongside reminders

:07:36. > :07:42.The new monument doesn't just commemorate the Armed Forces,

:07:43. > :07:45.it gives equal prominence to the civilians who worked

:07:46. > :07:50.on the humanitarian side of operations.

:07:51. > :07:53.Government, aid and charity workers, all of whom showed the twin values

:07:54. > :07:58.Although British public opinion was divided over the merits

:07:59. > :08:02.of the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, no-one questions

:08:03. > :08:06.the dedication shown by both military and civilians trying to get

:08:07. > :08:13.The team behind the memorial accept that there is no clear end to this

:08:14. > :08:18.Today's ceremony will reawaken shared experiences

:08:19. > :08:34.We will have live coverage from the unveiling of the new war memorial

:08:35. > :08:40.later in the programme. Hawaii has become the first US state

:08:41. > :08:43.to challenge President Trump's Hawaii's attorney general said

:08:44. > :08:46.Mr Trump had violated the constitution with his redrawn

:08:47. > :08:48.executive order banning travel from He said it would damage

:08:49. > :08:51.state commerce, including its lucrative tourism

:08:52. > :08:56.industry. Guatemala is observing three days

:08:57. > :08:59.of national mourning after 22 teenage girls died

:09:00. > :09:01.in a fire at a government-run Police say the fire started

:09:02. > :09:05.after some of the girls set alight mattresses following an attempt

:09:06. > :09:07.to escape from the Malta's famous rock arch,

:09:08. > :09:15.which featured in a number of films and the TV series Game of Thrones,

:09:16. > :09:20.has collapsed into the sea. The Azure Window, on Gozo,

:09:21. > :09:29.was damaged by heavy storms. The Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat,

:09:30. > :09:31.said it was heartbreaking. A study

:09:32. > :09:33.of the arch in 2013 said A man in Australia who posed

:09:34. > :09:39.online as Justin Bieber has been charged with more than 900

:09:40. > :09:41.child sex offences. The 42-year old man is accused

:09:42. > :09:44.of persuading fans of the star Police say he had been

:09:45. > :09:48.using a number of sites, including Facebook and Skype,

:09:49. > :09:51.to communicate with children. We understand that the charges go

:09:52. > :09:59.back as much as ten years, to 2007, and he was actually caught,

:10:00. > :10:01.it is alleged, through an international operation

:10:02. > :10:04.with police in America and Europe becoming aware of him,

:10:05. > :10:06.before he was tracked back Now they suggest what he was

:10:07. > :10:11.doing was going online, posing as Justin Bieber,

:10:12. > :10:15.and soliciting indecent images from children, so really winning

:10:16. > :10:19.and abusing their trust, some very young and

:10:20. > :10:22.vulnerable victims. And the scale of it, the police say,

:10:23. > :10:26.is really quite horrific. An actor from the Harry Potter films

:10:27. > :10:30.is in intensive care after a head-on car crash left him with a broken

:10:31. > :10:35.neck and punctured lung. Jim Tavare, known for his role

:10:36. > :10:40.in Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban, also suffered 15 broken

:10:41. > :10:46.ribs and breaks in his right leg. His wife, Laura, posted a picture of

:10:47. > :10:49.him in a hospital bed on Facebook. That's a summary of

:10:50. > :10:58.the latest BBC News. Thank you. Just after 9:30am, we

:10:59. > :11:02.will talk to a personal finance expert. If you have any questions

:11:03. > :11:05.about the Budget, let us know. Do get in touch with us

:11:06. > :11:07.throughout the morning - If you text, you will be charged

:11:08. > :11:14.at the standard network rate. One person is saying, I watched the

:11:15. > :11:22.Budget and I do not understand whether it is business as usual for

:11:23. > :11:26.me. I am a serving soldier. We will be asking our guest at half past

:11:27. > :11:33.nine the answer to that for you. If you have questions, we would love to

:11:34. > :11:39.have them. Right now, let us catch up with the sport. There is only one

:11:40. > :11:44.story in town, Barcelona pulling off the greatest comeback in the history

:11:45. > :11:48.of the Champions League. I did not see it because I was watching

:11:49. > :11:52.Manchester City against Stoke. Absolutely gutted! Incredible match

:11:53. > :11:57.will stop Woody been compared to the greatest comeback in sporting

:11:58. > :12:04.history. -- incredible match. It has already been compared to. Liverpool

:12:05. > :12:12.2005, back from 3-0 down to beat Inter Milan. Barcelona needed to

:12:13. > :12:19.overturn a four goal deficit. They were 3-0 up after 50 minutes. Then

:12:20. > :12:26.this happened. PSG scored. Absolutely out of sight, 5-3 on

:12:27. > :12:31.aggregate. This from Neymar. Seven minutes to play. Outstanding free

:12:32. > :12:37.kick from Neymar to make it 4-1. Still needed two. Neymar 91st minute

:12:38. > :12:43.with a penalty controversially won by Luis Suarez. 95th minute,

:12:44. > :12:49.Roberto. Look at the celebrations! And listen to this commentary on

:12:50. > :12:54.Spanish radio. SHOUTING

:12:55. > :13:23.Chelsea! Chelsea! Chelsea! Roberto! Barca! Barca! Barca! PSG!

:13:24. > :13:27.Absolutely brilliant. I thought we would play it in full for you

:13:28. > :13:32.because it is brilliant. The reaction on Spanish radio. I do not

:13:33. > :13:37.think they have seen anything like it. The celebrations will be going

:13:38. > :13:48.on I am sure now. I am so glad you played that. I did not think it

:13:49. > :13:51.would end! Hill. What about social media? Social media went mad. --

:13:52. > :13:55.brilliant. So many tweets. At one point in one minute, 83,000 tweets

:13:56. > :14:06.sent out about this game. We picked out a couple of them. Sergio Romero

:14:07. > :14:14.-- Roberto, we made it together, incredible! Playing at centre back

:14:15. > :14:18.last night, a picture of the Barca players in the dressing room with

:14:19. > :14:25.Messi showing off his 12 pack. Good picture. This was from FC Arsenal in

:14:26. > :14:33.the official Twitter feed. We did it! Fabulous to be on the winning

:14:34. > :14:41.side. What about Harry St Germain? It is how they comeback. -- Paris St

:14:42. > :14:46.Germain. To lose in that manner, they got the tactics wrong. The

:14:47. > :14:52.manager has three times led his former club Seville to the Europa

:14:53. > :14:56.League title. They got it wrong last night, sat behind the ball. They

:14:57. > :15:00.were punished. You look at the French league table, still three

:15:01. > :15:04.points behind Monaco. As for Barcelona, they have won the

:15:05. > :15:06.European Cup five times. After that last night, you would not rule out

:15:07. > :15:13.number six. See you later. Neil Woods was an undercover

:15:14. > :15:16.policeman who risked his life to infiltrate criminal drugs gangs

:15:17. > :15:18.around the UK. Posing as an addict,

:15:19. > :15:20.he moved in a violent world where he was stabbed

:15:21. > :15:22.and held at gunpoint. At the weekend, he returned

:15:23. > :15:25.to his normal life as a family man. Over his 14-year career,

:15:26. > :15:28.Neil's evidence put numerous But he now thinks the only

:15:29. > :15:47.way to end the war Welcome. Obviously you go into the

:15:48. > :15:55.police to be a law enforcing member of the community. You found yourself

:15:56. > :16:00.in a very dangerous world. How did you feel about that? I wasn't so

:16:01. > :16:04.great at uniform policing to start with and I was fortunate to find a

:16:05. > :16:14.drug squad attachment for a month. They suggested I tried buying crack

:16:15. > :16:23.cocaine. That shaped the next 14 years of my life. What preparation

:16:24. > :16:27.was there? At the time this kind of undercover work was completely new

:16:28. > :16:32.in this country. The working at the bottom level and working your way up

:16:33. > :16:36.was completely new. There was no training for about four years and

:16:37. > :16:43.then I helped design that for other people. You were feeling your way in

:16:44. > :16:47.a world where, was made clear to you what the moral boundaries where?

:16:48. > :16:53.Only when the training came in. But that was after four years. Yes, the

:16:54. > :17:01.ethical boundaries were defined as we went along. Finding our way with

:17:02. > :17:06.what worked and what didn't. What worked and what didn't? As the job

:17:07. > :17:11.has got longer and longer and more and more difficult as organised

:17:12. > :17:18.crime got used to what I was doing, basically I had to befriend people

:17:19. > :17:22.and empathise with people and it became like weapon icing empathy.

:17:23. > :17:28.You have to move amongst the people on the streets, people who are

:17:29. > :17:33.problematic drug users and befriend them. That makes sense but it has to

:17:34. > :17:38.be more than that, doesn't it? Don't you have to pass off as somebody

:17:39. > :17:44.credible in that world, doesn't that mean taking drugs? I never had to

:17:45. > :17:48.take heroin or crack cocaine but I once had to take amphetamine. I make

:17:49. > :17:53.the mistake of presenting myself to be a connoisseur of that drug which

:17:54. > :17:59.was a mistake. Somebody gave me a present and it was 40% pure,

:18:00. > :18:04.normally the drug would be 5% pure. To avoid imminent violence I had to

:18:05. > :18:09.take some of that drug. That was quite terrifying. I was awake for

:18:10. > :18:16.three nights. Only on one occasion ever did you take drugs? I had to

:18:17. > :18:23.take cannabis in a few times but that was it. What about dealing

:18:24. > :18:28.drugs? I pretended to be a dealer very often. Sometimes I would make

:18:29. > :18:32.myself out to be a travelling burglar, wheeler dealer. I was

:18:33. > :18:38.buying large quantities in order to present that but I would never

:18:39. > :18:44.actually sell drugs. Did you raise suspicions, if you are in the world

:18:45. > :18:49.and you want taking drugs? That's where the art of the craft comes in.

:18:50. > :18:55.It's often not too difficult when you are buying heroin. The trade

:18:56. > :19:00.tends to be in those alleys and places where people might find you,

:19:01. > :19:05.organised crime likes to deal in the public eye because that is the

:19:06. > :19:09.safest place to do it. Did you ever feel your life was in danger? We

:19:10. > :19:12.said at the beginning there was a moment where you were threatened

:19:13. > :19:17.with a knife, you were stripped naked, tell us about those moments.

:19:18. > :19:23.I've had many, many moments where I thought this was it, this is all

:19:24. > :19:27.going to end. In Stoke I knocked on a door. I had been buying off a

:19:28. > :19:31.heroin dealer, I thought he was happy with me. He answered the door

:19:32. > :19:37.and put a sword to my throat. I thought this was it. My life is

:19:38. > :19:42.over. Then I heard laughing and there was a woman behind him, she

:19:43. > :19:47.said, I thought he was going to say he was drug squad then. They were

:19:48. > :19:53.laughing, they were just winding me up. Maybe he wanted to try out his

:19:54. > :19:58.new sword. You talk about it as if it was like another day in the

:19:59. > :20:01.office, but at the time how frightening was that? It's very

:20:02. > :20:06.frightening. If got to keep working all day after things like that. You

:20:07. > :20:11.can't suddenly run away, you have to keep doing it. It adds up and it

:20:12. > :20:16.takes its toll. When you say keep working all day, described how your

:20:17. > :20:23.day was defined, what would you do? I would buy heroin, then maybe do

:20:24. > :20:27.and evidence drop to someone to get that delivered, then I would go and

:20:28. > :20:34.buy some crack cocaine off someone else, then I would go shoplifting

:20:35. > :20:38.with some people. And make friends with other drug users. It was all

:20:39. > :20:42.about what connections you can make and how you can manipulate people to

:20:43. > :20:48.introduce you further up the ladder. That takes a lot of time. You did do

:20:49. > :20:54.shoplifting which obviously was a crime. It's only a crime if you

:20:55. > :20:59.don't intend to give it back. So you would return what you take? Yes, at

:21:00. > :21:04.a much later time. Thankfully it was never me who had to return it! I

:21:05. > :21:10.mentioned that you were stripped naked at gunpoint and a camera was

:21:11. > :21:17.found on you, what happened? I didn't have a camera on me the day I

:21:18. > :21:21.was stripped naked, that was in Northampton. They showed me a gun

:21:22. > :21:26.and told me to strip. Thankfully I didn't have a camera but I had a

:21:27. > :21:30.camera found once in Leicester. A gangster had been very happy with

:21:31. > :21:35.me, I had been trading with him for about four months. On this occasion

:21:36. > :21:43.I went to sell him some counterfeit clothing as part of my cover and he

:21:44. > :21:46.brought two of his friends with me and they were suspicious. One of

:21:47. > :21:52.them searched me and found a camera. I was in an isolated car park, I

:21:53. > :21:56.can't say the words I said on the television but I gave them a torrent

:21:57. > :22:01.of abuse to try and interrupted his ability to tell his friend what he

:22:02. > :22:05.had found. I then had to deliberately, as slowly as possible,

:22:06. > :22:12.fold up the clothing. If you run a way that's confirming suspicions.

:22:13. > :22:16.Very slowly I walked away. I managed to gain enough metres so that when

:22:17. > :22:22.he convinced his companion and they came after me in a car, and tried to

:22:23. > :22:25.run me over, I must have escaped that by two metres. My intelligence

:22:26. > :22:33.guide joked later run because he said he didn't know why they didn't

:22:34. > :22:38.just shoot me because they had a gun in the car. At the same time you had

:22:39. > :22:44.two young children and a wife, you would go home to that environment at

:22:45. > :22:49.weekends. Would you put everything behind you and slip easily from one

:22:50. > :22:54.well to the other? Yes, I don't think my children ever picked up on

:22:55. > :22:58.anything. I would still take them swimming on a Sunday morning. It

:22:59. > :23:07.must have seemed surreal. It did, sometimes. I think I managed them as

:23:08. > :23:11.best I could. There has been a lot of scrutiny of undercover police

:23:12. > :23:17.work and we've talked about how when you started out in 1993 it was a

:23:18. > :23:24.very different time. You helped to draw up guidelines at a later stage.

:23:25. > :23:28.Now, with that scrutiny, the fact compensation has been paid to women

:23:29. > :23:35.who have been affected by undercover policing, duped into relationships

:23:36. > :23:44.that were not genuine, how do you see what the boundaries are, for

:23:45. > :23:47.instance having sex with somebody when you undercover? But was never

:23:48. > :23:54.an issue for the kind of work I did. I hope that as we continue to

:23:55. > :23:59.examine undercover tactics we consider what an impact they have.

:24:00. > :24:03.Undercover policing is the nuclear option. You can't go into a

:24:04. > :24:07.community without incredibly affecting people's lives. Most

:24:08. > :24:15.undercover policing is about drugs. The harm I caused, the people's

:24:16. > :24:20.lives I massively influenced, people who are vulnerable and needed help,

:24:21. > :24:25.and I manipulated them, I put them in increased danger, I had them sent

:24:26. > :24:29.to prison where treatment would have been more appropriate. All of these

:24:30. > :24:33.things happened for something which, essentially, there is no evidence

:24:34. > :24:38.that it has any benefit. I put people imprisoned for over 1000

:24:39. > :24:42.years from I undercover work. How far up the food chain were they?

:24:43. > :24:50.Most of them were very nasty gangsters getting nine years apiece.

:24:51. > :24:55.Lots of people were just vulnerable people getting sent to jail for 2-3

:24:56. > :24:58.years. The people taking... The people I manipulated to get

:24:59. > :25:01.introductions to the gangsters. I put those people into prison for so

:25:02. > :25:08.long and didn't interrupt the drug supply. They clearly had committed

:25:09. > :25:12.crimes so why does but weigh heavily on you? It doesn't take long to

:25:13. > :25:20.realise problematic drug users need help. For example, as any drug

:25:21. > :25:23.counsellor will tell you, two thirds problematic heroin users are

:25:24. > :25:27.self-medicating for childhood abuse. They need help and they are being

:25:28. > :25:31.trampled on by policing drugs. It causes harm and it's futile. Futile

:25:32. > :25:36.would be bad enough but actually the tactics I used only causes organised

:25:37. > :25:43.crime to get more violent, because the ultimate defence against the

:25:44. > :25:48.tactics I used is to intimidate whole communities successfully. Is

:25:49. > :25:53.that something you saw happening? I saw it happening year after year.

:25:54. > :25:58.Give us an example. I gave up undercover work. I'd had enough of

:25:59. > :26:04.the damage it was causing. I think in 2004 I was called up and they

:26:05. > :26:10.said you've got to do this job because these gangsters are raping

:26:11. > :26:15.people as punishment for drug debts. They are incredibly vicious. I was

:26:16. > :26:23.tempted back into it again. The same thing happened. It's not just

:26:24. > :26:27.futile, each year it's the best defence. The most successful

:26:28. > :26:31.organised crime groups are the ones that are most violent. What's

:26:32. > :26:34.causing that never-ending arms race is policing drugs. It sounds like

:26:35. > :26:38.you are putting a lot of the burden of that on your own shoulders. You

:26:39. > :26:42.were putting people who are doing bad things away. Why do you see a

:26:43. > :26:47.direct link between what criminals were doing to stop getting caught

:26:48. > :26:52.and what you were doing? It's not on my shoulders it's on the shoulders

:26:53. > :26:57.of drug policy. Drug policy has created the situation. Isn't it on

:26:58. > :27:04.the shoulders of people doing the crimes? If you had a regulated drug

:27:05. > :27:08.market gangsters wouldn't be running the market. Brewery bosses don't

:27:09. > :27:11.have shoot outs. If you look at how the murder rate dropped after

:27:12. > :27:15.Prohibition ended in the United States. Violence gets worse at the

:27:16. > :27:20.moment. Is the argument you make about that that if something becomes

:27:21. > :27:25.unpalatable enough and the state feels it can't deal with it, you

:27:26. > :27:28.therefore legalise it, so it's almost an incentive for people doing

:27:29. > :27:32.bad things to make it so unpalatable. There's a drastic

:27:33. > :27:38.difference between drug criminality and any criminality because it is a

:27:39. > :27:43.a prohibited thing. Burglaries will always be wrong. Drug policy is

:27:44. > :27:46.about health. As soon as you try and make it about policing you've

:27:47. > :27:49.created a nightmare which is organised crime. We need to get

:27:50. > :27:56.drugs under control because they can be dangerous. I know that is

:27:57. > :27:59.something you now work on doing. You are the UK chair of the law

:28:00. > :28:06.enforcement against Prohibition. The government is making clear it won't

:28:07. > :28:18.be heading down that path. You can break drug policy into different

:28:19. > :28:23.pockets policy. In news this week, in Durham they have said they will

:28:24. > :28:30.prescribe heroin. In a similar way to the methadone programme. It isn't

:28:31. > :28:33.decriminalising but is monitored. It is a regulation because you are

:28:34. > :28:37.taking the market away from gangsters, undermining the power of

:28:38. > :28:40.those people controlling the market with violence. You also cut down on

:28:41. > :28:46.the crime caused by those people trying to feed their habit. Drug

:28:47. > :28:49.policy should be about saving lives and reducing harm. This is an

:28:50. > :28:53.example of a policy that does that. What about the message but is sent,

:28:54. > :28:56.if something is illegal kids are brought up knowing it's illegal,

:28:57. > :29:03.that's the framework around it. If something is not illegal it I

:29:04. > :29:08.default becomes acceptable. Messages don't save lives. They really don't.

:29:09. > :29:12.Drug policy is in a complete mess. You talk about messages to children,

:29:13. > :29:16.at the moment gangsters have the messages to children. Look at the

:29:17. > :29:20.cannabis market, that is where organised crime recruits for the

:29:21. > :29:24.future. Teenagers can't get hold of alcohol. Less than 1% of them can

:29:25. > :29:32.buy it but in this country half of them can get easy access to alcohol.

:29:33. > :29:35.We have the easiest teenage access to cannabis and this is where

:29:36. > :29:39.organised crime recruit the gangsters of tomorrow's. How have

:29:40. > :29:43.your colleagues in the police reacted to your new perspective?

:29:44. > :29:47.Initially, obviously with writing the book, it's a whistle-blowing

:29:48. > :29:51.book. I was Public enemy number one in the covert policing world. In the

:29:52. > :29:54.last few months I've had overwhelming support and we are

:29:55. > :30:01.recruiting massively. Only yesterday I met with the police and crime

:30:02. > :30:05.commission of the North Wales, he has just joined the organisation. He

:30:06. > :30:10.is a serving police and crime commission. He has said he supports

:30:11. > :30:14.Ron Hogg completely and will be looking into how he can implement

:30:15. > :30:24.the same policy. The work you are doing now, do you see it almost as a

:30:25. > :30:29.way of solving your conscience? You have suffered from press dramatic

:30:30. > :30:34.stress disorder of a type which is called moral damage.

:30:35. > :30:41.It is about remembering we can be harmed by threats of violence to

:30:42. > :30:46.ourselves but also by causing harm to others. I am fine now, completely

:30:47. > :30:50.well. It is not so much easing conscience but doing the right

:30:51. > :30:56.thing. Undercover I was fighting the good fight, catching bad people,

:30:57. > :31:00.making society safer. Once you realise that policing drugs is only

:31:01. > :31:04.causing harm and the evidence does support what I am saying, with my

:31:05. > :31:10.experience, I think I was duty bound to speak out. Thank you very much

:31:11. > :31:15.for talking to us. Get in touch with your thoughts on what Neil has been

:31:16. > :31:18.talking about. Neil's book Good Cop,

:31:19. > :31:21.Bad War is published today. We'll have more reaction

:31:22. > :31:25.to the Chancellor's budget, including changes to

:31:26. > :31:26.National Insurance contributions I'll hear from some who may be

:31:27. > :31:30.affected by the change. Honouring those who have served

:31:31. > :31:35.in Afghanistan and Iraq - we're live at the unveiling

:31:36. > :31:44.of a new war memorial. Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

:31:45. > :31:45.with a summary of today's news. The Chancellor is facing

:31:46. > :31:48.accusations of breaking an election pledge by increasing

:31:49. > :31:51.National Insurance contributions After his Budget announcement,

:31:52. > :31:54.Philip Hammond is facing growing pressure to reconsider his plan

:31:55. > :31:59.from some Conservative MPs. The Treasury has rejected

:32:00. > :32:01.calls for a re-think, insisting the increase will make

:32:02. > :32:15.the National Insurance What I did yesterday was address a

:32:16. > :32:20.basic continuing unfairness in the current system, the benefits

:32:21. > :32:23.available to the self-employed have significantly improved, they have

:32:24. > :32:27.full access to the state pension now, that is worth ?1800 a year on

:32:28. > :32:33.average to a self-employed person. As we go forward with our

:32:34. > :32:36.negotiations with the EU, we need to make this country strong

:32:37. > :32:48.and fit and ready for the future. Nicola Sturgeon has told the BBC the

:32:49. > :32:53.common-sense time for a second referendum would be autumn next

:32:54. > :32:56.year. Her remarks are the clearest signal yet the SNP is planning to

:32:57. > :33:01.hold another vote before the UK believes that EU.

:33:02. > :33:04.The Queen will unveil a memorial in London this morning in honour

:33:05. > :33:07.of all those from the UK who served in Iraq and Afghanistan

:33:08. > :33:10.The monument is dedicated to civilians as well as

:33:11. > :33:15.Members of the public donated more than ?1 million to fund it.

:33:16. > :33:20.We'll be live at the memorial in the next half an hour.

:33:21. > :33:23.A man in Australia who posed online as Justin Bieber

:33:24. > :33:28.has been charged with more than 900 child sex offences.

:33:29. > :33:31.The 42-year old man is accused of persuading fans of the star

:33:32. > :33:35.Police say he had been using a number of sites,

:33:36. > :33:46.including Facebook and Skype, to communicate with children.

:33:47. > :33:48.That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:33:49. > :33:59.Is it the greatest sporting comeback of all time? The biggest in

:34:00. > :34:05.Champions League history. Barcelona overturned a lead against PCG. It

:34:06. > :34:10.saw them through to the quarterfinal with two of them coming in added

:34:11. > :34:17.time. Sergio Romero toe with the winner. Arsene Wenger has said this

:34:18. > :34:20.morning he has not made up his mind about whether he will stay in the

:34:21. > :34:26.job but he says the opinion of the fans will have a bearing.

:34:27. > :34:30.Potentially decisive blow for Manchester City after a goalless

:34:31. > :34:46.draw at home to Stoke. With Tottenham in second place on goal

:34:47. > :34:51.difference, ten points behind the leaders, Chelsea. The second round

:34:52. > :35:03.of the WTA event, Heather Watson now faces yet anaconda. -- Konta.

:35:04. > :35:05.First to the reaction to Philip Hammond's first Budget,

:35:06. > :35:08.and the Chancellor will have woken up this morning to newspaper

:35:09. > :35:12.The Chancellor is facing growing pressure from backbench MPs

:35:13. > :35:14.to reconsider plans to increase National Insurance contributions

:35:15. > :35:17.He's been accused of breaking a manifesto pledge, but the Treasury

:35:18. > :35:22.says the change will return fairness to the National Insurance system.

:35:23. > :35:25.Let's look now at how the budget might affect you.

:35:26. > :35:29.We are joined by a panel of people here in the studio and in different

:35:30. > :35:37.Oliver Beach is a school governor and former teacher.

:35:38. > :35:44.Ian Adams is a man with a van and is self-employed and he joins us from

:35:45. > :35:48.his white van this morning. Sue Jenkins is a full-time

:35:49. > :35:51.carer for her mum. Alettia Elwin is self-employed

:35:52. > :35:53.and teaches music to children. And to help with any

:35:54. > :35:56.questions we might have along the way is Simon Gompertz,

:35:57. > :35:58.who is the BBC's personal finance correspondent, and Sarah Pennells,

:35:59. > :36:08.editor of Savvywoman.co.uk. Thank you all for joining us. Let us

:36:09. > :36:14.go straight to Ian in the white van. The headlines, Philip Hammond,

:36:15. > :36:23.focusing on white van man. What are your thoughts on the Budget? It is a

:36:24. > :36:28.tax hikes, but it is... Mr Hammond could have done something for all of

:36:29. > :36:33.us, including the self-employed, and that was returned VAT to the level

:36:34. > :36:40.it was before the financial crisis. Another tax hike on the working

:36:41. > :36:44.people. A lot of us after the financial crisis went out and set up

:36:45. > :36:50.our own businesses. This sends out a bad message to people who may want

:36:51. > :36:58.to do the same. The government and the taxes, never gives. -- only

:36:59. > :37:04.taxes. You are also self-employed, what do you think about it? We have

:37:05. > :37:07.not done the exact figures but it looks like it will be several

:37:08. > :37:12.hundred pounds a year. Admittedly, it is not going to make us

:37:13. > :37:18.destitute, but with everything else that goes up, the fuel rises, food

:37:19. > :37:22.rises, car insurance, it makes a massive difference. You feel like,

:37:23. > :37:27.why is he targeting small businesses when there are so many global

:37:28. > :37:32.multinational companies that pay very little tax at all in the UK?

:37:33. > :37:41.What do you think about the broken manifesto pledge? Philip Hammond is

:37:42. > :37:45.insisting it is not. Most people, the man on the street, find

:37:46. > :37:54.headlines about broken election promises not exactly news. When you

:37:55. > :37:58.are talking about another tax hike, most of us, we are so used to

:37:59. > :38:07.hearing the stories about these politicians breaking promises, I am

:38:08. > :38:10.not surprised. Are you angry? Do you accept the Chancellor's view it is

:38:11. > :38:17.about levelling the playing field on tax? Not really, no. There was a

:38:18. > :38:20.great increase in the number of self-employed after the financial

:38:21. > :38:31.crash. They properly saw packs revenues fall because of that --

:38:32. > :38:37.probably saw tax revenues. It is a market they have missed out revenue

:38:38. > :38:46.on. It is not a surprise that this government or any government would

:38:47. > :38:51.again make a tax hike. You are a pub landlord, Sean, you were unexpected

:38:52. > :39:00.winners in this budget. It seems that way. I represent a lot of pubs,

:39:01. > :39:03.29 pubs, very large increase averaging 27,000 in rental values.

:39:04. > :39:10.?1000 in the first year is good. We were hoping for a fundamental review

:39:11. > :39:13.on the rate system and are specifically looking at public

:39:14. > :39:17.houses because they are a community asset. Threatened at the moment

:39:18. > :39:20.especially in the south-east. Business rate relief being a good

:39:21. > :39:25.thing for pubs. What about the national insurance? The national

:39:26. > :39:32.insurance, I am self-employed, the national insurance is... I see it as

:39:33. > :39:36.an attack on the entrepreneur, someone taking a risk. The idea was

:39:37. > :39:39.you do not get the same benefits as those who are employed. The point of

:39:40. > :39:46.having slightly lower national insurance was to take on the risk

:39:47. > :39:51.level. I am not 100% sure what the figure is we will have to pay in

:39:52. > :39:55.addition but it is another tax on a lot of self-employed people who are

:39:56. > :40:02.supposed to be driving the recovery of the recession. Sue Jenkins,

:40:03. > :40:06.full-time carer for your mum. There has been a lot of discussion around

:40:07. > :40:11.social care in the run-up to the Budget and whether money would be

:40:12. > :40:16.found for it. The taxes are going up, money is being given to social

:40:17. > :40:22.care, how do you see that? It is not enough and it is not going to be

:40:23. > :40:27.enough and it will take time to implement. I am in a crisis

:40:28. > :40:34.situation at the moment. I was looking after my mother, nursing

:40:35. > :40:36.her, for six years under continuing health care funding, a negligent

:40:37. > :40:41.assessment was done last year will, they did not look at all of the

:40:42. > :40:50.evidence. She was transferred to social care on the 13th of January.

:40:51. > :40:51.Since then, it has been a disaster. Social services have threatened me

:40:52. > :40:56.that if I go over budget which was already out of date with an out of

:40:57. > :41:00.date care plan that I will be personally responsible for the

:41:01. > :41:05.overspend which has forced me into a crisis situation. Just explain that.

:41:06. > :41:09.You would be personally responsible for the overspend? Yes, they have

:41:10. > :41:14.said that they cannot provide the care is to me, CHC who are supposed

:41:15. > :41:19.to be funding the night care cannot provide carers which has forced me

:41:20. > :41:26.into going to an agency, a very good one, but they are charging ?21 50 an

:41:27. > :41:31.hour, which they have to, to get decent care. It is pushing me into

:41:32. > :41:35.an overspend. I am going without essential care I need. I am up night

:41:36. > :41:40.after night nursing my mother because if I do not have a second

:41:41. > :41:46.carer at night, I am the other night care, I am on the go all day dealing

:41:47. > :41:51.with massive complex medical issues, dementia, Alzheimer's, complex

:41:52. > :41:56.spinal care, a lot of issues going on. She also has epilepsy. This is a

:41:57. > :42:00.serious situation and it is grinding me down into the ground. We

:42:01. > :42:07.absolutely hear the pressure you are under. Under a lot of string with

:42:08. > :42:11.that situation. I want to bring in Sarah, what has been announced in

:42:12. > :42:17.the budget is obviously aimed at trying to alleviate the pressure on

:42:18. > :42:24.people like Sue. What difference will it make? Not enough difference.

:42:25. > :42:28.?2 billion, ?1 billion in the coming tax year. Estimates say up to ?2.8

:42:29. > :42:33.billion is needed in this year to plug the gap. You would like to

:42:34. > :42:37.think Sue's express is unusual but sadly I do not think it is. Part of

:42:38. > :42:41.the problem is a few years ago people caring for others were given

:42:42. > :42:48.control of their budgets if they wanted to. -- Sue's experience. The

:42:49. > :42:51.problem is in the intervening years, any support from local authorities

:42:52. > :42:56.has been taken away. There are people like Sue who are not only

:42:57. > :43:01.caring for an elderly mother or father around the clock, but they

:43:02. > :43:04.are also having to deal with essentially mini accounts to try to

:43:05. > :43:07.work out the best way of planning the care and being threatened that

:43:08. > :43:13.if they go over budget, it is their problem. The word crisis has been

:43:14. > :43:17.used and I do not think it is incorrect in this case. There was

:43:18. > :43:22.nothing specifically for people like Sue who are actually saving the

:43:23. > :43:26.Government millions and billions of pounds and one of the things I know

:43:27. > :43:31.from my own work is while there are some carers who qualify for what is

:43:32. > :43:38.called carer's allowance, a benefit you get if you care for someone for

:43:39. > :43:41.over 35 hours a week, 95% of carers careful someone for less time but

:43:42. > :43:45.still over 20 hours and they are losing out on state pension because

:43:46. > :43:49.they are not claiming national insurance credits they are entitled

:43:50. > :43:54.to. The Government is aware. There are not any measures to help them.

:43:55. > :43:58.This help, it will make a difference, but there will still be

:43:59. > :44:02.people in a similar situation to sue. Oliver, you are here

:44:03. > :44:09.representing the education centre, school governor, former teacher,

:44:10. > :44:15.money for education in this budget and focus on technology. The

:44:16. > :44:17.introduction of the T levels which will upscale young people, prepare

:44:18. > :44:25.them for the digital economy and create a parity of esteem on

:44:26. > :44:29.vocational education. There is quite a lot of stigma in secondary

:44:30. > :44:34.schools. It is great. To have an emphasis on the nontraditional

:44:35. > :44:42.routes, away from A-levels to get kids ready for an almost automated

:44:43. > :44:46.economy, to help them get ready for it... The money going into schools,

:44:47. > :44:51.a lot of schools were hoping for something to ease the pressure of

:44:52. > :44:55.the savings that are being made across schools and the money seems

:44:56. > :44:58.to be going to free schools or Grammar schools which is not helpful

:44:59. > :45:06.to the platter of secondary schools and primary schools which are

:45:07. > :45:09.suffering huge cuts -- plethora. Simon, money is being given to some

:45:10. > :45:14.and taken away from others and some people footing a bill for different

:45:15. > :45:20.things. Obviously, it is always a balancing act for a Chancellor, no

:45:21. > :45:24.free money. What is the overview in terms of what is going where? A

:45:25. > :45:28.heightened state of tension in the last few weeks over the problems

:45:29. > :45:31.with social care, it has concentrated minds in Downing

:45:32. > :45:35.Street. The picture behind the scenes is Theresa May wanted more

:45:36. > :45:40.money and the Chancellor needed to find it. The thing to do with taxing

:45:41. > :45:45.the self-employed was perhaps in the pipeline, they decided to do it now,

:45:46. > :45:50.despite promises given in the Tory manifesto before the election. I

:45:51. > :45:54.think there two things that will strike the self-employed. They felt

:45:55. > :45:58.they were promised there would not be National Insurance increases. The

:45:59. > :46:02.pledge in the manifesto, our commitment, no increases in VAT,

:46:03. > :46:07.national insurance or income tax. In the small print, something slightly

:46:08. > :46:11.different. What was that? The problem with national insurance is

:46:12. > :46:20.it is very complicated, four classes of payment. Class one, employed

:46:21. > :46:23.people pay that. Self-employed pay class two and class four. The

:46:24. > :46:28.self-employed thought they were in for a tax cut next year. Class two

:46:29. > :46:34.was being abolished. The ?2 80 a week they pay. Instead the ship has

:46:35. > :46:37.turned around and the Government decided it does not want to treat

:46:38. > :46:41.self-employed people in that way and the other class self-employed

:46:42. > :46:45.National Insurance class four, a percentage of your income, that will

:46:46. > :46:48.be increased. The Chancellor has portrayed this as something that is

:46:49. > :46:52.bad for wealthier self-employed people, they will lose out several

:46:53. > :47:00.hundred pounds, but the fact is, anyone earning over ?16,000 will

:47:01. > :47:06.lose out overall. Anyone earning over ?8,000 a year will lose out

:47:07. > :47:12.from the abolition... Increase in class four contributions.

:47:13. > :47:19.The Chancellor's perspective is it is levelling the playing field and

:47:20. > :47:22.when you look at the situation with needing to find money for social

:47:23. > :47:28.care this was an obvious anomaly to put right. Are you happy to pay the

:47:29. > :47:31.extra tax to take a look at the social care situation? Social care

:47:32. > :47:36.definitely needs more money. Don't get me wrong. But I think they've

:47:37. > :47:40.taken the easy route by taxing us instead of going for the bigger

:47:41. > :47:48.companies. I think it's a bit lazy of them quite frankly. Let's bring

:47:49. > :47:52.in some of your questions from home. One question from a soldier two

:47:53. > :47:58.years away from retirement, he says, on any changes for like me? No

:47:59. > :48:03.specific changes. In some ways it was a thin budget because there were

:48:04. > :48:08.not that many measures. We are now going to have an autumn budget and

:48:09. > :48:12.my feeling is we will see major changes there. There wasn't anything

:48:13. > :48:18.specifically, several things have already be announced like the

:48:19. > :48:27.increase in personal allowance. All the budget did yesterday was to

:48:28. > :48:30.reaffirm that would go up to 11 -- 11,000 500. There weren't any

:48:31. > :48:35.specific changes that will leave him any better or worse. Another viewer

:48:36. > :48:43.has said, do the self employed receive statutory sick pay, no, this

:48:44. > :48:47.is the nominee that needs to be cleared up. The Chancellor says the

:48:48. > :48:53.reason for levelling the playing field is not because of an anomaly

:48:54. > :48:58.like that but because the benefits received at the same for everybody.

:48:59. > :49:01.This issue accounts for a lot of the anger amongst self-employed people.

:49:02. > :49:06.Traditionally there has been an assumption that because of the risks

:49:07. > :49:08.they have, they don't have the job security of employed people, and

:49:09. > :49:13.they haven't traditionally had the same benefits from the system, but

:49:14. > :49:19.that is how you get something back from the system. The situation has

:49:20. > :49:23.changed slightly in that the state pension system was loaded against

:49:24. > :49:28.the self-employed. They could only get the basic state pension, not the

:49:29. > :49:32.various top ups. That's now been reformed. They've done well out of

:49:33. > :49:36.reforms to the pension system but there are other things you don't

:49:37. > :49:41.get. You don't get holiday pay, you don't get sick pay. You are in a

:49:42. > :49:45.more precarious situation as a self-employed person. I think there

:49:46. > :49:51.is a lot of anger out there, there is a signal in this budget that that

:49:52. > :49:57.need not any longer be recognised. You are nodding vigorously listening

:49:58. > :50:01.to that. I agree, I concur with the whole being. The risks we've taken

:50:02. > :50:06.to set up our business have been massive. We support other

:50:07. > :50:11.self-employed people and they also have taken massive risks. None of us

:50:12. > :50:17.get holiday pay, sick pay. Unless we work, we don't get the money. To

:50:18. > :50:21.have some more taken of us means we have to work harder in order to

:50:22. > :50:26.stand still financially and it's a blow, it's a knock. One fewer

:50:27. > :50:34.hazards, how is the budget going to benefit those going to in 2017 --

:50:35. > :50:40.one viewer has said. The only changes announced was that there

:50:41. > :50:47.would be student maintenance loans available for part-time study and

:50:48. > :50:51.also for pre-university degrees. You don't have too necessarily be

:50:52. > :50:58.studying for a university degree. That is coming in in 2018. Nothing

:50:59. > :51:03.specific for students starting to do the degree courses that 400,000

:51:04. > :51:09.students do every year. Another viewer says, I was hoping to see a

:51:10. > :51:13.tax for online retailers, how do we protect our way of life from the

:51:14. > :51:21.internet? There has to be a bigger look at the tax system. This has

:51:22. > :51:26.already been discussed. I think big companies, whether they are online

:51:27. > :51:30.or off-line have got quite a favourable tax regime. The

:51:31. > :51:34.government has made noises about the fact it will look at how online

:51:35. > :51:38.retailers are taxed but for a lot of people working off-line, in the high

:51:39. > :51:41.street or have their own businesses, there is nothing massive in the

:51:42. > :51:46.budget that will make a big change either way. Another viewer says,

:51:47. > :51:51.overall state of the nation's finances. It seems there are always

:51:52. > :51:55.mixed messages. Second fastest-growing economy in the G7

:51:56. > :51:59.last year, inflation going up, growth forecast for this year up,

:52:00. > :52:05.the overall tax burden is the highest it's been for 30 years.

:52:06. > :52:11.Better just now than people feared. Still worrying if you look further

:52:12. > :52:15.ahead. The Office for Budget Responsibility tells the Chancellor

:52:16. > :52:22.what they think the outlook is. They are predicting a 2% growth this year

:52:23. > :52:26.which is pretty good compared to what people feared, but then going

:52:27. > :52:30.down again later on. Because of that great, we are managing not to borrow

:52:31. > :52:38.so much every year. The borrowing remains stubborn in later years. Not

:52:39. > :52:43.so bad now, not so good later on. I think particularly this coming year

:52:44. > :52:49.is universally acknowledged its going to be a year of struggle for

:52:50. > :52:55.families. We have these cuts, or this frees to tax credits and

:52:56. > :53:00.benefits at a time when prices are rising. That means people are going

:53:01. > :53:05.to be struggling to make ends meet. A final thought from you as a

:53:06. > :53:10.business owner, do you feel like it's been a austerity for some time

:53:11. > :53:13.and more to come? How do you feel about the outlook and particularly

:53:14. > :53:21.bearing in mind the impact on new of the latest budget? It's more taxes,

:53:22. > :53:28.more burden on the people who have to pay them. You tend to find they

:53:29. > :53:36.always come after the people who don't have much power in opposing

:53:37. > :53:40.their tax rises, larger companies, Google or these people who have a

:53:41. > :53:45.lot more clout get away with not paying anything. That's because they

:53:46. > :53:48.have clout, people such as me just have to put up and take it from

:53:49. > :53:52.these types of people. The Chancellor could have done everybody

:53:53. > :53:56.a favour and returned VAT back down to what it was before the financial

:53:57. > :54:02.crisis which would have helped all businesses and everybody. Again,

:54:03. > :54:07.more tax hikes. It makes you wonder, where do they spend this money? Do

:54:08. > :54:12.we need Trident? There's a lot of money being wasted there. It's not

:54:13. > :54:16.good news. Thank you for your thoughts on the budget macro and

:54:17. > :54:22.thank you for your questions from home. Breaking news about knife

:54:23. > :54:26.crime, this is from a home affairs correspondent. The number of people

:54:27. > :54:30.caught carrying knives has risen to its highest level for six years,

:54:31. > :54:35.there were 19,000 offences in England and Wales last year, the

:54:36. > :54:40.highest since 2011. Figures from the Home Office show 41% of adult

:54:41. > :54:45.offenders were jailed. The proportion of 10-17 -year-olds sent

:54:46. > :54:49.to prison was 11%. Those figures just through, the number of people

:54:50. > :54:54.caught carrying knives has risen to its highest level for six years.

:54:55. > :54:56.The Queen will this morning unveil a memorial dedicated to all those

:54:57. > :54:59.who served in conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf War

:55:00. > :55:03.The memorial, by sculptor Paul Day, will also mark the contribution made

:55:04. > :55:06.2,500 veterans have been invited to Horse Guards Parade

:55:07. > :55:18.Ben Brown is at Horse Guards Parade for us now.

:55:19. > :55:27.The Queen will be here for this service of dedication in Horse

:55:28. > :55:32.Guards Parade starting at 11am. It is to remember all those who served

:55:33. > :55:38.in the conflicts of the last quarter of a century from 1990 onwards up to

:55:39. > :55:42.2015, in the Gulf campaign, in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Not just the

:55:43. > :55:48.military, the organisers are keen to stress it is civilians as well. Aid

:55:49. > :55:50.workers, humanitarian workers, people involved in the

:55:51. > :55:57.reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan. A service here followed

:55:58. > :56:03.by the Queen unveiling this specially built memorial which will

:56:04. > :56:09.be on the Victoria and and gardens. I am going to speak to the chaplain

:56:10. > :56:12.of the fleet, the man leading the service at Horse Guards Parade. Tell

:56:13. > :56:18.us what is the ambition of this service and the memorial? This is

:56:19. > :56:23.about recognition of the wider field of participants in the Iraq and

:56:24. > :56:28.Afghanistan conflicts. There were many people beyond the military who

:56:29. > :56:33.played a role in the reconstruction and the emotional rebuilding of

:56:34. > :56:39.those countries. People like the police force and educators, and the

:56:40. > :56:44.non-government authorities. It really is a very widespread, and

:56:45. > :56:48.quite unusual when we are surrounded by military monuments. One

:56:49. > :56:52.distinctly goes beyond that. This is a period of time, the last quarter

:56:53. > :56:57.of a century is a long period of conflict that the United Kingdom has

:56:58. > :57:00.been involved with in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I think the

:57:01. > :57:05.recognition is important. It has been a long haul and a lot of

:57:06. > :57:14.dedication from a range of people to do that. The fact that the monument

:57:15. > :57:18.is almost made up of two parts, a military and a non-military part, I

:57:19. > :57:23.think we are going to try and so that together in the service today.

:57:24. > :57:27.For the first time we are surrounded by military and I'm going to be

:57:28. > :57:31.backed by the National police choir which is really unusual. They sound

:57:32. > :57:37.fantastic, we are looking forward to it. It is a drumhead service which

:57:38. > :57:41.means they will pile the drums on top of each other to create and

:57:42. > :57:48.alter. On a battlefield where you have no church, typically on eve of

:57:49. > :57:54.battle a thanksgiving service, and alter will be made from a pile of

:57:55. > :57:59.drums. We'll see the bandsmen pile up the drums and then the standard

:58:00. > :58:05.of the regiment, in this case the national army standard which is a

:58:06. > :58:11.beautiful union Jack, is laid over the alter of drums to create a

:58:12. > :58:15.sacred place. Thank you. The chaplain of the fleet who will be

:58:16. > :58:22.leading the service starting at 11am, we will bring you live

:58:23. > :58:28.coverage on the BBC News Channel. Carol is herewith the weather.

:58:29. > :58:37.It is mild. It's not just London. This was taken this morning in

:58:38. > :58:43.Pembrokeshire. In Derbyshire, look at that lovely blue skies. In

:58:44. > :58:50.Cornwall it is a bit of a different story. As we travel south-west

:58:51. > :58:54.through Cornwall the cloud is thicker, visibility is poor and

:58:55. > :59:04.damp. Let me show you the satellite picture. Huge areas without cloud.

:59:05. > :59:08.Lots of blue skies this morning. This area is a weather front,

:59:09. > :59:12.producing murky conditions across Cornwall. Tonight it's going to come

:59:13. > :59:17.back in again. Although the fog we have all lift into low cloud, then

:59:18. > :59:25.it will come back again as folk later on this evening. Just

:59:26. > :59:30.affecting the bottom part? Explain what will happen. We will carry on

:59:31. > :59:32.with some murky conditions and down into the Channel islands through

:59:33. > :59:41.today and later tonight. Overnight it. To head east. This morning it

:59:42. > :59:45.has been a fine start to the day for some of us but there has been a bit

:59:46. > :59:49.of cloud breaking up. We are looking at Sunny spells almost across the

:59:50. > :59:55.board but not quite. It smiled for the time of year. This is the

:59:56. > :00:00.weather front across the Channel Islands and Cornwall. It will pivot

:00:01. > :00:06.round and take a swipe at the rest of the UK and also the North. Today

:00:07. > :00:09.away from but there will be a lot of sunshine. The stronger winds across

:00:10. > :00:14.Northern Ireland, Central and southern Scotland and England,

:00:15. > :00:18.easing. Across the far north of Scotland we will hang on to the

:00:19. > :00:22.stronger winds and the showers. Through the evening will see a bit

:00:23. > :00:26.of a change. We hang onto that low cloud across Cornwall and also the

:00:27. > :00:31.Channel Islands. It will be quite murky for some of us at times. For

:00:32. > :00:36.Devon as we head into Kent and the Isle of Wight, a beautiful afternoon

:00:37. > :00:39.like a bit of sunshine. The same for Wales, the Midlands into East

:00:40. > :00:44.Anglia. Same for Northern England and also into Northern Ireland and

:00:45. > :00:49.Scotland the showers will continue, some possibly heavy with hail and

:00:50. > :00:56.blunder. Somewhere in the south-east could see 16 or 17 Celsius.

:00:57. > :00:59.Generally across the board we are looking at temperatures higher than

:01:00. > :01:03.we would expect at this stage in March. As we go through the evening

:01:04. > :01:08.and overnight, the temperature will drop quickly in East. Cool enough in

:01:09. > :01:13.parts of frost. Here is this weather front returning, coming in through

:01:14. > :01:20.the West and north. It will deposit some patchy rain and drizzle,

:01:21. > :01:24.primarily on hills and coasts. It will be cold further east under the

:01:25. > :01:29.clearer skies. Tomorrow morning will start with some sunshine. The front

:01:30. > :01:33.in the West is drifting eastwards and it does mean it's going to be

:01:34. > :01:37.cloudy tomorrow for most of us than today. Having said that, in the West

:01:38. > :01:40.particularly if you are in the shelter of some hills it will

:01:41. > :01:45.brighten up through the day. Quite breezy. Temperatures across the far

:01:46. > :01:49.north of England and Scotland down on today and although they are down

:01:50. > :01:52.in Northern Ireland, the rest of England and Wales are above where

:01:53. > :01:56.they should be. As we move on through the course of the weekend,

:01:57. > :02:00.we've got a couple of fronts. The first one heading south. A bit of a

:02:01. > :02:07.lull and then the next weather front comes in from the west. That doesn't

:02:08. > :02:08.mean it'll suddenly turn cold, just cooler than in the next couple of

:02:09. > :02:11.days. from the abolition... Increase in

:02:12. > :02:13.class four contributions. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond,

:02:14. > :02:20.is coming under pressure over his plan to increase

:02:21. > :02:22.National Insurance payments for many He says the change is fair,

:02:23. > :02:27.despite accusations that he has Those on higher earnings,

:02:28. > :02:32.the 40% on higher earnings, We think that's fair,

:02:33. > :02:36.we think that's a reasonable way to go forward, given

:02:37. > :02:38.that the benefits entitlement of the self-employed

:02:39. > :02:53.has improved so much. At Westminster, Labour threatened to

:02:54. > :02:56.join ranks with Tory rebels to force a government climb-down. Ministers

:02:57. > :03:04.say it could mean less cash for social care. A man in the straight

:03:05. > :03:08.here is charged with more than 900 child sex offences after allegedly

:03:09. > :03:11.posing as pop star Justin Bieber online.

:03:12. > :03:14.Up to 20 of his victims are believed to be in the UK.

:03:15. > :03:16.We're live in Sydney and Brisbane with the latest.

:03:17. > :03:18.And British military personnel who have served in Iraq

:03:19. > :03:21.and Afghanistan are to be honoured this morning with the unveiling

:03:22. > :03:22.of a new war memorial in Central London.

:03:23. > :03:32.Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:03:33. > :03:38.The Chancellor is facing accusations of breaking an election pledge,

:03:39. > :03:40.by increasing national insurance contributions for many

:03:41. > :03:43.After his Budget announcement, Philip Hammond is facing growing

:03:44. > :03:45.pressure to reconsider the plan from some Conservative MPs.

:03:46. > :03:47.The Treasury has rejected calls for a re-think,

:03:48. > :03:52.insisting the increase will make the National Insurance system fairer

:03:53. > :03:54.Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has told the BBC

:03:55. > :03:56.that the common-sense time for a second independence

:03:57. > :03:58.referendum would be autumn next year.

:03:59. > :04:01.A vote can only take place with the permission

:04:02. > :04:07.But her remarks are the clearest signal yet that the SNP is planning

:04:08. > :04:09.to hold another vote before the UK leaves

:04:10. > :04:19.The European Court of Human Rights has backed a key element of the

:04:20. > :04:25.Government's anti-terrorism measures. The court rejected a claim

:04:26. > :04:30.the Government had acted unlawfully when its stripped the Sudanese

:04:31. > :04:34.suspect of his British citizenship. The man was suspected of taking part

:04:35. > :04:43.in terrorism related activities in Somalia. Hawaii has become the first

:04:44. > :04:47.US state to challenge President Trump's revised travel ban. The

:04:48. > :04:51.Attorney General said Mr Trump had violated the constitution with his

:04:52. > :04:57.redrawn executive order banning travel from six predominantly Muslim

:04:58. > :05:03.countries. He said it would damage, is particularly tourism. Doctors say

:05:04. > :05:09.they have successfully performed in India weight reduction surgery on a

:05:10. > :05:14.woman who was said to be the heaviest. Her family claim she had

:05:15. > :05:20.weighed 78 stone and she was flown to Mumbai earlier this year and

:05:21. > :05:23.admitted to a specially built unit at a local hospital. Her family said

:05:24. > :05:25.she had not left her house for 25 years.

:05:26. > :05:29.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10:30am.

:05:30. > :05:33.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

:05:34. > :05:36.use the hashtag Victoria Live, and if you text, you will be charged

:05:37. > :05:45.Now the latest sport. Many have already labelled it the greatest

:05:46. > :05:51.sporting comeback of all time, the biggest in Champions League history.

:05:52. > :06:01.Barcelona overturned a 4-0 deficit against PCG. They were 3-0 up after

:06:02. > :06:06.15 minutes, but then it went 3-1. It looked completely out of sight for

:06:07. > :06:13.Barcelona. PSG with the away goal. Still needed three goals. Neymar

:06:14. > :06:17.scored this. Luis Suarez and won a penalty which Neymar converted in

:06:18. > :06:24.the 91st minute. Still they needed one more goal. They got it through

:06:25. > :06:27.Roberto with 95 minutes on the clock and Barcelona through to the

:06:28. > :06:34.quarterfinals for the tenth year in a row. A huge reaction on social

:06:35. > :06:40.media to the extraordinary game. Between 7:45pm and 11pm, almost 2

:06:41. > :06:43.million tweets published about Barcelona's comeback. The man of the

:06:44. > :07:05.moment said... This was from FC Barcelona's

:07:06. > :07:12.official account, simply, we did it. One man linked with the Barcelona

:07:13. > :07:16.job is Arsene Wenger and he says he will consider the opinion of fans

:07:17. > :07:20.when he considers his future at Arsenal.

:07:21. > :07:23.Talking to the media this morning, Wenger said he hadn't yet

:07:24. > :07:25.made up his mind, and certainly hadn't told the players

:07:26. > :07:28.Unrest has grown amongst supporters following a dismal run

:07:29. > :07:31.in the Premier League and that 10-2 thumping by Bayern Munich

:07:32. > :07:49.Manchester City could have gone second in the Premier League last

:07:50. > :07:50.night but it did not go to plan. Stoke helped them to a goalless draw

:07:51. > :07:51.with a game of few clear-cut chances. The first time they have

:07:52. > :07:51.failed to score at home since Pep Guardiola took over.

:07:52. > :07:53.There'll be an all-British tie in the WTA event

:07:54. > :07:58.Heather Watson came from a set down to beat the American Nicole Gibbs

:07:59. > :08:00.and reach the second round, where Johanna Konta is waiting.

:08:01. > :08:07.It'll be the first time the pair have played each other on the Tour.

:08:08. > :08:16.Konta will be the strong favourite at number 11 in the world. Heather

:08:17. > :08:18.Watson dropped to 108 this week. The headlines that 10:30pm.

:08:19. > :08:30.More comments from you on the Budget. Hammond is too scared to go

:08:31. > :08:38.over the -- to go after the big companies. Affordable rented housing

:08:39. > :08:44.hit the headlines but no mention of money for it. I am a card-carrying

:08:45. > :08:50.Labour member and I regard the furore as unfortunate. I enjoyed

:08:51. > :09:01.generous tax breaks for many years as the self-employed can enjoy much

:09:02. > :09:10.the same support from the state in times of need. If that party is

:09:11. > :09:15.over, so be it. I do not like Tory policies but the money has to come

:09:16. > :09:23.from somewhere. Terry says, the self-employed people will ... When

:09:24. > :09:26.the Government tries to make it fair when compared with employees, those

:09:27. > :09:33.required to pay their fair share they like children deprived of their

:09:34. > :09:38.sweets. More political reaction from Norman Smith in Westminster. Thank

:09:39. > :09:42.you. No white flag over the Treasury at the moment but there is no doubt

:09:43. > :09:45.the huge pressure they are under this morning, not just from

:09:46. > :09:54.opposition MPs, but predominantly from their own party. And from all

:09:55. > :09:58.wings of the party. Eurosceptics are unhappy, pro-Europeans, fiscal hawks

:09:59. > :10:03.unhappy, social... The whole Tory party seems to be unhappy with Mr

:10:04. > :10:08.Hammond. The reason is not just because of the broken manifesto

:10:09. > :10:13.promise, it is because it is a tax rise on people's basic income which

:10:14. > :10:20.is anathema to many Conservatives. Most Tory MPs take the view it is a

:10:21. > :10:24.hit on their people, folk who go out, take a risk, start a business

:10:25. > :10:32.on their own and build a company, the sort of people they are seeking

:10:33. > :10:41.to encourage and help. Instead Mr Hammond seems to have delivered a ?2

:10:42. > :10:42.billion hit on them. This morning Mr Hammond did not rule out a U-turn

:10:43. > :10:46.but it is pretty clear he believes it is essential to introduce these

:10:47. > :10:49.changes, partly on the grounds of fairness, it is not fair people

:10:50. > :10:54.earning a decent amount of money who are self-employed pay less tax than

:10:55. > :10:58.those who work for a company, but above all, I sense, because he

:10:59. > :11:05.fears, down the line, more of us will work on our own. There is a

:11:06. > :11:12.major headache looming for the Treasury. No sign of gift from Mr

:11:13. > :11:15.Hammond this morning. In 2015 we introduce legislation to give effect

:11:16. > :11:20.to the tax lots we talked about in our manifesto and we spelt out

:11:21. > :11:24.clearly how we would do it, focusing on class one National Insurance, the

:11:25. > :11:28.national insurance paid by 85% of people in this country who are in

:11:29. > :11:33.employment. And what I announced yesterday was a small increase in

:11:34. > :11:38.class four National Insurance contributions for the minority of

:11:39. > :11:42.self-employed people who are on higher incomes. The majority of

:11:43. > :11:45.self-employed people will pay less national insurance as a result of

:11:46. > :11:50.the announcements I made yesterday. I think the decision we have made is

:11:51. > :11:55.fair, to ask self-employed people to pay just a little more contribution

:11:56. > :11:59.for the services they receive. This is not in any way an attack on

:12:00. > :12:03.business. Hugely supportive of business. I want people to have

:12:04. > :12:09.choices about the way they work. But I want them to make those choices of

:12:10. > :12:14.the bases of what is right, not on the basis of what tax advantages

:12:15. > :12:18.they bring. The Treasury do not want to back down. Mr Hammond said

:12:19. > :12:21.yesterday he reckoned this advantage for the self-employed was currently

:12:22. > :12:28.costing the Treasury around ?5 billion a year. However, remember

:12:29. > :12:33.the row over tax credits, when George Osborne announced the changes

:12:34. > :12:37.to tax credits, huge rumpus on the Tory backbenches, in part because it

:12:38. > :12:42.was seen as an attack on people who were working hard, maybe not earning

:12:43. > :12:46.much, but going out and doing a decent day's work and they risked

:12:47. > :12:50.losing tax credits. What happened? George Osborne had to beat a

:12:51. > :12:54.retreat. Could the same happen? We know there is almost certainly going

:12:55. > :12:59.to be a vote on it. Labour will try to force a vote and it may be, I

:13:00. > :13:03.don't know that there has to be legislation to bring about the

:13:04. > :13:10.changes anyway. It looks like a parliamentary showdown on this is

:13:11. > :13:11.unavoidable. Thank you. Keep your thoughts coming in. All of the usual

:13:12. > :13:20.ways of getting in touch. A man in Australia is charged

:13:21. > :13:24.with over 900 child sex offences after allegedly posing online

:13:25. > :13:26.as popstar Justin Bieber. We're live in Brisbane

:13:27. > :13:28.with the latest. Cancer experts have issued a warning

:13:29. > :13:31.that children in the UK could be missing out

:13:32. > :13:36.on potentially life-saving drugs. Currently, EU regulations allow drug

:13:37. > :13:39.companies to opt out Scientists are calling for the rules

:13:40. > :13:42.to be changed so that adult drugs They argue that many drugs treat

:13:43. > :13:50.a variety of cancers which may have the same genetic target,

:13:51. > :13:53.meaning they could be effective in children,

:13:54. > :13:55.even when it does not seem So, what could these changes mean

:13:56. > :13:58.for families facing this situation? Let's talk to Professor Louis

:13:59. > :14:01.Chesler, a leader in child tumors as the Royal Marsden Hospital in

:14:02. > :14:07.London. the charity Christopher's Smile

:14:08. > :14:19.in memory of their son Professor, first of all, explained

:14:20. > :14:24.the situation as it stands. Currently drugs can be trialled on

:14:25. > :14:30.adults that could be trialled on children but they are not. Explain.

:14:31. > :14:36.As you may know, there is a new generation of cancer medicines being

:14:37. > :14:42.tested recently and in the last decade, it attacked particular

:14:43. > :14:50.cancer targets, proteins and jeans driving the cancers. In large part,

:14:51. > :14:54.these drugs have been developed to attack adult cancers and there has

:14:55. > :15:02.been a loophole in EU legislation that says if a particular cancer

:15:03. > :15:07.does not exist in a child, it is not mandated that they targeted cancer

:15:08. > :15:12.drug would be developed simply because the adult cancer does not

:15:13. > :15:15.exist in a child. Now what we calling for and what the EU

:15:16. > :15:21.legislation is addressing is to close the loophole. What it says is

:15:22. > :15:25.that if the cancer target is present in the children's cancer, even if it

:15:26. > :15:30.is a different kind of cancer from which the drug initially was not

:15:31. > :15:33.developed for, companies will stall have to study that drug in

:15:34. > :15:38.children's cancers and potentially make them available to clinical

:15:39. > :15:46.trials. Kevin Rudd Karen, what difference do you think it would

:15:47. > :15:50.make? -- and Karen. It would make a huge difference in terms of a step

:15:51. > :15:55.change in how we treat children. It would offer the opportunity to move

:15:56. > :15:58.away from using what I would call the blunt tools of chemotherapy and

:15:59. > :16:02.radiotherapy and give us a chance to make a difference to those children

:16:03. > :16:07.who currently with the old treatments sometimes do not have a

:16:08. > :16:14.chance of a queue and there are certain types of childhood cancers

:16:15. > :16:19.were that is still the case -- cure. The only way to move forward is by

:16:20. > :16:24.having access to the new targeted drugs which we believe are going to

:16:25. > :16:31.work in a much cleverer fashion than the old standard treatments which in

:16:32. > :16:43.the main is still all we have access to for our children.

:16:44. > :16:49.Tell us more about how your experience has shaped your view.

:16:50. > :16:55.After you see children in a paediatric oncology ward, showing so

:16:56. > :17:03.much courage and hope, and yet you know that a quarter of them went

:17:04. > :17:10.make it. That's a hard, hard thing to take in and you never forget it.

:17:11. > :17:15.That's what has provided the backbone of our enthusiasm and our

:17:16. > :17:18.passion to try and make things better for other children. We

:17:19. > :17:25.couldn't do anything for Christopher sadly. We lost him in 2008. We want

:17:26. > :17:29.to make a difference for the children that will be diagnosed

:17:30. > :17:36.tomorrow, in a month's time, in a year's time. Did you feel at the

:17:37. > :17:43.time that you were battling red tape? I think when we went through

:17:44. > :17:47.treatment with Christopher, that was pretty much the only thing we could

:17:48. > :17:54.focus on. It is an unbelievably tough time, you exist in a parallel

:17:55. > :17:57.world. We didn't have a lot of opportunity to be honest to look

:17:58. > :18:02.beyond what was available for Christopher at that time. A couple

:18:03. > :18:12.of months after he died, in the October 2008, we started working

:18:13. > :18:16.with Christopher Smile to fund research into new treatments,

:18:17. > :18:21.knowing that there were children who weren't going to survive with what

:18:22. > :18:25.was on offer at the time. It is something you have to go through to

:18:26. > :18:31.understand the challenge of sitting beside your child and suffering

:18:32. > :18:37.alongside them, wishing every moment of the day you could be in their

:18:38. > :18:42.place. I think that will always live within us and that is our driver, to

:18:43. > :18:49.make that difference for other families and other children.

:18:50. > :18:53.Professor, do you believe there are treatments that could actually be

:18:54. > :18:59.saving lives right now if only the red tape where changed? There's no

:19:00. > :19:04.question that this modern generation of cancer drugs is more effective. I

:19:05. > :19:10.think in terms of red tape, it is one factor. It's complicated to

:19:11. > :19:16.deliver these drugs, as you know, they are very expensive to produce.

:19:17. > :19:20.The issue of delivering them effectively to children is

:19:21. > :19:25.multifactorial. I think we are seeing changes to the legislation

:19:26. > :19:30.which will help, clinical trials are becoming better and we sequence

:19:31. > :19:34.children now with genomic technology so we know that the target is

:19:35. > :19:41.President. That maximises the chance that these drugs can work more

:19:42. > :19:44.effectively. -- that the target is present. Many clinicians and parents

:19:45. > :19:49.are working together to help deliver these drugs to children and we are

:19:50. > :19:54.seeing an increase in the number of compounds and drugs available. Is

:19:55. > :20:00.this a case of regulation, catching up with where the science is? Or are

:20:01. > :20:04.they good reasons behind not giving these drug trials to kids? Could

:20:05. > :20:11.they do more harm then good? I don't think anyone consciously would want

:20:12. > :20:18.to restrict a life-saving drug from a child with cancer. Developments of

:20:19. > :20:22.incredibly expensive drugs for very small patient populations is very

:20:23. > :20:27.challenging. What it needs is a concerted effort from changes in

:20:28. > :20:30.legislation, which this change addresses, it'll close a loophole

:20:31. > :20:38.that should increase the number of drugs we see for these kids. There

:20:39. > :20:42.are other approaches. We need academia, governments and

:20:43. > :20:47.pharmacology to work together to create incentives and creative ways

:20:48. > :20:49.to help us as clinicians and carers to deliver these drugs to patients.

:20:50. > :20:56.Thank you. NHS bosses are to report back to MPs

:20:57. > :21:00.today about how the roll out of seven-day-a-week

:21:01. > :21:01.services is going for GPs. The Government has previously

:21:02. > :21:04.committed to providing an extra ?528 million of funding by 2021

:21:05. > :21:09.to help this happen. But doctors have warned they are

:21:10. > :21:12.already feeling over worked. The MPs' committee will be asking

:21:13. > :21:15.how many surgeries are switching to a seven-day service

:21:16. > :21:17.and whether this is Let's talk to Dr John Cormack,

:21:18. > :21:24.a GP from Essex, who says he'd consider quitting if he was forced

:21:25. > :21:27.to open seven days a week. And Bridgit Sam-Bailey,

:21:28. > :21:29.a retired teacher, from London, who says she can rarely get

:21:30. > :21:44.an appointment at her GP. Thank you for joining us. Why would

:21:45. > :21:50.you consider quitting if you had to go seven days a week? Well, because

:21:51. > :21:55.I am pushing 70 and because I work with the NHS than nothing. In a

:21:56. > :22:01.sense I do work seven days... So you work for the NHS for nothing? The

:22:02. > :22:06.practice is poorly funded so in order to make it work we have to use

:22:07. > :22:15.more nurses than is usual in a practice and I have to work free of

:22:16. > :22:19.charge. You don't have a salary? No, I've changed my name by deed poll in

:22:20. > :22:23.order to embarrass the people who hold the purse strings at the NHS

:22:24. > :22:30.but unfortunately they aren't easily embarrassed. Is that how you sign

:22:31. > :22:35.your name? Unfortunately the GMC won't let me use that name in

:22:36. > :22:40.practice because if you put that name on a death certificate it won't

:22:41. > :22:47.go down very well. I think that's a reasonable decision. In terms of

:22:48. > :22:54.funding, you've got 6000 patients at your practice. What do you get per

:22:55. > :23:04.year from central funding for each patient? Well, it's something like

:23:05. > :23:07.95- ?99 per year per patient. That's about ?600,000 per year for your

:23:08. > :23:17.practice. We've recently taken on a lot of extra patients. So you've got

:23:18. > :23:23.more than 6000? We were 4500, we are now 6000. There is vast disparity.

:23:24. > :23:27.In terms of your practice, you've got ?600,000 coming in a year but

:23:28. > :23:32.you say that level of income isn't enough for you to get a salary? It's

:23:33. > :23:38.not been enough to pay me until now, because obviously, you could say the

:23:39. > :23:44.choice is yours, you could sack if you staff, you could cut down on the

:23:45. > :23:50.service. In order to provide a reasonable service we have to work

:23:51. > :23:56.with nurses and with me not taking a salary. You said until now you've

:23:57. > :24:02.not been able to have a salary. I haven't taken a salary. We lost

:24:03. > :24:07.about ?10,000 last year. In a sense not only do I not take a salary but

:24:08. > :24:15.I have to pay in at the end of the year. Use a seven week services is

:24:16. > :24:18.not viable for your practice? I go in at weekends for terminal care

:24:19. > :24:24.patients, I give them my mobile phone number so they can get seen.

:24:25. > :24:27.If people who are working in the practice are worried about a patient

:24:28. > :24:33.on a Friday they will leave me a message so why will see them. I was

:24:34. > :24:36.forced to open and run regular surgeries on Saturday and Sunday

:24:37. > :24:40.would cause problems because then the running costs would go up. Is

:24:41. > :24:48.that what you would like to see practice is doing? I think there is

:24:49. > :24:54.a need for GPs to work seven days a week, not necessarily the same GPs.

:24:55. > :24:58.There should be a writer. After all, GPs are human beings, they've got

:24:59. > :25:05.family commitments. They need time off to re-energise. For the same GP

:25:06. > :25:08.working seven days a week... But as a patient you would like to be able

:25:09. > :25:15.to access the server seven days a week? Yes. Was your current

:25:16. > :25:21.experience? As it is now, if I want to see my GP, it is impossible. I

:25:22. > :25:27.have to queue up in the morning from about 7am. Queue at the gates and

:25:28. > :25:33.because I'm not really physically mobile, when the gate opens the

:25:34. > :25:39.able-bodied people just rush through, and I'm left at the end. Or

:25:40. > :25:43.my son has to leave his home and come and stand in the queue to make

:25:44. > :25:47.me an appointment. When he's given an appointment he will telephone me

:25:48. > :25:54.and say, is this going to be all right? We liaise like that and he

:25:55. > :26:00.lets them know if it's acceptable. As an older person, I must say we

:26:01. > :26:08.have got rather complex needs. We need to be able to access a GP more

:26:09. > :26:12.easily. When a person has, for example, high blood pressure, you

:26:13. > :26:18.end up having diabetes or something like that. You could have coronary

:26:19. > :26:23.problems. So you need to be able to access your GP. Another thing is, I

:26:24. > :26:28.don't like changing GPs. I would rather see the same person every

:26:29. > :26:35.time I go. So I become accustomed that person. But Doctor doesn't have

:26:36. > :26:41.to start all over again. That's very important. What do you think is the

:26:42. > :26:47.best way to go about setting up services in order to deliver that

:26:48. > :26:53.sort of care? Well, the way we do it is to make access more

:26:54. > :26:58.straightforward. We do do and unbacked surgery where people piling

:26:59. > :27:01.everyday and will be seen because there is a demand. Every practice

:27:02. > :27:05.does it differently. A lot of practices have a system whereby you

:27:06. > :27:10.either have to turn up early or start phoning at 8am. That makes it

:27:11. > :27:13.difficult for patients to get appointments at times that suit

:27:14. > :27:19.them. I think patients with complex needs me to see the same GP. Small

:27:20. > :27:26.practices have advantages but are closing in droves because of the

:27:27. > :27:30.push to open super surgeries. Also because of the financial pressures.

:27:31. > :27:35.Indeed, small practices are under huge financial pressure. The move is

:27:36. > :27:41.to make them federate or to formally join together in these huge

:27:42. > :27:44.practices which are very impersonal and where you don't always see the

:27:45. > :27:49.same person. Would you be prepared to do away with that if there was

:27:50. > :27:54.less of a personal service, but more of a guarantee you could get what

:27:55. > :27:58.you wanted when you wanted it? I think we need both. You need that

:27:59. > :28:03.bit of personal confidence in your GP. But of course it needs funding.

:28:04. > :28:08.Without the funds they can't give you the service. I'm not complaining

:28:09. > :28:16.about the GPs, I'm complaining about system. That causes them to work in

:28:17. > :28:21.that way. There's got to be funding, they've got to be supported, and

:28:22. > :28:25.they have to have more staff. They need stability because I find that

:28:26. > :28:30.each time I go to my surgery, someone I saw the last time is no

:28:31. > :28:41.longer with the surgery. So we start all over again. Thank you very much.

:28:42. > :28:43.We have a statement from the Department of Health saying we want

:28:44. > :28:47.all patients to have access to high-quality surgeries which is why

:28:48. > :28:52.we have invested an extra ?2.4 billion as well as boosting the

:28:53. > :28:57.workforce with an extra 5000 doctors in general practice by 2020. Some GP

:28:58. > :29:01.practices open, close or merge, what is important is that patients

:29:02. > :29:05.continue to get access to the services they need and there is

:29:06. > :29:09.already a clear legal responsibility for NHS England to make that happen.

:29:10. > :29:12.We asked for a Minister to come on the programme, but they declined.

:29:13. > :29:14.A spokesman for the Department of Health has previously told us

:29:15. > :29:17.it's invested an extra ?2.4 billion into primary care,

:29:18. > :29:20.and is boosting the workforce with an extra 5,000 GPs by 2020.

:29:21. > :29:27.Let us know your thoughts and experiences on GP practices.

:29:28. > :29:29.A man in Australia who allegedly posed online as Justin Bieber

:29:30. > :29:31.and persuaded fans to send him explicit pictures has

:29:32. > :29:34.been charged with more than 900 child sex offences.

:29:35. > :29:36.Police believe he had around 150 victims, up to 20

:29:37. > :29:47.Our correspondenet, Hywel Griffith, is in Sydney.

:29:48. > :29:53.This man was apprehended after an international search involving

:29:54. > :29:59.police in the UK. We understand in mainland Europe and in the US as

:30:00. > :30:05.well. They believe that this man from Brisbane was using his computer

:30:06. > :30:10.to pose online as the Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber, enticing and

:30:11. > :30:14.targeting young fans, winning their trust and then using communication

:30:15. > :30:24.through social media and Skype sadly to solicit explicit images. When

:30:25. > :30:35.they confiscated his computer, they came across a huge cachet of images

:30:36. > :30:37.resulting in 930 new child sexual offences against him, including

:30:38. > :30:44.charges of rape and indecent children of children, as well as

:30:45. > :30:47.multiple charges of making, possessing and distributing indecent

:30:48. > :30:55.images. He will be in court next week. What are police saying about

:30:56. > :31:00.online safety? They say it is a reason for a big rethink as to how

:31:01. > :31:05.society deals with online safety for children. It is a difficult area to

:31:06. > :31:09.police. What they want is for children to be educated and police

:31:10. > :31:14.themselves, to understand that on the internet particularly not

:31:15. > :31:18.everything is as it seems. You get a sense of scale with this, you may

:31:19. > :31:23.have a potential offender in Australia but children in the UK,

:31:24. > :31:28.the US and many other countries are targeted and the technology means

:31:29. > :31:34.sadly they can then share, be abused, and the images can be shared

:31:35. > :31:40.multiple times. Although the police have found 157 victims, they believe

:31:41. > :31:43.there may be many more out there. The investigation is going on. Thank

:31:44. > :31:45.you. We're be live as the Queen and other

:31:46. > :31:50.members of the royal familty arrive for the unveiling of a new war

:31:51. > :31:54.memorial for those who served And we'll have more on Barcelona's

:31:55. > :31:56.spectacular comeback against Paris St Germain

:31:57. > :31:58.in the Champions League. Let us join the newsroom for an

:31:59. > :32:11.update. Good morning. The Chancellor is facing accusations

:32:12. > :32:13.of breaking an election pledge, by increasing National Insurance

:32:14. > :32:15.contributions for many After his Budget announcement,

:32:16. > :32:19.Philip Hammond is facing growing pressure to reconsider the plan

:32:20. > :32:24.from some Conservative MPs. The Treasury has rejected

:32:25. > :32:26.calls for a rethink, insisting the increase will make

:32:27. > :32:36.the National Insurance The number of people caught carrying

:32:37. > :32:38.knives in England and Wales has risen to the highest level for six

:32:39. > :32:43.years. The Home Office says there were more than 19,000 offences of

:32:44. > :32:49.knife possession last year. Government figures show a record 41%

:32:50. > :32:52.of adult offenders were jailed. The European Court of Human Rights has

:32:53. > :32:57.backed a key element of the Government's anti-terrorism mergers.

:32:58. > :33:03.It stripped the Sudanese terror suspect of his citizenship and

:33:04. > :33:07.barred him from re-entering Britain -- measures. The man was suspected

:33:08. > :33:10.of taking part in terrorism related activities in Somalia.

:33:11. > :33:14.Malta's famous rock arch, which featured in a number of films

:33:15. > :33:16.and the TV series Game of Thrones, has collapsed into the sea.

:33:17. > :33:19.The Azure Window, on Gozo, was damaged by heavy storms.

:33:20. > :33:23.The Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, said it was heartbreaking.

:33:24. > :33:26.A study of the arch in 2013 said it was eroding but wasn't

:33:27. > :33:35.An actor from the Harry Potter films is in intensive care after a head-on

:33:36. > :33:40.car crash left him with a broken neck and punctured lung.

:33:41. > :33:43.Jim Tavare, known for his role in Harry Potter and the Prisoner

:33:44. > :33:47.of Azkaban, also suffered 15 broken ribs and breaks in his right leg.

:33:48. > :33:53.His wife, Laura, posted a picture of him in a hospital bed on Facebook.

:33:54. > :33:59.Doctors in India say they have successfully performed weight

:34:00. > :34:01.reduction surgery on an Egyptian woman believed to be

:34:02. > :34:16.Eman Ahmed, who's believed to have weighed 500 kilos, or 78 stone,

:34:17. > :34:19.was flown to Mumbai earlier this year and admitted to a specially

:34:20. > :34:23.Her family said she had not left her house for 25 years.

:34:24. > :34:27.Join me for BBC Newsroom live at 11am.

:34:28. > :34:39.We will have coverage of the unveiling of the Iraq and

:34:40. > :34:40.Afghanistan memorial. Let us go to the sport.

:34:41. > :34:41.Is it the greatest sporting comeback of all time?

:34:42. > :34:42.It's certainly the biggest in Champions League history.

:34:43. > :34:43.Barceolona overturned a 4-0 deficit against Paris St Germain with a 6-1

:34:44. > :34:52.win in the most dramatic fashion at the Camp Nou.

:34:53. > :34:55.Barca scored three goals in the last seven minutes to see them

:34:56. > :34:57.through to the quarterfinal, with two of them

:34:58. > :35:01.Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said this morning that he hasn't yet

:35:02. > :35:04.made up his mind whether to stay on in the job but admits

:35:05. > :35:06.that the opinion of the fans and potential protests

:35:07. > :35:11.A potentially decisive blow for Manchester City's Premier League

:35:12. > :35:14.title hopes after they were held to a goalless draw at home to Stoke.

:35:15. > :35:17.They're now 10 points behind leaders Chelsea and with Tottenham in 2nd

:35:18. > :35:24.And there'll be an all-British tie in the second round of the WTA event

:35:25. > :35:27.Heather Watson beat Nicole Gibbs and now faces Johanna Konta.

:35:28. > :35:30.It'll be the first time the pair have played each other on the Tour.

:35:31. > :35:34.We will have more sport for you on the news channel throughout the day.

:35:35. > :35:37.Thank you. Let's get more reaction now

:35:38. > :35:47.to the Chancellor's first budget With our political Guru, Norman

:35:48. > :35:53.Smith. A fairly unique moment. He has managed to unite not just the

:35:54. > :35:58.Conservative Party but also Labour MPs, Liberal Democrat MPs, all of

:35:59. > :36:04.whom seem opposed to the ?2 billion hit on the self-employed. Albeit Mr

:36:05. > :36:10.Hammond and the Treasury team at the moment are insisting no retreat. We

:36:11. > :36:15.shall see. Let us discuss that with the Conservative MP Nigel Mills and

:36:16. > :36:23.Labour's member of the Treasury team. Is Mr Hammond going to have to

:36:24. > :36:28.back off? I suppose we will see how much the Government feel they need

:36:29. > :36:32.to make the reform. There is a problem to address. If you are

:36:33. > :36:40.employed, the national insurance bill is just under 26%,

:36:41. > :36:46.self-employed, 9%. There is a big unfairness. Costing 5 billion to the

:36:47. > :36:49.Exchequer, you can see why they need to tackle it, especially with rising

:36:50. > :36:53.self-employment. The issue is lots of people are made to be

:36:54. > :36:58.self-employed by employers, they are banking the saving, and they would

:36:59. > :37:02.much rather be employed. We need to work out how we can fix that

:37:03. > :37:06.situation and then look at how we change the tax position. If we can

:37:07. > :37:13.fix it, the amount being lost would be less. What happens if Mr Hammond

:37:14. > :37:17.sticks to his position? He has to get a bill through parliament to get

:37:18. > :37:22.the rise through, he has until next April. People across the spectrum

:37:23. > :37:27.want to see how we fix the self-employment situation so only

:37:28. > :37:30.those people who are actually self-employed are self-employed. It

:37:31. > :37:37.is that they have a slightly lower tax rate because they get fewer

:37:38. > :37:39.benefits. I think he needs to work out the overall big picture rather

:37:40. > :37:44.than starting with the difficult tax rise... What do you say to the

:37:45. > :37:48.Labour people who say, Philip Hammond is onto something? It is a

:37:49. > :37:51.progressive and fair tax change. Bottom line is the Government have

:37:52. > :37:57.already set in play a review of self-employment and the gig economy

:37:58. > :38:01.with the whole ambit of it. It has not reported yet, not until the

:38:02. > :38:05.summer. He has not even had the provisional findings. What is the

:38:06. > :38:11.point of setting off a review in train of this type of issue and then

:38:12. > :38:15.pre-empting it in advance question that it seems a bit crass. Your

:38:16. > :38:19.Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell was pretty clear this morning Labour

:38:20. > :38:23.will oppose the changes. The question is, why? Why would you want

:38:24. > :38:26.a differential taxation system between people employed by a boss

:38:27. > :38:30.and people who employ themselves? The point at the end of the day and

:38:31. > :38:35.I think Nigel picked it up, it is not just about the rates, the whole

:38:36. > :38:40.point is people are effectively enforced to be self-employed. I know

:38:41. > :38:45.lots of them are forced to do it and the employer is getting away without

:38:46. > :38:50.paying a fair share of national insurance. It falls to the employee

:38:51. > :38:53.in effect to pay their share and now they are getting clobbered for it

:38:54. > :38:58.and it is not right. It has to be dealt with in the round. The way

:38:59. > :39:01.this was managed, the politics, it is becoming increasingly ludicrous

:39:02. > :39:07.for ministers to insist they have not broken the Tory manifesto. I

:39:08. > :39:11.think the manifesto was pretty clear, it said no National Insurance

:39:12. > :39:15.rise. The Government have a technical defence that the building

:39:16. > :39:20.put through did not say class four. I think what I'd stood was there

:39:21. > :39:26.would be no rise overall. I would say it looks like a breach. -- I

:39:27. > :39:31.understood. Some grounds for saying it is a situation that we have to

:39:32. > :39:37.look at, we cannot allow the 5 billion revenue... In terms of

:39:38. > :39:40.selling it, an old maxim, when in a hole, stop digging. Accept, we have

:39:41. > :39:45.had to break the manifesto, there are reasons for that. I would rather

:39:46. > :39:50.than use that defence, yes, it would be more honest and transparent. The

:39:51. > :39:55.people will understand, when you have very high earning lawyers and

:39:56. > :39:59.accountants in partnerships who are paying a lower rate of national

:40:00. > :40:02.insurance than people earning a low-wage, people understand that

:40:03. > :40:07.perhaps ought to change. They will also understand what we do not want

:40:08. > :40:10.to do is have a system where we are encouraging unscrupulous employers

:40:11. > :40:13.to pretend their employees are self-employed. We need to level the

:40:14. > :40:16.playing field. There are good grounds for this but those people

:40:17. > :40:20.who are genuinely self-employed trying to grow the business, who get

:40:21. > :40:26.less rights, they would quite rightly probably be quite angry

:40:27. > :40:31.about this. Picking up that point, we have heard from the Resolution

:40:32. > :40:37.Foundation, hang on a sec someone earning up to ?50,000 self-employed

:40:38. > :40:40.could be paying less tax than someone earning less because they

:40:41. > :40:45.are employed by a boss. The problem with the House of Commons, we are in

:40:46. > :40:50.a binary position. I do not think it is one or the other. It has to be in

:40:51. > :40:54.the round. You cannot say, we will deal with one element, the rate of

:40:55. > :40:58.National Insurance contributions, it has to be in the round. The

:40:59. > :41:02.Government recognise that and that is why they have set up the review.

:41:03. > :41:09.What in God's name is the point of setting up a review if you

:41:10. > :41:12.completely pre-empt it? A last word, at your brief, short advice to the

:41:13. > :41:18.Chancellor, about what he should do now. I think he should go away,

:41:19. > :41:22.think again and pull the plan. I think he should get the review of

:41:23. > :41:27.the issue of self-employment out so we can look at it in the round and

:41:28. > :41:31.see what the fair policies are to tackle it. Thank you very much. Huge

:41:32. > :41:35.pressure on the Chancellor to address some of the concerns we have

:41:36. > :41:43.been hearing about. To date, no signs so far of a rethink.

:41:44. > :41:47.Thank you, Norman. Let me tell you, we are going to bring you coverage

:41:48. > :41:55.of the Queen unveiling a memorial dedicated to all of those who served

:41:56. > :41:58.in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan in a little while. This is Horse

:41:59. > :42:03.Guards Parade in central London where the memorial will be unveiled

:42:04. > :42:10.and we will be there in a few moments. First, Scotland's First

:42:11. > :42:13.Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told the BBC a common-sense time for a

:42:14. > :42:19.second independence referendum would be autumn, 2018.

:42:20. > :42:22.A final decision on holding such a vote has not yet been taken,

:42:23. > :42:24.but Ms Sturgeon insisted she was "not bluffing"

:42:25. > :42:27.She was speaking to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

:42:28. > :42:29.In Westminster, some politicians think you're bluffing

:42:30. > :42:36.I always think that sometimes kind of says more about them than it does

:42:37. > :42:41.about me because it suggests that there are politicians

:42:42. > :42:44.in Westminster who think Brexit and all of this is some

:42:45. > :42:47.It's not a game, it's really, really serious and the implications

:42:48. > :42:53.for the UK are serious and the indications

:42:54. > :43:00.--implications for Scotland are serious.

:43:01. > :43:02.Some of your colleagues talk about autumn,

:43:03. > :43:06.Within that window, as the outline of a UK deal becomes clear,

:43:07. > :43:09.and the UK exiting the EU I think would be the common sense time

:43:10. > :43:12.for Scotland to have that choice if that is the road we choose

:43:13. > :43:16.Just to be clear, you're not ruling out autumn, 2018?

:43:17. > :43:34.Let us get the thoughts of Ian Murray. From Edinburgh, the SNP,

:43:35. > :43:38.Miles breaks. Ian Murray, what do you think about the prospect of a

:43:39. > :43:44.referendum? Completely unnecessary. With the uncertainty across Brexit,

:43:45. > :43:49.the last thing you need is another Scottish referendum. If you want to

:43:50. > :43:54.destroy the Scottish economy, this is the best way to do it. Maybe we

:43:55. > :44:02.will have one... It looks as if we have more clarity today. It is clear

:44:03. > :44:06.the Scottish people do not want another independence referendum. The

:44:07. > :44:09.polls have shown that. The SNP wake up every single day of the week to

:44:10. > :44:14.try to deliver independence and they are using Brexit to do that and the

:44:15. > :44:20.people who suffer will be the Scottish people in terms of economic

:44:21. > :44:25.downturn. 2014, the issues then more prominent now and the fiscal deficit

:44:26. > :44:28.Scotland currently carries would be detrimental to any kind of

:44:29. > :44:32.independent Scotland and there is no answer to the big questions about

:44:33. > :44:38.people's jobs, livelihoods and what the Scottish economy would look like

:44:39. > :44:42.in the future. Miles? I agree with what Ian has said. Yet more

:44:43. > :44:46.uncertainty. The politics of Nicola Sturgeon. For the last ten years,

:44:47. > :44:50.she has used this issue to divide our country and she is continuing to

:44:51. > :44:55.do that today. We need to move on as a nation and look at how we better

:44:56. > :44:58.run public services in Scotland and it is that fact Nicola Sturgeon does

:44:59. > :45:01.not want to maybe look at the failings for government have that

:45:02. > :45:08.she is using this issue yet again. It is time to turn the page on the

:45:09. > :45:17.constitutional demons dividing our country and work to get the best

:45:18. > :45:23.deal for the UK leaving the EU Scotland did not want Brexit. I

:45:24. > :45:29.voted remain but it was a UK wide referendum and we as a country now

:45:30. > :45:32.are all leaving the EU and we need to get the best possible deal. That

:45:33. > :45:35.is where I have been really impressed with the way the UK

:45:36. > :45:38.Government has been engaging with the Scottish Parliament and with all

:45:39. > :45:41.parties across Scotland, to listen to the views of industry in

:45:42. > :45:47.Scotland, to make sure we get the best possible deal for Scotland and

:45:48. > :45:53.the UK. Theresa May could block a referendum if that option was to be

:45:54. > :45:59.pursued. Do you think she should? The issue has never been that there

:46:00. > :46:02.be a referendum, both the Prime Minister and our leader Ruth

:46:03. > :46:07.Davidson have been clear. The issue is, should there be? People do not

:46:08. > :46:13.want... If a decision was taken by the SNP, yes, we will go for one,

:46:14. > :46:16.Theresa May could block it, should she? They are a minority government

:46:17. > :46:19.in the Scottish Parliament so they would have to bring forward the vote

:46:20. > :46:24.and we would see how parties approach it. For people in Scotland,

:46:25. > :46:27.they would want to see how the Government is thinking this through.

:46:28. > :46:34.Over the next two years, there is a lot of work to do to secure the best

:46:35. > :46:37.deal for Scotland. I am not sure the focus is currently on that and I

:46:38. > :46:41.think that is why people in Scotland will soon punish them for that at

:46:42. > :46:44.the local elections in May, the best opportunity voters will have to

:46:45. > :46:48.knocked a strong team of Conservative councillors to send a

:46:49. > :46:53.message to the SNP on this issue -- to elect.

:46:54. > :47:01.Nicola Sturgeon would need to get permission from Westminster to hold

:47:02. > :47:08.a referendum, should they withhold it? The issues around it would be

:47:09. > :47:14.part of the negotiations so it would depend what that negotiation looks

:47:15. > :47:21.like. I agree with everything he's just said. If they have brought us

:47:22. > :47:26.to this brink. They ran an election campaign pitting Scots against

:47:27. > :47:31.England. David Cameron came to the steps of Downing Street the morning

:47:32. > :47:35.the result was announced and announced English votes for English

:47:36. > :47:40.laws. Then they brought us to a position Brexit. It's about time his

:47:41. > :47:44.party brought responsibility. Let's get the second referendum of the

:47:45. > :47:52.table and work to get the best possible Brexiteer over Scotland and

:47:53. > :47:55.the UK. -- best possible Brexit deal for Scotland and the UK.

:47:56. > :47:57.Nicola Sturgeon's interview was recorded for the BBC documentary

:47:58. > :48:00.Brexit: Britain's Biggest Deal - to be broadcast this evening

:48:01. > :48:02.on BBC Two in England, Wales and Northern Ireland at 21:00

:48:03. > :48:12.Thank you for your comments on our interview with Niall Woods. One

:48:13. > :48:18.viewer has said, good to hear an honest account of the drug trade and

:48:19. > :48:21.a pragmatic sensible approach to minimising it. Neal worked as an

:48:22. > :48:25.undercover policeman who risks his life to infiltrate criminal drug

:48:26. > :48:31.gangs. He describes some of his experiences and how he was able to

:48:32. > :48:42.cope. Basically I had to befriend people and empathise with people. It

:48:43. > :48:45.became like weaponising empathy. You have to move among people who are

:48:46. > :48:50.problematic drug users and befriend them. But doesn't it have to be more

:48:51. > :48:54.than that, don't you have to pass off as somebody absolutely credible

:48:55. > :49:01.in that world, doesn't that mean taking drugs? I never had to take

:49:02. > :49:06.heroin or cocaine. But I once had to take amphetamine. I made the mistake

:49:07. > :49:09.of presenting myself to be a connoisseur of that drug which was a

:49:10. > :49:16.mistake in the end. Someone gave me a present and it was 40% pure.

:49:17. > :49:21.Normally the drug would be 5%. To avoid imminent violence I had to

:49:22. > :49:26.take some of that drug. That was quite terrifying. I was awake for

:49:27. > :49:31.three nights. Only on one occasion in 14 years did you take drugs? I

:49:32. > :49:37.had to take cannabis a few times. But that was it, other than those

:49:38. > :49:41.occasions. What about dealing drugs? We didn't deal. I pretended to be a

:49:42. > :49:47.dealer. Sometimes I would make myself out to be a burglar, wheeler

:49:48. > :49:53.dealer. I was buying large quantities in order to present that.

:49:54. > :50:01.I would never actually sell drugs. I did have a camera found once in

:50:02. > :50:05.Leicester. I'd been trading with a gangster for about four months. On

:50:06. > :50:12.this one occasion I went to sell him some counterfeit clothing as part of

:50:13. > :50:17.my cover. He brought two friends who were instantly suspicious. One of

:50:18. > :50:23.them searched me and found a camera. I was in quite an isolated car park.

:50:24. > :50:28.I can't say the words I said. Basically I gave him a torrent of

:50:29. > :50:34.abuse to try and interrupters ability to tell his friend what it

:50:35. > :50:38.found. Then I had to deliberately and as slowly as possible fold up

:50:39. > :50:44.the clothing. If you run a way that is confirming someone's suspicions.

:50:45. > :50:47.Very slowly I walked away. I managed to gain enough meat so that when he

:50:48. > :50:57.convinced his companion and they came after me a car, I escaped it by

:50:58. > :51:02.two metres. My intelligence guy joked saying he didn't know why they

:51:03. > :51:14.didn't just shoot be because apparently there was a gun in that

:51:15. > :51:20.car. The Queen is unveiling a memorial to all those who served in

:51:21. > :51:25.Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf War between 1990 and 2015. We are here

:51:26. > :51:28.in a Horse Guards Parade. The Queen will be arriving soon with many

:51:29. > :51:35.other members of the Royal family for this service of dedication here.

:51:36. > :51:43.At shortly after 11:30am the Queen will unveil the Iraq Afghanistan

:51:44. > :51:48.memorial at Victoria embankment Gardens. Its cost about ?1 million

:51:49. > :51:53.to create. Members of the public have donated that money and it

:51:54. > :51:58.recognises the contribution not only of the troops who have fought and

:51:59. > :52:04.served in the various conflicts since 1990, the Gulf campaigns in

:52:05. > :52:09.Iraq and Afghanistan, but also civilians, aid workers, people who

:52:10. > :52:15.have worked in the reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, in that long

:52:16. > :52:19.period of 25 years from 1990 until 2015 and the withdrawal of British

:52:20. > :52:25.troops from Afghanistan. The service of dedication here at Horse Guards

:52:26. > :52:31.Parade is going to be witness not only by the Queen and members of the

:52:32. > :52:35.Royal family but the Prime Minister, Theresa May and former prime

:52:36. > :52:40.ministers David Cameron, Tony Blair and so on are here as well. My

:52:41. > :52:42.colleague is going to be watching events unfold here at Horse Guards

:52:43. > :52:46.Parade. The