tv Newsnight BBC News June 6, 2018 11:15pm-12:00am BST
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a stand—off in the cabinet as the brexit secretary lets resignation speculation run wild. friends say david davis is relishing his role as a political terrorist. germany's longest standing mp, former finance minister and current president of the bundestag tells me his fears for the future of the eu. today in this way, the management of migration is one of the biggest global problems for the western world. like him or loathe him, paul dacre has been one of the most influential editors of a british newspaper, but what will be his legacy? we'll speak to lord adonis and peter oborne. and stephen smith moves into his new pad — a micro—flat of tiny proportions. this is going to be the best. can i just see if i would fit in. as you say, no mattress. but it is the
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right size. you are rather talli wouldn't say it was roomy, but i do fit in the slot. good evening. westminster is tonight in a febrile state. in the lobbies the talk is of backstops, amendments, and possible resignations over brexit. what does all that mean? essentially that the prime minister has still not managed to rally her cabinet around a unified position and — yes, we've heard it before — that something or someone will have to give. at times today there were predictions of the imminent resignation of david davis, the brexit secretary. well, he hasn't gone, not yet anyway. what does the rest of the eu think of all this? we'll come to that in a moment. but first our political editor, nick watt, is here
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to decode the days events. what has been happening? we have a very public cabinet show down on brexit and david davis is very happy for us to be speculating that he may resign if he doesn't get his way on the so—called backstop for northern ireland. it is about whether you should have a specific end date for when that backstop, which is designed to avoid a hard border in northern ireland in which the uk would remain in some but not all the customs union. he said there must be an end date. theresa may said it should be time—limited. friends of david davis say he is enjoying his role by keeping the prime minister guessing. our colleague asked david davis had he signed off on the backstop and if he is not happy would he resign? that's a question, ithink, for the prime minister to be honest on the second one. the detail...
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the detail of this is being discussed at the moment. it's been through one cabinet committee, it's going to another one and it will be improper of me to pre—empt the negotiation. will this actually happen do you think? that answer on the resignation was deliberately designed by david davis to not deny that there's a threat out there to resign, because he believes that is a weapon if you deny it, then it is no longer a weapon. he does have very deep concerns. he believes that if there is no end date to the backstop, then the european union would have no incentive to negotiate with the uk on a future trade deal and if that happens, he doesn't have much of a mandate as brecht secretary. brexit secretary. one brexiteer said i hope david davis goes. but i'm not holding my breath. what is their position on this end stop points? the eu are encouraged
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by what they see as the most serious engagement by the uk. but they have a problem with the substance of backstop. they say half in, half out, a real problem and the other problem is if it is temporary what, comes next? so while the british government negotiates with itself, there's a summit looming later this month where the others, the 27, are expecting to hear theresa may's detailed position on a whole range of issues. what do they make of her latest difficulties, and can they can be resolved before britain exits the eu next march? and how does brexit rank among the other concerns in germany, for example? i went to berlin to take europe's pulse with a man who's been part of the political landscape for a0 years. behind the forbidding facade of the bundestag looms a german
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politician with a reputation in scale with the building. finance ministerfor eight years, the man who on this stage championed german leadership of the eurozone and by extension of the eu as a whole. translation: europe depends on the strength of the german economy, the solidarity of germans is clear, we will pursue policies that ensure that germany remains an anchor of stability in europe and a motor of european growth. that was during the greek debt crisis, when schauble was merkel‘s tough cop — the architect of austerity and cordially disliked for it by the greek government. he agreed to disagree. we didn't even agree to disagree from where i'm standing. wolfgang schauble is now the elder statesman of german politics. he's become president of this parliament, after a0 years at the forefront of national life, a time in which he came within a whisker of becoming
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the nation's prime minister. the interior minister was addressing a political meeting in his black forest constituency. his attacker pulled a revolver and shot him twice. his career and his life nearly ended with an assassination attempt 28 years ago. shot in the head and spine, the attack left him in a wheelchair. but it didn't stop his political rise and by the end of the decade he'd succeeded helmut kohl as party leader. but 18 years ago, he was ousted after a corruption scandal. he was politically reborn under angela merkel, becoming her no two, in charge of the german economy. an exponent of prudence and austerity, he was deferred to by many counterparts across europe. he made maximum use of leverage that underwriting the euro gave germany and him. having stepped back from frontline politics and with the vantage point
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in the bundestag, he can now survey the new challenges to europe. from brexit to immigration, to the possibility of a new eurozone crisis touched off by italy and he can speak frankly, unbound by cabinet discipline. let's start on brexit. do you think theresa may can actually successfully manage this? i hope so. i know it's difficult, but we have to respect the decision of the british people. and we trust in the british government and so we hope that it will... she can. we're a couple of years after the referendum, did you think we'd be further along by this points? i don't know, but i have always had the understanding that brexit would be a very difficult to be managed and to be delivered. therefore, and even
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the negotiations prove... iremain... in some way dreaming that brexit will not happen. but i know it's not the reality from today. but if you ask me for some years in the future, the future is open — let's hope. but in terms of what you, the 27, the rest of europe, have to think... the small rest of europe! exactly. the unimportant rest of europe! is it wise in this situation to allow more time for britain to reach... if the uk would ask for more time, i think the remaining small remaining unimportant rest of europe would be ready to agree on such a demand. but it is once again, it's a matter which has been decided in the uk. do you think brexit will happen?
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if you ask my personal dream, i hope no. but it's a reality we have to accept the decision of the british people. let's talk about italy. you're known as the stalwart defender of the single currency, the euro, particularly when the greek crisis happened, the greek debt crisis. does italy threaten a new eurozone crisis, just waiving a big part of their debt is what they're talking about. it is fine, any debtor is happy for waiving of debts, but creditors are not. and the problem is for the future, how will you get new creditors if you don't deliver, if you don't stick to your debts? that's the problem. that's the problem of italy and it must be solved in italy.
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and europe, though and german will be as helpful as possible, as we did in the past. when we look at the politics in italy, or indeed uk, hungary, poland, what's been the role of immigration in creating the current political environment that we see? i think today in this way the management of migration is one of the biggest global problems for the western world. if you want to make sure that the values of the achievement of europe... democracy, parliament in the uk, and the grand revolution in the united states, late 18th century and then the french revolution, all these things, human rights and liberty, democracy, the rule of law, solidarity, equality. if we will stick to our values, we have to find better solutions for the global world in this century.
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that is the real challenge. from what you say, you would rank migration as a bigger problem for europe than the eurozone, brexit, some of these other challenges we have talked about? yes. actually the biggest problem is migration. the eurozone, look, we have been more successful than most people expected in managing the organisers in the last eight, nine years and we will continue and brexit, as i have already mentioned, we will do whatever we can to, whatever will be the final decision, to have the best and closest relations with uk as possible if it's doable. last question, just bringing together all these themes we have been talking about, do
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you feel for europe in terms of its external frontier that if fortress europe isn't maintained, populist parties could consume that? if you understand, if the self—understanding of europe would be a fortress, you shouldn't continue to discuss on european values. we have to manage it in a different way in this 21st century. but to fall back in the position of fortress would be the end of european self—understanding and europe. thank you very much. john major outlasted tony blair
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after him. tonight it was announced after him. tonight it was announced after his 70th birthday he will move upstairs. there were no longer have control at that paper. to detractors, the daily mail under him has been nothing short of poison. to others, he is a genius who understands and all england. we will discuss his legacy in a moment, but here is four extraordinary front pages. in february 1997, the mail put the five men accused of killing paul lawrence on a front—page. this is how it reacted to the results of the preset referendum. a historic edition on the 25th ofjune 2016, having campaigned for leave. and who could forget this splash from november that same year? rending as enemies of the people, thejudges who ruled the government would need
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parliament's consent for brexit. they have come under fire for its headlines at out migrants, paperchase adverts following pressure from the stop funding hate campaign. we are joined pressure from the stop funding hate campaign. we arejoined by andrew dallas and peter bourne. you are on the home team, peter. what were his greatest achievements? he has brought great moral passion to british journalism. he has been one of the greatest editors of all—time. i would rank him alongside the great arthur christiansen at the daily express in the 1930s, and 1940s. i would rank alongside the original northcliffe who created the mail. i would rank him higher than david english who rescued the daily mail. he is one of the great, popularjournalists, popular editors that we have ever had.
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and, by the way, i think british journalism and british public life is in a worse state as a result of him departing. it seems like a moment of natural liberation that this influence, that has been so negative on our public life, anti—gay, anti—immigrant, anti—europe, and the labour party, anti—trade union, which has not only had a big impact in terms of the headlines, the ones you showed, and this is why we're having this discussion, as peter says, he was very influential. but into woods beyond that, such as constantly setting the news agenda for the bbc itself. to what extent was he setting the agenda for gordon brown ‘s government? too much. let me be frank. i was a member of the tony blair and gordon brown governments. what paul dacre would personally think about issues
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influenced ministerial thinking. and i think negatively. you showed the headline the day after the brexit vote brexit in many ways is his great memorial. but almost every day the daily mail had vitriolic anti—immigrant headlines, including imminent talks about to start on letting 1.5 million turks in, including euro rapist murderers being let in as a result of... that is important for peter to answer. some of this stuff is hateful, isn't it? it is playing on the. —— on fear. if you look at the way immigration was dealt with by the bbc, actually, the years and years, mark thompson or former director—general has acknowledged this, immigration was regarded as something which could not be discussed. it is something which is very important. the government of which you were
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a part had a secret immigration policy to let in people. it was all published. not at the time. we all know that. it was dishonest. 0n the one hand you had blunkett, the home secretary, saying britain was being swamped. 0n the other hand you had a policy of letting in millions of immigrants. the british people, at no point, were consulted. there was massive demographic change. the daily mail was one of the few papers with the courage to highlight it. the bbc never mentioned it. because the bbc was utterly contemptuous of the great majority of your viewers. but peter... 0nly people who really matter... where are the 1.5 million turks? so secret nobody has ever seen them? the problem with the daily mail is what it did was constantly exaggerate, the public phobias. and the way it started treating
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europe over the last five years. it was as if europe was the cause of every single ill in britain and it had an effect on public life. would you accept that he had this insight into what middle britain was thinking in the way the metropolitan elite didn't? and his view on brexit and whether national centre lay, it was on point. it wasn't any great insight that there were populist fears you could feed. enoch powell realised that. that is very irresponsible talk. it isn't an insight, it is feeding a phobia. paul dacre isn't... this is outrageous. i have put up with you for long enough. this is outrageous stuff. paul dacre isn't a racist. look at the stephen lawrence campaign you highlighted. his finest hour, many would say. no! campaigns against the torture policies. campaigned against guantanamo bay...
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it does not fit into the liberal hypothesis we have been getting here. let's move it along. i was coming here to celebrate one of the great careers of a british newspaper editor, not to have an endless argument about brexit. just in that context. could there be another? or have newspapers got the point where circulations are on the slides, long—term, and no other newspaper could the same influence? is that possible? in terms of the power he wielded he was a phenomenal editor. the strength of his personality. the causes... they were not all bad. i agree with going after peter lawrence's killers. whether we have another one is whether we are able to find somebody who is able to articulate a similar agenda and have a similar influence over the news agenda, particularly the bbc, which is what made the daily mail so important with paul dacre. time is short, peter, briefly,
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do you think the daily mail under a new editor would be as hot on brexit? will it soften a bit more like the mail on sunday? i have some very bad news for lord adonis. the new editor... he remains editor in chief. the thing which paul dacre brought tojournalism, one was immense craftsmanship. second, a fanatical devotion to accuracy. if you go into the mail newsroom, a real newsroom, one of the few left, real seriousness about journalistm, it is so focused on accuracy. check, check, check is the message in the newsroom. along with abiding moral passion about the values that matter. i'm sorry...
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terribly sorry... the 1.5 million turks never materialised. lord adonis did agree on his qualities as a journalist, so we will end on that shared point. when was the last time you heard a conservative say something like this? but what capitalism has brought with growth and progress in so many fields in the past, i feel it's not delivering now. economic power has been concentrated in the hands of a few and crony capitalists have rigged the system in their favour and against the rest of us. well, no surprises, gove had a few thoughts about how to solve that — reforms to corporate governance, restricting lobbying by big business, improving education and even doing a betterjob of valuing the environment. but he was the first to admit that these ideas need a bit of work. so what can we do to bridle the excesses of capitalism? here's helen thomas. prankster about capitalism is hardly new. —— angst about capitalism.
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power and wealth has raised concerns that the system's winners were not playing fair, that intervention was needed to share the benefits more widely. financial markets around the world are in shock... fast forward 100 years, and the wreckage of the financial crisis, regulation was tightened and risk takers chastened. but the rules of the game remained much the same. a belief in markets. the idea that companies are owned by and run for the benefit of their shareholders. did that fester, compounded by malaise, with resentment given from those keen on political change from both left and right. we will never sign that trade deals. america first!
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the collapse of carillion proved the idea that business works for itself. but who should companies be running for? shareholders or everyone? this says it isn'tjust financial capital that deserves care and attention. returns should flow to providers of labour, land, natural resources, technology, and society more broadly. michael gove is voting for that model, complete with all of the buzzwords, innovation, destruction, creativity, and, like just about everybody else, he believes productivity growth is key. more long—term investment is doubtless crucial, but bemoaning the markets' focus on short—term financial gains is very well trodden ground. how to break that is a tougher
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question when most executives and investors have it in thejob description. corporate government reform, smarter regulation, changes to incentives, all his ideas, all sounding far less radical than his diagnosis of the problem. one question is whether ad hoc rule changes will make much difference. if it is a massive cultural shift that is really required. well this debate is raging within the conservative party and i'm joined by two people who think they have the solution. neil 0'brien is the mp for harborough and has worked in downing street for theresa may. he is the founder of the "onward" centre right think tank, and rebecca lowe who runs the think tank "freer" that promotes economic and social liberalism. from the left we have faiza shaheen the director of the centre for labour and social studies. neil, this type of thing michael gove was talking about,
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trying to get a bridle on to capitalism, is it a realistic agenda, or will it be a hard sell? i thought michael's speech today was really interesting and i think he is onto something. i would put things differently. 0n the one in lots of ways, the economy is working well. cameronette when i was a kid when we had mass unemployment, we have more jobs than ever before, every part of the country growing and real wages growing. —— compared with when i was a kid. but he is right, some markets are not working well. i would say the energy market where too many companies muddle along. if you do not switch often they put up your charges. that is why the government has brought in the energy price cap. sometimes you do need to intervene in markets.
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another one would be financial services, i would like to see something stronger than the current financial ombudsman because there are too many of my constituents who have had bad experiences with large financial companies. or the housing market where we are simultaneously building too much in the wrong places and we need at the same time to get ownership growing again. we need to think about how we can get away from the current model in the market. rebecca, is that going to work, or is stronger medicine needed? all this talk about reforming capitalism at the moment. it sounds conceptual. it sounds as if capitalism is the thing we can blame, this concept, rather than taking responsibility and recognising problems within the system. it's important to make a distinction between free—market and capitalism. egan of capitalism in a more free or less free system. —— you can have capitalism. michael is right to point out crony capitalism. we have often of rent seeking
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and corporations trying to get the best out of the system. it is important to recognise that the system we have isn't particularly free. we are en route to have the highest tax burden since the 19505. we have increasing amounts of regulation. we have massively high public spending. i would suggest, sorry... i was going to ask you, hearing this, do you think this is a realistic agenda, or are theyjust not going to catch the labour party on these issues? were they always be playing second? we did hear some of this through theresa may when she first took leadership of the conservative party. actually we have seen their move in the opposite direction. we haven't seen any of her points about workers reward to happen. listening to michael gove today, if people want to understand the problems of capitalism i would not listen to michael gove.
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the speech itself was muddled. and there is a real sense of irony, of someone that has brought the market more to our education system, talking about capitalism. there is an issue here. but that perpetuate lots of myths about the economy. the truth is that first, every economy is essentially a mix. right now we have too much of the market. in places the profit motive is unhelpful. in our health service, for instance, in instances of carillion, secondly, the tories are applying the public sector in the wrong places. justine greening said today that what we are doing with the third runway is bringing the risks to the public and the taxman will take all of the gain. we have the public sector applied in the wrong places. the conservatives are muddling it up. i think the government is doing
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a lot to make the market work for people tatlower end. it is bringing in the national living wage and adds £5,000 to wages. controlling fuel duty and council tax, that is why we are seeing incomes at the bottom end growing. these have been interventions in the market, but at the same time as we fix problems and the... and we now trying to make sure the benefits flow to people. 0ning thing that was mentioned was the downing street speech, the platform theresa may had, what has happened with that. we have continued to cut tax for people at the bottom end, frozen fuel duty and got more jobs for people at the bottom end. there is more people going to food banks. theresa may has done some things that have brought new things, she has changed universal credit, so people at the bottom end can keep more of their pay. i would argue these are ways of trying to make the market work. that doesn't make sense. there is more people
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going to food banks. theresa may has done some things that have brought new things, she has changed universal credit, so people at the bottom end can keep more of their pay. i would argue these are ways of trying to make the market work. that doesn't make sense. we heard of an energy price cap. whether it is caps which drive up costs, these interventions we live in a time of the state being seen as the answer to everything. it is not authoritarian to stop rip off practices. markets are powerful and there is a reason why the free market is here and communism is gone. sometimes market get stuck in a bad place and the government
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can increase competition. hearing them talk about policy initiatives and whether it is the property market, living wage, working of energy companies, are there any of these that would seriously worry you on the left if the tories started getting some real traction, these issues or approaches that would have the labour party worried or do you think it is just not a political territory they can fight in as effectively as labour. we see a real disconnection between stats and the levels of household debt, homelessness, all the stats are going in the wrong direction and the lived experience is very hard, mental health for instance... all of the stats you say are in the wrong direction. under your party we had the worst recession since the world war. we had a financial crisis driven
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by a lack of regulation. to say everything is going in the wrong direction is obviously nonsense. not everything is perfect. we need to do more to help the left behind and the places that have been left. housing a is good example. we are seeing is consensus about the regulation. the planning regulations we have, which constrict supply, we see people from the labour party as well as from the conservative party agreeing we need to address this. as we leave the eu it is not only those burdens that we have taken from europe... the regulation that hurt the grenfell tower victims. i'm talking about planning regulations. sorry, we are out of time.
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we won't cure capitalism tonight. but thank you for giving your take on that. many people would argue the property market represents a pretty graphic failure of capitalism. from vastly inflated city centre flats to unsellable family homes in depressed parts of the country, almost everyone feels its effects. micro—housing might be part of the answer — 8,000 new micro—homes were built in 2016, the last year on record — but this also gives developers another chance to squeeze even more value out of a desirable pitch. stephen smith has been to that epicentre of property madness, north london, to investigate. this is your room? the humidity is great for my chest, i mean it's not no! hyde park palace, but it suits me down to the ground. this is the most pathetic sight known to man. i think of it as a sunken bed. yeah, that's probably a good way to think of it. don't even need to leave the tub — drink from the tap and when i need to, just push the bag down, bang, the bog's right there,
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just kneel and pee directly down the plughole. it's my system. we've all done it — shared a gaffe, i mean. and this doubling up and the dividing of property seems to be on the rise, with more landlords offering it as a solution to the housing crisis in desirable spots like this one in north london. hello there. how are you? i'm here about the micro—living. come on in. have i come to the right place? yes, you are, come right in. thank you very much. thank you. come in. come on in. here we are. this is it? this is it, this is the beautiful one—bedroomed micro—concept here. this is going to be the bed. can ijust see if i would fit in there? yes.
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i know, as you say, no mattress. yes. but it is the right size. right. obviously, you are rather tall. yeah. i wouldn't say it was roomy, raj. you have obviously your kitchen here. goes in, nicely hidden. that's my kitchen? yes. and you have some storage space up there, which is quite handy. that is not at spare bedroom or anything? no, not at all. not at all. of course, this report would be a meaningless late—night filler unless we move into the flatlet and test the micro—climate. nine pairs of identical... khaki shorts. one for every day of the week. good. this bijou nook would cost you up to £1,200 a month in rent if you took a long
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lease of a year or so. would you like to live here? being a landlord myself, i've seen some of the places are... i wouldn't want to live there. whereas here i would certainly, because it gives me what i'm looking for if i happen to work down gives me what i'm looking in central london, basically. this place reminds me a lot of old newsnight safe house. so, micro—living — it's like living, but in miniature. everything is that little bit tinier, including perhaps the comforts of home. i'm joined from edinburgh by dr caroline brown — she has been working on a research project on micro—housing with the intergenerational foundation. so, is this the answer do you think? well, it seems beguiling to create
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smaller homes that are more efficient, they cost less, they're cheaper to buy and rent. but i think they create lots of other problems as well. how liveable are they? are there spaces to cook to socialise? are they flexible enough to offer you the spaces you need to sleep, to rest, to do work, to exercise. do all the things that normal people want to do in their homes. how far is that is london phenomenon, or how far is this catching on in other parts of the uk? it is definitely not a london, just a london problem. you mentioned earlier on about 8,000 properties in 2016 coming on board and the top three locations are outside london. it is liverpool, leicester and birmingham. so it isn'tjust a london thing. of course, london's got a very heated property market, so yes london as well.
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and in terms of the success or otherwise in those different places, what is the picture, what are you learning from it, where is it working best? i don't think we know the answer to that. there is a lot of unanswered questions about these properties, we don't know who is living in them, for how long, why, where they might go after. there is concerns about how they may lock people into the bottom of the housing ladder. it may be cheaper to buy a property, be you can't sell it on and the value is going up more slowly and you get locked on to to bottom rung. so there is a lot of unanswered questions here and research is going on now i know me and other people are look at this to try understand that — how is it working.
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you hear it said that british cities sprawl, because people like gardens and european cities have higher densities, does this work for them or are they wary of it. yes, we like our gardens and suburbs, but you know our properties are much smaller than they are on the continent. we have the smallest homes in europe. the only only european country with no space standards that apply nationally. so is a perversity. the europeans actually have bigger homes. do you think it is an unstoppable thing or people won't want to live in them? is it here to stay or people won't want to live in them? i think the trouble is that people do live in them and we are worried about the long—term effects of that.
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i think they may work in some circumstances, some can be high quality and some are only for temporary accommodation just to help people get on the housing ladder orfor a short period. the jury is still out i think. thank you forjoining us. that's almost it for tonight, evan will be here tomorrow. before we go, we'd like to mark the anniversary of one of the greatest amphibious assault in military history. the normandy landings began today in 19114. photographer lynda laird has been to some of the d—day beaches where that huge operation took place. she's captured a fresh perspective on the surviving fortifications using infrared film — a technique the military used in ww2 to detect camouflage. the images are available as part of the dans le noir exhibition, and are accompanied by a diary extract from 0dette brefort, a member of the french resistence. good night.
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what a night. my little head is shellshocked. it's been impossible to sleep. the humming from plane, the machine gun noise. what a joy when waking up somebody says there was a landing. the weather remained foggy until midday. the sun shone from apm. it must be the english who brought the clouds. the defence volunteers will be able to move tonight. there is no electricity. good evening. we have got a huge storms across the english channel into kent, it is lighting up the skies, maybe a sign of things to
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come. for many of us, we have the sun and out, long shadows to end the day but there will be more in the way of cloud across the southern north—eastern parts of england. this is where the storms are coming from. they have been sitting over the channel islands, we are getting a view heading towards the south—east corner of england and a few lighter showers here in the south—west. a threat of some storms across southern counties of england overnight, otherwise it will be dry. was the misty, murky weather and a bit chilly for eastern scotland. we are on the edge of all of this activity in europe, some in scandinavia and northern parts of germany and into poland where it is very warm. a bit cool and misty for eastern parts of england, some of that low cloud may linger across coastal areas of. more cloud across southern parts of england and wales and the chance of one or two showers. a greater risk of catching an isolated storms in western parts
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of. for many it will be dry and temperatures in the low 20s. uv levels when you get the sun are pretty high out there almost across—the—board pretty high out there almost across—the—boa rd and if pretty high out there almost across—the—board and if it is grass pollen you suffer from, then across—the—board and if it is grass pollen you sufferfrom, then high levels across england and wales once again. as we head into the end of the week, we have got high pressure to the north, low to the south, which is why we are getting the easterly flow. we have had this pattern for three weeks or so and this is why we get this low cloud now and again coming in burning to coastal areas, the chance of one or two showers more towards the south—west of england and wales. again, notfar south—west of england and wales. again, not far away from the western side. temperatures of the lower, near those north sea coasts, mid teens but with sunshine in the low 20s elsewhere. and some are changing very much, difficult to pinpoint where the showers are going to be, probably not many of them on saturday at all. a good chance of staying dry and it will be warm in the sunshine, uv levels high once again. a lot of storm activity not
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far away. seeing some of it now but we may get more on sunday because this was a system approaches southern counties of england once again. that is something we will need to keep an eye on as we head into the weekend. difficult getting the details because these are so slow—moving. the weather pattern is not changing a great deal, as places will be dry in the next few days and there is always a chance of one or two heavy showers. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: the korea summit fortress — police reveal the scale of the shutdowns for tuesday's big event. the summit has in declared as a high security special event from june ten untiljune1li. during this period the public can expect heightened security measures. the view from japan where fear of missile attacks from north korea has led to these air raid drills.
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