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to me for a lot. of. and what i. hear the birds in the distance and we say goodbye to the was. i. i. was a bit louder. still here only now yeah it's like millennium bug nothing's happened yeah the big things you all have got to face on the. right. well how does the country feel now is it all celebration anticlimax or whatever let's cross live to of course when the saudi who has the truth of being in the thick of things that is a pro breaks it party happening at the moment in part of its quest but what is the atmosphere like now. well just as you've joined me this massive crowd on least 1050000 people just broke out it's really a rendition of god save the queen that are fun to think to stuff before going out

and see but just before. the feel strong enough but there was a huge change back waving and singing was it officially the pulse of the folk and that the european union. and the should open our stuff the coming to an end and the many people that we've spoken to here it's a dice i got they don't this is just the beginning of a long road and that's of course we have the 11 month transition period and they're off the hook but it will have to read the charts it's called many different pieces here as to what exactly not paul willerton title but for many here at least the future represents one of opportunity but of course in all the parts of the country not the song and the few that will be much less than the patriot not admitting i have face the full power of the running. east and on its way

many thanks for joining us well. let me go diane i mean you've been campaigning this for this for your whole life i mean how do you feel very pleased very pleased i have to say i mean you know we're not allowed to be triumphalist and i don't want to be 20 but i am pleased you know finally from my point of view we got to the end of 3 and a half years without wrangling we've got a functioning palma that's actually delivered the result and we've actually got a prime minister who's actually delivered the pledge and norman is a for the lib dems minister how do you feel bearing in mind the lib dems were the revoke article 50 well i did not should be without particular policy of the site but i feel very worried for the country i mean by uncivil you honest politicians there are so you and she's absolutely straightforward in her views and she no doubt believes is the best thing for britain i thought happen to believe the opposite why was the problem what we were optimistic we were going to win in a world of power blocs whether it's us or whether it's china russia the e.u. and britain going to a very small fish in

a very big barn full of sharks i don't think you know we're not in we don't travel in times when you're saying gumbo some things we are the best of other countries this will come apparent with the deal with america if we get one with a trade do i mean look he used to call the shots 11 o'clock as it happened or as i happen to love to quote 12 o'clock central european time even decide the china leaving broke so i was up to the doom and gloom can see in the economy there are no signs of the economy thinking oh well i don't know the economy is going to pick up i mean just look at the car industry 14 percent decrease in production over the last year catastrophic philip had been a weird poverty or had had a position where we actually got more costly exported from the come to the big important for the price of a 25 years that's not going to reverse and boris johnson has trouble appeared not to be interested in manufacturing anymore well a case that was based on uncertainty the fact is by actually having a deadline and in force and it was the fact it was dragged on for so long that didn't help but the fact is if you look at the way the car industry constructed its parts moving to and from the country over time sometimes up to 35 times for the

single part from a car. whole the whole economy is integrated absolutely you if we end up leaving a single market and having and having trade barriers that would your mental damage to car history amongst others ok you know i find it incredibly amazing that the e.u. has done it stem aged to the european automotive industry i mean who in their right mind brings in legislation over such a short time frame which means the producers can't respond quickly enough you know change their practices and then coupled with that you've got the whole diesel gate scenario with folks who are going in the other big german manufacturers and yet the e.u. is sat there and actually has created this chaos now you know the remain this with all due respect norman kate wanted to point to bricks it but i want to point the finger and say the e.u. is that is is it the fount the foundation this is the source of this whole problem

do you think we could have stopped all of this had it been more negotiation on both sides was it that one side or the other was intractable is this the failure of diplomacy or is it is it the triumph of democracy. an interesting universe to try to question well i mean that we could do on a happy thing but the closer because we are the single market and reform and you can do better for this country it's my personal view and i'm afraid we're going away from it tomorrow sacrificing this arrangement has been built over 47 years with our closest trading partners for what it's not quite what we're going to get at the end of it so we're throwing more because i'm not quite clear what's going to came in return i thought a sensible position to be in came on quite a few trades may you know if we had if we could with the benefit of hindsight scope not had a prime minister would had something like johnson or the equivalent who is a go out there get a deal done stop faffing around stop just you know kowtow into the you i think we wouldn't have had to wait 3 and a half dorman and thank you very much and most do stay with this point you are

certain to midnight. mr you can't mention dimension where is the champagne who is none of that for the prime minister no doubt be raising a glass to celebrate the country's official departure from the e.u. and finally getting breaks it done before the 11 o'clock deadline struck just a few minutes ago boris johnson addressed the nation via a pre-court a video message and he claimed we are at the start of a new era the most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end but a beginning this is the moment when the dawn breaks and the curtain goes up on a new act in our great national drama and it's partly about using these new powers this recaptured sovereignty to deliver the changes people voted for whether that is by controlling immigration or creating 3 points or liberating our fishing industry or doing free trade deals or simply making our laws and rules for the benefit of the people of this country and of course i think that is the right and healthy and

democratic thing to do because for all its strengths and for all its admirable qualities the e.u. has evolved over 50 years in a direction that no longer suits this country and that is a judgment that you the people have now confirmed at the polls not once but twice. and yet this moment is far bigger than that it's not just about some legal extrication it is potentially a moment of real national renewal and change this is the dawn of a new era in which we no longer accept that your life chances your family's life chances should depend on which part of the country you grow up in this is the moment when we really begin to unite and level up defeating crime transforming our n.h.s. and with better education with super technology and with the biggest revival of our infrastructure since the victorians we will spread hope and opportunity to every part of the u.k.

and if we can get this right i believe that with every month that goes by we will grow in confidence not just at home but abroad and in our diplomacy our fight against climate change our campaigns for human rights female education we will rediscover muscles that we have not used for decades the power of independent thought and action not because we want to detract from anything done by our friends of course we want this to be the beginning of a new era of friendly cooperation between the e.u. and an energetic britain of britain that is similar tamia city a great european power and truly global in our range and ambitions and when i look at this country's incredible assets are down tis our engineers our world leading universities our armed forces when i look at the potential of this country waiting to be unleashed i know that we can turn this opportunity into a stunning success and whatever the bumps in the road ahead i know that we will

succeed we have a bay the will of the people. we've taken back the tools of self government now is the time to use those tools to unleash the full potential of this brilliant country and to make better the lives of everyone in every corner of our united kingdom. well that was a prime minister boris johnson he said we're going to turn the situation into a stunning opportunity what do you think where those 2 points would make it should be for the 1st one to talk to talk talk about leveling up the country and investing the north and so on aren't totally thought but actually been done without direction but that's not the pens of berkshire that could be done by previous governments and should have been done by previous governments but the point i wanted to make a bridge was this one of your. particular bomb a hog without being interviewed by journalists because he has been refusing to go on the b.b.c. i just stopped as ministers going on the b.b.c. we talked about trust in politics a moment ago he will be properly interviewed we saw that today election campaign

but he refused to do under the new york and that's good to diminish trust in politicians if if you want face up to the heart arguments from german was done you were highly critical of trees a mayor your thoughts and on boris johnson i think the point where boris scored his goal charisma and he's what i call a people's pm you know the fact that he's just given that broadcast i think will take to a lot of boxes around the country if the sort of thing that tracer may just couldn't have done with any sincerity or even in any form of you know relaxed attitude and you know i'm a great believer in just talking to ordinary people now like i came into london this evening in the car and the driver was telling me how much he admired it boris johnson and yet i don't know what his political color was before the most recent general election but i don't think it was conservative and as far as he was concerned force jones was just absolutely brilliant and this is what i think is

going to carry him for the forseeable future and it's going to be some while before people actually really start to think wait a minute you know what about you know has see will he can hey you know all those sorts of question david thank you very much for becoming back to you guys later but in the meantime it's hard to believe it's almost been 4 years since the referendum so let's remind ourselves of how we got here is our to you case it was daschle. breck's it is finally hair but as anyone in westminster will tell you getting here hasn't exactly been a stroll in the park it all began with then prime minister david cameron worried about the threat from the u.k. independence party remember them cameron won the election 2015 with a small majority on the promise of a referendum on the membership but then he had to deliver on it. 3 years ago i committed to the british people that i would renegotiate our position in the european union and hold and referendum now i'm delivering on that commitment while

cameron campaigned hard to remain tory heavyweights like michael gove and boris johnson more of him later went to correct it and they got a narrow win 51.8 percent so just for a while one. having lost cameron wasn't going to stick around paving the way for theresa may to assume the top dropped quickly changed her tune from hard to remain a 2 pragmatic threat sit there and pull the trigger on article 50 that the talks begin bricks it means bricks it breaks it means breaks ranks it continues to mean breck's it but with only a small majority in the commons the new prime minister if it should never get a deal through she called an early election to boost those numbers but it didn't quite pay off labor leader jeremy corbyn astounded the critics forcing a hung parliament and to cling to power may have no choice but to team up with the northern irish yunis the do you pig we have reached an agreement with the conservative party on support for government in parliament that proved to be

a major point of contention the e.u. offered a breakfast deal with an all ireland backstop to avoid a hard border on the island of trade talks went sour but that sounded too close to a united ireland for the day so she went with an all u.k. backstop instead but that left the entire country in the grips of an e.u. customs union which many saw as a bret's at the trial despite all kinds of ideas to avoid that scenario from alternative arrangements to. no not all solutions none of them quite fit to the bell the withdrawal agreement is in short a reckless leap in the dark there will be cursed people going into the lobby is against this deal it is a denial of our democracy and therefore of the national interest the democratic unionist party will be voting against withdrawal agreement b. now have a problem looked around only 20 percent of the public appear to think that this is a good deal and it should come as no surprise that so few members of parliament are

also willing to support it not once not twice but 3 times parliament rejected the deal and with that $529.00 t. it was time for the end where i will shortly leave the job that it has been the honor of my life to hold. the 2nd female prime minister but certainly not the last i do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. now the end of may spark the beginning of course the former foreign secretary sees control with one aim in mind for exit by how do we and he said he'd leave without a deal if he couldn't get a better one do or die get breaks it done let's get right to john get great get bricks done the best way to bring this country together would be i think to get pretty done johnson even try to suspend that pesky parliament

getting in the way of his plans just weeks before the u.k. was due to crush out many sorts as an attempt to dodge scrutiny and the cold rolled on the hopeful but then the unthinkable another till. now you could see. good to see the prime minister. my friend going to johnson we have a did we go of a deal put it in the microwave what was the new deal well remember that all i didn't backstop that's right forces up and ready brek that bill was more like the rate at 1st office the g.d.p. hated it but told to didn't seem to care but without the numbers in the commons just like you read that before him he found his deal through but he was an accepting defeat just yet can he make a comment today because. that you will not go back to brussels and now they may think yes. i did you a great deal in the end he was not dead in the ditch either mostly of parliament it

was back to brussels asking for yet another extension with that guaranteed and he's also in the election he's been gunning for since he took charge i just been to see how much she the queen earlier on and she agreed to dissolve parliament for an election which if he is something which are not a hung parliament in the spirit of the season farsighted writes that carol's daughter still. it worked and a 2 seat majority in the commons suddenly it was so simple morris was able to do what his predecessor failed to get that bracket deal done at least in the commons now just a trade deal to secure by the end of the again so the battle is far from over what could possibly go over well. we've got plenty more to come this breaks at night.

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well protests as have been gathering at several locations along northern ireland's border with the republic organized by the border communities against threats that

group campaign is that concerned about how boris johnson's deal will see them have different rights than those that in less than a moral way in addition the withdrawal agreement guarantees any checks needed across the irish sea rather than on the long border but the prime minister has said he won't do that so there are worries that a refusal to follow the deal could spark on risk even a return to the troubles were taken aback at boris johnson's breaks it deal and how it has managed to unite northern alliance often fractious political parties in opposition or be it for different reasons. a pregnant referendum should have been a big red or green flag for the emerald oil it's actually ironic how the issue was so absent from the 2016 referendum become pain especially given the narrow result 52 to 48 to leave but northern ireland voting 56 to 44 to remain. it's a unique situation 998 good friday agreement guaranteed no hired border between the

north and the republic to avoid a return to the horrors of the troubles. e.u. membership for both the u.k. and ireland made that easy breaking away means a little friction there's going to be a border somewhere and that's got to be either on the island of ireland or in the sea between britain and northern ireland rice so how does bars johnson's breaks a deal sort all that out. well the whole u.k. leaves the customs union at the end of the year northern ireland sticks with the e.u. on our group culture and manufactured goods goods moving from great britain to northern ireland which might move. on to the rest of the e.u. are subject to the blocks tariff so northern ireland part of the u.k. customs union but follows e.u. customs rules and enforces them at its ports which means a sea border doesn't. see any circumstances whatever in which there be any need for check goods going from. 2 to g.b.

i just want to say that in premonition. foresees checked and controls for goods and touring there are a 100. let's call that a difference of opinion and you can see why johnson doesn't want to call it a border we would be damaging the fabric of the union with regular checks and even customs controls between great britain and northern ireland. but seriously some new bureaucracy call it checks call the procedures if you like will be needed won't even the braggs secretary said so for goods moving from great britain to northern ireland those destined for the european union will have to comply with european union rules and since then johnson has had to clarify the only circumstances in which you could imagine the need for checks coming from g.b. to explain before it is if the goods would go into.

it. but if northern ireland's and forcing e.u. custom rules at its ports there is going to be a few formalities even if they are well formalities and that aside the kind of agreement needed means a very close relationship paves the way for a near agreement on our future relationship with our european neighbors based on an ambitious free trade agreement so no alignment but close enough to mean no checks some in the e.u. are concerned that johnson's contradictory rhetoric suggests he could just ignore the rules 2020 will not just be about the future. sure lation sure but also implementing that withdrawal the agreement notably the northern irish protocol we will have to be extremely disciplined to get it up and running in 11 months to have you tail forty's apply the checks the u.k. has agreed to apply that creates quite a lot of proprietary measures and certainly on our side grewal not tolerate any

backsliding or half measures if you think it's all a mess you should hear what the recently reform storm and assemblies think of it. in this case the 1st minister and i agree that we should not recommend the consent is that we should recommend that consent is not given all be it i would say mr speaker for different reasons while the assembly doesn't have to like the deal and likes scotland and wales it does and they do have to grow to love us in 4 years under that with drawl deal they get asked if they're happy and if they're not well it's back to the drawing board. for more on this i'm now joined by d.p. m.p. jim shannon jim evening tears a thing bell so a happy night for years but it's quite clear there's not a great deal of happiness amongst those in northern ireland in the way that breaks it is panning out well it's well low but i approach it here and i wish that the

e.u. would just as well the perfect bracket for now but it's certainly not the perfect direction for us. and we do feel. that. perhaps that they asked are you culpable article will be very different from the one we're going but i would not you are totally different from the rest of the united kingdom or what so what do you think about the process then jim i mean those living along the border they seem to be particularly worried about the future that they. i think he was in the northern arkansas where to put a future in relation to hunt i think we can talk him out as look 93 is more with the dedication that the with the rest of the word for this through the tears with the medicaid that underpin those a sore point for us we're going to be subjected you tar system costs for public school again purposeful and i for i got a culture for motherfucker that promises well are crushing states here's one for you as well especially if it's to young the feds and portable we had my consistency

and our last bill cases will be subject to parts of the flesh that they don't mean the implications are even for the rich it's not it's a poor going to get line that the seems to be with the rest with a huge debt we could be also subject. so that could you talk systems an old. site of they get educated them. right what subject to what happens in the they at the caissons for also not there are very very real we will behave but different brought to the rest of the united kingdom for different mackoff wales not normal some of them the one with the e.u. with the stay the course aside and have no impact on your health care well but tom i hear what you're saying and i'm kind of you on have to buy that but you know you support your post as opposed to the concerns are coming for some time and there's a double cluster haven't i. well that there's probably no will or brad saying as it

comes that we're paid. we trusted had we were assured by the conservative party that that does we would be treated the very same as arrest the it but the outcome of the been very very different on and yes we did see the grade on and we look at it on certain future with in the end it came. up with a light with the take this morning with the morning with their probably funded a subject kept our system which forced just the prime minister on the budget muster said with a very clear that will help with more alignment jim more lined up with the republicans on it you say that for all this talk about reunification aboard a poll that must shake you up a bit. but i think they need to fight them out or is it that. i don't see any thing on the agenda at this was kind of the kids are going to be a quarter full but often say that's just a label that we off. with that they've withdrawn because that's a cyclical law and the last few minutes will definitely also potentially and at

different times and for the rest see an educated we can't ignore the we will not be i will not be a union a union is the same as a unionist and you can also learn part of our real good unison we heard was that the 1st one on and off as a. direct result of their grade was that boris johnson on the conservative don't accept her days that was not the pm they listen to dick in those getting a signal to see if there's a people looking out of. jim it's done james here our former m.e.p. i wonder if you've been following the news stream today and president macro in france coming out very very strongly that he's going to be defending his french agricultural sector and his fisheries sector and knowing the amount of clout he's got political clout he's got in terms of the european union how do you feel about the aspect that the french actually might be quite happy to discard for at current

this whole idea of supporting for effectively a unified arash island and your potentially going to be privy to that and supportive of that if you're not careful. you mention the big day the fact that they the agriculture the freshest to save one of the think that scrutiny worried me at. some of the discussions that are take a pissant religion to the centuries as it seems that maybe the protections the assurances they aren't theirs the questions that will hold hard from the technical from wheels on down and released into the fisheries sector that the that there is some discussion that maybe the fishy sector section and our sector of the tech there could be subject to some changes which would be contrary to what we had hoped we hope that we would have on fared. the state done away with with the e.u. that we would have been a chance to fix or one wonders a seems like a uni are and upon making fesses is one of their conditions for any sort of an

agreement so i think it read the small print of what other countries are saying that's just it is far from done yet. have not gotten a taste of the cross and there's a long way to go before december of this year before we see what the the final outcome of any sort of a people may be. there's a lot of double dealing that could be done then and do i trust the. press at minister and perhaps at least government to deliver i'm sure that our fresh a sector of the technology and our r.v. food sector was a salute vital for talk art and this agreement on how to say that up a question mark in my mind of a public well i jim is k 11 final question looking at what you're saying and still want to hates the deal you've also got to give your consent in 4 years time as well haven't you had it yes we tell you and and the concern that we haven't.