the task.he is up to peter mandelson has criticized her approach. bloomberg at the milken global conference in beverly hills. >> she said today she will be a bloody woman and negotiating with the european union, and i must say i fear for this. at the moment, they seem to be lining up in front of each other , playing a game of chicken. they are prepared to drive headlong at each other, daring the other to blink or to turn away before they reach a head on collision. this is not a sensible way to negotiation, which is as complex and is important both for the european side and for britain, and i hope they can reset before they certificate underway and risky doing huge damage to the european economy, but i'm afraid if there is a crash, britain will come off for us. there is aome say sense of complacency that will end in humiliation. jean-claude juncker has said britain cannot expect to get out of this better than it was before as a member of the eu. how do you read that? >> he is right. if you have an organization like the european union which bestows hu

it didn't seem to stop peter mandelson being mp here for 12 years.—east and this is an area i know, it is an area i care about, and it's an area which i can deliver a for. do you mind if i leave you with a leaflet just with a few points. no, no, not at all. it probably will be... probably will be theresa? yeah. he voted for brexit, as did 70% of hartlepool, so does that mean job done for ukip here? forfrom it, says phillip broughton, the only one of the candidates who stood last time, when he came second. i think the tories know that this is a ukip — labour battleground seat, and ukip or labour is going to win, and people have got a very clear choice, emily, onjune 8th. if the vote conservative or they vote labour they will get a labour mp and nothing will change and it will be business as usual. and i've lived in the town for 18—odd years... mike hill suddenly found himself the prospective labour candidate when iain wright stepped down as the election was called. i was just listening to that at the moment, the government robbing people blind... moto

it reminds me of the 19905 and tony blair and peter mandelson talking about the third way.for is this third way. he has got a prime minister who is on the centre—right. it is very important because his main challengers will be on the right. the left is in disarray and he does not need to divide it any more, that is already done. he wants to divide the right and he has done that and he has also given one of the leading jobs, the economy, to a centre—right figure. it was a pleasure to get him on, we will be talking to him again as emanuel macron goes about his business. emanuel macron goes about his business. this is chelsea manning. she was jailed for leaking confidential documents to wikilea ks when she was an intelligence analyst for the us army. today she tweeted this. first steps of freedom!! she's been released — barack obama commuted her sentence just before he left office. amongst the information she passed to wikileaks were hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables like this one, published in the guardian newspaper, detailing how diplomats were told to gather intell

. >> bloomberg caught up with a former eu trade commissioner and peter mandelson.he impact on the british economy would be gradual. >> i do not believe that there is going to be some overnight disinvestment from the u.k. economy. what you're going to see is a steady incremental cumulative effect over very many years and the price that britain pays will be in the future opportunities of investments and growth. we will not have reached the point of no return form of -- businesses but we will be perilously near that point. the price that britain will pay is in future investment opportunities. that is the long-term negative and peter mendelson campaigning against brexit as we know it. pounds,ve view on the >> we try to put things in a historical perspective. we have tried short-term forecasts, so-and-so said something else and we were jumping up the window. the u.k. have always had a relationship up and down. we don't see that changing just because the rules of engagement have changed. we do believe that will be a relationship and that relationship will allow for a sof

we also heard from peter mandelson who said it could antagonize the person you are going to do with before starting negotiations. something we are keeping a close eye on. verhofstadt starts talking, we will bring you any updates. an independent emmanuel macron will face marine le pen for their first and only head-to-head debate. with four days to go, polls suggest macron will take 60% of the vote. but a quarter of the electors plans to abstain. first of all, how are the candidates? good morning. how are they getting prepared for this important tv debate tonight? >> there will be a clash between two opposite visions of france. pro business, pro european, emmanuel macron and the nationalist and protectionist marine le pen. to win this debate, emmanuel macron will have to be more combative to show he is not too hesitant or too soft, and to show he can dominate marine le pen. he can sometimes be very aggressive in that kind of exercise. to expand her base, marine le pen will have to do the exact opposite. she will have to reassure, to soften her views, especially on the euro, which is somethin