is it spell the demise of ukip, his further party? complete kind of very, very far right rising forces and particularly unpleasant forces and particularly unpleasant forces there? you at the end of the spectrum and you have it ukp in there. —— ukip. idon't know. spectrum and you have it ukp in there. -- ukip. i don't know. or just a last—minute threat to two reason they to warn her not to go too soft on brexit and to see... ——to reason they. lim yes. —— yes. —— theresa ——to reason they. lim yes. —— yes. — — theresa may. ——to reason they. lim yes. —— yes. —— theresa may. we campaign to try and stop it and, you know. it's starting to look inevitable that both the tories and labour are going to split. we are all very shocked but there is a history of it. we have had a period of relative stability, haven't we, in the post—war parliament.” stability, haven't we, in the post-war parliament. i have to stop you both there. on that note. jason, claire, thank you so much. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front page

ukip left me the party that i joined no longer existed they were banging the drum about you know the muslim if occasion of birth and about islam that's not why i got into politics and i didn't want to be associated with. setting no as an independent should it be if the prime minister tries to delay bracks that then those who are european parliament elections in the u.k. who have nigel for eyes has formed the brakes at party and you said this week that you'll be one of its adherents yes absolutely but i don't think it's a political opportunity as such because i makes it sound almost like it's something that we want to do and it's. a way of is keeping ourselves in their job and keeping ourselves as politicians but we said all along we were only in this to get a result and the reason why nigel and over people as well have. begun to to form they spread designators breaks it is that we took we had so we don't want to have to use it it's almost like you've got a nuclear bomb but you don't actually want to use it you're hoping that the threat of the bomb is enough to get what you warm and t

tweets emails and messages on last week's shoot with of course you interviewed a couple of former ukipevery piece of ny become independents if you want to say it's another very interesting program always presenting things from a different angle to rap he says i like that alex give space for a broad set of stances on the issue and a lot of these x. you compress and bricks of supporters the space to speak more than send by it's well done thanks to him however he says i'm surprised when they start speaking about delivering the bricks that the british people wanted and voted for except for the will of the people and all the system under five alex doesn't come to the question of course tim wanted alex ask about scotland and i've got news for you to because the next week sure we're going to be looking at scotland's place in europe you can look forward to that now listen to the votes that took place in palm last week jim excess carbon the great sustain a once again through scotland under the bus to d. not happy is jim and guy says how could an actual political party be entirely focused on bri

with anna soulbry, heidi allen and sarah woolaston comparing the conservative party to the right—wing ukip lanched independent group of backbenchers. former prime minister david cameron urged the three conservative defectors to stay in the party hours before they quit, according to the times. the paper also reports on new recommendations from the government's climate change committee which suggests gas boilers and cookers should be banned in new homes within six years to meet britain's legally binding emisisons targets. the number of britons stripped of their citizenship has soared by more than 600% in a year, according to the independent, which reports that so—called islamic state member shamima begum is one of more than 150 people subjected to the measure for the "public good" since 2010. let's start with a big story in a delete mail. not strictly what she said it, or what was said. what she actually said was i cannot imagine she could return to the conservative fold, not least because if we do our job right, there will not be a tory party to go back to. so that is a statement of intent

from leading briggs appears in great britain nigel farrar former leader of the euro skeptic party ukip tweeted this in response to. after breaks that we will be free of unelected arrogant bullies like you and run our own country sounds more like heaven to me. barbara i would say to shay there the backlash comments were immediate in the united kingdom. of course the backlash was immediate but there were also some scottish s.n.p. who said that this kid hit the nail on the head because it was exactly like you said here is sold to the british public a sort of exit from the european union that they hadn't thought about beforehand and they hadn't offered up a plan for and now sort of things are sort of just getting more and more kids chaotic in london and to sort of refer back to nigel i mean he has no reason to complain because he once insulted a european council president. and called him a damp rag was the sort of charisma off a bank director i mean really the two sides sort of deserve each other on this point i think and these remarks and i think what's really worrying come just a day bef

is aligning its military ambitions with america's while the deputy leader of the ukip party mine cookham believes the reasoning behind the plan doesn't quite add up . williamston is doing is positioning our future foreign policy. very much in close and tight alliance with washington's and if you read the you know transfers foreign policy. trumps cabinets foreign policy documents what they're really doing is they're trying to. assuage the u.s. military. to trying to deal with china in particular which they see as their main competitor so the thing is britain's government kind of goes along with that train these kind of aggressive postures can only increase tension around the world they can only be seen as provocative and confrontational against great powers many of whom are armed and powerfully than we are so this is a this is a this is a very old foreign policy posture and it's hopefully not one that will in fact be pursue why are we getting involved with any of this we shouldn't be getting involved with china or russia you know there are not a threat to us as far as i can see at the mom

who used to lead ukip the u.k. independence party they campaigned for a referendum for the u.k. to leave the e.u. and he said off to brics it we will be free of unelect. arrogant bullies like you and run our own country that sounds like heaven to me so all this verbal sparring alex have being a dig before tourism a goes to brussels to talk about briggs it this doesn't all go well for those talks no it doesn't and as you've already said she's in northern ireland trying to get agreement among m.p.'s then she has real problems particularly with those northern irish m.p.'s from the d. u.p.a. party who proper own minority government they dislike the deal that has been thrashed out to prevent a hard fought a between northern ireland and the republic of violent republic of ireland will remain that the e.u. and northern ireland with the u.k. they want that so forth are a backstop to go it doesn't look like the e.u. at the moment are prepared to back down so to resume a going to process it seems almost with an empty bowl begging for some concessions which it's pretty clear i'm not going

party be entirely focused on bricks and he of course is referring to the new brics party at the former ukip members are launching will they publish or manifested to include education defense economy health etc brian says seventeen million to sixteen million and you keep trying to say everyone wants it can go to spoke last on some of the detail says that it's a big differential between trading by w. two your standards and the w.t. you deal w. two you rejected you case attempts to get a deal. and i last twenty years britain had gone from leaving it up into the single market to leaving the e.u. altogether covering all the twists and turns of our story and often from our north american perspective has been marking bikes out of cup with them in brussels for an insight into the inside story of these last hope you went there. or marked by it so that a few u.k. journalist more experienced in the ways of the brussels politicking than yourself with what's like twenty years you've been analyzing and reporting from from this capital that you were think when when you started off as a european correspond

for nigel for the former leader of the euro skeptic ukip comment is proof of why britain wanted to leave the e.u. in the first place after bragg's it we will be free of unelected arrogant bullies like you and run our own country sounds more like heaven to me. heaven hell or somewhere in between it's up to theresa may after meetings in belfast the prime minister's back in brussels seeking fresh concessions on the withdrawal agreement however neither donald tusk nor european commission president. seem willing to renegotiate the deal. so as the shortest a short while ago to me is that may is in brussels and so is the ws max offline and that's what everything they carrying this appears to be a very desperate mission about to resume me trying to get some concessions out of the e.u. . desperate might hit the spot here and let me tell you why because our mission is to change or even eliminate the infamous backstop so the insurance policy that's written in the divorce agreement between the u.k. and you to prevent a hard border between northern ireland and ireland and you know what seems like she

of tears in great britain nigel for russia leading the pack former leader of the euro skeptic party ukip tweeted this in response to mr tusks comments. after a break that we will be free of i'm not elected arrogant bullies like you and run our own country sounds more like heaven to me. mr peel sounds like to say there. that though the reaction has been swift and immediate in the united kingdom walk us through some of the reactions there when you are. well the leader of the house of commons who is a member of the government and relents and was also very outspoken and said these remarks were described as well and quite an exceptional and he should apologize the truth is though that both mr for russia and indeed misled some have been clearly among those who did not have a clear plan as to how the british should leave the european union not just whether they should leave that was what they said we're going to leave but they never had a plan and the internal problem with these negotiations over the last two years has been that the european union has been negotiating with a government that did

one of the reasons i thought ukip did so well because one of the things they were talking about werense of no—one really ought to talk about this but we are going to take theissue about this but we are going to take the issue by the hand and it leads to quite extreme views. it's better to quite extreme views. it's better to get things out in the open and you can have these proper informed discussions. less look at the daily mirror, and a big thank you, and it is about the t big thank you, and it is about the opt out. and it is about the or condoning opt out scheme, an 11—year—old saying it is fantastic, and when you see that you think how could anyone possibly be against it? iam not could anyone possibly be against it? i am not against it at one thing that did strike me, now effectively the state can decide what happens to your organs. i think have we had a deep enough philosophical conversation about that in this country? whether or not we want the state to effectively have control of our body after we die and take our organs away? i don't know if that is what we want, but i would l

party be entirely focused on bricks and he of course is referring to the new brics party at the former ukip members are launching will be published a manifesto to include education defense economy health etc brian says seventeen million to sixteen million and you keep trying to say everyone wants it ken scott who spoke last on some of the details says that is a big differential between trading by w t o standards and a w t u deal w. two you rejected your case attempts to get a deal and in the last twenty years britain had gone from leading you to into the single market to leaving the e.u. altogether covering all the twists and turns of the story and also from a north of england perspective has been martin banks others caught up with him in brussels for an insight into the inside story of these last troubling decades. well martin by it's the few u.k. journalists more experienced in the ways of the the brussels politicking than yourself with what's like twenty years you've been analyzing and reporting from from this capital that you were think when when you started off as a european correspond

end up having to leave andjoin ones who will end up having to leave and join the brexit party, or ukipstory about louise ellman talks about the property is having with her local party. there are literally dozens, maybe hundreds of labour mps who are having the same issue, that their local party is full of momentum called corbyn supporters. the sunday times has an interesting take on brexit, saying that for many voters the day we stop talking about brexit can't come soon enough, but the archbishop of canterbury are so concerned about the state of the nation after march the 29th whatever happens that he is preparing us for five days of prayer. is that what the country needs at the moment? five days of prayer. is that what the country needs at the moment7m you believe in the power of prayer, it probably is maybe we need it before march the 21st, rather than afterwards. after the scottish referendum, before the referendum took place, there were plans for a service of coming together for all parties, whatever the result. this should have happened injune 2016, and you could set the tone a bi

is how it works it is only up to bangladesh and bangladesh learnt to me that this is and then the ukip cannot newts us this is and on bangladesh's regret. it will be interesting to see if the reverse happened but it is shifted to a citizen by to put into a dual citizen off its than. leaving the u.k. responsive. to see how the u.k. would react in that kind of situation and this is what i mean about international cooperation and you keep doing its rule as a responsible member of the international community could speak when you get out speaking to us there from london thanks for being with us. we don't know where the next stand then the u.n. offering to step in and help resolve tensions between india and pakistan that have been simmering since an attack interests me at. all saudi soldiers killed as fighting continues along the border with yemen it's all ahead. at other shows a growing again slowly but mostly of indy's iraq in places for they don't however in sumatra peninsular malaysia they have shown themselves to be interested so if you're in k.l. or going to singapore you might catch a

mr eustice is a longstanding brexit suporter who once stood as a ukip candidate before joining the conservativesmanslaughter for supplying his girlfriend with a class—a drug at a music festival. 24—year—old louella fletcher—michie, who was the daughter of the holby city actorjohn michie, died at bestival in dorset after taking the hallucinogenic drug 2—cp. ceon broughton had denied he was responsible for her death. the families that instigated what's become the biggest inquiry into allegations of maternity failure in an nhs trust are considering withdrawing from the process, after a medical college was given a role overseeing the investigation. a review of maternity care at the shropshire trust has now been contacted by more than 200 families, many of whom allege that babies and mothers died avoidably or suffered long—term harm as a result of poor care. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. ten years ago tomorrow, my first daughter kate was born and died within six hours because of a catalogue of horrendous failings. this woman has fought for a decade to uncover maternity fa

three names of the tory mps is set to be on the age and has tweeted about her concern about ‘bluekip', ukips spectrum and the most right wing are returning to be re—assimilated into the conservative party. it is a very broad coalition like labour in many ways. i would not be surprised if some of the divisions that brexit have thrown up do cause a split in the conservative party. have i understood you correctly, saying if these people are going to go perhaps they would have been gone by now?|j think they would have been gone by now?” think so. i think if the three had beena think so. i think if the three had been a little more certain than they might have joined him yesterday. i think the idea of a centrist party, a separate group has been in the works for a long time. the fact we only had seven yesterday suggest that a lot of people are very i'iei’vous that a lot of people are very nervous about jumping ship. that a lot of people are very nervous aboutjumping ship. i think those three realised they currently have quite a safe space within the conservative party and they may be unhappy about

ukip supporters have been accused of trying to infiltrate some local tory groups.l issue is that when you're in a leave constituency, surely you should have an mp that actually supports leaving. so, is anna soubry out of step with her constituents? michael and pamela voted for her and brexit. she wanted to stay, but the borough voted to go out. and i thought she was supposed to be representing us, but she isn't. derek voted to leave the eu too, but thinks mps should have more freedom to take a stand when they feel strongly. party politics are killing the country. what makes you say that? i think because they don't vote with their conscience, they vote with the party line. so, little harmony over their mp‘s decision, but the sense that, here at least, the political landscape has shifted. alex forsyth, bbc news, beeston. allegations of anti—semitism within labour have been a prime factor for some of the mps who left the party earlier this week. today, a senior labour frontbencher, barry gardiner, apologised to alljewish people, on behalf of the party. the shadow inte

after tense meetings in brussels, ukip prime minister goes to ireland in search of brexit progress.will discuss that next. tune into bloomberg radio live on your mobile device or on digital radio in the london area. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> brexit is causing short-term volatility. more fundamentally, it is creating tensions in the economy. the economy is not prepared for a no deal, no transition exit. brexit is creating tensions in financial markets. those remain sensitive to brexit related news and a variety of risk on u.k. assets are elevated. we have downgraded our forecast for u.k. weighted global gdp. over the past year, the global economy has transitioned from robust broad-based expansion to a widespread slowdown with all regions decelerating in tighter financial conditions and rising trade tensions. with of the easier path of monetary policy and all major economic areas is now implied by markets, global growth will stabilize later this year. nejra: that was bank of england governor mark of carney speaking during the inflation report yesterday. with less than 50 days until brex

mr eustice is a longstanding supporter of brexit who stood as a ukip candidate for the european parliamentresignation letter mr eustice said: with me now is our chief political correspondent vicki young. he becomes the 14th minister to leave the government because of brexit. there have been various different reasons for those people living within the conservative party. george eustace is saying it is that decision to allow parliament potentially to take control of this process , potentially to take control of this process, to mandate the prime minister to go to the eu and ask for an extension. his fear is that could become a very long delay. unlike others he has supported the prime minister and her deal and voted for it before. he said even though he was living government he would continue to back her deal. i asked him why he decided to resign now. this week has been a quite dangerous development, which is parliament taking direct control of this process away from the government. i wa nt to process away from the government. i want to be able to participate in this debate and the best way t

i want to show you something nigel farage, who founded the ukip party tweeted today. he says...t outlined, it is hard to see how the electoral system we have here can make realignment happen, it is not as easy setting up a new party in many european continental countries but you talk to people here, anecdotally, a lot of people support the idea that fundamentally, british politics is broken and needs a new reset button? yes, and as rob saying, this big shift is happening. donald trump is hitting back at claims that some of his top government officials once discussed whether he was fit to be president. the claims were made by andrew mccabe, the former deputy head of the fbi in a tv interview last night. particularly stunning, mr mccabe, who was himself fired from the fbi, last year also says mr trump told him that on the issue of north korea, he trusted vladimir putin over us intelligence services. essentially, the president said he did not believe the north koreans had the capability to hit us here with ballistic missiles in the united states. and he did not believe that because

i think it was anna soubry who said the conservative party has become ukip, and i think it was lucianas country, and they think, and i would say, the polls would show they are right, that british people are tired of the direction this country is going on and they want change. also talking about anti—semitism in the labour party, there are members of the conservative party who speak about anti—semitism so let‘s not give them anti—semitism so let‘s not give them a free pass on this issue. also let‘s letjewish a free pass on this issue. also let‘s let jewish people a free pass on this issue. also let‘s letjewish people speak about anti—semitism because luciana is speaking and we are paying attention tojeremy corbyn. speaking and we are paying attention to jeremy corbyn. final thought, ruby. most voters are progressive, open—minded, and i think this independent group shares these values. and i think the liberal democrats, shall we work together? we have almost 2000 councillors and 100,000 party members, and we can then help achieve these open, progressive moderate views that most british v

we know that some of them believe that the two tory mps believe the party is being taken over by ukipin synergy but whether any will walk anytime soon is more in—depth. at the end of the day, i suspect brexit may be the key factor, certainly on the labour side. many labour mps ta ke the labour side. many labour mps take the view they want to hang in see whether mr corbyn pivots to support another referendum and in all probability we will get a vote in the not too distant future because there are signs that labour backbenchers will table amendments ona backbenchers will table amendments on a referendum, so it mr corbyn backs those i suspect he probably gets around the threat, but if he doesn't then potentially other labour mps may decide we will go too. but much will depend on this new group themselves, whether they can demonstrate they are making headway and can set up a credible organisation with credible policies, with funding and a clear set of policies and a game plan. nothing a tt ra cts policies and a game plan. nothing attracts people like success. if, on the other hand, they h

ukip prime minister theresa may will ask parliament this week to give her more time to renegotiate brexitsing lawmakers a further charge to take control. she will ask for comments to reaffirm the desire to move the irish backstop from the agreement. if she does not come up with a new deal by february 27, pilot will have another vote. governments, including the imf, are concerned. >> it will end when there is a smooth exit by the custom units predicated by some, or as a result of the brutal exit on march 29 without extension of notice. it will be as good as it is now. saysa bloomberg survey there is now a one in three chance of recession and the u.k. in the next 12 months. the poll of 10 economists find the probability of two consecutive quarters of negative growth stand at 30%. that is up from 25% a month ago. 20% throughout the whole of last year. the survey was conducted before the bank of england's forecast of the slowest economic growth in a decade. global news 24 hours a day on air and on @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countrie

mr eustice is a longstanding brexiteer, who stood as a ukip mep candidate before joining the conservativest the departure was going and whether he was happy about it. as you said, he was happy about it. as you said, he has been a strong brexiteerfor many years. what was interesting is that his view on it has always been that his view on it has always been that the referendum result, although it was a clear win for leaving the eu, he felt he could understand that there were many people in the country who were not happy about it, and for him, that meant that a no deal exit or a very sharp break with the eu, even though it might be very attractive, he felt the country probably hadn't voted for that kind of departure. so, it's interesting thatis of departure. so, it's interesting that is why he has gone along with the prime minister's deal, as he says, and when it comes back to the house of commons he will vote for it again. his problem, though, has been what has happened this week. that was the moment where theresa may really was forced into agreeing that parliament would, in the end, have a

the conservative party is a broad church and if people like me start by getting it, it will be, you ukip wollaston would have said to you, forget it, philip, we have lost. it isa we have lost. it is a longer list than that for there are people and government to say the conservative party is history. ministers? yes. i have been a bit ofa history. ministers? yes. i have been a bit of a lightning conductor because i was the first minister to go over the top. i have had lots speaking to me, indeed lots spoke before, and i have tried and failed to persuade ypres minister to change tack on her approach to brexit. today, you're seeing three good colleagues, three solid, dependable, honest, honourable women deciding to leave the conservative party.” never thought i would see it. what did they say to you about why they thought it was necessary to quit rather than to stay and fight? i think they had become increasingly dismayed, i think is probably best way of describing it, about the approach particularly on brexit. the reasons are slightly different to labour colleagues who have left the labour

there has been a very aggressive social media, very well funded campaign encouraging people who are ukipre shifting to the extremes and it is leaving many people feeling totally represented by either of our main parties. people feeling totally represented by either of our main partiesm you do not feel you can change it from within, you have left the party and become part of this independent... we have tried hard to do it. now you are part of this independent group, what does the future hold for this independent group? what do you see the future of this group of being? what we are as a group of people is now sitting as independents and if you all share the same values, and that is on the website for the independent group, but it is not yet a political party andi but it is not yet a political party and i do not think a political party should be cooked up in a back room in westminster. we are going to go out around the country and hear what people want from that party and over timei people want from that party and over time i hope it will become a political party, but at the moment it is ve

if the conservative party continues on its path of seemingly becoming a ukip style party, i don't thinkp style party, i don't think it willjust be me considering their position going forward. there will bea number of position going forward. there will be a number of others. philip, the labour members who left had a variety of reasons, brexit being one of them, but there was also anti—semitism in the party and a sense thatjeremy corbyn‘s leadership, which one of them described as bullying. in the conservative party, for yourself and those other members, is itjust brexit that is the division? primarily brexit. it is a uniquely toxic issue, and has been an issue in the conservative party for many yea rs. in the conservative party for many years. there is a broader concern around the direction of travel up the party. i would mention the decision around shamima begum's citizenship, which i don't think is compatible with the conservative values i hope. the idea of exporting problems abroad when they are essentially home—grown is not acceptable. she expressed abhorrent views, of course, but it

the conservative party is now being taken over by militants, ukip people essentially.an understandable response. i wasn't an mp in the 19805 but a respected those who made that move. we are in a different situation now. the whole concept of brexit did not exist when the sdp liberal party move took place. it isa move took place. it is a dilemma the lib dems. so many years you were the party people went to when they felt angry and disaffected with the bigger uk parties. under the late paddy ashdown you are successful in motor fighting —— motivating that. is there a danger this could eclipse you? i don't think so at all. we have come at this from a different direction. we have had two general elections. it is a different history. the truth is we have to groups now, and established political party, a big infrastructure, local organisations, and another which shares our values, with common objectives. with goodwill and common sense we can work together. but no infrastructure which is a problem, they have one thing in common powerfully which is brexit, but nothing else. once

and, thirdly, on that idea of some sort of influx of people from other parties, like ukip, people whole who really want to see a harder form of brexit, the prime minister saying she doesn't recognise that. the party has stringent things in place to make sure that doesn't happen. the message we are getting from the prime minister today is one of trying to convince potential other defectors not to go. she's had justine greening and philip lee, two people who have spoken about their concerns of party policy in downing street today, to say to them, look, what can we do? can we work something out? you need to stay on board and fight for what you think but within the party. in the last few minutes here i've been talking to the international trade secretary liam fox. let's have a listen. members of parliament can make up their own minds. my view is once you've been elected on a manifesto, promising to honour that, you've got a duty to do so. what members of parliament will have to do is make up parliament will have to do is make up theirown minds parliament will have to do is make up their o