and for the uk independence party and for the uk independence party and for the vote leave campaignlear correlation. i've never heard of him but i just correlation. i've never heard of him but ijust don‘t correlation. i've never heard of him but i just don‘t agree with correlation. i've never heard of him but ijust don‘t agree with him! for two simple reasons. one is, that of course the alliance of brexit voters was not just people course the alliance of brexit voters was notjust people in left behind, depressed towns in the north of england that we have been talking a lot about british politics but also retired voters, pensioners, people in the south of england who were the very people who at the time often charge levelled at me that had escaped austerity. they had not been the target of government cuts. second, i would say that you have to look at cause—and—effect and austerity was not a sort of volu nta ry austerity was not a sort of voluntary policy. it was a consequence in britain and basically every other western nation of the financial crash and in the financial crash hit poo

first entered these halls as members of the uk's independent party, getting elected as members of the european parliament for that body back in 1999 and nigel farage yesterday evgen evening walked out to take the credit for having delivered on his euro skeptic dream. there were, however, moments he clashed with the speaker of the house of this parliament, marie maginnis, yesterday when he was delivering his final speech, he brandished a union jack flag, those flags appear to have been banned by the european parliament after the brexit party elected meps waived them too many times. they all brandished their flags with nigel farage and they were unceremoniously thrown out. pro-european members of the greens and liberal democrats delivered their speeches, in particular one of them of the greens broke down in tears when she said that one day she hoped she would walk these halls of power again and that the uk would reverse the decision of brexit. and then final moment was when the head of the european parliament, the president of this institution said, i'm signing this bill into law. that

party celebrating the uk's formal exit. wiping their feet on the european flag brexit supporters outside the british parliament masive: feelings clear. calling it independence day they gathered to mark the count down to eleven pm in the u. k. mid nineteen brussels when the u. k. officially leaves the european union. this is outside to showing the syrup we become our own children the again. and we will. so ended i we after all just a nobody should policies. is some compare it to this world war and liberate euro from. is. far as i'm concerned. this is a beginning of the- sir need it was full upon is country. wants to home for u. k. may know of the symptom the twenty six ref vote so 52% in favor of leaving and 48% for to stay in the e. u. this is the moment brexit his have been hoping and waiting for. thousands are expected to come and join the party. had been hopes big band would sound it spells but that was ruled out by the house of commons. instead they'll be pre recorded bones played out on loudspeakers. now for more on the story i'd like to cross like to london my friend sandy fools play the cassani standing by his of westminster kleve ist as we just hear

uk dragging scotland out of the eu against our will. that is a material change of circumstances. the snp's party at the selection was not for another vote on independencelf of your mps. what is clear from the discussion is that only the scottish conservatives are the true unionist party. the labour party will acquiesce to any demand for another referendum.” party will acquiesce to any demand for another referendum. i will have to leave you chatting amongst yourselves. this issue will go on and on. thank you very much for speaking to us today. thank you very much, vicki young, leave them all talking. much more coming up. we will leave you with a look at the weather. it has been a stormy start to the week, but today many areas can draw breath. we still have low pressure close to the north of the uk, wind is still fairly strong. but hazier to half of the uk. down towards the south—east, there has been a weatherfront, a lingering, gradually working its way down towards the south—east taken with the cloud. a few showers for northern ireland and into western scotland. some of those wintry of a higher ground, and we have had reports of lightning. in between,

independent specialist to ensure their care has been as expected. none of mr rahman's nhs patients have been recalled. the uk's second—largest union has backed rebecca long bailey to be the leader of the labour partycretary len mccluskey announced that it would endorse the shadow business secretary, as well as richard burgon for deputy leader. 0ur political correspondent helen catt is in westminster for us. tell us more. this is quite important. the backing of unions is more important than it has ever been in this particular leadership race and that is because there is a requirement to be able to get onto the final ballot that goes out to members to registered supporters. each candidate needs to get the backing from either enough unions are enough constituency labour parties to get them on that ballot. rebecca long—bailey getting the backing of unite pretty much guarantees that she is going to get onto that ballot along with lisa and andy who has already reached the required level and keir starmer who has already reached the required number. rebecca long—bailey getting the endorsement from unite is not really a surprise because she was widely expected to win it. unite's general secretary, len mccl