and ian duncan smith believes fca duncan smith believes the fca may be partly to blame.ncouraging the wrong culture. all of that in just a the financial conduct authority are supposed to be the guardians of our financial services system and industry. and let's face it, it's the biggest business in this country. it matters hugely for jobs. no, not just in the forjobs. no, not just in the city of london and canary wharf, but in every major town and city in this country. but there are some who fear it's the culture within the fca that might be causing part of the problems leading to the de—banking of people like me. accordingly, sir ian duncan smith, conservative member of parliament for chingford and woodford green heads a list of distinguished names who've written to the chancellor of the exchequer, jeremy hunt, asking for an jeremy hunt, asking him for an inquiry. and i'm pleased to say that sir ian joins me down the line now. ian, good evening . line now. ian, good evening. welcome to the program . i welcome to the program. i understand from the letter what you're conce

and ian duncan smith believes fca duncan smith believes the fca may be partly to blame.ncouraging the wrong culture. all of that in just a the financial conduct authority are supposed to be the guardians of our financial services system and industry. and let's face it, it's the biggest business in this country. it matters hugely for jobs. no, not just in the forjobs. no, not just in the city of london and canary wharf, but in every major town and city in this country. but there are some who fear it's the culture within the fca that might be causing part of the problems leading to the de—banking of people like me. accordingly, sir ian duncan smith, conservative member of parliament for chingford and woodford green heads a list of distinguished names who've written to the chancellor of the exchequer, jeremy hunt, asking for an jeremy hunt, asking him for an inquiry. and i'm pleased to say that sir ian joins me down the line now. ian, good evening . line now. ian, good evening. welcome to the program . i welcome to the program. i understand from the letter what you're conce

i i left when ian duncan smith became leader because iain duncan smith , when he was in his original , he was very right wing. form, he was very right wing. and actually very difficult with john major. and so on. and suddenly he sort of decided he's sniffs the air, feels where the wind is blowing and suddenly becomes some sort of liberal sort of, you know , charmer. and sort of, you know, charmer. and i just i sort of, you know, charmer. and ijust i can't sort of, you know, charmer. and i just i can't bear people like that. and i and also, it's a terrible thing. cut my tongue out. he's not very bright, is he 7 out. he's not very bright, is he ? i mean, when he was doing the pensions job, i don't think he understood it. and i, by the way, don't claim to be brilliantly bright, but i was bright enough, for instance, i don't know, to take things like the police and criminal evidence act, a major reform of criminal procedure through parliament. every key clause of it debated fully . and you know, it's fully. and you know, it's i understood it , fully. and you know, it's i understood it, b

i i left when ian duncan smith became leader because iain duncan smith , when he was in his originalrm , he was very right wing. form, he was very right wing. and actually very difficult with john major. and so on. and suddenly he sort of decided he's sniffs the air, feels where the wind is blowing and suddenly becomes some sort of liberal sort of, you know , charmer. and sort of, you know, charmer. and i just i sort of, you know, charmer. and ijust i can't sort of, you know, charmer. and i just i can't bear people like that. and i and also, it's a terrible thing. cut my tongue out. he's not very bright, is he 7 out. he's not very bright, is he ? i mean, when he was doing the pensions job, i don't think he understood it. and i, by the way, don't claim to be brilliantly bright, but i was bright enough, for instance, i don't know, to take things like the police and criminal evidence act, a major reform of criminal procedure through parliament. every key clause of it debated fully . and you know, it's fully. and you know, it's i understood it , fully. and you know, it's i understood it,

labour prime minister i'm going to be speaking to i'm also going to be speaking to ian tory ian duncan—smithformer tory leader and a big figure on the right of the party. i want to ask him whether the chancellor, jeremy hunt, to rule jeremy hunt, is right to rule out tax cuts ahead of the next general election. also general election. we're also going to be discussing everything involving ukraine and indeed coming nato indeed the fourth coming nato summit lithuania, summit in lithuania, which happens week . we've got happens next week. we've got biden flying tonight with the biden flying in tonight with the former deputy chief of defence staff, sir simon male, and he'll be talking us through that, as well as biden's suggestions that be talking us through that, as we|should1en's suggestions that be talking us through that, as we|should1en's cluster ions that be talking us through that, as we|should1en's cluster bombsat be talking us through that, as we|should1en's cluster bombs to we should send cluster bombs to ukraine. and we've got a london mayoral in moss hussain mayoral hopeful in moss hu

iain duncan smith has said if we don't move the date for the cut off date for petrol and diesel engine cars, if we don't move that date from 2030 to a later date, said ian as another rate rise looms as the independent's a chilling warning from britain's top a&e doctor tory plan to save the nhs this winter could kill thousands , says dr. adrian boyle, president of the royal college of emergency medicine , has of emergency medicine, has warned that plans drawn up last week are wholly insufficient . he week are wholly insufficient. he said that at least 11,000 additional staffed beds should be provided across the country whilst the pm has only pledged 5000, the guardian ministers seek kerbs on 20 mile an hour limits in push to woo voters and grenfell tower fire costs nearly £1.2 billion. the financial costs of the grenfell tower disaster has reached nearly £1.2 billion, 4000 times the amount saved by replacing fire retardant cladding with a cheapen retardant cladding with a cheaper, combustible metal cereal. the bulk of the cost is being met by the public purse, dwarfing compensation to the bereaved families and survivors . the metro putin piece bombshell

iain duncan smith has said if we don't move the date for the cut off date for petrol and diesel engine cars, if we don't move that date from 2030 to a later date, said ian as another rate rise looms as the independent's a chilling warning from britain's top a&e doctor tory plan to save the nhs this winter could kill thousands , says dr. adrian boyle, president of the royal college of emergency medicine , has of emergency medicine, has warned that plans drawn up last week are wholly insufficient . he week are wholly insufficient. he said that at least 11,000 additional staffed beds should be provided across the country whilst the pm has only pledged 5000, the guardian ministers seek kerbs on 20 mile an hour limits in push to woo voters and grenfell tower fire costs nearly £1.2 billion. the financial costs of the grenfell tower disaster has reached nearly £1.2 billion, 4000 times the amount saved by replacing fire retardant cladding with a cheapen retardant cladding with a cheaper, combustible metal cereal. the bulk of the cost is being met by the public purse, dwarfing compensation to the bereaved families and survivors . the metro putin piece bombshell

and like sir ian duncan smith said, he said that it's some sort. a religious ideology. this virtue signalling that we need to do things before the rest of the european union . the rest of the european union. it's madness. what about you can't have your air conditioning on on the hottest day of the yearin on on the hottest day of the year in leaky car? think year in a leaky car? i think that sums up . that sums it all up. >> oh, all the heating on a cold day. exactly . day. yeah, exactly. >> i mean, exactly. >> i mean, exactly. >> i mean, exactly. >> i jumped in a cab in london and was an electric cab. and and it was an electric cab. and the at night the fella's petrified at night if it rains he wants to if it rains because he wants to win. but the winds aren't . i win. but the winds aren't. i mean, honestly, you talk about worries about it raining at night . worries about it raining at night. imagine if it's a hot night. imagine if it's a hot night and it's raining. he can't have aircon on. have the aircon on. >> you talk you talk about virtue sign

just stop oil to the other end of, you know, the conservative mp like jacob rees—mogg or sir ian duncan smithy to implement them and a pragmatic way. peter barnes i don't necessarily disagree with what we've just said. >> what we just heard then about actually having this conversation apragmatic actually having this conversation a pragmatic way. conversation in a pragmatic way. the most the fundamental problem is most people, come these people, when they come on these kind start kind of shows, they start talking start saying, talking about it, start saying, oh, future for oh, it's about the future for our you our children. it's about, you know, to war and know, it's going to be war and all rest of it. all the rest of it. >> it's the kind of catastrophe, housing the this housing of the kind of this debate actually find debate that i actually find quite irritating. >> a little bit >> it just gets a little bit kind like on the nose every kind of like on the nose every now and then. i actually think that environmentalists have done more to the environmental more harm to the environmental cause yo

. >> yes, theresa may and also ian duncan smith.ll and the impact it might have on victims of modern slavery. i think that's fair enough. slavery. i think that's fair enough . what they're saying, enough. what they're saying, they are worried that, a, it will mean that victims aren't protected and b, it might actually prevent us from going after the trafficking gangs themselves who are the perpetrators of this trafficking and potentially modern slavery. so this is something for the government to chew over. they have already made concessions on this bill over unaccompanied children, over pregnant mothers . is and how long you can detain children for as well when they come over. so it does seem like this bill is going to look a little bit different, quite a bit different from when it entered the commons to begin with. but of course the lords , with. but of course the lords, there are many lords and peers who have tried to wreck this bill entirely. who have tried to wreck this bill entirely . me and i think bill entirely. me and i thin

. >> the threat from china has been written about in today's papers by none other than ian duncan smitheat jeopardy for the world. and i think that's not to overplay it. the other thing is about ben wallace, five minutes ago was being touted as ago he was being touted as a future prime minister. i think all the right leaning all of the right leaning websites like conservativehome and , they've got kemi and things, they've got kemi badenoch up there, but they also saw a safe pair of saw wallace as a safe pair of hands he's obviously major hands. he's obviously a major bofis .i hands. he's obviously a major boris . i think there is boris backer. i think there is a number of reasons for this. i mean , he's one of quite a few mean, he's one of quite a few experienced tories jumping ship ahead of what probably does look like it might be a disastrous general election come 2024. >> not a big majority , has he? >> not a big majority, has he? >> not a big majority, has he? >> he hasn't got a big majority . we've got people going in and .we've got people going in and telling that if telling the to

man to now i've got the perfect man to be discussing all this at 930 because smith is because ian duncan smithin this whole mantra in opposition. this whole mantra that's the that's going around at the moment, i slightly moment, which i find slightly staggering, tories are staggering, that some tories are saying we need a period in opposition. you really don't. and i'm going to say to sir ian, what's it like being in opposition? >> oh, i bet it be awful. >> oh, i bet it must be awful. >> oh, i bet it must be awful. >> it's absolutely awful. you can't get on telly. nobody can't get on the telly. nobody wants hear your policy ideas wants to hear your policy ideas . don't have any . you know, you don't have any influence all. you're not influence at all. you're not anywhere the levers of anywhere near the levers of power. else is pulling power. somebody else is pulling on of power on the levers of power while you're to watch. so i'll you're having to watch. so i'll ask him about that. also ask him about that. i'll also ask him about that. i'll also ask whether what might ask him about whether wha

we just had sir ian duncan the programme. duncan smiththat letter to the pm calling for deadline on the ban of for that deadline on the ban of petrol and diesel cars to be pushed back to be more in line with the eu. do you think we should push that deadline back ? should push that deadline back? >> look, the prime minister has been absolutely clear that we will be phasing out a new diesel and cars by 2030, but and petrol cars by 2030, but that doesn't mean that you're not going be able to drive existing petrol or diesel cars on the road . we think this is an on the road. we think this is an important part of our net zero commitment and we are sticking to it. however, we obviously recognise that there are cost of living pressures at living pressures on people at the which is why the minute, which is why ultimately seeking to ultimately we're seeking to drive make it drive down bills and make it cheaper for people to purchase and buy those electric cars. so that's, that's ultimately what the aim government is. the aim of this government is.