no, no, no, i'm going to pose you right there, lord houchen., it's not. again. if— what you said was untrue. no, it's not. again. if you _ what you said was untrue. no, it's not, again, if you let _ what you said was untrue. no, it's not, again, if you let me - what you said was untrue. no, it's not, again, if you let me quote i what you said was untrue. no, it's i not, again, if you let me quote from report directly, section 19.47 of the report talks about the fact they are paying us £50 million for a piece of land we had at £30 million, it also says there is a £50 million of their own money in a bank account to invest back into the site for remediation, they have committed millions of pounds and spent millions of pounds and spent millions of pounds and spent millions of pounds, and also they have got significant commitments and liabilities they've taken on as a result of this deal. [30 liabilities they've taken on as a result of this deal.— liabilities they've taken on as a result of this deal. do you accept this independent _ result of this

fantastic houchen who's doing a fantastic job. taken advantage of job.we've taken advantage of brexit to create a brand new freeport in teesside. and what's a freeport ? it's something that a freeport? it's something that we properly inside we couldn't properly do inside the outside of we couldn't properly do inside thewe've outside of we couldn't properly do inside thewe've created outside of we couldn't properly do inside thewe've created them. tside of we couldn't properly do inside thewe've created them. it de of it, we've created them. it attracts businesses with tax incentives and businesses are investing in teesside, creating jobs in the industries of the future . i put the treasury future. i put the treasury campus in darlington. just think about that for a second. in darlington, right. forget about not being in london. thought about putting in the north. it's not in one of the big northern cities, not in manchester, leeds or newcastle. it's in darlington because it's places like darlington getting darlington that are now getting the a conservati

most popular conservative politician here in tees politician here in the tees valley area is ben houchenas nationalised a failing airport. he is spending half £1 billion on europe's largest brownfield site, which is not without controversy. um, turning it around and trying to create jobs there. that's the pragmatic , there. that's the pragmatic, interventionist sort of policies that that conservative voters, i think, in this sort of area have liked from the johnson days as well. >> chris lloyd there, chris lloyd there from the northern echo with a view from one of the greatest newspapers in the world, the northern echo. um, and get marks out of and he's saying get marks out of ten sunak, let's ten did. okay, mr sunak, let's see keir see whether secured sir keir starmer will accept our invitation . invitation. >> he has to, chris. he has to. thanks for joining >> he has to, chris. he has to. thanks forjoining us. that's chris hope, our political editor in county durham. and there'll be people's forum be more on the people's forum throughout the day and the programme, because lots of peopl

people like andy street and ben houchen . to smaller cities and towns and rural areas across the north and the midlands to enable them to take the same transformative live transport decisions . that's live transport decisions. that's what you get if you get a conservative government >> can we talk about lee anderson and the comments that he has made ? oliver dowden he has made? oliver dowden yesterday struggling to use the words islamophobe ? nick, do you words islamophobe? nick, do you think that his language was islamophobic? and if not, what did you want? indeed, the party want him to apologise for? and why the whip removed ? why was the whip removed? >> well, look, i think what lee anderson said about the mayor of london was wrong. and the reason and he was given the chance to retract those comments and to apologise for making them . he apologise for making them. he didn't do so. and that's why the whip was removed very swiftly. and i think was the right and i think that was the right decision. there many things decision.