and speak to press alec stewart to the director of the center of bricks studies at birmingham city university thank you for taking the time to speak to us so all eyes now on the leadership contest that has been a long time coming the front runner as you is saying is the former foreign secretary boris johnson. but the favorite to win in such races isn't necessarily the victor what are your thoughts on his prospects. no ourselves the course is clearly the raging favorite one poll suggests that it could affect easily 40 percent of the vote tory party members as a person say dominic rob and i knew about this than 20 percent but of course what does it mean to to win in those circumstances a pm johnson and it was yesterday reaffirmed that he would be leaving that they want the end of october deal or no deal would still be facing a parliament before the remain a majority of the risk clearly no appetite at all to leave you with no deal so he would he or she would still face the same constraints that a reason may do. and that the e.u. appears to be preparing for a bar a stance and premiership that is

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let's speak now to david bailey, professor at birmingham city university.y struggling in the international market? i am at birmingham university by the way, but you are right, we are going to see more in the car industry than in the previous hundred years, so a transformation is coming to electric cars, connected cars and autonomous vehicles. companies will have to spend huge amount of money in terms of research and development to develop completely new technologies. they will struggle to do it on their own if they don't have big scale, so in the case of renault and fiat, both of them feel they need to be much bigger to generate the money to put into those new technologies, and we are seeing companies like volkswagen and ford, giant players, collaborating on electric vehicle development. david, demand is falling in china, in europe and the united states at the moment. obviously they are trying to consolidate and cut costs. where does that leave what effectively post brexit might be a niche car production model here in the uk? will we get squeezed out? impar

he's director of the centre for brexit studies, birmingham city university. irmingham itself was on a knife edge. patty thicket will go tomorrow. is the brexit party going tomorrow. is the brexit party going to make inroads the way it seems to have gone and other parts of the country? the polls currently predict of course that the brexit party looked to be set to win about 40% of the vote which will translate into three meps elected. they would currently replace the three ukip meps. why was the vote so close back in 2016? welcome to the vote was close and aggregate across birmingham city council but that 50.5% or thereabouts concealed huge differences between inner birmingham and out of birmingham. enter birmingham, you had suburbs with high minority populations where the remain margin was somewhere approaching 70%. in contrast, in the outer suburbs of birmingham, these predominantly white areas, older than average slightly and working—class lower income, the leave vote margins were more in the tune of 60—70%, more typical of the other urban towns, the black c