sophy, george osborne and nick berns.sborne, this is the moment you worried about when you and prime minister cameron were thinking about this issue of referendum. prime minister may has negotiated a deal that for the hard brexiteers is not enough, and yet it does essentially take it united kingdom out of its current position in the european union. is it going to be enough? will it work, and will theresa may be able to stay on as prime minister? >> well, this maine one was always coming, which was confronting those who wanted to leave the eu with the reality you can't have the benefits of eu membership such as access to the single market and the security arrangements of eu membership without paying the costs. and that means accepting that other people sometimes ride the rules and you have to pay money. and the deal that theresa may has done really exposes that price. indeed in some ways it's much worse than an eu membership because we are going to be following rules we ourselves do not have over. that has come in a crunch

the other big story was the chancellor's autumn statement and in the true spirit of george osborne'sausterity, some of you were counting the cost as to how far the bbc should go in pretty —— in producing great aerial shots of westminster as the correspondence sets the scene. then there was the substance of the chancellor's statement be reported on and around the radio and tv interviews for mr osborne, some of you feeling he was given a rough ride. apologies for interrupting, julie sent a question, one we often get, and she is saying, how has the recession affected you personally, chancellor, and it is one that bugs people a little bit, this notion that we are all in it together. has anything changed in your lifestyle? has anything gone? have you felt it in any tangible way at all?” has anything gone? have you felt it in any tangible way at all? i took a pay cut and froze my pay on taking thisjob to pay cut and froze my pay on taking this job to take up from the previous labour chancellor. in order to show that the politicians won't get away with it. but i completely understand that p

thank you link is joining me now is helen thomas — a former advisor to george osborne. to george osborneg to happen. it's a matter of weeks before actual brexit day, let alone the situation that we're now in weather is new position on any for what happens next. you can switch the leader, but you still get the same factions. you do. politics is often about momentum. i think each faction is now looking to start to win people over to their vision of what the outcome should be. literally, anything is up for grabs. by literally, anything is up for grabs. by theresa may saying it's my view, no or brexit. that's actually emboldened the people of either side of that define push and get their outcome. they perhaps now see a way forward that they didn't see before. the point is, if you get any reader, people are more loyal. perhaps before the hind that we do at the plan they've? may be for a brief period of time. you still have to deal with some kind of plan that people are prepared to sign up with, ido people are prepared to sign up with, i do see but that is. we had earlier, quite frankly, she w

and in terms of this yearfor the government, george osborne spoke this weekend, he said theresa may wasear after that rather disastrous general election campaign, his argument is that the mistakes she made at the start was to embrace the 17 million who voted to leave and effectively say to the 16 million who voted to stay, we are not interested in you, the decision is made, and she has ended up in the position she should have started with. i think he is right and it is fascinating because when she first became prime minister, she was in a strong position. she behaved weakly, she felt she had to reassure the brexiteers, even though she could have told them some candid truths. now she is in a weak position, she has no choice but to be assertive and tell them some candid truths about the irish border, amongst other things. she should have done it the other way around, said at the beginning, i am going to deliver this for you but here are some of the tough, tough obstacles. instead, she announced her red lines as if it was going to be have your cake and eat it, and it was an utterly misguid

referendum and was on a high, he was a man with a natural born sense of entitlement and even when george osbornes into this terrible fix, i will not repeat what danny dyer called david cameron but he summed up called david cameron but he summed up from the what a lot of people feel about david cameron and the political classes, there is anger still about the words on the leaving bus, 350 million, going back to the nhs, which patiently was not true because that's not what we were paying. the nhs will get £390 million odd extra. and that is not all from brexit. almost half of the country all from brexit. almost half of the cou ntry voted all from brexit. almost half of the country voted to remain so you‘ve got a split country forever unless something exciting happens soon. let‘s look at the metro. anarchy on the streets of paris. let's see something worse in another country! crisis talks, this situation after the 620, crisis talks, this situation after the g20, three people have died and hundreds are injured, these demonstrations across paris. it's shocking and this is a striking image picked out

politics and culture has been arguably emblematic of near liberal destruction that may have led to george osborne david cameron's chancellor no editor of a london local newspaper to coin the term northern powerhouse to investigate going on the grounds deputy editor sebastian packer spoke to sheffield's poet laureate following his appointment by lord mayor of sheffield much of budget so this is the first sheffield how do you plan to represent you're going to be you'll be doing courses and things like that as well one bringing poetry to us or different audience so it came about. simply from getting contact with me he had seen my performance at glastonbury i performed a song of mine called creeping craw and he said to me that you know he felt like i was doing something different in the city within music and i essentially intend on doing what i've been doing as an artist before the role which is. i'm trying to write music and share our. challenges the barriers the been put in place there's always been a sense of that in hip hop and i think that it's so important that we we know that hip hop has alway

no, no, they said it would happen after the vote, the george osborne nonsense, the £9 million leaflete and they were completely wrong. with respect, i hardly believe you are in a position to lecture about people being wrong when your this side of the argument from the very beginning said that a — that brexit would be easy, b — that britain held the cards in negotiations with the eu, c — that tehre would be a massive brexit dividend of some £350 million a week that could then be ploughed into the nhs. these things were all falsehoods that your side peddled. to criticise others for getting some economic forecast wrong, seems to me, that absurd. not some economic forecast. there was a very clear prediction by the treasury at the time of the referendum that should people vote in the referendum, there will be an economic collapse. an emergency budget, we were told. those were clear forecasts that were proved to be totally wrong and they have come up with more ludicrous forecasts. we found out today, if we did free—trade agreements around the world, you would see a 0.2% increase in gdp. tha

we were told in the run—up to the 2016 referendum, george osborne, who i have always got on well witho recession, employment would 9° up go into recession, employment would 9° up by go into recession, employment would go up by half a million and house prices would fall by 18%. how they got 18 as opposed to 17 or 19 i do not know. we voted to leave. what happened? not know. we voted to leave. what happened ? the not know. we voted to leave. what happened? the economy carried on growing. it didn't go into recession. we have the lowest unemployment in this country since 1975 and record employment. and house prices have continued to rise exceptin house prices have continued to rise except in some parts of london and some people who live in london might not think that is a bad thing. forgive me but we were threatened with this. they tried to bully the british people not to vote leave and the british people if you look at the british people if you look at the history through the centuries have never been bullied by anybody. thank you. adverts which show a woman being unable to park a car or