they can do it in that time because of the contact they have had with brussels and the contact keir starmerey have had and they reckon they are sure they can do it but that said, it is an election and people promise all sorts of things. and actually, what happens next with brexit will be determined by which party gets the most bums on seats in the house of commons. both of the main parties have had some pretty crunchy times this week with some of the people they have selected to do that job. it is the traditional candidate car crash and particularly, because it is a snap election, people have been selected really quickly. and we have seen both on the labour side and the tory side some people with things they have said in the past emerging. particularly with social media, everybody is frantically googling anything everyone has ever said and both parties have had some real problems this week. and it's notjust the candidates who might have been selected five minutes ago who find themselves doing interviews they never did before, but people who we are rather familiar with, not least jacob rees—

brexit, sir keir starmer is a hot topic of debate. then break the impasse and move on. secure the best deal we can, put it against a secure the best deal we can, put it againsta —— secure the best deal we can, put it against a —— against remain in a referendum, get the outcome and move on. and you personally would rather stay, a remainer? what's important to get across is this, we are taking this decision away from politicians that we have been stuck with for 3.5 yea rs, that we have been stuck with for 3.5 years, and say to the public it is your decision. you can see what this deal is, you know what remain is. which outcomes you want? so in a sense, it's not just which outcomes you want? so in a sense, it's notjust the mechanics ofa sense, it's notjust the mechanics of a referendum, but saying that parliament has been unable to get out of this impasse, let's take it away from politicians and give it to the public to make this important decision about where we go next. do you concede one of the toughest mountains were labour it's a cl

this is the video that the conservative party put up on its twitter page after sir keir starmer, thediting. especially the last ten seconds. i think we will play it for you now. while the eu give you a good deal if you're going to campaign against it? so the issue there is that that isn't what happened. keir starmer answered the question straightaway, there wasn't a pause or a moment of being dumb struck. it has been criticised across the political spectrum. the independent fact—checking site said it was irresponsible for a political party to mislead the public. the conservatives describe it as a humorous take on a car crash of an interview. and they have kept the offending video up and now we are looking at probably a million views across twitter. about 820,000 on the official video and it was posted by other conservatives, including johnny merson, his reaction is interesting. did you see that? yes, she is he is taking a different role. he said, itweeted she is he is taking a different role. he said, i tweeted this video andi role. he said, i tweeted this video and i now know it is

now, i would prefer keir starmer to be in his place today.rdinary. the debate with boris johnson, for starters. but it is a question, what is it aboutjeremy that so scares you, that every time he is like the big which is coming? conservatives generally feel that his policies would take us backwards economically, would not be able to serve the people that he purports to wa nt to serve the people that he purports to want to represent. and also it is hardly a party for everybody, is it? yesterday, the first day of their campaign, effectively, thejewish labour movement said they wouldn't campaignfor labour movement said they wouldn't campaign for their own party. yes, and the tories have a problem with muslims. there is no party without this taint of actually racism of various sorts. but the labour party is the only one being investigated by the human rights commission. the tory party would have been if they had tory party would have been if they ha d followe d tory party would have been if they had followed the recommendation. this is a very ser

as was the way his party had edited interviews with shadow brexit secretary keir starmer in a version on social media. the full form interview showed the labour party position on brexit was chaotic, talking about... how do people trust you when conservative party headquarters is putting out, and you say it is humorous, but some people will not have, may not have known, at that point, that it had been edited. how do people trust the conservative party when their twitter account is putting out information like that? it is so obvious that it is edited. following that encounter, those watching were encouraged by the breakfast presenters to give their feedback and many did. david from southampton wrote... but that was a minority view of viewers who contacted newswatch. wendy was more typical. a viewer called roger agreed. later in the week the heat was turned on the labour party with the resignation of its deputy leader tom watson being widely reported. it was swiftly followed by former minister ian austin who resigned from the party in february saying thatjeremy corbyn was, in his words,

i want to say thank you to keir starmer, a shadow brexit secretary.ast three yea rs, wonderfuljob over the last three years, picking apart the tory‘s shambolic handling of brexit. the way keir force them into the meaningful vote, force them into a vote where they were found to be in a contempt of parliament and has the most amazing understanding of the details of everything they are proposing. i will give you an example of just how proposing. i will give you an example ofjust how good keir and his team are. the government‘s deal was produced late at night and by 9am the next morning he had the whole thing totally analysed in bite side versions for all of us to fully understand, comprehend and campaign on. it is those skills we have shown in opposition, the skills laura has, keir has an so many others. imagine how good, efficient and effective they will be as ministers, bringing about real change in our society. applause and in this election, borisjohnson is trying to hijack brexit. hijacked brexit, to sell out our national health service and the worki

right, so what you see there is keir starmer, staring vaca ntly right, so what you see there is keir that has been seen by how many? that has been, if you take the conservative party twitterfeed plus the tories who have tweeted it out, back of the napkin maths i did, 1.7 million. ok, so 1.7 million people will have seen that and stharm starm, you know, ithink will have seen that and stharm starm, you know, i think would admit himself not looking as if he is on top of things in that thing, which has been seen by 1.7 million. however, the reality is slightly different. let us let us look at this. why would the eu give you a good deal if they know that you're going to actively campaign against it, which is clearly what most of you are going to be doing? well, piers, i've been talking to the eu, to political leaders across the eu 27 countries, for three years. i know very well what the parameters are of any deal they would do with a labour government. well you may as viewers agree or disagree with that, but one thing you can't say he sat there speechless for a long time nothing have the a

so much to pick up, another aspect that got a lot of coverage was the edited version of keir starmerg britain, i think we can take a look. why would the eu give you a good deal if they know you are going to actively campaign against it? that is not actually what happened live on air, he did answer the question straightaway, james cleverly was sent out to defend that and other things. i thought we were going to be able to hearjames cleverly actually, but he was sent out to do the round of media interviews and... i mean, did he manage to put the case for it? very difficult to defend that sort of thing, it has got to be seen in the context of... i think what that showed is that there needs to be a lot more discipline at cp hq. what i have heard is that it was someone pretty young, you know, straight out of uni in the digital department thinking it would be a funny thing to do, not realising the fight implication is that it would have and didn't understand what the consequences would be. james cleverly didn't say that, though, did he? he said it wasn't edited, it was shortened. he said i

people like emily thornberry, keir starmer would campaign to remain in the eu.we will see. i think people care about other things as well. christine jardine, will you sign up to our audience and say no more fake leaflets. i haven't put any fake leaflets and i wouldn't. i'm trying to find out what this leaflet. it must be a clean campaign. it does. and absolutely clean, because i know what it is like when your opponents put out lies about you, because i suffered that in edinburgh west the last time. i know exactly what it is like. there is no way i would condone anything which wasn't true. but if we could just go back to what the snp said, a couple of minutes ago, the snp are telling us about the damage that brexit is doing and i agree the damage that brexit is doing and iagree and the damage that brexit is doing and i agree and it is damaging jobs and the economy, but what they don't seem to see is that independence would be exactly the same. and that is why... would be exactly the same. and that iswhy... i would be exactly the same. and that is why... i will le

if that doctored keir starmer video was put ona doctored keir starmer video was put on a facebook app tell us. a lot of things we wanted to tell us. for example it cannot tell us where the ads are going in the country but tell us where it is. england, scotland, wales but not which region which would be really helpful. but it can give us democratic breakdown in terms of jammer —— gender and age for that we wa nt to jammer —— gender and age for that we want to shoot two adverts that anyone can find if you search on facebook. and unless you were targeted, you may not see it. it's viable in the sense and it is really interesting because this is an adverb from the conservatives and borisjohnson, the adverb from the conservatives and boris johnson, the same adverb from the conservatives and borisjohnson, the same message but two very different styles. here's the first one. music. that one is aimed at very squarely young men. you will not have seen that. thank you very much! you will not have seen that at all. you go straight to the point! you have to be living between —— living in, between

young keir starmer or old michel barnier. what is your message for people?wo people watching this right now is that you need to get on bbc sounds or tune into the bbc news channel at a 30 every night for election cast. if i can ever get my headphones on. electioncast. electioncast from the bbc. we are in this election because of brexit. we don't want to be thinking about a general election. we want to be buying our christmas presents. if anyone says they know what is happening, cock an eyebrow, smile politely and turn your back. we're ata we're at a loose end this afternoon? it not take that long. i suppose not. you don't know how many takes that talk. so that was your gentle spoof in the direction of the party election broadcasts. a lot of people are talking about it on twitter. they did you notice we forgot to mention marmite? that is what eve ryo ne mention marmite? that is what everyone is talking about, whether he likes marmite. yes or no? i have never tried it. i have never had marmite. you never get a clear answer. the talk of the town this morning wa

a young keir starmer or old michel barnier. what's your message for people? my message to people...right now... you need to just get on bbc sounds, tune in to the bbc news channel at 8:30pm every night for electioncast, ifi 8:30pm every night for electioncast, if i can ever get my headphones on. electioncast from the bbc. we are in this election because of brexit. we wa nt this election because of brexit. we want to be getting out and buying oui’ want to be getting out and buying our christmas presents! if anybody comes up our christmas presents! if anybody comes up to you and says, they know what will happen, cocked an eyebrow, smile politely, and turn your back! you at a loose end this afternoon? it did not take long. i suppose. that was your dental spoof in the direction of the prime minister's party election broadcast. yes and lots of people are talking about it on twitter and in the real world. but we also forgot something, we did not talk about marmite, everybody has been talking about that and whether we like it. what's the answer? i've never had it! what! i know. you never g

that maya was saying, one of the dead cats they were struggling with today is the question of the keir starmertion of fa ct which relates back to that question of fact checking. is this actually the video always the video doctored? a big row over that today. there are two points, as opposed. they will be annoyed by that but it did get an argument going about the fact that labour have fundamentally incoherent position on brexit. there is a wider point about fake news during the election. the media is becoming more and more fragmented, these papers are in terminal decline, broadcasters as well, people are getting their news from a multitude of sources, so what is being done to regulate that? what is the fact checking going on and i don't think in this country we have a trip on it at all. in germany, you have a syste m at all. in germany, you have a system where if you have fake news on your website you are faced with a $40 million fine if you don't take it down within 24 hours, and i do think we need more stringent measures. going back to the front page of the metro, i take your point that he wa

the shadow brexit said —— brexit strategy —— brexit said —— brexit strategy —— brexit secretary keir starmerurgeon and when she said today and here is his response. "the labour party in this election is for real change and we are in it to win it and therefore we are not in the business of talking about deals with other parties." we know boris johnson yesterday when he was out and about that he said he would fight to keep our fantastic united kingdom together and prevent another referendum next year and the liberal democrats opposed to it as well. but what's ironic is that this could potentially be of some benefit to mr johnson and reinforces the message and the argument he has been putting forward that if you vote forjeremy corbyn, you're voting for two referendums, one on brexit and one on scottish independence. let's turn to another issue apart from that electoral strategic work that all the parties have to do. their responses to the political debates because we've heard a little more from the bbc today, we heard from itv already that some of the applicable leaders are not happy about the

being elected we would resolve ideal within three months because the work has already been done, keir starmernversations with the eu, they know they are receptive to a customs union added to that alignment, it is a sensible way forward and be put that opposite the option to domain that will get it resolved within six months from entering government. is he going to be neutral through the process of the negotiation in brussels? the whole purpose is to ensure we have a customs union... presumably he is going to negotiate the deal. absolutely. then he cannot be neutral. that is the people who will decide this, every constituent through the country will decide, let's have faith in them and put the alternatives to them of a credible deal opposite remain and we need a prime minister who will implement that decision without any hesitation. the question is how are you going to vote? i voted and campaigned to remain but what we are saying as the people should decide. what i am terrified of is the very neutral about your terrible ad deal that would cripple the economy in my pa rt that would cripple the

jeremy corbyn, obviously but other figures like emily thornberry, diane abbott, john mcdonnell, keir starmeroes on so there's going to be an attempt to re—shift the campaign to emphasise how labour is prepared to give voters a genuine option on leaving the eu and trying to beef up their offer, emphasising how the labour brexit deal would protect jobs and protect how the labour brexit deal would protectjobs and protect key industries outside london like the car industry. albeit barry gardiner this morning wasn't giving much away about this new strategy. you talk about this new strategy. you talk about a new strategy and it is news to me. i'm speaking withjeremy this afternoon and i will maybe ask him about it but you tend to paint things in very stark colours. of course you're right, we want to woo notjust course you're right, we want to woo not just leave voters, but all voters. one of the other non-brexit issues they want to focus on is of course the nhs, the unredacted documents that it published and gave us a ccess documents that it published and gave us access to yesterday, talking of a

we saw an example of keir starmer uncatchable good morning britain, let's look at what happens, that. what happens, that was edited down. -- on good app morning britain. why will the eu give you a good deal if they know we will actively campaign against it? now lets look at the original, the previous was the deepfake. bible the eu give you a good deal if they know you will actively campaign against it, which is clearly what notes to view will be doing? 0blak i have been talking to the eu, to political leaders, three years. i know very well the parameters of any deal they would do with a labour government. syrah, we can't always believe what we see, but with an example like that it is quite easy to debunk it, so what do you think the impact is? it is echoing what areeq and jamie had said. when you have videos like this it is notjust a matter that you have a video that has been edited and now it has to be debunked, it is the cultural impact, suddenly we do not trust anything we see online. there are increasing examples of really, really fine tuned editing that make things look much mor

yesterday, the official conservative twitter account shared a doctored clip of labour's keir starmer,ally happened. let's just remind ourselves of that clip that was shared widely... but that's not how the interview really played out — sir keir was able to give an answer to the question — let's see what really happened. why would the eu give you a good deal if they know that you're going to actively campaign against it, which is clearly what most of you are going to be doing? well, piers, i've been talking to the eu, to political leaders across the eu 27 countries, for three years. i know very well what the parameters are of any deal they would do with a labour government. the conservatives were widely criticised for doctoring the clip, but it split opinion within the party. the conservatives' johnny mercer apologised for the post, saying it had "inexplicably been doctored". but fellow candidate james cleverly claimed the video was a bit of fun. let's speak now to professor philip howard, who's the director of the oxford internet institute and has investigated the spread of misinforma

the shadow brexit secretary keir starmer said labour's promised to deliver brexit in six months is realisticremy corbyn were prime minister he would go back to brussels, renegotiate the whole deal, we would go back to square one, taking months, possibly years. at the edge of the process we would have a referendum, but jeremy corbyn will not say on which side he would campaign. i have got backwards and forwards to brussels for the best pa rt of forwards to brussels for the best part of three years, talking to people in the parliament, the council, the commission and to senior politicians in all eu 27 countries. i unaware of the parameters of a deal which could be struck, and i think it could be struck, and i think it could be struck very quickly —— i am aware of. the debate for labour and the tories is about how quickly they could deliver brexit, on what terms and whether the public would get a say. for the liberal democrats, launching their election campaign today, it is about stopping brexit. they had been clear that if they win a majority and can form a government after the election they w

johnny mercer, of the ducted video that conservatives put out yesterday following an interview that keir starmer the morning, only a few minutes after the interview concluded, their link to the full form interview. i am quite happy for people to go and look... we are quickly editing app to show you a little piece of it. chris, during the election campaign, there will be days when other parties will be on the front of that. on a day like today when the conservative party in so much trouble in getting a lot of grief with what they had started the campaign with the other parties can sit back, can't they? they probably can. we will get ebb and flow during the next five weeks at parties will have their set piece days, where they hope to talk about what they see as their best hand to show to the electorate and other days where events take over. we have seen days where events take over. we have seen is that the conservatives in the last 24 hours in what will happen in those instances is the other parties will hold off from saying whatever it is they want to saying whatever it is they want to say and ju

that was keir starmer.as a humorous video, which was edited down, as all social media videos are, from a longerform interview that was done on the tv. what that video is highlighting is the chaotic nature of the labour party's position on brexit. it was done tongue—in—cheek. it was obviously light—hearted, i mean, the music soundtrack demonstrated the fact it was light—hearted. it was fake, it was faked. we also posted the long form interview that took place, so people can see the whole interview as well as our shorter, as i say, it was a distilled, synthesised, humorous video that we put alongside. well, to look at this further is charlotte henry — author of not buying it — the facts behind fake news. nice to see you. nice to see you. it was fake? it was edited in a way that totally misrepresented what happened, yes. by definition, fake news? yes, i think so, fake news is deliberately done to get political 01’ deliberately done to get political orfinancial gain. the deliberately done to get political or fi

because we have spoken to the likes of diane abbott, emily thornbury, keir starmer, and they are allould be campaigning to remain, butjeremy corbyn... yes, because i would be campaigning to remain, but jeremy corbyn... but don't you understand how strange that sounds? you say we will go and negotiate a deal to leave, but your point, and many others... let me finish a sentence. i will be campaigning to remain. against that negotiated deal. yes, because they have a choice. that's what happens when you have a choice. you decide which one you want. butjeremy corbyn is the prime minister would implement what the public decide. that is the big difference. he would be the prime minister, so hisjob is to implement whatever the public decides. they have the final say, and he will be the seventh of the public, and he will implement what the public decides. it is as clear and as simple as that. can i ask you, one other interesting topic yesterday was the potential deal with another party, and the snp came up. and jeremy corbyn, i read the exact quote, because i don't want to misquote your leade

james cleverly, as was the way his party had edited an interview with shadow brexit secretary keir starmerrust the conservative party when their twitter account is putting out information like that. it is so obvious that it is edited. following that encounter, those watching were encouraged by the breakfast presenters to give their feedback, and many did. david from southampton wrote: but that was a minority view of viewers who contacted newswatch. wendy cockburn's was more typical. and a viewer called roger agreed. later in the week, the heat was turned on the labour party with the resignation of its deputy leader tom watson being widely reported. it was swiftly followed by former minister ian austin who resigned from the party in february, saying thatjeremy corbyn was, in his words, completely unfit to be prime minister. that line featured in the headlines on thursday's news at one. vote conservative — the call from a former labour mp who urges people to vote for boris johnson instead ofjeremy corbyn, who he says is completely unfit to lead the country. again, there were objections — thi