former chancellor is philip hammond and kenneth clarke were gone, hammond and kenneth clarke were o hammonds was winston churchill's grandson, sir nicholas soames. 0ne conservative, philip lee, had already crossed the floor, publicly defecting, walking to sit with the lib dems. the loss of those mps left borisjohnson lib dems. the loss of those mps left boris johnson without a majority. while the commons timetable takeover meant mps could debate a bill demanding the prime minister asked for a brexit extension until the end of january unless a deal was for a brexit extension until the end ofjanuary unless a deal was signed or no deal accepted by parliament by 0ctober or no deal accepted by parliament by october 19. or no deal accepted by parliament by 0ctober19. in effect, shutting off no deal. 0ne 0ctober19. in effect, shutting off no deal. one of those thrown out of the party said he was proud but slightly bemused to now be an independent. the imposition of my party may have sought to... and it may have curtailed my future. but it will not rob me of what i believe, andi will not rob me of

father of the house, kenneth clark, do you feel like that?rk, do you feel like that? i think there are consequences to doing things like that. i don't think i matter, but i would take the whip away from the former counsellor of the house, several members of the previous government is an unprecedented and extremely foolish and crass act. and i'm afraid it will rebound on them. it sends such a stupid and u nfortu nate message to it sends such a stupid and unfortunate message to our supporters and would—be voters in the country that what was once a broad, tolerant church has become a narrow sect. do you think that is what has happened, or do you think this is temporary? i think it is a phase, i regret that it's a phase, i think it is part of this relentless chase to be the brexit party. and i'm afraid — even if i was going to stand again, i couldn't possibly stand again, i couldn't possibly stand on an election of no deal. so ifear stand on an election of no deal. so i fear that it has become a bit of a sect, which is a pity because i know the p

philip hammond, kenneth clarke, i ke pt philip hammond, kenneth clarke, i kept arguing against it.ervative party as we have known it? no, iwill fight end of the conservative party as we have known it? no, i will fight for the conservative party and the values that we have which i think are in the national interest. i could not stand by and watch these people on their own. that was amber rudd explaining the reasons for her resignation. with me is our political correspondent, helen catt. what did you make of what she had to say? what did you make of what she had to 7 i what did you make of what she had to say? i think what we saw from that is where this impact will be felt, within the conservative party. they are having a battle of the soul this week and that is where the intervention is going to be felt ha rd est. intervention is going to be felt hardest. amber rudd is an influential figure among moderate one nation conservatives as they are known. having her on—site was a boost for boris johnson and known. having her on—site was a boost for borisjohnson and his brexit strategy. wha

kenneth clarke, another former minister and the longest serving mp, elected in 1970.im as well. winston churchill pass grandson, nicholas soames, also going. winston churchill is one of borisjohnson going. winston churchill is one of boris johnson pass going. winston churchill is one of borisjohnson pass political heroes, so borisjohnson pass political heroes, so much so that he wrote a book about him. in his years as an mp, sir nicholas soames only voted against a conservative government three times. the last time has seen him kicked out of the party and he spokein him kicked out of the party and he spoke in the commons earlier. i'm not standing in the next election and i'm approaching the end of 37 yea rs of and i'm approaching the end of 37 years of service to the house, of which i have been proud and honoured beyond words to be among them. i am truly very sad that it should end in this way. boris johnson voting against mates back deal twice but wasn't expelled from the party but his supporters say this is different —— voted against theresa may's deal. some party m

and if for some reason these independents including kenneth clarke and provides an everybody else, youurself how can this government actually function? how can it get legislation through the commons? it is going to become more and more difficult. very, major questions, ithink. i think the article does hint at a number of mps who are thinking about... we have the interviewjust now he's talked about six cabinet ministers share her views, at least one is also considering quitting. of course, the gamers, who is that, then? someone might look at someone like nicky morgan who obviously is fairly strong in her views and went back into government as culture secretary. yes, she is. and she will be asked, will you follow? it will become... that doesn't help, does it? i think that the prime minister believed he was going to be able to show leadership and strength of character and he is going to be pushing through, but there seems to be collateral damage at every turn along the way and one knows not where we're going to end up this next week. very quickly, talking about people leaving, one of her

kenneth clark is one of those icons, perhaps the most recognized tory party members. he is a familiar presence. not recognizes this party anymore. he says it is the brexit party rebadged. the tory party is in a state of -- and itn and in his is in a sense, it has been taken over by a far-right version of the party, leaving moderates stranded and expxpelled in some cases.s. a far-right party in the view of many of the tory party members themselves. he is not just defending his own political future, but perhaps the fate and immediate future of the party itself. genie: it seems as if jeremy corbyn is dragging his feet. why would he not want to participate? his feet, buting for what he says is a good reason. moderate tories agree with this strategy. why does he not want to agree to an immediate snap election? it is to make sure that no deal is excluded. it is the ultimate priority now to push through legislation to rule out the possibility there ,s trickery, sleight-of-hand that they will not, the government, led by boris johnson will not be able to crash the united kingd

two senior mps, kenneth clarke and harriet harman, had approached him about a review of westminster‘smatterfor parties and point scoring. it is about something bigger than an individual or an individual party. 0r bigger than an individual or an individual party. oran individual political or ideological viewpoint. let's treat a it on that basis. and in the meantime, may ijust ask, and that is all i am going and all i can do as your representative and the chair, ask colleagues, please, to lower the decibel level and to try to treat each other as opponents, not as enemies. a labour mp asked an urgent question, prompted by boris johnson's comments. it was left to a junior minister to reply. british democracy has i was been a robust and vibra nt, healthy democracy has i was been a robust and vibrant, healthy respectful debate is vibrant to our democracy. freedom of speech is a fundamental british liberty. but it is not an excuse british liberty. but it is not an excuse to threaten or abuse anyone whose views you do not agree with. that liberty is compromised when a culture of intimidation

former chancellors philip hammond and kenneth clarke were gone, as was winston churchill's grandson,icholas soames. one conservative, phillip lee, had already crossed the floor, publicly defecting, walking to sit with the lib dems. the loss of those mps left boris johnson without a majority. while the commons timetable takeover meant mps could debate a bill demanding the prime minister ask for a brexit extension until the end ofjanuary unless a deal was signed or no deal accepted by parliament by october 19. in effect, shutting off no deal. one of those thrown out of the party said he was proud but slightly bemused to now be an independent. the obsession that my party has developed may have sought to devalue my past as a friend of the eu, of our sister centre—right parties, and of many friends, and it may have curtailed my future. but it will not rob me of what i believe, and i will walk out of here looking up at the sky, not down at my shoes. applause. another former tory rejected claims that backing the bill was playing intojeremy corbyn‘s hands. i would sooner boil my head than ha

it was quite the breakdown of the boris johnson strategy we got there from former chancellor kenneth clarke saying that the prime minister wanted this he planned it all along he wants an election before that crucial breaks it down the line of october 31st so he can campaign on the basis that parliament didn't let him do what he wanted to do. extraordinarily combative scenes in the house of commons as we hear boris johnson opening his own motion to try and trigger an early general election as you say tory grandee there ken clarke father of the house of commons accusing him of treating it all of this like a game jeremy corbyn talking about a disingenuous undemocratic carballo in number 10 and boris johnson accusing the opposition of surrendering breaks it of the brakes a timetable to the e.u. where is it all going well in about 90 minutes time they'll be a vote on this motion and the reality is that because an election motion would require 2 thirds of the house to vote for it in order for a snap election to come about the real reality is it won't pass because jeremy corbin. affirmed there tha

trigger a vote of no confidence and installjeremy corbyn as prime minister on another, be it kenneth clarkeiet harman on margaret beckett, who knows? there are all sorts of negotiations under way to try and work out how we stop boris johnson from taking a out on the sist johnson from taking a out on the 31st without a deal because there is nervousness among the opposition parties that may be the benn act is not as watertight as they had hoped. britain's most senior catholic clergyman has warned that some of the language being used in parliament could encourage violent extremists. speaking on radio 4's sunday programme cardinal vincent nichols, said that the events in the commons last week had provoked an unambiguous response. (pres)john mcmanus joins me now with more this is the second intervention by british christians in a few days about tone and language and the breadth of the date. on friday the group church of england bishops wrote a public letter saying that the tone had become unacceptable and seeing the people inside and outside parliament should not denigrate or patronise each othe

and conservatives of the ilk of philip hammond and nicholas soames and kenneth clarke.n in the party for a very long time and a lwa ys the party for a very long time and always shown extreme loyalty. to not only remove the whip from them but for them to defy at the whip itself demonstrates the gravity of the situation. has boris johnson miscalculated his strategy here? he is saying he is going to take the uk out of the eu on the 31st of october come what may, he says he is listening to what people voted for in the referendum, and yet we know that there has been no backing in the commons for no deal, if it came to that. as heat miscalculated his strategy? i suspect this is one of several strategies and moving the ftp a two thirds majority for a boat for a general election is part one of that but they must know and they must see the way the wind has been blowing and have other long—term plans in place. presumably, if they lose their bill as it is at the moment, the benn bill, and the ftpa vote this evening then prorogation will still happen at some stage next week and we

nicholas soames, the grandson of winston churchill, and the longest—serving mp, former chancellor kenneth clarke to people there. her report contains some flashing images. at rushcliffe conservative association, there's been one key face for nearly 50 years. ken clarke is the longest—serving tory mp and has held some of the biggestjobs in government, but last night he was effectively kicked out of the party. the chairman of the local branch thinks it was the right move because, like 20 other tory mps, he voted to stop a no—deal brexit. at the end of the day, the fact is, he voted against the government and the consequences are you have the whip withdrawn from you. i think boris has shown that he is a strong prime minister and i do support him and i think he had to show that he continues to be a strong prime minister. even though most people here in rushcliffe voted to remain in the eu, some local tories have been angry at the mp‘s pro—european stance — a symbol of the fractures in the party. divisions over europe have plagued the tories for decades and put an end to the careers of several prime

another former chancellor, kenneth clarke, joined in the questioning of mrjohnson's intentions to block the prime minister's extraordinary knockabout performance today merely confirms, it seems to me, his obvious strategy, which is to set conditions which make no deal inevitable, to make sure that is much blame as possible is attached to the eu and to this house for that consequence, and then as quickly as he can fight a flag—waving general election that before the consequences of no deal become too obvious to the public. mrjohnson said he wouldn't comment on leaks to newspapers. but the leader of plaid cymru in westminster tried to force the prime minister to comment on the effects of no deal. will the prime minister admit that no deal scenario would be catastrophic, or will he continue to face both ways, deceive the public, and use no dealfor his own electoral game? mrjohnson said no deal scenario might lead to bumps in the road, but he promised his government would get exit done, and this pledge saw him garner support from some backbenchers. a former transport secretary said... when

two senior mps, kenneth clarke and harriet harman, had approached him about a review of westminster‘s culture. it was not, he said, a matter for partisan point scoring. it is about something bigger than an individual or an individual party or an individual political or ideological viewpoint. let's treat a bit on that basis. —— let's treat of it on that basis. and in the meantime, may ijust ask, and that's all i'm doing and all i can do as your representative in the chair, ask colleagues please to lower the decibel level and to try to treat each other as opponents, not as enemies? later, a labour mp asked an urgent question prompted by boris johnson's comments. it was left to a junior minister to reply. british democracy has always been robust and vibrant. healthy, respectful debate is vital to our democracy. freedom of speech is a fundamental british liberty, but it is not an excuse to threaten or abuse anyone whose views you do not agree with. that liberty is compromised when a culture of intimidation forces people out of public life or discourages citizens from engaging in the polit

kenneth clarke the father of the house it was that was under margaret thatcher but also one that was shown to the exchequer of philip comment only six weeks ago. also the grandson of sir winston churchill so nicolas serves a former defense minister i cannot also exexaggerate yes you'll write te possible make sure all the criticism of the attacks on the prime minister certainly the labour leader jeremy corbyn. when attacked by a certainly yeah also attacked by the prime minister the dispatch box to say you a freak you are scared you jeremy corbyn who has said for months and in fact two years that you want to general action who have said that you already. he was not prepared to cool one why not what is the prime minister need all the votes because it is no longer in the gift of a british prime minister to call an election it is he needs two thirds of a majority. in the house of commons so we think that what he will try and do is on monday come back a presente short bills saying he wants an election on tuesday the fifteenth of october. and then he would need just a simple majority major

but ended up in the supreme court on that judgment yesterday and lastly in front of the house kenneth clarke putting his. question to the attorney general as part of it reconvene for the 1st time the resumption of business following that judgment yesterday al-jazeera story chalons is live for us now outside the house of parliament in westminster can tell us a little bit about what we've just heard rory. well to start ways we had jumped the speaker of the house opening the proceedings and basically clarifying a matter of record he was saying that as the supreme court decision yesterday it was that probation the suspension of parliament had never happened it was unlawful that word should be expunged from the parliamentary record he said that now it should be recorded that parliament had been adjourned from the evening of that night the september 10th is when they went away that was now what it would say in the parliamentary record. then we had the 1st of these urgent questions that we're likely to today as he said to us from joanna terry the scottish national party m.p. it was involved in the

kenneth clark, the longest-serving member of the house of commons.th minister under the thatcher government. these people have all left the conservative party. he doesn't have a foundation there as prime minister. what he is banking on is that by being boris and a big personality and making the political whether, he can cut through in a way that paul described. it's not technocratic or complex, we can just leave. well, wishing it to be simple does not make it simple. i would ask all of your viewers to think that even if you have a no deal outcome on october 31, do you think that ends it? or does britain still have to , economic, ande some form of positive political relationship with the european union? i think the answer is of course it does. but the difficulty of negotiating that without a whole agreement, and a lot of agreements that need to take place, will be extremely complex and do very little to build any confidence in britain or the british economy. paul: what is your sense of peril? it is hard to map it, there are so many possibilities and o

cheering mr kenneth clarke.'t know if the house wants a debate, i will be very brief but i was going to join if other people were going to debate, mr speaker, thank you for encouraging me, but to the deep distress of everybody is having a very important vote. i have to say i found these exchanges quite predictable, they have been well rehearsed before they took place. i do think the prime minister with the greatest of respect has a tremendous skill in keeping a straight face whilst he is being so disingenuous. applause the fact is he is now desperate to have an election in order to bring this house's proceedings to an end and to have the general election clearly before october 31, and he's obviously going to campaign before that on the basis that he's been thwarted in getting an amazing, beneficial deal for this country, which has actually been blocked by wicked continental politicians and by politicians and the mps in the house of commons who have no sense of the true national interest, which is to keep him in

kenneth clark. >> ivey debriefed. i was going to join in the debate. thank you for encouraging me. everybody else waiting to have an important vote. found these that i exchanges quite predicable, bateman well rehearsed. i do think the prime minister with the greatest respect has a tremendous skill in the straight face whilst he is being said disingenuous. [crowd jeering] is, the fact is he is now desperate to have an election in order to bring this house's proceedings to an end and do have an election clearly before october 31. he's obviously going to campaign before that on the message that he has been getting an amazing deal for this country which has actually been blocked by and the mps in the house of commons who have no sense of the true national interests. and he's wrong to say that the opposition to him is trying to reverse the referendum. a very large percentage of those who have been defeating him in the last two days are prepared to vote for brexit. they voted for brexit more often than he has. he calls delay in march, and he calls delay in april when we wish to do so on

that was nicholas soames and of course kenneth clarke.is not the party ijoined in 1992! think it was accelerated by the behaviour and culture that has come in with this newest administration. i came back at the end of august from holiday and said that this was not for me. i need to be able to serve my constituents in the best way that i judged and that was why i was elected as an mp and i thought i was best served byjoining the liberal democrats. we are seeing you physically crossing the floor, did you choreograph that? it's not strictly come dancing... it was a dramatic moment! you did it when the prime minister was there. it was a dramatic moment and i was waiting for what was called the barkham operate —— opposite the speaker's chair but i wanted to show respect to the new member of parliament for brecon and radnor and then i followed. i am sure you have seen this, someone who said they worked for you forfour this, someone who said they worked for you for four years until 2016, saying about you, i astonished by his rapid political jour

decision to deselect 21 conservative mps, including long—standing mps such as nicholas soames and kenneth clarkght moment of national emergency and we want something that we can vote for rather than choose between the two terrible options of borisjohnson and jeremy corbyn. i want to support someone who is prepared to step up on everything when it comes to brexit, who has those values of equality and openness and who wants to make sure that going forward we area to make sure that going forward we are a country that is tolerant and thatis are a country that is tolerant and that is the liberal democrats. ijust want i just want to show you some pictures we have had through of the private minister welcoming israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu. he is also meeting the us vice president mike pence today. business as usual for the president mike pence today. business as usualfor the prime minister in one sense but absolutely not business as usual in some of the most significant areas of his role. the news of his brother stepping down as an mp, and minister, citing irreconcilable differences over t

mr kenneth clarke.a. it seems to me that firstly the prime minister is absolutely desperate to have an election before the 315t of october so he can fight it. i also fear that the strategy is to fight it on this people versus parliament platform that nigel farage invented and which we are now being imitating. can my honourable friend the show me that what happened yesterday was one of these occasions when people lost control of themselves and the house erupted in disorder and this is part of some grand discrediting of the usual political institutions in order to fight a populist and nationalist campaign. as a junior minister it‘s always welcome to benefit from the advice of the father of the house. what i would reassure him is that the strategy of the government has is to do with the vast majority of the nation wants to see which is to bring a resolution to brexit and deliver the referendum result. given his own views the father of the house has already voted for deals. where the government will look to

today i feel a mounting sense of anger and now you wonder why someone like kenneth clark, who has serveda fated and honoured member of the government. andrew, are you sorry to see ed go? lam. andrew, are you sorry to see ed go? iam.| andrew, are you sorry to see ed go? lam. lam andrew, are you sorry to see ed go? i am. i am sorry they voted against the government and lost the web but there is a huge difference. i voted against the government on issues like the referendum and hs two, the withdrawal agreement. but the difference between voting on a policy and voting to take where the government '5 ability to legislate on handing it to the opposition and thatis on handing it to the opposition and that is the crucial difference. do you see that difference? of course not. in the great way is that you constructed constitutional principle to support your argument. andrew is an extremely independent minded mp and always has been since he came in and always has been since he came in and to his credit, unlike someone like me who has had no interest in moving up the party hierarchy and taking minis

mr kenneth clarke!then have to begin years of negotiations with the europeans and the rest of the world about getting new trade, security and other arrangements in force. does he seriously think that this approach will obtain from any other country in the world of free trade arrangement which is half as good as the common market which conservative governments have helped to put together over the years? mr speaker, as he knows, i am a keen fan. order. sit down. i want to hear what the prime minister has to say in response to the question. it must be heard. as the father of the house knows, i‘m a long—standing admirer of the member for rushcliffe. knows, i‘m a long—standing admirer of the memberfor rushcliffe. i knows, i‘m a long—standing admirer of the member for rushcliffe. i was the only member of the 2001 uptake to vote for him as leader of the conservative party. a fact which i don‘t think you much thanked me for at the time. i have long been a fan of his. in many ways, i agree with him. i don‘t want

lord patten courting my hero, kenneth clarke, yesterday in the house of commons, referred to an elementrorogation plan and time was decided in the middle, and for another two weeks, the numberten middle, and for another two weeks, the number ten spokesman denied there was or could be any such plan. i find it very shocking that the prime minister, when the plan became clearer, when the proclamation issued, the prime minister maintained that his motives had nothing to do with brexit. now, nobody in the country believed that. but to me, it was still shocking to see in these documents, in the case in edinburgh, that it was precisely about brexit, that it was knowingly and deliberately about brexit. ken clarke, disingenuous. we have here an issue of trust. the number ten spokesman said this morning that if the bill that we are debating now became an act, the government, prime minister, would not abide by it. i would assume he must book, but we re call would assume he must book, but we recall mr gove last sunday discussing with andrew marr and refusing to say that the government would impleme

barnes gave him nothing so clark did a deep dive on the guy's contact with the authorities and, ta da, there it was a video. >> kennethterrogation of ken barnes had been conducted by the erie police almost two years before, at the time they were investigating the frozen body case. >> marjorie diehl, you've known her how long? >> almost nine years, yeah. >> barnes had a grand slam revelation and it concerned marjorie. he told investigators she was obsessed with her inheritance. her wealthy mother had already died and she was upset her dad was squandering money she felt should go to her. >> there was a lot more money in the estate that was supposed to be willed to her when he dies and she said that he is a recovering alcoholic and that he had been giving sums of $100,000 donated to the church and giving it away to all his friends and is it you have. >> hundreds of thousands of dollars? >> yeah, and she said that he's giving away her inheritance and she was to damn obsessed with it. >> so obsessed that marjorie asked barnes to kill her father so she could get his money. he told the cops he had no intention of bumping off