no, i am not whipping up that story, i am quoting len mccluskey!ving towards a more unified position on brexit than we have had for some time. jeremy is now saying that a people's vote is at the heart of our policy officer, it seems to me that we are moving closer together. i think, and you will be at this co nfe re nce think, and you will be at this conference for the next few days and you will see it, conference and shadow cabinet members want to unite behind jeremy corbyn, because we know that in months, maybe even weeks, we will be in a general election. a snap election perhaps in a matter of weeks, you have talked about people whipping up labour split stories, does it help, let me talk about you, does it help, in this kind of atmosphere, when it comes to labour splits, for you to vote to abolish the deputy leader of the labour pa rty‘s vote to abolish the deputy leader of the labour party's post on the eve of your party conference? was that a goodidea? of your party conference? was that a good idea? i think you will find i've voted to have a d

len mccluskey is entitled to say what he says but my view is thatjeremy is arriving at a position which a people's vote at the heart of it and i believe everybody can unite behind that. do you think members of the shadow cabinet should stand aside if during the course of the election campaign they say they would back down to? what members of the shadow cabinet do as what members of the shadow cabinet doasa what members of the shadow cabinet do as a matter for the leader. you think the leader might be able to remove members of they don't toe the line? what members of the shadow 00:02:24,372 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 cabinet day will result from the comes to labour splits for you to vote to abolish the deputy leader of the labour pa rty‘s vote to abolish the deputy leader of the labour party's post on the eve of the conference? is that a good idea? what you will find is they voted to have a discussion. it is not an unreasonable thing to discuss the structures of the party when we are all together at the nec on the eve of conference. nobody was voting to abolish tom watson. we were voting t

there are other people in the party, labour mps, len mccluskey, mps, who say that if you ta ke mccluskey labour voters in leave areas, they want it to be clear there is an option to leave, you will be driving them away. staying neutral doesn't mean that we will win labour voters to labour, they will vote for the tories. staying neutral doesn't mean we will win over remain voters, they will vote lib dem. we must provide leadership, my view is the labour mayor of london, as someone who has been a labour member since i was 15 is that our values are consistent with us making it loud and clear — let's persuade those who think there isa let's persuade those who think there is a land of milk and honey, all these promises made by borisjohnson in 2016 that we now know are untrue, we go into this referendum giving the british public i final say, now we know the terms of exit, the promises made by michael gove, liam fox, they are untrue. the terms of leaving the eu are this, negotiated by theresa may all boris johnson, and the consequences are this, but actually there is a choice to now remain in t

that was len mccluskey of unite talking to our reporter.r policy pledges. these include shortening average full time working hours to 32 hours a week, introducing free personal care for the elderly in england, and a new living wage of 10 pounds per hour, up from 8 pounds 21 pence. here's our economics editor, faisal islam. pa rt part of these policies designed to send to the electorate the message that a labour government would end in work poverty in a first term, and certainly radical sounding, the community point out the example of a similar policy, the 35 hour week in france which did not work —— the business community. they say this might instead lead to a rise in unemployment or a freeze on wages, and have some impact on labour intensive public services like the nhs and social care. but this policy, the 32 hour week is not actually a cap, it is designed as a target that if on average, we do not get to 37 hours, that they will increase the amount of holiday entitlement and pay, so radical, yes, but not quite as coercive as it first soun

conference on next but it also reflects divisions inside party more broadly the trade union movement len mccluskey who's a big call to jamie corbett is progress 6 others and you're in the trade union movement aren't in favor rex and so this is threatening to create the kind of visions you seem to be sent. on display in labor party does not help your election hong kong is bracing for another day or protests as demonstrators threaten to disrupt public transport and traffic near the airport. was at least 4 other rallies are also planned on sunday one of them at this shopping mall in the sharpton district protesters want the government to launch an independent investigation into alleged police brutality. new delhi revoked the autonomy of indian administered kashmir nearly 2 months ago and the process of splitting the territory into 2 federally administered regions will begin next month but as priyanka gupta reports from the lay district that decisions be met with both optimism and concern. lead duck a cold himalayan desert in northern india. here put this monasteries in the district a flurry happen st

we have a usualjeremy corbyn ally len mccluskey calling for exactly the opposite.r —— michaeljeremy corbyn not involved in left—wing attempts to oust his own deputy leader calling into question his own authority. around these parts they say unity is strength but quite frankly they are going to need a strenuous course of political body—building in the next few days and indeed in the run—up to the next general election. ian, thank you. saudi arabia says it will respond with "necessary measures" to attacks on two of its oil facilities last weekend and has again accused of iran being behind them. iran denies involvement and earlier today said it was ready to destroy any aggressor after the us government announced it was sending troops to saudi arabia. frank gardner reports from riyadh. punctured, bombed, and blasted, the graphic aftermath of last weekend's missile and drone attack on saudi oil facilities... the pinpoint attack, quickly blamed by the us on iran, temporarily knocked out half saudi arabia's oil processing capacity. iran denies responsibility, but today, t

some people, including len mccluskey, saying that it is all about the fact that he is not showing thedo for his leader, and there isa should do for his leader, and there is a perception that he is not supporting jeremy corbyn in the appropriate fashion. supporting jeremy corbyn in the appropriate fashionlj supporting jeremy corbyn in the appropriate fashion. i don't think thatis appropriate fashion. i don't think that is true. i think is the deputy leader of a party, i worked for harriet harman, who had been around for a long time, of course you support the leader, but you also have to be able to speak up for the membership, because they elected you. and we'll find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30 this evening in the papers — our guests joining me tonight are the broadcaster and psychotherapist lucy beresford and the chief poliotical commentator at the independent, john rentoul. saudi arabia says it will respond with "necessary measures" to attacks on two of its oil facilities last weekend and has again accused of iran being b

we have a usualjeremy corbyn i lay on the left of the party, the trade union boss len mccluskey, callingpposite. then there is the tom watson affair, not even involved in attempts to oust his own deputy leader, calling into question his own authority. around these parts they say unity is strength, but quite frankly they are going to need a very strenuous course of political bodybuilding in the next few days and indeed in the run—up to the next general election. iain watson. he was right, it was interesting. ayesha hazarika is a former labour advisor and commentator. she told me earlier that this was not the way to start a political conference. well, it is a very unfortunate start. normally when you go into conference you want to go in with a very big positive message, normally a policy announcement, something to really kind of rally the troops, send a signal to the outside world that you are thrusting forward. remember, conferences are a shop window for political parties to show their wares to the media and the public. this is a critical time because we could have a general election bein

more in common with people like alistair campbell than people likejohn mcdonald, jeremy corbyn, len mccluskey hard left. do you really have anything in common with them? i have much in common with them in the sense that i am a member of the labour party. maybe membership of the labour party is becoming meaningless. i don't think it is meaningless at all. you refer to the fact that many of my friends have left or been thrown out, like alistair was in fact thrown out. he doesn't want to go back. he was thrown out, he did not want to go back. these are really great people who have left because they feel they cannot stand the labour party. that is not a choice that i am making, because we're not in this for a year or two. we need to stick with it over a long period. just to correct you, you said labour moved to the extremes on brexit. i don't think they have. i think the labour party remains trying to get a moderate solution to the brexit issue, and by a moderate solution imean something where an agreement can be reached. labour says the public then need to approve it. but we're still trying get

if len mccluskey was the call for the sacking of jeremy corbyn is allies in the shadow cabinet, that'srest of the left, not just in the best interest of the left, notjust doing what you are told. if we allow another fudge to happen, we will make labour less electable and potential create a damaging incident for the left in the party is we need to keep a left led labour party, fight for a socialist labour government. to do that, we have to get out of this fudge, take a clear position, and move the conversation on two issues when it we were when, like the nhs, schools, housing. first up i've heard it said that may be at the conference will back bow size today, in other words, both the pair remain an jeremy size today, in other words, both the pair remain anjeremy corbyn position? technically speaking, that is true, you can back contradictory emotions. if that did happen, confidence would remain in motion. generally corbyn is, above all, a democrat and has fought for democracy within the labour party for years. despite some of the underhand many of those that have happened at this confere

part of that remain camp than he has been that there are still lots of his mps, and people like len mccluskeyt in the end the labour party would go back and somehow secure a better deal and therefore be able to progress with brexit. the danger of thatis progress with brexit. the danger of that is that if there was an election, labour might still find itself disappointing the levers and disappointing that remainers, and leaving the field open for the liberal democrats, snp, who have been much clearer all along that they do not want brexit, they want to stop it. thank you very much for talking to us. and we can talk now to professor of government at kings college. thank you for being with us. what do you make of downing street suggesting that if the so—called rebel alliance in the comments do get their legislation to stop eight no deal, if they get that through, then immediately the government will seek an election on october the 14th, a very quick election? what boris johnson is trying to do is circumvent the fixed term parliament act which prevents the government making its flagship policy a

they will have different views and you will know that len mccluskey said yesterday that any members ofannot support jeremy corbyn's position should step aside, including you, emily thornberry, keirand including you, emily thornberry, keir and john mcdonnell. i'm sorry, victoria, you are elevating me. i am not a member of the shadow cabinet. iama not a member of the shadow cabinet. i am a shadow minister. we are having robust discussions with the affiliated trade unions. it is really important. they reflect millions of working people in this country. i am clear about what i think would make the most sense for our country. that is the nature of the labour party conference, that we have these debates. it is not a stage—managed occasion. we're having discussions as well about how quickly we can make green transition. they are robust debates but do i want to be a member of a party that has those debates and discussions or a party which is stage—managed and where members don't have a chance to voice their opinion? i'm pretty clear that i wa nt to opinion? i'm pretty clear that i want to be a