margaret thatcher's election victory in 1979 triggered a transformation of britain's economy and institutions including the b.b.c. by then a vastly expanded confident and at times combative news operation. that had the network in her sights. and member doing an interview with her and when we sat down because it was live and we had to make sure it went out we doubled up on the numbers are twice as many cameras twice as many people mrs margaret thatcher is here on panorama tonight some time before so she went around going 1234 should turn to everybody in the room and the 13 people and she said to mr dimbleby you know ahead of the american television here this morning and there are only 2 of them. she believed that the b.b.c. was soft in the head the b.b.c. was too liberal the b.b.c. was not understanding what she wanted to do and from the very beginning she was trying to find ways of emasculating the b.b.c. . there were 2 strands going on a government that was determined to. leave the b.b.c. to make the b.b.c. do what it wanted to in terms of the message. and it was also very busy but eating pr

john whittingdale, culture minister and former aide to margaret thatcher.ment at 11 o'clock on monday evening for the latest from the commons and lords. until then, as they say in weatherfield — "ta—ra, chuck". well, frosty and quite foggy for some of us out there again at the moment, certainly the south east of england, into east anglia as well. some of this fog could persist right through the morning and into the afternoon, a bit like on sunday, so it's going to feel pretty raw in these areas. now at the moment, we're sort of between weather systems, one in central parts of europe there, more clouds out in the atlantic. we're kind of stuck in the middle where the skies have been clear. it's a really tricky area to forecast because you have areas of cloud, mist and fog floating around. you can see we've sort of been wrapped around by this dip in the jet stream where the cold air is sitting, so that fog reforms at night and we get the patchy frost across the uk as well. so this is what it looks like through the early hours of monday morning. the frost will

john whittingdale, culture minister and former aide to margaret thatcher.ment at 11 o'clock on monday evening for the latest from the commons and lords. until then, as they say in weatherfield — "ta—ra, chuck". well, the chilly weather is here to stay for the next few days. it's not desperately cold but certainly cold enough for some of that snow to still hang around in the hills and the mountains. for most of us, sunday is actually going to be quite a bright day and, yes, a few showers in the forecast. low pressure is close by so hence there will be a fair bit of cloud in places from the morning onwards. but more significantly we still have that current of cold air coming in and out of the arctic. it is actually fed all the way down towards the western mediterranean. so, this is what it looks like through the early hours of sunday morning, clouds and some showers there across northern parts of england. i think the coldest weather will be early in the morning across many western parts of the uk. temperatures in rural spots under the clear skies will have di

john whittingdale, culture minister and former aide to margaret thatcher.atching. i hope you canjoin us on bbc parliament at 11 o'clock on monday evening for the latest from the commons and lords. until then, as they say in weatherfield — "ta—ra, chuck". hello. pa rt part two of the weekend has been cold, some dense fog patches, best parts of northern ireland and west anglia, it has felt very cold. it is going to stay cold during the week, mainly dry and grey foggy weather for a time mainly dry and grey foggy weather fora time and mainly dry and grey foggy weather for a time and then from tuesday onwards, we will see low pressure moving in and turning and settled for some of us. we have a very slightair for some of us. we have a very slight airflow for some of us. we have a very slight air flow across the uk for sunday, which is why the air is very stagnant, sunday, which is why the air is very stag na nt, lots sunday, which is why the air is very stagnant, lots of fog and misty murkiness hanging around. it is cold, the blue colours indicating that cold air

john whittingdale, culture minister and former aide to margaret thatcher.rliament at 11 o'clock on monday evening for the latest from the commons and lords. until then, as they say in weatherfield — "ta—ra, chuck". hello there. it's been a wintry scene for many parts of the uk. we started with some widespread snow in scotland. that then turned to rain and so the most of any snow that's falling right now is really over the higher ground. but, more recently, there has been some snow through the midlands, particularly over the peak district. but it's been a messy picture because we've had these bands of cloud bringing wet weather swirling around an area of low pressure together with some stronger winds. that low pressure, though, will tend to move down into france, so, for a start, the winds will ease and through the weekend we should be turning drier as well. but we're still in cold air. with some clearing skies by the morning across some parts the midlands, eastern england, we are likely to find a frost and likely to find some icy conditions as well. elsewhe

and with that political ideology does that originate with margaret thatcher and this idea that the government is not the solution to your problem but the government is your problem. and with that ideology. >> and with that rise of socialism is very important. and with this ideology. and with that i do want to stress the fact that with that property and basically any concentration and with those competition to slaves and then that slavery was compensated and so today so it takes natural resources and that which very often was finance from the public investment. but then those property rights and then i agree it is complicated but it has a very different meaning. so anyway but yes this is of course. and in 1986 basically with that deadline it has never been and this is always true and then that federal income tax was created but then the equality and this was a change but so maybe that is even more important. but then in russia there is no progressive income tax at all. and then to try the dreams but you cannot say to attend with the same 5 percent for your income and in pretends russia and act

and does it really originate in some sense with margaret thatcher, with ronald reagan, this idea as ragan said the government is not the solution to your problem. the government is your problem. and is that sort of where we are today with that sort of legacy and that sort of dominant ideology? three important by which i have this ideology and property basically any and all. [inaudible] it lit very extreme situations no no odd results in conversations and and i mention slavery because and you know today you can go back and see. [inaudible] [inaudible] investments so you know it is not a choice it might sound extreme but no no odd. [inaudible] i think it's maybe a bit complicated. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] you know people who are really the multi- something. [inaudible] look i. [inaudible] the americans i fully agree with you that. [inaudible] and then if i knew what else. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] to keep something that i never completely you know. [inaudible] and known a lot and this is what come known a lot estate tax. [inaudible] me. [inaudible] but you know, known a

was abandoned very very fast many countries in the global war united kingdom especially when margaret thatcher became prime minister of the united states especially when ronald reagan became president became very conservative didn't like the fact that these countries former colonies from the global south were now becoming numerically dominant in the world health. but faced with ever increasing challenges the organization suffered from its limited size in 2020 its budget was close to 5000000000 euros an impressive sounding some bus in fact no more than the annual budget of a single major. special in the developed world. who clearly the budget of the world health organisation is very small compared to budgets and even in cities in big cities as far as public health codes so w.h.o. doesn't have a budget which permits it to do what it could be doing and so every time there's an emergency it has to go out and raise more funds in order to respond to that emergency. ronald reagan the us president during the 1980 s. was the 1st to understand that this modest budget gave him political leverage over the

today, and if it is, would you talk about it a little bit and doesn't really originate with margaret thatcher, ronald reagan, this idea that, as reagan said, the government is not a solution to your problem, the government is your problem. the ideology. >> in terms of, i tried to recognize in my book -- [inaudible] a concentration of what is acceptable. [inaudible] natural resources are a product of big investment. [inaudible] it is a bit complicated. [inaudible] people from different countries and something very different and managed to complete that, some people -- [inaudible] there is never doing completely, you know,. [inaudible] [inaudible] may be show my movies in russia, china, and away of, and russia, teach in russia -- [inaudible] putin and russia, russia and china. people who are very close. [inaudible] [inaudible] in a country that is ruled by china. [inaudible] [inaudible] the fact that russia and china today have complete opportunity affects -- [inaudible] it is really time to reconsider. >> at the time we think about inequality. it is not a term that is familiar to people, the a

unify the country through his words and some francis of assisi interest and get a quote remember margaret thatcher using when she was she was elected in the in the u.k. it's a popular popular quotation by politicians who were recently elected but unfortunate the narrative is a bit more complex yes it looks very much like it's almost certain that joe biden will be the next president of united states without merit to is alive that's the flame that's alive and which both democrats and republicans is the word about foley update thanks so much she had a chance there for us and we'll meet and delaware joshua polacheck is the executive director at pima county democratic party joins me now from tucson in arizona good to have you with us on the program joshua just really our international viewers we've heard so much about arizona so much about the recount what was the game changer that sort of turned from a republican state to a democratic state what was the feeling that. well i think the most important thing was the people of arizona the american citizens here we voted pretty decisively it was a close ele

not just for christmas but for ever 1st we talk to the only minister who was as red lines as margaret thatcher in the tory government of the 1980 s. that oppressive will be coming we ask this born again great city here whether europe the issue which has haunted the tory party for half a century i finally been leads to based then returned to form a leader of the ulster unionist might now as the n.l.e. and ask him whether borders johnson has broken 2 years for the price over $1.00 and to be asked rebel scottish nationalists angus macneil m.p. why northern ireland to stolen a march on scotland but 1st alex that you teach emails and messages. well lots of reaction to last week's show with professor look at neil of the college dublin and dr chris smith of cambridge university they were talking about covert vaccines and also about what they called a commonsense christmas and that's been drawn into sharp relief this week with the dramatic joint declaration from the british medical journal and the hell several journal to politicians about the consequences of the proposed christmas relaxation but on th

are not just for christmas but for ever 1st we talked to the only modest who was knighted as margaret thatcher and the tory government of the 1980 s. it a passable.

margaret thatcher in different circumstances but we know what it means when you start flying up enemies with and it's very very bad for the for the cohesion of a nation and that's partly we reached that point in france where people have to be very careful so far i think what is quite remarkable is that the population at large has reacted very well whenever there's a terrorist attack people are refrain there's no who. in general people behave there's no there's no temper need for retaliation but of course if you have a government showing this what i believe is a very poor example setting very poor example of course things could changing and so and of course if if the fall rights would eventually come to power that would of course make make things worse as we know the program of the far right so i think john so your question will be able probably. and what france needs a moment it seems to me is appeasement enthuse even you know it includes even have sars sorry we are running out to tom i would like to get to yasser as well yes is there an alternative to this bill. no i mean like you know

another shopkeeper‘s child, margaret thatcher, also visited the corrie set during her downing streetourse, her own father was alfred roberts who ran the grocers shop in grantham, but she arrived on set and was very upset to see that alf roberts corner shop had the sign, "licenced to sell "alcohol", and she said that certainly this would never have been allowed in her own father's shop who would not have dreamt of selling alcohol. the culture minister and former thatcher aide john whittingdale at what sounded like a meeting of the coronation street fan club. well, that was wednesday in parliament. thank you for watching. i hope you canjoin me at the same time tomorrow for the week in parliament. until then, from me, david cornock, bye for now. hello. we've a much colder snap of weather on the way for the next couple of days, so there's a much greater risk of some ice and some snow. snow from these showers in the north through the course of today, and even perhaps in this band of more persistent rain in the south just on the hills because we got that cold airjust nudging further southw

she's got to stands relations with other european leaders was problematic british prime minister margaret thatcher in her memoir said the president she scared was not someone to whom i warned and i had the strong impression that the feeling was mutual he was regarded by downing street as haughty and supercilious which all did nothing to ease daily tensions between downing street and the lease a palace but it was present the scout this sounds relationship with this man that would leave him badly damaged emperor because the crown himself ruler of the impoverished former french colony central african republic in 1977 in a ceremony that cost $40000000.00 she scowled was a frequent visitor to his game. served and was accused by french media of receiving a gift of diamonds from the emperor. with the diamond state at the release a palace and i told her castle successor that they are going to be sold and the revenue will be used to development work in the central african republic 64 percent of the french people thought she's scared to stand and honest and competent president but if a distant figure in 198

they try to hammer out some of the final details well now god knows the director of the market margaret thatcher center for freedom and is also a bernard and barbara lois fellow at the heritage foundation he says if a deal is signed it will be a huge win for the u k. well all indications so far coming from london although the deal is imminent and. i expect that to we're likely to see the deal being signed or put forward actually to morrow morning and if that is indeed the case i think it's a huge breakthrough for the british government off to several months of extremely intense negotiations with brussels in negotiations we headed by lord frost but also in some cases by the prime minister himself this deal sort of i think will be seen as a big win for boris johnson after all i think the e.u. according to the latest reports we have have made some significant concessions here and this deal will result in the united kingdom being given full access to the e.u. single market 0 tariffs in place in the u.k. of course retains will retain full control of its of its borders its laurels and also its own tra

not just for christmas but for ever 1st we talked to the only minister who was as red lines as margaret thatcher in the tory government of the 1980 s. that a possible. we ask this born again breaks a tear whether europe the issue which has haunted the tory party for half a century i finally been lead to based then return to form a leader of the ulster unionists might now as the emulate and ask him whether borders johnson has broken 2 years for the price of $1.00 and we ask rebel scottish nationalists angus macneil m.p. why northern ireland to stolen a march on scotland but 1st alex that you think emails and messages. well lots of reaction to last week's show or with a professor look at meal of the college dublin and dr chris murphy of cambridge university they were talking about covert vaccines and also about what they call the common sense christmas and that's been drawn into sharp relief this week with the dramatic joint declaration from the british medical journal and the health service journal to politicians about the consequences of the proposed christmas relaxation but on the vaccine issue

initiated in the 1970s and having a foothold in the uk with margaret thatcher. so that project has been going on for some time now. that the liberalism has been shorthand for the weight in which we think about that corporation. and it is desirable that our status as consumers is something that we should value. it has become part of that. that suggests the project and the undertaking there. it's can be a difficult one i think. i really appreciated that. restoring old regulations. i think the important part of that. i think the approach we make. is from the responsibility of citizenship to call upon their representatives to do more and do better. we need real legal reform to make the rebranding exercises. one thing you do call for by way of reform they are invoking the new deal. in the 1930s. and the response of the great depression. in reading the conditions of the american people. i don't mean to belittle the importance of those measures at the time. but, i think it is will understood and this is how they characterize the new deal. it's capitalism. i think you w

in metro fares but it's mushroomed into something much bigger long before ronald reagan and margaret thatcher chile was a test bed for unfettered free market economics or neo liberalism under the right wing dictatorship of augusto pinochet that experiment in the 1970 s. was continued by democratic governments from 990 to the present day pinochet's rule was an economic failure posted to ship the economy has performed better than its neighbors but it has failed to address inequality access to pensions health care and education were left to the free market the people finally got to vote on the constitution the outcome a landslide to scrap the charter in favor of more government intervention in the state so what now well there's a long way to go before the people of chile see any change or joining me now via skype from london is latin america economist at capital economics good to have you with us so chill there's been this 6 steps success rather story for developing countries for so long what's gone wrong. well i think if you look at chile over the last few decades it's it's been a regional perf

was abandoned very very fast many countries in the global united kingdom especially when margaret thatcher became prime minister of the united states especially when ronald reagan became president became very conservative didn't like the fact that these countries former colonies from the global south were now becoming numerically dominant in the world health the somewhat. but faced with ever increasing challenges the organization suffered from its limited size in 2020 its budget was close to 5000000000 euros an impressive sounding some bus in fact no more than the annual budget of a single major hospital in the developed world. clearly the budget of the world health organisation is very small compared to budgets even in cities in big cities his 1st public health codes so w.h.o. doesn't have a budget which permits it to do what it could be doing and so every time there's an emergency it has to go out and raise more phones in order to respond to that emergency. ronald reagan the us president during the 1980 s. was the 1st to understand that this modest budget gave him political leverage over

ifrom knew brexiteer points of view grew and away you don't like, and then in the late 19805 margaret thatchereu and convince them for a 5ingle at the eu and convince them for a single market without trade barriers, so we kind of ended up the thing we most wanted and that is the point at which we are leaving and we will potentially find ourselves, if we must handle this, outside of the 5ingle we must handle this, outside of the single market that we wanted to create. but the single market was never finished. there's never been a single market. but isn't that because we haven't been very good negotiators. we haven't built allie5 in the new eastern european countries, conservative governments could have been doing that, the labour government 5till could have been doing that, the labour government still managed to do that in the 19905. all those allie5 who are ideological are closer to us and we somehow never got them on board against those countries who are perhaps more instinctively protectionist? we voted against eu rules 74 times but on qualified majority voting we were outvoted. you are outv

difference economic direction that i would define is taking its far to the rights way further than margaret thatchernably multi ends today with the europeans, he is desperate because he knows actually this is going to make us weaker and poorer. he‘s desperate to sell this as a great success story. he will get that and the right wing papers will bang that drum, but then, you know, the real brexit experts, they will go over this without fine tooth comb and he is worried about them, and rightly worried about the public reaction. i think businesses will be breathing a massive sigh of relief that there is a deal, but the deal that we have god is still going to do them an awful lot of damage. so his idea that this is just, awful lot of damage. so his idea that this isjust, you know, brexit brexit will be with us defining our politics for the next two years. let‘s step back from the detail of it, we heard from a german mepjust a few minutes ago saying that what the uk has managed to achieve is preferential tariff free access to the biggest single market in the world. actually, when you look at what the neg

we are obsessed about gillian anderson playing margaret thatcher. have you been watching?nderson get her down right?” have not what dead. you are a busy internationaljetsetting man of mystery. i know everyone is fascinated by it everywhere but it is not... you don't need to watch a drama of an audience with the cream queen, you just rememberthe with the cream queen, you just remember the 200 you had with her. i never really watched political programmes that are political programmes that are political because i know that every time i watch them i will a lwa ys every time i watch them i will always be thinking that did not happen, that did not happen. have you never watched many of the dramatisations of people playing you? the dramatisations of people playing you ? absolutely the dramatisations of people playing you? absolutely not. not even michael sheen?! come on! i have not seen the mcqueen for example. it is an experience... because i was there...! it is time to reduce there...! it is time to reduce the budget and the production values back to a level we are more comfort

is why i personally think he has emerged with the largest majority in reddish politics since margaret thatcher's final majority because he is able to tap into the public mood in a way that very few other politicians are able to do. lisa: let us get a picture of the significance if it may or may not be voted on between the u.k. and european union. it has been five years of contentious talks, deadlines that were false deadlines and jon ferro saying when will this be over. we have an agreement on the fishing which assumes -- which takes up zero point 15% between the u.k. and european union. what does this set us up for going forward in terms of the foundation for a new trade agreement between the e.u. and united kingdom? matthew: what it does is it avoids the very disruptive no deal alternative where there would have been a radical, sharp break between the u.k. and european union. by putting together this thin deal covering key aspects like fishing, how we are going to police the deal, like issues around equivalence, even though we have yet to see the agreements on financial services, what it does

it was margaret thatcher prime minister at the time who championed the cause. for those who live. near. wartime in the benefit of below the national night. that amount of time was a sin and i believe. that says. what happened was the entire system the entire physical system as well as the concession was sold to the private companies. every drop of water in the ploy a private club to take. one of the 1st thing some of the companies to. go. to people he had paid the bills. the number of people who've had their water cut off for failing to pay their bills has almost tripled in a year. one company for example disconnected $11000.00 customers and the source the company was concerned. they could stay this collective if they didn't pay their bills they didn't get any more so. they always come back now to talk about. how far do you have to come so far on the shelf. life you think you have to make this journey that they just come down to. us. i mean you could have drank anything but it just think. we didn't even have to care for this during the last song. i said myself is the sky. from the

the one holdout being britain under margaret thatcher and the queen didn't like that.here's some truth to that, but most of the stuff i saw was just made up in the traditions of the best drama. they just made stuff up. >> as you said, made up, extraordinarily well. entertaining. now, let's talk about what's actually really going on in britain right now. and that is great britain stumbling toward brexit. how is this going to end? >> not well, i don't think. it's boiled down to some very on truce issues of britain's fishing territory. britain only has 7,000 people employed full-time as fishermen, generally men. and it generates about a billion pounds a year. it's peanuts compared to the loss to the british economy that will occur if it drops out without a trade deal which is looking quite likely now. boris johnson's got a conservative party behind him that's insisting that hard brexit is what he was elected to do. the only thing tempering him other than self-preservation, the damage to britain's economy would be big is the incoming biden administration which takes a far

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going back on gold, that was what his officials were telling him to do and margaret thatcher made theame make in 1989. so he can be forgiven for that. galipoli i didn't think was going to work but the ambition was nobelle. it was the only original strategic idea anybody came out with in the first world war. but abdication i can think you could say was right about it nowadays. to our modern taste it is perfectly right that a couple should be allowed it marry irrespective of who they are and if the king loved this mrs. simpson he should be allowed to marry her. i think modern sentiment would be very much with churchill. but indian independence he was absolutely 100% wrong and still looks wrong today. he used language about mahatma ghandi that is disgraceful he should be bound hand and foot and trampled. just mad. he totally lost it. the only thing i can believe say in mittigation is that in his sort of whig ishgish imperialist vision the empire had done some good things for india in the sense that the barbaric practices like sati had been in many cases reduced and he thought of the empi

ronald reagan is the president who led us with margaret thatcher and the pope to defeat the soviet union. we have never been the party that was for russia. and, in fact, that was the most pejorative thing you could say about democrats at the time, they're soft on russia. now the tables have flipped. i would just say not all the republican candidates who are bangering to be president are in the same mold as donald trump. larry hogan, governor of maryland, the formula that republicans should really look at, which is republicans who succeed overwhelming in blue states. that's the only kind of republican that can get elected nationally, with a national popular vote, in my view, and think we should take a note from him. >> one person. hopefully that number will continue to grow. >> and mitt romney. >> of course mitt romney. it's all on mitt romney. mitt romney, as you recall, was famously ridiculed in 2012 for calling russia america's greatest geopolitical foe in his debate with president obama. it turns out he was right and he spoke about that with jake this morning as well. take a listen. >