you wanted to wanted to respond to respond, mark francois.le country. if you are not going to get emotive about this, what on earth are you going to get emotive about? there are great things at sta ke about? there are great things at stake here. history willjudge what every member of that cabinet does today for the rest of their lives. caring and hyperbole are different things and i think the public has become very used to being able to judge the difference, is howl become very used to being able to judge the difference, is how i would respond to that one, mark. on twitter, quack educ says this is treason, theresa may needs to be removed asap, this is not what the electro— voted for. we voted to leave the eu completely. if the brexiteer cabinet members do not design dummett resigned later today the conservative party will not recover “— the conservative party will not recover —— the electorate. oliver on twitter says i want to be clear i may remain and i wouldn't vote for this absurd deal, we would still have to abide by eu decisions and laws

in that part of the —— in the party are asking for loyalty. 0ur party members as frustrated as mark francoisminister has come back with? i think mark speaks for if not the majority of tory activists, certainly a very large number of them, and i think there is polling of voters which finds voters of the conservative party very split, half wanting theresa may's deal and half opposing, and split on her leadership as well, half wanting her leadership as well, half wanting her to continue, half knots. it is believed voting conservative supporters who are most disappointed with her, so i am someone who is a big brexit supporter. i am with her, so i am someone who is a big brexit supporter. iam not with her, so i am someone who is a big brexit supporter. i am not happy with this deal. it is not what i wanted, but i think it's the only game in town now, and that's why i would support it. i'm not sure i'm entirely in touch with all the conservative members. in terms of conservative members. in terms of conservative mps, and we talk to a lot of those —— you talk to a lot of those,is lot of those —— yo

let's talk to vice—chair of the european research group, mark francois. conservative mps. no, what has been published today in this document. it is 26 pages long, called a political declaration. it is not legally binding. this is the d raft is not legally binding. this is the draft withdrawal agreement. it is 585 pages. and it is legally binding. it is a draft treaty which if we were to ratify it, which we won't, would mean we were subject to the treaty under international law. i have read both, this is a real bodice ripper but i have read it. what this does is it leads us half in the eu and half out. so we does not represent brexit, it does not honour the spirit of the referendum. it is not what people voted for. theresa may would dispute that because in the commons she said this political declaration today offers they knew this book trade deal and it talks about britain involving and independent trade policy which is what you want, and it talks about declaring an end to the free movement of people, and that's what you want. as i say, this is not legally binding. it is a

one of those is mark francois, who joins us from westminster.ht talking now so you have been one of those bold and honest enough to say that you have sent in your letter? yes and i was old and honest enough to publish my letter so that anyone can understand my reasoning. so my constituents could understand my reasoning and white i have done it. you would never do this lightly against your prime minister. and within the group, how many people, do you know how many people have sentin do you know how many people have sent in letters of no—confidence? do you know how many people have sent in letters of no—confidence ?|j really do not know. the only person that knows that is so graham brady. and someone said earlier he does not even tell his wife. so here's the anyone who knows but one i can tell you is that it went up by one yesterday. i have spoken to several collea g u es yesterday. i have spoken to several colleagues who have put in letters yesterday. at the end of the day most colleagues are now back in their constituencies. i imagine that they

i've been speaking to the conservative mp and vice chair of the european research group, mark francoishe's confident the 48 letters needed to trigger a vote of no confidence in theresa may will be reached. we're not a stalinist organisation. we believe in a bit of internal debate amongst friends. but i think the critical thing is that every conservative mp, in fact, to be frank, every member of parliament in the entire house of commons knows that there is absolutely no way that the withdrawal agreement will ever go through the house. now that labour have said they are going to vote against it and the liberals and the snp, and critically, the dup who are hopping mad with the prime minister, and the tory backbenchers, it is mathematically, impossible for it to ever get through and i think tory mps know that and i'm told the prime minister in private has been told that numerous times but she appears not to accept it. don't you accept her point that a leadership contest now is not going to make that negotiations, is not going to make that parliamentary arithmetic any easier? well, let me e

earlier, we spoke to the conservative mp, mark francois, who is one of a number of mps who submittede minister. here's what he had to say. the prime minister is irretrievably committed to chequers, which we believe means britain doesn't leave the eu that we would be half in and half out, the worst of all worlds, and the house of commons knows this, and that is why it will never pass the house of commons, and every mp who might be watching this broadcast knows in their heart of hearts that that is true. so your argument is that because she said this is the deal, take it or leave it, and you will leave it, as will your colleagues, someone else can come in and start again, effectively, or come in with some changes. is there any reason to believe that anyone in brussels will be interested? the house of commons has not yet agreed these are proposals. we haven't signed up so we are not honour bound. i would like to take this opportunity if i can to make an announcement. the draft agreement is 585 pages long. it is extremely complex and it's written in eu legal language. i heard you on brea

let's speak to their vice chair, mark francois, at westminster. thank you for talking to us. come to that document in a minute. first on the question of the number of letters seeking a vote of no—confidence in the prime minister, do you accept that you and your collea g u es do you accept that you and your colleagues have rather overhyped the number of letters that have actually gonein? number of letters that have actually gone in? well, the truth is that nobody knows how many have gone in. graham brady does and he has told that he has not got 48. forgive me, i was about to say that nobody knows other than graham brady, and as you say, he has said he doesn't have 48. he is unimpeachable. the entire party completely trusts and respects graham brady. if he says he hasn't got them, he hasn't got them. what i think will probably happen is that collea g u es think will probably happen is that colleagues are back in their constituencies this weekend. they will, i think, constituencies this weekend. they will, ithink, if constituencies this weekend. they will, i think, if they are s

thank you, mark francois, for joining have said. thank you, mark francois, forjoining us.ittle earlier i spoke to david lammy from the labour party and the conservative party's peter warren committee gave the reaction to events today. we have ten days to ratify this deal on the 25th, there will be, i suspect, a leadership challenge in that period against theresa may, so whether she remains prime minister is unclear. what is clear is that he cannot get this deal through parliament. my belief is that politics is stuck, and will remain like that in westminster for some time. the only way out of this is to somehow go back to the bible. peter bone, you put in your letter sometime ago. what are you hoping this process within your party is going to show britton —— go back to the people. i wanted a policy change, not necessarily a change of prime minister, but when she will not change the policy, we will be to do that is to change the leader. we both agree that the brexit gilbert forewa rd both agree that the brexit gilbert foreward is both agree that the brexit gilbert forewa rd

let's speak now to the conservative mp and vice—chair of the pro—brexit european research group, mark francoisis rayleigh constituency. thank you for being with us. what do you make of developments today in particular the resignation ofjo johnson? good evening. jo johnson's resignation is clearly not good news for the government. we have now had twojunior ministers for the government. we have now had two junior ministers resign for the government. we have now had twojunior ministers resign in two weeks. we've lost tracy was a very good mr over a gambling taxation and we have lost johnson good mr over a gambling taxation and we have lostjohnson on the brexit issue himself. i saw the clip little while ago and he was scathing about brexit. in very clear that he was opposed to the process. so the government is not convincing the cabinets were junior ministers and they are not convincing the backbenchers. the question, what next. it is difficult to say exactly will happen next because we don't yet have the final deal. although we are all given to believe that we might not be far away from that. but

this maneuvering was going on at the same time as the british and french representatives mark sykes and francois pico were carving up the middle east between the. shereef a saint dreamt of a great arab state to include the levant from the egyptian border up to the taurus mountains in turkey. plus all of mesopotamia to the border in the north and the whole of the arabian peninsula except for the british colony of aden. kind of. how do you. and i know how can i say leap years you've been out of. your country your door the. iraqis in one cocoon or much learned to clean. now i can beat up on you know i did that and now it's so fucked up for him he made much i did ok for that would i have had the guardian united go to many credit of a could but i know who last about how to do another and economic muscle how to do a minute about. britain weighed up the benefits and agreed to sorry for seems to months. for his part hussein called for an arab uprising against the ultimate on the fifth of june nine hundred sixteen. the hashemite forces under the command of her saying the sun faisel mobilized. from their

mark francois from the conservative party, thank you very much.ul on a date standing outside that the weather is nice, at least in westminster. you are very welcome, anita we have a north—south divide with the weather because in the north of the country we have a fair bit of rain, in the south where anita is in london it is dry and brighter. this rain shower has been poring over northern ireland, northern england, scotla nd northern ireland, northern england, scotland and wales but it will move north eastwards through the day and fragmenting as it does so. for scotland, northern england and northern ireland you will hang on to afair bit northern ireland you will hang on to a fair bit of cloud but it will brighten for the rest of us where we have seen the rain this morning. and hang on to the sunshine across the south—east albeit hazy. temperatures up south—east albeit hazy. temperatures up to 15 today but in any sunshine around the moray firth we could hit 17. this evening and overnight, lots of clear skies, still lots of cloud across scotland and

mark francois. mr. francois: it may surprise the house, but i agree with my grokster.friend from prime minister, the whole house accepts that you have done your best. but the labour party have made plain today that they will vote against this deal. the snp will vote against it. the liberals will vote against it. the dup will vote against it. our key ally in this place will vote against it. over 80 tory backed -- when is 84, and it's going up by the hour, will vote against it. it is therefore mathematically impossible to get this deal through the house of commons. the stark reality, prime minister, is that it was dead on arrival at st. thomas before you stood up. so i plead with you, i plead with you to accept the political reality of the situation you now face. the speaker: prime minister. pm may: can i say to the honorable gentleman, i respect he obviously holds very clear views of the issue with our membership in the european union and the relationship we should have with the european union thereafter

mark francois, from the influential erg group of pro—brexit conservative backbenchers, has urged cabinet to make a stand if they don't agree with the deal. if you're member of the cabinet, today will be the most important thing you ever decide on in your whole life, and if deep down you feel, know and believe that it's wrong, today is the day to stand up and be counted. there is no point in saying, years from now, "0h, i would have resigned on principle but ijust kind of never quite got round to it." today is the day, today's judgment day, and we will have to wait and see what happens in cabinet and whether anyone has the moral courage to oppose this and, if the prime minister bludgeons it through, to resign. time will tell. the dup‘s brexit spokesperson has expressed concern about early reports on the shape of the deal. like yourself, we are still feeling a little bit in the dark on this because we don't have the text in front of us, we haven't been briefed on the text, we are really working on what the headlines that have been leaked are indicating, and if it is the case then i think t

reasons is the army's absurd reliance on a company called capita which two years ago, according to mark francoisd they were rejected for medical reasons. some of those medical reasons. some of those medical reasons were absolutely absurd, such as wax in the ear, a broken leg five yea rs before as wax in the ear, a broken leg five years before playing rugby or some childhood malady. absolutely absurd that we rejected a whole swathe of people and i'm not sure that it has got much better. i complained about this in parliament and i complained about it right to the top of the army. the professional head of the army. the professional head of the army was the chief of the general staff and i complained to him and the assistant chief of the general staff and i said, are you meant to be responsible for what happens in the army, and if you are, get this sorted. they don't seem to have done much about it. the reasons that you cite do sound extraordinary. are you absolutely sure that those are the reasons for such a large number of people being turned away. an army spokesperson said large numbers of people

this maneuvering was going on at the same time as the british and french representatives mark sykes and francois pico were carving up the middle east between the. sheriff was saying dreamt of a great arab state to include the levant from the egyptian border up to the taurus mountains in turkey. plus all of mesopotamia to the border in the north and the whole of the arabian peninsula except for the british colony of aden. kind of. how do you see. and conquer them most i know how can i say leave you as you've been out of. your me a quandary your door the. iraqis in one. must learn to taksim. now i can beat up on you know i did that and now so fucked up for him he made much i did ok for that would i have had the advantage that any i could go to any kind of a kid my body i know who laughs about how to do another record or not muscle how to do a minute about. britain weighed up the benefits and agreed to sorry for seems to months . for his part hussein and called for an arab uprising against the ultimate on the fifth of june nine hundred sixteen. the hashemite forces under the command of hussein son

francois pico the former consul general in beirut. and the british by the government's middle east advisor so mark sykes. sykes was from a wealthy english family whose country home was here that's led me a house in yorkshire he had a privileged upbringing and was taken on a trip to egypt when he was eleven. his knowledge of the middle east had been picked up writing religion and travel books. on those sites like the prime minister to think he was an expert in fact he spoke neither turkish nor arabic. speaker was a french lawyer turned diplomat who'd spent several years in beirut and was a staunch supporter of french interests abroad. though they paid lip service to independence for the arab provinces of the ottoman empire the ambitions of their respective countries where their real priorities is never the case that people assume that people like sumach sites and other british and the french policy makers were being disingenuous in their support for the idea of national freedom in the middle east that at base it was just frankly a lie that they were sincere in this support for this idea of a new era of na

mark francois, deputy chair of the anti—eu european research group and nicky morgan, chair of house ofa definite yes? obviously we will see what happens as it gets to december. it is not perfect, it is a negotiation, it could compromise that it is never going to be perfect. have what i wa nt going to be perfect. have what i want and at the end of the day i wish that we were not in this situation and not leaving the eu but given where we are, i feel strongly that it given where we are, i feel strongly thatitis given where we are, i feel strongly that it is for 650 mps to decide this and the country wants us to get on and move forward. what do you make of the document?” on and move forward. what do you make of the document? i did not sit up make of the document? i did not sit up all night like a lawyer reading through it. i will read through it very carefully at the weekend. we all know the key components that are in it and it doesn't represent brexit. it would leave us in a customs union, which is not brexit. the prime minister promised over 20 times at the dispatch box in the house of

conservative mp mark francois is a former territorial army officer and released a report last year lookingort, the last few years each year they have been about 3000 short, and this year in evidence to the defence committee on which i serve, they admitted they had between 4000 and 5000 short. so the contract is a complete dog‘s brea kfast, the contract is a complete dog‘s breakfast, and because of that the army is now very slowly beginning to disappear in front of our eyes, because it hasn‘t got the recruits it needs to top it up. but that's the case, is it, that people are out there, it is just they are waiting to fill in an extra form, and in the meantime the problem gets worse? yes, capita‘s process is broken. on average, it is taking a youngster who wants to join the army about a year to join who wants to join the army about a year tojoin the process. if who wants to join the army about a year to join the process. if you are looking to recruit large lumbers of 18,19 looking to recruit large lumbers of 18, 19 and 20—year—olds, they don‘t wa nt to 18, 19 and 20—year—olds, they don‘t want

mark francois. thank you master speaker.n the political declaration was to link that access to our waters to our access to markets in relation to trade. we resisted that it continued resisting that, and we resisted it in the document itself. we will continue to resist that and continue on gibraltar to stand by the people of gibraltar. the prime minister deserves some sympathy trying to front up that divided mob behind her, but the fact of the matter is she should use the term in her remarks, it ain‘t going to happen. she is not going to get a majority in this house for this deal because it would leave the british people worse off, and of growing concern now is many of my constituents want us to assert parliamentary supremacy on this, which she mentioned in her speech, and let us get back into the european union where people will get a better deal at the end of the day. the right honourable gentleman talks about parliamentary supremacy, and it was this parliament decided overwhelmingly to ask the british people their view on

six germany stays germany more recently in the eighties francois mitterrand spoke about the german nuclear bomb but he was referring to the mark in the german central bank which shows that other countries are no longer worried about germany's military strength but about its economic power food as it does that mean germany is scary because it functions too well for europe death even more than. east germany is and will stay europe's strongest economy in a time when economic strength is more important than military strength. so germany is the strongest party and it can't shake that wrong which is why it has to find a way to use its strength constructively and strategically within europe. when they explode in our national recent study asked europeans whether they find their country's culture superior to the neighboring countries cultures forty five percent of germans said they find their culture to be better than other europeans yet are we seeing a rising feeling of germans the perry r.c. . yeah that's yes we are and that's a german trait that dates back to the romantic era. in the early nineteenth century when europeans began to

the french were represented by shell francois pico the former consul general in beirut and the british by the government's middle east advisor so mark sykes. sykes was from a wealthy english family whose country home was here that's led me a house in yorkshire he had a privileged upbringing and was taken on a trip to egypt when he was eleven. his knowledge of the middle east had been picked up writing religion and travel books. those sites like the prime minister to think he was an expert in fact he spoke neither turkish nor arabic. speaker was a french lawyer turned diplomat who'd spent several years in beirut and was a staunch supporter of french interests abroad. though they paid lip service to independence for the arab provinces of the ottoman empire the ambitions of their respective countries where their real priorities is never the case that people assume that people like sue mark sykes and other british and the french policy makers were being disingenuous in their support for the idea of national freedom in the middle east that at base it was just frankly a lie that they weren't sincere in this support for this idea of a new

francois pekoe the former consul general in beirut. and the british by the government's middle east advisor so mark sykes.

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