i want you all to welcome the prime minister david cameron and the deputy prime minister nick clegg into the plant. they'll give you a short speech each and then we'll have a q&a session. thank you. >> thanks very much, indeed. thank you very much for the warm welcome. it's great to be here. great to be here in a factory that is employing more people this year, that's expanding and that's doing so well selling overseas. but i know that we're living in very difficult economic times. and i just wanted to say a word about that before asking nick to speak and then we'll try and answer your questions. these are tough economic times. you switch on your television screen and you can see what a difficulty the eurozone is having. here at home, we're finding it more difficult to get our economy recovering. and, of course, for families around our country, things are difficult. it's difficult when petrol and diesel prices are high. it's difficult when so many people have had a pay freeze. it is tough right now for families to make ends meet. we're in a difficult economic situation. now we formed a c

cameron's conservative party and deputy prime minister nick clegg's liberal democrats suffered heavy losses last week in local elections. cameron and clegg made a rare joint press conference on tuesday at a southern factory in england. >> we can't let up on the difficult decisions we've made to cut public spending and to get our deficit and our debt under control. i know it's hard. i know it's difficult. but when you've got a debt problem, the one thing you mustn't do is keep adding endlessly to that debt. >> they promise to help people who want to start businesses. britain and other countries in europe are struggling to recover from the eurozone credit crisis, but the fall of the governments in france and greece this week will be a warning to other leaders pushing for austerity. >>> i'm here at a flower garden north of tokyo. these flowers are in full bloom. i'll tell you what they are and why so many people are attracted to them later in the program. >>> kim jong-un told north koreans to come back to their land. he told the rulers of the working party to make better use of land and

prime nick clegg, chancellor all in place. and here is attorney general david leaky.reat view, isn't it? all the way down the throne in the far distance there in the house of lords, because he is waiting for the signal, having a relaxed chat there with one of the police officers. a bit of a crowd in the central lobby. but there will be a signal given once the queen is happy and settled when she arrives in the house of lords, the lord great chamberlin will nod and the signal will be passed on the blackrod and we'll be on that famous walk down from the central lobby into the commons and then the door will be slammed in blackrod's face, a symbol of the independence and the autonomy of the house of commons. and he is allowed in. and he'll invite them to attend in the house of lords. have a look inside the royal gallery. just waiting for the signal now that the queen is ready to begin the procession in state, because that will happen very shortly when her majesty emerges from the robing room, there will be a fanfare. the lord great chamberlin, marquis of chembley with his

deputy prime minister nick clegg westminster school and cambridge none of these men come from ordinary backgrounds there's a lot of people that are being political advisors of one kind or another. and that's growing is each parliament goes by. you've got a lot more years we've got the biggest knob of all time now in cameron running the rules the snobs are there to be seen on the tory benches in particular i call it millionaire's row denis skinner's an m.p. who would once have been seen as pure traditional british labor party stock the son of a miner and an ex minor himself he came up through the ranks became a trade union leader a counsellor and then a labor party m.p. in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight it's a route into politics that's become almost obsolete replaced by a career path through top universities into special advisor posts and from there into ministerial jobs that's how ed miliband the leader of the party in which that core support base was once the working classes got his job holding how the labor party quite detached at times from ordinary working class voters an

i do think that the prime minister, david cameron, and nick clegg and miliband are all get diagnose disproportionately whacked at the moment because of their stance on the media. i do believe that. i think partly the coverage of cameron at the moment is revenge for having set this inquiry up. i do believe that. i don't think i'm alone in that, and i think that the support for alex salmon is potentially related to that. that's what i think. 123450e78, lessons to learn, page 00812, this is a more general question. do you not think that the government's constant attempts to repackage old announcements, we're talking now of the labor government -- >> yeah. >> -- the government's constant attempts to repackage old announcements stories and news and put the best complexion on figures create eight legitimate trust in what you were saying? >> i think again, excuse me, sorry to keep going on about the treasury but i think there was a time where there was so-called double counting. >> which was, frankly stupid. this thing about renouncing is difficult because the reality is that andrew landsly made a speech at

>> i've known nick clegg since he was an mep, and he helped us with some legislation in europe in the late 1990. i got to know him then, yes. >> general discussion, i mean, we've seen that under the subject matter of others' similar lists. that's presumably because you can't remember precisely what was discussed at this distance, would you agree? >> yes. >> the sort of things, though, which might be discussed, would you discuss the general political issues of the day? >> yes, generally. i would, they would -- politicians would like to talk about their general issues, and they like to talk about what they're trying to achieve, and it's very interesting to listen to them. >> do they ever discuss media-related policies? >> unless it's a formal meeting, in my experience they really don't like talking about special interests. so at a full meeting, for example, where you go to their -- there's public servants there and there's an agenda you want to discuss, but largely when it comes to personal engagements they talk about, you know, they try and impress you with what they're trying to do wi

. >> i'm reading a tweet, apparently nick clegg says it's -- there's a big headline this morning i thinkeuros is what it's going to cost to us keep greece in. so are there will pompous people in germany. >> i guess they continue to grab in the taxpayer's pocket and that is how it is perceived. therefore you think it if you cut off greece, things would be better. and that is a misperception and we have to work on that, we have to make them to understand it that if you cut greece out, the problem of europe is not going to be soft. >> is the currency to get behind euro-dollar and the dollar generally? >>. >> it means my rent just got a little cheaper. might be a problem for the u.s. economy. could prompt who are easing. appreciate the thoughts. >> we'll take a short break. still to come, flash composite pmis following china's lead. we'll go through the figures. ♪ i can do anything ♪ i can do anything today ♪ i can go anywhere ♪ i can go anywhere today ♪ la la la la la la la [ male announcer ] dow solutions help millions of people by helping to make gluten free bread that doesn't taste glute

nick robinson from bbc news. europe is turning its back on austerity. do you fear that britain is beginning to turn its back on austerity? mr. clegg, if growth is a priority, why are you forcing him to back house of lords reform? and mr. cameron, why on earth are you letting him? >> let's deal with this issue of what you call austerity, what i call efficiency, dealing with our budget and getting growth at the same time. that's what we need to do. we need to do both those things. if you look at what president hollande is suggesting in france, his program forgetting rid of his budget deficit is pretty much on a pathway with ours. i think it's a bit of a myth to believe that somehow there's some people in europe that are going to spend a lot more money and those of us who realize we have to deal with our debt and our deficit. we all have to deal with our deficits. if we don't, our interest rates will go up. that's the fact and that's why we've got to deliver these difficult public spending reductions that also everything we can do to get growth at the same time. now house of lords reform, okay. i wouldn't for a minute say this is the