i remember nick clegg doinu that campaign. i remember nick clegg doing that as _ campaign. campaign. i remember nick clegg l doing that as deputy prime minister in 2015 and his campaign looked like his gap year, and it didn't really go well. i got loads of pictures on the news, but they had a very disastrous performance. something having fun does not to securely transmit automatically to doing well in the election. should be end with a gimmick?— in the election. should be end with a rimmick? ~ , ., , ., h a gimmick? why not, why not? let's make the habit _ a gimmick? why not, why not? let's make the habit of _ a gimmick? why not, why not? let's make the habit of the _ a gimmick? why not, why not? let's make the habit of the lifetime. i make the habit of the lifetime. let's continue. on friday, we were doing that little game where i looked up hansard, which was the official record of primary proceedings, to see how many times euphemisms for drunk had been used. that was very fun. martin robson, newscaster, got in touch on x/ twitter, suggesting we do a mashup of newscast, ha

you think of nick clegg from nowhere doing externally well in that first tv debate.lections on that and also what are you looking out for in these coming weeks in terms of areas and fights?- terms of areas and fights? well, first thing to _ terms of areas and fights? well, first thing to say _ terms of areas and fights? well, first thing to say is _ terms of areas and fights? well, first thing to say is that - terms of areas and fights? well, first thing to say is that neither i first thing to say is that neither the gordon brown episode or indeed nick clegg's rise in the polls in the wake of his performance debates, in the end didn't make much difference to the final result, the liberal democrats rose and then fell away again. the campaign in which the campaigning recently did make a difference is 2017 when theresa may come a relatively inept campaigning famous quip in the wake of an apparent about turn in the party's manifesto policy and social care, she said, "nothing has changed". the conservative labour of labour dropped about ten points according to opinion pol

i remember nick clegg doing that as deputy prime minister in 2015 and his campaign looked like his gapctures on the news, but they had a very it got loads of pictures on the news, but they had a very disastrous performance. so stunts of having fun does not to securely transmit automatically to doing well in the election. should be end with a gimmick? why not, why not? let's make the habit of the lifetime. let's continue the habit. on friday, we were doing that little game where i looked up hansard, which is the official record of primary proceedings, to see how many times euphemisms for "drunk" had been used, and that was very fun. martin robson, newscaster, got in touch on x/twitter, suggesting we do a mashup of newscast, hansard and pointless — in other words, finding words that have never been uttered in parliament in a particular period. that is genius. shall we play newscast hansard pointless mashup? let's do it. here's some non—copyrighted infringement music. chris, to get us going, we thought we would use a classic chris mason word and see if it's a pointless hansard answer or i

that led to the rise of nick clegg as a credible politician in this country. clegg mania. yeah.im better prepared for those tv debates than either the tories or laboun than either the tories or labour. he did extremely well and it really wrecked all the predictions for who was going to win . and that's why we ended up win. and that's why we ended up with a coalition because of nick clegg's very impressive performance at that event. six would be far too many, okay, six would be far too many, okay, six would be far too many, okay, six would be too many because nobody would be too many because nobody would listen for the second or the third one. >> a ploy, isn't it? we have had such a short. >> i don't think anybody listen. >> i don't think anybody listen. >> after the second or third round, i'd host one of them. i'll do it for nothing. coming up was the decision to call a snap summer election a political masterstroke or electoral suicide? plus, find out why beer drinkers glasses are only half full. bottoms up. see you in two. now, some would argue the decision to go for a snap ele

that led to the rise of nick clegg as a credible politician in this country. clegg mania. yeah.im better prepared for those tv debates than either the tories or laboun than either the tories or labour. he did extremely well and it really wrecked all the predictions for who was going to win . and that's why we ended up win. and that's why we ended up with a coalition because of nick clegg's very impressive performance at that event. six would be far too many, okay, six would be far too many, okay, six would be far too many, okay, six would be too many because nobody would be too many because nobody would listen for the second or the third one. >> a ploy, isn't it? we have had such a short. >> i don't think anybody listen. >> i don't think anybody listen. >> after the second or third round, i'd host one of them. i'll do it for nothing. coming up was the decision to call a snap summer election a political masterstroke or electoral suicide? plus, find out why beer drinkers glasses are only half full. bottoms up. see you in two. now, some would argue the decision to go for a snap ele

you had nick clegg unexpectedly performing well in that tv debate.t is what number ten will hope, that there is a moment i can exploit. will hope, that there is a moment i can exnloit-— can exploit. the idea of the liberal democrats — can exploit. the idea of the liberal democrats and _ can exploit. the idea of the liberal democrats and the _ can exploit. the idea of the liberal democrats and the labour - can exploit. the idea of the liberal democrats and the labour party i can exploit. the idea of the liberall democrats and the labour party are not 100% ruling out any kind of deal coalition. forthe not 100% ruling out any kind of deal coalition. for the liberal democrats at the moment it doesn't make sense for them to say they would enter some kind of deal because realistically there is still time to go and it does look like labour will probably get a majority. the labour party want to wipe out all of the seats they can on their own. but that plays into the idea there is still a lot of work to do in the swing that labour have to get in order to get

council, he stood for a seatin barnsley council, he stood for a seat in sheffield hallam but lost to nick cleggt it? yes, indeed. liverpool, merseyside. _ hasn't it? yes, indeed. liverpool, merseyside, doesn't _ hasn't it? yes, indeed. liverpool, merseyside, doesn't have - hasn't it? yes, indeed. liverpool, merseyside, doesn't have much l hasn't it? yes, indeed. liverpool,| merseyside, doesn't have much of hasn't it? yes, indeed. liverpool, i merseyside, doesn't have much of a merseyside, doesn�*t have much of a muslim population. there somewhat more here, though the increase is lower. when talking about a large area like this, there is plenty of rural and quite affluent areas around the urban centres of south yorkshire, then the muslim population as a whole is going to be much smaller. one of the things about those local council elections is that once we are talking about individual wards we can end up with places which are very heavily muslim in a way that you wouldn�*t necessarily find in a parliamentary constituency, let alone an area like south yorkshire which again will amalgamate many a

i mean, between david cameron and nick clegg, the lib dems are really , clegg, the lib dems are reallys, which people on the ground actually care a lot about. they've been talking about. they've been talking about the dentistry drought. this is an issue which concerns millions of people, particularly in rural areas in the southwest and in wales. and they've been talking about pollution in rivers. that's why ed davey was paddleboarding in windermere yesterday. he wants to get sewage and pollution out of the rivers. the other thing which he's been focusing on today , he's been focusing on today, particularly when he launched his wales campaign this morning, is agriculture . he's promised is agriculture. he's promised this £1 billion of investment in agriculture. now, if you actually look into the detail there, of course , agriculture is there, of course, agriculture is a devolved issue in wales. so this £1 billion is really for england. but he was pretty evasive about that when he was speaking in wales today. he has promised that this £1 billion would not be paid for by raising people's

generally speaking, i think back to 2010 when nick clegg was the leader of the lib dems and the firster instantaneous. so i think while people may have an instant perception, maybe that person is not doing as well as we want them to come up with it that actually goes through and changes peoples voting intentions i think is a different matter entirely. i think the great majority of people have made their mind already on what they will do. cleggmania, we have not heard that phrase for a while. stay with us, we have plenty more politics to discuss. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. junior doctors in england are to stage another five—day strike from june 27th untiljuly 2nd — just days before the general election. talks with the government restarted two weeks ago but have broken down. the doctors' union, the british medical association, has been in dispute overjunior doctors' pay for more than a year now. let's speak to junior doctor and deputy chair of the bma uk doctors' committee, dr sumi manirajan. welcome, doctor. tell us why you have decided to take this action? w

remember charles kennedy, paddy ashdown , and then kennedy, paddy ashdown, and then remember nick cleggagree with nick, so they'll hope and want that ed davey has a good campaign and a high profile campaign and becomes easily recognisable , so becomes easily recognisable, so they'll want to shut down very fast. any connection to the post office scandal. he said he regrets what happens . he said he regrets what happens. he said he was misled and he hoped that by saying that he shut this issue down. >> all right. yep. and look now , >> all right. yep. and look now, the thing that the lib dems have really announced so far is they want 8000 new gps. have we got any idea? are they going to pay for that? >> well, what they've said is that it will be over a five year period, it will cost around 4 billion. what they hope is that they can persuade existing gps to stay in the service longer , to stay in the service longer, about half of that 8000 from that number. and then the other 4000 by recruiting. now, the difficulty for them , i think, difficulty for them, i think, is, first of all, explain

and he set our manifesto at reducing illegal migration to the tens of thousands and along with nick clegg, he scrapped the graduate route. so i'm disappointed if he's now campaigning to stop us from controlling migration and reducing the number of students coming into the country in this way. >> and you can see that full interview with the former immigration minister robert jenrick on patrick christys tonight. in other news, the government documents have revealed that people living with hiv as a result of the infected blood scandal could receive more than £2 million in compensation. it comes as the interim compensation payments of £210,000 will be given to infected blood victims for the most urgent cases, while the final scheme becomes operational since the 1970s. 30,000 people were infected with hiv and hepatitis through contaminated blood products and transfusions . blood products and transfusions. around 3000 have since died . and around 3000 have since died. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news .com/ alerts. now

. >> he destroyed nick clegg in those debates. didn't he? practically won brexit on the spot.o yeah, of course sunak would get spanked as you said, there's no reason for him to debate farage. and i wonder, even though farage is our beloved colleague and a genius in many ways, i do wonder if he's just trying to get himself back in the spotlight because he admits he was wrong footed by, you know, with this snap election and reformer left kind of in a bit of a mess, lacking the infrastructure, looking like they might not really do much. so farage maybe trying to get himself back in and reform back at the centre. >> so that's you think if he waited till november, you think reform would be farage's , i reform would be farage's, i don't think we had a we had a private conversation with him. do you remember many months ago and he sort of was basically saying , no, he said he said, saying, no, he said he said, nick, god, i love your eyes. no. he was like, look, you know, he was very sort of noncommittal about it all. and like, whether it was worth going back into that day to day polit

that's compared to 25% that nick clegg was polling back in 2010.t's about level with the reform party . but ed with the reform party. but ed davey doesn't seem too worried about because the lib dems campaign tactic in this election is to concentrate all their efforts and their resources on about 30 or 40 seats, which they really think they can win. most of those seats are held by conservatives, although a few are held by the snp. what's noticeable , though, is that only noticeable, though, is that only one sheffield hallam, is held by labour and ed davey is being very careful not to criticise keir starmer very much at all. i asked him about it yesterday. i asked him about it yesterday. i asked him about it yesterday. i asked him whether keir starmer would make a good prime minister and he didn't say no. he didn't say yes, but pressed three times he would not say no. ed davey is determined to put this all in. the tories court. every bull has been smashed over to the tories court. here's what davey had to say about the conservatives earlier today. >>

and he set our manifesto at reducing illegal migration to the tens of thousands and along with nick clegg he scrapped the graduate route . so i'm disappointed if route. so i'm disappointed if he's now campaigning to stop us from controlling migration and reducing the number of students coming into the country in this way. >> government documents have revealed that people living with hiv as a result of the infected blood scandal could receive more than £2 million in compensation. it comes as interim compensation payments of £210,000 will be given to infected blood victims for the most urgent cases, while the final scheme becomes operational , jul cabinet operational, jul cabinet minister john glen told parliament the initial payment will be given to people living with the effects of contaminated blood within 19 days, 90 days starting in the summer. since the 1970s, starting in the summer. since the 19705, 30,000 starting in the summer. since the 1970s, 30,000 people were infected with hiv and hepatitis through contaminated blood products and transfusions. around 3000 have since died. in ot

you know, going into nick clegg suffering that huge, huge defeat when he was leader of the liberal democrats. and you see the squeeze because we have more of a presidential style politics now. and voters are not stupid. they worked out that either one of two men is going to be prime minister. it's either going to be keir starmer or rishi sunak, and that puts the squeeze on. interestingly, i don't think it's lib dems. so, so interesting to watch. just on the labour question, i think it's the greens. they launched their campaign today and i think are they going to become a sort of a way for labour core labour vote. labour supporters, voters to vent their frustration. watch out to what happens with greens in the astonishing polling today, benjamin suggesting that the greens are ahead of tories in the under 50, according to yougov. >> that's nuts . i mean, that's >> that's nuts. i mean, that's a threat to the labour vote, isn't it? there's no doubt about it. you've got george galloway, you've got the greens, you've got the potential for independent candidates like jeremy corbyn sucking up votes

you know, you're lining up some sort of job with nick clegg or something at facebook. you're thinking about your next move. i mean , gove's been there move. i mean, gove's been there a long time, hasn't he? i mean, he has he it is it is interesting. he was good on education. if he speaks to people like toby young, who've done a lot of work on free schools, people say he was very strong on education. yeah. and he talks about the toll office can take. and i do sympathise with that because you have to remember the person that ended up killing sir david amess was scouting out michael gove's house first. so this is a very real danger now. >> no, it's scary . yeah. >> no, it's scary. yeah. >> so you understand having been through things like that, you might think, oh i've had enough, especially as we're going to get slammed anyway. the only thing i found strange is long resignation letter. he said i've tried to fight for greater social justice, which i found very strange . you have to very strange. you have to remember this. gove was a newtonian conservative. he was receivin

david cameron, nick clegg and gordon brown. this may have the feel of popularity contest.nick. i can defend all of the decisions we took, and i think— you want to pick and mix of those... the price of nicola sturgeon's support, let's be in no doubt, she's made it absolutely clear, would be a second referendum on the union. i think i want to be able to reply to this nonsense. does the truth matter? i think it does, and i think it's very important. laughter. anti—semitism is an absolute evil and scourge within our society. applause this is pure | bermuda triangle stuff. we have heard it time and time again from the labour party during this election campaign. and we will be hearing about little green men, next. coco khan and samuel kasumu are here. your old boss still makes you laugh, samuel, clearly. in terms of keir starmer and rishi sunak, who has got the most to lose out of these debates? . , ,, . debates? clearly keir starmer because he — debates? clearly keir starmer because he is _ debates? clearly keir starmer because he is ahead - debates? clearly keir starmer becaus

at the reintroduction of the graduate visa, something that was got rid of under the coalition by nick cleggommittee warned. v ., ~ independent migration committee warned. �*, ., ,, ., ., warned. let's talk about that cost to this, warned. let's talk about that cost to this. which _ warned. let's talk about that cost to this, which will _ warned. let's talk about that cost to this, which will be _ warned. let's talk about that cost to this, which will be presumably| to this, which will be presumably you remove the cap for training doctors because we have a cap just now, you remove that and that's the first thing and you increase wages, for example for, as it were, care home workers, in order to attract more people rather than having migration work in care homes. i’m migration work in care homes. i'm keen toiust_ migration work in care homes. in keen tojust touch migration work in care homes. in keen to just touch on the chart ben showed, that chart from the 0br looks at an experiment where you have migrants were not able to claim benefits, not at the steady state of migration as ben pointed

and along with nick clegg, he scrapped the graduate route. reducing the number of students coming into the country in this way . i've been campaigning both way. i've been campaigning both within government and now since resigning from the cabinet to control our borders, to ensure that we reduce the number of people coming into the country legally. and one of the ways we can do that is by scrapping the graduate route. >> a lot of people scratching their heads today about the home secretary's role in all of this. he's privately been accused of rubbishing the rwanda plan, now appears not to want to bring down graduate visas either. what is the point of him ? is the point of him? >> well, look, i think it's incredibly important as i've said time and again, both in government and after i resigned, that we as politicians meet our promises, we made a very clear pledge at the general election in 2019 to bring down the level of net migration. and that was just one of many manifestos throughout my entire adult lifetime where we have said we're going to

after he chaired the first ever election debate in 2010 between david cameron, gordon brown and nick cleggn british television, live in front of a representative studio audience, we'll be hearing from three men each hoping to be the leader of the next uk government. in the first election debate . first election debate. >> gosh, it feels like a long time ago that now, doesn't it? i'm very pleased to say that alastair joins me now. alastair, great to have you on the show. fantastic. well firstly, what was it like that first ever televised debate , a moment of tv televised debate, a moment of tv history? >> it was absolutely nerve wracking, and i hope that that little intro there that you very kindly played didn't show it, but we were terrified because we, we were first only because we, we were first only because we literally drew straws between the bbc, sky and itv and itv one. and we said, yeah, okay, fine, we'll go first, and then the bbc went second and sky went last, and it was a huge responsibility because if we'd screwed it up, then it would have made it very, very difficult for it to

now, under david cameron and nick clegg, under the coalition government, there was this post work studygot rid of it because it was being hugely abused and people were using it as a way around all of our migration controls , and that caused controls, and that caused migration to fall back. but then the migration advisory committee advised us against bringing this thing back again , because they thing back again, because they said it would just be a loophole and a way into low wage work rather than real study in the uk. and unfortunately, it was brought back, and it's had exactly the bad effects that our independent migration advisory committee warned. we've seen a huge surge in people from, particularly from poorer countries coming. you can pay, say, five grand to go on a one year master's and then you can work and bring dependents here, and they can all work to and you can get around all these rules. you don't have to be working particularly high salary threshold or any salary threshold. and so it's become a kind of a loophole and a way into the kind of gig economy and low wage work of

we remember nick clegg.the last lib dem leader that i think people have any knowledge about. and look what he did. he, formed a party with cameron and sold, sold his soul in my view, to get into number 10. so it's really interesting, but i think, you know, i wouldn't they're obviously not going to win. but, you know, i just wish they would get their act together and get something in place and actually shout about it. and as tom said, they do detail locally. and that's what people want now. people want local politicians. they want local politicians. they want their local mp to take their needs and their wants to their needs and their wants to the houses of parliament and for them to stand up for them. and that's another problem , don't that's another problem, don't you think, benjamin, that we've we've seen so many a mass exodus almost of conservatives who are not standing at the next election and sort of, you know, new candidates being parachuted in literally at the last minute. so this is where the lib dems

you know, going into nick clegg suffering that huge, huge defeat when he was leader of the liberal democrats. and you see the squeeze because we have more of a presidential style politics now. and voters are not stupid. they worked out that either one of two men is going to be prime minister. it's either going to be keir starmer or rishi sunak, and that puts the squeeze on. interestingly, i don't think it's lib dems. so, so interesting to watch. just on the labour question, i think it's the greens. they launched their campaign today and i think are they going to become a sort of a way for labour core labour vote. labour supporters, voters to vent their frustration. watch out to what happens with greens in the astonishing polling today, benjamin suggesting that the greens are ahead of tories in the under 50, according to yougov. >> that's nuts . i mean, that's >> that's nuts. i mean, that's a threat to the labour vote, isn't it? there's no doubt about it. you've got george galloway, you've got the greens, you've got the potential for independent candidates like jeremy corbyn sucking up votes

nick clegg came from nowhere and turned things around on a tv debate.m . are doesn't do badly at them. are you expecting, a breakthrough in those? and if so, what kind of attack lines do you think that, rishi sunak should be going for on sir keir starmer ? on sir keir starmer? >> well, tv debates are very important for public opinion. we know that. and i know i say each week in parliament and watched prime minister's question times, they're not the same as tv debates. they're you know, very different scenario. >> but it's clear to me that , >> but it's clear to me that, rishi sunak is a far stronger performer than and debater than, keir starmer, who's despite having been a barrister, is not that quick at thinking on his feet and certainly communicate it. so i think, i think i'm really confident that rishi will come across really , really well come across really, really well in these debates. and i really welcome the fact that the public will be able to see the two up against each other. >> and in particular, the good thing about these debates compared t

now remember, nick clegg came from nowhere . clegg clegg came from nowhere.ania sort of swept across the nation just because we'd never really heard from this fellow before. and actually, sir john curtice was saying, looking back to the 2017 election, when jeremy corbyn came from nowhere, 20 points behind to get a hung parliament, that was because nobody had really seen him perform. so do you think there may be relying on on the theatre of a live debate of an area where rishi sunak could excel ? sunak could excel? >> absolutely. i mean, most people don't pay massively close attention to politics. they might be partially interested in politics, or they follow certain political stories, but they're not analysing in the sort of depth that the westminster bubble does. and when you look at these polls of who can recognise members of the cabinet and the shadow cabinet, it's pretty low and therefore the short campaign of a general election is the period when you can really see these people up close and people are listening more attentively because the stakes are an

i mean remembering back to nick clegg and true go back to nixon and you know and kennedy kennedy.r. kennedy. and that was a real game changer . and i think you're game changer. and i think you're absolute nixon was sweating and he didn't have. but i think nana you want a mixture. >> so labour is committed to doing debate. it's committed to doing debate. it's committed to doing big interviews. it's committed to going around the country. it's not just about let's see if they commit to do something on gb news. >> i'm sure they will. our viewers have said in their people's poll, 47% of them have said that they i you know, i'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of. >> so you might have too much . >> so you might have too much. >> so you might have too much. >> keir on gb news to see keir starmer also coming on to gb news. and because the gb news views are perfectly decent people . people. >> oh, absolutely. >> oh, absolutely. >> and i'm not having him. not. >> and i'm not having him. not. >> come on. no, no. >>— >> come on. no, no. >> why is he not doing that. >> why is he not doing that. >> l

so this is nick clegg. this is going back all the way back to 2011. yeah. >> we're closing more nuclear power stations than we're building. it's a travesty. absolutely. but ella, what do you make of this? i mean, is it is it going to be particularly salient, a pretty dry message about tax and spend ? about tax and spend? >> no, because i think what most people can tell is that they're the politicians feel very safe when talking about tax, even though , you know, there's this though, you know, there's this sort of contention about whether or not it's too high or too low, because what it means is they don't have to talk about the real issue of the economy, which is productivity. so you can tinker around with tax . and tinker around with tax. and starmer's quoted on the front page of the eye saying, there's nothing there's nothing concrete about. excuse me. his plans for tax . but he says i don't want to tax. but he says i don't want to raise them. but there's, there's just this sense that both parties are not putting forward anything in the realms of sort of

before that coalition between david cameron and nick clegg. the dentist drought. this is something which ed davey has been talking about in parliament a lot over the last 4 or 5 years. the liberal democrats are really hoping that on those two issues, those two issues, which particularly concern in rural communities, he can bring across the tactics that he's been using to great effect, actually, in by elections and local elections in the south—west of england. he can bring that over to wales. and along with that agriculture subsidy , that agriculture subsidy, that agriculture investment, he is hoping he can win some seats over here. the issue, of course, is that actually agriculture is devolved over to the welsh parliament. so actually proving to welsh people that he will be able to do anything at all to help welsh farmers is going to be a pretty steep hill to climb. >> in reality, the lib dems know that they're pretty unlikely to ever achieve a majority. they'd like to be the third largest party again, which they were before the snp clinched t

came into power, since david cameron became the largest party and then spent time negotiating with nick clegg, ~ spent time negotiating with nick clen. ., «a, clegg. indeed so, and you think of what has happened _ clegg. indeed so, and you think of what has happened over _ clegg. indeed so, and you think of what has happened over those i clegg. indeed so, and you think of what has happened over those 14. what has happened over those 11t years, a period of coalition government for the first time in a very long time, where there was a conversation from the likes of you and me, perfectly reasonably, a question how stable it would be and it turned out it would be a very stable government that last little time, perhaps more stable than the government that preceded it and came after it, of course, we had all of the noise of the brexit arguments that tore the conservative party into plenty of pieces, divided the country, and redefined how people even articulated their own political outlook. forso even articulated their own political outlook. for so long, even articulated their own political outlook.

minister and he set our manifesto at reducing legal migration to the tens of thousands and along with nick clegg, he scrapped the graduate route . so i'm disappointed if route. so i'm disappointed if he's now campaigning to stop us from controlling migration and reducing the number of students coming into the country in this way, and you can see that full interview with the former immigration minister robert jenrick on patrick christys tonight. >> government documents have revealed that people living with hiv as a result of the infected blood scandal could receive more than £2 million in compensation . than £2 million in compensation. it comes as interim compensation payments of £210,000 will be given to infected blood victims for the most urgent cases, while the final scheme becomes operational. since the 1970s, 30,000 people were infected with hiv and hepatitis through contaminated blood products and transfusions. around 3000 have since died , and the high court since died, and the high court has ruled that prince harry cannot broaden legal action against news group newspapers to include alleg