back to theresa may's nightmare with this border between northern ireland and ireland. the circle and keep everybody happy? and it looked like there was going to be no deal made because the eu said they were not going to budge over the single market fundamentally, never mind the peace process and then, there was this magical mystery surprise meeting between borisjohnson and the person who held the keys to a deal here, which was the irish prime minister. and this is why i think there was so much of this cannot happen and this cannot happen, and i always say this — it is about the politics, right? we get two politicians who can actually look each other in the eye and get on and say, "we both need to fix this" and the problem is theresa may never had that relationship. she made it very difficult to build up relationships with her counterparts and there was never any small talk — her and leo varadkar didn't really get on. borisjohnson by that point, he was desperate for a deal. he never wanted to take people out without a deal. if you talk to the inner core, there was work

with this majority that theresa may could never achieve.nd the remains vote was split. absolutely. the brexit party featured nowhere. at one time it looked like they could have been a real threat to boris johnson. that moment when nigel farage ceased to become a national party leader and tacitly implied you could vote for borisjohnson and tacitly implied you could vote for boris johnson and his tacitly implied you could vote for borisjohnson and his brexit deal and that is an acceptable outcome whereas before he was saying this is not really excellent. there was a question of whether they could have taken more seat if they had stood down. some seeds had 80% brexit party votes. down in north wales another of those examples. this overall number, in my office swe e psta ke overall number, in my office sweepsta ke i took overall number, in my office sweepstake i took 35 and that is because the poles tightened in the final couple of days. it went down to ten. some went down to seven. but the thing that make we saw that a couple of years ago. tot

cheering we can speak now to james johnson, former pollster to theresa may.field, tony blair's former constituency. thank you for coming in. you have done some polling in terms of what might have tipped it in this massive victory for what are you finding? we found the brexit message that the conservatives had, as borisjohnson said, resonated the most, with 87% of voters who defected from labour citing get brexit done as the main reason for coming over, and 85% of conservative voters, so the power of the message was coming through. some other things, consistently in focus groups during the campaign thatjeremy corbyn has been a real problem for labour, people not trusting him, people not feeling they represent him, but also anti—semitism and, in that polling, we have one in five, almost one in five voters who left labour and went direct to the conservatives citing anti—semitism is one of the main reasons for their vote. that is quite significant. anti—semitism was a key factor. are there any other factors you have found in terms of the switches? the economy is

if the labour party had been ‘the‘ party viewed by the public as having delivered theresa may's deal,ctorally sensible politics for labour is utter fantasy so i'm afraid, stephen's a very old friend of mine, we're very old family friends, but i think this is a self—serving nonsense. well, let's talk then aboutjeremy corbyn and his style of politics. you have made no secret of your, frankly, your contempt of much of what corbyn has done over the last couple of years and yet jeremy corbyn, in 2017, led a labour party which, as many of his left—wing friends point out, got 40% of the vote, saw labour actually surprise you, surprise all of the pundits with its relative success. the samejeremy corbyn that you're saying today, "i knew that he'd lost, he couldn't possibly win." i've been fairly consistent. i don't have contempt, by the way. i think that he was elected leader, he made the decision to take the labour party in a direction that i have always felt will never win. now, i've never budged from that opinion. that doesn't mean that in 2017, i couldn't say, "yes, he fought a much better

, not boris johnson, theresa may, possibly the worst campaign with ever seen in a election battlefield lot to say about him, he is a campaigner. the second thing is back then, for a lot of people, you and i, we live in this world and jeremy corbyn was a known quantity. for a lot of people, he wasn't and he did a lot in part because a lot of people thought there was no chance of him winning. you had labour mps going around saying vote for me but don't worry, he can't win. this time, the conservatives successfully named this election, this is why it was such a disaster for labour to fall into the trap of having it, they made it as the brexit— corbin election. corbyn is the guy stopping brexit, we are about getting brexit done and that became a mix that labour couldn't resist. lynn mccluskey, one of the most important players in the labour movement, the unite union, says the people who have been sniping at corbin for yea rs, have been sniping at corbin for years, and he has you in his sights, they do it because they are co nsta ntly they do it because they are constantly hankering after a

it was almost a bit theresa may! all he ke pt almost a bit theresa may!t it was parroting the same thing. and he was being confronted with this horrific photo of this child, and what people would have expected some empathy, and he didn't show it. it's not often he slips up like that, but do it in front of the cameras and you get damaged. hungary the independent has got at the moment withjoe the independent has got at the moment with joe pike the independent has got at the moment withjoe pike holding up his phone and the prime minister, presumably before it was taken taking it and putting it in his pocket. they've tried to broaden the story into other examples, and i suppose that is where the risk lies, that it prompts other similar stories which might not have made it onto the front pages of national papers suddenly gaining extra traction. the tories are clearly on the back foot today and they want to move the conversation on. it is still firmly on the nhs and failures under a tory government. they have unearthed another incident... this isa unearthed ano

anyway, she left and we had to think — how can we pay tribute to theresa may?i thought perhaps a blank page will be good, and so we have the theresa may memorial issue, her legacy in full. uh, thank you. which again seems quite cruel, but was quite funny. do you know how each of those sell? yeah, that was a seller. i'm afraid that was popular. and nigel farage? this is great, he's always good. partly because he always does photo opportunities, so having been accused of having a party full of fruitca kes, he does a photo op eating a fruit cake. i mean, it is fantastic. he does the joke for us. borisjohnson‘s private life has frequently furnished you with cover ideas and this one you have here. this was sort of essentially a smut special. because there was a proper public interest in this story in that public money had gone to this woman on the dancing pole, but essentially the joke was boris had yet again been called out. he is saying, "i need some technology lessons," and she is saying, "floppy disk or hard drive?" there is a properjoke here. with boris saying

the only thing is that money was committed by theresa may last yearin was committed by theresa may lasty theresa may last year in her five year plan for was committed by theresa may last year in herfive year plan for nhs england with that number, give or ta ke england with that number, give or take a bit of adjustment for inflation. simon steven knows he's going to get it anyway and it would be odd for any government to suddenly cut it back. you might say is ita suddenly cut it back. you might say is it a gimmick or a political move. we've also heard in the queen speech about the intention of the government to recruit thousands more nurses and doctors and to focus on the workforce because of shortages in the nhs, writing apps, but no detail about that. —— rotate gaps. there's a lot of plans are long—term but not so much detail about the short term. thank you. well, the speech included government plans to cut business rates across england and wales to try and revive high streets. let's speak to our business correspondent, dharshini david. at i'm wondering how business will react. we know

when theresa may lost some of the seats, she was begging for forgiveness. he seats, she was begging forforgiveness. it may lost some of the seats, she was begging for forgiveness. it is a human response. it is a soap pigheaded. there is still this massive battle and jeremy corbyn does not want to say that corbin is failed. —— corbynism. does not want to say that corbin is failed. -- corbynism. just talking about who could probably stand up as the next leader, lisa nandi have spoken as a possible. she said the ma nifesto spoken as a possible. she said the manifesto made little sense. spoken as a possible. she said the manifesto made little senselj spoken as a possible. she said the manifesto made little sense. i think it is really the communication of the manifesto. often, iwas confused by the fact that there would be press releases talking about two different kinds of manifesto, a disability and a work manifesto. how could you have two big stories on the same day. it seemed incredibly flawed, the communication strategy. in terms of candidates, who are you th

well, this was when theresa may, do you remember her? she was around at the beginning of the year. to mrs may?" so i thought, "perhaps a blank page will be good" and so we have the theresa may memorial issue — her legacy in full. and a little thing at the bottom, saying, "er, thank you". which, again, seems quite cruel, but was quite funny at the time. do you ever keep tabs on how each of those sell? yeah. yeah, that was a seller. i'm afraid that was popular! and nigel farage? nigel farage. this is great. he's always good. partly because he always does photo opportunities, so having been accused of having a party full of fruitca kes, he does a photo op eating a fruit cake. i mean, he does thejoke for us. and you sometimes jump on anniversaries too. yes. essentially, the joke is essentially, thejoke is boris saying he has been caught out, she is saying a floppy disk or hard drive. there is a properjoke here, with boris in to saying to his new girlfriend, i don't lie to women any without saying, except the queen. that is not a legal problem, that is a supreme court judgment, that is

well, this was when theresa may, who — do you remember her?r. um, she used to be prime minister. anyway, she left and we had to think "how can we pay tribute to mrs may?" so i thought "perha ps a blank page will be good" and so we have the theresa may memorial issue — her legacy in full. and a little thing at the bottom, saying "er, thank you". which, again, seems quite cruel, but was quite funny at the time. do you know how each of those — do you ever keep tabs on how each of those sell? yeah. yeah, that was a seller. i'm afraid that was popular! and nigel farage? nigel farage. this is great. he's always good. partly because he always does photo opportunities, so having been accused of having a party full of fruitcakes, he does a photo op eating a fruit cake. i mean, it is fantastic. i mean, he does thejoke for us. borisjohnson‘s private life has furnished you with ideas and this time you had a pretty busy one withjennifer arcuri. this was a smut special. there was a proper public interest in the story, public money had gone to this woman who

he knows how to work media in a way theresa may did not.redibly popular with the couple of strategies. one of those is i am going to get brexit done. that remains to be seen. we will find out over the next year. eu on thell leave the 31st of january and we will enter a transitory period which is largely the same of what we are now. he said himself a law that bans any ministers from extending that deadline. that is when we do not know if he has brexit done. vonnie: given that boris got such a large mandate in the election, will there be celebration in the election on february 1 or will it be a divided nation on february 1? ben has been understaffing for over a year to undergo renovations. that is going to end. we are expecting that. half of the country voted for brexit and just under half of the country did not vote for brexit. they voted to remain in the eu. despite boris johnson's big win , when west election look at the breakdown of numbers, it was about the same. after the country voted for boris johnson and the other half voted for a se

anyway, she left and we had to think how can we pay tribute to theresa may? good, and so we have the theresa may memorial issue, her legacy in full. uh, thank you. which again seems quite cruel, but was quite funny. do you know how each of those sell? yeah, that was a seller. i'm afraid that was popular. and nigel farage? this is great, he's always good. partly because he always does photo opportunities, so having been accused of having a party full of fruitca kes, he does a photo op eating a fruit cake. i mean, it is fantastic. he does the joke for us. borisjohnson's private life hss frequently furnished you with cover ideas and this one you have here. this was sort of essentially a smut special. because there was a proper public interest in this story in the public money had gone to this woman on the dancing pole, but essentially the joke was boris had yet again been called out. he is saying, "i need some technology lessons," and she is saying, "floppy disk or hard drive." there is a properjoke here. with boris saying to his new girlfriend, "i don't lie to

we saw that with theresa may boris johnson has promised different things to different people in the runnup to this we don't know which version of brexit might be on his mind or his party's mind we've seen him argue both ways he could ignore the erg and go for the soft brexit or he'll have the strength to ignore the center of his party and do a hard brexit. we don't know yet. >> didn't corbyn do something where he turned it into 26% tax from 19% tax nationalize aiti nationalization rather than ownership. the relief of business owners and investors must be extraordinary today. this was an old fashioned 1983-like election, wasn't it? >> we are talking about the 1970s sadly. >> '83 is when you saw the end i thinks that what we are seeing today. i think in very large part, we are seeing reaction today which is the sigh of relief that corbyn is nowhere near power we've seen the labor party arguing whether it was brexit or that shift that lost it. my perspective is that it was that shift what lost it. they always spiked themselves with brexit. >> we are saying various parties. >> quite a long lis

not enough for theresa may to win.0% or the majority they needed to finally turn these areas blue and they have been red for so long. it is quite stark how the red wall has been, well not breached, but huge cracks in it, this result will mean that brexit probably will happen and happen fast? with is in prime minister even with a majority of one we would have left in january. by with a majority of one we would have left injanuary. by february with a majority of one we would have left in january. by february we will no longer be a member of european union. i'm going to travel down england and join some of our voters, a labour voter from stoke, england and join some of our voters, a labour voterfrom stoke, which has gone blue. yeah, we are devastated, my friends and family were devastated. labour did push to engage all of the young voters. what went wrong? well, i haven't really met any conservative voters maybe because i stayed in any sphere. met any conservative voters maybe because i stayed in any sphere! liberal democ

theresa may had only 317. that would be better than thatcher in 1979 and similar to the first mrp poll. a 48 seat potentially majority coming through. it will be a big majority. may be forced johnson has the option of taking a more flexible approach to the next round of negotiations. >> cable up. back to 1.33. the average post-brexit referendum is 1.30. we are not a million miles away from that. we have avoided the hard edged story if this is the accurate result. is this? if we get past this tonight and move on of a conservative majority of this kind of size and think about how do we negotiate a trade deal with any use, that will be the next phase. anna: it would give him the flexibility to go back on a couple of brexit pledges. he could ignore the brexiteers. yes, it was in the manifesto there would be no extension, but if you have this kind of majority, getting a trade deal any year will be hard. this will give them the potentially the flexibility. the bring in some guests now. you set next to me for the las

he is pursuing the same one theresa may did.he is in trouble in the south of england in places that voted not to leave the eu, and he is hoping to make up that difference and more in the north of england in places that did vote to leave the eu and lots of the seats that very nearly went over theresa may and that did not because it turned out that the bungee cord that attached voters to the labour party is stronger than the conservatives thought and their fear is that will happen again. vonnie: how is campaigning going? is it moving the needle in any direction? rob: not massively. campaign.fety first we do not see much of boris johnson. he has avoided the big confrontational bbc interviews that everybody else has done because he does not want to spend the time answering difficult questions. he has done the minimum number of debates. there is another one tomorrow night. when we do get a chance to ask him questions, it is all don't worry, we will be fine, big picture. don't go into detail and let's move on. the press conference he

after all, he resigned over theresa may's deal.eal was the door to a softer brexit if he wanted it and he decided to eject himself out of government, rather than go through that door with her. let's talk about something else there's a lot of coverage of in the newspapers this morning, which will have come, doubtless, out of number 10 briefings, and that is that the prime minister is being encouraged to think radical thoughts about whitehall. he's not the first prime minister of recent years to talk about thinking radical thoughts about whitehall. they often don't come to anything. what's your reading of it, given that he also has in his office, dominic cummings, who had such an interesting experience when he worked as a special adviser for michael gove in the coalition government? we've all sort of slightly known that dominic cummings is keen on reforming whitehall, so dominic cummings is keen on reforming the civil service. they are two things, one of which is their a big agenda about civil service reform, bringing in more busines

he has also taken out all the concessions theresa may handed over in terms of workers' rights.n domestic legislation. there is an quite a lot of controversy about the move to strip out assurance of a child refugees. this was introduced by lord alf dubs in the house of lords to make sure when we leave the eu, child refugees with relatives in the uk can still come here. the government haven't completely abandoned that but say it's an ambition, something we will look at. but all those will be sources of conflict and tension today. it will not be a totally easy run for the prime minister, mrjohnson, but the overwhelming consensus is we are now heading remorselessly for this bill to pass through the commons, the house of lords, the european parliament, and we will be formally out of the eu by january 31, parliament, and we will be formally out of the eu byjanuary 31, in other words on that timetable which the eu and borisjohnson have already agreed to. while we watch the swearing—in going on, a point about the opposition. you said there could be a ruck, as you put it, about some of

the erg has said some pretty rough things to theresa may and i hope they now regret them.ype people, have realised that momentum and corbynism have lost their own momentum and i think he should step down straightaway during a period of reflection. my own town hall in worthing where both mps did pretty well, i say the old—style labour people were good, and momentum should leave town. momentum started shouting and ruined the mood. they have no self—control. i think the present speaker is someone who will have a different approach to the previous speaker. there are many good things to say aboutjohn bercow andi good things to say aboutjohn bercow and i hope there will be more good things to say about the present speaker, who will offer good humour and strict control and not allow things to drift the way they did. you talk about momentum. perhaps you should look to your own party and how confusing that is now for the country. we don't know who boris johnson is, we don't know if he is the borisjohnson johnson is, we don't know if he is the boris johnson of johnson is, we don't k

anyway, she left and we had to think how can we pay tribute to theresa may?u. which again seems quite cruel, but was quite funny. do you know how each of those csll? yeah, that was a seller. i'm afraid that was popular. and nigel farage? this is great, he's always good. partly because he always does photo opportunities, so having been accused of having a party full of fruitca kes, he does a photo opt eating a fruit cake. i mean, it is fantastic. he does the joke for us. borisjohnson's private life hss frequently furnished you with cover ideas and this one you have here. this was sort of essentially a smut special. because there was a proper public interest in this story in the public money had gone to this woman on the dancing pole, but essentially the joke was boris had yet again been called out. he is saying, "i need some technology lessons," and she is saying, "floppy disk or hard drive." there is a properjoke here.

when he removed theresa may, he essentially fired a bunch of tories who he thought were against him. ard from the far right of the party. you may not expect to see cabinet move or shift that much this early in the game. jonathan: when we caught up with people in the fx market, talking about what comes next in 2020, the rate cut call came up ready quickly. the bank of england has 75 basis points to play with. do they follow through on a cut anytime soon? ben: i don't think so. think after yesterday, we got a lot more stability. if anything, i suspect we are talking about rates going up rather than going down from here. jonathan: the bank of england -- tom: the bank of england plays a part, but it comes down to that fiscal space. rosalind and our team have written a piece about this. frame the physical space of the united kingdom right now -- the fiscal space of the united kingdom right now. i think expectations have changed. the ability to run a deficit of 1%, 2%, which we've been shooting for in recent years, has probably widened. i think the expectation to take that has expanded, and

that is the kind of support from the prime minister theresa may, she was very nice, very kind and whatime minister, she had type i as well, she said you can do the job of manage it, and that's the inspiration i've had form other people. so i want to speak out, i did want to say, i'm not unique, i'm not on my own, it has been hard to accept, and in fairness, it was halfway through the election, not about beginning, when i was told. so did come as a shock to the system, but in the end, support people. if you're not feeling well, go to doctor, i ended up at the a&e, had great care from chorley hospital, and a good thing was it was between the hours of 10am and 8pm, if not, i would not have had a a&e. so i cannot thank them and offer the support and treatment i've had. interesting you spoke to theresa may, she was diagnosed with type i diabetes when she was home secretary, and both of you, in very challenging roles, long hours, so how are you managing, how do you think you will manage the condition in the months and years ahead, given its going to be such a busy role? to be honest, i was o

theresa may's government was relliant on northern ireland's democratic unionists to get votes throughajority, borisjohnson will be free to do as he wants. his withdrawal agreement has different arrangements for northern ireland. a dup mp explained why his party wasn't happy with them. he needs to understand the concerns about the customs arrangements for northern ireland, the tariff differentials, the potential for checks, and he needs to understand the concerns we share because we want to ensure we leave as one nation. and we are not going to resolve those issues today, but will the prime minister commit to proper and thorough and detailed reconsideration, using the strength he has, to deliver for the entirety of this country? of course, mr speaker, i understand the point that the honourable gentleman raises but let me remind him that the deal commits to unfettered access, unfettered access between all parts of the uk, respects the territorial integrity of the uk, and ensures that northern ireland is part of the uk, customs, territory, and therefore would benefit immediately from any

government and are not up theresa may's government and are not up for kicking the can down theoad, pushing deadlines, extending the uncertainty. we want to spend the uncertainty. we want to spend the next six months seeing if we can doa the next six months seeing if we can do a trade deal and if we cannot, looking at a basic bill we could do instead which would be disruptive but at least we would know where we we re but at least we would know where we were going. the way it is written it sets up as a great clash. were going. the way it is written it sets up as a great clashlj were going. the way it is written it sets up as a great clash. i think we will see a bit of this. the times, on page four, a story about huawei. earlier this year, there was the controversy over the chinese telecom giant unlisted to build 56 networks... we talked about it a lot. is it security risk? did someone lot. is it security risk? did someone lose theirjob in government... that seems a very long time ago. this is revelation that this company received a lot of money from the chinese money in grants, t

last week, jeremy corbyn produced papers showing talks about a uk/us trade deal took place when theresa mayt there's no proof of negotiations about privatising the health service. i can categorically rule out that any part of the nhs will be on the table in any trade negotiations. including pharmaceuticals? including pharmaceuticals. this is pure loch ness monster, bermuda triangle stuff. mrjohnson‘s focus today was on security, visiting salisbury, where a former russian spy was poisoned last year. this close to election day, boris johnson's team would prefer to be controlling events. rocky road? rocky nine days. and they can't guarantee that donald trump will go along with that. donald trump did come here for a reception, but it was alongside the other nato leaders and it does feel as if it is a matter of safety in numbers for boris johnson. as if it is a matter of safety in numbers for borisjohnson. there are no one—to—one meetings planned, no plans either for no one—to—one meetings planned, no plans eitherfor a joint no one—to—one meetings planned, no plans either for a joint press confe

also the way you did with theresa may.up, erg, noer the longer these factions, outside yet always in the conservative party able to dictate policy. as we hear from allison donnelly on twitter, she's talking about how this opens the possibility of a substantive brexit. bruegel, from reminding us there could be flux ability around that trade relationship, boris johnson saying he doesn't want that flux ability, things he said he would do but that didn't come to pass because he found other people standing it is way and he had to adjust course. and it is devastating for the labour party. the reflection it is going to take place there, i think there may be that jeremy corbyn steps down, others suggesting this was more about brexit that was about jeremy corbyn, but nevertheless the labour party will have a difficult time climbing out of the hole that it has found itself in. anna: we could hear in the next few hours, there will be an accounting in north london where jeremy corbyn has his seat. we will see what he says, whether he

plank could you have seen a theresa may strategy that ran like that?t, but clearly a very well executed campaign to ensure that people understood, yes, get brexit done, underlining how we now want to move forward, but equally some of that positive agenda on investing in public services. that is the distinction you see from boris johnson on this one nation agenda he talks about and i want to now see that moving into the issues of social justice. that moving into the issues of socialjustice. and social care, which was totally absent from the ma nifesto. which was totally absent from the manifesto. as you, lord faulkner, who last time we spoke was looking at the manifesto and picked up this very odd paragraph which became known as page a8, didn't it, which looked at reworking the whole constitutional arena of the balance between the legal framework and the political framework, between the legal framework and the politicalframework, with between the legal framework and the political framework, with a slight sort of finger wagging atjudges who got involved

quite happy to pay apparently for the sake of getting a deal that was different from that which theresa may key difference will stop northern ireland is going to be left in the single market, effectively, the single market, effectively, the single market, effectively, the single market of the eu whilst the rest of the uk leaves it. what i said about being a unionist, simply don't know. the dup can probably only blame themselves from having got into this mess but the truth is that he has to betray them coming made a number of cats cope, says to them —— categorical promises to them. and of course, the scots don't like it for a different set of reasons. northern ireland is getting special privileges, they would like them too. they are going to use at this whole issue of brexit is a grievance to promote independence and whilst it is true that scotland separating from the united kingdom is economically makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, there is a lot of emotion wrapped up in this and at the moment we haven't come anywhere close to resolving this of them as i say, i'm just a spectator now, i

last week, jeremy corbyn produced papers showing talks about a uk/us trade deal took place when theresa maythere's no proof of negotiations about privatising the health service. i can categorically rule out that any part of the nhs will be on the table in any trade negotiations. including pharmaceuticals? including pharmaceuticals. this is pure loch ness monster, bermuda triangle stuff. mrjohnson‘s focus today was on security, visiting salisbury, where a former russian spy was poisoned last year. this close to election day, borisjohnson‘s team would prefer to be controlling events. rocky road? rocky nine days. and they can't guarantee that donald trump will go along with that. vicki young reporting. divisions between nato members have been exposed during the day, as leaders came together for a series of meetings. president trump accused president macron of france of being nasty and disrespectful for describing nato as brain dead. mr macron defended his comments, and highlighted differences with turkey, which are threatening to derail efforts to set up a new missile defence system. this repo

he had a weak hand, almost as weak as theresa may, and almost the same number of votes as theresa mayy strongly. that is what strategists do. dominic cummings has won the referendum, he won this general election. you always have to give credit to people when they have achieved something. in terms of the new labour heartland, and we know the names, peter mandelson, alan milburn, these people were in the north—east. does the failure go back partly to that generation, or is that unfair? the loss of this area? i think it is unfair to say that those of us who left government in 2007 are responsible for a defeat 12 yea rs 2007 are responsible for a defeat 12 years later. but the decline has been long standing there. know, those seats have rejected a labour government that stood on a tax and spend, statist, tony benn eyes, 19705 spend, statist, tony benn eyes, 1970s style programme. they rejected that programme back in 1979. they rejected it again in 1983. i think working people in the north—east are going, how many times do we have to tell you this? they voted in droves, not just there tell

the dup had all the powers, ten mps, theresa may at their beck and call. a simple majority with the tories, what do you do? i want to make one point, the dup at any point at the beginning of all of this could have forced theresa may to seek the softest possible brexit. they could have had their political brexit but not an economic brexit, they refused to do it, they followed jacob rees—mogg and they have been left behind. we are now in a situation where we are forced to look at this deal. it protects us from a hard border in ireland but it does real economic damage. the other problem is there is no hope at all that a trade deal is going to be done within the next year. that means we are facing a no deal cliff edge this time next year, that is the reality of what this deal brings, that is why we have to send people there who are going to work with others to try and stop it. not on their own but with a coalition of people who are prepared to vote against brexit. the fact that borisjohnson has ruled out any extension to the negotiating period for a free trade

move more effective this year because that's sort of what the conservatives tried in 2017 with theresa mayidential candidate, and i'm afraid theresa may wasn't. so i think that strategy can work. a lot more people are willing to publicly support boris than they are to publicly vote conservative. social media allows a firm like this to target adverts so precisely it can be unnerving. another video, for instance, about a roundabout, we would target it much more closely to people living in and around an area of that roundabout. facebook uses a bunch of data to track your location, so users living in a constituency, or even part of that constituency, can all be sent different videos. does any of this make you slightly queasy in terms of it is so targeted, using people's personal data ? the thing is that i think it's more invasive for someone to bang on your door so you have to hide behind the sofa and hide from the canvassers. actually, people can scroll past this if they want. it isjust that we're making sure that it's going to people that care about the message. when you create a bit of vide

we have that deal that was negotiated by theresa may, which included clauses saying that britain wouldn'tthat we want to see a customs union as well with the eu, you can put those two together very very quickly, and as i say, jeremy has already been talking about that with key figures from the eu, so talking about it with michel barnier, i am confident we can get that going very quickly indeed. that's the thing for it, he keep saying it can be done within three months. i think this is why we get questions about it, because we all over the whole nation watched as theresa may spent such a long time trying to get anything together. and borisjohnson came along, people say, i simply don't, 0k, along, people say, i simply don't, ok, he's been having conversations, but how is it possible to achieve that in three months? there is no specifics as to why that's doable. welcome at the specifics are the fa ct welcome at the specifics are the fact thatjeremy is not going to be pushing for something that you would never accept. but you would never, it seems, want to accept the kind of really disruptive

when 2019 began theresa may was facing a march deadline to achieve a deal. by years end, a new british government was still promising to get brexit done. it was a year of negotiation, agitation, and constant speculation as britain and the e.u. tried to come to terms on a momentous divorce. >> i think a no deal brexit would be a bad idea. >> we know what is going to happen. there needs to be some kind of extension. the longer the better. so both parties can think about what they are trying to accomplish and what the downsides are. >> if it does happen, does it frees markets? >> i could have adverse consequences we do not expect today. we're going to go to a 24/7 war room status to make sure we are prepared not just ourselves clients,al banks, this will have unmitigated consequences we should prepare for. i think under a soft brexit or a hard brexit london financial center stats will diminish -- status will diminish over time. technology, risk, credit, regulators will -- it actually changes the forecast we expect for the financial center in london. it will be

theresa may really was on her last legs in that campaign.ositionjeremy campaign. the leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn was campaign. the leader of the oppositionjeremy corbyn was an unknown quantity and this was the way they went into the final week. now you've got borisjohnson who we see, even yesterday out there, meeting the public, numerous tv debates. i can't switch on a television in the evening without seeing a political debate. i think he is doing what he thinks he needs to do at this point which is talk to the people. whether he needs to talk to this particularjournalist, i think the point is, it's a week to 90, think the point is, it's a week to go, the messages are out there. we will know the result this time next week. we have to leave it there and thatisit week. we have to leave it there and that is it for the briefing. more coming up shortly. don't go away. hello there. the week is ending on an unsettled note. in fact, it's going to be somewhat of a weather rollercoaster ride as we'll get one day wet and windy and the follo

suggesting that it is a 25 to 36 seat majority in on the night before, theresa may was on aa and jeremys on 3a, one point ahead of them and it led to a hung parliament. i think we are heading to another one. the polls showed us in the last election. a few days to go and a lot of polls out there and turning to the next paper, it is criticising the bbc as well, isn't it? it is the allegations of people not taking part in interviews or the debates and have they been handled by the journalists in charge, talking about andrew neil's discussion about the money allocated to the camera. i thought it was a good bit ofjournalism but they are: get a sign of arrogance amongst journalists that should be spoken to by politicians. interesting is that the word austerity doesn't really approve till you make appear in this. i think there is more nuance in the story that should come out that, it is not saying that the bbc is hysterical or andrew neil is hysterical but a very experienced televised editor of bbc and channel five and also with great bbc heritage, they have both been very critical of broadcas

scotland saved theresa may. tale sign, but lots of raising of eyebrows by the labour activists at the front of the crowd. i know mike of the scottish national party has joined andrew along with nicky morgan, the former conservative cabinet minister. so i am wondering, as we wait for this, we may have to interrupt rudely, andrew, but why don't we justjoin you, because east kilbride is about to come up. we don't know how well the snp have done, but you have done very well tonight, that is the way it is looking. but it looks like there will be a substantial conservative majority in westminster. you want a second scottish referendum, mrjohnson says you are not going to get one. what happens? the people of scotland will have said that they want one. the tory campaign is about refusing that. if they have lost a substantial number of seats, and i believe they have lost a substantial numberof believe they have lost a substantial number of seats, then that message has been rejected. if borisjohnson isa has been rejected.

theresa may of course didn't do it.ts, three people on stage when nick clegg was there in 2010, we had seven on stage five years later in 2015. this is the first time in the history of britain in this election we've seen head—to—head debates between the prime minister and the leader of the opposition. that changes it. i listen to you every morning on the today trogramme, you do this all the time, interviewing these guys. but is this a little bit different? are you getting nervous? oh, god, yes. i don't normally get scared, but you get hyped up a bit, you want to make sure you are doing it well, and sometimes you do it well, sometimes badly. i'm not going to be apologetic about the fact that i'm getting woken up in the middle of the night, because i don't want to get in the way of them saying what they want to say, but i also don't want people at home to say, why did you let them get away with that? so finding the right balance of helping them debate, but helping you at home think i've understood what i need to understan

when 2019 began theresa may was facing a march deadline to achieve a deal. by years end, a new british government was still promising to get brexit done it was a year of negotiation, agitation, and constant speculation as britain and the e.u. tried to come to terms on a momentous divorce. >> i think a no deal brexit would be a bad idea. i think it's eu. a lot of things would change immediately. we are prepared. we know what is going to happen. there needs to be some kind of extension. the longer the better. so both parties can think about what they are trying to accomplish and what the downsides are. francine: if it does happen, does it freeze markets? >> it could have adverse consequences we do not expect today. we're going to go to a 24/7 war room status to make sure we are prepared, not just ourselves but central banks, clients, this will have unmitigated consequences we should prepare for. i think under a soft brexit or a hard brexit london financial center status will diminish over time. technology, risk, credit, regulators will -- it actually changes t

we have the former prime minister theresa may reiterated today that she also believes it is achievableeady been done. we're not starting from a standing start here, we practically wrote the bill book on how the european union negotiate trade deals, so we're going in there, having been a full member and contributor to firmer trade negotiations. i have absolute confidence that the spy minister, this government, will be able to deliver a trade agreement —— this prime minister will stop by the end of next year and on top of that we will be able to deliver a security agreement by the end of next year, so agreement by the end of next year, so it is very exciting, very demanding, very ambitious, a challenge, but we're determined to do it. a question about the health service, some viewers today making this point that there is extra spending, it is welcome, you're simply making up for what you have have start the nhs of over the last nine years. that is what you're doing. so to try to claim credit for putting money in that you have already taken out is really a bit misleading. i don't accept th

if you go back to february of this year, we had theresa may taking us into a com plete theresa may takingeds, a second referendum is coming down the track, i set up the brexit party, we got brexit back on the agenda, we had dragged the conservative party kicking and screaming to now starting to say the right things. the real misapprehension that you may be under, and interestingly, that the media were under in 2015 and appeared to be entering 2017, is this. there are millions of labour voters, labour leave voters, who will not vote conservative and would not if you paid them, such as the cultural divide. why are you getting squeezed to 3% in the polls?“ cultural divide. why are you getting squeezed to 396 in the polls? if you believe that, you will believe anything. i could produce a poll showing us on zero, by pulling seats where we are not standing. if we we re where we are not standing. if we were standing across the whole country we would be on about 14%. by the way, guy, i did boris the most enormous favour in the south and south—west, in those parts of the country at the vote predom

might be on the table is because the president himself said that during a press conference with theresa mayring a state visit here. but i think the fact that this issue, whether it is from the site of labour pushing it or him denying it, the fact that it is on the front page will do no harm to labour and their sort of ambition to get this at the top of the news agenda. george, it was interesting, hearing him say, i have no idea where the story came from. i have a feeling it came from you, mr president! indeed. in six might say —— and six might say that... if donald trump is, has taken the say that... if donald trump is, has ta ken the effort say that... if donald trump is, has taken the effort to stick to the script. he is being unusually un—message here, there is reason for suspicion, and certainly i think the conservatives will be relieved he stuck to the script i also think they will be worried that, not much more than a week out of the general election, it is the nhs dominating. traditionally in general election campaigns, that is what labour ones on the run page. they dominate that iss