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00:21And so, Coronation Day is upon us for the first time since 1953.
00:31A three-day people's festival has been declared with concerts and street parties up and down
00:37the country.
00:43The former queen is understood to be devastated and is unlikely to attend the service.
00:53Many had been unable to imagine life without Elizabeth II.
00:58But after almost 50 years on the throne, it's out with Queen Elizabeth and in with King Tony.
01:10New Britain has a new royal family.
01:13The Labour Party.
01:21The King leaves the Abbey to the strains of the new national anthem.
01:26You can walk my path, you can wear my shoes, not to talk like me, and be an angel too.
01:42I'm singing it now, please.
01:47It's all.
01:50It's all.
01:52It's all.
01:54It's all.
01:58It's all.
02:09It's all.
02:11It's all.
02:14It's all.
02:17It's all.
02:26It's all.
02:28It's all.
02:43It's all.
03:04I'd like to talk briefly about the Prime Minister, if I may.
03:08Oh?
03:10Historically, I've not worried too much about Prime Minister's popularity.
03:14It tends to come and go very quickly.
03:16But I have a feeling that could be different with Mr. Blair.
03:20People really do seem to love him and see him as a true son of England
03:24and a unifying national symbol in a way they used to see.
03:29Well, me.
03:30And with Mr. Blair scoring higher than me in every survey one can find,
03:35perhaps now is the time.
03:39Huh?
03:40To find out what seems to have gone wrong and how we could...
03:43I could do better.
03:47I understand the impulse.
03:49But I'm not sure it's a good idea.
03:54The Crown doesn't ask existential questions of itself.
03:58Perhaps it should.
03:59It suggests a loss of confidence.
04:02It's putting blood in the water.
04:04It's just information, Robert.
04:07I agree.
04:09And I think, finally, I'm ready to hear it.
04:32The focus groups you asked for, ma'am, have now been conducted.
04:36In Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester and Liverpool.
04:47The British royal family.
04:49Yeah.
04:49The first no-lie-about.
04:51More than 2,000 subjects over the age of 18 were asked a series of yes-or-no questions about
04:58the monarchy.
04:58I consider the royal family to be an important part of British society.
05:04Yeah, I'll go along with that.
05:05I think you're being quite disrespectful.
05:07Followed by some, at times, spirited debate.
05:10Please keep it civil, please.
05:12Having reviewed the data, the pollsters have now presented their findings.
05:18Asked if the royal family were out of touch with ordinary people, 69% said yes.
05:26Badly advised, 62% said yes.
05:32Asked if they were wasteful of public money, 54% said yes.
05:37Asked if they lacked compassion, 53% said yes.
05:44Asked if they had failed the Princess of Wales as badly in death as in life, a sobering 66%
05:52said yes.
05:55Asked if Britain should have a smaller, more informal monarchy like the Netherlands or Scandinavia, 54% said yes.
06:04And when asked if the monarchy should continue in its present form, the proportion that agreed was just 10%.
06:13I'd like to propose my own survey.
06:16How many of us think that polls are a daft idea in the first place?
06:21I don't see why we should have to listen to these people.
06:23Because we might actually learn something.
06:26And the sample, as I understand, it is selected to represent society as a whole, isn't it?
06:30It's still a folly to subject something as enduring as the monarchy to the whims of marketing men.
06:37I do think it's significant that our low numbers come at the same time that we have a Prime Minister
06:42of conspicuous popularity.
06:45Yes.
06:47Only Winston at his height had this kind of support.
06:50Have you learnt nothing in the time you've been on the throne?
06:53Prime Ministers come in on a blaze of popularity and goodwill.
06:57Leave on a stretcher a few years later with their reputations and usually their health in tatters.
07:03Yes, that is exactly.
07:04Well, I think this one might be different.
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08:48And it has consequences for the whole world.
08:54Tonight, NATO allies launched an offensive against Serb military targets.
09:04Slobodan Milozovic is a monstrous dictator,
09:09carrying out the systematic and violent persecution of innocent civilians.
09:14He has to be stopped.
09:16We have a moral duty to ensure he does not succeed.
09:25To all of us in free countries who think this is a remote conflict
09:30and someone else's problem, I say this.
09:35If you value your freedom, you cannot remain neutral.
09:40This is your war, too.
09:52It's encouraging that our NATO partners have come together like this against the Serbs,
09:56but, well, moral purpose is one thing.
09:59Military success is quite another.
10:02Every bombing target has to be approved by committee,
10:05which makes decisions agonizingly slow.
10:08We thought this aerial campaign would be over in days.
10:11Instead, two weeks and little or no progress has been made.
10:15The Serbs are laughing at us.
10:17I read that the problem was cloud cover.
10:21American stealth bombers need good conditions to see their targets.
10:25The most sophisticated weaponry in the world, and it can't handle the weather.
10:29Which is why we ultimately need ground troops.
10:32I proposed to President Clinton a limited invasion of 80,000 troops
10:36which would drive Serb forces out of Kosovo
10:38and create safe havens for refugees to return,
10:41but he said most Americans can't point to Yugoslavia on a map,
10:44so why put U.S. servicemen's lives at risk?
10:47Yes.
10:48It's most frustrating.
10:50But I won't give up, Marley.
10:53This is the right thing.
10:58Mr Blair was unusually resolute today.
11:02In my experience,
11:04Prime Ministers tend to be either domestic or foreign policy-focused.
11:09At this early stage, I'd say Mr Blair falls very firmly into the latter camp.
11:14Yes.
11:15Statesman syndrome.
11:18Which am I, do you think?
11:20The domestic or foreign policy queen?
11:23Ha!
11:24Good question, ma'am.
11:26And it's not immediately obvious.
11:28The Commonwealth of Nations is such an article of faith to you,
11:31so I'm inclined to say foreign.
11:32For you, sir.
11:34Who else, off the top of their heads, for example,
11:36will be able to reel off the name of the president of Malawi?
11:40Makili Maloutzi.
11:42And the next member state to have general elections?
11:44Fiji, their first since readmission.
11:48But despite all that,
11:49it's your interest in every part of the British Isles
11:51that I think ultimately makes you a domestic queen.
11:54Take today's engagement at the Women's Institute,
11:57composing the speech yourself,
11:58with, if I may say, evident enthusiasm.
12:01Of course.
12:03The uncomplaining, hard-working countrywomen of Middle England.
12:07You underestimate them at your peril.
12:10And if the sea in ancient times
12:17Walked upon England's mountains sweet
12:23And was the holy land of God
12:50The women's institute movement came to Britain in 1915.
12:57Since its humble beginnings
12:58In a Welsh garden shed
13:01Our membership and our goals
13:03have reached new and remarkable heights
13:07I've been a member of the WI
13:09for longer than I've been queen
13:13Many of you will remember how vital we were to the war effort
13:18From growing produce to hosting evacuees
13:22I have fond memories of collecting rose hips
13:25For rose hip syrup
13:27Do you remember the rose hips?
13:29Yes
13:29For vitamin C deficiency
13:34There are approximately
13:37250,000 members of the Women's Institute
13:40in the United Kingdom
13:43Roughly, the population of Hull
13:47Can you imagine a city run and populated entirely by the WI
13:53It would have the tidiest streets in Britain
13:57Everything would run on time
13:59And we would take all the men's jobs
14:12No, I'm not trying to patronise you
14:14I'm not trying to make you look
14:15Yeah
14:17Yeah, yeah
14:18I understand
14:18Alright
14:20Okay, bye-bye
14:24And then he said
14:26Answer me this, Tony
14:27No, no, please don't do the accent
14:29How many ground troops are you all prepared to come in?
14:33So I say, look, Bill
14:35We can talk about numbers all day
14:38This is about the bigger picture
14:39What if Milosevic wins?
14:41NATO's credibility is at stake
14:43To which he said
14:44NATO's credibility is already a busted flush
14:47So you're allowed to do the accent
14:48I do it better
14:50He knows the fact you're coming to him like this
14:53Means that NATO's air campaign has failed
14:55But he still won't do what it takes
14:57Commit American ground troops
15:00He's worried about it looking like another Vietnam
15:02With no political upside for him domestically
15:05Well, you're never going to persuade the White House
15:07By appealing to their interests
15:10So do what you do best
15:14Appeal to their consciences
15:26While we meet here in Chicago
15:28While we meet here in Chicago this evening
15:30Terrible things are happening in Europe
15:36No one who has seen what has happened in Kosovo to those refugees
15:41Can be in any doubt
15:43That NATO's military action is justified
15:51But we must do more than simply make our case
15:56We must also succeed
15:59For that
16:01We depend on you
16:03The United States
16:06You are the most powerful country in the world
16:11And the richest
16:13You are a great nation
16:18And it must be
16:22Difficult
16:22And sometimes irritating
16:24To find yourself the recipient of every demand
16:27To be called upon in every crisis
16:30To be expected always and everywhere
16:33To do what needs to be done
16:35The cry
16:37What's it got to do with us
16:39Must be heard fairly regularly
16:44Yet those nations which have the power
16:47Have the responsibility to use it wisely
16:50We need you
16:54We need America engaged
16:59And so I say to you
17:02Never fall again for the doctrine of isolationism
17:06Because the world truly cannot afford it
17:10Stay please
17:12A country outward looking
17:14With the vision
17:16And the imagination
17:17Which is the very best of your nature
17:19And realize too
17:21That in doing so
17:23You will find in Britain
17:24A friend
17:25And an ally
17:27That will stand with you
17:30Work with you
17:32Fashion with you
17:34The design of a future
17:36Built on peace
17:37And prosperity for all
17:39Which is the only dream
17:42That makes humanity
17:44Worth preserving
17:46Thank you
17:52Thank you
18:03A resounding success
18:05Yes for the prime minister in America
18:08The New York Times says the prime minister has a new nickname
18:13King Tony
18:15The Wall Street Journal has come out in emphatic support of his attempts to persuade a reluctant White House
18:20But I think the best summary is from the Chicago Sun Times
18:24It claims Mr. Blair has beguiled the city with his charms
18:28Leaving Americans pining to have him as their president instead
18:32Goodness
18:33I gather President Clinton is now considering ground war
18:37Which would leave Milosevic and his Serb forces with the option to either fight and face total annihilation
18:44Or else withdraw
18:46And I suspect even they are sensible enough to choose the latter
18:49So
18:52The prime minister pulled it off
18:54So it seems
18:55This is an extraordinary political feat
19:21The prime minister, your majesty
19:23Your majesty
19:28I hope you didn't slip on the way here
19:30Ma'am
19:32It can't be easy walking on water
19:37Please, do sit down
19:39So
19:40You insisted the West
19:43No longer stand by while genocide and slaughter take place
19:48And pulled it off without a single NATO casualty in combat
19:52Great credit must go to the Americans
19:54When they signaled their openness to a ground invasion
19:57Milosevic realized the game was up
19:59But Clinton's change of heart is in great part thanks to you
20:03It's one thing to have popularity
20:06It's quite another to have influence
20:09So I offer you my congratulations
20:12You are at this moment by some margin the most celebrated leader on the world stage
20:17With remarkable instincts
20:20And so
20:23In the light of that
20:26It's no secret that the crown has not had the best time of it in recent years
20:32Often our values and those of the country have not been perfectly aligned
20:35But you, on the other hand
20:38Since you entered number 10
20:40You've shown an uncanny ability to read the mood of the country better than anyone
20:47And so I can't help but ask
20:54What would you do
20:57To turn things round for us
21:00If you were in charge
21:04If I were in charge of the monarchy
21:08If you were in my shoes
21:12If I were king
21:15Yes
21:20Goodness
21:23For someone who so rarely puts a foot wrong
21:25This seems to be a dangerous loss of judgment
21:28She's asking for advice, Robert
21:29She doesn't need to take it
21:30But who is she asking?
21:32The Prime Minister
21:33An avowed reformer and modernizer
21:35Her chief advisor
21:37I'm her chief advisor
21:39Actually
21:41Constitutionally, Robert
21:42I think you'll find he is
21:48Can we walk through the five big changes that we want to make?
21:52Modernization
21:52We reduce expenditure
21:54Everyone's doing it
21:55It's only fair that the Queen is doing it as well
21:57Listen to this
21:59Royal train
22:00Ā£1500 for catering per journey
22:03This is the time to get them in line with new labour
22:05Honestly, it's an anachronistic, unrepresentative feudal system based on a thousand years of hereditary privilege
22:13You'd be better off trying to modernize Stonehenge
22:16Let's do the monarchy first
22:17And then we can get round to prehistoric monuments
22:20Aren't those two things the same?
22:23Okay, I know it's unexciting but administrative reform
22:26We run the royals like we run the civil service
22:28Yes
22:30Accountability
22:30There's nothing else that matters
22:33It's just that
22:34I mean, not being allowed to marry a Catholic
22:36Pretty sure Article 12 of the Human Rights Act states that people have the right to marry whoever they want
22:41Says the Queen's Council
22:42Well, that's wrong too
22:43I should be called Senior Council
22:45I think we can spin it like this
22:47It would look really good if it came from the palace
22:50That they're prepared to tighten the purses
22:52She knows that there has to be a change
22:54Yes, yes
22:55The voters don't want to take down the monarchy
22:58You put a version of that in the dossier
23:01It's all wrong, Tony
23:04Seriously
23:05Wrong
23:08Needs changing
23:19I'd like to start by thanking you for giving me the opportunity to do this
23:23Um, I'm ashamed to say most of the time we don't think seriously about the monarchy in this country
23:28We just subject you all to a lot of hurtful and frivolous gossip
23:33Really? I hadn't noticed
23:36But, uh, having consulted with my closest advisors
23:40Uh, we do all agree that the institution is in need of some reform
23:46That much was clear after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales
23:50When we saw an outpouring of grief turn into a mass movement for change
23:56So, uh, I thought we might start with something I know you're already considering
24:02Primogeniture
24:04Yes
24:06Demoting eldest daughters in the line of succession
24:08I think we can all agree makes little sense in a modern society
24:12As an eldest daughter myself, I don't object to that in principle
24:15But to turn over centuries of royal legislation is no small task
24:21You'd have to consult with the 15 other countries where I'm head of state
24:27Where the will is there, these things can usually change quickly
24:30Um, another area is transparency
24:33My government will soon be introducing a Freedom of Information Act
24:37I believe the monarchy might benefit from something similar
24:39An annual report setting out performance, assets, salaries, total accountability
24:45Think of the crown as a public limited company
24:48And the people of Britain as shareholders, not subjects
24:52I see
24:53Look, um, it's now nearly 300 years since William III signed the Act of Settlement
25:00To secure a Protestant monarchy
25:01And there have been growing calls for, uh, a review of some of the more anti-Catholic provisions
25:09Which surely have no place in a plural society like ours
25:14I can understand permitting members of the royal family to marry Catholics
25:20But for Catholics to be in the direct line of succession would open the way to a Catholic monarch
25:26Well, of course there'll be technical issues
25:28Slightly more than technical issues
25:30It would be the disestablishment of the Church of England
25:35But we have to be willing to look at the big questions
25:37There's no use nibbling around the periphery
25:40Should it be the monarch's role to appoint the Prime Minister?
25:43Of course
25:43It's a government in the sovereign's name
25:46But to be able to dissolve Parliament, to give laws royal assent
25:51They don't in Sweden
25:52These functions can be carried out by the Speaker of the House of Commons
25:56Should the monarch be Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces?
25:58Again, they aren't in Sweden, they aren't in the Netherlands
26:00Which brings me to the matter of pomp and splendour
26:05I've been looking at some of the ceremonial offices in the Royal Household
26:09And they include a hereditary grand falconer
26:14Dear Murray, what about him?
26:17Does the job really need to depend on birth, not merit?
26:24The Queen's herbstrewer?
26:26The washer of the sovereign's hands?
26:28That is only once per reign
26:30And only when I'm in residence at Holyrood House
26:33Still, a royal barge master and 24 watermen
26:37Even though there hasn't been a royal barge since 1849
26:40A warden of the Swans?
26:42Someone has to oversee the Swans in England's inland waterways
26:46Over which the Crown has an ancient prerogative right
26:49But is that prerogative right?
26:52I understand that the role dates from the 12th century
26:55As a way to claim Swans as delicacies for royal banquets
26:58Now that the Swan has, one imagines, fallen out of the culinary repertoire
27:02How does one justify the role today?
27:04Kings and Queens might not be eating them anymore
27:07Someone has to care for them
27:08We check them for injuries
27:12Maintain their habitat
27:14Ring them with tags from the British Trust for Ornithology
27:17Conservation
27:20And that's before we get to the most anachronistic of all ceremonies
27:24The state opening of Parliament
27:25Do we really need ten heralds?
27:27Including the Rouge Dragon Percevant
27:29And the Maltravers Herald Extraordinary
27:32The Gold Stick in Waiting
27:34The Silver Stick in Waiting
27:36The Gentleman Usher of the Sword of State
27:40I think what we're suggesting is
27:43A purge of honorifics
27:46A bonfire of sinecures
27:48Might be a useful concession
27:52And PR victory
28:01I obviously need to give all this careful thought
28:04Your Majesty
28:14So, how was it?
28:18A little frosty
28:19I bet
28:22But she promised to give our proposals some further thought
28:26But if she doesn't
28:27And the people get fed up with them
28:29She'll only have herself to blame
28:32Britain is mature enough as a country and a democracy now
28:35To live without this nonsense
28:39Preservation of the Monarch is her life's work
28:42She must know that
28:44They have to change in order to survive
28:48They don't want to change, Tony
28:50I mean, she probably thinks
28:52The only way to survive is
28:54To double down on the madness
28:58Like the Catholic Church
28:59Let's not bring the church into this
29:01Well, they modernized
29:03And the old guard has never forgiven them for it
29:07Why?
29:08Because they got rid of the Latin
29:09And the incense
29:10And the miracles
29:11And the mystery
29:12And people stopped coming
29:17This is different
29:18Is it?
29:33Mr. Hawkins
29:35Mr. Hawkins next, please
29:35Yes
29:40Please
29:41Make yourself comfortable
29:45Swans
29:45That's it
29:46I'm the warden of the swans
29:49It says here your role is
29:51One of the oldest in the household
29:52That's right, sir
29:53We've gone through several incarnations over the years
29:57Keeper of the King of Swans
29:58The King's Swanmaster
30:00And now
30:01The warden of the swans
30:07And what is your precise title?
30:10I am the Queen's Herbstraw
30:12The Queen's Guide to the Suns
30:14Yeoman of the Glass and China Pantry
30:18Could you tell us what your role involves
30:20Day by day?
30:22It's my job to supervise the glassware and earthenware
30:26Across all the royal palaces
30:28I oversee stocks
30:30I guard against any damage and breakages
30:35What have you got there?
30:37Laws, orders and customs
30:39Swans
30:41The authoritative text
30:43Of what was then the Keeper of the King's Swans
30:46It's been guiding us for centuries
30:48Since 1482 by my reckoning
30:50By the reign of Edward IV
30:51I've seen the bay change in all manner of ways
30:54Years of high tides and heavy rainfall
30:56Will change suns beyond recognition
30:59Believe me, I've seen shallow gullies turn into deep ravines
31:03What is your official title?
31:06Astronomer royal
31:07Paper to the sovereign
31:08Lord High Admiral of the Wash, ma'am
31:10And my responsibilities also include
31:13Folding all 170
31:15Of the embroidered white linen napkins
31:19Oh, that's you
31:20Yes, ma'am
31:21You are clever
31:22How on earth do you do that?
31:24Few have truly mastered
31:25The Dutch bonnet napkin fold
31:29The swan
31:30Is a pure
31:32And graceful
31:34Beast
31:37How's your 15th century calligraphy, Robert?
31:39Little rusty
31:41Her feathers are white as snow
31:48And as brief in duration
31:53For she signifieth the passing nature
31:56Of fair things
32:00For though we wish our splendor to be everlasting
32:05No thing must remain of what is past
32:17The longer it went on
32:18The heavier my heart became
32:20I agree
32:22A sense of pride
32:24In the tradition
32:28I think my favourite
32:30Was the yeoman bed hanger
32:32Yes
32:34Or the Lord High Admiral of the Wash
32:45So they don't want Blackrod knocking on the door
32:47Or the Lord Great Chamberlain walking backwards
32:50They've also suggested
32:52Getting rid of the cap of maintenance
32:55Presumably on the grounds
32:56That it can only be worn by a peer of the realm
32:59But it's so full of colour and character
33:02And a glorious sea of the millions
33:05I think from a PR standpoint
33:07It might be sensible to make one or two concessions
33:10Really?
33:11Leave us less open to charges of elitism and grandiosity
33:14But that's missing the point
33:16The whole purpose of the state opening
33:19Is to humble the monarch
33:22The Crown's representative, Blackrod
33:24Knocks on the door of the House of Commons
33:26And is rebuffed three times
33:28Why?
33:30Because the last time a king
33:33Overstepped the mark and entered the Commons
33:36Charles I
33:37It led to civil war and his execution
33:42Parliament is warning the monarch
33:45Never forget
33:48We're in charge
33:49She still arrives in the Irish state coats
33:52With an escort of household cavalry
33:54And hundreds of guardsmen lining the route
33:56It doesn't immediately feel like a lesson in humility
34:00Are we really being lectured on humility by the Prince of Wales?
34:03We are
34:04Well, I just don't feel there's anything wrong
34:06With running the monarchy on more rational and democratic lines
34:11But monarchy isn't rational
34:13Or democratic
34:14Or logical
34:15Or fair
34:18Haven't we all learned that by now?
34:22People don't want to come to a royal palace
34:24And get what they could have at home
34:27When they come for an investiture
34:29Or a state visit
34:30When they brush up against us
34:33They want the magic and the mystery
34:34And the arcane and the eccentric and the symbolic
34:38And
34:40The transcendent
34:43They want to feel like they've entered another world
34:46That is our duty
34:49To lift people up and transport them into another realm
34:52Not bring them down to earth
34:54And remind them of what they already have
34:58Hear, hear
34:59The world has been gripped
35:01And the race for the White House
35:02Has boiled down to a recount
35:04In the battleground state of Florida
35:06Many in the Labour Party
35:08Had hoped for a victory
35:09For Vice President Al Gore
35:11But
35:12In a dramatic late night ruling
35:15The US Supreme Court
35:16Voted 5-4
35:17To stop the recount
35:19Effectively handing the presidency
35:21To Texas Governor
35:22George W. Bush
35:23Mr. Blair's closest international ally
35:26Will be a man he has never spoken to or met
35:28It couldn't have been more awkward
35:30As you know
35:30The Clintons were making their farewell visit to the UK
35:33And staying with us at Chequers
35:35While the
35:36The ruling was being made
35:37So
35:38There we all were
35:39Watching CNN in the middle of the night
35:42As the election is being decided
35:44Oh dear
35:44The following day
35:45President Clinton had to deliver a speech
35:47At the University of Warwick
35:48With me giving the opening remarks
35:50Well I had no choice
35:52But to offer warm congratulations
35:54To President-elect Bush
35:55In front of my good friend
35:58Will it be challenging for you
36:00To have a Republican White House?
36:03I see no reason not to be optimistic
36:07Let's not forget
36:08I'll be the senior partner now
36:10So I hope to be able to influence
36:11President Bush
36:20Your Majesty
36:21Prime Minister
36:30My office sent some suggestions ahead of the state opening a parliament
36:33I was wondering if you had a chance to look at them
36:35Rather more than that
36:37I discussed them with my family
36:40Believe it or not
36:41For my first child
36:43It was still custom to summon the Home Secretary
36:45To witness a royal birth
36:49My father put a stop to it with my consent
36:52So I'm not against reform
36:54The question is what is worth preserving
36:56And where to draw the line
36:58Thank you
36:58We have now conducted a thorough review of all the offices in my household
37:03And what we discovered was not indefensible extravagance or luxury
37:07Or a collection of empty Ruritanian titles
37:10But an extraordinary array of precious expertise
37:13Skills that have been passed down for generations
37:17Often within the same families
37:19And the vehicle for that continuity is the crown
37:23The spell that we cast and have cast for centuries
37:27Is our immutability
37:30Tradition is our strength
37:32Respect for our forebears
37:35And the preservation of generations of their wisdom
37:39And learned experience
37:42Modernity is not always the answer
37:46Sometimes antiquity is too
37:55Well, are you ready?
37:57Are you ready?
38:02Am I just serving, ma'am?
38:04Oh, Robert
38:05No, not at all
38:08I just wanted to express my relief, ma'am
38:12That I came to my senses
38:15For a moment, I think we risk compromising
38:16The very things that make us distinctive
38:20Please
38:23Which leads me to think
38:28That it might be best if I personally were to move on
38:32Robert
38:34It's true, ma'am
38:35At crucial moments, the palace has failed to read the public mood
38:40And much of the blame rests with me
38:43Surely not
38:44It's a question of temperament
38:45Knowing where to be flexible
38:48My problem is I'm an old stick
38:50I'd rather not change anything at all
38:53I tend to see things as binary
38:56Either you keep things as they are
38:59Or it's closing time in the gardens of the west
39:03But you can make alterations without tearing down the building
39:08My deputy, Robin Janvin, is far better place to do that
39:13He's much more attuned
39:15And deserving of a step up
39:17Of course, Robin will make an excellent private secretary
39:20But he's still a young man
39:23Is there nothing I can do to persuade you to stay?
39:27Sometimes it's helpful to offer a scalp
39:31This way, everyone benefits
39:34The public gets sent a signal
39:37You get better advice than I could ever possibly give
39:41I get to play more cricket
39:46I don't know how I'll manage
39:47I should be utterly lost
39:49No, ma'am, you won't
39:50It'll be just fine
39:52You've navigated this latest matter perfectly without my help
40:07Every minute has been an honour, ma'am
40:30And finally, ma'am, your visit to Brighton and Hove
40:32As one of the government's designated Millennium Cities
40:35Yes
40:36I have drafted a programme of engagements
40:38That I hope preserves the traditional
40:40But adds a somewhat modern sensibility
40:45On the one hand, lunch at the pavilion
40:47In tribute to your great-great-great-great-uncle, George IV
40:51On the other, a visit to the Sussex Innovation Centre
40:54To see a demonstration of an insectoid robot called Maggie
40:58Right
41:04One last thing you might be interested to know
41:07The Prime Minister
41:10Yes?
41:12Has chosen to address the Women's Institute
41:16As part of his mission to consolidate support in Middle England
41:21Really?
41:23I wouldn't have said they were his sort of crowd
41:26But his unerring judgement
41:28Is what one has always had to admire him for
41:31And his ability to win over seemingly anyone
41:36I'm sure this will be no exception
41:57And what a holy man of God
42:03What a holy man of God
42:05What a holy man of God
42:10A modern voice for women
42:13It is a clear and admirable statement of ideals
42:17But what does it mean to be modern
42:20In a new Britain
42:22Driven by change and innovation
42:26Make no mistake, there are many traditions we can be proud of
42:29But we must never cling to tradition for its own sake
42:33In the 21st century
42:35We must ask ourselves what kind of values we want to promote
42:41We must take what's best from the past
42:44But never be enthralled to it
42:46Old-fashioned practices can sometimes hold progress back
42:52I believe, and the Labour Party believes
42:55That a new, updated concept of community is needed
43:00To keep up with the fast pace of change in the modern world
43:05I was elected leader of the Labour Party
43:07Because I understood that we had a radical mission
43:10To change not just the politics of this country
43:13But the constitution of this country
43:16The soul of this country
43:20Radical is not a word to be frightened of
43:23It is a word to embrace
43:26Because I fear that if we are not radical
43:28We will not succeed in our mission
43:32Look at what we've done in the House of Lords
43:34Taking
43:37Taking drastic action against hereditary privilege
43:42Thank you very much
43:45Look, the world is changing fast
43:49Oh, okay, right
43:51And change is tough, we know that
43:58It's no wonder people feel worried
44:00And wish to hold tight to the old ways
44:02A run-in with the Women's Institute
44:04Was surely not what the Prime Minister had in mind
44:06As he made his return to the political fray
44:08The chairwoman of the WI says
44:10That she had urged Mr. Blair
44:12Not to make his speech party political
44:14Take all the forces that prevent Biden change
44:16Then the very conditions was taken
44:23I'm glad they're having a good debate
44:34He can charm America
44:36Indeed the whole world
44:38But it comes up short with the Women's Institute
44:41I'm getting terrible stick for it from my aides
44:43Who all advise against doing it
44:45You were political with the WI
44:47The one thing we pride ourselves on never being
44:50As far as criticisms go
44:51Being too political is one I think I can live with
44:55Be like someone describing you as being too royal
44:59I think I've come to realise there's no such thing as too royal
45:04If you're doing it, do it properly
45:08And unapologetically
45:13I understand
45:17So
45:20I'm sure you're aware
45:24The EU has just published a draft
45:27Of its new Charter for Fundamental Rights
45:30Ahead of the forthcoming summit in Portugal
45:33Our hope is that it will reflect
45:35The original meaning of the EU
45:37To summarise existing rights
45:44You can work my palm
45:48You can wear my shoes
45:52Not to talk like me
45:56I'd be an angel too
46:01I'm singing it now
46:02I'm singing it now
46:04Things can only get better
46:07Things can only get
46:09It can only get
46:10Can only get
46:12Drink it all from here
46:14No, I know that things
46:17Can only get better
46:19Things can only get
46:22Can only get
46:25Can only get better
46:42Now I've found
46:45Now I've found
46:46Now I've found
46:47Now I've found you
47:02First thing
47:03It can only get
47:05Now I've found
47:05I'm singing it
47:06It might be
47:07I'm singing it out
47:17It may be
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