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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.
01:44Please.
01:54Please.
01:57Please.
02:00Please.
02:03The usual rounds and controversies of political office.
02:07The Prime Minister's personal satisfaction ratings
02:10raised by one point to an extraordinary 66%.
02:14Moment will join our colleagues at the World Service.
02:17But in the meantime, on behalf of everybody at Broadcasting House,
02:21good night.
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
03:22and 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,
03:33in every survey one can find,
03:36perhaps now is the time.
03:39Ma'am?
03:40To find out what seems to have gone wrong
03:42and how we could...
03:44I 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.
05:15The British royal family.
05:15The British royal family 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,
05:49a sobering 66% said yes.
05:55Asked if Britain should have a smaller, more informal monarchy,
05:58like the Netherlands or Scandinavia, 54% said yes.
06:04And when asked if the monarchy should continue in its present form,
06:08the 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.
06:24Because we might actually learn something.
06:26In the sample, as I understand it, it's selected to represent society as a whole, isn't it?
06:30It's still a folly to subject something as enduring as the monarchy
06:34to the whims of marketing men.
06:37I do think it's significant that our low numbers come at the same time
06:41that we have a Prime Minister of 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
07:01and usually their health in tatters.
07:03Yes, that is exactly.
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08:25Okay.
08:35Good evening.
08:38We hoped never to see war in Central Eastern Europe again in our lifetimes.
08:46Sadly, it has come, and it has consequences for the whole world.
08:53Tonight, NATO allies launched an offensive against Serb military targets.
09:04Slobodan Milosevic is a monstrous dictator carrying out the systematic and violent persecution
09:12of 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 and someone else's problem,
09:33I 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, which 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.
10:20American 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 and create safe havens for refugees to return.
10:40But 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, morally.
10:53This is the right thing.
10:58Mr. Blair was unusually resolute today.
11:02In my experience, Prime 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.
11:44It's statesman syndrome.
11:44Fiji, their first since readmission.
11:48But despite all that, it'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,
11:56composing the speech yourself,
11:59with, 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
12:17Walk upon England's mountains stream
12:23And cross the wall in the land of the Lord
12:50The women's institute movement came to Britain in 1915.
12:56Since its humble beginnings
12:58In a Welsh garden shed
13:00Our membership and our goals have reached new and remarkable heights.
13:07I've been a member of the W.I. for 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.
13:30For vitamin C deficiency.
13:31That's good.
13:35There are approximately 250,000 members
13:39Of the Women's Institute in the United Kingdom.
13:43Roughly, the population of Hull.
13:47Can you imagine a city run and populated entirely
13:51By the W.I.
13:54It 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.
14:19All right.
14:20Okay, bye-bye.
14:24And then he said,
14:26Answer me this, Tony.
14:27No, 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.
14:49I do it better.
14:50He knows the fact you're coming to him like this means that NATO's air campaign has failed.
14:56But he still won't do what it takes to commit American ground troops.
15:00He's worried about it looking like another Vietnam with no political upside for him domestically.
15:05Well, you're never going to persuade the White House by appealing to their interests.
15:10So do what you do best.
15:14Appeal to their consciences.
15:26While we meet here in Chicago this evening, terrible things are happening in Europe.
15:36No one who has seen what has happened in Kosovo to those refugees can be in any doubt that NATO's
15:45military action is justified.
15:51But we must do more than simply make our case.
15:56We must also succeed.
15:59For that, we depend on you.
16:03The United States.
16:07You are the most powerful country in the world.
16:12And the richest.
16:14You are a great nation.
16:18And it must be difficult and sometimes irritating to find yourself the recipient of every demand.
16:27To be called upon in every crisis.
16:30To be expected always and everywhere to do what needs to be done.
16:36The cry, what's it got to do with us, must be heard fairly regularly.
16:44Yet those nations which have the power, have the responsibility to use it wisely.
16:59And so I say to you, never fall again for the doctrine of isolationism because the world truly cannot afford
17:09it.
17:10Stay, please, stay, please, a country outward looking with the vision and the imagination which is the very best of
17:19your nature.
17:19And realize, too, that in doing so, you will find in Britain a friend and an ally that will stand
17:29with you, work with you, fashion with you the design of a future built on peace and prosperity for all.
17:39Which is the only dream that makes humanity worth preserving.
18:04A resounding success for the prime minister in America.
18:08The New York Times says the prime minister has a new nickname, King Tony.
18:15The Wall Street Journal has come out in emphatic support of his attempts to persuade a reluctant White House.
18:21But I think the best summary is from the Chicago Sun Times.
18:24It claims Mr. Blair has beguiled the city with his charms, leaving Americans pining to have him as their president
18:31instead.
18:33Goodness.
18:33I gather President Clinton is now considering ground war, which would leave Milosevic and his Serb forces with the option
18:41to either fight and face total annihilation, or else withdraw.
18:46And I suspect even they are sensible enough to choose the latter.
18:51So, the prime minister pulled it off.
18:54So it seems.
18:56This is an extraordinary political feat.
19:21The prime minister, your majesty.
19:24Your majesty.
19:28I hope you didn't slip on the way here.
19:31Ma'am?
19:32It can't be easy walking on water.
19:37Please, do sit down.
19:40So, you insisted the West no 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, Milosevic 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, in the light of that, it's no secret that the crown has not had the best time of
20:30it in recent years.
20:31Often our values and those of the country have not been perfectly aligned.
20:35But you, on the other hand, since 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 to turn things round for us if 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, this seems to be a dangerous loss of judgment.
21:28She's asking for advice, Robert.
21:29She doesn't need to take it.
21:31But who is she asking?
21:32The prime minister.
21:33An avowed reformer and modernizer.
21:35Her chief advisor.
21:37I'm her chief advisor.
21:41Actually, constitutionally, Robert, I 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.
21:57Right?
21:58Some examples.
21:59Listen to this.
21:59Royal train.
22:01£1,500 for catering per journey.
22:03This is the time to get them in line with new labor.
22:06Honestly, it's an anachronistic, unrepresentative feudal system
22:10based on a thousand years of hereditary privilege.
22:13You'd be better off trying to modernize Stonehenge.
22:16Let's do the monarchy first, and then we can get around 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.
22:29Yes.
22:30Accountability.
22:31There's nothing else that matters.
22:33It's just that.
22:34I mean, not being allowed to marry a Catholic.
22:37Pretty 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 that they're prepared to tighten the purses.
22:52She knows that there has to be a change.
22:54Yes.
22:55Yes.
22:56The voters don't want to take down the monarchy.
22:58A version of that in the dossier.
23:00Very good, sir.
23:01It's all wrong, Tony.
23:04Seriously, wrong.
23:08Needs changing.
23:19I'd like to start by thanking you for giving me the opportunity to do this.
23:24I'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?
23:33I hadn't noticed.
23:36But, uh, having consulted with my closest advisers, uh, we do all agree that the institution is in need of
23:45some reform.
23:46That much was clear after the death of, uh, Diana, Princess of Wales, when we saw an outpouring of grief
23:53turn 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, I think we can all agree, makes little sense in a modern
24:11society.
24:12As an eldest daughter myself, I don't object to that in principle.
24:16But 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.
24:34My government will soon be introducing a Freedom of Information Act.
24:37I believe the monarchy might benefit from something similar.
24:40An annual report setting out performance, assets, salaries, total accountability.
24:45Think of the Crown as a, as a public limited company and the people of Britain as shareholders, not subjects.
24:52I see.
24:54Look, um, it's now nearly 300 years since William III signed the Act of Settlement to secure a Protestant monarchy.
25:02And there have been growing calls for, uh, a review of some of the, 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.
25:38There's no use nibbling around the periphery.
25:40Should it be the monarch's role to appoint the Prime Minister?
25:43Of course.
25:44It's a government in the sovereign's name.
25:47But to be able to dissolve Parliament, to give laws royal assent, they 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.
26:00They 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.
26:10And 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 herb strewer, the washer of the sovereign's hands.
26:28That is only once per reign, and only when I'm in residence at Holyrood House.
26:33Still, a royal barge master and 24 watermen, even though there hasn't been a royal barge since 1849.
26:41A warden of the swans?
26:43Someone has to oversee the swans in England's inland waterways, over which the crown has an ancient prerogative right.
26:49But is that prerogative right?
26:52I understand that the roll dates from the 12th century as a way to claim swans as delicacies for royal
26:58banquets.
26:58Now that the swan has, one imagines, fallen out of the culinary repertoire, how does one justify the roll today?
27:04Kings and queens might not be eating them anymore.
27:07Someone has to care for them.
27:09We check them for injuries.
27:12Maintain their habitat.
27:14Ring them with tags from the British Trust for Ornithology.
27:18Conservation.
27:20And that's before we get to the most anachronistic of all ceremonies, the state opening of Parliament.
27:25Do we really need ten heralds, including the Rouge Dragon Percement and the Maltravers Herald Extraordinary?
27:33The gold stick in waiting?
27:35The silver stick in waiting?
27:36The gentleman usher of the Sword of State?
27:40I think what we're suggesting is a purge of honorifics, a bonfire of sinecures might 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.
28:20I bet.
28:22But she promised to give our proposals some further thought.
28:25No.
28:26But if she doesn't, and the people get fed up with them, she'll only have herself to blame.
28:32Britain is mature enough as a country and a democracy now to live without this nonsense.
28:39The preservation of the monarchy is her life's work.
28:42She must know that they have to change in order to survive.
28:48They don't want to change, Tony.
28:50I mean, she probably thinks the only way to survive is to double down on the madness.
28:58Like the Catholic Church.
29:00Let'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 and the incense and the miracles and the mystery and people stopped coming.
29:16This is different.
29:18Is it?
29:19The £758 million cost of the project is money well spent.
29:34Mr. Hawkins next, please.
29:36Yes.
29:40Please, make yourself comfortable.
29:45Swans.
29:46That's it.
29:46I'm the warden of the swans.
29:49It says here your role is one of the oldest in the household.
29:53That's right, sir.
29:54We've gone through several incarnations over the years.
29:57Keeper of the King of Swans.
29:58The King Swanmaster.
30:00And now, the warden of the swans.
30:07And what is your precise title?
30:10I am the Queen's Herbstrawer.
30:13The Queen's Guide to the Sons.
30:15Yeoman of the Glass and China Pantry.
30:18Could you tell us what your role involves, day by day?
30:22It's my job to supervise the glassware and earthenware across all the royal palaces.
30:29I oversee stocks.
30:30I guard against any damage and breakages.
30:35What have you got there?
30:37Laws, orders, and customs.
30:40Swans.
30:41The authoritative text of what was then the keeper of the King Swans.
30:46It's been guiding us for centuries, since 1482, by my reckoning, the reign of Edward IV.
30:52I've seen the bay change in all manner of ways.
30:54News of high tides and heavy rainfall will 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.
31:07Piper.
31:07The sovereign.
31:08Lord High Admiral of the Wash, ma'am.
31:10My responsibilities also include folding all 170 of 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 the Dutch bonnet napkin fold.
31:29The swan is a pure and graceful beast.
31:36How's your 15th century calligraphy, Robert?
31:40A little rusty, Tim.
31:45Her feathers are white as snow, and as brief in duration.
31:53For she signifieth the passing nature of fair things.
32:00For though we wish our splendor to be everlasting, no thing must remain of what is past.
32:17The longer it went on, the heavier my heart became.
32:20I agree.
32:22A sense of pride in the tradition.
32:28I think my favorite was 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.
32:48Or the Lord Great Chamberlain walking backwards.
32:51They've also suggested getting rid of the cap of maintenance.
32:55Presumably on the grounds that it can only be worn by a peer of the realm.
32:59But it's so full of color and character and a glorious sea of vermilion.
33:05Well, I think from a PR standpoint, it might be sensible to make one or two concessions.
33:10Really?
33:11Leave us less open to charges of elitism and grandiosity.
33:14Well, that's missing the point.
33:16The whole purpose of the state opening is to humble the monarch.
33:22The Crown's representative, Blackrod, knocks on the door of the House of Commons and is rebuffed three times.
33:28Why?
33:30Because the last time a king overstepped the mark and entered the Commons, Charles I, it led to civil war
33:39and his execution.
33:42Parliament is warning the monarch.
33:46Never forget, we are in charge.
33:50She still arrives in the Irish state coach with an escort of household cavalry and hundreds of guardsmen lining the
33:56route.
33:57It 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 with running the monarchy on more rational and democratic lines.
34:11But monarchy isn't rational or democratic or logical or fair.
34:18Haven't we all learned that by now?
34:22People don't want to come to a royal palace and get what they could have at home.
34:27When they come for an investiture or a state visit, when they brush up against us, they want the magic
34:34and the mystery.
34:35And the arcane and the eccentric and the symbolic and the 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 and remind them of what they already have.
34:58Hear, hear.
35:00The world has been gripped and the race for the White House has boiled down to a recount in the
35:04battleground state of Florida.
35:07Many in the Labour Party had hoped for a victory for Vice President Al Gore.
35:11But in a dramatic late-night ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to stop the recount.
35:19Effectively handing the presidency to Texas Governor George W. Bush.
35:24Mr. Blair's closest international ally will be a man he has never spoken to or met.
35:28It couldn't have been more awkward.
35:30As you know, the Clintons were making their farewell visit to the UK and staying with us at Chequers while
35:35the ruling was being made.
35:37So, there we all were, watching CNN in the middle of the night as the election is being decided.
35:44Oh, dear.
35:44The following day, President Clinton had to deliver a speech at the University of Warwick with me giving the opening
35:50remarks.
35:50Well, I had no choice but to offer warm congratulations to President-elect Bush in front of my good friend.
35:58Will it be challenging for you to have a Republican White House?
36:03I see no reason not to be optimistic.
36:07Let's not forget, I'll be the senior partner now, so I hope to be able to influence President 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, for my first child, it was still custom to summon the Home Secretary to witness a
36:47royal birth.
36:49My father put a stop to it with my consent, so I'm not against reform.
36:55The question is what is worth preserving and where to draw the line.
36:58We have now conducted a thorough review of all the offices in my household, and what we discovered was not
37:05indefensible extravagance or luxury, or a collection of empty Ruritanian titles, but an extraordinary array of precious expertise, skills that
37:15have been passed down for generations, often within the same families.
37:19And the vehicle for that continuity is the crown, and the spell that we cast and have cast for centuries
37:27is our immutability.
37:30Tradition is our strength, respect for our forebears, and the preservation of generations of their wisdom and learned experience.
37:42Modernity is not always the answer.
37:46Sometimes antiquity is, too.
37:54Wait, what?
37:55Are you ready?
37:56Are 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.
38:14For a moment, I think we risk compromising the very things that make us distinctive.
38:20Please.
38:24Which leads me to think
38:28that it might be best if I personally were to move on.
38:33Robert.
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.
38:46Knowing where to be flexible.
38:48My problem is I'm an old stick.
38:51I'd rather not change anything at all.
38:53I tend to see things as binary.
38:56Either you keep things as they are,
39:00or 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 placed to do that.
39:12He's much more attuned and deserving of a step up.
39:17Of course, Robin will make an excellent private secretary, but 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.
39:42I get to play more cricket.
39:46I don't know how I'll manage.
39:47I shall be utterly lost.
39:49No, ma'am, you won't.
39:51It'll be just fine.
39:52You've navigated this latest matter perfectly without my help.
40:07Every minute has been an honor, ma'am.
40:23Every minute has been an honor, ma'am.
40:30And finally, ma'am, your visit to Brighton and Hove as one of the government's designated Millennium Cities.
40:35Yes.
40:36I have drafted a program of engagements that I hope preserves the traditional, but adds a somewhat modern sensibility.
40:45On the one hand, lunch at the pavilion, in tribute to your great-great-great-great-uncle, George IV.
40:51On the other, a visit to the Sussex Innovation Center to see a demonstration of an insectoid robot called Maggie.
40:59Right.
41:04One last thing you might be interested to know.
41:08The Prime Minister.
41:10Yes?
41:12Has chosen to address the Women's Institute as 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 judgment is 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 name 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 in a new Britain driven by change and innovation?
42:26Make no mistake, there are many traditions we can be proud of, but we must never cling to tradition for
42:32its own sake.
42:33In the 21st century, we must ask ourselves what kind of values we want to promote.
42:41We must take what's best from the past, but never be enthralled to it.
42:46Old-fashioned practices can sometimes hold progress back.
42:52I believe, and the Labour Party believes, that a new, updated concept of community is needed to keep up with
43:02the fast pace of change in the modern world.
43:05I was elected leader of the Labour Party because I understood that we had a radical mission to change not
43:11just the politics of this country, but the constitution of this country, the soul of this country.
43:20Radical is not a word to be frightened of.
43:23Radical is not a word to be frightened of.
43:24It is a word to embrace.
43:26Because I fear that if we are not radical, we will not succeed in our mission.
43:32Look at what we've done in the House of Lords.
43:35Taking 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 one that people feel worried and wish to hold tight to the old ways.
44:03A run-in with the Women's Institute was surely not what the Prime Minister had in mind as he made
44:07his return to the political fray.
44:09The chairwoman of the WI says that she had urged Mr. Blair not to make his speech party political.
44:14Take all the forces that are prevailed by the change, then the very traditions we seek to.
44:23I'm glad they're having a good debate.
44:34He can charm America, indeed the whole world, but comes up short with the Women's Institute.
44:41I'm getting terrible stick for it from my aides, who all advise against doing it.
44:45You were political with the WI.
44:48The one thing we pride ourselves on never being.
44:50As far as criticisms go, being too political is one I think I can live with.
44:55It'd be like someone describing you as being too royal.
44:59I think I've come to realise there's no such thing as too royal.
45:03Well, if you're doing it, do it properly.
45:07And unapologetically.
45:13I understand.
45:17So.
45:20So.
45:23I'm sure you're aware, the EU has just published a draft of its new Charter for Fundamental Rights
45:30ahead of the forthcoming summit in Portugal.
45:33Our hope is that it will reflect the original meaning of the EU to summarise existing rights.
45:44Dear Earth is a subject that is important most for us.
45:45You can work my power.
45:49You can wear my shorts.
45:53Love to talk like me.
45:57I'd be an angel too.
46:01I'm singing it now please.
46:03Things can only get better
46:07Things can only get, can only get
46:12Drink it all from here, you know
46:15I know that things can only get better
46:19Things can only get, can only get
46:25Can only get better
46:27Now I found you
46:31Things can only get, things can only get better
46:37Can only get better
46:42Now I found, now I found you
47:28Things can only get better
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