Summary

  • Catch up on all the political interviews from The Andrew Marr Show, Pienaar's Politics and Sunday Politics

  • There are 67 days until the general election

  • The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are at odds over how to deal with university 'hate preachers'

  • Labour's Yvette Cooper said the security services have had their 'hands tied' by the coalition

  • General Sir Peter Wall, the former head of the army, called for manifesto commitments from parties to spend 2% of GDP on defence

  1. Davey on hate preacherspublished at 10:19 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    BBC Radio 5 live

    Following reports today, external that there is a row in the coalition between Theresa May and Vince Cable over so-called 'hate preachers' on university campuses, Ed Davey says "the consensus view - which the Tories used to sign up to" is that prosecutions should only occur if a speaker crossed the line into directly inciting violence. He tells John Pienaar "if you change that line, that's a dangerous attack on free speech".

  2. Labour green record 'hopeless'published at 10:15 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    BBC Radio 5 live

    Ed DaveyImage source, Getty Images

    Ed Davey tells John Pienaar that the Labour Party has a "fairly hopeless record" on green issues. The Lib Dems, Mr Davey says, "want the next parliament to be the greenest government ever", and to that end his party will be setting out five green bills in their manifesto.

  3. Tuition feespublished at 10:11 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    BBC Radio 5 live

    The Times columnist Jenni Russell tells John Pienaar she can't understand why Labour have chosen to promise to reduce university tuition fees, which she describes as "a very strange way to spend a couple of billion pounds" given that - according to her - the issue isn't a live political hot potato any more.

  4. 'Different types of immigration'published at 10:03 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    The Andrew Marr Show

    While criticising the government's "failed" immigration targets, Yvette Cooper admits that immigration is too high. Refusing to be drawn on specifics, she says that Labour's immigration policy would "target different types of immigration." The government has taken "the wrong approach" by lumping "all migrants" into same migration target, she argues.

  5. Surveillance powerspublished at 10:02 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    The Andrew Marr Show

    Yvette Cooper says that intelligence agencies already have strong legal powers to implement surveillance on terror suspects. While Labour support updating surveillance powers for new technologies, she says these must have "proper checks and balances." That is why Labour have asked for the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, David Anderson QC, to review the law and recommend changes.

  6. Security services' 'hands tied'published at 09:56 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    The Andrew Marr Show

    Yvette Cooper

    Yvette Cooper says Labour will bring back "the relocation part of control orders" to help "disrupt" terror plots in the UK, by moving suspects "away from their networks, away from the radicalisation, the extremist networks they might have been working with". The security services have had their "hands tied" by the current government, she says, pointing out that despite the "considerable risk" of a terror attack only one person is on a TPIM. This demonstrates that control powers are "simply not strong enough". But she adds that such powers - even if altered in the direction Labour wants - "should not be routinely used".

  7. 'Shocking but not surprising'published at 09:50 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    The Andrew Marr Show

    Kalsoom Bashir

    Kalsoom Bashir, co-director of Inspire, says it is "shocking but not surprising" that young girls are being attracted to join Islamic State, as the group have a "campaign specifically targeting young women" by "hooking into their vulnerabilities." School girls - such as Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana who are believed to be travelling to join Islamic State in Syria, external - are too "religiously illiterate" to know the difference between "Islam and Islamism" or "facts and lies".

  8. 'Galvanising' extremismpublished at 09:42 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    The Andrew Marr Show

    Helen Ball

    The UK senior national co-ordinator of counter-terrorism, Deputy Assistant Commisioner Helen Ball, says the Syrian civil war has had a "galvanising" effect on people becoming radicalised. Counter-terrorism investigations have "increased enormously" since the conflict began, while the police service are uncovering "more plots all the time". She adds the police miss the power of the "control order" - which kept terrorism suspects in their homes without access to phones or internet. She adds that it would take an "enormous number" of officers to provide surveillance on a suspect for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

  9. Immigration 'dismay'published at 09:33 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    The Andrew Marr Show

    Cardinal Nichols says he is "dismayed" that immigration has become such a big issue in politics ahead of the upcoming general election, and says all parties should have their views on immigration "tested." He adds that "the human person" must be always kept foremost in mind when discussing the issue, and he says without the "positive contribution" made by the "vast majority" of immigrants, London would "grind to a halt".

  10. Michael Savage, Times chief political correspondentpublished at 09:31 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    tweets, external: Key ? on Labour's tuition fees - is there better way to spend £3bn? Tories/Lib Dems could now use same pensions raid to fund something else.

  11. Politics 'everyone's business'published at 09:29 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    The Andrew Marr Show

    Vincent Nichols

    Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, defends religious institutions getting involved in politics. He tells Sophie Raworth politics is "about the wellbeing of our country and that's everyone's business." He adds: "It urges people to ask what society we want to be and what role we see for ourselves in the wider world."

  12. Patrick Wintour, political editor of The Guardianpublished at 09:22 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    tweets, external: Labour's tuition fees cut gets pasting in Sundays, but supported 3 to 1 in YouGov poll, despite voters knowing does not aid poor students.

  13. Full surveillance 'not possible'published at 09:22 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    The Andrew Marr Show

    Margot James

    On the subject of British citizens travelling to fight for terrorist movements, Conservative MP Margot James says it is unfortunately "simply not possible to subject all potential targets to the degree of surveillance that we would need in order to prevent them travelling to Syria" or other jihadist hotspots.

  14. Paper reviewpublished at 09:20 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    Daily Express

    The Sunday Express reveals how security forces finally identified Emwazi, who has appeared in several videos showing beheadings carried out by the Islamist group. The paper says spies worked out who he was after he used his student number to download discounted software after arriving in Syria, external. It also carries an interview with UKIP leader Nigel Farage , external, who calls for security services to be "given tools" to fight extremism.

  15. Paper reviewpublished at 09:13 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    The Daily Telegraph

    The Sunday Telegraph leads on a revelation, external that "an al-Qaeda terrorism suspect closely connected to 'Jihadi John' [a.k.a. Mohammed Emwazi] is living in London, having used the Human Rights Act to prevent the Government from deporting him". The paper also reports that two contemporaries of Emwazi's at his former school have since died, external while fighting alongside terrorists in Somalia and Syria respectively. Education Secretary has ordered an inquiry into the Quintin Kynaston academy in north London as a result.

    Sunday Telegraph front pageImage source, Sunday Telegraph
  16. Paper reviewpublished at 09:00 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    The Guardian

    Mohammed Emwazi had earlier been able to flee Britain despite being a member of a London-based terror cell that had links to the failed 21/7 attacks on the capital in 2005, according to the Observer, external. Associates of a 12-strong group spent time at a terror camp in Cumbria a year before the bid, the paper says. And it also reports that Labour is on course for an "absolute majority", external in the House of Commons, according to a new poll commissioned by the paper.

    The ObserverImage source, The Observer
  17. 'Bizarre' response to minimum funding guaranteepublished at 08:58 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    Stephen Crabb
    Image caption,

    Stephen Crabb said Welsh ministers were being offered 'exactly' what they had asked for

    Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has described Welsh ministers' response to a promise on minimum funding as "bizarre". On Friday, the UK government proposed a funding "floor" - guaranteeing a minimum Welsh government income. The Conservatives now want Labour Welsh ministers to call a referendum on devolving part-control of income tax. First Minister Carwyn Jones - a Labour politician - denounced the funding offer as a "vague promise", but Mr Crabb said it was a response to specific Welsh government demands.

  18. Paper reviewpublished at 08:49 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    Sunday Times

    Inside the Sunday Times, a group of the paper's reporters looks at, external the "bewildering transformation" of Mohammed Emwazi from a "socially-inept computer programmer" to infamous murderer. The paper leads on an alleged row, external in the coalition between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems: "New rules drawn up by Downing Street to force universities to ban all 'extremist' speakers from their campuses are being blocked by Vince Cable, the business secretary." And it also carries a story about a plan by some senior Tories, external to "Save Dave" in the event the prime minister wins more votes but fewer seats than Ed Miliband's Labour in May.

    Sunday Times front pageImage source, Sunday Times
  19. Paper reviewpublished at 08:49 Greenwich Mean Time 1 March 2015

    The Mail on Sunday leads with further details of the background of British-born Mohammed Emwazi, a.k.a. 'jihadi John'. The paper's security editor describes, external how as far back as 2010 Emwazi was convinced the security services were tailing him. Looking elsewhere, the paper's Ian Birrell writes, external about the recently-assassinated Boris Nemtsov, an opponent of Vladimir Putin's in Russia.

    Mail on Sunday front pageImage source, Mail on Sunday