Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. Borisjohnson will urge nato leaders to put on a united front today as they gather to mark the 70th anniversary of the partnership. President donald trump is among the 29 allies holding talks amid growing divisions over natos future. Heres our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. Donald trump may have arrived for a meeting of nato leaders, but the big question is whether he will be able to resist saying anything about the general election. White house Officials Say the president knows he shouldnt wade into other countries politics, but the conservatives have made sure he wont have a one on one meeting with borisjohnson to avoid pictures that could be used by his opponents. This evening, the Prime Minister and the 28 other nato leaders will be guests of the queen at buckingham palace, for her reception to mark the 70th anniversary of the alliance. But the smiles may be rather forced. For when they meet tomorrow at an hotel in watford, the leaders may find it hard to hide their differences. There are tensions over turkeys offensive in syria and purchase of russian anti aircraft missiles. President macron of france has angered some by saying nato is suffering strategic brain death. Thank you very much. And donald trump is expected again to push for european allies to spend more on their own defence. So expectations of this meeting are low. It is very, very important for europe and for the uk and for world peace, i believe, and therefore i think that importance will be reflected in what happens. The summit, i think, will be a bit of a shambles, because it is taking place during an Election Campaign with a lot of debate going on among people, im not sure it will come out with anything useful. Some have described nato as one of the most successful military alliances in history. British troops seen here training in the baltic to deter russian aggression. But at this meeting, the questions may be whether the leaders have time to resolve their differences, or merely paper over the cracks. James landale, bbc news. Jeremy corbyn has written to President Trump, insisting Uk Public Services including the nhs, will not be included in in any future trade deal with the United States. The labour leader has said there would be no post brexit deal with the us under a labour government, if it insisted the nhs was included in talks. Borisjohnson has insisted the nhs is safe in the conservatives hands. A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 12 year old boy was killed when a car hit children outside a school in essex. Six other people, including five teenagers, were injured in the accident yesterday afternoon. The 51 year old man is also detained on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and six counts of attempted murder. Five women who accuse the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein of abusing them are calling on Prince Andrew to testify in their cases. Their lawyer told bbc panorama he plans to serve subpoenas asking the duke to give evidence. Last nights programme included an interview with the woman, virginia giuffre, who says she was forced to have sex with the prince when she was 17. He categorically denies any such relationship. Scientists are almost certain that the average temperatures over the past ten years were the hottest on record. Provisionalfigures released by the World Meteorological organisation suggest that 2019 will be the second or third warmest year. The record heat seen over the last ten years is driven by Greenhouse Gas emissions, the wmo says. The figures were released at the un climate conferece in madrid where World Leaders have gathered to tackle rising temperatures around the world. And now its time for your questions answered with the Brexit Party Leader nigel farage, with Nicky Campbell in the 5 live studio. This morning we welcome mr nigel farage from the brexit party. Welcome to the special Election Programme on the radio 5 live and the bbc news channel. For the next hour we are giving you your chance to put your questions to mr farage, and we will be hearing to listeners, taking question submitted online and via social media. You can get in touch while we are on air by using the hashtag bbcyourquestions, e mailing or texting. Details are on screen. It is charged at your usual message rate. We have callers who we re message rate. We have callers who were interested in taking part, we have asked them questions about their backgrounds and experiences. It is the fifth in a series of programmes and we have invited all the leaders, as i mentioned earlier. Mrvirage, ifi the leaders, as i mentioned earlier. Mrvirage, if i may, iwould the leaders, as i mentioned earlier. Mr virage, if i may, i would like to start with the very disturbing breaking news this morning from the World Meteorological organisation, releasing statistics, 2019, a decade of exceptional global heat, retreating ice, record sea levels driven by Greenhouse Gases from human activity. The un secretary general warned yesterday that the planet is close to the point of no return. Do you realise the nature of the existential threat that we face . The first time the United Nations said we were facing an existential crisis and unless we acted in 11 years it would be too late, was in 1989, that is worth remembering. Its man impacting the world we live in . Clearly, obviously. Just think about what has happened to the population in our lifetimes, there are lots more people, we are pumping out a lot more. People, we are pumping out a lot more. Notjust Carbon Dioxide, by the way, but pollutants as well. The argument i am making on this is that we can if we want unilaterally close down british industry, take ourselves backwards, in many respects. Have you read the science . Hang on, plunge many millions more people into fuel poverty, because everything we have donein poverty, because everything we have done in the name of reducing and taxing carbon has meant the poor pay a higher bill, the rich and great big landscapes are given hundreds of thousands of pounds in subsidies a year. Great big land states. The face but if we dont do something fast, the poor will face poverty like they have never faced before. Here the logic of the argument. We can do that, i repeat the word, unilaterally, if we choose. However, last year china on its own produced more c02 and methane than the United States of america, the whole of europe and japan combined. The point iam making europe and japan combined. The point i am making is europe and japan combined. The point iam making is if we europe and japan combined. The point i am making is if we are serious about either reducing Carbon Dioxide or absorbing Carbon Dioxide, which i will come onto, we are less than 2 of this problem. We will face migration the likes of which we have never seen, migration the likes of which we have never seen, starvation across the world. Both talk at once. Do you think Climate Change is a scam . I never said that. If we unilaterally decide to stop people going to spain on holiday, to close down every bit of industry left in the country, will that make a difference to the world . No. Should we think of a global approach . Yes, i get that. About six months ago i started to push, push, push, push for the concept of Tree Planting and iam for the concept of Tree Planting and i am pleased that everybody else is beginning to pick this up. We lead an organisation called the commonwealth with 2. 4 billion people in it, we have an amazing relationship with america, why dont we become the Global Leaders for planting hundreds of billions of trees . That would be positive. Lets go to the calls. You are reported as having said Climate Change is a scam on the alexjones podcast. Having said Climate Change is a scam on the alex jones podcast. He might have said that. I dont know, any more you. Both talk at once. What i do know is the world faces all sorts of problems, with pollution, plastic in oceans, many other problems. Good morning, guy in lancaster. It is all yours. Good morning, nigel. A quick question for you about lancaster and fleetwood, have you become the remainers peer secret weapon by standing in these labour targett marginals. We could be returning simply like louise thistlethwaite, who is a brexiteer and wants to get brexit done. We could be returning somebody. and wants to get brexit done. We could be returning somebody. I have never heard of her, maybe she is a brexiteer. Howthey conservative cabinet are remainers, in many of the conservative selections, strong leavers have not been subjected, and remainers have. If you go back to february of this year, we had theresa may taking us into a com plete theresa may taking us into a complete cul de sac, brexit was in the weeds, 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 predominantly comes from conservatives and we would have let in liberal democrats. My would have let in liberal democrats. My point is this, in these northern labour seats that you are talking about, we are taking a big chunk of labour votes that would never, ever go to the conservatives, meaning many of these seats become three way contest many of these seats become three way co ntest a nd many of these seats become three way contest and if anything i am making it easierfor the contest and if anything i am making it easier for the conservatives. I remember back in 2015, all the press said is that all i would do it split the tory vote and allow the snp and ed miliband into westminster, when the scores on the doors came in, ukip took more labour votes than tory macro. Than tory. Guy . Back when we had the elections, the brexit party gotta theresa may out and got boris in, we got this thing, get out on the 315t ofjanuary, but i have a big, quite rational, fear, that next week, if the tories do not get a Hung Parliament and we are left in this deadlock, we will not get out of europe and i have a strong feeling that the brexit party will be at fault for that. I respect what you have said but i feel this vote share that you will have will be taking away. The Voting System in this country is broken, to an extent. Lets take a connected caller. There is another one you can respond to, and there is a full list of candidates standing on the bbc website for that particular constituency. All talk at once. I had to say that, that is the law. Wayne in birmingham . Hi, nigeland nicky. My question is, why does the brexit party need tojump into bed with the tories . I think it takes away the partys identity. I am a leaver, it would be good to have another party with a decent manifesto and their own identity. Let me be clear, wayne, as Boris Johnson had said we are going to stick absolutely to the deal that i did in brussels, i would have stood against them in every single seat in the country. He made a shift ahead of this election, he said it for my benefit, i am sure, and of this election, he said it for my benefit, iam sure, and i of this election, he said it for my benefit, i am sure, and i get that. For your benefit . He knew that u nless for your benefit . He knew that unless he moved on from the existing terms, i would stand against and in every seat in the country. He had said we would leave in 2020, but more importantly, he has said we will now negotiate super canada plus style free trade deal without political alignment. So i took the view that even if he is not being sincere, if he is effectively saying the same thing we are saying and if we stood against him, i reckon from everywhere, from Dominic Raabs seat in surrey, down through the middle of hampshire, right out through the western corridor, the effect of standing in that part of england would have been a rash of liberal democrat seats that would have taken us democrat seats that would have taken us towards a second referendum. Much asido us towards a second referendum. Much as i do not trust the conservatives and there is no reason from their track record why i should, i am fighting to hold them to account. This canada plus steel, how will our farmers compete . It supermarkets can get cheap beef from brazil, why would they buy more expensive beef from here . A super canada plus steel does not involve brazil. Once we have left the European Union. Argentina, of course, is where we used to buy lots of beef before joining the common market, but once we have left the European Union, the choices would be ours. You say food, footwear and clothing would be cheaper. Absolutely, we have the opportunity to bring down the average family bill every month. Many foods that do not enter the eu market do not do so because of health and safety standards, it is not really have anything to do with tariffs. You are proposing an open market and lower food standards . could take it within a mile of here right now and we could find fruit and veg that has come into britain from outside the European Union, we could go and find kids shoes, clothes coming in from outside the European Union, all of which have ta riffs European Union, all of which have tariffs on them. And food with lower standards. It is theyre already in manchester, you can buy it now, it is not lower standards. How would you protect british farmers and agriculture . Already british farmers and agriculture face projects coming in from around the world. Thanks, wayne. Emily in worthing . All yours. Ok, so Boris Johnson wayne. Emily in worthing . All yours. Ok, so borisjohnson has negotiated a strong deal that you did not support, have you stopped caring about brexit. His deal as it was was not brexit in any recognisable form, it would have meant the european culture just as permanently having jurisdiction over this country, it did not, and you are living in worthing, it would not have got is back at the territorial waters, a la 200 mile limit, and, emily, lots of my friends say that actually Boris Johnsons deal as it was is worse than staying a member of the European Union, we would still be aligned to their rules but have no say over the creating of them whatsoever. That, emily, is whyi was genuinely cheered when i heard borisjohnson sayjust before the election that we will not stay with political and regulatory alignment. That is the key. You dont know about the european have justices ultimate grill. Can ijust make one point. You dont know about the european justices ultimate point. You dont know about the europeanjustices ultimate role. The political declaration says a dispute arising under a future trade deal should not be referred to the court ofjustice deal should not be referred to the court of justice unless deal should not be referred to the court ofjustice unless relating to a matter of inch of interpretation of eu law. It is not quite what you said. And its ruling will be binding, i quote back. Binding. But it might not apply to that particular aspect. The point is to make the ecj smaller and to make a shrink. But they will be the ultimate arbiter. Emily, do you wa nt to ultimate arbiter. Emily, do you want to come back . Take hartlepool, for example, we have a labour candidate, it is a labour seat with a 40 majority and i think you having a candidate there does not guarantee you will get that seat, it just guarantees that labour will keepa remain just guarantees that labour will keep a remain mp in a leave constituency. Since august, i have tried to put together and offered the Prime Minister a leave alliance, all right . That would have meant there would have been seats in the country that all the conservatives have never won and will never, ever win. That would have been toxic for people tending to vote lib dem, because you turn a lot of people off . I have an opinion, some like it and some do not. The leave alliance would have been the brexit Party Working in conjunction with the conservatives, some senior labour figures which have got involved. There would have been seats in which there would not have been a conservative candidate in brexit party m ps conservative candidate in Brexit Party Mps would almost certainly have won, it would have been easier to win some of the seats. I said it would lead to a majority of 60 to 104 borisjohnson, would lead to a majority of 60 to 104 Boris Johnson, other would lead to a majority of 60 to 104 borisjohnson, other independent sources said, certainly, 40 to 50. He had a way of guaranteeing the election to get a leave majority in parliament. He wants a conservative majority, and in doing so he put the interest of the conservative party ahead brexit. Iwas interest of the conservative party ahead brexit. I was prepared to do anything for the cause, emily. Thank you, emily. Mrtrump is anything for the cause, emily. Thank you, emily. Mr trump is here, anything for the cause, emily. Thank you, emily. Mrtrump is here, have you, emily. Mrtrump is here, have you spoken to him . I have not, no. When would you speak to him . You spoken to him . I have not, no. When would you speak to him7m you spoken to him . I have not, no. When would you speak to him . It is awkward, whilst it is a friend of mine, there is a general election going on, so i do not intend to. Not even a text, not even your personal whatsapp . If there are personal exchanges, they will be purely personal. What do you think of the use of mrjohnsons language, but boys . He has earned his living being a very outspoken journalist, that is why he uses phrases like that, bum boys, he talks about letterboxes. picking on is acceptable . Boys, he talks about letterboxes. picking on is acceptable7m boys, he talks about letterboxes. picking on is acceptable . It is not very pretty, but that is picking on is acceptable . It is not very pretty, but that is boris. Is is picanninies acceptable . Is picanninies acceptable7m is picanninies acceptable . If we wa nt to is picanninies acceptable . If we want to buy him from public life because of some of the unsavoury things he has written, we might finish up with nothing nobody in public life. What about the hard time that mr corbyn gets . To my knowledge, boris may have made irreverent comments about sections of society that some may find offensive, some may not, to my knowledge, i dont think boris has stood next to terrorists at a cemetery where they commemorate people who kidnapped, tortured and murdered people at the munich olympics. You have had people in your party who have refused to condemn the ira . Not refusing to condemn the ira . Not refusing to condemn the ira . Not refusing to condemn the ira, but people who had sympathy with the republican cause, yes. Lets go to alan in southwell. Good morning, nikki, good morning, farage. Both you and borisjohnson claim President Trump to be your friend. It is clear he has broken the law and light. How can we trust you . Let me put this to you, i have been a strong supporter of President Trump, it is back to the conversation i had with nicky about boris, it does not mean i support every word he has uttered, but in terms of its direction of travel, i think its very much a man that believes in a nation state democracy, sees that as a way Going Forward and not a globalist agenda, i have supported it very publicly and openly. I was supporting him when borisjohnson was saying he would not go to new york in case he bumped into him, i have known him for a few years, there is a slight level of trust between us. You are talking about the impeachment situation. If president obama was still in power and donald trump was the challenger from the republicans, and if he had got his son, his quite unsuitable in many ways said, a directorship, a very highly paid directorship, a very highly paid directorship onto an oil and gas company ina directorship onto an oil and gas company in a state whose democracy was pretty fragile, if obama had ordered an investigation into donald trump, the whole world would say thank you, obama, you may be saving us thank you, obama, you may be saving us from a corrupt president. From what i see of it, joe bidens behaviour in the ukraine with that government was pretty much an abuse of his position, and if he as he has been the frontrunner to possibly succeed trump as president , what on earth is wrong . Wrong with looking into that . Can ijust say earth is wrong . Wrong with looking into that . Can i just say that President Trump has a vast catalogue of lies and misdemeanours and if we we re of lies and misdemeanours and if we were to debate each one, i think we would be here well past christmas. tell you what, the one thing he has done which is really quite remarkable, and we are not used to it in this country, he made a series of promises during the president ial Election Campaign and has done his damnedest to keep all of them. In a democracy, isnt that what we should expect . I am not quite sure what you are talking about. All the things he promised he would do, and he has pretty much done then. Whether people like what he has done or not is not the point. That is one of the problem is, when we had so many people who dislike what you do. There seems to be a great deal of polarisation of people nowadays and lam afraid polarisation of people nowadays and i am afraid President Trump and yourself demonstrate how that polarisation occurs. I dont know how old you are, but i remember 1983, for example, that general election when we had michael foot standing against margaret thatcher. They were poles apart i geologically and you could argue that the country was even more divided back then in of use than today they were poles apart, i geologically. Of use than today they were poles apart, igeologically. In of use than today they were poles apart, i geologically. In a sense, having competing ideologies ideologies is not bad. Lets do some quickfire questions, quickfire a nswe rs , quickfire questions, quickfire answers, was it immature for the party to brexit party to techno backs in the European Parliament question at i dont like the anthem ofa question at i dont like the anthem of a foreign state. Would you do the same ina of a foreign state. Would you do the same in a football match . When the say the European Union has become a global empire, i do not go with that. Would you get more respect if you were to respect . It is illegitimate, the peoples of europe are being corralled against their will. Tracy, how, without using the words get brexit done, would you bring the country back together . How would you reach out to the remainers listening, millions and millions and millions of people who want to stay within the European Union . We have 1596 within the European Union . We have 15 of the country that voted remain that think leave should happen, because they are democrats. I accept a third of the country thinks we should remain. 52 48 to remain was the latest poll that i saw. The reason we have the vision is for the first time in our history senior political figures refused to accept the result of an election, that is why we had division, we had to get this sorted out properly and then we can come together. On the subject of mr corbyn, you mentioned you have people in your party who have republican sympathies, but claire fox, i would like to move on to mr corbyn soon, he spoke to people in the Republican Movement before the government, that led to the good friday agreement, claire fox was in the revolutionary communist party, she defended the warrington bomb attack. You conscious by the lycee that they support republicanism. She was ina that they support republicanism. She was in a party that defended a you cant just blithely was in a party that defended a you cantjust blithely say was in a party that defended a you cant just blithely say that they support republicanism. you cant just blithely say that they support republicanism. I have no evidence whatsoever of her defending those actions. My point about mr corbyn is that he has actually called hezbollah and hamas friends, i rest my case. Let me talk about the anti semitism accusations, you can knock these out of the party if you want, but when you appeared on the alexjones conspiracy field talk show in america, which i think you had done on six occasions. Over 20 years. These are quotes attributed to you. The globalists have wa nted attributed to you. The globalists have wanted to have some form of conflict with russia as an argument for us to give up National Sovereignty to a higher global level. Also the eu as a prototype for a new world order. Another one, the Banking System and politics became hand and glove 100 same thing. If you said those things, it is widely reported you did, people would say they are all anti semitic tropes. Let me finish. Here is the thing, if mr corbyn had said any of those, he would be absolutely ha na jang the Mainstream Media for being anti semitic, you said those, did you . He would be absolutely hammered in the Mainstream Media. New world order is a well known anti semitic trope. New world order is a well known antisemitic trope. Nothing to do with the jewish antisemitic trope. Nothing to do with thejewish religion whatsoever. It isa with thejewish religion whatsoever. It is a well known anti semitic trope. Nothing i have ever heard. When Hillary Clinton was running for president , she said to be group on wall street that if she won the election, america would join up with a hemispheric european common market, so what you see is a move towards governance at a bigger global level. That is an anti semitic trope. What she said is not. What she talked about was the emergence of a new way of the world ordering itself, nothing to do with anti semitism. I have never had anything to do with anti semitism whatsoever. How about mike in smethwick, currently in lithuania. How can we trust you to tells the truth, act in the best interests of our country and stay around to help with the aftermath when you resign from ukip and walked away once you thought you had secured a leave vote . Fair point, i had to put my hands up and say that i made a huge mistake in 2016. We had won the referendum convincingly, the two major parties in this country both said they would respect the result, they made it very clear, even keir starmer and others, we would be leaving the Single Market and the customs union. Do you know what, mike, after 25 years of battling the establishment, at times a very lonely and difficult journey, establishment, at times a very lonely and difficultjourney, facing more abuse than anybody in modern politics has ever faced, more abuse than anybody in modern politics has everfaced, i more abuse than anybody in modern politics has ever faced, i said, more abuse than anybody in modern politics has everfaced, i said, do you know what, thank you very much, iam done, you know what, thank you very much, i am done, and you know what, thank you very much, iam done, and i made a huge you know what, thank you very much, i am done, and i made a huge mistake interesting the establishment to keep their promises. So i accept that criticism. I wont be going away again. Did you have a moment, an epiphany about the European Union . absolutely did. Date . I think it was absolutely did. Date . I think it was a thursday i cant remember. I think it was october 90, i was working in international trade, buying and selling, trading commodities, copper, aluminium, that kind of thing and we would buy and sell it, and the stuff, some of it would get shipped around the world, all the rest of it, very International Market place i worked on. Because of that we did lots of Foreign Exchange business for obvious reasons as well. And it was about 5 45pm and i was in the pub, actually, not surprisingly, perhaps in the news came that we had signed up in the news came that we had signed up to the Exchange Rate mechanism, the British Government had signed us up the British Government had signed us up to the British Government had signed us uptoa the British Government had signed us up to a process that was to take us into what became the euro. And i realised at that moment in time that the british political establishment had become so obsessed with the european project they wanted to take us on european project they wanted to take us on hook, line and sinker and i thought then, this will be a disaster and it was. Lets go for some more colours, lets get as many as we can,james some more colours, lets get as many as we can, james first of all, i will be with you in a moment, lets get a quick one from james in harrisville, labour party member. Over to you. Hello, hello, mist farage. As a straight talking politician which i respect, you said on video that the nhs should move to your contract with the people says the nhs should be publicly owned, have you changed your mind or do you think thats what you need to say to win over Labour Party Voters who depend on the National Health service . What i suggested and lets be accurate about this, is for those who can afford it, for those who have enough money, for them to move towards an insurance based system and to be incentivised to do so could lift a massive white of burden of the nhs. The nhs as we all know, has got a huge problem its got is the population is rocketing and we are simply playing catch up the whole time so james, for the wealthy or the wealthier in society, to take out private insurance, lift the burden of everyone else, strikes me asa burden of everyone else, strikes me as a sensible thing to do. Would you disagree . They can already do that. Do you think they should be able to t do you think they should be able to opt out of tax . No, no, but what i think is this. There are people who choose to opt out of National Health but if you give them tax breaks to do so but if you give them tax breaks to dosoi but if you give them tax breaks to do so i think more would opt out. With that draw on resources and people dry to work in the nhs, more than they already are, that would denude the nhs of staffing, precious at the moment. There are lots of people in the nhs at the moment who treat, who come into london to pay. All i am thinking about is how do we lift the burden on waiting lists and Everything Else but james, lift the burden on waiting lists and Everything Else butjames, overall, i tell you what strikes me as being interesting, i was on a debate the other night with five Party Leaders and two representatives in what was interesting was this. Everybody on the panel agreed we want a National Health service free at the point of use. And yet, on this general election, once again the nhs has become this sort of political football in just the most absurd way. If ever there was an issue, james, that should be depoliticised maybe the nhs is one can all agree. Do you think President Trump in any forthcoming trade deal should have total Market Access to the Uk Public Services . This is the biggest lie of the whole campaign. That was a question. I thinkJeremy Corbyn is in such trouble because he cannot a nswer in such trouble because he cannot answer the brexit question. Do you think any trade deal should exclude any reference to pharmaceuticals . am not sure he will even appear on your show. ButJeremy Corbyn has gone down this line of saying donald trump wants to buy the nhs, donald trump wants to buy the nhs, donald trump does not want to buy the nhs and even though he will be nervous at being seen to interfere do you think any trade deal should exclude any reference to pharmaceuticals . Any reference to selling off the National Health service, yes. If we are buying drugs to treat people for whatever it is, if we can buy drugs in germany cheaper than we can buy them from the americans, thats great. But equally, if an american can sell us the same drug cheaper we might buy it there, we have to get value for money whatever we do. That is different. Buying goods, bed sheets or whatever it is is entirely different to selling off the nhs, that will not happen. Wahid in sheffield, hello, good morning. Good morning. I want to ask nigel a question, we are struggling with a skills gap at the moment, how would you cope with an immigration gap of 50,000 . Wahid, i absolutely agree with you, we have a massive problem with you, we have a massive problem with the skills gap and a lot of people i used to train with when i had a properjob apart from politics, was an engineering, using metals and engineering and they said the same thing, we have to get Foreign Labour because we are simply not in this country training and people to be engineers and we are not, wahid, training in a people to be nurses and doctors and weve com pletely lost be nurses and doctors and weve completely lost our way. I genuinely think weve now spent two decades pushing hundreds of thousands of our youngsters in the wrong direction. Quite a turnaround, wahid, do you wa nt to quite a turnaround, wahid, do you want to come back in that . quite a turnaround, wahid, do you want to come back in that . I am not dodging the question. I am agreeing with you on the skills gap. What about the 50,000 skills gap how would you do that . Wait a minute, everyone, can i ask, to macon, what you do. You need to recruit people from other countries, even at the moment, now there is more than 150,000 people from abroad. What business are you in . In the catering business are you in . In the catering business and we struggle sometimes finding staff, especially at the top end where people specialise in certain cooking methods, they are very ha rd certain cooking methods, they are very hard to find. Nigel farage. I get that, wahid, i have heard that many times and its valid. On the skills gap we need more doing stem subjects and few are doing social sciences. On the numbers, lets draw a very clear distinction here. Between the right to work in the country and the right to settle in the country, because of Free Movement weve merged the two but i am saying net migration should be around about 50,000 a year, around about the post war average for 60 yea rs. About the post war average for 60 years. That actually worked remarkably well for us. If we need people to come into the country to plug people to come into the country to plus gaps people to come into the country to plug gaps then we can give them work permits but a work permit, wahid, is not the same as what about the amazing people who wipe our parents and grandparents bottoms and look after them and care homes because in the past decade theres been a huge increase in european migrants working in the social care sector. 80 of all migrant care workers who moved to england to take on a social ca re moved to england to take on a social care wrote were from europe, do you pay tribute to those people, you wa nt pay tribute to those people, you want them to keep coming into our country to look after our parents . tell you what i dont want, but i dont want is massive oversupply. There isnt oversupply. There is a struggle for people to fill the positions. We just being compressed because that has happened over the past 15 years. If we need people to plug past 15 years. If we need people to plus gaps past 15 years. If we need people to plug gaps in the market we will give them work permits, thats very clear but weve got to start thinking about training our own people. Lets go to anya in worcester. Good morning. You are one of a club of four and morning. You are one of a club of fourand a morning. You are one of a club of four and a half 5 million people, tory remainer. Yes yes, i am, i am dutch so i was definitely a remainer. Why . The last two referendums in the netherlands, ive been there, for them the last two times the dutch people were asked a question about the eu, they voted against it. I know, i know what you say but for me, i think it will be easier for me and my children that we remain but ive got different views, but i am concerned about is, my business is 25 years, we celebrated 25 years in business here in worcester, worcestershire, we are a jewellers and what i want to know from you, from other business owners, who trade with europe in the event of an ordeal, based on the uncertainty around brexit, what can you say to reassure us uncertainty around brexit, what can you say to reassure us as a uncertainty around brexit, what can you say to reassure us as a Small Business owners . Point number one, and you do trade with europe and you said so, but 95 of Small Businesses do no trade with europe whatsoever. And yet, how to obey the rule book from them which is insane when you think about it. The point about wto is that there will be Different Levels of tariff on different goods. Anya, as ive said already in this talk this morning, i worked in a world, i worked talk this morning, i worked in a world, iworked its still a programme because it is being streamed, i worked programme because it is being streamed, iworked in programme because it is being streamed, i worked in a world where we traded with countries all over the world and if you can do business tariff free and quota free it does make life a bit easier. But you dont have to have tariff free and quota free and most World Business is conducted on wto terms. Ive a lwa ys is conducted on wto terms. Ive always wanted to have a genuine Free Trade Agreement with the European Union, thats because of my business background and because of my business background, what is important here politically is we voted to leave the European Union and that means a clean break from its institutions and we can do that either wto terms or on a canada style tra d e either wto terms or on a canada style trade deal and thats why i welcomed Boris Johnson style trade deal and thats why i welcomed borisjohnson starting to talk about this. When it comes to trade, its not so much about ta riffs trade, its not so much about tariffs with these countries. Its about non Tariff Barriers as well, isnt it, or it will be, the masses of regulation, the labyrinth of forms for people to fill in and that will have an inevitable, punitive knock on effect on british businesses. Its not a labyrinth of forms, one more piece of paper filled in online or on a mobile phone. You talk about regulations, i repeat the point, 95 of our Small Businesses have to adhere to eu Single Market rules despite the fact they never trade there. Lets move on to some quickfire questions. What is the brexit party stance on cannabis legislation . Thats from rupert. We have taken no position on that which means we support the existing law. I have to say, i have to say im very vexed over the drugs issue, very, very vexed indeed. You just had a cigarette a few minutes ago, its one of the most dangerous drugs. I am a sinner. People enjoy a bit of mdma, they enjoy smoking a joint. I loathe what drugs are doing to people in this country. Alcohol . Bigger problems . Huge problems with that. I have personally as you well know, been seriously considering whether allowing this whole trade to be in the hands of the criminals is the right approach. They wouldnt be criminals then. That is the point, thats why i say ive seriously been considering this. I tend towards thinking that the problem has now gone so far that it might be better to regulate it but you know what i dont know . If we look at, take for example, portugal and take for example, portugal and take for example switzerland, countries that have decriminalised or legalised in effect, many, many drugs. I honestly dont know ten years on without thats things better in portugal and better in switzerland than not. Philosophically, another quicker one ina minute, philosophically, another quicker one in a minute, i am sorry to have interrupted you in your flow but if people have decided, this is a philosophical question to be absolutely blathered on a friday night and vomit everywhere and to end up in accident and emergency, fine, that is their issue and that is their choice, why shouldnt people be able to sit at home, have a nicejoint people be able to sit at home, have a nice joint and people be able to sit at home, have a nicejoint and not do people be able to sit at home, have a nice joint and not do anyone any harm . Because they could well be doing themselves huge arm, the growth of psychosis on many things in what is being sold as cannabis as you will know very often isnt cannabis which is the argument for the state doing something about it. I want to know, i would love to see a proper study, the old joke about have a Royal Commission to kick something into the long grass, i genuinely would love to see a Royal Commission that examined countries that have changed the law, whether its made things better or worse. Its patchy, thank you rupert for that one. Peter, how, one more quick one, get some more calls, this is interesting, how would your party sought out the rail strikes asks peter . I actually have some sympathy with the idea that trains should be manned and i dont think unmanned trains area manned and i dont think unmanned trains are a great way forward. Thank you, oliver in wilmslow, we welcome you to the programme, we are on the bbc news programme, oliver, i have got you written down here as the lib dems remain, oliver, over to you, the lib dems remain, oliver, over to you , over the lib dems remain, oliver, over to you, over to mist farage. Good morning, mist farage, good morning, the brexit party is fielding hundreds of candidates but it has no members. Dont voters have the right to expect that when they put their cross in that box next to the party name and logo, that person is not just a name and logo, that person is not justa member name and logo, that person is not just a member but an active member of that party with rights within the party . Mr farage. I know lots of people who became conservative mps without being a member of the party so this is not particularly exceptional. Dominic cummings is not a member of the party and he is the man steering the ship, we hear, maybe not. Ok, what i did with founding the brexit party was to go for a different model and that model was one of registered supporters not members and without, you know, elected players like necc and the reason i did that, i had seen what the centre left populist five Star Movement had done in italian politics and what they do is rather than having all these representative layers, they go directly to their subscribers and get them to vote on candidates, get them to vote on policies. Its kind of a model of direct democracy within a party and thats what i tried to do with the brexit party. Sorry, say that again . I wasjust wondering brexit party. Sorry, say that again . I was just wondering who elected you as the leader of this party if you have no members . Oliver, i founded the blooming thing. have no members . Oliver, i founded the blooming thing. I did it and within six weeks we had won a National Election and i founded within six weeks we had won a National Election and ifounded it as the brexit party with a limited Company Behind it, founded it as a business with a board and we were very successful and does the body develops and evolves over time, we will have our members voting directly on things rather than delegates. If you went no mps at this election that will be another blow to you because you tried a number of times to become a member of parliament and failed. Ive tried once, once seriously, it finished up ina very once, once seriously, it finished up in a very Lengthy Court case. What we re in a very Lengthy Court case. What were the other times, where they frivolously . I was standing for fringe parties when saving a deposit was good, i did it because standing in elections allowed us to make the arguments when there was wall to wall consensus. Arguments when there was walltowall consensus. You are a big nationalfigure. Walltowall consensus. You are a big national figure. walltowall consensus. You are a big national figure. I wasnt in walltowall consensus. You are a big nationalfigure. I wasnt in 97. You could have stood now. I would have been hungered in one seat are not going round the rest of the country and its an interesting dilemma, jo swinson may find this if she loses her seat in scotland. Other candidates are available in that particular seats, and in all the other seats should we pursue this conversation to any length. Thank you very much. Let me see, lets remind you, nigel farage, leader of the brexit with us until 10am on radio 5 live and the bbc news channel, can get in touch while we are on air using the hashtag bbc your questions, text us, texts are charged at the standard message right, our collars this morning shown taken from around the uk who have shown an interest in taking pa rt have shown an interest in taking part in bbc programmes. Injo swinson willjoin us when is Jeremy Corbynjoining swinson willjoin us when is Jeremy Corbyn joining you . We believe negotiations are underway foran believe negotiations are underway for an appearance later this week but all Political Parties as she intimated you havent got time to stand on a particular constituency, all Political Parties under pressure and their leaders are all very busy at the moment. Then in wakefield, good morning. Good morning, mr farage, but will you do to mitigate against the greenhouse effect . We got quite an extensive answer at the beginning of the programme. We talked about reducing co2 output, we havent been talking about co2 absorption, ive been banging on for six months about Tree Planting, and thrilled to see everybody else is talking about it but i believe with our position as head of the commonwealth, our relationship with the usa, a relatively senior position in the United Nations, we should lead a Global Initiative to plant hundreds of millions of trees. He wanted to get an area the size of devon and coral being removed from the amazon every year, real issue. Lets remind people should they wish to know it and i am sure many will, you want to stop hs2, President Trump says Climate Change is a chinese hoax, conspiracy. Clearly, at the beginning you said you understood the issue. You were talking about global consequences and implications to it for the poor in our country andi to it for the poor in our country and i mentioned across the world it would be catastrophic but have you said to mrtrump, would be catastrophic but have you said to mr trump, look, you know, you are talking absolute baloney here. Either way. You know he is. There are some people who do not believe. It is there are some people who do not believe it is not a chinese conspiracy. I tell you what it is, it isa conspiracy. I tell you what it is, it is a chinese problem, i repeat the point, china is releasing more c02 the point, china is releasing more co2 than basically most of the rest of the world combined, thats where theissue of the world combined, thats where the issue is. We lead the world by example. Are we not respected across the world . Unilateralism, unilateralism will do huge damage to our economy. There is hope here, there is hope, technology is actually improving the mother of invention. The onshore wind farms i fought against for years, i hate the idea that rich landowners get a quarter of a million quid a yearfor putting on some Wind Turbines and guess who pays the bill . The average family of four pays £130 a year green taxes on their electric but if we can get offshore wind to the point where it works without subsidy, then great. Lets go to liz in leicestershire, good morning good morning. Mr farage, i live on the edge of leicester, we are a vibrant, multicultural city, with over 70 languages and over 240 different individual faiths and beliefs represented in the city. We have ta ken beliefs represented in the city. We have taken in europeans, we have ple nty of have taken in europeans, we have plenty of europeans living in the city, not least because we have two wonderful universities. Why on earth would we want to limit migration . Please, as the population heads inexorably towards 70 billion by the end of the next decade, you drive up the m6 today, try and get a gp appointment, just to see that our quality the nhs is underfunded, it is being diminished by the government, ready for a sell off liz, honestly, im sorry, thats utter rubbish. The nhs is underfunded, its not a result of immigration, immigration is not i want to call for order, liz, finish your point and then i want you to respond in a calm way. Liz. The nhs is significantly underfunded at this time, immigration is not because of the problem. Is helping because of the problem. Is helping because we have so many european nurses and doctors that are coming across to help in our nhs. Ok, liz, the population of the United Kingdom has risen by 8 million since tony blaircame to has risen by 8 million since tony blair came to power in 97. Ageing population as well. 80 of that rise is because of immigration policies we pursued since 97, a truly stunning figure and heres the point. How can you provided by migration watch . How can you plan or provide future Health Services if under open door migration, youve no idea how many people are coming . And thatis idea how many people are coming . And that is the point. Its not open door migration though is it, mr farage, its not open door migration. You could actually limit the numberof migration. You could actually limit the number of people coming here at the number of people coming here at the moment under eu law. Under European Union law there is precious little we can do to stop as many people wanting to come. Theres ple nty we people wanting to come. Theres plenty we could do, we could follow the belgian model could denmark model, we could say to people you are coming in to britain but if youve not actually got a job within three months and enough to pay. canjust imagine, i canjust imagine icanjust imagine the authorities turning up and removing people back to brussels, it isnt going to happen. If you think our quality of life has improved with the population rising by 8 million since 97, were entitled to that point of view. I think you should come to leicester, mr farage and see the vibrant culture have here. Thats a different argument. Thats a different argument. The point i am making is our country, infrastructure wise, is not fit and cannot cope without a day munition of our quality of life, population rises that we currently have. Liz, liz, what did you think about the breaking point poster for the leaf campaign, did and do you remember that . That was the one with people streaming off into the distance . Yes, i thought that was highly disingenuous, immigration doesnt work like that. I felt it was a dog whistle to racism and xenophobic. Work like that. I felt it was a dog whistle to racism and xenophobicm wasnt disingenuous, it was a photograph. It was fact. No, it wasnt, that photograph was never taken at any of our borders, was it . It was taken at the borders of the European Union. Syrians have got nothing to do with brexit. They werent syrians. Ive got a clip to play, if i may, liz, really good to hear from you, thank you, play, if i may, liz, really good to hearfrom you, thank you, and thank you for your response, the reason i am playing the clip now is because it is mrtrump, am playing the clip now is because it is mr trump, while weve been talking, he has been holding a press conference alongside nato secretary general yunus stoltenberg, head of the summit, hes been asked about the summit, hes been asked about the general election. Are you going to be seen Prime Ministerjohnson . wouldnt have thought so. Its going to bea wouldnt have thought so. Its going to be a important election for this country, i have no thoughts on it, i will be meeting with him when will that be . I dont know. I had many meetings, i have meetings set up with lots of different countries. There we are. Very important nato meeting and i tell you why, the European Union has got its own European Union has got its own European Defence union. It openly, Emmanuel Macron says nato is dead, brain dead. Hes going to give it a kick up the backside. They want to replace it with a European Defence union and we play a pivotal role in this, if we stay part of the European Defence union, its a choice we can make, i think effectively we kiss goodbye to nato. If we stick with nato we will effectively kill the European Defence union, boris has Big Decisions to make. The European Defence union does amazing work across the world when it comes to pirates in somalia, in the Central African republic, the new challenge, the incoming president says nato stays, nato is strong and will not be an army and we could opt out, couldnt we . One of the things the eu talks about is the benefit of a European Army and European Defence union. The replacement for the Jean Claude Juncker has poured com plete Jean Claude Juncker has poured complete cold water on some of the substance of the plan of Emmanuel Macron and she says the eu would never become a military alliance. She stressed the importance of nato for european countries. The receipt European Defence union with a command centre in brussels and they said to everybody, dont pay 2 , the rules of nato as you will know youve got to pay 2 as a membership fee. This is a major issue, its not being discussed in this election but going ahead, in terms of our security, its a huge issue. Have a good time for another call, who is it . Its philip in burnley, got to be quick, ten seconds if you could. Good morning nigel. My question is to accept a conservative government in if offered one and id like to thank you for everything youve done for the past 25 years. Philip, there is not a cats chance in hell of them wanting are using me, many things i could have done for them over the last three and a half years but they dont like me, philip, they are scared of me, perhaps they are right. Who are your favourite conservatives at the moment, the one you admire . There really arent very many at all. Who are they . I am entertained often by some of the things jacob has to say. It makes me smile. What did you think about the g re nfell smile. What did you think about the grenfell comments . Thats why hes been grounded. What did you think about what he said . It wasnt a great thing to say but the point is this, in the end, they all come at all, always put body first. They will vote with the party even against their own conscience and thats the problem that i help with all career politicians. They will put the party first. What going to replace we have to have an elected Upper Chamber in the form of the senate. Something like that. Pretty intense. I know. We we can go on if you want. State for the rest of the day, but thank you, mr farage for being here. We are going to be speaking to jo swinson for being here. We are going to be speaking tojo swinson on monday, cani speaking tojo swinson on monday, can i thank everyone on the news channel for watching. Everybody for listening. And everyone on radio 5 live as well. Hello, its tuesday, its ten oclock, im victoria derbyshire. Good morning. Two state funded jewish schools are accused of encouraging parents to remove their children from Sex Education classes, this programme can reveal. Two parents have told us they felt forced to go along with it. 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