well from Glasgow we go to Maidenhead
and be joined by the former Prime
Minister Theresa May
good morning mrs. Mae good morning
Andrew just Chequers I know we've had
some sound problems when you call the
general election two years ago you lost
your majority for us Johnson has called
an election and achieved a quite
substantial majority what has he done
right that you did wrong well I'm very
pleased at the majority that the Boris
has achieved what cause this does the
essential thing which I think for many
people we led how they voted at this
election which is enabling us to have a
parliament that is going to have with
the majority government the ability to
take decisions and crucially the ability
to get the blex brexit legislation
through so we can get brexit sorted get
it done and move the country on and then
focus on those many other priorities
that people want as government to focus
on on a day to day basis but my question
was why did you lose your majority and
why did he gain a substantial one
well Andrew I thought I'd sort of given
you the answer in what I've just said
which is that actually at this election
I think people were faced with a very
clear choice about whether or not they
wanted to ensure that brexit was
delivered and they knew that if a
conservative majority government got in
that we would deliver brexit every
Conservative candidate signed up to
support the deal and to get that
legislation through that brexit through
by the 31st of January that was a very
clear choice for a lot of people this
election was about ensuring that we
could get over this deadlock in
Parliament and could actually get brexit
done and move on is it realistic in your
view that mr. Johnson can negotiate a
comprehensive free trade deal with the
EU in 11 months yes because actually an
awful lot of work on that has already
been done it was done in the original
set of negotiations it's in the
political declaration that sits
alongside the withdrawal agreement that
will form obviously the core of that
withdrawal agreement bill that will be
before Parliament
so a lot of work has already be done and
with the the will on both sides to
ensure that we can now deliver on that
future relationship the negotiation on
the future relationship yes it is
possible the Scottish National Party are
the other big victors tonight they have
swept Scotland on a manifesto calling
for a second Scottish referendum how
would you advise the Prime Minister to
handle that well I think it's it's very
simple I would advise him to continue
taking the position that he has done
which was the position that I took which
is that the Scottish National Party
themselves said in 2014 that that
referendum about Scottish independence
was a once-in-a-generation indeed a
once-in-a-lifetime referendum and
therefore they should accept that result
and of course we all know that it is in
Scotland's economic interest for them to
be part of the United Kingdom but in
that Scottish referendum in 2014 people
like you also told the Scots the the
surest way of staying inside the
European Union was to remain in the
United Kingdom I didn't quite work out
that way and now they're voting for a
party that wants a second referendum
because there's a material change
England voted to leave the EU Scotland
did not vote to leave the EU so why
should you deny them a second referendum
but independence for Scotland would not
mean them being staying in the European
Union it was made very clear at the time
of the independence referendum that if
Scotland became independent they would
not be a member of the European Union
but let them vote if that's the case let
them vote even if they know that let
them vote I mean the cut the cont
Scotland England are now deeply divided
you cannot have a constitutional
standoff I'd simply say no you can't
have another vote you know either as
Prime Minister I have spent quite a time
in the House of Commons being questioned
by the SNP and they had one issue only
and it was about independence actually
if you look at what has happened in
Scotland where they are in gov
their education system has deteriorated
under the SNP in government they have
problems with their national health
service actually I think it's time the
SNP focused on the day-to-day issues on
the job of governing in Scotland and
stopped simply putting this single issue
of independence forward okay well they
still swept Scotland tonight but we'll
leave it there Therese of me thank you
for joining us from Maidenhead and your
constituencies there
Teresa may was returned with a reduced
majority in Maidenhead