The express is worried about a killer arctic blast it says is on the way. The mirror says mr Trumps Hotels contain all kinds of products imported into the us, despite his America First policy. The independent focuses on the question of when theresa may knew about mr tumps Immigration Policy order. The guardian says there is domestic uproar in britain over mr trumps policy. And the times reports that a former senior official at the Foreign Office believes theresa may has put the queen in a Very Difficult Position over the offer of a state visit foertrump. Now its time for hardtalk. This is hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The Uk Parliament is about to vote on the governments plan to trigger article 50, the formal process which will end in britain leaving the eu. Theres little doubt mps will give Prime Minister theresa may a green light, but much has changed since lastjunes brexit referendum. The government has clarified its vision of what brexit means, while President Donald Trump is shaking up Global Politics. What place will post Brexit Britain occupy on the world stage . My my guess is that today is conservative mp domin raab. Domin raab, welcome to hardtalk. You area domin raab, welcome to hardtalk. You are a westminster mp who took the somewhat difficult to understand position of having the right to give a green light to article 50 taking the view that that was wrong and it should not be allowed. the view that that was wrong and it should not be allowed. I took the view it as did all the mps who passed the Referendum Legislation by 61. We gave this decision to the english people and by the way all parties agreed to this and having done that we need to respect it. The committee is scrutinising every negotiation at their son have any guises for holding up and frustrating at the verdict by the british people. There will be a verdict in the coming days in westminster. There will be a debate. Westminster. There will be a debate. We know various opposition lps, labour s all Scottish Nationalists, have various amendments to put forward. It will be a lively debate. Terrific. The 17th and debates we have had on the mac. Every democrat in the House Of Commons and in the House Of Lords will have their cards called. Are we talking about scrutiny all our people frustrating the wheel of the british people trying to scrap brexit altogether . Everybody will be accountable including yourself. One of the reasons the row so many remainers deeply bitter is they feel you in the leave camp never came clean during the Referendum Campaign about the kind of brexit you wanted. Some of the most prominent leaders wanted an exit which allowed britain to remain inside the Single Market and now that seems to be taken off the table. I think that is almost wholly wrong. Every time i was asked that question, all of us said. Let me finish the answer before you can scorn it. We all said and we will be leaving the eu, wanting to take back control of our borders and when asked the critical question about the Single Market we said we would be looking at the best access but no one said we would remain in the formal Single Market. Your version isa formal Single Market. Your version is a very different. Daniel and an, a senior mep. Is a very different. Daniel and an, a senior mep. Absolutely is a very different. Daniel and an, a senior mep. Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the Single Market. Paterson mp, only a madman would actually leave the Single Market. One more for luck, aaron banks, the biggest financier of the Leave Campaign Quote increasingly the norway option looks the best for the uk, having access to the Single Market. Looks the best for the uk, having access to the Single Marketm precisely demonstrates my point. have given you free quote that run counter to what you told me. No one is the Single Member of the Single Market. Only a is the Single Member of the Single Market. Onlya madman. Is the Single Member of the Single Market. Only a madman. Were not going to leave the Single Market in terms of a trading relationship at in terms of being a full member. If you look at the detailed comments made, not picking a few quote out of context, time and time again i remember discussing on the campaign, we all said it is clear you could not leave the eu and by The Back Door coming give up control of your Immigration Policy, and not have Trade Negotiations outside of the eu. We said we wanted the strongest possible access to the Single Market but we would not anticipate being formal members. What we now have is that the cliff edge scenario, something people said britain should try very desperately not to do. Explain to me why there is not the grave danger that after the triggering of article 50 britain will be staring over a cliff edge because there will be no negotiated trade deals and we will go to default, and to everybody concerned that represent a dangerous cliff edge. The pessimistic gloomy bbc portrayal saying that we would have an immediate shock after a brexit vote, they did not happen. We are the Fastest Growing economy for 2016. From google, the apple, to dyson. Just this week weetabix extra investment. All valid points but nothing to do with my question. I waited to address this. But you shifted the goal posts of chairman. Ijust conducting shifted the goal posts of chairman. I just conducting an shifted the goal posts of chairman. Ijust conducting an interview. You cannot include every discussion you have heard over the last year. I am asking a straightforward question. The forecasts have been demonstrably proven to be false. There will be a slowdown at the high level of growth we have at the moment, the Fastest Growing industrialised economy in the world but it will not be nearly as bad as forecasters predict that. Lets take this seriously, someone like Christian Forbes at the Bank Of England says all the uncertainty that had resulted in the negative forecasts the indicators are flawed and from the indicators are flawed and from the Bank Of England to the imf inaudible. I have decided you did not answer my question. The maltese Prime Minister got to the heart of this when he said the uks Deal Post Brexit must be worth than the terms of its membership. We can see no situation where whatever is negotiated end up being better than the Current Situation be uk has. You quoted the maltese Prime Minister andi quoted the maltese Prime Minister and i will quote. I can quote you Francois Hollande who has said we will pay. Francois hollande will not be Prime Minister when we do the negotiations. There is a range of different views. From the Spanish Foreign minister to the chief negotiator who said on the vexed issue of Uk Financial Services he has pointed out that given that britain puts £1 trillion worth of finance into european companies, if we turn around and have a rational being the differential approach to these negotiations. inaudible . We need to stop talking about detection is an start looking for the win win. Angela merkel, and others, there is a shifting mood in brussels and there is scope for a win win scope. Brussels and there is scope for a winwin scope. Neither You Nori Know where the negotiations will go. Your vision of what a post Brexit Economy should look like whether or not you get this complicated trade deal. Wasnt it very interesting when the british chancellor said you know what we may well do over the next few years as a result of brexit . We make completely transform our economy. Low tax, low public expenditure, a completely different economy. Is that what you want . not sure those were the words of philip hammond. I am paraphrasing but not unfairly. Between the referendum and the negotiations is to stabilise the economy. That is done. Set out the details of our plan. The Prime Minister did that with a positive vision of a post brexit self governing democracy, a strong neighbour including on trade and security, a Global Leader in free trade and the third thing that needed to happen was developed unity of purpose amongst the country at large. Following the lancaster house speech, the british pub lick 3 1, backed theresa mays vision. You talk about public opinion, ijust wonder whether you believe those brexit voters, lets talk about a particular place in the north midlands of the uk, where there will bea midlands of the uk, where there will be a by election. 70 voted brexit but do you think most of those 70 wa nted but do you think most of those 70 wanted to see a deregulated inaudible. I think the point is that win win is the speech. Of course, if we do not get a deal, even if the eu. You think that is what the british people voted for . Let me finish. Even if we apply external tariffs, we would have to take some measures to make sure that brexit the economy can continue to thrive in one is a question of tax and to retain our competitiveness. You would have to slash public spending much more than we have seen thus far. We want britain to be competitive, that is what attracts investment and create jobs but these silly caricatures of britain becoming the singapore of the north sea, ido becoming the singapore of the north sea, i do not recognise that at all. We need to be brave and go into the negotiations hoping for the best and bracing for the worst. If you look at that yougov poll, to the extent the eu can trust polls, it strong as public support that if the government did not get a good deal it should not sign up to any terms that we are offered from rustles and in that sense the british public, despite the frenzied polarised media debate, is getting the high end the Prime Minister. You are taking us dangerously back to the cliff edge. Lets. Dangerously back to the cliff edge. Lets. I dangerously back to the cliff edge. Lets. I want dangerously back to the cliff edge. Lets. I want to specific answers and then to look at the international picture. What happens to the 3 million also eu nationals living and working in the uk today . Am very confused by the mixed signals . I meekly in the Referendum Campaign anyone legally in the uk should have their rights protected. They can stay indefinitely . Those people already here will be able to stay indefinitely . I think as a moral position but also showing good faith in these negotiations. It is absolutely the right thing to do. What do you think of theresa mays position in moral terms when she refuses to give that guarantee and says, well, our stance will depend on how our nationals are treated in mainland europe. I think we should fight very hard for our expats and i understand why theresa may said i would like those issues dealt with. Orshe would like those issues dealt with. Or she tried to do, what the government did, is go to brussels and say, why not have an early agreement and push out of their anguish and anxiety European National space in the uk and the eu and remember it was the eu who said we cannot get agreement amongst the other 27 for this. It was them who said it will have to wait until march. We tried to do the right thing. Do you think some brexit backers, voters in towns like boston and lincolnshire, who have consistently according to the polls and anecdotal evidence that their town feels as though they have lost their culture and identity because so many East European farm workers are living in that town, do you think they will feel disappointed, let down, if you are saying to them, actually the status quo as it exists in boston and lincolnshire will have to remain . Certainly not with me or any of the people in the Vote Leave Campaign because we all said that we didnt think it was right as a basic point of moral ethics to start Deporting En Masse people who have been here for a long period of time, have played by the rules and worked hard. Ithink have played by the rules and worked hard. I think it was clear in terms of what we said during the referendum. It is quite right to try to secure those rights for expats abroad too. Another specific point about hard borders. It seems, the Scottish Nationalists are disappointed with the government stands, that the government isnt interested in discussing with them the idea that scotland could remain somehow in the Single Market and in the european Customs Union. But there is a question of whether in ireland and possibly scotland too if they get their way, there would be a ha rd they get their way, there would be a hard border between those nations of the United Kingdom and england. Will there be a hard border . Look, in terms of scotland, it will be icing wrong as a matter of principle and impossible to enforce. In terms of ireland there is the common travel area and those arrangements existed before we were members of the eec as it then was and of course there will be strong bilateral relations to make sure we dont undermine taking back control of our Immigration Policy but without putting up a hard border between the two. Forgive me but i am not clear, if ireland is in the Single Market and Customs Union and the uk is not, how can there not bea and the uk is not, how can there not be a hard border . We will have sensible mutual arrangements which respect both sides of the debate. We had that before we entered the eu so i dont think it is beyond the wit or man i dont think it is beyond the wit or man of man or woman but we wont have a hard border and we said that in the Referendum Campaign and the government says it now. Equally some of the stuff coming from the snp is not credible and it is not just the uk government saying that. The eu has said some of the ideas about staying in the Single Market. We have the referendum as one country and when you do that then you negotiate your International Relations as one country. Lets now look at the International Context in which it is all taken place. June 23 the british people voted. At the time barack obama was president of the ita states. Of course today donald trump is in the white house and noises from the white house are very different. You think it makes sense for britain to be cutting its bonds and ties with the European Union at and ties with the European Union at a time when the United States is being led by a man who is avowedly and proudly nationalist in his economics and his politics . Well, look, first of all we are not leaving europe, we are leaving the eu and we want to remain a good European Neymar and from theresa mays visit To Washington you can see even now have that influence can play out and the opportunity for our european friends, britain exercising leverage, and you heard her say not being naive about putin, and standing with britain behind our nato commitments, that is a good example, but britain wants an independent Foreign Policy and that means. Independent Foreign Policy and that means. And to be an independent, self governing democracy, that means independent from the eu but we will have a strong relationship with america, but. Will be . We had a really, really Special Relationship with Donald Trumps america . She said to trump, you renew your nation just as we renew ours, the opportunity to renew the Special Relationship for this age is here, a chance, she said for Post Eu Britain and trumps election to make america to this, this is a quote, lead america again. Do y