Reacting to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, Lisa Nandy has described the past decade and a half of politics as “the most divisive” in her memory. The culture secretary has said that Labour is committed to putting an end to this, and to restore respect in politics and politicians. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00What happened in the United States is horrendous.
00:02The Prime Minister has been pleased to be able to speak with President Trump
00:06to express his sympathies, both to President Trump and his family
00:10and also to the victims of the attack.
00:13Violence has no place in our politics.
00:15And if we're going to stamp out the toxicity that we've seen in recent years,
00:20not just in the United States, in the political discourse, but here in the UK,
00:25then it's important that government leads.
00:27And that's firmly what we intend to do, to model the sort of behaviour
00:31that we want to see in our political debate.
00:33We've had a decade and a half that is the darkest and most divisive
00:37that I can remember in my lifetime.
00:39We've found multiple ways to divide ourselves from one another
00:42and we've had political leaders that haven't just failed to try and calm that situation,
00:48but at times have wholly engaged in culture wars that pit us against one another.
00:53As a new government, we're determined that that era should be over
00:57and that we'll show better leadership than that
01:00and give voice to the better country that is out there,
01:02but so often doesn't have that voice.