foreign minister boris johnston calling for a hard-line approach. ministers failed to agree on sanctions and adopted a much more conciliatory approach. ministeran foreign described the u.s. military strike in syria after that controversial chemical weapons attack as a window of opportunity to relaunch some sort of political process that will finally create peace in a different kind of solution in syria. it's all a little bit ambiguous and quite vague, really avoiding this approach and demanding a cease-fire and even suggesting that there may be room for a new constitution and a democratic election in syria, which seems a long way away at this point. earlier today, the foreign met with officials from key states in the middle east, south korea, jordan, also in lucca on the sidelines to try to win their support as well. host: josephine, however, all a agreeing that assad needs to go. reporter: i think that's the stories that -- that is the story going on behind the scene. how is there a future for syria with assad? they're clearly sending a message tha

move, amber rudd, iris johnston, the highest offices would not move, amber rudd, irisjohnston, philip hammond. as time moved on, there was a question that began to emerge around boris, the notion that he might be sidelined from the campaign, a suggestion that he would not go down well in some of the northern seat, he was too posh, and it jarred with northern seat, he was too posh, and itjarred with the big's daughter image that she is trying to portray. there were stories in the media this morning suggesting that ministers are briefing against him. i don't think he has been briefed against in the way that some embers of the cabinet are being briefed against. we don't have long, let's turn to the financial times. a bit of brexit in ireland. this is interesting, and curious, the suggestion being that eu diplomats might be raising the prospect of northern ireland voted ina referendum prospect of northern ireland voted in a referendum to rejoin, orjoin the south, to have a united ireland, and state in the eu. and that somehow this possibility would be enshrined in the brexit treaty, because the irish government would like it to be, just off the spanish government would