to do that, michael gove and dominic cummings are very close, they will need to move and try and give impression to the public that they are rebuilding how government works. andy, it is also the story unsurprising for many of the papers, the telegraph running with the line that says the government wants a big city to run the civil service —— brexiteer. someone who is more willing to think the unthinkable. in a sense, though, others saying actually what you really need in thatjob is somebody who has the strength and authority to stand and say, no, prime minister, as much as yes, prime minister. yes, absolutely. it is enjoyably retro here, it feels like we have moved back to a period before the pandemic, and brexit. but i don't think this is going to be the start ofa think this is going to be the start of a revolution in a sense in the civil service. but what it does seem to suggest is that the government is still very keen on putting its people in the places that it wants. there is going to be an all—male to you now i have no doubt if the next cabinet secretary is picked because he or

dominic cummings, his senior aide, this whitehall revolution.ominic cummings, his senioraide, has this whitehall revolution. dominic cummings, his senior aide, has a very colourful quote in this story. he said a hard rain is going to fall on this civil source. i think the man is absolutely —— mark sedwill is the uk's most senior servant, he's both national security adviser and cabinet secretary. it's at risk of losing a decent one of those post —— he is at risk. briefing as to what might happen in terms of civil service. don, this isn't the first time we've heard of dominic cummings desire to shake up the civil service. he had that quote about wanting those misfits to join. that's right. he has expressed some quite colourful opinions about the inefficiencies of the british... the incompetence of ministers and the fa ct incompetence of ministers and the fact that ministers don't understand all the sorts of things that he's interested in. science and statistics in particular. but how this will work out in practice and in terms of the particular pe

she says, your daddy, he'd been waiting and waiting and waiting for a better day, cummings recalled. she said he's going to wait and he's going to die. she said, don't you wait. then in his late 60's, elijah cummings said when he looks into the future, he also reflects on his life, quote, i realize that with african-american people, where we've been blocked from being all that god meant for us to be, i don't have time to be patient. yes, elijah often said of america that we are better than this. let's prove elijah right. i urge the senate not to be patient any longer and wait for the next death of an african-american in police custody before taking action. let us hold our hearings and then expeditiously take up the past legislation, including two bills i've explained on the floor today, at next steps in establishing justice in our still imperfect union. madam president, i yield the floor. >> the u.s. senate is about to gavel in. one item on the agenda today, the nomination of michael pack to be the next ceo or u.s. agency of global media which oversees the voice of america and radio

the language is so colourful with dominic cummings like with borisjohnson colourful with dominic cummingsmings like with borisjohnson when he says things like hard rain is going to fall. i don't know. it is not what you associate with the civil service but that you think that civil service to theirjobs quietly behind the scenes and all of this briefing into the newspapers about particular civil servants, it is such a different way of operating a thing. it is not what we are used to in the uk. and i'm sure forthe it is not what we are used to in the uk. and i'm sure for the civil servants who are at the centre of this it is very difficult to be briefed about in this way on the front pages of the national newspaper. i suppose they cannot respond, can they? they cannot usually. let's go to the front page of the independent now. john, terry drills for schools, hospitals and officers and this event back link to the easing of lockdown. -- terry drills. it is that it is more to do with the recent attack that happened at reading where someone went on a mini rampage with a knife but there was also

in a 2019 interview with "60 minutes," steve croft noted cummings is not a patient man. it's a lesson he learned from his late grandmother who imparted her mind-set shortly before she died. white people, she told him, have been telling african americans to wait, and he shouldn't. she says your daddy, he had been waiting and waiting and waiting for a better day, cummings recalled. she said he's going to wait and he's going to die. she said don't you wait. then in his late 60's, elijah cummings said that when he looks into the future, he also reflects on his life. quote, i realize that with african american people where we have been blocked from being all that god meant for us to be, i don't have time to be patient. yes, elijah often said of america that we are better than this. let's prove elijah right. i urge the senate not to be patient any longer and wait for the next death of an african american in police custody before taking action. let us hold our hearings and then expeditiously take up and pass legislation, including the two bills that i have explained on the floo

cummings he was actually present at the same things which were actually. the coded laws the most like which actually start. which actually results in those covert laws so i find hans that someone here is an influence and he was present at the stage meetings to. break the laws themselves someone who was similar in a civil suit you ation see it coming this would be 5 percent. and he apologized and resigned but the issue is he won't apologize and he's very arrogant about breaking the code pickle as you think at apology would have been enough. well he didn't apologize but. he what he has done he is undermined the public confidence so now what we've got is black lives matter as protesters saying that well if dominic cummings can say that a why can't we use this as a reason or excuse so what he's done he's opened the floodgates to everyone now preaching what down so he's done much more than just. a little breach is just undermined the public confidence in the government itself so you don't think that there would have been the black clothes massive protest had th

on exactly when it happened and it actually turns out there were more people, people like dominic cummings, who we re people like dominic cummings, who were super hawkish on the lockdown which is not the narrative we were given to quite a long time, but i'm not at all surprised to see public opinion has slumped on this one because it has felt like for weeks there's been an apathy or dithering, feeling schools have been neglected, a lot of campaigning going on and there have been majorfeelings on testing and the care homes. initially, there is a feeling of wartime spirit and collectivism, and in these times of crisis, around the world, the incumbent leader tends to have very high poll ratings and that will inevitably decline was the reality of the situation sets in if people were led to that lockdown would be temporary and it's ended up dragging on for longer than expected, and some people who are perhaps initially quite happy on furlough are now beginning to worry more and more about the future, sol think this is partly explained by the government's patchy record but it's also partly inevi

is that true, do you know oi’ cummings? is that true, do you know or not?y have banter and that they actually said that she will be appearing at future press conferences i would be surprised if she's rolled out. i think the nation has a lot of trust but i think numberten were has a lot of trust but i think number ten were getting a little bit worried about the increasing candour shown from the scientist at the daily press conferences. let's crack on. daily telegraph, the simple quote. the bustle is coming back. glaringly omitted schools. this is a big issue. when the prime minister is making his statement in the house of commons is much more mention of schools and there was at the press conference at five o‘clock this evening. and certainly saying quite clearly that the ambition now is that schools from all schools will come back in september. i do think that this is partly to almost play chicken with the unions who have said quite flatly that that is a fa ntasy said quite flatly that that is a fantasy that schools cannot possibly come back even with one me

but why did you, long before cummings attached himself to prime ministerjohnson, why did you see hime really is a fascinating character in the world of politics that often sounds increasingly stale in terms of the sound of it and the level of conversation. as you have seen, he is a disruptive and unpredictable surprising wheel of conversation and linguistics. did you meet him and talk to him as research? it was quite late. we had a tactic which is sometimes effective — you identify your sun in the middle of the universe, dominic cummings, and you start on the outskirts of planets and rotate your way in graduallyjust so you can gather information and feel confident when you get there. so i interviewed as many people as i could from vote leave — interns or marketing and communications people. and i arrived at dominic cummings once there was a draft and i needed him, i had specific things i wanted to know and i was grateful. he devoted a lot of time to it. you need to strike the balance between spending time with people but you maybe start to feel a sense of..not loyalty but you want to

dominic cummings, his senior aide, this whitehall revolution.aide, has a very colourful quote in this story. he said a hard rain is going to fall on this

and once there was a draft and i needed cummings, i had things i wa nted needed cummings, i had things of time to it. you need to strike the balance between spending time with people and you may be start to feel a sense of wanting to represent them fairly. and that is where it gets complicated. you are portraying and real events but in a fictionalised form and some critics, i will quote to you a campaigning journalist. you got involved in a public debate with her about the veracity, the trueness to live of your brexit screenplay and she said that your dominic cummings, the one you created on—screen is a shalott character. a maverick polymath who solves problems no—one else can. in your portrayal made out that he won through genius and not through allegedly criminal methods. and because you created a performance and wrote a screenplay that was so great, that is what sticks in people's minds. the positive take on a guy that so many people in britain have grave reservations about. you have grave reservations about. you have to take that responsibility really seriously. i respect her but i

dominic cummings should go and he should go now.eaker, i look forward to my snp opposite number returning, to be able to have a constructive discussion about how we might together tackle the virus. how we might together protect those who are shielding, who now, thankfully, it is safe for them to go outside, based on clinical advice. how we can ensure that the test and trace system is rolled out across the whole of the uk and how the systems can interact together and work together to protect people, especially in border areas where people may need to make journeys over the border. how we can work together as a whole country to keep this virus going down, the number of new infections going down. how we can work together to protect people and to protect our nhs. those are the conversations that i have with the conversations that i have with the scottish government, with my assembly opposite number here in westminster, and those are the things that really matter. westminster, and those are the things that really matterlj westminster, an

on summit 7 runs a dominate cummings could face a private legal action over his controversial looked on a trip to dover and we hear from the woman behind the campaign. you cannot be both with the yeah you like. is you'll be via reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a made in the shallowness. welcome back plans to get english peoples back to school before the summer break have been scraps after to match just top of the primary schools followed government guidance to reopen last week on t. . it was when i was on a. very serious it's a big his head on the government isn't it yeah absolutely there were plans to reopen schools for at least 4 weeks before the end of term of the beginning of the summer holidays of course children have going to school for many months but this year and proving to be a quite an embarrassing climb down by the government because reopening schoo

and the prime minister's senior adviser dominic cummings faces a possible private prosecution over his much criticized long trip to iraq we hear from the woman behind the campaign. thousands of people have gathered in houston texas to pay their respects at the funeral of george floyd the unarmed black man killed by a white police officer and his death sparked global protests proceedings are underway at the fountain of praise church with $500.00 guests in attendance floyd died last month after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes he said to be buried next to his mother in a private ceremony later on tuesday. global protest movements and people across the world have told us to pay their respects. from the london commemoration. so what's the situation like there. well i'm here outside parliament square right by the winston churchill's many argue a symbol of colonisation and indeed racism here at this currently we're seeing about a few dozen protesters who have been. through widespread protests throughout the day they are the last remaining protesters now but as you can

colleague and dear friend who represented baltimore in the congress for many years, representative cummings gave the eulogy for freddie grady who died after nting arrested and taken into police custody. during the church service, they closed with the old testament i wanted justice, i want fairness, that's what i want, that's all i want. this story i want to share is the inspiration i felt from reading doctor martin luther king's letter from the jail in april of 1963. he wrote w me know through the painful experiences it must be demanded by the oppressed. frankly i have yet to engage in a campaign that was well-timed in the view of those that haven't suffered from the disease of segregation. for years now i've heard the word wait. it's bringing in the ears of old with piercing familiarity it's almost always been after. we must come to see. with one of our distinguished jurors justice too long delayed is justice denied. we've waited more than 340 years for our constitutional god-given rights. perhaps this is easy for those that haveg never felt the sting of the segregation to say weight but w

is called for if they lead to all lock down fines following police decision to not find dominic cummings for breaking the goggles will be talking to a human rights barrister. protesters gather in london in support of demonstrations in the united states against police brutality with many highlighting similar problems in the u.k. . and the program nurses also protest outside the headquarters of public health england to london angry at the government's response to the thread about us we're now going to the briefing at downing street. good evening. welcome to latest on the street press conference let me 1st run you through the latest data on our coronavirus response. 4000000 786219 test the creative arts have not been carried out or posted out in the u.k. including 171829 tests yesterday 279800 and 56 people have tested positive and that's an increase of 1871 cases since yesterday. 7485 people are in hospital with coded 19 in the u.k. down 16 percent from 8921 this time last week and sadly of those who tested positive for corona virus across all settings $39728.00 have now died that's an inc

we spent a lot of physical dominicpreserving cummings as a key advisor. controversy over cummings allegedly breaking off and johnson came under fire. was asked to step down and did not step down and continued to back him and that tells us he is still a key figure in that administration, otherwise why spend all that capital? just asking to step down. guy: i'm trying to understand how to handicap the chances of a hard brexit toward the end of this year. that now the rating certainty gretchen======? the backing of dominic cummings, the decision not to go to transition, i agree, none of it is particularly new. but the market at the moment is in a situation where it's a bigger anding bigger discount to u.k. assets. is that the correct decision? we have recently looked at the issue again. think a deal is in their interest. you have to have the drama and the disagreements because that's what allows everyone to move forward. eu trade negotiations can be laborious and take time and that's clearly a risk with this process. dominic cummings being so well-preserved p

a congressman and a civil rights champion elijah cummings who is no longer with us. i read the words you written about him and he passed and i want to remind people. the people of baltimore the congress and the united states lost a voice of unsurpassed moral clarity and truth. our beloved chairman, elijah e. cummings, in the house he was a leader who pushes the congress and country all to rise to a higher purpose, reminding us why we are here. as he said, whenever he saw what we were not living up to, our founders vision for america, and meeting needs of our children for the future, we are better than this. and speaker pelosi, i want to end with those words, we're better than this. and what do you think your dear friend, your north star would say before where we are in america right now? >> well, one other thing that he did say is he said when we are dancing with the angels, little did we know that that would be imminent for him. but one, we're dancing with the angels. we need to be responsible for what we did to make things better. and he would be saying right now,

was thinking about our charge to establish justice in the constitution and the police from elijah cummings and dr. king -- the pleas. i can't avoid where we are today. where at a point in a nation where we need to make transformational change when it comes to our police officers and their fundamental relationship with our communities, in particular the african-american community and communities of color. we can no longer wait. we must make bold changes now. so, madam president, i agree with leader schumer and senator booker and senator o harris whether authors of the justice and police act. my concern is that legislation authored by senator scott the justice act falls dangerously short for what we need for comprehensive effective in transformational please reform that our country and the american people are demanding. i therefore hope that leader mcconnell would negotiate with leader schumer we can work on a bipartisan bill and establish a constructive starting point on policing reform. i listened to the debate with senator scott and senator kaine, and i seen this before. when we bring a a

now mr cummings breach of the locked and the fact that no action was taken hasn't done the government any favors since that story broke 21 percent of brits say that they've been following the rules less strictly done before and of the 21 percent 32 percent mention mr cummings is breach of the rules as a reason so many concluding and taking the decision to flout the rules or at least not to keep the mystic the because presumably they say that if mr cummings who is of course a very senior government advisor doesn't stick to them and well why should the public did it and in the meantime what about these those quarantine measures the home secretary well we've seen the government announcing the bringing in of these quarantine measures that will see visitors or those arriving in the united kingdom from abroad told to self isolate for 14 days so-called quarantine rules now while they will be handing in the details at the airports that they learned that and will be subject to spot checks but pretty good sell the home secretary she's the one who's been leading this charge to bring in these rul

confidence in the ability of the government and boris johnson has reacted by supporting dominic cummings or not and taking the necessary step of getting rid of it in that case i see this is being full year period of a lame duck government staggering towards him in negligible election where these are going to be very different what we can from what we could have imagined last december very few people only the optimists thought that labor had a chance of winning in 2024 when we looked at the last election result the dalai cummings affair seems to have changed that completely i think we're seeing a government that is already hold below the waterline and where we're just going to watch it see steadily over the next few years. but of course the conservative party are stol living in the polls albeit the gappers nara and of course the guns of the tory press haven't been termed on the labor leader yet want that sort of thing make a difference well i let's be honest alex we don't know if we now see a situation where there are a great many further desu coronavirus then i think we can see the to re

scandal when she was asked by political advisers beforehand —— dominic cummings.pped from the briefing. whether or not that's true, the i reports that in march, we had between eight and 12 scientific experts at these briefings every week. when it comes to scientific opinion, the range is where you achieve the consent since. hearing from lots of different scientists is reassuring. now we are hearing from just four. it's gone down by more than half. that is either because people are incredibly busy, or maybe the government is losing support from the scientists. ijust want the government is losing support from the scientists. i just want to asked joe if there's been any polling done on this and how trusted these advisers are? whether or not they continue to be by the public. oh, they are trusted and they are the most trusted group in terms of public opinion. far in excess of that of the government. the government knows that. it's about messaging and it's about the government controlling messaging. you may think that's a good thing or bad thing, but that's why these t

and number 10 advisor dominic cummings could face a private legal action over his controversial long time trip to dollar. signs of financial survival john today was all about money laundering 1st to visit this cash in the 3 different. oh good this is a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up here maybe something in your something in america something overseas or the cayman islands or do we do all these banks are complicit in the tough talk or sudha stuff to deal with both and say hey i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we've got home got a nice luxury watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry how about. home luxury automobile again for max you know what money laundering is highly illegal to watch guys record. you cannot be both with the yeah you're right. and that he plans to get english cripples back to school before the summer break had been scraps offered to her just half of the primary schools followed government guidelines to reopen last week case is right he joins me now with more on this. fellow that he says so a big he sai

but would it be fair to say that the prime minister's main adviser, dominic cummings, is particularly whitehall is running at the moment and this would be part of his desire to bring the hard rain he was talking about two whitehall? i think dominic cummings' view that whitehall needs reform, that you need to look at different types of people to come in and work on the government machine, you might remember when he blogged about advertising for misfits and widows to come and work at the operation, thatis to come and work at the operation, that is well known. i think there will be a lot of speculation that this is all about number 10 trying to rework government, adding to that we know for example she will reshape the committee system. there may be resista nce the committee system. there may be resistance to this, but looking at how the government has responded to coronavirus and how whitehall has responded what can be improved in order to streamline the delivery of projects. civil service reform is not something people are necessarily talking about down the pub when indeed the pubs reop

for dominic cummings, who has been at the core of some of the suffering coronavirus with his famous tryingwer has been affected at all. the main thing about this story is i've feel it isa thing about this story is i've feel it is a real my mate job, not because the journalists —— the reasons are journalistic. there is a line saying that the new committees will follow the successful model that the government has been using during the coronavirus crisis. anybody who thinks the word successful should be attached to this government's handling of the coronavirus crisis surely needs their head examined. the numbers have been horrific and that is not a party political point. it does not matter what party is in government, but the government surely do not think they have been successful in the way that they have handed this coronavirus crisis. it suggests they're out of touch. let's look at they're out of touch. let's look at the front page of the sunday times. an interesting story about a potential spike in leicester. the idea that he might have a local lockdown just there to deal with that parti

—— adviser insight number ten asked the chief nurse ruth mae if she was going to support dominic cummingsevents over his trip to bernard castle. and when she said she would not support that version of events, she was going to repeat the kind of thing that the lockdown rules for everyone and that everyone should follow them. —— there is an nhs source. she was dropped from the briefing, whether that is true or not the government is denying it. despite whatjoe has just said, this is not just about the government getting the clear message, this is just about dominic cummings. if this is true, they are dropping scientific advisers and we haven't seen scientific advisers and we haven't seen professor van tan since he made a very pointed decoration about the coming situation, dropping scientists from national briefings with massive viewing figures because they do not think that the prime minister's special adviser, a political appointee, not a civil servant, not a scientist, did the right thing. that is disgraceful, thatis right thing. that is disgraceful, that is just undemocratic. right thing.

you'll remember that durham police found that mr cummings might have breached lockdown rules during aand his cabinet colleagues have completely shredded their own lockdown rules to protect a man who thought he was above the rules. in refusing to sack dominic cummings for travelling 260 miles with his wife, who was symptomatic, the prime minister has destroyed his own "stay home and save lives" message. i know the minister will want to shrug it off and will want to move on, but i have to say to him, it has been absolute fury. people think that there is one rule for the government and their friends and another rule for everybody else, and they have made massive, massive sacrifices and they feel that the government isn't standing by them. please, please, please reflect that back to the government. can my right honourable friend advise therefore if an assessment has been done on what, if any, damage has been done to the government's public health message by the actions of the prime minister's special adviser? well, thank you, mr speaker. the critical thing is that, given the sacrifices th

control to see it security with members of the public wondering well if it's a cummings isn't keeping to the lockdown why should we that's had an impact on how people put their trust in then government say also they're not going to be held in the region press conferences any longer the reason behind it is that basically you figures are very low they don't think they're reaching the country however this could lead to more public distrust as communication numbers fall and we've also seen a poll by you gov which says that the approval ratings for the government just had a 60 percent in april thinking the government was doing a good job that's not dropped to 45 percent again perhaps an indication of just how much the public perception of the government's handling of coverage 19 has changed they've said think of a mission day. now britain's lockdown rules have become an enforceable according to police chiefs the head of the metropolitan police federation which represents officers in the capital said i'm a big us advice has made compliance almost impossible in most circumstances i don't thi

that means not having yes—men, the implication of one of dominic cummings' logs, i want more people andhink like me. he said misfits and weirdos, you could argue that as diversity because they were not all have been to the civil service process. when ijoined i was a bit ofa process. when ijoined i was a bit of a misfit in winter. my first paper was on recent developers in hypothesis testing, and i wrote that to the treasury! there is nothing wrong with having experts and expertise but you do need to be able to communicate, get across your m essa 9 es to communicate, get across your messages in a persuasive way i look at the evidence and then speak the truth on to power, even if they don't like it. let me ask you about another aspect of this, the decision to split again the role of national security adviser and cabinet secretary. it was partly a crisis situation, jeremy heywood became terminally ill, theresa mayjust moved mark sedwill across and said, do both, but was the ever sustainable? personally, ithink do both, but was the ever sustainable? personally, i think it played to mark's s

telegraph are making today is that tory mps think it might be a way of neutralising the dominant cummingss aide was alleged to have broken the rules, did break the rules. the government are in a bit ofa rules. the government are in a bit of a mess and trying to get on a front foot. and that had been weeks of reported issues, contact tracing app that we were promised we have not seen, there have been issues around testing, numbers and testing. the pm currently wanting to make a stand here but i would have assumed he had quite an important role in the approach the government has been taking in overseeing what ministers have been doing. we know that boris johnson does often step back and let other people take charge of situations but i think with this one, it is pretty unusual for him to not have had a really direct role and handle of this crisis except of course when he was himself in intensive care with the virus. sivan what is your take on a? it comes back to the big extremity of the short —— boris johnson back to the big extremity of the short —— borisjohnson permission. we forget that h

or following the dominic cummings incident campaigners of course on the u.k. government to launch an urgent review into all the lockdown related fines issued by police there and police have said the political advisors actions constituted a minor breach of human rights lawyers have expressed anger that many people were issued fixed penalty notice is possible or offenses in england the wales around 15000 fines we initiated by police since the law came into force. where i spoke to human rights barrister coastie burble oh she thinks it's easy to understand people's frustrations people have been extremely angry at this not only because this is a british sense of said play that people have suffered a lot made huge amounts of sacrifices but on the basis of we're all in it together all looking after each other as when you do have a message at the top level that the laws of this guidance only applies to you and it doesn't apply to those of us who are in power or need our own near power then back back because there is a lack of confidence a loss of trust and policing in

governor we can collapse in the opinion polls for the government i mean off the mark for the dominic cummings shambles how the hoa's keir starmer performing himself as a living up to the early expectations of the leadership find out later in the program but most of those without and glasgow via twitter should be e-mails of your messages thank you alex and some interesting responses to i sure last week on whatever happened to breaks it fixing m.p. daniel kaczynski caselli and they missed the ality jump start it says england and wales voted for breaks it scotland northern ireland didn't so the claim that the british people voted for it is bogus scott had and says truth be told britain's exit from the e.u. has left a vacuum no one has the power to pay or the loss of identity for each trading party within the block has revealed itself and it is of concern to the e.u. that each country will no please or chill for themselves rather than use each of you as a launching pad form for treat james says informative sure thank you the covered 1000 becks double whammy compelling a degree of realism on both

boris johnson really for the 1st time in prime minister's questions since the news broke that mr cummings the main special advisor for the prime minister had taken a trip to darren from london a 260 mile trip while measures were being enforced and so because of that you've seen the number of outraged backlash as you say from the media but also from members of the public who say their trust in the government has fallen since not just that news emerged but the prime minister chose not to act on it or to punish mr cummings in any way and mr ahmed today in parliament said that the prime minister was facing a crisis of public opinion. easing restrictions involves very difficult judgment calls so this is the week of all weeks where public trust and confidence in the government needed to be at its highest. but as the director of the reuters institute was commissioned to you gov poll this weekend said i have never in 10 years of research seen a drop in trust like we've seen from the u.k. government how worried is the prime minister i think he's wrong on better ground in firmer ground when we stan

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his departure will be seen as a victory for the prime minister's chief adviser, dominic cummings.il service union, the fda, said number ten had undermined sir mark with "cowardly" anonymous briefings and that the government would be weakened by his departure. lord o'donnell was cabinet secretary and head of the civil service from 2005—2011. he gave me his reaction to the news. i think it's very sad that mark is going, he's a great public servant, came in a very difficult time when my successor was tragically and seriously ill and later died. mark brought things together, he has lived through brexit and covid—19, it's not been easy for him, and i know he will move on now to think about having a global security role which has enormous strength in the security field. that looks like a bit of a consolation prize. he has been in thisjob for less than two years, there was a perception he was very close to theresa may, she trusted him and brought him in from the home office, and perhaps the relationship between borisjohnson and others in his team and sir mark had not been as close as it

hoyer, majority whip james clyburn, carin maloney -- carolyn maloney, and the late elijah elijah cummings. for bringing us to this historic day. i urge all of my colleagues to vote on h.r. 51 and, mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. >> mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you. i rise in opposition to h.r. 51, the washington, d.c. admission act. there is a lot more to statehood than a vibrant city. our nation's fathers thought it was not a state. they thought about it, debated it, rejected it. in fact, in those early days alexander hamilton himself proposed an amendment to allow a voting member in the house and that proposal bass rejecteds. -- was rejected. if the majority wants to go against the founders that's their prerogative. they could not ignore the intention behind d.c.'s current status. the constitution simply does not allow city governments to become microstates with all the rights and responsibil

dominic cummings and numberten push hard against them. with unions before and overruled them along with michael gove when he was education secretary. i think there is little sympathy in number ten for gavin williamson not having put upa ten for gavin williamson not having put up a fight against the unions. looking at the metro, sebastian work on sound after all those days and weeks of the government saying we are just following the science and the science and the message from the scientists was confusing they disagreed each other, so much of this in fact all of this really is political and that is what the focus for the metro, 15 deaths 950 cases but would be called. and on this, a prime minister positive reputation and place in history as potential going to be remembered. we should note those numbers of deaths from covid today were really very sort of since the beginning of march in fact and that is one of the reasons why borisjohnson and and that is one of the reasons why boris johnson and the government and that is one of the reasons w

endorsement of breaches of public health endorsement given the lack of action taken over dominic cummings. that is not an appropriate way to characterise the approach we are taking. because when it comes to people who are shielding, we have recommended people shield for their own protection, and when the clinical advice says that it is safe for people to go outside, because the incidence of disease is now lower than when we brought in the shielding policy, then i think, well, i know, that many of the shielded are so pleased to be able just to go outside. it has had a huge impact on them and they have given upa huge impact on them and they have given up a great sacrifice. thank you, mr speaker. can i thank my honourable friend for ensuring that clevela nd honourable friend for ensuring that cleveland is at the forefront of the new test, track and trace programme. what assessment has he made of how track and trace will allow us to reduce social distancing from two metres to one metre, as per the who guidance? well, the success of test, track and trace is a critical part of making sure that

it was his judgment not to sack dominic cummings. cani judgment not to sack dominic cummings.ends to understanding the damage that did to confidence in england's public health messaging, and the consequences of that for people's lives? and what his judgment now of how he can repair that damage? mr speaker, i must say that in spite of the kind of comment that we have just heard, i have been overwhelmingly impressed and fortified by the common—sense of the british people who have heard are who understood what to do. one statistic that shows the power of the community spirit in this country at the moment. 87,000 people have been contacted by nhs test and trace and have voluntarily agreed to self isolated to prevent the transmission of the disease. that is a fantastic thing. the people understand what to do. they are doing it. with their common sense, the common sense of the british people will get us through this. last week i spoke to hospitality and tourist businesses in my constituency who have worked extremely hard to implement social distancing measures. they are desperate to

friends or are you personal us personality in order to fit into our high for a higher position with his cum shoot from motion. the thai state meanwhile doesn't allow citizens to officially change their gender even when they've undergone sex change surgery still touch he's glad she started a new chapter in her life. from the like being a girl really a woman and is so. so close but the golden rule felt like fulfill my heart to have a little laugh have a good feeling to be of. the night ends with a song celebrating tolerance and diversity of values that still haunts mainstream in thai society today even though all the people like touchy want this to be themselves. thanks. thanks. glenn grothman. fig despite the danger of coronavirus people who shop at weekly markets in zimbabwe and maybe risking their lives. are alternatives. to start of the letters 1st wouldn't vegetables right to your door especially for you. if you say. you cook for. your maid dining in a class house. with my team restrictions or prompted people to get creative. restaurant in amsterdam now serves guests in many greenhouses

the daily mail claims dominic cummings came up with this idea to distract from what was going on in care number 10 vehemently denied that. eitherway, it's pretty homes? number 10 vehemently denied that. either way, it's pretty clear that. either way, it's pretty clear that the home secretary, priti patel, is very much in favour of the quarantine. she has written a joint article with the transport secretary grant shapps, they have pitched the argument that it is all about the scientific advice and ensuring there is no increase in infections being brought into the country from abroad, saying we outwit to those that have lost their lives from covid. —— we owe it to those. an awful lot of the detail will have to be looked at very closely, not least of which how on earth this is going to be enforced. because it seems the 14 to be enforced. because it seems the 1a day self isolating is going to be checked out by public health england. public health england have got rather a lot on their plate with testing, never mind ringing round and trying to find out who is self isolating. and there have be

that's dominic cummings, for those who didn't pay attention la st for those who didn't pay attentionis johnson mentioned there would be anomalies with this. it will be quite hard to enforce it because to grandparents, the idea is that if you allow household to come together, you increase the possibility of the r number going up that's the big concern. the government is calling for a degree of common sense. it's only england, not scotland, wales or northern ireland. absolutely crucial to outline that. thank you so much. the daily telegraph. a picture ofjk rowling, just to focus on this two metre rule to be cut for the new school year. we heard during the briefing that most children will hopefully, if progress continues, return to school into september. there was a buzz on this idea of schools applying this to me to rule. —— two metres rule. idea of schools applying this to me to rule. -- two metres rule. one of the challenges of getting more children back to school, they have openedin children back to school, they have opened in the last couple weeks, there's simply not enough space t

we had another dominic cummings moment, it doesn't really set a great example.oblem, whether you are a government minister or a mayor or a government minister or a mayor or a person in the streets, i don't think anyone took this lockdown seriously and how serious this problem is. we live in a society where social media rules a lot how we live our lives, and seeing people out and taking it not as seriously as they should have, and the consequences, that's the announcement yesterday. but we need to look forward, we need to be very positive otherwise everything is lost. i think people realise the consequences of this and we must all stick together and look after each other and take this seriously. we can only do this with the help of the government and with their assistance, they must take it seriously and help businesses such as ourselves. we are the backbone of the economy, small business is a 90% of the economy. the light at the end of the economy. the light at the end of the economy. the light at the end of the tunnel must be with help from national government.

interesting because it looks as though it might because it looks as though it might be part of dominic cummings the british government, the merging of departments such as this. and the reaction is interesting to see of a former prime minister such as david cameron is quite rare that a former tory prime minister actually criticises so much his successor. so, i will see how it is developing but i would like to know what is the thinking behind it? david talk us through the thinking of it. sorry, we have lost your sound, come back. can you hear me now? i can. the situation is this, the government feels, the defence of this is the international development will be more closely aligned as a tool of british foreign policy as a whole. but one would have to say when three former prime ministers are opposed to what you are doing and they say that when your international aid is only part of everything else that britain prospect foreign policy is about, international aid will have to fight to bea to be a priority of our before to be a priority of our foreign policy. —— britain's foreign policy. it remains

was questioned a few disco about bringing this for about test and trace trying to hide the dominic cummings at the time. but that's one side. how to hotspots, the ft. faiza, have you book your trip to greece, turkey, or spain yetand book your trip to greece, turkey, or spain yet and are you company you are going to get there? no, i have not and it was interesting reading this because a lot of the discussions about who will be able to go where in the summer is of course one about the infection rate and obviously we have had particularly bad infection rate in this country and the death toll in this country and the death toll in this country. and secondly about this country. and secondly about this quarantine. now the discussion in this piece is effectively about the kind of holiday corridor between certain countries. the problem is that priti patel the home secretary early on this week and very much emphasised this to be quarantine if you come back to this country saying that the rest now and i'm not sure but the size... 20 seconds, asa. what do you think on this because the states are differ

the rot set in after the dominic cummings incident, we had done well up cummings incident, we had donessential shops and for essential travel. masks unless outside in addition to social distancing. 0nly change for me is cuddles with my granddaughter, our family bubble. change for me is cuddles with my granddaughter, ourfamily bubble. we will bring you the latest news on the hour at 10am when we switch from bbc over to bbc two, so dojoin us for that. before that, let's bring you a full weather forecast. not quite as warm as it was last week. here is louise lear. hello, a north—south divide is the weather story at the moment, the cloud, wind and rain that we saw for sunday continue across parts of scotland, northern ireland and northern england but the heavy rain will start to ease and become more showery into the afternoon. cloudy conditions across england and wales, the best of any breaks with some brief glances of sunshine to the south of the m4 corridor but it stays pretty windy, particularly in that sharper showers, gusting in excess of 35—40 mph and temperatures struggling a little

in a 2019 interview with "60 minutes," steve croft noted cummings is not a patient man. it's a lesson he learned from his late grandmother who imparted her mind-set shortly before she died. white people, she told him, have been telling african americans to wait, and he shouldn't. she says your daddy, he had been waiting and waiting and waiting for a better day, cummings recalled. she said he's going to wait and he's going to die. she said don't you wait. then in his late 60's, elijah cummings said that when he looks into the future, he also reflects on his life. quote, i realize that with african american people where we have been blocked from being all that god meant for us to be, i don't have time to be patient. yes, elijah often said of america that we are better than this. let's prove elijah right. i urge the senate not to be patient any longer and wait for the next death of an african american in police custody before taking action. let us hold our hearings and then expeditiously take up and pass legislation, including the two bills that i have explained on the floo

there was jim cummings clark who has an interesting story. the encyclopedia of western gunfighters lists his occupation andhief, soldier, laborer, law officer because why not? he stole a meal from his stepfather and fled to texas where he's -- where he from ae mule, still $15 rancher and returned to missouri. he become a trust that she became a trusted lieutenant during the war but his surrender was not honored. often on he joined the james gang and in 1887, he moved to colorado where he found work digging a pipeline in the town. he secured an appointment as a marshall and he enforced the law by clubbing ruffians with his fist. he was rumored to continue his current activities from time to time. in 1889, butch cassidy and his band robbed the bank in that town of 20,000 dollars and rumors spread that clark had agreed for part of the loot to conveniently be out of town when they tried to rob the bank. this was never proven, but he was fired nonetheless and he prompted began uttering threats to kill members of the city council. he offered to kil