i don't think dominic cummings like mps at all., are used to that in downing street, a lot of people put them over there to advise them when they really think the elected mps are irritating. all i am interested in any messages that will be sent to brussels, that it is important to me. michel barnier will know if the cannot just me. michel barnier will know if the cannotjust brush aside boris johnson as if he was theresa may, so this is serious stuff and business now. what i feel is going to happen with the people he will now put into brexit secretary, other key posts that will deliver the brexit agenda, including dominic cummings. it will send a clear message to the eu, they will have to negotiate, they cannot just say what they have set up until now, which is the withdrawal agreement, that is the only thing on the table. now, that withdrawal agreement it went back into the white van with theresa may's furniture as it left downing street earlier today. that deal is done. interesting, nigel evans, thank you for those thoughts. the n

dominic cummings is a polarizing figure. earlier, boris has to show he is playing both sides simultaneously. he has to keep the base happy on the centrists onside. dominic cummings would be a good counterweight to some of the softer appointments he will have to make this afternoon. francine: thank you both for joining us. paolo scaroni and robin about stay with. we have plenty more from westminster throughout the day. we will also have plenty more on oil. iran is reported to be planning to secure the strait of hormuz. more trouble for tech companies, as tech giants face an antitrust probe from the u.s. justice department. we will discuss the sector's troubles. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ francine: this is "bloomberg surveillance." i am francine lacqua at westminster. we have plenty going on. it is day one for boris johnson as prime minister. let's get straight to the bloomberg business flash. >> texas instruments reporting stronger than predicted sales and profit forecast. it says third-quarter revenue will be 3.65-$3.95 million.

but dominic cummings has been credited with running a successful vote leave ca m pa ig n been creditedsful vote leave campaign in winning the referendum in 2016, could borisjohnson winning the referendum in 2016, could boris johnson be winning the referendum in 2016, could borisjohnson be thinking about another campaign in the offing in the coming months or maybe next year? perhaps a general election. i think there is an indication that perhaps this government knows it is ina perhaps this government knows it is in a delicate position, but a general election could be around the corner. also, the senior brexiteers coming up to take top jobs corner. also, the senior brexiteers coming up to take topjobs in corner. also, the senior brexiteers coming up to take top jobs in the government, the likes of ricky patel, —— priti patel, and... government, the likes of ricky patel, -- priti patel, and... wooden election be pretty much inevitable if borisjohnson election be pretty much inevitable if boris johnson fails election be pretty much inevitable if borisjohnson fails to meet the very strict t

what do you make of the apparent appointment of dominic cummings, former director of dominic cummingssenior adviser to mrjohnson. that will be a pretty devices appointment might want it?|j don't want to get into commentary on things i haven't looked at. boris johnson will appoint people he thinks will help him deliver on brexit and atlas domestic agenda, which we sampled it for our country as we go forward. do you think over the next few days, it will be a case of reality bites as borisjohnson moves from the container to the prime minister. throughout his campaign, he suggested that by force of his personality, he will be able to make the crucial difference to unlock the problems with brexit. do you truly believe that to be the case, or it will there be a hefty dose of reality going through the door of number ten at later?“ dose of reality going through the door of number ten at later? if you look at boris johnson door of number ten at later? if you look at borisjohnson pours my career, it has always defied expectations. no one expected him to lead the leave campaign, the referendum e

dominic cummings did not come up with "take dominic cummings did not come up with "ta ke back dominicups. two taking in focus group. it was doing lots of variations of the same post from a different colours, differing branding different messages, and see which ones get the most pick—up and reception. politics is publicised now. we saw tony blair, going back a few decades, using language and sound bites that they had very carefully crafted as well. it is something donald trump uses, jane. it is indeed. he is past master of that, but there is a word i learned yesterday, glimpsed her. —— gloomster. i am yesterday, glimpsed her. —— gloomster. iam not yesterday, glimpsed her. —— gloomster. i am not sure it is in the dictionary! it is divisive language. i'm not sure that is new in politics. you had jeremy corbyn and the labour party draw different divisions of society as well. i do nothing it is surprising... is it a because, a lot of people of said today, it is not a government for 2022. it is already in campaign mode. do you believe that? yes, it looks like that is the case. the conservat

the guardian has a very interesting piece here, quoting dominic cummings, saying that they do not carehe nhs. this is interesting in the same week that he said to the cabinet ministers that there is a one strike and you're out policy for any leaking whenever we get a lick of something that he said in 2017. i mean, look, he is a divisive character. remainders do not like him, there are a lot of pro brexit people that do not like him either. so the take—down, it can only taken six days really. but he has been tasked with. what he is saying is the public is basically correct and tory mps largely do not care about these poor people. they do not care about the nhs and the public is kind of latched onto that. but that is from a couple of years ago. but it is embarrassing because it is supposed to leave. it is effectively the chief of staff number ten and it is possibly not surprising from him because dominic cummings says, he said a lot about everything. incredibly long blogs that people have desperately been reading through of the past few days, so any subject to the assets in the about, th

cover david brought the guy who led the lead campaign along with borisjohnson behind the scenes, dominic cummings air, jacob rees—mogg tonight, we learn has been given thejob air, jacob rees—mogg tonight, we learn has been given the job of the leader of the house. this is a brexiteers to cover, isn't it? there is an error because the second point is an error because the second point is ltjobs is an error because the second point is lt jobs that is an error because the second point is ltjobs that the proud brexiteers, who are tory so it's going to be interesting to see how they define that sajid javid, as a remained supporter so he was one of the george osborne programming people, he'd been i think has said many times no deal would be on the table for him in order to get a better deal, but he certainly was not a brexiteers to begin with and i made a list of all the other nine brexiteers in the cabinet, you mentioned amber ride and there is nikki moore again, and they needed trade secretary who was not a brexiteers originality. not hancock and so... sega saying it's not press it to and so... sega s

replaces now at number 11 downing street or as chancellor in charge of the finances we've got dominic cummings a a prominent figure in that vote leave campaign who was actually found in contempt of parliament he's made quite a lot of enemies within the conservative party but beyond that people are wondering exactly how many of his other aims boris johnson is going to monies to achieve given that don't bracks it has dominated the premiership of his predecessor. it's been called britain's biggest cabinet clear out without a change of ruling party on a day that saw more than half those in the top jobs gone many of them sacked it became clear loyalty to boris johnson in the leadership race has been rewarded and support for his rival the previous foreign secretary jeremy hunt has been punished while many of the new appointments a prominent vote lead campaigners like dominic robb who resigned as secretary in protest at the reason may's deal with brussels in comes pretty puts heller right winger who's advocated bringing back the death penalty as home secretary or interior minister she replaces sajid

in the back room of downing street, new adviser dominic cummings isa downing street, new adviser dominic former vote leave organiser is famously ruthless and abrasive but is also seen as a man to drive through difficult change. so, team johnson is taking shape. he clearly wa nts a johnson is taking shape. he clearly wants a cabinet that is as loyal as it is unyielding. there is a new prime minister and a new team around him, but their mission is as tough as ever. john pienaar, bbc news, westminster. asjohn was saying, the scale of the reshuffle and the number of new faces coming in to borisjohnson's first cabinet is much more extensive than expected. let's take a quick look at some of the other appointments the prime minister has made. john has mentioned some of them, but sajid javid as the new chancellor, matt hancock staying on as health secretary. gavin williamson is back in cabinet as education secretary. the staunch borisjohnson ally ben wallace is rewarded with defence. if we look at some of the others, stephen barclay stays on as brexit secretary. former leadership rival michael g

how surprised were jealous that dominic cummings made this appearance?weeks but gently denied by the team. some suggestion, i am not sure it is true, that dominic coming wasn't sure he was being brought into number 10 until boris johnson sure he was being brought into number 10 until borisjohnson was confirmed as the next prime minister. certainly it is a surprise appointment but it sends a signal that dominic cummings is known for. a winning campaigner. he hasn't won the two big referenda campaigns and also the electoral reform campaign and so if you're going to try and send a kind of back signal to some tory mps that, if you do not vote for this deal, we are ready for an election, then bringing dominic coming to downing street is saying that without having to say it. recently betrayed by benedict cumberbatch. perhaps there will have to bea cumberbatch. perhaps there will have to be a sequel. johnson backs amnesty for half a million in the uk without papers. this may be a surprising development?” without papers. this may be a surprising development? i t

one of the fascinating appointments today is dominic cummings, he was the ringmaster of leave, behindprominence in the channel four film about brexit, played by benedict cumberbatch. the feeling is he is a divisive character and there will be some on the remain side of the party who will not like to see him in the background. i don't know him personally, he is a dynamic figure, but are times where we have an ominous national challenges ahead of us, -- ominous national challenges ahead of us, —— enormous national charges, there are people from all backgrounds and personalities. dominic cummings did a successful job in the leave campaign, against all the expectations, he won that and was a key part of the team who won the referendum along with boris and michael gove and others. i would see why he would want him as part of the team. he doesn't have much patience with the erg, does he? the eurosceptics. sancho nikki has used some colourful language, the conservative party is a broad church and we need to stick together, there should be room for all of these views on government to stop and

dominic raab getting a top job and lot of speculation about dominic raab getting a topjob and dominic cummingsnd the vote leave campaign, the evil genius in the eyes of his critics, someone prepared to do things unconventionally and ruffle feathers, if borisjohnson wants to strike a rather different approach with the eu, then dominic cummings is the man to tread on toes, smash a through plates and throw the crockery around. —— ardent brexiteer. longer than usual prime ministers questions, we can show you the final moments, theresa may as she made her final comments to the commons. that duty to serve my constituents will remain my greatest motivation. applause standing ovation for theresa may, three years, 11 days, she will be heading back to downing street shortly, where she will say her final goodbyes and address the nation, before making her way here to buckingham palace, we expect that to buckingham palace, we expect that to happen at 2:30pm, to a0 5pm, the timing will be loose, that is when she will arrive to tender her resignation to the queen. nicholas witchell is with me now. the queen,

for example he has appointed as his chief of staff dominic cummings he is the mastermind he was the mastermind behind the leaf referendum and he's really a chief strategist so boris johnson gearing up for a complain there and on the other hand for example with jeremy corbyn labor leader opposition leader saying for the 1st time today very stepfathers that his policy would go for remaining in the european union repositioning his labor party there for a possible general election showed up to you mentioned boris johnson's chief of staff there have been some big changes in his cabinet just briefly what does his cabinet tell us about what to expect from him as a prime minister. well this is absolutely brecht's that on steroids it was quite revolutionary what he did he really kicked out all the remaining as he appointed the tears that have sworn to help him see a surulere the u.k. leaving the european union on october 31st and so it shows us that boris johnson is somebody who really wants to shake things up and who is on the other hand very very serious on delivering bricks that no matter how in oct

absolutely, and dominic cummings, the mastermind behind the vote leave campaign, who is a very brillianttrategist, would suggest that also his speech going on with suggest that when he talks about 20,000 more policemen on the street, we need to do something against the care crisis, we have an ageing population, that was very much, other than the brexit side, that was very much a campaign speech. your word very quickly, before we move on, on sajid javid as the new chancellor of the exchequer, a former anchor, your thoughts?” think he will probably do a very finejob. he is not a fan of austerity, so we will see some loosening of the purse strings. so i think it is great. especially with the general election around the corner. i obviously also think it is great we have somebody who is of pakistani descent, who is the son of an immigrant, and immigrant himself, that somebody like that can become financed... finance minister. that should just give every child out there who is from a minority background hope. the irish times front page, of course they have johnson all over it. they also say we

dominic cummings, the main picture there, his first day with his downing street pass around his neck.at university there. it was voted the worst nightclub in europe. it is brilliant. sticky floors. dominic cummings worked there in his summers, sometimes on there in his summers, sometimes on the door, sometimes as a bouncer and also overseeing the redecoration of it. this piece in the express as explaining how he is going to use all of that he learned from working in the nightclub and bring it to downing street. i think people like it when people work outside of downing street. yes, especially when it isa downing street. yes, especially when it is a place like the nightclub. coming up in the next half hour. headbanging meets haberdashery. we meet the woman from edinburgh who kicked off the world's first ever heavy metal knitting world championships. you will want to wait and see that. it is as weird as it looks. stay with us, headlines coming up. hello, this is breakfast with ben thompson and nina warhurst. it's 8.30am, here's a summary of this morning's main news. the government is no

leave campaign back in 2016 the new senior advisor to boris johnson is a controversial figure dominic cummings he was seen as the mastermind of vote levy was also found in contempt of parliament and he's made plenty of enemies within the conservative party another key to another interesting job jacob riis more becoming the leader of the house of commons now he's the one of the main figures in the european research group the hardline brics it faction within the conservative party some people are saying that all of this means that boris johnson is not just gearing up to try to deliver bricks it on time but in fact admitting that there might have to be a general election to make that happen or to try to get breaks it down a hole and that he's assembling his wish list he's hard line breaks it wishlist to try to find that campaign. there is andrew symonds called the view from 2 british journalists benjamin kentish of the independent and john stevens and the daily mail . it's a huge risk nobody predicted this we knew there'd be some refreshing of the cabinet has been some sort of people are being ca

what is very, very significant is dominic cummings, as his chief adviser because remember, he is theeave campaign and that would indicate to me, together with the speech he gave yesterday afternoon in front of number ten when he came in, where he was putting 10,000, 20,000 more policemen on the streets, he is opting for an election down the road, not so far down the road. the 0ctober road, not so far down the road. the october 31 deadline is not far away at all and october 31 deadline is not far away at alland in october 31 deadline is not far away at all and in his speech outside number ten, boris johnson made at all and in his speech outside number ten, borisjohnson made it very clear that he would meet that deadline. do you think he will pull that off with this team? short of a ha rd that off with this team? short of a hard brexit, i don't see how he can pull it off because the eu has made it equally clear that the withdrawal agreement, the divorce agreement, is not up for negotiation. there is scope in the political declaration which sort of frames and they want to negotiate the

leave campaign back in 2016 the new senior adviser to boris johnson is a controversial figure dominic cummings he was seen as the mastermind of vote levy was also found in contempt of parliament and he's made plenty of enemies within the conservative party another key to another interesting job jacob riis more becoming the leader of the house of commons now he's the one of the main figures in the european research group the hard line breaks it faction within the conservative party some people are saying that all of this means that boris johnson is not just gearing up to try to deliver bricks it on time but in fact admitting that there might have to be a general election to make that happen or to try to get bricks it done a talk and that he's assembling his wish list he's hard line breaks it wishlist to try to fight that campaign well boris johnson's claim that he can renegotiate a deal with the e.u. without the irish backstop has been snubbed by the irish prime minister. he's told r.t.e. news in dublin the brussels is not up for any more debate. listen to what he said today i got the impressio

i think he thinks it would be madness to call an election before brexit has been delivered, dominic cummingsd he is now one of the very most powerful people in the country stop but it may be forced upon them, if they lose a no confidence vote, so an election is coming, wejust don't confidence vote, so an election is coming, we just don't quite know when. brexit may be coming. coming, we just don't quite know when. brexit may be comingm coming, we just don't quite know when. brexit may be coming. it might not come until 2022! there's going to be an election in the next year, i'd predict. i wouldn't be certain. you'd think so but... it's on record! back to the sunday telegraph, and did either of you do english at a level? yes, and at university. history. we could soon be something of a rare breed, if this article is to be believed. stu d e nts this article is to be believed. students taking english is at the lowest level since 2001. it's gone down 8.4% in the last year, which is huge. this is largely, i suppose, because science, technology and maths, when you look at the earnings after six mon

and the appointment of dominic cummings raised a lot of eyebrows because he is a controversial figuree a select committee when he was asked to do so, and those who were part of the leave campaign tried to get rid of him and he ended up marginalising them. that is right. he called steve baker and the erg narcissistic delusional subset in a tumour that needed excising from the campaign, so that really speaks about the force of his personality and the bombast he brings to bear on his political strategising. he is a very anarchical character, he has huge interest in civil service reforms that she was on whitehall this week and hearing about his appointment, and hearing about his appointment, and there are a huge array of people who will be very concerned about the seniority that he will have. let's look at the independent, johnson ditches tory target on net migration. this was something that was very close to theresa may's heart, to reduce the number of migrants or immigrants into the country down to the tens of thousands from the hundreds. originally, david cameron pledged but one that b

appointed a very sort of contentious person dominic cummings the director of the leaves campaign as his personal adviser now that is already raising eyebrows here in westminster we hear that pretty much tell how blind greg city here is to the minister who was fired by trees and maybe for is going to come back as the home minister and we also hear that michael gove his old nemesis from the lasted leadership competition in 2016 is going to be his 2nd in command bars john says and so the names we've seen so far don't indicate that people from the sort of more middle of the road more liberal part of the conservative party are going to have places in cabinet but of course this is early days we will be knowing more later in the afternoon absolutely when a bar is johnson will be entering that a door behind you and become prime minister bob levy is in london thank you very much. there's been a bang up to date but some of the stories making news around the want police in thailand say 4 people have been killed in an attack on a military outpost in the south of the country unknown assailants on mo

general election later on this year boris johnson has for example appointed as his chief of staff dominic cummings who was the mastermind behind the campaign who could help him get his campaign started for a general election on the other hand we've heard jeremy called in the leader of the opposition. in parliament saying today that labor now fully supports to remain in the european union after years of back and forth that was very clear that he is also repositioning his party for a general election and we also see another issue scotland already announcing today that they are thinking of holding another independence referendum because they want to stay in the european union and not follow through on boris johnson's plan to leave so very much going on. i think that we having that we're having ahead of us here charlotte potts in london thank you. let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world the european central bank has held interest rates at and historic low of 0 percent the hotly anticipated decision comes amid an ongoing battle to kickstart growth and raise inflation

nominations we've seen that he has appointed the director the director of the leave campaign dominic cummings as his personal advisor now that is a very contentious appointment because we have known about the dark arts using the internet and data mining and many other things that cummings used to during the leave campaign he has been in parliament in t. was reprimanded by parliament because he wouldn't answer questions in a investigative committee there is so already parliamentarians have said we don't like this at all this man being out there so we already understand that he wants to use the dark arts while in office so his opponents know that to very carefully watch what so many come during the comings of course what his advisors and what boris johnson are going to do while being in downing street number 10 here and this is one appointment we know that. it is probably going to be the finance minister he is a middle of the road brakes a cheer loyalist we know that pretty cut shell is supposed to be a big come home minister as she is a hard line break secure and very hard and uncompromising l

donald trump has shown that means that he will he's employing as his main adviser dominic cummings this is the guy who who presided over believe campaign and so he knows how to sort of manipulate data and play with the internet and all the other stuff that has been going on during the live campaign so that is a sign for the other side of the political divide in britain to be very care. indeed and to watch watch very closely what boris johnson is up to of course he is not donald trump he is not as drastic he is not as brutal he is not going to make trump ian policy because he is of course not he would not be get away with that barbara based on joining us there in london where as we know today is a big day for the u.k. a transfer of power boris johnson taking over from to resign may currently meeting with the queen the so-called kissing of the hand taking place right now there in the u.k. barbara i know you're going to stick with us we'll come back to you in a little while. but 1st we want to get a check on some other stories making news around the world police in thailand say that 4 peop

not convinced, i've never been convinced about that, and actually he asked his key advisor, dominic cummingseve in no deal, so the biggest problem the theresa may government had is nobody believed them when they said they could deliver no deal. i suspect what the government is trying to do is convince brussels they will leave and they won't be a no deal outcome. my suspicion is they would rather go for an election. all this talk of no deal is causing a lot of disruption to the union. mrjohnson is promising break—up one —— to break up one while keeping another. they are unhappy that boris won in scotland and they have done a lot of scenarios and polling on the outcomes of the scotland depending on who won the leadership election and that shows the worst outcome possible for them what they boris johnson leadership, so they were unhappy about that in the first place. and then doubling their unhappiness was when david mundell was sacked, the very unhappy sacking of david mundell, and that was important to them in terms of keeping the union together, so they've not had a good week. they are not h

to the tao is the prime estimate when he was leading the leave campaign that he has appointed dominic cummings efy policy advisors and was he right to defy the select committee and not attend? mr speaker, this government is appointing a fantastic team that will take this country forward and i think it is absolutely astonishing he talks of the campaign to leave the european union. people on that side of the house voted to trigger article 50. i think it is an utter disgrace that they are now trying to reverse that result. mr speaker, i very much welcome our honourable friend's programme for government. as he employs an additional 20,000 police officers can he ensure county areas like warwickshire get their fairshare? areas like warwickshire get their fair share? not only that, they must also do much more to ensure that police in rural areas get out to victims of crime in a timely and efficient way, and i know my right honourable friend the home secretary will be insisting on that as well. mr speaker, if he actually cares about it, why did he devote only one sentence out of 61 sentences in his sp

role to oversee no deal preparations you spoke about speeding those up he's also brought in dominic cummings who was a kind of right hand man the real brains behind the vote leave campaign he's another person he's going to he's going to be afraid to break a few eggs in whitehall to get that no deal on that if you like. in terms the negotiation with you i think yeah you're right i mean it's he set the price that the e.u. have made no indication that they're willing to pay they've said time and time again they're not going to go back to this negotiation the famous quote was not one dot com or apostrophes going to change so the idea that now they're going to junk the backstop i think is probably a little bit forlorn and he certainly seems very comfortable with the prospect of no deal he does he certainly does but surely he must know the numbers are against him in the house 3 if he does that and that if he were to go that route it would in all likelihood provoke a general election do you think that's a point of concern for the conservative party in the restaurants and government absolutely i mea

directions they have a total unity of purpose these key breaks it figures pretty patel michael go dominic cummings the brains of breakthrough there no doubt no doubt now to mastermind what is likely to be an election campaign sooner rather than later and there is no turning back for boris johnson now there is no plan b. there are about to meet in the next half an hour this breaks it cabinet and the 1st order of business will be to pledge loyalty to the idea that deal or no deal they're coming out with a deal may be boris johnson says that's his priority although he has set the bar almost an attainable a high for the european union you heard the override there the irish teashop all but rejecting those johnson's demands no deal johnson said. inside downing street yesterday when he would accept that remotely reluctantly the remote possibility of it he said at the subtext there is if it comes it will be the e.u. who's fault for not negotiating not boris johnson's and jonah is due to address parliament for the 1st time later today as prime minister what are they expected to say. i imagine that they'll

, asa director of voet leave, dominic cummings, as a senior adviser to the incoming prime minister.ho want to stop brexit, or those who are determined that the uk should only leave with a deal, that will probably put them on an even higher state of alert than they are already. it suggests boris johnson is going all in with that campaign promise to deliver brexit. but with that deadline less than 100 days away, it certainly suggests we are infora days away, it certainly suggests we are in for a very fraught few months in politics. annita, thank you. brexit party leader nigel farage says he's open to an electoral pact with borisjohnson, but only if he is serious about his commitment to the october 31st deadline for leaving the eu. borisjohnson has ruled out a deal with mr farage and stressed he does not want an early election. but mr farage said an election would be required to ensure brexit can be delivered on time and if his party and the tories agreed an alliance, they could "smash" the labour party. the operator of a british—flagged oil tanker has made contact with the 23 crew mem

he has brought in dominic cummings, the strategic mastermind of the vote leave campaign, to grip thehe roles of. he is chancellor of the duchy of lancaster, one of those made up roles — although i guess they are all made up roles and some way. but he is kind of the enforcer. this was one of the big themes of the speech yesterday, that no—one was committed, they didn't face the eu on, and if they don't come to the table we will just leave on, and if they don't come to the table we willjust leave in a chaotic manner. there is some balance in the cabinet between remainers and levers, but the big appointments who are front and centre are fullbore leave advocates. dominic raab is quite extreme. priti patel has said she would bring back hanging quite as recent as 2011, which is quite a radical idea. these are the people he has chosen as his big faces. 0bviously huge promotions for ethnic minority mps, some women in prominent roles, and the idea of a new phase. but it is notjust a fullfa ce a new phase. but it is notjust a fullface but a full—blooded brexiteer face. we are waking up to thes

not only did he bring dominic cummings who is the mastermind of the campaign as chief adviser, they clearly are a team that is getting girded up for a reelection very soon. and i wouldn't be at all surprised if we don't have an election in october or before. >> when you look at it from the outside, in order to get out by october 31st, it would seem like the europeans would have to make some compromises now. first of all, it's basically august and nobody in europe is working. so i don't quite see how in 100 days in the middle of the summer you are actually going to get some kind of negotiated exit. >> you wouldn't get a negotiated exit in the middle of winter either. the europeans are not going to cut a sweet deal with the british. there is no fondness or the new prime minister for those around him. there's no kmans the europeans would set a precedent that might encourage others to follow suit. if it's going to be brexit, it's going to be punitive from their point of view. it will be bad for europe, it will be i would argue even worse for the united kingdom. indeed, i think it puts in jeopar

it's being reported that there is anger among tory eurosceptics towards dominic cummings — mrjohnson‘g members of the erg when it comes to cabinet positions. in a further sign of the erg's stance, the group's vice—chairman mark francois said it would oppose any attempt by mrjohnson to bring back the deal thrashed out with brussels, even if he succeeded in removing the irish backstop — the most contentious element of the divorce deal. 0ur political correspondent jonathan blake is at westminster. welcome, one day in and we are already seeing signs of not quite division but unrest, how would you categorise it? this is one ministerial appointment that did not go the way boris johnson wanted. it is a significant one, steve baker is influential among conservative eurosceptics, a senior member of the european research group which was a thorn in the side of theresa may's premiership, voting consistently in large numbers against her deal with brussels. he clearly feels, in his tweet, were he to return to the brexit department, he used to be a minister there, he would feel a powerlessness becau

steve, the appointment of dominic cummings to number ten as an adviser, that this is a strategy for itpipe. this is a government on the war footing. the appointment, there is no compromise here. he was ruthless yesterday in the supporters ofjeremy ruthless yesterday in the supporters of jeremy hunt. it ruthless yesterday in the supporters ofjeremy hunt. it feels in westminster, they are gearing up for an election. whether he chooses it at another question. amber rudd saying sajid javid was a remainder, so on. saying sajid javid was a remainder, so on. it is not as lucky as suggested. there is balance across the cabinet. he wanted to be a cabinet reflecting britain, in parliament and the treasury and things, but fundamentally, in key posts, right around things, but fundamentally, in key posts, rightaround him, his things, but fundamentally, in key posts, right around him, his key lieutenants are all brexiteers, high up lieutenants are all brexiteers, high up in the vote leave campaign. i think it is all being geared up to basically say, the eu won't negotiate with us, parliament won't a

it's being reported that there is anger among tory eurosceptics towards dominic cummings, mrjohnson'srs of the erg when it comes to cabinet positions. in a further sign of the erg's stance, the group's vice—chairman mark francois said it would oppose any attempt by mrjohnson to bring back the deal thrashed out with brussels, even if he succeeded in removing the irish backstop — the most contentious element of the divorce deal. our political correspondent jonathan blake is at westminster. are these signs of an early rift in the new government? it isn't a rift in his government but it is an example of things not quite going boris johnson's way. example of things not quite going borisjohnson's way. steve baker is someone who i think would rather have inside the tent than out of it. he isa have inside the tent than out of it. he is a prominent member of the european research group, that eurosceptic group of tory mps who made life so difficult for theresa may when she was trying to get her deal through parliament. but he was clearly annoyed by not being offered a more senior role, and that

heard him outline today we've already had some clues about that every night you know names like dominic cummings are coming in behind the scenes i mean he's a man held in contempt by this problem and nevertheless widely perceived to be the sort of genius brains behind bricks in the names being floated for his cabinet very right wing very hard pro brick city is makes you wonder how he's going to sort of change the face of britain today with all of these other promises on policing of schooling and gender and sperry so in the animal welfare and everything else even his cabinet is being built sholay around brooks well i'm not sure that is the case actually i think what is necessary for him is that he has in those key posts he full who are prepared to stick by his line breaks it which is essentially we would go for no deal if he cannot achieve a deal by the 31st of october i mean the problem for mrs may i think was that she didn't have. she didn't have unanimity in the cabinet on that vital point clearly that wasn't exactly how policy but there was a sense that there were so many tensions pulling in

now one of the names we haven't mentioned is that of dominic cummings.he is as important as anyone sitting round that cabinet table. he is the mastermind, the brains for boris johnson's three month campaign to quit the eu, as he was during the vote leave campaign. he was the person who pulled together the whole campaign, and gave it its impetus and drive and strategy. a maverick, someone and drive and strategy. a maverick, someone who doesn't mind putting noses out ofjoint. what it tells us, i think, noses out ofjoint. what it tells us, ithink, is noses out ofjoint. what it tells us, i think, is that mrjohnson is prepared to shake things up in his campaign to get us out of the eu. joining me now from westminster is the former conservative party leader and dung dung —— dung. is this pick up on what norman was saying is that no—deal cabinet do you any?” on what norman was saying is that no-deal cabinet do you any? i think it is best described as a leave by the 31st october cabinet, of which the 31st october cabinet, of which the stream of work that needs t

and the six of them, michael gove, dominic raab, priti patel, and cummings as well, michael gove willngs right through the summer, including sundays. no rest. and they are now working on the assumption, as well, that the eu are not going to offer them and out. so do we take this to mean on the basis of this article that we are a step closer to a no deal brexit scenario? well, every day that passes this closer, given we are theoretically living on 31 october and boris has pledged he will do. quite a lot of people in parliament will try to do something to stop that happening, but the fact is, as catherine said here, this is about making sure, first of all, that we are in a position to leave. because the other point to make is, although the new european commission president has said that she will be willing to grant an extension, of course, the eu leaders would have to ee, course, the eu leaders would have to agree, each one. the fact of the matter is the government under boris johnson is now going full steam ahead trying to prepare to make sure that in the event of getting to 31 october

mueller was had at the fbi and he was at lockheed martin, massive contracts being wrought dominic reported to james cummingsrtin. what's that all about? what's the connection between the two of them? there's a lot of questions that he should be forced to answer. i don't think this will be playing the ceiling for those who want to detect the present. >> jessica: i don't think any of it indicates, though, that he's on the democrat side. he said in the press conference that -- >> steve: its establishment. >> jessica: but there's no evidence of that since the presence of the mueller report was no collusion, no obstruction, clean bill of health there. do you think there is back channeling? what you make of the delay that democrats are saying is for formatting issues, to make sure the question can be done as effectively as possible? do you buy that? >> emily: at this point, who knows? i'm not going to conjecture. that will reveal itself once we do see the hearing, whether we see this orchestrated approach. in terms of the expectations of the result, of course it will be politicized. if he says nothing beyond the

brazile and cofounder of the federalist ben dominic, before we get to impeachment, i have to ask a couple of you about the tweets, your reaction about cummings of baltimore? >> he was not only attacking the chair of oversight committee, he was attacking the entire seventh district of maryland which includes baltimore city and the rest, the president is absolutely wrong, when lawmakers are questioning his policy, questioning the implementation of -- of policy, the president goes after these lawmakers in a personal way, i think it's wrong, but, of course, this is the president's strategy. chris: do you think he's racist? >> i don't know what's in his heart but repeated pattern that we have seen for the last several years. chris: karl, you hear people close to trump campaign saying that the president can kind of walk that up to the line of racist tweets, racist rhetoric, mobilize his base and step back from it without allieanating. is this good political strategy? >> he didn't advance it. he attacked a city, attacked district and painted ugly picture, i don't think it helped the president's cause whatsoever. look, i don't know what is in his he

brazile and cofounder of the federalist ben dominic, before we get to impeachment, i have to ask a couple of you about the tweets, your reaction about cummingsf baltimore? >> he was not only attacking the chair of oversight committee, he was attacking the entire seventh district of maryland which includes baltimore city and the rest, the president is absolutely wrong, when lawmakers are questioning his policy, questioning the implementation of -- of policy, the president goes after these lawmakers in a personal way, i think it's wrong, but, of course, this is the president's strategy. chris: do you think he's racist? >> i don't know what's in his heart but repeated pattern that we have seen for the last several years. chris: karl, you hear people close to trump campaign saying that the president can kind of walk that up to the line of racist tweets, racist rhetoric, mobilize his base and step back from it without allieanating. is this good political strategy? >> he didn't advance it. he attacked a city, attacked district and painted ugly picture, i don't think it helped the president's cause whatsoever. look, i don't know what is in his hear

cummings isn't going after the president personally, he's just doing his constitutional duty. >> the other news, congressman, we're following of course is the president's decision to dominate republican congressman republican john radcliffe to serve as director of national intelligence. double he's qualified? >> well, let me be very fair here. i know john radcliffe. we actually did a bill together that the president signed. my view is he ought to have the opportunity to make his case, but there's serious questions he needs to answer. one, is he going to be an independent voice? two, what is his background in intelligence? three, is he going to be able to stand up to this president and talk compellingly about russian interference? i believe he should have the opportunity to make his case. >> on fox news this sunday radcliffe said it's going to be really difficult for anyone to rely on the findings of the mueller report. do you have think he can be confirmed if he doesn't believe the findings of the mueller report, that the findings are legitimate. >> i think he has to at least admit that mueller's conclusions about russian interference are legitimate and he has to assure people he'll

dominic trump tweets about it. in effect radically restricted the ability to protect citizens. not surprisingly, it exploded. he is very much a part of the problem in baltimore. nancy pelosi defended elijah cummings in the city of baltimore. of course, we know that she grew up in baltimore. her brother was the mayor of baltimore. she has a winery in napa. she's not interested in going back to baltimore. it's easier to give other people lectures about all tomorrow. democrats feel that way. they've given up. instead of trying to fix baltimore's problem, they have decided to import a new population of people, many of them illegal aliens. >> my only concern is for the people who are already here. doesn't make a a school better when people move in who don't speak english? it doesn't improve the education? is it fair to the taxpayers? every thought about that question marks >> i think our greatest asset is our diversity. >> that doesn't mean anything. i asked you a sincere question. does that dominic and improve a school when a lot of people move who don't speak english? does a school get better? >> absolutely. >> yeah, schools get a lot better. it actually turns out that the schools haven't gotten bet

of "the federalist," and dominance before we get to impeachment, i've got to ask a couple of you about the tweets. your reaction to the president's tweets about elijah cummingsf baltimore? >> he was not only attacking the chairman of the oversight committee, he was attacking the entire southern district of maryland, which includes baltimore city and the rest. the president is absolutely wrong. when lawmakers are questioning his policy, questioning the implementation of policy, the president goes after these lawmakers in a personal way. i think it's wrong but of course this is the president's strategy. >> chris: do you think he's racist? >> i don't know what is in his heart but this is a repeated pattern was seen for the last several years. >> chris: you hear people from the trump campaign saying the president can kind of walk up to the line of racist tweets, racist rhetoric, mobilize his base and then step back from it without alienating a lot of other people that he's going to need for his suburban college educated people. is this a good political strategy? >> this didn't advance it. if that was his goal, it didn't advance it. he attacked a city, he attacke

launched a this attack on congressman cummings and on his district of baltimore maryland in order to distract from a couple of other issues that have been dominating the political conversation foley and includes the conditions in the detention camps along the us mexico border conditions which those who have visited it say are simply appalling and perhaps constitute human rights violations as well as the ongoing investigation into a man who is said to have been a longtime acquaintance of the president and who is now being accused of running a child sex trafficking ring jeffrey epstein there are critics who say that the president is trying to distract from both of these situations because they both are connected to him the president thank you for that rossley in jordan live for us in washington d.c. . the leaders of mexico and one jurists have signed a pledge to care of the number of central american migrants seeking asylum in the united states honduras will adopt similar programs to mexico which put people to work planting trees and offer a monthly payment to young students the page was signed in the mexican state of vera crones money is there and

home office dominic rob resigned and to rick to resume a you know the foreign office michael gove apparently forgiven by boris johnson he's code lead in the leave campaign he's in dominick cummings the genius brains behind breaks it is said to be preparing to mastermind an election campaign it's about unity of purpose this it's about delivering breakfast with a deal boris johnson says that's his priority old although in the harshest possible terms and you could live around pretty much rejecting them all or boris johnson said so reluctantly but to accept the remote possibility of a no deal if brussels don't negotiate it will be their fault in other words not his and jenna bush johnson due to address parliament for the 1st time today as prime minister what do you expect to hear from him. i imagine that his address to parliament will largely echo the comments he made at the podium outside downing street taking aim in parliament among employees or the doubters the doomsdayers in the gloom says as he put it decrying 3 years of unfounded self-doubt and indecision he'll lay out his program duders he's dubbed it that's yet to catch on let's see delivering bricks at uniting the country d

cummings and the city of baltimore. >> harris: and 2020 democratic presidential candidate amy klobuchar brought up the controversy at last night's debate. >> well, first of all, there are both people that followed dominic voted for a donald trump or ford that are not racist. they just wanted a better shake in the economy. so i appeal to them. but i don't think anyone can justify what this president is doing. little kids literally woke up this weekend, turned on the tv, and saw their president calling their city, the town of baltimore, nothing more than a home for rats. >> harris: how the story has moved forward and have a secretary on the ground in baltimore. your reaction? >> steve: i think this is backwards. the thing you want to do if you want to solve the problem is send ben carson in advance, to try and have a constructive dialogue with your opponents, and do something about the problem. unfortunately the president attacked first. he went after elijah cummings. he would say because elijah cummings has been attacking him because he's been investigating him, the administration. >> harris: it's also his district. >> steve: but it's unlikely this will result in a positive outcome for anybody because o

cummings. kevin corke from the white house in the north lawn, this hour. let's start this. good morning >> good morning, bill. the thinking is absolutely dominicold. he wants to push back that any criticism of a person of color is inherently racist or criticism of a woman is inherently sexist. he is pushing back against elijah cummings because the feeling is that he has abused his power as chair of the oversight committee appeared to be fair, he has been a fierce critic of the president as well, so while some people argue that this is a little over political. holism, no where did he mention race in his tweets. he said yesterday "there is nothing racist and stating plainly what people already know, that elijah cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district. it dems always play the race card when they are unable to win shame!" with facts. he added that they have the worst crime statistics in the nation. 25 years of talk and no action. so tired of listening to those same old bull. nothing will get done for the people in need. sad." longtime friend and now frequent critic is calling him out for those tweets. >> i know donald trump