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

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

, 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 inevitable we would see this plummeting. yasmin, do you agree it was inevitable the pulling would drop so signif

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

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

dominic cummings said inside government they see gavin williamson as doing a really toughjob of gavinh job of taking a bullet for boris johnson and by the government has problems with the schools. they see him as taking on the unions and two we e ks see him as taking on the unions and two weeks ago when he ditched the pledge to get all primary school pupils back they saw that as not reality. the unions will find any excuse to try to oppose the plans to get back to schools. even today the union leaders were saying even at one metre we will not be safe to get all the kids back by september. i think it'sjust that all the kids back by september. i think it's just that we get to the age—old political battle between the conservatives and the hard left unions. i get the hunch now that gavin williamson will actually be safe at least a cabinet position, maybe not in his current role. has he still got his tarantula from when he still got his tarantula from when he was chief whip? i don't know about that. it's a very good question. it will look at my tasks to us that tomorrow and get back to you

and i arrived at dominic cummings once there was a draft and i needed him, i had specific things i wantedted 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 represent them fairly. and that is where it gets complicated. you are portraying real life and real events but in a fictionalised form and some critics, i will quote to you a campaigning journalist, carol cadwalladr. you got involved in a public debate with her about the veracity, the trueness to life of your brexit screenplay and she said that your dominic cummings, the one you created on—screen, is a sherlock character. a maverick polymath who brilliantly solves problems no—one else can. and your portrayal made out that he won through genius and not through allegedly criminal methods. because all that in the end got investigated. and because you created a performance and 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

and finally boris johnson's chief a dominant cummings could face private legal action over his controversial trip to darfur and while longtime restrictions were in place the action is currently being crowd funded by law graduate frustrated by cummings flouting of the government's own coronavirus guidelines well launched on sunday the fundraiser is seeking 300000 pounds for the case with donations so far as a little under 3000 the money raised will initially fund legal advice on coming strip and if a basis for prosecution is found well then go towards prosecuting him any of the money raised which isn't spent on the prosecution will be donated to a charity which helps people with vision problems. well in april cummings and his wife drove 260 miles to take their child to a 2nd home in darwin at a time when full lockdown measures were still in place darren police said that trip didn't break the law but a subsequent 60 mile round trip divided cancelled which cummings claims was to test his eyesight before returning to london constituted a minor breach similar breaches by members of the public hav

penalty notice it's not that i think they need to be reviewed in any event but then with the dominic cummings episode there are increasingly we're seeing examples of people complaining that in fact what they were doing was not so different to what dominic coming said he was doing so why were they issued with a fine when when basically the government's message is he didn't do anything wrong and so what really needs to happen for people to regain trust not only in the government but actually in policing and also in the courts and application of the law or the needs to be a thorough review of all these kind of you know to say it's because the law doesn't function unless it's applies in a fair manner there's no coin having laws they mean nothing if their occupation is is in some way misapplied or an equally applied let's look at the numbers the police don't seem to have held back do they when it comes to issuing fines 15000 issued in england and wales on that basis then why didn't they find on the cummings well i mean they actually fix a high than that now just very very recently that 17000 is th

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

cameron or boris johnson, it was a guy who at the time very few people had heard of, called dominic cummingsnow is borisjohnson is most important advisor. but why did you, long before he attached himself to prime ministerjohnson, why did you see him as a fascinating character? he really is a fascinating character and that often sounds increasingly stale in terms of the sound level of conversation. as you have seen he is a disruptive and unpredictable surprising catherine wheel of conversation and linguistics. did you meet him and talk to him as research? it was late. we had a tactic is sometimes effective, you identify your person in the middle of the universe, dominic cummings, and you start on the outskirts and rotate your way in graduallyjust so you can gather information and feel confident when you get there. i interviewed as many people are so called from vote leave, interns or marketing and communications people. and once there was a draft and i needed cummings, i had things i wa nted needed cummings, i had things i wanted to know and i was grateful. he devoted a lot of time to it. you

visor —— 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.

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

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

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

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

probably wisely just let boris johnson keep digging the hole he's already in and that's the dominic cummings affair but the sop point to something that has plans are clearly are does that suggest more fundamental weaknesses in the consent of the government structure where sapir starmer will be able to exploit as opposition leader both you and i have been around politics for quite a long time alex and i equate this with the black wednesday era or john major's government there's been a catastrophic loss of 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 seei

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

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

in refusing to sack dominic cummings for travelling 260 miles with his wife, who was symptomatic, thedestroyed 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 that my honourable friend lists and that are heartfelt, that as a nation, we have the resolve to see this through. we can see that the number of cases is coming right down and we can see that the number of people dying is coming right down and we've got

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

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

dominic cummings being so well-preserved preserved in the process, we have ticked off the risk of a no deal exit that is more likely than it was. thingnk the most likely is a limited trade agreement. sometimes investors gloss over them that but i'm limited trade agreement will give you very little and creates additional customs. ae next six months will be realization not only of the risk but not the usual brexit roller coaster. for the markets to react to that but you have to ride that roller coaster to get to the deal but there also has to be an increased awareness among investors about the differential impact this will have on different companies in different sectors. there may be less exposure even if a deal is done. alix: thank you so much. also, breaking news -- amazon reportedly telling congress that jeff bezos will testify in a probe over amazon's dominance in the digital space. there had been a real standoff with amazon saying they would only let certain executives or appropriate executives testify. it seems jeff bezos will be testifying in front of the house and makingommittee

apparent 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

the 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

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

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

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

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

he 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

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

dominic cummings as he said because i can only repeat what he said tuesday's instincts for what he felt was necessary in those circumstances well i'm suggesting to you that these people are very sensible using their instincts to do what they think is reasonable in the tragic circumstances that they are protesting against looking at the case of george floyd to think it's a case that's actually for the us justice system it's something that's actually an american issue absolutely not this is a world wide issue this is about one of the strongest pillars of every society and that is the legal system and if we see that the forces of the legal system are acting in a way that is betrayed those very principles then of course this is something that affects us well why did it affect society as a whole in terms of product in terms of protesting though do you think that by breaking the social distancing rules and therefore as you say the law itself the protesters in some ways have actually alienated rather than garnered support for their cause i don't think so because when we look at the law this th

well of course what we've been seeing in particular since the issue of dominic cummings his trip to darwinthe 260 miles trip that he took public trust in the government is surely now according to. city's reuters institute they've done a poll along with the you've got it says that currently less than half of the public believe that doris johnson and his government have been giving people the correct information about the 90 back in april this figure was over 66 percent so that's a massive drop in public trust with regards to the government's response now to some 30 percent of people think the country's had it in a positive direction that it's all of. a 4 or 4 or 5 percent 35 percent the same thing last month quarter people believe the u.k. is moving in the wrong direction that's up from 15 percent last month so all in all it's showing that people have starting to lose faith in how the government is handling the crisis the government said that perhaps they're not going to be holding any weekend press conferences they'll just be helped during the read that could lead to public this trust and

you know we saw we saw scientists resign as a result of doing the same thing when it came to dominate cummings it was just a different rule set and i can speak from personal opinion from my prison experience sorry. that happened the minute boris johnson excuse. behave. so people in and around my surgery you know just block as a going out and about how you now agree it how the real real disastrous effects on social distancing warring aspect as it does to aamir khan thank you very much. and coming up after the break. you've probably been terry anzur votes to reject a trade deal with the u.k. if it doesn't include a level playing field commitment that's as a poll shows breck's it has polarized politics in northern ireland we can't let politics but. is your media a 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. 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. one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. yet

percipient governor we can collapse in the opinion polls for the government and the aftermath of 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 motive does mean that in glasgow you're pretty sure emails of your messages thank you alex and some interesting responses to i sure last week on whatever happened to breaks it fixing m p dangle contin 5090 percent only and then if alex to jump start it says anything to bill's hooted for banks it scotland northern ireland.

percent last month and so for that reason it's still about the way the government handled the dominant cummings 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 ca

absolutely we've see of course the news emerging in the last few weeks of that trip made by dominic cummings to. 260 miles from london and does a result of that trip there's been somewhat of a media outcry in the public outcry really as to his behavior and also perhaps the lack of any action on the parts of the prime minister to punish mr cummings for doing so and today we saw the leader of the opposition kiss stahmann going head to head with the prime minister for the 1st time since that news emerged and this is tom accusing mr johnson of leading a government which is suffering from the crisis in public trust 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 religious institute was commissioned to you gov poll this week and said i have never in 10 years of research seen a drop in trust like we've seen for the u.k. government how worried is the prime minister i'm surprised you should take that this is because since i took it i took the trouble

i would like to know whether it is part of the dominic cummings radical revolutionary reform of the british. it seems that boris's counterargument today at the briefing was that actually, they're following the lead of many other countries. it remains to be seen whether or not that is the case. i'm not convinced that boris would think anyone for reminding him of his states of the commonwealth and they do not think he was thought of by everybody to be a resounding success in thatjob. but, here we are and my worry is that when you put the whole question of international aid is just a matter, just one part of what is going on in the foreign commonwealth office, will they get the priority that some of us think it deserves? trying to persuade a dictator not to cut off the head of a political rival in the following day, some an office in £300 million of british a's, that does not sharpen the message. but, in terms of its national development funding he said they are to continue with the .7% of gdp and actually, the critics of the policy, we do not or friend stands on this as well, it might make it

maybe we must use ourjudgement like borisjohnson allowed his chief adviser dominic cummings to do.d use ourjudgment. the times has this image of a grandchild saying the grandparent through a pane of glass. kind of heartbreaking image that we are so used to. in theory grandparents will be reunited. polly, as you picked up on it's not 100% clear as to how that will work in practice. it's only one individual grandparent if they are living alone. according to these rules canjoin living alone. according to these rules can join up. living alone. according to these rules canjoin up. if you are a grandparent couple you can still come at the guidelines announced last week, you can visit your kids and your grandkids. last week, you can visit your kids and yourgrandkids. or last week, you can visit your kids and your grandkids. or they can visit you so long as you only stay in the garden and used a two metres apart from another and don't do anything reckless like sharing barbecue utensils or using the toilet for more than five minutes. so, i think, toilet for more than five minutes. so, ithin

—— because he did not sack dominic cummings and wanted to keep them onside at a crucial time.s been a balance for the government and liz crisis, it has been a balance for the government and linohnson, where to save lives or save the economy. “— where to save lives or save the economy. —— and borisjohnson. the difficulties of doing that, the delicate balance, and it is really that once again at this moment, what has been described as a dangerous moment once again. yeah, and i think of course at the beginning, all the focus was on hospitals in particular, on trying to save lives, and the health element of this, of course, was right at the top, it was the priority. but of course, ministers and particularly those in the treasury have been well aware of the treasury have been well aware of the repercussions and they have brought in those schemes to try and help people to make sure they have still got money coming in and to make sure businesses can survive for something to go back to. here is the downing street briefing, matt hancock, the health secretary. good afternoon and welcome

corporations deny any wrong doing such job and obviously has been fired by boris johnson apparently by dominic cummings who knows we invited him on the show ok i'll stop you there more from nokia after this short break. the. international memorial awards has extended its deadline for submissions. all media professionals are eligible for a freelance journalist work for alternative media for a part of a global platform you can submit to your published works in either video or format go toward go to r.t. dot com and enter now. welcome back i'm still here with hip hop artist and activist and ok as to see even lawrence who government the macpherson report and the government inspector of constabulary appointed wendy williams said look this was institutionally ignorant and this was not institutionally racist within the police force of this country so what do you make of institutional ignorance rather than the much more incendiary term arguably institutional racism people are having their names children having their names placed on the gangs matrix which is a government database which increases surveillance up

corporations deny any wrong doing such job and obviously has been fired by a bar's johnson apparently dominic cummings who knows we have made him on the show look i'll stop you there more from nokia after this short break. no crown. no shots. actually felt. no. point show your thirst for action. the world is driven by a dream. thinks . we fear to ask. welcome back i'm still here with hip hop artist and activist and ok as to stephen lawrence who was mudded we had that inquiry ordered by the government the macpherson report and the government inspector of constabulary appointed wendy williams said look this was institutionally ignorant and this was not institutionally racist within the police force of this country so what do you make of institutional ignorance rather than the much more incendiary arguably institutional racism people are having their names children having their names placed on the gangs matrix which is a government database which increases. surveillance upon those children and is intrusive and public sector workers are being encouraged to take part in it for merely being the victims of c

began with a sort of tear out against dominic cummings who is the u.k. government's chief advisor to boris johnson for his alleged recruit lock down who rules out a point is not whether we support it coming sporting he was responsible for the breakdown for breaking the rules but the way in which it was done was like a sort of editorializing. diatribe i make lists and that's the sort of thing you would have seen on the b.b.c. years ago and that i think that the move towards that will editorialize. approach has been one of the reasons why i think the public trust has fallen this is our business how does it make you feel as a journalist that audiences are increasingly suspicious i suppose. well i think we've got to go back to the future really are it's not good and i think we've got to clearly see the innate the difference between views between news and views to say quite clearly there is reporting and there is opinion and i've got a little connection to go back to the print media of newspapers going way back to the 1970 s. and then if you looked at some of

corporations deny any wrong doing such job and obviously has been fired by a bar's johnson apparently dominic cummings who knows we have made him on the show look i'll stop you there more from nokia after this short break. well we're seeing is a utter divorce an utter split from the real economy and the financial lives funny money fed driven casino that is now taking over the globe this is causing to think big overlord class are becoming fabulously wealthy and the peasants are revolting they got a good old fashioned peasant revolt down america and learned that not sure. welcome back i'm still here with hip hop obvious and activist loki as to see even lawrence who was mudded we had that inquiry ordered by the government the macpherson report and the government inspector of constabulary appointed wendy williams said look this was institutionally ignorant and this was not institutionally racist within the police force of this country so what do you make of institutional ignorance rather than the much more incendiary. institutional racism people are having their names children having their names placed on