britain's former work and pensions secretary in duncan smith has called for the scrapping of the e.u.withdrawal agreement claiming it denies britain true national independence the european commission has already rejected the call saying the commitments made in the agreement a reasonable and will stand in a twitter post in duncan smith said the e.u. wants our money and the brussels which is to stop britain being a competitor his comments spark confusion online as many were quick to point out that duncan smith actually voted for the withdrawal agreement when it went through parliament last year others were keen to highlight that he wants claim that 3 days was enough time to debate it britain is set to leave the transition period at the end of the year following its official withdrawal in january. of mourners i'm not sure but associate professor of politics of the month for university alice to jones out of their great to see you so what you make of this is is ian duncan smith at having regrets now well that would appear to be the case i mean as you pointed out he said you needed 3 days t

and former conservative party leader in duncan smith calls for the brics it would all agree with thescript despite having voted for the last year. condolences are being sent from all over the world to lebanon where a devastating explosion ripped through the capital on tuesday the nation is in mourning as the test free has claimed the lives of at least 135 people and left 5000 injured according to the lebanese health minister. given the large number of injured hospitals are under immense strain facilities already dealing with the coronavirus crisis were quickly filled beyond capacity pleas for blood donations and for generations to keep the lights on here are some 1st hand accounts from those who experienced the shock wave of the blast. so you must die and all of a sudden we felt a boom everything turned over our hands i was at home in my bed watching t.v. when the window fell over on me the wardrobe also follower asked my daughter injured and she needs a surgery now. because it. cannot be me we were at home we heard the sound of the airplanes above our house well even the op of floor

britain's former work and pensions secretary in duncan smith has called for the scrapping of the e.u. withdrawal agreement claiming it denies britain true national independence you're paying commission has already rejected the cols saying the commitments made in the agreement reasonable and will stand in the twitter post in duncan smith said the e.u. wants money the brussels wish is to stop britain being a competitor is common spot confusion online as many were quick to point out that duncan smith actually voted for the withdrawal agreement when it went through parliament last year others were keen to highlight that he once claimed that 3 days was enough time to debate it but in october the form the pension secretary expressed his complete support for the document in parliament. i am absolutely without question of a doubt going to support this tonight in both votes both in the 2nd reading vote and i believe massively importantly in the programme motion and our course at moffett we didn't have program versions some people might recall round here that we had to have a 100 hours in commi

cut to just 24. 38 tory mps rebelled, including, as we saw there, the ex—tory leader sir iain duncan smithd be stripping out huawei, but at a price. today's decision to ban the procurement of new huawei 5g equipment from the end of this you will delay rollout by a further year and will add up to half a billion pounds to costs. requiring operators, in addition, to remove huawei equipment from the 5g networks by 2027 will add hundreds of millions of pounds further to the cost and further delay rollout. 0liver dowden. and china wasn't the only nation rocking the government's boat. the long—awaited report by pa rliament‘s intelligence and security committee on alleged russian interference in uk democracy was controversial long before it was even published. there had been anger that it hadn't been made public before december‘s collection and then a row about how long it was taking to reform the isc afterwards. when it did finally meet, its members rejected the government's candidate for chairman, chris grayling, for fellow tory julian lewis, who was properly booted out of the conservative parli

has great concerns about this in duncan smith who's a former conservative leader he's leading sort of the charge to precious pressure boris johnson to say let's do the same thing we did with one way and eventually ban it and as you know it was really off to the whole virus then this is when they started to clamp down on so i think you're going to see probably the u.k. yes leaning the same way as the u.s. now i know there could be a lot of back and forth here between who would christie on this issue but there's one more aspect that i have to ask you about pretty to tell us what this means for the 2 other ministration is also recommended new rules for chinese companies which shares traded on u.s. stock exchanges no no actually very big but essentially forcing them to give up their listings and find a new exchange if they don't submit to u.s. audit requirements critically tell us what's going on there now so this has been in the works for some time now under this plan chinese auditors would have to share their work papers with the u.s. audit regulators and this mood comes amid the rising