parliamentary speech, there have been some very fiery parliamentary resignation speeches in the past, like geoffrey howeargaret thatcher, robin cook when he objected to the iraq war. how does this compare to those? i mean, ijust don't believe that borisjohnson‘s speech is up there with geoffrey howe and robin cook's speeches. as you say, the point about the geoffrey howe speech was that changed history immediately, because that gave michael heseltine the cover to challenge margaret thatcher. famously, he challenged her, he didn't get the crown because he or she who wields the knife never wears the crown. and they delivered their resignation speeches to a completely full house of commons, and boris johnson, it wasn't quite full. i think it was the nature of the day and the fact that it came very late in the day. but there was a difference in atmosphere, i'm sure, in the house. yes, a very different atmosphere. the problem for borisjohnson was he had to wait two and a half or three hours after prime minister's questions because of all those urgent questions and statements, the prime minister wasn't in the

remember when mrs t was toppled all those years ago, mrs thatcher faced that resignation speech by geoffrey howew he had been sentin speech to talk about how he had been sent in to bat against the eu with eight broken cricket bat. some better news for mrs may this morning. david davis, the man who resigned last monday, says he is not going to do a geoffrey howe. do you think that the prime minister can survive another week? of course! you know, she's a good prime minister. the fact we have a difference of opinion doesn't change that. and i presume the way you'll be voting today goes without saying? i'll be supporting the government on the bill and on the customs union elements where there's a challenge to them, but i'll also probably support one of the amendments on ensuring that northern ireland is not separated from great britain. in any event, that's government policy, but it'll do no harm putting it into the bill. so, david davis is not going to be waiting around with a broken cricket bat. unlike geoffrey howe. on the less good news site for theresa may, another ministerial resignation. a ch

rise on thursday and he is still mulling over making a statement after pmqs on wednesday, the geoffrey howewhen he savaged margaret thatcher like a dead sheep, so margaret thatcher like a dead sheep, sol margaret thatcher like a dead sheep, so i don't think she will see that of that if there were to be a challenge on her, it would have to happen in the next few days so i think she's trying to take the sting out of that by getting people out by thursday. let's move on to the ft, more problems for theresa may, the office for budget responsibility warns that nhs billions pledge will raise pressure higher taxes. did we not think that might be the case? we did because it was an uncosted policy, it was also meant to be a distraction from some of her brexit rose, to announce this extra 20 billion but now the fiscal watchdog has said she will have to raise taxes to pay for this. we have heard rumblings that the treasury is looking at hiking fuel duty or alcohol duty but they would only raise part of this extra spending so there will be bigger tax rises but conservative mps i have spoken to, many of

he sat in the same spot geoffrey howe had sat in for his famous cabinet resignation speech. this, from boris and his supporters who were around him to make him look popular. and the chamber was almost empty. no cabinet ministers there, no big labour beasts. you could argue they have enough going on. every big member of parliament has some sort of crisis within their own party or within brexit so it is understandable in some ways. and it was a strong speech whether you are a boris supporter or somebody who cannot stand him. it did not have the usual jokes, he cannot stand him. it did not have the usualjokes, he was certainly aiming for more serious rabbit has speech. people will say there was no bottom to it. no ideas it was more an attack on theresa may. he did call for a change. he did, an attack on theresa may. he did call fora change. he did, but an attack on theresa may. he did call for a change. he did, but you know as well as i do having been there, this is a febrile time of the year always at westminster and in 2018, the mps i have spoken to, they consider it a poison

you heard david davis saying i am no geoffrey howe. could he make a geoffrey howe resignation statement? we are told it will not be today but, who knows, maybe later in the week? let's speak to john penrose. what do you think ofjustine greening suggesting a further referendum with three options and we have a second preference vote as well. i have a lot of time for justineo. she and i were elected on the same day was in this case i disagree with her. it is complicated and we have voted on a lot of this already. we have already had one referendum. i guess i am sort of channelling brenda from bristol. the la st channelling brenda from bristol. the last time they called either a referendum general election, she turned round to the camera and said, oh, god, not another one! that was about the calling of another general election after promising there would not be another one. people have made a decision and i now want politicians to get on and deliver it. they know it is difficult but they want us to get on and solve the difficulties. justin

that was like margaret thatcher and nigel lawson and geoffrey howe with the appointment of alan waterss lows as the leader of the brexit protest group, then boris loses a bit of street cred and he had to go as well. you will know the analogy i will draw, is theresa may now in the position thatjohn major was in 1995 she effectively should not wait for a leadership challenge, she should provoke them and say, if you want me out, let us have the leadership challenge? it is an option, but i think she would win. there is no consensus as to who to put in her place and i think there is a sense in that. the likely alternatives would be saying the same things and asi would be saying the same things and as i have said, there is no point in changing the singer unless you change the song. lord heseltine, former deputy prime minister and a man who effectively brought down margaret thatcher back in 1990, thank you forjoining us on this special. you've been watching a bbc news special —on what has been an extraordinary day at westminster. we'll have more for you in the next hour — but first it's time

there have been famous examples in the past, geoffrey howe refers to there.all. robin cook from the labour party resigning over the iraq war made an impassioned speech in the house of commons in his resignation speech, the first ever to receive a standing ovation in the commons chamber. is borisjohnson going ovation in the commons chamber. is boris johnson going to ovation in the commons chamber. is borisjohnson going to land that fatal blow? willie concentrate on policy or personality? —— will he. there is no point in making a resignation statement unless you have something important to say, some people are expecting that he will do that. the question is, how far as he prepared to go? there are others commented on conservative mps, who have put in letters to the party managers, saying that we would like a vote of no—confidence in the prime minister. that would have been able top of no—confidence in the government, not the prime minister. and what your viewers should have seen last night is what a narrow majority of mps in the commons willing to deliver on th

in 1990, geoffrey howe resigned from conservative pm margaret thatcher's cabinet over europe leadingo mrs thatcher's downfall. just leaving that there! do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning. use #victorialive. if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today — the brexit secretary, david davis, has resigned, saying the prime minister's brexit plan would leave parliament with "at best a weak negotiating position". mrs may's proposal was approved by the cabinet on friday. a junior brexit minister, steve baker, has also stepped down. mr davis, who's been in thejob since 2018, says the policy could leave the uk in a "weak" and "inescapable" negotiating position. this is what he told the radio 4's today programme this morning. this policy has got a number of weaknesses, and it is not as though it is somebody else's responsibility which i can share, i would be front and centre delivering this policy, explaining it to the house, persuading the house it was right, then delivering it with the european union, and frankly, just as

steady flow of embassy and washington visitors coming here the meeting was fruitful and geoffrey generous. no matter how well saakashvili is job goes it looks like he shouldn't be worried about his own finances on his facebook page he posted an official document showing that the new governor of odessa gets a pretty penny from washington almost two hundred thousand dollars a year for comparison the governor of maine gets seventy thousand dollars a year. so if odessa became a new u.s. state it would be at the top of the list mr saakashvili should feel right at home in his newly adopted country he is best of friends with fellow color revolutionary leader viktor yuschenko who is the godfather of his son. the now that i'm of the school bus and i listen lucia because insufficient at the post but you walk us kind of being it's just that and he sees them the if someone is going to. even though there's a double chooses to share. it with us to the to who but the least of those three is if i did it with you but i just stand on the. void of business doing this it was good enough that i've this whole notion just in

geoffrey howe's damning address after he quit margaret thatcher's cabinet in 1990 was followed by herl economy at manchester metropolitan university. shejoins us now. good morning. we have run you through the day for may. yesterday was bruising in the commons, wasn't it? really difficult for her and the government, as was monday, and as you said, the government were propped up by four labour mps yesterday on the trade bill. this is a very difficult time for theresa may going forward. as you correctly mentioned she needs to get to the summer recess which will be next week and not earlier, as originally thought, or planned, orvoted week and not earlier, as originally thought, or planned, or voted on, but this is the brexit rubik's cube. the problem is that since the chequers deal of the prime minister knows brexit means brexit is now soft brexit for the prime minister and the government, but it is too soft for the brexiteers and not soft enough for the remainers and that is the difficulty. you have highlighted the difficulty. you have highlighted the problem, so what is the way out, if

this could be a geoffrey howe moment, where he got up, having resigned and really kebabed margaret thatchermay duck it again. people feel that boris never expected to win the referendum. his hope he would be leader of the eurosceptic camp. cameron would win and boris would be the voice tonnes who could coalesce the backbenchers round him. there is a few figures who are setting themselves up at opposition to mayment it is going to be entertaining, tune in. well, do you, when theresa may got the leadership, there were plenty of people saying be careful what you wish for, is there sympathy for theresa may on there sympathy for theresa may on the basis the country is divided, it is very difficult, even in the commons to get some sort of unity? yes, i think if people looked their own hearts and put aside party politics and rivalry, she is in an unwinnablejob. politics and rivalry, she is in an unwinnable job. i don‘t politics and rivalry, she is in an unwinnablejob. i don‘t know how politics and rivalry, she is in an unwinnable job. i don‘t know how she sleeps at night. well, since her chequers

boris johnson's friends say he deliberately did not try to emulate geoffrey howe, who delivered a resignationt's speak to our northern ireland political correspondent enda mcclafferty in belfast. some rather opposing views she is likely to hear? i would imagine so. taking theresa may away from the destruction and pressure cooker of westminster. what we know about where she plans to go, she is going to visit the border and speak to people who live along the frontier and also speak to businesses who will be keen to hear more about her white paper plans. we knows she is coming to try to sort out the other great headache, the fact we have no devolved government in northern ireland, absent for 16 months. when theresa may is here, she will take time to speak to political leaders to see if she can plot a course to get them back in government here in belfast, which is no easy task. on friday, she will be addressing some of the concerns around customs arrangements, particularly with the republic, when she makes a keynote address and will no doubt take questions. i imagine over the 48 hours she will sp

geoffrey of u.b.s. banking. the e.c.b. needs to watch and react. howigration crisis which has largely been ignore bid the market s but it could be a breaking point. >> is there an earlier than expected end date for merkel? chancellor merkel and mario draghi are the two individuals who really have helped hold europe together, the monetary union and the political union. they are essential to this. it doesn't mean they are irreplaceable. no one is. everyone has followed that way. the people have really started to contemplate what is the alternative? at this point, i think that political -- is actually gently being pushed in. think it is a good example. if it does start to break down, there are many economies that can't rely on the -- across border trade and if that gets derailed to some extent like what we're doing between ireland and the u.k., that will undermine the economy. francine: is it -- the greek crisis 2.0 or something different? >> i don't think it is that. that was an outright credit issue. stopping credit risks. holdingmore going to be the eu

today, how dollar strong is the strong dollar right now? geoffreysuch that tariffs going in has zero bearings on the main inflation measures in the u.s. this makes the fed's life easier but they will look at the economic impact one way or another. francine: when you look at the risk and opportunities. at least they are talking. i don't know if president juncker will really want an answer if the eu is a friend or foe of the u.s. geoffrey: this is more meet and greet. uncker's number one priority should to get -- should be to get, what does the u.s. want? if there is a sense of destination, back to be helpful. then you can quantify. francine: what do they want? geoffrey: does the president know what he wants? how much you can tariff me, vice versa? they want a multilateral process. that does not seem to be happening anytime soon. francine: what is the endgame of president trump? midterm elections? trying to renegotiate terms? think this will be a problem until the midterms. he will not want a solution until midterms because it plays to him. that is th

how do you start it again? the real geoffrey wellum was a modest man who said he was just doing his duty. we were, after all, fully armed fighter pilots doing a job, which was... defending our country against the king's enemies. and with geoffrey wellum's passing, of the few, only a handful remain. we don't want medals. we don't even want to be thanked but it's nice to be remembered because if we are remembered, it covers the whole lot of us, those that survived and those that paid the extreme sacrifice. squadron leader geoffrey wellum, who's died aged 96. time for a look at the weather. here's chris fawkes. well, many of us will see some rain at some point today which begs the question, when did it last rain where you live? of course, the weather has been so drive for so long, rain and infrequent visitor during this very dry summer. on the satellite, a lump of cloud working down from the northwest, this is one weather front and another one working in the england. this one had been expected to stay across northern france but it

how do you start it again? the real geoffrey his duty. we were, after all, fully armed fighter pilots doing a job, which was... defending our country against the king's enemies. and with geoffrey wellum's passing, of the few, only a handful remain. we don't want medals. we don't even want to be thanked but it's nice to be remembered because if we are remembered, it covers the whole lot of us, those that survived and those that paid the extreme sacrifice. squadron leader geoffrey wellum, who's died aged 96. time for a look at the weather. here's chris fawkes. well, many of us will see some rain at some point today

how is the sound? good?my name is geoffrey fettus. thank you. i'm a senior attorney at nrdc. unlike my colleagues here, go to turn to a slightly more practical set of discussions. they've done a good job of setting up a lot of the risks and realities of what we face. but i want to turn to a few things that are going on right now and why i think this briefing is so well-timed for congress. to start considering. first, again, this is all on the website. this is coming. this is the trajectory that we have in the last several years, six reactors at five plans to close either for economic or safety-related reasons. two closed in the next several reactors at five plans. the only two on a construction right now and the trajectory of those are at best, uncertain. two got canceled this past year in south carolina new build. so, whatever one's position is on issues related to nuclear power, and whether or not one submits the idea that 80 year licensing is a reality, there is a downward trajectory and decommissioning is coming. and i want to also caution you at the outset that decommiss

steady flow of embassy and washington visitors coming here the meeting was fruitful and geoffrey generous. no matter how well saakashvili is job goes it looks like he shouldn't be worried about his own finances on his facebook page he posted an official document showing that the new governor of odessa gets a pretty penny from washington almost two hundred thousand dollars a year for comparison the governor of maine gets seventy thousand dollars a year. so if odessa became a new u.s. state it would be at the top of the list mr saakashvili should feel right at home in his newly adopted country he is best of friends with fellow color revolutionary leader viktor yuschenko who is the godfather of his son. and another mother school bus in the lesson of lucia but i didn't think i should give it up as the bully walk us kind of being it's just a d.c. at them of if someone is going to. even though there's a double chooses to show. it when used to the but they still do straight is if they did it with you but it doesn't stand on the issue of this boy their business do a little bit of that of this almost a study of

how should they behave in that regard during this testing time? what should they be mindful of? geoffreyrd to -- saker: it is hard to say. they arecion is that using this as a way of threatening president trump by saying that if you actually impose more tariffs, we will allow our currency to devalue more, and we can control the speed of the fall. is message from president xi a very strong message. this is them beginning to show the flex and punch, throwing there are back -- arm back. just before we threw everything, we have seen that the world has gone crazy, there might be a message in president trump's methodology. it seems like he likes to bring things to a crisis point and then renegotiating everything. if china and the eu impose huge tariffs, perhaps that is what he thinks we can come around and reshape a deal that he feels is there to the united states. i don't know. i am speculating. anna: will all have been worth it? fors: i will come see saker some punching and boxing lessons when it comes to negotiation tactics. the shanghai composite is undoing its losses. we have a whole mliv

how do you start it again? the real geoffreyit's nice to be remembered because if we are remembered, it covers the whole lot of us, those that survived and those that paid the extreme sacrifice. jon donnison reporting. that is it from afternoon live today, next the bbc news advice with jane hill. time for a look at the weather with chris. many of us will see rain at some point today, begging the question, when did it last rain where you live? it has been a very dry spell of weather recently. the rain has arrived across the east, from an area of low pressure that snuck a little bit further north than had been expected, but nevertheless the rain here will be very welcome. across western areas, this wiggling weather front on the radar picture, pulses of energy along the front, very difficult to forecast the exact details of where the rain will end up. but it looks like it will be wet across wales, rain across the north and west midlands. further north, the weather picture more straightforward, into the afternoon, most rain clearing