jackie smith, former home secretary and podcast star.sha, former labor advisor and now times radio host. we will also be joined by an, executive editor at political europe. welcome to sunday morning with trevor phillips. this weekend, the labor tribes gather here in liverpool, in what could be their last jamboree before a general election. their tails are up after crushing by election victories in scotland. but it isn't a labor party if there isn't a quarrel brewing. this time it's about whether labor leader should be bolder and weather has enough time to convince the voter that he has what it takes. but before we get into all that, let's turn to the grim news from israel. the ambassador to the uk joins us from good match mail now. good morning, ambassador. >> good morning, trevor. >> i can't hear you. >> if you can hear me, can you bring us up to date on what you understand to be happening on the ground right now? >> well, trevor, let's start with what happened yesterday. yesterday morning we woke up here in israel to a nightmare. londo

jackie smith and mcallen lawyer and aisha's are r.i.c.o.. that was interesting. what do you make of that? >> it's quite a hard gig for mark harbour on a sunday morning. it is his job. what is hard for him to explain is why there was no kind of obvious road to this reversal, even a few weeks ago, as you are pressing him in your mischievous way. -- >> ma? mischievous. >> that is difficult to explain. i think the other thing that is unclear is they euston development. it might sound like a bit of a london story, but in fact, it's very big. anything that slows from, it the purchases that followed from that decision to have this real huge commitment, and it was a big commitment, which is why they were behind. that you saw david cameron come out this way very angry with rishi sunak for backing off of. it you don't do a big hole on the ground, the cause of a disruption, now you change your mind. there has been such a big cost overrun, that it was known previously. and i think how the conservatives have been thinking more clearly, and they would've graded road to this de

smith is actually able to get this gag order this time around. but, all of these -- this confluence of factors does seem to bode well for him. >> jackie, all the paperstalking about the coming republican shutdown, about midway through the morning or maybe middle of the day all the breaking news banners saying that, in fact, it had been averted. what happened? how did we go from a pending government shutdown to the ice breaking and suddenly, boom, it was over. >> it was a really mind boggling turn of events to watch on saturday. and it all happened because mccarthy eventually broke the unwritten rule of his speakership that we have all been following which is do not cooperate with democrats which he ultimately did. he decided after many attempts to give in to hard line right republicans request to balance the budget and make a lot of domestic cuts along with foreign cuts, cuts to ukraine aid, he wasn't able to get enough votes for those ultimately. he finally just hours before the the deadline decided to put forward a clean continuing resolution that is really a 45-day agreement to maintain 2023 spending levels, but, it did lack the funding for ukrain