i'm british opposition leader jeremy colvin says he will back an early general election now that's a no deal the president has been averted parliament will confirm today whether voters will head to the polls in december. i'm phil gallo welcome to the program. lebanon's beleaguered prime minister saad hariri has announced that he is to resign his televised address follows almost 2 weeks of protests demanding political change many lebanese are unhappy with what they see as a corrupt and incompetent political elite the prime minister failed to satisfy demonstrators with his announcement of a series of anti corruption measures and political reforms let's hear what he had to say. honestly i have reached a dead end and we have to take a shocking step to face the crisis. and i thought i'm going to the presidential palace to submit the resignation of the government to president i mean shallow mission on all the shock and to the lebanese people in all regions as in response to the will of many of the lebanese who took to the squares to demand change. straight to the capital where we're going

i'm british opposition leader jeremy colvin said.

facts aren't clearly against russia as the new york times claims but the case opposition leader jeremy colvin has dismissed today's queen's speech as the fall off this will tell you why after the break. seemed. just don't. let me. get to see. this day become active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when something is find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground . what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president should. somebody want to reach. out to the right person it's like the for 3 of the people. i'm interested in is it my. place to. come back to the lead to the u.k. labor party has issued a scathing response to this monday's queen's speech which laid out the conservative government's post brags that legislative agenda would dismiss the plans as ridiculous as saying they would never receive the approval of lawmakers. mr speaker there is never been such a farce as a government with a majority of minus 45. 100 percent record defeat in the house of commons. setting out a legislative agenda they know c

no argument for more delays getting the deal over the line will be difficult opposition leader jeremy colvin says it's even worse than the previous the overnight just such a rejected 3 times. so those who agree like me the bricks it must be delivered and who like me prefer to avoid a new deal outcome must abandon the delusion that this house could delay again and i must tell the house in all candor that there is a very different appetite or friends in the e.u. for this business to be protected by one extra day. he has renegotiated the withdrawal agreement and maybe even worse. he's renegotiated the political decoration and made that even worse we're having a debate today on a text to which there is no economic impact assessment and no accompanying legal advice this government has sought to avoid scrutiny throughout the process and yesterday evening made empty promises on workers' rights and the environment. protesters have begun gathering on the streets of lebanon's capital beirut as the call for political change grows at least 2 people were killed during friday's rallies prime minister saad

well the other element to what's been said in that little exchange between jeremy colvin and the prime minister boris johnson it was johnson saying look we've been we've shown great flexibility in reaching these compromise proposals for the e.u. if they don't show similar flexibility in meeting them well then we will leave with no deal and we are ready to do so jeremy corbin at the end of that little exchange there said will you comply with the act of that is now in place requiring you to get an extension or a delay to bragg's it in the event that you don't get a deal well we haven't heard mr johnson's on so to that but we know that tacitly at least the government is saying they will not comply with that law even though they're not saying quite how they intend to get around it look this was boris johnson once again in front of a pretty hostile house of commons of parliament that has stood in the way of his plans up to now and may well stand in the way of his plans yet to come the plan now of course is to get a new deal from the european union one that can pass with a majority in this h

percentage points ahead of the labor party in the opinion polls boris johnson is more popular than jeremy colvin the labor party leader but the conservatism nervous because they were also 10 pin points ahead in the opinion polls back in 2017 and look what happened there because jeremy tobin course up then we've to resume a bit then conservative leader is also the case that many conservatives want to get brakes it done and say that get prices and 1st and then have a general election because the population will infanticide having managed to get britain out of the european union because there is that gentleman waiting in the wings knowledge will for all of the worry well known member of the european parliament who will come roaring back he will essentially say this brics deal that boris johnson is negotiated that's not a real bright sit we want a real and radical brights it out and out now some fears that he would new support to the brics policy and that might allow opposition parties in and so that's the reason for the nervousness winter is also coming and no one really likes doing election campai

jeremy colvin the labor party leader of chickening out of an election very funny let's talk about the rabbit hole of british politics with writer and director thomas jones and this just just johnson 1st i mean known as dragon and kicking and screaming into all this but he's got to sign this letter and get the extension of that because the law says the new is out so you clear that once the e.u. is offered an extension the british government is compelled to accept it so boris johnson's fundamental pledge the one and only castalian guarantee he made when coming to downing street now lies in ruins we will not leave the e.u. on the 31st whatever but presumably if will come and so the nuts and bolts in a 2nd if and when there's the election in december he can go into the election saying look i wanted to do brick say there was the rest of parliament that didn't i'm on your side and present himself as the people's champion county we've known for a long time that boris johnson takes his cues from donald trump in many ways unlike trump johnson most to present himself as a man of the people the

across the country a really healthy mix of people on the traditional left who were very supportive jeremy colvin at the start i mean in london amazing working class black female can dislike florence i show me who really represent not middle england philosophy this very outward looking and encompassing of many different strains of thought so i don't think that characterization of labor's is fair i understand why some. if you do it it's not what i'm seeing at the moment across the country in the selections it's a really mixed all encompassing labor policy and i'm quite optimistic that it might pull off another surprise come great thank you very much well just to repeat boris johnson is now fine at the starting pistol on the next general election the 3rd in 5 years the question is whether or not on friday the 13th of december the day after the election the country will be any clearer about what its political future will be any clearer on the future breaks it. thank you very much indeed public inquiry says they were grave failings by london's fire brigade and its response to a deadly blaze at an apa