first up was the former international trade secretary liam fox.ction which will produce a confident, outward looking european union. to many of us, leaving the european union wasn't because europe was foreign, it's in an era of globalisation, europe was not foreign enough. it spent too much time gazing at its own naval and worrying about political integration. we are embarked upon a historic and correct course for our nation, and, i would go back, mr speaker, to where to begin on this question of trust, and i say this in the spirit of the season. that i hope that even hugh grant will watch our seasonal offering this year, which is democracy, actually. all we achieved a renegotiation, although, to be fair, all he did was to accept 95% of his predecessors deal, and replace the backstop that was in it previously with a backstop that had been offered to the right honourable member for maidenhead, but had been rejected on grounds — very clearly set out by the prime minister to the dup conference in november of 2018, namely, he would never ever accept a

doctor liam fox. thank you, mr speaker.of a promise fulfilled, not simply a promise fulfilled, not simply a promise fulfilled by this party although it is certainly that, it is a promise fulfilled by this parliament to the people of this country. when we embarked on the brexit process, we offered parliament a decision to the british people, we said we cannot or will not make a decision about our future relationship with the european union and the people of this country will take that decision and parliament will respect that decision. we have had three years of the betrayal of that pact made with the betrayal of that pact made with the british people. in a previous parliament that simply would not honour the manifesto commitment on which 80% of the last parliament had been elected. those who wilfully signed up to a manifesto saying it would honour the referendum result and then came to this house and betrayed that did not enjoy their first democratic contact with their photos. and i'm proud that so many of my new colleagues

one of them was liam fox, the trade secretary.bject of the meeting was but nothing else. line after line after line of redacted documents. then we got a us document, which indicated a desire for access to british public services market by us companies and this would have to form part of any trade deal with the united states. and then we got all the volumes, 400 pages and more, of unredacted documents, which go through in excruciating detail what the demands of the united states are. the patents on medicines go on for longer in order to raise the price of medicines outside of the usa. that us pharmaceutical companies have access to our health care market, as they keep calling it. and so it goes on with something called investor protection as well. well, i simply say this, under labour, our nhs is not for sale to anybody. applause. borisjohnson boris johnson and the borisjohnson and the tories can obfuscate as much as they like, the evidence is very clearly there what the real intention is. labour will not go down that road, we will

let's speak now to the former international trade secretary and a former defence secretary, liam foxrate on the nato summit. do you agree with your former colleague that it was a success 7 former colleague that it was a success? is my current colleague, and it was a diplomatic success for borisjohnson to come out of the summit with two things intact. that the americans did not actually blow a fuse over the funding issue and only eight members apart from the united states of the 29 meat into 2% of the gdp commitment and 130 billion more is coming forward and funding for defence and that was a least a step forward and donald trump will regard that as a success from his point of view in terms of the other countries stepping up to the other countries stepping up to the plate and notjust leaving the united states funding. and there seems to be an agreement over turkey such that turkey agreed to the increased deployment in the baltic states and while they do not know the details that were, some diplomatic handling will take to get that through but to be a part of the alliance and the geogr

with me now, is the former international trade secretary and conservative mp — liam fox.ing us here in bbc news. when you spoke in the commons much earlier today, you said the prime minister was absolutely right to rule out any further extensions to the transmission period, you said that gives clarity and certainty. but doesn't it also puts an unnecessary pressure on a government which has a big majority, isn't it better to get the right deal rather than a fast one? well, i think that the entire dynamic has changed now. notjust in the uk following the election victory of borisjohnson, but also in the eu. up until now, i thank you can properly characterize it as if there were always some hopes in brussels that maybe we just wouldn't leave. and if we put enough impediments in the way, maybe we would just stay. that is now clearly not going to happen. i think that it is much more difficult to get an agreement if that you think they can extend and extended. which, of course, would require more british contributions to the eu budget during that time. i think it's right now to

bring in my guest, former aide to past british defense secretary, liam fox, your thoughts on new sanctions>> i think that is the latest example of the maximum pleasure campaign that this administration is pursuing. against iran. to try to force them back to the negotiating table while putting pressure on them to moderate their behavior across the middle east. i think the sanctions were long expected. on the shipping and airline which many analysts and expert have known to be helping iran get around the sanctions that exist now. elizabeth: iran's economy in freefall. listen to retired earp general robert scale last night. >> pressure of sanctions is beginning to grip the iranian population, the mullahs are afraid of civil unrest, brought about by economic hardships. united states is power that holds hammer over the iranians to a degree never seen in the conflict for den decade. elizabeth: iran's economy is on a level of libya or venezuela, oil exports dropping to a 10th of what they were last year. gdp drop are nearl dropping nea. >> correct, the oil that is really hitting the economy hard.

liam fox who was a conservative cabinet minister under david cameron would come to them frequently, and so the russians came, often the ambassadors are there. ambassador who is now foreign minister has been to republican and democratic conventions in the past. , i don't know be if reagan had some there in the 1980, but so did the democrats. people from other countries enjoy the exercise of the convention, they enjoy meeting folks like me who will listen to them, and they love -- they enjoy meeting u.s. politicians. if there were 100 there under the bush years and they came from russia say when boris yeltsin was in charge, that would have been in bill clinton's time, it would not surprise me. host: a minute ago, you said it questiona good for steve mnuchin. how much access do you have to the cabinet officials and how does it compare to the axis of previous administrations. guest: it is actually pretty good. the secretary of housing and urban development then carson has given several interviews, and he revealed it to a reporter at newsmax, he said he would not serve a second term under th

you remember liam fox as international trade secretary said that by today, he would have done 40 tradefore, they are deeply dishonest. so if you do want to escape brexit long term, if you are scottish, the only way to do thatis are scottish, the only way to do that is to be part of an independent scotland in the european union. final thought, alisterjack said earlier this week people are fed up with constant division and uncertainty. he has got a point, hasn't he? this was the party that introduced the brexit legislation. come on, i mean, they ran an entire campaign which just said come on, i mean, they ran an entire campaign whichjust said over and overagain ina campaign whichjust said over and over again in a very crude way, there was no policies, theyjust said, give nicola sturgeon a message. and the scottish people gave her a message and the message was, we quite like you, nicola, and we really don't like borisjohnson and we really, really don't want to be part of brexit written and the toys have to come to terms with that. thank you very much, john nicholson. i guess you will vote

. >> ktvu fox 2 news' crime reporter henry lee tells us the drugs were sold in the tenderloin in san francisco and made their way to the north bay. >> reporter: 13 month old liamd in santa rosa back in september. as a result of fentanyl that was sold in san francisco's tenderloin. >> these drugs were distributed in the open air drug market that exists here in the tenderloin. a 2500 drug transaction led to the untimely deaths of father and son. >> reporter: anderson joined the dea and santa rosa police announcing charges against three suspects in a drug deal that had a deadly reach more than 50 miles away. >> the idea that the harms of the tenderloin neighborhood open air markets, the idea that those harms are contained in the tenderloin neighborhood is completely false. they reach out into our communities. >> reporter: the three in custody described as links in a chain. authorities say a tender line dealer provided the fentanyl to this woman, leana zamura. she allegedly sold it to lindsey williams. williams gave it to shane cready who delivered it to his friend who died, patrick o'neal. >> went from tenderloin drug dealer to the father victim. >> reporter: the