that's professor tim bell from queen mary university of london. if the exit polls all correct, 14 years of conservative policy rule will come to an end. well have a junction takes a look at what went wrong for the conservative party or when 5 minutes to reach you soon asked it outside. tim downing street 6 weeks ago and called a snap general election. his words were meant to project strings full for these on certain times. cool for a clear plan unfold anxious to charge a cold to a secure future. but for many, the optics couldn't have been worse. delivered in the pouring rain without an umbrella. the speech left a soap, sumac, looking defeated, even before a vote. many believe will put an end to 14 years of government by the conservative party. just 5 years ago, under the leadership of forest johnson, of the central right tories were considered unbeatable to him. but a series of scandals, as well as concerns about the economy and criticism of the parties handling of the colbert 19 pandemic sent it's popularity plummeted. and then there's the issue o

of essential goods like food and fuel, raise the minimum wage and pose a wealth, tax, and scrap micros controversial pension reform. rainbow, mary is a professor of politics at queen mary university of london. she explains the challenge is now facing president and manual my home. and he is in quite a difficult situation. and the one thing that he has been able to exploit thus far to get people to watch get that was the real threat as a far right government. that threat has now dissipated. and so now he's in a situation where his policy has fewer seats and it has the full, but it's do strongly enough relative to the left for it and also be best for him to stand down either. so i think they're all going to be some quite tense negotiations . i think one of the key questions that people are going to be to facing is, is who's going to get to the, to the next government. another key question is, what do they do with the fall left? because my firms ready made it very clear that he was worked with the fall of that and they made it clear that they weren't luck with him. if you take the far left out of the equation, then my 1st policy actually becomes the biggest policy empowerment. and so he could

and also could take a long time the right the raise, the professor of politics, the queen mary university of london joined the sun life on the british capital. miss murray, kentucky on the program. obviously the president has quite a lots of soul searching, but also some very difficult decisions to make and the next few days about how and what he's going to tool to that to the left left wing. this left wing coalition to policies and who is going to have to negotiate with. so he is in quite a difficult situation and the one thing that he has been able to exploit thus far to get people to watch get that was the real threat of a far right government. that threat has now dissipated. and so now he's in a situation where his policy has fewer seats and it had the full, but it's still strong enough relative to the left of the for it, and also be best for him to stand down either. so i think they're all going to be some quite tense negotiations. i think one of the key questions that people are going to be to by saying is, is, who is going to get to the the next government? another key question is, what do t

the queen mary university of london. she explains. the challenge is now facing presidents emmanuel, macro. he is in quite a difficult situation and the one thing that he has been able to exploit thus far to get people to watch get that was the real threat of a far right government. that threat has now dissipated and so now he's in a situation where his policy has fewer seats and it has the full. but it's do strongly enough relative to the left for it not to be best for him to stand down either. so i think they're all going to be some quite tense negotiations. i think one of the key questions that people are going to be to facing is, is who's going to get to the, to the next government. another key question is, what do they do with the fall left because maximus rate, he made it very clear that he worked with the fall of that and they made it clear that they weren't work with him. if you take the far left house, if the equation, then my 1st policy actually becomes the biggest policy empowerment. and so he could then make an argument to

and let's say this on our country diamond is a professor in public policy at queen mary university of london and a full policy advisor. indeed for the labor party government, which was led by tiny blair and golden brown joins as from london. how welcome patrick. so i'm wondering how you equate this movement with that time in 1997 when tiny black came to pass. because despite the size of this wind for late, but it doesn't seem to but it doesn't seem to be the same sense of hope and optimism that we, that rang around the united kingdom when tiny black hands po, well, good morning and it's great to be with you it is a different time in 1997. that was, i think in the country of logic, the great defensive hyphen optimism based on the fact that person was in a very different position. but not least because economically it was doing very well at that time. the country, the installer inherits today is in a very different position. the economy has been weak for some time. we've been through a number of shocks dealing with the estimates of kind of data in the ukraine war and so on. so i think it's ver

the battery is a professor of politics, a queen, mary university of london, enjoys this now from the british capital. good to have you with us this maria on the program with those sites having a sort of a majority, as we've been discussing with the exit polls suggesting just burns well next ready for president has remained silent over the past few weeks. the yes, the we actually helped me do the results in now. so rather than going with the exit polls, we can say with a high degree of certainty, it isn't a great the need for the last. i mean it's, it's wonderful from that perspective to come 1st and to go to the far right. but they don't have to come on thing late. and so the claim to for my next governments is quite fragile. they go 191 seeds committed to a 166 the my false policy. was there any 3 seats left to to accounts? and that's, that's only a very small needs because that's, i don't think the policy really has a strong claim to be the next sort of government. so the only way for which it seems would be some form of collaboration between them. but that is not going to happen as

about those kinds of vulnerabilities richard johnson is a lecture on us politics at queen mary university of londond he joins us live from oxford, england. thank you so much for being here with us so in detroit yesterday, president biden was fiery. he showed a lot more of the fight the democrats have been hoping to see from him his campaign says they need to see him in front of folks in order to convince everybody that he's up to it. but will that be enough well, the biden campaign has certainly been in survival mode since the debate and quite frankly, i do think that the biden campaign has done everything that it could reasonably be expected to do to try to put aside concerns about president biden. they've had him out on the campaign trail. they've had him do one-on-one interviews. they've had him do press conferences, they've had had write a letter, they've had him i'm sure our elected officials like senator fetterman, who want to support him and speak out in favor of him. the question you asked is it enough that still remains to be seen? joe biden is in the driving seat on this. he is ultimately

if this i'm good foot alda 0 must say, randall mary is the progress of politics at queen mary university of london. she says french political policies are not used to coalition building and funds could soon find itself in political limbo. a difficult situation at the moment. no cost to use in a position to form a government as long as no policy forms a new government state, both of them it has to carry on, but its lost its democratic mandate. so it can only be considered a catch i could government on. so any new government forms we weren't see any new policy agendas emerging, which means that fox is currently in a position of stalemate. and this could be economically damaging to the country. i think the k take, the government will see them through the olympics. that it's difficult at a time when that hosting and then picks, which is a massive opportunity to solve, pay all around the world, to present problems and as best lights it, instead of seeing fronts in the stage of chaos. so they now have to see whether they could reach some kind of compromise in a political system with policies are not use

he is a lecturer in us politics at queen mary university one of london.reciate you joining us. >> good morning. >> so according to cnn sources, more top house democrats are calling on president biden to step aside and suspend his 2024 campaign based on his poor debate performance about 11 out of 213 house democrat. so not very many really, but what to voters want and what's the right next move for democrats should they replace joe biden? all get behind it will the polls are showing that third is are increasingly anxious about biden's age there's four years ago, there was about 40% of voters thought that biden was too old to be president, but that would have been overwhelmingly driven by republican support supporters now, the poland cherries and the like, three-quarters of voters thing biden is too old to be president. >> and that therefore is including a very substantial proportion of democratic voters. i think these calls from house members, while themselves not decisive if they are part of the trajectory more house members. and then we have sentences. g

fix podcasts as an officer in eastbourne, we have tim bell who is a professor of politics, the queen mary university in london, and also in london as peter gig and who's a political commentator and sunday times best selling author of the book, democracy for sale. thank you so much for your time with us on inside story peter. i'll start with you 1st. when you look at the scale and the challenges that the u. k faces that the speech meet the needs of the british people. and that's kind of the big question people going to be asking on the box of the see did coach on the big themes of the general election. and the beginning themes deductibles us. things like house things live transports, particularly housing, and it's a king's b. so what you've got is very much an outline of these starts aside bills. it's not saving so many areas. what exactly we're going to be looking at, what we can see almost very clearly signal is a much more intervention to space than what you've seen in the past. we've, we've had 14 years of concert as government which ended in a rec, for defeats. the conservative party and in some respects

let's speak to dr kawther hashem, a lecturer in public health nutrition at queen mary university of londonhas. it has reduced the amount _ helped. it definitely has. it has reduced the amount of - helped. it definitely has. it has reduced the amount of sugar. helped. it definitely has. it has| reduced the amount of sugar in helped. it definitely has. it has i reduced the amount of sugar in soft drinks. that has had a big impact on adults. we have seen a significant change in companies changing their recipes to reduce the amount of sugarin recipes to reduce the amount of sugar in products. that showed a big impact of the sugar tax on companies making those changes. it is a tax on companies. that is significant. it has pushed them to do the right thing, improving their products. some may argue that pushing out sugarfrom some may argue that pushing out sugar from soft some may argue that pushing out sugarfrom soft drinks some may argue that pushing out sugar from soft drinks when they start to use artificial sweeteners which have links to health issues as well. ., which have links to health i

that was rainbow murray for face of politics at queen mary university in london to a children's hospitals being hit by a russian marseilles in the ukraine. and capital caves may, as is, it's one of the worst attacks on the city since the war began in old, at least the 21 people were killed in russian attacks across ukraine. so whenever you have a reports, this is what remains of your monday. it's children's hospital and keys are deadly by roger. miss south struck the building in broad daylight smoke below dash of the destruction and the horror of yes, another attack. what a medical facility became apparent. we came here to the hospital 5 minutes before the thought happened. we managed to get to the pediatric ward. i thought i know it is a nightmare. i both even know if it was a miss size hits or fragments of a miss. i am not a moment to lose in the front of the efforts to save as many lives possible as rescue as remove debris as quickly as they could to search for survivors. this is ukraine's largest pediatric hospital and the leading center in the country for treating children with cance

a you've gone spring. bo marie is a professor of politics with the queen, married university of london. she explains why the labor party lost a number of its strong holes to independent candidates over its stones and garza. it wasn't just those 4 seats, it will not start without to fix each or actually they had to come to starting the one constituency appraisal shaheen, who was kicked out of the policy only a few weeks before the election. but based on a few tweaks she'd made, one of which was considered to be able to submit to it. but the undercurrent was the suggested that she was considered to less weight into pro goza. she continued to stay in the race against the official may, becomes this and the consequences they probably lost and of the it was they started and gets a little bit conservative leader who had been expected to lose the seat that actually held it. so that also costs labor seats, and there were couple of other constituencies where the candidate who is expected to we find knowledge majority or any phone number us. right. so i think that speaks to georgia on the current

that's doctor tim bell, who is, of course, professor of politics at queen mary university in london. e, where cameron walker is awaiting the arrival of the man who will shortly be our new prime minister, our first labour prime minister to win an election since tony blair back in 2005. cameron >> yes, andrew. good morning. well buckingham palace gates has just opened. we are expecting the labour leader, sir keir starmer, to arrive at buckingham palace in the next five minutes or so, just to talk you through what we can expect over the next half an hour or so , so sir keir half an hour or so, so sir keir starmer will arrive with his wife , lady starmer. they'll be wife, lady starmer. they'll be dnven wife, lady starmer. they'll be driven through the north centre gates, which is the one that's just opened behind me and across the forecourts into the quadrangle of the palace. there he's going to be greeted at the king's door, which is the door which enters the north wing of the palace by sir clive alderton, the principal private secretary to the king and queen. now starmer knows sir clive