my constituent, mr buchanan, who suffered several serious strokes and requires extensive care was deemeders will know, there have been some issues around the way in which that system is operated, which is why the dwp has looked carefully at it to ensure it does make proper assessment and delivers the right results for people. does my right honourable friend realise i am standing down after 34 years because of her was back because i have confidence that the country will be safe after the election under her strong and stable leadership. does she realise that seizing the opportunity from regaining control over our laws, our money, our borders and our trade would be more important than the terms of any exit deal? and does she recognise that to get a reasonable deal we must accept that no deal is indeed better than a bad deal, and to deny this signals that no price is too high, no concession to grovelling to accept, a recipe for the worst possible deal? so, i wish my right honourable friend and all honourable members in this tack—mac house i love godspeed. -- in this house i love. i thank him

mr. speaker. >> esther buchanan acquires extensive care, the assessment for that appointment, benefits were stopped. why has this government welfare regime punishing vulnerable people like my constituent? >> what we want to ensure is that we have a system in place that does properly assess people who are applying for benefits. as he has referred to and other members will know, there have been issues around the way that system has operated and that's why the dwp is look very careful at it to ensure that it delivers the right results for people. >> mr. peter lily! >> does my right honorable friend realize i'm standing down after 34 years because of her? because i have confidence that the country will be safe after the election under her strong and stable leadership? does she realize -- does she agree that seizing the opportunities from regaining control over our laws, our moneys, our borders, and our trade will be more important than the terms of any exit deal? and does she recognize that to get a reasonable deal, we must accept that no deal is indeed better than a bad deal and to deny this signals t

buchanan, bbc news, shropshire. len mccluskey has been re—elected as the general secretary of the uk's biggest trade union, unite. mr5,500 votes. but onlyjust over 12% of unite's million—plus members voted. following the result, mr coyne, who was suspended from his position in the union yesterday, said he's considering a legal challenge. britain is on course to see its first full day generating electricity without using coal. so far the national grid's records show the country has been powered without the use of the fossil fuel since just before 11pm last night. if that remains the case for the next 30 minutes or so then it'll be the first continuous 24—hour coal—free period since the industrial revolution. a ministry of defence report on the deaths of three sas reservists in the brecon beacons has found that there were multiple failures and that it could happen again. corporaljames dunsby, lance corporal edward maher and lance corporal craig roberts died of heat exhaustion during a recruitment exercise on one of the hottest days of 2013. our political correspondent adam fleming is outside the ministry of defence fo

buchanan, it is not a pretty picture. became, the president excited on the subject and said to me, mr. douglas, i desire you to remember that no democrat ever differed from an administration of his own choice without being crushed. don't mess with the president of your party. of two democrats who challenged jackson and lived to regret it. said, douglas said,, i wish you would remember that general jackson is dead, sir. which is the 1850's equivalent jacksong, i knew andrew . you are no andrew jackson. unfortunately, for stephen a douglas, he is coming up for reelection in 1858. buchanan decides to undercuttingby douglas's bid for reelection, douglas could find himself a man without a job and a politician without a future. upglas has a lot of built loyalty. the only question is going to be, who are the republicans in illinois going to put up as a challenger? the answer is abraham lincoln. this is not because lincoln is the famous abraham lincoln. this is because abraham lincoln is a prominent former whig lawyer who has joined the 1856, and party as of because no other republican is inte

buchanan, bbc news. president trump has said relations with russia may be at an all—time low, after his secretary of state failed to persuade russia to stop backing president assad of syria. mre" — reversing a stance that had alarmed allies. from washington, laura bicker reports. vladimir putin said this us attack was an act of aggression. but donald trump said it was in response to a suspected war crime. the us believes the syrian president was responsible for using chemical weapons against civilians. at a press conference alongside the nato secretary—general, mr trump condemned bashar al—assad. that's a butcher, that's a butcher. so i felt we had to do something about it. i have absolutely no doubt we did the right thing, and it was very, very successfully done, as you well know. earlier, russia vetoed a un security council resolution that would have compelled the syrian president to co—operate with an investigation into the attack, a response president trump described as disappointing. it would be wonderful, as we were discussing just a little while ago, if nato and our country could get along with russia. right now, we're not getting along with russia at all. we may be a

president buchanan nominated his secretary of state, jeremiah black, to fill the seat of justice peter daniel who had passed away at the end of may. february 21, 16 days later, the senate rejected mr. black's nomination and they rejected it by a single vote, and they did so not by tabling the nomination but by rejecting the motion to proceed to the nomination. there has been a change in the senate rules in regard to that motion to proceed to a nomination. but again, even though his nomination was rejected by a single vote, jeremiah black still received the treatment of the senate. the senate acted. they considered and they acted. and salmon chase in the lincoln administration, 1864. chief justice roger keeny had passed away on october 12, 1864. two months later, on december 6, 1864, after winning his re-election in a landslide, president lincoln nominated his treasury secretary, salmon chase to fill the chief justice's seat. well, in this case, on the same day he was nominated, december 6, 1864, the senate confirmed him and confirmed him by a voice vote. well, i don't think we're going to see another senate -- or another supreme court nominee confirmed by a voice vote for a very l