it talks about how margaret thatcher's daughter had to buy heran how margaret thatcher's daughter hador christmas because she did not know anyone possibly telephone numbers. she was so used to officials ringing everyone for her. it was quite hard going from number ten to being a normal person. it's a form of institutionalization. the get so used to the environment and that extensive research into this. 600 sources, 20 years with the research. let us finish on the front page story of the mirror. again learning a lot from some of the front pages today. trophy hunting victory. this is the head of the tory party co nfe re nce is the head of the tory party conference they are announcing that they are going to look at banning they are going to look at banning the import of souvenirs from trophy hunting and this is things like lions heads, elephants and a lot of people will be quite pleased as a government is finally taking action on this. when you look at pictures like that land there with its head... cecil the lion from 2015. the government is taking action here and it will be quite popula

——tk box. john major's role in margaret thatcher's downfall. major had. 0bviously their relationship. he had been her chancellor. when he became prime minister things started off quite well but deteriorated with him saying she had behaved in an intolerable way is a backseat driver. and so it is quite interesting. it is a biography written by charles moore. as well as the serious stuff showing the final days of margaret thatcher's simon bower, it shows a softer side afterwards. —— time in parliament. she was really soft with her children and grandchildren. there is a story from one of her grandchildren, when she was five or six, margaret thatcher came in to read her a bedtime story. and despite being five or six, margaret thatcher asked, started talking about the falklands war, and asking if she had an understanding why it was important for the uk to reclaim its territorial. and the granddaughter saying it was utterly flexing at the time but it is one of her favourite anecdotes about her grandmother. it shows how utterly unprepared she was for l

some of them are not uncontroversial at times you chose people for instance like margaret thatcher how tricky was it to to craft those stories for a young public you know it was treat and personally i am i disagree with the politics of margaret thatcher but we didn't want this to be a book about the liberal women we wanted this to be a book of women who followed their. beliefs despite living in a world that was designed for men and there is no doubt that whether you agree with her or not margaret thatcher did that so. she didn't need to be like those who are absolutely not just tell us what you learnt about the importance of female role models for girls today. i met one little girl in london who told me that they were having career day at school and she said she wanted to be a surgeon and one of her classmates told her you can't be a surgeon because girls cannot become surgeons and she didn't take offense in that she just shrugged and she said you didn't read the rebel girls book so that is you know i think it it's speaks very well to the importance of being growing up surrounded by a

that was designed for men and there is no doubt that whether you agree with her or not margaret thatcher did that so. she didn't need to be like those who are absolutely no just tell us what you learnt about the importance of female role models for girls today. i met him little girl in london who told me that they were having career day at school and she said she wanted to be a surgeon the and one of her classmates told are you cut me a surgeon because girls cannot become surgeons and she didn't take offense in that she just shrugged and she said whole you didn't read the revel girls book so that is this if you know i think you'd it's peaks very well to the importance of being growing up surrounded by a babe or set the veneman role models yes well it's i learned so much reading this book i can imagine that it's not just the little girls who are reading this book but actually adult women as well and i know you've received tons and tons of male the take home message obviously to not be afraid and stick to your believes ya a and as the 2nd book say is in the u.k. sion don't step back and ev

thatcher's mistakes and also president nixon and henry kissinger failed to get the main thing they were looking for, a promise from china we will not use force to liberate taiwan. maria: we've also seen china break promises in the wto, we've seen china break promises to the u.s. saying we're going to buy beef and then didn't follow through. yes. but they keep promises if there's punishment or a strong incentive. maria: and that's why they reneged last time, they didn't want that enforcement mechanism. you're on your way to china this weekend, you're going to hong kong and china next week. what -- you'll have a better idea after you speak with your sources, but what would a deal look like? and when? >> i think the president will get a deal. i think he's very wise not to be in a hurry, and he said several times it is the chinese who are in a hurry, who want a deal. this is part of the duel, who is weaker, who is stronger. a deal, to me, would be something that not only is enforceable, there'll be more friction. you know, this won't be the great happiness between the u.s. and china once th

they can't have been anyone who has occupied thatcher as fla m boya ntly as who has occupied thatchermboyantly asjohn bercow —— who has occupied that chair. you would have to say he has opened the door to the house of commons and he has explained the procedure and some of the arcane proceedings, ringing the house of commons to the rest of the world. he has done a lot of good in that role and he has stood up for backbenchers, and even before brexit, it was clear to people generally that he was doing the right thing by backbenchers, asking and allowing more urgent questions to be asked of the government. he has taken on this ambassadorial role, so the speaker, ironically given the role, is not meant to speak very much, they are meant to bea speak very much, they are meant to be a neutral umpire like a bbc reporter or presenter, not having any opinions, butjohn bercow does not like that side of the job. he has brought more opinion to it and become an ambassador flying all over the world and going to meet other speakers and addressing other parliaments and speaking to schools, this is pos

the former adviser to maggie thatcher, al gardner. what do you think?ere ruffled feathers within the conservative party here. but was this expected? >> yes. very up fortunate, this particular m.p. acting in a disrespectful manner crossing the floor of the chamber of the house of commons while the prime minister issued his statement. so rather poor form from this m.p. who defected here and of course the conservative government now has lost its majority. now the reality is, britain is still heading to brexit. the governor is determined to implement that. there's a brewing rebellion within parliament of the idea of a no-deal brexit. there will be a big vote likely tomorrow on this. but the prime minister i think is absolutely right here that the will of the british people must prevail. they voted to leave the european union in june 2016. 17.6 million voted for that. this government is committed to delivering the will of the people. this is about implementing democracy in practice. it's very unfortunate that you do have the opposition labor party trying to

we talk about the margaret thatcher and john major spitting image.rmhole in the space—time continuum, have we gone back to 1990? what is this story doing back on the front page question mark the reason is that charles mira's much admired multivolume biography of margaret thatcher has just come out in his latest volume and this is a story derived from the serialisation in the telegraph. it isjohn major's alleged role in the margaret thatcher downfall of 1990, but it is still in bed battling on the face of it that they should want to lead on it. after all, the fact ofjohn major's possible hand in things is a very old story for stopped —— but it is still a bit baffling on the face of it. but then the penny drops and you realise that the telegraph has taken you realise that the telegraph has ta ken another you realise that the telegraph has taken another opportunity to bash john major, i suspect because sir jane, john —— i suspect because sirjohn major is the telegraph's. i for brexit. it is the telegraph's. i for brexit. it isa is the telegraph's. i for

the other one is about actually legislating against the landlord in the uk and the right to buy, thatcher quite radical. the article says 2.6 million landlords in the uk this is a big part of the uk economy. what a lot of our european friends understand is the majority of uk people own their own homes, it is a big part of the economy and the bond markets and the financial services industry, and the left—wing labour, the labour is particularly radical is very opposed to that. in conclusion, this comes down to electioneering. absolutely. it comes down to electioneering which many are accepting the queen's speech will absolutely be about that as well. this exciting new package borisjohnson is telling us he will deliver, which is why he needs this extra time to put it together. what will this do? this analysis we see on the front page of the financial times today, people who read this, whether they are a chicken —— chief executive or a company, what will people make of it? the financial times is broadly pro— free—market capitalism, you might say of course they will be particularly negative on

another thing you talk with the time when margaret thatcher said to the president, don't go wobbly.u.k. deals with brexit now you can almost imagine president trump saying almost the same thing to boris johnson today. >> the president enjoyed that phrase and kept repeating over and over until people said why are you letting margaret thatcher tell you not to go wobbly and steering straight with saddam hussein wiz a big -- was a big part of it. >> dana: did you enjoy your time as press secretary? >> the time was great. i remember lyndon johnson's press secretary said he never had a joyful day in the white house. i enjoyed every minute of it. 10 years was great. >> dana: i can't imagine doing it for 10 years. that to me seems like a lot. but so different now with social media and the 24/7 news cycle. >> it would be impossible today. and it's an impossible job. i feel sorry for all the press secretaries. >> dana: haze a hard job while -- it's a hard job while you are in it but i look back with your time with fondness and wrote a great book, calm before the storm. i hope people get it. w

even margaret thatcher realised she needed to bring in the middle ground voters to win the election.oters to win the election. daily mail talking aboutjust that. you decide, britain. imagine what the prime minister is thinking. i can't imagine he has had much sleep around the corner from here. imagine he has had much sleep around the cornerfrom here. where is the brexit party in all of this? they will see where the conservative party ends up. there is room for them to do a deal. it borrows on decides he's going to run an election saying i want a deal but i am prepared to have no deal, probably the brexit party will say thatis probably the brexit party will say that is no good for us, we are still in no deal party. if you want no deal, you should vote for us. wait to see you. thank you for your analysis. plenty more analysis lie from a very soggy westminster still to come. hello there. this week's weather is looking fairly benign. that's because we've got atlantic influence, so a mixture of conditions — a bit of sunshine, some cloud, generally temperatures around the seasonal average

. >> in the 1980s reagan took over, thatcher took over and the concept of shareholder being the most important part of the corporation took over. as this roundtable said shareholders are not the only thing ceos and companies should worry about. what do you think of the business roundtable statement? >> i would say the pendulum swung from do little regard for shareholders and profits to too much regard for shareholders and profits and now happily the pendulum is swinging back and the statement by the roundtable was more a signal that the leaders of the biggest companies in the country understood that it had gone too far and they would like a more balanced approach which not like the 1970s but more like the 1950s. >> income inequality, as that is the 1920s. do what do you attribute our growing income inequality? you >> technology, trade, deregulation which happened in the 1970s when you were in the white house. >> they didn't listen to me. >> there has been a natural tendency toward winner take all competition among companies and among workers. the top lawyers today get paid much more

the think that's reagan and thatcher, and obviously they play a role, but a lot of it has to do with norms of behavior. in the 1950s and 60s, a chief executive probably had the power over the bored of director -- board of directors to pay himself -- it would have been a himself in those days -- himself huge fees and wouldn't have thought to do. so it would have been socially unacceptable. if they'd gone to train club another ceo would have said, joe, don't do that. it makes us all look bad and anyway, you'll make democrats of our worker and they didn't do it in those days. >> okay, and you think that people were happier in the 1950s than they are today. >> yes. we know they were, actually. >> father knows best period of time. >> we do sir fays -- surveys. we ask people of satisfaction with life and economic situation, and they were. they weren't richer, by the way. they only had one bathroom in the house, formica countertops. >> but the people who were happier were white presumably because minorities were disenfranchise inside i our economic system the 50s and 40s. >> well, yes, but

he explained to mrs thatcher this was a deal with saudi arabia. things differently. they wanted 3. 6000000000 pounds in commission. of course majority of most people understand this broad. will train you to work together against the terrorists who threaten the way of life of us this is. one day i started crying and it was a mob to look at it coming it might actually he said i've been working for a travel company and we had a kind of slush fund we used to distribute to saudis and other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the path of alms deals so. i did tell the sex workers stories that when the saudi military officers would come along he would present them with canteens of cut 3 that was something that they liked another thing they liked was girls so he would take about the town and get the girls. to be honest it's not quite small beer payments made some of them from rather on as manic activities aiming chips to the talks about cool downs that sort of thing there's only 2 things that count in business my friend money and sex the rest you can write as m

that -- margaret thatcher.t a show of hands. he feels the economic system wherever it may be as loaded against women? put your hands up. i would say an overwhelming majority. who thinks it doesn't? the odd brave hand has gone up. ok. a clear overwhelming majority. so we've looked again at one of the drivers of inequality. let's go to another question from the audience. andrew, what do you wa nt to the audience. andrew, what do you want to say? i think we started off the day realising that the world we live in is unjust and unfair and we as the world need a new world, new order, a new social contract and i think started talking, about thomas mcateer and i need to talk about it having heard what i've heard, it's failed us, particularly in my home in south africa where poverty and inequality has extended, become entrenched and a defect is the most marginalised people. exclusion globally but also in south africa is a hallmark today. my question to all of you, one is —— what is that social contract we need between c

kingdom needs and of discussion from there on everything else was going to get he explained to mr thatcher this was a deal with saudi arabia and therefore things were done differently. they wanted $43000000000.00 worth of weapons that was $6000000000.00 pounds increment. the majority of most people understand this broad. we'll continue to work together against the terrorists who threaten the way of life a pacifist. one day i saw going and it was a mob to come it might actually he said i've been working for a travel company and we had a kind of slush fund we used to distribute to saudis and other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the path of alms deals along. i did tell these sexual trysts or is that when saudi military officers would come along he would present them with canteens of cut through that was something that they liked another thing they liked was girls so he would take about the town and get them girls. to be honest it seemed like quite small beer payments made some of them from rather on as manic activity is aiming chips to the talks about cooldowns that sort o

everything was dull in those days except for, arguably, margaret thatcher and satire was what made it because you have got a piece you're about margaret thatcher and john major. let's talk about that then. everything changes but nothing changes. true enough. thank you so much. washington was abuzz this week when the democratic party launched impeachment proceedings against president trump. they want him removed from office over allegations that he put pressure on the ukrainian president to investigate joe biden, mr trump's likely opponent in next year's presidential election. but how important is this issue to voters outside the us capital? james cook has been to the crucial swing state of pennsylvania to find out. donald trump's route to the white house ran through the mid west. his promise to make the rust belt shine again was critical in 2016. and how pennsylvanians feel about the president now could determine his chances of re—election. so what do voters here make of mr trump asking ukraine's leader to investigate his potential opponent? i don't like the idea that trump is asking

i believe in the book you quote margaret thatcher to saying the facts of life are conservative.uestion is about facts. if we are going to rely on what this systematic review of what to keep and what , today we are having a crisis over the facts. we have two different sets of facts. it is hard to have a policy or philosophical debate when we do not agree on facts. do you agree with that? do we have more disagreement today because we live and an information age? rachel: i think context matters so much in these situations. we going cable news but we don't watch it. it is so much noise. you miss the context. there is a thoughtfulness that needs to go into these things. a lot of it has to do with approach. there is definitely a divide that is now glaring in our society and politics. you see this a lot on cable news. i will say something that i appreciate about this current moment. i am a new yorker so i am a cynic. we come out of the womb that way. i do think that one benefit of this current moment is it unmasking the left in particular. we used to say this is a socialist idea and we

i have seen some very fall of margaret thatcher.i think what is different about this is i have never known the country quite as divided down the middle and quite as divided down the middle and quite as divided down the middle and quite as angry. the words being used by politicians are having an effect out there. people on both sides of the argument, notjust the leave side but also remain, they are getting dangerously and worryingly angry and there is the sense of, what you don't want is for politics to bea what you don't want is for politics to be a ring every day lives and what is going on at the pub and the kitchen table but that is doing it. and that is unusual. we will find out later. let's take a look at today's front pages. the observer leads with labour's brexit spokesman, keir starmer, accusing boris johnson of "deliberately whipping up fears of riots and deaths" so he can try to invoke emergency powers and avoid extending the uk's eu membership beyond october 31st. the sunday times front page details allegations of the prim

then they insisted again and again and finally the and then they needed a new refund and and then thatcher came and said oh but i don't like the rules i have to change their own and so on and so we made you know that didn't want to tell you too so it's a wavering and now they decided by a refund i'm to leave but even to leave it's complicated with them i mean after 3 years they don't know what they want and the house of commons does not know what it wants and so i think at least with boris johnson we have. square policy i don't believe that it is the interest of britain to leave the european union but it is britain's problem and britain's decision but at least. in my view is doing square and the down the ball politics norm's let me go to our dear i reflected by what we just heard from our guest in paris interesting go ahead yeah yeah i think the thing to understand here is the shift that's taken place over the course of the last 3 years we have the referendum in 2016 the political class were overwhelmingly for remaining within the european union and the vote went against them so it came as

margaret james she was kicked out of the party she used the words of former prime minister margaret thatcher today in parliament in them straight at words johnson when she talked about or is johnson's advisor dominique clemens which take a listen to what she said. the great lady you and i pay my fare on show mr speaker one say i thought i says i thought i ministers decide can i ask the prime minister to pat statement place in mind in relation to his own chief. domenic coming. while. i. was a minister breasting applause from labor audiences. particularly particularly since particularly since unlike the gentleman opposite we are actually devoted to delivering on the mandate there is labor constituencies and we are going to take to you the e.u. i don't care whether that is as far as to the action in question that my own or will friends asked to be in the in their diet to be in their diet that we are deciding on a policy to take this country forward not backwards as he would do. there's a lot of political theater there but what about doherty cummings i mean even the tories the conservatives now

water is always been part of our commons water is owned by all of us and by nobody and yet margaret thatcher in 1909 privatized our water system and created 9 regional private monopolies that had control of our water thames water for example which was privatized part of that system have been convicted of pouring 1600000000 tonnes of untreated sewage into our water system and other water companies have also been the record levels of completely none of our rivers are now safe for drinking or swimming if that is a legitimate process i'm a duck ok and plunder of the commons you you also explain how the london of blake and i know it can be applied to cities all around the world but the london of william blake who we heard about earlier in the show privatisation of kings cross railway station to headquarters battersea power station is it too late when you advise the shadow chancellor is it too late to untangle little now i think we need a reversal of the privatisation of our cities and towns boris johnson when he was campaigning to become mayor of london said it terrible that the corporatization o

international leaders spoke about you had people like margaret thatcher you had people like. i know every one of these leaders except i don't know the new prime minister of of of england he looks like don't show up i don't know. 4 kids or just as brady just says talons white kids well known saying time certain issues of saying she's been my friend. newly released e-mails reveal how chemical shot months attempted to discredit an action group campaigning against its weed killer moms across america had raised the alarm about the use of one of the company's leading products called roundup. that's your enemy beat the out of them and put them on the defensive and you won't have this problem i have been arguing for a week to beat the shit out of them and i have clearly lost we don't want to be seen as beating up on mothers nobody will listen to it anyway it has to be done by 3rd parties in 2030 the action group sent an open letter to month centers top management calling on them to stop selling g.m.o. seeds and spraying costs with life to sate and other pesticides moms across america

they wanted something like layer or thatcher, quite strong leading. -- blair.ry minimum because the levers, but he has also some soft remain at who want to get over with brexit. and the purging the moderate, although it was terribly counter—productive in terms of television, was the right thing to do in order to have a brexit full team to face brussels. the problem is why i think is the worst moment, when it was revealed that dominic cummings said... the chief of staff. yes, the chief of staff of borisjohnson, he said we have no plans for brussels. we will never go there. it is a shambles. and russell said, where are the british? which speaks to stephanie's point about being on the streets of yorkshire rather than brussels. absolutely. the mistake he made was not to pursue a dual tactic, doing what he has to do to assertive leadership, unpleasant as it is, but the other, start negotiating with brussels. he says he is working hard, things are positive. it will use his powers of persuasion, he has a few weeks ago. let's not forget that boris johnson is the one wh

tragedy is the result of negligence by government after government going all the way back to margaret thatcher of the 1980 s. this month counsellors from the london boroughs of kensington and chelsea called on the graham full inquiry chief to interrogate 2 other former prime minister did david cameron and reason may have a no criminal charges have been brought in the case so far another expected until at least 2021 according to the metropolitan police. a spokesman for the u.k. housing ministry says the government did improve public safety in the aftermath of the tragedy also allocated 600000000 pounds for the removal of clothing from buildings with similar characteristics to that used on graham fulton got a speeding from the fire brigade union behind the report explained why they're blaming the government. we believe as the report studies that there were triggers and saw a story that you look back at the lack of the house thought it happened in london and the recommendations from the. far spread rapidly fostered what the government did it's gone right through to eric pickles. and what recommen

i mean, 1983, the margaret thatcher election, the labour and sdlp alliance had a much higher percentagen a very effective and tough government. that is in the british system because of the way the voting works. this is now on steroids but it's move fast and break things, silicon valley punk politics almost and for a new age and it is trumpish, too. it is almost so outrageous — nobody can stop me, it's cool and funny to look at, wow, let's go! so far it's working. which comes back to the intoxication that steve was talking about. but stefanie, can you give us your assessment at this point of the game plan and also, i know you have been in berlin and talking to brussels, but give us a sense of how europe is perceiving the game plan at this moment, this plan to suspend parliament? it has been really interesting to be on the continent last week and watch it from the other side of the channel. i think there are two narratives going on. in a way, borisjohnson for now can't do anything wrong because he — his narrative is, i actually want a deal. if he doesn't get a deal, it is the fault of the