joining us now is the former advisor to tony blair.ardo,w doyle and ed thank you very much for coming in today. mark reckless said if we can win here we can win across the country, has ukip well and truly arrived? >> it is certainly a good result for them in a bad result for david cameron in terms of having lost a second member of parliament but at the same time i don't think this result tells us too much about the next general election. it is a by election. doorstep andon the there were people shifting all over the place because they wanted to be one thing or another in terms of sending a message. it is a big result for you kip but at the same time i think it tells us more about david cameron than the next general election. >> tells us about labor systems as well though? 2010 held the seat since and you can see they wanted to park their tank on labor's front lawn and there seems to be evidence from the conservatives but labor as well. no question they are picking up labor supporters which means the challenge is that it has to start ta

has this change the politicking we see from the main party, we had a panel of commentators and tony blairuardo's personality and both of them agreed from a line we ard out of you go -- out of yougove, so the interesting to see if we see the parties talk about more about the agenda, immigration or whether we see them deliberately distanced himself from that and take the conversations to other areas. >> great work and a let's bring back philip shaw, he says it could be more than three parties competing for a spot in the coalition at next year us general election. morningg to nigel this you said it could be more of a coalition and he says forget about no one can predict next year. is that the sentiment around politics? >> we do know there are a lot of disaffected people in the u.k. battling for parties and that means the idea of an overall conservative government or labor government is looking less likely in the question then is what sort of coalitions or agreements could we get in may. depends on ay number of issues and the dynamic does itkip vote and how take those votes away from the cons

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you've had tony blair himself working in sierra leone for almost seven very incentively to build the capacity there. yet the capacity is not there because the level and density of health workers is so profound. do you think this crisis has woken up the world to a need to move more resources towards that. what is the cdc doing in that regard? >> i hope it wakes the world up. i hope at least we get commitment from congress over the coming months to support the kind of efforts we want to do at cd krfrmts. we have a par ram tall model that has three levels. at the most basic level we can train any health worker to recognize and report illnesses, infections ebola or other so we're beginning to get more accurate information in a more timely way. at the middle level, we can train over a several-month period people who are working at the district or county level so they can understand those reports coming in and take appropriate action based on them. at the apex or highest level, there's the two-year epidemiology training program where we're training people to work independently. each of the

. >> does my right honorable friend believe that tony blair should get a global leadership award from save the children are taking us to war unnecessarily and iraq? >> the remarkable thing about thithis award is the tone of the conference will be used to work for warden brown. [laughter] so obviously the person who gave the ward -- the award knows about peacemaking. >> in 2010 the prime minister promised to protect the front line. yet in the biggest police cuts in europe, services based on the loss of 30,000 officers, over half on the front line, and their ability to perform a statutory functions and protect affordable. does the prime minister understand the concerns being expressed in communities all over the country at the system undermined by his government of the bedrock of policing, neighborhood policing? >> i don't accept what he says because look, we have a difficult decisions about police budgets. we because those budgets by 20% by the visiting them is doing that what we've seen is crime has fallen in this country, will you measure by the national crime survey or by the report

primary responsibility and for what they know they are dealing with it monitoring of the mosques and tony blairhen he was the pastor of england. they are approaching hate and not just hate that insurrection or want to bring down the british government and felt like they got the commander to do so. he tried to deport them especially those that were connected with some of the extremists. i think that a candidate when he was unable to deport any of them. i think we have a serious problem. we want everybody to come to america under the law and an orderly fashion and used to have people in the polls, the germans and others that came and assimilated. they wanted people to learning polish, they wanted them to learn it. now we are hyphenated americans. one of my favorite lines she said i'm not an african-american. i am an american. yes, she gets it. but they are all hyphenated. we are parts of the subgroups and that is the kind of thing harming the country. >> host: when it comes to the civil rights movement and the distinction between doctor king and doctor abernathy and al sharpton into the different

>> we're joined by someone no stranger to fighting over legislation, tony blair, former british primequartet representative. last night honored with the save the children global legacy award for his work in africa. welcome. >> thank you. >> great to have you on "new day." >> it's very good of you to have me. >> what do you think about the battle royale that is brewing in washington, d.c., because the president is threatening tonight to go it alone with executive action outside of the bounds of congress and that is not sitting well with congress. >> i think i've got enough problems without dealing with your political problems. by the way, in the uk right now, the biggest single issue is probably immigration, go to france, biggest issue, immigration, go to germany, biggest issue, immigration. it's a tough question because you want to legitimize people who have been in your country for a long time, on the other hand you want rules and controls because there's a limit. so it is a really tough issue. >> what is the answer to it? >> well, i think, i mean when i was dealing with it, i had th

they say this is a seat they win under tony blair. the only thing about that kind of thinking is, it is slightly defeatist. if you keep looking at a by election and saying, that is not really the kind of place where we win, it turns out that is not the kind of place where you win. an opposition party with an unpopular government ought to be picking up by election seats in strange places. doing that is is ukip, not the labour party. >> the blows just keep on coming for the mainstream parties. live-dems. that was very much in the price. i was looking at my spreadsheet last night. the ground up to one cent or down to zero. the good news is that you round up. the good news for them is that they weren't beaten by any of the joke candidates? is a very good a warranty miami episodes and i don't accounted for 0%. they are a party that used to pick up protest votes. it used to do very well in high elections. it is now just being wiped out. one of the big questions, one of the many big questions we will is, as going into government completely d

but and in 1807 is the anniversary that tony blair and the prime minister and the queen of these people he would have thought there would be an official ceremony marking the end of the african slave trade. should we infer people were not happy? [laughter] i don't know. but to tell the story to understand how slavery was involved this is part of the take away to understand how slavery was abolished or jim crow to make progress is in the future you have to understand what is happening in the world that the defacto alliance between a the abolitionist britain and the slave population of africa. britain wanted to reclaim its territory. but part of the take away is that if you understand jim crow the system that follows at with the 1954 the supreme court said it is constitutional. but the international situation change. and then when people were treated so horribly this created a gimmick that led to the erosion of jim crow. if you want to understand how we could survive those adverse consequences in light of these elections that took place the last tuesday read not only have to pay attention

tony blair was working in sierra leone for almost seven years very intensively with the ministry of health, yet the capacity is not there. the level and density -- do you think this crisis has woken up the world to the need to move more resources toward that, and what is the cdc doing in that regard? >> i hope it wakes the world of. i hope we get commitment from congress over the coming months to support the kind of efforts that we want to do it the cdc. we have a parameter model. at the most basic level, we can get any health worker to recognize and report illnesses, infections, ebola, or other and it will get more accurate information in a more timely way. at the middle level we can train over a several month. people who were working at the district or county level so they can understand those reports that are coming in and take action based on the. -- on the highest level. each of the three countries in west africa, particularly sierra leone and liberia, not only started out with fewer health care professionals per capita and it very underdeveloped public-health system, but it has also

tony blair, then-prime minister, and the queen spoke. but here in the united states of america where you have all these people of african descent, you would have thought there would be some sort of official ceremony involving high level authorities marking the official end of the african slave trade. should we infer that people were not happy about the official end of the -- [laughter] i don't know. but in any case, in that second book i tell the story about how in terms of trying to understand how and why slavery was abolished in the united states of america -- and this is part of the takeaway for this evening, i should add -- that in order to understand how slavery was abolished and in order to understand, in fact, how jim crow was abolished and, in fact, in order to understand and comprehend how perhaps we might make progress in the future, you have to understand international events, what's happening in the world. that is to say that there was a de facto alliance in the run-up to the abolition of slavery in 1865 in the united states,

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