yes, a minister briefly in tony blair's _ in 1997.97. yes, a minister briefly in tony blair's first government, . in 1997. yes, a minister briefly in| tony blair's first government, and actually a number of the tributes have made reference to his independent thinking. tony blair said that himself, he said he was an independent thinker, never constrained by conventional wisdom, always pushing at the frontier of new ideas. perhaps he spent a lot longer actually rather than a minister as a chair of different select committees, backbench committees of mps, and as you say, his particular passion was welfare. he spoke passionately in the house of commons a number of times about food poverty, about conditions for his constituents in birkenhead. and that really was his life work. he published many pamphlets and leaflets and reports looking at welfare, looking particularly at the issue of food poverty. and a number of the tributes, i think it is worth saying, are coming in from across the political spectrum. i mentioned tony blair, there are a

i was reading a tribute from sir tony blair. he was of- from sir tony blair.ndent thinker, never constrained by conventional wisdom, but always pushing out new ideas. he was prepared to stand up for what he believed in, wasn't he? he was prepared to stand up for what he believed in, wasn't he?— believed in, wasn't he? he was, and ma be he believed in, wasn't he? he was, and maybe he wasn't _ believed in, wasn't he? he was, and maybe he wasn't who _ believed in, wasn't he? he was, and maybe he wasn't who people - believed in, wasn't he? he was, and| maybe he wasn't who people thought he was. he did not want to means test everybody, he was omitted to contributory benefits and a decent pension system. and he was true to those beliefs —— he was committed and consistent throughout his life. and he went into the lords as a crossbencher. he was prepared to fall out with the labour party if need be, even though he was a labour mp. �* ., , ., ., ., need be, even though he was a labour mp. ., ., need be, even though he was a labour mp. and that is again a sign of him be

tony blair never seems strings? tony blair never seems to be too far away.his closer ties mean death by a thousand treaties? is it brexit being undone on the quiet? >> yeah, that's my real worry, martin. i'm not so worried that that tony blair will be the prime minister and keir starmer if labour were to win in name only. but tony blair's clearly a huge figure in the in the labour party. and what he says is listen to by the leader of the labour party. but look, i've got really bad news for you and for your viewers and for anyone who voted for brexit. and that's that. this argument is never going to go away. it would be nice to think that we'd clarified it, closed it down. that's it. i know it took five years and endless wrangling, but look, in fairness , the question look, in fairness, the question of what should our relationship be with countries on the continent in the eu is always going to be a topic of debate . going to be a topic of debate. now, here's my worry that what the labour party will do is slowly realign us with eu regulation , and they will ar

got former conservative advisers, former lib dem advisers, former labour advisers working at the tony blair and tech. so i think it's not it's not silly for him to be listening to someone with such a powerful think tank behind them. >> and maybe that's why sir tony blair wants to get involved. he could get quite a good few quid out of it, couldn't he? anyway, we have to leave it there. thank you very much, suzanne and andy. we'll come back to you, of course, in the next hour. thank you very much. now play ball coming up later in the show. so stay tuned. i'm martin daubney on gb news. but first this your weather with annie shuttleworth. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. good afternoon. welcome to your latest gb news weather update should stay dry for many of us through the rest of today, but there will be some heavy rain starting to arrive into the south—west as this area of low pressure is arriving with these weather fronts, that's bringing the heavier rain we've seen across parts of cornwall so far today, and that will continue to push northw

tony blair's institute then ended up kind of filtering into labour policy . e we know, obviously, that lord mandelson is quite close to starmer. how how is blair to starmer? john >> well, very close, anybody who saw last summer at saw them on stage last summer at tony's, the institute's, annual conference. you saw chemistry, you saw that this wasn't the first time they'd been speaking to each other. they speak to each other a lot, as far as i can gather, in the way they react to each other and look, peter, peter, is always going to be an influential, political figure labour party figure in the labour party because he's a great political strategist. so tony. and strategist. so is tony. and you'd to be a crazy labour you'd have to be a crazy labour party leader in the modern day to ignore the advice of the soul, the wisdom of peter and tony, but he's his own man. he's changed the labour party himself. it wasn't anything to do with any blairites the way that keir took the labour party back from the hard left, the way that he's taken us from our worst election def

michael says this because we talked about tony blair. is tony blair behind this?on nuclear, talking big on defence, even toying with the idea of partial privatisation of the nhs. and michael adds this on tony blair. he is all over this general election. in my opinion. he is the puppet master pulling sir keir starmer's strings ban as this sir keir starmer's commitment to spending 2.5% of gdp on defence as soon as resources allow that to happen , resources allow that to happen, he says. well, here's my question to him where will he get the money? there is no magic money tree left. ray says this because we talked about nuclear, nuclear power and nuclear war. sir keir starmer committing that all four dreadnoughts in barrow in furness will be built under a labour government. we're going to move on quickly . we have a to move on quickly. we have a guest. grace of tomorrow is the day when even people who don't care about horse racing sadly become experts. yes, it's the grand national, the most famous horse race on the planet, and i'm joined now by a man who knows exactly

i think he is no tony blair.hink he is no tony blair, think the tony blair, but i think the circumstances around are very different. have different. people have significantly in significantly less trust in politicians. think it's hard politicians. i think it's hard to them for that. that politicians. i think it's hard to certainlyiem for that. that politicians. i think it's hard to certainlyiem case. at. that politicians. i think it's hard to certainlyiem case. and that politicians. i think it's hard to certainlyiem case. and hat politicians. i think it's hard to

people said, you know, tony blair is the master. you know, i'm the heir to blair.s where the problems started. and now , you problems started. and now, you know, 14 years later, we didn't do enough to turn that around. that's not to say , by the way, that's not to say, by the way, that, you know, we've achieved nothing. we haven't we have achieved brexit as a major reluctantly. >> but it's been done. >> but it's been done. >> we got out of we got out of the european union. we've delivered huge amounts of trade deals. we've joined the cptpp, we've delivered big education reform. the school results in england are a lot better now than the school results in scotland on the snp. so it's not to say we've had no achievements, but i think and what my book says is we should have done more to take on the blair consensus and that is at the heart of the problems we face. and by the way, keir starmer just wants to double down on that stuff. he wants to outsource even more power. he wants to listen to international courts. >> the argument the other lot are worse isn't very powe

yeah, i was just reading a tribute from sir tony blair.e frontier of new ideas. he was prepared to stand up for what he believed in, wasn't he? he was. and i think maybe he wasn't who people thought he was. he wasn't kind of the new groom wanting to means test everybody. he was committed to contributory benefits and a decent pension system, and he was true to those beliefs. and i think it perhaps was a bit of a surprise, but he was consistent throughout his life. and, and he went into the lords as a crossbencher, again, was prepared to fall out with the labour party if needs be, even though he was a labour mp. yeah, and i think that again is a sign of him being very principled. if there were things he believed in very strongly, he stood by them. he had had two terms, actually, as chair of the work and pensions committee when he was in the house of commons, and those were both characterised by really excellent reports. and just latterly before he left parliament he was at the work and pensions committee and the work rate was incredible. he

frank field was a minister in tony blair's government but only briefly.nciples made him independent—minded, some times uncompromising. he quit labour whenjeremy corbyn was leader, saying the party had become a force for anti—semitism in politics, then joined the lords. we need more frank fields. they're the grit in the oyster. i loved frank and i think he did a terrificjob, both for his constituency and raising issues, often cutting edge issues, which were controversial. frank field, praised today as a man who made a unique contribution. softly—spoken, generous, one of parliament's nicest people. lord field, who died today at 81. 0n the loose without their riders. the military horses gallop through the streets of central london. one of them collides with the side of a taxi. all the animals have been recaptured and are being treated by a vet. 0ur correspondence has the latest. 0n the loose without their riders. the military horses gallop through the streets of central london. one of them collides with the side of a taxi. the bbc understands that the noise

in _ greater than that secured by tony blair in 1997.s are high, but there's an _ hi. interest rates are high, but there's an expectation the bank of engiand _ there's an expectation the bank of england will begin to reduce them in the coming months, people will surly be grateful— the coming months, people will surly be grateful for that, paying less for their— be grateful for that, paying less for their mortgages, for instance, but again— for their mortgages, for instance, but again i'mjust for their mortgages, for instance, but again i'm just not sure how much they are _ but again i'm just not sure how much they are going to reward the conservative party for it. i fear now _ conservative party for it. i fear now that — conservative party for it. i fear now that the party itself has even begun— now that the party itself has even begun to — now that the party itself has even begun to give up any hope of retaining _ begun to give up any hope of retaining that many seats in the next _ retaining that many seats in the next general election.

i mean, the thing about tony blair, i think, was that a the economy was much better. was there was more he could do, he had some fairly solid foundations, a sort of political behind political philosophy behind everything he did, which was the third way, nicking policies from left and right. but he third way, nicking policies from left and right . but he actually left and right. but he actually had something that people, people could, could admire. >> but starmer, who i don't think is a bad man at all, is really, really dull. i mean, he was terrible at prime minister's questions yesterday. leaden, unfunny and rishi sunak wiped the floor with him. >> well, i don't think pmqs yesterday was actually a great one. anyway i mean, rishi sunak wanted to have a go at angela rayner that then provoked that first answer, brought the house down and made starmer look hopeless. >> well, poor old angela was sitting next to him, going as red as red could be, but starmer could turn around and could actually turn around and say, it's throwing stones say, well, it's throwing stones in gla

i mean, the thing about tony blair, i think, was that a the economy was much better. was there was more he could do, he had some fairly solid foundations, a sort of political behind political philosophy behind everything he did, which was the third way, nicking policies from left and right. but he third way, nicking policies from left and right . but he actually left and right. but he actually had something that people, people could, could admire. >> but starmer, who i don't think is a bad man at all, is really, really dull. i mean, he was terrible at prime minister's questions yesterday. leaden, unfunny and rishi sunak wiped the floor with him. >> well, i don't think pmqs yesterday was actually a great one. anyway i mean, rishi sunak wanted to have a go at angela rayner that then provoked that first answer, brought the house down and made starmer look hopeless. >> well, poor old angela was sitting next to him, going as red as red could be, but starmer could turn around and could actually turn around and say, it's throwing stones say, well, it's throwing stones in gla

and the only substantial, than tony blair did in 97.tial , truthful the only substantial, truthful reason why he's removed as prime minister was because he didn't eat a piece of cake that was brought to him at his desk, for which he received a fixed penalty notice . that is the only penalty notice. that is the only element of truth the whole element of truth in the whole saga. we'll get into boris johnson. >> we're going to get into the plot in a moment. >> why would he come if mps >> why would he come back if mps removed in the way he. removed him in the way he. >> but he's hinting that he would one day want to come back and the conservative. and remember the conservative. but you're suggesting, i mean, the coming back as the idea of him coming back as vice the party? vice chairman of the party? >> honestly, that is. >> honestly, that is. >> you're saying only >> so you're saying he'd only come be party come back if he could be party leader prime leader and by association, prime minister >> no, you said that i didn't. what do you think

his old commandant, sir tony blair, made the same claim two years ago.of new labour have long compulsory have long desired compulsory identification documents, but britain never been a papers. britain has never been a papers. please society. i've always loved the quotation from the historian a.j.p. taylor , who historian a.j.p. taylor, who wrote that until august 1914, a sensible , law abiding englishman sensible, law abiding englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state beyond the post office, and the policeman . office, and the policeman. however, the world has changed in order to deal with the challenges of this century, such as mass illegal migration. is it time to sacrifice freedom for administrative efficiency and bow down to po faced officialdom? well i've got my panel still with me. jerry hayes and bill rammell , jerry england and bill rammell, jerry england free rather than england sober , free rather than england sober, i do not. >> well, i'm not in favour of england being sober, but but but england being sober

under tony blair's government.the unthinkable, famously by tony blair on welfare reform. the labour didn't quite like what they came up with. i mean , he was up with. i mean, he was basically a true free thinker , basically a true free thinker, he didn't like food banks. he fought very hard for getting more money for the poor. he thought he worked hard on the food bank agenda . yeah, i food bank agenda. yeah, i certainly a few times when i was at the telegraph , a truly great at the telegraph, a truly great man, respected across the board and much missed and lots and lots of anecdotes across the board today of members of the pubuc board today of members of the public who said that they approached him on a train or in the streets, both in, in birkenhead or in london, on his way down here. >> and all of them said that he always took the time to chat to them about politics, was convivial, was always impeccably dressed , even in his final years dressed, even in his final years when he was clearly ill but sadly missed.

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yes tony blair. >> yeah. while he while he's in his years of office, there's a big puff piece with tony blair. glossy interview in the times magazine, and he's reinvented himself as a secret global influencer , and secret global influencer, and his tony blair institute staff has 800 people, and they're running things in 40 different countries, and they get $140 million in revenue. he's basically it's basically a look into tony blair's life. and he says that the only people in politics now are the weird and the wealthy, which are supposed has has some seed of truth. the one thing that i liked and i agreed with in this interview, and i know people have got very strong opinions of blair, and i think can agree, whether think we can agree, whether you're a left or wing you're from a left or right wing perspective, are perspective, he says, people are too pessimistic politics too pessimistic in politics about achieved . about what can be achieved. there's too many in politics who simply want to be in the position ,

so a worse result than john major performed against tony blair. months out from a general election so there could still be movement and things can change. >> well, let me bring in my panel >> well, let me bring in my panel, kai of the labour party, rubbing their hands with glee and thinking it's all done and dusted they don't to dusted and they don't have to say anything interesting. they can for office to fall can just wait for office to fall into laps. that's into their laps. that's certainly they should certainly not what they should be i imagine there be doing, but i imagine there are quite a few parties happening in the labour areas tonight. >> i mean this honestly is devastating for the conservatives. i really do think so. i think it's a continued confirmation of rishi sunak's appalling political instincts. and of course, you know , this and of course, you know, this idea that pushing the election out and waiting for a tax cutting autumn statement or for things to improve within the economy , i think that's economy, i think that's farcical,

that we need to look to a party that has a track record when it was in government before under tony blair brown, that has a track record of delivering for patients, transforming services, getting on top of waiting lists, investing in community health care. and that's what keir starmer and the labour party i know will do, and they will be trusted, i'm sure, to do it by nhs staff, as well. but when you have — as a conservative, you've previously said that labour had been profligate and inefficient at how it ran the nhs. you've attacked labour's record of running the nhs in wales. i mean, i think...certainly the nhs in all parts of the country — be it in scotland or wales or england — is under... ..is under pressure. but the service that i saw during those night shifts was unrecognisable from the service that i worked in routinely before i became an mp. frankly, patients deserve better. it shouldn't be the case that people — a third of patients are waiting more than 60 days for urgent cancer care. that shouldn't be the case in a civilised health system. how would you describe the broader cha

against the the genocide of iraqi people and you were..." accused and what this led to, the lives of tony blair and george bosh led to more than one million iraqi dead, you know, you want to take any other part of the world and you will see literally, literally the rulers of the bridge, throughout many centuries, their hands is socking with the blood of people from all over, from the philippine to australia. to canada, look at the map, australia and canada, they are at the total different ends of the world, and what the uk did with you, the first nation and aboriginous people, they committed massacres against them, george, and you knew it, and you talk about it, so the question is, what can we, you and me and all of us do to attempt to bring some justice, some justice to the victims of the uk and western imperialism and... and the crimes, you know, maybe by election some the the the reason the sun never set on the british empire is buse god would never trust us in the dark, as you well know, but uh, in ireland, of course, for 800 years before we started occupying other people, we occupied irela

they didn't want to put him between british prime minister tony blair and us president george bush.hough according to the protocol, the names of their countries in english begin with the letter y, as well as ukraine. then they decide to seat the guests according to the french alphabet. and kuchma found himself at the very end of the table next to the turkish president. and putin's political avatar, medvedchuk, was already sitting behind him. just a few months before the summit, he was appointed head of the presidential administration. the denouement has come. on the eve of the bucharest summit. the bucharest summit of 2008 could become historic for us. but angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy, the then leaders of germany and france, the two largest countries in the european union, did not support ukraine. in fact, the way to the renewal of the conflict in europe has been opened. yushchenko approached merkel, addressed her very delicately, touched her elbow. the inadequate emotional reaction from the always restrained mrs. merkel is still in front of my eyes. don't come near me, i don't

foreign visit, when he became president in 2000 last year, he went to britain, where he was met by tony blair, a labor member, and right now there are discussions about how to establish cooperation between the government and private business in the fight against fakes. in social networks, and in october last year an important law was approved about online security, there is a media regulator in britain called ofcom, that ofcom has now obliged online platforms to monitor threats that are on the internet, what is there or language not news, well, other similar ones. and we can say that russian influence, unfortunately, remains in britain, yes it decreased, so the oligarchs sold their assets, but, for example, britain has not yet frozen russian assets, and it is necessary to work on this. ugh, yegor, you already mentioned it, i mean, firstly, in britain there is an organ, and secondly, in britain there is experience, that is , they are up to... quite a lot at different levels and on at the social level and at the level of the authorities analyzed the so-called brexit. we remember how it all work

higher immigration numbers than even tony blair dared to try. know, diversity built britain coin highest taxes since the 40s by some metrics. what is right wing? what is conservative? david, tony blair actually tried to get those numbers down before. so saying that he was going for higher numbers isn't is actually false . he. is actually false. he. >> no, no, i'm i'm saying the same point as you i'm saying the tories have gone i've had higher immigration than even blair would dare to do or would have done. >> but no, but the idea is that it almost feels like you're trying to say that he would have wanted more when actually he didn't want more. >> no, i'm saying because someone said it to me and i'm copying it, is that the tories are kind of they've they've copied the blair agenda, but they're so bad and don't understand it that they've done it recklessly, whereas blair takes it so seriously that he did it well and carefully. he would never have done it so recklessly, because then, you know, it'll ruin it. whereas the tories don't even understand

. >> this is a tony blair petty project, james, and we know that he's with keir he's very influentialhind the scenes at the moment. and actually also in pubuc moment. and actually also in public facing roles as well. every time tony blair talks about this, he's one of the very few people i have to say who is honest about the intentions of the global leaders to push through a biometric. at least he tells us it's what he wants, and every time he talks about it, he said it will be tied to your vaccine status. it will be a health card of sorts, with conditions but conditions attached. but are they there trying to they just there for trying to get it in under the guise of, oh, you're all frightened of the boat let's just stop boat people. let's just stop this when they step aboard, this with when they step aboard, we'll scan their eye. we'll give them an id. problem solved. >> yeah . of course. and they've >> yeah. of course. and they've been through so many different iterations. i mean, they started pushing this idea now more than 20 years ago when they were in government, and it was part

when it was tony blair, people used to say that he spent too much time on the international stage, yeahe, i think mr sunak, he's taking back some control over the uk's pr job overseas. >> he's outsourced it to david cameron as the ex prime minister in the past few months, making him foreign minister. of course , him foreign minister. of course, his last trip overseas was to the cop climate conference, go back into listen to our prime minister rightly with a reduction in civil service headcount back to 2019 levels. >> since then, we've seen a very significant rise that isn't sustainable or needed . the sustainable or needed. the chancellor has conducted a detailed exercise. he announced this at the end of last year. that exercise is completed, and that's what gives us the confidence that we can release the savings needed to fund our defence plan, combined with an uplift in r&d spending, which we had already budgeted for, is already included in our plans. but you are right, we are making a choice to prioritise defence with both of those decisions and i believe that's the right thing to do

now, tony blair and set a cap.ght that diversify in the united kingdom was going to be a great thing. they didn't set a cap. and i think there was like about 800,000 poles in the first year or something. and and areas all around the country, if you look at the areas that voted leave, for example, the area that voted leave the most was an area in, i'm sure it was near nottinghamshire, and they had by far the most amount of european immigrants. now you have to ask yourself why did they vote leave in such massive numbers? is it that just a hotbed for racism? or maybe it's just a realistic consequence of unfettered immigration and it just hasn't worked for them? >> it's annoying that because people might complain about mass migration, it suddenly becomes conflated with racism . that's conflated with racism. that's not really the issue. the issue is that you have flooded an area with people, and therefore you have you have disseminated the resources which the people who actually live there can now no longer access as ea

and boy, you've worked with the likes to tony blair and bark obama. how all these forms of action received in the holes of power? i mean they to test them. i mean that is the id, they want this to go away. and i think that i actually think, yes, the reason, i mean they pray this environment. well, this possible, everything loaded into the saying it's possible because they have ignored us because they don't believe we'll cat the got it. i love them. yeah. but nancy pelosi out because she said something really, really is discussing it. one of these process always people are paid by the chinese to be here. all these people are like paid by russia to be hit. the thing is, it's kind of like every accusation is a compassion, right? they're all paid by somebody else to care about something. they're not, they can't believe the us human beings actually care about of the human beings across the well, we can, we don't want babies to be master good. they can it. we don't want his entire family lines wiped out. and they cop see through their own money and who that

k. prime minister, tony blair, describe the late lord jacob's as quote, a towering figure in britain's jewish community. and the presidents of israel, isaac hertzog said this quote, with his passing we bid farewell to a great man who carried the historic legacy of his family with pride and humility. working always for the well being of britain, israel, and jewish communities all over the world. too. so from the napoleonic wars to the suez canal, ross child's name forever etched into a world history books. for more on this will turn to a friend of the show, sean stone, and he is a filmmaker historian and author, his book called new world order. a strategy of imperialism is available now. shawn, thank you for making some time for us. so 1st option, jacob rocks, child, as i mentioned, he's a 4th generation baron in the u. k. he carried the title lord, so lord jacob is how one might formally address him. why to the main stream media referred to him in such a way? i mean, what's the difference between lord or barron and the term oligarch? i mean, i feel like the latter is used as a majority

summit were confused, they did not want to put him between the prime minister of great britain, tony blairthe president of the united states , george bush, although according to the protocol, the names of their countries in english begin with the letter u, as well as ukraine. then they decide to seat the guests according to the french alphabet, and kuchma ended up at the very end of the table next to the turkish president. and putin's political avatar, medvedchuk, was already sitting behind him. literally in a few... months before the summit, he was appointed head of the presidential administration, and the solution came. after the release of these tapes, kuchma became ungovernable. the entire european and american community stopped all contact with him. and he just like a billiard ball, went, hit the side and returned to the right pocket. and the pocket was covered with medvedchuk. in july 2004, shortly before the historic elections, after which the first, actually the second after, arose. densko maidan, kuchma by his decree cancels the movement to nato as a goal of ukraine. moscow won th

tony blair suspended sales of arms to israel. gordon brown suspended sales of arms to israel. before, this is a very serious issue, it has now gone on for six months. issues of proportionality, of precaution and distinction. there are real concerns, notjust from judges, from the intelligence community, but the broader public for that reason. let us be sure that we are not in breach of international humanitarian law. david lammy also today has written to the government demanding that the foreign secretary, lord cameron, come to the house of commons to answer questions. of course that is something that he cannot do because he is a member of the upper house in the houses of parliament, the house of lords. i mean, oliver dowden was pushed on this repeatedly by our own laura kuenssberg. he said of course the uk will act in accordance with obligations under law, the way it works, he says, is the foreign secretary, lord cameron, is given advice, legal advice, he then forms a judgment and then he makes a recommendation and gives advice to the business secretary on whether those arms e

but i have been talking to tom fletcher, formerforeign policy adviser under tony blair, gordon brown,some of the things david cameron has said about donald trump in the past whether republicans would actually listen to him. fill republicans would actually listen to him. . ., , republicans would actually listen to him. , , , _ him. of course, there were spicy comments _ him. of course, there were spicy comments about _ him. of course, there were spicy comments about donald - him. of course, there were spicy comments about donald trump i him. of course, there were spicy - comments about donald trump himself is known to like to give it out a bit. i see how thick—skinned he is. i think it is importantly foreign secretary is there and ready to roll his sleeves up and engage in conversation. it is notjust about talking to people you agree with otherwise it would be easy. it is essential, david cameron has foreign secretary has got it up there at the top of his list that we need to get proper military support to ukraine in this incredibly tough challenge they are facing and key to that of the

tony blair has given a interesting interview to the magazine, to newscasters looking to pay to journalismhings today. including this point, the economic inheritance the next government is going to get is not being properly addressed, what does it look like on day one for rachel reeves orjeremy hunt? this is one of the huge unsaid things, is that the conservatives do not want to talk at all in their campaign or their manifesto about the kind of squeeze there could be two public budgets on the plan so far they have laid out. and the labour party also absolutely does not want to talk about the squeeze there might be on budget, because what the squeeze on budget, because what does squeeze on public budgets mean? it means less money to spend on hospitals and schools, and also means if you want to do big snazzy reforms, which might save you more money in the long term, they often cost some money in the short—term, and there is not going to be much of that around. anyway, coming into the election, it is not going to be like a cheque—book collection of old where everyone is promising huge amounts

people may not remember but there was a former tory minister called alan howarth who defected to tony blair's better—known defection, that was actually after labour got into government. but all the traffic was in that direction at that time and the same thing seems to be happening again, and that will add to labour's confidence about the coming election. and we've got big local elections coming up in just a few days�* time. obviously, we don't know what is going to happen there, but if they are as bad for the tories as some are anticipating, does that again, combined with this, call rishi sunak�*s leadership into question in the coming weeks? i don't think so because i think the general election is not far away, whatever happens, i mean, it is going to be by the end of this year. conservative mps are divided into two groups. one group who recognise that it would just make the party even more unpopular to try to change leader again, and another group who have just given up anyway. and they regard the election as a hopeless cause. and what i am surprised about is that more of that group haven't

we need to look to a party that has a track record when it was in government before under tony blair and the labour party i know will do, and they will be trusted, i'm sure, to do it by nhs staff as well. not so, said a government minister this morning. well, i don't accept what dan is saying at all. he talked about the nhs as a priority. well, of course, the nhs was one of only two departments that was protected during those years of necessary spending restraint after the last labour government bankrupted the country. as we heard earlier, we're now spending £165 billion a year on the nhs — that is more than ever at any point in history. for labour, the defection is a boost to its claim to be the party which can reform the nhs. the shadow health secretary denied speculation that it might have also offered dr poulter any other inducement, like a seat in the lords. not that i'm aware of. he's said very clearly to me when i was talking to him this week about how he might help. he's going back to the nhs full—time when parliament is dissolved, which can't come soon enough, as far as we'r

and boy, you've worked with the likes to tony blair and bark obama. how all these forms of action received in the holes of power? i mean, they just asked them, i mean that is the id, they want this to go away. and i think that i actually think and the reason, i mean they pray this environment, well this possible everything look into this thing is possible because they have ignored us because they don't believe we'll cat it. i love them. yeah. but nancy pelosi out because she said something really, really is disgusting. and one of those protests, always people are paid by the chinese to be here. all these people are like paid by russia to be here. the thing is, it's kind of like every accusation is a compassion, right? they're all paid by somebody else to care about something that know they can't believe the us human beings actually care about of the human beings across the well, we can, we don't want babies to be master good. they can, we don't want his entire family lines wiped us, and they cop see through their own money and who they're paid for to