concerned about it. you have in fact already given evidence concerned about it. you have in fact already given evidence in concerned about it. you have in fact already given evidence in relation i to why you suggested at an earlier stage there were comparisons between swine flu and you have described the importance to you of not talking the economy down. the first line, he doesn t think anything can be done, may ijust ask doesn t think anything can be done, may i just ask you, this doesn t think anything can be done, may ijust ask you, this date the 3rd of march comes after your meeting with the civil contingency secretariat, after the cobra of which there is some early debate about measures and what can be done, and if you did say on the 3rd of march two mr cummings i don t think anything can be done, that casts a very significant light upon what you were being told around that time. i cannot say exactly what i said to my adviser, cannot say exactly what i said to my a
rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each, if the conservatives are re elected. my colleaguejess parker has been following the conservatives and gave me this update earlier. i am on the conservative battle bus. it s on its inaugural campaignjourney. and there s a little bit of confusion because, of course, myself and other reporters have been reporting from buses since the campaign began. that was on a different bus. didn t have conservative branding. didn t have the prime minister on board. but we re now on the officially branded bus that was launched earlier today in redcar, and we re continuing to travel across the north east. just to give you a sense of this bus, if the camera will kindly do a little crowd view. this is producerjack bbc producerjack. and then down the aisle there there are other reporters from different broadcasters, from newspapers as well. and of course the idea is that you get to follow the campaign, you get to be in re
The lords have thrown the first spanner into the brexit works so carefully constructed by the Prime Minister, voting to amend the brexit bill to tie the governments hands by giving eu citizens here a guarantee of a right to remain. Now the plain truth is, there is little controversy over the substance the government wants the eu Residents Herejust as the lords do and the Leave Campaigners in the referendum did. The issue is about whether you negotiate their guarantee of residence in return for assurances over the rights of the british elsewhere. Or should we make the guarantee unilaterally . It was hard fought in the lords today. If we are to be concerned about anybodys rights after brexit, to live anywhere on this continent of europe, it should be our concern for the rights of british people to live freely and peacefully in those other parts of europe. Somehow or the other, today we seem to be thinking of nothing but the rights of foreigners. My lords. All our debate has been based on
in greater manchester today. mr galloway who won the rochdale by election in february says the party will field hundreds of candidates. the workers party leader also told supporters he will begin legal action against itv and 0fcom for not being invited to take part in next tuesday s head to head debate between labour leader keir starmer and prime minister rishi sunak. campaign all over this country with hundreds of candidates is well and truly under way. they thought they were pulling a surprise election. well, it may have been a surprise to some but not to us. we have been on a permanent election footing since the people of rochdale on the 29th of february changed the political landscape in this country. the owner of the ticketing website ticketmaster has confirmed that hackers have accessed
the consequences of withdrawal were entirely predictable from the severe humanitarian crisis to the economic crisis, given that, what responsibility does the west have to play for afghanistan is right now? in the sense that yes, the consequences were predictable but it is not like there was a prolonged western presence in afghanistan but it made a significant difference. let s not forget there was no agreement between the united states and the taliban in the 29th of february. they arranged for the withdrawal of all western forces, all international forces from afghanistan. but i was predicated on dialogue that would not have seen a takeover of afghanistan by the taliban and subsequent establishment of the portal to connect regime