Announced plans to move 20,000 people off this island and neighbouring islands by early 2020. Movement on that has been extremely slow. And people, particularly women and children, keep arriving on these islands every week. Also coming up. The driver, being pushed sideways by a lorry down one of londons busiest roads. How Singer Ellie Goulding came to the rescue. Shapps good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Iamjoanna i am joanna gosling. Borisjohnson has held his first Cabinet Meeting since the general election. He told his ministers that they had to repay the trust of the voters by working flat out to change the country for the better. The Prime Minister is planning to make it illegal for parliament to extend the Brexit Process beyond the end of next year. Hell add a clause to his Withdrawal Agreement bill, which will go before mps on friday. 0ur assistant Political Editor norman smith is in downing street. Norman, wanting to send a message, they are definitely hitting the groun
Illian. Has joke at the end it reminded me of churchhill as well. Do you expect Boris Johnson to try to emulate his idol . Will he try to boil down the middle now that he has such a big church and keep all of these voters with the conservatives for longer . Christopher well, i thought that was a most interesting part of his speech. In my opinion, perhaps the most effective was his candid and disarming, even charming admission that a lot of the voters who put him back into power with a large majority have him on probation. A very nice parallel with his election as the mayor of london when a lot of traditional labour voters supported him and they have now supported a conservative party. That, i think is notice also in the rhetoric, one nation conservatives. He remindednation, himself that that is the formula. What does that remind you of . , not labour,labour but new labour. That was the slogan of tony blair. Clearly looking to put a very personal stamp, which arguably could be churchhil
Intraday, but havent closed above it in quite some time. Looking to see whether we can break that streak. Took a look at whats been happening in the treasury market. The and year8 on treasury right now. Just two weeks ago, we were about 25 points below where we are today. A lot of that selling coming into treasuries doesnt seem to be abating. Mind, a lot of the activity we are seeing in the activity we are seeing in the u. S. Dollar is tethered pretty strongly, at least today, to what is going on with the pound and with brexit. Then you see crude oil, very fragile market here. A lot of folks looking at the demand side of the equation. The Global Growth picture really isnt Strong Enough to build into this 53. 24 that is your number on wti nymex crude. Guy the pound unchanged as we await to find out was a Prime Minister has the numbers to get his deal over the line. We now know a vote will take place tomorrow. Be dax up by over 1 . Stocks like wirecard having a very good day. In westmins
This is bloomberg surveillance. These are your markets. Quite a lot going on in terms of brexit. Hopefully there is a lot going on when it comes to trade. That is what the markets are putting their hopes on. Lets get that board up for you so we look at what european equities are doing and a little bit of weakness. Stocks in general higher. U. S. Futures higher. Bonds. S in we are expecting a lot of news out of companies such as amazon. Com. 1. 2 957, all eyes on westminster and a possible vote in the house of commons behind me. That is coming up. More from our interview with mark carney at the imf meeting in washington over the weekend. First, lets get straight to super saturday. That was last saturday. Indian lawmakers voted to withhold approval from oris Johnsons Brexit deal until all the legislation had passed. The Prime Minister was then forced to send a letter to brussels asking for another extension. Later today the government is expected to make a fresh bid to get the agreement
Starts to fray. We will speak to the governments key Economic Advisor at 8 30 gmt. We are less than 30 minutes away from the start of european cash trading. Futures are up and running. It is likely we will see a positive start, but we are looking at the fair value calculations a little later on. Lets take that and put it into context. Gmm, as ever, good context. The consumerof staple stocks doing well, chi as market up by 1. 56 overnight. London had a good day friday. We see the brexit story there, but nevertheless, it was interesting to see how the pound traded through. The s p, surging on the back of that jobs data. Keep an eye on the aussi dollar story. That is fascinating as we watch economic developments down under, and whether we will get a rate hike or not. Check out this data on gold. I put this up your because of what is happening with bitcoin. Lets look at what is happening across the gmm. Here we go. Gold, up by. 1 . The cftc data shows a huge pickup in shorts on gold. I put