in fact the longest serving conservative defence secretary ever, ben wallace, who stepped down from his job in the summer citing the cost of what he said was putting work and country ahead of my family. a member of the government in some form ever since the conservatives came to power in 2010, he can now reflect on what he s learned about politics and about defence as he prepares for a life outside westminster. ben wallace, welcome to political thinking. thank you. we are speaking a few hours after the chancellor unveiled what he called his largest ever tax cut for workers. if you were running at the next election, would you be preparing for a spring election? no. i would probably be waiting for september. i think it is a good autumn statement. jeremy has gone on the right place around national insurance, effectively rewarding effort, work and trying people who we need to generate wealth and pay tax receipts so we can have more to spend and grow the economy. i think he has do
He met with victims. His tour took him to a school and the socalled red zone still closed because of safety reasons. Back here at home, there is more good news when it comes to the flood of 2016. Today, horizons will once again resume senior dining at Oakhill Jackson community church. The flood disrupted the meals for older clients around cedar rapids. Horizons provided enough frozen meals to last them until friday. The hot Meal Delivery Service Starts bacu we are talking about the return of rain, but nothing major like we saw before. When should we have our umbrellas handy justin . Well be in and out of the clouds today, so well call it partly cloudy overall. Winds will be a bit higher than the past couple of days, helping to send us into the middle 70s. Showers move in tonight, mainly after midnight, and should be pretty much out of here by midmorning wednesday. Rainfall amounts should come in generally under a quarterinch. Some clearing comes in for the afternoon with highs again in
Going to increase or enhance security, but our vulnerability, provided working reasons. Anyway, the us thought all was not going to help them achieve their objective. The number two issue of sanctions. Those were negotiated. Important. That impact of the economy. But they have not made us desperate. I was having a dinner with a colleague, and she asked me, can you take me to a place where i can see the impact of sanctions . I told her, if you ask picked meexpect me to take you to store the shelves are empty, such a place does not exist. But you are talking now with the much more Nuclear Capable iran. Secondgeneration, 10,000 and 1,000 kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium. So that was not attracted to anyone. But two factors facilitated. Number one, the momentum. No one can plan to create the momentum. It just happens. It is not a planned phenomenon. Both the administration here, they use the momentum which happened because of these actions. In his campaign he said, you know, the li
Before it was cool. That is the New York Times. Why would with the American People trust any organization that proudly hires that person . Today, the president tweeted, they asked my daughter ivanka whether or not the media is the enemy of the people. She quickly said no. It is the fake news, which is a largeth percentage of the media, that is the enemy of the people. The press is absolutely a vital part of any democracy, they are right to guaranteed under the constitution but so are the rights of Freedom Of Speech, and the president calling about for the lies they tell. The American People also have a right and when they know the network is feeding them lies, propaganda, misinformation, every single second of every single minute of every single day, week after week, month after month, year after year, they are right to call them out. In fact, once socalled news network is so blinded by the antitrump Derangement Rage they have, they dont even remember how destructive, how aggressive,
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