10 other mps from the party have so far announced their intentions to run. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk columnists with foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline: london. britain s conservatives like to think of themselves as belonging to the natural party of government. this week, it s looked more like the natural party of farce. two cabinet ministers announced publicly that they d had enough of borisjohnson. mrjohnson had not had enough of himself and for 48 hours, he dug in his heels, refusing to resign as prime minister, even as, one after another, members of his government resigned. in all, five cabinet level and 23junior ministers quit because he wouldn t, along with a couple of dozen parliamentary aides. on wednesday evening, the prime minister sacked one of his oldest allies who d told him to go. another, who d accepted promotion from him just the night
Long term decisions for a brighter future, or short term jockeying for advantage . Rishi sunak sets out his stall for the coming election. The northern leg of h52 is cancelled. The Prime Minister insists that every penny of the £36 billion intended for that rail link will be spent on other projects. There were a raft of other announcements too, sold like this. Politics doesnt work the way it should. Weve had 30 years of a political system which incentivises the easy decision, not the right one. 30 years of vested interests standing in the way of change. 30 years of rhetorical ambition, which achieves little more than a short term headline. Weve gathered politicians to weigh up whether the reformist pitch is credible for a party already in government. Could it even be an election winner . And speaking of 30 years ago. Things can only get better now ive found you. With so many Big Government schemes especially in education and health reliant on private finance deals, we reveal the soari
The government. Tesco reaches an agreement to buy the whole siler booker in a deal worth £3] billion. It says it will create the uks leading food business. And this is a rare tropical turtle who has washed up rare tropical turtle who has washed up on rare tropical turtle who has washed upona rare tropical turtle who has washed up on a beach in wales. Good morning, it is friday, january 27. Theresa may is to become the first world leader to meet donald trump since he became us president. She told Senior Republicans last night of the importance of the Special Relationship between the two countries. It is thought the Prime Minister will meet the president in the oval office and they will spend around an hour together in a private meeting. Both leaders will then give their first News Conference together at around 6pm uk time. Post brexit trade opportunities, security and Intelligence Cooperation are likely to feature, as well as the future of nato, in those talks. This report is from our
money on the markets to finance tax cuts, that s completely spooked the financial markets and it has completely spoke to the conservative party. of course what we have got to remember is that we are not only going to see financial fallout this afternoon, but who knows what the political fallout could be afternoon, but who knows what the politicalfallout could be because they are in the wings, senior members of the conservative party saying this cannot go on, we are going to have to have a government of unity, of unity within the conservative party if the conservatives are going to have a chance of turning this around. so one remembers as well, i mean we had the famous black friday in 1992 when their were two increases in interest rates in a day, and of course it ended up in disaster and the government had to come out of the exchange rate mechanism and the then chancellor norman lamont was eventually sacked byjohn major. so you can see how rapid these events can be. it
borisjohnson, do you think, janet, in terms of within. whoever the next leader is. they are coming after, i see. my personal preference would be for somebody who would be such the antithesis of borisjohnson. so, boring? laughs. no, no ben wallace, who would be. the real criticism of boris was he was not serious. so, disciplined? he was under serious. he was unserious. and ben wallace is profoundly serious. he s the defence secretary. he s the defence secretary who has been conducting a brilliant campaign over in ukraine, and he would be so different and such a profound contrast that i think that the memory of boris would vanish quite quickly. what you need is, in fact, the same thing that happened when thatcher went and was replaced byjohn major, who made the vote and ratified the maastricht treaty. and that is what you want, and i think ben wallace might be the sort of person. to bring the arguments with europe to an end? yeah.