before he gets together with rishi sunak and keir starmer. music: doctor who theme and we ll take a journey through space and time with doctor who s companion, and legendary comic, catherine tate. whatever! 100%, it will always be, i m sure, the bestjob i ve ever had. really? 100%. i think david and i both feel that. it s 100% the bestjob. with me at the desk richard tice leader of reform uk the party, who fancies gobbling up the tories vote. with a public sector squeeze on the cards, christina mcanea head of the mega union unison and with energy bills on the rise again, alistair philips davies, boss of the energy firm sse. let s see what is making the news this morning. on the front pages. the sunday times leads with the israeli hostage releases we ll talk to clive myrie on the ground in israel in a second. but notice an intriguing story there claiming reform uk offered a prominent tory cash to defect. the sunday mirror has a picture of 9 year old emily hand who was r
and i said it was chessington world of adventures. i had misremembered my theme parks. it s actually drayton manor. i am happy to correct the record and i am happy to apologise to all theme park fans who pointed this out. hopefully that ends the matter. on happier news, lots of newscasters got in touch when chris and i spectacularly failed to come up with a name for this week when we re getting loads of party manifestos published one after the other, but plenty of newscasters jumped into the breach to save us. nick, who describes himself as an addicted listener, said, how about the newscast manifestival? and he then goes the extra mile and says, you could decorate the studio with relevant party coloured bunting. thenjohn, who says, great show. thank you, john said, with festival season approaching, sensing a little theme here, how about you call it the manifestonbury? love it, or festonbury. and then he goes the extra mile too and says, you could have a different p
That the dally. Pain in ankara at the office of the prime minister, Binali Yildirim. In this exclusive interview i asked him whether turkey is becoming more authoritarian after the recent controversial and closely fought referendum. Can the government bring together a divided nation . Prime minister Binali Yildirim, welcome to hardtalk thank you very much, you am most welcome to this beautiful country, turkey. Thank you. What is your response to critics who say the recent referendum has turned turkey into a dictatorship, that there will be one party rule and president of the gamble be like a latter day Ottoman Sultan . Erdogan. All right, so you kind of address to one aspect of the criticisms, which is that you had somehow rigged the vote, the party had, so that it would be in yourfavour. Vote, the party had, so that it would be in your favour. You said how you refute those allegations. But looking at the substance of what the constitutional chases changes will bring, the argument is t
Im in ankara at the office of the prime minister, Binali Yildirim. In this exclusive interview i asked him whether turkey is becoming more authoritarian after the recent controversial and closely fought referendum. Can the government bring together a divided nation . Prime minister Binali Yildirim, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much you are most welcome to this beautiful country, turkey. Thank you. What is your response to critics who say the recent referendum has turned turkey into a dictatorship, that there will be one party rule and president erdogan will be like a latter day Ottoman Sultan . Alright, so you kind of addressed one aspect of the criticisms, which is that you had somehow rigged the vote, the ak parti had, so that it would be in yourfavour. You said how you refute those allegations. But looking at the substance of what the constitutional changes will bring, the argument is that it will concentrate too much power in the hands of the presidency. That was the finding
Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. What is going on in poland . Injuly, the European Union began legal action against the polish government, over controversial proposed reforms, that critics say will politicise the legal system. Its threatening to withdraw funding and suspend polands Voting Rights in eu. My guest today is the polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski. It is poland, that was a country held up as a model of post soviet transition, turning away from Liberal Democracy . And what does this mean for its people and its place in europe and the world . Foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski, in warsaw, welcome to hardtalk. 20 months ago, your law and Justice Party won the elections, now it is facing a lot of criticisms. What has gone wrong . I dont think anything is wrong in poland. We are running the country for the last 21 months. Weve got a very strong democratic mandate from our people in poland. And we are trying still to modernise the country, develop the count