Also on the programme. President Trump Doubles down on his attack against four democratic congresswomen calling them a racist group of troublemakers. Plus, putting a Little Christmas in july. The World Santa Claus Congress is underway and they re gathering in an amusement park, of all places. Hello and welcome im Christian Fraser in london, Laura Trevelyan is in washington. The uk is in a strategic bind. There are eight british flagged ships in the gulf at present, and the depleted royal navy doesnt have the means to guarantee their safe passage through the straits of hormuz. The British Government could call on american strength in the region, President Trump has proposed a us led military convoy but what signal would that send when the uk has such big differences with washington on the future of the Iranian Nuclear deal . Today the british Prime Minister called a cobra meeting to discuss how best to respond to the iranian capture of the british tanker stena impero. And out of that me
to mediaeval times, and it s no different nowadays. i would ve thought that most tory mps in their heart of hearts know that the problem stems right from the top, rather than those around boris johnson. nevertheless, it has to be said that of course when they picked him as leader, they knew about some of his faults. and i guess hoped that if he had a good team around him some of those faults could be minimised. that doesn t seem to have been the case. david goc, the former conservative cabinet minister obviously fell out with mrjohnson over brexit, but i think it s probably fair to say he is broadly still conservative in his outlook, i don t know if he is a member of the conservative party any longer, that s a matterfor him, but he was saying, look, he was concerned that he always knew borisjohnson was perhaps a bit shaky on detail, that he didn t necessarily always have, you know, a wholly consistent relationship with the facts, famously, of course, he didn t tell