Shortly. Sunshine. All the details very shortl. , its saturday 4 may. Our main story rishi sunak has insisted the conservatives have Everything To Fight For, despite the party losing nearly half the seats contested in local elections in england. With results expected in several mayoral races today, the tories will be hoping that andy street can cling on as mayor in the West Midlands. Having already won key councils and a decisive by election, labours expected to hold on to most of the regional mayors up for grabs. Our Political Correspondent, harry farley, has the story. Not many smiles around for the conservatives. The party is that for its worst local elections result in years. One result did bring some cheerfor rishi sunak. X t aur cheer for rishi sunak. Your reelected cheer for rishi sunak. Your reelected mayor cheer for rishi sunak. Your reelected mayor of cheer for rishi sunak. Your i reelected mayor of teesside cheer for rishi sunak. Your reelected mayor of Teesside Ben Houchen
On that. Lets check on the euro. 117. 5,nce coming in estimation was 116. 7. You can see the leg up for the euro at 11858. If you break it down, he will have the current confidence. You have the Business Climate to get that pretty much in line, a touch better. Thats why we are seeing a bit. F an impact on the euro 118. 50 one. 1858. Nine 30 a. M. London time, we talk about the housing luxury ceo in london, with a thats a 9 45. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. Here is at ludlow. Germanys Opposition Party is opening talks on backing a government led by chancellor Angela Merkel. Social democratic secretarygeneral says the department of ready two start the discussion. The is it and eight hours of talks at the s of the leadership that wrapped up this morning. U. K. Officials have tried to accelerate brexit negotiations by suggesting that rather than wielding a veto next month, ireland could hold fire and block a final accord. Avoid a hard avoiding a hard border and island is
Organization dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of Health Policy issues for the policy making community, the media and the surrounding stakeholders in the d. C. Area and beyond. So welcome this morning to those who are joining us live on cspan2 and watching from home. And before we begin, i just want to make a quick note about the dates for the next several breakfasts. Well be doing them about once a month. The next one will be march 29th, and we will be talking about pandemic preparedness. So quite different from todays topic. Today we are delving into the broad topic of shifting dynamics in the Health Care Market, and were going to take a closer look at the issues around market concentration, consolidation and integration. And although there have been a lot of recent headlines about this topic, this is not a new issue in our health care system, and so the panel of experts today is going to help us understand whats happening right now, what the implications are and als
And its one of those days when no single story dominates. We start with the times, which leads on the plight of Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe, the british woman being held prisoner in iran. The paper says she is in torment after being separated from her child and then interrogated while wearing a hood. The guardian leads on comments from one of britains top Counter Terror police officers. Neil basu, Senior National co ordinator for Counter Terrorism policing, says the governments austerity measures are endangering national security. Turning to the daily telegraph, and claims that charities are getting round a ban on sending begging letters to elderly people. The fundraising regulator says they address anonymised mail to the home owner, thus bypassing the new regulations. The daily mail reports on apparent panic on the high street. The mail says desperate high street chains are launching early christmas sales amid a slump in takings. And the daily mirror isnt very happy with foreign secreta
The Freedom Caucus is on board with the Health Care Bill and House Republicans say we could get a vote on the legislation as early as tomorrow. Health care stocks trading higher. Obviously on this news as you can see on your screen. Plus, the Trump Administration proposing an ambitious new tax plan that will support both Small Business and the middle class. But democrats are critical of the plan claiming the tax cuts will only benefit the rich and drive up the deficit. Were going to dig into those accusations and more on that coming up. First, the president set to sign a new executive order, bring in adam shapiro fresh out of the briefing with sean spicer for the new order. Hi, adam. Reporter lets talk about the executive order, elevates investigation under way at Commerce Department, secretary of commerce, wilbur ross is investigating whether the if you want to call it dumping or undercutting of u. S. Aluminum by foreign aluminum producers having an impact not only on the economic out