requirement. they wear them as a matter of cause and a lot of people here still do by the requirement isn t there, the government has moved too quickly and if i can just make mention of what i find to be a despicable remark this morning from mr hunt, the former secretary of state for health, that this is a game of two halves. this isn t a game. my mother didn t lose her life in a game. i think she lost her life because of mistakes that were made by the government and i want to know about that. i want to hear about it in a fulljudicial enquiry and i don t want political decisions being taken now which are not based on the best advice. we know from this report that in autumn last year,
correspondent david willis. the house speaker nancy pelosi had promised a vote on this this week, but it s starting to look as though she may not have the votes she needs to get it over the finishing line, to get it passed in the lower chamber. so that means that it could be put off, this vote, for some time, perhaps for weeks, which would be potentially embarrassing to mr biden, particularly if he can t get this legislation approved in the end, because it s very much, as i say, a part of the promise that democrats made. and they ll be looking to show that they ve upheld those promises, of course, going into the midterm elections next year. indeed, and there s also another pressing deadline that they re facing, isn t there, the borrowing limit which they re due to hit within weeks, as i understand it? why can t the two parties
have the votes she needs to get it over the finishing line, to get it passed in the lower chamber. so that means that it could be put off, this vote, for some time, perhaps for weeks, which would be potentially embarrassing to mr biden, particularly if he can t get this legislation approved in the end, because it s very much, as i say, a part of the promise that democrats made. and they ll be looking to show that they ve upheld those promises, of course, going into the midterm elections next year. indeed, and there s also another pressing deadline that they re facing, isn t there, the borrowing limit which they re due to hit within weeks, as i understand it? why can t the two parties come to some sort of agreement on this? in a word, politics. republicans in the senate are digging in on this one. and there arejust 18 days to go, karishma, before this country basically defaults on its debt. and that is something the treasury secretary, janet yellen, has said
john, there is a bigger thought though here, isn t there, which on newscast, a labour party activist might even be thinking of, which is that you and jeremy corbyn led the party into two general elections, you lost them both, lost the last one, biggest defeat in terms of parliamentary seats since, what, 1935. what do you say to people who mightjust say, look, the best thing you could do for the labour party isjust disappear off into retirement? actually, sometimes you can provide advice and assistance because you have been- through that experience and that is what i am i trying to do. when kier got elected, i we agreed that when kier becomes leader, because towards the end of the campaign, - it was fairly obvious, i we said we will not allow to happen to him what happened to us, when jeremy was - elected leader, we had - the parliamentary labour party, we had people resigningj on the day, we had coup after coup, almost on a monthly basis and we said that would not happen and i have d
sojustine, what do you make of it when you hear that? well, i think you can almost contrast the situation on women in cabinet to the situation on state educated people in cabinet and there, i think borisjohnson s latest cabinet has around, i think, 61, 62% of its people round the table educated privately, compared to 7% in the population, and compared to a tory party in parliament of 41% of conservative mps are privately educated. so there, there is a double challenge, isn t there, for borisjohnson? a prime minister who says talent spread evenly but opportunity is not. who do you think has got the toughest gig in that new cabinet? you were education secretary but you were also at the department for transport and also the department for international development. you have done lots of differentjobs but if you think about education, you know, gavin williamson has had, shall we say, a choppy