and these two things don t go hand in hand. she s a very, very smart person and i m looking forward to her being back in office somewhere, someday, at some point. she s not ruled that out. politics is in her blood. appreciate it. have a great show. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i dopologize for not week here in this chair tis this time last week. i was out sick. i think i was in the last people in the country who never had it before, but i finally tested positive about a week and a half ago. i m vaccinated, so that helped me get an easier bout, and rested up and took a five day course of paxlovid, which honestly is kind of gross while you re taking it, but in my oin totally worth it. it s only five days of pills. by the end of my five days i had no fever, totally reduced symptoms, and most importantly i was testing negative and plot a risk to other people. anyway, i m back. i m sorry i missed you here last week. i also had to cancel and re
him presidential medal of freedom. but i i think it s pretty static, it pretty fixed out to it, but day i do think it will have an opaque effect on 90, 22% of republicans primaries or not, trump, i think it s can make them different make it difficult for them to vote for trump. and it might be a pointer to that thank you very, very much. we got to run i wolf blitzer in the situation room. thanks very much for watching the newest continues next on cnn tonight are 360, the former president unloads on the verdict that made him a convicted felon. and republicans join him and attacking the criminal justice system. what s ahead and his case in new polling on the political impact. also tonight, someone who knows what it s like to get inside his head or to the deal goes right? et are 20 schwartz and how his former subject may handle the days ahead and breaking news, the details of president biden s new ceasefire proposal for gaza, the timing of it and the reception. it s getting.
forformer election for them? joining us today for former conservative cabinet minister, shadow business minister, liberal democrat and daily telegraph, columnist. this is politics live, election 202a. welcome to viewers on bbc two, bbc news and the iplayer. parliament has been dissolved which means politicians, are no longer mps but candidates. ordinary members of the public standing in their respectful constituents for their parties but they are welcome all the same. let s start for tax and spend and this headline on bbc news. labour rules out raising vat after was started by the chancellor, jeremy hunt writing today promising a conservative government you heard in the headlines, would not raise any headlines, would not raise any headline taxes. he claims that labour does have a plan to raise vat, this of course is a classic election strategy to try and expose hidden plans by your rivals during the campaign. but labour have quashed them and ruled out, as you also heard in th
mutual security pact. the deal was made on a day of carefully stage managed events during mr putin s first visit to north korea for over 20 years. prosecutors are to decide whether to seek a retrial for a uk couple accused of the manslaughter of their newborn baby by gross negligence, after a jury failed to agree on verdicts. constance marten and mark gordon denied a total of five charges. and english heritage says summer solstice celebrations at stonehenge won t be affected by a protest by climate activists. members ofjust stop oil sprayed orange paint on parts of the monument. two people were arrested. warm welcome if you are justjoining us. for 17 years, the snp has the set the agenda in scottish politics, racking up some landslide wins along the way. butjohn swinney, the new first minister is finding things a lot tougher. in fact he battling for relevance, amid a labour surge north of the border, that is threatening to sweep them from the board. the manifesto the snp rele