No one bbc news, now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello, and welcome to the programme that brings together some of the uks leading commentators and foreign correspondents whose stories are published back home dateline london. This week, is coronavirus extinguishing not only lives and jobs but also our appetite for polarised populist politics . Within days, if the polls are right, we could see the end of the extraordinary trump era. Here in the uk, borisjohnsons conservative party is five points behind in one poll and Jeremy Corbyn, labours former leader has been suspended from the party. Amidst a crisis, do we crave the conventional politics and duller virtues of competence and compassion rather than the swagger and promise of the populist . After the 2008 financial crisis, Angela Merkel in germany survived whilst other incumbent governments fell. Is that a template for how politics will settle after covid 19 . Joining me this week ned temko from Christian Science monitor, and Jeffrey
And Jacinda Arderns response to the massacre in christchurch has been widely praised. Prime minister theresa mays leadership of britain through brexit has been widely panned. Do women have a distinct and different leadership style . Ill ask the great tina brown. But first, heres my take. President trumps threat to close the u. S. mexico border has confused even his allies. We will close the damn border. Were going to give them a oneyear warning, and if the drugs dont stop, or largely stop, were going to put tariffs. And if that doesnt stop the drugs, we close the border. I dont think well ever have to close the border. I may shut it down at some point. But on the broader issue of Legal Immigration, trump seems to be shifting his position. In his 2019 state of the union address, the president declared i want people to come into our country in the largest numbers ever, but they have to come in legally. Immigration hardliners did not take this well. But the president haas since reasserted
Entire family. This is the moment that george bush has worked for, striven for for so long. George h. W. Bush is on the inaugural platform. The firstperson he went to was his mother. His whole family is around him. Then and president reagan. George bush comes into office in many ways in Ronald Reagans shadow. President reagan, i thank you for the wonderful things that you have done for america. The question for bush was could he play the role of president which of course reagan, the great actor did. America is never holy herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. My friends, we have work to do. It was kind of surreal that your father is now the one person in the world to be the president of the United States. When our grandfather became president , i asked my friend when her grandfathers inauguration would be. I thought that everyones grandfather had one.
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