announce all of those pre election goodies and then have a six week election campaign. the tory campaign headquarters has been told to be on a war footing from january the 1st. so there was mounting speculation that he might go early. i think the worry was that if that built up too much and then he didn t, for whatever reason, then like gordon brown in 2007, it would look as if he had bottled it, essentially. that did huge damage to gordon brown. labour would have had a field day and i think he wanted to avoid that happening so he is trying to set the expectation that the election will be in october so if maid comes and goes and there is no election, he can say, i told you injanuary that this is how it is going to be. if may comes and goes. 5m? this is how it is going to be. if may comes and goes. this is how it is going to be. if may comes and goes. joing me now is claire ainsley, former executive director of policy for labour. under kier starmer current director of the projec
that working for a ukrainian independence day coming up, they did this to celebrate. it makes no sense, ukraine doesn t have the capabilities to shoot down a plane way up in the sky deep inside of russia like this. so it is possible that they will try to pin this on ukrainians can even though there have been quite a few eyewitness accounts that this was likely anti airfare from a nearby russian base 15 km from the base there we don t know for sure what happened, but most likely based off of eyewitnesses, that was the source of the shoot out. eyewitnesses, that was the source of the shoot-out eyewitnesses, that was the source of the shoot-out. thank you very much. very useful- the shoot-out. thank you very much. very useful. director the shoot-out. thank you very much. very useful. director of the shoot-out. thank you very much. very useful. director of training - very useful. director of training and research at bellingham. thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us.
more on that in a second. meanwhile, elon musk hosted his own congressional panel of sorts on wednesday, with two lawmakers joining him on twitter spaces for a bipartisan chat on artificial intelligence. the lawmakers expressed their desire for congressional regulation, warning about china s use of ai and its wider effect across industries. the conversation follows musk s announcement of a new a! startup earlier on wednesday, he tweeted: musk hopes xai will be an alternative to chat gpt. musk had been sounding the alarm for months on the speed of ai development, which he believes has the potential for civilizational destruction. it s not clear if he s now changed his mind. joing me now to break all of this down is sophia cai, axios congressional reporter. i want to start off with that tense hearing we heard between house republicans and the fbi
moment there are people crying for his death so he is a controversial figure in politics. figure in politics. professor leila talani, thank figure in politics. professor leila talani, thank you figure in politics. professor leila talani, thank you very figure in politics. professor leila talani, thank you very much - figure in politics. professor leila - talani, thank you very much indeed. thanks. let s return to british politics now. british prime minister, rishi sunak, has publicly criticised his predecessor, borisjohnson, for requesting something he wasn t willing to do. this comes after allies of mrjohnson accused mr sunak of removing names from his resignation honours list. joing me now is our political correspondent ione wells. just take us exactly what has happened in the last few minutes. it is a war of words that has emerged between rishi sunak and boris johnson. 0n between rishi sunak and boris johnson. on friday borisjohnson, before he stepped down as an mp, released