Well tonight he appointed a new National Security advisor, a week after losing his last one. General hr mcmaster is the new one. Lets talk to mark urban our diplomatic editor. Tell us about general mcmaster. It is this if the workings of the washington machine and state are acting to wall in the Trump White House with sensible people. In iraq at a time when there was no battle very close to mosul, that brought him to the Attention Of General Petraeus who pushed him through his Promotion Board to brigadier general. He spent some time in london as well at the International Institute for strategic studies. A thoughtful and experienced man in the business of the complexities of modern operations. How difficult was it for President Trump to fill this post . Shockingly so, in a way. You wouldve thought there would be any manner of sharp elbowed washington operatives wanting to get in there. But after the departure of General Flynn and the circumstances of that, it seems that a couple people
Its a huge deal. Its hard to see howJeremy Corbyn, the labour party leader, can recover, not so much just from the by election but from the fact that clearly the opinion polls, by elections and everything shows, that a Critical Mass of even labour voters dont see him as my ministerial and thats difficult. And yet the reaction has been that they lost but it could have been lost and steady as she goes. What interesting is that labour has its Owfi Interesting is that labour has its own opposition and the reason we had this by election is that you had to front bench is resigning. Its interesting because we are seeing this serious opposition to Jeremy Corbyn and yet theres real denial amongst those who support him and say he can carry on. Of course, we have you say he can carry on. Of course, we have you ukip and lib dem vying for who is the third party and still third parties here dont impact the big picture politics. But we are seeing the competition between them who are getting a smaller
To dateline london. The state were in is there a vacuum at the heart of British Politics . How far does the future of the European Union rest on the next president of france . And,the fight against the Group Calling itself islamic state. Who will be doing the fighting . My guests today are agnes poirier, who is uk editor of frances marianne, Stryker Mcguire of bloomberg markets, mina al oraibi, the arab affairs commentator, and ned temko, who is an author and journalist. The tradition in britain is for Opposition Parties to do well in by elections since they can often be used as a protest vote against the sitting government. This week, the conservatives actually won a seat in copeland held by labour for several generations, and ukips leader lost in the seat his party claimed was Britains Brexit capital stoke. As we move towards brexit, we clearly have a government. Do we have anything which looks like an opposition . Perhaps the Scottish National party . Yes, perhaps the unelected Hous
To dateline london. The state were in is there a vacuum at the heart of British Politics . How far does the future of the European Union rest on the next president of france . And,the fight against the Group Calling itself islamic state. Who will be doing the fighting . My guests today are agnes poirier, who is uk editor of frances marianne, Stryker Mcguire of bloomberg markets, mina al oraibi, the arab affairs commentator, and ned temko, who is an author and journalist. The tradition in britain is for Opposition Parties to do well in by elections since they can often be used as a protest vote against the sitting government. This week, the conservatives actually won a seat in copeland held by labour for several generations, and ukips leader lost in the seat his party claimed was Britains Brexit capital stoke. As we move towards brexit, we clearly have a government. Do we have anything which looks like an opposition . Perhaps the Scottish National party . Yes, perhaps the unelected Hous
To dateline london. The state were in is there a vacuum at the heart of British Politics . How far does the future of the European Union rest on the next president of france . And the fight against the Group Calling itself islamic state. Who will be doing the fighting . My guests today are agnes poirier, who is uk editor of frances marianne, Stryker Mcguire of bloomberg markets, mina al oraibi, the arab affairs commentator, and ned temko, who is an author and journalist. The tradition in britain is for Opposition Parties to do well in by elections since they can often be used as a protest vote against the sitting government. This week, the conservatives actually won a seat in copeland held by labour for several generations, 33. hes; 257 2542 capital stoke. As we move towards brexit, we clearly have a government. Do we have anything which looks like an opposition . Perhaps the Scottish National party . Yes, perhaps the unelected house of lords. The short answer, do we have an opposition