that the prime minister is still in imminent danger? i that the prime minister is still in imminent danger? imminent danger? i think the reaction has imminent danger? i think the reaction has been imminent danger? i think the reaction has been pretty - imminent danger? i think the i reaction has been pretty mixed. certainly amongst some mps, they felt the mood had combed slightly over the past couple days after lots of speculation last week after letters of no confidence being sent in about the prime minister. i think this week there s a lot of people waiting in the wings for this report to come out. there are of course some mps who have come out publicly saying they have no confidence in the prime minister, and they ve already sent a letter of no confidence in him to the chair of the i922 confidence in him to the chair of the 1922 committee, who controls tory leadership contests. there are also mps who have come out publicly in support of the prime minister and who still maintain
small possibility. having to be rushed off of the stage at a campaign event did not look good. but that might be the smallest of netanyahu challenges. on top of that, he has failed to form a government twice, following elections in april and september. still, he remains the favorite, according to political analysts, expected to win the leadership race for the party he s led for a decade. his challenger, a hard line right-wing, former minister of education, who promises to succeed where netanyahu has failed. being said, netanyahu is still the favorite here. but perhaps here, winning isn t enough. he s won the last few races but in a big way, 70%, 80% of the vote for the leadership contests. that s the number he s looking for again.
leadership spot within his own party and taking a page out of donald trump s playbook to stay in power. all of this after being escorted off a stage after rockets were launched from gaza into israel. from jerusalem more on the political turmoil and also with us, a cnn global affairs analyst and former middle east negotiator for the u.s. state department. thanks for being with us, guys. oren, let s go to you first. set the stage for us in israel today. what are we expecting from these results tonight? so this is an enormous fight for prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he has over the course of the past ten years or more won these leadership contests within his own look q likud party. now faces a right-wing foreign minister gideon sar. netanyahu has a tough battle
birthday and now back to brexit. sorry about that. but certainly this search shows that britain is in the throes of the complexity that is brexit. that s right, natalie. we had our moment of sun and fun and now it s all over and back to the political drama which is absolutely the last thing anybody wants. 11 contenders. the mud slinging has already begun. the tory leadership contests are notoriously acrimonious. and there are some candidates on the sunday talk programs already trying to lay out their pitches, criticize their competition in this very crowded field. in the next few weeks we ll see those 11 people whittled down to just two. this is where the concern comes in. this is a contest that s meant to cater to a very small subset of british society. out of 65 million people, there are only some 120,000 conservative party members. and those are the ones that will be voting on those two
you need for leadership to be jockeying for different positions as much? i think leadership contests are a good idea and it was a good thing that there was a competition to join the official leadership team, deb fischer is a great senator but joni ernst is a better communicator. right from the start she has been and that s been a big trouble for the republicans, not communicating their message. harris: what about the women element in all of this, my team made some notes with you and you said republican senators are vulnerable to criticism that women are not playing a greater role. sure, if there are no women in the republican leadership it plays nicely into the suggestion by democrats that republicans exclude women and of course republicans were handed a beating in the midterm elections because suburban women, college-educated women, et cetera voted against them. that should not be concealed by the fact that the republicans picked up seats in the senate.