calling for longer lockdowns, i was working, as culture secretary, to keep ourfootball clubs running, to protect our theatres and museums, and deliver the largest cultural recovery package in the western world. that is the difference between her and me, mr speaker. while she was collecting titles, i was getting on with the job. while pmq s resumed in the uk the prime minister is in washington where he s expected to discuss president biden s flagship package of investment in green industries when the pair meet. rishi sunak arrived yesterday for meetings with business leaders and senior politicians, he ll meetjoe biden at the white house tomorrow. mr sunak is also expected to address the war in ukraine. a cyber crime gang, called clop, has claimed it s behind a mass data breach which saw payroll information taken from companies including british airways and the bbc. the hackers have posted an ultimatum on their darknet site,
it was pouring down. thankfully, there was sun today. there were lots of people out on the streets waiting to meetjoe biden, people holding signs saying welcome home and calling him cousinjoe. it is really obvious that his irish roots are incredibly important to him just as they wear for another irish president, john f kennedy, and he talks about being a proud irish american, a proud irish catholic and it is obvious he feels very at home here. tomorrow, he is going to be in county mayo where he has ancestral ties and he actually went there in 2016 when he was vice president and the reception he received there was huge. he took a tour of the town, met his cousins and since then, his cousins have been to the white house and when one of them got married he sent a message and a card. they are very close, this is not a pr stunt, he is very close to his irish family. he is going to finish his
and refused to meetjoe biden and you have greece and cyprus and others, so it does not look good and i think mr putin is winning at the moment. isobel, only one of the meetings that took place in that flurry of diplomacy a week ago actually directly involved ukraine itself, the meeting at the osce, which some people might say was the least important of the forums in truth, of the kind of potential for military conflict, do you think the west is in danger of making a mistake it has made in the past, of talking about a rather than with countries? up to a point, although it rather depends what russia is looking for here and what the most promising diplomatic forum is. there are multiple
and the french, who are not going to die for ukraine three months before a presidential election, so all this, you have also forgot to say that there is a very strong, not pro russian, but sympathy to russia lobbying the eu, with germany, which has refused british planes bringing arms to ukraine to go through and refused to meetjoe biden and you have greece and cyprus and others, so it does not look good and i think mr putin is winning at the moment. isobel, only one of the meetings that took place in that flurry of diplomacy a week ago actually directly involved ukraine itself, the meeting at the 0sce, which some people might say was the least important of the forums in truth, in terms of the kind of potential for military conflict. do you think the west is in danger of making a mistake it has made
von der leyen, you will see the prime minister and president of italy, holding those introductory talks and we are waiting for the other leaders to arrive that special gala dinner. perhaps overshadowing the main theme somewhat of 620 talks are the bilateral disputes, and there are some tensions in the air between some western allies, not least between britain and france at the moment over post brexit fishing rights, with both countries threatening to withhold licences from the other s fishing boats to be able to come into their waters. and thatis able to come into their waters. and that is a row that is simmering here and seems to be escalating between britain and france, the british prime minister and french president have not yet met in a formal setting for a bilateral meeting and it could well be a difficult talk when it comes to that head to head. but ahead of any sort of bilateral meeting between britain and france,