prime minister rishi sunak has been giving evidence to the covid inquiry here in london today. critics suggest that his eat out to help out the policy under which the government subsidised meals led to an increase in infections. early evidence at the inquiry suggested that health officials hadn t been consulted about that because the milk scheme, but rishi insisted milk scheme, but rishiinsisted insisted that the chief scientific and medical advisers did not object when the scheme was announced. rishi and a chance at the time back in 2020 claim his actions had protected millions ofjobs hospitality sector. my primary concern was protecting millions ofjobs of particularly vulnerable people who worked in this industry. all the data, all the evidence, all the polling, all the input from those companies suggested that unless we did something, many of those jobs would have been at risk with devastating consequences for those people and their families. and that s my independent thin
a recent poll of international climate scientists pointed to growing despair. are we humans bungling our chance to avert disaster? jim skea, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for the invite. it is great to have you in this studio. let s start with a blunt first question. is it time for the international community to junk this idea that there s any possibility of limiting worldwide temperature rise to below the 1.5 degrees celsius? when we produced our landmark report five years ago, we said it was possible within the laws of physics and chemistry, and the biggest obstacle to keeping within the limit was actually on the social and institutional side. we, i think, now need to move to the position, we have to look very hard at whether we will be pushing against technical and economic barriers in terms of limiting warming to1.5. it is not absolutely impossible, but the chances are diminishing. and, really, it s hanging on a thread at the moment. right. isn t that a tactful way of sayin
Someone that quite frankly is not an enemy of the Financial Community by any means, but his boat, his voice, thats where all of this is really being tracked very carefully on political operative meetings at the 200 pennsylvania. David we are waiting for Mitch Mcconnell to speak and we will bring him as soon as he begins. Michael mckee, what do republicans want to do . Theres also with the senate has to do. The nonelective stuff, funding, thats looming large as we get closer to let the timber 30 deadline. Mike they have to get a 2018 budget in place. They dont have to, but if they want to tax reform, they need to put that reconciliation vehicle in, the parliamentary way of getting a vote on tax reform without having to go to a 60 vote majority. They really need to get that done in their window is until september 30, when the government has to be funded. They also have to do something about the debt ceiling and they have to do something about funding the government, whether its a continu
Someone that quite frankly is not an enemy of the Financial Community by any means, but his boat, his voice, thats where all of this is really being tracked very carefully on political operative meetings at the 200 pennsylvania. David we are waiting for Mitch Mcconnell to speak and we will bring him as soon as he begins. Michael mckee, what do republicans want to do . Theres also with the senate has to do. The nonelective stuff, funding, thats looming large as we get closer to let the timber 30 deadline. Mike they have to get a 2018 budget in place. They dont have to, but if they want to tax reform, they need to put that reconciliation vehicle in, the parliamentary way of getting a vote on tax reform without having to go to a 60 vote majority. They really need to get that done in their window is until september 30, when the government has to be funded. They also have to do something about the debt ceiling and they have to do something about funding the government, whether its a continu
Someone that quite frankly is not an enemy of the Financial Community by any means, but his boat, his voice, thats where all of this is really being tracked very carefully on political operative meetings at the 200 pennsylvania. David we are waiting for Mitch Mcconnell to speak and we will bring him as soon as he begins. Michael mckee, what do republicans want to do . Theres also with the senate has to do. The nonelective stuff, funding, thats looming large as we get closer to let the timber 30 deadline. Mike they have to get a 2018 budget in place. They dont have to, but if they want to tax reform, they need to put that reconciliation vehicle in, the parliamentary way of getting a vote on tax reform without having to go to a 60 vote majority. They really need to get that done in their window is until september 30, when the government has to be funded. They also have to do something about the debt ceiling and they have to do something about funding the government, whether its a continu