And as First Minister of scotland when his party faced the latest in a series of crises. John swinney, welcome to political thinking. Lovely to be with you, thank you. It has been something of a rollercoaster six months, havent it . You retire from Front Line politics, then the First Minister of scotland is forced from office and you decide to come back into Front Line politics, come to your partys rescue. Then Rishi Sunak calls a surprise early election in the summer, then you have a bit of a kick in the general election, the westminster election. Has it all been very stomach churning . Its been absolutely a whirlwind. A whirlwind, i think is the best way to describe it, because i quite literally, in the days before Humza Yousaf resigned as First Minister, was making further plans about what would be my gentle scaling down of political activity. And i was actually on the day that he resigned, giving a reflective speech about 25 years of devolution in scotland down here in london. And
An old etonian of course cant be expected to have the same experience ahead of another National Lockdown is class war being waged in our name we speak to labor panel griffiths of the report about old Etonian Boris johnsons ability to protect the most vulnerable in our society and will the 2nd lockdown kill off the multibillion pound culture industry in britain we speak to enter shikari 0 reynolds about why he has written to u. K. Johnson the ritchie son at about saving the arts almost more coming up in todays going underground but 1st while the United States comes to terms with election 2020 nato partner britain is facing a Coronavirus Crisis england is on the eve of a National Lockdown with the threat of a new me konami depression spiraling homelessness and suicide rates and children going hungry you gave him Boris Johnson has refused to extend a Free School Meals program to over a 1000000 children which has sparked outrage across the political spectrum joining me now from london is l
Now imagine or times youre going underground as the world looks on to the fallout of the us president ial election and his england sits on the eve of a 2nd coronavirus lockdown after the Boris Johnson government fails to prevent a 2nd wave coming up in the show i remember very clearly i can still taste and smell it the mounting panic ahead of School Holidays because the income we heard could not stretch to feeding 2 boys and a mother in that day. Marcus rush wouldnt have this and probably only this in common we remember not in our heads we do not hold bodies. An old etonian of course cant be expected to have the same experience ahead of another National Lockdown is class war being waged in our name we speak to labor panel griffiths of the report about old etonian Boris Johnsons ability to protect the most vulnerable in our society will the 2nd lockdown kill off the multibillion pound culture industry in britain we speak to enter shikari 0 reynolds about why he has written to u. K. John
Continues. Good afternoon well can you watching our see international now in america people are waking up there to find their president ial election race is stuck on a knife edge the results are hanging in the balance in a few key states and as it stands right now joe biden has a narrow lead with 224 Electoral College votes compared to Donald Trumps 213 the victor will be the 1st to reach 270 biden claimed overnight on cost of victory went 1. 00 step further saying that hes already won and is threatening legal action to get more on this now were joined by murray gas if hes in and also with the market he joins us from new york so lets go to karen. As i said waiting for us in new york. Hanging in the balance not all the votes are in still everything to play for. Well at this point its down to a number of key states it was widely anticipated that the morning after the election in the United States we would not yet have the results and that is what occurred at this point we are waiting for
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