They are going to use the Withdrawal Agreement bill as with the whole Brexit Strategy to sell our workers. The government has absolutely no intention of lowering standards on workers rights, to suggest otherwise is scaremongering. And peers find out how the nhs deals with older people with complex illnesses. When we use a drug which is license of the moment, we are often poisoning the dosage that we are using. But first, the day had started with things, for once, looking reasonably clear. The snp and the lib dems were backing the idea of a december general election, even if there was a bit of disagreement between them and the government on the exact date. And by mid morning the labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn was out with supporters saying he too wanted a chance to go the public. But in the politics of 2019 nothing is ever simple. To secure a december general election the government had to push a bill through parliament in double quick time. Ministers had hoped a short bill would pass the
Unable to support it because it wasnt beneficial to the economic well being of Northern Ireland and may undermine the integrity of the union. There had been positive noises from conservative hard brexiteers who voted against theresa mays deal, although they said they wa nted mays deal, although they said they wanted to see the final text first and there is a risk the dup position might put some of. It is hugely concerning, if one part, the dup, are unwilling to support the aspects of the deal that borisjohnson is negotiating with the eu that affects Northern Ireland, there is a question as to whether that complies to the good friday agreement when it comes to consent. What is coming out of brussels is that he has actually managed to negotiate something that is even worse for our negotiate something that is even worse for oui economy negotiate something that is even worse for our economy than what theresa may had put forward. We are talking about an act of economic vandalism which would
Companies will meet today to thrash out a rail deal nestle says it will speed up share buybacks and pursue external Growth Opportunities as the Swiss Company pledges to improve margins and cut costs. Good morning, everyone its tuesday glad youre with us once again we have another jam packed show. Lets kick things off with a look at the equity markets youre onehour into the trading session. Were fairly even steven at this point. The latest escalation in the war of words between north korea and the u. S. Is not helping. We are largely brushing that off. Stoxx 600 is close to session highs. Safe havens are seeing inflows are gold, the yen and the swiss. Markets one by one, the xetra dax is just clinging on to the flat line, off by 5 points ftse 100 off by 0. 2. Cac 40 up by 0. 1 . When it comes to sectors, a couple interesting things to tell you about oil is not doing too badly up 0. 3 this as brent is moving closer to the 60 a barrel mark. Tech seeing underperformance. You have it down b
Close to the sun on thursday and enchanting off billions of humans the eye. Your knees when Political Parties have signed a Coalition Agreement that allows them to govern together and use a third term leadership of casserole mac only deals with the so called grand coalition of ngos to a ballot of spd mendez to be signed off with the result expected in mid december on ankles as the coalition will stand for solid finances secure prosperity and Social Security and that it will oppose and their union for your theres more the leaders of the three Coalition Partners in a display of unity for the cameras. But despite the appearance of readiness for action. This is still a provisional document the three have signed an interim accord will put pen to paper on the real deal with the spd can persuade its grassroots members to accept it. The final push for agreement has taken its toll the lack of sleep was showing. But they relieved as well. Theyve come a long way since the elections in september.
Two names, the men who will be at the helm of Trumps White House as his closest advisers. Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus whose title would be white house chief of staff. And Steven Bannon who will be trumps strategist. This was followed by allies rushing to defend him as a, quote, force for good, a navy veteran and a person who has, quote, embraced adversity. Instead of the position for which he is more commonly known, the man who headed an Online Platform that bannon himself proclaimed was the platform for the altright. As the New York Times reported this week, its that steve bannon who critics feared would be a voice of racism in the Trump White House. In the latest picks to come down from on high from trumps gilded perch have done little to allay those concerns. On friday he tapped alabama senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, retired general mike flynn for National Security advisor and tom pay yoe for director of the cia. Sessions in particular was already