Now on bbc news its hardtalk. Stephen sackur speaks to former Prime Minister sirjohn major. Welcome to hardtalk. Within weeks, the conservative party will have a new leader and britain a new Prime Minister. As with so much in uk politics, that battle between borisjohnson and jeremy hunt boils down to brexit. Who the tories believe it is better equipped to navigate the political and constitutional crisis that looms as the departure date of october 31 draws near. My guest is former Prime Minister sirjohn major. What kind of conservative party and what kind of country will emerge from the brexit mess . Welcome. The conservative Party Leadership is in its final lap. You have been watching it very closely. What is it telling you about the state of your party . I have been a member of the conservative party since my 16th birthday. Its been a very large part of my life. I owe a great deal to it and i hope i have given quite a lot to it. I do not think i have ever seen the party so divided or
Time for hardtalk. Apologies for that. We will bring the programme to you in a few minutes time. Stay with us, we are having a couple of technical difficulties. You can keep up to date on all the stories were covering online at our website and you can also reach me on twitter. We have plenty more of all of our top stories. Lets bring you a quick im rico hizon in singapore. Weather update. Thursday brought us the headlines a warm and humid day across many parts of the country but we also had the lion air crash in indonesia lawyers say the families of those heavy showers and thunderstorms as who died in the boeing 737 max have well. Been cheated out of compensation. A mix of sunny spells on friday and a few showers around across Eastern England and eastern scotland but many of us will avoid the showers President Trump has ordered that we have an area of low pushing all Government Agencies to provide off towards the east with High Pressure waiting out in the west records that will help de
With people in khartoum tell us what theyve been telling you because you were talking earlier about this being a 2000000. 00 plus 2 and a half 1000000 plus possibly. I think now its sort of and that is to meet here because. What im hearing from the people of course there is no internet. Connectivity here but at least we are successful in reaching people by phone and its demonstrations are all over the nation and it seems that. I mean lets lets just go back a little bit because if we remember i mean the t. M. C. Thought that the protesters in the city where is standing in their way to i mean claiming power and assuming full control of the public is feed so they went ahead killed those 114. 00. Protest that is of course thats sad and that is timid because there are people who are lost. We dont know about. About their whereabouts so anyhow after that of that they killed those 114. 00 protesters they moved on and thought that they can use all sorts of techniques to i mean claim power and i
Matches, she will be able to lift a level. Kim, thank you very much. We will see andy murray, not before 5 30pm, with Serena Williams, on a court to be decided. Look out for koko gauff. Time for a look at the weather heres sarah keith lucas. Contrast across the country, the southern half of the uk getting the lions share of the sunshine. This is the picture in cromer, norfolk. You will probably see the sunshine tomorrow if you are not today. We have that north south split, sunny skies in the south, more cloud and spots of showery rain in the north. Looking at the recent radar picture, you can see where the rainfall has been. Pushing on across the north west of scotland, in particular. A lot of cloud across scotla nd particular. A lot of cloud across scotland and Northern Ireland, patchy cloud in Northern England too. Further south, patchy cloud in Northern England too. Furthersouth, clearer patchy cloud in Northern England too. Further south, clearer skies, across the central and south
Until elections can be held. At ten oclock tina dahele will be here with a full round up of the days news. Now Stephen Sackur interviews former british Prime Minister sir john major on hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Within weeks, the conservative party will have a new leader and britain a new Prime Minister. As with so much in uk politics, that battle between Boris Johnson and jeremy hunt boils down into brexit. Who the tories believe it is better equipped to navigate the political and constitutional crisis that lives as at the departure date of october 31 draws near. My guest is former Prime Minister is sirjohn major, what kind of conservative and what kind of country will emerge from brexit mess . Welcome. The conservative Party Leadership is in its final lap. You have been watching it very closely. What is it telling you about the state of your party . I have been a member of the conservative party since my 16th birthday. Its been a very large part of my life. I have a great deal to