took them this long, really. it s interesting because this includes quite a lot of tories as long two as well as general voting population. he has occupied that being quite high in the popularity stakes for really long time, even when there was evidence of extraordinarily bad government decision lack of concentration, lack of a strategy, because he is a kind of lovable road, i don t know what it is, he personally maintained quite high ratings. and according to the i, the newspaper i write for is that vaccine bounces over. i think it might be more than that. maybe the cummings revelation, though they were quiet, one didn t like the man delivering them and didn t trust him. maybe there were some bits in
where you see this come home to roost, chickens will come home to roost on this tax bill, even with the trump base? i think, my suspicion is that the bill will go more or less follow-through. but the chickens aren t just on the roost, i think they are hammering on the windows. i mean, if you look at the very narrow, if you look at people like larry are saying about the prospects for the midterms in 2018, this president perhaps is not exactly leading the field in the popularity stakes, so you have 2020 to think about. and there is also the remarkable figure i saw the other day these tax cuts are in fact less popular than a number of tax hikes that we have seen in the past. so how anyone can think this is an actual winner is completely beyond me. thank you. we ll have you back and further this conversation. many thanks to all of you. and i ll be right back.
publicly, he says it s better to be able to speak frankly and privately in these sorts of conversations. however, what he has said is that the call, while it may have ended abruptly, he said it did end courteously. this is how he put it. the report that the president hung up is not correct. the call ended courteously. and as far as the nature of the discussion, it was very frank and forthright. i stand up for australia s interests. i make australia s case as powerfully and persuasively as i can wherever i am. reporter: so this is actually done, the prime minister, some good at home, this puts him up in the popularity stakes, if you will. he was criticized over the weekend for the initial readout of that phone call on the back of the refugee travel restrictions, that he wasn t being strong enough, that he wasn t being a strong leader. once this revelation came out in
of time. your bankers also held that they have been mistreat, that they re being beaten up, that they re now being overregulated by the cameron government, which is interesting, because it is a conservative government. these are similar things people say well, it s a coalition. well, a conservative-led government. so bankers are feeling unloved in britain as well? well, i don t think bankers are sort of top of the pops in terms of the popularity stakes anywhere at the moment. and i don t think it serves much purpose to sort of arbitrarily vilify anybody. but let s be honest. i can understand why folk who are having to face maybe a freeze in their pay, maybe adjustments in their pensions, particularly people who work in our schools and our hospitals, in our essential services, people who work, you know, long hours, doing very, very noble, great things in public service. i can understand why they are saying, why are we having to have a sacrifice when it wasn t our responsibilit