To dateline london. Im shaun ley. Is spains Prime Minister still in charge of catalonia . Is britains Prime Minister still in charge even of her own party . And will the Mass Shootings in las vegas dent american confidence in the right to bear arms . Joining me today are alex deane, london correspondent of madrids la razon, celia maza de pablo, the belgian writer and broadcaster, marc roche of le point, and the American Writer and broadcaster, jef mcallister, former London Bureau chief of time magazine. Warm welcome to you all. It is good to have you here and it will be a busy programme. The f off the conservative Party Conference stage set, which fell down during theresa mays leaders speech, seemed horribly prescient in a week which ended with calls for her to quit. By contrast, the annual meetings of Party Activists and corporate sponsors for the labour and liberal democrat opposition parties passed without much controversy. Alex, things had seemed to have settled down for theresa ma
A warm welcome to you all. It is good to have you here and it will be a busy programme. The f from the conservative Party Conference stage set, which fell down during theresa mays leaders speech, seemed horribly prescient in a week which ended with calls for her to quit. By contrast, the annual meetings of Party Activists and corporate sponsors for the labour and liberal democrat opposition parties passed without much controversy. Alex, things had seemed to have settled down for theresa may a little bit in the run up to conference. Consensus that she was going to stay until at least brexit. After this week, what has happened to those prospects . I think that consensus still holds. There was undoubtedly i put it in the past tense an attempt by some members of the Parliamentary Party to question the leadership. It really has fizzled remarkably quickly. Apart from anything else, its a demonstration of the quality of the whips operation, that they. The people who control government busines
To dateline london. Im shaun ley. Is spains Prime Minister still in charge of catalonia and is britains Prime Minister still in charge even of her own party . And will the Mass Shootings in las vegas dent americans confidence in the right to bear arms . Joining me today are alex deane, london correspondent of madrids la razon. Celia maza de pablo, and the belgian writer and broadcaster. Marc roche of le point. And the American Writer and broadcaster, jef mcallister, former London Bureau chief of time magazine. A warm welcome to you all. It is good to have you here and it will be a busy programme. The f from the conservative Party Conference stage set, which fell down during theresa mays leaders speech, seemed horribly prescient in a week which ended with calls for her to quit. By contrast, the annual meetings of Party Activists and corporate sponsors for the labour and liberal democrat opposition parties passed without much controversy. Alex, things had seemed to have settled down for
Decreased while the size of the overall state budget has increased by more than 30 billion. Now sudbly theres an emergency. Governor brown says he wants a tax plan to be voted on this week but after so many years of neglect, he was asked whats the rush . You look a little younger than me. You got more time. I dont. I want to get it done, okay . The governors proposal was shared with the legislature march 30th. That means lawmakers have seven days to consider and pass the new plan which is lengthy and contained taxes, fees, and a constitutional amendment. I give them great credit for starting to pull together their energy and focus on transportation but lets not be so artificial about it. Lets get it right. And that isnt something you do with deadlines. One problem with rushing this plan, getting the 2 3rds vote. With no republican support, that means every single democrat in the senate has to go for it. Bay area Senate Democrat is not onboard yet. I think youll regret it. Whatever mome
Wholl meet ministers later. They say big shops selling non essential items are taking all of their christmas trade. Today we have some squally rain and gusty winds across the north and west of the uk. Some early fog in the south east and generally to day more cloud developing through the day. All the details in about ten minutes. Its wednesday november the 11th. Our top story. A plan to get students home from English Universities in time for christmas has been published by the government. The operation will involve mass coronavirus testing and a planned travel window in early december. Scotland and wales are expected to announce similar plans in the coming days. Dan johnson reports. A negative test result could be the passport students need for the journey home at christmas with a week set aside at the end of englands lockdown as a travel window to return to their families. Departures will be staggered by universities to manage the numbers moving each day. It should lift the question m