People and say, i think theresa may, ijust dont think she was that good to start with and not even getting a big majority and itjust to start with and not even getting a big majority and it just went downhill from there. Is this like any other time . Because what i am hearing is ten years ago, 20 years ago, would it be different as who we would be looking for is a Prime Minister given how things have gone wrong . I would say its quite splintered now. I quite liked theresa may, but she was given she came in and she took the job from david cameron. Those kind of a poisoned chalice to start and then just a minute ago, she did get stabbed in the back. If you look at the candidates, a, are they going to bring all the parties together which she couldnt . A you asking the question . I think you got the a nswe is. Question . I think you got the answers. I do not think theyre going to offer anything different. To be honest, Jeremy Corbyn and as you said, the various parties have their own agend
Recorded by a neighbour but bbc journalist followed it up extensively during the day. Mrjohnson, why were Police Outside your house last night . He has been accused of hiding from scrutiny, avoiding detailed answers about his policies on brexit and tax. We meet in dark days for our party. Today the questions were more personal as borisjohnson faced the questions were more personal as Boris Johnson faced hundreds of conservative Party Members and was asked why police had been called to his flat in the early hours of friday morning. I dont think they wa nt friday morning. I dont think they want to hear about that kind of thing. Unless i am wrong. But the judgments of bbc news, along with much of the news media, was that people did want to know more. It featured prominently in the News Coverage of the conservative leadership contest for the next few days and would also brought up on mondays panorama. Carefully rationing his tv appearances and interviews may only have sharpened their media
Also on the programme President Trump was directly involved in talks that led to the illegal payments to Stormy Daniels according to unsealed court documents. And burger that. The patty without any meat at all. Could you tell the difference . Hello, i am katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. We are leaving the eu on october 31st do or die says the man many expect to be the Prime Minister this time next week. Borisjohnson is not wholly in favour of suspending parliament to force through a no deal brexit but neither has he ruled it out. And so today parliament moved to stop him, before he even takes office. The mps voted on an amendment to the Northern Ireland bill. The change they forced through, requires parliament to sit and debate progress on restoring devolved government to Northern Ireland. In theory it prevents parliament from being suspended through october. I7 tory rebels backed the amendment. A further 30 six of them cabinet ministers including philip hammond,
Now on bbc news, Stephen Sackur speaks to us republican senator rick scott on hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im Stephen Sackur. Donald trump is the most unpredictable of us president s, as is obvious from his policy approach to north korea, china trade, iran and a host of other domestic and international challenges. Well, my guest today is the republican senator from florida, rick scott. He was a strong supporter of donald trump back in 2016, now hes created a distance between himself and the president. So just how solid is republican support for donald trump . Senator rick scott, welcome to hardtalk. Its nice to be here. Youve been in europe for a few days, youve been meeting politicians, youve been meeting diplomats, how hard is it being a senior us politician defending the Trump Administration overseas right now . You know, i dont look at it that way. I dont defend, you know, the Trump Administration. Id try to explain, you know, both what President Trump is trying to do and what i
Managing communication which is what borisjohnson managing communication which is what Boris Johnson and jeremy hunt managing communication which is what borisjohnson and jeremy hunt care about as they try to win the vote for leader of the conservative party. The mirror has lots of details about borisjohnsons radio interview. Boris, for the first time, really came out of the tracks yesterday and having been hidden away, the Communications Plan simple to see. He pulled away from the microphone for as long as possible and now the new face and that was going to be pretty hard to do. He did interviews a go go. Pictures of him not kissing babies. He looks like he is about to kiss a dog. The dog is licking him he looks a little bit like the dog, dogs and their owners we started to see more about boris the personality. Of course, jeremy hunt starting to betray his personality because, at the end of the day, the choice for the end of the day, the choice for the conservative members, 160,000 pe