minute since we had seen that as well. a lot to entertain us in washington. gillian turner in for sandra smith. tensions on the rise now as we fast approach a year of war in ukraine. stand strong. ukraine will never be a victory for russia, never. attack against one is attack against all. john: president biden blasting russian president vladimir putin for his assault on ukraine, but issue was left out of the speech. gillian: the president did not address putin s major nuclear warning to the west out this week, russia is suspending the nuclear arms control with the united states, opening the lid for potential weapons expansion. john: all of this as russian is looking to get a boost from communist china. xi jinping plans to visit moscow in the coming months. beijing wants to play the role of peacemaker. some skeptics wonder if xi might have another agenda and if biden will do anything to stop him. tiktok is here, the ford chinese battery plant is coming, farmland is
lots of policies ahead of the debate for something to talk about. let s talk about what we got one by one tonight, first of all child benefits, from the conservatives, which was universal in 2013, but now it s quite complex. you don t get child benefits if you earn over £60,000, but now they are raising the cap up to £120,000, and it ll be per household. isn t thatjust per household. isn t that just too convoluted? why notjust refer set to being universal? convoluted? why not ust refer set to being universal? to being universal? there s a cost to being universal? there s a cost to it being to being universal? there s a cost to it being universal, to being universal? there s a cost to it being universal, but- to being universal? there s a cost to it being universal, but one - to it being universal, but one the conservatives want to do is to show a core conservatives want to do is to show a core conservative vote that party and leadership are still on their side and leadershi
The call came as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt admitted to The Mail on Sunday that two cuts to National Insurance had failed to swing public opinion behind the Conservatives .
this was the best deal he could get under the circumstances and yet he s still facing this extreme pushback from his right flank, who held the floor of the house of representatives hostage yesterday when they voted down yet another procedural step, this is a tactic they have used in the past. it was a bill that is unrelated to the funding fight, but it is a way for them to register their displeasure with the speaker. meanwhile, johnson defending himself to our colleague, manu raju, yesterday. here s what he said. are you worried that one of these guys is going to make a move on you? no, not at all. i just met with all those guys. they re close friends of mine and we agree on the principles. i m a life long hard core conservative. i want to get as many policy wins as we can, but the reality is we have a small majority. and that is the underlying reality. he s really walking a tightrope between what is practically possible given the fact that this deadline is coming up, given the r
urged his colleagues to recognize the narrowness of their majority. are you worried that one of these guys is going to make a move on you? no, i m not worried about that at all. they re close friends of mine. we agree on the principles. i m a life long hard core conservative. i want to get as many policies wins as we can, but the reality is we have a small majority, so in a situation like that, you re not going to get everything you want. you get what you can get. and we have been trying to negotiate to make that happen and we re going to continue and keep the team together. just another day at the office. and one of the big questions whether or not johnson would include tougher border restrictions, dealing with the migration crisis at the southern border, trying to put new language, policy restrictions in a must-pass spending bill. that s what the hard liners are demanding. they re saying we should shut down the government if we don t get our way. johnson has not gone that far.