diane abbott, is free to stand for election in her north london constituency. it follows days of wrangling over her future, following suspension from the party, over comments she made about how jewish, irish and traveller people, experience racism. she was re admitted to labour on wednesday. ms abbott has yet to say, if she ll stand. here s our political correspondent, helen catt. the story that s been rumbling on for most of this week has now come to a sort of conclusion after sir keir starmer said that diane abbott, a very long serving labour mp, she was the first black woman elected to parliament, is free to stand as a labour mp at this election. she had claimed she was being blocked by the party. so what we re waiting to hear from in the next few days is to hear from diane abbott herself. she hasn t commented publicly since sir keir starmer said this yesterday, so we re waiting to hear from her to confirm if she will indeed do so. the crucial thing, though, is that it is
promote britain. stop importing. because at the end of the day, if anything serious happened, we saw during covid that we had shortages. do we want to repeat that? pete davis won everything going with his beautifully reared traditional hereford cattle, now a rare breed. the french, they all look after theirfarmers. we don t. this country doesn t. take us for granted. needed us during lockdown, didn t they? everybody was buying british because they couldn t get any continental stock. now it seems to be going back to that way of buying. definitely need to support the pig farmer, that s for sure. yeah, just with current feed prices, it s hard for a small holder to keep going. definitely. we re in a really pivotal time now for the future of food production in this country. confidence has fallen off a cliff. tom bradshaw sjob is to be the farmers champion, battling with politicians for a better deal. we re really proud to produce to the standards we do in this country, but they feel they r
Keep pace with the G7 allies! Japan plans to gradually reduce coal imports from Russia] after tightening sanctions on Russia in Europe and the United States, Koichi Hagiuda, Japan's minister of economy, trade and industry, said on Friday that the country planned to gradually reduce coal imports from Russia while looking for alternative sources of supply. The move highlights a potential shift in Japan's energy procurement policy, one of the world's largest energy importers.
yes. so, why hasn t the president moved to make this happen. white house press secretary jen psaki told john berman on cnn s new day the following. what he does not want to do is topple the global markets or the global marketplace or impact the american people more with higher energy and gas prices. but the prices are already surging. according to aaa the national average for a gallon of gas $3.92. that s up 37 cents since the invasion. and the price could soon match or surpass the tloord was set in 2008 during the financial crisis, that was $4.11. in los angeles, it s been spotted as high as $6.65. if the u.s. does stop importing oil from russia that supply deficit must be made up somewhere. and republicans and democrats have different opinions about that. democratic senator ed markey s bill to cut off russian oil