the prince s charitable fund took a donation of a million pounds from the bin laden family of saudi arabia two years after osama bin laden was killed. the family disowned him in 1994. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading british journalists with foreign correspondents based in the uk who write, blog, podcast and broadcast from the dateline london. ballot papers will be sent out in the coming week to the 160,000 or so people who will, in effect, choose the next british prime minister. the candidate debates have not been without incident the host of one brought it to an abrupt end by fainting. has it sent our panel to sleep? has europe yet woken up to the prospect of energy rationing this winter? and are the democrats slumbering whilst donald trump is back, thundering? here in the studio are jef mcallister, an american lawyer, who was london bureau chief for time magazine. the french author and journalist, agnes po
here in the studio are. the french author and journalist, agnes poirier and adam raphael, who has been commentating on british politics since the 1970s. and jef mcallister, an american lawyer, who was london bureau chief for time magazine. thank you very much for being with us. adam, let s start with the british conservative leadership contest. in effect the beauty contest for britain s next prime minister. it s been 1 on 1, blue on blue in some of the attacks. how revealing or interesting has it been? well, it s an odd election as you rightly pointed out. 0nly 160,000 in the electorate, we think anyway, nobody knows what the conservative membership is. 97% are white, half live in london or the south east, half are over 65, i know i m even older than that, but there you go. itjust is not a representative election. there are 1a million conservative votes in the last election. you have this tiny number who actually decide not only who the party leader should be, who the prime m
man, call 101 quoting incident a19 of the 28th ofjuly. i am extremely grateful to the public and the media in helping us to identify this man. thank you. so that was chief superintendent martyn parker there. martyn parker there. giving us information martyn parker there. giving us information about martyn parker there. giving us information about that - martyn parker there. giving us l information about that stabbing. martyn parker there. giving us - information about that stabbing. the latest developments are that the two people who were arrested have been released with no further action taken. a key piece of information is that they have cctv footage of a man they need to locate so they don t know where he is but this is a man the police would like to speak to. the public are being warned that if you do know who he is, do not approach him and there are various ways of getting in touch with the police by either calling 999 or calling 101 with incident number a19 and quo
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