Hello, and welcome to dateline london, the programme that brings together some of the uks leading columnists with the foreign correspondents who file their stories for the folks back home with the dateline london. It being a reflective time of the year, were looking back on 2019 when britain backed boris to get brexit done, when donald trump was impeached, when street protests felled one north african dictator and shook governments from western europe to hong kong. With me are david aaronovitch, columnist with the times janet daley, from the sunday telegraph the russian broadcaster alexander nekrassov, and michael goldfarb, host of the podcast the first rough draft of history. Very good to have you all with us. With one electoral bound, he was free. Borisjohnson spent his first few months as uk Prime Minister at the mercy of a house of commons he could not command, making promises he couldnt and didnt keep. The first december election in nearly a century was a bitter one for labour, ex
Uk and around the world on bbc world news. Welcome back. Yes, it is welcome back, just two months since welcome back, just two months since we last gathered in this very room inside the palace of westminster for the state opening of parliament. Back on the 14th october Boris Johnsons government with no parliamentary majority put forward, lets say, a rather thin programme. Today, the queen will present a legislative programme from the conservative government with a big majority in the house of commons following last weekss election. We are politically in a different world. A world in which the parliament, the government and the monarch have been in sharp focus, a course of some tension as well. And a year dominated once again by the brexit question and process. What will the queens speech tell us about the governments other priorities, apart from brexit, for the year ahead . This is Boris Johnsons second queens speech in the sake space of nine weeks. Boris johnson has been resident at n
The parliament had a couple more years to run. His strategy of saying it is me orJeremy Corbyn, and his cut through of get brexit done both succeeded excellently. Both did very well. The consequences, the one that you see around that, the British Electoral system is pretty good at producing results like this from time to time, and it now sets up a whole series of problems, but the one thing it does resolve is whether or not there will be a brexit. That will happen. It doesnt tell you what kind of brexit it will be or the consequences, but were almost certainly like the rest of the world heading for an economic slowdown and the election from all sides was a cornucopia of promises of what would happen. We are now going into unpromising circumstances to deliver that. Meanwhile, for 18 months there is no opposition in britain to speak of, except that offered by the scottish nationalists who have only one opposition point which is independence for scotland. Janet, what does he do with this
President that he has the right to do whatever he wants as president that is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing it is not what the constitution provides that is now with the country demands it does not have the right to do whatever he wants turning to the 2nd abuse of power most of the concern betrayal of the nation of outing foreign powers the American People have suffered at foreign influence when President Trump treated military aid that had been approved taxpayers dollars and decided to treat it as his own checkbook to try to further his own reelection chances that reflects what the founders were concerned about and finally corruption of our elections the framers knew that corrupt leaders are leaders acting corruptly concentrate their powers to manipulate elections. And undercut adversaries they talked about it frequently that is why the framers thought electoral treasury particular evolving foreign powers was a critical abuse and and that could support and lead
And today were having to talk coming up on afternoon record highes last year live all the sport. According to the world about the issue in cricket. Meteorological organisation. England slip to defeat in the first test against new zealand sadly, not for the first time over but in the process, pace bowler the last few months, jofra archer says he was subjected were talking about racist abuse to racist abuse from an spectator from fans rather joy at the ballot box than the sport itself. As he left the field. Pro democracy supporters celebrate well tell you what he and a as they win overwhelmingly this time its in cricket, in hong kongs local elections. New Zealand Cricket have had to say where england fast bowler the territorys leader carrie lam has said she will reflect seriously on the incident at 2 30. Jofra archer says he was targetted on the clear message sent by voters. Thanks. As he left the field on the final day of englands first test match and ben rich has the weather. Against n