is my guest today. has that promise been broken? and could the uk have done more to honour it? lord patten, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. has that promise, that hong kong would be run by hong kong people, been broken? yes. and it was based on the perhaps misguided assumption, which some of us had occasional doubts about, that the chinese were. and it was based on the perhaps misguided assumption, which some of us had occasional doubts about, that the chinese were. the chinese communist party, let me make a distinction, would keep their word, and they have pretty comprehensively broken their word, which is contained in an international treaty lodged at the united nations called thejoint declaration. you said at the time, you wrote at the time in the hong kong diaries, which you ve just published, that, ultimately, after the handover, much will depend on whether the chinese communist party can actually be trusted to honour one country, two systems, which was the deal agr
Political thinking with nick robinson. 0ur movement is fighting, our movement is winning, our movement, brothers and sisters, is back, so said my guest on a new episode of political thinking. A conversation with, rather than a news interrogation of, someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. Paul nowak is the new General Secretary of the tuc and this week, the trade Union Congress meets in his home city of liverpool. And it meets at a time when there are more strikes than there have been for many years and at a time when paul nowak says, working people are fighting back after the longest sustained squeeze on their incomes in two centuries. Paul nowak, welcome to political thinking. Thank you. Now another thing you once said. Oh, dear. I fit every stereotype of a daily mail Trade Unionist. Im a slightly overweight, Balding Scouser who gets a little too aerated. I think it is an accurate description, dont you . Well, we will see, shall we . What gets you aera
Political thinking with nick robinson. 0ur movement is fighting, our movement is winning, our movement, brothers and sisters, is back, so said my guest on a new episode of political thinking. A conversation with, rather than a news interrogation of, someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. Paul nowak is the new General Secretary of the tuc and this week, the trade Union Congress meets in his home city of liverpool. And it meets at a time when there are more strikes than there have been for many years and at a time when paul nowak says, working people are fighting back after the longest sustained squeeze on their incomes in two centuries. Paul nowak, welcome to political thinking. Thank you. Now another thing you once said. Oh, dear. I fit every stereotype of a daily mail Trade Unionist. Im a slightly overweight, Balding Scouser who gets a little too aerated. I think it is an accurate description, dont you . Well, we will see, shall we . What gets you aera
Political thinking with nick robinson. 0ur movement is fighting, our movement is winning, our movement, brothers and sisters, is back, so said my guest on a new episode of political thinking. A conversation with, rather than a news interrogation of, someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. Paul nowak is the new General Secretary of the tuc and this week, the trade Union Congress meets in his home city of liverpool. And it meets at a time when there are more strikes than there have been for many years and at a time when paul nowak says, working people are fighting back after the longest sustained squeeze on their incomes in two centuries. Paul nowak, welcome to political thinking. Thank you. Now another thing you once said. Oh, dear. I fit every stereotype of a daily mail Trade Unionist. Im a slightly overweight, Balding Scouser who gets a little too aerated. I think it is an accurate description, dont you . Well, we will see, shall we . What gets you aera
Political thinking with nick robinson. 0ur movement is fighting, our movement is winning, our movement, brothers and sisters, is back, so said my guest on a new episode of political thinking. A conversation with, rather than a news interrogation of, someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. Paul nowak is the new General Secretary of the tuc and this week, the trade Union Congress meets in his home city of liverpool. And it meets at a time when there are more strikes than there have been for many years and at a time when paul nowak says, working people are fighting back after the longest sustained squeeze on their incomes in two centuries. Paul nowak, welcome to political thinking. Thank you. Now another thing you once said. Oh, dear. I fit every stereotype of a daily mail Trade Unionist. Im a slightly overweight, Balding Scouser who gets a little too aerated. I think it is an accurate description, dont you . Well, we will see, shall we . What gets you aera