frailty had led his decision. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. 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 poirier and adam raphael, who has been commentating on british politics since the 1970s. thank you very much for being with us. adam, let s s
about the gas, in the end it is about the gas, in the end it is a world prize that decides this, it isn t as though some country is cut off altogether. everyone will be paying a world price, and the world price dictates huge leaps, astronomical sums have been paid on gas, but it isn t really a cut off point, it is just a matter of how much you re willing to pay for gas supply. and delivery in the winter i think is currently running at seven times the long term trend, which is pretty frightening. let s move on to final thing. frightening. let s move on to finalthing. donald frightening. let s move on to final thing. donald trump back in washington this week, and i wonder what is the dilemma for the us government about how it handles donald trump? is it contemplating the possibility of charging him in some way for his alleged involvement in the january 6th ride last year? the newspapers are well informed the newspapers are well informed and the newspapers are well informed and say -
a more sort of normal role here and that by putting the cia director back on it, et cetera, et cetera, it s going to be like a security council used to be in former administrations and removing the politics from it for good reason. and if i could, anderson, what we have too is h.r. mcmaster is working unbelievably, he s challenged right now, because he s about three months behind where the national security council should be right now. they should have come into office with some strategy, some national security policy. h.r. is actually building a plane while it s in flight, that s an old expression, but it certainly is true in this case and it s going to be stutter stepping until he gets the principles in, the state department gets their underlings in, and starts putting together a plan for national security. the chaos of the trump in