On important Foreign Policy issues today europe has a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. Crosstalk in the Atlantic Alliance im joined by my guest mark allman in oxford hes the director of the Crisis Research institute in london we have Jonathan Steele hes an International Affairs commentator also in london we have a real because he is founder of a consulting and Foreign Affairs analyst all right gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you 1st here and let me just read you 2 quotes here number one of course before its too late and we have the new head of the European Unions Foreign Policy arm he he also says europe must develop quote appetite for power in the trump era theyre both hinting at the same thing in Different Directions here what does that tell you Better Change course before its too late whats that mean to you. I think certainly the tensions between russia and the west in gene
Youre watching international with me suss to take a very warm welcome from me on the whole team here in moscow. And to start us off this hour the u. S. Democratic president ial candidate Michael Bloomberg has admitted his campaign made use of prison labor at the banana claims he was unaware it was happening his team hired a firm to help with his 2020 election run which in turn employed female inmates to make Campaign Calls we learned about this when the reporter called us which as soon as we discovered which friend done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hire them imagine being so rich you have people who have people who have prism is to do stuff for you. Being sure rich you dont even bother to check what youre spending really winds of dollars on. Rita rating we sad indeed when we learn a vendor of a vendor of a vendor use prison labor we did know about it and we never would have allowed it we dont believe in this practice and we immediately
Original guestimate that the conservatives will get an overall majority with Boris Johnson a little bit of figure on that im guessing a majority of 40 at the time you out of these these famous words are i think just once and was 5 to one against her to lose a seat so the 1st question was did you get money on the demise of the liberal democrat leader i didnt put anything on and i think that would have jinxed my predictions but i had one very good reason to think shed lose i did the same thing and i could sense the same things happening to her as happened to me in my seat in 2010 but nobody listened including the liberal democrats despite my repeated warnings that i thought shed lose by a small margin but as you say i was right and was just once an open. My eyes a liberal democrat problems or were the people difficulties for the liberals in the sky she was half the problem i said here in this very studio that she wasnt cutting it in the general election as she just didnt come across as c
Desks theyve been pretty to work by their new taskmasters returning m. P. s come back to a very different place the boarding is the same but inside it has changed and changed utterly instead of a truculent Minority Parliament we have a step for to simply with a huge majority of 80 super loyalist m. P. s or is johnson is a master of all that he surveys no longer will little known m. P. s be asked with breathless excitement by the media how they are shaping up for the next knife age for it they wont be any such words household names like on the superman Dominic Grieve will disappear from our t. V. Screens perhaps forever but is it all plain sailing for the Prime Minister sometimes in politics nothing feels like success alex ross our panel how events are likely to unfold. I know im trying to read the ruins of the general election by a prestigious spinal of political pundits but im no column the rebel musketeer bitter or bottom a rebel tory who ended up voting for jeremy called the Chris W
Privilege like rubin did ever again in this country thatll be a high high priority for him because colvin and and the labor party became available for that they were going to take away the kind of privilege of his wealth they way from fighting its cold is the whole background to media matters the easy thing for them to do is to implement boundary changes weve been to have a new commission to make the seats even even smaller in areas that labor could do better in i mean thats thats probably on the cards but he may be thinking of other things he may be thinking of changing the Voting System so you have to go through various stages of id to actually be able to vote and that would harm labor in particular ways its perhaps a party for him and for the people who backed him in the people who gave the money for his campaign they never want to see the fat of social Democratic Left wing labor party again john. Famously the Bullingdon Club reputedly. He used to send their Members Around oxford to