We are in a debate between the two men seeking to britains next Prime Minister. Good evening. In two weeks time, either Boris Johnson or jeremy will become our new Prime Minister. Tonight they debate each other facetoface responding to questions from our viewers from across the u. K. And you can take debate. Ing the itv each candidate will brelf set out why they will be the best Prime Minister. Boris johnson, your opening statement. Mr. Johnson this country faces a momentous choice. We can either continue with the same old failed approach, destroying trust in politics, sapping Business Confidence or else we can change, get back our mojo and restore this countrys republic pietation around the world and put us on a longterm path of success. And we need to unite our country more police on the beat, full Fiber Broadband for all and make our case to the people again. With renewed power and conviction. To have fantastic infrastructure and public services, you must have a Dynamic Market econo
Tom today to me is the first day we are really into the vote. It has changed dramatically, the tone, the desperation in the newspapers. Francine it is getting personal. You have the queen on the front cover and then it gets really personal with David Cameron saying, look into his eyes and do not vote to stay tomorrow. Well have plenty more later on. Also looking at the Daily Telegraph. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Day ofthe final campaigning before british Voters Decide whether the country should stay in the European Union. Different polls put each side ahead. There was one final debate last night on the bbc. More than 60 of the worlds leading country does companies have their European Headquarters here in german dust in london. In london. I think we have heard an amazing amount of running down of hours that he. We are proud of our city. The astonishing thing is that the remains side continually underestimate our ability to do better deals if we are left to do it on our o
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Host youre watching booktv on cspan2, and now joins us live is the author of flash boys. Michael lewis, what is a flash boy . Guest the heroes of the book are the flash boys, and theyre people that discover the stock markets got something funny going on and seek to find out what it is and then build a mechanism to prevent predators in the stock market from getting to prey. Its called flash boys for a couple of reasons, actually. One is that the solution that the main characters come up with requires them to be faster than the highspeed traders who are the predators in the stock market. So theyve got to be, i wanted speed in the title, but i also wanted kind of superhero in the title because they were these, i mean, these characters presented the story, i felt. Theyre not doing anything unnatural, but they do have these weird powers in the Financial Markets right now, and the powers are powers to explain complicated things to people, the power to kind of engender trust in others. But th