Them out . Palami, welcome to comfort zone. Good to be here. I want to look at 1st, the governments handling of the pandemic in recent months. We know that a vaccine now appears imminent, but after a decade of conservative rule, britain was woefully unprepared to deal with this. Pandemic any pandemic, wasnt it . Despite numerous warnings and dress rehearsals, why was your party asleep on the job for so many years . Well, i think what we saw with the pandemic was that the vast, vast majority of countries found themselves unprepared for it. And the reason for that, the fundamental reason for that was that the nature of the pandemic wasnt quite what was previously expressed is expected. What was generally expected by most countries was something that resembled blue. I realize it was different, but look at the figures before the coronavirus hit, the u. K. Had just 6. 6 intensive care beds per 100000 people. Thats fewer than latvia, fewer than cyprus, half the number that italy had, and abo
President elect joe bidens transition will start with a plan to curb coronavirus as u. S. Cases top 100,000 again. President trump with legal challenges. Riskon kicks up again. Global equities head for records on optimism which abound on the Biden Administration. The dollar is weaker. Itsman sachs slashes target. Global response. She looks forward to remove partnership. Angela merkel says the transatlantic friendship is indispensable. Good morning from dubai. Great to be back together with you. I was watching you this friday from the gym as usual. This market has not got a concession speech. This market is euphoric. This market could be seriously misguided. They take us to a moment that the reflation trade, you might have to wait until the end of the Second Quarter so if you look at bernstein, goldmans, they are all saying the same thing. The reflation trade might be stymied on a gridlocked senate. Good morning. Annmarie certainly. Its clear the democrats are going to take the white ho
And no fly zone to stamp out a separate a struggle here in flags of concerns of war crimes in the goal of care about or for armenia and azerbaijan are accused of committing atrocities. There its been 4 days since election day but americans are still waiting to find out who will be their next president s race to the white house is headed for a 4 to finish with every hour narrowing the gap between donald trump and joe biden heres the overall picture as it stands this hour there are just 4 battleground states left to count and any one of them could give joe biden the win that he pulled ahead in georgia in the last hour or so and he also has a lead over in nevada donald trump however is ahead in the others. She states but the margins are razor thin no those states being counties are the ones that you see here in yellow nevada georgia North Carolina and of course pennsylvania by the nih has 264 Electoral College votes trump meanwhile has 214 that still puts both in range of the magic number
Belgium urge eu leaders to step up plans for a no brexit. 50 questions from german lawmakers. We will talk to a member of the team. Rd investigative a warm welcome to the program. U. K. Data. Datac sector net borrowing coming in this morning. Excluding the banking group. At 28. 3ber has come in billion pounds. That is below estimates. The estimate was for 30 billion. That are than anticipated. Really interesting aspect here payhat the Public Sector conversation will look like from here. We have a Spending Review coming wednesday of next week. In july, the chancellor made the point that the fed felt publicsector pay was needed. We are bracing for some effort from the treasury with regard to Public Sector pay. Squeeze in Public Sector pay perhaps coming. We will focus on that and it will be interesting to see the comments coming through or the numbers coming through on the banking sector. That is the u. K. Data. Markets. Futures looking a little bit mixed really if you take a global pict
Favor, a follow me elected to parliament 3 years ago. Can mr. Jones, from the home to his current slide, in the opinion polls, and what will the party do if you count them all follow me. Welcome to comfort zone. Good to be here. I want to look at for us, the, the governments handling of the pandemic in recent months. We know that a vaccine now appears imminent. But after a decade of conservative rule, britain was woefully unprepared to deal with this. Pandemic any pandemic, wasnt it . Despite numerous warnings and dress rehearsals, why was your party asleep on the job for so many years . Well, i think what we saw with the pandemic was that the vast, vast majority of countries found themselves unprepared for it. And the reason for that, the fundamental reason for that was that the nature of the pandemic wasnt quite what was previously expressed what was previously expected. What was generally expected by most countries was something that resembles a clue. I realize it was different, but