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waving flags and chanting slogans. the palestinian red cross said more than 70 people were injured in clashes. now on bbc news, dateline london, with sean ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together columnists from uk newspapers with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their home country from the dateline london. this was the week when sue gray delivered her report into whether there were downing street parties during the covid lockdown. did the report itself deliver? we learnt the likely impact of surging energy prices and a doubling of the numbers in fuel poverty in the uk. the government s answer to it? throw money at the problem. is it proportionate or inflationary? and what about those other sharply rising bills? is inflation stalking the globe? to discuss all that, we have the american journalist stephanie baker, a senior writer with bloomberg markets, steve richards, a political commentator who presents the podcast
Protection measures in sports clubs. We will bring you all the details, including the extra Background Checks you might have to go through if you work with children. Do get in touch on that, it would be really interesting to hear your views, two loopholes they are calling for the government to close immediately. I would be interesting to hear what it is like trying to get a Background Check now if you work with children. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The us President Donald Trump has said he believes that torture can work to get information out of suspected terrorists. But he said he would seek further advice before deciding whether to bring back techniques such as Water Boarding. Speaking to the american abc network in his first televised interview since becoming president , he also repeated his pledge to make mexico pay for a wall alon
by by the time he was on the cusp of becoming by the time he was on the cusp of becoming prime minister, he was already becoming prime minister, he was already a becoming prime minister, he was already a singular phenomenon because already a singular phenomenon because no figure probably ever in british because no figure probably ever in british politics but certainly in modern british politics but certainly in modern times had managed to combine so successfully politics with the entertainment industry. and he had a musical entertainment industry. and he had a musical comedian s sense of performance. he was the most striking performance. he was the most striking performance politicians of modern striking performance politicians of modern times. and it was almost as if he was modern times. and it was almost as if he was knocking on the gates of number if he was knocking on the gates of number 10 downing st shouting, i m a celebrity, number 10 downing st shouting, i m
like boris in a chummy way, but they do not fear him. it is impossible to imagine that culture or that behaviour under, say, gordon brown, theresa may or margaret thatcher or anyone since the war. goodness, churchill drank during the war but the staff in number 10 really respected him and felt that they were doing something important. my colleague heard an interesting story this week about, given the excruciating detail of drunken parties going on late i into the night, maybe there should be a ban - on drinking at 10 downing st and a source said that - boris johnson dismissed that idea, saying britain - never would have gotten through world war ii without drink toi take off the strain. so. what i find very disturbing is that this is just part - of a broader pattern. an alarming number of tory mps have run foul of the law-