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at the week in parliament. hello there, and welcome to the week in parliament. coming up: more questions for borisjohnson over who paid for the revamp of his downing street flat. don t the british people deserve a prime minister they can trust and a government that isn t mired in sleaze, cronyism and scandal? but the prime minister insists he picked up the bill. he should know that i paid for downing street refurbishment personally, mr speaker. also on this programme: fresh demands by help for india as it struggles with its covid crisis. and peers fail in an attempt to stop the cost of fire safety work being passed on to leaseholders. here we are today, with perhaps a million of our fellow citizens being thrown to the ravages of financial bankruptcy. but first, it s been dubbed cash curtains, the row over just who fitted the initial bill for the revamp of the prime minister s downing street flat has daubed borisjohnson all week. the news that the election watchdog was launchi
at the week in parliament. hello there, and welcome to the week in parliament. coming up: more questions for borisjohnson over who paid for the revamp of his downing street flat. don t the british people deserve a prime minister they can trust and a government that isn t mired in sleaze, cronyism and scandal? but the prime minister insists he picked up the bill. he should know that i paid for downing street refurbishment personally, mr speaker. also on this programme: fresh demands by help for india as it struggles with its covid crisis. and peers fail in an attempt to stop the cost of fire safety work being passed on to leaseholders. here we are today, with perhaps a million of our fellow citizens being thrown to the ravages of financial bankruptcy. but first, it s been dubbed cash curtains, the row over just who fitted the initial bill for the revamp of the prime minister s downing street flat has daubed borisjohnson all week. the news that the election watchdog was launchi
for that, among so many other things, i am grateful to you, ali, as always. thank you for being ready to step in. thank you for being my safety net. it s always my pleasure. i ve always got one ear and one eye on your show anyway signature ready on friday nights to do the last word. but i had more than that not because there might be technical difficulties but the conversation about the evolution of democracy and the threats to it leading to your conversation with reverend senator warnock was fascinating and enlightening so that we don t take for granted the situation we re in now. i m appreciative of that. and the other thing just to kick you off for the weekend is to keep in mind as dangerous as those technical issues were, they re not as bad as a boat stuck in a canal right now. that s right. all of my boats are free floating at this point. nothing is aground. that was never going to be a particular issue. but you would have been there with a tiny front-end loader to
with reverend senator warnock was fascinating and enlightening so that we don t take for granted the situation we re in now. so i m appreciative of that. and the other thing just to kick you off for the weekend is to keep in mind that as dangerous as those technical issues were, they re not as bad as a boat stuck in a canal right now. that s right. all of my boats are free floating at this point. nothing is aground. that was never going to be a particular issue. but you would have been there with a tiny front-end loader to try to loose me. i know you would be. you can always count on that. i m your tug boat. have yourself a great weekend. i shall see you on monday. thank you, ali. thank you. as rachel pointed out, democracy is, in fact, under attack. and don t mistake that for hyperbole. the attacks are real. it s not a given that democracy will persist under the weight of this attack. now that trump is gone, republicans in state houses across the country are continui