Would fight to avoid a hard brexit. The Prime Minister has just left Downing Street for a meeting with Conservative Backbenchers. There will be a vote in the House Of Commons tomorrow to approve the election plan. Weve extended coverage of the Surprise Announcement this hour. Our main story at five the Prime Minister has announced plans for a Snap General Election to be held onjune the 8th. In a Surprise Statement in Downing Street this morning, theresa may said britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership following the eu referendum. She said divisions risked injuring Brexit Negotiations. Defending her u turn, mrs may said she had reluctantly come to the conclusion that a vote was necessary, adding the country is coming together but westminster is not. She will need parliamentary approval to formally call the election, with a vote being held tomorrow. Our Political Correspondent, ben wright reports. Out of the blue, number 10 announced there would be a statement from the
it up. i think we can get, and i ve been talking to a number of my colleagues on the hill. i think it s clear that we would be able to get support for the 500 plus billion dollars for energy and the environment issues that are there. president biden made news this week that he s going to break up the big domestic agenda, the social safety net, the climate bill called build back better. now that is a combined entity, he passed in the house back in november after going through a lot of negotiations to get the votes of senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, now joe manchin no longer seems to be on board and even his own $1.8 trillion compromise no longer on the table. so what happens next? a lot of reasons we re at this point, people are angry at manchin and i get that. one thing i think is under appreciated is the failure by progressive groups to achieve
joe manchin has made those comments at that radio show after he had had what the white house described as a pretty conciliatory or pleasant conversation with president biden on sunday night. clearly, relations between these two men need some mending if the president is going to be able to pursue his big domestic agenda. even to do a downsize bill that has some of the programs that were in build back better and not others, not at all guaranteed democrats are going to be able to heal some of the fractures we see breaking out all over, to get something done. natasha, they are talking. i mean, yes, the manchin interview on radio where he made those comments was after the biden-manchin conversation, but if you re looking at the timeline, after manchin s radio interview, the white house held a white house briefing and didn t say anything mean about joe manchin there. it does seem like we re in this new chapter now, where democrats feel like maybe there s a chance in january. yeah. well,
infrastructure deal so the other piece of his big domestic agenda, and then the weekends with this months-long battle of democratic infighting, if you will, coming to an end in the house, at least. you were right to note that is going to go on with negotiations in the senate and will have to come back to the house, and whatever comes back to the house from the senate will have to be acceptable to the house. this moment didn t look assured at all at certain points. and i would say if you go back from may until just a couple weeks ago, the story of this bill that the country was getting was all about democrats arguing over numbers. now the house of representatives, the democratic house of representatives, has passed something and can go to their constituents and say, we passed a bill that has x yeshgs z, all these popular items for you, the constituents. that s big difference and caps off a pretty big week for the white house. keirsten powers, as david
and natasha, one final question, the global minimum tax is likely to come up. that s something you that pointed out president biden wants to champion. why is that such a key component of his time at the g20? well, it is important because some sort of global minimum tax is key to fighting inequality. and that s part of his big domestic agenda. and of course, that would transcend to an international agenda. and we know that 40% of profits go to these tax havens. and one way of fighting that is to have some sort of global minimum tax. of course, critics would charge that this isn t going far enough and there are going to be loopholes but i think this is part of bigger agenda for biden that coincides with his domestic agenda to try to reduce poverty, fight corporate greed and tackle these big problems on a global level. natasha lindstaedt, we have to leave the conversation there. we appreciate you getting up