There were two reasons, really. One, because it was a lengthy interview, and i do think a large number of the short interviews i see merely produce sound bite answers they don t really inform the public. And secondly though i probably shouldn t say this it s 65 years since ijoined the conservative party. I was, am, and always will be a conservative. But for in recent months a little longer than a few months there s not been a great deal i could say that i would wish to say in favour of what the previous government were doing. With that being so, i thought it betterjust stay off the air. Now, of course, the election s behind us, the party s looking again to the future and i can i can return to speaking out, hopefully in favour. Well, there s a lot to get into. Let s start with where we are as a country the country that you led for seven years. You used to say vocally, publicly that you dreamt of a nation at ease with itself. Has your dream come true? emphatically not
A large number of the short interviews i see merely produce sound bite answers they don t really inform the public. And secondly though i probably shouldn t say this it s 65 years since ijoined the conservative party. I was, am, and always will be a conservative. But for in recent months a little longer than a few months there s not been a great deal i could say that i would wish to say in favour of what the previous government were doing. With that being so, i thought it betterjust stay off the air. Now, of course, the election s behind us, the party s looking again to the future and i can i can return to speaking out, hopefully in favour. Well, there s a lot to get into. Let s start with where we are as a country the country that you led for seven years. You used to say vocally, publicly that you dreamt of a nation at ease with itself. Has your dream come true? emphatically not indeed, quite the reverse at the moment. Wherever you look notjust in our country t
13 showed their resilience, their determination to win this game and we have had so many setbacks im really proud of the team, not only in this game but the whole season there have been so many setbacks and they can deal with it. There are very strong it helps also that the defence behind us and we got the win. Defence behind us and we got the win. So lets take a look at how those semifinals line up. Manchester united taking on coventry, who got the better of wolves in another late thriller this weekend. The championship side have former united striker mark robins as their manager. Also a huge tie which sees holders Manchester City against chelsea. Those ties in a months time. Bayer leverkusen are closing in on their first ever bundesliga title after a 3 2 win at freiburg. It means xabi alonsos side are ten points clear of Bayern Munich at the top with only eight games left to play. Leverkusen havent lost a game all season in any competition. Their head coach, xabi alonso, is keen to u
Doctors will leave the nhs to work abroad, in countries including australia and new zealand. Our Health Reporterjim reed has been looking into this. Weve been trying to answer that question, whether weve been seeing a large exodus, as is being feared, of nhs doctors going overseas. Lets begin by looking at the bigger picture. This graph is showing as the proportion of uk nhs doctors that arejoining and the proportion of uk nhs doctors that are joining and leaving the proportion of uk nhs doctors that arejoining and leaving each year. The numberjoining here in read has actually been rising as weve been recruiting more foreign doctors from overseas into the health service. The number in blue is the number leaving, and actually, it has remained pretty constant over time at about 15 . This is the number of doctors leaving for any reason, so that could be retiring, moving into private practice, it could be going abroad, and there has been some quite aggressive recruiting of nhs doctors by o