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Now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. Hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with, rather than a news interrogation of, someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. My guest this week is a daughter of what we still euphemistically call the troubles the 30 years or more of violence which scarred Northern Ireland and the british mainland divided communities and claimed the lives of more than 3000 people. Emma little pengelly is the new deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. She grew up on the border with the south, the place with the highest death toll outside belfast. Her father was arrested and imprisoned in france for involvement in Arms Trafficking for hardline loyalists back in the 1980s, som ....
Now on bbc news, political thinking with Nick Robinson hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with, rather than a news interrogation of, someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. My guest this week is a daughter of what we still euphemistically called the troubles the 30 years or more of violence which scarred Northern Ireland and the british mainland divided communities and claimed the lives of more than 3000 people. Emma little pengelly is the new deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. She grew up on the border with the south, the place with the highest death toll outside belfast. Her father was arrested and imprisoned in france for involvement in Arms Traff ....
with mexico. just two days until title 42 is set to expire. illegal crossings are already surging to record highs and just this past week there re been nearly 55,000 apprehensions, more than 18,000 known guideways which means a camera got them, somebody saw them. but we can t catch them. that means the population size equivalent to the at&t center in san antonio has been able to sneak into the united states with just seven days, those guideways are really critical. we really don t know who is on them. the border patrol union right now is furious over this. it is going into the dhs with quite a bit of anger pronouncing publicly when and where the border patrol would be conducting target enforcement operations. essentially telling illegal immigrants and smugglers where to run and hide from the border patrol agents. i just spoke with border patrol council brandon judd last hour. this is when activism takes over law enforcement and that should never happen. we should alwa ....
until the mid-terms. things are tightening up out here. here s a look at the focus sharpening to abortion and the economy and both sides try to turn voters their way. 40-year high inflation, ripping away your savings. dr. oz would vote to elimination abortion rights here in america. the economy, inflation and gas prices are the top three issues. anti-choice maga republicans. biden and the democrat congress keep spending us further and further into oblivion. extremists so-called leaders are passing laws to criminalize health care providers and punish women. you get the idea. senator lindsey graham on the hot seat over the timing of a bill that he launched to ban most abortions in the united states after 15 weeks. we ll talk to him about his commitment to the bill as the senate hangs in the balance. for to david asman and the strapped united states economy. david, good afternoon to you. good afternoon. martha: let me start with this sound bite from jerom ....
support to give to ukrainians in the long term. with the former business and long term capital correspondent in the washington post anchor. hello welcome to the programme. for the past five years, the conservative party has at times, appeared to stray into labour territory. when theresa may came to power in 2016, the conservatives she said would be the party of the ordinary working class . the 2017 manifesto promised to stand up for the weak , restore fairness, there would not be, she said, untrammelled free markets . then came borisjohnson, nominally of the right, but with a plan to redistribute wealth to the north, and on the back of what became, post pandemic the highest tax take in 70 years. today, in her first prime minister s questions, liz truss returned to something that looked much more, like the conservative orthodoxy of old. i m on the side of people who work hard and do the right thing. that s why we will reverse the ni increase and why we will keep corpo ....