Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello and welcome to the programme that brings together leading british columnists and the foreign correspondents who write from the dateline, london. Borisjohnson and the art of political cross dressing and have electoral cockroaches began stripping him bare? is it safer to eat a british sausage then meet a british tourist and as india warned there is a delta plus variant, what would a world living with covid long term look like? steve richards has been analysing politics for 30 years and thomas has spent the last half century writing about british politics and more recently british history trying to explain the british to his fellow native germans. Welcome to you and welcome, to have sarah greene is proudest call herself a cockroach. She ousted the conservatives, the scale of her victory has alarmed some of boris johnson s allies. She represents a leafy community on the north west fringe and is of london. Not bad for a party nearly annihilated by vot
Chancellor would like to see as much distance as possible and quarantining as possible to avoid what is for the moment in france. France do not want to see the delta variant and more people die from that to stop what esther, angela merkel is coming to this country next weekend we ll be going through all the tests that benedicte is talking about with the g7. She will be coming to see borisjohnson, will be coming to see borisjohnson, lunch at chequers and all that. Do you get any sense that there is an attempt going on at the moment to rebuild relations between the eu and london? we saw a bit of flavour with the british irish council meeting this week, first time in two years, when the irish were saying, look, i think the british and eu need to talk to each other and are talking to each other. There is a sense of an attempt to improve the atmosphere. I an attempt to improve the atmosphere. an attempt to improve the atmosphere. An attempt to improve the atmoshere. ~ ,. , ,. , atmosph
In the us, five people have died in a hot air balloon accident in albuquerque, in southwestern united states. The accident caused power outages in the area after the balloon came into contact with a power line. Police said the wind had pushed the balloon into power lines where it then caught fire. Now on bbc news dateline london: hello and welcome to the programme that brings together leading british columnists and the foreign correspondents who write from the dateline, london. Borisjohnson and the art of political cross dressing and electoral cockroaches began stripping him bare? is it safer to eat a british sausage then meet a british tourist and as india warned there is a delta plus variant, what would a world living with covid long term look like? steve richards has been analysing politics for 30 years and thomas has spent the last half century writing about british politics and more recently british history trying to explain the british to his fellow native germans. Welcome to you
And the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline, london. This week, borisjohnson and the art of political cross dressing. Have electoral cockroaches begun stripping him bare? is it safer to eat a british sausage than meet a british tourist? and as india warns there s a delta plus variant, what would a world living with covid long term look like? joining me this week, eunice goes is a portuguese academic, author and journalist, steve richards has been analysing british politics for 30 years and thomas has spent the last half century writing about british politics and more recently british history, trying to explain the british to his fellow native germans. Welcome to you and welcome to eunice anmd steve. Now, sarah greene is proud to call herself a cockroach. The newly elected liberal democrat mp ousted the conservatives. The scale of her victory has alarmed some of borisjohnson s allies. She represents a leafy community on the north west fringes of london
that is it. now, time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the covid 19 pandemic has tested the cohesion and capacity of the european union. member states have agreed an emergency economic rescue package, but now they face an even more pressing joint challenge because the roll out of vaccines in the eu is proving to be much slower than promised. why? well, my guest is ireland s europe minister, thomas byrne. has covid exposed failings in both brussels and in dublin? thomas byrne in dublin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. are you disappointed in the markedly slow roll out of the vaccine in so many member states of the european union, including your own? well, i think the roll out of the vaccine in the european union certainly has been a bit slower than some other countries. yes, you could compare it to britain. but i think everybody s experiences of the pandemic are different. and indeed, there s lots of different league tables that i don t particula