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as a foreign corerespondent has been followe by founding hina dialogue, improving understanding of china s followed by founding china dialogue, improving understanding of china s environmental challenges. here in the studio, the bbc s business editor simonjack. make business editor simonjack. welcome to all of you. have make welcome to all of you. good to have ou make welcome to all of you. good to have you with make welcome to all of you. good to have you with us. it s official, everything in the uk is going up the number of conservative mps demanding a vote on whether to replace the prime minister, the number of labour mps after this week s defection, and the odds on borisjohnson surviving in office. none of that can be blamed on inflation, which has hit a near 30 year high more on that later. the parlous state of mrjohnson s fortunes was laid bare in two appearances this week. challenged repeatedly in a tv interview about parties in downing street during cov ....
now on bbc news, it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. on the day that borisjohnson issued an apology, one tweet got liked and shared around 35,000 times, by a man who has almost 5 million followers. that is what they mean by being a social media influencer. my guest on political thinking is gary neville. you may know him for kicking a ball, kicking it for united, for england, a man who won so many trophies, so many medals. you may know him from sky sports from his often searing analysis of how others kick a ball. but increasingly you may also know him for his political opinions and for the fact that he launches crunching tackles on social media on borisjohnson and on other conservative ministers. he is a self proclaimed champagne socialist and yet he s a pretty successful capitalist as well, he s a man who employs 600 people in businesses here in greater manchester. he runs hotels, restaurants, he co owns his salf ....
of how others kick a ball. but increasingly you may also know him for his political opinions and for the fact that he launches crunching tackles on social media on borisjohnson and on other conservative ministers. he is a self proclaimed champagne socialist and yet he s a pretty successful capitalist as well, he s a man who employs 600 people in businesses here in greater manchester. he runs hotels, restaurants, he co owns his salford fc and has set up a new university for kids like him who never really dreamt of going to university. all this is making some people wonder how long he can sit in the political stands instead of running out onto the pitch. gary neville, welcome to political thinking. good to be here. how and why on earth did you end up straying into politics? initially at the beginning of the pandemic i think that the country was glued to the television set every single day, unique situation, the pandemic, the downing street press conferences every night, w ....
people feel angry about what s been going on in downing street, i feel angry about what is going on in downing street, but the correct process now is to get to the full facts. and for the prime minister to appear before parliament, which he will do, and be held to full account. it s being reported a man who held four people hostage at a synagogue in texas for more than 10 hours is a british citizen. police say the man is now dead, all the hostages have been freed. later this hour, exploring the impact of climate change around the world. a special episode of life at 50 degrees focuses on one canadian town that suffered a record heatwave and devastating wildfires last summer. good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. the tennis star novak djokovic has deen deported from australia after losing his attempt to have the government s decision to remove his visa overturned. a federal court upheld the decision to cancel his visa on the grounds that the world number one s refusal to b ....
has suggested the days of the bbc licence fee are numbered. and in sportsday at 6.30, how england lost yet again in the ashes series, and the rest of the day s sport. that s in half an hour here on bbc news. in the last few minutes, the fbi has named the man who took four people hostage at a synagogue in texas as a british citizen, malik faisal akram. the four were freed by police after being held hostage for ten hours. the hostage taker died at the scene. this evening, the us president joe biden has called the siege an act of terror . sophie long reports. more than ten hours after their ordeal began, this is the moment you can see the three final hostages running for their lives. the successful, but nonetheless terrifying end to the delicate, daylong operation. the man who claimed to have a gun and a bomb had disrupted a peaceful morning service being streamed from the congregation in dallas. you may be able to hear his british accent. i am going to die. initially, fo ....