but because they have been big global events in american and british military action against a military group in yemen. now, the foreign secretary in the studio this morning was obviously timely, interesting that he actually has done what would be called the sunday round because initially david cameron was trying to stay out of the topline political fray. cameron was trying to stay out of the topline politicalfray. that cameron was trying to stay out of the topline political fray. that is a side bar compared to the very important issues that we were talking about. i think there s been a sense from lots of leading politicians in the last few days that everywhere you look, tensions are heating up, whether that is the houthis, it seems that s what s happening in ukraine, whether that s increasingly aggressive china, it feels that tensions are on the boil, and this is how david cameron described it. and this is how david cameron described it. , , ., described it. this is a time
at least six mountaineers were killed and eight others injured when parts of a glacier collapsed, sending snow, ice and rock cascading down the slopes of marmolada. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. how do we live with a resurgent russia? do we need to confront or cooperate with china? can the uk repair its relations with the eu post brexit? foreign policy matters again. my guest on political thinking this week hopes to be our next foreign secretary, the first labour foreign secretary for many, many years. it s a dramatic change for david lammy, who for years used his powerful voice in the back benches to argue for justice for the people in his constituency in his home of tottenham in north london. david lammy, welcome to political thinking. thank you, nice to be back. when you were last on this programme, you talked to me about how pleased you were to be on the backbenches. i m very satisfied, you said. i feel
when you were last on this programme, you talked to me about how pleased you were to be on the backbenches. i m very satisfied, you said. i feel free, i feel liberated. i mean, at the time, you were making those passionate speeches that you did on grenfell, on windrush and all the rest of it, does that now mean you feel sort of caged? not quite. i loved being on the backbenches, you know, i really did. i loved being in government, to the extent that you actually did something. i suppose i am now in the third act. i don t know how many acts there are going to be. but what would i say this time? i have been in parliament 22 years, i m 50 in a couple of weeks time. so i suppose i ve got to come to terms with the sort of seniority in parliament, and, you know, parliament is generous if you have been there a long time, this is notjust your own party, it is the opposition as well. parliament quite likes specialisms and i ve, you know, there are some issues that i feel i have retur
now on bbc news. nick robinson in conversation with people who influence our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. hello and welcome to political thinking. how do we live with a resurgent russia? do we need to confront or cooperate with china? can the uk repair its relations with the eu post brexit? foreign policy matters again. my guest on political thinking this week hopes to be our next foreign secretary, the first labour foreign secretary for many, many years. it s a dramatic change for david lammy, who for years used his powerful voice in the back benches to argue forjustice for the people in his constituency in his home of tottenham in north london. david lammy, welcome to political thinking. thank you, nice to be back. when you were last on this programme, you talked to me about how pleased you were to be on the backbenches. i m very satisfied, you said. i feel free, i feel liberated. i mean, at the time, you were making those passionate speeches that you di
there will always be urgentl situations where parliament can t be consulted beforehand. but the principle that if there s to be a sustained campaign, i if we re going to deploy our troops on the ground, that parliament. should be informed, there should be a debate, the case should be made i and there should be a vote, i do stand by that. i mean, yeah, let s be real. the promise was about signalling and it was about signalling that he was anti war. this was during his leadership campaign where he was trying to portray himself as someone who could offer sort of corbynism without some of the rough edges. he was trying to sort of fuse the politics of his predecessor, jeremy corbyn, the man. he was still running to succeed him, but his predecessor, jeremy corbyn, with something a bit more electable. and this was one of a number of pledges which was designed to signal that he was really quite left wing. and for that, you just need to look at what he said the law would be called, the preventi