a nationwide security crisis. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading british commentators with journalists from overseas who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences in their home countries from the dateline: london. this week liz the disruptor, emmanuel the moderniser, vlad the invader. the first has a comfortable majority but has already had to wave the white flag. the second vowed to reform, and the voters promptly deprived him of his majority. the third can ignore his parliament, but perhaps not the people, who are voting with their feet. leadership who wants it? in the studio to discuss that triumvirate, a dateline triumvirate. jeffrey kofman, who s anchored news programmes in both his native canada and the united states, and reported from the frontline. marc roche, a belgian born economist who writes for the french news magazine le point. polly toynbee, weekly columnist with the guardian for almost
Are so in favour of labour, it s two years away, . the world will change, but maybe this country is ready for someone who is boring - and just an earnest doer, like keir starmer. - but it s a long way - between now and then. it s a long way, and you d advise them not to count any chickens, given the history of this country. absolutely. i have lived through so many times when labour was about to win. but this time really is exceptional, and all the pollsters say so. they ve never seen anything like this. the move has been faster and deeperthan ever before towards labour. but the fear for people on that side of the policy is it could be shallow. if it goes one way, it could equally go back. but on the other hand, that level of popularity, you don t recover from. but on the other hand, that level of unpopularity, you don t recover from. you go into a black hole from which the pollsters say no leader has ever returned. it s hard to imagine - after 30 something days that they would change l