great to have you here. was it in your opinion the economy ultimately or did boris johnson just lie himself out of office? your thoughts. partly policy. he was elected as a conservative but governed as a liberal. the state increased taxes went up. the net zero agenda was putting out the price of energy. we weren t self-sufficient. and there s policy considerations here. ultimately in the united kingdom tell untruths. you cannot tell lies and get away with it. it started over the parties governing at number 10 downing street when the rest of us were living under draconian lock down. we continue visit our moms, for example. over the sex scandal involving a senior conservative politician and in the end, people just said he s lied to us. that is not good enough. we ve had enough. we saw support just disappear over the course of the last two or three days. trace: to those that say it wasn t as much the scandals or the lying or the appointment of his chief deputy whip, chris pi
Their effort to regain personal freedoms in light of these blockouts? the white house supports the right of peaceful protests. brian: gutless. the white house weighing in as china is gripped by large scale protests over his draconian lock down measures. here to react of china s victory. dr. jonathan ward. always great to see you. your reaction are to the scope of these protests in 15 separate provinces right now? we see it from a far. he you really understand what goes on in that country. hi, brian, great to be with you. still very early to tell. what matters is this is happening a across the country there are common symbols. the sim above these protests is a blank white piece of paper which means essentially here s everything we can t say to this regime. the fact that people are actually calling for xi jinping to step down and for the party to step down. this is the reaction to years of pent up sort of repression here.
Of public health regulations before the midterm election. bret: meantime, across the world. different countries are handling it differently, brit. here is shanghai in china. take a listen. if you think wuhan 2020 was bad. welcome to shanghai 2022 this has been like no other lockdown. and it s in the country s metropolitan financial hub of all places. bret: people in china don t have that much of a say as far as going to the ballot box to make their feelings heard. but lockdowns are not popular anywhere. no. and that city is paralyzed. and, you know, the chinese say there has only been one death. i m sure they would like us to believe that s because of this draconian lock down. but i suspect it s because these later variants of the disease are milder and the risk to life or even to health, you know, long term health are not as great. so, i think we are reaching the stage where we can look at what the chinese are doing and say it s basically insane to lock on
Authorities across china adopt ever more stringent containment measures, even more rounds of mass testing, more extensive contact tracing as well as increasingly draconian lock down measures and travel restrictions especially in and out of beijing which also of course as you know is the host city of the upcoming winter olympics. and that s just six months away from today. now, of course there have been some suggestions from prominent chinese experts the government here may want to rethink their approach, maybe learning from other governments to live with the virus. but that notion seems to have been thoroughly and harshly rejected after a series of state media articles with one former health minister lashing out any such suggestion at the chinese government should take a page from western governments approach because he said, they have utterly failed their people in the west. and this health minister, former minister said china s government should not only stick to its approach but eve