cleverly, the home secretary, he is the minister in charge of this legislation. he, and others, have been trying to convince members of the conservative party to back this legislation. wejust the conservative party to back this legislation. we just want to show you the bbc live page that we have. if you go to the bbc website, there we have features and analysis from our correspondence there. analysis there on that key moment for the labour leader. so there is a report of theirfrom hannah labour leader. so there is a report of their from hannah miller. labour leader. so there is a report of theirfrom hannah miller. this is our political correspondence and she is saying that after this breakfast, the prime minister had with potential rebels from his party, that they are yet to deliver their verdict. one of those invited to downing street was jonathan gallas. he said he has yet to make a decision on how he will vote and he wants to get more advice on legal technicalities. so now
of british politics right now. everyone agrees we are in a huge mess, services on their knees, an economy that doesn t work for working people, even when it grows, let alone when it stagnates like now. everyone agrees as well that it s been like this for a while, that britain needs change, wants change, is crying out for change. and yet, trust in politics is now so low, so degraded that nobody believes you can make a difference any more. also, after the sex scandals, the expenses scandals, the waste scandals, the contracts forfriends, even in a crisis like the pandemic, some people have looked at us and concluded we are alljust in in it for ourselves. a nation that is so exhausted, tired, despairing, even that they have given up on hope.
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talking to you about the uk. they ve got the closest general election in nearly two decades and that is scratching the surface. let s show you the pictures. i want to talk to you about the situation there. what you have or three men in such an incredibly tight race that there might be the first what s called a hung parliament in nearly 40 years. more than 35 years. and no one knows this story better than our robin oakley, who is going to join us right now. robin, talking about this, can you just start off helping our viewers understand why is it that now things are so tight in that election? reporter: because the british public has been yearning for change after a corrupt parliament which was dominated by mps expenses scandals. they were look for change. they weren t quite convinced, many of them, that david cameron, the leader of the main opposition conservative party, was quite what they were looking for, and suddenly we have the first round of tv leadership debates in the british