now, on bbc news, it is dateline london. hello. i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, uk specialists and the foreign correspondents filing and blogging to audiences back home from the dateline: london. this week: embarrassmentfor borisjohnson ove rwho originally paid for his wallpaper, but does it really deserve the days of headline coverage devoted to it? and the world rallies to india s aid, but is it too late to halt the virus deadly course? joining us to discuss those questions: ashis ray, indian foreign correspondent who s reported from london since the 1970s. steve richards, uk political commentator who s even turned hisjournalism into a successful stage performance. and here in the studio with me, lyse doucet a canadian whose passports must be thick with immigration stamps by now, having reported from so many parts of the world. no wonder she s our chief international correspondent. lovely to see you aga
dateline london. hello. i m shaun ley. welcome to the programme which brings together some of the uk s leading commentators, uk specialists and the foreign correspondents filing and blogging to audiences back home from the dateline: london. this week: embarassment for borisjohnson over who originally paid for his wallpaper, but does it really deserve the days of headline coverage devoted to it? and the world rallies to india s aid, but is it too late to halt the virus deadly course? joining us to discuss those questions, ashis ray, indian foreign correspondent who s reported from london since the 1970s, steve richards, uk political commentator who s even turned his journalism into a successful stage performance. and with me here in the studio, lyse doucet a canadian whose passports must be thick with immigration stamps by now, having reported from so many parts of the world. no wonder she s our chief international correspondent. lovely to see you again, lyse. and good to h
uk and around the world on bbc world news. welcome back. yes, it is welcome back, just two months since welcome back, just two months since we last gathered in this very room inside the palace of westminster for the state opening of parliament. back on the 14th october boris johnson s government with no parliamentary majority put forward, let s say, a rather thin programme. today, the queen will present a legislative programme from the conservative government with a big majority in the house of commons following last week s s election. we are politically in a different world. a world in which the parliament, the government and the monarch have been in sharp focus, a course of some tension as well. and a year dominated once again by the brexit question and process. what will the queen s speech tell us about the government s other priorities, apart from brexit, for the year ahead? this is boris johnson s second queen s speech in the sake space of nine weeks. boris johnson has b
that don t have a written constitution a great britain and saudi arabia and in saudi arabia they don t have a supreme court that is capable of holding the ruler the government to account and i think we can be proud of the fact that our supreme court did stop the government from getting rid of parliament for 5 weeks that was an outrage and of course it was the supreme court who protected parliamentary democracy so i guess we don t know whether we live in a parliamentary democracy or goals judicial morning but you know very little constitutional no man s land where you know very well we don t have a written constitution why not where the country that gave the world the english language shakespeare and we are incapable apparently of writing down and our hypocrisy goes deeper because you know in the sixty s when we gave. it s to all these other former colonies we gave them our constitution we wrote it down here said here is a westminster constitution ad so it they have the way th
country. there is no way i will support this. he brought the bill in. it passed at second reading. he had a ridiculous and irresponsible timetable. he could have gone away and ina timetable. he could have gone away and in a proper deal with the opposition chief whip so we properly scrutinise it. this is the most important piece of legislation, i think, in generations, with huge implications for generations to come. he can still do that, in what you don t do is dissolve parliament at the same time you are trying to consider this incredibly important piece of legislation, at the same time you are running a campaign for a general election, crashing into christmas. he is playing silly games with our country, and it is not acceptable. what we now need to do is get the bill back, let s have the proper amendments tabled, the proper scrutiny. we can truncate it. how long do you think you would need?” think it is a couple of weeks, but it has to go in the lords as well. these things