That im the first senator to have a baby while in office. No, im the first senator to give birth in office. [laughter] guest it tells you when the average age is something like 70, its hard for a senator to give birth. We need more younger senators and more women senators. Host absolutely. So, you, the passages in the book on this are fantastic, but im hoping you and i can have a candid conversation about what that was like on a personal level. We all know, us more than others, the senate is a very traditionbound institution. How awkward was that talking through, you know, im not going i think you actually used the phrase without a breast on the senate floor. [laughter] guest well, as soon as i became pregnant, i mean, i got pregnant through ivf, that was fine, but as soon as we were successful, we began having the conversations. Because remember, the senate was even then when democrats were in the minority, we were pretty evenly divided. I knew that we would need every single vote, so
Joining us today, senator to discuss your book. Thank you for having me. Im excited to be here. Host i wanted to start, your entire story has so many emotional movements on moments. As a congressional editor and love the portion where you say people tell me on the first editor to have a baby in office but now, the first to give birth. [laughter] but it tells you the average age for a senator to give birth in office we need more women senators and younger senators. Host the passages are fantastic but i hope we can have a candid conversation what that looks like on the personal level to be a very tradition bound institution. How awkward was that . Talk me through. You use the phrase with abreast on the senate floor. [laughter] as soon as i became pregnant it was through ivf. I was trying. We began having the conversations. The senate even then with democrats in the minority we were pretty evenly divided. I knew we would need every single vote. Senate rule says i cannot take Maternity Lea
Thank you so much for joining us today, senator to discuss your book. Thank you for having me. Im excited to be here. Host i wanted to start, your entire story has so many emotional movements on moments. As a congressional editor and love the portion where you say people tell me on the first editor to have a baby in office but now, the first to give birth. [laughter] but it tells you the average age for a senator to give birth in office we need more women senators and younger senators. Host the passages are fantastic but i hope we can have a candid conversation what that looks like on the personal level to be a very tradition bound institution. How awkward was that . Talk me through. You use the phrase with abreast on the senate floor. [laughter] as soon as i became pregnant it was through ivf. I was trying. We began having the conversations. The senate even then with democrats in the minority we were pretty evenly divided. I knew we would need every single vote. Senate rule says i can
borisjohnson, largely absent up behind him, with the manager, iea boris johnson, largely absent from the table. clearly not very happy and there is no love lost between the former leader, former prime minister and the outgoing first minister. there was also another tricky exchange when mark drakeford discussed simon hart, the welsh secretary for the uk government throughout the pandemic. he was giving evidence on friday when she said she felt as though the welsh government was making decisions during the pandemicjust for the during the pandemic just for the sake during the pandemicjust for the sake of it, to be different to the uk government. mark drakeford completely refuted that and noted simon hart did not give any evidence to back up that theory. also mark drakeford said that simon hart got to the stage where he did not have much to do with the start of the pandemic, otherthan much to do with the start of the pandemic, other than essentially borrowing bothering mark dr
good morning. it is going to be fairly cloudy and wet today across the central swathes of the uk. to the central swathes of the uk. to the south of that mostly dry and mild. in the north, blustery showers with gales in north west scotland. details later. good morning. it s wednesday, 13th march. rishi sunak is facing calls to hand back millions of pounds donated to the conservative party by a businessman accused of making racist comments about the mp, diane abbott. tech boss frank hester is reported to have said ms abbott made him want to hate all black women, and that she should be shot. the prime minister called the comments racist and wrong. our political correspondent hannah miller has more. hello, rishi. how are you? very nice to see you. when rishi sunak made this visit to a mill near leeds in november, his helicopter ride had been provided by one of his party s biggest donors, frank hester, who last year donated £10 million to the conservative party, now alleged to ha