hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. downing street has given details of prime minister borisjohnson s strategy for easing the lockdown in england, ahead of his long awaited announcement on monday. number ten says a key ambition will be to reunite families and last night, the government announced that, from next month, residents in care homes will be allowed indoor visits by a member of their family or a friend and to hold hands. our health correspondent laura foster reports. when england went back into lockdown at the beginning ofjanuary, the doors to care homes were closed to visitors unless circumstances were exceptional. the way of protecting residents from the rising number of cases and the added threat of the new variant. but now nearly 17 million people have had their first covid jab, including 95% of people living in care homes in england. from the eighth of march, they will each get to choose one person who can visit them indoors. but
the practical questions of the world are being able to vaccinate itself out of the covid pandemic. so although the uk s progress innoculating its citizens has been widely praised, the statement expected monday from borisjohnson on exiting lockdown is likely to be heavy with caveats. saturday s newspapers were full of good news. some speculation but a concrete commitment that the government has confirmed that people in care homes will now be able to meet a relative indoors and hold hands for the first time for some of them in nearly a year. do you think this might be an attempt to sweeten the pill? from the other indications, and we don t know until borisjohnson says what the plans are, there is a talk of a wholesale return to school in a few weeks, too. it is more than sweetening the pill. it looks like the trend lines of hospitalisations, of deaths, of the r rate, all the indicators are positive and quite steeply so. and this appears to be, not so much a consequence of vacci
dateline london, the programme which pitches some of the uk s leading columnists against the foreign correspondents who file stories for the folks back home with the dateline london. this week, theresa may s mps decide her career can die another day after the prime minister reaches the same conclusion about her own brexit deal. from russia with love a gun activist pleads guilty to conspiracy, and donald trump s lawyer is sentenced, he says, for covering up donald trump s dirty deeds . but are we any closer to the truth of the alleged russia connection? with me jeff mcallister, us writer and broadcaster, tim montgomerie, journalist and founder of a website for british conservatives. uk political commentator yasmin ali bhai brown, and thomas kielinger, for many years the german paper die welt‘s man in london, now a biographer of both angela merkel and the queen. by any measure, the british conservative party is among the oldest and the most successful of political partie
dateline london, the programme which pitches some of the uk s leading columnists against the foreign correspondents who file stories for the folks back home with the dateline london. this week, theresa may s mps decide her career can die another day after the prime minister reaches the same conclusion about her own brexit deal. and from russia with love a gun activist pleads guilty to conspiracy, and donald trump s lawyer is sentenced, he says, for covering up donald trump s dirty deeds . but are we any closer to the truth of the alleged russia connection? with me jeff mcallister, us writer and broadcaster, tim montgomerie, journalist and founder of a website for british conservatives, uk political commentator yasmin alibhai brown, and thomas kielinger, for many years the german paper die welt‘s man in london, now a biographer of both angela merkel and the queen. by any measure, the british conservative party is among the oldest and the most successful of political par
on wednesday, having pulled the parliamentary vote on the brexit deal because she would lose, theresa may faced and survived a vote of no confidence in her leadership. she remains prime minister of brexit. one third of her 300 plus mps wanted her to go. the next day, this most effective of vote winning machines, these ruthlessly pragmatic politicians, were taking lumps out of one another. the chancellor called the brexiteers in his party extremists , they accused him of turning on your own party . a former attorney general said brexit is at risk of tearing us apart . a minister in the foreign office ventured that after the apocalypse, all that will be left will be ants and tory mps complaining about europe and their leader . that same day, theresa may went to brussels asking for help. she got nothing. tim montgomerie, the spanish daily newspaper posed this question rhetorically, i expect. why should brussels concede anything to a prime minister who lack support back h