porch what is happening with alva rea from the new statesman, thank you for your time. it was getting reasonably feel proud last night, speculation we might reach 54 letters. it was getting reasonably last night. we letters. it was getting reasonably last night. we all started the reasonably last night. we all started the day reasonably last night. we all started the day in reasonably last night. we all i started the day in westminster thinking that we could reach the 54 letter threshold and then by lunchtime that basically died a death, at least for now. i think conservative mps are still pretty angry but actually that defection by christian wakeford, the mp for bury south right before prime minister s questions, did something to a lot of conservative mps. you could see the merge switch, they did not appreciate keir starmer being handed that gift right before pmqs you could see the mood switch. they were a bit more vocal in their support of
that energy and mining companies, commodity related companies last week really saw quite a lot of recovery from what some people thought was very oversold conditions and of course we ve been watching crude and the stock market have been quite closely correlated. if crude and commodities can continue to recover, then that could be good for the overall market. but also what we re seeing is a bit of a mood switch. we ve kind switched from, oh, my gosh, look at all the bad news to, well, maybe all the bad news is starting to be priced in. in fact the meeting at the international monetary fund over the weekend we saw federal bank officials urging the fed to just get on with itnd a go ahead with that rate hike in order to reduce uncertainty. which had a very interesting tone as well. mandy, thank you very much. manny pacqaoi is much more than one of the best boxers ever. he s also a major political figure in the philippines. he s been a member of the filipino house of representatives sin