of republican presidents and even obama several years before him, so a push for more government intervention in the economy, more government funding to go to things like manufacturing, education and health care, and that stands in sharp contrast between what obama and trumpeted before him, where they were kind of pushing through really big tax cuts. i think in terms of how we are doing economically, we are leading the g7 in terms of our post pandemic recovery, and a strong economy is the syllabus in decatur for how an election will come out, with an incoming president, so because there is a strong economy, it looks, looking at past elections, it looks, looking at past elections, it seems likely that biden will win the election if we are going on the past elections, but i m not sure that sincerely translated into popularity in the polls. you mention 49%. that is on the higher end. he has also been hovering in the low 405, in terms of approval rating, and he should just be doin
are going to be talking about events here in the uk. a house of commons committee has accused some of borisjohnson s allies of waging a coordinated campaign to undermine its inquiry into the former prime minister. the privileges committee highlighted comments by former ministers, including jacob rees mogg, nadine dorries and priti patel. some of borisjohnson s supporters had attacked the committee as a witch hunt and kangaroo court when they investigated whether borisjohnson misled parliament over lockdown parties in downing street. let s go back to our panel. jenny, we are coming back to this report again, this committee making very clear that, again, this committee making very clearthat, it again, this committee making very clear that, it thinks, what happened here was wrong, but it is still going to be up to mp5 to decide whether this is indeed contempt of parliament. whether this is indeed contempt of iarliament. , . ., , parliament. yes, and i really hope that they do- parliamen
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if three candidates get 100 nominations, there ll be an mp5 vote. a choice on the final two would be made by tory party members voting online. if that happens, the new party leader and prime minister will be declared on friday. the process is under way. 0ur political correspondent helen catt is in westminster. we have had wonder correlation of a candidate? yes, as you head in the piece, penny mordaunt, leader of the commons is the only candidate so far to have definitely said that she is running. but, had declared backers haven t yet reached 100. in the opposite way you have yet reached 100. in the opposite way you have rishi sunak whose sources and his you have rishi sunak whose sources and his campaigners say he has read that magic and his campaigners say he has read that magic 100 figure. we have seen a lot of that magic 100 figure. we have seen a lot of public backers coming out. the bbc