a nationwide security crisis. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading british commentators with journalists from overseas who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences in their home countries from the dateline: london. this week liz the disruptor, emmanuel the moderniser, vlad the invader. the first has a comfortable majority but has already had to wave the white flag. the second vowed to reform, and the voters promptly deprived him of his majority. the third can ignore his parliament, but perhaps not the people, who are voting with their feet. leadership who wants it? in the studio to discuss that triumvirate, a dateline triumvirate. jeffrey kofman, who s anchored news programmes in both his native canada and the united states, and reported from the frontline. marc roche, a belgian born economist who writes for the french news magazine le point. polly toynbee, weekly columnist with the guardian for almost
that is lighter winds in place and a chilly night to come for wales and parts of england. there could be a touch of frost, temperatures down to 2 degrees. the breeze picks up in the west and that is ahead of cloud and rain spilling its way in. temperatures in stornoway, glasgow, 10 degrees. a dry enough to start for early risers but rain spilling in. we may have heavy rain in cumbria and north wales late in the day. dry and sunny again for the south and east. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. a massive fire has severely damaged the strategically important road and rail bridge connecting occupied crimea to russia. ukrainian officials say they ve found two mass burial sites in the recently liberated town of lyman one with around 200 graves. funerals are being held in thailand for the children and teachers killed in a massacre at a nursery school. police say seven people have been killed in an explosion at a petrol station in county donegal, in the republic of ireland. no
They will support. like we all do! exactly. but they are much more volatile and much more vulnerable. - about 180 of them are due to lose their seats, they can see it all there, and they won t let it happen. but they have no other solution, nobody else can save them now, it s too late. you don t think rishi sunak could come in and.? - he could, but he didn t have much popular support either. he d do better probably. it s like the end of the major era blair, whatever happened, we knew that blair would win, and i agree. do you think it feels the same? it feels completely the same. there was a blair mania in the 90s, there s no starmer mania. three weeks of this, wait and see. major was, he tried everything and there were scandals and rebellion in europe, and maastricht, that left it to blair to take it. there s an old political axiom,
Something days that they would change leaders again. it would be very hard to do that. but the reality is that we know- politicians want to keep theirjobs. ultimately they will support. we all do! exactly. but they are much more volatile. and much more vulnerable. - 180 of them are due to lose their seats, they can see it all there, and they won t let it happen. but they have no other solution, nobody else can save them now, it s too late. you don t think rishi sunak could come in and.? - he could, but he didn t have much popular support either. he d do better probably. it s like the end of the major era blair, whatever happened, we knew that blair would win, and i agree. do you think it feels the same? it feels completely the same. there was a blair mania in the 90s, there s no starmer mania.