Those are your headlines. Now on bbc news, dateline london looks forward to the year ahead. Hello, and welcome to dateline london, the programme that brings together some of the uks leading columnists with the foreign correspondents who file their stories for the folks back home with the dateline london. It being a reflective time of the year, were looking back on 2019 when britain backed boris to get brexit done, when donald trump was impeached, when street protests felled one north african dictator and shook governments from western europe to hong kong. With me are david aaronovitch, columnist with the times, janet daley from the sunday telegraph, the russian broadcaster alexander nekrassov, and michael goldfarb, host of the podcast the first rough draft of history. Very good to have you all with us. With one electoral bound, he was free. Borisjohnson spent his first few months as uk Prime Minister at the mercy of a house of commons he could not command, making promises he couldnt an
And the election when they didnt need to have won with at least a couple more gaiters to run. His strategy of saying it is me or Jeremy Corbyn, and his cut through of get brexit done both succeeded excellently. Both did very well. The consequences, the one that you see around that mark the British Electoral system is pretty good at producing results like this from time to time, and it now sets up a whole series of problems, but the one thing it does resolve is whether or not there will be a brexit. That will happen. It doesnt tell you what kind of brexit it will be all the consequences, but we almost sought and that the rest of the world has had an economic slowdown and the election from all sides was and the election from all sides was a cornucopia of promises of what would happen. We are now going into unpromising circumstances to deliver that. Meanwhile, for 18 months there is no opposition in britain to speak of, except for those scottish nationalists who have only one opposition p
Hello, and welcome to dateline london, the programme that brings together some of the uks leading columnists with the foreign correspondents who file their stories for the folks back home with the dateline london. It being a reflective time of the year, were looking back on 2019 when britain backed boris to get brexit done, when donald trump was impeached, when street protests felled one north african dictator and shook governments from western europe to hong kong. With me are david aaronovitch, columnist with the times janet daley, from the sunday telegraph the russian broadcaster alexander nekrassov, and michael goldfarb, host of the podcast the first rough draft of history. Very good to have you all with us. With one electoral bound, he was free. Borisjohnson spent his first few months as uk Prime Minister at the mercy of a house of commons he could not command, making promises he couldnt and didnt keep. The first december election in nearly a century was a bitter one for labour, ex
The parliament had a couple more years to run. His strategy of saying it is me orJeremy Corbyn, and his cut through of get brexit done both succeeded excellently. Both did very well. The consequences, the one that you see around that, the British Electoral system is pretty good at producing results like this from time to time, and it now sets up a whole series of problems, but the one thing it does resolve is whether or not there will be a brexit. That will happen. It doesnt tell you what kind of brexit it will be or the consequences, but were almost certainly like the rest of the world heading for an economic slowdown and the election from all sides was a cornucopia of promises of what would happen. We are now going into unpromising circumstances to deliver that. Meanwhile, for 18 months there is no opposition in britain to speak of, except that offered by the scottish nationalists who have only one opposition point which is independence for scotland. Janet, what does he do with this
There are different ways of going around it and having it affect our exa m around it and having it affect our exam week. Labour says it will bring in rent controls and improve conditions for tenants in privately owned accommodation in england, if it wins the general election. Pro democracy supporters celebrate, as they win overwhelmingly in hong kongs local elections. And coming up later, treasures worth up to a billion euros are stolen in a daring robbery of ancientjewellery in dresden. Its 5 oclock our main story is that a lorry driver accused of the deaths of 39 migrants who were found in a lorry container in essex has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to assist illegal immigration. Maurice robinson from craigavon in Northern Ireland is accused of being part of a larger plot to bring people into the uk illegally. He was not asked to plead to 38 charges of manslaughter which he also faces. The bodies of 39 people from vietnam including children, were discovered last month as our Home Affa