Military personnel. And we are today here in military personnel. And we are today here in poland with british troops, a monument of your commitment to nato, a monument of your commitment to nato, so a monument of your commitment to nato, so thank you to all of you. Prime nato, so thank you to all of you. Prime minister, your announcement today Prime Minister, your announcement today confirms the vital role the uk plays today confirms the vital role the uk plays in today confirms the vital role the Uk Plays In Our today confirms the vital role the Uk Plays In Our alliance. The United Kingdom plays in our alliance. The United Kingdom will spend 2. 5 of gdp on defence kingdom will spend 2. 5 of gdp on defence by 2030, allies agreed at a summit defence by 2030, allies agreed at a summit last year that 2 is the minimum summit last year that 2 is the minimum. And once again the uk is leading minimum. And once again the uk is leading by minimum. And once again the uk is leading by example. Ju
consensus was that there is no documented asymptomatic transmission therefore policy was based on the assumption that covid transmitted as source. i had by this stage a significant amount of anecdotal evidence and hence i have gone over the sand over this and over this in my mind. if i had just said the science is different, that would not have carried the system with me because i m not representative of the people, if you like, as the secretary of state and the scientific advice was very clear to the contrary. what i could have done was said you know, that may be the formal scientific advice, i am overrunning it and say instead marvellous and asymptomatic transmission, that would have had risks on the other side of assuming spread for it may have been unlikely to happen and but with hindsight of course i wish i had done that hence it is my single biggest regret but what i am trying. mr it is my single biggest regret but what i am trying. . . what i am trying. mr hancock, er
giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i want - giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i want to - giving. yes, no doubt about that. that was inevitable. i want to be | that was inevitable. i want to be clear about this. principal decision makers in government, prime minister, the then secretary of state for health, duchy of lancaster, for example, nor in my view did that apply to the majority of political leaders, but there were some who chose their sites they wanted to hear, put it that way, and there were optical commentators whose view of the site started with what was my political position and then derive from that. in terms of decision makers in the decisions taken during covid in the uk, my view is, they were not intending to cherry pick, they may have done so by accident, it was not by design. you obviously spent a great deal of time in you obviously spent a great deal of time
up at a yard sale for peanuts that ended up making its new owner a very tidy profit. i m katty kay in washington. christian fraser is in london. any discussion over the migrant situation at the us border is inherently tricky. historically, one side of the us political spectrum has used words like invasion and illegal aliens to convey a sense of emergency. the other side works terms like dreamers into the political vernacular. they want to highlight the positive elements of america s long history with immigration. but the word that is being used across the divide is crisis although the biden administration still fights shy of using that term despite the chaos we are seeing at the border. on capitol hill today, republican lawmakers took turns slamming the current commander in chief for what they perceive to be a softer approach, undoing all the progress they would claim has been made in the last four years. the biden administration has created chaos where there was