Im sarah montague. My guest today is one of the big beasts of british politics. Known as the father of the house because he is the longest serving member of the commons, hes also held more cabinet posts than any other living british politician. Yet, ken clark says we are now in the maddest situation of his lifetime and talks of a political system that is broken. It is one of the reasons he could not quite bring himself to retire at the last election, staying on to fight against brexit and for the conservative party. Is it a fight he can win . Ken clark, welcome to hardtalk. Glad to be here. You have served under four Prime Ministers, heath, thatcher, major and cameron and yet you say we are now in the maddest situation. What do you mean by that . It is so chaotic and unpredictable. We got here by accident, nobody planned it. Nobody thought that leave would win the referendum campaign. Neither side did. Nigel farage was as amazed as David Cameron to find he had won. Nobody had planned f
Known as the father of the house because he is the longest serving member of the commons, hes also held more cabinet posts than any other living british politician. And yet, ken clark says we are now in the maddest situation of his lifetime, and talks of a political system that is broken. It is one of the reasons he could not quite bring himself to retire at the last election, staying on to fight against brexit and for the conservative party. Is it a fight he can win . Ken clark, welcome to hardtalk. Glad to be here. Now, you have served under four Prime Ministers heath, thatcher, major and cameron and yet, you say we are now in the maddest situation. What do you mean by that . Well, because its so chaotic and unpredictable. We got here by accident. Nobody planned it. Nobody thought that leave would win the referendum campaign. Neither side did. Nigel farage was as amazed as David Cameron to find he had won. Nobody had planned for it. Both the Political Parties lost their traditional p
Independent group citing its a recently disastrous calibrate there is yet another blow to the embattled Prime Minister whos traveling to brussels to make the case for who breaks the deal again. Thank you so much for your Company Everyone we began with a story that you may over called the case of the saudi teenager who barricaded herself in an Airport Hotel room last month to escape her family while were off the hotel cancun was also only given asylum in canada but shes not the only woman who has fled from this deeply conservative country a number of saudi women have now come to germany to seek asylum but they claim theyre being threatened by their families and they allege that the Saudi Embassy here is helping their relatives. They fled from saudi arabia to germany here they hope for safety and freedom but these women still live under threat from their families. To her to i thought i was safe that the psychological warfare of the violence and oppression would be over but i still feel l
senator has raised more than four million dollars from one hundred and fifty thousand individuals since announcing his presidential bid on choose day while that far exceeds other democratic candidates sanders has pledged to build a grassroots movement to take on the special interests he says dominate u.s. politics. three members of britain s ruling conservative party have resigned they are joining the newly formed in the pen a group friend in a joint letter m p s and a subaru heidi allen and sarah walston blamed prime minister teresa mayes handling of briggs s for their decision in all three campaign to remain in the european union they are joining now eight labor m.p. s who quit their party to launch the independent group earlier this week will present a search result make has said she is saddened by the decision while in law one of the defectors ana so explain why she s leaving the conservative party let s take