Could you please call the roll. Absolutely. [Roll Call] Commissioner Hamasaki will join us in 15 minutes. Im not sure about brookter. [Roll Call] you have a quorum. Great, thank you, very much. All right, ladies and gentlemen, lets begin our meeting with the pledge of allegiance, please, if you can stand and place your righthand over your Heart And Repeat after me. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with Liberty And Justice for all. All right, everyone, lets go ahead and get started. Sergeant, please call the first item. Clerk my apologies. Joining us tonight in chief william scotts absence, because he is attending a meeting, is d. C. E. And we also have from the Police Accountability Dr. Paul henderson. First item is public comment. So general public comment at this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission. For up to two minutes that are within the subject Matter An
could be removing them. hello, i m ben thompson. welcome to the programme. within the last hour, indian company tata steel has confirmed plans to close blast furnaces at its plant in port talbot, south wales, with the loss of up to 2,800 jobs. tata said in a statement: tata steel today announced it will commence statutory consultation as part of its plan to transform and restructure its uk business. this plan is intended to reverse more than a decade of losses and transition from the legacy blast furnaces to a more sustainable, green steel business. following the confirmation, the general secretary of steelworkers union community, says tata s announcement is unacceptable and claims the uk s primary but a uk government spokesperson has said they are determined to secure the future of the uk steel industry. uk prime minister rishi sunak has been asked about this lets listen to what he had to say. well, i know first of all that it will be a worrying time for everyone af
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terms of a cabinet meeting, we have been told on the agenda is an update on the economy. clearly, that doesn tjustify on the economy. clearly, that doesn t justify the levels on the economy. clearly, that doesn tjustify the levels of frenetic activity that now appear to be going on behind the scenes. all rishi sunak has said is repeating his claim that the general election will be in the second half of this year, that is only a0 days away. normally when we get to this point the advisers and people who work in the advisers and people who work in the heart of downing street would be giving us a tap on the shoulder or saying do not talk about that too much, we don t really think that is happening. that has not happened today, there has been no guidance to us to stop talking about it at all and here we are in downing street expecting something to happen. whenever that election is called, take us through what has to happen until we get to election day, because there are various th
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