Borisjohnson has won the conservative leadership election and will become the uks Prime Minister tomorrow. He beat his opponentjeremy hunt by some margin, nearly double, with over 92,000 votes. Heres a little of his acceptance speech. And we know the mantra of the campaign that isjust gone by. In case you have forgotten it, you probably have because its been a while since weve covered it. It is deliver brexit, unite the country and defeat jeremy corbyn. And that is what we are going to do and i know some lad has alreary pointed out that deliver, unite and defeat is not the perfect acronym for an Election Campaign since unfortunately, it spells dud. But they forgot the final e, my friend. E forenergise the Deputy Editor of the guardian points out and the leader of the opposition has warned that mrjohnson may not be able to hold on to powerfor long. Jeremy corbyn says labour will table a vote of no confidence in the new pm, but he wont say when. We will decide when that will be. It will
President trump is stepping up the pace here in washington. The oil and car sectors were both in his sights today. Mr trump is urging a new strategy for two very prominent american industries. The new administration is making big changes to americas stand on both energy and the environment. This morning, the president signed two Executive Orders to move ahead on a pair of Controversial Oil pipelines, known as the keystone xl and dakota access. Both had been stalled by the Obama Administration because of environmental concerns. Senatorjohn barrasso from wyoming is part of the Republican Leadership and he sits on the energy and the environment committees. I spoke to him a brief time ago about these new Executive Orders and President Trumps busy first couple of days. It looks like these signings this morning on the pipelines, thatjobs are going to win. I believe it is not one or the other, i think we can have clean air, clean water, clean land and still a healthy economy. The Obama Admini
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