floods the country had seen in a decade. now on bbc news dateline london with shaun ley. sombre but. hello and welcome to the programme which, for the last 25 years, has been the place where the uk s leading political commentators debate the big themes of the week. alongside them, the foreign correspondents who blog, pod, broadcast, and yes even these days write for audiences back home from the dateline: london. it may be our final edition but we re still looking forward not back leaders and their future. after liz truss told herfinance minister, the chancellor kwasi kwarteng, to go, how long before british conservatives force her to do the same? biden or trump? who will win a second term in the white house, or might someone else get the chance of a first? and can china survive a third term for president xi? in the studio arejeff mcallister, time magazine s white house correspondent during the clinton years, and then chief of the magazine s london bureau. he and his wife no
no, no, that s not too sombre. but hello and welcome to the programme, which for the last 25 years has been the place where the uk s leading political commentators debate the big themes of the week. ,broadcast and yes, even today still write for audiences back home from dateline london. it may be our final edition, but we re still looking forward, not back. leaders and their future. after liz truss told her finance minister, the chancellor kwasi kwarteng to go, how long before british conservatives force her to do the same? biden or trump, who will win a second term in the white house? or might someone else get the chance of a first? and can china survive a third term for president xi? in the studio, jeff mcallister, time magazine s white house correspondent during the clinton years and then chief of the magazine s london bureau. he and his wife now run their own international law firm. eunice gersh is a portuguese writer and academic, lectures on comparative government, whic
who will win a second term in the white house, or might someone else get the chance of a first? and can china survive a third term for president xi? in the studio are: jeff mcallister, time magazine s white house correspondent during the clinton years, and then chief of the magazine s london bureau. he and his wife now run their own international law firm. eunice goes, a portuguese writer and academic, lectures on comparative government which, i guess, is how countries learn from each other s mistakes; and steve richards, who arrived at westminster just as the conservative party was evicting margaret thatcher from downing street. the latest episode of rock and roll politics, his podcast, is entitled the next labour government and the power of markets. have events of the last few hours, perhaps certainly the last few weeks, steve, provided you with an insight into those two thoughts, the power of the market and the prospects for a change of government? prospects for a change
labour says the conservatives are out of ideas, regardless of who s prime minister. after 12 years of a tory government, what are we to show for it? people are not able to pay their bills and the nhs and law and order have completely broken down. priti patel has announced she will retire as soon as a new home secretary has been appointed. she was said will continue as a backbencher. from the war in ukraine to spiralling inflation liz truss is facing issues at home and abroad. we ll be speaking to a former cabinet secretary who was the top civil servant for three different british prime ministers about how she might approach the challenge. welcome to the programme. if you have questions about liz truss being set to become the next uk prime minister, send them our way and will be speaking to a range of experts through the next two hours and we ll do our best to give you some answers. you can reach me on twitter. and of course, the centre of our coverage will be britain s
Arsenal win the fa cup final against chelsea in a thrilling 2 1 victory, giving manager Arsene Wenger his seventh fa cup silver with the club. Now on bbc news, its time for the final edition of our special series nicks election takeaways. On monday, the Bbcs Nick Robinson shared fish and chips with voters in eltham, south east london. The group selected by the pollsters ipsos mori represent some of those who are just about managing otherwise known as the jams. The people who are in work but still struggle to make ends meet, to find enough money to pay those bills at the end of the week how will they make up their minds how to vote . Weve come to the suburbs of south london, to eltham, to find out. Well, its fish and chips for the latest of my election takeaways. We are in the south suburbs of london, in eltham, with a group of voters who are going to tell us how they are making up their minds who to back at the election. Just to start us off, what issues in this area, before we talk ab