The Conservative Partys annual conference starts today in birmingham. The event is a chance for The Partys four leadership candidates to make an impression, with each of them due to give a speech on wednesday. Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg this morning, leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick explained why he is the man to turn around the fortunes of the Conservative Party after losing out to labour in the general election. In the article that i wrote in the hours after the election, then i came on your show that weekend, i said that we failed to deliver on the economy, on the nhs and our borders. So there are multiple failures that we need to acknowledge as a party, whilst obviously defending the things we got right in government, and then weve got to listen to the public and set out serious answers to those challenges. Ive spent the last few months thinking very deeply about how we do that, and i dont want to waste the next five years debating those things. Thats a recipe for more infightin
With myself as well. No, im in a lovely cafe in Downtown Doylestown in pennsylvania, in bucks county, pennsylvania. I dont know if youve been to doylestown. It is beautiful. You should definitely come here. Caitriona, youre in a library or a fake library . Im in a fake library. Yeah. No, its not. I mean, full disclosure, any library you see on television these days is fake. Lets be honest. I dont think theres a librarian on the planet that would let me speak this loudly if i were in a library, but i am in the Library Corner of the bbc washington bureau, so i have nipped into the Library Corner to have this chat with you guys, because it is very busy in this bbc bureau. Weve had a lot of reinforcements come into town for the debate this week. Of course, its been another crazy busy week and a crazy busy month and a crazy busy year, but im delighted that us three are going to find the time every week to just get together and have a chat about what weve noticed from the campaigns, whats im
I would be impressed. Yeah, i would be impressed with myself as well. No, im in a lovely cafe in Downtown Doylestown in pennsylvania, in bucks county, pennsylvania. I dont know if youve been to doylestown. It is beautiful. You should definitely come here. Caitriona, youre in a library or a fake library . Im in a fake library. Yeah. No, its not. I mean, full disclosure, any library you see on television these days is fake. Lets be honest. I dont think theres a librarian on the planet that would let me speak this loudly if i were in a library, but i am in the Library Corner of the bbc washington bureau, so i have nipped into the Library Corner to have this chat with you guys, because it is very busy in this bbc bureau. Weve had a lot of reinforcements come into town for the debate this week. Of course, its been another crazy busy week and a crazy busy month and a crazy busy year, but im delighted that us three are going to find the time every week to just get together and have a chat abo
repair shop presenter, Jay Blades whos been charged with engaging in controlLing and coercive behaviour against his estranged wife. And the i newspapers lead analyses the surge in private Health Care saying record numbers of people are turning away from the national health service. Hello there. It was an unseasonably chilly start to Friday Morning with A Touch Of Frost for some, but lots of blue Sky And Sunshine throughout the day and we started to draw in that warmer feeLing air. Now that trend is just set to continue over the next few days. So warmer by day, milder by night, too. For the weekend some sunshine, but also some outbreaks of rain here and there, too. You can see all of the sunshine clearly with the lack of cloud on the SatelLite Picture here. We will see this frontjust gradually continue to push its way further eastwards through the rest of the night, bringing outbreaks of Rain Across Northern Ireland and Western Scotland. More cloud here, too, and some of The Cloud will