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Silent. He has made his mind up, it is the end of h52 To Manchester. This is what the pm was saying 2a hours ago. What manchester. This is what the pm was saying 24 hours ago. Was saying 24 hours ago. What i wanted it is was saying 24 hours ago. What i wanted it is the was saying 24 hours ago. What i wanted it is the right was saying 24 hours ago. What i wanted it is the right decision i wanted it is the right decision for the country. This is an enormous amount of peoples money, taxpayer money,...

Speaker Kevin Mccarthy. The chaos on capitol hill following the republican rebellion including what led to mccarthys historic downfall. Ill talk to lawmakers from both sides of the aisle including a republican who voted mccarthy out. Well try to answer the question ricochetting around washington, who will take mccarthys place. Ahead this hour, donald trump back in the manhattan courthouse for a third day while a new gag order changed his very public facing approach in his Civil Fraud Trial . Thi...

Today on inside politics, winning was easy. Governing is harder. Hardliners get the outcome they want, Kevin Mccarthy is no longer the House Speaker. But they forgot to figure out what happens now. Plus the race is on. Jim jordan says he is running for speaker. Others are already doing Temperature Checks with members. Ill talk with two republican congressmen and ask who they would back. That will be in minutes. And a warning. Donald trump is instructed by a judge to stay silent and say nothing a...

I am ending this long running saga. I am cancelling the rest of the h52 project. And in its place. And in its place, we will reinvest every single penny, £36 billion, in hundreds of new Transport Projects in the north and the midlands, across the country. This means £36 billion of investment in the projects that will make a real difference across our nation. Applause ijust want to remind you exactly what hs2 actually is. Its a High Speed Railway which is what the Hs Stands For and it was toute...

The scenes to succeed Kevin Mccarthy. Already two declared candidates in the race. Steve scalise, the House Majority leader, as well as the House Judiciary Committee chairman, jim jordan, meeting with colleagues and trying to secure commitments, suggesting to them that they could unite this badly divided republican conference, but the question is can they get that . There is ample anger, still at those eight republicans who voted to oust kevin kevin mccard congressman matt gaetz, as some calls w...

Today. Because you cant do the job if eight people, you have 96 of your entire conference, but eight people can partner with your whole other side. How do you govern . As of now, theres no clear candidate to replace him. Republicans are now going home for the week, effecitvely shutting down the house. They say they may have a candidate by next tuesday, with a possible vote next wednesday, but that all remains very fluid. It was all brought on by congressman matt gaetz of florida. He launched the...

It is my responsibility. It is myjob. I do not regret negotiating. Our government is designed to find compromise. I dont regret my efforts to build coalitions and find solutions. I was raised to solve problems, not create them. The ousting of the speaker follows months of fractures and in fighting in the republican party. This was brought to a head over the weekend when Kevin Mccarthy secured a funding deal with the democrats to avoid a Us Government shutdown. That deal was highly criticsed by h...

Gloom, they said, is now spreading across the continent. Youre economy commissioner. The European Economy is struggling. Are you gloomy . Well, the economy is struggling. Im not gloomy. Ijust propose to look to what we were expecting exactly one year ago. So, beginning of october 2022, we had a double digit inflation. We were expecting recession. And indeed we were also concerned about Energy Supply blackouts because, of course, leaving the russian fossil fuels was not at all an easy story. So i...

Long term decisions for a brighter future, or short term jockeying for advantage . Rishi sunak sets out his stall for the coming election. The northern leg of h52 is cancelled. The Prime Minister insists that every penny of the £36 billion intended for that rail link will be spent on other projects. There were a raft of other announcements too, sold like this. Politics doesnt work the way it should. Weve had 30 years of a political system which incentivises the easy decision, not the right one....

Unexpected, the wife of the Prime Minister, rishi sunak, in a very personal, almost touching speech about her husband, introducing him to the Party Conference and the wider electorate, and here is the Prime Minister, rishi sunak, in his first speech to Party Conference as leader and Prime Minister. Leader and Prime Minister. Thank ou. Applause thank you. Conference, thank you. Thank you. Conference, thank you. Thank you. Conference, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Thank you...