International social rankings a which finland ranks 1228 and there is no other country in the world bank 1st 2nd or over 100 matches and you explain that in no way is this because finland is are isolated from geopolitical history this is despite having a turbulent past sandwiched between east and west russia and sweden in its case how did it manage to navigate and i know you go into great detail just briefly added manish and i gave on either side to empires just over a century ago finland was one of the poorest parts of europe and examples of war use of people. It ended up in a way on the whole side in the 2nd world war had a reparations after that by not being dominant by actually having been a colony of sweden the colony of russia a colony actually in germany at what point. Will have to Work Together and. Did there was incredible struggles in the ninetys this is in seventys a change in education Something Better in hindsight you could say that finland has an advantage of not having b
From london, this is about 90 minutes. And on the dot, we are starting this session was the Prime Minister on the last day of the house of commons. Thank you for giving us your time. We will do our utmost to keep the time, as i understand you have urgent appointments immediately following. It does mean that with the number of chairs we have got, we are limited to kind of 5. 5 minutes each, so if the questions are short, i can invite the Prime Minister to keep the answers short. I will start with the chairman on this matter, on this subject of global issues. Thank you. So good to see you. It is appropriate for you to appoint members of the cabinet and house of commons and the house of lock, but there is concern about how elected members of the house of commons can properly scrutinize a state based in the house of locke, and we are talking about growth issues here, so i wonder how you think it might be most appropriate for the house of commons to criticize the work . Thank you. It is com
welcome back to verified live. jacob rees mogg and priti patel will receive a knighthood and a damewood respectively. tory tees valley mayor and sean bailey have been given peerages. those are just some of the names on the list. let s go back to the newsroom. with more on this let s join nicky schiller in the newsroom. i wanted to look at the peerages, and there are seven names on the list. you mentioned the first one, sean bailey, and he is the conservative mayor or candidate in 2021. he lost out to sadiq khan, but still a member of a london assembly. mr benjamin gascoyne is the former political secretary and deputy chief of staff. he is on the list, as well as the tees valley mayor. he will appear in the house of lords, as well as roster on cancel. he is the political director of the conservative party and research department. charlotte open is also in the peerages list. she is a former special adviser to the prime minister. all ministers or prime ministers have special adv
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