cliff, trump is like long covid, right? even after you think you ve beaten it, it s still manifesting itself in really troubling and in some instances inexplicable symptoms and disease, and in this case, the trump tale is it s not just extreme politics. it s not policy debates. i mean, what greg has been covering, what nick has reported on, is an attempt to rig the electorate. how do how does the other side create the more vast and the more politically potent coalition to combat that? yeah, thanks for having me, nicole. i mean, part of it is that, you know, we do what we ve been doing for the past year, which is fighting for federal voting rights legislation because we know at the end of the day, no matter what organizing that we do, if we don t have federal protections against some of this stuff, then, you know, it s but
so i think this does transcend those kinds of barriers. and colleagues are going to have to work out what it is they want from the prime minister going forward, and that has to happen quickly. what do you think should happen? i think there is more to come out and i think it is not going to be very long before we see yet another revelation, so the prime minister now needs to think very long and hard as to whether he is doing the rightjob for the country, and certainly for the party. do you think he should go? i think it is probably time for him to move on. i think that a number of colleagues now are looking at that as an option. we have seen some very senior tories come out this morning and sayjust that, and i agree with them. earlier i spoke to our political correspondent nick eardley this weekend is quite an important gauge of that for tory mps. they are back in their constituencies, trying to judge the public mood, and from the ones i ve been
outset, elections that haven t seen any fraud. so, what democrats say is, this is just a chilling effect and trying to scare people from voting. so, while the georgia law in march was so sweeping, there s still new elements and i think new things that we re going to see both in georgia and around the country that are going to further look to add new limits to voting and mess with election administration as well. greg blue stein, there s no evidence that the republicans crafting these laws, these measures are targeting fraud. is there? i mean, they seem to be targeting what nick s talking about, democratic turnout. what is the pushback? what is the response? from the democrats? well, the democrats are saying that the big lie still is a big influence in georgia republican politics. and by the way, it s not just democrats pushing back on this. it s also some senior republicans who worry that the republican candidates are focusing too much on 2020,
new laws as well. greg, really quickly, do you think, with the law in place, that president biden and the two democratic senators, warnock and ossoff, would have prevailed? oh, that s a really good question. we definitely saw a sharp dropoff in ballot drop box usage in the municipal elections from last year because it limits the use of those so that alone would have significantly affected democratic turnout because democrats were the vast recipients, the vast users of those ballot drop boxes, so it s hard to say precisely but certainly would have affect overall turnout. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the whole ball game for the republican party. we ll watch this space. nick, greg, cliff, thank you so much for starting us off this hour. great to see all of you. when we come back, a dire warning from our closest ally about the perilous state of
on the battlefield such as the ukrainian army s ability to manoeuvre quickly, to manoeuvre advantageously, that means attacking the russians in the way they don t expect and anticipate. it could certainly make an important contribution. certainly make an important contribution. ., ., ~ ., contribution. doctor tom willington, it s been fascinating. contribution. doctor tom willington, it s been fascinating. thank- contribution. doctor tom willington, it s been fascinating. thank you - it s been fascinating. thank you very much indeed. we are going to speak to our correspondent nick urged lee, who is in westminster. nick eardley. we have breaking news concerning. when it comes to sanctioning oligarchs, i understand in the next few minutes, the uk government is going to confirm that two further oligarchs are being added to the