here in the studio are. the french author and journalist, agnes poirier and adam raphael, who has been commentating on british politics since the 1970s. and jef mcallister, an american lawyer, who was london bureau chief for time magazine. thank you very much for being with us. adam, let s start with the british conservative leadership contest. in effect the beauty contest for britain s next prime minister. it s been 1 on 1, blue on blue in some of the attacks. how revealing or interesting has it been? well, it s an odd election as you rightly pointed out. 0nly 160,000 in the electorate, we think anyway, nobody knows what the conservative membership is. 97% are white, half live in london or the south east, half are over 65, i know i m even older than that, but there you go. itjust is not a representative election. there are 1a million conservative votes in the last election. you have this tiny number who actually decide not only who the party leader should be, who the prime m
man, call 101 quoting incident a19 of the 28th ofjuly. i am extremely grateful to the public and the media in helping us to identify this man. thank you. so that was chief superintendent martyn parker there. martyn parker there. giving us information martyn parker there. giving us information about martyn parker there. giving us information about that - martyn parker there. giving us l information about that stabbing. martyn parker there. giving us - information about that stabbing. the latest developments are that the two people who were arrested have been released with no further action taken. a key piece of information is that they have cctv footage of a man they need to locate so they don t know where he is but this is a man the police would like to speak to. the public are being warned that if you do know who he is, do not approach him and there are various ways of getting in touch with the police by either calling 999 or calling 101 with incident number a19 and quo
just going to be a throw away, i m mad at you and going try to throw some charges which we see in other countries do to its former leaders. i think this is the dilemma for biden who doesn t like this stuff. he wants to be a forward looking moderate for them and his attorney general, very moderate, very by the bookjustice department lifer. this is the most agonising decision they can possibly take and they re going to have to get a damn lot of evidence or knowing can disagree with it except trump s core supporters who will always disagree with it. gerald ford faced this dilemma. although it did a lot of damage, he pardoned richard nixon, his immediate predecessor from the same party. and he made the distinction
i m try to throw some charges which we see in other countries do to its former leaders. i think this is the dilemma for biden who doesn t like this stuff. he wants to be a forward looking moderate for them and his attorney general, very moderate, very by the bookjustice department lifer. this is the most agonising decision they can possibly take and they re going to have to get a damn lot of evidence or knowing can disagree with it except trumps core supporters who will always disagree with it. gerald ford faced this dilemma. although it did a lot of damage to pardon richard nixon, his immediate predecessor from the same party. and he made the distinction between the man and the office. in other words, what he might not of liked about the man and what he done it was more important to protect