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Theres also a convention that policies based on manifestos are not blocked by the house of lords, giving further weight to these promises. and failing to keep manifesto commitments can bring political risk. as the conservatives campaign, critics are highlighting that several key promises from the conservatives manifesto in 2019 havent happened. responding to this, the government points to unexpected events such as covid, and the war in ukraine. and heres one further question from carly — who a...

Is well under way. now this next question is coming up a lot too. 0liver asks... well, those promises wont be legally binding. we cant be sure theyll happen, but politically they do matter. as the institute for government points out... theres also a convention that policies based on manifestos are not blocked by the house of lords. giving further weight to these promises, and failing to keep manifesto commitments can bring political risk, as the conservatives campaign, critics are highlighting t...

Russia desk at mi6. also with us is our russia editor steve rosenberg who has been watching the summit in st petersburg for us. i think theres a bit of a vacuum in the darkest parts of africa weve had the cartoon, the foreign aid marchers for not .7% of gdp was cut by the government a couple of years ago. despite the manifesto commitments. i think also theres a sense that perhaps we ignored the region where the greatest instability is at the moment. we are seeing some of that play out for that w...

Of incumbency, you will always be affected negatively by the polls. well, forgive me, but in previous elections, the anc has polled 60—70%. this time, youre at the low 40s. no, we didnt. we were favoured by the fortunes, ourfortunes in the elections, because we had a new president. but the anc polled below 50 in the last election, and even before that election. who we will work with in the election going forward, in terms of this country, we as the anc, we are not working to achieve the result...

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Asked _ from a role that the government had asked me _ from a role that the government had asked me to— from a role that the government had asked me to do, to be the lgbtq business — asked me to do, to be the lgbtq business champions asked why did i resign? _ business champions asked why did i resign? i_ business champions asked why did i resign? i resigned because the government wasnt pushing forward with its— government wasnt pushing forward with its manifesto commitments. alongside that...

Today she is out, because this morning she sent an official document from her personal e—mail account — a breach of the rules. in a zinger of a resignation letter to the prime minister, suella braverman wrote, "pretending we havent made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone cant see that we have made them and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics. i have made a mistake, i accept responsibility, i resign " she continues, "i have concerns about the direction of th...

Off the coast of aberdeen. lets have a look at todays papers. and the front pages are dominated by reports of yesterdays turbulence in westminster. the guardian leads with the home secretary suella bravermans resignation. the paper says it was a "bombshell" that puts prime minister liz truss "on the brink". the daily mail reports that the pm sacked ms braverman after a 90—minute "shouting match". it reports that the former home secretary accused ms truss of wobbling over manifesto commitments,...

Do. we are now in a situation where the prime minister has obviously resigned from leader of the conservative party. now there will be a contest once the rules are brought forward next week and as i said, what is really important now as we have a robust contest throughout the country so all members of the conservative party can weigh up the best candidate to come forward from that, elect a strong leader to build a strong cabinet around them and go on and build on the manifesto commitments we sec...

For consideration. they will go through a robust scrutiny process, map out what their vision is and how they will continue to build their manifesto 2019 that was endorsed at that general election. there are still over two years of this parliament to run so plenty of time to continue the good work on delivering on those manifesto commitments and that is what must be donein commitments and that is what must be done in a timely manner as possible. sirjohn major says it is unwise, unsustainable, for...