since the second world war. hello and welcome to bbc news. the possibility of rishi sunak and borisjohnson meeting each other today is being talked about this evening as the race to become the new conservative leader and prime minister gathers pace. the bbc understands they were due to meet face to face at 3:30 this afternoon but that was delayed although my colleague laura kuenssberg says the meeting may still go ahead later. mr sunak is the first leadership contender to secure the public support of 100 tory mps that s the number needed to enter the race. but he s yet to announce publicly whether he will bid for the top job after losing to liz truss last month. meanwhile, borisjohnson has flown home from a caribbean holiday, as his supporters claim he now also has 100 mps backing him, although others have said this is hogwash. so far, penny mordaunt is the only contender to have officially launched a campaign. 0ur political correspondent damian grammaticas has mo
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opposing something like this. it s clearly for political reasons. it s just it s the kind of thing and i ve said this before, but it needs to be repeated over and over that pre-trump would be unimaginable. and we can t we have to kind of stay tethered to that time and remember that, like, just how off the rails things really are and how off the rails the republican party really has gone that, yes, democrats and republicans have always, you know, sort of been at odds. but there were times and there were things that brought them together. and what happened on january 6th would have been the type of thing in the past that would bring people together, and indeed it did right after, right? and then they changed course and now are basically just not interested in the most basic, fundamental responsibility that they have. i ve got to say just because we do need unity so desperately on this issue, even if the senate tanks this through the filibuster, i really hope and pray that nancy
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it s clearly for political reasons. it s just it s the kind of thing drn and i have said this before, but it needs to be repeated over and over, that pre-trump would be unimaginable. and we have to kind of stay tethered to that time and remember that, like, just how off the rails things really are and how off the rails the republican party really has gone, that, yes, democrats and republicans have always, you know, sort of been at odds, but there were times and things that brought them together. what happened on january 6th would have been the type of thing in the past that bring people together, and it did right after, right? and then they, you know, changed course and now are basically just not interested in the most basic fundamental responsibility that they have. one of you i have got to say, because we do need unity so desperately on this issue, even if the senate tanks this through the filibuster, i really hope and pray that nancy pelosi finds a way to get house republica
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