abhorrent and had previously been unaware of the claims. we can speak now to laurie at the international communications and financial world affairs commentator. she s in west london for us this evening. good to see you. a rather strange statement, suspending key activities can i suppose you have to understand what the cbi does to make sense of that. maybe you could explain it to les. the cbi is really one of the bigger lobbying groups that polices between business and government. cbi has had a bit of a reputational hit, even before all of these allegations. we will get to those in a moment. a lot of people were wondering whether the cbi had become, had lost its effectiveness, given the last governments attitude towards business. rehabilitated itself a little bit, couple of the things that cbi had been looking for, like childcare provisions did make it into the last budget, but that seems a different era now. so many company picnic companies have deserted the cbi the last coup
welcome back. the justice secretary and deputy prime minister has gone, but he has not gone willingly. in an unrepentant resignation letter today, mr raab said he wanted to keep his word that he would stand down if the report found against him but he claims the process was flawed and that it sets a dangerous precedent. we will dicuss that further tonight, with our panel the global trade expert rebecca harding and from california, republican, lanhee chen who was policy director for mitt romney s presidential campaign. and we could hardly have a better panel, for our deep dive tonight, into the profound changes we are seeing in world trade. there is new global map that has emerged since february last year, on which countries are dividing into two distinctive trading blocks. what does that mean for you and me. also tonight we are keeping our eye on the us supreme court, a ruling expected in the coming hours on the abortion drug mifepristone, after a court in texas suspende
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