People coming into britain . Its going to be a jam packed 90 minutes of pure politics this morning, so you wont want to go anywhere. Its wet, its windy. Get a cup of tea and settle in for the next 90 minutes, because were going to be cramming in a great deal. Going to be cramming in a great deal. And its going to start, deal. And its going to start, of course, by going through the morning papers. Im delighted to be joined now by nicholas owen, former bbc broadcaster and journalist. Nicholas. Lovely to see you this morning. Loving that tie. Thank you. Bright and that tie. Thank you. Bright and fun for a sunday morning. Right the biggest story of the day, i think youll agree, is the defection of dan poulter, tory to labour. This is all over the observer, to be fair. A good scoop for them. Absolutely. And he writes a big column in it to explain why hes done it. Why is he doing it . Well, he says that as a conservative he cant look his patients in the eye anymore. He seems to spend most of
Is awful to hear. All i can do is apologize for the conduct of people who worked for me. I cannot reverse time. If i could i would im just going to apologize. I believe that is all you can do. Lines,rnor, along the you have said you are focused on regaining the people in new jersey. The first couple of years as governor, you traveled all over the state. Any thought of possibly trying to do Something Like that again . Suspended town halls during the campaign because of our concern that folks may raise of assue of in the midst campaign blurring the line between what would be a town hall of that and a Campaign Event. We made the determination we own hallt do tal meetings. I had no plans to do it during the transition. We could not do them during the second term we will hopefully try to do as many as we did in the first term. Is, i dont believe i have lost the people of trust the trust of people in new jersey. They are looking at how their leader is going to react. That when they see me ta
Donald trump has been taken to the walter reed medical hospital as a precaution less than 2a hours after testing positive for coronavirus. His physician said he was feeling fatigued but in good spirits and is expected to spend the next few days there. Heres our north america editorjon sopel. An extraordinary moment in an extraordinary day. The president leaves by marine one from the south lawn. Destination Walter Reed Hospital. I think i am doing very well, but were going to make sure that things work out. The first lady is doing very well. So thank you very much. I appreciate it, i will never forget it. Thank you. But if the symptoms are mild, why is he having to go to hospital, particularly when the white house has its own medical unit with a team of doctors and nurses, and a well equipped surgery . As you know, tonights al smith dinner. On thursday night, in what appears to now be grim irony, the president made a speech from the white house about the pandemic. The worst was behind u
Hello again and welcome to the week in parliament. A week of confusion, rebellion and anger. We want to see this virus beaten of course we do. But it would be nice, just nice, if this house was shown some respect Boris Johnson told us to follow the rules but apologised for struggling to explain them. I cleared that matter as fast as i could. It is very clear you shouldnt mix indoors, either at home or in a hospitality setting. Also in this programme, the distressing human cost of failings in the nhs. Losing louis is something i will never fully recover from. I feel his loss every day. But first more and more of us are living under local lockdown restrictions as the pandemic goes on. Borisjohnson says we are at a critical moment with rising numbers of cases and deaths. Things are so serious hes resumed regular downing street briefings, flanked by professor chris whitty and sir patrick vallance, who became household names during lockdown. Back in march, mps rushed through emergency legis
Donald trump has been taken to the walter reed medical hospital as a precaution less than 2a hours after testing positive for coronavirus. His physician said he was feeling fatigued but in good spirits and is expected to spend the next few days there. Heres our north america editorjon sopel. An extraordinary moment in an extraordinary day. The president leads by marine one from the south lawn, destination Walter Reed Hospital. I think i am going very well, but were going to make sure that things work out. The first lady is doing very well. So thank you very much, i appreciated, i will never forget it. Thank you. But if the symptoms are mild, why is he having to go to hospital, particularly when the white house has its own medical unit with a team of dock as a nurses, and a well equipped surgery . As you know tonight. On thursday night in what appears to now be grim irony, the president made a speech from the white house about the pandemic. The worst was behind us, he said. And ijust wa