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Now on Bbc News political thinking with nick robinson. Hello, And welcome to political thinking a conversation with, rather than a newsy interrogation, of someone who shapes our political thinking about what a shape theirs. My guest this week has just celebrated ending the longest Train Drivers strike in history a strike that was blamed for crippling the railways And angered many, many travellers. His members haVe Got a 15 Pay Rise over three years. He is Mick Whelan, The General secretary of as...

dictionary.com, because its not a promise, its not a pledge, it is a... let me get my notes... its an important goal or purpose. 0k. so its what he would hope to do, should he form the next government, but its definitely not a promise. and a key test in politics of a list with five things on it is whetherjournalists can remember all five at the end of the day. shall we test ourselves? lets go. fastest growth in the g7 by the end of the first term of a labour government. highest sustain...

hello, its adam in the studio. its victoria in the studio. for some reason theyve turned the temperature up really high. its baking in here. lets raise the news temperature by talking about whats been happening... oh, that was so lame, wasnt it? anyway, keir starmer, labour leader, went to manchester, did a big speech, it was billed as a big speech, and he unveiled these five missions. yes. how do you understand what a mission is? i looked it up on dictionary.com, because its not a pro...

nation and called for a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, but can the president convince the country do something this time. ♪ more celebrations today. the world is watching, the uk is watching, many of the members of the public have arrived here, this just the second day of four days of celebrations. this is a public holiday in the uk. how many public figures can command that in honor of their service. sadly the queen wont be appearing as planned here. reluctantl...

Its not a one—term project. its at least a two—term project. we wont get a second term unless we deliver on the pledges of the first. this speech was in manchester. did you all get the train there together like a shadow cabinet school trip? myself, rachel and jonny reynolds got the train up last night and other colleagues followed and i came back on my lonesome because we were going to different parts of the country. so when the gang was on the train together, were you sat there eating harib...

And rachels got her headphones on? not talking? if you look at my instagram story from yesterday, you will have seen that rachel reeves was reading the financial times to myself and jonny reynolds. like an audiobook? like a bedtime story. we may have had a gin and tonic on the train up, setting the world to rights. rachel and jonny are very good friends. but also, on the life sciences and technology piece, we are working closely together as a team. thats the other thing i have felt, having been ...

Were showing. >> just wave after wave. ill give you some lay of the land. here is los angeles and here is santa barbara, our reporters is right through here. above them, above in the hills over 10 inches of rainfall just in the past 48 hours. some of the numbers that you see here, san marcos passed, we proved that. 16 inches of rain. a lot of the higher elevations you dont ever hear about our montecito hills, over 8 inches in the past two days and it is still raining. here is the next wave, it i...

Station one to coordinate all these things. so we have done well. we have not fortunately had fatalities or serious injuries so far that were aware of. and we have had some flooding. and the creek beds have breached their limits in a couple spots. but the damage has been relatively light. were going to be doing -- were not looking for rescues at the moment. were looking to do surveys and damage assessments until about over 100 cars that have stalled in water areas. >> given that, mayor, what is ...

So a particularly wet spell of weather for these areas, but otherwise, lots of showers around. the winds picking up, gusts running into the 40s of miles an hour today across wales and the south west. but its mild, temperatures double figures just about everywhere, 12 to 1a degrees your high. overnight tonight, those south—westerly winds continue to blow, bringing further pulses of rain up from the south west. its going to be a mild night, by the end of the night, 1a degrees in plymouth. a bit ...

Of miles an hour today across wales and the south west. but its mild, temperatures double figures just about everywhere, 12 to 1a degrees your high. overnight tonight, those south—westerly winds continue to blow, bringing further pulses of rain up from the south west. its going to be a mild night. by the end of the night, 1a degrees in plymouth. a bit cooler than that, though, in rural northeast scotland where actually you might start off with a little bit of sunshine here tomorrow morning. ot...