been slated for a couple of days and their timetable has been fairly strict throughout this, but there is plenty of room for manoeuvre. they don t normally sit on a friday but i think they are expecting to speak to him. not that many people behind me today, but we have seen over the past four weeks, we have seen protesters, plenty of media, so we can expect all of that tomorrow as well, but his testimony crucially important, and he has received plenty of criticism from civil servants, advisers, scientific advisers, to name but a few, who said he showed nuclear levels of confidence in dealing with the crisis and he will certainly want to face some of that criticism down. but interesting, yesterday, we had from michael gove, the chancellor of the duchy of is that, that brilliant name in british politics, which basically means he was in charge of the cabinet office, and he was pretty defensive of matt hancock, who he said showed wisdom and foresight in many of the decisions he h
she is also a member of the elders, an international non governmental organisation of public figures who are calling for a shift in policy from us presidentjoe biden. the elders were started with nelson mandela as patron, kofi annan has chaired it, until his untimely death, and now it is the former president of ireland mary robinson. and mary robinson and ban ki moon, former un secretary general, both actually visited israel palestine backin actually visited israel palestine back in may this year and came away extremely worried about what they saw. and it was really with a sense of dread that the elders saw these events unfold. so, we did in the past of weeks right to president biden, we said that it needed him to step up now to rally forces for peace. there needs to be a clear plan for peace. now, clearly the longer you can keep a cessation of hostilities and a truce going, the more chance you have of building the conditions for peace. but it is going to need a big coalition