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This seems more so than with any previous administration, you dealt with a lot of countries, the degree to which trump personalizes everything. >> there's two worrying things about it. one, why does the president really care? doesn't he have more to worry about than the ambassador from a cable two years ago? but secondly, the sense that everything is a battle. actually, the kim darroch relationship with the administration is one that had breadth and depth. and i think that there's a brexit angle to this as well. britain has put itself outside the european community of nations, the european str...

Britain is in a terrible mess. but we are in a terrible mess. the wrecking ball of britain's constitution, never mind its economy represented by brexit, is really severe. where we are today is that there is a rising chance of a no-deal brexit. it would be lunacy, i think, to go ahead with it. nonetheless, that is the demand of the brexit years. although theresa may is dead, her deal is not dead. lots of people are talking about boris johnson applying some lipstick to this withdrawal deal and trying to sell it to brexit. but the second is not dead. three years on from the brexit referendum, it ...

And i think the indian supreme court judgment plays a big part of that. because many of these former colonies have these laws because of british cologne yammism. after the supreme court judgment came you have seen activists in sri lanka looking how to turn their own laws. singapore, they filed charges a year ago now. there is definitely this movement. and i think it makes a difference when you have a court that relies on its own constitution, looks to its own you' jurisprudence. they are not just looking to courts from the west. america, canada, the uk. but also looking to india. >> and i'd as...

Life imprisonment. a year ago, my next guests were the chief lawyers arguing against that law in india's supreme court. weeks later, it was struck down. india's chief justice said in his statement, criminalizing car tphal intercourse is irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary. section 377 had been on the books since 1861, a relic of the british-colonial era. several laws still exist. indeed, the international lesbian gay, bisexual, trans and intersex association says almost 70 countries have laws that punish same-sex relations. congratulations on your victory in india and welcome to ...

March around the world doing trade deals. what i think is becoming clear is britain is more like a cork bobbing on the open sea if it goes ahead with brexit. the no-deal brexit. there is a bilateral angle to it. >> joris johnson, the thing that precipitated the resignation is the likely incoming prime minister refused to support him. all the others, the prime minister, the foreign minister. do you think that was a mistake? >> yes. it was utterly spineless on boris johnson's part. the idea that you can't defend your own ambassador and not even understand it is the most basic thing to do. if a c...