13/06/2017
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0650
Has
Theresa May’s failure to secure a majority in last week’s election had a
significant impact on what kind of a Brexit she will argue for in Europe and
will it affect what sort of Brexit Europe wants to agree to? Mats Persson is the head of international trade
at Ernst & Young and a former Downing Street Europe adviser to David
Cameron before the Brexit referendum.
0655
The Cabinet Office has released a statement that says that the Queen’s Speech
will be delayed because it will take three days for the ink to dry on the ‘goat
skin’ parchment paper which is used for the document. Paul Wright is the
general manager of William Cowley.
0709
Arlene Foster, head of the DUP and PM
Theresa May will meet in Downing Street on Tuesday to try to reach agreement on
ensuring a working Conservative majority in the Commons. Richard Bullick
is a former special adviser to Arlene Foster.
0715
Labour's PLP meets Tuesday evening and the mood is likely to
be rather different to that before the election. Has all talk of Corbyn's
leadership now gone and are they all committed to his programme? Harriet
Harman is the former deputy leader of the Labour party.
0720
The
latest financial results from UK housebuilder Crest Nicholson. Stephen Stone is
the CEO of Crest Nicholson.
0725
The Queen, accompanied
by The Duke of Edinburgh, is to mark the 175th anniversary of the first train
journey by a British monarch. Isambard Thomas is a descendent of the engineer from
Isambard Kingdom Brunel who designed the Great Western Railway and Adrian
Vaughan is a railway historian and Brunel biographer.
0730
The Prime Minister Theresa May is due to visit Paris this
evening for talks with the French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron. Ahead of her
visit, Mrs May and Mr Macron announced joint action to counter online
radicalisation, with measures to penalise tech companies who fail to remove
unacceptable content. Max Hill is an independent
reviewer of terrorism laws.
0740
Actor and member of the comedy group Monty Python, Michael Palin, has made a
significant donation to the British Library, which documents his literary and creative
career. It includes over 50 Python Notebooks containing drafts, working
material and personal reflections relating to his Monty Python writing. We
speak to the actor.
0750
Arlene Foster, head of the DUP and PM Theresa
May will meet in Downing Street on Tuesday to try to reach agreement on
ensuring a working Conservative majority in the Commons. Lord David
Trimble is a Conservative peer and one of architects of the Good Friday
agreement.
0810
Former Conservative leadership contender Michael Gove has
returned to the frontbench in Theresa May's recent reshuffle as secretary of state
for the environment. Michael Gove is the secretary of state for environment,
food and rural affairs.
0820
Britain's close relationship with Saudi Arabia has been a
source of considerable controversy because of the Kingdom's record on human
rights, its foreign policy in the Middle East and for its role in the conflict
in Yemen. Manal al-Sharif is a Saudi activist and author
of Daring to Drive: The young Saudi woman who stood up to a kingdom of men.
0830
Britain's former most senior Muslim police officer will today
deliver a speech to the think tank Reform reflecting on his career with the Met
and working with Muslim communities to root out terrorism. Makhdum Chishty is
the Met’s former most senior Muslim police officer and was the MPS lead for
community engagement.
0840
Is the American language seeping into UK English and ruining it?
Matthew Engel is a writer and editor and Susie Dent is a linguist and
dictionary expert who appears on Countdown.
0845
How much of Theresa May’s difficulties stem from
her leadership style? Will her leadership style have to change in order for her
political fortunes to change too? Margaret
Heffernan is a CEO, entrepreneur and leadership consultant and Andre Spicer is a
professor of organisational behaviour at Cass
Business School and author of The Stupidity Paradox: The
Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work.
0850
Phil Kelsall marks 40 years of playing the famous Wulitzer organ at
Blackpool Tower. We speak to the organist.
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