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13/06/2017

News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

3 hours

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Tue 13 Jun 2017 06:00

Today’s running order


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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  • Tue 13 Jun 2017 06:00