There need not be conflict, but to a large extent that will be determined by dialogue, it will be determined by compromise, and look, just yesterday there was an incident in the Taiwan Strait with China. If you'd like to hear episode two right now, sign up to The Rest is Politics Plus at therestispolitics.

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A Labour source said: “The fact that two of the most senior members of the shadow cabinet, David and Yvette, are taking this role shows just how seriously the party is taking closing the traditional funding gap with the Tories ahead of the next general election. As a black teenager growing up in what is now his constituency of Tottenham, he felt “marginalised, demonised sometimes”, but went on to study at Soas University of London and Harvard law school, through which he later forged a friendship with Barack Obama.The shift of gear by Starmer and raising of his profile on the international stage has echoes of the efforts made by New Labour before it came to power in 1997 to court both Washington and the EU, as it sought to act as bridge between them. He sees the podcast as a way to reconcile people with opposing points of views in a spirit of robust debate.

Labour wants new EU links in a reset of British foreign

On today’s episode of Leading, Alastair and Rory are joined by Nobel Prize-winner Sir Paul Nurse to answer all these questions and more. So because this region represents so much of the world’s GDP, because Europe has important ties here — we in the UK certainly do, historic ties — for all of those reasons, we have to avoid mis-steps, miscalculations, misunderstandings. We have only just got back to mending those fences and effectively put the Northern Ireland protocol to one side with the Windsor framework.Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian ‘Of course it’s morally wrong to take the view that anyone making their way across the Channel is illegal’ … David Lammy. Leo Varadkar speaks to Rory and Alastair about all this, plus his childhood in Dublin, juggling social liberalism with economic conservatism, and the future of AI in healthcare. Former Leader of the House of Lords, Cathy Ashton has also been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her diplomacy.