so here we go one to be done Boris
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Johnson the prime minister
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we have been asking him for weeks now to
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give us a date of time a venue as of now
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none has been forthcoming no broadcaster
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can compel a politician to be
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interviewed but leaders interviews have
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been a key part of the BBC’s primetime
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election coverage for decades we do them
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on your behalf to scrutinize and hold
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to account those who would govern us
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that is democracy
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we always proceeded in good faith that
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the leaders would participate in every
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election they have all of them it is not
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too late we have an interview prepared
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oven ready as mr. Johnson Likes to say
on the
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theme running through our questions is
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trust and Why so many times in his
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career in politics and journalism
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critics and sometimes even those close
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to him have deemed him to be untrustworthy
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it is of course relevant to what he is
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promising as all now
How can he be trusted
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1.
to deliver 50,000 more nurses and almost
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20,000 in his numbers are already
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working for the NHS

2.
he promises 40 new
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hospitals it only six are scheduled to
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be built by 2025 can he be believed when
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he claims another 34 will be built in
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the five years after
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3.
can you be trusted to fund the NHS
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properly when he uses the cash figure of
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an extra thirty four billion pounds
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after inflation the additional money
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promised a month to 20 billion
4.

He claims
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that the NHS will not be on the table in
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any trade talks with America but then he
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vowed to the DUP his unionist allies in
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Northern Ireland that there would never
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be a border down the Irish Sea
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that is as important to the DUP as the
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NHS is to the rest of us
it is about his
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brexit deal which seemed to break

5.
now he
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tells us he’s always been an opponent of
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austerity we would ask him for evidence
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of that we would want to know why an
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opponent of austerity would make so much
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of it into their future spending plans
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6.
we would ask why as with the proposed
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increase in police numbers so many of
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his promises only take us back to the
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future back to where we were before
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austerity began

7.
Social Care is an issue
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of growing concern in the steps of
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Downing Street in July he said he’d
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prepared a plan for Social Care we’d
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asked him why that plan is not in the manifesto?

8.
questions of
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trust questions we’d like to put to mr.
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Johnson so you can hear his replies but
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we can’t because he won’t sit down with
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us there is no law no Supreme Court
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ruling that can force mr. Johnson to
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participate in bbc leaders interview
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the prime minister of our nation will at
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times have to stand up to president
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Trump and Putin and President Z of China
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so we’re surely not expecting too much
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and that he spent half an hour standing up to
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me