Alistair Campbell
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to $70 fairly recently.
So it's a 70% increase, whichever way you look at it.
And Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, she's outlined that the European Union's bill for fossil fuel imports since the war began has risen by more than $22 billion.
So it's economically catastrophic, it's environmentally catastrophic, and it's all caused by this one guy,
And his decision with Netanyahu to do what they've done.
Well, I must admit, I'm closer to you on that than to Dominic, because in the end, regardless of the midterms, which hopefully will be terrible for him, regardless of that, he will still be the President of the United States, and he's established a certain style of governing that I suspect he'll continue.
Now, hopefully, Congress will finally get its act together.
and start to sort of put some proper accountability on this lot and what have you.
But I don't think it can be remotely guaranteed.
And let me just say on the economic stuff, you were quoting one of these companies that sort of analyzes this stuff.
I was reading the report from another one
which said that Europe and Japan is going to be hit far harder than the United States.
So Europe's got some really big choices.
You mentioned Merz.
Interestingly, Merz yesterday, I watched the thing he did.
They've got a little of a sort of political problem going on with this row between one of his ministers and other members of the coalition.
But he was pretty hard over in criticizing Trump on some of this.
The other thing I've found, Maloney's been criticizing him in particular in relation to his attack on the Pope.
I mean, this underlines the narcissism that we're dealing with here.
The Pope's job is actually sometimes to speak truth to power and to say wars generally aren't very good.