In university days, he used to cook all sorts of meals. I think thats when he was trying to impress me, mary. Things like bolognese sauce and things like that. And, should the nhs pay for a woman to have children via a surrogate in the united states, because it didn t spot her Cervical Cancer . That case goes to the Supreme Court today. A london trust admits its failure led to the womans infertility. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 00am this morning. Get in touch to let me know how you voted, who you think should take over the labour party, Everything Else we are tlaking about today. First carrie has the news. Water firms in england and wales will have to cut the average annual bill by £50 within five years under plans published by the industry regulator. 0fwat is also forcing firms to invest millions of pounds, aimed at improving their performance, and wants water firms to cut water lost to leaks by 16 . The main parties in Northern Ireland are starting talks this morning, aimed at restoring the devolved government at stormont. The power sharing administration between the democratic unionists and sinn fein collapsed nearly three years ago and several rounds of negotiations have failed to resolve their differences. Health chiefs are urging parents to have their Young Children vaccinated against flu after a rise in suspected cases. The number of people in england who saw their gp with suspected symptons went up by nearly a quarter last week. Children are said to be super spreaders of the illness because they generally come into contact with more people. The head of the un says the international communitys lost an important opportunity to show more ambition in tackling the climate crisis. After days of talks in madrid, delegates agreed a compromise deal on cutting carbon emissions. But a push to go further was blocked by some countries. Police have been called to the home of Tamara Ecclestone following reports of a robbery. The house, belonging to the daughter of former formula 1 owner Bernie Ecclestone was apparently broken in to late last night, and a large quantity of jewellery was taken. The duchess of cambridge has revealed that one of prince louis first words was mary inspired by the tv cook mary berry, after seeing her face on cookbooks in the family kitchen. Its one of the revelations in a tv special being broadcast on bbc one tonight, in which the duke and duchess of cambridge get cookery tips from the former Great British bake offjudge. Thats the summary of the news this morning. Back to victoria. Borisjohnson will welcome more than a hundred new conservative mps to westminster today, and the queen will set out the governments programme on thursday. On friday, mrjohnson is expected to bring his brexit bill back to parliament, which will now pass easily as he has a huge majority of mps. So britains on course to leave the eu onjanuary 31st. Meanwhile, labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says hell step down early next year, with plans for his replacement to be in place at the end of march but many in the party have said they think he should have gone already after a disastrous result which has reduced their tally of mps to just 203. Lets talk to a labour shadow cabinet member, andy mcdonald. Hes their shadow transport secretary. Good morning. The worst electoral defeat for more than 80 years so why hasntJeremy Corbyn defeat for more than 80 years so why hasnt Jeremy Corbyn resigned defeat for more than 80 years so why hasntJeremy Corbyn resigned yet . He has said he will no longer be leader of the labour party and John Mcdonnell has given the same indication that he will no longer be shadow chancellor and we will have a new Leadership Team in place. But they have totally and utterly accepted responsibility for our terrible defeat, and we now have to go through a sensible process to get the new leadership in place. This will be a long parliament, a five year duration. The conservative party have a free hand to do as they wish, so we need to get this process right, we need to get a new leader in place, someone who can bring our party together. I am making it very clear that i will pledge my allegiance and support to whoever comes out of the process to replace Jeremy Corbyn, who is leaving. Jeremy corbyn, who is leaving. Jeremy corbyn, who is leaving. Jeremy corbyn is still in place, as is shadow chancellorJohn Mcdonnell. The corbyns close aides are still in place, all the people who presided over the worst labour defeat in decades are still in their roles, so why is that . The alternative is for everyone to walk away and leave a vacuum. People have said they will be leaving. Its important to have some element of continuity. Thats acceptable to most people. We have had a heavy defeat. Jeremy has accepted responsibility, and we must find a way of moving forward. This is the way of moving forward. This is the way to do it. People are now emerging, expressing their interest in leadership roles. I want to hear what they have to say. Some suspect its actually about making sure corbynism continues, even ifJeremy Corbynism continues, even ifJeremy Corbyn himself has to go. When we have a new leader, i will have one vote, i will be one amongst half a million people, and they will select who the leader of the party will be. This is an opportunity for that leader to bring us together. There is lots of talk of that being a woman, we have had two mac female interim leaders of the party and i think its about time we had a female leader of the party on a full time basis. I think there might be an emerging consensus around that, but i want to hear what they all have to say. But we are making that journey. We still all have to say. But we are making thatjourney. We still remain the greatest force for social change in britain, and we want to address those core issues of socialjustice, and afairerand those core issues of socialjustice, and a fairer and more equal society. That remains our programme. But it was rejected for a second time under Jeremy Corbyn. The programme that we put together, and our stance has been rejected, undoubtedly, but if you are asking me to part company with the principles of social justice and a more equal and fairer society, i can reassure you, thats not going to happen. That is what the labour party is. It is how that is represented in a way that is attractive to the electorate at the next election. Thats the task. We have to heal our party because it has been riven with Division Since 2015 and i think thats why we all need to give that commitment to get behind the duly elected leader of the labour party and lets move on because the need has never been greater for a because the need has never been greaterfor a labour because the need has never been greater for a labour government. Although not according to the electorate. You said on the bbc this morning that the bbc played a conscious part in labours general election defeat. Do you really think that . I do, but i am setting that in the context of whatjeremy and john have said, that they own the defeat. And its their responsibility and therefore my responsibility as well, asa therefore my responsibility as well, as a shadow cabinet member. What we re as a shadow cabinet member. What were you suggesting then . |j as a shadow cabinet member. What were you suggesting then . I am suggesting we treasure our Public Service broadcaster the bbc, and in my opinion, they have trespassed with regularity during the course of this campaign into an area where they should not trespassed into. We have had endless examples from the political correspondence of the bbc, that we find very difficult to accept. You say the word conscious and it seems you are suggesting they did it deliberately to ensure a conservative victory . When your senior Political Correspondent opines about the postal ballots and says the postal ballots are not looking good for labour, we dont looking good for labour, we dont look at postal ballots. How on earth could that opinion be expressed, and why is an interpretation of what is blindly at the time being interpreted does not looking good for labour, why is it that a story sent from tory hq for labour, why is it that a story sent from tory h0 is received by the bbc and turned into a factual story, when the reality is that the political activists, the labour political activists, the labour political activist, did not punch a political activist, did not punch a political adviser to matt hancock. Yet that was put out on the airwaves. Those are fair points, but i want to check with you, do you really think people voted conservative because of those two things . I didnt say that. I didnt say that. I am not saying that. We, asa say that. I am not saying that. We, as a labour party, are going to reflect a nd as a labour party, are going to reflect and have a close self examination as to why we failed, because the failure is massive. We have to reflect on that. I am saying that i hope the bbc will have a look at how it conducted itself through this campaign, because, let me remind you. And i must finish this point because i always get cut off when i criticise the bbc on the bbc. In my view, the bbc have been used and abused. If we are not careful, the rampant tory party will dispense with the bbc and sadly, those who are currently in charge of it, have nobody to blame but themselves. But i treasure the bbc, it is a bastian, aitis i treasure the bbc, it is a bastian, a it is really important we hold the Public Service broadcaster close and make sure it is not undermined but the way it has conducted itself in some quarters causes some concern during the election. I am not saying for a minute the bbc caused our defeat, but i need to say that we should reflect on the bbc because it is important. Polling organisations have asked why people didnt vote labour and 43 of people have said it is because of your leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Thats why they couldnt vote labour. 17 said it was because of the brexit position. 12 because of the brexit position. 12 because of your economic policies. Thats why they couldnt vote labour. |j hear that loud and clear. It feeds back into my original point on this. The demonisation ofJeremy Corbyn as an individual, i have never seen the like of it and i have been in politics for a long, long time. I have never seen an individual denigrated, undermined and vilified at every turn in the most cruel and pernicious way. I had it in my own territory where posters were put on billboards saying, would you trust this man with your children, portraying him as a paedophile. I cant believe it. I know the man, andi cant believe it. I know the man, and i know him to be decent, honourable and principled, committed to human rights and peace, but he has been vilified. He will no longer be the leader of the party. I think thats important. And i accept the print media will do this and devote pages to it, and the Prime Minister of our country has freedom to write a lead article for the Daily Telegraph likening the leader of the 0pposition telegraph likening the leader of the opposition to josef stalin telegraph likening the leader of the 0pposition tojosef stalin and the slaughter of millions of kulaks under that regime. Thats the environment we live in. But i cant expect the broadcast media to join in that vilification the way they did. But you are correct to say Jeremy Corbyn on the doorstep was a problem. But plenty of people also thought he was wonderful. Not enough of them though. You are right about that. And on the brexit position, you are right about that as well. We we re you are right about that as well. We were on the horns of a dilemma. The party and membership were broadly remain, but the labour seats we lost we re remain, but the labour seats we lost were massively leave oriented. I would want to persuade people broadly of the veracity of our position and we did fail on that. I had limited success in our constituency because i was able to spend time with people saying what the impact of a bad or no deal brexit would bring to them and for jobs and the economy here. I had some limited success with that. Thank you for speaking to us, andy mcdonald. On thursday night, the party lost seats that had never been anything other than labour. One of them was bolsover which had been held by the mp Dennis Skinner since 1970. 0ur reporter sean clare spent time in the constituency in september, and spoke to many people who were thinking about doing the previously unthinkable vote conservative. Hes been back to the area, which is now held by the tories. The following result for each candidate for bolsover. The labour party, 16 thousand. The story of this seat tells one of the biggest stories of the election. The conservative party candidate, 21,791. No, i dont think it is a surprise, really, is it . We needed a change. Im glad we got a majority. Yeah. It needs to improve, it really does, because they dont cater to everyone else. They just cater to the older version. They need to cater to the Younger Generation somehow. Bolsover in derbyshire is made up of former pit villages. The seat had been labour since it was created, and held by lifelong socialist Dennis Skinner for 45 years. It were only £700 a time when jim callaghan. This time, it went conservative. I do hereby declare that Mark Peter Fletcher will be elected to serve as member of parliament for the constituency of bolsover. Applause. 34 year old Mark Fletcher is the constituencys first ever tory mp. We spoke to him just before he set off for his house of commons induction on sunday afternoon. We were talking to predominantly labour voters historically, but we also, we found that this was an election that was very unusual because there were people who supported the conservative party here for 30 years who didnt necessarily support our position on brexit, and so they were going elsewhere. So it wasnt like you could define it by any previous election. What were they saying when you were knocking on labour doors in labour areas . Well, the overwhelming message was that the values of this labour party strayed a long way from working towns in the north and midlands. The labour party over the last few years has become a party for cities and students, and that was felt very acutely here. A ten minute drive away to the south of the constituency is the pit village of shirebrook, where, in september, we spoke to retired miner and staunch labour man, trevor toon. It was clear then that the party could be in trouble here. Why are so many traditional labour supporters thinking of either voting for farage or borisjohnson . Its immigration. Top and bottom on it, its immigration. Hiya, trev. Nice to see you again. How you are you feeling after thursday . Yeah . Come on in. Trev voted labour and Still Believes in the corbyn project. Devastated. Yeah . Come on in. Trev voted labour and Still Believes in the corbyn project. Last time i was here, you didnt think enough people round here, former miners etc, would switch over to the tories, but they seem to have done that, so what happened . Its the brexit vote. They are making it, we will get brexit. People round here are seeing it and think were going to be great. We want to get out, dont we . The sooner the better. How much of a problem wasJeremy Corbyn round here . I think there was a problem. It all boils down to leadership, same as anything. I like him as a man, i likejeremy. I think hes got principles. But hes had two attempts. We have to move on, lets. A new broom sweeps clean. Bolsover town centre on a sunday afternoon. Talking to people here, brexit does come up. Lee is a metal worker in a local foundry. Last thursday, for the first time in his life, he chose not to vote labour. It pains me to say that i voted for the brexit party. I couldnt vote conservative. Ijust wanted the brexit party so we could come out and start ruling our self. How come you went for the brexit party and not the conservatives . I dont believe. I cant vote. I live in chesterfield. I cant vote conservatives. Its against my religion. My grandfather would turn over in his grave if i ever voted conservative. But brexit, to get us out. But does brexit alone explain why labour has lost more than 8000 votes here since the last election just two years ago . We needed a change. Im glad we got a majority. Whether you like boris or not, whether you like their manifesto or not, weve got a majority and thats been Holding British politics back for a while. At least thats one positive. Like broadband, yeah, it would be nice to have free broadband, but its not essential. Not when you have a young family. Youve got priorities and stuff like that. To be taking more money for something so silly as broadband, i think theres other things in the world that need to be prioritised. Out of loyalty, julie did back labours Dennis Skinner, but she says her family couldnt vote for the party this time. My dad is an ex miner and he voted conservative at this time as well. First time . Yeah. 0h, not the first time, but in recent years, yeah. And both my sons, well, one of my sons is 16, not old enough to vote, but hes a young conservative. And my older sons conservative as well. So, whats happening then in places like this that have always been labour, and now your dads going. I think itsJeremy Corbyn. I dont think they actually like him that much. They havent got a lot of faith in him. Is it him or his policies . I think its him. Its such a massive shock in bolsover that dennis has gone. Im very sad about that. Many in the party worry labours disconnect from its working class base runs deeper than just brexit. The key question will be whether voters in places like bolsover have temporarily lent the tories their support, or whether the whole electoral map has just been redrawn. So what direction should the party take now and who should lead it . The shadow chancellorJohn Mcdonnell has already backed rebecca long bailey for the job. Shes the shadow business secretary and has been loyal to the corbyn project. If she goes for it, then what will her friend Angela Rayner do . Shes the shadow education secretary. The mp for wigan, lisa nandy, says shes considering running. She thinks the party lost because it deserted leave voters and its northern base. Jess phillips, mp for birmingham yardley, may run. Shes been a fierce critic ofJeremy Corbyn. And two of the shadow cabinet who are regarded has having pushed mr corbyn towards backing a second referendum may run. Thats Emily Thornberry and keir starmer. Lets speak to former labour mp helen goodman, who lost her seat in Bishop Auckland in County Durham last week, the labour mp for norwich south clive lewis, who is a front bench treasury spokesperson. And labour mp stephen kinnock, who held on to his aberavon seat . He lost 14 of the vote, but still had a majority. Helen goodman, presumably it has now sunkin helen goodman, presumably it has now sunk in so how are you feeling . Im feeling 0k. It was predictable. I had a majority of the 500 and we went in on 10 and a leader on 60. It wasnt a great surprise what happened in the early hours on friday morning stop what you say this with a smile on your face . I think that was the upshot. It was foolish to have supported the government and going for an early election before brexit was resolved. I think that was a tactical mistake and there were other problems as well. Like what . Iwould and there were other problems as well. Like what . I would say three things, first of all the unpopularity ofjeremy things, first of all the unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn things, first of all the unpopularity ofJeremy Corbyn as a leader. I got that over and over on the doorstep. Secondly, brexit. I represented a leave voting constituency. Stephen kinnock and i had done a lot of work and trying to get a soft brexit in the last parliament and i couldnt persuade people of that, that it was a genuine attempt, they saw me as a pure remainer. Thirdly, unlike the 2017 manifesto, which was a really good manifesto, ithink 2017 manifesto, which was a really good manifesto, i think there was too much in this and people found it incredible, all the nationalisations, peoplejust incredible, all the nationalisations, people just didnt believe it. Stephen kinnock, how do you think you went back the trust of those labour lead voters . |j you think you went back the trust of those labour lead voters . I think we have to recognise that leave voters are a massively important part of the labours past, present and future. We have to engage with them with respect. Those who campaign for a second referendum should apologise to them and i think its important out to them and i think its important our next leader should be someone who didnt back a second referendum because i think thatll send an important signal that we understand where those believe voters are coming from how alienated they felt by those in the labour party who tried to preach at them that they somehow didnt understand what they voted for in 2016. So there is a really big part of this, which is about rebuilding trust. Then there isa about rebuilding trust. Then there is a much broader message, which is to say we understand the need for security. National security. Labour took this party into nato, one of the proudest things we achieved. Economic security, as helen said, out Economic Security, as helen said, our manifesto became a Christmas Wish list. We do need radical change and radical investment and driven growth policies but it has to be couched in Economic Security and responsibility. If we can send a clear message about understanding what the democratic vote in 2016 and what the democratic vote in 2016 and what the democratic vote in 2016 and what the referendum meant, and having drastic Economic Growth driven policies and increased security and re pairing driven policies and increased security and repairing communities, thats a winning formula. One email we got from a viewer, the only person who seemed to shine for me was Neil Kinnocks son person who seemed to shine for me was Neil Kinnocks son |j person who seemed to shine for me was Neil Kinnocks son i think we have some brilliant candidates. You are not one of them . I am not planning to stand, no. Stephen kinnock saying it cant be somebody who supported a second referendum. By who supported a second referendum. By his definition, you would be ruled out, clive lewis. Are you considering it . I am thinking about it. Why are you considering it . We will see when i stand. What can you offer . You have to reach out to both sides of the discussion on both sides of the discussion on both sides of the argument. We still have remainers and levers in the electorate. My seat was a 60 40 split and i came back so there is a message that you can still come back. I stood on what i believed in. Looking at what happened, it will be different for different wings of the party. Some will blame Jeremy Corbyn and some will blame the second referendum position. The reality is it isa referendum position. The reality is it is a more complex thing than that. Under the first past the post syste m that. Under the first past the post system it will always be more difficult than us, with 70 of constituencies voting leave and 60 of our voter base voting remain. That is a problem in itself. Looking at what happened in those seats, on thursday night, this has been 40 years in the making. I cant agree with that looking at a lot of the constituencies, after new labour finished, many constituencies were still in a bad state. Still had terrible unemployment and poor resources, poorer services. They have never been invested in. And they voted conservative who have beenin they voted conservative who have been in powerfor nearly a decade. Do we really think that simply pointing a finger at the fact some people thought that leaving the European Union are not having a second referendum was the sole reason, and you quoted the figures yourself on the reasoning behind it, it was 17 . We cant say it was the one single simple reason. For somebody who wants to be a future leader of the party, it would have been good to be on the right side of the argument in this election. Helen, you disagree with clive lewis. When we had a labour government, and i was an mp then, there was massive investment in Public Services was that we had a new further education college, and we did all the social housing an entire constituency i got inward investment will stop it simply not true to say there has been a 40 year decline. I think clive is buying in totally to the tory narrative. Because there has been a decline in the last ten years and people found it difficult to throw their minds back to remember the positive things that had happened when we had a labour government. I think to simply blame this on austerity is wrong. When you look at the state. didnt say that. You have said the la st didnt say that. You have said the last ten years is a big part of why this has happened, and it has been going on since 1980. This has happened, and it has been going on since1980. The deindustrialisation that took place in the 19805 has deindu5triali5ation that took place in the 19805 has never been rectified to stop new labour put a 5ticking pla5ter over a gaping wound. It was a badly needed pla5ter but never got to the nuts and bolts of what is going wrong, the inequality between north and south. It was never tackled in the right way. Thats a big part of howJeremy Corbyn came to power in 2015. But it didnt work in the end. He has lost twice. Is it interesting to hear somebody who has been re elected, and somebody who has lost their seat toa and somebody who has lost their seat to a conservative, talking about the past in those terms. Its a long time since blairi5m wa5 past in those terms. Its a long time since blairi5m was at its peak. The country has moved on and we are living in a different time now. We have seen Jeremy Corbyn living in a different time now. We have 5eenJeremy Corbyn i5 living in a different time now. We have seen Jeremy Corbyn is finished and corbynism mu5t have seen Jeremy Corbyn is finished and corbynism must also be finished. It5 an utter di5a5ter. And corbynism must also be finished. Its an utter disaster. What do you mean by corbynism, a move to the left . Ed miliband was left and Jeremy Corbyn was more left in 2019 than he was in 2017. We need a labour leader who knows who the countrys allie5 labour leader who knows who the countrys allies are in the world and do not 5ide countrys allies are in the world and do not side with the moscow Propaganda Machine after a chemical attack in our country. We need a labour leader who understands that bizarre conspiracy theories in the ha rd left bizarre conspiracy theories in the hard left about the role jewi5h people play in global capitalism are utterly despicable and di5gu5ting and need to be rooted out of the party. We need a labour leader who understands that good politic5 party. We need a labour leader who understands that good politics are rooted in the communities of sedgefield, wakefield, bolsover, those are the people this party was created to represent. We have to turn the page. This is a failed experiment. We also need a leader who doesnt buy into a right wing and nationalistic narrative, which thi5 and nationalistic narrative, which this government will push and many people on this country are really concerned about. Because of a certain 5ection concerned about. Because of a certain section of the electorate ha5 certain section of the electorate has now decided to vote conservative, former labour voter5, that we throw other5 under the bus. There are still million5 that we throw other5 under the bus. There are still millions of people in this country who will still be very upset we are now leaving the European Union. 0ne very upset we are now leaving the European Union. One of the things we cant actually expre55 European Union. One of the things we cant actually express and what could happen, if we had shifted to a more leave position, we would have overlooked the other flank where the vast majority of the voter base was. While we may possibly have saved some seats, we would have lost others from the more remain side to the liberal democrats and the party. What it takes to get more of a share of the vote, the tories could have come through the middle to stop that could have happened in my seat and many others. Its easy to say you we re wrong, many others. Its easy to say you were wrong, but if we had gone the other way and more to the leave side of the argument, we would have been having this argument and discussion where i would have sat here possibly saying the leave position cost us the election. It was always going to be difficult and we need a cold and pragmatic approach and analysis on what has happened and it simply isntJeremy Corbyn what has happened and it simply isnt Jeremy Corbyn and simply isnt the remain position, it goes deeper than that and until they crack open the analysis we will make the same mistakes again. The labour party is on an existential precipice right now. We have traditionally had our politics in this country divided about economics. The tories for the rich, labourfor the about economics. The tories for the rich, labour for the poor, about economics. The tories for the rich, labourfor the poor, very crudely put. What has shifted is that weve now got a cultural division, which cuts across that. We have got a sort of metropolitan, were comfortable with the modern world view and then we got eight small towns, more closed picture of the world and that has cut across the world and that has cut across the economics. The reason its difficult for a leader to reach out, but why we need a leader to reach out is because theyve got to do so on several different dimensions and thats the real underlying task. To be able to say to people in a hill farm, small town, metropolitan city, we are for you. I agree. I agree with that. It is absolutely right to use these class distinctions doesnt work so well any more in politics. It is cultural. 0f work so well any more in politics. It is cultural. Of course, brexit turbo charged that and tipped us into a culture war, actually. I am worried about the future of our country from that point of view. Worried about the future of our country from that point of viewm terms of the Class Divisions not being particularly relevant any more, as you know, some of your labour leave voters voted for effectively an old etonian who quotes latin. Yes, thats the terrifying thing about this, somebody with a background of Boris Johnson can lead a conservative party, which has suddenly become the party of the working class and the labour party is drifting into become a party more of the metropolitan, we will use the ten middle class, because it is familiar, even though i dont think it works any more. We will use the term. We need a Leadership Team. I dont like harking back to the days of tony blair because they are gone but when you had tony blair had john prescott, you sent a message to the country that we are a whole Nation Labour Party and i think we need that again. But i think we need somebody from, if you like, that prescott tradition in the leadership role to send a very clear signal to those people in the hill farms and the small towns, who are not graduates, who are not embracing. Give mea graduates, who are not embracing. Give me a name, briefly. graduates, who are not embracing. Give me a name, briefly. I think lisa nandy has the right messages. Im not here to promote any of the candidates. Youve got nothing to lose youve lost your seat 0r candidates. Youve got nothing to lose youve lost your seat or do you prefer to take over . No, it is for them to make their case to me, i am just for them to make their case to me, i amjustan ordinary for them to make their case to me, i am just an ordinary party member with an ordinary vote, not promoting anybody. You dont have a view . I dont. If it is not you, lewis, what dont. If it is not you, lewis, what do you want . I had to see who is on offer. I dont think we need someone with a northern accent to bring both parts of the country together. I have an s bastardised estuary and accent, lived in norwich for part of my life. The problem is that simply reacting and thinking that now we have to lurch over to the other side of politics, which is, yes, we have to listen to the views of those millions of voters in those seats, who have fundamentally said no to the labour party in this election, we have to reach out to them, listen to their concerns but tackle the very fa ct to their concerns but tackle the very fact that this is a government thatis very fact that this is a government that is going to push a highly xenophobic, nationalistic message. That is not where the answer lies. We have to give an alternative narrative to this, one which talks to what peoples lives are actually like. Notjust what is going to happen in the future but accepting that we understand whats happening to their lives now and where they could perhaps go. Thank you very much. A long running legal battle over whether the nhs should pay for a woman to secure surrogate children in the united states, after it failed to spot her Cervical Cancer, goes to the uks Supreme Court today. Whittington hospital nhs trust in london has admitted negligently failing to detect signs of cancer for more than four years, which led to the unnamed woman becoming infertile. Lets get more from our news correspondentjohn mcmanus, whos at the Supreme Court and can tell us more. Fill us in, john. Yes, this case involves a n fill us in, john. Yes, this case involves an anonymous woman, known as xx to the court, who, as you say, was not diagnosed with cancer for more than four years by Whittington Hospital nhs trust. When she was diagnosed it was treated and successful but it was so invasive, chemo and radiotherapy, she was left infertile at the age of 29. She was awarded more than half £1 million to help pay for Surrogacy Services and to freeze her eggs but xx wants to pursue her surrogacy in california where rules and laws is different for stop surrogacy is legal in the uk but no money can change hands, apart from expenses for the surrogates. It is simply not a commercial process. Also, most importantly, the child is legally the child of the surrogate mother, rather than the prospective parents when it is born. In california, it is entirely different. It is often a commercial process and the child is legally the prospective parents rather than the surrogate mother. Xx wa nts to rather than the surrogate mother. Xx wants to pursue that process and the court of appeal has agreed with her and awarded her more than another half £1 million to pursue that. But Whittington Hospital nhs trust is appealing against that and that is why the case is being heard today and tomorrow at the Supreme Court. It has implications. If xx wins, it means other nhs trusts could be forced to pay for Surrogacy Services overseas and it calls into question the surrogacy rules here in the uk will stop some people would like to see them changed. 0thers will stop some people would like to see them changed. Others say not at all. Especially they do not want to see any commercialisation of the surrogacy process. Thank you very much, john. Borisjohnson is likely to bring back his brexit bill to the house of commons on friday. Hell have no problems getting it through. Thats after a queens speech on thursday in which its expected hell make a guarantee in law that nhs funding should rise. His programme of government, if you like. He might fill the two spaces hes got in his cabinet later today, culture secretary and welsh secretary, ahead of a wider reshuffle in the new year. Lets talk to damian green, mp for ashford, who was in the cabinet under theresa may. And former defence minister, tobias ellwood, mp for bournemouth east. Good morning. What are you expecting this week from this new administration . Firstly, werejust enjoying being back here. We were discussing earlier, it has been a while since we have had a proper majority that we can get some business through. We have been coming here for days, weeks, months, not being able to get business through. This week will be busy, the week before christmas, a determination to conclude the advancement of brexit itself is to allow us to go away with a bit of a break and then come and make sure that we can build on the huge support that weve gained. This temporary support that weve gleaned from the north of england and turned that into trust, which will allow us to come and hopefully for a long time. To turn, convert the temporary support, to permanent support from those labour leave voters, who we heard to say last week, look, we have lent the conservatives our boat, what does mrjohnson and your government have to do and how quickly our vote. Government have to do and how quickly our vote. He needs to lead a one nation government. He got rid of a load of one nation tories. There are many of us left. And new ones coming in. Absolutely, he needs to meet the need of aspiration that people have. What does that mean in practical terms . We need to improve technical education, vocational education, ft, we need to take that as seriously as we take University Education and schools fe. The whole Political Class is always underrated the importance of fe. We need to improve transport links. There are some things that can only be done in the north. Obviously, things like transport links. Where does hs to come . In the manifesto, it talked about the fact that it was over budget, it had been delayed and there was no guarantee it would go to leeds and manchester at no more public money going towards it. There isa public money going towards it. There is a review of h52 and i am in favour of h52. More importantly in the current context, so are all of the current context, so are all of the mayors in the midlands and the north, they see it as an important part. I see the point that hs}, the cross pennines route, from liverpool to hull eventually, that is equally important. People in all parts of the country deserve to share in the roots of prosperity. A lot of this vote, just as he brexit vote was, we are not sharing in the fruits, we wa nt are not sharing in the fruits, we want ourshare, are not sharing in the fruits, we want our share, which is a reasonable point. Do you think h52 needs to now go ahead . As you heard, there is a review going on. What is your own view . I absolutely want to see it happen. It is important. You have a lot of new conservative mps, young conservative mps are presenting those areas that want the connection from the north to the south representing. In his first beat, the prime to confirm the idea that our party needs to advance and more. We are the oldest party in the world and we continue to exist because we can adapt to new scenarios. If we want to continue to have the support from the north of england, we have to invest in education but also in infrastructure. That was highlighted by the fact that the Prime Minister went to sedgefield, tony blairs old stomping ground, to congratulate the members of parliament. We met some of those members of parliament and they will be coming to make that case, to say does notjust the south of england, south east and west but invest in the north as money for transport links, money for high streets in various towns and cities . Yes, no . Notjust money. That is what i was going to ask. Is it all about money . Partly but not all of it. One nation conservatism, that is the conservative bit, setting up conditions so that people can make the most of their own lives rather than having things done to them. I was interested in the discussion youve just had where three intelligent, thoughtful labour mp5 with different views. The one thing i dont think they get at the labour party doesnt get is aspiration. They regard people as working class voters or middle class voters. Actually, people want to move up the social scale, they want to see their children do better than they have. It is that kind of aspiration and embedding that in all parts of the country that is the task with borisjohnson now has. That is what we have to meet which borisjohnson. To be able to show people in five years time, we said we were going to do this and weve done it. That is exactly what one nation conservatism is about. Not only the sense of duty to yourself, a sense of responsibility, but an opportunity. To better yourself. That is exacting what we wa nt but. Are you looking forward to seeing the report on russia being released this week . If it is due out, then yes, absolutely. released this week . If it is due out, then yes, absolutely. I dont know. I am asking. It was finalised by march 2019. It is not the reporter in russia itself, the government response on it. I am sure it will be redacted as well the report. Alleged interference in british election. It touches on something bigger than that and something bigger than that and something we will on, the whole advantage on advance on social media reflect on, the whole advance. The bbc reports are very controlled, set time limit but go on youtube and any party can put as much as they like on. The advancement of how we communicate with the electorate will need to be looked at to make sure that we actually continue to be an example of how elections should be run. Ok. Thank you both very much. Tobias ellwood and damian green. A busy week for them. In scotland, its the Scottish National party whove emerged the big winners in this election. Theyve now got 48 of scotlands 59 mps and will continue their push for another referendum on scottish independence. But to get one, they need the cooperation of borisjohnson and his government in westminster. Dont hold your breath. This led nicola sturgeon, the snp leader, to say over the weekend that scotland cant be imprisoned against its will by the uk government. Scotland cannot be imprisoned within the United Kingdom against its will. These are just basic statements of democracy. The tories might rage against the reality of what happened on thursday for a while, i fully expect they will, but ultimately theyre going to have to face up to and confront that reality because the will of the scottish people cannot be ignored. We can speak now to david linden, the snps mp for glasgow east. I dont know what that awful noise was. How are you . Thank you. How will you try to force Boris Johnsons hand and get a second independence referendum . Throughout the course of the Election Campaign, even my own constituency in scotland, we had leaflets through our door right up until polling day to say a vote for the was a vote for the second referendum. That is exactly what scotland has voted for a vote for the snp. The first minister has to said she will make a request for the section 30 order. We are not asking for a permission slip, we are asking the Prime Minister to respect democracy because the conservatives conceded a vote for the snp was a vote for scotla nd vote for the snp was a vote for scotland to choose its own future and that is what we had done and it is incumbent upon the Prime Minister to do that. If she asked when he refuses, what will happen . We need to wait and see. If we have an independence referendum it will be the gold standard, the standard they had with the one in edinburgh in 2014. The Prime Minister is surely not about to deny people of scotland the independence referendum they voted for. But if he does, what will happen . We will see when we first minister remakes that request for a section 30 order. Makes that. Minister remakes that request for a section 30 order. Makes that. You dont know what the plan is . Proceed on the basis of what we outlined given the Election Campaign. The snp was Crystal Clear during that campaign that if you wanted to put scotla nd campaign that if you wanted to put scotland future in scotland because s hands voted for that. Scotland future in scotland because s hands voted for that. He will also acknowledge that he has been Crystal Clear, there will be no second independence referendum in this parliament. If the Prime Minister is seriously arguing that, he mightfind minister is seriously arguing that, he might find that the 2021 elections in the Scottish Parliament could be very difficult for him. The Prime Minister also considered giving the Election Campaign this was about whether scotland had a right to choose its own future and he lost 50 of his mps in scotland. If you cant understand that, frankly, who can . Ijust cant see how youre going. What youre going to do. To enable this second referendum on independence in scotland. Were not asking for a permission slip. Im not suggesting you are. You are requesting section 30. Westminster government says not at this time. Then what . The westminster government i would argue the opposition is the position is untenable. For the last six weeks, theyve understood that the vote for theyve understood that the vote for the snp was a vote for independence referendum. It cant be that the Prime Minister can treat scotland with content as it has done. It cannot be business as usual. What if it is . The people of scotland will ta ke it is . The people of scotland will take a fairly dim view of that. What does that mean in practical terms . Other democratic events in the months that he had to come. The 2021 elections. It will be a case of when and not if, now. That was the impression i got in my constituency. People realise that the United Kingdom voted for it, the 2014 United Kingdom no longer exists. We have tried to stop brexit, we had a bus in scotland that said stop brexit. It looks like we will be dragged out of the European Union in january. My goodness, people will think of the westminster government is not what we voted for, the Prime Minister who is unlawful and unfit for office and he is perhaps about to deny scotland the opportunity to choose its own future. Thank you very much. David lyndon, snp for glasgow east. Police have been called to the home of Tamara Ecclestone following reports of a robbery. The house, belonging to the daughter of former formula 1 owner Bernie Ecclestone was apparently broken in to late last night, and a large quantity of jewellery was taken. Lets speak to our reporter jon donnison whos outside the property in west london now. What happened, as far as you know . This is what is known as Billionaires Row in kensington, one of the most exclusive addresses in the country. Police have confirmed that they were called to reports of a burglary on friday night, just after 11pm. They attended. They are giving very few details, but they have said that an amount of high valuejewellery have said that an amount of high value jewellery was taken. Theyve not confirmed that this house belongs to Tamara Ecclestone, but the sun is reporting that £15 million worth of herjewels were taken. Now, you have to say this has very high security. The Israeli Embassy is behind me with armed police outside. It is not an easy place to get into. It is a private road. Clearly, a pretty audacious burglary. At this stage, police saying no arrests have been made. Thank you very much. A Record Number of women mps will take their seats in parliament after this election 220. But the house of commons will still fall far short of being gender balanced. The proportion of female mps is now 34 , the highest ever, but there are stark differences across the party divide. Just a quarter of conservative party mps are female, whereas the labour party will now be represented by more women than men, with a record 104 female mps. And we were hoping to speak to three of the new female intake. But the labour mp has a sick child and has had to cancel and the new conservative mp are now all in an induction a meeting this morning. But we can still speak to daisy cooper. 0h, oh, and another one. But we need them to sit down thank you they are all here. Weve got a couple of mps. Hello, im victoria, how are you . I am florence. Tell us who you are the new mp four. The labour mp for vauxhall. Congratulations. Hello, daisy cooper, how are you . Ive just hello, daisy cooper, how are you . Ivejust got to hello, daisy cooper, how are you . Ive just got to check if youve got microphones on, i dont think you have. Shall i do that . This is all going according to plan this is how it works in our programme, youll get used to this over the next few yea rs. We get used to this over the next few years. We are all a bit last minute, but we do persist. Daisy cooper, congratulations. There are only 11 lib dems mps now. You could be the next leader of the lib dems, if youre not careful it is only day fourin youre not careful it is only day four in thejob and my youre not careful it is only day four in the job and my first day youre not careful it is only day four in thejob and my first day in westminster. I have a long list of things i want to do. I want to tackle the Business Rates because they will be in trouble after the Christmas Period and i have a list of 100 organisations i want to contact in the next 100 days. Not ruling anything out. Not ruling anything out . You could potentially put yourself forward to be the new leader of the liberal democrats having only just been leader of the liberal democrats having onlyjust been elected. On day three, not ruling anything out but my priority is delivering for saint alba is. I have a long list of organisations to contact and business is to contact. State organs. Im not ruling anything out, thatis organs. Im not ruling anything out, that is what i will say for now. What are you feeling . This could be your moment. Im really excited that we delivered such a brilliant win in st albans. We had a brilliant year early in the year as liberal democrats. We rose in the polls to around 22 and we had a great result in the European Parliament elections. It was a real shame we couldnt sustain that going into a first past the post election where tactical voting was key for delivering mps tactical voting was key for delivering mp5 of different parties. Lets see what the future holds but now, day three, day four in the job, i will focus on st albans. Have you managed to contactjo swinson and express your sadness about what has happened to her . I have. She said. I encouraged her to surround herself with nourishing things and she said she was buying a Christmas Tree with her children, which was a lovely thing to be doing this weekend. Sure. Congratulations to you, florence. Tell us how youre feeling asa florence. Tell us how youre feeling as a new labour mp. Is it tempered by what happened on the night by others of your colleagues . It was really sad. I feel for a number of excellent colleagues who have worked really ha rd excellent colleagues who have worked really hard standing up for their constituents who have now lost their seats. For me, personally, im really excited. Its my home seat, this is vauxhall representing vauxhall, it is an absolute honour for me, a black girl growing up in a Council Estate in the heart of brixton. I had never seen myself in parliament. I got involved in politics via the community. Its that important we have a new mix of mp5. There are a lot of people who feel that politics isnt for them or people switching away from politics. I stood to make sure people can see you can reach the highest democracy in the land that it is about putting yourself forward. Many challenges in vauxhall. Im under no illusion about the scale of challenge, but im ready to work on behalf of those constituents who have put their faith in me. You won indicate how wes old seat, she had stood down and she was a staunch Brexit Campaigner kate hoeys old seat. You are very much not. Do you sense that she was on the right side of the argument when you look at what happened to labour . In vauxhall, im proud that we are the most pro remain constituency. Proud that we are the most pro remain constituency. Kate proud that we are the most pro remain constituency. Kate has beena pro remain constituency. Kate has been a really good constituency mp, but on brexit, she was out of tune with the representatives and the residents in vauxhall. She was in her own constituency the one that you now will represent but not for much of the constituencies in the rest of the country. In the rest of the country, there are obviously a numberof the country, there are obviously a number of issues, but, for me, the key thing to focus on is some of those key issues that were coming up on the doorstep during this really short six week campaign. Brexit did, but some of the main things that came up, but some of the main things that came up, access to but some of the main things that came up, access to housing. Access to schools. All of our schools in vauxhall have lost funding foster access to good jobs and youth services. I have spent a lot of time working with young people in vauxhall. I want to campaign on their things and make sure we get investment in. Are you going to vote for the Boris Johnsons investment in. Are you going to vote for the borisjohnsons brexit bill when it comes back to parliament . Were going to discuss that as a group of labourmps. Were going to discuss that as a group of labour mp5. We got a prp meeting tomorrow, looking forward to seeing the discussion entails. In my view. Seeing the discussion entails. In my view. What seeing the discussion entails. In my view. What do you think the party should do . We should make sure we have an open and honest discussion, making sure we listen to everybody, notjust me in vauxhall, but colleagues right across the country. And then we take stock. Importantly, i want to discuss this with my Party Members in vauxhall as well. Daisy cooper, are the lib dems still going to be the main party or has that argument been lost and you have to fashion a future for the lib dems . Our values havent changed. Meaning what . We are still internationalists asa what . We are still internationalists as a party, we work closely with our parties around europe and around the world and our job parties around europe and around the world and ourjob is to scrutinise this brexit deal. A number of promises have been made during this Election Campaign and there is no evidence that many of them can be upheld. Theyve only been. The new administration has only been going for three orfour days, administration has only been going for three or four days, are you going to give them a chance . We have been talking about brexit for a number of years and we have seen the promises made around where the border will and wont be, but how easy it will be to get free trade deals but i dont think that will be the case. Most trade, experts say that isnt the case. If a democrat will continue to lead the scrutiny of this government. Ok. Thank you very much. Daisy cooper, first ever lib dems mp for st albans. As you had, not ruling out her potentially running for leadership of the lib dems. As you heard. And florence eshalomi, new labour mp for vauxhall in london. Thank you very much. So, what can we expect from Boris Johnsons government in the coming days, weeks and months . In a moment well talk to our political guru norman smith, but first Jennifer Williams is the social Affairs Editor of the Manchester Evening News and shes in salford for us. Borisjohnson has Boris Johnson has got borisjohnson has got a lot to live up borisjohnson has got a lot to live up to four voters across the north east, north west, parts of the midlands, parts of wales. What do you think he needs to do . Certainly, there was a sense when we went out speaking to voters during the campaign that there wasnt an enormous amount of enthusiasm necessarily for Boris Johnson. Has made it quite clear that he knows some of these voters that he has won in parts of the north, he hasnt necessarily got four ever he has made it. He is going to be to do something things quite quickly necessarily got forever. Within the time of one parliament. That can quickly demonstrate an improvement to peoples lives in their area. There are long term wishes in the north for particular infrastructure projects, like a new Northern Network of high speed rail across the north and hes actually only committed to the manchester to leeds pa rt committed to the manchester to leeds part of that. They will be an expectation, now that he looks very serious the rest of it. That is quite long term project. If people will feel that their lives are better in five years time, there will probably need to be some other stuff done for some i would suggest public transport links probably pretty crucial around. It is not a glamorous subject but local government funding. The tory mps elected in some of these new seats this time are in places that have had among the worst local government cuts in the country. You can tell the areas have suffered as a result of it. Sure. Norman smith is here. What is mrjohnsons priority going to have to be . Immediately, delivering on the obvious thing, brexit. Once that is done and dusted and hes passed this or introduced this bill to guarantee extra funding in the nhs, the prime task of team johnson is to make good on his promise to help people who had previously been ignored. We lost behind communities who feel, by and large, political effort has been focused entirely on london and the south east. That the efforts to rebuild the economy and improve transport links, all the cash has gone into the south. Hes got to convince people that is going to change. The difficulty is that its not a quick fix. You can talk about it, of course, thats a start, but building roads, building rail links, creating jobs, takes time and an awful lot of grind. He has to be given some space to do that. To build a new road, that will take five, six, seven years. It really is a slow and incremental process. He has to try and ensure people trust him, which i think is as much about the rhetoric as anything. Trying to convince people that he is serious, it is notjust an election gimmick, that he means it. And, in a way, he will be helped by the fact that you have a large contingent of mp5 from northern seats. They will force him to stick to those promises. Jennifer, norman, thanks. Bbc newsroom live is next. Have a good day. We will see wintry showers. Still some showers in the north of Northern Ireland and cloud and patchy rain. In the south east. Otherwise fairly dry and bright with sunshine and maximum temperatures this afternoon about 6 to 10 degrees. Tonight, we will continue with the rain across the south east of england and showers in the north. Fog. We have clear skies and they will fall close to freezing. Freezing fog patches in tomorrow morning and down in the south east, temperature staying up around 7 degrees. 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