Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. Big changes announced today to the way Sex Education is taught in the uk. As was widely trailed. Sex education is going to be done differently in this country. The government has published new guidance today, which the Prime Minister said will ensure children are not exposed to disturbing content. The headline changes will mean there is a total ban on Sex Education until year 5, aged nine and below. Parents will be given the right to see the material their children are taught. The new guidance makes clear schools should not teach about the concept of Gender Identity. The Secretary Of State Gillian Keegan said it was right to take a cautious approach, and teaching materials that present contested views as fact, including the view that gender is a spectrum should be avoided. David, does using age alone to determine what topics to cover when it comes to Sex Education leave some children more vulnerable . Im it comes to Se
For bobby storey, the former sinn fein chairman who was linked to several major incidents when he was a member of the ira. He died injune 2020 and critics have suggested social distancing was not maintained at the funeral. Michelle oneill is now giving evidence. Lets have a listen in. To evidence. Lets have a listen in. If . Those first evidence. Lets have a listen in. To those first months of the pandemic, in order to understand what government in Northern Ireland was doing to respond, and i want to start with what you say about this in your witness statement, please, and if we could go to page nine, paragraph 29. Paragraph 29, just to orientate us in time. This was the 25th of february. I will come back to that strategic review. Butjust looking at paragraph 30 and what you say there, at this time, the time period you are talking about, the Department Of Health remained the lead department in responding to the predicted global pandemic. Staff had stood up ccg and i will come back to t
56 hours until the polls open with a leader is campaigning for every single one of your votes, but what is really going on behind the scenes? welcome to newsnight, for your nightly interviews and insight. and we will bring both to you on the week when you decide who s going to run our country for the next five years. tonight, we have the man who compiles the exit poll which you will see at 10pm this thursday on the bbc one election programme, professor sirjohn curtice. that should give you us, we hope the first accurate forecast of the election result. we also we have harriet harman, former labour minister, former labour deputy leader and an mp for over a0 years, standing down this time. and we have sir craig oliver, former director of communications for prime minister david cameron. welcome. and nick is here as always. cards on the table, i m after numbers, sir craig oliver, what would be a best and worst case scenario for the conservatives politically this thursday? the
nigel farage says he want to be a candidate for prime minister in five years time. right now, his party is promising to cut the nhs england waiting list to zero in two years. how is that possible? and the two child benefit cap which both the conservatives and labour will keep will plunge half a million more children into relative poverty ,according to new figures., according to new figures. welcome to newsnight, where we bring you interviews and election insight live every weeknight. our political panel tonight is conservative peer lord ed vaizey. and the boss of electricity company ecotricity, dale vince, who will support labour at this election. he s donated money to labour, the greens and lib dems in the past. we ll hearfrom them in a moment. first, nick, take ouraudience through what mr farage was promising today and why merthyr tydfil? as you say the key word is contract, nigel farage says it is not a manifesto, because he says manifestos are associated with the est