have now infiltrated every sector of british society. and lights, camera, picket line. the actors join the writers at the barricades, after negotiations with the studios collapse. but first, to the pay award. over a million public sector workers, including teachers and doctors, will get a rise in this financial year of up to 7%. rishi sunak has agreed to honour the recommendations of the independent, pay review bodies. the deal covers 45% of the public sector. and on top of that pay award, the government has committed additional funding for schools above what was proposed in march and in addition to the £2 billion already given to schools in the autumn statement. the four teaching unions said that was a basis to call off strike action. which will be welcomed by parents up and down the land. however the junior doctors, who went on strike today, say it is not enough. their continued absence will make it almost impossible for the pm to meet his promise of cutting waiting lists.
i want to come to john solomon, he s been at the center of all of this great reporting for three years. it is great to see you. your takeaways on the impeachment. i think there s three things to evaluate, on his theatrics, to his process, three substance. then we do this in reverse order. on substance, the democrats have yet to bring a single witness who has identified impeachable crime or even has first-hand knowledge of a quid pro quo. but the republicans have drawn significant evidence substantial evidence of concern that the state department witnesses and these people were obama, biden workers and they had about the inference of the ukraine ambassador back in 2016 brittany and i think the republicans have scored on substance prion process, the two did a great job describing the unfair setting. i have not been washington and seen the orders were not recognized with the accuser knocking to call their own
those that to whom the allegations of religious war and war and faith maybe resonate and then there are independent women, a sector that obama wants to win, the obama independents. they tend to be younger. they tend to be less white. they re a quarter minority. they are the ones to most likely depart from him and go to republican. their true swing voters in 2012. certainly making the push for contraception and making it more available and making employers cover it works in, you know, in favor of getting the votes whether, you know, stops them from getting blue collar joe biden work se biden workers is another question. this broadens into what is going on here? there is the side that says this is a war on religion which it isn t. then there is the statement that there is a big war on contraception. in fact, we can t even find out how many people are employed by a catholic employer in the united states. we don t have an entity that seems to know the answer to that question which tells