let s catch up with our first guest on today s episode. let s catch up with our first guest on today s episode. what takes you to sussex? on today s episode. what takes you to sussex? well, on today s episode. what takes you to sussex? well, why on today s episode. what takes you to sussex? well, why not. - on today s episode. what takes you to sussex? well, why not. i - on today s episode. what takes you to sussex? well, why not. i like - on today s episode. what takes you to sussex? well, why not. i like to| to sussex? well, why not. i like to get up and down the uk. it is beautiful to go on our train line services these days. guessing that is a joke. guessing that is a joke. so, chris, you went to this keir starmer speech in kent today. yes. how do you match that with the opportunities to ensure that their dreams can be met? the bigger context here is that here at starmer has been talking about his missions. five missions around big policy areas like crime in the nh
also on the programme. pretty sure we know which sidejoe biden is on. he is in south carolina this hour, pitching more money into solar and renewables. how does science respond? we will talk about the role of ai in all that. and whether uk scientists will have a seat at the biggest table. speculation today that britain might be ready to rejoing europe s multi billion dollar horizon project. brian taylor, former political editor of bbc scotland. he is pro indepence. maura gillespie, former deputy chief of staff and communications director for congressman adam kinzinger and former adviser to speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner. lets that with this debate over oil and gas production. the boss of energy giant shell says we need to continue to keep on dreaming. in an interview one speaker suggested we still need to discuss because we are not moving fast enough towards renewable energy. the reality is that the energy system of today continues to desperately need o
he has pledged to improve pupil s speaking skills and said he wants half a million more children to reach their early learning targets by 2030. the speech on labour s education policy was interrupted by green protestors. our political editor chris mason reports. the smiles are big, the dreams are bigger at this primary school in rochester in kent. how does society match boundless aspiration with providing the opportunities to ensure they come true? what would you like to be when you grow up? i would like to be a rugby player. i would like to be a graphic designer and make movies. tell me what you would like to be when you grow up. a scientist. what do you like playing with the car? it s not playing, it s working. good point! in gillingham, keir starmer said he wanted to tear down barriers to home. down barriers to hope. more children must reach early learning targets, he said, snobbery must go. alongside his albeit broad vision for the economy, the health service, energy an
leader was in exile indefinitely, think again. what does that mean for the war in ukraine? difficult day for number ten. the standards committee says former government whip, chris pincher, should be suspended for eight weeks for groping two men in a london club. it will likely trigger another by election. alongside that, the cabinet office lost a legal challenge today to prevent the covid inquiry from seeing borisjohnson s unredacted whatsapp messages and diaries. we will get into a busy day in westminster. but let us begin with that news from belarus that the boss of the wagner paramilitary group, yevgeny prigozhin, has returned to russia according to the belarusian leader alexander lu kashenko. mr prigozhin, who led wagner s mutiny in russia last month, was supposed to have gone into exile in belarus and yet the belarusian leader says he may now be back in st petersburg. for the past week or so, his whereabouts has been something of a mystery. we know his private jet ha
Because we serve your interests. Why labor . Because we will grow every corner of our country. Why labor . Because we have a plan to take back our streets, switch on Great British energy, get the nhs back on its feet, tear down the barriers to opportunity and Get Britain Building again. A plan for a britain built to last. A plan to heal the wounds. A plan to turn the page and say in a cry of defiance to all those who now write our country off. Britain must, britain can, britain will get its future back. Thank you. Conference. Lucy fisher is Whitehall Editor of the financial times. Thank you forjoining ours. Were about a year out for that expected uk General Election. What was the manifesto over all that keir starmer was presenting from labour . Interesting leave the speech today wasnt jam packed interesting leave the speech today wasntjam packed with interesting leave the speech today wasnt jam packed with flashy policies and the rain rabbit out of the hat was about house building, a p