At the moment the uk spends about 2. 3 on defence so it will be interesting to see if John Healy the defence actually makes any mention of that at all, particularly given the wide economic context. We had from the Chancellor Rachel reeves this morning about public finances and the central labour we had in the Run Up to the election about them wanting to sustain fiscal discipline. There is escalating tension in the Middle East. Give us an idea of where the government is on this and what messages they are trying to put a cross on both lebanon and israel. We heard from both lebanon and israel. Heard from the foreign Secretary Yesterday in a pretty wide ranging speech when again he touched upon ukraine and continued support for ukraine. He said the escalating tension was worrying and i had to be an immediate ceasefire and the information the government released to citizens in lebanon telling them to leave now. I think we can go no to the Conference Stage. I have a feed in front of me. It i
Treatment. Mr speaker, this afternoon will introduce the renters rights bill. This government will oversee the rights in a generation and i urge the whole house to get behind it. Later this week i will Visit Washington for a strategic discussion on foreign policy. I had meetings with others and will have further such meetings later today. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Back in the 19905. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Back in the 1990s, the conservatives came the 1990s, the conservatives came to the 1990s, the conservatives came to the Minimum Wage would cost1 came to the Minimum Wage would Costi Millionjobs and instead workers Costi Millionjobs and instead workers have seen no effect on Employment Year after year. Today Employment Year after year. Today and under their watch, 1 Million today and under their watch, 1 Million workers on zero hours contracis million workers on zero hours contracts and over A Million people contracts and over A Million people have no sick pay whatsoever. Facing risks, a
Explosion in britain, our own weapons are on high alert. Theres always one out there, at 15 minutes notice to fire. Somewhere out there . Somewhere out there. And american nukes could soon be back on british soil. If we get trump in there next time and he may press the button because hes got a bigger button than putin, then we are a target. Putin hasntjust challenged america, but all European Countries in nato, protected under the us nuclear umbrella. Russians have made direct threats to use Nuclear Weapons against britain, one of the founding members of nato. Thats put the uks Nuclear Readiness on alert. Britains Nuclear Deterrent is housed in the west of scotland. Since the height of the cold war, naval base clyde, on the banks of gare loch, has been at the heart of the uks nuclear policy. Here he is. Feargal dalton is a retired lieutenant commander, who served on Hms Victorious as chief weapons engineer. Hello. Morning, jane. Nice to meet you, feargal. And you. What a lovely morning
that it may not hold. hundreds of people have died since fighting started between the sudanese army and rsf paramilitary force. in recent days, more countries have attempted to evacuate their diplomats and citizens this is a member of the dutch military handing out earplugs as they get ready to take off. and this was the scene as the spanish defence ministry helped diplomats and citizens on to their plane. so far we know that germany evacuated 311 people this weekend to jordan, with 1000 german soldiers involved in that operation. france evacuated 388, both french nationals as well as a significant number of people from other countries, including the uk. italy flew out 200 people 140 of them italian nationals. in comparison, just 30 british nationals and 70 americans have been evacuated from sudan. and the the us and uk have a far higher number of people to evacuate 16,000 and 4,000 passport holders respectively. before the ceasefire was announced, we heard from the un