welcome to the programme. a smaller workforce represents a serious economic challenge. it makes it harder for employers to filljobs. it adds to wage pressures that drive inflation. it holds back growth. it reduces the tax revenues available to fund public services. there is an imperative in helping people back to work. the trouble is many parents in this country can t afford to because many would see their take home pay wiped out by the £15,000 average annual cost of full time childcare for a two year old. right now, uk childcare costs are double the 0ecd average. the only two countries where parents spend a higher percentage on childcare are switzerland and new zealand. when i had my daughter, who s five, i had to quit myjob because we couldn t afford childcare. i look forward to going back to nursing. my plan is to go back to nursing. if there d been more options and if childcare had been either cheaper or there was more flexibility, that would ve definitely been something
sunday where there might be the odd crack of thunder in northern ireland. we will get to that soon. here is the big picture. a large area of low pressure here is helping to draw in a warm atmosphere from the southern climes and it is spreading across the uk. it has already been the warmest day of the year so far in england, around 19 celsius. in the north of the country, still feeling the chill in scotland, it will be freezing mid morning on saturday. for most of us between four and 10 celsius and on some western coasts. lots of cloud across the north half of the uk. showers from the morning onwards across northern ireland, wales, the north west of england. the best of the weather this programme continues on bbc1. the chairman quits. he falls on his sword to protect the bbc reputation. questions remain about the mysterious £800,000 alone in the independence of the bbc. richard sharp says that the independent report into his appointment found only that he inadvertently broke
i am laura ingram at this is the ingraham angle from washington and we begin the hou with a scandal of monumental significance. finally with republicans in charge of the house it, the locks have been lifted on the covid cover-up. the rat that we stay underneath is what we want you about long ago. rank, corruption at the heart o our federalism. before we are cdc director doctor robert redfield with kristin, about anthony found she s mad scramble to conceal the role and he and others played with green lighting the funding to the warhol lab in china. blooded redfield and think of the paper that found cheap research scientist right back i february 2020? that would conclude ultimately that covid most likely did not escape from the lab. this whole approach that was taken as antithetical to science . science has to be in these need to be. you think the paper does have the truth i think it s an accurate paper that basically was a part of a narrative that they were creating. thi
team to get the job done? now, if the answer to those questions is no, and i imagine it is for most of you, then neither man is really capable of serving as a u.s. senator or the u.s. president. at least not without a lot of people making decisions for him and, of course, this is exactly what s happening in both cases. now here we are, four months later, sadly vindicated, wondering how two women closest to sick men in declining health can even live with themselves. both jill biden and gisele fetterman know better than anyone how unfit to serve their hubs are. as bad as both men have looked and sounded at various times to the rest of us, imagine how bad they are behind closed doors. but, of course, these women lie to themselves and then they lie to us. how will this episode affect the campaign and his upcoming schedule? and as soon as he s back he ll be back on the trail. i don t think it s going to affect it. the president s campaign this week released an ad just real