secretive process. attendees will hand in their phones for example. they do not want anything to get out. that said, there have been people who have been briefed on the contents of the manifesto and you started hearing a few things emerging last night, some of the newspapers were reporting, some sources reporting things that would be in it and the most eye catching that was actually confirmed by keir starmer today, that was actually confirmed by keir starmertoday, is that was actually confirmed by keir starmer today, is that there is going to be commitment of labour to recognise a palestinian state. there is not detail around this in terms of a timeline, but certainly, keir starmer think that a palestinian state would be recognised as part of the process to a two state solution. does that echo what lord cameron was saying a few weeks ago, but his party did not commit to that. there s been tension in terms of what lord cameron the foreign secretary in terms of where his position is and
some news about the role the unions have played in today s debate around the manifesto, but are you hearing? just a quick recap for anyone joining us, labour has been holding this big meeting today in secret, clause five, this formal process where the manifesto is formally adopted into the party and its union backers. it s a very secretive meeting, you have to have numbered copies of the documents, phones handed in, they don t want things getting out. but we understand in the last few minutes that one of labour s biggest backers, a major donor to the labour party, is not endorsing the labour manifesto. now we understand this is over concerns about the party s position specifically on one of its commitments in cerner workers rights, so of course we will hear more about it but we ve heard for a long time now that labour plans as big package of reforms to give workers more rights in employment. there s been a bit of back and forth between labour and some of the trade
unions for quite a while now about whether some of the commitments that were made earlier on, months or years ago, have ended up being watered down. some of the accusations from the late of the party have been that business has essentially come in and said, we aren t happy about this, and labour has tried to marry the two sides and have come down a bit closer on the side of what business wants compared to what the unions want. so we know that unite, a major trade union, one of labour s biggest backers, have had long standing concerns about what they perceived to be a watering down of some of the commitments for example, a band to supposedly n0 our contracts, this has been reported to a ban on predatory zero hour contracts. banning fire and rehire labour had promised a band that, it seems there s some concern about rolling back on that,
welcoming her to new broadcasting house. we will continue to show you each of the leaders as they arrive here. they will be familiarising themselves with the format tonight. maybe going into the studio which is not farfrom us here maybe going into the studio which is not far from us here to get a feel of where things will unfold. lots of people watching up and down the country tonight, different issues, different debates pertaining to different regions and nations. let s go to georgia roberts in glasgow. it seems from the poles of this really is a race between the snp and labour in glasgow. we ve lost georgia, was i seeing. i think we will go to chris page in belfast. are you there, chris? i can see you there in front of stormont, looking great. tell us what the