that bill will deliver on the demands for a new britain, a new approach to politics and democracy. a new approach to growth and our economy. last year was officially the warmest on record in the uk with an average annual temperature more than ten degrees. # changing my numberand i m changing the locks. and will more success flow for this girl band after they scoop the bbc s sound of 2023 award? and coming up on the bbc news channel tears for emma raducanu, who rolls her ankle and is now in a race to be fit for the australian open in 11 days time. good afternoon. prince harry has claimed his brother prince william physically attacked him, according to a newspaper which says it s seen a copy of harry s forthcoming memoir. the guardian says the book has details of a row between the brothers in 2019 over meghan markle, prince harry s wife. it quotes harry as saying that william grabbed him by collar, and knocked him to the floor. the royalfamily have made no comment. h
pope francis leads mourners for his predeccessor benedict xvi at an open air funeral mass at the vatican. upset for emma raducanu after she retires from her second round match at the asb classic in auckland with an ankle injury. and coming up this hour hear more from the girl group flo, who are the winners of the bbc s sound of 2023 award. sir keir starmer has promised that a labour government would devolve more power out of westminster by giving local authorities more say in areas such as transport and housing. the labour leader said in a new year speech that taking back control borrowing from the brexit slogan would be central to his party s agenda if it won the next election. it s not unreasonable for us to recognise the desire of communities to stand on their own feet. it s what take back control meant. the control people want is control over their lives and their communities. so we will embrace the take back control message, but we ll turn it from a slogan in
think what you get when you look at step back and look at full speeches is both men are competing to be prime minister after the next general election but because one is in government and the other isn t the approach is rather different. rishi sunak seems like a man in a hurry to prove he can do and achieve stop. hence those promises he made some pretty achievable and others more vague. so he can say this is what i said i would try and do this is what i have done come the election. from keir starmer s perspective quite limited in terms of specifics, he doesn t want any sparkly ideas as he might see them nicked by the government and implemented in advance, but trying to shape and output, a broad vision of what labour in government would look like. and really striking that he should cloak himself in the language of brexit. this is a man who campaigned for remain and wanted a second referendum on brexit but now using the phrase take back control, the slogan to describe his
in england will be paid more public money for protecting the environment and producing food more sustainably. the farming minister mark spencer made the announcement at a conference in oxford. 0ur rural affairs correspondent claire marshall was there. many species and habitats in the uk are under severe pressure and conservation groups have been concerned about the truss administration s approach to farming subsidies. when a scheme to reward farmers for helping the environment was paused it was called an attack on nature . today, the farming minister mark spencer, speaking at a conference in oxford, announced that there would be more money in the post brexit payment scheme for greener farming. it s a huge step in the right direction. this is about listening to those people who are delivering on the ground floor. it s about achieving our environmental ambitions as a government but also making sure farming is sustainable for the next three or four generations. in the drive to produce fo
chris mason, when the floor was opened up for questions. you said that labour will not be getting into big government cheque book out it will not be getting a big government cheque book out, what have you got to save that? we big government cheque book out, what have you got to save that? have you got to save that? we are auoin to have you got to save that? we are going to inherit have you got to save that? we are going to inherit a have you got to save that? we are going to inherit a badly have you got to save that? we are going to inherit a badly damaged i going to inherit a badly damaged economy and a badly damaged country and therefore we have to be clear that we cannot just spend our way out of that mess. 0bviously that we cannot just spend our way out of that mess. obviously we will set out our case as we go into the election and we have already set out our fiscal rules in terms of spending and only borrowing to invest and getting debt down as a percentage of our econom