Account is closed for 11 minutes by a member of staff on their last day. Hello, a very good morning to you. Its friday the 3rd of november. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The storm over allegations of Sexual Harassment labour has suspended an mp. He has yet to comment on the claims. His promotion to the shadow cabinet last year after the complaint was first made and he was reprimanded by the party has been criticised. Labours Leaderjeremy Corbyn refused to comment when approach this morning. Good morning mr corbyn. Goodbye. Did you know about mr hopkinss behaviour . Are you aware of the allegations against him, mr corbyn before you promoted into the shadow cabinet . Were you aware of the allegations against mr hopkins, sir . Goodbye. Meanwhile the former defence secretary Michael Fallon says he categorically denies the claim he made inappropriate comments to Andrea Leadsom. She herself is yet to respond. Well, we have been speaking to our correspondence in westminster very soon. But a l
Game last night. Uefa have opened Disciplinary Proceedings and marseille have opened an internal investigation. Ben has all the weather. Eyes to the skies this weekend, fireworks displays across the country. Tonight is soggy. Colder weather in subsequent nights. All the details later on. Thanks, ben. Also coming up a parting gesture the twitter employee who took down Donald Trumps account on his last day at work. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. Im rebecca jones. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn is under pressure to explain why he promoted the mp Kelvin Hopkins into his shadow cabinet, a few months after hopkins had been reprimanded, following allegations that hed sexually harrassed a young activist. The mp for luton north has now been suspended while an investigation is carried out. He was suspended last night while the claims made by Ava Etemadzadeh are investigated. Mr hopkins has not commented but labour says it takes such complaints extremely seriously. Meanwhile, sir Michae
But today the tories refused to confirm the National Living wage would reach nine pounds an hour by 2020 as George Osborne had previously announced. Our Political Editor nick watt is with us now. A big moment. It was. I have been trying to identify about how theresa may may take to fashion one nation conservative to her vision about how the country should be run and workers rights is that the hard and the reason for that is one of her insights from brexit was notjust about to leave the eu, it was a cry of anguish from people who feel left behind by globalisation. These pledges today are designed by her to show that she really means business about Making Globalisation Work for those people who feel left behind. She needs a mandate on this to face down critics in her own party. She lost a battle in the cabinet in the autumn about getting workers sitting on company boards, one person said this did not work in germany. That idea, it comes back, although the language and wording about who w