me and the big c cancer podcast will be published today. and images captured by drone cameras to help monitor deer populations in england. good morning and welcome. the government is set to announce details of a £1 billion investment to tackle emergency care delays in the nhs. the two year blueprint will mean a roll out of extra hospital beds and ambulances in england. the government is expected to pledge 5,000 new beds, increasing capacity by 5%. there will also be a 10% boost in ambulances, with 800 new vehicles on the road. prime minister rishi sunak calls it an ambitious and credible plan, but warns the plan to cut delays will take time . meanwhile, labour have accused the government of watering down key standards and say the plans aren t enough to tackle the pressures the nhs is facing. 0ur health correspondent jim reed has more. ambulance staff are waiting with their patients to come to the emergency department cubicles, which are currently full. record waits in a&e
about whether he is ruthless enough, whether he could have acted a bit sooner to get rid of nadhim zahawi. in terms of pulling back a bit today, we are doing a lot of coverage of the health care situation, the government making an announcement on that, but also the impending teachers strikes. when you talk to conservative mps in particular, are they worried about the disconnect? well the cabinet ministers, rishi sunak himself forced to say that his wife was a non dom, the refusal to pay tax among some key members of the conservative party while public services look like they are on their knees. . services look like they are on their knees. , ., , , ., , services look like they are on their knees. , ., , , ., knees. there is undoubtedly a bit of nervousness knees. there is undoubtedly a bit of nervousness about knees. there is undoubtedly a bit of nervousness about the knees. there is undoubtedly a bit of nervousness about the perception i nervousness about the perception that ta
report from sir laurie magnus was, that will be quite tricky. there is a question about the state of play in the conservative party. there are different factions, some of whom might want to make life a bit difficult for rishi sunak over the next few weeks and months. and there is the fact that rishi sunak came into office as prime minister with a pledge to get over some of the scandals and rows that we have been covering for the past couple of years on the bbc. some of the things we saw under borisjohnson, for example, rishi sunak promised that ink accountability, and i suppose the question he s facing is how hard is it to actually move on from some of these rows? there is still that investigation into dominic raab that needs to include, there is going to be a very public probe into what borisjohnson be a very public probe into what boris johnson told be a very public probe into what borisjohnson told mps about party gates and whether he was completely transparent, and all the while mr
the backdrop of teachers, nurses, railway workers saying they are not being paid enough and they feel that their pay rises are far too low to combat some of the cost of living pressures they are facing. so there is this kind of series of problems that the government is facing. there is a bit of a sense, i think, that mr sunak is having to play tomek spend a lot of his time firefighting some of the issues the government is facing, ratherthan some of the issues the government is facing, rather than being proactive in getting on the front foot. the ultimate question that tory mps will ask themselves is one of self interest. is there any chance that rishi sunak can turn things around enough to give them a fighting chance of winning the next election? he is trying to set out an agenda with those five priorities around the economy, the nhs, and around the economy, the nhs, and around small boats that he s been talking about for the last few weeks. but a lot of the time, a lot of the bandwidt
didn t act earlier, whether nadhim zahawi should even still be an mp. yes, there are indeed. when you read the report by the adviser on ethics, it is pretty damning, seven occasions on which he concluded nadhim zahawi had broken the ministerial code and after he got that report yesterday rishi sunak did act within a couple of hours to sack the tory chairman. but there is no question of why the prime minister didn t act sooner. maybe last week, for example, when it emerged that penalty had been paid as part of mr zahawi plasma tax bill. we were told by number 10 that the pm hadn t known that, that he only found out in the media. so there was a question i think about why the prime minister decided to launch an investigation rather than just sack nadhim zahawi straightaway. this is what the labour party argued this morning. have a listen to the shadow cabinet member nick thomas symonds. the