he has pledged to improve pupil s speaking skills and said he wants half a million more children to reach their early learning targets by 2030. the speech on labour s education policy was interrupted by green protestors. our political editor chris mason reports. the smiles are big, the dreams are bigger at this primary school in rochester in kent. how does society match boundless aspiration with providing the opportunities to ensure they come true? what would you like to be when you grow up? i would like to be a rugby player. i would like to be a graphic designer and make movies. tell me what you would like to be when you grow up. a scientist. what do you like playing with the car? it s not playing, it s working. good point! in gillingham, keir starmer said he wanted to tear down barriers to home. down barriers to hope. more children must reach early learning targets, he said, snobbery must go. alongside his albeit broad vision for the economy, the health service, energy an
half trillion dollars of debt. that would leave workers not getting paid and the economy could spiral into chaos. earlier, our correspondent gave us this update. us this update. lots of lawmakers us this update. lots of lawmakers are - us this update. lots of| lawmakers are walking us this update. lots of- lawmakers are walking around the capital are walking round giving their viewpoints, expressing their disappointment at the bill but, look, there s at the bill but, look, there s a lot of confidence. president biden is confident it will pass. a man named tom mellor who is the width of the republican party. they need 18 votes, 218 is what they need and he says they are very confident that republicans will pass it through the house and he said those who are making the noise haven t fully read the noise haven t fully read the bill and hisses when they do they will get on board. are we seeing any defectors quiz mac there is house caucus, the ultraconservative members of the r
The uk cabinet office has lost a legal challenge to block the handover of borisjohnson s unredacted whatsapp messages, notebooks and diaries to the covid inquiry. the department argued it should not submit material that it said was unambiguously irrelevant , but high courtjudges said the government should not decide what was releva nt. it has until monday afternoon to hand over the documents. 0ur political correspondent damian grammaticas has more. this is a row that blew up between the official coronavirus inquiry thatis the official coronavirus inquiry that is now under at looking into the governments handling of the government itself where the inquiry chair had asked to see the whatsapp messages exchanged between boris johnson and other senior officials. a few dozen of them so matt hancock was one of them, the senior medical figures involved in handling the pandemic, senior civil servants, and she wanted to see all of those
What is in some of this material but we do know that the coronavirus inquiry say they need to see it. they need access to the full, unredacted copies, whatsapp messages, diaries and notebooks held by the former prime minister, borisjohnson. this is so they can carry out their inquiries to this investigation. there are two fold inquiries, one between the cabinet office, the government and the inquiry itself. the inquiry, as i mentioned, has demanded that the government hands over the full version of these documents. the cabinet office and the government had said they don t think it s appropriate to hand over anything they deem to be unambiguously irrelevant to the inquiry. i am told that this could include quite sensitive personal information on private matters which the government fears could set a worrying
He minister borisjohnson says he is handed over no whatsapp messages over the uk s official coronavirus inquiry. and the godfather of ai expresses concerns over the technology he brought into the world. life from a studio in singapore. this is bbc news. first we head to the united states where the debt issue is going to make or break vote on the deal and without an agreement the us would hit its issue on monday which would mean defaulting on its 31 and a