Debate gets a bit shouty. Stand up lets get on with leaving the eu. Labour mocks government plans to help gig economy workers. We see the creation of a website about and be self employed to talk to each other. Well, bravo. And who just cant wait for his birthday . I dont celebrate things like that. I dont think you should celebrate age. I know this isnt the first time ive said this and it wont be the last, but its a big week for brexit. Theresa may has chaired the first of two key meetings with her senior ministers as the Government Faces more calls to clarify the uks position. On wednesday the Brexit Cabinet Committee sketched out what the future relationship between the uk and eu might look like. What conclusion they came to, we dont know but the issue came up several times in the commons. First, in a spirited intervention by one dup mp, echoing of the words of his father during the troubles. Does the minister agree with me that it is about time the government demonstrated a no surre
Coming up carillion Senior Executives seem lost for words. And you are still all right . All of you . Arent you . The Brexit Debate gets a bit shouty. Stand up to the man stand up to the eu and lets get on with leaving the eu and 100 years after the first women get the vote, female mps are still suffering abuse. What this is about is about misogynists seeking to silence women who dare to speak out. But first, the chairman of the Construction Company carillion has told mps how upset he is at the firms demise. The company, which provided services for schools, hospitals and prisons went into liquidation last month and an array of Senior Executives gave a joint committee of mps their side of the story. But the chairs of those committees were not impressed, saying afterwards that the directors were delusional characters who maintained that everything was hunky dory until it all went suddenly and an perceivably wrong. Suddenly and unforseeably wrong. Words cant describe the depth of my despa
Its wednesday 7th february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The serial sex attacker john worboys will appear at the high court this morning for the start of a legal challenge this morning against his release. Pictures of him just arriving have just come into us in the last few moments. Last month the parole board was criticised when it announced that worboys would be freed after less than nine years in prison. In 2009 worboys was given an indeterminate jail sentence, with a minimum term of at least eight years. Last november the parole board approved his release, but their reasoning remained confidential. That decision was made public last month to a furious reaction. Campaigners hoped the government would apply for a judicial review, but the justice secretary said lawyers had advised against it. Just over a week later, two of worboys victims won a legal challenge to stop him being released, but only temporarily. The first stage of their legal challenge to keep him beh
An explosion on an underground train in south west london this morning is being treated as a terrorist attack. The train was packed with rush hour commuters when the blast went off. It sent a fireball through the carriage. 22 passengers were injured, none of them seriously. The device appears to have been in a white container with a timer. The Prime Minister said the Terror Threat level would be kept under review. The device detonated at 820 this morning at Parsons Green station on the District Line in south west london. Matthew price is there. This was the fifth terrorist attack, the fifth successful terrorist attack in britain this year. Unlike the others, however, nobody died in this. In the previous poor attacks 36 people lost their lives, yet it is not being taken any less seriously because of that. As you have just heard, the seriously because of that. As you havejust heard, the Prime Minister of britain has caused called an emergency session of the Cobra Committee that looks int