SpIrIt, a polItIcal correspondent for the tImes and Andrew FIsher who wrItes for the I. Thank you both for beIng wIth us. Tell me lara what do you thInk KeIr Starmer has do today . When you speak to people In labour about what they want to achIeve, they want KeIr Starmer to put a stamp on thIs conference and say what he belIeves In and what the government Is for, we have had ale dIffIcult couple of weeks for the government, we have had storIes about donor gate, freebIes and dIffIcult storIes about the salary of chIef of staff. Some are sayIng that Is because there a voId that starmer has left and Into that voId he needs to state what It Is he needs. So we need to see from hIm today there Is a real sense he needs to stamp hIs authorIty on thIs conference. Another thIn andrew was the sense we got from the government about tough decIsIon, the WInter Fuel Payment whIch was a contentIous decIsIon about that for mIllIons and we have heard from some sayIng you need to Inject more optImIsm whI
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Raising fears that the death toll from this brutal attack could still rise. Our correspondent on a 5 chars and legos nigeria and joins us now from there. Funny, theres some uncertainty about the death toll. What else can you tell us . There are conflicting numbers. The states governor is speaking about at least 70 People Killed. And the United Nations reports at least 110 People Killed in this horrendous attack that was carried out suspected by a book or a militants on saturday. Regardless, not just ho. Hi, this death toll is obviously one fact is clear that the way this is being carried out carries unfortunately, trademark the hand signature if you will, of the militants that operate in this region in the north east of nigeria, that could be a book or a Splinter Group of a book or i mean self, theyre also very active in the neighboring countries income ruined in chad in nigeria. Now the problem that nigeria is facing is a problem that this country is facing for more than a decade now.
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