A brighter day for you, with sunny spells. A few showers, but very windy across the far north east and into the northern isles, where it will be quite chilly for lerwick. For wednesday, will be quite chilly for lerwick. Forwednesday, not will be quite chilly for lerwick. For wednesday, not a bad day stop we will start to see some sunshine around. Some may stand murkiness and western areas, with some trend in the south east, after 2a degrees. Low 20s further north. It will turn increasingly humid. Towards the end of the week we start to tap into some warmth in the near continent. It will be turning dry and warm for many of us. This is a short lived speu many of us. This is a short lived spell of warm weather. See temperatures up to the mid 20s across scotland, may be the high 20s for england and wales. Good spells of sunshine. It doesnt last long, low pressure out in the atlantic starts to sweep in during friday and that will bring showers and longer spells of rain to northern and weste
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of conservative supporting newspapers were briefed today about the resuscitation of ascension island in the south atlantic as a place for outsourcing the processing of migrants, despite it reportedly being rejected several years ago by this government because of cost. and today, 15 asylum seekers moved onto the barge stationed in portland in dorset. in a moment, we ll ask if the system is broken because of or despite the conservatives having been in charge of it for the last 13 years? first, here s ben with numbers and facts and context. there have been plenty of headlines and heated arguments about the government s asylum policies and more today with the first asylum seekers being housed on a barge off the dorset coast. but what we want to do tonight is dig into what the numbers show us about how the government is faring when it comes to delivering on its own asylum pledges. let s start with rishi sunak s central pledge to stop the boats, though small boat channel crossings whose oc
that the government is hoping it will do. so it s too soon to say definitively that the government s asylum policy has failed on its own terms, but the evidence so far is not encouraging. in a moment, we ll speak to the labour peer lord dubs, but first let s speak to conservative mp and former immigration minister sir robert goodwill. thank you for talking to us. it doesn t seem to matter whether it s david cameron, theresa may, boris johnson or rishi sunak, whatever the government tries to do, it failed, doesn t it? doesn t it? well, we have seen tremendous doesn t it? well, we have seen tremendous pressure - doesn t it? well, we have seen tremendous pressure from - doesn t it? well, we have seen - tremendous pressure from criminal gangs tremendous pressure from criminal gangs bringing people to this country gangs bringing people to this country to strip some of them are people country to strip some of them are people seeking to make a better life, people seeking to make a bet
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