This came after the Prime Minister rejected suggestions that he oversaw budget cuts that meant that crumbling concrete in schools in england was not replaced. It comes after claims from a former senior Civil Servant that rishi sunak halved the money available for the safety work while he was chancellor in 2021. This afternoon the Education Secretary apologised after her frustration boiled over during questioning about the way the government was handling the situation. It all comes as thouands of School Children mainly in england start the new term not sure whether their schools will be fully open or not. We start tonight with our Political Editor chris mason on a busy first day back for mp5. Fight night good evening, sophie. Certainly they fight night good evening, sophie. Certainly they see fight night good evening, sophie. Certainly they see as fight night good evening, sophie. Certainly they see as mp5 fight night good evening, sophie. Certainly they see as mps return i certainly th
Long . Now three british men have been killed in israel in an aid convoy that they were told was safe and the question is arising. Is this now a turning point in this war, particularly with regard to western support for israels air defence . Yes, absolutely. And a number yes, absolutely. And a number of prominent politicians, including the leader of the liberal democrats and a former National Security adviser, lord peter ricketts, have both suggested and among other voices, of course, that britain should now pause arms sales to israel off the back of this incident. We want to know whether your view has changed at all due to this horrific tragedy. We, in terms of whether you still support israels right to defend itself, whether you still support israels aims in the region with regard to gaza, do you accept the idfs apology . Theyve come out and theyve said we did. This was a grave mistake, and theyre going to do an investigation. Do you believe that that investigation will give us the a
And try to reach the perfection of it. That is our main obsession how much of a difference will it make with the momentum of back to back wins . It is backtoback wins . It is important backtoback wins . It is important but backtoback wins . It is important but it backtoback wins . It is important but it cannot l important but it cannot distract us because we still belong way to go and we have experienced these moments before we had good performance in the next game we were not able to sustain this is the message, try to sustain. Everton striker Dominic Calvert lewin held his nerve from the penalty spot to score his first goal in 2a games in all competitions against newcastle at st james park. It salvaged a vital point for the toffees in their bid to stay in the top flight. Newcastle had earlier taken the lead through alexander isak. It finished one all. Look, i mean, this job wasnt a walk in the park when i got here. Its still not. Theres a long way to go, but theres a lot of steps wer
The man who used to be the Department For Educations most senior Civil Servant reckons he did. I was absolutely amazed to see that the decision made by the government was to halve the School Rebuilding programme down from 100 a year to 50 a year. The chancellor, of course, was at the time . Rishi sunak. So, what does the Prime Minister make of that . I think that is completely and utterly wrong. Actually, one of the first things i did as chancellor in my first Spending Review in 2020 was to announce a new ten year School Rebuilding programme for 500 schools. Now, that equates to about 50 schools a year that will be refurbished or rebuilt. And if you look at what weve been doing over the previous decade, thats completely in line with what weve always done. This Secondary School in County Durham was meant to open for the new term tomorrow, but it cant because of dangerous concrete. In both 2020 and 2021, the government promised 50 schools a year would be rebuilt. In 2019, the National Au