Scientists and other experts are being questioned under oath. I swear by almighty god. Sincerely and truly. Declare and affirm. That the evidence i shall give. Should be the truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth. Coming up are the key things we learned from the first part of the inquiry that asks when covid hit, was the uk properly prepared . The inquiry is set to last for years but is broken down into different sections. There are so many different ways to express different opinions. Why do we have to have personal abuse . Baroness hallett, a former high courtjudge, is chairing this inquiry. Throughout, the questioning is led by senior counsel hugo keith kc. But if ijust may say, mr hancock, will you allow me, please, in this forum . It is vital for planning. Thats the point. I ask the questions. Of course. That crucialjob is shared by another senior barrister, Kate Blackwell kc. Do you accept, mr cameron, that the Health Budgets over the time of your government were inade
lots more on that on our website. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking. this week, i ve been down to downing street to number 11 to speak to the chancellor, jeremy hunt, who s preparing his budget. he wanted to tell tory mps not to get ahead of themselves about the taxes that he could cut, but also to have a go at those who are saying he shouldn t cut taxes at all. all those organisations with acronyms the imf, the obr, the ifs. here now is my conversation with the chancellor. well, chancellor, thank you for having us here inside number 11 and a rather grand dining room. yes, welcome, nick, it s great to see you here. we re in 11 downing street, this is your office here, you host meetings and dinners in this particular room, but it is also your home what is it like living above the shop? well, the first thing is that i n
now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking. this week, i ve been down to downing street to number 11 to speak to the chancellor, jeremy hunt, who s preparing his budget. he wanted to tell tory mps not to get ahead of themselves about the taxes that he could cut, but also to have a go at those who are saying he shouldn t cut taxes at all. all those organisations with acronyms the imf, the obr, the ifs. here now is my conversation with the chancellor. well, chancellor, thank you for having us here inside number 11 and a rather grand dining room. yes, welcome, nick, it s great to see you here. we re in 11 downing street, this is your office here, you host meetings and dinners in this particular room, but it is also your home what is it like living above the shop? well, the first thing is that i never expected to be here. and as i
despite my relative ignorance, total ignorance about the traitors. i have still not found my tie, though. have you not? no. but the merit of losing it and, actually, i think it was worth losing it for this is that i briefly got to go on scott mills show on radio 2. 0h, 0k. because he asked me, well, where is your tie, have you found it? so i sent him a little voice note saying, you know and this is still true as we record now i don t know where it has gone. and the ripples then spread out and even i got dragged into this because martin lewis put out a tweet to his, like, 10 million followers saying that i had probably nicked it. so i then had to sort of defend myself. i haven t worn a tie for several years. i haven t worn one all day yet because i still can t find it. anyway, i am going to take my traitors cloak of because, a, it is quite hot. also, we did ask the traitors if we could have one of the real ones. they said, no, they are wearing it on the one show tonig
Investigation is launched. Iran releases an alleged confession of spying by a British Iranian man whos facing the Death Sentence he says the confession was forced. The social media personality andrew tate investigated in relation to organised crime, we investigate his popularity with young people. And the Brit Award Nominations are out with a notable absence of women in the category of artist of the year. And stay with us here on Bbc News Channel for continuing coverage in analysis with our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. Good evening. Ambulance response times in england and waits in accident and Emergency Departments have reached the highest levels on record. The latest figures have exposed the Alarming State of Emergency Care in the National Health service. For some emergencies, including suspected strokes and heart attacks, the average wait was over 90 minutes. The target is 18 minutes. More than a third of patients waited more than four hours to be assessed a