Just one pound in five has been paid out in financial redress to postmasters wrongfully accused of theft and fraud is it time the post office is completely removed from delivering compensation . Disarray at the top of the post office in full view at a hearing in front of mps today. The main scandal remains the snails pace of redress for postmasters. Well talk live to this post Office Manager wrongfully accused of stealing £78,000 and jailed for six months, and this mp whos on the horizon compensation Advisory Board. Also tonight. Labour mp Margaret Hodge tells us shes written to the metropolitan police and the Electoral Commission to ask them to investigate whether the Conservative Party broke electoral law in taking £200,000 from the partner of a prominent donor. The chancellor said he wanted to get Older Workers off the golf course and back into employment but why have they really opted out of the workforce . In a dramatic Hearing Today, current and former post Office Bosses traded
Start by the beginning of next week. Reuters News Agency Says hamas has received a draught proposal from Gaza Truce Talks in paris which includes a 40 day pause in all Military Operations and the exchange of Palestinian Prisoners for israeli hostages at a ratio of ten to one. As negotiations between hamas and israel continue, President Biden has said israel has agreed in principle not to engage in military activities in gaza during the muslim holy month of ramadan. Heres the us president speaking late on monday. Reporter can you give us a sense of when you think that ceasefire will start . Well, i hope by the beginning of the weekend. I mean, end of the weekend. My National Security adviser tells me that were close. Were close. Not done yet. And my hope is by next monday well have a ceasefire. In the hours after that statement, President Biden also appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers on nbc, where he said israel has agreed in principle not to engage in military activities in the ga
laura in the studio. and henry at home. michael gove on the front of the ft. michael gove said in the sunday times that young people are being stitched up by the housing crisis. he did and he said young people might lose faith in democracy if they don t get the houses they need. as you have already alluded to, for somebody who has been in government for 14 years with a bum on the seat of the cabinet table, it is a curious thing to be pointing the finger in this way that somehow this is a terrible, terrible problem and now it must be turn to. whereas people who study the housing market, you can pick up any statistics under the sun to show the issue has become more and more and more acute under 14 years of conservative government. there is a weird element to michael gove trying to make like a bystander. the back story is what he s trying to do is persuade other people and government to make sure the legislation he wants to pass goes through and he wants more money for housing i