relations lawyer. also this afternoon. there were more excess deaths than usual in the uk last year. the highest number outside the covid pandemic in half a century. some shops open at midnight to meet demand for prince harry s heavily trailed autobiography, which is now on sale. and a setback, not a roadblock. the team behind a uk space mission which failed to launch say they will keep on trying. and this picture has been causing something of a stir on social media today, because someone or something is missing. we will be revealing all. good afternoon. in the last few minutes, the government has been introducing draft legislation to limit future industrial action in the public sector. the bill would cover health, fire and railway workers. ministers say it would introduce a minimum level of service. unions have reacted angrily to the proposals, which they say potentially are undemocratic and unworkable, and would limit the right to strike. the business secretary grant shapps
in arms about this as well, with some saying they will challenge this legislation legally as well. certainly, this has inflamed tensions with the unions at times when ministers are wanting to talk to the unions and resolve disputes over pay at the moment, but it has also caused some unease among some conservative mps as well. the conservative mps as well. the conservative mps as well. the conservative mp stephen apartment, for example, has issued a statement saying that he would support, for example, finding unions, but doesn t think that individual workers should face the sack if they don t comply with this legislation. stephen partland. it has a rocky road ahead. it needs to get through the house of commons and house of lords, and potentially some judicial reviews as well. we will see what happens with that. in the meantime, we were watching grant shapps, the business secretary, in the commons, and in light hearted news, he has been making news and social media? it is the curious
on certain public services. it was in the conservative party manifesto in the conservative party manifesto in 2019 to introduce this legislation when it came to rail strikes, but now the government is extending it to other sectors as well, including the nhs and education in border security, fire services, as well as nuclear decommissioning services as well. there has been particular attention and emphasis by the government placed on health, and saying that with upcoming ambulance strikes, for example, on wednesday, they are disappointed that ambulance services and ambulance unions haven t guaranteed across the board a minimum service level, which they feel like the public deserve to know, but as you say, this has been deeply controversial. labour have argued that it simply won t work, and that at a time when there are staff shortages and vacancies across a lot of these public services, they shouldn t be introducing laws that could mean workers face being sacked if they don t comply wit
major issue with the artemis rocket that nasa launched not so long ago. that would have been a very big problem. these are replaceable and it is a matter of seeing whether virgin orbit is able to carry on, because they have only launched six times in total. they had two failures and money is probably running out for them. it is going to depend on whether they have enough customers that trust them, can be find out what has gone wrong, and will people trust them with their expensive payloads and things they have worked on? will they trust them to lodge those into space in the future? , , future? time will tell. trust is the ke issue future? time will tell. trust is the key issue now- future? time will tell. trust is the key issue now. thank future? time will tell. trust is the key issue now. thank you - future? time will tell. trust is the key issue now. thank you very - future? time will tell. trust is the i key issue now. thank you very much for being with us. let s go back to the