Back at thursday in parliament. On this programme, the government announces a price cap on energy bills for millions of customers, but a former Energy Secretary questions whether its needed. Without a cap, weve seen competition expand dramatically, switching numbers soar, and a sustained reduction in the number of consumers on variable tariffs. As the eus chief brexit negotiator says talks with the uk are deadlocked over financial commitments, one mp says British Business is in despair. Not one person i meet in those sectors wants us to continue with this folly of brexit. And the speaker gives mps pause for thought as he reveals the name of the family pet. And i dont have a dog. We have a cat called order. More on that a little later. But first the governments published legislation designed to lower the cost of gas and electricity bills. It will give the Energy Regulator ofgem the power to cap what are called standard variable tariffs. About 12 million households are on some form of de
Individuals concerned about the lack of guarantees from government and businesses were concerned because of the impact on their workforce potentially quite serious, if the government had set an earlier cut off date for when people could come in and stay permanently, what they have actually said to the 3 million eu citizens is that they now, she wants them to stay, and to make the process as easy as possible for them to sign up, if you like, to become permanent, to have permanent status. If any body arrives over the next 18 months they will be able to do that, thats a cast iron guarantee. The other side of this, is whether eu citizens are still going to be overseen as the eu wants by the European Court ofjustice. That they do not actually. They are right, we dont know yet. Perhaps more over the next couple of days. Key to this is also the welcome deal or no deal, thats the thing. Already now, if talks collapse, there is no deal. The government is moving bit by bit by bit, saying we need
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Publicly owned Energy Company in every part of the uk. National grid, railways and Bus Companies are to be nationalised. Well, im joined byjack blanchard, the mirrors Political Editor replete with a copy of this thing. And with our own Political Editor, nick watt. Just to be clear, jack, what you have there is a print out. Its not a typeset, formalised version . Im afraid not. No cover, no glossy feel. It is a dodgy, leaked document. But it does have their draft measures. Give us some of the eye catching ones. Theres a lot in there. As you mention, there is the plan to bring a big part of the Energy Industry back into public ownership. There is a Huge Investment plans for the nhs, £6 billion extra a year, which will be funded with new taxes on people earning more than £80,000 a year. Theres Council Houses to be built every year, tuition fees abolished entirely. We kind of knew that anyway. And then the creation of new whitehall departments, a ministry of labour, a department for hous
Last tuesday was hugely controversial. Then on friday, Donald Trump Tweets this. James coney better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he sta rts of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press because of that sweet, there are lots of questions and there is growing pressure to say if those tapes exist. This is the republican Lindsey Graham saying you cannot be cute about tapes, if there are any tapes of this conversation they need to be turned over. You would expect the democrats to be critical. Here is senator chuck schumer. Perhaps needless to say, there is no sign of the tapes. There is no sign of an apology. There was no sign of sean spicer, the White House Press secretary earlier, he was asked about this. I made it clear last week that the president has nothing further to say. Does that mean the president will deny. . |i further to say. Does that mean the president will deny. . I said i was very clear. The president will have nothing further. I understa