On patients, Healthcare Workers and the wider nhs. The hearings will also focus on issues such as the Diagnosis And Treatment of patients with long covid, protective equipment in hospitals, and the policy of shielding. More than 30,000 people in the uk have shared their personal stories from the pandemic 7 as part of a report called every story matters, which will be published today. At the worst point, i didnt want to live any longer. My lungs were white,. Id got covid pneumonia. Every single household across the country lived through covid in a different way. Everything in you has just drained, gone. The first person i met, mandy, was a community midwife, when reports showed a new virus emerged. Like everybody in Health Care, we were really struggling, trying to get equipment was absolutely horrendous. Mandy still finds it hard to breathe. Even after our short walk. She spent three weeks in hospital after Catching Covid at work at the height of the pandemic. A bit breathless. Coming back up so it is fine. Thats what happens to me when i havent done anything. I hadnt got the strength to walk into the hospital. So my poor husband had to go and get a wheelchair for me. He had to turn around and walk away. At that point the stats were coming out on how many people were dying of covid. Sorry. Good morning, guys, how are you . We are gathering peoples stories of their experience of the lockdown. Linda lives in constant pain after a serious accident 20 years ago. An operation on her spine was cancelled as covid hit. It is now too late to have the surgery. Your mac i will know how to live my life with the consequences of not having the surgery. The rest of my life is destroyed. The agony is never going to go away now and i will have to live for The Rest Of My Life with the consequences of not having had that one surgery. Nearly five years on, those consequences are still being felt across the country. The inquiry must now decide if different actions, different decisions, should have been taken at the time. Jim reed, Bbc News. So this part, this third part of the Covid Inquiry is going to run until The End of november. Its been described by victims groups as the most important part in their mind, because the first two parts that weve had already dealt with the planning for a pandemic and dealt with the kind of political response at quite a high level. This is the first part that really gets into how patients, how Healthcare Workers, how the relatives of those who lost their lives were dealt with on the ground and the experiences that they went through. As you just heard from the report that we played there. So this week, were going to start to hear from this afternoon. Theyre going to play a film about a 20 Minute Film made up of more of that Witness Testimony from those kind of people. Then were going to start to hear from some of the lawyers representing the different groups involved, whether that is bereaved families or people who represented the Department Of Health and then later on this week, were going to start to hear from direct Witness Testimony from some of those people. Starting tomorrow, with Witness Testimony from some of the Family Members who lost Loved Ones during the pandemic and their experiences of the nhs and healthcare through that time. You can keep all the latest lines on the Covid Inquiry on the Bbc News app. We start this hour in brighton where delegates of Trades Union Congress are gathering for their annual congress as pressure from unions is growing over the governments plan to cut Winter Fuel payments for millions of pensioners in england and wales. Unite and the pcs union have both criticised the plan after the head of the tuc said he had real concerns. The head of the tuc, Paul Novak, is due to address the tuc in the next few minutes, well bring it to you live. Sir Keir Starmer has said the cut is necessary to fix the countrys finances. Speaking to us earlier, the General Secretary of the tuc, Paul Novak, says his members will be looking at the Winter Fuel payment cuts this week, and will very likely ask Chancellor Rachel reeves to rethink her plans. Were going to be debating that issue this week at congress. I think its very likely our unions will ask the chancellor to rethink that decision around Winter Fuel allowance. I think the chancellor, the whole of the government, and indeed everyone down here at the Tuc Congress this week will want to make sure that pensioners arent in a position where they cant put on the heating this winter. So, as i say, well debate that this week. I think its right that the chancellor should rethink those plans and think about the support that she puts in place for pensioners. Home Office MinisterDiana Johnson said there were many issues. I johnson said there were many issues. ~. ,. , . Issues. I know how difficult this is. Home Office Minister dame Diana Johnson told Bbc Breakfast she understood how the vote was a Really Hard Decision for many mps. I think there are various things that we can see in train alongside this really very difficult decision. I understand for many mps this is a Really Hard Decision. I myself have had lots of constituents contact me, so i know how difficult this is. But first lets speak to our political 0ne one of the most incompetent Anti Union and morally bankrupt governments in this country has ever seen. Governments in this country has everseen. It governments in this country has ever seen. It feels good to be back here in 15 years under a Labour Government with a 174 seat majority. Some Tory Mps have the good Sense Or Lack of backbone to do the Chicken Run before the vote cast, the likes of Michael Gove � s capital away from that mess they left behind. 0thers decided to face the voters and while i am not one to rebel in other people � s misfortune, i have to say i enjoyed every single Portaloo Moment in the early hours of july for. It was a Roll Call of political failure. July for. It was a Roll Call of politicalfailure. Gillian keegan gone. Grant shap gone. Grant shapps. Penny mordaunt gone, and the former Prime Minister that couldnt outlast a Lettuce Liz Truss gone and Jacob Rees Mogg gone. Good riddance to every one of them. Their legacy as public services ruined by negligence and austerity, and economy shattered by Shambolic Brexit and unfunded Tax Cuts for the rich and legacy of britain divided by nasty Culture Wires and dodgy pp contracts. It has been a tough 14 years for the people we represent but once we can look back on with some pride. Because despite the attacks, despite the Anti Union legislation, despite the relentless squeeze on wages, defending working and helping labour to rebuild and we should be proud of our achievements. In the last 12 months alone a membership went up by 90,000. Unions win in four workers up and down the country. And on top of all that one standout victory, cast your mind back 12 months, congress in liverpool and then a special congress in december we pledge to fight the tories mount an attack on the right to strike and fight it we did. A year on and those appalling laws are about to be repealed before they have ever been used. Congress, generations of Working People thought for the right to strike and thanks to you and thanks to every union in this room and thanks to the whole of the Trade Union Movement we have protected the fundamental right to strike for future generations of Working People. Applause. Generations of Working People. Applause generations of Working People. Applause. , � , . Applause. Thats the difference in unity and applause. Thats the difference in Unity And Solidarity applause. Thats the difference in Unity And Solidarity makes in Unity And Solidarity makes and that is the Difference Labour in government makes. Let me say upfront we wont always agree with the new government on every issue. But we know Keir Starmer and this government have the interests of Working People at heart and the conservatives never did and never will. Congress, the conservatives never did and neverwill. Congress, no never will. Congress, no government neverwill. Congress, no government can put right 14 years of tory chaos overnight, and in fact no government can take on thejob and in fact no government can take on the job of rebuilding this country on its own so it is vital that labour delivers its mandate for change, a new dealfor Working People its mandate for change, a new deal for Working People to look at info, stronger public services, clamping down on the Tax Cheats and the nondoms and bringing railways back where they belong under public ownership. Politics is not a Spectator Sport and neither is a long and hard job of rebuilding our country. We can just elect a government and sit back and ask them to right every wrong. We need to roll up our sleeves and get involved, so lets Pledge Today that we will work with the new government to rebuild our public services and play our part in recasting britains industrial future and above all we will work with the government to face down those on the right who wish to sow Division And Discord in our communities. And our message to the tinpot politicians and the street thugs and any ragtag group to try to promote their message of hate is clear. Not in our workplaces, not in our communities and not on our watch. � ~ , communities and not on our watch. Last communities and not on ourj watch. Last year communities and not on our. Watch. Last year i watch. Applause. Last year i told ou watch. Applause. Last year i told you about watch. Applause. Last year i told you about my watch. Applause. Last year i told you about my family, watch. Applause. Last year i told you about my family, a l told you about my family, a nurse story, Working Class hard Working People, some born and bred here in the uk and some migrants from ireland and poland and as far away as hong kong, people who came To Britain and built their lives and raise theirfamilies here. They and generations from the West Indies and across the West Indies are now part of us enriching our communities and working alongside us and they are friends and and represent our country far better than the far right ever will. Far right ever will. Applause. I dont believe far right ever will. Applause. I dont believe for far right ever will. Applause. I dont believe for one far right ever will. Applause. L i dont believe for one moment that most of those who voted for reform at the last election a racist but let me say clearly that Nigel Farage is not a friend of the Working Class, he is a Public School Educated Private EnterpriseVladimir Putin apologist fraud. My grandfatherjoe played his part against fascism decades ago and in may i find myself in southern poland and boarded an overnight train to kyiv and visited a Power Station Waste on the ground by russian rockets. I saw City Apartment blocks destroyed by Missiles Strikes and i visited the Childrens Hospital in kyiv met some of those at the sharp and very Human End of war. People like a 14 year old who was wounded by the russian shelling that killed her mother. Six weeks after my visit, Vladimir Putin bombed the same Childrens Hospital and operating theatres were wrecked and kids with cancer traumatised, doctors and nurses hunting through the bubble for their colleagues. So when i see rubble. So when i see Farage Making Apologies for Vladimir Putin at times my stomach. The far right are not patriots, they are frauds. It turns my stomach. We had the proof of that a few weeks ago. In southport we sell a deep and unimaginable horror. Three children who lost their lives in the most terrible of circumstances. 0ne in the most terrible of circumstances. One of our own, are Cwu Member Loss his seven year old daughter. Some decided to use that tragedy as an excuse to attack places of Worship And Loot shops and attack the same Emergency Workers who wished to save lives. Some use that to promote Conspiracy Peas and fake news and some use that to drive clicks to their social media platforms. That was not most of us and was not the best of us and we should never forget the overwhelming majority of Working People in this country are decent and kind and are generous. They are the ones who built a wall outside a mosque and picked up the debris after the riots and gathered not for hate but to show love to the victims. We will always stand with the decent majority and we will always work to bring communities together, that is our ambition and communities together, that is ourambition and our our ambition and our responsibility. Our ambition and our resonsibili. � � , m responsibility. Applause. Our movement responsibility. Applause. Our Movement Rooted responsibility. Applause. Our Movement Rooted in responsibility. Applause. Our. Movement rooted in communities across the country in the Shop Floor and the office and a Work Canteen and Community Centre and high rises and high streets demonstrate by actions as well as words that solidarity is the Living And Breathing spirit of this movement. Solidarity here at home, solidarity in every commUnity And Solidarity across the globe as well, and that includes our calls for peace, return of hostages and an immediate Ceasefire And Respect for international law in gaza and an end to the carnage that is seen innocent people targeted and Trade Union buildings bombed and children starving and a feature built on a two State Solution and a safe and secure israel and its safe and secure israel and its safe and secure israel and its safe and secure and free palestine as well. � � , and secure and free Palestine J as well. Solidarity as well. Applause. Solidarity also means as well. Applause. Solidarity also means standing as well. Applause. Solidarity also means standing up as well. Applause. Solidarity i also means standing up against injustice, something this movement has always done, for the 96 victims of hillsborough make 97, for the lawrence family, further mine