Afternoon. This is the latest from the newsroom. Angela rayner is the new shadow deputy Prime Minister and levelling up secretary. She replaces lisa nandy, whos becomes shadow cabinet minister for international development. International development. Shabana mahmood takes the role of shadow secretary for justice liz kendall takes work and pensions and steve reed takes environment, food and rural affairs. It comes as the keir starmer reshuffles his top team, which began earlier afterjim which began earlier after jim mcmahon said he would step down from his post as shadow environment secretary. An independent review says former cabinet minister sir Gavin Williamson should apologise to mps for bullying the former chief whip. He sent offensive chief whip. He sent offensive Text Messages to wendy morton after he wasnt invited to the late queens funeral. The panel late queens funeral. The panel says sir gavin should also take part in appropriate behaviour training. The Prime Minister training. The Prime Minister says its completely and utterly wrong to suggest that he is to blame for failing to fully fund a programme to rebuild englands schools when he was chancellor. It comes as ministers are under pressure to explain how theyll keep schools safe from crumbling, crumbling concrete as children return to school over 100 schools have already had to close or partially close. Mr close or partially close. Mr sunak says the government has addressed the issue at the right time. Time. Of course i know the timing is frustrating but i want to give people a sense of the scale of what were grappling with here. There are around 22,000 schools in england and the important thing to know is we expect that 95 of those schools wont be impacted by this. Around 50 schools have already been mitigated. Another 100 are in the process of being so and our expectation is, is in a matter of weeks, the bulk of the remaining schools that will have this issue will be identified as well. Well. But shadow leader of the house of commons, Thangam Debbonaire, says the problems long in the making by the conservatives. Conservatives. If they want to pretend that they didnt think it was a good idea that they thought it was a good to school good idea to cut School Maintenance, them. Maintenance, thats on them. School rebuilding, school refurbishing school refurbishing and School Maintenance are absolutely critical. Experts are critical. Building experts are there advise government. The there to advise government. The government the resources of government has the resources of the service and Building Government has the resources of the to ervice and Building Government has the resources of the to calle and Building Government has the resources of the to call on. 1d Building Government has the resources of the to call on. Theyilding government has the resources of the to call on. They were experts to call on. They were warned in practical, real terms when a beam when a part of a school roof collapsed in 2018, in kent , theyve been warned by in kent, theyve been warned by successive government reports the office has the National Audit office has reported even this summer they could come clean even this could have come clean even this summer. A 21 year old man has been jailed for life for the murder and Sexual Assault of his sister. Connor gibson attacked and killed amber gibson in a South Lanarkshire woodland in 2021. In a statement , lanarkshire woodland in 2021. In a statement, ambas former foster family described her as the most giving, loving , the most giving, loving, supportive and admirable person. In other news, drivers were hit by one of the biggest monthly fuel price rises in more than two decades. Last month, thats according to the rac, which says the £0. 07 per litre spike was the fifth largest monthly increase in 23 years. Rising pump prices are being dnven rising pump prices are being driven by an increase in the cost of oil to. Teachers say more children are likely to arrive at school this term with unclean clothes and unbrushed teeth. Nearly 3 in 4 school teeth. Nearly 3 in 4 school staff say theres been an increase in whats been called hygiene poverty. See a poll of hygiene poverty. See a poll of 500 school staff in the uk also found that dirty uniforms and pe kits were the most cited indicators. Ukraines president indicators. Ukraines president Vladimir Zelenskyy has replaced his defence minister. Its the biggest shake up of ukraines defence since russias invasion last february. In his nightly last february. In his nightly video address, zelenskyy said the head of the countrys Privatisation Fund would be replacing alexei reznov. The move comes amid a crackdown on corruption in ukraine that zelenskyy has been eager to emphasise to allies at home and abroad. Ryanair says 63,000 abroad. Ryanair says 63,000 passengers have been impacted by air Traffic Control failures. Air Traffic Control failures. More than a quarter of all flights to and from uk airports were cancelled last week after an issue with processor flight plans automatically. The plans automatically. The National Air Traffic services has said an unusual piece of data it received forced it to switch to manual checks. Ryanair says more than 350 of its flights were cancelled due to the glitch on the 28th and the 29th of august. This is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car, on Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker by saying play your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news. Now its back to mark and. Pip mark and. Pip tatiana thank you and welcome back to the live desk. Now the Prime Minister asserting that it is complete and utterly wrong, as he said , to blame him for the as he said, to blame him for the schools concrete crisis. But a former top Civil Servant at the department of education had accused him of slashing the repair budget to fund the rebuild of just 50 schools. When he was chancellor, when data had showed up to 400 needed repairs with a critical risk to life. Earlier , the education earlier, the education secretary, Gillian Keegan , secretary, Gillian Keegan, admitted there could be hundreds more schools affected by the ruck crisis, as labour reiterated its call for the government to come clean on the scale of it all. Lets hear more now of what the Prime Minister had to say earlier on the issue. Earlier on the issue. Are you to blame for whats happening now and do you want to apologise pupils . Happening now and do you want to apoi gise pupils . Happening now and do you want to apoi think pupils . Happening now and do you want to apoi think that pupils . Happening now and do you want to apoi think that is pupils . Happening now and do you want to apoi think that is completely ls . I think that is completely and wrong. Actually, one and utterly wrong. Actually, one of things as of the first things i did as chancellor first spending chancellor in my first Spending Review to announce a review in 2020 was to announce a new Ten Year School reBuilding Programme for 500 schools. Now that equates to about 50 schools a year that will be refurbished or rebuilt. And if you look at what weve been doing over the previous decade, thats completely in line with what weve or weve always done, about 50 or so refurb ished so schools a year, refurb ished or. Or rebuilt. Lets go live to essex now and speak to gb News National reporter Theo Chikomba, who is outside one of the schools affected. Theo rishi sunak says affected. Theo rishi sunak says he is not to blame, but how affected is that school . Has it affected is that school . Has it had to shut completely . Whats the situation there . Yes the situation there . Yes well, a very good afternoon to you from honeywood school in essex 22 rooms are out of action now as the report came to them last week, thursday, where there were notified following a survey. And this is affecting majority of the main parts of the school so they arent able to go ahead as planned as they would have normally done at the beginning of term schools due to start here in about two days or so with year seven seconds here in about two days or so with year meant seconds here in about two days or so with year meant to onds here in about two days or so with year meant to return returning meant to return tomorrow. But they are trying to make alternative plans today. Those used as a day for teacher training day. Weve been weve been speaking to the headteacher about when they first heard about when they first heard about this last week and what theyve been doing in the last few days, working with governors and other external people and those within the school to ensure that this situation is sorted. And we did get a look inside the school and saw that area affecting majority of it. So they cant go ahead as planned, but they are looking to put in temporary measures so that students can at least get some form of education rather than going back to what we saw dunng than going back to what we saw during covid 19 with Students Learning online. But we did speak to him earlier, and this is a little bit of what he had to say. To say. We knew which rooms had different varying levels of rac just prior to the summer. Thats when we received our report. When we received our report. That report outlined what rooms were critical, high, medium and low risk. We had no rooms rated advice was to do not do anything other than wait for dfe to come in and do a more Detailed Survey and then help develop an action plan to sort that out in the future. That then changed just future. That then changed just pnor future. That then changed just prior to us coming back. Any room that had had rac identified had to be out of action. Now rooms , they look fine, they look rooms, they look fine, they look normal. Theyve are a lot of them have been decorated over them have been decorated over the summer ready for the start of term and now theyre sitting empty. Really see any empty. You cant really see any obvious signs unless you really delve find where the rac is delve to find where the rac is above the above the Ceiling Tiles. Theo , we can see tiles. Well, theo, we can see from that School Corridor , you from that School Corridor, you know, it does look pretty and span and everything in order. So what will they have to do now . Are they going to put supports the existing supports in with the existing structure do they to get structure or do they have to get portacabins other measures portacabins and other measures for accommodation in . For temporary accommodation in . Well, i havent spoken to them today. They were looking at getting things like portacabin temporary buildings because they do just have a field to my left over there, which they can use for now. But of course theyre asking members of the community, perhaps businesses who are able to assist them so that they can move swiftly over the next few days. But he did seem pretty relaxed. Hes obviously been mulling over this with colleagues over the last few days, but they are working behind the scenes to ensure that education can continue new as normal. We understand surveys are also being carried out across england at other schools in Northern Ireland and in wales as well. So the scale of this as well. So the scale of this problem is yet to be identified, but what a time it has come. But what a time it has come. Just as parents were preparing to go back to work and as students, of course are preparing to go back to school as well. And for James Saunders, as well. And forJames Saunders, as and for James Saunders, as many other heads still this confusion as to who pays for all this work and from what budget, the treasury still saying that all repairs will have to come from the existing Capital Budget. Therell be no increase in that. In that. Thats right. So i did ask him that actually, and he seems fairly confident he has spoken to a caseworker from the department for education and he said hes been reassured that this will go to plan in terms of how much it will cost. He doesnt know the exact figure at the moment for this particular school, but you can imagine with lots of schools in this situation, could be a bill. Situation, it could be a bill. Well, the flagpole is still upright and the flag flying anyway moment. Theo, anyway for the moment. Theo, thank updating us there thank you for updating us there in essex. Thanks very much indeed in essex. Thanks very much ind� lets get some more reaction lets get some more reaction by talking to andy barr , who is by talking to andy barr, who is the ceo of pr agency ten yetis. Good afternoon to you, andy. Good afternoon to you, andy. Good to see you on gb news as this is a pr disaster for the government, isnt it . And what i actually want to start by talking about is this bizarre video that Gillian Keegan put out at a talking about what was going to happen, a bit of a q and a, it looked like some sort of ridiculous commercial video. I mean , have you seen it . What i mean, have you seen it . What is your take on it and how the government is handling it . By putting out this sort of video . I think we can see it. I good afternoon. I think its been its been a car crash from from start to end. If you if you look at this, when the story broke on thursday , you story broke on thursday, you know, it felt very rushed out like no one really knew what the plan was. It looked like a bit of a disaster. And i think now were kind of looking at this and thinking someone to and thinking someone needs to get story. Someone get ahead of this story. Someone needs it. Needs to get control of it. Theyve obviously had to bring rishi into it this morning. And rishi into it this morning. And crikey, a real mess. Crikey, its a real mess. Okay, lets just can we see this video . Because i think its important that viewers have and listeners hear and see this. Lets have a quick listen. Lets just have a quick listen. Rac stands for reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, and its a lightweight form of concrete that was used in Building Construction from the 19505 Building Construction from the 1950s until the mid 1990s. Problems with the strength and durability of the material mean that some buildings may pose a threat to safety. Threat to safety. Andy, what the heck is all that about . That about . Its a real mess, isnt it . I mean, where do you start with that, really . You know, as a parent, im a parent myself. I dont want a politician telling me their view and opinion on it. I want actual experts telling me whats going on, what the plan is and whats going to happen. We dont need soft music and an explainer video from an mp. Its already been escalated over the weekend to jeremy hunt and then today to rishi. So you can see there is a crisis comms plan in place, but clearly not place, but its clearly not working. And when you when you working. And when you when you look at it and there are parents that are going to be seeing that who are trying to juggle child care, theyre not necessarily going to be able to get their kids back in school because theyre going to have online. Mean, tone of it i mean, its the tone of it thatis i mean, its the tone of it that is completely weird. The tone of this whole story has has been terrible. If has been has been terrible. If you think about it, the very start, i started to think that maybe another media had maybe another media outlet had got of the story and it had got hold of the story and it had forced government rush forced the government to rush this out. On thursday this news thing out. On thursday because has been because the tone has been incorrect the start. They incorrect from the start. They should list out should have put the list out from start and then from the very start and then started backfill started to backfill the information. My theory is that some of the headteachers didnt even know at the point where the story put out on thursday. Story was put out on thursday. And thats why theyre now hastily trying to get a plan together that just isnt working i and looking at the way these things are handled , we things are handled, we understand she will have to answer questions this afternoon in parliament as parliament resumes. One wonders whether perhaps she should have kept her powder dry that occasion. Powder dry for that occasion. Well, i think she could have done without putting that video out. I think thats going to face lot of ridicule and a lot face a lot of ridicule and a lot of mps. You know, weve all of mps. You know, we weve all seen raucous moves in in seen those raucous moves in in parliament they each parliament where they mock each other. Will other. And i think people will shout quotes at her from that actual video in it. Think its actual video in it. I think its about getting the list out. Its about getting the list out. Its about parents more about giving parents a bit more assurance. Allowing parents assurance. Its allowing parents to know, well, actually, are we going to to more on going to have to spend more on childcare are we going to childcare or are we going to have back grandparents have to go back to grandparents to help us look to get them to help us look after again . Been