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he has pledged to improve pupil s speaking skills and said he wants half a million more children to reach their early learning targets by 2030. the speech on labour s education policy was interrupted by green protestors. our political editor chris mason reports. the smiles are big, the dreams are bigger at this primary school in rochester in kent. how does society match boundless aspiration with providing the opportunities to ensure they come true? what would you like to be when you grow up? i would like to be a rugby player. i would like to be a graphic designer and make movies. tell me what you would like to be when you grow up. a scientist. what do you like playing with the car? it s not playing, it s working. good point! in gillingham, keir starmer said he wanted to tear down barriers to home. down barriers to hope. more children must reach early learning targets, he said, snobbery must go. alongside his albeit broad vision for the economy, the health service, energy an
now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. a conversation with, rather than a news like interrogation of someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped the layers. my guest this week made the cover of time magazine when they profiled the first muslim leader of a western democracy. he is at the headline put it, the new face of scotland. the youngest leader this country has had in course of a century of having a devolved scottish government. but this, admits humza yousaf, here in glasgow, has been a difficult year for him. difficult for his party, too, don t buy a police investigation, criticised for failing to deliver, and divided about when independence might actually be possible. humza yousaf, first minister, thanks forjoining me. my pleasure. it has been quite a year! you re telling me! how much do you feel you have aged in that time? i think people can probably look at pictures of before i became first
now, tax experts tell us there are grounds to investigate companies connected with mr barrowman for fraud. | doug loves fine art, fast cars, i and the better things in life. there s no consequences for him. he s just going to keep doing it again and again. so will doug barrowman now face more scrutiny by hmrc? also tonight. nurses, teachers, civil servants, train drivers, midwives, all in their tens of thousands, strike in northern ireland where, without government at stormont, pay is falling behind the rest of the uk. we ll ask the dup s gregory campbell mp why, with the midnight deal for a powersharing agreement looming tonight, his party is still dead against? and to sinn fein sjohn o dowd is the good friday agreement now under threat? beijing calls taiwan s new president, william lai, a trouble maker and a dangerous separatist . his new de facto ambassador to the uk gives newsnight his first interview. we are working to make sure that china believes the cost is going