any strike by teachers, a huge knock on effect. most state school teachers in england had a 5% rise in 2022, and a 3% rise was recommended from this year. but the unions want above inflation increases, and to ensure pay rises don t come out of schools budgets. they argue they are playing catch up on pay over the last more than a decade. the government says it s a fair and reasonable offer and that schools would receive an extra £2.3 billion over the next two years. are you a pupil or parent off school and work today? how are the strikes affecting you? do you agree with what the teachers are doing? teachers please get in touch, too tell me why this matters. this morning are teachers right to strike? a pay deal for hundreds of thousands of nhs staff in england is expected to be settled later. ministers will meet health bosses and representatives from m unions this lunchtime. but some workers including nurses are still opposed to the offer, which includes a 5% rise
it s not rwanda in 2018, and there may well be some sunshine it s rwanda in 2023 and onwards, and that s quite different. in northern ireland, but the cloud will build up, bringing more showers but the problem, through the day, particularly across northern england. for the south, as i said, rwanda. wales and the midlands, a dull day, rwanda is not a free country. misty over the hills in the what happened in 2018 can south west, light rain or drizzle, happen also in 2023, because as of today. temperatures not changing very much. it is going to be a chilly week i can tell example. we are politicians, ahead, early frost before the cloud we are in opposition. increases, that will lift the temperatures by the end of the week for example, we cannot express our mind without we are labelled just a little bit, but bringing the enemies of the country. chance of some rain. huw. 16 members of my political party thanks, darren. and that s bbc news at ten are in prison today, on monday 24t
we ll also look at the crisis in sri lanka. the president has confirmed he will step down after protesters stormed his palace. and we ll look at twitter s share price, which has fallen welcome to college green in front of parliament, where the process of selecting a new leader of the conservative party and new prime minister is under way. if i m occasionally glancing this way and that, sir graham brady, the committee chair, will be speaking in the next few minutes. he will outline the rules of the tory party leadership contest. bear in mind since thursday, effectively that contest began. we still don t know precisely how that will work. what we do know is what the stages of the contest will be. first, each candidate will need to find a number of conservative mps to back them. in previous contests, it was eight. this time, it could be as high as 20. then the 358 conservative mps will vote for their favourite candidates in a series of elimination rounds. let s speak to our poli
prime minister after the brexit referendum. other notable changes include a new health secretary, victoria atkins, and a new party chairman, richard holden, who takes overfrom greg hands. earlier richard holden had this to say. i think there s two points he was making there. one, you can see with people like me from the north of england being promoted, people like laura trott from the south of england being promoted as well. you re seeing a broad coalition of people, that broad church of the conservative party, being refreshed. but i think there are some things, this is one of the points the prime minister made in that speech in manchester, was that there are some things the conservative party has done very well over the last 13 years, which is delivered real transformation for life chances for people. and one of those, which i know was a major driver of david cameron s time in government, was around education. we saw two thirds of kids attending good or outstanding schools i