hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are james moore who is the chief business commentator at the independent and annabel denham, who is the director of communications at the iea. tomorrow s front pages, starting with, the climate change summit, cop 26, dominates most of the morning s front pages. pledges to halt the deforestation of the planet and slash methane emissions is the lead in the metro. the ft s take on the story is summed up in its headline: banks underfire for diluting green pledges since paris climate accord . the independent warns that unless action is taken europe faces heatwaves of 50 degrees celsius every year. the guardian reports that the devastating fires of 2021 have been shown to be the direct result of global heating. the yorkshire post, featuring a picture of borisjohnson at the podium in glasgow, says he is now cautiously optimistic about the outcome of the summit, in contrast to his down
as several commuters are shot on a train during the morning rush hour. tonight with the context, from london, anand menon, director of the thinktank uk in a changing europe and democratic strategist mary anne marsh is in cape cod.. prime minister borisjohnson and the chancellor rishi sunak have been fined for breaking lockdown laws. the metropolitan police have confirmed that prime minister borisjohnson was fined for his participation in a gathering gfx in the cabinet room on his birthday which was onjune i9 2020. it s been reported about 30 people attended the party, organised as a surprise by carriejohnson who has also been fined. at that time gatherings of more than two people inside were banned by law. an exception was allowed if the gathering was reasonably necessary for work purposes. (biv)the fines suggest the police didn t think this event was such an exception. despite becoming the first prime minister to be fined for breaking the law, borisjohnson says he intend
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take the time you need to build trust. that, any peace negotiator will tell you, is the way to find a solution. this week on political thinking, my guest, the health secretary for england, victoria atkins, suggests it could be the way to find peace in the nhs, to end the strikes that have dogged the health service for more than a year. it s been a big week for her, when talks are starting once again with thejunior doctors and after a new report highlighted the horrorfor some mothers and soon to be mothers of nhs maternity services, something she has some rather powerful experience of. victoria atkins, welcome to political thinking. thank you so much, pleasure to be here. you ve said when talking about women s health, you ve said when talking about this searing indictment that we saw this week of maternity and childbirth services, this is personalfor you. why so? well, i m a mum as well as the secretary of state for health. and i had my baby on the nhs, and i have a long histo