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
ask her about is the government s new small boats policy, and that s something you re going to be talking about on friday because you re going to head off to paris to see president macron. yes, there is an anglo french summit at the elysee palace, the home of the french president, hosted by emmanuel macron. the prime minister is going on friday morning and a whole load of ministers are going as well. there will be more than a dozen ministers if you add up the ministers on each side, gathering for a one day get together. it ll be about half an hour chat, i would have thought, bilateral, as they are known diplomatically, between the two leaders. lots on the agenda. ukraine, obviously, central. there s a sense that with the northern ireland brexit deal that the relationship is a bit better than it might otherwise have been. quite a lot in personal terms of similarity between the two leaders. both former finance ministers, both former investment bankers. current nerves. ner
embassies within two months. a gunman opens fire at a jehovah s witness hall in the german city of hamburg. police say at least 7 people have been killed, including an unborn baby. hello. it s adam in the studio. and chris in the studio. and in a few minutes time we are going to bejoined around this very set of microphones by the education secretary, gillian keegan. she s quite an interesting character even when she s not being the education secretary, so it ll be interesting to see what she has to say about a whole load of things. one of the things we ll ask her about is the government s new small boats policy, and that s something you re going to be talking about on friday because you re going to head off to paris to see president macron. yes, there is an anglo french summit at the elysee palace, the home of the french president, hosted by emmanuel macron. the prime minister is going on friday morning and a whole load of ministers are going as well. there will be more than
and triangle of sadness s dolly dillion. this is really, really bad. lizo mzimba, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here s ben rich. some wintry scenes in the north of england, there was some disruption at manchester airport, some of the travel problems too but over the next few days the snow will ease and gradually, it will be a gradual process, things are set to turn milder. we had this stream of snow showers affecting northern ireland, south west scotland, north west england, wales, parts of the midlands, this morning and now we have this area of sleet and snow that s pushing southwards across scotland, some of that getting into north east england as we go through the afternoon but the broad theme is for the wintry showers to become fewer and further between. many others seeing crisp blue skies and sunshine overhead. temperatures 3 7, for most not quite as windy as yesterday but it does stay blustery through northern scotland and parts of north east england where w
Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled his 80-page plan to secure the future of our nation and society , which the Tories hope will help to turn around his party s fortunes.