We now come to Prime Ministers questions and im first of all going full on board with rape man chester. Prime minister. Mister speaker, today on Holocaust Memorial day i know that the whole house will want to join me in solemnly remembering the 6 million jewish men, women and children murdered during the holocaust and all other victims of nazi persecution. Last week i had the privilege of hearing from holocaust survivor renee salt, one of the last living british serviceman who limited liberated camp at bergenbelsen. Their courage to share their testimonies will inspire us to never forget the holocaust and to fight against all forms of hatred and prejudice wherever they are found in speaker this morning i had meetings with minister and colleagues and others my duty, i shall further such meetings later today. We will now have a virtual member of the opposition. Thank you mister speaker. Id like to associate myself with all the Prime Minister said. Id like to commend the Prime Minister fo
The energy supplier, npower, is to cut to up to a500 jobs in the uk, as part of restructuring plans to make it more profitable. Three call centres, in sunderland, hull and worcester could be closed. Our economics correspondent, andy verity has more details. Sunderland, where workers used to be told that manufacturing was the past and call centres were the future. Not any more. A few miles away, near the town of houghton le spring, 2500 Call Centre Workers were among those told by npower today theirjobs were going. Disappointment, but its a shame, theres nothing else we can do. Ill take it one step at a time. Im still going to do myjob, still going to do the best i can, and take it from there. Its a heavy blow for an area already reeling from bad economic news. The future does look bleak, to be honest. Youve got tata, youve got british gas. For 2000 people to lose theirjob, what else is going to replace thatjob . Where are they going to go . Its just another nail in the coffin in this a
Hello, its 10 oclock, im victoria derbyshire. A week and a half to go until the general election and we ve come to North Berwick in east lothian on the firth of forth to talk to voters and ask if what happened in London Bridge on friday is going to influence the way they vote. Meanwhile, in an hours time the Prime Minister will be attending a vigilfor the victims of the London Bridge stabbings jack merritt and saskia jones have been named as the two People Killed by convicted terrorist usman khan. Saskia jones tutor from Cambridge University has paid tribute to her we cold her saskia 100 . The last timei we cold her saskia 100 . The last time i had communication with her was a week ago, i said you are still 100 . She wrote back and said yes, i just read your comments, yours and olivia s comments and they brought a tear to my eye. The political row over whos to blame for the release of the attacker continues weve got to get it right and we have to ask why Early Release was deployed and
Out for this. He was let out a year ago and was tagged. Who made the decision to release him . And on what judgement today make that decision . You have to ask if he underwent a rehabilitation or de radicalization programme, and if so how was this being monitored . These are serious questions and somebody somewhere is going to have to have responsibility for this. I hate to say, this is the middle of election and that could quite difficult. I think the times coverage is the best i totally agree with jason. Its that he was released from prison about a year ago after agreeing to wear an electronic tag. Use to enforce cu rfews and restrict electronic tag. Use to enforce curfews and restrict his movements. There are obviously still keeping an eye on him but this question about how much rehabilitation he had and i agree with jason and saying theres Big Questions as to the wisdom of letting this gentleman free. The latest details we had this evening as you both mentioned, we believe that he
Move away very quickly. Elsewhere, good spells of sunshine and perhaps those showers again pestering the north of scotland and coming into parts of Eastern England as well at times. Still a keen windows well across the south, so it will feel colder than the seven or eight suggests, with quite a raw feel. Sunday night into monday morning, i cold night on the cards again, with temperatures well below freezing and further south. Notice it is not as intense, the frost, as further north. That is because we are just starting to tip that High Pressure little bit further south, and allow the atlantic influence, the atlantic westerly wind the atlantic influence, the atlantic westerly wi nd into the atlantic influence, the atlantic westerly wind into the north. Still cold on monday morning and they could be a few wintry showers in Eastern England, but later temperatures will lift a little bit for the western and Northern Isles and the north west of scotland, would that atlantic influence. Once a