And very, very lucky to be in thejob. This week, this rebellion about benefits must have felt painfully familiar to you. You were political adviser to Harriet Harman when she was the Welfare Secretary Way back in 1997, just after labour had won a landslide. I remember it like it was yesterday. Tony blair and Gordon Brown outraged many of their own natural supporters by cutting lone parent benefit. And you were at the centre of it. Does it feel familiar . It does. But it also, you know, i know what harriet achieved. My god, she was a powerful champion for change. And if i look at our time in government, we had the first ever national childcare strategy. We had the new dealfor lone parents to help them get into work, family friendly working for the first time, Maternity And Paternity pay and leave. So i know how tough it was at the beginning. But i also know at the end of our time in office, the Big Changes we put in place, which really was a powerful feminist agenda. Is that the lesson
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from william caxton who brought printing to england in the 15th century are found by chance, inside another book. and international ballroom champion shirley ballas has been named as the new head judge on strictly come dancing. she ll replace len goodman. good afternoon. the prime minister says britain s energy market isn t working and has vowed to end what she described as rip off bills. theresa may has confirmed that the conservative party manifesto will propose a cap on energy prices for anyone on a standard variable tarriff. the party says this would benefit 17 million households. our political correspondent chris mason reports. cook our lunch, making a brew, heating our home we have all got to do it, but it s not cheap and the conservatives say too many are being ripped off. the key thing is that people are clearly paying too much for their energy bills today. too many ordinary working families, too many vulnerable people, find themselves on tariffs that are above that
children he murdered. and why does this tiny island in the south pacific have more plastic rubbish washing up on its shore, than anywhere else in the world? it s 5 o clock. our main story: the labour leader jeremy corbyn has officially launched the party s general election manifesto, describing it as a blueprint for what britain could be . he chose bradford for the event saying it was a radical and radical and responsible plan for government. ben brown has been at the launch event and is in bradford for us now. i m ben brown live in bradford where the labour leader jeremy corbyn has officially launched the pa rty‘s general election manifesto, some of the details of which were leaked last week. we now know that it includes proposals to renationalise the water companies as well as the railways and the royal mail. there would be more free childcare for two year olds and some one year olds. and university tuition fees in england would be scrapped. 0n taxation, it proposes
of frost around, mild in the west, cloud and outbreaks of rain and hail fog around. quite a contrast is friday begins, the cloud and drizzly rain will win out. on friday things look very different, with plenty of cloud around, but it will feel very similar because it will still be mild. more unsettled at the weekend, we will bring these weather fronts across the uk but there are gaps in between and if you find yourself in a gap it will be drier and brighter for a time. the weekend starts mild but we will change the direction of bit. from the west of the uk, it will bring temperatures down by a couple of degrees by sunday. not by much. occasional sunshine, degrees by sunday. not by much. occasionalsunshine, occasional rain, feeling cooler by sunday. the top stories: the philip hammond has increased national insurance for self employed people in his first budget, leading to accusations he has broken a manifesto pledge not to raise taxes. the budget also included an extra £2 bi