Sir Keir Starmer will say there is light at the end of the tunnel in the form of faster ecOnomic growth and falling nhs Waiting Lists, but hell warn there are no easy answers. Well bring you full coverage of that as it happens 2pm. The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has addressed the cOnference in the last Hour And Lisa nandy, the secretary for culture, Media And Sport is expected to speak in about half an hour. So, dOnt anyOne tell me that was a protest. DOnt anyOne tell me that was about immigratiOn, policing or poverty. Plenty of people have strOng views On immigratiOn, crime, On the nhs and more, but they dOnt pick up breaks and throw them at the police. They dOnt set light to buildings with people inside. It was arsOn, it was racism, it was thuggery, it was a crime. Applause and you know it happened because criminals thought they could get away with it. They saw the cracks in the system, the impunity that built up system, the impunity that built up through the tory years, and when t
a leaflet through the door, a knock on the door from a candidate, but mainly through tv, radio, newspapers, online. people, i think, sometimes forget what media is or what media means. it is obviously the mediate between the public and the politicians and their leaders. and it is, of course, flawed, but without the media, the public wouldn t know what s going on. so yeah, absolutely right. let s do this episode by different types of media. and i m going to now take a step back because i m one of the few non former newspaper editors sat in this room. i really know what kind of media. 0h, simon hasn t edited a newspaper either. and alex, did you edit the student newspaper, maybe, iwould imagine? no, i didn t actually. no, i also am a non newspaper editor. what media are you going to attribute to me? because i want something cool and funky like instagram. i don t want. well, you can do it all. i can do it all. thank you. thank you very much. academic based quiz shows? academic b
the shadow chancellor, rachel reeves, is pledging to invest more than seven billion pounds, to try to unlock further funding from the private sector. meanwhile, the conservatives say labour s policy of banning new licences for oil and gas in the north sea will cost billions in lost tax. labour says its plans to close loopholes in the windfall tax on energy companies, that it says will raise llions. in about an hour, reform uk will release its election manifesto which the party is calling a contract with voters. we ll have more on that in a moment. the liberal democrats are having a day at the beach. while calling for an expansion of fuel duty relief for rural motorists. leader sir ed davey visited a south devon beach taking off his shoes and socks and building sand castles with children and their parents. as we said, nigel farage will launch reform uk s election manifesto in the next hour which the party is calling a contract with voters. reform is promising a freez
Neil gorsuch chair is donald trump Australia Beck for the Supreme Court and he is now as good as confirmed but not before there was plenty of drama and what is being called the Nuclear Option. Republicans needed 60 votes to pass the nomination. They could not get them. So they changed the rules. To needing just 51. Asimple changed the rules. To needing just 51. A simple majority. 52 republicans in the senate so once the rules are changed its a done deal and we expect the vote later in the week. This is the reaction of a senior democrat. The Nuclear Option means the end of a long history of consensus on Supreme Court nominations. It weakens the standing of the senate as a whole. As a check on the president s ability to shape the judiciary. On the president s ability to shape thejudiciary. In a postnatal world if the senate and the presidency are in the hands of the same party there is no incentive to even speak to the senate minority. That is a recipe for more conflict and bad blood bet