has hinted she will award public sector workers above inflation pay increases. it s understood independent pay review bodies have recommended rises of 5.5% for teachers and nhs workers. inflation is currently 2%. she s been speaking on sunday with laura kuenssberg. let s listen in. so, chancellor, have you got used to being called that? well, actually, keir starmer used the word, he said the other day, and this afternoon, the chancellor. , and i thought, 0h, what s he done now? and then.and then i remembered it was me. so i am getting used to it. but, yes, i do have to pinch myself occasionally. last time i was on this programme was eight weeks ago and it was the first weekend of the election campaign, and i think you said to me in that interview, in a few weeks time, you might be chancellor , and that is exactly what i am. and i feel very proud and privileged to be in this position, especially as the first female chancellor of the exchequer that this country has ever ha
let s check what is making the news. there is no one dominant story this morning. as we are, the telegraph is leading on the likelihood of pay rises for public sector workers. the sunday times reminds rachel reeves of the pressure on her to lift the bar on families with more than two kids claiming some benefits. and strictly makes some of the front pages as well, amidst claims about bullying on the show. let s talk about rachel reeves as we are going to for most of today. stephanie, you study the economy probably more intently than anyone else in the country, how grim is the picture for her, do you think? fin picture for her, do you think? on one level. picture for her, do you think? q i one level, the short term picture is brighter than it has been for a while. you have information that has been coming down to target and is looking fairly under a controller may fall even further and you have growth picking up. so the very short term view is we are out of the woods but the
anthonyjoshua was there and jessica ennis and all these amazing athletes who work so hard. and i think at the time, women s football was still at a point in 2012 were people did not really care. it was not sort of the sport it is now where is attracting broadcasters and brands and players are playing at the highest level. we were really at the cusp of change for the game and the olympics was to see change. and a watershed moment for women positive about because it opened up the olympics. i really proud to have been part of that time when it shifted the olympics and hopefully the same for the women s football and women both men football in the tokyo olympics as well. what in the tokyo olympics as well. what did ou in the tokyo olympics as well. what did you make in the tokyo olympics as well. what did you make of in the tokyo olympics as well. what did you make of the in the tokyo olympics as well. what did you make of the racist abuse of england s black players it after
week was 0.4% cases. as the cases climb and the holidays collide with covid exha exhaustion. we are in a war now between the delta variant and omicron variant as to who will become king of the hill. how quickly is the virus doubling in terms of its proportion? with delta, it was doubling every couple weeks, this seems to be doubling every few days. it s pretty clearly more transmissible. there is a lot of moving parts to this very, very fast-moving epidemic here in the united states, and i think we have to take it very seriously. we re going to try to curtail the spread of omicron very seriously, and at the same time, we re trying to educate people that we re going to have to live with covid. there maybe other variants down the road and we ll have to adjust what we re doing along the way. we begin with our brand new cnn poll. the numbers are bleak, beyond bleak for the president and for his party as we now count the days to the midterm election year and the midterm
at least one match will be played behind closed doors after ticketless fans stormed the turnstiles at last summer s euros final. keeping history alive we meet the man who s re created a 100 metre stretch of first world war trenches. it isa it is a fairly cloudy and murky day ahead with many of us seeing some rain, but it will be unseasonably mild and where we see the sunshine in the south east later, it could hit 21 degrees. i will have the details coming up. it s tuesday the 19th of october. the prime minister has said the government s plan to phase out gas boilers will not be enforced with green shirts armed with sandals and carrots. he wrote the comments in a newspaper article promoting the sale the end of sale of new gas boilers. ministers have announced cash incentives to encourage the switch to greener forms of home heating. £450 million will be spent on the boiler upgrade scheme, which will run for three years. but critics say the scheme is unambitious as the gra