welcome to the programme. a smaller workforce represents a serious economic challenge. it makes it harder for employers to filljobs. it adds to wage pressures that drive inflation. it holds back growth. it reduces the tax revenues available to fund public services. there is an imperative in helping people back to work. the trouble is many parents in this country can t afford to because many would see their take home pay wiped out by the £15,000 average annual cost of full time childcare for a two year old. right now, uk childcare costs are double the 0ecd average. the only two countries where parents spend a higher percentage on childcare are switzerland and new zealand. when i had my daughter, who s five, i had to quit myjob because we couldn t afford childcare. i look forward to going back to nursing. my plan is to go back to nursing. if there d been more options and if childcare had been either cheaper or there was more flexibility, that would ve definitely been something
to fall back on. in sport, how england were left humiliated against argentina at twickenham, a year out from the world cup. good morning. very cloudy day ahead with their showers or rain. the heaviest will be in the wet gusty wind but if anything it will strengthen over night. it s monday the 7th of november. our main story. the prime minister will urge world leaders to join what he is calling a global mission for clean growth at the cop27 climate change summit in egypt later today. rishi sunak will also call on nations to honour the pledges they made at last year s event in glasgow. here s our climate editorjustin rowlatt. you don t have to go far from the coast in egypt to find vivid evidence of what s at stake. the red sea is home to some of the most magnificent and biodiverse coral reefs in the world. but coral is incredibly vulnerable to climate change. scientists say virtually all the world s coral reefs could be gone by the end of the century, possibly sooner now. th
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A shutdown avoided at least for now, but what is the future for House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy . And what of the spending for ukraine . Money promised by the white house was stripped from the bill this weekend, just hours before a pro russia candidate in slovakia, regained power. Good evening, jeremy hunt is the seventh chancellor in 13 years to addess a conservative Party Conference. Today he stood on stage next to a slogan promising long term decisions for the future. Not the easiest sell when your partys trailing 16 points in the polls, and the government is about to cancel a key part of a flagship infrastructure project, in which you have already invested billions of pounds of taxpayers money. A decision the current Prime Minister signed off as chancellorjust three years ago. We are also going to build better railways, madam deputy speaker. With spades going into the ground on hs2, our commitment to fund Manchester Leeds leg of Northern Powerhouse rail, we are going to build broadban