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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 som ....
very long 2a hours. james cleverly who i mentioned just then replaced. i mentioned david cameron. james cleverly replaced her as home secretary and you can see a picture ofjames her as home secretary and you can see a picture of james cleverly now. and i am being told, i keep hearing david cameron in my year. but i can t see david cameron in the street so i m just going to focus on reminding you all of this reshuffle. let me start from the top to keep it simple. suella braverman was sacked yesterday, she was replaced byjames cleverly who is now the home secretary, we saw him coming up the street a few moments ago, james cleverly was foreign secretary, he s now been replaced by former british prime minister david cameron who isn t here yet despite what people were telling me. in the health brief was steve barclay but he s no longer in health, he s been moved to environment secretary replacing coffey. the new health secretary is victoria atkins, another key move, importan ....
prime minister after the brexit referendum. other notable changes include a new health secretary, victoria atkins, and a new party chairman, richard holden, who takes overfrom greg hands. earlier richard holden had this to say. i think there s two points he was making there. one, you can see with people like me from the north of england being promoted, people like laura trott from the south of england being promoted as well. you re seeing a broad coalition of people, that broad church of the conservative party, being refreshed. but i think there are some things, this is one of the points the prime minister made in that speech in manchester, was that there are some things the conservative party has done very well over the last 13 years, which is delivered real transformation for life chances for people. and one of those, which i know was a major driver of david cameron s time in government, was around education. we saw two thirds of kids attending good or outstanding sch ....
The big winners at the Golden Globe Awards. Meryl streep lays into us President Elect donald trump. So hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out, youll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts. Cheering. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11. Throughout the programme well bring you the latest Breaking News and developing stories and as always keen to hear from you. On Mental Health, on drug fix rooms do get in touch on all the stories use the hashtag victoria live our top story today. Theresa may is going to set out plans which she says will transform Mental Health services in england. In herfirst major speech on he ....