Negotiations with the eu. Well be getting reaction to the Prime Ministers speech from the former Northern Ireland secretary and brexit campaigner, theresa villiers. The other main stories on bbc news an 18 year old man is charged with attempted murder after the bomb attack on a London Underground train last week. The taxi app uber is to lose its licence to operate in london putting thousands of drivers jobs at risk. Donald trump and kim jong un trade insults while the north Korean Leader threatens to detonate a Hydrogen Bomb over the pacific. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Theresa may has set out her proposals for a transition of around two years after the uk leaves the European Union in march 2019. In a speech in florence, she offered to go on paying a fair share into the eu budget, with continued access to the Single Market during that period. My colleague christian fraiser watched the speech in florence the Prime Minister theresa may has been setting out her brexit vision whi
Iam in i am in florida iam in florida in i am in florida in the United States, the power of Hurricane Irma has had devastating consequences. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. The government says it is considering ways of making buying and selling houses faster, cheaper and selling houses faster, cheaper and less stressful. It is launching and less stressful. It is launching a consultation in england and wales which will look at whether its possible to reduce moving costs and end practices like gazumping. Community secretary sergey javad says the government has planned a massive House Building programme. Our business correspondentjoe lynam reports. Moving home is often compared to getting divorced in terms of stress and worry. Picking your new home is the easy part of the process, before venders, surveyors, solicitors, banks, agents and removal vans get involved. Currently, it can take three months on average to move home. Getting the mortgage offer from your bank alone takes around
And welcome to bbc news. A senior cabinet minister has said the government should consider borrowing money to invest in hundreds of thousands of new homes. The secretary of state for communities and local government, sajid javid, said ministers should take advantage of record low Interest Rates to deal with the housing crisis. Speaking on the andrew marr show, mrjavid said he was sure the forthcoming budget would have announcements that would cover housing. What i want to do is make sure we are using everything we have available to deal with the housing crisis, and where that means, for example, that we can sensibly borrow more to invest in infrastructure leading to more housing, take advantage of record low Interest Rates that we have, i think we should consider that. That is interesting, because it is a change in tone. Not long ago, we were told we could not borrow more for anything, but you say housing is such a big infrastructure crisis in the country that we should borrow more to
And welcome to bbc news. A senior cabinet minister has said the government should consider borrowing money to invest in hundreds of thousands of new homes. The secretary of state for communities and local government, sajid javid, said ministers should take advantage of record low Interest Rates to deal with the housing crisis. Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, mrjavid said he was sure the forthcoming budget would have announcements that would cover housing. What i want to do is make sure were using everything we have available to deal with this housing crisis, and where that means, for example, that we can sensibly borrow more to invest in infrastructure leading to more housing, take advantage of record low Interest Rates that we have, i think we should consider that. Thats interesting, because it is a change in tone. Not long ago, we were told we could not borrow more for anything, but you say housing is such a big infrastructure crisis in the country that we should borrow more to sol
Fix that. And the communities secretary sajid javid says the government may be prepared to borrow money to pay for it. We are looking at new investments and there will be announcements im sure at the budget we will be covering housing. But what i want to do is make sure we are using everything we have available to deal with this housing crisis. Where that means for example we can sensibly borrow more to invest in the infrastructure that needs to more housing, take some of the lyric take advantage of soggy record low Interest Rates we have, we should consider that. He set up to 300,000 new homes are needed annually, double the number built in england last year. Labour welcomed the announcement but said it would go further. We committed to 500,000 a year so go further. We committed to 500,000 a year so its less than we would like to see that its a move in the right direction but it needs to be the right type of housing. Social and affordable housing, thats so important. This man has been