the labour party is under investigation. the investigation into procedures has not come through yet. i look forward to seeing the result. it is important that the labour party hold themselves to the highest of standards. but for them to stamp out anti—semitism before it enters government, there is a real threat here. jewish people are not safe or secure. there are a lot of threats facing this community here and across the world. those threats and across the world. those threats and those people existed long before he became leader of the labour party. now, they are accepting there are issues around policy and procedure in the past, improving those and setting in the manifesto how labour party will protectjewish people in this and ensuring that on the day when labour take government, making sure jewish the day when labour take government, making surejewish people in this country, the fear some of them may have about the future is completely vindicated. is fair to say it's an ongoing debate. let's have a look at the weather

a labour party anti-labour movement. your race and faith manifesto is out today, why are you launching one?” faith manifesto is out today, why are you launching one? i had touched on ending discrimination, and one of the things we are talking about today is, for example, teaching. we have less than 1.3% of male teachers from black african background, against 3% of the population. we need to talk about british history, the empire, colonialism, we need to understand where discrimination comes from and to allow people to be the best that they can be without discrimination and we are the party for that to happen under, and ra sent faith manifesto underlines the initiatives we will be taking to ensure people have equal opportunities in this country. we wa nt opportunities in this country. we want a race equality unit and will put that at the centre of government if we are elected, and at the treasury team, we will make sure... senior civil servants are going beyond equality to ensure that our services are reflecting the com

for what the labour party described as real change? i think it is pretty clear the public know exactly what is happening when it comes to brexit. they have seen the way that parliament has behaved over brexit, the block in, the delay, the dithering where parliamentarians and parties such as the labour party have deliberately blocked brexit and stop it from happening. and when we look at this general election campaign, labour themselves don't have a clear policy on brexit. we are the only party standing in this election that will get exit done and then importantly, focus on the priorities that voters care about. in this part of the uk, labour party considers these all around, do you acknowledge he will have to make significant inroads in leave supporting labour held areas with you want a hope of winning this election? look, i campaigned in the referendum, i campaigned for 30 years as a grassroots activist. and i know quite frankly as we've seen in our politics right now, parliament has not been functioning. the public are frustrated and

i think it is very small and i labour party? i think it is very smalland i am labour party? i think it is very small and i am confident the party is determined to get rid of anti—semitic people. people have been expelled and suspended, the disciplinary measures are working. do you have any doubt thatjeremy corbyn is fit for high office? that isa corbyn is fit for high office? that is a contention made by the chief rabbi in his article. i think the chief rabbi is wrong, i thinkjeremy corbyn is fit for high office and make a good prime minister. thank you for your time, lord dubs. let's go back now our assistant political editor norman smith. lord dubs says he thinksjeremy corbyn is fit to be prime minister but thinks the labour party has acted too slowly on anti—semitism. the challenges forjeremy corbyn to respond to this and turn this event today into something that effectively addresses the concerns of the chief rabbi? yes, i would suggest it has gone on too long and too farfor suggest it has gone on too long and too farfoer suggest it has gone on too long and too far f

party voter5 acr055. able to cut through and sway the labour party voters across. how much of the deed thing is personal? quite a lot of the deed thing is personal? quite aloti of the deed thing is personal? quite a lot i think. we note that they feel thatjeremy corbyn a lot i think. we note that they feel that jeremy corbyn really has not ta ken feel that jeremy corbyn really has not taken this really 5eriou5ly at all. and he left that the parties some time ago. but it is easy to brand him them. make it may not, cut through to those marginal 5eat5 a5 the tories are hoping, but the take away from this may be that the pressure that it puts on other moderates than the labour parties to pick a side because now that there's been this public disavowal from highly respected figures within the party and people who have already essentially left, it really does hold their feet to the fire on whether or not they can continue to support a prime minister and this is the point they treated me very clearly that essentially, there's nowhere to hide if you are endorsing a labour p

i was born into the labour party, my pa rents were born into the labour party, my parents were active members. i was a labour party member for the first 30 yea rs of labour party member for the first 30 years of my life. i am just horrified, and i cannot believe it. i know that as a member of the house of lords you are not allowed to vote in the general election. if you were voting on this one, here is a tough question, which way would you be voting? i don't think i can say, question, which way would you be voting? i don't think! can say, i'm quite relieved i am not voting but this is unusual for all sides of the jewish community to feel the same. julia, thank you very much again. lovely to see you. with that in mind, and given what julia was saying there... rachael maskell is labour‘s shadow ministerfor transport. shejoins me now from york. thank you for waiting patiently to join us. what did you make of the claim there that you have notjust been slow but unforgivably slow to deal with this issue? it is really important to listen to all faith leaders and of course, today has been t

mps leaving the conservative party at of the selection, is it true that both parties, labour and conservative are realigning here and moving, may be the conservatives more to the right and labour more to the left? is it that clear—cut? and labour more to the left? is it that clear-cut? on both sites within the two party false, they react to these kinds of moments, that they will both point to the fact that there party feels more united than it did. those of a particular strand of view, the conservative conversation in the labour one, they are deciding to leave the stage and so the remainder of a more solidified perspective one particular view. and you see this in any election because when you select the candidates, it is of course an opportunity for the leaders to make the party more in their own image. soa the party more in their own image. so a part of it is natural unhappiness, but i think it is the case that both are becoming narrow, churches, but also does talk to something that is going on in this election where both of the parties seemed further apart, both of the parties seem to hav

party, but the labour leader says all forms of racism are unacceptable. wouldn't you like to take this opportunity tonight to apologise to the britishjewish community for what has happened? what i'll say is this. i am determined that our society be safe for people of all faiths. i don't want anyone to be feeling insecure in our society. but the conservative party has also been accused by the muslim council of britain of failing to deal with islamophobia. if anybody is done for islamophobia, or indeed any other prejudice or discrimination in the conservative party, they're out first bounce. and the united nations says the world has to act much faster to avoid dangerous levels of global warming. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the former conservative advisor mo hussein and the author and journalist rachel shabi. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in, and it isjeremy corbyn‘s bbc interview with andrew neil this evening that is dominating the headlines. let's start with the daily teleg

party, austen quits the labour party not long ago and he has been sitting as an independent mp and is now stood down. the suggestion he is suddenly not a labour man is for the beds. ian preston was the press secretary to gordon brown, one of brown's e henchmen and for him to come to this conclusion and feel that he had to say this publicly is an astonishing journey to me. he is deeply unhappy about anti—semitism but also about jeremy corbyn's foreign policy positions. i was talking to some people about it today and it plays into this wider sense in the labour party that many people fear that many don't want to trust jeremy corbyn. it is notjust because he is trying to close down the anti—semitism problem, but it has been going on for years and yet the leadership is still again and again accused of not doing enough. it is really having a hard time grappling with this, some mps quit the party tojoin the lib dems, a jewish female mp, another decided to leave, margaret hodge, another jewish female mp, another decided to leave, margaret hodge, anotherjewish mp who has been furious at w

declining to apologise for anti—semitism in the labour party is something that i'm sure the labour leader will not enjoy watching back if he does so. it's been an issue that has dogged him for three years and the leadership. his argument is, he has been an anti—racist all his life and he has done everything he can to eradicate anti—semitism but it's an issue that keeps coming back. he keeps facing pressure on. likewise, there was another point and that interviewer mr corbin was asked about the big pledges his party made in the last few days, after their ma nifesto, in the last few days, after their manifesto, which was to give money to women who had basically been affected negatively by changes to the state pension age. is going to cost £58 billion. mr corbyn was pressed because it is not part of their official... he said, we might have to take it from official government coffers. not the easiest interview from mr corbyn. someone else making news stories. it's the conservative lord and former deputy prime minister michael heseltine. he says borisjohnson‘s slogan "6et brexit done" i

party and after 34 years, ijoined the labour party is a teenager, i worked for the labour party and in my 30s labour party is a teenager, i worked for the labour party and in my 3051 was for the labour party and in my 305 i was a government adviser in my 405 i was a government adviser in my 405 i was an mp and minister so it's come to something when i tell decent traditional, paid traffic labour voters they should be voting for bori5 voters they should be voting for borisjohnson at voters they should be voting for boris johnson at this voters they should be voting for borisjohnson at this election. i can't believe it's come to this but thatis can't believe it's come to this but that is where we are. our political correspondent chris mason is in westminster. give us some background into this, a man who was a labour party member for 30 years and now independent but worth reiterating his words. i think jeremy corbyn i5 unfit to be prime minister. make no mistake, that was an astonishing interview from ian au5tin. this is a man who has spent his entire adult life in the labour party and

not the backdrop the labour party wa nted not the backdrop the labour party wanted outside the launch of its race and faith manifesto. it comes as this man, the chief rabbi ephraim mirvis questioned jeremy corbyn ‘s fitness to be prime minister. in the times newspaper at the chief rabbi rights he adds but viewers may vary on what a labour government would mean for the jewish community. what i think is critical, people will feel increasingly uncomfortable and will look for ways of either moving or having a place somewhere else or whatever they can possibly do to mitigate what feels oppressive, uncomfortable, dangerous. there's a lot of pain in the jewish community andl lot of pain in the jewish community and i think there are yes, but i think the concerns are legitimate up toa think the concerns are legitimate up to a point but beyond that, they are misplaced and i think they are misplaced and i think they are misplaced in so far as the chief rabbi has gone too far. boris johnson has faced criticism for his handling of islamophobia allegations. to date the muslim council of britain a

in particular by the labour party, . we are absolutely committed to do the right thing internationally, to take our international responsibilities very seriously indeed. >> supplementary question? >> thank you, mr. president. >> doing outstanding job, doing outstanding job there too. let me just say i represent the prime minister in this chamber, and not former premier of the great state of australia, you know, i note the comments that senator roberts has provided. let me also refer the chamber to my initial -- that australia does take its international responsibilities seriously and we are active and constructive participants in all of the relevant international forum, always pursuing australia's national interests. always pursuing advancing australia's national interests, and of course we are represented with distinction by our outstanding foreign minister, who does a great job on our behalf, and, you know, we are represented by fine -- >> order -- order. senator roberts, final supplemental question. >> thank you mr. p

and the labour party. i non—brexit there is a huge disparity. big decisions to be made. the big question is anything that has happened over the last 2a hours if it has an effect on polling day. so many parties in contention for seats in a way that did not used to happen. it means we are heading for another narrative of are heading for another narrative of a hung parliament. it is all to play for at this stage. many people think that we might end up in a situation where we were before. it is impossible to say. you have got the four party system in scotland and wales that you have always had. slightly becoming a five party system if you include the brexit party. but i think that is happening more and more across england to. save the liberal democrats poll higher than they did last time which would not be difficult, they would win more seats, potentially but not dozens win more seats, potentially but not d oze ns of win more seats, potentially but not dozens of new seeds. it is what happens, where the seats

i think my highlight is seeing some of the main parties like the labour party ta ke of the main parties like the labour party take on climate change so seriously. you started this programme with the floods in yorkshire, and we know we can expect more of these extreme weather events being more likely with climate change, and so seeing them talking about investment in a way that would create jobs, having a about investment in a way that would createjobs, having a green about investment in a way that would create jobs, having a green economy, not relying on fossil fuels, there will be a lot of talk about brexit in this election, but one of the biggest issues is climate change, and it is very heartening to see one of the party is taking this very seriously, talking about changing our economy in a way that works for all of us. it is interesting that you pick out a policy area, not brexit, do you think that will be punching through to voters at home? i hope so, i think there will have to bea i hope so, i think there will have to be a lot of effort put into it, because whilst some of the stuff

party, but the labour leader says all forms of racism are unacceptable. wouldn't you like to take this opportunity tonight to apologise to the british jewish community for what has happened? what i will say is this. i am determined that our society be safe for people of all faiths. i don't want anyone to be feeling insecure in our society. but the conservative party has also been accused by the the muslim council of britain of failing to deal with islamophobia. if anybody is done for islamophobia orany if anybody is done for islamophobia or any form of discrimination in the conservative party, they are out first ounce. —— first bounce. a bleak outlook on climate change. the united nations says the world has to act much faster to avoid dangerous levels of global warming. and a remarkable comeback from 2—0 down by spurs, as they book their place in the champions league knockout stages. and at 11:30pm, we will be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers, mo hussein and rachel shabi. stay with us for that. jeremy corbyn has repeatedly

and these are the people standing under these are the people standing under the labour party colours and they may not be in the most winnable seats but this is a reflection of just how divided the labour party has been over the past few years. it is no secret thatjeremy corbyn has a lwa ys is no secret thatjeremy corbyn has always been immensely popular but he is divided among his mps and is a of this. i think it's a bit more damaging than simply someone who left the party years ago saying that iam not left the party years ago saying that i am not crazy forjeremy corbyn. and some well—known names, saying that they cannot support him. at elections, we do have major cultural figures that include william boyd, trent phillips, a former labour politician. you would expect figures like this thing that we are backing labour and this is why you must defeat them. they say they cannot support a labour party because it is anti—semitic they believe and they do not think they could reasonably suspect them to allow this to happen. but the head of a group which reports on the islamophobia andi

there where people in the labour party that wanted to oust him. they we re party that wanted to oust him. they were calls seem to go. you limit so many mps have resigned from all parties who said they are fed up of divisive politics. he has not said thatis divisive politics. he has not said that is the reason he is going but given that there was an element of the left of the labour party who were, —— tried to get rid of him... i have been so captured by narrow interest groups that they are going to be even less electable than the polls suggest. he hasn't been very specific about why he's leaving but he has been clear in saying he will continue to support the labour party and continue to help them in the campaign to get into government. lot of the mps leaving will continue to do public service and that is a good thing. the things that we believe in, that is a good thing because there has been a lot of talent from all parties which is lost and a lot of people who have a voice and can make social change, again, from all parties. that is all posit

i can a scenario in which the labour party that voted strongly to leave — — the labour party that voted strongly to leave —— some people from the labour party... if some people send in the contingency, you may have thousands of remainders who do not vote conservative for ideological reasons, therefore take away votes from labour party... you can understand the pain of the brexit party for people who voted to be the aeroplane and internet are not sure what it will look like when it happens, they feel that the brexit parties are a sensible place to put their vote, isn't it? the only thing they will do is put the vote and not win and he sees by themselves. what i find interesting about this is that the only brexiteer in favour of this strategy is nigel farage himself. we have had a founder of the brexit party on social media saying to nigel farage this is the wrong strategy. we have arron banks was a major donor to some of nigel farage's other political iterations saying this is the wrong thing to do. that's because the fear here is that the brexit party if faced with the vote, the bre

i had to leave the labour party, i felt. i could have kept it quiet and gone along with it all, or disappeared back off to dudley, but i think you've got to stand up and tell the truth. i think you've got to stand up and tell the truth, and if you're not going to do what's right on a fundamental question like racism, what are you going to do? and he wasn't done there. here he was in westminster, hours later, with another former labour mp, john woodcock, who says he will vote conservative. their views are clear. ian austin's dad was a jewish refugee, his aunts and grandma were murdered by the nazis. he's long been deeply angry at what he sees asjeremy corbyn‘s failure to deal with allegations of anti—semitism. he says the party has been poisoned with anti—jewish racism. the labour leadership insist they are doing everything they can to eradicate the problem. he added that the decision of labour's deputy leader tom watson, who has also had does disagreements with jeremy corbyn, to leave politics was enormously significan

the labour party, misrepresenting the success of the lib dems.” the labour party, misrepresenting the success of the lib dems. i have not seen that particular one, and it may well be that there was a problem with it, all charges should be clearly la belled, with it, all charges should be clearly labelled, explaining what they are, but i do like a bar chart... but they do need to be right. they need to be clear what they are representing, i absolutely ta ke they are representing, i absolutely take that point, but on the wider issue of trust, look, we absolutely got it wrong on tuition fees, and i do apologise that we got that wrong and that we did that. what i think we have been doing in the last three and a half years is standing really clearly as a pro european, pro remain party, and we have not wavered from that, we have absolutely set that out at the centre of our manifesto this time, so you can see we are sticking to our principles and what we believe in. do you think, seeing the silence that fell into, do you think the policy of revoking article 50 has backfired? well, do you kno

this is dominating, this story, in terms of their campaign, the labour party campaign. you look at any front page in the uk this morning and if it's not the top story, it is the second top story, it is on the front page of every paper. the chief rabbi's column in the times yesterday started all this and jeremy corbyn was given the opportunity for times during the interview with andrew neil to say sorry to the jewish interview with andrew neil to say sorry to thejewish community and refused. the second day story, the story we are seeing today, is why is he refusing to apologise? labour collea g u es he refusing to apologise? labour colleagues are saying we should be apologising and this is not something we want in the labour party, whichjeremy corbyn also said, but sorry isn't a word he is prepared to say at the moment. and what a lot of the analysis points to, and this is what we can see on bbc online today, laura kuenssberg, oui’ bbc online today, laura kuenssberg, our political editor, saying labour might struggle to move on from this row, which has been a real issu

, some female labour mps and the misogyny happening, driven out the party.|j look at a video on you should i am going to give you the benefit of the don't get a video online where a jewish mp was heckled out of that press conference , jewish mp was heckled out of that press conference, it is online and there you are at the end of the press conference chatting happily to that same heckler. i do not buy nice old grandpa, i see that video that tells me all i need to know and i am terrified for my daughters because eyes i see what you do in that video. i do not understand how you can see you stand up for human rights and that is how you support a labourmp ata rights and that is how you support a labour mp at a labour press co nfe re nce labour mp at a labour press conference was that i think it is disgraceful. applause nobody should suffer any abuse and publish private life. nobody should suffer abuse and many women labour mps have suffered the most unbelievable levels of abuse and it was a labour unbelievable levels of abuse and it wasa labourmp unbelievable le

party is not a safe space, feels that anti—semitism is rife and unchecked in the labour party. and this comes from the leadership faction at the very top of the labour party. the figures are overwhelming. it's something like 93% of britishjewish people who used to vote labour now will not vote labour. 87% think that the leadership is anti—semitic. 83% think the labour party is now anti—semitic. i think people should respect the views of the overwhelming majority of british jews. they feel angry that despite the claims ofjeremy corbyn and john mcdonnell that they are dealing with this, infouryears, mcdonnell that they are dealing with this, in four years, that has shown to bea this, in four years, that has shown to be a total lie. very little has been done. thousands of cases are coming to light all the time and now have been reported to the labour party and have not been sorted out. so, this is a very, very uncomfortable and scary time for british jews. simon, when the issue of languages under spotlight during this campaign, politicians are being urged to be aware of their

party, but the labour leader says all forms of racism are unacceptable. wouldn't you like to take this opportunity tonight to apologise to the british jewish community for what has happened? what i will say is this. i am determined that our society be safe for people of all faiths. i don't want anyone to be feeling insecure in our society. but the conservative party has also been accused by the the muslim council of britain of failing to deal with islamophobia. if anybody is done for

and after 3a years, ijoined the labour party as a teenager, i worked for the labour party, and in my 30s, iwas a government adviser, in my 40s i was an mp and a minister. so it's really come to something, when i tell decent, traditional, patriotic labour voters, that they should be voting for borisjohnson at the selection. i can't believe it's come to this, but that's where we are. ian austin is the son of a jewish refugee — his aunt and his grandmother were murdered by the nazis. and he isn't alone in his condemnation of mr corbyn. another former labour mp john woodcockjoined his call to boycott corbyn. both men have come under fire from labour — accused of having flipped sides because they accepted work as special envoys for borisjohnson‘s conservative government. here's labour'sjohn mcdonnell. he is now employed by the tories. what else do you expect them to do in an election campaign where you are employed by the tories can you speak on behalf of the tories. that's what this was about this morning. on the work as a special envoy. here is laura conspired saying... the thing

i suppose it does depend on where your starting point in the labour party is. they aren't ian austin. no, they are not. he has a visceral loathing ofjeremy corbyn, because his father was jewish and relatives of his work were killed in the holocaust in the second world war. so that comes from a deep place. and is also being attacked about the trade with israel. so a lot of pro— palestine left—wingers, that will stick in their court was not that i think his intervention on radio 4 was dismissed. including john mcdonnell on stage. the public dismiss it. it's all right for fellow m ps dismiss it. it's all right for fellow mps do say all right, all this is something and the other, but surely it is the public that matter here? the public that follow really closely politics, they see it is the usual suspects. someone who eats and drinks politics, they wouldn't necessarily know these people. it's a very westminster bubble thing to assume everyone ki'iows a very westminster bubble thing to assume everyone knows who iain watson and john woodcock are. i think the more

party sincejeremy of anti—semitism around the labour party since jeremy corbyn has of anti—semitism around the labour party sincejeremy corbyn has been leader, but it's still incredible to hear somebody like mr austin says suggesting that people vote conservative in the general election. take a look at this. i'm not a tory. this isn't where i want to be. but ijust think, i wouldn't say borisjohnson is be unfit to be prime minister in the way i would say it about jeremy corbyn. i think the country has a big choice to make andl the country has a big choice to make and i thinkjeremy corbyn is unfit to lead it. lets talk about the economy and labour talking about spending. £150 billion if they are elected and that is a phenomenal amount of money and the conservatives call it fantasy economics. how would you go about spending that amount of money over the course of a parliament? good question. it's the equivalent of you 01’ me question. it's the equivalent of you or me deciding that we've saved up enough to have some sort of extension at home but it doesn't mean it will happen tomorro

a big moment for the labour party. president erdogan says turkey has captured a wife of former islamic state group leader abu bakr al—baghdadi. yesterday turkey said it had detained baghdadi's sister in syria. baghdadi killed himself during a raid by us specialforces on his compound in north—west syria last month. what initially appeared to be a "suspicious" incident aboard an airliner forcing the evacuation of passengers and crew at amsterdam's schiphol airport on wednesday evening has proved to be a false alarm. air europa — a spanish airline — said in a statement that one of its pilots had accidentally triggered an alarm, causing a major security lockdown at what is one of europe's busiest airports. and these are images of a tornado, in greece. it blew off the storages of an entire olive oil factory in the southern town of kalamata. it was filmed by the plant's security cameras — most of the warehouses have been destroyed. the us has had its state elections, and even though we're a year out from the presid

i will be voting for the brexit party.|j vote for the labour party. i will be voting for the brexit party. i will be voting conservative this time. voting for the brexit party. i will be voting conservative this timelj will be campaigning for the lib dems. it began in scotland, this breaking of the bond between parties and their traditional base. labour's long domination here once seemed as fixed as the forth bridge's. the conservatives had been all but wiped out, but the independence referendum of 2014 changed all that. after it, voters began putting their position on independence ahead of old party loyalties. the snp swept labour away, the conservatives revitalised. a referendum had changed the landscape of party allegiance. the question is, is a similar realignment now happening in the rest of britain over brexit? does your identity as a remainer or a leaver now trump the party you traditionally supported ? i wrote in to the yorkshire post... it already has forjason aldiss. he's been a prominent tory activist for years and was a constituency chairm

going back to labour, i want you to imagine, if the labour party was a person and you met them at a party, what would they be like? welcoming. sociable. down-to-earth. you would not be able to tell. i don't mean somebody who votes labour, but if you can imagine the party being a person? i would not be able to tell their personality if that person was labour. so they would be a bit of a closed book? they could be a bit of everything. what would they drink at the party? everything that was going. and they wouldn't bring a bottle either. what about the conservative party? if you met them? something that would get out of control quickly. and what kind of person would they be, how would they dance? they probably wouldn't dance. 00:46:00,620 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 very formal, in a suit. a suit to a dance? they probably wouldn't dance. very formal, not suit. a suit to a dance? they probably wouldn't dance. very formal, not a lit. a suit to a dance? they probably wouldn't dance. very formal, not a great suit to a dance? they probably wouldn't dance. very formal, not a great look. i a dance? th

party, supporters of the labour party, supporters of the labour party, work with the labour party. and they do not share the views that have been put forward on the front page of the jewish chronicle. i regret thejewish chronicle. i regret thejewish chronicle has chosen to print that but i simply say to everyone community is stronger when people work together. when we recognise the danger and the poison that anti—semitism is. we will be a stronger community when we defeat all forms of racism. and i will be pa rt all forms of racism. and i will be part of that campaign to eradicate racism in any form. now on afternoon live, let‘s go nationwide and see what‘s happening around the country in our daily visit to the bbc newsrooms around the uk. in salford, north west tonight‘s nina warhurst with the political an interesting time for political parties across the country. plenty of big—name political visitors. a busy few days in the north west with visits from labour leader and shadow chancellorjeremy corbyn and john mcdonnell and also chancellor sajid javid. if you think back t

the labour party to sit as an independent mp. indeed john mcdonnell said he was paid for by the tory party. what he meant by that was that ian austin was asked by theresa may to be the government's trade envoy to israel. do ian austin's comments matter? yes, they do, because ian austin has beenin yes, they do, because ian austin has been in the labour party 30, 35 yea rs. been in the labour party 30, 35 years. he has been a minister, a key ally of gordon brown. it's notjust that he is staying he doesn't trust jeremy corbyn, it's that he, a dyed in the wool labour supporter, a traditional patriotic labour supporter, actually thinks boris johnson, a conservative, would be a better option than jeremy corbyn. that has to be something which the tories will use again and again in this general election. ok, norman, thank you very much. norman smith there, our assistant political editor in liverpool. and we will be backin editor in liverpool. and we will be back in leeds shortly with more of our general election coverage, but now look at

a large number of voters who voted ukip went back to the labour party and labour w011 back to the labour party and labour won the seat, not the conservatives, and that is because there are 5 million labour get leave voters out there in this country, and many of them wouldn't vote conservative if you paid them. that is historical regions. it is not an easy thing to do, not wholly popular. i did it because boris went much further than that deal in brussels. here said we will not have alignment with the eu, we will go for a canada style trade deal. a promise is one thing, and boris is very good. do you trust that promise? do you trust that promise? well, look, boris is good at making promises and not always keeping them. but it would have been madness, i think, to stand against the government of the day if they're effectively saying the same thing that you are. so what we will now do is target labour seats. we need to get a brexit party voice in the house of commons to hold him to those promises. and in other seats, where the conservatives are the challengers to labour, actually the labour

we have a labour party and conservative party ma nifesto labour party and conservative party manifesto but nothing from the liberal democrats or the snp —— we have a manifesto from the labour party and the liberal democrats but not from the conservative party and the snp. had they played that well? talking about getting brexit done, we may get questions from the audience on that little bit, what does that really mean? interesting with nigel farage, when he launched his brexit party contract today, stressing the idea that you have to get brexit done properly. i think there will be this feeling that getting brexit done in a legal sense is possible at the end of january if the conservatives win a majority but then there's the whole question of negotiating a future trade deal. for jeremy corbyn of course, we saw that in previous debates, it's the key question. he wants to renegotiate his own deal then put it to a referendum, but which way would he vote in that referendum? he really wasn't engaging with that question. you would imagine, because we don't know what the audience members wi

, more of them went towards the labour party, ican hear them went towards the labour party, i can hear the applause, this is for luciana berger who will do the introduction tojo swinson. we come together this morning right in the heart of the city of london and westminster constituency where we are campaigning to turn this area yellow. cheering and the fact that we are doing that is a sign of the huge growth of support that we have seen huge growth of support that we have seen within our party, we have thousands more activists. we have thousands more activists. we have thousands more activists. we have thousands more supporters and members. offering our country hope. we are here at an exciting time, and it's also the most serious of times at the moment, we have the opportunity to change our nation 's course but we have an opportunity to change the chaos that we find ourselves in the midst of which could stop brexit. because too many things are not working as they should be, we seek the conservatives and the labour party stuck in the past, failing time and again to deliver a better futu

so this is a key target seat forjeremy corbyn‘s labour party. when it came to the brexit vote, the result was decisive, with 57% in favour of leaving the european union. for a key constituency where so much rides on the opinion of farmers, we wanted to know exactly what's on their minds in the last few weeks of this campaign. steady, that'll do. this land feeds us. steady, that'll do. this land feeds us. it is pasture, livestock, and neil perkins, a son and steward of this soil, is forming in challenging times. it is a constant worry all the time, going through all the figures and seeing how we will make it through the next month and keep going, really. margins have always been tight, but neil's fear is that welsh lamb could flood the uk market, driving down prices, if there is no post brexit trade deal with europe. two hours' drive away, at the royal welsh fare, amid the prize cow is tractors, there is a standard offering mental health advice for ha rd—pressed standard offering mental health advice for hard—pressed farmers. emma understands

they don't own the labour party. the people own the labour party, and iam the people own the labour party, and i am proud of that. that is why the billionaires attack us. that is why the billionaire owned media mix things up about us. the us presidents who led his country out of the great depression, president roosevelt, had to take on the rich and powerful in america to do it. that is why he said they are unanimous in their hate of me. and i welcome their hatred. he knew that when you are serious about real change, those who profit from a rigged system, those who squirrelled away the wealth created by millions of people, won't up without a fight. so, i accept that the opposition is inevitable. i accept that the opposition of the billionaires, because we will make those at the top pay theirfair share of because we will make those at the top pay their fair share of tax to help fund the world—class public services for you. that is real change. i accept the hostility of the bad bosses paying poverty pay, because we wi

labour party said this could be... they wouldn't tell me exactly what type of software but they said everything we use to campaign, so they do have specific project management systems they are using, so management systems they are using, so the bespoke campaign software affected by this, but of course, it's likely and i'm not saying it's definitely the case, but it's likely everything affected would have been the systems they had on their own servers, so an the systems they had on their own servers, so an attacker would have got the ip addresses on the server and attack those specifically. they describe this as a sophisticated attack, but, in all honesty, every company and organisation hit with a cyber attack says that because i don't want to be seen to be in any way week, but they can be sophisticated, these attacks, depending on how big they are because in some cases you can get a kid ina because in some cases you can get a kid in a bedroom who can buy a stress toolkit, off the internet, and take down his mate ‘s w

so this morning, there was an e—mail from the labour party, saying, "get to this location at this time, jeremy corbyn will make a big so this morning, there was an e—mail from the labour party, saying, statement about the health service." what was it? a major statement. major — do you remember there was that era from 5—6 years ago, when it was a big a victoria beckham thing? things were "major, it's going to be a major". i don't remember that. maybe it was only me. but anyway, there was a major statement from jeremy corbyn. and people were wondering what it could be, and i thought, "what hasjeremy corbyn been trying to talk about more than anything else in this campaign? donald trump and the nhs." so there we were in the room, jeremy corbyn comes in after a very, very torrid day yesterday. after the andrew neil interview, as well? yes, yes. and it is worth noting that until quite late yesterday, jeremy corbyn was meant to be going to cornwall this morning. he walked in, brandishing pages and pages and pages of documents which are about the talks between the us and the uk — a po

labour is not a remain party. labour is a party that speaks for the whole of the nation, and wants to put a proper deal back to the people. the principled and honourable thing to do. we have to get that message across in the leave areas. the task for labour when it draws up its manifesto is how to appeal both to voters and to its members on issues which have divided the country. iain watson, bbc news. our political editor laura kuenssberg is in edinburgh — and labour have a big policy announcment tonight — promising free broadband for all if elected — and part nationalisation of bt. that is right. this is radical, we have been speaking to the shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell who would be in charge of the purse strings if labour win the election, and they are making a big offer to the public, to offer free are making a big offer to the public, to offerfree broadband for every household in the country whether a millionaire or a hard up family, and they would do that by nationalising part of british telecom and

labour party's support. the snp are saying they won't support labour in a hung parliament and they want —— if they won't allow an independence referendum when the scottish parliament wants it. borisjohnson isa parliament wants it. borisjohnson is a saying you will end up with a coalition of chaos if the snp and labour are working together. it's a bit of a tightrope forjeremy corbyn and at the moment he is not negotiating it particularly successfully on this trip. our correspondent tom symonds is at the lib dem event. the liberal democrats are saying that labour and the conservatives lack the moral authority to defend the uk from what they call the forces of hate and division. that's right. on paper, the liberal democrats have produced a long list of equality policies today which include, for example, stopping the bulk collection of data by the security services, six weeks paternity leave for new dads and speeding up the gender recognition act which makes it easier for people to transition from one gender

they approached the labour party and the labour party did not want to take part. we were not that surprised by that because the labour party, there are some good remain people in the labour party and i do not suggest otherwise, but the leadership, jeremy corbyn, is a brexiteer and basically wa nts jeremy corbyn, is a brexiteer and basically wants brexit. a similar question but more specific. nic on email — where lib dems have consistently come third in recent elections in safe tory seats, why do they not step down to allow labour a clear run? because the remain — leave debate has changed. we saw in the may elections, the european elections just a few months ago that the liberal democrats beat both the labour party and the conservative party at the same time in a national election. that had not happened for over 100 years. we are finding liberal democrat votes in safe conservative seat, to use the phrase of your questioner, that we are axing our head of the conservatives. take a seat adjacent to mine, eves ha m take a seat adjacent to mine, evesham and walton,

party, the labour party, is not part of the remain alliance and in the first past the post system it makes a huge difference and i'm afraid it's not about tribalism or deflection, if the goal is to dent the tory party majority then all of the remain parties, including labour need to be part of the alliance. we mentioned yesterday, an example of one seat, canterbury, the lib dem candidate tim walker, took the personal decision to stand down to allow a remain supporting labour party candidate a good run at that seat but that's an individual decision. in one constituency. presumably you are saying this needs to be happening at a much higher level, at a party level for this remain alliance to work? it has to be ata remain alliance to work? it has to be at a much bigger level because the remain alliance of mps, those mps who came together, our data and i know other data shows it's only going to impact in about three or four seats so it's down to tactical voting and i think it's a very principled stand of tim walker to ta ke principled stand of tim walker to take that but that was his indi

it used to be very much, you knew exactly where you were with the conservative party and the labour party and now i think there's so much extreme within each party. there's parties i would never vote for but actually i do like some of their policies and in the party i would vote for, i don't quite like some of theirs and that's never happened to me before. with a nod to elections past, we've built ourselves an ometer and this can test anything we like, we can make it an integrity—ometer. do you think our political leaders, our political parties have got integrity? is this bad? that's bad, yeah. it's quite high, isn't it? our sincerity—ometer. bring it up to average. i think some are sincere. i think it goes with integrity for me so it would be down there. now it's an ability—ometer. i'll go all the way. really, full marks on ability? these are talented people? they'll get it done. i'm going to bring it down, i think a bunch of clowns. bunch of clowns. that's my score there. come election day, birmingham's polling stations will open an hour before sunrise and close six hours after su

labour says its committed to driving it out of the party. anti—lg bt equality teaching protests are permanently banned from outside anderton park primary school in birmingham. former conservative deputy leader michael heseltine urges voters to back independent mps or the liberal democrats to stop boris johnson's brexit. the un says countries will have to increase carbon—cutting ambitions five—fold if the world is to avoid dangerous levels of climate change. australian police say that missing british man aslan king has been found dead, three days after he disappeared while camping. sport now — and time for a full round up from the bbc sport centre. good morning. andy murray is not one of those sporting superstars who often speaks about his private life, but a new documentary has captured him at some of his most private moments. "andy murray: resurfacing" charts his two year fight back from a hip injury which threatened to end his career. and while it was a very tough time for him — andy murray told me — it also helped him prepare

ma nifested we will see with the labour manifested this week as we had this morning the labour party is making a big push on environmental policies and what they call their green industrial revolution and i think, a bit like when the previous government introduced or tried to really change up apprenticeships and try to encourage businesses to take on apprentices, there is always warm feelings for the notion and principle behind it. but then they tend to get very cross and upset about the government handling of it and the current government has kind of become bureaucratic and a lot of people in the business community did not like it and that is one of the reasons why they look at the interventions that they want to make. when we trust as they see it, with the private sector want to trust the public sector and i was talking to a big group of businesspeople at the cbi this morning and i have to say there is a lot of real concern about the main parties and about how labour would spread into the private sector and how drastic, radical and popular their proposals are. and their is anxiety

there is a lot of talking going on especially by the labour party. but we are absolutely committed to do the right thing internationally and take those responsibilities very seriously. >> 25 years ago one of the dangers of international bureaucracies to cities international agreements are made by people outside of australia by officials of other countries to take part in the negotiations it does not exert foreign influence the countries do so why has government ignore this advice? >> thank you very much. >> order. >> when i once served. >> and doing the outstanding job and i represent the prime minister in this chamber. but i appreciate the comments that phillips rubber has provided. and it is a national responsibility and then to start the national interest and of course we are represented with distinction and so now we are represented. >> order. >> and those that did not have the courage to name the united nations so when can we rather than what was unaccountable. >> thank you very much as we are leaving the united nations and any organization so i

both the labour party and the conservatives want to negotiate and deliver brexit. i never thought that i would stand here and say that i am a candidate to be prime minister. but when i look at borisjohnson and jeremy corbyn i am absolutely certain i could do a betterjob than either of them! labour has been talking brexit to in harlow in essex, a seat the party needs to and from the conservatives. jeremy corbyn ‘s pictures to negotiate what he sees as a better brexit deal and put that to a referendum with remain as the other option, all within six months. if you want to leave the eu without trashing our economy or selling out the nhs, you will be able to vote for it. if you want remain in the eu you will be able to vote for that. either way, remain in the eu you will be able to vote forthat. eitherway, only remain in the eu you will be able to vote for that. either way, only a labour government will put the final decision in your hands. because this has involved the whole country from the start, it can't now be left to politicians. the conservative say the labour

labour says itina parties are saying it. labour says it in a different way and it includes renationalisation of the telecoms but for me the key thing is that we have accepted we need to have broadband and we expected. at the moment only 7% of the uk has full broadband. and people want to do their shopping. they do. and we will get to that story later on and we will also get to election pledges from the conservative party as well. staying in cyberspace and talking about a story on the front page of the financial times today. an interesting story, how do you adequately address privacy concerns is one of the most powerful tech companies in the world. the answer he is appears to be to hold the data that the advertisers want. is it the right call? remember what they said about google when they first started, do no evil? a number of apps have had access to certain medical records and diagnoses of people and at the same time, the whole issue of privacy has come to the fore because when tech came to the fore because when tech came t