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ben wright, thank you very much. _ to that point quickly. ben wright, thank you very much.oint quickly. ben wright, i thank you very much. the other big story we've been following today is over the post office and the former post office chairman henry staunton is due to appear before mps shortly to answer questions about compensation for victims of the horizon it scandal. it's the first time in steve staunton has spoken publicly since he was told to delay compensation to sub postmasters. that triggered a row with a the business secretary. on their way to talk to mps. horizon victims and their lawyer. the issue, compensation. and how it is all going. 15 compensation. and how it is all anoin. , , , compensation. and how it is all oaian. , , , ., , going. is the redress getting faster and fairer? speaking _ going. is the redress getting faster and fairer? speaking personally, i going. is the redress getting fasteri and fairer? speaking personally, of m claim, and fairer? speaking personally, of my claim. i — and fairer? speaking personally, of my claim. i can _ and fairer? spe
ben wright, thank you very much. _ to that point quickly. ben wright, thank you very much.oint quickly. ben wright, i thank you very much. the other big story we've been following today is over the post office and the former post office chairman henry staunton is due to appear before mps shortly to answer questions about compensation for victims of the horizon it scandal. it's the first time in steve staunton has spoken publicly since he was told to delay compensation to sub postmasters. that...
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our political correspondent, ben wright, has more.ur supports. azhar ali's campaign leaflets are dropping through letter boxes in rochdale today ahead of a by—election that's whipped up a storm of problems for labour. mr ali was suspended from the party on monday after apparently making anti—semitic remarks at a meeting attended by local labour politicians and others in lancashire last autumn. but it was too late to boot him off the ballot paper. and last night, labour suspended a second parliamentary candidate, the former mp graham jones, after he apparently made critical remarks about israel at the same meeting. labour's investigating that, too. it's all a huge headache for the party. you can't see everything everywhere. what's important is that if new information comes to light, as in this case, we will act to investigate, we will act to block those who are not fit to serve as mp5. this has all shone a spotlight on candidate selection within labour, its vetting methods and procedures. there's another issue this row raises — the dif
our political correspondent, ben wright, has more.ur supports. azhar ali's campaign leaflets are dropping through letter boxes in rochdale today ahead of a by—election that's whipped up a storm of problems for labour. mr ali was suspended from the party on monday after apparently making anti—semitic remarks at a meeting attended by local labour politicians and others in lancashire last autumn. but it was too late to boot him off the ballot paper. and last night, labour suspended a second...
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ben wright, bbc news, westminster.here's a full list of candidates standing in the rochdale by—election. if you'd like more information, you can head to our website. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. nottinghamshire police will be investigated over complaints by the families of three people stabbed to death by valdo calocane in june last year. the police watchdog says it will focus on the force 5 previous contact with calocane. he was given an indefinite hospital order after admitting manslaughter. the housing secretary, michael gove, has set out proposed changes to planning rules in england that he claims could deliver thousands of new homes. he wants to force councils to prioritise development on brownfield — orformer industrial — land. labour says "minor tweaks" to planning policy won't fix the housing crisis. seven women are accusing devon and cornwall police of failing to investigate serving and former officers for domestic abuse, and sexual violence. the group claims that in some cases the men
ben wright, bbc news, westminster.here's a full list of candidates standing in the rochdale by—election. if you'd like more information, you can head to our website. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. nottinghamshire police will be investigated over complaints by the families of three people stabbed to death by valdo calocane in june last year. the police watchdog says it will focus on the force 5 previous contact with calocane. he was given an indefinite hospital order...
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ben wright, bbc news, westminster. the rochdale by—election will take place on the 29th february.es standing. our top story this evening. inflation remains at 4% but the price of food falls for the first time in two and a half years. and still to come, the recovered roman and greek gems back on display coming up on bbc news — yesterday ferrari, today mercedes and mclaren. formula 1 teams are revealing their cars for the new season — and on sportsday, we speak to a driver tipped to be a future world champion. it will be two years next week since russia invaded ukraine, uprooting ten million people from their homes. at the start of the conflict our special correspondent fergal keane reported from the western city of lviv as huge numbers of refugees, the largest in europe since world war two, tried to cram onto trains and escape. well, fergal has returned to lviv to find out what happened to some of the people he met. shouting. they were fleeing europe's biggest refugee crisis since world war ii. people are just crushing all around me, trying to get on to these trains. a woman, a you
ben wright, bbc news, westminster. the rochdale by—election will take place on the 29th february.es standing. our top story this evening. inflation remains at 4% but the price of food falls for the first time in two and a half years. and still to come, the recovered roman and greek gems back on display coming up on bbc news — yesterday ferrari, today mercedes and mclaren. formula 1 teams are revealing their cars for the new season — and on sportsday, we speak to a driver tipped to be a...
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ben wright reports.day the mother of brianna ghey was visiting parliament, or dig in and defend the point he was making. he chose the latter. i have nothing but the most heartfelt sympathy for her entire family and friends, but to use that tragedy to detract from the very separate and clear point i was making about keir starmer�*s proven track record of multiple u—turns on major policies, because he doesn't have a plan, i think is both sad and wrong. it was during yesterday's prime minister's questions that the row erupted. pensions, planning, peerages. .. listing what rishi sunak claimed were a string of labour policy u—turns, he said this. defining a woman! although, in fairness, that was only 99% of a u—turn! laughter. of all the weeks to say that when brianna's mother is in this chamber. shame. esther ghey had travelled to parliament, taking a seat in the commons public gallery after that exchange. brianna's father demanded an apology from mr sunak, and today one cabinet minister said both leaders sh
ben wright reports.day the mother of brianna ghey was visiting parliament, or dig in and defend the point he was making. he chose the latter. i have nothing but the most heartfelt sympathy for her entire family and friends, but to use that tragedy to detract from the very separate and clear point i was making about keir starmer�*s proven track record of multiple u—turns on major policies, because he doesn't have a plan, i think is both sad and wrong. it was during yesterday's prime...
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let's speak to our political correspondent, ben wright. ben, a straightforward question.s candidate? a, aren't labour sticking with this candidate?— candidate? a straightforward . uestion candidate? a straightforward question but _ candidate? a straightforward question but a _ candidate? a straightforward question but a complicated l candidate? a straightforward - question but a complicated answer i am afraid. the reason, i think, is the deadline that nominations have to go forward for the bye election has already passed. even if labour wanted to remove mr ali as their candidate in rochdale they cannot take his name off of the ballad paper. so that they are stuck with him. i think there is another reason as well. causing some concern in the labour party, they feel if they were to disown azhar ali at this point it could help one of the rival candidates, the former labour mp george galloway who is fiercely critical of the labour stance on gaza. there is a big muslim population in rochdale so i think thatis population in rochdale so i think that is one of the considerations
let's speak to our political correspondent, ben wright. ben, a straightforward question.s candidate? a, aren't labour sticking with this candidate?— candidate? a straightforward . uestion candidate? a straightforward question but _ candidate? a straightforward question but a _ candidate? a straightforward question but a complicated l candidate? a straightforward - question but a complicated answer i am afraid. the reason, i think, is the deadline that nominations have to go forward for the...
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our political correspondent ben wright has this report. energy costs up, familiesjuggling bills.labour's candidate in rochdale, and only yesterday the party was still defending its decision to back him. but now the daily mail has published more comments azhar ali made to a meeting of labour members last autumn, in which he apparently blamed people in the media from certainjewish quarters for fuelling criticism of a pro—palestinian labour mp. i understand these latest remarks are what prompted labour to pull their support from mr ali's campaign last night. since we said that, new information and more comments have come to light, which meant that we had to look at this situation again. once we saw those comments keir starmer took swift decision to take the tough and necessary action to withdraw support from mr ali's candidacy. but because the nomination deadline has already passed, mr ali will still be on the ballot as labour's candidate in rochdale. the situation was seized on by rishi sunak last night, who criticised sir keir starmer for not disavowing mr ali sooner. look whatjus
our political correspondent ben wright has this report. energy costs up, familiesjuggling bills.labour's candidate in rochdale, and only yesterday the party was still defending its decision to back him. but now the daily mail has published more comments azhar ali made to a meeting of labour members last autumn, in which he apparently blamed people in the media from certainjewish quarters for fuelling criticism of a pro—palestinian labour mp. i understand these latest remarks are what prompted...
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wright is in westminster. called for a ceasefire explicitly since the outbreak of this conflict in october last year. sir keir starmer positionposition has shifted semantically several times since they are, he has been under internal pressure to get to this position, back in november the snp triggered another vote in parliament demanding a ceasefire. at that point, 56 labour mps defied the party leadership and voted with the snp motion and we are heading towards, were heading to a similar point tomorrow because the snp are holding another vote in parliament, calling for a ceasefire, so today, the shadow cabinet got together to try to work out labour's new position, this is what it is and i think the emphasis on the labour amendment is slightly different to the snp position even though they are very similar. for instance the labour amendment said israel cannot the expected to cease fighting if hamas continues with its violence. more emphasis on the role hamas has getting to a ceasefire and labour want to stress
wright is in westminster. called for a ceasefire explicitly since the outbreak of this conflict in october last year. sir keir starmer positionposition has shifted semantically several times since they are, he has been under internal pressure to get to this position, back in november the snp triggered another vote in parliament demanding a ceasefire. at that point, 56 labour mps defied the party leadership and voted with the snp motion and we are heading towards, were heading to a similar point...
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wright.nister of the weekend was telling interviewers the reason mr anderson had the tory whip suspended was that he hadn't apologised those comments you quoted that he made on gb news on friday. but today the prime minister said quite clearly that the remarks themselves were unacceptable and wrong and that rishi sunak said was widely anderson had the tory whip withdrawn. so it hardens the government's line only anderson and makes it far less likely he will return to the cardiff —— conservative party anytime soon. about an hour a statement was issued put up on gb news from mr anderson in which he says or accuses city carnival was seeing double standards and in the way that pro—palestinian marches a place in london and goes onto say that even things —— even though he thinks his words were clumsy he is not apologising because he thinks is right. so he's doubling down on his view. i don't think there's any chance in the near future he's going to be returning to the conservative party and this is
wright.nister of the weekend was telling interviewers the reason mr anderson had the tory whip suspended was that he hadn't apologised those comments you quoted that he made on gb news on friday. but today the prime minister said quite clearly that the remarks themselves were unacceptable and wrong and that rishi sunak said was widely anderson had the tory whip withdrawn. so it hardens the government's line only anderson and makes it far less likely he will return to the cardiff ——...
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let's get more now from our political correspondent ben wright. this is all slightly convoluted.ust talk us through it. it this is all slightly convoluted. just talk us through it.- this is all slightly convoluted. just talk us through it. it is, and it's a bit of— just talk us through it. it is, and it's a bit of a _ just talk us through it. it is, and it's a bit of a shambles - just talk us through it. it is, and | it's a bit of a shambles frankly. i think from the first moment that mr ali's, is herfirst reported in the mail on sunday, i think they risk damaging sir keir starmer�*s claim to have changed his party. back in the jeremy corbyn days, there were so many allegations of anti—semitism and it was one of the key tenets for keir starmer to show the party had changed. but it is a binderfor the party as though they may have wanted to disavow it mr ali 2a or 48 hours to disavow it mr ali 24 or 48 hours ago, it was difficult because nominations for this by election close to the beginning of february which meant there was no way of removing him as the labour candidate from the
let's get more now from our political correspondent ben wright. this is all slightly convoluted.ust talk us through it. it this is all slightly convoluted. just talk us through it.- this is all slightly convoluted. just talk us through it. it is, and it's a bit of— just talk us through it. it is, and it's a bit of a _ just talk us through it. it is, and it's a bit of a shambles - just talk us through it. it is, and | it's a bit of a shambles frankly. i think from the first moment that mr...
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good morning, welcome to breakfast with sally nugent and ben thompson. 0ur headlines today. we find out this morning if inflation — how fast prices are rising — has gone up. in the same week we learn if we officially entered recession. i'll bring you the details. sir keir starmer faces questions about party discipline after a second labour candidate is suspended over comments he made about israel. new figures show uk shop workers face 1300 incidents of violence and abuse a day. in sport. lift—off for manchester city as the holders score three and set their sights firmly on the quarterfinals of the champions league. good morning, most will ccloudy weather and outbreaks of rain. the exception tonight is northern scotland it is drier, brighter and cooler. it's wednesday the 14th of february.
good morning, welcome to breakfast with sally nugent and ben thompson. 0ur headlines today. we find out this morning if inflation — how fast prices are rising — has gone up. in the same week we learn if we officially entered recession. i'll bring you the details. sir keir starmer faces questions about party discipline after a second labour candidate is suspended over comments he made about israel. new figures show uk shop workers face 1300 incidents of violence and abuse a day. in sport....
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good morning, welcome to breakfast with sally nugent and ben thompson. 0ur headlines.ain on and off and mild. the exception is the north of scotland where we have clearer skies, hazy sunshine and a few showers and fresher. all the details later. it�*s wednesday the 14th of february. tributes are being paid to the radio presenter steve wright, who has died suddenly at the age of 69. millions of listeners tuned into the radio host who worked on bbc radio 1 and radio 2 for more than four decades. 0ur media and arts correspondent david sillito looks back at his career. steve wright! # steve wright in the afternoon #. all right, now, just after two o�*clock. now, today, have we got a lot of stuff for you! steve wright in the afternoon, a programme that spanned more than 40 years of radio history. stand by, studios. action! it was only over a year ago that it came to an end, but radio 2 was the bearer of some sad news. it's really hard to know i what to say about the news of steve wright's passing, except we are all - absolutely devastated. it is a shock. it was only days ag
good morning, welcome to breakfast with sally nugent and ben thompson. 0ur headlines.ain on and off and mild. the exception is the north of scotland where we have clearer skies, hazy sunshine and a few showers and fresher. all the details later. it�*s wednesday the 14th of february. tributes are being paid to the radio presenter steve wright, who has died suddenly at the age of 69. millions of listeners tuned into the radio host who worked on bbc radio 1 and radio 2 for more than four...