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part of an infantile fif-‘it sn’f m :“affi:“aii:[i€ [await being part of an infantile leftist illusion which i think is more damning thana illusion which i think is more damning than a of duty. —— serious invasion of duty. lord kinnock says, whether you think this is a veiled incitement for mps to rebel, that loyalty is a virtue that in excess fills graveyards, but there hasn't beena fills graveyards, but there hasn't been a lot of rebellion. a lot of, we are not very happy, but we're not going to do it anything about it. the clinic takes a long holiday from politics and then he pops back and throws a bombshell into the labour party —— neil kinnock takes a long holiday. it is a bit like john major, we need these people, john major, we need these people, john major went through the maastricht treaty and he knows what he's talking about an neil kinnock knows about the problems of the labour party. there was the norway option which was back on the table in the referendum dates, we can stay in the
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single market but not in the customs union and that will give us the ability to do trade deals unhindered, but the problem about this and this is wherejeremy corbyn is right, in that sense also theresa may, if you stay in leasing market you haven't left the eu and the one thing we know from polls shows that if there was a referendum tomorrow the result would be almost identical -- if the result would be almost identical —— if you stay in the single market. people say we want to be out of the eu, and so you really can't start talking about going back into the single market. i would rather we weren't leaving at all but now that weren't leaving at all but now that we arei weren't leaving at all but now that we are i can see the political situation that the leaders have put themselves in. this illustrates the headache that jeremy corbyn has because we saw the rebellion by the labour peers, more than 80 of them define the labour whip. we know that
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has got to go back to the commons, and i'm sure that this is galvanising some of those labour rebels when this comes to a vote in the commons. labour members would like to have, the majority, but like to have a second referendum, and i vote certainly on the final deal —— would like to have a second referendum, and they vote certainly. some labour constituents have been very frustrated and they have said, why haven't you worked this out? you can hear televisions switchover ci’oss can hear televisions switchover cross britain. we should move on! it is so much minute shy because no one knows what they are doing and it is quite boring. it is like someone saying, how did you get here, did you come past those roadworks which
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among and you think, just get on with it. -- among and you think, just get on with it. —— those roadworks? among and you think, just get on with it. -- those roadworks? now to another story, rising hate crimes since the eu vote. and this also is about theresa may's immigration policies, making the country more races, according to a report by a un inspector. —— more racist. races, according to a report by a un inspector. -- more racist. she has been here, the un special report on racism and xenophobia, a reversal of law at the university of california and she has been on a 12 day tour of britain —— a professor of law. she couldn't have picked a worse time to come with the windrush scandal and the resignation of amber rudd and what she says is pretty damning and something all parties... she says the rotten core of the hostile
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environment policy dates back to immigration reforms introduced by tony blair in 2006, intensified by subsequent laws. she has put together this whole sense of hate crime having risen starkly since the referendum and the anti—foreigner rhetoric has become normalised and even amongst high—ranking civil servants which is rather worrying. she talks about this hostile environment, not just for irregular immigrants, by which i issue she means “— immigrants, by which i issue she means —— i assume immigrants, by which i issue she means “ i assume she means immigrants, by which i issue she means —— i assume she means illegal immigrants but also those who are british citizens and have been entitled to citizenship. not surprisingly in duncan smith, iain duncan smith, these visits are completely pointless, they are politically motivated and they are expired by the extreme left and the
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idea is to kick the uk. i don't think you can say that about the united nations, i don't think they are in extreme left body.|j united nations, i don't think they are in extreme left body. i am more optimistic about attitudes towards immigration than i was. one of the reasons is windrush, every so often a single event comes along which changes public opinion and you can see that the injustice that happened over that, the same way that david cameron wouldn't allow syrian refugees into the country but one picture of a three—year—old boy drowned on a turkish beach change public opinion and 20,000 syrians came in and are all settling in nicely as far as we know. the financial times. one of their front page stories, blackstone stirs social housing well, it says blackstone is coming underfire after muscling into the british social housing market. you were very
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interested in this, jo. i am. all political parties and all generations and the bbc has been reporting today that it is notjust general people who can't own their own houses, there are middle—aged and older people stuck in rented properties, and there is no doubt that there is a crisis and it is not just london and the south—east, but it is about social housing and about rented housing. what this means basically, with blackstone moving m, basically, with blackstone moving in, council houses were sold off as we know and housing associations are not roll profit organisations who run estates and blocks, all over the country, and if you get an equity giant like blackstone coming into the social housing market then there are concerns the social housing market then there are concerns because they are not doing it for love, they are doing it
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for profit. that means they are in a better position to bid for properties and do deals with developers. developers get deals with local authorities to build and quite often they will do an exchange ona quite often they will do an exchange on a percentage of affordable housing but where it comes unstuck is on the viability criteria that they use, and they say, the costs have gone up, we can't do this, and then we have the question of affordability, what is truly affordable. the principle of a housing association should be, not—for—profit. housing association should be, not-for-profit. yes, of course. and then to reinvest that into housing. but how do you buy the property in the first place ? but how do you buy the property in the first place? the argument is they have the money to buy the property and they invest any profit they make back into buying more properties, is now the principal? —— isn't that. that is also the principal blackstone. except they
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ta ke principal blackstone. except they take their cut. this is all part of the problem with housing in the uk. absolutely. there are problems with re nt absolutely. there are problems with rent caps and better security for tenants, so in common with other european countries people don't get obsessed with owning their own home because they know they can live somewhere and they are going to be safe and secure and their rent will be capped and affordable, but i think this will stir up problems. the bbc is looking at housing issues and today we were looking at those who are renting in particular and we hear about young people who can't afford to buy their first home but what we heard today was that it wasn't just those what we heard today was that it wasn'tjust those people, it was the next generation up, almost middle—aged people. next generation up, almost middle-aged people. if you are on a teacher's salary or a nurse's salary, you won't be able to afford a house in london or the south—east,
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so this is one to watch. and now the daily telegraph. one of the other stories on theirfront daily telegraph. one of the other stories on their front page, toothpaste sold for £8 stories on their front page, toothpaste sold for e8 in hospitals. would you pay £8 for a tube of toothpaste? ba by in would you pay £8 for a tube of toothpaste? baby in hospital you would. w h smith seem to be charging outrageous amounts for basic things in hospitals —— may be in hospital you would. a similar issue to the way they were doing this at airports, they would have it as a premium, so this toothpaste bird—macro £8, you could buy four 80p elsewhere, and a number of other products are also there, pampers nappies, £6, but they could be £2 50 elsewhere. w h smith said this is a pricing error. quite a big one. indeed. the toothpaste should have
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been £2 49 which is still a lot more expensive than the 80p in the high street. what is good about the story, simon stephens, the head of the nhs, has got involved and he is warning them to get their act together because this is the sort of thing which adds unnecessary stress and pressure on people. someone has had to go into hospital and they need some toiletries, you have then got to pay for the car park in and all of that, and i like simon stephens and i think this is a very good consumer story and it shows that he's in with ordinary patients as well as the wider issue. when i saw this headline i thought, this is another thing about ridiculous contracts in the nhs, but of course they don't supply toothpaste. you wonder how many w h smith shops in hospitals will be scouring their shelves and making sure they are not this price. i reckon toothpaste will come down in price by tomorrow morning. wh smith is the company
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that sells >> studio: -- that says, would you like a barrel chocolate with your newspaper, i'm sure that would be the case. thanks for joining us. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers — and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you. goodbye. hello, there. good evening. a bit of everything this weekend, some rain, some sunshine and even a dollop of uncertainty. some rain, some sunshine and even what is more certain are the temperatures. remember last weekend, 28 degrees, basking in the sunshine. this weekend, a bit different, there will still be some sunshine around but temperatures about 17 degrees at best. the main uncertainty is over the position of this cloud and rain
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that is coming from that cloud, because it is moving very slowly eastwards and eventually it will come to a stop. we have got some rain around at the moment. not much across the southern half of the uk, it is mostly further north, even that is quite light and patchy and tending to ease towards the north—east corner and the north sea. behind that, we start to get some clearer skies, and tonight is going to be quite a cold one, actually, in northern ireland and wales in particular. the uncertainty over the weekend centres not just around that weather front but this area of low pressure looks like it is staying to the north—west now. yesterday, it looked like it was heading to the south—west. ahead of it, this weather front is stopping somewhere, probably eastern parts of the uk and it threatens to bring some bigger periods of rain as well. as we head into the start of the weekend, the overnight rain should clears the northern isles of scotland and then we have a bright start with some sunshine, all looking rosy. then we start to see the cloud thickening up in the south—east and that will start to deliver some rain, heading up towards lincolnshire towards
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the end of the afternoon. for many areas, a dry and bright day with a few showers in northern ireland, and a few showers for the south—west of england in particular and those are the temperatures. let's look at this rain. it could be a bit further west or east. this is what we are expecting at the moment. some heavy rain overnight running across the eastern side of england, eventually up into eastern scotland. a brief pause and then another area of rain developing in the south—east and heading on a similar track. we should see improvements in the afternoon, in the south—east and east anglia, some sunshine coming through and a bit warmer. further west, some sunshine, missing most of the rain, very few showers, not as many as we were thinking this time yesterday and temperatures typically into the mid—teens. eventually the rain will clear away and as we move into the beginning of next week, high pressure starts to build in so things become a bit more certain. it looks like it should be largely dry with spells of sunshine and for a while, it will be a bit warmer. this is bbc news.
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