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if anyone is thinking this here. if anyone is thinking this grand national isn't taking seriously, many have been trained by championjockey seriously, many have been trained by champion jockey up and down the country, including ap mccoy. amazing stuff! love those pictures! let's finish by hearing from a young man whose incredible positivity after a shocking injury has been an inspiration to many. formula three driver billy monger lost both legs in an horrific crash — and after winning an honour at last night's bbc sports personality of the year award, he told our reporter holly hamilton the people around him have been invaluable in his recovery. i'd like to think if you surround yourself with good people, good things will happen and i definitely had that after my accident. the outpouring of support i had was unbelievable. so, yeah, i can't thank everyone enough for being so positive and for showing me the right way to go. officer, i had to figure it out for myself but when you've got those really positive people around you, it isn't hard to
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get to out of something so bad. we all sat and watched the pictures that were shown beforehand of the crash. what is it like to relive that again? i have watched it a lot in hospitaljust to make myself more familiar with it, it happened so quick i didn't really know what had happened precisely. it is not a shock to me to see that anymore. it probably years to some people in the audience. but i am really glad i've managed to overcome that and, together with my team, go on to produce some cool things with more to come. i can imagine! you've received your award from one of your heroes, lewis hamilton. what was that like? craze! i've spent a few weekends at conference with lewis of the last 18 months and he is such a nice guy, took me under his wing, giving mea nice guy, took me under his wing, giving me a lot of support. i can't thank him enough for that. i am a bit shocked, really! i have to ask, what is next for you? such a huge
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future ahead. we are in the process of trying to sort next year out, hopefully stepping up again to another category in europe and in the process of finalising and getting sponsors to fund that and to make sure it happens which i am sure it will. that is the plan. i'm going to try and make it happen. holly hamilton there, speaking to billy, and inspirational character, recognised with that award in the bbc sports personality of the year award. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. more now on brexit, and the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, is tabling a motion of no confidence against the prime minister this evening for her handling of the brexit deal vote. this is the moment mr corbyn made the announcement in the house of commons.
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so, mr speaker, as the only way i can think of of ensuring a vote ta kes pla ce can think of of ensuring a vote takes place this week, i'm about to table a motion which says the following. that this house has no confidence in the prime minister... due to herfailure confidence in the prime minister... due to her failure to allow the house of commons to have a meaningful vote straightaway on the withdrawal agreement and framework for future relationships between the uk and the european union. that will be tabled immediately, mr speaker. thank you. that was in the last hour 01’ so. let's talk to our political correspondent ben wright at westminster. we can all be forgiven for watching that, thinking what is going on? is this possible? how does it work? i'm sure you have the answers. it sounds like a dramatic piece of political theatre jeremy corbyn was like a dramatic piece of political theatrejeremy corbyn was producing. in fact, it is a fairly meaningless
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motion in many ways. calling for a vote of confidence in the prime minister is a symbolic act byjeremy corbyn. it may be the government decides to allot time for this vote to ta ke decides to allot time for this vote to take pace but even if it passes, which, of course, would require the support of the dup and a handful of tories as well to get it over the line, even if labour passes this motion, it doesn't actually amount to anything. it is only symbolic, it isn't a vote of confidence in the government. that is legislated for a different way, and that could potentially go on and trigger a general election, were labour to win that. it is not a vote of confidence in the government, but in the prime minister. there has been an anguished debate within the labour top ranks over the last couple of weeks about what it should be doing to pile pressure on the government. there are people in the labour party who think labour should get on now and table a vote of confidence in the government. he hasn't done that,
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instead he's trying to cause discomfort for the prime minister by threatening her with a vote of confidence in her premiership. as i said, the impact of that is very limited. so, who is he doing this for? what message is he trying to get out and to who? that say there isa get out and to who? that say there is a vote of no—confidence in theresa may, nothing happens. what is his game plan? it is meant to send a signal that labour is on the front foot, that the government are on the ropes, which they are, no question about that. and they are challenging the government to provide time for this vote and if the government but that challenge, they will look even weaker than they are. if the vote happens and labour win it, it would undoubtedly be really embarrassing for the prime minister. the crucial point is it wouldn't need to janet corbell insisted he wanted to see, which is general election. one of the reasons labour are ducking that is because they don't think they can win a vote of confidence in the government. and
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if they don't, label will be forced to clarify precisely what they would do want to happen if, as most people expect, theresa may loses the big vote on a deal which we now know what happened the week of the 14th of january. labour will have to confront its own very difficult decisions about the way forward, whether it is another referendum or something else altogether. let's talk about the referendum, and we will talk about it later this evening as well with a labour mp. how would that work? what kind of questions would have to be on the paper? it has to be a yes or no answer, hasn't it? nobody has a clue. what would have to happen is the government would need to decide, and the prime minister would have to decide, whoever it was at the time, that the referendum is the only way to break the deadlock and the government would bring forward primary legislation to the house of commons which they would have to approved. mps would have to work out approved. mps would have to work out a formulation for the questions on
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the ballot paper. this entire process from the moment the government decides to call another referendum could be 6—7 months. it is going to take a long time but mps would have a critical say in working out what the question or questions would be and what options would be on the ballot paper. would theresa may's deal, which has been rejected in the commons, be on the ballot paper? would leaving the eu be on it? certainly. would leaving without a it? certainly. would leaving without 3110 it? certainly. would leaving without a no deal be on it? maybe that would be an option. it is something even labour supporters of another referendum say should be on the ballot paper. so, it is a very live discussion but nobody is sure, really, how it would play out and what the formulation would be on the paper. thank you very much for that. much more from the political team throughout the evening. also, more reaction from labour as well to
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jeremy corbyn's call for a referendum on brexit and for a vote of confidence in theresa may. shall we just have a look at the weather for now? the next spell of wet and windy weather is pushing into the west this evening and overnight, gradually spreading eastwards as we had through tomorrow but it'll be a dry and fairly chilly start to the night in the east, further west we have gales and outbreaks of pretty persistent rain. it will be mild 10-11 to persistent rain. it will be mild 10—11 to start tuesday. further east, a bit of a chilly start. it sta rts east, a bit of a chilly start. it starts dry with some sunshine across the east but the clouds, wind and rain increase. it is a pretty atrocious morning commute in the west. through the afternoon, the rain becomes confined to eastern scotland, england and wales but further west it brightens up. it'll bea mild further west it brightens up. it'll be a mild day, temptress alive and well. the rain moves eastwards, pushing on into the north sea for
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tuesday night. behind it, some blustery showers. it stays similar for thursday and wednesday. fairly mild in the south with showers and strong winds. you're watching beyond 100 days. theresa may announces a new timetable for a new vote on brexit but the old problems haven't gone away. actually they've got worse — the opposition leaderjeremy corbyn 110w says he'll table a motion of no confidence in the prime minister. there's no date yet for that motion but theresa may says parliament will vote on her brexit plan in mid january. a new report for the us senate concludes russia used every social media platform to help elect donald trump — reaching millions of voters. also on the programme... a tide of legal worries laps at mr trump's feet. 17 probes against him and his organisations, more than any other president in history. and the brits are the but of brexitjokes
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