dance, it's not my revolution. what a fantastic quote to start our day to day. i want to thank the you're watching bbc newsroom live. candidates from all across the region, thank you for what you are it's ham and these are the main doing, andl region, thank you for what you are doing, and i look forward to you stories this morning. being in the next parliament as part labour promises an additional ofa £150 billion of public investment being in the next parliament as part of a labour majority. in what it calls an irreversible applause shift in wealth in favour of working people. and i want to say big thank you to labour promises an additional £150 billion of public investment in what it calls an irreversible shift in wealth in favour joe anderson and simon rotherham, but the tories call it fantasy the mayor of liverpool and the mayor economics, and say the economy's safer in their hands. of liverpool city region, one of the former labour minister ian austin, who left the party in february, retiring tory mps said he was a has urged people to vote conservative in december‘s general election. recovering politician. steve is recovering politician. steve is recovering well from the trauma of the country faces a big choice. working with me for two years as pps there are only two people who can be when i was first elected leader, so prime minister on december the 13th, thank you for all you do and thank jeremy corbyn borisjohnson, and i you for that. thinkjeremy corbyn is completely applause the atmosphere at the start of this unfit to lead our country. election campaign is absolutely

electric. i have been in 14 and we're live in leeds — constituencies already, and the a city with five universities, numbers of people coming out to work so we're here this morning talking to students about their concerns in and support and campaign for labour the run up to next month's election. is already much greater than it was the jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering british at the start of the 2017 election. backpacker grace millane in new zealand are shown cctv footage of her last known moments. 0ur party and our members are so up for this fight, so up for this trying to break the world battle, we are going to win this land speed record — the british team say they're feeling confident. election! and we are going to win it because we offer something very different. i don't suppose there are too many people in this audience that we the daily telegraph. it's all right if you do it in private, i good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. i'm annita mcveigh. understand! it had a bizarre front it's another busy day today page yesterday, with borisjohnson defending billionaires. i'm sure on the election trail as the main parties head out across the country there are billionaires that need to meet voters and give speeches. defending, but personally i don't know any. in fact, i don't know any the economy is taking centre stage, billionaires, sol know any. in fact, i don't know any billionaires, so i am at a bit of a disadvantage. but it then ended up and in the next few moments with a government minister the shadow chancellor,

john mcdonnell, is expected to promise an extra complaining that labour was £150 billion for schools, hospitals and care homes dehumanising politicians by at an event in liverpool. in the last hour the chancellor complaining about what a very sajid javid gave a speech saying prominent person said about the uk economy has confounded expectations, with nine years of consecutive growth, rising wages and record employment. let's cross to liverpool now — grenfell. prominent person said about gre nfell. gre nfell was prominent person said about grenfell. grenfell was a disaster waiting to happen and are wholly norman smith is there for us. preventable loss of life. we should show sympathy for those who lost cheering so, a tale of two economies, norman. loved ones, but we also need to give give us your take on whatjohn mcdonnell is going to be saying security to those who are still today. you join living in buildings with that mcdonnell is going to be saying today. youjoin mejust cladding, and a labour government mcdonnell is going to be saying today. you join me just as lucy would act immediately to remove it. powell stands, you can seejeremy applause corbyn and john mcdonnell, they will be announcing a big bonanza spending pledge from labour, more government and so when families complain about spending that we have ever seen before, more than labour in the living in a death trap, and residents' warnings are ignored and 19705, before, more than labour in the 1970s, more in the post—war19a5 survivors have to wait years to get rehoused, it shows me that something labour 1970s, more in the post—war 1945 labour government, an

1970s, more in the post—war1945 labour government, an extra £150 million being announced for the badly has gone wrong, and that is first five years of a labour government with regards schools, dehumanising our politics. we will do things very differently. we want housing, roads, and that is on top ofan housing, roads, and that is on top to invest so that no communities of an existing commitment for £250 left behind. as luthi pointed out, billion of spending, so a total package of £400 billion of extra there are massive imbalances between there are massive imbalances between the north and south of this country government spending, which they and the east and west. the levels of believe will transform the economy investment are very high in and bring about an irreversible transport, infrastructure in london shift in where money and taxpayer in the south—east, very low in the spending goes in this country, to some of the more deprived, less north, the north—east, yorkshire and much of the midlands. you can take a affluent parts of the country, to be train from here to hull, takes a very long time. you can get to paid for by additional borrowing. it is part of what labour say is real london and well beyond in the same time it takes to get to hull by change, perhaps their biggest spending pledge they have ever made train from liverpool, and so we will be investing all across the north. before. the? of course is it all and we will be investing through a depends on interest rates remaining green industrial revolution, and i pay tribute to the work that has low. the danger of course is that been done on merseyside, the work the markets react against it and for the mersey barrage, and we will be developing a green industrial interest rates start to creep up, revolution that will create but it is a massive announcement we thousands ofjobs, revolution that will create thousands of jobs, hundreds revolution that will create thousands ofjobs, hundreds of thousands ofjobs, hundreds of

are expecting today from john thousands of jobs, across thousands ofjobs, hundreds of thousands ofjobs, across this country. but it is also about mcdonnell. norman, to what extent do funding our nhs and schools, and you thinkjohn mcdonnell is going to focus purely on labour‘s message, or taxing people fairly to achieve it. do you think he is going to address so our tax plans which john will the conservative attack, which is calling this fantasy economics?” outline will affect 5% of the population. the rest of the think the conservative response has population. the rest of the population will benefit from it, been slightly blunted by the fact because i believe there is so much that when we have heard from sajid unfairness in britain, it is time to javid this morning, he too is change course and change tack. and arguing that interest rates are so we will be supporting our national historically low that you can borrow health service, and all the evidence we have got is that this government more, and he has announced ambitious plans to increase spending on is happy to sell our nhs out to the schools and hospitals, suggesting nearly a doubling of conservative usa, happy to do a trade deal with donald trump, which could end up spending, so to some extent we are ina bidding spending, so to some extent we are in a bidding war between parties as with us sending 500 millions of nhs they both set out plans for big spending pledges to be paid for by money to big us drugs corporations. i make it very clear, under labour, borrowing. the scale is entirely out i make it very clear, under labour, different in terms of whatjeremy our nhs is not for sale. to anybody. corbyn and the labour party are now promising. they see this as about applause rebooting the british economy, preparing it for the next 20 years, and so... in the winter election of

and globalisation, and it is in their view about transforming the 2019, when you vote on december the british economy, making it better able to complete compete and more 12th, or earlier if you vote by post, you have got a choice ahead of productive, but it does depend on you. a choice of whether you being able to borrow the money at cheap rates, and it also depends on continue austerity and underfunding of our public services, you stand by the way the money is allocated. john oi'i of our public services, you stand by on the other side while more people become rough sleepers, you watch our mcdonnell will suggest that part of the treasury will be moved to the children growing up in poverty and north of england where civil you watch the brutality of universal serva nts north of england where civil credit hitting the very poorest. and servants will decide where the money should go, and there will be for those in work and middle age, question marks about whether if you going deeper into debt in order to like the bureaucrats are better fund social care for their parents placed to decide how money is spent and university education for their than business people. so there are children. 0r and university education for their children. or do we say in the fifth significant question marks, but it richest country in the world, we can isa significant question marks, but it is a big part of labour‘s election do things differently and better? that we can achieve that level of pitch. and i thought on ian austin, equality that is possible, we can invest in our public services, we until earlier this year, died can create the jobs for the future, pitch. and i thought on ian austin, until earlierthis year, died in pitch. and i thought on ian austin, until earlier this year, died in the wool labour man, telling traditional voters that they should vote and we will have secretaries of state and government ministers that get it, that i understand it, that conservative. what kind of an impact will that have, do you think. i'm are rooted in those communities that will benefit from everything that a

sorry, i miss that. if you are labour government will bring and i'm talking about ian austin, i guess he very proud now to ask you to put will be discounted by mr corbyn‘s your hands together to welcome somebody who is, as you all know, supporters, because he has always very close friend of mine, and is been bitterly hostile to the labour leader, left the labour party after close friends do, you can argue all the time. the whole time. i have the anti—semitism row, but nevertheless on the eve of this still not quite got over the speech, it matters. let's listen to foot ball still not quite got over the football question with john what this to corbyn has to say. mcdonnell, but that will come later. but injohn we have got somebody who has literally change the economic debate in this country by force of nature and force of argument. we are i'io nature and force of argument. we are no longer debating the merits or so, norman, we are still seeing you, otherwise of austerity, we are now debating the necessity of investing if you can hear me, rather than jeremy corbyn at the moment. we are ina debating the necessity of investing in a future to care for those that just going to see if we can switch to that shot. hopefully you can hear needed support, need the support and ca re needed support, need the support and care that they deserve, but also to me, norman. the focus very much create a society that is absolutely today on the economy for labour and fit for the next generation. and so it is with great pride and great the conservatives, and i think, pleasure that i welcome a lad from actually, we can go tojeremy corbyn right now. she said, ifi can't liverpool who had a sojourn in

norfolk, ended up in london but keeps coming back to merseyside all the time because he absolutely loves merseyside and liverpool, and somebody who i think is going to be an historic chancellor of the exchequer... cheering in the same mould as those great chancellors of the exchequer the post—war labour government had. read, if you've got time, their speeches and introducing the budgets of 45, 46, 47, 48. in the midst of all the post—war problems they had, their whole narrative was about dealing with the poverty and injustice and lost opportunities for so injustice and lost opportunities for so many millions of people in britain at that time. and their force of nature was the national health service. john's force of nature will bring us the national education service, will bring us that investment, that decency, that

equality, within our society. john, thank you for all you have done, and thank you for all you have done, and thank you for all you will do when we have won the election. john mcdonnell! cheering thanks a lot. thanks a lot, jeremy. thanks a lot. thanks a lot, jeremy. thank you, thank you. that is really nice of you. look, if we can stick together as a partnership after penalty shoot—outs, that shows you how committed we are to this cause. laughter it is good to be home again as jeremy said in the city of my birth. my jeremy said in the city of my birth. my scouse predecessors, like so many others in this city were economic migrants. they came across the sea

looking for work, looking for the work so that they could work themselves out of poverty. and my goodness, they worked. just down the road from here, my grandad and my dad worked on the docks. i can still remember as a youngster my dad coming home, he always used to have, you remember, that hook hanging from his belt, the hook that he used to great bales as they were loaded on and off the ships on the mersey. thousands of tonnes of goods going in and out of this port every day. providing thousands of jobs, in and out of this port every day. providing thousands ofjobs, keeping thousands of families just above the watermark. until the jobs dried thousands of families just above the watermark. until thejobs dried up. and like so many other families, watermark. until thejobs dried up. and like so many otherfamilies, my family south, looking for work. what happened to the liverpool docks and to liverpool is what happened to so many cities and communities right the way across the north and britain. traditional industries

declined and little was done to replace them. 0ld skills were lost, and new skills were just not invested in. successive labour governments did, they really tried to engage and invest, only to see their efforts swept aside when every tory government was elected, and i know that people here especially in liverpool will remember the last time the tories were in charge and the damage they did notjust to the city but right the way across the north. communities were smashed apart. pride ripped out of towns and cities right the way across the country. there was an arrogant complacency, neglect and a lack of ca re complacency, neglect and a lack of care that summed up, can you remember the phrase? there is no alternative, they told us. it was just the sort of nature of economic

change, as if change always meant fewer jobs change, as if change always meant fewerjobs or worse paid jobs. the tories are always the same. in the 80s tories are always the same. in the 805 it tories are always the same. in the 80s it was dole queues and sky inflation. now it's zero—hours contracts, universal credit and queues outside food banks. if they win again, if they win again, it will just be win again, if they win again, it willjust be more of the same. they are planning to slasher inheritance tax and taxes for the richest, despite... i will give the example ofan despite... i will give the example of an ever deepening crisis in our ca re of an ever deepening crisis in our care homes, and a crumbling public transport system. there will be a ha rd transport system. there will be a hard right tory brexit smashing a hole in our public finances. do you know, they treat us with contempt. they think people are stupid. they think that, with brexit on the

agenda, they think we will all forget about the last nine years, and the prospect of another five yea rs if and the prospect of another five years if they get back. but whatever they say, whatever they say, there is an alternative. the chance to change things dramatically and permanently for the better. so, labour's messages won exactly as jeremy said, from time and time again, it is one of hope, and our hope is an ambition, and a concrete objection that we will, yes we will end the attitude that there is no alternative, and we will replace it with the words we have been discussing over the last few years, one of hope. that another world is possible. and it's notjust possible, it's necessary, and under

a labour government, its insight, because this election isn'tjust about the next 12 months. 12 months of the brexit withdrawal agreement. 0r of the brexit withdrawal agreement. or even about the next five years. it's about the next ten years. it's about future generations and the future of our country, and yes, the future of our country, and yes, the future of our planet. everything we hold dear, everything we hold dear, and once in a generation, a once in and once in a generation, a once in a generation chance to get back on track, we make this country, transform everyone's lives for the better. i haven't got a rose tinted view of the past. i still remember the conditions my family first lived m, the conditions my family first lived in, and, yes, how hard it was for my pa rents, in, and, yes, how hard it was for my parents, like so many others, how ha rd parents, like so many others, how hard they had to workjust to get by. but this city and this country have a proud record, a proud industrial history, which has been taken away by successive tory

governments. and after years of being held back, those cities and towns, like liverpool, like manchester and the smaller towns in the north—west, all of them require radical change to undo the damage that has been done by the tories. 0uraim isa that has been done by the tories. our aim is a labour government is to achieve what past labour governments have aspired to, an irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people. applause and that means... that means change, real change. and it means investment on a scale never before seen in this country. and certainly never seen before in the north and outside of london and the south—east. so, to achieve that

objective, it also requires therefore an irreversible shift in therefore an irreversible shift in the centre of gravity in political decision—making as well as investment in this country. from its location solely in london to be relocated to the north end regions and nations of this country. so, on the scale of change of investment needed, i can tell you, let mejust explain, labour's national transformation fund will be bigger than we even promised in 2017. for areas that haven't had a fair share for years, we will deliver, yes, £250 billion of investment, here and around the country over the next ten years, our green transformation fund, upgrading oui’ green transformation fund, upgrading our energy and transport and other networks to meet our targets and decarbonise as thoroughly as we can and as fast as we can to adjust transition. i welcome the launch

today of the manifesto for the north. it was splashed across all the papers. let me say to all those who supported the manifesto of the north, all those leaders and councillors, all the local communities, all those newspaper editors. a labour government will provide the resources at the powers to enable it simple meditation, including crossrailfor to enable it simple meditation, including crossrail for the to enable it simple meditation, including crossrailfor the north so that we can have a decent transport system that we can have a decent transport syste m o nce that we can have a decent transport system once again. applause but it is notjust the natural world that has been neglected. so we will also commit to an additional £150 billion in a new social transformation fund. and it will be spent over the first five years of oui’ spent over the first five years of our labour government. the social transformation fund will begin the urgent task of repairing our social

fabric that has been torn apart by the tories. 150 million to replace and upgrade and expand our schools, hospitals, care homes, and yes, council homes, once again under a labour government. and it's the deal... applause it's to deal with a human emergency which has been created by the tories over last nine years of the climate emergency. those are the twin challenges, but they are opportunities as well for our country, a once—in—a—lifetime opportunity to upgrade our infrastructure for good. it's because we have no other choice. we have to do it. if we are to stand any chance whatsoever of tackling climate change, if we are to stand

any chance of providing a decent quality—of—life for all our people, and also for ever to bring our communities back together again, and we have to act now, and we have to act big and we have to act decisively. so all of these initiatives will be linked in a comprehensive programme to transform oui’ comprehensive programme to transform our economy and people's lives. those who need jobs linked with the need to actually create and build the new wind turbines. those with new ideas for green technologies linked with the areas where manufacturing and investment has become for many a memory of your grandparents. that means making sure we transition away from fossil fuels to green energy sources, that those newjobs are located in communities where they are needed with the investment in skills to go alongside the investment in infrastructure.

not like now, building wind farms in scotla nd not like now, building wind farms in scotland with components shipped in from around the world whilst yard's making the components stand idle in fife. it means bringing in 27 million. it means bringing 27 million. it means bringing 27 million homes across the country up to efficiency energy standards, saving everyone money on their bills, and yet at the same time reducing our carbon footprint. it means a national investment bank and a network of regional development banks including one for the north west using the power of government to raise money nationally and internationally. and new banks including our postbank to pass on those resources into the hands of communities themselves. but it is not just about spending more. communities themselves. but it is notjust about spending more. it's about how that money is spent, with

decision—making devolved to local communities. so we will carve out pa rt communities. so we will carve out part of the national transformation fund for a local transformation fund in each of england's regions, with money for devolved governments as well of course. and that money will be ring fenced for infrastructure projects, decided and developed at the local level. with decisions made transparently and democratically in each region. the decisions will be made here by local people, local decision makers, about how those funds are allocated. it is you who know best how to tackle the issues facing your community. there will be regional officers of government department overseen by city council leaders, with that board publicly accountable to open meetings, to

local councils, trade unions and business leaders alike. they will be supported by a national transformation fund unit of the treasury. i can confirm that there powerful section of the treasury unit will be based here in the north. applause there is a rumour going round that it will be as close to anfield as possible! laughter at the same time, my treasury ministerial team he are here. our meetings will no longer solely be in london. labour's treasury ministers will meet outside of london, we will have eight ministerial office in the north as well. what does this mean?

applause what does this mean? it means this. that the centre of political gravity is shifting away from london. it is coming back home to the north. cheering this is... this is where the investment is needed, and this is where the decisions on that investment need to be made on the ground. power is coming back home, but it's coming back to the people. we can only deliver real change, the change we need, by putting power in the hands of local communities. 0ther the hands of local communities. other people who know their local area the best. yes, a good example, stevie rotherham is here. those who came up with the idea of the tidal barrage across the mersey which i

tell you we will build, and we will build it together. applause it won't just be applause it won'tjust be public investment, of course. we can't do it if the finance sector is not pulling its weight, so the days of the city dictating terms to the rest of the country are over. applause the finance sector will be brought in line with the rest of us, tackling the emergency we face with an end to short—term thinking. associating with investment here and now rather than the potential for genetic change with carbon icing

investments. it leads to this concept of standing assets which undermine the whole ability to invest securely for the whole term. it is not just invest securely for the whole term. it is notjust short—term thinking in the finance sector that needs to change, nothing shows the short termism of the two more than their approach to universal tuition. we now it will cost money to make tuition free again and scrap tuition fees. we have talked about that, we have costed in a grey book at the last election and we will in this election. but the office for budget responsibility forecast which was meant to be published today was expected to show tens of billions of more borrowing because the tories designed an expensive student loan system that had the cost of the books, they got caught out in the end. too late for the billions who wrapped up tens of thousands in debt, youngsters in debt as a result

ofa debt, youngsters in debt as a result of a watering interest rates. that is what happens when you design fiscal rules to minimise the costs on one side of the balance sheet, ignoring the benefits on the other. labour will not need that mistake. i can tell you our fiscal rules for the next parliament will exclude borrowing for investment for borrowing for investment for borrowing targets. it will 90 as to deliver an improvement in neurobiology by the end of the parliament so that when we invest in infrastructure our our country desperately needs, it recognises both as a cost but also as a benefit. yes, adding to the government debt but also adding to the government assets and serving our public sector to deal with the future. with the rents of our new council homes on the electricity produced by our energy, set against the cost of securing the debt issue to build on. the ceiling on that

debt servicing cost will save 10% of tax revenue. 0n debt servicing cost will save 10% of tax revenue. on this at least that is nothing radical, it isjust common sense, what families and businesses do every day. after the corruption and rise of the studies, we need government and those who wa nt to we need government and those who want to be in government to be as transparent and possible. —— and rise of the tories. applause todayis applause today is just the start, we will lay out our tax and spending plans as we go along and in a fully costed ma nifesto, go along and in a fully costed manifesto, underpinned by a cutting edge fiscal rule that enables us to borrow from productive investment. so this choice in this election is not just clear, it so this choice in this election is notjust clear, it is historic. 0n

the one hand, the tories, the people who have inflicted a decade of harsh, brutal and unnecessary austerity cuts on communities. the people who starved our nhs, our schools, our police budgets of the resources they need. these are the people all of a sudden are now gushing with an election stunt author of spending more. theyjust ta ke author of spending more. theyjust take us for full, don't they? judge them and their record and their actions not on their election gimmick. this is and we knew, particularly in this city, you cannot trust a word they say. applause

you know, you know if they get back, we all risked five more years of cuts, falling wages, trump trade deals, selling out our nhs and a rise in state pension age. we will have a state pension age of 75. on the other hand, we had the chance now for real change, a decade spent rebuilding our society and saving our planet for our children and grandchildren, building the homes we need, investing to create the well—paid jobs, secure trade union rights restored, clean bat creating clea n rights restored, clean bat creating clean transport and energy networks. that will change by electing a labour government with jeremy corbyn at its helm.

and it will carry on long after and to be created radically transform society with restored pride in every pa rt society with restored pride in every part of the country. real change made permanent and delivered together, the first step is on december 12 and we are coming, solidarity. thank you.

that was a fantastic speech with some great content, some great policies there. we are now going to ta ke policies there. we are now going to take some questions. first of all we will take questions from the media and we will do so respectfully and ina and we will do so respectfully and in a patient way, if that's all right because we're really pride of the policies which have been announced today so we want them to be scrutinised and covered by the media. that means allowing the media

sometime to askjohn some questions sometime to askjohn some questions soi sometime to askjohn some questions so i will come to you after i have taken a few questions, even if you don't like the question being asked, we are going to listen to it and a nswered we are going to listen to it and answered respectfully. john is doing broadcast interview so is keen to hear from press colleagues as first soi hear from press colleagues as first so i will take three questions first from the media. who wants to ask a question? i will take one from you and you, tom. shadow chancellor, just down the road, the chancellor has been making some arguments with acres of what you said, low interest rates being an advantage to invest, he seems to be advanced —— targeting tens of millions of investment rather than hundreds, doesn't the scale of what you want to do risked

scaling the market and putting out the interest rates you are relying on being low? so, tom from sky. mr mcdonald this is an extraordinary amount of money you are voting to invest. can you set out to us whether these figures are these ambitions would change if they were voted in as a government and you had a successful renegotiation of the brexit deal, and there was the referendum you are proposing and that their referendum voted on that labour brexit to leave the uk, without having impact on what you are proposing? one more, gentlemen with the glasses. i am from the daily mirror. he said a lot of this money is going into housing, will that add to the increase to labour's existing target for the number of

houses you rebuild. do you think the next deputy leader of the party has to bea next deputy leader of the party has to be a women? on the last one, i am a lwa ys to be a women? on the last one, i am always in favour of gender balance. applause let me take five's point, won't happen down the road short while ago and the chancellor's speech. i think it was a bit of a tragedy because what she did and what you did last night as well, it was almost as though he became a climate change deniers. last night in his correspondence with the bank of england he removed the climate change references which were there previously so another word he was time to say to the bank of england is that climate change does not matter. this morning, at the same time, he has put forward a measurable amount of investment

which basically means we will not meet our climate change targets. we are facing an emergency. he seems to deny it, not even acknowledge it on the scale of investment he is putting forward. 0n the scale of investment he is putting forward. on that basic level of investment, we will not be able to meet our client change targets. he's putting at risk future generations which is unacceptable. —— climate change. in the levels of borrowing, there is no shortage at the moment with the low interest rates to demand a couple of points across the world. you know as well asido across the world. you know as well as i do that the imf and others are seeing now is the time to borrow to invest. if we do not do that we will be faced with continuing levels of poverty, undermining our productivity. already our productivity. already our productivity is going backwards in this country, entrance and germany are producing in four days what we produce and five. we are not

competing any more as a lack of investment. if you do not invest, we will continue with families being brought up, children will be in containers rather than having a decent roof over their head. 125,000 children living in temporary accommodation, unacceptable and the fifth largest economy in the world. totally u na cce pta ble to fifth largest economy in the world. totally unacceptable to stop on the same time —— at the same time above failed to protect our investment. 0ur failed to protect our investment. our investment. i still investment faces the same scale as emergency to be in the —— be faced, both climate change and social. if we did not step up to that mark, future generations would never forgive us. that is why we are doing it. applause. in terms of what happens with regard

to brexit, we will ensure that when we get into government, we will negotiate a deal that will protect jobs and the economy and we will put that back to the british people and they will have a genuine choice between a sensible brexit option to these and at the same time the choice to remain. we have faith in people so our commitment is yes, we will protect communities and the economy and their jobs, will protect communities and the economy and theirjobs, we will protect the living standards and whatever deal we get, it will enable us whatever deal we get, it will enable us to go ahead with their programme whether it is ideal or whether it is remained. 0ur whether it is ideal or whether it is remained. our key commitment is let the people decide. let the people decide. applause 0n the scale of investment we put forward , 0n the scale of investment we put forward, it will enable us to com plete forward, it will enable us to complete our objectives in terms of

house—building so this will give us the level of hunt —— house—building that we need, the social housing, the housing associations. we will publish the details of our programme in our manifesto. the detail of all costings will be there and will enable people to, i think, have confidence that won't —— once again we will be a contradiction houses people because at the moment, we have a government that has failed to house its people, failed to feed its people, the 02 delivered employment to bring those people out of poverty. and failed to give them the basic level of security against rising crime. we will transform our society. applause i will take a few more questions

from the media and i will come to members of the public soon. romilly, i think you are next. thank you, romilly weeks, itv news. you are urging people to think of the choice before them when they vote. why has ian austin and the jewish chronicle both decided that that choice must not be labour? will eve ryo ne that choice must not be labour? will everyone be respectful. we will take questions, the gentleman next to dan. thank you, from the guardian, peter walker. 0vernight was an announcement of a kind of mini electoral pact between the greens, the lib dems and plaid cymru. the opinion polls are seeing a hung parliament is a possibility. will you explain why labour decided not

to do packs like that if you thought that could help prevent another conservative government? ——pacts. hello, william james from reuters. you have talked in the past about preventing —— working towards the overthrow of capitalism, conservatives with describe you as a marxist, what labour would you put with this outline you have made today? let me start with that one. in this room you will be able to talk to others but i think we stand in the best tradition of british socialism in which we want to... applause

jenny said go back and read some of the speeches of past chancellors like hugh dalton's his autobiography, a phenomenal piece of work. gordon brown's his commitment to the children out of poverty, we stand in the tradition of socialism. all of them shared an ambition with us which was to change the world. that means changing and transforming this economic system that has so betrayed our people. it cannot be right that this economic system... applause it cannot be right that this economic system which some people think is the perfect way to update our economy, and we have 1.6 million food parcels handed out through the bank slashed year two people, many of whom are in work. —— last year to

many people. i do not believe that whatever smears and all the rest come from some elements of the right—wing media or whatever, i think people will cut through that because what we are addressing is their daily lives, how we can tackle, yes even poverty... we have 4.5 million of children in poverty, two thirds of them in families who work, what does that say about wages? applause like even those in relatively good incomes and wages, you talk to them and the pressures and stress that our economic system burdens them with. i have been going round the city, you can get a free lunch on the t, i have been meeting some of the highest earners in the country, they do not want to come out of their

offices and step over a homeless person. they want peace and security in their community as well so we will transform this economic system so it works for everyone, notjust will transform this economic system so it works for everyone, not just a small elite. that is what we propose. applause letters speak here, we are going to have a clearly —— clear majority governments, we do not need to meet packs. —— to make pacts. i would justice to the lib dems and the greens and others, i remember the lib dems did when the wearing governments. applause i say to those, go and ask any

disabled person in this country who went through the brutality of the work capability assessment. going to ask families of disabled people who never survived as a result of that. we will never enter into coalitions or deals like that ever. applause let me see this about some of the state m e nts let me see this about some of the statements made by a former labour mp this morning. he is now employed by the tories. what else do you expect him to do and an election campaign when you are void by the tories, you speak on behalf of the tories, that's what this was about this morning. —— when you are employed by the tories. applause 0n the issue of what has happened in the jewish media in 0n the issue of what has happened in thejewish media in the last week, of course we are saddened by it, of

course we are. but we are doing everything they asked of us. we are doing everything asked of us. we are doing everything asked of us to address this issue. yes, tiny number, less than a tenth of 1% in terms of our membership but it does not matter, one anti—semite is too many in our movement which is why we have done everything we can. applause are general secretary has introduced new procedures to dealing with them in terms of deals that make disciplinary processes, we have done that and we have been ruthless at times but we have done exactly what they asked of us, we have introduced an education programme independently designed to raise the awareness of anti—semitism, notjust designed to raise the awareness of anti—semitism, not just in designed to raise the awareness of anti—semitism, notjust in our party but in wider society. go and ask the tories what they are

doing about racism within their party. applause how dear the tories raise the issue of racism at all when they have a litre who has consistently and a journalistic career written state m e nts journalistic career written statements which are racist in themselves? —— have a leader. applause shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell there in liverpool, talking about an irreversible shift in the balance of power of labour when the election in favour of working people. he said that would mean big change and investment on a scale never seen before in this country. talking about their £150 billion public spending plan that labour have been

promoting, and national transformation fund, a green transformation fund, a green transformation fund. we will bring you more, and analysis of what he has been saying soon but right now staying with politics. throughout the campaign, bbc news will be looking closely at the places where the election could be won and lost — visiting 10 parts of the uk where seats will be closely today we're in leeds, and we can cross over now to amy garcia, who is there for us.... i had not been aware there were five universities, how big a deal will the student vote beat —— might be there? it is estimated there are 100,000 students so could make a difference. welcome to yorkshire. bbc news are visiting places where the battle of the election could be one and lost. we are in leeds for that reason, to find out the questions and issues voters want to

discuss. here, there are eight constituencies, five of which are held by the labour party and three by the conservatives. we're here in leeds central — which has been held by the labour mp hilary benn since 1999. but the two neighbouring seats of pudsey and morley & 0utwood are key battle grounds between the tories and labour. and in terms of the demographics, there are big differences across the city area. here in leeds central, over 80% of the population are under the age of 50 — in part of course to the large student population. but if you head back south to morley & 0utwood, that number drops to a little over 60% of the of the population aged under 50. throughout the general election campaign, we will be asking what questions you would like answered. "mailto:yourquestions@bbc. co. uk"you— rquestions@bbc.co.uk we've had thousands in already and lots of you have been asking about student voting.

leeds is home to five universities and in some constituencies in the city a high student turn out could affect the outcome. chi chi izundu has been to meet some students to help provide some answers. polling day is right at the end of term defined many. we are at a student house. lots of universities encourage students to vote when the real star of the academic year. effo rts real star of the academic year. efforts are real star of the academic year. efforts a re not real star of the academic year. efforts are not stopping there. real star of the academic year. efforts are not stopping therelj real star of the academic year. efforts are not stopping there. i am a keen voterand efforts are not stopping there. i am a keen voter and trying to register my friends to vote. it is incredibly important to get involved. it is super easy to register, you can do

it on your telephone. you need your name, your nationality, your address and date of birth. that is it.|j think my friend alex smith have a question for you. historically, younger voters are less likely to vote tha n younger voters are less likely to vote than older voters. can i vote here in leeds and at home and temperature ? here in leeds and at home and temperature? in a general election you can only cast one vote so you have to decide which vote you want to cast and castets. if you do it twice, you could face a hefty fine. in the last general election polling suggested 70% of students cast their vote in their home constituency. so ifi vote in their home constituency. so iflam vote in their home constituency. so if i am aware on election day, can i still vote? the first option is postal voting by chat apply for that process and that is the deadline. the deadline of the 26 of november if you live in england, scotland or wales. the other option is the proxy

vote, getting someone else to vote in your absence, someone you trust like your mum and dad. you have to give a reason as to why you cannot cast a vote yourself. the deadline for that is the 4th of december. if you live in northern ireland, the deadline for both proxy voting and voting is slightly earlier. you have to make your application by 21st of november. thank you. do you want to go and get a cup of tea? but in some constituencies like this one in leeds, it is the student vote which could determine who went. —— who wins. and i'm alsojoined by a student — lauren huxley who is union affairs officer at university of leeds we are trying to make it as easy as possible for our students to vote. as an issue gonna website, you will see all the links so our students

know how easy it is to get out their unusual votes. lots of students are at two addresses, some students may have gone home so making sure they know they can register at both addresses and deciding which one to vote at. we will be back in leeds later but for now, it is back to you. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello there, not that great a at the moment, very heavy rain into england and wales and the east midlands. it has been raining all morning. localised flooding, that will continue for the rest of today and through tonight. this band of rain, you can see on the radar from earlier, through northern parts of the uk down into east anglia. some snow at the top of the mountains in scotland. there is a warning from the met office, the second—highest

warning around the pennine region, we could see 150 millimetres of rain by friday morning which could lead to flooding problems. you can see the graphics running through, that band of rain wellness and will be particularly heavy. to the south, some sunny spells, dry spells. some sunshine in the north of scotland but chilly wherever you are. through this evening, the rain continues, it will break gradually is a myth further south and into the midlands. clear skies elsewhere and there will be some frost tonight. goodbye.

country are over. applause you're watching bbc newsroom live — it's midday and these are the main stories. labour promises an additional £150 billion of public investment in what it calls an irreversible shift in wealth in favour of working people. labour's national transformation fund will be bigger than even we promised in 2017. for the areas that haven't had theirfair promised in 2017. for the areas that haven't had their fair share for yea rs, haven't had their fair share for yea rs , we haven't had their fair share for years, we will deliver. but the tories call it ‘fantasy economics' and say the economy's safer in their hands. former labour minister — ian austin, who left the party in february — has urged people to vote conservative in december‘s general election. of the country faces a big choice. there are only two people who can be prime minister on december the 13th,

jeremy corbyn and boris johnson, and i thinkjeremy corbyn is completely unfit to lead the labour party, completely unfit to lead our country. the jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering british backpacker, grace millane in new zealand are shown cctv footage of her last known moments. trying to break the world land speed record — the british team say they're feeling confident. good afternoon. welcome to bbc newsroom live. i'm annita mcveigh. it's another busy day today on the election trail as the main parties head out across the country to meet voters and campaign. it was a bad start the the morning for labour — as former labour mp ian austin urged people to vote for boris johnson instead ofjeremy corbyn , who he said was completely unfit to lead the country.

and in the last hour or so, the shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell gave a speech in liverpool, promising an extra £150 billion for schools, hospitals and care homes. earlier the chancellor, sajid javid, gave a speech in manchester where he said the uk economy has confounded expectations with nine years of consecutive growth, rising wages and record employment since the tories came into power. let's cross to liverpool now. norman smith is there for us. norman, clearly not the sort of backdrop with ian austin that the labour party wanted ahead of this speech, this big speech byjohn mcdonnell. let's talk about that first of all. what are the headlines from it as far as you are concerned? the headlines are less economic plan outlined byjohn the headlines are less economic plan outlined by john mcdonnell today the headlines are less economic plan outlined byjohn mcdonnell today is absolutely central to mr corbyn's to bring about real change in this

country, because the spending proposed byjohn mcdonnell is something we have never seen before. the labour governments of the 1970s didn't commit to this level of spending. the historic labour government after the second world wardidn't commit to government after the second world war didn't commit to this level of spending. what mr mcdonnell is proposing is £400 billion of government spending to provide what he said is a once in a generation upgrade to the infrastructure in this country and the productive capacity of this country. 250 billion of that we already knew about. what we have got today is a whopping 150 billion extra on top of that cash that will go into upgrading the transport network, new council homes, new schools, revitalising some of our most downtrodden communities. the second key pa rt downtrodden communities. the second key part of mr mcdonnell‘s pictures to bring economic power, as he put it, back home to the north away from

london. indeed, he said the days of the city telling the rest of britain how they should run are over, and there was a clear, it seemed to me, warning to the city that things were going to change under a labour government. the clear hope is that this is a message which will resonate with many communities who perhaps have seen their public realm decay under the years of austerity, but it is a massive spending commitment. have a listen to what he said. labour's national transformation fund will be bigger than even we promised in 2017. for the areas that haven't had their fairshare the areas that haven't had their fair share for years, we will deliver yes £250 billion of investment here and around the country over the next ten years. our green transformation fund, upgrading our transport and other networks to

meet our targets and decarbonise as thoroughly as we can and as fast as we can. to adjust transition. i welcome the launch today of the manifesto for the north. it was splashed across all the papers. let me say to all those who supported the manifesto of the north, all those leaders and council and and others, the mayors, those local communities, those newspaper editors. a labour government will provide the resources and the powers to enable its implementation, and yes, including crossrail for the north, so that we can have a decent transport system once again. now, all this comes with a risk, and the risk is the city, whether the markets will respond kindly to a labour government that wants to borrow £400 billion, and the risk of courses they turn up the heat and

turn up rates, which means mortgages of ordinary people and down the line potentially it can mean higher taxes, but here is an interesting thing. where conventionally you would expect the conservative party to leap on this and start talking about magic money tree is, interestingly, the chancellor, sajid javid, has been making similar although much less ambitious promises. he too is talking about pouring billions into public services, to be bayed —— paid for by borrowing, arguing as john services, to be bayed —— paid for by borrowing, arguing asjohn mcdonnell has that with interest rates that are historically low level, now is the time to borrow. this is what he said. in our manifesto and at our first budget in the new year we will announce new plans to level up the entire united kingdom from manchester to midlothian, spreading opportunity and renewing the fabric of our nation. they will be new

hospitals, schools, railways, better broadband, new connections and opportunities for every part of our great nation. sol opportunities for every part of our great nation. so i can confirm we will borrow some more to invest. but we know all too well what happens if debt gets out of control. excessive debt gets out of control. excessive debt would risk everything the british people have worked so hard to achieve over the past decade of recovery. the question at this election is who do you trust to protect that? it's why our second rule will ensure that we can invest more but we will continue to live within our means. so, we have got into something of a bidding war between the two parties, with the tories talking about extra cash for

police, for upgrading hospitals, for what they called an infrastructure revolution, and john mcdonnell talking about pouring hundreds of billions for a once in a generation upgrade to the infrastructure of the country. it is interesting in this sense that they are not both talking the same language, they are on the same terrain. they are both talking about the end of austerity. they are both talking about a big increase in government expenditure, and they are both talking about paying for this by borrowing. and the risk i suspect for the government is that they might be seen as labour light, offering something similar but not as ambitious as whatjohn mcdonnell has set out today. norman, just say where you are for a moment, because i want to ask you in a second about ian austin. the former labour minister ian austin has said voters should support boris johnson

in the election. speaking to bbc radio 4's today programme earlier this morning, the former labour mp said the party's leaderjeremy corbyn was "unfit" to lead the country. i'm nota i'm not a tory. this isn't where i wa nt i'm not a tory. this isn't where i want to be. but ijust think that i wouldn't say boris johnson is unfit to be our prime minister in the way i say that about jeremy corbyn. i think the country has got a big choice to make, and i thinkjeremy corbyn is completely unfit to lead it. and norman, you have breaking news for us, because someone is joining ian austin with the same message. another old labour supporter of gordon brown, john woodcock, now an independent mp, he, too, has voiced exactly the same concerns of ian austin, suggesting thatjeremy corbyn is unfit to be prime minister. when mr mcdonnell was asked about ian austin's comments here, there was an audible hiss that went round amongst labour party activists, and ian austin will

be dismissed by many folk as a turncoat, someone who abandoned 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 some other news. a man has been arrested after 15 people were found in the back of a lorry in wiltshire. police made the discovery close to the m4 near chippenham last night after a tip—off. one person was taken to hospital for checks, the others are in police custody. andrew plant reports. late last night in wiltshire, this scene just a few hundred yards off the m4 between bristol and swindon. you can see police searching a lorry they have pulled over on the verge here. this busy junction closed to traffic for several hours. eyewitnesses said they saw police and ambulances scrambling the scene. police said they were following a tip—off, unsure what they might find inside. police said they were responding to a call from a member of the public. when they stopped the lorry, they say they found 15

people in the back. all of whom were over the age of 16 and they say a man in his 50s is being questioned on suspicion of assisting illegal entry into the uk. the discovery comes just two weeks after 39 people were found dead in a lorry container in essex. it is not clear where this lorry had come from or its intended destination. by midnight, the initial search was over and the road reopened, the lorry driven away by officers, followed by a police convoy. police say everyone inside was given medical checks at the scene, with one person taken to hospital. the rest, they say, have been taken into custody. the london theatre where part of the ceiling collapsed yesterday evening during a show, forcing the audience to be evacuated from the building, has cancelled tonight's performance. more than a thousand people had to leave the piccadilly theatre in the west end when the collapse happened, during a performance of arthur miller's play

death of a salesman. five people were treated in hospitalfor minor injuries. wendell pierce, who stars as willy loman, spoke to the crowd outside. idid not i did not mean for it to go like this! i would like to thank you safely evacuating. we apologise. we're glad no one is hurt. and i ask you all to come back and see our production. we are so honoured that you came tonight. 0ne audience member who saw the roof come down told us, beforehand, the crowd could hear water coming through the ceiling for several minutes. it is the normal thing, you sit in a theatre, you are watching the show, and you just let things happen, and suddenly realise that something is happening that shouldn't be. clearly things weren't right. a few people started to panic, but i wouldn't say it was a mass panic, but there was a very quick evacuation.

more on today's main stories coming up on newsroom live here on the bbc news channel, but now we say goodbye to viewers on bbc two. now let's return to our election coverage. throughout the campaign, bbc news will be looking closely at the places where the election could be won and lost — visiting ten parts of the uk where seats will be closely contested. today we're in leeds, and we can cross over now to amy garcia, who is there for us. yes, hello. as you say, throughout the campaign, bbc news will be looking closely at the places where the election could be won and lost. today we're in leeds to find out the questions and issues voters want to discuss. here, there are eight constituencies, five of which are held by the labour party and three by the. we're here in leeds central,

which has been held by the labour mp hilary benn since but the two neighbouring seats of pudsey and morley and 0utwood are key battle grounds between the tories and labour. and in terms of the demographics, there are big differences across the city area. here in leeds central, over 80% of the population are under the age of 50 — due in part of course to the large student population. but if you head back south to morley and 0utwood, that number drops to a little over 60% of the of the population aged under 50. and i'm joined now byjames vincent, political editor for bbc yorkshire. james, as we mentioned, key battle grounds, and it is no coincidence that in past elections, party leaders have come here to launch their manifestos. it is notjust because of that, we have got some of those constituencies that if you win them, invariably you win the election, some of those key seats you mentioned like pudsey where

there is a majority ofjust 331. if you go out along the m62 corridor towards keighley, that is the tightest constituency in our patch. just 239 people who could change their mind this time hold the key to their mind this time hold the key to the national election, so it is no coincidence that for example last time labour launched their manifesto in bradford, the conservatives launch there is in halifax. they have already been here, boris johnson has made two or three visits to yorkshire even before the election was called, they know it is really important. and notjust leeds but across the region as a whole. the headline tonight for the yorkshire evening post, in ignore leeds at your peril. how important is it that politicians start listening to the north? they need to start listening. the north has been saying for a long time that it needs more help, more investment. you have seen a more help, more investment. you have seen a manifesto from the north today from northern leaders spelling outexa ctly what today from northern leaders spelling outexactly what they want. they want more money to try and make sure transport is in their own hands so that they can run transport in the north. we have talked a lot in look

north. we have talked a lot in look north in the past on the fact that some of our trains in yorkshire are effectively buses that have had their wheels taken off and put onto their wheels taken off and put onto the rails, the investment has not been there in the past. people in leeds and the rest of yorkshire want to know that their politicians are going to take the north seriously, which is why we have had john mcdonnell from the labour party talking about what they are going to do for the north, in liverpool today, and borisjohnson made a big play about that when he came to rotherham before the election started telling us what he wanted to do to make sure the north had more power in its own hands to choose its own destiny. let's talk about the north — south divide, investment in cross rail in london, whereas sheffield and manchester, 37 mile trip, it takes over an hour, it is quicker to drive. if we want to get over the pennines to see colleagues in manchester, it might take as an hour to drive, 50 minutes on the train, it is not the same in the south. think—tank recently had research at same transports spanning in london is over three had thousand pounds per head —— £3000 per head, and here it is £511 per head. people

wa nt to and here it is £511 per head. people want to know that while this election is about brexit and they will be thinking about brexit when they go to the ballot box on the 12th, they want to know that there are other issues like what the politicians will do for the north, and that is where they will be casting their vote as well. brexit isa casting their vote as well. brexit is a really interesting one as well, because the majority of yorkshire voted to leave, but you have areas like leeds, york, harrogate, that voted to remain. so those heartland constituencies that would never dream of going conservative are now ina very dream of going conservative are now in a very difficult place. we have a battle between red and blue in yorkshire, harrogate and knaresborough was a remain place, so was york and they want to try to ta ke was york and they want to try to take those places back. this morning the news about the pact between the greens and plaid cymru, so they won't be standing in some places, they will try to leave it to the lib dems to win that for the remain side of things, but brexit will be a huge pa rt of things, but brexit will be a huge part of this election, it is the

reason why we part of this election, it is the reason why we are part of this election, it is the reason why we are having it and we have the brexit party on the other side trying to win really strong labour areas like bolsover, over 70% of people in north derbyshire voted to leave the eu, they think they have a chance of sneaking in where they think the brexit party would say they run the conservatives, polities and brexit don't wash with people there. and if you want to hear more about politics in yorkshire, tune into look north. amy, thank you very much. let's get straight to sport now, catch up with the latest with jane dougal. we start with breaking news, and in the last few minutes, former england and northampton hooker dylan hartley has announced his retirement from professional rugby. he hasn't been able to recover from the knee injury which has kept him out of action throughout most of this year. he is england's second most capped player of all—time, and northampton was ‘s longest serving player with

appearances. in a statement hartley said the last few months have been difficult "physically and mentally" and while his career wasn't "perfect he wouldn't have had it any other way". staying with rugby union and the owner of saracens says the club won't have to sell any of its stars after being found to have breached premiership rugby‘s salary cap. nigel wray has admitted on the club's website that they did fail to report some things on time. but he remains adamant that they have not broken the rules, adding that "investment is not salary". tottenham captain hugo lloris remains on course to return to training early next year after having surgery on his elbow. lloris dislocated his elbow during their premier league match against brighton last month. a statement on the club's website said surgery had been advised but that it wasn't expected to lengthen his recovery time. well, lloris's spurs side are a step closer to the champions league knockout stages after beating red star belgrade 4—0 last night. son heung min scored twice, a win for spurs from their last two group games will see them through.

and manchester city drew 1—1 all against atalanta, but they found themselves in a bizarre situation as they had to put an outfield player in goal. kyle walker pulled on the gloves and saved a free kick going towards goal. claudio bravo had replaced the injured ederson, but was then sent off for a sliding tackle. and former arsenal boss arsene wenger says he's yet to speak to bayern munich about their vacant managers position. reports in germany suggest he's the favourite to take over from nico kovac, who was sacked at the weekend. wenger has just turned 70, and hasn't had a coaching job since leaving arsenal 18 months ago after 22 years in charge. just time to bring you some breaking news. scottish rugby union have been fined £70,000 and told to apologise over comments made in relation to typhoon hagibis, which threatened to cancel their match against japan at the rugby world cup. more on that on our website. that's all the sport for now.

the liberal democrats have agreed a general election pact with the greens and plaid cymru designed to maximise support for candidates who want to stay in the european union. layla moran is the liberal democrat candidate for oxford west and abingdon — shejoins us now. 2017, there were just 350 votes between you and the member in second place, so how key is this for you? this is fantastic, and i'm grateful to the green party for standing aside for me in this election, and thatis aside for me in this election, and that is what they did in 2017 when i overturned a nearly 10,000 conservative majority to take the seat, and am equally delighted that this is happening in 60 seats across the whole of the country. it made the whole of the country. it made the difference for me in 2017, it worked, and i really hope it is going to work in many more seats

this time. in 2015 in your constituency, the green candidate polled around 2400 votes, so obviously you think that could make the difference, but we are broadly looking at the 60 seats where that pa ct looking at the 60 seats where that pact is in place, 49 in england, 11 in wales. how effective do you think it can be? i think it can be incredibly effective. first of all it sends out a clear message to those remain voters who are across this country, the 48%, your remain candidate is this person, and it is a very clear. but it also sends a message to labour voters in those seats too that if they are remain voters, they should be voting for that candidate, but the important thing is we help each other on the ground too, and what was happening about the 2017 election when i was frankly unexpectedly elected, and i think this was part of it, there we re think this was part of it, there were bright green campaigners out there with green rosettes, yellow in there with green rosettes, yellow in the middle, saying they are still green and proud, but they accept

this future facing positive grown—up politics, and i will campaign for the liberal democrats was white so you think a pooling of resources and effort in these constituencies, is that what you you are saying? is not in terms of money and effort, these are individuals doing it off their own back, not the party itself doing that, it is individuals who are part ofa that, it is individuals who are part of a progressive alliance of all voters, and what i found interesting is that in that election, there were labour members coming out to campaignfor me labour members coming out to campaign for me to unseat the conservative as well. but it all started with the green standing aside, so i'm very hopeful that that will repeat itself in very many seats across the country, and let's remember in this last parliament there were votes that were won by just one or two sometimes. this can work in all 60 and further afield by the message it sends. this could be a game changer in this election, and thatis a game changer in this election, and that is brilliant. when you look at the three parties in this pact, in some constituencies you have one that has been out in front and

others with relatively smaller numbers of votes, but the co—founder of unite to remain at says that he thinks at least 44 of the 60 are winnable. john mcdonnell was asked about this pact this morning at liverpool, and he said, think what the lib dems did when they were in coalition with the conservatives. so it isa coalition with the conservatives. so it is a vote for a party under this remain alliance a vote for some sort of coalition in government?” remain alliance a vote for some sort of coalition in government? i think what we see injohn mcdonnell is very much the politics of the past. the fact is that in this politics that we are now in, this volatile electoral landscape, if we want to return remain mps, we need to be very clear about who they are, and let's remember, unite to remain said they approached labour about being pa rt they approached labour about being part of this, for standing down in seats where liberal democrats are the clear contender to the conservatives, where we could unseat a conservative mp, and they said no.

i think it says more about the labour party that they didn't even enter into those conversations than anything else that they might want to say in this election. ok, layla moran, thank you very much for your time today. a police constable has been charged with murdering the former aston villa footballer dalian atkinson who died after being tasered in shropshire in 2016. the crown prosecution service says a second officer is accused of assault causing actual bodily harm. both are due to appear in court this afternoon. our home affairs correspondent danny shaw is here with the details. remind our viewers first of all about the background of this. dalian atkinson was an exciting player, he started his career at ipswich and went on to play for sheffield wednesday, but he will probably be best remembered for his time at aston villa under ron atkinson, the manager there, and he scored some

terrific goals and ended his career in 2001. he also played abroad in turkey in particular. but in later yea rs, turkey in particular. but in later years, he had suffered from ill health, and in august 2016, police we re health, and in august 2016, police were called to an incident outside his father's house in telford. the details of that obviously will become clearer as this case goes to court, but what we do know from an independent investigation is that dalian atkinson was tasered, a taser was used. he was also subject to restraint by officers and other force was used. he became ill and went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance, and he died in hospital about an hour ambulance, and he died in hospital aboutan hourand ambulance, and he died in hospital about an hour and a half later. now, there has been an extensive investigation by the independent 0ffice investigation by the independent office for police conduct, and they have passed a file of evidence to the crown prosecution service, and today the cps has announced that one police constable from the west murcia force has been charged with

murder, and also as a possible alternative offence, unlawful act of manslaughter, that will be used if thejury manslaughter, that will be used if the jury finds that murder charge not proven. also a second police co nsta ble not proven. also a second police constable has been charged with assault causing actual bodily harm. what is unusual is that neither of the two police officers, neither of the two police officers, neither of the defendants have been named at this stage. it's not that they may apply for anonymity, and a court will determine whether or not that can be granted. we have had some response in behalf of dalian atkinson's family, who say they have welcomed the decision but regret that it has taken over three years to get to this point. danny, thank you very much for that update. britain's oldestjewish newspaper, thejewish chronicle, has dedicated its front page to a call to non—jews not to back labour party leader jeremy corbyn in the election, accusing him of anti—semitism. the paper said the "near total inaction of mr corbyn and the rest of the labour leadership in dealing with anti—semites in the party has

both emboldened them and encouraged others" — accusing mr corbyn and his allies of having "actively impeded action against the racists". mr corbyn has strongly rejected claims he's anti—semitic and has repeatedly said that there is ‘no place' for it in the party. let's talk to the editor of the jewish chronicle, stephen pollard. good afternoon to you. you point out that this is the first time in the 178 year history of your paper to address people who aren'tjewish, so tell us more about the message you are putting out there. it is a message very much more are putting out there. it is a message very much more in sadness than in anger that we should never have had to do such a thing, but the feeling is amongst the jewish community, the most recent poll showed that 87% ofjews believe jeremy corbyn to be anti—semitic, and 47%, nearly half, of everyjew in the country in our latest poll said that if labour won macro the

next election, if mr corbyn ended up in downing street, they would consider leaving the country. nobody is suggesting that half of alljews will leave the country, but it is a sign of the utter desperation and fear that the jewish community has. so what we wanted to do was remind people. this is a general election and it is absolutely right that of course the issues that people should vote on our issues like brexit, austerity, public services. the meat and drink of an election. but it should surely also be a fundamental issue of the election if one of the main party leaders is considered, certainly by one large ethnic minority to be a racist. and we are simply saying to people, please bear that in mind when you cast your vote. please bear in mind the fact... jeremy corbyn absolutely denies he

is an anti—semite. the subject of your newspaper was raised in a question put to john your newspaper was raised in a question put tojohn mcdonnell and liverpool are short while ago and he said in response that the labour party has done everything that has been asked of it by various groups in addressing anti—semitism. what is your response to that?” in addressing anti—semitism. what is your response to that? i do not like using the word lie because it is a very strong word but that is an outright lie. if you speak to the board of deputies and thejewish leadership council, the representative bodies of british dues, and the jewish representative bodies of british dues, and thejewish labour movement even, they will tell you that not only have their recommendations for dealing with anti—semitism been ignored but they have been treated with utter contempt. it is simply not the case, the labour party is under investigation for the human rights act equality organisation for institutional racism. this is not a

party that can claim it was dealing properly with anti—semitism and it is outrageous thatjohn mcdonnell can see the party are doing everything that has been asked of them. -- mike can say. what is your reaction to the deputy leader who has departed? i think it is a sign of how hopeless for the cause of such moderates in the labour party, even tom watson feels he can no longer stand. the decent thing in my view for moderate labour mps who cannot stand the thought of a man considered racist and number ten is not to put on their and that is why tom watson has done by standing down. he has said he is standing down. he has said he is standing down for personal reasons not political and she still backs labour. he knows his own reasons but the effect is one of the leaders of the effect is one of the leaders of the moderates, one of the people that people look to for a fightback

against what is going on will no longer be there and that cannot other than help the carbonates. thank you very much for your time today. —— mike theyjeremy corbyn supporters. we are going to go straight night to a bank of england conference. the headwinds from elevated uncertainty are likely pushing down the global equilibria interest rate and exacerbating concerns about monetary. in the latest projection, global growth remains subdued in the near term consistent with significant protectionism and growing concerns over the reordering of the rules of global commerce. against the structural headwinds, the recent structural headwinds, the recent structural easing in monetary policies in most major economies is projected to support a gradual recovery in global growth to arrange potential rates by the end of the forecast period. turning to the uk,

the underlying pace of growth has slowed below potential and the economy is now operating with a small margin of excess supply. gdp growth is expected to average 0.2% this year, about half its space in recent yea rs. this year, about half its space in recent years. subdued uk growth partly reflects the weaker external backdrop i have just partly reflects the weaker external backdrop i havejust described. but as has been the case for some time, brexit uncertainties are dominating, winning particular hard on business investment which unusually during an expansion has contracted in five of the six passed quarters and is estimated to be just half a percent higher than at the time of the referendum. consumer spending has proven more resilient to brexit uncertainties, growing steadily in recent quarters, underpinned by strong employment and growth. that

is now evidence of cautionary behaviour with the —— latest data revealing settings it has absence the start of 2018. moreover uncertainty has weighed on the housing market and recent data has suggested that... the weakest outturn since may 2015, the number of vacancies has been falling continuously since the start of the year, direct demand the index is at its lowest level since january 2012 and indicators of p growth have also fallen back. —— pay growth. turning to the withdrawal agreement, projection is that growth is likely to remain below potential in the near term but will pick up in the recent hereafter. that is underpinned by their judgment

recent hereafter. that is underpinned by theirjudgment that brexit uncertainties testing businesses and households will decline gradually over the forecast period. the standard practice is to consider its projection on government policy, accordingly our november projections are conditioned on an orderly transition to a deeply trade agreement consistent with the aims of the political declaration between the uk and the eu. although the details of that new trading relationship are still to be determined, their withdrawal agreement under flexible extension to 31st of january have probably just some of the uncertainties facing businesses and households not the spiralling adjusting the risk of an ordeal. the fall of the likelihood of a no—deal brexit has led to the depreciation of sterling which has risen by 4% in the past month. the present reduction in brexit uncertainties supports activity, business investment growth

picks up from current negative rates to 4.5% by the end of the forecast period, the fastest piece since the referendum, it recoups shortfalls since that vote. household consumption is broadly in line with income growth across the period, also picking up from 1% currently to 1.596 also picking up from 1% currently to 1.5% in 2020 and 2% in 2022. the uk is also supported by the gradual recovery in global growth and the best from uk fiscal policy, reflecting the spending announcements indicated on the chancellor's 2019 spending round. note that these projections are conditioned on the current market path for interest rates which is consistent with bank rates being below its current level three 2022. extent of the pick—up in uk growth is likely to be limited by continued

wea kness is likely to be limited by continued weakness in growth, in a supply capacity of the economy. detention supplied with his projected to remain subdued relative to historical rates, having around one and a quarter percent over the forecast period which reflects the continuation of the post—crisis trained as well as the impact of the uk transitioning to his spare trade relationship with the eu. consistent with the provisions of the withdrawal agreement, it is projections are no conditions on the assumption that a greater proportion of the adjustment to the uk trading arrangements with the unique —— with the eu take place within the forecast period whereas previously the projections had been conditioned ona the projections had been conditioned on a stylised assumption of a smooth transition to an average possible end state with the adjustment taking place over many years. 0verall,

end state with the adjustment taking place over many years. overall, the support from lower uncertainty, easier fiscal policy and stronger external demand has the result that uk with his projected to pick up from around 1% this year to 1.6% in 2020, 1.8% in 2021 and 2.1% in 2022 so 2020, 1.8% in 2021 and 2.1% in 2022 so it picks up throughout each year of the forecast. in the committee projections, excess demand merges in 2021 and builds over the remains of the forecast period, reaching a sizeable one and a quarter percent by the end. the judgment is that the risks and pretensions for potential supply and therefore gdp growth are skewed to the downside in the second and third years of the forecast, reflecting the uncertainty around the nature of the fta and with the eu and the transition to it. turning to inflation, it has mical to target recently and is expected to decline

to around one and a quarter percent by the spring owing largely to temporary effects of fall in regulated energy and water places. unit labour costs have been growing above target consistent rates and service inflation has begun to increase. employment growth has slowed and peak growth is likely to fullback in this short—term. —— pay growth. as a sec —— make significant margin of demand builds, domestic inflationary pressures are expected to build as well. conditions on current market review yield, 2% as they consider dries and slightly above that towards the end of the forecast. let me conclude, for most of the period following the eu referendum a degree of sight in the uk economy has been following in global growth had been relatively strong, more recently brexit

uncertainties on slower global growth has led to the emergence of a small margin of excess supply in the uk economy. the projections expect both of these recent trends to reverse. for now that is an expectation, not a certainty. if global growth fails to stabilise or if brexit uncertainties remain unchanged, monetary policy committee need to reinforce the expected recovery in uk gdp growth and inflation. further ahead, provided these risks do not materialise and these risks do not materialise and the economy recovers broadly in line with latest projections, some modest policy increase at a gradual pace may be needed to maintain information at sustainable targets. at this meeting, wejudge information at sustainable targets. at this meeting, we judge their current monetary policies is appropriate but however events u nfold appropriate but however events unfold it should not come as news

that the mpc will set monetary policy committee with the sustainable return of inflation to its 2% target and with that, we would be pleased to take your questions. one question each, first time around. we will start in the till. itv news, governor, the bank is assuming the uk will leave the eu with the deal that has been negotiated. you also assume the net effect of that deal on the economy will be slightly negative, is that correct? the first part is right, the second part is wrong. the first pa rt the second part is wrong. the first part is that we are conditioning our forecast as has been a long—standing practice on government policy, government policy as this deal, a deal between the uk and the eu and it has passed a second reading in the house of parliament so now we have a deal, it is conditioned on

that, moving from a stylised brexit assumption to a specific assumption assumption to a specific assumption as you say. the way to look at the impact on the economy is to look at where the economy is today versus when it goes. so economy growth has been very weak recently, suffering from weak global growth but also intense brexit uncertainties. economy growing less than 1% annually, our current estimate is that growth this year will be about 1%. and every subsequent year and a focus we have just released, it is conditioned on that deal and growth picks up so1.6 conditioned on that deal and growth picks up so 1.6 next year and 1.8 and 20 21, just above 2% in 2022. that growth is helped by fiscal policy, a bit by a stronger world, a world that has stopped weakening and picks up other to bits but three

quarters of that rising growth is driven by domestic factors, the most important of which is a reduction of uncertainty driven by an orderly transition to a new brexit easement. now, i will finish by noting that is an expectation. —— brexit a range. that is an assumption in the forecast that this will be this production and uncertainty will have this knock—on effect on business and events will see whether of course that will transpire. feel old trick of the times. previously you said that to either's me's deal would be better for the akin in the bank essential assumption on brexit, we now have borisjohnson's essential assumption on brexit, we now have boris johnson's deal essential assumption on brexit, we now have borisjohnson's deal and you stated in the monetary report

that there are aspects of it which we re we that there are aspects of it which were we on growth relative to the model you have been using so is that not a judgment of government policy and on boris johnson's not a judgment of government policy and on borisjohnson's deal, negative to the deal of theresa may? what we have with an actual deal, firstly, we never did forecast with the previous agreement which you are describing with the previous prime minister's deal. the agreement was struck with europe and then it was voted down in parliament in the intervening period between it being struck and our forecast. intervening period between it being struck and ourforecast. their worst subsequent attempts, each time putting down so we were never in a position where there was a government policy which was fully credible and could be put in so we do not have an actual comparison of the two. the second thing is to understand the dynamics of the

forecast which a question was to heart of, is that the makeshift between what effectively was a stylised representation of an average of brexit deals at some point in the future with a very smooth many year transition to it, to an actual deal that has a clear transition timeline, albeit with some option to extend, is to bring into the forecast to rise and some of those transition effects. so customs procedures are put into ethics if there is the first impact of some reduction in passporting, gradual building over time of potential divergence of project —— of product standards so you get some of product standards so you get some of their transitions in the forecast period. that is the culmination of

deal, the biggest impact is deal reducing uncertainty at a minimum taking off uncertainty about the possibility of no deal. governor of the bank of england there, giving the bank of england there, giving the bank's monetary reports, reminding journalists gathered there that any predictions based on predicated on an orderly transition for brexit but obviously coming at a crucial time for political parties in the midst of this general election campaign. let us deal with matters business. helllo, in the business news... price cuts and new value ranges fail to boost sales at sainsburys, as they shrink again. sainsbury‘s has lowered prices on more than 1,000 lines since february. first—time buyers are shunning

one—bedroom flats in favour of larger three—bed homes. research by the property search company zoopla says only 10% of first time buyers searched for 1 bed homes this year — as buyers look to buy properties they can live in for longer. channel 4 and 5 agreed to provide programmes for the streaming platform britbox, meaning all the uk's main television channels, including the bbcm will be available from one catch—up outlet for the first time ever. britain could be about to return to levels of pay we've not seen for 12 years. research from the resolution foundation says that average pay could hit £513 a week in november or december. we've not seen that number since august 2007. iona bain is a personal finance journalist. no, that is not her. we do have her.

what do you make of these numbers? is that good news from your perspective? it is qualified good news because whilst we had seen growth around 2% this year which is the most significant and sustained salary growth we have seen the financial crash, it has not extended to all parts of the labour market so some groups are still seeing a salary downturn which includes workers under the age of 40. someone in their305 workers under the age of 40. someone in their 305 today can expect to receive 6.5% less than someone in their 305 dent into thousand nine. the salary recovery ha5 their 305 dent into thousand nine. the salary recovery has not extended to those working in the public 5ector to those working in the public sector and it also depends where you are based on the country 5till sector and it also depends where you are based on the country still in london and scotland that had been wage ri5e5 but for those living in the south—eastern northern ireland, it has been a different story so for lot5 it has been a different story so for lots of people in the country ye5,

there has been 5alary growth but for other5 there has been 5alary growth but for others they are still waiting to see that coming through. is it fair to say that wealth distribution is deteriorating rather than improving since the recession? it very much depends where you work, where you are based on how old you are. one of the key differences we are starting to see now is age. if you look it the resolution foundation outlook, the resolution foundation outlook, the group that has the biggest ri5e in wages is the over 605. it has beena in wages is the over 605. it has been a positive period for them but for everybody else, which growth has been more muted and in some cases nonexistent. very briefly, in terms of what's going on in terms of household income and the future, we just heard from the governor of the bank of england who says household incomes will start to rise. are

things improving now there looks to be less uncertainty when it comes to brexit? quite possibly on the bank of england has said if we start to 5ee of england has said if we start to see that 5u5tained 5alary growth outstripped inflation, which we have had this year, that would be a reason to raise the bank of england ba5e reason to raise the bank of england base rate. that has not happened today but most economi5t5 expect that to happen in the next year but there are three factors which could affect wage5 there are three factors which could affect wages in the near term, firstly productivity is still low which can affect wage5. also people emitting job5 le55 which can affect wage5. also people emitting job5 less and we are seeing emitting jobs less and we are seeing the numberof emitting jobs less and we are seeing the number of vacancies being advertised following this year as well. so all of those factors could have a knock—on effect on wages. they certainly could, thank you very much. that is it from me in terms of the business year is, i will have plenty more in an hour. thank you very much.

bbc news will be in key election battle grounds between now and before the 12th of december. today we're in leeds, and we can cross over now to amy garcia... hi, again. throughout the campaign, bbc news will be looking closely at the places where the election could be won and lost. we will be visiting 10 parts of the uk where seats will be closely contested. today we're in leeds to find out the questions and issues voters want to discuss. here, there are eight constituencies, five of which are held by the labour party and three by the conservatives. here in leeds central, over 80% of the population are under the age of 50 — in part of course to the large student population. but if you head back south to morley & 0utwood, that number drops to a little over 60% of the population aged under 50. leeds is known for having a mix of cultures,

with the latest figures showing that 14% of the population is made up of black and ethnic residents. and this will be celebrated in the coming years as leeds plans to hold year—long celebration of the city's diverse cultures in 2023 — a decision taken after a bid to be a european capital of culture collapsed. and i'm joined now by robyn vinter, social affairs correspondent at the yorkshire post. if you want to know about local issues, look at the local paper. let us look at the latest headline. that is about as uniting with newspapers across the north of england to call for more investment and tackle the north— south divide and to be taken more seriously generally. 0ver north— south divide and to be taken more seriously generally. over the yea rs more seriously generally. over the years to seen various investment

around the region and back in austerity, we were happy with that and we understood that is what had to happen but none of that money has combined to the north which is a really big issue, especially here in leeds. let us talk about key issues, transport is of his manager one,. especially needs, we have a huge problem, leeds is the biggest city in europe without a mass transit system. if you go to sheffield and manchester, they have chance and in london that is the tube but there is nothing like that here, we have one central train station. we have a network that all work together or don't. it is difficult for people to get around and get to the other cities like bradford, wakefield and york. it can be quite challenging, especially with delays in trains and northern rail has been one of the ones you have been talking about.

northern rail has been one of the ones you have been talking aboutm issues for readers are promises that have not been delivered # yes. we have not been delivered # yes. we have grown to get used to getting promises and then knowing it is not going to happen. he promised electrified rail across the pennines, that was cancelled. they promised chance, a trolley bus scheme, everything is a city we tried to put forwards to make a case for national governments has been declined or cancelled. so now we had at the point where hs2 will not make it to leeds now, we're not sure it will make it this far. it is not something we're really passionate about but we were hoping we would get some of those things. speedy railfrom get some of those things. speedy rail from leeds to get some of those things. speedy railfrom leeds to london get some of those things. speedy rail from leeds to london great but actually better connectivity between northern cities is key. exactly. 0ne

hour and northern cities is key. exactly. 0ne hourand a chain northern cities is key. exactly. 0ne hour and a chain from leeds to manchester, it is as quick to dry. yes, it is a huge frustration for people. and between suburban parts of the 30. either the two miles away from my work and it is quicker to work and get the bus because the word —— because the roads are so jammed. thank you very much, just some of the issues here in leeds, back to you. don't forget — throughout the election campaign, we will be asking what questions you would like answered. send us your election question. now it's time for a look at the weather. good afternoon, not for the first time brain is causing problems this

autumn. this is the radar picture, you can see chavez to the north u nsafe. you can see chavez to the north unsafe. in between this slow—moving band of rain, that rain now setting into parts of north england and north wales but in this area here between greater manchester and derbyshire, into western south yorkshire there is a met office amber warning with the potential of 100 millimetres of rain which will likely cause localised flooding and pure traffic conditions. this rain persists throughout the afternoon, quite widely throughout england and wales. some heavy spells of rain, thundershowers. further north is trying out a little, across scotland, some showers in northern ireland, quite breezy in northern areas with temperatures between seven and 11 degrees at best. especially disappointing between this cloud of rain. this trend will continue for a good while this

evening across northern england, sinking south across south wales still some showers than their statist. 102 showers for northern ireland but clear spells, it will turn into a chilly night, chilly across the south—east as well with some ice patches on the south—east. this rain will continue to fizzle as it had so three —— south—east. some showers across north scotland, some of these 12 as it is another cold day and a chilly night on shady night, watch the blue shades spreading across the chart, likely we will get to freezing or below. some feeding fog patches as well. not as cold in western regions because we will be bringing in outbreaks of rain, the rain staggering eastwards on saturday, uncertainty about the exact timing but we could see snow across the hills of wales and the midlands.

temperature rise, 5—90 discovers that for most of us. that rain metals noble clear away on saturday night, sunday should be a quieter day for most with some spells of sunshine. 5—9d for most of us.

the cheque books are out as the election campaigns turn to the economy promises of billions of pounds of extra spending. the shadow chancellor sets out plans to borrow £150 billion over five years to replace, update and expand schools, hospitals, housing and care homes. the social transformation fund will begin the urgent task of repairing our social fabric that's been torn apart by the tories. setting out his party's plans, chancellor sajid javid also promised spending on infrastructure, but insisted his priority is control of government borrowing. vote conservative — the call from a former labour mp, who urges people to vote for boris johnson instead ofjeremy corbyn, who he says is completely unfit to lead the country. we'll have the latest from the campaign trail. also in the programme... caught on cctv — the last moments of british backpacker grace millane,