i saw it and i'm quite offended, because i got the same treatment when i was a child when the sars virus happened, other parents said that their children were not allowed to hang outwith me any more in case they got sars. i was nine and i hadn't been china for two years. i grew up in australia. it is not only chinese people, east asian people i know as well, they suffer the same thing, people are moving away from us on public transport, which is why i have been anxious to leave the house, because when i first saw the virus, my first thought was the people in wuhan and what they are going through, because it is horrible, and my second thought, i'm going to have to deal with more racism because of this. fredo has apologised, do you accept that?

i do, because at the end of the day if people do realise what they have said is wrong then educated themselves and they admit that, then it helps other people realise that they might have had the wrong thought as well. i did get a few messages like that on instagram too where people say, thank you for saying this because originally i had these racist thoughts and i didn't realised it was racist. so you have helped me realise that my thoughts aren't correct. so i'm all for people learning and growing from this experience. but it is still like the initial racism is quite offensive. what do you want to say people finally about the anti—chinese racism that is being directed at some people because of what started in wuhan? it'sjust like, i would like people to educate themselves on the virus and say, where it is actually coming from what it is actually doing, how they can help the chinese people as well so it doesn't spread further. and seeing all this hate going out, i would much prefer it if people shared around ways to prevent

the virus from spreading, that's a lot more helpful, because all this racism and xenophobia, it does nothing to prevent the virus from spreading. the race to succeed jeremy corbyn as leader of the labour party continues, with ballots going out to labour members later this month. one of those hoping to become the next leader of the opposition and ultimately possibly your next prime minister is shadow foreign minister emily thornberry. i spoke to her on wednesday. as right honourable emily thornberry, you tweeted an image of a bloke‘s house in rochester with three england flags outside. this was in 2014. with the caption, "image from #rochester". the reason i want to ask about this now is because it speaks to your character potentially, and our audience want to know about your character. yes, that's fine. that then leader of your party, ed miliband, was furious. he said it conveyed a deep sense of disrespect. the man himself, dan ware, said that it confirmed labour

was run by the upper classes, out of touch with everyone apart from the croissa nt—munching islington elite, and one of your colleagues said that labour was being run by the islington elite. are you a snob? i was taking a series of photographs during a by—election. the idea is that people who are following me on twitter we get an insight into what a by—election is like. so i had photos of dogs with rosettes and the monster raving loony party, and people who had made their own posters and so on, and this was one of the images, and it was very striking. it was over the windows and it was many months after the world cup, and so i put it up, i didn't make any comment, and i put it up, and then everything just kind of exploded. the question is, are you a snob? i just took a photograph. it looks like my house, the house i was brought up in. people said, she must be a snob. my brother is a builder, my brother has a red van. this is ridiculous. the prime minister says that blue—collar workers are drunk layabouts with low self esteem

because they are unemployed most of the time. he is not accused of being a snob. are you a snob? of course i'm not a snob. it took three goes for you to answer, that's all. the thing that really upset me about it more than anything else, i was asked to resign, so i did, and i was asked not to say anything, and so i didn't. so everybody put their own interpretations and what it was. and it's so far away from who i am, it really upsets me, the idea that i was kind of sneering. my sister is a bus driver, my brother worked as a builder, i come from a council estate, of course i'm not a snob. i'm sorry not to answer it immediately, but it is so hundred miles away from who i am. it is interesting that it is 100 miles away from who i am. the reason it is because you want to be leader, you need to be able to convince your party and supporters that you can reach out to all people including those labour supporters who voted leave, who voted conservative in the last election, in sedgefield etc, who want immigration controls.

why are you the person with the right character to reach out to those people now? i suppose i have many experiences in my life, and i think that is what makes me a good politician. so we were living on top of the hill in guildford, and everything was kind of cool, and then my parents split up and we were suddenly left with no money. you were seven when your father walked out? i was, we had no money and the bailiffs used to turn up, we had to hide from the bailiffs. i remember they had bowler hats in the 60s, which was odd. eventually we got chucked out, and a labour councillor saved us, got us a council house, sorted my mum's benefits i went to a school in my career teacher said, when i asked what i should do with my life, i was told i

could visit people in prison. i have a certain experience of life. i never do things the easy way. i am now a successful woman, but i don't think the labour party is ashamed of that. i think labour is the vehicle for making positive social change, for giving people real chance, for people fairly. that's why i'm labour through and through, and at a time like this i have to step up, because we need a new leader. not enough people agreed with you at the last election. where did jeremy corbyn go wrong in the last election? and please be honest. i am honest. i think of all the candidates, and the one who has criticised what happened in the last election, i don't think the others really have. i have been completely honest about the fact that i think we had far too much of the manifesto. i don't disagree with anything that was in the manifesto, and i don't want to go back to the 1990s, but i want to go back in terms of winning elections, one of the things we did was have pledge cards, we had priorities. the manifesto was overwhelming, we were making many announcements a day and people couldn't keep up and they didn't believe us. we have to have our priorities

right, and we have to be clear about what it is that we stand for, so that is number one. number two is there is another way, it really doesn't have to be like this. a different government can lead us in a different direction. i believe britain can be better than this, but people don't believe in us and they didn't believe we could do it, and i think one of the reasons, there were many, but one of them was, people felt if you can't even deal with anti—semitism in your own party, how on earth would you be transforming the economy, how on earth can you change britain? some people might have thought that. a lot of others thought, why were you for a second referendum, you were going to campaign to remain if there was one. how is that in touch with those labour supporters that you need to bring back? i will tell you why, because i think that when people voted to leave, there were an awful lot of hopes and dreams and aspirations all wound up in that, and frankly there were a lot of things that people would say one thing and then it would be completely opposite, they would make opposing promises,

if we leave we will get less, or that. you can't get them all. and once people had seen the reality of what leaving looked like, i just felt that the best thing, because it is the decision we have had to make 50 years, just to get it confirmed. is this really what you want present let's get this sorted. and that is what was so unpopular with a lot of people. borisjohnson had got a deal and what we thought we should do is put that deal back to the people and say, just to be sure, is this what you want or not? understand the arguments of what you backed it. you are asking me why, i'm telling you why. no, i'm asking you how you are the right person when that principle of yours, that view of yours, that argument of yours, so roundly rejected by labour supporters. actually, i think what happened was that we ended up allowing borisjohnson to have a general election which was really a referendum. what would be your number one priority if you got the job? you talked about the pledge card, what would be top of it? social care.

what would you do with social care? the population divides in half. those who have had something to do a social care and understand that it is so badly funded, they understand there are old women being put to bed at 5pm because there isn't anybody to look after them. there are young women being put to bed at five o'clock because there are no carers. absolutely, or people with disabilities who aren't being washed every day. you know this, i know this, but half the population doesn't because they've never had anything to do with it. so what would you do? i don't think fundamentally the british want this. i don't think this is our way. what would you do? i'm going to tell you. what we have to do is we have to have a conversation with people. we have to expose how bad it is and then say to them, if the national health service is the closest thing we have got to a religion, actually social care is like its little sister that is completely underfunded and undermined,

and it is undermining the health service. we can get people going into the health service in crisis because they've not been looked after at home, and then they can't get out again because there is no one to look after them at home. what is the problem? what would you do? i am getting there. that goes hand—in—hand with the national health service we have to fund it properly. i can't think of any politician that wouldn't say it needs more money. but that's not a plan, is it? it is a plan. the point is you make it a priority and you say, this has got to be funded properly, and it's not being funded at the moment. and what levels of care do you give and to who? housing is a big issue for our audience. you have long campaigned for affordable housing. how many affordable homes, i'm not trying to catch you out with a number, but how many should be being built each year, how many council houses should be being built each year? i know what was built in england last year, i know what labour have promised, what is the right number. i think that the problem is that we are going from almost a standing start, that is our problem.

having the skills to be able to build that amount, for local authorities to have the skill to be able to build at the rate that we need, so we need to kind of ramp it up over time. we also have problems with land, so there is a lot of land banking going on. if people go past an empty bit of land and they wonder what is going on, unfortunately nothing is going on people arejust owning the land and banking it. there are empty flats around. what i have also said is that people should either use it or lose it. local authorities should have the power to zone an area where there is an empty bit of land that isn't being used, a bit of brownfield site, zone it for housing and say to the developers, you've got five years. build some affordable housing or any kind of housing, otherwise you will lose it. and empty flats, what would you do? the same thing. if you leave a flat empty and you not losing using it, then you will lose it. you would just take it off somebody? yes! if you are living a flat empty for years. if you go down the thames, there are all of these developments, big blocks of flats, you go down there at night, none of them have the lights on.

they are all empty. so you would take that private property of those people? yes, because they are not being used, and because we have a housing crisis, we have people sleeping on the street. we have homeless families in bed—and—brea kfast. it is not right. that is true. people with anything, what else are you going to take of mind that i've paid for legitimately. no, it's the housing crisis that causes this. it is people taking the mickey. it is because housing prices are so high that it is worth your while just sitting on a bit of empty land are looking to see how high the prices can go before you build. how many properties to you and your husband own? i own my mother's flat because i bought her a flat when she retired so that she could give back the council house. how many in total? so i am that one, and we own a house together, and we own a house that my brother lives in. so you've got three properties.

m,are any empty? no. that's it for this week. you can contact the programme any time on twitter, and you can e—mail your story as well. we are back live on monday morning at 10am on bbc two and the bbc news channel. storm ciara will most certainly have four of the day ahead. it is a powerful and a dangerous storm. we have widespread severe gales and thatis have widespread severe gales and that is unusual in itself. but for some parts of england and wales where the amber warning is in force this is a once or twice in a decade occurrence where we see wind up to 80 mile an hour. widespread severe gale warning for the met office of england and wales with damage and disruption but equally it will be as windy for scotland and northern ireland and it is a double—edged

sword, not just the ireland and it is a double—edged sword, notjust the wind but the rain. an amberwarning sword, notjust the wind but the rain. an amber warning for parts of southern scotland concerns for the rivers because of the slow—moving rainfall which will push southwards. many bands of showers following behind so the wind will escalate further through sunday as gusts of 60-80 further through sunday as gusts of 60—80 mile—per—hour does not really matter where. we are notjust talking about exposed parts of the country, even inland which is, as i say, unusual. relatively mild but this is a dangerous storm with some exceptionally windy weather forecast and a lot of impacts as well. the warnings are online. this is

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