and it's also e‘fir it‘: "zr ”ruftult ingrained, and it's also significant that the uk has gone backwards on this, so they've got an opinion piece written by tony blair who obviously was prime minister from 97 until 2007, and under the last labour government, of these 13 years there was a million children taken out of poverty, and tony blair announced an ambition of ending child poverty by 2020, well we are how child poverty by 2020, well we are now of course in 2020 and the reverse has happened, child poverty has increased again, so i think for those reasons is a political imperative as well as a moral and economic one. the parameters and definitions have changed as well that was always the argument during the player years, talking with the wedge —— red wall, talk about leveling up and at what i thought was interesting was the shared prosperity fund and what the leaders

of the various councils and cities in the north were asking the government to do, because i think the previous eu fund was needs based, and these regional leaders are wanting the funds to be spent in the regions by the regions. with the call from the mayor of sheffield to put the money with its methods, and outsmart funding for the north and the spending review tomorrow. and we have mentioned report of the national living wage want to increase, we've already heard that civil service workers can be moved to the north, but if it's about long term infrastructure spending there's some, we are in an economic crisis, so some, we are in an economic crisis, so it could be difficult for the

north to win longer—term commitments even though chris as george mentions those red wall seeds are really important to the tories, and this will be seen as the begetting of the election campaign. we go back to the coalition government of course, george osborne in the northern powerhouse, but it's interesting just a few years after that and then theresa may did not have the same focus on it, but this now hugely important for keeping this government in power. yes it is and that increases the political imperative and also important for the economic recovery because obviously it's not as if the uk economy was in the best state before covid—19, you would see the slowest economic recoveries in history. very low productivity and one of the ways you increase productivity is through investment. and particularly some of these regents which never recovered

from the deindustrialization of the 19805, i think it's smart politics and smart economics for the government to invest in them as the covid—19 crisis ends. government to invest in them as the covid-19 crisis ends. the trouble is, going back to the ft and ons report shows britain's understand little about economics. because people are much less sceptical about data i think the brexit campaign has a lot to answer for on both sides. but in the pandemic as well there's been accusations that the government has hidden behind the science, and so is ons report is saying that people don't really trust statisticians, they don't really understand it. they are saying that the answer is not more people should study economics, but that economists and statisticians should get better at communicating what they mean. clearly i‘ m at communicating what they mean. clearly i'm not doing a very good job. ori clearly i'm not doing a very good job. or i should do a betterjob of

communicating those complex ideas. the more serious think for some is the traditional cricket tea may be in jeopardy. is the traditional cricket tea may be injeopardy. is a the traditional cricket tea may be in jeopardy. is a cost-cutting measure due to the effect on the sport, and, with all spectator sports during the crisis, and with forced social distancing. it's mandatory for cricket clubs at the movement to serve traditional tea with the usual spread of cakes and scones, and... ithought with the usual spread of cakes and scones, and... i thought the wives and girlfriends did that. there's what will no longer be mandatory, they will provide it. we're going to see who are the generous clubs and the miserly ones. hot and cold drinks are still mandatory, though. so we are out of time, i was only

being facetious about wives and girlfriends, by the way, don't think that was a sexist, buy me here on the bbc. we will see i think it about 35 or a0 minutes' time, but for now thank you very much indeed for now thank you very much indeed for looking at the first editions of the papers. hello, i'm sarah mulkerrins and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. of the league matches united moved a step closer to the knockout we start with a good night for english clubs in the champions league as chelsea beat rennes 2—1 in france to reach the last 16 with two games to spare while manchester united moved a step closer to the knockout stages with a comfortable victory over istanbul basa ksehir.

after an unbeaten start in europe qualify for the last 16 felt like an open goalfor qualify for the last 16 felt like an open goal for chelsea qualify for the last 16 felt like an open goalfor chelsea for qualify for the last 16 felt like an open goal for chelsea for this was a case of doing it the hard way fortu nately for case of doing it the hard way fortunately for this team and team its mandate goal in chelsea, academy products and become your product come davidson. down but not out with the fight as they proved quite emphatically, and as oliver demonstrated chelsea will not go through itjust demonstrated chelsea will not go through it just a demonstrated chelsea will not go through itjust a whimper. having beaten aside in the spot and the knockouts with two games to spare. and a look coming into the game he gets a goal, and you see people not starting the game, at some of them needed a rest but came in and making impacts to help us win the game, that hopefully strengthens the group asa that hopefully strengthens the group as a whole. not been manchester united's most consistency think of the good is good but the bad is hard to watch them which side would be get to this night? that one. bruno fernandes score of the spectacular and the simple. not one he wants to

see again. not that it will stop us showing you. one more for a hat trick, as the regular penalty taker seemed for a favour when marcus rashford work in the box but with the england man's that hop skip and jump the england man's that hop skip and jump to make it three. the uninspiring united returned after the break although the fruitcake did not beat david, it did cross the line that did not make a difference. point for one of their final two games should be enough to take united through to the knockouts, regardless of which team is put out. tomorrow night — liverpool face atalanta and mohamed salah is available again. he's back in full training after returning two positive covid tests with egypt during the international break. he missed sunday's win at leicester but has returned a negative test so is clear to play. a win at anfield would see liverpool reach the last 16. we've had the draw for the last 32 of the womens

champions league and wsl champions chelsea have been drawn against the portugese title holders benfica, while manchester city will face swedish side gothenburg.. and after coming through two qualifying rounds, both on a penalty shoot—out, part timers glasgow city, who got to the quarter finals last season — will face sparta prague over two legs next month. obviously it's one game at a time in this competition be tronic is the biggest teams in the world and right now we've got this in front of us and will be really tough game for us. and will be really tough game for us. we will prepare as well as we can for that and see how far we get, but we do have high standards of the clu b but we do have high standards of the club and always wanted to push on, so we will be looking to do that this season. in the scottish premiership — hibernian twice came from behind to draw 2—2 against stjohnstone. the point takes hibs up to third. meanwhile in the english championship, second place

bournemouth have kept the pressure on leaders norwich. they won 2—0 against nottingham forest. junior stanislas with both goals. they're a point behind norwich who won 3—2 at stoke. there were wins too for qpr, brentford and blackburn. well 21 fixtures in the football league could be moved from next tuesday to later in the week to benefit from the easing of lockdown restrictions in england on december 2nd. up to a000 fans will be allowed into matches. the 5th of december will see the first premier league games with spectators. it is a psychological step towards where we want to be, and an opportunity for us to prove to government we can bring fans back safely. it is also good for us to re—engage with our supporters and to give them something for the loyalty they have shown us while we have been playing behind closed doors. one of the greats of french rugby, christophe dominici has died suddenly at the age of a8. he was part of the french side that reached the 1999 world cup final, he scored a try in their famous semi—final

victory over new zealand. he was capped 67 times in a nine year international career, he won a six nations titles, two of them grandslams. staying with rugby and england will be without ollie lawrence for their final two autumn nations cup games due to a hip injury. the've got wales on saturday, who will be missing ross moriarty who's been released from the squad because of an ankle injury. jonathan davies also looks set to miss the game in llanelli butjosh navidi and taulupe faletau are back in full training. there's been a maximum break at the uk snooker championship in milton keynes. world number four kyren wilson knocked in the 1a7 during his first round match

against ashley hugill. it saw him take a a—2 lead. and despite being pegged back to a—all, he went onto win the match 6—a. it's wilson's third career maximum and the 17th in the tournament's history. and before we go, we have a moment of magic from the former england cricket captain kevin pietersen. no, not one of his reverse sweeps. here he is during a round of golf in south africa. and, off the second tee, he had a hole in one. very unlike pieterson to boast, but safe to say he was rather pleased with himself. he even got a certificate from the course — i'm sure that will be pride of place on his mantlepiece, next to his cricket medals and trophies. and that's all the sport for now. goodbye. hello again. we had some big weather contrasts across the uk on tuesday,

england and wales, a lot of dry weather with some sunny spells breaking through the cloud, fiens sunsets to end the day particularly for eastern areas, but it was north wales that was the real milder spot in the country, 15 celsius, mild weather across most areas, contrast that with the rain that wouldn't stop across scotland and northern ireland thanks to this weather front, this cold front and as this pushes east over the next couple of days, cold air will be arriving across all parts of the country. back to what we have at the moment, that front is still bringing some splashes of rain across wales in western england. it will very gradually move eastwards, bringing rain into parts of the midlands and central and southern england before long. a few showers for northern ireland and scotland, otherwise with clear spells, cold, one or two areas with a touch of frost. our weather front continues to push eastwards but it gets stretched out between these two areas of low pressure, one in scandinavia and one to spain and portugal. the front will weaken very quickly as it slowly edges eastwards through wednesday, the rain becoming increasingly light and patchy at the dribbles its way across the midlands into east anglia and

southeast england. no great rainfall amounts for these areas. the mild airjust hanging on across the east. 1a, maybe 15 degrees celsius in the very warmest spots but for the north and west, it is much colder. temperatures down into single figures. following that, wednesday night, we will see patches of frost developing and maybe a few areas of fog to start the day on thursday. thursday looks like being a pretty decent day. it will be cooler than it has been of late, but most areas will be dry and we should see fairly lengthy spells of sunshine developing. will be cool for the time of the year, temperatures generally in the single figures, just 5 degrees in glasgow, maybe seven in belfast, then it looks like we will see some more mist and fog patches developing as we head into friday morning along with frost, so for some of us, friday promises to be quite a slow start to the day and quite murky, some of those mist and fog

patches linger all day, where that happens temperatures will be in the low single figures, but even in the brighter spots on friday it looks like being a particularly chilly day at this stage of november. the weekend, mostly dry, it will continue with the cold weather conditions with frost and fog.

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