argentina has been plunged into mourning by the death of arguably its most famous son — the football legend diego maradona. people have poured out onto the streets to express their grief at the loss of the star whose sublime performances secured victory in the 1986 world cup. president trump has granted a full pardon to his former national security adviser — michael flynn. general flynn served three weeks in office at the start of the trump administration before pleading guilty to lying to the fbi during the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. president—electjoe biden has used a televised address on the eve of thanksgiving to urge americans to recommit to the fight against coronavirus. mr biden said a grim season of division would give way to light and unity. americans, he said, were at war with coronavirus and not each other.

now on bbc news, wednesday in parliament. hello and welcome to wednesday in parliament. as the chancellor delivers a sobering spending review. our health emergency is not yet over, and our economic emergency has onlyjust begun. labour say rishi sunak‘s hitting workers in their pockets. earlier this year the chancellor stood on this doorstep and clapped for key workers, today his government institutes a pay freeze for many of them. and plans to cut overseas aid lead to one minister resigning amid conservative protests. none of us in this house will be able to look our children in the eye and claim we did not know what we were voting for.

the chancellor, rishi sunak, has laid bare the scale of the economic crisis and the cost of coronavirus in his spending review. the economy will shrink by 11% this year. unemployment could hit two point six million in 2021 as a result of the pandemic. rishi sunak, who later visited a vaccine research centre, told mps there'd be a fund to help the long term unemployed into work. but almost half of public sector workers although not front line nhs staff will see their pay frozen. an international development minister, lady sugg, resigned after the chancellor ditched a manifesto commitment and cut overseas aid spending. rishi sunak did find some extra cash for public services across the uk, including a fund to level up the economy. mr speaker, today's spinning review delivers on the priorities of the british people. our health emergency is not yet over, and our economic emergency has onlyjust begun.

so our immediate priority is to protect people's lives and livelihoods. but today's spinning review also delivers stronger public services, paying for new hospitals, better schools, and safer streets. and it delivers a once in a generation investment in infrastructure. creating jobs, growing the economy, increasing pride in the places we call home. downing street had warned the figures from the office for budget responsibility made sobering reading. the obiora forecast the economy will contract this year by 11.3%. the largest fall in output for more than 300 years. as the restrictions are eased,

they expect the economy to start recovering. but that recovery would not be straightforward. even with growth returning, our economic output is not expected to return to precrisis levels until the fourth quarter of 2022. in the economic damage is likely to be lasting. on pay, he said private sector wages had fallen while public sector wages rose. and unlike workers in the private sector, who have lostjobs, been furloughed, seen wages cut and hours reduced, the public sector has not. in such a difficult context for the private sector, especially for those people working in sectors like retail, hospitality and leisure, i cannotjustify a significant, across—the—boa rd pay increase for all public sector workers. instead, we are targeting our resources at those who need it most.

that means pay rises for nhs staff and those earning less than £24,000 a year in other public services a pay freeze for the rest. the cut in international aid spending from nought point 7% of national income had also been widely trailed. i have listened with great respect to those who have argued passionately to retain this target. but at a time of unprecedented crisis, government must make tough choices. i want to reassure the house that we will continue to protect the world's poorest. spending the equivalent of 0.5% of our national income on overseas aid in 2021, allocating £10 billion at this spinning review. labour said the spending review

had been a missed opportunity. it was an opportunity to protect key workers, secure the economy, and recoverjobs in every part of our country. during this crisis, we have seen who has taken responsibility. community health workers working around the clock to keep us all save. the teachers who kept working so key workers could too. the delivery drivers and shop staff who made sure we had critical food supplies. earlier this year, the chancellor stood on his doorstep and clapped for key workers. today, his government institutes a pay freeze for many of them. this takes a sledgehammer to consumer confidence. firefighters, police officers, and teachers will know the their spending power is going down so they will spend less in our small businesses and on our high streets. they will spend less in our private sector.

and she noticed something was missing from the statement. mr speaker come in less than 40 days we are due to leave the transition period. get the chancellor did not even mention that in his speech. there is still no trade deal, so does the chancellor truly believe that his government is prepared and that he's done enough to help those businesses that will be heavily affected? this spinning review is an important opportunity and important task, and instead of posing for photographs in his favourite hoodie the chancellor should have been listening to those who are struggling. £29 million for brexit while it will go hungry at home and abroad just about sums this tawdry government up. reneging in the 0.7% aid commitment is just cruel.

well, that wasn't the end of rishi sunak‘s interrogation. he spent another hour and three quarters answering questions from backbench mps. while he was on his feet, news broke of lady sugg's resignation in protest at the cut in the overseas aid and it was that issue which preoccupied many conservatives. his proposed breaking of the 0.7 promise, and the 30% for the reduction in cash will be the cause of 100,000 preventable deaths, mainly among children. this is a choice i for one have not prepared to make. and none of us in this house will be able to look our children in the eye and claim we did not know what we were voting for. no longer will girls have 12 years of quality education resulting in more child marriages come more instances of early childbirth, more fgm, more domestic violence. we will not be vaccinating millions preventing polio, tb, providing medication for hiv or preventing malaria.

downgrading these programmes will be vacuums as of the poorest parts of the world that will further poverty and instability. likely to see china and indeed russia extending their authoritarian influence by taking our place. i personally feel ashamed that the only manifesto pledge we are breaking today is our promise to the world's poorest. rishi sunak said it had been a very difficult decision. but not everyone condemned it. i don't see why it should be controversial to say that we should only spend what we can afford on overseas aid, and i suspect that the vast majority of the british public want to be asking why has he cut so much, they will be asking where we still so much. 0pposition mps were keen to tackle other measures in the chancellor's statement. i listened intently to the chancellor but what i did not hear was enough. enough to protect jobs by extending furlough to the summer, and for those in the public sector have endured so much of this crisis,

and now we will have a pay freeze. 0r enough for this millions of families facing financial hardship because i point out to the chancellor that they do exist. i can give them plenty of examples who call my office every day in deep distress. can he guarantee that the 2.1 million public sector workers he referred to want to face a real terms pay cut next year, and can he explain why on earth he is still going ahead with the appalling thousand pound cut in universal credit that will hit millions of families across the country at this incredibly difficult time? mr speaker, for those of the public sector who are less than 24 thousand pounds which is the medium wage, they will receive at least a fixed increase of £250, that's 2.1 million people, 38% of the workforce and it will depend of the exact salary they make, mr speaker. but it's a fixed £250 for all of those workers.

the looming prospect of either a no—deal brexit or a minimalist one that will be very disruptive for businesses, and it's forecasted at 5.2% loss of potential gdp over the next 15 years, the governor has said we could see two to three times as bad a situation with a no—deal brexit. how much more economic carnage and unemployment should the british people expect with these two scenarios on top of coronavirus and its impacts? mr deputy speaker i say as our teams are hard at work and a very hopeful that we can reach a constructive agreement with our european friends and partners... in this covid crisis the government has presided over a horrific double whammy of one of the largest per capita death rates in the world. and the deepest recession in the g7, and that's before the brexit disruption due at the end of the year. is the chancellor really proud of his record?

mr deputy speaker, my property throughout this crisis is been protecting jobs, i'm pleased to see that something that the imf and bank of england have all acknowledged as a result. with an unemployment rate is lower than italy, france, spain, canada and the united states so yes, mr deputy speaker i do think what we are doing is making a difference to millions of people up and down the country. rishi sunak. you're watching wednesday in parliament with me, david cornock. still to come could a jar of stilton cheese hold the key to britain's trading future? before the chancellor's statement, mps had their weekly opportunity to question the prime minister via video link on borisjohnson‘s final day of isolation. the labour leader accused his government of a failure to meet ministerial standards and urged the prime minister to stop "wasting" taxpayers‘ cash. sir keir starmer began byjudging the government's record against a series of promises.

the prime minister may remember that in august of last year, he wrote the foreword to the ministerial code. it says, and i quote, "there must be no bullying, no harassment, no leaking, no misuse of taxpayers‘ money, no actual or perceived conflicts of interest. " that's five promises in two sentences. how many of those promises does the prime minister think his ministers have kept? i believe the ministers of this government are working hard and overall doing an outstanding job in delivering the people's priorities. keir starmer turned to the commitments in turn, starting with bullying, specifically the accusations levelled at priti patel. the now former independent adviser on ministerial standards concluded that the home secretary's behaviour was, in his words, "in breach of the ministerial code", and he said "can be described as bullying". what message does the prime minister think it sends that the independent adviser on standards has resigned,

but the home secretary is still in post? the home secretary has apologised for anyway in which her conduct fell short. and frankly, mr speaker, i make no apology for sticking up, for standing bya home secretary who as i said just now is getting on with delivering on the people's priorities. keir starmer said any other prime minister would have fired the home secretary and any other home secretary would have resigned. the labour leader moved on to another commitment on leaking. the prime minister's plans to go into a second national lockdown were leaked all over the national papers, resulting in a truly chaotic press conference. and we've seen more leaking in the last 24 hours. this serial leaking is causing huge anxiety to millions of people about what's going to happen next. now i know there's supposed to be an inquiry under way, but can the prime minister tell us is he any closer to working out who in his government is

leaking this vital information? i think the right honourable gentleman is really concentrating on trivia when what the people of this country want is to see his support and the support of politicians across the house for the tough measures that we're putting in to defeat coronavirus. he makes various attacks on, i think, my leadership and on the handling of the ministerial code. i'd take them a lot more seriously, frankly, mr speaker, if the leader of the opposition could explain whether or why the right honourable gentleman for islington north is still a member of the labour party. does he still support his continued, the right honourable member for islington north's continued membership of the labour party, yes or no? why does he not answer that question? i think i willjust answer the question that actually it's

prime minister's questions, not leader of the opposition's questions. keir starmer. it's a reasonable question, mr speaker. i think earl made the decision, prime minister. and i think thankfully we have the link, let's use it. keir starmer. it was your end last time, by the way. thank you, mr speaker. the difference of that i'm tackling the issues in my party. he's running away from the issues is his. and i take it... itake it... the snp's westminster leader turned to the cut in international aid. does the prime minister agree with me that keeping the commitment at 0.7% is not only the right thing to do morally, but the sensible thing to do in helping with the eradication of covid—19? borisjohnson said the uk had led the world in developing vaccines and making them available around the world. it had also given around $800 million to the global vaccine alliance. president—electjoe biden has

told reporters "we do not want a guarded border" between ireland and northern ireland. he said the idea of having the border closed was "just not right" and that it had to be kept open. those comments were raised at the northern ireland affairs committee. joe biden made some very interesting comments last night about the protocol and about the arrangements. he seemed to think that there was going to be border posts again on our island. what steps are you taking to ensure that the next administration in the united states of america is better educated on what is actually in play here? well, ithink, i'm sure president—elect biden, as a former vice president, i'm sure he does have a good understanding of the workings of the good friday agreement and of the arrangements. i think my secretary of state has been in touch with american politicians on all sides and in

both houses to communicate the important points about our respect for the protocol, our absolute protection of the peace process and focus on that. and that there will be no border posts. i think what president—elect biden was setting out is a shared ambition for the uk government, for the irish and indeed for the united states that indeed there should be no guarded border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. and that's something that we're all absolutely committed to delivering on under all the circumstances from all outcomes envisaged by the negotiations. mps on the committee were looking at cross—border cooperation on policing, security and criminal justice after the end of the brexit transition period. one said criminal gangs were positioning themselves to exploit new border conditions. we're obviously concerned that there may well be significant changes that might prevent or inhibit movement

of peoples across the channel. so, equally i would've through criminal gangs operating between the republic and northern ireland, whether directly into northern ireland or using it as a route to get into gb. whether organised crime groups change their chain of operation in terms of what they deal with, or what they make the most profit from, be it forfuels, be it for cigarettes or whatever. so equally the criminaljustice response to that has to be agile and we have been very successful working with partners to address that over recent years. there were also concerns that if there was no deal, extradition arrangements with the irish republic could be weakened. in particular there are exemptions for countries not to extradite their own

nationals and also that there is the potential for political considerations to be brought into the negotiation or extradition process. i'm old enough to remember a lot of the huge difficulties and there in extradition on the island of ireland in the 705 and '805 with huge controversies around some extraditions. we both have a real incentive on supporting the cross—border cooperation on crime that has benefited communities on both sides of the border. and we are operating in a very different world to that in which some of those previous politicals tensions arose. i'm not saying there wouldn't be any, but i am saying that i think we should not initially draw that direct comparison between what happened in the 19705 or the 19805 and what would happen today. and he added that it was in the interests of all sides for cooperation to continue. now, with three vaccines on the cards in the fight against covid—19, peers have focused on who might get the jab first. the government's currently working on a priority list,

but one peer who uses a ventilator to breathe was concerned about who would have priority. as someone who's been shielding since early march, i celebrate those involved in introducing the vaccines in such a short time. however i am concerned to learn that those under 65 in the clinically high—risk categories have been given a lower priority for the vaccine. why was it that people in high risk categories, but under 65 years old were deemed to be less vulnerable to the virus? it's what people are tell me that they do not feel shielding or protected throughout this pandemic. and this priority decision seems to confirm that belief. i would urge the government to think again. i'd like to reassure the noble lady that no final decisions have been made. it is only interim advice, and i'd like to point out

in particular that the behaviours of individual vaccines may be quite different for different groups of people and it's only when we have the final phase three data on the vaccines that we will be able to make the decisions to which he alludes to. another peer raised an example of the impact of motor neurone disease. noble lord, the minister might well have seen recent publicity of a case for a 5ix—year—old child who'5 unable to take school in case bring5 the covid—19 viru5 home to his dad who is living with motor neurone di5ea5e. i hope the noble lord, the minister, will agree with me that no family should be in that position of having to choose between their child attending school and the risk of shortening the already 5hort life span of his father. so i hope the noble lord minister will further agree with me that people living with motor neurone di5ea5e, as well as those with many other life—limiting illne55e5, must be on the priority list for very early vaccination. i hear loud and clear

the conundrum expressed by the noble lord. these are very difficult prioritisation questions, but i hear his plea loud and clear and i undertake that these kinds of considerations will be considered in the prioritisation process. can the minister say what provision is being made for another group who feel totally forgotten by this government? that is extremely vulnerable children, whether they have medical conditions, physical or learning disabilities, many of whom have been unable to access carers or school since march. and can minister say when the review that he just spoke about is likely to publish its results? my lords, it isn't going to possible to publish the results until we have clear data on the vaccines. individual vaccines may behave quite differently with different groups of people. there may be some vaccines that work well with the elderly, some well with those with clinical conditions and some well with children. it's only when we know that that data that the final

privatisation can be published. can i ask him also to rule out any government—assisted moves to stop people who decide like we don't want vaccination for flu that equally if they don't want to be vaccinated for covid—19 that actually they will not be stopped from travelling certainly within the united kingdom? i'm not aware of any move to try and limit or create mandatory situations for vaccines within the four nations. lord bethell. sports news now, and there's been a call for english football to be better run and end what a labour mp called a "casino attitude". clive efford, a passionate tottenham hotspur supporter, said all the money was absorbed by the top, with the premier league engaged in a salary "arms war". it's not acceptable that premier league clubs could spend £1.2 billion on transfer fees while english football league clubs

are dangling over the abyss during this crisis. we cannot go on with this casino attitude to football success, and the time for regulation has come. clive efford. mps have been debating the uk's new trade deal with japan described by the international trade secretary as "a more british—shaped deal" than the previous arrangements between the eu and japan. liz truss said it was a landmark deal in our trading history. this is the first debate we are having on a new trade deal after our departure from the european union. this is the first time we have been able to have this sort of discussion in the house of commons for nearly 50 years. it was not possible when brussels represented us in trade negotiations, but, madam deputy speaker, things have changed. we now have a deal directly negotiated between london and tokyo. but the snp said the deal wasn't as good as the one we already have through the eu.

i think the secretary of state and i have a degree of common ground around cheese. the secretary of state has mentioned cheese a number of times, and i noted it was a particularly nice touch to give a jar of british stilton to japan's minister to celebrate this deal. i wonder did the secretary of state check whether he's lactose intolerant? because there's an interesting statistic, i see there's doctors in the house, this interesting statistic from the lancet in october 2017 that 73% of the japanese population is lactose intolerant. so perhaps we should consider what the opportunities actuall are for our exports of cheese financially are in the real world. that's it for wednesday in parliament. thank you for watching. i do hope you canjoin me at the same time tomorrow for the week in parliament, with all the best bits from westminster and beyond. i'd hate you to miss it. until then, from me, david cornock, bye for now. hello.

we've plenty of fine weather in the forecast for the uk for the next few days, thanks to a building ridge of high pressure. but that ridge of high pressure will bring with it an increased chance of many of us seeing frosty nights. could be some chilly days, as well, as under the ridge of high pressure, there's an increasing chance of us seeing fog developing by night and lingering into the coming days. today perhaps not so bad, though. we will have a weather front still pushing a bit more cloud into southernmost counties of the uk first thing, a little bit of rain for kent. on the whole, though, the majority seeing sunshine from the get—go. but even with the sunshine, after a chilly start, our temperatures won't recover to the heights we've seen previously this week. we're looking typically at highs of 7—9, the odd spot getting up to 10—11. you may all notice this weather front trying to come into the northwest.

these two fronts tend to try and squeeze the high through thursday and friday, but through the centre of the high, we have the greatest risk of seeing some fog as we move into the small hours of friday. and here, too, our chilliest spots, dipping down below freezing. a little bit more cloud to the far southeast and the far northwest will perhaps mean our temperatures may stay above. and through friday daytime, those fronts, as you can see, just cap either end of the uk. through the core of the uk, you may think we're set up for a lot of sunshine. some areas will get some decent sunshine, but some of that fog will really struggle to clear. not much breeze set to work on it, and the sunshine isn't particularly strong at this time of year. if the fog does stick, temperatures at 2—3 celsius are possible. as you can see, even in the best of brightness on friday, 6—7 celsius. the weekend, i suspect fairly similar temperatures and a fairly similar—looking picture overall. some chilly nights to come. you'll notice that our high looks a little different for saturday and sunday, but it stands across us from the continent. just a chance as well on sunday that we'll see a weather

front trying to push into the northwest. but the effect overall is still the same — a lot of fine weather, light winds, but the chance of some fog forming by night that lingers through the day or lifts up into low cloud — hence sunshine for many parts of the uk may well be at a premium as we head on into the weekend.

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