bernard jenkin, who chairs the public administration and constitutional affairs committee also said hended evasively to the report on the issue. for example, and i name only one department but it includes every department, at the cost of flow of senior officers who finish up flow of senior officers who finish up working in the defence industry. asimilar up working in the defence industry. a similar situation occurs in other departments. nobody should assure there is automatically anything from with this but there needs to be an adequate reassurance that indeed there is nothing wrong and we're not fostering of a permissive attitudes. he described the official watchdog asa he described the official watchdog as a toothless regulator which had failed to change the environment around official appointments. the magazine private eye, from who will we took evidence, frequently appears to do we took evidence, frequently appears todoa we took evidence, frequently appears to do a betterjob than the advisory committee. he said -- the firm at chancellor agree that nothing is done by government to s

bernard jenkin, thank you.news: a sharp rise in serious violent crime and sex offences — knife crimes rise by more than 20%. president trump tells theresa may he loves britain and expects a "tremendous" increase in trade between america and the uk. but back home, more trouble in the conservative party over brexit — the chancellor says he wants modest changes after we leave the eu and downing street contradicts him. sport now. the british number two kyle edmund says he has caught the bug for computing in the grand slams after his semifinal in the australian 0pen. he became the sixth british man to reach the last four of a major in the open era. from east yorkshire to melbourne. kyle edmund, in every sense, has come a long way. his arrival so soon has been a surprise for some. now, could his extraordinary journey continue? well, to go further, edmund would have to stand his ground against marin cilic. that is anything but easy. the travails of this tournament seemingly now taking their toll, edmund was outplayed

i interviewed bernard jenkin early and he said maybe it's time for another reshuffle, she needs to bringh her. we had one suddenly last week of the week before. people are still talking about the fact that as you say, the really big senior cabinet ministers, the foreign secretary, home secretary to a certain extent, chancellor of the exchequer seem to feel they have license or the ability to go out there and say these things and they know they will not be sacked. every time they do it it weakens theresa may, a mixer looked as if she is captive of cabinet rather than in command of them. that is what of course immediately prompts all the speculation about how long she will be there. there is the split in the cabinet, you can't get away from it, they have different views of what they have different views of what the future will look like after brexit. how will they resolve that? the issue of europe is always dividing all parties, it's notjust a problem for the conservatives but for labour as well who similarly cannot seem to agree on what the brexit end stage should look like. equally, beca

bernard jenkin is at westminster.had the cabinet secretary and the permanent secretary from the cabinet office in front of our committee. the permanent secretary has been the lead official dealing with the consequences of the collapse of carillion and he told us today that, in fact, they have been planning for months for this worst—case eventuality and a great deal of contingency plans have been put into place which have been carried out today. that includes discussions with banks, with subcontractors, and discussions with alternative contract providers in order to make sure there is continuity in public services being delivered by the carillion contracts. i will come back to that point in a moment. before we do with that in more detail, how concerned are you that decisions were made about outsourcing the after the problems that carillion were evident? we are concerned. we are going to conduct an inquiry into government outsourcing and the lessons learned from the carillion collapse. what we have already been told tod

bernard jenkins, said last week the young people do not have the same political maturity as people over the age of 18. this is clearly not true, members of the youth parliament, as we can stand here today and debate with each other, respecting each other's views even if we do not share them. unfortunately, it seems something our members of parliament are unable to do so. we have the political maturity to join in and vote alongside them. now, i may be mistaken, members of the youth parliament, but when i wake up on my 18th birthday next year, i don't expect to have suddenly developed the maturity and understand the nation in a completely different way than i have before. and many people would argue that people 18 years and over do not have the maturity to engage in our system. we have of to show that we dill believe that our right to -- still believe that our right to vote is important and something we must fight for as this fight has been ongoing for 18 years. that's nine generations of 16 and 17-year-olds who want the right to vote, and we must support this important cause which will a

another leave campaigner bernard jenkin suggested she was perhaps being a bit hobbled by her own cabinetoon, you can see the full speech from brexit secretary davis davis — that's here on bbc news after 2.30pm. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines: donald trump tells global leaders america first does not mean america alone, and his country is open for business. the uk economy grew by 0.5% during the fourth quarter of 2017, official figures show. downing street distances itself from comments made by the chancellor — after he said any change to the uk's relations with the eu could be "very modest". in sport, the defending champion roger federer reaches the final of the australian open. his opponent retired with severe blisters on his feet. there will ne no whitewash for england in their one day series with australia as they slipped to defeat in the fourth 0d! in adelaide. they lost their first 5 wickets for just 8 runs, as the hosts chased down 196 to win by 3 wickets. and british paralympic champion sophie hahn denies cheating the classifcation system in para sport. the