it is clear that jeremy corbyn will be confronted by some people in his shadow cabinet this week who him to come clear on whether he wants to remain in the single market and the customs union. from the referendum, jeremy corbyn has never been clear about what his particular sta nce been clear about what his particular stance on brexit is. it has been confusing for labour party members and the rest of the country. what is the point? good question! no, i did not say that! nigel, please! you will get me into such trouble to even imply such a thing! what is the point in changing their stance? theresa may says there will be no second referendum but it is happening. yes, i still think that there is a very small possibility that there could be. i do think it is unlikely. it would mean a change in public attitudes, and we would have to see it with people protesting or whatever. i do not think any of those would happen. brexit will go ahead but there's the possibility that you could have a second referendum and it would have to bea second referendum and it would have to be a referendum on whe

it is clear that jeremy corbyn will be confronted by some people in his shadow cabinet this week whowants to remain in the single market and the customs union. from the referendum, jeremy corbyn has never been clear about what his particular sta nce been clear about what his particular stance on brexit is. it has been confusing for labour party members and the rest of the country. what is the point? good question!

today's speech was the culmination of painstaking negotiations within the shadow cabinet.eremy corbyn has historically been wary of the eu, which he criticised today for embedding free—market orthodoxy. but there are more enthusiastic supporters of the eu in the shadow cabinet, and they were delighted when the labour leader also talked about forging a close relationship with the single market. i spoke to one ally ofjeremy corbyn, who said it is right he has taken time to adapt his position. this person said to me, why let the blairite agitators claim the credit for this? and also, why not let the tories suffer a little on brexit? one veteran labour eurosceptic welcomed jeremy corbyn‘s intervention in light of his pledge to shape future trade deals to help poorer countries. jeremy knows that this is a game changer for europe. not for him. and he will set out his position. and he will then show here is somebody more sceptical than me about the european union, who has tried his level best to get an agreement off them. and what have they done? i would have thought they would t

the question is whetherjeremy corbyn, john mcdonnell in the shadow cabinet will lead us to a positionat the government. call me old—fashioned, but i think it is in the interest of the opposition to beat the government on votes, but party politics aside, this is about protecting the national interest. the labour party has a particular responsibility. we are meant to be the party ofjobs, and if we want a soft brexit, we have to remain in the single market and customs union. what about those who argue that one of the key benefits was the ability to strike oui’ benefits was the ability to strike our own trade deals, and that most of our trade will be outside the eu in the next 50 years or so? if you stay in a customs union, you make that impossible. i am glad you asked, because it is one of the big fallacies of the argument. through out fallacies of the argument. through our membership of the single market and customs union, we already have trade agreements with countries around the world. our clout to negotiate those deals is made as pa rt of negotiate those deals is made as part of the

difficult concept for the tory party to understand, we have a team, are brexit negotiating team, the shadow cabinetained a very close relationship with colleagues in europe and developed that understanding because we wa nt developed that understanding because we wantan developed that understanding because we want an alliance in the future. i have attended more meetings of the party of european socialists that any labour leader in the past and our team is part of that. i raised these matters with the prime minister at question time last week, and you would have heard all that. and we will continue making these interventions. listen, it was only two weeks or so after the referendum in 2016 and burnham, then our shadow home secretary before becoming the mayor of greater manchester, proposed an amendment to parliament resolution to parliament to guarantee eu citizens rights of residency in britain. we have been on this since the very beginning, of the late with the consequences of the late with the consequences of the decision. —— of dealing with the consequences. on the points from the guardianjournal

through your work you have fought for things like reserved places for women in the shadow cabinet andould you say to people who think that? if the women on the labour benches currently in the house of commons... some are from all women shortlists and some are from shortlists with men and women on them, honestly you can't tell the difference. it was a very unpopular and controversial measure but it's what we needed to make the change because we got stuck with 3% women, wejust change because we got stuck with 3% women, we just couldn't seem to increase it so that was the means that justified the end. increase it so that was the means thatjustified the end. 0nce increase it so that was the means thatjustified the end. once we did actually set aside some seats for women, in '97 we got 100 labour women, in '97 we got 100 labour women into the house of commons and that really broke the glass ceiling if you like. it's a bit like the suffragettes, committed all sorts of crimes that they didn't want to be committing and which people really disapproved of, but it's what really made the differen

, the lead role at prime minster's questions had been delegated to the cabinet office minister david lidington, who faced the shadowy. the exchanges began with a little bit of banter about the last time the two had faced each other across the despatch box. let me start by welcoming the minister back to his role, deputising for the prime minister. last time he did so was in december, 2016, when his party was 17 points ahead in the polls, and he told the house that the labour party was, i quote, "quarrelling like the film mutiny on the bounty, re—shot by the team who made carry on". well, what a difference a year makes! it's a delight to me to see the right honourable lady still in her place, when no fewer than 97 members of her front bench have either been sacked or resigned since the opposition took office. emily thornberry asked about the number of women in parliament. i am pleased that my party, since i was first elected 25 years ago, has made considerable progress, but i accept that there is more to be done. i hope that she, for her part, will accept that we have now had two women leaders and prime ministers, so

darker shadow on the administration australis embattled deputy prime minister barnaby joyce has resigned after revelations of an extramarital affair with a former staff member joyce will start cabinet but will remain in parliament safeguarding the government's one seat majority joyce who had come pain don't family values left his marriage of twenty four years and is expecting a child with his former media secretary he also faces a formal sexual harassment complaint which has been referred to the police. now brazil's military has raided a prison in rio de janeiro after the senate signed a decree putting the army in charge of the city security a riot broke out of the prison on sunday with inmates complaining of overcrowding the decision to take over rio's policing is part of a security intervention to restore law and order brazil's federal government hopes the move will curb violence driven by drugs gangs those were the headlines marty dentists here in half an hour with more news next on to their. one of the. ear of the. world a listener one of. the. most of them because your company wouldn't finish college that's because there's you know. the mom. has you know sort of the oh not. on