general election last year we set out what our aspirations are for the people of this country, aspirations of eliminating homelessness and aspirations of putting more money and resources into education through and resources into education through a national education service, ending university fees and building 500,000 council homes and taking water into public ownership, overwhelmingly popular policies. sadly we did not win it but we got the highest vote for labour since 2000. i think we need to recognise people are not prepared any longer to live in a society that is so unequal and walk by on the other side while we have fellow citizens living on the streets. we must invest in our future and public services and that is what the fundamental labour party message was in the general election. that clip from jeremy corbyn in leicester this morning. in a moment we will have business news but first the headlines on bbc news. sir vince cable announces he will step down as liberal democrat...