baroness warsi joins me now. why do you say that?” islamophobia. baroness warsi joins me now.ver three years. i have raised it with three years. i have raised it with three successive chairmen, i wrote to the prime minister about it nearly two years ago. i have submitted a plethora of cases, brought these to the attention of the party, and yet the party continues to be in denial about the extent of the problem. what do they say when you cite cases? that they will deal with cases as they arise, but they have not dealt with members of parliament who retweeted tommy robinson, who made islamophobic comments, who how's it —— who hosted islamophobics in the parliament. they have not dealt with candidates who have made vile comments like, muslims should not be in public life, should be removed from our schools, should be thrown off bridges, should be deported simply for raising the issue if —— make the issue of islamophobia. it goes on, linked groups, members, there is no sense of transparency about the process, [10 sense of transparency about the process, no detail on the number of

this from baroness warsi, a former party chairman so party loyalist, party insider. rs, pretty way the party hierarchy for three years, pretty much to no avail and the only times anything happens is when she tweets about it. in particular, she is suggesting there has been a step backwards since to may took charge and all the efforts to reach out under david cameron have in effect gone into reverse. she is now saying the party is in denial over the scale of some of and the institution is gripped by islamophobia, and she says she is raising cases on a daily basis. i have been raising this issue now for over three years, i have raised it with three successive chairmen, i wrote to the prime minister about it, nearly two years ago. i have submitted a plethora of cases, brought these to the attention of the party and yet the party continues to be denial about the extent of the problem. so what did they say when you cite cases? they say, well we deal with each case as it arises, but they haven't dealt with members of parliament to have retreated tommy robinson,... ——retweet

baroness wa rsi has raised a whole range! parallel here between the pressure on the leadership of the labour party over anti—semitism, pressure, too, on the tory party chairman and theresa may over alleged islamophobia in the conservative party. thank you very much, norman. we will catch up that we re much, norman. we will catch up that were to delete with the weather with louise. well, the spring daffodils are looking beautiful across many areas of the country but not for all as we have some nuisance rain sitting across northern england and southern scotland and at the same time, rain gathering down into the south—west, that is going to arrive later on for all of us. it is going to bea later on for all of us. it is going to be a relatively mild afternoon, 11-13 in to be a relatively mild afternoon, 11—13 in the south—east, cooler into the far north. we need to keep an eye on this area of low pressure, it will arrive as a blanket of cloud over england and wales and southern scotland, temperatures 7—9, colder under clear skies

baroness warsi there.ing fine has lost her appeal against the case. labour says it will now support efforts to trigger a by—election in peterborough, where fiona 0nasanya is currently representing constituents as an independent mp. now, the democratic republic of congo is struggling to cope with the worst outbreak of ebola in its history. more than 500 people are thought to have died and nearly 900 people are believed to have been infected. it's affected the north kivu province, an area controlled by armed groups with a non—existent health system, making it much harder to contain. the bbc‘s senior africa correspondent anne soy travelled to beni, the town worst hit by the outbreak. in isolation, but not alone. these children are suspected to have ebola. but here, they receive care with the human touch. it's a riskyjob, but their carers are survivors of ebola who are now immune. they're helping to fight a disease that brought them misery. rachelle lost ten members of her family. back in her village, she blam

mohammed amin said this had to be looked at, and baroness warsi has been talking about this for years about people needing the services of baby banks, that is on the mirror. gordon brown has written a searing op—ed about this, and it seems with brexit happening the government is stalled on everything else. this is a situation about people using nappy banks to get basics for their children, their babies. anybody who has had children 01’ babies. anybody who has had children or is around children, this is serious. this is as serious as it can get. if you can't clothe your child will keep your child clean, to have to go to a place where they get these things... shouldn't that read skinned parents, rather than just mums? because it takes to parents to make a baby. yes, it is embarrassing and horrible. we have record employment, very low unemployment, and most of the people going there are probably in work. that is a problem, that people who are working are still struggling, and that is an issue. the other issue is universal credit, it seems, that the delay in people getting their payment,

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baroness warsi famously said it is the acceptable form of racism at dinner parties. a minister for the conservative government. i think there is an acceptability of it, tolerance of it, we see it in the media with commentators basically being racist or extremely bigoted and they are tolerated. we see it in the discussion going on, the way it's used in technology and i think regardless of the causes we need to be far tougher and more cautious and careful about stopping this sort of anti—islamic language and inflammatory stuff going on because whilst people making those statements are not necessarily to blame, they are creating a climate which can allow nasty extremism to faster and some inadequates to take this sort of horrendous action. bari. i do agree but i would like to drag your attention to a very important development, anti—islamism, islamophobia used to be expressed verbally and now we are at a new stage, using arms, killing against muslims. this is a huge development. this could actually drag us to another counter revenge. this will play to the hands of radic

after this break plus institutional british islamophobia with britain's first muslim woman peer baroness sued in all this it will come up about two of going underground. breaks it count down. during the great depression which are old enough to remember that it was most of the family were working. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objectively day but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attacks. engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to the. no i'm. one set of rules for the rich officer said. that's what happens when you put her into the. sector will switch will just dedicated to increasing power for jewels just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. welcome back i'm still here with professor jordan peterson do you think that your work is particularly attractive to those whose pride

with me are writer and broadcaster mihir bose and baroness ros altmann, the former conservative pensionster. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in and, unsurprisingly, they're all leading with brexit. the mail goes for "sealed with a kiss" and asks whether what mrs may has got from today's negotiations will be enough for tomorrow's commons vote. the i calls today's discussions ‘may‘s last throw of the dice'. the telegraph says that theresa may's dash to strasbourg has kept a possible deal afloat. the times suggests the pm's deal is still in jeopardy after it says the eu has resisted her demands to change the backstop. the sun disagrees with that assesment, stating that the last minute deal has secured the legal changes required to get the deal passed. the guardian describes the mp's last ditch push for changes to her deal. the express calls for mps to support the prime minister's deal, hoping it will "unite britain". and the metro describes the pm's "may of reckoning". bringing the country together as a tough ask for theresa may, not least when you see headlines like this. on the

said tim baro has written to the council accepting their proposal and now it's all eyes away from brussels back to westminster words the reason may will try to pass how planned and nobody really knows what's going to happen in parliament next week what we can say for sure is that it's shaping up to be one of the most crucial weeks in the house of commons in decades if not in generations can the reason may get third time lucky and get her deal passed through the house of commons or this time next week will we once again be in some sort of political limbo stay tuned to find out well earlier i got a force of andre walker who's a u.k. based columnist for the new york observer he says the reason may has almost no chance of getting her breaks a deal through parliament. there is no realistic prospect of. withdrawal deal passing i think everybody knows that if you look at what happened yesterday in brussels there was a very short discussion about extending article fifty to allow the law to last to go through to pass a withdrawal agreement that was pretty easy the longer and harder bit for the euro

the former conservative chair, baroness warsi, has accused the party of institutional islamophobia ande party members have been suspended over alleged islamophobic comments on social media. she said the prime minister and party chairman had failed to tackle the issue. a spokesman for the conservative party said discrimination or abuse of any kind would not be tolerated. the democratic republic of congo is struggling to cope with the worst outbreak of ebola in its history. more than 500 people are thought to have died, and nearly 900 people are believed to have been infected. it's affected the north kivu province — an area controlled by armed groups, with a nonexistent health system, where suspicious communities have been hostile to health workers, making it much harder to contain. the bbc s senior africa correspondent anne soy travelled to beni, the town worst hit by the outbreak. in isolation but not alone. these children are suspected to have ebola. but here, they receive care with the human touch. it's a riskyjob, but their carers are survivors of ebola who are now immune. they are

can i also pay tribute to the noble baroness's work with the emergency committee, the amount of money the generosity of the british people. the uk's contribution is from this is way ahead of any other country, the next nearest is 22 million. united states 10.8, then you have germany at 3.5. therefore, rightly, the secretary of state for national development in africa high emphasis on getting other countries to get them to realise the severity of the situation faced by these people. after that last significant flooding, i was stuck at that time by the fact that there were not even preparations in place to avoid that as an catastrophe affecting so many communities for future. will the government as part of these international discussions as well as our own one, look to in both malawi and mozambique in particular, look to build better disaster resilience facilities and mechanisms for the future including early warning systems and construction of homes and facilities that can withstand some of these extreme weather events. absolutely, i'mhappy to give that commitment, the met office has s

got themselves into on anti—semitism and the tories are now trying to get on the front foot, but baroness. she is basically said that the tory party is institutionally homophobic and is insisting that they take it seriously and do something. she said that both the chairman and the prime minister theresa may have failed to deal with this comment it is interesting that the latest comments we re interesting that the latest comments were found on facebook page that was supportive of jacob rees—mogg. were found on facebook page that was supportive of jacob rees-mogg. and he went on to it and said there is no room for islamaphobes in the party, we have been very quick on it, but i do not think that is true. they have been a lot of comments about sajid javid, which is interesting. we were just talking about him obviously, we know he is at the home office and he has leadership ambitions, there are comments saying i could not bear to see islam lead the country about him being the leader. so it would be interesting to see his role in this because he is in the perfect position to really, and to asse

my lords, i remind the noble baroness that the no deal is the legal default position as agreed by bothwhat is important, therefore, it that another place or parliament as a whole agrees a deal and gets behind the prime minister so business can have the certainty that we need. to what the noble ladyjust referred, only 40,000 of the 240,000 companies to export to the eu have currently applied for those licenses or registered for them, but my lords, capacity to issue the licenses is currently only for 11,000 a day. so, with march 29 getting closer, i wonder if my noble friend the minister could say what precautions are being taken to increase the capacity for issuing these essential licenses? well, my lords, the important thing is the businesses themselves get their act together and apply for the licenses. as we made clear in that document last week, and that's why we published it, there is a failing on the part of municipal businesses to apply for those particular licenses. if all 200,000 small businesses who have not yet registered do register, there is the capacity, he has assured the

can i also pay tribute to the noble baroness's work with the emergency committee, the amount of money million — the generosity of the british people. the uk's contribution is from this is way ahead of any other country, the next nearest is 22 million. united states 10.8, then you have germany at 3.5. therefore, rightly, the secretary of state for national development in africa high emphasis on getting other countries to get them to realise the severity of the situation faced by these people. after that last significant flooding, i was stuck at that time by the fact that there were not even preparations in place to avoid that as an catastrophe affecting so many communities for future. will the government as part of these international discussions as well as our own one, look to in both malawi and mozambique in particular, look to build better disaster resilience facilities and mechanisms for the future including early warning systems and construction of homes and facilities that can withstand some of these extreme weather events. absolutely, i'm happy to give that commitment, the met o

it's been up to baroness warsi a tory has to actually criticize islamophobia in tory party you look in vain i think for balance in many of these things in the book. people may not remember there would be stories regularly talking about political correctness and the banning of black bin liners the banning of black sheep how do you see the problem getting to this time around they can't do that because the black sheep in the black bin liners story in the burning black coffee story these were about the individual london councils which were left very much in the media flame thrower once the g.l. c had been abolished but if we go back to stories about black bin liners and black sheep and stuff like that no those stories are not so prominent today with the much more prominent stories a propos of stories about muslims and muslims want christmas banned. piggy banks banned muslims want this and that and the other banned those are the kind of myths of today there is a very very interesting. correlation between anti jewish stories in the right wing price from the nineteenth century onwards to anti

the conservative peer, baroness warsi, says the party has a deep—rooted problem with islamophobia.ister of "burying her head in the sand" over the issue, and said efforts to modernise the party had "gone into reverse" since theresa may became leader. a spokesman for the party said discrimination or abuse of any kind would not be tolerated. a counter—terror investigation has been launched, after three small explosive devices were found at buildings at major transport hubs in london. the met police counter terrorism command say packages were found at heathrow airport, london city airport and waterloo train station this morning. let's get the latest from our correspondent robert hall at waterloo station. three locations, what more can you tell us? we got some sort of sense of the timetable. the first alert came in atjust before ten o'clock this morning that an office block near heathrow, the package in that case identical to the other two was ina case identical to the other two was in a white plastic envelope, crudely addressed to that office block, containing ajiffy addressed to that

and i am waiting for a lesson from my noble friend baroness baron who is a teacher of yoga.f the week here at westminster — where i will be talking to two parliamentary experts about the speakers intervention in the brexit process and the current battle between the commons and the government. but for now from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. it was cloudy again in that cloud is still with us as friday starts. but there are changes on the way as this weather front move south during friday into early saturday and behind it it may be cooler but there are behind it it may be cooler but there a re clear behind it it may be cooler but there are clear conditions are more of us will see sunshine over the weekend. ahead of the weather front this is all the cloud we have to start friday, damp and drizzly in places, misty and murky but very mild. here isa misty and murky but very mild. here is a weather front with rain on scotla nd is a weather front with rain on scotland and as it moves through we will see when strengthening across northern england and scotland setting this is where we w

chakra barti reports, you could have a rerun of the chakrabarti reports, wherejeremy‘s —— where baroness concluded her report was a whitewash. provides the handling of anti—semitism for labour continues to be a massive issue for the party, alongside brexit, a dominant issue, i think it is fairto brexit, a dominant issue, i think it is fair to say. are there any signs that the party will satisfactorily find a way through this? mr corbyn's tea m find a way through this? mr corbyn's team would say they have tried to be as open as they can in that they are suggesting this new post of surveillance commissioner, which lord falconer has been asked to take up, to oversee the whole process, is designed to bolster confidence. lord falconer is not a jeremy corbyn acolyte, he is tony blair's old flatmate and close colleague. he has been told if he takes up the postie can have access to all the e—mails and correspondence, both past and present, that he wants, he can ask to speak to current former labour party staff. if any have signed nondisclosure agreements they will be put to one side. the intenti

the victims‘ commissioner for england and wales baroness newlove is also here. good morning to you.i have said that since i had the prime minister's comments, which i was staggered by, the delusion she has that there is no correlation beggars belief. everybody knows that, the professionals within policing, the public. the commission is right, it is not just cuts public. the commission is right, it is notjust cuts to policing, as devastating as they are, it is all the other services which have created a perfect storm allowing crime to take hold, and we are in the crisis we are in. is the prime minister or head of the met right?|j agree with cressida dick and that there is correlation with a lack of resources and police officers, and i say that nothing to do with politics, as somebody watching that film, knowing the pain the mothers go through when you lose somebody, and that is what i feel is being lost in all this, we are not only lose that young lives but we are losing the human message in all this, so i agree there is a correlation, as cressida dick said. people feel let, you can'

, which really leaves us then with no brexit, and as you've just shown from my labour colleague, baronessme and all of this. parliament gave its word to the people of this country — now parliament has to implement that. that was liam fox. well, if the prime minister‘s deal doesn‘t come before parliament again, or is defeated, the commons could seize control of the brexit process. oliver letwin is a former cabinet office minister who is one of those behind efforts to find cross party compromises in the commons. he spoke on the today programme earlier. constitutionally, if the house of commons were to get a majority in favour of a particular solution, that would not be a piece of legislation in itself. so what‘s the point of them? because, in the first place, if we begin this process on wednesday, there is a real chance that if not — and i don‘t think it is likely to happen on the first round — but if not in the first round then in the second, or maybe even, very quickly thereafter, a third, i think we might get to a majority view, and once you‘ve got a majority view, first of all the gover

the conservative peer, baroness warsi, says the party has a deep—rooted problem with islamophobia.ue, and said efforts to modernise the party had "gone into reverse" since theresa may became leader. a spokesman for the party said discrimination or abuse of any kind would not be tolerated. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good evening. our weather is in rather a turbulent, changeable mood at the moment. some wind and rain in the forecast for the next few days. during today, we had outbreaks of rain across northern ireland and england, and southern scotland, with some snow over high ground. here comes our next weather system, some really heavy rain sliding northwards across england into southern scotland during tonight. again on the northern edge of that rain band, we could see some snow. a chilly night in the north, a much milder one further south. but for all of us, the low pressure is firmly in charge tomorrow morning. some strong winds, 50—60 mph gusts possible for parts of the southwest of england. we will see these outbreaks of rain with some health snow c

the baroness, the police ombudsman, felt mrs bradley could not stay in herjob.i misspoke. she said in her statement in the comments i absolutely believe in upholding the rule of law. i'm not talking about any particular case. making a general observation. is that not enough to say, i got it wrong, i apologise, let's move on? there is a question as to whether any replacement secondary estate would be any better. when i was minister of justice, be any better. when i was minister ofjustice, i represented northern ireland on a ministerial group. i had some work for the work she was doing there but sadly, she has lost the respect she had when she came to northern ireland. there is a real question about getting a secretary of state who will do the work that is supposed to be done to get the party around the table to ensure that the institutions are restored, andindeed that the institutions are restored, and indeed to ensure that the institutions agreed in the storm house agreement between the parties, 110w house agreement between the parties, now four years ago, i dir

with me now is the former pensions minister baroness altmann, tim martin, the boss of wetherspoons, andt me come to you first. you we re ross, let me come to you first. you were highly critical of the brexit process , were highly critical of the brexit process, but you must be happy that no deal has been ruled out.|j process, but you must be happy that no deal has been ruled out. i would be happy if no deal is finally and firmly ruled out. maybe not finally and family, but for now. for now it is good news that we have an opportunity to get more sense back into this process, start caring about business, make sure that people in ireland and northern ireland have more sleep tonight. people are really desperate about what has been happening here. i am sorry but no deal cannot possibly be what 17.4 sorry but no deal cannot possibly be what17.li million sorry but no deal cannot possibly be what 17.4 million people voted sorry but no deal cannot possibly be what17.4 million people voted for. these tariffs that were announced this morning by the government in the event of a no deal, which i kno

baroness warsi.mitism allegations. the peer has been asked to review labour‘s internal complaints process, which has been strongly criticised by some mps in the party who belive an external, independent assessment is needed. now i take you to east london where they work and pensions secretary amber rudd talks about health and disability but taking questions from the media. we hear around the assessments, challenging application processes. we are told it is not accessible and that there are multiple difficulties in wrong information forms and inadequate training etc. i hear you are keen to work through those issues and improve them. will you commit to working with stakeholder organisations to input those changes at the beginning of a process, so when we have new processes the accessibility is embedded within them? an interesting question and as you rightly say, relevant to me given my experience. in fact we were just talking earlier about accessibility for blind people to jobs, talking earlier about a

the philosopher and crossbench life peer baroness mary warnock has died aged 94.es. we're joined now by professor allan pacey, who is a professor of andrology at the university of sheffield. fairto fair to say, she was a massive influence on you and your career? ata influence on you and your career? at a very personal level, yes, i can remember as an undergraduate, i was probably 19 years old, sitting in the university library and i read in the university library and i read in the space of one afternoon this report that she published. my goodness, it changed my life. this was the business i wanted to bn and for that i will be ever thankful to her. on the face of it that would be a fairly dry thing to read, but what was it that she did that brought the subject to so many people? it sounds like a dry thing to read, but as a philosopher, she really ca ptu red but as a philosopher, she really captured the spirit of what the tension around ivf was about, she will was able to neutrally chair the committee and take information from the opposing sides. it is a good read s