thank you for talking to us, caroline lucas. thank you for talking to us, caroline lucas.t don't know the magazine — it's generally supportive of the conservative party. you were holding your parliamentary awards last night and the prime minister could not be there because of michael fallon's resignation at seven o'clock. everyone was obsessed about that and quite rightly. seven o'clock. everyone was obsessed about that and quite rightlym seven o'clock. everyone was obsessed about that and quite rightly. it was interesting as the news broke at the beginning of the wood awards that he was stepping down. the reaction was one of sadness but understanding why it had come to be. why sadness? sadness at the state of politics. not necessarily because of him? no. in layman's terms how destabilising is it for the prime minister to lose somebody like michael fallon, a key ally, a friend, very stable, solid and loyal? he was one of her most loyal cabinet members and she is in shock that short supply with them these days. obviously this was a resignation. it looks like it was somewher

nigel evans and caroline lucas, thank you for your time.ooks like this morning with carol kirkwood. the lights looked gorgeous earlier in the... in the dark... in the dark! they were twinkling away. they we re dark! they were twinkling away. they were gorgeous. they are come priced of 300,000led lights. it is the capital's largest festive display and they are on all night as well. as you said they were lit here, it was the first street to be lit in 1954 and then other streets followed on. now, what we have this morning isa mild on. now, what we have this morning is a mild start to the day. it is also a breezy one and the forecast for most of us is a cloudy and mild one with rain at times. some of us already have some rain. more notably at the moment across northern england and also scotland. as we go through the course of the day, we hang on to a lot of cloud and then a new band of rain will swing in from the west. that band won't be as heavy as the one we currently have. where we have got the cloud is thick enough for the odd spot. it is a

sophie walker, caroline lucas, thank you very much for your time.as been herself why you and some of it will continue to be heavy as we go through the next few hours. it is courtesy of this weather front here slowly continuing to push to the south—east, not getting into the south east until much later in the day. so behind it, brightening up nicely across scotland and northern ireland. we will see sunshine by the afternoon and showers. ahead of it, afternoon and showers. ahead of it, a lot of cloud and showers and here is the band of rain slowly moving south—east wards. gusty winds around it as well. so across yorkshire, lincolnshire, in towards derbyshire, the midlands, that's where the rain will be by 3pm. ahead of it, a fair bit of cloud. some showers, but temperatures holding up, gusty winds again around this band particularly along the south coast so from devon all the way over towards the isle of wight in particular and behind it, for cornwall and west devon, again, brightening up. west wales brightening up. west wales brightening up. west wal

caroline lucas is in westminsterfor us. caroline lucas is in westminsterfor us.eds to answer? the questions have just been put, and alistair burt was there asking —— and sewing on how the half. i think there was a strong sense that she should have postponed her trip to africa, she should have been there to answer for herself. it was not a very edifying sight seeing another minister having to defend the indefensible. she has broken the ministerial code, embarrassed the prime minister extraordinarily by not telling her about a meeting with the prime minister of israel before the prime minister of israel before the prime minister herself was meeting with him. she has had any number of meetings that were only —— we are onlyjust now catching up with, without having any officials there, and she is proposing to use british aid money to give to the israeli army in the golan heights when it is quite clear that british policy is not to recognise israeli occupancy of the golan heights. —— the golden —— —— the golan heights. the prime minister's response is that we need to t

caroline lucas was saying technology has moved so far about all these terms of materials that were notay and i must alternatives is a better way and i m ust co nfess alternatives is a better way and i must confess i think she has a point. eventually i guess the taxes would have been collected by this method, the gamut of the day has to find the income from somewhere else. —— the government of the day. find the income from somewhere else. -- the government of the day. an interesting thing he bidding, the chancellor is putting money into tackling waste crime. this could become quite a big issue in the new year, the chinese, which is where we stand about 60 or 70% of our domestic household waste, the chinese have but a ban on that imports are a lot of that waste is going to begin to back up. notjust in the uk but around the world. the fear is that instead of sending it to recycling centres, about sending it toa to recycling centres, about sending it to a continent for incineration or whatever, instead of people wore shape it into a legal landfills and so that is one of the reasons that he

caroline lucas, what do you make of the housing announcements?”what i was hoping to see was a serious investment in affordable housing and we also need to underline the word affordable because unfortunately under this government they have redefined affordable to mean 80% of market rent. for my constituents in brighton, 80% of market rate is not affordable. so that's what we needed to see. jonathan edwards as far as the stamp duty help for first—time buyers goes, it will apply to wales for a short amount of time? with this announcement, it means six months that this policy will apply and the welsh government will be able to introduce their own policies. but the big issue for wales, of course, we saw crossrail 2 mooted, the milton keynes development, and nothing specifically for wales. they've scrapped electrifying the line to swansea, the tidal lagoon in swansea wasn't mentioned. in the british government isn't going to invest in wales, why don't they give us the tools to get on with it ourselves? £3 billion so we are ready for brexit? well, i thin