matt, you go for lunch with chris mason. what's he like? uaranteed is that chris will always have a pudding. and i can always tell which pudding it's going to be. it was poached pears today. it's quite often a crumble. if there's anything on the menu which mentions yorkshire, he'll always have that. of course. quite often, the minister leaves, as they did today, and chris and i satand had a pudding and a nice chat afterwards. how does he have time for pudding? i don't know, he does about 20 jobs now on the bbc. i know. that's better than him leaving his unpeeled, half—eaten carrots around the newsroom, so i'll tell him off even more about that. he really does do that. and not just carrots. you could bring them in peeled. don't leave them on the desk. if he has had a pudding at lunchtime... he doesn't need them! he's in big trouble when he's back next week. we'll be live at the radio theatre in london, which is very exciting, for an eve of brexit day special brexitcast show. so if you can come along to that, marvellous, and if not, it will be

here's our political correspondent chris mason. applause.les but make no mistake, labour is a party wounded and hurting, crushed at last month's election — its fourth defeat in a row. little wonder one of the candidates to replacejeremy corbyn said... being leader of the labour party when you're in opposition is quite frankly the worstjob in the world, that's what we're all applying for. nevertheless, emily thornberry wants the job because... i'm the only one who has gone toe to toe with borisjohnson over two years at the dispatch box when he was foreign secretary. i got under his skin and i got to expose him for what he was, which is a reckless, lying charlatan. a claim that downing street would dispute. all the candidates underlined the importance of stamping out anti—semitism in the party and another recurring theme was trying to stop falling out with each other in public. i think the whole of the party wants to be united, they want to come together, so we have to end factionalism. stop asking the question which bit of the party are you f

chris mason, bbc news.the chancellor sajid javid said there'd be no alignment with eu regulations after brexit. in an interview with the financial times, mrjavid said some firms would lose out, but added that they'd had three years to prepare for changes. our business correspondent katy austin reports. many uk—based business who make everyday products trade with eu countries. the food and drink, chemicals, medicines, vehicles, and aerospace sectors have been vocal about their desire to remain in step with the bloc‘s regulations after brexit, to keep their industries competitive. but in his interview with the financial times, the chancellor said... what sajid javid has said here is not entirely new, borisjohnson's government since the autumn has indicated it will not seek to remain aligned with eu rules after brexit, but what is more new is the chancellor getting a message to businesses that they need to accept that and they need to prepare. while acknowledging that some industries might benefit from brexit,

chris mason, bbc news.vid said the uk would not align with eu regulations after brexit. in an interview with the financial times, mrjavid said some firms would lose out, but added that they'd had three years to prepare for changes. our business correspondent katy austin reports. what doing business between the uk and the eu will look like in future is still an unknown. the food and drink, chemicals, medicines, vehicles, and aerospace industries have said they want to remain in step with the bloc‘s regulations from 2021 to stay competitive. now, the chancellor has said... what sajid javid has said here isn't entirely new — borisjohnson‘s government since the autumn has indicated it will not seek to remain aligned with eu rules after brexit, but what is more new is the chancellor getting a message to businesses that they need to accept that and they need to prepare. the eu wants the uk to stay closely aligned and to keep a level playing field on the environment, competition and labour standards. the chancello

chris mason and politicians. what is he like? d is that chris will always have a pudding. i can always tell which putting it is going to be. it was... quite often a crumble, if there's anything on the menu dimension structure, you'll have that. and quite often the minister of leeds, chris and i say and had a putting in a nice chat afterwards. always taking time for putting. does barley 20 jobs. i know! better than him leaving his unpeeled had in carrots or other newsroom. so would tell them even more about that. he really does do that. not just carrots, just leaving them at his desk. why does he leave them on the desk? he has a pudding at lunch. he is in big trouble when he's in teddy my coming back next week. very —— he is in big trouble when he comes back. if not, it will be back on the television but that is all we've got time for tonight but it is been lovely having you guys. thank you so very much indeed and that is it. goodbye. hello there. the weather next week is going to look and feel very different from what we have had

i was lunching with chris mason, and a cabinet minister, and we went to a restaurant, there was raviolioe minister did not know what it was, when it came to him it's basically a massive, a single big parcel. that's the posh ravioli. that's what we are talking about here. this is what the eu wants, they want to ravioli oh, and not a ravioli. what does that mean though? is basically saying, we have been talking but that's the last couple of podcasts, laura, the idea that the uk was think look, ok, we have got a short timetable, but what we will do, we will sort of rack up some wins you know? we will make an agreement over security, we will make an agreement over financial services, the uk hopes. and we will knock off all those agreements as we go along, and the eu is saying, no we have got this ambitious political declaration, we want a fully comprehensive trade deal, or we are going to pack all of that, you know, sort of content into our raviolio and you know, coat it with a little bit of, you know, sort of pasta around the edges, but we want to stop it all in that one bag, -- stufflt. no

now, it's time for brexitcast with laura kuennssberg, chris mason, katya adler and adam fleming.brexit is, er... i hadn't quite understood the full extent of this. we are particularly reliant on the dover—calais crossing. this election blew away the argument for a second referendum. i urge everyone to find closure. let the healing begin. i'm sorry, we will miss you. a process which i can only describe as a dog's brexit. this is katya in brussels. and adam in brussels. i'm laura in westminster. and chris in westminster. i think it's fair to say, picking up on where we were last week, laura and katya and adam, that the news,

now, it's time for brexitcast with laura kuennssberg, chris mason, katya adler and adam fleming. brexitcast from the bbc. no one's got a bleep clue what brexit is. brexit is, er... i hadn't quite understood the full extent of this. we are particularly reliant on the dover—calais crossing. this election blew away the argument for a second referendum. i urge everyone to find closure. let the healing begin. i'm sorry, we will miss you. a process which i can only describe as a dog's brexit. this is katya in brussels. and adam in brussels. i'm laura in westminster. and chris in westminster. i think it's fair to say, picking up on where we were last week, laura and katya and adam, that the news, compared to where it was, the news has lost some of its capacity to excite, but there is still stuff we can get into, isn't there? if we return to our brexitcast tradition of delighting in the nuance and the detail? sure, there's still been stuff happening, and huge news in other parts of the news landscape. of course. but there was, guys, wasn't there, from your end, although he said it in lon

political correspondent chris mason is with us from westminster. so, chris, the chancellor...nt meeting today? it is an important meeting today? it is an important moment because there's been a wibble and a wobble and either an prevarication from boris johnson and his government ever since he became prime minister last summer. there's been a review looking at it and concerns about the spiralling costs, about the delay until the first trains will run, and yet here is the chancellor, sajid javid, making it clear, making it known this morning that he thinks, having looked at the numbers, having scrutinised the costs, that on balance it is worth going ahead with. that's a bold thing for a chancellor to say if the prime minister is about to scrap the whole thing. the government says it hasn't made a decision. there will be a meeting today involving the chancellor, the transport secretary and the prime minister and we will have a final decision next month, but that is as soon as next week, so a decision looks imminent and it looks like in the end of the government will probably say

chris mason is in westminster.ion although it will have consequences because of the role of the stormont assembly within the brexit process and within the weeds of the discussion you were talking about and those crucial details around the borders between northern ireland and great britain. the rest of the uk and northern ireland out of the uk and northern ireland out of the uk and northern ireland out of the public and what will be the european union once the uk is out, i think the reality and herds of stormont and what has changed there in the last week versus where we we re in the last week versus where we were for the last three years, is two things. one you touched on, a desire amongst the parties to correct all the things is far as funding is concerned. there is now a majority government here for conservatives with a sizeable majority. that's good alas of fuel term and all likely —— that will last a full term. that power base they have as a result of an outcome of the 2017 election when the conservatives neede

let's speak now to our political correspondent chris mason. it is very complex this next stage.bly. certainly the favourite among parliamentary labour party, i think we both got to the number of where british politics is in the early weeks of january 2020, we have been obsessed with the existence or otherwise by a hyphen in one of the candidates surnames rather than the tummy out of 2019. where you stand? —or tummy out of 2019. where you stand? — or not? tummy out of 2019. where you stand? - or not? i am very bbc so varies. a bit of this and a bit of that. you have no opinion? none whatsoever, i would observe as was pointed out in the newspapers yesterday, which would point out that pages need filling, it is that apparently rebecca long—bailey has told some people that it does involve a hyphen, the thing between long and bailey but a photo appeared on social media of her constituency office in salford in the north west office in salford in the north west of england in which it did not feature. so i am not entirely sure her policy on hyphens is entirely clear, let alone the scrut

let's talk to our political correspondent chris mason who's at westminister.o know what you're made of ben wallace's tone in his statement to the house of commons because it seems me there was no huge criticism of america but there was also no robust defence either, what did you think?” there was also no robust defence either, what did you think? i think that's a very neat summary of where mr wallace was and where the british government has been over the last couple of days. reemphasizing that they were falling back on again and again the escalation, this desire to see a return to the promisee and a removal of the potential for the conflict or violence associated with what happened at the tail end of last week. just a couple of details from what mr wallace said, the defence secretary in the house of commons saying that it was important that some operational personnel or moved out of baghdad and that would be happening. as i say reemphasizing this desire for the escalation. interestingly here, the focus of the response we heard from jeremy corbyn the labour lea

chris mason is at westminster for us. have you had your ear pressed to the hustings door? i have.i have just been going on for one hour 45 minutes. i havejust walked down from the corridor where it has been taking place. it is one of those where the politicians on the inside and we are on the outside, leaning against the big thick wooden doors, hoping to hear things through said doors and only hearing snatched extracts but hopefully the teams tend to send us a little lines about what their candidates have been saying and a lot of soul—searching going on within the party given the scale of their defeat a couple of weeks ago, so take this from lisa nandy, one of the contenders, she said possibly one of the most important in our history, now is not the time to steady the ship, if we do not change course we would die and we deserve to. keir starmer also talking about the devastating election result. each of them making their pitches and we will have more hustings tomorrow. the deputy leadership contest, plenty of mileage in this contest though which will run until easter. there are a

let's talk about bongs and more important matters with chris mason, our political correspondent.e eu and uk by the end of the year, according to the pm who has given his first major interview since winning the election to bbc breakfast this morning. he also said the international nuclear agreement with iran could be replaced by a deal negotiated by donald trump. chris, tokas through the highlights? this was a pretty comprehensive ca nter this was a pretty comprehensive canter around this was a pretty comprehensive ca nter around the this was a pretty comprehensive canter around the prime minister's inbox, the first time we have heard from him in detail in the new year. he popped up upright ministers questions last week that has been relatively quiet, particularly in contrast with the image of the boris johnson of old. —— he popped up at prime minister is questions. he disappeared into a submarine and sent his ministers and there. he gave an interview to dan walker. interesting language on iran, on the so—called jcpoa, thejoint competitive plan of action, for trying to ensure iran

chris: that is not true. boring masonone of the people came up with high crimes and misdemeanors. to include things like misconduct and abuse of power. >> no. chris: then you have alexander hamilton ho talked about specifically about misconduct. >> i will spend some time on the hamilton matter in my talk. when clinton was being impeached people who opposed clinton's impeachment cited the same quote as saying no, no, that shows you have to narrow it, not broaden it. what he was saying is subjects are the jurisdiction, namely high crimes and misdemeanors, treason, bribery, those are crimes that involve public people, they are political in nature. they are abuse of power. hamilton was not trying to expand the criteria from the constitutional criteria. he was trying to contract it. arguing in fact in addition to having crimes like treason and bribery you have to show it involves a breach of public trust. i will lay it out all very carefully. chris: i will look forward to that but i do want to point out, we want to listen a co

elements that was introduced by the framers and it was rejected by votes like -- >> chris: that's not true. george masonone of the people who came up with high crimes and misdemeanors and heat rejected to include things like misconduct and abuse of power. and then you have alexander hamilton, who talk specifically about on the hamilton matter in. it when clinton being impeached, people who opposed plaintiff's impeachment cited the same quote is saying no, no, no, that shows you have to narrow it, not broaden it. he was saying as the subjects of the jurisdiction, namely high crimes and misdemeanors, treason, bribery, those are crimes that involve public people, they are political in nature, they are abuse of power. hamilton wasn't trying to expand the criteria from the constitutional criteria. it was actually trying to contracted. arguing that in fact addition to having crimes -- you have to show that involves a breach of public trust. i will lay this all out tomorrow. >> chris: i look forward to that but i do want to point out that we want to listen to a couple of the people -- you bring up the clinton

mason. thank you. talk to you soon. listen, back to being professional. we're going to have bipartisan -- new bipartisan reaction tomorrow on fox news sunday, chris wallacehave an exclusive interview with senate judiciary chairman, lindsey graham and chris will also sit down with one of the democratic impeachment managers, congressman joaquin jeffries, that airs at 2:00 and 7:00 p.m. eastern on the fox news channel and of course make sure you check local listing to see when it airs, fox news sunday airs on your fox affiliate and we will be right back. humira patients... this one's for you. the heroes who won't let your disease hold you back. you inspired us to make your humira experience even better with humira citrate-free. it has the same effectiveness you know and trust, but we removed the citrate buffers, there's less liquid, and a thinner needle, with less pain immediately following injection. if you haven't yet, talk to your doctor about humira citrate-free. and you can use your co-pay card to pay as little as $5 a month. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis, and cancers,

hello, this is breakfast with chris mason and sally nugent. a possibility that china won't be able to contain the virus. families affected by the g re nfell tower virus. families affected by the grenfell tower disasters have welcomed the resignation of a member of the panel who was linked to the company who made the cladding. president trump ease ‘s lawyers have begun defending him in his impeachment trial. his defence will last three days. rescue teams in turkey have been working in freezing temperatures to search for survivors of friday's quake. the efforts have centred on reaching those trapped alive. a special 50 pence coin to commemorate brexit has been unveiled by the chancellor. the coin which bears the words, peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations will go on circulation on friday to mark the day the uk officially leaves the eu. an earlier batch of the coin had to be melted after the original brexit date was delayed. a murder investigation has been launched after the death of a non—league footballer. a 27—year—old man has bee