i am a big admirer of ed miliband.t him a text saying i hope he would stay on as leader. i hope there will be a rid time of reflection now. jeremy has said he will stand down in the new year. it's right now that we have a period of reflection. we need to analyse the fact the distribution of votes was clearly a disaster for labour but we still got more votes than we did when we have won elections previously, so we need to have a cold, hard headed and objective analysis of what went wrong. if we rush to judgment we could get it wrong. do you want to offer an apology and so you are sorry? offer an apology and so you are i offer an apology and so you are sorry? i am deeply sorry and the labour party takes full responsibility for the fact we are not in government. the fact peoples lives will be made worse by the thatcherite policies of a conservative government under boris johnson and the cuts and privatisation he will push through. that breaks my heart because every week i help people at the hard end of conservative cuts.

the former labour leader, ed miliband, is to take part in a review examining the party‘s heavy defeatvist group, labour together, is setting up a commission tasked with mapping out a route back to power. the review will be led by the former shadow education secretary, lucy powell. and lucy powelljoins me now from our salford studio. thank you for talking to us, tell us what you aim to do? we are we are looking to have an objective and inclusive project, taking us into the new year, where we hearfrom members, activists, defeated candidates, pollsters and others and we are going to talk to the public in many of the seats that we lost in this election, to work out what are some of the underlying trends, some of the issues that we have faced and how we might seek to address them. so that we can produce ahead of hopefully the ballots for the leadership race, we can produce a really big piece of work that would stand the test of time and help shape and chart that way back for the labour party over the coming yea rs. the labour party over the coming years. one thing i suppose that will puzzl

ed miliband, yes, he is a former leader, but he is also a current mp.nt mp. he is very relevant to the debate we are having today. he represents one of the seats that so—called part of red wall, where there was a big swing from labour and he like many other mps and activists has spent many days and hours over the last weeks and months knocking on doors and speaking to the electorate. he is very relevant to today and he has that experience of notjust being pa rt that experience of notjust being part ofan that experience of notjust being part of an election campaign, but from being in the topjob if part of an election campaign, but from being in the top job if you like of the labour party and understanding the pressures of that. sorry to interrupt, if i could pursue the point, some would say a failure to look hard at what went wrong in 2017 and a failure to really face up to mistakes then is one of the things that went wrong in 2019 for your party? yes, we have lost four elections in a row now and we haven‘t actually taken the time to look deeply at what‘

the former labour leader, ed miliband, is to take part in a review examining the party‘s heavy defeatower. the review will be led by the former shadow education secretary, lucy powell. i spoke to lucy powell a little earlier on, she explained what the review was trying to achieve. we are looking to have a comprehensive, objective and inclusive process taking us into the new year where we hear from members, activists, defeated candidates, pollsters and others and we are also going to talk to the public in many of the seats that we lost in this election, to really work out what are some of the underlying trends, some of the issues that we have faced and how we might seek to address them. so that we can produce ahead of hopefully the ballots going out for the leadership race, we can produce a really big piece of work that withstand the test of time and to help shape and chart that way back for the labour party over the coming years. one thing that will puzzle some observers is that you have invited a former leader of the party who lost an election. have you also invited the former leader

this is the product of the ed miliband, £3, £5 membership vote.y momentum and so mass membership which is driven by momentum and so on. mass membership which is driven by momentum and so on. i long bailey is very likely to get the leadership. i don't think she has a snowball ‘s chance of winning a general election outright in the uk in the way that the poles are now. in the way that borisjohnson the poles are now. in the way that boris johnson and dominic the poles are now. in the way that borisjohnson and dominic cummings stole, as someone put it, but managed to grab the working class labour vote and there is a very interesting patriotism point which i find strange and this is not my idea,, a friend of mine put it to me and said where the wall crumbled is in areas curiously of very high military recruiting. if you think back to when the army particularly, and the navy were much bigger than they are now, you've got hundreds of thousands of people with a military connection and i know from the trends that they didn't like the sta nce trends that th

ed miliband went after one.e out for the observer. i think it is a slightly misleading headline and it is slightly panic inducing, because it all —— it is all anonymized data. there is no suggestion that there is anything in this data that would give these companies your name, address, your age or anything like that. there are obvious concerns. campaigners to protect privacy obeisance concern about the lack of transparency. this is international pharmaceutical companies. you know, some of the big names. and they have been paying the department of health and social, they have been paying a government department, for this, licenses costing around £300,000, in return for using this anonymized data. this will hit home harder, don't you think, than a possible deal over drugs with the us? we are in the same territory here. we think they are linked. the trouble is it shows we are doing already trade deals about the nhs with america. and this is what they promise not to do. and we is what they promise not to do. and we

former labour leader ed miliband is to sit on a panel of party figures to look at the reasons behinde‘ll discuss the whole new medical lexicon dedicated to our smart phone addiction. hello and welcome. i‘m katty kay in washington, and christian fraser is in london. the plane manufacturer boeing has sacked its chief executive, dennis muilenburg a move it said was necessary to "restore confidence" in the company. mr muilenberg has been under pressure since two fatal crashes involving boeing‘s 737 max aircraft in which nearly 350 people died. boeing‘s shares have gone up by two percent since the announcement of the leadership change — but does removing the person at the top highlightjust how deep the crisis at boeing is? samira hussain is covering the story in new york for us we were talking earlier about it being a good day to bury bad news. is this another incident of that? this has certainly been something thatis this has certainly been something that is a long time coming. a lot of people have been wondering when there would be some kind of accountability for what has happened with

this is the product of the ed miliband vote, you have a mass membership which is driven by momentum andsnowball‘s chance in what is it to wina snowball‘s chance in what is it to win a general election outright in the uk in the way the poles are now —— polls, in the way borisjohnson and dominic cummings managed to grab the working class labour vote — the red wall. there is an interesting patriotism point which i find strange, and this isn't my idea, a friend of mine but it's me and said where the wall crumbled is in areas, curiously, with very high military recruiting. if you think back to when the army and the navy were much, much bigger than they are now, you have hundreds of thousands of people with a military connection, andi people with a military connection, and i know from veterans that they didn't lie the stands of corbyn, but above all, john mcdonald. he is a question. you said she may well be elected but not be able to win an election. so in what way does the membership reflect what's going on out there? i don't think they do. this is one of the most fascinating things that cam

the former labour leader, ed miliband, is to take part in a review examining the party‘s heavy defeatping out a route back to power. the review will be led by the former shadow education secretary, lucy powell. a woman has died nearly two weeks after a bus crashed in swansea. 36—year—old jessica jing ren was travelling on the double decker when it crashed in to a bridge on the 12th of december. her family said she was a devoted wife and mother and that she would be deeply missed. seven other people were injured in the accident, a 63—year—old man who was arrested in connection with the incident has been released under investigation. heavy fog and icy roads led to a 69—car pile—up in virginia in the east of the united states. the crash, about 50 miles east of richmond, closed both sides of the motorway. 51 people were taken to hospital for treatment but no one has been killed. in some spots, vehicles were so squeezed together that firefighters and emergency responders had to step from car to car to pull people out. dozens of former thomas cook employees say they‘re struggling to access

the popular vote labour got in the selection is higher than ed miliband got.s increased. of course, but in terms of popular vote, it is about location and that is something which was underestimated by labour. what do you mean? it is about the fight we can pile up massive majorities in london seats and remain areas but if we are not getting a good geographical spread of labour voters, it is not viable under first past the post. you would need electoral reform for that to work for labour. the sunday telegraph and a revolution planned by the prime minister to guarantee a peoples brexit. what is he planning to do? he is planning an overhaul of whitehall. he thinks it is shocking how no one is ever fired in whitehall, the same civil servant stick around and it is impossible to get rid of them so he will change that. it is incredible, he has the majority to be able to do that. that is one of the many things you cannot do unless you have a massive majority. that is enormous. he is also talking, also on the sunday telegraph front page, about the possibility downing st

has not been associated with the current leadership around jeremy corbyn or the leadership around ed milibandeir time and they've lost, we have now lost three elections in a row, four, if you catch 2010. i think it needs to be a new voice, a new face with new ideas, because we will need a lot of ideas, because we will need a lot of ideas in a post brexit britain. everybody is obsessed with brexit. housing challenge, social care for older people, pensions, there are all kinds of issues around us, climate change. we need new progressive ideas and a new person to be the figurehead. would jess phillips get through the party is constituted? don't the left have all the leaders, her plus the membership? that's a good question, and the member should have control of the next leader, that's what the changes in the constitution of the party mean, and i think the membership have to ask themselves, do they see the world in left and right? so we have to choose a left leader even though we have gone four left in the last three elections even though we've lost every time? or even though we've lost every time

the former labour leader ed miliband is to take part in a review examining the party's heavy defeat inabour together is setting up a commission tasked with mapping out a route back to power. the review will be led by the former shadow education secretary lucy powell. heavy fog and icy roads led to a 69—car pile—up in virginia in the east of the united states. the crash, about 50 miles east of richmond, closed both sides of the motorway. 51 people were taken to hospital for treatment but no one has been killed. in some spots, vehicles were so squeezed together that firefighters and emergency responders had to step from car to car to pull people out. now it's time for a look at the weather with simon king. good morning. it is christmas week and there is more rain in the forecast. for many of us through the first couple of days it will be largely dry and there will be sunshine today for most of us. a few showers in scotland today, northern ireland and england and wales, but for most of us it will be dry with sunshine. maximum temperatures up to 6-11. sunshine. maximum temperatures up to 6

ed miliband didn't have that. if we go back to neil kinnock, 1982, even then, 271.. well, they have done it again. you have to go back to 1935 to find was one. after the war, they then had some years as leaders. he made some progress in this election but we had to go back to 1985 and atley was a ca reta ker to go back to 1985 and atley was a caretaker leader. this is how bad this is for labour. this will stand out for years and years and years. let's bring it on here. this is a really, really. .. if let's bring it on here. this is a really, really... if we are... bring on that last one. 2019, 203. if that is where they are, it is almost the worst in a century. pretty much the worst in a century. pretty much the worst since the very start of the party. that is something to think about. i wa nt to that is something to think about. i want to force for a second to give full credit to someone who willjoin us now fault the third or fourth time during the night, sojohn curtis with his marvellous team of a nalyst curtis with his marvellous team of analyst because john, of c

bad thing, because one of the problems you had, i think, after 2010 when gordon brown lost and ed milibande extent although to a lesser degree, with jeremy corbyn, there was no real profound soul—searching about what is the labour party for and what is it trying to achieve. it is easy to plonk a new leader in place and think that will sort it. most in labour will now concede they are facing very fundamental questions about how they re—engage with their traditional supporters while still hanging on to their new supporters, younger supporters, metropolitan supporters, and i think there is a question about what is the labour party four, who will it address itself to and where does it look to find space to be a potential government. they are profound questions that will not be sorted out ina questions that will not be sorted out in a three—month leadership campaign. it's a long of rebirth. looking at it from the point of view of people like you, your life in westminster will get in some ways, when this bed is in, a little less interesting, because the labour party, one of the things they are f

ed miliband was at the helm when labour lost the election in 2015.party went on to lose its fourth consecutive general election, its worst performance in terms of seats since 1935, as a string of constituencies in its traditional northern strongholds fell to the conservatives, some for the first time. the review, has been set up by a group called labour together, and will be led by the manchester mp lucy powell. she spoke to bbc breakfast. what we are looking to do is have a really comprehensive objective and most importantly inclusive process to take us into the new year where we hearfrom members, activists, defeated candidates, pollsters and others. we're also going to talk to the public and many of the seats that we lost in the selection to really work out what are some of the underlying trends, some of the issues that we have and how we might seek to address them. labour together describes itself as a network of activists from "all traditions". currently the labour party is hugely split between the left, which backed jeremy corbyn, and right—wing

the former labour leader, ed miliband, is to take part in a review examining the party‘s heavy defeat draws to a close, statisticians have released a summary of the numbers that illustrate how life has changed over the 2010s. the royal statistical society competition results showconcerns over deforestation, and closer to home, slow productivity growth in the uk. the winning international statistic was 8.4 million — that‘s the number of football pitches you could fit in the area lost to deforestation in the amazon during the past ten years. the british stat of the decade was 0.3%, the estimated average annual increase in uk productivity since the financial crisis. another noteable number — 27%. that‘s the percentage of young adults in the uk, aged 20 to sa, who are now estimated to live with their parents. earlier i spoke to professor jennifer rogers, vice president for external affairs, at the royal statistical society. i started by asking her what she thought about that amazon deforestation number. what struck us about this is the number is so huge. 8.4 million football pitches we ha

the former labour leader ed miliband is to take part in a review examining the party‘s heavy defeat inadow education secretary, lucy powell. i spoke to lucy powell a little earlier on, she explained what the review was trying to achieve. the answers don‘t lie in the past to this. the answers lie in the future. we had to learn the lessons from the past and everybody has something to contribute in learning those lessons but i suppose what i would say in response to that, if people think the answers only lie in winning an election 22 years ago, before the global financial crisis, before brexit, before mps expenses, before we had some of the wars and humanitarian crises, i think they would be just as wrong as well. the answer to this lie in the future. the electoral coalition that the labour party now needs to win back is a very different electoral challenge, the one that tony blair faced, when he was standing as labour leader. you could bank on dozens of returning labour mps in scotland where we now have one, in wales where we have lost many and right across the north and midlands, seats

with me now is sonia sodha, former advisor to ed miliband, now chief leader writer at the observer and front bench. that group is probably confined to ours. but if we are going to set things alight, which parts of the campaign mattered for you? jeremy corbyn's interview with andrew neil, the bbc attack dog, was really interesting. he does find but on anti—semitism he just tripped up, and he refused to apologise when andrew neil asked him. it was on the day or day after that the chief rabbi had criticised the labour and told british dues not to vote for labour. —— britishjews. as the pot calling the kettle black? borisjohnson has not even god for his interview. he also faced criticism. i think my moment of the campaign is when borisjohnson criticism. i think my moment of the campaign is when boris johnson was shown the photo on a reporter's phone off that four—year—old boy, sleeping on a pile of coats, in a a&e, suspected pneumonia, and boris johnson would not look at the phone, would not answer the reporter's direct questions about the case. was it going to apologise and tip the phone

in 2015, all the press said is that all i would do it split the tory vote and allow the snp and ed miliband more labour votes than tory macro. -- than tory. guy? back when we had the elections, the brexit party gotta theresa may out and got boris in, we got this thing, get out on the 315t ofjanuary, but i have a big, quite rational, fear, that next week, if the tories do not get a hung parliament and we are left in this deadlock, we will not get out of europe and i have a strong feeling that the brexit party will be at fault for that. i respect what you have said but i feel this vote share that you will have will be taking away... the voting system in this country is broken, to an extent. let's take a connected caller. there is another one you can respond to, and there is a full list of candidates standing on the bbc website for that particular constituency. all talk at once. i had to say that, that is the law. wayne in birmingham? hi, nigeland nicky. my question is, why does the brexit party need tojump into bed with the tories? i think it takes away the party's identity. i am a leaver, it

ed miliband was left and jeremy corbyn was more left in 2019 than he was in 2017.'s allie5 labour leader who knows who the country's allies are in the world and do not 5ide country's allies are in the world and do not side with the moscow propaganda machine after a chemical attack in our country. we need a labour leader who understands that bizarre conspiracy theories in the ha rd left bizarre conspiracy theories in the hard left about the role jewi5h people play in global capitalism are utterly despicable and di5gu5ting and need to be rooted out of the party. we need a labour leader who understands that good politic5 party. we need a labour leader who understands that good politics are rooted in the communities of sedgefield, wakefield, bolsover, those are the people this party was created to represent. we have to turn the page. this is a failed experiment. we also need a leader who doesn't buy into a right—wing and nationalistic narrative, which thi5 and nationalistic narrative, which this government will push and many people on this country are really concerned

when ed miliband lost he saidi leadership.that defeat. we have heard nothing. i am certainly very sorry. i feel a nothing. i am certainly very sorry. ifeel a huge nothing. i am certainly very sorry. i feel a huge responsibility nothing. i am certainly very sorry. ifeel a huge responsibility to our activists and in momentum we have mobilised thousands of people and apart from my concern for the country itself, the thing that is making me sad is that that sense of obligation i feel towards the people who put that you are trust in us. i'm sure we will hear more from party leaders, but it is a disappointing result and we do need, people spoke of a period of reflection and there must be one and we need to understand what is happening. —— normally you would say a period of reflection is what people need but you were warned on such clear language. from people who defected, from voters on the doorstep, from eve ryo ne from voters on the doorstep, from everyone who tried to sell the jeremy corbyn message and couldn't, what part of that

in in 2017, it wholeheartedly induced labour and ed miliband in 2015. should talk about the policy pledges to do with inequality and howjohn mcdonnell is saying that labour wants to abolish poverty once and for all, quickly, how will they do that? yes, that is the big focus, that is the big focus today with the speech thatjohn mcdonnell gave, with the speech thatjohn mcdonnell a . with the speech thatjohn mcdonnell gave, in birmingham, and then addressed to supporters thatjeremy corbyn dave here in nottingham, so, what they want to raise the minimum wage, to £10 an hour, immediately, for all people above the age of 16. they want to get rid of universal credit, bundling together of half a dozen benefits into one benefit payment. they say they would put in immediate fixes to having scrapped it. they do not know what would replace it in the long term. they are of the view that the conservatives over the last ten yea rs have conservatives over the last ten years have been far too tolerant of widening inequality, and those who are trapped in poverty and they

the former labour leader, ed miliband, is to take part in a review examining the party's heavy defeath mapping out a route back to power. the review will be lead by the former shadow education secretary, lucy powell. the duke of edinburgh has spent a third night in hospital, receiving treatment for what royal officials have described as a pre—existing condition. buckingham palace says prince philip, who's 98, was admitted on friday as a precautionary measure on the advice of his doctor. let's get more on our top story with jane. once top story with jane. again we are talking about football once again we are talking about football for the wrong reasons? yes, allegations of racism, as you mentioned earlier. the first time a stadium announcement has been made, the first step on fifa's protocol on racism. alleged racism that chelsea player antonio rudiger said took place at tottenham's white hart lane yesterday. it started when tottenham's son heung min was sent off for kicking antonio rudiger in his chest. rudiger was then seen mimicking a monkey gesture and told his captain, cezar azpil

with me now is sonia sodha, former advisor to ed miliband, now chief leader writer at the observer andy have kept that poll lead although it has narrowed in re ce nt lead although it has narrowed in recent day, we saw a very large poll from yougov last night, which suggested that the conservative majority was going to be smaller than when they did that same poll a few weeks ago, so there is evidence that the gap is narrowing, one thing the conservatives have done is sort of keep boris johnson away from some of keep boris johnson away from some of the big set piece interviews, so we had jeremy vine saying this morning as well, he won't come on radio 2 even though all the other leaders have done it. they have played a cautious game. as james has said there have been a number of gaffes which i think have started to cut through, with voter, boris johnson's reaction to being shown that dreadful photo of the four—year—old boy sleeping on a pile of coats, in a hospital, with suspected pneumonia, he didn't answer the question and pocketed the phone. that has not gone down well with voter, that

we have struggled, and i don't think it's just underjeremy corbyn, it goes back to ed miliband and evene struggled to reconcile a more liberal position in places like london, and a small seat conservative view of the world in some places that voted leave and have now voted for borisjohnson. that's a big challenge for the labour party but we have to wrestle with that in the months ahead. why hasn't it been a problem for the conservative party then? they took a big punt with borisjohnson. i think in london we know boris and that perhaps reflects some of the votes you saw in london, but the rest of the country, i found you saw in london, but the rest of the country, ifound knocking on doors, labour were talking about borisjohnson, they doors, labour were talking about boris johnson, they were saying, doors, labour were talking about borisjohnson, they were saying, he has only been in power a few months so let's let him stay there and the brexit message was cutting through. ed vaizey, are you thinking now, i shouldn't have left the party, if i was going to be part of the biggest majority si

after ed miliband's defeat, he said i take absolute and total responsibility for our defeat.ction results began at 10pm. only if you hours ago. it doesn't take ten hours... it feels like ten days, i haven't had any sleep. we will discuss everything, as a democratic party would expect to do, and look at what happened last night, what needs to be done, put a plan forward, and we will discuss it with all the stakeholders including their membership. we are a democratic organisation and take the party forward. let me ask you on a personal level, do you accept thatjeremy corbyn, his personality and his policies, where the roadblock here? listen, i have visited many constituencies in the past five weeks, probably 60 constituencies, knocked on doors, spoken to people. the issue on the doorstep wasn't even the issue on the doorstep wasn't even brexit although this has proven to bea even brexit although this has proven to be a rerun of the 2016 referendum. and at least that is what has happened here. what people we re what has happened here. what people were more interested in, the nat