to loud cheers of "resign", a chastened esther mcvey came to parliament to say sorry.nt to say was that the nao had said that there was no practical alternative to continuing with universal credit. despite that apology, labour are not satisfied. if she didn't do it on purpose the question remains, how could she be so incompetent as to not understand what the report was saying? i think that's a very serious question around herjudgement and her competency levels. esther mcvey‘s errors were born of a desire to put a positive spin on a hugely negative report. put simply, universal credit is not working as it should. the use of food banks, for instance, has increased more rapidly after the benefit is introduced to an area. a welfare reform creating for some the very problems the welfare state was designed to abolish. michael buchanan, bbc news. the bbc has been told that official brexit campaign — vote leave — is expected to be found guilty of four charges of breaking electoral law. the draft of an investigation into vote leave concludes that it broke spending limits and fa

esther mcvey. tensions within the conservative party over brexit were once again on display when conservative backbenchers put their questions to theresa may. cabinet ministers are due to go to the prime minister's country retreat of chequers on friday, where they're due to hold a make or break meeting to decide exactly what the uk wants from the brexit talks. two prominent leavers sought reassurance from theresa may that the uk would be leaving the single market and the customs union. it is her personal position and the settled negotiating position of her majesty's government that after we leave the eu we will have full and unfettered control of migration into this country, full and unfettered control of our ability to make new trade deals with the rest of the world and above all, full and unfettered control on the way we regulate our own business. we will indeed after we leave the european union, we will be operating our own independent trade policy and parliament will be determining our laws and

to loud cheers of "resign", a chastened esther mcvey came to parliament to say sorry.d the house for inadvertently misleading you. what i meant to say was that the nao had said that there was no practical alternative to continuing with universal credit. despite that apology, labour are not satisfied. if she didn't do it on purpose the question remains, how could she be so incompetent as to not understand what the report was saying? i think that's a very serious question around her judgment and her competency levels. esther mcvey‘s errors were born of a desire to put a positive spin on a hugely negative report. put simply, universal credit is not working as it should. the use of food banks, for instance, has increased more rapidly after the benefit is introduced to an area. a welfare reform creating for some the very problems the welfare state was designed to abolish. michael buchanan, bbc news. the bbc has been told that official brexit campaign — vote leave — is expected to be found guilty of four charges of breaking electoral law. the draft of an investigation into v

esther mcvey.ome secretary, sajid javid, has said that the novichok nerve agent that poisoned two people in amesbury in wiltshire is the same as that used in the attack on sergei and yulia skripal in march. the couple had been found unwell at their home on saturday and were taken to salisbury district hospital, where the skripals had also been treated. the home secretary said he understood local people would be feeling very anxious. let me reassure you, that public safety is of paramount importance. public health england's latest assessment is that based on the number of casualties affected, there is no significant risk to the wider public. their advice is informed by scientists and the police as the facts evolve. he said the main line of enquiry was that this case was linked to the poisoning of the skripals in march, an attack ministers blamed on the russian government. it is completely unacceptable for our people to be either deliberate or accidental targets or for our streets, our parks, our tow

esther mcvey. — in effect — be paying their own compensation for weeks of rail delays and cancellations. it was another day of rail chaos, with travellers advised to avoid london victoria station after a signalfailure caused major disruption. the latest day of disruption followed weeks of problems for passengers on some northern rail services and on govia thameslink that runs from the north of london through to the south. the government has announced users will be able to claim compensation of between one and four weeks. in the commons, the shadow transport minister wondered who would foot the bill. she quoted previous comments by the transport secretary, chris grayling. in regards to compensation, the companies, the train operating companies, will have to meet the cost of that. so untrue. it is network rail, mr speaker, will be funding the compensation. last year alone, they paid out a82 million through schedules four and eight. so, does he agree that while the operating companies write the cheque

esther mcvey robustly defended this but today she was forced to say some of the claimed she made werepen letter was published by the head of the national audit office saying it was odd to hear you say we had ignored recent government changes to the benefit because your own officials signed up dill fund this week before its publication. he also said they did not say that the roll—out of universal credit should be speeded up universal credit should be speeded up at all. so this is an extraordinary rebuke from an impartial observer of how the government spends taxpayers money to a cabinet minister. thank you. the time is 6:12. our top story this evening. counterterrorism police are brought in as two people are left critically ill in hospital after being exposed to an unknown substance in wiltshire. and we'll have all the latest from wimbledon, as serena williams makes it through to the third round in straight sets. coming up on bbc news, we are live on day three at wimbledon, with the top seed roger federer breezing through to the third round with a co mforta ble through to the third rou

we're speaking to a group of people receiving universal credit who think esther mcvey should resign.ave a manager who has really tried to make the whole process inclusive. good morning it's 10 o'clock. here's annita mcveigh is in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the days news. good morning and thank you. a senior government scientist has told the bbc it's unlikely that a nerve agent was left in the open before a couple from amesbury were poisoned by it last weekend. dawn sturgess and charlie rowley were poisoned by the same substance — novichok — that was used on the former russian spy sergei skripal, and his daughter yulia, in march. the couple remain in a critical condition in hospital. the whitehall official said the nerve agent can be degraded by rainwater and sunlight, meaning it was probably discovered by the pair in a contained space. eight babies at a cheshire hospital has been released on bail, lucy letby, who's 28, had also been detained on suspicion of the attempted murder of six other infants. the babies died at the countess of chester hospital over the last several yea

labour has called on the work and pensions secretary, esther mcvey, to consider her position. minister apologised to the commons, saying she'd made inadvertently misleading statements to mps about universal credit. now on bbc news, all the business news, with asia business report. where should investors put their muggy? the trade war between the us and china looms. in the us is taking on india's ali would moviemaking machine in there own backyard. —— bollywood. welcome to asia business report. economic growth is in jeopardy. that is the latest from the world trade organization. comments come as trade tensions escalated between the us, china, and the eu, with all signs threatening increasing tariffs. the director—general of the trade body spilt out the negative effects. the economic impact will be one of a slowing down depending on how deep it is. it is difficult to speculate, but it is going to be negative. we have already seen some forward—looking indicators pointing in that direction. what about the present movement towards global trade was white what we have in terms of ten

a picture of the work and pensions secretary, esther mcvey, appears on the front of the guardian, shes facing calls to resign for misleading parliament about the rollout of universal credit. the mirror reports that meghan markles father thomas has told friends he fears they will never speak again the telegraph carried the picture. as wimbledon complaint their men's final will clash with the world cup final. we'll have to see whether there is a clash between england being in the final. let's start now with the metro. this story that has broken in the last couple of hours. the confirmation that two people who we re the confirmation that two people who were taken ill have been poisoned by novichok, the same nerve agent used on sergei skripal. we do not know what has happened here but it's an extraordinary twist that dominated had headlines for several weeks. extraordinary twist that dominated had headlines for several weeksm dominated, the people could be forgiven for forgetting what happened in salisbury, not like long ago. as you say it is an extraordinary development, some would say a

children's right to the drug. 0n the front page of the telegraph is work and pensions secretary esther mcveyetro, who report on the cancelled trains and tailbacked roads caused by the heatwave. and a new alzheimers drug makes the front page of the express. right. jason, would you start? let's go to right. jason, would you start? let's gotoa right. jason, would you start? let's go to a story about cannabis medicine on the nhs. quite a bit to this story, it's not as simple as it appears. the first thing is this is good news, and it will be welcomed by politicians from across the spectrum. the ridiculous thing we had was that, from 1971, the drugs act, which is the basis for all of oui’ act, which is the basis for all of our legislation, it's responsible for deciding a medical decision, and this is a kind of home office deciding a medical decision, and finally sajid javid, the home secretary, and there's a bit of politics here, because this is a break with his predecessor, theresa may, who was home secretary once, he's woken up to common sense that there is a medicinal purpose for cannabis oil

one of the few times in my life i'm going to agree with work and pensions secretary esther mcvey.me criticising her! i think the daily telegraph has good sports coverage. look, not enough young people are getting summerjobs. too few stu d e nts people are getting summerjobs. too few students are working their way through university. she says something interesting, almost contradictory of the message coming from the conservative government previously, that they are focusing too much on studying and doing their homework and getting grades rather than getting real life experience. as somebody who got their first summer as somebody who got their first summerjob as somebody who got their first summer job at 13, as somebody who got their first summerjob at 13, and it taught me a lot,... doing what? i don't like ha rd lot,... doing what? i don't like hard work, for example! i was washing up in a canteen. and then i did various other interesting... i entirely agree. i'd encourage people to get holiday jobs entirely agree. i'd encourage people to get holidayjobs if they can. entirely agree

work and pensions secretary esther mcvey apologises for "inadvertently misleading" the house of commonsuniversal credit. and almost 2a million people tune in to see a stunning penalty shoot out result for england making it the most watched five minutes of television in six years. it's five o'clock. our main story is that a man and woman — are in a critical condition after being exposed to an unknown substance in amesbury in wiltshire. counter terrorism officers are investigating after the pair, both in their 40s, were found unconscious on saturday. it is understood tests are being carried out on a substance at a government chemical weapons laboratory. amesbury is about eight miles from the site of an alleged russian poisoning attack in march when the former russian spy sergei skripal and his daughter yulia were poisoned with novichok — a suspected military nerve agent. the government's emergency committee — cobra — has been in session to discuss the events in amesbury, our correspondent duncan kennedy has the latest. (tx) the property where the man and woman we re the property where the

the move followed a row between esther mcvey and the spending watchdog, the national audit office, overr's apologised for mistakenly telling mps the nao felt the new benefit should be rolled out faster. there is still a level of chaos on the front line that meant for one of my constituents, she could not afford to eat or put socks on her children's feet. and this from the man who said there is no money left. and another minister under fire was the scottish secretary. in an high—octane edition of scotland questions, the snp demanded he resign, because they said he wasn't looking after the interests of scotland. he has been going about boasting he is the longest—serving member of cabinet in his role, so in seems odd that being invisible and ineffective has being rewarded. he has failed to speak up for scotland in the cabinet and he has failed to meet his promise, when will he accessed his failures and resign? goodness, the honourable lady didn't get a chance in the debate last week, so she just reheats the same old stuff. at the heart of this, mr speaker, is that the snp don't accept or l

the work and pensions secretary, esther mcvey, appears on the front of the guardian.he rollout of universal credit. the mirror reports that meghan markles father, thomas markle, has told friends he fears they will never speak again. and the telegraph carries a picture of a gleeming gareth southgate, as wimbledon complains that their men's final will clash with the world cup final. let's start with this breaking story tonight, which is going to grab all of the headlines again. the news that to make people have been poisoned near the russian ex— spy‘s home with novichok, an incredible twist in a story that dominated headlines. the most extraordinary and unexpected development. people could have been forgiven for thinking that the sergei skripal and julia poisoning, which became a major geopolitical issue last march was basically done with. what we have here is what appears to be a couple who are, as far as the police seem to know, and connected with the skripal‘ and russia, who have been affected by the same nerve agent and it isa affected by the same nerve agent and it

we still have esther mcvey the work and pensions and penny mordaunt who are not publicly supporting thethis schism within the government at the highest level. we have the european research group led byjacob rees—mogg going out and banging on for the hardest to deal possible i think this move in this interview, he says article 50 called for a trade deal as well as the withdrawal, it requires a withdrawal agreement and future framework so he's putting his cards on the table. it seems again obvious leader. edges and perhaps we should have pulled it before but i think we've pretty much agreed, this was the whole argument, the eu wanted to settle the divorce bill before they did anything else and we agreed to that. we have now agreed to pay this. it's possibly a bit late to do this because in an essence we have given our word, we have agreed with this bill so although i actually agree with it in although i actually agree with it in a sense for the reason you said the money would blow a big hole in the budget if they did not get some of the money because of course it is a large sum of money a

one or two, esther mcvey, the work and pensions secretary, and penny mordaunt, the international to belletter at the table, negotiating and swing things a bit. it is like boris johnson's defence and swing things a bit. it is like borisjohnson‘s defence as to why he wasn't resigning over heathrow. it is better to fight from within. you have a nice story about boris in your paper today... have a nice story about boris in your paper today. .. yes, philip hammond, the chancellor of the exchequer, was asked recently whether the fact that seven members of the government had resigned over the brexit plan, hammered out at chequers two weeks ago, was a good 01’ chequers two weeks ago, was a good or bad thing. he says in some cases, it was a good thing as it shows they are pushing the envelope a bit towards brussels and it shows that we cannot really do much more because there is so much anger over it. one of the lines he used was that two of the bogey men have been removed from the board and by the bogey men, he is talking about boris johnson and david davis, the brexit secretary. the brexiteers

the payout results from a decision by the previous work and pensions secretary esther mcvey to shelvents dating back before october 2014. the department for work and pensions has already accepted that it wrongly underpaid disabled people switching from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance. 70,000 ill and disabled people were underpaid thousands of pounds after having been wrongly migrated from incapacity benefit to contributions based esa, thereby denying them as additional social security payments such as the severe disability premium. this meant they were denied vital support causing significant hardship on people already neglected by the government social security system. the dwp was alerted of this error as early as 2013, but in what the public accounts committee report published yesterday, described as "a culture of indifference at the dwp," the error was neglected only to be taken up six years after it had occurred. first of all, i want tojust disabuse the house and the honourable lady of the character of people working in dwp. week after week, we hear this cha

the newspapers suggest that esther mcvey and penny mordaunt have so far not publicly declared their supportcabinet blueprint. but the prime minister told us that cabinet collective responsibility had been restored, so borisjohnson and david davis jumped, but they have stayed. whether they liked or not, presumably they have committed themselves. would assume so. cabinet responsibility has been restored. after the resignation of david davis and boris johnson, after the resignation of david davis and borisjohnson, who took a couple of days to digests what happened at chequers and decided they couldn't put their names to it, we have seen cabinet ministers backing it in public. despite reported minutes of the meeting at chequers, they were lea ked the meeting at chequers, they were leaked to a couple of newspapers, and we saw quotes from various ministers criticising the deal, but the important thing now is whether they supported in public or not. and it will become, i think, interesting in the next few days and weeks negotiations go on. and perhaps we start to see that agreement is likely and p

we‘re going to go to the commons because prime minister‘s questions has just finished and esther mcveyopt a test and roll—out of the approach of universal credit which the nao says follows good practice and therefore the point i was trying to make without the calls seem to fly in the face of those particular conclusions. as you know, i asked you yesterday if i could come to the house to correct the record. i believe it is like that as a minister i should correct the record andi minister i should correct the record and i therefore hope you will accept my apology. in regard to the issues raised today by the nao, they contacted my office last week and we are setting up a meeting and with regard to the nao report of not taking into account the changes to universal credit, i still maintain thatis universal credit, i still maintain that is the case such as housing benefit run on at 100% advances and the removal of waiting days. the impact of these changes are still being felt and therefore by definition couldn‘t have been fully taken into definition couldn‘t have been fully ta ken into accou

a public rebuke for the work and pensions secretary esther mcvey, who's had to apologise for misleading

after the work and pensions secretary esther mcvey made the comment before. martin townsend agrees.h the kids do not want to take the holiday jobs and saturdayjobs, over the yea rs, jobs and saturdayjobs, over the years, my kids and i had a saturday job ina years, my kids and i had a saturday job in a fruit and veg shop and my kids worked on the markets, but we started saying that kids could not have a job without a national insurance number, 16 years old. rules and regulations prevented them from working. they learn really good lessons and my kids loved it, i loved working on a saturday. we have to find a way to do this, but when lots of people on low paid jobs, we do not have enough full—time jobs anymore. just 18% compared do not have enough full—time jobs anymore. just 1896 compared to 4296 in 1997. how things are changing. definitely. i might need your help with this one. interesting story in the mail on sunday. revelations about meghan markle's family. we have got the negative part of her dad going to the press, but i would focus more on the fact i think after princess diana's

young people should stop studying for work and this is what esther mcvey has said.er jobs —— a sensualjobs. it took me back to my summerjobs —— young people a summerjob. my summerjobs —— young people a summer job. i could my summerjobs —— young people a summerjob. i could size up a child and get them into their uniform. summerjob. i could size up a child and get them into their uniformm seems like an odd job for a child to do. i was seems like an odd job for a child to do. iwas in a seems like an odd job for a child to do. i was in a child. seems like an odd job for a child to do. iwas in a child. i seems like an odd job for a child to do. i was in a child. i was about 18. just last year. yes, of course. i had to get the balance between the pa rents i had to get the balance between the parents who wanted to go to or three sizes bigger and the kids who didn't wa nt to sizes bigger and the kids who didn't want to look like idiots when they went to school on their first day. any memories? i remember in 1986 working in the sewers, which was a cool and peaceful place to