the world, and he confirmed that every pupil and every teacher in eton college have had tests. the country, four out of five schools have had to send children home because they cannot get tests, because teachers cannot get tests. children are going home again. this for us is a really resonant thing about the state of inequality in this country, which is extreme compared with most other european countries, we're closer to america than europe in terms of our inequality. this is just an emotional issue where parents are desperate to get their children back to school and look across at eton buying private tests that no one else can get, creating... reminding people of the great inequality of life in britain. of course, yes, the private testing system is available. it is interesting to know whether the nhs can use some of that capacity. eunice, what story has caught your attention? the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, has made quite a wide speech on the priorities of the european union and one of those was about reforming the dublin regulation, which essen

it costs more than twice as much to send your son to wormwood scrubs as it does to send him to eton.s, particularly short—term prison sentences, were not effective. about 70% of people who were serving less than 12 months were being reconvicted, so prison in that sense was a failure. some of the younger chaps who are in here, they come in here for small sentences and go out as animals. the great and the good in legal terms began to think we must be able to do something more constructive as an alternative to prison, and community service was at least a worthwhile experiment to see if we could have some positive results and reduce the level of reoffending. in 1972, the then—home secretary introduced the criminaljustice act, which brought forward community service orders as a new method of reducing the prison population. this was completely new, in fact it was a world first. as an alternative to prison, an offender is given between a0 to 240 hours, it's a penalty, a fine on time, and is expected to do constructive work in the community. i was the senior probation officer responsible for

gentleman's, but i'm sure it isn't because of what he'sjust said, says, "i wonder if an education at etonay, mr speaker, i'm sure that he had... i'm happy to accept his assurance and his protestations, and i think we should leave it at that! but the prime minister said he'd had a fantastic staycation in the highlands and he'd commend it to everyone. and boris johnson's commercial for the scottish tourist board brings us to the end of wednesday in parliament. thank you for watching. i'll be back at the same time tomorrow with a round—up of the week in parliament. until then, bye for now. hello. it will be a much milder end to the night, that is because we've picked up atlantic weather fronts as more cloud around. and although that is clearing away for many, we will still have quite a cool and brisk breeze with showers coming in on that atlantic wind. these are the weather fronts i've talked about, some heavy, thundery rain for a time through the night. this cold weather front is bringing some more persistent rain southwards and to the south of that it is very misty. low cloud is shrouding

how does the prime ministerjustified recent reports that every child at eton gets a covid test were currentlyt home and isolate where there were protests that show no sign of coming? can he tell us how many schoolchildren are currently self isolating because they cannot afford to buy their own tests, and if there is so much spare capacity, why is it that not every child can get a test when they need it? every child with symptoms should automatically get a test. that is everybody with symptoms should get a test, and i can tell her that we are massively expanding testing across the country. i repeat the point that i made earlier on, it is one of the few things which we can be thankful about this epidemic, that it does affect children and young people, the youngest of all, much less than older people and there is much less evidence that they pass it on in the way that other people do. does my right honourable friend agree with me that the best way to support our heroic staff at the hospital in dudley, care staff and our residents in care homes, is to reinforce the central message of washing our

gentleman‘s, but i‘m sure it isn‘t because of what he had just said, saying i wonder if energy is an etonriously. thank you. studio: that‘s the end of prime ministers question time, quite a lot going on, a fairly feisty exchange between boris johnson going on, a fairly feisty exchange between borisjohnson and keir starmer, as we have come to expect in prime minister‘s questions. there are some breaking lies that emerged that i want to bring you stop while prime minister‘s questions was under way, we heard that there has been u—turn on the local restrictions around covid—19 in bolton and trafford. we were reporting earlier that they were being lifted, but there was a lot of local unhappiness because there had been a spike in the number of cases, and now the health secretary has announced that thatis health secretary has announced that that is going to be changed. and also another line that emerged in prime minister‘s questions from borisjohnson on the bbc, he said that the culture secretary will shortly be publishing a road map for the future of the bbc, and we will be looking at funding.