we had john major last night, just a week ago tony blair, now the former chancellor george osborne allexit. the implications of ha rd over brexit. the implications of hard brexit in particular, with mr osborne are very deliberately warning mrs may not to go down the road of just warning mrs may not to go down the road ofjust walking out of the negotiation room if she does not get any sort of deal. his fear that that would mean british companies would face huge tariffs, if they wanted to export to the rest of the eu, there would also be new regulations and new administrative burdens. that would of course have a knock—on effect for trade and the economy. more than that, he also dismissed the idea that liam fox and others we re the idea that liam fox and others were arguing, that britain can make up were arguing, that britain can make upforany were arguing, that britain can make up for any loss with the eu by getting new trade deals with countries like australia and new zealand, mr osborne today said that could never make up for the loss of our trading arrangements with the eu. have a lis

george osborne looks like the champion of working people in the north.his is the next stage of that. theresa may is seeking to message working people with a party that really cares about you, now eight conservative traditional interpretation of that is that taxes too— something that i believe and working people will hear and feel. but she's very good at broadening, david cameron didn't message as well to the tabloid has theresa may. people care about these issues that are fought over, she's doing very well. she is but copeland isa doing very well. she is but copeland is a slightly special case, we shouldn't ignore that, sellafield nuclear plant and whatever else we would think about labour, knowing about the nuclear policy is one of the more perplexing things? there are always local factors, but the big messages that labour should be winning the seat is very co mforta bly. winning the seat is very comfortably. from across the water i think, i think david miliband, still in new york. david miliband saying that labour is at the weakest for 50 yea rs. that

former chancellor george osborne's comments highlight the division within parliament, within the conservative party itself on

the former chancellor george osborne, says the debate has become too focused on immigration, at the expense of other vital issues. the government has chosen and i respect this decision, not to make the economy the priority in this negotiation. i'm ben brown at westminster, where we'll bring you the latest developments. also in the next hour, there's been more harrowing testimony, at the inquests into the deaths of 30 britons killed in the tunisia terror attack. one teenager described the scene, as his brother, uncle and grandfather were shot dead. a gang has been spared jail, after the fraudulent sale of puppies bred in appalling conditions, at a traveller's site in essex. and the footballing world says farewell to the former england, watford and aston villa manager, graham taylor. our top story at 5pm. mps are debating whether or not to grant the prime minister the power to trigger article 50, the clause which will begin the process of pulling the uk out of the european union. theresa may wants to give formal notification of britain's intention to leave by the end of next month. let's cros

. ♪ charlie: george osborne is here.ed as chancellor of the exchequer from 2010 through 2016. his term ended after the vote to exit the european union, also known as brexit. he remains a member of parliament and has served there since 2001. president trump met with theresa may at the white house. among the issues discussed was creating a bilateral trade deal between britain and the united states. i'm pleased to have george osborne back at the table. good to have you here when your premise or has just been in town. two things -- number one, how you size up donald trump? you are seen politicians. this has been as fast raised a week to open a presidential term as any of us have seen. george: the bottom line is donald trump is unpredictable. he would say because he is shaking up the clinical establishment and reaching out to the people who supported him that for the rest of the world, britain included, it makes a challenge because the united states is a bit more unpredictable and we don't exactly know what the view of the u.

the former chancellor, george osborne, has warned that leaving the single market will be "the biggestthe united kingdom". 0ur assistant political editor, norman smith, is in westminster. what has he been saying? sophie, you sense the big beasts of the remain campaign, those opposed to brexit, stirling from their slumber. last night, sirjohn major attacked theresa may for her to brexit. today, george osborne, warning mrs may to not follow through if she can't get the agreement she wants with the eu. to do that, he said it would mean the biggest act of protectionism in british history. meaning that british companies would face new regulations and admit that if burdens if they wanted to trade with the eu. more than that, he says theresa may's new idea that new deals can be struck with non—european countries, that can never make up for the loss of trade with the rest of europe. george 0sborne insists he is not trying to unpick the results of the referendum. but you sense that after months in which mrs may has dominated the debate on brexit, casting her opponents asunder, slowly her oppone

george osborne retreated from ita years.ears. george osborne retreated from it a little bit. others will say it is down to economic growth. if you don't have the tax money coming in, it it doesn't matter how much you cut a way of spending, you won't improve it. but they have been some improvements? it has been better than the gloomy forecasts so far, but the consensus now, and be wary of the consensus, but the consensus says over the next couple of years inflation will bite. the pound's wea kness inflation will bite. the pound's weakness will come home, imported goods will become more expensive and that will put us off spending more money and that will have its effect. growth will only be 1.6% this year and 1.3% next year. well below the norm. so that era of austerity, was it pointless? some will say it has not worked. the government say they have succeeded in halving the deficit, but in terms of stimulating the economy, the government are taking a different approach. they are doing capital spending rather than hacking away

former chancellor george osborne warns of significant risks to britain's economy if theresa may failsto secure a trade deal with the european union after brexit. a senior police officer says not all paedophiles should be prosecuted — lower level offenders should be rehabilitated. found in a field in staffordshire — the iron age necklaces thought to be more than two thousand years old go on public display. the families of some of the victims of the tunisia terror attack are seeking to pursue legal action against the travel operators. it is after a coroner here at the royal courts concluded that all 30 british victims had been unlawfully killed, he also said he could not make a finding of neglect over the vulnerability of the resort to an attack. judge nicholas loraine smith described the response by the tunisian security forces to the killings as at best shambolic, at worst cowardly. an islamist men, seifeddine rezgui, carried out the killings that the resort near sousse injune killings that the resort near sousse in june 2015, killing killings that the resort near sousse injune 2015,

the amount nhs england said they needed was handed to them when david cameron and george osborne camehem. foreign patients to pay up front for nhs care. hospitals will be legally obliged to try to recover this money but if somebody comes in and really need attention, do you present them with a credit card machine? exactly. it is so difficult. with so many of these ideas, one understands why it they are saying it but it is a question of enforcement. how are you going to check? emergency care is something different, surely. from the telegraph, a black all of 22 million. but 500 million in the times. it you do not pay into this in system you cannot expect to be using it. we do not know because nobody has ever been a really questioned at the front desk. it could ea significant figure. you have the said proof of eligibility is needed. people pay. people having hospital treatment delayed or cancelled and somewhat coming in from abroad is taking their place. lots of inequality. people will have to pay. in the daily mail, this idea, the emphasis being on renting rather than home ownership. do

when you have got a businesslike yours and you can export, the former chancellor, george osborne saidwe might feel when we leave the european union. do you think that's the case? well, i'm not a politician, but i can say from a business prospective it is more difficult to do business outside of europe. we have a regulatory framework that makes sense within europe. you may not agree with the regulations and it takes a lot of money to comply with them, but we have a framework. there is a lot of extra tariffs and it is more complicated to do business. in terms of tariffs and having free access to the single market, how essential is that to your business? it is essential to all business. we're particularly concerned about ireland, having a soft border between ourselves and ireland, it is about a fifth of our business and so to be able to have are a broad access to all markets is essential to everything we do. we have seen currency fluctuations over the last six to seven months. has that been an advantage for you as an exporter or is ita an advantage for you as an exporter or is it a doubl

you think of george osborne backing down over personal independence payments and tax credits so it hasa realjam here because the disability charities are up because the disability charities are up in arms because they say look, if you suffer from say dementia, you can have as profound problems out and about as if you are blind. so why shouldn't they get this benefit? more than that, the disability tribunals, they went through the cases in real detail and you know, we clearly know increasingly the difficulties people have with mental health issues. so they're under pressure, not just health issues. so they're under pressure, notjust politically, but from the mental health charities and the last thing to say is the government, before they announced they were going to try and rewrite they were going to try and rewrite the rules without anyone noticing, they didn't consult anyone, they didn't consult parliament or the disclaket charities didn't consult parliament or the discla ket charities and didn't consult parliament or the disclaket charities and they tried to sneak it out, for that an

so that was george osborne, the former chancellor in the debate.we have been hearing from alex salmond for the scottish national party. the importance of scotland's european connections stretches back a mill lendial and we are not going to allow in non vision act of madness from this house take scotla nd madness from this house take scotland out of these connections. the scottish government have put forward the proposition scotland's place in europe which offers the prime minister to stay within the single market place regardless of what she wants to do to this country. a labour mp has been explaining her reasons for resigning from the labour front bench. problem with sound this decision has not been easy. it has been a haze of conflicting emotions as we decide what to do in the labour party, but for me there we re the labour party, but for me there were two main reasons why i made the decision i did and why are we voting against the bill today? the first decision has been made because of the future of the eu nationals living in my constituency. th

charlie rose spoke to george osborn. es a he a member of parliament and a former chancellor of the exchequer. >> the bottomline is donald trump is unpredictable. and because is he shaking up the political establishment and reaching out to the people who supported him for the rest of the world, it makes it a challenge because the united states is a bit more unpredictable, and we don't exactly know what the view of the u.s. is going to be towards nato or russia or syria or trade. and you know, that's going to be something that i think is going to concern the world until we hear more from this administration. i think people want the administration to succeed. they want president president trump to be a porntd leadser of the world and we are just going to have to wait and see. >> what can we say about the visit that the prime minister may make. >> i think she had a pretty successful visit. indeed the most important thing was a speech she gave in philadelphia because there she said i think britan needs to say and other countr

we have been hearing from the former chancellor, george osborne. truth is that while britain is seeking the maximum possible access to the single market for goods and for services, and while we hope that the fact that we have a trade deficit and a very important financial centre will count in our favour, the government has chosen and i respect this decision, not to make the economy the priority in this negotiation. they have prioritised immigration control and that was a clear message from the referendum campaign and they've also prioritised removing european court ofjustice jurisdiction from the united kingdom and in that sense asserting parliamentary sovereignty. the snp's angus macneil has also been speaking — saying many people didn't know what they were voting for. it is crossing its fingers and hoping for the best. we are told that people know what they voted for. perhaps they knew what they we re for. perhaps they knew what they were voting for, to leave the eu, and they didn't know the destination and they didn't know the destination and th

remember the last time a conservative chancellor, george osborne, sought to cut personal independence retreat. now, this time, the government is not seeking to put personal independence payments, but they are seeking to curb access to them after two court rulings which massively expanded eligibility to this benefit. basically extending it to people with mental health problems. the government's view is this not what pips were designed for, but also the potential bill is huge, up to £3.7 billion. all of which said, there is a real head of stea m which said, there is a real head of steam building up, ithink, already some tory mps signalling they may revolt because of the way it has been handled. the announcement was put out on the day of the stoke and cope land by—elections when people weren't really paying attention because the disability charnts say they haven't been consulted and in pa rt they haven't been consulted and in part too, because of comments by a man called george freeman who said the government wanted to focus pips on the really disabled, not those who were having to take

george osborne. many well—known faces who will back it do so with a heavy heart.t has chosen, and i respect this decision, not to make the economy the priority in this negotiation. the european union is not prioritising the economy either. we do not want to give the sense that people having voted for brexit because they felt they had been ignored, are being ignored once again. on a wet wednesday afternoon the debate might not felt like it is about the country's destiny, but history hangs over. a quiet revolution, the prime minister called it. brexiteers proudly manning the referendum barricades today. for the first time in a0 years the way british parliamentary democracy is meant to work will actually be able to work. this was the nationwide referendum of the british people and the british people spoke. does the prime minister know what she's doing? but in the unlikely event it was news to anyone, our former top diplomat in brussels, now out of his job, warned mps of bumpy times ahead. is the government going to make a failure of brexit? fistfights, feisty talks a

george osborne, you'll remember before the brexit vote said there would be an emergency budget and thets on the event of us prepared forecasts on the event of us leaving the european union. it didn't say what the upside might be. some of the brexiteers say the treasury's independence has been called into question. consumer demand held up very well and employment is holding up fine. they are not the only one that is forecast doom and gloom. everyone bar the seven or eight economists that came out on the brexiteers side. brexit hasn't happened. a lot of the economists would say they are in the honeymoon period. we are benefiting from a weaker pound with none of the bad stuff from brexit come to pass yet. even so it damaged the treasury's reputation. that's what the papers are reporting. the treasury's reputation. that's what the papers are reportingm the treasury's reputation. that's what the papers are reporting. it is down to comments by a former treasury official who says this has happened. i think we take these things with a long view, we have to see how the treasury does on not just

former chancellor george osborne's comments highlight the division within parliament, within the conservativearty itself on this very sensitive subject. what these rather acidic remarks illustrate is not so , ih the opposition to brexit think most mps see this as a done deal but to the direction be takingy seems to the brexit -- a hard brexit, leaving the single market. there's a great deal of uncertainty as to what kind of deal and what kind of access the u.k. is going to get from the eu. when fort was a little the remainders because the white paper will be published tomorrow ahead of the committee stage of the bill, which is when we really get down to detail. that is a mini when for the remainders. guest: absolutely. and in a way, it's more significant than the bill itself . we don't expect that much in the white paper. it will pretty much be the speech theresa may delivered in ituary, but what it does is sets down in legal form and parliamentary documents how priorities, the stages and it is a point of reference. it means parliament can hold it to account as negotiations progress. that goi

in a mess that when it came to the brexit vote, they had to protest against david cameron and george osborne don't buy the idea that, you know, there's a sort of centre where we are all the same. we have a different system. you aren't all the same, it's just that the differences between new two are smaller than those differences between your leaders. the natural coalition may not be between your leader, but it may more naturally be between you and other people in the centre. so where i think there is an important point to that argument is that the debate we are in in britain at the moment, is like, everything in politics is being flown to the ends. —— blown. brexit seems to have given a lot of power to people on the hard right and the far right and i think that's problematic because they don't represent the interests of the majority of people in our country. getting issues like, you know, schools funding, things like that, on the agenda can be really difficult because brexit is sweeping everything else out the way. that is where i think there's a very good point. do you think you should be i

speech of the day george osborne? i think we'd have to say that.that while he supports remain he will vote for triggering article 50 because it would be a constitutional outrage if he tried to thwart the will of the people. but then he made a pointed intervention by saying that the government has decided not to prioritise the economy and they are prioritising controls of immigration and taking the uk out of thejurisdiction of the european court ofjustice. that's quite a thing for a former chancellor to say who obviously he believes that elections are decided on the economy. then there will be battles over what form brexit will take and he ended with the words, i will be in those fights in the couple of years ahead. nick, thank you. having given us the referendum most mps felt they could not ignore it. most mps voted in favour of the referendum and then 47 of them voted against invoking article 50 is a way of accepting the result. and some like ken clarke didn't want a referendum in the first place and voted against the result of all. none of us can

become the biggest single act of protectionism in uk history according to the former chancellor george osbornen campaign, and was sacked after the referendum, has warned that future trade deals will not adequately replace the single european market. failure to reach an agreement with the eu he said will prove costly to the british economy. the billionaire businessman sir philip green has paid £363 million into the pension fund of british home stores, the uk retail chain. bhs went in to administration after sir philip sold the chain forjust a pound. he's been criticised for having made profits and dividends of more than half a billion pounds while leaving the pension fund with a huge deficit. our business editor simon jack is here with me. recap if you would for all international viewers why this went so badly wrong and why sir philip green has been shamed? i'm using that word, shamed into paying up. this excited imagination for many reasons. green is a buccaneering businessman, he is very rich and he has a very bruising relationship with politicians. he does not like to play the game. he sold

philip hammond is a very different type of chancellor from george osborne.problematic areas. it looks good when you say that you want to save some money and then suddenly you save some. the treasury is still concerned there could be a treasury brexit hit. we haven't seen evidence at the moment and the evidence has been more positive than negative, but the treasury is still thinks we have still to trigger article 50 and still there are negotiations and potential problems ahead. if there are goblins or money in the pot, let's save it up for the future. where the targets get hit, because that's an issue, they get changed, too. politicians, if they don't like a target they change it. in the autumn statement last year, the government brought down its deficit reduction target markedly after the recommend and it looks like it will hit its new, easier targets —— after the referendum. the new target was nowhere near as tough as the one george osborne set before the referendum but it shows the government finances are in a more positive state than expected. a lot of th

george osborne mp, then the chancellor, was forced to ditch the idea altogether.vative mps very unhappy about all this. they thought that the vote the wrong message, about helping people, who were most in need. on occasion one minister, stephen crabb, he said that he was not happy with those plans and he would have been willing to resign from hisjob. iain duncan smith dead resign. —— did. although we have anxiety about all this, some mps from last thing do not feel the same about what is going on. this is what stephen crabb said earlier. nobody is stopping, this is not about preventing anybody from applying for personal independence payments. it is about drawing distinctions between different kinds of people living with different illnesses. one of the tribunal decisions relates to people's mobility, moving around. we have always drawn the distinction between people navigating, because they are for example blind, from somebody with a psychological illness. what the tribunal has decided, these should potentially be lumped together. we do not think thatis lumped toge

saw an article yesterday where said tony blair and sort of other people, george osborne, to some extente fighting last year's war. there is truth in that. clearly, there will be an attempt by the house of lords to try and adjust the deal or address the deal. parliament will have some sort of say, but fundamentally, i think that ship has sailed. i do not think we are going to go back and have another referendum, personally. matt: and so, how detrimental do you think -- i mean, we were talking to adam marshall earlier, general director of the british chamber of commerce, and he seemed oddly optimistic. i guess you cannot expect a guy in his position to be openly pessimistic, but aren't british business is going to severely suffer due to lack of entry in the single market? said, i thinks i it depends to some extent what deals are done generally around the world. maybe this is the opportunity to strike new deals. i think certainly, it is potentially an opportunity to get rid of some of the restrictions that may be come with european membership, so maybe more deregulation, more business frie

a lot about austerity, bringing down the welfare bill and only last year, the then chancellor george osborneas going to people. so the question is whether really conservative mps feel as strongly this time around. now, 12 months ago, one of those leading the charge against the government was steven crabb, a cabinet minister at the time. he opposed what the government were doing. this time though he says things are different and says what is happening here is that the courts, he says, have interpreted the law, not in the way that it was intended. he says it's broadly in the criteria, saying thousands more will be eligible and it will be a huge cost to the government. nobody is stopping. this is not about stopping anybody from applying for benefits, it's different kinds of people living with different illnesses and conditions. it relates to people's mobility, moving around. we have always drawn a distinction between somebody for example who has trouble navigating because they are for example blind from somebody with a psychological illness that prevents them from leaving the house. what the tr

i don't think theresa may will be able to satisfy bill cash and george osborne.real irony, you will see the conservatives splitting and asked united. it's a labour issue, standing up for people. and asked united. it's a labour issue, standing up for peoplem hasn't let like that jeremy corbyn has said he did not wa nt jeremy corbyn has said he did not want him to visit. what are you going to do? it looks like it will happen. i am disappointed the queen has been dragged into this. popular opinion in this country is saying that the president can visit, that is up to him, any normal way. would you meet him? i do not believe he should be given a state visit, as simple as that. so you would refuse to meet him? i would not want to meet donald trump, to frank. a state visit is a special honour. i do not think he deserves that from what he has said that his actions. energy prices, yesterday we heard a big story, npower saying they were fuel prices by about 11%. if you were in power, what would you do? we would legislate to control them. we cannot allow this to keep going

i wanted to put to you what george osborne said as chancellor, he outlined the plan is backin chancellorting disabled people returning to work and at that point he said the number of people claiming out of what disability benefits had fallen by 90,000 since 2010. the committee is not against change, not against change for new claimants, although we have heard that there is a recycling of claimants as they lose jobs. the committee's case is very clear, if the government is really so clear, if the government is really so confident that it is going to be that easy for this large group of people, disabled people, to move into work, why won't they concede, as the conservative members on the committee have demanded, notjust labour members, to say that they should have the support measures in place, the safety net in place, for those people actually cannot successfully immediately make that jump? is it clear, actually, because there are sometimes reassessments, if somebody was reassessed, would they count as a new claimant? yes. they are pushed out. or disabled purple in the support group who w

philip hammond is a different chancellor from george osborne.est will be balancing the books, getting rid of the deficit during the next parliament and i don‘t think he is the kind of chancellor he will come out with a spending spree on any career. public finances are still in debt and the government is still borrowing £60 billion a year. it has to ta ke borrowing £60 billion a year. it has to take a lot of money to service about that. i don‘t expect too much larger as when they get the budget, though that might be some tweaking around the two big issues, business rates, which we have been reporting on, and the nhs, which would have been reporting on all day. a little bit of tweaking but nothing they could get. the treasury is concerned that economic pain might be ahead with the brexit process was featured article 50 and once we start negotiating to get out of the european union. put some perspective on that figure. £9.11 billion looks like a huge amount. it does, but the government borrows every year 60 or £70 billion. these are the best borrow

last year the then chancellor george osborne tried to cut the payments that were going to disabled peopleround, labour say it is the same thing all over again. they say this is a sign that the conservative government is attacking the most vulnerable. they say it is hypocrisy for ministers. they say ministers, the government have talked about mental health issues, about parity between people with physical health problems and mental health problems. but labour say their actions don't reflect the concern. it is contradicting the government's past position in a tribunal in 2015. they are actually did the people with psychological distress should have the same consideration in the assessment. the fa ct consideration in the assessment. the fact that this was introduced on the same day as the by—election without any consultation of the government's own social security advisory committee, it's going to be enacted in three weeks' time, is an absolute disgrace. some conservative mps have voice their disquiet, saying the government should not try reverse what the court said. there are others like st

just last year, the then chancellor george osborne had to row back and abandon plans to reduce the amountr the house of lords got involved. we'll have to see whether that kind of thing happens again. let's discuss it more. i'm joined by labour's shadow work and pensions spokeswoman. downing street have said no—one is losing out because what they are saying is that the courts have interpreted the legislation not in a way that it was originally intended so those who're already getting their pip payments will not be affected? i'm sorry that'sjust not the case and it's contradicting the government's past position in a tribunal in 2015. they actually argued that people with psychological distress should have the same consideration. the fact this was introduced on the same day in the by—election without consultation with the government's owi'i consultation with the government's own social security advisory committee, it's going to be enacted in three weeks' time, is an absolute disgrace. the cost though, £3.7 billion over the next few years or so, that money would have to come from somewhere. h

george osborne was right when he said that the government is being driven by politics, not economics,ters instead is assuaging the edeal ogs and here—in lies the danger for the country. the government has lost its sense of prospective in this matter. the prime minister is terrified of looking less than full hearted so she is over compensating. debate is discouraged in case it gives the impression of being faint—hearted. critics are attacked in case their arguments catch on. as is well— known, i was a arguments catch on. as is well—known, i was a remainor, arguments catch on. as is well—known, iwas a remainor, not arguments catch on. as is well—known, i was a remainor, not i might say because of my pension rights, but because i am a patriot. a patriot rather than a nationalist. and that's why i think the approach the government has chosen to take to brexit is wrong. instead of saying we're leaving the european union, but want the closest possible future relationship with the european union, and meaning it, the government has decided that we're out, notjust of government has decided tha

which is why you're seeing this larger surplus was certainly philip hammond is different than george osbornes biggest test will be balancing the books, getting rid of the deficit during the next parliament and i don't think he's the kind of chancellor who will come out with a spending spree on any area. public finances are still in debt and the government are still borrowing £60 billion a year, it has to pay a lot of money to service that side don't expect too much when we get the budget although there may be some tweaking on the toxic issue. a little bit of tweaking but nothing of yet. still the treasury is concerned that economic campaign once we trigger article 50 and negotiate. put some perspective on the figure, 9.4 billion, it looks like it's huge amount? the government borrows like it's huge amount? the government boi’i’ows every like it's huge amount? the government borrows every year, 60 to £70 billion that these are the best borrowing figures we have had since the financial crisis. £10 billion sounds a huge amount of money, it is but in the context of reducing that deficit the gove

as george osborne put it, they‘ve chosen not to make the economy the priority in this negotiation.at we might remain in the single market. for example, by adopting the norwegian precedent. so the decision to rip us out of the single market was a deliberate choice by the prime minister and one which deserves to be challenged. secondly, as a consequence of the form of hard brexit chosen by the government, it has been forced to pivot our trade and indeed, our political priorities towards the us. and it has done so with una—a—lloyd enthusiasm. in any era, this would bea enthusiasm. in any era, this would be a risky strategy. but the election of donald trump makes an america first policy by this country, not only risky, but demeaning. the bold assertion by the foreign secretary that the us shares our values is unsustainable under a trump presidency. 0n our values is unsustainable under a trump presidency. on a wide variety of fronts. not just his trump presidency. on a wide variety of fronts. notjust his ban on asylu m of fronts. notjust his ban on asylum seekers, but on free trade, cli

that said the government are in real danger here, partly because as we saw when george osborne triedouncement was put out on friday when all of our attention was put on the crucial by—elections, there is a lot of anger about that than to criticisms of the remarks by the head of george freeman suggesting that the money shouldn't go to people who were really disabled they just needed go to people who were really disabled theyjust needed to take some pills because of anxiety. that said, the former work and pensions secretary stephen crabb was telling me he thought it was right for the government to resist expanding eligibility. this is not about preventing anybody for applying for personal independence payments, it is about drawing distinction between different people living with different people living with different illnesses. for example one of the decisions relates to people's mobility and moving around, we have always drawn a distinction for example someone who has trouble navigating because they applied from somebody with a psychological illness that prevents them from leaving the

people were not frightened by their threats and george osborne's punishment budget and they were clearues of yours to do the airwaves... i don't remember. they did. 0wen paterson said only a madman would leave the single market. he was not head of the campaign. if you allow me to finish. we had nigel farage who the broadcasters could not get off the television. he was claiming that countries such as norway do pretty well outside of the european union. the debate that led up to the referendum was misleading and sometimes toxic. it inflamed the situation rather than informed people. i respect the result of the referendum, but i do not respect... you do not respect it enough to trigger article 15. you could argue that people have already voted to trigger article 50. there were circumstances under which i could have voted to trigger article 50. when theresa may said she was pulling as out of the single market, when she said she was prioritising reducing immigration over our national economic interests, and when she threatened our closest geographical neighbours with in effect a trade war,

chancellor, philip hammond, has certainly abandoned the target and the timetable of his predecessor george osborneound in 2019, 20 20. we don't yet know the full scale of the savings. departments have been asked to look at savings of up to 6%. some areas will be protected. call school budget and the nhs will remain untouched. and the government says it is committed to spending 2% of national income on defence. the timing will be tricky. it'll be around the same time the uk is expected to leave the eu. and also, just as political parties are preparing for the next general election in 2020. the government says it is committed to a high—quality public sector that delivers the services people need in the most efficient way possible. for labour, the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, said it amounted to what he called more of the same tory austerity. thanks very much. a blood test every four months could help women at high—risk of ovarian cancer find tumours early, according to new research. there is currently no screening programme for the disease, so high—risk women are advised to have their ovaries

pamela osborne is there live. >> reporter: george, the board just voted the allow the pipeline project. we're having a bit of difficulty hearing from you now. we'll tell you more about the vote when i see you again. >> thanks. >>> cell phone savings. we'll show you how to take a closer look at your bill and show you how you could payless. this race is consequential. it's all about being able to look your kid in the eye... and say, honey, it's gonna be okay. and this woman understands it in her gut. she gets it. stephanie hansen understands what people need. this election is very, very important to middle class people to live the life they deserve. don't ask yourself the morning after the election "why didn't i vote?" >>> a scheduled vote on a controversial pipeline draws loud demonstrations. nbc 10 pamela osborne is live in cherry hill. how are things at the hearing developing? >> reporter: the room has cleared out quite a bit since we saw you last. that's because the commission did vote to move forward with the pipeline project. what they're doing is allowing those public comments to