jacob rees—mogg.rs' money in allocating funding to boost struggling towns in england. last year, a multi—billion pound scheme was launched to help deprived areas. but controversy arose when it was announced that robertjenrick‘s constituency of newark had been chosen to receive £25 million. looking into the matter, the commons spending watchdog, the public accounts committee, found that the process for selecting the recipients was "not impartial". a lack of transparency, the report said, could fuel accusations of political bias — accusations made forcefully by labour's shadow communities secretary. there is growing public concern that the secretary of state may have misused taxpayers' money from the 5.6 billion towns fund to boost the conservative party's general election campaign. but he can easily clear the matter up. will he publish in full the accounting officer's advice and the full criteria that he and the former minister of state used when they blocked funding for towns ranked amongst the 100 mo

the leader of the commons jacob rees—mogg says he's been urgently exploring how to help more mps, whoy debates. in a series of tweets, he said he had been moved by the brave appeal of the former sports minister tracey crouch, who'd been unable to take part in a debate on cancer, because she was at home, recovering from breast cancer. a study has suggested that time spent playing video games can be good for people's wellbeing. the research has been carried out by oxford university, in collaboration with two of the world's biggest gaming companies, and focused on the players of animal crossing and plants versus zombies. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines: america's leading infectious diseases expert says joe biden's staff must be allowed to begin the transition process, so they can focus on tackling coronavirus. donald trump is still refusing to concede. spacex's first operational crewed flight is heading towards the international space station after launching sucessfully from cape canaveral in floirida. now to india which is the world's most diverse nation in terms of languag

jacob rees—mogg with not so much a sermon as a theological history lesson.rliament, thank you for watching. don't forget tojoin alicia mccarthy on bbc parliament at 11pm on monday night for the latest from the commons and the lords, but from me, david cornock, goodbye. good afternoon. for some of you, a pretty murky start to the weekend, pretty murky start to the weekend, pretty cold as well. the sunshine is a bit closer than you think. earlier in the peak district, lovely blue skies overhead. but in the valley, you can see the cloud, the lingering fog across much of north—east england, the vale of york. the last few hours, it has started to get thinnerfor many, few hours, it has started to get thinner for many, a few hours, it has started to get thinnerfor many, a bit around particularly towards the coast of north—east england and the eastern half of central scotland. but sometimes promotion. cloud in the south—west, the odd shower possible as we finish the afternoon, but here the highest temperatures, 17 in cornwall recently. three degrees across eastern s

jacob rees—mogg with not so much a sermon as a theological history lesson.ng. don't forget tojoin alessia mccarthy on bbc parliament at 11pm on monday night for the latest from the commons and the lords, but for me, goodbye. hello there. after a couple of cold and frosty mornings with a bit of mist and fog around, we'll start to see some changes to the weather this weekend. that's because lower pressure will be moving in, bringing milder weather to all areas by the end of the weekend, but also outbreaks of rain mostly across southern and western areas. 0ur big area of high pressure which brought the settled weather will be dominating the scene this weekend across the near continent. this area of low pressure will start to push up into southern and western areas, and the breeze will be increasing as well. already a breezy start across the far south west. elsewhere, it's a chilly start to saturday with some mist and fog through central scotland, north east england, eastern wales and the midlands. the best of the sunshine will be across northern and western are

jacob rees—mogg with not so much a sermon as a theological history lesson.k you for watching. don't forget tojoin alessia mccarthy on bbc parliament at 11pm on monday night for the latest from the commons and the lords, but for me, goodbye. hello there. southerly winds are going to bring us a mild start to the week but they are also bringing extensive cloud, a little bit of damp weather and we've seen mist and fog patches as well, so rather murky conditions for a time, too. now, the satellite picture shows the area of cloud responsible for the drizzle and some fog lurking underneath that. got pressure to the south—west and then a more substantial area of cloud. now, that's going to be coming in towards the middle part of the week so we are going to see some rain over the next few days as well. now, for the early risers, i think it's probably going to be a damp start to the day around the east coast of scotland, some eastern areas of england as well with mist and fog patches dotted around across scotland, england and wales, so murky conditions too. then we wi

the leader of the house, jacob rees mogg, has previously said "there is no law and no local lockdown"t. it's been builtjust a few hundred yards from their original home on plough lane, costing £30 million, and will seat just over 9,000 people. but it's bittersweet with fans still unable to attend matches. the team will be playing on wimbledon's football pitch again, and that's absolutely amazing and incredible. but this won't be open, we won't be back home until we can have every single person that deserves to be in here, here, watching our fantastic team play. let's take a look at the travel situation now. there's a good service on the tubes this morning. on the roads, the aa06 is slow from staples corner to neasden, because one lane is closed for roadworks. cricklewood lane is closed between cricklewood station and the broadway because of roadworks. finally, in sidcup, north cray road is closed from ruxley corner to st james way for roadworks. now the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. well, it's a lot chillier this morning than it was this time yesterday, by aroun

a move to include more vulnerable mps included in virtual debates but the leader of the sir —— jacob reesinteractions in person. around two million people will be placed under scotland's toughest coronavirus restrictions for three weeks from friday. under the level four rules, nonessential shops, pubs, restaurants and gyms will have to close. 0ur reporter alexandra mackenzie is in glasgow for us. good morning. it is the plan around this to try and get some sort of normality by christmas? yes, some kind of normality orjust some kind of easing of restrictions, that people can even have a chance of spending time with family and friends. over that christmas period. after what has been a very difficult and stressful time for many. the 2 million people or more than 2 million people or more than 2 million people or more than 2 million people that are affected are across 11 council areas and that includes here in the city of glasgow. that is across central scotla nd glasgow. that is across central scotland and across western scotland. the kinds of restrictions that we are going to see is that hos

jacob rees mogg, that shining advertisement for modern democracy —— not —— he could not have been clearerged down by westminster? or will we decide to make our scottish parliament independent? the answer to that question matters for many, many reasons, and the nhs is close to the top of the list. health policy may be devolved, but the nhs still faces westminster threats. trade deals could result in a big increase in the price our health service pays for drugs, reducing funds for patient care, and the end of freedom of movement with the eu is already making it so much harder to attract the nhs and social care staff we need. the challenges facing our nhs are huge. changing demographics meant that was true before covid. but covid has made it even more so. ican but covid has made it even more so. i can promise you today that the snp will continue to provide record investment in the nhs, but nothing, absolutely nothing, is more important to the health of our nhs than those who work in it. no matter how much technology we have or how many new drugs are developed, it is the doctors and nurses, t