john ashworth. fantastic that you did the marathon on behalf of a charity helping people who have gone through the pain of having alcoholic pa rents. the pain of having alcoholic parents. what you said in parliament that what you did on it was very brave. you did the marathon and we we re brave. you did the marathon and we were all very happy and proud to support you in doing that for that we are also very proud of the work you're doing as shadow health secretary. you rather have... ? applause well, it is really a no—brainer. would you rather havejeremy hunt as health secretary orjohn ashworth? i'm could take the vote if you like. john is absolutely fantastic. what he has done is called the tories appleton called them out on the cuts to social care, on the funding of mental health, and called them out on the sustainability and transformation plans whoever dreamt up transformation plans whoever dreamt up all of that, i wonderful that he has said quite rightly he will put a stop to all of that stuff i

labour's john ashworth was back at school today, learning with pupils how to prepare healthy food.be a new strategy aimed at halving childhood obesity in ten years. we want to have the healthiest children in the world. yes, that is an ambitious target but to be frank, i'm ambitious for the children of this country. labour wants to spend £250 million a year more on public health in england, including more nurses in schools and getting every government department to help promote child health. last year, 40% of children in england's most deprived areas were overweight or obese, compared to 27% in the most affluent areas. but it is worth noting the uk as a whole has some of the lowest rates of tooth decay in 12—year—olds in europe. many schools are doing everything they can to promote healthy lifestyles for pupils, whether it is through exercise in the playground or the quality of meals on offer. the really big problem is what happens beyond the school gate, when children and their parents choose what they eat and drink. domino's sponsors the voice. labour thinks one answer is to ban t

labour's john ashworth, at a meeting of activists from huddersfield and around west yorkshire, said heto halt closures, specifically by stalling nhs reform plans in england. we're saying, let's just halt them. let's just have a moratorium on them and let's just step back and have a full review of them. when we review them, let's involve clinicians, but let's involve the people as well. let's involve the public because so far they have been cut out of the decisions, and we don't think that's fair. the nhs reform documents are known as sustainability and transformation plans and have been published in 44 areas across england. some involve hospital bed cuts and service reductions, with funds reinvested in community care. the south—west london plan involves the possible reduction of five hospital sites to four. local campaigners say this one, st helier, faces closure. but the plan's authors say that resources will be shifted into local area teams involving gps, social care staff and nurses, providing care closer to people's homes. for the conservatives, jeremy hunt said, in a written state

labour's john ashworth, at a meeting of activists from huddersfield and around yorkshire, said he wantedsures, specifically by stalling nhs reform plans in england. we will say, let's have a moratorium on them and let's step back and have a full review of them. when we reviewed them, must involve clinicians, but let's involve the people as well. so far, they have been cut out of the decisions, and we don't think that is fair. the nhs reform document are known as sustainability and transformation plans and have been published in 44 areas across england. some involve hospital bed cuts and service reductions, with funds reinvested in community care. the southwest london plan involves the possible reduction of five hospital sites to four. local campaigners say this one, st helier, faces closure. upper bann‘s authors say that resources will be shifted into local area teams involving gps, social care staff and nurses, providing care closer to people's homes. the conservatives, jeremy hunt said in a written statement that labour's plan was nonsensical as the party had previously backed the refo

cheering john ashworth and i have been discussing this and there is if few very quick things i want toay we want parity of esteem between physical and mental health, i absolutely mean it because i want... to end the stigma surrounding mental health but interest in the mental health but interest in the mental health services so that people don't suffer in silence and suffer a loan and some sadly take their own lives because they feel a sense of hopelessness and being left behind. we asa hopelessness and being left behind. we as a community will invest in our mental health services. and we will do the same for our social care services we cause there are more than a million people waiting for social care to be provided for them. that's not right and if the government can do sweetheart wheels for surrey, how about making us all a sweetheart and all of us get the same deal as surrey? —— sweetheart deals. although i do realise for tory ministers, surrey is the ha rd est word! tory ministers, surrey is the hardest word! i know that was pretty awful, but it's the best i can do, the best i can

labour's john ashworth, at a meeting of activists from huddersfield and around yorkshire, said he wantedfically by stalling nhs reform plans in england. we say, let's have a moratorium on them and let's step back and have a full review of them. when we review them, it must involve clinicians, but let's involve the people as well. so far, they have been cut out of the decisions, and we don't think that is fair. the nhs reform documents are known as sustainability and transformation plans and have been published in 44 areas across england. some involve hospital bed cuts and service reductions, with funds reinvested in community care. the southwest london plan involves the possible reduction of five hospital sites to four. local campaigners say this one, st helier, faces closure. the plan's authors say that resources will be shifted into local area teams involving gps, social care staff and nurses, providing care closer to people's homes. the conservatives' jeremy hunt said in a written statement that labour's plan was nonsensical as the party had previously backed the reforms. he said they

labour's john ashworth was back at school today, learning with pupils how to prepare healthy food.l be a new strategy aimed at halving childhood obesity in ten years. we want to have the healthiest children in the world. yes, that's an ambitious target but to be frank, i'm ambitious for the children of this country. labour wants to spend £250 million a year more on public health in england, including more nurses in schools and getting every government department to help promote child health. last year, 40% of children in england's most deprived areas were overweight or obese, compared to 27% in the most affluent areas. but it is worth noting the uk as a whole has some of the lowest rates of tooth decay in 12—year—olds in europe. many schools are doing everything they can to promote healthy lifestyles for pupils, whether it is through exercise in the playground or the quality of meals on offer. the really big problem is what happens beyond the school gate when children and their parents choose what they eat and drink. domino's, sponsors the voice. labour thinks one answer is to ban

, john ashworth, to take you through the details of our concerns over the national health service.erating his party's promises ahead of the general election. cut class sizes, from school meals for primary school children, take a million people of nhs waiting lists, and the paper that he will reverse cuts in corporation tax, and tax what labour says will only be the top 5% of earners. more reaction to come later on. next this morning, pa rt come later on. next this morning, part two of our new series, election blind dates. every day this week, we'll be bringing you a blind date over lunch between two people with very different views — will they come to blows or walk away friends? up today are georgia toffolo, better known as "toff" from the channel four tv series made in chelsea, and anti—austerity campaigner and cook, jack monroe. one lives a champagne lifestyle, the other was once on the breadline. so this is how they got on — and there is the occasional strong word used in their conversation. there's an election on and people are talking politics. so, what happens when you send t

so, this morning, john ashworth announced that we would stop the intensive advertising of unhealthy faircumstances and grow up as healthy as possible, because every child that is undernourished or obese, or both, actually becomes quite often the heart patient of the future, the cancer patient of the future, the cancer patient of the future, the cancer patient of the future, the diabetic of the future. it's about how we treat everybody in our community. sol it's about how we treat everybody in our community. so i am very proud of our community. so i am very proud of our pledge, our pledge that a labour government would ensure that every child in every primary school get a free meal every day, eaten together. cheering eaten together, because children grow up together, and let's look at education as the greatest opportunity for all of our children. but, under this tory government, so many schools around the country, head teachers in a terrible state of stress and distress because they have got to decide which teacher to sack, which teaching assistant to sack, which teaching assistant to s

john ashworth from the labour party. here‘s matt with a look at this morning‘s weather.l get wetter across scotland. it eases off in northern ireland by the time we get to mid—morning but heady bursts to come later on. past of east scotland. the wet weather continues. we will see as much as 60— 80 millimetres of rain over the hills. it is more than we have seen over the past six weeks. it is a bit more hit and miss further south. a few millimetres a specially across east anglia and the south—east. nothing hugely soaking but it still reigns quite heavily on the heels and further low cloud developer. —— hills. we are talking chiefly a round the murray firth we could hit 21 degrees. —— moray firth. 90 degrees. but 19. the big story tonight and into tomorrow is just how mild and muggy it will be as we started tuesday. temperatures in the mid teens to start the day that it will be fairly grey. we have weather front on the charts for tomorrow and still a bit ofa charts for tomorrow and still a bit of a south—westerly breeze. to the east of that, the warmer air will be containe