for up to five minutes, - jonathan ashworth. can i just at the jonathan ashworth. jonathan ashworth. can i 'ust at the outset. despite h jonathan ashworth. can i 'ust at the outset, despite our _ jonathan ashworth. can i just at the outset, despite our fierce _ jonathan ashworth. can i just at the outset, despite our fierce political l outset, despite ourfierce political differences that my dealings with the previous secretary of state where always courteous, respectful and professional. iwish where always courteous, respectful and professional. i wish him well in resolving his personal difficulties. now, i welcomed the right honourable gentleman to his place and thank him for his statements. he will find working with the nhs and social care staff both inspirational and rewarding. i hope you will agree and make arrangements for them to receive a fair pay rise and not the real terms pay cut that is currently penciled in. now, today, he let it be known thatjuly the 19th reopening will effectively go ahead. he told the news this morning that there is no going back, th

reaction from jonathan ashworth. ., ~ ., , jonathan ashworth.n ashworth. matt hancock has done the right thing for— jonathan ashworth. matt hancock has done the right thing for himself, - done the right thing for himself, for the country, and for the nhs but to be frank, it should not come to this. borisjohnson should have showed the gusts, the spine, the awareness to have sacked him on friday. you can't have a health secretary who desires the covid rules so blatantly breaking the rules so blatantly breaking the rules in a way that he did. because we need people to adhere to these rules, we are still a pandemic, still a public health crisis. and although it is obviously a personal tragedy for matt hancock, and he has always been entirely courteous to me and in that respect, i send my best wishes in that respect, but he should have gone yesterday, that would have been far better. instead, downing street said they are drawing a line under it and now they are saying matt hancock chose to resign, borisjohnson didn't saying matt hancock chose to resi

that should he — asked —— jonathan ashworth. that should he a — asked —— jonathan ashworth.on the same theme of mrjavid's comments and it heing _ theme of mrjavid's comments and it being irreversible.— being irreversible. "nineteen july is the end of— being irreversible. "nineteen july is the end of the _ being irreversible. "nineteen july is the end of the line _ being irreversible. "nineteen july is the end of the line for - being irreversible. "nineteen july i is the end of the line for lockdown, says javid." we've also got a continuation of this conversation in the daily mail, which seems to be an ally of sajid javid at the moment. "bring it on! javid fights for freedom." rachel, that comes from your counterpart paper? freedom.�* rachel, that comes from your counterpart paper?— freedom." rachel, that comes from your counterpart paper? reading from --eole at your counterpart paper? reading from people at the — your counterpart paper? reading from people at the moment, _ your counterpart paper? reading from people at the moment, as _ your counterpart paper? reading from pe

that was labour's jonathan ashworth.to our political correspondent helen catt about sajid javid replacing matt hancock and what his pritoties may be. as soon as matt hancock, the health secretary, admitted that he had broken those rules, it was always going to be extremely difficult for him to stay on in that role because it is so prominent, because it is him who helps to set those rules and really publicly and asks the public to enforce them. having said that, he had the backing of the prime minister, so it was his decision to resign. i think it's fair to say, though, that he was helped to come to that conclusion by a number of conservative mps, senior conservative figures, rather, who were talking to him and the prime minister in the background of all of this. but what it has raised with the labour are questions over boris johnson's judgment over this. they said it is right, the labour leader keir starmer said it was right matt hancock resigned but borisjohnson should have sacked him and some people will say, look, bor

he - mentioned jonathan ashworth and we mentioned jonathan ashworth and we will hear from mentioned jonathanther he might actually retire from international duty but he was not having any of that. for him to ask those questions so it remains to be seen but huge disappointment, on the way home from 2020 after being knocked out by denmark such a motion after seeing christian eriksen�*s cardiac arrest in the opening game so a good comeback. but for wales, the competition is over, as hywel griffith reports from amsterdam. they should have been walking down the aisle. instead, caitlin and jake's big day was spent cheering for their team. the pandemic forced the couple, who live in the netherlands, to postpone their wedding. so no cake, just plenty of danish. so lucky. incredibly lucky. it's not about plan b. i wouldn't want to do anything else other than get married than being here. we feel really, really lucky to be one of the really, tiny, small minority of wales fans that are actually here today. denmark also had loved ones that could not be here. wales, outnumbered again, started well, gettin

very much, we will be speaking tojonathan ashworth thank you very much, we will be speaking to jonathan ashworthon in the speaking tojonathan ashworth from labour late on in the programme and the cabinet minister michael gove who is here at 7:30am. the four—week delay came as a blow to many businesses, particularly those hospitality, events and live entertainment. nina is in the centre of york. good morning. yes, good morning. the staff writers had _ good morning. yes, good morning. the staff writers had been _ good morning. yes, good morning. the staff writers had been signed _ good morning. yes, good morning. the staff writers had been signed off, - staff writers had been signed off, the stock had been ordered and the mothballed dance floors had been coming back to life. we were six days away from the point at which the full reopening was due to happen. the chief executive of admiral taverns who run 1000 pubs say, for many licensees, the situation is desperate, they are not making money because of the extra stuff they have to have in full table service and social distancing. many unhappy coupl

they see it as such a job as being like a fox among the chicken group is the quote from jonathan ashworth, labors shadow health secretary saying that such a job and especially supervised the cutting of finances and funding for the n h s. so to now put them in charge if they think it's the sort of a contradiction in terms if you like a conflict of interest with. ringback interest and say, you know, he made no secret of is designed to get back into government. question now is whether he, how he goes about tackling the massive interest that i mentioned earlier. when i'm in london. thank you. the leaders of jordan and egypt are in the iraqi capital, baghdad for a summit with a prime minister jordan's king. abdullah was greeted by the iraqi president egyptian president of the cc landed early in the day he met iraqi prime minister ma stuff academy summit is expected to address economic cooperation and security. i speak to my head who is in baghdad for us. good to see you. so what is this summer really about what are they hoping to achieve? well, there are trying to achieve the coalition to focu

jonathan ashworth says the prime minister has shown a lack of leadership.ter has shown a lack of leadership-— minister has shown a lack of leadershi. , :, leadership. boris johnson should have shared _ leadership. boris johnson should have shared the _ leadership. boris johnson should have shared the doubts, - leadership. boris johnson should have shared the doubts, the - leadership. boris johnson should i have shared the doubts, the spine, the awareness to have sacked him on friday. you can't have a health secretary who designs the covid rules so blatantly breaking the rules so blatantly breaking the rules in a way that he did. we need people to adhere to these rules, we are still a public health crisis, a pandemic, and although it is a personal tragedy for matt hancock, and he has always been entirely courteous to me and in that respect i wish —— i sent him my best wishes in that respect, but he should have gone yesterday, and i would have been far better. instead, downing street said they are drawing a line under it. tonight, they are saying matt hancock

the shadow health secretary is jonathan ashworth, hejoins me now.r reaction to this? matt hancock has done the - is your reaction to this? matt hancock has done the right i is your reaction to this? i�*c'ié�*iiii hancock has done the right thing for himself, for the country in the nhs. but to be frank, it shouldn't have come to this. borisjohnson should have shown in the guts, the spine, the awareness to have sacked him on friday. you cannot have health secretary designs rules so blatantly breaking the rules on the way that he did because we need people to adhere to these rules. we are still in a pandemic and public health crisis. and although it is obviously a personal tragedy for matt hancock and he has been entirely courteous with me and on that respect i sent in my best wishes in that respect but he should have gone yesterday. that would have been far better. instead downing street said they are drawing a line under it and neither saying he chose to resign. matt borisjohnson did not sack him. he is now exposed as failing the test of leadership i

jonathan ashworlh _ is on the order paper. jonathan ashworth-_ is on the order paper. jonathan ashworth that we will only defeat this virus through our common endeavour, and i think all of us missjo and want to send our best wishes to herfamily missjo and want to send our best wishes to her family today. mr deputy speaker, we will support the extinction of restrictions in the lobbies tonight, but we, of course, do so with a heavy heart. but we are guided by data, not dates, and we have to recognise the facts before us. the delta variant is 60% more transmissible than alpha, and even with the current restrictions in place, the daily total of positive cases has been rising. the seven day rolling average over 7000 per day, compared to around 2000 a day in early may. and this is beginning to translate into hospitalisations, and with cases doubling every nine days, with cases doubling every nine days, with it at the moment, it looks like hospitalisations are also doubling. 96 people with covid were admitted on the lith ofjune. nine days later, 187 people were admitted, almost double. if this