the bbc understands that the informal labour leaderjeremy corbyn is to be readmitted to the labour partyon for downplaying a report into the parties head telling of anti—semitism. mr corbin originally suggested that the scale of the problem had been overstated by political opponents but earlier today on facebook he sought to clarify his remarks saying the concerns about anti—semitism were neither exaggerated or overstated. and that he had not intended to be little those problems. we can get the very latest from our political correspondent who is at west minister now. following that clarification earlier on, was it inevitable that he would be reinstated as a party member?” think it was inevitable not necessarily because of the statement but because people at the top of the party did not want this to become a kind of running sore. certainly to the left of the party were gearing up the left of the party were gearing upfora campaign the left of the party were gearing up for a campaign to try and get jeremy corbyn reinstated. i think discussions were held behind the scenes before a disciplina

into the labour party. suspended by saying that concerns about anti—semitism in labour have been overstated. i was talking to the liver in pen and he was party chair underjeremy corbyn, inc. gave me his reaction. it's a strange rebuilding of trust where jeremy corbyn was suspended by who, people are still unsure who suspended jeremy corbyn. he was then asked by the general secretary in the national executive committee to appear before a panel of the nec, independent panel within the structures of the labour party. this panel listened to presentations from the commode written presentations from jeremy corbyn. he answered a whole number of his questions which we re whole number of his questions which were put before him from the general secretary of the party. and this panel whose job it is to scrutinise in great detail the information before them decided unanimously to reinstate jeremy corbyn before them decided unanimously to reinstatejeremy corbyn package of the labour party. here we see the following morn

it‘s a labour of love, i‘ve got to tell you. it‘s a labour of love. and then came covid.d nothing from the government support schemes. 2020 has done a number on my mental health. it made me feel like i wasn‘t worthy of being in society any more. when we met, pete was staying positive. after the desperation and worry of being refused government—backed loan, the bank said he could appeal. if the appeal for the bounce back loan is unsuccessful, i don‘t really know what purpose will be left for me in life. cheryl is another of the so—called excluded. a make—up artist for theatre and tv. over the last 20 years i've very, very rarely been out of work. but would lockdown, her industry and her work... ..stopped dead. i was so frustrated with nowhere to turn and just i literally lost it, turned my phone off and thought, that's it. i've got nothing, no one cares. another covid mental health crisis. an administration error delayed cheryl‘s tax return. not her fault, but enough to cost her any government support. just massive insecurity and total loneliness. what was the low point fo

but labour wants answers.rm that it is the government's intention to impose tougher restrictions on tier1 areas post lockdown? mr speaker, it is too early to do the analysis that the honourable gentleman requests, but of course, we remain vigilant. well, soon he has to make a decision on the future of the lockdown so the earlier we get that information, the better. excess deaths are the difference between those seen this year and what we would expect based on the past five years. latest figures show there have been more than 70,000 to the pandemic started. this graph shows a huge spike in the number of deaths during the first wave, and the numbers are starting to rise again. winter is always a difficult time for the nhs, with fears of staff burn out the government is desperate to minimise the damaging impact of covid. unfortunately i have been in a position where i have actually lost colleagues this year to covid—19. for myself personally, i have been in a situation where i have been treating some of the illes

labour wanted answers.rd that tier1 has had very little effect and the tiers must be strengthened. can he confirm that it's the government's intention to impose a tougher set of restrictions on tier1 areas, post this lockdown? it is too early to do the analysis that the honourable gentleman requests but of course we remain vigilant. now, let's take a look at some other news from westminster in brief. mps have been given an insight into the stress and fatigue faced by nhs staff during the pandemic by the chair of the doctors' union, the bma. he told them that even before the pandemic, there were already high levels of stress and anxiety. and doctors were describing things like, you know, the emotional impact of having to hold a smartphone or an ipad as being the vehicle of contact between patients in their last days of life and relatives — just imagine a whole hospital without any visitors. could the end of the brexit transition period mean checks on more foodstuffs going from great britain to northern irela

but this morning, labour's shadow foreign secretary was also talking about labour's position.blic interest, so we need to know first of all, these measures are tough enough in order to get control of the virus. otherwise what we are asking businesses to do is go through significant pain, people laid off, some businesses at risk of collapsing, without being able to show this is worth it, that it will actually set us on a path to recovery in the future. the other big issue the government's dealing with is the brexit trade talks, we talk about this every day, but we have been hearing more about that from dominic raab again? we have. it's funny to talk about that as the other issue. in normal times this would be the big issue, the massive issue. dominic raab this morning on the tv suggesting that we are close to a deal. we've heard that before, as you say, but he said it really is time and there was a real mutual interest in getting a deal done. of course, we've known for weeks, for months the sticking points on all of this have been fisheries on this issue of the level playing fi

into the labour party.g that concerns about anti—semitism in the party had been overstated. there is continuing reaction to this. there‘s been reaction to this from len mcluskley, general secretary of unite union — our political correspondent is jessica parker. our political correspondent very our political correspondent powerful figure and clo: of very powerful figure and close ally ofjeremy corbyn. the general secretary of unite, the biggest single donorfor the secretary of unite, the biggest single donor for the labour party. it had already moved to cut its affiliation fees to the labour party recently, unhappy with the direction sir keir starmer was moving the party. so len mccluskey, a very important figure and we expected him to be critical of the decision not to be critical of the decision not to allowjeremy corbyn back into the parliamentary party. he has released tweets which are highly critical. he says he is astonished at the decision to withdraw the whip. he described it as a vindictive and veng

according to the daily telegraph, sir keir starmer faces mutiny from his own mps after labour was accusedinsult to injury" by readmitting jeremy corbyn to the partyjust three weeks after he was suspended in a row over anti—semitism. the ft says boris johnson will set out details tomorrow of a £12 billion "green industrial revolution", insisting to conservative critics that a new environmental focus will not cost the party votes in the former labour heartlands it seized in the last election. so, a lot to get through, welcome to you both. katy, let's start with you, keir starmer under fire as corbyn readmitted, very swift return forjay call, but the question now about whether the weight will be reinstated. -- jeremy corbyn. yes, it wasn't so long ago that people we re it wasn't so long ago that people were saying keir starmer was taking really strong action in the decision, even if it wasn't directly made by him, to suspend jeremy corbyn from the party in the light of the ehrc report, afterjeremy corbyn had put out a statement in which he did suggest that anti—semitism is a problem in the p

leader keir starmer tonight not to readmit jeremy corbyn as a labour mp.at least, but i think it's very, very clear that though sir keir starmer says he's going to introduce a new complaints procedure to deal with anti—semitism from next year, nonetheless, drawing a line under the anti—semitism row. it's far easier said than done. a private spaceship built and operated by spacex has docked at the international space station. it's the first time that a private craft has carried astronauts from earth to the station. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill reports. let us know when your review is complete and you are ready for docking. dragon, spacex — soft capture confirmed. docking sequence is complete. welcome to the iss, resilience. the end of a 27—hour taxi ride to space. for the first time, four astronauts have arrived for their mission on the internation space station aboard a commercial spacecraft. nasa's michael hopkins, victor glover and shannon walker and the japanese space agency astronaut soichi noguchi will spend about six months living and work

as i say, labour say they haven't made their mind up yet, but this morning labour's shadow foreign secretarying about labour's position. we will act in the public interest so we need to know first of all that these measures are tough enough in order to get control of the virus, otherwise what we're asking businesses to do is go through significant pain, people laid off, some businesses at risk of collapsing without being able to show that this is worth it, that it will actually set us on a path to recovery in the future. now, the other big issue the government is dealing with is the brexit trade talks. we talk about this every day, but we have been hearing more about that from dominic raab again? we have. it is funny to talk about that has the other issue, in normal times this would be the massive issue. dominic raab on these tv this morning suggesting we are close to a deal. we have heard that before, as you say, but he said it really is time and there is a mutual interest in getting a deal done. of course we have known for weeks and months that the sticking point on all this have been fish

it could well come down to labour?uld well come down to labour. 43 conservative mps would have to vote against their own government to wipe out boris johnson's majority and effectively make him dependent on labour votes. when the lockdown restrictions were voted on, 35 conservative mps voted against the government. some are confident that will happen again oozed up we will see a big push by other government ministers, notjust michael gove, to try to make the case to their own mps to fall into line. partly it is warnings about the state of the health service, and partly this idea that if you can hold your nerve now, just around the corner the cavalry is coming, the new vaccines. there is an to say, just let these disruptions go through and you will not have to live under them for all that much longer. whether that will be enough to convince people, there is a lot of restlessness, and labour are not saying how they will vote. in truth, they will back this and i think they will get these restrictions, but they will be mak

in years gone by, that would have been massive, to withdraw funding from the labour party. help him. asjeffrey and ned have both said, there's time. there's time for keir starmer to unite. people in the party want to look forward, they want to take on the conservatives, and this might help him. jo coburn, ned temko, jeffrey kofman, thank you all very much indeed forjoining us today on dateline london. we are back next week at the same time, when we might, of course, know the name of the next president of the united states. hello, there. yesterday afternoon we did some sunshine break through although it was quite breezy and today a lot more cloud around, outbreaks of rain and widespread gales scattered very windy across the north—west of scotland later on, close to the centre of a new area of low pressure. further south will bring all the rain, large portions of england and wales, central and southern scotland. gusts pretty widely in excess of 50 mph, 70 mph in the north—west of scotland. wind moves in the north—west of scotland. wind m oves a cross in the north—west of scot

leader. very tough action then taken by the new labour leader.down the line, but, as all of us have said, an election reckoning is some distance away. what i would say is you are right to call keir starmer cautious. he's lawyerly, he is a lawyer. i think he would have far preferred jeremy corbyn to discreetly shut up when this report came out and to move on, because he is in control of the party now and the party apparatus, and i think he, in a sense was politically forced into this. he said quite explicitly that in drawing a line under this anti—semitism, or attempting to draw a line under a long and tangled recent history of anti—semitic incidents and complaints, he wanted to make sure that we do not underestimate or brush this aside, and when corybn, in effect, did just that i see he had little option but to at least suspend him. jo, briefly, is this the end of the left, potentially, in the labour party or the start of a civil war? well, i think the start of a civil war might be exaggerated, because, actually, if you look at some of the reacti

labour wanted answers.ay, at his press conference, we heard that tier i has had very little effect and that the tiers must be strengthened. can he confirm that it's the government's intention to impose a tougher set of restrictions on tieri areas post this lockdown? mr speaker, it is too early to do the analysis that the honourable gentleman requests, but, of course, we remain vigilant. meanwhile, mps have been given an insight into the stress and fatigue faced by nhs staff during the pandemic. a leading gp told the health committee that doctors and nurses had not been prepared to see "so much illness and death". the mps have been looking at workforce burn—out in the health service. they heard first, over a slightly unreliable videolink, from a senior nurse manager who was redeployed to the frontline. i myself as the evening nurse was also redeployed, but as you know, myjob doesn't stop, i still manage staff, i still needed to continue to do myjob, but went to work in the discharge lounge discharging patien

into the labour party.nti—semitism in the party had been overstated. 0ur deputy political editor vicki young is in westminster. this of course follows that damning report from the equalities watchdog which said labour had acted unlawfully in the way it dealt with anti—semitism complaints under jeremy corbyn. as you say, his reaction, saying political opponents had exaggerated it, meant he was kicked out of the party as a member. he was, though, reinstated yesterday but that is not the end of all of this. sir keir starmer has made a big political decision today. he has decided thatjeremy corbyn has to sit as an independent mp. he can't return to the labour party in parliament. his reasons, he say, is because mr corbyn has undermined and set back the party's work in restoring trust and confidence in its ability to tackle anti—semitism. this has caused uproar amongst mr corbyn's supporters. they say it will continue the divisions in the party but sir keir starmer is very keen to show that his tough words have

labour demanded more transparency and asked why a spanish businessman had been paid millions for hises. our special correspondent lucy manning has more details. the £21 million man. spanish businessman gabriel andersson got that amount in consulting fees on a uk ppe deal. the bbc revealed yesterday he got paid for helping the owner of a miami jewellery company who had won the contracts, so it was ultimately british taxpayers' money. from pendants to pmqs. does the prime minister think £21 million to a middle man was an acceptable use of taxpayers' money? the prime minister answered from self—isolation. we were facing, as he will remember, a very difficult situation, where across the world there were not adequate supplies of ppe. nobody had enough ppe. we shifted heaven and earth to get 32 billion items of ppe to this country. i'm very proud of what has been achieved. the public spending watchdog, the nag, says it will investigate these payments, and today it criticised the government for the way it had bought ppe, saying it hadn't been open enough about the way decisions are made. so

. —— the previous labour government.“ you would give me time!as a next week. do not encourage him! tim is right. this is a horrible forecast and we are going to be dealing with this for years to come. these figures are awful... it has to be said, the government's handling of this pandemic has made the finances worse, the fact that we are limping from locked onto lockdown without an effective test and trace system to alleviate that. it has meant it is worse for the uk, as well as the higher cost of precious human life, so let's acknowledge that first of all, but the second thing is that it then begs the question, what does the government to about it? and as we can see from this piece in the ft, i am not really sure the government knows how to respond. rishi sunak is saying, we cannot possibly raise taxes even in this dire situation. taxing the highest earners seems to mea taxing the highest earners seems to me a reasonable response in normal times, never mind a pandemic, but on top of that, what we need to see now is big system change from the go

former labour leader, that jeremy corbynjust emily by the former labour leader, that jeremy corbyn just doing so. watson reporting. he downing street has acknowleged that the test and trace system needs to improve, after figures showed around four in ten contacts of people who've tested positive are still not being reached. over the seven days ending november the 11th, just over 60% of contacts were notified — roughly the same figure as for each of the previous four weeks. earlier our head of statistics, robert cuffe, had more on the figures. largely, the figures look quite similar to last week, but some of that is good news. so, in terms of the performance of the system, a number of people getting contacted after they test positive, that's stable, but it has been rising in recent weeks. tests are coming back to people faster than they were about a month ago. they haven't really changed very much in the last week. but probably the less good news is that the number of contacts named by infected people, the proportion of those that get reached, that's still at around 60%, and scientists a

before we reckless labour government before i'iow.vernment before now. before we move on you want to get back in on that. it is really interesting that that is curious analysis of what happened over the last ten years. by any measure, a lot of scientific measures have said that this same thing which is that the governments austerity measures over the last ten years but britain ina over the last ten years but britain in a worse position to respond to the pandemic. we fared worse because of the stripping down in the hollowing out of the state that was carried out by the conservative governments. it is a curious analysis that tim just presented there. let's move on and leave it for now. let's look at the high news paper, talking about christmas. we've heard a lot about christmas coming up and we groaned when talk about christmas early on usually bet about christmas early on usually bet a lot of us desperately needing wanting to see our loved ones and family members who have been parted from. but the i isjust highlighting that whatever ha

the labour party, so we know that the labour party is split on these broad ideological arguments and energy. i want to focus on holding keir starmer‘s feet to the fire and tax, nationalisation, relations with the private sector etc and what proportion of that 30% will decide actually, jeremy corbyn is the hill that i am willing to die on. we know that i am willing to die on. we know that there is division amongst what we might call... but even on the kind of conservative assessment, probably talking about 15% of the membership and probably 15 to 25 labour mps for whom this is an issue and they will go to the barricades over. it's quite an extraordinary situation to be in and i can't think ofa situation to be in and i can't think of a precedent for this, but where the previous party leader is no longer able to sit for that party in the commons. yes. there is to my knowledge, when it happened, i'll busily had to do two things. i had to look through labour‘s... to see what the basis of the suspension was to explain it for the readers and to see if there was a precedent and as far as see

votes, what is labour's position on this at the moment?ded, it is quite telling that they haven't so farsaid quite telling that they haven't so far said they would vote against the government. looking at the context of this, there was a sizeable rebellion when conservatives were voting on the mini lockdown in england and 40% of mps voted against the government but to pass because they had support from labour. it will be interesting to see because labour say they haven't made their mind up yet. but the shadow foreign secretary was talking about labour's position. we will act in the public interest so we need to know first of all these measures are tough enough to get control of the virus, otherwise what we are asking businesses to do is go through significant pain, people laid off and businesses at risk of collapsing without being able to show this is worth it, it will set us on a path to recovery in the future. the other big issue the government is dealing with is the brexit trade talks. we talk about this every day. but we have been heari

the bbc understands that the former labour leaderjeremy corbyn has been reinstated into the party.been exaggerated but this is breaking news and what can you tell us. basically a panel of the labour executive was meeting all afternoon to discuss jeremy executive was meeting all afternoon to discussjeremy corbyn's case. when this controversial report into anti—semitism in the labour party and the human rights commission with its damning report came out, jeremy corbyn's response was to say that political opponents had overstated the scale of anti—semitism which got him suspended from the labour party and keir starmer said that anybody who suggested the problem was exaggerated where part of the problem, but the disciplinary panel has met this afternoon and concluded thatjeremy corbyn should be reinstated to party membership. that happened because jeremy reinstated to party membership. that happened becausejeremy corbyn clarified his comments and said he was not saying that concerns about anti—semitism were being exaggerated or not trying to exaggerate the concerns but said that the va

labour has reinstated its former leader, jeremy corbyn, who was suspended last month over his reactiona report on anti—semitism within the party, when he said the scale of the problem had been ‘overstated'. our political correspondent iain watson says the controversy is not over. in order to gain readmission to the labour party, jeremy corbyn had to clarify the comments that got him suspended in the first place. he said that concerns about anti—semitism weren't exaggerated, he'd simply meant that the vast majority of labour members were deeply opposed to anti—semitism. but while he clarified those comments, he resisted pressure to apologise and that has reopened some of the old divisions. so, while long—standing supporters of his leadership of the labour party, including important trade union figures, have welcomed the decision to readmit him, jewish groups, in particular the jewish labour movement, for example, have denounced his swift return to the fold. and i think what is interesting about this is although he has now been brought back as a rank and file labour party member, he hasn

labour backed lord hope's amendment.friction the straight as possible within the internal market of the uk. everybody equally respects the need for appropriate divergence. how are those two matters to be dealt with, the answer which everybody in this house agreed with and everybody in the comments agreed with him was the common frameworks process. a process he said had stood the test of time. several peers referred to the prime minister's reported comments about devolution being a disaster. my lords, the sad truth of the devolution era my lords, the sad truth of the post—devolution era is they don'tjust have this mindset but excepted now has to work in partnership not as a dominating and patronizing big brother which always expects to get its own way it is that failure wasn't anything else which now stands to blow the united kingdom apart. the bill does not civilly maintain the status quo and eu membership, it chuckles the ability of the elected parliaments of scotland, wales and northern ireland to find their own soluti

in years gone by, that would have been massive, to withdraw funding from the labour party.ht help him. asjeffrey and ned have both said, there's time. there's time for keir starmer to unite. people in the party want to look forward, they want to take on the conservatives, and this might help him. jo coburn, ned temko, jeffrey kofman, thank you all very much indeed forjoining us today on dateline london. we are back next week at the same time, when we might, of course, know the name of the next president of the united states. bye for now. hello. there's some drier, colder weather to come in the week ahead. but before then, still some rain in the forecast courtesy of this frontal system continuing on itsjourney south and eastwards through the early hours of monday morning. ahead of this, still some very mild air — so temperatures not much lower than 15—16 celsius across south east england, and the cloud and rain will clear from here through the morning. behind that, we will all see some spells of sunshine, but also plenty of showers — these most frequent across southern scotl

it could come down to labour.servative mps would tough to vote against their own government to wipe out boris johnson vote against their own government to wipe out borisjohnson ‘s majority and make him dependent on labour votes. 0n the national lockdown restrictions themselves, 35 conservative mps voted against so not that far off wiping off the majority. 0ver not that far off wiping off the majority. over this weekend, so he isn't dependent on labour votes we will see a big push to try to make the case to their own mps to fall into line. partly it is warnings about the state of the health service, partly if you can just hold your nerve, just around the corner, the new vaccines, so there is an attempt to say, just let these restrictions go through, you won't have too live under them for much longer. whether that will be enough, there is an awful lot of restlessness and labour are playing their cards close to the chest. in truth, they will back this, we will get those restrictions but they will make the case for mo

labour calls for the government to force social media companies to remove anti—vaccine content from theirorms. the uk's chief brexit negotiator insists he won't be changing course ahead of a crucial week in trade talks with the eu. and lewis hamilton wins a record—equalling seventh world title after claiming victory at the turkish grand prix. good afternoon. one of britain's best known entertainers, des o'connor, has died at the age of 88. the comedian, singer and television star died yesterday in hospital, following a fall at his home in buckinghamshire. he achieved nationalfame hosting smash hit prime time shows, in a career spanning nearly seven decades, and will be remembered for his versatility as a performer, along with a readiness to laugh at himself. our arts correspondent david sillito looks back at his life. i've kept a list of the insults against des o'connor. des o'connor was in the ‘70s famous, a star, and on morecambe and wise, the butt of hundreds of gags. but the singer and comedian took it all with grace. number one: eric — i've just heard some good news. ernie — what goo

in years gone by, that would have been massive, to withdraw funding from the labour party.having. it might help him. asjeffrey and ned have both said, there's time. there's time for keir starmer to unite. people in the party want to look forward, they want to take on the conservatives, and this might help him. jo coburn, ned temko, jeffrey kofman, thank you all very much indeed forjoining us today on dateline london. we are back next week at the same time, when we might, of course, know the name of the next president of the united states. bye for now. hello. some rough seas in western areas later, another day in which the winds will strengthen across the country. especially across parts of north and west scotland and west wales. for all of us, more rain around, some more than others. we have one approaching weather system which will affect us later, all linking into this area of low pressure which brought rain through the night. remnants of hurricane seated between us and ireland, pushing by the north—west of scotland with strengthening winds through the afternoon. a little

a labour mp raised the result of the us election.ke for many of us when he took a call yesterday to congratulate president elect biden and president elect biden and president elect biden and president elect harris on their emphatic win in the us presidential election. so does the prime minister now have any advice for erstwhile best friend, president trump, whose continuing refusal to accept the result is both embarrassing for him and dangerous for american democracy? well, mr speaker, i had and have a good relationship with the previous president. i do not resile from that. it is the duty of all british prime ministers to have a good relationship with the white house. i'm delighted to the many areas in which the incoming biden — harris administration is able to make common cause with us. boris johnson. mps have criticised the government for not doing enough to provide help for homeless people during the lockdown in england. at the start of the pandemic in the spring, ministers launched a scheme called everyone in. almost 15,000 home

labour say rishi sunak‘s hitting workers in their pockets. this year the chancellor stood on this doorstep and clapped for key workers, today his government institutes a pay freeze for many of them. and plans to cut overseas aid lead to one minister resigning amid conservative protests. none of us in this house will be able to look our children in the eye and claim we did not know what we were voting for. the chancellor, rishi sunak, has laid bare the scale of the economic crisis and the cost of coronavirus in his spending review. the economy will shrink by 11% this year. unemployment could hit two point six million in 2021 as a result of the pandemic. rishi sunak, who later visited a vaccine research centre, told mps there'd be a fund to help the long term unemployed into work. but almost half of public sector workers although not front line nhs staff will see their pay frozen. an international development minister, lady sugg, resigned after the chancellor ditched a manifesto commitment and cut overseas aid spending. rishi sunak did find som

thank you very much, we will be talking to labour's bridget philipson shortly.l row about this. it is conservatives themselves who are upset about it. it is and it was one of the things david cameron introduced and it was a conservative party policy. we have heard from former prime ministers on this and i wonder if we will hear from them by the end of the day. that said, there has been resistance to this. this plays both ways on the tory backbenches and amongst our viewers. there is a point about this, at a moment when we are about to leave the departure lounge of the eu, it is very clear that prime minister wants to invest in britain's image around the world. global britain, soft and hard powers, stephen barclay describes it. you wonder in that context if the uk would be happy and being second in an area where we were at the top of the list. it will be interesting to see how much pushback there will be on the tory backbenchers on this. i suspect there might be quite a lot of ructions, but it will be very popular with others. people are split down the middle on

into the labour party. about anti—semitism in the party had been overstated. 0ur political correspondent helen catt‘s at westminster. and there's been reaction coming in tonight? if there has, as you can imagine, a pretty furious reaction from some of those mps and allies of jeremy corbyn who, as you explained there yesterday, a disciplinary panel decided he could be readmitted to the labour party as a member, but that doesn't automatically mean he can represent labour in parliament. that decision rests with sir keir starmer, who this morning said he would not be restoring the whip, as the official phrase is known. he said that was because jeremy corbyn‘s actions in response to a report by the equalities watchdog on anti—jewish hate had back the trust and confidence in the labour party's ability to tackle anti—semitism. he said he would keep the situation under review. as i said, you can imagine there's been a pretty furious reaction from allies of jeremy corbyn. 32 mps who formed the socialist group have s

we have heard what the labour party want.e government listening to that and doing what they want?” government listening to that and doing what they want? i think the government thinks it has gone far enough with his agreement with the tech companies to make sure nobody profits from misinformation and work with public health authorities in the uk. there are some draft legislation in the works, the on line harms white paper which addresses some of the information about misinformation online. labour wa nt about misinformation online. labour want the government to go further now and say emergency legislation is needed before a vaccine is approved for use in the uk and if anyone stops themselves been vaccinated as a result of reading false claims online about the damage it might do to your health, that is one too many. the government is confident that even though this vaccine, if and when it is approved, and there are still hurdles to go through, the take—up for the vast majority of people will choose to have the vaccine even thou

the labour leader — sir keir starmer — sasteremy corbyn will not be allowed to sit as a labour mp.ter saying that the scale of anti—semitism in the party had been "overstated" following a scathing report into the issue. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg is at westminster. and laura kuenssberg is at westminster. this decision division and this decision has caused some division in the party. it is certainly a very tricky political situation here for the labour leader. that report you mention really was terrible. it was a report from the independent equalities commission, which said the party that had been founded to fight for equality had breached equalities law, when it came to racism towards jewish people during the time that jeremy corbyn was in charge. 0ur viewers don't need any reminding how much angst there was over this issue whilejeremy corbyn was the boss of the labour party, and he provoked more outrage on the day it was published by seeking to try and play it down. since then, yesterday, he did try to clarify what he meant, and asa did try to clarify what he meant, and

jeremy corbyn has been reinstated as a member of the labour party.verstated" in a report by the equalities and human rights commission. he issued a statement saying he regretted any "pain" caused. earlier this morning, the labour leader sir keir starmer was asked about jeremy corbyn's reinstatement. good morning. good morning. what is your reaction tojeremy corbyn being reinstated? i put a statement out last night. will you be restoring the whip? i put a statement out last night, thank you. the labour leader there, as he left the house this morning. 0ur political correspondent leila nathoo is in westminster. for anyone who did not see the statement, bring us up to speed, and on the broader reaction to this within the party. what are people saying? predictably, jeremy corbyn's reinstatement to the labour party has divided the crowd, as his suspension did in the first place. his supporters say this is the right way forward, that he has clarified his comments and this is good for party unity but critics in the party, including jewish groups and jewish m

yes, insofar as the labour party we re yes, insofar as the labour party were proposing a two—week circuity called it, similar national lockdown a couple of weeks ago, they wanted to start last week so as ago, they wanted to start last week so as far as they are concerned this is too late so in wales, which is labour run, they are in the middle ofa labour run, they are in the middle of a circuit breaker which they will come out of on the 9th of november, as england goes on, it's all quite confusing! in principle, they are absolutely backing this although they think it has come to light but on the idea, should it be a finite, four—week timetable? again, room for manoeuvre. interestingly, the one thing the labour leader swung behind borisjohnson on this morning was the idea schools should stay open, the idea schools should stay open, the major difference between the spring lockdown and what england will go into on thursday, schools and colleges and universities will stay open. some of the teaching unions have said schools need to be made safer if this is going to be the outcome of this. sir

that led the labour party to suspend him.bour leader finds himself in a bit above pickle, to be honest, because this made the decision to letjeremy corbyn back in. keir starmer still has some options. you could re—withdraw the whip, but ultimately, it's not a situation where i think he wanted a lot of credit but he risk losing that. in terms of being loyal to jeremy corbyn, i don't think you should —— they‘ re jeremy corbyn, i don't think you should —— they're going to be grateful. david, it just should —— they're going to be grateful. david, itjust shows the divide within the labour party. it seems that members of unite, some reports that baroness chakra body it is the least —— it is only three weeks since he was suspended. within the labour party, there are still a remarkable number of people, perhaps even a majority, who not long ago we re even a majority, who not long ago were chanting, there's only one jeremy corbyn. that is what sir keir starmer has inherited. now, how he deals with this is nothing new about labour lead

give us a bit of a synopsis about what labour is calling for today.overnment. we need to ensure our nh5 with the government. we need to ensure our nhs and public health infrastructure is fully resourced. if you do go online and to social media you do find it very poisonous anti—vax nonsense, to be frank. it exploits peoples fears and mistrust of institutions and governments and spreads poison and harm so we are saying to government, we will work with you, we want to work with you ona with you, we want to work with you on a cross—party basis to bring forward proposals, rules to stamp this out. the government have talked about having an on line harm bill and we are seeing bring that forward and we are seeing bring that forward and we are seeing bring that forward and we will work with you because this anti—vax stuff online exploits mistrust which is why it is so important we work together. there is a bit ofa important we work together. there is a bit of a blurred line between anti—vaccine stuff online and people who are just nervous about a new vaccine

but another labour mp wasn‘t convinced by that. for someone with the skill set that is suited to get us through this crisis? no, mr speaker. the prime minister. you‘re watching monday in parliament with me, david cornock. don‘t forget that if you miss our daily round up and there‘s really no excuse now the pubs are either shut or closing early you can catch up via the bbc iplayer. as many as 5,000 high street shops could close this year half of them due to the coronavirus pandemic. with christmas fast approaching and a new lockdown in england coming into force this week, experts have warned the communities and local government committee that more financial help was needed. the mps heard covid—i9 had been accelerating changes to retail that had already been under way due to the growth in online shopping. we went into this emergency with 52% of retail and hospitality businesses in serious risk of failure, and in fact you were seeing companies like debbie nims had been into administration again in april which was the second time in a

we don't know what labour's position will be on this one.t they probably will back the government because frankly they haven't said they won't, so it would have to be a big rebellion, about a0 conservative mps also, for there to be a defeat. i think this is unlikely, but of course with it sunset clause in the future of this is slightly pushing problem on in a few months voting time because those mps who may be persuaded to vote on tuesday may still be annoyed when it comes to the vote again injanuary. thank you very much, and ellie price, our political correspondent. the ethiopian government says it's hunting for the leaders of the tigray region, a day after it said federal troops had seized control of the main city, mekelle. —— mek‘ele. there's been no independent confirmation and no word on casualties. the whereabouts of the head of tigray‘s ruling party are unknown. meanwhile, the us embassy in neighbouring eritrea has said on twitter that six explosions have been reported in the eritrean capital asmara. they happened late on saturday nig

susan hinchcliffe is the labour leader of bradford council — who is also standing to be the labour candidateworried about it, do you think it should be happening at all, should it have happened earlier?” am frustrated because i asked the government minister twice about going to tier three are you going international lockdown and twice of his told know we are not. and therefore we announce to the public that we will go into tier three only to have to tell them 48 hours later they were not going into tier three we will go into tier two until thursday so you can attend the confusion with residents and businesses which are not trying to unravel. isn't the message very clear from unravel. isn't the message very clearfrom government unravel. isn't the message very clear from government with unravel. isn't the message very clearfrom government with it unravel. isn't the message very clear from government with it is tier two, tier three are lockdown ahead, everyone knows theyjust need to say endorse as much as possible now and try and suppress any unnecessary movement and mixing? yes so the message

would labour back then whatever?dodds. will you vote for government proposals whatever happens? know, because we need to see the detail of the proposal. we really expect government needs to have learned from what has happened previously, all the problems we have had previously. we did not have a clear system of restrictions, there was a huge amount of ambiguity and economic support trailed the announcement of those restrictions. that is meant a situation where we have seen record redundancies across oui’ have seen record redundancies across our country have seen record redundancies across oui’ country over have seen record redundancies across our country over the last quarter. businesses have gone bust that did not need to because of those problems so we expect the prime minister should provide something far more robust on wednesday. so there will be a lot riding on the specifics of these restrictions. we will find these out tomorrow when the prime minister addresses parliament and i think there will be quite a lot o

but labour wants answers. can he confirm that it labour wants answers. thatitis labour wants answers. can he confirm that it is the government's intention to impose tougher restrictions on tier1 areas post lockdown? mr speaker, it is too early to do the analysis that the honourable gentleman requests, but of course, we remain vigilant. well, $0011 of course, we remain vigilant. well, soon he has to make a decision on the future of the lockdown so the earlier we get that information, the better. excess deaths are the difference between those seen this year and what we would expect based on the past five years. latest figures show there have been more than 70,000 to the pandemic started. this graph shows a huge spike in the number of deaths during the first wave, and the numbers are starting to rise again. winter is always a difficult time for the nhs, with fears of staff burn out the government is desperate to minimise the damaging impact of covid. u nfortu nately i the damaging impact of covid. unfortunately i have been in a position where high have actu

but he is willing to whip the labour benches to abstain on this which i do think is a move but it is months into this political saga, this pandemic, this health crisis, and a lot of fatigue has i think, and both politically and nationally, people are willing to break the rules. welcome i took some of those stories later. it willing to change the arguments now. that's when will, to some of those. you will see some of that going on in the house of commons. i haven't even on the first anniversary of boris johnson commons. i haven't even on the first anniversary of borisjohnson fox victory. —— not even. coming on the people breaking rules, if you were advised anyone about how nice to handle their pr, i think this must come up pretty high. one law for rita ora. a spirit of the moment party. that's fair at the moment. michael would have apologised after this pretty flagrant breach of rules, the kind of story that reads great for many dominant coming saga. —— rita ora. another case where somebody considered themselves to be above the rules in our case, organised a impromptu birthday do in l