shadow secretary of state, l lucy powell. this week's whole sorry sa . a lucy powell.ll. this week's whole sorry saga has raised serious _ lucy powell. this week's whole sorry saga has raised serious questions . saga has raised serious questions about the government's role in upholding bbc impartiality. they have got their fingerprints all over it. it is no wonder the secretary of state has gone a while. first it takes exposed how susceptible the bbc leadership is to government pressure. after days of holding off the bbc capitulated to a tory council campaign and took gary lineker off air. the same voices by the way who claim to be the champions of free speech. what changed? can the minister tell us what contact you or any member of the government had with any bbc executives of board members during the time? what does she think it looks like took the outside world that the much loved sports presenter is taken of air for tweeting something the government doesn't like? it sounds more like putin's rusher to me. secondly, the government to seriously damage the bbc�*s reput

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shadow culture secretary lucy powell. - current affairs. shadow culture secretary lucy powell.y lucy powell. and we have asked culture secretary lucy fraser to join us on asked culture secretary lucy fraser tojoin us on bbc asked culture secretary lucy fraser to join us on bbc today, asked culture secretary lucy fraser tojoin us on bbc today, but asked culture secretary lucy fraser to join us on bbc today, but the departure for culture, media and sport sports person says individual cases are a matter for the bbc. sport sports person says individual cases are a matterfor the bbc. we have also asked the bbc to give an interview to bbc news today. the us treasury has moved to reassure investors after the largest bank failure since the financial crash of 2008. the collapse of silicon valley bank, a major lender to tech companies, triggering a share sell—off in other banks linked to the sector. 0ur north america tech correspondent, james clayton, explains how it happened. this is one of those days that will go down in silicon valley history, and it is certainly one of the most stres

shadow culture secretary looser layback lucy powell spoke earlier to the breakfast programme. here in bowing to a tory campaign to cancel somebody who disagreed with their views. what evidence do you have of that? what evidence do you have that this is a tory campaign pressuring the bbc, telling the bbc what to do with one of its presenters? i think that is fairly clear for everyone to see. i don't think it is clear. how is it clear? well, we have had ministers on the airwaves, conservative mps on the airways, boosted by their friends in the right—wing media with a particular campaign about a presenter on the bbc which initially the bbc did not respond to in this way. so the sort of time that it has taken them to respond in this way, i think, shows that they have capitulated to a tory council culture. the same mps and ministers, by the way, who only last month were standing in the commons saying that they were the standard bearers of free speech. and i think this is a misinterpretation of what impartiality is. impartiality is independence, particularly i think showing independ

lucy powell, rreat has taken this week. lucy powell, treat to has taken this week.le on the continent of europe since the second world war, and the covid pandemic, the biggest global health pandemic since the end of the first world war. we have talked a lot already to our panel about that issue so i want to close talking about another logical moment that is about to happen, the departure of nicola sturgeon who has been such a big figure in our politics for a long time. she will be replaced tomorrow. andy, you interview nicola sturgeon at an eventin interview nicola sturgeon at an event in london this week, do you feel you got under the skin of why she's leaving? mat feel you got under the skin of why she's leaving?— she's leaving? not entirely. time will tell on _ she's leaving? not entirely. time will tell on that. _ she's leaving? not entirely. time will tell on that. what _ she's leaving? not entirely. time will tell on that. what was - she's leaving? not entirely. time will tell on that. what was clear l will tell on that. what was clear though is that on some o

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i'm sure going to be labour's lucy be speaking to labour's lucy powell.ind out a little bit more about keir starmer's pension arrangements and pension and tax arrangements and sammy is to be joining me sammy is going to be joining me from belfast of from belfast to discuss, of course, winds, framework course, the winds, a framework whether ever going to whether the dup ever going to go back stormont. all that and more to so do stay tuned. let's to come so do stay tuned. let's just a little look at the just have a little look at the front pages. of all, the front pages. first of all, the sunday european sunday telegraph. european judges be overruled on judges may be overruled on rwanda to deport haitians. good news for somalia brafman if that's the case. the sunday times goes with strip searches of children as young as eight. story how the police have been searching predominantly black children. the observer has got the sting that i was speaking about. let me just get the newspaper here from top tory mp. ask a £10,000 a day to work for a fake company. nice

lucy powell says the secretary.well says the organisation consistently finds itself at the centre of culture wars and that continuing the status quo is not an option . status quo is not an option. scottish is warning the incoming snp leader to clear out the rot within their party. deputy leader baillie is calling on the future minister to be more open and transparent. it's tough to figures revealed the snp lost 30,000 members in just one year, which it had previously denied. leadership candidates humza yousaf, kate forbes and regan will find out tomorrow . he will will find out tomorrow. he will become scotland's next leader. president vladimir putin says he struck a deal to store tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring which borders ukraine. speaking on state tv night, he insisted it wasn't unusual. comparing it with the united states stationing nuclear weapons on the territory of european allies . but a top security adviser to ukraine president says the plans destabilise belarus , claiming destabilise belarus, cl

shadow culture secretary lucy powell says the organisation consistently finds itself at the centre ofulture wars and that continue ing the status quo is not an option . scottish labour not an option. scottish labour is warning the incoming snp leader to clear out the rot within their party. deputy leader jackie baillie is calling leaderjackie baillie is calling on the future first minister to be more open and transparent. it's after figures revealed the snp had lost 30,000 members in just over a year, which had previously denied leadership candidates humza yousaf kate forbes and ash regan will find out tomorrow . he will become out tomorrow. he will become scotland's next leader. russia's president vladimir putin, says he's struck a deal to stop attacked scale nuclear weapons in neighbouring belarus, which borders ukraine. speaking on state tv last night, he insisted it wasn't unusual. comparing it with the united states, stationing nuclear weapons on the territory of europe and allies. but a top security adviser to ukraine's president says the plans would destabilise belarus, claimin

morning when iain duncan smith gives me his verdict on brexit and boris i'll also be asking labour's lucy powell. and return and pension plan. and sammy wilson joins me from belfast to reveal whether the dup will go back to powersharing after the windsor framework passed through the commons over and more with me camilla tominey this sunday morning from 930 . this sunday morning from 930. hello again, we have some pretty wet and windy weather spreading across southern parts we go through tonight elsewhere. yes be some showery rain around. but in the north it's frost and ice. that's perhaps a bigger cause for concern. take a look at the bigger picture and you can see this area of pressure and this area of low pressure and it's this that's going to track its way across the south, bringing some pretty unsettled its way across the south, bri we 1g some pretty unsettled its way across the south, bri we 1g rthroughetty unsettled its way across the south, bri we 1g rthrough saturdaytled its way across the south, bri we 1g rthrough saturday night as we go through saturday night into take into sunday morn

continues michelle and saw the thing michelle and we saw the thing with powell, the labour with lucy powelle labour frontbench year where she frontbench last year where she was shirt, never was wearing the t shirt, never kissing. no, that's kissing. yeah, no, that's student i think that kissing. yeah, no, that's stuc no: i think that kissing. yeah, no, that's stucno place i think that kissing. yeah, no, that's stucno place in i think that kissing. yeah, no, that's stucno place in mainstream adult has no place in mainstream adult grown up parliamentary politics. but is for the labour but the point is for the labour party, are serious about party, if they are serious about forming government, they have forming a government, they have to voters. they have to to win tory voters. they have to win red wall voters who have gone to the tories and people outside wall who outside of the red wall who currently vote tory they've currently vote tory and they've got hearts and got to win their hearts and minds. and you're not going to do that calling tories scum do that by calling tories scum or saying t

so i'll be asking him all about this and i'll asking labour's i'll be asking labour's lucy powell reactis pension and with regard to just him generally. angela rayner keeps on banging on about tax cuts for the 1. what we found out with his pension arrangements that keir starmer in that 1, he's clearly a millionaire with a pension . so how does he pension. so how does he distinguish himself from rishi sunak? it's a, it's a it's sunak? yeah it's a, it's a it's a tricky one, isn't it, with all this . i a tricky one, isn't it, with all this. i mean, i do think it was particularly interesting all the tax returns and things being released it seems we've were becoming ever more american with this side of things. becoming ever more american with this side of things . well, also this side of things. well, also interesting today is this sting being carried out by led by donkeys. and it's on the front page of the observer. we'll be deaung page of the observer. we'll be dealing with this in a paper you in just a few minutes. but this idea that should these employees have these fat pensions when the

the publicly funded broadcaster the shadow culture secretary , lucy powell, says the secretary, lucy ays the organisation finds itself the centre of culture wars and that continuing that status is not an opfion continuing that status is not an option . scottish labour is option. scottish labour is warning the incoming snp to clear out the rot within their party. deputy leaderjackie baillie is calling on the future first minister to be more open and transparent. it's after figures revealed the snp had lost 30,000 members in just over a year, which the party had previously denied. leadership candidates humza yousaf, kate forbes and ash will find out tomorrow who will become scotland's next leader. ukraine has condemned vladimir plan to store tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring belarus. kiev's foreign has slammed the announcement provocative and is calling a un security council session . speaking on state tv session. speaking on state tv last night, the russian president insisted it wasn't unusual. president insisted it wasn't unusual . comparing it with the unusual. comparing it wit

i'll be asking labour's lucy powell about keir starmer's tax return and plan and some.eveal whether the dup will go back powersharing after the windsor framework passed through the commons . all that and more with commons. all that and more with me. come a little money this sunday morning from 930 . sunday morning from 930. you're watching mark dolan tonight. it's1030 and at this time every friday and saturday and sunday, it's time for my new look paper review review . yes, look paper review review. yes, indeed. and hot off press. we start with the sun and they lead with the following european judges may be overruled on rwanda . suella braverman ban the rwanda. suella braverman ban the european court of human from grounding migrants deportation flights in a to pacify rebels. the home secretary is locked in talks with up to 60 tory mps who are trying to strip strasbourg of right to interfere with immigration policy in an attempt to quell what is set to be the biggest rebellion of rishi sunak's premiership ministers may agree to block the use of a mechanism . the european

i'll be asking labour's lucy powell about keir starmer's tax return and plan and some. whether the dup will go back powersharing after the windsor framework passed through the commons . all that and more with commons. all that and more with me. come a little money this sunday morning from 930 . sunday morning from 930. you're watching mark dolan tonight. it's1030 and at this time every friday and saturday and sunday, it's time for my new look paper review review . yes, look paper review review. yes, indeed. and hot off press. we start with the sun and they lead with the following european judges may be overruled on rwanda . suella braverman ban the rwanda. suella braverman ban the european court of human from grounding migrants deportation flights in a to pacify rebels. the home secretary is locked in talks with up to 60 tory mps who are trying to strip strasbourg of right to interfere with immigration policy in an attempt to quell what is set to be the biggest rebellion of rishi sunak's premiership ministers may agree to block the use of a mechanism . the european cour

should your colleague, the shadow culture secretary, lucy powell, for saying powell, apologise for saying gary popular gary lineker, a popular man being bbc, was being suspended by the bbc, was like being in putin's russia deeply offensive. when you consider putin persecutes people, has people murdered, homophobic allies and conducted an illegal invasion of ukraine? should you apologise and i've not seen and i wasn't i understand it maybe in the commons i wasn't there to see what precisely the context was. but look, you did in terms of what she said, in terms it terms, i don't know. the specific con has been the terms of my abhorrence for putin and indeed that view across indeed that view is across party. there is a consensus across parliament, both from benches, all parties in condemnation of what putin has done and indeed the regime that that so should apologise. i would need to see the specific context, david gallagher, to answer that. but you've done your best. that's nick thomas—symonds. i think he's going us a bit. going to stay with us a bit. right. we've also got in the studio wit

in the final question to lineker, powell in to gary lineker, lucy powell in the commons yesterday appearedia, which has caused huge offence and it caused upset in the commons. will the labour party apologise for that ? look party apologise for that? look i think enough has been said about gary lineker in the bbc in recent days. i'm going to focus on the budget and economic goals. that's my job and that's what i look . goals. that's my job and that's what i look. i'm goals. that's my job and that's what i look . i'm i'm goals. that's my job and that's what i look. i'm i'm glad he's going to be back on the air. i present match of the day. i'm a big football fan. i think he's a good presenter and i hope we can get over the period of the last few days of the bbc . okay. pat few days of the bbc. okay. pat mcfadden, shadow chief secretary to the treasury, thank you very much for your time . well, much for your time. well, joining us now is assistant editor at the spectator cindy. good morning to you. really fascinating hearing from pat that there isn't actually a huge amount of water between the

meanwhile, labour's shadow culture secretary lucy powell has defended her previous work, saying she wascorrespondent jonathan blake told us more. but this particular appointment is getting a lot of attention at westminster because, as you say, sue gray of course, compiled the now famous report into what became known as the partygate saga, events that took place in lockdown, they should not have taken place and officials should have taken responsibility. at the time, borisjohnson said he had been humbled by the experience and learned lessons. now the news that sir keir starmer has approached sue gray to become his chief—of—staff, it is leading some to call into question the findings of the report and indeed sue gray's integrity. ministers who served under mrjohnson in his administration, nadine dorries, jacob rees—mogg for example, saying the report now looks like a stitch—up and an ally of boris johnson himself saying the validity of her findings have been destroyed. there are rules that need to be followed. sue gray has resigned from her post as a senior civil servant at the levelling

we're joined now by the shadow culture secretary lucy powell. what do you think? is a distinction and we are under— distinction. there is a distinction and we are under certain - distinction. there is a distinction - and we are under certain guidelines, securely in bbc news, that you do not express political opinion because we interview politicians for example. but when you have a profile as large as that of gary lineker, seen as a face of the bbc, what does it say about the bbc when one of its biggest stars is seen to express political opinion? i biggest stars is seen to express political opinion?— biggest stars is seen to express political opinion? i don't think it should be about _ political opinion? i don't think it should be about profile - political opinion? i don't think it should be about profile or - political opinion? i don't think it i should be about profile or payroll, i think it should be about a principled point of view and if the principles are if you are not in news and current affairs i think the guidelines say there is a lower risk involved and

panels between the powell street station and the union street station. it's called lucy in the sky, and the lights are patterned with unique sequences so that commuters can experience a unique pattern each time they pass through. >> perfect. what about the early day sculpture that was removed from the civic center? >> this is a question that cities have been grappling with nationwide. following the removal of early days in 2018, there was a toppling of statues in golden gate park as well as the removal of the christopher columbus statue. we are partnering with the parks department as well as the community to engage with the public to develop guidelines to evaluate the existing monuments and memorials in the civic arts collection and evaluate the removal of a monument or statue but also installing new ones. >> finally, it seems like the weather might be nice this weekend. if i fancy taking a walk and seeing some outdoor art, where would you suggest i go? >> well, i would suggest the embarcadero. this work was commissioned with funds from the fire station 35. this suggests

panels between the powell street station and the union street station. it's called lucynd the lights are patterned with unique sequences so that commuters can experience a unique pattern each time they pass through. >> perfect. what about the early day sculpture that was removed from the civic center? >> this is a question that cities have been grappling with nationwide. following the removal of early days in 2018, there was a toppling of statues in golden gate park as well as the removal of the christopher columbus statue. we are partnering with the parks department as well as the community to engage with the public to develop guidelines to evaluate the existing monuments and memorials in the civic arts collection and evaluate the removal of a monument or statue but also installing new ones. >> finally, it seems like the weather might be nice this weekend. if i fancy taking a walk and seeing some outdoor art, where would you suggest i go? >> well, i would suggest the embarcadero. this work was commissioned with funds from the fire station 35. this suggests the bow of a