with me is our home editor, mark easton. thank you forjoining us on the programme.rly releases and what impact are they having at the moment? the rison they having at the moment? the prison system — they having at the moment? the prison system in _ they having at the moment? tue: prison system in england they having at the moment? tte: prison system in england and wales are significantly overcrowded. you are supposed to have 1500 empty cells out about accommodation for 89-90,000 about accommodation for 89—90,000 people. we have less than that, about 1350 at the moment. and the situation has been much worse. the government say it is all the last lot�*s fault, we inherited a system in crisis that is completely broken and we have to do something and that something is to release prisoners... normally a prisoner would be released on custody, on parole, about halfway through their sentence. forsome about halfway through their sentence. for some prisoners, that has now been reduced to 40%. so that has now been reduced to a0%. so that is controversial. it was controversial

our home editor mark easton is here. the population of the uk has reached 68.3 million people.whole story. when you interrogate the data, you find that in the latest annual figures there were 16,300 more deaths than births across the uk. it wasn't an even picture. in scotland there were 19,000 more deaths than births, in wales it was 9,500 more. in northern ireland and england, births still outnumber deaths — just. outside of the pandemic, what's called negative natural change hasn't happened in britain since 1976. what's going on? well, the short answer is that we are producing fewer of these. the average woman is now having just 1.49 babies, far too few to maintain the population. and, of course, the country is also getting older — which means more funerals. but despite all that, the uk population is currently increasing faster than at any time since records began. and that is because of record migration — a net figure of 677,300 in a year. without foreigners coming here, the uk's population would be falling. now, it is expected that net migration will go down with changes to

this red and blue marks where the party has an advantage in each of these counties. don in eastonnnsylvania voting for the vice president. good morning. caller: hello. yes. i will be voting for ms. harris. the electoral college vote is important up here, where i live. because i live in northampton county. you are in lancaster and i used to work down there. now, appear we have two townships upper and lower mount bethel. the last time trump ran, he carried those two little townships. he wiped out the whole philadelphia million some votes. he was like -- it was like totally absurd. host: let's talk about that. hold on. let us talk about that. steve. guest: northampton county is a bellwether and all of this. allegheny and philadelphia counties are matched by the red of the other 55 counties. a lot of people have described pennsylvania as having a t, with red across the top and down the middle and philadelphia -- and two blue counties at either end. northampton county, democratic efforts are trying to make it be one of the philadelphia color county which includes chancellor county, del