"timidity and lack of ambition about the government which constantly disappoints. " in a tweet, nick bolesentions thejohn worboys case, the housing crisis and nhs funding, adding: "time to raise your game, prime minister." church bells and music venues in england are to be offered extra protection against attempts to silence them by people living in newly—built housing nearby. the government is changing planning guidance so that long—standing, but noisy, community facilities won't have to make expensive changes because of complaints from new neighbours. instead, housing developers will be responsible for addressing any noise issues during construction. time for the weather now with phil avery. it's sort of day when you really need a forecast because there's such a mishmash of whether going on across the british isles. it's bright across the north—east of england and much of scotland, some winteriness and showers further to the north. northern ireland, after a dank start, you're brightening up quite nicely to the afternoon. the greater part of england and wales, save for the very far south—

theresa may has done, you point to something she said after 18 months, the likes of your follow mps, nick bolese talked about her timidity and her lack of ambition about her government which means it constantly disappoints. there are people i often quite agree with, but on this occasion i think they are unfair to attribute that to her and her personality. the fact is, brexit is the elephant in the bath dominating the political life of the nation to an extraordinary extent. it is difficult to see how you escape from that, it is going to be the giant requirement of a government to deliver something on brexit for the next two years and the conservative party has not yet sorted itself out over what compromise it's going to agree to pursue. so everything else gets pushed out. there is something.. they are right. they are right to warn her that she has got to stop it being pushed out and i suspect if she were here she would agree in spades. she wants to do something than brexit. she could follow the core guy, borisjohnson. £100 million to the nhs is the brexit dividend. he is great at producing perso

"timidity and lack of ambition about the government which constantly disappoints. " in a tweet, nick bolesrch bells and music venues in england are to be offered extra protection against attempts to silence them by people living in newly—built housing nearby. the government is changing planning guidance so that long—standing, but noisy, community facilities won't have to make expensive changes because of complaints from new neighbours. instead, housing developers will be responsible for addressing any noise issues during construction. time for the weather now with phil avery. it's sort of day when you really need a forecast because there's such a mishmash of whether going on across the british isles. it's bright across the north—east of england and much of scotland, some winteriness and showers further to the north. northern ireland, after a dank start,

nick boles, conservative mp for grantham.ith a summary of the rest of the day's news. the prime minister's setting out plans to tackle plastic pollution, by eradicating all avoidable waste within 25 years. two ideas among the proposals include asking every supermarket to have an aisle of goods with no plastic wrappings, as well as extending the 5p charge for carrier bags to all retailers in england. but environmentalists say theresa may's plans are worthless unless they're written into law. here's our environment correspondent roger harribin. a pod of short—finned pilot whales. in the atlantic waters off europe, as elsewhere, they have to share the ocean with plastic. there's huge public concern about plastic litter since david attenborough‘s blue planet series showed sea creatures eating plastic waste. the prime minister will surf that wave of concern with her first environment speech. she's setting out a timetable to abolish single—use plastics. there'll be money for research into smarter plastics and more plastic—free aisl

last week on this programme conservative mp nick boles argued that money from national insurance shoulding to have to be an enormous amount more, but there are going to have to be some increases. so how should the nhs be funded? let's talk to the former chair of the royal college of general practitioners, dr clare gerada, she is also a member of the liberal democrats. stephen dorrell is chair of the nhs confederation which represents providers and commissioners. he's also a former conservative health secretary. and alex hitchcock who is from the think—tank reform which looks at the nhs amongst other issues and is not alligned to any political party. welcome all of you. so, the funding of nhs and social care. what is your solution? well, clearly we do need more money. and to have a hypothicated, tax, ringfenced seems a sensible way forward. also, i think we should be looking at 1% for income tax, to look and urgently address the funding crisis. money isn't the whole answer, of course, you have very, very expensive health systems, such as the american health systems, such as the american