norman smith ‘ now, thank you. norman smith at for now, thank you. norman smith at westminster.ueen has marked maundy thursday by taking part in the ancient ceremony of distributing commemorative coins to pensioners. the presentation of the money took place during the royal maundy service at st george's chapel, windsor castle. time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich. the signs are not too bad for the start of the easter getaway. thing is not looking too bad at the moment. in places, some sunshine. that was nottinghamshire early on. not like that everywhere. showers spreading in from the south. dorset looking pretty soggy. the afternoon, showers continuing to drift in from the south, some heavy with pale and thunder, still showers of rain, sleet and hill snow across scotland. in between, dry weather and sunshine. this evening and tonight, the rain will continue to drift north, could be sleet and wet snow mixed in over higher ground, wintry showers in the north—east of scotland. clear spells in between. quite a chilly night. not as cold as last night. the long weekend, tho

norman smith. anti—semitism in the labour party. in parliament square and an angry meeting of backbenchersn't see it as a serious issue. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, has the story. and a warning that his report contains flash photography. morning, mr corbyn. is under pressure. to tackle anti—semitism. shame on you! enough is enough. within labour and the leadership has not done enough. an image you may find offensive has reignited the row. well—known stereotypes of jews was being removed. i don't, actually. do not understand the seriousness of this problem. i think, up to now at least, they haven't really got it. in an open letter, mr corbyn addressed the issue head on. he wrote... up until that date. hasn't been quick enough. you should be ashamed of yourselves. doubly ashamed, if you are jewish. at what they see as an unjustified attack on the labour leader. i regret the extent to which he has gone on apologising. in the labour party. jeremy corbyn has offered to meetjewish leaders. we're told they're considering a response. leadership councils say words are no longer eno

damian grammaticas and norman smith. damian grammaticas and norman smith.to begin at half past one. as soon as that gets under way we will carry it on the bbc news channel. our top story this lunchtime: snow, ice and strong winds and now the threat of floods. widespread disruption continues across the uk. and still to come... the orchestra stranded in the snow who made sure it was a special white wedding. coming up in sport: great britain's katarina johnson thompson has started her bid for gold at the world indoor athletics championships in birmingham. people are being exposed on a daily basis to a cocktail of pollution, including light and noise pollution, which is having a significant impact on their health. that's the warning from england's chief medical officer. dame sally davies says a lot is known about the impact on the environment, but isn't properly understood when it comes to human sickness. our health correspondent dominic hughes reports. the impact of serious air pollution on a condition such as asthma is well understood, but what is less clear

norman smith, thanks very much.om a car found in a river in cardigan. kiara moore died in hospital after being pulled out the car in the river teifi. tomos morgan is in cardigan for us now. cardigan isa cardigan is a town in mourning today. young families and their children have been laying flowers and balloons at the side of the river here where the car went in to the river teifi. in the back, toddler kiara moore who later died of her injuries in hospital. kiara moore, just two years old, had it not been for the tragic events of yesterday afternoon, she would have been celebrating her third birthday a week today. mid—afternoon on monday, dyfed—powys police were contacted about a missing silver mini in cardigan, west wales. it had been last seen in the centre of town near the river around 330. police issued an appeal for witnesses. later they found the car in the river teifi outside the offices of the family business. it later transpired kiara was in the back of the car as it went into the river, a 30 emergency serv

norman smith, thank you. after admitting failures that led to the deaths of two patients. the failings relate to the cases of an 18—year—old who had epilepsy and drowned in a bath at a care unit in 2013, and a 45—year—old who died after she was found unconscious at a mental health hospital in hampshire in 2012. michael buchanan reports. connor had learning disabilities, autism and epilepsy. the reason he is dead, however, is because of neglect by the nhs. the 18—year—old had an epileptic seizure while staying at a southern health assessment unit in 2013. his family we re assessment unit in 2013. his family were in court to hear the trust fined more than £1 million from multiple failings. no one should die a preventable death in the care of the state. learning that disabled people should not be dying 20 years on average before their non—disabled peers. if connor was here now in the shadow of oxford crown court he would say, why, mum? and i would have to say, i don't know but we have to say, i don't know but we

norman smith at westminster. distributing commemorative coins to pensioners. the presentation of the money took place during the royal maundy service at st george's chapel, windsor castle. time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich. the signs are not too bad for the start of the easter getaway. thing is not looking too bad at the moment. in places, some sunshine. that was nottinghamshire early on. not like that everywhere. showers spreading in from the south. dorset looking pretty soggy. the afternoon, showers continuing to drift in from the south, some heavy with pale and thunder, still showers of rain, sleet and hill snow across scotland. in between, dry weather and sunshine. this evening and

let's talk about what borisjohnson norman smith.t what boris johnson buzzing, norman smith. let's talk about what borisjohnson buzzing, the diplomacy surrounding these expulsions and the support for the uk's actions. surrounding these expulsions and the support for the uk's actionslj think support for the uk's actions.” think ministers will be hugely encouraged by the language we are now hearing from the united states and the un overnight and also crucially from the french president, following a telephone contribution weather they minister. one spokesman said britain was guilty of fantasy politics and failing to provide evidence to absolutely prove that russia was responsible for the poisonings. well, now we are told that president emmanuel macron com pletely that president emmanuel macron completely shares the uk's assessment that there is no plausible explanation other than russia was responsible. i think president macron himself has suggested it will look at measures of support in the next few days. in terms of the evidence, bori

norman smith in westminster. 0ne much indeed norman. norman smith in westminster.ireland correspondent emma vardy is in warrenpoint on the irish border. this idea of no hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland is proving incredibly contentious and a very difficult to solve. how people there are viewing it? exactly the question of the irish border continues to be an obstacle in the brexit talks, there is continuing uncertainty for people here on both sides of this border. in particular it affects business owners and people who work in the farming, food and agriculture sectors. that is because their livelihoods on both sides of the border depend on good —— on goods being able to move freely between north and south and vice versa. the uk has said its preferred option is to strike that comprehensive free trade deal with the eu but until that happens people on the war certain about how arrangements could work in future and of course any increase in bureaucracy and checks in future could lead to delays and could hit their business is now that we a

corbyn and his spokesman refusing to say this explicitly yesterday. 0ur assistant political editor, norman smithver his stance on the commons yesterday, when he appeared to raise questions about the reliability of the evidence which pointed to the russians being behind the salisbury attack. one of those mps has expressed concern is the labour chairman of the backbench foreign affairs committee of labour mps, john woodcock. your concern over mr corbyn's stance is what? actually, i'm really pleased that the overwhelming majority of labour mps and all other members of parliament are now absolutely firmly in support of the government position and acknowledging the full culpability, unquestionable culpability of russia. as you have seen that from nearly all party leaders and now very helpfully, i think, from our own shadow defence secretary. so, look, iwould like mr corbyn to make clear that he now accepts that analysis, which the overwhelming majority of also the international community are also behind the uk now. he is obviously a very influential figure and there are many people who take their lea

let's talk to norman smith who is in the lobby outside. likely, norman, the lobby outside.an make his arguments about ending us territory. following that announcement from theresa may yesterday about a much longer term plan for the nhs, extra funding, it seems to be an area he may want to try and probe to get more details out of her and challenger of what on earth is going to happen to social care. bearing in mind that tomorrow is one year i dub blast off on brexit day, anything would not be surprised if there is a view questions about brexit. maybe some mps will want to pick up on the report yesterday about immigration controls and the concerns of business about curbs on the number of eu migrants wanting to come to britain. we have heard from the home secretary this morning that we are not going to get an immigration white paper until after the government has had agreed the final trade deal with the eu in september. a lot of criticism about how the can that be possible, be glad we have final deal but we've know what our emigration plans will be like. let's get in and see h

jonathan blake, bbc news. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith is at downing street. is likely to be getting? i think he will get a pretty frosty reception, not just i think he will get a pretty frosty reception, notjust because of the freezing weather but because relations, you sense, have cooled between brussels and london, with a marked hardening of attitudes and language over recent days, with that war of words yesterday over brussels' proposals for the northern ireland border. and this morning you sense mr tusk almost upping the ante, saying before he got on the train to come here that there was no prospect of mrs may getting a frictionless trade deal so long as we we re frictionless trade deal so long as we were intent on leaving the single market and the customs union, and demanding mrs may set out her plans for northern ireland and insisting that eu leaders would not put pressure on their negotiators, they we re pressure on their negotiators, they were fully behind them. you get the feeling the pressure is really being ratcheted up on mrs may, was also at the

that was discussed in pmqs. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith is in westminster for us now.rong but my colleagues were spot—on suggesting he'd go on saudi arabia. why? it's an issue mr corbyn has been very vocal about, where other politicians perhaps have them there so. politicians perhaps have them there so. mr corbyn did indeed tackle mrs may over the visit by the crown prince, suggesting britain was complicit in war crimes for supplying arms to saudi arabia, which were then used in yemen. that lesson. despite much talk of reform, there has been a sharp increase in the arrest and detention and dissidents, torture of prisoners is,, human rights are sentenced to lengthy prison terms for unfair trials and executions are widespread as amnesty international confirmed. as she makes her arms sales pitch, will she also call on the crown prince to halt the shocking abuse of human rights in saudi arabia? mrs may replied by pointing to the fa ct mrs may replied by pointing to the fact britain is the third biggest donor when it comes to humanitarian aid. to yemen. i welcome, i am forw

our assistant political editor, norman smith, is following everything at westminster.nes. it is because while at first glance this looks like a bucket of cold water being poured over mrs may, with the eu rejecting, rebirthing or ignoring all the sort of emollient language and compromises offered by mrs may last week suggesting that we could stay in some eu agencies, we would be happy to pay and observe eu standards, we would stick by some eu rules and there would be no race to the bottom. that has all been rejected and at first glance, you say that looks like a blow to the solar plexus for mrs may. talking to downing street folk, they say that this is only a draft text, it is early days, we hope the eu will respond more imaginatively and creatively, and they‘ re respond more imaginatively and creatively, and they're great hope is that eu leaders in individual european capitals will be much more receptive to the sort of hand of friendship being reached out by mrs may and will be much more willing to doa may and will be much more willing to do a deal. why? self—interest,

we can discuss what we have been watching. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith is at westminsterhilip, and —— hammond said about being tiggerish is not something you would normally associate with him. he pointed to a revised growth in jobs that is continued —— expected to continue and inflation has returned to target levels and crucially debt and deficit are in a much better place. it struck me that while he fairly successfully lowered expectations of any big announcements today, he has fuelled expectations for some big giveaways in the budget, in part because of that very tiggerish and the glowing assessment of the economy which will inevitably fuel demands from mps for more money to be made available for the health service and everything in the health service and everything in the local budget. he pretty much seemed to give a nod and a wink to the fact that he was on the market to splash the cash in the autumn, by saying he would set out a new path for public spending in the autumn and if the economy was still performing as it is now then there would be more money for investmen

in a moment — we'll speak to our assistant political editor norman smith who is in westminster but firstlth correspondent catherine burns who is outside the headquarters of the unison union in central london — catherine, how likely is it this offer will be accepted? that's the big question. that is over to nhs staff. it is the start of the consultation which will go on until the end of may and report back injune. that's when we find out whether they have accepted it. if they have, they will see the money injuly pay packets backdated to april. if is a really big question. the gmb union is not recommending it to its members. other unions are more positive. some things will be attractive, progression through pay grades. a newly qualified at the moment would take seven years to get to the top grade, this would change to the top grade, this would change to four years. the sides admit this is a compromise and i asked the union unison what they have compromised on and the answer was money. they would have liked more money. they would have liked more money. they would have liked more money. the

our assistant political editor norman smith is in westminster.e plans make a difference for young people struggling to buy a home? i don't think anyone believes a consultation on rewriting the planning rules is of itself going to solve our housing crisis which is becoming something of a national scandal. ministers today pointed out the ratio between the cost of a house and average salaries is now worse in britain than anywhere else in the developed world. there is a certain familiarity to a lot of what we heard today. i have lost count of the number of prime ministers who pledged to tackle the housing crisis, talking about stripping down the planning rules, turning up the heat on local councils, putting the screws on developers and again today we have had the same familiar response. local councils saying do not blame us, we approve nine out of ten planning applications, give us the money to build and we will do it. developers are saying when we buy land we don't wa nt are saying when we buy land we don't want to sit on it, we would like to develo

our europe correspondent damian grammaticas in brussels but first our assistant political editor norman smithtminster. exceptionally strong language from the russian ambassador, just listening to him in the last few minutes really. we seem to be locked into an increasingly charged confrontation, not just into an increasingly charged confrontation, notjust the comments made by the russian ambassador or borisjohnson, but made by the russian ambassador or boris johnson, but the made by the russian ambassador or borisjohnson, but the prime minister tonight will tell eu leaders britain and the european union are facing a threat from russia for years to come and that russia for years to come and that russia is now our strategic enemy, citing the salisbury attack as the latest in a series of aggressive moves by russia and crimea, ukraine, shooting down of the malaysian airline, cyber warfare, interference in western elections, almost in the hope she can almostjolt the eu into accepting the scale of the challenge we now face from russia at a time when many eu countries seem to have a somewhat ambival

in a moment, we'll get reaction from westminster with our assistant political editor, norman smith. to brussels and our europe editor, damian grammaticas. your thoughts on what has happened today and the kind of framework it now provides going forward?” today and the kind of framework it now provides going forward? i think the significant thing today is this overarching political agreement, conditional agreement, and that is an important word, conditional, which sets out the transition period. so it isjust a which sets out the transition period. so it is just a year away and the uk and the eu have agreed broadly what will happen after brexit in the year's time, and that is almost two years, 21 months of continued access to the single market, customs union, all the participation in that, which means businesses and people can plan ahead, which is what the business community in the uk and eu side had wanted. so that is a significant thing. but when you look at the detail to do that, what the uk government has done is agree to largely the timetable, the conditions that the eu side had a

our assistant political editor, norman smith, is in westminster., how significant is it? i think any way you slice it it is a significant moment because we now have an end date for the final departure from all existing eu rules and regulations, december 2020, and you can probably hear the sighs of relief echoing around large part of westminster and the business community because it gives us a buffer zone. for business, 21 months in which to get used to life outside a single bucket and for government time to put in place new procedures in terms of customs policy and trade policy, immigration policy and to try to solve some of the remaining fundamental difficulties in particularly the issue around the northern ireland border. it is another key plank in the road to brexit. we had the withdrawal agreement in december and now agreement in december and now agreement on transition. the difficulty is the price that has had to be paid and for many brexiteers, they ponder whether it is too high. they don't like the fact that during this transition period we

let us speak to norman smith now.credible and realistic and practical, so there will be some detail about parts of the british economy which the british government will be ok to still be aligned to, for example, the eu standards, they will be details on those areas where we will continue to operate regarding the eu regulatory bodies but the really significant thing will be that horn and what we will get is in effect a sign that the era of cake eating is over, at least in terms of negotiations, we will not pretend that we can have our cake and eat it but instead acknowledge the principles of the eu around the single market and the red lines. in other words, we will tell them that we understand where they are coming from and take it on board and will you now see was look at this package of proposals that we are putting forward today? interestingly, today we have from the foreign secretary borisjohnson in we have from the foreign secretary boris johnson in budapest we have from the foreign secretary borisjohnson in budap

lets talk to norman smith. take us through these five tests.f brexit she will deliver. she said she will respect the results of the referendum and there will be a permanent deal so we won't be going back to the negotiating table next year. it will bea negotiating table next year. it will be a deal protecting prosperity and livelihood and it will be a deal which tries to bring everyone together. so far, so simple. the really difficult part of her speech todayis really difficult part of her speech today is trying to convince eu leaders that we should now move on to negotiating those crucial trade talks. because at the moment, both sides seem to be shouting past each other. and i think the core message from theresa may to eu leaders is going to be the cake eating, we will. all that. we're not going to carry on helping ourselves to huge chunks of cake because we know you find that an acceptable. we will listen to what you are saying, take on board your red lines, listen to issues that matter to you and we will not assume we can have everything we w

we are joined by our political guru, norman smith, who will help us make sense of it.?|j smith, who will help us make sense of it. where are we at? i think we have reached the moment where you listen to theresa may, the government, they are more comps —— confident. now you get the sense they are much more confident they can make it happen. if you think back, there were question marks about whether theresa may could survive, whether the party would split, whether the brexiteers would go on the war path. basically they have hung together and i think theresa may, a bit like the old story about the rabbit under her, the porters under her! remind. you get boris made, the hare, galloping away. theresa may is the tortoise. she got parliament to agree to article 50 and then she got everyone to agree to the divorce bill, then the arrangements, transitional agreement, she slowly, slowly grinds her way on and if you talk to folk in downing street now, they are much more confident, that they will get a deal, and that brexit will happen. that said, if you say, ok, what are you goin

let's talk to norman smith and westminster.to which this has becoming a row aboutjeremy to which this has becoming a row about jeremy corbyn, the to which this has becoming a row aboutjeremy corbyn, the leader, the man himself and the politics he has houses. 0n the one hand, you have the british board of deputies and the british board of deputies and the jewish the british board of deputies and thejewish leadership the british board of deputies and the jewish leadership council take the jewish leadership council take the view that mr cobb and boult far left worldview —— mr corbyn. has given breathing space to anti—semitic views within the labour party, and against that you have mr cobb and's supporters who believe this is a row stoked up by mr corbyn's critics, to undermine his leadership and it would appear it is also opening bitter divisions within the jewish community also opening bitter divisions within thejewish community itself, because one pro—corbyn group have now contacted the british board of deputies for selective sy

norman smith is in downing street.? dollar tusk is arriving for lunch andi dollar tusk is arriving for lunch and i don't think it will be one of the most convivial messages —— lunches. because of the language between brussels and london over the past 24 hours, in particular over the proposals for the northern ireland border which have incensed many at westminster and led mrs may to say no british prime minister could ever sign off on matt. also because donald tusk seems to be doubling down on brussels saying that the british government, no chance of getting a frictionless deal. if you are outside the currency union, which is one of mrs may's redlines. donald tusk saying don't expect eu leaders to put pressure on the european negotiators. we are fully behind them. it is the issue of northern ireland where i think sparks will fly. donald tusk has said that the eu has spelt out its solution which isa eu has spelt out its solution which is a common regulatory area. what is your solution? that is what he would be saying to

let's go to westminster now and our assistant political editor, norman smith.al edition that donald trump has taken, theresa may will see a fight of his supporters —— important she gets the support of eu leaders here. downing street are clear they are not going to get any additional sanctions or diplomatic expulsions by other eu countries, at least not tonight. her ambition is to get the beefed up statement. that is not in a way all that tonight is about. i think what mrs may is hoping is almost to use tonight as a form of shock therapy for eu leaders to try and jolt them into realising the scale of the threat that the british government believes russia 110w british government believes russia now poses. there is a view that many eu countries, they have a brother equivocal view of president putin. many are heavily dependent on russia for energy supplies. perhaps there isa for energy supplies. perhaps there is a view this is predominantly a british problem because we have large numbers of russian emigres, often vigorous opponents of president putin. the hope of m

joining us now is our political guru norman smith. relocate to europe, some might even go bust. some might even go bust. and it seems it is not because of wages, it is because of attitude. wages, it is because of attitude. ready to do overtime, take less sick leave, less absenteeism. leave, less absenteeism. migrants have a depressing effect on wages of uk workers. wages of uk workers. europe, they get paid quite a lot less, 27% less than eu workers. less, 27% less than eu workers. trying to restrict the number of eu workers coming here. workers coming here. norman, thank you very much. people from our key employment industries. from passion capital which invests in technology companies. from nhs employers is here. 200 eu nationals. attitude being the big thing here, the big difference. the big difference. best talent in what is a globally competitive market. competitive market. million people, and quite a lot of those are non—uk nationals. those are non—uk nationals. they can get the best of the talent from britain. from britain. and

let's talk to our assistant political editor norman smith... likely to be? we know the range that theresa may is thought to be looking out, they include expelling russian diplomats based in london after the murder of alexander litvinenko four diplomats were expelled, so i think we can expect considerably more to be booted out this time. there are also likely to be acid freezes, travel bans on those closely associated with president putin. and some suggestions that perhaps the broadcasting licence for rte may be revoked, i think that is less likely, it would be a gift for president putin in propaganda terms of he was able to say that the west was shutting down russian broadcasters and he has threatened to retaliate against british media in russia but the key is a more long—term range of measures which will require international backing from organisations like the eu, also looking to america. 0r from organisations like the eu, also looking to america. or at an further sanctions. that may take an awful lot longer to put in place. although followin

military research facility at porton down are examining an "unknown substance". 0ur political guru norman smith from contamination and hearfrom the security services to try and build up security services to try and build upa security services to try and build up a broader picture of the scale of the threat. but crucial i imagine to today's meeting will be whether there is any information about the poison that was used. that seems to be the key next step in trying to establish who was responsible for this. 0nce establish who was responsible for this. once you know the poison, then you can begin to work out where it came from and who may have had access and who would have been able to use it and how it was transported and build up a bigger picture, which enables you to start putting together who might be responsible. so the key thing i imagine the home secretary will want to know is whether there is any outcome on the toxicology reports. the indicates so far is this may still take some time. that may still be having to wait for the results of toxicology reports. that means the diplomatic response

we'll cross to the house of commons for prime ministers questions. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith 29% depending where you work in the nhs over three years. i am not surprised because when i spoke to some of the union people early this morning i expected them to see it looks like a good deal but bill in mind this and that. there are strings attached full stop we did not get any other delights crossed to the commons. tomorrow marks the one—year anniversary of the westminster terrorist attack. it was a sick and depraved attack on the streets of capital but what i remember most is the exceptional bravery of our police and security services. they risked their lives to keep us safe. i know members will be attending the events tomorrow and over the weekend to mark this tragic anniversary. i'm sure the whole house will wish to join me in expressing absence and condolences to the family and friends of the red arrows engineer tragically died in the aircraft incident yesterday. i know members will also wish tojoin incident yesterday. i know members will also wish to join me in congratulating

our assistant political editor norman smith is in westminster.tion is the government considering? the government considering? the government has already lined up a series of measures. alongside the expulsion of these 23 diplomats, spiders and their families, expulsion of these 23 diplomats, spiders and theirfamilies, the government is also looking at fresh anti—espionage legislation. to see whether amber rudd needed additional powers. legislation which would make it easierfor british powers. legislation which would make it easier for british border guards to stop suspects coming into the uk. they are looking at getting more information on people coming in on flights. they are going to introduce amendments to money—laundering legislation. there are already a range of additional measures which the government has flagged up which are in the pipeline. the question is whether ministers decide whether they have to go even further because russia has escalated its response by, as well as expelling the 23 british diplomats, also closing down the british c

norman smith is in westminster. richard, what reaction in russia to what president trump has said?een another briefing by the foreign ministry spokeswoman in which she has said that the idea that russia is behind the poisoning is insane and she is saying the truth behind the skripal poisoning is being hidden by the british authorities and she is of course saying they are working on retaliatory measures, we do not know when they will be implemented, but certainly they are working on them, and the widespread assumption is they will be tit—for—tat, 23 spies, russian spies, are going to be expeued russian spies, are going to be expelled from london and the expectation is british diplomats in moscow and those deemed to be spies are likely to be expelled. and possibly further measures mirroring what the british government has announced. it is interesting the development of the international community, western powers, rallying behind theresa may and britain. we have seen the un, a lot of state m e nts have seen the un, a lot of statements expressing solidarity, including from nato, and th

our political guru norman smith is in westminster. not so this time. it could be a bit of a damp squib. who says so? the chancellor, philip hammond, has already announced he is not being to making any big tax giveaway announcements, there are knocking to be any spending commitments, he will not have a red box. there will not be a drum roll before he gets up to deliver his statement, which has worked a number of people because for the first time ina long of people because for the first time in a long time we have a budget surplus. that is to say, each month we get more cash in in taxes that we pay out in various government expenditure. you have to go back until 2001, the last time we had a budget surplus. that has fuelled calls for an end to austerity. and end to the squeeze on public sector pay, trying to find more cash for social care and hospitals. will the chancellor end austerity? almost certainly not. that's notjust because he thinks today is not the moment to do it, today is just reporting on the state of the economy. but also b

norman smith can tell us more. what do we know about the deal?y above the public sector pay cap of 1% peryearand is way above the public sector pay cap of 1% per year and seems to mark the death knell of the public sector pay cap which nurses and others in the public sector have had to endure for eight years, two years of the pay freeze and six years of the cap so they have seen their wages pressed down. now they get this three—year deal, 3% this year, to present the following year and 1% in the final year. the interesting thing, most of the money will go to the lowest paid in the nhs. there will be rises for those on hand one, the worst paid, people like cleaners and porters, some of them will get up and porters, some of them will get up to 29% over three years, a whopping rise. there will also be a rise in starting salaries for those coming into the nhs. to give you a sense of what it means in real money, for some porters earning around 15,000, their salaries will go around 15,000, their salaries will 9° up around 15,000, their salaries will go

our assistant political editor, norman smith — in westminster — was watching the exchange.or mental health and extra funding for other services. since november, my right honourable friend the chancellor of the exchequer has announced an extra £10 billion which is going into at our nhs. mental health affects us all and it is welcome that there is now much less stigma surrounding it. however, our nhs is in crisis. the crisis is particularly acute in mental health services. despite legislating for parity of esteem the government has failed to fund it. the exchanges between theresa may and jeremy corbyn. let‘s start on the mental health row as such. jeremy corbyn says there is a crisis in mental health, do you think is right? we heard the prime minister say moorehead people are accessing services than before. i think she said 1400 more people a day accessing the service. and that is coming through number of different routes, not just nurses, coming through number of different routes, notjust nurses, we have a lot of better mental health support into schools for example. i have

let's talk to norman smith, what is the latest?risis forjeremy corbyn, what the british board of deputies and other groups are saying is that it isjeremy corbyn himself, because of his political views, who is giving cover to anti—semites within the party, in other words he is part of the problem and that's notjust because of his association with groups like his brother, it's notjust because they feel he has failed to tackle incidents of anti—semitism. it's because of what they call the far left world which others take as coverfor left world which others take as cover for berglund anti—semitic and anti israel comments. this morning he was given a chance to say something but he passes up that opportunity as he comes out of his

the united states have issued a joint statement about the attack our assistant political editor norman smithtminster this will be seen as significant, despite the bulge and other russian diplomats and the other measures announced, it was widely held in westminster that there is a limit to what britain can do on its own and if they want to really punish president vladimir putin, they must pull together a broad coalition of international countries. that appears to be taking shape with this joint statement from britain, the united states, germany and france, condemning russia, in very forthright terms, let me give you some of the statement: i agree it is highly likely that russia was responsible, we share the uk assessment that there is no plausible alternative explanation, it goes on to say, we call on russia to address all questions related to the attack in salisbury, russia should in particular provide full and complete disclosure of the novichok programme, the nerve agent involved, and concerns are heightened against the background of a pattern of earlier irresponsible russian behaviour. of

our assistant political editor, norman smith, is at westminster.ar the prime minister talk about something that isn't brexit, is that parts of her strategy do you think to show that she isn't solely occupied with the question of leaving the european union? i think you got a sense of that when she was asked by vicki young about brexit, she said, of course, the bbc asking about brexit. this is part of her non—brexit agenda. at the party conference she said it was her mission. today we got a bit more detail about her approach to tackling the housing crisis. the two key strands are to put the squeeze on developers, but the squeeze on local councils by saying if you sit on land with planning permission and you don't build that will be taken into account the next time you want to apply for land to develop and saying to local authorities, unless you come up with realistic proposals for building a sufficient number of houses, unless you do that, we will sendin houses, unless you do that, we will send in an independent inspector to ta ke send in an independ

thank you very much, norman smith. from within the administration and from outside. relationship withared void. claimed to have had an affair with mr trump in 2006 and 2007. had a relationship. economic advisor, gary cohn, has announced his resignation. of the administration's huge package of tax cuts. and aluminium imports. from president trump's team. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes has more. departure from the trump white house. house. gary cohn had been there from a start, seen as a moderate it. a start, seen as a moderate it. links with goldman sachs helped push through tax reforms. through tax reforms. announced his plan to impose tariffs on aluminium and steel imports. on aluminium and steel imports. we're going to be instituting tariffs. it has been... statement, gary cohn gave no hint of his frustration. his frustration. praised him as a rare talent and thanked him for his service.... conflict and people around him with different points of view. different points of view. he wasn't concerned about filling topjobs. he wasn't concerned about filling top jobs. he wasn