, the parliamentary labour party, the parliamentary labour party who will not support this. aspects where we managed to succeed. the bottom line is that there are sufficient numbers of conservative mps prepared to rebel and offset however many labour mps... and offset however many labour mps. .. to and offset however many labour mps... to back and offset however many labour mps. .. to back a and offset however many labour mps... to back a new and offset however many labour mps. .. to back a new labour amendment. surely this is bigger than party politics. if there is a chance of 260 labour mps plus the conservative rebels rebelling against their own government then surely you should be, as a prominent labourmp, be surely you should be, as a prominent labour mp, be saying that things have shifted now with this new proposal by labour. come on board. this is bigger than party. but it is not a new proposal. it is a restate m e nt not a new proposal. it is a restatement of existing policy and also exactly the same as the announced policy from the government which is full access to

. >> and another point of uncertainty of course is that we have part of the parliamentary tory party who may vote with labourlso have opposition from the house of lords. to come back to your question, investors are looking at this and of uncertainty and find incapable to make investment decisions based on what will happen on brexit outcomes. we don't know what the government doesn't know itself. anna: what does the pound risk on brexit? bythe pound is more driven expectations of the bank of england. weak first-quarter economic data, notably in the service sector. the service sector pmi has recovered. that has driven it vacations at the bank -- that the bank of -- that has driven expectations that the bank of england will raise rates. and improvements in inflation could either stop or reverse, given what has happened to commodity prices and with the weakness in the pound against the u.s. dollar over the last two months. expectations at the bank of england will raise rates. i think they have to raise rates. it is supported for the pound. we have very strong support, irrespective of the brexit outcomes. towards

parliamentary votes on brexit. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, announced new proposals to ensure all hospitality workers receive 100% of their tips, if his partyiven to staff by customers. he claims any eventual changes could affect around 2 million people across the uk. mr corbyn announced the new proposals on gratuities from a conference centre in southport, in the north west of england. he told us why he thinks these proposals are important. some employers take the tips away, or don't pay them fairly to the staff, or in some cases take out an administration fee, or even a credit card fee. what we're saying is we'll legislate to make sure every restaurant worker gets their fair share of the tips that we all give when we go into a restaurant. it seems to me just a basic piece of fairness and justice. amy bjork is a former waitress who told me about her situation. i've been working in a very popular american restaurant chain for about, almost two years now. and when i first started, i was reassured that 100% of my tips would go to me, and me alone. however it was in practise that we would tip about 10% to the bartenders and 10% to the serving

let's talk to the labour mp paul flynn, who is the joint chair of the all—party parliamentary group for are listened to — and sarah wootton, from the campaign group dignity in dying. thank you all forjoining. paul flynn, i want to start with you. when you saw this report, when you read it, did you have any idea of the scale of what was quite an? no, it was a great shock, and it will send fear, certainly to my generation — i'm over 80 —— the scale of what was going on. we have to put trust in those looking after us, and that trust is probably properly placed, but this is a terrifying example of people who have died because of overdoses supplied to them. we are dealing with people who were taking a drug thatis with people who were taking a drug that is extremely dangerous, and it seemed to be used in a way that is cavalier, and shorten the lives of these people. people in this small hospital, all these people that were involved. it is a huge number of people to have their lives shortened ina way people to have their lives shortened in a way that seemed to be either incompetent or worse. w