another thing rachel reeves said was that i thing rachel reeves said was that she had found it extraordinarily of being a traitor to her party. has it been painfulfor you? quite a left—wing student, as i recall, to be accused of being a traitor betraying your party? ida. be accused of being a traitor betraying your party? no. the betra al betraying your party? no. the betrayal is _ betraying your party? no. the betrayal is if _ betraying your party? no. the betrayal is if our _ betraying your party? no. the betrayal is if our party - betraying your party? no. the betrayal is if our party doesn'tj betraying your party? no. the i betrayal is if our party doesn't win an election. i didn't come into politics to talk about betrayal and to have internal fights politics to talk about betrayal and to have internalfights in the labour party. i came into politics to change lives in germany changed lives by going into power. in my first year as an mp i voted 172 times and we lost hundred and 71. now, you can tweet about it and you get lots of likes, you can pat yourself on the back and say brilliant. but

rachel reeves, thank you very much- — evening. rachel reeves, thank you very much. thank _ evening.eaking to our business correspondent, emma simpson, and told her the move will make lidl the highest paying supermarket in the uk. we are announcing a wage increase for all of our front line colleagues who work in stores and warehouses which will take the minimum pay from £9.50 per hour to £10.10 an hour. that represents an investment of £18 million in ourfront line colleagues which is the biggest ever wage investment that we have made in the uk. how difficult is it to recruit staff right now? very difficult, i�*ll be absolutely honest with you. we are competing for talent with all the other retailers and indeed, other industries. part of the reason for the announcement is to secure our staff who are with us and retain them as much as possible but also attract anyone else would like to come and join this fantastic team in a supermarket that is expanded massively. will you be able to absorb this pay increase or will some of it be passed on to shoppers? we pride ourselves on being dynami

another thing rachel reeves said was that she had found it extraordinarily painful when she was ratherme in that chair, when she was accused of being a traitor to her party. has it been painfulfor you? quite a left—wing student, as i recall, to be accused of being a traitor betraying your party? no. the betrayal is if our party doesn't win an election. i didn't come into politics to talk about betrayal and to have internal fights in the labour party. i came into politics to change lives in germany changed lives by going into power. in my first year as an mp i voted 172 times and we lost hundred and 71. now, you can tweet about it and you get lots of likes, you can pat yourself on the back and say brilliant. but if you lose every vote pretty well every day in parliament, you not change anybody�*s life at all. that sense is where your very different from jeremy corbyn. you're also, to make about the obvious point, rather different from borisjohnson. you accused him recently of corruption. in effect. he is up to his neck in this. it is corrupt of one of your mps gets caught repeatedly bre

in her recent speech, rachel reeves, my brilliant shadow chancellor, made her commitment to fiscal disciplineur five fiscal rules made it plain that we will never spend moneyjust for the sake of it. we really don't think that the solution to every problem is to throw cash at it. and, just as everyone of you scrutinises the cost side of your business, constantly asking if investments are paying off, we will do the same on behalf of the taxpaying public. the problem we face today is that we have no industrial strategy, no business plan, the budget, the recent budget was an opportunity to address that. and remake britain. but it was an opportunity that was missed. in your chairman own words, he said it isn't bold enough to deliver the high high productivity economy the government seeks. i think putting a cap on investment as the government has, is a false economy. it is a cap on ambition and a cap on productivity. and there is nothing that suggests a government netting to grips with the scale of the challenge, and you can see all around what happens when a government has no plan, it's happening

so, a reminder, we have will reeve and congressional correspondent rachel scott back at the desk this morning. >>> but we'll get to the news as we have a busy day as we wrap up thanksgiving weekend. we may be heading into a new concerning phase of the pandemic. cases of the so-called omicron variant already recorded in at least eight countries, the latest australia. >> many health officials fear it could be even more contagious than delta, but they caution more study is needed. many countries already tightening covid restrictions, notably israel, announcing plans to close its borders to foreign nationals for two weeks. the uk tightening rules on testing of international arrivals. >> and just hours from now, president biden's new restrictions on travelers from southern african nations will go into effect. it will limit travel from south africa and seven other countries. the makers of the pfizer vaccine say that they can create a tailor-made vaccine in 100 days to counter the omicron variant. moderna says they're already working on a booster for it. >> for the latest on the situation, l

leave but we are very excited to have will reeve back at the desk once again and for the first time anchoring weekend "gma," our congressional correspondent rachelre. usually chasing politicians, now you have to deal with us. >> lucky me. lucky me. >> i'm okay, but you're the best. so glad to be with you. >> go easy on me, guys. >> we'll do our best. we promise. we'll have a lot of fun. we have a busy morning here. >>> so let's get right to the news, and we start with that covid variant raising concerns around the world. >> the so-called omicron variant first identified in south africa is leading multiple countries, including the u.s., to impose new travel restrictions. the variant has many mutations that health officials are working to investigate, but it is still not known if it is more transmissible or causes more severe illness. >>> wall street taking a hit on the news, the dow plunging more than 900 points, this as new covid-19 cases and hospitalizations in the u.s. are both up about 10% in the last week. abc's elwyn lopez is at cdc headquarters in atlanta with the latest. elwyn, good morning. >> reporter: hey, rachel, good morning. and tho