and also reynolds ranil jayawardena.adam, what have you found out from searching around the internet? >> well, there's a lot of this going around at the moment. so the likes of guido fawkes wokeist charlotte gill was on the channel earlier today. procurement files. everyone is digging into this stuff and we're going to talk about the crown prosecution service specifically because a written answer by lord ponsonby in parliament reveals the crown prosecution service has 27 staff who are permitted to undertake diversity related network time dunng diversity related network time during their core working hours. there is no and there are eight staff networks allocated to this. overall, there's no specific specified maximum percentage of work time to spend on this network activity, but the maximum allocated to any one individual in this financial yearis individual in this financial year is 177 hours and 2425. there are three over 3000 hours allocated in total. so we approached the cps for comment about this. is this an effectiv

i'm joined by sir ranil jayawardena and joe just ordinary joe phillips. i'm very sorry about that. that's all right. david. you were heavily involved in the brexit negotiations for many years. what's going on? >> well, firstly there's a degree of labour naivety about this. they think of europe as a good thing. they're all intrinsically remainers. they're a couple of honourable exceptions, but the vast majority are intrinsically remainers. they'd love to be back in. and so they're going to be fairly weak willpower, shall we say, in this exercise, they'll get pressed. they'll get pressed on fishing rights. they'll get pressed on free movement, or at least free movement, or at least free movement for young people, which will grow. they'll get pressed on the european court of justice, because we'll get sucked in and sucked in, and then they'll say, there's only one thing that can arbitrate this. >> one could argue, david, that if the conservatives had actually taken us away from more eu law, it would be much more difficult to get close again. >> not really. i mean, look, i think the i

paddy ashdown, the former, the late lib dem leader and of course, sir ranil jayawardena, a former torynd a minister. welcome both. but to you first, jo white, if i can get your reaction straight away to that top of the news there. 11 councillors suspended over that whatsapp group. what's your reaction? >> well, i think they deserve to go. i have obviously don't know what they said, but clearly they crossed a line. that whatsapp group was set up in 2009 during the trigger ballot post process. >> called trigger me timbers. >> called trigger me timbers. >> exactly, yeah. >> exactly, yeah. >> so that's why. >> so that's why. >> yes, it's a play on words. and so under jeremy corbyn, and so underjeremy corbyn, every mp had to go through a trigger ballot process and andrew gwynne i understand, was under threat. and so he tried to set up a group of supporters. supporters friends. yes. and so he felt in that environment he could cross the line and he was holding them in. i believe this is my interpretation with jokes and attacks on members of the public. >> trying to get them all jolly along, a