this is sunday morning with trevor phillips.now, it wouldn't be a labor conference without some internal battles. but with the parties seemingly set for government, the mood is buoyant as you'd expect. some though, think krista might be playing it a bit safe. as we arrive in liverpool, i was joined by sharon graham, the general secretary of unite, the country's biggest union. sharon graham, this weekend you've accused the labor leadership of miserable managerial-ism. is that anything that they could save or do that would convince you that a government wouldn't be just warmed over blair-ism? >> i'm the leader of -- were not a branch of the labour party. i run a union. and my absolute fundamental job when i wake up in the morning is deliver for working people. and so, if it's uncomfortable for me to be raising issue like the renationalization and aegean's deal oil and gas, then i'm not embarrassed by that because that's my job to do it. i've got to keep labor's feet to the fire of. course i want to labor government. i absolutely w

no doubt the labor conference will feature on sunday morning with trevor phillips he will interview peoplecult players like health -- and former business secretary, that is live 8:30 this morning. torrential rainfall continues to batter scotland today, those in the uk south wake up to sunny and warm conditions. parts of scotland saw a month's reign in the 24 hours to saturday evening cutting off train services, look at the pictures. ten people were also airlifted to safety after landslides blocked roads. police are saying, we are joined now by skies meteorologist. how is it possible, joan, that on one island we have two different weather fronts. it's incredible. >> well, of course the weather is the british obsession, but the reason is because it varies so much north to south even west the east. we are small island. the weather prevails from the west, we get a lot of stuff coming from the atlantic. there's a large body of land close to us in terms of the continents. high pressure there tends to brings nice warm air from the south, we've had quite an unusual situation over the past few days

welcome to sunday morning with trevor phillips.is weekend, the labor tribes gather here in liverpool, in what could be their last jamboree before a general election. their tails are up after crushing by election victories in scotland. but it isn't a labor party if there isn't a quarrel brewing. this time it's about whether labor leader should be bolder and weather has enough time to convince the voter that he has what it takes. but before we get into all that, let's turn to the grim news from israel. the ambassador to the uk joins us from good match mail now. good morning, ambassador. >> good morning, trevor. >> i can't hear you. >> if you can hear me, can you bring us up to date on what you understand to be happening on the ground right now? >> well, trevor, let's start with what happened yesterday. yesterday morning we woke up here in israel to a nightmare. london is a city that is experienced with terror attacks, london bridge attack manchester arena attack, but multiply all those terror attacks to the big numbers that create ov

and on this question of implementation, you and others, including trevor phillips, the former chair ofn rights commission, have talked about what they see as a problem, from policing to politicians, with public officials who worry that if they are too interventionist in some of these cases, they will be labelled racist. absolutely. if people see culture before they see abuse, we've got a problem. i saw that in my role at karma nirvana. i recall a police officer calling the helpline and i used to have "beggar belief" box on my emails, and this police officer rang the helpline and he said, "i'm ringing you because you deal with the cultural stuff, don't you, as an organisation?" and the call handler listened to this call and he said, "i've got a man with me, who is from an afghanistan background here in britain, who is in a full—blown relationship with a 14—year—old girl and he's telling me it's part of his culture and his religion, so i don't want to offend him. could you just tell me if that is acceptable?" so, the call handler stopped and she said, "look, can we just remove culture, t

and no doubt, labor conference will be trump sunday morning with trevor phillips. he will interview keep political players including shuttle health secretary, west reading, live from 8:30 this morning. disk a -- state with sky news. torrential rainfall continues to better scotland today. in the uk south lake up to sunny and warm conditions. prize of scotland saw months of rain and 24 hours. saturday evening, cutting off train -- airlifted to safety after landslides blocked roads. meteorologist joe wheeler. good to have you with us. we will be waking up wondering, how is it possible that in the north it is trestle rained, but down south it is warm and balmy. >> different areas of weather, pretty much. in fact, what we've got is high pressure to the north, low pressure to the south. those are blocking system. that rain belt is caught in the middle. it's also lined with the jet stream, which means there's nothing there to move that on. so, we've seen this incredible quantity of rainfall between friday night. i would say this morning. it's not gone yet. in fact, there'

there's further i mean, there's a further problem, back problem, you know, when back when that when trevor phillipssive of very extensive study of attitudes muslim attitudes among the muslim community these community in the uk to these various issues, this was for channel believe, and channel 4, i believe, and a slight majority. it's something like 52% of muslims felt like 52% of british muslims felt that homosexuality ought to be against for now. that's against the law for now. that's against the law for now. that's a mainstream view. therefore within that community, which is particularly damaging for gay muslims, ? so the idea that muslims, right? so the idea that the people flying that flag, i don't think they're even aware that a problem. i don't know. >> i don't they are. and know. >> i the 't they are. and know. >> i the 't thethey are. and know. >> i the 't the last are. and with the last the last government in israel was probably like left wing wet probably like a left wing wet dream, was just every dream, really. it was just every kind diversity going and the kind of diversity going and th

and, you know, when trevor phillips did his survey of british muslims and found that a small, slightnt thing that ought to be addressed, not for gay be addressed, not least for gay muslims, way . but muslims, by the way. but suddenly were denying it suddenly people were denying it and is just and saying, no, this is just islamophobic. and saying, no, this is just islamophobic . surely there is islamophobic. surely if there is a a community of a problem within a community of a problem within a community of a form of bigotry, it's a certain form of bigotry, it's worth addressing at the very least, rather than denying it, it is worth addressing. >> think it's also important >> i think it's also important that these people >> i think it's also important tha'part these people >> i think it's also important tha'part of these people >> i think it's also important tha'part of own lese people >> i think it's also important tha'part of own community. are part of our own community. is is nation, are is this is our nation, these are our fellow citizens, our neighbours friends so our fellow citiz

and, you know, when trevor phillips did his survey of british muslims and found that a small, slighthing that ought to be addressed, not for gay be addressed, not least for gay muslims, way . but muslims, by the way. but suddenly were denying it suddenly people were denying it and is just and saying, no, this is just islamophobic. and saying, no, this is just islamophobic . surely there is islamophobic. surely if there is a a community of a problem within a community of a problem within a community of a form of bigotry, it's a certain form of bigotry, it's worth addressing at the very least, rather than denying it, it is worth addressing. >> think it's also important >> i think it's also important that these people >> i think it's also important tha'part these people >> i think it's also important tha'part of these people >> i think it's also important tha'part of own lese people >> i think it's also important tha'part of own community. are part of our own community. is is nation, are is this is our nation, these are our fellow citizens, our neighbours friends so our fellow citizens,