vivienne stern, a real pleasure having you on the show.et's start with this, because if we look at the numbers, let's be frank, they're not great. i mean, there's a decline in the number of graduate jobs being advertised. that's compared to last year. starting salary increases, they're well below inflation. vivienne, just how difficult of a time is it for people leaving university at the moment? well, i think you've got to take a short—term and a long—term view. i mean, the sort of broader economic conditions, i think there's a widespread consensus. we've got to get our economy moving again and creating jobs and growing. but there's absolutely no question at all when you look at the longer—term labour market needs, you know, we are going to need those graduates. we're going to need more graduates in the future than we've got now. so it's always difficult for graduates who emerge when the economy is, you know, performing less well than we'd like it to. i don't think we're, you know, perhaps in some of the positions we've had during previous

vivienne, it does feel seemingly particularly bad here in the uk. why is that?here are just too many graduates? you know, in answer to your question over too many graduates — absolutely not. i mean, wejust completed a survey of ftse 350 leaders, and we were asking them to project forward to answer questions about what they thought their businesses were going to need in the future. and it's really striking. we obviously saw a lot of feedback on the subject of how technology was going to change the world of work — and particularly technologies like generative ai. and the people who were responsible for hiring staff into those ftse 350 businesses were saying, look, we're going to need the kind of people who come to our businesses with the higher—level thinking, transferable skills that you get from being a graduate. and you can see more on the challenges facing graduates entering the workforce in the uk and around the world this weekend on talking business weekly with aaron heslehurst here on bbc news. now here in the uk, the biggest holiday home event opens today

. >> vivienne is in southampton. >> vivienne is in southampton. >> jeremy, nice >> vivienne hello jeremyyou. gosh whenever i say vivienne, expect a woman. say vivienne, i expect a woman. >> that crazy? >> isn't that crazy? >> isn't that crazy? >> transgendered. >> i'm transgendered. >> i'm transgendered. >> jeremy okay, forgive me. i wasn't into that. wasn't meaning to go into that. oh had a shocker. oh he's had a shocker. >> oh , no. you hate to see it. >> oh, no. you hate to see it. don't you? just don't go around saying things like that anyway , saying things like that anyway, right. vine right. that was jeremy vine there absolute there having an absolute shocker. now, loads more still to on show and we'll shocker. now, loads more still to the on show and we'll shocker. now, loads more still to the latest show and we'll shocker. now, loads more still to the latest onhow and we'll shocker. now, loads more still to the latest on the and we'll shocker. now, loads more still to the latest on the biohazard get the latest on the biohazard incident harbour. incident at dover harbour. patrick

they never sent me there, i that was the there, but i guess that was the threat, vivienne says. >> iing school environment, as there members on there were no family members on hand notice a child's mood hand to notice a child's mood changes. so interesting. >> about >> piers was talking about interesting, interesting comments. >> anyway, harry back >> anyway, prince harry is back in again following the in the news again following the release of his latest documentary on netflix, the hean documentary on netflix, the heart of invictus delves competitors from the invictus games, which is held for wounded war veterans . war veterans. >> joining us now to discuss, prince harry's latest revelations is the former royal correspondent of the sun, charles rea. hello. morning charles. maybe before we get there , we were talking about there, we were talking about mohammed al fayed passed away this morning and it seems that he went to his death always believing that crash wasn't an accident. but actually something think that maybe i don't know the secret forces or something or doing the secret se

but on a sugar tax, says if they start tax, vivienne says if they start taxing sugar, it will go intol health care for a couple of yearswasting overnment will health care for a couple of yearswasting that1ment will health care for a couple of yearswasting that money vill start wasting that money in something else, just like they did road tax . that did with the road tax. that became else. the became something else. so the funds dipped. yes, we funds could be dipped. yes, we don't ring fence our don't tend to ring fence our taxes. it all just goes into the same pot and gets used wasted by the government on all sorts of different projects . so i don't different projects. so i don't think a sugar tax would just go towards health either. stephen says stop all this nanny state nonsense. people know what is good bad for to eat, but good or bad for them to eat, but choose whatever they choose to eat whatever they like. this is very true. i serious . don't think that serious. don't think that a pubuc serious. don't think that a public health advertising campaign or stickers on your packet of