secretaryjustine greening, sir malcom rifkind, who served as foreign and defence secretary in the thatcher and major governments, and catherine haddon from the institute for government. hello, welcome to the programme. after one of the driest summers on record, the notoriously fickle british weather turned of course it did just at the very moment liz truss arrived in downing street this afternoon. and as the heavens opened, drenching the loyal conservative members who had gathered to greet her, the sketch writers might have been tempted to draw analogies with the deluge of issues, that are now piling up on the new prime ministers desk. not that she seemed fazed by the challenge ahead. this is a storm we can ride out, she said, to become the modern brilliant britain i know we can be. i m honoured to take on this responsibility at a vital time in our country. what makes the united kingdom great is our fundamental belief in freedom in enterprise and in fair play. our people
and dubbed the next david attenborough, a conservationist kid meets one of his biggest heros. hello and welcome to bbc news. teachers are calling for more children in england to be urgently given free school meals in order to support families struggling with the cost of living. they say the programme should be expanded to include all families who receive universal credit. in a letter to ministers, uniions are warning that more than two and a half million children live in households that miss meals or struggle to access healthy food and insist now is the right moment to act. alice key reports. lunch is served at this half term holiday club in stockport. staff here are responsible for keeping 20 children a day fed and entertained. but as rising prices start to hit parents pockets, there are fears that without more support, children could go hungry. we know that a lot of the families who come here are living in food poverty. and have certainly been impacted since the cost o
on various different things. you know, parking cost us another 150 quid. i ll probably never see any of that back from easyjet. so i m just hugely disappointed by how they handled this whole situation and the position they put their customer services people here into. oh, the money and the disappointment, isn t it? easyjet have preemptively had to cancel about 240 half term flights, in their words, in order to be able to provide a reliable service. in other words, not enough staff, as well as it and air traffic control issues. ba, tui and vueling have also had to make cancellations and airlines are facing criticism. they were given furlough support over the pandemic to keep staff on and these big getaway pinch periods have been in the diary well in advance so why are they still not able to cope? it s important to recognize this is notjust a uk problem. this is happening in many parts of the world. we ve heard in the last few days about dublin airport and amsterdam close to home, but