That he holds no fear going into his highly anticipated rematch with andy ruinunior. I tell you, i am punching like a horse kicking back right now. My kinetic chain, my rhythm, theres no tension in my body. We say loose and heavy, loose and heavy. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. With just a week to go until the country goes to the polls, the conservatives have outlined what theyll do in their first 100 days in office. Boris johnson has promised a tax cutting budget in february, as well as protections for some of the pledges already made in the campaign so far. On the health service, theyve promised to enshrine in law the extra £39. 9 billion a year they have promised for the nhs up to 2023. On crime, theyve promised a law to end the automatic release of serious violent offenders, like the man responsible for the London Bridge terror attack. And theyve promised to start recruiting the 20,000 police officers, and 50,000 nurses for the nhs theyve been talking about in the campaign. Labour also made major policy announcements focused on education, pledging to limit class sizes in primary schools to 30, to recruit 20,000 teachers over the next five years, and £7 billion allocated to bring School Buildings up to scratch. The lib dems are today focusing business, announcing plans to boost innovation and growth with a £17 billion research and development fund, and plans to spend 3 of gdp on r d, as soon as possible. Lets go to westminster now and talk to our assistant Political Editor norman smith. Good morning, good morning, norman. Good morning, norman. 0ne good morning, norman. One week good morning, norman. One week to good morning, norman. One week to go good morning, norman. One week to go to get the messages out and push the m essa 9 es to get the messages out and push the messages again and again. Lets talk about the conservatives first. Talking about cutting taxes but alongside spending pledges, so can they make the sums add up . Well, the tax cuts, lets be honest, they are not massive. They are confirming they would hold a brexit budget in february where they would introduce this raise in the National Insurance threshold to £9,500 which would give taxpayers £85 per year so it is a taxpayers £85 per year so it is a tax cut, but not a big bonanza, and all of that is wrapped up in this larger message they have today which is in100 larger message they have today which is in 100 days it will be crash, bang, wallop and they will do all sorts of things once they have got brexit done, so notjust the budget, suggesting they will bring forward a whole load of different pieces of legislation including legislation to curb strikes and end of the vexatious legal cases against vetera ns vexatious legal cases against veterans and also as you mention, the bill to enshrine in law the extra billions they are promising the nhs and they will also kick start a load of reviews, so they would begin a review into defence and Security Policy and at long last, the review into social care, so all that is basically sending out the message that once we have brexit done, there is no stopping us and we are in full go mode and an awful lot will happen, and that is designed to reinforce the familiar Boris Johnson and that is designed to reinforce the familiar borisjohnson message of lets get brexit done and then things can happen. So, lets have a listen to the chancellor, sajid javid, spelling out the message. One of the key thing is we will get done in the first hundred days is to take our deal that has been agreed, a good deal through parliament, and it will be done by the end ofjanuary. It is the exit arrangements that have been set out and agreed by the eu and the uk. It is a good deal, and once it goes through, we will have left the eu and we will have entered what is called the transition period. During that period, by the end of 2020, we will have agreed and finalised the trade deal. Labour began this campaign by saying they wanted to talk about subjects other than brexit, that is what they are doing today, focusing on educations and the lib on business. Take us through their big thoughts for the day. Its interesting that labour are still bringing out big policy and spending pledges just a week away from election day and today they are saying that they would recruit 20,000 new teachers and would cap School Places at 30 and set aside 7 billion to improve School Buildings and they are also proposing sending spending around 600 million to provide an additional 500,000 hostel places as part of their ledge to end rough sleeping in five years, and what is interesting is that one of the sort of criticisms or feedback on the door set doorstep is that people are a little bit cautious about the things labour promised because there is so much they are promising and some labourfolk because there is so much they are promising and some labour folk are saying that this is a bit of a confusing message and there doesnt seem to be a simple narrative to say this is what we are about because we are promising all manner of things and interestingly this morning, the shadow education secretary Angela Rayner acknowledged it could cause scepticism amongst voters. One of the things to say is can you do all the things to say is can you do all the things to say is can you do all the things you are promising, that is the main things, and its because they have been told for years they cannot have it, yet my generation got free tuition, we had police on our streets and we had investment in schools. We can do this things. We borrowed after the Second World War to build a society we have got today but a lot of people think they cant have that, so they think its unrealistic, the things we say. So when you have those conversations with them, they actually become more positive. And the liberal democrats will present themselves as the party for business, unveiling proposals for business, unveiling proposals for £17 billion of Research Funding to encourage businesses to set aside more cash and to do more in terms of research and development, although, iimagine, some research and development, although, i imagine, some of the questions they are likely to face or the leader is likely to face, will follow on from the interview on the andrew neil programme last night in which she apologised for some of the decisions she had taken when a minister in the Coalition Government and she also waved away some of the criticisms she has faced because some polls have suggested that actually the more voters see her, the less they like her. This morning, the former tory, now liberal democrat candidate Sarah Woollaston played down suggestions that somehowjo swinson was not connecting with voters. That somehowjo swinson was not connecting with voterslj that somehowjo swinson was not connecting with voters. I dont acce pt connecting with voters. I dont accept she is unpopular. If you look at the debate yesterday with andrew neil, that interview, and see how well she did do, sol neil, that interview, and see how well she did do, so i dont accept she is unpopular but i do think there has been an issue and some of there has been an issue and some of the terms i hear people using, terms like shrill. People dont use those terms in about male politicians andl terms in about male politicians and i think thats very unfortunate and i think thats very unfortunate andl and i think thats very unfortunate and i think thats very unfortunate and i think people should be looking again at our manifesto and the ambitious policies we have that are all costed, unlike some of the others. Familiar territory i guess for a lot of the policy announcements and pledges today. Boris johnsons announcements and pledges today. Borisjohnsons message, lets get brexit done and on the labour side and offer of real change with yet more significant spending announcements. Norman, thank you very much. And we are back on our tour of the uk at 11 leading up to the election on this morning we are in croydon, in fact all day, so do join us for that. A major strikes underway in france against president macrons pension reform. It means hundreds of flights have been grounded and only around half of eurostars Train Services are running, causing knock on disruption for british travellers. Well, we can go live to the uks eurostar hub st pancras where keith doyle has more for us. Good morning, keith, tell us in a bit more detail how services both there and more broadly are being affected by the strike in france. Yes, those french strikes having a big impact in london. Eurostar is cancelling a number of trains and already this morning to peak time trains, the 540 and the 755 have been cancelled. The boards inside the departures hall are now saying that the 1024 is also cancelled and ifi that the 1024 is also cancelled and if i could just rattle through the six to come today that have been cancelled, 1131, 1331, 1531, 1701 and 1901. All of those trains cancelled, which is roughly every second train and similar cancellations on the other side with trains coming from paris to london. Those cancellations, eurostar today, and there is more tomorrow and they expect the cancellations on roughly half of services to be cancelled up until monday, possibly tuesday but this is a fluid situation and they wa nt to this is a fluid situation and they want to see how things develop in france. Transport is really going to be hit across all areas. Easyjet, the airline, British Airways and air france and rya nair the airline, British Airways and air france and ryanair all the airline, British Airways and air france and rya nair all saying the airline, British Airways and air france and ryanair all saying that there will be cancellations. Air france saying its cancelling around 30 of its flights. The eurotunnel, that seems to be operating 0k, 30 of its flights. The eurotunnel, that seems to be operating ok, but the warning is that once you get to the warning is that once you get to the other side of the french strikes could have an impact on roads and towns and certainly in the centre of paris. We know there are thousands of extra police on the streets in paris today and there is expected to be large protests and this will have an impact on any tourists or anyone going to the french capital city today. Keith, thank you. Lets speak to Hugh Schofield whos in paris for us. I think we can show you some live images coming in from paris of some protesters already on the streets there in the french capital. Remember this is a nationwide strike in protest of the planned Pension Reforms being introduced by Emmanuel Macron. You scofield, we can talk to him now. Paris obviously a focus, but its right across france that these nationwide strikes will be felt. First of all, how much disruption will this cause in paris and further into the continent . lot is the short answer. But one has to factor in the fact that in the last couple of decades working practices have changed and a lot of people will be staying at home to work from home and a lot of people on the street they are using bikes and scooters and a lot of people taking a day off so the traffic around paris hasnt been that bad. The key is whether this lasts into the days ahead and next week if it is still going on we will be talking a different language about how this has really put pressure on Emmanuel Macron. For today the trains are at a standstill, virtually no trains at all, so it is a big strike. How much Popular Support is there for it . This is an interesting question. Its about pension reform, and in general, people say, yes, the system thatis general, people say, yes, the system that is complicated and unfair in france needs reform but what Emmanuel Macron has done has said he will put everyone on the same basis and there will not be the privileged status that metro workers or Railway Workers have. Although people agree with that in principle, but one, they are worried they might lose out when the reforms come through in their area of work and also this is more important, they are using the strike as a stick with which to beat Emmanuel Macron. He is a leader who is quite secure, politically speaking, there is no real opposition but he is not what you would call popular in france and a lot of people see him, rightly or wrongly, as a neoliberal who is introducing rich mans anglo saxon economics to the country and they dont like that. So they might agree in principle with a lot of what hes doing when it comes to pensions, they are unhappy about the general state of affairs in their working lives and are using the strike as a way of hitting back, and i think that explains today, and possibly in the days ahead, could be very widely followed. Few, thank you very much. 70 serving and ex labour officials have given sworn statements to an official investigation in to labours handling of anti semitism allegations. The statements form part of a submission, seen by the bbc, from the Jewish Labour Movement to the equality and human rights commission. The commission announced a formal investigation earlier this year. Labour says it was committed to rooting out anti semitism in the party and the country. James libson, a partner at the Mishcon De Reya law firm, joins me now. They are representing the Jewish Labour Movement and he joins they are representing the Jewish Labour Movement and hejoins me in the studio now. Thanks for coming along. We have heard Jeremy Corbyn assert that every case of anti semitism that has cropped up, every allegation that has cropped up in the party has been fully investigated. What do you say to that . Well i investigated. What do you say to that . Welll only investigated. What do you say to that . Well i only work from the evidence and the submission based on the evidence, as you said, of 70, people who are intimate with the procedures and the labour party and brought right up to november 2019 on the evidence suggests that is not true. The evidence you are talking about, the testimony you talk about, you are saying that is effectively contemporary, its about cases as recent as last month . It goes for the entire period we have been conducting the submissions on behalf of the Jewish Labour Movement, conducting the submissions on behalf of theJewish Labour Movement, so from the beginning of this year and all the way through but it is right up to date and the latest evidence suggests that a lot of complaints still have not been looked at and the system is still not working. You claim that there are examples of interference contained in these testimonies, and examples of double standards. What do you mean by that . I dont claim. The submission sets out the evidence for that, for interference and double standards. The evidence of the interference is from the Leaders Office into the processes they are supposed to investigate the complaints and there is plenty of evidence of that. These are allegations at this stage because ofjudgment are allegations at this stage because of judgment has are allegations at this stage because ofjudgment has to be made on that, doesnt it best to market is not a judgment. The commission will look at it and weigh up the evidence. I mean a judgment in the loosest sense. Absolutely. But its a lot of allegations, and all of the evidence does tend in the same direction and the people who made the allegations and given the evidence have done so at great personal cost and risk and they have undergone threats, often, and it has impacted their Mental Health. What happens next in terms of the process . Happens next in terms of the process . When do you expect any resolution to all of this from the commission . The commission is continuing its work during the election. It just continuing its work during the election. Itjust cannot make any findings or announce the results, so i expect they will be able to do that in the First Quarter of next year. James, thank you for coming to talk to us. A member of an snp group set to investigate a candidate suspended over anti semitic language has resigned from the party after being challenged herself over alleged anti semitism. Denise findlay was on the conduct committee expected to investigate neale hanvey who was due to contest the kirkcaldy and cowdenbeath seat in next weeks election. It was reported shed tweeted, calling israel a nazi state. The snp says her views at entirely at odds with the ethos of the party. The headlines on bbc news. With a week to go before the country goes to the polls the main parties are pushing their big election pledges the tories on tax, labour on schools and the lib dems on business. Half of eurostar trains are cancelled as a huge nationwide strike in france gets underway causing travel chaos across europe. 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