Of the fiercest in the game live from glasgow. First, heres ray to kick us off with the news headunes. Headlines. Thank you both. Good thank you both. Good afternoon. 12 01. Our top stories. The chancellor is stories. The chancellor is defending the british job market despite rising unemployment figures released today across the uk, unemployment rose by 0. 1, reaching 4. 3 in july. Meanwhile Job Vacancies fell to below a million. Jeremy hunt says that remains, quote, below many of our international peers. Meanwhile the average growth in pay meanwhile the average growth in pay remained at a record high of 7. 8. Shadow Business Employment and levelling up secretary Justin Madders says more needs to be done. There are strong economic headwinds that have been troubling the economy for some time, but i think one of the things were very clear about is the only way we are going to get out of this this mess weve been in really for 13 years now. Weve with stagnant growth is to actually turbo charge that and get us to be the highest Economic Growth in the g7. And thatis Economic Growth in the g7. And that is going to be a huge task. But that is the only way were going to get more money in peoples pockets, better job security, with the security, staying with the latest figures and food inflation has fallen to its lowest level in more than a yeah kantar group says that Grocery Price inflation is down for the sixth month in a row, reaching 12. 2. Thats compared to 17. 5 back in march. Despite to 17. 5 back in march. Despite that, 95 of consumers say theyre still concerned about rising supermarket bills. Rising supermarket bills. Labours deputy leader says pay and housing will be among the Top Priorities if the party wins the next general election. Dufing the next general election. During the tuc congress in liverpool. Angela rayner showed support for employment policies , including banning zero hours contracts and giving Employment Rights. From the first day that you go to start a new job. Ms rayner also told the unions she would not let them down if she becomes deputy pm and will make sure labour stabilises the economy. Economy. Me the mask has slipped and the public have seen the truth with warm words and political dnven with warm words and political driven handouts will not touch the sides and empty slogans will not pay decent wages and false promises will not build secure homes and a sound bite will not empower local people and local communities to take control of their futures. Their futures. Almost 1 in 3 female nhs surgeons say theyve been sexually assaulted by senior colleagues at work in the last five years. Thats according to a survey by the british journal of surgery. 11 instances of rape were reported by those who took part in that study. Meanwhile 29 of women say theyve experienced unwanted physical advances in the workplace and more than 40 received uninvited comments about their body. Wilko comments about their body. Wilko has closed 24 of its Stores Across the uk, with hundreds of workers set for redundancy. The retailer is going into administration with all 400 of the discount chains shops set to close by october. Over 12,000 to close by october. Over 12,000 staff are likely to lose their jobs. Jeff moody, commercial director of the british independent retailers association, says its a sad day for the high street. For the high street. Some of these people may fail on jobs in retail, which would be great, but this is now a time where the government really needs to question how its going to the high street and to support the high street and how its going to change it. Think money should we dont think money should be what think is be poured in what we think is proper relief for Business Rates, to plan rates, allowing business to plan and and Business Rates, and invest and Business Rates, relief ends in april next year. So we dont know what the new policy will be. So if they tell us what it is now, businesses can make that decision. Can make that decision. Regulators may have breached environmental law by allowing Water Companies to discharge sewage outside of exceptional circumstances. Thats according to the government watchdog. And to the government watchdog. And normally its only allowed following unusually heavy rain to prevent flooding peoples homes. However, the office for Environmental Protection says defra, the Environment Agency and ofwat may have misinterpreted the law. A defra spokesperson said we do not agree with the eps initial interpretations. The e and ofwat interpretations. The e and ofwat are carrying out their own investigations. Two thirds of investigations. Two thirds of the British Public are dissatisfied with the governments approach to immigration. In the research by the Immigration Attitudes tracker says its the highest level of dissatisfied action since before the brexit vote. Since before the brexit vote. 56 of tory voters say the government is not doing enough to stop channel migrant crossings and only over a fifth of them say theyre satisfied with the governments handling of the issue. This is gb news of the issue. This is gb news across the uk on tv , in your across the uk on tv, in your car, on Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker by saying play your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news. Now lets get back to mark and. Pip to mark and. Pip ray, thank you very much indeed. Welcome back to the live desk. More now on this astonishing new report revealing that almost 1 in 3 female surgeons in the nhs have been sexually assaulted in the past five years. Some of them being abused actually in them being abused actually in the operate theatre. 11 nhs staff reporting being raped by their colleagues. Raped by their colleagues. The british journal of Surgery Survey also found 40 of women had received uninvited comments about their body whilst 29 had experienced unwanted physical advances at work. We can speak now to roy liley, a former chairman at an nhs trust. Nhs trust. Sir roy, it is quite staggering the detail thats coming through from this and there is a theme to the reports that these women have given to the researchers. The researchers. Its the trainee and the consultant. Effectively the consultant. Effectively the abuse of position and seniority i mark, good morning. Mark, good morning. Youre right, yes. Youre right, yes. I mean, ill just give you a few numbers just to kind of position this. The ratio of men to female surgeons at the moment is about 8 to 1. So the females are in the minority. Theyve gone from about 3 in 1990 to about 14, nearly 15 last year. So there is a growing number of them working in surgery. But and this is the important point, 77 of everyone working in the whole nhs is female. So its really a female dominated profession now. 45 of all doctors are female. Its all doctors are female. Its just in the surgery environment where it is male dominated. Where it is male dominated. And i dont want to kind of stereotype type people, but i mean, if youre a surgeon , mean, if youre a surgeon, youre probably likely to be an alpha male because it takes a huge amount of confidence to take a scalpel and stick it in someone and fiddle about with their bits and pieces. So it does. So it does. So it does. So that requires a kind of confidence which often overspills into an arrogance and sort of a right of passage. And clearly the, the relationship between the consultants and fundamentally , consultants and fundamentally, these will be trainee surgeons that so the power dynamic is wrong and the gender dynamic is wrong and the gender dynamic is wrong and the gender dynamic is wrong and that that it seems to be within that very pressured environment of the operating theatre. I mean , these are horrendous i mean, these are horrendous numbers and you know, it makes me think if you look at misogyny everywhere, weve had the police force thats riddled with misogyny. Weve got this fiasco misogyny. Weve got this fiasco in spain over the football, which is centred in misogyny. I mean, it just if the nhs is anything, i suppose its a salami slice of life and the nhs is no better or worse, but certainly in the in the surgery environment, this is a very, very worrying set of numbers. What also appears to be incredibly wrong, roy, is that these women not feeling that theyre going to be listened to, not feeling that they will be protected by the gmc, by nhs trusts. Trusts. Exactly. Exactly. Youre right. And its the power dynamic because as the consultants have huge sway over the advancement and the education of what we call Junior Doctors , you know, weve heard doctors, you know, weve heard a lot about Junior Doctors being on strike. And we think of them as being young doctors. You know , first year out of medical school, actually, these you can be Junior Doctor and be be a Junior Doctor and be a senior registrar. Not quite a consultant. Consultant. And its the consultants that hold sway. The consultants can can ruin a career, really. A career, really. If they give a bad report, they can certainly help advance a career if they want to. And , you know, as i say, and, you know, as i say, i dont want to get into the stereotype apical thing because, you know, there are some brilliant surgeons do brilliant male surgeons who do encourage women and their careers clearly careers. But this clearly theres something very seriously wrong in what is happening in in in surgery. And its very seriously wrong that the power dynamic is such that its not just the male female dynamic. Just the male female dynamic. Its the tutor student dynamic as well. And the exploitation of all that , which is a toxic all that, which is a toxic cocktail, which has been revealed. I just give you one more statistic, if i may , on more statistic, if i may, on a slightly more optimistic note. Theres a very big published survey published this morning in canada, but its a huge survey, hundreds of thousands of people. And we see the outcomes by female surgeons are better than men. The 90 the 30 day and 90 day outcomes are better. What that tells us, i dont know. But this is horrendous news here this is horrendous news here this morning. Last thought , roy, this morning. Last thought, roy, weve got doctor binta sultan, whos chair the nhs England Network of Sexual Assault and abuse services. Theyve actually abuse services. Theyve actually got role in place already got that role in place already saying, look, clear evidence action is needed. What should the action be . Because weve already got the whole issue of whistleblowers addressed. Whistleblowers being addressed. I mean, the way to do it i mean, is that the way to do it 7 i mean, is that the way to do it . Mean, its layer . Well, no, i mean, its layer upon layer of regulation. Every time something goes wrong, we get new regulation. And if we get new regulation. And if we havent that regulation havent learned that regulation doesnt by now, well never doesnt work by now, well never learn. I look at the letby learn. I mean, look at the letby situation. The all of the people, all the key protagonists there were in regulated professions. So it doesnt work. I mean, if i was still running a hospital, id get all the surgeons together. Id sit them down in the room and say, up with this, i will not put if its here, i want to its happening here, i want to know my phone know. Heres my home phone number. Know. Heres my home phone nurring me. Ring me. Ring me. I mean, this is about leadership and its being leadership and its about being leadership and its about being leaders are visible, have a vision, share it often. So its about saying to people , going to about saying to people, going to people and saying, i will not put up with this. This is not acceptable on my watch. And acceptable on my watch. And heres how you get hold of me. If a problem, i will if theres a problem, i will sort. Sort it. Did any reports ever reach you on your roy . You on your watch, roy . No, actually, i honestly, they never did. And on my board, i actually had a predominance of women on my board. And, you know, there were thorough going professionals. I neveri never professionals. I never i never had to deal once with an issue of this. Of this type. And, you know, 1 1 is the extent to which its it was always there and i missed it and didnt know or whether its something thats just got worse and maybe its just got worse and maybe its just that people are more willing now to come forward and speak about it. You know, if wed have had this survey survey in my day, would we have had the same answers . You know, god, i hope not. But i honestly dont know. I just think perhaps now were on the cusp where weve had, you know, all of the problems with that, that women were experiencing in the entertainment industry, in the film industry, and maybe its just were on the cusp where just now were on the cusp where people do feel freer and more confident to come forward. But certainly the whistleblowing arrangements in the nhs, ive never them. Theyre far never liked them. Theyre far too complicated and people still get appallingly badly get treated appallingly badly because the nhs is terrified of reputation damage, not only because , as the politicians are because, as the politicians are answerable in parliament. So the department of health, which sits on nhs england, nhs england , on nhs england, nhs england, sits on all the trusts and the trust boards and says do not bnng trust boards and says do not bring us bad news. So you never find out what the bad news is. Its reputation that that absolutely trumps everything. And as soon as theres a problem, people circle the wagons and you never get to the truth. Ray roy as ever , thank truth. Ray roy as ever, thank you for updating us on that with your reaction. Of course, well see what the various nhs trusts say, but lets bring you some breaking news coming through from the unite union, which says its informed by barclays its been informed by Barclays Bank that some 400 staff are being laid off. The unions saying that its members have been informed within the past few minutes. No indication as yet whether job losses few minutes. No indication as yet whetherjob losses may few minutes. No indication as yet whether job losses may be. But lets bring in liam cross, our business and economics editor is here with on the money. Liam. Breaking news this is from unite. We havent had anything from barclays yet since nificant number though, 450. It is in one of our major high street clearing banks. This is what happens when you close down lots of branches. You dont need as warm to meet need as many warm bodies to meet and to handle cash. Were and greet to handle cash. Were going to see a real hollowing out of the Banking Sector as it becomes more more digital. A becomes more and more digital. A major employer over the years, of course, numbers of people employed by banks have been going down since things like cheques have the cheques have fallen by the wayside. When you last write cheques have fallen by the wcheck. When you last write cheques have fallen by the wcheck . Alhen you last write cheques have fallen by the wcheck . Soen you last write cheques have fallen by the wcheck . So this you last write cheques have fallen by the wcheck . So this lslou last write cheques have fallen by the wcheck . So this is very ast write cheques have fallen by the wcheck . So this is very sad vrite a check . So this is very sad news and im sure barclays wont be the only ones. Other banks are likely to follow you in the next few months. Yeah, and coming of course, when we got the latest unemployment figures, i mean crept up bit. Crept up a bit. Still headline unemployment still headline unemployment. Its still pretty low in this country crept up from 4. 2 to 4. 3. I would say theres a lot of disguised unemployment in this country because, of course, weve got the thick end of 3. 5 Million People who are are not working economically inactive, is working, but of working age while claiming benefits. So and that number, of course, has ballooned since the covid pandemic and ballooned. And, you pandemic and ballooned. And, you know , in the uk to a bigger know, in the uk to a bigger extent than most other european countries, this is a major problem. The fact that a lot of problem. The fact that a lot of the workforce hasnt got back from covid and that kind of beues from covid and that kind of belies the notion that unemployment is as low as that 4. 3 number would suggest. 4. 3 number would suggest. Can we talk pensioners . Because we can like theyre going to be in line for quite a bit more cash, actually. Well, lets see. Well, lets see. After these new triple lock after these new figures. Yeah. Reason were talking the reason were talking about pensions today, pip, is because numbers have because the wage numbers have come wage numbers come out and the wage numbers are part of this triple lock, which ill explain. Lets have which ill explain. Lets have a look at some of the detail. So we can see here that between may and july, regular pay across the uk 7. 8 higher, higher than uk was 7. 8 higher, higher than may to july the previous year. Thats public and private sector. But the inflation in july was 6. 8. So hey presto, pay growth is bigger than price growth is bigger than price growth. So real wages are up and growth. So real wages are up and thats the first time thats happenedin thats the first time thats happened in a long time. Its not the end of the cost of living crisis. Yes, but at least were starting to get some real wage triple lock wage growth now. The triple lock pip wage growth now. The triple lock pip uses either another pay pip that uses either another pay number, which is pay numbers with bonuses, its 8. 5 or the inflation number in september or 2. 5. The basic rates pension, state pension goes up next april by one of those three, whichever is higher. And with earnings up 8. 5 with bonuses. So that suggests that next april , the suggests that next april, the bafic suggests that next april, the basic state pension will go up by £692 a year. To basic state pension will go up by £692 a year. To £8,814. So by £692 a year. To £8,814. So th