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Todays panel is pivoting left, how we win by standing up for working families. We want to take a look at what happened in the last election and some lessons we learned and where we need to have a bigger and bolder message as opposed to maybe a message of incrementalism. One of the things the progressive caucus has done for a number of years is the progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those kinds of big ideas trying to move the ball forward in a very big bold way to try to give us the policy solutions that people really are asking us for, but also how to help electorally about talking about the bigger and bolder issues. We have a great panel here today. They are going to be with us talking about issues. Im going to let each person kind of say whatever they want to about themselves, other than a brief introduction, everyone has five minutes to make initial comments. And then we will ask a couple questions from the panel based on that discussion and then well like t ....
One of the themes that emerged in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire was the link between the disaster and austerity. Thats an idea thats particularly galling, given just how rich the royal borough of kensington and chelsea actually is. Im here in elm park gardens, which is a road about three miles south from Grenfell Tower, on the other side of the borough. The average Property Price here is £1. 8 million. But its actually here that the real story of the grenfell fire begins. You see, on this road, the council sold off a load of its property, including some of these basement flats. They took £6 million from those sales, they added in £3 million from elsewhere, and they put that £9 million or so budget towards renovating and refurbishing Grenfell Tower. Th ....
Preparing children properly for the future . The head of ofsted warns that in england they are focusing on preparing pupils for exams at the expense of giving them what they call a rich and full knowledge. The battle of the sexes, the story of the 1973 tennis match between billiejean of the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King of the 1973 tennis match between Billiejean King and bobby riggs now made into a movie. Good morning. Its wednesday 11th october. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The chancellor of the exchequer, philip hammond, has suggested that its too early to commit large sums of money in preparation for leaving the European Union without a deal. He said it was his duty to be realistic about the near term challenges. Writing in the times, ahead of next months budget, mr hammond said i also need to ensure ....