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could rishi sunak really turn things round? we ll ask the man himself. he faces a labour party that wants to push yes education, education, education . their shadow education secretary bridget phillipson s here too. locked out of my own post office until i pay it all back. 26,000?! and as westminster wakes up to the true scale of the post office scandal we ll meet lee castleton, one of the subpostmasters who lost everything. morning, morning, and very happy new year to you. thanks forjoining us at the start of what will be a huge year, when your votes will be courted, and then counted. happy new year, too, to my team at the desk. we ve reassembled the trio who marked rishi sunak s homework when we spoke to him last impressionistjon culshaw, government troubleshooter louise casey, and fraser nelson, editor of the tory bible, the spectator magazine. let s look at the front pages. the sunday times says the government s looking at ways of clearing post office managers whos ....
laura kuenssberg that his job as chancellor was to ask probing questions of every proposal that crossed his desk. he made the comments in a wideranging interview in which he also talked about the government looking at legal options in the case of the post office horizon it scandal and tackling illegal migration. let s talk about immigration. it s one of your top priorities. we also know from documents the bbc saw this week that when you were chancellor you expressed doubts about number 10 s desire to send migrants to rwanda. do you admit you had reservations? no, and i haven t seen the documents so i can t comment on them specifically. but i discussed it with the prime minister and ultimately funded the plans and the scheme and myjob now as prime minister is to get it up and running. i believe it s really important because it is about deterrence. the national crime agency has said you need a deterrent to solve the problem and i believe that. that s why i got a new dea ....
Good evening. Just some of the faces of the victims of 50 years of the infected blood scandal. The wholly damning conclusion of todays inquiry into that scandal describes years of deception and cover up in which doctors, the Blood Services and successive governments did not put Patient Safety first. It found that the biggest Treatment Disaster in the history of the nhs could and should have been avoided. Over the two decades the 19705 to the 19905 more than 30,000 people were infected with diseases like hiv and hepatitis c. 3,000 have died already, many are living with ongoing side effects. The Prime Minister described today as a day of shame for the British State and will announce plans for compensation for ....
Celebrate victory on derby day, but theres no shaking off the holders Manchester City, who remain hot on their heels. Good morning. Some heavy rain in Northern Ireland this morning. That will push north and east during the course of the day. It is the south east that will hang on to the driest and silliest conditions for longest. All of the details later on in the programme. Driest and sunniest. Its monday, the 29th of april. The Irish Government says it will pass Emergency Legislation to return rising numbers of Asylum Seekers arriving from Northern Ireland, because theyre fearful of being sent to rwanda. Irish ministers estimate that 80 of ....
To thousands of people to albania. we have seen the numbers arriving from albania drop by over 90%, showing deterrence works and that s what the rwanda scheme is about, providing that deterrent and that s why it s important to get it through parliament. the documents i have seen, number 10 documents from 2022, describe your view as believing the deterrent would not work. do you deny that? i haven t seen the documents so i can t comment on that. do you deny you had doubts about the deterrent effect of sending people to africa? the proof is in my actions. i obviously believe deterrence works because when i became prime minister, i prioritised getting a scheme up and running with albania, which is now working. we have returned more than 5,000 people to albania as a result of that new deal. we have seen the numbers coming from albania drop by over i9%, showing that deterrence works. that s why i prioritised getting that up and running. ....