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relations lawyer. also this afternoon. there were more excess deaths than usual in the uk last year. the highest number outside the covid pandemic in half a century. some shops open at midnight to meet demand for prince harry s heavily trailed autobiography, which is now on sale. and a setback, not a roadblock. the team behind a uk space mission which failed to launch say they will keep on trying. and this picture has been causing something of a stir on social media today, because someone or something is missing. we will be revealing all. good afternoon. in the last few minutes, the government has been introducing draft legislation to limit future industrial action in the public sector. the bill would cover health, fire and railway workers. ministers say it would introduce a minimum level of service. unions have reacted angrily to the proposals, which they say potentially are undemocratic and unworkable, and would limit the right to strike. the business secretary grant ....
A result of the problems. now, the figure as you say is contested. but it is probably not too controversial, there was a study backin controversial, there was a study back in about 2016 that looked at people who waited for more than, say, eight hours in a&e, and looked at their risk of dying in the next 30 days. if you multiply that risk by the number of people who are going to very long trolley waits in hospital at the moment, that is how you get to this figure of the kind of couple of hundred a week, so it is contributing. it is probably not doing it all on its own, but the trouble is, you have a couple of hundred coming from that, a couple of hundred coming in covid, you wrap them together, especially in the winter, with that cold snap we saw in december, the arrival of flu as well, and in the last few weeks of december, we went seeing 9% excess, we were seeing 20% excess mortality, so 20% higher levels of debt than we would expect to see. so this is getting pretty urgent now, and w ....
Ione wells reporting from westminster. i talked more about those proposed strike laws the government are introducing with lord hendy casey, a barrister specialising in trade union rights. he gave me his reaction to that proposed legislation. you are right to describe this is controversial. i mean, the first point to make about this is the cumulative effect of this legislation on top of what s already gone before. a former prime minister backin gone before. a former prime minister back in 1997 said that we already had the most restrictive laws and trade unions in the western world. since then, we had the trade union action 2016, regulations allowing agency workers to break strikes, quadrupling of the damages payable by trade unions. so this comes on top of that. i think another point top of that. i think another point to make is, it is said that we are ....