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‘The government are spending money trying to deal with symptoms of homelessness not on preventing it to start with,’ says chief exec of Crisis
‘The government are spending money trying to deal with symptoms of homelessness not on preventing it to start with,’ says Chief Executive of Crisis, Matt Downie.
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Can the government deliver end to homelessness for veterans this Christmas?
Veterans affairs minister Johnny Mercer has promised to make sure that no veteran of the British armed forces sleeps rough this Christmas: and not just that – he’s made it his personal mission to end homelessness among veterans altogether.
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The Windrush victims running out of time as they wait for compensation
The number of Windrush victims who have died waiting for compensation has doubled in the last year.
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UK Covid-19 Inquiry: ‘How many deaths could have been averted?’ asks Professor Devi Sridhar
We speak to professor Devi Sridhar, who is Chair of Global Public Health at Edinburgh University, and was a member of the COVID advisory group to the Scottish government during the pandemic.
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Covid bereaved families react to Rishi Sunak’s Inquiry appearance
The Covid Inquiry was set up to investigate a whole range of issues, from how well-prepared the country was to deal with a pandemic, to the impact of specific decisions and Government policies.
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Draft COP28 text a ‘huge step backward’ says Green MP
The Draft COP28 deal is a “huge step backwards,” Caroline Lucas tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy, but the Green MP says there is still time to turn the United Nations conference around.
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COP28 anger as pledge to ‘phase out’ fossil fuels removed from draft text
We will not go silent to our watery graves – that’s the warning from one of the small island nations most at risk from climate change – after a pledge to “phase out” fossil fuels was removed from the COP28 final agreement.
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Israeli tanks push further south in Gaza as Palestinians launch general strike in West Bank
Israel’s tanks are pushing further into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, searching for Hamas leaders, warning residents to flee from the city centre.
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‘We can just about swallow this’ – One Nation Conservatives will vote in favour of Rwanda bill
The One Nation Group of Conservative MPs have just met about the Rwanda bill. Damian Green, the former Cabinet office minister, was in that meeting and joins us.
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Sunak defends Eat Out to Help Out as Tories fight over Rwanda policy
Opposing factions of Conservative MPs are meeting tonight in separate rooms, deciding if they will back Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda Bill when it comes in front of the Commons tomorrow.
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‘I’m the victim of human rights violations in Rwanda,’ says Rwanda opposition figure
The internal fighting in the Conservative party has somewhat overshadowed the debate around Rwanda’s ability to safely welcome asylum seekers – if the UK government ever succeeds in sending them there. We spoke to Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza and started by asking whether – from her perspective within Rwanda – the country is safe.
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Rishi Sunak faces Tory rebellion over Rwanda policy
Rishi Sunak is facing a tough week ahead. Tomorrow he will start giving evidence to the Covid Inquiry. Then on Tuesday comes a high stakes parliamentary vote on his emergency Rwanda plan. And with both liberal and right-wing Tories expressing concern about the bill, it threatens to leave his leadership hanging in the balance.
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Gaza: Israel orders civilians to flee “difficult fighting” in centre of Khan Younis
Civilians in Gaza keep moving, but the fighting and bombing keeps following them, as Israel pushes on with its offensive against Hamas – which many countries consider a terror group. The Hamas-run health ministry says around 18 thousand people have now been killed in the Strip, and almost 50 thousand injured.
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COP28: oil producers ‘panic’ over possible fossil fuel phase-out
The UK’s former climate chief Alok Sharma has warned that the UN’s COP 28 summit must agree a plan to phase out fossil fuels – or risk pushing the world into climate breakdown. Reports from Dubai claim that the oil cartel OPEC wrote to member nations this week urging them to block any talk of…
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‘With every fighter or civilian killed, Israel is creating new Hamas,’ says diplomatic scholar
We were joined by Jennifer Cassidy who lectures in diplomacy at the University of Oxford – she’s served as a diplomatic attache to Ireland’s UN mission.