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"She will bounce back from this.". Health Secretary Wes Streeting responds to Rachel Reeves crying in the House of Commons yesterday and tells #BBCWato 'when you're at work you're also on show' when in high profile positions like Chancellor.
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"This plan, if delivered, will be hugely beneficial, but the finances may be where it falls down." . Dr Becks Fisher, Director of Research and Policy for health think-tank Nuffield Trust, gives her reaction to the government's 10-year plan for the NHS in England. #BBCWato.
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"I think you have to be careful when tactics replace strategy.". Theo Bertram, former No10 special advisor to Blair and Brown, tells #BBCWato that Sir Keir Starmer needs to explain his 'long term purpose'.
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"There is a point in every conflict that all parties want it to be ended." . @Sarah_Montague asks Michael Kleiner, President of the Supreme Court of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party, if he believes the war between Israel and Hamas is coming to an end. #BBCWato.
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The BBC has admitted that it should have pulled the live stream of punk-rap duo Bob Vylan at Glastonbury. Ofcom's former content regulator Stewart Purvis says the BBC will have to explain what risk assessment was done ahead their set. #BBCWato.
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"Have you been told what price you will pay for voting against this? Could you have the whip removed?". @Sarah_Montague asks Labour MP Rachael Maskell about the welfare bill, who says her concerns are the 'significant' effects the bill would have on disabled people. #BBCWato.
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What gives the Ash tree its magic?. After new scientific evidence shows that the trees are naturally evolving greater resistance to ash dieback, the poet laureate Simon Armitage reads his poem about the tree to #BBCWato.
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The government has confirmed it will make major changes over its planned welfare reforms. @ChrisMasonBBC tells #BBCWato up to 30 to 50 MPs are still unhappy with what the government is proposing.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will end the war only when all the hostages are released, Hamas is either destroyed or disarmed, and its leaders have been sent into exile. #BBCWato.
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"What is the chance of peace given the way that everybody there thinks?". @Sarah_Montague asks Dr Mustafa Barghouti, the general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, about an end to the conflict in Gaza. #BBCWato
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“I’m confident that the party will reach some compromise on this.” . Amidst a backbench rebellion, Sir Ben Bradshaw, Labour Minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, remembers a previous time when Labour came unstuck over welfare reforms. #BBCWato.
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“Reform is hard and if it was easy, it would have been done by now.”. Government vows to push ahead with welfare reforms despite growing rebellion from Labour MPs. #BBCWato.
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The UK will be buying 12 new fighter jets which can be equipped with US nuclear bombs. Hamish de Bretton Gordon, former commander of British and Nato Chemical and Nuclear forces explains how these ‘tactical nuclear weapons’ work, and their significance. #BBCWato.
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"What we're seeing is his effort to turn Nato into the 'North Atlantic Trump Organisation'.". Dr Fiona Hill , former adviser to President Trump in his first term, says the Nato summit risks being undermined by 'Trump just basically saying whatever pops into his head'. #R4Today.
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"Are you going to vote against the government?". @Sarah_Montague asks Dame Meg Hillier after Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to "press ahead" with the government's planned welfare changes, despite a growing rebellion from Labour backbench MPs. #BBCWato.
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"The primary goal of the Iranian regime in these circumstances will be for survival.". Former UK ambassador to Iran, Sir Simon Gass, says Iran 'is likely to be very cautious' in the coming days, following US strikes on its nuclear facilities. #BBCWato.
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Wes Streeting has announced an inquiry into maternity care in England, examing the worst-performing maternity and neonatal services. Maternity care campaigner Rhiannon Davies welcomes the inquiry but says its scope needs to be expanded across all four nations. #BBCWato.
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Reform UK has announced it would give non-doms the chance to avoid some UK taxes by paying a £250,000 fee. @Sarah_Montague asks Reform UK's Zia Yusuf whether this policy would lose money for the UK economy?. #BBCWato.
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“Look at natural fabrics.”. Former Vogue Retail editor Ginnie Chadwyck-Healey tells #BBCWato how to stay cool in the heatwave and avoid sweat patches.
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MPs are debating the final stage of the Assisted Dying Bill in the Commons today, with a vote expected this afternoon. The BBC’s Political Editor Chris Mason tells #BBCWato that “it’ll be a profound social and legislative moment” if the bill passes.
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