23/11/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

On the programme today - more support for struggling

families, funds to build affordable homes, a rise in the minimum

wage for people over 25, and reforms to Universal Credit

are all expected to be announced when the chancellor

I'm outside the Treasury where Philip Hammond is seeking to

fend-off Theresa May as she seeks to flash the cash for struggling

families. He is warning of a possible Brexit black hole and

ballooning borrowing. Also on the programme -

in an exclusive interview on this programme the husband of teacher

Ann Maguire who was murdered by a pupil in Leeds tells us

he thinks not enough lessons have And other teachers lives

could still be at risk. And following our exclusive

interview with former footballer Andy Woodward who revealed he'd been

abused for years and raped hundreds of times by a former youth coach,

two other players have waived their right to anonymity

to detail the abuse It started from touching and then

developed more and more with the sexual abuse and the threats of

violence towards your family really if you were to breathe a word to

anybody. Lots of coverage today -

as you'd expect on the Chancellor's But also we'll be

looking at the alt-right and the influence they

have on Donald Trump - he's now distanced himself

from some elements. As always do get in touch

on all the stories we're talking about this morning -

use the hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged

at the standard network rate. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond,

is expected to announce plans to build more affordable homes,

increase the National Living Wage and ban letting agent fees

in England, when he makes his first The Chancellor will also unveil

forecasts which are expected to show Mr Hammond has warned

of "turbulence" and "an unprecedented level of uncertainty"

as the UK leaves the EU. Our Political Correspondent

Eleanor Garnier reports. It is his first Autumn

Statement as Chancellor. Philip Hammond's moment to set out

the Government's tax His challenge, to help cash-strapped

households and at the same time tackle what he thinks

is a troubled economic outlook. The Chancellor is going to have

to respond to two things. One is a huge amount of uncertainty

about the direction of the economy. He is going to have to make

decisions not really knowing But one thing we can be sure

of is that the forecast for the economy will have got quite

a lot worse since the Budget and therefore, he is going to be

borrowing more than George So what do we know will

definitely come up? Well, the new rate for the National

Living Wage will be ?7.50 That is an increase

of full-time staff of the 25. There is new investment for housing

in England and Wales, ?1.4 billion by 2020 to build

an additional 40,000 And changes to Universal Credit

will mean millions of people will be able to keep a little more

of their benefits as They are all policies designed

to meet the Prime Minister's promise to support families

who are just about managing. The Chancellor has admitted the UK's

debt is eye wateringly the large The Chancellor has admitted the UK's

debt is eye wateringly large and with Brexit on the horizon

he is planning for an economy he says needs to be watertight

to cope with sharp challenges ahead. Our Political Guru Norman Smith

is in Downing Street. Has there been a tussle between

Number Ten and number 11? This is the story of a showdown between the

guy in there and the woman in there because the guy in there, Philip

Hammond, is looking at the books and is saying, "Oh boy, there is no

money. ." The projections are that borrowing could be more than ?1

money billion more by 2020 to reach a record level, the deficit drags on

into the 2020s and growth will be downgraded so he is saying to

Theresa May, hang on, hang on. There is no cash. She is saying "Wait a

moment, I promised to help people who are struggling, those who are

just getting by, you have got to do something, we have to deliver."

That's why there will be help for easing some of the benefit pain, a

rise to in the national Living Wage and extra support to help people get

into housing, but you sense it's going to be cautious. It's going to

be careful. It's going to be constrained. There will be little

bits and pieces for those who are just managing, but it is pall going

to be a little bit incy bitsy. There won't be massive amounts of money to

throw around. Annita is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary Donald Trump has condemned

the fringe "alt-right" group that celebrated his election win

with Nazi salutes. Mr Trump said he does not

want to "energize" the group, which includes neo-Nazis,

white supremacists and anti-Semites. Alt-right supporters were filmed

on Saturday in Washington DC cheering as a speaker

shouted "Hail Trump." The chairman of a committee looking

into the collapse of BHS has asked The chairman of Crewe

Alexandra football club - has confirmed that it's looking

into historic allegations of abuse - It follows the decision

by the former Crewe Alexandra player, Andy Woodward,

to speak on this programme out about the abuse he suffered

at the hands of Barry Bennell, A second man has come

forward to say he too had The Crewe chairman, John Bowler,

told the BBC's Sports Editor, Dan Roan, that his thoughts

were with the victims. We are understandably

distressed by the Looking back is there

anything you could have When we've done our enquiries

and have looked into the detail of various

accusations and we have considered them all, then I

will be in a position to answer The chairman of a committee looking

into the collapse of BHS has asked the pensions regulator

whether assets can be seized from its former

owner, Sir Philip Green. Labour MP Frank Field has asked

whether the BHS pensions hole could be plugged by

assets other than cash. Sir Philip's assets include

a ?100 million super yacht. Pathology departments in NHS

hospitals are struggling to cope with the rising number of cancer

patients being sent for tests, Cancer Research UK says record

levels of referrals aren't The Government says it's

investing in services. Here's our health correspondent

Dominic Hughes. Blood tests and biopsies analysed

by pathologists are a vital tool in diagnosing cancer,

and an early diagnosis is the key But now a major charity is warning

that services are struggling to cope We think that the pathology services

across the UK are at a tipping point, but wider cancer tests

are really struggling, and we have seen that cancer waiting

times are getting worse, so we really need action to be taken

now to make sure that people get the right tests

that they need on time. A growing and ageing population

means of rising demand In 2014 there were more than 350,000

new cases for cancer in the UK. Pathology labs have seen demand

for tests increase by more than 4% on average and it is not just

cancer that is affected. Up to 70% of health decisions

in the NHS involves Pathology services at the moment

are certainly at full stretch and there is very

little capacity left. But I think the real problem is that

with the number of people with cancer increasing as we go on,

that the demand on pathology So it is vital that we act quickly

to make sure that we have got pathologists in place to diagnose

those cancers and make sure that patients get the early

diagnosis that they need. Across the UK, the NHS is trying

to improve the early detection Today's report warns that goal

will be missed if pathologists find A police officer has been stabbed

while on duty in East London. The man was in plain clothes

when he was attacked He's in hospital with non-life

threatening injuries. A man's been arrested on suspicion

of attempted murder. A 72-year-old woman has been injured

in a drive-by shooting in Liverpool. She was standing in the doorway

of a house in the Netherley area when she was attacked

by a gunman riding a motorbike. Merseyside Police say the woman

is in a stable condition in hospital US President Barack Obama has

awarded his last Presidential Medals of Freedom to a host of America's

most famous faces. The medals are the highest civilian

honour in the United States. Among the 21 recipients

were Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Mr Obama made a special

tribute to comedian Ellen DeGeneres for her influence

on the gay rights movement. That's a summary of

the latest BBC News. Let's get some sport

from Leah Boleto. Mixed emotions for British sides

in the Champions League last night. Yes, we know that Leicester City are

through, but let's start with Spurs. They are out basically. Their dream

is over. They needed a draw or a win against Monaco. It ended 1-1 in the

first-half. It was in the second half where we got this flurry of

goals where it got really exciting. Monaco really dominated the Spurs

defence. There wasn't much pressure from them which a lot of fans were

really upset. They were outclassed and the moment that Monaco were

waiting for. This fantastic cross and then a header. You can't really

stop that. It was fantastic. Spurs did try to get back level on this

penalty with Harry Kane. But it lasted all of 39 seconds before they

were back, Monaco were back on the score sheet and it finished 2-1.

England rugby-union coach Eddie Jones has named his side

to play Argentina at the weekend, and last week's man

Yes, it is a shame. He was man of the match against Fiji and he scored

two tries which is really unexpected for him to not play against

Argentina. This is the second time that he has been dropped after a

test appearance that. One that we will be keeping close eyes across.

And, Scotland's women curlers are going well at the European

Yes, they beat Germany 8-6 yesterday and they finished high enough in the

group to qualify for next year's World Championships. Scotland are

ution the yellow balls there. A great run for them and one we will

be keeping a very, very close eye on. Cheers, thank you for now. Thank

you. Two more footballers have

waived their right to anonymity to reveal the abuse they suffered

at the hands of a youth coach. The story has emerged

following our exclusive interview with former Crewe Alexandra

player Andy Woodward, who told us last week he'd been

raped hundreds of times by his youth Andy spoke to us again yesterday

and said he'd heard from six players who've since told him they too

have experienced abuse. I have been inundated with from

other players who told me, you know, so many stories that are

heartbreaking and I have been so emotional over the last days, but I

mean, they are so harrowing stories and they've reached out to me and

thanked me so much for coming out originally, you know, it has given

that faith. You have spoken to six, but as you say, other contact via

Twitter. In total, how many people do you think have got in touch with

you since your interview? I think there has been gosh, there is

several people that have contacted me - I can't put a number on it

really. They vary really in what they have said. Are they all

footballers? Yes, they are ex-footballers, yes. Did they say to

you that they found the courage to speak out because you had?

Absolutely. That's what they have said. Because of what I have said

has given them that courage and they belief and that strength to actually

come out and say it. Cheshire Police now say they are investigating. Is

this the tip of the iceberg, do you think? I've said it all along, it is

the tip of the iceberg. However, some people, it is going to take a

long time for them to come out or to speak, you know, there is no rush.

The police have started their investigation and I don't want to

put any pressure on anybody, you know, I came out with it a long view

to other people to survive from this and I can't thank the public enough

for what they've done, you know, it's brilliant. I can't thank them

for their support they're giving me. Andy told us he was disappointed

that Crewe hadn't spoken out about the abuse. Since then, the Crewe

chairman since 1987 told Dan Roan that an inquiry is underway.

Infuriated and very disappointed. , We are distressed. Looking back

now, was there anything you could have done at the time to prevent

this from happening? When we've done our inquiries and we've looked into

the detail of the various accusations, and we've considered

them all, then I'll be in a position to answer that kind of question. The

message to Mr Woodward finally? I'm very sorry for the distress that he

has been caused and wish him well. Steve Walters, who became

Crewe's youngest-ever player at the age of 16,

says he too was abused He told the Guardian,

"All these years I've had But I want closure, and I know this

move will help me move on." The Daily Mirror devotes its first

five pages to claims by the former Spurs and England star Paul Stewart

that a different coach abused him every day for four years,

until he was 15. He says his attacker got away

with it by threatening to kill his relatives

if he ever told anyone. He blames the abuse for drink

and drug problems He asked if I wanted

to drive the car. It started from touching and then

developed more and more into sexual abuse and the threats of violence

towards your family. If you were to breathe

a word to anybody. He said he was going

to kill your brothers? Of course all those years up

were playing at the top level, Paul Gascoigne and these

enormous household names, John Barnes, even as you were enjoying

great success, you were dealing with it and having suicidal

thoughts as a result? In football there are

lots of highs and lows, which you deal with as part

of the game, and I dealt with this It took me some years

to speak to my family about I struggled and still struggle

to this day with the I'm lucky that I have

a strong family. Because I don't really know

if I would have been The most difficult thing

is the fact I was unable to deal with the emotions and I still

struggle with that today. I don't feel it's

fair on them but I'm They always say it's just Dad,

but at least with this story they may be able to understand

as well some of the repercussions of

what happened and why I've been how I've been

and how I am with them, I haven't spoken of this in-depth

as much as I've spoken to Since Friday the emotions have been

like a roller-coaster. I don't know, moving forward,

whether it is going to be a help to me or not,

but one thing for sure was that I knew I had to tell my story

and the truth about what happened And hope it will either prevent

anybody else trying to do this and also if it is just one person

or six, seven or eight people come forward and it happened to them

and it helps them, I believe it And it's worth pointing out that

despite that message in the top left of the video,

the Mirror did give us permission to use that interview,

and Paul Stewart had waived his right to

anonymity to speak to them. Later in the programme we'll hear

from abuse charities about the impact players

speaking out has had. Darren Lineker has tweeted, I wish

Paul Stewart all the very best, extremely courageous in telling his

appalling story. This morning, in an exclusive

interview, the husband of a schoolteacher who was murdered

by a pupil in her classroom in April 2014 says he thinks it's possible

that lives could still be at risk in British schools until we know

all the facts of the circumstances William Cornick was sentenced

to spend a minimum 20 years in prison after pleading guilty

to murdering his Spanish teacher Ann Maguire

when he was 15 years old. It was revealed that he had

expressed his hatred of his teacher and his desire to kill her and other

teachers on social media and in person to other youngsters

on several occasions in the five She was just always a teacher

you could approach, even if you weren't with her,

she always made herself To pay my respects to somebody

who is truly amazing, she deserves every kind of respect

anyone can give her. It wasn't like finding

out a teacher had died, it was like finding out

a relative had died. No amount of punishment can ever

compensate for the loss of Ann's life, no amount of punishment can

compensate the family for what we've lost in our beautiful, selfless,

caring and compassionate sister, Speaking exclusively

in his first in-depth interview, Ann Maguire's husband

Don Maguire is here. Tell us a bit about your wife,

and what she was like? She was the nicest person you could

imagine, she was very special. She was very caring, cheerful person.

She lightened the mood wherever she went. She was very much a people

person. She spent her life sorting people's problems out and making

them feel better. She had the power to change, to transform and, for

some people, including myself, be life changing. What did you think of

the review into her death, which concluded that nothing could have

been done to prevent it? I think the fact that she was such a special

person is part of the problem, in that it is so hard to understand.

For this to happen to Ann at this school has always been of great

puzzlement. The review was very disappointing. It is a massively

missed opportunity to really learn lessons. The review did not talk to

pupils who had spoken to William Cornick, and the reason why, it said

it thought it was unnecessary, it would have been traumatic for the

youngsters and would have been counter-productive. Do you

understand that? Did you think they made the right decision? Terms like

unnecessary and counter-productive, I think that statement is a little

bit emotive and unfounded. We are speaking about a learning

lessons review that has been based on the premise that no pupil was

harmed physically or psychologically. I have to take it

from that that trauma is not of a particular problem, and the idea

that a group of people are all equally traumatised and maybe for

some of them it would be beneficial to actually have the opportunity to

discuss the details. Not just that pupils were aware of what he had

posted on social media, but actually on the morning of him killing your

wife he had shown those nights to other pupils. Yes.

The review makes the point that William Cornick was not known to the

police or two agencies or two people in authority. When they were doing

the review into him. But really, this was a boy who had made threats

continuously over months and maybe years, who carried a knife, who

carried a weapon on a regular basis. The police and agencies and those in

authority should have known about this boy.

Back to the police, more importantly is that this school had a permanent

police presence for five or six years. If William Cornick's friends

or peers don't tell adults, he has got a knife, how can they know?

A teacher's job is of knowing what is going on in their domain. They

should know in the normal course of events. But he was doing it in a

very continuously open way. It must have been part of the information

out there. You are asking me, why didn't anybody here this? I don't

know. Is that not the job of the review and the authorities to look

into deeply and properly? You say it is a missed opportunity, the review.

What do you want to see in the future? I have seen Leeds City

Council, the leader and the Chief Executive, and expressed the view

that in my opinion this was a hugely missed opportunity on a national

level. This is the first case of his side, -- of its type, it is similar

to some American cases. This was a disaffected youth with an agenda, it

was premeditated and planned. We have a duty as a nation to find out

as much as we possibly can, because it is only then that we know we have

learned the lessons. I think it needs to be looked at from a

national governmental point of view, and there should have been a full

enquiry ordered into this incident in the first place. Until that

happens, do you feel that teachers, perhaps pupils, their lives are at

risk? Ann was not safe on that day in a school.

So how one could say that schools are safe now, we have had the court

proceedings, the judge's summing up, this learning lessons review, we

have been to the coroner, and he has agreed to reopen it, but only on

Monday a different coroner has reduced the scope and the areas of

William Cornick of the inquest. -- the areas of inquiry. He has

downgraded its likely. We are not going to look at the areas that hold

most information and the possibility of most learning. The Department for

Education say they can't make a decision about whether enquiries are

necessary until the coroner has reached his or her seclusion. We met

with Nicky Morgan last year. The former Education Secretary. It was

the same point then. I did stress as best I could at the time that this

was an inappropriate review. And there were certain worrying aspect

about the organisation and the process being carried out. She

ignored all of those. She was determined to wait for this. The

fact that it is such a disappointing review and it is simply wasting

another two years, and now, the coroner's inquest seems to have been

downgraded slightly, we really do need somebody on this day to be

brave and say, let's look at this properly. Let's not leave anything

on checked -- on checked that we can learn from this. It should not have

happened, and you have to try to guarantee it never happens again.

After undercover policeman Mark Kennedy admitted he'd

had sexual relationships with women while undercover -

An inquiry was set-up to investigate the practise. There are claims it

has been deliberately obstructed by the Metropolitan Police. We'll bring

you the details. And two more players come forward

following our exclusive interview with former footballer Andy Woodward

about abuse he suffered Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond,

is expected to announce plans to build more affordable homes,

increase the National Living Wage and ban letting agent fees

in England, when he makes his first In his first major economic

statement since the Brexit vote, Mr Hammond is expected to balance

bleak news on growth and borrowing with announcements on housing

investment and boosts Labour says the statement is likely

to be "too little, too late" The chairman of Crewe Alexandra

football club has confirmed that it's looking into historic

allegations of abuse involving Former Crewe Alexandra player

Andy Woodward told us last week in an exclusive interview that he'd

been raped hundreds of times by his youth coach Barry Bennell,

who was jailed in 1998. A second man has come forward to say

he too had been abused by Bennell. The chairman of a committee looking

into the collapse of BHS has asked the Pensions Regulator

whether assets can be seized from its former

owner, Sir Philip Green. Labour MP Frank Field has asked

whether the BHS pensions hole could be plugged by assets

other than cash. Sir Philip's assets include

a ?100 million super yacht. Pathology departments in NHS

hospitals are struggling to cope with rising requests for cancer

tests, according a new report. Cancer Research UK says record

levels of referrals aren't The Government says it's

investing in services. A 72 year-old woman

from Liverpool is being treated in hospital after being shot

in the leg last night. She was attacked as she stood

in the doorway of a house in the Netherley area by two men

on a motorbike. Scotland's Transport Minister

will make an emergency statement in Holyrood today,

after mounting criticism Dutch firm, Abellio, took over

the ScotRail franchise last year in a ten-year deal

worth up to ?6 billion, but ministers say it needs

to improve its punctuality and reliability or face

losing the contract. That's a summary of

the latest BBC News. Let's get some sport

from Leah Boleto. Spurs wake up this morning

knowing their run in They lost 2-1 to Monaco

with all the goals coming in the first five minutes

of the second half. Harry Kane's penalty wasn't enough

but they can still secure thrid place and a spot

in the Europa League with a draw Leicester City made history though

last night making the knockout This opening goal from Okazaki

setting them off for a win final Despite a man of the match

performance and two tries against Fiji at the weekend,

Semesa Rokoduguni has been left out of the England's squad to play

Argentina on Saturday. And Scotland's women's curlers

have qualified for next They won their six round robin

matches yesterday at the European It was a bad day for the Scottish

men though as they lost to both That's all from me for now.

I'll be back just after 10am. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond,

is expected to announce plans to build more affordable homes,

increase the National Living Wage and ban letting agent fees

in England when he makes his first Autumn Statement or mini

Budget later today. Our political guru Norman Smith can

tell us more. Thank you very much. What I think I

can tell you, it is not going to be a thriller in Manila! It is not

going to be a big bonanza giveaway. Why? Well, there ain't no cash, but

Philip Hammond is a cautious sort of politician. He is referred to the at

Westminster as box office Phil. A reference to the fact that he is not

showbizy. So what we can expect from box office Phil? Well, I think we

will get a benefits boost so he will ease the pain of cuts to universal

credits. There be road relief. ?1 billion more cash to each the pinch

points that make the daily commute a horror story and I think we might

also get a bit of hi-tech help. ?2 billion more for go ahead companies

in robotics and biotechnology, but it won't be a big rabbit out of the

hat moment which is in contrast to most Autumn Statements and Budgets.

Let's look at some of in recent years.

We shall continue to widen the band. We will make our progress towards

our objective, a 20 pence basic rate of tax for everyone.

We're going to get borrowing to fall zero. Inflation below 2.5% and a 20%

basic rate of income tax. This Budget puts us on a path to meet all

those goals and I commend, Mr Chairman, this Budget to the House.

The winter fuel payment, the universal payment, tax-free to all

pensioner households will be this ?200, and the year after that and

every single year of this Parliament. The new national Living

Wage will be compulsory. Working people aged 25 and over will receive

it. It will start next April at the rate of ?7.20. The Low Pay

Commission will recommend future rises and achieve the Government's

objective of reaching... Why is there going to be no pizzazz from

Philip Hammond? Well, he is warning of perhaps ?100 billion more

borrowing. His great fear, a big Brexit black hole. That might mean

no end to austerity any time soon. Could drag on well into the 2020s.

No tax giveaway. Nice cuts to income tax or VAT, that's off the agenda

and no extra cash for the NHS at a time when we know many, many

hospitals have been plunged into deficit. You think I'm being gloomy?

Well, have a listen to Philip Hammond a few days ago.

We have to maintain our credibility, we have an eye wateringly large

debt, we still have a significant deficit in this country and we have

to prepare the economy for the period that lies ahead, I

want to make sure the economy is watertight, that we have enough

headroom to deal with any unexpected challenges

However, there will be some winners. The people who Theresa May has

identified as just getting by. Those who are very often on Universal

Credit because the signs are, Mr Hammond is going to ease some of the

cuts that have been pencilled in by George Osborne which could mean

there could be between ?250 and ?500 a year better off, but still that is

fairly limited given the scale of cuts still to be imposed on those

who receive universal credits. ?4 billion worth pencilled in by the

last chancellor. Only around ?500 million being handed become bay this

chancellor. Let's talk a bit more about those

universal credit changes. Earlier we spoke to two Conservative

MPs who've been vocal crisis of the Government over

universal credit cuts - Iain Duncan Smith, a former work

and pensions secretary who introduced the Universal Credit

system and later resigned due to the Government's benefit cuts,

and Conservative MP Heidi Allen. There is two elements. One is as you

cross into work it has the work allowance which is like a tax

allowance. Which means you retain a certain amount of your benefit,

depending on whether you're disabled or whether you're a lone parent. At

that point then it is tapered away as you go up the hours. So it keeps

it simple. It allows you to adjust for individuals and the taper is the

same for all of those benefits within it. Whereas the moment you

can have withdrawal rates of 95 pence in the pound and 70 pence, at

the moment it is 65 and the Government is talking about reducing

it to 63 pence. Those two elements mean it makes it simpler, it is easy

to understand and it is automatic in the sense that you don't have to

keep reporting the changes in your salary, that's done automatically

through the system and that should take some of the stress out of that

process. We are expecting the new chancellor, Philip Hammond, to allow

people who are on Universal Credit to be able to keep more of their

benefits while in work. Effectively to reverse changes that Mr Osborne,

the previous incumbent brought in, do you support that? I do. I have

campaigned to put that money back into Universal Credit because the

thing about Universal Credit is it actually saves the ex-chordor money.

They end up being into the tax bracket earlier and they pay tax,

but they are in a better position and so they are more stable in work

and therefore, taking the money out is counter productive. So one of the

reasons I resigned from the Government and I felt it was the

wrong thing to do, so this is really a down payment. It is about a third

of the money that was taken out, going back in. It is a start. It is

not everything. I'll continue to campaign to complete that process of

investing in Universal Credit because it has the dynamic and right

effect on changing lives in the right way. Heidi, is this a watering

down of the austerity drive from the Conservative Government? It is. I

think it is a reflection of the life is at the minute. It has been

bumpier and more difficult to get out of the economic crisis, perhaps

than people realised. The way I've always looked at it because

Universal Credit, it's the people that run the engine of this country,

you know, it is the shopworkers, it is the teaching assistants and the

people on modest incomes, you need to keep them in work. If they don't

want to go into work, the whole economy stops turning. For me, it is

a slight watering down. It is a welcome one as Iain says it is the

beginning. But it doesn't reverse all the cuts. See how the economy

plays out and whether we need to look at that again. There is a

deficit, it is around ?63 billion. Why is it the right time to water

down the austerity drive? Because if these people don't stay in work and

don't increase their work, they don't start putting taxes into the

system. It is a snowball effect. You have to have everybody working and

contributing to an economy and if they stop working then the whole

thing slows down. Let me introduce Katie. Kate has two jobs. She has

been receiving ?200 to ?300 in universal credits until Monday. What

happened on Monday? They looked at the earnings that I had rather than

the hours that I had and said that I'm basically over the bracket to

claim any sort of benefits anymore. So they say you're earning too much

to get Universal Credit now? Yeah, that's right. Can you afford to live

on the wages that you get from your two jobs? I can afford to live at

the moment I can pay my rent and pay for food stuff. I can't save for

anything. I don't have any money to save. Right. What happened in terms

of the principle of keeping more of your Universal Credit? I think that,

you know, I understand that I have two jobs. A lot of people still

struggle to find employment. But on the basis of not letting me know

that my credit would just be cut on the day that I expected some money

coming, it was quite a shock. Does it incentivise you to do more hours?

Yes, I will always try to do more hours. I will always take on extra

shifts if they offer me, but it is hard to increase hours when you are

on a certainly hourly wage per week. Victoria, you are on Universal

Credit. Is it working for you? It feels very restricted. It feels my

options to going back to work and college what's the word? They are

very... Limited. Yeah, they are very leplted, sorry. Like Katie was just

saying, she is working two jobs. She is just had her's cut on Monday

because you know, she is earning so much and that's the same problem as

I'm having. I'm going to go to apply for jobs, and I'm finding out that I

can only earn up to ?160 a month so I have been limited to 16 hours, 20

hours. That is an issue. Yes. It is

difficult to know exactly what the circumstances are, but I think the

issue around the point at which you break free of the benefits system is

where we are, the benefit is tapering at until you are of it.

There is another element which is beyond Universal Credit, the rise in

the national living wage. The Government is committed to getting

that up to ?9 and hour, which comes up from below ?6 an hour when we

first came in, which will have a genetic effect, it will affect those

moving off Universal Credit, their incomes will rise faster as a

result. There is another positive. There is a reality, you are not

meant to stay on benefits forever, there is a point where you break

free, that is a positive thing, and I am pleased to see people want to

work more hours. With regards the issues around incentivising due to

go on, Universal Credit has a greater incentive, to hit people to

work more hours, because it is easy to understand and automatic. If

either of them are having an issue, they need to talk to the job centre

adviser, who now stays with them all the way through those hours, to

check that the calculations that are being made are correct, and they

have everything they are due. You are shaking your head. It says it is

to help and it is catered to as, but it is the opposite, it is robotic,

it is not catered to the person. Each person has different needs,

whether it is a single mother, but it is somebody who is a carer for a

parent, somebody who works part-time, all the same rules for

everybody, you are only allowed to add up to a certain amount. Where is

the incentive to go back to work if, as soon as you and that amount, it

is deducted? There is no earning anymore or getting a better career,

because it is stopped at ?160. You are talking about the work allowance

that allows you to own a certain amount of money before it starts

getting taken away. You may not have had this experience, but under the

existing system which Universal Credit replaces, you did not have

the same level of allowance inside tax credits. He would have been

locked to only 16 hours of work, because you would lose so much after

that. The point is you will not lose at any faster rate. Each category of

person, they have different amounts of money they can earn before that

is taken away, reflecting their own condition. A person in work would be

better off under this system than under tax credits. The Chancellor is

also expected to raise again, or bring forward the raising of the

threshold at which people will stop paying tax. That will help

everybody. What he was arguing for, and he was right, was rather found

those funds held in the tax allowance, we could pump it into

Universal Credit, but we have both, the raising of the threshold will be

for everybody. We have put in ?1 billion to help young ladies like

those we have talked to this morning. We have to bite of the

cherry, plus the national minimum wage going up. We are realistic

about the economy. Well done to Katie, two jobs, fantastic, she

knows she can pay her rent, but the Government is not there to pay your

savings for you. Good luck to both of them. But it is working through

the transition. Universal Credit will support them. Gifting them

slowly off the benefit they get more hours, and 20 wage goes up they

should feel the benefit. Coverage of the Autumn Statement

from 11:30am on BBC News. Thank you for your e-mails about the

safety of teachers in schools, after our interview with the husband of

Ann Maguire, killed in her classroom by one of her pupils. Tim says, I

was a teacher, working in design and technology, I was threatened by a

year 11 student with a Stanley knife who wanted to attack me. When it was

reported, nothing happened. When I left teaching, I was told it was my

responsibility to report the incident to the police. Later, the

police called me to say the boy was sorry and it was only a joke. I have

not fought since. Until there is zero tolerance, the type of incident

you are covering will always happen. Jeff says, it is only a matter of

time before it happens again. My niece was a teacher where children

carried knives and guns, she has since left because of our concerns.

Christine says, my daughter used to work in a junior school in London,

one day a parent walked into the classroom, picked up a chair, raised

it above his head and when to bring it down on her head. Her legs gave

way and she fell to the floor. Thank you for those. You can e-mail us.

You can message is on Twitter, using the hashtag, or there is always

Facebook. On this programme we've spent a lot

of time reporting on the work Many of you have expressed

surprise over the way some undercover cops had behaved

when they were investigating organisations and protesters

who might be threatening our In some cases police officers

had slept with women, We spoke exclusively to former

undercover cop Mark Kennedy, who'd spent seven years undercover

infiltrating protest groups. During that time he had more

than one sexual relationship The person I was in love with wasn't

really involved with situations where I needed to pass

intelligence about her. But if you needed to,

would you have done it? Would your loyalty have been

to the police or her? In those circumstances

I wouldn't have done that. Yes, you could say that, but I think

I was in a position where... She was a person that was very

independent and still is, I'm sure, and she is a person who would make

up her own mind and decisions about what she wanted to do,

and I totally respected that. If she did something

and she was arrested for it, that is very much her

way of doing things, and if that is what she wanted

to do, then she has to stand Some campaigners said that

by having this relationship, by sleeping with this

woman, they described it as state-sanctioned abuse,

as this woman could not give her informed consent to sleeping

with you because she didn't know Well, that is certainly something

that is being addressed by eight women who claim to have

had relationships with How do you feel about being accused

of state-sectioned abuse? I know the relationship we had,

it was one of the most I was lying about my name,

who I was, yes, and it is very difficult to know that she has been

hurt and she's terribly upset about that, and it's something

which I'm still finding very difficult to deal with,

and will for a long time to come. All I do know is that what we shared

and how we shared our lives for four and a half, five years,

was an amazing time in the sense that we both supported each other

through some very difficult times It is just very sad that the way

and how we fell in love happened As a result of the actions of

undercover cops like Mark Kennedy, an inquiry was set up,

and is due to report by 2018. But one of the women

who was in a long relationship with a man who didn't

tell her he was a police officer says the inquiry

is being deliberately That woman is called Lisa, not her

real name, she was in a relationship with Mark Kennedy, who you have just

seen, for six years. Also joining us is a formal Chief Constable from

Thames Valley Police. What has happened since two apology from the

Met? It has been almost a year to the day since we had that apology

made in public by the Met Police. Despite saying they are sorry, it

has not resulted in any disclosure of information about what happened

to us. Any victim of abuse will tell you that it is knowing what has

happened, that is as important as being told that the people

responsible are sorry. Until we get full answers about exactly what

happened to us, will be targeted, how we were targeted, where we

listened to, what information was gathered on us, until we get close

to those answers, we will not be able to put this behind us. Has

anybody been called to give evidence to this? No, nobody has given

evidence yet, they have not started taking evidence. They have said they

are almost ready, but even though it has been going on for 16 months, it

has just bogged down in application after application, starting with the

police applying to have the whole inquiry heard in secret, and every

time there is an these times -- these things take time to be

responded to. It is a painstakingly slow process. If that is why you say

they are deliberately obstructing it, because they are applying for

officers' identities to be kept secret? Yes, the attitude of the

police ever since I first confronted my ex-partner Mark Kennedy back in

2010, this political policing, these undercover scrutiny of protest

movement came to light, ever since they have been deliberately

obstructive. As part of our court case, which took five years to come

to justice, they fought us on every single point, every single step of

the way. That apology which came five years after we initiated the

action was really hard one. It was almost like getting blood out of a

stone. We are still no further to getting any answers. Everything that

the police are doing mirrors how they have acted in other enquiries,

for example Hillsborough, which took 20 years to get anywhere near the

truth. It is obvious to all of us involved that the police, their

prime concern is protecting themselves and their institutions.

John Humphrys knighted bit this morning. But you have my name wrong.

Is it right that the Met Police apply for their offices' identities

to be obscured? I can understand why they are doing it, but the principle

is often not confirming or denying, it is not admitting anything that is

going on in undercover, because it poses threats. But I have

considerable sympathy with Lisa's position. The police have got to

come off the fence and make their mind up about some of the core

issues, and be a lot more open about what has gone on in order to be able

to move on and put undercover policing on a more accountable

footing. They continue to say neither confirm or deny at every

turn. We will never get any justice. They still say they will neither

confirm nor deny the identity of the police officers for whose actions

they have already apologised. The two police officers that were part

of our case, the Met Police have apologised to the women who had

relationships with them, that they are still refusing to disclose their

names to the enquiry. On that point, if I may interrupt, in the past the

Met Police's barristers have said, undercover police officers and their

families are likely to face real harm if anything is disclosed that

tends to identify them, and will suffer the unfairness of losing a

lifelong expectation that their roles would not be made public. Is

that not made enough -- fair in of? It is fair enough to protect the

families who have been dragged into this, it was a policy that police

officers had to be married before they went undercover, and that shows

utter disregard for a whole other set of women and children. So you

agree? I agree that some level of protection needs to happen for those

families. But if you are still saying neither confirm nor deny for

people whose identity has been in the public domain for years,

absolutely everybody knows who those officers are, and no harm has come

as yet to those officers, people have been... Since 2010 there has

been revelation after revelation, and at the moment the inquiry are

relying on the victims of the abuse to bring it to light. The thing has

come for the police. How do we speed up this inquiry? It definitely needs

to be speeded up. It is doing nobody any good for this to be dragging on.

The Home Office has under resourced it, because the first obstacle that

needs to be overcome is helping Sir Chris Pitchford to make the right

judgment on the restriction orders. He will put restriction orders on so

that the stuff that relates to serious as and the heavy end of

undercover, have to be kept under wraps. He has got to find their way

to bring case-by-case in, the type of cases that have caused serious

public concern, in a way that does not disclose tech makes or pose a

threat to the officers and their families, and also does not imperil

current or future operations that are going on, which may be

connected. That is the difficulty of the balance, that it needs to be

resourced properly to get this done quickly so we can move to the next

stage and reach the final stage, where he is supposed to set a

framework for undercover for the future.

Let me bring you this news. A plain clothed police officer has been

stabbed in East London. It happened last night say Scotland Yard, a

group of three boys and one girl in their late teens stabbed this

officer. The officer is in a non-life threatening condition

according to Scotland Yard. A group of three boys and one girl stabbed a

plain clothed police officer last night according to Scotland Yard.

The officer's condition is not life threatening.

We have got the weather. Hello Carol.

How are you? Very well, thank you. How are you? I'm all right, but it's

freezing. Look at this view. One of our Weather Watchers sent us this.

How stunning is that? Beautiful. I'm going too show you different kinds

of weather. We had a lot of fog across parts of southern and

south-eastern England. Here is another one as well. Look at the

snow. We this is what fell yesterday on the hills! This is a good one of

Durham where it was cold this morning. Oh, my goodness wait until

you see the temperatures! Staffordshire, more cloud here. So I

have been telling you about the temperatures. This is what it's like

at the moment. It is still minus six Celsius in Braemar. Minus six

Celsius is pretty cold. In London it is plus seven Celsius. So when we

came in, it was lower than that too. Guess what? It is going to get

colder tonight! Get your central heating on! What we

have this morning is a real mixture of weather. We've got a weather

front coming in from the South East. That's producing some rain as it

comes across Kent and it will move in across East Anglia, heading down

towards the Isle of Wight. High pressure firmly in charge in the

north means clearer skies. We had them by night hence the low

temperatures Victoria and I have been discussing, but it means a lot

of isn't shine for Scotland and Northern Ireland and northern

England and that sunshine just pushing further south through the

course of the day. Elsewhere, we've got the thicker cloud. We've got

splashes of rain and we're looking at still the odd spot of fog that

might just hang around. So into the afternoon, lots of sunshine across

Scotland. These are the maximum temperatures, two Celsius in Glasgow

and Edinburgh. Belfast, lots of sunshine for you. A maximum of seven

Celsius. For Northern England, not as cold, a maximum temperature of

nine Celsius. Then we run into the cloud. There will be some rain

coming out of the cloud, but it will be fairly light and patchy. As we

drift across Wales and into south-west England, again, there

will be areas of cloud, some bright spells and some sunshine, but the

wind will be picking up all the time across the southern half of the UK.

With gusts to gale force in the English Channel. Along the coasts

adjacent to the English Channel as well. Further north, under the clear

skies tonight, it will be cold in the Highlands. We could see below

double figures. We won't have problems with frost or fog because

there is more of a breeze to move it along, but where we've got the

freezing fog, with hardly a breath of wind some of that will linger it

cannily, the western side of the Central Lowlands. So another

beautiful day, but a lot of sunshine tomorrow. That getting down into

Wales. Again, you can see a lot of cloud across parts of England

through the morning, but the wind will break that up and we will see

sunny spells develop and those are our temperatures. Ten to 12 Celsius

in the south. If you're stuck under the freezing fog, it may only get up

to minus one Celsius or freezing so you'll know all about that! As we

head into the weekend with high pressure in charge, beautiful day on

Friday. A cold start. A frosty one and some freezing fog patches here

and there. Saturday, again, largely dry. But a bit more cloud around.

Thank you very much, good morning. Hello. It is 10.05am, more support

for struggling families, funds to build affordable homes, a rise in

the minimum wage for people over 25 and reforms to Universal Credit are

expected to be announced when the Chancellor delivers his mini Budget

today. We will bring you the details. Following our interview

with former footballer Andy Woodward who revealed he had abused and raped

hundreds of times by his coach, two other players have waived their

anonymity. It started from touching and then developed more and more

with the sexual abuse and the threats of violence towards your

family really if you were to breathe a word to anybody.

Plus, they are a group said to said contain neo-Nazi and antisemites.

Who are America's so-called alt-right. Hail Trump. Hail victory.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Annita is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary The Chancellor, Philip Hammond,

makes his first Autumn Mr Hammond is expected to balance

bleak news on growth by announcing plans to build more affordable

homes, increase the National Living Wage and ban letting

agent fees in England. Labour says the statement

is likely to be "too little, Two more football players have

detailed the abuse they experienced as boys at the hands of former

Crewe Alexandra youth Two other players have waived their

right to anonymity. One of them, Paul Stewart,

spoke to the Daily Mirror In football there are lots of highs

and lows which you dealt with. I dealt with this inwardly alongside

that. It took me some years to talk to my family about it and my wife

and yeah, I struggled and still struggle to this day with the

issues. I'm lucky that I've got a strong family unit around me because

you know, I don't really know whether I would have been around

today. A group of teenagers stabbed a

police officer who was off duty last night. Three boys and a girl

attacked the police officer near a pub in Bow. He is in hospital with

nonlife threatening injuries. US President Barack Obama has

awarded his last Presidential Medals of Freedom to a host of America's

most famous faces. The medals are the highest civilian

honour in the United States. Among the 21 recipients

were Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Hanks, Mr Obama made a special

tribute to comedian Ellen DeGeneres for her influence

on the gay rights movement. That's a summary of

the latest BBC News. First lets start with

the Champions League because Tottenham are out

of the competition. They needed a win or a draw

against Monaco but they lost 2-1. All the goals coming

in the first five minutes of the second half and even

a Harry Kane penalty wasn't enough. They've got one more group match

where they could secure a third place finish and a spot

in the Europa League. Leicester City though made history

last night reaching the knockout Okazaki opening the scoring

for the Foxes with a stunning top They finish top of their group

with one more group match to play. Despite struggling in the boss

Claudio Ranieri is delighted Arsenal play Paris St Germain, but

they are already through to the knock-out stages.

Despite a man-of-the-match performance and two tries

against Fiji at the weekend, a player has been left

out of the England's squad to play Argentina on Saturday.

The Bath wing earnt only his second cap in the 58-15 win against Fiji,

Scotland's women have put themselves in a great position

at the European Curling Championship on home soil in Glasgow.

They won all of their first six round robin matches

including this 8-6 victory against Germany.

It means they have all but qualified for the semi-finals

and are guaranteed to finish high enough in the group to earn a place

They are playing their seventh game right now and they are 7-5 up

against the Czech Republic. Let me just show you one

more thing before I go. We've all seen players

missing an open goal but this this a striker for Serbian side FK

Lokomotiv, playing in a Belgrade zone

league match. Fortunately FK Lokomotiva

went on to win 2-1. So all was not lost! That's all from

me. I will be back with more after 10.30am. If Harry Redknapp was here,

he would have said, "My gran would have been able to score that."

This morning, in their first broadcast interview,

the family of a British man who died fighting against the so-called

Islamic State in Syria describe him as "courageous,

22-year-old Dean Evans from Reading died in July

in the Syrian city of Manbij, after joining the People's

Defence Units or YPG, a military group whose aim

was to protect Kurds in Syria from Isis.

Dean had been desperate to serve in the military after being rejected

by the British Army on health grounds.

Dean's step-dad, Steve Howell, bought him up from the age of six.

Steve and his wife Tracey Howell are with us now.

The first time he went to Syria, you had no idea, did you? We didn't, no.

He actually lied to us and all of his friends and his work colleagues.

He told us that he wanted to travel Europe, something that he had always

been interested in was Auschwitz and many things since he was a young

lad. We took him to the airport and he flew off, 13th March, my

birthday, I received a message saying, "Hi, Steve, it is Dean.

Sorry to let you know, but I'm in Syria. I joined YPG." We didn't know

who YPG, our concern was that he had gone to fight for Isis, not against

them. We thought this could be iffy for both of us and friends and

family. So we had to look into it and Special Branch were involved and

they came and they took Dean's laptop and bits and pieces away and

look to see if he had been radicalised, but he hadn't,

everything that Dean did was off his own back like you previously said he

wanted to be in the military, he was a top cadet, he loved his cadet

work, but we lost his mum in 2011. I took him on his 18th birthday to go

and join up with the British forces only for him to be told that he

couldn't join because he had asthma which was the biggest down fall for

him. When he got back then, from that, did you think that's that, it

is out of his system now Well, Steve found it very difficult to talk to

Dean when he came back. I caught him one day coming down the stairs and I

had said, "Dean, do you need it talk about what you did out there?" I am

the only person he was ever able to tell the full details to. And what

he saw and what he did was horrendous. At times they were

drinking stream water because they didn't have any clean water. Even

fighting back on his post with dysentery. It was pretty horrendous

for them. He felt very guilty towards me, the fact that he had

lied when he went the first time. That was the hurdle that we had

overcome. He told us we spoke openly with him, we were always open and we

speak from our hearts. If there is something in your heart, you have to

bring it out to be true to yourself. Dean always wanted to be a

soldierment he always wanted to have a uniform. He told us that he didn't

have any intentions to go back, no return to Syria. But when did that

change? Well, every time the TV came on and it had something to do with

Isis or something to do with Syria, it changed him. You could actually

see him change completely. He decided in his own heart, we had a

feeling that he wanted to go back, but he openly spoke to us and said,

"Look, I'm thinking of going back. I haven't made plans yet", but he was

in contact with other guys and girls that he fought with over there. He

literally said to us, "I am possibly going to return." We decided that we

all needed to come together as a family, my stepdaughter and her

boyfriend wanted to sit down with him and talk openly about

everything. So that he went with all of our hearts so that he went with a

clear mind with no regrets from home. He was a great lad. He was so

calm, and he was so collected, he was a loving lad and the stories

that we have had back since his passing, he died on the 21st July

from a rocket propelled grenade with Isis and he died with his female

team Khanneder from the YPA. I must admit we feel honoured to be part of

their community. We feel that we've extended our family thousands fold

more and Dean died a martyr. He always said to Tracey and I, I

wasn't there one day when he said to the family, "I would rather live a

short exciting life than a long dull boring life." That was his outlook.

We told him outright we did not want him to go. But this is a

22-year-old. You cannot stop them. It was not like it did not know what

he was going to, because he had been there before. From when I had

brought him up, when I got to know him, when I first came into his

life, his ambition was his ambition. As parents, step parents, I don't

believe in stepparents, we are all parents, we want the for our

children. He had something that he wanted to follow. Sometimes you

protect your kids from themselves, even if they are adults. But if you

close a door on them, they will find another one. If he had gone away

with the feeling that we wanted to stop him going, we would never have

been able to forgive ourselves that he went with animosity between us

and that is what we did not want. We had some laughs before he went. I

had a feeling that it was probably going to be the last time we saw

him, because of words he spoke to us. He said he wanted to leave a

will and he wanted everything right, so we did not have to worry about

things, he wanted it his way. The one thing he said was that he would

either die out there or he would stay until the end of the war, and

then decide what to do. The death came first. How would you describe

him? He was very quiet. With us. I have a son who is similar, ages to

come in from work, say hello, have dinner, we would chat like a normal

family, that he would go to his room. We would sit in bed at night

and you could hear him laughing and giggling on his PlayStation with his

friends, so I would class him as a normal lad, he would go to work, he

was never any trouble, he never got into any trouble. A hell of a

worker, he was a dairy farmer. He loved the job on the farm, he never

had to be called, he was always up, he went into work, he did extra

work, he loved the farm and the job, but he had so much time on his hands

driving the tractor, he was listening to the conflict going on

in Syria. And motivated I the injustices. I came into his life

five years ago. One of the first conversations I had was about his

mum. I wanted him to know that I was not trying to come in and be another

mum to him. At the time he was just 18. From having two children of my

own, you only get one mum. He had lost his will stop they were very

close. That was one thing that affected him in his life, losing his

mum. She was his everything. It was very hard for him to take, occurs he

was on the Rangers when his mum passed, and we had to pull him back

of exercise for me to tell him. She died very suddenly at 41, he could

not accept that. He realised that people were dying of a waste of

life, being killed in accidents. He felt life should be lived how you

wanted. He went over to Syria. He spoke openly before he went the

second time about how lovely the Kurdish people were, how the Syrians

have treated him like a human being from day one, we have learned from

some people that they don't just accept anyone, you have to learn

their trust, and he was phenomenal at gaining trust. He was what he

was. We dreaded him being martyred. He has been martyred. There are

thousands martyred. My belief is the blood of the martyrs will be the

foundations for a new Syria to rebuild Syria, and bring it back up

to what it should be, a free country for people to visit. We

wholeheartedly keep Dean in here and talk about him daily, because he was

extraordinary. Thank you for telling us about him, thank you for coming

on the programme. The head of a committee of MPs

examining the collapse of BHS has asked the Pensions Regulator

whether assets can be seized from its former

owner Sir Philip Green. Assets like that Jock, for example.

We will get reaction. We will get your reaction, thank

you. We have comments about the former footballers who have raised

-- waived their right to anonymity to talk about being abused as young

boys by coaches. Chuck says, the man of the match is Paul Stewart, for

his courage. Alf says, a sad interview with Paul Stuart, brave

and courageous, best which is -- wishes. One person says, I have a

similar story of being a victim by a football coach. I would have been

about 11, in the late 80s, for a Sunday league team in the Midlands.

The police were involved, he was later convicted. He was also further

convicted of being abusive towards other boys. Alan says, there are

ugly secrets, young lives ruined, I applaud all the players for their

coverage. The Chancellor will set out

a mini-Budget today, his first since he took up the role

after Theresa May One of the key pledges he's expected

to announce is a ban on up-front At the moment, tenants can be

charged fees for a range of administration,

including reference, Now, those costs will be

shifted to landlords, saving 4.3 million households

hundreds of pounds. The move could spur competition

as landlords, unlike tenants, can Lettings-agency fees have already

been banned in Scotland. Labour have welcomed the move,

but say it doesn't go far enough. Former Labour leader Ed Milband

on Twitter calls for a "cap It's an issue we talked

about on the programme last week. We commissioned a survey,

which suggested three quarters of people supported Government

regulation on issues such as letting-agent fees,

contract lengths, deposits and inventory checks,

and nearly three quarters said they would support rent control,

with the Government setting maximum Our reporter Chi Chi Izundu met

with people struggling Trevor is 68, he is living

on a state pension and housing benefit, which comes

to ?950 a month. His last move cost him

?4,000 in upfront fees. It is a very small kitchen,

it has not got a full So we have a small mini oven,

deep-fat fryer, a hot But with those things,

I can cook a full dinner Divorced in his 50s,

Trevor's ex-wife got the house, Last year, his landlord decided

to sell, and he had to leave I had a month to find

somewhere else. The biggest problem of that was

that it costs money to move. By the time you have put

down your deposit and you have paid rent in advance,

estate-agent fees, as a pensioner I don't have that kind of money

in a sock under the bed. If something had gone wrong,

I would be really in dire straits. I was devastated, because I had

not seen it coming. All of a sudden, I thought,

"I have spent five years making a home in this place,

and then all of a sudden I am being told to go, not

wanted here anymore." I could be asked to leave this place

and have to move all over again, with all of the financial

implications that has. At my age, I don't want

that kind of thing. We can talk now to the Shadow

Housing Secretary John Healey. Do you welcome this move to ban

the upfront fees imposed It is a good thing if that is what

we get, we will back it, we have been campaigning for it for several

years. The Chancellor may have a problem with some of his MPs, cos

they have voted to block this several times. The Housing minister

recently we did it was a bad idea. He is wrong, and the people are well

ahead of the ministers. If we get the announcement, it is a good

thing, but it is only a start to help private renters, who are often

finding it really tough to survive. It may be a distant memory, but what

the Labour Government do for private renters? One thing we did in the

last year was to bring in a system that allowed councils to license

private landlords, so they could crack down on the road landlords and

improve standards across the board. Did it work? Yes, but the Government

has made it more difficult and it is stopping councils doing this. It is

what I wanted to the Government doing instead of stopping. They

should also bring in, as we have argued, longer tenancies, and with a

break to extreme rent rises during these periods. The letting agent

fees are a start, but in the end we have to do a great deal more to

build more affordable homes, for people to buy and rent. Why did you

not do something about tenancies when in power, or about the cost of

private renting? We did. We started to crack down on the worst of the

landlords, we started to make sure there were consistent standards

across the board, but even in the last six years the situation has got

worse, we have 11 million people who are private renters, and the people

that worry me most of the fact that we have one in four families with

kids that are in private rented homes, and many of them may face the

same thing as Trevor, a notice to quit within a month. It is the lack

of security, and often rapidly rising costs but they cannot

control, which require the Government to step in and do more

than ban letting agent fees. If you rent, really keen

to hear your views on plans to ban up-front letting-agent

fees in England. I cannot imagine anybody would

disagree. Also keen to hear from you if you

run your own business in the UK. What do you want to hear

from the Chancellor? Let's talk to four business owners

to test the economic temperature Jo Smedley is the MD

of murder-mystery-games entertainment company

Red Herring in Grimsby. Anthony Impey runs tech

company Optimity, employing Jude Jennison is the founder

of the Leadership Whisperers, a management-training

company in Warwickshire. Lynette Deutsch is the CEO

of Executive Recruitment and coaching company Endaba

here in London. You are here to help us test the

economic temperature from your own point of view. How has business been

since the referendum vote in June as Mac --? Initially we had a drop in

sales post Brexit, but it has picked up again. We have spent a lot of

time working with UKTI, the Department for International trade,

trying to make is resilient, so we have seen more export. What about

you? There is a general level of uncertainty that we have encountered

amongst our clients. People are putting off making decisions. The

impact possibly is not as significant as we had expected. But

if your clients are putting off decisions, what impact does that

have on your business? It slows down our growth, we were growing quickly

prior to the vote, and we saw a bit of a tailing off, but not a

collapse. Confidence is generally stable, but all of the business

owners that I speak to our cautious about the future and everybody is

taking steps to protect what might happen at some point in the future.

You are both nodding, you both cautious? I don't know that we are

ever cautious. One of the challenges of running a small business is you

cannot be cautious, it is the hardest job you will ever do, and

what it creates is both a challenge and an opportunity. We specialise in

leading through uncertainty, so for us this is our bread-and-butter. But

what we found is that clients have pulled back, and that has an impact.

It means that we have to have much more creativity and innovation is a

small business, and we can be much more agile and fast-growing and see

it as an opportunity to find new markets. Very similar. Ours started

just before the vote, a lot of our clients stopped doing anything. They

used it as an excuse to put things on hold. When the vote occurred,

they panicked. But since then, they realised the sky. Collapsed, and --

they realised the sky has not collapsed. We are a service

provider, very similar to Judy, and to Anthony. You find yourself being

inputted by them. If you put things on hold, we are impacted, but it's

all about the opportunity. Business as usual is the uncertainty -- is

the answer. When you look ahead to next year, do you have any concerns?

We are thinking of taking on a new staff member, but it is too early to

decide whether we want to go ahead, because we don't know what will

happen with the markets. We need to make sure we have enough money to

pay them through the year, I don't want to take some of the on and have

to let them go. You all agree. You are coming across similar issues? We

need skilled people for our business to grow, so our biggest obstacle to

growth is that we cannot recruit the skills that we need. My biggest

concern concerning Brexit is that people of high skilled and mid

skilled talent we have the moment disappears as European workers

return to their countries and we are left with not enough high skilled

people in the Labour force in order to support particularly small and

medium-sized businesses. We are exposed.

We are led to believe that if you have those kind of skills you are

always going to be welcome. I think that's certainly the impression that

we give. I think the fact of the matter is no one knows and for as

long as nobody know there is uncertainty and really echoing what

Joe is saying, it is difficult to plan for the future. So I think

that's a big challenge. I think that's the challenge. We are living

in a time of great uncertain rit and that uncertainty is going to be the

new norm. So how we cope with the uncertainty is going to be the key

to how successful we are going forward. Go on. I don't envy you, I

really don't. It is flexibility, creativity and adaptability and

rather than saying, "What could have been and what should have been." It

is about looking forward. We've got to crack on. You also have to have

courage. A lot of big businesses today they hunker down and I think

one needs to be able to step into the unknown and do it courageously

and we have to give it a go. If it works great, and if it doesn't...

You learn from it and one has to look at the opportunities. We really

do. We're growing internationally and that is helping a little bit,

you know, we also want to take on new people, but the costs are

growing and so, but it is all about being agile and innovative and

constantly being relevant. If there is one thing, let me ask you

quickly, one thing you would want to hear from the chancellor, Jo, what

is it? An actual plan. We don't have any plans so you can't make any

decisions. I don't think you will get a Brexit plan. Anthony

Commitment to investing in skills. Confidence that we can lead through

uncertainty. He will say that. But real confidence and mean it and

embody it. Greater clarity. On? On everything. That would be amazing!

Yes, it would. He will stand up after PMQs, so let's look out for

the clarity. All the best with your businesses,

of course, thank you. The Government says measures to help

low-paid workers will be focus of the chancellor's

Autumn Statement, this afternoon. pounds fifty an hour,

and will reduce some of the proposed He's also expected to say that more

affordable homes will be built, and up-front letting

agents' fees banned. The shadow Chancellor,

John McDonnell, said more investment The chairman of Crewe Alexandra

Football Club has confirmed that it's looking into historic

allegations of abuse involving Former Crewe Alexandra player

Andy Woodward told us last week in an exclusive interview that he'd

been raped hundreds of times by his youth coach Barry Bennell,

who was jailed in 1998. A second man has come forward to say

he too had been abused by Bennell. A 72-year-old woman

from Liverpool is being treated in hospital after being shot

in the leg last night. A group of teenagers stabbed an off

duty police officer in is London last night. They attacked the

plainclothes police officer near a pub yesterday evening. He is in

hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. What else do you know? The

policeman was on a preplanned operation, but he was plainclothes.

The Dukes would not have known he was a policeman when they approached

him. He was in an alleyway near the Bow Bells pub in East London. They

approached him just before 9:30pm. He suffered three stab wounds. He

was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The

police don't know if it is linked to another incident in which a motorist

was threatened with a knife outside the Devens Road rail station. They

are appealing for witnesses. I mail is in custody, his age is unknown,

he was arrested on attempted murder, but it is not able to be a terror

related incident. Let's get some sport

from Leah Boleto. Harry Kane's penalty was not enough,

but they still can secure a third place position and a spot in the

Europa League with a draw in their final group match.

Leicester City made history last night making the knock-out stages

for the first time ever with this opening goal. Despite a Man of the

Match performance and two tries against Fiji, a key player has been

left out of England's squad to play Argentina on Saturday. Scotland's

women have continued their 100% record at European Churlg

Championships in Glasgow. One more line for you, in the last

half an hour, Fifa's disciplinary committee announced the opening of

proceedings against the Irish Football Association and the

Football Association of Wales. This is in relation to incidents

involving the display of poppy symbols during recent internationals

and of course, we will bring you more on that on the BBC News Channel

throughout the day. From me, that's all for now.

Donald Trump has repudiated the fringe "alt-right" group that

celebrated his election win with Nazi salutes.

Hail Trump. Hail our people. Hail victory. They hate political

correctness and femmed nism and love Donald Trump. Their critics say they

are nothing, but bigoted white nationals, who are the Alt-right?

The Alt-right came to pram nans during Donald Trump's long election

campaign, it is a desperate group of people with no official organisation

or leader. They are nationalist and they are antiestablishment. Their

followers are fond of internet pranks and using offensive messages

to goad their enemies on both the right and the left. The movement has

branches in other countries, include in the UK. Many of them are huge

supporters of Donald Trump. During the election campaign Hillary

Clinton criticised Mr Trump for his ties to who she called the rising

ideology of the Alt-right. From the start Donald Trump has built his

campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream.

Many people within the movement admitted to attract some races, but

deny that's the main theme of the movement's idea. This is how some

Alt-right celebrated Donald Trump's election win. Hail Trump. Hail our

people. Hail victory. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

The man you saw speaking there was the group's leader, Richard spap

Sensor. He wasn't elected on Obamacare. This is why he was

elected is because he was the identity president. We know Muslims

hate everyone... Alt-right have got the support of this man, he runs the

Breitbart website which has been linked to the Alt-right movement.

You can define it to include classical liberals, leftists,

ordinary Conservatives and this new, young, very, very energised youthful

contingent that have suddenly become interested in politics again. Donald

Trump has appointed Stephen bannon the editor-in-chief of the Breitbart

website as his chief strategist. Now Mr Trump has distanced himself from

the group which celebrated his election win with Nazi salutes. In

an interview with the New York Times he said, "I condemn." . Condemn

them." We can talk now to Scott Lucas who

is Professor of American Politics Who are the Alt-right? Let's call it

what it is. Whether you call it white identity, while nationalism,

this is a movement which we have seen in the new media age, but it

does happen to older movements. Where I grew up we had white citizen

leagues and this is not true of all people who support Donald Trump or

the views of white supremacy, this is a group that's anti-Muslim and

anti-Semitic and sometimes anti-Catholic and sometimes

anti-women. As your reporter made clear, it is not separate from

Trump's campaign. It is there through Steve Bannon who said

Breitbart News is a platform. Now Mr Trump has distanced himself from

them, is that enough? No, Trump was being naive or deceptive because

Trump said, "I would never have hired Steve Bannon if I thought he

was Alt-right." Steve Bannon has openly said he is part of the

Alt-right and that he promotes it. He said so in August, a week before

he joined Trump's campaign team. So, no, Trump is trying out a bit of PR

yesterday, but he has not effectively distanced himself from

the movement. Do you think that the number of white people in America,

at any point, is going to become a minority and therefore the Alt-right

movement is only going to continue to grow? Well, the first question is

almost certainly is that because of the expansion of other groups,

African Americans, Hispanic, and marbian-Americans, there will be a

more diverse America where whites are not the majority. Does that mean

the Alt-right become stronger? It is up to Americans. Americans can take

a stand and say, "Look, we are not simply going to be a white identity

nation. We believe in defending the rights of all people whatever their

colour, whatever their religion. " It is going to have to be a

grass-roots response to really confront some of the more extreme

elements that you talked about your video about the money which is

saying a country for whites and no one else. Thank you very much. Thank

you. Scott Lucas, Professor of American politics at the University

of Birmingham. Meanwhile President Obama has

praised American comedian Ellen DeGeneres for her influence

on the gay rights movement as she received the country's

highest civilian honour. Ellen DeGeneres has a way of making

you laugh about something rather than at someone! Except when I

danced on her show, she laughed at me!

LAUGHTER But that's OK. It is easy to forget

now, when we've come so far, or now marriage is equal under the law,

just how much courage was required for Ellen to come out on the most

public of stages almost 20 years ago, just how important it was. Not

just to the LGBT community, but for all of us to see somebody so full of

kindness and light, somebody we liked so much, somebody who could be

our neighbo or our colleague or our sister, challenge our own

assumptions and remind us that we have more in common than we realise,

push our country in the direction of justice. What an incredible burden

that was to bear, to risk your career like that. People don't do

that very often. And then to have the hopes of

millions on your shoulders. But it is like Ellen says, we all want a

chip that can support the weight of guatmoli which really makes no sense

to me! LAUGHTER

But I thought would break the mood because I was getting kind of choked

up! She did pay a price, we don't

remember this. For a pretty long stretch of time. Even in Hollywood.

And yet today, every day in every way, she counters what to often

divides us with the countless things that bind us together and inspires

us to be better. One joke, one dance at a time.

Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro and Michael Jordan were among the 21

recipient of the presidential medal of Freedom.

News Justin, the jury trying the case of Stephen Porte, accused of

killing four young men with fatal doses of the date rape drug -- GH B,

is beginning to return some of its verdict. In the last minute he has

been found guilty at the Old Bailey of the murders of three men. The

alleged serial killer has been found guilty in the last couple of minutes

of the murders of three young men. He was on trial, accused of the

murders of four men with fatal doses of the date rape joke GHB. -- drug.

There are verdict is still to come in, but a jury has found him guilty

of the murder of three men. I am just hearing that the jury has also

found him guilty of three rapes as well. They are considering other

charges as we speak, we will bring them to you when we have them.

Two more footballers have waived their right to anonymity

to reveal the abuse they suffered at the hands of a youth coach.

The story has emerged following our exclusive interview

with former Crewe Alexandra player Andy Woodward, who told us last week

he'd been raped hundreds of times by former youth coach Barry Bennell.

Andy spoke to us again yesterday and said he'd spoken to six players

who've since told him they too have experienced abuse.

I have been inundated with not only be six people that I have spoken to

directly, but also direct messages from other players who have told me

that... So many stories, heartbreaking, I have been so

emotional. They are harrowing, they have reached out to me and thanked

me so much for coming out originally. It has given them that

faith. You have spoken to six, but other contact via Twitter. In total,

how many people have got in touch with you? Several people that have

contacted me. I can't put a number on it. They vary in what they have

said. They all footballers? Yes, former footballers. Did they say

that they found the courage to speak out because you had? Absolutely,

that is what they have said, because of what I said, it has given them

courage and belief and strength to come out and say yet. Cheshire

police say they are investigating. Is this the tip of the iceberg? I

have said it all along, it is. But some people it will take a long time

for them to come out or speak. There is no rush. The police have started

their investigation, and I don't want to put pressure on anybody. I

came out with a long view for other people to survive from this. I

cannot thank the public enough for what they have done. It is

brilliant, I can't thank them for the support they have given me

enough. Andy Woodward also told us

he was disappointed his old club Crewe hadn't spoken out

about the abuse. Since then, John Bowler,

the Crewe chairman since 1987, told our sports editor Dan Roan

an inquiry is underway at Crewe into the crimes Barry Bennell

committed while at the club. Infuriated. And very disappointed.

Your message to the victims? We are understandably distressed for them

and by the accusations that have been made. Looking back, was there

anything you could have done to prevent this? When we have done our

enquiries and looked into the detail of the various accusations and we

have considered them all, then I will be in a position to answer that

kind of question. Your message to Andy Woodward? I am very sorry for

the distress he has been caused and wish him well.

Steve Walters, who became Crewe's youngest-ever

player at the age of 16, tells the Guardian he too

He told the Guardian, "All these years I've had

But I want closure, and I know this move will help me move on."

The Daily Mirror devotes its first five pages to claims by the former

Spurs and England star Paul Stewart that a different coach abused him

every day for four years, until he was 15.

He says his attacker got away with it by threatening

to kill his relatives if he ever told anyone.

He blames the abuse for drink and drug problems

He asked if I wanted to drive the car.

It started from touching and then developed more and more into sexual

abuse and the threats of violence towards your family,

if you were to breathe a word to anybody.

He said he was going to kill your brothers?

Of course, all those years you were playing at the top level,