16/05/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten - Labour's manifesto is unveiled,

promising ?48 billion worth of extra spending on public services.

At the launch in Bradford, Jeremy Corbyn says Labour is proud

of its blueprint for a better future and an end to Government

Our proposals are of hope for the many all over this

country and I'm very proud to present our manifesto -

Among Labour's plans is nationalising the water

companies in England, along with rail, and the Royal Mail.

We'll ask people in Bradford what they think of higher taxes

Seems that the rich are getting richer and the poor

Because I'm in the higher tax bracket and I pay

And we'll be looking at claims that Labour's tax and spending

President Trump denies that he shared highly

sensitive US intelligence with the Russian Foreign Minister.

We had a very, very successful meeting with

The cost of living increased in April at the fastest rate

in nearly four years, overtaking the rise in wages.

Police say the search for the body of Keith Bennett will not end,

despite the death of his killer, the Moors murderer, Ian Brady.

I'll be reporting from Jordan, on a remarkable scientific venture

that's bringing together countries you'd noshlly think of as enemies.

And coming up in Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News:

it's a pivotal night in the Premier League,

as a race for a top four finish becomes a lot clearer.

With just over three weeks to polling day,

Jeremy Corbyn said Labour would build "a better

future for Britain", ending Government for

The manifesto includes pledges costing some ?48.5 billion pounds

by increasing taxes on business and higher earners.

Labour wants to nationalise the railways, the water

The party wants to scrap university tuition fees in England.

It would reverse some of the cuts in welfare benefits and end

And it would invest an extra ?37 billion

But Labour's opponents say the figures are not credible,

as our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports.

Here it is - Labour's proposed contract, with you.

A massive moment for the man, who two years

I'm delighted to introduce to you, the Leader of the Labour Party

and our next Prime Minister, Jeremy Corbyn.

A plan he believes the country needs.

Whatever your age or situation, people are under pressure,

Listing plenty of crowd pleasers here.

Labour will scrap tuition fees, lifting the debt...

Labour is guaranteeing the triple lock

And, Labour will take our railways back

into public ownership and put passenger's first.

More childcare, more cash for the NHS, too.

Paid for by the richest 5% and taxes on business.

With nearly ?50 billion of extra spending, paid

We're asking the better off and the big corporations

And, of course, to stop dodging their tax obligations

The Tory campaign, by contrast, is built on one word, "fear."

For good or for ill, you think it's time to pay

for your ideas, to tax more, to spend more, and to borrow more.

Do you know what - every other country in the world says,

why does Britain invest so little and pay itself so little,

while it allows such grotesque levels of inequality to get worse?

Let's turn it around and do it the other way.

Do you think the public are going to go for something

I think those earning over ?80,000, paying a little bit more to pay

for our health service and our children's education,

I think that they'll be positive and supportive of it.

The manifesto that you've got there, Laura, is full of really,

really popular policies and I am fighting harder, as is every Labour

candidate, for a Labour victory, for a Labour Government

Do you really believe he's up to the job now?

Jeremy Corbyn is a leader who's had to fight to keep his job

since he started but broadly the manifesto is built in his image.

The manifesto is the biggest hypothetical expansion

But how exactly would his ideas work?

Why in this manifesto is there no scale, no ballpark figure for how

How much are you prepared to borrow renationalise four major industries?

Because we don't know what the share price will be

As I said in the case of rail, there is a neutral cost

I believe in the case of water, the same would apply

On the other side of the equation, you haven't promised to reverse

Now for some of your supporters, do you accept that might be

No, what I've said on the welfare cuts and cap issue is this -

that we have set aside ?2 billion to deal with the worst

effects of the benefit cap, which will help a lot.

So you are not reversing the whole thing but you are making some...

You will see a lot of changes on it but bear in mind we've had two weeks

in order to prepare all of these policy issues because of the speed

at which the election has been called.

well-thought-out and a very credible manifesto in a very

I think we deserve some credit for that actually

There's never been a question that he can pull a crowd.

Rapture down the road in Huddersfield.

But Jeremy Corbyn has three weeks to be heard across the board.

Politics is not just who can shout the loudest.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Bradford.

Labour has said it will pay for its spending plans

through a combination of extra borrowing and tax rises.

At the same time, the manifesto commits the party to eliminating

the deficit on day-to-day spending and to bringing down the amount

Our economics editor Kamal Ahmed has been looking in more detail

It's Labour's big offer to the voter. An extra ?25.3 billion for

education. Enough to build 1,000 schools. 7.7 billion for the NHS,

that's quite a few hospitals, and a ?4 billion pay rise for the public

sector. Add in other commitments on policing and the minimum wage and

the grand total of new spending, ?48.6 billion.

The question Labour was asked today - how to pay

The bulk will come from new business taxes.

Corporation tax will be increased from 19% to 26%.

Labour says that will raise nearly ?20 billion, although

There will be a new levy on firms that pay employees over ?330,000.

Labour says that will raise ?1.3 billion.

Those earning above ?80,000 will pay a tax rate of 45p in the pound.

If you earn above that amount, you could be worse off

For those earning ?123,000, the rate rises to 50p.

- around ?500,000 - tax bills would increase by ?23,000.

Some are sceptical that Labour's numbers add up.

In the end, raising tax does bring in more money and if you put all of

Labour's tax plans together, that would raise quite a significant

amount of money, not I think as much as they're hoping because corporate,

companies would change their behaviour, individuals would change

their behaviour, but the scale of the changes are so big there would

be some money, for sure, coming in. Labour has also said

it wants to borrow ?25 billion a year more

than the present Government. That money, which will add

to the national debt, will be spent on high-speed

railways, broadband, Will that injection

of new money boost the economy? With interest rates so low, there is

a reality opportunity to borrow at record low rates, which means you

can pay it back and it also means the Bank of England is not able it

stimulate the economy, as we would hope it would do. Right now, invest

of this kind to get the economy moving to build the roads and

infrastructure we need is really welcome. It is a very different

prospectus. More tax spand, less balance the books. Labour has also

said it wants to renationalise water companies, the railways and the

Royal Mail and costs are attached. If nothing else, the choice on June

8th is certainly, now, a clear one. As we've heard, Labour is promising

to renationalise parts of four key industries -

rail, electricity, Royal Mail, and England's water

companies, if it wins power. Water was privatised

by Margaret Thatcher back in 1989 and since then, bills have risen

by 40% above the rate of inflation. Our industry correspondent,

John Moylan, has been assessing what a return to public ownership

would mean for the water industry. We all need water, but for busy

households like this family near Despite attempts to cut back, their

annual water bill has doubled in the So Labour's plan to shake up

the industry received a Anything that can be done

to bring the prices down of water, to make it a service rather

than a for-profit offering, then Take a shower in Scotland

or Northern Ireland and the water comes from a

publicly owned firm. Turn on the tap in Wales, and your

water is from a not for profit But in England, the big water

firms have been privately It's these nine English

water and sewage companies with their reservoirs,

their treatment works and their pumping stations that Labour now

wants to bring back under public It says that these big regional

firms will no longer be paying dividends to shareholders

and that will help to reduce average household water bills

by around ?100 a year. Labour points to the rise in average

household water bills since They're up around 40%,

although they have come down But would public

ownership really make a They're already regulated

tightly by OFWAT. By the state, the

Government taking them back under full ownership,

the control you get is pretty marginal compared to what you have

at the moment. It will cost you tens

of billions of pounds to do so. Once Britain's great

industries were all state owned from the power sector,

to the railways, to Royal Mail to The Thatcher years pioneered

privatisation, selling state-owned assets to boost investment

and efficiency. Critics pointed to huge profits

and shareholder payouts too. Now Labour wants to see state

ownership returned to the railways, Sir Ian Byatt regulated

the water industry He still backs private

ownership but believes The dividends,

I believe, are too high. I believe that the prices

are too high and that the regulator should be

pushing prices down. The industry says it's invested

?130 billion over the years to deliver better services, but

unpicking decades of privatisation to deliver Labour's great

vision won't be easy. As we heard, Jeremy Corbyn said

Labour's manifesto was a programme of hope for Britain,

representing a step-change But what do voters make

of the emphasis on a bigger role for the state

and higher taxation for business Our deputy political editor

John Pienaar has talking No time to waste, enough selfies,

time for team Corbyn Is this manifesto a vote winner,

an election winner? It's proved to be extremely

popular, even when it was Now they've seen more detail,

it's even more popular. We're going to save the NHS,

we're going to reverse 23 days, one purpose for these

shadow ministers now. Just a short jog from Labour's big

launch, in this Bradford gym club it's clear Labour has

ground to cover. Labour under Jeremy Corbyn,

what do you think? I quite like his policies,

but I don't think they're doable. I agree, I don't

think they're doable. This is where the election's

being decided, here where millions of us make up our minds before

June 8. Not many, maybe not enough of us,

comb through detailed policy. But voters will decide should

the state own and do Labour has a lot

of popular policies. But the party has a lot

of people to persuade. Look, today, we're talking

about taxes on businesses, What do you think about the idea

of putting more tax on businesses, so we've got more money

for services? I think it's OK for the bigger

companies that can handle that. Smaller companies and new companies

that are just starting out, obviously they need space

and room to grow. I'm going to ask you, what do

you think about the Labour idea, Jeremy Corbyn's promise to tax

the better off more? Seems that the rich are getting

richer and the poor It's getting harder and harder

for the poor to obviously find jobs and provide a living

for their loved ones. Because I'm in the higher

tax bracket and I pay I don't think it's fair

for people who's doing well, making all the money to get

taxed even more. Are you being selfish,

because our services are short I'm sure they could do

cutbacks on other things. Labour's challenge under

Jeremy Corbyn is to convince the unconvinced, to ditch

the centre-ground policies that helped Tony Blair conquer middle

Britain and win three times It doesn't look easy,

that's because it's hard, very hard. Live to Bradford and our political

editor Laura Kuenssberg. Can we talk about the nature of the

choice that Labour has offered voters today? Well manifesto moments

are times in a campaign when voters sometimes think it is now I'm going

to listen. What they would have heard from Jeremy Corbyn was a very

clear choice, a very clear distinction between him and what the

Tories are putting on the table. His 21st Century brand of old Labour,

more tax, more spending and more borrowing, but to spend on the

things in this country that he believes voters need and that voters

really want. The question of course is how many people will believe him

when he makes that offer? How many people women find that appealing

when it is a real departure from the direction the Labour Party has been

in when it is a departure from the consensus of the fabled centre some

call it in politics for some time. Now in his view, the irritations and

anger and anxiety of Britain in 2017 do mean that voters are right and

ready for something that sounds very different. And he said to me when he

goes around the place he is encouraged and enthused by the

crowds. But there is a gamble of course, crowds on the campaign stump

don't necessarily translate into votes and remember not so long ago

in 2015, Ed Miliband made a few tiptoes to the left of where Labour

had been and he lost that election. Jeremy Corbyn is making a much

bigger step in the same direction. It is a gamble as to whether or not

the voters of middle England are ready for the policies he believes

will be popular. And if you needed a reminder of how big the challenge

that he may face will be, one of his biggest supporters, Len McCluskey,

the boss of the Unite union said it would be extraordinary if Labour was

able to do it. Thank you. In Wales, Plaid Cymru has

launched its manifesto, telling voters that Wales badly

needs a 'strong voice' during the Brexit process

to protect Welsh industry The Party leader, Leanne Wood,

said she wanted to ensure that Wales could continue to trade with Europe

without costly barriers. Policies include scrapping

business rates, creating a publicly-owned bank

and retaining the triple President Trump has been accused

of sharing classified information with the Russians during a meeting

in the Oval Office last week. The White House has responded

by saying it was 'wholly appropriate' for the President

to share information about the threat from

the Islamic State group with the Russian Foreign

Minister and Ambassador. But both Republicans and Democrats

have expressed concern that secret material was shared with Moscow,

said to be highly sensitive intelligence provided by one

of America's allies. Let's join our North America editor

Jon Sopel in Washington. This has been another bumpy 24 hours

for the White House with mixed messages and seemingly a new chapter

opened in the Russia saga. Tonight it is being reported that the source

of the delicate intelligence was the Israelis, although no confirmation

of that. But this weekend the president will fly to the Middle

East and he won't be the first president that hopes that a major

overseas trip will divert attention from his problems at home.

This meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador

coming a day after the sacking of the FBI director,

who had been investigating the Trump campaign's links to Moscow.

Now it's being claimed that during the meeting,

the President shared the most highly classified information

with his guests, so sensitive that America's allies,

As the White House once again scrambled to put out the fire,

the National Security Advisor last night emerged to say

At no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed

and the president did not disclose any military operations that

But then on Twitter this morning, from the president,

So once again, the general was sent out to face the guns and explain

What the president discussed with the Foreign Minister was wholly

appropriate to that conversation and is consistent with the routine

sharing of information between the president and any

And the president was sticking to generalities today.

We had a very, very successful meeting with

Our fight is against Isis, as General McMaster said,

I thought he said and I know he feels that we had

On Capitol Hill, the only reaction has been fury from Democrats,

and from Republicans willing to talk, a certain

I think we could do with a little less drama from the White House

on a lot of things, so that we can focus on our agenda.

Another influential Republican said the White House seemed to be

The president is frustrated, but it's hard to see

The rate of inflation rose last month to its highest

The Office for National Statistics says prices, as measured

by the Consumer Price Index, were 2.7% higher

It means the cost of living is now rising faster than wages.

Our economics correspondent Andy Verity is here.

For proof that people visiting the shops are feeling this? If you go to

the shops, you are probably used to the odd surprise, the price of fish

is up by 8%. Books are up 7%. The energy to heat the shop you go up by

6% and if you take the bus there is a rise in 10%. Some prices are going

down. Is to and games and petrol. But on average prices rose by 2.7%.

You compare that with the average pay rise, which was only at the last

count 2.2% and you can see that wages are not keeping up with

prices. Now we will have a further update tomorrow. We have had this

before, it looks familiar, the big squeeze on living standards between

2011 and 2014. That relaxed for two and a half years. But now it has

tightened again. It is because the Bank of England doesn't think that

wages are going up to beat inflation that it is not ready about inflation

becoming permanent. So no big rises in interest rates any time soon.

Thank you. Nine years after it was rescued

by the state during the financial crisis, Lloyd Banking Group

is returning The Government has sold

its remaining shares in Lloyds, ending one of the biggest

bail-outs of the crisis. At one point, 43% of

the company was state-owned. The re-privatisation of Lloyds

is expected to be officially Greater Manchester Police say

the death of the Moors Murderer, Ian Brady, won't stop them

looking for the remains of 12-year-old Keith Bennett -

the only one of his victims whose Brady and his partner Myra Hindley

abducted Keith in 1964 and refused to say where

he was buried. Brady was jailed in 1966

for the murder of three children and later admitted to

another two killings. Our correspondent

Judith Moritz reports. His name will always be notorious,

his face the image of evil - He took children

and tortured them and brought their bodies high up

to the hills above Manchester. On the desolate moors,

the police spent Brady's accomplice was his

girlfriend, Myra Hindley. Brady's death closes a chapter

of criminal history. The youngest, Lesley Ann Downey,

was just 10 years old. I remember when I sat

on the stairs in Hattersley and At their trial, the pair

were met with public jeers. Sentenced to life, Brady

was at first taken to prison, but in 1985, he was transferred

to Ashworth, a But he showed no sympathy

to the family of 12-year-old Keith Bennett,

whose remains were never located. It consumed the life of his mother,

Winnie, who died without knowing The police say that virtually every

week someone gets in touch purporting to be able to lead

them to Keith, but they're not actively searching

the Moors at the moment. They say though that they will never

close the case and Ian Yesterday, knowing his death

was imminent, Brady called his I don't think there was

anything he really knew or had any information that would

assist in the location of Keith Did Brady say anything

which would give the Today a coroner said that Brady's

ashes must not be scattered Bad enough that he had

taken his Saddleworth secret to the grave, controlling

and cruel to the last. A man who was arrested on suspicion

of conspiracy to murder a female police officer outside

the Libyan embassy in London in 1984 has been told

he won't face charges. Scotland Yard said key material

in the case of PC Yvonne Fletcher couldn't be used in court on grounds

of national security. More on the election campaign

and one of the key battle grounds in next month's vote is London,

which accounts for more than 10% of all Members of Parliament

and contains more than a dozen closely-contested

marginal constituencies. The city - because of its rapid

economic growth and complex social problems in some areas -

presents politicians with a unique set of challenges,

as our chief correspondent London - a fast-charging,

global city. A place apart from

the rest of the UK. Even the politics are different,

registering some of the strongest support for

remaining in the EU. But running through London

is a faultline between those living well off the global economy

and those left behind. London average house price is coming

in at 475,000, that's twice the Lucian Cook from the property group

Savills sees a great divide. If you look at what's

happened in London, it's dislocated itself from the rest

of the UK for a prolonged period. That means London faces a series

of housing challenges that are more It's about building

enough housing stock. If you look at London,

particularly in the lower tiers of the market,

we are not building nearly enough housing

stock. Along the river, a new development

where half the flats are It is a city of extraordinary

wealth, with public sector workers squeezed

over places to live. Amina works in the NHS

as a paediatric nurse. She lives with her

four children in a You do get demotivated sometimes,

you get angry, you get frustrated, because obviously having to work 12

hours and then coming home and not to even have your, you know,

a space to rest from the shift, even some of my colleagues that do,

sort of nurses, midwives, they can't really

afford to live and work London's public sector has

many similar stories - around half the Met's police

officers that patrol the capital There are just so many

ways that this city is Two million out of London's five

million workforce were born abroad. Immigration is part of this city's

identity and part of its lifeblood. Take this luxury hotel

in Leicester Square. It is totally dependent

on workers from abroad. London is a melting pot,

its flexible labour market a magnet Across our business,

we employ approximately 2,300 people, so it would be fair

to say that more than 50% of those And from the rest of

the world altogether? So in total probably around

80% we are looking at. The question that London asks

the politicians - if migration is reduced, where will the capital

draw its workforce from? The computers flowing

over London Bridge support a financial sector

employing 750,000 people. The city provides nearly 12%

of the UK's tax receipts. The Brexit negotiations hang over

the city, with some banks making plans to move part of their

operations to elsewhere in Europe. Uncertainty is what's causing City

firms to continue to build out their The longer those plans

are worked through in the fine detail, the more likely

that they will be put into action. London is the indispensable

city and at election time it provokes

different choices. The city's inequalities

boost the Labour vote. The prospect of a hard

Brexit troubles A city that depends

on outsiders is less Others look to the Tories

to deliver global Britain. London - a capital

with its own priorities. In Birmingham, a large bomb

from the Second World War Images taken by police show how

the explosion was controlled The discovery of the bomb has

caused days of traffic Scientists from different

parts of the Middle East, including Iranians, Israelis

and Palestinians, have been meeting in Jordan

for the opening of a new The Sesame Project is a particle

accelerator that acts It can study everything from cancer

cells to ancient artefacts. The laboratory is designed

to encourage collaboration between countries in the region -

whether or not they have stable diplomatic relations,

as our science editor In the dusty hills of Jordan

a gleaming new research centre many The Sesame Project brings together

scientists from countries you'd normally think of as enemies

and today they were celebrating the opening of the new laboratory to be

shared by the Middle East. It's an uneasy happiness,

because I know how fragile it is, but I still would

like to enjoy the moment. Inside is a giant machine

called a Synchrotron. Particles are fired at high speed

around a circular track, generating intense beams of light

that reveal It can is study plants

in a totally new way, investigate ancient manuscripts

like the Dead Sea Scrolls Gihan Kamel says the new

Synchrotron will transform You can even see things

that were beyond your What's remarkable is that this

project has been built with the help of countries that

sometimes don't have diplomatic relations, or are

hostile to each other. Yet now it's open, you're

going to get Iranian, Palestinian, Israeli scientists,

all coming here to do their I'm very proud to see that this

is happening and this is the biggest event, scientific event

in the region and Iran is supporting This is not going to bring

peace to the Middle East, but it's going to show people

that they can work together for a And in that sense, we are like

a small flashlight in the region. An Israeli scientist close

to a group of Iranians - somehow they do get along, while beyond

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