:00:00. > :00:07.Britain will leave the EU single market -
:00:08. > :00:13.Theresa may sets out her core demands for Brexit negotiations.
:00:14. > :00:16.She wants British laws to be judged in British courts, and new ways
:00:17. > :00:21.Brexit must mean control over the number of people who come
:00:22. > :00:23.to Britain from Europe, and that is what we
:00:24. > :00:30.The Prime Minister also had a message for other EU leaders -
:00:31. > :00:35.While I am sure a positive agreement can be reached, I am equally clear
:00:36. > :00:41.that no deal for Britain is better than a bad deal for Britain.
:00:42. > :00:44.Parliament will have a vote on the final deal, but already
:00:45. > :00:50.If all her optimism of a deal with the European Union didn't work, we
:00:51. > :00:52.would move into a low tax, corporate taxation,
:00:53. > :01:03.I'm not prepared for Scotland to be taken down a path that I firmly
:01:04. > :01:09.We'll be hearing the first reactions from across the EU.
:01:10. > :01:15.The Supreme Court gives this Libyan the right to sue a former foreign
:01:16. > :01:21.A jump in the cost of living - inflation hits a two-and-a-half-year
:01:22. > :01:44.Vinnie Jones will captain the six Nations squad with Sam Warburton
:01:45. > :01:55.told to fight for his place in the side.
:01:56. > :01:59.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:02:00. > :02:05.Britain will be leaving the EU single market.
:02:06. > :02:08.That was the clear-cut message from Theresa May as she set
:02:09. > :02:10.out her red lines for the Brexit negotiations that are
:02:11. > :02:15.Britain must be able to control the number of people
:02:16. > :02:21.British courts must have the final say in interpreting British laws.
:02:22. > :02:24.And Parliament will get the chance to vote on whatever
:02:25. > :02:30.The Prime Minister is aiming for what she called "a global Britain"
:02:31. > :02:33.that has the best possible trade deal with the EU while opening up
:02:34. > :02:38.There was a warning too for her EU counterparts -
:02:39. > :02:42.she will walk away if EU negotiators try to punish Britain.
:02:43. > :02:47.Here's our political editor, Laura Kuennsberg.
:02:48. > :02:55.On a day when Theresa May set out her vision for Briain's future.
:02:56. > :03:05.Good morning. What's the plan? On her way.
:03:06. > :03:09.Have you got a plan? On our way out, not just out of the European
:03:10. > :03:14.Union... Are we going to get a detailed plan? Theresa May gathered
:03:15. > :03:18.ministers and ambassadors too. To confirm finally, we will leave
:03:19. > :03:24.behind the way the country has made its living for decades.
:03:25. > :03:29.APPLAUSE As a priority, we will pursue a bold
:03:30. > :03:33.and ambitious free trade agreement with the European Union. This
:03:34. > :03:38.agreement should allow for the freest possible trade in goods and
:03:39. > :03:42.services between Britain and the EU's member states. It will give
:03:43. > :03:47.British companies the maximum freedom to trade with and operate
:03:48. > :03:52.within European markets, and let European businesses do the same in
:03:53. > :03:59.Britain. But I want to be clear - what I am proposing cannot mean
:04:00. > :04:03.membership of the single market. Privately, ministers had talked of
:04:04. > :04:07.preserving some parts of the special club, the market of hundreds of
:04:08. > :04:12.millions where our businesses can buy and sell without barriers.
:04:13. > :04:15.Remain as had pushed her, but she believes it can't be done, because
:04:16. > :04:20.the rules of the single market come with unlimited EU immigration. The
:04:21. > :04:25.message from the public, before and during the referendum campaign, was
:04:26. > :04:29.clear - Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to
:04:30. > :04:33.Britain from Europe, and that is what we will deliver. Our customs
:04:34. > :04:38.arrangements, how we trade over borders, will change too, but no
:04:39. > :04:45.final decision on how. Her clear hope, though, is that the UK will
:04:46. > :04:49.not pay billions to the EU every year. There may be some specific
:04:50. > :04:53.programmes in which we might want to participate. If so, and this will be
:04:54. > :04:58.for us to decide, it is appropriate that we will make a contribution,
:04:59. > :05:03.but the principle is clear: The days of Britain making vast contributions
:05:04. > :05:08.to the EU every year will end. 27 other countries will decide if her
:05:09. > :05:13.plans are an ambitious wish list or a fantasy, yet most dramatically, if
:05:14. > :05:18.after two years of talks negotiations stall, she and her team
:05:19. > :05:23.are willing to walk away. Written wants to remain a good friend and
:05:24. > :05:27.neighbour to Europe, yet I know there are some voices calling for a
:05:28. > :05:31.punitive deal that punishes Britain and discourages other countries from
:05:32. > :05:38.taking the same path. Britain would not, indeed, we could not, accept
:05:39. > :05:42.such an approach. While I am confident that this scenario need
:05:43. > :05:46.never rise, while I am sure a positive agreement can be reached, I
:05:47. > :05:54.am equally clear that no deal for Britain is better than a bad deal
:05:55. > :05:57.for Britain. Thank you. But remember, the Prime Minister never
:05:58. > :06:01.wanted to leave. During the referendum campaign, you said
:06:02. > :06:05.plainly that you believed if we left the EU and single market, the
:06:06. > :06:12.country, its families and citizens, would be worse off. Now, I doubt you
:06:13. > :06:17.have changed your mind, or, as Prime Minister, you have made a decision
:06:18. > :06:22.that you believe will leave the country and its citizens poorer -
:06:23. > :06:24.which is a? All the economic indicators have been more positive
:06:25. > :06:31.than people predicted. It is only earlier this week that the IMF
:06:32. > :06:35.confirmed we were the fastest growing economy last year. And what
:06:36. > :06:38.I am talking about today is the country is coming together and
:06:39. > :06:43.looking for that brighter future as a global Britain. Did the Brexit
:06:44. > :06:49.backers in the Cabinet get the upper hand? It was an excellent speech,
:06:50. > :06:53.optimistic, confident, and it set out our responsibilities in a global
:06:54. > :07:00.context. This wasn't an inward looking, purely European speech. It
:07:01. > :07:05.is negotiate bulk -- negotiable, good for the UK and for the rest of
:07:06. > :07:09.the EU as well. Why should they allow us to have our cake and eat
:07:10. > :07:13.it? As the Prime Minister said, it will be good for both sides. Do you
:07:14. > :07:21.think what she set out is achievable? We shall have to see.
:07:22. > :07:25.Not exactly nodding along, either, the other parties across the UK. The
:07:26. > :07:29.political consequences of Theresa May's choices are unclear. I think
:07:30. > :07:35.we have to have a deal that ensures we have access to the market, that
:07:36. > :07:39.we have British jobs depended on that market, that is what we will be
:07:40. > :07:43.pushing for. If it is specifically this form of single market, I don't
:07:44. > :07:47.know. She seems to want to have her cake and eat it. Choices emerging
:07:48. > :07:51.here. Do we want to be taken down a path that we didn't vote for and
:07:52. > :07:56.which is against our interests, audibly want to take control of our
:07:57. > :08:01.own future? And I think that is a choice Scotland has the right to
:08:02. > :08:05.make. To wave the white flag across the Straits of Dover, as Theresa May
:08:06. > :08:12.has done, is damaging to Britain's future and is a theft of democracy.
:08:13. > :08:18.In Brussels, the message will had been received and at last clear.
:08:19. > :08:23.Parliament was told today they will get a vote on the final deal, but
:08:24. > :08:27.his is plain that the Prime Minister believes the country has delivered a
:08:28. > :08:32.clear verdict, and she has made her mind up, drawn her big conclusions.
:08:33. > :08:35.Her dilemma is now are persuading a continent that what she wants is
:08:36. > :08:40.possible, and those who voted to stay in the EU that it's even
:08:41. > :08:46.desirable, but this is really only the start of a long process. Much
:08:47. > :08:51.will change. Concern and criticism won't fade away. The scale of what
:08:52. > :08:57.we decided, how it will change our country and all our lives is still
:08:58. > :09:01.fully to emerge. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.
:09:02. > :09:04.For decades now, Britain has traded within the EU's single market.
:09:05. > :09:06.As we've been hearing, those days are numbered.
:09:07. > :09:08.So what is the European single market and what could
:09:09. > :09:16.Here's our diplomatic correspondent, James Landale.
:09:17. > :09:22.The single market is the beating heart of the European Union, it
:09:23. > :09:33.binds the European community together. The members believe that
:09:34. > :09:36.if they get rid of barriers to trade and have goods, services and workers
:09:37. > :09:39.move freely across their borders, then their economies will grow. To
:09:40. > :09:45.make this happen, they agreed, trading rules. A widget made in
:09:46. > :09:48.Greece same as one made in Spain. They set up the European Court of
:09:49. > :09:54.Justice to make sure everybody follows the rules. Supporters say
:09:55. > :09:56.the single market helped British companies flourish, like this
:09:57. > :10:02.engineering firm in Bristol. It makes it easier for them to export
:10:03. > :10:05.their goods and employ people from across the EU. I think there's an
:10:06. > :10:12.obvious risk morass outside of the single market. We trade increasingly
:10:13. > :10:18.with Europe. I think any change in the customs regime is probably going
:10:19. > :10:24.to make us uncompetitive. But opponents say the single market
:10:25. > :10:26.imposes unnecessary red tape on British firms, like this nappy
:10:27. > :10:31.manufacturer in Northampton. It gives too much power to EU judges,
:10:32. > :10:36.and allows into many migrant workers. The owner of this firm says
:10:37. > :10:40.the opportunities outside are greater. I think morally we can't
:10:41. > :10:42.remain part of the single market because we want to go out and do our
:10:43. > :10:50.trade deals with countries outside the EU, and that's very exciting for
:10:51. > :10:55.countries such as ours. So, to help make that happen, Theresa May wants
:10:56. > :11:00.Britain to have instead the greatest possible access to the single
:11:01. > :11:03.market. Particularly the British cars, lorries and financial
:11:04. > :11:07.services, and to get that by negotiating a new free trade deal
:11:08. > :11:13.with the EU. If she can, and if they are willing. And what about the
:11:14. > :11:18.so-called customs union, the deal under which EU countries impose the
:11:19. > :11:22.same tariffs on goods and services imported from outside the EU?
:11:23. > :11:26.Theresa May said she didn't want that UK to be bound by this any more
:11:27. > :11:30.and instead wanted Britain to be able to set its own tariffs and
:11:31. > :11:34.negotiate its own trade deals with the rest of the world. But, she said
:11:35. > :11:38.she would accept some kind of new customs arrangement with the EU but
:11:39. > :11:43.didn't spell out what that might be. So, this is what the Prime Minister
:11:44. > :11:47.wants. Now, all she has to do is get the EU members to agree, and that's
:11:48. > :11:52.far from certain. I have skated over the surface of what are some
:11:53. > :11:55.important issues, so you can read more detail on the BBC website, that
:11:56. > :11:56.will take you through all the options and what that might be.
:11:57. > :12:00.George. It didn't take long
:12:01. > :12:03.for EU leaders to react. The president of the EU Council
:12:04. > :12:05.called the speech realistic, but the European Parliament's
:12:06. > :12:06.negotiator called The pound strengthened
:12:07. > :12:09.after the Prime Minister's speech. More on that from our
:12:10. > :12:12.Business Editor Simon Jack, who is at the World Economic
:12:13. > :12:14.Forum in Switzerland. But first, let's talk to our Europe
:12:15. > :12:25.Correspondent Damian Grammaticas, Damian, I suppose people are still
:12:26. > :12:37.die jesting the speech, but any themes emerging? -- digesting. There
:12:38. > :12:39.is a feeling that there is a little more clarity, but the European
:12:40. > :12:44.Parliament's chief negotiator said that in his view Theresa May was
:12:45. > :12:49.selling an illusion, because this idea that you could read the single
:12:50. > :12:54.market, leave the customs union and then still enjoy privileged access,
:12:55. > :12:58.he said that was an illusion. Also, another senior MEP said to me that
:12:59. > :13:02.Theresa May was overselling the benefits of what could be achieved
:13:03. > :13:08.with trade deals with distant countries, and underestimating the
:13:09. > :13:10.difficulties that there will be for British companies, British
:13:11. > :13:14.businesses, giving trade with the EU. He said they may find it very
:13:15. > :13:18.difficult in the future if there are things like customs checks, Mike
:13:19. > :13:27.tariffs coming in. Also, the idea that the UK could walk away was
:13:28. > :13:34.dismissed, saying the UK would suffer most. One negotiator said he
:13:35. > :13:38.is not seeking to punish the UK in the negotiations. Simon, let's come
:13:39. > :13:43.to you. I guess you couldn't be in a better place to gauge business
:13:44. > :13:48.sentiment. What is the reaction so far? Businesses have been calling
:13:49. > :13:53.out for some clarity. We got some today - no ifs, no buts, no single
:13:54. > :13:57.market. Pretty clear, but most leaders I've spoken to here had come
:13:58. > :14:00.to this conclusion themselves, thinking that continued membership
:14:01. > :14:03.of the single market was incompatible with the political
:14:04. > :14:07.imperative of bringing immigration down. What really got years
:14:08. > :14:11.twitching here was the tone of Theresa May's speech here today. She
:14:12. > :14:15.didn't pull any punches, said she would fight for a good deal, was
:14:16. > :14:19.prepared to retaliate if necessary, and that she thought no deal was
:14:20. > :14:24.better than a bad deal. What that means, if she does walk away, walks
:14:25. > :14:28.into these general international trading standards, that means
:14:29. > :14:33.tariffs could come in. Businesses here are very worried about that,
:14:34. > :14:36.and they hope it is a negotiating posture. It is a nuclear option that
:14:37. > :14:42.they don't want to press the button on. They beget clarity? Sum. Are we
:14:43. > :14:48.going to get a better idea of where we finally end up? I'm afraid not.
:14:49. > :14:52.Thank you, both. So, is Theresa May's vision
:14:53. > :14:54.of Britain's future what voters had in mind when they went to the polls
:14:55. > :14:57.in the EU Referendum? Our Midlands correspondent,
:14:58. > :14:59.Sima Kotecha, has been talking to people in Birmingham,
:15:00. > :15:01.which voted narrowly It's the 50-50 city,
:15:02. > :15:08.where half the population voted to leave the EU,
:15:09. > :15:13.and the other half voted to remain. Today in her speech,
:15:14. > :15:17.the Prime Minister said people who had voted for Brexit had done
:15:18. > :15:21.so with their eyes open. The country seems like it's
:15:22. > :15:31.slipping, slipping. We lost everything,
:15:32. > :15:32.everything to the European. Everything was going up and it just
:15:33. > :15:49.seemed to be slipping away. She confirmed the UK
:15:50. > :15:52.was heading for a hard Brexit, but not everybody's clear
:15:53. > :15:54.about what that means. Unless it's laid out
:15:55. > :15:56.in layman's terms, we don't She may as well just
:15:57. > :15:59.speak Chinese to us. You've got 16 sausage
:16:00. > :16:01.rolls there for a pound. At the market, locals were digesting
:16:02. > :16:03.the headline announcement. She's just said that the UK will be
:16:04. > :16:06.leaving the single market - I think things are all
:16:07. > :16:12.right the way it is. Personally, they are rocking
:16:13. > :16:14.the boat quite a lot. Diversity is a good thing,
:16:15. > :16:17.because you bring all kinds And the jobs that some people
:16:18. > :16:21.in England don't want to do, other people are happy to come
:16:22. > :16:30.and do it to keep the country going. The leave campaign won by a whisker
:16:31. > :16:33.here, fewer than 4,000 votes made the difference,
:16:34. > :16:36.but no matter which way people voted, the question many
:16:37. > :16:38.want the answer to is, We need still even more information,
:16:39. > :16:47.and I don't think we will fully understand until we have made that
:16:48. > :16:49.complete break away. Then, we will understand
:16:50. > :16:53.what it means. You know, at the moment,
:16:54. > :16:57.it's just pie in the sky, isn't it? The Prime Minister says she wants
:16:58. > :17:04.a smooth and orderly Brexit, In her speech today,
:17:05. > :17:18.the Prime Minister made a point of saying she wanted the four
:17:19. > :17:21.nations of the UK to have their say Let's hear now from our
:17:22. > :17:25.correspondents in Cardiff and Belfast, but first our Scotland
:17:26. > :17:31.editor, Sarah Smith. Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister
:17:32. > :17:35.of Scotland, responded to Theresa May's speech today by saying she
:17:36. > :17:38.think it is has increased the chances there will be a seconding
:17:39. > :17:43.referendum on Scottish independence. She said it's clear that the UK is
:17:44. > :17:47.heading for a hard Brexit, which they she thinks will be economically
:17:48. > :17:51.catastrophic and will not allow Scotland to be stem rollered down a
:17:52. > :17:56.path it didn't vote for. At the end of last year, the First Minister put
:17:57. > :17:59.together a paper outlining you how she thinks Scotland could stay in
:18:00. > :18:03.the single market if the UK leaves. That could only happen if the Prime
:18:04. > :18:07.Minister and the UK Government agrees with it. She says she doesn't
:18:08. > :18:13.think Theresa May is giving the proposals serious consideration and
:18:14. > :18:17.that is why she said she thinks the prospects spect of another vote for
:18:18. > :18:22.independence, she think's a prospect which is being abouting more likely.
:18:23. > :18:26.-- becoming more likely. Most exposed to the fallout from Brexit
:18:27. > :18:29.because it shares a land border with the Irish Republic. Theresa May was
:18:30. > :18:34.quick today to say there would be no return to the borders of the past.
:18:35. > :18:38.She said the common travel area would be retained. But there were
:18:39. > :18:43.few details as to how this would happen. Here's the question - if the
:18:44. > :18:49.UK wants to control immigration from the EU, how can it do that with an
:18:50. > :18:54.open border, with the Irish Republic? Here's another question -
:18:55. > :18:59.say the UK steps outside the customs union, what will that do to the
:19:00. > :19:08.border? Will that border become effectively a hard border? Is Wales
:19:09. > :19:12.voted to leave the EU despite that I think inevitable concerns today,
:19:13. > :19:15.economically, about what the impact could be, particularly in areas like
:19:16. > :19:23.manufacturing and farming, strong in Wales. Dependant on exports to the
:19:24. > :19:27.EU. At the National Assembly the First Minister has a problem, he
:19:28. > :19:32.campaigned to remain. Since Brexit he has called for full and
:19:33. > :19:36.unvettered access, as he calls it, to the single market. He said things
:19:37. > :19:42.appears to be going in the wrong direction for him. Political
:19:43. > :19:44.leverage is also a problem. If he complains too much, ministers at
:19:45. > :19:47.Westminster can turn round to him and say - they are delivering what
:19:48. > :19:52.the people of Wales want, which was Brexit. George. All right, Nick,
:19:53. > :19:56.Gavin, Sarah, thank you all. Let's speak to our political
:19:57. > :20:02.editor, Laura Kuenssberg, Laura, Theresa May has been
:20:03. > :20:05.criticised an awful lot for not saying enough about her Brexit
:20:06. > :20:13.plans, do you think she answered those critics today? Well, being
:20:14. > :20:17.clear is a prize in any argument. The eurosceptics are cock-a-hoop
:20:18. > :20:20.tonight. One senior Tory figure on the argument joked he could have
:20:21. > :20:24.written the speech himself. The remainers who have been pushing to
:20:25. > :20:28.hajj on to parts of the single market membership have been muted.
:20:29. > :20:32.Theresa May killed off some of the charges of delay, of dither, of her
:20:33. > :20:36.not being able to make up her mind. This clarity from today does give us
:20:37. > :20:40.a sense she has taken the initiative. It gives her a bit of
:20:41. > :20:46.breathing space in political terms. Let's be quite clear about it, one
:20:47. > :20:51.day this is one day, 24-hours in what will be a long, complicated
:20:52. > :20:55.fraught and dif process. There are people here, here inpm still, more
:20:56. > :20:59.importantly on the other side of the negotiating table, those 27
:21:00. > :21:04.countries, who believe what she is asking for is a delusion. If, as
:21:05. > :21:10.time comes to pass, they are proven to be right and Number Ten is proven
:21:11. > :21:13.to be wrong, it will be very politically and maybe economically
:21:14. > :21:15.painful finding out that they were right and Theresa May called it
:21:16. > :21:20.wrong. Lawyer thank you.
:21:21. > :21:25.The former Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, can now be sued
:21:26. > :21:27.by a Libyan man who claims that British agents helped
:21:28. > :21:30.the United States to kidnap and secretly remove him and his wife
:21:31. > :21:38.Today, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Abdel Hakim Belhaj
:21:39. > :21:40.to take legal action over the alleged British involvement.
:21:41. > :21:43.Jack Straw, who was responsible for MI6 at the time,
:21:44. > :21:49.Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, reports.
:21:50. > :21:57.Libya, 2011, Colonel Gaddafi's been toppled, and it's chaos.
:21:58. > :22:01.Among the files strewn across the offices of his security
:22:02. > :22:04.service, a document comes to light suggesting Britain played a part
:22:05. > :22:09.in the abduction and torture of a Libyan dissident.
:22:10. > :22:14.He's Abdul Hakim Belhaj, once regarded as a terror suspect.
:22:15. > :22:17.Now, he's been told by Britain's highest court he can sue
:22:18. > :22:20.MI6 and the Government, which tried to halt the case.
:22:21. > :22:24.The Supreme Court unanimously dismisses the Government's appeals.
:22:25. > :22:26.Normally, the English courts can't consider cases involving
:22:27. > :22:31.what foreign governments have done abroad, but in this judgment,
:22:32. > :22:34.the Supreme Court has concluded that that doesn't prevent the courts
:22:35. > :22:41.here from considering British involvement in what's happened.
:22:42. > :22:44.In this jail, Mr Belhaj says he was tortured after he and his
:22:45. > :22:58.pregnant wife were intercepted by US agents and flown to Libya.
:22:59. > :23:01.There have been no criminal charges but, speaking in Istanbul today,
:23:02. > :23:04.TRANSLATION: They've got to admit that this act,
:23:05. > :23:07.committed by individuals in the British Government,
:23:08. > :23:10.is a criminal act encroaching on our freedom and rights
:23:11. > :23:12.and rendering us to a regime they know is they know
:23:13. > :23:16.My wife was pregnant then and she was kept
:23:17. > :23:27.If they apologise, we will drop our demands.
:23:28. > :23:29.The crucial evidence could be the document found in Libya
:23:30. > :23:32.in which an MI6 officer appears to write to a Gaddafi
:23:33. > :23:41.the safe arrival of Mr Belhaj, using his alternative name,
:23:42. > :23:47.but also describing him as, "air cargo."
:23:48. > :23:50.The letter says the intelligence that led to his capture was British.
:23:51. > :23:52.Labour's Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary at the time
:23:53. > :23:54.is one of those accused, but said today he acted
:23:55. > :23:57.within the law and was never complicit with what might
:23:58. > :23:59.Britain's alleged connection with so-called rendition,
:24:00. > :24:01.official flights to secret prison torture destinations has never been
:24:02. > :24:06.Tom Symonds, BBC News, the Supreme Court.
:24:07. > :24:09.A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.
:24:10. > :24:12.An inquest has heard how concerns over security
:24:13. > :24:14.at a Tunisian holiday resort, where 30 Britons were killed
:24:15. > :24:19.by an Islamist gunman in June 2015, were raised six months before
:24:20. > :24:22.A report in January 2015, for the UK Government,
:24:23. > :24:25.suggested there was a low standard of protection at some hotel
:24:26. > :24:30.The killings were the deadliest on Britons since the
:24:31. > :24:37.The man suspected of carrying out the New Year's Eve attack
:24:38. > :24:41.on a nightclub in Istanbul has been arrested.
:24:42. > :24:44.The Uzbek national was trained in Afghanistan, according
:24:45. > :24:46.to the city's governor, and is believed to have illegally
:24:47. > :24:50.39 people died in the attack on the Reina club,
:24:51. > :24:58.A public inquiry has heard that a police marksman,
:24:59. > :25:00.who shot and killed an unarmed man, was acting on "out of date"
:25:01. > :25:04.Anthony Grainger was shot once in the chest during
:25:05. > :25:07.a Greater Manchester Police operation in Cheshire in 2012.
:25:08. > :25:09.The inquiry into his death heard that police
:25:10. > :25:15.believed he was preparing for an armed robbery.
:25:16. > :25:18.A teenager has been arrested after the body of a 16-year-old girl
:25:19. > :25:25.The girl has been named locally as Leonne Weeks,
:25:26. > :25:27.An 18-year-old, from Dinnington, is being questioned
:25:28. > :25:34.Rising air fares and food prices have helped push up UK
:25:35. > :25:36.inflation to its highest rate in nearly two-and-a-half years.
:25:37. > :25:39.The fall in the pound since the Brexit vote is, in part,
:25:40. > :25:44.Our economics correspondent, Andy Verity, is here with the details.
:25:45. > :25:52.You have been looking at the detail of this? That is right. Part of the
:25:53. > :25:56.reason that prices are going up is because of higher oil prices. They
:25:57. > :26:00.bounced back on the ward markets. It's also, as you mentioned, because
:26:01. > :26:03.of the weaker pound. And the weaker pound of course means if you are
:26:04. > :26:08.going to buy imported goods you need more pounds to buy the same number
:26:09. > :26:12.of dollars or euros to buy those imported goods. You have seen that
:26:13. > :26:18.inflationary effect of the weaker pound up the chain. It strengthened
:26:19. > :26:22.today. It has weakened 16%. Producer prices have risen by 16% over the
:26:23. > :26:30.past year. Now, they are passing on some of that effect. Those producer
:26:31. > :26:33.prices the prices for raw materials. It.7% is what they are charging at
:26:34. > :26:38.the factory gate. They are only putting some of that into the shops,
:26:39. > :26:43.retailers are shielding us from that. Retail prices have gone up by
:26:44. > :26:47.1.6%. Competition may play a role there. The retailers are thinking -
:26:48. > :26:51.if we raise our prices to cover the cost, business might go elsewhere.
:26:52. > :26:54.Competition is shielding us from the effect of the weaker pound for now.
:26:55. > :26:58.When you are being looking at petrol prices up by a tenth over the last
:26:59. > :27:02.year, they can only do that for so long. We should expect more
:27:03. > :27:08.incompetent inflation, perhaps up to 3%, over the next year. All right,
:27:09. > :27:10.Andy, thank you very much. -- inflation.
:27:11. > :27:15.Time for a look at the weather, here's Nick Miller.
:27:16. > :27:21.The winter weather is being turned on it is heads. The highest
:27:22. > :27:25.temperatures have been in Scotland. Despite the sunshine in south-east
:27:26. > :27:30.England this is where the lowest temperatures have been. Blue sky Bob
:27:31. > :27:35.was living up to his name in Kent. The sunshine in the south-east, the
:27:36. > :27:40.low trps. It felt cold under this area of cloud through Wales and
:27:41. > :27:45.Midland and into north-west England where they had outbreaks of rain on
:27:46. > :27:49.and off during the day. There will be hill fog to be found tonight,
:27:50. > :27:52.too. Cloud in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but mainly dry. Where you
:27:53. > :27:56.have cloud, temperatures will hold up. Where you are under clear skies,
:27:57. > :28:02.east anning Lee why and south-east England the frost will set in. Hard
:28:03. > :28:05.frost in rural spots. Minus 6 possible going into tomorrow
:28:06. > :28:09.morning. Scraping the ice off the car. After the frosty start more
:28:10. > :28:13.sunshine to come during the day tomorrow. Elsewhere, most of us will
:28:14. > :28:18.stay cloudy. Where you have the cloud in England and Wales damp and
:28:19. > :28:21.drizzly in places. Dry weather despite the cloud in Scotland and
:28:22. > :28:25.Northern Ireland. Rain into Shetland later. Sunshine in the Channel
:28:26. > :28:28.Islands. It won't feel particularly warm, nor will it despite the
:28:29. > :28:32.sunshine in the far south-east. A cold feeling day in the cloud across
:28:33. > :28:36.south-east Wales into the Midlands. Temperatures a little bit higher the
:28:37. > :28:39.further north we come. Could see brighter breaks in north-east
:28:40. > :28:42.England across eastern parts of Scotland, patchy rain heading into
:28:43. > :28:46.Shetland. Yes, in Scotland double figure temperatures again for some
:28:47. > :28:49.of us. Looks like a bit more cloud tomorrow evening and night across
:28:50. > :28:53.southernmost parts of the UK. That frost not as hard or widespread.
:28:54. > :28:57.With high pressure in control, a lot of fine, settled but cloudy weather
:28:58. > :29:16.to come going into the ebbed would, too.
:29:17. > :29:18.Theresa May's long-awaited speech on Brexit.
:29:19. > :29:21.She confirmed Britain would leave the single market and said
:29:22. > :29:24.she wanted a stronger Britain, in charge of its own laws