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Hello, good morning. This is
Breakfast with Steph McGovern and | 0:00:11 | 0:00:15 | |
Louise Minchin. Growing division
within the Conservative Party over | 0:00:15 | 0:00:19 | |
Brexit as Theresa May is urged to
sling out so-called hard Brexiteers. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:24 | |
The Conservative MP and Remain
campaigner Anna Soubry is said the | 0:00:24 | 0:00:28 | |
Cabinet were in hock to the likes of
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson, | 0:00:28 | 0:00:32 | |
who she said weren't proper
conservatives. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:36 | |
It's about time Theresa May stood up
to them and slung them out. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:48 | |
Good morning, it's Tuesday the sixth
of February. Also on the programme | 0:00:53 | 0:00:57 | |
this morning, on a new fight for
justice by the relatives of the | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
soldiers killed in the IRA Hyde Park
bombing 35 years ago. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:05 | |
They've been granted legal aid for a
civil action against one of the | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
suspects. The value of some of the
world's companies has been falling | 0:01:10 | 0:01:15 | |
overnight as global stock markets
take a tumble. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
In sport, the pressure is mounting
on Josie manager Antonio Conte. His | 0:01:18 | 0:01:23 | |
side suffered the biggest defeat of
their season as Watford beat them | 0:01:23 | 0:01:28 | |
4-1. -- Chelsea. 100 years since the
first women got the vote we | 0:01:28 | 0:01:32 | |
celebrate the achievements of those
who campaigned to make it happen. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:36 | |
As debate over gender equality and
at attitudes towards women are in | 0:01:36 | 0:01:41 | |
sharp focus today, we look at how
Son, society has changed or not over | 0:01:41 | 0:01:46 | |
the past century. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
Charlotte was six years old when I
went back to work and I really felt | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
I was missing out. Having paid
maternity leave and having flexible | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
hours means as a woman in the
workplace I can achieve. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:59 | |
We would like to hear from you as
well, is there one woman in your | 0:01:59 | 0:02:04 | |
life that inspires you? Let us know.
Carol certainly does, she has the | 0:02:04 | 0:02:08 | |
weather from the Westminster Hall
were the first mass signature | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
petition for women's Botes was
handed over. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
1500 women signed the petition from
across the country and abroad as | 0:02:15 | 0:02:19 | |
well from British women leading to
copious debates in the House of | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
Commons and the women having the
right to vote. Westminster Hall is | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
quite stunning but it is cold, cold
outside as well, a hard frost, snow | 0:02:26 | 0:02:36 | |
in the forecast but also some
sunshine. Will tell you where in 15 | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
minutes. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:39 | |
First, our main story. The
Conservative MP and leading Remain | 0:02:39 | 0:02:44 | |
campaigner Anna Soubry has called
Theresa May to sling out hard | 0:02:44 | 0:02:49 | |
Brexiteers in the party. She said
the front bench was in hock to 35 | 0:02:49 | 0:02:56 | |
ideological Remain supporters. In an
interview with Newsnight she said | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
she wouldn't stay in a party taken
over by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg | 0:02:59 | 0:03:03 | |
and Boris Johnson. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster
for us this morning. Morning, | 0:03:05 | 0:03:09 | |
Eleanor, more division in the party
over Brexit again? Europe is an | 0:03:09 | 0:03:15 | |
issue that's divided the
Conservative Party for decades and | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
actually ever since that referendum
result the Remain campaigner Anna | 0:03:17 | 0:03:22 | |
Soubry has spoken out very
passionately about Brexit, but I do | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
think she has gone a step further
this time, saying she's going to | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
threaten to quit the party if
Theresa May does not stand up to the | 0:03:29 | 0:03:34 | |
hard ideological Brexiteers in the
Conservative Party. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:38 | |
They're not the Tory party that I
joined 40 years ago, and it's about | 0:03:38 | 0:03:43 | |
time Carizza stood up to them and
slung them out, because they've | 0:03:43 | 0:03:49 | |
taken down major Anne Cameron, two
great leaders, neither of whom stood | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
up to them. If it comes to it I'm
not going to stay in a party that's | 0:03:52 | 0:03:59 | |
been taken over by the likes of
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson, | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
they're not proper Conservatives. If
that means leave the party, formed | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
some sort of alliance, I don't know,
but we just simply cannot go on like | 0:04:07 | 0:04:12 | |
this any longer. Something is going
to have to give because it if it | 0:04:12 | 0:04:18 | |
doesn't, not only will we get Jacob
Rees-Mogg as our Prime Minister, we | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
will get a devastating hard Brexit
that will cause damage to our | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
economy for decades to come. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
Brexiteers will say they're arguing
for what they believe is in the best | 0:04:29 | 0:04:33 | |
interests of the country. In fact a
former Tory Chancellor, Lord Lamont, | 0:04:33 | 0:04:38 | |
said Anna Soubry was being quite
ridiculous. I think all this | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
demonstrates the huge task Theresa
May has to keep the Conservative | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
Party united over Brexit. Remember,
this is a crucial week, the Prime | 0:04:46 | 0:04:51 | |
Minister is going to try to coax her
most senior ministers to form some | 0:04:51 | 0:04:55 | |
kind of consensus on the
government's negotiating position | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
with the EU. Eleanor, thanks for
your time, see you in a bit. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:03 | |
Relatives of the victims of the 1982
IRA Hyde Park bombing have been | 0:05:03 | 0:05:08 | |
granted legal aid for a civil action
against a suspect. A prosecution | 0:05:08 | 0:05:13 | |
case against the convicted IRA
member John Downey collapsed at the | 0:05:13 | 0:05:17 | |
Old Bailey four years ago because he
had a so called on the run letter | 0:05:17 | 0:05:22 | |
telling him he was no longer a
wanted man. Frankie McCamley has | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
more. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:29 | |
July, 1982. For soldiers of the
Royal Household Cavalry died and | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
dozens more were injured when an IRA
car bomb was detonated outside | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
Buckingham Palace. More than 30
years later, John Downey was charged | 0:05:37 | 0:05:42 | |
with their murder, but the case
collapsed after it emerged he'd been | 0:05:42 | 0:05:46 | |
given a so called on the run letter,
a guaranteed he could not be | 0:05:46 | 0:05:50 | |
prosecuted. The 66-year-old denied
murder and conspiring to cause the | 0:05:50 | 0:05:56 | |
the explosion. The then Prime
Minister David Cameron said Mr | 0:05:56 | 0:06:02 | |
Downie should never have been given
such assurances, describing it as a | 0:06:02 | 0:06:06 | |
dreadful mistake. Now the Legal Aid
Agency has decided to provide | 0:06:06 | 0:06:11 | |
funding to the families of the
victims which will allow them to | 0:06:11 | 0:06:15 | |
begin civil action. The move has
been welcomed by some who hope this | 0:06:15 | 0:06:20 | |
could be an opportunity to solve one
of the most significant IRA bombings | 0:06:20 | 0:06:25 | |
during the decades of violence that
became known as the Troubles. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
Frankie McCamley, BBC News. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
The value of some of the world's
biggest companies has been falling | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
overnight as global stock markets
take a tumble. The US stock market | 0:06:36 | 0:06:40 | |
index, the Dow Jones, has fallen by
over 1000 points on its biggest | 0:06:40 | 0:06:45 | |
one-day fall in history and in Asia,
Japan's Nikkei index was down by | 0:06:45 | 0:06:50 | |
more than 4%. Here's our North
America correspondent Yogita Limaye. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:57 | |
This trading floor saw its worst day
since the financial crisis. After | 0:06:57 | 0:07:02 | |
months of hitting record highs, US
stocks went into freefall. The | 0:07:02 | 0:07:06 | |
trigger? Wage growth has been faster
than expected, sparking fears that | 0:07:06 | 0:07:12 | |
there will be a rise in interest
rates. Certainly not what this man | 0:07:12 | 0:07:16 | |
would have wanted on his first day
in office. Girona Powell took over | 0:07:16 | 0:07:21 | |
as the chair of the American central
bank, the body that makes decisions | 0:07:21 | 0:07:25 | |
about interest rates. And it was bad
news for this man too. President | 0:07:25 | 0:07:33 | |
Trump has repeatedly taken credit
for the massive gains made by | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
financial markets in the past year.
But addressing factory workers in | 0:07:36 | 0:07:41 | |
Ohio as stocks plunged, this was one
record he chose not to speak about. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:46 | |
The White House has said the
president is focused on long-term | 0:07:46 | 0:07:50 | |
fundamentals, which remain
exceptionally strong. And many on | 0:07:50 | 0:07:54 | |
Wall Street say there's no meat for
alarm just yet. People are taking | 0:07:54 | 0:07:59 | |
profits after an historic climb, its
required in there, very orderly, no | 0:07:59 | 0:08:05 | |
panic so I must lead to think
there's much to panic about. That | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
could spell relief for people here
in the US and around the world. But | 0:08:08 | 0:08:12 | |
with a slide like this, it's hard to
predict when it might end. Yogita | 0:08:12 | 0:08:17 | |
Limaye, BBC News, New York. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:20 | |
There's a call this morning for easy
cigarettes to be given on the NHS | 0:08:20 | 0:08:24 | |
because they're an excellent way to
help smokers quit. Public Health | 0:08:24 | 0:08:29 | |
England said vaping poses only a
small fraction of the risk of | 0:08:29 | 0:08:33 | |
smoking tobacco. Our health reporter
Michelle Roberts has more. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:37 | |
They've helped tens of thousands
of people quit smoking, | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
but currently in the UK,
people have to buy e-cigarettes, | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
unlike nicotine patches and gum. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:44 | |
Public Health England wants that
to change | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
and for doctors to start giving | 0:08:46 | 0:08:47 | |
e-cigarettes to patients
on prescription. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
The latest evidence reviewed showed
that although vaping is not entirely | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
risk-free, it's much
better than smoking. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
They say e-cigarettes are 95% safer
than most cigarettes as they do not | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
have most of the toxic
chemicals found in smoke. | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
They estimate e-cigarettes help
the least 20,000 people successfully | 0:09:00 | 0:09:02 | |
quit per year. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:10 | |
Despite their popularity,
around 40% of smokers have | 0:09:15 | 0:09:17 | |
not tried them. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:18 | |
Experts say the evidence | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
in favour is so compelling,
smokers | 0:09:20 | 0:09:21 | |
who want to quit should not wait
for free prescriptions | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
for trying e-cigarettes. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:29 | |
We're confident they're
substantially less harmful | 0:09:29 | 0:09:31 | |
than cigarette smoking, | 0:09:31 | 0:09:38 | |
so we recommend for those struggling
to stop, try e-cigarettes, | 0:09:38 | 0:09:40 | |
that might help them to stop
smoking, which would be the best | 0:09:40 | 0:09:44 | |
thing they could do
for their health. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:46 | |
In the meantime, Public Health | 0:09:46 | 0:09:47 | |
England suggests hospitals start
selling | 0:09:47 | 0:09:48 | |
e-cigarettes to patients
and change smoking shelters | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
into vaping lounges. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:51 | |
But they also warn that non-smokers
shouldn't start vaping. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:56 | |
Michelle Roberts, BBC News. | 0:09:56 | 0:10:01 | |
The UK's roads are among some of the
most heavily congested in the world | 0:10:01 | 0:10:06 | |
according to the largest ever study
of global traffic conditions. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:10 | |
Researchers say London is the
seventh most gridlocked city and the | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
UK as a whole is in the top ten.
Charlotte Gallagher reports. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
It's estimated that we wasted around
31 hours stuck in rush-hour traffic | 0:10:18 | 0:10:23 | |
last year. That extra time behind
the wheel isn't just annoying, it's | 0:10:23 | 0:10:29 | |
costing drivers more than £1000
annually, not Justin Westhoff fuel | 0:10:29 | 0:10:34 | |
but also because some household
goods are becoming more expensive as | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
high of rating fees are passed onto
consumers. And under and is Europe's | 0:10:38 | 0:10:43 | |
second most congested city after
Moscow with drivers spending around | 0:10:43 | 0:10:48 | |
74 hours, the equivalent of three
days, in traffic jams. Manchester, | 0:10:48 | 0:10:54 | |
Birmingham, Luton and Edinburgh have
also been singled out as gridlock | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
hotspots. The company that carried
out the research said the cost to | 0:10:57 | 0:11:04 | |
the UK economy is astonishing and
Britain's busy roads are affecting | 0:11:04 | 0:11:09 | |
individuals and businesses. It's
really a big concern because | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
ultimately this means there is a
decreasing productivity from the | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
business side, but also quite a big
cost is being passed on down to the | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
driver, whether that's true direct
costs like fuel wasted in traffic or | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
the time you're losing, there's also
cost on businesses that gets passed | 0:11:23 | 0:11:29 | |
back down to households. The
Department for Transport said it is | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
investing £23 billion on road
schemes that will help cut | 0:11:32 | 0:11:37 | |
congestion and it's giving local
councils record amounts of funding | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
to upgrade roads. Charlotte
Gallagher, BBC News. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:45 | |
The British-born actor John Mahoney,
who played one of TV's most popular | 0:11:45 | 0:11:50 | |
on-screen dads, has died in Chicago
aged 77. He was famous for his role | 0:11:50 | 0:11:56 | |
as Martin Crane in the US sitcom
Frasier playing a grumpy down to | 0:11:56 | 0:12:00 | |
earth retired policeman who
outwitted his two pretentious sons, | 0:12:00 | 0:12:05 | |
Frasier and Niles. The role earned
him two Emmy and two Golden Globe | 0:12:05 | 0:12:10 | |
nominations. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:11 | |
A visually impaired man who is
scared of dogs is to be the first | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
person in the UK to receive an
officially recognised guide horse. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
Have a look at this, this is big B,
an American miniature who's going to | 0:12:19 | 0:12:24 | |
be working with the BBC journalist
Salim Patel who is registered blind. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:30 | |
Yesterday Digby came into our
studios and like the rest of us on | 0:12:30 | 0:12:34 | |
our first day, he had to have a
security check, that's what we get | 0:12:34 | 0:12:38 | |
every morning. He had to have his
photo! He has a full on pass with | 0:12:38 | 0:12:44 | |
pass with a LAN yard! The excitement
in our office knows no bounds. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:54 | |
in our office knows no bounds. You
can't see him in person, can you? We | 0:12:54 | 0:13:00 | |
work on the second floor, we have to
go up in a lift, genuine excitement. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:05 | |
Really great for her to give him
that capability to work. Cannot wait | 0:13:05 | 0:13:12 | |
to see the horse. The smell is what
I'm interested in. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:20 | |
I'm interested in. Doesn't he is now
lovely? Honestly. Not all aspects of | 0:13:20 | 0:13:24 | |
them, though! He is very cute. Can
we all get one? I don't think there | 0:13:24 | 0:13:29 | |
is space in the office. What a
shame! The main event from last | 0:13:29 | 0:13:34 | |
night, see what I did there, this
man behind you, that photo sums it | 0:13:34 | 0:13:39 | |
up, Antonio Conte is not happy. The
pressure has been mounting on him | 0:13:39 | 0:13:44 | |
for quite some time but when you
think back, just last season he won | 0:13:44 | 0:13:49 | |
the championship and again here we
are talking about another manager up | 0:13:49 | 0:13:53 | |
against it, potentially losing his
job based of course on last night's | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
performance. After losing to
Bournemouth 3-0 last week... | 0:13:56 | 0:14:02 | |
Last night his future is looking
uncertain after his side were | 0:14:02 | 0:14:07 | |
thrashed 4-1 by Watford last night.
The hosts scored three goals in the | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
last seven minutes of that game in
what was Chelsea's worst defeat of | 0:14:10 | 0:14:15 | |
the season. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:16 | |
England have called up Richard
Wigglesworth to replace the injured | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
Ben Youngs ahead of Saturday's Six
Nations match with Wales. Youngs has | 0:14:19 | 0:14:24 | |
a knee ligament injury, ruling him
out of the entire tournament. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:28 | |
England and Great Britain goalkeeper
Maddie Hinch has been named yet | 0:14:28 | 0:14:32 | |
again as the best female goalkeeper
in the world. She was one of the | 0:14:32 | 0:14:39 | |
heroes of the Team GB gold winning
team in Rio and it's the second | 0:14:39 | 0:14:43 | |
consecutive year she has claimed the
award at the awards in Berlin. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
Formula 1 says grid girls will be
replaced by children from the start | 0:14:46 | 0:14:50 | |
of this season. The grid kids will
be selected from young drivers | 0:14:50 | 0:14:54 | |
already in the junior categories of
motor racing to inspire the next | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
generation of racers. | 0:14:57 | 0:14:58 | |
Love that story | 0:14:58 | 0:15:00 | |
Love that story, can't wait to get
to see the grid kids! | 0:15:00 | 0:15:08 | |
You can see on the front of the
Financial Times, lots of analysis of | 0:15:10 | 0:15:14 | |
what's going on in the stock markets
at the moment. Across the world, we | 0:15:14 | 0:15:19 | |
saw the Dow Jones see its biggest
fall in points for some time, about | 0:15:19 | 0:15:25 | |
4%, and obviously when one market
goes, it spooks the rest of them, | 0:15:25 | 0:15:29 | |
so, when the US markets closed, the
Asian markets open, so we've seen a | 0:15:29 | 0:15:35 | |
fall overnight. In other words, the
value of some of the biggest | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
companies has fallen, because of
concerns with what's happened with | 0:15:38 | 0:15:42 | |
things like interest rates around
the world, and inflationary | 0:15:42 | 0:15:46 | |
pressures.
We'll have another look at the stock | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
market here when it opens. The
Telegraph, talking about the | 0:15:50 | 0:15:54 | |
suffragettes, saying 100 years since
the first women in the UK got the | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
vote, and what they are asking is,
should they be pardoned? We've got a | 0:15:57 | 0:16:03 | |
list a little later of all the
suffragettes but that's the main | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
question in the Daily Telegraph.
The Guardian has a story - this is | 0:16:06 | 0:16:12 | |
the gentleman who was in court
yesterday, in America, because of | 0:16:12 | 0:16:17 | |
hacking a British student, and he
doesn't have to face extradition | 0:16:17 | 0:16:20 | |
now, and he says, I'm greatly
relieved I'm no longer facing the | 0:16:20 | 0:16:25 | |
prospect of being locked up in a
country I've never visited. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
The Daily Express, guess what?
Talking the weather. It is cold, if | 0:16:28 | 0:16:33 | |
you haven't been out.
I had the electric blanket on last | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
night.
It's February, isn't it? The cat | 0:16:36 | 0:16:46 | |
President Trump and the claim the
NHS is going broke, and an | 0:16:46 | 0:16:50 | |
interesting story about the Fast and
Serious films, the week they are | 0:16:50 | 0:16:55 | |
released, people have noticed people
drive faster. | 0:16:55 | 0:17:03 | |
And focusing on Antonio Conte, and
an interesting story in the Times, | 0:17:03 | 0:17:11 | |
focusing on the Premier League over
the festive period. We had a lot of | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
chats across December and January,
just how many games they could | 0:17:14 | 0:17:20 | |
squeeze into December and January,
whereas elsewhere they tend to have | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
a break and give the players a rest,
but this could happen within the | 0:17:23 | 0:17:27 | |
Premier League, the Times reporting
the Premier League is saying a break | 0:17:27 | 0:17:33 | |
could be introduced before 2022, to
bring it in line with the rest of | 0:17:33 | 0:17:38 | |
Europe, which would be a huge, huge
story for the Premier League, if | 0:17:38 | 0:17:43 | |
that happened, and we have got a
statement from the Premier League | 0:17:43 | 0:17:47 | |
this morning, saying, if they can
find a space, they are open to the | 0:17:47 | 0:17:52 | |
principle of this, so it's one to
watch. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:53 | |
Thank you very much indeed. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
You're watching
Breakfast from BBC News. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:56 | |
The main stories this morning: | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
The Conservative MP and Remain
campaigner Anna Soubry has called | 0:17:58 | 0:18:03 | |
on the Prime Minister to sling out
the party's Brexiteers. | 0:18:03 | 0:18:05 | |
Government health officials say
e-cigarettes should be prescribed | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
on the NHS, because they're
an excellent way | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
to help smokers quit. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:16 | |
Carol has the weather this morning - | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
she's in Westminster Hall
inside the Houses of parliament. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:26 | |
And she is going to explain to us
lots of things about what happened | 0:18:26 | 0:18:31 | |
there 100 years or so ago.
Morning. Good morning. That's right. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:36 | |
It's a bit chilly in here as well,
but it was way back in 1866 that | 0:18:36 | 0:18:43 | |
campaigners from the Kensington
campaign, which was a group of women | 0:18:43 | 0:18:45 | |
that met regularly to talk about
winning's issues, debates and | 0:18:45 | 0:18:49 | |
rights, they met and decided to
present a petition to government, to | 0:18:49 | 0:18:54 | |
the MPs, so 1500 women across the UK
and British women abroad sign this | 0:18:54 | 0:19:01 | |
petition, brought it here, and it
was brought by two women, Elizabeth | 0:19:01 | 0:19:07 | |
Garrett and Emily Davies, and
presented it to the MP, but they | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
felt rather nervous. It was a
different world in 1866 and they | 0:19:11 | 0:19:16 | |
asked a fruit stall owner if they
could hide it underneath the fruit | 0:19:16 | 0:19:21 | |
stall until the MP arrived. He
arrived, they presented it to him, | 0:19:21 | 0:19:25 | |
and that resulted in copious debates
about winning's right to vote. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:30 | |
Eventually, 100 years ago today,
resulting in some winning getting | 0:19:30 | 0:19:34 | |
the right to vote. You had to be
over 30 years of age and have a | 0:19:34 | 0:19:38 | |
holding property of at least £5,
and, as they said, I'll tell you | 0:19:38 | 0:19:45 | |
more about the debates of that day
and what led up to it later this | 0:19:45 | 0:19:51 | |
morning. There is a hard frost
outside. Temperatures are pretty | 0:19:51 | 0:19:55 | |
low, and also some snow in today's
forecast. If | 0:19:55 | 0:19:59 | |
low, and also some snow in today's
forecast. If we start the forecast | 0:19:59 | 0:20:00 | |
in the south-east, a lot of dry
weather around, a fair bit of cloud | 0:20:00 | 0:20:04 | |
as well, the risk of ice and one or
two brighter breaks, and a few | 0:20:04 | 0:20:09 | |
wintry flurries as well, across
parts of East Anglia, for example. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:13 | |
Some flurries across the Midlands.
Into northern England, we run into a | 0:20:13 | 0:20:18 | |
band of snow, a fairly narrow band,
extending across northern England | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
and some parts of central and
southern Scotland. We have snow | 0:20:22 | 0:20:28 | |
showers in the north and west of
Scotland and also across Northern | 0:20:28 | 0:20:31 | |
Ireland. As we come south, back into
Wales, some snow from the same band | 0:20:31 | 0:20:36 | |
affecting northern England. Cloud
ahead of it, and that same band | 0:20:36 | 0:20:40 | |
affecting parts of the North of
south-west England, north of Devon | 0:20:40 | 0:20:45 | |
and Cornwall, for example. Through
the course of the day, that whole | 0:20:45 | 0:20:49 | |
band of snow is going to push
southwards. In doing so, it will | 0:20:49 | 0:20:53 | |
start to fragment, but any
precipitation that comes out of it | 0:20:53 | 0:20:57 | |
will still be falling as snow even
through the day. Behind it, a lot of | 0:20:57 | 0:21:01 | |
sunshine. Snow showers in the north
and west, Mr of snow, sleet and | 0:21:01 | 0:21:05 | |
hail, maybe some thunder and
lightning as well, and behind it, | 0:21:05 | 0:21:11 | |
the temperature continuing to build,
too. Around 2-5, so feeling cold. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:19 | |
That band of snow coming south will
rejuvenate across East Anglia and | 0:21:19 | 0:21:23 | |
the south-east. The risk of ice and
widespread, severe frost tonight. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:29 | |
Temperatures indicated of towns and
cities where we've got lying snow, | 0:21:29 | 0:21:33 | |
minus double figures, so a bitterly
cold night to come. Tomorrow | 0:21:33 | 0:21:38 | |
morning, we start off with the
remnants of the weather front | 0:21:38 | 0:21:42 | |
producing snow showers first thing
in the south-east. High pressure | 0:21:42 | 0:21:45 | |
will be in charge and a lot of
sunshine. Cold winter sunshine. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:49 | |
Through the afternoon, you'll see
the cloud thickening, and some rain | 0:21:49 | 0:21:53 | |
and snow coming across the
Northwest. The snow will be fairly | 0:21:53 | 0:21:57 | |
short lived and will retreat into
the hills through the day. We will | 0:21:57 | 0:22:01 | |
see the rain at lower levels. By the
time we get to Thursday, that same | 0:22:01 | 0:22:05 | |
system will be pushing steadily
southwards. Behind that band, some | 0:22:05 | 0:22:11 | |
brighter skies, some rain and wintry
showers coming across the Northwest. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:15 | |
Temperatures not quite as low as
they have been back, mind you, no | 0:22:15 | 0:22:19 | |
heatwave on the cards, because, into
the weekend, back into colder and | 0:22:19 | 0:22:24 | |
unsettled conditions.
Keep the jumpers out then. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:28 | |
Absolutely. I know you are there
throughout the morning and you have | 0:22:28 | 0:22:34 | |
plenty to tell us. Thank you, we
will speak to you later. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:38 | |
plenty to tell us. Thank you, we
will speak to you later. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:39 | |
100 years ago today,
on the sixth of February 1918, | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
over eight million women,
and all men over the age of 21, | 0:22:41 | 0:22:45 | |
were finally given a platform
to have their voices heard - | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
the right to vote. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:49 | |
The laws didn't extend to all women, | 0:22:49 | 0:22:51 | |
but it began a period of great
change for equal rights. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
Breakfast's Jayne McCubbin
is finding out more | 0:22:54 | 0:22:56 | |
at the People's History
Museum in Manchester. | 0:22:56 | 0:23:04 | |
Good morning, yeah. This is also
known as the National Museum of | 0:23:05 | 0:23:10 | |
Democracy, and we are amongst the
very symbols of what is arguably one | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
of the most important democratic
movements there has ever been, the | 0:23:14 | 0:23:17 | |
fight for women to claim their right
to vote. As you say, today only | 0:23:17 | 0:23:23 | |
marks a partial victory, but still a
hugely significant milestone. And | 0:23:23 | 0:23:27 | |
these women really were beating men
at their own game. Have a look at | 0:23:27 | 0:23:31 | |
this beautiful banner. These women
were marketing masters. They were | 0:23:31 | 0:23:36 | |
among the first political movement
to really use colours and branding | 0:23:36 | 0:23:40 | |
to sell their message to a public
eager for change. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:48 | |
eager for change. Naga has been to
the Museum of London to look at the | 0:23:49 | 0:23:53 | |
other symbols which have helped to
pave the way for equality. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:58 | |
The symbols of suffrage. These women
didn't just make headlines, they | 0:23:58 | 0:24:02 | |
were also the masters of marketing.
This is some of the badges and | 0:24:02 | 0:24:06 | |
commissioned pieces and fashion
accessories that we have in the | 0:24:06 | 0:24:12 | |
Museum of London collections. And I
think that some of them were very | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
obviously linked to the votes for
women campaign, and some less | 0:24:16 | 0:24:20 | |
obvious. So do you think that this
is just a sample of the memorabilia | 0:24:20 | 0:24:25 | |
that may have been created, the
badges and rings? Daraa new items to | 0:24:25 | 0:24:31 | |
be found? Definitely. It's quite
easy to recognise the badges, | 0:24:31 | 0:24:35 | |
especially if they were officially
made, because they would have been | 0:24:35 | 0:24:40 | |
advertised in the Votes for Women
newspaper or the Suffragette | 0:24:40 | 0:24:46 | |
newspaper. What is less easy is if
things were produced unofficially. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:54 | |
These are different colours. Explain
these. These are badges from the | 0:24:54 | 0:24:59 | |
women's library collection at LSE
and they represent the national | 0:24:59 | 0:25:02 | |
community of women's suffrage
societies, the group that were | 0:25:02 | 0:25:10 | |
joined together. And they were not
considered as militant. Is that fair | 0:25:10 | 0:25:14 | |
to say? No, they were law-abiding.
This was awarded to a very special | 0:25:14 | 0:25:21 | |
lady, Violet. Maggie, you are her
granddaughter. Why was she awarded | 0:25:21 | 0:25:25 | |
this? She wrapped up the metal
weight with the poster saying votes | 0:25:25 | 0:25:31 | |
for men, and she threw it through
the window of the Home Secretary's | 0:25:31 | 0:25:35 | |
residents. This is what the WFP you
gave to women who had done something | 0:25:35 | 0:25:39 | |
memorable or brave. Now, we know of
the history in these shelves, but | 0:25:39 | 0:25:47 | |
what we really want are the
treasures that you may have at home, | 0:25:47 | 0:25:51 | |
which could tell us the story of
those one century ago who fought for | 0:25:51 | 0:25:55 | |
the right of women to vote today.
There are so many items out there | 0:25:55 | 0:26:03 | |
that we would love to hear about
this morning. Items like this - | 0:26:03 | 0:26:08 | |
would you believe it, this banner.
This banner was found in a charity | 0:26:08 | 0:26:12 | |
shop in Leeds. It had been there,
neatly folded for ten years, | 0:26:12 | 0:26:16 | |
perfectly preserved. No one had
spotted it but it was there, and | 0:26:16 | 0:26:20 | |
found, by the People's History
Museum, who bought it. Good morning, | 0:26:20 | 0:26:27 | |
Jenny and Chloe, with your
protective gloves on. They keep | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
telling me off for getting a bit too
close, it is that precious. Do get | 0:26:30 | 0:26:35 | |
in touch with your mementos,
posters, badges, whatever you have, | 0:26:35 | 0:26:40 | |
and the stories of women in your
family that helped pave the way to | 0:26:40 | 0:26:43 | |
this fight for equality which some
would say still goes on today. Much | 0:26:43 | 0:26:47 | |
more from us later in the programme.
We are talking about it throughout | 0:26:47 | 0:26:51 | |
the programme and, as I say, if
you've got any memorabilia, even if | 0:26:51 | 0:26:56 | |
you don't know what it is, we'd love
to see it, and we are also asking if | 0:26:56 | 0:27:01 | |
there's another woman you are
inspired by. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:05 | |
Yeah, it's fascinating, their
history. Do get in touch with us. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:08 | |
Coming up after 7:00, | 0:27:08 | 0:27:09 | |
we'll be catching up with British
number one Johanna Konta, | 0:27:09 | 0:27:13 | |
as Great Britain aims to make it
through | 0:27:13 | 0:27:14 | |
to the top level of the Fed Cup
for the first time in 25 years. | 0:27:14 | 0:30:37 | |
That's all for now. I'll be back in
half an hour. Until then, plenty | 0:30:37 | 0:30:41 | |
more on the website at the usual
address. | 0:30:41 | 0:30:45 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, | 0:30:49 | 0:30:50 | |
with Steph McGovern and Louise
Minchin. | 0:30:50 | 0:30:51 | |
We'll bring you all the latest news
and sport in a moment, | 0:30:51 | 0:30:55 | |
but also on Breakfast this morning: | 0:30:55 | 0:30:56 | |
For many years, e-cigarettes have
divided expert opinion, | 0:30:56 | 0:30:58 | |
but has the time come to make them
free on the NHS to help | 0:30:58 | 0:31:02 | |
people stop smoking? | 0:31:02 | 0:31:03 | |
We'll be finding out
more about the latest | 0:31:03 | 0:31:05 | |
public health advice. | 0:31:05 | 0:31:06 | |
Today marks 100 years
since some women were given | 0:31:06 | 0:31:09 | |
the right to vote. | 0:31:09 | 0:31:10 | |
Throughout the morning we'll be
focussing on a number of key themes, | 0:31:10 | 0:31:13 | |
including the issues that
are important to women MPs today. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:16 | |
We'll be talking to Home Secretary | 0:31:16 | 0:31:17 | |
Amber Rudd and Labour's Harriet
Harman. | 0:31:17 | 0:31:25 | |
And school I would like | 0:31:28 | 0:31:30 | |
And school I would like to be a
teacher because I love children. . | 0:31:30 | 0:31:34 | |
That's Belle, | 0:31:34 | 0:31:35 | |
she's seven and we'll
be hearing from her, | 0:31:35 | 0:31:38 | |
her mum, her nanny and her
great-nanny as they tell us | 0:31:38 | 0:31:41 | |
about their lives as
a family of women today. | 0:31:41 | 0:31:44 | |
Good morning, | 0:31:44 | 0:31:44 | |
here's a summary of today's main
stories from BBC News. | 0:31:44 | 0:31:47 | |
The Conservative MP and leading
Remain campaigner, Anna Soubry, | 0:31:47 | 0:31:49 | |
has called on Theresa May to sling
out what she called hard | 0:31:49 | 0:31:53 | |
Brexiteers in the party. | 0:31:53 | 0:31:54 | |
In an interview for the BBC's
Newsnight, she said | 0:31:54 | 0:31:56 | |
that the frontbench was in hock
to 35 ideological Leave supporters. | 0:31:56 | 0:32:00 | |
She insisted she would not stay
in a party taken over by people | 0:32:00 | 0:32:03 | |
like Jacob Rees-Mogg
and Boris Johnson. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:11 | |
They're not the Tory party that
I joined 40 years ago, | 0:32:14 | 0:32:20 | |
and it's about time Theresa stood up
to them and slung 'em out, | 0:32:20 | 0:32:26 | |
because they've taken down Major,
they took down Cameron, | 0:32:26 | 0:32:29 | |
two great leaders, neither
of whom stood up to them. | 0:32:29 | 0:32:31 | |
If it comes to it I'm not
going to stay in a party that's been | 0:32:31 | 0:32:35 | |
taken over by the likes of
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson, | 0:32:35 | 0:32:38 | |
they're not proper Conservatives. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:42 | |
If that means leaving the party,
form some new alliance, | 0:32:42 | 0:32:45 | |
god knows, I don't know,
but we just simply cannot go | 0:32:45 | 0:32:48 | |
on like this any longer. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:49 | |
Something is going to have to give
because it if it doesn't, | 0:32:49 | 0:32:53 | |
not only will we get Jacob Rees-Mogg
as our Prime Minister, | 0:32:53 | 0:32:57 | |
we'll get a devastating hard Brexit
that will cause huge damage | 0:32:57 | 0:33:03 | |
to our economy for
generations to come. | 0:33:03 | 0:33:06 | |
I'm not prepared to sit there any
longer and put up with this | 0:33:06 | 0:33:10 | |
nonsense. | 0:33:10 | 0:33:10 | |
Relatives of the victims of the 1982
IRA Hyde Park bombing have been | 0:33:10 | 0:33:14 | |
granted legal aid for a civil
action against a suspect. | 0:33:14 | 0:33:16 | |
A case against the
convicted IRA member | 0:33:16 | 0:33:18 | |
John Downey collapsed
at the Old Bailey four years ago. | 0:33:18 | 0:33:21 | |
He had a so-called on-the-run letter
telling him he was no longer | 0:33:21 | 0:33:24 | |
a wanted man and would
not be prosecuted. | 0:33:24 | 0:33:27 | |
Public Health England says it wants
e-cigarettes to be prescribed | 0:33:29 | 0:33:32 | |
on the NHS within the next two
to three years because they're | 0:33:32 | 0:33:35 | |
an effective way
to help smokers quit. | 0:33:35 | 0:33:37 | |
The agency has reviewed the latest
evidence and says vaping | 0:33:37 | 0:33:40 | |
poses only a small fraction
of the risk of smoking tobacco. | 0:33:40 | 0:33:43 | |
It's calling for the UK's drug
regulator to help manufacturers | 0:33:43 | 0:33:45 | |
get their products approved. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:53 | |
Traffic congestion is cost the UK
economy nearly £40 billion | 0:33:53 | 0:33:55 | |
lasy year, according
the largest ever study | 0:33:55 | 0:33:57 | |
of global traffic conditions. | 0:33:57 | 0:33:58 | |
The UK's roads were ranked
in the top ten most gridlocked | 0:33:58 | 0:34:01 | |
in the world, with drivers spending
31 hours a year stuck in traffic. | 0:34:01 | 0:34:05 | |
The Department for Transport says
it's investing £23 billion | 0:34:05 | 0:34:07 | |
on road schemes which will
help to cut congestion. | 0:34:07 | 0:34:15 | |
The British-born actor,
John Mahoney, who played one of TV's | 0:34:15 | 0:34:17 | |
most popular
on-screen dads, has died | 0:34:17 | 0:34:19 | |
in Chicago aged 77. | 0:34:19 | 0:34:20 | |
He was famous for his role
as Martin Crane in the US sitcom | 0:34:20 | 0:34:24 | |
Frasier, playing a grumpy,
down-to-earth retired policeman | 0:34:24 | 0:34:26 | |
who outwitted his two pretentious
sons, Frasier and Niles. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:29 | |
The role earned him two Emmy and two
Golden Globe nominations. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:37 | |
In Florida, the aerospace
Company SpaceX is gearing up to test | 0:34:39 | 0:34:42 | |
what could become the world's
most powerful rocket. | 0:34:42 | 0:34:45 | |
It's called the Falcon Heavy,
and if all goes according to plan | 0:34:45 | 0:34:48 | |
it'll blast off from Cape Canaveral
at six-thirty this evening UK time. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:51 | |
It's carrying a car on board
and there's a possibility that it | 0:34:51 | 0:34:54 | |
could reach the orbit of Mars. | 0:34:54 | 0:34:56 | |
But there aren't any
astronauts on board, | 0:34:56 | 0:34:58 | |
instead there's a mannequin
in a spacesuit. | 0:34:58 | 0:35:05 | |
Is the car on the front of the
rocket? It looked like bad. I was | 0:35:05 | 0:35:10 | |
wondering so many things about that,
why would you need a car -- it | 0:35:10 | 0:35:14 | |
looked like that. That would be an
interesting one for anyone who might | 0:35:14 | 0:35:18 | |
see it. We're also talking about the
Dow Jones, the value of some of | 0:35:18 | 0:35:24 | |
Asia's biggest companies plunged
overnight in response to big falls | 0:35:24 | 0:35:27 | |
in the United States. | 0:35:27 | 0:35:28 | |
In New York, the Dow
Jones closed down more | 0:35:28 | 0:35:36 | |
than 1,100 points last night,
the biggest one day fall in history. | 0:35:36 | 0:35:40 | |
The Nikkei index in Japan fell more
than 5% and the Hang Seng | 0:35:40 | 0:35:43 | |
in Hong Kong by 4%. | 0:35:43 | 0:35:47 | |
Thanks for joining us this morning.
What is going on? This is really in | 0:35:47 | 0:35:53 | |
response to a jobs report last week
which indicated that wages were | 0:35:53 | 0:35:59 | |
rising faster than everybody was
expecting and the implication from | 0:35:59 | 0:36:02 | |
that is interest rates have to rise
faster too, which stock markets | 0:36:02 | 0:36:07 | |
really don't like. It is since the
beginning of the year that we've | 0:36:07 | 0:36:11 | |
been seeing the yield on the ten
year Treasury bond, which is a | 0:36:11 | 0:36:15 | |
benchmark that people use to decide
how much they think interest rates | 0:36:15 | 0:36:20 | |
are there in to rise, that's been
rising so everyone is feeling | 0:36:20 | 0:36:24 | |
interest rates are rising faster
than they thought so there's a bit | 0:36:24 | 0:36:29 | |
of worry about that. Do you think
this is a significant fall? | 0:36:29 | 0:36:32 | |
Obviously in a points term it's the
biggest fall we have seen on the Dow | 0:36:32 | 0:36:37 | |
Jones, the leading stock market in
America, but in terms of percentage | 0:36:37 | 0:36:40 | |
it's not as much as we've seen in
the past? That's right, it's not, | 0:36:40 | 0:36:44 | |
and we've also got to be reminded
that in the last 15 months we've had | 0:36:44 | 0:36:53 | |
no more than a 3% correction in
stock markets, which is very | 0:36:53 | 0:36:57 | |
unusable so at some point it was
likely we are going to see | 0:36:57 | 0:37:00 | |
volatility. It's unusual for markets
to have been as calm as they have | 0:37:00 | 0:37:04 | |
been. Obviously the stock markets
here will open at 8am, what are we | 0:37:04 | 0:37:07 | |
expecting on the FTSE 100? We could
see more weakness for a little bit | 0:37:07 | 0:37:12 | |
of time because markets have just
been a bit rattled by all of this | 0:37:12 | 0:37:16 | |
but I think the thing we've got to
bear in mind is we don't usually see | 0:37:16 | 0:37:21 | |
their markets or really severe falls
unless people are expecting a | 0:37:21 | 0:37:24 | |
recession and I don't think people
are expecting that to happen, so | 0:37:24 | 0:37:28 | |
this is more of a correction driven
by the fact markets have been so | 0:37:28 | 0:37:32 | |
strong for a long period of time.
Thanks for your time this morning. | 0:37:32 | 0:37:37 | |
The market is opening at 8am and we
will find out what happens when that | 0:37:37 | 0:37:41 | |
happens. Holly is here to talk about
Chelsea. Apologies to Chelsea fans | 0:37:41 | 0:37:46 | |
for giving them a hard time this
morning but another disappointing | 0:37:46 | 0:37:50 | |
result last night and the pressure
is mounting on this man, that | 0:37:50 | 0:37:53 | |
picture says it all. Someone said
yesterday if you walked into a shop | 0:37:53 | 0:37:57 | |
and saw someone like that working
there you would say, you're not | 0:37:57 | 0:38:01 | |
happy, are you? Maybe it's time to
move on. Another result coming off | 0:38:01 | 0:38:07 | |
the back of last week, a shock
result against Bournemouth. It isn't | 0:38:07 | 0:38:12 | |
surprisingly, the pressure is
mounting this morning. | 0:38:12 | 0:38:14 | |
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte
is under increasing pressure this | 0:38:14 | 0:38:16 | |
morning after his side were thrashed
4-1 at Watford last night. | 0:38:16 | 0:38:19 | |
Conte's side were down to ten
men in the first half, | 0:38:19 | 0:38:22 | |
in what would become the biggest
defeat of their season. | 0:38:22 | 0:38:25 | |
Eden Hazard equalised in the second
half, only for Watford to score | 0:38:25 | 0:38:28 | |
three late goals in
just seven minutes! | 0:38:28 | 0:38:31 | |
And while it was an unforgettable
night for new Watford boss | 0:38:31 | 0:38:34 | |
Javi Gracia, it was
an awful one for Conte. | 0:38:34 | 0:38:41 | |
Is it fair to say that the pressure
is building new? For me? Yeah. The | 0:38:41 | 0:38:46 | |
pressure? The pressure, what
pressure, which pressure, what is | 0:38:46 | 0:38:52 | |
the pressure? The pressure on your
position. On my position? Yes. I | 0:38:52 | 0:38:58 | |
repeat, work, if this is enough,
it's OK. If not then they will take | 0:38:58 | 0:39:05 | |
another decision. | 0:39:05 | 0:39:07 | |
I'm no body language expert but he
didn't look comfortable. What | 0:39:07 | 0:39:11 | |
pressure? A brave journalist to ask
that. The last five Premier League | 0:39:11 | 0:39:17 | |
managers haven't survived to the end
of the following season -- Premier | 0:39:17 | 0:39:22 | |
League winning managers. Hero to
zero so quickly. With the current | 0:39:22 | 0:39:26 | |
climate at the moment with managers,
we are losing them by the week it | 0:39:26 | 0:39:30 | |
feels like but this is a
particularly big one, Chelsea fans | 0:39:30 | 0:39:34 | |
are getting increasingly anxious
about this season but time will | 0:39:34 | 0:39:39 | |
tell. Another day, another manager.
We will keep an eye on that one. | 0:39:39 | 0:39:45 | |
England have called up
Richard Wigglesworth to replace | 0:39:45 | 0:39:47 | |
the injured Ben Youngs ahead
of Saturday's Six Nations | 0:39:47 | 0:39:50 | |
match with Wales. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:50 | |
Youngs has a knee ligament
injury which rules him out | 0:39:50 | 0:39:53 | |
of the entire tournament. | 0:39:53 | 0:39:54 | |
Wigglesworth will now provide
cover for Danny Care, | 0:39:54 | 0:39:56 | |
who came on for Youngs in Rome. | 0:39:56 | 0:40:02 | |
England and Great Britain goalkeeper
Maddie Hinch has been named | 0:40:02 | 0:40:05 | |
Female Goalkeeper of the Year. | 0:40:05 | 0:40:06 | |
She was one of the heros of Team
GB's Olympic gold winning | 0:40:06 | 0:40:09 | |
team in Rio. | 0:40:09 | 0:40:10 | |
It's the second consecutive year
that Hinch has claimed the award | 0:40:10 | 0:40:13 | |
at the FIH Hockey Stars
Awards in Berlin. | 0:40:13 | 0:40:21 | |
Since the Olympic she has help
England win many things. | 0:40:21 | 0:40:28 | |
Formula 1 has announced it will have
have grid kids from next season | 0:40:28 | 0:40:32 | |
after the sport abolished | 0:40:32 | 0:40:33 | |
the tradition of having grid
girls. | 0:40:33 | 0:40:35 | |
F1's owners decided
the long-standing practice | 0:40:35 | 0:40:36 | |
F1's owners decided
the long-standing practice | 0:40:36 | 0:40:37 | |
of using female models
before races was at odds | 0:40:37 | 0:40:38 | |
of using female models
before races was at odds | 0:40:38 | 0:40:41 | |
with modern-day societal norms, | 0:40:41 | 0:40:42 | |
so instead | 0:40:42 | 0:40:44 | |
they'll select children
who are already in the junior | 0:40:44 | 0:40:46 | |
categories of motor racing
from the opening race | 0:40:46 | 0:40:48 | |
of the new season next month. | 0:40:48 | 0:40:50 | |
We've been talking about how cold it
is at the minute. We've been some | 0:40:50 | 0:40:54 | |
quite adverse weather. | 0:40:54 | 0:41:00 | |
In Murmansk in Russia,
Yugikassen is basically snowball | 0:41:09 | 0:41:11 | |
fighting. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:11 | |
The sport is played between two
teams of seven players. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:14 | |
The aim being to hit
as many of opponents with snowballs | 0:41:14 | 0:41:17 | |
as possible and capture
the opposition flag. | 0:41:17 | 0:41:19 | |
Those who get hit are eliminated. | 0:41:19 | 0:41:21 | |
The event originated in Japan
and this competition | 0:41:21 | 0:41:23 | |
is held annually. | 0:41:23 | 0:41:24 | |
Although the -20 degree
centigrade temperatures | 0:41:24 | 0:41:25 | |
would stop most people! | 0:41:25 | 0:41:28 | |
It looks more like eyes they are
throwing that's no with. That | 0:41:28 | 0:41:33 | |
happens here, if you get a snowball
it is like a big ball of ice. It | 0:41:33 | 0:41:39 | |
does look fun. You would be good at
it. I would be good at it but I | 0:41:39 | 0:41:44 | |
wouldn't like it. | 0:41:44 | 0:41:45 | |
Our Fed Cup team are in Estonia this
week in a bid to take us | 0:41:45 | 0:41:49 | |
into the World Group. | 0:41:49 | 0:41:50 | |
The team are Johanna Konta,
Heather Watson, Anna Smith | 0:41:50 | 0:41:52 | |
and rising star Katie Boulter. | 0:41:52 | 0:41:54 | |
I caught up with them in training. | 0:41:54 | 0:42:02 | |
She's enjoyed a spectacular rise to
stardom in the past few years, | 0:42:15 | 0:42:19 | |
becoming the first British woman
since Virginia Wade and Jo jury to | 0:42:19 | 0:42:22 | |
crack into the elite of the women's
game. But a year in tennis can feel | 0:42:22 | 0:42:28 | |
like a long-time. Johanna Konta's
early season has been hampered by | 0:42:28 | 0:42:31 | |
injury but now with Fed Cup in
Estonia about to get under way, she | 0:42:31 | 0:42:37 | |
says she's ready to return to
winning ways. I'm healthy, I'm | 0:42:37 | 0:42:40 | |
playing and I think in time I'll be
playing at the level I want to be | 0:42:40 | 0:42:45 | |
playing at. Fed Cup is definitely a
great opportunity for me to play a | 0:42:45 | 0:42:49 | |
lot of matches and in a different
setting than most of the season, | 0:42:49 | 0:42:53 | |
it's a team setting and a team
environment, which is really | 0:42:53 | 0:42:56 | |
exciting, we get to bond, have fun
in the evenings and most importantly | 0:42:56 | 0:43:01 | |
support each other on the sidelines.
The British number one spearheads | 0:43:01 | 0:43:05 | |
the squad with captain and key of
the thong expecting to start with a | 0:43:05 | 0:43:09 | |
bang. Katie bowled a is the team's
newest and youngest member. At just | 0:43:09 | 0:43:14 | |
21 she wasn't even born the last
time Britain made it to the world | 0:43:14 | 0:43:18 | |
group stage. Issue feeling
confident? We've got a really strong | 0:43:18 | 0:43:22 | |
team, we've got a great chance,
everyone's playing really well at | 0:43:22 | 0:43:25 | |
the moment so let's see what we can
do. Being part of the team event is | 0:43:25 | 0:43:30 | |
really nice, especially because
tennis is such an individual sport | 0:43:30 | 0:43:33 | |
so I'm happy to be back with the kit
on. Until now the profile of the | 0:43:33 | 0:43:39 | |
women's team competition has always
been significantly lower than the | 0:43:39 | 0:43:42 | |
men's Davis Cup, not helped by their
failure to get out of the dreaded | 0:43:42 | 0:43:47 | |
Europe/ Africa zone. I would love to
see the format change, I would love | 0:43:47 | 0:43:50 | |
to see the format come into line
with the men's wear it is structured | 0:43:50 | 0:43:54 | |
in a way where fans can follow
better and really engage with the | 0:43:54 | 0:43:58 | |
team. Hopefully one day we might get
that. The team face Estonia and | 0:43:58 | 0:44:03 | |
Portugal in the first round robin
matches this week with a place in | 0:44:03 | 0:44:07 | |
the world group at stake. Button
thing tells me they'll do a better | 0:44:07 | 0:44:11 | |
job without me there. -- but
something tells me. | 0:44:11 | 0:44:17 | |
Apologies to the cameraman, I can
confidently tell you that he did | 0:44:17 | 0:44:21 | |
survive! See you later, thank you. | 0:44:21 | 0:44:22 | |
You're watching
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The main stories this morning: | 0:44:25 | 0:44:28 | |
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The main stories this morning: | 0:44:29 | 0:44:33 | |
The Conservative MP Anna Soubry has
called on the Prime Minister to | 0:44:33 | 0:44:37 | |
sling out the party's Brexiteers. | 0:44:37 | 0:44:41 | |
Government health officials say
e-cigarettes should be prescribed | 0:44:41 | 0:44:43 | |
on the NHS, | 0:44:43 | 0:44:48 | |
because they're
an effective way to help smokers | 0:44:48 | 0:44:50 | |
quit. | 0:44:50 | 0:44:52 | |
It's the hundredth anniversary
of the Representation | 0:44:52 | 0:44:54 | |
of the People Act -
which gave some women the vote | 0:44:54 | 0:44:57 | |
for the first time and all men
over the age of 21. | 0:44:57 | 0:45:00 | |
We're doing lots throughout
the morning to mark it and Carol's | 0:45:00 | 0:45:03 | |
in Westminster Hall
inside the Houses of Parliament. | 0:45:03 | 0:45:06 | |
You are going to put to bed.
First you must do to lead glass | 0:45:06 | 0:45:18 | |
sculpture behind me by Mary Branson,
called New Dawn, campaigning for | 0:45:18 | 0:45:24 | |
women's suffrage, and the glass
discs you can see are that look like | 0:45:24 | 0:45:29 | |
rolled up Acts of Parliament. The
different colours represent the | 0:45:29 | 0:45:32 | |
different colours for the votes for
women, made of metal and glass. The | 0:45:32 | 0:45:38 | |
lights changing according to the
tide rising and falling on the River | 0:45:38 | 0:45:43 | |
Thames, and the campaign was often
represented as an unstoppable tide | 0:45:43 | 0:45:46 | |
of change sweeping the nation. It
was actually unveiled on the seventh | 0:45:46 | 0:45:50 | |
of June 2016, the 150th anniversary
of the first mass petition submitted | 0:45:50 | 0:45:57 | |
to parliament calling for women
suffrage, and it is quite | 0:45:57 | 0:46:00 | |
spectacular, more than you can say
for the weather if you like it warm. | 0:46:00 | 0:46:04 | |
It is cold inside Westminster Hall
but even colder outside. | 0:46:04 | 0:46:10 | |
Temperatures around East Anglia, -2,
falling to -4 overnight, and some | 0:46:10 | 0:46:14 | |
snow showers, and the risk of ice
almost anywhere. Starting the | 0:46:14 | 0:46:20 | |
forecaster nine o'clock in the
south-east, a lot of dry weather but | 0:46:20 | 0:46:24 | |
a few wintry showers around across
parts of the Midlands. Falling snow | 0:46:24 | 0:46:28 | |
in the East Midlands overnight, and
also East Anglia. A few flurries | 0:46:28 | 0:46:32 | |
further north, and then we run into
the narrow band of snow across | 0:46:32 | 0:46:36 | |
northern England, Southern and parts
of central Scotland. North of that, | 0:46:36 | 0:46:41 | |
clearer skies, but also some snow
showers in the north and west of | 0:46:41 | 0:46:45 | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland. Into
Wales, the same band of snow | 0:46:45 | 0:46:49 | |
affecting parts of northern England,
fringing in across North Devon and | 0:46:49 | 0:46:53 | |
Cornwall, and into North Somerset as
well. Across southern counties, a | 0:46:53 | 0:46:58 | |
drier picture, but a fair bit of
cloud around, and it is cold, if you | 0:46:58 | 0:47:03 | |
haven't yet stepped out. Through the
morning, that band of snow across | 0:47:03 | 0:47:06 | |
Scotland and northern England will
sink southwards, through Wales as | 0:47:06 | 0:47:10 | |
well, tending to weaken and
fragment, but any precipitation | 0:47:10 | 0:47:14 | |
through the day, even though it is a
weaker feature, will still be of | 0:47:14 | 0:47:18 | |
snow. The cloud will build as it
pushes towards the south-east, and | 0:47:18 | 0:47:23 | |
continuing with a platter of snow
showers, next with sleet, hail, | 0:47:23 | 0:47:26 | |
thunder and lightning in the
north-west. I is about three to | 0:47:26 | 0:47:30 | |
five. Through the evening -- hides
about three to five. Further snow | 0:47:30 | 0:47:39 | |
showers throughout East Anglia and
the south-east, but behind it, clear | 0:47:39 | 0:47:43 | |
skies, so looking at severe frost
this coming night. Where we have | 0:47:43 | 0:47:47 | |
lying snow, the temperature could
get into mine is double figures, so | 0:47:47 | 0:47:51 | |
once again, the risk of ice and
hazardous conditions. Tomorrow | 0:47:51 | 0:47:56 | |
morning, a wintry flavour in the
south-east. That will clear away. | 0:47:56 | 0:47:59 | |
Original high pressure ills across
us, but the next system from the | 0:47:59 | 0:48:06 | |
Northwest will bring snow on its
leading edge, quickly turning to | 0:48:06 | 0:48:09 | |
rein in lower levels, retreating
into the hills as it continues to | 0:48:09 | 0:48:13 | |
push steadily south eastwards, and
into Thursday, a weakening feature, | 0:48:13 | 0:48:18 | |
moving across England and Wales, so
cloudy, damp and wet. Behind it, | 0:48:18 | 0:48:23 | |
some brighter skies, but still some
rain with some snow showers mixed in | 0:48:23 | 0:48:27 | |
across the Northwest. Then, if you
are wondering what happens after | 0:48:27 | 0:48:33 | |
that, it remains settled and colder
as well. | 0:48:33 | 0:48:35 | |
We've been warned. | 0:48:35 | 0:48:37 | |
as well.
We've been warned. | 0:48:37 | 0:48:37 | |
Thank you. I don't like it when she
says settled... | 0:48:37 | 0:48:42 | |
Does it unsettle you? Yeah, it does! | 0:48:42 | 0:48:47 | |
Over the last 100 years, | 0:48:47 | 0:48:48 | |
equality between men and women has
come much further | 0:48:48 | 0:48:51 | |
than the right to vote. | 0:48:51 | 0:48:52 | |
But in the workplace, things haven't
always been straightforward. | 0:48:52 | 0:48:55 | |
I've been to meet a number of women
at very different stages | 0:48:55 | 0:48:58 | |
of their career
to find out how life is today, | 0:48:58 | 0:49:01 | |
what's changed, and
what advice they have. | 0:49:01 | 0:49:04 | |
Making your way up in the world is
still not as easy as it should be | 0:49:07 | 0:49:11 | |
for women, but there are more and
more breaking down the barriers. | 0:49:11 | 0:49:17 | |
Katie is an award-winning crane
driver. I've come to meet her with | 0:49:17 | 0:49:21 | |
Lois, an apprentice in building
services, and Catherine, a | 0:49:21 | 0:49:24 | |
structural engineer. You are all
working in an industry that is male | 0:49:24 | 0:49:29 | |
dominated. Does that bother you? It
doesn't as such. If anything it | 0:49:29 | 0:49:35 | |
gives you slightly more leverage. I
work on a barge and it's all men, so | 0:49:35 | 0:49:39 | |
it doesn't bother you, but you need
to be a bit tougher skin sometimes. | 0:49:39 | 0:49:44 | |
There is a stereotype about
engineers always being a male with a | 0:49:44 | 0:49:47 | |
beard and a hard hat, and at times
it is, but in reality, most of the | 0:49:47 | 0:49:52 | |
time I'm wearing a dress, working at
my desk, doing drawings and on | 0:49:52 | 0:49:57 | |
computer software. I feel like I'm
listened to, treated the same as | 0:49:57 | 0:50:02 | |
anyone else. So you don't feel any
different as a woman in terms of | 0:50:02 | 0:50:05 | |
where you are going to go in your
career? I don't feel there's any | 0:50:05 | 0:50:10 | |
barriers stopping me. It's nice to
see a lot more females coming into | 0:50:10 | 0:50:13 | |
the industry, especially at younger
ages, so it's getting better. It's | 0:50:13 | 0:50:18 | |
great to hear their optimism, but
what about those are bit further on? | 0:50:18 | 0:50:22 | |
Jennifer and her friend have very
different jobs but felt the same | 0:50:22 | 0:50:27 | |
pressure when they had children.
There is guilt looking at every | 0:50:27 | 0:50:30 | |
corner, that you can't do your job
in the way in which you want to do | 0:50:30 | 0:50:35 | |
it, and that you are not there for
your children. I've got two | 0:50:35 | 0:50:38 | |
children. The first, fine, second,
had my second, I worked for the | 0:50:38 | 0:50:43 | |
biggest international law firm and
was made redundant. Literally, | 0:50:43 | 0:50:47 | |
effectively, on my first day back at
work. And it... It affected me | 0:50:47 | 0:50:54 | |
mentally so badly. And in fact it
became so stressful for me in the | 0:50:54 | 0:51:00 | |
end I setup own business and left so
I could define my own working hours. | 0:51:00 | 0:51:06 | |
For anyone to get to the top in
business, it takes a lot of graft, | 0:51:06 | 0:51:10 | |
so what about the few women who have
made it? Do they think they've had a | 0:51:10 | 0:51:15 | |
harder time because they are a
woman? Do you think being a woman | 0:51:15 | 0:51:19 | |
has made any difference? At times
it's been an advantage actually | 0:51:19 | 0:51:24 | |
because in technology women are very
much unrepresented. So you tend to | 0:51:24 | 0:51:28 | |
stand out, and I found that quite
useful. Not to say it hasn't been | 0:51:28 | 0:51:33 | |
difficult. Particularly things like
raising funds to invest in the | 0:51:33 | 0:51:36 | |
business. That's always difficult.
But I've found skills plus network | 0:51:36 | 0:51:42 | |
has helped. I was very fortunate in
that my aunt, my mum adored my son, | 0:51:42 | 0:51:50 | |
and looked after him while I picked
-- builds a business from scratch. | 0:51:50 | 0:51:57 | |
I'd say that anyone who wants to set
up her own business, you need to be | 0:51:57 | 0:52:02 | |
tough, very tough. You need to be
very straightforward - say what you | 0:52:02 | 0:52:05 | |
mean, mean what you say. Back on the
construction site, I definitely feel | 0:52:05 | 0:52:10 | |
like these young women are given
more opportunities than they would | 0:52:10 | 0:52:14 | |
have done in the past. So that
should mean in future we won't need | 0:52:14 | 0:52:18 | |
to make a special film about women
doing jobs like these or running | 0:52:18 | 0:52:23 | |
companies because it won't be
unusual. | 0:52:23 | 0:52:25 | |
That's a very good point.
It was so brilliant to meet women in | 0:52:25 | 0:52:30 | |
so many different parts of their
careers, to get that outlook on what | 0:52:30 | 0:52:34 | |
they think.
It wasn't just the law in 1918 that | 0:52:34 | 0:52:38 | |
change, before the Employment
Protection Act in 1975, a woman | 0:52:38 | 0:52:43 | |
could be fired if she fell pregnant.
It seems incredible now. | 0:52:43 | 0:52:48 | |
Talking of change, we are going to
go back... | 0:52:48 | 0:52:53 | |
Let's return to the People's History
Museum in Manchester, | 0:52:53 | 0:52:55 | |
one of the places we're at to mark
the centenary of women being given | 0:52:55 | 0:52:59 | |
the right to vote. | 0:52:59 | 0:53:04 | |
Breakfast's Jayne McCubbin is there. | 0:53:04 | 0:53:09 | |
This is madness the national game of
democracy, and the birthplace of the | 0:53:09 | 0:53:14 | |
suffragette movement was right here
in the marking the birthplace of the | 0:53:14 | 0:53:19 | |
suffragette movement. Have a look at
the past, some of the 1000 | 0:53:19 | 0:53:27 | |
suffragettes these are the women who
put. | 0:53:27 | 0:53:35 | |
put. This meant what just about the
bold, brave moves of the | 0:53:35 | 0:53:39 | |
suffragettes, and there are calls
today for these women to be | 0:53:39 | 0:53:42 | |
pardoned. This fight was also about
the steady, steely determination of | 0:53:42 | 0:53:47 | |
the suffragette, and this morning we
want to take a moment to look at | 0:53:47 | 0:53:51 | |
that fight through the eyes of two
women on either side of the | 0:53:51 | 0:53:55 | |
campaign.
Britain was a nation divided, | 0:53:55 | 0:54:00 | |
between privilege and poverty, those
with power and those without. Two | 0:54:00 | 0:54:05 | |
women, worlds apart, were united in
their belief this must change. Annie | 0:54:05 | 0:54:12 | |
Helm was smart, educated, Cheshire
mill owner puzzle daughter. She had | 0:54:12 | 0:54:16 | |
the ear of men in power, yet had no
power herself. She was a force to be | 0:54:16 | 0:54:21 | |
reckoned with, yes. And yet the most
simple and uneducated of men, simply | 0:54:21 | 0:54:26 | |
by virtue of being a man, had the
vote, and that just did not make | 0:54:26 | 0:54:32 | |
sense at all. Nor did it to Leonora
Coen, born into poverty in Leeds, | 0:54:32 | 0:54:37 | |
uneducated but clever. Brave, too.
She really felt that, without the | 0:54:37 | 0:54:42 | |
vote, there was going to be no way
that women could have proper | 0:54:42 | 0:54:46 | |
equality and could lift themselves
out of poverty. As promises are made | 0:54:46 | 0:54:50 | |
and broken in Parliament, our women
push on, Annie with gentle | 0:54:50 | 0:54:56 | |
persuasion. She sets up a local
Suffrage Society to convince the | 0:54:56 | 0:55:00 | |
establishment of what is right, but
Leonora plots. She heads to the | 0:55:00 | 0:55:05 | |
Tower of London for a suffragette
act so daring it would shake the | 0:55:05 | 0:55:08 | |
establishment - to smash the crown
Jewels. This... This is where it | 0:55:08 | 0:55:16 | |
happened. Can you imagine how her
heart must be pounding? So she sees | 0:55:16 | 0:55:22 | |
this group of schoolboys and she
sneaks in behind them and looks for | 0:55:22 | 0:55:26 | |
all the world like a teacher. She
must be thinking, where's the | 0:55:26 | 0:55:31 | |
crowbar? Is it in my coat? And she
finds it, and she waits until the | 0:55:31 | 0:55:36 | |
Beefeater is over the other side of
the room, then she has direct it and | 0:55:36 | 0:55:40 | |
throw it and make this great
announcement of votes for women... | 0:55:40 | 0:55:45 | |
How daring is that, and how
courageous? But then came the | 0:55:45 | 0:55:49 | |
ultimate call for courage, and the
war changes everything. As men die | 0:55:49 | 0:55:54 | |
on the front, the suffragettes March
to London to offer their services to | 0:55:54 | 0:55:59 | |
the country. Women now hold the
fort. They manned the factories, | 0:55:59 | 0:56:04 | |
they create the munitions, they run
the businesses. And there was no | 0:56:04 | 0:56:10 | |
going back. No. Once they knew what
they were capable of, and once the | 0:56:10 | 0:56:15 | |
men came home and saw all that
they'd done, you couldn't go back. | 0:56:15 | 0:56:21 | |
These were equals. Words and deeds
had won the day. On the sixth of | 0:56:21 | 0:56:30 | |
February 1918, women over the age of
30 win the right to vote, but it | 0:56:30 | 0:56:35 | |
would be another ten years before
they win the same voting rights as | 0:56:35 | 0:56:39 | |
men. It was a fight for men to
perceive that women were not | 0:56:39 | 0:56:43 | |
prepared to be doormats any longer.
Women were of equal value, and it's | 0:56:43 | 0:56:49 | |
never been more important to show
that today in this Centenary. If she | 0:56:49 | 0:56:56 | |
were alive today, what should she
think? I think she probably would be | 0:56:56 | 0:57:02 | |
very frustrated. If she were here,
she'd still be fighting? I hope so, | 0:57:02 | 0:57:07 | |
and I'd be with her! We owe a huge
debt of gratitude to those women. We | 0:57:07 | 0:57:14 | |
have our own posse of powerful women
from the National Museum of | 0:57:14 | 0:57:21 | |
Democracy, the People's Museum of
Manchester, and also about this | 0:57:21 | 0:57:26 | |
amazing banner, found after ten
years in a charity shop in Leeds. | 0:57:26 | 0:57:30 | |
We'd love to hear your stories, too,
all morning. | 0:57:30 | 0:57:33 | |
Keep them coming in.
Absolutely fascinating to hear. One | 0:57:33 | 0:57:38 | |
of the women they most admire, and
lots of you already talking about | 0:57:38 | 0:57:44 | |
your mums.
Lovely | 0:57:44 | 1:01:04 | |
in half an hour. | 1:01:04 | 1:01:05 | |
Plenty more on our website
at the usual address. | 1:01:05 | 1:01:08 | |
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Hello, good morning. | 1:01:11 | 1:01:12 | |
This is Breakfast with
Steph McGovern and Louise Minchin. | 1:01:12 | 1:01:20 | |
The value of some of the world's
companies has been falling | 1:01:31 | 1:01:34 | |
overnight as global stock
markets take a tumble. | 1:01:34 | 1:01:42 | |
Good morning, it's Tuesday
the sixth of February. | 1:01:44 | 1:01:47 | |
Also on the programme this morning,
| 1:01:47 | 1:01:51 | |
growing division within
the Conservative Party over | 1:01:51 | 1:01:53 | |
Brexit as Theresa May is urged | 1:01:53 | 1:01:55 | |
to sling out so-called hard
Brexiteers. | 1:01:55 | 1:02:03 | |
Kirdi cigarettes soon be available
on prescription? Government health | 1:02:04 | 1:02:08 | |
officials say they should be --
could easily direct is. | 1:02:08 | 1:02:14 | |
In sport, the pressure is mounting
on Chelsea manager Antonio Conte. | 1:02:14 | 1:02:17 | |
His side suffered
the biggest defeat of | 1:02:17 | 1:02:19 | |
their season as Watford
beat them 4-1. | 1:02:19 | 1:02:21 | |
100 years since the first
women got the vote we | 1:02:21 | 1:02:23 | |
celebrate the achievements of those
who campaigned to make it happen. | 1:02:23 | 1:02:26 | |
As debate over gender equality
and at attitudes towards women | 1:02:26 | 1:02:29 | |
are in sharp focus
today, we look at how | 1:02:29 | 1:02:31 | |
society has changed or not
over the past century. | 1:02:31 | 1:02:34 | |
Charlotte was six years
old when I went back to work | 1:02:34 | 1:02:37 | |
and I really felt I was missing out. | 1:02:37 | 1:02:39 | |
Having paid maternity
leave and having flexible | 1:02:39 | 1:02:41 | |
hours means as a woman
in the workplace I can achieve. | 1:02:41 | 1:02:49 | |
We would like to hear
from you as well, is there one woman | 1:02:50 | 1:02:54 | |
in your life that inspires you? | 1:02:54 | 1:02:55 | |
Let us know. | 1:02:55 | 1:03:03 | |
Carol has the weather
from Westminster Hall, | 1:03:04 | 1:03:06 | |
where the first mass signature | 1:03:06 | 1:03:07 | |
petition for women's
votes was handed over. | 1:03:07 | 1:03:09 | |
I'm in central lobby in the houses
of parliament were on Valentine's | 1:03:09 | 1:03:15 | |
Day 1907, women were banned for
Apple rousing, they would jump on | 1:03:15 | 1:03:19 | |
the benches shouting votes for women
and I will show you more around this | 1:03:19 | 1:03:23 | |
area at 7:15am -- rabble-rouser in.
It's cold, hard frost, some snow in | 1:03:23 | 1:03:30 | |
the forecast, a fair bit of sunshine
and it will remain unsettled but I | 1:03:30 | 1:03:34 | |
will have more in 15 minutes.
Thanks, Carol, we will look forward | 1:03:34 | 1:03:40 | |
to that. | 1:03:40 | 1:03:41 | |
The value of some of the world's
biggest companies has been falling | 1:03:41 | 1:03:44 | |
overnight as global stock
markets take a tumble. | 1:03:44 | 1:03:50 | |
The US stock market index,
the Dow Jones, has fallen by over | 1:03:50 | 1:03:53 | |
1,000 points on its biggest one-day
fall in history and in Asia, | 1:03:53 | 1:03:56 | |
Japan's Nikkei index
was down by more than 4%. | 1:03:56 | 1:04:01 | |
Earlier on Breakfast we spoke
to the Investment director Jane | 1:04:01 | 1:04:07 | |
Sydenham,
who said the drop wasn't | 1:04:07 | 1:04:09 | |
completely unexpected. | 1:04:09 | 1:04:11 | |
This is really in response to a jobs
report last week which kind of | 1:04:11 | 1:04:17 | |
indicated wages were rising a bit
faster than everybody was expecting, | 1:04:17 | 1:04:21 | |
and the invocation from that is
interest rates have to rise faster | 1:04:21 | 1:04:25 | |
too, which stock markets really
don't like. So in the last 15 months | 1:04:25 | 1:04:30 | |
we've had no more than a 3% friction
in stock markets, which is very, | 1:04:30 | 1:04:35 | |
very unusual so at some point it was
likely we were going to see a bit | 1:04:35 | 1:04:40 | |
more volatility anyway. It's really
very unusual for markets to have | 1:04:40 | 1:04:44 | |
been quite as calm as they have
been. | 1:04:44 | 1:04:46 | |
They are the markets that have been
open overnight, it's not open here | 1:04:46 | 1:04:50 | |
yet, the FTSE 100, leading our
biggest -- representing our leading | 1:04:50 | 1:04:55 | |
companies, they are open at 8am,
that will probably open with a fall | 1:04:55 | 1:05:00 | |
as well but we will get that to you
later on. | 1:05:00 | 1:05:03 | |
The Conservative MP
and leading Remain | 1:05:03 | 1:05:04 | |
campaigner Anna Soubry has called
Theresa May to sling out hard | 1:05:04 | 1:05:07 | |
Brexiteers in the party. | 1:05:07 | 1:05:09 | |
She said the front
bench was in hock to 35 | 1:05:09 | 1:05:11 | |
ideological Remain supporters. | 1:05:11 | 1:05:12 | |
In an interview with
Newsnight she said | 1:05:12 | 1:05:14 | |
she wouldn't stay in a party taken
over by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg | 1:05:14 | 1:05:18 | |
and Boris Johnson. | 1:05:18 | 1:05:26 | |
Our political correspondent Eleanor
Garnier is in Westminster this | 1:05:29 | 1:05:32 | |
morning. This is quite something to
hear her say this, isn't it? It is | 1:05:32 | 1:05:37 | |
strong language from Anna Soubry and
it shows the decades-old issue that | 1:05:37 | 1:05:41 | |
has divided the Conservative Party.
It's not going away. Anna Soubry | 1:05:41 | 1:05:46 | |
even since the referendum result has
spoken passionately about Brexit but | 1:05:46 | 1:05:51 | |
she's gone one step further with
these comments, calling on these | 1:05:51 | 1:05:55 | |
hard-line ideological Brexiteers as
she put it to be chucked out of the | 1:05:55 | 1:05:58 | |
party. | 1:05:58 | 1:05:59 | |
They're not the Tory party that
I joined 40 years ago, | 1:05:59 | 1:06:02 | |
and it's about time Theresa stood up
to them and slung them out, | 1:06:02 | 1:06:05 | |
because they've taken
down Major and Cameron, | 1:06:05 | 1:06:07 | |
two great leaders, neither
of whom stood up to them. | 1:06:07 | 1:06:10 | |
If it comes to it I'm not
going to stay in a party that's been | 1:06:10 | 1:06:14 | |
taken over by the likes of
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson, | 1:06:14 | 1:06:17 | |
they're not proper Conservatives. | 1:06:17 | 1:06:22 | |
I think Brexiteers will save AR
dealing for what they believe to be | 1:06:22 | 1:06:27 | |
in the best interests of the
country. We've heard from Lord | 1:06:27 | 1:06:31 | |
Lamont, who said he thought Anna
Soubry was being quite ridiculous. | 1:06:31 | 1:06:36 | |
This demonstrates how much Theresa
May has a challenge to keep her | 1:06:36 | 1:06:42 | |
party united. This is a crucial
week, the Prime Minister is hosting | 1:06:42 | 1:06:47 | |
meetings with senior ministers where
she will try to coax them to come | 1:06:47 | 1:06:51 | |
sort of consensus about the UK
negotiating position with the EU. | 1:06:51 | 1:06:56 | |
Eleanor, thanks for that.
At around 8:20am we will speak to | 1:06:56 | 1:07:00 | |
Home Secretary Amber Rudd about that
and other things. | 1:07:00 | 1:07:04 | |
Relatives of the victims of the 1982
IRA Hyde Park bombing have been | 1:07:04 | 1:07:08 | |
granted legal aid for a civil
action against a suspect. | 1:07:08 | 1:07:11 | |
A prosecution case
against the convicted IRA | 1:07:11 | 1:07:12 | |
member John Downey collapsed
at the Old Bailey four years ago | 1:07:12 | 1:07:16 | |
because he had a so-called
on the run letter | 1:07:16 | 1:07:18 | |
telling him he was no
longer a wanted man. | 1:07:18 | 1:07:20 | |
Frankie McCamley has more. | 1:07:20 | 1:07:28 | |
There's a call this morning for easy
cigarettes to be given on the NHS | 1:07:29 | 1:07:33 | |
because they're an excellent way
to help smokers quit. | 1:07:33 | 1:07:35 | |
Public Health England said vaping
poses only a small fraction | 1:07:35 | 1:07:38 | |
of the risk of smoking tobacco. | 1:07:38 | 1:07:40 | |
Our health reporter
Michelle Roberts has more. | 1:07:40 | 1:07:43 | |
They've helped tens of thousands
of people quit smoking, | 1:07:43 | 1:07:45 | |
but currently in the UK,
people have to buy e-cigarettes, | 1:07:45 | 1:07:48 | |
unlike nicotine patches and gum. | 1:07:48 | 1:07:50 | |
Public Health England wants that
to change | 1:07:50 | 1:07:51 | |
and for doctors to start giving | 1:07:51 | 1:07:53 | |
e-cigarettes to patients
on prescription. | 1:07:53 | 1:07:58 | |
The latest evidence reviewed showed
that although vaping is not entirely | 1:07:58 | 1:08:01 | |
risk-free, it's much
better than smoking. | 1:08:01 | 1:08:03 | |
They say e-cigarettes are 95% safer
than most cigarettes as they do not | 1:08:03 | 1:08:06 | |
have most of the toxic
chemicals found in smoke. | 1:08:06 | 1:08:09 | |
They estimate e-cigarettes help
the least 20,000 people successfully | 1:08:09 | 1:08:11 | |
quit per year. | 1:08:11 | 1:08:19 | |
Despite their popularity,
around 40% of smokers have | 1:08:23 | 1:08:25 | |
not tried them. | 1:08:25 | 1:08:26 | |
Experts say the evidence | 1:08:26 | 1:08:27 | |
in favour is so compelling,
smokers | 1:08:27 | 1:08:35 | |
who want to quit shouldn't wait
for free prescriptions | 1:08:36 | 1:08:39 | |
for trying e-cigarettes. | 1:08:39 | 1:08:40 | |
We're confident they're
substantially less harmful | 1:08:40 | 1:08:41 | |
than cigarette smoking, | 1:08:41 | 1:08:42 | |
so we recommend for those struggling
to stop, try e-cigarettes, | 1:08:42 | 1:08:45 | |
that might help them to stop
smoking, which would be the best | 1:08:45 | 1:08:48 | |
thing they could do
for their health. | 1:08:48 | 1:08:52 | |
In the meantime, Public Health | 1:08:52 | 1:08:53 | |
England suggests hospitals start
selling | 1:08:53 | 1:08:54 | |
e-cigarettes to patients
and change smoking shelters | 1:08:54 | 1:08:56 | |
into vaping lounges. | 1:08:56 | 1:08:57 | |
But they also warn that non-smokers
shouldn't start vaping. | 1:08:57 | 1:08:59 | |
Michelle Roberts, BBC News. | 1:08:59 | 1:09:06 | |
The UK's roads are among some
of the most heavily congested | 1:09:06 | 1:09:10 | |
in the world according
to the largest ever study | 1:09:10 | 1:09:12 | |
of global traffic conditions. | 1:09:12 | 1:09:13 | |
Researchers say London
is the seventh most gridlocked city | 1:09:13 | 1:09:18 | |
and the UK as a whole
is in the top ten. | 1:09:18 | 1:09:22 | |
Charlotte Gallagher reports. | 1:09:22 | 1:09:24 | |
It's estimated that we wasted around | 1:09:24 | 1:09:26 | |
31 hours stuck in rush-hour traffic
last year. | 1:09:26 | 1:09:31 | |
That extra time behind the wheel
isn't just annoying, | 1:09:31 | 1:09:36 | |
it's costing drivers more
than £1,000 annually, | 1:09:36 | 1:09:41 | |
not just in wasted fuel but also
because some household | 1:09:41 | 1:09:46 | |
goods are becoming more expensive
as higher freiting fees | 1:09:46 | 1:09:49 | |
are passed onto consumers. | 1:09:49 | 1:09:53 | |
London is Europe's second most
congested city after Moscow, | 1:09:53 | 1:09:55 | |
with drivers spending around 74
hours, the equivalent of three | 1:09:55 | 1:09:58 | |
days, in traffic jams. | 1:09:58 | 1:09:59 | |
Manchester, Birmingham,
Luton and Edinburgh have | 1:09:59 | 1:10:01 | |
also been singled out
as gridlock hotspots. | 1:10:01 | 1:10:07 | |
The company that carried out
the research said the cost to the UK | 1:10:07 | 1:10:11 | |
economy is astonishing and Britain's
busy roads are affecting | 1:10:11 | 1:10:13 | |
individuals and businesses. | 1:10:13 | 1:10:16 | |
It's really a big concern
because ultimately this means | 1:10:16 | 1:10:18 | |
there is a decreasing
productivity from the | 1:10:18 | 1:10:20 | |
business side, but also quite a big
cost is being passed on down | 1:10:20 | 1:10:24 | |
to the driver, whether
that's true direct | 1:10:24 | 1:10:26 | |
costs like fuel wasted in traffic
or the time you're losing, | 1:10:26 | 1:10:29 | |
there's also cost on
businesses that gets passed | 1:10:29 | 1:10:37 | |
The Department for
Transport said it is | 1:10:41 | 1:10:43 | |
investing £23 billion on road
schemes that will help cut | 1:10:43 | 1:10:46 | |
congestion and it's giving local
councils record amounts of funding | 1:10:46 | 1:10:48 | |
to upgrade roads. | 1:10:48 | 1:10:49 | |
Charlotte Gallagher, BBC News. | 1:10:49 | 1:10:57 | |
We are talking today about the 100
year anniversary when the first | 1:10:57 | 1:11:03 | |
women in the UK got the vote. Not
all women. We are so accustomed to a | 1:11:03 | 1:11:08 | |
female Prime Minister and female
MPs. | 1:11:08 | 1:11:11 | |
Fighting for women's rights
has always been a part | 1:11:11 | 1:11:13 | |
of Harriet Harman's life,
she's now the longest continuous | 1:11:13 | 1:11:15 | |
serving female MP in Westminster,
having been elected in 1982. | 1:11:15 | 1:11:18 | |
More recently she's been
instrumental in changing | 1:11:18 | 1:11:20 | |
the law to make companies publish | 1:11:20 | 1:11:22 | |
the difference between what they pay
men and women. | 1:11:22 | 1:11:24 | |
Harriet Harman joins us from outside
Parliament this morning. | 1:11:24 | 1:11:28 | |
Good morning, thank you very much
board warning us this morning. Good | 1:11:28 | 1:11:32 | |
morning. Harriet, take us back to
the beginning when you first started | 1:11:32 | 1:11:36 | |
as an MP because as Lou said there,
you're the longest serving female MP | 1:11:36 | 1:11:43 | |
now, so what was life like when you
started in 1982? I came into the | 1:11:43 | 1:11:49 | |
House of Commons in the early 1980s
as part of the women's movement | 1:11:49 | 1:11:52 | |
because we wanted a whole bunch of
women to come into the House of | 1:11:52 | 1:11:56 | |
Commons, which was 97% men, only 3%
women, and we wanted not just to be | 1:11:56 | 1:12:02 | |
asking men MPs to be changing things
for women, we wanted to share in the | 1:12:02 | 1:12:07 | |
decision-making and make decisions
that benefited women, as well as | 1:12:07 | 1:12:10 | |
men, but we were outnumbered them
and women weren't taken seriously | 1:12:10 | 1:12:14 | |
and what we said wasn't regarded as
important, we were really regarded | 1:12:14 | 1:12:18 | |
as second class citizens. So much
has changed just since I've been an | 1:12:18 | 1:12:23 | |
MP. When you started, obviously one
of few women, but you were pregnant | 1:12:23 | 1:12:28 | |
at the time too. Did that make any
difference do you think? I think it | 1:12:28 | 1:12:32 | |
did because I was much younger than
most other MPs, was in my early 30s | 1:12:32 | 1:12:37 | |
and the House of Commons had an
average age of over 50. Very few | 1:12:37 | 1:12:41 | |
women, and a lot of the men actually
didn't think women had any place in | 1:12:41 | 1:12:46 | |
the House of Commons, they thought
that women should be at home looking | 1:12:46 | 1:12:49 | |
after the children and shouldn't
really be in public life. Especially | 1:12:49 | 1:12:53 | |
not a younger and pregnant woman.
That now in the House of Commons, | 1:12:53 | 1:12:57 | |
there's lots of women having babies
and it's perfectly normal, like it | 1:12:57 | 1:13:02 | |
is in every other walk of life,
women are playing an important role | 1:13:02 | 1:13:07 | |
in the home but also out in the
workplace as well. Obviously you've | 1:13:07 | 1:13:10 | |
done a lot yourself to try to make
sure that there are more female MPs, | 1:13:10 | 1:13:15 | |
do you think things are where they
should be now for women in | 1:13:15 | 1:13:19 | |
Parliament? They are way ahead of
where they were. I was one of only | 1:13:19 | 1:13:23 | |
23 MPs out of 650 when I started.
Now over 200. But we're still | 1:13:23 | 1:13:29 | |
outnumbered by name to the one.
Although we're not as numerous as | 1:13:29 | 1:13:35 | |
the men MPs and we do need I think
to be half and half, we shouldn't be | 1:13:35 | 1:13:40 | |
so outnumbered, I think we are taken
seriously in a way we never were | 1:13:40 | 1:13:44 | |
before. I remember getting up to
speak and making a quite serious | 1:13:44 | 1:13:47 | |
speech and an MP calling across the
chamber that I was a stupid cow, and | 1:13:47 | 1:13:52 | |
that's in the House of Commons. The
idea of what was I doing their? How | 1:13:52 | 1:13:56 | |
did you react to something like
that, Harriet? There | 1:13:56 | 1:14:01 | |
was a a big kerfuffle, I hadn't
really heard what he had said. The | 1:14:01 | 1:14:05 | |
Speaker, the first and only woman
speaker we've ever had, Becky | 1:14:05 | 1:14:09 | |
Brewerton ride, told him to
apologise. She came in on my side in | 1:14:09 | 1:14:14 | |
that. -- Becky Brewerton Lloyd. Men
thought women's place was in the | 1:14:14 | 1:14:19 | |
home and they were there to do the
speaking and we should be doing the | 1:14:19 | 1:14:23 | |
listening but we wanted our say too.
Through your work you have fought | 1:14:23 | 1:14:28 | |
for things like reserved places for
women in the shadow cabinet and more | 1:14:28 | 1:14:32 | |
labour women MPs through women only
shortlists. Some people might think | 1:14:32 | 1:14:36 | |
that in some respects women are seen
as tokens, they've only got there | 1:14:36 | 1:14:42 | |
because there's been a women only
shortlist. What would you say to | 1:14:42 | 1:14:45 | |
people who think that? If the women
on the Labour benches currently in | 1:14:45 | 1:14:50 | |
the House of Commons... Some are
from all women shortlists and some | 1:14:50 | 1:14:54 | |
are from shortlists with men and
women on them, honestly you can't | 1:14:54 | 1:14:57 | |
tell the difference. It was a very
unpopular and controversial measure | 1:14:57 | 1:15:01 | |
but it's what we needed to make the
change because we got stuck with 3% | 1:15:01 | 1:15:06 | |
women, we just couldn't seem to
increase it so that was the means | 1:15:06 | 1:15:11 | |
that justified the end. Once we did
actually set aside some seats for | 1:15:11 | 1:15:15 | |
women, in '97 we got 100 Labour
women into the House of Commons and | 1:15:15 | 1:15:20 | |
that really broke the glass ceiling
if you like. It's a bit like the | 1:15:20 | 1:15:24 | |
suffragettes, committed all sorts of
crimes that they didn't want to be | 1:15:24 | 1:15:28 | |
committing and which people really
disapproved of, but it's what really | 1:15:28 | 1:15:31 | |
made the difference. You mentioned
the suffragettes, that's why we're | 1:15:31 | 1:15:35 | |
talking about this today, there's a
story on the front of the Telegraph | 1:15:35 | 1:15:39 | |
today saying suffragettes jailed
while fighting to win the vote for | 1:15:39 | 1:15:42 | |
women should be pardoned for their
crimes. Should be? I think that's a | 1:15:42 | 1:15:47 | |
good idea but it also reminds us
that when you argue for change and | 1:15:47 | 1:15:53 | |
equality and fairness, people don't
say, that's a good idea, we'll | 1:15:53 | 1:15:56 | |
change everything we've done for
centuries, we think you're right. | 1:15:56 | 1:16:00 | |
The establishment fights back and
it's always a fight. Even now when | 1:16:00 | 1:16:04 | |
we're trying to make progress to
tackle domestic violence and to make | 1:16:04 | 1:16:09 | |
sure there's equal pay and decent
and affordable childcare for working | 1:16:09 | 1:16:13 | |
parents, that is still a fight that
we've got to go on in order to make | 1:16:13 | 1:16:17 | |
further progress. Harriet, lovely to
talk to you this morning, thanks for | 1:16:17 | 1:16:21 | |
that. Harriet Harman MP, the longest
serving female MP. | 1:16:21 | 1:16:25 | |
Interesting to hear what her life
was | 1:16:25 | 1:16:32 | |
getting in touch to talk about women
who have inspired you. Selina is | 1:16:42 | 1:16:45 | |
talking | 1:16:45 | 1:16:49 | |
A woman who invented the
carburettors of the Spitfire | 1:16:49 | 1:16:54 | |
aeroplane, inspired young women to
consider aviation and technology, | 1:16:54 | 1:17:00 | |
that is another letter we have got.
Thank you for your messages. My | 1:17:00 | 1:17:05 | |
chemistry teacher inspired me, she
was brilliant, she made me love | 1:17:05 | 1:17:09 | |
science and engineering. It is
interesting hearing the people talk | 1:17:09 | 1:17:13 | |
about what a difference women have
made. Other people talk about their | 1:17:13 | 1:17:17 | |
mums as well, rightly so. | 1:17:17 | 1:17:22 | |
You're watching
Breakfast from BBC News. | 1:17:22 | 1:17:23 | |
The main stories this morning:
The Conservative MP and Remain | 1:17:23 | 1:17:26 | |
campaigner, Anna Soubry,
has called on the Prime Minister | 1:17:26 | 1:17:29 | |
to "sling out" the
party's Brexiteers. | 1:17:29 | 1:17:30 | |
Government health officials say
e-cigarettes should be prescribed | 1:17:30 | 1:17:32 | |
on the NHS, because they're
an effective way | 1:17:32 | 1:17:34 | |
to help smokers
quit. | 1:17:34 | 1:17:42 | |
We have just been talking to Harriet
Harman about the changes that have | 1:17:45 | 1:17:49 | |
been made since the first women in
the UK got the vote on and Carroll | 1:17:49 | 1:17:53 | |
is in Westminster this morning,
hitting us a bit of a show around | 1:17:53 | 1:17:57 | |
this morning. It is interesting, | 1:17:57 | 1:17:59 | |
I and in Central lobby at the
moment. Women were banned from the | 1:17:59 | 1:18:07 | |
Central lobby so they took their
protests to other parts. This is St | 1:18:07 | 1:18:10 | |
Stephens Hall and what they did in
1909, they chained themselves to the | 1:18:10 | 1:18:15 | |
statues, and it was the doorkeepers
who came along and cut them off | 1:18:15 | 1:18:19 | |
using these bolt cutters. These are
the actual original ones. And vendor | 1:18:19 | 1:18:24 | |
ladies have been taken away and
arrested. In here this morning, what | 1:18:24 | 1:18:30 | |
a fabulous view, outside, it is a
cold start to the day, we have a | 1:18:30 | 1:18:34 | |
hard frost and also some snow in the
forecast. If you start the forecast | 1:18:34 | 1:18:39 | |
at nine o'clock in the south-east
there is a lot of dry weather around | 1:18:39 | 1:18:43 | |
and | 1:18:43 | 1:18:43 | |
there is a lot of dry weather around
and a little bit of sunshine, but | 1:18:43 | 1:18:44 | |
equally there is cloud this morning
which is producing some wintry | 1:18:44 | 1:18:47 | |
showers. Wintry showers are across
parts of the Midlands into East | 1:18:47 | 1:18:51 | |
Anglia as well, with a light dusting
of snow at the moment, as we move | 1:18:51 | 1:18:55 | |
into northern England we run into a
band of snow. That extends across | 1:18:55 | 1:18:58 | |
southern and parts of Central
Scotland as well. Northern Scotland | 1:18:58 | 1:19:01 | |
is seeing some snow showers as
western Scotland and Northern | 1:19:01 | 1:19:06 | |
Ireland. There is a risk of ice, and
of band of snow affecting north of | 1:19:06 | 1:19:12 | |
England and southern Scotland is
also affecting North Wales. That is | 1:19:12 | 1:19:16 | |
extending across Devon, Cornwall and
Somerset as well. Further east there | 1:19:16 | 1:19:22 | |
is dry weather, some breaks in the
cloud but a fair bit of cloud and | 1:19:22 | 1:19:26 | |
wintry weather here and there. As we
go through the day what we find is | 1:19:26 | 1:19:30 | |
the band of snow across northern
England and Wales moving steadily | 1:19:30 | 1:19:33 | |
southwards, darting to fragment and
turns more patchy in nature, any | 1:19:33 | 1:19:38 | |
precipitation coming out of this
band inland will be falling as snow. | 1:19:38 | 1:19:43 | |
A bright start in the south-east but
behind it there will be sunshine, I | 1:19:43 | 1:19:48 | |
rushed of showers in the north and
west, a mix of sleet, snow, hail and | 1:19:48 | 1:19:52 | |
thunder and lightning. And wherever
you are it will feel cold with high | 1:19:52 | 1:19:56 | |
temptress of up to five Celsius.
Into the overnight that and is in a | 1:19:56 | 1:20:02 | |
rejuvenated crossed East Anglia and
also the south-east, pushing into | 1:20:02 | 1:20:04 | |
was the south-east corner. Clear sky
is falling behind with a few wintry | 1:20:04 | 1:20:10 | |
showers in the West, there will be a
severe tonight and it will be cold. | 1:20:10 | 1:20:14 | |
-- a severe frost. It could fall
into minus double figures. Tomorrow | 1:20:14 | 1:20:19 | |
we start with some wintry showers in
the south-east that clear away, | 1:20:19 | 1:20:23 | |
there will be sunshine around, and
other cool day and then we have a | 1:20:23 | 1:20:27 | |
band of rain preceded by some
transient snow coming in from the | 1:20:27 | 1:20:31 | |
north-west. Quickly, the snow will
be in the hills and their will be | 1:20:31 | 1:20:35 | |
rain at lower levels, then heading
into Thursday that same band pushes | 1:20:35 | 1:20:41 | |
down across England and Wales, with
some showers, some of which will be | 1:20:41 | 1:20:47 | |
wintry in the north-west, and not
quite as cold as it is going to be | 1:20:47 | 1:20:51 | |
today or tomorrow. The outlook after
that remains unsettled, some snow | 1:20:51 | 1:20:55 | |
showers at times and it is also
going to remain fairly cold as we | 1:20:55 | 1:21:00 | |
head into the weekend. | 1:21:00 | 1:21:01 | |
Minus double figures! | 1:21:01 | 1:21:02 | |
Minus double figures! That will feel
better. Tonight there is a risk of | 1:21:02 | 1:21:08 | |
ice almost anywhere. We have been
warned. Ain't you. We are enjoying | 1:21:08 | 1:21:14 | |
the guided tour. Can't wait for
Carroll to... | 1:21:14 | 1:21:22 | |
Going online isn't always a positive
experience for young people | 1:21:22 | 1:21:25 | |
but to mark Safer Internet Day
there are two reports that suggest | 1:21:25 | 1:21:28 | |
that the web can be
a force for good. | 1:21:28 | 1:21:30 | |
The UK Safer Internet Centre says
young people are more likely | 1:21:30 | 1:21:33 | |
to have a positive experience,
while the London School of Economics | 1:21:33 | 1:21:36 | |
says the internet can
bring families together. | 1:21:36 | 1:21:40 | |
Before we discuss this,
here are a group of young people | 1:21:40 | 1:21:43 | |
reading out loud the nicest
and nastiest comments they'd seen | 1:21:43 | 1:21:46 | |
online. | 1:21:46 | 1:21:53 | |
I like your hair. Thanks! I had a
new haircut now. Your brows are | 1:22:10 | 1:22:18 | |
literally... On fleek. It is a nice
colour, for girls to tell you if you | 1:22:18 | 1:22:31 | |
have goals eyebrows, that is, wow!
You brightened my day. Your YouTube | 1:22:31 | 1:22:38 | |
channel is rubbish and you should
delete it. No one want you around or | 1:22:38 | 1:22:44 | |
loves you. That's not nice. You have
no friends and no one cares about | 1:22:44 | 1:22:48 | |
you, you are just annoying. Do you
know what, nobody likes you, no one | 1:22:48 | 1:22:53 | |
even needs you, no one cares about
what you think or what you care | 1:22:53 | 1:22:57 | |
about. That one is terribly the
worst. Do the world a favour and | 1:22:57 | 1:23:04 | |
kill yourself. Kill yourself, gay
boy. You are worthless. They are | 1:23:04 | 1:23:13 | |
just such horrible things. To have
and to receive. You are ugly, | 1:23:13 | 1:23:19 | |
everyone hates you. That is... Don't
know what to say to that. It's | 1:23:19 | 1:23:30 | |
important to focus on the good
things in life, bad things will | 1:23:30 | 1:23:33 | |
always be there to push us down, but
we have to get up and we have to | 1:23:33 | 1:23:39 | |
keep on going. I will be there,
don't worry. That gives you a boost | 1:23:39 | 1:23:45 | |
and someone is looking out for you
in caring for you. You are so | 1:23:45 | 1:23:49 | |
beautiful and strong, keep your chin
up. (LAUGHS) | 1:23:49 | 1:23:51 | |
beautiful and strong, keep your chin
up. (LAUGHS). Use it used social | 1:23:51 | 1:23:54 | |
media to be nice to people, to be
kind, to have a laugh, to have | 1:23:54 | 1:24:00 | |
banter with your friends, but never
anything hurtful like the messages | 1:24:00 | 1:24:04 | |
in there. | 1:24:04 | 1:24:09 | |
Gosh, those were tough, and to be
clear, they were not messages sent | 1:24:09 | 1:24:17 | |
to those children, they were taken
from a group sent to lots of | 1:24:17 | 1:24:20 | |
children. But you can see how
affecting they are. | 1:24:20 | 1:24:24 | |
Let's discuss this in more detail
with Sonia Livingstone | 1:24:24 | 1:24:26 | |
from the London School of Economics
who is the author of today's report | 1:24:26 | 1:24:30 | |
on digital parenting along
with the GP Radha Modgil | 1:24:30 | 1:24:32 | |
from Radio One's 'Life Hacks'. | 1:24:32 | 1:24:33 | |
It is really hard reading that --
listening to that, seeing those | 1:24:33 | 1:24:39 | |
young people reading them out. You
can see them getting upset because | 1:24:39 | 1:24:43 | |
they may have had those messages as
well. Absolutely, and they are part | 1:24:43 | 1:24:48 | |
of the world where those kind of
messages are becoming normal. It is | 1:24:48 | 1:24:51 | |
a tough thing that our kids are
having to learn very quickly where | 1:24:51 | 1:24:55 | |
were of people are passing all kinds
of messages, and some of them are | 1:24:55 | 1:24:59 | |
hard to deal with. If you look back
to when we were at school, horrible | 1:24:59 | 1:25:04 | |
things were said but you didn't
necessarily know, and that is what | 1:25:04 | 1:25:08 | |
becomes really painful. Absolutely,
and when it is online, it is there | 1:25:08 | 1:25:12 | |
in black and white, it's difficult
to get away those messages, you have | 1:25:12 | 1:25:15 | |
to take control of getting away from
them yourself, because they are on | 1:25:15 | 1:25:19 | |
your phone, your computer, your
bedroom. Before we could go home and | 1:25:19 | 1:25:24 | |
forget about it, and they would
disappear into the air. It is much | 1:25:24 | 1:25:28 | |
more challenging now. We also
talking morning that the fact that | 1:25:28 | 1:25:32 | |
can be -- the Internet can be good
and social media can be good, which | 1:25:32 | 1:25:36 | |
is nice to hear, because we have
talked a lot about the negative | 1:25:36 | 1:25:40 | |
things, but there can be a lot of
good come from it. You had some of | 1:25:40 | 1:25:44 | |
those young people saying that. And
the report that I am publishing | 1:25:44 | 1:25:48 | |
today, we have seen lots of way that
parents are trying to use the | 1:25:48 | 1:25:52 | |
Internet for good. Trying to engage
with their children, quite a lot are | 1:25:52 | 1:25:58 | |
encouraging their children to
connect with a family and friends | 1:25:58 | 1:26:01 | |
through digital technology, finding
things they can share with their | 1:26:01 | 1:26:06 | |
children on the Internet. Finding
something that they can celebrate, | 1:26:06 | 1:26:11 | |
because there are things they can
do. Because there are things that | 1:26:11 | 1:26:17 | |
they can do when things get
difficult. And there are things that | 1:26:17 | 1:26:22 | |
are powerful to communicate with
people, and your friends in a | 1:26:22 | 1:26:27 | |
positive way. It is amazing and like
you say, the Internet, your | 1:26:27 | 1:26:32 | |
imagination, creativity, connection,
with people who are like-minded, it | 1:26:32 | 1:26:36 | |
is a fantastic resource. We need to
balance out that a little bit come | 1:26:36 | 1:26:41 | |
we have talked about the negatives
but we need to remember the good | 1:26:41 | 1:26:45 | |
things, it is about working out
strategies to basically help | 1:26:45 | 1:26:49 | |
children and empower them to know
how to use the Internet safety. It | 1:26:49 | 1:26:58 | |
is great to talk to friends but for
parents, it is a worry, isn't it, | 1:26:58 | 1:27:02 | |
because you are not sure what
actually is happening when your | 1:27:02 | 1:27:08 | |
child is on a computer. So one of
the things that parents said in our | 1:27:08 | 1:27:12 | |
survey is that they are cautiously
optimistic, they can see the | 1:27:12 | 1:27:16 | |
benefits but not quite sure how to
take steps to get... And that is | 1:27:16 | 1:27:21 | |
what parents have anxieties about
screen time, how much time the child | 1:27:21 | 1:27:25 | |
is using the technology, it is
distracting them from making | 1:27:25 | 1:27:29 | |
judgements about what really could
be beneficial, where are the | 1:27:29 | 1:27:32 | |
problems, where are the advantages.
That is where parents need more | 1:27:32 | 1:27:35 | |
support. You give some of that
support with light hacks. We are | 1:27:35 | 1:27:42 | |
running out of time, what would be
your top Tip? For parents, get out | 1:27:42 | 1:27:45 | |
there and arm yourself with the
knowledge, find out what the | 1:27:45 | 1:27:50 | |
children are doing and the kind of
parent your children camp listen to. | 1:27:50 | 1:27:59 | |
Nice to talk about it in a positive
way, think you very much. If you | 1:27:59 | 1:28:05 | |
want to know more about ways young
people can enjoy the Internet,, | 1:28:05 | 1:28:12 | |
'Own It'
is a new BBC online service, | 1:28:12 | 1:28:15 | |
packed with fun tips and videos
to help children aged between nine | 1:28:15 | 1:28:18 | |
and 12 to be healthy,
happy and confident online. | 1:28:18 | 1:28:20 | |
It is worth checking it out
at www.bbc.co.uk/ownit. | 1:28:20 | 1:28:23 | |
let's catch up with the news, travel
and weather. | 1:28:23 | 1:31:45 | |
let's catch up with the news, travel
back with the latest from the BBC | 1:31:45 | 1:31:46 | |
London newsroom in half an hour. | 1:31:46 | 1:31:48 | |
Now, though, it's back
to Louise and Steph. | 1:31:48 | 1:31:50 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, | 1:31:53 | 1:31:54 | |
with Steph McGovern and Louise
Minchin. | 1:31:54 | 1:31:56 | |
Here's a summary of today's main
stories from BBC News. | 1:31:56 | 1:32:02 | |
Share prices have dropped sharply
on Asian markets overnight | 1:32:02 | 1:32:05 | |
in response to big falls
in the United States. | 1:32:05 | 1:32:07 | |
In New York, the Dow Jones,
which is made up of some | 1:32:07 | 1:32:10 | |
of America's biggest businesses,
closed down more than 1,100 | 1:32:10 | 1:32:13 | |
points, the biggest one
day fall in history. | 1:32:13 | 1:32:15 | |
The Nikkei index in Japan ended
the day nearly 5% down. | 1:32:15 | 1:32:23 | |
The Conservative MP and leading
Remain campaigner, Anna Soubry, | 1:32:26 | 1:32:28 | |
has called on Theresa May to sling
out what she called hard | 1:32:28 | 1:32:32 | |
Brexiteers in the party. | 1:32:32 | 1:32:33 | |
In an interview for the BBC's
Newsnight, she said | 1:32:33 | 1:32:35 | |
that the frontbench was in hock
to 35 ideological Leave supporters. | 1:32:35 | 1:32:38 | |
She insisted she would not stay
in a party taken over by people | 1:32:38 | 1:32:42 | |
like Jacob Rees-Mogg
and Boris Johnson. | 1:32:42 | 1:32:47 | |
Relatives of the victims of the 1982
IRA Hyde Park bombing have been | 1:32:47 | 1:32:51 | |
granted legal aid for a civil
action against a suspect. | 1:32:51 | 1:32:53 | |
A case against the
convicted IRA member | 1:32:53 | 1:32:55 | |
John Downey collapsed
at the Old Bailey four years ago. | 1:32:55 | 1:32:58 | |
He had a so-called on-the-run letter
telling him he was no longer | 1:32:58 | 1:33:01 | |
a wanted man and would
not be prosecuted. | 1:33:01 | 1:33:09 | |
Public Health England says it wants
e-cigarettes to be prescribed | 1:33:11 | 1:33:14 | |
on the NHS within the next two
to three years because they're | 1:33:14 | 1:33:17 | |
an effective way
to help smokers quit. | 1:33:17 | 1:33:19 | |
The agency has reviewed the latest
evidence and says vaping | 1:33:19 | 1:33:22 | |
poses only a small fraction
of the risk of smoking tobacco. | 1:33:22 | 1:33:25 | |
It's calling for the UK's drug
regulator to help manufacturers | 1:33:25 | 1:33:28 | |
get their products approved. | 1:33:28 | 1:33:36 | |
The British-born actor,
John Mahoney, who played one of TV's | 1:33:38 | 1:33:41 | |
most popular
on-screen dads, has died | 1:33:41 | 1:33:43 | |
in Chicago aged 77. | 1:33:43 | 1:33:44 | |
He was famous for his role
as Martin Crane in the US sitcom | 1:33:44 | 1:33:47 | |
Frasier, playing a grumpy,
down-to-earth retired policeman | 1:33:47 | 1:33:49 | |
who outwitted his two pretentious
sons, Frasier and Niles. | 1:33:49 | 1:33:52 | |
The role earned him two Emmy and two
Golden Globe nominations. | 1:33:52 | 1:33:59 | |
In Florida, the aerospace
Company SpaceX is gearing up to test | 1:33:59 | 1:34:02 | |
what could become the world's
most powerful rocket. | 1:34:02 | 1:34:04 | |
It's called the Falcon Heavy,
and if all goes according to plan | 1:34:04 | 1:34:07 | |
it'll blast off from Cape Canaveral
at 6:30pm this evening UK time. | 1:34:07 | 1:34:11 | |
It's carrying a car on board
and there's a possibility that it | 1:34:11 | 1:34:14 | |
could reach the orbit of Mars. | 1:34:14 | 1:34:16 | |
But there aren't any
astronauts on board, | 1:34:16 | 1:34:18 | |
instead there's a mannequin
in a spacesuit. | 1:34:18 | 1:34:26 | |
keep talking, I'm watching it. There
aren't any astronauts on board, | 1:34:28 | 1:34:34 | |
there is the mannequin. They are
sending a car to space. So many | 1:34:34 | 1:34:42 | |
questions, why would you send a car
to space? It hasn't been done I | 1:34:42 | 1:34:47 | |
suppose so it is something to do.
That will be launching at 6:30pm. | 1:34:47 | 1:34:52 | |
Coming | 1:34:52 | 1:34:52 | |
will be talking about cold
temperatures and she's in the houses | 1:34:53 | 1:34:57 | |
of parliament. She is showing us
around the anniversary day for 100 | 1:34:57 | 1:35:04 | |
years since women got the vote. Lots
of memories coming in this morning. | 1:35:04 | 1:35:10 | |
Abet Conte is feeling a bit chilly
this morning? -- I bet. Giving out | 1:35:10 | 1:35:16 | |
some frost Deluxe. He always does,
my granny would have said he's like | 1:35:16 | 1:35:21 | |
a bulldog chewing a wasp. -- Frosty
looks. They have been beaten by | 1:35:21 | 1:35:30 | |
Watford 4-1. Last season they were
the champions, this season we are | 1:35:30 | 1:35:34 | |
talking about him losing his job. | 1:35:34 | 1:35:36 | |
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte
is under increasing pressure this | 1:35:36 | 1:35:39 | |
morning after his side were thrashed
4-1 at Watford last night. | 1:35:39 | 1:35:45 | |
It looked like they may get a point
when Eden Hazard equalised with | 1:35:45 | 1:35:50 | |
eight minutes to go but then Watford
scored three goals in the last seven | 1:35:50 | 1:35:53 | |
minutes to give their new manager
Javi Gracia a win in his first home | 1:35:53 | 1:36:00 | |
game in charge. | 1:36:00 | 1:36:06 | |
game in charge. After the game Conte
was rather insistent that he is | 1:36:06 | 1:36:09 | |
definitely not worried. | 1:36:09 | 1:36:12 | |
I'm not worried, I'm definitely not
worried about my job. I work | 1:36:12 | 1:36:18 | |
everyday and give 110%. Word if this
is enough, OK, otherwise the club | 1:36:18 | 1:36:23 | |
can make a different decision but
I'm not worried. Everyday, day, | 1:36:23 | 1:36:27 | |
every prospect, press conference,
you ask me, you worried about your | 1:36:27 | 1:36:33 | |
job? No, I'm not worried. | 1:36:33 | 1:36:36 | |
He's definitely not worried, is he
protesting too much? He can't win, | 1:36:36 | 1:36:42 | |
can he... Obviously! That's kind of
the problem X Mac we're talking | 1:36:42 | 1:36:48 | |
again about losing another manager.
When you think about it, when it | 1:36:48 | 1:36:51 | |
comes to winning the Premier League,
it's a golden chalice, the last five | 1:36:51 | 1:36:58 | |
winners of the Premier League
haven't made it beyond the next | 1:36:58 | 1:37:00 | |
season. Maybe they are too quick to
get rid of them. We have said that | 1:37:00 | 1:37:05 | |
for some time but for me it is
knowing where to draw the line, it | 1:37:05 | 1:37:09 | |
is his attitude, that's the issue,
he has asked the board to release a | 1:37:09 | 1:37:14 | |
statement backing him up and his
future. People are saying if he | 1:37:14 | 1:37:18 | |
doesn't want to be there then why is
he staying? We will keep an eye on | 1:37:18 | 1:37:23 | |
it. But he isn't worried. He is
definitely, definitely not worried. | 1:37:23 | 1:37:33 | |
England have called up
Richard Wigglesworth to replace | 1:37:33 | 1:37:35 | |
the injured Ben Youngs ahead
of Saturday's Six Nations | 1:37:35 | 1:37:38 | |
match with Wales. | 1:37:38 | 1:37:38 | |
Youngs has a knee ligament
injury which rules him out | 1:37:38 | 1:37:41 | |
of the entire tournament. | 1:37:41 | 1:37:42 | |
Wigglesworth will now provide
cover for Danny Care, | 1:37:42 | 1:37:44 | |
who came on for Youngs in Rome. | 1:37:44 | 1:37:46 | |
She was one of the heroes
of the Team GB's Olympic gold | 1:37:46 | 1:37:49 | |
winning hockey team in Rio,
and now Maddie Hinch has been named | 1:37:49 | 1:37:53 | |
the world's best female
goalkeeper for a second time. | 1:37:53 | 1:37:55 | |
The England and Great Britain goalie
was given the award in berlin | 1:37:55 | 1:37:56 | |
last night at the International
hocket federation Stars Awards. | 1:37:56 | 1:37:59 | |
Since the Olympics, she's also
helped England win bronze medals | 1:37:59 | 1:38:02 | |
at both the EuroHockey Championships
and World League Semi-Final. | 1:38:02 | 1:38:04 | |
Formula 1 has announced it will have
have grid kids from next season | 1:38:04 | 1:38:08 | |
after the sport abolished | 1:38:08 | 1:38:09 | |
the tradition of having grid
girls. | 1:38:09 | 1:38:10 | |
F1's owners decided
the long-standing practice | 1:38:10 | 1:38:12 | |
of using female models
before races was at odds | 1:38:12 | 1:38:14 | |
with modern-day societal norms, | 1:38:14 | 1:38:15 | |
so instead | 1:38:15 | 1:38:16 | |
they'll select children
who are already in the junior | 1:38:16 | 1:38:18 | |
categories of motor racing
from the opening race | 1:38:18 | 1:38:21 | |
of the new season next month. | 1:38:21 | 1:38:29 | |
Britain's Fed Cup team
are in Estonia this week in a bid | 1:38:31 | 1:38:34 | |
to take us into the World Group. | 1:38:34 | 1:38:36 | |
The team is spearhead by British
number one Johanna Konta | 1:38:36 | 1:38:39 | |
who of course last year became
the first British woman to reach | 1:38:39 | 1:38:42 | |
a wimbledon semi final since 1979.. | 1:38:42 | 1:38:44 | |
Since then she's faced
some injury problems -- | 1:38:44 | 1:38:46 | |
but Fed Cup could be her chance
to get 2018 back on track. | 1:38:46 | 1:38:53 | |
I went training with them before
they headed off. | 1:38:53 | 1:38:57 | |
She's enjoyed a spectacular rise
to stardom in the past few years, | 1:39:01 | 1:39:04 | |
becoming the first British woman
since Virginia Wade and Jo Durie | 1:39:04 | 1:39:07 | |
to crack into the elite
of the women's game. | 1:39:07 | 1:39:11 | |
But a year in tennis can
feel like a long time. | 1:39:11 | 1:39:14 | |
Johanna Konta's early season's
been hampered by injury, | 1:39:14 | 1:39:16 | |
but now with Fed Cup in Estonia
about to get under way, | 1:39:16 | 1:39:19 | |
she says she's ready to return
to her winning ways. | 1:39:19 | 1:39:24 | |
I'm healthy, I'm playing,
and I think with time I'll be | 1:39:24 | 1:39:27 | |
playing at the level
I want to be playing at. | 1:39:27 | 1:39:29 | |
Fed Cup is definitely a great
opportunity for me to play a lot | 1:39:29 | 1:39:33 | |
of matches and in a different
setting than we usually get | 1:39:33 | 1:39:36 | |
during the season, | 1:39:36 | 1:39:37 | |
it's a team setting,
it's a team environment, | 1:39:37 | 1:39:39 | |
which is really
exciting, we get to bond, | 1:39:39 | 1:39:41 | |
we get to have fun in the evenings
and most importantly support each | 1:39:41 | 1:39:45 | |
other on the sidelines. | 1:39:45 | 1:39:46 | |
The British number one
spearheads this year's squad, | 1:39:46 | 1:39:48 | |
with captain Anne Keothavong aiming
to start this year's competition | 1:39:48 | 1:39:51 | |
with a bang. | 1:39:51 | 1:39:51 | |
Katie Boulter a is the team's newest
and youngest member. | 1:39:51 | 1:39:54 | |
At just 21 years old,
she wasn't even born the last time | 1:39:54 | 1:39:57 | |
Britain made it to
the World Group stage. | 1:39:57 | 1:40:00 | |
So is she feeling confident? | 1:40:00 | 1:40:06 | |
I think we've got a really strong
team, we've got a great chance, | 1:40:06 | 1:40:10 | |
everyone's playing really well
at the moment so let's see | 1:40:10 | 1:40:12 | |
what we can do. | 1:40:12 | 1:40:14 | |
Being part of a team
event is really nice, | 1:40:14 | 1:40:16 | |
especially because tennis is such
an individual sport, | 1:40:16 | 1:40:18 | |
so I'm happy to be
back with the kit on. | 1:40:18 | 1:40:22 | |
Until now, the profile
of the women's team competition has | 1:40:22 | 1:40:24 | |
always been significantly lower
than the men's Davis Cup, | 1:40:24 | 1:40:27 | |
not helped by their
failure to get out | 1:40:27 | 1:40:29 | |
of the dreaded Europe-Africa zone. | 1:40:29 | 1:40:33 | |
I'd love to see the format
change, I'd love to see | 1:40:33 | 1:40:36 | |
Fed Cup come into line
with Davis Cup where it's structured | 1:40:36 | 1:40:39 | |
in a way where fans can follow
better and really engage | 1:40:39 | 1:40:42 | |
with the team. | 1:40:42 | 1:40:42 | |
Hopefully one day we might get that. | 1:40:42 | 1:40:50 | |
The team face Estonia and Portugal
in the first round robin matches | 1:40:51 | 1:40:54 | |
this week with a place
in the World Group at stake. | 1:40:54 | 1:40:57 | |
But something tells me they'll do
a better job without me there. | 1:40:57 | 1:41:03 | |
Out | 1:41:03 | 1:41:05 | |
checks Mac I didn't learn anything.
They tried to teach me some moves. | 1:41:05 | 1:41:12 | |
-- Ouch. I didn't do anything for
the cause, terrible tennis. Pretty | 1:41:12 | 1:41:17 | |
inspirational women, who has been
the most inspiring woman in your | 1:41:17 | 1:41:21 | |
life? For me other than my mother I
would say my auntie. She has always | 1:41:21 | 1:41:27 | |
been an incredible leader, a strong
independent woman. Thank you for | 1:41:27 | 1:41:35 | |
everyone sending in their messages
as well about the women that inspire | 1:41:35 | 1:41:38 | |
you. | 1:41:38 | 1:41:40 | |
You're watching
Breakfast from BBC News. | 1:41:40 | 1:41:41 | |
The main stories this morning: | 1:41:41 | 1:41:45 | |
Stock markets have dropped sharply
in Asia, following a large fall | 1:41:45 | 1:41:48 | |
in the United States. | 1:41:48 | 1:41:52 | |
The Conservative MP and Remain
campaigner, Anna Soubry, | 1:41:52 | 1:41:55 | |
has called on the Prime Minister | 1:41:55 | 1:41:57 | |
to sling out the party's
Brexiteers. | 1:41:57 | 1:42:03 | |
You might have noticed it is the
100th anniversary of the | 1:42:03 | 1:42:08 | |
Representation of the People Act,
which gave some women the vote for | 1:42:08 | 1:42:11 | |
the first time and all men over the
age of 21 the right to vote. This | 1:42:11 | 1:42:16 | |
morning Carol is out and about to
show as round the houses of | 1:42:16 | 1:42:19 | |
parliament. Something really special
to show you, original acts of | 1:42:19 | 1:42:28 | |
parliament. | 1:42:28 | 1:42:33 | |
parliament. Let's look at some of
the acts, this one gave women the | 1:42:34 | 1:42:38 | |
right to vote, you can see the date
on it, the sixth of February 1918, | 1:42:38 | 1:42:43 | |
it is this one here. The one we have
just been looking at, this one here, | 1:42:43 | 1:42:48 | |
gave women the right to stand as
MPs, the 21st of November 2018. And | 1:42:48 | 1:42:57 | |
this one gave women the right to sit
in the House of Lords. Look how much | 1:42:57 | 1:43:03 | |
later that was, the 30th of April
1958. Very special to CVs this | 1:43:03 | 1:43:09 | |
morning in the Central lobby and
just looking around, never been in | 1:43:09 | 1:43:12 | |
here before, pretty special as well.
Half of it belongs to the House of | 1:43:12 | 1:43:18 | |
Lords, the other half to the House
of Commons. The weather outside is | 1:43:18 | 1:43:22 | |
pretty cold, hard frost this morning
with some snow showers around. | 1:43:22 | 1:43:25 | |
Generally today it's | 1:43:27 | 1:43:28 | |
Generally today it's going to be a
cold day regardless of where you are | 1:43:28 | 1:43:31 | |
with the risk of ice today also
regardless where you are. Starting | 1:43:31 | 1:43:35 | |
the forecast in the south-east, dry
weather around with wintry showers | 1:43:35 | 1:43:40 | |
coming in here and there, especially
in East Anglia, we've had some this | 1:43:40 | 1:43:44 | |
morning across the Midlands and as
we go north it's across northern | 1:43:44 | 1:43:48 | |
England, southern and central parts
of Scotland, we have some snow. The | 1:43:48 | 1:43:52 | |
north of that there is dry weather,
snow showers in the north and west | 1:43:52 | 1:43:57 | |
of Scotland and also Northern
Ireland, on an off through the day | 1:43:57 | 1:44:00 | |
and back into Wales, once again we
are back into the snow. | 1:44:00 | 1:44:09 | |
are back into the snow. That band
pushes steadily south into the | 1:44:14 | 1:44:16 | |
Midlands but it will fizzle and turn
more patchy in nature. But inland | 1:44:16 | 1:44:20 | |
any precipitation that comes out of
it will fall as snow. The cloud will | 1:44:20 | 1:44:25 | |
build ahead of it and behind it will
be sunshine but still a fair few | 1:44:25 | 1:44:29 | |
showers, wintry with a mixture of
rain, sleet, hail, thunder and | 1:44:29 | 1:44:33 | |
lightning. Cold day, maximum of
five, that's in towns and cities. As | 1:44:33 | 1:44:37 | |
we head on through the evening and
overnight and the temperature drops, | 1:44:37 | 1:44:42 | |
as our band goes to the south-east,
it will rejuvenate, bringing more | 1:44:42 | 1:44:47 | |
wintry showers in East Anglia and
the south-east. Behind it under | 1:44:47 | 1:44:51 | |
clear skies we're looking at a
severe frost for many, temperatures | 1:44:51 | 1:44:54 | |
where we have lying snow falling as
low as minus double figures and | 1:44:54 | 1:44:59 | |
there will still be wintry showers
flirting with the north and west. | 1:44:59 | 1:45:02 | |
Tomorrow morning we start with those
wintry showers in south-eastern | 1:45:02 | 1:45:05 | |
parts of the UK, they will clear and
behind it with a ridge of high | 1:45:05 | 1:45:10 | |
pressure things settle down, we'll
see sunshine. Through the day we | 1:45:10 | 1:45:13 | |
will see the cloud builds and then a
band of rain coming in from the | 1:45:13 | 1:45:18 | |
north-west preceded by transient
snow, that will quickly turn back to | 1:45:18 | 1:45:21 | |
rain at lower levels and the snow
will be in the hills and feeling | 1:45:21 | 1:45:25 | |
cold wherever you are. By the time
we get to Thursday, that same band | 1:45:25 | 1:45:30 | |
of rain will weaken as it pushes
south across England and Wales. | 1:45:30 | 1:45:33 | |
Brighter skies follow behind with
showers, some of which will be | 1:45:33 | 1:45:37 | |
wintry across the north-west of the
country. That leads us into an | 1:45:37 | 1:45:41 | |
unsettled period as we head through
Friday into the weekend, snow at | 1:45:41 | 1:45:46 | |
times, wet and windy conditions as
well, and it's going to remain cold. | 1:45:46 | 1:45:50 | |
OK, thank you very much, Carol. | 1:45:50 | 1:45:54 | |
Fantastic to get that access this
morning, thanks very much indeed and | 1:45:54 | 1:45:58 | |
more later, including freezing
temperatures. It is a story we are | 1:45:58 | 1:46:03 | |
covering through the programme,
marking the centenary of some | 1:46:03 | 1:46:06 | |
women's right to votes copy it's got
us thinking about how life has | 1:46:06 | 1:46:12 | |
changed for women in lots of ways. | 1:46:12 | 1:46:23 | |
number of women at different stages
of their career. I went to find what | 1:46:23 | 1:46:27 | |
advice they would have as well.
Making your way up in the world is | 1:46:27 | 1:46:30 | |
still not as easy as it should be
the women. But there are more and | 1:46:30 | 1:46:35 | |
more breaking down the barriers.
Kati is an award-winning crane | 1:46:35 | 1:46:40 | |
driver. I have come to meet her with
Lois, an apprentice in building | 1:46:40 | 1:46:47 | |
services and Catherine, a structural
engineer. You are working in an | 1:46:47 | 1:46:50 | |
industry that is male dominated,
does that bother you? It does not to | 1:46:50 | 1:46:54 | |
me, it gives you slightly more
leveraged. There is a stereotype out | 1:46:54 | 1:46:57 | |
there that engineers are always
male, with beard and a hard hat, but | 1:46:57 | 1:47:03 | |
most of the time I am wearing a
dress and working at my desk, | 1:47:03 | 1:47:07 | |
through calculations and drawings,
working on computer software. I feel | 1:47:07 | 1:47:12 | |
listened to, I am treated the same
as everyone else. So you don't feel | 1:47:12 | 1:47:16 | |
different, being a woman in terms of
weight you will go in your career? | 1:47:16 | 1:47:20 | |
No, I don't think there are those
barriers for women. It is nice to | 1:47:20 | 1:47:25 | |
see a lot more females coming into
the industry, as it is becoming a | 1:47:25 | 1:47:29 | |
lot that. It is great to hear their
optimism. But what about those bit | 1:47:29 | 1:47:33 | |
further on in their careers?
Jennifer and EMAP have different | 1:47:33 | 1:47:38 | |
jobs, at have felt differences when
they had children. Guilt when you | 1:47:38 | 1:47:46 | |
can't do a job in the way you want
to do it, and guilt you are not that | 1:47:46 | 1:47:51 | |
we are children. I have two
children, first was fine, second, I | 1:47:51 | 1:47:56 | |
had my second, I worked for the
biggest international law firm, was | 1:47:56 | 1:47:59 | |
made redundant, effectively on my
first day back at work. And it | 1:47:59 | 1:48:06 | |
affected me mentally, so badly. It
became so stressful for me in the | 1:48:06 | 1:48:14 | |
end, I set up my own business, and
left. So I could define my own | 1:48:14 | 1:48:19 | |
working hours. Anyone to get the top
in business it takes a lot of graft, | 1:48:19 | 1:48:24 | |
so what about the few women who have
made it? Do they think they have had | 1:48:24 | 1:48:28 | |
a harder time because they are a
woman? It takes courage almost every | 1:48:28 | 1:48:32 | |
day. To speak out, and speak up. The
gender balance and gender equality. | 1:48:32 | 1:48:37 | |
Let's do this together, that it men
being the biggest voices, the | 1:48:37 | 1:48:44 | |
strongest voices, | 1:48:44 | 1:48:49 | |
strongest voices, that is the only
way we will do it. Looking back we | 1:48:49 | 1:48:55 | |
adopted quite masculine codes to get
to the top of what was essentially | 1:48:55 | 1:48:58 | |
today still a very masculine
business, most businesses are run by | 1:48:58 | 1:49:01 | |
men. I just work longer, harder and
faster. All of those feminine traits | 1:49:01 | 1:49:07 | |
of empathy, collaboration, an
indication, all the things that were | 1:49:07 | 1:49:14 | |
seen as not quite tough enough in
business, is going to be the future. | 1:49:14 | 1:49:19 | |
So what would their advice BT Young
women? Go out with a positive | 1:49:19 | 1:49:24 | |
energy, I think any business EEO
into with positive energy, always | 1:49:24 | 1:49:31 | |
gets you on. Collaborate with other
women in business, this change only | 1:49:31 | 1:49:35 | |
happens when people come together.
Ridout to your network, leaving your | 1:49:35 | 1:49:39 | |
ability and go after every
opportunity that comes along. Back | 1:49:39 | 1:49:44 | |
on the construction site, I
definitely feel that these young | 1:49:44 | 1:49:47 | |
women are being given more
opportunities than they would have | 1:49:47 | 1:49:49 | |
done in the past. That should mean
in future they won't need to make a | 1:49:49 | 1:49:53 | |
special film about women doing jobs
light these or running companies, | 1:49:53 | 1:49:57 | |
because it won't be unusual. | 1:49:57 | 1:50:02 | |
And in that piece use or Inga Beale
they are, chief executive of Lloyd's | 1:50:02 | 1:50:07 | |
of London there, a FTSE 100 company,
and she was saying that there are | 1:50:07 | 1:50:14 | |
still more cheap executives called
John in the FTSE 100 then there are | 1:50:14 | 1:50:18 | |
women. She is such an inspirational
woman, she is leading such a huge | 1:50:18 | 1:50:25 | |
company, there are still tough days
just like anyone has, but still... | 1:50:25 | 1:50:31 | |
We are talking about this because it
is 100 years ago today, sixth of | 1:50:31 | 1:50:39 | |
February, all women and men over the
age of 21 were given the right to | 1:50:39 | 1:50:43 | |
vote. | 1:50:43 | 1:50:47 | |
We're doing lots throughout
the morning to mark it - | 1:50:47 | 1:50:50 | |
Carol's in the Houses
of Parliament. | 1:50:50 | 1:50:51 | |
It was not everyone who got the
right to vote, was at? No, today | 1:50:51 | 1:50:56 | |
marks a partial victory, but a
really important milestone. I want | 1:50:56 | 1:51:00 | |
to take a moment to remember the
names of these women, because all of | 1:51:00 | 1:51:04 | |
these names here represent the 1000
suffragettes, who paid a price for | 1:51:04 | 1:51:13 | |
this fight, they risked it all, they
were jailed for this cause. Emily | 1:51:13 | 1:51:17 | |
Wilding Davidson, who spent not far
from here, at Strangeways prison | 1:51:17 | 1:51:23 | |
before she went to ascot and paid
with her life for this fight. The | 1:51:23 | 1:51:29 | |
munch them also, Mary Jane Clarke
who died after being released from | 1:51:29 | 1:51:32 | |
prison during a hunger strike.
Really important women, but make no | 1:51:32 | 1:51:37 | |
mistake, this fight was not just
about the bold, brave acts of | 1:51:37 | 1:51:41 | |
suffragettes, it was also about this
dearly, steady determination of the | 1:51:41 | 1:51:46 | |
suffragists. Let's have a look now
at the fight on both sides of the | 1:51:46 | 1:51:52 | |
divide, through the eyes of two
women, both equally important. | 1:51:52 | 1:52:00 | |
Britain was a nation divided,
between privilege and positive, | 1:52:00 | 1:52:05 | |
those with those without. Two women
were united in their belief that | 1:52:05 | 1:52:09 | |
this must change. Any helm was
smart, educated, Cheshire Millendon | 1:52:09 | 1:52:13 | |
Mac daughter. She had they hear of
men in power but had no power | 1:52:13 | 1:52:18 | |
herself. She was a force to be
reckoned with. And yet the most | 1:52:18 | 1:52:25 | |
simple and an educated men, simply
by virtue of being a man, had a | 1:52:25 | 1:52:29 | |
vote. And that did not make sense at
all. Nor did it to Leonora Cohen, | 1:52:29 | 1:52:35 | |
born into poverty -- poverty in
Leeds, but clever and brave too. She | 1:52:35 | 1:52:41 | |
thought without the vote there would
be no way that women would have | 1:52:41 | 1:52:45 | |
proper equality and could lift
themselves out of poverty. As | 1:52:45 | 1:52:49 | |
promises are made and broken in
Parliament, women push on, any with | 1:52:49 | 1:52:54 | |
gentle persuasion, she set up alow
pull -- local suffragists society to | 1:52:54 | 1:52:59 | |
convince the established and of what
is right, but Leonora plots. She | 1:52:59 | 1:53:02 | |
heads to the Tower of London for a
separate it -- suffragette act so | 1:53:02 | 1:53:06 | |
daring it would shake the
establishment. To smash the crown | 1:53:06 | 1:53:09 | |
jewels. This, this is where it
happened. Can you imagine how her | 1:53:09 | 1:53:17 | |
heart must be pounding. She sees
this group of schoolboys, and she | 1:53:17 | 1:53:23 | |
sneaks in behind them, and looks all
the world like a teacher, she must | 1:53:23 | 1:53:28 | |
be thinking, where is the crowbar,
is it in my coat, and she finds it, | 1:53:28 | 1:53:33 | |
and wait until the Beefeater is over
the other side of the room, and then | 1:53:33 | 1:53:37 | |
she has to remove it and throw it
and make this great announcement of | 1:53:37 | 1:53:43 | |
"Votes for women!", how daring is
that, and how courageous. But then | 1:53:43 | 1:53:50 | |
came the ultimate call for courage,
and the war changes everything. As | 1:53:50 | 1:53:53 | |
men die on the front, the
suffragettes march to London to | 1:53:53 | 1:53:57 | |
offer their services to their
country. Women now hold the fort. | 1:53:57 | 1:54:00 | |
They manufacture, they create the
munitions, they run the businesses. | 1:54:00 | 1:54:08 | |
There was no going back, no. Once
they knew what they were capable of, | 1:54:08 | 1:54:15 | |
and once the men came home and saw
all that they had done, you couldn't | 1:54:15 | 1:54:19 | |
go back. These were equals. Words
and deeds had won the day. On | 1:54:19 | 1:54:28 | |
feathery 61918, women over the age
of 30 win the right to vote. But it | 1:54:28 | 1:54:33 | |
would be another ten years before
they win the same voting rights as | 1:54:33 | 1:54:38 | |
men. It was a fight for men to
perceive that women were not | 1:54:38 | 1:54:42 | |
prepared to be doormats any longer,
women were of equal value, and it | 1:54:42 | 1:54:48 | |
has never been more important to
show that today on the Centenary. If | 1:54:48 | 1:54:54 | |
she were alive today, what would you
think? -- what would she think? I | 1:54:54 | 1:54:59 | |
think she would be very frustrated.
If she were here she would still be | 1:54:59 | 1:55:04 | |
fighting. I hope so. And I would be
with her. We owe a great debt of | 1:55:04 | 1:55:11 | |
gratitude to all of those women, the
suffragettes and the suffragists, | 1:55:11 | 1:55:14 | |
and the men who supported them, to
try and achieve this. Today of | 1:55:14 | 1:55:21 | |
course, is not marking 100 years
since that hole victory, but instead | 1:55:21 | 1:55:26 | |
a partial victory. Let me introduce
you to Helen, who is the curator at | 1:55:26 | 1:55:32 | |
the People's history Museum here in
Manchester. Tell us exactly what | 1:55:32 | 1:55:35 | |
happened today 100 years ago, who
got the vote? It was incredible, all | 1:55:35 | 1:55:40 | |
men aged 21 and over got the vote,
but only some women, it had to be | 1:55:40 | 1:55:45 | |
over 30 with a proper qualification
to be able to vote. This excluded so | 1:55:45 | 1:55:49 | |
many of the working class woman who
had acted as the footsoldiers in | 1:55:49 | 1:55:53 | |
this campaign across all the
different organisations, so it was | 1:55:53 | 1:55:56 | |
only a partial victory. It was going
to be another ten years before they | 1:55:56 | 1:56:00 | |
got the equal vote. Let's take a
moment to talk about this fantastic | 1:56:00 | 1:56:05 | |
banner over here. All of these were
actually, they were nabbed from the | 1:56:05 | 1:56:12 | |
film suffragette, aren't they. They
are fake. But this one, tell us | 1:56:12 | 1:56:19 | |
about this one. This one is the
Manchester WFTU banner, it was | 1:56:19 | 1:56:25 | |
mainly 1908, taken down to the Hyde
Park in London, which was the | 1:56:25 | 1:56:32 | |
biggest rally of the suffragette
movement and most importantly it | 1:56:32 | 1:56:36 | |
says most -- it says "First in the
fight." This is because Manchester | 1:56:36 | 1:56:41 | |
was were it first started,
Manchester had the first sufferance | 1:56:41 | 1:56:44 | |
society way back. The most important
part in the story for me is that | 1:56:44 | 1:56:48 | |
this was found in a charity shop in
Leeds, and had been there for how | 1:56:48 | 1:56:53 | |
long? Ten years, before it was found
and put on the auction. We were very | 1:56:53 | 1:56:58 | |
lucky to acquire it into the
collection. Ten years, neatly folded | 1:56:58 | 1:57:02 | |
on a shelf and no one had clocked it
until you guys came along. You can | 1:57:02 | 1:57:07 | |
see it here at the People's history
Museum from June. More from us a | 1:57:07 | 1:57:11 | |
little later. | 1:57:11 | 1:57:14 | |
Quite emotional to be reading those
banners, thank you so much, we will | 1:57:14 | 1:57:20 | |
be back later. We have had loads of
messages from people as well about | 1:57:20 | 1:57:25 | |
women who have inspired them, thank
you for them. Mothers and teachers | 1:57:25 | 1:57:28 | |
are very high on the list. Wives as
well, but time now to get | 1:57:28 | 2:00:54 | |
Now, though, it's back
to Louise and Steph. | 2:00:54 | 2:00:56 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with
Steph McGovern and Louise Minchin. | 2:00:56 | 2:01:00 | |
Stockmarkets around the world
have plunged following | 2:01:00 | 2:01:02 | |
a big drop in US share prices. | 2:01:02 | 2:01:05 | |
The falls in Asia this morning
come as the Dow Jones | 2:01:05 | 2:01:08 | |
suffered its biggest ever points
drop in a single day over fears | 2:01:08 | 2:01:11 | |
about interest rate rises. | 2:01:11 | 2:01:18 | |
Good morning, it's Tuesday the 6th
of February. Also on the programme | 2:01:32 | 2:01:35 | |
this morning: | 2:01:35 | 2:01:38 | |
Growing division within
the Conservative Party | 2:01:38 | 2:01:39 | |
over Brexit as one of
the Prime Minister's | 2:01:39 | 2:01:41 | |
Remain-supporting MPs
urges her to 'stand up to' | 2:01:41 | 2:01:43 | |
so called 'hard Brexiteers'
and 'sling them out'. | 2:01:43 | 2:01:47 | |
Could e-cigarettes soon be
available on prescription? | 2:01:47 | 2:01:48 | |
Government health officials
say they should be. | 2:01:48 | 2:01:56 | |
In sport, the pressure mounts
on Chelsea manager Antonio Conte. | 2:01:56 | 2:01:58 | |
His side suffer their biggest
defeat of the season, | 2:01:58 | 2:02:00 | |
as Watford beat them 4-1. | 2:02:00 | 2:02:05 | |
100 years after the first women got
the vote, we're celebrating | 2:02:05 | 2:02:07 | |
the achievements of those
who campaigned to make it happen. | 2:02:07 | 2:02:10 | |
As debates over gender equality
and attitudes towards women | 2:02:10 | 2:02:12 | |
are in sharp focus today,
we'll look at how society | 2:02:12 | 2:02:16 | |
has changed, or not,
over the past century. | 2:02:16 | 2:02:23 | |
We have brought together business
women, professionals, politicians, | 2:02:23 | 2:02:28 | |
mothers, wives and daughters, and of
course, we want to hear from you as | 2:02:28 | 2:02:32 | |
well. | 2:02:32 | 2:02:34 | |
Is there one woman in your
life who inspires you? | 2:02:34 | 2:02:37 | |
Let us know. | 2:02:37 | 2:02:38 | |
There is one here. There is one in
the House of Commons as well. | 2:02:38 | 2:02:45 | |
And Carol has the weather
from inside Parliament | 2:02:45 | 2:02:47 | |
where the first mass signature
petition calling for women's | 2:02:47 | 2:02:49 | |
votes was handed over | 2:02:49 | 2:02:51 | |
Good morning, gentlemen. It is much
smaller when you see it in real | 2:02:51 | 2:02:56 | |
life, compared to the television.
Microphones angling down, the MPs | 2:02:56 | 2:03:00 | |
have been in this morning placing
their names on the seats where they | 2:03:00 | 2:03:04 | |
want to sit late on. The weather
outside is different, it is cold, | 2:03:04 | 2:03:08 | |
with frost around, snow in the
forecast and a bit of sunshine. I | 2:03:08 | 2:03:13 | |
will put that together for you in 15
minutes. We nominate Carol as our | 2:03:13 | 2:03:18 | |
inspiration this morning. We
certainly do. | 2:03:18 | 2:03:23 | |
Good morning.
First, our main story. | 2:03:23 | 2:03:24 | |
Share prices have dropped
sharply on Asian markets | 2:03:24 | 2:03:26 | |
overnight in response to big falls
in the United States. | 2:03:26 | 2:03:30 | |
In New York, the Dow Jones,
which is made up of some | 2:03:30 | 2:03:35 | |
of America's biggest businesses,
closed down more than 1100 points, | 2:03:35 | 2:03:38 | |
the biggest one day fall in history. | 2:03:38 | 2:03:39 | |
The Nikkei index in Japan
ended the day nearly 5% down. | 2:03:39 | 2:03:43 | |
The FTSE 100 here, which has just
opened this morning has opened down | 2:03:43 | 2:03:48 | |
3.5%. | 2:03:48 | 2:03:50 | |
Earlier on Breakfast,
we spoke to the Investment director | 2:03:50 | 2:03:52 | |
Jane Sydenham who said the drop
wasn't completely unexpected. | 2:03:52 | 2:03:56 | |
This is really in response
to a jobs report last week, | 2:03:56 | 2:04:00 | |
which kind of indicated that
wages were rising a bit faster | 2:04:00 | 2:04:03 | |
than everybody was expecting. | 2:04:03 | 2:04:06 | |
And the implication
from that is that interest | 2:04:06 | 2:04:08 | |
rates had to rise faster,
too, which stock markets | 2:04:08 | 2:04:11 | |
really don't like. | 2:04:11 | 2:04:14 | |
So in the last 15 months,
we've had no more than a 3% | 2:04:14 | 2:04:18 | |
correction in stock markets,
which is very, very unusual. | 2:04:18 | 2:04:21 | |
So at some point, it was
likely that we would see a bit | 2:04:21 | 2:04:24 | |
more volatility anyway. | 2:04:24 | 2:04:26 | |
It's really very unusual
for markets to be quite | 2:04:26 | 2:04:28 | |
as calm as they have been. | 2:04:28 | 2:04:30 | |
The Conservative MP and | 2:04:30 | 2:04:40 | |
MP and leading
Remain campaigner, Anna Soubry, | 2:04:40 | 2:04:41 | |
has called on Theresa May to "sling
out" what she calls "hard | 2:04:41 | 2:04:44 | |
Brexiteers" in the party. | 2:04:44 | 2:04:45 | |
The former business minister says
the frontbench is "in hock" | 2:04:45 | 2:04:48 | |
to 35 ideological Leave supporters. | 2:04:48 | 2:04:49 | |
In an interview with BBC
Newsnight she insisted | 2:04:49 | 2:04:51 | |
she would not stay in a party
taken over by people | 2:04:51 | 2:04:54 | |
like Jacob Rees Mogg
and Boris Johnson. | 2:04:54 | 2:04:55 | |
Our Political Correspondent,
Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster | 2:04:55 | 2:04:57 | |
for us this morning. | 2:04:57 | 2:04:58 | |
Is this yet more division
within the party over Brexit? | 2:04:58 | 2:05:03 | |
It was a tough interview, it shows
more division over Europe. It was an | 2:05:03 | 2:05:09 | |
issue that divided the Conservative
Party for decades. Since the vote to | 2:05:09 | 2:05:13 | |
leave the EU, and a Subaru has
spoken out passionately about | 2:05:13 | 2:05:17 | |
Brexit. She has taken it up a notch
with the latest comments, | 2:05:17 | 2:05:22 | |
threatening to quit the party and
saying Theresa May needs to chuck | 2:05:22 | 2:05:26 | |
out hard-line ideological
Brexiteers. | 2:05:26 | 2:05:30 | |
They are not the Tory party that I
joined 40 years ago. | 2:05:30 | 2:05:38 | |
and it's about time Theresa stood up
to them and slung 'em out, | 2:05:38 | 2:05:41 | |
because they've taken down Major,
they took down Cameron, | 2:05:41 | 2:05:44 | |
two great leaders, neither
of whom stood up to them. | 2:05:44 | 2:05:46 | |
If it comes to it I'm not
going to stay in a party that's been | 2:05:46 | 2:05:50 | |
taken over by the likes of
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson, | 2:05:50 | 2:05:53 | |
Brexiteers will say they are arguing
for what they believe are the best | 2:05:53 | 2:05:57 | |
interests of the party. A former
Tory Chancellor, Lord Lamont, said | 2:05:57 | 2:06:04 | |
she was being quite ridiculous. What
it demonstrates is how difficult the | 2:06:04 | 2:06:09 | |
task is for Theresa May to keep her
party United in the middle of a | 2:06:09 | 2:06:13 | |
crucial week. Remember, there are
crucial ministerial meetings coming | 2:06:13 | 2:06:17 | |
up, in which the Prime Minister will
try to coax together some sort of | 2:06:17 | 2:06:22 | |
consensus, so that she can finally
agree a government position on our | 2:06:22 | 2:06:26 | |
EU negotiating with Brussels. Thank
you very much. | 2:06:26 | 2:06:32 | |
In ten minutes, we will speak to the
Home Secretary Amber Rudd about that | 2:06:32 | 2:06:35 | |
and other things. | 2:06:35 | 2:06:40 | |
Relatives of the victims of the 1982
IRA Hyde Park bombing have been | 2:06:40 | 2:06:43 | |
granted legal aid for a civil action
against a suspect. | 2:06:43 | 2:06:45 | |
A case against the convicted
IRA member, John Downey, | 2:06:45 | 2:06:47 | |
collapsed at the Old Bailey
four years ago. | 2:06:47 | 2:06:50 | |
He had a so-called "on the run"
letter telling him he was no | 2:06:50 | 2:06:53 | |
longer a wanted man
and would not be prosecuted. | 2:06:53 | 2:07:01 | |
There's a call this morning
for e-cigarettes to be given | 2:07:01 | 2:07:03 | |
on the NHS because they're an
effective way to help smokers quit. | 2:07:03 | 2:07:06 | |
Public Health England says vaping
poses only a small fraction | 2:07:06 | 2:07:08 | |
of the risk of smoking tobacco. | 2:07:08 | 2:07:10 | |
Our health reporter
Michelle Roberts has more. | 2:07:10 | 2:07:16 | |
They've helped tens of thousands
of people quit smoking, | 2:07:16 | 2:07:18 | |
but currently in the UK,
people have to buy e-cigarettes, | 2:07:18 | 2:07:21 | |
unlike nicotine patches and gum. | 2:07:21 | 2:07:22 | |
Public Health England
wants that to change | 2:07:22 | 2:07:25 | |
and for doctors to start giving
e-cigarettes to patients | 2:07:25 | 2:07:27 | |
on prescription. | 2:07:27 | 2:07:33 | |
The latest evidence
reviewed suggests that | 2:07:33 | 2:07:35 | |
although vaping is not entirely
risk-free, it's much | 2:07:35 | 2:07:37 | |
better than smoking. | 2:07:37 | 2:07:44 | |
The organisation says e-cigarettes
are 95% safer than most | 2:07:44 | 2:07:46 | |
cigarettes as they do not
have most of the toxic | 2:07:46 | 2:07:48 | |
chemicals found in smoke. | 2:07:48 | 2:07:49 | |
Researchers estimate e-cigarettes
have led to at least 20,000 more | 2:07:49 | 2:07:52 | |
quits per year. | 2:07:52 | 2:07:55 | |
Despite their popularity,
around 40% of smokers have | 2:07:55 | 2:07:57 | |
not tried them. | 2:07:57 | 2:07:58 | |
Experts say the evidence
in favour is so compelling, | 2:07:58 | 2:08:01 | |
smokers who want to
quit shouldn't wait | 2:08:01 | 2:08:03 | |
for free prescriptions
for trying e-cigarettes. | 2:08:03 | 2:08:09 | |
We're confident thast they're
substantially less harmful | 2:08:09 | 2:08:12 | |
than cigarette smoking,
so we recommend for those struggling | 2:08:12 | 2:08:16 | |
to stop to try e-cigarettes,
that might help them to stop | 2:08:16 | 2:08:19 | |
smoking, which would probably be
the best thing they could do | 2:08:19 | 2:08:21 | |
for their health. | 2:08:21 | 2:08:24 | |
In the meantime, Public Health
England suggests hospitals start | 2:08:24 | 2:08:26 | |
selling e-cigarettes to patients
and change smoking shelters | 2:08:26 | 2:08:28 | |
into vaping lounges. | 2:08:28 | 2:08:29 | |
But they also warn that non-smokers
shouldn't start vaping. | 2:08:29 | 2:08:32 | |
Michelle Roberts, BBC News. | 2:08:32 | 2:08:39 | |
Thank you for your messages on that.
We will talk about that shortly. | 2:08:39 | 2:08:48 | |
The UK's roads are among
some of the most heavily | 2:08:48 | 2:08:50 | |
congested in the world -
that's according to the largest ever | 2:08:50 | 2:08:53 | |
study of global traffic conditions. | 2:08:53 | 2:08:54 | |
The UK's roads were ranked in the
top ten most gridlocked in the | 2:08:54 | 2:08:58 | |
world, with drivers spending 31
hours a year stuck in traffic will | 2:08:58 | 2:09:04 | |
stop the Department for Transport is
investing to cut congestion. | 2:09:04 | 2:09:11 | |
The British-born actor John Mahoney,
who played one of TV's most | 2:09:11 | 2:09:13 | |
popular on-screen dads,
has died in Chicago aged 77. | 2:09:13 | 2:09:15 | |
He was famous for his role
as Martin Crane in the US sitcom | 2:09:15 | 2:09:19 | |
"Frasier", playing a grumpy,
down-to-earth retired policeman | 2:09:19 | 2:09:20 | |
who outwitted his two pretentious
sons Frasier and Niles. | 2:09:20 | 2:09:22 | |
The role earned him two Emmy and two
Golden Globe nominations. | 2:09:22 | 2:09:30 | |
It is 8:0 nine. Let's take you back
to one of our main stories. | 2:09:36 | 2:09:39 | |
Electronic cigarettes should be
prescribed by the NHS | 2:09:39 | 2:09:41 | |
to help smokers quit,
that's the call this morning | 2:09:41 | 2:09:44 | |
from Public Health England. | 2:09:44 | 2:09:45 | |
It's latest research found that
vaping is much safer | 2:09:45 | 2:09:49 | |
than smoking tobacco.
The harms of smoking are well known. | 2:09:49 | 2:09:55 | |
It causes over 200 deaths a year
and shortens your life expectancy | 2:09:55 | 2:09:58 | |
by an average of 10 years. | 2:09:58 | 2:10:04 | |
It's an expensive habit too,
smoking 20 cigarettes a day costs | 2:10:04 | 2:10:06 | |
around £3,000 a year. | 2:10:06 | 2:10:10 | |
In a report published this morning,
Public Health England says | 2:10:10 | 2:10:12 | |
using electronic cigarettes causes
95% less harm than smoking tobacco. | 2:10:12 | 2:10:17 | |
The latest figures show
that 3 million people | 2:10:17 | 2:10:19 | |
in the UK use them regularly. | 2:10:19 | 2:10:20 | |
The report's author,
Professor Ann McNeill, | 2:10:20 | 2:10:22 | |
joins us from London, and with us
here is GP, Dr Fari Ahmad. | 2:10:22 | 2:10:25 | |
In the | 2:10:25 | 2:10:30 | |
thank you for joining us this
morning. Can you explain, a lot of | 2:10:30 | 2:10:35 | |
people have been in touch with us to
say, is vaping not bad for you, | 2:10:35 | 2:10:41 | |
then? I understand that. There is
confusion about it. Vaping is better | 2:10:41 | 2:10:46 | |
than smoking, because when you are
smoking, you are smoking in a lot of | 2:10:46 | 2:10:50 | |
nasty is. | 2:10:50 | 2:10:55 | |
It is certainly better than smoking
a cigarette, but I would consider it | 2:10:57 | 2:11:00 | |
as a step to stopping. There have
been issues about long-term health | 2:11:00 | 2:11:08 | |
effects with vaping, but compared to
smoking, it's better. Don't stop | 2:11:08 | 2:11:13 | |
there! Let's pick up on that. You
say that e-cigarettes should be | 2:11:13 | 2:11:21 | |
prescribed on the NHS, why do you
say that? Good morning. Can I | 2:11:21 | 2:11:27 | |
correct one thing, 200 smokers die
every day, not every year. Smoking | 2:11:27 | 2:11:33 | |
is uniquely dangerous, and what our
review showed is that e-cigarettes | 2:11:33 | 2:11:38 | |
are significantly less harmful than
smoking tobacco cigarettes, so it's | 2:11:38 | 2:11:42 | |
really important for smokers who are
trying to quit that they do so as | 2:11:42 | 2:11:46 | |
soon as is. We have a wide variety
of treatments available, the widest | 2:11:46 | 2:11:52 | |
ever, including e-cigarettes. As
well as being able to get them in | 2:11:52 | 2:11:55 | |
shops, we think it would be useful
if health professionals could | 2:11:55 | 2:12:00 | |
prescribe e-cigarettes as well. We
know now that e-cigarettes is the | 2:12:00 | 2:12:07 | |
most common form of support smokers
use, and we want to make sure we | 2:12:07 | 2:12:11 | |
reach all smokers, particularly
poorer smokers, who perhaps feel | 2:12:11 | 2:12:17 | |
reluctant. People have been getting
in touch this morning, and this is | 2:12:17 | 2:12:22 | |
one example, and there are many,
David says, "How preposterous that | 2:12:22 | 2:12:27 | |
Public Health England think that
people who currently can afford to | 2:12:27 | 2:12:30 | |
smoke should put more strain on the
NHS to pay for addiction." Paula | 2:12:30 | 2:12:35 | |
says, "If they can afford to smoke,
they can afford to be vaping." There | 2:12:35 | 2:12:41 | |
are a few things there. Smoking is
an addiction, largely to nicotine, | 2:12:41 | 2:12:47 | |
but it is not the nicotine that
kills, it's the other thousands of | 2:12:47 | 2:12:52 | |
smoke constituents that come with
it. Smokers that struggle to stop, | 2:12:52 | 2:12:57 | |
and the addictiveness of nicotine
depends on how it is delivered. So | 2:12:57 | 2:13:02 | |
it depends on the speed of delivery,
the dose and what comes along with | 2:13:02 | 2:13:05 | |
it. E-cigarettes are a much less
harmful form of nicotine delivery. | 2:13:05 | 2:13:12 | |
Smokers really struggle to stop.
They have tried many times, they | 2:13:12 | 2:13:17 | |
have tried different things.
Actually, the people but doctors are | 2:13:17 | 2:13:21 | |
see you will be predominantly made
up of smokers because they are often | 2:13:21 | 2:13:24 | |
very sick with the early smoking
related diseases. It is really | 2:13:24 | 2:13:30 | |
important that health professionals
help those smokers in particular to | 2:13:30 | 2:13:33 | |
stop.
Lots of people getting in touch, | 2:13:33 | 2:13:37 | |
Helen makes the point of saying," we
don't know the long-term effects of | 2:13:37 | 2:13:41 | |
vaping, surely it is better to help
people break the pattern of | 2:13:41 | 2:13:46 | |
addictive behaviour, rather than
reinforce it." What do you say to | 2:13:46 | 2:13:50 | |
that? That is a concern that some
people have, and I can understand it | 2:13:50 | 2:13:55 | |
is valid. You can see that something
is better. It might not be the best | 2:13:55 | 2:14:00 | |
thing for you. If it can help you
get to where you have got to, so you | 2:14:00 | 2:14:05 | |
have stopped smoking, that would be
ideal. People can sometimes, they | 2:14:05 | 2:14:10 | |
can be addicted to the actual
smoking, there are issues about | 2:14:10 | 2:14:14 | |
people getting addicted to other
things as well. It is understanding | 2:14:14 | 2:14:18 | |
yourself, and understanding what
will work for you and trying to move | 2:14:18 | 2:14:21 | |
things that way. Thank you, both,
very much, and thank you to | 2:14:21 | 2:14:26 | |
everybody getting in touch. | 2:14:26 | 2:14:31 | |
You're watching
Breakfast from BBC News. | 2:14:31 | 2:14:33 | |
The main stories this morning... | 2:14:33 | 2:14:34 | |
Stock markets have dropped sharply
in Asia following a large fall | 2:14:34 | 2:14:36 | |
in the United States. | 2:14:36 | 2:14:40 | |
And also here in the UK, markets
have dropped. | 2:14:40 | 2:14:43 | |
The Conservative MP and Remain
campaigner Anna Soubry has called | 2:14:43 | 2:14:46 | |
on the Prime Minister to "sling out"
the party's Brexiteers. | 2:14:46 | 2:14:52 | |
It's the hundredth anniversary
of the Representation | 2:14:54 | 2:14:56 | |
of the People Act, which gave some
women the vote for the first time - | 2:14:56 | 2:15:00 | |
and all men over the age of 21. | 2:15:00 | 2:15:04 | |
We're doing lots throughout
the morning to mark it Carol's | 2:15:04 | 2:15:06 | |
in the Houses of Parliament. | 2:15:06 | 2:15:07 | |
in the Houses of Parliament. | 2:15:07 | 2:15:12 | |
What a fantastic location, in the
middle of the House of Commons. | 2:15:12 | 2:15:16 | |
Good morning to you both. I am in
the House of Commons chamber is at | 2:15:16 | 2:15:20 | |
the moment, you can see how fabulous
it is. Back in the day, ladies were | 2:15:20 | 2:15:25 | |
not even allowed in the public
gallery here. They were in the | 2:15:25 | 2:15:30 | |
ladies' gallery. Where you see the
glass in the Stonewall, that is | 2:15:30 | 2:15:33 | |
roughly where the ladies' gallery
was, that even higher up than you | 2:15:33 | 2:15:38 | |
can see today. In the ladies'
gallery it was cramped and smelly, | 2:15:38 | 2:15:43 | |
RFID poor views, they could not hear
properly and it had grills on the | 2:15:43 | 2:15:50 | |
window and they even chained
themselves to those grills, which | 2:15:50 | 2:15:51 | |
prompted the purchase of these huge
bowls Clippers we saw earlier. | 2:15:51 | 2:15:56 | |
How times have changed! It is nice
and toasty in here but a cold day | 2:15:56 | 2:16:01 | |
ahead of us outside.
There is a hard frost and some snow | 2:16:01 | 2:16:05 | |
in the forecast today.
Starting at 9am across the | 2:16:05 | 2:16:10 | |
south-east of England, bright skies,
bits and pieces of cloud, the cloud | 2:16:10 | 2:16:14 | |
is producing some wintry showers
across parts of East Anglia and into | 2:16:14 | 2:16:17 | |
the Midlands, for example. As we
move into northern England and | 2:16:17 | 2:16:23 | |
southern parts of central Scotland,
we have a band of snow, a weather | 2:16:23 | 2:16:28 | |
front. Clear skies north of that and
some snow showers in the north and | 2:16:28 | 2:16:31 | |
west. The risk of eyes almost
anywhere across the UK this morning. | 2:16:31 | 2:16:37 | |
Northern Ireland has some snow
showers on and off through the day. | 2:16:37 | 2:16:42 | |
Back into North Wales, once again we
are looking up the band of snow | 2:16:42 | 2:16:46 | |
fringing and across parts of North
Devon, North Cornwall in North | 2:16:46 | 2:16:49 | |
Somerset.
Dry affair that used with cloud | 2:16:49 | 2:16:54 | |
around, one or two Prater breaks and
you might see the art wintry | 2:16:54 | 2:17:00 | |
flower...
Flower?! Slurry or shower! | 2:17:00 | 2:17:06 | |
Flower?! Slurry or shower! The band
will weaken as it moves away, but | 2:17:08 | 2:17:15 | |
any precipitation will be snow. The
band will build on the south, | 2:17:15 | 2:17:18 | |
brighter skies behind it but showers
in the north and west, a combination | 2:17:18 | 2:17:22 | |
of rain, sleet, hail, lightning and
snow. | 2:17:22 | 2:17:25 | |
Through the evening and overnight,
the band of snow in the south | 2:17:25 | 2:17:29 | |
rejuvenates, producing more snow
across East Anglia and the | 2:17:29 | 2:17:32 | |
south-east. Behind that, lots of
clear skies. We will have a severe | 2:17:32 | 2:17:37 | |
frost tonight. Where we have lying
snow, temperatures could did as low | 2:17:37 | 2:17:42 | |
as minus ten. Bitterly cold and the
risk of ice. We start with the | 2:17:42 | 2:17:49 | |
wintry showers across the south-east
and East Anglia tomorrow. Lots of | 2:17:49 | 2:17:54 | |
dry, unsettled conditions. Some rain
preceded by transient snow in the | 2:17:54 | 2:17:58 | |
north-west, which will rapidly fall
in the hills. Ray Nadler low levels. | 2:17:58 | 2:18:03 | |
Once again, another cold day.
Through Thursday, the same front in | 2:18:03 | 2:18:09 | |
the north-west sinks southwards,
resting across parts of England and | 2:18:09 | 2:18:11 | |
Wales with lots of cloud, drizzle
and damp associated. | 2:18:11 | 2:18:16 | |
Behind that, brighter skies but in
the Northwest we are still looking | 2:18:16 | 2:18:20 | |
at showers, some wintry.
The outlook remains unsettled and | 2:18:20 | 2:18:24 | |
cold, wet and windy at times | 2:18:24 | 2:18:27 | |
The outlook remains unsettled and
cold, wet and windy at times with | 2:18:27 | 2:18:28 | |
snow showers for some of us.
Back to you two. Thank you, Carol | 2:18:28 | 2:18:36 | |
The stock market in Britain opened
down 3.5% in response to heavy falls | 2:18:36 | 2:18:41 | |
on the American and then the Asian
markets. | 2:18:41 | 2:18:43 | |
The Dow Jones started it all off,
the Dow Jones on Wall Street. The | 2:18:43 | 2:18:47 | |
biggest one-day point drop in
history yesterday. | 2:18:47 | 2:18:50 | |
We can speak to Louise Cooper, a
market analyst. | 2:18:50 | 2:18:53 | |
We expected the FTSE 100 to share...
Fall when it opened at ATM, what is | 2:18:53 | 2:18:59 | |
happening? It is on the back of the
states. It is a global stock market | 2:18:59 | 2:19:07 | |
rout driven by what happened in the
states. There was an important | 2:19:07 | 2:19:13 | |
monthly report on Friday which
showed some signs of wage inflation. | 2:19:13 | 2:19:17 | |
Many people would think that would
be good, but it brings the whole | 2:19:17 | 2:19:23 | |
interest rates question back into
the perspective. What the world has | 2:19:23 | 2:19:27 | |
been doing is living on extremely
low interest rates ever since the | 2:19:27 | 2:19:32 | |
start of the financial crisis. But
ultracheap money has caused all | 2:19:32 | 2:19:38 | |
sorts of acids to boom, like
property on stock markets. If we are | 2:19:38 | 2:19:42 | |
coming to the end of the ultralow
interest rates and the end of the | 2:19:42 | 2:19:45 | |
really cheap money, there are
questions about the stock market | 2:19:45 | 2:19:51 | |
valuations, particularly the US
stock market is regarded by many as | 2:19:51 | 2:19:55 | |
being quite expensive.
You and I talk a lot about what is | 2:19:55 | 2:19:59 | |
going on in the markets. It can
quickly turn again. We were speaking | 2:19:59 | 2:20:05 | |
to Jane Seddon from Rathbone 's who
said it could be a correction, how | 2:20:05 | 2:20:09 | |
much do you need to worry about
this? The points do not mean prizes, | 2:20:09 | 2:20:14 | |
they are irrelevant, you need to
look at the percentage points move. | 2:20:14 | 2:20:18 | |
We have had a 6% | 2:20:18 | 2:20:24 | |
fall two days. That is a correction.
In the middle of a great financial | 2:20:32 | 2:20:35 | |
crash the US stock market fell 20%
in one day. 6% in two days, although | 2:20:35 | 2:20:38 | |
one has to grin slightly because Mr
Donald Trump, the US president, is | 2:20:38 | 2:20:40 | |
happy to claim responsibility when
the stock market goes up, but has | 2:20:40 | 2:20:42 | |
not said or tweeted anything about
the fall. It is absolutely a | 2:20:42 | 2:20:45 | |
correction at the moment, but it
tells you that investors, financial | 2:20:45 | 2:20:51 | |
people, are starting to think has it
gone too far? What is the outlook | 2:20:51 | 2:20:57 | |
for the US economy? It indicates
some kind of questioning, a less | 2:20:57 | 2:21:03 | |
confident investor than maybe in the
past. The key at the moment is we | 2:21:03 | 2:21:07 | |
are driven by the states, so we wait
to see. The European stock markets | 2:21:07 | 2:21:12 | |
opening this morning, to a certain
extent, just reacting to the US | 2:21:12 | 2:21:16 | |
stock market move yesterday. Lots of
falls happens after European markets | 2:21:16 | 2:21:23 | |
were closed.
The key happens at 2:30pm when US | 2:21:23 | 2:21:26 | |
markets open. Do they open lower yet
again, or do you start to see some | 2:21:26 | 2:21:33 | |
people saying 6% correction, I think
they are looking an OK value and I | 2:21:33 | 2:21:38 | |
will start buying again?
The key is when do you start to see | 2:21:38 | 2:21:42 | |
buyers come in, or will there be a
nurse wave of selling out of the | 2:21:42 | 2:21:47 | |
states?
It is quite early days right now. | 2:21:47 | 2:21:50 | |
Thank you, Louise Cooper. Lots of
pensions are invested in the stock | 2:21:50 | 2:21:55 | |
market, so it is all important.
We are talking about the Hundred | 2:21:55 | 2:21:59 | |
year anniversary of when the first
woman got the votes in the UK and | 2:21:59 | 2:22:03 | |
the campaign to get women the Bullet
attracted men and women from across | 2:22:03 | 2:22:06 | |
the political and class divide.
Marchers would attract hundreds of | 2:22:06 | 2:22:10 | |
thousands of protesters.
This is where you come in. We want | 2:22:10 | 2:22:15 | |
to hear your stories about your
relations involved in the movement, | 2:22:15 | 2:22:19 | |
and see any photos or mementos you
might have. You can get in contact | 2:22:19 | 2:22:26 | |
using the Twitter hashtag
#1918women. Naga Munchetty has been | 2:22:26 | 2:22:31 | |
looking at this.
The symbols of suffrage. These women | 2:22:31 | 2:22:38 | |
did not just make headlines but they
were the masters of marketing. These | 2:22:38 | 2:22:42 | |
are some of the badgers and
commissioned pieces and fashion | 2:22:42 | 2:22:47 | |
accessories we have in the Museum of
London collections. -- these were | 2:22:47 | 2:22:53 | |
some of the badges. Some were
obviously linked to the votes for | 2:22:53 | 2:22:57 | |
women campaign, some less obviously.
Do you think this is just a sample | 2:22:57 | 2:23:02 | |
of the memorabilia that may have
been created? There are new items to | 2:23:02 | 2:23:08 | |
be found? Definitely. It is quite
easy to recognise badges, especially | 2:23:08 | 2:23:12 | |
if they're officially made, because
they would have been advertised in | 2:23:12 | 2:23:17 | |
the votes that women use paper or
the suffragette newspaper. What is | 2:23:17 | 2:23:21 | |
less easy is if things were produced
and officially -- they would have | 2:23:21 | 2:23:26 | |
been in the votes for women
newspaper. | 2:23:26 | 2:23:31 | |
These are different colours,
explain? These are badges from the | 2:23:31 | 2:23:35 | |
women's library collection which
represent the National union of | 2:23:35 | 2:23:40 | |
Suffrage societies. These women were
not considered as militants? They | 2:23:40 | 2:23:47 | |
were law-abiding.
This medal was awarded to a very | 2:23:47 | 2:23:54 | |
special lady. You are her
granddaughter, tell me about her? | 2:23:54 | 2:24:01 | |
She wrapped a metal weight up with a
poster saying votes for women, and | 2:24:01 | 2:24:07 | |
she threw it through a window at the
Home Secretary's residence. This is | 2:24:07 | 2:24:11 | |
what the WSB you gave to women who
had done something memorable or | 2:24:11 | 2:24:16 | |
brave. -- this is what the WSPU
gave. | 2:24:16 | 2:24:22 | |
We know the history on the shelves,
but we want the treasures that you | 2:24:22 | 2:24:25 | |
may have a tone which can tell is
the story of those one century ago | 2:24:25 | 2:24:30 | |
who faltered for the rights for
women to vote today. | 2:24:30 | 2:24:35 | |
-- who fought for the right. Thank
you for getting in touch today. So | 2:24:35 | 2:24:39 | |
many people have been talking about
your mums and grandmothers and | 2:24:39 | 2:24:43 | |
teachers, people who have inspired
you. | 2:24:43 | 2:24:45 | |
Wives, sisters. One of the places we
are today is the People's History | 2:24:45 | 2:24:53 | |
Museum in Manchester. | 2:24:53 | 2:24:59 | |
This is the scene
there this morning. | 2:25:01 | 2:25:03 | |
The museum's home to
the world's largest collection | 2:25:03 | 2:25:05 | |
of political and trade
union banners. | 2:25:05 | 2:25:06 | |
We'll be there after 9am
when we'll be hearing from | 2:25:06 | 2:25:08 | |
Helen Pankhurst, great granddaughter
of Emmeline Pankhurst | 2:25:08 | 2:25:10 | |
a founding member of
the | 2:25:10 | 2:25:11 | |
suffragette movement. | 2:25:11 | 2:25:15 | |
What has been clear this morning is
how the campaign to get women the | 2:25:15 | 2:25:20 | |
votes, and other men over 21, the
votes, it was women and men, so many | 2:25:20 | 2:25:29 | |
standing together.
Lots of messages about people saying | 2:25:29 | 2:25:32 | |
it has really made them think about
who has inspired them in their life. | 2:25:32 | 2:25:36 | |
Debbie says it is her mum, she
worked throughout her life until | 2:25:36 | 2:25:40 | |
retirement with severe arthritis,
she had four children, myself the | 2:25:40 | 2:25:44 | |
eldest almost 57 years ago, yet she
has always found a way to work in | 2:25:44 | 2:25:49 | |
order to supplement her father's
wage but to still be at home and | 2:25:49 | 2:25:53 | |
meet them at the school gate. It
means the jobs were paid less and | 2:25:53 | 2:25:57 | |
had lower status, but her mum was
extremely bright and did a brilliant | 2:25:57 | 2:26:01 | |
job of bringing them up.
The point we are making, this is 100 | 2:26:01 | 2:26:06 | |
years since the first woman got the
votes, not all women got the votes | 2:26:06 | 2:26:09 | |
them.
Selina talked a little bit earlier | 2:26:09 | 2:26:12 | |
and mentioned head teacher at Saint
Luke's secondary school. She was a | 2:26:12 | 2:26:18 | |
force for change and inspired me, I
am a teacher and hope to be as | 2:26:18 | 2:26:22 | |
effective at encouraging others as
she was. | 2:26:22 | 2:26:24 | |
I will never forget her. We talked
about how different it is what MPs | 2:26:24 | 2:26:28 | |
in Parliament and how much that has
changed over the years, how they are | 2:26:28 | 2:26:33 | |
treated and all the rest.
We will speak to Amber Rudd later. | 2:26:33 | 2:26:36 | |
Lots of men have got into edge about
women who have inspired them. Steve | 2:26:36 | 2:26:41 | |
says the woman who | 2:26:41 | 2:26:46 | |
says the woman who inspires me and
always has done is my amazing like | 2:26:51 | 2:26:53 | |
-- my amazing wife. She works hard,
cares for us and put others first | 2:26:53 | 2:26:56 | |
and never complains. She sounds
amazing! | 2:26:56 | 2:26:57 | |
Never complains! Send in more of
your messages on anything, or if you | 2:26:57 | 2:27:00 | |
have any suffragette mementos.
We will have more from the People's | 2:27:00 | 2:27:04 | |
Museum later after the news, travel
and weather | 2:27:04 | 2:30:28 | |
Bye for now. | 2:30:28 | 2:30:31 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with
Steph McGovern and Louise Minchin. | 2:30:34 | 2:30:41 | |
Now let's get more on our main story
this morning. | 2:30:41 | 2:30:44 | |
The Conservative MP and leading
Remain campaigner, Anna Soubry, | 2:30:46 | 2:30:48 | |
has called on Theresa May to "sling
out" what she called "hard | 2:30:48 | 2:30:51 | |
Brexiteers" in the party.
out" what she called "hard | 2:30:51 | 2:30:52 | |
We can speak now to the Home
Secretary, Amber Rudd. | 2:30:52 | 2:30:54 | |
She's also minister for women
and equalities, and on this 100th | 2:30:54 | 2:30:57 | |
anniversary of the first women
getting the vote, she joins us | 2:30:57 | 2:31:05 | |
from inside the Houses
of Commons Chamber this morning. | 2:31:05 | 2:31:08 | |
I will come to the anniversary in a
few moments. If we could talk about | 2:31:08 | 2:31:12 | |
Anna Soubry first Iguider Theresa
May asking her to sling out these | 2:31:12 | 2:31:18 | |
Brexiteers, is she right? This is
the debate you expect when tempers | 2:31:18 | 2:31:21 | |
run high and people have strong
views on either side. Anna Soubry is | 2:31:21 | 2:31:24 | |
putting out her views in a
characteristically robust way and we | 2:31:24 | 2:31:27 | |
will see what the Prime Minister's
response is Bettison is a prize to | 2:31:27 | 2:31:32 | |
meet people have strong views on
what is such an important part of | 2:31:32 | 2:31:35 | |
this country's future, working out
how we leave the European Union, and | 2:31:35 | 2:31:39 | |
people have strongly held different
views. It stands like, because she's | 2:31:39 | 2:31:44 | |
not alone in speaking out, people
from either side are speaking out, | 2:31:44 | 2:31:48 | |
party in disarray. I do think that
Watkin acknowledge is this is the | 2:31:48 | 2:31:55 | |
biggest policy change since 1945.
There are different ways of | 2:31:55 | 2:31:58 | |
delivering on Brexit, and not
surprisingly people feel very | 2:31:58 | 2:32:01 | |
strongly, they are trying to make
their views heard and we need to go | 2:32:01 | 2:32:05 | |
through that process. You don't
think the Brexiteers should be slung | 2:32:05 | 2:32:11 | |
out that specifically? Of course I
don't. Nevertheless, I think it is | 2:32:11 | 2:32:14 | |
fine we have a robust debate about,
and we know what sort of future we | 2:32:14 | 2:32:19 | |
want to have and I think that's the
really important thing when we think | 2:32:19 | 2:32:24 | |
about leaving her EU, not about
looking backwards, but thinking | 2:32:24 | 2:32:27 | |
about the country we want to have in
the future and there are differing | 2:32:27 | 2:32:30 | |
views on that. As the Prime Minister
got the party under control? Yes, | 2:32:30 | 2:32:34 | |
the Prime Minister has got the party
in the control, there are lots of | 2:32:34 | 2:32:38 | |
different views but we are all
committed to supporting her going | 2:32:38 | 2:32:41 | |
forward in these challenging times.
We know that there are crucial | 2:32:41 | 2:32:46 | |
ministerial meetings taking place
this week to talk about and thrash | 2:32:46 | 2:32:50 | |
out the Government's agreed position
on the EU negotiations. Will you | 2:32:50 | 2:32:55 | |
have that position by Friday? As you
rightly say there are two very | 2:32:55 | 2:32:59 | |
important sets of meetings taking
place this week and we have to make | 2:32:59 | 2:33:03 | |
sure we consider all of the evidence
and look at what sort of country we | 2:33:03 | 2:33:06 | |
want to have in the future as we
leave the European Union. I think | 2:33:06 | 2:33:09 | |
it's right that the gives a strong
sense of direction in what we are | 2:33:09 | 2:33:14 | |
trying to achieve and I think we
have done that but I don't think we | 2:33:14 | 2:33:17 | |
should be giving running commentary
on these meetings as they take place | 2:33:17 | 2:33:20 | |
so we won't be publishing documents
following that. But what we will do | 2:33:20 | 2:33:24 | |
is continue to give the clear sense
of direction. I know there is lots | 2:33:24 | 2:33:28 | |
of interest in these meetings and
rightly so. But I will not be drawn | 2:33:28 | 2:33:32 | |
into discussing them. We have had a
situation where there has been some | 2:33:32 | 2:33:35 | |
leaking before the and I won't be
doing that. Let's talk about the 100 | 2:33:35 | 2:33:41 | |
year anniversary when the first
women got the vote. You are the Home | 2:33:41 | 2:33:46 | |
Secretary, very much part of this
Parliament, what is it like for you | 2:33:46 | 2:33:49 | |
as a female MP these days? Well,
it's absolutely remarkable to be a | 2:33:49 | 2:33:54 | |
member of Parliament here and on
this suffrage 100 year anniversary | 2:33:54 | 2:33:59 | |
it so important to remember the
incredible hard work and violence | 2:33:59 | 2:34:03 | |
that the suffragettes went through
to give us this vote and once we got | 2:34:03 | 2:34:09 | |
the vote we were able to get more
women MPs and once we did we were | 2:34:09 | 2:34:13 | |
able to get people like the
intergovernment. You have asked me | 2:34:13 | 2:34:17 | |
what it's like, it's an enormous
privilege, extraordinary | 2:34:17 | 2:34:21 | |
opportunity, I hope, to do the right
thing for me constituents and for | 2:34:21 | 2:34:24 | |
the country. In terms of
specifically being a woman, the | 2:34:24 | 2:34:28 | |
difference that women make is that
we make women's lives very much a | 2:34:28 | 2:34:32 | |
centre of policy-making. I think it
is difficult to do that when you | 2:34:32 | 2:34:36 | |
don't have enough women to say,
"What are we going to do so honour | 2:34:36 | 2:34:42 | |
-based violence?" What are we going
to do about stopping female genital | 2:34:42 | 2:34:45 | |
mutilation and ending the gender pay
gap? All of these things are brought | 2:34:45 | 2:34:49 | |
to the table by women which is why
it's important to have us | 2:34:49 | 2:34:53 | |
participating. Does more need to be
done to encourage other women to be | 2:34:53 | 2:34:57 | |
part of that to be MPs? I definitely
do, not just MPs but councillors, | 2:34:57 | 2:35:06 | |
getting involved in politics locally
and nationally. We really need women | 2:35:09 | 2:35:11 | |
to participate and what the Prime
Minister has been highlighting today | 2:35:11 | 2:35:13 | |
is something that puts off women,
the level of abuse that we get, a | 2:35:13 | 2:35:16 | |
recent report into public life
clearly identified that it is women | 2:35:16 | 2:35:18 | |
particularly who are receiving a
huge amount of abuse. That needs to | 2:35:18 | 2:35:23 | |
stop. Their stuff we can do as
government and have proposed changes | 2:35:23 | 2:35:25 | |
that we will implement but
culturally we have to say, stop, | 2:35:25 | 2:35:31 | |
it's not acceptable, it's not enough
to say that because this person is a | 2:35:31 | 2:35:34 | |
politician they should expect to be
abused and expect to be shouted at. | 2:35:34 | 2:35:38 | |
That is a bad thing and we must not
let it happen because not only is it | 2:35:38 | 2:35:42 | |
bad for democracy with the MPs in
place here but it's also bad for | 2:35:42 | 2:35:46 | |
women thinking about entering
politics, and I know that because in | 2:35:46 | 2:35:50 | |
my constituency women came up to me
and say, I'm thinking about it but I | 2:35:50 | 2:35:54 | |
don't think I can bear it, I don't
think I can take the hate. How can | 2:35:54 | 2:35:58 | |
we have a system where people are
put off because of the level of | 2:35:58 | 2:36:01 | |
abuse? We need to call it out now.
One last question, lots of people | 2:36:01 | 2:36:06 | |
are talking about this today, do you
think the suffragettes should be | 2:36:06 | 2:36:10 | |
pardoned? I've seen this story and I
completely understand instinctively | 2:36:10 | 2:36:13 | |
white people propose that. It's
quite difficult to implement because | 2:36:13 | 2:36:17 | |
of the type of crimes committed at
the time, but I'm going to hopefully | 2:36:17 | 2:36:21 | |
look at the type of proposals that
have been made. I know we have done | 2:36:21 | 2:36:25 | |
this before such as with Alan Turing
and I completely understand where it | 2:36:25 | 2:36:28 | |
is coming from and I will look at
it. Will you do that in the near | 2:36:28 | 2:36:32 | |
future? I don't want to give false
hope here, where it is difficult to | 2:36:32 | 2:36:36 | |
implement because of the types of
crimes committed, but if there are | 2:36:36 | 2:36:40 | |
individual proposals I can look at I
will certainly do that. Amber Rudd, | 2:36:40 | 2:36:44 | |
interesting talking to you, Home
Secretary and Minister for women and | 2:36:44 | 2:36:49 | |
equality is, thank you for your time
this morning. | 2:36:49 | 2:36:50 | |
Now the other news this morning. | 2:36:50 | 2:36:55 | |
Share prices in Britain's top 100
companies have fallen this morning | 2:36:55 | 2:36:57 | |
in response to sharps drops
in the United States and Asia. | 2:36:57 | 2:37:00 | |
The FTSE 100 opened 230 points down
in the last half-hour. | 2:37:00 | 2:37:05 | |
It has fallen to the lowest level
since late 2016. | 2:37:05 | 2:37:09 | |
In New York, the Dow Jones,
which is made up of some | 2:37:09 | 2:37:14 | |
of America's biggest businesses,
closed down more than 1100 | 2:37:14 | 2:37:17 | |
points, the biggest
one-day fall in history. | 2:37:17 | 2:37:19 | |
The Nikkei Index in Japan ended
the day nearly 5% down. | 2:37:19 | 2:37:22 | |
It's over fears of rising inflation
and possible interest | 2:37:22 | 2:37:24 | |
rate rises in America. | 2:37:24 | 2:37:25 | |
Relatives of the victims of the 1982
IRA Hyde Park bombing have been | 2:37:25 | 2:37:30 | |
granted legal aid for a civil action
against a suspect. | 2:37:30 | 2:37:33 | |
A case against the convicted IRA
member, John Downey, | 2:37:33 | 2:37:35 | |
collapsed at the Old Bailey
four years ago. | 2:37:35 | 2:37:41 | |
He had a so-called on-the-run letter
telling him he was no longer | 2:37:41 | 2:37:44 | |
a wanted man and would
not be prosecuted. | 2:37:44 | 2:37:46 | |
Public Health England says it wants
e-cigarettes to be prescribed | 2:37:46 | 2:37:49 | |
on the NHS within the next two
to three years because they're | 2:37:49 | 2:37:52 | |
an effective way to help smokers
quit. | 2:37:52 | 2:37:54 | |
The agency has reviewed the latest
evidence and says vaping poses only | 2:37:54 | 2:37:57 | |
a small fraction of the risk
of smoking tobacco. | 2:37:57 | 2:37:59 | |
It's calling for the UK's drug
regulator to help manufacturers | 2:37:59 | 2:38:02 | |
get their products approved. | 2:38:02 | 2:38:10 | |
The British-born actor John Mahoney,
who played one of TV's most | 2:38:10 | 2:38:13 | |
popular on-screen dads,
has died in Chicago aged 77. | 2:38:13 | 2:38:16 | |
He was famous for his role
as Martin Crane in the US sitcom | 2:38:16 | 2:38:19 | |
Frasier, playing a grumpy,
down-to-earth retired policeman | 2:38:19 | 2:38:22 | |
who outwitted his two pretentious
sons Frasier and Niles. | 2:38:22 | 2:38:24 | |
The role earned him two Emmy and two
Golden Globe nominations. | 2:38:24 | 2:38:32 | |
It is 8:38am, this is Breakfast.
Thank you for joining us. | 2:38:41 | 2:38:47 | |
Later, we'll be discussing how women
are represented today, | 2:38:47 | 2:38:49 | |
in politics and the workplace. | 2:38:49 | 2:38:50 | |
It is 100 years since the first
women in the UK were able to vote, | 2:38:50 | 2:38:54 | |
not all women. | 2:38:54 | 2:38:56 | |
Steph is with our guests
just outside our studio. | 2:38:56 | 2:38:59 | |
Good morning and welcome to our
themed green room this morning where | 2:38:59 | 2:39:02 | |
we have some women, fabulous women
from lots of different parts of | 2:39:02 | 2:39:07 | |
society because we are talking, of
course, that what has changed in the | 2:39:07 | 2:39:11 | |
world of work and life generally for
women over the last 100 years since | 2:39:11 | 2:39:16 | |
some of them first got the right to
vote. Let me tell you who we have | 2:39:16 | 2:39:20 | |
here, Jane Green, politics
professor, Tessa Dunlop, historian, | 2:39:20 | 2:39:25 | |
Akeela Ahmed, and equalities
campaigner, Joy Parkinson, a woman | 2:39:25 | 2:39:28 | |
who runs a cosmetics company, Anne
Marie Imafidon, who campaigns for | 2:39:28 | 2:39:32 | |
getting more girls into technology
and Pennybacker who is a disability | 2:39:32 | 2:39:38 | |
is campaigner. We will cover the
world of politics and how it has | 2:39:38 | 2:39:40 | |
changed and how the world of work
has changed for women. I will get | 2:39:40 | 2:39:45 | |
them ready and get them in the
studio as soon as we can. | 2:39:45 | 2:39:52 | |
studio as soon as we can. Now we are
going to talk about the sport again. | 2:39:53 | 2:39:56 | |
I will keep you company, I will do
what I can. She's not too far away. | 2:39:56 | 2:40:01 | |
Speaking of not being too happy,
look at that poor man's face. | 2:40:01 | 2:40:06 | |
Another terrible result for Chelsea
last night and Antonio Conte, | 2:40:06 | 2:40:10 | |
thrashed 4-1 by Watford on the back
of another defeat last week as well. | 2:40:10 | 2:40:14 | |
The fans are not happy but now
neither is he. Imagine if we went to | 2:40:14 | 2:40:20 | |
work looking at that.
I can imagine! | 2:40:20 | 2:40:23 | |
Maybe it's time for a change of
career. | 2:40:23 | 2:40:25 | |
I might look like that at 4am!
Pressure is mounting on Antonio | 2:40:25 | 2:40:31 | |
Conte. Not the best result last
night. It is their second defeat on | 2:40:31 | 2:40:37 | |
the bounce by a 3-goal margin. Much
of the action came in the final | 2:40:37 | 2:40:41 | |
minutes last night. Eden Hazard
brought them level in the final ten | 2:40:41 | 2:40:44 | |
minutes, but what a response from
Watford who hammered home three | 2:40:44 | 2:40:48 | |
goals in just seven minutes.
Speaking after the game Antonio | 2:40:48 | 2:40:52 | |
Conte was rather insistent that he
is definitely, definitely not | 2:40:52 | 2:40:54 | |
worried. | 2:40:54 | 2:40:59 | |
I'm not worried, I'm not
worried about my job. | 2:41:00 | 2:41:06 | |
I work every day and give 120%. | 2:41:06 | 2:41:11 | |
If this is enough, it's OK,
otherwise the club can make | 2:41:11 | 2:41:13 | |
a different decision
but I'm not worried. | 2:41:13 | 2:41:21 | |
Every day, every day,
every press conference, | 2:41:22 | 2:41:24 | |
press conference, you ask me,
you worried about your job? | 2:41:24 | 2:41:27 | |
No, I'm not worried. | 2:41:27 | 2:41:28 | |
Do you ever feel somebody might be
protesting a bit too much? | 2:41:28 | 2:41:31 | |
Definitely not!
But you can imagine, it's been going | 2:41:31 | 2:41:36 | |
on for weeks now, this back and
forth, but ultimately you feel a bit | 2:41:36 | 2:41:40 | |
as if he doesn't want to be there.
They get the constant questions, | 2:41:40 | 2:41:43 | |
don't they? What are you going to
answer? I don't know what you are | 2:41:43 | 2:41:48 | |
going to say.
It's difficult to take on that | 2:41:48 | 2:41:51 | |
question. Thinking back to last
year, Chelsea were flying high, | 2:41:51 | 2:41:53 | |
winners of the Premier League last
season. But when you think that the | 2:41:53 | 2:41:59 | |
last five managers in charge of
Premier League winning clubs didn't | 2:41:59 | 2:42:01 | |
make it beyond the next season.
It is a harsh reality. | 2:42:01 | 2:42:06 | |
It is a poisoned chalice.
Maybe we have to get used to it, | 2:42:06 | 2:42:13 | |
maybe Pep Guardiola needs to get
worried. Matas not get ahead of | 2:42:13 | 2:42:17 | |
ourselves. -- let's not get ahead of
ourselves. | 2:42:17 | 2:42:23 | |
Some Six Nations news now -
and a blow for England | 2:42:23 | 2:42:25 | |
after Ben Youngs was injured last
weekend, Richard Wigglesworth has | 2:42:25 | 2:42:28 | |
been called up ahead of Saturday's
match with Wales. | 2:42:28 | 2:42:30 | |
Youngs sufferd a knee ligament
injury during the game | 2:42:30 | 2:42:32 | |
against italy which rules him out
of the entire tournament now. | 2:42:32 | 2:42:35 | |
Wigglesworth will now provide
cover for Danny Care, | 2:42:35 | 2:42:37 | |
who came on for Youngs in Rome. | 2:42:37 | 2:42:38 | |
She was one of the heroes of Team
GB's Olympic gold medal winning | 2:42:38 | 2:42:42 | |
hockey team in Rio and now
Maddie Hinch has been named | 2:42:42 | 2:42:44 | |
the world's best female goalkeeper
for a second time. | 2:42:44 | 2:42:48 | |
Last year, the England
and Great Britain goalie helped | 2:42:48 | 2:42:51 | |
England win bronze medals at both
the EuroHockey Championships | 2:42:51 | 2:42:54 | |
and World League semifinal. | 2:42:54 | 2:43:02 | |
She was given the pretigious
awardlast night at the | 2:43:02 | 2:43:04 | |
International Hocket
Federation stars awards in Berlin, | 2:43:04 | 2:43:05 | |
afterwards she tweeted to say
it was a truly incredible honour. | 2:43:05 | 2:43:08 | |
So we know it's the end
of Grid Girls - step | 2:43:08 | 2:43:11 | |
up the Grid Kids. | 2:43:11 | 2:43:13 | |
F1's owners announced they won't be
using female models before | 2:43:13 | 2:43:17 | |
races as it was at odds
with modern-day societal norms. | 2:43:17 | 2:43:20 | |
So instead - | 2:43:20 | 2:43:21 | |
they'll select children
who are already in the junior | 2:43:21 | 2:43:24 | |
categories of motor racing -
and we can expect to see them | 2:43:24 | 2:43:26 | |
from the opening race
of the new season next month. | 2:43:26 | 2:43:31 | |
I think that is incredible.
Change is afoot. | 2:43:31 | 2:43:36 | |
That brings us nicely into the rest
of the programme. | 2:43:36 | 2:43:39 | |
Yes, it does, good work. 8:43am,
good morning, you are watching | 2:43:39 | 2:43:45 | |
Breakfast. The fight for equality in
the workplace continues today from | 2:43:45 | 2:43:49 | |
anywhere in. | 2:43:49 | 2:43:54 | |
Despite gaining equality
at the ballot box. | 2:43:54 | 2:43:56 | |
We've been speaking to four
generations of the same family | 2:43:56 | 2:43:58 | |
who told us how their expectations
and aspirations have been shaped | 2:43:58 | 2:44:01 | |
by changes in society. | 2:44:01 | 2:44:02 | |
My name is Bell,
I'm seven years old. | 2:44:02 | 2:44:04 | |
My mummy is Charlotte and she is 30. | 2:44:04 | 2:44:11 | |
My nanny is Sam and she is 48. | 2:44:11 | 2:44:16 | |
My great nanny is
Joan and she is 79. | 2:44:16 | 2:44:22 | |
When I left school,
there were a boy jobs and go jobs. | 2:44:22 | 2:44:28 | |
When I left school,
there were boy jobs and girl jobs. | 2:44:28 | 2:44:31 | |
The girls cook, they type,
they go as secretaries, | 2:44:31 | 2:44:33 | |
nobody really gave us any guidance. | 2:44:33 | 2:44:35 | |
As a young woman, I entered
the police force and day one, | 2:44:35 | 2:44:38 | |
walking into the police station
the Sergeant raised his eyebrows | 2:44:38 | 2:44:46 | |
and said, "Young and female, you've
got your work cut out | 2:44:52 | 2:44:54 | |
in front of you, here". | 2:44:54 | 2:44:55 | |
Shocking, severely
shocking, but it was true. | 2:44:55 | 2:44:58 | |
Charlotte was six weeks
old when I went back to work | 2:44:58 | 2:45:04 | |
and I really felt that I was missing
out on her growing up. | 2:45:04 | 2:45:07 | |
I wanted to be there for her. | 2:45:07 | 2:45:08 | |
Unfortunately, like most families,
we needed the income coming in. | 2:45:08 | 2:45:11 | |
Now that I've got a job in education
as a lead practitioner, | 2:45:11 | 2:45:14 | |
the fact that I'm a woman
has no influence. | 2:45:14 | 2:45:16 | |
Having paid maternity leave
and having flexible hours means | 2:45:16 | 2:45:18 | |
that, as a woman in the workplace,
I can achieve. | 2:45:18 | 2:45:20 | |
And it means that I can
be successful and do | 2:45:20 | 2:45:23 | |
the same job as a man. | 2:45:23 | 2:45:25 | |
When I leave school,
I would like to be a teacher, | 2:45:25 | 2:45:28 | |
because I love children. | 2:45:28 | 2:45:30 | |
My friend Peppa, she would
like to a ballerina. | 2:45:30 | 2:45:35 | |
My other friend is Isabel
and she would like to | 2:45:35 | 2:45:37 | |
be a police officer. | 2:45:37 | 2:45:40 | |
Are there any jobs that boys do
that girls can't do? | 2:45:40 | 2:45:46 | |
No. | 2:45:46 | 2:45:51 | |
Girls, cheers to us. | 2:45:51 | 2:45:58 | |
I opened my own
business as a florist. | 2:45:58 | 2:46:02 | |
When I was in my 50s. | 2:46:02 | 2:46:04 | |
When my mother was that sort
of age, nobody wanted | 2:46:04 | 2:46:07 | |
to employ married women. | 2:46:07 | 2:46:08 | |
But this has changed, now. | 2:46:08 | 2:46:09 | |
I've got a great circle
of friends and 30 years ago, | 2:46:09 | 2:46:11 | |
we wouldn't have been able to do
the jobs that we do today. | 2:46:11 | 2:46:15 | |
We've got barristers, accountants,
a woman who works for an engineering | 2:46:15 | 2:46:17 | |
who works for an engineering
company, building tanks. | 2:46:17 | 2:46:19 | |
We are strong, powerful women. | 2:46:19 | 2:46:21 | |
Entering my 50s,
this is now my time. | 2:46:21 | 2:46:23 | |
My children have grown up and now
it's time to look out for myself. | 2:46:23 | 2:46:28 | |
Cheers! | 2:46:28 | 2:46:30 | |
It surprises me how quickly
things have changed. | 2:46:30 | 2:46:33 | |
You know, girls are not girls
or boys any more, they are people. | 2:46:33 | 2:46:36 | |
I would like to see how
far they will go on. | 2:46:36 | 2:46:44 | |
Unfortunately, I probably won't be
here to see how Bell | 2:46:44 | 2:46:46 | |
develops and goes on,
but you never know. | 2:46:46 | 2:46:48 | |
You never know. | 2:46:48 | 2:46:56 | |
Wonderful to hear from all the
different generations and | 2:46:56 | 2:46:59 | |
perspective on life. We will talk
about work in a general sense. | 2:46:59 | 2:47:04 | |
Joining us now is activist
and writer, Penny Pepper, | 2:47:04 | 2:47:06 | |
and business women Anne Marie
Imafidon and Joy Parkinson. | 2:47:06 | 2:47:09 | |
She employs 45 people in cosmetics
firm. Good morning. The reason we | 2:47:09 | 2:47:16 | |
are talking about this, 100 years
since the first woman got the vote | 2:47:16 | 2:47:20 | |
but some people say there is still
work to be done in many areas. | 2:47:20 | 2:47:23 | |
Penny, what would your thoughts be?
For disabled women, by and large we | 2:47:23 | 2:47:28 | |
are still an afterthought. We are
very much a secondary issue, even in | 2:47:28 | 2:47:34 | |
government, actually. | 2:47:34 | 2:47:36 | |
I believe there is a statistic
that... Of the disabled population, | 2:47:38 | 2:47:43 | |
most... There's a higher number of
women. | 2:47:43 | 2:47:46 | |
And disabled women that are in
employment are paid 22% less than | 2:47:48 | 2:47:52 | |
people who are not disabled and
women. You can see on that scale. | 2:47:52 | 2:47:57 | |
Speaking personally, I've had
tremendous barriers to work. Partly | 2:47:57 | 2:48:04 | |
because work can be so inflexible,
which I think a lot of women have | 2:48:04 | 2:48:07 | |
experienced. | 2:48:07 | 2:48:09 | |
I've now been self-employed for nine
years. I'm trying to own that pride, | 2:48:12 | 2:48:16 | |
that I've managed that. Even in
terms... I'm a writer, author, poet, | 2:48:16 | 2:48:22 | |
even in terms of being... Society
being open to that experience has | 2:48:22 | 2:48:29 | |
been difficult. So it's taken me a
long time to get to that point. And | 2:48:29 | 2:48:34 | |
we are still fighting to have our
stories heard. We are getting there. | 2:48:34 | 2:48:39 | |
Which is really important comments
about the changes and progress that | 2:48:39 | 2:48:43 | |
can be made. You run a company, you
are employing people, do you see | 2:48:43 | 2:48:48 | |
things changing? Is it getting
easier? My experience in work, | 2:48:48 | 2:48:51 | |
there's been a huge amount of
flexibility, both when I worked for | 2:48:51 | 2:48:57 | |
McVities and also even more working
at Faith in Nature. I am a man but I | 2:48:57 | 2:49:06 | |
work I have three children, 11, 12
and 13 -- I am a woman but I work. | 2:49:06 | 2:49:11 | |
At different times in my career, I
have gone down to working three, | 2:49:11 | 2:49:13 | |
four days a -- per week. I have done
project roles rather than management | 2:49:13 | 2:49:19 | |
roles and I have been given a
massive amount of flexibility. I | 2:49:19 | 2:49:23 | |
have a number of friends and
colleagues of mine have had that. | 2:49:23 | 2:49:27 | |
Amazing how many women mention
flexibility as the thing that is the | 2:49:27 | 2:49:30 | |
barrier that is what needs to
change. What are your thoughts? Is | 2:49:30 | 2:49:35 | |
flexibility something you think that
is important? It is very important. | 2:49:35 | 2:49:39 | |
It's important for everyone, not
just for women. Yeah. For everyone | 2:49:39 | 2:49:44 | |
to be able to have that work- life
balance, which we are not the best | 2:49:44 | 2:49:49 | |
at in the UK. Coming from a
technology background, I am really | 2:49:49 | 2:49:54 | |
proud of how technology has
empowered people to be able to work | 2:49:54 | 2:49:57 | |
more flexibly and work from
different places and work at | 2:49:57 | 2:50:01 | |
distance. Even more so, the
opportunities you have in these new | 2:50:01 | 2:50:05 | |
industries. That had grown as much
as possible with that flexibility | 2:50:05 | 2:50:08 | |
built in. One of your things is to
really encourage girls particularly. | 2:50:08 | 2:50:12 | |
Your qualifications, you speak five
languages fluently? I do. I did. You | 2:50:12 | 2:50:18 | |
are one of Oxford University's
youngest graduate and receive your | 2:50:18 | 2:50:22 | |
masters degree at the age of 20,
passed A-level computing at 11. You | 2:50:22 | 2:50:27 | |
are beyond super qualified. Have you
found barriers that you have two | 2:50:27 | 2:50:31 | |
struggle against? -- had to struggle
against. Even with those barriers, | 2:50:31 | 2:50:37 | |
you could disconnect against me for
being young, black, woman from East | 2:50:37 | 2:50:43 | |
London, loving Nando's. The barriers
are an extra thing I have to work | 2:50:43 | 2:50:49 | |
through. Whether that someone
doubting my technical ability to | 2:50:49 | 2:50:53 | |
solve whatever problem is at hand or
my experience because I'm a little | 2:50:53 | 2:50:57 | |
bit younger. For me, it's their loss
rather than mine. That's how I go | 2:50:57 | 2:51:02 | |
into that scenario. If you don't
want to value me in this situation, | 2:51:02 | 2:51:05 | |
I will go somewhere else where I
will be valued and celebrated rather | 2:51:05 | 2:51:09 | |
than just tolerated. In your
business, what do you do to make | 2:51:09 | 2:51:13 | |
sure women are supported. I was
talking to Mary Porteous and she was | 2:51:13 | 2:51:17 | |
saying that she realised she was too
masculine in her business and she | 2:51:17 | 2:51:22 | |
had to tell herself, hang on, I am
doing what I hate. I need to make | 2:51:22 | 2:51:25 | |
sure we really support women in
business, have you ever felt that? I | 2:51:25 | 2:51:30 | |
talk a lot about my home life and my
children and my dog at work. | 2:51:30 | 2:51:35 | |
Demonstrating that you are human...
It's difficult juggling it. Talking | 2:51:35 | 2:51:39 | |
about the challenges of not missing
an assembly, but therefore if I | 2:51:39 | 2:51:43 | |
leave work early, sometimes I can go
to sports day. I will do my e-mail | 2:51:43 | 2:51:47 | |
at 11pm last night. To be open about
the fact that it isn't easy and you | 2:51:47 | 2:51:51 | |
are juggling it, that the team can,
sort of, empathise with that and | 2:51:51 | 2:51:56 | |
also, people want support themselves
to be more flexible, to give that. | 2:51:56 | 2:52:02 | |
Penny, one of the things Ann-Marie
said, I was struck by it, celebrated | 2:52:02 | 2:52:07 | |
rather than tolerated. Do you think
all of us, including everyone who is | 2:52:07 | 2:52:12 | |
watching, mail and e-mail, that is a
really clear message. -- male and | 2:52:12 | 2:52:16 | |
female. Absolutely. We need to own
that ourselves, feel comfortable | 2:52:16 | 2:52:22 | |
with celebrating. And allow the,
sort of common human family, the | 2:52:22 | 2:52:27 | |
experience, to broaden. | 2:52:27 | 2:52:31 | |
I keep banging on about it, really.
But we need more stories told. | 2:52:31 | 2:52:36 | |
That's what I feel. More role
models? Yeah, role models. I have to | 2:52:36 | 2:52:43 | |
mention my lovely friend lives car,
in Silent witness. I was watching | 2:52:43 | 2:52:46 | |
last night. I was privileged to
write about her in that role. -- my | 2:52:46 | 2:52:51 | |
friend Liz Carr. I hope it was a
watershed moment last week. We need | 2:52:51 | 2:52:57 | |
more stories that represent and
celebrate the whole of who we are. | 2:52:57 | 2:53:00 | |
All women support all women. That's
one of the reasons I went to bed | 2:53:00 | 2:53:04 | |
late last night, I was watching her
on Silent Witness. She is lovely. | 2:53:04 | 2:53:12 | |
Thank you for joining us,
interesting discussion, we could | 2:53:12 | 2:53:15 | |
carry on but we will stop briefly
will | 2:53:15 | 2:53:21 | |
it is the House of Commons. Where
are you now? | 2:53:23 | 2:53:28 | |
I'm still inside the House of
Commons chamber. Good morning to | 2:53:30 | 2:53:32 | |
everyone. I have a lovely guest,
Melanie Unwin, you look at some of | 2:53:32 | 2:53:39 | |
the art work you know a lot about
the ladies gallery which used to be | 2:53:39 | 2:53:44 | |
in here, why is it a separate ladies
gallery and tell us about it? Good | 2:53:44 | 2:53:49 | |
question. The ladies gallery was
here because ladies were not allowed | 2:53:49 | 2:53:53 | |
in the public gallery. The public
was men. The public gallery has the | 2:53:53 | 2:53:58 | |
best view, looks at the speaker but
the ladies were placed up here. This | 2:53:58 | 2:54:04 | |
is a post-war chamber that in the
Victorian chamber it was even higher | 2:54:04 | 2:54:07 | |
up. Imagine where that stone screen
is but even higher, no glass in the | 2:54:07 | 2:54:13 | |
windows but Nick grills, decorative
and they were made of brass. Not to | 2:54:13 | 2:54:17 | |
stop the ladies falling out but so
the men down here couldn't see them | 2:54:17 | 2:54:20 | |
because they might be distracted.
And they protested up there quite a | 2:54:20 | 2:54:24 | |
bit. They did. Women came here all
the way through the 1850s when the | 2:54:24 | 2:54:29 | |
building open to listen because they
wanted to know what was going on. | 2:54:29 | 2:54:32 | |
This chamber was changing their
lives but they didn't have the vote. | 2:54:32 | 2:54:36 | |
As the campaign for women's suffrage
picked up they started to be the | 2:54:36 | 2:54:39 | |
site of protest. We have these
amazing occasions when women start | 2:54:39 | 2:54:43 | |
shouting through the grills,
dropping things into the chamber. On | 2:54:43 | 2:54:47 | |
one occasion, chaining themselves to
the grills. | 2:54:47 | 2:54:54 | |
the grills. Those days, there were
no bolt clippers, the grill had to | 2:54:54 | 2:54:57 | |
be taken out with the women still
attached to it, marched off to | 2:54:57 | 2:54:59 | |
another room and they were sawn off.
And presumably arrested? Absolutely, | 2:54:59 | 2:55:04 | |
arrested and charged. When were
women allowed into the public | 2:55:04 | 2:55:08 | |
gallery? Interestingly, one year
before 1918. 1917 it was obvious | 2:55:08 | 2:55:12 | |
women were going to get the road for
the first time. The Parliamentary | 2:55:12 | 2:55:17 | |
authorities decided to let them into
the public gallery in 1917. Thank | 2:55:17 | 2:55:21 | |
you. We could talk to you all
morning but we have run out of time. | 2:55:21 | 2:55:25 | |
Thank you. It is nice and toasty
inside Hibberd outside a different | 2:55:25 | 2:55:30 | |
story, a hard frost this morning and
we've also got some snow in the | 2:55:30 | 2:55:33 | |
forecast. Looking at the south-east
of England first of all, a lot of | 2:55:33 | 2:55:38 | |
dry weather | 2:55:38 | 2:55:39 | |
of England first of all, a lot of
dry weather around, some bright | 2:55:39 | 2:55:40 | |
spells but quite a bit of cloud
which certainly has been thick | 2:55:40 | 2:55:43 | |
enough through this morning for some
wintry showers. It will continue to | 2:55:43 | 2:55:46 | |
be so as we go through the day.
Further north, wintry showers coming | 2:55:46 | 2:55:51 | |
out of the cloud but Northern
England and also central and | 2:55:51 | 2:55:55 | |
southern Scotland, we have a weather
front. That is producing some snow. | 2:55:55 | 2:56:00 | |
Not about Madeira skies for the
north and west of Scotland and | 2:56:00 | 2:56:03 | |
Northern Ireland, we're looking at
snow showers -- it is further north, | 2:56:03 | 2:56:07 | |
clearer skies. Irish Sea and into
Wales, the other end about a weather | 2:56:07 | 2:56:14 | |
front producing some snow. Some
getting in across North Devon, North | 2:56:14 | 2:56:18 | |
Cornwall, North Somerset in the
morning but drifting east through | 2:56:18 | 2:56:21 | |
the Midlands, the Southern counties.
Quite a bit of cloud, brighter | 2:56:21 | 2:56:24 | |
breaks but the cloud will reduce
some wintry showers. Over the day, | 2:56:24 | 2:56:30 | |
the weather front across northern
England and Wales sinks south and | 2:56:30 | 2:56:34 | |
turning patchy in nature. Any
precipitation out of this weather | 2:56:34 | 2:56:38 | |
front in and will still fall as
snow. Ahead, the cloud will build | 2:56:38 | 2:56:42 | |
and behind its sunshine but a lot of
wintry showers, a mixture of rain, | 2:56:42 | 2:56:47 | |
sleet, hail and loss thunder and
lightning. It will feel cold | 2:56:47 | 2:56:52 | |
everywhere. This evening, the
weather front rejuvenates across | 2:56:52 | 2:56:55 | |
East Anglia and the south-east of
England, with more snow showers. | 2:56:55 | 2:56:59 | |
Moving south, clearer skies behind
it means it will be bitterly cold. | 2:56:59 | 2:57:02 | |
Severe frost and some wintry showers
in the north and west. Tomorrow | 2:57:02 | 2:57:08 | |
morning, it will be particularly
cold, the risk of ice on untreated | 2:57:08 | 2:57:12 | |
surfaces. We will have those wintry
showers across the south-east. A | 2:57:12 | 2:57:17 | |
bridge of high-pressure balls across
us and the weather will settle down. | 2:57:17 | 2:57:20 | |
Northwest, a band of rain preceded
by transient hill snow and at lower | 2:57:20 | 2:57:26 | |
levels first thing. It will move
south east | 2:57:26 | 2:57:29 | |
levels first thing. It will move
south east. Another cold day in | 2:57:29 | 2:57:31 | |
prospect which ever way you look at
it. Thursday, that same weather | 2:57:31 | 2:57:36 | |
front pushes south across England
and Wales. Beginning but still | 2:57:36 | 2:57:39 | |
bringing a lot of cloud, drizzle and
damp weather with it generally. | 2:57:39 | 2:57:44 | |
Behind it, brighter skies. Still
showers, some of which will be | 2:57:44 | 2:57:47 | |
wintry across the north west. As we
look at the outlook, it will remain | 2:57:47 | 2:57:52 | |
unsettled. Wet and windy at times.
Cold and some will still see wintry | 2:57:52 | 2:57:56 | |
showers. | 2:57:56 | 2:57:59 | |
It has been | 2:57:59 | 2:58:00 | |
It has been fabulous being here this
morning, so interesting. | 2:58:00 | 2:58:03 | |
Fantastic, thank you for giving us a
touch of history. As well as the | 2:58:06 | 2:58:11 | |
weather. It is good to go on a tour
of Parliament whenever you can, it | 2:58:11 | 2:58:15 | |
is fascinating. A good show for us
there. Almost 9am. | 2:58:15 | 2:58:20 | |
The right to vote in 1918
was followed a year later | 2:58:20 | 2:58:22 | |
by the election of Nancy Astor,
who became the first | 2:58:22 | 2:58:25 | |
female MP to take her seat
in the House of Commons. | 2:58:25 | 2:58:27 | |
100 years on, and women account
for just under a third | 2:58:27 | 2:58:30 | |
of all members of parliament. | 2:58:30 | 2:58:35 | |
We spoke to two of them already
today. | 2:58:35 | 2:58:38 | |
We've shown a group of students
around the birthplace | 2:58:38 | 2:58:40 | |
of the Suffragette movement,
the Pankhurst Centre in Manchester, | 2:58:40 | 2:58:42 | |
to find out why equality
is so important to them. | 2:58:42 | 2:58:45 | |
We are able to walk out of the house
in whatever we want to wear. | 2:58:49 | 2:58:53 | |
We are able to walk out
of the house and go | 2:58:53 | 2:58:56 | |
and get ourselves a job. | 2:58:56 | 2:58:57 | |
We can go anywhere we
like and do whatever we | 2:58:57 | 2:59:00 | |
want because we are independent. | 2:59:00 | 2:59:06 | |
The main idea of the
vote is to give an | 2:59:07 | 2:59:10 | |
individual the right to speak up
for what they think is right. | 2:59:10 | 2:59:16 | |
I think it's important
for us to vote this | 2:59:16 | 2:59:20 | |
I think it's important
for us to vote as well | 2:59:20 | 2:59:23 | |
to have our say. | 2:59:23 | 2:59:24 | |
I think that's really
important that we get | 2:59:24 | 2:59:26 | |
different views, multicultural
views, gender views, definitely | 2:59:26 | 2:59:29 | |
females, definitely need
to have their views put forward in | 2:59:29 | 2:59:32 | |
Parliament. | 2:59:32 | 2:59:33 | |
I don't think there are enough women
in politics and I do | 2:59:33 | 2:59:36 | |
think that is something that
should be addressed. | 2:59:36 | 2:59:39 | |
I think some young people just
are lazy and can't be | 2:59:39 | 2:59:42 | |
bothered to vote. | 2:59:42 | 2:59:45 | |
When I vote for the first
time I'll feel empowered | 2:59:45 | 2:59:47 | |
because I feel like I've
finally have a say. | 2:59:47 | 2:59:55 | |
Really interesting to see how
important voting is for them. | 2:59:56 | 2:59:59 | |
With us now is Jane Green,
from the British Election Survey, | 2:59:59 | 3:00:02 | |
the author and historian
Tessa Dunlop and Akeela Ahmed, | 3:00:02 | 3:00:04 | |
the founder of She Speaks We Hear. | 3:00:04 | 3:00:07 | |
The equality campaign group. Thank
you for joining us. We are going to | 3:00:07 | 3:00:12 | |
look a little bit about voting. From
your point of view, is it really | 3:00:12 | 3:00:18 | |
important that women, who now have
the vote, go and use it? It is so | 3:00:18 | 3:00:23 | |
important women go out and use their
vote. In the last election in 2017 | 3:00:23 | 3:00:28 | |
week saw more young women than ever
before coming out and voting and | 3:00:28 | 3:00:32 | |
actually they have been credited
with the kind of shock results that | 3:00:32 | 3:00:35 | |
we saw with the 2017 election. It's
really important that ethnic | 3:00:35 | 3:00:40 | |
minority women, young women and
women of faith all come out as well | 3:00:40 | 3:00:43 | |
because when women come out and vote
and they campaign we see that their | 3:00:43 | 3:00:48 | |
voices are heard and they make a
difference. Jane, you've done a lot | 3:00:48 | 3:00:51 | |
of research on this, haven't you?
What difference does it make when | 3:00:51 | 3:00:56 | |
women vote? Obviously not all women
are the same and not all men are the | 3:00:56 | 3:01:00 | |
same but if you look historically
the British election survey has been | 3:01:00 | 3:01:04 | |
going since 1964, historically women
are more likely to vote Conservative | 3:01:04 | 3:01:07 | |
and that has been changed over time.
There are key differences emerging | 3:01:07 | 3:01:11 | |
in particular elections and also
women of different generations. | 3:01:11 | 3:01:15 | |
Different only to men of different
generations too. If you look below | 3:01:15 | 3:01:19 | |
the surface and you can see
systematic differences by looking at | 3:01:19 | 3:01:23 | |
generations between the genders.
You're beginning to see a shift, are | 3:01:23 | 3:01:27 | |
you? If there are any patterns, are
you beginning to see a shift? What | 3:01:27 | 3:01:32 | |
was important at the last election
was the collapse of Ukip and Ukip | 3:01:32 | 3:01:36 | |
support was drawn from more men and
older men on average than women and | 3:01:36 | 3:01:40 | |
younger women. As the collapse of
Ukip happened a lot of those older | 3:01:40 | 3:01:43 | |
men went to the Conservative Party
and that made the Conservatives' | 3:01:43 | 3:01:47 | |
vote more mail and older and as
Akeela said more women are likely to | 3:01:47 | 3:01:54 | |
vote for the Labour Party, that is a
trend we have seen increasing over | 3:01:54 | 3:01:58 | |
time, women and young women in
particular tend to have attitudes | 3:01:58 | 3:02:01 | |
against austerity and want to see
redistribution and hold more liberal | 3:02:01 | 3:02:05 | |
views, so in that particular
election when the choice was more | 3:02:05 | 3:02:08 | |
clear that was a very important part
of White was that Labor saw support | 3:02:08 | 3:02:12 | |
among generations and young women --
part of why Labour saw support among | 3:02:12 | 3:02:24 | |
young women. Some women were allowed
to vote but not all women. Some | 3:02:24 | 3:02:30 | |
women who were alive then who you've
been speaking to have told you how | 3:02:30 | 3:02:35 | |
their lives have changed. To be in
the book you have to be born in 1918 | 3:02:35 | 3:02:39 | |
or before and my oldest who is 103
said we are all fully compos mentis. | 3:02:39 | 3:02:46 | |
I suppose that's the precondition
for being in the book for her. | 3:02:46 | 3:02:49 | |
Picking up on what you said, it is
absolute duty to vote, she cannot | 3:02:49 | 3:02:55 | |
emphasise it enough, she is one of
the few women left alive who voted | 3:02:55 | 3:03:00 | |
in the 1935 election and has voted
in 21 elections and folded up inside | 3:03:00 | 3:03:04 | |
her body is so much history, an
extra ordinary journey had | 3:03:04 | 3:03:07 | |
generation has been on for the last
100 years. But it is worth | 3:03:07 | 3:03:12 | |
remembering that one of the reasons
why only some women were allowed the | 3:03:12 | 3:03:15 | |
vote in 1918 was because men had no
idea how we were going to vote and | 3:03:15 | 3:03:21 | |
women outnumbered men. We had lost a
slew, the flower of our male youth | 3:03:21 | 3:03:27 | |
had died in mainland Europe, so
women outnumbered men and we were | 3:03:27 | 3:03:32 | |
scary and had to be held back to
some extent and it was another ten | 3:03:32 | 3:03:35 | |
years before women had equal
enfranchisement Whitman and it's | 3:03:35 | 3:03:39 | |
worth holding on to that. Looking
forward... Not the next 100 years | 3:03:39 | 3:03:44 | |
but the next few years and decades,
many people would say there is still | 3:03:44 | 3:03:49 | |
work to be done. What would you like
to be looking at, Akeela? More | 3:03:49 | 3:03:55 | |
representation of women in
Parliament is great but we need | 3:03:55 | 3:03:58 | |
better representation of not only
women but ethnic minority women | 3:03:58 | 3:04:00 | |
across all of our sectors in media,
boardrooms, and also in politics as | 3:04:00 | 3:04:09 | |
well and at the local level. I've
seen many more young Asian women | 3:04:09 | 3:04:14 | |
standing to become councillors and
that is fantastic because they are | 3:04:14 | 3:04:18 | |
getting their voices heard, and they
are campaigning on issues that | 3:04:18 | 3:04:22 | |
affect them. Austerity affects
ethnic minority women more than it | 3:04:22 | 3:04:24 | |
does other women. So do cutbacks in
education and cutbacks in health, | 3:04:24 | 3:04:31 | |
they all affect ethnic minority
women more than women generally, | 3:04:31 | 3:04:34 | |
although it affects women generally.
It is really important to see better | 3:04:34 | 3:04:37 | |
representation in all of these areas
and that women are out there | 3:04:37 | 3:04:41 | |
campaigning on these issues that
affect them. How do you get more | 3:04:41 | 3:04:45 | |
people from diverse backgrounds
interested in actually going into | 3:04:45 | 3:04:48 | |
politics? That is the other battle,
isn't it? I think sometimes we | 3:04:48 | 3:04:52 | |
forget about the contribution that
has been made, so 100 years ago we | 3:04:52 | 3:04:59 | |
had Asian suffragettes at the front
of the suffragette movement but we | 3:04:59 | 3:05:04 | |
don't hear about them and we don't
learn about them in schools and | 3:05:04 | 3:05:06 | |
history lessons. If people from
ethnic minority backgrounds know | 3:05:06 | 3:05:10 | |
about this kind of activism then
they can relate to it and know that | 3:05:10 | 3:05:14 | |
there is a point for us to take part
because our voices will be heard and | 3:05:14 | 3:05:18 | |
we can make a difference. Tessa, I
want your perspective because you've | 3:05:18 | 3:05:21 | |
been speaking to these women who are
all in their hundreds. The youngest | 3:05:21 | 3:05:26 | |
is 100 this year. What is their
perspective looking at how we have | 3:05:26 | 3:05:30 | |
life now? Quickly coming on to that
and then on to your question, Joyce, | 3:05:30 | 3:05:36 | |
who is an honorary fellow at
Cambridge University, always reminds | 3:05:36 | 3:05:40 | |
me that we cannot take progress for
granted, that is one thing that | 3:05:40 | 3:05:45 | |
women have to hold on to. It is so
new and precious and so incomplete. | 3:05:45 | 3:05:49 | |
Trump is in the White House, for
goodness' sake, there is no room for | 3:05:49 | 3:05:52 | |
complacency. Populism may Trump
gender and race at the moment. Joyce | 3:05:52 | 3:05:59 | |
has really reminded me of that, and
a lot of the women have, you know, | 3:05:59 | 3:06:04 | |
really helped me in terms of getting
a perspective on things. I was born, | 3:06:04 | 3:06:08 | |
and I presume probably all of us
were born in the brave 70s and 80s, | 3:06:08 | 3:06:13 | |
when we were told as young women,
hey, you can do what you want, have | 3:06:13 | 3:06:16 | |
you what you want and the world is
your oyster. A lot of us were, | 3:06:16 | 3:06:20 | |
actually. That enticement is a bit
of a false friend and the women have | 3:06:20 | 3:06:24 | |
helped me realise that no, you can't
have everything, they grew up | 3:06:24 | 3:06:29 | |
knowing that they were effectively
second-class citizens, all of them | 3:06:29 | 3:06:32 | |
Barjuan born before this vote was
passed but we can still try. And | 3:06:32 | 3:06:36 | |
it's that balance, you can't have
everything -- all of them were born. | 3:06:36 | 3:06:41 | |
Don't worry about what you can't
have but it shouldn't stop ambition. | 3:06:41 | 3:06:45 | |
It's a very difficult balancing act
but it's one that I think we've got | 3:06:45 | 3:06:49 | |
to keep going forward with and
encourage everyone, men and women, | 3:06:49 | 3:06:53 | |
to be feminists. On that note, thank
you all very much indeed, Tessa Jon | 3:06:53 | 3:06:57 | |
LaPook, Jane Green and Akeela Ahmed,
thank you for speaking to us -- | 3:06:57 | 3:07:05 | |
Tessa Dunlop. We could have gone on
forever. We will be looking at the | 3:07:05 | 3:07:11 | |
100 year anniversary of | 3:07:11 | 3:08:48 | |
That's all from the Breakfast team. | 3:08:48 | 3:08:50 | |
Enjoy the rest of your
morning - bye-bye. | 3:08:50 | 3:08:58 | |
Welcome back everyone. You might
have noticed that we have been | 3:08:58 | 3:09:01 | |
reflecting on the centenary of
women, some women being given the | 3:09:01 | 3:09:05 | |
right to vote and what gender
equality means in 2018. | 3:09:05 | 3:09:09 | |
Yes and we have had lots of messages
from people about it so thank you | 3:09:09 | 3:09:12 | |
for getting in touch. Breakfast will
be back tomorrow morning from 6am. | 3:09:12 | 3:09:19 | |
And while that's
all from us in the studio today, | 3:09:19 | 3:09:24 | |
We will be back. | 3:09:24 | 3:09:27 | |
We'll spend the last few | 3:09:27 | 3:09:28 | |
minutes of the programme
at the People's History Museum | 3:09:28 | 3:09:30 | |
in Manchester where Jayne's been
throughout the morning. | 3:09:30 | 3:09:34 | |
She is joined by the descendants of
one of the key figures in the | 3:09:34 | 3:09:37 | |
suffragette movement, good morning.
You don't get to say this very | 3:09:37 | 3:09:43 | |
often, I have a red sofa full of
Pankhursts, welcome. Your | 3:09:43 | 3:09:53 | |
grandmother was Emmeline Pankhurst,
Lucy, it is quite convoluted, isn't | 3:09:53 | 3:09:56 | |
it? It is but there is a connection.
We will park it is for now. | 3:09:56 | 3:10:01 | |
You are commemorating what is a
really special day, a key milestone, | 3:10:01 | 3:10:06 | |
not the whole victory, was it? But a
partial victory. Where do you think | 3:10:06 | 3:10:10 | |
we are today, Helen, in this fight
for equality? So, I've just written | 3:10:10 | 3:10:15 | |
a book called Deeds Not Words and
analysed and talked to a lot of | 3:10:15 | 3:10:22 | |
women about different parts of their
lives, looking at politics, | 3:10:22 | 3:10:26 | |
economics, looking at women at home,
culturally, and in every single area | 3:10:26 | 3:10:31 | |
we can say a lot has changed, 100
years is a long time, mind you, but | 3:10:31 | 3:10:35 | |
the one area pulling is back in
every other aspect I looked at it | 3:10:35 | 3:10:39 | |
was violence against women, the fear
of it, misogyny, different forms, | 3:10:39 | 3:10:44 | |
traditional and modern. Modern
forms, what you are talking about, | 3:10:44 | 3:10:48 | |
social media. Twitter and the growth
of pornography and sexualisation of | 3:10:48 | 3:10:52 | |
women in all spaces. It has really
concerned you and you have a young | 3:10:52 | 3:10:55 | |
daughter as well. She is 22. 22,
this does concern you? It does. We | 3:10:55 | 3:11:03 | |
are here as well to talk about
something special, you guys have | 3:11:03 | 3:11:06 | |
been involved with, which is to
write in honour of today the | 3:11:06 | 3:11:11 | |
Pankhurst and then, you are a
composer, tell us about it. I am, | 3:11:11 | 3:11:16 | |
yes, so the Pankhurst Anthem is a
piece of music in two parts, so | 3:11:16 | 3:11:22 | |
Helen has been working on the text,
so in your own words you have | 3:11:22 | 3:11:27 | |
distilled Emmeline Pankhurst's
words, so we have used Emmeline | 3:11:27 | 3:11:31 | |
Pankhurst's words to set it to music
to echo her own sentiments, so the | 3:11:31 | 3:11:37 | |
first part of the peace is called
Echoes Of Emmeline. And the second | 3:11:37 | 3:11:46 | |
part we hope everyone will want to
join in with and it is more | 3:11:46 | 3:11:49 | |
uplifting. This is going to be
available today on the BBC Three | 3:11:49 | 3:11:56 | |
website, special commission for BBC
Three, people can download it and | 3:11:56 | 3:11:59 | |
learn the words, people can join in,
this is what you are hoping for, and | 3:11:59 | 3:12:04 | |
the key message of this song is
what, Helen? Still the struggle goes | 3:12:04 | 3:12:09 | |
on, I think there are beautiful
words, for example the sisterhood of | 3:12:09 | 3:12:13 | |
sacrifice, which turns into the
sisterhood of strength. That is what | 3:12:13 | 3:12:16 | |
we are celebrating. Yes, it is what
we are celebrating today. Over to | 3:12:16 | 3:12:21 | |
Eliza Carthy who will perform this,
the Pankhurst Anthem. | 3:12:21 | 3:12:30 | |
# I hear the sound of feet
# Perpetually beating | 3:12:31 | 3:12:41 | |
# The pounding of our hearts as we
march on through the streets, a | 3:12:41 | 3:12:44 | |
sisterhood of sacrifice is made
along the way | 3:12:44 | 3:12:49 | |
# And now we stand | 3:12:49 | 3:12:56 | |
# And now we stand today
# If we win this hardest of fights | 3:12:56 | 3:12:59 | |
to be sure
# The future will be made easy for | 3:12:59 | 3:13:06 | |
women
# All over the world | 3:13:06 | 3:13:09 | |
# To win the fight
# When the time comes | 3:13:09 | 3:13:17 | |
# I hear the sound of feet
perpetually | 3:13:17 | 3:13:28 | |
perpetually beating
# The pounding of our hearts as we | 3:13:29 | 3:13:31 | |
march on through the streets
# A sisterhood of sacrifice is made | 3:13:31 | 3:13:36 | |
along the way
# Now we stand today. # | 3:13:36 | 3:13:50 |