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this morning for you Dominic Robb accuses a small minority of activist civil servants of conspiring to oust him and try to block government reforms Civil service unions responded by saying who is peddling a dangerous business conspiracy theory to deflect criticism of his own conduct also awaits CBI in crisis business lobby group suspends all operations after major companies quit 30 years after Stephen Lawrence murder his father told Sky News that he still can't trust the police as long as they can't accept what they are doing it's wrong because if they don't accept it it won't change.

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papers with the editor-in-chief of the national cities of the world. Nancy Fielder and broadcaster Pete Price Hello, good morning and welcome to Sky News Breakfast. Former deputy prime minister Dominic Raab has accused what he calls activist officials of forcing him from office.

Mr Robb resigned after an independent investigation confirmed two complaints of harassment. officials, but says some officials were trying to block policies they didn't like, including Brexit, and now Prime Minister Rishi Sunac is facing questions about his own judgment after losing three senior ministers in six months, reports our political correspondent Joe Pike. a new job, I have no idea just six months after he joined government and maybe he's going for a walk around Whitehall, he's out but he's not going quietly, almost all the complaints against me have been dismissed and what this doesn't It gives you a handful of very high level officials, none of the complaints, uh, from minors, were upheld and I went up and dealt with hundreds of public officials, thousands of other people in the prison service in the judicial service.

Dominic Raab maintains there is now a low threshold for proving harassment, setting a dangerous precedent, but two out of eight formal complaints about his conduct were upheld. His behavior was considered intimidating and irrational and persistently aggressive. What I think this demonstrates is the continued weakness of the Prime Minister because there is a double weakness here: he should never have appointed him. Firstly, he along with other cabinet members who should not have been appointed and then he did not fire him. Oliver knocked down a long time before he acted loyal is the new deputy prime minister and Alex points to the justice secretary, but new faces can.

To distract from another painful departure, we have had three cabinet ministers leave their jobs in the barely six months that Rishi Sunak has been prime minister, two of them due to intimidation. Advisers here now hope that most of this will calm down before the local elections in In less than a fortnight, Dominic Raab looks unlikely to return as minister before the next election and, with his electorate being marginal, he could soon too lose his job as a deputy. Joe Pike Sky News Westminster our political correspondent Amanda Acass joins me now from Westminster, so Amanda Mr Rob's description of some of the civil servants as activists in this context is explosive, yes, for a man brought down by claims that he had been intimidating and aggressive towards public officials.

Mr. Robb, notoriously a black belt in karate, definitely came out fighting after In his optimistic

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letter, he then aired a whole series of interviews in which he made a series of different accusations against public officials, describing them as overly unionized activists who conspired together to bring it down and were also deliberately obstructing government policy in areas they disagreed with, such as Brexit. and human rights reform now this is a very serious accusation because public officials must be impartial at the same time they must also be free to speak truth to power and give an informed opinion and this really highlights the difficulties of doing that to Sometimes now this was all a red flag, um, a bull for the FDA union, which represents senior public officials who are already voting on strike action, so relations aren't even particularly good to begin with, um, they've described his comments as a conspiracy theory. and he said the Prime Minister should do more to defend public servants.

I think there is quite a bit of anger in some of the departments concerned, because of the very warm tone we saw in the letter that the Prime Minister sent to Mr Rob, although he said that it was right that he had decided to resign and the fact that he did not actually do so. fired before that happened, I think all of that really stokes the sense that this is another front in the culture war, these accusations by some parliamentarians that these uh claims by public officials are symptomatic of a kind of woke culture , although that is something that was dismissed in the now Labor report and the opposition party says that the Prime Minister seems very weak because of all this and that he has a big political agenda to fulfill before the For the next election he needs an additional civil service , so he's really hoping to try to put an end to this as soon as possible, but at the moment that's definitely not happening.

Well, Amanda, thanks for listening. Well, Dominic. Robb's

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dominates the front pages this morning, let's take a closer look, although Rob resigns in Fury, that's the Guardian protagonist there, what about the times they say Mr. Rob fell to what he You say it was a tyranny of hurt subjective feelings? Meanwhile, I say the officials who worked well with him are angry at what they call his tone-deaf resignation and, uh, the bully in the mirror reads his front page calling his behavior disgusting, but not all newspapers are critical, Mr. Rob, express appointments. Allies said he was forced to resign just because he wanted the best for Britain Telegraph.

In the end, it was a dispute over a plan to put Spanish forces in Gibraltar during the Brexit negotiations that really scuttled Robb and the man asks if this was the day the country became ungovernable when a senior cabinet minister was forced to resign for hurting the feelings of public servants now the confederation of British industry has suspended all activity until June after dozens of big companies quit the organization the pressure group is in crisis after a The second woman claimed that she was raped while working for the CBI. Our business correspondent, Paul Kelso, has had this report for almost 60 years.

The CBI has claimed to speak on behalf of companies, but Voice May soon fell silent after some of Britain's biggest companies moved to end their association with the pressure group The Crisis began with reports of serious misconduct, including a rape allegation against a senior manager during an office party in the Thames. Now, a second woman has alleged that she was raped by two CBI employees working in an overseas office, triggering a rush. suspend or cancel their membership, including NatWest Virgin Media BT AstraZeneca Ford and the meta-owners of Facebook, the companies we're talking about today have deep values ​​and leaders who live up to those values ​​within their own workplace, I think after that spot.

It becomes untenable for them to remain in a situation where there are a series of very, very serious accusations. The IWC has already fired its director, Gen. Tony Danker, for unrelated misconduct that he says made him a scapegoat now that the organization has effectively frozen day-to-day operations. business and pointed out to the CBI, as we know, that may have ended in a statement, the CBI board of directors said that we have taken the difficult but necessary decision to suspend all member policies and activities until an extraordinary general meeting in June At the EGM, we will present proposals for a reoriented CBI for our members to decide on the future role and purpose of the organization.

John Lewis is one of dozens of big-name companies to walk away from the CBI and the government has already said it will not speak to the lobby. group while investigations are carried out without the trust of its members or the ear of Menace, since a CBI cannot defend business and clearly cannot promote best practices in the future, members who have questioned the fate of the cbi The question will decide whether it still has a say in the summer Paul Kelso Sky News the Royal College of nurses has accused health secretary Stephen Barclay of trying to intimidate them now nurses have rejected a five per cent pay offer the government has announced which will go to court to try to stop planned strikes at 130 NHS trusts in England on April 30 May 1 no NHS employers have written to RCN saying the strike is illegal because they believe their mandate for industrial action ends at midnight on May 1, in a statement, Mr Barclay said the government believes strongly in the right to strike and that it is vital that any industrial action is legal and that it has no choice but to take action.

This legal action also seeks to protect nurses who might otherwise be asked to participate in illegal activities that could in turn jeopardize their professional resignation. Well, RCN boss Pat Cullen said the decision was clearly political and nurses will not be muzzled in this way by the bullying government. The government is now desperate to silence the nurses. instead of addressing this properly and adding that we want to be in the negotiating room, not the courtroom. Cullen there now. Stephen Lawrence's father told Sky News he will never forgive the police as it marks 30 years since the murder of his 18-year-old son.

He murdered in an unprovoked attack while waiting for a bus in south-east London. Now the inquiry into the botched police investigation has found there had been institutional racism at the Met. It took almost 20 years, leading to two of his five killers being imprisoned for murder. Lawrence was speaking to Sky Shimon Freeman Powell who began by asking about Stephen's aspirations to become an architect and hoping to see some of his buildings that you may decide to design and build around the country, unfortunately for me and my family that didn't happen . For three decades, the Lawrence family's life has been turned upside down in their search for justice.

A police investigation marred by racism meant it would take 20 years for just two of Stephen Lawrence's five killers to be jailed. I keep telling people that I have What we have achieved so far is some justice and when I say some justice, that means I want all the Justice and what all the Justice looks like, all the Justice to somehow make all the other people who were involved in my son's murder go and spend time in prison. Because of what they've done, I think it would be really courteous of them for me to ask whoever is being sent to prison if he really killed my son.

I want you to say that yes, I killed Stephen Lawrence and that the police have a lot to say. The response was also a report into the investigation into the death of Stephen Lawrence that would later brand Britain's largest police force as institutionally racist for the first time and already this year a new review found that not much has changed. Forgive the police as long as they cannot accept what they are doing it is wrong because if you do not accept it it will not change, we continue to face the same type of attitude from these people who are supposed to be protecting the Republic. and I've made it clear to people that if something happened to me tomorrow morning or even now, who should I call and if I had to deal with the police, I wouldn't call a bunch of problem cops because I know I wouldn't.

I have the satisfaction of being treated the way I'm supposed to, but Neville recognizes that the progress of society at large has been achieved by a new generation inspired by his son's legacy to do things differently than usual. Some of their parents did it. In doing so, I feel grateful for that, the only thing that doesn't make me very happy is that it had to take the death of my son for something like this to happen. Shimon Freeman Powell Sky News, well joining me now is former Metropolitan Police Superintendents and former Chairman of the Black Police Association Charitable Foundation, I'm Leroy Logan, thank you very much for joining us here on Sky News.

Good morning to you. I wonder if it would remind me of his reflections from that night. and the weeks and thedays that followed I was 11 years old when that happened and it was one of the first times that news really affected me because I was afraid afraid for my dad who had dreadlocks my brother who was dark skinned um but what about your Reflections? Yeah, well, I was part of the Black Police Association and, although I lived in North London at the time, there was definitely a sense of dread. You know you could relate to the Lawrence family and Stephen could have been my brother. my cousin, etc., so he had that real kind of relevance, pain and hurt, and it's that this case has always been a touchstone for the black community. um, you know, I'm very privileged, especially since I gave evidence that McPherson investigated Stephen's death and I was one of the officers who said the Met was institutionally racist.

We get to meet the Lawrence family and you know it's great to have that kind of conversation with Neville and Doreen because they gave their humanity. so much dignity um and they would challenge and not be fooled and say everything is fine, they always stood firmly in their corner in their scam and it gave us a real insight into how to communicate in the black Police Association. and not accept but say it like it is and because we are part of the black community and we speak on behalf of the black community and in particular the Lawrences and what they were going through, which is why it had so many um.It overlaps with me. personally.

I think you also know that I am of Jamaican descent similar to the Lawrence family, so I can relate to them in that sense as well. What did you do with the Lawrences? I would say that they fought worthily for justice and and I told you while we were watching Shiman's report, you don't really hear much from Neville, but what were your first indications of his fight for justice, his courage and determination that they needed to know what Had it happened to your son? Obviously they know he was murdered because of race in the community, but why weren't they arrested because there was a lot of information at the time?

Like why wasn't it acted upon and obviously they would start to discover that? there was collusion with the family there was corruption incompetence and to a certain extent and of course they realized that there was a racial element to it and um and then they started to look more broadly and see that this was not just something isolated You know, the way when Stephen's murder was investigated and as a result of that they felt there was a wider problem of institutional racism that needed to be addressed and I think that's why Nelson Mandela, when he came, totally identified with the case and as a result That's what he spoke about on their behalf, which really resonated with the Labor party and then because this was the mid-90s and obviously in the '97 election they were voted out and the Labor party totally accepted that.

There were issues to be addressed with the police in a way that needed to be addressed and you couldn't leave them ongoing and kick them into the long grass, they had to be addressed and I was very pleased when the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, announced the um McPherson inquiry and It was a legal investigation, so it wasn't just another review by a journalist, but it had teeth and could hold the police to account because I truly believe there is nothing wrong with them. I can't address what's good about it. it just needs the right leadership, it needs the right political will to take it into account to make the Police Service more accountable and transparent and it's very similar to police forces across the country and it really needed that kind of political will and independence. supervision not only of the report but also of the recommendations and how they were going to be implemented because what is measured is done and that was the important thing about those recommendations because they were made and that there was a milestone in terms of surveillance and change in surveillance for the better , so you fed that 1999 McPherson report, tell me about the cultural changes that occurred within the Metropolitan Police in that 10-year period, well, immediately, the informal racism, the n-word, the P was the W-word, it was It stopped right and they realized.

You know the bad cops knew they needed to improve and it created a positive atmosphere for the good cops to bring the bad cops' attention to their inclusion in diversity. Know? Know? The golden thread that runs through so many different forms of policing problems had operational effectiveness and, um, I was able to show how the complaints within the organization, the reduction of community complaints, was the reduction of policing, it was a light touch, It wasn't heavy handed, people felt like the police were there for them instead of feeling exhausted. -watched and unprotected um, and it's because the independent oversight was there holding the police to account through the Stephen Lawrence steering group chaired by Jack Straw in Neville and Dorian Lawrence in that group and I was one of the people um as chairman of the national committee The Black Police Association is privileged to be in that group, but I was also in the room when Paul Condon said these are recommendations.

They have called us institutional racism. We will use it as an aspiration to be better at not clowning or Gaslighting. but to say listen, we can be the Police Service that the public demands, so it's really interesting to know what you think and finally, Mr Logan, and where do you see the Metropolitan Police at the moment, we've had a recent report that says it's institutionally homophobic, xenophobic, racist. the right man in charge of taking the Met to the place where he needs to be right. I know Mark Rowley was at the Met when, uh, before Chrisella Dick took on a commission ship, he unfortunately reminds me of what policing looks like.

In the premchpherson era, it seems to be more of an Occupation Force, as you say, the case you report showed not only that certain units like the parliamentary and diplomatic protection group or are safe haven predators, you know Carrick and his cousins, all of these . people that you think would never happen if the checks and balances didn't exist if the supervisors were doing the job they weren't protected there wasn't that culture of fear that prevented good cops from reporting bad cops and systemic ones The flaws were being addressed in a So we're starting to see really significant change and of course there's no political will to hold the commission and the police chiefs have come and that's why the commissioner can say, well, I don't think so.

I'm an institutional racist so until you recognize that you have a problem you have to do something about it, so I don't think Mark Rowley is really prepared to deal with it because he was there when it was bad, yeah. I, you know, when they go through that culture, they're very protective, you know, they don't maintain that critical distance and they're not able to really make the sustainable change that will maintain that Police Service that came together and the rest of the police services across the country. at the level of integrity, ethics and professional behavior and of course getting the basics right, that's why the Mets are taking special measures because they're not even getting the basics of how to police London, okay?

Mr. Leroy Logan. It's a pleasure to have you in the studio today thanks for your thoughts. Well, we'll have an extended interview with Stephen Lawrence's father, Neville, at 9:30, 12:30 and 8:30 tonight, so tune in. Now it's time for sports with James. Hi Yes. You're right, yes, it's happening pretty fast. I think James is ready for an action-packed sports weekend, including a live concert in Madison on Sunday, which I think you've already run before. Yes, never again. I'm afraid never again. It makes me sad, it really does. It makes me sad, I've also run it once and I want to do it again.

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We're back on the next album, getting ready for everything. Today's football is over on Sky Sports News, oh look, a frisbee, no, no, it's a boomerang, this is from Skinny. Breakfast is approaching, it's Dominic Rob waking up to his first morning outside the government. We will receive analysis of what his explosive resignation means from two former political advisors. Good morning, you are watching Skinny's

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. Our top news this morning. Dominic RAV accuses a little one. Unions claim he is peddling conspiracy theories about tin cans. The Confederation of British Industry has suspended all activity until June after dozens of large companies left the organisation.

Stephen Lawrence's father told Sky News he will never forgive police as he marks 30 years since his son's murder well, let's see more about Deputy Prime Minister's resignation report found Mr Rob's conduct during his time at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was due to an abuse or misuse of power that undermined or humiliated his staff while I am here to discuss this with myself or two former political advisers, Sonia Soda and Andy McKeever. Thank you both very much for joining us. Where to start this morning, but I think Sonia is a good place to talk about how Dominic Robb left that resignation and I guess the tone, well, I think it was an apology, one of those apologies that aren't really apologies, it was very defiantly, he was not at all remorseful even though in this report by an independent Casey he was found to have believed his colleagues on two occasions and that his workplace conduct was unacceptable, and essentially he was the one who said, well, I'm sorry if anyone was offended, but how was I supposed to know?

The process was against me, so it was a pretty extraordinary resignation letter tone in that response. I think it shows that he really doesn't believe there isthought nothing, did something bad and then we saw that in an article he went to. The Telegraph and an interview he gave to the BBC afterwards and essentially seemed to be suggesting that he had been a victim of public officials who had an agenda against him, but what you really have to bear in mind is that this was an independent report. done by Casey, a very distinguished attorney who conducted a complete and exhaustive investigation, found that there was no evidence to corroborate some of the allegations against him, does not mean that they did not happen.

It means we don't know what happened, but you know that their workplace behavior was unacceptable on some occasions and the Casey who wrote the report, Adam Tolley, says that the public officials brought forward their complaints, they You know they had integrity, they did it in good faith and they had no ulterior motive and yet you have Dominic Robb, on the other hand, you know, talking about activist public officials and a conspiracy to bring him down and I'm afraid he just seems like someone who doesn't understand that he's a bully. does not understand how his behavior is perceived in the workplace, the detrimental impacts it has and someone who claims to be victimized and in doing so undermines the independent civil service and Andy.

Where does this leave Rishi before? Because what it looks like is that Dominic Robb has dropped this bombshell by calling out a minority group of activist public officials who are trying to block government reform. I mean, I think at this point the story is probably more about Rab in the acute sense that it's about Tsuna, look, everyone involved in politics, even you know if they knew Rob or not. Everyone involved in politics knew the reputation that Dominic Grab had for quite some time before um and you know whether individual complaints were accepted or not, everyone understands. that he's been an exceptionally difficult person to work with, so I don't think there's a lot of sympathy for Dominic Grab.

I also don't think there's a huge amount of blame at the moment, which is too nice and I think in situations like this we can overestimate the impact. will have on the Prime Minister and on the government. The United States of Russia has already gone through the Nadeem Zahawi issue and is already going through the Gavin Williamson issue, so it has already lost two cabinet ministers and of those two and now Dominic Rabb you would think that from the beginning From a public awareness point of view because it's about money and when it's about money and sleeves and conservatives it can tend to be more damaging.

Have you thought that that's why it seems that one would have been the one who would have stayed the most. but actually the overall poor ratings for Russia, I mean, they're obviously not good, but the overall poor ratings abroad have been improving and generally haven't been derailed too much by these individual issues of the remaining cabinet ministers, so So my impression would be that this Dominic story will stick and contribute to the overall story that the Conservatives have at the moment, but I don't actually think that in any acute sense it will make much of a difference.

A lot of people say Sonia, actually, if you lose your number two, it's a bad day in Downing Street whichever way you look at it and then we have to talk, I guess, about the local elections, you know, Rishi's first big test. Sunak here, um, and whether any of this will affect voters, but of course it's about time that your Deputy Prime Minister has to resign because it has been discovered that he had believed his colleagues in the workplace and I think the other thing for Rishi Sunak is that this is the third person in his cabinet, the third senior cabinet minister, the third ally who has had to resign. less than a year there was um Gavin Williamson uh again there were allegations of bullying around him there was a Nadeem Sahari investigation into the finances as Andy just said and now um uh Dominic Robb uh about a bullying investigation and these three men had things se looms over them when Sunak appointed them to the cabinet and I think it just shows where the Conservative parties are at.

I mean, I think some of that will reach voters and I think some voters really care about this. It's unclear how many voters will care. However, it has changed as we have already seen people have to leave the cabinet due to accusations of bullying, but I also think the other thing that is quite symbolic is the fact that you know the Conservative party is such a party. It seems that in the final days of a government where they have been in government for 13 years, many more distinguished members of the Tory government were forced to resign over Brexit and this is a party where you really know that the prime ministers They're appointing people who've got some really dubious allegations about them and who ends up having to resign months later, so I think it also says something bigger and deeper about the Conservative Party and the fact that it's really in a sort of phase of the physics of your existence where um you know it's starting to look like you need a long enough position, well one thing's for sure, whatever happens, Rishi Sunette can't afford to have many more days like this and I wanted to talk to you briefly about Hamza Yusuf because he I'll be counting his blessings, there's no election in Scotland, uh, yeah, I mean, talking about starts for the Prime Minister's first ministers, it's obviously been a terrible start for the houses that used to have and that were not of his own creation, it would have been the same if Kate Forbes won because really none of those candidates would have had any idea what was coming and Hamza Yusuf came into government as First Minister of Scotland with the worst entry of any first minister in the history of devolution;

It's an exceptionally difficult job that he has come to um and, for many reasons, it is more difficult than his predecessor, so he has about 18 months left before he has his first electoral test in the Westminster elections, but his problem is that his water mark is incredibly high, it has 48 seats out of 59 in Scotland and no one on any side of politics believes it can keep them all, so it's almost inevitable that it will lose seats and come under more pressure, so you know that there are many problems. For Hamza, the use of a lot of problems for the SNP, although they still lead in the groups, so yes, at this point I'm sure the humble Yusuf will think that the first few weeks couldn't have been worse than they have been good.

It's great to hear your opinion, Andy. Sonia, thank you very much for joining us. I hope to see you soon. Let's move on to other news now or security at the Scottish Grand National will be stepped up today after protesters stormed the Grand National last Saturday. More than 100 protesters were arrested in Aintree last time. weekend with some entering the course, but organizers said they had no evidence there would be disruptions to today's meeting the local government association has called for candidates standing in next month's local elections to be treated with respect A survey by the group found an increase in attacks on Candidates, of whom seven in ten councilors suffered abuse or intimidation last year, more than a quarter also said they felt personally at risk in the role they Firefighters have now extinguished this large fire that broke out yesterday above an Indian restaurant in five.

No injuries were reported on the top floor and roof of the property at Central and Firmland. Now due to the huge shortage of tomatoes, you may remember images of empty shelves in supermarkets earlier this year which were blamed on bad weather in Spain and North Africa, but the number of tomatoes grown in Britain is the most low since records began in 1985 or Alice Porter reports on a grower who has found a solution, but you might not want to hear it, from wastewater to salads, these huge greenhouses produce peppers and are mostly powered by energy. by using heat from our waste instead of using fossil fuels like gas or diesel to create that heat through a boiler, glass houses are for a circular economy thinking about extracting them to heat them from here and using them to grow crops, the company says We are reducing their carbon footprint by 75 percent compared to conventional gas-powered greenhouses and, as long as people continue to flush the toilet, they will have a stable supply of energy.

Traditional UK greenhouses use a lot of gas to keep warm, but with energy prices. Having increased by more than 156 since 2019, many farmers are struggling to keep their doors open, which is why low-carbon farming facilities like these are so important and these growers believe it could be a way to avoid the empty shelves we saw at the beginning of the year. We rely heavily on imported crops, up to 80 percent of salad crops are imported from the EU and elsewhere, that obviously has the impact of water stress, energy, food, miles etc. Here we have a national solution to that problem that is growing in the United Kingdom. in an environmentally sustainable way with low energy consumption, use of renewable energy and low water use, the investors behind the greenhouses say they want to build 40 more sites, but farms like these are not eligible for any tax relief on their utility bills. energy and are asking the government to be included in their energy-intensive plan, there are two options: one is for consumers to pay more for their food.

I think everyone wants to avoid it. The other is for the government to allow the sector to access its plan, which will make a huge difference. Right now and everyone is losing, the government says it has provided almost £6bn to businesses to help with high energy costs, but farmers warn food insecurity will continue and it may not be enough. Alice Porter Sky News, okay, coming after the break. We'll be going through all the covers today and of course Dominic Robb is on almost all of them, all of that more after the break. Well, let's take a look at the latest snowfall for skiing because we have to take a look at it, but we won't, this is live television my friends, so sometimes things go wrong, but be patient because what we're going to do actually and more appropriately is to take a look at the newspapers and we're going to review them with the The editor in chief of National World City, Nancy Fielder, as well as the announcer Pete Price, good morning everyone, it's a pleasure to see you both.

As I said on live television, sometimes things go wrong, but Nancy, I wanted to talk to you about the cover of The Guardian doesn't talk about Ra, but they are these serious accusations and then about CBI, these are incredibly serious accusations, of In fact, they have been coming to light for a few days. This is the second allegation about who said she was raped, I mean the The details are absolutely horrendous and she claims there was no culture of support, the kind of accusations that encouraged people not to go to the police when problems arose , so CBI suspended everything for a couple of months and is going to talk to everyone. involved obviously driven by many of the bigger names who were members saying there was nothing more to do with this and that they will meet again in June and decide if it has a future, it now seems in doubt, although the accusations are horrendous and it seems that every more are coming out every day so there is nothing positive for the CBI at the moment, in fact it is closed, not interesting, aren't the bosses of John Lewis and NatWest all important positions held by women?

I'm trying to move forward and of course taking a stance there, Pete, can we go to the other end now? And your story is quite interesting. Also this is page six of the mirror. This is it and this is what it is about. eating out and the cost of actually um, will you take it off? I won't take all your lines, tell me about it, you can have my whole life, you can even do the yeah, the ski report, if you're like me, I made that up. With this, dinners are coming back into fashion at home and I was a caterer when you two were not yet born I was a caterer and we had shrimp cocktails and we had black forest cake and it was sensational and I loved my dinners, well, the restaurants are getting very expensive and this article is about it and it's fascinating and people are moving away from casual kitchen dining and they want people to dress up for dinner and come in more formally.

I love receiving guests, well, I loved that he stayed at home. I had six women around me who ate me out of the house and the house drank most of me and I said: you won't come back again and now I have turned my dining room into a living room, but I think it's great because when you go out you have the taxis, you have all the costs and the price of big scandals and the clock is always looking, I find it when you are having a dinner. at home you're thinking I have to wash the dishes when they're going to leave when I go to bed it's already midnight I'm terrible I'm all for going out Nancy um, let's then turn to page two of In theseTimes are all about highways, that's right, these are smart highways.

There has been another surge and another tragedy where someone has died because there are no hard shoulders for them on the big eggs of the M1, under the smart motorways. Now this requires that we don't Just we haven't built any more smart weight motorways, which the government has already said, but in reality we will bring in hard shoulders and the government shows no signs of bringing back hard shoulders and I live about five minutes from the M1, It feels tremendously dangerous. There are stories all the time and there are tens of thousands of people every day driving on highways that are not safe, we have to recover them.

We need a place where, if a car breaks down, you don't worry." You're going to die because they made a mistake, it's not always complete nonsense, the name is the most ridiculous thing about them, but driving somewhere in our country thinking that you're going to die because of bad design it's ridiculous, no money should be withheld About this, they have to get the hotel back I haven't spoken to the majority of motorists who say smart highways are the way to go. Pete Look, age is nothing but a number and you've discovered that in The Daily Mail.

Tell us a little about aging, they are saying it's very simple, if you relax you will slow down the aging process and you should stay away from stress. and the tension, and I am aging again in this job, I can tell you that you are aging in this job aging keeps me young I love working hard I love the stress I love the irritation I love doing this and I tell you what all those people who are upset with their politician because they are being harassed, oh that will age them too, okay Nancy, I love this story you picked up again in The Guardian.

Where do we start with this pet? Parrots are allowed to video call other birds very well, yes apparently, so there have been Thousands of pirates taking part in this research, showing that they are much happier and feel less isolated if they are allowed to do what they want. They are effectively conference calls like the ones we are doing now. They might even have pictures on their tablets of which palette they can choose from, etc. some turned out to be more popular than others, it's amazing, I mean, it just shows that maybe it's not just human beings who get lonely when they're alone and these poor powers live all day alone when there are no other parents in sight and I think it's funny.

I'd love to see some of those video calls. They imagine? Oh, absolutely guys, you've really kept me company, thank you so much. Thank you so much Nancy Fielder and Pete Price. We will talk to you in the second hour. Thank you so much. Well, Skinny's breakfast is still missing. Former Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Robb accuses the activists. Public officials will have every right to force him from office. that and a little more after the break stay with Sky News breakfast