“1400 more people are accessing mental health services every day compared to when we came to power. Spending has increased to a record £11.6 billion.”
The Health and Social Care Secretary tells Peston that better, longer-term planning would help to raise care standards.
“It is not about Remain or Leave,” the Observer journalist replies – while notably failing to say “yes”.
“We do have to work collectively…Owen [Smith] has made it clear he’s not prepared to abide by the collective responsibility principle,” notes the Shadow Transport Secretary.
“Even Keir Starmer said last week that no British Prime Minister could accept the backstop. No British Prime Minister could.”
And Marr asks how it is possible that Corbyn didn’t look at an anti-semitic work which he was commenting on.
“The independent statutory inspection, which concluded last week… was clear that Northamptonshire’s failure was not a case of under-funding.”
“Between 80,000 and 150,000 people work making steel in the US. Seventeen million are employed in industries which use steel.”
“These will come into force when the implementation period is over, providing new opportunities for businesses across the United Kingdom.”
The Foreign Secretary responds to questioning about UK sanctions against Russia and Russians.
The Conservative Party Chairman says the public can “draw their own conclusions” about Corbyn’s approach, however.
“It was absolutely outrageous, what it did in Salisbury,” he says during his first major speech on defence policy.