Transcript of Sky News at Ten: A major blow to No 10's investment summit as port giant pulls £1bn announcement

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Good evening. Did loose words from two cabinet ministers lose the UK a billion pounds in investment? That's the claim tonight after one of the world's One of the biggest ports operators decided to put on hold a decision to push more money into one of its projects here. Sky News understands it's because of critical comments from the Deputy Prime Minister and the transport secretary who called one of DP World's subsidiaries, P&O, a rogue operator. The government is holding an investment summit next week, and Sakeer Starmer today said it would be very, very good for the country. Our business correspondent, Paul Kelso, broke the story and has our report. London Gateway handles almost 2 million containers a year, on course to become Britain's biggest port under plans for a £1 billion expansion by owner's DP World. Precisely the investment the country needs, and the government hoped to announce at a summit on Monday. But that has now been pulled after a row over DP World's subsidiary P&O ferries. Seize their ships. Seize their ships. Transport Secretary Louise Hague was among the first to protest at P&O's sacking of seafarers two years ago. Now, in government, announcing new legislation, she called them out, describing P&O as a rogue employer, while Deputy Prime Minister Angela Reina called them outrageous.

The company's response to put the investment on ice. Growing the economy is the number one mission of this government. Embarrassing for a Prime Minister talking up his summit. In the last, I think, four weeks, we've had at least five or six huge investments in the UK, including £24 billion today. We've got a massive investment budget summit coming up on Monday, where leading investors from across the globe are all coming to the UK. This is very, very good for the country. It's another wobble for a government struggling to set a steady course. It's a real blow and embarrassment to the government ahead of their flagship summit at a time when they should be doing everything they can to help the economy attract international investors here, to be badmouthing a firm that's based here, that's seeking to invest and expand. On the back of the anti-business, pro-trade union legislation we've seen this week, it's a real blow. Hundreds of investors controlling billions of dollars will be here in the city of London on Monday as the government tries to drum up the money it needs to deliver its plans for Britain's infrastructure and economic growth. This row with DP World is a reminder that that sometimes requires compromise.

Politically and practically, Sakeer Starmer needs it to work. We do need foreign investors to buy our debt, our bonds that we sell, and also potentially to buy investments in the UK to allow us to run those deficits. That's the first thing. The second thing I would say is also that domestic business investment has been quite flat, as we know, for the past six or seven years since the EU referendum. Almost 100 days in, the government badly needs to find calmer waters. Paul Kelso, Sky News. Well, our political Ali Fortescue is in Downing Street for us tonight. Ali, the words of two cabinet ministers may have cost the country much investment money, up to a billion pounds. Do they have the backing of the Prime Minister tonight? Well, Gillian, we've had a very interesting response from Downing Street tonight because a Downing Street source has told me that the transport secretary's views on boycotting P&O do not reflect the government view. This is a Prime Minister in a choice between a big company that's investing and his own cabinet minister is choosing that big company, effectively throwing Louise Hay under the bus. It really shows that there seem to be divisions on this, on how to approach business right at the top of government.

That is the fascinating politics that seems to be happening behind the scenes. Then, as you've been hearing, you've got the broader issue that this investment summit on Monday was really being talked up as a moment that Labor were going to show they're the party of business. They are bringing investors in. They are pushing for growth, something they pledge to do during the election campaign. Instead, you have a £1 billion investment being pulled just a few days before because of something a cabinet minister has said. That is undoubtedly embarrassing for the Prime Minister. This is a Prime Minister trying to reset in Scotland today, talking about Council of Nations and Regions. Instead, he's facing uncomfortable questions about this. Another distraction. It is 100 days tomorrow, since Kirstalma became Prime Minister. Yes, not perhaps how we'd like to mark it. Ali, thank you very much for the moment. Virginia McCulloch told police to cheer up. You've caught the bad guy when they arrested her. It followed her calmly telling them where the bodies of the parents she had murdered were hidden in their family home. She'd spent nearly £150,000 of their money in the meantime and was today jailed for life.

Skye Schman-Freeman-Powell reports from court, and a warning, her report contains details some viewers may find distressing. My dad's body isn't there. The moment the hidden bodies of Virginia McCulloch's parents were finally found. Mcculloch had been living with the remains of John and Lois for more than four years. To kill her father, she had poisoned his drinks with prescribed medication on a night in June 2019. When I went in the morning, early hours, I got up about half an hour early, about 6:00 in the morning, came in and he was gone. The next morning, she targeted her mother, telling police how Lois had stared at her daughter in disbelief before she was beaten with a hammer and stabbed eight times. Where were you from, mom? Okay, so upstairs there were about five wardrobes. The years of lies Virginia had told to family and friends were only unraveled after a GP raised the alarm. You're on your own in this mission of murder against Jonathan McCulloch and Lars McCulloch. In September 2023, she was arrested. She's an intelligent manipulator who chose to kill her parents callously without a thought for them or those who continue to suffer as a result of their loss.

In court, McCulloch sobbed as details of her crimes were laid bare and kept her head down as her siblings spoke of their hatred. When sentencing Virginia McCulloch here at Chelsford Crown Court, Mr Justice Johnson said she had lied to and stolen from her parents in the lead up to their deaths, saying this proved that Virginia McCulloch killed her parents for financial gain. This was before he added that both John and Lois should have felt safe in their own home and safe in their own beds, and were also entitled to feel safe around their own daughter. But instead, Virginia is accused of taking her parents' lives and robbing them of their dignity in death. She had built a tomb for her dad on the ground floor of their property and stuffed her mum's body inside a wardrobe. She benefited from around £150,000 of her parents' cash. She was told by the judge she had put money before humanity and was sentenced to 36 years in prison. I deserve to obviously get whatever's coming sentence-wise because that's the right thing to do. That might give me a bit of peace. Shaman Freeman-Powell, Sky News, Chelsford. One of Mohamed Al-Fayed's alleged victims has told Sky News the investigation into the claims against him should be international.

Christina Svensson says she was assaulted by the former Harrods boss in Paris. Today, the Metropolitan Police revealed they are investigating 40 new allegations, including rape. Skye Sadia Chaudry has our report, and a warning it contains distressing descriptions of sexual assault. In the late 1990s, Christina worked at the Paris Ritz Hotel. She was an executive assistant to its then owner, Mohamed Al-Fayed. He constantly abused her, she claims. I put this sheet forward and he slid his mouth over to mine and stuck his tongue in. I was so shocked, and so I jerked my head violently to the side, and his tongue ended up in my ear. He would then start reaching out and grabbing my breasts, even with his fingers very hard, and then twisting them or going beep, beep. Christina's allegations come as the Metropolitan police widened its investigation into Al-Fayed. The former Harad's boss owned multiple businesses across the world. It's now believed that during his lifetime, Al-Fayed was a sexual a competitor, assaulting and raping possibly hundreds of women. Now, 40 new victim survivors and 40 new allegations. These include rape and sexual assault, and are believed to have occurred between 1979 and 2013.

The Met says it's received numerous bits of information. The force said they're predominantly to do with Al-Fayed, but some relate to the actions of others. Police. Christina warns the UK's largest police force that it may be looking at just a small part of a global network of abuse. A man like Al-Fayed who had literally an obsession with abusing women sexually. He doesn't just turn it off when he goes to another country. You can put enough fluff around it and whatever you want. But he was hiring vulnerable women and using coercive control, himself and his entourage, to traffic these women. Period. That's it. There's nothing else to be said. But there is. The Met says it's now contacting other organizations with links to Al-Fayed, so anyone else who's been a victim can speak out. Harad says it's working to settle claims of historic sexual abuse. It apologized to victims who it says were failed. The Ritz, Paris, told Sky News, We are deeply troubled by the recent testimonies regarding the late Mohamed Al-Fayed. And they said, We are determined to shed light on these allegations in line with our commitment to transparency towards our guests and employees.

Sadia Chaudry, Sky News. Good evening from Beirut. Both the UK and the United States. Join the criticism of Israel tonight over attacks on United Nations peacekeepers inside Lebanon. Downing Street said they were appalled. President Biden said he was asking Israel to stop. The people here would echo that sentiment after airstrikes which targeted parts of this city, previously relatively untouched. Last night, 22 people were killed and dozens left injured in the heart of this capital city. Israel says it's targeting Hezbollah, but the areas attacked outside the group's stronghold in Southern Beirut, instead hitting the more central suburbs of Basta and Ras Al Naba. Our international correspondence, Alex Rossi, reports now from the site of the Israeli strike. The Israeli air strikes came without warning, smashing into apartment blocks in central Beirut. Rescue workers Others urge people to get back as other buildings may be about to collapse. This area was packed with people at the time. The Hibush family make their way across the rubble with their suitcases covered in dust. Their home destroyed. They still cannot believe what's happened. I was coming back home and I saw the strike in front of me. Everything collapsing.

She was with our children inside. We took them and ran away. There was fire all over the place, and I couldn't handle it. I saw people dying in front of me. There were dead bodies, and the rescuers were moving them on stretches in front of us. My The heads saw this. Everyone in this area is frightened, fearful of when there will be another strike. This was a safe area, but it's not safe anymore. It's all civilians displaced people who ran away from the war, but the war came after them. It is reported a Hezbole leader was the target, but people here say this was just an ordinary residential area. There is a lot of panic and nervousness here. We can hear an Israeli drone above us. It is pretty much constant. Where we're standing, this was one of the residential buildings that was struck by the Israeli airstrike. You can see search and rescue teams They're still looking for people trapped underneath the rubble, but the chance of finding any survivors is remote. But people are really, really worried because until now, this area was considered to be relatively safe. And in the south of the country, fighting between Hezbollah and Israel is intensifying.

There's been no let up. And in the middle, UN peacekeepers who say they've been deliberately targeted by the Israeli military, injuring members of the force. Actions that have been condemned. At least one attack that was deliberate against our position and against our cameras. But also the other attacks were pretty precise. So this is important also to remind the parties of their responsibility to an obligation to respect the security and safety of our troops. It is clear this war is expanding, and it is civilians on both sides that are paying the price. So Too much has been destroyed here, lives wrecked by a war that shows no sign of ending. More than a million Lebanese have now been displaced by this conflict. People are exhausted, and they do not know where to turn. Alex Rossi, Sky News, Beirut. Well, our Middle East Correspondent. Alister Bunkle is in Jerusalem tonight. Alister, Israel has become used to criticism, of course, during the invasions of Gaza and Lebanon. But the breadth of the disquiet over these attacks on the peacekeepers is something new. As Alex explained in his report there, Yesterday, two UN peacekeepers were injured in an Israeli attack that hit the base where they are in Southern Lebanon.

Then today, another two UN peacekeepers were injured in another attack. They weren't seriously injured, I think that's important to say. But damage was done also to the base. Now, the French, the Italians, and the Spanish have released a statement in the last few hours, condemning this and supporting the right of UN peacekeepers to be in Southern Lebanon. Those three countries are important because they do provide a lot of peacekeepers to the mission, some of them currently there. The Irish also have peacekeepers peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon, the Indonesians, too. I think it's two Indonesians who are injured in today's incident. The Israeli military has advised the UN peacekeeping force to pull back by a number of kilometers for their own safety. The UN have refused to do that, saying it is right and their right to remain where they are. They have remained in their bases. They're not conducting patrols, but they are in the area of Israeli operations. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, today doubled down on his calls for an arms embargo against Israel. Comments echoed by the Spanish Prime Minister as well, Pedro Sánchez. They believe it is the best and possibly the only way to achieve a ceasefire in Lebanon and in Gaza.

The French also have a long historical relationship with Lebanon, so they are quite important here. For For UN peacekeepers to be hit once could be an accident. The IDF says it is investigating. For it to happen twice, the United Nations are accusing them of doing it deliberately. Yeah, okay, Alyssa, thanks very much indeed. You can find out more about the events in the Middle East and beyond as Skynews and NBCnews join forces for a new podcast, The World, with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakeem. Scan the QR code on screen now to start downloading it. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts. Well, thank you. Hurricane Milton may have moved on from Florida, but the cleanup for many is only just beginning. The huge storm has left a trail of devastation in its wake, particularly in Siesta Key, where it made landfall, and in the city of Tampa. This was the Tropicana Field Stadium in the city, St. Petersburg, before before Milton hit. And this satellite image shows Milton's impact, the roof of the stadium, ripped apart. Here's the town of Clearwater earlier this summer, a town which faces severe flooding today in the wake of the hurricane.

Our US correspondent, James Matthew, sent this report from Tampa, Florida. Florida is still drying out. Search, rescue, and recovery continues amidst the cleanup. In a hurricane, devastation comes on a sliding scale. The Sunshine State might have escaped the catastrophe it feared, but it's not good. It's depressing, but you got to fight on. I mean, a lot of more people have it worse than us. We could be over in Israel dealing with all that, and that's just terrifying. It's a beautiful area to live in Florida, but when you got to be stressed like this, it's a trying time. Yeah, it's stressful. Yeah, it's the highest winds I've ever seen in my life, so it's a bit frightening. This is the cleanup after the cleanup before. It's natural disaster as routine. Even if Hurricane Milton was anything but. It's been a nightmare. Carol-ann Bradley is from London originally, but lives in Sarasota. The night Milton came knocking, it was all about strength and saving the house. Our front door, because it wasn't It's never come in that way before, was a storm, so it wasn't a storm door. Melissa and I had to stand there for three hours with sandbags holding the door in until the last bit went away because it was literally coming into the hallway.

Hurricane Milton might have blown its last, but the same doesn't apply to its politics. As Florida turned its attention to the cleanup, President Biden addressed Donald Trump and the spread of misinformation. Again, let me say that the misinformation out there is not only just disgusting, but it's dangerous. It's misleading. People that's where we want hope tell me it's going to be okay. Tell me it's going to be okay. And they're in real trouble a lot. And to hear this malarkey you're hearing from some of the people, I don't want to get into it, but it lose my temper. The financial cost of this will be huge. The Fitch Ratings Agency estimates $50 billion in insured losses, and that's for people with insurance. Given the history of hurricanes in this state, for many, it's simply unaffordable. In a beautiful part of the world, it's the financial hit that comes with the territory, the part of Paradise Lost. James Matthews, Sky News in Tampa, Florida. The BBC Presenter Jay has denied charges of engaging in controlling or coercive behavior towards his wife. The 54-year-old who fronts primetime show The Repair Shop, pleaded not guilty at Worcester Crown Court.

At least 20 people have been killed and seven others injured in an attack on a mine in Pakistan. A group of armed men opened fire at a small private coal mine in the southwestern province of Balochistan. The Baloch Liberation Army, one of several insurgent groups battling the government, has claimed responsibility. And no more golf for Donald Trump. Since the assassination attempt near his golf course in September, the former President hasn't hit the golf course, and a source close to the Trump campaign told BBC News he won't be doing so until after the election. Federal agents have allegedly informed the Republican candidate they can't guarantee his safety while he's on the course. Ian Harrison was first filmed by our cameras back in 2008. He was then 19, begging for money on the streets of central London. He is still homeless 16 years on. The new Labor Government is promising to set up a team of experts to tackle homelessness. Our Home Editor, Jason Farrell, met Ian to see what needs to be done. Spare a lot of change, please. A year ago, on the streets, addicted to herrin and crack, a downward spiral left Ian hospitalized.

That crisis got him on methadone and into a hostel. But this comes with its own challenges. If you're picking someone up and you're going to put them in a hostel with 26 other people that are all addicts, it's hard to be stable in a place like this because it's a very unstable place to be in. I don't know where I left it. In a sense, he's off the streets, but they've come in with him. Without help with self-care and organization, He fears the only route is back. I've been going around in this circle now for 20 odd years, and it's like getting to a hospital, become homeless. Getting to a hospital, become homeless. So let's wind back 16 years of Ian's life, and through six prime ministers, sleeping rough in England is generally rising. It peaked pre-pandemic, but the numbers fall as we wind back all the way to the Blair-Brown era, where a rough sleeping unit successfully reduced it by two-thirds. But back then, things weren't much different for Ian. Can you please spare a little change, please? Please spare a little change, please. No. This footage, filmed by our producer who's known Ian since 2008, shows him aged 19.

It's hard for 35-year-old Ian to watch. What would your advice be to that young man? Get help. 18 years later and look where I am. I'm no better off, really. I'm ready to try to get some routine in life. Blair's administration provided additional support for the issues that caused rough sleeping, and this labor government is promising to replicate that. For Ian, no one's tackled the root causes, his mental health. To get the therapy, you need to be completely cleaned off drugs and alcohol for a couple of years. But that's part of the illness. Addiction and rough sleeping has been a way of life. I want to be so far gone that so my problems have gone away, just for tonight. To break the cycle, Ian says he needs the help that has always eluded him. Jason Farrell, Sky News. The Northern lights were visible for a second time this year, as far south as Southern England last night. It's a phenomenon normally associated with living closer to the Arctic circle, but there could be more of it to come. It's because of what's known as the solar cycle, which is currently approaching its maximum, which happens every 11 years.

Our correspondent, Molly Malone, explains more. The sky has once again stunned us all with Northern lights visible here in the UK at such a scale for the second time this year. We saw those beautiful colors on display for so many to capture on our phones and our cameras picking up those bright lights. But for all the pretty pictures, there is science behind it. These displays happen when very fast charged particles erupt from the sun, released in explosions called coronal mass ejections. They travel through space and collide with gasses in the Earth's atmosphere around the magnetic poles. As they clash, light is emitted at various wavelengths wavelengths, which is what creates those colorful displays. Different gasses produce different colors. Oxygen creates the pinks and the green colors, nitrogen, more the purples and the blues. But what used to be a once-in-a-lifetime event for people in the UK is starting to become much more common. And that's partly because the sun is reaching its maximum point in its 11-year solar cycle. This is a natural cycle that the sun has 11 years from what's known as the solar minimum through solar maximum and back to solar minimum again.

Now, solar minimum is when we see the fewest sun spots on the sun. Solar maximum is when we see the most. It's an 11-year cycle from one solar minimum back to the other. Now, because space weather, because the geomagnetic storms which are driven by the activity on the and the Sun, typically originate from sunspots, it figures that the more sunspots that we see, the higher frequency of space weather events that we get. Now, it's estimated that we are round about the solar maximum of the sun's current 11-year cycle, which means that we've been seeing an increased frequency space weather events. Now, if you miss Thursday, there could be more to come for some of us. This forecast is predicting northern areas of the UK might be lucky with the lights through the weekend. And beyond that, September to March is the best season to spot aurora activity. From now through to 2026, scientists say we could remain in the peak solar maximum period. So keep those eyes filled. We'll get so used to seeing it, won't we? That was Skynews at 10. Coming up, we'll take a first look at tomorrow's Newspapers in the Press Preview.

Tonight, we're joined by PR Consultant, Alex Dean, and Guardian Columnist, Zoe Williams. Amongst the stories, we'll be discussing this on the front of the Times about tonight's lead story here on Sky. It's headline, Investment Plan in chaos as minister insults firm. Do stay with us for more. We'll be right back.

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Let's see what's on some of those front pages for you now. The row over a billion pound for an investment in the UK being threatened after two cabinet members apparently insulted the firm is top story in the Times. The Telegraph says the row is an embarrassing blow to the Prime Minister's plans to grow the economy. But Zoe's paper, The Guardian, says the PM is determined that his critics won't blow him off course. The Eye leads with an investigation revealing that a gang, linked to the Kremlin, has hacked the UK ambulance computer system. It follows a warning on Tuesday from MI5 that Russian agents are working to cause mayhem on the streets of Britain. The Express has been speaking to a 13-year-old girl sentenced for violent disorder after an attack on a hotel housing asylum seekers. She tells the paper she made a mistake but doesn't deserve a criminal record. The Mail claims an exclusive with King Charles telling Republican campaigners in Australia that he won't stand in the way if the country decides to ditch him as head of state. While the Mirror speaks to Sir Elton John, who tells the paper he doesn't know how much time he has left after poor health, family commitments, and a lifetime of touring.

The Financial Times says growing confidence in the US economy has boosted the profits of some of the world's biggest financial groups, with several top names reporting better than expected results. The Sun reports that hidden cameras were installed in Manchester United's dressing room two days before their Premier League match at Aston Villa in an apparent security breach. And finally, the Star says that a Canadian diver claims that he saw the King, then Prince Charles, piloting a UFO in Nova Scotia in 1975. We haven't checked with the King about his whereabouts on that particular date, but perhaps we might. A reminder that by scanning the QR code you'll see on screen during the program, you can check out the front pages of tomorrow's papers while you watch us. The King was in Peter Express in Woking at the time. Welcome to Alex and Zoe. I'm sorry, I've got the giggles now. Needless Just to say, we're not going to be covering that story. Let's have a look at the FT and this story of the economy investment. A bit of a misstep, it seems, by the government in terms of wanting to encourage foreign investment. Explain what has happened, Alex.

Not the first time that P&O theories has been criticized for what it did a couple of years ago with fire and rehire. Indeed, the then government, Conservatives criticized them. The trouble for the government is the timing and The fierceness with which the transport secretary expressed her views about the company, whose parent company, DP World, is a major investor in the UK, not least at the London Gateway Port, but also in Southampton. She not only said that the business were rogue operators and cowboys, using the criticism that has been expressed by past governments, but most harmfully, I think from their perspective, she said that she would boycott them and that other people should do the same. That's the transport secretary saying that you should boycott this business. Well, that business, which was going, I think, to be a participant in next week's international investment summit. There's some disputes. Some of the papers say their leader is still coming. Some say he's not. Either way, they've announced that their investment in the UK is on pause. Some of the papers detailing the fact that DP the world are saying that they weren't going to invest that a billion pounds, and it's not because of any row.

That was a decision that they'd taken anyway. Well, exactly, right? There is a rumor that they'd taken the decision anyway, quite separate to the remarks. And there's also still people close to the matter saying the project is still going to go ahead. And those are people close to the company. So I don't think... I mean, they're quite hard-boiled, these corporations. I don't think they're going to huff off. I don't think they're going to flounce over a remark, especially one that was so widely made at the time when they first fired all those people. And I don't think it will be... We keep calling it a fire and rehire row, but actually, a lot of the people they were going to hire were replacements of the people they fired. They weren't rehired. And they were hired on much, much, though. They weren't even on British minimum wage. I think they were taking the vessels as some separate Principalities There was certainly-You put it under a different flag. I don't remember the detail. There were certainly employment practices which were absolutely scandalous and caused not just jobs, but the very standards that we expect of employers in this country.

So I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised there's a question mark over their relationship going forward because, as I say, they're corporations. They're not thinking with their hearts. I'm not surprised that Louise Hague said it, although I'm surprised by the timing. What I am surprised about is that the government has managed to get itself into this absolute fix where it was relying so heavily on DP World and yet didn't think ahead about whether or not to insult them, where number 10, Downing Street is on the one hand distancing itself from the transport secretary and on the other hand, agreeing with her, why it can't actually make its own mind up. I mean, obviously, needs must, and you take investment where you can get it. But if there is actually a company that you're holding up as a flagship poor employer, they might not be the best people to go to for a really high-profile investment drive. Or a flagship investor. And the reason I think it is a story is that you put your finger on it, is number 10, disowning the remarks of their transport secretary. Government tends not to do that, or governments of any type, tend not to disown serving cabinet ministers, certainly three months into government, unless it's a real issue, because then you prompt whole new, do you have confidence in the cabinet minister and so forth?

If it was something they thought they could get away with, if it was thought they said they could pass, they would just say, Look, what's been said has been said. It's rather like what the last government said. Instead, Downing Street said, Louise Hayes comments were her own personal view. They don't represent the view of the government. That is, a government minister's view doesn't represent the government's view. We continue to work closely with DP World. The business that she said you should boycott, those are really quite disparate separate views. But according to the EFT, another Whitehall figure said a press release on the government's website on Wednesday had called P&O a rogue employer, and that had been obviously signed off by downing street. That's what Zoe is saying. It's absolutely true. Their comms is a complete mess on this. They are in disarray, and I don't get that. I mean, Is it possible that they didn't make the connection between P&O ferries and DP World? Maybe. I think the government has three issues here. If we step back, I think the government has three issues, and they're all to do with timing. The first one is that they're going into this international investment summit before the budget.

What government wants to do is therefore say, Everything's fine, but I can't tell you any of the details. Minsters will be very careful. Minsters always are, of any political stripe, not to reveal the details of what's coming up in a budget. Businesses love detail, and they'll be frustrated by the absence of it when they go into the summit. The second issue comes from that because businesses don't want to be photographed, applauding enthusiastically, when a couple of weeks later, they may say, I completely disagree with what you've done here on that part of the budget, and find themselves at variance with what they said a fortnight ago. The third issue is of their own manifesto making, because the government pledged to have a worker's rights bill and an international investment summit within 100 days. They're coming right up on the buffer of that 100 days now, and they're doing both at once. It's the fact that they're introducing their worker's rights bill, which brought up these comments about DP World's P&O ferries, what they're regarding a good employment practice on the one hand, bad employment practice on the other. The reason they're having that discussion now, when they're meant to be having the discussion about investment, it's because they're wedging these things together in their agenda in their first 100 days.

But just to reiterate that thought that that disinvestment was about to happen anyway, Dubai-based executive saying that number 10 was wise to distance himself from Hague's comments, but insisted DP Welles' decision was based on commercial realities rather than political barbs. If we turn to the Times, they're saying the investment plan is in chaos. Is that slightly overwritten, that headline, do you think, Zoe? Well, the Times are really enjoying how difficult everything is for labor. And I don't think this story is any different. Is it a humiliation? The financial time story just seems much fairer minded, just has more context. If DP World were thinking of stepping back anyway, then they're using this instrumentally, and it's not humiliating. It's just a thing that businesses do. So I think the Times story falls short of their standards of impartiality in news gathering. Oh, blimey. Strong words. Well, I mean, I just don't... It doesn't sound as though... The They do not sound like they've got the same 360 view that the FT has. So the Times does champion the column in their own newspaper by Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York, where he talks about he's never been more confident about the British economy, which is impliedly very flattering about the new government and the environment that it's setting up.

He talks about the UK's best day still being ahead of it. That's on the front. But one of the things that is certainly online in the FT today, although not on the front page of tomorrow's edition, is that comment meant about being wise to distance themselves from Louise Hayes' remarks, number 10, being wise. The context of that in the full story online makes it clear that the people who say that to the FT are talking about other investors from the Middle East and elsewhere. Because not just DP World, because businesses don't want to think that you're going to get, putting it in blunt terms, slagged off the week before or the week after you make a commitment to invest. And so government's not just thinking about the DP World investment here, they're thinking more broadly about the business environment. This is not the week to be taking pot shots of businesses. The problem is, though, at some point, and I take your point that it's unfortunate to be doing employee rights in the same week as an investment drive. But at some point, you do have to say, We believe in this working practice. We believe in these workplace rights.

You do. And one could be the most left wing person in the world and say, I believe in doing this. Let's do it straightforwardly, head on. No shying away from it. We don't want your investment. What you can't do is try and ride both horses. You've got to leave that to the circus. You can't be having a go at a business on Wednesday, Thursday, and singling them out and saying, That's a rogue employer. We should boycott them, on Thursday, and then expecting an investment of a billion pounds from them on Monday. It's just not realistic, is it? Yeah, the comms doesn't seem to be working in that instance at all. Let's turn to the mirror and this horrific story, the double murder of her parents, Virginia McCulloch, sentenced today. I mean, it just begs belief. It begers belief for so many reasons. The first is that when she was actually... She seems to have been expecting the police, expecting the arrest, which in some ways is understandable because it was four years old, this crime. So she must have been half expecting a knock on the door for all of those years. But the way she talked about her mother and the murder of her mother to the police when they arrived, it's chilling because she It sounds as though she has great sympathy for her mother, and yet she killed her.

So the phrasing is so strange. She describes how she looked so innocent and had no idea what was coming. And it really is, I think, it's the details of her own testimony, which is both at the same time neutral as though somebody else did this and incredibly heartless. She's actually removed herself from the crime as if she wasn't. I don't know about that, actually. I mean, I prosecuted and defended plenty of cases where people were exactly as you describe. So they put something in the passive. They say, We were in the playground and there was a knife and he got stabbed, by which they mean, I went to the playground, I took my knife and I stabbed him. They put everything in the... She didn't say that. She said, I murdered my father. He's over there, and my mother is in the second wardrobe upstairs. She lived in the house for four years. Now, she's been sentenced now for the murder. There is, of course, a separate offense of interference with a body, which she could have been, I suppose, in totality terms, it wasn't going to make tough and safe any difference. But I actually think it's good to charge people with things like that, too, because it demonstrates that there is something quite separately appalling and awful about the calculated way that you store a body, hide evidence, continue to claim the pension that is separate.

I'm not justifying murder for a moment, but the The act of killing somebody, which you should be sentenced for and get a life sentence for, that act, which can be in the spur of the moment, can be awful, but is separate from the ongoing, years-long determination to hide their body, lie to the relatives. She sent false notes and messages and gifts to people. She gave false explanations of where they were. And that, quite separately, is a horrible, horrible thing to have done. It's really strange, isn't it? Because murder is obviously the moral atrocity But somehow the detail of living with her mother's body in a wardrobe, living alongside it, and that being okay, it's worse. It's totally gruesome, completely. Zoe and Alex, thank you very much for the moment. We're going to take a break. Coming up, someone is hacking our ambulances. The Russians are already starting to cause the mayhem that MI5 warned about. Do stay with us for more. I'm Mark Stone, and I'm Sky's correspondent, based here in Washington, DC. We'd been warned that we would meet people in the lowest moment of their lives. Their story is one of fundamental American failure.

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I doubt we've heard the last of it. Just to say that we have had a line in from the cabinet office, and they're saying that they don't recognize these claims. So it's putting an end to this story. Well, I don't know. I read a cyber expert say that there are two kinds of businesses in the UK, those that know they've been hacked and those that don't know that they've been hacked. But everyone's been targeted. And what this piece makes clear is that the Russians have at least sought to hack into the MoD, Whitehall departments, and into the NHS, including the ambulance service. I suppose there are two different kinds of hacking. One is to try and get intelligence, information and reading and so forth. The other is to cause chaos, and you would assume this is the latter. The point being, from these These sorts of stories, there's a real threat to British emergency services posed by Russian intelligence operatives. And the fact that the eyes story is sourced from people within the intelligence community here implies that there's actually... Downing Street may very well deny they don't recognize these things, but somebody within our intelligence apparatus is telling newspapers this is what's happening.

When Putin explicitly said, I think it was six weeks ago, that if the UK continued to support Ukraine in the way that we were intending to, there would be retaliation. This is what they were talking about, wasn't it? We have heard from the MI5, the head of MI5, saying that this is going to be happening on Britain's streets. A similar story, in a way, on the front of the sun. Manchester United having their dressing rooms hacked into, I suppose, a bug planted. Is this with malicious intent, though? Do we know? I think it was a hacker A common garden hacker rather than a Russian hacker, seeking to record 10 hard rallying speech, and potentially for a desire to leak it or just to listen in. Who knows? It's not quite on the same scale. We thought it was useful to see these bugging stories are everywhere today. I mean, it's a prankster, right? But I don't understand. I mean, call me ignorant. I don't understand what's going to be so interesting in Tenhardt's rousing speech that you couldn't guess. Like, doesn't he just go, Okay, let's go out there and win? We I don't know.

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