because i know that that's very much the attitude you will want to apply to yourselves and your forces. but i also want you to know that i will back you when you do the right thing. and i want you to know that i will, i will be critical if i think you need to be critical. but i will always attempt to do so professionally, calmly, directly so that we always maintain that professional working relationship. and i think you can have a relationship that has challenge and demands excellence and professionalism without having to be in a relationship of of conflict.

the two are not inextricably linked. and that is why you will know, for those of you who have worked with me before, my instinct is always to praise in public, to criticise in private. and if if your officers if your staff respond to that style of working, i genuinely believe we can maximize the work that we do on behalf of the british people. and ultimately, that is my aim. that is my aim. our correspondent mark lobel has been summing up the home secretary's speech. after weeks of debate about protests and policing we were really looking to see if the new home secretary would be drawing a line between himself and suella braverman, sacked, of course, on monday. we got that really in this line,

didn't we, to praise in public and to criticise in private. that was no doubt a reference to the fact that many people had looked at suella braverman over the past few weeks as more of a pundit, as some analysts had described her, rather than a politician by putting her thoughts into column inches in newspapers, particularly in her description of those, what she described as hate marches, the free palestine marches through london and pointing the finger at the way that the police were handling these protests. and james cleverly very clearly saying, i will back you. he said that a number of times, he said, when you take action that you need to take, i will back you. his key message here he said, they would work together. and mark, there is the other issue, a big issue facing james cleverly, the home secretary, the issue of deporting asylum seekers to rwanda. of course, the prime minister saying he's going to try and push through emergency legislation and resurrect this plan, even

after the court ruled it unlawful. what position are we seeing james cleverly putting forward when it comes to this issue? yes, he's been on the airwaves this morning very clearly backing rishi sunak�*s and reiterating rishi sunak�*s position. which is that emergency laws will be brought in to revive the plans to fly asylum seekers to rwanda. and that will come in the form of a new treaty with rwanda, which they think will be the silver bullet and will address the concerns that were issued by the supreme court. now, interestingly, we havejust had a tweet from the rwandan government's spokesperson. the spokesperson has referred to the supreme courtjudgment as both unjustified and hypocritical. they point out that rwanda's record, according to the united nations, whose position was used in the supreme court as a reason why

britain couldn't proceed with their current plan. the rwandans have said that the record of the un said that its record in rwanda was exemplary, according to the un and therefore the criticisms they were using against them from the un where hypocritical and they pointed out that 170 stranded migrants from libya will be expected to arrive in rwanda today. they called it the 15th evacuation since 2019. so both the home secretary, the british prime minister and the rwandan government pushing against the supreme court ruling there. scotland's health secretary michael matheson is about to make a personal statement to the scottish parliament amid controversy over his holiday ipad usage. mr matheson is paying back an almost £11,000 bill that he accumulated on his parliamentary ipad, which was accrued while he was on a holiday in morocco. mr matheson has said the data was used in connection with his work as an msp. details published by the scottish parliament show he used

six gigabytes of data on his week—long holiday — enough 0ur reporter thomas brada has the background on this story. last christmas, scotland's health secretary michael matheson went on a week—long holiday to morocco. he brought along his ipad, which was issued by parliament, and while he was there he racked up a data roaming bill of almost £11,000. this is a breakdown of his ee usage, which was released by parliament, and it shows that he used more than six gigabytes of data while on that trip. he assured staff that the ipad was being used for parliamentary business, and of that business

the parliament said that they would cover the bill, but that £3,000 should come out of the expenses budget from mr matheson�*s office. it then transpired that the sim card in the ipad should have been updated a year earlier, and that mr matheson had been made aware of that information by e—mail. so, on that basis, he has since agreed to pay the bill in full, but there are still questions about how exactly he managed to use such a huge amount of data. the opposition scottish conservatives have pointed out that on the same day, january 2nd, that he racked up a bill of almost £7,000, there was a football match going on between rangers and celtic. that he has complete confidence in his health secretary, but the opposition likely won't stop asking questions until they are satisfied with mr matheson�*s answers. live now to our political correspondent david wallace lockhart,

who is in holyrood. what are we expecting the health secretary to say? a lot of political pressure on michael matheson at the moment because there are a lot of questions to answer despite the story rumbling into its eighth day. we do not know how he managed to clock up so much data, enough to watch netflix for 20 hours and why wi—fi was not used to use the ipad and there are obviously complications with the fact there was a point where the taxpayer was going to completely go to a cover of this bill and ted came out and the pressure got so high that mr matheson said he would cover it himself. we now have the scottish conservatives calling for michael matheson to be sacked and do not

believe his assurances that the ipad use was used for parliamentary purposes. it came up at first minister questions this afternoon and humza yousaf said he is sticking by the health secretary but when we get the statement that will come in about five minutes from michael matheson there might be some change in the narrative and new developments we have not heard so far so we are waiting to hear what he has to tell msps when he gets up to speak and the story might be changing but it sounds like he plans to stay and his role. no doubt a huge amount of political pressure on him and what he has to say in this personal statement at two o'clock could either make or break his career as health secretary. we will brin: ou career as health secretary. we will bring you that _ career as health secretary. we will bring you that speech _ career as health secretary. we will bring you that speech life - career as health secretary. we will bring you that speech life here - career as health secretary. we will bring you that speech life here on i bring you that speech life here on bbc news. —— live here.

nearly half a million women will be able to get the contraceptive pill from pharmacies in england from next month, without the need to see a gp. the move is part of a scheme which will also, from next year, see pharmacists able to give advice and treatment for seven common conditions including sinusitis and other infections. it brings england into line with scotland, wales and northern ireland. parcel firms have delivered a "miserable" service to consumers for the third year running. that's according to an annual survey by citizens advice. more than 13 million people reported experiencing a delivery problem in one month alone. packages arriving late or being left in insecure locations were some of the most common complaints. and before we go, we are still weeks away from the peak of the holiday season, but things are getting festive

at kew gardens in london. more than one million lights have been strung across the famous grounds at the royal botanical gardens. and the work was all done by hand. it took four climbers arond three weeks to complete the job. the installation has become a staple of the london holiday season. around 6,000 people are expected to visit each night across its six—week run. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello. last night was the coldest night of the autumn so far — in northern scotland temperatures dropped below —7 celsius with some fog patches, too. but that is where we've seen some of the best of the sunshine today, whereas further south, this hook of cloud, which was named storm frederico by the french weather service, has brought some rain and some brisk winds in the far south of england

and the channel islands — that is now clearing away south eastwards. we do have this frontal system pushing in from the west, some outbreaks of rain with that, but actually quite a lot of dry weather as we end the afternoon and head into the evening. and then overnight, this band of cloud and rain will make some further progress eastwards. some showers following on behind. in the north east of scotland, if we hold on to clear skies once again, we will see some fog patches developing. temperatures again dropping well below freezing. and actually, it is going to be a chilly night for many of us, a chilly start to friday morning. friday is going to be a quieter day. still a few residual weather fronts in the mix to start the day. but broadly speaking, this brief and quite weak ridge of high pressure will be just about in charge. so, yes, a bit of cloud to start off in eastern parts, a few showers out towards the west, but a decent amount of dry weather, some spells of sunshine, the winds relatively light, temperatures north to south, six to 13 degrees. and then a band of cloud and rain pushing into the south west of england later in the day. that rain will make some progress northwards and eastwards

across the south west of england, wales, northern ireland, some other western parts turning wet as we head deeper into the evening, and as we get into the start of the weekend this frontal system drives eastwards, outbreaks of rain with that low pressure firmly in charge for the weekend, but with south westerly winds, it is going to be mild. with that, though, we'll see quite a lot of rain, wet weather for many of us to start saturday morning. and even as the main rain band clears, we will see a mix of sunny spells and hefty blustery, perhaps thundery showers. some strong winds, strongest winds likely to be in northern and northeastern parts, could see gales in places, and temperatures for most of us in double digits. in fact, cardiff and plymouth could get to 16 degrees, very mild for the time of year. into sunday, further showers or longer spells of rain, the strongest winds this time across western and south western parts. there will be some spells of sunshine, and still mild, just about all of us up into double digits.

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today we are going to take you to the scottish parliament. scotland's health secretary michael matheson is about to make a personal statement to the scottish parliament amid a controversy over his holiday ipad usage. mr matheson is paying back almost £11,000 run up on his parliamentary ipad, while on a new year holiday in morocco. mr matheson has said the data was used in connection details published by the scottish parliament show he used six gigabytes of data on his week—long holiday — enough to stream netflix for 2h hours. 0ur reporter thomas brada has the background on this story.

last christmas, scotland's health secretary michael matheson went