Coming up on the Peston podcast, is there racism in the royal family? Is there racism in the tabloid press?

Is there racism pretty much everywhere? Also, our relations with the European

Union only going to get worse since we left the European Union. I'll be talking about

all this and more with the hacked off campaigner, distinguished actor and writer Steve Coogan,

the ambassador to the European Union, Yval Dalmada, the brilliant former

England footballer John Barnes and two very distinguished MPs, Caroline Noakes from the

Tory Party and Labour's Becky Long Bailey.

First up, Caroline Noakes. One of the big rows of the week has been over nurses pay, the recommendation from the government,

that there should only be a pay rise of 1% and many MPs, certainly Labour MPs and some of your colleagues think it's too little.

What do you think?

I was surprised that the recommendation at 1%, I think it important to reflect that it is only

a recommendation, the opening gambit, there's a long way to go on this yet, and the independent

panel will now look at it. I... But is it a good look for Boris Jobs?

No, no, no, no, it's a very bad look for the government. And as I say, I was stunned that it was as low as 1%. I think we will see it go upwards.

It's just a question of how much.

And I think it's really important that we reflect back

on the prime minister's words.

Last year, when he was talking about the debt,

the personal debt, he owed those nurses

who had looked after him.

And so I'm really surprised

that the government came out with this recommendation,

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