内容摘要：Perhaps the UK and the rest of Europe may need to display and pay for more of its own power to have a chance of getting the Trump White House on board.

Perhaps the UK and the rest of Europe may need to display and pay for more of its own power to have a chance of getting the Trump White House on board.

Despite the Tories being in office for 14 years, she argues that increases in government regulations and public spending have crippled economic growth and polarised the country.She rejected Robert Jenrick's call for key party policies to be settled now, saying the UK's "system is broken" and requires a reset.

The Conservative Party, she adds, needs to return to its core values and come up with new policies that recognise this reality.One of the UK's oldest veterans has said his survival in the war was down to "chance, not luck," asNorman Irwin, from Coleraine in County Londonderry, has also spoken about the "relief" he felt when Winston Churchill announced the war in Europe was over.

Now 106, Norman is among a dwindling number of veterans remembering VE Day 80 years ago on this day.VE Day marked the end of World War Two in Europe.

Huge crowds took to the streets on 8 May 1945 to sing, dance, and rejoice after nearly six years of war.

"It was an unbelievable night when we knew the war was over and we had beaten the Germans," Norman toldThe independent commission, chaired by Baroness Louise Casey, will begin work in April but is not due to publish its final report until 2028.

Sarah Woolnough, chief executive of health think-tank The King's Fund, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the timescale "feels far too long" and urged the government to look at measures that could be implemented sooner.Other councils and care providers have said the final 2028 report is too long to wait for the long-term reform of vital services already on their knees.

The commission comes alongside immediate government plans to get care workers to do more health checks, and a funding boost for services to help elderly and disabled people remain in their homes.It will be split into two phases, the first of which will report by mid-2026 and identify critical issues and recommend medium-term improvements.