i ve helped to get this country through pandemic and helped save another country from barbarism, and frankly, that s enough to be going on with. mission largely accomplished. for now, i want to thank you, mr speaker, and all the wonderful staff of the house of commons. i thank all my friends and colleagues and i thank my right honourable friend opposite, mr speaker. i want to thank everybody here, and hasta la vista, baby. thank you. hear, hear! you ve been watching newsday. stay with us. just time to tell you about a special programme on bbc news tomorrow, starting at 23.55 gmt on thursday the 21st ofjuly, we ll have live coverage of the us congressional inquiry into the january the 6th invasion of the capitol building. do try to join us for that, live from washington.
the first place. it is thought that will probably whittle down some of the contenders already. the thinking is that they will raise that. last time it was eight, the thinking is that they could rise at 20, and that will knock some of them out to started. then there will be a series of run offs between candidates, with the aim of whittling it down to the final turn by the 21st ofjuly, when parliament rises. that goes out the conservative membership for a few weeks to decide the final winner. there are two elections, the mps here, and westminster, then the wider conservative party membership. that is about 180,000. the debate so far between the contenders is very much centred on tax. it far between the contenders is very much centred on tax. far between the contenders is very much centred on tax. it is, that has emerued much centred on tax. it is, that has emerged as much centred on tax. it is, that has emerged as a much centred on tax. it is, that has emerged as a front much cent
whoever is elected, will meet on monday night. that executive will then agree the timetable and the processes for how we select the two candidates that we offer to the party at large. and the only thing i can tell you about the timing at this moment is that we are going to offer the party two candidates by the 21st ofjuly, ie by the time we rise for recess. we don t know, of course, yet how many candidates there will be, but we conduct a series of what we call exhaustive ballots, and we probably will be exhausted by the time we do it! in order to shortlist the number to two candidates that then go to a postal ballot of all the membership of the party.
and wales in the week to the 21st ofjuly. joining me now is the bbc s head of statistics robert cuffe. how many people are isolating because of this? how many people are isolating because of this? nearly 700,000 alerts are sent because of this? nearly 700,000 alerts are sent by because of this? nearly 700,000 alerts are sent by the because of this? nearly 700,000 alerts are sent by the app - because of this? nearly 700,000 alerts are sent by the app but - because of this? nearly 700,000 | alerts are sent by the app but that is not the whole story because you have all the people who have tested positive and asked to isolate through the call centres, so 300,000 positives to the weight to the 21st ofjuly, another 540,000 people, so the best part of 900,000 people who had been isolating that week. people watching may think we were talking about a million a week ago, there is about a million a week ago, there is a small number sped last week we were including all of the kids who are
to isolate by the nhs covid app has reached another record high, with almost 700,000 alerts sent in england and wales in the seven days to the 21st ofjuly. the 11% rise on the previous week comes as new figures from the nhs test and trace programme show the number of positive tests in england has climbed to its highest level since mid january. the foreign secretary, dominic raab, says borisjohnson and president biden have been discussing when britons could be allowed to travel to america again. the uk will welcome more travellers from the states next week, when double vaccinated people from the us and most eu countries will no longer have to isolate on arrival in england, scotland and wales. earlier, dominic raab said the decision on admitting britons lies with the us government. but ultimately, of course, it will be their decision, they are taking a very careful approach, notjust with the uk, but across the board. we ve had conversations, the president s raised it