hello, and welcome. downing street is in turmoil following the resignation of four senior aides to boris johnson. the policy chief quit over the prime minister s false claim that the leader of the opposition was personally responsible for the failure to prosecute and tories paedophile jimmy sample when he was director of public prosecutions. her departure was then followed by three other aides. our political correspondence damien grammatical has all the details. their departure has left boris johnson sean of some of his top team and still under pressure. communications directorjack communications director jack doyle walked communications directorjack doyle walked out. the media messaging spent out of his control weeks ago. the chief of staff, down rosenfield, brought injust last staff, down rosenfield, brought in just last year to get a grip on things, on his way out. the prime minister s top syllable service advisor martin reynolds. he had sent the email inviting 100 staff t
one of the prime minister s longest serving members of staff, munira mirza, has quit downing street over borisjohnson sjimmy savile attack on keir starmer. and northern ireland s minister resigns in a protest over brexit arrangements. and curling kicks off the winter olympics in beijing. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel, there s more misery for england s cricketers the women, just ike the men, failing to regain the ashes from australia. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the cost of living crisis will intensify for millions of people this spring after the regulator 0fgem confirmed an increase in what energy companies can charge their customers. millions of households will now face soaring energy bills from april, with the average energy bill rising by almost £700 a year. that s because the energy price cap, which is what the average household in england, scotland and wales pays for energy if they re not on a fixed deal w
or other asian muslim origin is well established. today, ken macdonald, a former director of public prosecutions, said it is a disease of racism and sexism that will not abate until it is confronted . labour mp sarah champion said that people are more afraid to be called a racist than they are afraid to be wrong about calling out child abuse , which has inhibited exposure of wrong doing. she asked, why are we not commissioning research to see what is going on and how we need to change what is going on, so that it never happens again? . they re good questions, so we are going to ask them for the first part of the programme this evening. first, rabiya limbada reports from oxford. some of the 18 men and one woman convicted of abusing girls in newcastle. the men convicted were mainly british born, and came from bangladeshi, pakistani, indian, iraqi, iranian and turkish communities. a report in 2011 by the child exploitation and online protection centre identified over 2000 pot
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