in japanese politics. and our other main story this lunchtime: durham police confirmed they are not fining keir starmer and angela rayner over allegations they broke lockdown rules last year. the race is on to replace borisjohnson as conservative leader and britain s next prime minister the first contenders throw their hats in the ring. another big rise in the number of people with covid in the uk infections are up 18%. and i am at wimbledon where britain s cameron norrie will play the six time champion novak djokovic for a place in the men s final. and coming up on the bbc news channel: former fifa president sepp blatter expresses his relief as he and former uefa boss michel platini are both found not guilty of fraud following a trial in switzerland. good afternoon. world leaders have been expressing their shock and grief after the assassination of japan s former prime minister shinzo abe. he was shot while making a speech in the city of nara, and later died in hospital.
rishi sunak, we are building up to that. let s cross tojoe and her guests in westminster. on politics live. welcome to viewers from the bbc news channel. you are watching politics live, we have five minutes until prime minister is question with dominic raab for the government and angela raynerfor with dominic raab for the government and angela rayner for labour. something that happened in the last hour was the new first minister of scotland, humza yousaf being sworn in. we can show you the pictures, here. in edinburgh. at alex hammond, you were the first snp first minister. do you have faith that humza yousaf will be able to get independence for scotland? it
but durham police have said in the last hour there is no case to answer. we can go to our political correspondent nick eardley at westminster. bring us up to date on what durham police have said? there had been a huge what durham police have said? there had been a huge cloud what durham police have said? ii ii” had been a huge cloud hanging over sir keir starmer and his deputy angela raynerfor the sir keir starmer and his deputy angela rayner for the last couple of months after durham police said they would look again at the evidence in relation to this case. the accusation from some, particularly from sir keir political opponents, was maybe he had not been following the covid regulations at the time when he attended at that event in the durham miners hall in april 2021. sir keir always said he had done nothing wrong. his party always insisted that the rules were followed. but when the police announced they were investigating it. sir keir was pretty much to is false to say he
angela rayner for her words, some i angela raynerfor her words, some suggesting that she was speaking passionately and reflecting a wider angle. away from these comments, sort of policy developments that are raising a few eyebrows here at the labour labour conference. sir keir starmer was asked by andrew marr if he would nationalise the big six energy company. he said he wouldn t and he would be pragmatic about it. if it was a benefits to the taxpayer then he would consider it. it appears to be a change of position, certainly from where some in the party understood that where the party understood that where the party was on nationalising the big six. and of course what today is working up to is that vote later on the conference floor about changes to the way that the party elects its leader. they agreed yesterday by a committee, it would see that the bar for getting on the ballot paper would be raised from getting 10% of support from mps to 20% and they have said that that would prove