during the conservative leadership contest this summer. we can see the scene live at westminster where the vote is on fracking. it is a motion tabled by the opposition labour party and the government has said it is treating it as a vote of confidence in the government. it is not expected that more than a handful of conservative mps will vote against the government tonight, even though they oppose the change in fracking policy, which reverses the government s position from the last general election manifesto. the prime minister is facing widespread discontent and today she took part in her first premises questions after ditching her flagship tax cuts less than a week ago from the mini budget. let s talk to our political correspondent, helen carter. we will stay looking at the pictures of the house of commons as mps file back in. can you give us a snapshot summary for viewers watching you have just tuned in, summary for viewers watching you havejust tuned in, many summary for v
i am going to break the number one rule of making news. not a huge amount has happened today, but that in itself is news. it is certainly a change. my feeling on day three of the rishi sunak era is thatjust, the thing is that we re talking about feel much more normal already, like classic politics. and i think they will look far as mission, not accomplished, but the start of the project is how they want it to be, which is, to use the line from michael gove, the new levelling secretary, boring is back. and just thinking of it in news terms, we have spent, those of us here at westminster, running around like mad things for quite a while, and today, i was on the radio briefly this morning but that was it because there has not really been any news here. and it has gone from gale force to the most gentle of breezes. and yet there are still things happening. so, today, the suella braverman reappointment controversy rumbles on. with the opposition parties trying to keep that alive.
and coming up at 3:30, operation relocation, looks behind the scenes of one of the uk s biggest hospital s transitions from old to new. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. nurses are likely to take their first ever national strike action according to their union. the royal college of nursing is still counting ballot papers returned by its 300,000 members, but it says those counted so far suggest support for strike action possibly before christmas. the rcn wants a 5% pay increase above the rate of inflation. nurses working in accident and emergency and critical care would be exempted from striking to maintain services. the government said nurses should carefully consider the impact on patients. and, as our health editor hugh pym reports, other health workers could also soon be staging industrial action. here s our health editor hugh pym. possible strike action is already looming of the nhs in scotland. members of two unions, including ambulance staff at the gmb, have v
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