politics in the uk at the moment, do you still have confidence in the prime minister, is he the right person to lead the uk? i have absolute confidence in the prime minister. he s doing a fantasticjob. he has led on. ..delivering on brexit, helping britain recoverfrom covid, we were the first country to fully develop the vaccine and get it rolled out and now he s doing a brilliantjob of supporting ukraine in the appalling war against russia. and the conservatives have just lost two important by elections. should he be considering his position? his role? incumbent governments do tend to lose by elections. that s not a predictor of the future. what we are making sure is that we are getting the economy going, we re helping the economy grow so people have more opportunities, morejobs in the future and that is what will help us secure the next election. and the migrants deal, which has been signed between the uk and the rwandan government has come under a lot of scrutiny, even her
will specifically harm women of colour and marginalised peoples. this is a heavy responsibility. to make abortion unthinkable and illegal throughout our nation. more calls from the taliban for international support to deal with the aftermath of the earthquake, that s killed more than a thousand people. a third day of strike action on the uk s rail network. only a fifth of train services are expected to run. and its day two of performances at glastonbury with sir paul mccartney as the saturday night headliner. borisjohnson says he will not undergo what he calls a psychological transformation of his character. speaking to the bbc, the prime minister insisted that policy was more important than personality. it s been a particularly bruising week for mrjohnson, after the conservatives lost two by elections, before the resignation of his party chairman. this report from our political correspondent, tony bonsignore, contains some flash photography. the war in ukraine, inflation
how s that going down there? it is auoin how s that going down there? it is going down how s that going down there? it is going down great. it is bound to. i don t going down great. it is bound to. i don t how going down great. it is bound to. i don t how you prepare your broadcasts during the afternoon, but i listen broadcasts during the afternoon, but i listen to broadcasts during the afternoon, but i listen to opera. it gets me in the right i listen to opera. it gets me in the right mood i listen to opera. it gets me in the right mood and it gets me psyched up to do all right mood and it gets me psyched up to do all that we should do when we have got to do all that we should do when we have got guests in the studio. it is what have got guests in the studio. it is what we have got guests in the studio. it is what we do have got guests in the studio. it is what we do. so have got guests in the studio. it is what we do have got guests in the studio. it is what we de
about this particular opera, it s written, of course, by the great ian mcmillan, barnsley lad, through and through. it s a south yorkshire opera and i think it s going to take off, it s going to take off big and i think that s something which we re rather proud of. this is my ditty, forgive the singing, but i m going to do my best. # ey up, welcome to look north # we ve got the news and sport # throw in some weather, too # that s the cheapest we can do # as for news 24, they ve got that good old boy # he s called simon mccoy! # he knows about royaljoy.# anyway. 0h! harry, i don t know what to say. earlier, i spoke to simon, who described how important regional news was to harry gration. just watching that just reminds you what a. what a huge character he was. and the great thing about harry. and afternoon live would not have happened without him because there was a lot of.
including the saturday sports show, grandstand. the bbc s director general tim davie said harry gration was loved everywhere, but especially in yorkshire . harry gration also appeared on the bbc news channel on a segment called news nationwide presented by simon mccoy. here s a clip of one of his appeareances. we ve been running this story all day. an opera sung in yorkshire. how is that going down there? well, it s going down great, lad. i mean, it s bound to, when you think about it, i don t know how you prepare, simon, for your broadcast for news 24 during the afternoon, but i listen to opera. it gets me in the right mood and it gets me sort of psyched up to do all that we should do when we ve got guests in t studio, lad. it s what we do. oh, oh, my word. go on. so. so, what do you do? well, basically, ijust sing. i m well known for singing. in fact, i ve got a little ditty here that i m going to give you, a little later on. but i think what s smashing