Averting disaster, it is about creating a brand new britain. Well bring you the latest election developments live from downing street throught the programme. Im anita mcveigh, the other stories this morning. Extinction rebellion win a high Court Challenge against the metropolitan police over a london wide protest ban. The trial of the man accused of murdering british backpacker Grace Millane begins in new zealand. Marks spencer says it is rapidly pushing ahead with its turnaround plan after news of a half year sales slump. In the sport, two time olympic champion nicola adams has retired from boxing over fears she could lose her sight. And coming up, british pop superstar dua lipa on her rapid rise to fame. Good morning and welcome to downing street. Campaigning in the general election is officially underway after the Prime Minister, borisjohnson, travelled to Buckingham Palace for an audience with the queen to tell her parliament has been dissolved. Later he will launch the conservativ
The Prime Minister, rishi sunak, said only the conservatives offer security and economic stability, while the Labour Leader, sir keir starmer, promised an end to what he called 14 years of decline and chaos under the tories. Nigel farage said he wont be standing for reform uk but will campaign for them. Lets get more from our Political Correspondent damian grammaticas. Enter the man who has staked everything on this gamble, calling an election now. Quite a few of his mps are not convinced by the timing, and he has a huge poll deficit to overcome. I want to build a britain, a country where you all can have confidence, restored confidence and pride in our communities, in our society and our nation. Earlier he had an admission hed promised deportation flights to rwanda. Now he says they will happen if he is elected. We have already started detaining people, we have hired the escorts, we have an airfield on standby and we have booked the flights. All of that work is already ongoing and the
For the reform party. The labour leader, sir keir starmer, called the result seismic. The result seismic. The counting is also underway as london decides its next mayor, will sadiq khan , make mayor, will sadiq khan, make a third term . Eyes also on key red wall areas in the West Midlands and the tees valley in eight regional battles , with lawless regional battles, with lawless britain dominating the headlines , 38 police and Crime Commissioners are also being elected across england and wales. Currently, the conservatives and labour have one each in the declared results so far , all declared results so far, all results across all elections as we get them throughout the day on gb news today, with quite a bit of wet weather across the country, but the far south should be brighter than yesterday and again, north west scotland doing okay for spring sunshine. The weathers staying pretty mixed as we go into the Long Bank Holiday weekend. Join me later for a full forecast. Also coming up for
And the itv boss has blasted the bbc for outbidding them for the Meghan Markle drama. Skins is spending millions of pounds on a yank tv drama a right royal waste of licence payers money and thats all coming up between now and 6 00. Welcome to the show. Always an absolute delight to have your company. Show. Always an absolute delight to have your company. Please get to have your company. Please get in touch. Theres a new way to do so. You can do that by sending your views, views or posting your comments by visiting gbnews. Com yoursay. You will not believe a story weve got coming up in the show today. It turns out an a gb news exclusive that spies at mi5 and m16 exclusive that spies at mi5 and mi6 are being told not to shake hands with muslims in case it offends them to use gender neutral toilets to recommend each other for diversity awards. What next . Pronouns are forever thats going up in the show. But first, its time for your headunes first, its time for your headlines and its sophi
Interview on his programme last night. But he interview on his programme last night. But he made interview on his programme last night. But he made a interview on his programme last night. But he made a series of derogatory remarks about the journalist ava evans , whos a journalist ava evans, whos a Political Correspondent for the news website. Joe, presenter laurence fox has also been suspend added with immediate effect and taken off air. In a statement , gb effect and taken off air. In a statement, gb news called effect and taken off air. In a statement , gb news called the statement, gb news called the comments unacceptable and said it will be conducting a full investigation as well as issuing a formal apology to ms evans. A formal apology to ms evans. The uks largest untapped oil and gas field, rosebank , in and gas field, rosebank, in scotland, has been approved for development. Thats despite a row over climate damage. Regular haters say. Net zero considerations have been taken in