the conduct of former deputy chief whip chris pincher shows the continuing hangover for the government of the era of borisjohnson. is rishi sunak holding back from being more critical of his predecessor? he s not suited to this kind of confrontation, so i think his idea is, if i don t engage with the provocations of borisjohnson s supporters, maybe the story will burn out that little bit quicker. how do we clean up the culture in parliament? the conservative chair of the commons equalities committee, caroline nokes, is here. and on the tunisian border, the migrant crisis turns violent amidst beatings and abuse. what happens now? we ll ask the tunisian human rights league. good evening. we open tonight with a story which some believe could be the next big miscarriage ofjustice in this country one for which there is evidence of a state led cover up. this is 43 year old tom hayes. he didn t see his young sonjoshua grow up because mr hayes was jailed in 2015 when joshua was j
following this story hejoins me live.. first of all, or remind us what this is about and what this ruling now means? , , . ., ., means? this is a argument that blew between the means? this is a argument that blew between the official means? this is a argument that blew between the official coronavirus - between the official coronavirus inquiry now under way at looking into the governments handling of the pandemic, and the government itself where the inquiry chair had ecstasy the whatsapp messages exchanged between boris johnson the whatsapp messages exchanged between borisjohnson and other senior officials. a few dozen of them. so, matt hancock was one of them, the senior medical figures involved in handling the pandemic, senior civil servants, and she wanted to see all of those whatsapp messages and barsjohnson s personal handwritten diaries, his government diary, all of that communication. the government came back and said it wanted to redact things and put a black pa
leader was in exile indefinitely, think again. what does that mean for the war in ukraine? difficult day for number ten. the standards committee says former government whip, chris pincher, should be suspended for eight weeks for groping two men in a london club. it will likely trigger another by election. alongside that, the cabinet office lost a legal challenge today to prevent the covid inquiry from seeing borisjohnson s unredacted whatsapp messages and diaries. we will get into a busy day in westminster. but let us begin with that news from belarus that the boss of the wagner paramilitary group, yevgeny prigozhin, has returned to russia according to the belarusian leader alexander lu kashenko. mr prigozhin, who led wagner s mutiny in russia last month, was supposed to have gone into exile in belarus and yet the belarusian leader says he may now be back in st petersburg. for the past week or so, his whereabouts has been something of a mystery. we know his private jet ha
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has triggered international outrage. and george cohen, who was part of england s 1966 world cup winning team, has died aged 83. now on bbc news, it s time for review 2022. it s been an especially turbulent 12 months in british politics and a year that s featured three prime ministers and four chancellors. helen catt looks back now at some of the most significant events to happen in westminster during an extraordinary year in politics. 2022 was a year when politics came at you fast. three prime ministers in the space of a few months, a mini budget that had a dramatic impact within hours, all against the backdrop of a war in europe and the cost of living going up at its fastest rate in decades. but it all started with a hangover. tonight at ten, boris johnson faces new questions about apparent breaches of lockdown in downing street. the end of 2021 had been dominated by partygate and just days into the new year, there was more. itv got hold of an e mail sent in may 2020 invitin