But if you look at last years referendum result, you can see why the Prime Minister wants to frame this as a brexit election. The blue areas voted leave. But many of them have labour mps who backed remain. She also wants to attract some of the four million voters who backed ukip last time. General election campaigns can be unpredictable and just two years after the last one, voters must decide again whether there will be dramatic changes to the electoral map of britain. Lets get some more reaction to todays news about an early general election. Our europe editor, katya adler, is in paris tonight, but first lets speak to our business editor, simonjack, whos in the city this evening. What is your reading of the way that the markets reacted to the news today . Well, this may be a political gamble but the folks who make bets in the offices behind me like theresa mays odds in this one. You saw the pound strengthen, they think the economy is doing well, Unemployment Rate is low and average e
Saying it undermines basic freedoms. This oscar. Best actor for theory of everything. We go to hollywoods biggest ward ceremony. An Egyptian Court has sentenced a blogger and prodemocracy activist to five years in prison for breaking a protest law. A prominent voice of 2011 revolution. Human Rights Groups say its conviction is part of a broader crackdown on descent. Angry activists could not believe the verdict against a prominent egyptian blog and activist. The court said it broke the law by organizing a protest without a permanent and attacked security personnel. Five years hard labor and for each department to play the amount of 13,000. The families hoping for justice were disappointed. Campaigners and applications criticized the decision to punish peaceful protest. They were only holding a peaceful protest. These youth did not have a criminal or violent as much record. This is one of the ways to oppress the youth. Many outside of egypt have condemned the law and called for the rele
After its interests after the government here decided to ban huawei from our 56 networks. A leading uk charity says it has seen a dramatic rise in women needing help for postnatal depression during lockdown. If thats you if you have had or think you might have had postnatal depression during lockdown, do let me know how its affected you and your baby. You can e mail us or message me on twitter. And this is a new sculpture in bristol installed in the early hours of this morning, in secret, on the emplty plinth where the statue of slave trader Edward Colston once stood. This is britisol residentjen reid. Well talk to her in the next hour. Good morning. For the first time in almost four months if youre in scotland you can have your hair cut, have a meal out or a drink in a pub. Hairdressers, restaurants, bars and hotels are all opening their doors. Galleries, museums and libraries are also allowed visitors in the biggest relaxtion of coronavirus restrictions so far. The first minister, Ni
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Millions of self employed workers can apply for a second round of grants from today, to help support their businesses against the effects of coronavirus. A woman has been charged with the murder of a ten year old boy in west london. In the first weeks of lockdown, someone called the police about domestic abusive every 30 seconds according to new research for panorama. More protests are expected in belarus following sundays huge gathering to try to force president Alexander Lukashenko to step down. The foreign secretary says the uk does not accept the result of the election. And coming up on sportsday misery for the manchester clubs in europe. After Citys Champions League shock, united are knocked out of the Europa League by sevilla. In the last hour Northern Ireland has decided to award gcse grades on the basis of teacher assessed grades. It adds to growing political pressure on the government over a level grades in england which have been described as flawed and unfair after almost 40