rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each, if the conservatives are re elected. my colleaguejess parker has been following the conservatives and gave me this update earlier. i am on the conservative battle bus. it s on its inaugural campaignjourney. and there s a little bit of confusion because, of course, myself and other reporters have been reporting from buses since the campaign began. that was on a different bus. didn t have conservative branding. didn t have the prime minister on board. but we re now on the officially branded bus that was launched earlier today in redcar, and we re continuing to travel across the north east. just to give you a sense of this bus, if the camera will kindly do a little crowd view. this is producerjack bbc producerjack. and then down the aisle there there are other reporters from different broadcasters, from newspapers as well. and of course the idea is that you get to follow the campaign, you get to be in re
when keir starmer was first leader, a lot of people did not in anyway think that in one term he could turn the labour party around. they were talking in terms of him doing five years, losing the next election and someone also come in and we don t know who that will be. for them, it has been a big surprise as well. they actually lost the hartlepool by election, it was an absolute low point for labour and then things turned around. lots of people say keir starmer has been a lucky leader, it has come at the same time that in scotland the snp have had their own troubles, socks scotland is a country where labour used to rule and then were absolutely decimated at the last election and went down to one seat. all of thing these things have a line for him but he will say he has change the party from the party it was underjeremy corbyn. the change the party from the party it was underjeremy corbyn. the left of the labour party was underjeremy corbyn. the left of the labour part
fraser. good morning, welcome to brussels. boats are still being counted here at the european parliament. it very much feels like the morning after that i before, is a bleary eyes. i can see journalists asleep at the desks, surrounded by the detritus of half eaten food, bottles of water and quite a lot of coffee. no question what a story of the night was, the shift across the continent to the right. the hard right performing well in austria, the netherlands, germany. not so well in poland and slovakia. and, of course, the headline news overnight is the fact that president macron has called that snap election in france, where the national rally took 32% of the vote, compared to his party s 14%. that is a record performance for the national rally. it left the president, in his view, with no option but to dissolve parliament and call a snap election. translation: the rise - of nationalists and demagogues is a dangerfor our nation, but also for europe. i say this even though we h
Reportedly which brings the number of dead in the London Bridge attack to eight. 13 people have been convicted following an investigation into abuse at two private care homes for adults with Learning Disabilities in devon. I loved him because we looked great together. And celebrating the life of Ronnie Corbett is stellar performers gather at Westminster Abbey for the Memorial Service today. Its 5 oclock and its the last full day of campaigning before polling day tomorrow in the general election. Party leaders have been on the road trying to emphasise their main policies and messages before tens of millions of people go to the polls across the uk tomorrow. This evening well have the latest on the Party Campaigns and well be reviewing the main Policy Proposals on some of the biggest issues on the eve of polling day. Theresa may has returned to her key message on brexit saying its up to voters to decide which party can be trusted to deliver the best deal. Jeremy corbyn said the election o
rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each, if the conservatives are re elected. my colleaguejess parker has been following the conservatives and gave me this update earlier. i am on the conservative battle bus. it s on its inaugural campaignjourney. and there s a little bit of confusion because, of course, myself and other reporters have been reporting from buses since the campaign began. that was on a different bus. didn t have conservative branding. didn t have the prime minister on board. but we re now on the officially branded bus that was launched earlier today in redcar, and we re continuing to travel across the north east. just to give you a sense of this bus, if the camera will kindly do a little crowd view. this is producerjack bbc producerjack. and then down the aisle there there are other reporters from different broadcasters, from newspapers as well. and of course the idea is that you get to follow the campaign, you get to be in relatively c