Debating the plan to go to the polls on 12th of december. Well ask what a snap election will mean for brexit and well speak to all the main parties about how theyre going to try to get your vote. Putting more on the plastic. New figures show personal debt levels are at a 20 year high. So should we rein in the spending . Ill get an expert view. Crossing the line. England fined for their v formation response to the haka during their semi final win over the all blacks. Good over the all blacks. Morning. Its a cold and frosty start good morning. Its a cold and frosty start for some of us with some patchy fog. But for most it will be a dry day with sunny spells, except in the south where there will be more cloud and some spots of rain. And ill have further details in 15 minutes. Good morning. Its wednesday the 30th of october. We are back at westminster. Our top story after months of brexit deadlock, mps have voted overwhelmingly to hold a general election on december the 12th. Its the firs
Flash floods cause chaos across england on the isle of man, a Major Incident has been declared. And coming up on the programme mps will debate proposals for a long awaited new law to better protect victims of Domestic Abuse. Ill be speaking to the labour mp, jess phillips, whos worked on the bill. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live im joanna gosling. The government will submit what it calls its final proposals for a new brexit deal today, with a warning there will be no further negotiations if brussels fails to engage with the offer. Borisjohnson is expected to tell the conservative Party Conference the plan is a fair and reasonable compromise that all sides can build on. While the official plan wont be published till later, the Daily Telegraph has published details of what it says are the proposals british negotiators are putting forward in place of the backstop designed to avoid a hard border on the island of ireland. The paper says the idea is to have some checks on the bord
Spreading down from the north right gcioss spreading down from the north right across the country, noticeably colder. We had at least the sunshine to compensate this morning but through the afternoon we have the odd shower here and there mostly gcioss odd shower here and there mostly across the north east of scotland. It will be windy as well in the northern isles. Micah went elsewhere but temperatures 12, 15 degrees, much colder than we have been used to. This evening and tonight it stays dry and clear for most, a cold night to come, colder than last point for many. Also across northern and eastern coasts. A bit more breeze across the far south west. Elsewhere low Single Digits and some frost across central and Northern Areas out of town. And this is herrick and lorenzo continuing to push northwards towards our shores. Bringing a spell of severe gales to western parts of ireland and some heavy rain. So there has been an orange warning issued there. But for us orange warning issued the
And have the latest from manchester, westminster and brussels. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. The duke and duchess of sussex end their tour of southern africa, as the couple sues a sunday newspaper for publishing a private letter. Tributes are paid to the former itn and bbc news presenter Peter Sissons who has died at the age of 77. And we take a look at the newest addition to yorkshire sculpture park, one of six buildings nominated for the prestigious riba sterling prize for architecture. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is the new brexit proposals just published by the government which are being closely studied in brussels as we speak. In a letterfrom the Prime Minister to Jean Claude Juncker president of the European Commission Boris Johnson calls for a willingness to compromise and move beyond existing positions. The new plans include removing the backstop the guarantee of no return to a hard border in Northern Ireland something the eu has been firmly opposed to in the past.