Future. Having fun, but with a serious focus. It reminds me of our election campaign. Do you know they wanted me to wear a wet Suit Today . But i said it was abseiling or nothing. So here we are. Having a party. After winning our largest number of mps i have 100 years for over 100 Years Applause the best result in our modern partys history. 72 Liberal Democrats in the House Of Commons fighting for the freer, fairer, more open society we all want to build. How fitting it was that the final seat to declare, number 72, was the home of one of the great champions of that more liberal society, Our Dear Friends charles kennedy. Today i want to talk about the exciting opportunity, our new strength gives us. And the responsibility it places on us to. But before i get to that serious bet, i want to say thank you. To all of you. Members, volunteers, counsellors, candidates, you are all absolutely fantastic. Everybody played a part in our electing of the 72 members of parliament. 0ur largest numbe
Constituents who are worried about Mass Housing Building mass House Building. Are you going to promote that or side with your constituents . The issue with with your constituents . The issue with the with your constituents . Iie issue with the constituents with your constituents . Iie issue with the constituents is that we have 70 of available land in the south down national park. 5 of the land available is the national landscape, that means that 100 of allocation is being squeezed into 25 of available land. That means there are certain communities that are having lots of homes built and they are not seeing the infrastructure. All people are asking for, i dont believe the constituents are nimbys, what theyre asking for is that if homes are going to be built, they come with the adequate infrastructure they need. They, dentists, doctors, facilities, and they come with the raids and they come with the raids and infrastructure. And they come with the raids and infrastructure. What about th
16 countries take the stage in liverpool later for the second semifinal. sticking with the eurovision theme, we are in liverpool at the shopping centre right in the heart of liverpool, surrounded by these beautiful eggs, i will tell you about them later on. the bank of england is expected to raise interest rates again today to 4.5%, the highest level in 15 years. it will be the 12th consecutive hike since december 2021, meaning mortgage payments could rise further for millions of customers. our business correspondent hannah miller reports. this is the first home gheev has owned, bought with his girlfriend two months ago. but since they agreed their mortgage, the monthly payments have gone up twice in line with the base rate of interest set by the bank of england. when we were coming to find a mortgage, the fixed rates were astronomically high. we figured that if the bank of england base rate goes up by another two or three percentage points, we re actually better off staying
making the headlines but today it s his dad who is stealing the limelight and not necessarily for the right reasons. alfie haaland says he was escorted from his seat following manchester city s equaliser in their 1 1 draw at real madrid in the first leg of their champions league semi final tie on tuesday night. a video on social media appears to show haaland taunting the home fans before being removed from his box. there had been reports that he had also thrown food at the supporters but he insists that isn t true. later, city and real may get an idea of who they could face in the final as rivals ac milan take on inter milan in theirfirst leg a first meeting between the two sides in the champions league since 2005. they share the stadium but ac milan are the home team for this leg. they ve been sweating on the fitness of rafael leao, their star forward trained away from the group on tuesday. just two points separate the teams in serie a, and milan defender fikayo to
who affirmed that italy would remain a solid ally, and provide kyiv with all the assistance it needed. prime minister meloni also stressed that the conflict would only end when russia stopped its aggression, and withdrew from all ukrainian territory, adding that any other outcome would jeopardise peace in all of europe. president zelensky then had a private audience with pope francis. it s the first meeting between the two men since russia invaded ukraine. president zelensky says he thanked the pope for focusing on the tragedy of millions of ukrainians . our europe regional editor paul moss has been telling us about the significance of this visit to vatican. let me set the context for you. pope francis has talked a lot in the past about the suffering of the ukrainian people. he s also condemned certain specific war crimes committed in ukraine. however, critics suggest that the pope has not been strong enough in making very clear that it s russia that s in the wrong and ukrai