it is laura in the studio. and it is henry in the studio. henry in the studio. today s big sto is henry in the studio. today s big story is keir henry in the studio. today s big story is keir starmer s - henry in the studio. today s big story is keir starmer s promise | henry in the studio. today s big i story is keir starmer s promise on migration. he has said cryptic things for a long time since he has been leader, yes, migration is too high, 700,000 people coming to the country is too big a number. but today for the first time in this campaign he has been clear about a commitment to get the numbers down, which, henry, is a different thing to say i think it is too high. why? because in five weeks per match time should he become prime minister, people like you and me also you made a commitment in the last general election, how have you delivered against it? i also think it is significant because of the politics. the politics are obvious, but we shall spell it out anyway. t
perfect and there was more that needed to be done but he said that every year that the conservatives were in power, they had built more houses than labour did in its previous administrations and we will have to go and fact check that but thatis have to go and fact check that but that is the claim from michael gove this morning and also, finally, on levelling up, i put to him that people from the red wall that did very well under boris johnson s people from the red wall that did very well under borisjohnson s of look for money for northern communities in particular, they would have really noticed a difference and will they really put conservative? and he said that real money had gone into these communities and more can be done but they won t need a conservative government to do that. the liberal democrats are talking about the country s roads today with a promise to invest £300 million in the next parliament to fill 1.2 million pot holes a year. the party says money from the
continuing coverage and analysis from our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. good evening. a police officer working as part of the prime minister s close protection team has been suspended and later arrested over alleged bets about the timing of the general election. and, as we come on air tonight, we can reveal that a second conservative candidate is being looked into by the gambling commission the industry regulator over a bet relating to when the general election would be. it isn t known when the bet was placed orfor how much money. our political editor chris mason broke the stories and has this report. the prime minister in suffolk this morning visiting a nuclear power plant, and wherever he goes he has close protection officers out of view, nearby. iwas close protection officers out of view, nearby. i was tipped off tonight that one of them had put bets on the timing of the general election. the metropolitan police acknowledged i was right, they