From a crucial scottish by election. What will it tell us about the prospects for labour and the snp . Stand by your Election Night coverage starts here. Party strategists at labour and the snp will be burning the midnight oil, working what todays crunch vote in scotland tells them about the next General Election. Nicks there and has read the runes. Both horses in this two horse race agree on the winner labour. Now a new race is under way Expectation Management. Snp and labour mps are with us to discuss whether labour is indeed about to carry this off. Also tonight, 51 people are killed in a strike that hit a cafe in kharkiv, while president zelensky meets european leaders gathered in spain. Are ukraines western allies still committed to the fight . We must not allow putin to destabilise any other part of the world and our partners in order to ruin europes power. We speak to the exiled Opposition Leader of belarus. And americas greens agonise about Mining Lithium for car batteries. Is
unfazed by the torrent of bad headlines his disjointed debate performance had generated. i don t debate as well as i used to. but i know what i do know! i know how to tell the truth. crowd: yes! he seemed for all the world like a new man, reading from the teleprompter with a passion that had been all too absent the night before. gentlemen, thanks so much for being here. let s begin the debate. let s start. it was a far cry from the rasping and rambling performance on the debate stage that was all too often painful to watch. everything we had to do with. what. if. we finally beat medicare. it has left his party in a state of crisis. yet despite rumblings about replacing their candidate, publicly, at least, democrats are circling the wagons. referring to his own lacklustre performance in the presidential debate in 2012, joe biden s former boss barack obama tweeted. bad debate nights happen. trust me, i know . despite being just three years younger thanjoe biden, donald trump h
particular issue. on a couple of fronts, nigel farage is - particular issue. on a couple of fronts, nigel farage is under . particular issue. on a couple of. fronts, nigel farage is under real pressure, underfire from his political opponents and battling to defend his party attic list, and values. nigel farage was asked yesterday about comments made about three his made by three of his palmetto candidate sally said yesterday he wouldn t want anything to do with them, and a spokesman for reform uk has confirmed that vardy has dropped those three candidates. however,. not entirely discerning them, saying they are there on the ballot but legally they cannot be removed from the ballot paper so they will still be standing under they will still be standing under the reform uk banner but as i said, these are really dreadful headlines for mr farage. while he loves courting controversy, making waves, he doesn t want to be explaining, i think, the words of candidates and activists f
at large to endorse their manifesto. the fact is that the snp has consistently stood on manifestos pledging that scotland s future should be in scotland s hands, not that of a westminster government we didn t elect. the challenge for us here is to ensure that the labour party and indeed the conservative party actually respect democracy in scotland, because if they don t i suspect they ll get rather short shrift from an electorate, that, with every passing day of this campaign struggles to see much difference between them. mr linden, looking at some of the polls they suggest that your party could halve the number of seats at westminster. of course they are just polls and we won t know until the actual vote next week, but if those polls are to believed then the clout that you might have to persuade whoever the next government is to call for independence, that is going to go, isn t it? the only poll that matters is the one that takes place next thursday between 7am and 10pm. the