the sunshine is back today across scotland the sunshine is back today across scotland and northern ireland but england scotland and northern ireland but england and wales, more cloud. and for some, england and wales, more cloud. and for some. it england and wales, more cloud. fific for some, it will england and wales, more cloud. fific for some, it will be england and wales, more cloud. e ic for some, it will be on england and wales, more cloud. el ic for some, it will be on the wet side. it s friday, the 21st of april. our main story. the prime minister is under increasing pressure this morning to make a decision over the future of his deputy, dominic raab. rishi sunak has been accused of dithering by opposition parties, as he considers a report into bullying allegations against mr raab, which he denies. our political correspondent jonathan blake reports. have you always behaved professionally, mr raab?i dominic raab s fate is in the prime minister s hands, as rishi
on pay and conditions. it has been the greatest experience of my entire life, my own children and family notwithstanding! and a hollywood ending, perhaps, for wrexham, looking to win a return to the football league this weekend. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the justice secretary and deputy prime minister dominic raab has resigned from his posts a day after a report investigating bullying allegations against him was handed to the prime minister. mr raab had promised to step down if the inquiry found against him, and in a statement he said it was important to keep his word. but he s claims the investigation hasn t been fair, calling it kafkaesque , and accused the inquiry of making the threshold for bullying so low that it would encourage spurious complaints against ministers. with the very latest from westminster, here s our political correspondent, iain watson. let s make him our next prime minister. please welcome rishi sunak. he minister. please welco
welcome back to bbc news. we bring you some breaking news that s come in the last few minutes. the confederation of british industries has in the last few minutes announce its suspending all policy injune. this comes after dozens of firms paused or even cancelled their membership. a number of huge names have ditched the cbi and moved on. this includes bmw, john lewis, avi, mastercard, virgin media, lloyd s of london, schroders. these have either paused or cancelled their membership completely. the business lobbying group has been at the centre of all what only could be described as varying degrees. there really has taken a toll on the organisations. we ve seen its share resigning, stepping down. a new chair is do to take over, but we have had a lot of companies who rely on the cbi to not only lobby for them, but also to give best practice for businesses, to advise businesses on what is best practice. we ve seen one of those companies who are really the bread and butter of the
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wants to see. what i think needs to happen and should have happened already is a pause in inspections. no, there is no doubt in my family s mind at all that ruth killed herself because of that ofsted inspection. she was fine beforehand. she was not fine during and after it. so it is a potentially dangerous system. i think a pause in inspections is the decent, human, empathetic, correct thing to do. ofsted found caversham primary provided a good education, but it was rated inadequate overall because of safeguarding, checks on staff and records on keeping children safe. ofsted said it is listening and making changes quicker follow up where safeguarding is a concern, changes to the complaints system, more briefings for headteachers to demystify inspections.