Very bullish and effervescent Boris Johnson with a big majority to play with. This is our election special. Good afternoon. You join us live in westminster where borisjohnson is beginning a new term as Prime Minister after the conservatives won their biggest majority since 1987. The tory leader returned to downing street earlier after visiting Buckingham Palace to ask the queen for permission to form a government. Overnight his gamble to hold a december election paid off. He now has a majority of 78 and a mandate, he says, to leave the eu. With this mandate and this majority we will at last be able to do what . Get brexit done labour perfomed poorly, losing 59 seats many of them in places theyve held for decades. Jeremy corbyn says hell stand down as leader early next year. I think the responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing and i wont do that. I will stay here until there has been somebody elected to succeed me and then i will step down at that point. A strong
The paper also features a picture ofJeremy Corbyn, who has decided not to take part in two televison debates. Let us start with the guardian. The story weve been running all day on the nhs, which we know is a key question for many voters stop yes, and Jeremy Corbyn is trying to capitalise on fears on the future of the nhs. But this guardian story also talks about a51 pages of uncensored documents. All these trade talks and how the nhs is up for sale, Jeremy Corbin says we have evidence now thatjohnson has put the nhs on the table with trade talks with the us. If you look through this dossier, it is actually just a handful of mentions of Health Issues that bear no relation to any nhs for sale stories. ButJeremy Corbin has been underfire today nhs for sale stories. ButJeremy Corbin has been under fire today for anti semitism, and hes distracting from that with this. Do you think this worry about the nhs being safe with the conservatives is one that is coming through . Not for sale, not f
OfJeffrey Epsteins accusers has said he wants Prince Andrew to testify as a witness in the us court cases. He knows what happened. I know what happened. And theres only one of us telling the truth, and i know thats me. And the island states suffering the brunt of Climate Change. We report on the International Conference thats meant to agree big changes. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news. Barcelona and argentina forward lionel messi has won the ballon dor for a record sixth time. Us midfielder Megan Rapinoe took the womens award. Good evening. Three days after the attack on london bridge, vigils have been held for the victims, 23 year old saskia jones and 25 year old jack merritt. Theyd both been helping to run a programme for educating offenders when one of those attending, usman khan, attacked people with a knife. Mr merritts father has criticised some of the response to the attack, including political pledges to review the Early Release of convicted terrorists. He said his son h
Fire brigade advice and fled the fire that killed 72 people. More than a hundred families with children at a nursery in south devon have been contacted by police, following the arrest of an employee in relation to allegations of sexual offences. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with jane dougal. Rugby union is in shock as saracens are docked 35 points and fined more than £5 million for violating salary cap regulations. The club says they didnt deliberately breach them. Thanks, jane. And louise lear has the weather. Bit of a mess out there today, a lot of cloud around, the best of any such iron is across scotland. It is colder here. The best of any sunshine. I will have all the details coming up later. Thanks, louise. Also coming up, well report from bristol, the city that could become the first place in the uk to ban privately owned diesel vehicles from its centre in an attempt to cut pollution. Hello, this is afternoon live. I and simon mccoy. The liberal democrats have lau
A very good morning from inside the palace of westminster, where the queen will arrive in a short while to open a new session of parliament. But this is no routine event yes, well be able to enjoy all the usual colour and pagea ntry of the state opening, but it takes place at a time of great political and constitutional uncertainty where even the role of the crown in our National Affairs is being questioned. We were last here two years ago when theresa may was Prime Minister since when the Political Landscape has been turned upside down by the turbulent Brexit Process. Its Boris Johnsons first queens speech as Prime Minister he has no majority in the house of commons so there will inevitably be questions about his ability to deliver the pledges in the queens speech. We could indeed be back again before christmas. But lets deal with todays events first im joined by our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg. Good money, laura. Good morning, hew. It would be an understatement to say despite