Business secretary Andrea Leadsom accuses the speaker, john bercow, of breaking parliamentary rules by allowing mps to take control of the commons agenda. Serena williams loses the us open final in straight sets to a teenager. In a gripping match, 19 year old Bianca Andreescu beat williams, whos now lost four majorfinals in a row. We have another largely dry day today with plenty of sunshine for england and wales. A bit more cloud for Northern Ireland and scotland later with a few showers, i will have all the details in about 15 minutes. Its sunday september the 8th. Our top story Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suffered a new blow to his authority after his work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, resigned last night. Ms rudd said she no longer believed the governments Main Objective was to leave the eu with a deal, and she described the sacking of 21 rebel tory mps as an act of political vandalism. Our political correspondent, jonathan blake, reports. Once tipped as a future pm, amb
Wimbledon. Its ladies final day at wimbledon. Serena williams is chasing records against simona halep. Roger federer gets the better of his old rival rafa nadal to set up a final with Novak Djokovic tomorrow. Good morning. It is a fairly settled weather weekend here in the uk. It will not be completely dry there will be a few sharp showers developing as we go through the day but equally, therell be fair amounts of strong july sunshine as well. I will have all the details for you in around 15 minutes. Its saturday, july the 13th. Our top story a criminal investigation has been launched into the alleged leak of diplomatic emails from the uk ambassador in the us, which were critical of President Trumps administration. The fallout from the data breach prompted Sir Kim Darroch to resign, and has been a talking point in the conservative leadership race, as our Political Correspondent nick eardley reports. Kim darroch, the uks man in washington. Hell leave soon, though, after leaked e mails c
But im proud of the work this government has done to devolve spending powers and real powers to local authorities through the city deals, the devolution of some Decision Making and spending to local enterprise partnerships through the local growth deals, i think these are really good moves. Im delighted that were going to see in Greater Manchester a new Greater Manchester metro there. This is great news. But i dont see the need for a lot of extra tax power, no, im a bit skeptical of it. But who controls the tax . And in reality in england is less than 5 , around 2 of total taxation is actually controlled by local councils. Thats the council tax. Can you have real devolution of powers to local communities unless they have some say over the taxation thats raised in their areas, the rates of it and the amounts . Can the people of england well, if you take away the system works now, what weve tried to do as a government is to make sure theres a better connection between decisions made loca
But im proud of the work this government has done to devolve spending powers and real powers to local authorities through the city deals, the devolution of some Decision Making and spending to local enterprise partnerships through the local growth deals, i think these are really good moves. Im delighted that were going to see in Greater Manchester a new Greater Manchester metro there. This is great news. But i dont see the need for a lot of extra tax power, no, im a bit skeptical of it. But who controls the tax . And in reality in england is less than 5 , around 2 of total taxation is actually controlled by local councils. Thats the council tax. Can you have real devolution of powers to local communities unless they have some say over the taxation thats raised in their areas, the rates of it and the amounts . Can the people of england well, if you take away the system works now, what weve tried to do as a government is to make sure theres a better connection between decisions made loca
Explore possibilities for useful legislation. As i say, they wont be easy, but it is amazing how if you try you can come up with something. One of the things that has been impressive about u. S. Negotiators with iran is how many good ideas they have come up with. And i would simply note to our audience that even david has come up with very interesting ideas that he slips in in the middle of paragraphs in his testimony. For example, when he testified last week before the house he said a sounder strategy involves including disablement steps with the destruction of a limited but carefully selected set of equipment. For example, the deal could include the destruction of certain key equipment such as vowels and pressure or flow measuring equipment. What he was saying to the House Committee was that if you want to reach a deal with iran that lowers the number of functioning centrifuges that doesnt mean that you have to destroy the centrifuges completely, rather you can destroy some critical