by the union leadership. half of britain s rail lines will be closed when workers walk out on tuesday, thursday and saturday. these strikes are not only a bid to derail reforms that are critical to the network s future and designed to inflict damage at the worst possible time. iam in i am in the devon constituency which has been conservative for 100 years. we will hear for the labour candidate where it may not be so certain that it will stay that way. hot and getting even hotter britain s heatwave expected to peak tomorrow with temperatures of 3a degrees celsius. good afternoon. borisjohnson s ethics adviser, who resigned last night, has accused the prime minister of putting him in an impossible and odious position. in his resignation letter, lord geidt said the prime minister had asked him to consider measures, understood to be on a trade issue, which risked a deliberate and purposeful breach of the ministerial code. lord geidt s letter also says he came close to quitting
would deliberately breach the law. now, remember when it came to partygate the prime minister s sort of justification for that was that he didn t intend to break the rules. i think the intention point here seems to be really key, but clearly there are a number of factors at play leading to lord geidt s wider concern about the prime minister s leadership over the last few months. let s speak now dmitry grozoubinski. he s founder of the consultancy explain trade and a former delegate to the world trade organization for australia. just the person we need, i think! please unpick what a trade remedy is authority is. that is something that borisjohnson mentioned in response to this issue with lord geidt, highly complicated, but could you speu highly complicated, but could you spell out simply for us? highly complicated, but could you spell out simply for us? under the world trade spell out simply for us? under the world trade organization, - spell out simply for us? under the world trade
he adds. that refers to downing street proposals designed to support british industry but which could have broken international trade rules. in his response, the prime minister writes. this was lord geidt in parliament on tuesday, just 2a hours before he quit. here is what he said about rumours he had considered resigning before. there are few instruments available to an independent adviser. he also told mps it was reasonable to suggest the prime minister may have breached the ministerial code after his lockdown party fine. but this isn t a first the man in the red tie, so alex allan, quit the job as borisjohnson s advisor two years ago after being overruled on whether the home secretary broke the rules ministers have to follow.
hello, this is bbc news. our headlines just hello, this is bbc news. our headlinesjust after 2:30pm. boris johnson s former ethics adviser says he resigned last night because the prime minister put him in an impossible and odious in his resignation letter lord geidt says he came close to quitting over the partygate scandal but it was a request for advice on a separate matter that left him with no choice but to go. interest rates up again to 1.25% the highest in more than a decade. the transport secretary has described next week s rail strikes as an act of self harm by the union leadership. half of britain s rail lines will be closed when workers walk out on tuesday, thursday and saturday. hot and getting even hotter britain s heatwave expected to peak tomorrow with temperatures of 34 degrees celsius.
a bit of miscommunication. but, interestingly, as nick touched on in his package there, the final straw seems to be really about this kind of trade question that was put to him only this week, particularly in relation to the government wanting to intervene to extend certain safeguarding tariffs. now, we understand this is in relation to number ten s desire to protect the steel industry. lord geidt, though, does touch in his resignation letter on how this was essentially asking him to give advice on what he believes would be a deliberate breaching of the ministerial code. now, the ministerial code says that ministers have to abide by the law at all times. i think the concern here from lord night seems to be, as number ten suggested in their response to him, that while number ten argue that extending certain safeguarding tariffs to protect the steel industry might essentially be compliant with domestic law, it could breach certain world trade organization obligations. now, i think the ke