Gains. Another blow for conservatives, they also lost a blackpool by election. The third biggest swing in the postwar by election history. Heres our political correspondent, hannah miller. The Prime Minister touring a Military Base with very little to laugh about. Laughter. Trying to defend his partys losses after a dismal set of results. Obviously its disappointing to lose good, hard working conservative councillors, but weve still got lots of results to come as well. And there are also things that i would point to. Harlow, for example, where keir starmer held a rallyjust on wednesday saying that was a place that he had to win to be on track to win a General Election. That hasnt happened. The conservatives did deprive labour of a win in harlow, but they still lost five seats and are considering that a success. The party had also pinned its hopes on ben houchen remaining tees valley mayor, though he wasnt even wearing a rosette. He did thank the Prime Minister in a later show of unity.
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american democracy while finding that china decided against meddling in the u.s. election last year. let s go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who s been watching all of this so closely. how extensive, first of all, was russia s election interference? reporter: i spoke this evening to a former senior u.s. intelligence official who was involved in the 2016 assessment. he said to me that russia is nothing if not consistent here. when you look at this assessment, the headline figures in this assess, it is almost verbatim from what we reported on 2016. we assess that the russian president vladimir putin ordered this, directed this, much as the intelligence community assessed in 2016. let s then go onto what russia did to interfere. it says they conducted influence operations aimed at denigrating president biden s candidacy. reminds you of what they did in 2016 in terms of denigrating hillary clinton. but also denigrating the democratic party, supporting
Muted start. And Chlorinated Chickens, the Electric Mini and tech titans well be looking at whats been a busy week in today we want to know does great wealth bring great responsibility . Yesterday amazon founder jeff bezos was, briefly, the richest person in the world what would you do if it was you . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. We start with retail giant amazon it has seen its shares fall sharply after its latest figures disappointed wall street. The good news it is raking in huge sums of money as its sales keep expanding. The bad news its spending a fortune on developing its business and that is making investors nervous. Lets show you the details. Total sales in the three months tojune jumped almost a quarter compared to last year to just under 38 billion. Unfortunately they spent almost all of it Operating Expenses surged to well over 37 billion. That means there wasnt much actual profit a comparatively measly 197 million and down 77 on last