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off the greek coast. a bbc investigation has found evidence that casts doubt on the greek coastguard s account of its response to the migrant ship, which sank last week with the loss of hundreds of lives. the ship sank about 50 miles off the southern coast of greece and survivors were taken to kalamata. an analysis of the movements of other ships in the area suggests the overcrowded fishing vessel wasn t moving for seven hours before it capsized. the greek coastguard claims that during this time, the vessel was on its way to italy and didn t need to be rescued. the greek authorities have not yet responded to the bbc s findings. our europe correspondent nick beake is in kalamata in greece. the greek coastguard has faced heavy criticism for not doing more to help those people on board. its main justification has been that they did not want their help and that, crucially, the boat was moving in a steady direction towards italy. now, what we ve tried to do is piece together a pic
the scene. not for him the hanging around to accept his punishment and the verdict of his peers. he was such a coward when it came to this, that he would quickly was out of his seat and beyond the clutches of this parliament. but almost unbelievably, there are some who still hanker for this notion, this fantasy that he will have some sort of route back to elected politics. it is hard to imagine a situation or a setting when that would be allowed in this house. i think we can conclude today that he is toast and thank goodness he is gone. but i have to come back to the party opposite and some of the responses of honourable gentlemen and ladies about boris johnson because they knew everything about him. he is a serial person who was sacked. the very places he worked in that he was sacked from, yet they made him prime minister. i made most maiden speech the same day as borisjohnson and i actually followed him from these benches the day he made his maiden speech. even at that poin
members of the national education union will walk out on the 5th and 7th ofjuly. the government says the strikes will cause real damage to pupils. now on bbc news political thinking with nick robinson. rishi sunak is talking rubbish, at least that s what boris johnson says, as a bitter row between the two men that have been simmering for weeks burst into the open. it s just the latest episode of tory infighting that dates back notjust to the fall ofjohnson, but arguably to the fall of margaret thatcher decades ago. my guest on political thinking this weekjoined the conservative party back then, in the early 1990s, he s been close to or an adviser to five of the last seven conservative leaders from john major to rishi sunak. and for much of that time, daniel finkelstein, lord finkelstein has been a columnist for the times newspaper, chronicling the ups and downs of british politics, drawing on his experience of that politics, but also drawing on his family s extraordinary