i am on the conservative campaign bus which had its launch event today and previously viewers have seen us aboard what we have been calling campaign buses and they may not have actually been the properly branded bus but we are now on that after it was unveiled in redcar earlier today and we are now heading back down south towards the capital and earlier the prime minister, rishi sunak, did get on the bus for it s kind of inauguraljourney as the campaign coach but he is not on it now so it is basically just reporters and journalists who have been tracking the prime minister and the conservative campaign over recent days and we have gone to a variety of places, sort of middle to late in the week, including buckinghamshire, and as i say, we went to redcar and we were in the north west yesterday as well and there have been a variety of announcements over those days and the one we had today, as you mentioned a moment ago, was this idea of kind of extending the levelling up fund to
Enough to get phase one of the negotiations over the line, and, assuming it gets the nod from the European Council next week, to start talks about a trade agreement, rested and refreshed. Heres our political editor, nick watt. When everyone else is having fun, breaking up can be so hard, as theresa may discovered at an eu summit last year. Or maybe we do have friends after all . At the end of a week of heartache, theresa may finally pulled off a deal with the eu on stage one of the brexit negotiations. Sufficient progress has now been made on the three terms of the divorce. I very much welcome the prospect of moving ahead to the next phase, to talk about trade and security, and to discuss the positive and ambitious future relationship. But after mondays humiliation, how did it happen . Shortly after pm in downing street last night, theresa may finally achieved a breakthrough when she sort of won over the dup in a telephone call with Arlene Foster. At around midnight, she left downing s
Holywell in flintshire. We see why it hurts, and what traders can do about it. They all say that they are for the businesses and that and yet theyre not helping us at all. Theyre making it harder for us to get to them. Because if we run out of change or need to do a bank for cash and that, you cantjust nip to the bank any more. Youve got to physically go to a town somewhere else. Hello, happy new year. Hopefully. But who will it be a happy new year for . Thats where we start tonight as we take advantage of the fact that 2018 is still in its warm up phase to look at politics here, and how it might evolve. As always, the big battle is the one between the conservatives and labour and rarely has the choice between them been as stark. So how a minority conservative government gets on, and whether labour can threaten it is an obvious issue for the year ahead. But in some ways, a lot of the action in politics these days is within the two main parties. They both have huge great cracks down the
Of neutrality, we have bounced back. We have created record numbers of jobs. Two looks unlucky. Three, though . An image of modern britain, in all its diversity, compassion and strength, that was shared around the globe. A painful metaphor for a party struggling to hold it together. However, the fact that it went wrong actually made it a strangely moving Prime Ministers speech. But one that gained theresa may more sympathy and less authority. Has that left her in danger . Well discuss the drama, the farce, and the policy too. Also tonight San Francisco led the world into the hiv epidemic among gay men, and is now leading the world out of it. I think prep is this enormous breakthrough, not only in protecting against hiv, but improving the health and well being of people, because, for the first time, they can have sex without being scared. Well hear about how its success in bringing infections down is coming here. Hello. This was billed as the speech to rescue her premiership, but, in th
The woman reported it to the whips office twice before he was made a shadow cabinet minister. So if that is to be believed, then the whips knew about this. Also eva reported it in december 2015 injune hopkins was appointed to the shadow cabinet. But he had been reprimanded by the office and the leader knew. The report to the Leaders Office was yes, he has been reprimanded, but the matter had been settled and the only information they knew at that stage was that he sent this text saying if only i was a0 years younger. It was only today that the further information came that he sent a text saying he wanted to meet outside the formal Essex University event and crucially only today that the information came through of this very serious Sexual Harassment, a sexual assault, that he had rubbed himself against her and that is why the labour acted immediately. It is only after that Daily Telegraph produced that story that we have had that response from the labour party. So theyre having to be m