Rishi sunak s plans have not yet come to fruition. Our Political Correspondent, hannah miller, has this report. Labour won mayors, councils, and police and crime commissioners. Rishi sunak left clinging on to just one mayor in the tees valley. Even his majority diminished. This morning, the former home secretary, and one of the Prime Ministers biggest critics, warned of a total wipe out for the conservatives. I despair at these terrible results. There is no spinning these results, there is no disguising the fact that these have been terrible Election Results for the conservatives, and they suggest that we are heading to a labour government. Her prescription for the pm. He needs to actually lower taxes in a way that people will feel, not tweaking round the edges. If he is serious about migration, he needs to put a cap on illegal migration, he needs to take us out of the European Convention on human rights. In defeat, the now former conservative mayor of the West Midlands, andy street, s
Which is pretty spice y. By all accounts. Good evening. In his first speech to the Party Conference as tory leader, rishi sunak said he is only too happy divide opinion and seemingly his own party if thats what it takes to put britain on a long term path to success. But his first big change is to scrap the northern leg of h52, the High Speed Railway that was supposed to link london with manchester a decision his predecessor David Cameron said the country would come to regret for years to come. Perhaps after promising the north a programme for levelling up, it is a gamble the conservatives may come to regret much sooner. Mr suank has also promised a new qualification for further education. That Willl A Levels and the more vocational t levels will be combined that will combine a levels and the more vocational t levels into one single qualification, which in future will be known as the advanced british standard. And to enhance the future, health, of the nation, he is proposing a progressi
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tonight at ten, european leaders are to open talks with ukraine about eu membership, to the delight of president zelensky. but on the ground, the fight against russia s occupying force is struggling we report from the front line on ukraine s need for more military aid. president putin says russia s war aims have not changed in a four hour press conference. steve rosenberg was there and gives us his assessment. also, the british boy, missing for six years, found in a small town in the south of france. big developments here in the southern french city of toulouse, where mystics alex, who has been gone for six years, is being brought back home by british police from the city in the coming hours. the pioneering premier league referee rebecca welch will be the first woman to do the job. and will you see the shower of shooting stars, set to peak this evening? and on newsnight at 10:30pm, we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories.
just three years old, released with their mother, sharon. their father is still being held in gaza. they ll be picked up by military helicopter. like these boys, freed last night. the government here has been sharing footage of every release. israelis are very invested in this and the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, needs a victory even a partial one. already savouring her freedom, margalit moses, who is 78. she tells hospital staff in tel aviv they are amazing. so is she. freed from gaza on friday after almost 50 days in captivity. already a survivor of cancer, and now of hamas. some homecomings are overshadowed by sorrow. hila has been reunited with her uncle, yair rotem. but her mother, raya, yair s sister, was not freed by hamas, though israel says mothers and children were supposed to be released together. yair says his niece is still finding her voice. well, hila is whispering because she says that the terrorists that held them told them to keep it low all the tim