northern england, more cloud and the odd shower or a splash of rain. i will have all the details later. it s tuesday 25th june. the bbc has been told that the gambling commission is considering whether more police officers are involved in alleged betting on the date of the general election. four conservatives and a police officer assigned to the protection of rishi sunak are known to be facing inquiries. scotland yard has denied a report that it leaked the names of some of those under investigation. here s our political correspondent, iain watson. did you have inside information when you placed your bet on the election date? i made a statement. it s been nearly two weeks since this aide to the prime minister who s also a conservative candidate said he d made a huge error ofjudgement in betting on the date of the general election. another candidate and two members of the conservative party staff are also being investigated by the gambling commission. last night, interviewe
about it, but it s what it should be. she was one of a group of campaigners who, this week, went to westminster to demand change a survivors charter, one which alleviates the pain of an attack, instead of magnifying it. jayne mccubbin, bbc news. here in the uk, the nhs is launching a catch up vaccination campaign in london primary schools to ensure children are protected against polio. immunisation rates in the city are still lagging behind the rest of the uk. polio is rare but can cause paralysis if the virus attacks nerves in the brain or spine. i m joined now by dr natalie rout, a gp with gray s inn road medical centre here in london. thank you forjoining us. how worried should people be about this? is it reallyjust precautionary?
this is precautionary but it should be taken seriously. last year from february until november, there were polio virus detected in sewage samples in london at higher rates than we have seen the four which suggests there has been some transmission in the population and what we want to try to prevent is any cases of paralysis occurring, which is a severe complication of something like polio. to which is a severe complication of something like polio. something like polio. to have immunisation something like polio. to have immunisation rates something like polio. to have immunisation rates falling | something like polio. to have - immunisation rates falling have immunisation rates falling have immunisation rates falling have immunisation rates falling have immunisation rates falling? timer;r immunisation rates falling have immunisation rates falling? they are lac um: immunisation rates falling? they are lagging behind immunisation rates falling? they are lagging behind
the technology, but also producing mrna vaccines for boosters or reconsidering the schedules in line with the variants they are facing. the other thing is they have sub optimal immunisation rates in some of the highest risk populations in china, so they need to be a majorfocus. and then coming back to the. sorry just on that point that seems an extraordinary, an anomaly, really, within china that that is allowed to happen, because if they want to impose certain restrictions as they have done with isolating people and locking down why can t they impose the insistence that they have vaccines? well, they are. again, even before draconian mandates or strict mandates, there are a lot of things in the toolbox of public health entities, including in china, for example, soft mandates, meaning requiring vaccination for certain activities, and countries like france have shown that using those kinds of nudges or strong