Launching their campaigns for the weeks to come and setting their pitch to voters. Political correspondent harry farley has this report. The campaign is off to a jet setting start. Rishi sunak met supporters in a Biscuit Factory in derbyshire before a trip to a brewery in barry and then to inverness, where he highlighted signs that he says the economy is turning a corner. Inflation has returned to normal. Wages have been rising faster than prices. The economy is now growing at a healthy rate. And thats why now is the right time to talk about our future. And my view is we need to have leadership that can provide a clear plan, take bold action to deliver a secure future for everyone in scotland and across the country, especially in these uncertain times. Sir keir starmer will also be in scotland later, as the campaigns spread across the length and breadth of the uk. The cost of energy will be a point of division today, with labour promising to bring down energy bills for good. You vote l
seen that widely across the uk for quite awhile. any snow should clear away quickly and we robertjenrick was a close friend and ally of rishi sunak s even he doesn t believe this new emergency legislation will work. we ll talk to a former conservative attorney general, labour s chair of the home affairs select committee, and a former conservative mep. also tonight. sorry for the pain and the loss and the suffering. an apology from boris johnson to relatives of those who died during the pandemic. at the covid inquiry he admitted both he and the scientists underestimated how fast covid was spreading. we should have twigged, we should collectively have twigged much sooner. we ll speak to michael rosen, who spent 42 days in a coma with covid, and was outside the inquiry this morning along with other protestors. also us funding for ukraine is on the brink of collapse. what will that mean for president zelensky and president putin? hello. the emergency bill published by the gov
in a major blow to the prime minister tonight, the minister responsible for immigration, robertjenrick, has resigned at the very moment legislation on asylum seekers was being announced to the commons. his resignation came over a bill attempting to enable the government s policy of sending some migrants to rwanda to go ahead after the supreme court ruled it unlawful. mrjenrick said it didn t go far enough and it would not end what he called the merry go round of legal challenges which risked paralysing the scheme. our political editor chris mason is here. a huge embarrassment this for rishi sunak? it this for rishi sunak? is a huge embarrassment. bu quite it is a huge embarrassment. but quite the thing to do so in the very week that you are attempting a reset on, yes, you guessed it, immigration policy. on monday we had government plans to cut legal immigration adjuster the home secretary james cleverly went to rwanda to set out part of the approach on illegal immigration
On st pauls cathedral in london. And coming up, were at thorpe park, as theme parks in england prepare to welcome customers tomorrow, for the first time in three months. Its been confirmed that spain, france and italy are among dozens of countries that will be exempt from quarantine rules in england, from next friday. Reciprocal agreements have been reached which mean travellers wont need to self isolate when they return from abroad. The new system is england only with scotland, wales and Northern Ireland setting out their own approach in the coming days. Scotlands first minister, nicola sturgeon, has accused the uk goverment of shambolic Decision Making. Tomorrow, the Foreign Office will change its advice, which warned against all but essential foreign travel. Heres our transport correspondent tom burridge. En route to france by train. The eurotunnel is still pretty quiet. But in a week from now, people travelling on this route back into england wont have to quarantine, and for this l