Improving but another environmental problem is piling up that is medical waste. And sport further talks are taking place to discuss English Premier League footballers taking a pay cut a deal is being negotiated that will see players salaries reduced by 30 percent. So the u. K. Government is holding its Daily Briefing on the current virus lets take you live now to downing street in central london. With covered 19 symptoms but the action of hospital admissions in england and wales has regional differences in the number of admissions folks like between the 1st and 2nd of april admissions a study in wales but in yorkshire and the northeast by 30 percent. And in the middle and the rate of hospital admissions has gone up by 47 percent 708 people have sadly lost their lives as a result of cover 19 the highest daily total yet recorded and that means that of those hospitalized in the u. K. The number who passed away now totals 4330 those numbers emphasize again the importance of maintaining soc
We will all go now and a new leader will come in place, appoint a shadow cabinet. I will not be part of that shadow cabinet. I have done my bit. We need to move on at that stage with that new leader. Im Rachel Schofield with the rest of todays headlines. Journey times are being cut, more services and new routes added as part of major timetable changes on britains railways. The search for two remaining bodies resumes, following the volcanic eruption in new zealand. Crucial United Nations climate talks in madrid are continuing, with no sign that an agreement is imminent. And at 12 30pm, therell be an electioncast special, when adam fleming and the team look back at yesterdays result. Thats coming up here on the bbc news channel. Good afternoon and welcome to westminster. Borisjohnson is visiting the north of england today, hours after celebrating his partys biggest election win for 30 years by sweeping aside labour in its traditional heartlands. Were expecting to hear from the Prime Mini
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Britains election provided binary clarity. Borisjohnson has the kind of parliamentary mandate the conservative party hasnt seen since the thatcher era, to take the uk out of the eu and roll out a tory vision for the country. And the labour party . Well, after one of the most crushing defeats in its history, it faces an existential crisis. My guest is alastair campbell, close adviser to tony blair in the new labour years, passionate opponent of brexit. Where does the left go now if its ever win again . Alastair campbell, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. I want to begin with that election result itself. When you saw it, as a tribally labour man, labour all your life but who has run into a series of problems withJeremy Corbyn and his leadership, how did you respond to that result . I wasnt wholly surprised. I had privately predicted about 50, 60. Majority for the tories. Yes, and the reason for that
The eu without any trade deal. Be in power with a lot of power and now on bbc news, its hardtalk having seen what he done with a little bit of power, that is with stephen sackur. Alarming and even though as you say ive been kicked out of the labour party for voting liberal democrat in welcome to hard tour, im stephen the european elections as a protest sacco. Britains collection divided vote, i feel very, very the european elections as a protest vote, ifeel very, very labour and i was really sad just to see what is binary clarity. Borisjohnson has described in the introduction is potentially an existential threat to the kind of parliamentary mandate the labour party, its very scary. The kind of parliamentary mandate the conservative party hasnt seen since the pratchett euro to take the what you didnt use and that answer was exit but the tories made this a uk out of the eu and roll out a tory brexit election, it was a decision vision for the country and the on brexit and it was a slap i
Very bullish and effervescent Boris Johnson with a big majority to play with. This is our election special. Good afternoon. You join us live in westminster where borisjohnson is beginning a new term as Prime Minister after the conservatives won their biggest majority since 1987. The tory leader returned to downing street earlier after visiting Buckingham Palace to ask the queen for permission to form a government. Overnight his gamble to hold a december election paid off. He now has a majority of 78 and a mandate, he says, to leave the eu. With this mandate and this majority we will at last be able to do what . Get brexit done labour perfomed poorly, losing 59 seats many of them in places theyve held for decades. Jeremy corbyn says hell stand down as leader early next year. I think the responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing and i wont do that. I will stay here until there has been somebody elected to succeed me and then i will step down at that point. A strong