report the allegations to the police? did conservative head office reported the allegations to the police? additionally, they are also asking if there are indications for electoral law, because the allegations in the times suggested that donations for political campaigning was used for a quite different purpose. if mark menzies was suspended from the conservative whip, it means that in practice he cannot stand as a conservative candidate at the general election this year. but i think the bigger fearful conservative party bosses is that if he resigns, there could be a by election. he has a really healthy majority of more than 16,000, but in recent by elections, both labour and lib dems have overturned a much bigger conservative majorities. is another danger, too, ithink bigger conservative majorities. is another danger, too, i think for the prime minister. 0n another danger, too, i think for the prime minister. on monday he is hoping finally that his rwanda legislation will go through,
for selby and ainsty said he was going to leave parliament for them end there was widespread gossip and talk, i guess you could call it and in the reason he was going to step down was that he wasn t awarded a c in the house of lord and boris johnson s resignation honours list. that was something the labour opponents in selby described as nigel adams throwing his toys out of the pram was a frame they use. there s a lot of anger as to why did the sitting mp walk from here on a whim? , ., ., the sitting mp walk from here on a whim? , ., ., ., ., .,~ whim? let s go to jonathan blake. he is in firm with whim? let s go to jonathan blake. he is in firm with the whim? let s go to jonathan blake. he is in firm with the lib whim? let s go to jonathan blake. he is in firm with the lib dems whim? let s go to jonathan blake. he is in firm with the lib dems have - is in firm with the lib dems have secured a huge win overnight from the and frome constituency. we saw sir ed davies celebra
continues to disappoint. that is why this decision has been made because inflation data has been higher, hotter, more sticky and stubborn. thejobs and pay hotter, more sticky and stubborn. the jobs and pay data as well. this is the bank in the first instance doing what it was going to do today and in august but doing it upfront now in order to say to the markets, to say to the public, we are very serious about trying to bring inflation down. but we wait for new data prices, new data on thejobs market before we know where rates will go in the future. faisal islam. and to our chief political correspondent, nick eardley, at westminster. nick today s announcement clearly tricky for the government. the cost of living is the biggest issue the government is facing. there are calls in parliament for the government to intervene and help people with increasing mortgage rates. the lib dems have backed that, some tory mps have as well. i
just hit a century, there we are, the lib dems have got 100 seat so far tonight. interestingly, underneath, the greens gaining ten, and the residents association, a wonderfulfactor in and the residents association, a wonderful factor in local elections, residents association stand around the country and in some parts of the countries they do very well, gaining one seat in the so far tonight. in staffordshire, stoke on trent, let s go back to lizzie, we were talking about, chris had some intelligence suggesting labour feeling really chipper about what might happen there. what is your latest? i might happen there. what is your latest? ., might happen there. what is your latest? ., ., latest? i would say the labour supporters latest? i would say the labour supporters in latest? i would say the labour supporters in the latest? i would say the labour supporters in the room - latest? i would say the labour i supporters in the room definitely have a spring in their step now. six ga
several spectacular by election wins that the lib dems have had and the conservatives of well. what will the effect of that? the first time a governing party is lost two seats in a set of by elections since 1991, and it would further erode boris johnson s authority, further erode the confidence of conservative mps on him. yes, he survived narrowly, a confidence vote, but the whole premise and aura of boris johnson, his past political personality, his leadership, that the first really successful winner for the conservative party since margaret hatcher arguably, the first one to really win a weighty, chunky majority in a general election and he did it by threading the different parts of his coalition together, more working class, combined with the more traditional conservative southern heartlands, and if he loses both of those seats