The big message from the local ballot boxes so far is that The Conservatives remain in deep electoral trouble. Hi, good evening, its friday night, and we have a top Newsnight Panel for you tonight. Polling guru professor sirjohn curtice. Our own Political Editor nick watt. Emma barr, former conservative special advisor. And stephen bush from the financial times, who is an expert on labour. Now four of the five biggest vote swings in by elections from conservatives to labour have happened in the last year under sir keir starmer including Blackpool South yesterday. However not one further conservative mp has publicly called for rishi sunak to go, despite his party being, according to the experts, in deep electoral trouble. It was a very good night for labour, but theres an acknowledgement that some voters have deserted the party over its stance on gaza. All that and more to come. First, nick, pollsters say these results are bad for The Conservatives. Where does it leave rishi sunak . fi
This programme contains some Strong Language and some discriminatory language. Election night fever, as bbc gets ready to bring you the results of the last big vote before the General Election. Will it be boom time for starmer . Or will it be doom time for sunak . The bbc s Election Programme kicks off in an hours time. You can see just a few of their many live points warming up. With a pick n mix of votes under the count tonight, to discuss them well be joined by the chair of the labour party, a Senior Cabinet Minister and the personification of political analysis, professor sirjohn curtice. Well also talk to the person most likely to be the new First Minister of scotland, john swinney, now that kate forbes has thrown her weight behind him. And with the looming prospect of deportation flights to rwanda, a warning you will hear strong and discriminatory language as a protestor is racially abused attempting to stop Asylum Seekers being moved out of hotels by government contactors. Shout
170 million and has gone into greece. That has gone from being 20 short to just under 2 . It is almost as short on greece as it is for the rest of the indices. I want to see whether they are making any movements at the moment. Keep in ion lufthansa. The insurers make it a 300 million decision. The stock market is going back a little bit. Copenhagen is up and portugal was up on the quarter. The dax was up on the quarter and spain has a deal coming out today and what is happening is we have the auto part maker going after the deal and some individual Industry Groups i think, are flagging and it was consumer goods seeing some of the biggest moves in the quarter. You are looking at the performance of 35 or 36 . These are just some of the names. The deal is driving a little bit of enthusiasm. It was the chemicals. We know that. They are saying the business is the led. It is bucking the european trend. It is 2. 8 billion. This is the copper producer and they have denied they are in talks wit
Chair of its review panel. And we follow one woman as she meets the half siblings she never knew she had. Thats in my extended family in half an hour. Hello. A very good morning to you. President trump says the United States has a list of 52 iranian sites which will be hit very hard and very fast if there is retaliation for the killing of Qasem Soleimani. Irans most senior military commander was assassinated on thursday in baghdad in an american air strike. Mr trump said the targets were high level, and important to iranian culture. The British Government has announced two Royal Navy Warships will escort uk shipping in the persian gulf, and the foreign secretary dominic raab will travel to washington for talks later this week. Greg mckenzie has this report. As britain ramps up its security in the middle east, donald trump has threatened to hit 52 iranian targets should iran strike any american or us assets in retaliation for the killing of its revered general Qasem Soleimani, whose dea