detective chief inspector john caldwell remains critically ill after he was shot at a sports centre on wednesday. five men have been arrested. investigators say they re focused primarily on the dissident republican group the new ira. sir bernard ingham, who was margaret thatcher s press secretary for the majority of her 11 years as prime minister, has died at the age of 90. known for his no nonsense approach to dealing with the press and dislike of spin , he became a staunch alley of mrs thatcher s. she rewarded his loyalty with a knighthood in her resignation honours list. sir bernard ingham, who s died at the age of 90. the snp has confirmed that three candidates are in the race to succeed nicola sturgeon as party leader and first minister of scotland. kate forbes, ash regan and humza yousaf all secured enough nominations to make it on to the ballot paper. voting begins on march 13th
he was the home secretary for margaret thatcher. i mean, willie whitelaw s view was not in favour of capital punishment. margaret thatcher s, i think, was, so there was a kind of conflict right at the heart there. but that sense of it was a really important thing and we did definitely know which what was the right answer there. and yet you wanted to be a civil servant. now, was that partly because you wanted to do what your mother was not able to do, which is to carry on as a woman in the civil service and carry on to the top? i don t think it was as formulated as that. so, i mean, at university, thinking about what i wanted to do, i was. i mean, all the things i looked at were in public service so i was quite hard wired into, you know, public servants get up in the morning to make the world a better place. i wasn t particularly. i didn t think i must be a civil servant. and i remember my father carefully not kind of pushing me towards the civil service.
did that mean that the morality of capital punishment, notjust the practicalities of how you legislate, was something that you did discuss at home? yes, i think we did, because i mean, that early period, i was very young. but i remember very distinctly in 1979, so the conservative manifesto, there was a conservative manifesto commitment to have a debate on making capital punishment available to the courts again. and they moved very quickly because the election was may and injuly they had this vote. i had just done my o levels, my sister had just done her a levels and we went to listen to the debate and i can remember the night before my father brought the speech home, the willie whitelaw speech. the home secretary. he was the home secretary for margaret thatcher. i mean, willie whitelaw s view was not in favour of capital punishment. margaret thatcher s, i think, was, so there was a kind of conflict right at the heart there.
we ll come to another of your values later, which is christianity, it s very important to you, to your family. did that mean that the morality of capital punishment, notjust the practicalities of how you legislate, was something that you did discuss at home? yes, i think we did, because i mean, that that early period, i was very young. but i remember very distinctly in 1979, so the conservative manifesto, there was a conservative manifesto commitment to have a debate on on making capital punishment available to the courts again. and they moved very quickly because the election was may and injuly they had this vote. i had just done my o levels, my sister had just done her a levels and we went to listen to the debate and i can remember the night before my father brought the speech home, the willie whitelaw speech. the home secretary. he was the home secretary for margaret thatcher. i mean, willie whitelaw view was not in favour of capital punishment. margaret thatcher s, i think, was,
done come good in the end. not the first time they have had a successful local mp, his predecessor a less successful leader but a very successful foreign secretary, well known internationally. before that leon britton, home secretary in margaret thatcher s government, so richmond in north yorkshire has always done rather well out of its conservative mps. letsjoin ben in the lets join ben in the constituency. it s a little early for pulling the pints and popping the face, but it is a nice morning in the market square in richmond, rishi sunak s constituency, he has been the mp here since 2015. they have opened some nice tea room is a pause this morning. we ve had some figures that reflect the cost of living figures that will be at the top of the agenda. the office of national statistics has published figures, looking at 30 typical grocery items,