Sir keir starmer promised an end to what he called 1a years of decline and chaos under the tories. Nigel farage said he wont be standing for reform uk but will campaign for them. It has been a busy day. Lets get more from our Political Correspondent damian grammaticas. Enter the man who has staked everything on this gamble, calling an election now. Quite a few of his mps are not convinced by the timing and he has a huge poll deficit to overcome. I want to build a britain, a country where you all can have confidence, restored confidence and pride in our communities, in our society and our nation. Earlier he had an admission hed promised deportation flights to rwanda. Now he says they will happen if he is elected. We have already started detaining people, we have hired the escorts, we have an airfield on standby and we have booked the flights. All of that work is already ongoing and the choice of this election is clear, because if im reelected as Prime Minister on the 5th ofjuly, these f
Scandal later today. Between 1999 and 2015 Hundreds Of Sub Postmasters were wrongly prosecuted due to faulty software. Its the first time shell publicly speak about her role in the scandal for nearly a decade. Our Business Correspondent emma simpson has the details. Its 2012, and Paula Vennells is in herfirst year as the new boss of the post office. Shes already spent half a decade with the business. And here shes on a visit to the shop floor. Retail is detail. I dont know whoever it was that said that, but it is that. And you come to places like this and you find out the Little Things that make the operation much more efficient. Back then, the post office was haemorrhaging money. The pressure is on to turn things around. But did she put profits before people . Theres a sack full of questions waiting for her now. Lee bought the Bridlington Branch in 2003. The losses soon began. Here he is after the post office made him bankrupt with huge legal costs as they pursued him in court. So imp
Our security correspondent Gordon Corera is here. Gordon, the finger of suspicion is firmly pointing out china at the moment . , firmly pointing out china at the moment . 2 ~ ,. , moment . Thats right. Members of the armed forces moment . Thats right. Members of the armed forces this moment . Thats right. Members of the armed forces this morning moment . Thats right. Members of the armed forces this morning will moment . Thats right. Members of the armed forces this morning will have i armed forces this morning will have received a pretty unwelcome e mail, saying that their personal data has been breached, and could have been compromised, talking about names, potentially bank details and addresses. It all relates to information from the payment contractor, ratherthan information from the payment contractor, rather than the ministry of defences own Computer Systems being breached. Its not yet clear what is being done with that data, how much has been stolen. It certainly the hackers go
Entry Olly Alexander says that the Union Jack Flag can be divisive and nationalistic. I thought flags were meant to be nationalistic, israel has rejected that ceasefire offer from hamas and its continuing its invasion of the Southern Gaza city of rafah. Well have the latest and the green party are now investigating that council who declared his election victory, a win for the people of gaza. Should moeen ali be booted out of politics for saying this is the voice of palestine . Hello, hello. Hello, hello. His his comments that are especially provocative and under investigation were about a rabbi whos now had to go into hiding with his family and the green party, im afraid, knew about these comments before the local elections. So they should be elections. So they should be investigating their own failure to respond. To respond. Yeah. Let us know your thoughts this morning. Gbnews. Com forward slash your say first though the very latest news with sophia wenzler. Thanks bev. Good morning.
and labour s bridget phillipson who ll be education secretary in less than a fortnight if the polls are right. 11 days to go, are you tired, exhausted, relieved it is nearly over? sonic regardless the sun has come out. i got to wear shorts the other day, small mercies in elections. but i like electioneering, so i don t mind. are you hoping to get more votes with the shorts? i’m you hoping to get more votes with the shorts? you hoping to get more votes with the shorts? . . ., the shorts? i m afraid i might have ut some the shorts? i m afraid i might have put some peeple the shorts? i m afraid i might have put some people off. the shorts? i m afraid i might have put some people off. the - the shorts? i m afraid i might have put some people off. the sun - the shorts? i m afraid i might have put some people off. the sun is i put some people off. the sun is shinin: put some people off. the sun is shining but put some people off. the sun is shining but nothing put so