rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each, if the conservatives are re elected. my colleaguejess parker has been following the conservatives and gave me this update earlier. i am on the conservative battle bus. it s on its inaugural campaignjourney. and there s a little bit of confusion because, of course, myself and other reporters have been reporting from buses since the campaign began. that was on a different bus. didn t have conservative branding. didn t have the prime minister on board. but we re now on the officially branded bus that was launched earlier today in redcar, and we re continuing to travel across the north east. just to give you a sense of this bus, if the camera will kindly do a little crowd view. this is producerjack bbc producerjack. and then down the aisle there there are other reporters from different broadcasters, from newspapers as well. and of course the idea is that you get to follow the campaign, you get to be in re
hello. i m anna foster. let s start in the middle east, where israel s opposition leader has urged the prime minister to accept a proposal unveiled by president biden aimed at securing a permanent ceasefire in gaza. yair lapid says if right wing members of benjamin netanyahu s coalition resigned in protest, his party would continue to support the government. it is unclear what that would mean in practice. it comes as mr netanyahu says israel will continue to focus on the destruction of hamas and the freeing of all hostages. he was responding to a three phase proposalfrom presidentjoe biden who says hamas is no longer capable of launching another october the seventh style attack on israel. meanwhile, egyptian state linked tv is reporting a meeting between egyptian, us and israeli officials will take place on sunday to discuss the re opening of the rafah crossing. a short time ago, i spoke with the uk s foreign secretary, lord cameron. i began by asking him what this deal conta
prime minister, an earlier own, in a media huddle, reporters were asking the prime minister various questions. one of them was about the fact that it has merely seen the prime minister heading to conservative held seats, seats won by the tories in the last election. the insist that labour s substantial poll lead, but as conservatives pursuing a more defensive strategy, a corporate strategy, rishi sunak insisted that he was travelling right across the country and here we are in a relatively early stages of this campaign so far, but as we head through the rest of the campaign today, through the rest of the campaign toda , ., ~ through the rest of the campaign toda ,. ., today, thank you, were spoken about the today, thank you, were spoken about the best today, thank you, were spoken about the best place today, thank you, were spoken about the best place to today, thank you, were spoken about the best place to get - today, thank you, were spoken about the best place to get an - t
at him as well. and earlier on in a media huddle, reporters were asking the prime minister various questions. one of them was about the fact that the tory campaign so far has mainly seen the prime minister not exclusively but mainly seen the prime minister heading to conservative held seats, seats that were won by the tories in the last election. playing into this idea that because of labour s substantial poll lead, although all the usual caveats on polls apply, are the conservatives pursuing a more defensive strategy? a core vote strategy? rishi sunak insisted when he was talking to was that he was travelling right across the country. and of course, we are in the relatively early stages of this campaign so far. but as we head on for the rest of the campaigning today across the north east, of course, we will continue to track the movements of the prime minister. the first minister of scotland