Natalie elphicke, the mp for dover, said the conservatives under rishi sunak have become a byword for incompetence and division. She made the movejust minutes before the Prime Minister faced mps in the commons at Prime Ministers questions for the First Time Since suffering heavy defeats in local elections in england. Heres our Political Editor chris mason. Natalie elphicke, shoulder to shoulder with the Prime Minister when rishi sunak invited reporters to dover last summer to talk about stopping the boats. Less than a year later, she has stopped being a Conservative Mp. Look at the leader shes appearing with now. I must when admit, i got up this morning i didnt expect to hear this today. Natalie elphicke, the labour member of parliament for dover and deal. I think she speaks for many tory voters in saying the tory party has changed, it has left the centre ground. But equally, the labour party has changed and we are very clearly the party of the national interest, of the country first,
a leaflet through the door, a knock on the door from a candidate, but mainly through tv, radio, newspapers, online. people, i think, sometimes forget what media is or what media means. it is obviously the mediate between the public and the politicians and their leaders. and it is, of course, flawed, but without the media, the public wouldn t know what s going on. so yeah, absolutely right. let s do this episode by different types of media. and i m going to now take a step back because i m one of the few non former newspaper editors sat in this room. i really know what kind of media. 0h, simon hasn t edited a newspaper either. and alex, did you edit the student newspaper, maybe, iwould imagine? no, i didn t actually. no, i also am a non newspaper editor. what media are you going to attribute to me? because i want something cool and funky like instagram. i don t want. well, you can do it all. i can do it all. thank you. thank you very much. academic based quiz shows? academic b
thanks for your company have a good night. live from london. this is bbc news the general election betting controversy deepens a fifth conservative figure is investigtated two conservative candidates lose their party s support and a labour candidate has been suspended the wikileaks founderjulian assange lands in a remote us territory in the pacific, where he ll face a final court hearing and then should be free we re there live. and, a england draw 0 0 with slovenia but they re still through to the last 16 at the euros. hello i m kasia madera. a fifth conservative figure is now being investigated by the gambling commission over alleged bets on the timing of the general election. the conservative party has withdrawn its support for two candidates craig williams and laura saunders. now russell george a conservative member of the welsh parliament is being looked into as well. and labour has suspended one of its candidates kevin craig who admitted he had bet again
“p the foreign office say they have set up a crisis centre that is operating 24/7. the prime minister hasjust chaired yet another meeting of the cobra committee, the contingency committee. there have been seven of those so far since this crisis began. i havejust been those so far since this crisis began. i have just been talking to a former senior british diplomat for the bbc s newscast podcast coming out shortly and he was emphasising in a situation like this the foreign office faces a balance of risks that 0ffice faces a balance of risks that inevitably there is criticism that not enough is being done. at the same time there will be a concern within the foreign office that if you do the wrong thing and do it too quickly, that could be very grim. so a real trade off therefore diplomats and the ministry of defence to try and the ministry of defence to try and weigh up. it is clearly occupying a lot of time among senior figures at the top of government, and clearly politically the pre