reported across 11 countries. there will be a full roundup of the day s news at ten o clock. first, it s newscast. welcome to the newscast studio this week. and we re going to bejoined by all sorts of interesting people who will be popping in and out throughout this episode. but first, chris, you ve had a busy old day covering what you could describe as maybe the beginning of the end of the downing street party story. yeah. so the metropolitan police today have said that they are done. they ve been looking into this since january. and so we have the figures for the final count. after a bit of back and forth, it s a bit confusing. where they confuse fines and people. but we now know that they issued 126 fines to 83 people. so most of those fined got one fine. and we know that the prime minister was one of those, as was the chancellor and the prime minister s wife. we know that 28 people got between two and five, so at least one person got five! so who is the party animal? i ve
The bbc news is that theyve released some new guidelines for presenters and personalities use of social media. News people have to stick to the rules of being completely impartial and not say anything controversial which is all has been the case, but presenters of certain flagship programmes like much of the day your antiques roadshow have been told they cant tweet anything that might be considered controversial while their shows on air orjust before or after they are on air. This is a reaction to that whole row about gary lineker and his tweets that caused a huge for rory and then the bbc had to wrestle with its commitment to impartiality but then what about folk who arent doing news shows and maybe do a handful of shows a year or a collection of shows but also do lots of other work and might want to express views about stuff . And news about gb news is that ofcom, the communications regulator, has announced they are doing an official investigation into those comments by the actor and
some people will already have had a postal vote. the slight complication was when he was asked again, what are you going to do about these candidates, would you encourage people still to vote for them what are you going to do? and they said, we would encourage them to vote for the party in these areas because by voting for these people, it is all about the share of the vote that reform uk gets and that is important. so they are saying they have dropped the candidates but still want people to vote for reform so that is the slightly unusual position. even the party accepts that this is not ideal. that this is not ideal. what has also not been that this is not ideal. what has also not been ideal that this is not ideal. what has also not been ideal other - also not been ideal other revelations in a channel 4 revelations in a channel a documentary, allegations made about a reform uk canvasser but there is a dispute over that between reform uk on channel 4. this dispute over th
uh, well, a programme tomorrow, a big programme with some very important guests and also practising for the election. so for most of the day i will be locked in the basement in broadcasting house. so, if this is recorded, does that mean it ll be better than the last three weeks that we ve done? we can only hope. i wonder if they ve taken that bit out. anyway, this is getting too meta now, so, i actually wonder how many hours it is until the polls close. well, we don t know because we don t know what time it is because we re in the wrong time. oh, this is getting very confusing. shall we get on with it? yeah, yeah. laura, what are your predictions, then, for the last few days of campaigning? well, ithink, look, it s been a very, very eventful campaign. so, you know, 2a hours ago, nobody would have predicted that the prime minister would have inserted himself very dramatically into a race row about reform candidates. so i m not going to make predictions about specifics. however