Goes on, its all change as it gets milder, wetter and windier. Thanks darren. Also coming up around £50 million worth ofjewellery is stolen from the home of formula one heiress Tamara Ecclestone. Hello everyone, this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. Boris johnson is preparing to address his new mps who have been arriving in westminster before they go to the house of commons tomorrow. Some of the 109 new mps are from labour strongholds which had never voted conservative before. Later this week the government will set out its plans in the queens speech. Its then expected to try to pass crucial brexit legislation on friday. Meanwhile, the fallout from labours defeat continues with Party Officials saying they are expected to meet early in the new year to agree the timetable for replacing Jeremy Corbyn as leader. Our Political Correspondent helen catt reports. On their way to westminster tory mps still over the moon at having turned the red seats blue. Bye thank you its the start of a new
Now on bbc news, monday in parliament. Hello there and welcome to monday in parliament. Coming up, as whitehall looks into the leak of sensitive e mails to the uk ambassador, criticising the trump administration, a conservative mp says hes taken it up at the police. I have today written to the commissioner of the metropolitan police to ask that a criminal investigation also be opened into the leak. Ministers come under pressure over the unexpected tax demands leading some nhs consultants in england to refuse to work beyond their planned hours. But many have faced tax bills of almost £100,000, and the bmas survey shows three quarters are citing this as a reason to retire. And as peers debate setting up the bodies to oversee the renovation of parliament, a labour member has a radical idea. And whether we should seek to rebalance our political constitution and to move parliament away from london. But first, police have been urged to investigate a leak of sensitive diplomatic messages whi
This. Well, to go through the papers this morning, im delighted to be joined by australias former high commissioner to the uk, the former minister former foreign minister Alexander Downer, whos now chief not chief chief chair, actually not chief chair policy Exchange Chair of the policy exchange think tank. Nice to see you this morning, thanks morning, alexander. Thanks for joining me, i know weve been talking green room about talking in the green room about these mad stories now about Penny Mordaunt being the answer to tory prayers. Lets talk about that appears about the polling that appears in sunday. First of in the mail on sunday. First of all, basically predicting electoral oblivion. Wipe out whatever word you want. An armageddon for the tories. Do you agree with that analysis that labour could be winning, or on course to win a 250 seat or plus majority . Yes, i must say, as i go around the country that is the impression i get. But people arent very enthusiastic about laboun arent
Weather, possibly 15 or 16 even. To the north, chilly, the shower is a tad wintry on the tops of the scottish mountains but that milder air will move northwards again as we head towards the end of the week. We are looking at the prospect of some 16 and welcome to scotlands largest town, a stones throw from glasgow. Historically, it was a Labour Stronghold until the partys rout in scotland in 2015, when the snp had a spectacular win here. So with a general election looming, what are the preoccupations and passions of the people of paisley be It Domestic Issues or defence, education and the environment, young and old, rich and poor . Tonight, politicians and people from every major sector are gathered to debate how they, and scotland, are faring 25 years on from the opening of scotlands parliament. Good evening. Applause paisley became an economic powerhouse in the Industrial Revolution, at the forefront of the textile industry, home of the famous paisley pattern, and equally famous radi
in scotland. it is not clear exactly when she will leave office, but as i say, she has been head of the scottish government for the last eight years. she has been making headlines in recent weeks because of a wider debate on teenagers rights, calling for a wider debate on teenagers rights, she defended plans to allow i6 year olds to change their legal sex. scotland s gender recognition bill that she wanted to introduce into scotland brought her into conflict and a clash with the uk government based in westminster, which blocked scotland plus two gender recognition bill. the secretary of state for scotland alisterjack used a special order known as a section 35 order to prevent that there becoming law on the grounds it would have an adverse impact on the laws. those are laws that apply across scotland, england and wales. that was a claim disputed by the scottish government, butjust to remind you, that gender recognition bill was to allow i6 year olds to change their legal sex