Within the next few minutes, the former conservative Home Secretary, James Cleverly, will try to win over his fellow conservative mps as he launches campaign to become leader of the party. Mr cleverly is one of the front runners to replace Rishi Sunak following the Conservatives Defeat atjuly s election. He is among six candidates vying for the job, and those candidates will be whittled down to four by the time of the conservative conference at The End of the month. After that, mps will carry out further rounds of voting to select two final candidates for the conservative members to choose between, with the result announced on 2nd november. Lets speak to our deputy political editor, vicki young, who joins us from westminster. Hello. Any hint as to what we are likely to hear from James Cleverly. I think he will talk about some specific policies. We can really say this Leadership Election has been rumbling along in the background over the summer. We have had a bit from all of the candida
Pictures there because that is the back of barack obama, he goes in to see rishi sunak. The former us president here in the uk and Downing Street and going in to meet with rishi sunak. That is the picture liven Downing Street. We will return and talk more to our Political Correspondent about this visit and of course one of those Headline Stories again, news stories surrounding the future of rishi sunak, the british Prime Minister, in dismissing those rumours as simply coming out of the westminster bubble. But the former us president going inside number 10 Downing Street and well be back there very shortly on the programme. But lets start this hour in the middle east. The Israeli Army Says it has killed the head of operations in hamas internal Security Force during a raid on gazas biggest hospital. The military also made dozens of arrests in Al Shifa Hospital in gaza city. Palestinian Health Officials said a number of people were injured in the raid, but they could not be helped because
A lot of news tonight. Joe biden reportedly anxious and angry over his reelection prospects. Why . Poll after poll after poll, dont trump is it beating the current president. Demographically, joe is losing huge parts of his base. Hes losing huge numbers with advocate americans, Hispanic American Sky younger people, suburban moms, they are leaving him. Now democrats, the Biden Campaign, the mob and the media are all desperate and i mean desperate. Some would even say that while, the left is bracing for a political bloodbath, which is why they are desperately now praying that donald trump spends the next 221 days in courtrooms all across america in the hopes that joe Bidens Bidens weapon Eyes Department of justice can help joey win the day. But whatever you do, just dont call it a blood bath. , they will accuse you of fermenting violence. The same people that said that 574 rides in the summer of 2020 that killed dozens of americans, Injured Thousands of cops, with bricks, rocks, bottles,
Dog, pom. Pictures here of him out with his dog, poppy, in the early hours near Downing Street. Some nice pictures. The chancellor has promised his plans will stimulate the flagging economy and help family with permanent tax breaks. Labour will argue that any reductions will still leave people worse off because of the freezing of Tax Thresholds. So what could be expected in todays budget . Ben king takes a look. The background to todays budget has been gloomy, with the economy in recession. But it looks like the chancellor will still find room to cut taxes. The conservatives are trailing labour in the polls, and looking Forjeremy Hunt to give them some cheer in places like this, winchester, a seat the Lib Dems Hope to win. So what do people here think about tax cuts . I think it would be a good idea because it gives people more money to spend on what they want to buy. Realistically, people arent going to save that much money from a tax cut, whereas more money in Public Services means B
Meanwhile Red Bull Team principal Christian Horner, has again denied allegations of inappropriate behaviour, after a series of alleged messages were leaked. Horner was cleared on wednesday, after an internal investigation looked into his behaviour towards a female colleague. An anonymous email, with a link to messages, purporting to involve horner, was sent to formula 1 personnel and media yesterday. Horner said i wont comment on anonymous speculation, but, to reiterate, i have always denied the allegations. Tim jotischky is a Reputation Management expert. Clearly he has repeatedly said he has been an exonerated and he has nothing to answer for what it can be difficult to do that because the weight of events, the fact that you are the centre of the story, it becomes impossible to focus on what you are therefore, which is the win races. A mean sometimes you dont think your position is sustainable, there might be someone in business who does, its something you might see it happen, but it