temperature north to south this morning. in the south we have rain but as it bumps into cold air especially in north wales and northern england it will turn to snow, disruptive on higher routes. in sport, england captain harry kane is on a mission to get young people thinking about, and prioritising their mental health. and prince william has a famous wingman as he returns to public engagements following the king s cancer diagnosis and his wife s surgery. it s thursday, 8th of february. labour is abandoning its promise to spend £28 billion a year on environmental projects if it wins the next election. prime minister rishi sunak is facing calls to apologise for comments he made about the labour leader s position on transgender people. he was speaking during prime minister s questions, when the mother of murdered transgender teenager brianna ghey was visiting the house of commons. let s get the latest from chief political correspondent henry zeffman. two party leaders under pr
the scene. not for him the hanging around to accept his punishment and the verdict of his peers. he was such a coward when it came to this, that he would quickly was out of his seat and beyond the clutches of this parliament. but almost unbelievably, there are some who still hanker for this notion, this fantasy that he will have some sort of route back to elected politics. it is hard to imagine a situation or a setting when that would be allowed in this house. i think we can conclude today that he is toast and thank goodness he is gone. but i have to come back to the party opposite and some of the responses of honourable gentlemen and ladies about boris johnson because they knew everything about him. he is a serial person who was sacked. the very places he worked in that he was sacked from, yet they made him prime minister. i made most maiden speech the same day as borisjohnson and i actually followed him from these benches the day he made his maiden speech. even at that poin
members of the national education union will walk out on the 5th and 7th ofjuly. the government says the strikes will cause real damage to pupils. now on bbc news political thinking with nick robinson. rishi sunak is talking rubbish, at least that s what boris johnson says, as a bitter row between the two men that have been simmering for weeks burst into the open. it s just the latest episode of tory infighting that dates back notjust to the fall ofjohnson, but arguably to the fall of margaret thatcher decades ago. my guest on political thinking this weekjoined the conservative party back then, in the early 1990s, he s been close to or an adviser to five of the last seven conservative leaders from john major to rishi sunak. and for much of that time, daniel finkelstein, lord finkelstein has been a columnist for the times newspaper, chronicling the ups and downs of british politics, drawing on his experience of that politics, but also drawing on his family s extraordinary