Day recess next week, for the tory Party Conference. We are in stoke on trent, a city that voted overwhelmingly for brexit. We will be testing the political temperature. Well have all the latest from westminster. The other main stories on bbc news at 5pm. President trumps top intelligence official faces congress, after a whistle blower claims the white house tried to cover up details of a phone call between donald trump and the ukrainian president. Minimum pricing in scotland leads to a fall in the amount of alcohol people are buying, prompting calls for the rest of the uk to follow suit. Prince harry on Climate Change the world will be a very troubling place he says if people continue to deny it. And coming up. The uks new Polar Research ship, originally due to be called Boaty Mcboatface is launched today by the duke and duchess of cambridge, named after Sir David Attenborough. Good afternoon, its five oclock, and borisjohnson says tempers need to come down in parliament, after he was
Of stabbing him to death held a phone to his face and said im going to kill this man. Europes in the grip of a heatwave. With extreme temperatures in france, germany and across the continent. And all eyes on the lionesses as england prepare to take on norway in the womens world cup quarter finals. Boris johnson and jeremy hunt face questions from conservative Party Members tonight in the second official hustings of the leadership campaign. Mrjohnson is promising changes to the immigration system if he becomes Prime Minister. To an australian style model, and the opening speech he said any further delay of brexit read the trust. We can come out on october 31 we must and we well, and the way we do it is a good way of getting a great deal, you sort out problems of the backstop, outside of the current withdrawal agreement, you disaggregate the elements of that 110w disaggregate the elements of that now defunct which ill agreement and do this citizenship first, get ee at 2. 2 million eu nat
But they will give us a huge indicator of our politicians fortunes as we hurtle towards the big contest. The Prime Minister tried to look cheerful on the campaign trail. But hes been under the cosh for many months. If the results are gruesome, could rishi sunak sjob be at risk . Will sir keir starmer be able to show convincing progress tonight . Labours been miles ahead in the National Polls for months though real life votes are what really count. Ed davey and his army of activists want to call time on the tories. In how many parts of the country will they get their way . Thousands of Council Seats are up for grabs, a by election in blackpool, Police Commissioners are being chosen too, and there are elections for those powerful mayors around the country it is the biggest test of Public Opinion before The General Election. Reeta chakrabarti will bring us the numbers as the hours tick by. These are the seats at the main parties are defending. Just under 1000 for the conservatives, and fo
Is facing two confidence votes in the coming days, one on him personally and the other in his actual government. This all came about after the First Ministers decision last week to end the deal with the greens and it followed a backlash over the snps decision to scratch the 2030 climate targets. The greens accused mr yousaf of selling out future generations over climate and had been due to hold a vote themselves over whether to remain in power with the snp in response to that. The snp has 63 msps in the 129 seat parliament. If those seven green msps vote against him he is reliant on the support of the soul alba party msp, ash regan, to continue his role. She used to be a member of the snp but defected to Alex Salmonds alba party. Mr yousaf apparently ruled out cutting a deal with the alba party. That would lead to a 64 61; tie vote in which case into parliament if there was time about the Presiding Officer would be expected to remain the status quo. What we are expecting in the next ho
In case of an emergency. On sunday, Suella Braverman called for a review into armed policing. Her intervention was welcomed by the metropolitan police commissioner, sir mark rowley. In an open letter, he called for an urgent reset, writing that improvements to the met police were being undermined by a system not set up to help officers succeed, identifying Police Pursuits and the use of force as areas of the most glaring unfairness. He said officers need sufficient Legal Protection to do theirjob and keep the public safe, because theyre now more afraid of years of uncertainty for them and theirfamilies in the legal system than they are of confronting dangerous or armed criminals and terrorists. It all comes after a met Police Officer was charged on thursday with the murder of Unarmed Chris Kaba Last year. The 24 year old was fatally shot in a borrowed car in south london, a car the police say was linked to an incident involving a gun. The met police are keen to stress that Military Per