Ministers say, get this right, do this right and we can prevent future tragedies a5 this right and we can prevent future tragedies as well. We have the Digital Economy minister saqib bhatti live on this programme taking your calls and i know you ll have lots to say and i know you ll have lots to say and i know you ll have lots a5k lots to say and i know you ll have lots ask to him as well. Get your calls and texts in. We have some News Headlines for you with richard foster. Good morning. With richard foster. Good morninu. . , good morning. Age checks will be tou~hened good morning. Age checks will be toughened in good morning. Age checks will be toughened in from good morning. Age checks will be toughened in from the good morning. Age checks will be toughened in from the new good morning. Age checks will be toughened in from the new rules | good morning. Age checks will be l toughened in from the new rules to protect Children Online set out by the Media Regulator but critics say they h
Spending, spending on things like pensions. This is all part of his big radical plan to try to get inflation and debt in the country. He has started to get inflation down, it is still the highest in the world, but it has come at a cost. A lot of people i spoke to in argentina said they were struggling as a result of high prices at a time when support for them or their pensions or salaries were not keeping up with inflation. When i put that to him he said it was false, said that the Political Class instead were playing and he also claimed that the reason people might think they were paying was due to what he described as the mass media, calling some journalist serial liars. I asked calling some journalist serial liars. Iasked him if calling some journalist serial liars. I asked him if that was the case given that the information that most people have access to as the prices they see on the shelves. Translation do you know how many goods assets exist within an economy . So you dont do ec
Positives and areas where they have managed to hold control of councils, potentially some of the mayor raises my give them a bit of a Silver Lining but on the whole, the great picture is pretty bleak for the tories. Let me show you this. First of all, this is the vote share compared to 2021 when the seats were last contested. In 2021, Boris Johnson got a bit of around two bounce after the Vaccine Roller but look what happened since. The change in the last three years. That is the tory vote change, down 14 . That is pretty big. Its worth looking through some councils when the conservatives used to be in power but are not any more because of this. Have a look here at redditch. This is a Bellwether Seat and we said that all morning and an area with the parties think the result is pretty indicative of how the country is feeling. Look at that. The conservatives have lost 11 seats, labour won ten and it means this long line of blue down here is done. This is now a labour controlled council.
Is the tory candidate really suffering as a result. It will confirm the fear of tory mps that the effect of the reform party is to really reduce their chances and increase labour s chances, so if it is replicated on scale in a General Election it could have quite a devastating effect in terms of the type of loss of the tories have, so this result will not provide much comfort, particularly because there are problems that nigel farage might say he is taking a more active role in the party, something tories have also feared, for giving it more momentum. Also feared, for giving it more momentum also feared, for giving it more momentum. ,. ,. , momentum. Moving away from reform towards rishi momentum. Moving away from reform towards rishi sunak, momentum. Moving away from reform towards rishi sunak, what momentum. Moving away from reform towards rishi sunak, what do momentum. Moving away from reform towards rishi sunak, what do you towards rishi sunak, what do you think the results so far
A Senior Un Official has warned that the situation in sudan will have ramifications well beyond the Horn Of Africa unless more is done to halt the civil war between the army and the Rapid Support forces. Fashir in north darfur in recent weeks. French police have entered the prestigious Sciences Po University in paris to remove students whod occupied part of the building in protest against the war in gaza. Separately, about forty students were removed from the sciences po building in lyon. King charles has been presented with a beautifully illustrated record of his coronation, almost a year after the historic service at westminster abbey. This 21m long piece of history, includes 11,500 elegantly inscribed words, using specially made ink. We start in the uk where its been a painful night for the conservative party in the local and mayoral elections across england and wales. Votes are still being counted, but the latest figures show the tories have lost more than 400 councillors. The oppo