Applause labour won mayors, councils, and police and crime commissioners. Rishi sunak left clinging on to just one mayor in the tees valley. Even his majority diminished. This morning, the former home secretary, and one of the Prime Ministers biggest critics, warned of a total wipe out for the conservatives. I despair at these terrible results. Theres no spinning these results, theres no disguising the fact that these have been terrible Election Results for the conservatives and they suggest that we are heading to a labour government. Her prescription for the pm. He needs to actually lower taxes in a way that people will feel, not tweaking round the edges. If he is serious about migration, he needs to put a cap on illegal migration, he needs to take us out of the European Convention on human rights. In defeat, the now former conservative mayor of the West Midlands, andy street, said the opposite, urging his party to stick to the centre ground. This morning, ministers were insisting the
The release of scores of hostages still held in gaza. People are hostages to the right wing government, and the people of gaza are hostages to hamas, and basically there has to be a way to overcome that. They are protesting because the last five months of Military Assaults on gaza have failed to release those israeli hostages. Not everybody in israel wants this ceasefire deal. There are some, especially hardliners in the coalition government, who want to see instead an immediate Military Operation against hamas in rafah. Meanwhile, the Israeli Government has voted unanimously to close the operations in israel of the qatar based tv channel aljazeera. A tweet from the Israeli Prime Ministers Office called it the incitement channel. In cairo, Ceasefire Talks are still in play. Hamas has sent a delegation, but they have been locked in talks with mediators. The Sticking Point appears to be they want a permanent end to the fighting, notjust a pause, and israel isnt ready to give that commitm
meanwhile takumi minamino was liverpool s hero on wednesday night at anfield as he scored a 95th minute equaliser in the quarter finals of the english league cup against leicester city, with the score three all. the match went to penalties which liverpool won, they ll face arsenal in the last four whilst chelsea will play tottenham, a good night for klopp who made 10 changes from the last game with several players out with covid. with a busy fixture list and growing concerns around covid cases, liverpool captain jordan henderson says he s worried that player welfare is not being taken seriously. former captain steven gerrard now the aston villa boss, says the covid situation at his club is changing by the hour and that s proving tough for players. we have a situation at the weekend where one of the players was reluctant to get out of his car because he had some symptoms, he s got a young family, so totally understand the situation and how he felt at the time and that s where i ve got t
you keep doing what you should do, focus on your tasks day after day. the draw for the quarterfinal of the league has been made. west ham s reward for beating manchester city is a trip across london to play tottenham. arsenal take on league1 sunderland, brentford play chelsea, and brendan rogers goes back to his old club as leicester city play liverpool. it is the start of the rugby union men s autumn internationals this weekend. in just over an hour, scotland play tonga at murrayfield. in cardiff, wales have a huge game against new zealand, who they haven t beaten since 1953. with a capacity crowd at the principality stadium, it is expected to be a thriller, especially for captain alun wyn jones thriller, especially for captain alun wynjones who will become the most capped player of all time, overtaking new zealand s richie