week. we will bring you that live. fresh calls for the government to stop energy bill rises in april as the energy regulator ofgem lowers the price cap for gas and electricity. a new panorama investigation uncovers evidence that women are being misled and manipulated about abortion by some crisis pregnancy advice centres in the uk. the first female speaker of the houses of commons, betty boothroyd dies aged 93. good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. we ll be live in windsor shortly but first, just to let you know we re expecting a news conference very shortly in belfast from police investigating the shooting last week of det chief inspectorjohn caldwell. two gunmen shot the 48 year old several times in front of his young son at a sports complex on wednesday evening. mr caldwell remains critically ill in hospital. six people remain in police custody for questioning. this is the scene, the podium, as we expect the conference getting under way. there are significant developm
showing the queen s appearance on the buckingham palace balcony. the queen front and centre of the daily telegraph, as the paper reports on her statement to the public saying the monarch has reaffirmed her commitment to serve the nation. the times says the members of the royal family chosen to appear on the balcony are a message about the future of the monarchy. it was a slimmed down royal family, according to the i. but the paper also looks at boris johnson s future, saying a vote on his leadership could come this week. the guardian claims allies of the pm are preparing for a confidence vote, and says borisjohnson will launch a policy fightback focusing on health and housing. that story continued in the financial times, showing the prime minister and labour leader, keir starmer, watching the platinumjubilee pageant. but the paper leads with reports of a 90% drop in the value of public listings in the us and europe since the war in ukraine started. 0k, let us begin our chat
rumbled over northern ireland protocol has rumbled on. there are people who work rumbled on. there are people who work in rumbled on. there are people who work in university science research, he would work in university science research, he would like the uk to be back in the eu s he would like the uk to be back in the eu s science programme. that was never the eu s science programme. that was never going the eu s science programme. that was never going to happen as long as the protocol never going to happen as long as the protocol row continued. potentially, does it protocol row continued. potentially, does it make it easier for the prime minister does it make it easier for the prime minister to does it make it easier for the prime minister to go does it make it easier for the prime ministerto go and does it make it easier for the prime minister to go and see present macron. we don t know how, but one present macron. we don t know how, but one would have thought they
the prime within the conservative party for the prime minister to go, and within the conservative party for the prime ministerto go, and it within the conservative party for the prime minister to go, and it is absolutely the prime minister to go, and it is absolutely right that she has done so. absolutely right that she has done so but absolutely right that she has done so but i absolutely right that she has done so. but i think there are an awful lot of so. but i think there are an awful lot of unanswered questions remaining. we have heard about the desire remaining. we have heard about the desire from remaining. we have heard about the desire from the conservatives have another desire from the conservatives have another prime minister in place within another prime minister in place within a another prime minister in place within a week from now, and quite confusing within a week from now, and quite confusing to me ideas about how they re confusing to me ideas about