Be held before long but mps will also consider amendments, which could include votes for 16 to 18 year olds. Its 5pm. Were live at westminster where the house of commons is inching its way towards a decision on holding a general election before christmas. Mps are debating a bill presented by borisjohnson, which is meant to clear all its commons stages today, but its already looking to be a less than straightforward process. Theres disagreement on the date, the 12th of december proposed by the government, is being challenged by the opposition. But labour, after much internal debate, is now backing the calls for an election. Jeremy corbyn said that the ruling out of a no deal brexit had dealt with labours main concern. The Scottish National party and the liberal democrats want a 9th of december poll but theres talk of a possible compromise around the 11th december. There are extra demands for giving votes to 16 and 17 year olds, and allowing eu nationals resident in the uk to vote in a g
Northamptonshire police are expected to travel to the us to interview the american diplomats wife who fled the uk after being involved in a fatal car crash. Abortion has been decriminalised in Northern Ireland and same sex marriage has been legalised after westminster voted for the changes in july. Canadas Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, wins a second term in office but loses his majority in parliament and will need support from smaller parties to carry on governing. And ahead of their Rugby World Cup semifinal against new zealand, eddie jones claims england were spied on during training. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. Boris johnson will urge mps to back his brexit deal later, as he launches a final bid to get the uk to leave the eu by the end of the month. Hell seek the support of members of parliament in two crucial votes today. Lets take a quick look at what were expecting to happen. Mps will vote later on whether to back the Prime Ministers Withdrawal Agreement b
Vote on the bill itself. Through the course of the evening we willdip into through the course of the evening we will dip into the house and bring you those of its life. In the past power mps have approved the latest stage and Boris Johnsons power mps have approved the latest stage and borisjohnsons attempted trickle a general election and this was the moment in the commons when Speakerjohn Bercow announced an election is due to happen when the general election bill passed its second reading. The question is that the bill be now read a second time. As many of that opinion say aye, of the contrary no. The ayes have it. The ayes have it. Speaker of the house just about an hour ago at the second reading. Sebastian payne the whitehall correspondent at the ft is with us. Just getting wired up and i am glad because we have some breaking news. Iwill tell am glad because we have some breaking news. I will tell people that ten of the 21 conservative mps who lost the web, ten of them have got the
One suspects at the end of the day they will want to go to the polls and they will want to vote for a party that they think is either going to deliver brexit or is going to stop it. You mentioned the battle for the hearts and minds of those people who are on the leave side of the argument, there is an equally complex equation for those people on the remain side who want to make their point in the election coming up, so which way are they likely to turn . This again is the other crucial feature of the moment. Whereas leave voters consolidate behind the conservatives, the remain voters divided particularly between labour and the liberal democrats but some for the greens and snp. If you add up the total vote in the polls at the moment for the brexit party, the tories and the anti brexit opposition, they are roughly equal. But the remain votes divided because the liberal democrats ate away significantly at labour support amongst remain voters in the spring and they have held onto it. The t
Where this government offers nothing. And with an election on the horizon, ten of the 21 tory mps expelled by the conservative party have been invited back into the fold. Well look at what the parties will offer in this brexit election. And if youve got questions about what happened today, what to expect in the next few weeks, and where this leaves brexit, send me your questions using the bbcos yesterday it was off, todays its on. There will be a uk election on december 12. Mps voted a short time ago on whether to hold it on the ninth heres the vote at westminster a short time ago. Order. The ayes to the right, 295. The noes to the left, 315. So the noes have it. The noes have it. Unlocked. That idea was defeated. So having said no to it yesterday now parliament has finally voted in favour of an election on december 12 after a long day of debating. Its got the green light because the leader of the oppositionjeremy corbyn, brought his labour party behind an election 2a hours after he bl