Joining me conservative homes executive editor mark wallace. The westminster correspondent for the yorkshire post, liz bates. The liberal democrat mp chuka umunna. And the brexit party mep Ann Widdecombe. Today this man, Boris Johnson, already has the support of almost half the Parliamentary Party. That leaves only one place left to fight for. Im looking forward to making it through to the front two, and looking forward to a civilised debate of ideas. Im sure i will be picking up some votes but these can be unpredictable, so, i want to go for it. May the best man win, and thats going be me. Barring an upset, we expect that challenger to be jeremy hunt or michael gove. Well be live in this room in the commons at 1pm to bring you the results of the latest ballot in this conservative leadership contest. So, we are pretty sure mrjohnson goes forward to the final two, not yet sure who will be with him, we will know by the end of today. Lets find out who you think, who will be the second . I
Manchester city could meet arsenal in the semifinals of the champions league. First, city will need to beat real madrid and arsenal, bayern munich. Good afternoon. The Chancellorjeremy Hunt says the Conservative Party good afternoon. The Chancellorjeremy Hunt says the Conservative Party is absolutely transparent about the donations it receives. But so far the party has neither confirmed nor denied reports its been given another £5 million by the businessman frank hester, on top of the ten million hes already donated. Mr hester has been widely accused of racism after allegedly saying the mp diane abbott makes him want to hate All Black Women. The tech boss apologised for making what he said rude comments about her. Heres our Political Correspondent hannah miller. Learning to use a camera on a visit to the university of sunderland, the chancellor and Prime Minister cant escape the glare of scrutiny over donations to the party. This week, they said that comments made by one of the conser
And when parties have to report it. This is one of the many problems that we have in our system. It appears to be born out of historical reasons rather than anything else. We do have, for what is supposed to be a very transparent system, quite a complicated one in which there are various different registers updated at various different points. The electoral commissions register is only updated every quarter and i think this story has sort of renewed questions about whether thats really appropriate in this day and age when websites can be updated at the drop of a hat. That was the conservative Party Response so far when it came to frank hester s donations, that they have reported everything that needed to be reported in the public sphere. You have looked into this closely, could you tell us how big a donor frank hester is, how important he is to the tory partys treasure chest, essentially . Sure, i would say first of all, for many people, even political obsessives and conservative figur
Would disagree and would say that this poll is neither free nor fair nor transparent. Vladimir putin does not face a major challenge. There are three other candidates on the ballot paper, but his most vocal critics, his fiercest opponents, are either in exile or in prison, which kind of helps you to win what we expect to be a landslide. There have been reports that Public Service workers have been strongly encouraged to come out today on day one of this election, to cast their votes. I mean, there are so many things to say about this election. Vladimir putin dominates the airwaves, dominates the screens, on russian television, much more than any other candidate. So it will be no surprise, i think, when he is eventually declared the winner. Here in the uk, the conservatives are under fresh pressure over ties to a party donor at the centre of a racism row. The party has refused to confirm, or deny, reports that the donor has reportedly given more money to the party, than was known public
For the quadruple. It is quite different. If it is always like this, the team up with a Higher Quality shows good attitude, what we did, it will be tricky. Where is the chance . The long time in my life, ive worked for smaller clubs, so you can win games but you need a little bit of help from the apartment, we didnt give any help. We showed at the top, top, top attitude, so it was difficult. Elsewhere, Bayer Leverkusen remarkable unbeaten season goes on but only after a dramatic finish in their second leg against qarabag. The german side were trailing 2 1 but then scored twice in stoppage time to win 3 2 on the night and 5 4 on aggregate. The win extends leverkusen s unbeaten run to 37 matches in all competitions this season. Not such a good night for fellow german side freiburg as they lost 5 0 at west ham in their second leg whilst ac milan comfortably beat slavia prague. Fellow italian side atalanta beat Sporting Lisbon whilst Roma Lost At Brighton but still progress winning 4 1 on