news of another cyber this time affecting several large london hospitals, being described as a major cyber attack. services including the delivery of blood transfusions have been affected, according to memos are sent to nhs staff. we know that the king s couege staff. we know that the king s college hospital and guy s and saint thomases are amongst the hospital is experiencing problems, with some operations reported to have been cancelled or redirected. we will talk to one of a health correspondence about this shortly. more on that story, the breaking story coming up for you. let s continue with the general election campaign. the big news today is rishi sunak and sir keir starmer will go head to head in their first televised debate of the general election campaign tonight. the hour long programme on itv will be filmed in front of a live studio audience. it comes as the conservatives have promised to introduce a yearly cap on the number of migrant visas, while labour has accus
policies would mean. so what are the facts? well, this is what the conservatives are claiming that there s a £38 billion gap in labour s spending plans and to fill it, taxes will have to go up. it s worth being sceptical about this figure, though. it s based on treasury calculations, but the assumptions come from political advisers and some of them are questionable. for example, that doing things through the public sector is always a lot less efficient. labour have a claim of their own that we wanted to scrutinise. this one that the conservatives have £71 billion of unfunded spending commitments. again, a big dollop of caution on this one. it includes an assumption that the conservatives will scrap national insurance. the tories have said they d like to do that eventually, but not any time soon, and they say they won t do it unless the money is available. so when you hear both of these claims you know politics is at play,
hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. rishi sunak and sir keir starmer will go head to head in theirfirst televised debate of the general election campaign tonight. the hour long programme, on itv, will be filmed in front of a live studio audience. it comes as the conservatives have promised to introduce a yearly cap on the number of migrant visas, while labour has accused the tories of letting immigration get out of control. our political correspondent jessica parker has the details. home second conservative say they will reduce migrant visas year by year but the party is haunted by highly visible old pledges to bring immigration down. net migration, the difference between numbers arriving and leaving hit a record high in 2022. ~ ., ., y , and leaving hit a record high in 2022. ~ ., ., , , a, 2022. we are the only party with a credible plan 2022. we are the only party with a credible plan to 2022. we are the only party with a credible plan to professionally - credible plan to