and coming up in the sport on bbc news. the history chasers can they become the first scotland side to make it out of the group stage of a major tournament? hello and welcome to the bbc news at 0ne. well, in just a few hours, scotland s footballers kick off the euros, taking on germany in the opening game of the four week tournament. tens of thousands of scotland fans have descended on munich. england play their first match on sunday, against serbia. john watson s in munich for us and john, a big task for scotland tonight playing germany in germany? it is. they are calling this the biggest party in scottish football in 26 years. not since the world cup which was staged in france back in 1998 have scotland qualified for a major tournament overseas. as you can probably see behind me most of the scotland fans have now arrived here in munich. they have been mingling alongside their german counterparts here in one of the main squares in the city. it has been good natured, good
handing labour a blank cheque. a new yougov opinion polls suggest that for the first time reform have more support than the conservatives. worth stressing it is just one poll among many reform s leader nigel farage claimed his party has now overtaken the tories as the main opposition to labour. here is our political correspondent hannah miller. at the halfway point of a campaign there have been downpours, drenching us and many days out on the road. but today is the prime minister discussed how to reduce migration at a summit of world leaders, there are some troubling numbers for him at home. iii some troubling numbers for him at home. . , ~ , , home. if a result like this is replicated home. if a result like this is replicated on home. if a result like this is replicated on election - home. if a result like this is replicated on election day, | home. if a result like this is - replicated on election day, keir starmer would have huge and unchecked power to tax your home, y
calls to resign after they were fined, along with borisjohnson s wife carrie, for breaking covid lockdown rules. they all received fixed penalty notices for attending a birthday gathering for the pm in number 10 when gatherings of more than two people indoors were banned. as a result, mrjohnson became the uk s first serving prime minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law. all three apologised, but both the pm and mr sunak rejected calls to resign. opposition leaders have accused mrjohnson and rishi sunak of lying to the public after they both previously denied any wrongdoing. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, reports. the two men at the heart of government are now found to have broken the lockdown laws they set, designed to keep people safe during the pandemic. # happy birthday to you # june 2020, and borisjohnson visited a school on his birthday, which was allowed under the rules in place at the time. but later, he attended a gathering in the cabinet room of number 10,
some people around the chancellor feel boris johnson some people around the chancellor feel borisjohnson was responsible for that. feel borisjohnson was responsible forthat. both feel borisjohnson was responsible for that. both sides deny that. in a weird way the fact they have both been fined has drawn them closer together because they are now in this and if there are more fines for the prime minister or the chancellor, they are very much in this for the duration. six weeks ago when the party gate reports were at their peak, rishi sunak was being talked about as the future prime minister, but this whole thing has not those ambitions for the moment and he is battling down the hatches. the whitehall editor for the financial times with his thoughts on the party gate fine. it really does seem for the moment that we are in a bit of a holding pattern. as i said in my introduction, the prime minister and chancellor have apologised, there does not seem to be a ground swell of conservative opi
growth, and i m not sure they necessarily do, but if you wanted to is put some money back into the economy, eitherthrough is put some money back into the economy, either through tax cuts are through extra spending. the extra spending was something rishi sunak didn t want to do, a lot of people were calling for him to boost benefits beyond 3.1%, which means people on benefits are seeing a 6% of 5% fall in real terms in their benefit. he decided he didn t want to do that. he could cut taxes but he is raising them at the moment because of the long term goal of funding social care. there are cross party concerns that it has to be funded. but the question is whether it is good timing to do it now when people are being squeezed to have interest rates going up, energy bills going up and the national insurance going up on top of that. that is a squeeze like which we haven t seen since the early 1990s. which we haven t seen since the early 1990s which we haven t seen since the earl 1990s. ., ,