The middle east. Meanwhile here the Prime Minister is refusing to support calls for a ceasefire, despite pressure from more than 80 mps to do so. More than 80 mps to do so. Instead, rishi sunak is backing specific pauses. He says in the conflict to allow for the Safe Delivery of aid to the territory. Five british people are among those still being held hostage in gaza. Now now peter hostage in gaza. Now now peter bowen has been suspended from the house of commons for six weeks over bullying and Sexual Misconduct of a staff member. The wellingborough mp denies guys the allegations, but has already been expelled from the tory party. It means another tory party. It means another by election is looming for rishi sunak as a recall petition will now be arranged and a former South Wales Police officer has been jailed for life with a minimum term to serve of 12 years for Sexual Offences against children. Lewis edwards used fake social media accounts and posed as a teenager to groom more than 2
Were taken to hospital, including a 14 year old boy whose injuries are said to be life changing. The pupils were on their way to Calday Grange and west kirby grammar schools on the wirral when their bus overturned after colliding with a car. Dozens of conservative a car. Dozens of conservative mps have signed a pledge to never again vote for an increase in overall taxes. A former prime in overall taxes. A former Prime Minister, liz truss , and former minister, liz truss, and former Party Leader Sir Iain duncan smith, are among those to have signed up, along with seven former cabinet ministers the promise means they wont vote for the chancellors autumn statement if it contains tax rises. Putting pressure on rishi sunak ahead of the conservative Party Conference, jeremy hunt has told the times he wants to stop the vicious circle of ever rising taxes , but ruled out tax rising taxes, but ruled out tax cuts in the short term. Former Party Chairman sir jake berry, who organised the pledge,
are we serious about saving the planet? if we give up, we rejust going to let our earth go. we can t. we can t give up. and then i wrote to everyone. no one knew about it. all of the groups, even puddletown. yeah. monday morning and the weald action group are in session. it s remarkable, there s all these explorations going on, and yet it s not publicised. mm mm. mm. - it s actually. on the agenda opposition. ..to plans for oil drilling in the surrey countryside. well, i ve been concerned about climate change for a long time. then one day when i saw a notice in my local paper that there was plans for an oil drilling site in surrey, i couldn t really believe it. so, it sjust throu~h here, is it? . we just go round this corner and then over another style. there s already two small oil wells on horse hill. surrey county council has approved four more. and how long has this been here, then? well, since 2014. they drilled the first well. residents have spent four years in the co
perfect and there was more that needed to be done but he said that every year that the conservatives were in power, they had built more houses than labour did in its previous administrations and we will have to go and fact check that but thatis have to go and fact check that but that is the claim from michael gove this morning and also, finally, on levelling up, i put to him that people from the red wall that did very well under boris johnson s people from the red wall that did very well under borisjohnson s of look for money for northern communities in particular, they would have really noticed a difference and will they really put conservative? and he said that real money had gone into these communities and more can be done but they won t need a conservative government to do that. the liberal democrats are talking about the country s roads today with a promise to invest £300 million in the next parliament to fill 1.2 million pot holes a year. the party says money from the
and mash, has died at the age of 88. the ball given back to them, though. denmark hold england to a disappointing draw in the euros. and thousands gather at stonehenge on the longest day of the year to celebrate the summer solstice. and in half an hour, bbc london s investigation reveals how taylor swift fans heading to her wembley stadium concerts this weekend could be targeted by scammers. good evening. the prime minister says he was incredibly angry when he found out about allegations over betting on the date of the general election. rishi sunak called it a really serious matter and said that anyone who is found to have broken the rules should face the full force of the law and would be booted out of the conservative party. it comes after it emerged that the conservative party s director of campaigning and his wife, a tory candidate, are being looked into by the gambling commission. the prime minister was speaking as the leaders of the four main parties faced an evening of