conservative mps to back him. if he d lost tonight it would have significantly dented his authority. in total, 313 mps voted in favour of the bill and 269 mps voted against it, meaning the government had a majority of 44 votes. no conservatives mps voted against the bill, but 37 did not vote. chris mason is in westminster. a day ofjeopardy and a day of jitters and the government deploying every tool of persuasion and mathematics, so the phone calls and the snatched conversations in the corridors, the more formal meetings, and on the mathematical side making sure everyone who could vote for the government was here in order to vote for the government. to give you an example, the climate minister who was at the climate talks in the middle east, flew all the way back so that he could vote. that is how nervous the government was, despite the result when we finally got it. quite an evening then after quite a day. quite an evening then after quite a da . . , . , ., day. excuse me,
a parliamentary rebellion among his own mps, ahead of a crunch vote on his rwanda asylum policy. israel says the bodies of two hostages have been found in gaza. two israeli soldiers were killed in the operation to recover them. a new draft resolution is expected to be published soon at the un climate summit, after the backlash against plans which made no mention of phasing out fossil fuels. now time to go to the sport. so it s last chance saloon for manchester united. they simply have to beat bayern munich tonight or they are out of the champions league. even then a win over the german champions might not be enough. so much at stake for erik ten hag s squad in a season littered with inconsistency. patrick geary has more. eight is built, miserable day for manchester united. flat eight is built, miserable day for manchester united. eight is built, miserable day for manchester united. not one of them were fit to wear manchester united. not one of them were fit to wear the m
barbenheimer goes on. this summer s blockbusters barbie and oppenheimer lead the golden globe nominations. the deaths of dozens of people in the last six months in the uk have been linked to a new group of street drugs that can be hundreds of times stronger than heroin. they re called nitazenes and they are synthetic opioids that are believed to be coming to the uk from china. our midlands correspondent navtej johal and producer alex homer have been speaking to the mother of a young man who s thought to have died after a fatal overdose. he was funny. pretty. brilliant dancer. so kind. just kind. simeon mcanoy, who was 33, died just nine weeks ago from a drug overdose. an inquest will determine his cause of death, but the coroner has told his family that a powerful synthetic opioid was found in his system, belonging to a class of drugs known as nitazenes. it is believed that at the time, simeon thought he was taking heroin. we re sitting in the living room, with simeon in
good evening. on the eve of a crucial vote for the prime minister on his plan to send illegal migrants to rwanda various factions of conservative mps have been meeting and giving their opinions on whether the plan will work and by extension whether they are likely to vote for it. and in an indication of how divided the party is over the issue, the opinions vary widely. some have given it their backing as long as it doesn t change others say it has to change or be junked altogether. others say it has to change or be junked altogether. our political editor chris mason is in westminster. this plan is something that rishi sunak has made central to his premiership but he s struggling to get his party to back it. he really is. that s the reality tonight. there are few more awkward places for a prime minister to find themselves than one where they are transparently and very publicly at the mercy of their own mps. clumps of conservatives who have been meeting throughout the