Afternoon. This is the latest from the newsroom. Angela rayner is the new shadow deputy Prime Minister and levelling up secretary. She replaces lisa nandy, whos becomes shadow cabinet minister for international development. International development. Shabana mahmood takes the role of shadow secretary for justice liz kendall takes work and pensions and steve reed takes environment, food and rural affairs. It comes as the keir starmer reshuffles his top team, which began earlier afterjim which began earlier after jim mcmahon said he would step down from his post as shadow environment secretary. An independent review says former cabinet minister sir Gavin Williamson should apologise to mps for bullying the former chief whip. He sent offensive chief whip. He sent offensive Text Messages to wendy morton after he wasnt invited to the late queens funeral. The panel late queens funeral. The panel says sir gavin should also take part in appropriate behaviour training. The Prime Minister trainin
Managed to fool hsbcs Voice Recognition Security System, designed to prevent fraud. Good morning, its friday, 19th may. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Breaking news this morning. Swedish prosecutors are ending their seven year long investigation into the wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, who has been accused of rape. Mr assange, whos a5, has been living at the Ecuadorian Embassy in london since 2012, claiming asylum to avoid extradition to sweden. Scotla nd Scotland Yard says it is obliged to arrest him for Breaching Bail Conditions if he leaves the embassy. Julian assange has just tweeted this picture. This is in reaction to that means from sweden. That is the first reaction from Julian Assange, though no statement from him as yet. Lets cfoss no statement from him as yet. Lets cross to the Ecuadorian Embassy in london. Our correspondent, Richard Lister, is there. Richard, so, any expectation we might Seejulian Assange leading that embassy any time soon . I would hav