Kicked off last night, with hosts france easing to a dominant 4 0 win over south korea. A new law to protect Service Animals comes into force today. Nicknamed finns law after a police dog who was stabbed, well be meeting finn in the studio in the next half hour. And at 10. 30, the travel show follows tony giles an independent blind backpacker as he heads to ethiopia. One of the frontrunners in the race to become the next prime minister, michael gove, has admitted taking cocaine on several occasions, 20 years ago. In an interview with the daily mail, mr gove said he deeply regretted his actions and insisted it shouldnt rule him out of the contest to succeed theresa may, which begins next week. Dominic raab, who is also running to become conservative party leader, said he thought mr gove deserved a Second Chance. Im not sure i want to be in the business of commenting on other candidates, but i think michael set out that he made a mistake, it was a long time ago. People willjudge it as it
Hello, good morning. Welcome to bbc news. One of the front runners in the race to become the next prime minister, michael gove, has admitted taking cocaine on several occasions, 20 years ago. In an interview with the daily mail, mr gove said he deeply regretted his actions and insisted it shouldnt rule him out of the contest to succeed theresa may, which begins next week. Our political reporter peter saull explained why mr gove may have decided to talk about his past. His message really in that interview is, judge me on my record in parliament and not what i may or may not have done. Michael gove is clearly one of the front runners in this conservative leadership contest which gets under way this week, with the first round of voting taking place on thursday. He may feel that this is about clearing the decks, so to speak. Putting it out there, past misdemeanours, and i suppose he will still rely on the support of a lot of his colleagues within the conservative party. He does have quite
Of the front runners in this conservative leadership contest which gets under way this week, with the first round of voting taking place on thursday. He may feel that this is about clearing the decks, so to speak. Putting it out there, past misdemeanours, and i suppose he will still rely on the support of a lot of his colleagues within the conservative party. He does have quite a lot of support within parliament. The question mark really for him is whether, if he makes it to the final two, the conservative membership at large take a more dim view of his activities in the past, because the clue is in the name. They are conservative members, arent they . They are indeed, and i suppose the other impact of this is that we now have a range of candidates who in their youth, some in the last ten or 15 years, some further back, have acknowledged that theyve used illegal drugs. Now, as he wasjustice secretary subsequently, in part of his cabinet career, and that raises questions about the abili
A new law to protect Service Animals comes into force today, nicknamed finns law after a police dog who was stabbed. And coming up on bbc news click gets in the drivers seat as it looks at the tech behind formula e thats at 12. 30. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. One of the frontrunners in the race to become the next prime minister, michael gove, has admitted taking cocaine on several occasions, 20 years ago. In an interview with the daily mail, mr gove said he deeply regretted his actions and insisted it shouldnt rule him out of the contest to succeed theresa may, which begins next week. Our political reporter peter saull explained why mr gove may have decided to talk about his past. His message really in that interview is, judge me on my record in parliament and not what i may or may not have done. Michael gove is clearly one of the front runners in this conservative leadership contest which gets under way this week, with the first round of voting taking place on thursday. He
Washington journal. We are joined by joyann reid. She is the author of medgar and myrlie medgar evers and the love story that awakened america. She is also a political analyst for msnbc. Thank you. Guest host remind us about medgar evers. Guest medgar evers was the rst field secretary for the naacp in mississippi. Jordan was doing the same job in georgia. He was doing the same job in mississippi investigating the deaths and lynchings of black people and registering people to vote. Host you said you feel that medgar evers has been given a short shift in americas history. Why do you think that happened . Guest if you think about the job he was doing, he was doing the kind of activism that dr. King was doing in alabama and that johnis was doing in georgia and he is doing it in mississippi which was the most dangerous place tothe highest n, the most violent version of the clan. Agency called the Sovereignty Commission that went into action after brown v. They were under tremendous pressure