on heatwave alert, outdoor public events have been banned in an area of france, spain, italy and the uk have experienced high temperatures. those are the headlines. at ten o clock, huw edwards will be here with a full round up of the days news. first, it s newscast. hello, i m the studio. i should accet hello, i m the studio. i should accept i m hello, i m the studio. i should accept i m growing hello, i m the studio. i should accept i m growing a - hello, i m the studio. i should i accept i m growing a moustache because i accept i m growing a moustache because i didn t mention it last week because i didn t mention it last week. , because i didn t mention it last week- no. - because i didn t mention it last week- no. it - because i didn t mention it last - week. no, it unfolded. week. didn t you? no, it unfolded. yet another week. didn t you? no, it unfolded. yet another benefit week. didn t you? no, it unfolded. yet another benefit of week. didn t you? no, i
so are you surprised we are in this position, notjust once but a number of times now that the prime minister s personal behaviour is being scrutinised in this way? one of the things lord geidt has said is how difficult it is for an adviser to advise on the prime minister s conduct because, as he put it, there is a sort of circularity there, where he can advise that the prime minister breached the code, the prime minister says he didn t and therefore, the advisor has to resign. it is a sort of circularity which means, for example, lord geidt did not want to actually rule on the issue around the breaching of the law with the fixed penalty notices and asked the prime minister to explain which he did in his letter back to lord geidt. but the public will look at this and make that point. in the end, it s not an independent process, the prime minister is
brought to her attention, there were sort of she did get frustrated sometimes with some of the staff in the department. and the other bit was that since it was brought to her attention, she had taken note of it. so, i set out some mitigating factors but i did think actually, the evidence was there that she had bullied some staff. there are lots of tory mps who say to us that they are worried the prime minister is tarnishing notjust his own reputation but that of the government and the conservative party and also institutions, the office of prime minister. are you worried that this pattern of behaviour and we pointed out that you resigned and lord geidt has resigned that it is dragging down that office? there have been quite a lot of issues. i mean, there were, for
your private conversations with him? i didn t get the impression he was feeling it particularly. i think he found the actual issues this week quite stressful. but as i said, he is a man of great integrity and would inevitably have found it very difficult to get in a position where he had no option but to resign. do you think borisjohnson is a man of integrity? i m not going to answer that! as you say, this is about the personal behaviour of the prime minister that s not something you had to deal with so this does take it to a different level, doesn t it, which means there is more scrutiny. there was more attention on lord geidt. so are you surprised we are in this position, notjust once but a number of times now that the prime minister s personal behaviour is being scrutinised in this way? one of the things lord geidt