A reliable indication of the support of the parties that the candidates are representing but also they are affected by the personal support of those candidates in the metro Mayoral Elections so one of the things i will be looking at later on is notjust the Mayoral Election contest but also the pcc contest and if we discover that labour have won the pcc contest as in 2021 that will add to the doubts that the conservatives focus on the mayoral contests in the belief that this shows things are not so bad for the tories after all is perhaps somewhat misplaced. Tories after all is perhaps somewhat mislaced. ,. ,. ,. ,. , misplaced. John, we are going to brin misplaced. John, we are going to bring everyone misplaced. John, we are going to bring everyone the misplaced. John, we are going to bring everyone the liverpool misplaced. John, we are going to i bring everyone the liverpool count, we ll come back straight to you for your interpretation of we see. Well come back straight to you for you
In the four remaining regional mayor races including Greater Manchester and the West Midlands where the tories will be hoping andy street can cling on. And, we are also expecting results from a the remaining handful of councils yet to declare, as well as ten police and crime commissioners. One, of course, was linked to South Yorkshire. In the past half an hour, Steve Rotheram was declared the win er of the mayoral contest in liverpool. Here he is speaking shortly after his victory was announced about what this result represents. Today the people in our area have not only spoken, they have hollered at the top of their voices with two simple and clear messages to the government, enough is enough and, locally, labour is delivering in power. Up and down this country, ordinary people are fed up with the chaos, mismanagementand ordinary people are fed up with the chaos, mismanagement and decline the tories have resided over. Despite this, though, we are getting on with thejob this, though, w
But there has been Widespread International concern over the fate of the more than one million palestinians sheltering there. Our correspondent anna foster is injerusalem. Welcome to you, and weve been talking for more than a week about the latest round of talks and it seems there is increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. Yes. Seems there is increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. On hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same stage on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same stage where an. Are at the same stage where an israeli deal has been put on the table and was described at the start of the week by the us Secretary Of State as extraordinarily generous and it seems to be that in this latest iteration of the deal there have been some movements in terms of potentially agreeing to talk about a permanent ceasefire. From israels Point Of View its priority is trying to e
Re elected. There rishi sunak says that result is evidence that people will stick with the conservatives come the general election. Election. Keir starmer came here twice, Rachel Reeves came here three times, but even they couldnt dislodge ben and the fantastic conservative team, right. And they also threw a lot of mud. It needs to be said in this election because they were angry, angry that ben has delivered more for this region in seven years than labour Party Managed in 30 years. Well, lets take a quick look at those latest council results from across england as counting continues tonight. If youre watching on tv, you can see here the number of councillors confirmed so far fewer than seven councils left to declare out of a total of 107. Some will follow into tomorrow , including follow into tomorrow, including the West Midlands. And the result for londons mayor in other news, the family of murdered schoolboy alfie lewis have thanked him for making them smile every day. He was stabbe
Finished the final election result for tonight being declared tomorrow. Those remaining results will follow with seven contests to be announced. London, the West Midlands, greater manchester, west yorkshire, liverpool , south west yorkshire, liverpool, South Yorkshire and in salford. In yorkshire and in salford. In other news, the family of murdered schoolboy alfie lewis have thanked him for making them smile every day. He was stabbed to death by another schoolboy outside a Primary School in leeds last november. The teenager, who cant be named, was 14 at the time of that attack. He claimed he was scared for his life when he pulled out the weapon, but that was disputed by prosecutors. A disputed by prosecutors. A former solicitor has been sentenced today to more than seven and a half years in jail for running what the judge described as a deceptive immigration scheme. Flora immigration scheme. Flora mendez, from luton, made up fake addresses in Grenfell Tower and charged victims £2,800