rebellion of conservative mps who lost faith in the prime minister and now we are hearing somebody resigning from boris johnson s cabinet and significantly the culture of the conservative party. co chair. this is following the devastating by election result for the conservative party, losing seats in tiverton and honiton to the liberal democrats and wakefield to the labour party. we will bring you more on the breaking news as it comes to hand. ukraine and moldova have both been granted candidate status by the european union the first step towards joining the bloc. european leaders gathered in brussels to sign off the move. georgia has applied to join but has yet to be made a candidate. ukraine applied days after the russian invasion in february and the process has moved at a record speed, but the president of the european commission ursula von der leyen, said it would be
productivity in different areas so both the workers and the business come to an agreement which is a win for both. but we are under real margin pressure which is reallyjust beginning as interest rates have risen around the world in the last few quarters. around the world in the last few quarters. thank you very much for few quarters. thank you very much forjoining few quarters. thank you very much forjoining us few quarters. thank you very much forjoining us today. in | much forjoining us today. in some breaking news coming out of westminster. we have been talking about the devastating election results coming out of tiverton and honiton and wakefield. we have had about the resignation of oliver dowden, the co chair of the conservative party. he had been a big supporter of boris johnson and his leadership. i think you could say that his resignation will send a shockwave across westminster. just a couple of weeks ago we were dealing with a backbench
you some sense of how extraordinary this is, shropshire these seats will change and would be redrawn a bit but if we talk broadly, tiverton for example has been a conservative seat for the best part of 180 years, or large parts of it anyway. north shropshire was basically conservative since the great reform, since britain became a democracy and these are bedrock, bedrock conservative seats and it s possible that the conservatives managed to get them at the next election but the phenomenon has been developing of historic parties taking areas for granted, of brexit continuing a realignment in the south and conservatives doing less well in some of these places and watch and worry the conservatives as well is that perhaps this is an indication that the brexit divide to some extent,
normally they are very circumspect and reluctant to call anything until the declaration is made but he would not tweet that, believe me, unless he was 100% certain from the sampling that all parties have when they looking at different ballot boxes and checking what results are in comparing it to previous elections and he will be 100% confident. indeed, a lib dem both said this, they are declaring victory and saying it is a clear win, and the people of tiverton and honiton have spoken up for the country. it is a historical victory. we should put this in context, yes it is true that by elections can produce big swings that can be reversed at the next election and signal the government. but there has now been over the course of a year, since last year in bucks, in december in north shropshire and now in tiverton and
the last time this happened, in 1991, both seeds the government lost, they went on to win at the general election. i m joined by political editor at bbc south west, martyn oates. he s watching all the goings on in the constituency of tiverton and honiton. did you see here an example of labour and the lib dems not overtly working together but subliminally labour stepping back to allow this lib dem winner? , . , back to allow this lib dem winner? , ., , ., back to allow this lib dem winner? , ., . . winner? this was a classic example winner? this was a classic example of winner? this was a classic example of tactical - winner? this was a classic| example of tactical voting. winner? this was a classic- example of tactical voting. the labour activists calling this result first saying that vote