Alexander blackman, the former royal marine who was jailed for killing a taliban fighter in afghanistan, tells the bbc how he regrets his actions. A ride at Drayton Manor theme park closes after a girl was airlifted to hospitalfollowing an incident. And International Ballroom champion Shirley Ballas is the new head judge on Strictly Come Dancing, replacing len goodman. Its 5pm, good afternoon. Our top story concerns mixed signals over brexit from the labour party. In a bbc interviewJeremy Corbyn, declined to confirm hed definitely take the uk out of the European Union, if brussels offered a bad deal for withdrawal. Aides later had to issue a clarification, saying the uk would definitely leave the eu, under a labour government. Mr corbyn was speaking exclusively to the bbcs political editor, laura kuenssberg, at the launch of the partys Election Campaign. Hed been in manchester, telling supporters he was offering a real alternative to what he called a rigged system under the conservativ
But today the tories refused to confirm the National Living wage would reach nine pounds an hour by 2020 as George Osborne had previously announced. Our Political Editor nick watt is with us now. A big moment. It was. I have been trying to identify about how theresa may may take to fashion one nation conservative to her vision about how the country should be run and workers rights is that the hard and the reason for that is one of her insights from brexit was notjust about to leave the eu, it was a cry of anguish from people who feel left behind by globalisation. These pledges today are designed by her to show that she really means business about Making Globalisation Work for those people who feel left behind. She needs a mandate on this to face down critics in her own party. She lost a battle in the cabinet in the autumn about getting workers sitting on company boards, one person said this did not work in germany. That idea, it comes back, although the language and wording about who w
Was. She decided to pass it out and now she has brought it back in again. I was looking forward to see how tim would spin his way out of that one this is a complete shambles. The first time in history that a Manifesto Promise has been broken even before the election. Its just been a day of complete confusion. Youve had a very angry prime minister, ministers running away from bbc tv cameras shown on screen. You had anger, blame gaming, youve had finger pointing, the whole thing. It is a meltdown. Its being called meltdown monday. This is not a rational act, it was forced upon theresa may on the government. Tim, come on, the front page of the telegraph, chaos. The fact is, there we re telegraph, chaos. The fact is, there were people within her own party, people within the cabinet to thought it was a bad idea. Is she just not listening to anyone . It was a bad idea. Is she just not listening to anyone . |j it was a bad idea. Is she just not listening to anyone . I do think one of the less
Top bus parade this afternoon for huddersfields promotion. To the Premier League. Good morning. Its tuesday the 30th of may. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. With just over a week to go until the General Election, the main parties are returning to their key election themes, following last nights tv grilling of the conservative and labour leaders. Theresa may will put the focus back on brexit accusing eu officials of adopting an Aggressive Negotiating Position which will need strong leadership from the uk. Jeremy corbyn is campaigning on the partys promise of Free Childcare for two to four year olds and answering questions on the mumsnet website. And in the next few minutes, Nicola Sturgeon will launch the Scottish National party manifesto, promising to invest an additional £118bn in Public Services across the uk and a call for scotland to stay in the european Single Market, after brexit. Emma barnett pressed the Labour Leaderfor more details. We know from po
The General Election. About to find out the results of the exit poll. Good evening and welcome to the Election Centre. Tonight, the third time into yours that we have come here to the result in a major Unity Kingdom Wide poll. In 2015, David Camerons election resulted in the vote for brexit see a promise. And theresa may has guaranteed certainty for the years ahead. Three act drama. Indications of what she has got what she wanted orJeremy Corbyn has dashed hopes will come with exit polls at ten. Who gets to number ten . Welcome to the virtual downing street. We have watched as in 2015 conservative constituencies pathed the path. Labour left behind. What is going to happen tonight . Will the conservatives get the 326 seed is that they need, or can labour close the gap . Earlier today, the Party Leaders casted votes. Just as 47 million of us had the right to do. And the first actual result will help cast results. Newcastle and sunderland going head to head. Sophie is in sunderland. These