to talk about is the stuff we re doing to take forward the uk. talking about the most serious issues, whether a prime minister has lied to the house of commons, and you seem to be making up your approach to this question on an ad hoc, hour by hour basis, and that s proven by the chaos around this vote. don t voters expect a bit more? i m sorry, what voters, i think, will want to see is the conclusion of the investigation, and then i think the house of commons can decide what to do. steve baker, fellow brexiteer like you, senior tory, has said this afternoon you should resign. you re losing credibility in your parliamentary party. my point is. i think that. you know, we got to. we had two hours on this i think on tuesday, quite a lot on wednesday. i don t think there s much more i can say on it. tomorrow, borisjohnson will hold talks with india s prime minister on ukraine, but he will return to face a commons investigation into claims he misled parliament over the party saga that won t
are talking about $4 billion, so huge amounts of money, and it is worth pointing out that there is only so far president biden can go in terms of authorising all of this money. so he is reaching a point where he will exhaust this drawdown authority that he as president gets, which is where congress allows him to spend this much money. if he wants more, which he has said that he does, he wants more weapons, more ammunition, as i said, to keep flowing into ukraine, he will need to get approval from congress, which she will ask for next week. the republicans, the opposition, want him to be way more aggressive with russia than he is being at the moment, according to them, so we can expect the pressure on biden to do more to ramp up significantly, moving forward. borisjohnson is to become the first british prime minister to be investigated for claims that he deliberately misled parliament. it s the latest twist in the controversy over illegal gatherings held in downing street during lockdow
it means resurrection. in the current context, it s even more important, so it s very special for us and my family as well. sandbagged churches are a reminder that nowhere here is safe and that peace, this easter, will be hard to find. danjohnson, bbc news, lviv. borisjohnson who is on a trade visit to india, has insisted he will still be prime minister in six months time. today, he met his counterpart narendra modhi in delhi, but his trip has been dogged by the continuing controversy about lockdown parties in downing street, and questions about his leadership. yesterday, mps gave the go ahead to an inquiry into whether borisjohnson misled parliament about the issue. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, reports. feeling the heat on the world stage, borisjohnson and his counterpart narendra modi met in the glare of the morning sun in delhi on day two of his visit to india.
the pair agreed a new defence deal aimed partly at reducing india s reliance on russia for arms and energy. mrjohnson said a post brexit trade deal could be reached by the autumn. an ambitious timescale, particularly given pressure on the prime minister at westminster. considering the number of party investigations going on back home, are you sure you will still be prime minister then? yes. he dismissed questions about an inquiry into whether he misled parliament. he said people had heard enough. what people want in our country is for the government to get on and focus on the issues on which we were elected, and that s what we re going to do, and i think they ll be interested injobs, growth in the uk. asked about the war in ukraine,
as i say, it s magnified because of the prices. when prices go up, the poor can t afford them. our top story this lunchtime. mps decide today on whether there should be an inquiry into claims the prime minister misled parliament about lockdown parties, as borisjohnson continues a trade visit to india. and stepping out onto the rooftop at westminster abbey a new visitor attraction is launched as part of the queen s platinum jubilee celebrations. coming up on the bbc news channel, erik ten hag says it s a great honour to be appointed the new manager of manchester united. the dutchman will replace interim boss ralf rangnick before the end of the season. sir david attenborough has been named a champion of the earth