He argued it was in americas interest to defeat those who, he said, sought to annihilate a neighbouring democracy. More than 100 trucks with humanitarian supplies are waiting on the egypt side of the rafah crossing. Its hoped the first 20 will start moving into gaza today, but it is still unclear when. The entry of aid trucks was part of an agreement President Biden brokered. During the night, israel continued its aerial bombardment of gaza. The United Nations has warned that the initial supply of aid trucks would be nowhere near enough to help the more than a million displaced palestinians. It says at least 100 will be needed each day, because supplies of food, fuel and water are running dangerously low. Lets go straight to our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet. We keep saying about this terrible humanitarian crisis inside gaza. So many injured people with the continued aerial bombardment, and those aid trucks are tantalisingly on the other side of the crossing, they rema
Of former culture secretary nadine dorries. Here our political helen kat. These by elections were billed as nail biters. Close, tense. In the end, they delivered two significant victories to labour. First in tamworth the 57th Safest Conservative seat in the country before last night. Edwards, sarah siena, labour party 11,719 votes. Cheering. The new mp was elated. They are seeing the conservatives do not have anything to offer. The defeated conservative candidate chose not to stick around. In a statement the tories described it as a difficult result on a much reduced turnout. But it was about to get even more difficult for them. Over in Mid Bedfordshire, when the ballot boxes started arriving, it had still been too close to call, in a rare three way fight between the conservatives, labour and the lib dems. The liberal democrats doubled their share of the vote, but once again it was labour who emerged victorious. I therefore duly declare Alistair Luke Strathern Elected as Member Of Parl
Positives and areas where they have managed to hold control of councils, potentially some of the mayor raises my give them a bit of a Silver Lining but on the whole, the great picture is pretty bleak for the tories. Let me show you this. First of all, this is the vote share compared to 2021 when the seats were last contested. In 2021, Boris Johnson got a bit of around two bounce after the Vaccine Roller but look what happened since. The change in the last three years. That is the tory vote change, down 14 . That is pretty big. Its worth looking through some councils when the conservatives used to be in power but are not any more because of this. Have a look here at redditch. This is a Bellwether Seat and we said that all morning and an area with the parties think the result is pretty indicative of how the country is feeling. Look at that. The conservatives have lost 11 seats, labour won ten and it means this long line of blue down here is done. This is now a labour controlled council.
Gains. Another blow for conservatives, they also lost a blackpool by election. The third biggest swing in the postwar by election history. Heres our political correspondent, hannah miller. The Prime Minister touring a Military Base with very little to laugh about. Laughter. Trying to defend his partys losses after a dismal set of results. Obviously its disappointing to lose good, hard working conservative councillors, but weve still got lots of results to come as well. And there are also things that i would point to. Harlow, for example, where keir starmer held a rallyjust on wednesday saying that was a place that he had to win to be on track to win a General Election. That hasnt happened. The conservatives did deprive labour of a win in harlow, but they still lost five seats and are considering that a success. The party had also pinned its hopes on ben houchen remaining tees valley mayor, though he wasnt even wearing a rosette. He did thank the Prime Minister in a later show of unity.
Time. They have lost around half the Council Seats they were defending, similar to how they performed in 1995. Two years later, they were crushed at the General Election. Labour, the green party, lib dems, they made gains. Blackpool south huge swing from the conservatives. The story of the night, here is damian grammaticas. The story of the night, here is damian grammaticas. Labour party, 10,825. Cheering and applause Blackpool South a little before 5am and a decisive labour victory. They were confident of emerging winners at the by election, but this was emphatic. At the byelection, but this was em hatic. ,. , at the byelection, but this was emhatic. ,. , at the byelection, but this was emphatic at the byelection, but this was emhatic. ,. ,. , emphatic. They have said to rishi sunak and the emphatic. They have said to rishi sunak and the conservatives, emphatic. They have said to rishi| sunak and the conservatives, they have had sunak and the conservatives, they have had enough. They