Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Labours shadow chancellor, John Mcdonnell, has called on all the main Political Parties to agree a new independent system to tackle Sexual Harassment at westminster. Mr mcdonnell said the recent allegations of misconduct by mps were distressing and undermined Public Confidence in the political system. Last night, the conservative mp Charlie Elphicke was suspended by his party. The tories said serious allegations had been referred to the police. Mr elphicke said hed done nothing wrong. Emma vardy reports. Claims of harassment and abuse in the political sphere show no sign of subsiding. Charlie elphicke, the conservative mp for dover since 2010 is no longer a tory mp, at least for now. Last night the new chief whip, julian smith, issued a statement. Charlie elphickes anger at how hed been treated was clear. He tweeted. Meanwhile, there are still serious questions for labour about the suspended mp kelvin hopkins. Jeremy corbyn is under pressure to a
Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Labours shadow chancellor John Mcdonnell has called on all the main Political Parties to agree a new independent system to tackle Sexual Harassment at westminster. Mr mcdonnell said the recent allegations of misconduct by mps were distressing and undermined Public Confidence in the political system. Last night, the conservative mp, Charlie Elphicke, was suspended by his party. The tories said serious allegations had been referred to the police. Mr elphicke said hed done nothing wrong. Emma vardy reports. Claims of harassment and abuse in the political sphere show no signs of subsiding. Charlie elphicke, the conservative mp for dover since 2010, is no longer a tory mp, at least for now. Last night the new chief whipjulian smith issued a statement. I have suspended the conservative party whip from Charlie Elphicke, mp, following serious allegations that have been referred to the police. Charlie elphickes anger at how hes been treated was clear. He
Will the Manchester Terror Attacks put you off going to any major events this weekend or argue determined to carry on as normal . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning. Use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. The labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn will give a major speech today, as Election Campaigning resumes after the Terror Attack in manchester. Hes expected to link British Military action abroad to terrorism in the uk, and call for a change to Foreign Policy. Lets talk to our political guru norman smith about this. Tell us a bit more about whatJeremy Corbyn is going to say . Mr corbyn will set out what he thinks are some of the key drivers of terrorism. He will say that he is not seeking to excuse terrorists, they are the ones who are guilty and they are the ones who are guilty and they alone are guilty for the acts they alone are guilty for the acts they carry out. But he will suggest that some of the walls
I think a lot of people believe it is Just One Court case. Thats what i thought of it as. Growing up. And i also think that people believe that as soon as the decision was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1954, that it was immediately implement it. That also is not true. What i learned working on research for the book was that Prince Edward county that only was affected by the education decision but it was also one of five cases that was rolled into an umbrella case. And the the reason this was part of the decision was a woman, a High School Junior and did a walk out. In 1951. That walk out capture the attention of the naacp attorneys in richmond. And they agreed to come meet with Barbara Johns and fellow students and their parents. But that decision led the naacp to take up the case and file a lawsuit on behalf of those residents and made it to the Supreme Court. That part of brown versus education and it was the only student led case out of the five. And county leaders were so stu
Not only it was really affected by the brown versus board of education but it was actually one of five cases that was ruled into an umbrella brown case. The reason that, because it was part of the progress of brown b board of education was the one young woman named robert johns junior led a walkout to protest the conditions of her school in farmville virginia in 1965 and that walkout from the naacp attorney in richmond and they agreed to come meet with Barbara Johns but that decision led the naacp to take up the case and file a lawsuit on the of those students and that eventually made all the way to the Supreme Court. The brown versus board of education and it was student led case out of the five. And county leaders there were so stunned by the decision, as were virginia leaders and leaders across the south in the country. And i think Prince Edward county leaders felt particularly embarrassed and particularly nervous that they would be held up as an example and forced to integrate for