by the union leadership. half of britain s rail lines will be closed when workers walk out on tuesday, thursday and saturday. these strikes are not only a bid to derail reforms that are critical to the network s future and designed to inflict damage at the worst possible time. iam in i am in the devon constituency which has been conservative for 100 years. we will hear for the labour candidate where it may not be so certain that it will stay that way. hot and getting even hotter britain s heatwave expected to peak tomorrow with temperatures of 3a degrees celsius. good afternoon. borisjohnson s ethics adviser, who resigned last night, has accused the prime minister of putting him in an impossible and odious position. in his resignation letter, lord geidt said the prime minister had asked him to consider measures, understood to be on a trade issue, which risked a deliberate and purposeful breach of the ministerial code. lord geidt s letter also says he came close to quitting
the remarkable victory he got when he called that general election having ousted theresa may. i gather she voted in a ball gown this evening, i think the irony won t be lost on her. i think since we thought we d be marched up the hill, and borisjohnson seems to be accusing the media, he says it s media lead, my feeling across the country speaking to everyday people, and i had one woman approached me next to the thames and say to me she doesn t like liars. i m reporting right next to that covid wall where you see all kinds of hearts and names and people who died who had respected lockdown. i think it s a countrywide thing. also worth saying, borisjohnson denies lying about the parties in downing street. he said some things that were wrong, but he thought they were true at the time. you must have had a few days this week talking to france about the uk, with this happening now and thejubilee before it. it is quite remarkable going from covering the head of state, which is the 96
ione wells, can tell us more. clearly, lord geidt was discontent with boris johnson s clearly, lord geidt was discontent with borisjohnson s leadership ear? that s right. there are a number of things at play here. lord geidt had serious concerns about the prime minister s response to the whole party gate affair, he hinted before he is considering resigning over that matter but also made it clear the prime minister needed to set out publicly what his explanation was. in his resignation letter, he touched upon some of this and said that even though the prime minister had given a justification for his conduct and explained why he did not believe he had breached the ministerial code over party gate, lord geidt clearly had issues about boris johnson s lord geidt clearly had issues about borisjohnson s wider leadership, leadership in public life particularly. another significant thing in the letter, he also touched upon his discontent with the way that in his view borisjohnson and