Fire brigade advice and fled the fire that killed 72 people. More than a hundred families with children at a nursery in south devon have been contacted by police, following the arrest of an employee in relation to allegations of sexual offences. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with jane dougal. Rugby union is in shock as saracens are docked 35 points and fined more than £5 million for violating salary cap regulations. The club says they didnt deliberately breach them. Thanks, jane. And louise lear has the weather. Bit of a mess out there today, a lot of cloud around, the best of any such iron is across scotland. It is colder here. The best of any sunshine. I will have all the details coming up later. Thanks, louise. Also coming up, well report from bristol, the city that could become the first place in the uk to ban privately owned diesel vehicles from its centre in an attempt to cut pollution. Hello, this is afternoon live. I and simon mccoy. The liberal democrats have launched their campaign for next months general election, saying it is the only Party Standing up to stop brexit and that doing so would bring the country a £50 billion remain bonus over five years, which could be spent on public services. Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn, speaking in essex, said labour would get brexit done in six months promising to secure a better deal with the eu and put it to the public in another referendum next year. The conservatives insist they are the party to deliver brexit and that the uk will leave by january 31st next year. Our Political Correspondent chris mason has the latest on todays campaigning. Our liberal democrat candidate for Prime Minister, jo swinson in case you wondered how upbeat the liberal democrats are, there you have it. At their Campaign Launch in westminster this morning. Their promise to scrap brexit if they won was central. Both labour and the conservatives want to negotiate and deliver brexit. I never thought that i would stand here and say that i am a candidate to be Prime Minister. But when i look at borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn, i am absolutely certain i could do a betterjob than either of them labours been talking brexit too in harlow in essex, a seat the party needs to win from the conservatives. Jeremy corbyns pitch is to negotiate what he sees as a better brexit deal and then put that to a referendum with remain as the other option, all within six months. If you want to leave the eu without trashing our economy or selling out the nhs, you will be able to vote for it. If you want remain in the eu, you will be able to vote for that. Either way, only a Labour Government will put the final decision in your hands. Because this has involved the whole country from the start, it cant now be left to politicians. The conservatives say the labours proposed timetable for this is a fairy tale. Meanwhile the cabinet has met for the last time before parliament is dissolved. We are about to go forward to a general election which i think its fair to say that none us particularly wanted to hold. The Prime Minister says its necessary because parliament blocked brexit. The tories claimed they will deliver brexit and sort out the long term relationship with the eu within a year. That could prove a tall order and so. Could it be extended . No. Definitely not . Absolutely. We will make sure that we have a properFree Trade Agreement with the European Union and of course, some people the past have argued that it will be challenging, but i think if you look at the way in which for example borisjohnson injust 90 days moved from square one to concluding a change in the Withdrawal Agreement and getting rid of the backstop, he has demonstrated he has the leadership quality to be able to secure a deal in that time. The Scottish National party dont like brexit but do want another referendum, on independence. This election is firstly a chance to escape the mess of brexit but secondly, an opportunity to take scotlands future into scotlands hands, its a real crossroads moment for scotland. The brexit party say the conservative deal with the eu doesnt amount to a proper brexit. Nigel farage with his candidates in westminster yesterday, today hes campaigning in bolsover in derbyshire. Big leaves area, being represented by labour party that has broken all of its promises and now wants a second referendum, offering remain against a form of remain. That is a betrayal of the promises made to this people during the referendum during the general election. The gloves are on for now, but there is still more than five weeks to go. Didnt hit anybody chris mason, bbc news. Our chief Political Correspondent vicki young is in westminster. It is all about brexit today. Yes, it is. Forsome it is all about brexit today. Yes, it is. For some parties, it is all about brexit today. Yes, it is. Forsome parties, i think that suits them. We know the conservatives want to go through this campaign saying to people, we have got a deal, if you give Boris Johnson a majority in the house of commons, he can come back before christmas, the deal can be voted through in january and christmas, the deal can be voted through injanuary and then the uk will finally have left the eu. Now, i think the labour, they have been a bit more reticent about talking about brexit, they have come under a lot of criticism about having a confusing policy, Jeremy Corbyn says it is clear, he wants to renegotiate the deal. He says that he would do that within three months and then hold another referendum and so really saying that by the beginning ofjune, it can be sorted. The question he still has not answered and will not be decided by the party until afterwards is whether in that referendum they were campaign for remain, as some in the shadow cabinet want to do, whether they we re cabinet want to do, whether they were campaign to leave under the deal they have negotiated. That is still the uncertainty that there is around the labour party policy. The liberal democrats saying we are the only ones being consistent. Jo swinson acknowledging some people hate the idea of going back on the referendum and revoking article 50. But she said if they were rated as a majority government that is what they would do, if not they would pursue this idea of another referendum. In terms of the mead music, it is quite clear that journalists in terms of the mead music, it is quite clear thatjournalists are not taking figures at face value. Jeremy corbyn facing questions on figures he was giving. Do you sense that fax are getting more and more valuable ina campaign are getting more and more valuable in a Campaign Like this because think so. Every organisation, including the bbc, wants to put things in context. Quite often parties will come up with a figure thatis parties will come up with a figure that is correct in one way and we have seen it over absent years of campaigns where people say spending has gone up by this amount. It depends where you take this starting point from. Of course figures can be selected by parties to show certain things. But i think it is much harder now for parties to do that. It will be interesting to see whether they continue to do things when they see that quite quickly organisations, whether it is people on twitter or broadcasters or newspapers, look at these figures and very quickly so that is not the whole picture. That is the thing, it is about the whole picture and putting the contacts and play a people, when they hear these figures, can make more sense of them. Parliament effectively closes this evening. It dissolves this evening. Ido evening. It dissolves this evening. I do not think it is the shortest ever session, but these shorter since the 1920s. 60 mps know for sure they are not coming back because they are retiring. There is who do not know whether they are coming back and has been interesting over the last three days, wondering around the house of commons, you can see the ones who looking glum, we think it might be pretty challenging for them to hold their seats. 0n the other hand, everyone is saying it is really impossible to predict partly because brexit has changed everything. Will this be a brexit election . We said that in 2017, and people talked about other things for top end may not happen, it may not turn out like that. Equally having the liberal democrats going up in the liberal democrats going up in the polls, it seems, plus the brexit party think theyre going to stand in the majority of seats, that does make it much harder to predict because you do not know what kind of impact that could have on the votes of the other parties. I shall talk to you later. Thank you very much. Jacob rees mogg, the leader of the house of commons, has said he is profoundly sorry after he suggested the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire lacked common sense by not leaving the building despite being told to do so by the fire brigade. He made the initial comments on lbc yesterday. 0ur correspondent tom symondsjoins me now. As we say, it was an interview yesterday. What exactly did he say . An interview yesterday with lbc, it is crucially to point this out, it is crucially to point this out, it is with nick ferrari, the host of the programme. The comment became a political story overnight after labour said. Attacked what he said. Lets hear what he said. The more ones read over the weekend about the report and about the chances of people surviving, if you just ignore what youre told and leave, you are so much safer. And i think if either of us were in a fire, whatever the fire brigade said, we would leave the burning building. It just seems the common sense thing to do. He is saying having read reports of the rental tarot apart, he said either of us were in burning building, we would leave it, that is common sense. building, we would leave it, that is common sense. Having read reports of the Grenfell Tower report. The other way is in the minds of somebody who might be in that building, was it common sense to get out . As you would expect, it was criticised by grenfell united which represent survivors and bereaved from the fire and this morning, as he came out of the cabinet, Jacob Rees Mogg results about this allegation that he had accused people in the fire of lacking common sense. Mr rees mogg, do you really think 6 re nfell mr rees mogg, do you really think Grenfell Residents lack common sense . Grenfell residents lack common sense . Do you Grenfell Residents lack common sense . Do you regret your comments . So he is saying that that is not what i said. Later in a statement he said that he had meant to say that before the report, he would have followed the state advice but with hindsight, he and anyone else would get out and he offered the relatives and those who survived the Grenfell Tower fire what he called a profound apology. Labour has said there is an example of the nasty party and i think you can agree, we can agree that it think you can agree, we can agree thatitis think you can agree, we can agree that it is the first if you like mid speak incident of this Election Campaign and there may be many to come. Tom, thank you very much. More than a hundred families with children at a nursery in south devon have been contacted by Police Following the arrest of an employee in relation to allegations of sexual offences. Police were alerted injuly after one family reported their child had alerted them to an incident at the jack and Jill Childcare nursery in torquay. The nursery is now closed. With the details, heresjohn ayres. The police were contacted onjuly 29 with information relating to an alleged Sexual Assault at this nursery in torquay. Later that day, a person was arrested and then later released on police bail. The Police Investigation is continuing. The person has moved out of the area while that takes place. Ata while that takes place. At a Media Conference today, the police said a number of children aged two and above have been identified as potential victims. Although they would not say how many beyond more than one. Asa beyond more than one. As a result of a multi agency investigation, it has focused on a large amount of cctv footage from within the nursery setting and as a result of the feeling of the footage, we have identified a number of additional offences against other children in the nursery setting. More than 100 families who have children at the nursery have been conducted as part of the investigation, and support is being provided for those who think may be victims. We are working closely with our Police Colleagues who have specially trained officers supporting those families, depending on the needs of those families. The police say this contact is limited to the nursery setting and do not believe any other members of staff had any knowledge of this matters. The reassurance we can provide is at this point we are not looking at any image related offences in terms of the taking and distribution of images. We are focused on one person connected to that nursery who has been arrested and has been on bail sincejuly 2019. Helpline has been set up for the families who think they may have been affected. The police is continuing. The Police Investigation is continuing. A former head of m15 has said a parliamentary report into alleged russian interference uk elections should be published before next months general election. He said it could not be rushed because there was a matter of National Security. Im joined now by the conservative mp and chair of the Foreign Affairs select committee, tom tugendhat. Good afternoon. It should be published . Yes. It is an important report. People in the United Kingdom are going through an important process , are going through an important process, the election of a government and i think given the accusations had been made about russian interference in previous polls, referendum or election, i think it is appropriate that it is published now and as the minister himself project, and i think quite rightly, screw as the dispel is fa ntasy. Rightly, screw as the dispel is fantasy. Let us do just that. Lets put the report out in public and that the scrutiny of members of parliament and the scrutiny of members of the public who can read the report to dispel the fantasy of whatever some people may believe. Downing street reported to state that this process usually takes several weeks to complete and frankly theres not enough time with parliament being dissolved tonight. I think that is a great shame because there is no more important moment in the nations life then when we choose those who lead us, those who represent us and those who ta ke those who represent us and those who take decisions on our behalf so i would have hoped this was the sort of thing that the government could privatise as matter of extreme urgency, giving the importance of the poll before us. People are going to ask what have they got tight . I do not think they couldnt have anything to hide, i do not think that is a reasonable question. What is reasonable is that our accusation is that social media are being used by hostile enemy states and indeed the foreign affa i rs states and indeed the Foreign Affairs committee has just published its last report, 23rd at this parliament over the last two years on how democracies need to look at defending themselves from autocracies. Clearly we have seen this in various reports about chinese interference in the academic space and weve seen that about russia that no russian interference in the political space. I think it is really important that this report is really important that this report is published as soon as possible. He is an unfair question, but out there, the public are preparing to vote in another general election, they are going to think this is a bit odd because we are talking about a process, allegations of an intervention in the paresis which we are about to undergo. It is not an unfair question, i did not say that. Isaid it unfair question, i did not say that. I said it is not a cover up. What i am saying is. You can see why people think it is one. I can see why i want it published. It is hard for me to defend the country, as you seem to be asking me to do. I keep saying i wa nt to be asking me to do. I keep saying i want to see this publish. That is exactly why the Foreign Affairs committee has published as a matter of urgency our last report, it is not as complete as we like, does not include elements of enquiry that we would like to do but the importance, this is the last day of the parliament, was to get out there so people can see the evidence that we we re people can see the evidence that we were able to collect in the weeks and months before. Who do you think is stopping this coming out . I am afraid i have no idea. Really . No, im afraid i have no idea. I have not had a conversation with number ten about this. It was interesting in the urgent question earlier, there is a sense that someone within the downing street and everyone is pointing to a certain figure, an adviser to borisjohnson pointing to a certain figure, an adviser to Boris Johnson exit pointing to a certain figure, an adviser to borisjohnson exit will not be in the interest certainly of borisjohnson not be in the interest certainly of Boris Johnson and the not be in the interest certainly of borisjohnson and the conservatives to let this out. Ido to let this out. I do not know why people say that. I ama i do not know why people say that. I am a conservative, i keep arguing it for it to be published, many other conservatives including. Sorry to interrupt, this is why this is so odd. You are conservative