political thinking. a national tragedy, shameful, a staggering failure. britain s biggest foreign policy disaster since suez. that is how my guest has described our withdrawal from afghanistan. he is tom tugendhat former soldier and former adviser to the commander of the helmand province, former adviser to the chief of defence staff. he is now chair of a foreign affairs committee of the house of commons and this is the series in which i have conversations with, not interrogations of, those who shape our political thinking about what shapes theirs. their background, their values, their lives beyond politics. it was precisely that which led mps to listen to tom tugendhat in total silence as he spoke in the commons of his struggle with anger, grief and rage as he watched events unfold in kabul. i ve been to funerals from poole to dunblane, i ve watched good men go into the earth, taking with them a part of me and a part of all of us. and this week has torn open some of those w
really going on in british politics. a national tragedy, shameful, a staggering failure. britain s biggest foreign policy disaster since suez. that is how my guest has described our withdrawal from afghanistan. he is tom tugendhat former soldier and former to the commander of the helmand province, former adviser to the chief of defence staff. he is now chair of a foreign affairs committee of the house of commons and this is the series in which i have conversations with, not interrogations of, those who shape our political thinking about what shapes theirs. their background, their values, their lives beyond politics. it was precisely that which led mps to listen to tom tugendhat in total silence as he spoke in the commons of his struggle with anger, grief and rage as he watched events unfold in kabul. i ve been to funerals from poole to dunblane, i ve watched good men go into the earth, taking with them a part of me and a part of all of us. and this week has torn open some o
she was having suicidal thoughts. the thing that stopped her from seeing it through was how unfair it would be on me, after everything that had happened to my mum, and to now be put in a position of losing another woman in my life, with a baby inside of her, our baby. a ceasefire between israel and the militant group hamas has brought an end to 11 days of fighting. and here comes the sun spain welcomes tourists, but the eu delays any decision to opening up this summer. and coming up on the bbc news channel, leicester s premier league winning captain wes morgan says he ll retire at the end of the season after more than 750 professional games. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the prime minister has said he s very concerned about the bbc s handling of its 1995 interview with princess diana, after yesterday s highly critical report by a formerjudge. lord dyson condemned the way the broadcaster secured the interview and its failure to properly investigate its j
details throughout the programme. the conservative party has suspended mp mark menzies after allegations he misused campaign funds. 0ur chief correspondentjoins us now. henry, what exactly is he alleged to have done? these are just allegations at this stage. i had to be frank. they are pretty peculiar and serious allegations. in december, mark menzies rang his former campaign manager at quarter past three in the morning and said bad people had locked him in a flat. he told her he needed £5,000 collective rising to £6,500 as a matter of life and death. come the morning his office manager, it is claimed, paid from her personal bank account. she was allegedly reimbursed from campaign funds, money donated to him for his conservative campaigning purposes. the article also alleges more money was later transferred into his personal account, this time for apparent medical expenses. at the bbc we have tried to contact him for comment. we have not been able to get hold of him. in a s