In finding common ground. In the last few hours, its also been announced that americas top diplomat Anthony Blinken will visit saudi arabia this week. Meanwhile, hamas has posted a new video which shows two of the hostages captured during its october attack. Keith siegel and omri miran, both identify themselves. While the video is not dated, there is a reference to the recent passover holiday. Its the second such video that hamas considered a terror group by the uk and Us Governments has published in the past few days. We can cross live now to tel aviv and speak to our correspondent anna foster. Anna, welcome to you, i know you are at the sight of where the latest Hostage Video has been held, lets start with that in those dead elements in the past few hours. It seems it does possibly appear to be some movement with the release of his latest Hostage Video and the new wording coming from the Israeli Government . Wording coming from the Israeli Government . Wording coming from the Israeli
For Central Suffolk and North Ipswich since the 2010 election. He combines his political career with Practising Medicine as an nhs Hospital Doctor on a part time basis. He confirmed he was defecting to labour in an interview with Laura Kuenssberg take a listen. And it increasingly difficult to look my patients, nhs colleagues and constituents in the eye. I feel the ifeel the nhs i feel the nhs deserves ifeel the nhs deserves better i feel the nhs deserves better in the terms of how it is governed. The conservatives had a compassionate view about supporting the more disadvantaged in society. I think the Conservative Party today is in a very different place. Its focus is not on delivering or supporting high quality public services. With me is our Political Correspondent ben wright. Tell is about who dan poulter is on the significance of his defection. He represents Central Suffolk and North Ipswich. Hejoined the party under david cameron. He is very much of cameron conservative, he is at
With Practising Medicine as an nhs Hospital Doctor on a part time basis. He confirmed he was defecting to labour in an interview with Laura Kuenssberg take a listen. I found it increasingly difficult to look my nhs colleagues in the eye, my patients in the eye, and my constituents in the eye with good conscience. And ifeel that the nhs deserves better than it has at the moment in terms of how it is run and governed. The party i was elected into valued public services. It valued. It had a compassionate view about supporting the more disadvantaged in society. I think the conservative party today is in very different place. Its focus is not on delivering or supporting high quality public services. Our Political Correspondent ben wright told me more about dr poulter. He has been an mp since 2010. He represents Central Suffolk and north ipswich. Hejoined the party under david cameron. He is very much a cameroonian conservative. He is in the centre of the party, a one nation tory. He is a Wo
Went to the labour s. - 0ne name, christian wakeford. i would call him a traitor. sorry? traitor. i hope that it is the right thing to have done and that it will enable him to help his constituents more. he says he s done this because he s got no more faith left in boris johnson. borisjohnson got us out of europe and he s set this vaccination off. now, i m fine with that. but pressure is building on the pm and so too is the frustration of some here who voted for him in 2019. christian wa keford s gone. yeah, i think so. what s your reaction to the fact that he s become a labour mp now? i don t blame him for changing to labour. so if there was a general election today would you change your vote? yes, definitely. what i did see with my own whites of my eyes is the fact that our majesty was sat there. her husband. ..alone, yet the pm, apparently, has been having parties. - and that s what s done it for you? that for me, ijust think that s not a good leader, that. but others here remai
Seat that was a very classic red seatin seat that was a very classic red seat in 2019. christian wakeford was the first conservative mp in 22 years when he took the seat in 2099 with a narrow margin of around 402 votes. it was the tenth most marginal seat in the in that election and the question now is whether that margin will be enough for him to carry his supporters here in towns like prestwich, carry his supporters with him as he switches party. i have been speaking to people today and as you will hear in a moment, a lot of them very much where approaching this along with their own party political views. it their own party political views. it just shows you the state of the conservative party and they are not credible conservative party and they are not credible any more. the}r conservative party and they are not credible any more. credible any more. they won t be rrettin credible any more. they won t be getting my credible any more. they won t be getting my vote credible any