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announced he s to resign. he s been under growing pressure after he ripped up a power sharing deal with the scottish green party. he s been facing a vote of no confidence, he released an emotional statement today, and we have a report from lorna gordon who can tell us what happened today. over the next half an hour, we will go through all of the implications with the bbc s special correspondent allan little, who is with me here. at westminster, we re joined by our political correspondent nick eardley. this starts with nicola sturgeon, whose great strength as a politician is placing herself at the heart of huge grassroots progressive coalition, people very committed to the progressive causes which characterised her leadership. one of the things she could have been failed to have done is to carry public opinion with her, committing to the progressive causes has always been much more strongly rooted in the independence movement than scottish public as a whole. so her gover ....
particular issue. on a couple of fronts, nigel farage is - particular issue. on a couple of fronts, nigel farage is under . particular issue. on a couple of. fronts, nigel farage is under real pressure, underfire from his political opponents and battling to defend his party attic list, and values. nigel farage was asked yesterday about comments made about three his made by three of his palmetto candidate sally said yesterday he wouldn t want anything to do with them, and a spokesman for reform uk has confirmed that vardy has dropped those three candidates. however,. not entirely discerning them, saying they are there on the ballot but legally they cannot be removed from the ballot paper so they will still be standing under they will still be standing under the reform uk banner but as i said, these are really dreadful headlines for mr farage. while he loves courting controversy, making waves, he doesn t want to be explaining, i think, the words of candidates and activ ....
he said sort of cryptic things, migration is too high, yes, i think 700,000 were there it s too big, but today, for the first time in this campaign, he s been clear about a commitment to get the numbers down, which that is a different thing to saying i think it s too high, why? should the next general election be around that time, people like you and me will say you made a commitment in the last general election, how have you delivered against it? i also think it s significant because of the politics of it and the politics of it are pretty obvious and we should bill it out anyway. this is keir starmer, yet again, as he has every day since, though, it was a bit different at the start, he is trying to basically bash voters over the head with a message that he is moving the labour party way to the right of where it was in 2019 and 2017 general elections when their approach to immigration would ve been quite different to this. that is the message here. we can see this is th ....
it is laura in the studio. and it is henry in the studio. henry in the studio. today s big sto is henry in the studio. today s big story is keir henry in the studio. today s big story is keir starmer s - henry in the studio. today s big story is keir starmer s promise | henry in the studio. today s big i story is keir starmer s promise on migration. he has said cryptic things for a long time since he has been leader, yes, migration is too high, 700,000 people coming to the country is too big a number. but today for the first time in this campaign he has been clear about a commitment to get the numbers down, which, henry, is a different thing to say i think it is too high. why? because in five weeks per match time should he become prime minister, people like you and me also you made a commitment in the last general election, how have you delivered against it? i also think it is significant because of the politics. the politics are obvious, but we shall spell it out any ....
to help homeless people living on the streets. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. a father who refused to pay a fine after taking his daughter out of school for an unauthorised holiday has lost his case at the supreme court. jon platt, who s from the isle of wight, had argued that all the law required of him was to ensure that his child attended school regularly. the high court had originally ruled that the holiday did not constitute regular absenteeism but this morning the supreme court has overturned thatjudgement. this is how lady hale announced the ruling. unauthorised absences have a disruptive effect. not only on the education of the individual child, but also on the work of other pupils and of their teachers. if one pupil can be taken out whenever it suits the parent, then so can others. different pupils might be taken out at different times, multiplying the disruptive effect. any educational system expects people to keep the rules. not to do so is unfai ....