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but the picture is not complete. there is lots more to come today, with thousands of council seats being declared in england. welsh labour looking at five more years of power in cardiff, and the snp wondering if it might still win an overall majority in the scottish parliament. in the words of the first minister, nicola sturgeon, the battle for an overall majority in the scottish parliament is on a knife edge . there has been a record turnout with a late surge just before the polling stations closed, with the future of the union perhaps at stake. 65 seats are needed for an overall majority. at the moment. the snp is on fire to say, three. no team the snp is on fire to say, three. in? team for the liberal democrats. snp is on a3. it is all to play far in scotland. the prime minister borisjohnson has repeated that he would reject any calls for a second independence referendum in scotland. yesterday he was in hartlepool celebrating a big by election victory that will last ....
by tweeting me @annita?mcveigh or by using the hashtag bbcyourquestions. labour demands an investigation into text messages exchanged between borisjohnson and the businessman sirjames dyson. as demand for foodbanks goes up by a third, footballer and campaigner marcus rashford teams up with chef tom kerridge to create cheap, healthy family meals. if i could literally go back as a kid, this is the thing that i d learn to do. as well as, like, do what i was doing with my football and stuff, when i went home, i would have loved to have been able to sit down and just learn to cook. the brit awards ceremony will go ahead next month with a live audience of 4,000, who don t need to wear masks or socially distance, but will have to show proof of a negative coronavirus test. hello, good morning and welcome to bbc news. more than 100,000 black and asian service personnel who died fighting for the british empire were not properly commemorated due to pervasive racism that ....
now on bbc news, it s time for dateline. hello, and welcome to the programme which brings together columnists on uk newspapers, bbc specialists and internationaljournalists who write, blog and broadcast from dateline london. this week, party blues for british conservatives how much trouble is borisjohnson now in? and joe biden says defending democracy is the defining challenge of our time , but does vladimir putin believe him? to discuss those topics, we re joined by michael goldfarb, who s been a foreign correspondent for national public radio in the united states. his blog is called the first rough draft of history. the much travelled ian birrell, who writes for the mail on sunday. and damian grammaticas, who s been based in the past in beijing, brussels and delhi, and is now a political correspondent at westminster, is here in the studio. welcome to all of you. it is lovely to have you with us here. this is a very interesting weekend in terms of domestic politics. ....
this week, party blues for british conservatives how much trouble is borisjohnson now in? and joe biden says defending democracy is the defining challenge of our time , but does vladimir putin believe him? to discuss those topics, we re joined by michael goldfarb, who s been a foreign correspondent for national public radio in the united states. his blog is called the first rough draft of history. the much travelled ian birrell, who writes for the mail on sunday. and damian grammaticas, who s been based in the past in beijing, brussels and delhi, and is now a political correspondent at westminster, is here in the studio. welcome to all of you. it is lovely to have you with us here. this is very interesting weekend in terms of domestic politics. let s begin there. we still don t know whether a party took place in downing street last christmas, nor whether strict covid rules which affected the whole of the country at the time were broken. yet, thanks to a video leaked ....
if it invades ukraine, as a g7 meeting of foreign ministers to discuss rising tensions gets under way. and england s cricketers slump to a nine wicket defeat in the first ashes test in brisbane. now on bbc news, it s time for dateline. hello, and welcome to the programme which brings together columnists on uk newspapers, bbc specialists and international journalists who write, blog and broadcast from dateline london. this week, party blues for british conservatives how much trouble is borisjohnson now in? and joe biden says defending democracy is the defining challenge of our time , but does vladimir putin believe him? to discuss those topics, we re joined by michael goldfarb, who s been a foreign correspondent for national public radio in the united states. his blog is called the first rough draft of history. the much travelled ian birrell, who writes for the mail on sunday. and damian grammaticas, who s been based in the past in beijing, brussels and delhi, and is ....