manchester city chairman khaldoon al mubarak says the club want to be judged by the facts and not by claims and counter claims, after allegations of breaching financial regulations. hello and welcome to the bbc news at 0ne. the king and queen, and the prince of wales havejoined second world war veterans at an event in portsmouth to mark the 80th anniversary of d day. the normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history, with the 191m battle laying the foundation for an allied victory. the special ceremony was narrated by dame helen mirren and included a flypast by the red arrows. jon kay is at the commemorations on southsea common. good afternoon from portsmouth where in brilliant sunshine a crowd of thousands has just been treated to a spectacular, noisy and deeply poignant event to honour those who served on d day. part commemoration part celebration. yes, there was a vip box where members of the royalfamily sat alongside political leaders and mil
as frank gardner reports. war planes from another time. memories from 80 years ago. today, a chance to honor those men and women who took part in d day, the operation that helped end the second world war. service chiefs, prime ministers past and present, the royalfamily and of course, the veterans. roy haywood was 19 on that day, a trooper in the sherwood rangers. i landed in on the evening of d day, and three weeks later i was so badly damaged that they had to amputate both my legs below the knee. i returned home eventually, and i have to say that i always considered myself one of the lucky ones that survived because so many of us didn t. this was the largest ever amphibious invasion in human history, over150,000 british, us, canadian and french troops landing on normandy s beaches under withering fire from german defenses. let us once again commit ourselves always to remember, cherish and honor those who served that day and to live up to the freedom they died for. honoring
Announcements have been made. labour has also unveiled a pledge card with six key policies that will be in its manifesto. and the liberal democrats, the snp and other parties have made policy announcements, too. so work on the manifestos is well under way. now, this next question is coming up a lot, too. oliver asks, how can we trust the 2024 manifesto promises? well, those promises won t be legally binding we can t be sure they ll happen but politically they do matter. as the institute for government points out. parties will frequently refer to their manifesto commitments or mandate while working to deliver policy. there s also a convention that policies based on manifestos are not blocked by the house of lords, giving further weight to these promises. and failing to keep manifesto commitments can bring political risk. as the conservatives campaign, critics are highlighting that several key promises from the conservatives manifesto in 2019 haven t happened. responding to this
The nhs, the cost of living and tax took centre stage, including a repeated conservative claim. mark my words, labour will raise your taxes. it s in their dna. ..that labour s plans would mean a £2,000 tax rise per working household. a figure arrived at, rishi sunak suggested, through independent treasury officials. this £2,000 you keep saying it s going to cost is absolute garbage. we won t go into the details of it. it became clearer that the supposed hike would be over four years as the tories stuck to a treasury based attack line. i ve worked in the treasury and i can tell you that these are brilliant independent civil servants and they will not be putting anything dodgy in there. these are all policies that have been set up by the labour party. and actually, if anything, they are underestimating the cost to families. but look at this. it s a letter from the treasury s top civil servant obtained exclusively by the bbc. it says the civil service wasn t involved in the production o
He wouldn t resign if he loses, but it would put him in a difficult position, especially during a uk general election campaign. mr gething maintains he s not broken any rules and didn t know anything about the criminal investigation until it was reported by the bbc. now those labour mentioned sacked by vaughan gething and lee waters were not in parliament yesterday and do not in parliament yesterday and do not have a proxy vote granted for long term absence. so it looks as things stand that he will still lose the vote and if he does so the opposition parties would call for him to step down less than three months into thejob. it him to step down less than three months into the job. it does him to step down less than three months into thejob. it does not seem to be going to plan for vaughan gething. a russian group of cyber criminals, known as chillin, are thought to be behind the ransomware attack on hospitals in london. a critical incident was declared following the hack on monday wh