Good morning. It is going to be fairly cloudy and wet today across the central swathes of the uk. To the central swathes of the uk. To the south of that mostly dry and mild. In the north, blustery showers with gales in north west scotland. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, 13th march. Rishi sunak is facing calls to hand back millions of pounds donated to the Conservative Party by a businessman accused of making racist comments about the mp, diane abbott. Tech boss frank hester is reported to have said ms abbott made him want to hate all black women, and that she should be shot. The Prime Minister called the comments racist and wrong. Our Political Correspondent Hannah Miller has more. Hello, rishi. How are you . Very nice to see you. When rishi sunak made this visit to a mill near leeds in november, his Helicopter Ride had been provided by one of his partys biggest donors, frank hester, Who Last Year donated £10 million to the Conservative Party, now alleged to have made com
hundreds. i don t get it. i m glad i made it back to nyc especially with that epidemic that the hallmark channel keeps covering. so, let s talk about the latest twitter files. earliest this we are it was shown the government went against twitter classifying content as misinformation. it was easy to miss if you started the week like i did it sing mashed potatoes and drinking beer in your bathrobe. thanks for the tip, julie. any time. you re so lucky it was too cold for hotel staff to put knew a manger. anyway a lot of us had already figured the government was influencing covid content on twitter so it s not shocking to see it confirmed. but, much like the 49th time tristan thompson got busted che cheating on chloe the fact is not making is what makes it egregious. i didn t come up with that kardashian analogy. i got it from kudlow news letter. he s into it. the government shouldn t be able to get away with manipulating narratives because we are so used to hearing about it
unable to off load patiently much out of ambulances. a meeting in downing st with energy bosses, but it provides no solution yet for households struggling with soaring bills. the police watchdog says forces in england and wales are failing victims of bulgaries, robberies and theft with too few suspects being charged. go! the crisis of local swimming pools, the bbc finds more than 60 have closed across the uk in the past three years. good evening and welcome to bbc news. an amber extreme heat warning has come into force in some parts of the uk to last four days, as temperatures are forecast to hit 37 degrees celsius in some areas. although temperatures are unlikely to reach last month s 40 degree high, this heatwave is much more prolonged and some temperatures could get close to local or regional records. there s concern about wildfires, pressure on water supplies, and transport problems. it s also expected that a drought will be officially declared tomorrow. sarah campbell re
around the economy. the economy is objectively better than it was a year ago and two years ago yet, this poll blows him out of the water. laura: wow, did you ever think you would hear that from cnn. they can t even spin this anymore. now, at one point they even had a banner up that read bad news for biden. and it sure is. 67% of democrat leaning voters say they want a different candidate for 2024. we warned about this earlier this week that the democrat party leadership was tuning out what voters want in favor of what the donors want. and, remember, the establishment likes a figure head president who is not going to rock the boat. now, 82% of democrats now say that they just want someone else as their nominee and 62% say they are strenuously concerned about biden s ability to serve another full term as president if he is elected. joe biden is like that grandpa that you love, that you believe, in you owe a lot. but you start to wonder, you know, would you give this grandpa
around the economy. the economy is objectively better than it was a year ago and two years ago yet, this poll blows him out of the water. laura: wow, did you ever think you would hear that from cnn. they can t even spin this anymore. now, at one point they even had a banner up that read bad news for biden. and it sure is. 67% of democrat leaning voters say they want a different candidate for 2024. we warned about this earlier this week that the democrat party leadership was tuning out what voters want in favor of what the donors want. and, remember, the establishment likes a figure head president who is not going to rock the boat. now, 82% of democrats now say that they just want someone else as their nominee and 62% say they are strenuously concerned about biden s ability to serve another full term as president if he is elected. joe biden is like that grandpa that you love, that you believe, in you owe a lot. but you start to wonder, you know, would you give this grandpa