Very bullish and effervescent Boris Johnson with a big majority to play with. This is our election special. Good afternoon. You join us live in westminster where borisjohnson is beginning a new term as Prime Minister after the conservatives won their biggest majority since 1987. The tory leader returned to downing street earlier after visiting Buckingham Palace to ask the queen for permission to form a government. Overnight his gamble to hold a december election paid off. He now has a majority of 78 and a mandate, he says, to leave the eu. With this mandate and this majority we will at last be able to do what . Get brexit done labour perfomed poorly, losing 59 seats many of them in places theyve held for decades. Jeremy corbyn says hell stand down as leader early next year. I think the responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing and i wont do that. I will stay here until there has been somebody elected to succeed me and then i will step down at that point. A strong
Sir ed davey vowed to remove the tories from power across the country. People are crying out for change and this election is the chance to make that happen. In chance to make that happen. In so many parts of the country, its the liberal democrats who can beat the conservatives, who have taken people for granted. Have taken people for granted. In other news, uk inflation has fallen to the lowest level in nearly three years in april, dnven in nearly three years in april, driven by lower gas and electricity prices. The latest figures show. Inflation dropped figures show. Inflation dropped to 2. 3 last month, but people in birmingham say theyre still struggling to make ends meet and one person has died in a mudslide on the edge of the nonh mudslide on the edge of the North Yorkshire moors. As rain continues to batter the uk. It happened at carlton in cleveland at around 130 this afternoon. Nonh at around 130 this afternoon. North Yorkshire Police have asked the public to avoid the area. Fo
Few minutes setting out familiar priorities, fairly downbeat in the news some might say given that the rain coming down on him, he didnt have probably to protect them. But he kicked a surprisejuly vote, june july campaign which is taken many of his parties by surprise was that theres been some criticism of whether the timing was right, should be avoided to the autumn . Lets get more reaction for the panda miller is at a conservative Party Campaign eventin is at a conservative Party Campaign event in east london. Cannot. Weve had some criticism of whether the election timing should be so quickly. What is the message there from supporters . It quickly. What is the message there from summers . From supporters . It was noticeable earlier how from supporters . It was noticeable earlier how much from supporters . It was noticeable earlier how much more from supporters . It was noticeable earlier how much more smiles from supporters . It was noticeablei earlier how much more smiles they were
Will bring you that live from central london. Thats all coming up after the latest headunes coming up after the latest headlines with sophia wenzler. Tom. Thank you. Good evening. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom and as youve been hearing, the Prime Minister has announced a 4th of july general election. In a statement outside downing street, rishi sunak said he had met with the king to request the dissolution of parliament. The royal family has postponed engagements which may appear to divert attention or distract from the Election Campaign. Mr sunak made the surprise announcement after a day of speculation and urged the nafion day of speculation and urged the nation to stick with him over sir keir starmer. And we will have a general election on the 4th of july. This election will take place at a time. When the world is more a time. When the world is more dangerous than it has been since the end of the cold war. Meanwhile, the labour leader, keir starmer, responded to the announce
Thank you very much, stephen. Its a pleasure to have you on the show. As Minister Of Defence in canada, how embarrassed are you that your country is still significantly failing to meet the collective commitment of nato Member States to spend at least 2 of your gdp on defence . Stephen, im not embarrassed at all because canada, under our government, has been investing very significantly in defence and theres been a very strong upper projectory of Defence Spending. Weve just introduced our latest Defence Policy, which injects a significant amount of new investment into Defence Spending. It builds up greater capabilities, it moves us much closer to the target of 2 , and with some of the other things that weve articulated in this Defence Policy, i think we are on a strong and inevitable path to achieving that 2 goal. Canada is well aware of its responsibilities to our nato allies, to our continental allies, through norad in the United States, and even around the world, and, as well, we are