Sir Keir Starmer iS Set to Speak hiS firSt wordS at the DeSpatch Box aS Prime MiniSter and mpS are electing a Speaker to referee all the debateS. In a buSy day, Sir Keir Starmer will hold a Cabinet Meeting, hiS Second Since the election. Metro mayorS had been meeting at Downing Street. ThiS report now from harry farley. Political CareerS End in removal vanS. The furniture and the reSidentS of number 10 are changing. ThiS morning, Sir Keir Starmer will meet with englandS regional mayorS, promiSing a major programme of devolution. Labour iS expected to announce what they call a take back Control Act in the KingS Speech to give mayorS new powerS over thingS like tranSport and houSing. ThiS iS what a Labour Majority lookS like. Today, the HouSe Of CommonS SitS for The FirSt Time Since the election to chooSe a Speaker, and Some new MpS Cant quite believe theyre here. I feel hugely excited. I think thatS probably a feeling that youre getting from a lot of the other new mpS. But there iS a lo
Days alone Stop Today the Home Secretary will meet her french counterpart to demAnd more action to stop the crossings. Almost six years after the Paris Terror attacks which killed 130 People, 20 men will go on trial today. Good morning. ScotlAnd are victorious in vienna. The win of austria sees them take a huge step towards a place at their first World Cup finals in 23 years. It lost its funding just five years ago, but Wheelchair Rugby still managed to clinch gold at the paralympics. Two of the stars willjoin us here in the studio to tell us how they did it. And whilst it is another hot day for many can hear in parts of wales, south West EnglAnd And the Channel Isles when we got close to 30 degrees yesterday, signs of change And the risk of thunderstorms. The full forecast here On Breakfast. Its wednesday the 8th of september. Our top story. Mps will vote today on the governments plans to increase National Insurance contributions to fund health And Social Care in englAnd. Ministers sa
Children in england, wales and Northern Ireland. But will it spark a rise in covid cases . Making Eye Contact for the first time, the Conjoined Twins separated after rare surgery. Wickets fall at the oval as england chase a big total to try and secure victory against india. Coming up in sport later in the hour on the Bbc News Channel. Chaos in brazil as last Nights World Cup qualifier against argentina is abandoned. Health officials confronting uk based players on the pitch over covid breaches. Good Afternoon And Welcome to the Bbc News at one. Mps Return To Westminster this afternoon following the summer break, with the funding of Social Care and the nhs at the top of the agenda. Some tory mps have expressed anger at reports of an increase in National Insurance contributions to help fund Social Care in england, which would break a conservative Manifesto Pledge not to raise taxes. Labour is also opposing a rise in ni. Its expected that an extra £5. 5 Billion will be announced for the
To children aged 12 to 15. Nhs trusts in england have been told to prepare. The nhs waiting List Crisis in Northern Ireland most patients who need a first appointment with a consultant have to wait more than a year. A golden day in tokyo for Paralympics Gb a haul of five gold medals on day two of the games. And coming up scientists say Light Pollution may be contributing to declines in local insect populations. Good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc News. British citizens still in afghanistan are being warned to stay away from Kabul Airport because of fears there could be a lethal Terror Attack there, possibly within hours. The government says intelligence suggesting a very imminent attack is ever more certain. But in the last hour, the Prime Minister has said british troops have now got the overwhelming majority of eligible people out of the Country, with thE Evacuation due to end on tuesday. Our diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams reports. An airlift in its last days, relentless, round th