competition watchdog says it could put up prices and cutjobs. and the stars have been arriving at london s 02 arena for the brit awards tonight. good evening. three conservative mps have resigned from the party today and it is with a savage attack on the handling of brexit by theresa may. heidi allen, anna soubry and sarah wollaston said the party have been taken over by hardline brexiteers. in a dramatic moment of parliamentary theatre, the three mps joined the newly formed independent group of labourmps joined the newly formed independent group of labour mps on the opposition benches. the prime minister said she was saddened by the resignations. here is our deputy political editor and his report does contain some flash photography. small in number, big ambition. today a trio of mps walked away from the tory party and joined the breakaway band who had already quit labour, taking their first steps into the political centre as an independent group. with the labour quit as they
if i was to look to the camera now and say, talk, leave, that puts more pressure on them and could scare them away. and, mps call for clothing brands to be charged a penny for each garment they sell to tackle fast fashion. we ll hearfrom a designer who has built a clothing brand out of recycled materials. we can take all of those plastic bottles you are diligently putting in the recycling, they can be chipped, made into fibre and you can make them into material. this is made from old plastic bottles? exactly. the mps say we should all learn to make do and mend our clothes. we ve challenged a group of students to do just that, and we ll have an update on their progress. hello. welcome to the programme. we re live until 11 this morning. do you think the seven mps who have left the labour party were right to do so? are you excited or worried, about the idea that there might be a new group of mps sitting in parliament that might even turn into a new political party? let me know y
and what about that?! ten man manchester city come back from behind in germany, to grab the advantage in the first leg of their champions league tie. and at 11:30pm, we ll be taking an in depth look at the papers. with our reviewers broadcaster & author, john kampfner, and economics and trade correspondent at the telegraph, anna isaacs. stay with us for that. good evening. three conservative mps have resigned from the party today, and did so with a savage attack on theresa may s handling of brexit. heidi allen, anna soubry, and sarah wollaston said the party had been taken over by hardline brexiteers. in a dramatic moment of parliamentary theatre, the three mps joined the newly formed independent group of former labour mps on the opposition benches. the prime minister said she was saddened by the resignations. here s our deputy political editor, john pienaar, his report contains flash photography. small in number, big in ambition. today, a trio of mps walked away from the t
and coming up on bbc news, jurgen klopp says the league is liverpool s priority ahead of their last 16 tie with bayern munich in the champions league. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the japanese car maker honda has confirmed it s closing its factory in swindon in 2021 with a loss of 3,500 jobs. at a news conference in tokyo, the company s boss denied that brexit is a factor. instead, he said the closure is because of dramatic changes in the car industry especially the need to move to electric vehicles. in the last hour, the business secretary has described the news as a bitter blow, and promised the government will help those workers who re affected. here s our business correspondentjonty bloom. this factory alone builds one in ten of all the cars produced in the uk. but today, production ground to a halt as 3,500 workers were told the factory will close in just two years‘ time. honda opened 30 years ago. at the time, its arrival was seen as a massiv