julian responsible pleaded guilty to one charge under the sp on act julian assange. we will get reaction from the us. good evening. first the conservatives, now labour both main parties embroiled in the betting scandal. today, the tories withdrew support from two of their candidates, craig williams and laura saunders, who had bet on the timing of the election. both are on the ballot as conservatives, but will sit as independents if they are elected. and then tonight, labour suspending one of their candidates kevin craig, who reportedly had bet against himself. the party has returned £100,000 in donations the businessman had given them. there is a sense that we don t yet know the full extent of the investigation. the gambling commission says five more metropolitan police officers are alleged to have placed bets. 0ur political editor chris mason has more. this is craig williams, a friend and parliamentary aide to the prime minister. he turned down my request for an interv
the gambling commission over a bet about the timing of the election. russell george who is a member of the welsh parliament has stepped back from his party s shadow cabinet and says he will co operate fully . wikileaks founderjulian assange leaves prison in britain and flies to an american territory in the pacific after reaching a plea deal with the us. he will not face further prison time after pleading guilty, and he will be free to return to australia, his home country. at least five people are shot dead in kenya as police crack down on protests against tax increases. the kenyan government has announced that the military have now been deployed. and a former fujitsu engineer who helped design the horizon it system tells the post office inquiry that he thought the software worked well, most of the time. garethjenkin gave evidence in the pivotal 2010 trial of seema misra, who was jailed while pregnant. the wikileaks founderjulian assange will land this hour in the us t
officers are being scrutinised. welcome to newsnight for your weeknightly interviews and insight. let me introduce you to our political panel for this evening claire ainsley, former head of policy for sir keir starmer, and henry hill, who is the acting editor of the tory website conservative home, plus dal babu, a former chief superintendent in the metropolitan police, and nick is here as always. nick, the betting scandal has widened today and here at newsnight we have new revelations to bring to our audience this evening. i have been looking at this. well, i have been looking into this and have learnt of a series or developments covering the conservative party, and the labour party. in my investigation i have found out that. up to 15 conservative party candidates and officials are being scrutinised for alleged betting on the timing of the election. also craig williams is expected to be interviewed this week by gambling commission officials. and the labour party made a mi
tried to hire a 7.5 ton lorry to carry out the attack, hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. it will be extended compared to usual. with me are jack blanchard, political editor of the mirror and caroline wheeler, political editor of the sunday express. welcome. tomorrow s front pages. starting with this: the observer says may s premiership is in peril. the paper leads with its editorial comment saying mrs may is discredited, humiliated, and diminished. it says she is now weak, with rivals and opponents no longerfearing her. the daily mail focusses on the foreign secretary boris johnson saying he is set to launch a bid to become prime minister. it also carries a picture of former top gear presenter, richard hammond, who was involved in a car crash during filming in switzerland. the telegraph says theresa may may be in downing street but she has no power after losing her majority in parliament. the paper says senior tories are jos
hours. 0ne quite a lot in the last couple of hours. one of the things that is interesting about this story is the sun has focused on the amount of money that this individual was paid, who himself was convicted of drugging and raping a girl and inviting a pal tojoin in. somebody with that kind of condition was put amongst very vulnerable girls. i draw upon one of the bbc interviews, with the person who led the prosecutions into the rochdale grooming gang. the line i seized upon is this idea, he said it was something he would never have sanctioned, putting a predator along with other predators alone with prey and not being in a position to manage the risk to children. are we speaking without knowing the full details of knowing how the investigation was conducted and knowing the full details. victims of grooming who probably at some time didn t know they were victims of anything. they thought they were friends of the perpetrators. put yourself in the shoes of the police officers