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and declared their interest of being his friends, and they were the ones that could have a say in deciding the vote, and that was wholly unfair. sold! a painting by david hockney asserts a new record, portrait of an artist pool with two figures, fetched over £70 million. welcome to westminster, where michael gove, the environment secretary, has indicated he ll stay in the cabinet, despite reports that he was poised to leave in protest at the prime minister s brexit deal. it was a rare bit of good news for theresa may after the slew of resignations yesterday over her agreement with brussels. mr gove is understood to have decided to stay in his post to work with mrs may to ensure the best outcome for the country . he reportedly rejected an offer to make him brexit secretary after dominic raab‘s exit yesterday. meanwhile, a growing number of conservative mps are pursuing their calls for a leadership contest. this morning, the prime minister launched a vigorous defenc ....
to her when she was held at yarl‘s wood detention centre. it s just mental torture. it s so depressing. it s just so hard. twice she s avoided deportation but now she s been told she has to leave and she s talking exclusively to us about it. and an exclusive first interview with the new head of the rspca. chris sherwood today calls for animal welfare to be taught in schools because the charity recevies 5000 incidents on animal cruelty online each year like these images on snapchat and youtube. because the charity receives. what do you think of the idea? we ll talk to the new rscpa boss after ten. hello. welcome to the programme. we re live until 11 this morning. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about use the hashtag victorialive. we will bring you the details of how universal credit roll out is going to be delayed again, so contact us on that. if you re emailing and are happy for us to contact you and maybe want to take part in the programme ....
it s tuesday, 16th october. welcome to bbc newsroom live. a further delay to the rollout of universal credit is being planned, according to leaked documents seen by the bbc. it s also suggested that there are plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds, to ease the hardship when claimants are moved onto the system, which will see six benefits merged into one payment. the government said it always intended to introduce the benefit slowly. here s our social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan. it was meant to make things easier, bringing six different benefits into one monthly payment, but the roll out of universal credit is already years behind schedule, and now we ve learned it s going to be further delayed. the next step, moving up to four million benefit recipients onto universal credit, won t now properly start until november, 2020, more than a year later than planned. in the commons yesterday, the secretary of state hinted at such a delay. it won t be starting ....
was extraordinary. shark feeding is my highlight and like janet, blue peter was pc before pc was in. we will see what you re up to later on. that is five o clock later. i m going to see if i am now qualified for my blue peter badge! backs macro. time for a look at the weather. here s susan powell. not the brightest of starts to the day, but it did start to brighten up quite quickly in the south east, and across east anglia, this is london, the sunshine breaking through the cloud. we are getting quite a bit of sunshine in the midlands and towards the south west, and up to the north east. the south east and east anglia winning out with the bright weather, and it will feel like 22 or 23 this afternoon. sunny spells elsewhere. until we have a weather front which will push its way in into west wales. sharp showers through the evening across scotland and northern ireland. most of those clearing after midnight. a finite across the northern half of the uk. afine across the n ....
to force her to step down as prime minister. around 50 mps talked about how to engineer a leadership challenge. several said they d already submitted letters of no confidence in mrs may s leadership. let s get more from our political correspondent leila nathoo, who s in westminster for us. leila, it seems the knives are well and truly out for theresa may? a tough morning this morning for theresa may, bearing in mind what happened yesterday. this is a powerful group of pro brexit tory mps who are really holding theresa may s fate in the hands, aware that in effect, they have the numbers to move against her, to turn against her if they so choose to. there have been issued challenges mutterings throughout her time at the helm at now brexit negotiations are coming toa now brexit negotiations are coming to a crunch, so our questions of her being in charge of. they say it would leave the uk too closely aligned to the eu after we leave, so now we have open discussions last ni ....