on heatwave alert, outdoor public events have been banned in an area of france, spain, italy and the uk have experienced high temperatures. those are the headlines. at ten o clock, huw edwards will be here with a full round up of the days news. first, it s newscast. hello, i m the studio. i should accet hello, i m the studio. i should accept i m hello, i m the studio. i should accept i m growing hello, i m the studio. i should accept i m growing a - hello, i m the studio. i should i accept i m growing a moustache because i accept i m growing a moustache because i didn t mention it last week because i didn t mention it last week. , because i didn t mention it last week- no. - because i didn t mention it last week- no. it - because i didn t mention it last - week. no, it unfolded. week. didn t you? no, it unfolded. yet another week. didn t you? no, it unfolded. yet another benefit week. didn t you? no, it unfolded. yet another benefit of week. didn t you? no, i
i mean, it was honestly not easy for him but he played a pretty straight bat and as i understand it, that hearing wasn t the reason he resigned or pushed him over the edge it was much more the combination of the issues around the partygate and the aftermath of that and then, this particular issue about ministers potentially at any rate, deliberately breaching the code. did you and lord geidt swap stories over the past few weeks and months? how is it going for you? i have been in contact with him, mainly to offer him support, but he s been grateful for but hasn t needed it particularly. and i have been in contact with him since he resigned, to say, you know, i think you were right to stand up for your principles . how is he doing on a personal level not to breach
your private conversations with him? i didn t get the impression he was feeling it particularly. i think he found the actual issues this week quite stressful. but as i said, he is a man of great integrity and would inevitably have found it very difficult to get in a position where he had no option but to resign. do you think borisjohnson is a man of integrity? i m not going to answer that! as you say, this is about the personal behaviour of the prime minister that s not something you had to deal with so this does take it to a different level, doesn t it, which means there is more scrutiny. there was more attention on lord geidt. so are you surprised we are in this position, notjust once but a number of times now that the prime minister s personal behaviour is being scrutinised in this way? one of the things lord geidt
moore has emerged about the resignation of lord geidt who was the prime minister but my independent adviser on the ministerial code. vicki, you have been following the story on the news and we ve learned more about what was going on, we think, so we ll come to that in a second but chris, for people for whom the ministerial code is not an important part of their life, like it is, for us. why is it such an important thing, the ministerial code, and what does the independent adviser do, why is this such an important figure? well, it matters because it kind of sets out the rules, | the conventions about how ministers, including - the prime minister, should go about theirjob and overseen. by an independent adviser who looks at, when askedj by the prime minister, - the behaviour of a particular minister to determine - whether or not they were in breach of that code. but ultimately, it comes back to the prime minister- to determine whether or not someone remains in office l or not, and that r
bit too much. so, that s. .. the problem, is because whatever conversation they may or may not have had and because we weren t in the room and we don t know about that you just don t know what it is still, that actually prompted lord geidt to go finally, because if it s the case, he was simply asked his advice, well, why would that prompt you to leave unless you thought that maybe your advice might be ignored. because it s more of a sort of straw that broke the camel s back sort of thing. it said in the letter| that it was hanging on bya margin, wasn t it? so it was maybe just the last thing. nina, as a businessjournalist, it must be great seeing the trade remedies authority name up in lights! i know all about it, obviously. so in terms of what the government s been saying about it today, we ve got the letter from the prime minister and it was simon clark, the chief secretary to the treasury he s been on newscast a few times who had to front up to the cameras and he said there