With their leaderjo swinson saying the partys message is clear stop brexit and offer the country new leadership. When i look at borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn i am absolutely certain i could do a betterjob than either of them. Jeremy corbyn says labour would get brexit sorted next year and then put a new deal to a referendum. The former conservative chancellor philip hammond, who criticised the prime ministers handling of brexit has announced hes standing down as an mp. Cabinet ministerjacob rees mogg apologises after hes accused of insulting the families of the grenfell victims. Hed said that families should have ignored the fire brigade and left the building. Going without food in todays britain we bring you an exclusive report after a new Study Reveals the massive increase in the number of people using food banks. In a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. At seven oclock beyond 100 days hence to New Hampshire ahead
Have used common sense and left the building, instead of listening to the fire brigade. The lib dems launch their election campiagn and claim the uk would get a remain bonus of £50 billion over five years if brexit was stopped. Cheering five years if brexit was stopped. And in south africa, a triumphant return home for the springboks, who won the Rugby World Cup in great style. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, all the action from a big night in the champions league. Good evening. One the eve of the launch of the conservative Election Campaign, a member of borisjohnsons cabinet, alun cairns, the welsh secretary, has been urged to resign by a victim of rape. The victim, who cant be named, says mr cairns should step down because of his links to a man who sabotaged her trial. Ross england, who served as an aide to the welsh secretary, was heavily criticised by a judge for his role in wrecking the trial last year. Mr england was subsequently selected as a conservative candidate for
We see this band of rain tracking in from the south west. This band of rain will become quite slow moving as this weather front just rain will become quite slow moving as this weather frontjust hangs up across parts of england and wales as we get into thursday. An associate with a slow moving, lumbering area of low pressure. You can see this band of heavy rain, could be enough to cause problems and localised flooding through east anglia, the midlands, north wales, potentially into Northern England as well. To the south of that a mix of sunny spells and heavy showers. To the north, showers could be wintry of the highest ground in scotland. Yes, the highest ground in scotland. Yes, the air will be that goal. As we move out of those into friday, as this area of low pressure pushes eastwards, we could get back into a broadly north and north easterly flow. So its going to be cold once again. It will turn increasingly dry and bright, ithink, during friday was some spells of sunshine. As temp
Not play much better than them. Two the australian womens Football Team will now earn the same match pay as their male counterparts, the socceroos. They also have an equal split own goals, the ball bounced back on of commercial revenues for the first him and into the back of the net and time after a deal struck suddenly ajax were in complete with the Football Federation of control. The likes of quincy promise australia. The matildas have been consistently high performers on the world stage in recent years, climbing as high as fourth in the world in 2017. And donny van de beek playing so during the world cup earlier this well. Ajax looking to continue their year, the womens team reached the knockout stages taking home us 600,000. The socceroos, meanwhile, brilliant away from any champions failed to win a single game in last league, but chelsea didnt give up. Years world cup they fought back and the big moment, but pocketed us 8 million for simply qualifying. Really, was two sending self
Well i have selected three of the questions which i think i can answer. The first about the number of mps standing down. Is it a particularly large number . I thought that there would be because we had some big names, kenneth clarke, the pam and the former chancellor, vince cable former leader of the liberal democrats standing down. But is not particularly large, 68 so far, on average it is about 80 and after the expenses scandal it rocketed to above 100 not a huge number this year. The second question is when will we know who the candidates are and how on earth are they selected. The truth is i suspect most of us already know, the literature has been coming through the door, the dog has chewed it up, but you will not know absolutely everyone until next thursday when the nominations close. How are they chosen, by the local pleiades, dow given a list by head office and then it is up to the local parties by large to decide who your local candidate will be. Question number three, why cann