good afternoon. the prime minister has been defending his plans to stop illegal immigration after the dramatic resignation last night of home office minister robertjenrick who claimed the proposals don t go far enough. this morning, rishi sunak called reporters to downing street and insisted his draft immigration law will prevent every legal challenge that has ever been used to stop asylum seekers being put on flights to rwanda. let s go live now to our political correspondent alex forsyth who s in the houses of parliament. this has been a turbulent time for rishi sunak and that is before one plane carrying asylum seekers to rwanda has got off the ground. after the resignation of his immigration minister robertjenrick, the divisions within the party over the government s approach on this policy have been laid bare. rishi sunak called a press conference trying to persuade people his approach was the right one, the question is when it silence his critics? a prime minister und
they re like a bomb. has the cost of borrowing peaked? we ll have a better idea today, when the bank of england reveals its latest decision on interest rates. but whatever the outcome, first time buyers are still feeling the pressure. manchester united are in a bad place , according to their manager they re out of the league cup, after being soundly beaten by newcastle. it s their worst start to a season for over 60 years. good morning. it s thursday, the 2nd of november. a major incident has been declared across parts of the south coast of england and the channel islands, as storm ciaran brings heavy rain and strong winds, with flood and red danger to life warnings issued for several areas. many schools and airports have been forced to close, with widespread travel disruption also expected across road and rail networks. aruna iyengar has the very latest. waves crashing over the sea wall in devon. a car is washed into the sea. this is penzance in cornwall. and there is hea
You guessed it, its eurovision time again coming up in the sport on bbc news, Europa League and potential Champions League prizes both on offer for Manchester United ahead of their second leg against celta vigo at old trafford. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. If a leaked copy of labours manifesto is anything to go by, the party is about to propose some of the most sweeping changes to its policies in a generation. The draft proposals seen by the bbc range from renationalising the railways and parts of the energy sector, an emphasis on workers rights to scrapping tuition fees in england. This afternoon, party chiefs signed off on an amended version of the document. Jeremy corbyn, who said the final, fully costed manifesto will be published in a few days, described it as transformative. The conservatives called it the road to ruin. Heres our Political Editor laura kuennsberg. They wondered what exactly was going on, and you might too. This was meant to be the grand unveil
In england are the worst in five yea rs. Hes a showboat, hes a grandstander. President trump lays into his former fbi director and says he always intended to sack him. And Manchester United keep their Champions League dream alive, beating the spanish side celta vigo. Coming up in Sportsday On Bbc News andy murray is knocked out of the madrid open in the last 16 by borna coric, so hes failed to reach the Quarter Finals in two of his last three events. Good evening. Labours Election Manifesto has been formally approved by the Party Leadership and will be published next week. Jeremy corbyn said the policies would be fully costed and would prove to be very popular with voters. Some of the main parts of the manifesto had already found their way into the public domain, after a version of the document was leaked overnight. It included proposals to re Nationalise The Railways and to scrap University Tuition fees in england. Our political editor, laura kuenssberg, has more on the Campaign Event