be allowed to persist. labour has been focused on defence with keir starmer reaffirming his commitment to the uk nuclear deterrent. he said protecting the nation would be the bedrock of a future labour government. the lib dems deputy daisy group has outlined the snp leaderjohn swinney has called for a respectful contest ahead of the scottish leader s first television debate of the campaign that gets under way tonight. here is our political correspondent. should only biologically female be able to use women s services? just people who are biologically female, also those who have change their legal sex on a birth certificate? conservatives say that women s services should be able to refuse any one of is biologically male without facing legal challenges. it is quite clear that the intentions in the law are being misinterpreted just because of changes, social changes, and what we are trying to do is reemphasise that sex, in the law, means biological sex. it always has done but th
sunshine, pretty much across the board in scotland. it ll stay like that through throughout the afternoon. thicker cloud. further south, it s been thick enough for a spot or two of drizzle, some brightness into the afternoon in the southeast. here we ll see highs of 21 degrees and with that sunshine in aberdeenshire will see 20 as well. but as we go through the night, the cloud continues to sit with us. the breeze will pick up and drive in a few scattered showers to the north and west of scotland, maybe into northwest england as well. temperatures holding up to greeters on tuesday, but it s tuesday that we ll start to see the real change to the story. those fronts will gradually sink their way steadily south and east. there ll be a lot of cloud, a little bit of early morning brightness across east anglia and south east england, and quite a narrow line of intense showers develop as that front sinks south behind it, bright and breezy with some showers in scotland and a cooler feel here