hello to you. and welcome to the programme. is the bloody battle for bakhmut over? the head of russia s wagner mercenary group says its forces will hand over the city to russian forces as it declares victory and withdraws. kyiv, though, says it still controls pockets of the city. also in the programme: migration is not out of control. the uk prime minister says the number of people coming to the uk is still too high after new figures show net migration hit a new record high. as business demands more workers, we ll assess proposals for a new skills based visa system. armed officers descend on central london after a car crashes into the gates of downing street. police say a man was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving, but the incident is not being treated as terror related. and after a storm of racist abuse against real madrid s vinicius junior, the president of la liga denies that the spanish football league is racist, but he calls for new powers to
The way that conservatives have operated, which is the politics of hate and hostility and division. We have seen that here in london in susan halls campaign, where she has joined facebook groups that incite against the labour candidate sadik khan, that is the politics of hate that this party, a Mainstream Party of government has allowed to happen, allowed to divide people in our country. That is not the politics that we want or need in our country. We need a country that has brought together, a hopeful country, where people are brought together and we work together, and that is the kind of leadership keir starmer and the labour party will practice, and we will work hard to bring people together, so that we can serve the british public s interest, not this narrow interest that the conservatives, the Self Serving Interests of the conservatives have shown in recent years. They have broken this country, our Public Services are broken, our nhs is broken, ourtransport services are broken, ou