in the past few minutes, another conservative mp has announced that he is resigning, triggering a by election. his name is nigel adams, a big supporter of former prime minister borisjohnson, who is stepping down with immediate effect. this comes after borisjohnson himself resigned as an mp, blaming a witchhunt against him. in an explosive statement, he likened the inquiry to a kangaroo court, and criticised the current direction of the uk government. it s a political headache for prime minister rishi sunak, who now faces a by election in mrjohnson s constituency, at a time when his conservative party is languishing in the polls. the resignation came after borisjohnson received an advance copy of a report into whether intentionally misled parliament over covid lockdown parties at downing street. charlotte wright reports. he is rarely farfrom the headlines, and last night he made more. borisjohnson bowing out with a blistering statement. criticising everyone from the privileges
could hospitals in england see more scenes like these? senior doctors are voting on whether to take industrial action over pay. hello and welcome. we start in the uk where ukraine s president has made a surprise visit the latest stop on his tour of european capitals to secure fresh promises of military aid to fight russia s invasion. prime minister rishi sunak promised to send hundreds of air defence missiles and long range attack drones but stopped short of sending jets. rishi sunak tweeted this picture welcoming president zelensky when he arrived at chequers the prime minister s country residence the pair in a bear hug, the caption reading: welcome back . volodymir zelensky had earlier described rishi sunak as his friend . there were then handshakes on the doorstep before the pair held bilateral talks, lasting around two hours. ukraine s president says the pair discussed western nations providing kyiv with fighter jets, with the aim of creating what he calle
president zelensky s visit to the uk in the last couple of hours, he is at chequers with the uk prime minister, rishi sunak. chequers is the countryside rural retreat of the sitting uk prime minister, and they were there to discuss, of course, ukraine s war with russia and the continuing support that the uk and other countries will provide. we got a little nudge about what their priorities were, because now we know, this phrase i am sure we are going to be hearing a lot more of, jets coalition. . they posed for a couple of words to but then the real talks got under way when our cameras were out of the room. they spoke for a couple of hours then afterwards they came out and president zelensky decided to talk about this phrase, jets coalition, saying that ukraine can t control the skies ahead of any counteroffensive with russia. one of his big priorities now is is this jets coalition, fighterjets are essentially. we have some reaction from russia. let s take a look at what they