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confidence vote in technical terms so it does give some permission if you like for backbench mps to vote against the government without the consequence of losing the party whip but you re completely right to say that in reality this is of course about how much confidence the mps have in the prime minister. any rebellion on those benches would be damaging to rishi sunak, already robertjenrick wasn t resignation is damaging and this matters because the government has chosen to make this policy so symbolic, so totemic. they have set a lot of stall by this. rishi sunak was asked that if he does get not get the flights of wood people be right to put their faith elsewhere because he has not delivered. that is the key question. rishi sunak has set such a lot of stall by the policy but in terms of the wider public he has made a promise to stop the boats. he said the rwanda policy is key to delivering on that promise and the huge question is whether politically and practically he can. ....
independent treasury officials have costed labour s policies and they amount to a £2000 tax rights for working family. it looks like now the chief treasury civil servant actually wrote to labour at two days ago saying the conservative assessment of their tax plan should not be presented as having been produced by the civil service. the debate sought the labour leader sir keir starmer challenged over hospital waiting lists among other things. with a rant out of the highlights from that debate, this is our political correspondent ian watson. the first debate of the campaign was a head to head clash between the prime minister and the man who wanted to replace him. if you re still wondering about the key messages they want to hammer home at this election, wonder no longer. this election is all about a choice more of the chaos and division we ve seen for the last 14 years, or turning the page and rebuilding with labour. no one knows what labour would actually do. but you ....
and first of two days of commemerations in europe to mark the 80 years anniversary of the normandy landings. good evening, a day is a long time in politics. this morning the front pages brough some brief respite to the conservatives. snap polls suggesting that it was rishi sunak who had come out on top in the first leadership debate of the campaign. the prime minister had referred several times in that debate to a so called independent assessment of labour s spending plans, which the tories suggest will mean every working family paying £2000 more in taxes. the prime minister said that was a figure that had been signed off by civil servants at the treasury. the only problem is it hadn t. the bbc has obtained a letter from the most senior civil servant in the treasury, the permanent secretary, james bowler who wrote to labour making clear the civil service had not been as involved as the conservativesclaimed. as you would expect, labour is furious. here s our political e ....
at the weather with louise. hello there. having just had one of the wettest and dullest springs on record, i m sure if you ve got 12 hours of sunshine, you d take it. that s exactly what we had on wednesday through the isle of man. a chilly day, but a beautiful day in terms of sunshine. slightly different story further north and west, temperatures struggled in parts of scotland to get up into double figures and there was a rash of sharp showers as well. that s because scotland and northern ireland, you re closest to this area of low pressure and a brisk northwesterly wind continues to feed showers in around that low. so we start off on a chilly note first thing on thursday morning. sunny spells and scattered showers through scotland and northern ireland, fairly widespread throughout the day. further south after a cloudy start, the cloud should break up, some sunshine come through. there s always a risk of one or two isolated showers across england and wales, but hopeful ....
treasury officials , labour s policies would result in a £2,000 tax rise for every working family. the conservatives say they stand by their figures. it has been confirmed as expected that narendra modi will becomes india s prime minister for a third time. the 73 year old found himself unexpectedly reliant on a number of smaller parties to reach a parliamentary majority, after his own party fell short of the 272 needed to form the next government. it may mean that in power he will need to be more concialatory than he has previously. a boeing spacecraft carrying two nasa astronauts is on its maiden voyage after a successful launch from cape caneveral this morning. this is starliners first crewed mission after years of costly setbacks. the astronauts, butch wilmore and suni williams, will spend one day in orbit before docking with the international space station. the first of two days of events have been taking place to mark the 80th anniversary of the normandy landi ....