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spells, although more cloud the further north you are, all the details shortly. it s sunday, june 2nd. our main story. sir keir starmer has pledged to cut levels of legal migration to the uk, if labour wins the general election. in a newspaper interview he set out plans to prioritise british workers and crack down on businesses that break employment laws. the conservatives said no one believed the labour leader was serious about tackling immigration. our political correspondent alex forsyth has the latest. every year, people come to the uk to live, work or study. last year, net migration that s the difference between the number of people arriving and the number of people leaving was 685,000. sir keir starmer, who launched his election battle bus yesterday, has previously said that s too high. now he s promised to cut that number if labour wins the election, though he hasn t said by how much or by when. he told the sun on sunday newspaper read my lips, i will bring ....
ourarts and media correspondent david sillito looks back at his career. tonight s movie has been mash. in 1970, a sprawling, darkly comic film about the korean war came out. i m drjekyll, actually, this is my friend mr hyde. the hero, a cynical, rebellious, heavy drinking, womanising surgeon. everybody was telling me, don t do it. at the end of it, it ll ruin you. we did it in five weeks and it was wonderful. born in canada, he d studied engineering before switching to acting and working in theatre in britain. four captains, there, hamlet, like a soldier to the stage. mash. ..a thinly veiled satire of vietnam, led to klute. would you mind not doing that? ..with jane fonda. it was the first of three films together. ..and an off screen relationship. at a moment when a dark and maverick mood was making itself felt in hollywood, donald sutherland, with that piercing gaze, wasjust the sort of complex leading man it was looking for. take don t look now. a disturbing, ghostly ....
kenned , perhaps even mystical event. duncan kennedy. thank perhaps even mystical event. duncan kennedy, thank you. time for a look at the weather, here s louise lear. this programme continues on bbc one. hard questions for rishi sunak tonight on the election day bet allegations. how is he handling them and how much is he damaged? good evening, welcome to newsnight, every weeknight, home of lively interviews and electric insight. joining us throughout: david yelland, the former editor of the sun, jo tanner, who wrangled borisjohnson s comms, and top pollster luke tryl. in our sights tonight, the bbc question time show which has just ended on bbc one, in which rishi sunak has had to defend two candidates and a close aide as the gambling commission look into allegations about betting on the date of the general election. inexplicably, someone at tory hq thought it was a good idea to put a spinning roulette wheel in a tory election video. before we dig into that, here s ....
and mash, has died at the age of 88. the ball given back to them, though. denmark hold england to a disappointing draw in the euros. and thousands gather at stonehenge on the longest day of the year to celebrate the summer solstice. and in half an hour, bbc london s investigation reveals how taylor swift fans heading to her wembley stadium concerts this weekend could be targeted by scammers. good evening. the prime minister says he was incredibly angry when he found out about allegations over betting on the date of the general election. rishi sunak called it a really serious matter and said that anyone who is found to have broken the rules should face the full force of the law and would be booted out of the conservative party. it comes after it emerged that the conservative party s director of campaigning and his wife, a tory candidate, are being looked into by the gambling commission. the prime minister was speaking as the leaders of the four main parties faced an even ....
interest rates have been held at 5.25% for the seventh time in a row by the bank of england, despite the rate of inflation hitting the bank s target level of 2% for the time in three years. of 2% for the first time in three years. economists have predicted that interest rates, which are currently at a 16 year high, won t be cut until august. with more, here s our chief economics correspondent, dharshini david. ok, so it s four bedrooms. first time buyerjames has his eye on his dream home in coventry. but getting the keys to the door has been more challenging than expected as higher mortgage rates have made the first rung of the housing ladder harder to grasp. we definitely had to make some cutbacks as a couple and look at our financial plan to see if we could afford the mortgage. with the rates being high, we ve had to save for effectively another year to come into line with that. it s also understanding, yeah, the term of the mortgage, you know, from looking at it, it ....