craig williams and laura saunders, on the date of the general election. on the campaign trail, labour is setting out changes to the process for someone to legally change their gender. the party is also offering to provide hundreds of thousands more dental appointments on the nhs. the lib dems release their analysis on hospital waiting times. leader sir ed davey claimed the country has ten days to save the nhs. the snp sjohn swinney will give a speech on brexit. while the dup is launching its manifesto in northern ireland. so it is a busy day for all of the parties today. we ll touch on all of the above in this programme, but let s start with the election betting investigation. here s tobias elwood speaking to the bbc radio 4 today. this betting saga has been deeply unhelpful, self inflicted distraction, and in what world they thought this was acceptable is beyond belief. the prime minister has expressed his anger, he said that at the leaders s question time debate. it has bee
at this special venue in manchester where you can have your ceremony in a refurbished jumbojet. a refurbished jumbo jet. good morning a refurbished jumbojet. good morning from greenwich where the sun is beating down already. some parts of the country reaching 30 celsius this week. today many in the mid 20s with a lot of sunshine but rain in the western isles later. all the details throughout the programme. it s monday the 24th june, our main story. scotland s euros hopes have come an abrupt end after losing to hungary. it was a single goal in the 100th minute which saw the hungarians claim a late victory. they lost one of their players to injury in the second half following a mid air clash with scotland s goalkeeper. john watson is at a campsite in stutggart for us this morning, how are people this morning? it will be sombre, it is going to be flat. there was a huge amount of heart, determination and effort but ultimately lacking a cutting edge as they went in search of victo
we will bring you more from our correspondent outside a hospital in a moment. a leading think tank, the institute for fiscal studies, has accused the main political parties of a conspiracy of silence over the economic reality behind plans set out in their election manifestos. the ifs analysed how the policies could impact the public finances and what that could mean for household incomes, public services and taxation. in its scathing assessment it said the parties were ducking the issues, by relying on faster growth to deliver more tax, which it said was far from guaranteed. it also warned the next government faced having to find new ways to raise taxes, or leave some public services exposed to billions of pounds worth of cuts. this a flavour of what the director of the ifs, pauljohnson, had to say. low growth, high debt, high interest payments mean we need to do something quite rare over the next few years just to stop debt spiralling ever upwards we need to run primar
were also set ablaze. six of the attackers are reported to have been killed in what is thought to have been an islamist attack in a region which is predominately muslim. the governor of dagestan sergei melikov said they were trying to understand the motive behind the attack. translation: of course, we understand what s behind the organisation of these terrorist attacks. we understand what the organisers were trying to achieve. subsequent operational research and investigative measures will be carried out until all participants and their sleeper cells are identified and, of course, they had been preparing for this, course, they had been preparing forthis, including course, they had been preparing for this, including from abroad. the situation is now under the control of the government authorities and. let s speak to matthew schmidt, an associate professor of national security and political science at the university of new haven. good to have you on the programme. once again, d
tricky for labour. something they would rather not be talking about because of sir keir starmer s shifting stance within this issue and conservatives have certainly frequently criticised the labour leader saying it is evident he is fickle with certain things and changes his mind. he insists the record of his party on women s rights is good and they would do more if they were to get into government. more if they were to get into government- more if they were to get into government. more if they were to get into covernment. ., ~ government. good to see you. thank ou ve government. good to see you. thank you very much government. good to see you. thank you very much indeed. as the last full week of campaigning gets underway, the dup has launched its manifesto this morning. at the last general election, in 2019, it won eight seats more than any other party in northern ireland. in the manifesto, the party set out more ways it wants to remove trade barriers between great bri