After Rishi Sunak led the conservatives to their worst performance at a general election, who will succeed him as tory leader . The race officially began at 7pm tonight. Plus, shoplifting has hit a record high, with 50 offences recorded by police every hour in england and wales an increase of 30 in one year. Why is shoplifting as widespread and how do we stop it . Good evening, welcome to newsnight, live each weeknight, bringing you interviews and insight. Your Panel Tonight former conservative deputy to theresa may, Damian Green. Defeated at the election, hes now backing Tom Tugendhat. Theo bertram, former number 10 adviser to prime Ministers Blair and brown, now director at the social Market Foundation think tank. And kevin foster, former tory mp who was Migration Minister between 2019 and 2022 and wants his old Boss Priti Patel to stand for tory leader. Two conservatives are sitting on our sofa, we had to labour members last night. It evens out over the series. And just befo
In a statement, white house press secretary karine jean pierre said: the white house will provide regular updates on his status as he continues to carry out the full duties of the office while in isolation. In the hours before testing positive, mr biden was on the campaign trail inside a restaurant, shaking hands and speaking with voters. Following his diagnosis, the president was seen without a mask as he exited his motorcade and climbed the steps of air force one to return to delaware. This all comes at a perilous time for the president, with his re election bid continuing to lose support from allies. On wednesday, one of the most influential democrats in congress, adam schiff, called on biden to end his re election bid. Congressman schiff said that while he believes president biden has been one of the most consequential presidents in us history, he said it was time for the president to pass the torch. Mr schiffjoins 17 other house democrats who have directly called on president bide
beloved grandmother. she s still missing in the collapse. the deadly hot air balloon crash in new mexico. the basket hitting power lines, separating from the balloon, plunging 100 feet to the ground, bursting into flames. five onned board. no one survived. the ntsb investigating tonight. the dangerous and life-threatening heat wave in the west. sweltering temperatures up to 30 degrees above normal. all-time records expected to fall. 24 million people under heat alerts, many in some communities without air-conditioning. rob marciano standing by in the danger zone. the fda s new warning about the very rare risk of heart inflammation associated with the moderna and pfizer vaccines in some young people. but health experts say not getting vaccinated is more of a risk. the united express plane getting ready to take off, forced to turn back after a passenger opened the door and jumped out. > andeed report. nearly 150 sightings by navy pilots the intelligence community can t
They know it? a u. S. Intention report is raising new questions about the origins of the covid pandemic in china. The director of the wuhan national bio safety lab called the intel a complete lie. Cnn s steven jonge joins me live from beijing. How is responding about this? reporter: well, rosemary, the chinese government has officially responded to the latest u. S. Intelligence report with a foreign ministry spokesperson quoting a statement by the wuhan institute saying that institute had never come in contact with covid before december of 2019. Up until larch, the employees researchers, no one among the people had contracted the virus. That s a very strong denial. The spokesman actually went on to give the usual spiel about the growly likelihood of a multiple origin theory the virus could have emerged from multiple locations around the world at the same time. And without any concrete evidence pointing a finger at a u. S. Military run lab in maryland. This is to the going to stop. And
Paying more. The cost of the radical policies are already being felt nationwide. Look at this. Gas prices, they are now skyrocketing. The cost of heating your home, call your home, that is way up. Energy prices across the border all way out. And of course the price of goods and services, they are also on the rise. Look at this today. Procter gamble announcing a nationwide price hike on nearly all of its products. We all buy procter gamble, right? general mills also announcing plans to raise prices on everything from cereal to snack bars. Cocacola, they are raising prices. Yep, kimberlyclark, yep, she s doing a great job at raising prices up pretty much everything. The cost of timber and paper products, by thehe way, if you n even find them, they are going through the roof. It is your money. It is your paycheck. It is your income. And it is now becoming less valuable with every passing day. Now come the reasonn for this is obvious. Joe biden decided to limit our misupply of oil and gas