yorkshire down to about norfolk and suffolk. there are a few showers pepping up suffolk. there are a few showers popping up in southern counties but with the cloud lingering across the midlands and east anglia, it will stay cool for the majority, with temperatures struggling for a few of you round 13 or 1a. where the sunshine comes out it is warmer than that, with temperatures high teens to low 20s. overnight tonight, we don t see an odd patch of rain in north east england, the south east, but otherwise a dry night with clear spell, where we keep cloud, temperatures about #1e7b or 11, we are looking at six or snippety the chilliest parts of the uk. tomorrow morning there is still the threat of rain, north east england, south east england clearing away, it should be a drier brighter kind of day for many of you, a bit more in the way of sunshine breaking through the cloud but a few showers developing through the afternoon in england and wales, so not entirely dry. given more su
in the next hour, before conservative mps go into that committee room, and place their votes in a secret ballot we will be talking to some of them in the run up. good afternoon. the prime minister borisjohnson has addressed conservative mps to try and convince them to back him in a vote of confidence this evening. in an hours time, tory mps will start voting on whether they want mrjohnson to be replaced. he s been under increasing pressure following the publication of a report which looked into parties at downing street which broke covid rules. a vote of confidence was triggered after some conservative mps handed in letters calling on the pm to resign to sir graham brady, the chairman of an influential group of backbench mps, called the 1922 committee. for a vote to be held, at least 15% of conservative mps need to write a letter that works out at 5a. let s cross straight to college green in westminster now and my colleague victoria derbyshire: it s been a dramatic day and it
Period of sustained distractions and the partygate issue was significant. but we have also had the conclusion of the police investigation, the collusion of the sue gray report, and i think it is time to draw a line in the sand on that. the prime minister has apologised, he has overhauled number 10. what people are now constituents must expect is for us to be focusing on them and put those distractions behind us. the vote is an opportunity to draw a line of the sun. if we don t do that, we are not going to be talking about the cost of living, the queen s speech agenda whether it is skills, crime fighting or social care, we are going to be talking amongst ourselves. that would be regarded by many of the public as self indulgent added time where we are less than two years from a general election. i will be backing the prime minister. i think you will see a large majority of parliamentary members of the conservative party doing so.
Police and the civil servant sue gray are finished. the conservative mp craig whittaker has previously called for both borisjohnson and the chancellor rishi sunak to resign over the so called partygate issue. he joins us from westminster. good morning to you. if i were to present to you the challenge by way of helping our audience understand what is going on this morning in 40 seconds, tell me what is going to happen today. could you try? basically the opposition are put down basically the opposition are put down a basically the opposition are put down a motion of contempt against the prime down a motion of contempt against the prime minister which would refer him to the prime minister which would refer him to what we call the privileges committee and the government in response committee and the government in response have put down an amendment to that response have put down an amendment to that motion today which, by the way, to that motion today which, by the way, is t