one was the same. for me, the elastic snapped and that is why i sent a respectful and polite message to the prime minister this morning suggesting that he should go. mrjohnson has assembled a new cabinet, with some new faces he wants to stay in no 10 until there is a new conservative leader. arguments have raged all day about just how long borisjohnson can stay in downing street. tonight, he is promising any big decisions will be left to the next prime minister. just over two years ago, borisjohnson was riding high, but today he leaves a country divided about his legacy. i think he s lied and been found out, and i think he should go. i don t think he s credible any more. i think he did a marvellousjob. what he s done for the country, people don t realise. who else could have done that? who could have passed brexit? also this hour. foreign ministers arrive for the 620 meeting, the first with russia since the start of the ukraine war. and ons jabeur makes history as she reach
the royal college of surgeons warns that the number of patients waiting more than six months for routine operations and treatment in england has nearly tripled in four years. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the crown prosecution service have announced that craig mackinlay, who is running for south thanet in the election for the conservatives, has been charged over his alleged overspending in the 2015 general election campaign. mr mackinlay defeated the then ukip leader, nigel farage, in the ballot. daniel sandford is with me now. first ball, talk us through what he has been charged with. it all goes back to the titanic battle in the 2015 general election between nigel farage and a conservative party. he was trying to get a seat in parliament for the first time. the conservative party were trying to keep them out. craig mackinlay was the candidate for the conservatives who managed to win that in south thanet. as all candidates have to do, he then filed his election