is he now leader only in name? henry chu, long serving foreign correspondent and deputy henry chu is long serving foreign correspondent and deputy news editor of the la times. polly toynbee is veteran columnist on the left of centre guardian newspaper. simonjack, the bbc s business editor, is here in the studio. good to see you simon, and good to have you bothjoining us good to see you simon, and good to have you both joining us from have you bothjoining us from parts around the uk. as a result of what s happening at the moment. let s begin in downing street. they have been having a week they d rather forget. three things may explain why. a newspaper published a photo of a christmas party last year held in the basement of borisjohson s party hq, at a time when all such activities were against the law. the uk s leading civil servant, the cabinet secretary, was investigating gatherings inside downing street, one of them in the prime minister s own flat ar least he was. at l
with over two thirds of councils yet to declare there is still a long way to go. hello, i m maryam moshiri live in westminster as results from yesterday s local elections across england come in. rishi sunak s conservative party have lost over 200 council seats across the country, something he has described as disappointing . labour have taken control of plymouth, stoke on trent and taken medway in kent from the conservatives among their top target councils. and the liberal democrats have also picked up seats and taken control of windsor. their leader saying the results are ground breaking . there is still a long way to go as more than two thirds of councils have yet to declare their results. we ll bring you coverage throughout the morning and analyse what the results so far mean. but first let s get the story of the night from our political correspondent jonathan blake. cheering. celebrations in stoke on trent a key victory for labour overnight. they took control of the c
erin incredible details talking about firing rifles and, worse, the harsh reality in stark contrast to what we saw from putin today. breaking news. a top trump ally appearing before the grand jury investigating the mar-a-lago classified documents as we learn tonight that trump s former white house counsel testifies. another major investigation involving the former president. a couple trying to vote in arizona allegedly filmed and photographed by a group accusing them off being a, quote, mule. this is beginning of a terrible and ugly election? let s go outfront. tonight, i wouldn t let any of us out there. those are the brutally honest words from a russian soldier sent to the front lines in ukraine. in a phone call with his sister, the soldier revealing the pathetic state of vladimir putin s army. it s important to hear his voice. translator: whatever we wear here, we bought ourselves. they re forcing us to go on camera to encourage the mobilized not to be afraid t
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He lost out to liz truss. he is also the man hated by the right of the party because he is seen as the man that brought down boris johnson s premiership. so what s going to happen? well, the talk is it will be rishi sunak versus the pinup still of the right of the party, who is boris johnson. it looks like they are going to go head to head. but is this the right solution? everyone really is looking for a compromise candidate here. and both these two figures are very divisive. so perhaps a third figure could come through. but it really rushed this process up. they want it cleaned up in a week. and they re talking about potentially on monday having a solution. if that s the case, the rishi sunak and boris johnson camps need to come together and try to find some sort of a solution. i just can t see how they re going to work it out, erin. we ll find out next week. all right, well, max, thanks very much for that honest report. we have the same issues with politics here.