12 hours later the labour leadership have lifted her suspension. but is she banned from standing as a labour candidate in this election? plus the conservatives say if they win the election they will now protect pensioners from their own future tax rises. are they neglecting young voters? welcome to election newsnight. we are live each weekday night at half past ten on bbc 2 and bbc news with interviews and insight. with me throughout the programme tonight labour mp dawn butler and former conservative chancellor kwasi kwarteng who, like around 76 of his tory colleagues, is standing down. first, let s bring you up to date with today s election stories starting with our exclusive that we broke this morning that the labour investigation into diane abbott over her comments on racism was finished five months ago. and tonight, the labour leadership have lifted thier suspension of ms abbott and restored the whip. nick s here. bring us up to date? as you said earlier this evening si
there would be no general election until 2020. the country needs stability, she said, through the brexit negotiation. that was the position before the easter recess. but while on a walking holiday in wales last week, theresa may had time to reflect and she changed her mind. an unelected prime minister needs a mandate. in the polls, here s just one of them from yougov, theresa may and the conservatives have a commanding lead. her allies were telling her there was no better time to go to the country. so, if this parliament here votes tomorrow to approve her call for a snap election as we expect it will then britain will vote again in six weeks time, on june the 8th. they are calling it the brexit election. our political editor laura kuensberg begins our coverage. did she surprise them? did she surprise you? did theresa may even surprise you? did theresa may even surprise herself? her biggest decision as prime minister taken only days ago. i have just chaired a meeting of t
wasn t plausible, wasn t believable but it was at least relatively co teernt. to recap, michael cohen and his surrogates on tv had been claiming for months that michael cohen, the president s attorney, facilitated as cohen put it $130,000 payment to stormy daniels who says she had an affair with the president 12 years ago. now, the money came out of cohen s pocket allegedly taken from a home equity line of credit we were told. the president had not repaid it. in fact, mr. trump knew nothing about it they claimed and despite coming as it did in the closing days of the campaign the payment supposedly had absolutely nothing to do with the election. nothing to do with skel change an embarrassing story 11 days before the election. on wednesday night rudy guiliani went on fox and said this to sean hannity about the daniels payoff. it s not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. they funneled it through a law firm. funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. oh,
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