After celebrating their best ever general Election Results, The Party is the third biggest in parliament. Some of its members are here as mps for the first time. The mood is so upbeat, it is so buoyant but we are really determined to get stuff done. The reason we fight in elections and we win elections is so we can achieve things for our community so i am excited to be talking about our plan fixing Social Care and the health service, and how we really represent our community to be that strong, determined opposition to the government and represent our community is the best possible way we can. The Liberal Democrats achieved record Election Results by pitching themselves in opposition to the conservatives. Raising the question of what to do now that labour are in power. The party says it wants to offer a constructive opposition, challenging ministers on policies they dont like, such as the recent cut in the Winter Fuel Allowance. And they want to use this platform to put forward their ow
in scotland. it is not clear exactly when she will leave office, but as i say, she has been head of the scottish government for the last eight years. she has been making headlines in recent weeks because of a wider debate on teenagers rights, calling for a wider debate on teenagers rights, she defended plans to allow i6 year olds to change their legal sex. scotland s gender recognition bill that she wanted to introduce into scotland brought her into conflict and a clash with the uk government based in westminster, which blocked scotland plus two gender recognition bill. the secretary of state for scotland alisterjack used a special order known as a section 35 order to prevent that there becoming law on the grounds it would have an adverse impact on the laws. those are laws that apply across scotland, england and wales. that was a claim disputed by the scottish government, butjust to remind you, that gender recognition bill was to allow i6 year olds to change their legal sex
parliamentary elections this is the scene live at a polling atation in paris. support for the far right national rally party has surged since they won the european elections three weeks ago despite macron pledging to stop its rise. i am mark lohan live in paris where voters are flocking to the polling station, some hoping for the first far right government since the second world war, others desperately trying to block it. and a sky full of stars at coldplay s glastonbury set with a few surprise guests. country star shania twain takes the stage this afternoon. let s start with the breaking news this past hour. the spanish civil guard has called off the search for the missing british teeenagerjay slater. the 19 year old from lancashire has been missing in tenerife since 17june, after he told a friend he was lost in the mountains. let s get more on this. with me is in the studio is our correspondent frankie mccamley. what we know at the moment as yesterday there was this
unfazed by the torrent of bad headlines his disjointed debate performance had generated. i don t debate as well as i used to. but i know what i do know! i know how to tell the truth. crowd: yes! he seemed for all the world like a new man, reading from the teleprompter with a passion that had been all too absent the night before. gentlemen, thanks so much for being here. let s begin the debate. let s start. it was a far cry from the rasping and rambling performance on the debate stage that was all too often painful to watch. everything we had to do with. what. if. we finally beat medicare. it has left his party in a state of crisis. yet despite rumblings about replacing their candidate, publicly, at least, democrats are circling the wagons. referring to his own lacklustre performance in the presidential debate in 2012, joe biden s former boss barack obama tweeted. bad debate nights happen. trust me, i know . despite being just three years younger thanjoe biden, donald trump h
at large to endorse their manifesto. the fact is that the snp has consistently stood on manifestos pledging that scotland s future should be in scotland s hands, not that of a westminster government we didn t elect. the challenge for us here is to ensure that the labour party and indeed the conservative party actually respect democracy in scotland, because if they don t i suspect they ll get rather short shrift from an electorate, that, with every passing day of this campaign struggles to see much difference between them. mr linden, looking at some of the polls they suggest that your party could halve the number of seats at westminster. of course they are just polls and we won t know until the actual vote next week, but if those polls are to believed then the clout that you might have to persuade whoever the next government is to call for independence, that is going to go, isn t it? the only poll that matters is the one that takes place next thursday between 7am and 10pm. the