Applause labour won mayors, councils, and police and crime commissioners. Rishi sunak left clinging on to just one mayor in the tees valley. Even his majority diminished. This morning, the former home secretary, and one of the Prime Ministers biggest critics, warned of a total wipe out for the conservatives. I despair at these terrible results. Theres no spinning these results, theres no disguising the fact that these have been terrible Election Results for the conservatives and they suggest that we are heading to a labour government. Her prescription for the pm. He needs to actually lower taxes in a way that people will feel, not tweaking round the edges. If he is serious about migration, he needs to put a cap on illegal migration, he needs to take us out of the European Convention on human rights. In defeat, the now former conservative mayor of the West Midlands, andy street, said the opposite, urging his party to stick to the centre ground. This morning, ministers were insisting the
african countries. the u.s. remembers stopped travel at the onset of omicron and a senior biden administration official announced those restrictions will be lifted in about a week. what more do we know? yeah. this might seem like an odd time to be scaling back restrictions given the surge in cases that we ve been discussing. but the white house emphasizing that this is being guided by the science. and, in fact, president biden has been signaling for some time that he was likely to lift the restrictions. pointing out that the point of putting this travel ban into place was not some idea that we were going to keep omicron out of the united states. it was to try to buy the united states more time at the very beginning when we didn t really know much about the variant to learn more about it and figure out what tools we needed to be able to tackle it. a senior administration official tells us there are two reasons why now is the right time to be lifting those restrictions. number one, accor