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hopes and dreams of children are following these stories and many more all coming in and right here to cnn news central major news this afternoon. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is ending his history making tenure in the senate. announcing today that he is stepping down from his leadership position we spoke briefly on the floor about the discussion father time remains undefeated. no longer the young man sitting in the back hoping colleagues would remember my name. it s tom. the next generation of leadership and just a short time ago, president biden reacted to this decision. let s listen and with that, a high-stakes race for his successor begins. let s take you now live to capitol hill with cnn s lauren fox. lauren, what are you hearing from mcconnell s colleagues about this? yeah, a lot of republican colleagues keeping their powder dry right now, they want to hear from whoever may want to fill mcconnell s shoes. of course, all eyes are on those three ....
newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s paddy in the studio. and it s laura in the studio. and henry is having a week off, so we are graced with the journalist of the moment. hello. who are you? nick watt, how is that? nick watt, the political editor of newsnight, he has been making some news if you are viewing this week. since we last spoke yesterday we have just broke the news that lee anderson the tory mp has been booted out of the party for making what a lot of people believe were racist and unpleasant islamophobic comments, and there has been a statement from anderson himself and also overnight a statement from the prime minister too condemning extremism and anti semitism but not condemning islamophobia. remind ourselves what lee anderson actually said before we get into the furore around it. i don t actually believe that the islamists have got control of the country but what i do believe is they have got control of khan and they have got control of london, an ....
more now on our top story and the argument engulfing the conservatives after its former deputy chairman, lee anderson, was suspended from the parliamentary party. he d refused to apologise for saying the mayor of london, sadiq khan, was controlled by islamists. the deputy prime minister, oliver dowden, declined to call those comments islamophobic, but said he shared concerns they could be taken that way. he s been speaking to laura kuenssberg on her sunday morning programme. well, that s why the prime minister took action. he gave lee anderson the opportunity to apologise, he didn t take that opportunity. words matter. he didn t choose his words correctly and, having failed to apologise, the prime minister took action and removed the whip. i think that was the appropriate course of action to take. do you agree, though, that the remarks were islamophobic, anti muslim? i don t believe that lee anderson said those remarks she was concerned they would be interpreted, and ....
anti muslim and racist . lee anderson was suspended from the party after saying london s mayor was controlled by islamists . the suspension was not for the comments but for refusing to apologise. the party s leadership was drawn further into the argument on sunday the deputy prime minister refusing to say whether he thought the comments were islamophobic. 0ur political correspondent georgia roberts reports. lee anderson, seen this morning, was not long ago the deputy chairman of the conservative party, but he has now been suspended for refusing to apologise for these comments. i don t actually believe that these islamists have got control of our country, but what i do believe is they ve got control of khan and they ve got control of london. speaking this morning, the deputy prime minister said the mp didn t intend to be islamophobic, but acknowledged the comments could have been read that way, which is why he was asked to apologise. i don t believe that lee anderson was in ....
while handling conflicts abroad? the prime minister s right hand man oliver dowden is here to answer that question. from salford, labour s lisa nandyjoins us too. he s been caught in the headlines for the wrong reasons of late in charge during the post office scandal. but how does ed davey, the lib dem leader, want to change the script in this year of a general election? and, a week on from the death of alexei navalvny we ask the estonian prime minister what s it like to be one of putin s most wanted. good morning. with you and me for the next 60 minutes halima begum, the boss of the charity action aid, andy burnham, the labour mayor of greater manchester, now author, and therese coffey, who was deputy prime minister herself in liz truss cabinet. she is now a conservative backbench mp. a warm welcome to all three. and welcome to you, too. so let s first of all catch up with what s making the news. keir starmer accuses rishi sunak of harbouring extremists in his p ....