paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, i m paul gigot. the remaining presidential candidates are making hair closing arguments in new hampshire ahead of that state s first in the nation primary on tuesday with recent polls showing nikki haley in second place behind donald trump and ron desantis coming in a distant third. the former president is stepping up his attacks on haley as he looks to build on his win in iowa with a knockout blow in the granite state. here are trump and haley trading fire this week. the people behind nikki haley are pro-name testy, they re pro-china, their pro-open borders. don t kid yourself. pro-war and they re pro-biden. we don t want more of the same with the trump-biden thing. we don t want more 80-year-olds in d.c. we don t want for the more of the same where both of them are distracted by investigations and all these other things. paul: joining the panel, columnists dan dan henninger kim strassel andtorial board member kyle peat
earlier, liz truss travelled to balmoral castle in aberdeenshire where she accepted the queen s invitation to form a government. borisjohnson had already left downing street his words prompting speculation that he might want to return at some point. that he might want to a that he might want to day of transition and an ever for a day of transition and an evening for the new prime minister of shaping her government. we ll have the latest on the shape of the new cabinet and on the policy challenges. one other story, following the fatal shooting of a school girl in liverpool. for the first time, the mother of olivia pratt korbel makes a public appeal for the killer to come forward. i m hoping that they come forward. that this doesn t happen to anybody else. and coming up on the bbc news channel. a busy evening of european football celtic among the british teams in action but can they overcome the european champions real madrid at celtic park? good evening. the new prime mi
you can t keep approaching the problem, you know, by buying more guns and having more guns in the country. another conservative mp calls on the prime minister to resign over downing street lockdown parties. and former cabinet minister andrea leadsom criticises him for unacceptable failures of leadership. mega chippy. and the once humble chip shop in coventry, that s now at tiktok sensation. there are calls today to give more children in england free school meals to help tackle the cost of living crisis. teaching unions say all children from families on universal credit should be eligible forfree meals as part of an urgent expansion of the scheme. the cost of food, fuel and other goods has surged in recent months, pushing inflation to a ao year high. here s our education correspondent, elaine dunkley. more children than ever are coming through the doors. at capacity. we opened 11 minutes ago, we ve only got a small room, we are going to be busy. at this free half term
Lose their bid to trademark the fourfinger bar. And Coming Up In Sportsday later in the hour, on bbc news. England cricket could be back on free to air television, as the ecb offer up a new rights package to broadacsters. Good evening, and welcome to the bbc news at six. The liberal democrat Election Manifesto is out today, and at the heart of it is a pledge to offer another referendum on any brexit deal. According to party leader tim farron, it would give voters a chance to say they want to remain in the eu. The lib dems are also offering several new policies aimed at young people, including dropping the voting age to 16 and a rent to own housing scheme. More on that in a moment, but first, heres our Political Correspondent viki young. He says his policies offer young people a brighter future. And tim farron has put brexit at the heart of his campaign. Sun, sun, sun, here it comes. The lib dems hope the promise of a referendum on any brexit deal the government negotiates will persuade
and former conservative mp, justine greening, who is co founder of the social mobility pledge. thanks for being with us. we heard in elena s report, especially from the children, just highlighting quite how much prices have risen and perhaps it s no surprise. the welfare system is just not keeping up welfare system is just not keeping up with the record rising prices. it s up with the record rising prices. it s a real challenge, and the spring statement where the chancellor set out a cost of living package, he did increase a welfare payment for people on universal credit but what he didn t do was operated in line with the inflation and as we know for families on the lowest incomes, their inflation and their experience is higher than that 9% headline rate, so we do need to look at other ways we can make get good support to families worst affected and therefore the government needs to look at its free school meal policies and honestly