diane abbott, is free to stand for election in her north london constituency. it follows days of wrangling over her future, following suspension from the party, over comments she made about how jewish, irish and traveller people, experience racism. she was re admitted to labour on wednesday. ms abbott has yet to say, if she ll stand. here s our political correspondent, helen catt. the story that s been rumbling on for most of this week has now come to a sort of conclusion after sir keir starmer said that diane abbott, a very long serving labour mp, she was the first black woman elected to parliament, is free to stand as a labour mp at this election. she had claimed she was being blocked by the party. so what we re waiting to hear from in the next few days is to hear from diane abbott herself. she hasn t commented publicly since sir keir starmer said this yesterday, so we re waiting to hear from her to confirm if she will indeed do so. the crucial thing, though, is that it is
three part plan that would begin with a six week ceasefire in which the israeli forces would withdraw from populated areas of gaza. there would also be a surge of humanitarian aid as well as an exchange of some hostages for palestinian prisoners. the president said it was time for this war to end hamas issued for this war to end and hamas issued a statement saying it was ready to deal positively with any proposal offering a permanent ceasefire and a complete israeli withdrawal. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the plan was in line with israel s demands that the war would not end until its hostages were released and hamas no longer ruled gaza or posed a military threat. our first report this hour is from vincent mcaviney. after almost eight months of israeli response to the 7th october attacks by hamas, gaza lays largely in ruins, with the lives of palestinians who call it home turned upside down. more than 36,000 have been killed across the region, accord
of bringing in more sanctions on people who refuse to look for work. what keir starmer is going to outline instead is a reform to the system. he s going to talk about the creation of a combined national jobs and careers service, and what labour s calling a youth guarantee to get 18 to 21 year olds into training and employment. they say that by getting more people into work, that ll bring the benefits bill down. the conservatives will be announcing 30 towns that they would extend an existing government fund to if they win the election a government scheme. these towns would get £20 million each for long term projects to improve things like high streets and transport, as a form of levelling up. the snp is campaigning in north east scotland. no big policy push from them today they will instead be focusing on their appeal to voters to kick out the tories, who they say backed boris and brexit. and the liberal democrats will be talking football they ll be pushing their policy of forcin
said this yesterday, so we re waiting to hear from her to confirm if she will indeed do so. the crucial thing, though, is that it is now very clearly her choice, not that of the party. now, labour will be hoping, i think, that that story, that row has concluded enough that it stops being a distraction from the campaign messages that it s trying to put out. and today we are going to hear from keir starmer on the topic of benefits and employment support. he is going to say that under labour those who can work will work. now those sound like strong words, but labour is not going to set out the sort of crackdown that we ve heard of from the conservatives in recent months, the idea of bringing in more sanctions on people who refuse to look for work. what keir starmer is going to outline instead is a reform to the system. he s going to talk about the creation of a combined national jobs and careers service and what labour is calling a youth guarantee to get 18 to 2i year olds into training a