Afternoon. This is the latest from the newsroom. Angela rayner is the new shadow deputy Prime Minister and levelling up secretary. She replaces lisa nandy, whos becomes shadow cabinet minister for international development. International development. Shabana mahmood takes the role of shadow secretary for justice liz kendall takes work and pensions and steve reed takes environment, food and rural affairs. It comes as the keir starmer reshuffles his top team, which began earlier afterjim which began earlier after jim mcmahon said he would step down from his post as shadow environment secretary. An independent review says former cabinet minister sir Gavin Williamson should apologise to mps for bullying the former chief whip. He sent offensive chief whip. He sent offensive Text Messages to wendy morton after he wasnt invited to the late queens funeral. The panel late queens funeral. The panel says sir gavin should also take part in appropriate behaviour training. The Prime Minister trainin
Waiting for, and liberal democrats leader sir ed davey vowed to remove the tories from power across the country. People are crying out for change and this election is the chance to make that happen in so many parts of the country, its the liberal democrats who can beat the conservatives, who have taken people for granted. Taken people for granted. And in other news, uk inflation has fallen to the lowest level in nearly three years. In april, lowest level in nearly three years. In april , driven by lower years. In april, driven by lower gas and electricity prices. The latest figures show. Inflation dropped to 2. 3 last month. One person, one person has died in a mudslide on the edge of the nonh mudslide on the edge of the North Yorkshire moors as rain continues to batter the uk. It continues to batter the uk. It happened at carlton in cleveland at around 130 this afternoon in nonh at around 130 this afternoon in North Yorkshire. Police have asked the public to avoid the area and former
Downing street today, rishi sunak made the surprise announcement and urged the nafion announcement and urged the nation to stick with him over sir keir starmer addressing tory Party Supporters and his cabinet at Londons Excel Centre a short while ago, he took aim at the labour leader on the 5th of july. Either keir starmer or i will be Prime Minister and he has shown time and time again that he will take the easy way out and do anything to get power. If he was happy to abandon all the promises that he made to become labour leader once he got the job, how can you know that he wouldnt do exactly the same thing if he were to become Prime Minister . We conservatives have got a clear plan with bold action to secure our future board. So lets take that message and that vision of a secure future to every corner of our United Kingdom. And lets show labour that the british people will never be taken for granted. Granted. Meanwhile, the labour leader, keir starmer, responded to the announcement,
Than 50 people were hurt, seven of them critically. After sustaining head injuries. Singapore airlines confirmed there were 18 crew and 211 passengers on board, 47 of which were from the United Kingdom. Were from the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister has addressed the issue of illegal migration dunng the issue of illegal migration during a visit to austria. Rishi sunak says eu countries are starting to recognise places like rwanda are essential in tackling the problem, with 15 states calling on the European Commission to tighten migration policy. Speaking exclusively to gb news, the Prime Minister says the numbers prove progress is being made in stopping small boats and thousands of Illegal Migrants are being returned to other countries. The numbers are down by around a third. They were down by around a third last calendar year as well. So we are making progress. And just this year, in progress. And just this year, in fact, we have returned 10,000 people back to other countries. Thats
And coming up this afternoon , and coming up this afternoon, a massive showdown between sir keir starmer and trade union chiefs all over new. What they describe as workers rights policies. But what some people might describe as impositions on business. Yes. This is very interesting indeedit this is very interesting indeed it seems. Well, it appears as though there are very much two camps in the labour party. Youve got rachel reeves, whos out and about talking to businesses, and then youve got the union chiefs and the left wing of the party who want as many workers rights in law as possible. This could get quite messy today. Its called the southwark showdown because keir starmer is meeting in southwark in london with these trade union bosses. What will they have to say . Bosses. What will they have to say. 7 will they be pleased with what some are calling a watered down workers rights schedule that theyve got planned . If they win the next general election . Even pretty grubby, evenin e