to call for national lung cancer screening. england fight back to reach the semi finals of the euros. an extra time time winner from georgia stanway sees them come from behind to beat spain. it s thought half of all kennels across the uk have closed during lockdown, but with many more of us now owning dogs, getting a space at a boarding house like this is now a very hard thing. good morning. today will be cooler than yesterday. for england, fairly cloudy with the odd shower. bright and sunnier in the west. i ll have all the details and more later in the programme. good morning. it s thursday zistjuly. our top story two candidates are left in the race to replace borisjohnson, as rishi sunak and liz truss go head to head to become the next prime minister. a key battleground is likely to be taxation, with ms truss promising immediate tax cuts, while mr sunak says he would wait until inflation was under control. our political correspondent jonathan blake reports. he s the forme
we re through. absolutely magic. fearless and seemingly always happy. he was the much loved presenter of record breakers for 20 years. and the news is that roy s a record breaker. we ve got time for a lap of honour. someone who remembers watching roy s programmes growing up is cathy brokenshire. it s one reason why she wanted to meet fiona castle. cathy s husband, james, died of lung cancer last october. roy castle died 27 years ago, so they both now know what it s like to return to an empty home. there are so many facets of it, aren t there? when you ve had an exciting day or something s happened, you go home. i ve got nobody to tell. yeah. there s a sort of loneliness about it that you don t anticipate before.
i waited until i got to my mum s and we knew that my husband was safe. and then i sat down with the children and told them that we d lost our home. my kids are upset that they ve lost their favourite teddy bears that they ve had since they were babies. and if my children are feeling that, the other children of the fires in rainham and dagenham yesterday are going to be feeling it too. the charred remains that tell a chilling tale of a nursery in the walnut tree area of milton keynes. but staff say they are determined to rebuild. we are the heart of walnut tree. i ve been at the nursery 23 years, so we are the heart and we will be back and we will find temporary accommodation in the meantime, which is what we rejust dealing with with our parents at the moment. all of the children and staff were safely evacuated from their nursery, but it s a lot for them to take in. some haven t really mentioned anything yet. others are sort of more concerned that they can t see their friends
but at t the end of the day, i love this party. i love this commonwealth. i ve e been working to elect conservatives for two decades. we have a right to better all v of our nominees. ou candidate the other four of us i ve mentioned have been vetted. cathy, to. the standard answer these questions or sit and answer these questions. but we cannot get to tuesday without thesenoue questions beig answered. selina said it right. you can t run out the clock in a primary. it s disrespectful. well, she s not answering our phones. we tried to answer she wrote me a note on twitter and said i ll debate on one on one on the day before election day. t that wouldn t be fair. fair to either of you. i ve watched you both in the debate. i think i think all the candidates have shown on fox. i won that debate, sean. i won that debate. yeah, i won the during the debate. you know, it never stops. this is too serious an issue. i don t think republicansth can get control ofon the senate if we don t hold on t
i mean, listen, this is joe biden who campaigned against president trump, frankly suggesting everything that donald trump was doing was wrong and from the supplyy chains to jobs to energy and what we re finding is is that when you ask people on main street today they werer better off under the four years under donald trump and it s coming homemp very, very clear . you know, the people of pennsylvania, they ll they ll v do their own vetting, youet know you know, cathy s got a compelling personal story and that s what s resonating with people. but never underestimate o the wisdom of voters. to to doe ableff the vetting properly in the commonwealth of pennsylvania, the person i interviewed is unrecognizable to me in these comments and tweets. to be honest, i i m shocked anyway. thank you both. when we comek back , lawrence jones lj with an exclusive report on the secret migrant