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Good evening. After weeks of speculation we understand tonight that the Prime Minister is going to scrap the plans to build the h52 high speed rail line between birmingham and manchester. He is expected to make the announcement in manchester at the conservative Party Conference tomorrow. Our Political Editor chris mason is there for us now. For the last couple of days, the Government Machine has felt quite low key, even underpowered, from the Prime Minister down, when it has come to the announce...

The season, they face the turkish champions. The Home Secretary has been centre stage at the conservative Party Conference today, warning delegates of what she called a Hurricane Of Mass Migration. Suella braverman said politicians have been too slow to recognise the scale of the problem around the world and too squeamish to tackle it for fear of being called racist. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister continued to be pressed on whether or not the h52 rail line to manchester would be scrapped. He said...

Rishi sunak faces pressure to spell out the future of the High Speed Rail Link to the north of england, as businesses and politicians demand answers. As businesses and all as businesses and i can say is im not going to be forced all i can say is im not going to be forced into a premature decision. And pope francis appears to leave open the possibility of priests blessing some same sex couples. Now to Nagorno Karabakh which has been left virtually empty of Ethnic Armenians after it came under ful...

Deliver things and then the next five years after that because he has been Prime Minister for about a year now and the first year was trying to pick up the pieces from the end of the borisjohnson era and liz truss. But i think he is realised that that is not enough and the stakes are quite high tomorrow and i think you will try to hit them. Irefill quite high tomorrow and i think you will try to hit them. Will try to hit them. Will we say this about will try to hit them. Will we say this about l...

We do have shots of the live vote and will bring those to you when it happens. Lets explain what this is all about. This is all to do with the Spending Bill which was passed by Speaker Mccarthy over the weekend an agreement, which helped the Us Government avoid plunging into a shutdown. But matt gaetz has Accused Mccarthy of doing a side deal with the white house over funding for ukraine which he denies. It would take a simple majority in the house which republicans control by a narrow margin. B...

obviously i didnt write the e—mail so its hard for me to comment. and if you flick back to the earlier bit of the e—mail, i think as you can see from that, it clearly mentions a cabinet office process which is right and appropriate, but also, even when it talks about modelling on sectors, to bring that together with cmo thinking on the health impacts. even in that e—mail, you can see, as i said, i didnt write it so im not sure entirely what its referring to, but its clear that th...

good afternoon. at the covid inquiry, the prime minister, rishi sunak, has apologised to all those who suffered as a result of the governments decisions during the pandemic. hes also expected to face questions about his controversial eat out to help out scheme, aimed at helping the hospitality sector. scientific advisers have already told the inquiry they didnt know about the plan until it was announced — and there were concerns it would spread the virus. our political correspondent ...

a position which appears to have been agreed suggest this was not an open—ended debate which led to a consistent decision. there was the ability to be able to unwind or unpick a position which had already been reached. do you agree with both those propositions or neither? obviously i didnt write the e—mail, and i dont know precisely what it refers to. is it possible that i might have had a chat with the prime minister once a meeting wound up on my way back somewhere, of course that...

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