at the weather with louise. hello there. having just had one of the wettest and dullest springs on record, i m sure if you ve got 12 hours of sunshine, you d take it. that s exactly what we had on wednesday through the isle of man. a chilly day, but a beautiful day in terms of sunshine. slightly different story further north and west, temperatures struggled in parts of scotland to get up into double figures and there was a rash of sharp showers as well. that s because scotland and northern ireland, you re closest to this area of low pressure and a brisk northwesterly wind continues to feed showers in around that low. so we start off on a chilly note first thing on thursday morning. sunny spells and scattered showers through scotland and northern ireland, fairly widespread throughout the day. further south after a cloudy start, the cloud should break up, some sunshine come through. there s always a risk of one or two isolated showers across england and wales, but hopefully the
i did wonder, sir keir starmer did a little clip in portsmouth connected to because he s been doing the d day things about all of this and i wonder if he lljust be a bit softer in his language than, say, jonathan ashworth, because the l word is a big word. a big word. you know, that s very different from saying something might mislead or is dubious. it s you know, it s talking about an active attempt to say an untruth. that s a big accusation. and keir starmer did it. well, two things just to end this bit of the newscast and we ll talk about other stuff. yeah, some of these debates in the past don t have a very long afterlife. and they re sort of, they come the fireworks go off, everyone goes to bed. everyone hopefully gets the train home eventually. this has had a much longer afterlife than most of these events. and second of all, the l word, the liar word, i was quite a long way into my politicaljournalism career when someone explained to me the reason they re called honourable membe