adding more rain to what is already a pretty nasty situation. matt, really good to have you across that, i know you will follow events throughout the day and that new red weather warning that comes into force later. matt taylor in the bbc wetter centre. full detail on the bbc website and with your local bbc radio station. you saw some of that weather coming in and the disruption it is causing not only for homes but infrastructure train lines and other public transport heavily affected by that weather. now, let us get more on what is happening in the middle east and that conflict between israel and gaza, earlier we were showing you the un secretary general, he was at the rafa crossing between egypt and gaza, he was there with hundreds of lorries that are lined up trying to get goods into gaza, just 20 have so far been given the green light to enter the territory, we had to interrupt that to take you to keir starmer s speech, earlier, so let us bring you the rest of what we hea
dominated by conservative mistakes, from which labour are profiting and now need to and solidify. i think one could seriously ask the question, if partygate didn t happen, would labour at the moment be enjoying a 17 point lead, let alone getting 20 point swings? let us speak to a column nhs at the observer. sonia, good to have you with us, keir starmer called it history in the making but he says i don t want to get carried away, there a long way to go. we know a lot can change in politics in the 12 months we would be waiting for an election but it has not been a great night for the conservatives, has it. no, it is a hugely positive result for labour. professorjohn curtice was saying there, we have not seen this sort of swings from the conservative party to labour in by election results since the 92 97 parliament, when there were four by elections, which labour took from the conservatives, in swings of over 20%, we havejust seen the conservatives, in swings of over 20%, we hav