The police ban on protests by the Climate GroupExtinction Rebellion across london last month, is ruled unlawful in the high court. Nicola adams has announced her retirement. And the weather. We have been looking at the latest climate statistics. And also the forecast over the next few days with particularly heavy rain for england and north wales. Thanks, chris. Also coming up anger as firefighters responding to an out of control bonfire are attacked by a gang of young people throwing fireworks. Idid not i did not define what young actually meant there. We will talk about that later on. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live. Its not what anyone would want minutes before they launch their Election Campaign. As borisjohnson prepared to address voters from downing street the news that a cabinet minister was resigning. Welsh secretary alun cairns quit following claims he knew about a former aides role in the collapse of a rape trial. Certainly not the best start for a campaign which was launched after mrjohnson met the queen to mark the dissolution of parliament. We now face five weeks of campaigning the Prime Minister saying he has no choice but to hold an election, because parliament is paralysed. For labour, Jeremy Corbyn told supporters this morning that the country will see real change if his party wins on december 12th. This report from our Political Correspondent chris mason. This is what the official start of a general Election Campaign looks like. The Prime Minister went to see the queen at Buckingham Palace this morning and then he made the most of the backdrop of what he still hopes to call home after polling day to make his pitch. I have just been to see her majesty the queen earlier on and she agreed to dissolve parliament for an election. I want you to know that i dont want an early election, no one much wants to have an election in december, but we have got to the stage where we have no choice because our parliament is paralysed, it has been stuck in a rut for three and a half years, and i am afraid our mps arejust refusing time and again to deliver brexit and honour the mandate of the people. If we can get this deal over the line, with a sensible majority government, we certainly can, then we can release that pent up flood of investment, hundreds of billions are waiting to pour into the uk and we can inject a surge of confidence into our system. But moments before, this, the Prime Ministers welsh secretary alun cairns resigning from the cabinet. He had denied he knew about a former aides role in the sabotage of a rape trial, but bbc wales discovered he had been e mailed about it. He had been a cabinet minister for three years and said he was confident he would be cleared of any wrongdoing. The conservatives have had a bumpy start to this campaign, notjust this cabinet resignation, but being forced to defend a doctored video put out on social media and two of their politicians forced to apologise after remarks widely seen as crass about the Grenfell Tower fire. They are now trying to focus on their big picture message, as are labour, as the two main candidates to be Prime Minister slugged it out. Jeremy corbyn has been in telford in shropshire, a must win seat for labourand said. I will be proud to be a labour Prime Minister. But i have to warn you, it will be very different. It will be a very different way of doing things. Because i was not born to rule. He promised to scrap University Tuition fees, end rough sleeping, in work poverty and the need forfood banks and added. Judge us on whether we have built hundreds of thousands of genuinely Affordable Homes so that decent and secure housing is within the reach of everyone. Judge us on whether patients are still waiting more than four hours in a e departments and tens of thousands are waiting months for cancer treatment. Judge us on whether we have got brexit sorted within six months by offering the people the final say. Who do you prefer . Mr corbyn, mrjohnson or one of the other Party Leaders . It will be your call in five weeks time. Lets speak to our chief Political Correspondent vicki young, whos in downing street. Thats where borisjohnson launched his campaign. That was a good start . These parties have election grids. You can be pretty sure that day one, cabinet minister resignation was not on the conservative party grid for this election. Yesterday, a difficult day, this story was bubbling away, a lot of people thought alun cairns would be forced into resigning over this. There was also Jacob Rees Mogg going on the radio and suggesting that victims of Grenfell Tower if they had had common sense would have simply left the building against the advice of the fire service, and that has not gone down well, as you can imagine. Parties have ideas of what they want to talk about, what they wa nt to they want to talk about, what they want to do, it shows you cannot a lwa ys want to do, it shows you cannot always keep it on track. The only saving grace for the conservatives at this point is that they are at the beginning of the campaign, polling day does seem a very long way off. We have heard in the last few minutes from that labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, responding to the resignation of alun cairns. First of all, there is a victim here. That victim needs to be apologised to and supported. Secondly, if he is resigning because of his behaviour, involvement in this as the secretary of state, should he not also resign his conservative resign as conservative Party Candidate in this election . He has said he is going to stand as a candidate. You think that should not be allowed . Obviously he legally cant stand as a candidate, but if he is stepping down as a minister because of his involvement, i would have thought the least the conservative party can do is not put him up as a candidate in the next election. On the resignation of alun cairns it is fair to say that most people would not be able to put a name to the face . Yes, in wales at a slightly different, he has been welsh secretary for a long time, appointed under David Cameron, served under theresa may, and has served under borisjohnson theresa may, and has served under Boris Johnson until now. Theresa may, and has served under borisjohnson until now. For the next few weeks for the conservatives, lots of candidates are looking towards wales as a place where the conservatives think they could do well. They are pessimistic about their chances in scotland thinking they will lose some seats there. When you say to them, where will you pick up seats, given that liberal democrats are putting you under pressure in areas of the south, they do say that they think wales is a bit of an opportunity for them. Whether this has an impact on their chances there could end up being quite significant. A sense that labour have at least kicked off the campaign with some momentum, but as you say, five weeks is an awfully long time. It certainly feels it at this stage. You cannot be weary already. We are just started. We have got to keep going until december. What is interesting today is borisjohnson coming out here and, as far as we know, he is not planning on taking questions, no press conference, he can at least try to set the agenda, thatis can at least try to set the agenda, that is what he did, coming out here making that speech. Striking how much he was on the attack, talking about labour, saying it is all about about labour, saying it is all about a choice, camera fans, the conservatives, we are offering you a very different kind of economy, for example. And hitting out atJeremy Corbyn saying that left Wing Labour Party will bring huge tax rises, uncontrolled immigration, thats Jeremy Corbyn sided with president putin of russia. Whatever you think about this election it is the case there are some stark choices. You cannot say certainly that all politicians are offering the same thing. We are equally invigorated over this campaign, do not get me wrong. I will talk to you later on. Thank you. Liberal democrat leader jo swinson has been campaigning in north london, pledging extra resources for Mental Health care if her party is in government. Ms swinson said her party would invest £11 billion into Mental Health care as she launched her election battle bus campaign and visited a charity. The snp leader Nicola Sturgeon says demand for a Scottish Independence referendum will become irresistible if the snp wins the majority of scottish seats at the general election. Speaking to the bbc this morning scotlands first minister said she intended to hold another vote on independence next year and said the idea politicians at westminster can prevent a referendum is starting to crumble. The Brexit Party Leader nigel farage has been campaigning in workington in cumbria this morning. He told a rally that borisjohnsons new deal with the eu was 95 the same as theresa mays deal which was rejected by mps three times. He also said that labour would betray leave voters. In the next few minutes we will have questions, that is within the next 20 minutes. Lets return to the resignation of welsh secretary alun cairns. Laura mcallister is professor of Public Policy at cardiff university. Your reaction to this announcement . It isa your reaction to this announcement . It is a mixture of surprise it has happened now and some confusion over what happens next because i think we got to the point, this has been a story running for quite some time in wales, and through the welsh media, but it does hit the Network Media over the last 48 hours. It seemed that alun cairns would try to tough it out but i suspect what has happened overnight as pressure has been put on him to resign in order to stop derailing the launch of the conservative Election Campaign. I think what we are trying to get our heads around here is whether he will be allowed to stand as a candidate in the vale of glamorgan in the forthcoming election. And all it was not dealt with in the same and all it was not dealt with in the sa m e letter and all it was not dealt with in the same letter that dealt with resignation as a cabinet minister, but that coming minutes before Boris Johnson was launching the Party Campaign in downing street. How damaging is it . They could not have been a worse start to the conservative campaign. Not just this, the comments ofJacob Rees Mogg, and other comments made regarding wales by another candidate ina target regarding wales by another candidate in a target seat. It has been and inauspicious start to the campaign in wales. What is important is that wales is a Battle Ground this time for the conservatives. There are a swathe of seats in the north west of wales and the south and west were the conservatives are looking to make a breakthrough and gain those seats from labour, and the need to win those seats if they are going to come anywhere close to winning a majority after this election. Could there be other political casualties asa there be other political casualties as a result of this particular scandal . If so, who will be running the campaign in wales . That is a good question. It is when we have been talking about since we heard of the resignation because in all honesty we were expecting alun cairns our secretary of state for wales to be front and centre of that welsh Tory Campaign here. There is a welsh Tory Campaign here. There is a welsh leader in the assembly, paul davies, but he is a very recent he is very recently in that position and does not have the profile to front the campaign and in any case asa front the campaign and in any case as a representative of the devolved candidate the devolved assembly. It is hard to imagine if alun cairns stays on as a candidate he could also run alongside a new leader of the conservative campaign here in wales. It makes me suspect we might be seeing this as a holding position. As you said, wales is going to be a front line in the coming weeks, how big an issue as the overarching issue of brexit in wales . The overarching issue of brexit in wales . It is a very big issue like the remainder of the United Kingdom. Wales voted marginally in favour of leave. The reason this election is so leave. The reason this election is so unpredictable is because we see a much greater voter volatility and bc this new identity of remain and leave and none of us know how that will play out. But we do know that if borisjohnson will play out. But we do know that if Boris Johnson is will play out. But we do know that if borisjohnson is to gain a majority, which of course is why the election has been called, he has to gain some seats in wales. With all respect he could not have got off to a much worse start today. Thank you very much. The climate activist Group Extinction Rebellion has won a legal challenge against the metropolitan police, following the forces decision to ban the Group Protesting across the capital. Lawyers for Extinction Rebellion say the met now faces claims for false imprisonment from potentially hundreds of protestors. Richard lister has more. What do we want . Climate justice the Extinction Rebellion autumn uprising shut down large sections of london last month and led to more than 1800 arrests. The protesters used tactics to Stretch Police resources to the limit and the police eventually responded by clearing the demonstrators camps and using the public order act to declare the whole protest illegal. But the protesters took the police to court saying they had no right to shut them down. Today two High Court Judges agreed saying, and the police had acted unlawfully. We are delighted with todays result. It vindicates our belief that the polices blanket ban was an unprecedented and now unlawful infringement on our right to protest. It is a victory for those who want to draw the governments attention to what scientists have been telling us for decades. Metropolitan Police Figures show around 400 protesters were arrested after the ban was imposed. Some may now be able to sue the police. Among them, an mep. Its actually a really important case because its about defending the right to assembly and public protest and those are fundamental cornerstones of a functioning democracy. So its very important that we won today and im very happy. The police say their actions were reasonable and proportionate. But they accept the judgment. We are disappointed by the ruling but clearly we absolutely respect the courts decision and what we need to do now i think is in slow time carefully consider what it means for us and review our tactics in light of it. Our planet is in crisis. And Extinction Rebellion has not gone away. The actorjim carter is one of the celebrities in this new video campaign. But the ruling today means the next street protests will be harder for police to stop. Richard lister, bbc news. Youre watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. Welsh secretary alun cairns resigns over allegations he knew a former aide had sabotaged a rape trial. The announcement coming minutes before Boris Johnson launched his Election Campaign. Borisjohnson had an audience with the queen at Buckingham Palace, marking the start of the election period. A police ban on protests by Extinction Rebellion across london last month was unlawful, according to the high court. The two time olympic champion nicola adams resigns from boxing overfears she could lose her sight. And saracens could be found to have won their last two titles unfairly. And tottenham and Manchester City play tonight in the champions league. Before that arsenal have an afternoon kick off in the Europa League but bill be without but will be without xhaka. The green party insisted that some things were bigger than brexit and the selection must be about the climate. They launch this ambitious plan. Today i am proud to announce that the green party will invest £100 billion per year into Climate Action over the next decade. Let us have a look at that. In total that is around £1 trillion in ten years, a large number. To put it in context, the annual cost would be similarto context, the annual cost would be similar to the entire education budget which this year was 103 billion. Where would the money come from . They are proposing that 9 would come from tax changes including a rise in corporation tax. And that the rest, the vast majority needed, it would come from borrowing. This year an estimated £55 billion will be borrowed but that green party would increase borrowing to more than £140 billion per year, the highest level since 2012 as a proportion of national income, according to researchers at the institute for fiscal studies. The party are calling it a g