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Welcome to todays verified live. This will be one of the central dividing lines at the next general election. Labours sir keir starmer has pledged to scrap the governments Rwanda Scheme � straight away� if his party wins the general poll. The Labour Leader says he would use money saved to hire specialist investigators to tackle small boats crossing the channel. Well have more on that in a moment. But this is happened as the bbc has tracks down one of europes most wanted � people smugglers� Barzan Majeed nicknamed the scorpion. Speaking from northern iraq, he defended arranging for thou...

Lost the West Midlands. Another reaction you could have is to say frankly, with the labour party 20 points ahead in the Opinion Polls and given that the West Midlands is pretty marginal territory, of course the labour party should be winning pretty much any political contest in that region because if they can win the contest in that region, we might ask questions cant win. It is a testament to andy streets personal popularity that albeit he may have lost narrowly, the fact that he has run labour so close i think he can take quite some considerable credit for because as we know, the parallel po...

In italy and irregular crossings of the Central Mediterranean sea have been increasing since 2020. But its true that over the last 12 months the situation has worsened from this perspective and also it has changed in terms of the composition of the flow. Now we have more people from Sub Saharan African countries trying to reach in. To reach italy and they are departing from tunisia. Paradoxically, tunisian citizens are not the first group represented in the flow towards italy any more, as it has been between 2018 and 20. And last year actually. And probably one of the main causes, the internal...

takes place in scotland. there have been attacks in mali where a riverboat and military base have been targeted. hello, i'm ben thompson. this is bbc news now. we start with news that the head of london's metropolitan police says the force is investigating whether staff at wandsworth prison helped the terrorism suspect daniel khalife escaped on wednesday morning. so mark rowley said the break—out was clearly preplanned, and described it as extremely concerning. he escaped to the underside —— strapped to the underside of a delivery truck. the search is now into its third day, wi...

of economic advisors. thank you for being with us on bbc news. what does this tell us? it suggests consumer spending is still pretty resilient right now? i suggests consumer spending is still pretty resilient right now?— pretty resilient right now? i think it is resilient, _ pretty resilient right now? i think it is resilient, but _ pretty resilient right now? i think it is resilient, but let's _ pretty resilient right now? i think it is resilient, but let's be - pretty resilient right now? i think it is resilient, but let's be clear, l it is resilient, but let's be clear, the numb...