And thats why im absolutely determined to fight incredibly hard for what i believe for and the future country that i want to build. And thats what im going to do. Well, liberal democrat leader sir ed davey says he will table a motion of no confidence in the government in an effort to pressure rishi sunak to call a june general election. Sir ed claims that the disastrous local Election Results show the country has, in his words , had country has, in his words, had enough of rishi sunak and his out of touch government. The out of touch government. The motion will be tabled when parliament returns tomorrow. The parliament returns tomorrow. The new snp leader, john swinney, says he will seek to build a coalition of the willing to focus on scotlands problems, but wont resurrect the power sharing deal that they had with the scottish greens. In his acceptance speech, mr swinney called for unity and said that the polarised version of politics does not serve the country well. Mr swinneys appoin
Theyre exhausting every possible, every possibility regarding negotiations. An israeli official described the proposed deal as softened and said it was a ruse intended to make israel look bad. Hamas claims it meets several demands, including the return of displaced people and a prisoner swap. It comes after israel ordered the evacuation of parts of rafah ahead of a large scale military offensive. Theres been no successful agreement on a ceasefire in gaza since a week long pause in november. Rishi sunak says hes determined to fight, and the general election is not a foregone conclusion. The Prime Minister is calling for unity among tory mps after saying that he believes britain could be heading for a hung parliament. The conservatives lost hundreds of Council Seats and the West Midlands mayoralty results rishi sunak described as bitterly disappointing. But he bitterly disappointing. But he says hes not giving up what the independent Analysis Shows that whilst of course this was a disapp
and down the country now, their priorities are the cost of living, getting the services that they need from the nhs, and just basically surviving, when they can t heat their houses, they need, financially, it is such a higher priority now, rather than solving the independence question. with regards to independence, there is a couple of questions that has never been answered. one is the currency, are we still going to retain the pound or are we going to have the euro? or is they re going to be another currency? the second thing is, would you go back into the eu, yes or no? i is, would you go back into the eu, yes or no? yes or no? i will put that but i wanted to yes or no? i will put that but i wanted to hear yes or no? i will put that but i wanted to hear from - yes or no? i will put that but i wanted to hear from you - yes or no? i will put that but i i wanted to hear from you more, because i think i am right in saying you voted snp last time. i because i think i am righ
miles of newscasters. thank you for making this election much more interesting . well, kira, have a lovely trip to hawaii, whatever the reason is, and let s see what s going to happen on my trip to glasgow with newsnight on this episode of newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s adam, not in the newscast studio, but hanging out with newsnight. lovely to be here, hanging out with you. and, of course, nick. hello. right. we ll talk about what you guys are going to be doing on the special episode of newsnight in a minute. but there s been quite a big story, actually, in the election campaign today, nick. and it s to do with reform, and we should be quite precise here. so it s not a candidate from reform who said something that people are very concerned about. it s an activist who was out canvassing for them, and they were filmed undercover by channel 4 news, and they broadcast their piece on thursday night. that s right. so it was an undercover investigation by channel 4 n
began on the lithjune, early, very early, before, their fieldwork began before i declared i was in the race. oh, so you could do better than that? let me bring you up to date. fully up to date, 0k? we re filming this today last night at 5 o clock, two separate companies came out with polls, and they re all playing catch up now, they all recognise something is happening out there. on one poll last night, we were tied with the conservatives on i9%, on a second poll that came out last night, we were leading the conservatives 19 to 18, so that map suddenly looks very different. well, it looks even. it s still, whatever happens, is a tory wipe out. of course, of course. now what i really want our viewers to know is that is your objective, you are happy if the country turns red and we get a huge labour majority. what last night s polls show is we re going to win seats, a good number of seats, but it could become a very substantial number of seats. very important that people recog