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confidence vote in technical terms so it does give some permission if you like for backbench mps to vote against the government without the consequence of losing the party whip but you're completely right to say that in reality this is of course about how much confidence the mps have in the prime minister. any rebellion on those benches would be damaging to rishi sunak, already robertjenrick wasn't resignation is damaging and this matters because the government has chosen to make this policy so symbolic, so totemic. they have set a lot of stall by this. rishi sunak was asked that if ...

independent treasury officials have costed labour �*s policies and they amount to a £2000 tax rights for working family. it looks like now the chief treasury civil servant actually wrote to labour at two days ago saying the conservative assessment of their tax plan should not be presented as having been produced by the civil service. the debate sought the labour leader sir keir starmer challenged over hospital waiting lists among other things. with a rant out of the highlights from that debate, this is our political correspondent ian watson. the first debate of the campaign was a ...

and first of two days of commemerations in europe to mark the 80 years anniversary of the normandy landings. good evening, a day is a long time in politics. this morning the front pages brough some brief respite to the conservatives. snap polls suggesting that it was rishi sunak who had come out on top in the first leadership debate of the campaign. the prime minister had referred several times in that debate to a so called independent assessment of labour's spending plans, which the tories suggest will mean every working family paying £2000 more in taxes. the prime minister said th...

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 t...

treasury officials", labour's policies would result in a £2,000 tax rise for every working family. the conservatives say they stand by their figures. it has been confirmed — as expected — that narendra modi will becomes india's prime minister for a third time. the 73—year—old found himself unexpectedly reliant on a number of smaller parties to reach a parliamentary majority, after his own party fell short of the 272 needed to form the next government. it may mean that in power he will need to be more concialatory than he has previously. a boeing spacecraft carrying two nasa ...