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Election. The uk will go to the polls onjuly the 4th. There was a lot of rain and a lot of noise from the Prime Minister yesterday, but those leaders of the parties have wasted no time setting out their campaigns. Six weeks today the uk will go to the polls to decide who enters that building behind me and who will form the next government. The Prime Minister has been speaking this morning and has been talking to bbc breakfast, and it is fair to say that announcement yesterday really did come as some surprise, catching many in westminster by surprise. That Snap Election just six weeks from now. The Prime Minister has been detailing some of his reason why the election will happen when it will. It why the election will happen when it will. , why the election will happen ....
China has started two days of Military Exercises around taiwan as a strong punishment. The drills come after lai ching te was sworn in as taiwans new president this week and made an Inauguration Speech that china denounced as a confession of independence. The late president Ebrahim Raisi was buried in his North Eastern hometown in the last day of state organised funeral ceremonies. The state media have praised the funeral in mashhad, stressing that millions attended the ceremony. Good evening. As theyjourneyed into work yesterday, recess looming, the mps At Westminster were probably planning for a Long Bank Holiday weekend. So much for that today ....
These by elections were billed as nail biters. Close, tense. In the end, they delivered two significant victories to labour. First in tamworth the 57th Safest Conservative seat in the country before last night. Edwards, sarah siena, labour party 11,719 votes. Cheering. The new mp was elated. It is certainly feeling very historic. I think one of the things we can take is a lot of comfort from the fact that people have seen labour are offering a positive vision, that they want a fresh start, and they are not seeing that the Conservatives have anything to offer. The defeated conservative candidate chose not to stick around. In a statement the tories described it as a difficult result on a much reduced turnout. But it was about to get even more difficult for them. Over in Mid Bedfordshire, when the ballot boxes s ....
Thats been working its way in from the east on the radar picture. Its been a really soggy morning across parts of east anglia, the rain getting across the midlands into parts of north west england, north wales, thundery downpours in the South West Of England but for the northern half of the uk spells of sunshine, the odd thundery showers and temperatures in the highlands up to 24 and temperatures in the highlands up to 2a degrees. Not at all is that further south because of the cloud and outbreaks of rain and across parts of the north and west of midlands, north and mid wales, we could see enough rain through the afternoon and evening to give local Surface Water Flooding and travel disruption and the risk of these thundery downpours dumping a lot of rain in a short space of time across the South West Of ....
Mr fico are emerging all the time. Slovakias president elect, peter pellegrini, gave this update from the hospital where the Prime Minister is receiving treatment. Translation the Prime Minister i is now facing the most difficult l and challenging days, hours, minutes in order to survive, and i hope that everything will work out for the best. I really hope for us all to see his soon recovery and coming to full strength. Lets speak to bethany bell, our correspondent in bratislava. She our correspondent in bratislava. Is following all the developments she is following all the developments for us. Welcome to you. What more do we know about the Prime Minister must make injuries and how well he is doing . Minister must make inuries and how well he is doing . Well he is doing . Well, we are told he is in a very well he is doin ....