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cabinet meetings happen every week, usually on a tuesday rather than wednesday, but it was cancelled yesterday because the prime minister was abroad. lots of civil servants say they were encountering bizarre behaviour from officials in say they were encountering bizarre behaviourfrom officials in downing street, not communicating with them in the way they would normally expect. and slowly, the building blocks of a likely announcement started to take place. now sources are emphasising privately that we are emphasising privately that we are probably not many minutes away from that confirmation after lots of discussions in the heart of government going on for some time about when to go for a general election. it s a quirk of the british electoral system that the power lies with the prime minister to pick the date, up to a legal backstop beyond which they cannot go. that is at the tail end of january next year, but the prime minister holds the power of surprise, and this will be ....
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 ....
nigel farage, the leader of reform uk, has told the bbc that europe and nato provoked russia s invasion of ukraine. he also said that, while he disliked him as a person , he admires vladimir putin as a political operator because he s managed to take control of running russia. the interview comes as the latest bbc poll of polls suggests reform uk has continued to gain support. the party now sits at i7% on our tracker, which takes into account a wide range of polling data. that is just four points behind the conservative party on 21%. labour still well in front with 41%. there have been more calls for rishi sunak to suspend two conservative candidates who are being investigated for alleged bets on when the general election would be held. this morning, the prime minister wouldn t be drawn on whether he was aware of other candidates or party officials who had placed a bet. labour has accused rishi sunak of a total lack of leadership . the latest donation figures have be ....
morning, morning. let s start by looking at the papers. the sunday times front page likely to please labour, their promise not to raise some key taxes will be in the manifesto. the observer goes on the party s pledge to set up specialist courts for rape cases. nigel farage claims to the express that reform, his party, are the real opposition now. many of the papers carry the worrying story about rescue teams search for the missing tv presenter dr michael mosley, who disappeared while on a greek island on wednesday and there will be coverage of that across the bbc through the day but let s with you three, welcome, turn to the election. it s been a busy weekend, john, you ve been watching on for some time, you gave money to the conservatives that backed boris johnson, you seem keir starmer who has been trying to get your support, have you made up your mind? his. has been trying to get your support, have you made up your mind? no, not at all, the have you made up your min ....