it was 17's, in 1997? the majority it was 179, tony blair's majority, they won 418. —— what did they win in 1997? this has them on course to win 48a seats. just on that point really quickly, in history there have only been six labour prime ministers, so although we still have to wait for the polls and we don't know what is going to happen, if this happens, this is a big moment in history. i happen, if this happens, this is a big moment in history.— happen, if this happens, this is a big moment in history. i want to ask ou, big moment in history. i want to ask you. james. — big moment in history. i want to ask you. james. your — big moment in history. i want to ask you. james. your play _ big moment in history. i want to ask you, james, your play which - big moment in history. i want to ask you, james, your play which you - big moment in history. i want to ask you, james, your play which you are j you, james, your play which you are adapting for a bbc tv drama, dear england, is honestly about gareth southgate, it is about he transformed the england team, transformed the england team, transformed the england team, transformed the connection between the players and supporters, and make am very proud of their identity, one of the most diverse england teams we have ever seen as well. could politicians learn anything from successful leaders in other fields? yes, and certainly when it comes to gareth southgate. i have spent a lot of time in his head, but i think one

of time in his head, but i think one of the things he did that was really successful is, rather than his previous manager too, 5 wrote, this short—term reactive approach to just fixing things for now, he calmed down and took a breath, and he addressed issues that are fundamental to the core of the problem with being an england football team, which is around mindset, culture, identity. he also had a really long term plan, like they had a clock in st george's park that said we might not win the next one or the next one, it might take about six or seven or eight years to get there. i think the lack of a long—term project, a national plan, is one of the sniffer contractors that has seen this country get exhausted and his government not achieve realfundamental exhausted and his government not achieve real fundamental change, rather than just skirting around the edges. sir starmerwere rather than just skirting around the edges. sir starmer were starmer to do anything, talking about a decade or expectations night managing expeditions of how long this is going to be... but expeditions of how long this is going to bem— expeditions of how long this is anointobe...�* ::" , going to be... but in 2019, people talked about _ going to be... but in 2019, people talked about a _ going to be... but in 2019, people talked about a decade _ going to be... but in 2019, people talked about a decade of- going to be... but in 2019, people talked about a decade of boris - talked about a decade of boris johnson after that 80 majority. there are events, dear boy, events. of course, but i think the crisis in

british politics as fundamentally it was storytelling crisis. to give people hope you have to give people a beginning, middle, and an end, and a beginning, middle, and an end, and a lack of that in the uk has been really important, i think. what are tomorrow's papers splashing on? the times, big labourwin the times, big labour win is pregnant with horrors. he the times, big labour win is pregnant with horrors. he would know all about the — pregnant with horrors. he would know all about the word _ pregnant with horrors. he would know all about the word pregnant, - pregnant with horrors. he would know all about the word pregnant, let's - all about the word pregnant, let's be honest. i all about the word pregnant, let's be honest. ., all about the word pregnant, let's be honest-— be honest. i did not say that, a esha be honest. i did not say that, ayesha did — be honest. i did not say that, ayesha did a _ be honest. i did not say that, ayesha did a gorgeous - be honest. i did not say that, ayesha did a gorgeous photo| be honest. i did not say that, l ayesha did a gorgeous photo of be honest. i did not say that, - ayesha did a gorgeous photo of andy murray. the telegraph, johnson, not too late to stop labour. and the mirror, 1a years of heart, keir starmer picture, never stopped us dreaming, obviously. anyone who has supported and for if any one time,

like james and supported and for if any one time, likejames and i supported and for if any one time, like james and i have, will know the resonance of those words. thank you very much for being with us. please come back. —— anyone who has supported england for a very long time. that's all from us tonight. faisal�*s here tomorrow on the eve of the election with a newsnight guide on what to look out for on results night. sleep well. live from london. this is bbc news less than 48 hours before the general election — borisjohnson makes his first apperance on the conservative campaign trail none of us can sit back as a labour government prepares to use a sledgehammer majority to destroy so much of what we have achieved, what you have achieved.

sir keir starmer tells the bbc early prison releases would likely continue if labour forms the next government the former nurse lucy letby has been found guilty of the attempted murder of a baby in 2016, following a retrial. a crush at a religious festival in northern india — has left more than 100 people dead. hurricane beryl advances toward jamaica — after becoming the atlantic's earliest ever category five storm. hello, i'm martin croxhall. party leaders have been touring the uk to reinforce their key messages, on the penultimate day of election campaigning. rishi sunak insisted he hadn't given up hope of winning on thursday, while sir keir starmer acknowledged that an early release scheme for some prisoners would probably

continue if labour won. more on all of this in a moment — but first, the former prime minister borisjohnson has made a surprise appearance at a conservative rally in central london tonight — his first time on the campaign trail. he warned voters not to give labour what he called a �*sledgehammer majority'. here's some of what he had to say to tory activists if you actually want higher taxes, next week, this year, if you feel you have a few thousand to spare, then vote labour on thursday. if you want uncontrolled immigration and mandatory wokery and pointless kowtowing to brussels again, then go right ahead, make my day, vote for starmer, but if you want to protect our democracy and our economy, and keep this country strong abroad by spending 2.5% of our gdp on defence, which labour still refuses to commit to, then you know what to do, don't you, everybody? cheering. there is only one thing to do. vote conservative on

thursday, my friends. cheering and applause. and i know you will. i know you will. (pres)the prime minister rishi sunak also addressed the rally this evening(tx sot) i say don't surrender to labour, fight for votes, fight for our values. let's take a look at the front page of tomorrow's papers... starting with the daily mail — which reports how borisjohnson and rishi sunak are uniting to stop a landslide victory by labour, which they call — quite creatively — starmergeddon. while the guardian highlights a backlash the tories would be

suffering after what the paper defines an �*antisemitic�* attack on the labour leader, sir keir starmer. the daily telegraph opens with johnson's pledge, saying that's not too late to stop a labour victory in the general election. same opening for the times — quoting johnson saying that �*a big that �*a big labour win is pregnant with horrors'. the daily star — straight to the point: kim wilde is backing count binface. while the daily mirror opens with this large picture of keir starmer — stating �*14 years of hurt — never stopped us dreaming' — and wondering: is it coming home? i messed that up with the starmer get, itjust shows us life.

let's cross live now to our political correspondent, helen catt. how's it going down that boris johnson has made this appearance? was unexpected, no hints from the conservatives that she was about to meet this last—minute intervention despite the fact there was intervention as the campaign started about whether we would see boris johnson on the campaign trail. he has done little videos for individual candidates in support but we have not seen them come out front and centre, so this is the first time he has been on the campaign trail, and it is really a last—minute intervention, polling day is thursday, and you can see the obvious delight in the room from conservative supporters at his reappearance. he gave that rousing speech, very standard speech for him. and it captures a long day of campaigning for the tories, rishi sunak was out and about around 5am this morning on the campaign trail, and they will be hoping this will

give them a bit of a boost going into that final day of campaigning tomorrow, particularly, iwould suspect, among the voters who might be wavering and considering going to reform, the return of borisjohnson, i think they would hope might put a bit of a second thought my perhaps, into the mind of those people. it was interesting to note that while borisjohnson was there giving it the big, big and uptight treatment, he was not on the stage the same time as rishi sunak, and we did not see the error of them interact, which is interesting. tell see the error of them interact, which is interesting.— see the error of them interact, which is interesting. tell us about suella braverman, _ which is interesting. tell us about suella braverman, the _ which is interesting. tell us about suella braverman, the former - which is interesting. tell us about i suella braverman, the former home secretary and what she has written in the telegraph, the scathing attack on the conservatives campaign. it attack on the conservatives campaign-— attack on the conservatives camaiun. , ., , ., , campaign. it is not unusual these da s to campaign. it is not unusual these days to get _ campaign. it is not unusual these days to get a _ campaign. it is not unusual these days to get a scathing _ campaign. it is not unusual these days to get a scathing piece - campaign. it is not unusual these days to get a scathing piece in . campaign. it is not unusual these | days to get a scathing piece in the paper from suella days to get a scathing piece in the paperfrom suella braverman, the former home secretary. we know she disagrees with a lot of that direction the conservative party has gonein direction the conservative party has gone in under rishi sunak month but what is notable is the timing of

this, firstly, that she has chosen to put this outjust this, firstly, that she has chosen to put this out just ahead this, firstly, that she has chosen to put this outjust ahead of to put this out just ahead of the final day of campaigning about and she has in this camp —— peace, said that they need to read the rights on the wall, it is over, we need to prepare for the reality and frustration of opposition, which is very much not the message that prime minister has been giving. the other thing she does, she accuses the people behind the strategy of the party at the moment of driving the bus off the clip despite warnings, and what is interesting here is that she talks about the accusations of racism that the been levelled against some reformuk candidates in recent days, and she has talked about that as repugnant bigotry, but she has also said that cries of hurt and anger, as she put it, and you remember the words rishi sunak used about this, look less powerful when the conservative party it was perfectly happy to take the money from frank hester, a conservative

donor who has apologised after he talked about dan i bit, the labour mp, making them want to hate all black woman. he said the remarks about hating black women were glossed over in the name of filling up glossed over in the name of filling up party coffers, so pretty interesting stuff from suella braverman very close to what today. thank you, helen catt in westminster. letting prisoners out early in england and wales will probably need to continue under a labour government, sir keir starmer has said — due to what he called a "broken system". under a recent policy, some less serious offenders can be released up to 70 days early to tackle the ballooning prison population — caused by tougher sentences and court backlogs. in the final days of campaigning, the labour leader has been talking to our political editor chris mason. the man hoping to get his hands on power on friday. but if he's dreaming of downing street, there are other stopping off points first. tannoy: in a few moments we will be

arriving at beeston. _ after our day following rishi sunak yesterday, today we are with keir starmer. sir keir gets off in nottingham. he claims he's taken his party on a long walk back to credibility and competitiveness. and the polls suggest he is on the brink of victory. in nearby hucknall, at yet another football ground, a collection of labour activists and his big pitch. we've been campaigning for a long time now. i'm yet to meet a single person that said to me, "look, keir, everything is great, please don't change anything, it's fine as it is." people want change but change will only happen if you vote for it. hello. i'm keir. nice to meet you. welcome to my tea and coffee shop! it turns out the liberal democrats don't have a monopoly on splashes of campaigning absurdity. strong tea. same as you. so... yeah. two bag starmer, as i'm known to be called! and from what he says he's been called to what he

might be called soon. are you ready to be prime minister? we've worked for four and a half years to change the labour party, but we have obviously done the preparation to make sure that on day one, we reset politics to a politics of service. i wanted to find out for you who might be running the country alongside him if labour wins, but he reckons saying that now could sound complacent. i'm not accusing you of complacency. i would suggest to you that people deserve to know who your top team might be if you are to win. well, i'm not going to run through a list of names, however hard you try. but i'm still after some specific answers. would you let prisoners out early because the jails are full? this is going to be a problem we'll inherit if we are privileged to come in to serve, and i'm not going to sit here and pretend to you that i can build a prison on the first day of a labour government. so that means letting people out early? in all likelihood we will have to continue with that because it simply wouldn't be realistic.

will people pay income tax on the state pension under labour? the position for pensioners in relation to tax will be exactly as it is now, and that is... but that could mean yes, couldn't it, in the future? that is the position set out at the last budget under this government. and that will remain the position. ladies and gentlemen, the prime minister. his rival rishi sunak has been in oxfordshire, with this warning about a labour government. don't sleepwalk into something that |you haven't thought properly about. think very hard about what it means for you and your family, _ and in spite of what all these polls say, every vote matters. - i asked the same question of the prime minister, along these lines yesterday. do you...? you must share a sort of sense of solidarity with gareth southgate, that you're doing a job where a million and one other people think they could do a betterjob than you. yeah, everybody in the stands and watching the television has got a better idea of how gareth southgate should do his job! and there are some similarities. i've got no end of advice, i've had it for four and a half years,

and no doubt i'll be getting a lot more. and he has more places to visit. via a trip to derbyshire, it was on here to staffordshire. just one more day of this ahead. lingering shot there, chris mason. meanwhile, a second reform uk candidate has suspended her campaign and defected to the conservatives. georgie david, who was running in west ham & beckton in london, said the vast majority of reform's candidates were racist, misogynist and bigoted. a reform spokesman said they strongly disagreed with her comments. and the full list of candidates standing in west ham and beckton is on your screen 110w. the lists for all the constituencies being contested are available on the bbc website. the liberal democrats have been back out in southwest england, where they hope to retake a clutch of seats. in another one of his signature campaign stunts, in taunton in somerset, leader sir ed davey used a giant

orange domino to topple some blue ones to represent the so—called �*blue wall�* of tory seats he hopes to demolish in the southwest.t to demolish in the southwest. in the west country, and across the home counties and rural britain, people know it's only the liberal democrats who can beat the conservatives. so, yes, yes, we had some fun with dominoes, but the serious point, if you want to get rid of the conservatives, in what could be a once in a century election, to change the political geography of our country, so that we do put social care and health at the top, we do deal with the sewage scandal, we get our economy back on track, people should vote liberal democrat. the scottish nationalist party leaderjohn swinney has been on the campaign trail in the hills of aviemore, rallying party activists. mr swinney claimed that although the election was effectively "over" in england, scottish candidates still have everything to play for. scotland have got to decide

whether they would like several mps who will just do what they are told by keir starmer, or whether they want snp mps who will put the interests of scotland first, you will rail against austerity, and the spending cuts the labour party is going to carry on where the tories have left off. that wasjohn that was john swinney. the former nurse lucy letby has been found guilty of trying to kill a premature baby girl, known as baby k, following a retrial. last summer, the 34—year—old was convicted by a differentjury of the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six more at the countess of chester hospital in 2015 and 2016. in a statement, the baby's family described having to endure a long and tortuous journey twice. our correspondentjudith moritz has followed the case throughout and this has this report. lucy letby didn't come to this retrial as an unknown prospect. that would have been impossible. instead, the jury was told to take her status as a multiple murderer and attempted murderer into account as part

of the evidence. last year, letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder another six. the jury couldn't decide whether she'd also tried to kill a premature girl known as baby k in february 2016. the charge was put before a newjury at retrial, and they have convicted her unanimously. the police gave this reaction on behalf of the baby's parents. we have had to go through a long, torturous and emotionaljourney twice, but this justice will not take away the extreme hurt, anger, and distress that we've all had to experience. it also does not provide us with an explanation as to why these crimes have taken place. this consultant, doctor ravi jayaram, caught let be virtually red—handed. he could see that the baby was in trouble and the nurse was standing by her doing nothing to help. this is the tube that is then passed through the baby's throat and down into the lungs.

this video was shown to the court to demonstrate how babies are given breathing support by ventilator. low pressure warning with no alert. lucy letby had dislodged baby k's throat tube and the monitor alarm was silenced. it's a technique that the prosecution expert at letby�*s first trial, doctor dewi evans, believes she used on further occasions, too. i reviewed a number of cases other than the ones in this trial, - and found a number of cases - where the tube, breathing tube, had been displaced going back at least a year prior— to the first fatality. do you think that this was what she started doing as perhaps the easiest way of harming babies before moving on to other techniques? i think so. i think that she could well have started offl by displacing breathing tubes. i think she then moved. on to injecting stomachs with lots of milk and air.

letby�*s already serving 1a whole life terms, so the extra conviction won't increase her actualjail time. why have a retrial? i don't know what was going through the minds of the prosecutors in this case, but in previous cases where i've... where somebody has been convicted of a homicide and been given a significant sentence, it would take a lot for me to then retry them for something else that wouldn't necessarily add to their sentence. however, children being harmed, uh, you know, losing their lives in this case, i can understand why it was significant enough for them to say we will pursue this case. lucy letby told the court she wasn't guilty of the crimes she's been convicted of. she'll be sentenced on friday. judith moritz, bbc news, manchester. donald trump's sentencing in his hush money trial has been postponed until september. his legal team asked for his conviction to be overturned, after the supreme court ruling yesterday that former presidents had partial immunity for "official" acts that took place

during their time in office. here's sarah smith is in washington — with more on the impact of that supreme courtjudgement. we already knew that it was likely to impact the three criminal cases that donald trump is still facing, and now we discover that the judge in the new york case is that prepared to at least consider setting aside the guilty verdict there. now, the crimes donald trump was convicted of, covering up hush money payments to a pawn star, stormy daniels, were obviously not official presidential acts, and not even donald trump is claiming they were covered by presidential immunity. but what he is arguing is that some of the evidence the prosecution relied on to make their case is covered by immunity, and that includes things like the testimony from his former white house communications director hope hicks, some tweets that he sent out when he was president, and some phone records from his time in the white house, none of them should have been used in court, he says.

as a result, thejudge is going to look at this. sentencing was due to happen next week on the 11th ofjuly, it has been postponed until the 18th of september, if, as the judge says, it is still necessary then, acknowledging it's possible that donald trump could now manage to overturn that guilty verdict. at least 116 people have died in a crush at a religious event in northern india. thousands had gathered to hear a sermon by a religious preacher in a village in the district of hathras in the state of uttar pradesh. a large number of people are also being treated in hospital for their injuries, and there are fears the number of casualties might rise. the victims are still being identified. anbarasan ethirajan is in the city of aligarh and sent this update. this is one of the health centres where dozens of people have been admitted with injuries, and also many of those killed. the dead bodies have been kept in the mortuary along the corridor. dozens of relatives are still waiting for information about.

they want to know what happened to their loved ones. earlier in the day, tens of thousands of people had gathered in a village about 35km from here to hear a religious preacher, a hindu religious preacher. and the officials here say that given permission for about 80,000 people. but then more people are gathered around this village, and then no one knows exactly how this crush started. people say it was overcrowding, and some say people are waiting to get the blessings of this preacher. when this trampling happened, and dozens of people have been killed. now the local officials are saying that the casualty figure might go up. more than 108 women were killed. almost all of them were women devotees who came to listen to this preacher. now, this raises questions about crowd control and safety measures. and this is not the first incident of this kind in india. we had previous incidents where hundreds of people had been killed in crush like this.

and this also a reminder for authorities here in the state of uttar pradesh to look into what really happened and how far they can improve safety standards in these religious gatherings. anbarasan ethirajan. several caribbean nations are trying to reach the worst affected areas after hurricane beryl made landfall over their territories. at least one person has died in st vincent and the grenadines and two died in grenada, although the authorities have said those numbers may rise. meanwhile, the hurricane has strengthened to a category five storm as it continues its path across the region, as our central america and caribbean correspondent, will grant, reports the caribbean is on high alert in the devastating impact the caribbean is on high alert. the devastating impact of the earliest category five storm in history. across the caribbean, homes are no

match for the destructive power. and then union island in grenadines, roofs ripped off, power lines brought down an entire communities cut off in minutes. infrastructure on the island was precarious before it hit and in the aftermath, it has been left in ruins. union island has been devastated and the reports i have received indicate that 90% of the houses have been severely damaged and destroyed. other parts of the caribbean were much luckier. in martinique, residents took the flooded streets to assess the damage and salvage their possessions. translation: in the end, -

it washed everything away and it would take several days to get everything back in order, especially at the start of the summer holidays. satellite images show the devastating size and destruction through the caribbean. and as it moves through committee continues to grow in strength and with unprecedented speed to a category four event is now considered a fearsome category five as it moves towards jamaica. despite efforts across the region to board up poems and evacuate to board up homes and evacuate low—lying areas, many people can only hunker down and try to ride out the strongest storm ever recorded in earlyjuly. will grant, bbc news now it's time for a look at the weather with elizabeth rizzinni hello there. well, we're not expecting summer to make a big return any time soon. in fact, it will stay unsettled across the whole of the uk. as we head through the rest of this week, it will be unseasonably windy. there'll be rain, more showers to come in the forecast, but it won't be raining all the time. lots of dry weather, too, some bright and some sunny spells,

but all the while feeling cool for this point injuly. temperatures a good few degrees below the seasonal average. and there's more rain to come as we head through tonight and into wednesday morning from these weather fronts out towards the west. the heavy downpours reaching eastern england by the time we get to tomorrow morning. of course, it will be mild underneath the cloud, the rain with more of a south—westerly wind, temperatures in double figures. the rain clearing away from eastern england through the morning. always cloudy, perhaps a few showers across england and wales, but some brighter skies to the lee of high ground. more showers pushing into northwest scotland, sunshine and showers here through the afternoon, and brightening up for northern ireland and perhaps western wales and southwest england by the time we get to the end of the day. temperatures disappointing for this time of year, just the high teens in celsius. so those fronts clear away, yhen you can see a tight squeeze on the isobars into thursday as the wind turns more westerly and then north westerly again, this little feature likely to bring some heavy, thundery showers across northwestern areas of scotland, perhaps through northwest england as well. further south, then, we are expecting some sunshine,

although still very windy conditions, particularly up through the dover straits. and in the best of the sunshine, well, it's stilljuly, so it will feel quite pleasantly warm, but temperatures won't get much past 18—20 celsius. now, if you're a tennis fan over the next couple of days, mostly dry on wednesday, chance of one or two showers, probably dry on thursday with some sunny spells but windy for the time of year. and of course, those temperatures still below the seasonal average. we'd normally expect to see 22 or 23 celsius. as we head into friday, then, we're likely to see more rain across the south, and that could certainly interrupt play at wimbledon. these little features just running in from the west here. on saturday, most of the rain will be further north, probably leaving southern areas with a largely dry day, perhaps a few showers around to start. and then it's mostly fine and probably dry on sunday. bye—bye for now.

this is bbc news, the headlines... less than 48 hours before the general election, borisjohnson makes his first apperance on the conservative campaign trail. none of us can sit back as a labour government prepares to use a sledgehammer majority to destroy so much of what we have achieved, what you have achieved.