saying tough decisions need to be made soon. he confirmed he will ditch the previous government's plan to send asylum seekers to rwanda. joe biden says only the lord almighty could convince him to end his bid for re—election. england fans at the euros are parting and daring to dream. there are reports of up to 40,000 england fans in dusseldorf. there is an hour and a half until kick—off and a swiss fans also show support for their team. swiss fans also show support for theirteam. iranians are swiss fans also show support for their team. iranians are elected to their team. iranians are elected to the erection scratch election as president of a relatively modern candidate, masoud pezeshkian. he brings hope to some women and younger voters and bt hardline rival any run—off vote. let's cross live now to downing street where maryam moshiri is monitoring events for us.

thank you very much, not a typical saturday here. mainly because we have had a lot of work happening in the building behind me. so keir starmer held a cabinet meeting earlier on today and after that cabinet meeting, when he welcomed his new cabinet, he then conducted a press conference, to questions from the media. during that, he talked about starting his work immediately and the importance of moving forward as quickly as possible, that the mandate he feels he has from the country. but also warned that any change will take a little time. here is our political editor chris mason to bring is up to speed on today's events. firstly, i thought it was striking that they chose to do the news conference in the state dining room of 10 downing street, rather than in the specific news

conference room in number 9 downing street that was built by the previous government. let's see if that room gets used. it is associated with the whole rouse around partygate, etc, etc. so a different location. these things don't happen by accident. i thought the prime minister seemed relaxed, seemed comfortable in his own skin and comfortable in, if you like, the skin of government. and then clearly, just to state the obvious, clearly a prime minister determined to outwardly demonstrate that he's getting on with it straightaway. cabinet meetings don't happen very often on a saturday. it's a good number of years since there's been a cabinet meeting on a saturday. news conferences for folk like me to go along and ask prime minister's questions in downing street don't happen on a saturday very often either so, again, clearly a desire to show a determination to get on with things because, you know, if you campaign on a slogan of change, as he did, clearly it is pretty obvious that pretty quickly people are going to start asking you questions about quite how quickly can you deliver that change. and so they're wanting

to demonstrate that sense of pace. the cabinet meeting, the hurtle around the uk that the prime minister is going to do in the coming days to go to scotland, england, wales and northern ireland. he's heading to america, to washington, to the nato defence summit on tuesday, as well as meeting, as you heard there, the metro mayors from around england. so giving that sense of pace of if not delivery, then certainly attempting to show a pathway towards that hoped—for delivery from their perspective, is clearly front and centre in their minds, making the most of any honeymoon if they get one early on. and, chris, he was pressed, wasn't he, about prisons? that was one of the questions we saw come up a couple of times after his appointment of the ceo of timpsons, james timpson. what did he say about that? because he was pressed a couple of times, wasn't he, about whether or not he agreed with some comments made by mr timpson in the past? yeah.

so the soon—to—be lord timpson working as a prisons minister, he is of the timpsons chain, no known for their key cutting as well as cobbling amongst amongst other things. now, the soon—to—be lord timpson has been on a podcast, a channel 4 podcast recently talking about his instincts around rehabilitation in which he has done a lot of work, and also about the proportion of those who are currently in prison who ought to be suggesting that there are significant numbers of prisoners, prisoners who perhaps ought not to have been jailed. now, the prime minister was asked specifically about this, didn't seek to distance himself from the instincts of his new minister, leant on his own experiences as a lawyer sitting at the back of courtrooms and seeing the kind of cycle of people who might pass through courtrooms, end up in prison then pass through courtrooms again and end up going back into prison.

so he articulated, the prime minister, a liberal instinct on all of this without explicitly endorsing the words of his minister. but he didn't seek to distance himself from them either. separately to that is an issue that confronts the government right now, which is that, frankly, there aren't enough prison places for the number of people who are going through the criminaljustice system. and we saw the last government have to introduce measures which meant that prisoners were let out earlier than their sentence would have suggested, and the prime minister has acknowledged — in fact, he acknowledged to me just a couple of days ago before he was prime minister, and he repeated it again today, that the reality of that crunch point, that lack of prison places for the number of prisoners who are heading towards prison is going to mean that in the short term at least, the new government is also going to be letting prisoners out earlier than they would have otherwise been released. that was chris mason, our political editor there. that was chris mason, our political editorthere. i that was chris mason, our political editor there. i don't know if you can hear what is happening to my

left, butjust outside the gates to downing street, there is a pro—palestinian protester. it has been happening, going on for the last hour or so. it is getting louder and louder. i wanted to reference, whether you can hear it or not, a microphone, but protesters coming here on a saturday afternoon to protest right at the gates of downing street. that has been happening and while that has been happening, work continues any building behind me. it has been one of those days where we have been very much about the new government that has just come in, very much about the new government that hasjust come in, but very much about the new government that has just come in, but also about the government that has just lost power after 14 years. what are they doing next, the conservatives? where is the next leader going to come from? earlier i spoke to claire ellicott, whitehall editor for the daily mail and lizzy buchan, deputy political

editor, the daily mirror. clear to me what she knew about rumours that rishi sunak has been appointing a shadow cabinet. not really. i think they've starting to appoint some people. so rishi sunak appointed stuart andrew the chief whip, and i think stuart anderson and richard harris, who have been whips as well, have also been appointed. but the real question with the tories is actually the leadership, what are they going to do next. the leadership, what are they going to do next? and we're hearing from different camps that they they might do it quickly or they might go long. rishi sunak has said that he'll stay on as leader of the opposition, as the party leader, while he makes those decisions. but the party has got some real questions about where it goes next. it needs to analyse the reform vote and what that means for the party and, you know, the mps left, which side of the party are they going to be on? quite. they've got fewer mps now haven't they, lizzie? yeah. their numbers have been drastically reduced to the extent that in the sort of early hours

of the morning we were trying to remember who was even around still, who would be likely to throw their hat into the ring to be conservative leader? so, you know, life in opposition is going to be very different for the party, and i think it's going to take a while to sort of settle which camps are still around, who's there on the right, who's there from the one nation, what they want the future of the party to really look like. i mean, we saw suella braverman earlier, didn't we, being doorstepped and being asked about it, and she wasn't really giving much away but wasn't counting herself out? no, of course not. i think this has been her intention for a long time to run for the party leadership in opposition, but i don't know whether she's got the support among mps. kemi badenoch is being tipped as the favourite. she has a lot more support in the party and she sort of looks more like the future, i think. suella braverman obviously was sacked and then returned to her role as home secretary. i don't know if she's really got the. has that lost her credibility, do you think? well, ijust don't hearfrom mps that she's their pick.

i think they're looking to the future. kemi badenoch has has set out more of a stall. you'll have others on the left. you'll have tom tugendhat who will run and it'll be a real question of which, which way the party wants to go. because that's it. because kemi is more to the right, tom's more to the left. it's a difficult decision, isn't it, for the for the party to make, lizzie? yeah. and i think it depends also, you know what kind of message that the party actually takes from the voters. you know, the voters have delivered a resounding verdict that they didn't want the conservatives. and so hopefully you would hope that mps will go away and think about that and think about what the voters were really saying, how they're best going to counteract reform, and also how they're going to counter labour and who is the best person to do that. and there are a lot of different directions it could go in, really. so i hope that perhaps they'll take some time to think before acting. being a party in power and moving into not being in power anymore. being in opposition must be tough, but equally tough, claire, is moving into power after having been opposition for so many years. what do you make of the new cabinet

and the way in which mr starmer has, you know, manoeuvred himself in these first 24 hours? well, there's a clear message, you know, that labour have been preparing for government for a long time. the polls have been in theirfavourfor a long time. he's almost completely appointed his shadow cabinet. emily thornberry, i think, is the only person who wasn't given the same role. and of course we had two people lose their seats, which has changed the calculations. but largely he's kept the same people in power. he's set out his missions. he's clear about where he wants to go, at least in the initial stages. we just don't know long term. but it's a clear message that, you know, he thought he'd assembled the right team. they've had plenty of time to prepare for this, plenty of time to to prepare for downing street and, you know, they do seem to be off to a good start. it does seem to be a good strong message at the beginning. how common is it for a prime minister, a new prime minister, to completely maintain his shadow cabinet in this way? i think it's quite unusual, certainly in the last few years. but we've had a different trajectory, haven't we? because, you know, we've served a full parliament this time as opposed to in 2019 and 2017, and so a lot of the people in the cabinet now have been

in post for a long time. you know, long—time labour watchers have seen, you know, bridget phillips and people like that have had these briefs for a long time. they know what they want to do. keir starmer was very clear with what he expects of them and that they needed to be ready. so i think they all the last few months has all been about kind of being ready to hit the ground running if they won. thank you very much to claire and lizzie _ thank you very much to claire and lizzie who — thank you very much to claire and lizzie whojoined me early to thank you very much to claire and lizzie who joined me early to talk about_ lizzie who joined me early to talk about the — lizzie who joined me early to talk about the press conference. fine lizzie who joined me early to talk about the press conference. one of the big tepies _ about the press conference. one of the big tepies very _ about the press conference. one of the big topics very much _ about the press conference. one of the big topics very much in - about the press conference. one of the big topics very much in focus i about the press conference. one of the big topics very much in focus at the big topics very much in focus at the press conference was the nhs. it has been described as a broken buy soma keir starmer. he talked about the brutal honesty that will have to be put forward to the public and those worried about where the nhs is headed because, as he mentioned before, in his words, there are difficult decisions that will have to be made. getting very much those first glimpses about those details. the aim is to reduce the record high number of people on the waiting list

for treatments. that is one of the big things the government really wants to focus on. let's make us live note to speak to our health correspondent sophie hutchison who joins me now. just talk me through what the government has been sane about its plans. what have we learned about its plans for the nhs today? —— has been saying. we learned about its plans for the nhs today? -- has been saying. we have had those first _ today? -- has been saying. we have had those first glimpses _ today? -- has been saying. we have had those first glimpses of— today? -- has been saying. we have had those first glimpses of some - today? -- has been saying. we have had those first glimpses of some ofl had those first glimpses of some of the detail of their policy now and how they will achieve it. the prime minister today was talking about the extra 40,000 operations and scans a week on the nhs that they want to start doing by the end of the year. of course, that is to break into the backlog, the huge weights that there are at a historic level. 7.57 million treatments being weighted for any of the nhs at the moment. mr starmer said that st thomas's hospital in london, right across from a parliament, and also a trust

in leeds had worked very well themselves to reduce the backlog is on weights and what he is asking them to do is to go around the country and teach other trusts how to get there weights down and how they have done at —— —— their sack. he said they have done it through working in the evenings and weekends so that is part of the evening and weekends. then it has a kind of a budding system trusts are failing are be helped by trusts that are succeeding. that is not new. but if we are to understand from the policy the prime minister has now touched on today, this looks like a massive effort across the country without a loosed two trusts will be going round the whole of england talking to other hospital trusts about how to other hospital trusts about how

to reduce the in their waits in their service. and trying this sort at _ waits in their service. and trying this sort at the _ waits in their service. and trying this sort at the in _ waits in their service. and trying this sort at the in your _ waits in their service. and trying this sort at the in your are - waits in their service. and trying | this sort at the in your are strikes that has been a thorn in the covenant has been a thorn in the cup and's sites, what have we learned from their approach so far? we know the new government _ from their approach so far? we know the new government has _ from their approach so far? we know the new government has already - from their approach so far? we knowl the new government has already been talking to thejunior the new government has already been talking to the junior doctors union, the british medical association, about when they will get into negotiations with them. we understand it will be this week. it is something the new government says it wants to crack. it wants to find a solution to the junior doctors to prevent any more strikes because if you're thinking about getting waiting lists down, the last thing you want is for large significant proportion of yourjunior doctors to be walking out. thatjust increases

the numbers of patients who are waiting. so they will try to tackle that, but has you were saying, the language is pretty stark, talking about the nhs being broken. today the prime minister acknowledging that kind of language was very hard for people who are working extremely hard within the health service to hear, but he said, we need to be honest. the health secretary, wes streeting, has said he wants to see a culture change within the nhs, that the need to be some honesty about how bad things are, but he is honestly using the word it is broken. �* , ., honestly using the word it is broken. �* ., ., , broken. but sophie, what does he mean by that? — broken. but sophie, what does he mean by that? it _ broken. but sophie, what does he mean by that? it is _ broken. but sophie, what does he mean by that? it is a _ broken. but sophie, what does he mean by that? it is a really - broken. but sophie, what does he mean by that? it is a really good i mean by that? it is a really good cuestion. mean by that? it is a really good question. what _ mean by that? it is a really good question. what does _ mean by that? it is a really good question. what does prokhin - mean by that? it is a really good - question. what does prokhin mean? millions of patients are treated every week on the nhs —— what does prokhin mean? it is clearly a significant part of the nhs is functioning, but what he is talking

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