this is bbc news. the headlines at 7pm. the parents of a teenagerfrom oxford to syria to join the islamic state group are found guilty of funding terrorism. today, john letts and sally lane said they had been convicted for doing what any parent would do if they thought their child was in danger. the sun, who has been held in syria for two years now, admits he betrayed britain and denies joining admits he betrayed britain and deniesjoining iis. admits he betrayed britain and denies joining iis. i made a mistake. that is what happened. i regret what i did. the us iran stand—off. president trump said he changed his mind just ten minutes after ordering military strikes. foreign office minister mark field

is suspended after being filmed manhandling a climate change protested at last night's mansion house dinner. a by—election is to be held after more than 10,000 people signa held after more than 10,000 people sign a petition to remove the constituency‘s tory mp chris davies. good evening. the parents of an oxford teenagerjack letts, who travelled to syria to join the islamic state group, have been spared jail after being found guilty of funding terrorism. john letts and sally lane sent money to their son, dubbedjihadijack, sally lane sent money to their son, dubbed jihadi jack, despite concerns hejoined iis dubbed jihadi jack, despite concerns he joined iis and dubbed jihadi jack, despite concerns hejoined iis and warnings dubbed jihadi jack, despite concerns he joined iis and warnings from police that they would face prosecution. his parents said they

believe their son's life was in imminent dangerand believe their son's life was in imminent danger and they were just trying to help him. in a statement read out on behalf of them, they said they only did what any parent would do. we have been convicted for doing what any parents would do if they thought their child's life was in danger. we want to be clear we have not been convicted of funding terrorism. we were convicted for sending money to our son when there we re sending money to our son when there were reasonable grounds to suspect the money could have been used for terrorist purposes. nobody from that trial suggested the money we sent to jack was in fact used for terrorism. the fact the jury acquitted us of some of the allegations makes it clear the jury accepted that we believe their son's life was in imminent danger. we believe that we have been let down badly by the police and the government. we tried to do the right thing. we fully cooperated with the police and asked them repeatedly for help. they

promised they would help us but instead they use the information we provided to prosecutors. our correspondence has been following the case and sent this report from the case and sent this report from the old bailey. jack letts with his pa rents, the old bailey. jack letts with his parents, a picture perfect childhood. he converted to islam at the age of 16. two years later he travelled to jordan the age of 16. two years later he travelled tojordan and kuwait telling his parents he had gone to study arabic. months later he was in syria. sally lane told the court she was horrified when he phoned her to tell her where he was. she said she had screamed, how could he be so stupid. some of his friends had warned them of their concerns about the extremist views he had been watching online and the people he had been associating within the uk. the court was shown this picture of jack letts near raqqa. the prosecutors said the one fingered

salute was associated with islamic state. the pair had argued they didn't believe their son was actively fighting in syria and then the police interview john actively fighting in syria and then the police interviewjohn letts tried to explain. i have got to get him out somehow and how am i going to do that? he is in danger and i feel i have to do something but on the other hand i don't want to get put away. i have another son to worry about. the family had kept in contact through messages on facebook. the messages which could be retrieves were read out in court. the mother told the jurors about discussed at some of his comments, like this one posted on the facebook page of a former school friend celebrating the completion of a course with the british army. jack letts had written, i would love to perform a martyrdom operation in this scene. nearly a year after visiting syria he was asking for money, first to help out a friend with a large family then he said to get out of syria. they are going to

run out of money completely. didn't to say that to get out you would send? despite warnings from police she was captured on cctv at her local western rain sending £233. it is not for individuals to decide when it applies to them or doesn't. the really strong message is that despite whatever you may think you are doing, ultimately you are breaking the law and that is not ok. and thejury at breaking the law and that is not ok. and the jury at the old bailey agreed. they found sally lane and john letts both guilty of sending money to their son knowing or having reasonable grounds to suspect the funds would be used for terrorism. jack letts was 18 when he left for syria in 2014. his parents refused to believe he had become a dangerous extremist. he married and had a child with an iraqi woman before being captured and imprisoned in syria by kurdish forces in 2017. our

middle east correspondent quentin somerville met him last year. we had to wait until his parents trial was over before we could broadcast that interview. one of the islamic state group's most notorious recruits was former oxford schoolboy jack letts. he agreed to speak to us in october last year. only now that his parents‘ trial is over can the interview be broadcast. he said he wasn't speaking under duress and he wanted to come clean about his membership of is. i asked him if he had betrayed his country. what were you? were are you a traitor or were you a collaborator? that's the question i'm asking you. a traitor to britain? you mean a traitor to britain? it's the first time i've heard that term in a long time. i was definitely an enemy of britain. i have no doubt about this. i haven't tried to make myself innocent. i did what i did, i made a big mistake and that's what happened. i regretted what i did and thought, supposedly the british idea is that even if you do make big mistakes,

you can sort of go back. not go back to britain, i mean go back from your mistakes. you can set things right. did they ever ask you to put on a suicide vest? they don't ask you but they encourage you. in a sort of indirect way. i used to want to at one point, believe it or not. i now think it's actually haram. that's the first time i say this. i might as well tell the truth. i did at one point want to. not a vest, i wanted to do it in a car. so i said, if there's a chance, i'll do it. i didn't request to do it but at the same time it was obvious that, i made it obvious to him that if there is a battle i'm ready. this is one of the places where jack letts lived in syria. he loved raqqa to begin with. he says he fought on the front lines. in iraq, he was badly injured. later he got married and had a child. he says, though, he eventually grew disillusioned and attempted to leave is.

but why did he abandon britain in the first place? i had a comfortable home, i had a very good relationship with my mum especially. my dad as well, actually. i thought it was leaving something behind and go into something better. i thought i was never going to see them again. in britain they call youjihadijack. while you've been away, there have been attacks in manchester, the london bridge attacks, there have been attacks in paris. there's very little appetite to give you a second chance because of what you've done. to be honest, i'm not asking any... it's not like i'm appealing to the british public to give me a second chance. it's not something anyone would do. if i was a member of the british public, i wouldn't give me a second chance, probably. maybe in the specific situation but i don't expect that from anyone. so what do you expect, jack? that's the problem, i don't know what's going to happen. i've been here two years,

every few days i hear a new promise. it never gets kept. as for, and it's probably not that important, but in manchester, what happened in london on the bridge, etc, i was in prison at the time. this was a long, long time after i left isis. yeah, but, jack, that's the point. your recruitment as a westerner, as a white middle class boy from oxford, signed up and joined the so—called islamic state, that you were a rallying cry. you gave their insanity more credence for other people to go and join them. that's one of the things i regret. i realised that me coming was a lot more... had more meaning than a syrian coming to isis. the fact that i came from england, i understand that it made a big difference. that's one of the things i regret as well. they used us as well. they used us as a sort of, what do we call it in english... like a poster boy. his kurdishjailers say he can't stay in syria. jack letts also has canadian citizenship, although he's never lived there. the british government says it washed its hands of him the day he joined the islamic state group. quentin sommerville,

bbc news, northern syria. good evening. how unusual it is a case like this? it is not unusual at all. this is unusual because he has all. this is unusual because he has a white middle class boy from oxford. there is an awful lot of british muslim families not from oxford who have had family members convicted, frequently imprisoned, for sending support, sometimes very small amounts of support to family members out in typically syria. so this case has perhaps got greater publicity, greater coverage, simply because of the fact that the young man involved doesn't look like a lot of others who have been involved in

similar cases? that is a question for the media rather than a lawyer, but yes. there have been many, if you like, brown skinned people of muslim heritage prosecuted, and or given suspended prison sentences for doing this sort of thing, which very often will be very small amounts of money. they will be assured by the family member that it won't be used for terrorism but the law is very strict and very wide. i had a colleague who defended a lad who had sent a colleague who defended a lad who had senta pairof colleague who defended a lad who had sent a pair of trainers to his brother in syria. he was arrested and prosecuted, he ends up with a conviction with the word terrorism in it. he also was given a suspended sentence but none the less the prison sentence for a 19—year—old. you mention the lobbying very wide. when this was first conceived as a law, was it put in place with situations like this in mind?m

law, was it put in place with situations like this in mind? if you go back far enough, all these broader laws about not informing on terrorist members of your family, not supporting people who may be engaged in terrorism. most have origins in earlier acts of parliament passed at the time the provisional ira were the main focus of fear of terrorism. when those laws were brought in it was certainly said in parliament this was not intended to be used against family members. that was darted even in late ira prosecutions and it is totally gone now, so it is very common to have people who are really in terrible situations. however much one despises or condemns people carrying out terrorist acts it is a very difficult situation when you have a younger brother whose elder brother is begging him to send money saying it is for food or charity,

and ajuryfinds saying it is for food or charity, and a jury finds that even though the younger brother didn't think it was for terrorism, didn't suspect it was for terrorism, didn't suspect it was for terrorism, there were reasonable grounds where he should have maybe suspected it was for terrorism and he is guilty of a very serious criminal offence. so it is not just the family serious criminal offence. so it is notjust the family member in syria being pursued, prosecuted and locked up, which most people i suspect would have no difficulty with, but it is young people or in the case you are asking me about, parents and law—abiding people who suddenly find themselves in this terrible situation, and for very small acts of assistance they are prosecuted on face prison sentences. the reason i ask is in the minds of some people it might be seen that the active funding terrorism is on a grander scale. it might be a large sum of money that emerges from a group of like—minded individuals who then fund a larger organisation and that is presumably where it came from originally? i am sure that is the

intention but it has gone much further than that. this case, what you are reporting on this evening, as an example of that. the sum of money involved was just over £200. thejury were money involved was just over £200. the jury were never told the money was used for terrorism. it was just the thing they had to consider. or did the mother and father have reasonable cause to suspect, even if they didn't actually suspect, because they chose to believe their son, wisely are not wisely, but a lot of parents would have sympathy with that. they didn't actually suspect, it may not have been used for terrorism but that is the law. it has been drawn very widely because the government understandably wants to stamp down on terrorism by absolutely any means at its disposal. whether anyone ever thought people would end up being prosecuted for sending very small amounts of assistance to very close family members, i don't think that was ever what parliament was talking

about but that's what the law now. what signal, if any, do you think the sense to others if it is more common than people might imagine? again, this is more about what the media do and don't take the trouble to report on the. i don't think any muslim family would be surprised by this. i think they would be surprised that other people are surprised that other people are surprised this is going on, but to the broader community, if you have a relative or friend cousin or whoever who is in a dangerous part of the world, where they are engaging in any kind of conflict, and it doesn't have to be isis. people fighting with the kurds have been prosecuted for terrorism, then offering any support, even the slightest amount, however much they assure you it is not being used for violence, puts you in breach of the law. and people are now being prosecuted. thank you

very much. president trump called off military strikes against iran with just minutes to spare. the planes were in the air cocked and loaded, as he said, and had targets insights but the president said twitter he wanted to halt the air strikes because too many people would have been killed. the act was supposed to be retaliation for the shooting down of an american unmanned surveillance drone yesterday in the region which supplies a third of the world's oil. the us military released this footage yesterday which they say shows the drone being shot down. relations have worsened since president trump tightened economic sanctions last month and there have been a series of incidents in the area. on 12th may, four oil tankers we re area. on 12th may, four oil tankers were damaged by explosions along a key shipping route. the united arab

emirates say the blast was caused by mines in the us blamed iran for explosions but iran denies being involved. then last week, two more explosions involving oil tankers in the same area. the us says it has video evidence of iranian forces removing an unexploded mine off one of the ships. iran say that video is fake. let's crush to washington where our correspondence has more on this. just on the events of the last 24 hours, how close did america come to striking around ? 24 hours, how close did america come to striking around? according to the accou nts to striking around? according to the accounts and the reports it seems fairly close. at least donald trump said in his tweet that he called it off ten minutes before the strikes we re off ten minutes before the strikes were due to happen. later on he said the planes were not in the air but he said deliberations had been pretty much done by the time he decided not to go that route. he said it was because he had been told 150 people would be killed if the

strikes were to hit and that would bea strikes were to hit and that would be a disproportionate response to iran shouting down an unarmed aircraft. it is not clear why that information would only have come out that last minute, you would expect to be deliberated early on. there we re to be deliberated early on. there were serious deliberations in the white house with the pentagon and senior staff, to talk about this strike, and there was an argument that if the us is hit it needs to be hit -- that if the us is hit it needs to be hit —— needs to hit back. president trump framed his decision as one of careful deliberation and saying, we have the power and have time to strike, but adds to the uncertainty and confusion surrounding what is happening in the gulf. and not least tensions in the area, and just because it didn't happen doesn't mean the issue goes away?m doesn't, because the americans have this maximum pressure strategy which is to put crippling sanctions on

iran while demanding that they make changes, and many critics save where is the diplomatic space to actually de—escalate this. the other thing as senior officials have pretty much said there would be a response if americans have been hit. it is an americans have been hit. it is an american drone that was hit but not an american casualty, so that is putting out a red line which then becomes a road map to escalation. still in washington in our newsroom is katie thomas, a research associate with the centre for new american security, an independent think tank. good evening. give us your sense of what you think has happened here and where this takes the level of tension in the area. what i think is really concerning as it is obvious that both the united states and iran are stuck in this

tit—for—tat escalation pattern we have seen, so you have each wanting to kind of demonstrate strength and deter the other from launching into a full—scale war, but as that plays out, we are only increasing the chances that one of the sides miss calculates, like we have seen in re ce nt calculates, like we have seen in recent days, and we then start a large—scale recent days, and we then start a la rge—scale conflict. recent days, and we then start a large-scale conflict. and it would be large scale and that is the big fear? yes, that is what is most concerning especially given these countries are not currently talking to each other and are misleading signals, so it seems like when something starts it would be difficult to pull back. what of the possibility of some sort of talks being organised some sort of honest broker the two. is there any prospect? i think the recent actions of iran show it is really feeling the maximum pressure being put on it. it is trying to gain leveraged

so it. it is trying to gain leveraged so that it won't be pushed around but at the same time this shows there may be some space in the future. i think the onus is on the trump administration to more clearly articulate what it is looking for from the iranians and what the framework would be. not so long ago, mrtrump said he framework would be. not so long ago, mr trump said he would speak to them but that has not come to anything? in that situation mr trump is still putting the focus on the iranians to step forward. iran feels like they are the aggrieved party and they are not sure who is the most honest mouthpiece at this point. whether they would be talking just on the nuclear issue or on the 12 points of mike pompeo. the administration more broadly, give us a sense of the different voices and views that mr trump will be hearing from within the corridors of power in washington? i think you have many different members of the administration who are interested in

seeing iran change its behaviour and the methods by which they hope that comes about, some really are hoping for a more comprehensive deal while others think some military action is necessary to achieve that end. but when you see a comprehensive deal, are we going back to the nuclear deal president trump has long since withdrawn from something encompassing the other things he was worrying about? it is bigger. they are interested in talking about these regional activities that donald trump has focused his rhetoric on and the things iran is doing now. clearly the american concern is that the nuclear deal, and it wasn't barack obama's concern because he signed it, but from president trump it is that it only involved nuclear elements are not other elements that he says are and are doing wrong in the region? yes, especially its activities in syria and iraq and yemen. and its ballistic missile programme. thank

you for your thoughts. the foreign office minister mark field has been suspended from the government after handling a climate change protester. he said he acted instinctively when the woman approached the stage during a speech by the chancellor philip hammond. in red dresses, suffragette—style sashes and dinnerjackets, the climate emergency protesters had little difficulty getting past security and into a room full of senior politicians and bankers. there they staged a noisy protest as the chancellor, phillip hammond, tried to make his speech. some diners intervened and there was pushing and shoving. among the protesters, janet barker, a long—term greenpeace activist.

she starts to make her way to the top table and the chancellor and the governor of the bank of england, at which point foreign office minister mark field intervenes and angrily manhandled her out of the room, holding her by the back of the neck. can you get this person out? two months ago he had called on police to take a firmer grip on climate protesters. today, janet barker told the bbc she didn't want to go to the police, but she had concerns about the minister. i would quite like him to go on anger management perhaps, and i hope he doesn't do it again because there was some serious anger there. but for me, the concern is the environment, it is what i've lived for. i've done it for 22 years and i will continue to do it. mark field has apologised, saying it was an instinctive reaction but the prime minister was very concerned and suspended him as a minister. he recognises that what happened was an overreaction but what we need now, in his interests but also

in the interests of the lady involved, is a proper independent enquiry by the cabinet office. greenpeace said mark field's actions were an assault, but what exactly is the law? the first question is did he honestly believe that it was necessary for him to use force? and then the second question would be, was the force that he used reasonable in the circumstances, as he believed them to be? emergency! this is an emergency! you've made your point. the city of london, which organised the dinner, said it was reviewing security, but it was the minister's actions that caused the greatest shock. daniel sandford, bbc news. with me is chris phillips, the former head of the security office. and a reader in forensic psychology at birkbeck at the university of london and an expert on public

safety. good evening to you both. a reaction force to what we have witnessed. what do you make of it? from what i have seen of the pictures, he was quite within his rights depending on what he felt to detain or to stop her from getting to the minister and to take her out. upsetting the difficulties with the fa ct upsetting the difficulties with the fact she may have a very good right to protest, but actually approaching vips ata to protest, but actually approaching vips at a dinner like that isjust not right. but he has apologised so he clearly thinks he has done too much. that is because of the twitter storm that follows on from this and the lack of support from his senior... the prime ministerand the lack of support from his senior... the prime minister and the foreign secretary. what we have to be aware of it is we have had so many politicians attacked. we have

had people being killed, jo cox being killed, and jeremy corbyn with an egg on his head. people don't have the right to do that, and i think it is quite right for people to actually protect themselves and protect colleagues and vips. what do you make of it? i felt that the force used was excessive. i was quite surprised. at least mark field has done the right thing by apologising, back in the day people would have resigned immediately. he has evoked the fight or flight response. whether the sympathetic nervous system produces adrenaline so that when one feels very stressed, to either fight or indeed to flight. i did feel it was a very un—british response. the force was excessive because he could have used some of these skills that police officers are routinely taught in

their training. great personal skills. excuse me, madam, over there. but he is not a police officer. he has a politician and we do expect our politicians to have those kinds of social skills and i do wonder, i do question, if the whole selection and the fear running through the tory party and the government at the moment with this awful selection process has turned them all into, the sense of neuroses that are running through the tory party. may have done something to impact on his response. let me see what chris says of your response, that he should have behaved like a well trained police officer?” that he should have behaved like a well trained police officer? i spent 30 years as a police officer and had to deal with many people over the years and i have dealt with them like that on occasions because sometimes you need to do that. an arm around the neck? of course, you have to remove people from a place of danger, if they are in some form

of danger, if they are in some form of danger. what i would say is i don't like this party political thing because this is about actually keeping mps and ministers say. we have seen people stabbed and killed and we just recently had one of our comedians talk about throwing acid in the face. there should be nothing about who the politician is and what party they are from. this is actually about security. let me put that back. you've talked about the political climate, but we are also ina political climate, but we are also in a climate, where as chris phillips have said, we have seen the appalling murder of a member of parliament and other people throwing things. we know what is written about members of parliament online. therefore the atmosphere is somehow different and it is understandable, is it not, in a situation like the one we saw last night that in this case mark field might have thought there was a serious threat? because

she was going towards the stage where the chancellor of the exchequer was setting. she was going towards the stage wearing a red silk dress and heels and a sash announcing the organisation that she was campaigning on behalf of. so the worst you would have possibly had in that handbag was some superglue. that is the most she would have had. and while i can understand that we should not be excusing his behaviour but we should be questioning security. we all know that the security. we all know that the security services will have swept that place beforehand and they should have been available and alert. that is what we should be questioning and what we shouldn't be doing is letting authoritarians then start saying, we need more barricades because that is not the way forward. you have raised an interesting point that chris was nodding atan interesting point that chris was nodding at an agreement, this point about security. you had concern in this area as well? absolutely. these people shouldn't have been able to get in the building but they have done over the years, even got into

parliament and other buildings, so the security is not flawless, and what we are asking people to do is to make an instinctive reaction to a potentially viole nt situation. to make an instinctive reaction to a potentially violent situation. i could show you a video on youtube of a polish politician being stabbed on the heart as he is standing on stage, at a really nice peaceful rally, and the person was not looking out of place at the location. i think demonstrators have got to realise that if they are going to move forward to people who should be protected, then there is a chance that they're going to be physically dealt with, and in some countries, she would have been shot potentially. you have both had your say, i hope you feel that way anyway, thank you both. time for a look at the weather.

hello again. it remains breezy, overnight lows between six and 12 celsius. that weekend looks promising, due to this area of high pressure which we have not seen so far this month and that's what's going to bring is a quiet start to the weekend. england and wales get off to a fine, settled in sunny start which is how it will stay. cloud for northern ireland and scotla nd stay. cloud for northern ireland and scotland but still some sunshine, a future was continuing in shetland. it is forecast to get warmer, temperature —wise we're looking at highs in of19 temperature —wise we're looking at highs in of 19 celsius. across england and wales, into the low 20s but on sunday, an area of thundery rain set to affect parts of the uk.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the parents of a teenage muslim convert who went to syria to fight for the islamic state group, have been found guilty of funding terrorism. president trump says the us military was "cocked and loaded to retaliate" against iran last night, but he changed his mind ten minutes before planned strikes. foreign office minister mark field has been suspended after he was filmed pushing a climate change demonstrator at a dinner in the city of london. a by—election will be held in brecon and radnorshire after more than 10,000 people signed a petition to remove the constituency‘s tory mp, chris davies. sir eltonjohn sir elton john has sir eltonjohn has been given france's's most prestigious honour. he was presented by emmanuel macron during a ceremony. they praised him

asa during a ceremony. they praised him as a melodic genius who was one of the first gay artists to give a voice to the lgbt community. his charity has also generated nearly $400 million for hiv prevention, education and support. it is so humbling to stand here and to be given such an honour from france which i am profoundly grateful. i have a huge love affair with france, i have a house here, i have always loved coming here, i love french culture, the way of life and the french people and as a musician, to receive this award on the day of the festival makes it even more special. i also want to take this opportunity to thank you and the people of france for this great generosity and leadership. later this year,

france for this great generosity and leadership. laterthis year, france hosts the replenish of the global fund for aids, hosts the replenish of the global fund foraids, and hosts the replenish of the global fund for aids, and malaria, hosts the replenish of the global fund foraids, and malaria, an institution which has saved millions of lives and whose continued success is essential in helping us defeat the most lethal infectious diseases on the planet. this is a great —— of great importance to me. my music, the fight against aids have been my passion for many, many years and like music this reminds me every day of the extraordinary power of the human spirit and the things that bind us are stronger than those that divide us. it is this magical human spirit i will carry with me as a proud member of the legion of honour. the music will ring in my ears. thank you very much.

a by—election will be held in brecon and radnorshire after more than 10,000 people signed a petition to remove a conservative mp. chris davies was convicted of a false expenses claim in march, which resulted in a recall petition being triggered. wales' parliamentary correspondent, mark hutchings, was in brecon. right now in this calm, picturesque setting, this is a constituency without an mp. chris davies had the job, he doesn't any more as a consequence of his actions in 2016, his conviction in court earlier this year and then today i day of public reckoning. given notice to quit is an old school touch to a modern process that forced chris davies out of office by the 10% threshold needed to trigger the by—election, it has made for an uncomfortable outcome.

i'm sorry for my constituents and family, my staff and my friends around me because this has had a major effect on all of us. this has hung over me for 18 months. back in april he was fined and given a community service order for making a false expenses claim, he bought £700 of photographs for his office. he could have claimed legitimately for the receipt he had but instead he wrote out to false receipt to split the cost between two budgets —— two false receipts. the petition was open for six weeks for people to sign at polling stations and by postal ballot. i signed it because i didn't think someone that was important as chris davies should do something like that. you broke the law but there are a lot of worse things than that being done. as for the man who is no longer an mp, he says you haven't heard the last of him. he plans to stand for the conservatives again in the

by—election. conservatives again in the by-election. i have learned a great deal, i worked by-election. i have learned a great deal, iworked hard by-election. i have learned a great deal, i worked hard for my constituents and i hope with their votes they will repay that hard work andi votes they will repay that hard work and i can carry on representing them. do you think you may be stopped from standing by the party? i have no indication that will happen. as for the opposition parties, the opposition say it has dealt a huge blow to his credibility. the liberal democrats who previously held the seat are turning their focus to the by—election saying their focuses on the tories whose infighting is letting communities down. it is unclear if plaid cymru will be open to it. the brexit party see the vote shows how strongly the level of dissatisfaction with politics is rising up the agenda. the courts have had their say and now so have 10,005 of his constituents. the wider view from the people of the area will now lie ahead this summer.

i understand there will be a meeting tomorrow of the executive of the local conservative association to decide if they are going to stick with chris davies. he is pretty confident they will but there is a meeting, they will have to ratify that and then they will put that to another meeting of the wider local party membership. chris davies tells me he has had some support in high places in the tory party, phone calls from both borisjohnson and jeremy hunt, the last two in the contest for the leadership of the tory party. he also says he has had contact from the other defeated candidates getting behind him and expressing their support. but whoever gets the job, whoever wins thatjob for the tory party leadership will have the tricky matter of a fiercely contested by—election near the top of their inbox. jeremy hunt has promised to give boris johnson the ‘fight of his life' in the race to become the next conservative leader, and britain's next prime minister.

earlier the governor of the bank of england, mark carney, rejected mrjohnson's argument that new trade tariffs can be avoided if there's a no—deal brexit. chris mason reports. back the final two mac in the race to be our next prime minister. for borisjohnson to be our next prime minister. for boris johnson and jeremy hunt, to be our next prime minister. for borisjohnson and jeremy hunt, the screw to do now steps up particularly on their plans for brexit. —— the scrutiny. mark carney today told the bbc there would be taxes on imports tariff if there is an audio departure. if we don't have an audio departure. if we don't have an agreement with the european union, it means that our tariffs automatically because the europeans have two apply the same rules to us as they apply to everyone else. and

yet borisjohnson has suggested it could be possible to avoid these new taxes even without an overarching withdrawal agreement. there will be no tariffs and there will be... it is what we want to do, get a standstill in our current arrangements. boris johnson's team do not dispute the rules but point to provisions to allow for stopgap measures to avoid tariffs. if there is no tariffs that assumes —— if there is no agreement, that suggest there is no agreement, that suggest the europeans do not want an agreement. it would be in the interests of the eu to look at an agreement. a no-deal brexit would be an unprecedented political and economic situation and could prompt rapid action to minimise disruption but right now many trade experts believe boris johnson's but right now many trade experts believe borisjohnson's plan wouldn't avoid new tariffs. his

rivaljeremy hunt visiting a factory in worcester today has said he would delay brexit again if necessary to get a better deal. thousands of jobs in the west midlands depend on having a wise prime minister who makes sensible calls as to how we leave the european union promptly but also in a way that doesn't harm business. but in brussels, european leaders say they will not renegotiate the withdrawal agreement and the uk has been wasting time since brexit was delayed. may be the process of brexit will be more exciting than before because of some personal decisions in london but nothing has changed when it comes to our position. this afternoon, another hustings event forjeremy huntand another hustings event forjeremy hunt and boris johnson. another hustings event forjeremy hunt and borisjohnson. what's clear is who ever becomes prime minister next month will face many of the

same challenges that defeated theresa may. the family of a man who died earlier this year as a result of being given contaminated blood, has told a public inquiry that the then health secretaryjeremy hunt did not fulfil his promise of "a full and fair settlement". mike dorricott died in 2015 with liver cancer caused by hepatitis c which he contracted after treatment for his haemophilia in the ‘80s. our health editor hugh pym reports. they have lost a son, a father and husband. the family came to leeds to tell the inquiry about his suffering asa tell the inquiry about his suffering as a result of treatment with infected blood products. make tory —— had to give up —— mike doricott succumbed to liver cancer and died

aged 47. his daughters said their lives were turned upside down. when you live with death on your doorstep throughout your childhood and teenage years,, it leaves a mark and i have quite bad anxiety now and i get very stressed quite easily. the family newjeremy hunt as their local mp and were invited to a meeting when he was health secretary in 2014. mike dorricott suggested what he viewed as a financial compensation package. anne later told me the downing street and the treasury should be held responsible but she was still disappointed with jeremy hunt. i have respect for jeremy hunt. i have respect for jeremy hunt, we are on first name terms and we thought he was going to sort this and he hasn't fulfilled his promise. a spokesperson for jeremy hunt said while still health secretary, he had announced a full

public inquiry in 2017 because those affected had a right to know what went wrong and why and financial support had been increased but those who have lost loved ones are pushing for full who have lost loved ones are pushing forfull compensation, who have lost loved ones are pushing for full compensation, reflecting loss of earnings and many other factors. another witness said officials and politicians had blood on their hands. the parents of a teenage muslim convert who went to syria to fight for the islamic state group, have been found guilty of funding terrorism. president trump says the us military was ‘cocked and loaded to retaliate' against iran last night, but he changed his mind ten minutes before planned strikes. foreign office minister mark field has been suspended after he was filmed pushing a climate change demonstrator at a dinner in the city of london.