for boston waddle, conservative mp for boston and skegness. we have been swimming in a river of wisdom. thank you. live from london, this is bbc news. the uk home secretary, suella braverman, will not face an investigation into her actions following a speeding violation. florida governor ron desantis is set announce his 2024 presidential bid via an appearance on twitter later today. inflation in the uk falls below 10% for the first time since august, but it still remains higher than predicted. and police officers resume their search at a reservoir in portugal in connection with the disappearance of madeleine mccann. hello, i'm gareth barlow. the uk's prime minister, rishi sunak, says he will not

order an investigation into whether the home secretary broke the ministerial code. suella braverman was accused of asking civil servants to help her avoid taking part in a group speed awareness course after she was caught speeding. mr sunak says he has consulted with the independent advisor on ministerial interests and was advised that "on this occasion, further investigation is not necessary," and said he did not believe the matter amounted to a breach of the ministerial code. live now to our chief political correspondent, nick eardley, at westminster. this has broken the last half an hour or so, what more has the prime minister and for her part suella braverman had to say? in minister and for her part suella braverman had to say? in some ways it is that what — braverman had to say? in some ways it is that what the _ braverman had to say? in some ways it is that what the home _ braverman had to say? in some ways it is that what the home secretary i it is that what the home secretary had to say which is the most interesting from these exchange of letters because she basically admits that she tried to avoid doing a speeding course where she would have been identified. she writes in a letter to the prime minister that

she regrets her actions, and if faced with a similar situation again she would have chosen a different course of action. she sought... she had without bespoke arrangements were possible given her personal circumstances as a security protected minister. in essence she is saying, i asked if i could get a one—to—one course or a private course after a speeding conviction because i didn't want to be outed as someone who was on a more public course. the decision the prime minister had to make after getting that account from the home secretary was whether she broke anything in the rule book that ministers have to follow whether there should be an official investigation into whether she broke the rules. on both accounts he has decided that no, he doesn't think she broke the rules, he doesn't think that the independent ethics advisor has to look into that either. so the top

line is that suella braverman keeps herjob, she is not facing any further probe into her actions, but as i say, she has admitted that she sought to get those bespoke arrangements, that she spoke to her special advisers about doing so and she has apologised, saying that if it happened again she would take a different course of action. in october 2022, suella braverman resigned from her post as a minister after sending e—mails from her personal e—mail, and six days later rishi sunak brings her back and she resumes the role of home secretary. she is not facing any further investigation from this incident but this isn't now an isolated mishap, breach of the rules, however you want to see it or describe it. will it be politically and personally damaging to her?— damaging to her? yes, i think inevitably _ damaging to her? yes, i think inevitably it _ damaging to her? yes, i think inevitably it will. _ damaging to her? yes, i think inevitably it will. there - damaging to her? yes, i think inevitably it will. there will i damaging to her? yes, i thinki inevitably it will. there will be criticism of her for not having the political sense to avoid getting into this situation in the first place and as you say, she was sacked

by liz truss when she was prime minister, for breaking the ministerial code. suella braverman already had that baggage of someone who had not always followed the rules that ministers have to abide by in the uk. the argument that rishi sunak has always made is that she apologised for that at the time and it was right to move on. his argument today is she has apologised for what she did wrong and his is right to move on from that as well. but there is a wider thing about the internal politics of why rishi sunak might be reluctant to get rid of suella braverman. she is a popular figure on the right of the conservative party, she could be more of a thorn in mr sunak�*s side outside government than she is inside. so i suspect over the next couple of hours, we have prime minister's questions in just under an hour in parliament in the uk, i suspect we will hear some criticism that rishi sunak was too weak to sack her or too weak to order a

further probe, and some criticism that actually this is a political consideration from the prime minister as much as anything else. there is no doubt that the labour leader will surely make some mileage out of this, and reference that ministerial code. and for people who may be are not up to speed with these kind of issues, why is the ministerial code considered so important and when there are potential perceived breaches of white is so much made of that? the short answer— white is so much made of that? tia: short answer is, white is so much made of that? the short answer is, it white is so much made of that? tt2 short answer is, it is in the handbook that ministers are given and told that they have to follow. it is the rule is that they have to abide by. it is pretty detailed at certain points, some of it is vague in the sense that it's open to interpretation, and i think that's what will have happened here, is the big question was, did suella braverman let her private interests, being caught speeding in her car, interfere with the public interest,

being a minister? did she break the rules by some of her staff that she had in the ministerial capacity to do something to help her get a private one—to—one session when it came to a speeding ticket? ultimately the prime minister has decided he doesn't think she broke that crowd, this is an interesting part of the system. if —— it is rishi sunak�*s choice, he is the judgment comes to this, he can ask his ethics adviser to look into it and to give recommendations and to come to a conclusion, but the ultimate responsibility for the ministerial code lies with the prime minister. he is the one that decides if probes are launched, he is the one who decides if there is any punishment. there has been some criticism of that, that it should be a more independent process where an independent figure can look into something and say, actually, ifancy launching a probe into that because it doesn't look right to me. in this case rishi sunak says he did speak to his ethics adviser and decided

that a probe was not needed, but ultimately, the man who decides on the verdict is rishi sunak. hick. the verdict is rishi sunak. nick, thank you _ the verdict is rishi sunak. nick, thank you so — the verdict is rishi sunak. nick, thank you so much. _ the verdict is rishi sunak. nick, thank you so much. nick - the verdict is rishi sunak. nick, thank you so much. nick referenced the letters between rishi sunak and suella braverman, you can read excerpts of those letters on our website. i want to stick with politics now. the governor of florida, ron desantis, is expected to confirm that he's running for the white house later on wednesday. he's expected to announce his bid in a live conversation on twitter with elon musk. he'd bejoining a field including the former us ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley and the only black republican senator, tim scott. the former president donald trump is the favourite to secure the nomination. jared hill is a correspondent at cbs news. he's been telling me more about this announcement. this is unprecedented, essentially a live chat

on twitter, something we have not seen before. we are expecting, according to his allies, for him to liken himself as a fellow culture warrior with elon musk as they have this live conversation on twitter. we have also seen him championing this as governor of florida a couple of months in particular with some of the laws he has been pushing through. with regards to the wider field, how do we think he will stand compared to other people? so it is interesting, he has been positioning himself as the alternative to former president trump saying he is essentially as conservative as trump is, just without some of the baggage. we have seen more of an effort from some of the other members of the growing republican field here not really making that same type of distinction.

polling—wise is he although not officially entering the race, leaps and bounds ahead of some of the other potential people he is running against except for former president trump who he trails in the polls according to the latest cbs news polls about 30 points right now. with regards to president trump, he is the main contender at the moment. ron desantis is trailing him. from president trump's perspective, how much of a threat will he see him as being and will president trump change his strategy at all? when it comes to changing the strategy, that is yet to be seen, former president trump has been consistent over the past six or so years. when it comes to taking a look at how much of a threat he might be seeing ron desantis, that is the question. i have been looking at his socials over the last two hours and there have been posts regarding ron desantis, mainly some other comments, he has

not gone after him recently here. we do know there is a pretty strong contingent at the republican party that is very much a doubting trump supporter, and the question is whether ron desantis can pull some of those people over to his side over the next couple of months. that was jarred hill from cbs news. new figures here in the uk show that the rate at which prices are rising has fallen sharply to hit single figures for the first time since last august. the inflation rate came in at 8.7% for the 12 months to april. it means prices are still going up, but not as quickly as before. earlier i spoke to sarah coles, head of personal finance at the financial services company hargreaves lansdown, and asked her what this figure means in real terms. well, i think one of the key things is about what's happening with wages when you compare them to inflation. so we have seen inflation come down, which is good news. but what what we're seeing is that inflation is still quite a long way ahead of wages.

so wage inflation was just, you know, it was lower than 7%. and now we're seeing inflation higher than 8%. so it does mean that we will find ourselves struggling to make ends meet still. so prices are still rising. one of those things about inflation that, you know, people can get confused by is they think falling inflation might mean falling prices. in terms of petrol at the pumps, that is true. but in most cases, itjust means prices are rising more slowly. so it does mean, you know, unfortunately, although it's good news to see that these prices are rising more slowly, it doesn't mean that the pressure is off. no, things aren't getting cheaper any time soon. but one thing in particular that people will be feeling most keenly, perhaps, is food price rises, which are proving sticky, aren't they? they're proving troublesome to bring down. why is that the case? yes, so the way that the inflation will feed through into food prices — so it starts right at the beginning. so whenever something is grown or wherever an animal is born, all the way through that process. so right at the very start, the prices will feed in. so if, for example, you start growing tomatoes and the price of energy is higher,

even if the price of energy falls later, you've already spent that money on those tomatoes. so it takes a long time for that process to feed through. and the more manufacturing you have and the more transport you have, then the more that those higher prices will have fed in. it does mean that it can take about three months to nine months for a sort of fall in wholesale prices to go from, you know, from the point at which you're planting crops to the point at which you're buying them on shelf. so we are likely to see prices come down. we saw them eased and really, really slightly this time. so it went from i9.i%, which is really alarming, to i9%. so it's not much of a fall, it's not something that people will notice, but it is a positive step in the right direction and we can expect a bit more of that in the coming months. we've heard lots from the prime minister, rishi sunak, and from the chancellor, jeremy hunt that they want to halve inflation this year to get it down to maybe 4% or 5% by the end of 2023. considering what we're seeing today and the trajectory things are going on, how likely do you think that is? well, it's definitely still in the balance. i mean, the bank of england is still predicting that will be 5%

by the end of the year. but one of the things that the bank will be slightly concerned about in these figures is there's a measure called core inflation, which is when you take out things like food and you take out things like energy, which can distort the figures, and actually, core inflation is gone up this month. so it's gone from 6.2% to 6.8%. and the bank of england is going to be a little bit concerned about that because they're seeing then that inflation is a bit stickier than they had initially hoped. and they've been talking a little bit about their concerns that wages will feed through into people putting up their prices in order to pay the wage bill. and that will in turn feed into higher prices, which again feeds into higher wages. so they've got this concern about the sort of cyclical problem of rising prices and rising wages. if that comes to pass, then we won't get down to the sorts of levels the government is hoping for. but that's a big if — we don't yet know whether actually this is a blip and actually whether we could see core inflation drop away. it's one of those things, you know, we'll get the evidence over time. but these will be the concerns in the mind of the bank

of england at the moment. iam i am gareth barlow and you're watching bbc news. let's look at some stories making news across the uk. the duchess of edinburgh has said she's "deeply saddened" by the death of a woman who was hit by a motorbike that was part of her police escort. the family of 81—year—old helen holland say she suffered massive internal injuries in the collision in west london two weeks ago and she has now died in hospital. the police watchdog is investigating what happened. streaming giant netflix has started its long—promised crackdown on password—sharing in major markets including the uk. the move is intended to boost income and subscribers. customers will be told they must pay more if they want to share their account with someone outside their homes. netflix had previously estimated that more than 100 million households share passwords, which is against its official rules. virgin orbit is officially no more.

the rocket company has sold its facility and equipment to a slew of aerospace firms for some $36 million. the firm — founded by billionaire richard branson to send small satellites into space — filed for bankruptcy last month. it had been struggling to secure long—term funding, after a failed launch earlier this year. you're live with bbc news. police officers are resuming their search at a reservoir in portugal, in connection with the disappearance of madeleine mccann during a family holiday in 2007. they're looking for evidence that might link her disappearance to a convicted german sex offender who was made a formal suspect by portuguese prosecutors last year. i spoke earlier to our correspondent, navteonhal, who is at the barragem do arade reservoir in the algarve — where the search has been taking place.

there are reportedly four areas of interest the police