i say brave because yes, keir starmer will thing, as well.ng, as well. i say brave because yes, keir starmer will get some good headlines today, particularly from the middle—of—the—road press. but jeremy corbyn was not only the last leader of the labour party, he brought in a massive proportion of its current membership. lots of people join the labour, they formed of the electorate that only recently elected keir starmer. and keir starmer is now taking on the person who brought them into political activism. and i think there could be trouble ahead for the labour party, but i think keir starmer absolutely did the right thing. the problem withjeremy did the right thing. the problem with jeremy corbyn is did the right thing. the problem withjeremy corbyn is he essentially has the same beliefs today that he did 40 years ago. decades of past, crises have happened, anything is exactly the same thing. he can never admit error, and he could have been gracious about the report today, he could've acknowledged some of his weaknesses, but he can't ever r

labour at war after keir starmer campaign...” said tojoe, after keir starmer campaign...” said to joe then i will give my opinion. i will do the data bit. it is something i am an expert about. it appears that labour party officials have alleged that keir starmer's leadership campaign hacked into, their words, the starmer's leadership campaign hacked into, theirwords, the party's starmer's leadership campaign hacked into, their words, the party's party membership database. now this was reported to the information commissioner and that whole internal investigation commissioned the labour party has has subsequently been leaked which is why it is on the front page of the newspapers i'iow. the front page of the newspapers now. keir starmer's team has described this as utter, utter nonsense. they have denied this. the keirstarmercampaign is nonsense. they have denied this. the keir starmer campaign is actually suspended at the moment because the unfortunate death of keir starmer's mother—in—law. meanwhile, rebecca long—bailey, seen as the main opponent to keir starmer, for the leadership, h

borisjohnson house written to keir starmer in the afternoon saying keir starmer is the one who is misleadingd get to the ins and outs of the guidance, but ultimately if you take a step away, i think care home deaths are really big problem, but they are also a problem for this government because there are lots of questions that need to be asked about the decision to make patients in hospitals move back to care homes where in some cases they didn't have coronavirus test. david, what do you think was? sir keir starmer accused of politicizing the issue rather than working with the conservatives. but it is an important point to have made? absolutely, there is no question that now, we have a serious politician and forensic lawyer questioning the prime minister at prime minister's questions. and as katie says, that is much more newsworthy as a result. 0n katie says, that is much more newsworthy as a result. on a slightly more frivolous note, if i might, those of us of a certain age are jealous of any man who at that age has plenty of hair. boris seems to have returned to his tousled look in the com

keir starmer ending that speech.tion that we are used to from conference, no rapturous applause. so we can now talk about the substance of the speech he has just left, talk about the substance of the speech he hasjust left, as has roots me. lisa nandy, the shadow foreign secretary is still here as his vicki young for the bbc, but let's get some reaction from the left and right of the political spectrum. we can talk to camilla tommy, the associate editor of the telegraph newspaper and steve richards, the political commentator, listening to that, it was blunt and to the point and he talked about the party having to change and he talked a little bit about himself and the importance of family values, but what did you make of the speech?” think it was about framing an argument. it's very interesting the rhythms of being leader of the opposition. no labour leader has won an election when they begin as leader at the start of the parliamentary term. the winners, wilson and tony blair got their mid—term elections were looming

in our coverage, we have drawn attention to the fact that this is keir starmer really saying that theto be sort of a very, very strong in his actions, and you can see the consequences of that have been there is now a huge crisis engulfing the party and lots of sort of different reactions to mist and corbyn‘s suspension. ultimately, tim, this comes down to discipline, doesn't it? certainly discipline is a very big factor, and i think because keir starmer is currently making some progress in the opinion polls, largely because of the government's difficulties, he will be able to maintaina difficulties, he will be able to maintain a measure of discipline if he was going backwards in the opinion polls, i think people would be more per rebellious towards him. —— would be more rebellious. crisis isa —— would be more rebellious. crisis is a word we as journalists use perhaps too much about this time it really is a crisis for labour. this is not, after all, are low —— an ordinary labour party leader. many of the mps that sits behind keir starmer in the house of commons owe their political bein

but is keir starmer just too afraid we're going to fix it. there isn't a problem with anti—semitism there hasn't been and isn't still a problem, having read this report, they probably shouldn't be in the labour party. that is a matter for them and matter for due labour party. that is a matter for them and matterfor due process and for keir starmer but we look to see now what he's going to do next. have you been in touch with luciana berger and other colleagues who have suffered abuse? many senior figures within the party. do you think keir starmer is going to get the support? are you seeing people like that returning to support the labour party? margaret and i never left the labour party but i think all of this will be looking to see what actually happens and what changes going forward. i really hope we won't be fixed as a party until louise ellman is back. we will see what luciana berger wants to do with her future but this was an experience we face together because we retained the figureheads of it. i can't tell you how difficult this proces

sir keir starmer was a senior member and so it may be seen he was complicit in that.within the shadow cabinet and outside it so he is trying to distance himself from that culture and certainly today showing with this action againstjeremy corbyn, unprecedented to take that kind of action against the former party leader, to be suspended from the party in such short shrift, very determined to move on and say, the party is clearly under new management, he has no connection, when it comes to the handling of anti—semitism. when it comes to the handling of anti-semitism. in terms of a political calculation by keir starmer, does he think he is in full control of the party? he doesn't really need to know about the corbynistas, the hard left wing of the party any more? he's tried to make that clear since he took office, making tackling anti—semitism the number one priority. he was quick to sack rebecca long—bailey, the shadow education secretary who was a close ally ofjeremy corbyn who had challenged him over the leadership. he was quick to sack her when she had retweeted an ar

well, i think the most obvious thing at the moment is that keir starmer doesn't seem to know what keirt it is that his party will are after. under jeremy corbyn he refused to call out anti—semitism, he was incredibly silent on the issue. now he has said that he had some issues with some of the decisions that were made of things like russia and the salisbury incident. i think that is the atrocious thing. so sure he may not bejeremy atrocious thing. so sure he may not be jeremy corbyn atrocious thing. so sure he may not bejeremy corbyn but atrocious thing. so sure he may not be jeremy corbyn but who atrocious thing. so sure he may not bejeremy corbyn but who is keir starmer and what does he stand for and what does his labour party stand for? because that is no that a lot of my colleagues and a lot of my constituents are asking as well. we did have that important apology by the labour party to those seven whistle—blowers on anti—semitism and yet the reaction from team corbin was entirely unapologetic. we had len mccluskey say that he thought that the pain of these damages was a miss use o

at least keir starmer and a few others rich but not risk attached to this but at least keir starmer ist things in leadership that's what you do. so he was right to suspend jeremy corbyn in terms of his reaction? as i understand there is some dispute about actually who took the decision. did jeremy corbyn today and every way shape or form respond is when would expect to a report in to such a serious issue that‘s done so much damage to the labour party on his watch, under his leadership? i don‘t think he did. and actually, i first didn‘t read the report until i read the headlines. when i read the report, i think the report is actually worse than going out for the labour party thatis than going out for the labour party that is been presented in the media today for some it is dire, it is dreadful. i think for that than to be said yet again, all you are all getting out of contacts all getting it out of contacts and so forth. i just think it‘s wrong. the labour party has suffered so much damage as a result of this issue. notjust this issue over the last few years but this one i think one of

the political impact of what keir starmer had to say caught my eye withjohnson starmer had to say caughty eye with johnson conceding starmer had to say caught my eye withjohnson conceding at starmer had to say caught my eye with johnson conceding at the starmer had to say caught my eye withjohnson conceding at the top left—hand corner of the telegraph thatis left—hand corner of the telegraph that is circuit breaker which is what keir starmer has asked for it may be necessary if his tier system fails. that's according to the briefing that paper has run with for some interesting just a position of those photos on the top half of the paper there. we have borisjohnson from downing street with the chancellor rishi sunak behind him and to the right we have keir starmer and you get the impression of him getting caught and viselike grip because you have the chancellor who wants the prime minister to back business and save the economy and not go too far and keir starmer you wa nt not go too far and keir starmer you want him —— he attacked him tonight, saying he has lost control and keir starmer i

that clashed with what keir starmer had said, you know, that day, and he went on to say that this ideasays it is not a big as problem as it is does not have a place in the labour party. now we reach a point where he has, according to the nec, the party's structures, been admitted, but it is now about what action keir starmer will take, because that decision was made by the nec, the national executive committee, under their procedures, rather than by keir starmer personally. he still has a chance to say, i am going to take a strong sedans and keep the whip withdrawn, but we have only so far had a tweet from keir starmer, and you now, he did acknowledge it was another difficult day for the jewish community, but he didn't take that opportunity to say what he would do. soi opportunity to say what he would do. so i think it could happen, but i think it is quite clear it is a bit ofa think it is quite clear it is a bit of a quandary for the new labour leader, and we could be in a situation where he upsets both sides. david, you are nodding. i mean, he is between a rock and a ha rd mean, he i

break, sir keir starmer and boris johnson involved summer break, sir keir starmer and borisjohnson involvedlved in something of an ill tempered exchange at times. we will discuss what happened this afternoon very shortly, with stephen doughty for the labour party and andrew parry for the conservatives and pete wishart from the snp. it's interesting, because sir keir starmer picked boris johnson up on a series of government u—turns over the summer and, as they we re u—turns over the summer and, as they were discussing that, a further u—turn dropped in our inbox, regarding restrictions that were being eased in bolton and trafford, the plan to ease those restrictions was reversed. we heard that during prime minister's questions. let's get reaction from andrew parry from the conservative party. a u—turn dropping while the prime minister was being grilled on the issue of u—turns, not a great look, is it? well, i think people out there are sensible enough to understand, when the medical and scientific advice changes, the couple tapped out accordingly, and that is what we are doing, putting people

is keir starmer risking a new labour war this. is keir starmer risking a new labourwar in the this.in the labour party with this? it is certainly a big move. a year ago, jeremy corbyn was running to be prime ministerfor labour. now he is not able to sit as a labour mp. this will be seen as provocative —— provocative by some on the wing of the party that very much supported jeremy corbyn. he brought a lot of new supporters into the party under his leadership. it is certainly going to be very provocative to those people are really support him. sir keir starmer was under pressure and labour has been under pressure to show that they mean what they see on anti—semitism and some very tough words from sir keir starmer earlier. there was a lot of pressure from groups like the glm to say that they wa nted groups like the glm to say that they wanted to see that action was going to follow words, not necessarily on jeremy corbyn, but in general there was pressure on labour to show that they are tackling this and have it in hand —— pressure fromjlm. in terms of the other thing that keir starmer

did isjust do that at pm cues, what keir starmer did is just bashed do that at pm cues, what keir starmer the political imperatives that keir starmer is trying to achieve but we need to act in the national interest. justin, is keir starmerjust looking around for something to oppose?” keir starmerjust looking around for something to oppose? i found it quite remarkable that boris johnson's answer to most questions seems to be a bit of indignation in shock that he would be challenged on anything. we will always support the government where they are doing things right but where there are problems, and there are problems, we will point those out, so on the test and tray system, there are still far too many people who are waiting too long to get the test results back. there are too many people who are not being contacted once they have had a positive result and we know that their contacts are also not getting traced either, so there is a lot more that need to be done in that system and it needs to be much more effective because as the report that was discussed at pm cues today said, that system

sir keir starmer really wa nt to non—apology. under this toxic. in labours recent past. he still hasn't succeeded. i suppose just looking at keir starmer is a point of view he has been able to look pretty toss in this episode with the suspension ofjeremy corbyn. as you say, he's avoided a running battle on it with the hard left. that's right. basically keir starmer said two things following the suspension ofjeremy corbyn. firstly that he supported it because he did not agree that the problem had been exaggerated for stop he also made it clear that he was not interested in punching the left of the party. a campaign that was already under way with petitions and debates against party rules and party lines at local level. atjeremy corbyn suspension. also been criticism from leaders who provide funds for the labour party that had the action taken against jeremy corbyn. i think it was always inevitable that they would try to reach some kind of arrangement that he wasn't suspended and longer—term. i understand that his disciplinary hear

sir keir starmer has been elected as the new leader of the opposition.iously been the director of public prosecutions, a human rights lawyer and will be absolutely intriguing to see what approach he takes. particularly, coronavirus and the fighting for that epidemic is centre stage. it has changed the political landscape. how will he approach that because that is going to be the main issue in the first few months of his leadership. he has said the government has a huge responsibility, but the labour party does as well. he says even if you have not voted for this government, you need this government to succeed in order to get through this crisis. he said they need to engage constructively with the government and not be an opposition for opposition sake. not to score political points or make impossible demands, but he says he will point out if he thinks there are areas where the government is not acting quickly enough or doing the right thing. he also talks about their vision of a better society, particularly the role of key public sector workers. he talks

keir starmer — the shadow brexit secretary — officially launches his bid to become the next labour leaderhe country needs radical policies to fight inequality. the moralfight the moral fight against injustice and poverty and homelessness isjust as big a moralfight as it was in the general election. coming up, the best exclusive stories from vicotoria derbyshire — a review of the week, that's at a50. —— victoria derbyshire. borisjohnson has said that iran's admission that it shot down by mistake a ukrainian passenger plane over tehran is an ‘important first step‘. four britons were among the 176 people killed in wednesday‘s crash. a senior iranian military official said the airliner was misidentified as a cruise missile. iran‘s president rouhani has called the downing of the jet an "unforgiveable mista ke". our diplomatic correspondent caroline hawley has more. this is the moment iran made a catastrophic error, firing a missile into a passenger plane, killing everyone on board. for three days in the face of mounting evidence, iran adamantly denied it was responsible. but this morning broug

the historical context is that we've never, from day one, from keir hardie — keir starmer was called the intolerant extreme of the left. all parties have their divisions. what we've witnessed today is the latest chapter in the tussle for the soul of the labour party. history suggests it won't be the last. chris mason, bbc news. live to westminster and our deputy political editor vicki young. we heard her report earlier. what is your sense of the reaction to this? we have some people forecasting there will be chaos within the party. what's your reading of how keir starmer has played this?” think it's a really interesting debate tonight within the labour party about how much this was planned in advance by sir keir starmer. we heard there about the former labour leaders who had their defining moment, wanting a break with the past, and after disastrous election results those huge rows over anti—semitism, you can see why sir keir starmer might want to take that stand, but i'm not convinced he woke up this morning thinking he was going to suspend his predecessor from the party and the ques

what i really, really hope from keir starmer is that the tea m hope from keir starmer is that the teambly can be to reach the parts of the country that the labour party is currently not reaching, whether that is places in the south, where we have never won before, or places in the north which we need to win back. but i think that keir starmer will be a fair leader, and he has to be given a chance — i think he has got quite a short space of time to basically make his mark about what sort of leader he is going to be and whether he can show how he really is in charge, so that people feel confident to follow, but i think that he can do it. he has already apologised for the strain of anti—semitism, as he put it, that has tainted labour in recent years. and that is vitally important to apologise, and that apology matters to lots and lots of thejewish community, but not just to lots and lots of thejewish community, but notjust thejewish community, but notjust thejewish community —— those of us who have found ina community —— those of us who have found in a labourfamily that it community —— th

and how's keir starmer just overstepped actually mean? and how's keir starmerjust overstepped this?have anybody in a position in the democratic party like the labour party best overruling everybody and anybody, elected members, regardless of what they say after a hearing. people watcher understand what you're saying there but sir keir starmer was selected to lead the party, he would say he is leading at and set the disciplinary process does not have the confidence of thejewish community, and thatjeremy corbyn's remarks had undermined our work in restoring trust with ge jewish community. he's been keeping us under review, he's been keeping that quite clear about that. will make it clear we wa nt quite clear about that. will make it clear we want to do within the labour party. and labour leadership whether it bejeremy or keir starmer. the membership themselves, and the wider community. we want to see recommendations is limited immediately. we want to see the end of anti—semitism and harassment within the party, and within society in general. i think what we need to do is move immediat

sing the borisjohnson finished, we had keir starmer sing the boris johnson had finished, we had keirsjohnson had misled the comments in terms of when this would beissued comments in terms of when this would be issued and asked if you would come and correct himself. i would not expect the prime minister to do that anytime soon and he since respondent later in the afternoon saying that actually, if you're looking for a misleading figure here, it is keir starmer sing he selectively quote did the material. so to get the bigger picture, care homes are really sad of what is happened there but it is also difficult for the government, i think in the sense that there are questions that do need to be asked and some were asked today as to why some patients were dispatched to ca re some patients were dispatched to care homes when they were not tested 01’ care homes when they were not tested or it wasn't clear whether or not that coronavirus in some cases they did and if you look at the level of infection fatalities. it's been a bit of the he said she said situation. is that helpful? unhelpful. s

what keir starmer was trying to do today was get an accurate picture of how many people had died.at there are 18,000 extra deaths, more than we would normally take, from care homes in april, yet the government figure for care home deaths from the virus is much more, and he simply asked borisjohnson to explain the disparity between those two figures. this is what irresponsible opposition should do. the least the public have a right to is how many people this virus is going, particularly at a time with the government is trying to ease the work done and get people back to work. we can only do that if we are properly on top of the death rate from this virus, which in this country has sadly been very high. from this virus, which in this country has sadly been very highlj would put it to the fact that we are on top of the figures coming out, we are monitoring rate of infection, and to go back to our earliest point, going back and try do say that this guidance on march 12 was not correct and why did i say this, it did not achieve anything. it did not save lives. what does save lives isa

here's sir keir starmer.that article was wrong because the article contained anti—semitic conspiracy theories. i have therefore stood rebecca long—bailey down from the shadow cabinet. i've made it my first priority to tackle anti—semitism, and rebuilding trust with thejewish community is a number—one priority for me. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. the world health organization has warned that the death toll from the coronavirus will reach half a million by next week — and that there will be ten million infections. the united nations says police forces around the world should stop using facial recognition technology on people attending peaceful protests. technology like the system you can see here scans faces in a crowd and matches them with identities stored on a database. police forces say it helps them spot wanted criminals, but the un has other concerns. facial recognition, though, constitutes a paradigm shift. it dramatically increases the capacity to identify and track all or many par

once upon a time, keir starmer led parliamentary calls for a second brexit referendum.ll on that today and seemed to acknowledge it was a policy that drove away many traditional labour voters. to those who have turned away from labour, i say this... we hear you. never again will labour take you or the things you care about for granted. and i ask you, take another look at labour. keir starmer wants to show he's made a break with the past, but many former labour voters in leave seats will still see him as the arch remainer who fought brexit tooth and nail. the policy details will come later. today was all about laying out his personal values and trying to rebuild labour's brand after so many election defeats. the speech was dismissed as a mixture of slogans and platitudes by the left—wing of the party, but sir keir starmer thinks he has plenty of time to explain his plan to voters. vicki young, bbc news, westminster. now on bbc news, our world reveals what life is really like inside iran during the coronavirus pandemic. iran is a mystery to many — and its rulers like to k

keir starmer wa nts to to be highlighted. get that balance right and put the country first. he is talking about working in the national interest with boris johnson to about working in the national interest with borisjohnson to guide britain through this outbreak. i think he is going to want to project this image as well as really trying to improve the response of being prime ministerial himself. that is his aim and it is something, it is one of main reasons that he was elected. some people have suggested there could be a government of national unity, as in a wartime government. but matt hancock said that was not on the card, although there is a new leader at the labour party. | there is a new leader at the labour party. i can't see any prospect of that. but i do think that it is a positive that we finally have real opposition, because the opposition for a long time has been rather infeck eventual. ineffective. it is good for our democracy that keir starmer has come out already, yes, he is going to be not scoring cheap politic

keir starmer knows that.previous labour leaders at times of national crisis. i think the approach he is taking is one that is not in the best interests of the country. what we wa nt best interests of the country. what we want to see is a proper, regional lockdown enforced on this tier base system. that is the way those restrictions, properly enforced, is the way we can control it. at the moment i agree withjonathan ashworth. a national lockdown would bea ashworth. a national lockdown would be a disaster because you were trying to beat lockdown part of the country which have very low covid rates. i don‘t understand why you would want to do that. we need to put labour mps and council leaders in my region and other parts of the country have been calling for, which isa country have been calling for, which is a proper, locally led approach where the restrictions are looking at and we try to control it in those regions of the country. i am not saying we are ruling anything out in the future, but we have to try and

well, it is notjust keir starmer?o was talking about this, we are all looking at this from our owfi we are all looking at this from our own standpoint as constituency mps. the problem is matching the two things, availability and access and the point is that they are going to get that availability in the sense that they are ramping it up now, but is the key question that lies as distribution, a bit like the same answer to the ppe question, when we get the ppe in, it needs to be got to the care homes and that has been one of the issues and i have managed to get ppe to my constituency from the local authorities now, so it is going to be getting those testing places near enough for the care homes and to any of the outlying medical facilities that carers can get there before they go on shift or after they come off shift. ok, i am going to talk about ppe are just a moment but rachel reeves, listening to that, do you agree with the government and dominic raab, that the priority has been to make sure that the nhs isn't overwh

because sir keir starmer said during his labour leadership campaign that getting rid of anti—semitismur party was its number—one priority. he believes it was the right thing to get rebecca long—bailey out if she refused to delete the tweet, which she did. his backers tonight are very, very pleased. they say this shows his actions actually match up to his words and it was something that was so toxic forjeremy corbyn at the labour party and caused so much trouble and agonising in the labour party, that they feel it was the right thing to do, but the risk is that it reopens some of those really bitter tensions inside the labour party that have been quite under the surface, really, rather than all over the newspapers. by the way, i thought being stood down was a very polite way of being fired or being sacked, a sort of euphemism. ijust wondered because that division has reopened, that was there for the last few years in the labour party, they have reopened that now and yes, sir keir starmer made this big thing about eliminating anti—semitism being his big priority, but i wonder in the con

yes, a lot of mps wanting to send our best wishes, not least keir starmer.f you like, for both keir starmer and dominic raab. the exchanges were very polite. in fact, i got exchanges were very polite. in fact, igota exchanges were very polite. in fact, i got a slight sense that keir starmer was a little more tentative in his questions to the foreign secretary learnt last week. he was very keen to stress the fact i was really wanting to focus on the evidence rather than giving his own opinion, obviously, not wanted to go down the little party line in any obvious sense. he focus on what he calls the truly dreadful figures in terms of the death toll and talked about a rising death toll in care homes. interestingly, latertoday at the downing street briefing, we will get alongside eds in hospitals over the last 2a hours, a daily update to those who have lost their lives to coronavirus in care homes and in that the community. dominic raab disputing the fact that there is a sort of rising death toll in care homes. it is very difficult to actually get an accurate fi

keir starmer said intervention is very significant.ight newspaper over years ofjeremy corbyn sobbing the media perhaps that patriotism as well. the labour party was criticised for not being patriotic enough. keir starmer is hammering at home. stunning picture of the second world war veteran. saluting from the window. and will just end with a look at some of the photographs and the express and the mirror. of course everything is changed, all those 1945 style tea parties, street parties and stuff are going to be done with social distancing. quite interesting just looking at the faces of these reproduce pictures in color. do you think it's right that the paper should be making there's a wartime link with what were going through now? because it is very different, is in a? it is. butl now? because it is very different, is in a? it is. but i think it's quite delicately done across the papers. it they are re—coloring of the pictures are really quite beautiful. the comparison being made is really to remind people to respect the freedoms that t

whereas keir starmer is arguing the opposite. you're right.t the four nations of the united kingdom are going to come out of this lockdown a different stages. it's just inevitable despite us going down into lockdown together, but i think there will be a different story in terms of the regions, especially in england because it would be very hard to stop people travelling from birmingham to manchester or birmingham to manchester or birmingham to manchester or birmingham to london. you could stop people going to the more remote parts, cornwall and possibly the highlands in scotland, but nothing outside of the four nations, there's going to have to be a united approach. perhaps nicola sturgeon and the other devolved nations, the lea ks and the other devolved nations, the leaks that and the other devolved nations, the lea ks that came and the other devolved nations, the leaks that came out today, that spurred them to say we are probably going to have to take a different approach, because we're not going to go about lifting these restriction that we

i think keir starmer supporters will say he can do that.ou represent, where you come from, it is about the policies you bring m, it is about the policies you bring in, and that is going to be the important part of all of this, and how he approaches in the immediate future the coronavirus outbreak. how closely he is willing to work with the government. today, prime minister borisjohnson, the government. today, prime minister boris johnson, on the government. today, prime minister borisjohnson, on the day jeremy corbyn stopped being labour leader, wrote a letter to all the opposition leaders are saying, come and have a briefing, iwant opposition leaders are saying, come and have a briefing, i want to talk about how to do this in the national interest. it will be interesting to see how closely keir starmer decides to work with the government. he has said he wants to take a critical approach, praised the government when it does have the right thing but criticised when it does not. india, which has nearly a fifth of the world's population, has b

keir starmer's background asa human members.background as a human rights lawyer is well—known, he defended environmental activists against mcdonald, later was director of public prosecutions but to many his politics are less well—known. he has pledged to keep some of the labour's cent policies on issues like public ownership and fighting authority but said it is vital labour speaks for the whole country. where that requires change, we will change. where that requires us to rethink we will rethink. our mission has to be restore trust, in our party, as a force for good. keir starmer will have little time to settle in though, within hours of his election he had agreed to meet borisjohnson to work together on tackling the coronavirus pandemic. to work together on tackling the coronavirus pandemic. one of the government's most senior advisors on the coronavirus pandemic has warned that the uk could see high rates of infection for "weeks and weeks", if the lockdown rules are flouted this weekend. professor neil ferguson said that whil

labour leader keir starmer has renewed his position.concerned by the rising number of cases and tragically by the rising number of deaths. that is why i called for a circuit break for half term. my concern is that the tier system is not bringing the infection rate down. it is notjust here, many european countries are also caught up in a second wave. a relaxation of restrictions over the summer allowed the virus to take off again. it has prompted new lockdown is in france and germany to bring infections back under control. some authorities think the same will be needed in england. i do not know about a fool lockdown, it is a distinct possibility but there is also the chance we will end up there by default, i suspect not everywhere but nearly being moved up into tier 3. i suspect that is the way it will go. it is a deteriorating situation, certainly. some hospitals are already under pressure. the concern is rapidly rising cases will in turn lead to greater hospital admissions and deaths. for now, the government is waiting to see whether t

most people with common sense can see the particular difficulties that we had at the time. >> keir starmer mr. starmer: thank you, mr. speaker. i think the prime minister has confirmed it was a capacity problem. i wish the government well on the tracking and tracing now, and on the app that is being trialled in the isle of wight. we all want that to succeed, and we will all support that in, hopefully succeeding. can i turn to protective equipment, where, clearly, there are ongoing problems. just this week, the bma survey said that 48% of doctors had to buy their protective equipment for themselves or rely on donations. that is clearly unacceptable. it is obvious that this problem will get even more acute if and when the government ask people to return to work. we are clearly going to need a very robust national plan for protective equipment. can the prime minister reassure the public that they will not be asked to return to work until that plan is in place? p.m. johnson: yes, i certainly can. i share his frustration about ppe, and the frustration that i think people have felt across the ho

keir starmer, lisa nandy, andjust phillips. would make a strong leader of the party. —— and jess phillips. is rebecca long—bailey to associated with jeremy corbyn? totally, she is the continuity candidate. and if she becomes a leader of the labour party i fear it would be fatal for the party. i think it would be an absolute disaster. and we thornberry isa absolute disaster. and we thornberry is a good bit better but not much. —— emily thornberry. my worries about keir starmer is that he has spent the last four years on the front bench and all credit to him trying to bring the party into a present bull position on brek said but he spent so much of its time trying tojuggle the different but he spent so much of its time trying to juggle the different winds of the party and ijust wonder whether he is bold enough to go out there and strike a new direction for there and strike a new direction for the party which i think is absolutely what has to happen. because the labour party has to start talking to the country and not itself and i

and you got a real insight into the sort of soul searching the labour party has been doing, sir keir starmertting it out pretty clearly what his options were, that do they go ahead and support this deal, where if you think back a few months to what labour had been saying needed to be ina deal labour had been saying needed to be in a deal in order to get support, this does not deliver, it was things like the exact same benefits as eu membership, but this deal does not deliver that. the option was, do you go ahead and support that, and actively support it or do you abstain and say we will let it pass but we are not going to endorse it. you heard him spell out the consequences of that, he didn't think that would be a credible position to take, and of course labour has abstained on big things round coronavirus, so there was a real struggle there they had to resolve. in the end, you heard sir keir starmerframes as resolve. in the end, you heard sir keir starmer frames as this is a straight choice between deal or no deal and given a deal is in the national aggressive interest that is whey labour w

keir starmer's skepticism to the 10pm curfew. measures necessary. they are talking about eight to ten people not showing any symptoms. the huge cost of shutting down businesses and the hospitality industry. i think this speaks also to the fact why this new traffic light system has been announced yet because there was this big divide within the cabinet —— haven't been announced. you've got the health secretary matt hancock, his primary motivation is to make sure hospitals and cope and he wants to make sure the virus as low as possible. on the other hand, if you've got the chancellor who is primarily concerned about keeping the economy going as much as possible because we did dive very deeply into a recession after the lockdown. but the about bounce really quickly, and i think what rishi sunak is concerned about is if we go back towards cutting back economic growth, that will create a much bigger hole for the

it is very obviously keir starmer at the moment.nd, but he is fighting a very adept campaign, doing everything he needs to do to woo doing everything he needs to do to woo labour members, the most socially concerned, socially liberal, deeply liberal about the consequences of another five years of the conservative government and a return to what they see as bad all day, and at the moment keir starmer is saying to people, i can win, but i will not throw the baby out with the bath water. and thus far no one else has got close to coming up with the message that marries the need to win the labour leadership election but ina win the labour leadership election but in a way that leaves them with plenty of room for manoeuvre in terms of winning a general election afterwards. what is interesting about the range of potential leadership candidates that have declared so far is it is impossible at this stage to know which direction the labour party will go m, direction the labour party will go in, depending on the outcome of this race, because we

about support for the ira, smear against keir starmer about support forthe ira, he smear against keirat withjohn mcdonnell support for the ira, he could do that with john mcdonnell and jeremy corbyn but you can't get away with that with somebody who has a career prosecuting terrorists. boris johnson was furious at the end of all of this, he had been admonished by the speaker and now wants to launch more personal attacks on keir starmer. it is a ridiculous strategy and tory mps are beginning to ask whether borisjohnson is beginning to lose it, whether he is up to the job, whether he is still suffering from the after—effects of covid. but the idea of going for keir starmer personally is sure to backfire. the idea of going for keir starmer personally is sure to backfirelj will personally is sure to backfire.” will stay with you nigel, because the front page of your paper and new material we will learn perhaps about princess diana. this is the deal harry and meghan have done with netflix. it is worth $100 million but one of the by—products of this is the suggestion they may well make a do

do you agree with what say keir starmer did today?with what say keir starmer did today? i don't, ithink it is an overreaction and i think, from what i understand, rebecca long—bailey was prepared to issue a clarification saying that she distanced herself from that one sentence in a very long interview in which this actress had been talking about her concerns for the way the conservative government had handled the coronavirus crisis and of course her acting career. i understand that this actress is a constituent of rebecca long—bailey's, so they know each other. she treated it in good faith and i think you have to start from the basis that your colleagues in parliament are acting in good faith and unless they prove otherwise... if she had retweeted that article and highlighted that one sentence, it would be a different story, but she didn't. she highlighted the major part of the interview which was headlined about her campaigning, about that one campaigning. soi her campaigning, about that one campaigning. so i think it was wrong, i th

i don't see that keir starmer has the charisma of borisjohnson.onality politics. the labour party's now into personality politics. the labour pa rty's problem now into personality politics. the labour party's problem is they don't have somebody who has the star quality. you both being liverpool fans, did you not notice how much billy corkill he looks in that photo. i didn't, actually but thank you for pointing that out. he might win some votes if he brings back brookside. he is speaking sense. labour does need to unite and it is in the grip of the hard left. i don't know how you move it into a situation where it may unite behind that, but there will still be people within the labour party who either leave or don't vote for them. back to the telegraph, shyama. they have a front—page story about the government being under pressure to end the" witchhunt" against vetera ns ? end the" witchhunt" against veterans? this is a former soldier he has been named as eddie murphy who took his life last week. he was under investigation by the army for misdemeano

keir starmer's background as a human rights lawyer is well known.vists against the fast—food chain mcdonald's. later, he was the director of public prosecutions. but for many, his politics are less well known. he has promised to keep some of labours policies on public policy in fighting or says he will speak for the whole country. where that requires change, we will change. where that requires us to rethink, we will rethink. 0ur where that requires us to rethink, we will rethink. our mission is to earn prescribe trust in our party is a forceful good. so he has promised to work together to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. 0ur chief political correspondent vicki young is in westminster and joins us now. vicki, this was an emphatic victory, what you think she plans to do with this new power that he has got?|j think this new power that he has got?” think the nature of the directory is important, those that were seen as direct successors to the back to jeremy corbyn, such as rebecca long—bailey, where there is only beaten and i think that does allow sir

way ahead among mps is sir keir starmer, the shadow brexit secretary.an mp lisa nandy is in the race.

now, keir starmer believes he can be that change.ore credible leader, he can't be a less credible leader, then he's about to be predecessor. the trouble is, it is a sound bite, really, to say we must unite. that is kind of self—evident, but how you are going to do that is one thing, and also are you going to do that to the exclusion of really working out what went wrong in the first place? that's what went wrong in the first place? that‘s easy— what went wrong in the first place? that's easy— everything. everyone is trying to find out why they lost the last election, as if that is a bad thing. and he is criticising the candidates for standing for their apparent navelgazing. but even in my world of psychotherapy, you have to work out how somebody has got to be where they are before you can try to turn that around, change the limiting beliefs. this is what they are trying to do in the labour party. those who ignore the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them. it has been said many times and it is still the case. keir starmer has

a lot happening this afternoon and we can start with the front runner keir starmer.ngress, and that gives you a clue of the message he is telling his supporters and is trying to push out to voters which is, forget what you might have heard, that i‘m a centrist candidate, nonsense, he says, i want to continue with many of the radical policies we have seen over the last three years, under jeremy corbyn, and that has been the message of his campaign so far. it is important because ultimately it will be the members who choose the next labour leader and it is thought many of those are to the left of where mps are. he has been doing the media rounds as well and he spoke to the bbc earlier and this is what he had to say about the jeremy corbyn yea rs. we, actually, underjeremy corbyn, made some very important moves. firstly, we became the party of anti—austerity, the party against cuts to public services. i think after ten years of cuts it is blindingly obvious that we were right about that and we should not chuck that away. we became the party that wanted to invest in publ

keir starmer doesn't have ideas of how to save the economy, but he still got some ideas.he talked about the fellow scheme, tapering it out. the treasury wants to phase it out. the treasury wants to phase it out before too long though. he also talked about the return of something called a future jobs fund, but it happened in the last crisis, but only created a fewjobs in the end. this is going to be deeply dominant theme before they pack up for the summer. yes, we have got 00:03:34,1000 --> 00:03:35,941 a budget then coming up in the next couple of weeks and boris johnson doing something next week, is that right? i think it might be on tuesday. and as you say this running thing we're going to have for the next few months, and i guess four years is the economy and where we are with it and so many impacts of the virus and then there is the political challenge for keir starmer about this thing about constructive opposition that he was talking about. the striking thing you were saying earlier as this is the first time we have been able to go out and doa time we have been able

those are the kind of concerns they will be racing with keir starmer as we speak.lansman, speaking on radio 4 earlier and he said that what keir starmer had done made party unity all the more difficult to achieve. in order to unite the party, he's got to build trust across the party, trust from the left. that is one of the ingredients necessary, if you are going to reunite the party. and so what he has done is has made it much harder for himself to do that. many of those who voted for him will be upset as a result, people who perhaps supported jeremy corbyn back in 2015 and 2016, but supported him in this election. now, you know, iwant to support him in uniting the party, but i can't support him dividing it. what keir starmer‘s allies are saying is that it is nonsense that he was looking for an excuse to get rid of rebecca long—bailey and that the sacking should be taken at face value. when you talk tojewish community groups in recent weeks, he said that they would see actions and not words on anti—semitism and he was following through. the price of following throu

keir starmer will have little time to settle in though.ructively together on tackling the coronavirus pandemic. it is time to say goodbye now to our views on bbc world. you are watching bbc news. good afternoon. it is likely to remain warm, dry and fairly sunny for the rest of the afternoon. we will see cloud approaching from the west as we go through tomorrow as well but i think most notable ahead of this is the southerly winds drawn up of this is the southerly winds drawn up from africa and we will see temperatures well above where they should be for the rest of the year, even where we keep the rain in the north they are above where they were yesterday by two or three degrees andi yesterday by two or three degrees and i think we will notice that as well with increasing amounts of sunshine as i say. then as we go through the night time period we will bring that dry air, strengthening winds, pushing the brain away towards the north and although we will have clear skies for many, actually because of the win we will largely escape a frost th

the new leader of the british labour party, sir keir starmer has accused the uk government of making sunday times, sir keir said ministers need to publish their exit strategy on how and when the current lockdown will be lifted. our political correspondent, chris mason is at westminster. so, the gloves are off. yes they are, and all of this quite striking rachel in the context of circuits saying in his victory video that we heard a couple of minutes ago that heard a couple of minutes ago that he wouldn't be posing for opposing's sake and he recognised that at a time of national emergency and global emergency would want, as far as the government's response to the coronavirus is concerned, to see ministers succeed, and yet the language here very very striking, talking as you say about these serious mistakes he believes the government has made, he wants to see an exit strategy, he wants to see published, he wants to know when the restrictions that people in the uk living under will be restricted, he also says something interesting in the context of a vaccine, which is many the context of