-- balmoral. what is the latest on this? ., , -- balmoral. what is the latest on this? , on this?hree has been used as a holiday home - on this? lengden three has been used as a holiday home by - on this? lengden three has been used as a holiday home by the i used as a holiday home by the royal family since the late 19th century and where the late queen

it was in 2019 when i visited balmoral and the privy council decided, under the 1867 prorogation act,arliament, a decision that was later ruled quite ridiculously by the supreme court to be unlawful. so accusations that i lied to her majesty about the nature of the prorogation arose. however, i have explained what really happened and how the constitution works in a recent post on substack. with me now is my panel author and journalist michael crick, and former tory special adviser charlie rowley. ihope special adviser charlie rowley. i hope you've actually been given the text to read so that we can discuss this properly. it seemed to me that prorogation, when you had a government that was unable to get its business through the house of commons, was a perfectly reasonable thing to do to close one session and start another. >> i thought the prorogation was meant so that you could prepare for the next queen's speech. not to prevent parliament discussing brexit and brexit legislation. >> it always kills off bills that haven't completed their passage . always. that's why all passage. alway

balmoral estate plans to become a for—hire wedding venue. hello. leaders are preparing to defy the uk at their summit by agreeing to look at ways of getting financial compensation for the transatlantic slave trade. the british prime minister sir kier starmer says the issue

so it's not as if he couldn't have just nipped into balmoral is it, >> well no, because these thingsvance. but there was nothing made easy for him to see his father. i mean, his father's up there on holiday, and he's still battling away with his cancer and everything else. so, you know, he's got an excuse not to come down to london. but, i mean, harry could easily have gone up there if he'd so wanted to fit it in, as long as his father was happy to see him. these are not going to happen. these are not going to happen. the rift between, harry and his brother and his father is going to be there long standing. this is not going to be solved in a in a short time, >> what is interesting, i'm just reading this from a day ago, is that meghan markle has been caught off guard because prince william and kate middleton's charity plans a us expansion. so that was charity wars, isn't it really? could be. could be coming to the states. >> i mean i'm i'm not sure what she's doing. she's got something going with, riviera orchard. blow me down. whatever. it's whatever. it's called. i mean, i don't ev

plans floated to possibly allow weddings on the balmoral estate, but do you think it's a good idea ?ea? >> and in sport this morning, jose mourinho gets himself sent off as his fenerbahce team draw with manchester united in istanbul. also in europe , spurs, istanbul. also in europe, spurs, rangers, chelsea and hearts all win and in cricket, england could use some early wickets in the third test against pakistan. >> a real mish mash of weather today. pretty dull for some, bright for others. a bit of heavy rain and some gusty winds. find out who gets what. join me later for the weather. >> it's just gone. 6:00. i'm stephen dixon, i'm ellie costello, and this is gb news breakfast. just got to kick off with a great story on the front of the star this morning. oh, yeah. it's an absolute cracker. this fella turned up for a curry. yeah, a nice curry house. yeah. and got all over the internet because everyone thought he was paul weller. amazing. and he just sucked it up. he took it. he took it. he didn't get a free curry. no, he paid for his curry. but khan's restaurant says the legend paul

king charles and they really struck up quite a close friendship on some of alex salmond's trips to balmoral. so i think you you saw our first minister and an snp leader that came in and was really able to make friends right across that political divide . hasn't it? political divide. hasn't it? >> in the tributes that we've seen in the past few hours that those friendships across the political spectrum, what have you made of the tributes, especially the one from nicola sturgeon, who has alluded to the breakdown of their relationship in recent years and her tribute ? in recent years and her tribute? >> yes, i think nicola sturgeon, i mean , she clearly acknowledged i mean, she clearly acknowledged in her statement that this this was somebody that had been extremely influential to her, had been a close friend for, for much of her life. but she also acknowledged that there had been that breakdown in the relationship in recent times. and so it was quite a quite a sensitive statement , but also sensitive statement, but also pointing out that they had clearly had that breakdown. there was an inter

the royal balmoral estate announces plans to let couples hire it as a wedding venue. hello, i'm ben brown. the united nations has warned that world temperatures are on track to rise the gap between the emissions cuts needed to limit global warming — and the actual progress being made — has been laid bare in a new report. the un environment programme says the world is currently the un secretary—general has said the world is already paying a terrible price because of climate change. it highlights where the world needs to be to keep temperatures under that 1.5 and in the 2 degrees at the has agreed is at the paris agreement and where we really are and what we have seen in the last year 2023 is a take—up in those emissions and emissions grows globally about 1.3% and it doesn't sound like a lot but compared to what the previous decade it is considerably more than what's happened in that last year as we have seen people returning to the skies. people flying aviation has increased and people using their cars more and industry ramp up its use of cars as well. taken altogether

balmoral estate plans to become a for—hire wedding venue. hello. ben i am ben brown, welcome to bbc news. commonwealth leaders are preparing to defy the uk at their summit by agreeing to look at ways of getting financial compensation for the transatlantic slave trade. the british prime minister sir kier starmer says the issue is not on the agenda for the summit of commonwealth nations in samoa. the issue of reparations could potentially leave the uk not only apologising for its part in the slave trade, but also owing huge amounts of money. king charles and queen camilla are present for the commonwealth heads of government meeting. the couple will complete a day of engagements before meeting with commonwealth leaders at the end of the week. a brief bit of context here. the commonwealth of nations, oftenjust known as the commonwealth, is an international group of 56 member states, mostly former territories of the british empire from which it developed. british governments of the past, and members of the royal family, participated in the slave trade o