on one level, michael heseltine is one of the usual suspects.ur against leaving the european union. so it is not altogether surprising that he would make this move, but i am still a member of the conservative party and like michael, somebody who was once a an mp, though i was only a back printer, i know how difficult it is when you are part of the tribe, every to suggest to people they should bow anything but conservative. a sign of his passion and his anger. —— i was a backbencher. i'm going to the same dilemma myself. i couldn't possibly bow conservative in these european elections because the conservative party, theresa may, exquisitely has said those people who vote conservative are voting for a brexit party. if that is the case, we hear what she has said, we cannot bow conservative. it is still a brave thing for michael heseltine to do. willing to dive also you will vote for? anybody who wants to stop brexit should vote liberal democrats. that's willing to tell us we will vote for. they are the main opposition. the people with the best chan

with michael heseltine saying he won't vote for the conservatives because of the party's position on may blocked ministers from proposing a new law that could have protected northern ireland veterans from facing murder charges from the troubles. and the sunday express says britain believes nigel farage is best placed to lead brexit negotiations, according to a poll done for the paper. the mail carries a strenuous denial from one of labour's longest—serving mp, the former minister, geoffrey robinson, over allegations that he spied for communist czechoslovakia during the cold war. and the sunday mirror leads on an interview with the fiancee of steve dymond, who was found dead after appearing on itv‘s jeremy kyle show, saying she can't believe the show was cancelled. so, there we are. that is looking at most of the front pages. let's start off, rosamund come up with the sunday times, your paper. one of the most powerful things in the papers todayis most powerful things in the papers today is a piece by lord heseltine, talking about brexit. 0bviously he backed remain, he will not vote fo

yes, lord heseltine has been suspended by the conservative party, he has had his whip removed.ld be voting liberal democrat in the european parliament elections on thursday. politicians are given a certain amount of latitude to express their views but publicly endorsing a rival is seen as a little too far. lord heseltine is a very senior member of the conservative party, he has had a very lifelong view about the european project, and it is his view the conservative party has been infected by the virus of extremism on brexit. a party spokesman has acknowledged his long—standing views and says he will be welcomed back into the fold if he is willing to vote conservative in the future. it isa vote conservative in the future. it is a reminder, yet again, of the capacity of brexit to rip apart our biggest political parties. 0k, chris, thank you. chris mason at westminster. the delay to the uk leaving the european union, means along with the 27 other member states, we'll be going to the polls this week, to elect members of the european parliament. now, there are 751 meps in all, and r

former deputy by minister lord heseltine.out the future of the conservative party, and as with labour, whether both main parties will stay as one, or whether they will stay as one, or whether they will fracture further in the coming days. that will be dependent on the new conservative leader and what direction those talks take. they have dominated theresa may's time in office. what now for the brexit negotiations? i spoke to chris morris. when she first became prime minister she campaigned for remain in the referendum but when she took office there wasn't much sense that she was taking the middle ground. herfirst big speech she was taking the middle ground. her first big speech was to the tory party conference in 2016 and she set out a vision of leaving the single market and customs union, ending the free movement of people and the role of the european court ofjustice in the uk, all the while retaining com pletely the uk, all the while retaining completely free trade with the eu in goods and services. critics said this is the

a spokesman for the party said as a memberfor 50 years, lord heseltine would have known that publicly party would not be acceptable. the delay to the uk leaving the european union, means along with the 27 other member states, we'll be going to the polls this week, to elect members of the european parliament. now there are 751 meps in all, and roughly speaking the larger a country's population, the more meps it gets with 73, representing the uk. the results aren't due until sunday, once the last of the eu 28 have voted. 0ur europe editor katya adler has travelled across the continent, to assess the mood, among voters. self—styled man of the people, italy's matteo salvini is storming opinion polls ahead of this week's european elections. while we focus on brexit, the rest of europe is obsessed, delighted or scared by populist nationalists like him. like all of them, marine le pen of france, germany's afd and more who came to milan for a joint rally this weekend. viva italia! vive la france! they promised fewer migrants and mosques, more security, less interference from brussels, and the

and the top story in the uk: the conservative party has withdrawn the whip from lord heseltine aftere said he would vote for the liberal democrats. the party said endorsing candidates of another party was not compatible with party rules. now on bbc news live to singapore for asia business report. putting huawei on hold. the us gives a temporary reprieve to its sweeping restrictions on the chinese telecoms giant. moving the plastic mountain. some of the world's biggest consumer goods companies launch a new scheme to cut packaging waste. good morning, asia. hello, well. it isa good morning, asia. hello, well. it is a tuesday. glad you could join us foran is a tuesday. glad you could join us for an exciting addition of asia business report. i'm rico hizon. we start off with us government and it has granted huawei a dramatic three month reprieve. a temporary license has been issued which delays widespread restrictions until august. they were announced last week and effectively blocks the chinese telecommunications giant out of the well‘s biggest economy. that led google to cut huawei's a

that was lord heseltine predicting turbulent times ahead.enes is now out in the open. the job of picking the next prime minister is in the hands of tory mps and conservative party members. a contest that has already been brewing for weeks will kick off officially on friday, june the 7th, the date to reason they will stand down as tory leader. nominations begin the following week. under the party‘s rules, conservative mps will whittle down the field of candidates through a series of votes until a final two remain. and those two candidates will then battle it out to win a vote of the tory grassroots — around 120,000 conservative party members, who are largely male, middle—class and have an average age of 57. so, who might stand? well, it‘s likely to be a very crowded field. around 17 tory mps are considering a crack at number ten, and five have said that they‘ll definitely run, including borisjohnson. the 54—year—old former foreign secretary is the likely frontrunner. the figurehead of the leave campaign is popular among the membership but les

we look back to the david cameron contest, to michael heseltine before he was deified as the arch remainert thatcher or beyond. but this is different. the reason this is taking place, and we've all seen those pictures in the media today and yesterday of theresa may leaving in tears because she failed to deliver a brexit that she promised that she could deliver. so, this is all about who can do that. now, of course, many people don't think that it should happen at all and have other plans, but they are not going to be driving this race. and what we've seen from boris, it's interesting people keep saying that he has talked about no—deal and sebastien is right, he has. but read the rest of the sentence — probably something some journalists don't do enough these days. he says, if you want to get a deal, the only way you'll get a better deal is by being prepared to take a no—deal. and that, i think, tells you he is riding two horses and i'm sure people like matt hancock — very shrewd and probably not going to win, but coming in, that generation around a0, and clearly a remainer as well — but he

something they haven't done before, vote for a different party because of the european elections, lord heseltine vote lib dems, one occasion. andrew mckinlay, a labour member of parliament for several years, said he would do the same. as pro—europeans but none of that might change the arithmetic at westminster. no, these are european elections for seats in the european parliament and the government has said it never wanted to take part in these, it gives the public a chance to tell the government what they think of what's going on and that will have an impact much more so than the number of meps from each party which may end up sitting in the european parliament, but the arithmetic at westminster stays as it is and theresa may cannot change that, so she has to offer concessions to one side or the other or maybe both, for example on the issue of a customs union which the labour party wants to see in future, conceding to that will turn off as many conservative mps as it will turn on labour mps, if not more, so there are no easy options for her, she has to beg, borrow and steal ideas and to pick of

with michael heseltine saying he won't vote for the conservatives because of the party's position onhe sunday telegraph claims theresa may blocked ministers from proposing a new law that could have protected northern ireland veterans from facing murder charges from the troubles. and the sunday express says britain believes nigel farage is best placed to lead brexit negotiations, according to a poll done for the paper. let's have a look at the observer. labour mps fear their stance on brexit will hand votes to the lib dems. what does that headline tell you about the way mps of all parties are thinking? are they thinking about brexit or the party? they are thinking about the party. the reason for this is because labour, they have been trying, endless interviews have been trying, endless interviews have been trying, endless interviews have been done, what about a second referendum? have been done, what about a second referendum ? where have been done, what about a second referendum? where do you stand on brexit? nobody really knows. anybody who wants a second referendum or brexit town d

let's speak to the former deputy prime minister lord heseltine.ls with the departure of theresa may and margaret thatcher. both forced out by men in grey suits. it is obviously for anyone leaving positions of that sort in those circumstances deeply emotional. one can understand the personal feelings but the fact the matter is we have the biggest political and constitutional crisis of my lifetime in peacetime facing us and the issue is as unresolved today as it was yesterday. we will go into a very dangerous and difficult period, particularly for the conservative party and the sandy announcements about the european election results will show just how about the european election results will showjust how much of a problem and much of a challenge it is for the conservative party. you are still in the conservative party although you have had the whip withdrawn because you said you would vote for the liberal democrats because of brexit. where do you think the conservative party stands now and where is it going and if it is borisjohnson who will succeed

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he said he was voting for another party and given what the tories did to michael heseltine for sayings a picture of him leafleting for them. he answered a question when he was asked. the rules are rules, and i was thinking about this, in 20151 interviewed jeremy corbyn and john mcdonnell in the houses of parliament before the general election, when their politics and policies were not in line with ed miliband andi policies were not in line with ed miliband and i asked them if i should vote for the green party in brighton where i lived whose politics were more in line with theirs than ed miliband and they told me no, they could not say i should vote for the green party. it underpins the labour party, this rule. george calloway in 2012 stood asa rule. george calloway in 2012 stood as a independent congratulation against labour and jeremy corbyn said on twitter to him, congratulations. —— independent candidate. alastair campbell is being picked on because of a vendetta against new labour. the rules are the rules, but it is how you apply them. michael, given that many of the supporters of

michael heseltine did in mrs thatcher, the glory boy of the tory party, but was overtaken by the toryman, john major. nobody predicted that. iain duncan smith was not an obvious person to succeed, but he did. even david cameron, up against david davis. david cameron was a nobody at the beginning, nobody had heard of him. but he managed to come from nowhere because he took off his tie and jacket and did the whole casual compassionate conservative thing, and people thought it was great. so he won. and theresa may only won because of the greek tragedy slaughterhouse that went on in the background between borisjohnson, michael gove and the other candidates. basically, nobody else was left standing, they were all lying ina was left standing, they were all lying in a bloody pool on the stage. again and again, it never goes to plan. boris johnson has again and again, it never goes to plan. borisjohnson has his supporters in the country and in parliament, but equally there are many tories who would pretty much die ina many tories who would pretty much die in a ditch to stop him. they don't tr

michael heseltine has been saying and large numbers of them have said able walk if he becomes prime ministerus character, actually. a large number of mistakes that he has made, he was the worst foreign secretary ever, people like nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, he endangered her life even more by saying she had done it and he lurched from catastrophe to catastrophe and some of these things are only come to light now, £50 million of public money spent on the garden bridge and he is someone who seems to wilt in the wind according to which way the party is going so he has turned into a hard brexiteers but we know that he wrote an essay, a telegraph column. ijust want he wrote an essay, a telegraph column. i just want to talk more generally because people looking at you now will say that we will be leaving the eu at the moment without a deal. that is now looking more and more likely if theresa may doesn't get her deal through. does that mean there's a chance she could still do this at the fourth attempt?” there's a chance she could still do this at the fourth attempt? i think it is very unlikely. i a

they managed to attract alistair campbell and michael heseltine to vote for them. guiding principles remain the same. i left the conservative party because it had shifted and you will see an even further shift to the right and you will see a hard no deal brexiteer when the premiership. is there no deal with the lib dems for the foreseeable future? let me finish my point. i worked with the lib dems when i was in government. i have a lot of respect and admiration for people like jo have a lot of respect and admiration for people likejo swinson and vince cable. we already work with them on a number of issues. we have been working with them on the people's vote. it was founded by chuka umunna and myself and caroline lucas from the greens. absolutely, i have a lwa ys the greens. absolutely, i have always worked with the lib dems. that is not a problem. if other people want to join the lib dems, good luck to them. i believe british politics is broken and we need to fix it and that is what change uk is all about, that sensible, moderate, progressive, centrist voice findin